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Petition requests Powers to drop case By David Maly
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President William Powers Jr. got a surprise delivery Wednesday as representatives of the Make UT SweatshopFree Coalition brought a petition to his office with more than 400 signatures. The petition demands that criminal trespassing charges
brought against 18 members of the coalition during a peaceful sit-in at Powers’ office last spring be immediately dropped. Powers does not have the ability to drop the charges himself and has said the case is now in the hands of the County Attorney. “It got turned over to the [County Attorney], and that is the County Attorney’s business,” Powers said.
However, the coalition members believe Powers could influence the County Attorney and ask for dismissal of the charges on their behalf. Corby Holcomb, assistant trial director for the Travis County Attorney’s Office, said last week that the victim or entity in a criminal trespassing case normally has a say in the charging and sentencing decisions.
“Normally, on a criminal trespass case, say, the property owner where the person was trespassing, they would definitely have input,” he said. Holcomb declined to comment on the specific influence the University would have in this case, as it is currently ongoing.
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Explore the work of futurist Norman Bel Geddes at the Harry Ransom Center
Today in history
By Miles Hutson
In 1996
Famed rapper Tupac Shakur killed, victim of a Las Vegas drive-by shooting. No arrest was ever made in connection to the murder, despite previous allegations against rap rival Notorious B.I.G.
TODAY Study Abroad Fair This annual fair will showcase UT’s partner universities and study abroad opportunities. If you want to learn more about study-abroad opportunities, swing by the McCombs School of Business plaza from 10 a.m.—2 p.m.
Celebración de Independencias
This annual cultural event celebrates the nine Latin American countries that gained their independence in September. There will be music, entertainment and free food from 6 p.m.—9 p.m. at the Gregory plaza.
Alternative Energy Challenge
Pu Ying Huang | Daily Texan Staff Above: Electrician Steven Giannascoli is one of a handful of people that have access to turning on the UT tower’s lights for celebrations, sporting victories, deaths and tragedies. Out of a total of 244 lights that light the tower up, 68 of those lights occupy the 10th floor and are controlled by a tiny panel on the eighth floor. Below: Construction manager Neil Crump and Steven Giannascoli explain how they plan the display of numbers through lighting the tower’s windows using a specific chart.
Tower lit up with effort By Bobby Blanchard After hours of work and preparation, there is some satisfaction for facilities staff members when the UT Tower lights up burnt orange or when the windows spell out a class’ number. But there is also a sense of relief. “It’s the satisfaction and relief all at once, because there is a lot of work that goes into making
whatever it is that we’re doing,” construction services manager Neil Crump said. The Tower, which turned 75 earlier this year, has six different light configurations listed online which are used for a variety of events, ranging from Gone to Texas to commencement ceremonies. The University spends about $3,000 in light maintenance and la-
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Info session on an annual competition hosted by the UT Austin Student Engineering Council on creating new and sustainable ideas for power generation to be held at 5 p.m. at RLM 5.104.
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Quote to note “The easiest way to save money is to graduate faster... we need to get creative as to how we acknowledge these issues.” — Judith Zaffirini State senator NEWS PAGE 5
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Toll road reaches 85 mph By Mary Ellen Knewtson Commission recently apIf they are willing to pay, drivers will be able to travel to San Antonio on a stretch of highway with the highest speed limit in the nation starting Nov. 11. The Texas Transportation
proved an 85 mph speed limit for a 41-mile stretch of State Highway 130, a toll road now under construction that will connect Austin and San Antonio. Work to mitigate conges-
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UT’s Young Conservatives of Texas chapter is compiling a watch list to identify professors who it decides are inappropriately politicizing the classroom. The organization is accepting suggestions from all students and will publish the list for students to consult in advance of Spring 2013 registration, government senior John Horton, Young Conservatives of Texas UT chapter chairman, said. Members of his organization will investigate every name submitted by auditing classes, interviewing students from the professors’ classes and evaluating the syllabi for reading materials selected, he said. “We’ll get a lot of submissions, but most of them will probably not end up on the list,” Horton said. “You can have a devout, open com-
servative professor that tells you they are openly that way. If they allow for dissenting opinion, that’s perfectly fine with us.” UT’s chapter of Young Conservatives of Texas has about 40 active members, Horton said. He said the members will be tabling for watch list submissions beginning Friday. Students can also submit suggestions anonymously on the website, Horton said. The organization began publishing a watch list in 2003, but has not produced one since 2007. Horton said it has been five years since a list has been compiled because of the effort needed to do the list correctly. “It is only legitimate if we do it the right way and actually find the professors that have a legitimate bias and do
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UT fell one spot to No. 46 on U.S. News and World Report’s 2013 national university rankings. University spokesperson Tara Doolittle said the publication gave UT a lower score partially based on decreased faculty resources and increased class sizes compared to last year. UT remained in the No. 13 spot for public universities, despite recent budget cuts by the state Legislature. “We have a long history of making do with what we’ve got and putting priorities in places that have the most impact on student success,” Doolittle said. “We are pleased with the rankings.” Doolittle said UT will continue to make ends meet with whatever resources are available, but budget changes can impact metrics used to rank UT, including class size and financial aid. “If there are areas where we receive more money or areas where we see cutbacks, there are likely to be trickledown effects,” Doolittle said. “But remember this is not in isolation. There are other public universities going through many of the same things we are.” The methods U.S. News and World Report uses to rank schools are often the subject of debate. Doolittle said U.S. News and World Report left out an important measure: efficiency. “We do not have the same resources that Yale has, or a lot of the [resources] privates have,”
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The coalition members participated in the sit-in last spring to try and convince the University to join the Worker Rights Consortium, an organization that monitors the working conditions of factory employees internationally. Powers announced in July that UT would join the consortium to monitor conditions at some of the factories that manufacture UT apparel. The students will face trial on the charges Friday in Travis County Court, where they will have to either take one of two pleas offered to them or continue to
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does not concern him. “I have never really been worried about UT’s ranking in general,” Zhang said. “To me, all the top tier schools are about the same.” Journalism graduate student Dagny Asase said she is not worried about the rankings as long as UT does not cut pro-
grams or departments to make ends meet. “If UT can maintain the courses or department in some way regardless of what is happening to the budget, it shouldn’t be too much of a concern,” Asase said. “But it’s definitely something everybody should be knowledgeable of.”
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message to the rest of the campus community. “We feel the charges should be dropped to reserve the right of protests on campus,” she said. “Essentially, this has always been about freedom of speech.” Dana Cloud, associate professor of rhetoric and writing, said even if the charges are not dropped and the students stand trial Friday, the coalition will continue efforts to have the charges dismissed. “We are not going to let this go down without a fight,” she said.
not allow for dissenting opinion,” Horton said. Horton would not give names of professors who had been submitted, but said students have named eight or nine so far. Journalism professor Robert Jensen’s name appeared on past versions of the list, but Horton said Jensen will not be on it this year, based on student interviews that indicate he does not unfairly push his views on others. “As someone who comes from the political left, I have to be especially attentive to these kinds of things, because people like me tend to be the targets of concerns about inappropriately politicizing the classroom,” Jensen said. He said proselytizing for specific candidates, positions or parties in the classroom is not appropriate. All teachers make political decisions when they select textbooks and plan lectures and assignments and the best practice is to be transparent about it, Jensen said. “All teaching in the humanities and the social sciences has a politics to it,” he said. “But teaching is more than politics.” Jensen said he is happy
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fight the charges. Government junior Lucy Griswold, who was arrested at the sit-in, said she believes the charges should be dropped because the sit-in was of a peaceful nature and held as a last resort effort. “We were peacefully protesting, and this was after years of escalation in the campaign where we had used all of the democratic avenues offered on campus to have a dialogue with the University,” she said. Griswold said if the University remains silent, it will also send a negative
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speeds in excess of 80 mph, Beyer said. The Texas Department of Transportation is working with SH 130 Concession Company, the highway’s private builder, to determine a toll price, SH 130 Concession Company spokesperson Chris Lippincott said. He said the road may be completed ahead of schedule, weather permitting. “Fifteen years ago, I-35 was a fairly reliable route,” Lippincott said. “I-35 between Austin and San Antonio has gone from reliable to unreliable to reliably congested.” SH 130 Concession Company has invested more than $1.3 billion in the development and maintenance of this road, Lippincott said. This money bought his company the rights to a portion of the toll road’s profits for the next 50 years. He said 12 miles of what is now Highway 183 will be tolled, but the rest is new construction. Lippincott anticipates students traveling back and forth from home will take
full advantage of the road, noting that many centers of higher education fall in the I-35 corridor. “Budget-conscious students may not always make that decision, but on those high-traffic weekends, like Thanksgiving, it may be a good option,” Lippincott said. Applied learning and development sophomore Vivian Ngo-Anh said she takes I-35 to San Antonio at least a couple of times a month to visit her boyfriend. She said she plans to take advantage of the toll road and its speed limit. “It really would be worth it, since there are less people usually on toll roads,” NgoAnh said. “The purpose is to make it more time-efficient.” She said she would be happy to pay if it meant shaving time off her drive. In Houston, where Ngo-Ahn is from, she said she is used to taking toll roads to get around. “It is a lot more convenient,” Ngo-Anh said. “It definitely speeds things up.”
