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Architectural engineering junior Sophia Kim listens as Cathy Bao Bean presents “Living and Laughing by the Chopsticks Fork Principle” for the event “You Bring Out the Asian American in Me” at the Union Ballroom on Thursday night.

Artists take stage to speak against stereotypes that plague community lander American Collective hosted the event, which featured speakers and an a cappella group, to welcome AsianAmerican students and friends to the UT community. The hallway outside the ballroom was packed with students as they shuffled by tables of food and various student organizations.

“We do this to show AsianAmericans on campus that although we are a large and diverse population, we can come together and provide resources for new students,” said Jennifer Lee, psychology senior and collective chairwoman. “We do this to welcome first-year students every year so they know

about resources and the different kinds of groups that they can join on campus.”

The first speaker was author Cathy Bao Bean, who spoke about overcoming stereotypes and her book, “The Chopsticks-Fork Principle: A Memoir and Manual.” In

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UT System figures to advise mayor

By Lena Price Daily Texan Staff Fritz Steiner and Hopeton Hay, two members of the UT System, will serve on Mayor Lee Leffingwell’s council of community advisors.

The 28-member council will meet quarterly to discuss longterm city planning options such as water and electricity usage.

The first meeting is scheduled for early October, and will be closed to the public.

“The council won’t meet enough to impact the day-to-day workings of Austin,” said Leffingwell spokesman Matt Curtis.

“It’s one of several groups meant to help the mayor establish the next steps of the city.”

Steiner, dean of the UT School of Architecture, said he will use his seat on the council as a way to enhance communication between the University and the mayor.

Country Conservancy, an organization dedicated to conserving natural spaces and scenic views in Austin. He has also been involved in developing Austin’s transit system as a former city planner.

“It’s not my agenda, it’s the mayor’s agenda,” Steiner said.

“The only interest I have is making sure the University is wellrepresented.”

Hay is a manager of the UT System’s Historically Underutilized Business program, which is charged with increasing purchases and contracts awarded to minority and female-owned businesses. He will focus on those Michael Baldon | Daily Texan Staff priorities while serving on the Fritz Steiner, the dean of the School of Architecture, was appoint- mayor’s council.

“My main focus will be to ed to be one of Mayor Lee Leffingwell’s community advisors. make sure that minority business “Bringing together people Steiner said. “It’s important to owners and women have access to capital and access to [bonds], from the community will pro- have a range of perspectives.” vide more coordination between Steiner also serves on the MAYOR continues on page 2 different aspects of the city,” board of directors for the Hill

‘Big Push’ aims to cut Austin’s greenhouse emissions

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UT students ride the bus near campus. Central Texas could face federal penalties if the measured ozone level surpasses EPA limits.

By Rachel Platis Daily Texan Staff Austin has just two more months to clear up an unsatisfactory air quality rating before restrictions will be placed on the local economy.

To urge citizens to cut back on ozone emissions, city officials are throwing their weight behind a “Big Push” campaign in hopes that residents can curb pollution before the final measurement in October. A negative Environmental Protection Agency rating could be detrimental to the health of Austin residents, and it may lead to cutbacks on federal money for roads, said Deanna Altenhoff, executive director of the

CLEAN AIR Force of Central Texas.

Central Texas is at an ozone level of 75 parts per billion, which is exactly the federal standard set this year. The final measurement to determine the area’s rating will take place Oct. 31.

“It’s critical to let people know that there is an air quality problem here in Central Texas, because many people don’t even know that we have one,” Altenhoff said.

The “Big Push” campaign, which began in April, is especially crucial this month because September is typically

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Event brings out Asian-Americans

By Alex Geiser Daily Texan Staff Students who packed the Texas Union Ballroom on Thursday night for the eighth annual “You Bring Out the Asian American in Me” event heard how they can overcome stereotypes and become involved on campus.

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TOMORROW’S WEATHER

Athletics braces for possible flu spread

By Hudson Lockett Daily Texan Staff Following flu outbreaks in recent weeks among college athletics, including Duke University’s football and Tulane University’s football and volleyball teams, the UT athletics department said it is taking measures to prevent outbreaks of H1N1 among athletes.

Mark Chassay, head physician of UT intercollegiate athletics, said the department was following guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and State Department recommendations about H1N1.

“Whatever the state’s doing is what we’ve got to do,” Chassay said.

He said UT focuses on preventative care and making sure information is available about the flu. Athletes who feel ill can call their student athlete trainer, he said, and arrange to be tested for H1N1. Because the virus spreads easily, student athletes with flu symptoms are advised not to come in to the sports medicine facility at the Moncrief Athletic Center, Chassay said.

“We try to discourage them from coming in unless they’re really feeling terrible,” he said.

Chassay said that the department was not treating anyone that tested positive for H1N1 with Tamiflu or any antiviral medications due to the mildness of the strain’s symptoms. That approach contrasts with Tulane’s practice of giving Tamiflu to any athletes diagnosed with H1N1.

Greg Stewart, a doctor at the Tulane Institute of Sports Medicine, said the group has always faced the problem of diseases spreading in athletics because athletes are in close contact with one anoth-

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College Councils open year with full agenda

By Viviana Aldous Daily Texan Staff The Senate of College Councils opened the semester Thursday evening with resolutions endorsing academic integrity and expanding interdisciplinary degree programs.

All 19 colleges are represented on the Senate, which aims to represent the student body on academic affairs.

“We really want to ensure students are involved,” said Senate President Lauren Ratliff. “Pretty much anything academic, we know about and have a hand in.

We really want this institution to be the No. 1 public institution in the nation, and it’ll get there by its academic changes and the strength of its degree programs.”

Carisa Nietsche, faculty affairs chair and Plan II sophomore, and Drew Finke, policy director and architecture and urban studies senior, introduced a resolution to support the creation of collegebridging programs, or courses of study that involve degrees or certificates combining coursework

for more than one school or college.

“It makes applicants more attractive to graduate and law schools,” Nietsche said. “It gives students a broader view of the world than their major provides.

It gives them a more worldly, cosmopolitan view.”

Senate will vote on the resolution next week.

At the meeting, council presidents signed the honor code, which students created in 2004, and made a commitment to uphold and educate other students about academic integrity.

“As leaders of the University, we need to hold ourselves to a higher standard,” Ratliff said.

“We’re trying to make sure students are aware of it, and we want to further integrate it into our culture. [Signing the code was] a formal commitment, a first step among many steps to further promote academic integrity amongst our colleges, schools and student bodies.”

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Richard Naething, president of Graduate Engineering Council, and Emily Chen, president of Engineering Council, sign the Honor Code at the Senate of College Councils meeting Thursday evening.

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Friday, September 4, 2009

AIR: Austin at risk of exceeding federal

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Mary Kang | Daily Texan Staff

Chris Thompson, a city worker with Downtown Austin Alliance, cleans a sidewalk along Tenth Street and Congress Avenue on Thursday afternoon.

the worst time for ozone pollution, she said. “September is bad because of the high heat and high temperatures that occur along with low wind and no rain,� Altenhoff said. “All of these factors contribute to ozone formation because there are no wind or cold fronts that push the air out. Pollution just stagnates.�

This is the closest Austin has ever come to exceeding the federal limit; Houston and Dallas have already fallen into “non-attainment� status.

Unlike Houston and Dallas, much of Austin’s air pollution comes from vehicles, Altenhoff said. “Cars and trucks are the biggest contributor to emissions in Central Texas,� she said. “In Houston, a lot of emissions come from their industries. In Austin, it’s cars.�

City officials want to avoid fall-

ing into non-attainment status because the health-based standard that the EPA gives the area can have negative stigmas attached to it, Altenhoff said. “This has to do with the health of our citizens,� Altenhoff said. “We’re breathing unhealthy air.�

One-third of the population in Travis County has a respiratory illness such as asthma or emphysema, she said.

Furthermore, the negative rating can have implications on the local economy. “Certain companies may have emission controls put on them that they don’t have to deal with now,�

Altenhoff said. “This costs businesses more money, and it costs the consumer more money.�

A non-attainment rating can also affect money that Central Texas receives from the federal government when it comes to building roadways.

Jacob Bintliff, a Latin American

studies senior, is a co-director of the UT environmental group ReEnergize Texas and said that he thinks many people would be surprised to know that Austin is close to being out of compliance with air regulations.

He also said that UT students may have a higher than average awareness of environmental issues, though there may not be a huge focus on air quality. “At UT, a lot of students already take advantage of alternative transportation because parking is so difficult,� Bintliff said. “But still, much of North Campus is like a parking lot for UT. The number one thing students can do is stop driving to school.�

Rachel Aitkens, a government junior and director of UT Campus Environmental Center, said the rating was important in terms of the status it would give Austin. “We need to be aware and conscious of our actions, even if it means walking a couple blocks to get to campus,� Aitkens said.

