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As part of the Liz Carpenter Lecture Series, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof will speak at the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium in the LBJ Library. Admission is free and the lecture begins at 7 p.m.

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Contraception policy exempts religious affiliates By David Leffler Daily Texan Staff

Federal policy mandating most employers to provide insurance coverage for contraceptive services to women has been altered, exempting religiously-oriented organizations from being responsible for covering the costs of such medication.

In a press conference on Friday, President Barack Obama announced the changes made to the federal mandate. Prior to the reversal, the President had faced criticism from members of the GOP, the Catholic Church and even many Democrats. “If a woman works at a charity or religious hospital that objects

to providing contraceptive services to her, the insurance company — not the charity, not the hospital — will be required to reach out and offer the woman contraceptive care,” Obama said. Obama said the new version of the policy serves as a fair compromise in recognizing women’s rights while respecting religious values.

Jenny Kutner, Plan II senior and Texas Feminists president, said she thinks the mandate is an important step forward in providing more gender-equitable health care. “I believe contraception should be accessible and affordable for all women who want it, and this mandate will help make that a reality,” she said.

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By Nick Hadjigeorge & Victoria Pagan Daily Texan Staff

Drop by the Life and Science library from 1-2 p.m. or the Fine Arts library from 3-4 p.m. to make Valentine’s Day buttons. Design your own or use the “library love” design. Admission is free.

WEDNESDAY Jack Ingram and Hayes Carll

Country music star Jack Ingram will perform with Hayes Carll in the Gibson Guitar Showroom. The concert is presented by Grounded in Music, a nonprofit organization that encourages kids to turn to music. Tickets are $35 and doors open at 6:30 p.m.

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Hayden Street, 8, is helped off of a horse by Penni Bozadzis, managing director and lead therapist at Learning Together Equestrians, Saturday morning. The program utilizes hippotherapy, a form of therapy utilizing equine movement for the treatment of physical, occupational and speech-language handicaps.

Horse riding used as therapy By Jillian Bliss Daily Texan Staff

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Adjacent a paintball range and on the same lot as a brewery rests a type of therapy less destructive than blasting bullets and healthier than booze. Nestled in the hills of West Austin, two horses, two ponies and a miniature horse graze on seven acres of pasture awaiting the volunteers who groom and saddle them. Their owner, Penni Bozadzis, is the managing director and lead therapist at Learn-

ing Together Equestrians, a program she started in 2005 under the name Thoughtful House Equestrians. Bozadzis and her herd participate in hippotherapy, a form of therapy utilizing equine movement for the treatment of physical, occupational and speechlanguage handicaps. Bozadzis said she began horseback riding at age 13, and first discovered the benefits of hippotherapy through teaching her younger sister, who is autistic, how to ride the family horse. After earning a degree in speech pa-

thology and volunteering with other equine organizations, Bozadzis said she realized the opportunity she had to combine her love of horses with her occupation. “There was one little girl who couldn’t talk very well, and riding really helped her gain a sense of balance and helped her speak,” Bozadzis said. “Another little boy was fed up with other therapies, but when I put him on a horse he did everything I asked.” Volunteers like Austin resident Carrie Goff agree horses can have a calm-

ing effect, and Bozadzis said these volunteers are an integral part of her program. Bozadzis said part of the reason she chose to lease the property on which Learning Together sits was because of its proximity to Austin. Bozadzis and her miniature horse, Teanie Baby, made an appearance at a volunteer fair outside of Gregory Gym Feb. 8. She said student groups from UT have come to work with Learning Together, as well as volunteers from all

THERAPY continues on PAGE 2

The political action committee Test PAC has its sights set on unseating Rep. Lamar Smith R-Texas using Internet-based tactics, while seeking to differentiate themselves from mainstream politics. Smith represents the 21st District, which includes the UT campus and areas of west Austin. Test PAC announced their first campaign “Operation: Mr. Smith Comes Back From Washington” on Feb. 10 on social media websites after the group’s members voted in a poll to decide which congressman their resources would be focused on defeating in the 2012 election. According to Test PAC’s Facebook page, Smith was chosen for his sponsorship of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, which has since been removed from Congress’ agenda. Test PAC treasurer Andy Posterick said Test PAC was founded to balance the influence of money in politics with the goal in preserving democratic values. “We operate on the idea that in a democracy, ideas are more important than money,” Posterick said. “The problem is, politics is so heavily structured around the concept that money buys change, but it doesn’t, and we tried to build a PAC that reflects that.” Posterick said some of the founding members of Test PAC were involved with previous Internet campaigns to boycott or blackout websites in order to raise awareness of

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Weekend sleet not likely to continue

Texas softball opens their season with the Texas Classic. Longhorn basketball faces top 25 opponents at home. We have highlights and more.

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KVRX Hosting Annual Pledge Drive

You can donate by calling in during their programming every night or at kvrx.org until Feb. 20. They will host a concert featuring local bands at the Spiderhouse Ballroom on Fruth Street at 8 p.m. The $5 cover charge supports the pledge drive.

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Kutner said she does not support the changes made to the mandate. “The mandate is not an attack on the Catholic Church, as it has been called, but rather an effort to allow women to take their health care into their own hands, regardless of where they work,” she said.

Male beauty pageant benefits food bank By David Leffler Daily Texan Staff

A male beauty pageant benefiting the Capital Area Food Bank of Texas featured participants who danced, sang, rapped, wrestled and even proposed as they competed for the title of “Mr. McCombs.”

The pageant, put on by the McCombs School of Business Friday night at the Student Activities Center, was a fundraiser for the Capital Area Food Bank. Admission costs were either $3 or 3 cans of food. According to the pageants’ emcees, more than 3,500 cans had been collected through donations and canned-good drives held

by student organizations within the business school. Allison Gross, marketing junior and pageant organizer, said the event was structured so that each participant represented a different business organization. “We wanted to host an event that

CHARITY continues on PAGE 2

A blanket of sleet may be the only ice Austinites will see fall from the sky this season. Many experts are expecting conditions to warm up this afternoon and remain for the rest of the week. Representatives from the National Weather Service said Sunday’s sleet around the city was not a surprise, but did not increase the city’s chances of experiencing snow. NWS spokesman Patrick McDonald said apart from the light rain this morning, temperatures for the rest of the week are expected to be in the 60s and 70s and Austin will probably have to wait until next winter for snow. McDonald said the temperatures will probably not result in any closure to local businesses or schools. He said Sunday’s conditions of cold air, rain and sleet will have to continue today for schools or businesses to consider closing their doors. “It’s been a lot warmer this year than last year,” McDonald said. “Last

year we had cooler air drafting down from the Arctic. This year, people all over the U.S. are complaining about the lack of snow.” McDonald said there is no explicit reason for the lack of snow and it is just the way the weather pattern has shifted. He said Europe and Asia have seen a lot of snow this season. Troy Kimmel, geography lecturer and KEYE weather forecaster, said Sunday had the right conditions for snow because the air in the atmosphere was at a subfreezing level, but the ground was too warm to keep the precipitation frozen. Kimmel said although there was a lot of sleet many people reported snow at places like Camp Mabry and the Austin-Bergstrom Airport. Kimmel said these conditions do not usually cause problems, but that people need to watch out for streets being slick or wet. “Snow is certainly a possibility, but not a possibility right now,” Kimmel said. “Students better be in class today and tomorrow as well. I’m still giving a lecture Tuesday.”

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However, Monika Demkowicz, Plan II senior and Catholic Longhorns for Life president, said she does not believe the newest version of the mandate is acceptable. “Churches and religious organizations will be forced to choose between providing insurance coverage that goes against their consciences and their faith or not providing insurance at all,” she said. Demkowicz said in doing so, the federal government does not give religious institutions a real choice other than to violate their beliefs. “Mandating religious organizations to provide for health ‘services’ that they are morally opposed to is a violation of conscience and religious liberty.” Father Paul Kasun, priest inresidence at the St. Louis King

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HORSES continues from PAGE 1 walks of life. Goff, whose son attends UT, said she heard about Learning Together through networking and became a volunteer because she has always wanted a chance to work with special needs children. The opportunities for special needs children to participate in recreational activities have not always been so prevalent, said Austin resident Susen Penver, whose daughter takes weekly riding lessons at Learning Together. “We came because it was an opportunity for her [Penver’s daughter] to explore what all types of kids should get to explore,” Penver said. “The opportunities are limited, but that’s changing with things like this.”