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bor for the Tower and more than $10,000 on electricity every year. A total of 244 lamps light up the Tower. There is a control box in the clock room for the lights on the Tower’s crown, the lights above the Tower’s clock and the lights on the Tower’s observation deck. There is another control box in what Crump calls a tiny closet on the eighth floor for the 68 lights on the main 10th-level shaft. Electrician Steve Giannascoli said while it is only a flip of a switch to change the Tower’s light settings, there is some stress on the job. “When you have to light it on cue there is stress, because you have to switch it at the right moment,” Giannascoli said. While flipping a switch is easy, Crump said most preparation time is put into making the windows show a number. Crump said three workers spend up to three hours together making sure the right windows are lit up and the right windows have their blinds closed. Before blinds were installed, it used to take even longer because paper would have to be taped onto windows. In scenarios when the Tower has to be lit up exactly at the right moment, someone is manually at the control box waiting for the call. Giannascoli turned the Tower orange while UT’s “Horns Up” commercial was being filmed. Someone in the helicopter filming the campus told him exactly when to flip the switch. But in other instances, the lighting can be done remotely. For example, when the Longhorns win a football game, Crump said someone will make a phone call and dial in a secret code to turn the Tower’s top orange. “It is top-secret, but it’s not too complicated,”
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Crump said. “You can do the whole operation in less than two minutes.” Giannascoli said he only knows four people who are aware of the digits that light up the Tower. The President’s office is the sole entity on campus that controls when and under what conditions the Tower is lit, but Crump said he will still get strange phone calls requesting special tower configurations. “It is kind of comical. We will have people call in and say they need to turn the Tower orange for 30 minutes because they’re going to propose in the South Mall,” Crump said. “We get calls asking us to turn the Tower green for Saint Patrick’s Day. The answer is no.” The Tower will also go dark in memoriam. For example, on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the Tower was darkened for two days. The Tower was also darkened in 1999 after the Aggie Bonfire accident, which resulted in the deaths of 12 A&M students. Giannascoli said the Tower also gets turned off for a few hours on Earth Day. The University will turn the Tower orange Friday to celebrate its birthday.
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NEWS BRIEFLY Dallas-area woman’s execution scheduled DALLAS — A woman on Texas death row for the stabbing and bludgeoning of a 71-year-old woman has received a Jan. 29 execution date. Kimberly McCarthy was sentenced to die for the July 1997 killing of retired college professor Dorothy Booth during a robbery at Booth’s home in Lancaster, about 15 miles south of Dallas. The Dallas County District Attorney’s office disclosed the date Wednesday. The 51-year-old McCarthy is one of 10 women sentenced to die in Texas but is the only one with a scheduled execution date.
Ruling Dutch party claims victory
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte claimed victory early Thursday for his conservative VVD party in national elections widely seen as a referendum on the Netherlands’ commitment to Europe. With 92 percent of municipalities reporting, the VVD was set to take 41 seats in the 150-member Dutch Parliament, two more than its largest rival, the center-left Labor party. Rutte said Labor leader Diederik Samsom had called him to concede. The result sets the stage for the VVD and Labor — both pro-Europe parties — to forge a two-party ruling coalition with Rutte returning for a second term as prime minister. Formal coalition talks can’t start until official results are verified on Monday and the new parliament is seated, next week at the earliest. Rutte said he wouldn’t comment on possible coalitions for the time being. The election was cast as a virtual referendum on Europe amid the continent’s crippling debt crisis, but the result was a stark rejection of the most radical critic of the EU, anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders, whose Freedom Party was forecast to lose 8 seats, dropping to 16.
Libyan parliament elects prime minister TRIPOLI, Libya — Libya’s parliament elected Wednesday a leading member of the country’s oldest opposition movement to be its new prime minister. Mustafa Abu-Shakour is tasked with stabilizing a country where armed groups proliferate. Washington’s ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed during a late Tuesday attack on the U.S. consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi. Abu-Shakour, deputy to Libya’s outgoing interim prime minister, is considered a compromise figure acceptable to both Islamists and liberals. He is the first elected head of government since the ouster and slaying of dictator Moammar Gadhafi in last year’s civil war. He hails from the National Front Party, an offshoot of a longstanding anti-Gadhafi movement that includes both Islamist and secular figures. He narrowly beat liberal Mahmoud Jibril by 96 votes out of 190. Previous interim governments have faced persistent criticism that they have been ineffective in tackling the multiple troubles facing the deeply divided nation, foremost among them the strength of armed militias that dominate towns and challenge the authority of the central government. — Associated Press
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Chicago Teachers Union takes on mayor Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis takes a break from negotiations over teachers’ contracts with the Chicago Board of Education to address a rally of thousands of public school teachers Tuesday in downtown Chicago.
By Tammy Webber Associated Press
CHICAGO — She’s brash and blunt, the tough-talking union leader who has taken on Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a bitter contract dispute regarded as a referendum on the future of the nation’s thirdlargest school district. Karen Lewis is especially known for her tart tongue and flip one-liners, like telling a crowd of supporters this week that the high-stakes contract talks are “the silly part” of her day. But she’s also a whip-smart Ivy League graduate with a long, distinguished record in the classroom and the overwhelming support of her union’s 30,000 members. Two years after she took the helm of the Chicago Teachers Union, the former chemistry teacher finds herself at the center of a nationally watched confrontation with Emanuel, the equally tough and sharp-tongued former White House chief of staff. Teachers in the nation’s third-largest school district walked off the job Monday for the first time in 25 years after negotiators failed to reach an agreement on issues that include performance evaluations based partly on students’ standardized test scores and whether laid-off teachers would have first dibs on job openings districtwide. She recently called the mayor a bully and a liar, and their already strained relationship seems to have deteriorated since the strike began. The 59-year-old Lewis seems to be winning the public relations battle in much of Chicago — for now. Many moms and dads have walked the picket lines with their children, and she’s inspired loyalty among teachers in a union long known for infighting. Almost 90 percent of union members voted to authorize a strike. It all comes down to her credentials and take-no-prisoners personality, supporters say. During a Labor Day rally a week before teachers went on strike, Lewis called the negotiations “a fight for the very soul of public education.” “The commitment to the
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children of the city of Chicago is in our hearts, in our minds. It’s in the work we do,” she said to a cheering crowd. Lewis attended public school in Chicago, in the same area where President Barack Obama has a house. The daughter of two Chicago public school teachers, she graduated from Dartmouth as the only black woman in her class. Lewis taught in Chicago schools for 22 years and became a National Board Certified teacher, one of the profession’s highest qualifications. In the classroom, she didn’t stand for excuses or bad behavior but was happy to help students who were struggling, said Shannon Carroll, whose daughter had Lewis’ chemistry class as a sophomore at King College Prep High School. Carroll’s daughter was having difficulty with the course, so Lewis tested her to see how she learned best. In the evening, she sometimes went over homework with her on the phone. “She was very patient,” Carroll said. “She was the most accessible teacher ever at that school.” Lewis was active in the union for more than 20 years before running for president in 2010. By then, she was a proven leader and well respected by colleagues, said Ronni Rieck, a teacher who met Lewis while serving on a union executive board together. “I thought, ‘Who is this
woman?’” Rieck said. Lewis came up with creative solutions, Rieck said, and though she was not part of the top leadership team at the time, “they listened to her.” Rieck, who retired in June, said Lewis was more aggressive than some in her determination to push back against the school board when the district began closing dozens of schools and laying off hundreds of teachers while expanding charter schools. That move, she has said, often forced children to travel long distances or through gang territory, and the union filed a lawsuit to stop the closures soon after she took over. “She tended to be more aggressive but also tempered that. She wasn’t a crazy,” Rieck said. “She’s a very mature woman and confident in her own skin.” But Lewis has sometimes come off as careless and inappropriate, including during a speech to educators and union members last fall in Seattle, where she mocked the way former schools CEO Arne Duncan talked and joked about smoking marijuana at Dartmouth. Lewis apologized to Duncan, who is now President Obama’s education secretary. Supporters say she learned from that experience. “She was trying to be something she wasn’t, a comedian, and that’s what got her in trouble,” Rieck said. But one person Lewis hasn’t
made amends with is Emanuel, who suggested soon after he was elected that students were getting “the shaft” from teachers because of flat test scores and a graduation rate of just over 50 percent. He rescinded a 4 percent raise, then asked the union to reopen that same contract and accept a 2 percent raise in exchange for working longer hours. When union leaders refused, he tried to go around them by asking teachers at individual schools to waive the contract and add 90 minutes to the day — until the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board told him to stop. During a heated meeting with Emanuel, Lewis has said, the mayor “exploded,” used profanity and pointed his finger at her. She also issued a sarcasm-laced statement after learning he would send his children to a prestigious private school. “We understand why he would choose a school with small class sizes, a broad rich curriculum ... a focus on critical thinking and not test-taking, a teacher and an assistant in every elementary classroom, and paid high-quality professional development for their teachers,” she said. Emanuel, for his part, doesn’t take any of the barbs personally and believes Chicago has some of the best teachers in the country, said spokeswoman Sarah Hamilton. “For him, the only thing
