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UT approves tobacco ban across campus hibit the use of tobacco products on all University property effective this month. The UT Board of Regents approved After years of heated debate over the new tobacco policy on Monday, the use of tobacco on campus, UT announced Wednesday it will pro- making UT the fourth institution unBy Jody Serrano Daily Texan Staff

der the UT System to implement a ban. University spokeswoman Adrienne Howarth-Moore said people will be able to use tobacco in the 15 temporary designated areas on campus during the first year of implementa-

tion but will be required to adhere to the policy by Feb. 28, 2013. The policy prohibits the use of tobacco products on University-owned sidewalks, parking areas, walkways, attached parking structures and buildings. To-

Plants grown by UT Libraries staff are for sale, with proceeds donated to the Sustainable Food Center. The sale will be on the PCL plaza from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Seinfeld mocked it. Letterman ranked it in his Top 10 list. Everyone knows the McDonald’s coffee case. “Hot Coffee” reveals what really happened to Stella Liebeck, the Albuquerque woman who spilled coffee on herself and sued McDonald’s. The screening starts at 5:30 p.m. in the Francis Auditorium 2.114 and is open to everyone.

Attend a brown bag lunch with performance artist Nao Bustamante, who will dicuss her latest project. Light refreshments will be served. The event begins at Noon in the SAC 1.118 and is open to the entire campus.

Today in history In 1861 The start of what would come to be known as the bloodiest four years in American history begun, the Civil War.

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Foodie Alert! Check out our inside look at Brasserie Justine’s, a French restaurant on the East side.

Texas policemen honor colleague with procession A procession followed the funeral of fallen Austin senior police officer Jaime Padron yesterday. Approximately 5,000 officers from across the state attended the funeral, with two Chicago policemen attending as well. The estimated 24-mile procession started at Shoreline Church in Northwest Austin, where Padron’s funeral took place. Padron will be buried in San Angelo tomorrow. Close to 600 police cars and motorcycles from across the state participated in the procession to pay their respects to Padron, according to Cpl. Wut Tantaksinanukij. Tantaksinanukij said the entire public safety family from across the state attended the procession to pay their respects. A long line of police motorcycles followed by several police cars began the procession. Drivers and passersby who saw the procession pulled over near the MLK bridge crossing over Interstate Highway 35 to pay their respects. Numerous police officers, state

Photos by Elisabeth Dillon | Daily Texan Staff

State troopers and police officers (top) salute the funeral procession (bottom) that took place Wednesday afternoon for fallen Austin senior police officer Jaime Padron.

troopers, firefighters and EMS also watched from the bridge as the procession passed with their salutes up in respect to the fallen officer. When the procession passed by the Walmart where Padron was killed, employees lined the streets in silence. “Padron’s family had no idea what

to expect,” Tantaksinanukij said. “They were amazed with the outpouring of support from both the Austin Police Department and the Austin community. The Padron family should know that APD will always be there for them.” Padron was shot and killed during

StressFest helps students relax before final exams WATCH TStv ON CHANNEL 15 7-9 a.m. ‘When Roots Attack’

Wake up and dub out to the masters of old school reggae, dub, & classic dancehall.

7-8 p.m. ‘Austin Hellenic Radio’

Austin Hellenic Radio features the best in Greek music and culture, plus news and interviews from Greece and about the Greek economic situation.

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Ever wish you could relive or experience what made the ’80s so great? Well the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz is hosting their ’80s movie anthem sing-along, which is comprised of backto-back film clips that best highlight the ’80s. The singalong starts at 9:45 p.m. with an admission price of $12.

bacco will only be allowed at the temporary designated tobacco areas, and for educational or clinical purposes, fine arts productions, sponsored

UT Regents delay setting tuition rates despite plans

‘Hot Coffee’

’80s sing-along

Artists take advantage of recycled materials, make sustainable art objects

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Final exams and the accompanying stress are fast approaching, but campus organizations are here to help. Students gathered at West Mall yesterday for the 15th annual StressFest, to discover new and effective ways to relieve stress. Sponsored by the UT Parents’ Association and University Federal Credit Union, StressFest was hosted by the UT Counseling and Mental Health Center and featured organizations from across campus and beyond who exposed students to healthy ways of managing stress, CMHC associate director Dr. Jane Morgan Bost said. Clinical laboratory science junior Huy Doan sipped on a slush from Jim-Jim’s Italian Water Ice, which handed out free water ice slushes, a healthier alternative to snow cones at the event. Doan said he is stressed

about trying to maintain his GPA and trying to succeed in his classes and felt refreshed by the festival. Business freshman Alexandra Arzuaga visited the CMHC acupuncture station and said she has never done acupuncture before but was excited to try it. “I’m stressed about finals,” Arzuaga said. “I feel like this event is a great way to get our minds off of school for a bit and to learn new ways to take care of your body when you get stressed.” Staff psychologist and outreach coordinator Dr. Laura Ebady was this year’s StressFest coordinator and said the event had the biggest turnout she has ever seen with an estimated 2,500 attendees. “During this time of year, especially before finals, we want to help students discover the different

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a confrontation on Friday morning after responding to an intoxicated person call at a North Austin Walmart. The supsect, Brandon Montgomery Daniel, age 24, is currently in jail facing a charge of capital murder, according to the APD. — Alexandra Klima

The UT System Board of Regents will not set tuition rates for the next two academic years at Thursday’s special called meeting, contrary to the expectations of University administrators. If the Regents decide on tuition after April, it will be the latest they have set the tuition rates since 2004. The delay will affect registration, University initiatives and preparation of the University budget. UT System spokesman Anthony de Bruyn said the main reason tuition will not be discussed at the special meeting is “just because it wasn’t posted on the April agenda” by the Regents. Mary Knight, associate vice president and budget director for the University, said the UT System had previously notified University administrators that tuition would be discussed at today’s meeting, but were told otherwise at a budget meeting on Monday. In 2003, tuition deregulation shifted tuition setting power from the state legislature to the board of regents for each state institution. On Dec. 15, President William Powers Jr. recommended the largest tuition increase the UT System will allow. The UT System gave directives that any recommendation to increase tuition must be tied to improving fouryear graduation rates. Knight said some of the initiatives might be delayed if the budget must take increased funds into account. The main initiatives include hiring more faculty to provide additional course sections, expanding career services and improving academic advising. Knight said another problem with the delay is that registration for the summer and the fall semesters begins on Monday. “We need to be able to tell the students something by Monday,” Knight said. “We’re trying to work through that now.” Former UT System spokesman

TUITION continues on PAGE 2 A helicopter drops water onto a blaze in Cedar Creek, Texas on Sept. 5, 2011. Nearby Bastrop State Park recently reopened 80 percent of the 7,000 acre park, which was devestated by the wildfires last September.

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Bastrop State Park opens after fire, floods

will have access to almost all of the course were saved.” amenities the park offered before Unfortunately, the area preserved the fire, said park site superinten- from the fire was just a small part of the park’s total acreage, Dolle said. After a devastating fire and dam- dent Roger Dolle. “Firefighters were able to save al“Ninety six percent of the park aging floods, Bastrop State Park will most all of our structures,” he said. reopen this weekend. Beginning April 13 the public “All of our cabins and all of the golf BASTROP continues on PAGE 2 By Sam Liebl Daily Texan Staff

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resources on campus for stress relief, provide some on-the-spot stress relievers and give students some useful stress management tips in the coming weeks before finals,” Ebady said. A wide variety of activities and booths were present in order to appeal to everyone and to cover every type of stress, whether it be financial stress, emotional stress, academic stress or health stress, Ebady said. Anxiety disorder specialist Diana Damer provided a fun demonstration of cognitive therapy at the fortune telling booth. Cognitive therapy is a version of psychotherapy for depression highlighting the replacement of negative thoughts with positive ones. Students were given a situation and a variety of responses and were asked to choose their most likely response to the situation. If a self-defeating style of thinking was chosen, students were told they can change their fortunes by changing their thoughts. “Many people think that situations and events cause our emotional stresses, but it’s really our beliefs, thoughts and interpretations that shape our perception of such things,” Damer said. “Positive thinking is not the only solution to self-defeating thoughts. One must learn to be as positive as they can, while still being realistic.” Damer works with multiple campus groups in CMHC, such as The Courage to Be Imperfect Group and Build Your Social Confidence Group, all of which are free and confidential.

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Senior social worker Alicia Garces worked the CMHC multicultural center booth which displayed two large comment boards with the questions “What stresses you out the most as a student of color?” and “What do students of color need to succeed on campus?” Garces said this informal, anonymous environment is an effective

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Senior biochemistry major Byron Barksdale conducts a yoga demonstration Wednesday aftenoon at StressFest, the annual event aimed to expose students to techniques for effectively managing the stresses of college life.

