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Task force calls for endorsement disclaimers

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Former Student Government President Keshav Rajagopalan meets with the Election Review Task Force on Sunday night to discuss changes to election rules, including requiring disclaimers with endorsements.

In place of layoffs, TSM board votes to reduce funding for equipment By Pierre Bertrand Daily Texan Staff The Texas Student Media board decided Friday not to cut advisory positions, instead approving a budget that cuts equipment expenditures and reduces two full-time positions to half-time. Members voted on and unanimously approved a cost-cutting measure that would balance the student media agency’s budget by reducing expenditures by $137,893. One of the most drastic cuts eliminated $36,829 for equipment purchases like desks and computers. Under the plan, the position of adviser to Texas Student Television and to KVRX student radio will be combined. The Daily Texan’s newsroom adviser and newsroom assistant will have their jobs reduced to part-time. “What I like about option four is it’s moving in the direction that is consistent with the mission of Texas Student Media,” said Kristie Loescher, a board member and management lecturer. “And it’s consistent with other student-run publications.” Loescher said one of her concerns is making sure students have a role in their media outlets. Having the media agency rely solely on paid professionals for guidance diminishes student involvement, she said. “We don’t know if the Texan newsroom can function well with half the adviser,” Loescher said. “We wanted to push the system a little bit.” Tim Serpas, the newsroom assistant, said he could not comment because he was not aware of the approved option. “It’s going to be difficult for anybody to advise The Daily Texan as half-time and not feel overwhelmed,” said Richard Finnell, editorial adviser to The Daily Texan. “I get overwhelmed sometimes, and I’m full-time.” TSM director Kathy Lawrence said she is optimistic about the plan but that if it starts to fail, the board may have to reconvene and change it. “The only real loser of all this is Tim, who lost half his job,” Lawrence said. Finnell will be retiring in July. On April 15, he announced his intention to take back his job in the fall semester as a half-time adviser before

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By Amy Bingham Daily Texan Staff The Election Review Task Force decided Sunday to make a recommendation that would require the student body president to add a disclaimer to any candidate endorsement he or she makes during Student Government elections. The disclaimer would state that the president’s opinion is not representative of Student Government as a whole. This move is an attempt to dispel the perception that SG leadership plays a decisive role in the outcome of elections. “I feel the disclaimer is an important issue because we have to clearly address the perception issue,” said task force member Da-

vid Liu. “For an incoming freshman like me who knows that Keshav was the president, we have to make it clear that he is not speaking on behalf of Student Government. It would at least ideologically show SG and the election board’s commitment to a fair process.” If other entities like Texas Student Media, the Graduate Student Assembly or the Student Events Center decided to adopt SG’s election code, the student leaders of those groups would also have to add the disclaimer to their election endorsements. The participating groups’ leaders would be allowed to campaign for other candidates but would be required to “make every reasonable effort” to distance themselves

from their organizations while campaigning. “They are an individual, they are a student, and they should be able to campaign for their friends and the people they think are best for the job,” said Carly Castetter, a University-wide representative who regularly attends task force meetings. “On the other hand, we have to dispel the perception that SG is an insiders’ game, and as much as I hope they could not campaign and endorse a candidate, I don’t think we have the right to take that away.” The task force was created in March to amend the election code and prevent this year’s election controversies from happening again. The group is composed of

nine members who were selected through an application process by former SG president Keshav Rajagopalan, who serves as the group’s chairman. The task force will compile a set of election reform recommendations and present them to the SG assembly as early as Friday, Rajagopalan said. Many of the group’s recommendations would require changes to the SG Constitution, which must be voted on by the student body. “Hopefully, the fact that we’re getting these recommendations to the assembly in May will allow the representatives to draft legislation over the summer so by the first couple of weeks of school we can have the special election,” Rajagopalan said.

Naked yoga: The ultimate equalizer

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An Austin Naked Yoga member demonstrates the Warrior Two pose. Austin Naked Yoga is a group that offers four male-only nude yoga classes and a clothing-optional, coed yoga class every week.

South Congress studio adds controversial twist to traditional meditative exercise By Pierre Bertrand Daily Texan Staff Early on Saturday morning, a group of men entered an ordinarylooking yoga studio on South Congress Avenue across the street from St. Edwards University. The men walked into a dimly lit room filled with incense, stripped, laid out their mats and did yoga — in the nude. When it comes to self-expression and exercise, Austinites entertain some unique and sometimes

controversial practices that might go against social norms. “If you are not comfortable with your body, you will be,” said Todd Gibbs, a manager of Austin Naked Yoga, as he swept the floor of the cramped studio. Gibbs said he volunteered to be a manager two years ago when the original founder of the studio left. The idea for a nude yoga studio came from a similar establishment in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., which opened

in 2004. Prospective patrons join an online group to receive information on class locations and times. Gibbs said people are drawn to naked yoga classes because of the liberation they feel when not wearing clothes. For some, Gibbs said, being naked has a sort of spirituality attached to it, and classes promote the idea that every person and body type is beautiful. “Clothes tend to be sort of a mask,” he said. “We are all equal

when [they] hit the floor.” Despite the good-natured intentions of the studio, managers and patrons live with the understanding that there is a misconception of yoga and nudity in the United States. Combine them, and people get preconceived notions of what goes on when the studio doors close. “Some people can’t separate sexuality from nudity,” Gibbs said.

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Experts discuss legal, ethical sides of stem cell research

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Stanford University’s Christopher Scott speaks at the Social and Health Policy Issues panel discussion on embryonic stem cell research Saturday.

By Viviana Aldous Daily Texan Staff National experts on embryonic stem cell research examined the growing impact of politics and ethics on developments in their field at the UT School of Law this weekend. Speakers at “Law and Innovation: The Embryonic Stem Cell Controversy” discussed the effects of law, ethics and policy on the efficiency of health care benefits. The George McMillan Fleming Center for Law and Innovation in Biomedicine and Healthcare hosted the conference two weeks after the National Institutes of Health released draft guidelines on embryonic stem cell research. “People who work in the clinic don’t necessarily know what is going on,” said Kirston Fortune, assistant dean of the law school. “This is an opportunity for people to share what they know so

there’s a comprehensive view concerning the area of stem cell research.” Scientists usually extract stem cells from 4- or 5-day-old embryos, according to the institutes of health. The guidelines require researchers to use embryos from fertility clinics that would otherwise be thrown away. Couples donating unused embryos must do so voluntarily and without compensation. The guidelines also forbid the combination of human and animal embryonic stem cells. Researchers believe embryonic stem cells can replace cells affected by Type I Diabetes, brain injury or other conditions, said Peter Davies, executive vice president for research at the UT Health Science Center at Houston. “Embryonic stem cells are used really in several settings,” said Paul Simmons, director of the Centre for Stem Cell Research at the health science center. “You

can use it as a basis for drug creation, and there’s the potential to use embryonic stem cells to generate cells for cellreplacement therapy.” Simmons, who spoke at the event, said the center is focusing on using embryonic stem cells to repair the lungs of those who have chronic lung diseases. The center also uses adult stem cells in its research but Simmons said adult stem cells are only found in a small number of organs and researchers face difficulties in accessing the cells. Davies said both adult and embryonic stem cell research is necessary but that researchers need to further explore the best sources of stem cells for different diseases. “Embryonic stem cells might be more effective than adult stem cells in

