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UT events pay close attention to suicide

By Lara Berendt Daily Texan Staff The UT Counseling and Mental Health Center is stepping up efforts to prevent suicide by demystifying mental health issues during UT’s first Suicide Prevention Week.

The goal of the program, which continues through Friday, is to provide a safe forum for students to discuss mental health issues and to teach faculty, staff and students how to have a healthy dialogue about suicide, the second leading cause of death among college students, according to center statistics.

Tuesday’s “What Happy Faces are Hiding” features nationally recognized mental health speaker Ross Szabo. For students with financial worries, “Bevonomics: The College Student’s Guide to Investments” will take place Wednesday. Signs displayed in Gregory Gym’s main concourse will illustrate the warning signs students should notice if a friend is depressed or suicidal.

UT Suicide Prevention Week is scheduled to

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City Council unanimously passes 2010 fiscal policy

By Rachel Platis Daily Texan Staff After months of discussion, the city’s $2.8 billion budget for next year was unanimously approved by the Austin City Council in under an hour Monday morning.

The council approved the 2010 fiscal budget during the deepest economic recession in 50 years, said City Manager Marc Ott. The fiscal plan will take effect Oct. 1.

“The budget has attempted to provide structural solutions to this economic reality,” Ott said.

To fund improvements to the infrastructure of the Austin Water Utility, homeowners will see an average increase of $3.78 to $67.35 in their monthly water and wastewater bills. Customers using a 90-gallon garbage container will see an increased charge from $16.50 to $18.20 per month.

About $75 million has been cut from the budget since the recession began in the past two years, said Mayor Lee Leffingwell.

“We’ve cut the fat, and we’re working on the bone,” Leffingwell said. “The fact that we’re doing all this and balancing the budget in these unprecedented times without letting any employees go is to be commended.”

A revenue deficit of about $30 million was partially filled by eliminating 105 vacant city positions and not including pay increases for city employees. The Austin Police Association and paramedics chose to amend their contractually guaranteed pay raises to adjust to the budget, Leffingwell said.

“The work force is stepping up and going to have to provide more sources with the same amount of resources,” said Mayor Pro Tem Mike Martinez. “When you take into account everything that has been proposed, amended and discussed, everyone is sharing in this burden.”

The budget maintains court services and makes no cuts to the police force, the fire department or to library and recreation center hours. It also outlines investments in city infrastructure and maintains the scheduled police cadet class.

“Having accomplished all of that without reducing employee benefits and without laying off employees is unheard of in this economy,” Ott said. “I’m not aware of any other major city that has been able to do that.”

Although the budget proposal increases the city’s tax rate and utility charges, Austinites currently have the lowest tax bill of any major city in Texas, Ott said.

Council member Bill Spelman said that though he is happy with many of the budget amendments, he is less happy that the property tax rate

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I’ve done some reasonably exciting things in my life. It is a pleasure to share this with a generation who was not yet even born. It’s sort of giving back.”

— Captain Eugene Cernan, former astronaut

Karina Jacques | Daily Texan Staff

Captain Eugene Cernan shows pictures taken from Apollo 17 Monday afternoon at the LBJ Library. The captain was the last man to walk on the moon.

Astronaut offers inspiring advice

By Hannah Jones Daily Texan Staff “The thing I remember most is looking back at the Earth, all the beauty,” Captain Eugene Cernan told the attentive audience. “I could literally cover up the entire Earth with my thumb.”

Luci Baines Johnson, daughter of former president Lyndon Baines Johnson, who was a heavy supporter of the country’s space program, in-

troduced Cernan, a former astronaut, Monday night to a crowd gathered in the auditorium on campus bearing the former president’s name.

Cernan was the last astronaut in his team to board the Apollo Lunar Module before leaving the moon on Apollo 17 in 1972. He has traveled to space three times and logged more than 566 hours in space, including more than 73 on the moon.

“I’ve done some reasonably exciting things in my life,” he said. “It is a pleasure to share this with a generation who was not yet even born.

It’s sort of giving back.”

As a child, Cernan’s dream was to fly airplanes off aircraft carriers, yet he never thought he would, due to his family’s economic

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Non-toxic algae may change Austin water supply Blue-green bacteria in Lake Austin harmless aside from unpleasant taste, smell

By Audrey White Daily Texan Staff A blue-green algae bloom in Lake Austin may cause a fishy or musty taste and odor in the water supply in the coming weeks. Although the algae is not harmful, Austin Water Utility is taking steps to prevent consumers from noticing the changes in their water supply.

“The algae is very unpredictable,” said utility representative Kevin Buchman. “We see it as often as once a year to as infrequently as every two to three years.”

The taste is not caused by the live algae but by compounds released when it dies, Buchman said. Standard tests conducted by Austin Water show higher levels of algae in the water supply toward the end of the summer. In an effort to stave off the unfamiliar taste, Austin Water has started an active charcoal treatment in addition to its normal treatment processes at city water plants.

“We could tell by our sampling

Michael Baldon | Daily Texan Staff

Stephen Peña transfers an algae culture from one beaker to another in the University’s Culture Collection of Algae room. that we were seeing an effect of the bloom, so we decided to take a proactive approach and start the charcoal treatment,” Buchman said.

Adding a simple active carbon compound to water as it is being treated helps absorb the parts of the

algae that cause a change in the water’s features.

These kinds of blooms are normal and usually die back under natural circumstances, said Bonnie O’Neil, an assistant research scientist at UT’s Culture Collection of Algae.

“They go in cycles, so depending on the light and temperature there may be a bloom,” O’Neil said. “It basically just takes up space that other organisms could be living in.

It’s like a fast-forward version of any organism in the ecosystem. It builds that niche and then dominates for a brief time.”

O’Neil said something like the growth of other plants or a change in temperature usually causes the algal bloom to die out.

Stephen Peña, a member of the culture collection staff, said consumers should not be concerned about drinking tap water, since the charcoal treatment has been proven to effectively deal with the results of algal blooms like this one.

“Tap water is treated before it’s used, so there’s not much of a chance of there being a problem,” Peña said. “Few blue-green algae are toxic. They usually just cause a fishy taste.”

Austin Water will continue the charcoal treatment until algae levels return to normal. The process is the most common method for dealing with natural situations that impact the flavor and smell of water.

Detective’s movie-star status helps support local charities Local’s alter-ego finds fame after winning reality show, starring in SyFy channel film

Lauren Gerson | Daily Texan Staff

Austin Police Department Detective Jarrett Crippen stars in the SyFy original movie, “Lightning Strikes.”

By Bobby Longoria Daily Texan Staff In every cell of a comic book’s pages, within the text bubbles and beyond a caped hero, there lies the power to invigorate the superhero within children and adults alike.

Austin Police Department Detective Jarrett Crippen, also known by his superhero alias The Defuser, raised spirits

and money for local charities by selling his comic book and premiering his SyFy channel movie, “Lightning Strikes,” at La Zona Rosa on Saturday. In addition to his superhero activities, Crippen runs a charity which raises funds for cancer research, in particular, through funds raised from a haunted house that runs each October.

The Defuser is a blue-spandex-clad herald of justice equipped with a utility vest and belt sporting non-lethal weaponry. Crippen created the hero in middle

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Pratt said the group’s main event each year is an interactive school and revived him for the extreme haunted house that runs SyFy channel’s 2006 game show the last two weekends in Octo“Who Wants to be a Superhero?â€? ber. The house is built by vol“My message is to tell kids unteers and showcases a frightthat whether it’s school, sports, ful tour with volunteer actors in chess — whatever it is — give makeup waiting within. Over a it 110 percent,â€? Crippen said. thousand volunteer hours have “And I want kids to know guns already been put into the hauntcan be dangerous, but they are ed house, she said. also just a tool ‌ I think if I She said the charity also procan get anything across to kids, motes blood drives and attends it’s how to be a hero in your events such as Eeyore’s Birthcommunity.â€? day, Bat Fest and the Alamo Crippen competed among 25 Drafthouse’s Terror Tuesdays. participants through challengIan Wolf is a volunteer for the es reflecting sucharity who has perhero encounnot only helped ters, including build the house, one where The but has also Defuser fought played the part ... how [much more] of a crazed docthrough 75 feet of a simulated tor with bloodweird can you be hurricane creatthan that? It screams shot eyes for the ed by turbo fans house’s guests.

Austin.� coupled with “It’s great for fire hoses. the community — Jarrett Crippen because all the The show was APD detective money that we hosted by Spiderman creator Stan raise stays here Lee, who grantin Austin — it’s ed a Dark Horse Austin-bound,�

Comics book Wolf said. “It’s deal and an appearance in a SyFy building a haunted house to movie to the competitor that sur- scare people for a good cause — vived through all the challenges. how [much more] weird can you Since winning the show, Crip- be than that? It screams Austin.� pen has made appearances at Crippen said although he is comic book conventions, pa- occasionally recognized by citrades, boy and girl scout camps, izens as a result of the SyFy and multiple school functions. show, his aim is to promote The At each appearance, he sells De- Defuser ’s message, which he fuser merchandise, including said has eclipsed himself. He comic books and T-shirts, and encourages children to be more donates the profits to cancer-re- proactive within their communilated charities. ty and adults to be more selfless Crippen used his Defuser ap- and use their resources to garpearance Saturday to promote nish goodwill. his charity, SCARE for a CURE, “There are just so many ways and raise funds for The Breast to volunteer. You just have to Cancer Resource Center of Tex- make a decision you are going to as. The group’s assistant direc- get up and do it,� Crippen said. tor Susan Pratt said the charity “If I can do anything to inspire raised over $10,000 last year in people to take some of their own scholarship money for students personal time and give a little affected by cancer. bit, my job’s done.�

From page 1 is where it was when the process began. The Council will hold a hearing on a proposed tax rate of 42.09 cents per $100 of assessed property value Thursday. If it were to pass, the median increase in property taxes for single-family homeowners is estimated to be $85 a year. “This is not quite the budget I wanted, but you don’t always get what you want, you get what you need, and I will vote for the budget as it is because we’re not going to get any closer to agreement than where we are,� Spelman said.