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of France Catholic Church and sociology graduate student, said he believes the issue is a wider question regarding sexuality. “There’s a misunderstanding there. Contraception is not a dogma of the church, but instead relates to church doctrine,” he said. Kasu n s ai d t he C at hol i c Church is concerned with sustaining the quality of the relationship of married couples and ensuring that people are open to the possibility of life as a result of sexuality. “O ur do c t r ine is against things like condoms that are not open to the possibility of life,” he said. Kasun said he is interested in how the issue will be settled. “I see myself as being able to help people feel good about being Catholics and supporting our leadership,” Kasun said. Lingnan Chen | Daily Texan Staff “I’m looking forward to seeing A woman stands in the University Medical Center Brackenridge on Saturday. A new federal mandate exempts relihow they resolve this.” gious organizations, such as the Brackenridge hospital, from covering contraceptive service costs for employees. Bozadzis said she has a few clients who have been with her since her program started in 2005. College of Fine Arts associate dean Andrew Dell’Antonio’s daughter is one of these riders. Dell’Antonio said his daughter is autistic and needed a lot of support when she first began riding. “This has become a life-changing experience, ” Dell’Antonio said. “The volunteers were great, and Penni is patient through everything. Over the years it’s become easier and easier for my daughter to ride.” Volunteers provide support on one or both sides of the horse based on the rider’s individual needs and lead the horse in order to keep the animal as calm as possible to help students focus on riding. The riding lessons, which last approximately one hour, incorporate basic riding instruction, games and trail rides.

Bozadzis said the trail rides provide extra benefits for her students, however, as leaving the arena allows them to build sensory skills. Bozadzis said she likes having the ability to provide unique experiences like the trail rides, and said the location of her program is also integral in doing so. “I have so many kids who transportation can be stressful for and who may find sitting in a car to drive outside of Austin difficult,” Bozadzis said. She said the Hill Country setting of her location is ideal for her horses but close enough to the big city to allow other opportunities. In addition to regular lessons, Bozadzis said several of her riders participate in horse shows with classes designed for special needs children, including one in March affiliated with Rodeo Austin.

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was fun and encouraged camaraderie across the entire business school,” she said. Gross said the McCombs School likes featuring the event because it is both entertaining and meaningful. “We love putting on this event. It’s great to host something fun that still gives back to the community,” she said. “It was the perfect opportunity to give back to the Capital Area Food Bank.” John Turner, senior director of marketing and branding at the Capital Area Food Bank, said he thinks the efforts of McCombs are going a long way to help Texans in need of food. “Events like ‘Mr. McCombs’ have a great impact and it’s a fun way to raise support and awareness,” Turner said. “Every little thing counts and helps us put food on hungry peoples’ tables.” Turner said hunger is a significant issue for Texans and encourages any events that alleviate the problem. “With the economy the way it is, people need assistance purchasing food more than ever. One-in-five Central Texans are at risk of hunger,” SKI SPRING BREAK 2012! breckenridge

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Engineers build race cars for use in Formula SAE By Andrew Messamore Daily Texan Staff

T h e c h a mpi on s h ip c om petition for one of the largest intercollegiate sport in the world may be returning to UT next year. In Formula SAE, 450 teams of engineers from around the world design, build, test and race their Formula 1-style racecars against each other for international audiences. Teams consist of around 30 engineers who are given the chance to apply what they’ve learned in class by designing an actual race car, which can range from 30 mph cars to 200 mph dragsters. The 30 year-old competition is an Austin original, started in 1980 by UT Mechanical engineering professor Ronald Matthews and a group of students from the Society of Automotive Engineers. Formula SAE was created after Matthews decided that UT should have a competition after the Houstonbased “Indy-style” competition UT was set to participate in was canceled, Matthews said. “We decided to start our own race,” Matthews said. “We picked an engine that worked for a race car, which was usually something that went 12 mph and had the engine of a lawn mower, and we started in some parking lots east of campus in 1981. Now we hold competitions in Italy, Brazil, Germany, Australia and the U.S. in massive airstrips and actual race tracks.” Matthews said he is now working on bringing the For-

PAC continues from PAGE 1 the SOPA bill. “The website blackout from a few weeks ago, for example, was an idea that our members helped bring to fruition,” Posterick said. “We also pressured Rep. Paul Ryan R-Wisconsin to change his stance on SOPA before most congresspeople had even heard of it.” According to Test PAC’s Reddit announcement, the group hopes to

achieve its goal using social media as well as offline methods, including promoting their cause at UT. “The information blitz [on Facebook and Twitter] will appeal to Internet users who may have heard of SOPA, but do not fully understand its implications,” the post said. “We have reached out to political leaders on the UT Austin campus.”

mula SAE competition back home by using Austin’s new Formula 1 track, set to be completed around November. “We came up with idea to put something educational out at the Formula track,” Matthews said. “We are working with support State Controllers Office and the Department of Energy to have a facility built for us. Since the Formula 1 competition is in November, we aren’t expecting a facility to be built until 2013.” The Formula 1 track may also focus attention on Austin’s automotive industry, said Eric Pak, mechanical engineering senior. “The Formula 1 track has b e e n br i ng i ng i n autom o tive business as well as a lot of hype,” Pak said. “Since the announcement of the new track, there’s been lot more interest in racing, and it’s been taking people to places like ‘Driveway Austin,’ where people can learn how to use and drive race cars. A lot of people are oblivious to auto events like Formula 1 and NASCAR, and the track will bring out the auto-savvy aspect of Austinites.” Adam Pate, Formula SAE design lead and mechanical engineering senior, said The Formula 1 track could alter the image of Austin as being a “green city.” “I think Austin has a reputation as being a really green city, and people assume that green means a ‘not-car town,’” Pate said. “Formula 1 has the potential to change the publicity that the auto industry is getting.”

Posterick said Smith is the target for the first Test PAC campaign for his sponsorship of SOPA and his connections with the entertainment industry. “He introduced SOPA, and he was the only congressman still defending it after it was universally admonished by the American people,” Posterick said. “He is heavily lobbied by the [Motion Picture Association of America] and the [Recording Industry Association of America], who are buying legislation that, quite frankly, holds new technology in handcuffs.” The main goal of the PAC is to protect Internet freedom and members of the online community who are fighting against Internet regulation, Posterick said. “This campaign, if we get any significant number of votes in April, is also our way of telling Washington that the Internet can now stand up for itself if you try to legislate us,” Posterick said. Mike Asmus, campaign manager for Smith, said Smith welcomes any challenges to his incumbency and uses his congressional record as evidence for his support of District 21. “Congressman Smith enjoys a successful history of keeping the trust and support of the people of the 21st District,” Asmus said. “He responds to this and all challenges by running on his record.” Regarding Smith’s sponsorship of the SOPA bill, Asmus said Smith has since reversed his support for the bill. “Smith last month formally suspended further committee consideration of the [SOPA] proposal until and unless wider consensus can be reached on how to best crack down on illegal activity conducted on foreign websites,” Asmus said.

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NEWS BRIEFLY Pelosi expects wins in five states to regain Dem. control of House SAN DIEGO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi predicts that five large states will put Democrats in striking distance of gaining control of the House after the November elections. Pelosi said Friday in San Diego that she expects gains in California, Florida, Illinois, New York and Texas will leave Democrats only about a half-dozen seats short. She declined to predict how many seats she anticipates picking up, saying only that she will be happy with 25. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how many Democrats need to gain control of the House. Pelosi says President Barack Obama wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t campaign in four of her five target states because they are not presidential battlegrounds. Florida is the exception.

Arab League ask for UN troops to quell grim violence in Syria CAIRO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Arab League called Sunday for the U.N. Security Council to create a joint peacekeeping force for Syria and urged Arab states to sever all diplomatic contact with President Bashar Assadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regime, the Leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest effort to bring an end to violence that has killed more than 5,000 people. Syria immediately rejected the moves, spelled out in a resolution adopted by League foreign ministers meeting in Cairo. Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal conveyed the 22-nation Leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deep frustration with Syria, telling delegates that it was no longer appropriate to stand by and watch the bloodshed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Until when will we remain spectators?â&#x20AC;? he said. The bloodshed in Syria â&#x20AC;&#x153;is a disgrace for us as Muslims and Arabs to accept.â&#x20AC;?

