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The Big Lebowski Quote-Along The Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar will be hosting a quotealong featuring everyone’s favorite bowling dude at 10 p.m. The Highball will also offer $3 White Russians from 8 p.m.2 a.m. and 50 percent off your first hour of bowling.
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Heisman winner Ricky Williams honored with statue By Lauren Giudice Daily Texan Staff
On Sunday, Ricky Williams’ statue was unveiled. Dreadlocks and all. “Close enough,” Williams said laughing about the likeness. Williams saw the statue last summer when it was still clay. But the 8-foot, 1,000 pound statue was finally revealed to Williams and Texas fans on Sunday at Darrell K Royal Memorial Stadium. “For me, it’s a statue of me. But I
guess I look at it more as a celebration of the University and the time I spent here and the success I had was a reflection of the University; and I think had I gone to any other school I don’t think I would have had the kind of success that I had,” Williams said. Williams was part of a team that helped turn around the Texas football program. One of his goals coming to Texas was to be a part of the transformation of a struggling football program. In his Texas career, Williams
rushed for a then-NCAA record of 6,279 yards, including 2,124 his senior year. “Just being in this environment for four years was just amazing,” Williams said. “I can honestly say that pretty much every day was a great moment here. I had a lot of great friends and I had so much support from the football office and everyone in it. I had great coaches, great teammates.” Williams does not believe he would have had nearly as much success in
his career if he had gone to a different university. He said the Longhorns coaching staff and the environment gives athletes all the tools they need to be successful. The expectations are so high that athletes have a great opportunity to succeed. “If you want to be the best then go ahead and take it,” Williams said. “I think Earl [Campbell] proved it, I proved it, Vince [Young] proved it, Colt [McCoy] proved it. I look at the statue as kind of a symbol for everyone that comes to the Universi-
(World Autism Awareness Day) 6:30-9:00 p.m. at the Main Mall
Werewolves: A New Musical
By Kayla Jonsson Daily Texan Staff
The Madrigal Dinner Committee is proud to present “Werewolves: A New Musical.” Partly inspired by the popular Werewolves game, this show is an entirely student written, directed and produced musical. The show premieres in the SAC Auditorium and is Wednesday evening as well. Begins at 7 p.m. and is free for students with their UT ID.
Art On The Green
Daniel Tosh at Bass Concert Hall Comedian Daniel Tosh will be touring with the Tosh Tour Twenty Twelve at Bass Concert Hall at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are available through the Texas Performing Arts website ($39.50-$59.50).
“The Aliens” at Hyde Park Theatre
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Mansi Raythatha, a member of the Texas 4000 team, embraces her father, Rasik Raythatha, after having her head shaved on the steps of the Main Building for St. Baldrick’s “Shave for a Cure” Saturday.
Austinites shave to support research By Reihaneh Hajibeigi Daily Texan Staff
Standing in solidarity with cancer patients, members of the Austin community shaved their heads on the steps of the Main Building Saturday. Approximately 160 shavees registered to shave their heads and raised more than $55,000
for pediatric cancer research as a part of St. Baldrick’s cancer awareness event. Hosted by Students Making Impacts Through Love and Empathy, this was the first year the University sponsored the “Shave for a Cure” event, said Sabrina Khwaja, S.M.I.L.E. fundraising chair and biology junior. S.M.I.L.E. is an organization
Director Ken Webster and playwright Annie Baker, present “The Aliens” at Hyde Park Theatre at 8 p.m. Tickets are $17-$21.
on campus that spends time with children who are going through cancer to help them channel their emotions through various art projects. Participating in St. Baldrick’s was a perfect way to support the children, Khwaja said. “St. Baldrick’s is a new foundation that was started to raise money for pediatric cancer, which is an extremely underappreciated field UT Grad Mark Rogers is in the running to win The Great American Teach Off because of his unique approach to teaching.
Today in history In 1917 President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to send U.S. troops into battle against Germany in World War I.
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Downtown grocery will use parking for new patio
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AMOA-Arthouse at Laguna Gloria are hosting Art on the Green. The museum will transform their grounds into a mini-golf course in which artists and/or art collectors have each created a mini-golf hole. General admission is $8 ($4 for children 12 and under). The course is open from 4-8 p.m.
ty here to say, I want them to look at that and say, ‘I want mine to be right next to Ricky’s.’” Williams has been enjoying Austin for the past couple of days and it looks like he will be around for a while. Although he has been traveling a lot since he retired, he has decided to go back to school at UT in the fall. “It’s going to be funny being a student and walking by my statue,”
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of research,” Khwaja said. Khwaja said the organization hopes to make this an annual event, and its success during its first year at UT was amazing. “We had a great turnout of both volunteers shaving their heads as well as people just coming out to see what ‘Shave for a Cure’ actually
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Hoping to create a more comfortable pedestrian environment downtown, Royal Blue Grocery plans to convert parking space into business space. The city’s one year pilot plan to allow the Royal Blue Grocery on North Congress Avenue to use two downtown parking spaces located directly in front of the store for outdoor retail space at $300 per space per month was approved by City Council March 22. Construction on a small wooden platform on the spaces with picnic tables and benches will begin soon, said Craig Staley, Royal Blue Grocery co-owner and proprietor. “This will turn downtown into a more vibrant and pedestrian friendly area,” Staley said. “Congress is the only street that allows business to utilize the sidewalk areas outside of a business without charge, but it is very narrow and there is really only enough room for people to walk by. This will offer people a place to sit down to eat lunch, use Wi-Fi and enjoy the weather.” The two-space area has been approved for one year to gauge customers’ reactions, Staley said. If successful, Staley said he hopes
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Students receive scholarships from John Hertz Foundation By Kayla Jonsson Daily Texan Staff
After sifting through 600 applicants from across the nation, the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation named two UT students as 2012 Hertz Fellows. Biomedical engineering senior Kelly Moynihan and Plan II senior Anjali Datta are among 15 students from coast to coast chosen to receive the $250,000 science fellowship lasting up to five years. The Hertz Foundation
Fellowship is the highest valued and one of the most competitive fellowships in the applied physical, biological and engineering sciences, said Hans Mark, engineer professor and senior Hertz Foundation board member. Mark said the fellowship will provide the recipients academic freedom throughout their graduate studies. “Both these girls are absolutely
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UT alumnus uses music to teach algebra By Rachel Thompson Daily Texan Staff
When Mark Rogers’s math students struggled to memorize the quadratic formula, he knew it was time to get creative, so he turned to his personal passion: music. “It’s so difficult for students to remember [that formula], and I thought, ‘Certainly someone’s made a song about that,’” he said. “When I saw their faces and how happy that made them, they all learned it. It was amazing.”
Rogers, a UT grad who currently teaches secondary math at the Meridian School in Round Rock, soon began taking popular songs and spinning the lyrics to incorporate math formulas for concepts such as graphing linear equations and solving for x. His unique approach to teaching has made him a top contender for The Great American Teach-Off, a contest that awards $10,000 to a deserving teacher to use in his or her classroom. Rogers said this musical method
applied to math helps students with different learning styles internalize difficult concepts. “Students do learn in different ways, and this really hits all different types of learners,” he said. It is, however, quite time consuming. Rogers said he spends an average of eight to 10 hours creating each song, from writing out lyrics, to working with GarageBand and creating the video to go along with each one. Despite the
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As 2012 Hertz Fellows, seniors Kelly Moynihan and Anjali Datta receive a $250,000 science fellowship for their graduate studies.
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first class,” Mark said. “To even make it to the interview process they had to have 4.0 averages and all kinds of publications from undergraduate work.” Mark said after going through the paperwork, 600 applicants are reduced to 150, then after the interviews, 50 finalists remain in which the 15 fellows are chosen. “The recipients are chosen in a meeting where all the board basically fights for two days about who should get it, because they are all so qualified,” Mark said. Janice Odell, The Ford Odell Group partner and client services director, which corresponds with the Hertz Foundation, said having two recipients from UT is a great honor because Hertz Fellows go on to truly make a difference in the world. “Just to have a lady scientist is a rare and special thing and to have a Fellow chosen from UT is an even rarer and special thing, so two Fellows that are both women is just amazing,” Odell said. “I am just so happy for UT because this is such an honor.” Datta, who is 19, will receive honors in electrical and computer engineering, natural sciences and liberal arts upon her graduation in May. She has won many awards and served in leadership roles in many campus organizations. “I am passionate about engineering because I can make a real difference through it,” Datta said. “You can help find ways to diagnose diseases sooner and see the effect of your work in people.” Datta said she aspires to be a researcher and professor after finishing graduate school at Stanford, MIT or UC Berkeley. Moynihan said she will attend MIT next semester to receive a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering. She was inspired to study in this area when her father was diagnosed with cancer her senior year of high school. “My teachers in high school were telling me I should go into math or science because I had excelled in those areas,” Moynihan said. “Then my father was diagnosed with cancer in December of that year, so everything just fell into place. I knew I wanted to help people.” Moynihan said she also hopes to be a professor and researcher so she can share her findings with others.
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Trey Tavey, 3, helps shave his mother Rhonda’s, head during St. Baldrick’s “Shave for a Cure” on the steps of the Main Building Saturday. Trey, who is one of the St. Baldrick’s feature kids, will soon begin chemotherapy and have a bone marrow transplant, Rhonda said.