Be nice, he’s not well.

research and off-campus graduate housing facilities. The University’s previous policy only prohibited smoking within buildings and required people to smoke 20 feet away building entrances. Howarth-Moore said sidewalks adjacent to UT property, such as the sidewalks on Guadalupe Street, will not be included in the ban. The ban will also exclude sidewalks and property on Guadalupe Street, Dean Keeton Street, Red River Street and Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard. She said the University will be removing ashtrays surrounding campus buildings in the next couple of months, launching an educational campaign and putting up signs to inform the UT community about the new policy. She said at this time there are no plans to implement a financial penalty if people violate the ban and repeat violations will be directed to the appropriate student, faculty and staff liaisons. Howarth-Moore said the UT administration understands the challenges this new policy places on people who are current tobacco us-

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ers, but hopes people will see this change as an opportunity to quit and take advantage of tobacco cessation resources on campus. “If people choose not to take advantage of the tobacco resources we are providing, we hope that this gives them time to adjust their work schedule and start to think about how they will implement this policy in their work or school day,” Howarth-Moore said. “This is the right direction for the University.” UT first announced plans on Feb. 9 to possibly change its tobacco policy after the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas announced new rules requiring all institutions receiving cancer research funds to become tobacco-free by Aug. 31. If the University did not comply with the new rules, it would not be eligible to receive future funding from the institute. The institute provides approximately $31 million for more than 20 professors working on cancer research. UT plans to apply for $88 million later this year. In a February campus-wide email, University officials stated they planned to develop a policy by

way of discovering and gathering such information. “We are not making assumptions,” Garces said. “We are asking for the thoughts of students and trying to figure out which components on campus are the same and which are different. It’s important to know what the UT campus is providing for minority groups to meet

their success.” Garces said CMHC wants to hear minority group experiences on campus in order to better serve minority groups who attend CMHC. For an instant stress reliever, students played with therapy dogs from Therapy Pet Pals of Texas, Inc., a volunteer organiza-

March 1 to meet the deadlines stated by CPRIT. Howarth-Moore said there was a misunderstanding on the deadline to be in compliance with the new policy. Kristen Doyle, Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas lawyer and a cancer survivor, said March 1 was the adoption date of the new rule and grantees have until Aug. 31 to develop a new policy. Doyle said although she has not seen the policy, it seems like UT has gone above and beyond banning tobacco in buildings where cancer research takes place, the minimum requirement the institute called for. Doyle said she thinks it is great UT has adopted a tobacco-free policy on campus. “Preventing people from taking up both smoking and tobacco use, especially now when they’re in college, will help them for the rest of their lives,” Doyle said. “As a cancer survivor, I hope someone else won’t have to have that awful moment and hear, ‘Oh, you’ve got cancer.’” Howarth-Moore said although the University had previously considered only banning tobacco use

in buildings and areas where cancer research took place, they decided against it. Many professors and graduate students conducting research will often have their lab in one building but may go to the library in the Main Building to analyze their research, Howarth-Moore said, and that makes the building a cancer research facility. Howarth-Moore said new research facilities are added and change every semester and would make a tobacco ban only encompassing cancer research buildings difficult and confusing to implement. Matthew Haviland, president of the UT Texas Public Health Organization, said he thinks the tobacco ban will contribute to the improving the health of students and potentially decreasing insurance costs. The organization conducted a survey last semester and found that out of 1,551 respondents, 77 percent indicated they wanted a stronger tobacco policy at UT. Among the people who identified as smokers who took the survey, about onethird said they wanted stricter limits on tobacco use.

BASTROP continues from PAGE 1 burned,” he said. “Of the 6,600 acres in the park, just a couple acres were saved.” The park lost much of its dense forest of loblolly pine trees, known as the Lost Pines. Dolle said visitors should adjust their expectations. “We had extreme fire behavior in some areas,” Dolle said. “Those areas look like a moonscape and there’s not much left in those areas at all. Other areas were moderately burned or lightly burned, and a lot of vegetation is coming back at ground level with some oak and yaupon sprouting up a lot of green

on the ground.” The fire cleared the way for severe flooding conditions when the park received heavy winter rains, he said. “Because the fire wiped out so much underbrush, the rain grabbed a lot of silt and ash with it and washed it away,” Dolle said. “Under normal conditions we could have a 2-3 inch rain and not suffer damage, but we had a 5-7 inch rain and the fire quadrupled the flooding effects.” Katie Raney, the park’s volunteer coordinator, said volunteers will eventually be needed to plant about 200,000 loblolly pine seed-

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lings, but erosion control is currently the top priority. “We have scheduled volunteer workdays to help install erosion control materials, specifically, straw logs,” she said. “They soak up some of the runoff and also help keep the soil from sliding down the hill. We consider these workdays to be difficult and recommend them for ages 16 and up.” Kilian Ashley, biology junior and backpacking enthusiast, said he has fond memories of the park and its forest from his childhood. The fireravaged landscape gives him a new reason to visit, he said.

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Matt Flores spoke with the The Daily Texan March 2. Flores said the UT System Regents Office was assessing the tuition recommendations, but said, “We’re certain it has to come soon. Clearly it has to be done with enough time to get course schedules published so they’ll know how much they can expect to pay.” The University budget proposal is due to the UT System in May, Knight said. She said the University is currently preparing the budget without the recommended tuition increase, which would generate $30.6 million worth of academic funds from 2012-2014. Knight said it generally takes the entire summer for the University and the UT System to fin-

tion based out of Austin. Volunteer John Nettle brought his Norwich Terrier and said Therapy Pet Pals of Texas brings dogs to nursing homes, hospitals and physical therapy clinics for some small scale stress relief of those present. “We’re all dog lovers who volunteer our time and pets for a good cause,” Nettle said.

DESIGNATED TOBACCO AREAS Note: Signs will be placed at these temporary designated tobacco use areas within the next few weeks. The areas will only be in effect until Feb. 28, 2013. 1. Bridgeway/Witchita Street 2. Kinsolving/Whitis Avenue 3. Littlefield Dorm Cafe 4. Batts Hall/Inner Campus Drive 5. Harry Ransom Center/21st Street 6. Sanchez Building/Perry-Castaneda Library 7. Jester Dorm/Spanish Oaks Terrence 8. Roberts Hall/Prather Hall 9. Service Building/Waller Creek 10. Winship/West Stadium 11. Texas Swimming Center/San Jacinto Blvd. 12. Music Recital Hall/Trinity Street 13. LBJ Fountain/East Stadium 14. Sid Richardson Hall/Thompson Conference Center 15. Facilties Complex

Haviland said he sat on a committee with administrators to discuss the possible implementation of a tobacco ban and expected the announcement. He said he hopes this encourages the city of Austin and schools across the U.S. to consider banning tobacco.

“It’s cool camping out in that kind of area because you can see everything,” Ashley said. “That would be a little more attractive to me than camping in the middle of the forest.” The park remains a marvel, Dolle said, though the experience is completely different. “You’ll see the park in a whole new light,” he said. “It has a beauty all its own.”

To register for Bastrop State Park’s volunteer database contact volunteer coordinator Katie Raney at Katie. Raney@tpwd.state.tx.us.

ish preparations for the Regents’ August meeting. “We don’t usually have an opportunity to change it,” Knight said. De Bruyn gave no specifics on the reason for the delay, but said the Regents could call another special meeting to set tuition or wait for a regularly scheduled meeting. The next meeting is scheduled for May 2 and 3. “All I know is that the UT System administrators have been diligently reviewing the campus proposals and that review continues,” de Bruyn said. “I would say they will most likely be discussed in May.” De Bruyn said he did not know how the universities should handle communicating tuition costs as registration begins, distributing financial aid packages and preparing institutional budgets. “You would have to ask the universities,” de Bruyn said. “We’re clearly mindful of deadlines.”

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NEWS BRIEFLY American Indian tribes agree to $1 billion settlement

YAKIMA, Wash. — The federal government will pay more than $1 billion to settle a series of lawsuits brought by American Indian tribes over mismanagement of tribal money and trust lands, under a settlement announced Wednesday. The agreement resolves claims brought by 41 tribes from across the country to reclaim money lost in mismanaged accounts and from royalties for oil, gas, grazing and timber rights on tribal lands. The settlement was announced jointly by the Justice Department and the Interior Department, which manages more than 100,000 leases on tribal trust lands and about 2,500 tribal trust accounts for more than 250 federally recognized tribes. Negotiations continue on dozens of other cases.

