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ESB disqualifies Desai campaign Alliance drops appeal after emails demonstrate possible fraud attempt By Jody Serrano Daily Texan Staff
Student Government presidential candidate Yaman Desai and running mate Whitney Langston left the race Monday after the campaign’s ethics came into question by the Election Supervisory Board. The board disqualified Desai’s campaign Monday afternoon for vi-
olating the election code and committing fraud by misrepresenting itself to the web designer for opponent Madison Gardner’s campaign in an attempt to obtain incriminating information about the Gardner campaign’s financial records. Desai’s campaign immediately filed an appeal of the board’s decision to the SG appellate court, which heard their case Monday night. Emails obtained by The Daily Texan demonstrate that Desai asked one of his campaign agents to lie in order to get the information. After the Texan described the
content of the emails to the appellate court seeking clarification, Desai withdrew his appeal. In a Feb. 15 email from Desai, he tells international relations and global studies senior Ainee Athar to ask James Skidmore, a Gardner campaign web designer, for any records that could prove Gardner had violated the rules by receiving professional services without reporting the cost in his financial disclosures. Desai told Athar he needed proof to incriminate Gardner later on that day and to lie about her identity to get Skidmore to release
information if necessary. “You should be able to call them and just ask for the info,” Desai said in the email. “If that doesn’t work, we might be able to ask the ESB to look into at and force Madison to produce some record. Try calling and saying that you’re with Madison’s team/a friend and he asked you to call because he needs a copy of the invoice and you need it sent to you so you can print it. It’s a bit of a long shot, but it’s worth a try.” Under the original complaint to
and debate.” After Siddiqui spoke, four of the executive alliance pairs took the stage to answer questions concerning how they would influence tuition increases, budget cuts and their stance on the proposed smoking ban. John Lawler and Terrence Maas, the first pair to address the crowd, said they differ from other candidates by running on specific reforms rather than repackaging vague campaign jargon. “What we want to avoid as much as possible is just simply relying on the buzzwords,” Lawler said.
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Student government president and vice president candidates attend the debate moderated by The Daily Texan Editorial Board in the SAC Auditorium Monday night. Candidates were given the opportunity to answer questions posed by Editor-in-Cheif Vivian Aldous and rebut comments made by the opposing candiates.
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SG debate introduces candidates By Samuel Liebl Daily Texan Staff
Candidates for the upcoming campus-wide general elections introduced themselves and their campaign platforms during a forum moderated by The Daily Texan Editorial Board. The Office of the Dean of Students. During the first hour of the event, contenders for Student Government University-wide representative positions and the two candidates for Daily Texan editor-in-chief each had two minutes to pitch their platforms. The second hour consisted of a debate between executive alliance candidates.
Some campaign promises were nearly universal among the candidates vying for SG University-wide representative positions, including commitments to promote safety, improve the UT shuttle system and increase student involvement in SG. Manuel Ramirez is running on a single issue — the DREAM Act, a bill that would qualify undocumented students for citizenship. Candidates for Daily Texan editor Susannah Jacob and Shabab Siddiqui each used a distinctive approach to pitch their candidacies. Jacob briefly described her background in journalism and offered her
vision for how the Daily Texan can have a greater influence on and off campus. “The Daily Texan is strongest when people from outside of the University have felt that if they did not take The Daily Texan’s opinion into consideration, then they were going to have the wrath of UT students on the main mall,” Jacob said. Siddiqui addressed the audience in verse. Reading a poem he claimed to have written just minutes before, he said “You may ask why I stand here and simply question, no closer to an answer, not even a suggestion. But the job of the Texan is not to serve solutions on a plate, but rather to host your discussion
Political heroine’s school discipline debate revived By Sylvia Butanda Daily Texan Staff
Not only a pioneer in Texas’ political and civil rights arenas, Houston native Barbara Jordan was also a faculty member at UT where she is remembered each year on her birthday. Jordan will be celebrated during her birthday week with student-led events from Feb. 21 to Feb. 24. The Barbara Jordan Freedom Foundation began Jordan’s birthday week by commemorating her ideals as an educator in a symposium on the issue of school discipline Monday at the Thompson Conference Center. Law and education officials, as well as policy makers and concerned citizens,
discussed proper ways of enforcing discipline at the forum. Jordan, the first African-American elected senator in Texas and civil rights movement leader, held a 17-year career as a professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs in the last years of her life. Wil Flowers, former judge and current chair of the Barbara Jordan Freedom Association, said the Foundation was established to perpetuate issues that were extremely meaningful to Jordan such as education, children, juvenile justice and racial equity. “The most memorable aspect of Barbara was her voice,” Flowers said.” We have chosen to have our inaugural project focus on the problems relating to school dis-
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The University administration has named a new point person to deal with the fallout from the resignation of former Texas Student Media Director Gary Borders. Kevin Hegarty, UT’s vice president and chief financial officer, said Monday he will replace Juan Gonzalez, outgoing vice president of student affairs, in managing the controversy surrounding the Feb. 8 resignation of Borders, which Borders said was forced by the vice president’s office. In an email to The Daily Texan, University spokesman Gary Susswein said the change in authority is the result of Gonzalez’s plans to leave the administration and return to teaching. “I have recently come into this position and am not familiar with the specifics yet, but I will within the next day or two,” Hegarty said. “I hope to bring knowledge and understanding to this issue.” Lindsey Powers, president of TSM Board of Trustees, which jointly oversees TSM with the Office of Student Affairs, said Monday she had not been notified about the shift in responsibilities in advance and is not sure how the change will impact the situation. “I’m still not sure who played exactly what role in the [Gary Borders] resignation situation,” Powers said. TSM is comprised of The Daily Texan; TSTV, Texas Student Television; KVRX 91.7 FM, the student radio station; The Texas Travesty, a humor publication; and the Cactus Yearbook. A TSM board meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Feb. 27 to discuss the actions that resulted in the resignation of Borders. Hegarty said he will attend in place of Gonzalez, and Borders said he will be present, as well. “I have been invited to the TSM board meeting and plan to attend,” Borders said Monday. “In courtesy to the board, I will not speak about this issue anymore until I discuss it with them.” Gonzalez’s office declined to comment about the issue on Monday. The upcoming board meeting agenda includes discussions to investigate
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Texas State Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace B. Jefferson delivered a key note address at the Thompson Conference Center Monday afternoon. The symposium was held in honor of Barbara Jordan Freedom Week.
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cipline. She would have lent her voice to call for change.” Wallace Jefferson, Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, was the keynote speaker at the sympo-
sium and said Jordan was an exJefferson said the panels were traordinary leader and generous held to shed light on the ismentor. He said the purpose of sues in the school discipline systhe symposium was to carry out tem that is driving students away her mission. JORDAN continues on PAGE 2
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JORDAN continues from PAGE 1 from school and how Jordan would have been troubled by the current state of the juvenile justice system. “Compassionate and driven, she worked to end injustice and wanted to ensure that all children would receive the type of education that makes tomorrow’s society better than today,” Jefferson said. Michele Deitch, professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, moderated the first panel of the symposium, which explained the current state of the middle and high school disciplinary systems. The first panel discussed research collected by justice and education officials which found a trend of a high number of ticket fines, suspensions and expulsions for discretionary violations dealing with the school’s
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Former Student Government Presidental candidate Yaman Desai stands outside the room where the appellate court hearing was held Monday night. Desai dropped an appeal of his disqualification after evidence surfaced that Desai had asked Ainee Athar via email to lie in order to obtain information about the Gardner campaign.
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the board, Gardner campaign manager Alex Jones stated that Athar identified herself to Skidmore as an “election supervisory representative.” During the hearing, and before the emails were obtained, Desai and Langston said Athar presented herself as an agent for their campaign without their consent. Langston and Desai said they had never met Athar before Sunday, so they should not be held responsible for things she did before she was an agent of the campaign. In Athar’s email reply to Desai
on Feb. 15, she said she would not lie to the web designer because it would get Desai in trouble. Athar said she was told by Desai not to come to the hearing on Monday. She said she was shocked when she heard Desai and Langston lied about her involvement in the campaign and attempted to pin the blame on her. She said she had no intention of identifying herself as part of the supervisory board but instead thought “election supervisory representative” was her title for Desai’s team. “If I had been told to go to the hearing I would have been willing to go [there] and say that this was something that I did,” Athar said. “Not that I willfully lied but that I just made a mistake with the wording, and I would have
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stepped down if [Desai] asked.” Jones said he brought up the misrepresentation claim because Athar had filed complaints against Gardner. When Jones was made aware of the emails from Desai to Athar, he said he did not know how to react. “The evidence they supplied [and how they got it] is what the Board classifies as fraud,” Jones said. “It’s unsettling someone would be allowed to get their name tainted to win a Student Government election because that could affect [Athar’s] career in the future.” Gardner said his campaign has been very careful to tell their approximately 120 team members what they can and cannot do. He said the change to the Election Code and the section that reads candidates will be disqualified if they
exceed 20 percent of their spending limit in fines drove them to be extremely careful. “Our hearts and prayers go out to Yaman and their campaign team,” Gardner said. “It just goes to show the impact of what negative actions could do.” The Election Supervisory Board ruled Gardner was in violation of the Election Code for renting wood from the Fiji House for $1 per week, a rate much lower than the market value. The Election Code states contributions and expenditures or in kind efforts must be listed and valued at their fair price, as determined by the Election Board. Gardner was issued a ten percent violation fine against his campaign. The Board did not deem Gardner’s website to be in
DEBATE continues from PAGE 1 “Things like ‘transparency,’ ‘safety’ and ‘affordability.’” Each executive team also claimed to have specific plans and offered unique proposals for how they would carry out their positions. Candidates Thor Lund and William Brown said UT should have a 24-hour library system. Madison Gardner and Antonio Guevara said they would have regularly have breakfast with other campus leaders. Lawler and Maas said they would hold weekly “office hours” at the main mall and would raise revenue for the University by working with the University to start selling beer at football games. The subject of state funding was discussed by the candidates and each team put forth strategies for interacting with Texas lawmakers in the case of election.