SHAVE continues from PAGE 1 is,” Khwaja said. Through all of the fundraising, sponsorships of shavees and other donations, S.M.I.L.E. raised more than $55,000 Khwaja said. “This exceeded our initial goal of $50,000, and this actually was one of the top-earning St. Baldrick’s events,” Khwaja said. A few people who were not registered to shave their heads actually became inspired by the sha-
PARKING continues from PAGE 1 more businesses will utilize the idea to create a more pedestrian-friendly atmosphere downtown. Staley said Royal Blue Grocery plans to invest $20,000 so customers can have a fair representation of the project’s full potential. “We are going to construct it out
TEACH continues from PAGE 1 extra effort required, he said he sees it as time saved. “I think about those eight to 10 hours and then I think about the hours beyond that that I’ve saved, because we don’t have to do other types of interventions like parent-teacher conferences,” he said. “It leads to such a higher bar of excellence in the class that I see it as time saved.”
vees and participated on the spot, Khwaja said. While S.M.I.L.E. organized the event, other UT organizations participated by having booths with various arts and craft events for the children with cancer who came out to the event Khwaja said. St. Baldrick’s became a University event after Hispanic studies senior and S.M.I.L.E. president Sofia Buitrago participated last year as a shavee at the event hosted by Dell Children’s Hospital. Buitrago said she raised more than $5,000 as a participant last
year and was eager to bring an event like this to campus. “There are many people who would love to help out with causes like this, so we wanted to do something that will help create more awareness about pediatric cancer research,” Buitrago said. Buitrago said this event went a lot better than she had imagined and she was ecstatic about the turnout to support those shaving their heads. “A lot of work was put in by S.M.I.L.E. members to make this event a success, but it would not have been possible without
the volunteers helping coordinate everything throughout the day or those brave enough to shave their heads for this cause,” Buitrago said. Government sophomore Kumail Hasan said it was great to see so many people out there checking out the event, and he was proud to participate as a shavee this year to honor those in his family who have had to fight cancer. “Battling cancer is an extremely difficult thing to do, and they showed me anything was possible,” Hasan said. “This was my way to honor their effort.”
of wood rather than cement or any other permanent building material because it is temporary for now and we want to see how people like it,” Staley said. “We are really taking a risk on this as a business because we don’t know if it will even be something permanent, but we are confident that once people give it a try they will love it.” Leah Bojo, a policy aide to city council member Chris Riley and supporter of the idea, said customers
and downtown patrons should not worry about the loss of the two parking spaces because an Airport Flyer bus stop was recently removed about a block away from the store resulting in new spaces. “We are creating a destination,” Bojo said. “When there is a great environment for people to enjoy, that is more important than the parking because there are still so many other options for parking and transportation downtown.”
George Scariano, Royal Blue Grocery co-owner and proprietor, said most customers are pedestrians and are not using those spaces to park anyway, so the space will be more useful to them now. “Ninety percent of my customers are walk-up,” Scariano said. “There is heavy pedestrian dependence. We think it will be a great for the downtown environment and a good way to encourage pedestrian traffic which creates a good atmosphere.”
While Rogers has taught ninth and tenth grade math, he currently teaches seventh and eighth graders and said the real-world applications of algebra are his favorite to teach to his students. “You are able to relate almost everything to the real world,” he said. “The question in every class, particularly math, is ‘When am I ever going to use this?’ In algebra, I can answer that question almost every single time with a direct experience of mine or theirs.” While Rogers has a resume of diverse experiences, including work
as an investment banker in London and a potato chip manufacturing entrepreneur, he said teaching was always instinctual for him. “In each of those steps, I found that the very best part was when I was teaching somebody,” he said. “That was such a strong and natural impulse for me to teach, and I enjoyed it so much that I couldn’t bear to look the other way any longer. The hours just fly by.” He also said he credits his time as a UT student for exposing him to a variety of people and scenarios. “At UT, you have an amazing diversity of people and situations,” he said. “It helped me learn to appreciate all the different parts about different people. Every student is different, and they all have something incredible about them. Going to UT made me realize that you need to foster that.” The Great American Teach-Off started off with 10 teachers and a winner will be announced on April 16, he said. The winner is chosen by votes by the general public in online polls on the contest website. If he wins, Rogers said he plans to use the ideas of students to choose
how the money will be spent. “It is tough to say I deserve it over the other teachers, but the future is about the students and they need to have more ownership of it,” he said. “I’ll give them ownership of the money, because I want them to feel like this was something they won as well.” Monique Swain, an after-school enrichment program coordinator at Meridian, said Rogers is just as devoted to students in after school activities, such as spelling bees as he is in his own math classroom. “He’s fun,” she said. “He makes the kids excited and makes them want to be there. He’s multifaceted — it’s not just math. I’m able to see more sides of Mark through the after school program.” Russell Godfrey, a 2011 UT alumnus and friend of Rogers, said Rogers goes above and beyond to ensure the success of his students. “He’s not just an 8:00 to 3:30 teacher,” Godfrey said. “He really loves it and spends a lot of time with the students. It’s very clear he cares a lot, and I think this grant will help him do really amazing things.”
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NEWS BRIEFLY Palestenian hunger strike activist sentenced to live in West Bank GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel expelled a Palestinian prisoner Sunday to the Gaza Strip as part of a compromise deal that persuaded her to end her 43-day hunger strike. Under the terms of her release, Hana Shalabi, a 30-year-old from the West Bank, must remain in the seaside strip for the next three years. Shalabi went on hunger strike to protest Israel’s policy of “administrative detention,” under which it holds some Palestinian prisoners for months — even years — without charges. Shalabi launched the strike after being placed in administrative detention on Feb. 16. She ended it on Thursday. The Israeli prison authority said she was in custody for unspecified terror activity.
UK proposal to monitor Internet without any judicial oversight LONDON — The U.K. government is preparing proposals for a nationwide electronic surveillance network that could potentially keep track of every message sent by any Brit to anyone at any time, an industry official briefed on the government’s moves said Sunday. Plans for a massive government database of the country’s phone and email traffic were abandoned in 2008 following a public outcry. But James Blessing of the Internet Service Providers’ Association said the government appears to be “reintroducing it on a slightly different format.” Blessing said the move was disclosed to his association by Britain’s Home Office during a meeting in recent weeks. There was no indication of exactly how such a system would work or to what degree of judicial oversight would be involved, if any. A Home Office spokesman insisted that any new surveillance program would not involve prying into the content of emails or voice conversations. “It’s not about the content,” the official said, speaking anonymously in line with office policy. “It’s about the who, what, where and when.”
After ‘pacific’ tornado warnings, adjectives to reflect real danger KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Even expert storm chases would have struggled to decipher the difference between the tornado warnings sent last May before severe weather hit Joplin and, a few days later, headed again toward downtown Kansas City. The first tornado was a massive EF-5 twister that killed 161 people as it wiped out a huge chunk of the southwest Missouri community. The second storm caused only minor damage in the Kansas City suburbs. In both cases, the warnings were harbingers of touchdowns. But three out of every four times the National Weather Service issues a formal tornado warning, there isn’t one. The result is a “cry wolf ” phenomenon that’s dulled the effectiveness of tornado warnings, and one the weather service hopes to solve with what amounts to a scare tactic. Starting Monday, five weather service offices in Kansas and Missouri will use words such as “mass devastation,” “unsurvivable” and “catastrophic.” — Compiled from Associated Press reports
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Nations pledge millions for Syrian opposition By Bradley Klapper The Associated Press
ISTANBUL — A coalition of more than 70 partners, including the United States, pledged Sunday to send millions of dollars and communications equipment to Syria’s opposition groups, signaling deeper involvement in the conflict amid a growing belief that diplomacy and sanctions alone cannot end the Damascus regime’s repression. The shift by the U.S. and its Western and Arab allies toward seeking to sway the military balance in Syria carries regional risks because the crisis there increasingly resembles a proxy conflict that could exacerbate sectarian tensions. The Syrian rebels are overmatched by heavily armed regime forces. The summit meeting of the “Friends of the Syrian People” follows a year of failed diplomacy that seems close to running its course with a troubled peace plan led by U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan. Indeed, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other participants at the conference in Istanbul uniformly expressed concern that Annan’s plan might backfire, speculating that Syrian President Bashar Assad would try to manipulate it to prolong his hold on power. The Syrian regime agreed last week to Annan’s plan, which calls
At the second meeting of the “Friends of the Syrian People” in Istanbul, Turkey on Saturday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu discussed the possibilities of Western intervention in Syria.
Brendan Smialowski Associated Press
for an immediate cease-fire, humanitarian access to besieged civilians and a political negotiation process led by Syrians. Since then, there have been daily reports of violence, including shelling Sunday in Homs that activists said killed more than two dozen people. Conference participants in Istanbul said Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries are creating a fund
Leader of Mali coup brings back old laws By Rukmini Callimachi The Associated Press
BAMAKO, Mali — The junior officer who overthrew Mali’s democratically elected leader earlier this month and dissolved the nation’s constitution made a public U-turn Sunday, declaring amid enormous international pressure that he was reinstating the 1992 constitution and planning to hold elections. Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo added that he would organize a national convention to agree on a transitional government which will organize free and fair elections. What he did not make clear is when the convention would be held, or when elections would take place, or if he would remain president during the transitional period.
