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Dr. Victoria Bynum, professor emeritus at Texas State University, presents the first of two Littlefield Lectures, titled “The Free State of Jones: Community, Race, and Kinship in Civil War Mississippi.” The lecture will be at ACE 2.302 from 4-6 p.m.
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Judge to determine status of SG election By Jody Serrano Daily Texan Staff
A Travis County judge may determine whether former Student Government presidential candidate Madison Gardner and running mate Antonio Guevara will be allowed back on the election ballot by Monday, March 12, according to the Texas Attorney General’s office. Judge Tim Sulak issued a tem-
porary restraining order for at least 14 days against the SG executive alliance elections on Feb. 27 to review Gardner’s case and determine whether he and Guevara were wrongfully disqualified from the elections. The Daily Texan received information from an anonymous source on Wednesday in response to Gardner’s lawsuit against UT. The source claimed a document Gardner signed in 2010 af-
firms that Gardner believes SG candidates give up certain rights to free speech during an election. Gardner filed a lawsuit against the University of Texas and the University of Texas Student Government claiming the Election Code that the Election Supervisory Board and the SG Judicial Court used to disqualify him and Guevara is unconstitutional because it violates their constitutional rights to freedom of association.
The source requested to remain anonymous because of fear of retaliation from the Gardner campaign. “Candidates who wish to run for office voluntarily enter into the agreement created by the Election Code,” the document stated. “The Election Code is an established set of rules that governs campus election processes and certain stipulations do limit the
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Budgets and tuition rates are the topic of a College of Fine Arts town hall meeting. Dean Douglas Dempster and the chairs of the Department of Art and Art History and Theatre and Dance, as well as the director of the Butler School of Music, will be in attendance. The town hall will be in DFA 1.01 starting at 6 p.m.
Austin Poetry Slam
The Austin Poetry Slam is a weekly event that showcases 12 original spoken-word artists in a free-for-all competition for prize money. Located at 29th Street Ballroom at Spiderhouse, doors at 7:30 p.m., poet signup at 8 p.m., show at 8:30 p.m. Admission is $5. Jorge Corona | Daily Texan Staff
A hostess and a waitress at Justine’s Brasserie converse before the restaurant opens Monday afternoon. Located on the East side of Austin, Justine’s prides itself on serving authentic, simple French cuisine in a quaint yet comfortable setting.
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Queer People of Color and Allies held their 3rd Annual Drag Ball Monday evening in the SAC.
Cost. Affordability. Four-year graduation rates. These buzzwords continue to fly around in the state higher education debate. One group is looking to turn focus to another buzzword — excellence. The Texas Coalition for Excellence in Higher Education met for its first in-person meeting Friday. The group formed in June as a response to the higher education debate and to critics like The Texas Public Policy Foundation. TPPF is a conservative think tank that has criticized the importance of research at state universities and emphasized the importance of teaching in efforts to get students through the University at a faster rate. This debate has alarmed some faculty and administrators at universities like UT Austin and Texas A&M, who worry about maintaining tier-one research status. Jaime Grunlan, Texas A&M mechanical engineering associate professor, spoke at the members-only coalition meeting and with The Daily
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Event emphasizes sexual consent By Hannah Jane DeCiutiis Daily Texan Staff
Consent in sexual situations can be complicated to navigate, especially for undergraduate students who may not have much experience with physical intimacy. Consent requires both parties in a sexual encounter give explicit permission for a particular sex act to take place, students learned during a presentation Monday called “Get Sexy. Get Consent.” Voices Against Violence, a program of the Counseling and Mental Health Center, hosted the performance, where actors demonstrated cases in which sexual consent might become an issue. For example, a one-night stand in which partners have only just met
might result in intentions becoming unclear, a situation that could be dangerous if both partners are unable to openly discuss their consent. Jane Morgan Bost, Counseling and Mental Health Center associate director, said she created the Voices Against Violence program because people don’t typically discuss the issue of consent in an open manner. “People in general find it very difficult to really address and it’s at the heart of a lot of interpersonal violence,” she said. In order for there to be consent, both partners must be able, both physically and emotionally, to directly express their comfortability with sexual activity taking place without pressure from their partner. This includes
not only intercourse, but also situations such as when one person wishes to practice safe sex while their partner does not. Consent to one type of activity does not guarantee consent to others, and participants must understand their own boundaries before being put into sexually charged situations as well as know how to clearly articulate those boundaries. Lynn Hoare, Theater for Dialogue specialist for Voices Against Violence, created the “Get Sexy. Get Consent.” program. She said the program is targeted at younger college students because of their lack of exposure to the issue. “It’s really [targeted] at all undergraduate levels,” Hoare said.
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Linda Neavel Dickens Ph.D. met with faculty and students to discuss change through competency based education and critical thinking.
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Rechna Korula, Andrew Townsell and Sydney Monroe-Williams help demonstrate the importance of communication during physical intimacy during “Get Sexy, Get Consent”, a presentation in Calhoun hall Monday evening.
As higher education in the United States shifts to become more student focused, UT students stand to gain greater competency in essential skills, while academic departments are encouraged to discard their old paradigms of success. Since 2008, UT has been required by its regional accrediting agency, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, to collect data regarding the competency of its students. To that end, Linda Dickens, director of the office of institutional accreditation and program assessment, held an open forum with staff on Monday to develop assessment strategies. “Assessment is about identifying what you want students to do and measuring how well they are able to do that,” Dickens said. “It’s a way of making evidence-based decisions.” Dickens said the assessment
data help to answer the question of whether the University fulfills its mission. She said assessments indicate UT’s institutional effectiveness and therefore do not effect specific departments. “Assessment has nothing to do with faculty productivity or evaluating faculty, though the term ‘institutional effectiveness’ is sometimes wrongly interpreted as that,” Dickens said. Linda said the assessments she has initiated go beyond GPAs or course grades to measure the competency of students. Bobby Sterling, an assistant professor in the school of nursing, said the focus on competency is a paradigm shift for students. “There’s a big difference between students that come to college to earn a degree and students that come to gain competency,” she said. “Students that only want a degree are interested in just
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SEBRING, Fla. — Several IndyCar drivers dismissed any notion of boycotting Texas Motor Speedway and said the entire issue has been blown out of proportion. “I want to stop all this nonsense discussion about boycotting. It’s absurd, it’s ridiculous and we are professionals and will race there,” Helio Castroneves said on Monday, following the first day of spring training testing at Sebring International Raceway. Texas track president Eddie Gossage reacted angrily last week to rumors that IndyCar’s drivers had discussed skipping the June 9 race at Texas over concerns with how the fence is constructed. “It’s absolutely irresponsible of those drivers, and they deserve — because of the way they conduct themselves sometimes — they deserve where they stand now in the food chain of motorsports,” Gossage told racing website Racin’ Today in quotes that surfaced Friday. That led IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard to issue a statement Saturday, insisting the series will be in Texas, as planned in June. Justin Wilson, who serves along with Dario Franchitti and Tony Kanaan as a driver representative for the series, said a boycott was never even discussed. He said Texas was discussed briefly during a Feb. 13 driver meeting in Indianapolis, but the issues covered centered on both pack racing and the fencing at Texas. Safety has been the dominant topic in IndyCar since two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon was killed in the October season finale at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He was killed when his car sailed into the fence in a 15-car accident and his head hit a post in the fence.
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The accident was a perfect storm of conditions and a report on Wheldon’s death found that the pack racing on a high-banked oval were two contributing factors. Texas, which has hosted IndyCar for 15 consecutive seasons and is one of the biggest events on the schedule, is constructed in similar fashion to the one at Las Vegas. “All the drivers got together and [Kanaan] explained the situation to them as to what could happen, as far as going back there to Texas and pack racing could happen,” Wilson said Monday. “And he said missing that race is not an option. And not one person disagreed.” Gossage remained disappointed Monday that the issue ever came up. He was track president in 2001 when drivers from the CART Series walked out of the event over concerns with the high speeds. “We strongly resent the introduction or inference that there could be a boycott in light of what happened here in 2001,” he said. “We have every right to be more sensitive to that than any other track in America because we had drivers — drivers who currently race in IndyCar — walk out of here.” Gossage also maintains that his fencing — the order of construction, from inside the track, is cables, poles, mesh — is constructed properly and engineers from Speedway Motorsports Inc. don’t recommend any other design. “If there was a better technology, we would do it,” Gossage said. “Or, if there was something that should be done but we couldn’t economically afford it and make running IndyCar work with the numbers, then we just wouldn’t run IndyCar here. But right now, what we have, our engineers tell us is the best, and I have yet to meet a driver who is also a structural engineer.” Regardless of the fence, the pack
EDUCATION continues from PAGE 1 Texan afterward. At the meeting Grunlan talked about his concerns with TPPF’s influence, including what he calls the privatization of public education. He said TPPF puts value on the profits more than the quality of the education. “Their goal is pushing people through — a diploma mill,” Grunlan
racing must still be addressed and the drivers do seem united in their desire to have IndyCar find a formula that separates the field on ovals. “It’s very simple with me — I don’t think we should be stuck together pack racing,” said Ryan Hunter-Reay, who had the fastest time in Monday’s second practice. “Other than that, we need to be oval racing, this is IndyCar and it’s made up of ovals, it’s street circuits and road courses. That’s what makes an IndyCar champion,” he said. “For me, what we did at Vegas, the product was wrong. We don’t all need to be stuck on each other because then one person makes a human error and the domino effect starts. And we had the perfect storm at Vegas.” Wilson agreed on pack racing, but said IndyCar’s current drivers are working on all aspects of safety improvement. “We have to push the changes to make improvements, but at the end of the day, we’re all racers and all we want to do is go race,” Wilson said. “If there’s something that can be done fencing-wise, a bit like the SAFER barrier, maybe in five-to-10 years time, when most of our careers are finished, in 10 years time, it will be a very different grid, but if we can make it safer for them, then we’ve done a good thing. “It’s not that we are saying what [Texas] has is bad, but we’ve got to keep looking to the future.” Hunter-Reay said the focus needs to be on breaking up the pack racing and not on the fence. “Dan’s crash, the result was going to happen with it if it was a blue fence or a red fence,” Hunter-Reay said. “I have no doubt we’ll get it sorted out and it will be a good race. The drivers just want it to where we are pedaling the car, we are lifting in the corner. It’s tough to drive and you can’t just sit under somebody’s gearbox.” said. “It’s as if they’re saying we want all the benefit that you create as a university, but we don’t want to pay for any of it.” Grunlan said the state workforce would also suffer with more TPPF influence on UT Austin and Texas A&M because companies would leave Texas in search of recent graduates who are better prepared. About 100 of the total 323 coalition members attended the meeting that included multiple university leaders who addressed the coalition. “I was very impressed by the commitment by leadership at UT,” Grunlan said. “I was disappointed by the lack of support by the leadership at A&M.”