Greece approves austerity to the tune of firebombs By Nicholas Paphitis The Associated Press

ATHENS, Greece â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Greek lawmakers on Monday approved harsh new austerity measures demanded by bailout creditors to save the debt-crippled nation from bankruptcy, after rioters in central Athens torched buildings, looted shops and clashed with riot police. The historic vote paves the way for Greeceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s European partners and the International Monetary Fund to release $170 billion in new rescue loans, without which Greece would default on its mountain of debt next month and likely leave the eurozone â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a scenario that would further roil global markets. Lawmakers voted 199-74 in favor of the cutbacks, despite strong dissent among the two main coalition members. A total 37 lawmakers from the majority Socialists and conservative New Democracy party either voted against the party line, abstained or voted present. Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clashes erupted after more than 100,000 protesters marched to the parliament to rally against the drastic cuts, which will ax one in five civil service jobs and slash the minimum wage by more than a fifth. At least 45 businesses were damaged by fire, including several historic buildings, movie theaters, banks and a cafeteria, in the worst riot damage in Athens in years. Fifty police officers were injured and at least 55 protesters were hospitalized. Since May 2010, Greece has survived on a $145 billion bailout

from its European partners and the International Monetary Fund. When that proved insufficient, the new rescue package was approved. The deal, which has not yet been finalized, will be combined with a massive bond swap deal to write off half the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s privately held debt. But for both deals to materialize, Greece had to persuade its deeply skeptical creditors that it has the will to implement spending cuts and public sector reforms that will end years of fiscal profligacy and tame gaping budget deficits. As protests raged Sunday, demonstrators set bonfires in front of parliament and dozens of riot police formed lines to keep them from making a run on the building. Security forces fired dozens of tear gas volleys at rioters, who attacked them with firebombs and chunks of marble broken off the fronts of luxury hotels, banks and department stores. Clouds of tear gas drifted across the square, and many in the crowd wore gas masks or had their faces covered, while others carried Greek flags and banners. Masked rioters also attacked a police station with petrol bombs and stones. A three-story building was completely consumed by flames as firefighters struggled to douse the blaze. Streets were strewn with stones, smashed glass and burnt wreckage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had it! I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take it any more. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no point in living in this country any more,â&#x20AC;? said a distraught shop owner walking through his smashed and looted optician store.

A boy throws a piece of ice into a frozen fountain in Milan, Italy, on Sunday as a cold front continues to affect the country.

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Europe suffers through the cold By Florear Bajrami The Associated Press

RESTELICA, Kosovo â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rescuers have pulled a 5-year-old girl alive from the rubble of a house flattened by a massive avalanche that killed both her parents and at least seven of her relatives in a remote mountain village in southern Kosovo. Rescuers cheered and pumped their fists in the air late Saturday as the girl was pulled out alive. A video aired on Klan Kosova TV showed rescuers covering the girl with blankets, before she was rushed to hospital. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No bigger tragedy has ever struck this region,â&#x20AC;? said local district official Behar Ramadani. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Two brothers with their wives and children have been killed.â&#x20AC;? In neighboring Montenegro, where the government introduced

a state of emergency because of the deep freeze, special police forces on Sunday managed to reach about 50 train passengers stranded for two days after tracks were blocked by avalanches. Police in Bosnia said the roof of a sports center in downtown Sarajevo used for ice skating events in the 1984 Winter Olympics collapsed Sunday under the weight of snow. No injuries or fatalities have been reported. In Serbia, the snow continued to fall Sunday as some 50,000 people remained stranded in snowbound remote areas, some without electricity. In Albania the government is expected to declare a state of emergency in the north and south of the country, said Prime Minister Sali Berisha. Much of Italyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s north-central east was digging out Sunday after heavy snowfall collapsed roofs

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Interpreting the sudden smoke signal On Friday, the University announced that it will review its tobacco use policy to ensure that it complies with a new mandate from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. Two weeks ago, CPRIT announced that all institutions that receive its funds must be completely tobacco-free. UT professors received almost $30 million in grant money from CPRIT this year, and almost $90 million in grant applications are still outstanding. If UT does not change its tobacco-use policy by March 1, 2012, it will lose access to CPRIT funding. The current smoking policy prohibits smoking within 20 feet of a building entrance and within University buildings. CPRIT requires a stricter policy. Tobacco use, including smokeless tobacco products, must not be allowed except for a very narrow range of activities, including certain theater performances and tobacco-related research conducted on campus. Tobacco use in all other venues, such as sporting events and at construction sites, must be prohibited. The University is expected to convene various groups, including Student Government, the Staff Council and the Faculty Council, to discuss a revision of the tobacco use policy within the next two weeks. With CPRIT’s deadline less than three weeks away, it cannot afford to wait. Editor’s note: The following quotes are from an interview conducted on Friday with Adrienne Howarth-Moore, the director Human Resource Services at UT.

“Student Government has been very active [on a tobacco policy]. It’s not that we have not been aware. We have been evaluating what is the best fit for us.” — On a resolution Student Government passed last March supporting UT

gradually becoming a smoke-free campus over the next seven years.

“It will be a challenge for current tobacco users that we will address with education and tobacco cessation resources. We’re not looking at punitive penalties. We’re looking to support.” — On the possible ways that UT will enforce any change to its smoking policy. An enforcement plan is required by the new CPRIT policy.

“All of our constituents are important and valuable. We will talk about an implementation plan.” — On the inclusion of various campus constituencies in the creation of a new tobacco use policy.

“The challenge will be education, communication and helping people understand the reason behind the change.” —On the possible challenges the University will face in implementing a new

tobacco use policy.

“We don’t just have a focus on research, but cancer research. We want to be able to eradicate cancer.” — On the University’s commitment to continuing to partner with CPRIT in

its research endeavors.

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Demanding action on urban rail By Drew Finke Daily Texan Columnist

“Rail is the future of Austin, as it is the future of every great city in the United States.” This is how Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell characterized his support for the city’s proposed urban rail system during a Twitter Town Hall event hosted by the University Democrats last week. Though Leffingwell made future rail service within the urban core part of his campaign message in 2009, just how far into the future students and other city residents must wait until benefitting from the service remains unclear. In 2010, Leffingwell published a letter on his website explaining why the city had decided to forgo a November ballot initiative that would have presented Austinites with the opportunity to approve or reject a plan for rail service in and around downtown. A lack of details and lingering unanswered questions pertaining to the proposed rail route were cited as the reasons that ultimately killed the ballot initiative. Two years later, it seems reasonable that the city would have had enough time to reconcile the issues that stopped the initiative in 2010. However, recent reports

indicate otherwise. Last week, The Daily Texan published an article in which a member of the city’s Transit Working Group, city Councilman Bill Spelman, said he thought there were too many “unanswered questions with Urban Rail” and that the group was unlikely to come up with “answers anybody is happy with for the next few months.” Meanwhile, traffic in central Austin continues to get worse as more people move to the city in search of work and more high-density residential projects break ground. Waiting through another election cycle before doing anything meaningful to address growing mobility challenges within the urban core is unacceptable. Students and faculty who commute to campus by car or bus and are unfortunate enough to have a class scheduled during the morning or evening rush hour will arrive to campus early or stay late to avoid wasting precious time stuck in traffic. Even students who live near campus know to plan their work schedules around the daily standstills on major downtown and campus-area thoroughfares. While some congestion is an inevitable

Cab fee limits student access By Hannah Lapin Daily Texan Columnist

It is a Thursday night, a great night to go downtown with friends. You get dressed up, and you are ready to go. There is just one thing stopping you: a lack of transportation. You and your friends wait for what feels like hours for the E-bus. One finally comes, but it is at full capacity. Somehow you eventually make it downtown, but you face the same predicament trying to get home. This time, however, it is 3 a.m. Many UT students are drawn to Sixth Street for a good time. Unfortunately, too many students have trouble getting on the overcrowded E-bus or finding a cab to get to and from campus. It is clearly unsafe to have college students, many of whom are intoxicated, wandering around downtown Austin looking for a ride home. Action needs to be taken to provide students with safe, reliable and affordable rides, but solutions come at a price. Beginning today, Austinites will have to pay an additional dollar to take a taxi between 9 p.m. and 4 a.m. everyday. Austin City Council voted in favor of the fee Feb. 1, and the $1 per-person charge will be added to the already existing drop rate, the starting price on a cab meter. It is intended to motivate taxi drivers to work late night hours, thereby increasing the number of available cabs. But the efforts to encourage cab drivers to work during these hours paradoxically discourages students from

taking cabs. The fee increase mostly affects the student population, who often take cabs during these peak hours. Many students who can barely afford cabs are forced to take them when the E-buses are unavailable or overcrowded. Between tuition, textbooks, housing and food expenses, college students do not have a lot of discretionary income. The price of a cab ride from the CVS on the Drag to Sixth Street is about $7, according to Yellow Cab Austin. With the new fee, a group of four students catching a cab ride back to campus will cost approximately $11, excluding tip, which substantially increases the original cost of the cab ride. If students go downtown a few times a week, the additional cost of the cabs over time will definitely add up. Although the new city ordinance may increase the number of available cabs for students, raising the cab fees is not the solution, as the increase in price could potentially leave more students roaming around downtown in vulnerable states. The Austin Police Department, Capital Metro and Parking and Transportation Services, the cosponsors of the E-bus, need to determine a way to increase the number of E-buses and have them run more frequently to avoid overcrowding during these peak hours. Further, City Council should propose a solution to increase affordable, safe transportation without penalizing students. Lapin is a journalism sophomore.

consequence of living or working in the city, it must not be allowed to threaten the high quality of life Austin residents enjoy. Indeed, Austin’s quality of life is noted in many cases as one of the key elements that attract companies to relocate or establish themselves in Austin, creating new jobs for Austin residents and recently UT graduates alike. With roads and highways already operating beyond designed capacity and little room in which to expand them, a local rail network within the city center is a proven and sustainable solution that has the potential to increase accessibility and mobility in Austin’s increasingly dense urban core. Though a recent editorial in the Austin American-Statesman declared an urban rail ballot initiative as all but dead on arrival, students and Austinites who want the convenience and connectivity of rail should demand quicker and more decisive action from elected officials who claim to support the vision of a vibrant and walkable city center but who seem to lack the sense of urgency and conviction needed to bring that vision to life. Finke is an urban studies and architecture senior.