Mali, once a model democracy, was plunged into crisis on March 21 when a mutiny erupted at the Kati military camp located around 6 miles from the presidential palace. Sanogo was one of the few officers who didn’t flee the camp when the rank-and-file soldiers began rioting, and he quickly became their leader as they broke into the camp’s armory, grabbed automatic weapons and headed for the seat of government. His coup reversed 21 years of democracy, and sent President Amadou Toumani Toure into hiding. Toure was due to step down after the presidential election scheduled to take place in a month. Mali’s neighbors had given the country a 72-hour deadline to restore constitutional order, or face crippling sanctions.
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Junta leader Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo speaks to the press at junta headquarters in Kati, Mali on Saturday.
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to pay members of the rebel Free Syrian Army and soldiers who defect from the regime and join opposition ranks. One delegate described the fund as a “pot of gold” to undermine Assad’s army. Participants confirmed the Gulf plan on condition of anonymity because details were still being worked out. One said the fund would involve several million
dollars a month. It is said to be earmarked for salaries, but it was not clear whether there would be any effort to prevent the diversion of money to weapons purchases, a sensitive issue that could prompt stronger accusations of military meddling by foreign powers. Clinton announced $12 million in additional aid for Syria’s people — doubling total U.S. assistance so far.
Mohammed al-Said, a Syrian activist in the town of Duma, northwest of Damascus, said salaries might encourage further defections, but that only arms would turn the tide against Assad. “What is clear to us is that only fighting can make this regime leave,” he said, adding the opposition wanted arms over intervention so they could topple Assad themselves.
Obama calls GOP economic plans ‘mad’ By Julie Pace The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Maine — President Barack Obama accused Republicans of clinging to economic policies that preceded the Great Depression and the more recent economic downturn, accusing his rivals of showing signs of “madness.” Raising campaign cash in Maine,
Obama said Republicans want to return to economic policies that would let Wall Street play by its own set of rules. “We won’t win the race for new jobs and new businesses and middle-class security if we cling to this same old, worn-out, tired ‘you’re on your own’ economics that the other side is peddling,” Obama said. “It was tried in the decades before
the Great Depression. It didn’t work then. It was tried in the last decade. It didn’t work,” he said. “You know, the idea you would keep on doing the same thing over and over again, even though it’s been proven not to work. That’s a sign of madness.” Obama raised campaign cash in Vermont, where he said the economy was getting stronger and businesses were gaining confidence.
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Monday, April 2, 2012 | THE DAILY TEXAN | Viviana Aldous, Editor-in-Chief | (512) 232-2212 | editor@dailytexanonline.com
QUOTES TO NOTE Editor’s note: From a new Tejano monument to an anti-bacterial soap ban, these are among our favorite quotes for the past several days.
“This important monument reflects a larger truth about the origins of Texas, about the contributions of so many Hispanic citizens to the creation of the state we love and the lives we share.” — Texas Gov. Rick Perry on the creation of a new statue to commemorate
Hispanic contributions to Texas history, according to a press release. As part of a larger effort to support the statue, UT professor Emilio Zamora is working to increase Tejano history in local public school curriculum.
“This has to be her dream job.” — Kim Mulkey, Baylor University women’s basketball coach, on the news
that Karen Aston will succeed Gail Goestenkors as head Longhorn women’s basketball coach according to the Austin American-Statesman. Aston is currently head coach at the University of North Texas.
“If you want an incentive program, put your money where your mouth is.” — State Sen. Judith Zaffirini on the need to ensure full funding for the B-
On-Time loan program, according to the Texas Tribune. A recent analysis found that more than one third of the program’s funding was never distributed to students.
“It’s unfortunate we live in a world where security is such a top concern. But that is the case, and providing a security detail has been a tradition going back several administrations.” — Perry spokeswoman Catherine Frazier on the still rising costs — now
$2.8 million — associated with providing security for the governor during his bid for the Republican presidential nomination according to the Texas Tribune.
The Hunger Games of the GOP primaries By Katherine Taylor Daily Texan Columnist
Candidates prepare for months, sometimes years, to get ready. They give interviews in front of huge crowds of people to gain support. Intense focus is allocated for raising money through sponsors to pay for supplies for the long journey ahead. Entire staffs of people dedicate themselves to image control and maintenance: all outfits are picked out, every hair is in place and more time is spent on grooming than ever before. The competitors go against each other until, one by one, they’re forced out. Eventually, only one winner will survive. No, I’m not talking about the movie with the biggest opening weekend for a non-sequel, The Hunger Games. The seemingly post-apocalyptic future described above is actually a depiction of what’s going on in this year’s Republican Presidential primary race. The original field of nine — Tim Pawlenty, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Jon Huntsman, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney — has narrowed itself down to three contenders. Really it’s more like two because who still thinks Gingrich has a chance? As soon as things got bloody at the Cornucopia, Sarah Palin and Donald Trump were some of the first to go. They spent too much time slinging barbs at everyone else and not enough enough time gaining supporters. Pawlenty is another one that was ousted early, much like the girl in the woods minding her own business that was killed by the Careers. And then, there was one candidate that somehow seemed less clownish than the others, Huntsman. He came in with experience. He didn’t spend time going negative with attack ads. He seemed rational and was the great hope of the entire race. His loss in New Hampshire felt like watching the beloved Rue get stabbed in the chest with a spear all over again. Bachmann is a good representation of the crazy girl with the knives in The Hunger Games that no one was sad to see leave. Cain was taken out by some tracker jackers — women he al-
legedly sexually harassed that swarmed and fought back from his past. Perry seemed like he had a good shot for awhile, but was eventually his own worst enemy and poisoned himself, like the berries that killed Foxface, with his constant missteps and blunders. Paul is an iconoclast and distances himself from the rest, like Thresh’s technique to hide in the wheat field. Also, like Thresh, Paul has strength in his group of ardent supporters; however, it’s not enough to win the election. Gingrich then becomes Cato in this story. Just like Cato, he attacks all opponents and tries to bully his way to the top. Fortunately for all of us, we know the demons from his past, or muttations, will make sure he doesn’t make it much further. And then we’re left with Romney and Santorum, or Peeta and Katniss. Romney, like Katniss, is the clear stronger candidate left. And just like Peeta and Katniss, can we really trust anything either one says? Or do they only say what they think will keep them alive longer in this Hunger Games style primary race? It’s for this reason that Santorum has made anti-college statements, even though when he was a Senator in 2006 he called for all Pennsylvania citizens to have access to higher education. It’s why Romney derides “Obamacare,” but instituted universal healthcare in Massachusetts, or Romneycare first. Both candidates say whatever they think will get them the most support at the time, and it’s unclear what either one actually believes. So no matter who’s left at the end, does anyone really win? Or will the candidate be forever haunted by the transformation he underwent to survive this process? And what about the rest of us? Will we elect a hero or someone who can’t keep it together when things get tough like Katniss? And if this is what the race for President has come down to, are we any better than the people of Panem that tune in to watch the Hunger Games every year rather than doing something to demand change? Taylor is a Plan II and rhetoric and writing senior.
“Student housing has agreed not to buy it, [but] there is no university-wide edict.” — UT spokesperson Tara Doolittle on Student Government’s recent reso-
lution calling on the University to ban anti-bacterial soap in campus restrooms according to the Austin American-Statesman. Last week, Student Government voted to install two fluoride-free water fountains in prominent places on campus.
The wrong solution to a littering problem By Hannah Lapin Daily Texan Columnist
Tubing. Canoeing. Kayaking. Swimming. For decades, UT students and tourists have been drawn to the beautiful city of San Marcos for the many fun, recreational activities available on the river. Recently, however, the San Marcos City Council has been concerned about the increase of littering along the river and the safety of its visitors. On March 20, the council voted 6-1 in favor of a new ordinance that would ban alcohol consumption in all city parks. Although the San Marcos River technically belongs to the state of Texas, the area parks are under city management, as are the entry ways to the river The new ordinance will officially be voted on during the April 3 council meeting. The purpose of the proposed alcohol ban is to make the river cleaner and safer for tourists and wildlife. Yet would prohibiting alcohol really help the city accomplish this goal? In addition to alcohol, the new ordinance would ban the use of styrofoam products including coolers, ice chests, cups, plates, toys and swim gear. Further, the ordinance would enforce stricter policies on container lids used by boaters and swimmers, and it would ban tobacco in city play areas and athletic fields. While these components of the ordinance are logical, the elimination of alcohol consumption does not reach the heart of the problem: the well being of the river. If the San Marcos City Council truly wants to eliminate all potentially harmful products on the river, they would need to take into consideration water bottles, Ziploc bags, sunscreen containers and soda cans. Although the removal of all harmful products from the river area would be ideal, it is neither practical nor realistic. Rather, the council should promote and enforce anti-littering laws and fines to help solve the real problem. Similarly, if people are publically intoxicated and disruptive on the river, there are existing laws to this effect. Why punish the people who drink responsibly? San Marcos is a city that draws tourists for recreational purposes. Although alcohol is not the reason people float the river, tourists are likely to be disappointed if they cannot casually have a beer while tubing or have some wine with a picnic dinner in a San Marcos park. Certainly, alcohol consumers are not the only citizens guilty of littering. Tubing the river has long been a tradition of UT students, who rank the beauty of Austin and the surrounding areas as a major plus of the University experience. No one opposes the San Marcos City Council’s efforts to protect the prosperity of the river, the wildlife and the tourists. However, after all these years, it is difficult to believe that alcohol consumption is at the root of the problem. Lapin is a journalism sophomore.
