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City Council bans texting while driving City ordinance, passed unanimously, aims to reduce number of cell phone-related driving deaths, injuries By Derek Lewis Daily Texan Staff Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said 30 percent of car accidents this year were caused by texting while driving. A new city ordi-

nance passed Thursday aims to cut down on that number. The council unanimously passed an ordinance that bans drivers from texting while driving. Police officers will pull over

and ticket all drivers seen texting. Mason Jones, who spoke in favor of the new ordinance, said his 3-year-old son received head trauma when his car was rear-ended by an inattentive teen driver. He did not know whether the driver was texting, but said the new ordinance would reduce the num-

ber of similar crashes caused by reckless driving. But Carlisle Rice, spokesman for the Texans for Accountable Government Steering Committee, said that reckless driving laws already on the books made the ordinance redundant. “It is unnecessary to have a ban

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Ares Phoinix, left, moves a forklift as Barry Hodson unloads crates at a hub below Jester dormitory Wednesday afternoon. Jester and other facilities at UT now use renewable products in an effort to become a more eco-friendly campus. By Lena Price Daily Texan Staff A UT professor and his students are trying to ensure that solar-powered lighting and composting toilets like those implemented in some smaller college campuses might be in UT’s future. Steven Moore, director of the graduate program in sustainable design, assigned a group of his students to conduct a feasibility study of solar-powered buildings at UT. “They examined all the roofs on campus and determined that many of them would be capable of holding solar pan-

els,” Moore said. “So it might not be that out of the question.” But under the current economic circumstance, funding for these types of projects are hard to come by. For now, some of the dorms at UT are so far away from being green that Moore called them “purple.” “Most of the dorms were built at a time when energy was really cheap, and we thought there was an unlimited supply of water,” Moore said. “Obviously, that is no longer the case. It becomes a question of what we can do to renovate all the old dormitories, and the fastest way

we can accomplish that is for students to put pressure on local politicians.” One of the most inefficient features of the UT campus is the thermostat system. Many buildings use pneumatic thermostats, which means air flow can only adjust when someone manipulates the thermostat. With an electric system, buildings could have one central system that could control air flow into every room and waste less energy, Moore said. “You only need fresh air in a room when it’s occupied with people to keep

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when we have so many things we can do [to cause distractions],” he said. “I see people eating, even reading novels while driving every day.” Debbie Russell, president of the Central Texas Chapter of ACLU-TX, said the ordinance would be impossible to enforce and pre-

ferred to see more education about the dangers of texting while driving. She said she was also upset that an exception was created for on-duty police officers. She went on to say she had numerous run-ins with cops texting in non-emergency situations.

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City Council votes to delay hearing on land-use plan By Allison Harris Daily Texan Staff The City Council voted Thursday to postpone a public hearing on a controversial mixed-use development plan along Riverside Drive until Sept. 24. Stephen Drenner, attorney for Houston-based developer Grayco Partners, and Gayle Goff, a member of the planning team for the East Riverside/Oltorf Combined Neighborhood Planning Area, requested to postpone the hearing. Both parties promised the council they would not request further postponements. Council members decided Thursday that both Grayco Partners and local opponents to the development plan needed more time to prepare their arguments and decided to withhold deliberation for another month. Controversy surrounds the project because the tallest of the six planned buildings could be up to 90 feet high. That is 30 feet higher than the maximum height allowed for most development plans by the Waterfront Overlay Ordinance, which was recently amended to reinstate the original 1986 height requirement. The 1986 requirement imposes a 60-foot height limit on all buildings in the South Shore District Development. But the Grayco project is a planned unit development, which means that it can exceed height requirements if it provides substantial community benefits, which Drenner said the plan does. The $200 million project would include 1,200 apartments and 97,000 square feet of street-level re-

tail space underneath the apartments. The project covers about 30 acres bounded by Riverside Drive, South Lakeshore Boulevard and Tinnin Ford Road. Goff said developments should adhere to the city ordinance and said she is concerned about what effects the developments would have on trees in the area. She said she believes the development should do more to protect trees found in the area. “We would like to adhere to all those documents that the city has spent money on,” Goff said. “We think tree canopy is one of the things that make any city a livable city.” Goff said she is critical of the development plan because it has too many apartments, no plans for offices and not enough space for retail. “You need to be able to have all the needs of the community met with people being able to walk around and go to work without using offices,” she said. Drenner said he disagreed with opponents of the development plan like Goff who say the project harms trees in the area. “I don’t think those people have been out to the site,” Drenner said. He said that the development would help the trees along Lakeshore and Town Lake since the new apartments would be placed far away from the tree area. “It would benefit the trees because we’re removing a lot of the paving that is moved up to the trees,” he said Drenner said that although the development plan does not include

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Seat belts required for back seat passengers By Rachel Platis Daily Texan Staff A new traffic law that takes effect Tuesday will make it illegal for Texans to ride unbuckled in the back seat. Under the previous law, only those under 16 were required to wear a seat belt in the back seat. Other traffic laws taking effect deal with seat belts, car seats, driving and driver’s license requirements.

State Sen. Kirk Watson, DAustin, filed the seat belt legislation after a coalition of police chiefs brought the issue to his attention, said Trent Townsend, his chief of staff. “Preventable deaths and serious injuries are prevented when people buckle up,” Townsend said. “The numbers speak for themselves.” According to 2008 Texas Department of Public Safety statis-

tics, 56 percent of people killed in crashes in which seat belt usage could be determined were not wearing their seat belts. “Troopers investigate fatality crashes every day where at least one or more of the people in the crash weren’t wearing a seat belt,” said Tela Mange, spokeswoman for the Department of Public Safety. She said the law won’t be too hard to enforce because officers

are used to making sure that those in vehicles buckle up. “We’ve had varying versions of occupant restraint laws since 1985 and we’ve done a pretty good job of enforcing them,” Mange said. “The legislation is similar to other legislation that has been introduced several times in the past sessions, but there was finally enough

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Lauren Gerson | Daily Texan Staff

Council member Chris Riley listens at a city council meeting Thursday. The council postponed a hearing on planned Riverside development.

Officers ‘test their limits’ at Round Rock field training

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Police officers from the Austin area practice holding back a crowd during a simulated riot at the Round Rock ISD athletic complex Thursday.