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Professor Joerg Fedtke speaks during the Texas International Law Journal 2012 Symposium in the Eidman Courtroom, Friday afternoon. The two-day event hosted international speakers that discussed the European debt crisis and its effect on the world market.

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UT law school event examines European debt crisis By Reihaneh Hajibeigi Daily Texan Staff

The Texas International Law Journal invited speakers from around the world to discuss the European debt crisis and its consequences at their annual symposium. The two-day event began Thursday at the Law School with the keynote address led by Gerard Hertig of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Covering the current European financial crisis, legal and economic scholars from Switzerland, Germany and Spain were invited by the TILJ. According to the TILJ’s website, past symposiums have surrounded topics such as air and missile warfare, as well as other financial problems that affect the world market. Symposium editor Della Sentilles said this year’s topic was suggested by UT law professor Jens Dammann because the biggest issue for European countries as well as the U.S. is currently the financial crisis. “We try to find a topic that has relevance on an international level, as

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Our finances and current problems are all tied to the issues in Europe. — John Bradley, Symposium Committee Member

well as a personal tie,” Sentilles said. John Bradley, law student and symposium committee member, said having the lectures revolve around the European debt crisis worked out because of its timelessness. “Our finances and current problems are all tied to the issues in Europe,” Bradley said. “Many were excited to have academics discuss this problem.” According to the TILJ event schedule, professors led panels discussing the European debt crisis in relation to the financial markets, legal responses and European Union constitutional law. Sentilles said the talks addressed the issue of EU countries having to

rescue each other to solve economic problems, and how this raises many legal questions about the power of the EU. “The treaties and rules never envisioned a world where European Union countries and the European Central Bank would have to bail out other countries and banks,” Sentilles said. Sentilles said the European Union was eager to have academics discuss these issues and even chose to fund part of this year’s symposium. Within each panel, lectures such as “The Right to Leave the Eurozone,” “The European Debt Crisis and the End of Social Europe” and “Amending the National Constitutions to

Save the Euro. Is This the Right Strategy?” were led by visiting guests followed by participants taking the time to discuss the political and economic climate of Europe. Because discussion concerning the issues surrounding European Law can be endless, Sentilles said the event served as an opportunity for academics to share their ideas. “It was fascinating to watch this exchange. The participants were so passionate and intelligent, yet so candid about their own doubts,” Sentilles said. Bradley said visiting academics were impressed with the organization and content of the event. “When I was driving Professor Kersting of Dusseldorf, Germany to the airport, he commented about how impeccably coordinated the symposium had been,” Bradley said. “He felt the entire weekend was very well-organized and educational.” Sentilles said she believed most academics were able to learn about the complex problems of the European economy and walk away grateful for the input of other participants.

With the goal of promoting equal opportunity for UT’s faculty, mechanical engineering vice provost and professor Janet Ellzey has been chosen to oversee gender equity issues at the University. Taking over for Judith Langlois, Ellzey will now be in charge of all institutional issues related to faculty gender equity as the new chair of the Gender Council. Ellzey said her responsibilities will include working with department chairs and other leaders throughout the University to analyze compensation and to help develop strategies for providing a positive environment for the entire faculty. Ellzey said as a woman in mechanical engineering she has always been interested in gender equity and in providing mentorship to female students and faculty. “I was delighted when Provost [Steven] Leslie asked me to take on gender equity at the university level, and I look forward to working with him and other campus leaders on this important issue,” Ellzey said. Langlois has overseen gender equity issues since appointed in 2007, but she has stepped down to take on new duties as interim dean of the school of graduate studies. Ellzey will retain her responsibilities as vice provost for international programs at UT as well as her teaching load in the engineering department. According to the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost’s website, the Gender Council meets regularly to discuss and consult gender issues at UT. The committee is there to aid faculty with any personal and family issues they might have throughout their time serving UT, according to the Gender Council’s website. Ellzey said she believes the

addition of these new obligations will not cause any strain. “Since my appointment to that position [assistant dean for international engineering education] in 2009, I have been on a reduced teaching load in my department, and I have been able to balance my administrative, teaching and research activities,” Ellzey said. “I am optimistic that I will continue to be able to balance this larger portfolio of responsibilities.” Business sophomore Sarah Taqvi said she looks at Ellzey’s achievements with admiration. “She serves as an inspiration for any female pursuing a career in a male-dominated world,” Taqvi said. Taqvi said she is personally motivated to work harder to be successful in the business field because there is a natural competitiveness against the men in the field, and it is great to see someone like Ellzey maintain a high position at the University. According to her online biography, Ellzey has had a history of involvement in gender equity in her own field. Ellzey chaired the Women in Engineering Program Committee in the Cockrell School of Engineering from 2002 to 2007. She also currently serves as the faculty mentor for Women in Mechanical Engineering in the department of mechanical engineering.

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the quality of our products, I see them as being more of a lifestyle good,” Letton said. “There has been an increased American trend towards a healthier lifestyle, and that is reflected in our sales.” Mat h e m at i c s s o p h o m o re Brandon L aVoppui said he shops at Whole Foods because of the large variety. “ The y have e ver yt hing I could want, especially in terms of fruit, vegetables and meat,” L a Vo p p u i s a i d . “A l l t h e i r products are well-organized and appealing.” LaVoppui said he also enjoys the helpful and pleasant atmosphere, which puts Whole Foods a level above other supermarkets. “Customer ser vice is unmatchable,” LaVoppui said. “It’s not just a grocery store, but a place to hang out.” L e t t o n s a i d t h e c o mp a ny is preparing to expand into more markets as the economic recovery progresses. “The company is currently revamping their economic strategy, this time for post-recession growth. They plan to open a record number of new stores in smaller markets where surprising success has been observed,” Letton said. “There is a lot of room for expansion.”

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Volunteers of The Food is Free Project work together Saturday afternoon to build wicking bed gardens, which require minimal watering. The group hopes the project will promote self-sustainability and environmental consciousness in Austin neighborhoods.

Food is Free Project promotes simplified gardening By David Maly Daily Texan Staff

The Austin-based Food is Free Project hosted their third volunteer event Saturday with the planting of “wicking bed” gardens along Joe Sayers Avenue. The organization was originally founded by UT alumnus John Edwards in November. The group is working to spread wicking bed gardening, a type of gardening that requires reduced care, to as many communities as possible. The group is recording the steps taken to put these gardens along Joe Sayers Avenue, so they can use the street as a model for other communities wishing to spread gardening throughout their area. The goal of the project is to spread a sense of community through neigh-

borhood gardening, while promoting self-sustainability and environmental consciousness, Edwards said. The method of wicking bed gardening implemented by the organization is unique, as it only needs to be watered every two to four weeks. “This way virtually anyone can have a garden despite time constraints,” said event volunteer Angelique Watson. Edwards said he began the project by planting a wicking bed garden at his home on Joe Sayers Avenue and placing a dry-erase board asking for those interested in planting a garden to share their contact information. “I then took that contact information and used it to organize our first volunteer event, which took place Jan. 21,” he said.

The turnout was impressive, he said, with more than 30 people attending. In response to online media Edwards posted about the project, there has been interest from people in 12 different states and two other countries. Edwards said this led him to realize that a step-by-step guide was the best way to spread the idea of establishing community wicking bed gardening. The organization has been funded completely by donations from local salvage yards, gardening shops and private donors, Edwards said. Troy Smith, owner of local gardening shop Brite Ideas, said his belief in the project helped him in deciding to fund the organization. “Right off the bat the bringing together of communities is the most

important aspect of the initiative,” he said. Also, Smith said he particularly supported the project due to its practical design. “I’ve seen it a million times,” he said. “Someone down the road plants a garden, and soon everyone on the block has one. The project’s idea of neighborhood– by-neighborhood implementation seems like something that will really work.” Dustin Fedako, UT 2011 alumnus, said he sees rapid expansion in the project’s future. “The initiative is accomplishing so many things,” he said. “It’s providing healthy food to people, saving them money, bringing them together and making gardening easy. I have huge hopes for this.”