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THE FIRING LINE A slanted view of democracy Stephen McGarvey’s column on voter ID published on Tuesday is not only severely misleading and lacking in fact, but also demonstrates a troubling and distorted idea of the election process and our democracy as a whole. Aside from stating the baseless and erroneous charge that undocumented immigrants make up the Democratic Party’s base, McGarvey argues that somehow making voting more difficult is the way to “securing our election process.” McGarvey seems to think that a true democracy is one in which only those “deserving” of a vote should have the right to cast one. Ideas such as these pose a serious threat to our election process. McGarvey would have you believe that voter fraud is rampant when, in reality, there have been fewer than 10 alleged cases of voter impersonation between 2008 and 2010 in Texas out of 13 million votes cast. Considering the ongoing trend of abysmal voter turnout, it is my belief that elections should be more accessible to voters, not less. When we make arguments based on misinformation and a slanted view of democracy, we hinder progress and efforts to increase the voice of all people in our election system.
David Loewenberg Government sophomore Campus director, University Democrats
Play by the rules I’d like to express my disappointment with the letter to the editor published Wednesday by Madison Gardner. While I appreciate The Daily Texan giving him the opportunity to provide some closure to this mess of an election, Gardner squandered his chance by again complaining about his perceived persecution. Time after time, he and his running mate have refused to take responsibility for their actions and have given the impression that they felt the rules didn’t apply to them. His entire third paragraph is devoted to “not” expressing how his disqualification for breaking the rules upended democracy as we know it at UT. After seeing the same kind of people always get elected to Student Government, I applaud the Election Supervisory Board showing that election isn’t a free ride; you have to play by the rules.
Christopher McBryde Aerospace engineering graduate student
Disingenuous journalism After reading the article published in Thursday’s issue of The Daily Texan regarding the Norman Finkelstein lecture on Wednesday, I am truly disappointed in the journalistic integrity of the article and the writer. It presents a quick summary of Finkelstein’s lecture and then offers the opinion of two students that are both firmly entrenched in a philosophy that ignores human
rights and international law. The overwhelming majority of attendants at the event could have and would have offered a much more moderate and helpful commentary on Finkelstein’s words but were ignored by the reporter. I believe this kind of lazy and disingenuous journalism has become a trend at the Texan, and it’s unfortunate to me that the editors do not demand a higher standard for the content of their newspaper. A big part of the lecture was devoted to carving out a voice for disenfranchised Palestinians in an environment that is so limited and stifled by the Israeli propaganda machine. I, as an activist, have never felt more overshadowed and belittled than I do right now, as the newspaper of my own institution is participating in the exclusion of the Palestinian voice for justice and human rights.
Tarek Benchouia Government senior
At the expense of the public
The state of Texas makes us buy insurance and fines us if we drive without it. How is that so different from the federal government ordering us to buy health insurance? Republicans will argue that auto insurance is necessary to protect the public, but a similar argument can be made for health insurance. People who don’t have health insurance use emergency rooms at the expense of the public at large.
Eric Pianka Integrative biology professor
Not about fraud
Stephen McGarvey’s argument for the necessity of voter ID laws to prevent voter fraud — published in Tuesday’s edition of The Daily Texan — rests on findings in a Pew Center on the States study. The study mentions the susceptibility of fraud once. Its primary purpose was to advocate for modernizing voter registration to increase voter participation. Regardless of this, the statistic that one in eight voter registrations in the U.S. are invalid or contain inaccuracies says absolutely nothing about fraud. According to this study, I fall into this category because I live in Austin but am registered to vote in Houston. There’s no logical connection between the two unless you believe, as I have to assume Mr. McGarvey does, that partisan operatives are impersonating registered voters. There is no evidence that is taking place. What there is evidence for is voter suppression: the Texas Department of Public Safety reports that 603,892 registered voters, nearly 30 percent of whom are Hispanic, would be ineligible to vote due to lack of proper ID under the Texas voter ID law. Voter ID is not about fraud; it is a politically motivated attempt to limit the number of voices in our democracy.
Thomas Houghton UT alumnus
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Former nurse found guilty of killing multiple patients A former Texas nurse accused of killing five of her patients and injuring five others by injecting bleach into their kidney dialysis tubing was found guilty of capital murder Friday. Kimberly Clark Saenz, 38, was fired in April 2008 after a rash of illnesses and deaths at a Lufkin dialysis clinic run by Denverbased health care giant DaVita Inc. She was charged a year later. Her trial began March 5. Defense lawyers argued that Saenz was being targeted by the clinic’s owner for faulty procedures at the facility, including improper water purification. They also suggested that officials at the clinic, about 125 miles northeast of Houston, fabricated evidence against Saenz. Prosecutors described claims Saenz was being set up by her employer as “absolutely ridiculous.” The mother of two now faces life in prison or a death sentence as the case moved to the punishment phase. Prosecutors had said they would seek the death penalty if Saenz was convicted. Prosecutors had described Saenz as a depressed and disgruntled employee who complained about specific patients, including some of those who died or were injured. Her attorneys said she had no motive to kill any patients. Two patients who were at the clinic on April 28, 2008, testified that they saw Saenz use syringes to draw bleach from a cleaning bucket and then inject it into the IV lines of two patients who subsequently died. The licensed vocational nurse, on the job about eight months, was dismissed the following day and the clinic was shut down by DaVita and state health inspectors. It reopened about two months later. Defense attorney Ryan Deaton argued in his questioning during the nearly four-week-long trial that Saenz and others used syringes rather than measuring cups for bleach to ensure precise amounts were be-
ing used for proper mixing of cleaning solutions. Bleach is commonly used to disinfect plastic lines and other dialysis equipment at the clinic. Saenz’s attorneys said she was spotted measuring bleach into a syringe because she wanted to put the right amount into cleaning water. Former DaVita employees who testified for prosecutors told jurors that they never used syringes instead of measuring cups to ensure the proper amounts of bleach were being used in cleaning solutions. Dialysis patients spend up to three days a week tethered for hours to a machine that filters their blood because their kidneys can’t do so. Saenz was charged with one capital murder count accusing her of killing as many as five patients, and with five counts of aggravated assault for the injuries to the five other patients. On the capital murder count, jurors could have found her guilty of the lesser charges of murder or aggravated assault. Saenz didn’t take the stand in her own defense. But in a recording played at trial, she could be heard testifying before a grand jury that she felt “railroaded” by the clinic and “would never inject bleach into a patient.” Investigators testified that they found Internet searches on Saenz’s computer about bleach poisoning in blood and whether bleach could be detected in dialysis lines. Saenz told the grand jury she had been concerned about the patients’ deaths and looked up bleach poisoning references to see “if this was happening, what would be the side effects.” DaVita turned over more than 10,000 pages of records in the case. Through 2011, the company operated or provided services to 1,809 dialysis facilities in the U.S., serving some 142,000 patients and employing more than 41,000 people. — The Associated Press
Jennifer Wang | Daily Texan staff
Chemistry graduate student and member of the Texas Running Club Mark Amann crosses the finish line first at the Graduate Student Assembly 5K Sunday morning with a time of 17 minutes and 16 seconds. The race raised approximately $2,800 towards providing funds for graduate students to travel to conferences where they can develop their skills professionally and network.
Alumni, students run for funding By Bobby Blanchard Daily Texan Staff
Running up and down the hills of the 40 Acres proved to be a challenging homecoming for UT alumna Cristina Bilder, who ran in the Graduate Student Assembly 5K to help raise money for professional development. “It is horrible, this 5K had the most hills of any 5K I have ever run — I felt like it is all uphill the entire time,” Bilder said, who won first place in the women’s division. “But it is fun, I’m glad I did it.” The GSA 5K, which followed a route across UT’s hilly campus, was held Sunday morning. Close to 200 students, faculty, alumni and Austinites gathered at Gregory Plaza, and afterwards GSA treated participants to food and massages as well
as music provided by KVRX. GSA President Manuel Gonzalez said the funds from the event will go towards providing money for graduate students to travel to conferences, which helps them develop their skills professionally. “Ultimately there are limited funds in the department that graduate students can tap into, so this provides us an additional pool of money that graduate students can compete for in order to fully enhance their graduate student experience,” Gonzalez said. Gonzalez said having money for traveling is important because while UT is leader in research, graduate students need to get off of the campus to better prepare for the professional world. “That research only goes so far when its limited to the 40 Acres,” Gonzalez said. “That’s why it’s
important for us as an institution to interact with colleagues, not from just across the nation but from across the world.” Armando Salinas, financial director of GSA, said the event brought in about $2,800 and will help graduate students travel to conferences, which is an important part of finding a job after graduating. Salinas said the average costs for a graduate student to attend a conference in the field of basic sciences is between $800-$1,200 depending on the location. “Participating in these kind of things is essential career-wise,” Salinas said. However, Gonzalez said funds for graduate students to attend conferences and gain experience are growing short. “Funds are becoming more and more competitive at the departmen-
tal level because they have less access to funds by virtue of budget issues that we’re currently facing,” Gonzalez said. “This is one way the GSA is filling the void that is being left by depleted professional develop budgets.” Salinas said the funds gained from the GSA 5K this year are going into a currently unnamed GSA travel award. Beyond providing for funding, Gonzalez said the event also is a way to help isolated graduate students socialize. “The graduate climate survey from last year indicated that one of the big concerns that graduate students often have is too often they feel isolated in their classroom environments or in their lab environments,” Gonzalez said. “This event and additional social events is something we do to help break that.”