“Students often come to college without any opportunity to have honest conversations about sex, and this gives them a chance to talk about it honestly and hear other people talk about it honestly in a low-stake environment without actually being in the moment.” Students should feel comfortable discussing their needs in a sexual relationship, said Meghna Joy, biology freshman and actress in the “Get Sexy. Get Consent.” program. “People just need to be okay with
importance of competency in higher education. “The School of Journalism is implementing a new curriculum as a result of student demand,” he said. “Journalism is exploding in so many ways and students have come back demanding that they be trained in new media, so we’re trying to teach both critical thinking and skills — to think like journalists and to practice journalism.”
talking about it,” Joy said. “In sexual situations where other people get pressured, they don’t want to seem un-cool or seem like a prude and so they need to know it’s okay to say no, and it’s okay to state what you want and [your partner] should be okay with it too.” Bost said she hopes to bring about real change on UT campus with upcoming performances of “Get Sexy. Get Consent.” “Our hope is that this will be something for both men and women that will make a difference in changing behaviors and attitudes,” Bost said. “We want to provide the skills they need to start conversations around [consent] and creating healthy relationships.”
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right of free speech. Nevertheless, candidates voluntarily submit themselves to the Election Code when running for office, and thus, give up certain rights to speech.” Gardner said the document was taken out of context and does not relate to his suit at the moment. He said he endorsed the document in an attempt to get the Appellate Court to allow elected representatives to endorse executive alliance candidates in the run off election after the campus-wide positions had been filed. “That’s one of the downsides of [my] experience in SG,” Gardner said. “Any single piece of evidence or legislation with my name on it over the last three years, people can interpret it and use it against me.” Gardner said he wants to keep this issue positive and reaffirmed that he wants the election to be decided by students, not a court. Election Supervisory Board vice-chair Truc Nguyen said the next few weeks are being treated as a run off election period and the ESB meets every Thursday to decide whether to extend the period. With this in place, presidential candidates John Lawler and Thor Lund will be allowed to spend an extra $150 each week the election is postponed in addition to their $900 spending limit. Both Lawler and Lund are allowed to campaign until the Travis County court sets an election date. Leo Barnes, UT associate vice president for legal affairs, is representing UT in the lawsuit and said the administration is working He said TPPF has a great influence on the Board of Regents at both the UT System and the Texas A&M University System. UT System Regent Brenda Pejovich serves on TPPF’s board of directors. “They own the regents,” Grunlan said. “It’s a complete conflict of interest, but it’s legal.” Grunlan said the coalition wants requirements for regents before they are appointed by the Governor to reduce these conflicts of interest. “We don’t want people who are part of an organization who have one agenda,” Grunlan said. “This is a very dictator-like regime.” Tom Lindsay, TPPF’s center for
through Assistant Attorney General Daniel Perkins. “The administration is not taking sides as far as the students,” Barnes said. “We don’t want to appear to have favoritism. The elections are of the students, by the students and for the students, and that has been important.” Barnes said the administration is willing to work with Gardner and Guevara to discuss options and develop an agreement. Lawler testified at the case’s initial hearing last week and said he did not have the financial resources to run a campaign for two more weeks. He said extending the election is giving those who have more money and resources an unfair advantage. “The document illustrates the absurdity that this case represents,” Lawler said. “I have always encouraged everyone to pour over my record and to test me on my record and test my opponents’ records as well.” Lawler said he is focusing on social media, making a video and tabling on the West Mall to save money this week. Lund said he is planning on campaigning throughout the week and that the burden does not stop at finances. “I’m trying to keep up with all my school work as well,” Lund said. “Can I afford to focus all my attention on this and still maintain my grades in rigorous engineering courses? We’ll have to see. But I am a student first and my scholarship money depends on my GPA.”
higher education director, said the foundation wants to improve fouryear graduation rates and lower tuition. Lindsay said the concern about diploma mills is valid, but said he does not know anyone who would dilute educational standards to increase graduation rates. Lindsay said questions about quality would be resolved with an external evaluation that tests students at the beginning and end of their college career. “How much value have our public universities given our students?” Lindsay said. “Universities need to stop complaining that people are asking them questions and they need to start addressing the needs of their students.” Lindsay said TPPF’s concern is not whether universities should or should not do research, but whether the education is competitive in the global marketplace. “Research and teaching are both essential at a tier-one university, but I think no matter what university, teaching has got to come first,” Lindsay said. Student Government President Natalie Butler spoke at the coalition meeting about the affects of the higher education debate on the next generation. Butler said she thinks the general student population is informed of the debate, but is not engaged. She said the biggest issues for students align with the concerns of the coalition and include the cost, value and excellence of higher education. “This group of people really loves the universities that they came from and they want to protect their legacies,” Butler said. “We need to realize that higher education is an investment in our state’s future.”
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NEWS BRIEFLY Russia quickly disperses protests opposing Putin, voting violations
MOSCOW — An attempt by Vladimir Putin’s foes to protest his presidential election victory by occupying a Moscow square ended Monday with riot police quickly dispersing and detaining hundreds of demonstrators — a stark reminder of the challenges faced by Russia’s opposition. The harsh crackdown could fuel opposition anger and bring even bigger protests of Putin’s 12 years in power and election to another six, but it also underlined the authorities’ readiness to use force to crush such demonstrations. The government’s response Monday night was fast and brutal. Lines of officers in full riot gear marched into tree-lined Pushkin Square and forced protesters into waiting police buses. About 250 people were detained around the city, police said. The crackdown followed a rally that drew about 20,000 people angry over an election campaign slanted in Putin’s favor and reports of widespread violations in Sunday’s voting.
Plans to get out of Afghanistan troubled by Karzai leadership
KABUL, Afghanistan — Negotiations over a long-term U.S. military presence in Afghanistan have bogged down over issues of detainees, night raids and quarrels within the Afghan president’s inner circle, throwing the whole deal into question. The arrangement would formalize a U.S. role after NATO’s planned pullout in 2014. The deadlock reflects growing hostility on the part of the Afghan leadership and increasing exasperation in Washington. Trust has eroded in recent days with anti-American protests over Quran burnings at a U.S. base, a rising number of U.S. troops gunned down by Afghan security forces and election-year demands to bring the troops home. The pact is expected to provide for several thousand U.S. troops to stay and train Afghan forces and help with counterterrorism operations. It aims to outline the legal status of those forces, their operating rules and where they will be based. The agreement, which was supposed to be completed before the next NATO summit in May, also is seen as means of assuring the Afghan people that the U.S. does not plan to abandon the country.
Romney remains front-runner before crucial Super Tuesday CANTON, Ohio — Mitt Romney’s allies are hoping Super Tuesday’s powerful imprint on the Republican presidential nomination will bring clarity, at long last, to the fractious contest and rouse Republicans behind their front-runner. But that’s strictly up to voters across the nation, weighing in on the most consequential day of the campaign to date. Romney and his chief rival, Rick Santorum, scrambled for any advantage they could find Monday in Ohio, the most-watched contest in the 10-state extravaganza stretching from Alaska to the southeast. The latest polls found Santorum slipping in Ohio, putting him in a near dead heat with Romney, and Gingrich looking strong but not invincible in his home state of Georgia, which he needs to win to have any hope of resurrecting his candidacy.
