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Calendar “Get Sexy, Get Consent”
Attend a highly interactive onehour program that examines how we negotiate sex and consent, boundaries and safety. The event will be from 7:308:30 p.m. in CAL 100.
Bring 2011 tax returns for yourself and your parent(s), or 2011 W-2s or 2010 tax returns and attend this session in MEZ 2.120 from 10 a.m. to noon for help completing your FAFSA.
Job Info Session
Attend this information session hosted by the Sanger Center in JES A121A from 5-6 p.m. to learn more about the variety of positions available for fall 2012.
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The Lorax
A premiere of the “The Lorax” on Art on 5th will also host a gallery of Seuss-inspired artwork. Gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Entrance is free.
Today in history In 1963 The Hula-Hoop, a hip-swiveling toy that became a huge fad is patented by Wham O’s cofounder Arthur “Spud” Melin.
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Campaigns work to end casual use of the “R-word” By Andrew Messamore Daily Texan Staff
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The Center for Sustainable Development’s film series presents “King Corn,” a feature documentary about a subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. A studentfacilitated discussion follows. The event will be held from 7-10 p.m. in GOL 2.110.
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One-man band, Mr. Jo Jangles, a frequent performer in Austin, sang both originals and covers to a crowd of adults and children at the Zilker Park Kite Festival Sunday afternoon. Jangles joked with his audience and interacted with the children that danced to his performance.
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After prominent usage of the word “retarded” in the popular movie “ Tropic Thunder,” the disabled community has strongly increased its efforts to end use of the word, Jim Patton, faculty adviser for Best Buddies UT, said. Tears, laughter and applause greeted those affected by the word “retarded,” who spoke out at the “Spread the Word to End the Word” event Sunday evening, hosted by Best Buddies UT. Best Buddies is an organization that assists people with intellectual and developmental disabilities by pairing them with volunteer “buddies.” The organization invited Austinites to speak before activists, UT students and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the Student Activities Center ballroom to help end the usage of the “R-word.” The word is widely used, but
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Texas Independence Day celebrated around Austin By Liz Farmer and Paxton Quade Daily Texan Staff
From readings of Alamo letters to dancing by a folklorico troupe, families celebrated Texas Independence this weekend at the state Capitol and other locations around the state. The non-profit corporation Celebrate Texas arranged the Texas-themed events in Austin for the 11th year. The festivities kicked off on Friday with cultural performances in the Capitol rotunda, continued on Saturday with a 5K run and parade and ended on Sunday with a ceremony to observe those who fought in the Battle of the Alamo. The Texas Revolution for independence from Mexican rule began with the Battle of Gonzales in October 1835 and ended on April 21, 1836 at the Battle of San Jacinto. A committee presented the Texas Declaration of Indepen-
dence on March 2, 1836. James Bowie and William B. Travis commanded the Texas soldiers at the Battle at the Alamo on March 6, 1836. Although this battle ended in the annihilation of the Texas defenders, it is remembered for the soldiers’ perseverance against a much larger Mexican force. Charles Yates, president of the board of directors for Celebrate Texas and a Texas Army reenactment member, sported 1800s revolutionary attire including his white beard, a soldier coat, fringe pants and a straw hat. Yates read the letter Travis wrote at the Alamo on Feb. 24, 1836 as Santa Anna’s troops bombarded the former mission with cannon fire. Travis wrote that he would not surrender as Mexican commander Santa Anna demanded. “I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls — I shall never surrender or retreat,” Travis wrote. “Then, I call
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SPJST, a Czech fraternal organization, dances inside the Capitol in celebration of Texas’ 176th Independence Day Friday afternoon.
on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism and every thing dear to the American character, to come to our aid.” Yates said the celebration
transcends the Texas Revolution and later the Vietnamese immiand is really an observation of the grants were seeking a new beginvarious cultures that have come ning just as Texas revolutionaries to the state seeking a new haven. Yates said the German settlers TEXAS continues on PAGE 2
UT opens its doors to the community Dr. Seuss’ birthday brings
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Explore UT, known as “The Biggest Open House in Texas,” gives prospective UT students a chance to explore the behind the scenes of campus organizations. Thousands of prospective students, alumni and parents flooded campus Saturday as part of the 13th annual university-wide effort to encourage visitors from around the state to experience a day as a Longhorn. People of all ages attended the event, from young children to alumni. Douglas Dempster, dean of the College of Fine Arts, organized the event and said the purpose of Explore UT is to allow students of all backgrounds to realize that they are welcome at UT. “This is about encouraging kids to think seriously about going to college, many of whom have never had an experience on a college campus before,” he said.
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College of Fine Arts students practice woodblock printing by using a steamroller at Explore UT on Saturday.
“We’re letting kids know that if they work hard enough they can get here.” Dempster said he feels the event is important because it opens UT’s campus to anyone. He said it also helps remind current students and staff how fortu-
nate they are to be at UT. “The very fact we’re opening the doors and saying ‘everybody’s welcome’ sends a huge message out into the community. For all of us who work and attend school
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The 108th birthday of the late Dr. Seuss sparked celebrations and excitement for the children’s book author. Bee Cave Public Library held the seventh annual “Seuss on the Loose” Saturday to honor the birthday of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known for his pen name, Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss fans of all ages gathered to read stories, play games and hear live music in celebration of the legendary author’s birthday. Although Geisel died in 1991, his books have continued to inspire children to expand their imaginations through reading, said Bee Cave Public Library director Barbara Hathaway. The latest film adapation of Seuss’ work, “The Lorax” opened in theaters Friday. “The turnout has just been so great every year,” Hathaway said. “The first
time we did this in 2006 we were in a little portable building and 50 people showed up. Now there are hundreds. Everyone just loves Dr. Seuss.” Hathaway said the celebration is part of the National Education Association’s Read Across America Program with libraries all over the country hosting Dr. Seuss events. Bee Cave Mayor Caroline Murphy participated and led children in the Reader’s Oath, a promise to read every day to “feed my brain.” “Studies have shown reading every day has led to children making better grades in school and going on to have better lives,” Murphy said. “This is a beautiful day to be in our library and celebrate the life of a man who influenced so many people.” Popular children’s singer Joe McDermott provided music and entertainment during the event and encouraged kids to get up,
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dance and sing. McDermott said that Dr. Seuss was a great influence to both himself and his friend, the late Stan Berenstain, co-author of the “Berenstain Bears” children’s books. “I worked with Stan a lot on my music and Dr. Seuss was the one that talked him into writing children’s books. Dr. Seuss discussed ideas to Stan, and Stan would discuss those ideas with me,” McDermott said. “There is a lot of direct Dr. Seuss influence in my music.” Catie Balagia said her three year-old daughter has “The Cat in Hat” memorized and it has helped her make observations about the world. “We’ll just be sitting in the car and she’ll be like, ‘What rhymes with cat? Hat, sat, rat,’” Balagia said. “She knows all the characters and always wants to read the stories and do the activities to go along with them.” Balagia said even as an adult she enjoys reading the stories because they are the same ones she grew up with. “Dr. Seuss stories have been around so long they have influenced almost everyone alive today,” she said. Undeclared freshman Annie Chang said she loves Dr. Seuss and has never met anyone who does not. “Dr. Seuss is epic,” Chang said. “He has a lot of stories with lessons that carry on through your life. You read it when you’re a child and remember the message and go back to it as an adult to teach your kids.”
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Neighborhood gas leak forces residents to evacuate A construction crew broke a gas line near 39th Street and Jefferson Street on Friday causing the Austin Fire Department to take precautionary measures by evacuating 12 residences, said fire department captain Matt Cox. Cox said the crew called the fire department as soon as they punctured the 4-6 inch gas line at about 9:30 a.m. in what Cox described as an “old residential area of Austin.” “They saw that they had broken it as soon as it happened,” Cox said. “They called us right away, and we started evacuating.” Cox said police and fire department officials responded to the scene and blocked all roads allowing access to the area. Residents were allowed back into their houses by about noon when fire department officials began to clear the scene, Cox said. “A Texas Gas [Service] construction crew was still there when we left,” Cox said. “But the situation was under control by noon.” — Sarah White
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Erica Brody, left, a senior and member of Best Buddies, interacts with Penny Mowery in the SAC ballroom Sunday afternoon. Best Buddies is promoting the campaign “Spread the Word, to End the Word” that will hopefully end the usage of the “R-word.”