Pakistan fires kill 283, lax safety laws blamed By Sebastian Abbot Associated Press
KARACHI, Pakistan — Fires at two clothing factories in Pakistan left 283 people dead — many trapped behind locked doors and barred windows — tragedies that highlight workplace perils in a country where many buildings lack basic safety equipment and owners often bribe officials to ignore the violations. The blazes broke out Tuesday night at a garment factory in the southern port city of Karachi and a shoe manufacturer in the eastern city of Lahore. At least 258 people died in the fire in Karachi, where rescue workers were still searching Wednesday for bodies in the charred building. Another 25 perished in Lahore. Panicked workers in Karachi had only one way out since the factory’s owner had locked all the other exit doors in response to a recent theft, officials said. Many victims suffocated in the smokefilled basement. “The owner of the factory should also be burned to death the way our dear ones have died in a miserable condition,” said Nizam-ud-Din, whose nephew was killed in
the fire, one of the deadliest industrial accidents in Pakistani history. Police were searching for the factory’s managers and placed the owner on a list of people who are not allowed to leave the country, said Roshan Ali Sheikh, a top government official in Karachi. “It is a criminal act to lock the emergency exit doors, and we are trying to know who did it, and why,” Sheikh said. The fire started when a boiler exploded and the flames ignited chemicals that were stored in the factory, which manufactured jeans and other clothes for export. Between 300 and 400 workers were inside when the blaze erupted. Many of the deaths were caused by suffocation as people trapped in the basement were unable to escape when it filled with smoke, said Karachi fire chief Ehtisham-ud-Din. Those on the upper floors of the five-story building had to break through metal bars covering the windows so they could leap to safety. Dozens were injured doing so, including a 27-year-old pregnant woman. “When smoke spread all around, I jumped out the window in panic,” said Mohammad Shahzad, who broke an arm and a leg when he hit
personal is about the children,” Hamilton said. “It’s not about Rahm Emanuel or Karen Lewis. It’s about making sure the kids of Chicago get the best education possible.” Rodney Espiritu, a stayat-home father, said Lewis sometimes seems “hostile and unbending.” “There’s a lot of rhetoric from Karen Lewis,” he said. “I can understand some of the concerns they have in the classroom, but it seems like ... it’s more about the pay.” Juan Jose Gonzalez, Chicago director for the educationreform group Stand for Children, said he feels as if Lewis “keeps moving the goal post” for reaching a contract settlement. He said she and other union leaders had agreed on many issues, including evaluations, in the spring. “Now they’re saying that’s the reason we’re striking,” Gonzalez said. He said Lewis’ rhetoric is getting old and parents who respect and value teachers “will become more frustrated with them.” But Rieck said Lewis is being “very rational and very calculated” by ensuring the union exhausts every option before moving to the next step. “She’s navigating real difficult waters,” Rieck said. “Now that she’s in that leadership role, she really shows a lot of leadership qualities. She understands she has everyone’s future in her hands.” A woman looks for her missing family member at a morgue in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday. Pakistani officials say the devastating factory fires that broke out in two major cities killed hundreds.
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the ground. “I found myself in the hospital when I regained my senses.” Others burned to death as they tried to wriggle through the barred windows. “There were no safety measures taken in the building design,” said senior police official Amir Farooqi. “There was no emergency exit. These people were trapped.” Firefighters were still battling the blaze Wednesday. The death toll spiked as they entered previously inaccessible parts of the factory and found scores more bodies. The death toll stood at 258 by Wednesday evening, including a 10-year-old boy, said Sheikh. Another 31 people were injured. Rani Bibi said her two sonsin-law called Tuesday night to say they were trapped in the factory and asked her to tell their wives to take good care of their children. She hasn’t heard from them since, and couldn’t
find their bodies in any of the hospitals in the city. “We don’t know where they are,” said Bibi, tears flowing down her face. “I hope to hear their voices. My two daughters’ lives are ruined.” The fire that swept through the four-story shoe factory in Lahore left 25 people dead, some from burns and others from suffocation, said senior police officer Multan Khan. The fire broke out as workers were trying to start a generator after electricity went out in the building. Sparks from the generator made contact with chemicals used to make shoes, igniting the blaze, which blocked the only exit. Firefighters had to break through the building’s brick walls to save people, officials said. Raza Rumi, an analyst at the Islamabad-based Jinnah Institute, said the fire in Karachi was one of the deadliest industrial accidents in the
country’s history. “It is reflective of the utter collapse of regulation and the enforcement of labor laws in the country,” he said. The problem has gotten worse in recent years as the federal government handed over factory oversight to provincial authorities, but local governments failed to develop legislation enforcing labor laws or basic safety regulations, Rumi said. Many Pakistani factories lack even basic safety equipment, such as alarms and sprinklers. In Punjab province, where Lahore is the capital, authorities abolished labor inspections altogether in 2003 to develop a more “business-friendly environment,” Rumi said. It was unclear whether anger over the fires in Karachi and Lahore will prompt provincial governments to focus on passing new labor regulations.
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
Editor-in-Chief Susannah Jacob
Before and after: Sweatt and Fisher
Heman Sweatt became the first African American to attend UT after a 1950 Supreme Court decision.
Editor’s Note: Heman Marion Sweatt II is the nephew of Heman Sweatt, the first African American to attend UT Law School. Sweatt won the right to enroll after he filed a civil rights case against the University of Texas. In 1950, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Sweatt’s favor. Last month, Sweatt’s nephew, along with other family members, submitted an amicus brief in support of UTAustin in its defense against the case brought by Abigail Fisher, a white woman denied admission in 2008. Fisher has alleged UT violated her constitutional rights by considering the race of applicants who weren’t admitted automatically through the Top Ten Percent Law. The case will be heard by the Supreme Court Oct. 10. In the Q&A below, Sweatt’s nephew talks about the Fisher case, race relations at UT, where he was a student, and alleged attempts to bribe his uncle not to pursue his history-making discrimination case against UT. Daily Texan: Why do you support UT in the Fisher case? Heman Sweatt II: I support UT in the Fisher case because I believe [UT’s] affirmative action program is fair and equal, and I see UT as taking a forefront role in affirmative action. DT: What do you want UT students to know about your uncle? HS: All the trials and tribulations he had to go through entering UT and attending UT. Because there have been over 50 years since my uncle’s case, a lot of young people don’t believe racism is alive and well, when it’s happening every day. By not knowing what’s taken place in the past, young people can’t recognize some things presented to them in today’s time. Hopefully, someday, we will come to a point when we won’t have to think about race, but today’s young people have grown up in times when things are not as blatant as they were in the past. Even when I was enrolled at UT in 1968, some things were different, some things were better in comparison to 1950, when my uncle got in, but there were still a lot of things to move toward and overcome. Be aware that everything is not rectified, everything is not in the past. That doesn’t only go for minority students, but white students, brown students, black students — we have to know our history and maintain a sense of what we’re trying to achieve going forward. DT: What were your own experiences as a UT undergraduate like? HS: I was in culture shock. Even though I had been in some educational programs that were integrated, such as the original pilot of [the U.S. Dept. of Education’s Upper Bound program], I still was limited in my contact with students of other races. I knew the people that had participated in Upper Bound, and became good friends [with] them, but when I arrived at UT in 1968, I was on the campus for a couple weeks, [and] outside of the other minority students I came from Dallas with, I didn’t see a single black person walking on the campus. That in itself was a culture shock. Back in 1968, enrollment at UT was 40,000, and less than 300 black students attended the school. It took some getting used to. DT: In the Fisher case one argument in favor of UT’s current admissions policy is ensuring a minority student doesn’t feel like a “token” representative. What does it feel like to be a token representative, and why is it important a student doesn’t feel that way? HS: The way I can address that is by saying at the time I felt I had to prove that, yes, I deserve to be here. My
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skin color doesn’t mean I’m dumb or ignorant, and I have knowledge. When you find yourself in a minority, whether it’s being black in a group of whites for the first time or white in a group of blacks, there are subconscious feelings associated with the experience, not only related to proving yourself, but making sure you are not fulfilling any stereotypes other group members may have about you. DT: In the brief, you along with your family members quote [former U.S. Supreme Court Justice] Tom Clark’s bench memo in the Sweatt case steering the other justices away from counting bricks and books to consider what cannot be quantified—what do you mean and why is that important? HS: Justice Clark spoke to the other justices stating that prestige, dynamics and support could not be conferred by separate but equal facilities. If you count books and bricks only, you don’t get the intangibles that the primary institution has. The openness of the dialogue, the exposure and the prestige still matter today just as yhey mattered in that decision back in 1950. Why else would so many students want to attend the University of Texas? DT: How did the Sweatt opinion introduce the idea that race was a compelling component of higher education? Why do you think diversity is a compelling thing for a university to achieve? HS: There is still a perception that the University of Texas is basically a white institution. That perception
exists among some whites and some blacks. But by trying to provide diversity, the university has helped to overcome the notion that this big institution [UT] is for one group only.
