Registration for the new, more rigorous MCAT opens February, and it is causing anxiety among pre-med stu-dents at the University pre-paring for the exam.

The MCAT, or the Medi-cal College Admission Test, is designed to assess an un-dergraduate’s intellectual abilities and “knowledge of science concepts and princi-ples required for the study of medicine,” according to the exam’s official website.

The new version of the MCAT covers more material, including psychology and sociology. It has 230 ques-tions, as opposed to 144, and is graded according to a dif-

ferent scoring scale of 528 total points, instead of 45. The test also contains new sections, including research design, graphical analysis and data interpretation.

Students will begin tak-ing the new MCAT in April. In previous years, the test was administered in January. A common fear among students is the un-certainty surrounding the new test. Janelle Laqui, human development and family sciences senior, said the ambiguity surround-ing the content of the exam is intimidating.

“Hearing about a new MCAT stressed me out be-cause there would be fewer

Although University ad-ministrators have made multiple pledges to provide transitional funding and a $1 million endowment for Texas Student Media, no official documentation of any of these promises has reached the organization’s governing Board, accord-ing to TSM Board President

Mary Dunn.TSM, the organization

that manages five student-produced media properties — Cactus Yearbook, Texas Travesty, Texas Student TV, KVRX 91.7 FM and The Daily Texan — has been under severe financial con-straints for the last several years. In January 2014, ad-ministrators moved TSM from its former home in the Division of Student Af-

fairs to the Moody College of Communication without consulting Board members. Two months later, Moody dean Roderick Hart told Board members the college would work to develop a viable business plan by fall 2017 that would place TSM on the path to financial stability. At an open Board meeting, Hart said he would ask President William Pow-ers Jr. to provide three years

of transitional funding to keep TSM afloat.

Powers sent more than $100,000 to help TSM re-cover from the brink of bankruptcy last spring and told The Daily Texan the University has committed up to $250,000 annually to TSM for the next three years. In an interview this week, Dunn said TSM’s governing Board has not been presented any official

documentation that this money will be available.

“When you’re dealing with volunteers who meet once a month, making these huge multimillion dollar de-cisions in a public forum, it’s just imperative that you have the details really concrete,” Dunn said.

Powers said he hopes funds will be made available as soon

Former Governor Rick Perry said his recent in-dictment will not derail the possibility of a 2016 presidential campaign.

Perry discussed his fu-ture plans at a press confer-ence Wednesday, which he held after District Judge Bert Richardson refused to drop felony charges of abuse of of-ficial capacity and coercion of a public servant against Perry. Perry said he will con-tinue to contest his two felo-ny indictments.

The indictments came as a result of Perry’s decision to veto funding for the Public Integrity Unit of the Travis County District Attorney’s Office. In June 2013, Perry threatened to veto the fund-ing if Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehm-berg did not step down from her position after her drunk-en driving conviction in April 2013. The former gov-ernor and his attorneys claim Perry’s actions because Texas law grants the governor veto power.

Richardson announced Tuesday he would not dis-miss Perry’s charges. Rich-ardson acknowledged that the first count against Perry, abuse of official capacity, was vague and needed to include the word “veto.” He said the second count, coercion of a public servant, needed to better explain how Perry co-erced a public official outside his duties as governor. Rich-ardson gave the prosecutors the opportunity to amend their case.

Perry’s attorneys, Tony Buzbee and David Botsford, said they will file a motion with Richardson to halt Perry’s trial, as well as file a

Two UT freshmen will dump one million pennies on the ground — and then pick them all back up — at a charity event they will host at Camp Mabry in February. Along the way, they will break the world record for most pennies raised for charity.

Public relations fresh-man Cambria Sawyer and neuroscience freshman Devika Palaniswamy de-cided to break the world record, gathering more than 5,500 pounds of pennies, after merging their previ-ous volunteering projects. Palaniswamy and friends run a nonprofit called Raise4aCause, which hosts 5k races for charity dona-tions. Sawyer founded a public relations startup, Damos Public Relations, with the goal of bringing exposure to charity events.

The two girls met when they joined an organization called Freshmen Found-ers, which helps fresh-men form business mod-els and launch their own initiatives. Student ven-tures coordinator Nicho-las Spiller, who manages Freshmen Founders, said students like Sawyer and

Palaniswamy are the reason Freshmen Founders exists.

“Working with students like Cambria and Devika is motivational,” Spiller said. “They think they’re learn-

ing the most, but it’s educa-tional for me too. … They’re a perfect example of how the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well at UT.”

To commemorate break-

ing the record, Palaniswamy and Sawyer will host a 5K race to raise money for the Livestrong Foundation. All money raised from registra-tion fees will be converted

into additional pennies for the display.

Palaniswamy said she feels the run will help

Group solidarity and community organization, critical elements of envi-ronmental justice, are often emphasized in indigenous literature, according to Yale English graduate student Edgar Garcia.

“Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo,” which Chicano author Oscar Zeta Acosta published in 1972, is an indigenous ecological migration nar-rative written in response to growing environmental threats of the 20th cen-tury, Garcia said in a talk on-campus Wednesday. These threats included uranium mining, food toxicity and pesticides that destroy the natural

landscape, and had reper-cussions for all human be-ings, Garcia said.