ILLNESS: University sports teams enact ASIAN: Event links students MAYOR: Steiner, with campus social groups Hay chosen for policies to stem contagious disease From page 1 er. The recent outbreak, in which 32 members of the football team and six members of the volleyball team were infected, spurred the implementation of policies that had been revisited after the summer to prepare for the fall.

Tulane divides treatment into two approaches one for the offseason and another for during the season. When off-season athletes get sick, everyone involved with the athlete’s team is screened, and briefings about the flu and prevention are held almost daily, Stewart said.

In-season procedure is more involved. Every other day, athletes fill out a questionnaire checking for flu symptoms and have their temperatures taken.

Chassay said that the department could not require vaccination for athletes, but that it was

signing up through the Texas Department of Health to get vaccines, which are expected to be made available this fall by the CDC. “We highly encourage all of them to get this [vaccine] because there’s a good chance that they will, in this age group, get the H1N1 novel flu virus,� he said.

Lauren Meyers, a UT biology associate professor whose study involves looking at the relationship between human behavior and the spread of disease, described some of the factors that can facilitate infection. “These athletes have a lot of intense, close physical contact with each other,� Meyers said.

While more contact meant more chances for spread of disease, it wasn’t limited to athletes, she said. “Certainly, just in general,

university campuses are places where transfer is very likely,�

Meyers said.

Tom Skinner, a spokesman for the CDC, said that the group did not have recommendations specifically for athletes regarding H1N1, but suggested recommendations similar to those given for businesses. “They need to have good hand hygiene programs in place,�

Skinner said, adding that particular care should be taken for athletes with complicating health conditions, such as diabetes.

Tulane’s Stewart said that while the outbreak resulted in the cancellation of the volleyball team’s opening game, the football team might have less to worry about during the season. “If we were going to get it, we were glad they were going to get it before the travel started,�

Stewart said.

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her book, Bean details the struggles she went through in order to find herself in a world that is quick to generalize based on race and ethnicity.

Asian comedian Eliot Chang acted out a comedy routine.

Like Bean, he spoke to the students about dealing with stereotypes of Asian-Americans.

The ballroom was completely full, at or exceeding the maximum capacity of 650 people.

More than 40 organizations represented at the event with tables lining half of the ballroom in addition to those in the hall.

While all organizations were welcome to sign up for a table, the majority were associated with collective. Psychology senior William Liu, member of the collective and event volunteer, said the event benefits UT students and organizations alike.

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From page 1 both of which are critical for the success of businesses,� Hay said.

Hay ran the Texas chapter of the NAACP and served on the board of the African American Chamber of Commerce. “I have been working to progress the interests of minorities and women in business for many years,� Hay said.

Steiner and Hay were selected, like the rest of the council, because of their previous involvement in city projects, Curtis said.

Leffingwell will also begin to establish a student advisory committee next month.

The student advisory council will also be involved with longterm city planning. “These councils are a way to get an even wider range of Texans involved in the city,� Curtis said.

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“It’s an opportunity for young Asian-American students to feel like they have a place to call home,� Liu said. “It gives organizations a venue to recruit members and to advertise events.�

While some came for the cultural aspect, others were more drawn to the social scene.

Biochemistry freshman Nirja Mehta came for the opportunities to become involved at UT. “I got a flyer while walking around campus,� she said, explaining how she heard about the event. “I’m interested in different clubs around campus, and I want to get more involved.�

Lee said that the feedback has been positive in the past and expects the trend to continue. “People always say that it has been an event to look forward to and is often a highlight of fall events,� she said.

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Rehabilitation facility counsels internet addicts

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks to lawmakers prior to voting for his proposed cabinet list, at the parliament, in Tehran, Iran on Thursday.

Iran approves Cabinet members

By Ali Akbar Dareini & Sebastian Abbot The Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received a broad mandate Thursday as parliament backed his main Cabinet choices — naming the first woman minister since the 1979 Islamic Revolution but showing international defiance by supporting a suspected mastermind in the bombing of an Argentine Jewish center.

The conservative-dominated legislature rejected Ahmadinejad’s choice for energy minister and two other women nominated for less prominent posts. The rest of his 21-member Cabinet was approved.

The broad backing was stronger than many in Iran had ex-

pected because even some of the president’s fellow conservatives had criticized him for nominating unqualified ministers. Ahmadinejad is also under fire for the abuse of protesters detained following the disputed June presidential election, which the proreform opposition claims he stole with massive vote fraud.

Analysts said parliament’s strong support could indicate that despite differences among conservatives, they believe it is better to present a fairly united front as Iran faces possible harsher international sanctions over its nuclear program and continued pressure from reformists at home.

The most defiant message parliament sent was its overwhelming support for Ahmad Vahidi as defense minister. He is wanted

over charges of involvement in the 1994 bombing of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association building in Buenos Aires.

Vahidi was the commander of a special unit of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard known as the Quds Force at the time of the attack and is one of five prominent Iranians sought by Argentina in the bombing.

Lawmakers chanted “Allahu Akbar, or “God is great,” as parliament speaker Ali Larijani announced the vote for Vahidi.

Among the 286 lawmakers who attended, Vahidi received 227 votes.

Jose Scaliter, vice president of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association, told Argentina’s Jewish News Agency Thursday that Vahidi’s approval “is an absolute shame.”

Interpol issued a “red notice” for Vahidi in 2007, placing him on the equivalent of its most wanted list. An Interpol spokeswoman said Thursday that the notice will still be valid even if Vahidi travels on a diplomatic passport. She spoke anonymously according to Interpol’s standard policy.

Shortly before the Cabinet vote, Ahmadinejad told parliament that Western countries he accuses of stoking postelection unrest deserve “a crushing response from lawmakers to disappoint them.”

President Barack Obama has stepped up diplomatic engagement with Iran to reduce international tension, but the turmoil and allegations of Western interference have hampered the effort.

By Nicholas K. Geranios The Associated Press FALL CITY, Wash. — Ben Alexander spent nearly every waking minute playing the video game “World of Warcraft.” As a result, he flunked out of the University of Iowa.

Alexander, 19, needed help to break an addiction he calls as destructive as alcohol or drugs. He found it in this suburb of hightech Seattle, where what claims to be the first residential treatment center for Internet addiction in the United States just opened its doors.

The center, called ReSTART, is somewhat ironically located near Redmond, headquarters of Microsoft and a world center of the computer industry. It opened in July and for $14,000 offers a 45day program intended to help

people wean themselves from pathological computer use, which can include obsessive use of video games, texting, Facebook, eBay, Twitter and any other time-killers brought courtesy of technology.

“We’ve been doing this for years on an outpatient basis,” said Hilarie Cash, a therapist and executive director of the center.

“Up until now, we had no place to send them.”

Internet addiction is not recognized as a separate disorder by the American Psychiatric Association, and treatment is not generally covered by insurance. But there are many such treatment centers in China, South Korea and Taiwan — where Internet addiction is taken very seriously — and many psychiatric experts say it is clear that Internet addiction is real and harmful.

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ReSTART Internet Addiction Recovery Program co-founder Cosette Dawna Rae helps client Ben Alexander cook bacon for a dinner of hamburgers at the program’s facilities in Fall City, Wash.

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Editor in Chief: Jillian Sheridan Phone: (512) 232-2212 E-mail: editor@dailytexanonline.com Associate Editors: Jeremy Burchard David Muto Dan Treadway Lauren Winchester

T HE DAILY TEXAN

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Police should need warrants to draw blood In a city where football games, Greek life and the downtown scene are inseparably tied to drunken revelry, driving while intoxicated is not an uncommon occurrence.

Police have tried to combat drunken driving by implementing a “no refusal” policy during holidays and celebrations when drunken driving is expected to increase, such as Labor Day and Super Bowl weekends. During “no refusal,” if DWI suspects refuse a blood-alcohol breath test, police can force them to instead take a blood test — but only with a warrant.

The process of obtaining a warrant is sped up during these weekends. Under normal circumstances, police say securing a warrant can take several hours, during which time the alcohol in a suspect’s bloodstream can dissipate.

According to The Daily Texan, police have arrested as many as 30 people in a single night for drunken driving during a “no refusal” weekend. Police hail the initiative as a way to more effectively nab drunken drivers, but a new law mutates this policy into a civil-liberties disaster.

The law, which went into effect this week, allows police officers to draw blood without a warrant. The officer may draw blood if someone is suspected of drunk driving, refuses a breath test and “has a history of offenses or if a serious injury or child passenger is involved,” according to the Texan.