DT: Do you see the outcome of the Fisher case as fundamentally influential in African American’s relationship to Texas and public education and if yes, how so? HS: Yes, for a university as prestigious as UT, I think it would matter a great deal for education in the state of Texas. But it goes beyond Texas; this case could have a rippling effect on universities throughout the nation. This could also have a rippling effect in the employment and workforce. It will be a step backwards if [the Supreme Court] moves in favor of Fisher.
DT: Do you believe, as former [U.S. Supreme Court] Justice O’Connor wrote, that the need for race considerations will expire eventually? HS: I hope so.
DT: Anything else you’d like to add? HS: Before my uncle passed away, I had as an adult an opportunity to visit him and sit down and talk in depth. That made a great impression on me We spoke about some of the things he had to go through while trying to get into the University of Texas. He told me how people tried to buy him off to go somewhere else with large sums of money, and how the people in the city of Austin reached out to him and lent him support.
Co-op market doesn’t cut it Emily Mathis Daily Texan Columnist
On a recent evening, my roommate and I were commiserating about our freshman year weight gain. We are both now juniors, and still, so to speak, working our asses off to get rid of that weight. Of course I could blame the late night Kerbey Lane runs or the Girl Scout cookie table set up in front of PCL, but there is more to the matter than a couple of cookies here and there. Despite earnest efforts from the Division of Housing and Food Service to inform students about the peril of the infamous Freshman 15, weight gain during freshman year of college remains a sizeable subject. It is clear that the lack of groceries for sale and inconvenient hours of campus dining centers are to blame. The only two cafeteria-style dining options on campus are Kinsolving Market and J2 Dining. At J2 Dining, facilities close at 7:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, while at Kinsolving Dining, facilities close at 7:00 p.m. These are simply not convenient hours for students with busy schedules and late afternoon classes. The only option for evening dining is Jester City Limits, which closes at 11:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday — and for students (particularly female students) living in the Whitis area community, hiking across campus at night for dinner is not the safest option. The wise RA would suggest keeping some healthy meals stocked in your dorm room for those occasions — more often than not in my case — when you are delayed studying past the
cafeteria hours. So you head to one of the on-campus “markets” to stock up. Your fruit options: apples, bananas, oranges, and if you’re lucky, a pear. Available vegetables: carrot sticks or a prepared salad. The Co-op Market on the Drag opened in the fall of 2011 in response to these very complaints — but it is hardly a dietary salvation to the nutrient-deprived student with its overpriced upscale yogurt and convenience store feel. Don’t get me wrong, I am grateful that the University Co-op took the initiative to open a grocery-ish option for on-campus students. Upon visiting the Co-op Market earlier this week, I found that they did indeed have more fruit options than the on-campus markets – they sell grapes! The H-E-B on 41st Street is, by far, the best grocery option for on-campus students with its reasonable prices and greater selection of healthy food. But what is the point of paying for Dine-in Dollars and Bevo Bucks, as is required for on-campus students, if you don’t use them for the dining options available? “The biggest problem for me was the payment plan,” says Cassie Shankman, a busy music student who lived at Jester and Duren dorms before moving off campus this year. “You only have so much money to allot for the year, and you have to use that carefully. Every time you go to the cafeteria it costs money just to get in, so you only go once and you load up on as much food as possible. You can’t take away food, so you’re reliant on the on-campus markets for snacks and your other meals – and there aren’t that many healthy options. Sure, you can live that way, but you’re going to gain weight.” Weight gain is an increasingly pervasive topic on col-
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Weight gain is an increasingly pervasive topic on college campuses, and a sensitive one at that.
lege campuses, and a sensitive one at that. The Division of Housing and Food Service and the University Health Services are already doing an outstanding job of combatting weight gain in dorm students. But there is more to be done if students are still gaining weight despite increased nutritional awareness. One option is to place calorie labels on every food available on campus for consumption. Currently, there are no nutrition labels placed on prepared foods available in campus markets that are marketed for individual sale. Cafeterias should also place caloric values on every item available in the cafeteria. Another option is to extend cafeteria hours for those with full schedules. The DHFS could also consider an unlimited access meal plan or a numbered visit meal plan like many universities employ. Simply put, it’s time for the Division of Housing and Food Service and the University Health Services to take some action on a problem that has become well-known on campuses across the country. We students appreciate their efforts to date — but they’re not enough. Mathis is a musicology and English major from Denton.
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Center puts on volunteer fair, connecting students to service
UT joins with Emory to assemble database on Hurricane Katrina
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The Volunteer and Service Learning Center gave students looking for volunteer opportunities a chance to explore their local options during its semiannual volunteer fair Wednesday. The center has been hosting volunteer fairs on campus every semester since 1972 in an effort to connect students with local nonprofit organizations. In recent years, 70 groups have sent representatives to the career fair seeking volunteers, interns and employees. Each organization had its own booth and representatives to answer questions, giving students the opportunity to sign up to volunteer for many different nonprofits in one place. Yvonne Fuentes, director for community engagement at the center, said the fair is a perfect way for students and organizations to meet and benefit from each other. “We think the face time [the students] have with nonprofits is valuable, because it ensures they have a positive experience,” Fuentes said. “Our ultimate goal is for both parties to benefit from each other’s participation so that there is reciprocity.” Fuentes said more than 1,500 students signed up to volunteer during the last volunteer fair, giving each organization an average of 21 new student volunteers. After visiting booths, mechanical engineering freshman Codey Pham said the fair of-
More than six years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans, UT is joining with Emory University to make stories of the storm’s human impact easily accessible to the general public. Southern Spaces, an online journal on Southern culture at Emory University, is teaming up with UT Press to compile stories and information about Hurricane Katrina. The organizations will use the data to create a free online publication for the public. The team is collecting and rewriting articles, essays and audio recordings that will then be made available on UT Press’ online archives. UT Press already maintains the Katrina Bookshelf Series, a collection of digitized documents about Hurricane Katrina. This collection will serve as a starting point for the new project. Allen Tullos, editor of Southern Spaces and head of Emory’s involvement in the project, said the team plans to continue archiving as long as they have unrecorded documents. He said that until UT and Emory began digitizing their collections of literature about the storm, none of it was presented in an accessible, easy-to-read format. “All of the information about Hurricane Katrina was interesting, but it was presented entirely in print,” Tullos said. “What we are publishing
shaina Bowen | Daily Texan Staff Tatiana Dozier registers to vote at the Planned Parenthood table Wednesday morning as part of the Volunteer Fair. Planned Parenthood was one of 70 groups that participated in the fair.
