1 SPORTS PAGE 6 COMICS PAGE 7 NEWS PAGE 3 Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Monday, February 15, 2016 dailytexanonline.com bit.ly/dtvid SYSTEM CITY Community Regents invest to attract top faculty responds to By Caleb Wong from other institutions by both the UT System and each ment from the UT System, The recent renewal of @caleber96 giving them funds for their individual campus contrib- according to a UT System funding for the STAR pro- shooting of research. Dale Klein, UT Sys- utes to the funding. press release. gram coincides with Chan- The UT System Board tem associate vice chancel- “The faculty we recruit are Some of the faculty mem- cellor William McRaven’s of Regents voted Thurs- lor for research in academic already happy at [the univer- bers recruited through the initiatives to improve the local teen day to fund a program affairs, said the program at- sities] where they are [locat- program include Bruce rankings of UT System in- by an additional $30 mil- tracts faculty members from ed],” Klein said. ”We have to Beutler, a UT-Dallas faculty stitutions as part of his stra- By Mikaela Cannizzo lion that attracts promis- other research institutions basically win them over with member who won the 2011 tegic plan for “winning the @mikaelac16 ing faculty members to UT who would otherwise be un- incentives and reasons why Nobel Prize in Physiology talent war.” The national conversa- System institutions. likely to join a UT System they have to join.” or Medicine, and Richard Among other factors, the tion surrounding police The Science and Technolo- institution. While the money Since the program’s launch Aldrich, a professor at UT- quality of research at uni- brutality and racism contin- gy Acquisition and Retention doesn’t go toward faculty sal- in 2004, the UT System has Austin whose recognized versities plays a large role ued last week when a black program, known as STAR, aries, each faculty member invested $178 million in work in neurobiology led to in their rankings. Drawing officer shot and killed an has been used to recruit hun- could be offered as much as the program and has seen a his election to the National unarmed black teenager in dreds of faculty members a couple million dollars after $1.2 billion return on invest- Academy of Sciences. TALENT page 3 North Austin. In response to the shoot- SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ing, local activists from Black Lives Matter, Austin Justice Coalition and Measure Aus- tin spoke about their battle Alumnus led team to detect gravity waves for justice at a press confer- ence Thursday afternoon By Eunice Ali following a peaceful protest @euniceali at City Hall. Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said the UT alumnus David Reitze police department aims to led the first direct detection avoid taking a life in all cir- of gravitational waves, 100 cumstances and suggested years after Albert Einstein a collaborative approach predicted them in his general between law enforcement relativity theory. and community members to On Sept. 14 of last year, Reitze progress toward this goal. and his team recorded gravita- “There’s a collective re- tional-wave signals emitted 1.3 sponsibility in this nation billion years ago by the merging for the community and the of two black holes, each about police not to point fingers 30 times the mass of the sun. at each other, to scream at This discovery confirmed the each other or to demonize existence of gravitational waves, each other,” Acevedo said. which Einstein predicted in “There’s a collective respon- 1916. The paper was published sibility to work with each in the journal Physical Review other to make things better.” Letters on Feb. 11. According to police re- “Last night [our team] ports, David Joseph, the vic- toasted with champagne, but tim of the shooting, charged everybody was actually eager to at Officer Geoffrey Freeman come back to work to find more when Joseph was found black holes,” Reitze said. standing naked in the 1200 Reitze is the executive direc- block of Nature’s Bend. tor of the Laser Interferometer As of now, Acevedo said Gravitational-Wave Observa- there is a 30-day timeline to complete a thorough investi- tory (LIGO), a research labora- Illustration by Jason Cheon| Daily Texan Staff tory designed and operated by gation of the incident, but the the California Institute of Tech- Reitze’s dissertation, said Reitze’s person generates a weak gravi- detect their gravitational waves that Einstein predicted to exist, police department said they nology and the Massachusetts team improved the sensitiv- tational wave when they spin a because of the magnitude of just over a hundred years ago,” will be transparent