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ence would be able to see the living effect of the pejorative use of “retarded.” “A lot of us have been campaigning for the end of the word ‘retarded’ for 30 years, but it doesn’t matter how many people I talk to,” Patton said. “It’s so much more powerful to hear from the people that are affected.” The movement has had a major victory in the passage of “Rosa’s Law,” which has removed the term “mentally retarded” from all official federal documents. Similar legislation has also eliminated the usage of “mentally retarded” on the state level in Texas. Boyce Gundrlch, a person with intellectual disabilities who spoke at the Capitol against the
word, said he hopes “retarded” will soon fall out of public use. “I believe the ‘R-word’ should not be used at all,” Gundrlch said. “If I can [campaign to] stop the ‘R-word’ from being used, then anybody else can.” Biochemistry senior Srinath Senguttuvan, who has been a member of Best Buddies UT for a year, said people often have little contact with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, causing them to misunderstand the word “retarded.” “When I joined Best Buddies it really opened my eyes, because before I had few interactions with [people with intellectual and developmental disabilities],” Senguttuvan said. “Just
town was you’re going to get four old rednecks in a pickup truck, but 4,000 people showed up,” Yates said. Yates said Celebrate Texas wants people from around the world to visit the state for Texas Independence Day. “They can all go put on a cowboy hat and go two-stepping,” Yates said. Nine-year-old Texan Kimberly Neumann looked on with her parents as the dancers twirled in the middle of the Capitol. Neumann is homeschooled in the East Texas town of Wildwood and visited the Capitol to help her with a class project on Texas history. She said
the experience helps broaden her understanding in a way that textbooks cannot. “Through the pictures you can’t see much,” Neumann said. “It’s different from where I live. You see new things — what happened in our history.” Martha Zumwalt attended the Alamo Ceremony on the South Capitol ground on Sunday. She said her ancestors were tied to the revolutionary efforts so she wanted to attend to honor her family’s history. “It’s my history and my family’s history and I’m proud to be a Texas woman,” Zumwalt said. “The history shaped who we are.”
be on a campus like this,” he said. Dempster said the one thing he wants people to take away from Explore UT is that anyone can be a Longhorn. “Everyone is welcome here, everyhere, we forget how much of a privilege and how special it is to one has a stake in what goes on here,” he said. “That’s the message we’re trying to send.” Kelly Elementar y S chool counselor Kiana Cantu said she thinks Explore UT is an important opportunity for children Books of Value Bought and Sold who do not have an educated 6009 Burnet Road / 512-275-6430
family background. Cantu and 22 children from the Kelly Student Council traveled from San Antonio to attend the event. “Our goal was to expose them to the University and [show] that they can go to college, whether or not they have the funds,” she said. “We want them to explore their options and what they want to eventually do.” Cantu said the children’s experience at Explore UT will greatly influence their views of college. “I definitely think this experience will have a huge impact on them in the long run. In bringing them here, we’re hoping that they set a goal of coming back as stu-
most do not realize how insulting its usage is to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, Patton said. “I don’t think a lot of the people who use the word ‘retarded’ really know how hurtful it can be,” Patton said. “There’s no question how powerful language is, and when someone in your family has Down syndrome, that word resonates and carries a much deeper meaning.” Patton said by having people affected by the “R-word” speak, Best Buddies hoped the audi-
TEXAS continues from PAGE 1 Sam Houston and Davy Crockett set out to find. “Texas is the land of the great second chance,” Yates said. “They came to start over. We should celebrate that.” He said Celebrate Texas began with a generation that grew up commemorating Texas Independence, but he and others did not know if the observance would catch on with younger Texans. “At first the feeling around
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interacting with my buddy once or twice a month does a lot, and though changing the usage of ‘retarded’ is slow, if everyone does their part it can happen.” Helena Rogers, an Austin resident with intellectual disabilities who spoke at the event, said the word “retarded” has been an impediment, but that she still will overcome the difficulties associated with the word. “I have been made fun of by school kids since I was born, and I was fired from a job for not being able to work fast enough,” Rogers said. “But I’ve learned to not let my difficulties affect my greatness. A person is a person no matter how small, and deep down we are like anybody else.”
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dents. They’ve been here, they can do it again,” she said. T h e r e w e r e m a ny y o u n g children on campus for the e vent , i nclud i ng ni ne - ye arold triplets Severin, Sean and Sky Lucic, who enjoyed the science events. “I want to study space so one day I might be able to go to a planet,” Sky said. “Probably Mars or Venus.” His brother, Sean, said he w ant s to s tu dy DNA w h e n he comes to UT. He said one day he will find the cures for various diseases. “I don’t know if I’m going to find the cure for cancer or AIDS, but it’s not impossible,” he said.
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NEWS BRIEFLY Tornados ravish Indiana town, death toll limited to only 12 SCOTTSBURG, Ind. — Officials in Indiana have lowered the state’s death toll from Friday’s tornado outbreak to 12 people from the previous 14 and are now concentrating on cleanup work. State police Sgt. Ray Poole said Sunday officials in southern Indiana’s Scott County have told the state Department of Homeland Security that the county had one death rather than the three they first reported. Poole says he doesn’t know the reasons for the confusion. All the Indiana deaths happened in the southern part of the state near Louisville, Ky.
Limbaugh’s sexist remarks evoke Republican responses MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Intensifying debate over conservative social values — and Republican icon Rush Limbaugh — overshadowed the nation’s economic concerns Sunday as the Republican presidential campaign hurtled toward Super Tuesday contests that could re-shape the nomination battle and shift the direction of the Grand Old Party. Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum distanced themselves from Limbaugh, who boasts a huge conservative following and recently apologized for calling a Georgetown University law student a “slut” and a “prostitute” on his nationally syndicated radio program. The woman testified at a congressional hearing in favor of an Obama administration mandate that employee health plans include free contraceptive coverage. While religious institutions are exempt, their affiliates, such as hospitals and universities, were at first included in the requirement. Under harsh criticism from conservatives, President Barack Obama later said the affiliates could opt out, but insurers must pay for the coverage. The GOP framed the issue as one of religious liberty. But Obama’s chief political strategist suggested the Limbaugh’s reaction — and Republicans slow repudiation of his comments — would benefit Democrats in the general election this fall.
Two trains collide in Poland creating chaos, killed 16 SZCZECHOCINY, Poland — Two trains running on the same track collided head-on in southern Poland in a shower of sparks, killing 16 people and injuring 58 in the country’s worst train disaster in more than 20 years. The crash near Krakow turned cars at the front of each train into heaps of mangled metal and toppled others on their sides. Neighbors in the town of Szczechociny alerted by what they said sounded like a bomb rushed to the scene to smash open windows, and survivors emerged in a state of shock, many crying out for help and carrying baggage. One of the trains was on the wrong track. Maintenance work was being done on the tracks before the accident, but officials said it’s too early to determine the cause of the disaster.
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MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin swept Sunday’s presidential election to return to the Kremlin and extend his hold over Russia for six more years, incomplete returns showed. His eyes brimming with tears, he defiantly proclaimed to a sea of supporters that they had triumphed over opponents intent on “destroying Russia’s statehood and usurping power.” Putin’s win was never in doubt as many across the vast country still see him as a guarantor of stability and the defender of a strong Russia against a hostile world, an image he has carefully cultivated during 12 years in power. Accounts by independent observers of extensive vote-rigging, however, looked set to strengthen the resolve of opposition forces whose unprecedented protests in recent months have posed the first serious challenge to Putin’s heavy-handed rule. Another huge demonstration was set for Monday evening in central Moscow. With fewer than a quarter of the votes counted, Putin spoke to tens of thousands of supporters at a rally just outside the Kremlin walls. Many of them were government workers or employees of state-owned companies who had been ordered to attend. Putin, 59, said the election showed that “our people can easily distinguish a desire for renewal and revival from political provocations aimed at destroying Russia’s statehood and
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Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, left, flanked by President Dmitry Medvedev, has tears in his eyes as he addresses a massive rally of his supporters at Manezh square outside Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia on Sunday.
usurping power.” The wave of protests began after a December parliamentary election in which observers produced evidence
of widespread vote fraud. Protest ral- growing exasperation with the pervalies in Moscow drew tens of thousands sive corruption and tight controls over in the largest outburst of public anger political life under Putin. in post-Soviet Russia, demonstrating Golos, Russia’s leading elections
watchdog, said it received numerous reports of “carousel voting,” in which busloads of voters are driven around to cast ballots multiple times.