fered a way for those who enjoy the benefits of volunteering to continue service. “I have been volunteering for nonprofits for about four years now, mainly with Habitat for Humanity during high school, where we built houses for underprivileged families,” Pham said. “I came to this fair because it seems to have a wide array of organizations and chances to volunteer, and I like the fact that through the fair I can begin to reach out and give back.” Margaret Valenti, project manager for Austin Community Tree, a city-sponsored tree-planting program, said the volunteer fair is a worthwhile,
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“I like the fact that through the fair I can begin to reach out and give back.” — Margaret Valenti, Project Manager for Austin Community Tree
well-run event that benefits the entire community. “I love the fair, because it gives students the ability to give back to Austin and I always know what to expect,” Valenti said. “The organizers do very well in organizing it, so I always look forward to it.” Biochemistry junior Josh Crow said he thinks the fair
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UT financial pilot plan to decrease loan burden on indebted students By alexa ura As part of the University’s efforts to decrease the burden of college loans on students, a UT administrator presented a pilot program intended to generate faster loan forgiveness and increase four-year graduation rates to state senators. Thomas Melecki, director of the Office of Student Financial Services, said the University has developed a pilot program that could help students repay student loans if they meet certain course credit completion standards. During a Senate Committee on Higher Education hearing Wednesday where legislators heard recommendations related to the upcoming legislative session, Melecki presented the new program and recommended the state establish financial aid program budgets years in advance. “The program provides real positives for students in completing all their hours and getting themselves to graduation in four years,” Melecki said. “It allows students to borrow less and forgive or pay down loans while still in school.” The program would select 200 incoming freshmen that have been awarded Federal Direct Unsubsidized Loans on the basis of financial need. Melecki said unsubsidized loans, with a 6.8 percent interest rate, are the most expensive type of loans students can take out. Half of the group will be offered $1,000 in forgiveness toward the principal of the unsubsidized loan and additional forgiveness of accrued interest each semester if they complete 15 course credit hours that apply to degree requirements. The other half of the group will be offered $2,000 in forgiveness and additional
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forgiveness for all interest accrued at the end of the academic year if they complete 30 course credit hours toward their degree. Melecki said he estimates students who qualify for forgiveness for eight semesters will pay $13,000 less over the standard 10-year repayment period. The program will begin next fall, and the University will provide results to the state legislature in two years, Melecki said. He said the program will provide data to measure whether it is possible to incentivize undergraduates to graduate in four years. Melecki was not the only one who focused on the idea of incentivizing student performance through financial aid. Sen. Judith Zaffirini (DLaredo), committee chair of the Senate Committee on Higher Education, said financial aid programs need to motivate students with incentives to take more courses because they are not being advised to take more than 12 hours a semester. “The easiest way to save money is to graduate faster,” Zaffirini said. “We need to get creative as to how we acknowledge these issues.” Dan Weaver, assisting commissioner of education at the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, said students are taking too long to earn degrees and take more credits than are necessary to graduate. “The essence [of our recommendations] is to encourage students to graduate on time,” he said. “We recommend capturing this essence as a tuition rebate instead of by providing loans that are ultimately forgiven.” In a written testimony submitted to the committee, Melecki also recommended state
appropriations from the legislature be approved two years in advance. “Putting state financial aid appropriations on such a cycle would make it possible for institutions to receive their allocations every year in plenty of time to award state funds before May 1,” he wrote in the proposal. In 2011, the Office of Student Financial Services delayed financial aid award notifications for students because of delays in the federal and state budget processes. The University provided prospective freshmen with financial aid packages that did not include state financial aid but did not send these notifications until past the May 1 enrollment deposit deadline for freshmen to ensure their spot at UT. Melecki said notifications included, on average, $7,000 less in TEXAS grants and Top 10 Percent Scholarships per student, an amount that was replaced by loans. “Some of the loans offered to students were pretty significant and went up to $11,000,” he said. “I might have told my child that he or she needs to attend a less expensive university or a community college if I am a parent and I realize I am going to go $40,000 into debt. If you are from a family that does not have a big income, a $40,000 debt for a parent is prohibitively expensive.” The University experienced a two percent drop in Hispanic student enrollment, a nine percent decrease in students from families with incomes less than $60,000 and a 14 percent decrease in first-generation students last year compared to fall 2010, according to figures obtained from the Office of Student Financial Services.
was a successful venture for students looking for volunteering opportunities. “I began volunteering a year ago and fell in love with it,” Crow said. “That is the reason why I am here, and just by walking around I can tell right away that I have a lot of options. Everyone is very helpful and I am just really excited about it all.”
contains images and multimedia pieces so that everyone can understand.” The project will feature maps, charts and interactive multimedia components that could not be portrayed in a print-only journal. Although Hurricane Katrina hit six years ago, the effects of its destruction are still present, Lynn Weber, psychology professor at the University of Southern Carolina, said. Weber, who coauthored essays and novels in UT’s Katrina Bookshelf Series, said close to 1,000 families are still displaced from the storm. Weber travels to New Orleans with a team of six colleagues three times a year to research Katrina’s continued impact on the city. “One of the great things in working on documenting this momentous storm was talking to the people who lost their homes and knowing we could help them if this ever happened again,” Weber said. Monica Johnson, an electrical engineering sophomore from New Orleans, said that this archive will help prepare people for the next hurricane because computers are capable of so much more than printed material. “Just knowing that if we ever needed to know something about that storm it would be there, that definitely makes the whole thing more real,” Johnson said.
university Theater and dance junior Oscar Franco, Alpha Psi Omega business manager, and sophomores Katy Wicker and Martin Rodriguez, respectively Alpha Psi Omega president and vice president, restarted the fraternity from 75 years of inactivity. Fanny trang Daily Texan Staff
Theater society stages comeback, provides roles to undergraduates By Jordan rudner After a 75-year intermission, national theater honor society Alpha Psi Omega is back for another act at UT. Sophomores Katie Wicker and Martin Rodriguez and senior Oscar Franco, all students in the Department of Theatre and Dance, are the driving force behind Alpha Psi Omega’s recent return to active status. They began laying the groundwork last spring, when they contacted the national organization and wrote a constitution for the proposed chapter. By mid-April, the group had a faculty sponsor, associate theater and dance professor Lucien Douglas. “All of the theater faculty are either acting or otherwise engaged in projects, so it’s hard to find someone who is willing to give us their free time,” Rodriguez, the chapter’s vice president, said. “We were surprised and thrilled when he said yes.” Wicker, the chapter president, said approximately 40 students attended the information session the group held earlier this semester. Rush events begin in early October, when students will be divided
into groups and instructed to write and perform original plays. The week will culminate in a showcase Oct. 12. The UT theater and dance program is one of the largest in the country, with an average of 300 students majoring in theatre studies and dance each year, according to the department’s website. However, it has not had an active chapter of Alpha Psi Omega since 1937. Throughout the ‘90s and again in 2005, students attempted to bring the organization back to UT, but the project never came to fruition. One of Alpha Psi Omega’s main goals is to increase the number of performance opportunities available to undergraduate students. Although the theater department stages up to eight shows a year on its main stage and features up to 20 student-produced shows, opportunities for undergraduates are somewhat limited, Franco said. “There are many great options, but at the same time there are just so many people in this department,” Franco said. “We want everyone to have a platform to show off their work.” The theater and dance department’s first show of the fall season, “The Cataract,”
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does not feature a single undergraduate actor, relying instead on a cast of graduate students and actors from the Austin community, Rodriguez said. The studentdriven productions often feature very small casts or are composed of actors the directors already know well, he said. Assistant dean of students Mary Beth Mercatoris said it is not unusual for student organizations to step in and provide opportunities where the departments do not. “Frankly, we as administrators could not replicate in a year what student organizations do,” Mercatoris said. “The students come in with an incredibly sincere passion.” Mercatoris said that students as passionate as Wicker, Franco and Rodriguez are able to elevate the dialogue on campus. “Student organizations further the academic mission of the University,” she said. “They extend the educational curriculum.” Rodriguez said he has high hopes for what Alpha Psi Omega can accomplish. “We want to give students the opportunity to shine,” he said.