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Taylor Hoagland watches her homerun ball as it sails over the fence. The Longhorns’ bats came alive as they scored 61 runs over the weekend tournament, and ruled the Colorado State Rams.

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Despite a chilly Sunday afternoon in which snow flurries and sleet made appearances throughout the game, Texas capped off a very successful weekend tournament with an 8-0 run-ruled victor y against

the Colorado State Rams. The No. 18 Longhorns went 5-0 in the Texas Classic, their seasonopening tournament. The Texas offense was overpowering all weekend and scored 60 runs against none for the visitors in five games. Four of the five games were ended early by a run rule, which occurs when a team is up by at least

seven runs after five innings. In addition to Sunday afternoon’s victory against the Rams, the Longhorns defeated Cal State Fullerton, 23-0, on Thursday in five innings and defeated UTSA twice, both in five innings. Texas beat the Roadrunners, 150, on Friday and 8-0 Saturday.

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Horns beat Kansas State in third straight win The free-throw line was the L ong hor ns’ b est f r ie nd i n a game they desperately needed to win to keep their postseason aspirations alive. Texas made more free throws (35) than field goals (18) and engineered another second ha lf comeb ack to b e at Kansas State, 75-64, on Saturday

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afternoon at the Frank Er win Center. UT won for the third time in as many games. “It’s a great win for us,” said Texas head coach Rick Barnes. “We didn’t have the intensity we needed in the first half, but in the second half we played terrific.” The Longhorns (16-9) went to the charity stripe 28 times in the second half and came away with 22 points. The

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The Longhorns showed early signs of being a dominant team this weekend. Texas finished off its fivegame weekend series on Sunday afternoon with an 8-0 win against the Colorado State Rams. The Longhorns took all five games and out-scored their opponents 60-0 during the Texas Classic thanks to strong pitching and solid defense. Against Cal State Fullerton on Thursday night, junior starting pitcher Blaire Luna recorded her first win of the season. She finished with twelve strikeouts and one walk, and allowed only two hits. Luna also started Sunday’s championship game against the Rams where she recorded 10 strikeouts and only one hit against the 17 batters she faced. The Austin native has been a key asset so far for Texas and continues to be so this season. In her first three appearances, over a span of 13 innings, she has recorded 26 strikeouts, three walks and allowed only four hits. Longhorns head coach Connie Clark has been very pleased by her pitchers’ performances. “I think the pitchers are doing a good job of really going at hitters, so even when we had some deep counts we

Wildcats scored 24 points in the half and never made it to the line. Even Texas for ward A lexis Wang mene had more points from free throws (nine) than the entire Kansas State team (eight). UT finished 35 of 48 from the line and 18 of 41 from the field. A swarming defense in the second half also proved to be

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It’s not often an opposing player dominates a coach’s team and he can’t do anything but revel in awe of it. “You think about the game [Alexis] Wangmene had, and that’s awesome,” Kansas State head coach Frank Martin said after watching Texas’ big-man control the paint on both ends of the floor, and help beat his Wildcats. “I can’t stand losing, but when you see a senior do what he did during the end of his career to win a game, that’s what it’s all about.” Wangmene impressed the e nt i re Fr an k E r w i n C e n ter with his career performance Saturday. He notched a career-best 15 points and 13 rebounds, which marked his first ever double-double. Wangmene also hit a careerhigh nine free throws. His 34

minutes were the most he’s played in Big 12 contests and that’s partly due to the fact he also managed to stay out of foul trouble. He played strong against a physical team without being reckless. “ I r e a l l y d o n’ t c a r e h o w p h y s i c a l t h e y a r e ,” Wangmene said. “I think I’m the strongest.” His point total was a reward for all the dirty work he put into Saturday’s game. Wangmene was moving to the right positions on defense, and he cleared space under the basket after every attempted shot to ensure a Texas reb ound. B ecaus e he was able to avoid fouling in a game where the referees couldn’t stop blowing the whistle, Wangmene fought for offensive position in the paint dur ing Texas’ s e cond-ha lf

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Sam Stafford’s shoulder has proven to be quite problematic. T he s e n i or s out hp aw w as drafted by the New York Yankees in the second round of l a s t Ju n e’s M L B d r a f t , b u t could not come to an agreement with the Yankees, who were concerned about Stafford’s shoulder injury. Stafford, who was expected to be the Longhorns’ ace, will now miss the entire season after un-

dergoing shoulder surgery. After experiencing tightness in his shoulder, Stafford had an MRI and found out that he had not fully healed. He could have surgery as early as next week and has the option of redshirting and returning for the 2013 season. After freshman and sophomore seasons that saw Stafford m a ke on ly 1 1 app e ar an c e s , Stafford came on strong during his junior year. He made 17 starts, posted a 6-2 record and a 1.77 ERA while striking out 91, walking a team-high 42 in 81.1

innings and holding opposing hitters to a .189 batting average. The 6-foot-4, 190-pound left-hander was the only starting pitcher remaining from a rotation that carried Texas to its NCAA-record 34th College World Series appearance last season. Dick Howser Trophy winner Taylor Jungmann and Cole Green were the other two members of that vaunted group of starting pitchers that combined to go 27-9 with a 2.14 ERA.

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Blair Luna prepares a pitch against Colorado State Sunday in the Texas Classic. Luna is part of the Longhorn’s powerful pitching staff that didn’t give up a single run all weekend. The last time Texas went five games without giving up a run was in 2007.

LUNA continues from PAGE 9 weren’t issuing a lot of free passes,” Clark said. “We have a solid defense and obviously a very good battery, so you have to play off each other.” Luna also had some comments about their first championship win and great start to the season. “It is exciting, but it is more exciting for my teammates and our pitching staff as a whole,” Luna said. “As a team, we did really well and our hitters were just on all weekend.” Sophomore Rachel Fox, a Sugar Land native, was expected to do

big things coming into this season. In her first start she threw a complete game shutout, striking out six and was touched for only three hits against UTSA. Although she started a little shaky with her first three batters, Fox finished strong. “It’s still the first start for her of the season. She’s got high aspirations for herself, of course,” Clark said, who went out to the mound after the first three batters and talked to Fox. “I think she was actually ahead on everybody else except one hitter for the

rest of the game on the first pitch [after the talk on the mound]. She settled in and turned in a great performance.” The Longhorns said they are proud of the pitching staff and the defense they have. “Our pitching staff and defense are amazing,” sophomore Taylor Thom said. “We have one of the best pitching staffs in the country, and our group behind them is always alert and ready for the ball when it comes at us.” Texas has learned a good

strategy on the season so far — after all, it’s hard to lose if your opponent can’t score. The last time Texas went five games without giving up any runs was mid-season in 2007. All four of the Texas starting pitchers made appearances in the Texas Classic. The Longhorns played consistently throughout all five games and began their season with a strong foundation to build on. If Texas can continue to pitch effectively, it should be one of the top teams in the Big 12.

Wangmene s cored 15, Myck Kabongo contributed 13 and Sheldon McClellan added 11 off the bench. Barnes said the referees told the teams from the start that they would call a tight game. There were 49 personal fouls between both teams. “When the game started, the refs were calling everything and we realized that,” Brown said. “If you put the ball on the floor, you’re going to get a call no matter what. We had to adjust to it on defense and go back at them and try to get to the rim. We got to the line and did a good job there.” The Longhorns started the game hot from the field and made five of their first six shots. But Texas struggled to get good looks afterwards, and missed 17 of their last 19 attempts in the half. Kansas State (17-7) closed on a 22-8 run to take a 40-27 lead at the break. But UT came out with a

higher energy level to start the second half and used a 13-0 run to take a 44-43 lead. Texas cranked up its defense effort and got the Wildcats out of their comfort zone and slowly pulled away. “They came out in the second half and punched us in the mouth,” Martin said. “They punched us again and again and again and got us on the ropes and we never punched back.” So what was the Longhorns’ rallying cr y after they were down by as many as 15 points? “It’s do or die ... I’m playing, we didn’t panic,” Kabongo joked. “We know we have guys who can make plays on t his te am. In t he f irst ha lf, things didn’t go our way. We played through it.” Te x a s h a d s i x t u r n o v e r s agai nst 1 6 assist s , but t he y overcame those miscues with solid free throw shooting. The Wildcats committed 33 fouls against 16 for UT.

DEFENSE continues from PAGE 9 k e y f o r Te x a s . T h e L o n g h or ns h e l d t h e Wi l d c at s to 32.3 percent shooting (10 of 31) and kept Kansas State out of the paint and on the p e r i m e t e r. Te x a s forc e d K State to play one-on-one basketball and didn’t allow the Wildcats to find any sort of rhythm offensively. It was the type of defense that Kansas State head coach Frank Martin expected from the Longhorns. “ They defensively crawled u p i nt o u s a n d c o mp l e t e l y took us out of anything that

we tried to do,” Martin said. “Ever ything we did early in t he game just we nt out t he window. They did to us what we have done to a lot of people over the last five years. We played selfishly.” Texas improved to 6-6 in the Big 12, tying K-State for fifth in t he conference. UT li kely needs to win at least three of its remaining six games to earn a 14th consecutive bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Longhorns had four scorers in double-digits, l e d by J’C ov an Brow n’s 2 3 .

