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1 COMICS PAGE 6 LIFE&ARTS PAGE 8 SPORTS PAGE 6 Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Friday, February 24, 2017 dailytexanonline.com bit.ly/dtvid STUDENT GOVERNMENT STUDENT GOVERNMENT Emails may violate SG election code Senate bills By Kayla Meyertons individually” recruit people them reasonably well, in the provide him with her email running mates in January. endorse & Will Clark to their campaign before the sense that the person they for campaign purposes. Carter said he acquired the @kemeyertons @_willclark_ sanctioned campaign period, were asking to be an agent “That email was kind of student’s emails through an which began Feb. 15, but the or worker would want to unexpected for me,” Hishmeh SG database, to which he has awareness At least 16 students re- 16 individuals said they did give some of their time to said. “I didn’t know how they access because of his current ceived an email from the Isa- not know Carter personally. work on that campaign be- got my email or why I was position as SG chief of staff. programs iah Carter and Sydney O’Con- The emails were sent three cause of that existing rela- being emailed.” Carter said the database con- nell student body presidential weeks before the sanctioned tionship,” Catrin Watts, chair When asked to provide the tains more than 1,000 student By Reagan Ritterbush campaign around midnight campaign period, and every of the Election Supervisory original email, Carter said he emails, some of which were @Reagan0720 Jan. 23, the nature of which email sent was identical and Board, said. could not find it and that it acquired when students filled could constitute a violation of asked for students to join Business freshman Ida may have been deleted. Car- out an SG interest form during The Senate of Col- the 2016 SG Election Code. the campaign. Hishmeh, who received ter said in an email statement freshman orientation. Carter lege Councils passed According to the “We advise when people the campaign email, said the campaign cleaned out said the campaign email was four pieces of legislation code, candidates are al- are reaching out to other she does not know Carter the account for “convenience Thursday night regarding lowed to “personally and people that they do know personally and did not and clarity” when he changed SG page 3 Voices Against Violence Theatre for Dialogue programs, the Senate LECTURE constitution, scheduling advising appointments online and writing flag courses’ syllabi. Herman talks Mack Brown, Justin Bieber Joint Resolution 1606 passed unanimously in support of incentivizing By Chase Karacostas students in first-year and @chasekaracostas transfer-year groups to at- tend Theatre for Dialogue Hundreds crammed into programs. According to Tejas House’s front yard to the resolution, the theatre hear from Tom Herman program will help foster and ask questions about the awareness of bystander upcoming football season intervention, violence pre- Thursday evening. vention and resources. Herman, the University’s Cameron Osmond, Stu- new football coach, was the dent Government liberal featured guest at Tejas Coffee, a arts representative and weekly speaker series hosted by co-author of JR 1606, said Tejas Club. this resolution was written After hosting celebrities such to push all incoming stu- as Matthew McConaughey and dents to participate in in- Lance Armstrong, Tejas Club teractive programs that fa- President McKay Proctor said cilitate dialogue pertinent they’re used to huge crowds. to sexual assault, discrimi- The only hard part is remem- nation and harassment. bering to buy extra animal “Incoming students crackers, Proctor said. don’t think orientation “We’re pretty used to the actually addresses sexual crowd control aspect of it, but assault and harassment it’s really nice to see the enthu- sufficiently,” Osmond said. siasm people have for Coach “These theatre programs Herman,” said Proctor, English are able to not only help and supply chain management enhance students’ knowl- senior. “I think that some sense edge on the subject but of school spirit is palpable here, Juan Figueroa | Daily Texan Staff also make them feel com- Newly hired head coach Tom Herman speaks at the Tejas house as part of the Tejas Coffee speaker series on Thursday eve- HERMAN page 2 ning. Herman answered questions about the upcoming football season and his past at UT as a graduate assistant. SENATE page 2 CITY CAMPUS Council condemns high ICE detainment rate Solar vehicles team By Lisa Dreher accounting for 55 percent of @lisa_dreher97 the arrests. shoots for the stars ICE detained 23 people Austin has the most de- with criminal convictions, By Meraal Hakeem The team com- tainments of undocumented with two convicted of sex- @meraal_hakeem petes in both track and immigrants without crimi- ually abusing children, cross-country competi- UT’s Solar Vehicles