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Bell bounces back after ACL injury By Sara Beth Purdy Sophomore middle blocker Khat Bell came to Texas ranked No. 2 in the nation along with No. 5 Haley Eckerman and No. 13 Madelyn Hutson, to what was arguably “the best freshman class we’ve ever had here,” head coach Jerritt Elliott said. But part of the way through the Longhorns’ 2011 campaign, Bell went down. During an early November contest against Kansas in Lawrence, Bell suffered a season-ending ACL injury. Thankfully, a deep bench filled with talent prevented the Longhorns from experiencing a skid after the loss of such a dynamic player. “She means a lot to this program, and we know she will continue to be an important part,” Elliott said. As a freshman, Bell was electric, a force to be reckoned with. She averaged 2.67 kills per set and played in every match for Texas before her injury. Bell logged 184 kills in 30 matches while hitting .243. Prior to the 2011 season, Bell was named preseason Big 12 Freshman Player of the Year while Eckerman went on to earn Big 12 Freshman of the Year honors after the season. In addition, Bell earned Big 12 Rookie of the Week Honors three times in 2011 and was Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week once. The Longhorns went on to finish the regular sea-
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It was a wonderful Friday morning two weeks ago when Longhorns fans with AT&T UVerse woke up to find out their cable provider had begun carrying the Longhorn Network. When it was announced that the Longhorn Network would carry each of Texas’ first two football games against Wyoming and New Mexico, it meant that if you wanted to see those games, you’d likely have to buy a ticket to see it. Now that those games have been played, however, it may mean that the clock has struck midnight on the Longhorn Network getting any further distribution until next fall. “There’s nothing like it anywhere in collegiate athletics,” Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said of the Longhorn Network. “It’s unique. Obviously, it’s lucrative. I don’t know if anyone else is going to have a chance to do it again.” The 20-year, $300 million agreement the University of
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son and part of the postseason without a loss. Texas only halted when eventual national champion UCLA beat it in the Elite Eight round of the NCAA Division I Championship. “It’s very tough, especially for a freshman that was so excited to get into NCAA postseason play,” Elliott said. “Especially with the way that she was playing.” With a brace on her knee, Bell started the 2012 campaign itching to get back... “I feel great, 100 percent ready to go,” Bell said. Although she feels no an-
imosity toward Kansas, she has marked the game on her calendar as a mid-season goal on the way to a conference and national title. “I am really excited. Hopefully I won’t have as much bad luck there as I did last year, but I am looking forward to going there and playing again,” Bell said. So far this season, Bell has seen a fair amount of action playing in most of the Longhorns’ games, both at home and on the road. She has 42 kills on the season and is hitting .283, already off to a better season
than her freshman year. “It’s pretty tough this year. I’m taking my time. I’m being patient,” Bell said. “I want to be back to where I was before. I know it is going to take some time, but I am ready to sacrifice that time.” However, in only the second real regular season home match against Minnesota, Bell was seen cheering her teammates on from the bench dressed in warm-ups rather than on the court in her jersey. The sight caused many fans to pause and wonder if she had aggravat-
ed the injury and how long the Longhorns would have to do without her. “She is fine. Her health is good, but we are still on the recovery process with her,” Elliott said. “We want to make sure we are not overdoing it and putting her in a position where she could hurt herself.” And if anyone had any further questions or reservations as to her health and impact on the team: “There’s no need to worry about what Khat is going to be able to do for us,” Elliott said.
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Wallace once recruited by Texas By Lauren Giudice David Ash is now in the driver’s seat of the Texas offense. But Ole Miss quarterback Bo Wallace could have been the one starting for the Longhorns at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium last weekend. Wallace, a junior-college transfer, was recruited by Texas this winter but did not receive an offer. Now he is behind center for Ole Miss, which currently holds a 2-0 record. Wallace and Texas cooffensive coordinator Bryan Harsin spoke a few times, but he was not offered a scholarship. Harsin and Wallace’s conversations helped them get to know one another, but Harsin decided it was more prudent to work with Ash and Case McCoy. “[We] felt like the direction we needed to go was with the guys that we have and stick with that,” Harsin said. Harsin said there were some unanswered questions about the offense at that time when he was getting to know Wallace. Ash, being a freshman at the time, and McCoy, a sophomore, still had a lot of time to develop. So Harsin stuck with his men and didn’t go with the quick fix. “We decided and kind of sat back and looked at it again with
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Texas assistant football coaches will have a few extra bucks in their pockets this season, according to figures reported in the Austin-American Statesman yesterday. Mack Brown’s nine assistants will earn a total of approximately $300,000 more than they did in 2011. Co-offensive coordinator Bryan Harsin and defensive coordinator Manny Diaz lead the pack with salaries at $700,000 this year, up from $625,000 last season. Co-offensive coordinator Major Applewhite follows with a salary increase to $575,000, up from $500,000 last season. Brown is guaranteed a $5.3 million salary, which increased by $100,000 this year due to an annual increase clause in his contract. —Rachel Thompson
Thomas Graning | The Daily Mississippian Ole Miss quarterback Bo Wallace played for East Mississippi Community College before transferring to play for the Rebels, where he is 2-0 as the team’s starter this season.
kind of the big picture of where we are and where we were going, and we decided that what we had was the right thing to do and to focus on that and not get into something else,” Harsin said. Ash wasn’t aware of Wallace’s recruitment but has been impressed by what he’s done so far this season. “I didn’t really know any-
thing about it,” Ash said. “From what I can tell you, he’s an outstanding quarterback.” After beating out Barry Brunetti for the starting job at Ole Miss, Wallace has an average of 219 yards per game and has completed 76 percent of his passes in two games. Ole Miss defeated UTEP 28-10 and University of Central Arkansas 49-27 the week before.
Last year at East Mississippi Community College, he led the team — of which Texas defensive tackle Brandon Moore was also a member — to an undefeated season and set NCAA single-season records for passing yards (4,604), total yards (4,810) and touchdown passes (53).
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Griffin III a smart start for fantasy By Garrett Callahan There were big surprises in Week 1, both good and bad. For most fantasy players, that means Week 1 in the Fantasy Football world was pretty rough. How will these surprises affect week 2? Here’s who to start:
1.) Robert Griffin III, QB, Washington Redskins RG3’s NFL debut came at the Superdome against Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints, making his performance even more impressive. He completed 19 of 26 passes for 320 yards while running for 42 yards more. Griffin III showed his poise, tallying two touchdowns
in the game, one for 88 yards. 2.) C.J. Spiller, RB, Buffalo Bills Spiller had 14 attempts running for 169 yards and one touchdown. He averaged 12.5 yards a carry while catching a few passes out of the backfield. That isn’t too bad since he ran against a decent New York Jets
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Notre Dame leaves Big East, joins ACC
Notre Dame got everything it wanted and the Atlantic Coast Conference got Notre Dame. The school announced Wednesday that it would join the ACC in all the conference’s sports except football, though it will play five games annually against league programs and have access to its non-BCS bowl tie-ins. It’s unclear exactly when the Irish will leave the Big East for its non-football sports. “I don’t think there’s out there a better situation than the situation we have,’’ said the Rev. John I. Jenkins, Notre Dame’s president. “The ACC has allowed us to retain a tradition that’s so central to our identity in football while we’re joining a conference that athletically as well as academically fits Notre Dame perfectly.’’
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Here’s who to sit: 1.) Mark Sanchez, QB, New York Jets Sanchez faced a weak Buffalo defense in the Jets’ opener, throwing for three touchdowns, but he still has Tim Tebow right behind him. After Tebow came in as a slot receiver on the second play of the game, Sanchez seemed bothered and is facing a Steelers defense in Week 2 that is coming off a Week 1 loss to the Broncos. His first performance was a bit mislead-
LHN continues from page 6 Texas and ESPN signed last year does not require the Longhorn Network to televise any football games, but it’s gotten exclusive rights to two games each of the last two seasons, with the possibility of adding more this year. If it doesn’t, fans with a major cable provider like Time Warner might have to wait until next season to get the network. Disney and ESPN Media Networks executive vice president David Preschlack estimated that more than a million AT&T U-Verse customers can now watch the Longhorn Network
on channels 609 and 1609. But without the demand generated from the promise of another exclusive Longhorn Network football game, there might not be another major cable provider willing to carry it. “This is another example of how we continue to deliver the content customers want,” Jeff Weber, AT&T Home Solutions president of content and advertising services, said. “We know fans are passionate about watching Longhorn football, and we’re thrilled to offer Longhorn Network to U-verse
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Texas defensive coordinator Manny Diaz is preparing his defense for what should be its toughest test yet. “You can watch on tape what he’s doing when he carries himself,” Diaz said. “He can make bad plays, good plays for them. What he’s also doing is he’s not making bad
to convince a provider like Time Warner to carry the Longhorn Network. If you want to watch the Longhorn Network, find a friend with AT&T U-Verse. Because even with an improved group of non-revenue squads combined with the pressure of people considering switching to AT&T U-Verse, there isn’t enough to convince Time Warner or any other major cable provider to carry the Longhorn Network now that the Wyoming and New Mexico games have been played.
plays disasters.” Safety Kenny Vaccaro sees Wallace as a dual-threat quarterback. But because of the lack of a Longhorn offer, there’s something else that worries him. “I’m sure he’ll have a chip on his shoulder,” Vaccaro said.