Ott and Council members noted unprecedented community and citizen input that went into balancing the budget. “We explained to the community early on what we were facing, received unprecedented input and with the Council, worked toward meeting those concerns,� Ott said.

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Health Education Coordinator Marian Trattner is one of the coordinators for UT’s Suicide Prevention Week which lasts from September 14-18.

SUICIDE: Prevention week

aims to spread awareness From page 1 coincide with National Suicide Prevention Week, established by the American Association of Suicidology.

Fifty-eight percent of UT undergraduate students and 49 percent of UT graduate students have reported having suicidal thoughts at some point in their life, according to a survey by the National Research Consortium of Counseling Centers in Higher Education. The study found that 15 percent of undergraduates and 14 percent of graduate students at UT have seriously considered attempting suicide.

The most common reasons students come to seek counseling are depression, anxiety and

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relationship problems, said Laura Ebady, outreach coordinator at the Counseling and Mental Health Center. “We see students feeling a lot of pressure, both internally and externally, to be at the top of their game all of the time in everything, and of course that isn’t possible,� Ebady said.

The sheer size of UT may contribute to feelings of isolation in students, more than at smaller universities, she said. “It can be tough for students to find their place,� Ebady said.

Fifteen student organizations and offices were involved in the planning and execution of Suicide Prevention Week, including Active Minds, the Texas chapter of the nonprofit To Write Love

on Her Arms, and Student Government, which passed a resolution Sept. 8 in support of the prevention week. “It’s such an amazing service to the University, and an issue that deserves attention,� said SG administrative director Katina Rajunov.

The resolution stressed the importance of educating the student body about the signs of suicide because students who are considering suicide most commonly tell their friends first.

All of this week’s events are free and open to the public. For more information on the event schedule, visit www.cmhc.utexas.edu/ bethatone/, or contact the Counseling and Mental Health Center at (512) 471-3515.

NASA: Astronaut relays

accounts of trip to moon Cernan said he hopes the U.S. will soon send another situation. Cernan said his fa- astronaut to the moon, though ther made sure he received an he thinks recent technoloeducation which allowed Cer- gy should have already sent nan to become a naval avia- someone to Mars, he said. tor and fly for 20 years before “My glass has been half working for NASA for 13. He empty for a long time,� Ceris a retired United States Navy nan said. captain and has received severThe anecdotes he shared al medals and showed the legawards for his acy he left on service. the moon, liter“I thought ally. As he left Captain Cerfor the very last nan was very Never count yourself time, he etched inspiring and his daughter ’s out. Dream the spoke about initials into the the spiritual- impossible, and go out dust. ity of going He said the and make it happen.� to the moon trip was also a and the hu— Captain Gene spiritual expeman aspect,�

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The court date for summer’s West Campus fraternity house stabbing suspect, Austin Ryan Rhoads, was moved Monday to Oct. 12.

Rhoads is indicted with charges of aggravated assault and serious bodily injury. District Judge Bob Perkins of the 331st Criminal District Court reset his case to October in order to extend the discovery phase.

According to an arrest affidavit, Rhoads attended a party hosted by Zeta Psi fraternity, which he was not a member of, at 2806 Nueces St. in July. After being asked to leave the party, he began to argue with fraternity member Tyler Currier at the gate of the house and slapped him. He then pulled out a knife and stabbed Currier in the abdomen.

Rhoads fled the scene and was taken into custody several blocks from the incident. As a result of his injuries, Currier required surgery at University Medical Center Brackenridge, according to the affidavit.

Rhoads‘ bail was set at $20,000.

His attorney, Nicole True, could not comment on the ongoing case. — Bobby Longoria

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UN presses for release of Tamil refugees Close to 300,000 Tamil civilians still detained by Sri Lankan government

By Edith M. Lederer The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is sending the U.N. political chief to Sri Lanka to press the government to step up the release of nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians who have been detained since the South Asian nation’s civil war ended in May. Undersecretary-General for Political Affairs B. Lynn Pascoe said Monday he will also press the government to keep its pledges to Ban to promote political reconciliation with the minority Tamils and tackle human rights issues, including establishing a body to determine accountability for abuses during the 25-year civil war.

Pascoe told reporters that Ban decided to send him to Colombo after he spoke Monday to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who approved the visit.

Pascoe said he will leave Tuesday to keep up the U.N.’s “high level of engagement” on “critical issues” and return over the weekend.

“We have been concerned about the pace of progress since the secretary-general was out there” in late May, Pascoe said.

“There were a series of commitments made to the secretarygeneral ... including movement of people out of the camps, and including the eventual political process and ... some kind of an accountability mechanism.”

He said the United Nations is “particularly concerned” about the nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians still detained in government-run camps and wants them out and home “as soon as possible.”

Last Friday, Sri Lankan authorities sent home nearly 10,000 war refugees from the overcrowd-

Osama bin Laden releases new audiotape for 9/11 anniversary CAIRO — Osama bin Laden said in a new audiotape that President Barack Obama’s strategy in Afghanistan is “hopeless” and called on Americans to resolve the conflict with al-Qaida by ending the war there and breaking the U.S. alliance with Israel.

In the message marking the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the al-Qaida leader avoided his usual rhetoric of jihad and instead took a more analytical tone, claiming its differences with the U.S. stemmed from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

But analysts said Monday that the message’s tone and its unusually short length — 11 minutes — was an indication that al-Qaida was struggling to maintain interest eight years after its most shattering terror attacks. Arabs and Muslims’ more positive feelings toward the new U.S. president are believed to have helped deflate al-Qaida’s antiAmerican rhetoric.

— The Associated Press

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Sri Lankan ethnic Tamil civilians who were kept in displacement camps look for transport to get back to their villages after being released by government authorities in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka on Friday. ed, military-run camps, where their movements are restricted and sanitation is poor. The government said it previously resettled more than 5,000 people, and aimed to return 80 percent of the displaced Tamils to their homes by the end of the year.

International rights groups have said holding the civilians is an illegal form of collective punishment and urged the government to allow them to leave to live with relatives, friends or host families in the area. Aid workers fear conditions will become dire when monsoon rains

start next month.

The government says it cannot release the civilians until it finishes screening them for potential rebel fighters, and until land mines are cleared from their villages in the north.

Ban said earlier this month that he was worried about civilians in the camps because their living “conditions have not improved.” The U.N. has pressed for family reunions and Ban said the Tamils should be allowed out of the camps to stay with host families.

Ban raised the issue of two

Obama asserts Wall Street’s unsavory ways will change

By Ben Feller The Associated Press NEW YORK — President Barack Obama sternly warned Wall Street Monday against returning to the sort of reckless and unchecked behavior that threatened the nation with a second Great Depression.

Even as he noted the U.S. economy and financial system were pulling out of a downward spiral, Obama warned financial titans on the first anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse that they could not count on any more bailouts.

He credited his administration and the $787 billion stimulus package rammed through Congress in the first days of his taking office for pulling the country back from the brink.

And even as the economy begins a “return to normalcy,” Obama said, “normalcy cannot lead to complacency.”

His tough message warned the financial community to “hear my words: We will not go back to the days of reckless behavior and unchecked excess at the heart of this crisis, where too many were motivated only by the appetite for quick kills and bloated bonuses.”

Obama spoke at Federal Hall in the heart of Wall Street before an audience that included members of the financial community, lawmakers, and top administration officials.

In marking his determination to prevent a repeat of the crisis that nearly brought down the global financial system last fall, Obama said he was attacking the problem on several broad fronts, including asking Congress to approve new rules to protect consumers and a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency to enforce those rules.

He also called for the closure of regulator loopholes and overlap that “were at the heart of the crisis” because they left key officials without “the authority to take action.”

Obama and others seeking ways to better monitor the financial system and to police the products banks sell to consum-

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President Barack Obama speaks on financial issues at Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City Monday. ers have been opposed by lobbyists, lawmakers and turf-protecting regulators. Mergers and sales of banks have consolidated lending power in even few hands. And those large firms still bet far more than the capital they have on hand.

Yet regulations have not moved. Much of the legislative motivation in Washington has been consumed by the contentious debate over changes to the health care system. Government intervention into private automakers such as General Motors have left lawmakers skittish to move further into corporate board rooms.

Obama has sought tougher

capital requirements for banks, arguing that banks’ buying of exotic financial products without keeping enough cash on reserve was a key cause of the crisis.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has urged the Group of 20 nations to agree on new capital levels by the end of 2010 and put them in place two years later.

The administration also has proposed increased transparency of markets in which banks trade the most complex — and potentially risky — financial products.

Obama’s broad plan also would give the Fed new oversight powers and impose conditions designed to discourage companies from getting too big.

U.N. staff members still being held in the camps and the government’s expulsion of the spokesman for the U.N. children’s agency, UNICEF, in his discussion with Rajapaksa on Monday, Pascoe said.