Syria says it will stop fighting by United Nations deadline

BEIRUT — Syria promised to comply with a U.N.-brokered cease-fire beginning Thursday but carved out an important condition — that the regime still has a right to defend itself against the terrorists that it says are behind the country’s year-old uprising. The statement Wednesday offered a glimmer of hope that a peace initiative by special envoy Kofi Annan could help calm the conflict, which has killed some 9,000 people. But the regime still has ample room to maneuver. In comments carried on the state-run news agency, Syria said the army has successfully fought off “armed terrorist groups” and reasserted authority across the country. The government denies that it is facing an uprising by Syrians who want to dislodge the authoritarian dynasty that has ruled the country for more than four decades. — Compiled from The Associated Press

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Zimmerman arrest follows disappearance By Tamara Lush The Associated Press

SANFORD, Fla. — The neighborhood watch volunteer who shot Trayvon Martin to death had been out of touch and, his ex-lawyer says, “a little bit over the edge” before his arrest on a second-degree murder charge. As George Zimmerman turned himself in Wednesday in the Feb. 26 shooting of the unarmed black teen, experts offered this advice: Stop talking. “My advice to the client would be, ‘Save it for the trial. It can’t help you,” said Roy Kahn, a Miami defense attorney. The 28-year-old Sanford man was in custody in Florida after a puzzling disappearance that had his lawyers expressing concern for his health and announcing they couldn’t represent him anymore. Zimmerman had called special prosecutor Angela Corey, his former lawyers said, had an offthe-record chat with a Fox News Channel host and put up a website asking supporters for money. “It would not be in a client’s best interest to give any statement before it’s his time to testify at trial,” Kahn said. “For him to give a statement, since he al-

Hal Uhrig, left, and Craig Sonner speak during a news conference, Tuesday, April 10, 2012, in Sanford Fla. The two attorneys for the Florida neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin said Tuesday that they have withdrawn as his counsel because they haven’t heard from him in days and he is taking actions related to the case without consulting them. Tamara Lush Associated Press

ready has given an interview to the police, any additional statement at the State Attorney’s Office would just create the possibility of him creating conflict with his previous statements.”

mental well being,” O’Mara said. Leslie Garfield, a Pace University law professor in New York, said Zimmerman’s behavior over the last 48 hours should not affect his prosecution.

“Whatever else goes on behind the scenes before charges aren’t really a factor,” she said. “All that should matter is what his intentions were at the time of the shooting.”

Planned Parenthood sues Texas over exclusion from program By Chris Tomlinson The Associated Press

Eight Planned Parenthood organizations sued Texas on Wednesday for excluding them from participating in a program that provides contraception and check-ups to women, saying the new rule violates their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and association. The groups, none of which provide abortions, contend in the fed-

eral lawsuit that a new state law banning organizations affiliated with abortion providers from participating in the Women’s Health Program has nothing to do with providing medical care and is simply intended to silence individuals or groups who support abortion rights. Texas law already requires that groups receiving federal or state funding be legally and financially separate from clinics that perform abortions.

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The federal government has also cut funding to Texas over the issue, saying it violated federal law. It says the law passed by conservative Republicans and signed by Gov. Rick Perry denies women the right to choose their health care providers. The Department of Health and Human Services, which enforces the rule, issued a statement saying it be-

lieves the state was within its rights to pass the new law. Last month, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott sued the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services demanding that it restore off funding for the Women’s Health program. Republican lawmakers made it clear during last year’s legislative session that their aim was to shut

down as many Planned Parenthood groups as possible. The new law says that a health care provider that shares a name, common ownership or a franchise agreement with any organization that provides elective abortions will be excluded from the program, regardless of whether the provider meets all medical standards.

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Up in smoke The University’s tobacco use policy went up in smoke Wednesday afternoon with an email — with the spelling properly checked — declaring that the campus is now 100-percent tobacco-free. The move is a progressive step forward for UT, and the way it will be implemented reflects careful consideration of how the change will affect various members of the community. In January, the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) changed its rules to require that any institution receiving grant money be totally tobacco-free. Rightly recognizing the importance of cancer research at UT, administrators responded with a new policy that restricts tobacco use in almost all circumstances. Notably, an exception will be made for a number of designated smoking zones to ease the transition process to a tobacco-free campus. These zones will expire in March 2013, according to the new tobacco-use policy available on the UT website. The new policy is also notable for its enforcement mechanism. Thankfully avoiding the nightmare of UT Police Department’s issuing $10 tickets for lighting up, administrators recognized that the change will require cooperation and that compliance with it will be best achieved by gentle reminders along with a gradual cultural change. But while the new policy is generally considerate and forward-looking, the reason for its revision is somewhat worrisome. Texas voters established CPRIT in 2007 to “fund groundbreaking cancer research and prevention programs and services in Texas,” according to CPRIT’s website. Of the members of CPRIT’s Oversight Committee — the group that ultimately approved the decision to attach strings to the public money — nine are appointed and the remaining two are the Texas Attorney General and the Comptroller of Public Accounts. That this largely unelected board has the power to dictate far-reaching University policy when its primary purpose is ostensibly to determine which cancer research grant applications to fund is disturbing. The making of higher education policy is better left to groups such as the UT System Board of Regents and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Nevertheless, a tobacco-free campus will go a long way to further the University’s healthy, environmentally-conscious community deeply committed to fighting cancer.

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Don’t test me, bro by Katherine taylor Daily Texan Columnist

Given the recent upgrade and completion of the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) testing across high schools in the state of Texas, it is no surprise that standardized testing at the university level is being discussed. Fortunately, Neal E. Armstrong, UT’s vice provost for faculty affairs, recently told The New York Times that “[University standardized testing] does not, in my opinion, measure value added very well for our kind of institution. Our freshmen come in with very high aptitude and critical thinking skills.” At least UT has stated that standardized testing is not a good method for evaluating our school. And for clarification’s sake, by “value added,” Armstrong is addressing the idea of how much value is added by the time they leave college to students’ academic baseline that they have when they come into college. After all, standardized tests are touted as a potential way to finally provide some answers to the question: What does one learn in college? But I’m not sure that knowledge can be tested. And for more than just the reasons iterated by Armstrong. The main questions that come to my head concern the purpose of higher education — and I don’t think the answer to that is very clear.

Some would argue that the purpose is to get a job. But if that were the case, why doesn’t every degree require internships, apprenticeships and other career preparation activities? So what about the argument that higher education is meant to teach you to expand your mind and learn new things? If that were the case, why are restrictive core curricula so prevalent? Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently released a program called MITx, which is an online offering of a lot of their normal classes for free to non-MIT students. While this initiative has received applause for its innovation, no one has described the online courses as replacements for the MIT experience. In fact, even MIT does not count completed online MITx coursework toward any kind of degree. So it seems that MIT considers itself as more than just a means by which to take classes to get a degree. Earning the degree requires something else. I think part of that “something else” that we learn in college is how to graduate from our specific college. I realize that sentence seems obvious, but with graduation one month away, I can honestly say, I’ve learned how to graduate at UT. I’ve learned which classes I can skip, which classes are difficult, which weeks I can go downtown on Thursday nights, which professors I can ask for recommendations from, which apartment complexes have good management, where all the great coffee places are and generally lots of other UT-centric things crucial to

graduating here. But none of those things would be covered on a standardized test. And while I’m sure every university has comparable aspects, they won’t be exactly the same. At UT, I had my first 300-plus person class, and I figured out how to learn in it. I’ve had at least two semesters where there was a glitch with my registration and had to call three different people to fix the problem. Through those experiences, I’ve gained a sense of independence and self-reliance that probably isn’t cultivated at much at smaller schools where administrators can do more administrative hand-holding. Intuitively, we all know UT is different from other schools; that’s part of why we chose to go here instead of somewhere else. In graduating from UT, I didn’t just learn answers for tests, but I learned how to gain the necessary knowledge for that test in this kind of environment. And it’s the how that is significantly more important than the what when it comes to finding future jobs, solving future problems and continuing to learn in the future. For this reason, standardized tests miss the boat completely when it comes to testing what we learn in college both because they make comparisons between totally different environments and because they don’t focus on the important part of higher education in the first place. Taylor is a Plan II and rhetoric and writing senior.

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It seems UT gave in to the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas’ (CPRIT) blackmail concerning a possible $88-million cancer research grant for next year in exchange for banning tobacco. A better avenue would have been for all colleges and departments at UT that conduct cancer research to build their own place. They could make sure to satisfy all the requirements without affecting the University at large — and avoid having to justify it with a righteous argument about wellness. Any Texan would see the University’s actions as dishonest and un-American. Remember, this policy is affecting those with a cultivated mind or seeking one, which is in itself the sole guardian of good. A campus should not need a smoke-free policy, but if it does, I wonder if CPRIT is questioning the minds of our academic and administrative staff and students. Let’s face it: Requiring such policy is in complete contradiction of its primary mandate, which is, according to the CPRIT website, to “attract, create or expand research capabilities of public or private institutions of higher education.”