“We will be at the Capitol every day from January to May,” Gardner said. Guevara, his running mate, said, “I have lobbied to the secretary of state and got 6 million dollars pledged to my scholarship fund.” Lawler reiterated the importance of a student presence at the legislature. “We will have to, from the moment we get elected, start to lobby the Texas legislature,” Lawler said. Lund said he would use the power of numbers and mobilize the student body to pressure lawmakers. “It’s one thing for me to go talk to the legislature, but it’s another thing to get the whole student body behind this,” he said. After the debate, Lund said he thinks the debate did not really change the campaign. “It doesn’t change the campaign
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that much because all these people up here are talking about all these different things,” he said. “What we really need to do is get out and talk to students.” Lawler said he thinks the debate did impact the race because it revealed more about the candidates. “I think [the debate] showed who is and who isn’t knowledgeable of the issues, who is and who’s not passionate about fighting for the students, and who has proven results in their background,” he said. Presidential candidate Yaman Desai and running mate Whitney Langston participated in the debate before rescinding their appeal of a disqualification ruling from the Election Supervisory Board and effectively removing themselves from the race.
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NEWS BRIEFLY Santorum uses Bible to attack Obama’s governance, character STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — Philosophical differences between the top two Republican presidential candidates are becoming starker. Rick Santorum is driving harder on religious and social issues while Mitt Romney rarely discusses them. Santorum in recent days has questioned the usefulness of public schools and said President Barack Obama’s theology is not “based on the Bible.� Campaigning in Ohio on Monday, he likened Obama to politicians who spread fear about certain technologies “so they can control your lives.�
Russian scientists uncover plant still budding after 30,000 years
It was an Ice Age squirrel’s treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 30,000 years. From the fruit tissues, a team of Russian scientists managed to resurrect an entire plant in a pioneering experiment that paves the way for the revival of other species. The Silene stenophylla is the oldest plant ever to be regenerated, the researchers said, and it is fertile, producing white flowers and viable seeds. The experiment proves that permafrost serves as a natural depository for ancient life forms, said the Russian researchers, who published their findings in Tuesday’s issue of “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences� of the United States. “We consider it essential to continue permafrost studies in search of an ancient genetic pool, that of pre-existing life, which hypothetically has long since vanished from the earth’s surface,� the scientists said in the article.
Putin promises military buildup over fear of perceived weakness
MOSCOW — Russia needs to modernize its military arsenals to deter others from grabbing its resources, Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in an article published Monday. Putin, who is running to reclaim presidency in March 4 election, didn’t name any specific nation eyeing Russian mineral riches, but in the past he had repeatedly accused the United States of trying to weaken Russia in order to sideline a rival. “We mustn’t tempt anyone with our weakness,� Putin wrote in the daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Putin said the government plans spending about $770 billion dollars over the next decade to purchase more than 400 intercontinental ballistic missiles, more than 600 combat aircraft, dozens of submarines and other navy vessels and thousands of armored vehicles. “Amid global economic upheavals and other shocks there always is a temptation to solve one’s problems by using force to apply pressure,� Putin wrote, pointing at arguments that resources of global significance shouldn’t be subject to national sovereignty and should be shared. − compiled from Associated Press reports
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BEIRUT — Syrian tanks and troops massed Monday outside the resistance stronghold of Homs for a possible ground assault that one activist warned could unleash a new round of fierce and bloody urban combat even as the Red Cross tried to broker a cease-fire to allow emergency aid in. A flood of military reinforcements has been a prelude to previous offensives by President Bashar Assad’s regime, which has tried to use its overwhelming firepower to crush an opposition that has been bolstered by defecting soldiers and hardened by 11 months of street battles. “The human loss is going to be huge if they retake Baba Amr,� said Rami Abdul-Rahman, who heads the Britain-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The central city of Homs — and in particular the opposition district known as Baba Amr — has become a critical ground for both sides. The opposition has lionized it as “Syria’s Misrata� after the Libyan city where rebels fought off a brutal government siege. Assad’s regime wants desperately to erase the embarrassing defiance in Syria’s third-largest city after weeks of shelling, including a barrage of mortars that killed up to 200 people earlier this month. At least nine people were killed in shelling Monday, activists said. Syria-based activist Mustafa Osso told The Associated Press that Assad’s military should face strong resistance as residents plan to fight until “the last person.� He added that Homs
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is facing “savage shelling that does not differentiate between military or civilians targets.� The Baba Amr neighborhood on Homs’ southwest edge has become the centerpiece of the city’s opposition. Hundreds of army defectors are thought to be taking shelter, clashing
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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea conducted live-fire military drills near its disputed sea boundary with North Korea on Monday despite Pyongyang’s threat to respond with a “merciless� attack. North Korea did not carry out the threat as it focuses on internal stability two months after the death of longtime leader Kim Jong Il and prepares for nuclear disarmament talks with the United States later this week. But with American forces scheduled to conduct additional military exercises with ally South Korea over the next few months, tensions are expected to remain high in the region.
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Washington and North Korea’s neighbors are closely watching how new leader Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong Il’s son, navigates strained ties with rival South Korea, the planned U.S.-South Korean military drills and a standoff over nuclear weapons programs. South Korea’s drills took place Monday in an area of the Yellow Sea that was the target of a North Korean artillery attack in 2010 that killed four South Koreans and raised fears of a wider conflict. North Korea didn’t threaten similar South Korean firing drills in the area in January, but called the latest exercise a “premeditated military provocation� and warned it would retaliate for what it considered an attack on its territory.
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The punitive approach to improving graduation rates report offers a disquieting lack of insight into why students do not graduate on time and prescribes negative reinforcement for those who deviate from the path. It depicts those who take longer than four years to graduate as students who have “become too attached to the University” or who have “become too afraid to enter the job market.” This bizarre characterization of the fifth-year student as a happy-go-lucky deadbeat is emphasized in the recommendation to enforce the so-called “slacker” rule that would impose out-of-state tuition on students who stay at UT beyond four years. That an official report would even characterize students who don’t fit the fouryear model as “slackers” demonstrates an appalling lack of consideration for the myriad reasons students need extra time before graduating. Internships, double majors, study abroad and, increasingly,
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an inability to register for the sheer volume of required core classes are all legitimate reasons of hard-working students to postpone graduation. And as tuition steadily rises, some students will be forced to take part-time jobs and decrease their
University has an obligation to ensure its students graduate on time. Likewise, the University has the responsibility of ensuring its own policies don’t inadvertently hold students behind. However, many students stay extra semesters of their own volition, and the punishment structures will restrict their ambition. This raises questions as to how these punitive measures could even help students. In his email, Powers gave the explanation: rankings. He said that if UT “want[s] to become the best public university in America, [it] must target” four-year graduation rates. Graduation rates are one of the “widely accepted indicators of excellence” that controls college rankings, including the highly influential US News & World Report list. Rising in the rankings with only minimal costs would please more than just Powers and administrators. The UT System Board of Regents has demanded
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UT students received an email from President William Powers Jr. on Wednesday afternoon announcing the culminating report of the Undergraduate Graduation Task Force. The report, authored by Liberal Arts Dean Randy Diehl, outlines dozens of recommendations aimed at reaching a 70 percent four-year graduation rate by 2016. Many of the task force’s recommendations are commendable and would undoubtedly create positive changes in students’ lives. Online advising, improvements to the interactive degree audit system and identification of “bottleneck” courses that impede registration are among various policy alterations that would drastically ameliorate common student frustrations. In particular, enhancing the first-year experience with improvements to advising and orientation would help create an atmosphere of freshman success. But despite its positive recommendations, the report dwells negatively on students who, for whatever reason, take longer than four years to graduate. The
... The report dwells negatively on students who ... take longer than four years to graduate. course load to compensate. Imposing additional costs on students who need more than the traditional four years seems counterproductive. Ultimately, the punishment structures for students who do not graduate in four years comprise almost half the pages of the actual report, overshadowing its numerous positive recommendations. The
greater emphasis on efficiency, putting pressure on administrators to hustle as many graduates across the stage as possible for as little money as possible, creating a virtual assembly line of hapless, helpless students. And, thus, what is administrators’ first priority will become the students’ as well; get your degree in four years or pay the consequences. According to the report, “students are … not made aware of the importance of graduating in four years.” But what exactly is that importance to students? Is it to help the student make career-based, beneficial decisions for himself or herself? Or is it to pad the statistics of bureaucratic administrators, lost in dreams of the University as a degree factory? Though not all the recommendations will be enacted, the rhetoric in the report is cause for concern. Unfortunately, in creating its recommendations, Diehl and the Undergraduate Task Force lost sight of the very group it was tasked with helping — the students. — The Daily Texan Editorial Board
Point-counterpoint: Campus-wide tobacco ban Editor’s note: On Feb. 9, Pat Clubb, vice president for University operations, and Juan Sanchez, vice president for research, sent a University-wide email alerting the campus community that the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas will no longer fund research at institutions that do not have a tobacco-free campus policy. University administrators are expected to reach a decision on whether to impose a campus-wide tobacco ban by March 1.