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about performing yoga alongside other naked men. “I’m a home nudist,” Jack said. “People do things in the nude — we were all born that way. It’s not sexual. We are not here to get picked up. I’m not gay.” Most of the yoga sessions, however, cater only to men, and only one class during the week is coed and clothing-optional. Anywhere from 12 to more

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By Binaj Gurubacharya The Associated Press KATMANDU, Nepal — Nepal’s prime minister fired the army chief Sunday after a struggle over admitting former Maoist rebel fighters to the military, sparking mass protests and jeopardizing the survival of the country’s first elected government. President Ram Baran Yadav, meanwhile, rejected the ouster of army chief, Rookmangud Katawal, in a letter, calling it unconstitutional. The letter was delivered to Katawal’s office late Sunday night and copies were also sent to Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s residence. Yadav was the first person elected as president in this Himalayan country, where a centuries-old monarchy was abolished last year. The army is officially under the president’s command, not the prime minister. But because the country’s constitution is being rewritten, many things are unclear, including who has the power to fire the army chief. The president is a member of the Nepali Congress, the main opposition party, which vowed to fight the decision.

The army chief’s dismissal prompted a key political party to withdraw from the ruling coalition and frayed already tense relations between the government, dominated by former Maoist rebels, and the military they long fought. The fallout could pose the biggest challenge yet for Nepal’s troubled leaders, who are new to politics and already struggling to provide basic services in the impoverished country. The dispute between the prime minister — a former Maoist rebel leader — and Katawal centered on the difficult question of how to integrate former rebels as required by a U.N.-brokered peace agreement into the ranks of the army they fought for a decade. Since giving up their bloody rebellion in 2006 and joining the political mainstream, the Maoists have confined their fighters to U.N.-monitored camps and locked up their weapons. Dahal wanted them freed and admitted to the national army but Katawal resisted the move and clashed repeatedly with the government over the issue. The government says Kataw-

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Health officials look to avoid blame as swine flu spreads MEXICO CITY — As the number of swine flu cases in Mexico wanes and rises, experts are being forced to walk a public health tightrope — if they push their message too far and the virus fizzles out, they could lose credibility. But if they back off and it suddenly surges, they will be blamed. Mexico reported three new deaths from the swine flu epidemic late Saturday from a virus that has killed 19 in Mexico, one in the U.S. and is spreading across Asia and Europe. Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova said there were 11 cases of people suspected to have died in Mexico from the virus in the last 24 hours. The alarming news came after the epidemic’s toll in Mexico appeared to have been leveling off. New developments also are raising more questions, including an announcement by Canadi-

Supermarket mogul expected to claim Panama presidency PANAMA CITY — A conservative supermarket magnate is favored to win presidential elections Sunday that will determine who

al also ignored orders to stop recruiting soldiers, boycotted last month’s national games, and allowing eight army generals to continue working past their tenure. “The army chief was removed because he failed to give a satisfactory explanation on why the government orders were ignored,” said Information Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara. The Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist Leninist), the second largest party in the coalition government, withdrew from the coalition Sunday “to protest the prime minister’s unilateral decision,” the party’s general secretary, Ishwar Pokhrel, said. Leaders from several smaller parties walked out of the Cabinet meeting after Dahal announced his decision. They were debating Sunday night whether to withdraw their support completely. Political analysts said the government could be on the brink of collapse. “It has become almost impossible for the Maoists to remain in government in the present situation,” said Ameet Dhakal,

editor of Republica, a leading newspaper in the capital Katmandu. “It’s a big crisis for the country now.” Thousands of demonstrators filled Katmandu’s streets Sunday, some to support the Maoist government and others to protest. Maoist supporters, waving red flags, called the army chief’s sacking a “victory for people’s rule” while the opposition blocked traffic and burned tires in protest. Police were on high alert and security troops turned out in full force to prevent any violence. There were no reported injuries. Anger is high in Nepal, where much of the public blames Maoists for the power outages that can last more than 16 hours a day, the fuel shortages that have made for endless lines at gas stations, and the rising price of food and household staples. But the Maoists are still revolutionary heroes to many, especially among rural villagers who voted them into power last year in Nepal’s first elections. The centuries-old monarchy was abolished soon after.

By Douglass K. Daniel The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s search to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter should extend beyond the current roster of federal judges, senators from both political parties said Sunday. “I would like to see more people from outside the judicial monastery, somebody who has had some real-life experience, not just as a judge,” said Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that will hold hearings when Obama makes his nomination. Noting that all nine justices came directly from the federal appeals court, senators on the committee said someone with a wider breadth of experience would be a plus. When he was the qualities he would seek in Souter’s successor, Obama said last week he wanted someone with empathy for average Americans. Conservatives fear that means the president would consider “judicial activists” for the seat. Leahy said he expects the next justice to be confirmed by the court’s new term in October and that the president will consult with lawmakers from both parties. “I would like to see, certainly, more women on the court. Having only one woman on the Supreme Court does not reflect the makeup of the United States,” Leahy said. “I think we should have more women. We should have more minorities.” Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, a committee member who last week switched from the Republican to the Democratic Party, suggested someone in the mold of a statesman or stateswoman and said he could imagine a nominee who was not a lawyer, if that a person had the right credentials. “I would like to see somebody with broader experience,” Specter said. “We have a very diverse country. We need more people to express a woman’s point of view or a minority point of view, Hispanic or African American ... somebody who’s done something more than wear a black robe for most of their lives.” Obama said Friday he would

nominate a person who combines “empathy and understanding” with an impeccable legal background “who understands that justice isn’t about some abstract legal theory or footnote in a case book. It is also about how our laws affect the daily realities of people’s lives.” Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, a senior Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said he hopes Obama will choose someone of “great dimension.” At the same time, he said that Obama’s criteria raise concern and he contended that the president says he will select a nominee according to that person’s politics, feelings and preferences. “Those are all code words for an activist judge, who is going to, you know, be partisan on the bench,” Hatch said. “We all know he’s going to pick a more liberal justice. Their side will make sure that it’s a pro-abortion justice. I don’t think anybody has any illusions about that,” he said. “The question is, are they qualified? Are they going to be people who will be fair to the rich, the poor, the weak, the strong, the sick, the disabled?”