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The Longhorns were forced into seven innings only once, a 6-0 victory in their first game against the Rams on Saturday evening. The 23-0 v ic tor y against Cal State Fullerton was a single-game Texas record for runs scored. Senior Lexy Bennett and junior Taylor Hoagland b oth headlined the Texas offense. Bennett had two home runs and scored eight runs with 11 RBI on the weekend. Hoagland, who opened Sunday’s game with a solid home run to center field, connected for three home runs and eight RBI on four hits. In total, the Longhorns produced a staggering 62 hits in 27 innings. “I think as a team, ever yone is going up to bat with one goal — just getting their job done,” Bennett said. “Regardless of how many outs or how many people are on base, you want to get the runs in. If there is no one on, we’re trying to get on base to make something happen.” Despite the easy victories, the Texas coaching staff re-

mains cautious about the rest of the season. They understand that the true test comes against tougher conference opponents when Big 12 play beg ins against Texas Te ch in March. “We want to continue to play, battle and compete,” said Texas head coach Connie Clark. “Everyone is really committed and zeroed in ... We still need to commit to bunts and get those down and that’s going to be something we continue to work on going forward.” Texas also lived up to expectations in the circle and on defense. The Longhorn pitching staff, led by junior All-American Blaire Luna, produced 27 innings of shutout pitching while only allowing 10 hits in five games. Luna pitched two complete games with 22 strike outs. Junior Kim Bruins, sophomore Rachel Fox and freshman Gabby Smith each started over the weekend. The Longhorn defense had a nearly perfect weekend with only two errors. “We have a solid defense and obviously a very good battery,” Clark said.

INJURY continues from PAGE 9 With Stafford, Jungmann and Green gone, the Longhorns will have to revamp their rotation. Sophomore right-hander Nathan Thornhill and junior lefthander Hoby Milner are both candidates to replace Stafford as Texas’ No. 1 pitcher and Friday starter. Thornhill, a starting quarterback and standout starting pitcher in high school at Cedar Park, posted a 3-0 mark and 1.89 ERA last season while Milner was 7-4 with a 2.45 ERA in 2011. True freshman John Curtiss, a 6-foot-4, 200-pound righthander who was a USA Today second-team All-American selection as a senior at Southlake

Carroll last season, is expected to begin the year as a starting pitcher as well. Curtiss, a 30th-round pick by the Colorado Rockies coming out of high school, put up a 9-0 record and 0.96 ERA while striking out 101 a year ago. The news of Stafford being lost for the season comes less than a week after Texas announced that sophomore outfielder Cohl Walla suffered a season-ending injur y of his own as the Lake Travis product tore his left ACL in practice. After Stafford’s surgery, the Longhorns will be without both their leadoff hitter and best starting pitcher.

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Alexis Wangmene looks to dribble around Kansas State’s Adrian Diaz. Wangmene had one of the best games of his career Saturday.

LEX continues from PAGE 9 comeback, was fouled and sent to line, where he converted key free throws down the stretch. “He can change the way a game is played with the way he plays inside,” said Texas coach Rick Barnes. “He really went and got those rebounds. And I told him ‘you need to get in there and make your free throws,’ because he’s always been a good free throw shooter.” Perhaps what is most surprising of Wangmene’s breakthrough performance is the fact that he did it against a formidable, physical opponent. But Barnes said that Wangmene — Lex, as Barnes calls him, shines when the cards are stacked against him. “I was talking to him yesterday and I said, ‘what I don’t understand about you is, when

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we’ve really challenged you to get up against guys that can really play, you really take that challenge on,’” Barnes said. “No question, he played the best game he’s ever played.” His game against the Wildcats came in the form of his second productive effort in a row. He played particularly well defensively against the Aggies last week, highlighted by his gamesaving deflection. Wangmene certainly has the skill set to turn Saturday’s into a nightly performance, and it was what most Texas fans thought they’d see from the big-man earlier in his career. So while it remains unclear whether this is a trend or a tease, there is no doubt he is a catalyst for Texas and will be instrumental in helping pad Texas’ tournament resume.

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Desperate for a win to keep their tournament hopes alive, the Longhorns got a much needed boost from an unusual source. Sophomore forward Anne Marie Hartung, who had scored in double figures just seven times in her career heading into the game, had a career-high 17 points as Texas (14-10, 4-8 Big 12) bolstered its NCAA tournament resume with an impressive 6953 win over Oklahoma State (13-8, 5-7 Big 12) at the Frank Erwin Center on Saturday night. “It feels good to win,” Hartung said. “I think we want to continue this feeling. There is still pressure on us, but not as much now that we have won.” Hartung, who has seen an increase in her minutes with Cokie Reed and Ashley Gayle out of the starting lineup, was finally able to take advantage of the extra playing time and deliver a stellar performance. To go with career-highs in scoring and minutes (34), Hartung led her team with eight rebounds, eight field goals and a fieldgoal percentage of 67. “I still play the same role as I did coming off the bench, it’s just that now I’m in a starting role,” Hartung said. “I’ll just continue to do everything I have been. Yvonne [Anderson] and the guards did a good job of finding me. I can keep day,Ifmonth day,scoring 2008 like this, that’s

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Somehow the Longhorns managed to beat the Longhorns in rowing this weekend. The Texas rowing team took six of the top nine spots in the Fighting Nutria race on Lady Bird Lake Saturday morning against the UT club rowing team, Texas Crew. But two Texas Crew boats placed in first and third overall. The annual 8100-meter head-style race is a local rivalry between the rowing clubs from UT along with rowing clubs from around town. In a scoring system kept between Texas Rowing and Texas crew, Texas Rowing won 15-8.

The Texas Crew men’s eight boats “A” and “B” won first and third with times of 28:14 and 28:56, respectively. Austin Rowing Club’s Men’s eight boat took second at 28:36. Texas rowing claimed spots four through nine with the first varsity eight boat of Rachel Donnelly, Jacqueline Gorcyca, Laurel McCaig, Olivia Nail, Chelsea Burns, Katarina Susac, Tea Vrtlar, Taylor Parker and Felicia Izaguirre-Werner kicking it off at fourth in a time of 29:06. The second varsity eight boat for Texas Rowing wasn’t far behind finishing fifth and posting a time of 29:24.00. Texas Rowing returns to the water on Saturday, March 3 at the Heart of Texas Regatta on Lady Bird Lake.

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great, but if not, I’ll just find other ways to contribute.” Hartung’s strong performance wasn’t the only difference for Texas in Saturday’s victory. The Longhorns, who had struggled to take care of the ball during their four-game losing skid, forced 16 turnovers while coughing it up just eight times. “The past few games, we’ve been giving teams too many extra possessions,” said senior guard Anderson, who had 18 points on the night. “We focused on that tonight and we made sure not to force the ball. It was just a

matter of taking care of the ball and tion to make a late season push for the waiting until the opening was there.” NCAA tournament. With six games Texas was able to pull away early in remaining, though, the Longhorns the second half as the Longhorns hit have little margin for error. six of their first seven shots, includ“We have looked big picture just to ing a pair of 3-pointers from Chas- put it on the table,” said head coach sidy Fussell, who led all scorers with Gail Goestenkors. “After that we broke 20 points. it down game-by-game. There were a “We came out with a different in- lot of games we felt like we could win, tensity today,” Anderson said. “The if we played the kind of basketball we shots weren’t falling for us as much in are capable of playing. Tonight was the the first half, but the intensity level was first night we were determined that 1 there. We felt we had enough to make we were going to show how good we a run and we did that at the start of the could be. We are going to fight for evsecond half.” erything, and we feel like we’re in conSaturday’s win puts Texas in trol of our destiny.” CposiLASSIFIEDS

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It was a weekend to remember, but also a weekend to forget for the Longhorns. Despite great victories from many players, Texas emerged from this weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ITA National Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Team Indoor Championships with two losses. The opening day of the tournament saw the Longhorns play a competitive match against No. 6 Georgia. Junior Aeriel Ellis toppled the No. 2 ranked player in the country, 2010 singles champion Chelsey Gullickson, to give the Longhorns an early boost of confidence. Freshman Lina Padegimaite won her singles match as well, but it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough. The Longhorns fell, 4-2, to the Bulldogs. On the second day, the duos

of Padegimaite and Noel Scott, and Ellis and Cierra GaytanLeach easily took down their opponents in doubles competition. Although this gave the women two of the three doubles matches, the No. 11 Miami Hurricanes were too much to handle, sweeping all but one singles match en route to a 4-2 victory. With two losses on their record, the Longhorns found it in themselves to take down No. 15 Clemson, 4-3. Ellis and Gaytan-Leach handily won their doubles match while also posting a singles win each. Elizabeth Begley and Krista Damico also won their respective singles matches. The Longhorns will have a couple of weeks to reflect on this minor setback before they meet Northwestern on March 2 in Austin.