The U.N. political chief, who visited Sri Lanka with Ban in late May, has stressed the importance of political reconciliation and the need for accountability, which he said would be best done internally rather than externally.

The U.N. knows that accountability “will take some time ... but it’s something absolutely

critical for the people of Sri Lanka, I think, and it’s a critical part of the political reconciliation process,” he said.

“I don’t think that any objective accountability procedure will put all of the blame on one side in this issue,” Pascoe said. “There’s plenty there to go around, I think.”

Tamil rebels fought for a separate state for more than 25 years, claiming decades of discrimination by the Sinhalese majority.

The U.N. says between 80,000 and 100,000 people were killed during the war.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Clues increasingly pointed to an inside job Monday in the slaying of a Yale graduate student whose body was found stuffed inside a wall five days after she vanished from a heavily secured lab building accessible only to university employees.

Police on Monday sought to calm fears on the Ivy League campus, saying the death of 24-year-old Annie Le was a targeted act. But they declined to name a suspect or say why anyone would want to kill the young woman just days before she was to be married.

“We’re not believing it’s a random act,” said officer Joe Avery, a police spokesman. No one else is in danger, he said, though he would not provide details and denied broadcast reports that police had a suspect in custody.

— The Associated Press

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Changing language

Two weeks ago, information surfaced detailing the College of Liberal Arts’ plans to restructure faculty positions and graduate and undergraduate academics amid budget constraints.

With blueprints for restructuring only in planning stages, details were understandably murky — and worrisome. A memo circulated to liberal arts department heads outlining expectations for reductions in graduate admissions seemed to signal a tendency on the University’s part to shortchange graduate programs.

New details concerning a shift in undergraduate foreign-language requirements to compensate for faculty losses are no less worrisome.

Under a new proposal — which faculty members insist is only under discussion — the current four-semester foreign-language requirement would be reduced to a twosemester, pass/fail “intensive” plan requiring six hours of class per week. We encourage a re-evaluation of the foreign-language requirement and see this as a prime opportunity for reform. But we hope the College of Liberal Arts heavily weighs faculty concerns in the process and, for the benefit of students, uses this time to clarify the intentions of the requirements before approving such a plan.

While beneficial for many, the language requirement has long been a source of agitation for liberal arts students for whom four semesters of language education yields a high course load but little progression toward fluency. Lower-division course intensity pushes many students to enroll in community colleges to fulfill this requirement, and academic advisers at times even encourage this move.

A shift to a two-semester program might appease those for whom a four-semester requirement is a struggle, and the switch to a pass/fail grading system would likely compensate for increased course intensity.

Yet with the College of Liberal Arts looking to further encourage students to test out of lower-division courses through credit by examination, we wonder if — along with the pass/fail system that could eliminate an incentive for high performance — the college is draining language departments of students who may find value in language study.

Naturally, this is concerning when a globalized career field increasingly stresses the importance of bilingualism.

Nicolas Shumway, chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Daniela Bini, who heads the Department of French and Italian (the two schools together enroll 70 percent of language students in the college) have expressed opposition to the new course model. Bini also noted a lack of communication from UT administration on the matter.

We expect the school to seek balance before enacting proposals that would disproportionately constrain one academic sector more than others. We encourage the college to solicit the advice of foreign-language faculty members to develop a mission statement that specifies the goals of the foreign-language requirement and explains why such a requirement — as well as why two semesters of instruction rather than four — is best suited to the needs of liberal arts students.

We hope that in pushing to involve faculty, the College of Liberal Arts maintains an academic standard to which other colleges with similar foreign-language requirements — including the Colleges of Communication and Fine Arts — may look if required to alter their own requirements in the future. We also hope, above all, that the college is finally able to devise a way to make foreign-language classes broadly appealing to those for whom they could offer significant benefits.

— David Muto for the editorial board

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THE FIRING LINE Powwow particulars misstated As a member of many Native American social organizations and a member of a professional Native American singing group, I have some concerns about a number of errors that I noticed in “Powwow patrons feel the beat” in Monday’s edition of The Daily Texan.

Firstly, the article stated, “Some performances included a gourd dance at the beginning to bless the gymnasium.” This statement is false for a couple of reasons: One, the Gourd Dance traces its origins from an elite Kiowa warrior society. Men would gather for these dances as a way of expressing and showing off previous military victories. Two, the Gourd Dance is not a religious dance or ceremony — it is open to the public for anyone who wishes to participate, as long as he or she dresses appropriately.

Secondly, the article stated, “Drummers beat traditional rhythms, sounded bells and

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filled the gym with their chants.” The individuals the author is referring to are called singers. At a powwow, dancers move to the song, not the beat of the drum. Individuals may carry on a powwow with a group of singers that do not have a drum present.

The singers also do not “sound bells.”

Dancers wear bells mainly because of the introduction of “prize” powwows in the early 20th century. They attract a judge’s attention and are not related to the songs.

Finally, the singers do not “chant.” The songs are similar to anything that you would hear on the radio today. As for being “traditional rhythms,” many of the songs heard in the gym on Saturday are very contemporary — written within the last five to 10 years.

For future projects, writers need to do a better job understanding what they are reporting.

If the purpose of the article was to promote the council so as to erase stereotypes, then stereotypes (such as those listed above) should not have been included.

— Shawn Ray History senior

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Happy birthday dear UT

By Joshua Avelar Daily Texan Columnist The Daily Texan Opinion page is usually covered with sharp criticism, justified complaints and insightful suggestions concerning recent events related to the University. Sure, the editorial board gives a few “Horns Ups” here and there, but such complimentary writing is not so common in the other works in this section.

Our job as columnists is to bring awareness to the issues and concerns that affect this community. As such, bringing UT’s shortcomings to the forefront is a huge part of fulfilling that job. But today, I am going to completely switch gears and go on a much more positive note. Certain occasions call for a temporary change in habit, and today marks such an occasion.

Everybody loves a birthday, and I am no different from the rest of humanity in this regard. According to the University’s Web site, UT first formally opened its doors on this day in 1883. Though the west wing of the old Main Building was incomplete at the time, the foundation for one of the greatest institutions of higher learning on the globe was cemented.

The 1876 Texas Constitution specified the desire for the state to establish “a university of the first class,” and did it ever. Despite its severe lack of adequate state funding and nonsensical, state-mandated admission qualifications (I am talking about the top 10 percent rule,

of course), the University has maintained a strong reputation throughout the academic world. In 1985, author Richard Moll listed UT along with seven other state schools as the “public ivies” in his book “Public Ivies: America’s Flagship Universities.” A graduate of Yale University as well as a former Yale admissions officer, Moll knew excellence when he saw it, and he saw it 24 years ago at UT. Many have critiqued U.S. News and World Report’s method for their “Best Colleges” rankings, but UT has managed to perform well across the board. The McCombs School of Business and the Cockrell School of Engineering ranked at No. 6 and 9, respectively, for their programs in the latest edition of that publication. Not to toot our own powerful, indestructible and praiseworthy horn, but the most decorated college newspaper in the nation graces this campus every weekday.

As the second-most-populated state, Texas is home to one of the worst public school systems in America, but its flagship university has managed to stay several gigantic steps ahead of its primary and secondary school counterparts.

When it comes to shaping the minds of Texans, UT has reached higher than the state it represents.

I could go on and on about UT, but it would take up more space than the average person would care to read in a newspaper — even back in 1883, when this medium was the only readily available source of daily information. What is most impor-

tant is to give credit where it is due.

Recognition must be given to President William Powers for keeping this place afloat throughout all the aforementioned hurdles constructed by the state Legislature and for showing the leadership that is needed in a struggling economy.

Credit must be given to those like Red McCombs and countless other Texas Exes who donate astounding amounts of their own money to the place they once called home.

Much recognition must be extended to the great faculty and staff members who create the challenging environment in which we, as students, uphold that “first-class” status. Most importantly, the students who take hold of those challenges and beat them into submission deserve some credit as well. Same for those students who fall flat while facing those challenges and get back up to fight another day. All of these entities combine to create the great University we have come to know and admire.

This is how you treat someone on his or her birthday: You forget the many flaws you may notice on a daily basis, and you focus on the many great things that keep you coming around to enjoy his or her company.

You begin to celebrate the life the individual has lived and think of the many great possibilities to come.

I used today’s column to do just that for the University, and I hope I did it justice. As for next week … back to reality. Happy birthday, UT. Avelar is a government senior.

Ending National Merit takes UT forward

site lists its median as 1390-1570 — not a bad comparison for a program that accepts students almost exclusively from Texas.

In recent weeks, controversy has hounded UT’s deAnother area in which UT has exceeded expectacision to cancel its National Merit Scholarship pro- tions for a state school is real results. Texas constantgram, with many singling out what they see as a lack ly places students in top graduate and professional of University pride in its academic schools. A full 1 percent of Harvard achievements. UT’s decision to end Law´s incoming class this year came the program should be defended prifrom UT’s Plan II Honors program. marily because a school of Texas’ calThe highly competitive Truman Scholiber does not need said achievements arship has been awarded to a UT stuto attract top students. dent for each of the past 10 years.

Our university But in the weeks since this deUT is also recognized as an instituis, indeed, cision was announced, it has betion that competes with the best. The come clear that many disagree.

Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Proregarded highly Some have argued that Texas would gram, a sophomore-year nationwide enough to leave be crazy to view itself as competscholarship competition, only allows ing to attract the same students as nominations from top schools. UT is competition Harvard University. one of the only public universities alwith Oklahoma Those people need to have a little lowed to nominate students. more confidence in their university’s In fact, in many of these areas, we University … on academic reputation. are out-dueling the top-ranked school the football field.

Let’s look at some signs that indiin Texas: Rice University. cate that our university is, indeed, reCertainly, UT is not, as of now, garded highly enough to leave comthe best university in the nation. We petition with Oklahoma Universihave a lot to work to do before we ty — which enrolls the most Nationcould break into those top-ranked al Merit Scholars per capita — on the spots. But we are getting closer, and football field. it makes sense to keep trying. I applaud the UniversiOne thing to look at is incoming freshmen. Our hon- ty for taking the long-term view that UT should conors programs consistently attract classes whose num- tinue to compete nationally, rather than resting on its bers compete with the Ivies. For example, Plan II’s en- substantial laurels. tering class in 2008 had median SAT scores of 1320Counts is a plan II, business honors and history senior.

1410, according to the Plan II Web site. Stanford’s Web

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Austin ranks high on desirable cities for students Music, relaxed lifestyle among reasons why Longhorns love Austin

By Vidushi Shrimali Daily Texan Staff Austin ranked second amongst midsize cities in the U.S. by the American Institute for Economic Research in its first list of the 75 best cities to live in for college students.

The institute took over the ranking project in 2008 from the regional planning organization Collegia, which started the yearly report in 2003. “We believe college towns are as important as the colleges themselves and wanted to develop a standard that compares living conditions for students,� institute research associate Keming Liang said.

The 2009-10 College Destinations Index ranked 360 metropolitan cities and towns in factors ranging from student diversity to city accessibility and earning capability, using research pulled from sources such as the U.S. Census Bureau. Austin received particularly higher marks in some categories, including arts and leisure and entrepreneurial activity, than first-place winner San Jose, Calif.

Victor Ovalle, an Austin Parks and Recreation spokesman, agreed with the reasons for Austin’s high ranking, which he attributed to the city’s college student-friendly layout. That is why he chose to raise his family in Austin after he attended the University as a graduate student majoring in radiotelevision-film, he said. “When I first came to the city I was really, really impressed by the number of open areas and parks the city had,� Ovalle said. “They are [usually] free of charge, which, for a college student, is really nice.�

Ovalle, who was married as a student, used to take his daughter to Zilker Metropolitan Park to have picnics and fly kites. “That’s what made me want to stay,� Ovalle said. “There are so

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English Senior Cassandra Hayes studies at Cafe Medici on Guadalupe Street across campus. many green areas, things to do, an education-focus with a great university. It’s a great place to raise kids.�

The park is also the site for some of the events that make Austin the Live Music Capital of the World.

The Austin City Limits Music Festival and Blues on the Green concerts, as well as the Trail of Lights Festival and the Kite Festival will be held on the Zilker Park’s Great Lawn.

The three-year project complet-

ed this August, the Great Lawn was an effort by the Parks and Recreation Department to cut water waste and city expenses, as well as appeal to citizens as a venue for outdoor entertainment.

Diversity is what appeals to some out-of-state students like economics sophomore Noman Ahmad, who left his hometown in Long Island, New York for Austin last January.

Ahmad, who said he is very interested in dance and theater, en-

Group denounces public education

By Alex Geiser Daily Texan Staff UT’s Objectivism Society looked to apply the philosophy to realworld issues Monday night and accused public education of lacking in several areas.

After some video equipment malfunctioned, more than 15 attendees listened intently to an audio-recorded lecture by Clemson University political science professor C. Bradley Thompson that questioned the basis for public schools.

Thompson is a proponent of objectivism, a school of thought founded by writer Ayn Rand, that supports laissez-faire capitalism and living to fulfill one’s personal needs above all else. “We are under the presumption that people need to be educated, but they don’t have to be educated,� said Alan McKendree, the group’s president and a staff member in the School of Nursing. “There are a lot of different ways to be educated than with the school system that we’ve got.�

Thompson’s lecture, videotaped in 2007, offers free-market education as an alternative to public education. “The state doesn’t have the right to force children to go to school,� he said in an interview with the Texan. “We should return authority to parents and principals to find ways to identify teachers who have a knowledge of the subject, love and passion for the subject, and who have the communication skills to be able to teach children.�

Thompson said the three fundamental flaws of the American education system are governmentmandated curricula and teacher training, compulsory attendance and coercive taxation. He said his plan for educational reform would

NEWS BRIEFLY Diez y Seis celebrates Mexican struggle for independence A mariachi band and UT’s Ballet Folklórico welcomes students, faculty and friends to the annual Mexican Independence Day celebration Tuesday night. Diez y Seis!, formerly called the Fiesta Diez y Seis, is organized by the Mexican American Culture Committee, a branch of the Texas Union Student Events Center.

joys the fact that he is able to tap into his Pakistani cultural roots in Austin, participating in various South Asian events both on and off campus throughout the year, and live in a big city without the hurried pace of life, he said. “I wanted to go to a big university with a lot of people and have a campus lifestyle, yet live near a big city,� Ahmad said. “Though Austin is really diverse like New York, life [here] is much more calmed down compared to New

York. In New York people are always running around, talking on phones. After you have lived in a really rushed [area], you appreciate [Austin].�

Business freshman Olivia Luko came to Austin from the “medium-sized college town� of Tuscon, Ariz. “[In Tuscon] there isn’t much going on, not much growth and not much opportunity for college town. There’s a lot going on here; arts, sports, and the fact that it’s

the capital. Things happen here,�

Luko said.

Luko rides the bus to frequent her favorite places in Austin, including Whole Foods Market. UT and other college students in Austin are fortunate enough to have access to public transportation services that connect them to the entire city, she said.

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President of the Objectivism Society Alan McKendree discusses issues of government controlled schools Monday night. start with decertification of statesanctioned teacher training programs. He said state involvement makes the programs inherently politicized and drew a parallel to the separation of church and state. “The government has no legitimate role in indoctrinating children in history the same way they don’t have the right to indoctrinate them in religion,� Thompson said.

He said the free-market education would create enough competition between private schools to make them affordable for families across the economic spectrum. “The market would meet those demands the same way the market meets the demands with poor children receiving food and clothing,� Thompson said.

Martin Cain, a pharmacy graduate student who attended the screening, said the idea of using educational institutions as a coercive tool concerned him because of the similarities he saw with the education practices in Nazi Germany. While he agreed somewhat with the proposed reforms, he said

less economically fortunate families posed a large obstacle. “I have never thought of how the free market could be applied to education,� he said. “There is, however, a giant part of the population that isn’t going to be able for their kinds to go to school.�

Criticisms of Thompson’s ideas did not stop there. Lorraine Pangle, government associate professor, said abolishing public schools would hinder our democracy. “Democracy only works well when everyone has a basic education in literacy, history, government and a degree of critical thinking,� Pangle said. “This is why the founders of our republic were so concerned to establish schools.�

Victoria Sluyter, a first-grade teacher in Austin, said although she can see a need for reform, the implications of abolishing public educatioare too dangerous. “As a society, we need to be aware of what cultural norms are presented in schools. A really good school, whether public or private, teaches children to think.�

In previous years, the MACC has teamed up with other organizations around campus. Committee chairman Eric Camarillo said the group didn’t have enough time to share the planning of the event this year.

Even though the MACC is the only group involved in the celebration, Camarillo said they expect a turnout of about 200 people. In addition to Mariachi Estrella and the dancers, Mexican-American history specialist Emilio Zamora will speak about the history of the Mexican war for independence from Spain

and how it has affected relations between Mexico and the U.S. Camarillo said the goal of the event is to inform the University community about Mexican history and its relationship to the U.S. “For me, it’s really important to remember where I came from,� he said. “Being a Mexican-American, I have two independence days. One is Sept. 15 and one is July Fourth.�

The celebration is from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Texas Union Ballroom.

Refreshments will be served. — Alex Geiser

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Riders with disabilities oppose longer Metro waits Additional 15 minutes intended to increase MetroAccess efficiency

Michael Baldon | Daily Texan Staff

Kerri Butcher and Chris Riley, Capital Metro board members, listen as patrons voice their opinions and concerns about the transportation system’s MetroAccess program.

By Lena Price Daily Texan Staff Austin resident Kathryn Rutledge uses MetroAccess, Capital Metro’s transportation service for people with disabilities, as many as 20 times a week to get from her home to Highland Mall.

Because of a proposed MetroAccess policy change, the time Rutledge, who is blind, waits outside for a vehicle to pick her up may double. She was one of several people to protest the extended wait time at a public forum in front of the Capital Metro Board of Directors on Monday. “There are places that I go that I

have to wait outside for my ride,�

Rutledge said. “Sometimes there is no place to sit, and sometimes the only place to sit is outside of a sheltered area. It’s important that we don’t have to wait 30 minutes in areas where we can’t feel secure.�

When riders reserve a seat on a MetroAccess vehicle, they are expected to be at the stop by the scheduled time and wait up to 15 minutes for the van to arrive.

If the policy changes pass, riders will need to be at the stop 15 minutes before the scheduled time.

The board did not decide to implement any of the policies at the meeting.