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Get out before the cave-in

When Iowa lawyer T.M. Zink died in 1930, he left a will that laid out plans for what he dubbed the Zink Womanless Library. As he envisioned it, the institution would not feature a single female author nor allow women on its premises. “My intense hatred of women is not of recent origin or development nor based upon any personal differences I ever had with them but is the result of my experiences with women, observations of them and study of all literatures and philosophical works,” he wrote. Zink left $100,000 for the library, according to Time magazine. Zink’s plan never came to fruition, but nearly 80 years later, his yearning for a place to truly call his own — with no girls allowed — lives on. A recent article in the Las Vegas Review Journal highlights the popularity of “man caves,” which reduce the concept of a bachelor pad to a room in an otherwise-feminized household. A man cave is a retreat from the subversive femininity that pervades American kitchens, living rooms, dining rooms, dens, bedrooms, bathrooms and hallways. It is a place where a real man can be himself (or at least conform to a stereotype of what a man should be, which, in this case, seems to be slovenly and simple) among his primoridal comforts: sports memorabilia, flat-screen televisions, recliners and poker sets. All might remain copacetic if man cavedwellers stayed in their rightful grottos, but as of late, these nouveau cro-magnons have been taking to the streets. Soon, male separatists may not just have entire basements in which to bask in their male splendor, but entire countries. The man movement grew a fresh, thick layer of chest hair on April 15, when Gov. Rick Perry stood, unironically, before more than 1,000 Texans on the banks of Lady Bird Lake and considered our state’s secession from the Union. It was an indirect response to, among other things,

President Barack Obama’s less-than-macho style of leadership, exhibited by his holding dialogues with foreign leaders and giving states money for welfare programs. Amid the blitzkrieg of publicity that followed Perry’s comments, journalist and historian Michael Lind accused Perry of “pandering to the base of the Republican party in Texas,” which is ostensibly composed of grown men with juvenile tendencies such as playing shoot ‘em up, hoarding money under their mattresses and thinking girls are icky. Lind drove this point home by extrapolating on the cases of several rich and powerful men with the lofty aspiration to be kings of their own fiefdoms. There’s Nevadan millionaire Michael Oliver, who attempted to build an island near Tonga called the Republic of Minerva, and Paypal founder Peter Thiel, who not only supports the creation of ocean city-states but has given money to curious foundations ranging from the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence to The Methuselah Foundation, which researches methods of achieving immortality. This new breed of man — part cave dweller, part lost boy and wholly indignant — does little more than perpetuate the impish machismo espoused by T.M. Zink and his Womanless Library. But at least Zink was academic in his approach to a man-centric world. At its most profound, the current male separatist movement is a guttural overreaction to a problem that is not only undefined but practically nonexistent, and the charge relies heavily on questionable facets of culture to further its cause. We urge entranced men to emerge from their caves and see the light of day before women decide to stop reproducing with them altogether. Girls don’t bite, really, and neither do liberals. — Leah Finnegan

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THE FIRING LINE The pedestrian problem I was absolutely outraged to learn about UTPD’s “crackdown” on cyclists (“Complaints spur UTPD crackdown of cyclists,” April 27). The sudden targeting of bicyclists is ridiculous, unequal and, above all, unfair. I honestly don’t understand why bicyclists have become the scapegoats for the dangerous mess that is the throng of cars, trucks, bicyclists and pedestrians on UT’s roads. I ride my bike on campus every day (it’s more of a necessity than a preference) and I can tell you that, whether the general population realizes it or not, bicycles aren’t the biggest threat to safety between classes. Want to take a guess as to what the biggest threat actually is? Pedestrians. Yes, like most other cyclists, I have had my share of close calls with our pedestrian population, but it is rarely my or any other bicyclist’s fault when a collision or near miss occurs. The rightof-way is something our pedestrians (even including myself sometimes) try to extend far beyond its proper context. Pedestrians would do well to implement such revolutionary practices as looking both ways before stepping into the street. Jaywalking pedestrians are dangerous to themselves and cyclists. If a collision occurs, the cyclist is just as likely to be injured as the pedestrian, if not more so. UTPD’s overarching goal should be to preserve the safety of UT’s roadways, not to overreact to the complaints of whiny staff and student pedestrians. True, sometimes this involves issuing a reckless biker a citation, but it may very well also involve issuing the same to a jaywalking pedestrian. I hope that in the fu-

I attended the roundtable discussion on Law Locality and International Human Rights on Wednesday, where Shirin Ebadi spoke a lot about Islam. The practice of cutting off a thief’s hand is not unique to Islam, she said, but is also in the Torah and Bible. I thought I had misheard her until she repeated it, only this time she said it was in the Old and New Testament. I asked Ebadi after the discussion where the mention of cutting off hands was in either version; she did not answer. I told her that it was not in the Old or New Testament and she indicated through her translator that no, it was not. She also called it child abuse to involve children in political matters — that maturity meant being over the age of 18. But because many young adults enter universities at 17, allowing them to attend political discussions could be construed as child abuse. Young adults — be they 18 or 21 — are extremely impressionable and making blanket statements one knows to be untrue is not only wrong, but unethical and unworthy of international honor.

ready noticed, there has been a slight increase in the moustache population on campus. Do not be alarmed, this does not mean that there is an increase of people who are convicted sex offenders or deviants of any type — that is a sterotype at best. There was once a time when the moustache was not merely a facial accessory that signified one’s socio-economic status, but a gallant statement that represented manliness and was in direct relationship to the amount of hair you had on your chest. I am confident that these brave moustachioed students have, in light of recent political and social change, decided to bring the moustache back to its rightful place. They are here to give the moustache the respect it demands. Despite alienating my friends and family, I have decided to join this movement and give it my full support. I am only a week and a half into my endeavor and have already received looks of repulsion and sneers of disdain. I have also taken deep offense to the following derogatory and hateful slurs directed at me: moustachio, trash-stache, mustachatory and finally, molestache. In the face of such oppression, I urge my fellow UT brothers to stand dignified in the fight against discrimination, for we are in good company: Teddy Roosevelt, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Burt Reynolds, Ron Burgandy, Michael Jordan, Emiliano Zapata, Robert Goulet, Jimmy Hendrix and Albert Einstein, to name just a few. Yes, Moustache May(hem) is upon us, and it’s open season.