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1940 World’s Fair exhibition, Bel Geddes had tremendous success “taking a small idea about selling cars and turning it into a large-scale idea.” Of course, as she puts it, “It is one thing to have a vision of a car-centric society and quite another thing to actually live in one.” While Bel Geddes’ city of tomorrow neglected to consider the environmental impact of automobiles, Baer said it created “the Bel Geddes vision of the future that you found in mid20th century America; the vision of the future that Disneyland shows at Tomorrowland.” Ultimately, acceptance of Bel Geddes’ utopian vision was ephemeral, with World War II toppling his Depression-era vision. But Bel Geddes’ impact permeates American memory of the 1930s and 1940s — in many ways making him the silent voice behind an era. His obsession with streamlined design and aerodynamic properties influenced everything from seltzer bottles to bullet-shaped trains. The Ransom Center will hold a “retrofuturistic celebration” Friday at 7 P.M. Tickets will be sold for $20 at the door.
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The first results from the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) have been published this past week in 30 papers spread across three separate scientific journals written by over 500 authors. The project, designed to provide a better understanding of how the human genome works, has already uncovered results that correct our previous misconceptions about DNA and how it functions. One of the most significant findings is that more than 80 percent of the genome is active, contradicting the previous notion that it consisted largely of “junk DNA.” This, along with the numerous other findings associated with the research, will cause scientists to reconsider and further investigate the inner workings of our genetic code. Rerun to Reboot: One of the most interesting topics in the field of psychology is the subject of willpower. Much like a muscle, our willpower can be strengthened with exercise and, similarly, worn out through overuse. A new pair of studies conducted at the University at Buffalo’s Research Institute
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possesses the energy that once made him capable of flooring audiences either with a full band or just an acoustic guitar — he still has the incomparable ability to turn a simple phrase into something that can make you laugh out loud, break your heart or both, as when he belts out the couplet, “You’re the only thing alive that keeps me going / You’re like a time-bomb in my heart.” Rich lyrical imagery pervades the album’s 10 tracks, with the British burning down the White House in “Narrow Way,” the singer “Paying in Blood” that’s not his own two tracks later, then leading the listener through a harrowing description of the “ivy leaf and silver thorn” of “Scarlet Town” (“If love is a sin, then beauty is a crime / all things are beautiful in their time”). Three of the album’s most vivid lyrical portraits are reserved for the very end, starting with the Muddy Waters-style blues stomp “Early Roman Kings.” Dylan provides his usual smorgasbord of imagery, all connected by the central simile of the title. It’s hard to imagine anyone else making music like this, aside from perhaps Tom Waits. The same can be said for the title track, a 14-minute, 45-verse Irish dirge in threequarter time about the sinking of the Titanic that actually references “Leo drawing sketches” along with the dreaming night-watchman and the ill-fated third-class passengers trapped in the
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Tempest Bob Dylan Release Date: Sept. 11 Genre: Folk-Rock Tracks: 10 For fans of: Neil Young, Tom Waits decks below. The melody gets a little tiresome by around the 12-minute mark, but the verisimilitude of the story is never broken. The album closes with a heartfelt tribute to fellow rock icon John Lennon. Filled with references to Lennon’s life and lyrics, the song tells the story of an artist “cooped up on that island far too long” (England? Manhattan? Earth??) while revolving around the poignant refrain, “Shine a light / Movin’ on / You burned so bright / Roll on, John.” Ultimately, Bob Dylan’s music is not for everyone. For most listeners, the innumerable singing, dancing, major-label puppets currently populating our collective cultural sphere of consciousness will suffice. However, “Tempest” presents a more challenging listen, one that actively engages the listener’s attention.
on Addictions found that willpower can be restored by re-watching a movie (or TV show) or rereading a favorite book. The effect seems to stem from familiarity. The subject looking to restore his or her willpower doesn’t need to worry about what will happen next and can just sit back and enjoy it. The restorative power is even stronger than in genuine social interaction in some respects, likely because social interactions offer up the possibility of “rejection, exclusion and ostracism, which may diminish willpower,” study author Jaye Derrick said. Stradivari-fungus?: Building a proper musical instrument is as much a matter of precision and artistry as playing the instrument itself. A Stradivarius violin, considered among the finest ever made, can cost several million dollars, a result of the craftsmanship involved as well as the wood it is built from. This wood has a low density and high elasticity as a result of growing between 1645 and 1715, the “Little Ice Age,” and helps provide the instrument’s distinct sound. Researchers have now discovered a fungus that can cause common Norway spruce and sycamore to decay and produce a wood remarkably similar to that of a genuine Stradivarius. This may result in high-quality
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violins at a price that even amateurs can afford. Beam Me Further, Scotty!: A new record in quantum teleportation has been set and officially published in the journal “Nature” this week. According to quantum mechanics, when two photons are “entangled,” a measurement of one can affect the other instantaneously. Albert Einstein famously referred to this phenomenon as “spooky action at a distance” and dismissed it as impossible since it seemed to violate his theory of relativity. However, this “spooky action” has proven to be very real in the years since Einstein’s dismissal and, according to the paper, has been demonstrated practically at a separation of 88 miles, beating the previous record of 60. If scientists can perfect this “spooky action” at greater and greater distances, it could eventually be used as a backbone for a new satellite version of the Internet, offering unprecedented levels of security in addition to increased bandwidth. AA Earns an A: A new study suggests that methods employed in Alcoholics Anonymous may
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indeed be effective. Over a 10-year period, those who attended regular meetings, helped others through the 12step process and performed the step work themselves were less likely to drink alcohol and had an increased concern for
those around them. “Being interested in others keeps you more connected to your program and pulls you out of the vicious cycle of extreme selfpreoccupation that is a posited root of addiction,” study author Maria Pagan said.
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conn, the factory that assembles all things Apple, the rebooted version of the show has garnered praise since it opened this summer. Charles Isherwood of the New York Times wrote in his blog, “Version 2.0, in my view if anything, is more powerful, funny and engaging than the earlier production.” Isherwood also noted, “the details about the long hours worked and the spate of worker suicides at the Foxconn compound are still both disturbing and welldocumented.” Reviewer Andrew Long of the Austin Chronicle wrote that it was a piece of theater absolutely worth seeing. Despite its controversial past, Daisey’s monologue is particularly relevant to college students, who, as studies show, are increasingly using Apple products for studying and entertainment. According to an article published in 2010 by CNNMoney, 47 percent of college students use MacBooks. “That statistic doesn’t really match with what I have seen,” business and Plan II student Diana Yang said. “Most of the people I know use MacBooks.” Freshman Lindsay Richmond also said that Apple products have played an increasing role in her life. “I have a MacBook Pro, an iPhone, an iPod and my family has an iPad, not to mention the old iPods that I have had,” Lindsay said. Yang has around four Apple products as well.
After some revamping and removal of certain embellishments, the controversial show is coming to the Texas Performing Arts Center Sept. 13.
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The increasing dependence of society on products such as iPhones is a topic explored in “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.” Daisey, a selfproclaimed “Apple fanboy” says in the show, “I had never thought, in a dedicated way, about how they [Apple products] were made.” “I think that it is important for consumers to know some
information about how the products they use are made,” Yang said. Cindi Baldi, teaching assistant for the class, Organizational Corruption and Control, said. “I’m all for the truth about [working conditions] at Apple coming out,” Baldi said. “However, I don’t think a monologue or something presented as theater is the right platform because even if the
facts or stories presented have an element of truth, people are viewing it as entertainment and will subconsciously dismiss much of it as fiction.” UT students will get the opportunity to learn a little more about Apple or a little more about entertainment, depending on their perspective, when Daisey performs Thursday through Saturday.