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Students hold drive for local victims of human trafficking By Sara White Daily Texan Staff

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Palmview police investigators and emergency personnel retrieve personal items from the frontage road on Wednesday, at the scene of Tuesday’s deadly wreck involving a van carrying suspected illegal immigrants in Palmview, Texas. At least nine people were killed and six were hurt in the crash.

Van carrying illegal immigrants crashes after fleeing border By Christopher Sherman The Associated Press

McALLEN — A van overstuf fed with susp ected illeg a l i m m i g r a nt s ro l l e d a n d crashed after f leeing a traffic stop in a South Texas border city, leaving at least nine Me x i c an c it i z e ns d e a d and injuring six others, officials said Wednesday. Immigration authorities have eig ht sur vivors of t he w r e c k i n c u s t o d y, a c c o r d ing to Enrique Mendiola, acting assistant chief for the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley sector. He said no one has been charged and an investigation is ongoing. Border Patrol agents stopped the van in Palmview, 10 miles west of McA l len, on Tues day night. Some of the passengers immediately sprinted away and agents pursued them on foot, catching one, Mendiola said. But as the foot chase unfolded, the van sped off. The agents came across the

wreck three or four blo cks away on U.S. 83. The scene was strewn with backpacks and water bottles and nine bodies lay scattered nearby, he said. The van was demolished, but several managed to flee the wreck, Palmview police Cmdr. Lenny Sanchez said. The vehicle had been gutted to accommodate far more than the eight people it was designed to carry, he said. Six people were taken to a hospital and three of them were later released to authorities, Sanchez said. All of them are in the custody of Border Patrol, he said. One of the men who fled subsequently turned himself in: Palmview police handed him over to immigration authorities, Sanchez said. It wasn’t clear how many people from the van remained on the loose. Mendiola said most of those involved in the crash were from Mexico. Sanchez said all those who died were Mexican citizens, but he declined to provide the nationalities of those

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who survived. He said authorities believed they entered the country illegally. Many of the dead came from the southern state of Oaxaca, one of the poorest regions of Mexico, according to Ricardo Alday, spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington. Consular officials were interviewing survivors and gathering information on the dead to assist their families with repatriation of the bodies. A 23-year-old woman who lives nearby told the McAllen Monitor that she didn’t see the accident happen but that several victims seemed to be alive in the immediate aftermath. “The bodies were eve r y w h e r e ,” D i a n a C a s t i l lo said. “It’s really sad b ecause they came over here to live a better life and then they lost their lives.” Anna Garza, a 56 year-old woman who also lives near the scene of the crash said “lots of helicopters came really quickly, I think to take the wounded to the hospital.”

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While some students may take for granted everyday items like deodorant and food, freshmen in a seminar course are asking for donations today with hopes of providing basic necessities to human trafficking victims in the Austin area. School of Social Work associate professor Noel Busch-Armendariz, co-instructor of the UT seminar course “Women for Sale?”, said students organized the drive as a class assignment. Busch said she hopes the donations will help victims of human trafficking in Central Texas as well as raise campus awareness about this issue. “Human trafficking exists in our community and in order to end it, we all need to understand it and take some action,” Busch said. “We have asked students to use their social networking mediums to advertise the drive and we have announced it on listservs, UT calendar, etc. This drive is a great opportunity for our students and community to be involved in anti-human trafficking efforts in our own community and making the difference in the lives of victims.” Government freshman Priya Chintamaneni said donations will be given to the local branch of Refugee Services of Texas, a nonprofit social service agency with goals of providing essential living services for human trafficking refugees. “I was in contact with our liaison at Refugee Services of Texas, who told us what donations were most needed by the victims in central Texas that she works with,” Chintamaneni said. “The victims that [they] assist, most of whom are from Central America, do not

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Graduate accounting students Christina Liu (front) and Vicki Yang stretch with pre-pharmacy junior Tiffany Liu (right) at the Gregory Gymnasium indoor track. UT RecSports surveyed 8,000 students in order to better shape their services to the needs of students.

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Students evaluate RecSports’ facilities By Rachel Thompson Daily Texan Staff

UT RecSports sponsors intramural athletics, exercise classes and fitness activities for students throughout the year, and the RecSports staff now seeks feedback from the students who utilize these services. This month, RecSports distributed a biennial survey to a random stratified sample of 8,000 students via email to determine the satisfaction levels with its programs and find out what can be improved. Sample questions touched on topics such as the time of day students use the facilities, recreation activities participated in and proposals for future construction plans involving RecSports facilities that will require student funding. RecSports assistant director Nicole Olmeda said the data is used as a foundation for future

decision making in areas such as budgeting, services and determining future programs. “We strongly feel that we have a partnership with students,” she said. “[The survey] serves as a way for us to hear back from students and we take it very seriously.” Students are invited to voice their satisfaction as well as complaints in the survey in order to provide RecSports with valuable feedback, Olmeda said. Of the complaints, many students voice dissatisfaction with lack of space and crowded facilities at Gregory Gym, she said. “It comes down to facility space, and we know that,” she said. “We’re finding that our spaces are being used for study groups and places for people to meet up and have lunch, and we love that, but we know that quantity of equipment is an issue.” Olmeda also said students are generally satisfied with the way

RecSports contributes to their well-being as college students. “More and more we’re finding that students feel like it’s an essential part of their daily life, so I think that we provide an outlet for students to rebalance,” she said. “It’s not just weight room space. If you’re a rock climber, there’s space for you. If you’re into group exercise, you can take a yoga class.” After the survey closes on May 1, Olmeda said she will comb through the data and develop a summary report for an administrative staff meeting where the data will be presented. “It’s typically the beginning of multiple conversations,” she said. “If there’s a question later on and we don’t know the answer, oftentimes the first place we go is to that data.” Undeclared freshman Gregory Vincent said he is satisfied with the layout and opportunities provided by RecSports.

“Gregory’s probably the nicest gym I’ve ever been to,” he said. “Working out with other people is fun, so overall, I give it two thumbs up.” Economics freshman Bing Arend Vanderkam said he prefers the quieter Recreational Center due to the crowding of Gregory Gym. “The Rec Center is nice because a lot less people go there,” he said. “I’d like to go to the Rec Center more but Gregory’s more convenient, even though you can’t go into the weight room in the morning because it’s closed for weight classes.” Keeping student responses to the survey in mind, Olmeda said the main goal of RecSports is to promote healthy attitudes and lifestyles among students. “A healthy body is a healthy mind,” she said. “We hope that we can contribute to students’ wellness and that they in turn lead a more balanced life, because that’s a better student.”

Texas is the first state affected by the BP oil spill to use settlement money from a BP investor for habitat conservation efforts, leading to more coastal restoration attempts in the future. The 2010 spill was a result of an explosion of the offshore drill Deepwater Horizon, which was drilling on a well operated by BP. BP investor MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC agreed to settle their liabilities in the spill, giving the state of Texas $6.5 million, according to the Texas attorney general’s website. Part of Texas’ settlement money will go towards acquiring 80 acres of land from the Goose Island State Park in Aransas, Texas to create a safe habitat for the whooping crane population, according to the Texas Parks & Wildlife website. Katelyn Jordan, biology senior and Marine Science Club historian, said she supports the move towards conserving the whooping crane’s habitat and hopes to see more work in vulnerable coastline areas in the future. “Some of the most fragile areas on the coastline are estuaries and coastal watershed areas because they really dictate things like salinity levels,” Jordan said. “Those are areas most impacted by oil spills. A lot smaller organisms like coastal birds live in that kind of environment and I definitely think it’s important to work to conserve their habitat.” Conservation of habitats such as the whooping crane’s is just of one several initiatives environmentalists hope to act on, said Don Pitts, state coordinator for the Kills and Spills Team for Texas Parks & Wildlife. “Habitat preservation is one of

several different opportunities we utilize,” Pitts said. “We either like to preserve or protect, or create additional habitats in order to offset some of these damages.” Pitts said the use of the settlement money to acquire state land for these efforts is an appropriate use of the funds. “It’s a great opportunity to use restoration dollars to improve habitat using Texas resources,” Pitts said. “It’s a wonderful tract of land and a great opportunity for us to acquire and use it for this kind of preservation.” Bob Stokes, president of the Galveston Bay Foundation, said Texas was less affected by the spill than other states, which allows officials to allocate this money for other conservation efforts, such as helping the whooping crane. “This settlement is just a fraction of the overall case,” Stokes said. “[MOEX] is just one of the dependents. The settlement is going to be split among the five states, but a little more will go to states that were more affected. Even though we didn’t have more oil on our shores, our resources were still affected in the Gulf. This will go to more general coastal protection and conservation.” Stokes said further settlement money from the spill could potentially be allocated to continued coastal restoration if Congress passes the RESTORE Act of 2011. Stokes said the RESTORE Act of 2011, which has not yet been passed by Congress, would require 80 percent of any settlement funds from the spill to go towards these coastal restoration projects. He said the current conservation efforts being made by Texas are additional attempts at restoration without the prompting of the RESTORE Act.

