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Join sculptor Diana Al-Hadid, the Visual Arts Center’s spring 2012 Vaulted Gallery artist-inresidence, as she discusses her exhibition on view in ART 1.110 through March 10 at the VAC.
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Paterno’s death, legacy sparks mixed response By Sameer Bhuchar Daily Texan Columnist
Before last November, Joe Paterno’s legend was cemented. Now, remembering JoePa as the role model everyone hoped to become is a little more difficult. On the one hand, he devoted his life to the Penn State football team, the students, the university and the
community as a whole, and was regarded as the supreme creator of what it meant to mold student athletes. Along the way, he won more games than any coach in college history. There was nothing he wanted more than to leave Penn State on his own terms, because he made it what it was. But when he was stripped of his position in November for his si-
lence amid the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, it forced us all to reexamine what we thought was the “Penn State” way of doing things, a standard he himself set. Everyone reacted with confusion and anger, and anyone who cared about football let out a collective “Say it ain’t so, Joe.” Given the depth of the scandal, the many years it was said to have
gone on and the seemingly top-tobottom disregard the Penn State coaching staff and university leaders had for these innocent children, you may see the issue as polarizing, and most people will be quick to pick a side. Former Oklahoma head coach Barry Switzer, who went through a series of morally questionable scandals himself, said in November that
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WEDNESDAY Learn about cloud computing Learn about cloud computing with guest speakers from Convio at the EngineeringScience Building (ENS), room 109 from 6 p.m.-7 p.m. Free food and beverages served.
THURSDAY Intern in Washington, D.C.
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Pedestrians pass by one of the many chalk arrows drawn on the sidewalk on Guadalupe Street on Saturday afternoon. If followed, the arrows lead to a mixed collection of chalk drawings at the steps of Whole Earth Provisions on 24th and San Antonio Street.
A protestor holds a sign during last year’s Pro-Life rally at the capitol, where attendees listened to Gov. Rick Perry pledge to fully support a new bill requiring women to receive a sonogram and audio of their fetus if they are seeking an abortion.
FRIDAY Harlem Globetrotters come to Austin The legendary Harlem Globetrotters bring a thrilling game of basketball to the Frank Erwin Center. College and university students, faculty and staff save $7 on the $21 and $32 tickets with a valid ID at Erwin Center box office. The event starts at 7 p.m.
9:00 p.m. The Wingmen
Zach Anner stars in a comedy about a group of radio hosts failing to give good love advice.
9:30 p.m. College Pressbox Coverage from the USA Grand Prix Swim Meet and highlights from Longhorn basketball this weekend.
Today in history In 1989 Artist Salvador Dalí died of heart failure at the age of 84. He is best known for his surrealist artwork, as well as his famous mustache.
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Enjoy beautiful music in the atrium of the Blanton Museum of Art. The Bach Cantata is a joint program with the Butler School of Music, where both students and faculty perform Bach’s Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125 from 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
Spend a semester in Washington, D.C., learning firsthand about public policy while interning and taking inresidence courses through the Archer Fellowship Program. The event is in SZB 323 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
there was no way that Paterno and his staff didn’t know how deep this controversy ran. Switzer felt they had kept it a secret and insinuated Paterno should shoulder much of the blame. “Having been in this profession a long time and knowing how close coaching staffs are, I knew that this
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Bill provisions require women to get pre-abortion sonogram By Victoria Pagan Daily Texan Staff
Texas women seeking abortions must now receive a sonogram and hear audio of the fetus’s heartbeat 24 to 72 hours before their procedure. These additions to the sonogram bill, sponsored by Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, were ruled constitutional by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals last week in a lawsuit filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights. The sonogram bill, passed in the 2011 legislative session last August, requires women to receive a sonogram one to three days before their abortion. Prior to the bill, women were not required to have a sonogram unless medically necessary and could receive an abortion in one visit.
Physicians already performed sonograms prior to abortions before the bill was passed, but the bill now requires them to perform trans-vaginal sonograms, a procedure that Sarah Wheat, co-CEO of Planned Parenthood in Austin, said is not medically necessary. “The sonogram was already being provided since October in this most evasive manner,” Wheat said. “The difference now is that the physician has to verbally describe the songogram images and provide a heartbeat if audible, even if the person says they do not want to hear it.” Wheat said the center has consulted with their medical staff and attorneys to decipher how to enforce the state mandate. She said the transition has gone
smoothly and she has seen no changes in the numb er of abortions requested. “Before the politicians got involved, about a third of the women wanted to see the image and even took home pictures,” Whe at s aid. “Most women who are choosing a safe abortion have already prayed on this and deeply discussed why they are choosing this regardless of what enforcements politicians make.” Wheat said the ruling will have a great impact on college students because most abortions are performed on women under the age of 25. Juan Portillo, a women’s and gender studies graduate student, said the new ruling will only add stress to an already
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The Student G over nment president expects to start appointing representatives this week to fill four available graduate student seats in an organization lacking in graduate student members. The student presidents of SG, Senate and the Graduate Student Assembly said they must work together to best confront graduate student concerns. As GSA’s influence grows, SG and Senate leaders look to improve representation for graduate students. SG President Natalie Butler said she does not know if all four seats will be appointed at once, but the appointed graduate students will serve out the rest of their term until this April. These appointments would add to the two current graduate student
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UT claims .xxx domain names to protect image By Maja Dordevic Daily Texan Staff
In order to prevent UT’s slogan from becoming associated with a pornographic site, UT has purchased the www.HookEmHorns. xxx, www.TexasSports.xxx and www.TexasBoxOffice.xxx internet domain names. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers made the domain .xxx a top generic domain, along with domains such as .com, .net and .org. The organization gave a seven week gap, from September to October 2011, for non-pornographic organizations and institutions to purchase an .xxx domain, according to an article published in the Inside HigherEd blog. Some universities used this time period to purchase and remove web addresses from the market that are strongly associated with them to
avoid copyright confusions, according to the blog post. UT purchased the domain in November. Advertising professor Neal Burns said slogans would have been trademarked in the past, but now as the world moves forward into the digital era, the next logical step is to purchase the internet domains. “Taking the domain away from the market means protecting the integrity of a major brand,” Burns said. Thomas Cole Moore, the co-director of the Student Association of the School of Information, said the administration preemptively purchasing domain names that could be used as pornographic websites associated with UT is in the best interest of the students, alumni, faculty and school as a whole. He said the University should
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An artist’s representation of the lewd material that could have appeared on HookEmHorns. xxx had the University not intervened.
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representatives for the School of Law and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Butler said she believes recruitment for the positions has been difficult because of the rigorous workload graduate students have. She said discrepancies between undergraduate and graduate representation is to be expected. “The undergraduates are the culture of UT,” Butler said. “Undergraduates drive tradition, capacity and the number of bodies that you see on campus more than graduate students.” Butler said SG positions, including her own, still repres ent g radu ate student con cerns despite being filled by undergraduate students. “I take my job in representing graduate students very seriously,”
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Butler said. “I think I need to be held accountable for them.” Senate President Carisa Nietsche said there are a few graduate councils in Senate, but the representation distribution is not ideal. “It’s really a representation nightmare,” Nietsche said. Nietsche said other issues include Senate’s disproportionate focus on academic affairs that often apply to undergraduate concerns. “Graduate students feel like they’re voting on legislation, but it doesn’t pertain to them,” Nietsche said. She said Senate is discussing whether to increase graduate student representation or to continue sending graduate issues to GSA. “We’re working on seeing whether we should go all in or all out,” Nietsche said. Last year, the University officially recognized GSA as a legislative body affiliated with the Office of the Dean of Students. GSA President Manuel Gonzalez
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departments do not have representation, Gonzalez said. Despite the openings, he said the current size of the assembly can hinder progress. “We have such a large assembly size that sometimes it can be difficult to get all graduate students on the same page and holding them accountable for fulfilling their responsibilities,” Gonzalez said. Gonzalez said there will always
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career women, whereas college students go home to an empty apartment and have to deal with their situation alone.” Por t i l l o s ai d p o l it i c i a n s should put their focus on giving pregnant women social, cultural and educational support instead of telling doctors and patients how to conduct their abortions. L or i D e Vi l l e z , e xe c ut ive director at the Austin Pregnancy Resource Center, said the sonogram bill is a prowoman bill that ensures good medical practice and the center has not seen any changes from its enforcement.