Texas Public Health hosts events to promote community wellness By Reihaneh Hajibeigi Daily Texan Staff
Addressing t hre ats to t he well-being of individuals within a community, a week-long series of events will teach students what they can do to promote healthy living through their choices. Texas Public Health will host Public Health Week 2012, a campus-wide celebration of National Public Health Week. Matt he w Havi land, public health senior and Texas Public Health president, said TPH wanted to host a large event that could educate and engage students and the whole campus community about public health. “Our ultimate goal is to make people on campus more aware
vice president. Students visiting tables will be able to receive a free T-shirt that they can decorate with their personal definitions of public health, which will showcase the different relationships public health has to so many organizations, Le said. This week will also include an “Amazing Race” event where students must cycle through five public health tables, teaching them different concentrations within public health and what the field is about, Le said. Le said the activities this week were carefully designed and organized to show a progression. “The goals of Public Health Week are to spark interest in students who do not underst and public he a lt h, and to
enhance the knowledge of all participants,” Le said. The program will benefit the student body by promoting conversations on wellness, presenting sustainable lifestyle choices and providing health education that highlights how pervasive public health is in everyday life, Le said. “Even though TPH has truly only been active for about two years, Public Health Week is definitely an ambitious program for any organization,” Le said. “This week would not have become a reality without the countless hours of hard work and dedication from all of the members and volunteers.” Graduate research assistant Chanan Duong said she believes this week will be a good way to
educate students because of the various fun approaches taken by TPH. “Students will enjoy these
events because a lot of the focus is placed on how public health is relevant to everything we do,” Duong said.
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of what public health is and how they have a positive influence on it, while still having fun,” Haviland said. Haviland said public health awareness is important because the health of those around us influences our own health. “Public health is all about making it easy to watch out for the health of the community because that is so important to our personal health and happiness,” Haviland said. “We have a lot of events for students to check out this week.” The week will begin with the Public Health Fair, which features 35 organizations from UT and the Austin area that will highlight their connection to public health, said Cindy Le, public health senior and TPH
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Pablo Sanchez, left, and Nathan Beausoleil perform the song “Dream On” at the Starstruck performance Saturday evening. The show was put on by the Longhorn Singers who perform for the UT and Austin community.
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The voices of 32 UT students rose above the Performing Arts Center Saturday night during the show “Starstruck: Own the Night,” where performers treated the audience to renditions of current hits as well as ‘80s classics. “Starstruck,” put on by the Longhorn Singers, consisted of two acts featuring songs performed by the entire group as well as by smaller groups. The process of putting on a show like “Starstruck” takes an entire semester said Kelsey Kopankiewitz, public relations freshman and Longhorn Singer.
The L ong hor n Si nge rs is a mixed-gender choir group that puts on shows for the UT and Austin community, such as local retirement homes and pep rallies. “We love to sing, so anytime we get invited to sing around campus or at events around Austin, we make our best effort to be there,” said Megan Short, mechanical engineering sophomore and the Longhorn Singers’ publicity director. “We love sharing our love for music with the community.” The group numbers were chosen by both the officers of Longhorn Singers and their director, Sheryl Jones, while the other numbers were arranged by the
students, who had to audition for the positions. After the songs are finalized, the dances for the performance were created by three different choreographers in order to express different styles. The Longhorn Singers also perform at the Texas versus OU game in Dallas every October and have been chosen as one of the 12 acts to perform at the Texas Revue on April 21, a studentrun talent show sponsored by the University Co-op. “We sing all over the place to get Texas spirit going everywhere,” said C. Taylor Henderson, English sophomore and Longhorn Singers historian. Students must complete both a singing and a dancing
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“This show combines two of the best things in life, music and dance, and the song choices for tonight were very entertaining,” Meeks said.
U.S. marshals briefly seized a cruise ship in coastal Texas on Saturday under a judge’s order in a $10 million lawsuit filed on behalf of a woman who died in the Italian cruise ship disaster. The Carnival Triumph was seized for several hours at its port in Galveston, where it was scheduled to leave with 2,700 passengers. Both sides said they reached a confidential deal late Saturday afternoon that released the ship. A Texas judge ordered the seizure to secure the plaintiff’s claims against Carnival Corp., the Miami-based parent company of the Italian cruise line whose ship sank off an Italian island in January. The lawsuit was filed Thursday on behalf of a German woman who died in the wreck, which killed 32 people. Plaintiff attorney John Eaves Jr. said he didn’t file the lawsuit to inconvenience passengers of the Carnival Triumph, but rather to emphasize to Carnival the need for improved safety. Deputy U.S. Marshal Alfredo Perez confirmed that marshals seized the vessel and held it through Saturday afternoon. Passengers were allowed on and off the ship. The lawsuit claims that Carnival shared responsibility for Stumpf ’s death for not preparing and maintaining proper safety programs for all vessels under its control. The Italian captain of the Costa Concordia when it sank, Francesco Schettino, is under investigation for alleged manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship during the evacuation. Schettino has denied wrongdoing and claimed that the reef hit wasn’t marked on charts. Eaves argued that the company’s training is inadequate. He said an aim of the lawsuit is to persuade Carnival to improve safety standards and campaign to update maritime law, which he said has some good elements but “we want to bring it into the modern age.”
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Quarterback David Ash and the Longhorns starters did what they were supposed to do in the spring game: beat the back-ups. Texas’ first-team offense wasn’t challenged by the second-team defense and scored 28 points before giving way to the bench late in the second quarter Sunday at Darrell K Royal Memorial Stadium. UT’s starting defense didn’t budge against the offensive reserves and held them scoreless as the Longhorns wrapped up their spring season with the annual Orange-White game. “Offensively, we just wanted to see who would produce,” said head coach Mack Brown. “We wanted to see which defensive players would take people on without help from the scheme.” Ash took the first snap and if his performance was any indication, he’ll do the same on Sept. 1 against Wyoming in the 2012 season-opener. Ash outplayed former starting quarterback Case McCoy and led scoring drives on all three series with the first team. Ash found Jaxon Shipley for a 10yard score on his second drive. He also ran for a 2-yard touchdown in the third quarter playing with and against back-ups. Ash finished 5 of 6 for 83 yards. “David has continued to impress and improve,” said quarterbacks coach Bryan Harsin. “David threw the ball well in the red zone. He didn’t have any turnovers, that’s the key.” McCoy threw two interceptions and was nearly picked off a third time. He threw one touchdown, a 36-yard
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David Ash scrambles with the ball during Texas’ annual spring scrimmage. Though coaches have yet to declare the starting quarterback for 2012, Ash lobbied hard for a spot at the top of the depth chart. He finished 5-6 for 83 yards.
strike to DeSean Hales. “I had some good plays and some bad plays,” McCoy said. “Not plays that were mental problems, but plays where the ball came out wrong.” Ash appears to have the edge on the starting job heading into the summer. He’ll have the benefit of a strong
running game led by tailbacks Joe Bergeron and Malcolm Brown. But UT’s biggest question mark heading into the offseason and next is the passing game. “I have no doubt we can win games passing the ball,” Ash said. “I thought I played better football this spring
than I did last season.” Freshman quarterback Connor Brewer played exclusively in the second half and completed 4 of 7 attempts for 63 yards and one touchdown. Brown said UT plans to redshirt Brewer. Shipley got in on the action too,
throwing a 54-yard touchdown to D.J. Grant after taking a lateral from Ash. The wide receiver tossed three touchdowns last season as a freshman. “He throws a good ball for a receiver,” Grant said. “If he got as many reps as the quarterbacks he would be just as good.”
Orange-White game offers up ten lessons By Lauren Giudice Daily Texan Columnist
Texas ended it’s spring season Sunday with the Orange-White game. Here’s what we learned:
D.J. Monroe deserves a chance Monroe is often overlooked in UT’s crowded backfield. But Monroe had a 60-yard touchdown run and finished with 82 rushing yards. Head coach Mack Brown has been looking for Monroe to be a receiver. Whether he stays in the backfield or makes the switch, the senior deserves to get the ball more. “D.J. Monroe is running with more confidence than ever before,” Brown said. “I think he’s a better runner. He’s catching it better.”
Demarco Cobbs plays well Cobbs has been impressing coaches since returning from an injury that limited him in spring practice. “When he hopped back in there, he really hit the ground running,”
said defensive coordinator Manny Diaz. “He helps us. He changes us. When he’s in there, it changed our defense a little bit.”
Case McCoy’s picks cause concern Turnovers are hurting McCoy’s chances to win the starting quarterback job. McCoy was intercepted on a pass intended for Mike Davis, but it looked like it was meant for Leroy Scott, a defensive back. McCoy had another pick in the fourth quarter. McCoy did have a couple of bright moments, but quarterbacks coach Bryan Harsin said the team cannot give up turnovers.