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UT recently sent out a mass email telling us all that we will be converting to a tobacco-free campus in the next couple of months. The reasoning? Money, of course. In order to qualify for more than $80 million in new research grants — and to maintain more than $30 million in grants we already have — from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, the University must become smoke-free. I feel like I should be jumping on an anti-administration, anti- “the man telling me what to do with my own body” kind of rant. But I can’t. The first thing I thought about when I heard about the ban was an experience I had freshman year. I had a one-hour break in my schedule, so I used to go to the Honors Quad, pull out my book and lay in the sunshine and read. Birds would chirp, squirrels would frolic and boys would play frisbee; it was a quintessentially collegiate scene. But my tradition was prematurely ended with the arrival of a man and his cigar. He would light up, and the breeze changed from a welcome coolant to a harbinger of repulsiveness. Even 20 feet away, I could still smell it. My study spot was ruined. So while my freshman-year self is rejoicing at imminent punishment for the cigar smoker and all his foul-breathed brethren, I can’t help but wonder: Is it fair? Just because I hate the smell of cigarette smoke, is it fair for the University to make it so no one can smoke? As a self-professed “crazy liberal,” don’t I believe that people should have the freedom to choose what they do with their own body (as long as it doesn’t harm others)? Sure, there’s the issue of secondhand smoke, but if it’s outside, we can just do what I did freshmen year when confronted with cigarette smoke: walk away. And how can I judge faculty and staff that work hard all day at their jobs? Shouldn’t they be able to enjoy a cigarette during their break without having to walk several blocks to get off campus? But faculty members that smoke are adults who are used to going to restaurants, visiting libraries and using public means transportation that are smoke-free. Plus, millions of other adults work in tobacco-free environments across the country. The biggest worry I have is whether letting UT take away this choice from us will be the first step toward metaphorically Patriot Act-ing away other freedoms as well. What if UT decided to stop selling sodas and shut down Wendy’s and Taco Bell because the food is too unhealthy? When it’s Frosties instead of cigarettes on the line, all of a sudden, I’m a lot more upset about
losing a freedom. But here’s the thing: The freedom to smoke cigarettes is essentially the freedom to participate in an activity that slowly, painfully and most assuredly kills you from the inside out. And while Frosties aren’t exactly healthy, they will not turn your lungs black or require you to get a hole drilled in your throat so you can continue breathing. Many things are carcinogenic or unhealthy for you, but usually only if they’re used in excess, like drinking alcohol, eating fatty foods and using the microwave. Every single time you smoke a cigarette, it’s bad for you. There’s something profoundly disturbing to me about a university that decides to stand idly by and watch young people in the prime of their life, or any people for that matter, throw away their future health and vitality with tobacco. Even though it pains me to be on the side of the establishment, big money, Student Government, the administration and poor spelling (for anyone who saw the University-wide email), I firmly support our University’s decision to adopt a policy that ultimately cherishes the health and well-being of our student body above all else — even if it wasn’t decided for that reason. Taylor is a Plan II and rhetoric and writing senior.
By Stephen McGarvey Daily Texan Columnist
I am not, have not been and for the foreseeable future will not be a smoker or user of any tobacco product. In fact, tobacco in all of its forms repulses me, and I typically try to avoid spending extended time around tobacco users. How e v e r, what will likely be a new tobacco ban has sparked debate around campus, and it is quite likely the most absurd policy I’ve ever seen this institution try to implement. Moreover, it is being done for all the wrong reasons. When I first heard of the ban, I was rather neutral and, if anything, supportive of it, but the devil is in the details, and these details Illustration by Blair Robbins | Daily Texan Staff are troublesome. The University already has a policy regarding smoking. Students, staff and faculty cannot light up in or near any campus building, and with good reason — secondhand smoke is dangerous to nonsmokers in closed environments. While people should be able to make their own life choices, they should not affect the well-being of others. However, the University has recently decided that its grant money is more important than people’s freedom. If approved, the ban would prohibit smoking both inside and outside and the use of smokeless tobacco products, such as chewing tobacco, which pose no threat to anyone else.
This policy fails ethically, pragmatically and financially, creating a trifecta of idiocy on the part of the University. Ethically, it is wrong to dictate people’s freedom to live their lives as they wish, even if what they do is foolish. But UT obviously hasn’t considered the repercussions of this policy. UT could lose a large pool of talent if it decides to purposefully and irrationally target smokers. If the new policy is enacted, many professors could leave and go to a university with a less authoritarian approach to their lifestyle. Tobacco-using students may use this as a prime consideration when deciding which college to attend. Financially, let’s be honest. UT is doing this for one thing: money. The University is essentially forsaking its ideals in favor of its precious research money. The University is overlooking one key realization: All of the money it receives from the Cancer Prevention Resource Institute of Texas (CPRIT) is used to fight cancer, or essentially, benefit CPRIT. If UT refuses to restrict its students’ rights and take the money, the only one that would ultimately lose is CPRIT. This organization would quickly change its authoritarian tune once it realizes universities aren’t willing to give up essential liberties for its money. And in the meantime, students could rest assured that the missing money did not subsidize tuition or increase class options. Supporters of this ban argue that secondhand smoke is a danger and that therefore UT is simply protecting its non-smoking students, but that is simply not the case. Studies have shown that smoking outside exposes almost no one to any secondhand smoke. The reality is that CPRIT wants to make tobacco users’ lives more difficult just to show them it doesn’t approve of what they are doing. Rebecca Garcia, CPRIT’s chief prevention officer, even told The Daily Texan, “We hope that all tobacco users will quit, but we recognize some may choose to continue to use these products and that this policy may make it more inconvenient for them.” While hoping all users will quit is an admirable stance, using these tactics eliminates all credibility and benevolence from CPRIT’s intentions. Use of smoking and tobacco is unfortunate but punishing people for their use is not the answer. This policy would not help users quit but would drive them away from our University. CPRIT has the money and UT has the intellect, and together they can work toward CPRIT’s goal of fighting cancer. But until CPRIT moves away from its hidden agenda of micromanaging universities, UT should kindly turn down the money. Any university smart enough to potentially find a cure for cancer should be smart enough to not restrict and anger its community in the process. McGarvey is business honors freshman.
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APD presses charges against woman involved in accident The Austin Police Department is pressing charges against Linda Dianna Woodman, who was involved in a car accident near the intersection of Guadalupe and 31st streets in which one pedestrian was killed and another injured on Sunday night. APD spokesman Wut Tantaksinanukij said Woodman was driving southbound on Guadalupe around 7 p.m. when her vehicle struck another vehicle and swerved, killing 61-year-old Dik Van Meerten and injuring 21-year-old Sarah Lee Parker, a former UT student who is taking a semester off. Tantaksinanukij said police have filed charges against Woodman with a cumulative bail of $55,000. “We are filing two charges,” Tantaksinanukij said. “One for intoxication man-slaughter for which the bail is set at $30,000 and one for intoxication assault for which bail is set at $25,000.” Tantaksinanukij said Woodman was under the influence of debilitating medications, not alcohol. He said Woodman is currently in police custody, but he did not know if she is still being treated for injuries she received during the accident. —Sarah White
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Nutrition specialists are skeptical whether Mars Inc.’s announcement to exclusively produce candy bars with 250 calories or less will provide any health benefits to consumers. The company is well-known for its popular candy products including M&M’s, Snickers and Twix. Many of these candy varieties currently contain between 230 and 280 calories, according to their individual nutrition facts. The initiative to lower calorie content by 2013 is part of the company’s involvement in the Partnership for a Healthier America, a non-partisan and non-profit government program chaired by First Lady Michelle Obama, according to the Mars Health & Nutrition website. Shelby Lecamus, marketing junior and treasurer for the Nutrition and Wellness Association, said the change isn’t significant enough to be positive. “I guess it’s a good thing they’re trying to recognize that their candy has too many calories, but when you’re going for a candy bar you don’t really care about that,” Lecamus said. Lecamus said Mars’ attempt to advertise the reduced-calorie candy as healthier than their current line is not actually beneficial to the customers’ health. “It seems like they’re trying to
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make a switch into making candy a more daily choice which I don’t necessarily think is a good thing,” Lecamus said. “Overall there won’t be much change because it’s still a candy bar, and even if there are fewer calories there is still a lot of sugar and fat.” Even reducing calories to 250 per candy bar will not be beneficial, said nutrition lecturer Jane Tillman. The company’s shift won’t do anything to change the candy itself, she said. “They won’t be any healthier,” Tillman said. “They will just have a smaller package. Twohundred and fifty calories is a lot, and many people cannot afford this number of discretionary calories per day.” Darla Stewart, Division of Hou s i ng an d Fo o d S e r v i c e purchasing manager, said the change will not affect the way candy is sold at on-campus establishments despite the University’s attempts to promote healthier food. “I’m sure we would continue to sell the candy we are currently selling, most of which are Mars,” Stewart said. “We tend to follow the trends. We basically seek to sell items that our customers want as well as what we feel would be best for them. We would continue to offer those items even as we are continuing to seek new and healthier options within our operation.”