“If you are going in to any other surgery you meet with your doctor and understand exactly what it is you will be going through,” DeVillez said. DeVillez said the sonograms allow women to connect with the reality of their situation and the 24-72 hour time period before abortions gives them time to assess their decisions. “When they are able to have the sonogram it becomes real to them and they see that the baby is a part of them,” DeVillez said. “A lot of times they feel they have to do something right away and this gives them time to think.”
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purchase more domain names related to well-known campus and football slogans in order to prevent them from being used incorrectly. Brandon Wiley, president of the ACTLab Student Media Services, said purchasing domain names will not always prevent the school’s name from being abused. “There is no way that all of the domains related to the University can be protected,” Wiley said. “There is an endless number of domain possibilities out there, but this is not something that can harm the University seriously.” Former UT government major Jonathan Horak disagrees that the school’s online reputation is free from abuse. Horak said owning a domain is a matter of branding, and domains should belong to their rightful owners. “It was a smart marketing call to purchase the .xxx domain,” Horak said. “The University should do all they can to reduce the possibility of someone using the domain wrongly.”
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be disputes about which organization should cover certain issues, but the strength of the three organizations is that they are structured to foster collaboration through legislation and resource sharing. “Graduate students should know that they have the opportunity to voice any concerns they may have and suggest solutions to issues that may arise,” Gonzalez said.
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said UT graduate students are often an afterthought. “I would not say that this marginalization is intentional,” Gonzalez said. “I think it’s a byproduct of being a smaller subset of the University.” Gonzalez said graduate student engagement in student governance is increasing and can elevate awareness of the issues graduate students face. The election process for GSA representatives is up to the graduate advisor of the department. About 65 representatives form the assembly that has room for a total of 119 representatives. Some departments have more representatives depending on the number of graduate students. “The reality is being a graduate student can be a completely different experience in another field,” Gonzalez said. “That’s why it’s important to have as much representation as possible.” However, about 30 out of 100
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News Briefly Cruise ship death toll rises, secret passengers suspected GIGLIO, Italy — Unregistered passengers might have been aboard the stricken cruise liner that capsized off this Tuscan island, a top rescue official said Sunday, raising the possibility that the number of missing might be higher than previously announced. Divers, meanwhile, pulled out a woman’s body from the capsized Costa Concordia on Sunday, raising to 13 the number of people dead in the Jan. 13 accident. “There could have been X persons who we don’t know about who were inside, who were clandestine” passengers aboard the ship, Franco Gabrielli, the national civil protection official in charge of the rescue effort, told reporters at a briefing on the island of Giglio, where the ship, with 4,200 people aboard rammed a reef and sliced open its hull on Jan. 13 before turning over on its side.
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Protestors react after receiving the news of the departure of Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen on Saturday. A spokesman for Yemen’s embattled president says Ali Abdullah Saleh has left the country for the Persian Gulf country of Oman. By Ben Hubbard The Associated Press
SANAA, Yemen — Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh left his battered nation Sunday on his way to the U.S. for medical treatment after passing power to his deputy and asking for forgiveness for any “shortcomings” during his 33-year reign. But in a sign that Saleh’s role as Yemen’s top power broker is likely far from over, he said he would return to Yemen before the official power transfer next month to serve as the head of his ruling party. Saleh’s departure marks a small
achievement in the months of diplomatic efforts by the U.S. and Yemen’s powerful Gulf neighbors to ease the nearly year-old political crisis in the Arab world’s poorest country. An active al-Qaida branch there has taken advantage of the turmoil, stepping up operations and seizing territory. After months of diplomatic pressure and mass protests calling for his ouster, Saleh signed a deal in November to transfer authority to his vice president in exchange for immunity from prosecution. Still, Saleh continued to exercise power behind the scenes, sparking accusations he sought to scuttle the
deal and cling to power. Presidential spokesman Ahmed al-Soufi told The Associated Press that Saleh left Yemen’s capital Sanaa late Sunday on a plane headed for the Gulf sultanate of Oman. A senior administration official said Ali Abdullah Saleh would travel to New York this week, and probably stay in the U.S. until no later than the end of February. U.S. officials believe Saleh’s exit from Yemen could lower the risk of disruptions in the lead-up to presidential elections planned there on Feb. 21. The Obama administration faced a dilemma in deciding whether to
let Saleh enter the U.S. after he requested a visa last month. It has long seen getting Saleh out of Yemen as an important step in ensuring the power transfer goes forward. But some in the administration worried that welcoming Saleh would spark charges from the Arab world that the U.S. was harboring an autocrat responsible for deadly crackdowns on protesters. To protect against this, the administration has sought assurances that Saleh will not seek to remain in the U.S. An official close to Saleh said Sunday the president would un-
dergo medical exams in Oman before heading to the U.S. The U.S. has forbidden him from any political activity in the U.S., the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorize to disclose diplomatic talks. Saleh is likely seeking treatment for injuries sustained in a blast in his palace mosque last June 3 that left him badly burned. After the attack, Saleh traveled to Saudi Arabia for treatment, leaving many to suspect his power was waning. A few months later, however, he made a surprise return to Yemen and resumed his post.
Giffords announces resignation in order to continue recovery By Bob Christie The Associated Press
PHOENIX — In part, the short video has the feel of a campaign ad: the strains of soft music, the iconic snapshots of rugged Arizona desert, the candidate earnestly engaged with her constituents. Interspersed with the slick montage of photos and sound, though, is a video close-up of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords gazing directly at the camera, offering not a campaign promise but a goodbye, a thank-you message to her supporters in a voice that is both firm and halting. “I have more work to do on my recovery,” the congresswoman says at the end of the two-minute-long “A Message from Gabby,” appearing to strain with all of her will to communicate. “So to do what’s best for Arizona, I
will step down this week.” Arizonans had to know in their hearts that this day was coming. A bullet to the brain, from point-blank range, is a nearly impossible obstacle to overcome, even for a congresswoman known for pluckiness and fight. Giffords seemed to accept that reality in the video announcing her resignation from Congress, which also included a promise to return one day to her mission to help Arizonans. The clip, p oste d to YouTub e and on her Faceb o ok page, pastes together 13 sentences into a fluid announcement. Giffords wears a bright red jacket eerily similar to the one she was wearing a year ago when she was nearly assassinated. She looks straight into the camera, almost begging the viewer to listen.
But the video also includes i m a ge s of t h e 4 1 - ye ar- o l d struggling at rehab and walking along a leafy street with husband Mark Kelly with an obvious limp. And Giffords acknowledges that, at least for now, she isn’t up to taking on a re-election challenge. The announcement sets off not one but two elections cycles to replace her. The first will be a special primary election that Gov. Jan Brewer must call sometime in April, with a general election in June to fill out the remainder of Giffords’ term. The second cycle will concern
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On Jan. 2, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords reacts after leading the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of a memorial remembering the victims and survivors of the shooting that killed six others in Tucson, Ariz.
the regular full two-year term, with the primary scheduled for August and the general election in November. In between, the 8th Congressional District that Giffords current-
ly represents will change under redistricting. It will become the 2nd Congressional District.
CLEVELAND — It’s “Sesame Street” meets the unseemly side of politics. With cameras barred from the high-profile corruption trial of Democratic power broker Jimmy Dimora, a television station has puppets acting out the sometimessteamy testimony about hookers, gambling and sexually transmitted diseases. In one scene, a furry hand stuffs cash down the shirt of a puppet prostitute. The station’s news director brought up the idea of using the puppets to lampoon the trial and give a glimpse of what’s happening in the federal courtroom. Because cameras aren’t allowed, other stations have relied on artist sketches of the proceedings and videos of Dimora walking into court with his wife and defense team.