Before the law’s enactment, police could only draw blood without a warrant if the suspect was previously involved in a car accident that caused serious injury or death.

Warrantless mandatory blood tests create a dangerous precedent that expands police power. Instead of endeavoring to fix the cumbersome process by which police obtain warrants, lawmakers decided to throw out the process altogether and eschew an important protection against police abuse.

The law gives police absolute discretion to make a decision usually reserved for judges, whose very role is to prevent police from exercising power too liberally.

While curbing drunken driving is a necessary and worthy goal, the new law is constitutionally dubious. Texas civil rights lawyers are expected to fight the law, claiming that it violates the Fifth Amendment’s protection against self-incrimination, as well as the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches and seizures.

Getting rid of warrants is too easy and sloppy a fix. Lawmakers should not strip away the protection of warrants, even if it may be simpler than reorganizing the system under which warrants are granted.

Instead of diverting resources to train more phlebotomists to draw blood, time and money should be devoted to reworking the warrant system to allow police to secure warrants in a timely manner — without judges resorting to rubber stamping — while still protecting the rights of motorists.

— Lauren Winchester for the editorial board

GALLERY

In honor of Labor Day

By Jim Harrington Daily Texan Guest Columnist Americans who look at Labor Day as nothing more than the end-of-the-summer finale and have forgotten its origins. We have that unfortunate tendency with all of our holidays — to see them for their festivities, and not why they exist.

Labor Day was created to honor working people who have struggled and continue to struggle to make our democracy vibrant and strong. It is also a day to recognize the accomplishments of the union movement. Organized labor brought us the five-day work week, overtime pay, minimum wage, workplace safety protections and employer-provided health insurance.

Nor do most Americans remember how hard, long and even bloody the struggle was — how many people went to jail, lost their jobs and died.

The labor movement, ironically, has suffered from its success. Part of the reason membership is currently low is that workers do not feel the same intense need to organize as they did when protections and benefits were not written into law or part of the fabric of the American working culture.

There are workers, however — especially in the health care and service industries — who are still trying to organize for the benefits enjoyed by others: better wages, hours and working conditions. Agriculture also remains an industry in which laborers suffer exploitation and are among the lowest paid and least protected.

Organized labor worked to tie health insurance to employment, and it became a routine part of the job. In recent years, though, that protection has eroded and now is more the exception than the rule.

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A safe place

By Meg Susong Daily Texan Columnist After being in Austin for barely a week and envisioning a quiet Saturday night with popcorn and a movie, I had to shake my head when I found myself watching a game of beer pong at a fraternity party. I had to be coaxed into tagging along, because although fraternity parties are known for welcoming women, it is not in the way I’d like to be approached.

As a queer woman, I am cautious about the atmospheres in which I immerse myself. My friend promised it would be different here. After all, this is Austin.

Unfortunately, she was only partially right.

While there was no open hostility, and I did not feel immediately uncomfortable, I overheard a comment that made me take note. Two of my female companions had been dating for several months and, naturally, shared a kiss. Upon witnessing this, one attendee felt the need to reassure anyone within hearing distance that “they’re just drunk,” as if there was no other reason for two women to be locking lips. This, of course, was someone none of us had ever met and who was certainly unaware that my friends had not touched a drink all night.

The point to make here is not how to deal with inconsiderate people — pockets of hostility and misunderstanding exist everywhere — but to look at the state of LGBT relations in Austin. Despite my initial unease, I feel confident that UT holds promise and opportunity for not only those long out of the closet but for those just emerging as well. To date, I have attended several LGBT campus group meetings, walked the streets as an out individual and have yet to be met with hostility.

Austin has long had a reputation as a safe

place for LGBT individuals and groups. In a 2008 piece on afterellen.com — a lesbian-oriented pop culture site — Cheryl Coward wrote about her experience visiting a blue city in red Texas. She wrote that “Austin has a reputation for being a Texas oasis of laid-back, gay-friendly progressiveness. … LGBT folks tend to feel comfortable all over the city.”

Austin has everything, from gay and lesbian bars to organizations dedicated to serving the LGBT community — including Equality Texas, which works to advance LGBT rights, and Out Youth, which offers support in a friendly and laid-back setting.

UT also has a reputation as a haven for those who don’t ascribe to mainstream Texas conservatism. Campusclimateindex.com — which hosts statistics on a number of U.S. colleges and their LGBT environments — awards UT four out of five stars.

The campus is host to a number of LGBT organizations, including the Queer Students Alliance, HangOut, MBA OutSource, OUTLaw and SheSays. New to campus is Delta Lambda Phi, a gay and bisexual fraternity. The Student Services Building is home to UT’s Gender and Sexuality Center, which has an active presence on campus through its “Peers for Pride” program.

Neither Austin nor UT is a stranger to the LGBT community, and both serve as a welcome change from the rest of Texas. While I remain wary about my surroundings in a world still fraught with discrimination, I appreciate Austin and UT for their inviting atmospheres.

If I can’t be completely at ease, I am at least allowed spaces of comfort, largely thanks to the work of those before me.

Susong is a women’s and gender studies sophomore

Marx and UT’s core purpose As UT faculty, staff and students begin a new semester, I’d like to give students what might be their first pop quiz of the new year. Pencils ready?

Read these two quotes: “My own existence is social activity, and therefore that which I make of myself, I make of myself for society.”

“To transform lives for the benefit of society.”

The question: Which of these is a quote from Karl Marx’s “Private Property and Communism,” and which is the official core purpose of this very university, inscribed on marble and bolted to a south stair siding of the Main Building?

You can probably tell immediately, if from nothing else than the length of the quote and how much trouble it would be to carve it into marble.

A’s for everyone.

Now that you’ve passed the pop quiz, here’s the midterm: Think about what the above quotes mean. How could the intellectual climate of this university fall so far that an explicitly socialist sentiment, which could have been paraphrased straight out of the pages of Marx, be adopted as UT’s official core purpose, attracting no undue attention or protest but, on the contrary, being widely accepted as right and just?

Now, the final: What needs to be done, and

LEGALESE Opinions expressed in The Daily Texan are those of the editor, the Editorial Board or the writer of the article. They are not necessarily those of the UT administration, the Board of Regents or the Texas Student Media Board of Operating Trustees. All Texan editorials are written by the Editorial Board, the members of which are at the top right corner of this page.

More than two-thirds of uninsured Texans between ages 16 and 64 have jobs. Yet Texans are far less likely — by about 10 percent — to have employer-supplied health insurance than workers in other states. About half of our businesses don’t offer health benefits at all. Roughly seven out of eight small business employees either aren’t offered or can’t afford health insurance.

Between 2000 and 2007, health insurance costs rose 87 percent in Texas, but workers’ paychecks only increased by 15 percent during the same period. Medical bills increased six times faster than people’s paychecks.

Overall, Texas has the highest percentage of people without health insurance in the nation.

One-fourth of Texans, almost 6 million people, have no health insurance. Texas also has the nation’s highest percentage of children without health insurance. One out of every six uninsured American children lives in Texas.

This Labor Day, amid the national health care debate, is an occasion to reflect on the proposition that health insurance for workers should be a right that cannot be taken away — all are entitled to remain and be kept healthy so they can enjoy the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Health should not just be for the rich, but for everyone.

One other lesson we can learn from the labor movement is that our country survives best when we live as a community, watching out for each other, and not as a conglomerate of rugged individualists. American democracy has taught us that community life helps us more than going it on our own, and that’s a lesson we need to apply to the health care debate.

Harrington is an adjunct UT law professor and director of the Texas Civil Rights Project.

what can be done, to reassert the right of each and every individual student to design the transformation of his or her own life for his or her own benefit? How can we suggest to each student that his or her life isn’t hostage to society — that society should exist to protect the individual, and that as long as one obeys rational limits, each person’s life belongs to that person and no one else?

— Alan McKendree UT staff

A breathtaking photo The photo on Wednesday’s front page, “Dining at the table of Abraham,” by Edmarc Hedrick, is simply breathtaking. When I first glanced at it, I thought it was an art installation of some sort.

Gulsah Yildirim, the lovely young women in the photo, is so serene and still that with the sheen of her head dress she looks like a beautiful statue.

Then the eyes are drawn to the color of her scarf, the flowers, the tablecloth. The photograph is so elegant and perfectly composed.

I fear this will sound condescending, and I absolutely do not mean it so: The photo looks like one taken by a much more experienced photographer than one would expect at a college newspaper.

Hedrick is obviously someone to watch.

— Becky Willard Austin resident

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Austin Energy ranks among best utility companies

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A construction worker leaves the work site next to the City of Austin Power Plant on Thursday afternoon.