Most porn stars in Los Angeles now required to wear condoms
LOS ANGELES — Actors in many of the adult films made in the nation’s porn capital must use condoms under a law that took effect Monday, but the prophylactic police aren’t yet on the beat. When the City Council passed the law in January, it gave police, the city attorney, the porn industry and others six months to recommend the best way to enforce the measure. They have roughly four months left. Until then, it’s unclear whether police or health officials will start showing up at shoots. To shoot a film, the law requires a permit as well as the condom use. It contains a loophole for some of the larger porn companies, exempting films made on studio soundstages. — Compiled from Associated Press reports
China intends to stimulate slowing economy By Charles Hutzler The Associated Press
BEIJING — China’s premier outlined plans Monday to fuel domestic consumption, including subsidies for social programs and higher spending for businesses, as the government grapples with a slowing economy and rising public demands for greater fairness. In a speech that is China’s equivalent of the state-of-the-nation, Premier Wen Jiabao offered increased assistance and programs to benefit a wide array of groups: higher minimum wages, heftier subsidies for education and farmers, more loans for strapped private businesses and added help for troubled exporters. He called for more paid vacations for workers and expanded consumer credit. The aim, Wen said, is to help China weather a shift as it looks for new engines of domestic growth while its main markets in Europe and the United States struggle and an investment binge at home flags while demand for jobs persists. “Internationally, the road to global economic recovery will be tortuous,” Wen said at the opening of the national legislature’s annual session in the Great Hall of the People. “Domestically, it has become more urgent but also more difficult to solve institutional and structural problems and alleviate the problem of unbalanced, uncoordinated and unsustainable development.” In a sign of the government’s downshift, Wen set the economy’s growth target at 7.5 percent, lower than the 8 percent it has stood at for years. Though forecasts project higher than 8 percent growth for the year, the lower target underscores Beijing’s emphasis on better,
Eugene Hoshiko | Associated Press
A worker stands at a construction site of a new apartment complex in Shanghai, China. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao outlined plans on Monday to fuel domestic consumption, including subsidizing social programs and businesses, as the government grapples with a slowing economy.
not faster growth. While the National People’s Congress is a largely pro forma affair — its nearly 3,000 delegates are mostly members of the ruling Communist Party — this year’s 10-day session is likely to see more intense back-channel politicking as the leadership negotiates a delicate political transition. President Hu Jintao, Wen and most others in the senior leadership are due to
begin stepping aside for a younger generation of leaders. The program Wen outlined bore all the hallmarks of his and Hu’s nearly decade-old administration. Their leadership has built out a social safety net, trying to redistribute growth away from the prosperous coastal cities toward rural and inland areas and to raise workingclass and rural incomes. At home, many analysts and
political critics have been calling on the leadership to begin reforms to a more open, democratic political system and stop stifling dissent. Squelching protests by farmers dispossessed of their land, migrant workers angry over unfair treatment and even middle-class homeowners upset over pollution and falling home prices consume ever greater government resources. Always-high security was
smothering in central Beijing as the congress opened. Police searched people on the streets around Tiananmen Square, and officers led German shepherds through the crowds watching from afar as the busloads of delegates arrived. At the daily flag-raising ceremony on the square at dawn, plainclothes police grabbed a middle-aged woman just as she tried to scatter leaflets and trundled her into a van.
Obama, Netenyahu touch off on Iran By Ben Feller The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Taking sharply different stands, President Barack Obama urged pressure and diplomacy to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emphasized his nation’s right to a pre-emptive attack. Even in proclaiming unity on Monday, the leaders showed no give on competing ways to resolve the crisis. Seated together in the Oval Office, Obama and Netanyahu at times tried to speak for each other and sometimes spoke past one another. The two leaders are linked by the history and necessity of their nations’ deep alliance, if not much personal warmth, and they both used their moment to try to steer the agenda on their terms. “I know that both the prime minister and I prefer to resolve this diplomatically,” Obama said. “We understand the costs of any
military action.” If he agreed, Netanyahu said nothing about sanctions or talks with Iran, or Obama’s position that there still is time to try to deter Iran peacefully. Instead, Netanyahu drew attention back to Obama’s acknowledgement that Israel is a sovereign land that can protect itself how it sees fit. “I believe that’s why you appreciate, Mr. President, that Israel must reserve the right to defend itself,” Netanyahu said. “And, after all, that’s the very purpose of the Jewish state, to restore to the Jewish people control over our destiny,” he said. Israel, he added, must remain “the master of its fate.” Across days of comments, speeches and interviews, Obama and Netanyahu left no doubt about where they stand on Iran. Far less clear is whether they have done anything to alter each other’s position in what has become a moment of reckoning over Iran, and an important foreign policy issue in the U.S. presidential race.
107 Yemenis killed by al-Qaida By Amhed Al-Haj The Associated Press
SANAA, Yemen — Sneaking across the desert behind army lines, al-Qaida militants launched a surprise attack against military bases in south Yemen, killing 107 soldiers and capturing heavy weapons they later used to kill more troops, officials said on Monday. The military officials said at least 32 of the militants were killed in Sunday’s fighting in Abyan province, and scores were wounded on both sides. Medical officials in the area confirmed the death toll figures. They said the poor services in local hospitals accounted for the death of many soldiers who suffered serious wounds but could have survived had they been given better medical care. The death toll among the troops is believed to be the highest on record in battles fought by the army against al-Qaida militants, who have been emboldened by the political turmoil
roiling the impoverished Arab nation for more than a year. The militants’ attack appeared to be al-Qaida’s response to a pledge by Yemen’s newly inaugurated President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi to fight the Yemeni branch of the terror network, believed to be the world’s most active. Hadi repeated that pledge on Monday during talks with a visiting British diplomat. “The confrontation will continue until we are rid of the last terrorist, whether in Abyan or elsewhere,” local Yemeni media quoted him as saying. The military officials said the militants’ surprise attack outside Abyan’s provincial capital Zinjibar also led to the capture of 55 soldiers. The captives were paraded on the streets of Jaar, a nearby town that, like Zinjibar, has been under al-Qaida’s control for about a year. The officials spoke on Monday on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to reporters.
Pablo Martinez Monsivais | Associated Press
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listens as President Barack Obama speaks during their meeting on Monday in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.
Obama’s aim is to dissuade Israel from launching what he considers to be a premature and dangerous attack on Iran. Both leaders see a nucleararmed Iran as a nightmare that could threaten Israel’s survival and potentially allow terrorists to grab
unthinkably deadly power. Their difference is not over whether force may be needed — Obama has been specific on his willingness to use it — but whether the time for such a drastic step is nearing. Israel fears it may soon lose its window to take out Iran’s
nuclear facilities; Obama sees a longer period for intervention, based on Iran’s current nuclear capability and the toll of growing sanctions. He has put increasing emphasis on the political, economic and potential death toll that could come with opening a new Mideast war.
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012 | THE DAILY TEXAN | Viviana Aldous, Editor-in-Chief | (512) 232-2212 | editor@dailytexanonline.com
HORNS UP, HORNS DOWN
Austin bans single-use bags from retail stores Early Friday morning, the Austin City Council unanimously voted to ban single-use shopping bags at Austin-area retail stores. The ban will affect both plastic and paper bags and will penalize retailers who continue to offer them to customers after the March 2013 implementation date, according to the Austin AmericanStatesman. The city granted various exceptions for things including produce bags and bags for fresh meat products, but the ban is fairly comprehensive. The city council’s move is bold and spells progress for Austin. But the $2-million education campaign will be crucial to ensuring shoppers aren’t caught by surprise at the checkout line. The city council’s education campaign must be habit-forming and, if possible, not annoying. Months of repetitive discussion of the bags removal will only harden existing resistance to the ban. Additionally, the specific details of the ban are still being worked out, and it is important that certain provisions do not disproportionately inconvenience certain subgroups, especially students. Until then, students should all be thinking about small changes in behavior that will make the transition a success.
Stephanie Eisner | Daily Texan Staff
An inclination for gender-neutral housing By Stephen McGarvey Daily Texan Columnist
Is there anywhere students’ votes still matter? The redistricting debate seems to have settled down with the adoption of a set of interim maps for use during the state primaries, now scheduled for May 29. The new maps are a raw deal for students as they divide Austin into five congressional districts. Major UT student communities are split into at least three different districts, with students living in West Campus — now represented by Rep. Lamar Smith of SOPA fame — voting with residents of San Antonio, while their neighbors across Guadalupe Street vote with residents just outside of Fort Worth. They say your vote matters. But when it is diluted and spread across the state, it certainly matters less than it should. Insultingly enough, your vote probably doesn’t matter in Student Government elections either. At least, former candidates Madison Gardner and Antonio Guevara don’t want it to. They would prefer to price their opponents out of the election by asking the courts to extend it. Like Texas Republicans, they too want elections be decided before any votes are cast. There is a ray of hope in the movement to create single-member districts for the Austin City Council. If the plan is approved, UT students may have a great deal of voting power to elect a council member to represent their views. But as things stand now, the opinions of students do not seem to matter much.
Recently, the University group StandOut proposed a gender-neutral approach to housing, where males and females could opt to be placed with students of the opposite gender. The group’s favored policy would dedicate a wing to students who chose this option. When listening to the group’s rhetoric, it is easy to construe the issue as purely one-dimensional and discredit it entirely. However, there actually are many practical benefits to mixedgender housing. Being a Longhorn is a proud tradition in many families. There are numbers of brothers and sisters who come to UT, and some would like to live together. Currently, they have to get an apartment offcampus. But in doing so, they may miss out on the social experience and friendships that dorms foster. Also, there are a fair number of married students at UT. It seems unfortunate that these students are forced to choose between living in the dorms and living together. Married students are currently relegated to off-campus apartments that are far from the University. Even if UT chooses not to adopt the policy as
a whole, it seems extreme that the University won’t even understand at least these cases. Finally, there is the gender-equality uproar from the LGBT community. This is the only argument provided by the StandOut group, and it’s certainly an odd one. Essentially, they allege students who either identify with the opposite gender, identify with no gender or aren’t comfortable with members of the same sex should be able to live with those of the opposite. Limiting students to the status quo limits their ability to make that choice for themselves. UT shouldn’t be the one to make it for them. Opponents of the proposal believe that it will be used by couples looking to more easily room with their boyfriend and girlfriend, and this is probably the case. But ultimately, what does it matter? In a University that gives out three free condoms per day in the Student Services Building, concerns for promiscuity obviously aren’t at the top of its list. The only legitimate concern that could arise from this would be an increase in room change requests when couples break up. However, there is always a steady stream of same-sex students looking for roommate transfers throughout the year, and it’s doubtful that the rates would be much higher than they already are. In fact, this could be beneficial; with more students
requesting room changes, all students can have a larger selection of new roommates to choose from. UT advertises itself as a forward-thinking university and a pioneer of social issues and equality. If this policy were adopted, it would make many students’ lives easier and would cost nothing to UT to implement. Rice University and some Ivy League schools have mixed gender dorm policies, and while “We should do it because the other guys are doing it” is never an effective argument — despite what UT sometimes likes us to believe — this does give us some valuable insight. Similar policies are in place at other schools, and, more importantly, similar policies have worked for other schools. Any resulting problems must not be significant or else the programs would not still be in place. A gender-neutral dorm policy is a good idea, but the StandOut proposal isn’t perfect. Specifically, creating a dedicated genderneutral wing is a where the plan falls short. Rather, related, married and LGBT students should be integrated into the other dorms using the same housing procedures as everyone else. After all, isn’t integration and acceptance what the LGBQ community is all about? McGarvey is a business honors freshman.