“Humans exist by na-ture within ecologies, and, when your ecology is com-promised, toxicity, disease and ecological destruction

affects your body,” Garcia said. “It causes a feeling of existential vulnerability.”

Garcia discussed how “Buffalo”’s main charac-ter, Oscar, escapes the toxic wasteland of his city to travel to the Southwest

region the United States in search of his Chicano identity. During his trav-els, he turns into a buf-falo and interacts with a host of Native Ameri-

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people feel a connection to Livestrong in a way they might not otherwise.

“[The run] really engages people and gets your mes-sage across in a way that people are really open to and never forget,” Sawyer said.

Since the two joined forces over winter break, Palaniswamy and Sawyer have spent a lot of time together collaborating on the project.

“We have to communicate

constantly,” Palaniswamy said. “It’s been really great. I’m re-ally glad because we know where we’re going together in this; we’re on the same page; and we also have similar per-sonalities in the way we work.”

Sawyer said the project has defined her freshman year of college, especially the amount of planning her schedule requires.

“As difficult as it is right now … we’re going to be

raising awareness for an or-ganization that does phe-nomenal work,” Sawyer said. “People are going to have fun in the community, and they’re going to have an opportunity to give themselves, which is something that people can’t find that easily every day.”

Following the race, par-ticipants will gather around a track, where all of the pennies will be placed. Af-ter the 5K ends, however,

Sawyer and Palaniswamy said their work won’t yet be complete. The million-plus pennies will still need to be picked up and recounted.

“That’s going to be re-ally fun — to pick [pennies] out of the grass,” Sawyer said. “We can figure that out [later].”

notice of appeal in Texas’ 3rd Court of Appeals.

“We anticipate, due to the gravity of the constitutional issues involved, that the court will move swiftly and expeditiously,” Botsford said.

At the press conference, Perry said he believes he used his power of veto “law-fully and legally.”

“Under our Constitu-tion, every citizen has the right to speak their mind freely without political interference or legal in-timidation,” Perry said. “This continued pros-ecution flies in the face of that protection.”

Lehmberg’s behavior was “embarrassing,” “unethi-cal” and “inappropriate,” according to Perry, who said he stands by his origi-nal actions that sparked his indictment.

“Given the choice, I would make the same decision again today,” Perry said.

In a statement regard-ing Perry’s trials, Gov. Greg Abbott said he believes it is unconstitutional to prosecute Perry for vetoing legislation.

“The continued le-gal proceedings against

Governor Perry conflict with the authority granted to all governors by the Texas Con-stitution, and I trust they will be ultimately resolved in a manner consistent with the Constitution,” Abbott said in a written statement.

Attorney General Ken Paxton also released a statement supporting the

former governor.“[Perry] has treated his office with dignity and respect … ” Pax-ton said in a written state-ment. “The Constitutional veto authority of the gov-ernor is an important and necessary tool to balance the powers of state government and must be utilized without undue fear of prosecution.”

Perry’s presidential cam-paign will be officially an-nounced in May or June.

“Standing up for the rule of law and standing up for the Constitution is a good thing, and people across the country are very supportive of that,” Perry said. “We are moving right along as we in-tended,” Perry said.

people you could get feed-back from,” Laqui said.

Christine Ku, sociology and Plan II junior, shares similar feelings of appre-hension. She said she be-lieves she and her class-mates are being used to test the new version of the test.

“My class is the ‘guinea

pig class’,” Ku said. “It’s all very new and overwhelm-ing. The new MCAT chal-lenges a student’s test-tak-ing stamina.”

Ku has known about the proposed changes for a year-and-a-half and has been preparing by using Kaplan materials designed for the new version. She said she finds the new test more intimidating because

it covers biology, organic chemistry and biochemis-try in more depth.

While the new MCAT is causing many students to feel wary, the new ver-sion of the test has not changed many professors’ approaches to teaching their pre-med courses. In-der Saxena, a lecturer in the Biology Instructional Office in the College of

Natural Sciences, said his lectures will continue to cater to all students at the University, regard-less of the new MCAT’s potential difficulty.

“[BIO 325] is designed for all upper-division biol-ogy majors, not just pre-med students,” Saxena said. “The material covered will be helpful on the MCAT or in any case.”

can animals. Through his experiences, Oscar ac-quires an appreciation for the environment.

Acosta deliberately makes his characters unusual to keep things interesting throughout the story, ac-cording to Garcia.

“He turns into an ani-mal and explores the ‘wild west’ with a motley crew of

degenerates,” Garcia said. “It must allow for aberrancy, contradiction and compli-cation, and that’s precisely what Acosta deals with.”

Those in attendance in-cluded Pauline Strong, an-thropology and women’s and gender studies pro-fessor, who said she had reservations about group-ing all indigenous Native

American cultures under one heading.

“The concept of indig-enous is a very broad one, intended to highlight the similarities among groups of people who have a precolonial history to a landscape, and highlight-ing those similarities builds an international co-alition,” Strong said. “But,

in doing so, I think it’s im-portant to be aware of the specificities of each group, culture and relationship to each environment.”

UT anthropology alum-nus Bowman McMahon said he appreciated the sentiment behind Acos-ta’s work and advocated that people take an in-digenous approach to

environmental justice.“The book is a good

example of literature and poetry with the agenda of getting people to stop worrying about their indi-vidual identity and person-ality,” McMahon said. “It fosters in people a sense of familial responsibility for the entire world and all life on earth.”