BP’s $7.6b settlement to gulf workers is the first part of repayment By Chris Kahn, Jonathan Faheyz and Michael Kunzelman The Associated Press
NEW YORK — BP’s multibilliondollar settlement with people and businesses harmed by its 2010 oil spill removes some uncertainty about the potential financial damages it faces. It also may help the company restore its all-important relationship with the federal government. Although the oil company still has a few major legal and financial hurdles to overcome nearly two years after the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the tentative settlement with plaintiff ’s lawyers sends important signals to investors, Gulf Coast states and federal regulators. Where once it seemed conceivable that BP’s spill-related costs could reach $200 billion, lawyers and industry analysts now say that figure will likely be less than a quarter that amount. If the class-action lawsuit by victims had gone to trial, BP could have faced much higher costs along with the embarrassment of having to publicly rehash earlier mistakes. The settlement, which BP estimates will cost $7.8 billion, also shows its willingness to pay a huge sum to resolve issues related to the spill. That may improve its standing with the federal government, which controls access to oil reserves that are critically important to BP’s future. “The only trial I thought we would see in this case is the one that just
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went away,” said David Uhlmann, a University of Michigan law professor. A blowout of the Macondo well in April 2010 destroyed a drilling rig called the Deepwater Horizon. That killed 11 workers, spilled an estimated 200 million gallons of oil and disrupted thousands of Gulf Coast lives and businesses. The spill soiled sensitive tidal estuaries and beaches, killed wildlife and closed vast areas of the Gulf to commercial fishing. The settlement announced Friday would apply to tens of thousands of victims along the Gulf Coast, including fishermen who lost work and cleanup workers who got sick. It still needs approval in federal court. BP expects to pay the victims using the remainder of a trust fund that the company had established to pay these
types of claims. The trust has $9.5 billion in assets left out of an initial $20 billion. Whatever remains would return to BP. Friday’s deal does not resolve lawsuits with federal, state and local governments or address environmental damage. Those other claims could total up to $25 billion. BP, which is based in London, says it doesn’t expect to have to add to the $37.2 billion it has set aside to fund the trust and pay for other spill costs. Although some analysts expect BP to have to pay more eventually, the total would be much less than initially feared. Some residents dissatisfied with the claims process under the trust fund are hoping the settlement makes it easier to receive compensation.
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Monday, March 5, 2012 | THE DAILY TEXAN | Viviana Aldous, Editor-in-Chief | (512) 232-2212 | editor@dailytexanonline.com
QUOTES TO NOTE Editor’s note: From the recent city council decision to ban disposable bags to Ted Nugent’s endorsement of Mitt Romney for president, these are among our favorite quotes from the past several days.
“The University does not tolerate sexual harassment in any form, and we have a strong policy that prohibits it. ... We began investigating these allegations as soon as we learned about them and took appropriate action.” — Patricia Ohlendorf, UT Vice President for legal affairs, on the termination of
Cleve Bryant, an associate athletic director for football operations, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
“If we allow the dance team on Kyle Field, or a woman to hold the position of yell leader just to get with the times and modernize, how are we different than any other school in the nation? ... If we allow one, what is to stop the other from happening?” — A&M University student Tim Bardin, on the candidacy of female student Samantha Ketcham for yell leader. Traditionally, yell leaders at A&M have been solely male.
“This is about Austin reclaiming its position as the national leader in environmental protection. This ordinance is forward-looking. It may have taken a few years, but we got it right.” — Rick Cofer, vice chairman of the city’s Zero Waste Advisory Commission,
on the coming ban on single-use shopping bags in Austin, according to the Austin American-Statesman. Early Friday morning, the Austin City Council unanimously voted to ban the use of single-use plastic and paper bags in city retail stores, with certain exceptions. The ban will take effect in March 2013.
“If the real Rick Perry had been at those debates, he would still be in the race. … Whatever occurred at those early debates that caused the real Rick Perry to take a back seat to whoever that was literally caused my wife to cry. We thought, ‘Has he been advised by idiots?’ To this day, we still don’t know what happened.” — Ted Nugent on his recent decision to endorse Mitt Romney in the Republican
presidential primary. Nugent expressed regret that Gov. Perry was no longer in the race, according to the Texas Tribune.
“Obamacare’s latest mandate tramples the First Amendment’s freedom of religion and compels people of faith to act contrary to their convictions. The president’s so-called ‘accommodation’ was nothing but a shell game.” — Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott last Thursday, on President Barack
Obama’s contraception mandate, according to a press release. The attorney general’s office joined six other states in legally challenging the mandate..
“It’s regrettable that graduation rates have become such a handy weapon to use against institutions that serve low-income and first-generation students.” — UT El Paso President Diana Natalicio on the pressure to improve four-year
graduation rates at Texas colleges, according to the Texas Tribune. UT El Paso graduates only 10 percent of its students in four years. Richard Vedder, a professor of economics at Ohio University and vocal critic of Texas higher education, has openly questioned why the school is being kept open in light of its low graduation and high dropout rates.
Ask for more than either/or By Drew Finke Daily Texan Columnist
Two weeks ago at the University of Michigan, Tadeusz Patzek, chair of UT’s Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, debated John Hofmeister, former Shell Oil CEO, about how to deal with the diminishing availability of cheap oil. Hofmeister brashly declared that enough sources of carbon-based energy exist to sustain our current manner of living, if only there is enough political will to exploit it. The more soft-spoken Patzek explained that such actions would have environmental costs that could outweigh the benefits of the energy produced. Both speakers placed blame on governments for failing to enact long-term energy policies. They did, however, disagree on the ways in which these failures would affect ordinary citizens. Patzek implored members of the audience to think ahead and start making small changes in the way they live that could help them adapt to a future with less abundant, more expensive energy. Hofmeister rejected the idea that Americans should have to make any lifestyle changes, but should instead tell their government to permit more aggressive domestic oil and coal extraction. While the debate was billed as a discussion about energy policy, its proceedings demonstrated as much about the participants’ attitudes toward compromise as it did their opinions on the future of energy. Hofmeister’s position offered a narrow set of solutions that precluded a more holistic examination of energy use. He accepted the status quo as unchangeable. Meanwhile, Patzek’s stance called for an examination of
current energy use as one of several solutions to the energy problem. Unfortunately, Hofmeister’s approach seems more common in practice. Western societies’ preference for simplicity and quick action instead of careful examination makes it difficult to explore a topic from multiple perspectives before implementing a solution. This tendency was demonstrated by UT students during the West Campus parking meter issue last fall, and is apparent again in discussions surrounding tuition and graduation rates. Affordability was the rallying cry used against parking meters in West Campus after the city proposed adding several hundred parking meters in the neighborhood last year. The discussion portrayed residents of West Campus who owned cars as victims of a greedy city intent on taxing students. Students expressed concern that paying for parking would be a difficult financial burden. However, nowhere in the dialogue stemming from the parking meter issue was it acknowledged that many students living in West Campus cannot afford to own a car at all, regardless of whether parking is free. While the parking meter issue could have been an opportunity to discuss the mobility challenges facing cash-strapped university students, it instead focused on preserving a status quo that favors those students who can afford car ownership. Parking in West Campus may be difficult, but getting around Austin for those who cannot afford to drive is, in some cases, impossible. By focusing so narrowly on parking, the discussion failed to address the larger, and arguably more pressing, concerns of overall student mobility. Moving forward, students should not so
easily pass up opportunities to examine the deeper challenges behind attention-grabbing issues. After the publication of the report by the Task Force on Undergraduate Graduation Rates, students around campus could be heard grumbling about how the report’s recommendations would inconvenience them. And while some of the language used in the report calls into question the Task Force’s understanding of students’ perception of the issue, this should not be used as justification to reject the report outright. The graduation rates issue is a complicated one that is closely linked to college affordability. Instead of rejecting changes to the status quo as hostile personal attacks, students should consider the issue from a perspective that goes beyond their personal convenience and individual needs. By rushing to form an opinion, students run the risk of making a decision before they have had the opportunity to fully understand the issue. Although students’ lives are busy, and sometimes just getting homework finished before class can feel like a major accomplishment, it is in all of our best interests to make some time to open our minds and examine important issues from a perspective other than our own or other than the one which was first presented to us. Just because a way of life or academic policy has become familiar doesn’t mean that it is the only solution. Although politics in Washington favors extreme positions and no room for compromise, this system seems to produce little more than gridlock and further polarization. As students, we would be wise to avoid this strategy when dealing with campus issues. Finke is an architecture and urban studies senior
More than loving your body By Larisa Manescu Daily Texan Columnist
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In conjunction with National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, University Health Services (UHS) promoted its annual “Love your body week” campaign last week. The purpose of the UHS campaign is to stimulate discussion and raise awareness about body image, health and general nutrition through various events, workshops and exhibits. While UHS’s week-long mission has good intentions, the scheduled programs are doing too little to bring meaningful attention to issues that are both important and widespread. Little information about the real and complex nature of various eating disorders — anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, overeating and binge eating are among the most common — is transmitted when life-size Barbie and Ken mannequins are propped up to show the physically impossible proportions of their bodies, or when jean donations are asked for to encourage students to get rid of jeans that are too small for them. These methods send the same, oft-repeated message: people should focus on embracing their bodies, cast aside unrealistic expectations and engage in healthy activities to lose weight. Although the Barbie/Ken exhibit and jean donation are creative ideas that admittedly attract attention, the message broadcast across campus during this annual week needs to take a more nuanced approach than a simple admonishment to “Love your body.” A more effective message would recognize that permanently moving away from unhealthy habits is not easy or quick, and it doesn’t come about because of a sudden epiphany that one’s current actions are unhealthy or dangerous. Telling people that having a negative body image is unrealistic doesn’t change minds overnight.