THE FIRING LINE Preparing for an uphill battle As I sat in the Travis County courtroom last Tuesday, listening to Judge Tim Sulak deliver the ruling that would extend Terrence Maas’ and my campaign past spring break, I was disappointed to say the least. Our campaign team has been hard at work for weeks now. We were looking forward to the last — and most exciting — days of campaigning and talking with students. We were looking forward to hearing the election results announced on Thursday evening. We were looking forward to celebrating a clean, well-fought and maybe even victorious campaign. Instead, we have very quickly been handed a new reality, and we’re moving swiftly into uncharted waters. Our campaign is approaching the end of our budget and resources, and to be perfectly honest, we have more questions than answers regarding how these next few weeks will play out. We’re emboldened in our resolve, but we’re preparing for an uphill battle. At the outset of this campaign, we cast a bold vision. It continues to encourage and inspire us, and we haven’t lost sight of it. We’re in this for the long haul.
John Lawler SG presidential candidate
Seeking to correct a wrong
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With all the recent rumors and gossip surrounding the Student Government elections and our team, we wanted to share our story and address the issue of our team’s disqualification. We selected around 40 students representing all communities from across campus to be in a group photo to reflect our mission to bring students together. Three weeks later, one of the students, Carissa Kelley, became a candidate for the president of the Student Events Center. She did not intend to run when the photo was taken, and we were not even aware that she was going to run until weeks later. We had no contact with her during the campaign, and neither of us publicly supported each other in any way outside of her participation in our photo. At
the time of the photo, and even after becoming aware of Kelley’s intent to run for SEC President, we never felt that we were in violation of the election code because not only did the Election Supervisory Board approve our media — including our group picture — but the clause the ESB convicted us of violating is under the SG-specific election code that led us to believe that this clause only applied to associating with SG candidates. After the disqualification ruling by the ESB, we tried to appeal to the UT judicial court on the grounds that the specific code only applies to SG candidates and that our alleged violation did not warrant a disqualification. The fourmember judicial court voted to not hear our case and denied us our right to voice our concerns regarding the ESB’s ruling. Given the fact that we were denied our appeal, we chose to meet with the Dean of Students’ representatives who oversee SG. After meeting with them, we realized we had very limited options moving forward. We filed one last appeal to the judicial court based on procedural errors and were again denied before being heard. At that point, we had the options of bowing out of the race or pursuing legal action in hopes of getting back on the ballot. We are passionate about this University and this campaign really means a lot to us. We understand that many people may criticize our recent actions or question why we are continuing to get back in this race even after being disqualified. We would like everyone to know our true intentions. We are not suing the University for anything monetary. Instead, we filed a temporary restraining order to delay the presidential and vice-presidential election until after our case was heard. We would like a judge to reconsider our case and put our name back on the ballot because we feel that our constitutional rights of freedom of speech and freedom of association were violated. We hope that everyone can understand our story and know what truly has been happening past the headlines. This decision is not motivated by revenge or any selfish reasons but rather it stems from our passion, love and belief in our cause.
Madison Gardner and Antonio Guevara Former SG presidential and vice-presidential candidates
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Students listen to a discussion between aspiring student entrepreneurs and organization leaders at the SAC, Monday. The discussion kicked of the first ever UT Entrepreneurship Week, developed to help assist aspiring business leaders.
Gabriella Belzer Daily Texan staff
Budding entrepreneurs receive advice By Sylvia Butanda Daily Texan Staff
UT Entrepreneurship Week promises many events dedicated to help students build connections and receive networking resources Before students dive into their spring break week, student entrepreneurs will have the chance to dive into a week of events aimed at building connections and receiving professional and peer guidance for their future businesses. The first UT Entrepreneurship Week kicked off Monday with a discussion between aspiring student entrepreneurs and campus entrepreneurship organization leaders that will be associated with UTE Week. uThinkTank, creator of UTE Week, is a networking site that allows student entrepreneurs to get feedback on their ideas, connect to mentors on campus and in Austin and build their general business plans, said marketing junior Jonathan Van, co-founder of uThinkTank.
Van said the idea of UTE Week is to merge the entrepreneuring nature of Austin with the University in order to provide city resources to students and expand the entrepreneurial culture on campus. “We want students to go from their idea to where the rubber meets the road,” Van said. “Students that attend the events can start talking to other students and professors that might be able to help them and as well as possible stakeholders for their companies.” R hetoric and writing junior, Nick Spiller, co-founder of uThinkTank, said his ideas for UTE Week originated from listening to his current mentor, Robert Metcalfe, electrical and computer engineering professor and coinventor of Ethernet, speak about connecting the Austin and UT entrepreneurial communities. “This week is for students to push this snowball of a movement of entrepreneurship over the tipping point at the University,” Spiller said. “We think that if we can get enough people on
board and make sure everyone meets the right people, we can basically change the metrics of how your college experiences at a large public research university can be judged.” Management senior Neil Lloyd said he attended the kickoff event Monday to find out about the resources that are available for him. Lloyd said his business idea is in its rough stage but eventually wants to create a networking tool for the martial arts community. “I’ve been an aspiring entrepreneur for a long time and I guess I’ve never been able to get my ideas into action because I was never able to find the right people,” Lloyd said. “I’m hoping to make some connections and bounce ideas off each other.” Electrical engineering senior Aaron Sanchez, vice-president of the Technology Entrepreneurship Society, said the organization’s monthly meeting is a part of UTE Week in order to offer student entrepreneurs the opportunity to learn about applying to local startup-assistance groups. “We want students to share
their ideas and thoughts and expose them to information that can compliment those thoughts,” Sanchez said. Economics and finance senior, Kanish Mehta, president and founder of the University Entrepreneur’s Association, said the organization wants to connect student entrepreneurs from all disciplines together in order to share their ideas and form teams for new start-up companies. The association will present the “Austinpreneur Panel” event on Tuesday at the SAC Blackbox Theatre that will feature a panel of speakers from Austin who will discuss the relationship between entrepreneurship and the community, Van said. uThinkTank and Austin Technology Incubator will present the second annual Student Entrepreneurship Symposium on Wednesday in the SAC Ballroom. “The symposium is going to give students the chance to see people that are highly successful, such as Robert Metcalfe, and allow them to make connections with their peers and possible mentors,” Van said.
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Staying healthy throughout the year means increasing food and exercise variety in your daily lifestyle instead of restricting yourself through brief diets. The Student Dietetic Association and the Nutrition and Wellness Association hosted The 2nd Annual Hungry for Health Fair Monday evening in the SAC Ballroom. The fair featured free cooking demonstrations, relaxation techniques and health and sustainable food organizations for students. The purpose of the event was to offer students a full view of their personal health possibilities, said Meghan Mullaney, spokeswoman for the College of Human Ecology. Susan Hochman, interim assistant director of health promotion and public information, said UHS offers individual consultations with a registered dietitian for students with nutritionrelated health concerns throughout the year. “Nutrition plays a significant role in helping students keep their energy levels up throughout the day, which is important for concentration and focus in class or while doing school work,” Hochman said. Hochman said the Health Promotion Resource Center at University Health Services emphasized and discussed five core messages regarding nutrition at the fair. “Students have to eat breakfast daily, stay hydrated, eat moderate portions and snacks throughout the day, incorporate variety into their diet and handle stress without turning to food,”
Hochman said. Nutrition senior John Regnery, a nutrition peer educator with the HPR, informed students about proper ways to be healthy. “We want to focus on letting people know that you don’t have to necessarily follow a diet to be considered healthy,” Regnery said. “You can eat what you want but just in moderation.” Regnery said he and his fellow peer educators wanted to implement the idea of intuitive eating to students at the fair. “It’s a concept that basically states to follow your hunger cues and not limiting yourself to what you want to eat,” Regnery said. “Your body knows best about what you need and want and if you follow that, you can still live a healthy lifestyle.” Regnery said there’s a lot of talk in his nutrition classes about following certain diets and restricting calories but wants students to know there are other healthy options available. Robert Mayberry, executive chef for the Division of Housing and Food Services, demonstrated how to make cold Asian noodle salad, grilled zucchini roll ups and berry crunch yogurt parfait. All the recipes were available for students throughout the fair. While making the cold Asian noodle salad, Mayberry said the recipes demonstrated were just guidelines for students to follow, but they should make their own by experimenting with different alternatives. “Even if you’re on the go, you can buy a couple of items for your pantry and refrigerator that are fresh and ready to use,” Mayberry said.