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No. 17 Texas takes care of St. Edward’s

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Although the No. 17 ranked Longhorns are led by two ranked players — freshman Soren HessOlesen at No. 77 and junior Daniel Whitehead at No. 99 — the player currently on a hot streak is unranked sophomore David Holiner. Going into last night’s matchup against the St. Edward’s Hilltoppers, Holiner was on a nine match win streak that started back in February. Along the way, Holiner picked up wins against some tough opponents on ranked teams such as Florida State, Oklahoma and Baylor. Holiner also scored a three-set upset against a USC opponent, who was ranked No. 41, to give Texas its only point in the 6-1 defeat to the No. 1 ranked team in the country. Holiner’s game seems to have improved greatly from last season, when he only appeared in seven dual matches and had a 13-10 record. This year, Holiner has appeared in 16 matches, and has a 24-7 record, and is perfect in conference play. Against the Hilltoppers, Holiner got the chance to continue his win streak while playing at the top of the singles lineup against Ned Boone. In the first set, the two players held serve to force a tiebreak. After rushing to a 4-2 lead, a couple of missed shots from Holiner allowed Boone to even the tiebreak score at five all. Holiner’s return into the net at 5-6 gave Boone the set. In the second set Holiner

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Freshman Joey Swaysland and the No. 17 Longhorns had no trouble defeating St. Edward’s Wednesday evening at the Pennick-Allison Tennis Center.

Whitehead, Chen pace UT in victory over Hilltoppers By Lauren Jette Daily Texan Staff

In a tune-up match before they take on their biggest conference rival, the Longhorns posted eight wins on their way to a 6-1 victory over St. Edward’s. Texas will return to the court Saturday to take on Texas A&M

at home in the last matchup of the Lone Star Showdown. Playing the Hilltoppers, who are ranked No. 15 in the Division II rankings, gave the Longhorns a chance to mix up some doubles pairings. Playing in the No. 1 spot was the No. 50 ranked duo of juniors Daniel Whitehead and Ben Chen. The two had a tight match against the team of Ned Boone and Eduardo Bencke. After Texas got the break at four

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all, St. Edward’s came back, down 6-5. Both teams would hold serve and force the match into a tiebreak, in which Texas jumped out to a 4-1 lead. The Hilltoppers came back to four all, and closed out the tie break, and the set 8-7, (7-5). In the No. 2 doubles line, freshman Soren Hess-Olesen teamed up with fellow freshman Jacoby Lewis to blast through the Hilltopper team of Pedro Bronstrup

and James Rogers, 8-2. Clinching the doubles point for Texas at the No. 3 line was the pairing of freshman Joey Swaysland and junior Alex Hilliard who knocked out their opponent 8-4. In singles, Texas got on the board early with a 6-0, 6-1 win from Hilliard. Following that point up was Chen, who

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Luna loses control, Horns fall to Raiders By Sarah Beth Purdy Daily Texan Staff

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Junior pitcher Blaire Luna (12) was touched up for three runs Wednesday night against Texas Tech as the Longhorns lost their third consecutive game. The Longhorns had won the previous nine games against Tech.

Texas Tech only needed one swing of the bat to extend Texas’s losing streak to three games. The No 5. Longhorns dropped a road contest against the Red Raiders 5-2 Wednesday night. The Longhorns were up 2-0 when the Raiders came up with a three-run home run in the bottom of the fourth inning as the result of starting pitcher Blaire Luna struggles. For the first time all season, the junior hurler was relieved as the result of a subpar performance rather than a huge lead amassed by the Texas offense. Sophomore

Rachel Fox came in the fourth inning and was able to get out of a jam in the fourth, but her effort was not enough. The Raiders tacked on a couple of insurance runs in the final two innings, but the Texas offense was unable to best the Red Raider defense. The loss brings the Longhorns to a season record of 32-5 and 6-3 in the Big 12. After winning six straight, the Longhorns have dropped the past three conference games. Despite losing Wednesday’s game in Lubbock, the Longhorns came out with the series win after winning two contests against the

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Petrino pinched as coach No. 1 Frittelli By Lauren Giudice Daily Texan Columnist

Compared to the tumultuous child sex scandal at Penn State, Bobby Petrino’s wrongdoings seem relatively minor. But there is no doubt that these wrongdoings are cause for his termination. Arkansas director of athletics Jeff Long announced his decision on Tuesday and openly discussed Petrino’s various misdeeds and how he misled the University. Petrino unfairly hired his mistress, Jessica Dorrell and then hid their Arkansas director of athletics Jeff Long fields a question regarding Wednesday’s termination of coach Bobby Petrino.

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relationship from the University. In addition, both were in a motorcycle accident April 1 and Petrino lied to Long and did not mention that Dorrell was on the motorcycle with him at the time. Long said Petrino was given “multiple opportunities” over four days to come clean about what happened, but chose not to. Petrino’s decisions were wrong and he no longer deserves to be the coach at Arkansas. What he did was not related to football and no players were harmed, but his actions are not acceptable for someone who works at a higher

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leads the way for Longhorns By Peter Sblendorio Daily Texan Staff

Domination of his competitors is nothing new for senior golfer Dylan Frittelli. Growing up in South Africa, he quickly climbed the rankings of the top individual golfers in the nation. From age 16 to 18, Frittelli was the No. 1 junior golfer in South Africa, and he was the top amateur golfer in the country from age 17 to 18. In 2007, he won the Callaway Junior World Championship at Torrey Pines in San Diego, and the next year he won the 2008 South African Boys’ Championship. This high level of success did not cease for Frittelli once he joined the Longhorns. As a freshman, he was able to record his first career collegiate victory in the Puerto Rico Classic, and he tallied the best score among Longhorns in the Big 12 Championships. He improved as a sophomore in 2010, when he recorded eight top10 finishes, led the team in stroke

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Senior Dylan Frittelli holds the record for individual awards won in the Big 12 conference. Frittelli is currently ranked No. 1 in the nation.

average and was named Big 12 Conference Player of the Year. In addition to conference accolades, Frittelli received PING All-American (third team) and Golfweek AllAmerican (third team) honors in just his second season at Texas. Last season, he once again led the team in stroke average and received All-Big 12 and PING AllAmerican (third team) honors for a consecutive year. However, Frittelli may be having his best season to date as a senior in 2011-12, as no golfer has played a bigger role in the Longhorns’ No. 1 NCAA ranking.

The recently named Ben Hogan Award semifinalist and No. 1 player in the nation has been the Longhorns’ most consistent player. He has finished among the top two individual golfers in five tournaments this season, including a firstplace finish in the Morris Williams Intercollegiate in Austin. While his strong scores have helped the Longhorns on the scorecard, Frittelli’s biggest contribution may be the calming presence he brings with his consistency. “I think [my consistency] has

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The nation’s top two collegiate players, senior Dylan Fritelli and freshman Jordan Spieth were named two of 10 semifinalists for the prestigious Ben Hogan Award on Wednesday, The award, given annually to the best golfer across all divisions of collegiate golf, has been issued since 1990 and includes academic achievement in its original set of standards. Fritelli, the No. 1 collegiate golfer according to Golfweek/Sagarin, owns a 70.17 scoring average and has finished no lower than 12th place in 10 total events this year. He recently collected his fifth Big 12 Golfer of the Month award, marking the highest total ever in the conference. Frittelli is also among five finalists for the 2012 Byron Nelson Award. Spieth isn’t far behind the elder Fritelli in terms of scoring average, with Spieth touting a 70.29 average of his own. Ranked No.2 in the nation individually, Spieth has six top-10 finishes in seven tournament starts this year, and has also competed in the PGA’s Northern Trust Open. Spieth is set to receive another exemption to play in the Texas Open scheduled for April 19-22 in San Antonio. Three finalists for the award will be selected on Thursday, May 10. The finalists will then attend a banquet at Colonial Country Club on Monday, May 21, where the winner will be crowned prior to the start of the PGA TOUR’s Crowne Plaza Invitational.