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I guess it’s a good thing they’re trying to recognize that their candy has too many calories, but when you’re going for a candy bar you don’t really care about that - Shelby Lecamus, treasurer for the Nutrition and Wellness Association
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Event underscores social justice By Reihaneh Hajibeigi Daily Texan Staff
Students symbolically threw away social injustices occurring around the world on Monday as part of the United Nations’ Social Day of Injustice. UT’s branch of GlobeMed, a group aimed at strengthening the movement for global health equity, united 14 student organizations at West Mall to spread awareness on various worldwide social injustices. The group distributed clean pieces of trash to students on which to write their opinions on injustice for the fifth anniversary of United Nations’ declaration of the Social Day of Injustice. Posted on the display board were student responses to a wide range of issues including corporate greed, religious persecution,
hate crimes and the lack of equity in college education. “We were inspired to treat the injustices as trash because of something mentioned by our partner in El Salvador, Cliniica Ana Manganaro,” said GlodbeMed co-presdident Michelle Truong, a former Daily Texan staff member. Truong said the medical clinic, who the group frequently works with, came to GlobeMed because there were no dumpsters in their area and trash was piling up around the clinic, creating unsanitary conditions. GlobeMed raised $4,000 this semester and purchased dumpsters that were placed by the clinic. This year, GlobeMed’s headquarters at Northwestern University has also initiated a “Teach-In” program where professors voluntarily dedicate
five minutes of their lecture to speak about social injustices in their field, Truong said. She said University professors in the public health and nursing ethics fields participated in the “Teach-In” this year. Truong said many responses touched on issues that went beyond typical thoughts on social injustices. “We had a girl write ‘defense in the criminal justice system,’ and that is not something people frequently think of as a social injustice,” Truong said. Biology and sociology senior Andrew Johnson said Face Aids was eager to participate in the Social Day of Injustices to spread awareness on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. “The fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic is not new, but it is necessary to make everybody aware that this fight is far from over,” Johnson
said. “There are mutations of this disease that are affecting more and more people, there is a lack of resources in various regions in the world and we could possibly become the generation to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic.” Johnson said by participating in the event, they were not only allowed to spread awareness on an underrepresented topic, but they were also given the opportunity to showcase their plans to build a health care center in eastern Rwanda. History senior Ramon Mejia said the unity between different organizations was great to see at a campus event. “It’s great to have events like this because there is so much going on in the world that we are not aware of,” Mejia said.
The limit set on weekly internet bandwidth usage can be a hassle when living on campus, but it may be the only way UT can manage Internet usage for a large student body. UT uses an internet system that provides a basic bandwidth of 500MB per week to students on campus, allowing them to also purchase more bandwidth if they choose to do so. UT manages its own Internet network, allowing the university to provide Internet services to faculty and students while preventing non-UT members from using the system, said radio-television-film professor Sharon Strover. She said if the system was not limited, the network would go down when too many users tried to access it. “It would be a problem if the University was providing Internet for people in Hyde Park,” Strover said. “Allocation is necessary if you don’t want to interfere with other people or other entities.” The University charges students for increased use because it’s necessary to make sure that no one is using too much of the system’s bandwidth, Strover said. “Just because UT has an allocated part of the spectrum, that doesn’t mean that there’s an infinite amount of Wi-Fi,” Strover said. “They don’t want you to run a server out of your dorm because it would eat up too much of the Internet.” Allocation also means that students have to be careful about using up their bandwidth before it refreshes at the end of the week. English freshman Giancarlo Besa,
who often uses Skype to communicate with family and friends who live in Mexico, said he has run out of bandwidth five times since coming to UT. “You do have to think about what you’re doing with your Internet,” Besa said. “It’s not so good when I have to limit my family to one Skype chat per week when my bandwidth is so [quickly] used up.” However, UT’s system is not the only type of university-wide Wi-Fi network. At Texas State, which has 27,000 undergraduates, there are two free networks that provide different services for students. One is a general network for browsing and the other is encrypted for academic purposes, but both allow unlimited Wi-Fi usage provided that a student doesn’t abuse the system, said Texas State special assistant to the Vice President for information technology, Don Volz. “Students living in our residence halls are heavy users of the Internet for gaming and browsing, and if we determine a particular user is doing something to the detriment of other students’ usage, we will shut them down,” Volz said. While it does provide certain benefits to students, Volz said Texas State’s system might not work at larger universities that have to provide for even greater numbers of students. “It certainly has a lot to do with the size of the body you have to provide for,” Volz said. “Also, some of it is culture-based and depends on the expectations of the students, faculty and staff. A lot of things go into the criteria that decides how a system will work.”
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Dr. Brian Cowan presented his paper titled “Transnational and Comparative Histories of Coffee and Sociability” at a workshop Monday afternoon. Cowan is a professor of Early Modern British History at McGill University in Montreal.
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Coffee houses remain while smoking fades By Samuel Liebl Daily Texan Staff
Whether people sip coffee, chug energy drinks, or smoke cigarettes, caffeine and nicotine influence their states of mind and culture. On Monday, scholars Brian Cowan, a faculty member of McGill University, and Mary Neuberger, director of the department of Slavic and Eurasian studies, gave a talk regarding the cultural importance of coffee houses. Cowan presented his working paper titled “Transnational and Comparative Histories and Sociability.” Neuberger responded to the paper, drawing on her expertise in the culture of smoking in Eastern Europe. Cowan and Neuberger referred to themselves as “commodity historians” who study society’s relation to consumer goods. The history of commodities is a booming area for research, Cowan said. “Many historians are getting into it,” Cowan said. “It’s a
flourishing field.” Neuberger said commodities deserve more attention because they are a useful way to approach cultural history. “Historians have looked at the past through wars and politics,” she said. “But in a consumer society like ours, the production and consumption of commodities can totally transform a region.” Change also occurs in the opposite direction, Cowan said. The way coffee is consumed is affected by the larger culture, he said. For instance, Austin’s coffee houses reflect the city’s laid-back culture, he said. “I’ve only been in Austin for a few weeks and my experience is limited to Quacks and Caffe Medici,” Cowan said. “But I’ve noticed that people hang out in coffee houses here all the time. A lot of people are doing work — studying, writing a novel or coding software — but there’s definitely a slacker culture.” Coffee houses in Austin cater to the same needs that coffee houses
historically served, Cowan said. “For a lot of students and entrepreneurs, the coffee house is their office, and that’s exactly what was going on in the 17th and 18th centuries” he said. “That’s an aspect of coffee house culture that still exists. People still need a place to go outside of the house, to be in public but also get their business done. Coffee houses are what’s called a third space — somewhere between the workplace and home.” Cowan likened Austin’s coffee house culture to what he observed in Portland. “I lived in Portland during the 90’s, when I was earning my B.A., and I saw all this stuff,” he said. “Austin is just like a spicy Portland.” Coffee is here to stay, but the culture of smoking is now under siege, although tobacco use was not always demonized, Neuberger said. “The proposed UT smoking ban does not make a huge difference because tobacco has already been so thoroughly demonized,” she said.
“However, it was only a few decades ago when professors smoked in class.” Cigarettes and the world wars changed the way tobacco was used and perceived, Neuberger said. “Tobacco was not demonized until the introduction cigarettes because there was no widespread cancer before cigarettes,” she said. “Cigarrette consumption spiked after the world wars because soldiers were issued cigarettes, and cigarettes became associated with feminine liberation for women at home. Cigarettes sped up consumption because tobacco could be smoked faster and in more places.” Despite its demonization, smoking tobacco might never go away, said Neuberger. “Though it’s been culturally pushed out in the United States and in the European Union, it persists and has become associated with an edgy counterculture,” she said.
