Uber Preparing To Leave Houston If City Keeps Existing Rules

Through The Eyes of Texas  - My classmate Alyssa wrote about Uber and how they are preparing to leave the city of Houston if the city keeps existing rules.
I wrote about this article couple blogs back and believed that they should not be regulated and controlled by the government. However my views have changed after reading Alyssa's blog and getting a feedback from Professor Seago. Both raised a question in my head if companies like Uber really should operate without zero regulations by the city and the answer was no. Although I don't completely taken the side of the government having all the regulations over independent companies like Uber, I do agree on the fact that such regulations should exists for the purpose of our and the cities safety. With that being said, Uber's currently existing rules and the process of employment allows safety and protection for customers. Alyssa stated that its only fair for us and safe for us that these Uber workers go through such process and that no complete trust can be put on these people. I support this statement because I, too, am an uber customer. However, it can be debated that Uber has decreased the amount of DWI and drunk driving throughout the years of operation. It has improved our citiy in a way that's keeping us safe. My views has changed little since my last blog about Uber. They should have some sort of regulations and rules upon them if and when they are not doing a proper job of safety.  In the areas they lack on, government should regulated and assist but not control over it. Allowing government to take some control over your regulations is giving up certain rights that your company has. Unless the company is a negative contribution to the city such as having skeptical driver, unsafe driver, unsafe operators, I do not see giving away many regulations and rules to the government as the best choice.  

Last Blog - What Could UT Do To Be Safer

LONESTAR MADNESS - One of my classmate's blog was about the rising problem of safety concerning about UT campus. She talked about how and what the University could do in order to allow students to feel safer. I agree with Lonestar Madness when it comes to applying many different kinds of actions towards students safety such as allowing more bicycle officers riding around late at night especially near west campus area where homelessness is clouded. She also mentioned about safe cameras to detect any suspicious activity and special kind of id cards called proxy cards to allow only students to be in control over dorm doors. These methods definitely will improve students dormitory's safety.
There's always should be certain kind of boundaries when we discuss about limits. Lonestar Madness mentioned at her very last sentence that you cannot make the school "too safe" because it'll be what we call prison-like. Unlike the other methods of safety actions, I personally think metal detectors will only make sense of unsafeness to the students. Imagine if you are just simply wanting to go to class for a lecture and will have to walk through a metal detector for any kinds of weapon. This to me, would force me to believe that something is unsafe in the campus. Skeptical about the imagination of the reason behind these metal detectors. Are there terrorists? Thieves? Some sort of an gun incidents? These feelings would only leave students to feel more unsafe.
UT campus needs improvement on the subject of safety in campus. However we must keep in mind that incidents like Haruka Weiser, a murder, has not happened for over a 50 years period in UT. The statistic shows that UT is not, statically,  dangerous environment to be in. But regardless of statistics, if the students feel unsafe, these methods needs to be taken immediately.

Uber Preparing to Leave Houston

TEXAS TRIBUNE - In Houston, TX, Uber has announced that they will leave the city if the city keeps on with the regulations and rules. The city is already requiring fingerprint background checks and other regulations that will hold Uber and other driving companies into certain limits and restrictions. Uber is not going to put up with this anymore, threatening to leave the city of Houston.

Austin is also going through with this kind of process with proposition 1. City of Austin also feels that they will need to restrict and keep the community safe by putting on regulations for Uber. 

I believe that the local government is more intended to take control over Uber with an excuse of keeping the city safe and better. With such rapid growth Uber and other driving companies have, the city is afraid that they will lose control over what is now the most outgrowing transportation in cities all around. I believe we need to be concerned about this kind of act of government and be involved in such situation and take a stand in keeping our liberty. With transportation being a big part of our lives, Uber and other companies gives the community many economic benefits towards the future. This cannot be interrupted by the power greed of our government.

I believe that Uber and other driving companies should have the rights to be unregulated by the government if it is not disrupting the economical growth in our states.  

UT Campus Carry

HANSOL MUN - One of my peers in class wrote about University of Texas' campus carry and open carry law and how it would influence the usage of gun and increase the amount of harm it will do to the students. Mr, Mun makes a valid argument, and in which I agree on, that students can not be trusted with such deadly weapon and will increase the possible chance of using them to relief their personal desire. And how international students that come from different country to study aboard at UT will be a disappointment and a threat to them.

The logical point Mr. Mun made at some degree we all can agree on. Guns are deathly, people are stupid. However, I wonder if Mr. Mun did not see any benefits from campus carry and open carry. Because as I read his article, he did not point out any factual advantages to students being able to protect themselves. Although I, too, believe that campus carry should be limited in campuses, there are inevitable facts to having able to carry guns. With all the current events going on about homeless people filling up the Drag or the tragic death of a freshmen student that was murdered, having campus carry seems kind of necessary when walking around UT campus alone. There are many cases where a school was in locked down because of a armed person roaming around the classroom. If teachers were able to carry guns, the thirty or more students would be insignificantly much more safer. If the movie theatre you are in is attacked by a mentally ill patient who insanely just wants to kill everyone, the crowd would be able to survive the attack. Sadly, these events happen and people are killed and robbed at public places and their own homes. Many would argue that only if they had guns, they would be alive today.