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Newly elected Prime Min-ister Alexis Tsipras appoint-ed a UT visiting professor as the country’s finance minis-ter Tuesday.

Yanis Varoufakis, a visiting professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs, became an elected member of the Greek parliament this Sunday. He was sworn in as finance minister during a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Athens on Tuesday.

Serving under Tsipras, Varoufakis will be a part of a new cabinet to advise the prime minister.

Varoufakis is one of the primary critics of Greece’s ongoing economic policies, which have sunk the econo-my to a historic low since the

beginning of the Great Reces-sion in December 2007, accord-ing to a statement from UT.

“Varoufakis has been a leading voice of opposition to the policies conducted since the start of the financial crisis in Greece and through-out Europe by the European Union and its allied institu-tions, including the Interna-tional Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank,” the statement said.

Robert Hutchings, dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs, said Varoufakis is not new to the discussion about the Greek economy.

“He’s a prominent public intellectual known, not only in Greece as a major political figure, but around Europe, and he has been at the fore-front of the discussion of the crisis in the eurozone,”

Hutchings said.Varoufakis said he will

implement economic so-lutions that work for the various stakeholders of the Greek economy.

“As the next finance min-ister, I can assure you that I shall not go into the Euro-group seeking a solution that is good for the Greek taxpayer and bad for the Irish, Slovak, German, French and Italian taxpayer,” Varoufakis said.

Although Varoufakis only taught at UT for two years, Hutchings said his time at the LBJ School served both students and faculty.

“It’s great for us as a faculty to have had him here for two years and great for students to have had the chance to study under someone who is now doing one of the toughest jobs in the world,” Hutchings said.

Six years ago, UT re-searchers witnessed an exploding star, which af-ter further analysis, they now believe was ripped apart by a black hole after further analysis.

A small Robotic Opti-cal Transient Search Ex-periment at the McDonald Observatory at Fort Davis captured a photo of a bright light in January 2009, which was caused by the explo-sion. UT researchers ini-tially mistook the blast for a super luminous supernovae. The team of scientists nick-

named the phenomenon “Dougie,” after a “South Park” character.

The ROTSE Supernova Verification Project uses the small telescope to look for newly discovered stars. Such phenomena are cap-tured via photographs taken using advanced telescopes, reaching deep into space. This process is known as “time domain astronomy”, according to J. Craig Wheeler, a UT as-tronomy professor who helped make the discovery.

The ROTSE telescope used to capture the black hole and star collision is smaller than most tele-

scopes, Wheeler said, and his team members were surprised when it discovered “Dougie.”

Upon further examination over six years of research, Wheeler determined “Dou-gie” was, in fact, caused by the star’s collision with a black hole.

“It just didn’t have the right characteristics of an or-dinary supernova explosion,” said Wheeler. “We ruled out everything else we could think of.”

With the help of Harvard post-doctorate astrophysi-cist James Guillochon, the UT team used advanced computer software systems

to create a wide range of possible scenarios related to the supernova’s destruc-tion. At the conclusion of their research, the ex-perts decided the black hole theory best explained the phenomenon.

“It’s not the nail in the casket, but we’re pretty sure about what we’ve discov-ered,” Wheeler said.

The lead author of the project, Jozsef Vinko, said this event has probably never been witnessed before. He also added that such events are extremely rare, with no way to predict whether a similar interaction between a star and a black hole will ever

as possible to the TSM Board, which is tasked with passing this year’s budget in March.

“The idea is to get [the mon-ey] as quickly as we can to TSM, where TSM can use it,” Powers said. “I will do everything I can to make sure that happens.”

In an interview Monday, Hart told The Daily Texan he earmarked a $1 million en-dowment for TSM from the $50 million Moody Foun-dation donation in October 2013 — three months before TSM actually became part of his college.

“At that time, I wasn’t re-sponsible for Texas Student Media, so this was just some-thing I did because of my be-lief in it,” Hart said. “At that point I wasn’t really involved in the day-to-day work of Texas Student Media.”

Dunn said when she re-quested information about the endowment, Moody Col-lege officials did not confirm any details.

“A lot of times they were like ‘we’re not quite sure what

you’re talking about,’” Dunn said. “I have been hunting down this rumor of a mil-lion dollar endowment for a year now because it was men-tioned once in public meet-ing a year ago, and we never heard about it again.”

Dunn said she is unsure whether the Board would have direct access to either the en-dowment or the transitional funding.

“We can’t pass a budget based on numbers we’re as-suming are going to come in,” Dunn said. “We can only pass the budget based on concrete, in writing agreements with sources of certain funding.”

In June, the Moody Col-lege appointed Gerald John-son as TSM director to help navigate the new relation-ship between TSM and the Moody College. Johnson said the Board has not received an official timeline for the fund-ing from Moody College.

“Other than conversations with the Board, there hasn’t been anything official that

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Carlo Nasisse | Daily Texan StaffRoderick Hart, dean of the Moody College of Communication, said he pledged $1 million of the $50 million Moody Foundation dona-tion for the creation of a TSM endowment. TSM board president Mary Dunn said she has not heard details about the plan.