By Bobby Longoria Daily Texan Staff Police officers throughout Central Texas skirmished against one another Thursday in a simulated riot at the Round Rock Independent School District Athletic Complex football stadium. The field training, a first-of-itskind event hosted by the Austin Police Department and the Williamson County Sheriff’s office, was a joint effort with participation from agencies across 10 counties of Central Texas. The event was designed with past events in mind, including the 2001 Mardi Gras riots

in Austin and this summer’s wildfires in Bastrop. In each run of the scenario, 40 officers were pitted against a riotous mob of up to 60 people, comprised of other officers and cadets who were given instructions to wreak as much havoc as possible. “We are testing their limits, their formations, how much they can stand that’s tolerable by policy — departmental policy and our [Special Response Team] policy,” said APD Officer Todd Myers, who acted as a riot agitator. “‘You train like you fight’ is [our] mentality.” What may have begun as a post-

sporting event celebration quickly digressed into mayhem in the bleachers. In order to bring calm to the crowd, officers, who normally work in different jurisdictions, had to coordinate a joint effort. “No one really cares what the color of the uniform is when you need help,” said Lt. Mike Gleason of the Williamson County Sheriff’s office. “When catastrophic events or large events that overwhelm any size of agency — large or small — [occur], we get together all these people to come through.” He said for the past three months the different agencies across the

10-county region have been training for catastrophic events, including floods, hurricanes, wildfires and large riots. The purpose of Thursday’s training was to see what would occur when a regional call is made for reinforcements, who are given sparse details before entering a situation, and must report to supervisors and teammates who are all unfamiliar to them, Gleason said. “Testing our ability to communicate with one another and to bring all these agencies together at one time in a crisis situation is hard

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political will to make it happen.� The Austin Police Department will allow a one-month grace period where backseat seat belt violators will receive a warning instead of a ticket. Some other police organizations like UTPD may not observe the grace period. But APD Cpl. Scott Perry said citizens should educate themselves about the law. “Your responsibility as a driver is to keep up with the laws,� he said. “There are a lot of different provisions going into effect over the next six months, but in general, everyone should be aware of what the traffic laws are.� Another part of the provision amends the statute regarding

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child passenger safety laws and requires that any child younger than eight years of age be restrained in an approved child passenger safety seat unless the child is at least 4 feet 9 inches. Previously, only children under the age of 5 or under the height of 36 inches were required to ride in car seats. Furthermore, drivers must not use a cell phone in a school zone unless the vehicle is stopped or they are also using a hands-free device. Cities and counties wanting to enforce the law must post signs at the beginning of each school zone. Austin police will enforce the law, but Perry said it will take money and about a year to put up the required signs in school

zones. Austin officials will begin placing them near elementary schools and work its way up to high schools, he said. DPS spokeswoman Tela Mange said doing any activity other than driving when operating a vehicle can have fatal consequences. “Our advice has always been that when you’re driving a vehicle that weighs 2,000 pounds or more, you shouldn’t be eating a sandwich, putting on makeup, talking on the phone, or really doing anything but driving,� Mange said. “Kids aren’t always watching out [for cars] in school zones, so we have to watch out for them.� The legislation also includes stricter provisions concerning teenagers and driving. Under

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the old law, teens were not allowed to use cell phones while driving until six months after they received their license. On Sept. 1, the provision will be extended to one year. All applicants under the age of 18 must also take a driving skills exam to receive their driver’s license under the new law. The law increases the number of hours of behind-the-wheel driving required to get a driver’s license from 14 to 34 hours. “I think legislators were very concerned about the things that they were seeing in their own districts,� Mange said. “The first year that a teenager is in the car by themselves can be dangerous because you’re learning how to deal with distractions.�

From page 1 offices, they could be placed on Riverside Drive just outside of the development area. “It’s unusual to be criticized for not being mixed-use enough when we’ve taken great pains to make it mixed-use,� he said. Drenner said the development did not take away open space for parkland and that Grayco is donating $225,000 to the city’s parks system. “We’re creating open spaces within the development that are going to be the kind of places where people want to hang out,� he said.

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enough to do in itself,� said Det. John Foster of the Williamson County Sheriff’s office. “It’s basically knocking down county lines and city limits.� Officers entered the stadium in formation to quell the unrest and were met with thrown bottles, water coolers and insults. More than 200 officers rotated during the training scenario, which not only challenged them with aggressive rioters, but with “injured� innocent bystanders who were victim to an evolving threat. EMS personnel, who work in tandem with Austin’s

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SWAT and Special Response Team, aided individuals and evacuated them from the area using stretchers called litters designed for crises. “There may be 5,000 people up there, but only 200 of them are out there causing the ruckus — the other 4,800 are trying to leave,� said APD Cpl. Scott Perry. He said within the scenario, riot handlers would agitate the situation in specific ways, such as charging a line of officers with shields and attempting to take a riot stick. Officers in riot gear progressed with patience, used minimal force and did not break their formation. But the rioters at times amassed enough spirit to resist the oncoming enforcement, which led to officers being pushed back and using simulated pepper spray. “For this particular stadium the best method to get the crowd to go back is the straight line, to push the crowd back. Then once they get to a designated point, where they need them to veer to the left or to the right, you go into a thing that’s called the wedge left, wedge right or echelon [for-

mation],� Myers said. Some rioters required handling by up to four officers to be cuffed but most were pushed back by the officers, whose formation lined the bleachers from top to bottom. “The arrests are usually done to take the lead agitator. When you remove the lead agitator everybody else wants to leave,� Gleason said. “Those are why people are taken into custody, but everything else is just to force them into what’s called a choke point where they are funneled out and dispersed.� Gleason and Perry said Thursday’s scenario of a riot at a sporting event was the easiest scenario to recreate. They said that in the future there may be scenarios that address mass evacuations, plane crashes and natural disasters. “[Thursday’s] scenario is not indicative of something that we are expecting or anticipating,� Perry said. “This isn’t always just to deal with a crowd that is being unruly. It could be used for public safety just to keep people out of an area to evacuate persons that are in danger.�

From page 1 them from dying of asphyxiation,� he said. “By flowing fresh air into unoccupied rooms, your using about 75 percent more air then is actually needed.� Along with Moore and his students’ efforts, UT is making some progress to becoming a more environmentally friendly campus. By eliminating trays from the two main dining areas and hiring environmental specialist Meagan Jones, UT’s Division of Housing and Food Service has become one of the greenest programs on campus. “People like me are popping up all over the place at UT, which I think is a really good sign,� Jones said. “But there will always be small, liberal arts colleges, particularly on the East Coast, that are just light years ahead.� Sterling College, a liberal arts school in Vermont with 100 students, began plans last May to build a completely sustainable dorm. The building will house 20 of the 87 students living on campus for the same price or less than other on-campus housing.

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From page 1 Rice said that without more public education on texting while driving, unsafe drivers would continue the habit. Councilwoman Sheryl Cole said APD Chief Art Acevedo alleviated some of her concerns about the ordinance by pointing out successful enforcement in other states. Acevedo also said officers will likely only pull over those driving recklessly while texting, and the ordinance will not distract them from enforcing other laws.