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LUNA continues from PAGE 7 Raiders in late March. The usually crisp pitching staff was sloppy in Wednesday’s loss to the Raiders. Luna started off the night in the circle, but through just over three innings, gave up five hits and three runs while walking three and striking out three batters. Fox came in for the final two innings giving up two runs off one hit. “We just weren’t able to get into a rhythm with our pitchers today,” said Texas head coach Con-

PETRINO continues from PAGE 7 institution of learning. College football players, and college athletes in general, often find themselves in trouble for off-thefield antics and behavior. Coaches and administrators need to be role models for these players who have so much pressure on them to succeed at a high level. Petrino has failed to act as a role model, and will suffer the consequences. He will not receive the $18 million buyout that his contract called

FRITTELLI continues from PAGE 7 just settled down the other players,” Frittelli said. “If they know I’ll finish in the top 10, they don’t have to worry as much about playing well and can focus [on themselves].” Head coach John Fields has also been impressed with Frittelli’s leadership, and he believes the senior has been a strong example for his teammates this season. “He’s a real stabilizing force because he’s mature, experienced and extremely competitive,” Fields said.

nie Clark. “Blaire [Luna] and Rachel [Fox] struggled with finding that rhythm ... We gave them a lot of continuous, favorable counts and it was only a matter of time before [Texas Tech] was going to take advantage of it.” The Texas offense started out well, going up 2-0 off runs scored by senior team captains Nadia Taylor and Lexy Bennett. Both had an RBI. The Longhorns scraped together four hits against the Red Raider pitching staff. At one point it seemed that the Longhorns were poised for a comeback. In the top of the sixth inning, with one out, the Longhorns man-

aged to the load the bases. However, back to back strikeouts by freshman pinch-hitter Marlee Gabaldon and sophomore shortstop Taylor Thom retired the Longhorns’ last attempt to take the game. “I thought we had a great workout this morning. I think the competitive spirit and energy was there to start the game,” Clark said. “We did have a couple of opportunities in needing a timely hit at the end. Our focus will be on the final segment of the season, beginning with this weekend. It matters how we will bounce back and I’m actually excited to see how we bounce back.”

for because he was fired “with cause.” The 51 year-old married father of four has not set an example for his team. There’s nothing more to it. His actions are not a poor reflection on the university or his players. His actions were separate from Arkansas and will only hurt his personal reputation. His salary was approximately $3.53 million a year. With that large sum of money, a certain level of responsibility and character is expected out of a coach. In his four seasons with the Razorbacks, Petrino finished with a 34-17 record. Last season the team finished with a No. 5 final ranking

and had a Cotton Bowl win over Kansas State. His departure will be a tough hole to fill for the Razorbacks and Long, with the drop off in behavior came an increase in wins. Long will probably be looking more in depth at the character of the coach who he hires to take Petrino’s place. Character is a trait that is always stressed in athletics — especially in college athletics when drugs, alcohol and other negative influences are everywhere. Petrino’s actions and then his deception following it were not up to par with the expectations that are given to a college coach.

“He takes care of business, works diligently in school and golf and stays away from distractions. He’s a fine leader.” Likewise, the rest of the Texas golfers have nothing but respect for Frittelli. Junior Cody Gribble, who is Frittelli’s roommate on road trips, considers the senior as a role model on the team for his actions on and off the golf course. “He’s been playing extremely well, and off the course everyone looks up to him,” Gribble said. “Over the last couple of years he’s come into his own, and all of us have a lot of respect.” The Longhorns have maintained

the top ranking in collegiate golf for much of the season, and that is due in large part to the contributions of Frittelli. Texas is in the best position to win the national championship this year as it has been in the senior’s tenure, and he has stepped up as a leader for the Longhorns. Following this season, Frittelli will turn his attention to the PGA Tour, where he will look to start a career in golf and continue his success at the highest level. “I’ll be turning pro sometime later this year, go to Tour school and by August I hope to be pro,” Frittelli said. “Traveling around playing golf is my dream job.”

Elisabeth Dillon | Daily Texan Staff

Juniors Daniel Whitehead and Ben Chen won their doubles match 8-7, 7-5 to help UT defeat St. Edward’s.

HOLINER continues from PAGE 7 was up 2-1 when he riled off three straight points to give himself triple breakpoint, which he was able to convert to go up three games to one in the second set. Holiner followed with a hold, as did Boone to make the score 4-2. Holiner used powerful serves for a 5-2 lead, before getting the final break to take the second set, 6-2, and force a super tiebreaker to determine the third set

and the match. Holiner started the tiebreaker off by winning the first point, although the two players would trade points back and forth for much of the tiebreak. Holiner hit a well-executed drop shot to go up 3-2, but needed a volley winner to tie it back up at 4 all. A shot from Boone that landed in the net, evened the score at 5 all, then 6 all, before Boone’s overhead winner gave him an 8-6 lead. Holiner’s next shot landed long, giving Boone match point, which he won when Holiner short-hopped a volley into the net. Even though the loss put an end to

Holiner’s win streak, his play showed why he has been such a contributing factor in the Longhorns’ wins, and losses, so far this season. Holiner uses a strong serve to catch his opponents off guard, and then follows it up with some solid volleying skills. While Texas is 1-2 in conference matches, Holiner has posted three straight wins to give Texas a point on the boards. Holiner will need to shake this loss off before Saturday’s matchup against No. 27 Texas A&M, as the team will be counting on him to come through with a win, and potentially matchdeciding point, against the Aggies.

TUNE-UP continues from PAGE 7 handed his opponent a 6-0, 6-0 defeat. Putting up the clinching point for Texas was freshman Lloyd Glasspool, who returned to the courts after being sidelined by an injury, with a 6-1, 6-1 victory at the No. 3 singles line. Swaysland added a 6-0, 6-3 win at the number five singles

spot to the overall total to put Texas up 5-0. The longest matches of the evening came from the top two singles players, who were both pushed to third sets. Whitehead won his first set 6-4 before dropping the second by the same score, forcing a tiebreak, which he pre-

vailed in, 10-8, to give his team its sixth and final point of the evening. Sophomore David Holiner closed out the evening in the No. 1 singles spot and was also forced into a third set tie break, but was unable to keep momentum going and lost 10-6, to give St. Edward’s its only point on the night.

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WACO, Texas— The NCAA put Baylor on three years of probation Wednesday after an investigation turned up hundreds of impermissible telephone calls and text messages sent to prep recruits by coaches and assistants on the basketball teams. The violations were considered to be major infractions, and they were announced less than a week after the Lady Bears won the national championship with the first 40-0 season in NCAA history. Still, it could have been much worse for Baylor. All of the penalties were proposed by the school and accepted by the NCAA after a review of nearly 900,000 phone and text message records found that 738 texts and 528 calls were against the rules. The NCAA said men’s coach Scott Drew failed to monitor his program and will be suspended for two Big 12 games next season, in addition to recruiting restrictions. Women’s coach Kim Mulkey also received recruiting restrictions. “I believe strongly in following NCAA rules and will always try to do so in the future,” Mulkey said in a statement released by the school. “I do nothing without permission from our compliance office and will continue to ask questions to assure that things are done right. Any compliance-related mistakes, even those that are secondary, are disappointing. The majority of mistakes in this matter were errors in sending text messages and failure to accurately document our phone calls.” The report put a bit of a damper on what has been an extraordinary run of success for Baylor athletics. Besides Baylor’s win over Notre

Dame for the women’s title, Drew’s team won a school-record 30 games and reached the NCAA regional finals, where the Bears lost to eventual national champion Kentucky. And all that came after star quarterback Robert Griffin III became the school’s first Heisman Trophy winner following a football season that included 10 wins for the first time since 1980. Mulkey was named the AP’s national coach of the year and junior Brittney Griner was its player of the year. How Baylor recruited Griner, one of the most dominant women’s players in college basketball history, was reportedly part of the NCAA probe. A school report obtained by ESPN.com said Mulkey and her staff committed minor NCAA violations for having impermissible contact with Griner and her family. During a 2007 camp, coaches spoke with the Griners about the basketball program, academic requirements and the school in general both before and after the camp. Mulkey also reportedly broke NCA rules when she sat next to Griner’s father and discussed what the Baylor experience would be like. Brittney Griner, who is from the Houston area, played on the same AAU team as Mulkey’s daughter, Makenzie Robertson. The NCAA report did not mention Griner or her family by name, though Mulkey addressed it in her statement. “The other matters were related to my daughter’s participation in summer basketball,” she said. “While I am and will always be a mother first, I do recognize that there has to be a balance between

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Baylor coach Kim Mulkey, as well as men’s coach Scott Drew were reprimanded by the NCAA for a number of phone calls and text messages that were deemed violations. The NCAA has put the Bears on three years probation and will limit scholarships in coming years as well as recruiting visits.

my role as a mother of a prospect and my role as a head coach. I have always tried to strike that balance and appreciate the opportunity to demonstrate to the NCAA staff such balancing efforts dating back to when Makenzie was in the seventh grade. I am pleased that my efforts to find the appropriate balance between a mother and a coach were recognized.” Griner said she had “made it clear to the NCAA staff and everyone else” that she had chosen Baylor early in the recruiting process. Besides keeping Mulkey off the recruiting trail in July, Baylor said one of her assistants has been barred from making recruiting calls from January through April. The school also reduced its women’s basketball scholarships from 15 to 13 in 2011-12.