That message doesn’t aid someone with an eating disorder in confronting the underlying causes of his or her mental disorder, one of which may be that eating disorders often act as defense mechanisms. People don’t pick up or drop eating disorders instantaneously, but rather develop them as a response to feeling overwhelmed. The disorder can often act as a method of controlling an aspect of one’s life in circumstances where a sense of more general control may be lacking. In this sense, telling a person that struggles with an eating disorder that they are being “unrealistic” is futile, especially if they view that as a challenge for increased control. Additionally, without the proper information, people who don’t suffer from eating disorders cannot understand the intricate nature of them. With this knowledge, they would be better able to react and perhaps give comforting, informed and realistic advice when they realize a friend or acquaintance is struggling with an eating disorder. “Love your body week” should leave a significant, memorable impact on the minds of students. Committing to fully exploring the issue and avoiding skimming the surface of it — by showing photos of photo-shopped models or explaining how rapid weight loss is unhealthy, for example — is critical to accomplish this goal. This type of exposure isn’t bad, considering that it covers the “body image” dimension of eating disorders. However, it propagates the misconception that eating disorders are entirely about weight loss, while ignoring the convoluted thought processes of the victim. To be more beneficial to students, “Love your body week” must expose all dimensions of eating disorders, addressing the foundation of negative body image. Manescu is a journalism and international relations freshman
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Contaminated fish endanger residents By Christopher Sherman The Associated Press
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A student practices CPR on a baby doll at a CPR training class held by the American Red Cross Club Saturday. The course gave citizens the opportunity to learn the life-saving technique at a discounted price.
CPR training prepares participants for crisis By David Leffler Daily Texan Staff
CPR training teaches critical life-saving skills crucial to survival in the face of unexpected medical emergencies. T he Ame r i c an R e d C ro ss Club of UT put on their 10th annual mass CPR training on Saturday with over 100 earning certifications. The training was funded by UT and provided all students, staff members and Austinites the opportunity to learn CPR at a discounted cost. CPR, or cardiopulmonary resuscitation, is an emergency procedure which aims to manually sustain bodily function until further medical services can be provided.
Sarah Weise, UT Red Cross member and advertising senior, said it is important for people to learn CPR because it can be extremely useful, especially at a school the size of UT. “With such a large student body, an emergency can happen any time and any place,” she said. “We want everyone to be confident they can handle those types of situations.” Weise said students learning CPR would also make students likely to be more attentive of potential emergencies around them. “It would def initely make people more aware of their surroundings,” she said. “We want p eople to know w hat to do and what to look for in case
anything were to ever happen.” Weise said providing CPR training to students and staff m a k e s t h e c a mp u s a m o r e protected place. “I think anyone would feel safer knowing the people around t h e m a r e t r a i n e d i n C P R ,” she said. Latin American studies f reshman Rosalva Medina said CPR is useful because of t he unpre dic t able nature of emergencies. “You never know when someone might need help from you, w het her t he y’re chok ing or something else,” she said. “For you to be certified in that area — for you to actually know what you’re doing — it can help save a life.”
Medina said she thinks that h a v i n g C P R- c e r t i f i e d s t u dents and staff around campus will reduce the fears of many anxious parents. “I t hin k it’s imp or t ant in h e l p i n g t o p u t at e a s e t h e minds of worrisome mothers, knowing that there are people around who can assist people in need, including their children,” she said. Medina said she thinks the most important aspect of being CPR cer t if ie d is t hat it gives you the confidence and knowledge to stay calm in emergencies. “If you’re prepared and know the steps to take, then once a situation aris es you’ ll know what to do,” she said.
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DONNA, Texas — Signs bearing a skull and crossbones dot the banks of a reservoir and canal near this town on the U.S.-Mexico border, but the fishermen standing in the reeds nearby ignore them, casually reeling in fish that are contaminated with toxic chemicals and banned for human consumption. Some do it to quell their hunger, others to make some cash by selling the carp, catfish and gar in nearby neighborhoods. “It’s a great little lake,” says Joe Garcia, 43, among those fishing here one day recently, where a carp with the highest levels of toxic PCB chemicals ever tested in a fish was caught years ago. He says he throws back his catch but a lot of others here can’t afford to pass up the meal. The reservoir is one of thousands of sites along the U.S.-Mexico border where industry, pesticide use and population growth left hazards in past decades that still await solutions. Donna is among the worst — earning a place on the Environmental Protection Agency’s priority list — and illustrates how slowly the government cleanup process moves and how those struggling for subsistence in poor areas like this sometimes do not wait. Four years after the site made the priority list, the EPA plans to begin soon extensive sampling of the water, sediment and fish to plan a clean up. But with limited funds and an elaborate process, the effort could take years. Donna reservoir is surrounded by fields of swaying sugarcane and green leafy rows of celery. Workers who toil in migrant agriculture live in trailer homes and campers that border the canal. Some stubbornly believe they can cook the chemicals out of the fish, state environmental officials say. “There are too many low-income families here that may make a living selling this stuff,” said Juan Salazar, 41.
State and federal officials have repeatedly gone door-to-door to warn residents since PCB contamination was discovered in 1993. Twice federal authorities used electric charges to kill more than 35,000 fish in the reservoir and the 6-and-a-half mile canal that brings water from the Rio Grande. But the fish — at least 22 species, including tilapia and largemouth bass — repopulate. Officials believe many area residents fish there to supplement their diet. But in the fatty tissue of the fish are polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs, an industrial residue apparently emanating from something dumped in the canal years ago. Officials say it could be a submerged piece of machinery but haven’t been able to find it. PCBs have been banned in the U.S. since 1979 after causing cancer in animal testing. However, the health impact on those eating Donna reservoir fish is unknown because no health survey has been conducted. A 2010 study by Texas Department of State Health Services estimated nearly 4,000 people living within a onemile radius. The EPA is planning a community meeting in late March to begin the process that could lead to a cleanup plan. Though nearly a dozen people were interviewed for this story, only one admitted to eating the fish he caught, but he then declined to speak further — there is a $500 fine for taking the fish, but not if you throw them back. Officials said some men in the area tend to shrug off the danger but women have been more receptive. Rafael Casanova, EPA project manager, said a pregnant woman he talked to during a local canvas told him she had bought lake fish from someone selling it in the neighborhood. When he described the health danger, “She was very impressed by that,” he said. “I felt good about that one.”