By Shabab Siddiqui Daily Texan Staff City-owned utility company Austin Energy is ranked second in the nation among “intelligent utility companies,� according to a study published in the July/ August issue of Intelligent Utility magazine. “The companies that are in the lead are working toward transforming from the traditional energy model to a more efficient, modern power source,� said Rick Nicholson, vicepresident of research at IDC, the company which authored the report. “Austin Energy definitely falls into that category.�

IDC analyzed data for more than 100 utility companies nationwide, focusing on reliability, affordability and sustainability. The group’s five specific judging criteria were the revenue generated per employee, renewable energy initiatives, smart power initiatives, demandresponse programs and investment in technology. Ed Clark, spokesman for Austin Energy, said the company has offset 300 megawatts in the last few years.

“They simply looked at the revenue data from each company,�

Clark said. “They looked at our energy efficiency programs and liked our initiatives.�

Austin Energy is one of only three of the top 25 companies to be publicly owned. As a result, citizens have more to benefit, Clark said. “The citizens of Austin own the public utility,� he said. “Therefore, a portion of profits that would usually go to stockholders, go back to the city of Austin. Basically, [the citizens] get a refund on part of what they pay for their electricity, which also helps fund other city services.�

The installation of smart meters is one technological investment that puts the utility ahead of the competition. Smart meters send wireless signals via radio wave back to the power company, thus removing the need to have electricians come and manually check the meters. Clark said that the practical usages of the smart meters will increase in the near future. “Smart meters will be able to detect if a power outage has occurred so that we can send our people over

to the location before the customer even picks up the phone,� he said. “Down the road, you can directly monitor how much power you are using, and [the smart meter] will show you how much electricity is being used when the air conditioning is on, etc. You’ll be able to see how much power things use and make decisions better based on what utilities to use.�

The utility company has also set a goal to have 30 percent of all its energy sources be renewable sources. “We plan to acquire more energy from wind, solar and bio-mass [sources],� Clark said. “In addition to what we already have, all these sources are renewable and will help us reach our goal.�

Clark said that while the recognition as one of the most energy-efficient utilities comes as a surprise, it is no stopping point. “We’re very pleased to be highly rated,� he said. “[But] we also recognize that we’ve worked hard, and we take very seriously those programs that we received recognition for.�

AT&T Conference Center celebrates first anniversary

By Pushpa Devulapalli Daily Texan Staff People entering the AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center on the southwest corner of campus usually wear crisp business suits, but yesterday both professionals and students in flip-flops and shorts came to celebrate the first anniversary of the center’s opening.

The celebration was open to guests staying at the center and UT students and staff who might otherwise feel out of place.

The center houses 40,000 square feet of conference space, offices for 60 faculty members from the McCombs School of Business, 276 hotel rooms and 21 suites. The center ’s construction was primarily funded by a $25 million donation from the AT&T Corporation.

The center celebrated its actual anniversary a few weeks ago, but after students and faculty returned for the fall, they were invited to a belated anniversary luncheon. The center offered a full buffet featuring a shrimp bar and an enormous birthday cake. “During this past year, our hotel and conference center has been the site of numerous seminars and educational programs enriching the lives of thousands of guests,� said Alicia Bogart, director of the Campus Club and University Programs, in an online invitation to the celebration.

Organizers of the event expected about 300 people to attend the event, but an official count was not available by press time.

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SENATE: Engaging students

in tuition-setting process key From page 1 Howard Prince, director of the Center for Ethical Leadership and a public affairs professor, discussed the value of ethics and integrity before council presidents signed the code. “Leaders need to set an ethical example, especially when you are visible to the people you are responsible for leading,� Prince said. “You also need to find ways to influence people to do the right thing. If you do that, you’ll have a community that’s happier, healthier and with people who live in an atmosphere of trust.�

Aside from creating collegebridging programs and promoting the honor code, another Senate priority will be to ensure students are involved with the tuition-setting process, Ratliff said. “I think that in tight money situations, you have to focus on strate-

gic priorities, but that’s what we’re trying to do in our tuition discussion,� Ratliff said when asked about University plans to reallocate funding from non-tenure track positions like lecturers to pay for more faculty hires. “Anything that will make the University No. 1 — I think the administration is doing that, and hopefully students through Senate will be doing that,� she said. “We want to make sure students are involved in that decision, and they also need to know why these decisions are being made.�

To ensure the Senate represents the entire student body, council members go back to their colleges to gather student input, Ratliff said. “There’s so much academically to be proud of that Senate tries to foster among our peers,� Ratliff said, “and we’re passionate about what we do.�

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City aims to curb water pollution Scoop the Poop initiative encourages pet owners to help clean up dog waste

By Nihas Wagal Daily Texan Staff All it takes is one teaspoon of dog feces in a body of water the size of an Olympic pool to make it unsafe for swimming.

Consider that and the fact that an estimated 60,000 pounds of dog waste are left in Austin every day, and one can see how pet excrement might be a public health concern.

O rg a n i z e r s o f t h e c i t y ’ s Scoop the Poop program aim to meet the public health problem head on with a city-wide campaign to improve water quality. But because water quality in urban Austin has decreased by significant levels, the program was expanded from city parks to other areas, said Kathy Shay, a water quality education manager and program director for Scoop the Poop. “Our main goal is to improve public awareness in a fun way and by doing so, improve the quality of water here in Austin,� Shay said.

Pet waste is filled with bacteria that cause harmful diseases such as giardiasis, roundworms and salmonella. When not disposed of properly, feces washes into local waterways, creeks and sometimes public lakes, causing pollution.

Studies by the city of Austin have shown that 61 percent of all water quality problems in Texas creeks are caused by bacteria — more than three times as much as the next leading cause.

Scoop the Poop plans to address this by increasing public awareness and providing disposal materials to pet owners. The city will spread the word on television, Facebook and other media outlets so that the public will have a better understanding of the situation, and will also provide bags and garbage bins at all parks and other pet hot spots. “The mayor feels that even

NEWS BRIEFLY Nursing school appoints interim dean Stuifbergen Alexa Stuifbergen has taken the lead as interim dean of the School of Nursing after the former dean, Dolores Sands, retired Monday.

Stuifbergen, director of the nursing school’s Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research in Underserved Populations, will lead the school while a committee searches for a new, permanent dean. “Dr. Stuifbergen is a highly recognized researcher and the recipient of numerous research awards over the course of her academic career,� Provost Steven Leslie said in a statement. “As we begin the process of assembling a consultative committee to conduct a national search for our permanent dean of our distinguished School of Nursing, we are fortunate, indeed, that Dr. Stuifbergen has agreed to serve as interim dean.�

Stuifbergen was the school’s associate dean for research for 10 years and director of the Cain Center for Nursing Research. “During her 20 years of leadership, Dean Sands built a strong infrastructure for the School of Nursing that fosters excellence in all our endeavors,� Stuifbergen said in a statement. “Under Dr. Sands’ watch, the nursing program steadily grew in quality, in reputation and in impact to one of the truly premier nursing programs in the country, not just in the state,� UT President William Powers told The Daily Texan last month. “But I think there will continue to be continuity and very strong leadership in the nursing school.� — Viviana Aldous

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Evander Bellow and Larry Franklin of Austin Green Art clean up the 60,000 pound pile of dirt at Auditorium Shores. The pile represents the massive amount of pet waste produced each day that makes its way into Austin’s water sources. though this is an important issue and one that requires our attention, we should be able to engage it in a fun positive way,� said Matt Curtis, spokesman for Mayor Leffingwell. “Once the people of Austin are made aware of how important

it is to pick up after their dog, they will take it upon themselves and encourage each other to do so.�

The funding for this citywide project has been renewed and the Scoop the Poop program hopes to have even better

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results in the near future. Shay said the city has seen increased participation by pet owners since the program began. “Over the past eight years the number of poop bags has jumped from 50,000 to two million,� Shay said.

Austin Triathalon forces multiple street closures The third annual Austin Triathlon will take place on Monday, causing several street closures between 2 a.m. and 2 p.m. throughout the city.

Parts of Congress and South Congress Avenues, Cesar Chavez and Atlanta Street and Stephen F. Austin Drive will be closed from 6 a.m. to noon. Parts of South First Street and Lee Barton Drive will be closed from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., and a part of Riverside

Drive will be closed from 2 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The triathlon consists of two main events: an Olympic-distance course with a 1500-meter swim, a 40-kilometer bike run and a 10-kilometer run and a sprint distance course with a 700-meter swim, 27-kilometer bike and 5-kilometer run.

