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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Latin major given chance to increase recruitment
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University health services will offer flu shots from noon to 4 p.m. in SSB G1.310 For a full list of flu shot dates, visit healthyhorns.utexas.edu.
By Jillian Bliss Daily Texan Staff
in the program [come] because you get to put into effect the physical techniques that we teach.” Davis said it is important for women to try to stay in a public, well environment to increase their safety. “If you’re being attacked you want to be able to yell loud enough that
Members of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board directed UT officials to remove a major in a present-day language last week, but allowed the University to retain a major in the defunct language of Latin. Board members classified bachelor’s degrees as low-producing if less than 25 students graduated with the degree during the past five years. A total of 14 bachelor’s degrees at UT did not meet the board’s enrollment requirements. In addition to those granted temporary extension, seven were approved to consolidate with other programs. Latin, along with five other majors, was deemed low in productivity by the board, but was granted a temporary extension to increase enrollment over the next four years. Members of the Department of Classics filed appeals for both of the department’s majors in Latin and Greek, but only the Latin major was granted a request for temporary extension of the program. Dominic Chavez, spokesman for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, said in four years the board will review the UT Latin program, along with the other majors granted the extension, to determine whether they have progressed in productivity. Chavez said appeals made from each department needed to include a plan on how to increase recruitment, retention and graduation rates within the department, in addition to other details on why the major
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Inflammatory Speech A panel of first amendment experts will discuss and take questions about inflammatory speech at 7 p.m. in GSB 2.124.
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Danielle Villasana | Daily Texan Staff
The United States recognizes the Republic of China.
Campus watch Taxi!
200 BLOCK EAST DEAN KEETON A non-UT cab driver flagged down a UT Police Officer and informed the officer he had an intoxicated subject in the back of his vehicle. The subject could not provide the driver a correct address and location that he needed to be dropped off at. During the investigation, the officer discovered the subject had created a personal Splash Zone in the back passenger compartment of the taxi. The subject was unable to answer basic questions for the officer. The subject was taken into custody for Public Intoxication and transported to Central Booking.
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Austin Firefighter Rex Dorado extinguishes a fire after a pile of brush caught flame on a trailer bed while the truck was in transit on Interstate-35 near the Manor exit Monday evening. Dorado said the fire was relatively minor and the driver was able to exit the highway quickly.
Course teaches sexual assault defense By Nina Hernandez Daily Texan Staff
Out of the one in 12 college males who have committed a sexual assault, 84 percent did not think it was rape, said UT police officer Ashley Griffin during a women’s defense class Monday. According to the website of Rape,
Abuse and Incest National Network, an organization dedicated to educating the public about sexual assault and finding counseling for victims, a sexual assault is committed in the U.S. every two minutes. The Rape Aggression Defense System course is a four-day course that teaches women how to defend themselves in potentially life-threat-
ening situations. Sergeant Laura Davis of UT Police Department said the fourth day of the course is the most important because students put what they’ve learned to practice during an optional simulation test. “I feel strongly about people doing the simulation,” Davis said. “I believe the biggest learning curves
Flu shot campaign promotes vaccines Students commemorate for students with or without insurance previously banned books By Nick Hadjigeorge Daily Texan Staff
With the high temperatures lasting into the fall, it may not feel like the flu season is fast approaching. But University Health Services is taking precautionary measures against the virus through a campaign to distribute vaccines to students and faculty during the coming weeks. The UHS Flu Shot Campaign begins today at the Student Services Building in room G1.310 from noon to 4 p.m. The campaign will continue to offer the vaccine in various locations around campus until Oct. 20. The
full list of dates and locations can be found on the UHS website. The flu shot is available for free to all students and faculty who present their UT ID and a health insurance card, not including Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare or HMO plans. The shot costs $10 for those without health insurance. Senior UHS coordinator Sherry Bell said the flu is more serious than students usually realize and stressed the correlation between contracting the virus and decreased academic performance. Bell said almost 20 percent of respondents said they have suffered a negative academic impact
in the last 12 months because of a cold, the flu or sore throats, according to a 2010 campus health assessment survey. She said providing a flu shot campaign is central to UHS’s purpose of promoting a healthy environment on campus. “Campus is, by nature, crowded, so it makes it much easier to pick up viruses that cause cold and flu,” Bell said. Bell said the University is prepared to distribute 10,000 vaccines during this year’s campaign and said last year’s immunizations totaled 9,028. Bell also said
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Austin ranks No. 12 in list of most livable American cities Texas capitol recognized for ed the number of restaurants, bars and museums as well as lively social faire, economic the city’s income, poverty, uninsulation, low crime rate employment, crime and forecloBy Brianna Pelayo Daily Texan Staff
Austin placed highly in a recently released ranking of America’s top 50 cities, beating out Houston, Dallas and San Antonio by a wide margin. Bloomberg Rankings and Businessweek.com worked together to evaluate the country’s largest cities on a scale that excluded affordability. Based on 16 components, Austin proved to be one of the best cities in the nation. The components includ-
sure rates. “I imagine on a per capita basis, the number of entertainment outlets like bars and restaurants and that sort of thing is probably on the higher end,” said Beverly Kerr, vice president of research at the Austin Chamber of Commerce. “I think the thing with Austin is that it’s relatively concentrated, it’s easy to access a lot of those amenities that we have. Particularly downtown we have a lot more going on than you’ll see in a lot of other cities. I’m not surprised that we ranked well on that.”
Austin’s centrally located 209 bars and 1,818 restaurants, many of which offer live music, helped contribute to Austin’s high ranking according to the report. According to Businessweek. com, Austin would have made the top ten were it not for a high property crime rate. Alt houg h Austin ranked well with a violent crime rate of 523.3 per year, the property crime rate ranked on the other end of the spectrum according to Businessweek.com statistics. Austin’s yearly property crime rate was listed 6,245.5, which Kerr said can make it less
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By Rachel Thompson Daily Texan Staff
When Information sciences graduate student Jessica McCleane was in high school, she read J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” — a coming of age story that was once the most censored book in U.S. high schools. One of her friends had to leave the room while the class read parts of the novel. “She had to read a different book because her mom thought it was so inappropriate,” McCleane said. McCleane and other literature lovers from the School of Information celebrated “The Catcher in the Rye” and similar banned books in the South Mall Monday night during the American Library Association and Texas Library Association’s Banned Books Week ReadOut. They discussed formerly taboo subjects such as homosexuality and racism. The UT ALA/TLA chapter brings students interested in li-
braries together through other events such as trivia, bake sales and the library crawl. The organization also offers networking opportunities for those interested in becoming librarians. Members brought books ranging from Madeleine L’Engle’s “A Wrinkle in Time” to Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple,” all of which had been banned at one time, and some of which remain banned in various schools. UT ALA/TLA co-director Anna Fidgeon said some of the books were challenged, meaning someone requested that the book be taken out of public and school libraries, while others were banned outright. “I think it’s important to read banned books to sort of bring attention to different ideas that maybe someone doesn’t agree with,” Fidgeon said. “It’s always good to have both sides.” Fidgeon said she encouraged members to bring their favorite
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Graduate student Rebecca Halpern reads passages from Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” on the South Mall in honor of ALA’s Banned Books Week.