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A fest above the rest By Reihaneh Hajibeigi Daily Texan Staff
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A participant in the 84th annual Zilker Park Kite Festival climbs a tree to free his kite after it got stuck in the branches. The festival annually attracts thousands of visitors and citizens of all ages, but began in 1929 as a way to encourage creativity in children.
Hundreds of colorful, ornate kites covered the skies of Zilker Park Sunday for Austin’s 84th annual charity kite festival. The Zilker Park Kite Festival, the nation’s oldest kite festival, was started in 1929 by the Exchange Club of Austin and holds contests and activities for the Austin community while raising money for charitable organizations. This year, an estimated 20,000 people participated. The hefty price of putting on the long-lasting springtime festival, which can cost at least $70,000 a year, was alleviated by the city of Austin’s sponsorship, said Bunnie Tidwell, co-chair of the festival committee and member of the Exchange Club. Tidwell said the city sponsorship waived a large portion of the fees the organization was responsible for, which included event permits, parking, law enforcement and clean-up. She said numerous other sponsors contributed to the event in addition to the city. Avni Chopra, festival volunteer and finance senior, said she loved helping out at the festival because
of the lively atmosphere and the benefits to the community. “It was like one big carnival. There was food, entertainment and plenty to do,” she said. While the event is free for the public, all revenue generated by concession stands, t-shirt sales and company sponsors will go to benefit the Pebble Project, which sends teachers to elementary school to educate students about personal safety to prevent child abuse, Tidwell said. The festival has supported a wide variety of charitable organizations in the past but always aims at supporting the children in the Austin community, Tidwell said. “This kite festival is the same as it was when the Exchange Club began it in 1929,” she said. “There aren’t a lot of free events around Austin that appeal to families, so we make sure to continue constructive activities like this for kids.” Chris Chase said this was her third year attending the festival, and it has ne ver disappointed her. “I love photography, and the kids love being here,” Chase said. “It’s great to get everybody outside to spend time together.”
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Mariah DelaRosa flies a kite while her family looks on at the 84th annual Kite Festival in Zilker Park.
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Evan Davies, bottom right, drums with his friend Becky Karaco in the shade of a rock ledge overlooking Zilker Park. Kite flyers rested by the rocks to catch their breath and listen to music played by festival-goers who brought instruments.
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A variety of interesting and unusual kites were seen all across the sky at the festival. The kite contest this year started at 1 p.m. and included about 9 categories.
It was like one big carnival. There was food, entertainment and plenty to do. — Avni Chopra, festival volunteer Tamir Kalifa | Daily Texan Staff
Jason Lee tosses his son Bryan in the air at the 84th annual Zilker Park Kite Festival. Children’s activities, climbing walls, hoola hoops, bubbles, and eclectic music made the festival a destination for thousands of families Sunday afternoon. Onlookers gaze up at Bryson Beyer, 8, as he takes off on the bunjee jump. The kid’s area drew heavy lines throughout the day.
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Adriana Acuna, 4, and brother Preston, 3, eat popsicles to cool off at the Zilker Park Kite Festival Sunday afternoon. Their family came to play and did not know about the festival until they arrived.
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Kansas forward Thomas Robinson led the Jayhawks with 25 points and 14 rebounds to a 7363 win over the Longhorns on Saturday, effectively forcing Texas’ NCAA tournament hopes on the shoulders of its performance in the Big 12 tournament. Kansas’ squad of pro-ready athletes put Texas away in the second half on the heels of Robinson’s 18 points that period. In his last regular season game at home, senior guard Tyshawn Taylor added 22 points, including 14 in the second half, and four assists that paced the Jayhawks. J’Covan Brown did all he could to keep his team in the mix, notching 33 points on 9-18 shooting, but Texas couldn’t get its younger players in on the mix. The Longhorn freshmen combined for just 16 points. “I felt like we were right there in the beginning,” Brown said. “In the second half, we just made some mistakes to break the lead open [for Kansas].” Texas was only down 21-26 at the half, but the third-best team in the country had arguably the best player in the country to pace the Jayhawks. “He’s the best player in the country,” Texas forward Clint Chapman said of Robinson. “He took advantage of every opportunity that we
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J’Covan Brown, 14, struggles to get a shot off against Kansas guard Merv Lindsay, 22, during the Longhorns’ loss on Saturday in Lawrence, Kansas. The Jayhawks beat Texas for the second time this season and prevented the Longhorns from getting their first signature win of the season.
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Senior guard Ashley Fontenette shoots over the defense in the Longhorns’ win over the Aggies on Sunday.
Yvonne Anderson turned in the best performance of her career on Sunday afternoon. In her final home game as a Longhorn and in Texas’ last scheduled meeting with Texas A&M, the senior guard helped Texas keep its NCAA tournament hopes alive. Anderson had a career-high 25 points and added nine assists and three steals as the Longhorns defeated the Aggies, 79-64, in the final game of the regular season. The win gave Texas head coach Gail Goestenkors her first season sweep of Texas A&M since taking over the program prior to the 2007-2008 season.
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Bruins tosses no-hit shutout By Garrett Callahan Daily Texan Staff
The Longhorns breezed through a three-game sweep of visiting Sam Houston State this weekend. Texas flexed its muscle in every part of the field and completely dominated all three games to improve to 17-1. The Longhorns gave up only two runs while scoring 25. Texas ended the series with a no-hit shutout by junior Kim Bruins to give the team the sweep. UT pitchers allowed five hits total in the series. Blaire Luna led the Longhorns Kim Bruins takes a swing during Texas’ sweep of Sam Houston State. The pitcher threw a shutout and drove in two runs in the three game series.
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in their opening game on Friday afternoon with a season high 13 strikeouts as Texas won, 5-0. While giving up only two hits, Luna lowered her ERA to 0.81 and brought her strikeout tally to 72. The energy level for the Longhorns was a big part of the game. Coming off a hard practice Thursday night, they were able to keep up their intensity during this heavy stretch in the season. Saturday ended just as well for Texas as Friday did. The team was led by Courtney Craig, the senior out of California, who went two for four. Craig homered and drove in
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three runs. Texas outhit the Bearkats, 11-3. UT stole a season-high six bases in the game, including three by junior Taylor Hoagland, which led the team to the win. “We try to work [live reads] in practice but you don’t always get them simulated like you do in the game,” said Longhorns head coach Connie Clark. “We have a high percentage of kids that have great speed and great intelligence on the bases, and we like to take advantage of that.” As the Longhorns came into
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“Texas played with a sense of urgency today,” said Texas A&M head coach Gary Blair. “It all starts with guard play, and their guards were just a lot better than ours. [Yvonne] Anderson played like she was playing for mom and dad today. And that was the biggest key in the ball game.” With his team’s regular season schedule complete, Anderson’s dad, Mike, who is the head men’s basketball coach at Arkansas, got the chance to see his daughter play for the first time this season. “It’s pretty special,” Anderson said before the game. “I don’t want to put any more pressure on myself. The fact that he gets to come on our senior night versus
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Texas drops two in Houston By Chris Hummer Daily Texan Staff
Texas’ weekend at the Houston College Classic started out well with an upset win over No. 5 Rice on Friday, but the rest of the three game set didn’t go as planned. No. 21 Texas (4-7) dropped its next game 5-4 to an unranked Tennessee (8-2) squad after its late inning rally came up short, and on Sunday Texas fell to another SEC team, No. 4 Arkansas. Coming into the three-gameset the Longhorn offense had been stagnant. As a team they were hitting only .195, but against the Owls (9-1) the bats woke up and the team exploded for 11 runs to pace the
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team to an 11-8 win. The two schools came into the fifth inning in a 3-3 tie, but that’s when the Texas strategy of manufacturing runs went into full swing, as they punched six runs in the inning. Center-fielder Tim Maitland got the inning started with a bunt single. From there, Erich Weiss singled and then Jonathan Walsh moved the runners over with a sac bunt. Alex Silver then came to the plate as a pinch hitter and came through with a double to right scoring both runners, putting Texas ahead 5-3. After an out, Jacob Felts walked to bring Jordan Etier to the plate.