The swimming events will take place in Lady Bird Lake, and the running course has been modified over the last year to utilize more sidewalk and park space, according to the triathlon’s Web site. “When making the running course, we tried not to negatively affect as many businesses and residences as possible, and the new course uses less city streets,� said event director Dan Carroll.

After the race, a finish-line carnival sponsored by local businesses will be held. Advanced Rehabilitation will provide complimentary athlete care before and after the event. Austin’s Pizza will provide free pizza to all participants and Texas Iron will provide free fruit once the race is over. — Nehal Patel

McCombs School accepts $230K donation from Chevron A $230,000 gift by Chevron will be used to support the Texas Advanced Computing Center and McCombs School of Business.

Two separate checks will be handed out by Jim Green, general manager of technical computing at Chevron Energy Technology Co. for technology education at TACC and the McCombs School of Business in the amounts of $130,000 and $100,000 respectively. “Both these gifts will be used to increase the level of technology of students at the University,� said Mark Blount, UT director of development.

Chevron’s gift of $100,000 will be used to purchase server hardware and renovate the MIS connectivity lab at the business school. The lab, which serves as an innovative teaching center that gives students experience with data communication technologies, will use the gift to further its ability to teach students about the latest networking and information technologies used in the business world.

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Deserted bicycles find new homes through auction would only spend $60 but said

By Sara Dhanji she bid her way up to $100.

Daily Texan Staff “It’s a bidding thing,� she said.

By 6 p.m. Thursday there were a few hundred people gathered on “So after a while you start wantthe roof of Trinity Garage test-riding ing to just win.�

Gray said the auction was fun, rusty bicycles and occasionally fallbut it is also a ing off when a tire good alternative wouldn’t stay on. for students who UT Parking and can’t afford to Transportation Serpay full price for vices held its annual So after a while you a new bike. bike auction for unThe auction registered bikes dejust start wanting to has run for five serted on campus. win.� years now and “We’ve got about 200 bikes here, and — Lizzie Gray has made a considerable amount we’re hoping to sell Sophomore of money, said all of them,� said PTS bike coorLizzie Hannabass, dinator Samua PTS intern reel Cortez. It took sponsible for making the final call on winning bids. in $7,000 last year, when 20 fewThe starting bid on all the bikes er bikes were up for auction, he was $3. Some stayed at their orig- said.

All the profit from this auction inal price while others made their is put back into the PTS bicycle way up to $700.

Lizzie Gray, a chemical engi- fund and pays for programs like neering sophomore, was at the bicycle registration and the conauction for the second year, hop- struction of new bike racks. “It funds all the bicycle proing to win a good bike.

She had promised herself she grams that we run,� Cortez said.

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Pauline Turner Strong, associate director of Anthropology gives a tour of Francisco Matto’s exhibit “The Modern and the Mythic.�

Artist’s work unites community Blanton exhibit features significant symbols of Latin cultural themes

By Alex Geiser Daily Texan Staff Uruguayan artist Francisco Matto relates the past to the modern world through his use of revered cultural symbols, said Pauline Strong, associate professor of anthropology.

Matto, a 20th century artist who was greatly influenced

by Pre-Columbian art, created a series of totemic sculptures, paintings and reliefs. The Blanton Museum of Art’s “Francis-

co Matto: The Modern and the Mythic� is the first comprehensive exhibition of his art outside of Latin America.

A diverse crowd gathered at the museum yesterday afternoon for a tour of Matto’s work guided by Strong. “It helps us think about ourselves as part of the long human history and to see how the past may be related to the future,� Strong said.

The small crowd moved slowly from one end of the exhibition to the other as Strong explained the individual pieces and their significance.

The pervasive theme in Matto’s art, Strong said, was his in-

corporation of certain symbols — such as a serpent to represent rain and the female figure to represent fertility — that express the same ideas now that they did in early civilization.

Sylvia Cullender, a museum member in her mid-60s, said she was drawn to the exhibit because she shares a Latino background with the artist.

Cullender said the importance of Matto and his work lies in how he has been able to convey universal meaning out of totemic themes filtered through the eyes of a Latin American. “It’s about taking our view of the world and stepping out

of it,� Cullender said. “The more we are exposed to other views, the better off we are.�

Laraine Lasdon, a volunteer at the museum, said Matto’s art is meant to unite people on campus and around the world. “It’s not about being a Christian, but these are ideas of a greater theme in life,� she said. “The cultural themes, many of which we can agree on, are meant to help us think through what brings us together instead of what splits us apart.�

The next guided tour of the exhibition will be Sept. 17. Matto’s work will be on display at the museum until Sept. 27.

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Oklahoma St. kicks off season against Georgia

By Wes DeVoe Daily Texan Staff It’s the Cowboys hosting the Bulldogs. It’s Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy versus Georgia’s Mark Richt. It’s the Big 12 taking on the SEC. It’s the brand new 2009 college football season – and it’s only week one.

In a rare match-up of two elite teams from elite conferences, the No. 9 Oklahoma State Cowboys welcome the No. 13 Georgia Bulldogs to Stillwater in this weekend’s Big 12 game of the week.

In any other year, most analysts and experts would consider the SEC far superior to the Big 12, and this would be in some people’s words a walk in the park for the Bulldogs. Not this year. Not this time. This Oklahoma State team has similar shades of the 2008 Texas Tech Red Raiders, and many believe the Cowboys could be legitimate contenders in the stacked Big 12 South.

“We’ve played some pretty good football teams in the last couple of years and either beat them or stood toe-to-toe and fought until the end,” Gundy said. “Standing toe-to-toe and fighting to the end is not what we’re looking for.”

The Cowboys return three offensive juggernauts with quarterback Zac Robinson, wide receiver Dez Bryant and running back Kendall Hunter. Robinson threw 25 touchdown passes last season, while Hunter rushed for 1,626 yards and 16 touchdowns. Bryant, possibly the most electrifying player in college football this season, caught 87 passes for 1,480 yards and 19 touchdowns in his last campaign.

On the other hand, the Bulldogs lost their two top threats in

Paul Chouy | Daily Texan file photo

Zac Robinson hands the ball off to Kendall Hunter in a game against Texas in 2008. Oklahoma State will look for revenge on Saturday against Georgia who defeated the Cowboys two years ago in week one in Athens 35-14. A loss will hurt either team’s chances of a BCS title.

Matthew Stafford and Knowshon Moreno to the NFL. And the revenge factor for Oklahoma State is definitely there. Two seasons ago, the Bulldogs easily defeated the Cowboys 35-14 in

CROSS COUNTRY

Women looking for fifth straight win at Texas State

By Dan Hurwitz Daily Texan Staff The fall season is underway for both the men’s and women’s cross-country teams, who hit the road this weekend. The men’s team heads to San Marcos and Tulsa, and the women’s team heads to San Marcos.

While the early fall meets are sometimes referred to as preseason, the Longhorns are going to head into each meet with the same mentality.

“We’re at The University of Texas, our goals remain high no matter what season we’re in,” said head coach John Hayes. “My goal is to be better every year. We’re young but we’re going to move towards that goal.”

Senior Habben Berhane knows the importance of the fall season.

“It’s the bread and butter,” Berhane said. “It’s a way to get a group of guys together. It’s a great form of camaraderie.”

After disappointing results during the 2008 season, Hayes already sees a difference in the step of his team.

“I absolutely notice an excitement. I notice a great attitude,” Hayes said. “I can see the enthusiasm. We’re super young, but we’re going to take an attitude that there are no excuses. We’re going to get out of the season what we need to get out of it.”

As for the women, they have won the Texas State Invitational the past four years and hope to add another win this weekend.

Head coach Steve Sisson is ready to get on the track and continue their streak of improvement over from the last few years.

“We went from my first year where we were 11th, to my second year where we were ninth or 10th, to last year where we finished fourth, so we’ve seen amazing improvement,” Sisson said. “I’m really excited to continue to see improvement with the girls we have. And hopefully, we’ll be able to get a top-three spot at this year’s conference meet.”

But the Longhorns will be without two of their runners this weekend with Lauren Salisbury and Mia Behm both injured.

“They’re not going to be coming out of the box really rearing and ready to go,” Sisson said. “So we’re going to pull that in later on in the season, maybe a couple of meets down the line.”

Athens. Since then, the Cowboys have gone 16-9, including seven straight wins to start last season.

But after a win over Baylor, they lost four of the final six games — all to ranked opponents — by a

combined 71 points.

Now, Oklahoma State is anxiously awaiting another opportunity to play Georgia in its own backyard. “That’s kind of like the revenge factor. I think each indi-

vidual has to handle that differently,” Gundy said. “If that’s something that can help motivate a player to compete and play hard, then I’m OK with that.”