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ture, traffic laws will be more uniformly enforced, and I will be expressing this opinion directly to UTPD. I hope other bicyclists will follow my lead. Matt Portillo Mathematics and music sophomore

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A vision of secession By Tom Palaima Daily Texan Guest Columnist While pundits, comedians, constitutional scholars, politicians and average Americans come to terms with Gov. Rick Perry’s belief that Texas could secede from the United States, we might ask what the consequences would be for us at UT. Fortunately, our University’s leadership has done a good job of being fiscally prudent. As Chief Financial Officer Kevin Hegarty reported to the Faculty Council in March, we are in better shape than even some prestigious private institutions. But, if we were to find ourselves in a new independent Republic of Texas, our outlook would be grim. As Hegarty’s report shows, higher education is a low priority in Texas. In 1976, state general revenue allocations covered 83 percent of the costs of the UT’s core academic mission ($90 million out of $108 million). In 2008-2009, the figure was 31 percent ($323 million out of $1.04 billion). Adjusting for inflation, UT’s academic budget since 1990 has grown only 2.6 percent, but annual state general revenue support has declined by one percent. Tuition now has to cover 47 percent of the core academic mission. The academic enhancements that have made UT an eminent research university (albeit one with steadily declining libraries and resources-per-student expenditures) are funded by research grants (at a total of $472 million) and gifts ($216 million). Imagine what our graduate and undergraduate programs would look like without yearly federal funding for the sciences, arts, humanities, education, social work and business that our leading scholars (professors and students) and the dedicated staff in our Offices of Research Support and Sponsored Projects bring in. Imagine what our University would look like if ties were cut with the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Science Foundation. Imagine financing study abroad without the Fulbright, Marshall and Rhodes and Rotary International scholarship programs. Many students would not be able to study abroad. Without Stafford, Perkins and other federal student loans, many UT students would not be here in the first place. Still, all the things you have imagined are just bad dreams. For a real nightmare, imagine UT without the safeguards of academic freedom provided by the support of the American Association of University Professors and national organizations in all academic disciplines. As we honor Barbara Jordan with a statue, let us remember that our University only became

integrated in 1956 and our first African-American professor was appointed in 1964, just two years before Jordan became the first AfricanAmerican to serve in the Texas Senate in more than 80 years. When would these long-overdue landmarks have occurred in an independent Republic of Texas? Before you answer, recall that one reason regents, legislators and businesspeople attacked and eventually fired UT president Homer Rainey (1939-1944) was that his “views on the Negro race question were ‘too liberal’ for a Southern university president.” More recently, you may triangulate from the State Board of Education decision about the teaching of the theory of evolution in state high schools, the governor’s one-sided idea to offer student contracts linked to income-predictions for majors and state Rep. Lois Kolkhorst’s proposal to create a School of Ethics, Western Civilization and American Traditions at UT. We should know soon whether the governor’s new hand-picked regents will sell the Brackenridge Tract, land that is now used as an educationally irreproducible biological field school, for a few pieces of silver. Going back just a bit, we have had campus police sending informants into a faculty-student group ahead of a visiting lecture (as reported in The Daily Texan on May 8, 2002) and a chancellor “selling” the naming rights to a campus building for a paltry sum to the head of a corporation from which he had received a yearly salary of $40,000 and options for more than 47,000 shares of stock (covered in the Texan on January 24, 1996). If you want to relive one of the finest hours of the student body and this newspaper, read the pamphlet published in 1946 by the UT Students’ Association, the Student Committee for Academic Freedom, then-editor of The Daily Texan Horace Busby and Prof. Henry Nash Smith. Its title is “The Controversy at the University of Texas 1939-1946: A Documentary History.” It is UT’s equivalent of Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense.” It should be required reading for all new students, faculty and staff — and regents, legislators and governors. Copies are available in the Harry Ransom Center, the Center for American History and the PCL. You will learn what vigilance and moral strength it took for us to enjoy the educational freedoms we now have. And it will rid you of any illusions about the state of higher education in an independent Republic of Texas separated from the safeguards provided by the U.S. constitution and those who work tirelessly to preserve it. Palaima is the Dickson Centennial professor of classics.

A MINUTE WITH DR. ADVICE Editor’s Note: Benjamin Miller is out of town this week. Replacing his column will be his good friend, Dr. Advice.

Dear Dr. Advice, Last week, a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign on my bike, and I was like: Oh my gosh, officer, why are you trying to enforce traffic laws while murderers run free? What kind of society do we live in that requires vehicles with only two wheels to stop at stop signs? It’s not like I could have killed someone by colliding with him or her! What should I do, Dr. Advice? Perplexed at the PCL

Dear Perplexed, For far too long has this form of police brutality been rampant in the streets of UT. Innocent bicyclists, minding their own business as they whiz past stop signs, are pulled over, harassed, verbally barraged and, in some cases, robbed of exorbitant sums of money through fines. All of these, mind you, are in the so-called “name of the law.” Your tragedy has made it clear that the only way to deal with this oppression is by direct action. That is why I am hereby announcing a Campus-wide bicycle strike. On Thursday, May 7, I’m asking all cyclists to seek alternate forms of transportation to get to work or school in order to show the oppressive campus police force what a campus without cyclists would be like. Once these bike-haters realize how much they somehow rely on bicyclists to do their jobs, bikers will be able to return to a place where you won’t be given a ticket just because you did something as harmless as running down a pedestrian. Then we can all join handlebars and say, “We’re here. We’re bicycling. Get out of the way!”

Dr. Advice is a pseudonym for Benjamin Miller, a women’s and gender studies major.

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City Council candidate Chris Riley attends events during kick-off weekend By Andrew Martinez Daily Texan Staff The fountain of youth rides on two wheels, said Austin Cycling Association President Stanton Truxillo on Friday afternoon. Truxillo was one of many bicycle enthusiasts who rode to City Hall to kick off Bike Month, Austin’s annual cycling initiative aimed at getting more people off four wheels and onto two. Throughout May, cyclists will have the opportunity to attend events ranging from group trail rides and city excursions to pub crawls and moonlight rides. A list of events can be found in the Bike Month Guide 2009, which is available at newsstands throughout the city. City Council candidate Chris Riley appeared at City Hall on Sunday to visit the handful of booths and stands depicting proper safety techniques and bicycle care. A Capital Metro bus parked on Guadalupe Street allowed attendees to practice attaching a bike on the front rack of the bus. “Back when I first started biking seriously, I realized that I always arrived somewhere in a better mood than when I left,” Riley said. “[Bicycling] is a fun and healthy way to get around.” Riley described Bike Month as a redoubling of the city’s efforts to get more people engaged in riding bikes. Cyclists were introduced to a new initiative to establish an interdepartmental program for city employees to borrow bicycles. Greg Gentry, an Austin Police Department officer, demonstrated proper anti-theft techniques. “Prevention is the key thing,” Gentry said. “Use two locks on your bike. When people see a bike with two locks next to a bike with one, they’ll go for the bike with one.” With Bike Month officially underway, Truxillo said it is important for more people to get into the habit of riding bikes because it combats air pollution, obesity, diabetes and traffic congestion. “All of these things are the result of a sedentary lifestyle,” he said. “A result of being a couch potato.”