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Longhorns split up squads, Horns downed by Aggies show up strong in two meets in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;unbelievableâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; contest By Lexy Gonzalez Daily Texan Staff

Texas divided the team and conquered goals this weekend, competing in two separate meets at both the Don Kirby Invite in Albuquerque, N.M. and the SPIRE Invitational in Geneva, Ohio. Top performances began on Friday in New Mexico as thrower Jacob Thormaehlen won the shot put with a personal best mark of 66-05.25 to beat the record formerly held by Floridaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kemal Mesic. Hayden Baillio finished close behind with a third place toss and Will Spence threw his personal best, inching closer to the 60-foot mark. The Longhorns had two top 10 finishes in the triple jump. Mark Jackson finished second with a mark of 15.71 meters and Jarard Bruner placed eighth. The pole vault also proved to be a strong event for Texas as Maston Wal-

lace, Mark Thomas and Hayden Clark finished in the top six. In the running events, Marquise Goodwin clocked in a 6.71 in the finals and a seventh place finish, while the 4x400-meter relay team of Trevante Rhodes, Dereck Dreyer, Josh Brudnick and Jake Wohlford came in sixth with a time of 3:16.97. The men continued to produce top 10 finishes as the remaining team members competed at the SPIRE Invitational. Three Texas runners competed in the 5000-meter with Will Nation leading the pack with a third place time of 14:18.35. Sophomore Ryan Dohner placed sixth in the 3000-meter with a time of 8:00.24. After a weekend of solid performances from the Longhorns, Texas looks to be right on track in preparation for the Big 12 Indoor Track & Field Championships on Feb. 24-25 in College Station.

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defeated Jordan Szabo and Alexis Klegou, 8-6. In the deciding match, HessOlesen fought back to claim the second set after losing the first in a tiebreak, but was unable to hold off Klegou in the third, losing 6-7, 6-1, 4-6. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had opportunities in the doubles to win that point, and we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get it,â&#x20AC;? Center said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We lost a couple of first-set tiebreakers, but our guys kept fighting to turn the match around. Texas A&M hit some good shots and made some plays in the end. This was just a great college tennis match.â&#x20AC;? Texas returned to the courts on Sunday against Texas A&M Corpus Christi, cruising to a 6-1 victory in a dual that was moved indoors because of the weather. The Longhorns will return to action this weekend when they travel to Charlottesville to participate in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association National Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Team Indoor Championships.

The Longhorns took to the road this weekend and split their matches with a loss to in-state rival Texas A&M, and a decisive victory over Texas A&M Corpus Christi. On Friday, the Longhorns battled it out against No. 11 Texas A&M in Houston for the Texas Cup. The Aggies walked away with the victory, 4-3. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This was an unbelievable match,â&#x20AC;? said Texas head coach Michael Center. The Aggies got on the scoreboard first after claiming the doubles point. At the number one spot, Junior Ore and Jackson Withrow defeated Soren HessOlesen and Alex Hilliard, 9-7, while Colin Hoover and John Lewis squeezed by Chris Camillone and David Holiner, 8-6. The lone Texas victory came from the number three spot where Sudanwa Sitaram and Daniel Whitehead

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EATS continues from PAGE 16 ing finance behind. She had grown up around food, and was especially influenced by her grandmother’s home-cooked meals. “It was always food, it was always cooking,” she said. As a chef, she worked at a handful of farm-to-table restaurants in the United States and France and became interested in the source of the food she was preparing. She started thinking deeply about what it meant to be an omnivore and decided that if she were going to eat meat, she would know how to kill an animal with her own hands. Pellegrini now hunts, prepares her own meat, makes jerky from cuts of elk and guides her

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continues from PAGE 16 “The relationship you have with the person tattooing you is important,” Tholen said. “The process is intimidating, so you want to have someone who is personable working with you.” And Kolar is just that. While working on Tholen’s tattoo, Kolar shares snacks, stories and even her cell phone charger. Tholen was obviously in extreme pain, but Kolar’s amiable nature makes it easy for her

blog readers through the process of butchering a turkey and cooking deer heart. “It sounds grody, but it’s super delicious,” she said. “I feel like when I’m eating, I’ve paid the full karmic price of the meal,” Pellegrini said. Some might criticize Pellegrini’s approach to food as being idealistic. “It’s not every day that you can go and kill a deer for 100 pounds of sausage,” said Solomon Wang, nutrition senior and amateur hunter. Hunting is time-consuming and the seasons for doing so are short. While Wang loves hunting on occasion, he doesn’t think that the rest of the country is necessarily ready to add game animals to their culinary repertoire. “Some people always want beef, chicken or pork,” he said. “Those are not as easy to come by, at least if you want to kill them yourself.”

Besides these practical criticisms, others are turned off by what they perceive as a crude and unsophisticated process. Caroline Heldman, an associate professor at Occidental College said in an interview with Pellegrini on Fox’s “Follow the Money,” “Talking about eating squirrels ... no offense, but I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.” But Pellegrini doesn’t approach hunting in the same way the stereotypical American “good ol’ boy” does. For her, it’s a profoundly spiritual activity and an important part in bringing her food philosophy full circle. She believes in using the entire animal, rather than taking out only the most popular cuts. The cooking, to her, is just as important as the killing. “It’s the whole process that makes it so satisfying,” she said.

customers to relax. For complex tattoos like Tholen’s, which involve coloring and shading, Kolar has the customer come in for multiple sessions. “At this point, I can tell when someone is ready to go,” Kolar said. “So I find a good stopping point where the tattoo doesn’t look strange and then have them come in later after the swelling has gone down a bit.” Kolar tells her clients to keep their tattoo clean by washing their hands before touching it. The tattoo will begin to dry out, which is normal, but she warns those with fresh tattoos not to pick at it or submerge it in water until it is no longer scabbed.

Possibly one of the most admirable traits about Kolar is her willingness to turn customers down if she doesn’t feel comfortable doing a tattoo, whether it is because of the content or the placement. “The tattoos I create represent me,” Kolar said. “So I’d rather not have something that looks bad or that I didn’t feel comfortable doing representing me.” Kolar puts the finishing touches on Tholen’s tattoo of her grandmother. The tattoo looks beautiful, and Tholen remarks that her grandmother will be honored when she sees it. A smile grows on Kolar’s face. To her, this will never get old.

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continues from PAGE 16 The idea of a connectome, or map of the brain, forms the backbone of the book. That’s not all it’s about, but it does provide structure for Seung to address some of the questions that many readers will have about the brain and explain some interesting experiments, including one that suggests that individual neurons may be responsible for recognizing specific faces (the “Jennifer Aniston neuron,” for instance). Seung’s book also addresses questions of nature and nurture by explaining that things aren’t so simple that they can be so easily categorized. Brains are far too complicated to be explicitly described in our genes, but that doesn’t mean our genes can’t build them. As a result, identical twins have unidentical brains, since their experiences have been different. At the same time, they’re more similar than fraternal twins as shown through personality and IQ tests. In other words, both nature and nurture seem to have an effect on the brain.

PHYSICS continues from PAGE 16 scale, if somebody places a block on a table and blinks, it will be in the same place when they opens their eyes again. On the quantum scale, however, if a person does the same experiment, the electron could be anywhere else in the universe after the blink. Still, there are very specific rules for the possibilities of where else the electron could be that usually involve quite a bit of math. Cox and Forshaw get around this by trading in abstract mathematical concepts and using images instead. Specifically, the authors use clock faces to represent complex numbers (“real” numbers added to “imaginary” ones). While not always easy to follow, this works better than requiring the reader to have a background in complex analysis. Most readers will need to make their way through the book somewhat slowly, carefully rereading paragraphs to ensure understanding, but quantum mechanics is a

“Connectome” is a book about a topic that we’re only slowly beginning to understand The final portion of the book may be the most exciting for many readers, though it’s also the most speculative. In it, Seung discusses immortality and two different ways of achieving it, neither of which seem particularly appealing. The first involves cryonics, or freezing the body of a near-death patient in the hopes that future generations will be able to unfreeze and cure him. There are a lot of “if ’s” in the idea, but since we’re playing with your life and the risks are negligible, it’s worth a shot. If you lose, you die, but if you don’t play, you also die. The second involves transferring your brain to a computer, where a virtual you would live forever, but if it’s a true and exact copy of your brain, is it really virtual? Seung

BOOK REVIEW Book Title: The Quantum Universe (And Why Anything That Can Happen, Does) Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw Genre: Science For those who like: The Feynman Lectures, The Elegant Universe Pages: 256

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As science progresses further and further along, it’s remarkable how little we still understand about the big questions of consciousness, which are simple enough to ask, but downright confounding to answer. If it’s any consolation, we are pretty sure that we’re looking in the right place — the brain. Although the more we study the brain, the more it seems like it’s among the most complicated things in the known universe, full of an unimaginably high number of connections. Sebastian Seung, an MIT professor of computational neuroscience, believes that the secret

to understanding how the brain works lies in finding all of those connections and mapping them, and he explores this idea in “Connectome,” his fascinating new book. It seems simple enough that we should understand how the brain works once we figure out all of those connections interact, but that’s even less elegant than trying to understand the way weather works by keeping track of all of the particles in the atmosphere. Still, for confounding questions like how we learn, perhaps a brute force method may not be such a bad idea.