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With the New Year in full swing, it is likely that we have all stumbled across the whole “New Year, New You” trend, wherein people vow to improve themselves in a number of ways over the course of the year. Whether it is a promise to eat healthier, exercise more often, actually go to class, or get more sleep, everyone has encountered this fad.

One thing that has stood out to me, es-pecially for women, is that most of these resolutions are rooted in insecurities about body image. Girls, starting at ages younger than 10, make promises to diet, try cleanses, hit the gym and lose weight. But why has this fad of self-improvement in the New Year turned into an unhealthy need to shed pounds? Why can’t we focus on improving ourselves in other ways than attempting to mimic the bodies of Victoria Secret models? I have fallen victim to this trend, as well as to the media stereotype of beauty too many times. I think it is time for a change.

I am not saying that these resolutions are wrong. In fact, I am a huge proponent of healthy living, and believe that it is impor-tant that people eat well and exercise often to maintain healthy lifestyles. Rather, I am concerned with the long-term effects of such goals – especially for our current gen-eration and those younger than us.

Today, women are constantly exposed to an “ideal” body type: thin figures, long legs, and minimal curves. This body type is pushed in the media and encourages sham-ing anything different. Girls, especially during the New Year, vow to change them-selves and their behavior to become more like what they should be. But my question is this- what should we be and who gets to decide that? The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa And Associated Dis-orders reveals, “the body type portrayed in advertising as the ideal is possessed naturally by only 5 percent of American females.” If only 5 percent of women meet this standard of beauty, then what does that mean for the other 95 percent?

ANAD provides statistics on eating dis-orders and how the media has impacted female self-perception. In reading these, a few stood out to me: The website states that, “91 percent of women surveyed on a col-lege campus had attempted to control their weight through dieting,” and “95 percent of those who have eating disorders are be-tween the ages of 12 and 25.8.” If that many girls within our generation are suffering

from eating disorders, I think that it is up to us to make a change. That change begins with starting to calm the pressure that girls feel to reach this virtually unattainable stan-dard of beauty.

Recently, there has been a huge push, es-pecially on social media sites, to help fos-ter the idea of being beautiful as being fit – not thin. Australian trainer Kayla Itsines maintains an Instagram account in which she encourages her followers daily. The girls who follow her rave that they are happier and more confident after they began using her workouts and food guides. She stands on the idea that women should be proud of who they are and push themselves to become lean and strong, rather than fall into the pattern that so many do in find-ing beauty by means of not eating. I think we need more people like Kayla out there, but I also do not think that even that would be enough. I think society as a whole, both women and men, needs to change its per-ception of beauty. The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty is trying to do exactly that.

In 2004, Dove launched its Campaign for Real Beauty to start “a global conversa-tion about the need for a wider definition of beauty,” following findings that “only 2 percent of women around the world would describe themselves as beautiful.” In a world in which such a shockingly low percentage of women find themselves beautiful, it is no surprise to find that so many of us are strug-gling with issues over body image. Dove also launched the Real Beauty Sketches, an incredible series of videos in which women were asked to describe themselves to a sketch artist who could not see their faces. While he drew them, these women described them-selves, focusing heavily on what they saw as their flaws. He also drew these same women based on the descriptions given by strang-ers. He proceeded to reveal the portraits side by side, and the results were incredible. The strangers had described these women as far more beautiful than they had described themselves. I feel strongly that it is impor-tant for everyone to watch these videos, as they personally moved me.

The media stereotypes of women today have become ingrained in us. However, that does not mean that they have to remain. Most importantly, that does not mean that we have to continue buying in to them. I be-lieve that something is wrong if only 2 per-cent of women feel they are beautiful. That if strangers find more beauty in us than we do in ourselves that society has flawed us. That our standards of beauty today are not “too high” as many would say, but are rather tainted by what the media has defined as true beauty. And above all else, I believe that something has to change.

I think this year is the perfect time for such a change, and that begins with rede-fining our New Year’s resolutions. I vote we vow to strive for happiness and self-con-fidence this year, and to work everyday to encourage ourselves and those around us that they are, in fact, beautiful. With such goals in mind, we can begin to combat this harmful ideal of beauty that has negatively impacted so many of us, and we can make a real change.

Brookman is a pre-public relations sopho-more from Fort Worth.

As the Texan recently covered, President Barack Obama has proposed a plan for free tuition at community colleges. But, as predicted, it didn’t go over well with his critics, who criticized the plan as excessive government intrusion into local affairs.

The plan would cost $6 billion per year and provide tuition, but not other costs as-sociated with attendance, for community college students looking to transfer to a four-year university or those who are on track to complete an associate’s degree. However, it doesn’t appear to take into account other financial factors that could potentially stop Americans from getting degrees or the present state of some com-munity colleges. Contrary to the belief of this paper’s editorial board, which came out in support of the plan, a free associ-ate’s degree may not be the solution to America’s education issue.

My biggest concern is whether com-munity college classes adhere to the same standards as four-year universities. It’s no secret that even the best of us opt for sum-mer community college classes not only to get ahead, but to take an easier, less inten-sive route. With that in mind, does it really make sense to give people a free education if it won’t match the quality of a four-year degree? It just seems to create yet another problem for students who may not be able to afford a potentially better education, limiting them to the dregs at the bottom of the barrel. As the editorial board stated, Americans may get thousands of dollars off their debt with reduced load on faculty and staff, but will the instructors, curricu-lum and quality of what’s covered be the same?