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Cole, who eventually voted for the law, brought up a real event involving Mayor Pro Tem Mike Martinez, author of the bill, texting her to turn her lights off at night. “He gets two tickets because it is his idea,� Acevedo said. All speakers said that more efforts are necessary to educate the public on texting while driving. Acevedo said the city had the resources to educate the public. “We have great partners in city utilities and numerous mediums to spread the word,� he said.

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Ned Houston, vice president of Sterling, led a three-day seminar in May to gather ideas from students and faculty members about a model for the green dorm. “Over the course of the class, we changed what our notion of green meant,� Houston said. “We found that first and foremost, we value local materials. Students also went from requesting rooms with single beds to rooms with two or three beds to save money.� Many of the ideas that came out of the seminar were handed over to a Vermont-based architectural firm, and plans for the sustainable dorm should be completed in early 2010. Business sophomore and two-year San Jacinto dormitory resident Lindsay Tober said she could see herself living in a totally sustainable dorm at UT, but the idea of sustainable appliances is off-putting. “Even though some things are better for the environment, they are less efficient,� Tober said. “I think it would be tough for a lot of people.�

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Netanyahu recieves blueprints of Nazi concentration camp By David Rising & Matti Friedman The Associated Press BERLIN — Sketched on yellowing parchment, the 29 blueprints presented to Israel’s prime minister Thursday lay out the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in chilling detail, with gas chambers, crematoria, delousing facilities and watch towers drawn to scale. “There are those who deny that the Holocaust happened,� Benjamin Netanyahu said as he accepted the documents as a gift to Israel’s Holocaust memorial, where they will go on display next year. “Let them come to Jerusalem and look at these plans, these plans for the factory of death.� Netanyahu lingered over the large sheets spread on a table. Stamped with the Nazi abbreviation for concentration camp “K.L. Auschwitz,� one of the largest featured multicolored sketches, with barracks and even latrines drawn in detail. Other smaller sheets showed architectural designs of individual buildings, drawn from various angles. The Israeli leader was accompanied by his wife, Sara, whose father was the only member of his family to survive the Nazi genocide that killed 6 million Jews during World War II. She watched somberly as the documents, which date from 1941 to 1943, were unfolded. Also present was Yossi Peled, an Israeli Cabinet minister and former general whose father was killed by the Nazis and whose mother survived Auschwitz in one of the barracks detailed in the blueprints. Peled himself was hidden until age 7 by a family in Belgium who raised him as a Christian. He discovered his Jewish roots in 1948 and was taken to Israel two years later.

In Germany for a visit that combined talks on the Mideast conflict with acknowledgments of the painful past that binds the two countries, Netanyahu drew a clear parallel between the events of the Nazi era and the present day. The world did not do enough to stop the murder of Europe’s Jews, he said, and must be careful now to take rapid action against “armed barbarism.� “We cannot allow those who wish to perpetrate mass death, those who call for the destruction of the Jewish people or the Jewish state to go unchallenged,� Netanyahu said. Though he did not explicitly mention Iran, his comments were a clear reference to the Tehran regime and its nuclear program, which Israel sees as a grave threat and wants blocked by stronger international sanctions. Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said Israel should be “wiped off the map.� Axel Springer Verlag, the publisher of the mass circulation Bild newspaper, obtained the Auschwitz blueprints last year from a German man who said he found them when cleaning out an apartment in what was formerly East Berlin. The publisher and Germany’s federal archive have confirmed the documents’ authenticity. Numbering found on the back of the plans indicates they may have been taken from an archive, possibly the collection of documents on the Third Reich kept by the Stasi. The documents were displayed for several weeks earlier this year in the lobby of Bild’s headquarters in Berlin. The newspaper’s editor, Kai Diekmann, said the publisher decided to give the sketches to Israel to ensure that as many people as possible could see them.

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Activist and prominent AIDS leader Diego Sanchez talks Tuesday about his work as a legislative assistant to Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., and his efforts to add transgender-inclusive hate crimes to the 2009 Employment Non-Discrimination Act.

Congress talks LGBT civil rights By David Crary The Associated Press Momentum is building for Congress to pass the first major civil rights act protecting gays and transsexuals, supporters say, and one of the stars in the debate is a barrierbreaking transgender staffer on Capitol Hill. The Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, would prohibit workplace discrimination — including decisions about hiring, firing and wages — based on sexual orientation or gender identity. It would exempt religious organizations, the military and businesses with less than 15 workers. The driving force behind the bill has been Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., the longest-serving of the three openly gay mem-

bers of Congress. He expects hearings on the measure to be held this fall. Frank pushed ENDA in 2007, but it foundered because of insufficient backing in the Senate and a split within the gay and transgender communities. Many activists were irate because Frank — seeking support from wavering colleagues — was open to covering sexual orientation but not gender identity, excluding transgender people from protection. Frank now has a policy adviser who is a female-to-male transsexual. Diego Sanchez is the first transgender person hired for a senior congressional staff position on Capitol Hill. Sanchez has done extensive face-to-face lobbying for ENDA, and Frank says that’s enabled some members of Congress to get to know a transsexual for the first time.

“He interacts with a lot of people,� Frank said. “Prejudice is literally ignorance.� Frank says he now doubts votes will be cast against ENDA solely because it extends to transgender people. Opponents of ENDA — led by several national conservative groups — concede that the bill has enough support to clear the House, and expect a closely fought battle in the Senate. Ashley Horne, federal issues analyst for Focus on the Family, promised that her conservative Christian ministry would encourage tough opposition. “It’s definitely a bill we will put a lot of resources toward fighting,� she said. “Our primary concern is the chipping away of religious liberties.�

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A strong message to those who text The Austin City Council has unanimously voted to draft new safety measures for driving in the city, most notably a ban on text messaging while driving. Other measures include enforcing a 3-foot rule, which requires all motorists to stay 3 feet from other motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians. Interestingly enough, a bill proposing a similar state-wide law was recently vetoed by Gov. Rick Perry despite strong support for it. The new measures won’t go into effect until city staffers write an ordinance and the City Council approves it — a process that will likely take a few months. A ban on texting while driving is an obvious move given recent studies showing the dangerous distraction texting poses on the road. Still, some City Council members acknowledged a ban may not be as easy or effective in practice as it looks on paper. According to the Austin-American Statesman, “A few council members and a few speakers expressed concerns that both policies would be difficult for police to enforce. They also stressed that the texting ban should be coupled with a strong public education campaign to be effective.” While the goal of preventing reckless driving and needless accidents is noble, trying to enforce a ban on texting relies heavily on supposition, asking officers to peer through windows to discern whether or not drivers are texting. The wording of an ordinance must also ban actions such as e-mailing and playing games to avoid possible “loopholes.” In the same vein, a city-run public education campaign seems crucial to the effort but must be careful not to discriminate against younger drivers or barrage drivers with scare tactics. The city may benefit from enlisting UT student athlete Sergio Kindle, whose lawyer blamed a recent accident on text messaging, to inform citizens about unsafe driving habits. Ultimately, the responsibility lies with drivers to realize the dangers of texting while driving, similar to those of drinking and driving. A “designated texter” position is in order. The possible city ordinance makes clear that the council cares about reducing accidents but must be executed carefully and properly to act as a legitimate deterrent to dangerous driving behavior. — Jeremy Burchard for the editorial board