Mike Davis has no catches Throughout spring practices, coaches have been impressed with receiver Davis. But Davis had no catches during the spring game and both of McCoy’s interceptions were passes that were intended for Davis. “You get out there and you try to
dial some things up and the quarter- had a touchdown. They also back goes somewhere else without blocked well. telling the guy what you want him to “Our receivers have imdo,” Harsin said. proved so much in blocking down field,” Brown said. “I don’t think we’ve ever Connor Brewer impresses Although the freshman quar- blocked better than we are.” terback played with UT’s reserves, he went 3 of 4 on his first Kicking game is still unclear drive. The only incompletion was a There was no opportunity dropped pass. for the kickers to kick a field goal, He threw an impressive pass but all extra points were made. down the sideline and had an overDavis and Monroe also failed to the-shoulder touchdown pass to return kickoffs past the 20-yard line. Cade McCrary. “We’ll go into the fall with competition in both of those kicking poToughness is apparent sitions,” Brown said. “We’re not setTexas had a physical spring season tled right now on who is going to reand it showed Sunday with plenty of turn punts and kickoffs and were not settled on who will kick or punt.” big hits. “We put it on both sides,” Harsin said. “The physical mentality. Both Malcolm Brown plays one series sides have been getting after it in a Brown didn’t play very much beway that is very competitive.” cause he lost his shoe. He only carried the ball twice for 21 total yards. Receivers look strong But Jeremy Hills, Joe Bergeron and Jaxon Shipley had an impres- Monroe stepped up. Bergeron had a sive day and he and Grant each two-yard touchdown run.
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Fans come out for Ricky Williams Texas had a good turnout for the game, which featured the unveiling of a statue of Heisman Trophy winner Williams. “It was a sweet day to remember and contribute that to Ricky,” McCoy said.
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As dawn broke upon Saturday’s events, nerves appeared to be no match for Texas. The Longhorns placed in a number of events, capping off a successful Texas Relays. Senior Jacob Thormaehlen clenched the Longhorns’ first shot put title since Oskar Jakobsson in 1982. In his final attempt, Thormae-
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Keiron Stewart, left, competes in the 110-meter hurdles on Saturday at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays. Stewart was third in the event.
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hlen claimed UT’s third all-time victory in the event with a heave of 64-01.00. “It’s kind of confidence building to know that you’re ready for your last throw and you’re not worried about it,” Thormaehlen said. “Out there, I was calm, I was cool, but I wasn’t nervous. I knew it would come
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If the humidity and heat weren’t doing the trick, the caliber of competition that characterized the final two days of the 85th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays was enough to get athletes and fans sweating. Beginning bright and early, nine Longhorn runners represented Texas on Friday in a series of preliminaries in four of the most highly anticipated events in track: the 4x100-meter relay, the 100-meter hurdles, the 100-meter dash and the 4x400-meter relay. With the exception of 100-meter hurdles, in which Morgan Snow finished 14th with the fastest time of any freshman, the Texas athletes successfully qualified for the finals in the other three events of the morning session. While Longhorns Jessica Doyle and Natasha Masterson, who placed fifth and last, respectively, didn’t put on their best show in the Section B Pole Vault, Friday was not fruitless for all UT field competitors. Despite an underthrown first attempt and a foul on her second, senior Okwukwe Okolie’s final
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launch for 52.52-meters earned her third place in the Section A Discus Throw. The last day of Texas Relays began with the Section B Discus Throw in which sophomore Bertha Sencherey finished eighth out of 15 competitors. Mediocre Texas finishes became the theme for Saturday’s field events. In the Section A High Jump, Victoria Lucas and Shanay Briscoe finished in a three-way tie for third
with a 1.81-meter mark while Alicia Peterson and Beverly Owoyele both leaped for 1.73-meters, landing them in a three-way tie for seventh place. Closing out the meet’s field events, senior Amanda Van Dyke took sixth place in the Section A Shot Put and sophomore A’Lexus Brannon settled for 12th out of a field of fourteen athletes in the Section A Long Jump. On Saturday, the running
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Minority symposium highlights Kearney’s leadership By Kristen Otto Daily Texan Staff
Beverly Kearney is a chameleon of sorts. During track season, you’ll likely spot “Coach Bev� on a Monday afternoon in a casual jumpsuit, whizzing around Mike A. Myers Stadium with a hurried determination, perhaps making an intermittent pit stop to critique a relay team’s baton handoff or to tell a long-distance runner to adjust her pace. At the 85th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays last Wednesday through Saturday, the 20-year reigning women’s track and field head coach led her current athletes to first-places in four events. She also watched her former-turned-Olympian runners return home to claim victories in Invitational races. But for Kearney, her responsibility as a coach has always reached beyond developing athletes and has extended into the depths of society where potential has often been overlooked. Several years ago, while searching for a way to incite an “excitement to excel� in local youth, Kearney saw an opportunity in the Texas Relays tradition. Her efforts resulted in a forum, originally focused on encouraging student-athletes, that was coined the Minority Mentorship Symposium. “It is an amazing affair [and has] grown bigger into anything than I could have ever imagined,� Kearney said with a smile a week ago, commenting on her anticipation of the upcoming event. Last Friday evening, Kearney’s sixth annual Symposium was hosted
Longhorns coach Beverly Kearney, left, speaks with her team at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays on Saturday.
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in the grand ballroom at the AT&T Executive Education Center. This year’s event, themed “Intimate Conversations with Greatness: Creating a Legacy of Success,� attracted influential figures from the sports, entertainment, political and business worlds. Among the “Divine Divas� and “Gents of Distinction� whose inspirational accomplishments were featured at the Symposium included actress Michelle Williams, Madame Secretary Hope Andrade, rapper Bun B and former Texas football player Foswhitt “Fozzy� Whittaker. “Our theme is creating a legacy of success and the pursuit of excellence. And all of [these] individuals exemplify what excellence is,� Kearney said. “And personally, I feel like that’s what Texas is.�
With themes ranging from promoting education to raising awareness of racism in the public school system, occasions inspired by Kearney’s event included the Pursuit of Excellence Youth Rally in UT’s Gregory Gym, the Jody Conradt Leadership Conference held at the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders and the “Moving Past Racial Stigmas to Help Students Succeed� panel conducted at the George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center. Kearney showed her versatility in January when she swapped out her electric scooter and track-inspired apparel for a cane that was barely noticeable next to an elegant, black and beaded floor-length gown that she wore to the fifth annual BET Honors in Washington, D.C. As the recipient
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of the education award, she was distinguished at the event alongside a multitude of innovative leaders including Dr. Maya Angelou, Stevie Wonder and Spike Lee. “People ask me, ‘How is it that you have succeeded in spite of your obstacles?’ And you know what I tell ‘em? I don’t have a choice,� she said in her acceptance speech. “I don’t have a choice, because my hero is my history and my history is a legacy of people who have triumphed over tragedy, who have succeeded in spite of the oppression. How can I fail? Because they taught me failure is not an option.� It is this burning enthusiasm, kept lit by the constant reminder of her struggle for equality, that inspires Kearney to help students realize their potential.
THROWS continues from PAGE 8 together. The training is there. All the workouts have been good. I had my eye on it when I found out that the last time a Longhorn shotputter won Texas Relays was 1982. So, I was ready to wipe that off.� Junior Hayden Baillio was able to feed off Thormaehlen’s confidence and channel that into his own performance. Baillio finished just behind his teammate for second place with a throw of 63-9. Freshman Will Spence came in sixth at 58-10. Freshman Ryan Crouser and Blake Jakobsson represented the Longhorns in the discus throw. Despite this being his first outdoor meet of the season, Crouser claimed third place overall with a throw of 195-6. Jakobsson finished in 12th with a mark of 167-0. Junior Keiron Stewart continued the Longhorns’ trend of success in the lanes with his thirdplace finish in the 110-meter hurdles. His time of 13.46 was much improved from his 13.75 recorded in preliminaries. Shane Brathwaite of Texas Tech finished in second at 13.43 and LSU’s Barrett Nugent won the event with a time of 13.37. Trey Hardee, former UT decathlete and reigning world champion came in fourth place in the 110-meter invitational hurdle event. No UT athletes competed in the 100-meter dash finals, but Florida, LSU and A&M were able to take top finishes. Senior Jeff Demps came in first for the Gators at an impressive 10.01. Aaron Ernest of LSU and Prezel Hardy Jr. of A&M followed close behind finishing in
posed of sophomore Briana Nelson, sophomore Christy Udoh, junior Chalonda Goodman and sophomore Allison Peter — a victory, finishing second (by less than a second) behind LSU. Coming off a first-place qualifying performance in the 4x400meter prelims on Friday, senior Stacey-Ann Smith, junior Kendra Chambers, sophomore Peter
and sophomore Nelson clenched a victory in the final event of the meet — marking the 17th win for UT in the women’s 4x400-meter relay in the history of Texas Relays. “Even before [anchor Nelson] crossed 100-meters-to-go, I just put my Longhorns sign up because I knew it was a done deal,� said Peter, who set up the team’s firstplace finish with a jaw-dropping
Williams said. Approximately 30,000 fans came out for the Orange-White game, and it is probable that most of these fans were here to support the legend. Fellow Heisman winner Earl Campbell was also in attendance. Williams said he has no regrets in his career. “Regrets are when you have a
goal and your goal is not reached. When I got to the NFL I didn’t really have any goals,� Williams said. “After 11 seasons, I’ve realized even more so that I’m a special person, a unique person.� But the 35 year-old is enjoying his retirement and his statue will remain outside of Darrell K Royal Memorial stadium to honor his legacy as one of the greatest Long-
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Texas earns 14th shutout of season Evenly matched Bears take down Longhorns By Sara Beth Purdy Daily Texan Staff
Forget school or conference records, senior designated player Nadia Taylor tied an NCAA record with three doubles in a single game during Sunday’s contest against New Mexico. Taylor is only the second player in Longhorn history to record three doubles in a single game. The No. 6 Longhorns shutout the Lobos, 5-0, Sunday afternoon to finish a four-game weekend. Texas is now 31-2 on the season and 6-0 in Big 12 Conference play. “Today was very similar to what we have seen all week with the other four non-conference matchups. It was nice for us to be challenged this week,” said Texas head coach Connie Clark. “We knew with New Mexico and Tulsa coming in this weekend they are two very solid nonconference opponents, and it was nice to plug them in.” On Friday, the Longhorns defeated the Lobos, 2-1, in nine innings. Saturday featured a 9-1 win against the Tulsa Golden Hurricanes followed by a 7-3 win against the Lobos in a double header. Sunday’s shutout win sealed the deal. “They were scrappy, they swing the bat extremely well so our pitchers were challenged,” Clark said. “To put up a shutout against them is pretty impressive. On the flip side, offensively we just kept making adjustments throughout.”