nal convictions in the U.S., two of assualt and nine of tions. Starting July 3, the Team is harnessing the according to reports by the drunk driving. The data team plans to compete in sun’s energy to speed Austin American-Statesman also includes detainees that the annual Formula Sun their way to success in a and KVUE Wednesday. have been convicted of Grand Prix track race. solar vehicle track race “Most of the people ar- drug trafficking, marijua- Vasiliy Pobedinski, this summer. rested by (Immigration na possesion or obstruct- mechanical engineering SVT is a multidisci- and Customs Enforcement) ing the police, according to junior and the team’s me- plinary organization that in the recent raids were the Statesman. chanical lead, said prepa- works out of the electri- non-criminal immigrants,” ICE has conducted ration for competitions Joshua Guerra | Daily Texan Staff cal and mechanical en- Mayor Steve Adler wrote in sweeps over the past few begins years in advance. Students and community members rallied on the East Mall gineering departments a Facebook post Wednesday. weeks across the country “We are in the design Tuesday evening to protest against the Trump administration to design, build and race “By not focusing on appre- for Operation Cross Check, phase for our next car, and the recent executive order. solar vehicles, according hending criminals, ICE is which the agency says tar- BeVolt, which we are to Breanna Simpson, SVT preparing for races in causing fear to spread in our gets mainly undocumented according to a fact sheet wanted for a crime, accord- president and mechanical summer of 2018,” Pobe- community, and when oth- immigrants with criminal released on Feb. 13. ICE ar- ing to the Statesman. engineering senior. dinski said. “But we’re erwise law-abiding people convictions, according to rested 38 people with crim- “During targeted en- “We’re just an organiza- doing last minute main- are afraid to interact with fact sheets ICE released inal convictions out of 41 forcement operations, ICE tion of students dedicated tenance on our current law enforcement, we are less concerning U.S. cities during five days, accounting officers frequently encoun- to building and racing car, TexSun, in prepara- safe as a city.” with detainments. for 5 percent, according to ter additional suspects who solar vehicles,” Simpson tion for its final race this Of ICE’s confirmed 51 de- Since Feb. 6, ICE has ar- New York City’s fact sheet. may be in the United States said. “As far as the ma- coming summer.” tainments over the course rested more than 680 people ICE said the arrests in violation of federal immi- chine goes or welding or Pobedinski said the of four days this month, 28 collectively from San An- sometimes occur when a gration laws,” ICE said in the actually manufacturing team faces many di- detainees were not previ- tonio, New York, Chicago, suspected undocumented fact sheets. “Those persons the body, we do most of ously convicted of crimes, Los Angeles and Atlanta, immigrant is with someone COUNCIL page 2 it ourselves.” SOLAR page 2 Name: UT Athletics; Width: 60p0; Depth: 2 in; Color: Process color; Ad Number: - 2 2 Friday, February 24, 2017 NEWS FRAMES FEATURED PHOTO thedailytexan Volume 117, Issue 109 Erin Thompson is the only professor of art crime in the CONTACT US United States. Specializing in research on Main Telephone (512) 471-4591 the destruction and illegal trade of art, Thompson cur- Editor-in-Chief rently teaches at the John Jay Alexander Chase College of Criminal Justice. (512) 232-2212 After receiving an invitation [email protected] from UT’s Antiquities Action Managing Editor Group, she came to the Uni- Akshay Mirchandani versity to share her study on (512) 232-2217 how war destroys archaeolog- managingeditor@ ical sites in countries such as dailytexanonline.com Egypt and Syria with students. News Office “Art is a non-renewable re- (512) 232-2207 source,” Thompson said. “Like [email protected] oil and natural gas, we use it up for our immediate goals Sports Office and don’t save enough for [email protected] the future.” Life & Arts Office Thompson said the looting (512) 232-2209 and deliberate destruction of lifeandarts@dailytexanon- historical art has been an ig- line.com nored problem, but its new- found connection to terrorism Multimedia Office has brought more attention. (512) 471-7835 multimedia@ “I’m happy to take ad- dailytexanonline.com vantage of the publicity,” Retail Advertising (512) 471-1865 advertise@texasstudentme- dia.com Alexandra Dolan | Daily Texan Staff Classified Advertising Psychology sophomore Andrew Wilding juggles in front of the Tower with the UT juggling society on before the Marcus Monroe: The Rockstar of Jugglers (512) 471-5244 classifieds@ dailytexanonline.com the Senate.” are provided the neces- class to real world prob- SENATE The Senate unanimously sary resources to complete SOLAR lems,” Garg said.