Texas forward Alexis Wangmene will see a hand and wrist specialist today in San Antonio. The senior injured his left wrist in Saturday’s 73-63 loss at Kansas. Wangmene’s availability for the Big 12 tournament on Thursday and postseason play is uncertain. UT officials said Sunday that Wangmene’s status will be reevaluated after his appointment. The fifth-year senior is averaging 4.6 points and 4.7 rebounds per game this season. He is one of Texas’ best defenders. Wangmene injured his wrist in the second half against KU. He landed awkwardly on the wrist after colliding with Clint Chapman on the defensive end.
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Anderson leads UT in final home game By Nick Cremona Daily Texan Staff
If there’s a lesson to take away from the Longhorns’ win over the soon-to-be out of conference Aggies, it’s that senior guard Yvonne Anderson doesn’t mess around on senior night. Just ask Texas A&M head coach Gary Blair about how important Anderson is to the Longhorns. “Anderson played like she was playing for [head coach] Gail [Goestenkors] and her mom and dad today,” confessed Blair. “And that was the biggest key in the ball game.” The night honoring a team’s senior players comes but once in a player’s career, and Anderson wasn’t going to go out without a bang. She scored a career-high 25 points to go along with nine assists and three steals. Her nine assists helped set the tone of the game as she continually found her teammates in favorable positions on the court. To commemorate the special night, Yvonne’s father Mike was able to watch his daughter play at Texas for the first time in her four years with the program.
SWEEP continues from PAGE 7 their last game of the series, Bruins got the opportunity on the mound for Texas, and she took big advantage of it. The California native threw a nohit shutout, her second at UT. She tallied a career-high nine strikeouts in the game as Texas cruised to a 14-0 victory. The bats for the Longhorns were also hot as they recorded 17 hits in the run-ruled five-inning game. Texas scored three runs in each of the first two innings. In the third, UT batted through
Anderson served as Missouri’s head coach from 2006-2011 and is now head coach at Arkansas. Anderson’s dominant performance Sunday afternoon proves that the Longhorns can indeed win over elite teams. The win marks just the first time since 2004 that the Longhorns have swept the regular season conference series with the Aggies. Before the Longhorns’ win over the Aggies in College Station on Jan. 11 the Aggies had won 11 straight games in the series. “We know that during the season we didn’t do what we needed to be in, and I think with these last three games we were trying to show that we do deserve to be in,” Anderson said. Texas ends the regular season on a three-game win streak in conference play, its longest streak in the Big 12 this year. In the final three games, Anderson averaged 16.3 points, 5.6 rebounds and 6.6 assists. Her improved play has helped the Longhorns immensely down the stretch and has opened up more scoring opportunities for her teammates. “I think all the little things that we’ve have been preaching about like pushing the ball, play-
its lineup and scored six runs on seven hits. The Longhorns belted three home runs in the frame, including back-to-back homers by catcher Mandy Ogle and Craig. Senior Lexy Bennett also homered. She leads Texas with five homers this year. “ They have applied things they learned early in the season, and that’s the thing I’m most excited about,” Clark said. “Just applying the things they’ve learned early, becoming more patient, splitting the plate in half and looking for specific pitches; the offense has been amazing.” As the Longhorns look back on the weekend they can see they have a lot of strength in all parts of the field. Their defense
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Yvonne Anderson scans the court during Texas’ win over Texas A&M. Anderson scored a career-high 25 points in her final home game. The senior helped lead UT past the Aggies in the last scheduled meeting between the two teams.
ing with a sense of urgency, executing and taking care of the ball have really helped us in these last three games,” Anderson said. Now that the regular season is over, the Longhorns conference
and pitching has been impressive, while their offense continues to swing well at the plate. Texas will look to continue its torrid pace to the season when conference play begins on Tuesday as UT hosts Texas Tech.
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record is set in stone at 8-10, which isn’t all that impressive at first glance. Dive a bit deeper and it’s easy to see why the Texas staff thinks an at-large bid is all but a lock at this point. Of course, there’s still the conference
KANSAS continues from PAGE 7 have him with offensive rebounds and driving by guys.” Robinson wasn’t the only player bruising Texas in the paint. Kansas scored 30 points in the key, compared to 16 by Texas, and it outrebounded the Longhorns 36-29. Seven-footer Jeff Withey snagged six boards for Kansas and managed nine points. Chapman was one of many Longhorns brutalized by the bigman inside, and it hurt that the Longhorns couldn’t rely on their interior defensive specialist, Alexis Wangmene. Normally in-andout of the rotation because of
LOSSES continues from PAGE 7 Etier, who had been hitless on the season up to this point, delivered with a triple to left center field to score both runners. Brooks Marlow and Maitland both came up later in the inning and hit an RBI single to complete the inning. Texas gave up a few runs after that point, but the Owls were never able to mount enough of a comeback suffering their first loss of the season to the Longhorns. That momentum could not be sustained, however, as the team fell behind quickly to Tennessee on Saturday. They got so far behind in the first, allowing four runs, that they could not find a way to crawl back against a team they should have beat — at least on paper.
tournament to play. The Longhorns own the No. 8 seed in the conference tournament and will face No. 9 Texas Tech on Wednesday night. “We know what our goal is: to get into the NCAA Tournament and
obviously progress in the tournament,” Anderson said, “We’ve just been working more on the little things and have been attacking the boards more, had more of a sense of urgency, and we’ve hustled harder.”
consistent foul trouble, Wangmene left this contest at the start of the second period after sustaining a left wrist injury. Wangmene attempted to secure a defensive rebound, but came down wrapped up with a teammate and extended his hand to break his fall. There is no official timetable for his return, but the senior is expected to miss the remainder of the season. This is ominous news for the Longhorns as they prepare for the conference tournament. They are a young, undersized team that could have used all the help they could get in the coming week. Texas head coach Rick Barnes won’t say his team has a spot wrapped up for the NCAA tournament the following week, because he knows he’ll need a
nice conference tournament showing to breathe easier. However, he also believes that Texas’ showing in the nation’s second-best conference is enough to speak for itself. “I always believed it’s your body of work,” Barnes said. “I also have confidence in our league — if we’re the second-best league in the country, that’s where we are, I don’t know how [the Big 12] shouldn’t have six teams in [the NCAA tournament].” On Sunday, Texas was announced as the sixth seed in the Big 12 tournament where they will face No. 3 Iowa State. Texas faced Iowa State as a sixth seed as recently as 2010, when Brown was a freshman, but the Cyclones were the eleventh team in a field of twelve. Texas won that contest 82-75.
The four run deficit held up the whole game, until the ninth where a two out rally brought Texas to within a run at 5-4. But with a runner on third, sophomore Mark Payton popped out to second to end the game. On Sunday, Texas was looking for a win to give it a positive record at Minute Maid Park. But it wasn’t meant to be, as the Razorbacks jumped ahead of Texas early with two runs in the first. Texas came back to tie the game scoring a run in the second and the third innings. But then Arkansas’ bats started finding gaps and they scored four runs in the fourth inning to move ahead of the Longhorns for good. Arkansas would score an additional run in the fifth to move ahead 7-2 and the Longhorns would push across a runner in the sixth to cut the lead to four. But the comeback wasn’t to be, as they fell 7-3.
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A&M is pretty exciting.” Anderson wasn’t the only one to go out in style at the Frank Erwin Center on Sunday. Ashley Gayle and Ashleigh Fontenette, the other two Texas seniors honored before the game, each played a big role in the victory. Gayle had five rebounds, four points and three steals while Fontenette had 11 points and three assists. “I’m really proud of the seniors,” Goestenkors said. “They’ve done a great job when we had our backs against the wall in particular. I’m very happy for them because they deserve this, and they wanted to make sure that they will be going to the NCAA tournament and they’re doing everything in their power to make that happen.” Just a couple of weeks ago, after being blown out by No. 1 Baylor, it looked as if the Longhorns had let their tournament hopes slip away. Texas was a paltry 5-10 in conference play and, with tough opponents like Oklahoma and Texas A&M still left on the schedule, looked to be NIT bound. But much has changed since then. The Longhorns have won three in a row, by an average of 18 points each, and may have locked up a spot in the Big Dance. “We’ve been playing inspired basketball these last few games,” Goestenkors said. “We’re really peaking at the right time.” With the odds already in their favor, the Longhorns will look to cement their spot in the field of 64 with a strong showing in this weekend’s Big 12 Championships in Kansas City. Texas enters the tournament as the eighth seed and will face ninth seeded Texas Tech in the tournament opener on Wednesday evening. The winner of that game will face Baylor on Thursday. “You don’t want to take any chances and put the call into anyone else’s hands,” Goestenkors said. “We still feel that we need to go to the tournament and represent and do well.”