On the men’s side, Drew will miss the first two Big 12 games of the season, recruiting visits were trimmed and he lost a scholarship this past season and in 2012-13. In addition, a former coach faces a one-year “show cause” order that effectively prevents him from coaching at an NCAA school. The assistant wasn’t identified, but FOXSports.com reported in October 2010 that the NCAA was investigating the recruitment of Hanner Perea. The report said assistant Mark Morefield sent dozens of texts to Perea’s AAU and high school coaches and urged two of them to provide false and misleading information to the NCAA about a series of text messages. Morefield resigned in July 2011. “I sincerely apologize to Baylor University and Baylor Nation,”

Morefield said in statement released by his lawyer. “I learned a very valuable lesson in this case. In my 13 years of coaching at NCAA institutions, I have not intentionally violated NCAA rules. I will grow from this experience with a better understanding of NCAA rules.” The NCAA violations come nine years after Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy was found shot to death after he had been missing for six weeks. Teammate Carlton Dotson pleaded guilty to murder. The ensuing investigation uncovered NCAA violations, illegal tuition payments and unreported failed drug tests that led to the resignation of coach Dave Bliss, who was secretly recorded by an assistant coach of trying to persuade others to cover up misdeeds by portraying Dennehy as a drug dealer.

Athletic director Ian McCaw said the school has made “significant investments in compliance staffing and infrastructure” since the investigation began. Drew said he took full responsibility for the violations, saying many were simply the result of improperly logging or failing to log calls to recruits. He noted that the school has a new software tracking system to assist coaches with the logistics. “I came to Baylor in 2003 to do a job: rebuild a program decimated by very serious NCAA rules violations and tragedy,” he said. “I promised to rebuild the program in a way Baylor could be proud-morally, academically and, finally, athletically, and we continue on that journey today.”

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Texas took a step back, then two steps forward. After announcing that guard Sterling Gibbs planned to transfer following the spring semester, the Longhorns inked two big names in high school basketball for the 2013 season. The addition of guard Demarcus Holland and center Cameron Ridley gives the Longhorns a six-man recruiting class that includes guard Javan Felix, forwards Connor Lammert and Ioannis Papapetrou and center Prince Ibeh. At 6-foot-10, Ridley is the source of much excitement for Texas fans beday, month day, 2008

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Instagram is demonstrated on an iPhone Monday, in New York. Facebook is spending $1 billion to buy the photosharing company Instagram in the social network’s largest acquisition ever. Instagram lets people apply filters to photos they snap with their mobile devices and share them with friends and strangers.

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TECH continues from PAGE 12 others’ strengths; while Instagram is focused on capturing pictures and filtering them, Facebook is all about social networking and improving the dozens of features it has. “I personally already use Insta-

FRANCO continues from PAGE 12 that came along with that.” Being filmed provided a different perspective for the students, no longer being able to hide behind their lens. But not only that, they had a hands-on role in creation of the docu-web series itself with Gohring. They or even their friends handled the filming or the cinematography. Bukstein became so involved with the production that he received a co-associate producer credit. But a place where they all provided input one way or another was the editing room, a place for them to see the culled

gram and Facebook together, and have found that each is strengthened by the other,” Wang said. “I think the acquisition is an example of the effect of consumer inclination toward communication via central hubs, rather than through disparate channels.” However, this doesn’t necessarily mean that Instagram won’t eventually be fully integrated into Facebook.

“It probably won’t be noticeable at first, but over time I imagine some of the tools and filters that are familiar to Instagram users will end up as part of Facebook’s photo tools,” Gallaga said. “Facebook’s mobile apps will probably incorporate or work with Instagram somehow as well.” Facebook’s Instagram buyout means that Instagram will enjoy the

benefits of Facebook’s social networking abilities more than ever before. Simultaneously, Facebook will have their own picture taking features improved and further innovate on the foundation that Instagram has created. This partnership will lead social networking and the applications that we can use for it to a more streamlined way to share our lives online.

hours upon hours of footage shot of them, unrefined in any way. “It made us really critical on us and self-reflective,” Truong said. “It was us trying to be in front of the camera. At times, you forget about the camera, but when the camera’s on, you know there’s going to be tens of thousands of footage on you, knowing James Franco’s reach with this.” Some of those hours were edited down to the short, less than 10 minute pilot that premiered at this year’s South By Southwest Film Conference. For all four of them, it was their first experience with the festival. They spoke at a panel but even more nerve-rackingly, had to sit and watch themselves along with an audience.

“Sitting on a panel made it all very real,” Haji said. “Having something that goes onto SXSW that gets exposed on such a big level was great. It was weird to see yourself on your screen. You’re your harshest critic, but people reacted ver y well to, which was comforting. You always wonder how people will react to you.” With editing still going on and at least six more episodes to go, the experience for Gohring and all four of the “characters,” a word Bukstein used to describe the four of them, was rewarding, shedding light on their career paths, their relationships with friends and family and of course, on the spotlight that is on themselves. For them, it be-

came more than simply another cliche-ridden story of college trials and tribulations, but a true reflection of the lives of budding filmmakers about to head off to another real world. “This is not ‘reality,’” Bukstein said. “This is real life, the kind of real life that could not replicated in reality television because everything that is happening is real, not changed by a director and authentic. When you watch us, you won’t see us binge-drinking or trying to get laid. You will see us diligently pursuing our careers, which many students are but are never portrayed because there isn’t an avenue for that. This show is Austin embodied in four film students.”

with it, the more I find that people are receptive to having decor and lighting made from recycled glass in their homes, and they appreciate the effort we put into keeping its carbon footprint minimal.” Wolf’s prior career was in coding and web marketing; so implementing Etsy, an online marketplace for handmade and vintage items, as the medium for their sales was a natural choice. “We have tested other craft/artisan e-commerce platforms but always return our focus to Etsy as they have a proven history and the largest mass of online arts and crafts buyers,” Wolf said. Cristen Andrews, Austin-based blogger of BagsBeGone.com, is another artist who blogs about her plastic bag crocheting and various other creations, many of which make use of recycled materials. However, for Andrews, crocheting is more of a hobby than anything else. While she sells many of her creations at local craft fairs and shops, she primarily works as a freelance educational writer. Andrews’s experience in blogging about “plarn,” plastic bag yarn, has led to the recent popularization of the practice. She currently receives daily emails from people around the world wanting to learn how to crochet from plastic bags or telling her about their own projects. “While I think plastic bags should ultimately be eradicated, I crochet with them because it’s a good method of recycling these bags that would otherwise end up in the streets, landfills or the bellies of animals,” Andrews said. “And I love showing others how they can recycle single-use plastic bags by crocheting them into fashionable, durable, reusable creations.” Over the past five years, An-

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drews has taught workshops to inspire others to recycle plastic bags in creative ways, at events like Make Magazine’s Maker Faire in 2007 and various workshops at environmental fairs and farmer’s markets in collaboration with Austin Green Art. Through a Kickstarter fundraiser and travel grant funded through Hostelling International, Andrews was able to spend the summer of 2010 traveling through Mumbai, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Delhi to spread her ideas of conservation through artistic means. “I decided that India would be a good location to introduce this idea of crocheting plastic bags,” Andrews said. “I thought that if I work with slum dwellers, teach them to perform basic crochet stitches and create simple bag designs, they could become skilled artisans capable of transforming waste materials into fashionable products.” However, even taking small steps to reduce wastefulness has proven beneficial for students regardless of artistic prowess. Government senior Shawn Johnson used recycled paint to decorate the walls of his apartment. “I love the idea of using recyclable material to make something new,” Johnson said. “It’s a really good way to save money and create something cool, especially when you’re making use of the things that you already have lying around your house.” These creations also introduce a unique way of expressing environmental concerns through a platform not normally associated with these issues. “I think that art is a fun way to discuss topics like this without getting too confrontational about it,” Andrews said. “And I think the message sticks a lot better with art, too.”

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Dean Wolf, UT alumnus and owner of Wolf Art Glass and Pottery, creates and sells recycled art in order to encourage people to live a more environmentally friendly lifestyle.