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Leslie Lugo, Elva Franco, and Leilani Solorzano protest the separation of immigrant families on the steps of the state Capitol on Friday evening.

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funding for transmitter From page 1 the board replaces him with a new employee. Though the board voted unanimously, Gardner Selby, a voting board member and reporter for the Austin American-Statesman, echoed his previous concerns about cutting the positions that work closest with students and suggested the board look elsewhere to balance its budget. “That is still my concern,” Selby said. “The plan is an improvement over what there was at the start of the last meeting.” Board members also ap-

proved a dip into TSM’s $1 million reserve fund to finance a digital television transmitter, which TSTV station manager Brandon Farmahini has been lobbying for, to expand the broadcast capabilities of Texas Student Television. Members approved giving the station $50,000 to help purchase the transmitter, which Farmahini called an “investment for the future.” The transmitter is expected to cost $85,000. “This will make TSTV perpetually in the black,” Farmahini said. “We could save someone’s job if this situation comes again.”

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NEWS BRIEFLY At University of Washington, reduced funding forces job cuts The University of Washington enacted a new two-year budget plan Thursday that will result in job cuts for administrators and professors. The university’s Office of Planning and Budgeting drafted the new plan in the face of cuts in state funding to the university by the Washington Legislature, which resulted from a projected $9 billion deficit over the next two years. The state balanced the budget with a combination of $25 million in stimulus money and job cuts. “The federal government, as part of the budget plan, will in-

crease the number of distributed Pell grants and have already widely expanded tuition tax credit to help out parents pay for their child’s education,” said Norm Arkans, a spokesman for the university. In July, the state reduced the university’s general funds appropriations by 26 percent, cutting $214 million from the university’s funding over the two-year budget plan. The university will increase tuition rates by 14 percent each year for the next two years to help offset the cuts. “The [university’s] goal was to try to protect the academic side of the institution, so we took bigger cuts in jobs in administrative units than the professional staff in the schools and colleges,” Arkans said. — Priscilla Pelli

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By Andrew Martinez Daily Texan Staff Hundreds of activists gathered on the south steps of the Capitol on Friday evening and marched to City Hall in support of improving treatment of immigrant workers and the reformation of laws to recognize them as contributing members of American society. International Workers Day, commonly known as May Day is the annual celebration of the social and economic achievements of the international labor movement over the past century. Activists across the country use this day to call for better treatment of immigrants. “When you work a day, you should get paid a day,” said Teresa Parkinson, a volunteer with the Workers Defense Project, an immigrant rights organization. Parkinson said there are businesses, restaurants and construction companies in Austin that do not pay immigrants for their work. If the workers report these businesses for malpractice, they risk being deported. “I know immigrants are being mistreated,” Parkinson said. “They have a right as humans to be paid for the work that they do.” Caroline Keating-Guerra, an organizer of Friday’s march, summed up the event as a rally for immigrant rights reform, which includes immigrant access to health care and education, a pathway to legalization and ending government raids and family separation. In a speech prior to the march, Eric Tang, an assistant professor in UT’s College of Liberal Arts, described May Day as a celebration of the relationship between humans and the work they do. He said Americans must ensure that the rights people earn for being contributing members of society are respected. “Many times [immigrants] are marginalized, ghettoized and pushed out of the mainstream of American society,” Tang said. Martín Ruiz, a member of the Workers Defense Project, said the government needs to recognize immigrant participation. “[This march] is more than about being Hispanic, Russian, Asian, rich or poor,” Ruiz said. “It’s a day that workers can take to the streets and reclaim a more dignified life for themselves and their families.”

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Director honors Trekkies’ standards, expands film’s appeal to broad audience By Michael Thompson Daily Texan Staff Since leaving “Lost” in 2005, J.J. Abrams has worked on films like “Mission Impossible 3” and “Cloverfield.” The producer and director is now preparing for the release of a new, updated version of the classic film “Star Trek,” which opens Friday. In an interview with The Daily Texan, Abrams talked about his battle to satisfy diehard Trekkie fans while attempting to captivate a new audience. When he was first offered the deal to direct “Star Trek,” Abrams wasn’t sure he was the right one for the job. “[Paramount] came to me [and] asked me if I wanted to produce a new version of ‘Star Trek,’” he said. “And as someone who was not a fan of it to begin with, I felt like, well I’m probably the wrong guy to do it. You know, I don’t have that passion for it, but I’m very interested in the idea of creating a version of ‘Star Trek’ that does appeal to me.” This may come off as the ultimate sacrilege to Trekkies. It is truly risky to give the task to a non-fan like Abrams, who could potentially water down the source material in his attempt to make the film appeal to a broader audience. “So the tightrope we knew we had to walk was to take that incredibly vocal, passionate but ultimately minority of moviegoers fan base and honor them,” he said. “These are people who, for however many years, in some cases 43, have loved this story and these characters. So we could not slap them in the face. We had to honor them, respect them and show our gratitude. On the other hand, it’s a small group of people, and we want to make a movie for the rest of us.” The idea of working in a pre-existing world appealed to Abrams a lot. “You know, the fun of doing something like this is sort of in embracing the limits,” he said. “Whenever anyone has said … ‘you can do anything you want,’ I’ve tended to. [With ‘Star Trek’] … there are no walls to sort of bounce off of.” Here’s hoping Abrams found room to move within those walls.

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Kealing Middle School student Jaquon learns about the different functions of a DJ mixer in an after-school program called Destiny By Design.