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es to degree plans and the addition of interdisciplinary options. As students, we must also be more proacPlus/minus grading is upon us. While tive in these discussions. Campus academmany returning students are still unhappy ic issues affect our classroom experience, about the change, there is nothing we can do our GPAs and even the value of our bachabout it now. elor’s degrees. These are important issues, The plus/minus discussion began at UT and we must take further ownership of in late spring 2007, and the motion to ap- our education. prove the current plus/minus system was Talk to your professors. Make sure that passed at a special meeting of the Faculty you know exactly what they expect of you Council in the middle of May. Thus, much and how they will be grading you. Many of the discussion and debate on the grad- professors have forgotten what it’s like to be ing system occurred at a time when the ma- an undergraduate student and are unaware jority of students, including of what information students myself, were busy studyneed and expect. We need to ing for finals and wraptell them. ping up the end of a hectic Academic issues may not As students, spring semester. be as exciting as UT football, That the faculty and adbut controversy surroundwe must be ministration voted on such ing the plus/minus grading more proactive a crucial issue at that time system serves as a lesson on of the year seems unfair to in these the importance of student instudents. This situation was volvement in academic isdiscussions. a result of a lack of commusues. Get involved and voice nication between students your opinion to your respecand the administration and tive College Council. Colserves to highlight the imlege Councils are the official portance of student involvement in academ- student voice of the 18 academic colleges at ic issues on campus. UT, and they exist to represent students on a It is clear that more can be done to increase grassroots level. that communication. It’s not that the faculty Bottom line: Active participation in acaand administration at this University don’t demic issues on this campus is essential to care about student opinion — in fact, many ensuring that the 40 Acres remains a “uniadministrators recognize the importance of versity of the first-class.” As UT looks to set the student voice and care deeply about stu- university priorities for the upcoming year dent participation in campus issues. amid economic strain and financial setbacks, But the University must focus on involv- student voice will be even more vital to fuing students in as many academic issues as ture success of our school. possible. Specifically, the University must seek and weigh student voice more heavi- Ratliff is a government senior and president of the Senate of College Councils ly in the discussion of class syllabi, changBy Lauren Ratliff Daily Texan Guest Columnist

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Kennedy landed among the stars By Roberto Cervantes Daily Texan Columnist “Shoot for the moon. If you miss, you’ll land among the stars,” goes a popular saying. The story of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy embodies that sentiment. Succumbing to his yearlong bout with brain cancer, the 77-yearold senator died late Tuesday night at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass. Kennedy’s unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 1980 dominated many of the media reports immediately following his death. As the early morning hours crawled by, the topic subtly yet noticeably shifted to his distinguished Senate career. Watching the news, it became difficult to distinguish Kennedy’s character from his career, as his work so closely mirrored his life’s causes. He authored more than 2,500 bills throughout his career in the Senate, and hundreds of those bills became laws, according to his office’s Web site. Kennedy often said health care reform was the cause of his life, and though he won’t have the chance to vote on the current health care bill, he has had tremendous influence on the health reforms that brought the nation to this point. Today, the slew of now-legendary laws that Kennedy supported — however controversial they were decades ago when initially debated — seem like nothing less than the essential protections of a humane society. From Kennedy’s push in 1972 to establish the Women, Infants and Children nutrition program — which offers food, nutrition counseling and health services to lower-income women and children — to his 1997 efforts to establish the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which has helped states expand coverage to millions of children whose families who aren’t covered by Medicare, Kennedy made his mark on improving the nation’s health. To protect jobs and workers’ rights, Kennedy made it harder for employers to fire or retaliate against workers who take family leave in times of crises. He was also a fierce advocate for increasing the minimum wage, which continues to lift up millions of working, poor and middleclass Americans.

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He fought hard to legislate racial and gender equality and LGBT rights at the federal level, including a litany of then-controversial reforms like the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Title IX and the ongoing fight to pass the Matthew Shepard Act. To our generation, and especially to those of us with an interest in politics, Kennedy’s support of lowering the voting age to 18 helped open the doors of the democratic process to millions of additional Americans. His unyielding desire to protect the most vulnerable in our society won Kennedy a great number of followers who traverse every conceivable generational, gender and racial gap. None of this history was lost on me when I had the opportunity to hear Kennedy speak at the University of Texas–Pan American on Feb. 20, 2008. The pivotal Texas Democratic primary loomed large, and a loss for Hillary Clinton would have been just enough to knock her out of the Democratic race. Kennedy, who had earlier endorsed Barack Obama in California, came to gin up support for Obama in the Rio Grande Valley, in which Clinton had found her strongest base of support. “The eyes of the world, my friends, are going to be on Texas,” Kennedy told the diverse crowd. “You have the opportunity to select not only the Democratic candidate, but really the next president of the United States.” When he finished, he received the longest standing ovation I had ever witnessed. And as the crowd rushed to the stage, he graciously shook everyone’s hand and autographed everything from grocery receipts to torn notebooks. It has been said that Ted was the first Kennedy we saw go gray, and the one who accomplished the most — without ever becoming president. Indeed, he left a legislative record most presidents can only dream of achieving. The causes to which he dedicated his political career and personal ambition continue to reveal their importance. That enduring impact will be felt for generations to come, but the challenge for young Americans is to use the vast groundwork he laid and the battles he fought to come into our own. If the presidency is the moon of American politics, Ted Kennedy was the brightest star guiding us. Cervantes is a government and journalism junior

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Activists protest tax hikes By Audrey White Daily Texan Staff About 40 Austinites, including an organizer dressed as a magician, gathered outside City Hall on Thursday to protest under-appraisals of commercial property and upcoming property tax increases in Travis County. Change Austin, a group dedicated to organizing citizens to speak out on city issues, put on the protest, which charged the city with favoring commercial developments over resident services. Organizer Brian Rodgers said he wore the magician’s costume to show how the city was using “magic tricks� to make tax

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appraisal values for commercial properties “disappear.� “Americans by nature don’t protest, and when they do show up, elected officials realize something is amiss,� Rodgers said. Austin residents at the protest said they were frustrated with a broken county tax system. “We’re seeing higher taxes without improved services, and we’re fed up,� said Nine Francois, an East Austin resident and activist. Higher tax rates could take effect Oct. 1. Curtis said the reason for these increases is multi-faceted, but one main cause is the under-appraisal of many commercial properties

like the The Domain, a two-yearold business, retail and residential district. In some cases those commercial properties are undervalued by up to 40 percent, costing the city millions in tax dollars, she said. Curtis said a report released by the Texas Association of Appraisal Districts four years ago highlighted the problem. “Now, rather than going after commercial development, they’re going to try to raise people’s tax rates,� she said. “It’s just ridiculous.� When asked, city officials seemed unaware of the protest or its intentions. County officials were unavailable for comment late Thursday.