Junior designated player Kim Bruins was a highlight in Friday night’s close game. Bruins registered a walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the ninth inning to defeat the Lobos. In the circle, sophomore Rachel Fox had a career best 13 strikeouts for the Longhorns as she improved to 9-0 on the season. The Longhorns got off to a slow start during both games of Saturday’s double header. However, powerful sixth inning surges in each of the games by the Texas offense ensured they remained undefeated for the weekend. In the game against Tulsa on Saturday morning, the Longhorns, already up by two, scored six runs to bring the score to 9-1. The six-run effort ended the game on a run rule. Against New Mexico on Saturday, the Longhorns were down 3-2 going into the bottom of the sixth, but a five run performance sealed the 7-3 victory. Junior outfielder Taylor Hoagland scored the final run in the sixth. Sophomore Brejae Washington went 2-for-3 with two RBI and Bruins was 2-for-2 at the plate. Junior All-American Blaire Luna led the Longhorns in the circle on Sunday afternoon to finish the weekend. Luna gave up only two hits while registering 13 strikeouts. She has allowed only one earned run at home in more than 55 innings. The shutout is Texas’s 14th of the season.
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Nadia Taylor knocks a ball into left field. She tied an NCAA record with three doubles.
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Texas came into its latest threegame series with a 14-9 record. So did Cal. For the 34th time in school history, the Longhorns advanced to last year’s College World Series. So did Cal. So it was only natural for the Longhorns and Golden Bears, after exchanging 10run victories the previous two days, to be tied at 4-4 after four innings on Sunday. Cal capitalized on consecutive hits in the fifth inning and a leadoff walk in the sixth, scoring one run in each frame to take a 6-4 lead. The Golden Bears (1610, 1-5) would go on to triumph, 6-5, over the No. 18 Longhorns (15-11, 5-1) and win two out of three games against Texas this weekend. “They got the leadoff hitter on, they gave themselves more opportunities to score and they had
more clutch hits than we did,” said Texas head coach Augie Garrido. “That’s what separated the two teams.” Texas nearly tied the game again in each of the last two innings. In the eighth, senior center fielder Tim Maitland’s triple brought freshman second baseman Brooks Marlow home with one out, trimming Cal’s lead to 6-5. But Maitland, who had a game-high three hits in four atbats, was stranded at third base after sophomore right fielder Mark Payton, with the Golden Bears infield playing in, grounded out to shortstop. Senior shortstop Jordan Etier struck out looking to end the threat. “I just look at it as another stepping stone, something to overcome and work off of,” Maitland said. “It’s really frustrating. It pisses you off. But it happened. We have a lot to learn from it.” Sophomore third baseman Er-
ich Weiss led the ninth inning off by drawing a five-pitch walk and was moved to second base on a sacrifice bunt by cleanup hitter Jonathan Walsh. With Weiss in scoring position and one out, sophomore first baseman Alex Silver and junior pinch-hitter Kevin Lusson both struck out swinging. Freshman Ricky Jacquez made his fifth start Sunday, allowing five hits and four runs in 3.1 innings. All three of the errors committed by the Longhorns came with Jacquez on the mound. Junior Hoby Milner, who fired six scoreless innings in his last outing Wednesday against UTPan American, was saddled with the loss after surrendering the go-ahead run in the fifth. Freshman John Curtiss allowed another run in the sixth inning before sophomore close Corey Knebel ended the contest with three scoreless innings.
“It’s a heartbreaker,” Knebel said, who lowered his ERA from to 1.08. “When I saw Tim get that hit, I thought for sure that we would have it tied, and we were going to get the win. I knew it.” After scoring three first-inning runs and jumping out to a 10-0 lead after the fourth inning, Texas trounced Cal, 13-3, in the series opener. But the Golden Bears bounced back, scoring the first seven runs of Saturday’s game and blowing out the Longhorns, 12-2, to even the series. The Longhorns fell to 1-5 against Pac-12 Conference opponents, including a three-game sweep at the hands of Stanford. “Out of conference games are still big games, especially against the Pac-12,” Payton said. “Stanford beat us pretty good so we thought we needed to come back and beat another Pac-12 team. We had our chances but we just didn’t come through today.”
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SNEAKER continues from PAGE 14 Nike’s first sneaker collaboration with a non-athlete did just that. At the 2008 Grammy awards, Kanye West performed in a pair of mystery Nike’s which he later confirmed were the “Air Yeezys.” That summer, West rocked the shoes on tour until their eventual sold-out release in 2009. According to Complex magazine, West’s second Air Yeezy installment,
complete with dinosaur-spiked backs and glow-in-the-dark bottoms, will launch this June. It’s likely each pair will retail for about $200, and spark early-morning storefront lines comparable to that of a new iPhone launch at an Apple store. The new trend among sneaker companies relies on the quick turnover rate of talent in the music industry to complement their long-
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in comparison to the actual style and “colorways” of a shoe. Jesús “J.Star” Estrella, founder of SneakerShoeBox.com, admits that he puts more energy toward deciding which sneakers to wear than the rest of his outfit. Like the fashionista who prefers a limited collection of wildly expensive Christian Louboutins over racks upon racks of Steve
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said. “And I’m probably one of those guys. I think I have like 50 pairs.” As more people look to sneakers as a gateway to embracing their own style, sneakers have become mainstream. “This culture is very diverse, all nationalities, men, women, young and old are into it. It’s not just an urban thing, it’s everywhere,” Estrella said.
Hemingway’s private letters reveal vulnerable side CHAIN By Bridget Murphy The Associated Press
BOSTON — Ernest Hemingway shows a tenderness that wasn’t part of his usual macho persona in a dozen unpublished letters that became publicly available Wednesday in a collection of the author’s papers at the Kennedy presidential library. In a letter to his friend Gianfranco Ivancich written in Cuba and dated February 1953, Hemingway wrote of euthanizing his cat “Uncle Willie” after it was hit by a car. “Certainly missed you. Miss Uncle Willie. Have had to shoot people but never anyone I knew and loved for eleven years,” the author wrote.
“Nor anyone that purred with two broken legs.” The letters span from 1953 to 1960, a year before the prize-winning writer’s suicide. Whether typed or written in his curly script, some of the dispatches arrived on personalized, onionskin stationery from his Cuban villa Finca Vigia. The author also wrote from Europe, while on safari in Africa, and from his home in Idaho. The two men met in a Venice hotel bar in 1949, bonding despite a two-decade age difference because they’d both suffered leg wounds in war. “I wish I could write you good letters the way you do,” Hemingway wrote in a January 1958 letter from
Cuba. “Maybe it is because I write myself out in the other writing.” Experts say the letters demonstrate a side to Hemingway that wasn’t part of his persona as an author whose subjects included war, bullfighting, fishing and hunting. The Kennedy library foundation bought the letters from Ivancich in November, and Hemingway Collection curator Susan Wrynn met the now-elderly gentleman in Italy. “He still writes every morning,” she said Wednesday. “Hemingway encouraged him to.” The letters, as a whole, show the author had a gentle side, and was someone who made time to be fatherly and nurturing to a younger friend, said Susan Bee-
gel, editor of scholarly journal The Hemingway Review. Hemingway’s letter about his cat’s death also showed the author’s struggle to separate his private and public lives. Hemingway told how a group of tourists arrived at his villa that day. “I still had the rifle and I explained to them they had come at a bad time and to please understand and go away,” he wrote. But one wasn’t deterred, according to the letter, saying, “We have come at a most interesting time. Just in time to see the great Hemingway cry because he has to kill a cat.” In multiple letters, Hemingway also asks about his friend’s sister Adriana Ivancich.
The young Italian socialite became a muse for the writer after they met at a duck-shooting outing in Italy. The woman was the model for the female lead in Hemingway’s novel “Across the River and into the Trees,” Beegel said. Experts say Hemingway credited her visit to Cuba in 1950 with inspiring him as he crafted the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Old Man and the Sea.” He wrote of the literary award in a June 1953 letter to his friend, saying, “The book is back on the Best Seller lists due to the ig-noble Prize,” a line Beegel sees as selfdeprecating humor. Hemingway went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature the next year.