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4G technology that the iPhones 4 and 4S featured. Apple boasts faster connection speeds with LTE than a home’s wifi connection. However, while LTE is certainly an improvement, data speeds will also depend on service providers and their network’s coverage. Along with the iPhone, Apple unleashed a new processing chip, the A6. According to Senior Vice President Bob Mansfield, “[the chip] delivers performance up to two times faster than the previous processor,” to be noted especially when using apps with high frame rates and/or heavy graph-
ics loaded with detail. Efficiency is also stressed, as the improved performance of the processor does not come at the expense of battery life. This appeases app aficionados, who would never want to compromise portability with decreased power supply. The overall handle-ability of the phone remains relatively user-friendly. Although it is longer the same size, iPhone’s width remains the same, making it easy to keep a grip and type with one hand while having an increased display space of keep sight on the phone’s operations. The design does
not change much, keeping the aluminum unibody style with the glass screen front. The back of the phone has a lightly textured feel to it, catering to slippery hands and distracted grips. And iOS 6, the new software that the iPhone 5 will carry (available for download September 19) promises to integrate with the iPhone seamlessly, something Apple has a proven track record with and keeps pursuing. Another integration is Apple’s own Maps application, which shies away from working with Google Maps. That as well as the seeming lack of a Youtube app out-of-the-box
is the latest move in Apple’s separation from Google; a separation whose result is yet to be seen. Whatever it may be, the competition will undoubtedly yield some interesting products. For now, those enchanted by the iPhone 5 can pre-order the device on Apple’s website, to be shipped and released to the public on September 21. Three major carriers, AT&T, Sprint and Verizon, will offer the phone with a base price of $199 for a 16GB model. New, yes. Innovative, kind of. With the iPhone 5, Apple pulls out all the expected stops for a new device: the faster processor,
lighter design, bigger screen, and even some whose benefit other than a change of style, is yet to be determinedLightning. Nevertheless, the iPhone seems to fall short of Apple’s usual role in breaking ground around the world’s technoscape. Maybe shying away from the ridiculous vanity in “the biggest thing to happen to the iPhone since iPhone” and thinking outside their well-designed box would help the bitten fruit folks in California get back on track. In the end, the iPhone 5 is just another hand-sized slate that will be obsolete and forgotten in a couple of years.
Apple iPhone 5 Specs Price: $199, $299, $399 Sizes: 16GB, 32GB, 64GB -A6 Processor -4-inch (diagonal) Retina display -4G LTE Compatible -Siri -1.2 Megapixel Camera (Front-Facing) -8 Megapixel Camera -1080p HD Video Recording -iOS 6 -Lightning Port -Screen Size: 4’’ -Thickness: 0.3’’
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Futurist design exhibit opens at Ransom Center By Laura Wright
Norman Bel Geddes, a self-trained polymath turned architect, industrial designer and futurist is the subject of the Harry Ransom Center’s newest exhibition “I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America.” The exhibition opened this week and runs through Jan 6. Though students of design have no doubt already heard the name Bel Geddes, any student who has ever sat on a plane, driven on a highway or visited Disneyland’s “Tomorrowland” has been indirectly affected by his work. And should the man’s relevance fail to entice, take note: the papers of Bel Geddes are varied, entertaining and visually alluring to people of all disciplines. The exhibition divides itself into five sections, tracing Bel Geddes’ evolution from a set builder to an industrial designer to an architect and respected futurist. Along the way, visitors encounter not only pages from his books but striking watercolors, miniature models and compelling articles all created by Bel Geddes. Donald Albrecht, the guest curator of the exhibition, believes that the exhibition “demonstrates the incredible range of Bel Geddes’ work.” According to Albrecht, he was both a “visionary and a marketer and an advertiser and a shameless self-promoter.” Albrecht also notes that, though Bel Geddes has been “written about in [ev-
Shaina Bowen | Daily Texan Staff Ady Wetegrove, undergraduate intern at the Harry Ransom Center, browses the Norman Bel Geddes collection Wednesday morning at the HRC. The exhibit, which runs through Jan. 6, features work and visions of the future by designer Bel Geddes.
ery] book on industrial design, this is the first time a spotlight has really been put on him.” Bel Geddes took a nontraditional path to the top of the design world, and the exhibition pays due to each of the twists in his career. He began his journey building extraordinarily beautiful and complex sets for theaters from New York City to Hollywood. From there, he moved through
the realms of industrial design, architecture and finally, city planning. As Albrecht puts it, Bel Geddes “designed the theater set, he designed the theater, he designed the city in which the theater would sit … It’s a complete view of the future of America.” Bel Geddes had his most famous achievement in the “Futurama” exhibition at the 1939-1940 World’s Fair that envisioned a “city of
tomorrow” with elevated sidewalks and inner-city highways that would banish stop signs and spur efficiency. He designed this utopian city around the automobile; “Futurama” was, at its core, an advertisement for the exhibition’s sponsor, General Motors. Helen Baer, curator of “I Have Seen the Future,” points out that in the 1939-
I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America When: Sept. 11, 2012—Jan. 6, 2013 Where: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center How much: free, donations encouraged Website: hrc.utexas.edu
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MUSIC REVIEW
Dylan’s gift of visualization still dazzles Monologue criticizing Apple comes to Texas
Fifty years after the release of his debut album, Bob Dylan released “Tempest” on Sept. 11.
By Faith Ruszkowski
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By Ricky Stein Opening with the innocuous, melodious chimes of “Duquesne Whistle,” Bob Dylan’s 35th studio album, “Tempest,” is a passenger train that blasts off from 1940s small-town Midwestern America (appropriate, given the singer’s place of origin) and barrels through a 68-minute odyssey that includes stops at
the War of 1812, “Scarlet Town,” Ancient Rome and the middle of the Atlantic Ocean before disembarking at its final destination of melancholic 1980 New York City. The album, released a full 50 years after Dylan’s eponymous 1962 debut, picks up right where 2009’s “Together Through Life” left off, finding the mercurial 71-year-old troubadour in his latter-day roadhouse
bluesman mode. He is augmented by his impeccable touring band (featuring Austin guitar prodigy Charlie Sexton), along with Los Lobos multiinstrumentalist David Hidalgo on guitar, accordion and violin. The first obstacle one has to overcome when listening to Dylan albums of the last few decades is his impossibly gruff croak of a vocal delivery. It will imme-
diately turn off a majority of younger listeners. Most music fans do not have the patience to withstand Dylan’s bleary vocal grate. However, for the music fan of more esoteric taste, there is no artist dead or alive that can paint a sonic picture quite like Dylan. Although his musical skills have diminished considerably — he no longer
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In 2011, Steve Jobs’ death made news around the world. In the spring of 2012, his name was back in the headlines, this time in a theater production. Mike Daisey’s monologue “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” was heavily criticized for its description of a Chinese factory that made Apple devices. The production, originally advertised as “nonfiction,” came under fire as many learned that facts about the working conditions in the factory were exaggerations. After some revamping and removal of certain embellishments, the controversial show is coming to the stage at 8 p.m. Sept. 13 at the Performing Arts Center. The monologue intertwines descriptions of how Apple products are made in the factory in Shenzhen, China, with descriptions of the odd genius of Steve Jobs, going back and forth between startling facts about working in the Foxconn plant and how deci-
The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs: Talk Monologue by Mike Daisy When: Sept. 13—15, 8:00 p.m. Where: Texas Performing Arts Center How much: $42, limited $10 student tickets Website: TexasPerformingArts.org
sions made by Jobs affected these workers. The controversy surrounding Daisey’s original production first emerged after Daisey read an excerpt of his monologue on the national radio program “This American Life.” The excerpt reported several details that were later proven to be false, including Daisey’s claim that girls as young as 12 were working in the factory and that the factory was guarded with guns. Though Daisey drew criticism for his embellishment of the conditions at Fox-
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TECHNOLOGY
Apple annouces iPhone 5, 4G LTE ability added By Jorge Corona
Photo courtesy of Jeff Chiu Apple announced the long-awaited iPhone 5 in a keynote at its Silicon Valley headquarters. The new iPhone is being marketed as “the biggest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone.”
Technocrats everywhere burst into digital chants of joy Wednesday afternoon as Apple finally announced the long-awaited iPhone 5 in a keynote at its Silicon Valley headquarters. The new iPhone, marketed as “the biggest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone”, is slightly thinner and lighter
than its previous iterations and features a vertically longer screen. It welcomes key improvements over the iPhone 4S such as 4G LTE technology, a new Apple A6 processing chip, and a brand-new charging system dubbed “Lightning”. Different from the 30-pin charging setup currently used on iPads, iPhones, and iPods, Lightning is an all digital, simplified, and thinner
charger – 80 percent smaller than previous ones. Meant to match the smaller size of the new iPhone, Lightning also promises an improved durability and reversibility which users of the current charger will surely appreciate. Apple is also offering a $30 Lightning adapter to current Apple users with 30-pin cables, so as to reduce clutter from several cords and increase adaptability.
Early adapters and later consumer waves can expect an improved webbrowsing experience with the phone’s 4G LTE chip, which, combined with the phone’s CDMA chip, is a breakthrough simplification that would make Steve Jobs proud. Meaning “long term evolution”, LTE is a step up from already zippy
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