Man could face fines, jail time for starting Reno wildfires RENO, Nev. — An “extremely remorseful” elderly man admitted Friday that he accidentally started a brush fire that destroyed 29 homes near Reno when he improperly discarded fireplace ashes at his home south of town, authorities said. The resulting blaze, fueled by 82 mph wind gusts, burned nearly 3,200 acres and forced the evacuation of up to 10,000 people Thursday. Washoe County Sheriff Mike Haley said a formal case file will be forwarded to the district attorney next week for consideration of charges. “The fact he came forward and admitted it plays a role. But so does the massive damage and loss of life,” Haley said. “It’s a balancing act.” In addition to the potential for facing jail time on arson charges, the man could also be ordered to pay the cost of fighting the fire, which already totals $690,000. Washoe County Manager Katy Simon said she expects the final bill to run into the millions of dollars. Compiled from Associated Press reports
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The gerrymandering carousel continues On Friday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a set of interim electoral district maps drawn by a three-judge panel in San Antonio. This decision throws the Texas electoral landscape back into limbo. Yet again, the state has no maps to use in the upcoming primary elections. The maps drawn by the state Legislature last year cannot be used until they are “precleared” by either the Department of Justice or a panel of judges in Washington, D.C., according to a provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that requires jurisdictions with a history of discriminatory voting practices get federal approval for any changes to voting procedures prior to their implementation. Texas decided to seek preclearance last year from a panel of judges in Washington, D.C., where the case is currently pending. With the D.C. Court not expected to issue a ruling for at least a month, the San Antonio judges issued a set of interim maps so that Texas’ March primaries would not be delayed. The Supreme Court’s rejection of the interim maps guarantees that most primary elections will be delayed until at least April, possibly later. The presidential and U.S. Senate primaries will be unaffected, as those districts are the entire state. The justices, writing unanimously, decided that the interim maps did not conform closely enough to the maps drawn by the state Legislature last year, essentially accepting the argument advanced by the Texas attorney general’s office. The justices directed the San Antonio judges to redraw their maps to more closely resemble the original plan. The Supreme Court, despite fears from many legal observers, did not use this case to call into question the continued relevance of preclearance. Instead, it limited its decision to the Texas case. And so the gerrymandering carousel turns again. Texas still has no maps; politicians still do not know whom they will end up representing; and voters are still confused. Of course, gerrymandering is nothing new in Texas. In 2000, partisan gridlock forced the judiciary to draw new maps, and a historic Republican victory in 2003 prompted the now-infamous mid-decade redistricting led by then-U.S.House majority leader Tom DeLay. Almost nine years later, the legislative redistricting process has failed again, despite early feints at bipartisanship. Irrespective of whether the D.C. Court finds the Legislature’s 2011 maps legal, the confusion, consternation and litigation surrounding them has resulted in another failure of the legislative process to resolve this crucial issue — despite the fact that redistricting was billed as the second most important issue during the legislative session, just after balancing the state budget. The amount of time and energy spent dithering over districts and attempting to take out political opponents by less-than-democratic means resulted in less time being devoted to other important issues and a larger failure to effectively govern. Meanwhile, voters looked on, increasingly disenchanted as politicians prioritized Senate districts over school districts. Allowing politicians to make the rules of their own game is somewhat unavoidable. But the legislative redistricting process has failed. Texas should act quickly to implement a non-partisan redistricting panel, the likes of which exists in 13 other states, to handle this issue in the future. State Sen. Jeff Wentworth, R–San Antonio, proposed the creation of such a panel to draw congressional districts three times since 2003. He plans to introduce his legislation again in 2013, and Texas would be better off if the Legislature gets behind the idea.
Encouraging student-led inquiry by Jordan Humphreys Daily Texan Guest Columnist
On Monday, I’ll be sitting in a classroom looking over course expectations and a slew of carefully constructed readings as I review my last syllabus as an undergraduate. The only difference? This one was created by me. Innovative Video Game Design will be the second course I’ve created as part of the program Democratic Education at Texas. DemTex is a program supported by the School of Undergraduate Studies and the Senate of College Councils that helps to cultivate academic curiosity in unique ways. The program allows students from any academic background to create and lead discussion-based classes to explore questions of society, pop culture, science or any field of their interests. DemTex students have designed classes looking at postmodern urban design, the underlying philosophy in popular television dramas and the role of college athletics in communities. This semester, the program is offering Social Dynamics in Seinfeld, a course which tries to understand why the show’s characters
interact the way they do according to social science principles, ranging from Jerry’s neuroticism to Elaine’s superficiality and from George’s selfishness to Kramer’s “Kramerness.” My class on innovative video game design aims to use inspiring research projects from UT professors and the fundamentals of game design to find ways to use video games to solve societal problems, such as public health issues, building relationships in online environments and helping autistic children better express themselves. Tritely, teachers say that they learn something from their students in every class, and DemTex built a program around this idea. In the same vein as studentcreated course programs at institutions in the University of California System, Tufts University, Oberlin College and others across the country, DemTex brings students from diverse academic backgrounds together to explore issues they’re passionate about. In the first class I created, Communication in Multiplayer Video Games, I gained perspective about the reasons people play video games and the draw to-
ward interaction in virtual environments. I enjoyed the class so much that I created a spin-off to dig deeper into the topics that the other students and I were most enthusiastic about. These classes are research endeavors in ways that undergraduate students will otherwise not experience, and student facilitators are often able to receive undergraduate research credit in their majors or in UGS for their efforts. These are thoughtful, unique classes that many students have found complement their majors and interests. The classes also uphold standards of academic merit and discussion rivaling classes across the course schedule. The DemTex program embodies academic inquiry in allowing students to learn valuable classroom management and communication skills as they navigate topics across fields of study. Students interested in creating a DemTex class should visit http://demtex.org to download the application for the fall 2012 semester, which is due Jan. 31. Humphreys is a government, communication studies and journalism senior, and is the director of DemTex.
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Daniel Ching performs with the Miró Quartet at Bates Recital Hall, Friday night. The Butler School of Music will host the 2014 Menuhin Competition, where young violinists from around the world will showcase their talent.
UT to host global violin competition in 2014 By Sylvia Butanda Daily Texan Staff
The Butler School of Music will host the “Olympics for the violin” in 2014, said School of Music director B. Glenn Chandler. The school has been selected as the first North American location to host the 29th biennial 2014 Menuhin Competition where young violinists from around the world will showcase their talent. Yehudi Menuhin, a celebrated 20th century violinist, founded the competition in 1983 and it has been held exclusively in the United Kingdom until 2010 when it was held in Oslo, Norway, Chandler
said. The 2012 competition will be held in Beijing followed by Austin in 2014. “Of the 42 finalists who have been invited to Beijing for this year’s competition, 11 are American so it makes lots of sense that the competition come to America,” Chandler said. This 10-day event in February 2014 will invite nine renowned violinists who will perform during the competition and judge the 2014 finalists, Chandler said. These performances will involve the Austin Symphony Orchestra, the UT Symphony Orchestra and many other guests yet to be announced, Chandler said. “The fact that UT was chosen
for this competition is a tremendous honor and opportunity. It speaks to the fact that we stand out in a good way amongst other schools in terms of our dedication and spirit towards the study of fine arts,” said Paul Nabhan, a performer with the University Orchestra and performer of chamber music through the Plan II Chamber Music Society. Nabhan is in his 20th year of studying the violin and said the competition fits in well with Austin’s culture. “Austin promotes a very artistic and innovative culture,” Nabhan said. “In addition to this being a success on a university-wide level, this may also, in turn, lead
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The biannual Identification Day at UT’s Texas Memorial Museum brings lines of people with suitcases, boxes and strollers carrying fossils, artifacts and minerals with the hope of shedding light on their discoveries. Chris Lintz is an archaeologist with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, one of many scientists that come to the Texas Memorial Museum to identify archaeological and geological findings for Identification Day. “I had one person show up that had a frame of very early points going back ten to nine thousand years, a whole frame full of them,” Lintz said, referring to a batch of arrowheads a man found on his own property. Lintz said it is important for people not to change or disturb archaeological sites. “It’s a natural thing to want to discover and dig things up,” Lintz said. “In the process you’re destroying the context and the fabric of the archaeological sites that help us understand the associations.” Lintz said Identification Day also provides resources for people on how to protect the environment when they are looking for artifacts.
“We help people get that message across too by distributing Web site information and booklets,” Lintz said. Lintz said he encountered one of the more unusual objects to have entered the museum on Identification Day. “There was one year when a man brought a case full of rare flint that he had found in his front yard,” Lintz said. “I later visited the site and ultimately wrote a 30-page publication on the unusual flint.” Pamela Owen, senior paleontology educator and director of Identification Day, said Identification Day is a great way for children to become interested in learning about archaeological issues. “It helps to get kids outside, interested in nature and to care for the geological history or the paleontological history or the living animals and plants,” Owen said. “It’s also a chance to get them interested in interacting with actual scientists.” Amelia Rose, a Westlake high school student, attended Sunday’s Identification Day to review fossils with the Paleontological Society of Austin. “I like looking at all the fossils because people bring in stuff from out of town and places I haven’t been to,” Rose said. “It’s good to see the variety.”