While not everyone is a slacker student, we don’t want college to become high school 2.0 — a major talking point of the Obama administration that conveniently

leaves out the layabouts attending just to bide their time. Besides, students who at-tend four-year universities are far more likely to graduate on time and in general than those who begin at a community col-lege. Only 20 percent of community col-lege students actually end up transferring to get a bachelor’s. If that number stays the same, the two years of instruction would go toward a degree that wouldn’t get peo-ple much farther than a free high school diploma. Before offering a program for free, the federal government should first examine the workings of current commu-nity colleges that students already pay to attend.

Those who can’t even afford community college don’t simply need help in their first two years. Post-associate’s degree, the full cost to attend a four-year university, in-cluding fees like books, housing and food, still acts as a barrier to a bachelor’s degree. The few thousand dollars off are nothing compared to the total debt they would still graduate with. As a master’s degree is be-coming ever more necessary to enter the job market, underprivileged people will still be held even further back for lack of funding. Not to mention, the workforce isn’t the most stable, with many in fear of the number of guaranteed careers avail-able to college graduates.

Rather than making the basic require-ments free, the ridiculous cost of higher education overall should be re-examined. Even at our school, on average, students incur almost $20,000 in debt even if they graduate on time, adding an additional $6,000 for every year beyond that.

This plan is designed to give everyone equal opportunity, an idea great in theory but often not implemented correctly. The government cannot fill the achievement gap with empty rhetoric. It can inspire the country, make citizens think about the way the system works, but it won’t level the playing field as they attempt to use it for. By looking at the issue in a more prag-matic way, they would see that much more than part of 2 years’ expenses is needed to give Americans a boost. This proposal is a start, but if implemented won’t make as huge of a change as it seems. The real issue lies in affordability of education, without compromising quality or the overall expe-rience and skills that accompany attend-ing a 4-year university.

Griffin is a journalism freshman from Houston.

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The UT System regents have seen their roles transformed in recent years from often mundane bureaucrat to flag bearer for one or the other side in the ideologi-cal battles over higher education. Former Gov. Rick Perry and his ilk, led by Regent Wallace Hall, went on numerous crusades in the past years in search of controversial educational reforms throughout the state. In their grand vision, this University — the state's flagship — would be reduced to a second-rate trade school, as scholastic research would be heavily eschewed in fa-vor of quickly producing diplomas.

This did not sit well with William Pow-ers Jr., the president of this University, and the battle lines were soon drawn. With Gov. Greg Abbott just taking office, and three regent spots open just next month, we have impatiently waited to see if our new governor would follow the anti-intellectu-al, asinine choices of his predecessor.

Thankfully, as a result of his new picks and renomination to the Board of Regents, the answer looks to be an emphatic no. Ab-bott nominated Regent Steve Hicks, a vo-ciferous opponent of Perry and Hall's an-tics, for another term on the board. He also nominated David Beck and Sara Martinez Tucker, respectively, to other positions. All three individuals are expected to be easily confirmed by the state Senate.

According to the Texas Tribune, Beck was instrumental in the creation of the Texas Coalition for Excellence in Higher Education, a group that has been sharply critical of both Perry's proposals and Hall's conduct. Tucker, meanwhile, served as Un-dersecretary of Education during the last Bush administration. Additionally, unlike Perry's key picks, she did not donate to the Governor beforehand.

In taking these little steps, Abbott has al-ready changed gubernatorial policy toward this University. His actions appear to ce-ment a desire to transform the UT regent back into the bureaucrat it once was, whose biggest priority is the success of the univer-sities and not ideological bosses or cadres.

Michael Quinn Sullivan, a right-wing activist who has been among Hall's biggest backers, is already unhappy. In a recent post for his website, Empower Texans, Sul-livan blasted Tucker in particular, castigat-ing — among other things — her alleged ties to the controversial evaluation system in schools known as "Common Core."

Indeed, with such a strong pivot away from Perry's deleterious ways, Abbott will encounter some resistance. But we believe the gratitude he will receive from all of us at this University, who have overwhelming-ly opposed Perry and Hall's schemes, will far outweigh that resistance.

Joe Caprero| Daily Texan File PhotoVice Chairman R. Steven Hicks at a Board of Regents meeting in November 2013.

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Ethan Oblak | Daily Texan file photoSophomore quarterback Tyrone Swoopes had a very inconsistent season. With redshirt freshman Jerrod Heard waiting for his chance to start and quarterback recruits fixing to join the program, Texas fans are looking forward to a quarterback competition during spring practice.

As it stands, Texas has the No. 12 ranked recruiting class in the nation, according to Scout.com. The 2015 class currently has 23 players com-mitted — 12 offensive and 11 defensive commits. Malik Jef-ferson, a five-star outside line-backer, headlines this recruit-ing roster.

With little time remaining before National Signing Day, the Longhorns have room for eight more players. Texas is in the mix for four-star corner-backs Kris Boyd and Holton Hill. Five-star running back Soso Jamabo and four-star run-ning backs Nick Brossette and Chris Warren also have their eyes on Austin.