MAKE GOSSIPING ILLEGAL

STATESMAN - Houston, Texas, a patient records her surgeon because of the way she was treated before the surgery to find out that they make negative remarks about her and her body.

A woman named Ethel Esther notified the doctor saying that she needed a immediate attention because of her pain. The doctor responded that she had to wait for two months like everyone else. She kept arguing that she needed to push forward the surgery and the doctor abruptly said, "Who do you think you are? You have to wait just like everyone else". The hospital ended up pushing the schedule forward but this conflict led Esther to be skeptic about the surgeon and decided to record a audio tape during the surgery by putting a small USB recorder in her hair. She later finds the recording and what she hears is bunch of negative remarks of her and her body. She notified a complaint to the hospital but the hospital responded saying that they have decided not to take any further actions on the remarks nor the doctors. Here is the following statement the surgeons exchanged.

"She's a handful. She had some choice words for us in the clinic when we didn't book for case in two weeks"
"She said, 'I'm going to call a lawyer and file a complaint"
"That doesn't seem like the thing to say to the person who's going to do your surgery"
"Did you see her belly button?"
"I can touch her" (DQ)

I'm arguing over this article because I believe that Texas should enhance their patient protective law to where gossiping and/or remarks such as the one Esther received by her surgeon should be illegal and have consequences. Now, I understand that she probably was being hard to deal with and showed negative attitude towards the doctor, However patients should be able to be safe from what is being discussed about them, in front of them, while they are under medicine. The psychological damage it can do to patients is unimaginable and can cause trust issue to those who are undergoing such procedures. As a former EMT, I understand how easy it is to let out negative feed backs about the patients you just treated. However I also understand how much impact it could result in the patients mental health because I just wanted to "let it out". HIPPA is a great act the protects patients from many aspects but I hope that Texas might consider revising the act by including some sort of verbal protection for the patient.
Gossiping among medical professions should not be acceptable in any state and act such as HIPPA should be extended to protect patients from getting gossiped with names disclosed.

DACA Immigrants

BURNTORANGEREPORT - Current Republican Candidate Ted Cruz spoke about future actions to DACA recipients once he is in the White House. At one of the campaign Cruz took a questionnaire from a young female DACA recipient, concerning about what his future policies will do to current DACA holder like herself. Cruz spoke honestly stating that they're are consequences when you break the law but he welcomes legal immigration. Cruz showed no shred of compassion concerning this young ladies position and told her she would be deported if she came here illegally. The crowd followed Cruz with a loud applause what looked like a abandonment of human decency.

DACA holders came to the United States without their choice. These recipients are given DACA because they were brought to the states when they were young, without their preference, under their parents judgement. And under the parent's consequences these young adults are forced to become alienated from the very country that they grew up in. The author Genevieve Cato expressed her opinion by stating that Cruz was chastising her for choices that were out of her control. This young lady or any DACA holders have no fault and had no control over becoming undocumented, therefore there is no law which they broke. I believe that being a President is more than just knowing and following laws well. If you have more compassion for the law over the people, the nation will never be peaceful nor united. I admire the author for standing up for this young lady and many other DACA holders out there.
If I have thousand U.S citizenship, DACA recipients should have them all because its not their fault. It never was.

Campus Carry or Leave?

TEXAS TRIBUNE - UT Architecture Dean Fritz Steiner will now be the Dean of Design at University of Pennsylvania. His reasoning - Campus Carry.

Steiner has been around UT Austin for a long time and played a big role on the Architecture's academic achievement of the school. But he didn't think too hard when an offer from University of Penn came to him. He says that there were prior offers from such Universities but did not consider opting out from UT Austin until campus carry. He believes that he does not want to take part in such law that he does not believe in and the responsibility that will fall under him.

I chose this article because of Mr. Steiners decision. Although the writer did not express an argument, it is clear that Steiner bluntly expressed his thoughts about campus carry. I do not believe in such neglect of a law because of current events and the amount of fear that are happening with guns. The law or the gun isn't the problem, its the people. "Just as witches were not to blame for the Salem witch trials, and just as vaccines are not to blame for the negative results of the anti-vaccine movement, campus carry is not to blame for the current atmosphere of fear on Texas college campus," said the supporter of campus carry (1).  Don't get me wrong, I, too, am not in full support of campus carry. However, being able to say that I will not be responsible in any actions flooding out from that law, is to say that he has no faith in people who are attending University of Texas.

Marijuana can leads to such medical and economical benefits we can't imagine, but many use it for their personal desires and satisfactions that causes such negative results. Alcohol can be enjoyed with friends but people choose to drink and drive. Guns do not kill people, they can protect, serve, and save people. However its the people who choose to use it towards such anger, revenge, satisfaction, and their personal reasoning that leads us to believe that guns are bad.
Obama said that he has hope and faith in the American people when it comes to choosing the right President. I, too, believe in the American people that they will choose to use it for goodness of the public and not for themselves.