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Cochran heads to hospice care while friends fundraise By Kayla Jonsson Daily Texan Staff
After 25 years of strolling around the streets of downtow n i n wome n’s cl ot h i ng and heels, the iconic vagrant Leslie C ochran remains in critical condition. Leslie was found unconscious Feb. 16 on South Fifth Street only days after announcing plans to move to Colorado, said Debbie Russell, the president of the Central Texas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Surrounded by friends, Leslie was transferred to hospice care Friday. “He is in comfort care and his wishes are being tended to,” said Russell, a close friend of Cochran’s. “Generally, there is no expectation of recovery. His physical condition is so compromised that even if he were to recover, he wouldn’t really be functional.” Russell said Leslie’s current condition stems from a motorcycle accident in Colorado 25 years ago combined with an acquired head injury after tripping over a curb downtown in 2009. Russell said Leslie has suffered frequent seizures since the 2009 accident. “About once a month Leslie would have a seizure,” Russell said. “He got to the point where he would know when one was coming so he could get himself to the hospital. Recently, he just couldn’t get himself there and that’s when he collapsed and someone took him to the hospital.” Russell said because Leslie is a vagrant, free medical care is provided to him, but fund-raisers are also being held to help support costs that may tally once he leaves the
hospice. “There are some beautiful paintings of Leslie being auctioned and Leslie magnet sets are being sold,” Russell said. “All of the money is going to fundraising for his treatment and for the upcoming expenses we are bracing ourselves for.” An iLeslie app is available for purchase on iTunes that includes short sayings of his and two interviews with him. Architectural engineering freshman Kaitlyn Dietz said she met Leslie once and his personality is perfect for an app. “He is so goofy,” Dietz said. “People like Leslie are only welcomed in certain places and Austin is one of those places.” Leslie is well-known at City Hall for his three runs for mayor over the years and his celebrity status in Austin, said Amy Everhart, spokeswoman for mayor Lee Leffingwell’s office. She said Leffingwell and about 100 other city hall staff members sent Leslie a get-well card. “The mayor and everyone have been concerned about Leslie,” Everhart said. “The life of a homeless person is very rough and that becomes clear when someone becomes ill like this. The whole city is pulling for him. He’s made it through a lot of hard times before so we hope he will make it through this.”
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Hovav Shacham, a prominent computer science researcher, addressed to students on campus Monday morning as part of the annual computer safety series. Shacham’s talk discussed the communication between secure systems and untrusted interfaces.
Lecturer speaks on secure systems By Reihaneh Hajibeigi Daily Texan Staff
S i m i l a r t o Ia g o’s b e t r ay al of Othello, various components of computer operating systems can manipulate the applications and technologies we use in our computers. Hovav Shacham, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California at San Diego, addressed UT students and faculty Monday on computer “IAGO attacks” as part of the annual computer safety series. The lecture, hosted by the Center for Information Assurance and Security, was given by Shacham because he is one of the world’s most prominent researchers in his field, said center director
Vitaly Shmatikov. “His results are very new and have yet to be published, but they have serious implications for a lot of ongoing research on secure systems,” Shmatikov said. A sequence within a computer system can lead a supposedly protected process to act against its original interests and force the hardware-software interface, or kernel, to do whatever it wants, Shacham said at the lecture. If the kernel is untrusted, even a reliable application could be misused, he said. “Designing and implementing secure systems is very difficult and a lot of thought goes into understanding the risks,” Shmatikov said about Shacham’s work. “It is necessary to have people like Shacham
carefully investigating the true level of security provided by modern computer systems.” Shacham said his work revolves around implementing a new supervisor within the bridge between application use and actual data usage to prevent components of operating systems from manipulating the true purpose of our computer use. Shacham said these “IAGO attacks” occur when the kernel, which is responsible for managing the communication between the hardware and software components of the system, successfully subverts the application from its original goal. The kernel attempts to make it do anything it wants to, so if the kernel is untrusted, all the data could be lost or influenced in
an unintended way, he said. “Operating system tasks are performed differently with different kernels, so each situation is different,” Shacham said. “However, the supervisor has to be applied in order to separate the application and the kernel.” “This separation would prevent the kernel from abusing its power over the application,” Shacham said. Computer science graduate student Deepak Goel said listening to Shacham is not only interesting, but its relevance to the average computer user is also important. “Even if we think some of our actions on the computer are trivial, it is necessary for it to all be safe and his work is making that possible,” Goel said.
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beat Oklahoma last week. “Sometimes it’s been hard getting that to translate onto the court.” Nowhere has that youth been more evident than in close games. Texas is 2-6 in games decided by less than six The best thing Texas has going for it is the strength and points. In most of those, they fumbled down the stretch depth of the Big 12. The Longhorns play in one of the top even with chances to close out a win. conferences in the nation and held their own with a 9-9 record in league play. The Longhorns beat visiting Temple, 77-65, during The Big 12 is the only conference with three teams with a .800 win percentage or higher (Kansas, Missouri, Baylor). non-conference play on Dec. 17. The Owls are currently It is also the only league with half of its teams having fewer ranked No. 21 and have been in and out of the polls for much of the season. It is Texas’ only win versus a ranked than 10 losses (KU, MU, BU, Iowa State, Kansas State). “I believe it’s one of the best leagues in the country,” said opponent (1-7) and the victory has looked better with head coach Rick Barnes, who thinks the Big 12 should get time now that Temple is a virtual lock to make the NCAA six teams in the NCAA tournament. “We’ve played one of tournament. Still, the Owls are from a non-power conference (Atlantic 10) and one signature win likely won’t get the best schedules in the country.” Besides one of the nation’s toughest conference sched- the Longhorns into the field of 68. UT also beat Iowa State and Kansas State at home, two ules, the Longhorns challenged themselves in non-conference play with games at UCLA and North Carolina. Texas BUBBLE continues on PAGE 9 beat UCLA but lost to UNC. The Longhorns boast one of the country’s top offensive threats in J’Covan Brown. If he gets hot from the field in a tournament game, Texas could spring an upset. Of course, UT must be invited to the Big Dance first.
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Texas is a team with a lot of potential, but that can only get it so far. The Longhorns have heavily relied on their group of six freshmen to help them wade the rough waters of the Big 12, and the results have been mixed. Each of the youngsters have had their moments, but they have yet to put together a complete unit performance. Barnes said inexperience has hurt them on the court. “I’ve never seen a group of players practice as hard as they do,” Barnes said after his team came from behind to
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“I think the seniors have set the tone,” Goestenkors said. “I’m very happy for them because they deserve this, and they wanted to make sure that they will be going to Experience and smart offensive posses- the NCAA Tournament and they’re dosions are the main ingredients in the Long- ing everything in their power to make horns’ recipe to success this postseason. Se- that happen.” nior guard Yvonne Anderson seems to be in all-out beast mode after a career night in Turnovers have plagued this team from her last game. If she can limit turnovers and the very first game of the season. Anderson’s take the wheel in the Longhorns transition offense, Texas has a chance to sneak up on recent play has resulted in a considerable drop in turnovers, but the team still averages some teams. Sophomore guard Chassidy Fussell and nearly 16 per game. Turnovers can’t become senior guard Ashleigh Fontenette both ben- a hallmark of the Longhorns offense, as misefit when Anderson is playing her best. Fus- takes in March are only magnified. Texas has had some issues rebounding at sell is able to spot up and get her shot gotimes this year as well, especially against the ing and if Anderson can continue to score nation’ s best teams. When a team is getting as much as she has, it takes some of the presoutrebounded, it tends to start to foul more, sure off of Fussell. Fontenette seems to feed off Anderson’s which has also been an area of concern for energy as well and is able to either run the the Longhorns at times. Senior post Ashley point when Anderson needs a rest, or play Gayle leads the team in Rasheed Wallace’s on the wing where she can also knock favorite category: foul outs (five). Overall, this is a pretty well-rounded team down deep shots. Coach Gail Goestenkors both inside and out of the paint, but Texsummed up her thoughts on what her team as has shown a propensity of very streaky needs to do to in order to avoid another early exit from the NCAA Tournament. REBOUNDING continues on PAGE 9
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Texas looks to get back in win column Texas didn’t get swept this past weekend like it did by Stanford earlier this season, but the remainder of the Houston College Classic did not go particularly well for the Longhorns. They took down No. 5 Rice, 118, last Friday but dropped consecu-
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Junior left fielder Jonathan Walsh roams the dugout at Minute Maid Park last week. Walsh batted .500 and hit three doubles during the Houston College Classic en route to being named Big 12 Player of the Week Monday.
tive contests to Tennessee, 5-4, and No. 4 Arkansas, 7-3. Texas showed marked improvement offensively at Minute Maid Park last week but could not get its pitching staff to follow suit. The Longhorns raised their team batting average from .195 to .226 over the course of those three games but
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Three-and-a-half weeks is all it took for the Longhorns to move up in the rankings and become one of the best teams in the country. No. 6 Texas, currently 17-1 on the season, has had one of their best seasons so far and looks to continue it as they kick off their conference play this week. The Longhorns, who haven’t lost a game since losing to No. 1 Florida, are challenging the Texas Tech Red Raiders in a two-game series. Texas Tech is currently 17-5 on the season and have lost only one game in their past 17. The Red Raiders are coming off a big weekend tournament where they won six straight in
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After batting .500 and racking up having three of his eight hits go for extra bases, junior left fielder Jonathan Walsh was named Big 12 Player of the Week Monday. Walsh recorded multiple base hits in three of the four games he played in last week, including a 3-for-4 effort in a 7-3 loss to No. 4 Arkansas Sunday. The Coppell product went 8-for-16 during that span, raising his batting average from .214 to a team-leading .367, and racked up three runs and two RBI. Freshman second baseman Brooks Marlow was also honored Monday as he was named Big 12 Newcomer of the Week. Marlow went 6-for-10 in three games during the Houston College Classic while posting a .900 slugging percentage and registering three hits apiece in Texas’ 11-8 win over No. 5 Rice Friday and the 5-4 loss to Tennessee.