After-school program offers young musicians tools, advice to create hip-hop By Rachel Meador Daily Texan Staff Twelve-year-old Zechariah rehearses his opening lines with enthusiasm and confidence. “Ladies and gentlemen, this is the moment we’ve all been waiting for,” says the young emcee, who asked that his last name not be published for privacy reasons. He is rehearsing for the upcoming performance “The Wow.” This is Zechariah’s second se-

mester in Destiny By Design, one of the program offerings of Citizen Schools, a national network of after-school education programs for middle schoolers. The goal of Destiny by Design is to provide students at Austin’s Kealing and Bedichek middle schools the chance to develop technical and artistic skills while working side-by-side with local professionals in the hip-hop industry. “I seriously just like going to the

classes ‘cause I feel so welcomed by everybody and I like exploring music,” Zechariah said. “It’s an honor to get to emcee. I thought I was going to have to compete for it when all I had to do was ask.” The small group of students currently enrolled in DBD has been preparing all semester for its upcoming showcase May 12. The program begins with lessons in hip-hop history and works up to creating beats and writing lyrics,

culminating with the showcase where the students show off their completed songs and raps. Zechariah’s mother Kim said she is grateful to the program for helping her son hone his social, academic and musical skills. “Since he started in the program, he is much more outgoing and is more confident as a leader,” Kim said. “It has been such a

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to come in each week to work with the kids. “They’re getting real experts in each of these areas and getting hands-on experience we couldn’t get ourselves,” said Gabriel, an ex-hip-hop journalist for The Austin Chronicle. “We recognize that artists get short-changed so often in the work they do. Typically artists are happy to do community service but we decided to make it a job and maybe someday we will turn this into full-time jobs.” Local professionals include Chamillionaire’s tour DJ, Rapid Ric, and Aaron “AC” Comb. This is Comb’s fourth semester at DBD offering his music, production knowledge and advice to the kids. When he was 13, Combs was sent to the Texas Youth Correctional Facility for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and possession of cocaine with intent to sell, but it wasn’t until a three-hour standoff with the Austin swat team in 2007 that he really committed to a law-

positive experience, and I’m sure in the long run it will help him develop into a good young man.” Destiny by Design was developed by Austinites Robert Gabriel and Jules Narcisse as a source of information, inspiration and tools for young adults interested in hip-hop culture. Today, Gabriel volunteers at Bedichek, where students are creating and shopping beats to send to their favorite artists for potential samples. Narcisse, who has a bachelor’s degree in sound engineering and is working toward her doctoral degree in behavioral disorders at UT, works with the students at Kealing, whose final products include a CD of work from the semester and a performance like the one Zechariah is preparing for. Gabriel said what makes the program unique are the professionals that the foundation hires

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By JJ Velasquez Daily Texan Staff It’s 6 p.m on Monday. Rather than hacking away at a research paper, I’m contemplating my next Tweet. I decide I want to publish, in 140 characters or fewer, my fascination with the way Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary violently flips her hair in a YouTube performance of “If I Had a Hammer.” I’m averaging 50 Tweets a week these days. Something about publishing daily mundanities and pretentious quips of fewer than 140 characters just thrills me. Or perhaps it’s a way to avoid bleatingly fussing over a laundry list of chores — both of the housekeeping and school variety. Whatever beckons me to type these brief updates is yet unclear, but one thing is for sure: There exists a correspondence void in my life, and maybe I’m trying to compensate. So I decide to buck the Twitter trend and re-learn how to write a letter. Snail mail, as it’s derisively called in the age of the World Wide Web, is something my generation and I have missed out on. Since the inception of the postal system, the lore of written correspondence, or pen-palship,

has been rich. Pen pal relationships have been forged for centuries between literary and political figures alike, and between regular people. Beatnik writers Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder carried on a correspondence that was pivotal in the development and writing of Kerouac’s novel “The Dharma Bums.” I know the perfect person with whom to begin a pen-palship: my San Antonian best friend whom I haven’t seen all semester. Admittedly, I struggle with even the most familiar of conventions. Do I include the recipient’s address? How do I greet someone in a friendly letter? A 21st-century kid trying to write a letter is a lot like Borat coming to America. Consulting resources on the Web facilitates the process. I decide to hand-write the letter because, while messy, it’s sincere. Step one, according to englishplus.com, is writing the heading, which in a friendly letter is composed of the return address — that’s your address, for the postal-impaired — and date. Next comes the greeting. I decide on the bland but classic “Dear Mallory.” Maybe I’ll experiment with more creative greetings when I become more letter-savvy. As I move on to the body of the letter, I’m trepidatious and out of my word-processed comfort zone. No copy-paste. No backspace. No spellchecker. Messing up means drafting another letter.

I quiver in apprehension as the office begins to take the shape of a monastery, and I’m the monk inscribing sacred text. Also, what happened to my penmanship? Mrs. Gentry, my fourth-grade teacher, would not be pleased. I meditate deeply on every word as the subject of swine flu hijacks the letter. “Wear a surgical mask, and wash your hands frequently as I’d hate for influenza to prevent you from attending my graduation,” I write. I close with “Love, JJ,” scrawling my John Hancock on the sheet. And as I read over the letter, I realize it’s markedly dull, from the mundane content to the pale ivory parchment on which it is written. I guess I had something more high-flown in mind. But the poignant thing is that I could be tapping into a lost art — that is, correspondence through the mail. By writing a friend, even if you’re doing it for the throwback appeal, you could be reviving an elemental but dying tradition of writing. It’s yet to be seen what pith and profundity can be found in 140 characters, and maybe The Beats would have endorsed Twitter. And although I get a little giddy every time a follower addresses an @reply Tweet to me (albeit my attempts to engage Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold in a Tweetfest have been futile), I’d be even giddier reading “Dear JJ” on a piece of stationery.

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Arbino shuts down Horns From page 10 that, she had some struggles with that in the beginning of the season.” Williams said the offense struggled against A&M pitcher Rebecca Arbino because the team had never played against her before. When Texas played A&M last month, the Horns scored five runs against A&M pitcher Rhiannon Kliesing. “We didn’t do much at the plate,” Williams said. “They took advantage of the walks and got some timely hits.” The environment was different from every other game of the season and was one that many softball players never experience, Williams said. “You have television, you have the fans to deal with, people are a lot more rowdy,” Williams said. “We just have to add it to all our other experiences.” The Longhorns have less than one week to recover and prepare for the next segment of their season. They head to Oklahoma City on Friday to compete in the Big 12 tournament. “Postseason is a new season,” Williams said. “I think we’re going to take a completely different approach into post season, because it’s basically one-and-done and that’s it.” Regardless of the team’s performance in this weekend’s tournament, Clark is confident about its chances of securing a place in the NCAA tournament in two weeks. “We should be in,” Clark said. “I think we’ve taken care of the business that we need to. Unfortunately, this loss stings. You don’t like to lose to A&M, and you don’t like to do it on your home turf. But you just have to get past it.”

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Coach ranks Wood highly From page 10 After Baylor added a run to cut the Texas lead to 2-1, a pair of Austins — Dicharry and Wood — closed out the sweep, pitching three shutout innings and allowing only two hits. “Wood continues to be an amazing closer,” Garrido said. “He ranks up there with the two best we have here in Huston Street and J. Brent Cox. That is what it takes and he has it.” And while Texas wasn’t able to score double digits in runs on Sunday, it was still able to defeat Baylor. “We found a way to win,” Garrido said. “It was definitely in contrast to the others, but we found a way.”