The Bulldogs are coming off of a

relatively disappointing 2008 campaign where they were ranked No. 1 in the preseason and had expectations of playing for the crystal ball. And the Cowboys are riding high despite a loss in the Holiday Bowl to Oregon to cap last season. One thing is certain — this Oklahoma State team has made great strides from where it was two years ago.

“I think our football team overall, in all three phases from an organizational standpoint, I think we’re a better team than we were,” Gundy said. “I think Georgia is as good as they were when we played them two years ago [also].”

But Gundy isn’t taking anything for granted, as he realizes this is still the SEC, and this is still a very powerful Georgia football team.

“I think they have a lot of talent,” he said. “I think they’re very strong [and] they’re very physical. I think Georgia is as good as they were when we played them two years.

I’ve said this a number of times, they lost a couple of first-round picks, but Georgia’s got players.”

The Bulldogs averaged 31 points per game last season, while the Cowboys averaged 41 points in the pass-happy Big 12, good for a ninth-place ranking in the country in scoring. On the other side of the ball, Georgia’s defense allowed 25 points per game, compared to Oklahoma State’s 28. The question this week is: which team will bring the better defensive effort?

And with all the hype surrounding the Cowboys, questions remain if Oklahoma State stay focused after earning the highest preseason ranking it has seen in

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Longhorns to face St. Mary’s, Berkeley Family and friends to make trip to Northern California to show off Longhorn spirit

By Laken Litman Daily Texan Staff There will be more burnt orange in the stands than expected at the University of California, Berkeley this weekend.

That’s because as the Texas soccer team heads to the West Coast to play Saint Mary’s and No. 14 Berkeley this weekend, six California-raised Longhorns will get to see their families, all of whom will be there watching.

Sophomores Courtney Goodson, Shaine Millheiser, Amanda Lisberger, Kylie Doniak and Leah Payne, and freshman Erin Child all call

Sophomore California home.

Leah Payne is “All the girls [are] from Califorone of many nia, all our parents are going to be Longhorns there,” Payne said. “Most of [the who get to girls] are from Southern California return to their around the San Diego and Los Anhome state geles areas, but all the parents are of California going to drive up, and that’s like a for games at seven-hour drive.”

Berkeley.

Luckily, Payne’s family and friends won’t have to drive far since her hometown of Danville is only 30 minutes away from Berkeley.

“It feels really good [to head home],” Payne said. “I’m really excited to see my family. All my famiPeyton McGee ly is coming: my parents, grandparDaily Texan Staff ents, aunts, uncles and a lot of my friends. A lot of people haven’t seen dinner at her parents’ house Satur- a team dinner and hang out for a me play soccer in a while.” day night. little bit, but then it’s back to the Because they live so close, “Everyone is coming to my house SOCCER continues on page 9 Payne’s family is hosting a team on Saturday,” she said. “We’ll have

COMMENTARY

Finding shady spot is key to keeping cool while tailgating

Peter Franklin | Daily Texan file photo

Tailgaters without football tickets watch live coverage of the game outside the stadium in 2007.

The prime spots are those underneath the huge trees that dot campus

By Austin Talbert and the surrounding area, but those Daily Texan are most likely already claimed by Columnist more veteran tailgaters. So if you can’t find some natural shade, create your Tailgating and football, a match own with a portable overhang. By simmade in college students’ heaven. ply adding the shade, you’ll provide a But before you park in that state lot cooler place for your group to gather. with a case of Natty Light, read this guide to help make your first tailgate Wear sunblock of 2009 a rousing success.

No matter how cool you think you are, you are never too cool to wear Find some shade sunblock. You’ll thank me come TuesIt seems like a simple idea, but if you day when you see your torched classare serious about your tailgating du- mates suffering through a lecture. ties, you will spend up to 10 hours out- Lather up early and often. Even if side before the Longhorns even kick you have a shaded area to hang out, off Saturday night. So to prevent your- you’ll more than likely be wandering self from wilting during the first quar- around the parking lot. ter, or worse, suffering from heat exTAILGATING continues on page 9 haustion or stroke — find some shade.

TENNIS

American teenager upsets fourth ranked Dementieva, will face Sharapova next

By Howard Fendrich The Associated Press NEW YORK — It’s not quite the case that 17-year-old Melanie Oudin and her family knew for sure she would get this far, this fast.

Not when Melanie was 7, hitting buckets of tennis balls with Grandma Mimi back home in Marietta, Ga. Not a couple of years later, when Melanie and her twin sister began taking lessons together. And certainly not when Melanie lost her first two

Grand Slam matches.

Still, there was Oudin at the U.S. Open on Thursday, ranked all of 70th, dealing with a painful leg and an overwhelming occasion on a supersized stage — and stunning No. 4-seeded Elena Dementieva 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 to reach the third round.

All the while, Oudin sported this word stamped near the heel of her pink-and-yellow sneakers: “BELIEVE.” The idea for that bit of inspiration came from

her boyfriend, Austin Smith, a 15-year-old who helped Melanie prepare for her Arthur Ashe Stadium debut by practicing together in the 23,763-seat arena at 9:30 a.m. Thursday.

“During the match, I had confidence, and, I mean, I was right there with her the entire time,” Oudin said. “She wasn’t blowing me off the court. She wasn’t hitting winners left and right on me.”

Don’t, though, get the mistaken idea that Dementieva played

poorly or showed the sort of nerves she has in the past. Dementieva played rather well — displaying the stinging groundstrokes that carried her to two Grand Slam finals and an Olympic gold medal — and graciously gave credit to Oudin, who now will face the scrutiny that comes with being the “Next Great American Hope.”

After the Williams sisters at No. 2 and 3, you have to scan all the way down to Oudin to find

the next U.S. woman in the WTA rankings.

“It’s just the beginning,” Dementieva cautioned, “but it looks like she has a good future.”

Truth is, Oudin — pronounced “oo-DAN,” owing to her father’s French ancestry — has a pretty good present, too. This was not, after all, her first such upset at a major tournament: Oudin reached the fourth round at Wimbledon by beating former No. 1 Jelena Jankovic.

“She knows,” said Brian de Villiers, Oudin’s coach, “that she can play with these girls now.”

Jankovic made another early departure from a Grand Slam event Thursday, losing to 55thranked Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan 6-3, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (6). Jankovic reached the U.S. Open final in 2008, and she was seeded No. 5 this year, but her head might not have been focused on the court on this day: Her grandmother died Wednesday night.

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This weekend marks the Longhorns’ first away series of the season. They will face Saint Mary’s today at 4 p.m. and Cal on Sunday at 2 p.m.

Both games will be held in Edwards Stadium in Berkeley.

Growing up around the Berkeley area, Payne considered playing for a California school. “I definitely had an interest in [Saint Mary’s and Berkeley] and other California teams because it’s close to home,� Payne said. “I’m really close with my younger siblings and I’d want to see them more often, and I didn’t know if I was ready to leave California. But I decided that I wanted to do something new and get away.�

As the Longhorns face off with the Gaels and Golden Bears, Payne will run into some familiar faces. “Cal has a lot of girls off my [Olympic Development Program] team,� she said. “Cal also has a lot of girls that played on my club team.

I know a couple on Saint Mary’s, too. It will be fun to see and play against them.�

Last season, Texas played Cal in Austin and came out with the 2-1 overtime victory. “Cal is definitely a tough team,� Payne said. “We barely beat them last year, so it should be a really good game.�

Although the Horns are traveling for business, they will hopefully get to mix in a little bit of pleasure. “San Francisco is really, really close — like a 15 minute drive,� Payne said. “And Berkeley is really cool, too. Actually, I always say that Austin is the Berkeley of Texas.

Very different, kind of weird, but interesting and hopefully we’ll be able to walk around a little bit and have some fun.�

The team will also get to enjoy some much-needed refreshing weather. “It’s supposed to be in the 70s while we’re there and it’s not humid, so it will be a lot easier to play,� Payne said. “I’m not gonna lie, California’s perfect weather is a lot better than Texas’.�

Two wins this weekend will put the Longhorns on a winning streak. They started the season with a loss to TCU, but beat Houston last week 2-0. “We just need to keep improving,� Payne said. “The TCU game wasn’t so good, but Houston was a lot better.

I don’t think traveling should make a difference. No matter if the game is home or away, either way you still have to play well.�

Besides coming off their Houston game momentum, the team hopes that the excitement of traveling paired with seeing ‘Hook ‘Em Horns’ tshirts and some familiar faces in the crowd this weekend will help produce positive results.

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TAILGATING: Use tortillas, bread to avoid plates From page 8 Simply wandering over to the washers pit for a quick game or two would expose you to enough sun to get a decent burn.