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ty after the break and allowed the Bears to shoot 50 percent in the second (15-of-30). Brown led Texas with 18 points made six 3 pointers. Sheldon McClellan added 13 off the bench to reach double-figures for the sixth straight game. Texas surrendered its lead with 7:04 to play on a jump shot from Perry Jones III that made it 5655. From there, the Bears slowly pulled away as Acy took over down low.
Just when Texas looked like it had grown up, it played the final ten minutes of the second half like the same team that was 1-7 in games decided by six points or less coming into Monday. The Longhorns spent the early part of the night keeping the Frank Erwin Center on its toes by building a lead and maintaining it by making plays at the rim and hitting open jumpers. They played within their offense and ratcheted up on defense. Alexis Wangmene even looked poised to make up for a horrible single-rebound, four-foul game against Oklahoma State Saturday. Yes, Texas finally looked like it was a bit wiser, a bit stronger and a bit more demanding of each other as a team. That unraveled painfully in the second half when Baylor’s Quincy Acy began toying with Texas’ defense like the future NBA player he is, making the Longhorns’ age show. “Acy is just a beast,” Baylor’s Perry Jones III said. “He is a leader.” Acy dumped 22 points on the Longhorns, Wangmene fouled out, J’Covan Brown turned the ball over in the final seconds, and Texas’ bigs were embarrassed on the glass. Add it all together and Texas is now 1-8 in games decided by six points or less and that statistic is more
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Clint Chapman dives for a loose ball during the Longhorns’ 77-72 loss to Baylor Monday night. The senior forward contributed six points but did not score in the game’s final 13 minutes. Texas was outscored 36-24 during that span as Baylor erased its 10-point halftime lead.
Late miscues, Acy’s big game bury Horns as Bears erase double-digit deficit By Austin Laymance Daily Texan Staff
The Longhorns didn’t have an answer for Quincy Acy down the stretch as No. 14 Baylor rallied to end UT’s hopes for an upset. Acy scored eight points in the final 4:45 to help Baylor overcome an 11-point second half deficit and beat Texas, 77-72, on Monday night at the Frank Erwin Center. The Longhorns (17-11, 7-8 Big 12) lost another close game and missed out on their best chance to get their first signature win of the
season. Texas fell to 1-8 in games decided by six points or less. Texas had a chance to tie the game in the closing seconds but J’Covan Brown made an errant pass and turned the ball over with UT down, 73-70, with 14 seconds left. It was just the latest heartbreak for the Longhorns, who have struggled to make plays late in games all season. “I take the blame,” Brown said. “I turned it over. We lost the game. It hurts. I feel like every night I keep letting these guys down. I’m trying. I guess I’m not figuring it out
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Top-ranked Baylor poses difficult test By Nick Cremona Daily Texan Staff
As the Longhorns’ conference schedule begins to wind down, they once again find themselves in need of a signature win to enhance their odds of making the NCAA Tournament. A win over consensus No. 1 Baylor tonight in Waco could do wonders for Texas’ NCAA Tournament hopes. The Bears are riding a 27game winning streak, which would be a 38-game streak had the Bears not lost to Texas A&M in last year’s National Championship game. “If you are going to compete against a great team like Baylor, you have to have everyone show up and play,” said Texas head coach Gail Goestenkors. “You have to be energized, be focused and be confident.”
Baylor already had its way with Texas after a dominant 77-59 victory over the Longhorns in Austin on Jan. 15. Brittney Griner continued her barrage on NCAA record books with a 32-point, 13-rebound performance to lead all scorers. The Bears opened the game on a 19-0 run, scored 58 points in the paint and held the Longhorns to just 33 percent shooting, stifling any upset bid the Longhorns had in mind. Adding insult to injury (literally) was the absence of sophomore post Cokie Reed. She was unable to play in the first meeting with Baylor due to a strained right leg suffered in practice leading up to the game. “The absence of Cokie was a big loss for us,” Goestenkors said. “All of the bodies you can get against
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right now.” Baylor’s Pierre Jackson was fouled after Texas’ 11th turnover and made two free throws to seal the win. Jackson converted six from the line in the final minute to stave off the Longhorns. The point guard finished with 25 points and six assists. Texas led, 36-26, at the half. The Longhorns shot 50 percent from the field (13-of-26) and held Baylor to 28 percent shooting (7-of25) and forced nine turnovers. But the Longhorns did not come out with the same defensive intensi-
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Sophomore Cokie Reed, backing down a Texas Tech defender, was injured when Texas lost to No. 1 Baylor, 77-59, earlier this season.
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Sophomore right fielder Mark Payton, a .264 hitter last season, posted a .455 batting average in the Longhorns’ season-opening series against Duke while picking up three extra-base hits and three RBI.
Longhorns look for first weekday win By Chris Hummer Daily Texan Staff
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Weekend series are the staple in college baseball, but for most teams, the weekly Tuesday night game is an opportunity to improve. It is a time for lineups to find some consistency, and it allows players that don’t see a lot of time on the field to get much needed game experience. This type of game is exactly what the Longhorns hope to get out of tonight’s contest against UT-Arlington. The Longhorns got out of the gates with a 2-1 series victory over Duke, but the performance wasn’t without flaws. The offense looked stagnate at times, and
while the team is built around small ball, the batting lineup failed to consistently give their pitchers a boost. Sunday afternoon’s game was a prime example. The Longhorns pitching staff gave eight innings of mentally tough pitching from two freshmen, John Curtiss and Ricky Jacquez, who didn’t have their best outings, but kept the team afloat allowing only three runs. However, the offense just couldn’t give the pair enough help to secure the victory. “We have to have sustained rallies,” said head coach Augie Garrido. “We can’t have two or three bad at bats in there where we could’ve had a walk or made the pitcher have a bigger
pitch count.” The struggles were a collective effort as many players in the starting lineup failed to get hits on the board. Starting shortstop Christian Summers and catcher Jacob Felts both failed to record a hit in all three games, and now get to live with the distinction of having zeros next to their names every time they step up to bat. They weren’t alone though. Junior Landon Steinhagen recorded only one hit in 11 at bats and fellow junior Jonathan Walsh had the same number in eight opportunities. Even stud third baseman Erich Weiss is struggling early on
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For the second time this season, freshman point guard Myck Kabongo was named Big 12 Rookie of the Week. Kabongo scored 13 points and had seven assists in a 69-58 win over Oklahoma last Tuesday while pouring in a career-high 22 points on 8-of-12 shooting, including 3-of-4 from three-point range, in a 9078 loss to Oklahoma State. The last time the Toronto product earned conference freshman of the week honors was Dec. 5, after a 16-point, seven-point-assist performance in a victory over North Texas and a 13-point, eight-point assist outing in a triumph over UCLA. The only other Longhorn to garner Big 12 Rookie of the Week accolades was freshman forward Jaylen Bond when he averaged 15 points and 10 rebounds per game during wins over Nicholls Sate and Temple.
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Senior Karlee Bispo was named Big 12 Swimmer of the Week for the fourth time this season and 10th time of her career, both conference records.
Bispo breaks record with weekly honor By Rachel Thompson Daily Texan Staff
Receiving the Big 12 Swimmer of the Week award is an honor for any swimmer. Senior swimmer Karlee Bispo has now had that honor four times this season. Last week, she became the first female swimmer in Big 12 conference history to receive the Big 12 Swim-
mer of the Week award four times in a single season. Bispo, a senior freestyle champion and 11-time All-American, now holds the most career honors of any woman in Big 12 swimming and diving history. “It’s a big honor because of how competitive the Big 12 is,” Bispo said. “It’s an honor to be thought of by the coaches, and it’s another confidence booster leading into the Big
12 Championships.” With 15 race wins behind her thus far this season, Bispo’s versatility and determination make her a crucial competitive asset for the team, head coach Kim Brackin said. “She’s been invaluable to this program,” Brackin said. “You can put her anywhere and she’ll step up and race.” In addition to success in the water, Brackin said Bispo serves as a natural
leader for her teammates. “She is certainly a leader on the team in terms of dual meets, and I think the team really looks up to her in terms of her wavering ability to just lay it on the line whenever she needs to,” Brackin said. Bispo will head to Columbia, Mo. with her teammates on Wednesday to compete in the Big 12 Championships.