DATE | March 6 TIME | 8 p.m. LOCATION | Austin, Longhorn Network
three days on their home turf. Texas Tech obviously isn’t the only team coming into the matchup strong. The Longhorns just breezed through a three-game series with in-state opponent Sam Houston State. The team gave up only two runs in the series while scoring 25 themselves. Both sides of the field were
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SPORTS BRIEFLY Wangmene done for season, surgery scheduled for Tuesday Senior forward Alexis Wangmene will undergo surgery Tuesday to repair a dislocated left wrist and will miss the remainder of the season. Wangmene suffered the injury in Texas’ 73-63 loss at Phog Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence Saturday. The 6-foot-7, 241-pounder from Cameroon averaged 4.6 points and 4.7 rebounds per game in his final season as a Longhorn, both career-highs. — Christian Corona
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Harker Heights’ Darius James becomes Horns 12th commit By Lauren Giudice Daily Texan Staff
This season, Texas’ offense was not one of the team’s strong points. With the twelve prospects the class of 2013 already has, it looks like that may change. Harker Heights’ Darius James attended Texas’ first junior day on Feb. 12 and was the first offensive lineman to receive an offer. At 6-foot-6 and 315 pounds, he is one of the top linemen in the state and received offers from Baylor, LSU, Oklahoma and Texas A&M. He is the team’s eighth offensive commitment and is extremely versatile. He can play guard, center and even nose tackle. James cancelled his planned trip
to Oklahoma before making his decision to play at Texas. Richardson tackle Kent Perkins was the first offensive lineman to commit. James is Harker Heights’ second player to commit to Texas this year. His teammate linebacker Naashon Hughes agreed to grayshirt if he was not offered a scholarship. Camrhon Hughes, Naashon’s brother, is currently an offensive tackle for Texas. James is ranked as the top center prospect in the country by 247Sports and he could be the final offensive lineman recruited for the class of 2013. He is ranked as a four-star prospect by Hookem.com and he earned All-Central Texas honors this past season.
He joins offensive commitments wide receiver Jake Oliver, quarterback Tyrone Swoopes, lineman Jake Raulerson, running back Kyle Hicks, receiver Ricky Seals-Jones, receiver Jacorey Warrick and lineman Kent Perkins. This recruiting class is continuing to grow with more impressive athletes. He is the seventh member of the Rivals100 to commit to Texas. James made the decision to come to Austin and tell Texas coaches in person about his decision. In an interview with Burnt Orange Nation, James said he felt at home at Texas. “I love everything about Texas,� James said. “There is no downfall to it. I just love Texas. It’s a big relief.�
Former Texas safety Griffin slapped with franchise tag
Tennessee Titans placed the franchise tag on Michael Griffin Monday. A two-time Pro Bowler, Griffin started for the Longhorns when they won a national title in 2005 and picked off a pass in the national title game against USC that season. His eight blocked punts are a Texas school record.
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The Tennessee Titans have tagged safety Michael Griffin as their franchise player. The Titans announced the move Monday a couple hours before the NFL deadline to use the tag. The move to tag Griffin still allows the Titans to work on a long-term contract before July 16 with the safety who was their first-round draft pick in 2007 out of Texas. Griffin was due to become an unrestricted free agent on March 13. Another team could sign Griffin to a contract, but the franchise tag allows the Titans to either match the contract or be awarded two No. 1 draft picks. “Tag your it,� Griffin wrote on Twitter after the Titans’ announcement. By tagging Griffin, the Titans are on
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target to return both starting safeties. The 6-foot Griffin is a two-time Pro Bowler, the last in 2010 when he led the team with four interceptions and ranked second on the team with a career-high 153 tackles. In 2011, he
ranked third with 96 tackles and tied for the team lead with two interceptions. For his career, Griffin has started 73 of 80 games played and he has 17 career interceptions with seven forced fumbles and four fumbles recovered.
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shooting performances. The team has shot around 41 percent from the field for the year, but when the shots aren’t falling, the Longhorns can get a little careless with their shot selection. It all goes back to smart decisions on the offensive end as the key to the Longhorns’ postseason survival chances.
Signature wins: Virginia, California, Michigan State, Texas A&M (2), Oklahoma
Bad losses: Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Kansas (2)
Key players: Fussell, Anderson and Fontenette need to score near their season av-
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erages to keep the Longhorns in any game. Players like freshman forward Nneka Enemkpali will have a chance to shine as well. Enemkpali is fresh off a career-high 14-rebound performance against the Aggies and was the Longhorns’ second leading rebounder in conference play at 5.6 boards per game. “She’s very athletic,� Gayle said of the freshman. “And I think she’s figured out the angles to rebounding and how to rebound at this level. I think she’s doing a great job.� Gayle herself is also a player to keep an eye on. Gayle is the most experienced, but maybe the least offensively inclined of all the Longhorns post players. She’s averaged about five points and six rebounds this season. But, Gayle averages nearly three blocked shots per game which provides a presence down low that can’t
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Texas 18-12 45 17
North Carolina 20-11 89 88
BUBBLE continues from PAGE 8 teams that will likely earn at-large bids. But those victories aren’t anything spectacular when compared to other teams on the bubble.
Bad Losses: Texas shot itself in the foot back in November when the Longhorns blew a pair of games in New Jersey at the TicketCity Legends Classic. Texas lost in overtime to Oregon State, 100-95, after turning the ball over 23 times and sending the Beavers to the free throw line 43 times. Two days later, the Longhorns coughed up an 18-point lead in the second half and lost to North Carolina State, 77-74. J’Covan Brown picked up his fourth foul with 8:35 to play and Texas ahead, 65-52. Brown said something to the referee as he walked to the bench and received a technical foul. It was his fifth
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be taken for granted. Sophomore Chelsea Bass has been a reliable scoring option coming off the bench and has shown explosive attributes with the ball in her hands. Bass has played through some injuries this year, but is second on the team in free-throw percentage (.738).
Quotes to note:
“They hurt us with the guard play,� said A&M head coach Gary Blair after the Aggies’ latest loss to the Longhorns. “They hurt us with the pick-and-roll. They hurt us with the offensive boards. They hurt us with energy.� “We’ve started turning the corner, and we’re going in a different direction from the past,� Fontenette said. “I think [the program] is going to definitely build on this going into the next couple of years.�
Kansas 19-11 48 19
foul, meaning he had fouled out of the game with a team-high 17 points. UT struggled to regroup without its leading scorer and Rick Barnes called Brown out after the loss. “We have a fairly young team and when your older players do that, it’s just wrong. He has to grow up,� Barnes told reporters after the game. “He’s been in the program for three years. He should know he just can’t do that. Sooner or later, he has to figure out that it’s a team game and he has to realize that it’s not about him. He has come a long way, but he should have had it all figured out by now.�
Key Players: Texas has its scorer and its point guard in J’Covan Brown and Myck Kabongo, but now that their junior defensive specialist Alexis Wangmene is out for the remainder of the season, Texas will need its big men now more than ever. Enter Clint Chapman. Chapman has had his best year as a Longhorn, but he hasn’t been consis-
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tent. He’s only averaging seven points and five boards on the season, but has shined on the big stage before. He notched 15 points and nine boards in Texas’ first contest against Kansas and had a string of impressive games afterward. But in his last five, he has been in foul trouble and seen less floor time. Jonathan Holmes and Jaylen Bond will have to help him out. Holmes is averaging seven points and five boards in 20 minutes, while Bond averages three points and almost five boards in 15 minutes. The two will be up against some of the best big men in the country in the Big 12 tournament, so the pair of freshmen need to be prepared for their expanded roles
Numbers to Note: Texas is ranked 51st in RPI rankings with 0.574 and have the 22ndtoughest schedule. Rick Barnes has made the NCAA tournament all 12 years as Texas’ head coach. This is the first year since 1998 Texas failed to win 20 games.
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Junior pitcher Blaire Luna leads a pitching staff that has recorded 10 shutouts and has registered consecutive scoreless innings streaks of 28.1 and 34 innings this season. Luna has thrown 30 career shutouts of her own and owns a 7-0 record, along with a 0.81 ERA and 72 strikeouts - all team-best marks.