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Evelyn Stahl, left, and Lilly Stahal, right, watch as acid is dripped on a rock at Texas Memorial Museum on Sunday afternoon. Participants at Identification Day were encouraged to bring rocks and bones to be looked at by professionals.
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Texas couldn’t overcome a slow start against the Kansas Jayhawks, and then fell victim to poor execution in the final possessions after giving the Big 12’s best team all they could handle. The Longhorns rallied for another furious second-half comeback, their second in as many games, but J’Covan Brown’s desperate 3-point attempt in the closing seconds missed, and UT lost 69-66 to No. 7 Kansas on Saturday afternoon at the Frank Erwin Center. Texas lost their third straight game and had to overcome a sluggish start for the second time this week. The Longhorns didn’t begin strong against Kansas State on Wednesday night, and it was more of the same on Saturday. This time, though, the Longhorns got a shot off at the buzzer. Against Kansas State on Wednesday, Brown and Myck Kabongo mishandled a handoff at midcourt with a chance to tie or take the lead at the end. Texas trailed by 15 against KU but took its first lead, 59-58, with Thomas Allison | Daily Texan Staff just under six minutes to play. Freshman forward Sheldon McClellan, 1, loses the ball against Kansas on Saturday. McClellan helped Texas recover from a 15-point hole in Brown sparked UT’s late charge the first half with three 3-pointers. He finished with 11 points and five rebounds. and nearly engineered a thrilling upset, giving Texas a four-point lead, 64-60, with 3:21 to play. The junior guard scored the final seven points but was the Longhorns’ lone source of offense down the By Sameer Bhuchar performance is worthy of a Still, Chapman’s stat line in check. stretch as UT (12-7, 2-4 Big 12) Daily Texan Staff moral victory. was impressive. He notched “Playing 19 minutes in the fell to 0-5 in games decided by “It’s hard to take any positives 15 points, nine rebounds, four second half is something I’ve six points or less. Clint Chapman had his best out of something like this be- blocks and one assist in 34 min- never done before. We wanted The conference’s leading scorgame of the season against one cause this is a program built on utes, numbers way above his to be physical with [Withey], er pinned t he loss s quarely of the best teams in the confer- winning,” Chapman said. “Los- season averages. On the glass, and we hit him early. That was on himself. ence Saturday afternoon, but ing by three points is still a loss Chapman had the tough task my mentality, especially when it “It starts with me,” said Brown, even that wasn’t enough to help in the win-loss column. If you of keeping Kansas’ seven-foot- came to rebounding. If I wasn’t the Longhorns pull out the up- base your program on moral er away from the ball, but found the grit to keep Jeff Withey set. And don’t tell him that his victories, you can’t grow.” CHAPMAN continues on PAGE 8 SHORT continues on PAGE 8
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Texas comes up empty at OU, freshman forward emerges By Nick Cremona Daily Texan Staff
Following an exciting, buzzer-beating win over Iowa State, head coach Gail Goestenkors knew the Longhorns were in for a physical game when they traveled to Oklahoma to take on the Sooners. “We talked about the fact that the Big 12 is such a war and we’re so evenly balanced throughout the conference,” Goestenkors said. “Many of the games are going to come down to the wire. There are going to be a lot of games that are going to be decided by six points or less.” Interesting ly enoug h, six points is exactly the margin
of victory the Sooners (12-5, 4-2 Big 12) enjoyed over the Longhorns (12-6, 2-4 Big 12) Saturday afternoon. Oklahoma topped the Longhorns, 7367, moving its home record to an impressive 10-1. The Longhorns, on the other hand, have struggled on the road. Texas is 1-3 in true road games this year. The Sooners started the game on a 7-0 run and never looked back. As a team, the Sooners shot over 60 percent from three-point range, connecting on eight of 13 shots from deep. In addition to shooting exceptionally well, the Sooners also distributed the ball well, recording assists on 14 of their 23 made shots. Maybe the
most impressive stat from the game was Nicole Griffin’s nine blocks. To go with her miniblock party, Griffin added nine p oints and s even reb ounds as well, nearly recording a triple-double. Howe ver, t here are s ome positives to take away from this game. Well, maybe just one p ositive: Although the L onghorns shot a lowly 30 percent from the field, freshman Nneka Enemkpali had a coming out party in Norman. She recorded a career-high 11 points on five of 10 shooting and also pulled down eight rebounds, five of which came on the offensive end.
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Forwards Ashley Gayle, 22, and Cokie Reed collide with Oklahoma’s Jelena Cerina in the first half. Gayle grabbed eight rebounds and Reed scored nine points in the loss.
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Second baseman Jordan Etier will return to the team and serve a four-game suspension stemming from an arrest last October. Etier was first dismissed from the squad as punishment.
UT made correct choice by bringing back Etier By Christian Corona Daily Texan Columnist
Better late than never. The axiom held true last Thursday when it was announced that the Longhorns had reinstated Jordan Etier — who was arrested last October and charged with possession of marijuana, as well as evading arrest — to the baseball program. The initial punishment did not come close to fitting the crime but following a reexamination of Etier’s regressions, a more appropriate penalty was levied on the senior second baseman. After Etier was seen urinating under a bridge in downtown Austin, police pursued him to the second floor of a parking garage. During the chase, Etier dropped an ATM card and about twothirds of an ounce of marijuana. He was kept in Travis County Jail on $2,000 bond and the seniorto-be was dismissed from the Texas baseball program two days following his arrest.
“After the University decided to revisit the situation,” according to a statement made by Longhorns head coach Augie Garrido this past week, Etier was allowed to return to the team. The former Westlake high school star will serve a four-game suspension and will not receive an athletic scholarship for playing this upcoming season. What Etier did that Saturday afternoon three months ago was undoubtedly wrong and a clear and misguided lapse in judgment. But, especially considering the fact that many Texas football players have received much more lenient punishments for more serious offenses over the past decade, Etier did not deserve to get kicked off the team. Cedric Benson, who rushed for more than 5,500 yards as a Longhorn, was arrested twice during his time on the 40 Acres. Former Longhorns cornerback Tarell Brown, a member of the 2005 national title-winning squad and starter for the NFC champion
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SHORT continues from PAGE 7 who made seven of 26 shots and scored a game-high 24 points. “I’ve got to finish games strong. That’s really what it is. I’ve got to be aggressive and find my teammates. In the clutch moment, I’ve got to come through.” While Brown was quick to shoulder the blame, Texas head coach Rick Barnes offered a different explanation for his team’s struggles late in games. For him, the issues go deeper than just Brown. “We have to make it easier for each other, guys have to be in their spots and be ready because [defenses] are going to play off [Brown],” said Barnes, whose team does not have a winning record after six conference games for the first time in his 14 seasons at Texas. Freshman swingman Sheldon McClellan agreed that Brown needs help when the game is on the line. “We all need to step up,” McClellan said. “We need to take some pressure off of him.” The Jayhawks, though, displayed the poise and execution in the final minutes that Barnes’
CHAPMAN continues from PAGE 7 going to get the rebound then he definitely wasn’t going to get it.” It was just the kind of game he needed after being called out by the media on a few occasions for his lack of physicality. But it wasn’t just his newly-dis-
OU continues from PAGE 7 “Usually when you start second semester and you’ve had a couple of Big 12 games under your belt, that’s when we tell the freshman that they’re no longer freshman, so they need to act like sophomores,” said senior forward Cokie Reed. “I think Nneka is just ready to turn the corner. I think she has on the defensive end. Now I’m expecting more from her offensively as well.” Enemkpali’s contributions are needed with Reed still nursing a foot injury. Reed did appear for 18 minutes against the Sooners,
young squad is still searching for. KU regained the lead, 67-66, on a Jeff Withey layup and then sealed the victory with a pair of free throws. Kansas tightened defensively in the ultimate possessions and didn’t give the Longhorns second chances. “We made all the plays down the stretch,” Kansas coach Bill Self said. “I thought Texas was more active than us but we got the key rebounds late.” Tyshawn Taylor led KU with 22 points, five rebounds and four assists. Forward Thomas Robinson added 17 points and nine rebounds. The Jayhawks (16-3, 6-0) established themselves early with a 15-0 run in the first half, turning a 7-7 tie into a sizable advantage. Texas missed 10 shots in a row during that span. But the Longhorns responded with a 16-6 run, with the help of three 3-pointers from McClellan, closing the gap to 28-25. But Texas couldn’t keep the pressure on, and KU ended on an 11-2 run for a 39-27 lead at the break. “In the first half, the easy shots they got were because we were inept on offense,” Barnes said. For now, it appears that the Longhorns’ offensive struggles aren’t going away. played tough guy mentality that helped fuel Texas’ furious comeback. Chapman was the emotional leader of team Saturday, a role that has been vacant much of the season. After making a pair of free throws to give Texas its only lead of the game, Chapman made his way to center court and pumped his fists to urge the Frank Erwin Center, and its biggest basketball crowd scoring nine points and grabbing four rebounds in limited action. The other regular Longhorn post players, Ashley Gayle and Anne Marie Hartung, h a v e not been the most productive or reliable scoring options. So Enemkpali’s maturation could go a long way in helping out the Longhorns. Having a sure-handed offensive option on the low block does wonders for opening up the offense and getting everyone involved. “Nneka is doing great,” said sophomore guard Chassidy Fussell. “She’s still got to gain more confidence. I was in the same situation last year, so I can’t look down on it. As long as she gains confidence throughout the season, she can help us out a lot.”