After dropping their first match of the tournament, the Longhorns ended the weekend on a positive note with two victories over Top 20 teams. The No. 14 ranked Longhorns wrapped up the Intercollegiate Tennis Association National men’s Team Indoor Championships with a 4-2 win over No. 16 Auburn late Sunday evening. Texas claimed the doubles point thanks to an 8-3 victory by Sudanwa Sitaram and Daniel Whitehead at the number three doubles line. Chris Camillone and David Holiner clinched the point for Texas with their 8-6 win over Auburn’s No. 2-ranked doubles team. The Tigers scored their first point off Lukas Ollert’s win over Camillone at the No. 5 singles spot. Texas scored their second point with Sitaram’s 6-2, 6-2 win over Dan Cochrane. Whitehead increased Texas’ lead by two with his three-set win over Alex Stanchev at the second spot, but the Tigers would not go away, getting their second point with a win at the six spot. Clinching the victory for the Longhorns was freshman Lloyd Glasspool, who came back from losing the first set to beat Dennis Lengsfeld 2-6, 7-6, 6-4. On Saturday, the Longhorns avenged a loss to Texas A&M in the previous week with a 4-1 win
in the first round of the consolation bracket. Texas got on the board early with two doubles victories. In the No. 3 spot, Sitaram and Whitehead blanked Niall Angus and Alexis Klegou, 8-0. Camillone and sophomore Holiner pulled off the upset of the No. 36 ranked tandem of Lewis and Hoover, 8-4. In singles, Sitaram added to Texas’ total with a 6-4, 7-6 win over Junior Ore, while Camillone added another point with his 6-2, 6-2 win over Jackson Withrow. The Aggies got on the board with a win at the number six spot, but freshman Soren Hess-Olesen, ranked No. 93, upset No. 15 Klegou, 6-3, 6-3 to avenge his loss from the Longhorns’ previous matchup against the Aggies and seal the victory for the Longhorns. Texas opened the tournament with a 4-0 loss to the No. 3 seed Ohio State. The Buckeyes scored the first point after claiming two of the doubles matches, although Texas scored an upset over the Buckeyes’ No. 27 ranked team at the number two spot. Whitehead and Holiner teamed up to hand Devin McCarthy and Ille Van Engelen an 8-3 loss. The Buckeyes went on to post three straight singles victories to clinch the match and knock Texas into the consolation bracket. The Longhorns finished the tournament with a 2-1 record. They will return to the courts this Saturday with a doubleheader in Austin.
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for the Longhorns, as each has shot a score of 2-under-142 through two rounds, good for an eighth place tie on the individual standings. Frittelli has yet to finish outside of the top ten list for individual scorers in his previous five tournaments and he is on pace to accomplish that feat for a sixth consecutive event. No other Longhorn has shot be-
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The four-event win streak that the Texas Longhorns men’s golf team has been riding since mid-September is in serious danger of ending, as it trails by 25 shots through two rounds of play in the Puerto Rico Invite. No. 1 Texas sits in ninth place out
of 15 teams after the second day in Rio Mar, Puerto Rico, with Alabama leading the way with a two-day score of 555 (-4). The Longhorns have shot a 580 (+4) thus far and will need a strong performance on the third day of play in order to make a climb up the leaderboard. Senior Dylan Frittelli and sophomore Toni Hakula have led the way
low par thus far, with junior Julio Vegas being Texas’ third leading scorer with a 2-over-146. Junior Cody Gribble has shot a 150 (+6) in two days, while freshman Kramer Hickok tallied a 152 (+8) for the Longhorns. Georgia Tech’s James White is the leading scorer in the event, shooting a 136 (-8) through two days. Alabama’s Bobby Wyatt and Justin
Thomas are tied for second place after each scoring a 138 (+6) and are a large part of why the Roll Tide leads the tournament by 13 shots over second-place Purdue. Texas has been without freshman Jordan Spieth, college’s top-ranked golfer, for this tournament, as he competed in a PGA Tour event over the weekend. The Longhorns have
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ACY continues from PAGE 8 of a scarring characteristic of this team than a numerical trend. It is a mark of the team’s youth, and it is what separated Texas from Baylor Monday night. Though Texas head coach Rick Barnes has refused to make it an excuse, Acy was perceptive enough to exploit Texas’ age. “They are a very young team, but I saw a lot of fight in them,” Acy said. The Longhorns played inspired defense in the first half, holding the Bears to a paltry 7-of-25 from the field, good for 28 percent. They led 36-26 at the halfway mark and the Longhorns were coasting at a cool 50 percent shooting on the floor. “We got too comfortable at that point,” Clint Chapman said. They went 12-of-26 from the field the rest of the way, and the team’s mentality broke down. “Their offense had some easy looks at shots, and we weren’t getting any easy looks,” Brown said. “We weren’t getting them as a unit.” Baylor, led by Acy and guard Pierre Jackson scraped together points that only teams wise enough
OFFENSE continues from PAGE 8 recording only one hit in the opening series. In Weiss’s case, however, it might just be a case of trying to do too much. This sea-
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few games doesn’t mean the season is over.” It’s a combination of that lesson of resilience that has been lost on Rick Barnes’ squad, and an even more difficult concept of “listening rather than hearing” down the stretch in close games that has him frustrated. “We have had trouble listening. We come out of timeouts and don’t execute,” Barnes said. “We start the game and we don’t understand the situations.”
Barnes was noticeably frustrated as he entered the post-game press conference and was finally forced to admit something he has avoided all season: inexperience is still plaguing his team and he isn’t happy about it. “It shouldn’t be a factor at this point in the season, but it is,” he said. Texas will need to grow up quick, or be prepared for an invite to the kiddie-pool that is the National Invitation Tournament.
son he is expected to be the man after the team lost three of its top four hitters from last season. “Why is Erich struggling?” Garrido said. “It’s because he thinks he should hit, he thinks he should carry the team.” The matchup with a weaker UTA squad — they were only 27-
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The senior forward finished with 22 points and pulled down a career-high 16 rebounds, including eight on the offensive end. “I know that has to be my calling card for this team, setting the tone in the paint and being a tough force down low to grab rebounds,” Acy said. “I found myself in good position and never stopped working.” Acy hauled in his final rebound after with 1:00 left and was fouled with Baylor ahead, 70-67. He made one free throw to put the game out of reach. “ He j u s t o u t p l a y e d u s ,” s ai d Te x as s e ni or for w ard Clint Chapman. Baylor didn’t close out Satur-
REED continues from PAGE 8 Brittney [Griner] are helpful.” Griner, the Bears’ leading scorer at 22.9 points per game, will be the focus of the Longhorns’ defense. She was very active on the offensive glass in the first game against the Longhorns this year, grabbing seven offensive rebounds, which led to 18 second chance points. Griner also displayed her shot-blocking prowess, swatting three Longhorn shots. Griner’s innate feel for the game and elite size allow her to score with ease, and she is very difficult for teams to stop.
day’s game against Kansas State and lost at home, 57-56, but the Bears reversed their fortunes on Monday. Baylor improved to 8-2 in games decided by five points or less. The Bears won for second time in their last five games and moved to 10-5 in the Big 12. “It was a big win,” said Bears guard Brady Heslip, who finished with 12 points. “We knew we had to come in and make a statement. We came in with a chip on our shoulder.” The Longhorns fell to 0-7 against ranked opponents. In the last five games against ranked teams, Texas has been outscored by just 18 points. “We just have to finish the job,” said freshman point guard Myck Kabongo. “You can say we’re close, but we have to win. We just have to learn how to finish, that’s all.”
“I think you have to recognize that Griner is a 6-foot-9 post player,” said senior guard Yvonne Anderson. “There is not much you can do with that. You just have to make sure that she does not get more than her usual, and you have to contain everyone else.” Reed’s return, as well as the recent play of fellow post Anne Marie Hartung, have the Longhorns hoping things will go a little differently this time around. “[Cokie] is really good offensive player,” said senior post Ashley Gayle. “[She] is taller and has a height advantage over a lot of players. I think that we have a lot of depth in the post position now, and we have more tools to attack with.”