Although the Longhorns have promising incoming talent and experienced players on the defensive side of the ball, they are still looking for answers.

“We see there’s a lot of work to be done, which is a great challenge, and I don’t mind that — I accept that,” Strong said. “You look at the TCU game and [the bowl] game, and it’s not an indication of what Texas is all about. We have work to do, and we got to get it done.”

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Editor’s Note: This is part of a weekly series looking back at past Texas athletes and where they are now. This week features former softball pitcher Cat Osterman, who played for Texas from 2002-2003 and 2005-2006.

By the time Osterman gradu-ated with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology, she had already won an Olympic gold medal from Athens, notched 20 collegiate

no-hitters and appeared twice on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

But even for Osterman, ad-justing to life on the 40 Acres wasn’t easy.

“I had to learn real quick how to pitch and how to pitch successfully at that level,” Oster-man said. “For me to be able to be thrown in the fire so quick, I think that’s what really made me mature as an athlete and, actually, in the long run, is prob-ably what has allowed me to be so successful.”

Osterman took a year-long

hiatus from school after her sophomore year to join the USA Softball Women’s National Team on its quest for Olympic gold in Athens in 2004.

“It was a little difficult because I was playing with a bunch of older women, a lot of which had graduated from college already,” Osterman said. “But I think it was for the best. It taught me a lot. It made me grow up fast.”

She returned to the University after her Olympic stint to play two more seasons with Texas, and, in 2007, she was selected as

the No. 1 pick in the National Pro Fastpitch softball league draft.

She continues to pitch profes-sionally for the USSSA Pride, a fastpitch team in Kissimmee, Florida, while working full-time in the offseason as a softball coach at Texas State. Osterman devotes her time to recruiting in the fall, coaching in the spring and playing professionally in the summer.

“I think the hardest part is I have to work out, and I have to throw,” Osterman said. “I put coaching as a priority, so, if I

have to skip a workout or some-thing like that, I’ll do that over being late to practice because my first priority is to Texas State and coaching.”

But all good things come to an end. This summer will most likely be Osterman’s last season playing professionally, she said. Still, she has a clear path for her future in mind.

“I have wanted to coach since I was in, like, fourth grade, and that was before I specialized in softball,” Osterman said. “Coach-ing is definitely my future.”

SOFTBALL SIDELINE

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Texas’ 59-yard offensive performance in the Advo-Care V100 Texas Bowl was an embarrassing low.

The 31–7 loss in the Texas Bowl capped off the Longhorns’ second losing season in five years, a result that irritated head coach Charlie Strong.

“You don’t ever expect to go out and get hammered in a bowl game 31–7 when you had a month to go pre-pare,” Strong said. “Texas has got to mean some-thing. Right now, it doesn’t mean much.”

And now with an off-season to prepare, Tex-as will look to fix its

broken offense. First, Texas will need

to address quarterback is-sues. The bowl game pre-sented an opportunity for sophomore quarterback Tyrone Swoopes to prove himself, but his poor per-formance didn’t put him in a promising position. Swoopes finished the game with 57 passing yards, -32 rushing yards, one rush-ing touchdown and one in-terception. With four-star quarterback recruit Zach Gentry recently decom-mitting from the Long-horns, redshirt freshman Jerrod Heard will be expected to produce.

Additionally, the Long-horns face an identity cri-sis. Strong and his staff

wanted the team to have a run-based offense in 2014, but the loss of three lineman and their start-ing quarterback made that difficult.

But this spring, Texas will try and establish its run-based offense, or it will look to change its game plan with the help of new recruits.

By Nick Castillo@Nick_Castillo74

Last week, the women’s basketball team’s momentum came to a halt.

After starting the season in dominating fashion, senior forward Nneka Enemkpali’s injury at Baylor put a stop to the Longhorns’ success. But the situation worsened after an MRI revealed that Enem-kpali tore her ACL.

The team will miss En-emkpali’s presence. Before the injury, Enemkpali, a 6-foot-1 forward from Pflugerville, led the Big 12 in rebounds with 10.4 per game, double-doubles and rebounds during confer-ence play. With the help of the forward, Texas started the season 14—0, includ-ing wins over three top-10 teams in Stanford, Texas A&M and Tennessee. But since the start of Big 12 play, the Longhorns have struggled. The Longhorns

lost four of its past five games, including a loss in the first game without En-emkpali against Iowa State.

While the loss of Enemk-pali is huge, the Longhorns can’t afford to let this in-jury result in a bad season.

Despite losing their starting forward, the Long-horns need to regroup and find a way to replicate their early season success.

Sophomore center Kelsey Lang should be the focal point of that re-grouping. Lang is shoot-ing 85 percent from the field and has averaged 12

points per game and seven rebounds during the Long-horns’ past two games. The Longhorns also need the help of junior center Imani McGee-Stafford, who is

putting up consistent play despite a low amount of playing time. She leads the Longhorns at the free-throw line, mak-ing 13 out of 16 shots

from the charity stripe. If Texas wants a chance

at a postseason run, it can’t afford to take a step back and can’t allow Enempkali’s injury to ruin its season.

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For the second time in a little over two weeks, Texas will face off against longtime rival Oklahoma.