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By Nihas Wagal Daily Texan Staff The expression “Men need women more than women need men� may hold even truer for a species of ants, which have no male counterparts, discovered by ecologists from Brazil and the University. Biology professor Ulrich Mueller and Christian Rabeling, an ecology, evolution and behavior graduate student, discovered Mycocepurus smithii, which is the first known species of ant that has no males and reproduces asexually. Species that reproduce asexually are very rare, making this an incredible find, Rabeling said. For the most part, social insects, including bees, ants and termites, don’t rely on males but instead have a dominant egg-laying queen that presides over large numbers of infertile females who carry on the daily tasks of the colony. But even these insects produce male counterparts to continue the fertilization and reproduction of their species.

“Asexual species don’t mix their genes through recombination, so you expect harmful mutations to accumulate over time and for the species to go extinct more quickly than others. They don’t generally persist for very long over evolutionary time,� Rabeling said. Mueller said this particular ant differs from that norm. “This ant species, however, has had no trouble reproducing and is able to grow successfully in lab conditions,� Mueller said. The ants, which reside in Northern Mexico, Central America and Brazil, underwent several tests, including changing their fungal food source — which also happened to be asexual — to see if there was any change in the reproduction of the ants. Researchers also dissected the reproductive organs to see if there were any trace amounts of sperm. Both tests support the idea that the ants are purely asexual. Even though there are few species of insects that reproduce asexually, there are some advan-

tages to reproducing this way, said lead researcher Anna Himler, who works at the University of Arizona. Reproducing “asexually avoids the energetic cost of producing males, and thus doubles the number of reproductive females produced each generation from 50 percent to 100 percent of offspring,� she said “By reproducing this way, this species of ants doesn’t rely on a mating season and queens can produce fertile offspring to go and form their own colonies as they please,� Rabeling said. Scientists predict that these ants evolved not too long ago, and further tests are being conducted by Rabeling and his peers to deduce the time period that these ants appeared. Currently, the focus is on determining whether the ants use meiosis or not. By finding this, scientists will know whether all the ants produced are exact clones or some recombination took place and small differences exist within the population.

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Library celebrates president’s birthday with cake admission charged in his library, so that By Allison Harris tells you something about the man,” MedDaily Texan Staff Volunteers from the LBJ Library and nick said. Irene Borawski, another guide at the Museum celebrated what would have been the former president’s 101st birthday library who served cake and refreshWednesday by handing out free birthday ments, said the event helps humanize the former president. cake and refreshments. “I think it kind of brings him alive, Volunteers served cake to visitors of the makes him seem like a real person,” BoLBJ Library and on the rawski said. West Mall. The cake at Library archivist Rachel the West Mall was printFriend served cake on the ed with the words “Happy West Mall. Friend said the Birthday President Lyndon event was an opportunity B. Johnson” in blue and I think it kind of to celebrate the 36th presired frosting, and the cake brings him dent’s legacy. at the library was printed “President Johnson was alive.” with the presidential seal. a great president,” Friend The LBJ Library has — Irene Borawski said. “He passed a lot of legcelebrated the president’s LBJ Library guide islation, especially having to birthday since 1971, the do with education.” year when the library Friend said the event was opened, said Anne Wheelalso an opportunity to ater, a library spokeswomtract students to the library. an. Wheeler said the LBJ library is the only “I would imagine most students haven’t presidential library that does not charge even been to the library and museum, even admission and the free refreshments are though it is right on the edge of campus,” part of that policy. Friend said. “[LBJ] didn’t want anyone to feel that The Lyndon B. Johnson National Histhey couldn’t come to the library because torical Park near Stonewall, Texas, honthey couldn’t pay,” Wheeler said. ored the former president’s birthday by Library guide Marcia Mednick also com- laying a wreath on his grave and presentmented on the free admission policy. ing a new exhibit about Johnson’s civil “He stipulated that he would not want rights achievements.

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Building group unveils ‘sustainable’ housing prototype By Dylan Clement Daily Texan Staff A sustainable building group affiliated with UT’s School of Architecture unveiled a prototype of an environmentallyfriendly housing project in East Austin on Thursday. More than 140 people, including U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, DTexas, celebrated the completion of the Lydia Street house, constructed by the Alley Flat Initiative, whose goal is to provide sustainable, green, reasonably-priced housing alternatives for Austin. UT architecture students designed the basic form of the house in spring of 2007. Another group of architecture students participated in the construction of the proj-

ect for five weeks this summer. They painted the house, installed the fence, built the portico over the door and designed and formed the entire landscape of the property. Steven Moore, co-director of the UT Center for Sustainable Development, said the housing prototypes created by the initiative are affordable and green because of their design, the materials used to build them and technical systems installed in them, including highefficiency air conditioners and low-flush toilets. Strategically placed windows and shades, combined with high volumes of space inside the building, decreases the need for air conditioning. Such innovations and a myriad of others allowed the new

house to receive a five star efficiency rating from Austin Energy, the city’s electricity provider. The Lydia Street house was the second sustainable-building project Alley Flat has completed. It unveiled the first prototype home, also in East Austin, in June 2008. Aside from providing “greener” housing designs, the Alley Flat Initiative helps the greater Austin community by creating housing within the city limits, Moore said. “We can make our cities denser, without making the city dramatically different,” he said. Traditionally, “we go out to the urban edge where land is cheaper and we make new streets and extend water lines, all of which are hugely expensive projects.”

Despite the smaller environmental impact of the prototype home and more efficient energy use, it remains to be seen what gains the initiative can make on a larger scale. Despite this, Sarah Gamble, Alley Flat Initiative coordinator, remained optimistic and said the first step toward solving global environmental concerns is knowledge. “A primary component of the Alley Flat Initiative is advocacy and education,” she said. In an e-mail, Doggett said the program was “an example of the best of what Austin has to offer, and an important reminder that Austin is at the forefront of moving Texas toward a future that is a vibrant shade of green.”

Congressman Lloyd Doggett, Mario Renteria, Mark Rogers, Margaret Renteria and Sarah Gamble prepare for the ribbon cutting to celebrate the completion an energy-efficient housing project in East Austin.

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Longhorns ready to serve it up in California, then eat at In-N-Out Burger By Jordan Godwin Daily Texan Staff For some players, Texas volleyball’s season opener will be a trip far from home, but for others, it will be a homecoming. “I’m looking forward to finally having our first game,” said junior outside hitter Juliann Faucette. “It’ll be great to see someone else on the other side of the net, and it’s always extra exciting to play in front of my friends and family.”