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Tattooist connects with customers By Jessica Lee Daily Texan Staff

The sound of ceaseless buzzing is in the air as Rachel Kolar begins to work on a piece of art. Her paintbrush is a needle, her medium is ink and her canvas is the human body. Kolar has been working at True Blue Tattoo for 10 years. In high school, she knew she wanted to be a tattoo artist. After attending art school in Philadelphia, she moved to Austin and that dream became a reality. Kolar learned the craft by watching others and practicing on her friends. “When I first moved to Austin, I did a lot of terrible tattoos on people I’m still friends with,” Kolar said. But Kolar has certainly improved since those days. Nine years after getting her first tattoo done, UT alumna Tamara Guillory decided she was ready to go ahead and get a second tattoo. She was terrified. The combination of pain and nerves while getting her first tattoo, a small star on her wrist, had made her faint. So Guillory asked her friends for tattoo artist suggestions. Rachel Kolar’s name kept popping up. “She’s like a legend here in Aus-

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tin,” Guillory said. “So I knew I had to check her out.” The appreciation that Kolar has for her customers is blatant. She said that she loves all her customers and feels as if she forms some sort of bond with each of them. Her artwork now floats all over the city. Kolar has tattooed hundreds of people in the past 10 years, and she’s certainly seen it all. “There are definitely tattoo trends,” Kolar said. “A while ago it was tribal arm band tattoos. Now it’s a lot of trees, dandelions blowing away and text.” The tattoo process starts with a concept. A customer comes in with a photograph, a drawing or simply an idea of what they want their tattoo to be. It is Kolar’s job to make a sketch of that idea that not only looks good as a tattoo but also fit the

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Georgia Pellegrini, a recent Austin transplant, has beautiful blonde hair, perfect skin, high cheekbones and bright blue eyes. She cooks, cans her own vegetables, gives instructions for making rustic homemade gifts and shares recipes from her grandmother’s kitchen. But she is more than a frontier-style homemaker. In addition to her self-described “girlygirl” activities, she also hunts. She kills squirrels, elk, wild turkey, deer and wild boar and then butchers and cooks them herself. Her latest book, “Girl Hunter: Revolutionizing the Way We Eat

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One Hunt at a Time,” includes recipes for squirrel Brunswick stew, beer-battered fried dove breast, braised javelina haunch and curried pigeon. After graduating from Wellesley College, Pellegrini began her career in the world of finance at the Wall Street investment bank Lehman Brothers. She wore tight business suits and stilettos, attended rooftop parties and lived the fastpaced life of a New Yorker. A year into her career, she realized that her heart wasn’t in the work. Her grandfather’s words lingered in her head. He told her, “Do what makes you happy and the money will follow.” With that in mind, Pellegrini took a leap of faith and enrolled in the French Culinary Institute, leav-

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Courtesy of Pellegrini Pictures Georgia Pellegrini hunts for her food in an approach that she calls “Field to Stream to Table.”

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customer’s taste. “I try to get as much information from the customer ahead of time by asking them what artists and images they like,” Kolar said. “Designing a tattoo is a lot like collage because I take a bunch of images and put them all together.” Once she has completed the sketch, Kolar runs the sketch through a thermofax machine, which allows Kolar to transfer the sketch from the paper to the customer’s body, much like a temporary tattoo. She then traces over the

sketch with a needle that uses an electromagnetic current to bounce the needle up and down as it quickly injects ink into the skin. When Amanda Tholen decided to get the image of her grandmother tattooed onto her upper arm, she didn’t think twice about asking Kolar to do it. She had previously had a tattoo done by Kolar, and after getting to know her during the hourslong process, she now considers her a friend.

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The last word a physicist wants to hear at a cocktail party is “quantum.” The science of quantum mechanics has been so badly butchered and misrepresented by well-meaning writers, that others have taken the oversimplifications and run with them. As a result, New Age mystics and alternative medicine proponents have used their misunderstandings of quantum mechanics (which they, more often than not, refer to as “quantum physics”) to add credence to their pseudoscientific ideas and products. “The Quantum Universe,” by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw, both particle physicists at the University of Manchester, attempts to clear up some of the misconceptions by starting at the basics of quantum mechanics, covering the same material that many physics students

will see in their introductory classes. Unfortunately, this means that they don’t delve into some of the more elaborate and hotter topics, such as string theory. However, what they lack in addressing newer ideas, they more than make up by writing what very well may be the definitive introduction to quantum mechanics. “The Quantum Universe” is written for the layman, who will likely enjoy it, but it would also be a superb supplement for physics students struggling through early quantum mechanics classes. The fundamental difficulty of quantum mechanics arises from the discovery that things on a very small scale (the size of an electron, for instance) don’t behave the same way as things do in our normal macroscopic world. On the macroscopic

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Houston’s death does not overshadow ‘The Voice’ By Chris Nguyen Daily Texan Staff

That voice — The Voice. No adjective except the definite “the” could do Whitney Houston’s vocals justice. Whether she was exclaiming she wanted to dance with somebody or longingly proclaiming she will always love you, Houston’s three-octave vocals could launch a song into the stratosphere. Despite over two decades in the business, her death at the age of 48 represents talent lost and potential squandered. Houston began in her church’s gospel choir before becoming a backup vocalist. Beginning what would become a life-long mentorship, record mogul Clive Davis discovered her in a New York nightclub and catapulted her to pop stardom by supervising her self-titled debut album and follow-up, Whitney. She showed an uncanny knack to meld her vocals across pop melodies with an edge here and there of her gospel past on songs like “I Wanna Dance (With Somebody)” and “The Greatest Love of All.” However, it wasn’t until the ‘90s that Houston went from pop singer to full-out diva in all the best ways. Her soaring rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Superbowl XXV became the definitive version of the song. In 1992, she made her first acting foray in “The Bodyguard,” whose soundtrack went on to become the best selling of all time. And that scene, where Kevin Costner searches to save Houston from the crowd, was merely a backdrop for Houston’s legendary hit, “I Will Always Love You,” which oddly enough was a

In this May 10, 1986, file photo, American singer Whitney Houston belts out a song during her segment of a benefit concert at Boston Garden. Houston died Saturday. She was 48.

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Dolly Parton cover. The song exemplified Houston’s amazing skill, taking what was once a simple, plaintive country song and making it a defiant song of unbridled love — that drum hit in the last third of the song a mere warning shot before Houston launched her rockets of vocals: “And I-I-I-I will always love y-o-o-o-u!” Her voice was just so good, so full-bodied, so powerful. She continued to act for most of the decade before returning to pop with My Love is Your Love. Ironically enough, it was during this time when she reached the height of her fame, her personal life began its slow deterioration. In 1992, Houston married singer Bobby Brown in what would become a tumultuous relationship filled with domestic abuse allegations and drug use. In a 2009 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Hous-

ton said that she began using marijuana and cocaine frequently. Her career stalled heading into the 2000’s and became a jumbled list of fumbles: her frightening weight loss during a Michael Jackson tribute, National Enquirer photos of her bathroom loaded with drugs, a ridiculed interview with Diane Sawyer in which she proclaimed, “Crack is whack” and finally, her infamous appearances on the reality show “Being Bobby Brown.” By the end of the decade, when Houston had tarnished any remnants of her formerly squeakyclean image, she began laying the stage for a comeback with Davis. She had a tell-all interview with Winfrey and released I Look to You, her first album in seven years and an attempt to return to her soaring ballads that had inspired artists from Mariah Carey to Christina Aguilera. However,

Her voice was just so good, so full-bodied, so powerful.

the comeback faltered as her live performances on tour and television appearances revealed shaky, scratched vocals, a far cry from the dominating vocals of years past. And so that supposed comeback of the Whitney who could command a room with merely a melodic whisper never appeared, and now will never have a chance to. Although Houston’s voice may be gone, The Voice will continue to live on.