The additional 15 minutes drew the most protest from forum participants because the time would add up to about half an hour spent outside in possibly inclem-

ent weather conditions. “This is meant to improve efficiency,� said Andrea Loyfe, a Capital Metro Operations employee. “We’ll have a van that will pull up with one or two riders in it, and if we arrive 15 minutes early it would be great if we could go up to the door and see if the person is ready so we can move on.�

In addition to a larger window of wait time, Capital Metro wants to reduce the amount of days a ride can be scheduled in advance from eight to six. The amount of time the call center stays open may also be cut by two hours.

None of the residents who spoke at the forum objected to these changes. “If we cut the hours the call center stays open, we would increase the amount of staff members on

duty during peak times,� Loyfe said.

Under the proposed Capital Metro changes, if a person misses a scheduled pickup four times in one month, the rider will have to serve a four-day suspension.

Diane Aleman, representative for the Austin chapter of the American Council of the Blind, said if this measure takes effect, Capital Metro needs to be able to notify people as soon as they get a no-show. “All we want is for the changes to be postponed until the tools are put in place so we can use them properly,� Aleman said.

Capital Metro board member and Mayor Pro Tem Mike Martinez said the board is working toward a better online notification system.

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NCAA FOOTBALL

Big 12 flops Texas showing its resiliency early in week two after strong first week After Oklahoma State went missing in game, so did some of its equipment

By Austin Ries Daily Texan Staff

Iowa State The Iowa Bowl was anything but an exciting rivalry game full of emotion, drama or any sort of battle.

In fact, if you were wearing red and yellow, it was a game to forget as soon as possible.

Iowa scored 28 points on six ISU turnovers for an easy 35-3 win in front of 52,089 fans at Jack Trice Stadium. Of those six turnovers, Tyler Sash was responsible for half with an Iowa single-game record three interceptions.

“We haven’t always done a great job with [forcing turnovers],” said Hawkeyes’ coach Kirk Ferentz.

“That’s a big part of football. If you get an opportunity, you have to come away with points.”

On the other end of the interceptions, the Cyclones’ junior quarterback Austen Arnaud went 10 for 22 for only 79 yards and was intercepted four times. After rebounding in the second half to defeat North Dakota State last week, Arnaud was not able to lead the Cyclones to their first win against Iowa in three years. “[Coach Rhoads] said that everyone has bad days, but for me, I can’t afford to have bad days,” Arnaud said. “We go as I go. We played terrible.”

Oklahoma State robbery Whether on the field or off, Oklahoma State could not catch a break Saturday.

After their undefeated season, a No. 5 national ranking and a legitimate chance to play in the national championship game were stolen by the University of Houston, the Cowboys had several things stolen from their locker room following their loss to the Cougars.

After watching surveillance video, police charged 22-year-old Ryan Rentschler with stealing offensive lineman Anthony Morgan’s helmet, quarterback Zac Robinson’s game-worn wrist band and mouth guard as well as wide receiver Dez Bryant’s mouth guard and gloves.

According to OSU police’s Capt. David Altman, Rentschler, along with two other men, were seen entering the locker room on the tape, but Rentschler was the only one who stole anything. All three of the men were college students and two of the three were OSU students.

The items have been returned to the players and Rentschler faces misdemeanor counts while the other two were not charged.

Missouri In the shadows of a rough week for the Big 12 with Oklahoma State, Kansas State, Colorado and Iowa State all losing, the Missouri Tigers were able to battle through first-half troubles to defeat Bowling Green 27-20.

The Tigers, who found their way into the rankings after an impressive win against Illinois last weekend, dropped out of the AP poll after a less-thanstellar performance this week, and Blaine Gabbert, who looked comfortable in his first college start, acted more like a sophomore still figuring things out.

“It was a gutsy win,” Gabbert said. “It really checked what we’re made of, and in the end it’s going to make our team better.”

Before making a comeback, the Tigers were scoreless in the first quarter for the first time since their loss to Kansas on Nov. 20, 2004 and went without a touchdown at home in the first half since losing to Oklahoma on Oct. 28, 2006. Trailing 20-6 into the third quarter, the Tigers finally got their offense going with an 18-yard run by Derrick Washington on third and 10 followed by Gabbert’s 27-yard touchdown pass to Jared Perry.

Gabbert ended the day throwing 20 for 33 for 172 yards after passing for only 44 yards in the first half.

“I wouldn’t want to make a living doing that every Saturday,” said coach Gary Pinkel. “I feel fortunate we’re 2-0.”

By Michael Sherfield Daily Texan Staff Every now and then, Mack Brown gets it wrong. After a week spent dismissing the effects of the 7,200foot altitude at Wyoming’s War Memorial Stadium on his players, Brown admitted they were more fatigued than expected in the early stages of Saturday’s 41-10 win.

It showed on the field as the Longhorns struggled to build on an early 3-0 lead, sputtering to only 13 first-half points before finding their breath and legs in the second half.

“I did not think the altitude would bother us … But I thought it did,” Brown said. “I asked the kids yesterday, they were 100 percent [sure] that it was much tougher to play up there because you have trouble catching your breath.”

While Texas has plenty of experience playing a mile above sea level, with last year’s trips to Colorado and El Paso both providing experience, Wyoming boasts the highest stadium in the nation, more than 1,500 feet above second-place Boulder, Colorado, where Texas beat the Buffaloes 3814 last season.

The thin air took its toll on quarterback Colt McCoy, who found himself missing throws to open receivers for much of the first 30 minutes.

“The ball sailed on me a little bit where I was confused, like ‘I make that throw every time,’” he said. “One time I threw the ball on a short out route to Dan [Buckner] and I completely overthrew it over his head. I looked down and my feet were right, [and] I was like, ‘weird.’”

MIA Monday brought little news on the injury and ineligibility front for Texas, with linebacker Jared Norton still ruled out for Saturday’s game with an injury sustained in the season opener. Christian Scott, Deon Beasley and Brandon Collins, meanwhile, are still ineligible with unresolved NCAA academic issues.

There has been no word on when the matter will be settled.

As far as good news goes, guard Michael Huey, who was also hurt against the University of Louisiana at Monroe, returned to the depth chart and is expected to play. Running backs Vondrell McGee and Foswhitt Whittaker are also expected to be healthy for the game after nursing injuries.

Jeffrey McWhorter | Daily Texan file photo

Senior quarterback Colt McCoy said it took a while to get used to the way the ball traveled in the thin Rocky Mountain air in Wyoming. After a slow start to the game, the Longhorns rebounded in the second half.

downs so far this season. After seeing Jonathon Gold’s punt blocked and returned for a touchdown against Wyoming, the Longhorns rattled off 35 consecutive points, including a key touchdown drive on Comeback kings the following possession that startTexas has made an early habit ed with less than two minutes left in of responding to opposing touch- the first half and gave Texas a 13-10

halftime lead.

It’s a trend that started a week earlier against ULM. After allowing a 75-yard touchdown in the second quarter that cut the Texas lead to 11, D.J. Monroe jump-started the offense with an 89-yard touchdown on the ensuing kickoff. The Longhorns added three more touch-

downs and a field goal over the next two quarters, capping a run of 31 unanswered points en route to a 59-20 win.

“I thought it was really good for our team that [the game] wasn’t easy,” Brown said after the Wyoming game. “But I’m proud of the way they responded.”

Texas swings to a top-10 finish Freshman Madison Pressel led Texas to an eighth-place finish at the Cougar Golf Classic yesterday, finishing with a 54-hole score of 5-over-par for 221. The Florida native finished tied for 30th on her collegiate debut among a field of nearly 100 golfers.

“This golf course sets itself up well for Madison’s game,” said head coach Martha Richards.

“She’s a very capable player and very intuitive, and she was ready to play.”

The 17th-ranked Longhorns boast a young lineup, including freshmen Pressel, Desiree Dubreuil, Katelyn Sepmoree and Haley Stephens. Sophomore Nicole Vandermade, the team’s top returner, rounds out the five-person team.

Richards liked the way the team was able to overcome from a shaky start.

“I liked the energy, the way this group thinks and seeing everyone fight hard all day,” Richards said. “Once we settled in and recovered from our ‘firsttime jitters’ I was very impressed.”

The tournament was held at the Yeamans Hall Country Club in Hanahan, S.C. and boasted 18 teams from across the nation. Among other top scores, Dubreuil finished with a score of 8-over-par 224, and tied for 39th place. Both Sepmoree and Vandermade trailed behind with scores of 9-over-par, coming in at 225 each.

The team now has a one-anda-half week layover before its next tournament, when the players travel to Vanderbilt for the three-day Mason Rudolph Women’s Invitational.

— Shabab Siddiqui

SPORTS BRIEFLY Lamarr Houston earns team’s first conference honor

John Gilchrist | Daily Texan file photo

Members of the women’s golf team compete at the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational last spring.

Senior defensive tackle Lamarr Houston was tabbed by the Big 12 as the Defensive Player of the Week.

Houston earned Texas’ first Big 12 honor for his efforts in Texas’ 4110 win over Wyoming. The Texas defensive didn’t surrender any points, and held the Cowboys out of Texas territory nine times in their last 11 drives. In the win, Houston put up six tackles, two tackles for loss, a sack, a pass break up and five quarterback pressures.

The senior out of Colorado is in his second year starting at defensive end after spending the first half of his career at defensive end, and he already has ten tackles this season.

Houston shares this honor with Kansas defensive end Max Onyegbule.

— Chris Tavarez

TENNIS

Martin del Potro upsets Federer, ends his win streak

L.G. Patterson | Associated Press

Missouri quarterback Blaine Gabbert throws a pass during the second half of an NCAA college football game Saturday.