No. 2 Texas opens the 2009 season on Saturday at No. 23 Long Beach State, about an hour and a half from Faucette’s hometown of San Diego. Even closer to The Pyramid in Long Beach is Yorba Linda, hometown of senior opposite hitter Ashley Engle, which is about a half-hour away. “All of my family will be there,” Engle said, with a heavy emphasis on the word “all.” “I’m really looking forward to going home.” One thing that both Faucette and Engle mentioned as a staple for a quality trip home is California’s famous fast food joint, InN-Out Burger.

“That’s usually a must-have when I go home,” Faucette said. “But we try to stay away from the fast food stuff, especially on game weekend.” Faucette mentioned another California attraction that Austin lacks. “Obviously, Austin doesn’t have the beaches that California does,” Faucette said. “I think that’s a huge deal for me, but they’re almost incomparable.” Freshman middle blocker Sha’Dare McNeal is still adjusting to Texas life away from her hometown of San Diego, but unlike most honest freshmen on

campus, she hasn’t experienced any homesickness. “No, not at all, not yet,” Sha’Dare McNeal said. “But I am excited to see my friends and family again.” McNeal was one of several highly-touted recruits that head coach Jerritt Elliott landed from the 2009 class, and is the third California recruit over the past four seasons. “It’s a great chance to showcase Texas volleyball out there,” Elliott said. “California is one of the hotbeds, if not the hotbed, as

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Ashley Engle, right, returns to her home state to kick off volleyball season as the Longhorns look to live up to preseason expectations.

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Yankees’ 26 rings will always trump the Texas Rangers By Austin Talbert Daily Texan Columnist

New York’s long, storied franchise will never be matched by the Rangers

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Mack Brown released the depth chart for the 2009 season on Thursday and announced that No. 21 Blake Gideon will split time. With the Longhorns having wrapped up preseason practices Wednesday, Texas football coach Mack Brown released the team’s first depth chart Thursday. The largely two-deep chart featured a couple of surprises. Junior Vondrell McGee is listed as the starter at tailback after sophomore “Fozzy” Whittaker suffered a minor injury. Cody Johnson, who is also listed as the back-up fullback, will back up McGee with Whittaker. “He’s tough, he’s been catching the ball, he’s a warrior and we’re excited about watching him play,” Brown said. “If Vondrell’s making yards, he’ll get a bunch of [carries]. If he’s not, we’re going to change it up.”

On defense, sophomore Christian Scott will split time with Blake Gideon at one of the safety spots. The same goes for cornerback, where Chykie Brown and Aaron Williams locked down the starting spots but Brown plans to use Deon Beasley and Curtis Brown often. “It’s not the old days,” Brown said. “You got to have depth.” Texas’ newcomers have also made an impact. Six true freshmen — quarterback Garrett Gilbert, tight end Barrett Matthews, guards Mason Walters and Mark Buchanan, defensive end Alex Okafor and defensive tackle Calvin Howell — made the team, though Brown said more will likely see the field against Louisiana-Monroe. — Blake Hurtik

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Longhorns look to rebound against Houston After opening loss, Texas will go for first win of the season against Cougars

off difficult 2-1 losses to opponents who are close to home. Texas dropped their opener last Friday to TCU on a goal in the final five minutes of the By Ben Freed match and the Cougars lost at Daily Texan Staff home in double overtime to UT When the University of San Antonio. Both teams will Houston and the Texas wom- be looking to bounce back been’s soccer teams compete to- fore heading west for a weeknight, they should be pretty end of games in California. familiar with each other. Both Bouncing back is something teams are still working on in- that Texas has specialized in tegrating fresh faces into veter- this decade. Coming off a loss, an teams, and they both will be Texas has only dropped two looking to exgames in the last orcise similar 7 years. demons from The Longhorns last week. worked hard this Te x a s a n d week to make It’s a new back line Houston each sure that they can have returned and so we really need bounce back with at least two another victory. to work on making thirds of their “We need a lot sure they’re all on starters from of work on coorlast year and dinating our atthe same page.” will build on tack,” said head their success — Chris Petrucelli c o a c h C h r i s with an influx “We head coach Petrucelli. of new talent. just started this In Housweek really doing ton, the rethat. It’s obviousturning playly important for ers impressed head coach Su- us to get a result, we didn’t get san Bush. one the first one and we’re dis“The upperclassmen set the appointed by that, and we need standard for the season; they to get a win on Friday.” set the standard for the intensiThe Texas defense had a ty of the practice and the com- tough time last game containmitment,” Bush said during ing the TCU offense, and will pre-season practices. “They’re be tested again this week by demanding the freshman to the Houston front line that is play at the next level.” anchored by sophomore JessiBoth teams are also coming ca Zavalza who scored three

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Midfielder Kylie Doniak runs past a TCU defender in last week’s loss to the Horned Frogs. The Longhorns will host the Houston Cougars tonight at Mike A. Myers Soccer and Athletics Stadium. game-winning goals last year. “It’s a new back line and so we really need to work on making sure they’re all on the same page,” Petrucelli said. Texas had no problem with Houston in their last meeting. In 2007, the Longhorns dom-

inated the Cougars, beating them 4-0 here in Austin. The teams’ meet last year was canceled because of Hurricane Ike. The Longhorns kick off against the Cougars at 7 p.m. tonight at Mike A. Myers Soccer and Athletics Stadium.

The damn Yankees. They will always be there, ruling atop the baseball world, crushing the peasants, destroying the hopes and dreams of the common man and obliterating all opposition. For most, it is simply easier to grasp the inevitability of the Yankees’ power and succumb to them, bowing to their dominance, donning the interlocked NY atop their head. They create fear and weakness: the reason why we have so many damn Yankees’ fans polluting America. And even if they haven’t won a World Series title in nearly 10 years, they are still the Yankees, the damn Yankees. They still have 26 World Series championships. They still have 39 American League pennants. The Red Sox may have won more championships in the last few years, but don’t be confused, the Yankees are still the team, the team every other team is looking up to and dreaming of becoming. Add in a brand-spanking-new billion-dollar stadium, a fistful of expensive off-season acquisitions (successful ones, I might add) and the best record in baseball and you have the rest of the baseball world, or at least the American League, looking up to the damn Yankees. Such it is; such it will be. Death, taxes and the damn Yankees. But don’t be confused, if you want to stand in opposition to the evil forces of the damn Yankees, you have to look beyond the Boston Red Sox. Oh, no, no. Whatever ESPN and the East Coast would have you believe, there isn’t a huge difference between the Yankees and their hated rival from Boston. They both have extensive histories, they both have won championships and they both are always in contention for a playoff spot. They are the power players of baseball. They have the money, they have the clout and they are the ruling class of baseball. The true opposite of the damn Yankees, the light in the Yankees’ dark and evil world, are the Texas Rangers — my beloved Texas Rangers. Where the Yankees have history, the Rangers have none. They are not a stalwart of baseball, far from it. The transplants from Washington — where they were equally unsuccessful — continued their struggles in Texas. No, don’t be confused. They were not the original Washington Senators, the team who uprooted to Minnesota to become the Twins and took their history, including a World Series ti-