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Morse has strong race From page 10 “Credit Tevan for the fight in his last 50 meters,” Thornton said. “He’s getting more and more confidence in his endurance.” Everett was one of nine Longhorns to post regional qualifying marks. The other two Texas victories came from freshmen Jacob Thormaehlen in the shot put and Rob Gibson in the 3,000 steeplechase. Elsewhere, in California at Stanford’s Cardinal Invitational, six distance runners had strong performances, led by Jake Morse’s fastest collegiate time in the 3,000 steeplechase. “These are things we want to see,” Thornton said. “Big 12 championships are two weeks away, and we’re right where we need to be.”

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Texas dominates without its top athletes Lucas has season-best performance in high jump with Hooker absent By Chris Tavarez Daily Texan Staff With a last-minute scratch from the morning favorite, the long shot was able to win it all on Saturday. But this was at Mike A. Myers Stadium, instead of Churchill Downs. The event was the high jump, not the 135th running of the Kentucky Derby, and the long shot wasn’t Mine That Bird — it was Laura Allred from the University of Houston. A few minutes before the start of the women’s high jump, three-time NCAA champion and meet favorite Destinee Hooker withdrew from the competition.

“It’s second place; I’ll take it, but at the same time, I know I’m capable of jumping better.” — Victoria Lucas, Longhorn high jumper “We needed time to train,” said women’s track head coach Beverly Kearny. “They’re preparing for the national championship, and we felt like after last week we needed to get some training time in.” Hooker’s absence in competition didn’t affect sophomore Victoria Lucas, who finished

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Freshman thrower Amanda Van Dyke competes in the discus at the Texas Invitational saturday at Mike A. Myers stadium. Van Dyke also competed in the shot put, where she threw a regional qualifiying mark in the shot put of 47 feet, 1/4 inch. with a height of 5 feet 7 inches to earn second place, her best performance of the outdoor season. Hooker was with Kearney next to the high jump pit giving Lucas advice after each jump. “It was just like having her here, kind of. Normally she doesn’t come in yet anyways so it wasn’t much different,” Lucas joked. “It was good that

she came out here to still support us. Having her out here was helpful.” Lucas needed all the support she could get as the competition came down to her, Allred and Katherine Evans of Texas State after Marie Michel, from the professional team Elite Performance, scratched on all three attempts at 5-5. Lucas scratched on her first

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Team wins first Big 12 championship By Austin Ries Daily Texan Staff Texas knows what it is like to win the Big 12 Invitational. It has seen that ending play out seven times now, but had never experienced the magnitude of a true conference championship, the orange-lit tower in its honor or the year’s worth of bragging rights — until now. The Longhorns captured the first ever conference title at the inaugural Big 12 championships Saturday at Wyandotte County Lake in Kansas City, Kan., defeating crews from Kansas, Kansas State and Oklahoma. “It is certainly nice to be recognized in a wider realm with an official championship,” said head coach Carie Graves. “All of the schools have really upped their game now that it is a championship and that was evident in the competitiveness that we witnessed today.” In the five races of the day,

Texas grabbed two victories in the second varsity and novice eight-person boat races, totaling 51 points to defeat second-place Kansas State with 48 points and third-place Kansas with 45 points. Oklahoma did not compete for the title and only participated in the novice and varsity four-person races to avoid the chance of being a spoiler. The championship was based on a point scale that awards a set number of points for first, second and third place in each race. The Longhorns’ second varsity eight captured first with a 6 minutes, 50.2 second time to claim 14 points in the overall standings. The boat included coxswain Annie Heiner, Stephanie Matejka, Callie Mattrisch, Jelena Zunic, Anna Thomson, Courtney Nicklas, Elizabeth Meserve, Laura Perkins and Angela Kirchner. The Longhorns’ first varsity boat finished second in its

race with a time of 6:53.8, behind Kansas State (6:44.4) and in front of Kansas (7:05.3). “This was a team trophy and a great team effort by this group today,” Graves said. “The varsity was a little disappointing, but our other boats really stepped up their game with the 2V8 performing well and the varsity four continuing to get faster.” Texas took third place in the first novice eight and varsity four races. The novice eight boat finished with a time of 6:59.3, behind the Sooners (6:51.4) and Kansas State (6:57.6). Oklahoma also grabbed a victory in the varsity four race with 7:24.6, defeating Kansas, which clocked 7:36.4 and the Horns, who crossed the finish line in 7:41.2. Riding the high of this monumental victory and weekend, Texas will return to the water May 16 for the South/Central Regionals in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

attempt to clear the bar on her second try. Once the bar was raised to 5-8 3/4, none of the three finalists was able to make the mark, and the competition came down to who had scratched the least amount of times, putting Lucas in second. “It’s second place; I’ll take it,” Lucas said. “But at the same time, I know I’m capable of jumping better.”

Texas didn’t run any relays this meet in order to focus on improving individual performances, and along with Hooker, senior All-American Alex Anderson also sat out. “You can get so wrapped up in relays that all of a sudden, you get to the championship meets where you have to compete as an individual and it’s not happening,” Kearney said.

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Texas wins series 3-0 over Baylor

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Texas bats explode in first two games while pitching saves the day in finale By Austin Talbert Daily Texan Staff WACO — For Texas, this weekend played out like an episode of “Sesame Street”: series sweep of Baylor, brought to you by the numbers three and one. Three much-needed wins vaulted Texas (33-11-1, 15-8-1 Big 12) back into the stratosphere of the Big 12 standings, and while Sunday’s game against Baylor (26-20, 10-13 Big 12) took a very different turn, Texas was still able to move one step closer toward finishing No. 1 in the Big 12. First there was the Friday’s error fest, when Baylor committed seven errors that Texas capitalized on, resulting in the Longhorns’ 12-4 trouncing of the Bears. Next came the offensive thunderstorm on the banks of the Brazos on Saturday night. During a Tornado warning, Texas lit up the skies by blasting balls from the plate, setting season highs with 19 runs, 16 hits and three home runs in a 19-11 rain-soaked win. On Sunday, after Texas scored 31 runs in the first two wins over Baylor, the Longhorns nabbed the series sweep in a 3-1 victory that was dominated by the Longhorn pitchers. “I am breathing easier at this moment,” Texas head coach Augie Garrido said. “It was a hard victory. It was a different victory than the past two games.” After failing to take a single game in last weekend’s series with Kansas State, the Longhorns needed a series sweep to give themselves a shot at the Big 12 regular season championship. With the sweep, the conference championship has become a complex mathematical equation involving no fewer than four teams in contention with two weeks left to play. Baylor, which has struggled to find reliable pitchers to slow the Texas attack, appeared to find one in Willie Kempf. Kempf breezed through the first inning Sunday, striking out two Longhorns, but before the Bears could celebrate, Texas catcher Cameron Rupp cranked an opposite field solo homerun over the right field wall to give Texas a 1-0 lead. But unlike the first two games, Texas did not continue to destroy the ball and Baylor did not make costly defensive mistakes. “When you score 31 runs in two games, you expect something to change,” Garrido said. “The momentum factor is what changed.” Texas starter Taylor Jungmann continued the tone set by Kempf, striking out 10 Bears and earning the win in his first career Big 12 start. Jungmann, who pitched at Baylor Ballpark during high school playoff games, looked comfortable on the mound. While Brandon Workman struggled for the past four weeks in his Sunday starts, Jungmann earned the starting nod, pitching six innings and allowing only three hits and one run in the win. “Jungmann was awesome,” Rupp said. “It makes it easy for us.” Jungmann, who had a stellar 1.75 ERA heading into the start, continued his strong freshman year by notching his fifth win. “I hit my spots and let them put the ball in play,” Jungmann said. “It was just another performance. Coming out of the bullpen, starting, it is all about getting it done. But the sweep was nice. The sweep was really big.”