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The performance of the Longhorns mirrored Friday evening’s weather: clear and cool. In their first match as an ITA top 10 team, the ladies dominated Northwestern, winning 6-1. Of the nine matches of the night, the Longhorns emerged victorious in all but two. “I think it’s really just a number at this point in the season, but it’s nice to see that we’re playing some topnotch tennis,” head coach Patty Fendick-McCain said. “We’re having a lot of fun doing it.” Starting off strong in doubles play, the duos of Noel Scott and Lina Padegimaite, and Aeriel Ellis and Cierra Gaytan-Leach easily came out on top, winning 8-6 and 8-4 respectively. “I was really proud of the girls, especially with the way we started in the
doubles matches,” Fendick-McCain said. “We came out strong, got the doubles point, picked up two really big wins at one and two [doubles].” On the singles side of things, AllAmerican Ellis topped the No. 20 player in the country to set the tone. Other individual winners on the evening included Krista Damico, Elizabeth Begley, Padegimaite and Gaytan-Leach. “We had some great performances throughout the entire singles matches,” Fendick-McCain said. “I’m super proud of them.” Top competition breeds top performance, and the Longhorns will most likely continue this dominance as competition heats up the rest of the season. 1 “We’ve got to take it day-by-day,” Fendick-McCain said. “We’ve got some things we need to work out in practice to get ready for the next one.”
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Junior Haley Stephens led Texas at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate in difficult conditions, finishing 17th and 7-over (149), only 12 shots off the lead. Stephens played well on her first nine holes Sunday, shooting seven pars and two birdies, with no bogeys. Stephens becomes the third different Longhorn to lead the team at a tournament this year. At a South Carolina course known for its spectacular holes and beautiful views, Saturday’s rain storms shortened play from 54 to 36 holes. Texas was able to fight back on Sunday to finish 11th overall as a team, shooting 49-over (617). No. 2 Alabama led a balanced attack and dominated the field, beating out North Carolina by 11 strokes for the team title. The Crimson Tide also took the top two spots individually. Texas found itself in a deep hole midway through the second round before play was suspended at Long Cove Club in South Carolina. The stoppage
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The fall made catching up to the pack a lost cause for Penn State, New Mexico and Texas. The four Longhorns watched the remainder of the race from the field. Thompson and McGregor went into Saturday’s meet with hopes to pick up the pieces from Friday’s competition. Thompson ran a 1:50.10 in the 800-meter and finished 18th out of 47 total competitors. This was an exceptional effort by Thompson, considering six of the seven runners in his heat finished in the top 20. McGregor finished 16th overall in the mile run with a time of 4:07.38, one second slower than his performance at the Big 12 Championships. Mental toughness will be the key for the Longhorns as they embrace the next few days leading up to the NCAA Indoor Championships on March 9-10. While some athletes failed to meet the qualifications by mere inches or seconds, others already have their adrenaline pumping for the big day. Look out Nampa, Idaho — the Longhorn herd is thundering in, and they’re ready.
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Kansas-based and pop-indie band Cowboy Indian Bear with be playing a show on Wednesday at Beauty Bar with Shortwave Party and Ronguer.
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INDIE continues from PAGE 12 and g litter i ng g lo ckenspiels s h a re s p a c e w it h f e e d b a c k drenched guitar sprawl. Imagine a more adventurous version of Freelance Whales and you’ll come close. Fastidiously tasteful listeners
will find plenty to be offended by in the band’s sappier songs, like the ultra-cutesy “Please Be Kind To All Your Ghosts.” Pop proles, on the other hand, may balk at the sonic experimentalism of “Madeline” and “Math-
CLIMATE continues from PAGE 12 with a surprisingly non-confrontational tone. The scandal arose after a still unknown person hacked several private email accounts and leaked pieces of those emails, which related to Mann’s work. Taken out of context, the select emails seemed to suggest that climate scientists falsified evidence in order to cover up whatever data conflicted with the global warming hypothesis. Rather than getting defensive, Mann directly and simply addresses the issues head on, admitting that though the tone in the private
emails may have been a bit inappropriate at times, there was still nothing in them to be ashamed of as long as they were read in the larger context. One example involves using the word “trick,” which out of context seems to suggest deception, but actually refers to a mathematical shortcut to accomplish the same job with less effort. Just like in science, one needs to look at the big picture, rather than just cherrypicked pieces of data that support certain beliefs. All things considered, Mann
ematicians/Colour,” two standout tracks from Cowboy Indian Bear’s 2010 debut, Each Other All The Time. But who cares if they can’t please everybody? Cowboy Indian Bear, despite their short-
c o m i n g s , h av e m a d e mu s i c that’s sure to subvert the expectations of indie aesthetes and lowbrow pop lovers alike. Now they just need to rewrite their official bio, which is about as indulgent and over-
wrought as they come: “Take a step closer and you’ll see the ache and e cst asy of t he human c ond it i on p o s ite d i nto e ve r y c re v i c e.” At l e a s t t h e band is better at pop than at public relations.
keeps things light and informative, explaining the science in clear and concise terms, responding to personal attacks by rebutting them without getting particularly defensive. His patience and ability to avoid frustration is impressive considering he’s essentially dealing with a topic that may or may not amount to the end of the world depending on how quickly we act, as well as people whose utmost goal seems to be to prevent any progress in his field. The title of the book refers to a famous graph, which shows a
long period of relative stability in average yearly temperatures followed by a spike beginning around the Industrial Revolution. The graph is a powerful image and very suggestive in and of itself that anthropogenic global warming is a reality, and for that reason has been one of the main topics of contention among skeptics.
However, science isn’t about looking at one piece of evidence, but mountains of it. Mann can’t possibly journey through all of the mountains in the space he has available here, but those who read his book will come away from it with little doubt that global warming is real and that we are the cause.
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nated to charity. Bingo was legalized in Texas in 1980, making it the oldest form of legalized gambling in Texas. Proceeds that the bingo parlors make go to charitable organizations. At B12, proceeds are donated to the Job Training Institute, Northwest Sertoma Club, Knights of Columbus and AIDS Care and Assistance DBA Rites of Passage. Only certain authorized, licensed organizations such as B12 are allowed to conduct bingo games in the state of Texas. Biology and Spanish junior Sara Diamond did not win any money during her first bingo outing, but she got close to yelling “bingo” during many of the games. “I had so much fun, but you have to get here early and get your bearings,” Diamond said. “At first I had no idea what to do, but you get into it once you start playing.”
Generali is happy to see more of a younger crowd showing up at the bingo parlor. “I have a son, and I would rather have him here playing bingo than out doing God knows what somewhere else,” Generali said. “Sometimes it gets a little crazy here, but it’s mostly just a lot of nice people having a good time.”
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“You taste with different parts of your senses all in the same dish. You get a spice, you get the different fruits and vegetables, and you know their source,” Gayle said. Gayle’s response is in line with Maher’s vision for the menu at Lenoir. “We’re really aiming for flavorful, interesting and delicious food, and we’re using predominantly local produce, meat and cheese to achieve that,” she said. It would be impossible to talk about the food at Lenoir without mentioning its concise, but meticulously chosen, wine list. The list features a handful of wines chosen specifically to pair with individual dishes on the menu, enriching their flavors and uniting the various courses. The wine list is broad and esoteric, featuring a little-known German Gruner as well as several trendier varieties like Albariño. One day, Maher hopes to have a wine made from eponymous Lenoir grapes to add to the wine list. Like the menu itself, the dining experience is ephemeral, but much of it depends on who you’re sitting next to and whether or not they’re up for a casual conversation. “We sat at the bar and we ended up chatting with the p eople sitting next to us,” Gayle said. The restaurant’s space itself is worthy of discussion. Yelp reviewer Lorena O. summed it up in poetry: “Such pretty space/ In which to dine with great friends/Fine details abound.” The single-room interior is small and intimate, forcing diners into close proximity. The windows are draped with thin white curtains and bare bulbs hang from the ceiling over the bar for warm lighting. Much of the furniture was repurposed in an effort to achieve a shabby-chic, unfussy feel. “We really wanted the restaurant to be a neighborhood stop,” Maher said.