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of the year, to get even louder. Rick Barnes was pleased with Chapman’s work in the paint, and was even frustrated that the team didn’t look for him and the other bigs inside early in the game. “Early in the game, we wanted to run and run hard and post up, and I’m telling you early in the game, [Texas’ big men] were there,” Barnes said. “And we never even looked at them. So that’s the plays
you’ve got to make.” With a game like Saturday’s behind him, Chapman will likely see more playing time as the daunting Big 12 schedule roars on. It’s a position he hasn’t been in before, but is happy to fill because he only cares about one thing — wins. “Confidence can always help you, but we want to win games,” he said. “That is the most important thing right now.
ETIER continues from PAGE 7 San Francisco 49ers, was caught with a loaded handgun and twice as much marijuana as Etier was caught with. Both Benson and Brown were suspended one game over the course of their college football careers. Even Etier’s coach, the all-time
leader in wins in Division I, was recently in trouble with law. Garrido was charged with drunk driving after being pulled over January 2007. Six months later, the longtime Longhorns skipper was sentenced to four days in jail and, like Etier, was handed a fourgame suspension. “[Etier] showed his intention to continue his education and graduate from the University of Texas whether or not he was a member
CHAPMAN’S LAST SIX GAMES Opponent Iowa State
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of the team,” Garrido said. “It was decided by the administration to bring the punishment more in line with Jordan’s wrongdoing.” With Etier back in the lineup, Texas will bring back all but two of last year’s starting infielders as catcher Jacob Felts and third baseman Erich Weiss also return. Etier batted .237 while starting all but five of the Longhorns’ five contests last season, hitting two home runs, stealing six bases, and driving in
26 runs. He was not a particularly imposing presence in the batter’s box but was an asset as a middle infielder, leading the team with 187 assists in 2011. Thanks to the Texas athletic administration’s willingness to act on its better judgment, Etier will remain an asset in the Longhorns’ infield. Etier had to be reprimanded for what he did but there was no reason to cut his college baseball career a season short.
WEEKEND RECAP WOMEN’S TRACK
Longhorns strong in 400m and 200m at Auburn meet By Kristin Otto Daily Texan Staff
Coming off a four-win season opener at the Leonard Hilton Invite in Houston, the Longhorns traveled to Birmingham, Alabama on Saturday to compete in the Auburn Indoor Invitational. Although the Longhorns faced athletes from top-ranked teams including No. 5 Clemson, No. 6 Central Florida and No. 9 Florida State, the fierce competition had no apparent effects on their performance. Six UT runners placing in the top 10 in the 400-meter race at the Leonard Hilton Invite. This event proved to be the team’s best race. Stacey-Ann Smith — who placed second in Houston with a time of 54.80 — took first on Saturday, running a 54.32. Briana Nelson claimed third, Kendra Chambers came in fourth and Alicia Peterson finished eighth. The top 400-meter runners — Smith, Nelson, Chambers and Peterson — teamed up in the 4x400-meter relay, placing second; UT
claimed third place in the event as well. A strong showing in the 200-meter dash was a new development for the Longhorns. Allison Peter, coming in third with a time of 23.64, was followed by Christy Udoh who placed eighth, and Chalonda Goodman who came in 10th place. Marielle Hall and Sara Sutherland finished fourth and fifth, respectively, in the 3000-meter run. While Hall came in first place in the mile race in Houston, it was Julie Amthor who stepped up for the Longhorns this weekend, placing fourth with a mile time of 4:49.44. The UT women also made a strong showing in the field events. Both Shanay Briscoe and Victoria Lucas soared 1.77m in the high jump, landing them in third and fourth; Beverly Owoyele and Peterson tied for eighth place in the event. Additionally, A’Lexus Brannon took fourth place in the long jump and Amanda Van Dyke finished fourth in the shot put. The Longhorn will return to Houston this upcoming weekend to compete over a span of two days in the Houston Invitational.
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Texas unable to beat Virginia UT sweeps Rice on road despite strong play in doubles for second win in a week By Sameer Bhuchar Daily Texan Staff
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Despite playing well in doubles, the No. 21 Texas women’s tennis squad dropped this weekend’s matchup against No. 9 Virginia at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York. The Longhorns opened the day with an impressive 2-3 double victory over familiar opponents. Freshmen Lina Padegimaite and Noel Scott posted an 8-6 win over the Cavaliers’ Emily Fraser and Li Xi at first doubles, opponents the pair lost to last week. Second doubles was won in tiebreaker, as junior Aeriel Ellis and sophomore Cierra Gaytan-Leach narrowly beat Virginia’s Erin Vierra and Hana Tomljanovic, 9-8. “We had great performances in doubles from our freshmen at No. 1 doubles,” said UT head coach Patty FendickMcCain. “They came from way back to win the match. We lost to that doubles team [UVA’s Fraser and Xi] in the finals last week [at the National Collegiate Tennis Classic]. At No. 2, we were able
to save a few match points to get that doubles point.” Senior Krista Damico and sophomore Elizabeth Begley posted singles victories from the third and sixth spots respectively in two sets, but the Cavaliers rattled off four victories on the remaining courts to seal the deal. “We had our opportunities in singles,” Fendick-McCain said. “Cierra [Gaytan-Leach] and Noel [Scott] had chances to get into third sets. Krista [Damico] competed well and played smart tennis. Aeriel [Ellis] had her chances in the first set. Elizabeth Begley was like a freight train out there. The match came down to Lina [Padegimaite]. She fought her heart out, but her opponent had a little more in the tank today. We prepared well and did everything we could to give ourselves an opportunity to win. We fell short, but we fought hard.” Padegimaite, competing in the fifth spot, was out muscled in her sets 2-6, 6-4, 6-1 by Virginia’s Vierra. Texas takes to the road again next weekend when it heads to Nashville, Tenn., for the ITA Kick-Off Weekend.
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The No. 19 Longhorns beat No. 39 Rice 5-2 by way of a doubles sweep and a strong singles outing on Friday in Houston. Texas quickly posted doubles victories and never looked back. Junior Alex Hilliard and freshman Soren Hess-Olesen beat Rice’s Harry Fowler and Justin To at first doubles with a score of 8-2. Daniel Whitehead and David Holiner took the second 8-2, and Jacoby Lewis and Sudanwa Sitaram won the third, 8-7 in a tiebreaker. “Our effort in doubles was really good,” Texas head coach Michael Center said. “We were very aggressive at Nos. 1 and 2 doubles. We were cutting a lot of points off at the net, and our energy level was really good. I was really pleased with those two
doubles teams. “ Sitaram won his singles match from the third spot, freshman Lloyd Glasspool won it in the fifth and Whitehead in the second, but Texas clinched the team victory at first singles, where HessOlesen beat Rice’s Harry Fowler, 6-4, 6-4. “We’ve talked about fighting and competing for every ball,” Center said. “Our top three guys did a really good job tonight. I was really pleased with their performances and the way they competed. Lloyd [Glasspool] was very good at the end of his match today, too. We’re fighting hard and have a lot to learn, but this was a good win for us.” The Longhorns host Maryland on Saturday at UT’s Penick-Allison Tennis Center as part of the ITA KickOff Weekend.