tle, with them. These Washington Senators — Texas Rangers — their history is paltry in comparison to even the other Washington Senators. In comparison to the damn Yankees, my Rangers and their three West Division titles in the 1990s — the only times they ever made a playoff appearance in nearly 50 years of existence — don’t even fit on the same sheet. But wait, the story gets better. The three times the Rangers have made the playoffs — in 1996, 1998 and 1999 — they matched up with guess who? Yes, the damn Yankees… Every single time. To an 8-year-old who was lucky enough to stay up and watch the first-ever Ranger playoff game, it appeared to be the beginning of something great. Juan Gonzales destroyed a three-run home run to give the Rangers the lead, and they never looked back. The playoffs couldn’t be that hard. The newbies went into Yankee Stadium and crushed the damn Yankees. History, who needs history? The Rangers had began building their own illustrious playoff history. The next day, same story. Juan Gonzalez deposited two more homers, the Rangers led 4-1 and were well on their way to being one win away from dethroning the king, beheading Goliath. And then it all collapsed. The Yankees tied the game up in the 8th, the Rangers failed to capitalize on scoring opportunities in the 10th, 11th and 12th innings and third baseman Dean Palmer misplayed a bunt that allowed Derek Jeter to score the winning run. The rest is blurry, I have lost (probably intentionally) it from my memory, as the Rangers dropped the next two games, both in Arlington, and the damn Yankees were moving on, again. The Rangers would never win another game against the Yankees in the playoffs, being swept out of the divisional round in both 1998 and 1999. Fast-forward a decade. Here I sit, giddy again for the prospect of Ranger’s playoff baseball — just maybe — and here, again, for the damn Yankees trying to squash the little guy, crush the rebellion and destroy our magical run. On Tuesday, after taking a 10-5 lead into the bottom of the 9th, the bad memories reemerged. The damn Yankees rallied, they scored four runs without ever recording an out and they already had two more runners on base. It was over, I was ready to focus on football season. It was great while it lasted, but this year the Yankees would crush our playoff dreams before the playoffs even started. A failed bunt, followed by an unassisted double-play on a liner, and the little guys had escaped — just barely — 10-9. But there was no room to celebrate. The inevitable was coming; it was just a bit late.

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to see friends and family From page 7 a major source of talent.� Engle and Faucette were unanimous selections to the Preseason All-Big 12 Team, and both will serve as unofficial ambassadors for California players attending Texas. “I like playing in front of all of those people that I know,� Engle said. “It’s a great chance for me to show why I came to Texas.� The last time Texas played in Long Beach State was six years ago, when they lost 3-1. On Sunday, the Longhorns face San Diego, who beat Texas 3-2 in Austin nearly seven years ago. But during Elliott’s

years with the Longhorns, Texas volleyball has drastically improved — 6-2 in season openers. “People are stepping up, and depth-wise, we’re looking really good right now,� Elliott said. “I’ve got a lot of confidence in our bench, and we haven’t had that in years past.� Elliott, a fellow native of Southern California, didn’t entirely rule out a trip to the burger chain or the beaches. “They might have a chance to experience some of those things,� Elliott said. “But they all understand that this is a business trip for us, and we’re looking to get better.�

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Heisman dark horses Everybody likes an underdog. With quarterbacks Sam Bradford, Colt McCoy and Tim Tebow as clear favorites in the race for the Heisman Trophy and California running back Jahvid Best right behind, no one thinks anyone else has a legitimate shot at the prize. You never know what can happen in college football. Many probably didn’t predict Colt McCoy would be the Heisman runner-up last season. Here is a look at some players who are capable of entering the Heisman discussion with a breakthrough season in 2009. All have the talent to get it done and play for legitimate contenders. — Aalok Bhattarai

Other notable preseason picks 2008 stats (total offense and touchdowns) Dez Bryant Oklahoma State junior receiver 1,801 yards and 23 touchdowns

Daryll Clark Penn State senior quarterback 2,874 yards and 29 touchdowns

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West Virginia junior running back 1,539 yards and four touchdowns

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Terrelle Pryor will need a remarkable season to be among the top of the Heisman list, which includes Colt McCoy and Sam Bradford.

Terrelle Pryor Ohio State sophomore quarterback 1,947 yards and 19 touchdowns

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Chris Davis, in his third homer of the day for the Rang- left field to extend their lead game since being recalled from ers, the first coming off the bat to 7-2 and they wouldn’t look back. They captured the series in New York, keeping their playoff dreams alive and proving to the world and themselves that they can beat the Yankees. Good cannot dance around evil. David couldn’t The Rangers will never have their own history until they go win without attacking Goliath head-on. through the Yankees. Good canThere is no way to escape destiny. not dance around evil. David couldn’t win without attacking Goliath head-on. There is no way to escape destiny. And one day, the Rangers the minors, belted a three-run of Ian Kinsler, giving the Rang- will drop the damn Yankees on their miraculous climb to the home run to extend the lead to ers the lead in the fourth. 6-2 over the damn Yankees. But they weren’t done. Kin- top. Why not this year? Damn Yankees. It was the second three-run sler snuck another dinger into

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MOVIE REVIEW

‘Taking Woodstock’ misses the forest for the trees Likeable film adroitly captures characters, era, but misses bigger story By Robert Doty Daily Texan Staff In “Taking Woodstock,� Ang Lee and his cast do their best to channel the flower child spirit of Woodstock. And they succeed. It’s all there: the sex, the optimism, the freedom, the youth, the dazed philosophers, the disapproving adults, the music and, of course, the drugs. But Woodstock never makes it to center stage. Instead, it’s the background to an initially pleasant but ultimately underwhelming coming-of-age story. The film opens with the sights and sounds of lazy Bethel, N.Y. — the eventual site of Woodstock. Demetri Martin plays Elliot Teichday, month day, 2008

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its capitalist roots and the culture it symbolizes had the potential for serious dramatic tension. But the film strays from its most interesting and dramatic aspects, almost never leaving the small motel. Lee seems adamant to keep Elliot at the forefront. Even when he messes up at a press conference, essentially announcing that the concert is free, the only consequence the audience sees is a few disgruntled statements from the organizers. Where’s the drama? The protagonist acts, there are tremendous consequences and no one bats an eye. This endless focus on the muted Elliot, who is initially charming and awkward, gradually bores when so many dynamic characters and events fill the wings. And because of this focus, almost none of the characters seriously engage

the audience. The organizers have potential but disappear after the first half-hour; Emile Hirsch never feels like anything more than another unhinged Vietnam vet. On the other hand, Liev Schreiber and Henry Goodman, a transvestite ex-marine who acts as head of security and an ultra-conservative Holocaust survivor respectively, break through their respective stereotypes, buoyed by the charming and authentic friendship they form. But two characters in a cast of many are not nearly enough to lift the film from mediocrity. Lee deserves credit for capturing the spirit of the event. It’s not something so easily done. But unfortunately, his film is anchored on 1 Elliot’s story, leaving the greatest story untold.