By Howard Fendrich The Associated Press NEW YORK — Normally so cool, so consistent, so in control of his emotions and his matches, Roger Federer let the U.S. Open championship slip from his grasp. Two points from victory against inexperienced, unheralded Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina, two points from a sixth consecutive title at Flushing Meadows and a recordextending 16th Grand Slam overall, Federer, quite simply, fell apart Monday.

He railed at the chair umpire. His legs grew weary. His double-faults mounted. He could not figure out a way to stop the 6-foot-6 del Potro from pounding forehand after forehand past him. In a result as surprising for who lost as how it happened,

the sixth-seeded del Potro came back to win his first Grand Slam title by upsetting the No. 1-seeded Federer 3-6, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2.

“Can’t have them all,” Federer said.

He had won 40 consecutive matches at Flushing Meadows. He had won 33 of his previous 34 Grand Slam matches. And he has made the final at 17 of the past 18 Grand Slam tournaments, 21 overall.

Del Potro? This was the 20-yearold’s first Grand Slam final, and he was 0-6 against Federer until now. But after handing Rafael Nadal the most lopsided loss of his Grand Slam career in the semifinals Sunday, del Potro came back the next day and rattled Federer.

Until Monday, Federer was 2-5 in

Grand Slam finals against his nemesis, Nadal, and 13-0 against everyone else. Somehow, del Potro never seemed intimidated by the setting or the man many consider the greatest tennis player in history.

The usually unflappable Federer argued with chair umpire Jake Garner during a changeover, using a profanity and saying, “Don’t tell me to be quiet, OK? When I want to talk, I talk.”

Del Potro, meanwhile, managed to have the time of his young life, highfiving front-row fans after winning one point, and reveling in the soccer-style serenades of “Ole!” ringing through the stadium.

The 4-hour, 6-minute match was the first U.S. Open final to go five sets since 1999, and there were no early signs to indicate it would be this competitive

— much less end with del Potro down on his back, chest heaving, tears welling, a Grand Slam trophy soon to be in his arms. He is the first man from Argentina to win the U.S. Open since Guillermo Vilas in 1977.

Vilas was in the stands Monday, sitting one row behind Jack Nicklaus.

One simple indication of the difference in age and status of the two finalists: The 28-year-old Federer’s guest box was full, with pals such as rockstar couple Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale and Vogue editor Anna Wintour seated alongside Federer’s parents, wife and agent. Only three of the 15 available seats were occupied in del Potro’s box.

Federer took a 3-0 lead in 15 minutes,

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Urlacherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s season comes to quick end with injury Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surgery puts the veteran on injured reserve for rest of season

By Andrew Seligman The Associated Press LAKE FOREST, Ill. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Finally healthy after two years, Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher launched his regular season by making a run at Aaron Rodgers, lowering his shoulder and plowing over the Packers quarterback in the first quarter.

His 10th season was off to a good start. And then, it was over.

Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s star linebacker went on injured reserve after having surgery Monday to repair a dislocated right wrist and will not be back this season, a major blow for a team with high expectations.

There was no immediate word from Urlacher other than a text message to the Chicago Tribune that said simply: â&#x20AC;&#x153;season is over.â&#x20AC;? But coach Lovie Smith said Urlacher clearly was disappointed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He had put himself in position to have an outstanding year,â&#x20AC;? Smith said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was playing well in the game before he went down with the injury. Even after the injury to his hand, the competitor in him wanted to continue to play. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tough break.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no way around it, but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been injured before and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s come back before.â&#x20AC;?

With Urlacher out, Hunter Hillenmeyer is expected to start at middle linebacker this week when the Bears host defending champion Pittsburgh. Chicago also signed linebacker Tim Shaw, who got cut by Jacksonville this month, to a one-year deal on Monday.

The injury to Urlacher occurred in the first quarter of Sunday nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 21-15 loss at Green Bay, though it was not clear when.

Urlacher briefly shook his wrist after tackling Packers running back Ryan Grant late in the period, though Smith said he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t

sure when it happened.

Urlacher played in the second quarter, but left on the Packersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; first drive of the second half. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Talk about a guy thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great leader,â&#x20AC;? said Hillenmeyer, who replaced Urlacher on Sunday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;First, he plays an entire half of football with a dislocated wrist. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s many people who can do something like that.â&#x20AC;?

The arrival of Pro Bowl quarterback Jay Cutler sent expectations in Chicago soaring in the offseason, though he threw four interceptions and looked average at best in the loss.

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He had put himself in a position to have an outstanding year.

He was playing well in the game before he went down with the injury.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Lovie Smith coach

Now the Bears are without the longtime face of the franchise and a stalwart defender in a division with top-tier running backs in Grant and Vikings star Adrian Peterson along with elite quarterbacks such as Rodgers and Minnesotaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Brett Favre.

The 31-year-old Urlacher, a sixtime Pro Bowler, appeared to be in better shape after being limited by a bad back and neck the past two years.

He looked like his old self midway through the first quarter when he flattened Rodgers just as the quarterback released a pass downfield that a leaping Donald Driver juggled and dropped.

Later, with about four minutes left in the quarter, Urlacher took down Grant for one of his three

tackles and Packers guard Josh Sitton landed on him.

Urlacher got up and briefly shook his wrist before walking away with what looked like nothing more than a minor injury. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No one knew the severity of it,â&#x20AC;? linebacker Lance Briggs said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We knew that it had to be checked out. Now we know.â&#x20AC;?

Smith dismissed the idea of moving Briggs to the middle, meaning the job is Hillenmeyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for now. He also did not rule out bringing in help from the outside, which they did with Shaw, a third-year pro out of Penn State.

Veterans like former NFL Defensive Player of the Year Derrick Brooks and Zach Thomas, who was cut by Kansas City this month, are still out there, too. The 36-year-old Brooks, who was cut by Tampa Bay in February, has a good relationship with Smith dating to his days on the Buccaneersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; staff. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Derrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a great player for a long time in the league,â&#x20AC;?

Smith said before the Bears announced they signed Shaw.

Chicago could also be shorthanded in other areas, too, with Pittsburgh coming to town on Sunday.

Tight end Desmond Clark took a hard hit after making a catch in the third quarter and left the game with a rib injury. He had little to say Monday, other than this: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Report that to the fans â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m OK. Just got a little shot to the back; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m all right.â&#x20AC;?

Smith simply said Clark has a rib injury that will be evaluated.

Left guard Frank Omiyale also went down for several minutes moments after spraining his ankle and limping off the field.

Linebacker Pisa Tinoisamoa and cornerback Trumaine McBride also suffered sprained knees, but the biggest hit for a defense looking to regain its dominant form after two mediocre seasons was losing Urlacher.

Jim Prisching | Associated Press â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disheartening, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve still got a job to do,â&#x20AC;? defensive Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher will miss the rest of the season after undergoing surgery to repair a dislocated right wrist â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a major blow for a team with high expectations. tackle Anthony Adams said.

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By Barry Wilner The Associated Press FOXBOROUGH, Mass. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Back on center stage, Tom Brady acted like, well, the NFLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest star.

It seemed to take forever, though.

A year after being sidelined with torn knee ligaments, Brady resembled a rusty game manager more than the invincible recordsetting quarterback who guided the Patriots to a perfect 2007 regular season. Yet, he threw two touchdown passes in the final 2:06 as New England beat the Buffalo Bills 25-24 on Monday night.

When the spotlight hit, Brady lived up to the advance billing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a real competitive locker room, a real competitive team,â&#x20AC;?

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But Brady needed help in the form of Leodis McKelvinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fumble on a kickoff return after the Patriots pulled within five points.

Placekicker Stephen Gostkowski, of all people, recovered at the Buffalo 31. Brady needed three plays before hitting Benjamin Watson over the middle for the decisive 16-yard touchdown with 50 seconds to go.

Just 1:16 earlier, he found Watson on a similar play for an 18yard score. It was vintage Brady, who threw for a record 50 TDs

two years ago in leading New England to a perfect record. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Two-minute drives always are fun for a quarterback,â&#x20AC;? Brady said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spread it out, the pass rush gets a little tired, you get a feel for the coverage, you just have to be patient. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m glad itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s over, glad we are moving on, got a win, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll learn from it.â&#x20AC;?

That unbeaten season was spoiled in Bradyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last full game that counted, the February 2008 Super Bowl loss to the New York Giants. He was hurt in last seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opener.

Now heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s back, although for much of the game he and the Patriots played conservatively, even passively. Indeed, Buffalo seemed ready to break an 11game losing streak against New England and win for the first time in Gillette Stadium.

Then came the late fireworks, demonstrating that Tom Terrific hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lost his touch. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not how we drew it up, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll take it,â&#x20AC;? Brady said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We did a lot of things poorly but we got the win.â&#x20AC;?

Buffalo did a lot of things well, but got a shocking loss.

Coming off a 1-4 preseason in which the offense flopped, the Bills made plenty of big plays.

Trent Edwards outperformed Brady for much of the game and threw for two scores. A 10-yard screen pass TD to Fred Jackson

put Buffalo ahead 24-13 with 5:32 to go â&#x20AC;&#x201D; even though its new spotlight-grabber, Terrell Owens, barely caused a ripple. Owens had two catches for 46 yards.