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JOE PATERNO TIMELINE Dec. 21, 1926
Joseph Vincent “Joe” Paterno is born in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Florence and Angelo Paterno.
Jan. 1, 1969
Paterno coaches Penn State to its first undefeated season, culminated in a 15-14 Orange Bowl victory over Kansas.
Sept. 17, 1966
Paterno wins his first game as head coach at Penn State after 16 years as an assistant. The Nittany Lions beat Maryland, 15-7, and finish the season 5-5.
Jan. 1, 1983
No. 2 Penn State upsets top-ranked Georgia, 27-23, in the Sugar Bowl to give Paterno his first national championship.
Sept. 8, 2000
Joe Paterno Library opens, a 130,000 square foot addition to the Pattee Library. Paterno donated several million dollars to Penn State during his career.
Oct. 27, 2001
Paterno passes Paul “Bear” Bryant for most wins among major college coaches with victory No. 324. Penn State beats Ohio State, 29-27.
May 16, 2006
Paterno is elected to the College Football Hall of Fame.
Oct. 29, 2011
Win No. 409 moves Paterno past Grambling coach Eddie Robinson for most victories among Division I coaches.
2009
Paterno and his wife announce a $1 million pledge to the Mount Nittany Medical Center.
Nov. 9, 2011
Paterno is fired amid child sex abuse charges against his former assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky.
Nov. 18, 2011
Scott Paterno, the coach’s son, announces in a statement that Joe Paterno has been diagnosed with a treatable form of lung cancer.
Texas football coach Mack Brown, left, greets Joe Paterno in May 2008 when Paterno was the keynote speaker at a Texas event where Brown was presented with The Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs. Paterno was 3-2 against UT but never faced Brown.
PATERNO continues from PAGE 1 was a secret that was kept secret,” Switzer said as the controversy unfolded. “Ever yone on that staff had to have known, the ones that had been around a long time.” To h i s f r i e n d s , l i k e c u rrent Texas head coach Mack Brown, the news yesterday was hard to swa l low b e caus e of Paterno’s positives. “I’ve known Coach Paterno since I started coaching. Sally [Brown] and I built a great relationship with him and Sue [Paterno] over the last 10 to 15 years, and we shared many great times. I know our lives are better because we had the opportunity to spend time with them,” Brown said in a statement. “He was a gift to us, and when we day, month day, 2008
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heard the sad news today, we both openly wept, not only because college football lost a great man, but we lost a great friend. I appreciate all of the advice, the attention and the time he’s given us over the years.” Texas legend Darrell Royal echoed those feelings. “What I remember about our days when we were both coaching is that Joe was very honest. He was a heck of a coach, and he was one of the outstanding coaches of all time,” Royal said. “You can’t say that about every coach, but you darn sure can say that about Joe Paterno. He meant a lot to the game, and he meant a lot to me. He was a solid person and a solid friend.” For me, this column is hard
Jan. 22, 2012
Joseph Vincent “Joe” Paterno dies at age 85.
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Legendary coach Joe Paterno faced Texas five times during his tenure at Penn State and was 3-2 against the Longhorns.
to write because there truly are two clear sides to this coin, and it would be remiss to so quickly say there is a black or white answer to what Paterno’s lasting legacy will be. There is no denying his greatness. Anyone who devotes 46 years of his life to bettering an entire community is undoubtedly going to earn the esteem of most. On the other hand, Switzer’s comments echo something that I think everyone who knew him and the Penn State program knows but hates to have to admit. From this though, we can learn one thing: the gray, ambiguous blob in which my feelings 1 toward JoePa currently dwell has taught me that good people, all people, make mistakes.
Some bigger than others, some that you may not even know you made and some that can’t even be forgiven. The lesson here is to never put heroes too high on a pedestal, because even icons like Joe are fallible. For the side of us that is heartbroken, it is our own fault for writing his legacy before we gave him the chance to fall. After the events of the past two months, this may be the best thing that could’ve happened to JoePa. His heart was full of grief and the weight of the world he once happily lifted high above his head finally began to flex its muscles. Now he has a chance to rest in peace, and we have a chance to learn from both the immense amount of good and the painfully bad in his legacy.
Jan. 1, 1972
Penn State 30, Texas 6: Penn State and Texas face off for the first time in the Cotton Bowl, but Paterno’s squad beats Darrell Royal and the Longhorns in Dallas on New Years Day.
Sept. 30, 1989
Penn State 16, Texas 12: In their first trip to Austin, the Nittany Lions block a Texas punt and recover the ball in the end zone for a game-winning touchdown in the fourth quarter.
Texas 28, Penn State 3: The No. 2 Longhorns beat the Nittany Lions in New Jersey. “Texas is a good football team. We beat them [their secondary] once, but we didn’t beat them again.”
-Joe Paterno
Sept. 8, 1990 Jan. 1, 1997
Penn State 38, Texas 15: Paterno wins his second Fiesta Bowl and finishes 3-2 against the Longhorns for his career.
Texas 17, Penn State 13: In the season opener, the No. 23 Longhorns upset No. 21 PSU as Texas travels to Beaver Stadium in State College, Penn., for the first time.
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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Outlaw Albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; digs at psyche, brings Missouri Ozarks to life book review
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Author Elmore Leonard, who made his start writing Western novels, has just published his 45th novel, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Raylan.â&#x20AC;? The TV show â&#x20AC;&#x153;Justifiedâ&#x20AC;? is based on the novelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main character.
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Raylanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; keeps up Western plots, thrills by robert Starr Daily Texan Staff
After writing novels for more than 50 years, it might seem like Elmore Leonard would run out of steam or lose the spark that gave him a unique voice, but if his latest, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Raylan,â&#x20AC;? proves anything, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that Leonard can still defy expectations. Featuring Raylan Givens, a federal marshal antihero from other Leonard novels, as well as the FX TV show â&#x20AC;&#x153;Justified,â&#x20AC;? the novel is another modern western crime thriller full of noir-ish double crosses and sudden shoot-outs. With his knack for writing sharp dialogue, biting humor and characters who only look out for themselves, Leonard remains one of the great writers of the canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;tput-it-down crime genre, featuring stories about criminals who youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never want to run into in real life, but love to meet on the written page. Givens is no exception, and although past experiences of his are alluded to, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Raylanâ&#x20AC;? isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so much a sequel to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Riding the Rapâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;Prontoâ&#x20AC;? as it is another adventure featuring the same character. Those who arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t familiar with the other books wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find themselves lost at all. In this novel Givens goes looking for a criminal to arrest, but finds him naked in a bathtub full of ice with both his kidneys gone, instead of running from the law. If this sounds like straightforward mystery fare, where the novel is spent searching for the kidney thief, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not. Indeed, among the novelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flaws is how aimless it is. The mystery is cleared up a few
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Elmore Leonard Genre: Crime thriller For those who like: James ellroy, James M. Cain, Carl Hiaasen, Justified
chapters into the book and by the halfway point, the narrative has already gone down a completely different pathway with new characters and new trouble for Givens to get in. Givens is known in the Leonard universe for his catch phrase, which heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll share with anybody whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll listen: â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I have to pull my gun, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll shoot to kill.â&#x20AC;? And by the end of this book, he gives the reader no reason to question his commitment to the mantra. The body count is very high, which is a tad disappointing, since the bad guys â&#x20AC;&#x201D; featuring an assortment of dumb criminals, femme fatales and exploitative millionaires â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are often as compelling as the hero (and also have the best lines). And though the story wanders and the characters are standard issue, the writing is confident and fun enough so that those seem like minor issues. The dialogue is a joy to read, with the characters really playing off of each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s words and exchanging dry witticisms while contemplating whom to shoot next. Perhaps also to ride on the coattails of the success of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Justified,â&#x20AC;? William Morrow Paperbacks released
SOPA continues from PAGE 12 such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and many others, under surveillance. Yet this legislation is still going unnoticed, its passing similar to the National Defense Authorization Act we experienced this past year. The NDAA, a law that could imprison any American citizen without charge or trial, was passed, and there was no public outcry similar to what SOPA and PIPA experienced. Online pe-