Stay hydrated Be smart about what you drink and make sure you are staying hydrated. Yes, the beer you are drinking is nice and cold, and it has water in it, but it is not going to keep you hydrated. Cycle your drinks.

After a beer or another alcoholic drink, make sure to drink a bottle of water or Gatorade.

In the two hours prior to heading into the stadium you need to make it a priority to get hydrated, because it is always easier than heading into the stadium and having to wait for 20 minutes to buy a $4 bottle of water.

Be a minimalist The best tailgates are great because they don’t try to do too much. Make sure you have a TV and a radio to follow the other games going on, but you don’t need a five-HDTV system to enjoy your Saturday.

On the food front, pick a few simple things and run with that.

Chips and dips are always easy, but remember that guacamole will turn brown quickly in the heat.

Minimize waste and hassle for what you serve by using only tortillas and bread to eat off of. Bris-

Peter Franklin | Daily Texan file photo

UT fans play drinking games while tailgating in a parking lot at MLK and San Jacinto boulevards during the 2007 football season. ket, sausage, chicken and pork all wrap up nicely in a tortilla or a slice of bread, eliminating the need for paper plates and plastic utensils. Just don’t forget the nap-

kins or paper towels.

Prepare sweets — brownies Have fun and cookies — the night before, Most importantly, no matter and you’ll have something to tick- what you want out of your tailgate, le every Longhorns’ sweet tooth. make sure to enjoy it. Don’t get too

caught up in prepping food or outdrinking your friends — you don’t want to miss the game. So stay cool and stay hydrated, and you will be able to fully enjoy the game.

FOOTBALL: Big 12 and SEC get a chance to face off From page 8

history. “I think just the local buzz and maybe even more so in the state, because of the preseason ranking,�

Gundy said. “We’ve had to work very hard to minimize that and try to get the players focused. We have to make sure they understand the most important thing is to prepare, practice and get ready to play the

game.�

Fifth-year senior Joe Cox will now be under center for Georgia, in what might be a rebuilding year.

Nevertheless, coach Richt has confidence in him. “We lost Stafford. That’s a big deal, there’s no doubt about that,� said Richt, who is 34-3 against teams outside of the SEC. “But I think there’s a peace around the program knowing Joe is at the helm

right now because of his leadership, his knowledge of the system, [and] his ability to play the game.�

Cox’s top target will be sophomore A.J. Green, who led the SEC with 56 catches and eight touchdowns. Running back Richard Samuel will replace Moreno and carry the load for the Bulldogs in the backfield. Samuel averaged 5.1 yards per carry in a limited role last year, but Richt is expecting

more from him this season. “Richard is playing with a lot of energy, good stamina and he goes hard,� he said. “We hope as the game goes on, he gets stronger and can blaze a trail. When other guys start to fatigue, he looks even faster.�

Oklahoma State has won 15 straight non-conference games at Boone Pickens Stadium and nine in a row under Gundy. The game

marks the first time since 1947 that the Bulldogs have traveled to Stillwater. There, they beat then-Oklahoma A&M 20-7. It’s also the first time Georgia has played its season opener away from Athens since 2001, when they beat Clemson 300. So, if history is any indication of anything to come, luck might be on their side.

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Muralist Shawn Gillespie traces a projection of his art on the wall of Hickory Bar and Grill on Eight Street and Congress Avenue on Thursday evening.

ENTERTAINMENT BRIEFLY Michael Jackson mourned by Elizabeth Taylor, other celebs GLENDALE, Calif. — Michael Jackson was mourned by his family and celebrities including Elizabeth Taylor, Barry Bonds and Macaulay Culkin at a private funeral service held Thursday night outside the elaborate mausoleum where the King of Pop will be entombed.

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erine, and other family members.

They included the singer’s three children, Prince Michael, 12, Paris Michael, 10, and Prince Michael II, 7, known as Blanket.

The invitation notice indicated the service would begin promptly at 7 p.m.; it began closer to 8:30.

The 77-year-old Taylor and about 200 other mourners were left waiting in the late summer heat, with the temperature stuck at 90 degrees just before sunset and many guests were fanning themselves.

A vivid orange moon, a mark of the devastating wildfire about 10 miles distant, hung over the cemetery. — The Associated Press

by the body’s lack of the enzyme lactase, which makes certain people unable to digest lactose, a sugar found in dairy products. And though it can be treated by medication for temporary alleviation, it is often more convenient to avoid dairy products entirely and seek out alternatives instead.

Nitsch said she gets calcium through drinking orange juice and taking vitamins instead of consuming dairy products.

Another common food allergy is gluten intolerance, better known as Celiac disease. This intolerance to gluten, a protein that is found in wheat, barley and rye, affects an estimated one percent of Americans — more than 3 million people — according to the National Institutes of Health’s Celiac Disease Awareness Campaign.

Food for Life, a gluten and casein-free restaurant in Cedar Park, opened in response to this issue. “When my son was two, he was diagnosed with severe autism,� said restaurant owner Sherrie Kjar. “A physician recommended removing gluten and casein from his diet. When it was 1 removed, there were dramatic results. My son started communicating more and having better eye contact. Other therapies be-

what foods to suggest to guests and where they can find them in the store. Guests can also make an appointment with her for a personal diet consultation. “We carry an extensive line of products for people with special dietary needs, and we do our best to have very clear labeling,� she said.

Though the selection of glutenfree and dairy-free foods is not as extensive at HEB as it is at Whole Foods, the store is making progress in providing allergy-friendly products. “Sometimes people bring in UPC labels of products they have purchased somewhere else,� said Natasha Bates, store director at the 41st Street location. “Our buyThe alternative life ers do what they can to bring the Knowing you have a food al- same product or a complementalergy or intolerance is half the ry product to our store.� battle. The rest involves seeking out dietary alternatives. Luckily, area grocery stores acknowl- Living allergy-free on campus On campus, satisfying special edge the growing desire for gluten-free and dairy-free foods, and diets has also become a priority, are doing their best to accommo- with the University’s Division of Housing and Food Services strivdate consumers. “Going gluten-free or lactose- ing to meet the needs of students free is about making different and address concerns they may choices, but not having to go out have about the food offerings in of your way to do it,� said Car- on-campus dining facilities.

Housing and Food Services dily Pollack, in-store nutritionist at etitian Brandy Shih is responsible Whole Foods.

Pollack’s role at Whole Foods for menu planning, healthy meal requires her to be well-versed in suggestions, labeling and facilitatspecial dietary needs and to know ing nutrition programs in the rescame more effective. Going gluten and casein-free has been lifechanging for our family.�

When people first visit Food for Life, they are sometimes overwhelmed by the idea that there is a place they can bring their families without having to worry about what ingredients are used, Kjar said. “Eating isn’t something that should be hard,� she said. “Austin is wonderful because college students and the general population are so open to the concept of new and different things. As far as progress in the area of catering to special dietary needs, it’s a great place to start.�

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idence halls. Shih also offers personal consultations with students if they have any questions or concerns with ingredients used in the preparation and cooking of oncampus foods. “It can be hard to adjust to an eating environment where mom and dad don’t control your diet,â€? she said. “We try to have options here for everyone. For example, we have started serving glutenfree pizza at our Cypress Bend CafĂŠ and are looking into putting more corn tortillas in the dining halls. We’re also testing baked fries that are made without wheat.â€?

Aid can also come from University Health Services, where students can receive help for specific problems and formulate a customized diet plan that allows them to maintain a healthy and balanced diet, said UHS registered dietitian Amanda Buller. “We can examine alternate sources to fulfill grain and dairy dietary guidelines,� Buller said.

Most importantly, the services at the University can help students be proactive about their health. “If you think you have Celiac disease or any kind of food allergy or intolerance, be evaluated by a medical provider as soon as you can,� Buller said. “Especially with food allergies, the situation can become life-threatening sooner rather than later.�

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Mike Judge film trumps archetypes of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Office Spaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

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Above, director Mike Judge on the set of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Extract.â&#x20AC;? The film opens in Austin today. Below, Jason Bateman (Joel) and Mila Kunis (Cindy) star in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Extract,â&#x20AC;? a new comedy by the creators of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Office Space.â&#x20AC;?

Back into the office with â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Extractâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

By Robert Doty Daily Texan Staff Mike Judge, the creator of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beavis and Buttheadâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;King of the Hillâ&#x20AC;? and writer and director of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Office Spaceâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Idiocracy,â&#x20AC;? has been manufacturing cultural touchstones for years.

In â&#x20AC;&#x153;Office Space,â&#x20AC;? he mined the monotony of white-collar ennui for comic gold, ridiculing the corporate life in ways never before seen. But with his new film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Extract,â&#x20AC;? Judge shows what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like to be on top. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Office Spaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; was from the point of view of the employee,â&#x20AC;?