When the offense wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t doing the damage, defensive end Aaron Schobel was rambling 26 yards with an interception for a first-half TD. Still, these are the Patriots, who have not lost a regular-season game with Brady at quarterback since Dec. 10, 2006. And they still have all those threats in the passing game, from Randy Moss (12 catches, 141 yards) to Wes Welker (12, 93) to tight end Watson (6, 77, two TDs).

Although Brady had those impressive stats, he never looked deep and struggled to convert key plays until the final moments. Perhaps that big hit he took on his shoulder from Albert Haynesworth 2½ weeks ago limited Brady. And maybe his team was uncomfortable in the throwback red uniforms or being introduced as the Boston Patriots for the first of the NFLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tribute games to the old AFL. Something wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t right in Foxborough â&#x20AC;&#x201D; until the end. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has nothing to do with his layoff,â&#x20AC;? Moss said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just first-game jitters. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not making an excuse, we just had to settle down and get to playing football the way we know how.â&#x20AC;?

OPEN: Federerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Open streak ends at 5 From page 7 winning one point by racing about 5 feet wide of the doubles alley for a defensive backhand, then sprinting the other way for a cross-court forehand passing winner that he celebrated by yelling and shaking his fists.

He even took time to watch a replay on a stadium video screen. Not quite the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Did he really just do that?!â&#x20AC;? sort of trick shot Federer pulled against Novak Djokovic in the semifinals â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a back-to-the-net, between-the-

legs, cross-court passing winner to get to match point â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but pretty spectacular, nonetheless.

But del Potro eventually got going, swinging more freely and taking full advantage of Federerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s serving woes: 11 double-faults and a first-serve percentage of only 50.

Used to traveling without a full-time coach, Federer generally is quite adept at making midmatch adjustments and dealing with opponentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; switches in strategy. But it was del Potro who realized he needed to put full belief in the strength of his 100 mph fore-

hands and not worry about too much else.

That tactic worked, and Federer never found a way to counter it, losing leads in the second set and the fourth set. He was up 5-4 in the fourth, and at 15-30 on del Potroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s serve, Federer needed only two more points to become the first man since Bill Tilden in 1920-25 to win the American Grand Slam tournament six years in a row.

Del Potro held steady there, and Federer would never come that close again.

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West takes time for 3rd apology during Leno debut

By Lynn Elber The Associated Press LOS ANGELES â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Kanye West used Jay Lenoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prime-time debut Monday to offer another apology for ruining Taylor Swiftâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s night at the MTV Video Music Awards and to say heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to take some time off for reflection.

West said he knew he was wrong the moment he handed the microphone back to Swift, when he was bathed in boos. He had interrupted Swift on Sunday night as she accepted a best female video award for â&#x20AC;&#x153;You Belong With Me,â&#x20AC;? arguing that Beyonceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)â&#x20AC;? was more deserving. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was rude, period,â&#x20AC;? West said. He posted a second apology to Swift on his blog on Monday, and told Leno he wanted to apologize to the country music star in person.

West took a long pause when Leno asked what his mother would day, month day, 2008

have said about the incident. West was very close to his mother, Donda, who died in November 2007.

He said yes when Leno asked whether his mother would have given him a lecture. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So many celebrities, they never take the time off,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never taken the time off to really â&#x20AC;&#x201D; you know, just music after music and tour after tour. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just ashamed that my hurt caused someone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hurt. My dream of what awards shows are supposed to be, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;cause, and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t try to justify it because I was just in the wrong. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s period. But I need to, after this, take some time off and just analyze how Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to make it through the rest of this life, how Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to improve.â&#x20AC;?

He had already been set to perform on Lenoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first prime-time show on NBC, but asked for time to talk with the controversy swirling. It may have been a stroke of

Grant appeared on the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tonightâ&#x20AC;? show with Leno in 1995 to make amends after being arrested with a prostitute â&#x20AC;&#x201D; only this time there werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t many laughs. The Grant appearance was a springboard for Leno to eclipse David Letterman in the ratings.

Leno was quick to reference the West incident with one of his first monologue jokes Monday, saying President Barack Obama had invited West and the 19-year-old Swift for a â&#x20AC;&#x153;root beer summit.â&#x20AC;?

West has gotten in trouble before with ill-timed comments, raising scenes after losing awards himself at the VMAs, the Grammys and the American Music Awards. In Jason DeCrow | Associated Press 2005, West said during a telethon Kanye West takes the microphone from Taylor Swift as she accepts the after Hurricane Katrina that Presiâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Female Videoâ&#x20AC;? award at MTVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Video Music Awards on Sunday. dent George W. Bush â&#x20AC;&#x153;doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care 1 about black people.â&#x20AC;? luck for Leno, whose daily prime- West, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likely to draw even more MTV wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t complaining on time comedy show already was the curious viewers.

Monday. Televised on MTV, MTV2 most buzzed-about fall debut. With It was reminiscent of when Hugh and VH1 simultaneously on Sun-

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Some of Westâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fans who were waiting to see the performance on Lenoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s show condemned the rapper. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought that was very disrespectful,â&#x20AC;? said Oscar Velasquez, 21, of Valley Village, Calif. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great musician, but as a person, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a role model or anything.â&#x20AC;?

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Latest rock ‘n’ roll releases earn mixed reviews Times New Viking Born Again Revisited Despite tongue-in-cheek claims by the band that Born Again Revisited would have “25 percent more fidelity” than their previous recordings, Times New Viking’s latest is as messy, loud and ultimately fun as anything in their discography.

The uninitiated should definitely brace themselves, however, because Born Again is only engaging when going in with the right mindset. For some, Times New Viking’s careless aural assault of screeching organs, missed notes, ridiculously tinny production and out-of-tune vocals may become an impassable wall, but there are some legitimately good songs buried underneath all the fuzz.

Since 2005, Times New Viking has been using outdated recording equipment to recreate the kind of lofi indie rock that was popular in the early ‘90s. Their albums sound like they were made using the drivethru speaker at McDonald’s, only unlike their heroes, Times New Viking don’t sound cheap out of necessity, but rather because they think it sounds cool. This has been especially true ever since the group signed to Matador Records, one of the biggest indie labels out there — a label that surely has a microphone made after 1960 laying around somewhere.

All of this has made Times New Viking one of the more divisive bands around. Some people eat this stuff up, others call it obnoxious hipster garbage and everyone else just wonders why a band would sound so cheap on purpose.

Times New Viking doesn’t diverge much here from the sound they’d explored on their previous four albums, but the group’s mix of primitive, Velvet Underground-ish rock and lo-fi still comes up with a few surprises here and there. “Move to California” has a sinister guitar line and lyrics full of empty promises, definitely marking it as one of the more fully thought-out songs they’ve written.

The hooks are sharp on Born Again, with Times New Viking displaying a knack for writing on songs like “No Time, No Hope” and

“Hustler, Psycho, Son” that many of their lo-fi revivalist peers lack. Beth Murphy’s cheesy keyboard tones and spirited vocals in particular distinguish Times New Viking from, well, anyone else.

Other than a slightly more pronounced use of reverb on some tracks, though, Born Again Revisited is exactly what any listener would have guessed Times New Viking would produce for its fifth album.

It’s a little disappointing in that regard, especially since last years’ Rip It Off seemed to hint at a few new directions for the band to explore.

Then again, coming from a band that places spontaneity above all else, Born Again Revisited is just right.

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Muse The Resistance It took Muse ages to finally shed comparisons with Radiohead despite the fact that the bands have an incomparable sound. Sure, vocalist Matthew Bellamy sounds a bit like Thom Yorke, but the epic, highbrow arena rock of the band distances Muse from its OK Computer cousins.

But now, upon release of its newest album, The Resistance, the band is battling comparisons again, this time with Queen.

When the album’s first single, “Uprising,” and other songs from the record began leaking, talk immediately turned to how much the band was turning to Freddie Mercury and company for inspiration. The frustrating thing is that, once again, the comparisons are unfounded. Sure, the title track roughly follows the Queen blueprint: a light piano melody fluttering in the introduction, building into a prechorus punctuated by a call and response session between Bellamy and the other members of the band.

And sure, the hook in the chorus is catchy, but this isn’t the group that brought you “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

This is, without a doubt, the best music the band has produced since 2003’s Absolution, if not its best record ever. There is a mix of some of the group’s most original, inventive work coupled with nods to other tunes from which they’ve taken the best ideas, augmented them and turned them into something greater,

classic even.

Like on 2006’s Black Holes and Revelations, Muse has embraced the realm of electro-hop to a greater extent. Lead single “Uprising” is this album’s “Knights of Cydonia,” with a galloping bassline and constant rhythm. “Undisclosed Desires” is the most original song the band has ever created, thanks to the fact that it plays like a mellow hip-hop track with a drum beat and strings complementing each other to the production of something wholly outstanding.

After years of showing promise, Muse has finally created the kind of album it is capable of — a record that can enter into album of the year debates and stand up against anything else released.

— Robert Rich

The Dodos Time to Die There is a treacherous path for bands birthed out of the blogosphere. After the initial hurdle — the risk of fading into obscurity after being over-hyped and overplayed — the struggle isn’t over for new bands.

The Dodos broke onto the blog scene with their second album, 2008’s Visiter, and while the band received critical nods for this stunning record, their success was largely due to Internet fans. Their third full-length album, Time to Die, has yet another obstacle to face — scrutiny and unrealistic expectations from the very people who put the band where they are today. Bloggers and their devoted followers take their buzz bands seriously.

