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Rachel Fox transferring from UT softball team.
8 LIFE&ARTS
Rumored sightings of Ryan Gosling have sent campus into frenzy.
Back from injury, Bailey Webster is making up for lost time.
Marriages that begin with doubt often end in divorce.
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4 We sat down with President Powers and asked him about the Fisher case.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
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UT system executives receive pay raise By Alexa Ura The University has reduced academic programs and laid off staff during the past three years, but this month the UT System Board of Regents awarded substantial raises to various executives, including all UT presidents. Seven UT System executive officers and 15 presidents will receive millions of dollars in raises for the 2013 budget year, according to figures obtained by the Austin American-Statesman. UT President William
Powers Jr. is at the bottom of the UT academic campus presidents base salary for 2013 budget year list, but he remains the highest Bill Powers, UT-Austin $674,350 (1.6 percent) paid academic president in the David Daniel, UT-Dallas $564,919 (5.1 percent) UT System. Powers’ base salary increased to $674,350, accordJames Spaniolo, UTA $452,034 (8.5 percent) ing to the figures obtained by Diana Natalicio, UTEP $426,755 (3.5 percent) the Statesman. His take-home Ricardo Romo, UTSA $406,291 (2.3 percent) pay totals almost $150,000 more Rodney Mabry, UT-Tyler $385,749 (1.6 percent) than his base salary. Ronald DePinho, president W. David Watts, UTPB $350,193 (10.3 percent) of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Juliet García, UT-Brownsville $346,783 (5.3 percent) Center, received a large inRobert Nelsen UTPA $332,500 (10.8 percent) crease, boosting his salary to Source: University of Texas Systems $1,845,000 and maintaining his contract employee, said the sity of the first class. rank as the highest paid UT Sys- than $1 million. Michael Redding, president raises are reminiscent of a cor“Think how many scholartem president, the Statesman reported. Three presidents of UT of the Graduate Student Assem- poration’s top-down system and health institutions earn more bly and a Texas Student Media detract from creating a univer- RAISE continues on page 2
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Universities respond to bomb threats
TODAY Tie a Turban Day
Dance away
The UT Electronic Dance Music Club, a community for fans, artists and DJs of all forms of electronic music, will meet from 5-6:30 p.m. in MEZ 1.212.
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Freshmen admitted under Senate Bill 175
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Trafficking talk
Jessica Richardson, trafficking survivor from non-profit Freedom’s Breath, will speak about modern sex trafficking and ways to make a difference. The talk will be from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in MEZ B0.306.
Law School
Graduate students
Undergraduate students
A Numbers Game
Four-year graduation rate
The Sikh Students Association offers free tying lessons, pictrues, Bhangra music and food from Clay Pit at the West Mall from 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
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Today in history In 1946
Fourteen years after Venice began the first international film festival, France responded with one of its own, delayed by seven years due to WWII. The festival was originally conceived as a way to lure tourists back to postwar France.
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Large freshman class causes problems By Bobby Blanchard After admitting the largest freshman class in UT’s history, 8,092 students, the University’s administration is saying they expect to enroll almost 1,000 fewer
students next year. This year’s freshman class has put a strain on both the University’s resources and Austin’s housing availability, an issue the University took action on and addressed multiple times during the summer. UT, which accepts students
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RTF sophomore Jon Cozart, the creator of “Harry Potter in 99 Seconds” is a YouTube celebrity with more than 227,000 subscribers on his channel, Paint. Cozart said he while he is not as crazy as his character on his YouTube channel, he does bear some resemblance.
Quote to note “I learned a lot about myself in that year. It made me such a stronger person on the inside. It was very beneficial and I think it happened for a reason.” — Bailey Webster Junior outside hitter SPORTS PAGE 6
with the assumption that a certain number of students will decline admission offers, had a 2.2 percent increase in the number of students who accepted its admission offer. UT has a total enrollment this year of 52,213, the second largest in UT’s history. UT released its
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Painting a YouTube masterpiece By Bobby Blanchard While his name is not nearly as well-known as his most famous video with 10 million views, Jon Cozart has made a splash into the world of fandom with his YouTube channel, Paint. In July 2011, Cozart released the video “Harry Potter in 99 Seconds.” It is what it sounds like: a musical video that sums up the seven-book and eightmovie plot of Harry Potter in a mere 99 seconds. The video
went viral online instantly and launched him into the world of online fame. Cozart, an RTF sophomore, transferred to UT-Austin this year from UTSA through the CAP program. He said since transferring to UT-Austin, he has already made more friends than in the two semesters he was in San Antonio. “San Antonio was not kind to me, you could say,” Cozart said. “I prefer it here. The classes are just a higher level. It’s more challenging, but it’s
more rewarding.” Cozart said he has already been recognized three times since transferring to UT. “It always shocks me that people recognize me from the Internet,” Cozart said. “They just approach me and say, ‘Are you Jon Cozart?’ and I say, ‘Yeah,’ and we have a conversation. It’s really cool.” But often, fans may be surprised to find Cozart’s personality in real life is not as wacky
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preliminary enrollment numbers Wednesday afternoon. UT spokesperson Tara Doolittle said the University plans to change the formula it uses to decide how many students to
By David Maly
As a spike in bomb threats at major universities continues across the country, many schools are preparing for the possibility that they will be the next target. Since Friday’s bomb threat at UT, bomb threats have targeted Arkansas State University, Louisiana State University, UT-Brownsville, North Dakota State University and University of Mississippi football players’ cars. As a result, major universities are taking notice, sending out safety messages and reviewing their emergency procedures in case they are the next target, said Allan Baron, Texas A&M University Police Department spokesperson. “It’s a really difficult situation to deal with,” he said. “So,
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Small differences can mean a lot in an emergency
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Border conflicts spur talks on drugs, violence
was the first in a series hosted
By Mary Ellen Knewtson by Rethinking Diplomacy, an An Iraq war veteran and UT student said he decided to research political violence along the U.S.-Mexico border after visiting his grandparents in a border town and seeing a grenade launcher in place to fortify their local pharmacy. “You don’t need to go overseas to understand certain types of violence,” said John Meyer, comparative politics and political theory graduate student. “I think it’s important that we understand it here.” Meyer, a Texan who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at a panel on drug trafficking, immigration and violence along the Rio Grande. Alongside Meyer were Federal Judge Harry Hudspeth from El Paso and journalist Dave Harmon, who has written about immigration policies for the Austin American-Statesman. The panel, held at the Harry Ransom Center on Wednesday,
organization new to UT this semester that aims to bring diplomacy considerations to the forefront of many areas of study, member Andrew Straw said. Straw, history graduate student, organized the panel. “This is the first event we’ve ever had,” Straw said, “So we wanted to start with something very close to home in Texas.” Harmon said border violence increased when current Mexican President Felipe Calderon took power and started breaking up cartels. Before Calderon took power, the previous political party was widely accused of accepting bribes from drug cartels. He said Mexican officials believe the United States is also to blame. “[Americans] are the market,” Harmon said. “Drug trade wouldn’t exist if we didn’t like drugs so
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