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found (if a bit simplistic) point about the rules of global politics, which permit world leaders to distract from their unsavory actions by using euphemistic language (see: “enhanced interrogation techniques”). So when you go to see Svenonius perform this Friday, don’t just expect 90 minutes of quirky K Records music. Expect to see someone who has turned his persona into performance art with a political purpose. Still, it doesn’t hurt that the tunes are catchy. Check out “Not Good Enough” and “Detroit Music” from the most recent Chain and the Gang LP, Music’s Not For Everyone, before you let the lead singer’s weirdness scare you off.
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Titanic story continues to illustrate courage, tragedy By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press
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Sneakerhead, local boutique owner discusses shoe culture By Anjli Mehta Daily Texan Staff
Joah Spearman opens the door to Austin Java Cafe, brushes the lateafternoon drizzle off his leather jacket and wipes his limited edition Livestrong for Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop black and yellow Nike’s on the restaurant’s welcome mat. The back of the 28 year-old sneaker fan’s kicks proudly read “Austin” and “Texas” on the left and right shoe, respectively. Just minutes after he leaves the table with our photographer to shoot some photographs, complete with poses that scream confidence, a woman comes up to me and asks if he’s famous. He laughs. A doppelganger for Outkast frontman Andre 3000, Spearman confesses that he’s gotten into nightclubs pretending to be his celebrity look-a-like. It’s a far stretch from who he was (or wasn’t) growing up. “When I was in school, you know, girls didn’t really like me. I had big glasses, and I was four-foot-teninches,” Spearman said. “I knew I wasn’t going to play basketball or football, so for me this was never about being an athlete trying to identify with shoes.” While puberty may have been a
likely culprit for Spearman’s transcendence from nerd to fashion-forward cool guy, there’s another factor that played a major role: his love for sneakers. Spearman is the brains behind the cleverly-named Sneak Attack pop-up boutiques that sprout up at events in town such as FunFunFun Fest, South By Southwest and local concerts. He is also the creator of the SXSW fashion trade show, Style X. “It’s aspirational, so for me it’s a sign of cool, and this idea of making it,” he said. Most other “sneakerheads,” (people who are enamored with sneakers), agree that they view sneakers as a status symbol; not necessarily a symbol of wealth but of something money can’t buy: the rare commodity of cool. Spearman started Sneak Attack by buying shoes off private collectors and failing shoe boutiques, which allows him to sell styles and brands that no other Austin sneaker store carries. His unique buying strategy lets him carry only one kind of each shoe, so that a customer is likely the only person in town
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Joah Spearman, creator of the boutique Sneak Attack, sells sneakers that can’t be found elsewhere in Austin. Spearman and other “sneakerheads” view sneakers as a status symbol of cool.
with that specific shoe. He recalled the infamous 1985 launch of Nike’s now sneaker staple, the Jordan, which was the turning point where sneakers became a true phenomenon. “People talk about luxury brands like Prada and Gucci, but growing up, Jordans were like a luxury brand to me,” Spearman said. “I saw this video once of this guy who was like, ‘Yo! Mom, I made it. Look at my Jordans!’” In the last decade, sneakers outgrew their obvious connection to sports and made a name for themselves in the fashion and music worlds, proving that now, sneakers are more than a means to walk from
point A to point B. According to Spearman, there was a clear moment when sneakers slipped into the music world. When Michael Jordan retired, the sneaker companies were spending a lot of money looking to cultivate the next Jordan, a new shoe that would sell out the way the Jordan seemed to do every year like clockwork. “At one point, companies like Nike decided they were going to spend a lot of money that would be traditionally spent on athletes, and spend it on Kanye West because music is where it’s at,” Spearman said.
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Spearman wears these sneakers when traveling to show his Austin pride.
Songstress enthralls despite empty plot By Robert Starr Daily Texan Staff
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A chef places The Texas Kobe Burger in the kitchen window for pick up at drink.well. American Pub, Sunday afternoon.
Retro bar offers broad selection drink.well provides diner atmosphere with American food fare, classic cocktails
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By Brittany Smith
D r i n k . wel l, t he sl e ek ne w neighborhood pub situated in a small building on East 53rd Street, offers a refined respite from a long day at school or work. Although this is not your typical dive bar down the street (you know the type — smoky, dark, filled with questionable drinks and even more questionable men), the atmosphere is comfortable and relaxing. The space is small and guests seat themselves. The friendly bartender might holler over the counter to let incoming diners know that they should grab a menu and sit anywhere. This is a place best left for small groups or couples, as there are only a few tables that seat more than two people.
The tall gray-blue leather bar seats and the smiles of amicable bartenders beckon diners to the bar counter, which is obviously the center of the eater y. The rest of the restaurant is welcoming as well: it is neat and stylized with a minimalist retro-chic theme. The ceilings are low, making the environment intimate but not confined. Large windows at the front of the restaurant let in sunlight and prevent the space from feeling too crowded. It wou ld b e imp ossible to write about drink.well without mentioning the libations. The beer list is extensive, and they offer eight craft beers on tap that rotate with availability. In keeping with the spirit of an unfussy neighborhood watering hole, they also offer Bud Light, Coors and Lonestar beneath a heading that says, “Hey, We Don’t Judge.” The wine list is categorized by style of wine, rather than simply “red” or “white.” By breaking the list down into “Earthy and Fruity,” “Bold and Sultry,” “C ool and Crisp” and “Sleek
Several characters togethe r a l on e i n a m ans i on , a l l with a hidden motivation to kill and one dead body : it’s formulaic, sure, but why fix what isn’t broken? Especially when it works well, as it does in Kate White’s “So Pretty It Hur t s ,” a st and ard myster y novel that reads briskly and entertains throughout. T he d e a d b o dy t h is t i me around belongs to Devon Barr, a gorgeous supermodel who was about to break into the music business with the release of her first album. The detective is Bailey Weggins, a tabloid journalist who specializes in celebrity deaths. Maybe it’s a bit too perfect that she happens to have been at the mansion when Barr kicked the bucket, but after this trite beginning, the novel improves. Barr dies in what appears to
be an accidental suicide, but faithful readers know to expect a bit more from the stor y. The investigation, along with its red herrings, is handled ably by White, even if her character’s voice lacks the kind of noir-ish punch that a narrator like Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe provides. The novel ne ver de v i ates ver y f ar f rom t he exp e c te d beats of a murder mystery and also suffers from a lack of urg e n c y. T h e m om e nt s w h e n Weggins is in danger are few and far between, and once the killer and motive have been re ve a le d, it’s not cle ar t hat Weggins ever was in any kind of real danger. Sure, nobody who commits a murder wants to get caught, but in this case, the murder doesn’t turn out to be a cover-up for a huge conspiracy as it might in a more exciting mystery. A nd w h i l e nob o dy ne e d s their escapist novels to
So Pretty It Hurts Kate White
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h ave ai r t i g ht p l ot s , t h e re’s an enormous unexplained hole in t he stor y t hat e ven Weggins admits in the final
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Ian Svenonius voices politics through music
By Daniel Munoz
and Soft,” drink.well alleviates the need to Google every bottle of wine while your date’s in the bathroom so as to appear to know the difference between a Bianco and a Chardonnay. All of their wines are from the United States and a couple feature Texas-grown grapes. T h e c o ckt ai l s are at on c e classic and inventive. The Royale with Ease, mixed with Tenneyson Absinthe Royale, fresh Texas grapefruit, hibiscus and
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CHAIN AND THE GANG There is no figure in independent music today more paradoxical than Ian Svenonius, whose latest project, Chain and the Gang, will be playing at Frank this Friday. Svenonius is clearly a serious craftsman: in the last 22 years, he has released 17 LPs in addition to a slew of singles, EPs and compilations, all brimming with political fervor and earnest iconoclasm. Still, as devoted as he is, his music sounds at times so whimsical and ironic that it’s hard to know how seriously to take it. To take another example: his motivations for fronting a band are obviously ideological, as evinced by the left-wing intellectualism per-
meating his catalog. He’s even published a collection of his political essays, “The Psychic Soviet,” which he wrote to “clear up much of the confusion regarding events of the last millennium — artistic, geo-political, philosophical, et al.,” according to the introduction. Yet in a move of involuted irony, he has cast his new band as champions of shackles and enslavement. The paradox extends to his music, too. “What do I think about rock and roll in its current state?” asks Svenonius in “Interview with the Chain Gang” from Chain and the Gang’s debut LP, Down With Liberty ... Up With Chains!. The response, sung in typical Svenonian deadpan over an exuberant rock beat, is appropriately self-defeating: “I try not to listen. I find it in poor taste.” Might there be something more meaningful going on with this act beneath all the contradictions? The band’s official biography at the K Records website sheds some light on their purpose: “So just as they call it ‘liberty’ or ‘freedom’ when
Photo courtesy of Ian Svenonius
war and greed stalk the land, Ian Svenonius calls his band: Chain and the Gang.” Svenonius may be misrepresenting himself to the world with his tongue-in-cheek band concepts, but he isn’t just playing games. He’s using rock music to raise a pro-
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