Time to Die keeps with the jawdropping guitar and intricate drums seen on the two previous albums, but guitarist Meric Long and percussionist Logan Kroeber have made room for a third. Now joined by the garbled, subtle tinkling of a vibraphone played by newcomer Keaton Snyder, their sound has a smart, but barely recognizable, addition. Snyder knows his place among Long’s frantic finger picking and the steady guide of Kroeber, functioning as little more than a muted cherry on top of an already complete outfit.

The Dodos now bear the unmis-

BOOK REVIEW

Book of comedic interviews leaves readers in stitches

By Leigh Patterson Daily Texan Staff Mike Sacks has a good job. Last year, it involved spending hundreds of hours questioning some of the nation’s most well-respected and interesting comedic writers about things they’d never before been asked.

His book, “And Here’s the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft,” is a collection of Q&A interviews with well-known individuals involved in some aspect of comedy, including David Sedaris, writer and commentator for NPR, Todd Hanson, head writer for The Onion, and Mitch Hurwitz, creator of “Arrested Development.”

“I’d never seen a book with oral history writing about contemporary humor writers, which was sort of surprising,” Sacks said. “I looked for it just to read it, but once I saw it wasn’t out there I thought it might be an interesting project.”

Sacks, an editor at Vanity Fair, communicated with those he interviewed on the phone, through

e-mail correspondence and in crowded coffee shops for hours.

“I talked to each of them for an average of five to 10 hours,” Sacks said. “After a period of hours, if they’re asked questions they’re not usually asked, they’ll become more straightforward and comfortable and give you something better. The trick is just to keep them on the phone that long.”

Sacks used 20 hours of extensive research for each interview to ask unconventional questions.

“I tried to sense what they did like talking about; what they didn’t like talking about,” Sacks said. “I tried to avoid cliché questions.”

The resulting book has equal parts of education and entertainment. Many of the interviews read as concise oral histories as context is revealed through the speaker’s own words. On the other hand, the uniqueness of Sacks’ project comes through in its surprises. For instance, when Irving Brecher, 93-year-old screenwriter for the Marx brothers, recites his telephone number from the 1930s or when David Sedaris re-

calls squabbles he’s had with factcheckers from The New Yorker.

The sections are broken up with short pieces of advice for aspiring humor writers, also pulled from Sacks’ interviews. In one, magazine editors provide tips for getting comedic writing published in places like The Onion or The Believer by following rules such as, “Do not explain why a piece is funny. It either is or it isn’t,” or “No fancy fonts.”

“I thought it would just appeal to people like myself who were into humor writing, but luckily it has appealed to a wide range of people in different generations,” Sacks said. “It spans generations, which wasn’t really something I did on purpose, but the ages of the writers goes from 20s to 90s.”

“And Here’s the Kicker” is fascinating in its simplicity and lack of pretense about being anything other than a medium to expose the inner workings of the people interviewed. Sacks’ unique interviews reveal precisely what the writer is willing to say most about himself.

TASTY: Gourmet delights for the sickly From page 12 in high school. It’s chock full of fruits that have essential vitamins to fight bacteria and has the perfect balance of sweetness, thanks to the vanilla flavors. Drink this as a pick-me-up when you’re tired of the water and tea routine.

Chicken Noodle Soup Sure, it’s easier to buy this in the can, but making it yourself can yield larger and more nu-

tritious portions. Just boil some chicken stock and add carrots, celery and onions. Throw in some rotini noodles and chunks of chicken, then garnish with your favorite herbs and spices. When all the ingredients have simmered for a few minutes, you’re all set. The chicken provides much-needed protein and the warm broth will soothe a sore throat in no time.

Toasted Ham Sandwich with

Cheese and Onion I know ham and cheese sounds awfully plain, but I can’t get enough of them when I’m sick. I’m a huge fan of crispy honey wheat toast with gooey provolone, caramelized onions and pan-seared ham. You can also add lettuce, tomato, Dijon mustard or mayonnaise if you want more going on.

It’s easy to serve in bed, and preparation as well as cleanup are easy.

Use a paper plate, and there’s no dishwashing required.

SWAYZE: Star to be memorialized through past roles A three-time Golden Globe nominee, Swayze became a star want to last until they find a cure, with his performance as the miswhich means I’d better get a fire understood bad-boy Johnny Castle in “Dirty Dancing.” As under it.”

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the son of a choreographer who began his career in musical theater, he seemed a natural to play the role.

Swayze is survived by his wife.

takable polish of producer Phil Ek (The Shins, Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses), often falling into the same styling as his other projects.

“Fables” and “Troll Nacht” feature the warm, soaring vocal characteristics of Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold, while the entire album resembles a more technically impressive version of The Shins.

Even with superb production quality, the album still fails to deliver the punch of Visiter. The songs lack the anthemic qualities of stand out tracks like “Fools” and “Jodi,” as their organic and inclusive sound has been buffed away.

“Longform” most closely resembles the hurried, inspired confusion that made Visiter’s tracks unique, but for the most part Time to Die is a collective triumph without individual success.

The blogosphere has held their breath for this release and will unfairly judge Time to Die. The harsh criticisms that The Dodos will inevitably receive are unmerited, as only a re-release of Visiter would have wholly pleased blog critics. The album, while not up to snuff with their nearly flawless second release, should not be written off as a disappointment, but rather a natural and small backslide after a groundbreaking album.

— Abby Johnston

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Ransom Center commemorates ballet company

By Gerald Rich Daily Texan Staff The Harry Ransom Center is celebrating the controversial Ballets Russes, the infamous ballet company that used designs by Coco Chanel and Pablo Picasso, with a multifaceted film series beginning tonight.

The UTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Center for Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies, the Ransom Center and Ballet Austin host the Ballets Russes film series, which will be one part of a centennial celebration of the revolutionary ballet company. The center will exhibit original set designs, letters and one of the intricate costumes from â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Rite of Springâ&#x20AC;? Wednesday.

Ballet Austin will then perform â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Firebirdâ&#x20AC;? Oct. 2-4. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Ballets Russes] was shocking at the time, and now theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re timeless,â&#x20AC;? said Allegra Azulay, outreach coordinator for CREES. At a time when ballet was still considered classical, the company completely reinvented not just dance, but performance as a whole. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were doing things that we consider modern now back in 1912,â&#x20AC;? Azulay said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The audience, at the premiere of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Rites of Spring,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; was shouting at the stage.â&#x20AC;?

The Ballets Russes first began in 1909 under the direction of Sergei Diaghilev and featured music by Debussy and Stravinsky, and choreography by Nijinsky and George Balanchine. Diaghilevâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death in 1929 caused many of the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s members

to leave the studio. Attempts were made to maintain the company, but it eventually faded by the 1960s.

Dr. Thomas Garza, associate professor of Slavic and Eurasian studies and director of the Texas Language Center, hopes this celebration will inspire another generation of scholars to study the Ballets Russes. In addition to the famous artists who worked with the company, the performances also injected new life and sensuality into dance, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of reasons why the Ballets Russes both gets its fame and infamy has to do with the notion of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;moderneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;art nouveau,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Garza said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Suddenly ballet is no longer women wearing white tutus, but instead men and women interacting erotically with one another.â&#x20AC;?

For those who may not be familiar but are interested, tomorrow nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first movie, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ballets Russesâ&#x20AC;? is a documentary which goes through the history of the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beginning and later dissolution. The series will continue through next week and offers an in-depth look of the famous dancer/choreographer Nijinsky, then composer Stravinsky and finally their epic collaborative production â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Firebird.â&#x20AC;?

Additionally, there will be two lectures â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one by Garza â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and a chance to win two tickets to see Ballet Austinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performance of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Firebird.â&#x20AC;? The drawing will then be held at the final screening of CREESâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; film series.

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Recipes may stave off sickness

By Lisa HoLung Daily Texan Staff Though the stairs of Waggener Hall can put an intense burn in anyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legs, nothing is more painful than being sick in college. The misery that accompanies runny noses, sore throats and unstoppable coughing fits is only compounded when you have to travel into a cafeteria or campus restaurant to get something to eat. To avoid having to bring a box of tissues and cold medicine to the dining hall, try some of these meal ideas to ward off the flu bug blues from the comfort of your own kitchen.

Feel-Good Smoothie This recipe is special to me because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adapted from the smoothie my dad made me when I was feeling under the weather

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ballets Russesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have created a visual history of Russian ballet with archival footage and interviews.

By Christy Lemire The Associated Press LOS ANGELES â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hearts with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dirty Dancingâ&#x20AC;? and then broke them with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ghost,â&#x20AC;? died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months,â&#x20AC;? said a statement released Monday evening by his publicist, Annett Wolf. No other details were given.

Fans of the actor were saddened to learn in March 2008 that Swayze was suffering from a particularly deadly form of cancer.

He had kept working despite the diagnosis, putting together a memoir with his wife and shoot-

ing â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Beast,â&#x20AC;? an A&E drama series for which he had already made the pilot. It drew a respectable 1.3 million viewers when the 13 episodes ran in 2009, but A&E said it had reluctantly decided not to renew it for a second season.

Swayze said he opted not to use painkilling drugs while making â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Beastâ&#x20AC;? because they would have taken the edge off his performance.

When he first went public with the illness, some reports gave him only weeks to live, but his doctor said his situation was â&#x20AC;&#x153;considerably more optimisticâ&#x20AC;? than that. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say five years is pretty wishful thinking,â&#x20AC;? Swayze told ABCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Barbara Walters in early 2009. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Two years seems likely if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to believe statistics. I

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