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From 2012 to 2018, four-year graduation rates for Pell Grant recipients have gone from 40.3 percent to 61 percent, and the same rates for first-generation students have gone from 40.9 percent to 61.5 percent, according to UT Enrollment Management.

The Austin Sobering Center has been open for more than a month now hoping to lessen that figure, serving as a safe place for police or EMS to take those people without putting them in jail or sending them to the emergency room.

Someone in class reported Prindle for making a terrorist threat, and a few days later, University of Texas Police Department detectives asked Prindle to come to the police station. Prindle said he told detectives he didn't remember saying anything threatening, but if he had, it was a joke. 

Construction will start in the summer of 2019, and the funds for the conversion come from the allocated renovation budget. Converting one of the multi-stall bathrooms to a single-stall, gender-inclusive bathroom will cost around $115,000.