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Lenoir Restaurant uses local food, creates diverse experience
By Brittany Smith Daily Texan Staff
Started by husband and wife team Jessica Maher and Todd Duplechan, Lenoir opened its doors in mid-January in a tiny building tucked away on South First Street. Named for a black Spanish grape that grows wild in Texas, Lenoir features locally sourced ingredients on its “prix-fixe” (fixed price) menu that changes constantly based on availability. “We always knew we wanted to use what was grown and raised locally because it’s sustainable and things tend to taste better when they’re in season,” Maher said. The courses themselves are what Maher refers to as “hot weather food.” They are prepared using French cooking techniques, but using ingredients that are not typically associated with the classic culinary tradition. Lenoir’s dishes feature heavy spices, chilies and aromatics. Butter and heavy cream are not used often, and when they are, they’re used sparingly in order to keep the food light. The menu is arranged to allow diners to pick and choose three courses from several different headings: Field, Sea, Land and Dream. Some of their current of-
ferings include roasted quinoa with fried artichokes, snap peas and ginger; fish curry with toasted poha (dehusked and flattened rice), shaved asparagus and dill; venison in a spiced broth with turnips, sunflower sprouts and daikon (an East Asian radish); and for dessert, fiore sardo (an Italian hard cheese) with candied oranges, ras el hanout (a blend of Moroccan spices) and almonds. “It was spicier than I had perhaps imagined but it had a lot of depth of flavor and it didn’t seem heavy,” said Susan Gayle, producer and host of the KOOP radio show “Food Love Austin,” of dining at Lenoir. Tasting the food was a process.
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Top: Husband and wife Todd Dublechan and Jessica Maher are the owners of the recently opened restaurant, Lenoir. The menu constantly changes based on availability, and is prepared using French cooking techniques. Bottom: Chris Kelly, an employee at Lenoir and musician, folds napkins before opening Saturday evening.
The Business, Cowboy Indian Bear subvert musical norms
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THE BUSINESS The Business has become a career for singer Micky Fitz. Since starting the punk band in 1979, Fitz has toured the world, p enne d a s o c c e r an them (“England 5-Germany 1”) and influenced an entire generation of punk rockers
including Dropkick Murphys and Rancid. But the longevity of his underground success was anything but calculated. “I’m not sure that 30 years ago I even knew what the word ‘decade’ meant, let alone three of them,” he explained in a 2010 inter view with the magazine Innocent Words. Nonetheless, the last three d e c a d e s h av e b e e n k i n d t o The Business, who first rose to fame as a part of the late 1970s “O i ! ” p u n k m o v e m e n t . O i was an effort to rebel against t he pre te nt i ousness of E ng land’s music scene at the time by u n it i ng E ng l an d’s you ng punk-rock plebeians under one genre and subculture. Yet, even as the movement’s glor y days fade into memor y, Fitz has stayed true to its workingclass spirit.
But Oi isn’t all beer, football and good times. In an inter vie w wit h The Guardian, Oi! punk pioneer Garry Bushell once called it “without a d ou bt , t h e m o s t m i s u n d e rstood genre in histor y.” Part of the confusion is due to the genre’s being co-opted by farright fans, whose racism was projected by the British media onto unwitting Oi! bands. Despite being the skinhead’s soundtrack of choice, the music of The Business and their contemporaries was never racist. But this fact didn’t stop journalist Stuart Maconie from describing Oi! as “punk’s stunted idiot half-brother, musically primitive and politically unsavory, with its close links to farright groups.” With so much controversy surrounding them, The Busi-
ness are a band you have to hear for yourself. You alone will have to decide w hether lyrics like “drinking and driving is so much fun,” meant to be tongue-in-cheek, are mora l ly of fensive or mosh-worthy. Perhaps they’re both. Aft e r a l l , t h e a g i n g , a n a rc h i c Fitz, still able to draw a crowd of teenagers to shows, is living proof that punk has room for paradox.
COWBOY INDIAN BEAR The difference between good and bad indie pop is roughly the difference between cute and cutesy. Kansas quartet Cowboy Indian Bear inhabit the strange w o r l d i n b e t w e e n t h e t w o, where sugary vocal harmonies
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B12 Bingo creates enjoyable atmosphere for all ages By Jessica Lee Daily Texan Staff
A smoky haze fills the air of the B12 Bingo parlor. Patrons young and old stamp their bingo cards with a paint pen, hoping that the next number called will give them the chance to yell “bingo” at the top of their lungs. This isn’t the bingo you played during the dreaded indoor recess in elementary school. At B12, a bingo means big money. The pot starts at $300 and goes up to $700 as the game gets more complex. Rather than spending a regretful night on Sixth Street, students should consider bingo as the new weekend night go-to. A set of five games only puts you back $5, and you could end up leaving with money for groceries (or beer). B12 has a smoking and nonsmoking section, so if you want to get away from the nicotineinfused air, enter from the side door, head to the cashier and purchase your bingo cards. Starting with a set of 12 bingo cards is the way to go for a novice. Anything more can get hard to han-
dle all at once. Find a seat and crack open a beer. B-12 is BYOB, but the game gets intense, so that beer of yours will probably go untouched. Seasoned bingo players know to get one of the parlor’s computers as well. The computer has another set of bingo cards on it and automatically highlights the squares as numbers get called. It warns you if you are one number away from a bingo and lights up when you have a bingo. But bingo no longer means the classic five numbers in a row. At B12, the first game is B-N-O bingo, in which you must have all the numbers in the B,N and O columns shaded. It then gets harder with block of 9 in which you must have a square of nine numbers shaded and Las Vegas triple in which you must have three five-in-a-row numbers shaded. Olivia Generali has been playing bingo for about 18 years. According to Generali, bingo is the best way to relieve the stress of a long work week. “Most people here are really nice,” Generali said. “I just like
Professor explores dynamic between climate, politics By Robert Starr Daily Texan Staff
Science and politics make poor bedfellows, particularly when the former is debated in the arena of the latter. The two major areas where the pairing seems particularly gruesome are evolution and climate science. While both are important ideas for our society to comprehend, the misunderstanding of climate change has much greater and more immediate consequences. Climatologist Michael E. Mann of Pennsylvania State University has been dragged into the political world, despite never wanting to leave the scientific one, all for studying the evidence and reaching the conclusion that the planet has been warming and humans are the main culprit. He details his experiences in his new book “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars,” which tells the development of our understanding of climate change from Mann’s point of view, starting out as a grad student and eventually becoming a professor. Reading the book, one gets the idea that those who perpetuate global warming denial not only hold their beliefs for ideological
reasons rather than rational ones, but that there’s no level too low for them to stoop to in order to get their position across. The tactics, rather than being about scientific arguments, have led to personal attacks and death threats against Mann. More importantly, the prominent data seeming to refute a global warming hypothesis is based on faulty science and poor applications of statistical methods, in addition to some outright lies. One of the favorite arguments, for instance, is that the “Medieval Warm Period” actually saw higher temperatures than the 20th century. However, what Mann explains is that this is only true up to the 1950s — temperatures from the final decade of the century exceeded those during the “Warm Period.” Ignorance is forgivable, however. And while the science in “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars” is interesting and well-written, the most fascinating element is seeing just how dirty his opponents are willing to fight. This is most apparent in the recent “Climategate” scandal that Mann found himself in the middle of, which he describes throughout the book
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to come with my friends and it’s great because sometimes I win, although I don’t win as often as I’d like to.” Though it is fun to go to bingo with friends, you must be sure to pay attention to your cards. With 12 (or more) games going on at once, it can get difficult to see
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