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TECH continues from PAGE 8 nothing short of spectacular as they ended the weekend by throwing a no-hit shutout and scoring 14 runs. Historically, the Longhorns have always been able to handle the Red Raiders. They have a 25-5 record against them and are 10-2 here in Austin. Texas Tech beat the Longhorns in Austin in 2005 and 2001. Another key point Texas has over Texas Tech is that the Red Raiders are only 6-26 all time in its first conference series of the year. Although this is good news for the Longhorns, they aren’t worried about Tech’s stats. “We’re as ready as we’re going to be,” said head coach Connie Clark. “The big thing we told the team right now is not getting consumed all of a sudden its conference, it’s Tech, because we’ve done a really good job of just focusing on us, regardless of who the opponent is. We need to keep our minds there.” With the way Texas has been
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no starting pitcher lasted more than six innings or allowed fewer than three runs. Now Texas (4-7) will try to bounce back against Dallas Baptist (6-5) in a home game Tuesday. “We’re trying to create an environment that’s realistic and that supports the players’ confidence,” said Texas head coach Augie Garrido. “I think they have the right to be confident because they have played at a much higher level. They are playing well below their average performance level.” The Longhorns have split their first two mid-week games, dropping a 7-5 decision to UT-Arlington two weeks ago before blanking Houston Baptist, 2-0, last Tuesday. Texas gave up four unearned runs in the loss to UTA but allowed just three hits in the victory over Houston Baptist a week ago. The Longhorns will try to improve to 2-1 in mid-week contests against a Dallas Baptist team that used upsets over TCU and Oklahoma to advance to the Super Regionals last season. “That’s the way baseball is. Sometimes they fall in, sometimes they don’t,” said sophomore right fielder Mark Payton. “If we don’t make mental errors and play our game, the wins and losses will take care of themselves.” Before their trip to Minute Maid Park last week, the Longhorns owned one of the poorest batting averages in the country. But they came close to hitting .300 as a team in their three games at the home of the Houston Astros, registering season highs in runs (11) and hits (13) in the win over Rice Friday night. Texas scored 18 runs in the tournament after putting up 23 in their previous eight games combined. Junior Jonathan Walsh was the catalyst of the offensive turnaround, going 6-for-12 with three doubles, two
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Houston Baptist this time last week and will try to return to that form when they face Dallas Baptist. “We can’t have the inconsistency that we’ve been having,” Thornhill said. “This team started off slow, but I see a lot of great things in this team.” The competition that awaits Texas in its next several games is not nearly as tough as the competition it faced in its first 11 games, which included five against opponents ranked among the top five in the country. The Longhorns get Dallas Baptist Tuesday, then a three-game series with Loyola Marymount — who is also currently 4-7 on the year — before squaring off against Texas State. The Bobcats should present a much stiffer test as they found themselves at No. 21 in the latest Baseball America Top 25, are riding a six-game winning streak and have thrown 50.1 consecutive scoreless innings.
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Springsteen’s music evolves with generation By Elijah Watson Daily Texan Staff
It seems that Bruce “The Boss” Springsteen has redefined his sound to capture the ears of a new generation. For his 17th album, Wrecking Ball, the artist opts for arena-rock grandeur to remain relevant in an America that has grown cold, cynical and corrupt. There is no E Street Band here (only three members of the group are present, including the late saxophonist Clarence Clemons), just Springsteen and an assortment of guests. Although the album shows Springsteen at his angriest, the question with this album seems to be, is the iconic songwriter’s anger a facade, or is he actually pissed off? “Jack of All Trades” supports the former: “The banker man grows fat, working man grows thin,” Springsteen sings, an ode to the laborers whose diligence and perseverance earns them meager wages and even less respect.
Springsteen has always been the people’s person; we find solace in his husky voice, a voice that for years has instilled a certain strength in us, reminding us that we can never fall to our fears. The singer-songwriter actually states that on the album’s title track. “Hold tight to your anger, don’t fall to your fear,” Springsteen sings. His emphatic declarations are only strengthened by a solo from Clemons. It’s uplifting; listeners cannot help but be swallowed in Clemons’ mighty sound, his legacy and final contributions a source of inspiration for those beaten down and distraught. What seems to be the problem with this album is that Springsteen’s anger has dissipated. Like Woody Guthrie or Pete Seeger, Springsteen’s heart is in the right place, but his populist views leave no resonance. His fist-pumping, stadium-sized anthems try to assemble the hearts of the downtrodden and
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weak, but it fails to do so, going for a bigger-is-better approach that seems to overshadow the unadorned grit of the American people. Wrecking Ball-era Springsteen is nothing like Nebraska-era Springsteen, which share similar themes of ordinary people struggling to retain their
jobs, dignity and moral compass. At the base of Nebraska were the narratives; sure it was dark and hopeless, but its stripped-down sound painted a more accurate portrayal of America’s economic situation during the early 1980s. Wrecking Ball could have served as a sequel to one of Springsteen’s most
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Metal meets country in Ex Lives By Elijah Watson Daily Texan Staff
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A self-proclaimed mix between a “Buffalo Bills tailgate party and a high school kegger,” metalcore ensemble Every Time I Die embodies the chaos that is bound to ensue if said high school kegger were busted by the cops. Their abrasive and menacing guitar riffs switch between spastic metal heaviness and experimental technicality. The band’s latest release, Ex Lives, showcases the band’s takeno-prisoners sound, causing a ruckus in every direction. Album opener “Underwater Bimbos From Outer Space” explodes with Norma Jean-like intensity; synchronized guitar riffs send blow after blow to an onslaught of gigantic drums, while vocalist Keith Buckley’s gurgled screams screech above the cacophony. Chaos is beauty for Every Time I Die. Their low-tuned guitars release hellish moshpits that are bound to leave you battered and bruised, but with a sadistic, Fight Club-era Edward Norton smile. Of course, the band has southern metal tendencies that contribute to their unconventional sound. “Partying Is Such Sweet Sorrow” is a great example of that: it begins with a jangling banjo, before going into distorted and evil guitar. “I used to be a goddamn saint,” Buckley. screams. However, the singer seems to have lost his
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way as he humorously discusses tales of promiscuity and drunkeness. Buckley’s lyrics have always had a dark humor to them. Considering one of his writing tactics involves getting incoherently drunk and seeing what he can create, it comes as no surprise that Buckley’s delivery is often times twisted and hyperbolic, with thoughts so demented you can’t help but laugh. Each song keeps the momentum going until the very end. That said, it can also become redundant at times, a common problem in metalcore music. In getting stuck in the hardcore punk speed and metal riffs, things begin to sound like one long, continuous song. Luckily, Buckley’s alternating between screamed vocals and clean vocals, keeps the album
from being completely repetitive. “Revival Mode” showcases that alteration. It has an Alice In Chains atmosphere to it, with Buckley’s shaky delivery hauntingly impressive. The group’s departure from Ferret Music to Epitaph Records seems to have worked out for the band. On Ex Lives, Every Time I Die have retained their aggressive sound, but it’s much more polished. It serves as an indicator of the band’s transfer from a label associated with metalcore acts such as See You Next Tuesday and Misery Signals, to a label that features an eclectic roster of punk, rock and post-hardcore. Ex Lives is head-bashing fun. It finds a balance between dark melodies and guitar technicalities, and the outcome is brain-meltingly good.
Artist exhibits simplicity despite ability By Rainy Schermerhorn Daily Texan Staff
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Band maintains folk roots in new album By Elijah Watson Daily Texan Staff
Good Old War are the new kids on the indie-folk block. There’s a pop backbone to their folk-driven songs, combining the sweet harmonies of Fleet Foxes with the down-by-the-beach vibes of Jack Johnson. Such a combination has contributed to the band’s moderate success throughout their career. Their latest album, Come Back as Rain, is no different; it showcases the band’s knack for creating jangling, upbeat folk filled with Beach Boys pop. “Better Weather” has summer anthem written all over it: “You know we always have each other/If we go, we’ll go together,” sings vocalist Keith Goodwin over sparkling chords. You can imagine listening to this song with a close friend as the summer breeze hits your face, anticipating the vacation. Album opener “Over and Over” begins with tribal percussion, before rolling into patches of luscious, Americana-inspired acoustic guitar. The harmonies are beautiful, giving the song a very natural and primitive atmosphere. The songs on this album are nothing short of beautiful. The countryside narratives that Goodwin provides strive to be like Fleet Foxes’ folk king and lead singer, Robin Pecknold’s music. They’re familiar
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and inviting, painting landscapes that are easy to get lost in. Each song is infectiously catchy. “Touch The Clouds,” one of the standout tracks on the album, is incredible because it embodies the two things that make this group so great: their folksy roots and pop sensibilities. The chorus oozes with both, the trio’s three-part harmony reminiscent of Crosby, Stills & Nash and the Beach Boys. Good Old War is all about simplicity — they keep listeners enthused with every elongated note sung and every guitar strummed. The group can obviously
hold their own in a genre known for its vibrant guitar melodies and flawless vocal harmonies. Where Fleet Foxes and Grizzly Bear have experimented with psychedelic sounds and unconventional ideas, Good Old War’s straightforward approach works in their favor. It shows that the band has the potential to be among its contemporaries, appealing to both old and new school folksters. Come Back as Rain is a fitting title for the band’s third album. Their return is relaxed but impressive, dropping down gracefully from a beautiful, pop-folk sky.