titions for the NDAA reached a maximum of 39,214 petitioners according to change.org, nowhere near the amount of petitions SOPA and PIPA received. The way these bills were presented to the American public were totally different. No large Web site or company protested the NDAA. The only protest that came was during last year, and the fervor dwindled shortly thereafter. The way these bills were brought
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fire in the Hole,â&#x20AC;? a collection of Leonardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s short stories, earlier this month. For longtime Leonard fans, this collection is unnecessary since itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a reprint, as opposed to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Raylan,â&#x20AC;? which is a new adventure. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fire in the Holeâ&#x20AC;? was previously published under the title of â&#x20AC;&#x153;When the Women Come Out to Dance,â&#x20AC;? and is a fantastic collection that includes an exciting story featuring Givens that was adapted into the pilot of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Justified.â&#x20AC;? For those unfamiliar with Leonardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a perfect opportunity to discover an author who can do more in a few pages than most writers can do in a fulllength novel, regardless of the title itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s published under. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Raylanâ&#x20AC;? is not Leonardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best novel, nor is there one that is universally considered to be his â&#x20AC;&#x153;best.â&#x20AC;? Each new book features the same ingredients, but the chef cooks them together with such joy and imagination that the meal still feels fresh. And while one could criticize Leonard for not reinventing the wheels on the buggy that he first built several decades ago, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better to sit back and enjoy the ride.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once Boshell finally killed his neighbor he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to quit killing him,â&#x20AC;? Daniel Woodrell writes in â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Outlaw Album,â&#x20AC;? a collection of short stories about life and violence in the Missouri Ozarks. Although other rough and wild Ozark gems emerge in the collection, this first line is probably the best explanation of the itch that Woodrell canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep from scratching in this book. It is the itch of the Ozarks, and each story sends blood, sorrow and anger surging forth from a past that Woodrellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s characters just canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to stop living. If the characters in these pages know what they want, they have long since forgotten why, and they keep on wanting only out of habit, or boredom or sheer inertia. First, in â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Echo of Neighborly Bones,â&#x20AC;? Boshell murders his neighbor Jepperson, â&#x20AC;&#x153;an opinionated foreigner from Minnesota.â&#x20AC;? He does the job with a squirrel rifle, but â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in his words â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;just canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get to feelinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; done with the son of a bitch.â&#x20AC;? So when DishTV cuts off or the coffee runs out, he returns to his neighborâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s corpse and tries to kill the goading look of its â&#x20AC;&#x153;greening face.â&#x20AC;? When Boshell finally throws the corpse in his truck and hauls it off to his old family land, Woodrell provides an insight into the history that has brought the man to his sorry state. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Boshellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s people had lived on this dirt until the government annexed it for the National Forest in the 1950s,â&#x20AC;? Woodrell writes, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and lazy old time had slowly reclaimed the place for trees and weeds and possums. He came here often, to sit and wonder and feel robbed of all these acres.â&#x20AC;? Next comes â&#x20AC;&#x153;Uncle,â&#x20AC;? a story written in the dialect of an Ozark teenage girl who tries to murder her rapist uncle in the family barn one afternoon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, my,â&#x20AC;? the girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother exclaims when
The Outlaw Album Daniel Woodrell
Genre: Crime fiction For those who like: Winterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bone, the sound and the fury, Deliverance
she sees her brother bloodied in the hay, â&#x20AC;&#x153;if he donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t die, whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll we do?â&#x20AC;? As feared, Uncle doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t die. He becomes a vegetable, and the narrator uses his state as an opportunity to punish him for molesting her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You finally get the ogre under your thumb and you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hardly keep from torturing him some at first,â&#x20AC;? she admits. More tortured, jaded and psychologically complex characters follow. However, not all of their stories are as well-told as Boshellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s or Uncleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Some are a bit messy and seem too short for the many names and memories that Woodrell crams between their pages. For example, in â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Woe to Live On,â&#x20AC;? Woodrell introduces a dozen characters, while alternating between a scene in 1916 and an old manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Civil War memories. Next, in the very short â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dream Spot,â&#x20AC;? he kills off an unhappy married couple after an unconvincing argument that fails to give the reader any reason to care about why the two are unhappy in the first place. Even the weaker stories of this collection pay off with certain perceptive passages and bone-chilling truths, but these gems are un-mined and the reader has to dig for them. In his more jumbled concoctions, Woodrellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prose also loses clarity. He is at his best when writing stories that are simple yet psychologically complex, ex-
ploring violence, depression and cultural tensions. Woodrell often pits locals against â&#x20AC;&#x153;foreignersâ&#x20AC;? in interesting ways. For example, in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Two Things,â&#x20AC;? a father describes a visit from a do-gooder with a hemp purse who informs him that his thieving son has become a published poet while in prison. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cecil?â&#x20AC;? the father replies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cecil a thief ... And not that sly a one neither.â&#x20AC;? The story, told from the fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perspective without dialogue, is a fascinating example of two people who just cannot understand one another. The woman brings Cecilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poems to the father as proof of penance, but the poems are like the land stolen from Boshellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family in â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Echo of Neighborly Bones.â&#x20AC;? For the father, they are just one more thing thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been stolen by the outside, ripped away and appropriated for the viewing of the casual tourist. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Look lady,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wish Cecil well but it is like this. He ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t getting no more poems off of us.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Outlaw Albumâ&#x20AC;? is an uneven collection of short stories in many ways, but what stands out consistently is Woodrellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to conjure up the world of the Ozarks â&#x20AC;&#x201D; its thick forests and salvational rivers, its bitter feuds of â&#x20AC;&#x153;untamed people who shot at things to so plainly announce their sorrow.â&#x20AC;? The Ozark wilderness comes alive in these pages. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a magic trick only Woodrell can perform.
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American apathy, naivete undermines SOPA defeat By Eli Watson Daily Texan
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Isha Konda watches herself dance in a mirror at Bollywood Shake on Friday evening. Children’s classes are split up by age and last one hour each.
Bollywood dancing shakes up workout By Anjli Mehta Daily Texan Staff
In front of a wall of mirrors, about 15 people shake their hips and heads to the latest Bollywood songs, showing off the shoulder shake made popular by Bollywood/Hollywood fusion movies like “Bend It Like Beckham” and “Bride and Prejudice.” The dancers’ smiles sneak in after catching their breath in between dance moves that leave no limb behind. When the instructor laughs and calls out, “time to shake it,” it becomes clear that the Bollywood Shake dance studio’s workout class isn’t the average gym’s dance class. Inspired by the popularity of the movie “Slumdog Millionaire,” UT alumna Ruchika Dias, 35, opened the Bollywood Shake studio in July of 2009. Dias, who started dancing when she was three years old, learned traditional Indian dance while growing up in India. In college, Dias joined Indian dance troupes, embracing more modern styles of dance like hip-hop and jazz, blurring the lines between dance genres. In 2009, Dias held her first Bollywood dance workshop in Austin, which incorporated a mixture of dance moves that reflected traditional Indian, hip-hop and jazz dance genres.
