1 COMICS PAGE 7 LIFE&ARTS PAGE 8 SPORTS PAGE 6 Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Wednesday, April 6, 2016 dailytexanonline.com bit.ly/dtvid CAMPUS UNIVERSITY Texas Speech wins AFA championship UT Regent Sara Tucker By Hannah Daniel national championships for ship team,” Hanzlicek said. @hannahdaniel different individual events, “It’s really incredible to know to address setting a national record. that we finally brought it Texas Speech gave a re- Cole Hanzlicek, gov- back and we’re the ones that, cord-breaking performance ernment senior and Texas 14 years from now, could be graduates at the American Forensic As- Speech co-captain, said win- remembered the same way sociation (AFA) National In- ning was a special moment that we look back on 2002. It By Caleb Wong dividual Events Tournament because the award was pre- feels unreal.” @caleber96 last weekend in Florida, win- sented by a coach of UT’s Farrah Bara, economics UT alumna Sara Tucker ning their first Team Sweep- winning 2002 team, who also senior and team co-captain, didn’t go to her own com- stakes National Champion- taught current Texas Speech won two individual titles, mencement ceremony for her ship title in 14 years. coach Randy Cox. including her second Indi- undergraduate degree in jour- In addition to the team “[He said] ‘It is truly some- vidual Sweepstakes title as nalism or her MBA. victory, students won the thing remarkable when the Top Overall Speaker, which “I was the first in my family Overall Individual Sweep- student becomes the teacher,’ earned her the highest point Courtesy of Texas Speech to go to college,” Tucker said. stakes for Top Overall Speak- and then he announced us Members of Texas Speech stand with their trophies after win- “I was tired of being poor, er and five out of 11 possible as the National Champion- page 2 ning the National Championship for the first time in 14 years. AFA so I raced through my un- dergraduate degree in three years, and then I graduated POLICE in the summer and couldn’t afford to come back to Aus- tin for commencement.” UTPD investigates possible campus homicide However, in May, Tucker will give a commencement address in front of thou- By Mikaela Cannizzo sands of UT graduates and & Caleb Wong their families. A member of @thedailytexan the UT System Board of Re- gents and former undersec- The University of Texas retary at the Department of Police Department is inves- Education, she said UT gave tigating a suspected homi- her the tools she needed to cide on campus after a dead become a national leader in body was found in Waller higher education. Creek, west of the Etter- “It really is humbling to be Harbin Alumni Center, on asked that when you care so Tuesday morning. much about an institution that The victim is a woman in gave you the foundation for a her 20s, according to Austin- life that was beyond anything Travis County Emergency I could have ever dreamed for,” Medical Services. The iden- Tucker said. “If you have that tity of the victim has not been energy and enthusiasm for confirmed yet, UTPD spokes- what’s possible, it’s amazing person Cindy Posey said. what you can tackle.” UT President Gregory Tucker already gave a com- Fenves, who returned from mencement speech to UT Amarillo to respond to the graduates in 2005, in which situation, said multiple law she reminded students that enforcement agencies, in- pure, inspired intentions lead cluding officers from the to the right actions in an era Austin Police Department, of distrust toward public offi- the Department of Public cials. She said she wasn’t sure Safety and Texas Rangers, if she should give another are investigating this as a commencement speech, but Marshall Tidrick | Daily Texan Staff possible act of homicide. He said Fenves persuaded her UTPD is investigating a possible homicide on campus. The body, found in Waller Creek on Tuesday morning, has yet to be HOMICIDE page 2 identified. President Fenves urges everyone to be careful and aware of their surroundings when walking alone. TUCKER page 2 CAMPUS SYSTEM Students hand out roses, UT System expands medical amnesty honor Holocaust victims By Rachel Lew to challenge the perception @rachelannlew that alcohol abuse is more People shouldn’t be punished By Vera Bespalova executed by the Gestapo, the acceptable than other drugs. @thedailytexan secret state police of Nazi Students who experienced “Binge drinking is some- more for using one illicit Germany, because of their a drug overdose in the past thing that’s accepted as a social substance over another. At the height of the Ho- efforts. Today, the UT White may have hesitated to call ritual