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“We’ll dance like cancer survivors,” sings Andrew Bird in “Near Death Experience,” “Like we’re grateful simply to be alive” — lyrics that resonate with profundity despite their simplicity. It’s with this cathartic candor that Bird’s Break it Yourself provides for a mesmerizing listening experience, proving once again that Bird’s continued success is not without merit. Break it Yourself is a curious album in many ways. Although occasionally layered in complex melodies, as a whole, it encapsulates the feeling of a lethargic Sunday afternoon. While it’s more minimalistic than his previous works, the simple elegance Bird captures in his seventh studio album continues the spirit of his preceding albums, alongside a handful of more mainstream tracks that could easily top the charts. However, this diversity should please both longtime fans and new listeners. While Bird is known for his multiinstrumental skill, Break it Yourself goes for a more simplistic approach with chamber pop, folksy acoustics that take the main stage over the complexity displayed in previous albums, like 2009’s Noble Beast. However, this change in approach isn’t necessarily a drawback — if anything, sticking with the basics just goes to show that Birds’ talent as a singer-songwriter doesn’t necessarily have to rely on theatrics to achieve success. “Eyeoneye,” the album’s first single,
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is one of the few exceptions to the lowkey feel, a powerful ballad about the inevitability of heartbreak. “No one can break your heart/So you break it yourself” sings Bird, as the song escalates into a fevered anthem that challenges the idea of self-imposed isolation. Reminiscent of Morrissey with a folky twist, Break it Yourself brings together many influences to form a final product that’s hard to pin down in terms of genre, but nonetheless comes together seamlessly. “Things Behind the Barn,” an instrumental intermission that just barely extends the one minute mark, displays Bird’s masterful violin talent before the whistle-driven “Lusitania,” a duet with singer-songwriter Amy Clark (better known by her stage name, St. Vincent). Clark’s vocals nicely complement the relaxed ambiance of both the instrumen-
tals and Bird’s voice, making it an album standout. “Orpheo Looks Back” is another demonstration of Bird’s skill with strings, adding a more dynamic entry between the album’s other additions. In contrast, the more eclectic “Danse Carribe” provides a Celtic-inspired folk addition to the album, riddled with a fiddle solo between abstract, daydreamy lyrics. While perhaps not the most innovative of Bird’s work, Break it Yourself takes power from its simplicity. At its core, Bird’s new album is about transitions — from childhood to adolescence, heartbreak to recovery and musically speaking, from the subdued to bold. Through these transitions, Bird perfectly captures a feeling of raw sophistication that many other modern-day artists lose through overproduction.
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THE TEXAS STUDENT MEDIA Board of Operating Trustees is seeking applicants to fill the following TSM Board position:
College of Communication, Place 2 (unexpired term) Terms of office: March 23, 2012 – May 31, 2014 College of Communication Qualifications:
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Be a registered student during the semester in which application is made. Have competed at least one semester in residence in the long term at UT Austin. Be in good standing and not on scholastic probation. Must be enrolled in the College of Communication and must have completed or will have completed by the end of the current semester 12 hours of College of Communication courses. Applicant cannot be an employee of Texas Student Media. Applicant must supply the Board with a current transcript of all courses taken at UT.
The TSM Board oversees the largest student media program in the United States.
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2012-2013 TSTV Station Manager 2012-2013 KVRX Station Manager 2012-2013 Texas Travesty Editor
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The TSM Board of Operating Trustees will interview applicants and appoint these positions at 10:30am on March 19, 2012 in the College of Communication (CMA), LBJ Room #5.160, 2600 Whitis Avenue
Office of the Director Texas Student Media, HSM 3.304 Deadline for applications and all supporting materials:
Noon, Friday, March 9, 2012
DEADLINE Noon, Friday, March 9, 2012 Please return completed applications, transcripts and all supporting materials to the Director’s Office. Interested applicants are invited to stop by and visit with the Director to discuss student positions.
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Style X brings designers, fashion to South by Southwest By Anjli Mehta Daily Texan Staff
SXSW’s second annual tradeshow, Style X (pronounced “Style By”), is going to set style loose in the Austin Convention Center with 55 designers and eight panel discussions. Co-founder Joah Spearman hopes this free event will bring the world of fashion back down to earth and symbolize the fashion world’s future. “ The other fashion industry events like New York Fashion Week are very industry-focused and very elitist,” Spearman said. “They give off the air of exclusivity that the online world does not allow for. We want to embrace the future, not live in the past.” Style X’s panels will feature representatives from favorite Internet fashion destinations like Refinery29, The Man Repeller and Huffington Post Style to facilitate discussions on fashion’s newest trends both on and off the runway. The tradeshow will also feature fashion shows with SXSW musicians as models, a personal shopper service and on-site vendors. From local favorites to under-theradar designers who have traveled miles to celebrate style, these fea-
TIKKR watch designer Cory Stout is one of the 55 designers being featured at SXSW’s second annual tradeshow, Style X. The TIKKR booth will also feature a live mural painting by artist Just Pierce, who collaborated with the company on a special edition watch.
tured designers are just a taste of what’s to come at Style X.
TIKKR For candy-colored watches in 23 different hues to choose from, TIKKR brings a new meaning to arm candy. Though the brand is known for its signature square watch faces, TIKKR “Chief Time Keeper” Cory Stout promises the brand is anything but square. “We are based in Austin and our style is cool, clean, funky and fresh,” Stout said. “Last year, we showed our watches, but this year we want to show our personality.” TIKKR’s booth will also feature Arizona artist JPierce painting a booth mural live in living color.
Krochet Kids All of Krochet Kids’ southern California-influenced crochet hats are handcrafted by formerly impoverished women in Uganda and Peru, and each woman signs her name on a tag sewn inside the hat. The progressive company takes partial product proceeds to charity a step further by allowing customers to virtually meet the women who made their hats on their website. “When you buy a hat, you change
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a life,” spokesperson Nic Lauten apparel of Austin restaurant Basaid. “You can see the change hap- con, the famous Gruene Dance pening because of your purchase.” Hall and the Alamo Drafthouse. Sanctuary Printshop will be printSanctuary Printshop ing apparel at their booth with cusOne of Style X’s co-founders, Jon tom SXSW designs. Proudly based Pattillo, co-owns this design house in Austin, the print shop expects responsible for the signs, logos and this year’s event to top last year’s
Honeydog’s music grows more ambitious By Robert Starr Daily Texan Staff
With an opening track titled “Particles or Waves,” alluding to quantum duality and other songs that make references to Greek mythology and philosophy, one may be tempted to say that The Honeydogs’ latest album What Comes After is a bit of an unusual pop album. However, like the Minneapolis-based band’s other works, the obtuse subject matter doesn’t get in the way of catchy hooks and memorable melodies. Instead, it gives the music an added depth to reward the repeat listens that will invariably occur. This album, the band’s tenth, harkens back to the group’s earlier works, such as their self-titled album and Here’s Luck, which worked as simple collections of songs. Their more ambitious later projects, like the concept album 10,000 Years, balanced an epic tale of a world at war with infectious tunes full of large instrumental production to match the scope of the story. What Comes After isn’t a concept album, but it’s clearly more ambitious than the band’s earliest work and shows real growth from bandleader Adam Levy. The songs are varied and catchy, following the typical rules of pop music structure. But the subject matter is not the typical angst-ridden content one might expect. Instead it’s often somewhat cryptic, and when Levy does write a
CD REVIEW What Comes After The Honeydogs GENRE | Pop-Rock IF YOU LIKE | Wilco, The Beatles
song about love, it’s more about its philosophical implications, like when he discusses it in an abstract sense in “Better Word.” While the album is complex lyrically, there is enough comfort in the musicality of the songs themselves, so that What Comes After remains inviting and never intimidating. Listeners will likely find themselves humming along to a song before they reach a conclusion as to what it’s about. Levy manages to throw in some nice turns of phrase (such as “It’s a very thin line between vintage and vinegar” on “Death by Boredom”) that resonate even apart from the rest of the context of the song. The album is a solid collection of Rubber Soul-style songs and a delightful return to the work of The Honeydogs from ten or so
years ago. However, for their next go-around it’d be nice to see them go back to their concept-oriented material, which has led to their two best albums, 10,000 Years and Amygdala. Still, What Comes After is nothing to dismiss, as it’s a superb pop album, both energetic and inventive, catchy without being shallow and multi-faceted without being off-putting.
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Adam Levy and the Honeydogs, who will be performing at SXSW, have put together another album of lyrical puzzles, which promises to reward careful listeners.
Editor’s Note: The Daily Texan talked with Adam Levy, singer-songwriter and bandleader for The Honeydogs, to discuss the band’s latest album, What Comes After, released today. By Robert Starr Daily Texan Staff
The Daily Texan: How did this album compare with the album that you envisioned when you went into the studio? Adam Levy: I think we had decided that we were going to do a quick record and that we weren’t going to labor over a lot of overdubbing details. We used to make records very quickly without any heavy intensive lifting, so we just thought, because of people’s schedules, it might be fun to throw the record down as quickly as we could. selves to that. The songs and arrangements that DT: Could you have recorded we’d been working on lent them- this album 10 years ago? Levy: No. I think the band’s much better now. In fact, with a lot SXSW: The Honeyof the songs, I came in the studio dogs at The Liberty and showed them and we did them in one or two takes. The band is just DATE | March 17th, 2:30 PM Set begins at 2:30 -- perforinfinitely better than we were. I cermances run from 12 - 8 PM tainly don’t miss the nervousness LOCATION | 1618 1/2 E 6th St., that you have when you first go into Austin, TX the studio when you’re younger: It’s COST | Free, RSVP recomnice to feel really comfortable as a mended at http://mcnallysplayer, performer, songwriter, singmithsxsw.eventbrite.com/ Free er and musician. There are things Beer/Food. 21+ only that I labor over and that have taken more time — other projects —
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but with The Honeydogs, I enjoy the level of comfort, familiarity and trust that everybody has. We tend to work better, more quickly. DT: You make many obscure references in your songs. Do you expect your listeners, for example, to know what the amygdala is? Levy: I like making records that are sort of puzzles for listeners that require repeated listening and that may require them to go back in their memory bank or go look up a word that they might not be familiar with, but I don’t expect
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