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“I was surprised when about 50 people signed up for the workshop and realized there was a demand for this style of dance class, so I started renting out dance studios by the hour to do two classes a week after that,” Dias said. Graduating from two classes a week to 20-25 classes a week, Bollywood Shake has established itself in both the dance and fitness scenes in Austin. Located on Anderson Mill Road, Dias is proud to have a studio to call her own, where the studio’s five instructors can lead highenergy classes. Dias recommends the beginner class to those looking to try out Bollywood dance for the first time and the workout class to those hoping to shake up their fitness routines with high-energy cardio and muscle conditioning. Class sizes range from six to 15, with one instructor per class leading the dance routines. Siva Papineni, a workout class attendee, said she takes the class with friends. “The atmosphere is good motivation for working out, and when the music comes on, troubles go away for an hour,” Papineni said. Kira Koppel, another class attendee, said the classes at Bollywood Shake are the first dance classes she’s taken. “I love that Bollywood dance is completely involved, from your eyes
to your feet. You learn to move every part of your body,” Koppel said. Instructor-in-training Sereena John sees the Bollywood dance style as a good way to get into dance. “Bollywood dance is fun and new, but it teaches you things you see in other dance styles, too,” she said. Dias and the studio’s instructors draw inspiration for class dance routines from Bollywood cult favorites to the latest soundtracks. Indian composer and singer-songwriter A.R. Rahman is a favorite at Bollywood Shake. Rahman, nicknamed the Mozart of Madras, composed “Slumdog Millionaire” and more than 100 other films. Dias also notes Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit, who has appeared in over 40 films, as another source of inspiration. “I think the fascination with Bollywood is more than the clothes and music; it’s seen as an experience, a cultural phenomenon,” Dias said. With its pulsating beats and emphasis on Indian drums like the tabla, a Bollywood film’s music is considered just as important as the plot. Like a flash mob, Bollywood films are bombarded with unexpected and grandiose dance numbers, from the tops of trains to the middle of streets. The highly percussive nature of Bollywood music lends itself well to the genre’s
quintessential shaking and sauntering dance moves. Dias is opening another Bollywood Shake studio in Houston this spring and leaving the Austin branch in the hands of her Austin-area business partner, Shruti Anand, who shares Dias’ love for Madhuri Dixit and background in traditional Indian dance. “I like the mix of dance styles that Bollywood has to offer. I’m looking forward to running the Austin studio and continuing to grow the company,” Anand said. Dias said she’s always looking for instructors to teach classes and encourages dancers of all backgrounds to apply and audition. From hip bouncing to hair flipping, Bollywood Shake mixes Indian and American dance genres, creating a cultural melting pot that simmers as much as the dance moves do. WHAT: Bollywood Shake WHERE: 10700 Anderson Mill WHEN: Classes available Sunday through Wednesday PRicE: Start at $49 for four weeks WEB: bollywoodshake.com
This past week saw the defeat of two controversial bills: the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act. The two bills, both of which are aimed at curbing illegal music, movie and software sharing, have been criticized for violating free speech laws, and placing burdens on less harmful websites such as blogs and social media outlets. Websites such as Wikipedia, Reddit, Tumblr and Google, participated in a scheduled “Internet Blackout,” an online protest that resulted in outcry against the bills from their users. The websites persuaded users to petition and research the bills; some websites even provided petitioners with their representatives’ contact information. Due to the opposition, Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid shelved SOPA and delayed the PIPA vote. Politicians, musicians and Web developers alike have expressed opposition to the bills, fearing that they will give the U.S. Attorney General unprecedented powers of cens or s h ip. T h e Obama administration spoke against the bills, saying they “reduce freedom of expression,” while Facebook developer Mark Zuckerberg took to his Twitter account, saying the bills would “hurt the Internet.” Although the victory against the United States government shows how the Internet can be a catalyst for protest, it has also shown American shallowness and how unaware we are with domestic issues that affect us. SOPA and PIPA have been around since October of last year, yet the momentum to fight against it just recently came to fruition. It can be argued that most people do not use the Internet to be informed, but rather entertained, and SOPA and PIPA are evidence of that. Only when Wikipedia, Reddit and Google blacked out their sites did opposition come from a flurry of users. According to digitaltrends.com, over 4.5 million people signed Google’s petition, and an estimated 162 million ob-
The fact that not even half of Google’s petitioners sent letters to their representatives, is an indicator of American apathy.
Students experience unique perceptions of CAP program By Jessica Lee Daily Texan Staff
In high school, Gramm Klein felt that The University of Texas at Austin was the perfect school for him. What better place to major in sports management? UT has a multi-million dollar sports program, a highly acclaimed football team and its own ESPN network. So when Klein received a letter from the university offering him admission into UT if he could successfully complete the CAP program, he accepted. The CAP program offers freshman applicants a second chance to get into UT. Students who accept the requirements of the program must attend one of the participating UT system universities for a year. They are then guaranteed admission to UT Austin if they achieve at least a 3.2 GPA after completing 30 hours of UT-approved coursework. The program is offered only to Texas residents. Klein is now in his second semester at UT San Antonio, but his plans have since changed: Klein has decided that UTSA is the place for him. Klein soon realized that though UT’s sports teams had the hype, UTSA offered him the ability to be a part of something that was just beginning. UTSA’s Roadrunner football team was launched in 2011. “I cannot tell you how excited I am about UTSA for my next 4 years,”
Klein said. “UTSA is on the brink of greatness; there is no doubt about it. It’s going to take some hard work to get there. That’s what makes it special for me. To have a large part in making that happen, establishing traditions and a fan base for our athletics is the ultimate opportunity for me.” Klein said that though he once believed UT was the school for him, he has since realized that it was more his family’s dream than his. “Family had a huge impact on that ‘dream’ perception,” Klein said. “My dad, grandfather and grandmother all went to UT. They undoubtedly had the greatest influence on my feelings about UT.” But Klein is the exception. According to UTSA freshman advising director Joan Tsacalis, most students who fulfill their CAP requirements transfer to UT Austin. Tsacalis estimates that about 47 percent of CAP students at UTSA meet the requirements. Tsacalis urges the students in the program to plan for the long term because though many have benefitted from the CAP program, it has its disadvantages. “If a student has her sights set on a very competitive major at UT, like business, engineering or architecture, she has to remember that just because she transfers back to UT, she is not guaranteed her dream major because each major sets its own competitive admissions requirements beyond
served Wikipedia’s blackout page. These outstanding numbers do not begin to compare to the relatively small number of people who took things further; out of the 4.5 million people who signed Google’s petition, only 35,000 people sent letters to their representatives, and only 8 million out of Wikipedia’s 162 million viewers actually used the Web site to find the contact information of their representatives. The fact that not even half of Google’s petitioners sent letters to their representatives is an indicator of American apathy. With a cut-and-paste mentality, online petitioners recycled and shared the petition on their social media outlets, not providing any background on the SOPA and PIPA bills, and only adding a note of support in contributing to the petition. “Just do it,” and “If you don’t want your freedoms taken away from you, do this,” were some of the messages that accompanied the shared links on people’s Facebook pages. Others took to their Tu m b l r a n d Twitter, blacking out their pages, and creating hashtags related to the two bills. But what are their reasons for doing so? Would those same people who signed a petition and blacked out their Web sites be the same people who would travel to their representatives’ office? The statistics seem to show otherwise. Here is where the problem lies: in signing the petitions and sharing them through the many social media outlets we frequent, the battle is only half completed, as SOPA and PIPA may return. Congress has already followed up these bills with the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, an agreement between countries including Japan, Canada and others, that is aimed at imposing new criminal sanctions and online censorship in the name of copyright. Similar to SOPA and PIPA, ACTA would focus heavily on copyright infringement, putting websites
SOPA continues on PAge 11 Petroleum engineer sophomore Bebegol Shariatmadar used the CAP program to transfer to UT. A Houston native, Shariatmadar studied at UTSA for a year before completing the CAP program.
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the general university requirements,” Tsacalis said. Students who successfully complete the CAP requirements are only offered guaranteed admission into the liberal arts or natural science colleges. Those wishing to pursue other majors must apply to the appropriate college upon CAP completion. For petroleum engineering sophomore Bebegol Shariatmadar, the CAP program was just a stepping stone to get into the university she really wanted to attend. “UTSA was a great motivator for me,” Shariatmadar said. “It made me appreciate UT more because I had to work harder [at UTSA] because I was not there to have fun.” But Shariatmadar feels that the CAP program still has some improvements to make.
“I didn’t like how I had to take a bunch of filler classes that I already had AP credit for just because there were very specific requirements,” Shariatmadar said. Given the chance to do it all over again, Shariatmadar said she would have rather attended college in her hometown, Houston, to save money by living her freshman year at home. She genuinely enjoyed her time at UTSA, but felt she could have transferred into UT without the help of the CAP program. The requirements for transferring to UT outside of the CAP program are much less strict. Students must be high school graduates or have earned a GED and have 30 hours of transfer credit from another university. Unlike the CAP program, those applying to transfer are not guaranteed ad-
mission. Klein encourages those planning to accept admission into the CAP program to tour the UT system school they plan to attend. “A lot of CAP students foolishly do not visit UTSA because of their disillusioned UT dreams, which is a shame,” Klein said. At the UTSA campus alone, Tsacalis reports that the CAP population is somewhere between 800 and 1000 students. CAP students represent about three percent of the UTSA student body. “Our surveys indicate that 98% of CAP students are satisfied with the guidance they receive at UTSA,” Tsacalis said. “I’ve been here since the first CAP cohort, I think in 2001, and I’ve always enjoyed working with these students and helping them achieve their goals.”