and a behavior that isn’t locaust, 10,000 people were Rose Society focuses on Ho- for medical help due to fear stigmatized,” Hamborsky said. —Stephanie Hamborsky, murdered in Auschwitz locaust remembrance and of repercussions, but the UT “We wanted to push back on President of UT SSDP each day. genocide prevention. System recently changed its the idea that alcohol is more The UT White Rose Soci- Jerwick said the 10,000 policy to encourage students acceptable, because alcohol ety will be handing out 10,000 white roses event has a pow- to seek medical assistance can be very damaging. It’s Rotnofsky said. “You have “People shouldn’t be pun- white roses across campus to- erful effect on students. when necessary. more palatable for people to to fulfill certain require- ished more for using one il- day, each rose commemorat- “There’s such a difference Previously, the UT System be granted amnesty for alco- ments to successfully get licit substance over another,” ing one life lost. Max Glauben, between having something medical amnesty policy only hol, but not as much for other amnesty, and it’s rehabili- Hamborsky said. “The fear a Holocaust survivor, will be about the Holocaust as a quiz covered alcohol poisoning illicit substances [such as co- tative, not a punishment.” of legal repercussion will speaking to students at 6 p.m. question in a high school his- but was extended Wednes- caine] because of the stigma.” Taral Patel, SG chief of deter students from calling at Texas Hillel. tory class versus walking out day to include drug overdose. Hamborksy said SSDP staff and neurobiology and for help, and [the extended English freshman Leah onto campus and seeing one Now students who overdose wrote the bill and found government senior, said policy] eliminates that bar- Kashar and Plan II freshman in every five people carrying on drugs can receive protec- sponsors within Student Gov- the policy protects against rier for students.” Sophie Jerwick are co-pres- a white rose,” Jerwick said. “If tion from University charges ernment (SG). After the bill charges from the University Some questioned whether idents of the organization. we were in Auschwitz today, after they participate in a was passed within SG, it was but does not include possible the bill would encourage Jerwick said the history of those people carrying a rose rehabilitative process. brought before UT System, charges from the city or state. student drug use, but Ham- the organization dates back to would not be alive.” The change in policy was where UT lawyers rewrote “It’s up to the police of- borsky said extending the Europe in the early 1940’s. The organization chooses a proposed by the UT branch the language of the policy. ficer’s discretion [to press medical amnesty policy will “The White Rose Society different cause to advocate for of Students for Sensible SG President Xavier criminal charges], but if it’s not create more drug users. was originally a group at the each semester. This semester’s Drug Policy (SSDP), an or- Rotnofsky said the policy a life or death situation, they “For example, distributing University of Munich during chosen cause is the Syrian ganization concerned about will allow students to par- will usually not charge but condoms will not cause peo- the Holocaust,” Jerwick said. refugee crisis. the impact drug abuse has ticipate in a rehabilitative make sure they get medical ple who were not previously “It was a group of non-Jewish “Our pamphlets that we’re on communities, according process instead of receiving help,” Patel said. having sex to start now,” Ham- students that tried to notify the attaching to the roses also have to the organization’s website. punishment through Stu- Hamborsky said grant- borsky said. “People who use other students about the atroc- information on the Syrian Stephanie Hamborsky, dent Judicial Services. ing full medical amnesty drugs now will continue using ities of the Holocaust by edu- refugee crisis and the parallels president of UT SSDP and “There’s a rehabilita- allows students to feel drugs, and having the ability to cating them through leaflets.” biology and Plan II senior, tion process, and a student comfortable calling for call for help will allow them to The original Society was ROSE page 2 said the organization wanted has to apply for amnesty,” help in any emergency. get medical treatment.” SPECIAL VENTURES OPINION SPORTS LIFE&ARTS ONLINE REASON TO PARTY Students work to“Boot Drone transparency is Texas baseball shut out by Yatai brings Japanese Ever wondered what kind the Braids,” a movement central to safe future. 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