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Members of the Longhorn softball team congregate in the middle of the field Saturday after Texas A&M’s Bailey Schroeder hit a grand slam to put Texas A&M up 5-1. The Longhorns fell 6-1 in their final regular season game and enter the conference tournament as the No. 4 seed.

Aggies open game up with fifth-inning onslaught to beat rival on national TV By Lena Price Daily Texan Staff “We just have to add Saturday night’s 6-1 loss to riit to all our other val Texas A&M in a nationally televised game definitely wasn’t experiences.” the way Texas’ four seniors want— Desiree Williams, ed to end their regular-season college careers. Longhorn pitcher “The seniors were awfully quiet and hanging their heads a little in Seniors Desiree Williams, Kelly the locker room,” head coach Connie Clark said. “But it’s the end of Melone, Kacie Gaskin and Crysone segment, and we’ve got to tal Saenz all saw their numbers painted on the field during their gear up for the next season.”

last home game at Red and Charline McCombs field. “I’m not an emotional person,” Williams said. “But this loss really does hurt.” Freshman shortstop Lexy Bennett earned the first and only run for the Horns in the fourth on an error by A&M. The Aggies more than made up for it in the fifth inning. A&M left fielder Bailey Schroeder, who had hit only one home run the entire season, hit a grand slam

with two strikes and two outs in the inning. Third baseman Alex Reynolds secured the win for the Aggies and slammed in another home run the next at-bat. A&M capitalized on the six walks sophomore pitcher Brittany Barnhill allowed. “We had a little bit of a tight zone, but regardless of that we issued too many free passes,” Clark said. “[Barnhill] knows

Freshman shortstop Lexy Bennett team’s lone bright spot in loss on senior night

For the rest of the offense, the ball almost always went directly to the defender. Texas was hoping to showcase its powerful offense to the national audience watching the game on ESPN, but it was shut down by the Aggies. “It’s pretty tough, especially when we got the first win the first time [against A&M],” Bennett said. “But I mean it happens, we all played hard. It is what it is.” The disappointing conclusion to the regular season hurts, but the team is going to try to build off it. “I think this actually fired us up,” Bennett said. “We have to focus on

a ring that we want to win. Even though this wasn’t such a great game, it fired us up for what we’re considering to be a new season.” The loss clinches the Longhorns as the fourth seed in the upcoming Big 12 tournament in Oklahoma City. The seniors will be missed after graduation, but the Longhorns are still prepared for the future with their trio of fantastic freshmen: Nadia Taylor, Courtney Craig and Bennett. “I’ve been able to create really good friendships, and [the seniors] have been great leaders on and off the field,” Bennett said.

By Dan Hurwitz Daily Texan Staff On senior night for the Longhorns, the biggest contribution came from a freshman. In the 6-1 loss in the season finale against Texas A&M, the only positive highlight came from Lexy Bennett. While the four seniors went a combined 0-7 against Aggie pitcher Rebecca Arbino, the freshman Bennett went 3-for-3 at the plate, earn-

ing all but one hit and scoring the only run for the Longhorns. Never having faced Arbino before, the Longhorns could only prepare based on what they knew from her stats and highlights. “We had talked about [Arbino] and watched video on her, so we knew that she just went in and out, nothing up or anything,” Bennett said. “I focused on just hitting ground balls and tried to make something happen.” The Longhorns saw the ball well out of the hand of the Aggie pitcher, as they did not go down on strikes until the final two batters of the game.

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College stars outlast Olympians in 400, 800 Small Kansas school wins three events at star-studded Texas Invitational on Saturday

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Texas sophomore Chance Ruffin pitches in Texas’ 12-4 win over Baylor on Friday at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.

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By Jordan Godwin Daily Texan Staff The cameras were focused on the Olympians, but the underdogs stole the show at Saturday’s Texas Invitational. As Tyson Gay, the fastest American sprinter of all time, warmed up in the infield, a few collegiate competitors took cell phone pictures of him. Gay and two more of the world’s fastest, Wallace Spearmon and Olympic gold medalist Kelly Willie, headlined the much-anticipated 400-meter race. Relative unknown Tabarie Henry of Barton County Community College in Great Bend, Kan., pulled off an upset — defeating the Olympians and setting a wind-aided Mike A. Myers Stadium record along the way. Two of Henry’s teammates won the 110 hurdles and the 100 dash, making it a big day for Barton County. “It’s a 10-hour drive for us, but

the guys made it worth it,” said BCCC head coach Matt Kane. “Coming down here and beating those big names will make the drive home a lot more enjoyable.” Texas also had its fair share of upsets. With national champion Jacob Hernandez sitting out the 800, Olympian Lopez Lomong and the nation’s topranked runner in the event, Chris Gowell of Baylor, were heavy favorites. Texas speedster Tevan Everett was competing but only to pace his brother Tevas for the first 600. “I wasn’t supposed to finish,” Everett said after dethroning Gowell for the nation’s fastest time this season. “I told myself to stop, but I was winning, and it was a great race so I had to finish.” Everett’s time of 1 minute, 47.39 seconds was his third-straight personal best. Head coach Bubba Thornton was pleasantly surprised at Everett’s ability to out-kick Gowell in the last 100, a stretch during which Everett used to tire.

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Texas pole vaulter Matson Wallace leaps over the bar in Saturday’s Texas Invitational at Mike A. Myers Stadium.