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Winners of the University Interscholastic League's first-ever girls wheelchair seated shot put event, from left, Abby Dunkin, from New Braunfels, gold; Kortney Boldt, from Steele High School in Cibolo, silver, and Brandi Smith, from Rowlett, bronze, sit together after competing in the UIL Track and Field State Championships at the Mike A. Myers Stadium at The University of Texas at Austin on Saturday, May 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Ralph Barrera)

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FILE - This Sept. 18, 2007 file photo shows former Texas head football coach Darrell Royal posed at his apartment complex in Austin, Texas. The University of Texas says Royal, who won two national championships and a share of a third, has died. He was 88. UT spokesman Nick Voinis on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 confirmed Royal's death in Austin. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)

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Supporters of the University of Texas rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, as the high court takes up a challenge to the university's program that considers race in some college admissions. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Andrew F. Oberle, a postgraduate student of anthropology and primate behavior at the University of Texas at San Antonio, has been observing these chimps at a primate sanctuary in South Africa. A vicious attack on him last week astonished conservationists who knew the chimps. (Associated Press)

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This illustration provided by Jorge R. Pinon, a former president of Amoco Oil Latin America who is now at the University of Texas at Austin, shows where different oil companies hold the rights to drill in various offshore blocks in Cuban waters in the Gulf of Mexico. An initial well drilled by Spanish oil giant Repsol came up dry, so the stakes for Cuba are high that oil be found soon.

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University of Texas students gather as police respond to a shooting inside a campus library Tuesday. A gunman later identified by Austin police as a student opened fire, then fatally shot himself. (Associated Press)

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Police officers escort a student to safety, across from the Perry-Castaneda Library, after a shooting at the University of Texas library in Austin on Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010. A gunman opened fire Tuesday inside a University of Texas campus library then fatally shot himself, and police are searching for a possible second suspect, university police said. (AP Photo/The Daily Texan, Andrew Torrey)

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A police officer patrols the University of Texas campus in Austin early Tuesday morning Sept. 28, 2010 after a gunman opened fire at the Perry-Castaneda Library. A gunman opened fire Tuesday inside a University of Texas campus library then fatally shot himself, and police are searching for a possible second suspect, university police said. The UT clock tower is seen in the background. (AP Photo/The Daily Texan, Derek Stout)

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A police sniper circles the University of Texas campus from a helicopter in Austin on Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010 after a shooting. A gunman opened fire Tuesday inside a University of Texas campus library then fatally shot himself, and police are searching for a possible second suspect, university police said. (AP Photo/The Daily Texan, Caleb Bryant Miller)

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Students Paige Raiczyk, front left, and Veronica Rivera, front right and other University of Texas students and faculty hold their phones for updated text messages inside Benedict Hall on campus in Austin early Tuesday morning Sept. 28, 2010 after a shooting on campus. A gunman opened fire Tuesday inside a University of Texas campus library then fatally shot himself, and police are searching for a possible second suspect, university police said. (AP Photo/The Daily Texan, Tamir Kalifa)

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FILE - This 1939 photo provided Aug. 10, 2010, by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin shows Vivien Leigh, as Scarlett O'Hara, wearing a burgundy ball gown, and co-star Clark Gable in Gone With The Wind. Ransom Center officials announced Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, they had met their $30,000 fundraising goal to pay for restoring five of Scarlett O'Hara's gowns for an exhibit to mark the 1939 movie's 75th anniversary in 2014. The center said contributions came from more than 600 people in 44 states and 13 countries. (AP Photo/The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin) NO SALES