about any Institute of Technology with ity of the LIGO detectors until chair, according to Downer. the collision. Downer said. delays in the process. funding from the National Sci- they could detect gravitational Humans can only observe “Basically, what they have Richard Matzner, physics Acevedo said the investi- ence Foundation. He received waves. Gravitational waves are and measure the gravitational developed in the past three to professor and faculty member gation is expected to serve as his Ph.D. in physics at UT-Aus- tiny, rhythmic distortions in waves of large, violent motions. four decades is a sort of optical of the UT Relativity Group, a way to assess training pro- tin in 1990. space and time that occur when Downer said even though the microphone that is able to listen said every detail of this first tocols and examine policies Physics professor Michael objects move. They are gener- black holes were billions of to very low level gravitational and procedures such as how Downer, who supervised ated all the time; for example, a light years away, scientists could signals from across the universe GRAVITY page 3 SHOOTING page 3 CAMPUS CITY Student Government bill calls Austin Marathon maintains for umbrella checkout system pace for 25th year anniversary By Rachel Lew I thought that umbrella checkout would By Bharath Lavendra @rachelannlew be a great idea for students and would be @burreth Unpredictable Texas show- a Student Government initiative where we Over 11,000 run- ers can leave students without ners crossed the finish umbrellas stranded on cam- could actually have some follow-through.” line yesterday at the 25th pus, but Student Government —John Falke, Austin Marathon and wants to give students the op- Co-author of AR 17 Half Marathon. portunity to check out umbrel- John Conley, the race di- las and stay dry. for an umbrella checkout was would be a Student Govern- rector for the past 20 years, SG is currently working on inspired by the cell phone ment initiative where we could said he has watched the race the implementation of As- charger checkouts currently actually have some follow- change in many ways over sembly Resolution 17, which available around campus. Cell through.” the past two decades. would create a system of um- phone chargers have a 24-hour Kallen Dimitroff, co-au- “The overall fitness level thor of AR 17 and govern- of your average Austinite brella checkouts on campus for checkout period, and require a Zoe Fu | Daily Texan Staff students on rainy days. UT ID to borrow. ment senior, said she hopes is very high,” Conley said. “It’s remarkable when half Texas 4000 members Khoi Truong, from left, Gilpreet According to the School of “Kallen [Dimitroff] and I the umbrella checkout sys- Kooner, Mary Aviles and Alyssa Dawson run in the Austin Architecture’s Center for Sus- were actually stuck on cam- tem will be similar to cell of your field comes from Marathon on Sunday afternoon. tainable Development, an- pus in the [Student Activity phone charger checkouts, your hometown.” nual rainfall in Austin ranges Center] without an umbrella with a few modifications. Conley said that Austin’s became [the race director], Conley said that there from 32 to 36 inches on aver- while it was raining and I saw “Unlike cell phone chargers, sister cities were also well the first thing that I did was were representatives from age, and rain patterns can of- someone check out a phone we want students to have 48 represented at the race. say that we need to add an Ōita City, Japan, and Saltil- ten be unpredictable. charger from the hospitality hours to return the umbrellas. “The sister city program athletic component, so we lo, Mexico, both sister cities John Falke, co-author of desk,” Falke said. “I thought The thought is that the lost, originally had two pur- immediately issued an invi- of Austin. The winner of the AR 17 and supply chain man- that umbrella checkout would poses, educational and cul- tation to our sister cities to agement senior, said his idea be a great idea for students and UMBRELLAS page 2 tural,” Conley said. “When I get some athletes.” MARATHON page 2 NEWS OPINION SPORTS LIFE&ARTS ONLINE REASON TO PARTY Students celebrate Mosquito-borne illnesses Softball stays undefeated UT student recalls life Dell Medical School and the National Condom Day. need proactive research. after walk-off win. in Iran. Wellness Network are train- PAGE 3 PAGE 4 PAGE 6 PAGE 8 ing interns to help develop Candidates debate at Schools should invest in Men’s basketball suffers Kanye’s music takes new healthy living practices on Sheriff forum. bilingual education. second straight loss. direction on 8th album. campus. 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