After suffering a 70–59 loss in Oklahoma ear-lier this month, No. 14 Texas will host the No. 24 Sooners on Thursday at the Frank Erwin Center. The Longhorns lead the all-time series against the Sooners, 25–23.

Despite starting the season 13–0, Texas has lost four out of its past five games. The Long-horns managed three wins against top-10 oppo-nents early this season but have since struggled in Big 12 play.

Following two early conference wins against Kansas and West Virgin-ia, Texas lost a close game against Iowa State, which scored 5 points in the fi-nal 50 seconds to give the Longhorns their first loss of the season.

However, the Long-horns have statistics on their side as they face their northern rivals. In the past two games, soph-omore center Kelsey Lang led the team — averaging 12 points per game and shooting 85 percent from the field. Texas is also ranked 22nd in scoring defense in the country and comes in at No. 10 in rebounding margins.

Thursday, Texas will have a new voice on the sidelines in senior forward Nneka Enem-kpali, who is return-ing to the bench to help her teammates.

Enemkpali, an All-American candidate who had been leading the Big 12 in rebounds, suffered a career-ending injury against Baylor in Waco last week.

“I let coach do her thing, and I try to supple-ment in a more teammate -type fashion,” Enemkpali said. “I know there is a purpose behind every-thing that has happened to me.” —Courtney Norris

SPORTS BRIEFLY

Griffin SmithDaily Texan Staff

Cat Osterman remains one of the best pitch-ers the Texas

softball program has ever had. She currently

coaches softball at Texas State and is prepar-

ing to wrap up her professional

career.

Ethan Oblak | Daily Texan file photoWhen senior forward Nneka Enemkpali went down with a knee injury, Texas started to struggle. Now, they’re trying to get back on track with a win against rival Oklahoma.

Despite losing their starting forward, the Longhorns need to regroup and find a way to replicate their early season success.

Texas has got to mean something. Right now, it doesn’t mean much.

—Charlie Strong, Head coach

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8 L&A

With a sketchbook tucked under his arm and both hands chock-full of pens, Lakeem Wilson, a recent UT graduate and artist, meanders through Austin streets, stopping only to sketch what he sees: empty park benches, quiet streets and smoking strangers. He fills en-tire pages before finishing his walk through the city.

“Drawing and painting is just something I have always done — just this constant focus in my life,” Wilson said. “It has always provided me a sense of comfort because I can turn to it whenever I need to express things I feel.”

Wilson’s debut art book, “Natural Born Star,” contains 46 photographs and illustra-tions he created while at UT. His work, which ranges from realistic depictions of the commonplace to abstract im-ages, plays with the boundary between reality and fantasy. Wilson explored the personal effects and consequences of political issues, such as racial violence and police brutal-ity, through the works in the collection. Red Throat House — an Austin-based art collec-tive Wilson cofounded — will release “Natural Born Star” on Feb. 5.

Wilson said his identity as a black American has influenced his art and contributed to his distinct style.

“Since I’m black, my art reflects my views on black culture and what it means to be black in America,” Wilson

said. “I’m not like a Malcolm X extremist or anything like that, but I do notice a lot of flaws or things that could be better in black communities and in the way that society depicts blackness.”

Wilson said he grew up in an impoverished Dallas neighbor-hood and, while his childhood lacked monetary comforts, it was rich in culture.

“My community provided me with a story and experi-ences that makes me and my artwork kind of unique,”

Wilson said. “Coming from a rough background shaped not only my story but also the kind of stories I want to tell — the kind of activism role I want my art to have.”

Dave Herman serves as a creative director for the nonprofit organization Pres-ervation LINK, an educa-tion agency designed to foster personal growth and artistic expression in youths. In 2006, Herman taught Wil-son in a visual literacy pro-gram through Preservation

LINK. Herman has mentored Wilson ever since and said watching him develop as an artist has been gratifying.

“It is great to see that he has stayed committed to his craft,” Herman said. “He con-tinued down this path and is now able to celebrate having a body of illustrations connect-ed by insightful observations and social context.”

Amyn Kassam, cofounder of Red Throat House, helped Wilson assemble his book to make his art more accessible to

the public. Kassam, said Wil-son’s artistic style stands out to him because it is colorful and playful but grapples with serious content.

“I find Lakeem’s work compelling because his casual style invites the eye to explore the serious and complicated issues that his illustrations de-pict,” Kassam said.

Red Throat House is hosting a book release for Wilson on Feb. 5 at Spider House Ballroom. “Natural Born Star” will be available

for purchase at the release and can be viewed online at www.redthroathouse.com.

Wilson said he intends to be-come an illustrator and plans to go to graduate school in the fall. He said he hopes to one day in-spire other young artists.

“One day, I’ll give back and just make sure I get a chance to speak to young people who want to do the same and want to follow the same path and use art as their main way of expression and creating,” Wilson said.

KAT SAMPSON, LIFE&ARTS EDITOR | @thedailytexan 8Thursday, January 29, 2015

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Recent graduate to release first art book By Briana Zamora

@whateverwillbri

Don’t read the next sentence.

If you’re reading this sen-tence, the “just say no” cam-paign coined by the D.A.R.E. program may not have worked for you.