Judge said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being in the cubicle, the bosses were the assholes. But when â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beavis and Buttheadâ&#x20AC;? happened, I went from having never had anyone work for me to suddenly having 50 to 90 people working for me. And when you try to be a nice boss you get taken advantage of. I thought that was a funny dynamic. So this is kind of the inverse of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Office Space.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s told from the point of view of the guy who owns the place and the

employees are the pain in the ass.â&#x20AC;?

Judge didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really find success until he was pushing 30, so heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s had some time to consider what it means to be on both sides of the coin. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think there is good and bad in being in both places,â&#x20AC;? Judge said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I remember being at the first test screening of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Office Space.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I was

so god-awfully nervous looking at the line of people. I used to work at a movie theater, tearing tickets and I remember thinking, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I wish to God that I was just a guy tearing tickets right now, and not the guy who directed this thing.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

In casting â&#x20AC;&#x153;Extract,â&#x20AC;? Judge knew that he wanted Jason Bateman for the lead role of Joel Reyn-

olds but wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite sure what to do about the role of charming sociopath Cindy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I saw [Mila Kunis] in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Forgetting Sarah Marshall,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and I had noticed that really hot girls live by a different set of rules than the rest of us, probably hot guys too. I was in Precision Camera once and this girl comes in the door, and suddenly you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get anyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attention,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I also noticed Mila can look very innocent. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a scene in the movie where Jason berates her and I found myself, when we were shooting, saying, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hey, take it easy on her.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

After the near-fatal corporate marketing and editing fumbles that plagued â&#x20AC;&#x153;Office Spaceâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Idiocracy,â&#x20AC;? Judge chose to independently produce â&#x20AC;&#x153;Extract,â&#x20AC;? only allowing Miramax in on the deal for domestic distribution rights. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All they have to do now is put it in some theaters, which theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Extractâ&#x20AC;? comes out in theaters across the nation today.

comedy, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a cardinal sin.

By Robert Doty Judgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comedic insights sprawl Daily Texan Staff Who has not felt the blunt-force well beyond the walls of the extract plant. KISS vocalist Gene trauma of an idiotic boss?

Mike Judgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cult classic â&#x20AC;&#x153;Office Simmons makes a hysterical camSpaceâ&#x20AC;? banked on the affirmative eo as an ambulance-chasing lawand came out big. With â&#x20AC;&#x153;Extract,â&#x20AC;? yer with bad hair and even worse his newest feature film, Judge commercials. Ben Affleck unrolls turns the tables. He believes in some theories about pill-popping hard work, small-business know- that are absurd but somewhat how and a well-earned buck. But convincing, and therefore very, very funny. he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have Though the any qualms about outlandish incilampooning it Though it has the dents keep comalong the way. ing, it still someâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Extractâ&#x20AC;? stars signature Judge what seems as Jason Bateman as insights, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Extractâ&#x20AC;? though Judgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Joel Reynolds, the lacks the freshness comedy has lost owner and operits edge. Popator of an extract that marks all truly ular comedies plant heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s built exceptional comedies. tend to come in from the ground waves, much like up. As the film the Judd Apabegins, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fallen into a mid-life malaise, com- tow entourage has swept through plete with a frigid wife, an under- cinemas of late, and it seems that whelming work life and suburban Judge is no longer riding the crest.

Though it has the signature Judge listlessness.

After a night of ill-advised pill insights, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Extractâ&#x20AC;? lacks the freshpopping leads Joel to hire a gig- ness that marks all truly excepolo to seduce his own wife, and tional comedies. That being said, a freak accident at the plant de- itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still a great ride, buoyed by the prives one of his workers of a tes- performances of Bateman, Mila ticle, the malaise matures into a Kunis and Clifton Collins Jr. The movie feels like a comingfull-blown crisis.

The fact that Judge can weave of-age for the man who wrote â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ofthese disparate strands into any- fice Spaceâ&#x20AC;? and championed the thing resembling a coherent plot white-collar slacker. And it feels speaks well of his talent as a direc- like a genuine, unforced message, tor, but at times we feel the holes something most comedies never in the web and wince at the unnat- quite grasp.

Though you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t walk out of urally episodic nature of the storythe theater feeling like youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve just telling.

For instance, one scene that has witnessed the next big thing, you Joel smoking unholy amounts of will laugh hard and feel for the illicit â&#x20AC;&#x153;flowersâ&#x20AC;? is completely un- characters, and that makes â&#x20AC;&#x153;Exnecessary except for that it exhib- tractâ&#x20AC;? well worth seeing. its Joelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worsening personal crisis.

And, of course, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hilarious. For a

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One of the key trends of the future is that media workers, including journalists, are going to increasingly have to be autonomous agents â&#x20AC;&#x201D; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to create their own jobs. We have to figure out how we all can bring an innovative mindset to whatever field we work in.

Goal number one: Finish my dissertation. Goal number two: Get a job as a professor, somewhere. I want to be a professor of journalism in new media at a school that appreciates what I can bring. Anybody can get excited about any topic if the teacher can bring enough of the enthusiasm to the table. Once the enthusiasm is there, then the learning can take place.

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Crowe, who has been photographed looking slimmer in recent months, was apparently none too pleased by a column published in Sydneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Daily Telegraph on Tuesday entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Smokes and fatty foods the fitness regime for Rusty.â&#x20AC;? The paper mocked Crowe after he was photographed pausing during a recent bike ride with his personal trainer to puff on a cigarette and chow down on three tacos and a soft drink. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Associated Press

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Life&Arts Editor: Leigh Patterson E-mail: lifeandarts@dailytexanonline.com Phone: (512) 232-2209 www.dailytexanonline.com

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Media frontier finds its savior Austin, UT provide

By Robert Rich

Jordy Wagoner | Daily Texan Staff

Seth Lewis might be the person who saves journalism. A former sports editor for The Miami Herald, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now a journalism doctoral candidate and assistant instructor focusing on new media and its implications in the field.

Lewis teaches a class on media innovation that analyzes ways to pump life into the veins of a struggling industry. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s humble, so he may not admit to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;saving journalismâ&#x20AC;? part, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true.

I was born into a newspaper family.

My dad was an editor of a paper in Tampa and covered the mob there. I grew up with a sense for the importance, the power and potential consequences of being in the press. I was practically diapered in classifieds.

When I was about 10 years old, the paper my dad published went under. I never understood why it happened or the toll it took on my father until I was in college.

Around the time I was 15, I figured out that I liked to write and I also knew I liked sports, so I decided to become a sports writer. We were living in Oregon, and I went to the local newspaper and basically offered to volunteer. They let me take high school volleyball scores.

One day, they needed someone to go cover a football game in a really small town on a Saturday.

It was their homecoming. The homecoming queen was wearing blue jeans.

There were no bleachers except for grassy hills. It was a small town, no stoplight, no Taco Bell, nothing. It was the most terrible sports story Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever written. But, somehow, they published it.

My big thing is college football. As much as I hate preseason polls, I think Florida and Texas are the two best teams in the country. And Colt McCoy will show up Tim Tebow.

When I got into academia, journalism changed dramatically. Journalism is trying to figure out how it should be. Should

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A growing problem â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had to make some diet adjustments since I learned I was lactose intolerant,â&#x20AC;? said Marianne Nitsch, a business honors senior. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have to drink lactose-free milk and avoid products like yogurt.

As a result, I have invested in Lactaid pills, which allow me to eat certain amounts of dairy.â&#x20AC;?

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Foods like these shown by Amanda Buller, the nutritionist in the health center of the SSB, are examples of gluten-free options.

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On the UT campus, an abundance of resources have developed within University Health Services and the Division of Housing and Food Services for students with dietary concerns to consult.

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By Lisa HoLung Daily Texan Staff Grocery shopping is a pleasant enough experience for most of us â&#x20AC;&#x201D; we soak up the air conditioning as we leisurely scan the aisles. The boxes of moist chocolate chip cookies in the bakery make our mouths water â&#x20AC;&#x201D; we grab a box, and as an afterthought, pick up a quart of milk from the dairy section as well.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s simple: We buy what we like or whatever looks good.

But it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t this simple for everyone. There are increasing numbers of people who have special dietary needs and must carefully assess nutrition labels to avoid serious side-effects.

Recently, communities have begun to pay more attention to people who need to eliminate certain items â&#x20AC;&#x201D; specifically, gluten and lactose â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from their diets. Grocery store chains and restaurants alike acknowledge the trend, and are taking creative steps to accommo-

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Journalism doctoral candidate Seth Lewis is an assistant instructor and teaches a social media class in the UT School of Journalism.

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