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WA R S AW, Po l a n d — Fe w would confuse the glitz of the Academy Awards with a ceremony held by a folk arts soc i e t y i n Po l an d , but Ho l l y wood doesn’t want anyone else handing out Oscars. So the Academy of Motion Picture Ar ts and S ciences is demanding that Poland’s Association of Folk Artists stop g iv i ng out w h at it c a l l s t he “People’s Oskar.” Wa l d e mar Maj che r of t he As s o c i at i on of Fol k A r t i s t s s ai d Mond ay t he d ispute is t he result a misunderst anding. But he a ls o quest ione d Hollywood’s demand. Majcher said the “People’s Oskar,” was named after Oskar Kolberg, a 19th-century Polish ethnographer who wrote some 10,000 Polish folk songs. Still remembered and respected in Poland, Kolberg died in 1890. In its 10-ye ar histor y, t he “Pe opl e’s Osk ar” — a me t a l plaque with an engraved image of Jesus — has been awarded to individual artists, muse-
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TYGA continues from PAGE 14 Indie pop artist reaches lyrical zenith By Elizabeth Hinojosa Daily Texan Staff
To some, experimentation can be a tedious process. To Claire Boucher, it is an intrinsic approach to music which has yielded impressive results. Boucher, who records under the name Grimes, has an anxious thirst to create art. And this time around, she’s brought her most captivating compilation to fruition through her latest album, Visions. For the past two years, the 2 3 ye ar- ol d s ong st re ss h a s spewed out music as if it were a necessity. In 2010, she debuted with Geidi Primes, followed by Halfaxa later on that same year. In 2011, the artist released Darkbloom, a split 12” with D’eon, a fellow producer and friend. Boucher has made musical strides in the industry of female production, blending different music genres including traces of glitch, streams of witch-house, touches of psychpop and dashes of R&B. The result: an original culmination of sound which tantalizes listeners through its odd, ethereal nature. In Vi sion s, t he C anadi an musician makes way to include more enunciated lyrics, sculpting the album into a stream of consciousness. It’s as if Grimes was reciting her interior monologue clearer than ever, instead of scattering a few words throughout her songs with the usual prolonged “oohs” and “ahhs,” something she’s heavily relied on in the past. Her phenomenally unique voice sweetens the s ometimes creepily
CD REVIEW Visions Grimes Genre: Indie pop For those who like: Young Galaxy, Maria Minerva, Laurel Halo mechanic aesthetic she employs. And though she sings more pronounced lyrics, drawing her listeners closer, she keeps the indecipherable vocals throughout the album, which can be frustrating. The song “Vowels = space and time,” for example, is about Grimes’ anxiety with people getting on her case about her songs not “being about things,” as she said in an interview with Pitchfork. The artist doesn’t mean to attract attention to her lyrics’ significance, as counterintuitive as it may seem. She’s posted on her Tumblr that the value of her vocals is their syllabic, sonic qualities, not their meaning. Grimes manipulates her singing through vocal pedals and filters her music through a Juno-G keyboard, a sampling unit and GarageBand. With that said, rejecting Boucher’s craft as an art form would be deception. Her ability to maneuver these music-making machines is stunning. B ou che r a l s o pro du c e s a danceability hard to ignore. “Circumambient” starts with a mysterious static and tribal bass drum, spooking lis-
teners at first, then quickly drawing them back in with a catchy dance beat followed by her R&B layered vocals. Her high-pitched and girly falsetto draws influences from artists like Mariah Carey, someone Boucher acknowledges as an inspiration. “Nightmusic,” featuring Majical Cloudz, is among the dance-worthy songs on Visions. The lofty synthesizer is set at an uptempo that is dif f icult to listen to and remain still. Both tracks pave the way for what seems to be an emergence of K-p op, or Korean p opular music, in North America. It would not be surprising if upcoming artists attempt to mimic the genre-blended aesthetic that Boucher has created in Visions. This is Grimes’ most accessible album thus far — and her clearest — with its cathartic intent, in contrast with her past three experimental compi lat ions. B oucher embraces her vocal talent more than ever, and her musicality allows for a path to indie-label stardom; but maybe that’s an understatement, considering her fearless creativity.
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rapper who courageously boasted, “Got your grandma on my dick.” The line is so humorous and out-ofplace but is said with so much confidence and swagger that Tyga comes off as a female connoisseur, showing no discrimination to his cougar club fan-base. Album opener “Careless World” starts off shaky. Tyga’s declarations of being a king is dubious at first, but once the angelic strings and lavish production kick in, the rapper’s boasts actually carry resonance, rather than coming off as foolish and arrogant. Add some rapid-fire verses, assault rifle hi-hat cymbals and staccato snares into the mix and you have a song that displays Tyga’s larg-
Careless World:Rise of the Last King Tyga Genre: Hip-Hop For those who like: Lil Wayne, J. Cole er-than-life dreams for himself. Tyga’s songs are all spread out, giving the rapper moments to boast about sexual encounters (“Faded”) and analyze his growing success (“This is Like”). It’s refreshing — his 2008 independent release, No Introduction, was mediocre. Being on record label Decaydance Records with cousin and Gym Class Heros singer Travie McCoy proved unsuc-
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“Gonna put my pink dress on/And do my hair up tight,” sings Sinead O’Connor on “4th & Vine,” the opening song on her latest album, How About I Be Me (And You Be You)? O’Connor’s mystique and outspoken views have always served as a catalyst for her music and success. Although the songstress is well into her mid40s, O’Connor is still as confrontational and confessional as she was during her rise in the 90s. How About I Be Me is a testament to that, with the singer unashamedly embracing who she is while retaining that vigor (and shaved head) that catapulted her into the spotlight. O’Connor’s I’ll-do-what-I-want attitude, combined with a punk rock ferociousness and a dash of Irish fervor, served as a pleasingly catastrophic concoction throughout the singer’s career. Frank Sinatra threatened to “kick her ass” back in 1990 when she announced that she would not perform if the United States’ national anthem played before one of her concerts. And how could we forget her infamous stint on “Saturday Night Live” when she ripped up a photo of Pope John Paul II? Such events, along with a disordered personal life reflected through feeble attempts at musical experimentation (O’Connor’s past albums
awkwardly dabbled with reggae, Celtic and contemporary worship music), led to fans and critics asking a similar question: Will O’Connor ever find herself amidst the chaos? Fortunately, the singer has in her ninth album. “Your joy is my joy,” sings O’Connor on the album’s first single, “The Wolf Is Getting Married,” which could serve as an indirect message of gratitude to her fans. “I used to have no one else around me/I was too free, if that’s possible to be,” O’Connor continues. The singer’s retrospective narratives have always been her strong point. She is not hesitant about her confessions, singing each statement with a confidence that only years of struggle and hardship could produce. “Old Lady,” an ode to heartache, swoons somberly over angelic, atmospheric strings. “But that’s a way down the line/You see for now he isn’t mine,” sings O’Connor, her lighthearted declarations an experi-
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ence that all listeners can easily relate to. “And I know one day he’ll say, ‘That’s my girl,’/The happiest words in the world,” sings O’Connor, optimistic that her future love will someday be attainable. Each song is a reminder of how compelling O’Connor is as a songwriter. For example, “4th & Vine” is pure pop bliss. “I will, I will,” repeats O’Connor over infectious, jangling melodies, a near-perfect accompaniment to a fairy-tale story of marriage. The stories she creates are not veiled or disguised; she reveals moments of anger, sadness and loneliness, never hesitant in her delivery. The songs are also great in that they reflect O’Connor’s disregard for mainstream appeal. In returning to the spotlight, O’Connor does not sacrifice her creativity for easily-digested pop gems, finding satisfaction in creating rough diamonds that show her imperfections and strengths.
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Munchy Mart delivers a variety of goodies to students by Chris Nguyen Daily Texan Staff
Last year, then economics senior Arshad “Baba” Rehman was pulling another late night at the PCL. After hours of studying, his stomach began growling: he was hungry. Rehman was too exhausted to make the trek to a convenience store and did not want to lose his precious desk at the library and his remaining studying time. What he needed for his dilemma was Munchy Man, a superhero to rescue him and provide him snacks to get him through the night. Of course, no such vaulted superhero existed — that is until Rehman took the memory of that night and created Munchy Man as the face of an online startup, Munchymart.com, which he co-founded with management information systems junior Imran Jeddy. “How can a convenience store go on the wheels and turn mobile and still turn profit?” Rehman said. “We knew that students struggle with cost, and we wanted prices comparative to Wal-Mart. And we’re able to keep costs down because of lower overhead.” The website, which launched Jan. 27, delivers products commonly found at convenience stores, from chips to soda, in the area between MLK Boulevard and 29th Street and Lamar Boulevard and East Campus Drive. They source their products from wholesalers and sell them at prices lower than surrounding stores. Munchy Mart also offers rentals of both academic necessities, like calculators, and leisure products, like Ping Pong balls. “I had an office party a week or so ago and needed water last minute,” said writing and rhetoric junior Nick Spiller. “And it was great once it became 6 p.m. to have them deliver it while I was busy setting
everything up.” However, most notable are the packages, like the All-Nighter, which includes an energy drink and health bar that might have come handy to Rehman that night back in January, or the Marley Sack, which includes a lighter and deodorant spray. “We all know the origins of why people need the Marley Sack,” Rehman said. Rehman and Jeddy moved quickly to make this idea a reality in a year’s time. A casual conversation between the two about the website set the ball rolling four months ago as they gathered funds from their savings and family and began laying the groundwork for the website and inventory. Jeddy left a part-time job and had to adjust to support himself through Munchy Mart while still balancing a full course load. And despite hesitation from his parents, Rehman left his job at an online marketing company after graduating May 2011. “My family now calls me Munchy Man every time I walk through the door when I come home,” Rehman said. In the lead up to the launch, Rehman and Jeddy made it a special point to focus on social networking for promotion, tapping into word of mouth and having the Munchy Man character for their Facebook and Twitter accounts actively interacting with users and responding to them. While the launch of the website made the idea of the online art a reality, it also forced them into the reality of the situation. Seven days a week, the site offers delivery from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m., meaning that Rehman and Jeddy are essentially working nonstop nightly. At any time in the night, rain or shine, they will be biking across West Campus, providing ping-pong
Arshad “Baba” Rehman and Imran Jeddy are founders of Munchy Mart, a delivery service providing students with products typically found in convenience stores. Munchy Mart offers a range of items from snacks to calculators and even party packages which can include tables, ping pong balls and poker sets.