From trash to craft UT alumnus, local artists promote green message through recycled creations By Rainy Schermerhorn Daily Texan Staff

Last month, the City Council unanimously voted to pass the bag ban ordinance, which means singleuse plastic or paper bags will no longer be offered at retail stores beginning next year. However, many local

artists have decided to take a more creative approach by incorporating these recyclable materials into their art — from creating crafts out of recycled water bottles to crocheting with plastic yarn. Dean Wolf, radio-television-film alumnus of ’96, and his wife Carrie run Wolf Art Glass & Pottery, an online store which sells blown glass art, lighting and pottery created out of recycled materials. In particular, Wolf likes to work with Topo Chico bottles. Since they are made for machine production (and consequently to cool as quickly

as possible), they provide for a more unique medium than the standard blowing “art glass,” which generally has a lower melting temperature and provides a longer work period for the artist. “My friends and I have been drinking Topo Chico mineral water for years and have always admired the beautiful glass bottles it comes in,” Wolf said. “It was natural for me to try melting these ‘Coke’ colored bottles and see what could be crafted with the recycled glass.” As glassblowing can often be

Student filmmakers participate in James Franco’s web series By Chris Nguyen Daily Texan Staff

Late October of last year, four students from the College of Communication, radiotelevision-film students David Bukstein and Ali Haji, Morgan Young and Bao Troung, had set out on their respective projects: whether it was a documentary on their family or a choir group or the human rights campaign. Their pre-production set into motion, their lens focused on their subjects, their editing formed a story. It was something they were relatively used to — except that there was another camera on them. As they were working on filming, a production company was doing the same as a part of “Undergrads: South,” a docu-web series premiering today on www.JamesFrancoTV.com. Actor James Franco’s production company, Rabbit Bandini Productions (founded in 2003), is producing the series, the third in the Undergrad series. With producing partner Vince Jolivette, the series depicts the lives of undegraduate, up-and-com(Left to right) David Bukstein, Bao Truong, Morgan Young and Ali Haji are the stars of the web series “Undergrads: South.” The series, created and produced by James Franco, follows the students in their everyday lives and routines.

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ing filmmakers. After a North and West series, they initially set their sights on Dallas before coming to the Austin Film Festival and becoming acquainted with UT alumna and director Joy Gohring and deciding instead to focus on vibrant Austin film scene. “I really wanted to them to focus on Austin because I know of the amazing talent that is here and the diversity,” Gohring said. With a location and a production company in tow, what was left were the subjects. With hundreds of film students on the University’s campus alone, it was big pool to whittle down, but through word of mouth and an interview process, they found their cast in Bukstein, Haji, Young and Truong. Though they all may be filmmakers in some capacity, they all offer a different perspective, coming from different races, genders, sexual orientation and experience and aesthetic. “Instead of just getting people that were going to be interesting, they got people who were extremely driven and who weren’t willing to accept what

[the producers] were initially setting out for,” Bukstein. “They got four very unique, ambitious people.” The series follows Haji as he documents the choir group he is a part of, The Ransom Notes, as they compete; Troung as he completes a documentary on local band “Little Lo” and on his family; Young chronicles the Brady Campaign, which deals with gun rights; and Bukstein as he films a music video for Mother Falcon, along a personal film of his family. When it came to the actual shooting itself in late October, and which continues today, they too had their own perspectives. Some were an open book, like Bukstein, who depicted the coming out of his father as a cross dresser while others kept more boundaries. “Because the Brady Campaign is very sensitive, I was conscious of that,” Young said. “These victims are of violent crimes and I had to ask them to step outside at times. Ali and I were very aware of what was being filmed and all

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a highly energy-consumptive art form, the couple is committed to finding ways of reducing their carbon footprint — for instance, they use a single furnace to melt down small batches of glass in a homemade clay crucible, which also allows for experimentation with various types of glasses. “I find working with bottle glass extremely rewarding, and sometimes frustrating, in the challenge and speed required to manipulate it,” Wolf said. “The more I work

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Facebook acquired the mobile application Instagram for $1 billion Monday. Instagram is an app for the iPhone (and recently for Android phones) that allows users to take pictures with various filtering options to give pictures an old, vintage look, whether it be like a faded portrait or a simple black-andwhite image. However, Instagram is not about just creating art, but also about sharing images with friends. “Instagram is a very personal social network, and one that’s less about posting frequently or sharing details of your life [than Facebook],” said Omar Gallaga, technology reporter for the Austin American-Statesman. Part of Instagram’s appeal is its user-friendliness and simplicity. Users don’t have to open an extra app to access the camera, or shuffle through multiple tabs. Users can take a picture within the application, choose from over a dozen filters and share it with friends on networks such as Facebook with only a few taps on the phone’s screen. “For me, Facebook is the easiest way for me to let my friends know what I’m up to, just because everyone’s already on it. I use it to share articles that I like, to interact with my friends’ updates, and of course to hold my Instagram photos,” said Annie Wang, co-founder of Her Campus online magazine and an avid Instagram and Facebook user. So why is Facebook interested in an app that’s available for smartphones for free? Simply put, it’s the app’s appeal. Instagram currently has more than 30 million

users and they’re enjoying the benefits of taking pictures with style. Facebook saw its massive popularity and acquired it since it’s a natural fit, as many users of both Fackbook and Instagram already use the two services in conjuction, and lots of shots from Instagram end up on Facebook anyway. “With so much capital, I’m not surprised that Facebook made this acquisition,” said Joshua Lee, student associate at the Learning Technology Center and government junior. “Mark Zuckerberg has been nothing short of an economic genius in terms of expanding Facebook and incorporating other major companies into the Facebook interface, namely Skype for video calling and Zynga for their game platforms.” However, it seems that Instagram’s acquisition will not bring is not a complete integration into Facebook. The relationship between the two companies will be exclusive, working as more of a partnership, and it seems that both will work on improving their products alongside one another. “We’ll be working with Facebook to evolve Instagram and build the network,” Kevin Systrom, CEO of Instagram, said in a statement Monday. “We’ll continue to add new features to the product and find new ways to create a better mobile photos experience.” For users of the service, this deal means that data from both services will be accessible from one central source, making it easier for users to organize their social networks. The buyout will allow both Facebook and Instagram to benefit from each

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Texas not prepared for climate change SCIENCE SCENE By Robert Starr

After the worst year-long drought on record, along with the hottest month recorded in the state’s history (July 2011), Texas has still not taken the hint and appropriately prepared itself for climate change, according to a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council. The report notes that, although Texas is at particular risk for the effects of climate change, it doesn’t currently have any state adaptation plan and all attempts to develop one have failed. The report also notes that, though this recent drought has been bad, we shouldn’t think of it as a worst-case scenario. Tree ring records suggest that the state has experienced worse in the past. If climate change continues on its current path and we don’t prepare, we’re likely to experience even worse droughts in the future.

Terrifying dinosaur both soft and feathery As paleontologists uncover more and more fossils, it’s becoming more apparent that many dinosaurs wore feathers. The latest find, Yutyrannus huali, a distant relative of the scaly Tyrannosaurs rex, is the largest known dinosaur to feature plumage at more than 40 times the size of the previous record holder. Xing Xu, the lead author of the paper announcing the discovery, described the giant and ferocious beast as covered in feathers that resembled those of a baby chick rather than of an adult bird.

Diamonds are a quantum computer’s best friend One of those most exciting fields in physics is that of quantum computing, where scientists are working to build a com-

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puter for the future, which can quickly solve problems that current computers would spend longer than the age of the universe working on. This week, scientists announced that they built a small quantum computer inside a diamond. While most computers speak using the language of bits — a series of 1s and 0s — quantum computers use qubits, which exist in a state of both 1 and 0 and, as a result, can do several calculations simultaneously. The diamond quantum computer only had 2 qubits (as opposed to your hard drive, which has roughly 8 trillion bits), but demonstrated characteristics of being a quantum computer.

Smart sand needs to get smaller The dream of MIT researchers in the Distributed Robotics Laboratory is to give you a bag of sand, have you put an object in there, give the bag a shake and have the sand recreate the object. We’re

not there yet, but they have created “large sand” — cubes about a centimeter to a side — that can effectively do the same thing. These tiny boxes have tiny computer parts inside that communicate with the other boxes to recreate 2-D structures and computer models suggest that they should be able to do 3-D as well. However, the sand needs to get much smaller before that can be tested.

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Scientists have uncovered the remains of a woolly mammoth, nicknamed Yuka, who appears to have been cut up and buried by humans. Though Yuka has bite marks, caused by animals, there are other slices that could only have been made by humans and, additionally, several organs had been removed. The researchers suspect that the animal was killed for food, but, since it was a large animal, not all of it could be taken at once and the leftovers were buried for a later date.