D.A.R.E., the international substance abuse prevention program, teaches drug-ab-stinence to students starting in fifth grade. As part of the program, which was founded in 1983 as part of the war on drugs, officers trained in child development education teach kids to use the “just say no” method to resist peer pressure. While research sup-ports the success of a variety of psychological techniques used in the D.A.R.E. pro-gram, real life results leave something to be desired.

Numerous studies at-tempted to measure the effectiveness of D.A.R.E. and to determine whether it’s

helping win the war on drugs, but it’s difficult to say how well the program works. The most common technique used to evaluate D.A.R.E.’s success is to give students surveys about their drug habits before and after they complete the D.A.R.E. program.

A paper combining the results of several of these studies did not find any measurable difference in students’ drug use over the course of the program. Other programs, par-ticularly those requiring students to act out differ-ent scenarios, fared bet-ter — but not by much. It’s unfortunate that D.A.R.E. isn’t more effective, espe-cially given that the pro-gram uses many techniques based on tried-and-true psychological principles.

For example, the pro-gram asks students to sign a “pledge” not to use drugs. The psychological principle of consistency, established in a 1966 research paper, suggests people want to re-main consistent with their past choices. Ideally, if a per-son signs a pledge not to do drugs, they’d be more likely to abide by this commitment than if they hadn’t.

The D.A.R.E. program also relies on an appeal to

authority. A 1974 study found that people are more likely to obey a request from a uniformed guard than from someone in street clothes — an effect that lasts even after the guard is out of sight.

Although various tech-niques that exist within the D.A.R.E. program work in controlled experimen-tal settings, the complex-ity of everyday life cannot be duplicated in a lab. The D.A.R.E. program effectively increasing drug awareness, but the program falls short. In fact, multiple studies have found that the D.A.R.E. program has no statistically significant effect on student drug use.

Perhaps, the program’s emphasis on the negative might be why D.A.R.E. hasn’t made much of a dent in drug use among America’s youth.

People are often curious about what they’re told not to do. Don’t press that red but-ton. Don’t date that tattooed guy with the motorcycle. Don’t do drugs.

The D.A.R.E. program may have good intentions, but the war on drugs can-not be won through the use of program that has proven ineffective.

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By Paepin Goff@thedailytexan

Why the ‘just say no’ method is not working for D.A.R.E.

FILM | COLUMN

Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Hulk: each one the center of gravity for his own multi-movie series. But these characters don’t fight evil alone — they coexist in the same fran-chise, called the Marvel Cin-ematic Universe (MCU). Most films in the MCU franchise fo-cus on one character, who later teams up with other characters in blockbusters such as “The Avengers.” This critically and financially successful method of franchise-building has never been seen before. Although the MCU has been well-received, its novelty will wear out. The ques-tion is: Will audiences get worn out too?

Suzanne Scott, radio-tele-vision-film assistant professor, said she believes audience in-terest in the MCU will drop as the films continue because they will eventually become stale, resulting in decreased box of-fice earnings. This is called “franchise fatigue.”

As the MCU expands and becomes more time-consum-ing to follow, some audience members will skip the install-ments that have less to do with the main plot. On the other hand, there are some

audience members who pre-fer self-contained stories. Scott said this desire is why the relatively simple “Guardians of the Galaxy” was a remarkable success in a franchise full of high-grossing films.

“People felt they could take a break from trying to figure out how this connected to the big-ger picture and just enjoy [it],” Scott said.

In order to maintain interest, the MCU will have to offer a variety of films to satisfy view-ers’ tastes and keep them com-ing back. So far, Marvel Studios has offered action comedies, political thrillers, epic fantasies and sci-fi adventures, but the varying genres haven’t been enough to prevent the fran-chise from becoming stale. UT alumnus Clay Liford (“Wuss,” “Earthling”), an indie film-maker, pointed out that most of the MCU’s films follow the same formula.

“You have the same generic villain,” Liford said. “You have the same generic fights. You’ve seen it so many times that it’s becoming rote.”

As radio-television-film freshman Will Conant puts it, Marvel’s films have all been packaged very similarly. The studio has experimented with tone but not storytelling.

Although Liford said the

MCU will continue to attract audiences based on brand recognition, Marvel needs to take narrative risks. By stay-ing fresh and original, Marvel can keep our collective atten-tion. Scott and Liford agreed Marvel could offer new per-spectives by including more female voices in the largely male-dominated genre.

Even if Marvel does diver-sify, it will have to make sure its films fit together — mean-ing directors will have to curb their creative control. This has driven away filmmakers such as director Edgar Wright (“Shaun of the Dead,” “Hot Fuzz”), who dropped out of “Ant-Man.” Nonetheless, filmmakers in search of a big break or fund-ing will be there to take their place. For example, Liford said he would make a Marvel film if given the opportunity and some creative freedom because it would help fund his indepen-dent features. If Marvel learns how to balance franchise goals with individual freedom, it may be able to retain filmmakers.

The MCU isn’t going away anytime soon, but the studio can definitely improve its films. If it diversifies its creative teams and begins taking storytell-ing risks, the franchise won’t just last longer — it’ll become something truly super.

Marvel Cinematic Universe nearing ‘franchise fatigue’

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UT graduate Lakeem Wilson’s debut book, “Natural Born Star,” will feature 46 of Wilson’s photographs and illustra-tions. Many of his pieces are influenced by his childhood and focus on social justice issues in America.