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balls rather than playing the game themselves. But it is not without its perks. “It’s a very fast-paced environment, but it’s very fun,” Rehman said. “We will be riding our bikes down together and giving each other high fives. And everyone we meet has been great and suggesting products. They’ll just talk with us.” Beyond the sacrifice of time, Munchy Mart also has to go through the usual growing pains of any startup company. “It’s a lot of patience,” Jeddy said “We dream big, but dreams don’t come right away. There will be nights that peo-
ple are continuously ordering, but the next night we have the lowest orders we have, so it’s dealing with the highs and lows.” However, Rehman and Jeddy have a dynamic that keeps them on top of Munchy Mart. Rehman sees the big picture, looking at the overall dynamics and marketing image of the company while helping Jeddy balance school and work. “He’s like my dad when it comes to things like that,” Jeddy said. Jeddy focuses more on the business side, looking at process operations and financial logistics. With deliveries flowing in, Rehman and Jeddy are always looking to im-
prove their business and have sought more support. Kyle Cox, director of On Campus Incubator and co-director of Wireless Technology Incubator who has a long history with startups, helped set them up in the last few weeks with Longhorn Startup Camp. The organization provides office space and other overhead for up-and-coming businesses. “I was impressed with the cleverness of their idea and packaging,” Cox said. “But it was really that they were actually doing something and had already started their business by the time we met up and being in the middle of starting a business.”
WHAT: Munchymart.com WHERE: Deliveries between MLK Blvd. and 29th Streets and Lamar and East Campus Drive WHEN: Seven days a week, 6 p.m. - 3 a.m. WEb: munchymart.com
As Rehman and Jeddy see it, after less than a month in the business, Munchy Man will hopefully be saving students from snack cravings one delivery at a time.
Pop duo trades in eccentricity for maturity in second album by Rainy Schermerhorn Daily Texan Staff
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Indie superstar and former Pavement member Stephen Malkmus (right) and his band The Jicks are on tour supporting their latest album, Mirror Traffic. They will be making a stop at The Mohawk this Wednesday.
Indie artist’s songwriting impresses by Daniel Munoz Daily Texan Staff
year-old Malkmus has begun abstaining from indie guitar heroics for the sake of his songwriting. “Like, people talk about Paul McCartney’s incredible bass-playing,” Malkmus told Pitchfork. “But he’s in stadiums because of his songs.” WHAT: Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks WHERE: The Mohawk WHEN: Wednesday, at 6:30 p.m. WEb: http://stephenmalkmus. com/ TiCKETS: $17/all ages
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After a successful reunion tour with his former band, Pavement, Stephen Malkmus recorded last year’s Mirror Traffic with his current band The Jicks, the latest in a string of successful solo outings for the veteran songwriter. Even with the shadow of Pavement looming large, Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks have earned a reputation for crafting tastefully offkilter pop music and putting on a riveting live show. As exhilarating as it can be to hear Malkmus exercise his formidable guitar chops, his lyrics have a history of stealing the show. The excellent lyrics of Mirror Traffic reveal a sharpening of focus for Malkmus, whose imagery flirts with the bizarre without quite reaching the point of opacity. Try wrapping your mind around the opening lines of “Senator,” the album’s lead single: “The toxins, American-made/Weapons-class gray sludge for migrants/Dioxin the chemical sunset/The number one subset of all.” The world may never know what it means to be “the number one subset of all,” but who cares? With drummer Janet Weiss’s pummeling drum fills behind him, Malkmus is able to sneak in a few lines that sound better than they look on a lyric sheet without bringing down the songs, which he has come to see as primarily important this
vtime around. In an interview with Pitchfork Media last August, Malkmus described his changing goals as a bandleader: “Maybe all of our personalities might not come out as much on our instruments, but the songs are going to live more. That’s what will really last.” Fans of Malkmus’s recent song-centric output will be pleased to learn that The Jicks’ live shows as of late have drawn heavily from Mirror Traffic. But that’s not to say that Malkmus and company won’t be including any surprises in tonight’s show at The Mohawk. After a Jicks gig in early October, Consequence of Sound reported that the band had closed its set with a “slightly ominous, warped version of ‘Bennie and the Jets,’” the Elton John/Bernie Taupin classic, an unexpected cover choice if there ever were one. A night with Malkmus is guaranteed to be a night of pop-music paradox. As you purchase your ticket, begin mentally preparing yourself, as you will soon be watching the only guy alive with enough indie cred to pay off the national debt indulge in the forbidden fruit of classic rock, whether it is in the form of quasiepic guitar noodling or accessible song structures. And perhaps it is due to the inspiration of classic acts like The Beatles and Elton John that the 45
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If Sleigh Bells’ 2010 album Treats came out with a rush of adrenaline, Reign of Terror is more of the aftershock to the eruption. Instead of shocking listeners with their unique blend of heavy metal, soft vocals and fast-paced beats, they’ve streamlined their sound into a more evolved foundation laid out by their debut. However, with an introductory album that made waves for its creativity and sheer fun that gave life to what could otherwise have been a train wreck of sound, this matured departure may not please all fans. Nonetheless, Reign of Terror remains an album with a sense of subdued exhilaration that makes up for what it lacks in boldness with consistency and substance that still begs for listeners to turn up the volume — or as vocalist Alexis Krauss cries out on the album’s opening track: “I wanna see those fucking hands in the air!” “Crush” is easily the stand-out of the album, with Krauss’s soft, dream pop vocals overlaying the heavier guitar riffs, drawing together what should normally clash into a rhythmic, lulling beat. Krauss’ vocals are more frequently used to drive the melody of the songs than in the previous album, resulting in an overall more refined production. Similarly, the transitions between songs are generally smooth, merging into one another with mixed effects. While it may improve the album’s flow, it also creates the impression that — with the exception of a
CD REviEW Reign of Terror Sleigh Bells Genre: Noise pop For those who like: M.I.A., Asobi Seksu, Vampire Weekend few standout tracks — the album as a whole is somewhat deficient in diversity. Guitar riffs are also much more prevalent in Reign of Terror, but often lack the complexity of those displayed by guitarist and producer Derek Miller on Treats, resulting in a somewhat underwhelming display of his talent. “You know it didn’t have to be this way,” sings Krauss in “End of the Line,” a nostalgic interlude that marks the transition away from the softer first half of the album before quite literally exploding into the heavier, in-your-face catchiness of songs like “Demons” and “Never Say Die,” which will be more likely to satisfy fans of the duo’s previous work. However, despite the fast-paced, grittier tone of the album’s latter half, the album never loses its polished sound. “Comeback Kid” is another highlight of Reign of Terror, with catchy riffs that act as an anthem of sorts regarding the duo’s return. In a rebuttal, both thematically and musically, to “End of the Line,” Krauss sings, “I know it’s hard, but you’ve gotta deal with it/Why don’t you look around, show me what you’re made of?”
While Reign of Terror’s sound ranges from upbeat and playful to wistfully low-fi, darker themes reign prevalent throughout the album’s lyrics. The heavier subject matters of these lyrics (with themes of loss, suicide and general melancholy) are a bit polarizing. While they inarguably have more depth than those on the band’s debut, the dichotomy of these lyrics contrasted against the fast-paced exhilaration of the music itself may be a bit jarring, but it’s also an interesting deviation from the frat party vibe prevalent on Treats. Although perhaps not as experimental or adventurous as Treats, Reign of Terror is still a solid successor that, for the most part, avoids the dreaded sophomore slump. Treats’ edginess may have dulled into a mature sound that sometimes crosses the line into sedation, but perhaps this departure is appropriate for the duo. If nothing else, it proves that their sound is evolving into something that stays true to the momentum of Treats while still discovering new ground.
Rapper heals repute in breakthrough by Elijah Watson Daily Texan Staff
Michael Ray Nguyen-Stevenson, better known as Tyga, had an illreceived debut when listeners first heard him on collaborative studio album, We Are Young Money. The rapper’s verse on the hit “BedRock” was memorable for all of the wrong reasons: “She watchin’ that oxygen, I’m watchin’ ESPN/But when that show ends, she all in my skin lotion,” says Tyga, his spurts of nonsense so ridiculous that they made fellow Young Money labelmate Gudda Gudda’s verse look like a masterpiece. Fortunately, with just a bit
more age, the young rapper has refined his delivery and has enlisted a laundry list of some of hiphop’s best producers to create Careless World: Rise of the Last King, a well-produced and vibrant album that dispels any doubts about the rapper’s talents. “He’s already made you the king that you are,” says Tyga’s mother on the song “Black Crown.” “Black Crown” seems to embody what Tyga’s major label debut is all about: making his journey on his way to become the self-proclaimed hip-hop king. “Working hard like one day I’ll afford the four-door Porsche/Approaching every corner cautious,” raps Tyga, his dreams of success
and fortune accompanied by atmospheric synths and luscious keys. “Black Crown” is a great example of the rapper’s newfound creativity. He surprises listeners with retrospective narratives like this, creating a balance with more mainstream-friendly songs on the album. If “Black Crown” is about Tyga’s journey to success, “Rack City” is about him reaping the benefits of it. The club-banger is reminiscent of hip-hop group The Pack — it’s so cheesy, but listeners can’t help but succumb to its infectious beat and memorable hook. Tyga will forever go down in history as that one
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