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Maritza Ramon, a pastry chef, and her daughter, Marley Ramon, 4, wave at Aldo Ramon, bass player of Los Bad Apples. The band played at the Blanton Museum of Art on Thursday evening at “MIX,� a celebration of the new Francisco Matto exhibition. Students gathered in the Blanton Museum of Art on campus last night for the first Blanton MIX of the semester. The MIX, an event designed to bring together appreciation of the Blanton’s collections with live music, food and interactive activites, happens every semester at the museum. Thursday’s event — limited to only students — filled the Blanton, as guests snacked on cheesecake and pineapple juice and browsed the museum’s most recent exhibit, “Francisco Matto: The Modern and the

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made up of interlocking movements for each instrument that will reflect the mood of each text written by the “leader of the Lost Generation,� a 1920s literary movement. “The series is a really great fusion of literature and Waddle’s art form,� said Alison Nihlean, marketing director for BookPeople. “Waddle usually comes to play with three or four accompanying cellists.� Waddle, a prolific Austin musician with an internationally-recognized list of more than 300 works, created the orchestral and chamber pieces to accompany a lecture and commentary on four of Fitzgerald’s novels. Prior to the series, Waddle played bass for the Austin Symphony and has made classical music accessible to local audiences through the “Music and a Movie� series at the Alamo Drafthouse

Mythic.� As the evening progressed, bands Los Bad Apples & Peligrosa All Stars performed rap and hip hop music, while guests sat on the floor and played games inspired by the exhibit. “The MIX always brings together people who wouldn’t normally be together to appreciate art,� said Shyam Sivasankar, a biochemistry senior in attendance. “It’s awesome. And I like the free food.� — Leigh Patterson

and the Library Concert Series, which allowed Waddle to play his compositions at Austin Public Library. “We’ve done a couple of concerts with P. Kellach Waddle before; the first was for Banned Books Week and another was a tribute to Kurt Vonnegut — Waddle actually got nominated for another Pulitzer for one of those pieces,� Nihlean said. “What Waddle does is read books, gets inspired by them and then composes these beautiful pieces for them.� WHAT: Synthesis of Music and Literature: A Tribute to F. Scott Fitzgerald WHERE: BookPeople at the corner of Sixth Street and Lamar Boulevard WHEN: Sunday at 7 p.m. TICKETS: Free admission

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AUSTIN: What drew Moseley back to the funky city From page 12 and weird, too. I wanted to hug it! But, since you can’t hug a city, I decided to do the next best thing: start a blog celebrating how great it is. On “Austin Eavesdropper,� I talk about music and fashion a lot, but anything’s on the table. When Austin media started noticing it as a valuable local resource or whatever, then I be-

came inspired to trick it out, start interviewing people on it and just explore the possibilities. I think I’ve been recognized a total of three times. More like two, because one of those was actually someone at work who was like, “Oh, you write ‘Austin Eavesdropper?’ Neat‌ Did you remember to order labels today?â€? Another time, some guy at Beauty Bar stopped me

and asked, “Excuse me, are you somebody important?� Other than that, I honestly don’t know if people recognize me. Maybe they do and just don’t say anything because I look mean. I can’t compete with the music bloggers; they’re already awesome. And I can’t figure out how the fashion bloggers do their badass photography. Food bloggers are a growing force here

in Austin, but I’m only a mildly creative food writer. So, I cover a little bit of everything in Austin, and hope it’s my voice that makes my blog memorable. I deliberately try to write like I talk. One thing I’ve learned: far too many exclamation points are used in my speech.

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The ‘Austin Eavesdropper’ speaks in her own words Founder Tolly Moseley tells the story behind her fast-growing blog By Robert Rich Daily Texan Staff People are strange. They’re also funny, interesting, inspiring and a host of other adjectives that could fill up every page of this paper. But often times, people are represented through the eyes of a writer. The writer takes his or her preconceived notions and metaphors and structure and force the person into the story they want to write, which can take away from the personality and affecting nature of the person ostensibly being featured. So, with that in mind, we’ve

decided to give these people a chance to talk back, to describe what they do, what they love, what they fear and what they find funny — all in their own words. We’ll still introduce them

place, but in a good way. She’s a literary publicist in her day job, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t have time to write freelance for everything from the Austinist to the Onion’s AV Club. Perhaps

diverse atmosphere of this fair city. She took some time out of her schedule as Austin tastemaker to talk back. Before “Austin Eavesdropper,� I wrote two other blogs. Both were horrifying. I devoted them purely to stories about my life, as well as my perspectives on things like the Cinnamon Dolce Frappuccino at Starbucks. One thing I’ve learned: far too many exclamation I’ve been a Texan most of my points are used in my speech.� life — grew up here and in San — but moved to Califor— Tolly Moseley, blogger Antonio nia for grad school in 2005. When I came back to Austin in 2007, it was like reuniting with an old ex-boyfriend that you never realErik Reyna | Daily Texan Staff and give you the context, but the more importantly, she’s the force ly got over. The city was changactual substance is up to them. behind the increasingly popular ing and vibrant, but still funky Tolly Moseley, who writes the Austin Eavesdropper, is one of the many Enjoy. “Austin Eavesdropper,� a blog bloggers filling in the gaps that mainstream media cannot. Blogs like Tolly Moseley is all over the that celebrates the eclectic and Moseley’s inform readers about underground aspects of Austin culture. AUSTIN continues on page 11

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Classical composer to bring music to page Waddle pays homage to Fitzgerald’s works for BookPeople series By Francisco Marin Daily Texan Staff Many people will never see the connection between the written word and the audible note, but P. Kellach Waddle is out to change that. As part of an ongoing series called the “Synthesis of Music

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Neiliyo Be sure to catch Neiliyo at Beauty Bar tonight as the one-man dance party combines laptop beats and funk guitar into overwhelmingly infectious electro nuggets.

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Austin Hot Sauce Festival One hundred gallons of hot sauce. That’s what the 19th annual Austin Hot Sauce Festival promises. Featuring food stands from Austin restaurants and music by local bands, the event, which is sponsored by The Austin Chronicle, will feature homemade salsa competitions from professionals and amateurs alike. Plus, the festival is free, which always translates to fun in our book.

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