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Know your ju-dos and ju-don’ts . LIFE & ARTS PAGE 12
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Gov. Perry’s yell leader approach to foreign policy.
Festival celebrates Latin American independence. NEWS PAGE 6
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UT researchers patent concept for nuclear reactor that may reduce nuclear waste.
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Technology industry expands in and brings jobs to Austin.
SPORTS
Freshman Sara Hattis making instant impact for Longhorns volleyball squad this year.
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Top five Friday night movies, courtesy of Netflix.
TODAY
Mike Daisey: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs “The master storyteller” Mike Daisey and his hilarious tale of technology icon Steve Jobs will be performed from 8 – 10 p.m. tonight at the Performing Arts Center. The event is priced between $10 – $42 and is open to everyone.
West Campus lacking diversity Editor’s Note: This is the first in a three-part series of stories examining the demographics of two neighborhoods where students live — West Campus and East Riverside. The next installment, about the makeup and history of Riverside student housing, will run Sept. 21.
The growing diversity of the UT student body has not spurred racial integration in student neighborhoods, census, city and UT records show. The majority of Asian and white undergraduates living off campus reside in West Campus, while most Hispanic and black undergraduates live in East Riverside. This trend has intensified in the past 10 years because of a convergence of socioeconomic inequality, disparate living costs in the two areas and alleged discrimination — and some fear it may not change. Ryan Robinson, demographer for the City of Austin, said population growth in West Campus is the result of massive multi-family complexes built in the neighborhood since 2004 under a plan called the University Neighborhood Overlay. Many of these new high-rises may not be affordable for
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Luna 2 was the first artifact of humanity to land on the moon. The Soviet Union launched the spacecraft Sept. 12, and it took 33.5 hours to reach its destination. Luna 2 sent back data confirming that the moon had no magnetic field or radiation belts.
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Cooler causes concern, bomb squad responds By David Maly Students walking along the Drag Thursday morning encountered a curious scene bordered by police tape and local authorities cautiously examining a closed cooler. University of Texas Police Department officers were dispatched to a call made by an unidentified UT faculty member around 8:23 a.m. regarding a closed cooler left at the northeast corner of West 24th and Guadalupe streets, police said. Officers from the Austin Police Department were called in to aid the nearly hourlong examination of the cooler. After assessing the
scene, an officer opened the cooler and discovered it was empty, police said. The case was declared closed at 9:19 a.m. Austin resident Kati Adams, who watched the incident unfold, said many onlookers were on edge as more and more authorities arrived to deal with the mysterious cooler. “They had the corner where the cooler was completely taped off, and the whole block was surrounded by APD,” Adams said. “I sat there and just watched. I didn’t know what was going on.” Adams said when an officer opened the cooler, his relief was apparent. “They brought in a guy
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Austin’s premiere movie mockers Master Pancake are taking over the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz at 10:00 p.m tonight. Their latest victim? “Fight Club.” Watch as the theater group turns this soap loving film into its own personal commentary. Ticket prices start at $13.50.
Today in history
From 2000 to 2010, the number of whites living in West Campus rose while the number of white undergraduates attending UT declined. There has also been an increase in diversity among Asians, but Hispanics and blacks continue to remain underrepresented in the area.
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Fight Club Mockery
Ever wondered what the future might look like, literally? Designer Norman Bel Geddes brings you his vision of the world tomorrow. Come take part in this futuristic exhibition from 7 – 9 p.m. tonight at the Harry Ransom Center. Admission is free for members and $20 for nonmembers.
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that had what looked like a shield,” she said. “He went around every angle of it and finally opened the cooler and yelled, ‘It’s empty!’” Adams said the mass of authorities and concerned onlookers that had gathered around the mysterious cooler soon began to disperse, and the drag was back to normal within a few minutes. “Very quickly, they were gone,” Adams said. Tony Ortiz, manager of The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, a coffee shop across the street from where the cooler was found, said the incident did not seem to affect business for his establishment or halt other daily life in the area much.
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UT to fund tuition to fill Pell Grant gap By Bobby Blanchard UT is filling a void in student financial aid with institutional grants after 60 students did not receive their Federal Pell Grants, a grant ranging from $555 to $5,550 for the neediest students, because of a change in federal policy effective this fall. Thomas Melecki, director of Student Financial Services, said the University is still reviewing potentially affected students. He estimates UT will spend $250,000 in financial aid to students who were expecting Pell grants. Starting this fall, students nationwide can claim Federal Pell Grants for only 12 semesters instead of 18. The federal government implemented this rule to reduce spending on Pell grants by $11 billion over the next 10 years, cutting off students who had exceeded 12 semesters in school. “We knew we had to act fast so these students wouldn’t be left without grant support they needed to pay tuition and other expenses,” Melecki said. “So we replaced their 2012-2013 Pell grants with grants from the University. By doing this, we made sure none of this year’s students who were counting on Pell Grants got hurt by the new law.”
Melecki said the U.S. Department of Education notified UT last spring. Beginning this past April, UT’s Student Financial Services published the information online and tried to notify students via Facebook and Twitter. The University is dependent on the U.S. Department of Education to inform it of those affected. Because UT does not have access to the Pell grants students receive from other colleges, it cannot easily come up with these names itself. “The education department provided this information in early August, less than 10 days before UTAustin Pell Grant recipients had to pay their fall tuition bills,” Melecki said. While 60 students were affected this year, Melecki said he did not think too many UT students will be affected in the future because more than 80 percent of UT Austin’s undergraduate students graduate in 12 semesters. Melecki said the best way for students to avoid negative consequences would be to take 15 hours per semester. Music studies junior Joey Ovalle said while he is on a Pell grant to help him pay for his college education, he does not think this reduction will affect him
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By David Maly When 23-year-old transient Waylon Barnes asked another homeless man on the drag to be nicer to a group of pedestrians, he said he never could have imagined he would get stabbed. The man stabbed Barnes in the back with a steak knife earlier this month and is in jail. Even though Barnes has recovered, he said the transient crime problem in West Campus is far from over, as this incident is just one example of the transient violence that has plagued the area for years. Although police have recently increased their presence in the area and violence has decreased, Barnes and a group of area business owners have taken a stand, advocating for a new policy that would decrease transient violence in the area even more and make it a
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more permanent change. Submitted to Austin City Council Aug. 23, the proposal is titled APD Good Behavior Maintenance Policy of the Vagrant Population. It calls for a mandated seven-day-aweek police bicycle patrol dedicated to the area that would run during the day in addition to APD’s current evening and night patrols. The City Council has not taken any action on it. Austin Police Department crime statistics show a 57.14 percent drop in violent crime for the Central West area, which includes West Campus, this past August compared to August of last year. The statistic includes a decrease from seven to three violent crime incidents. Barnes said he was standing near the Church of Scientology at West 22nd and Guadalupe streets Sept. 3 when he noticed a homeless
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man harassing a group of people walking by. In previous reports, APD said the incident occurred in front of the University Co-op. “He was talking about beating them up and robbing them,” Barnes said. “He was even talking in a fake Asian accent to make fun of them.” Barnes said he simply could not bear to watch and decided to give the man some advice. “I just went up to him and was like, ‘That’s not the way we are going to make any money, by you disrespecting them,’” Barnes said. “So I was like, ‘OK, whatever, I said my piece,’ and I turned around to walk away, and by the time I even got into the middle of the street, I felt it. Wham.” Jennie Bennett, who is part of the group of business owners supporting the proposal, has owned a jewelry stand in the 23rd Street Renaissance Market since 1996. The market is at the intersection of West 23rd and Guadalupe streets next to the University Co-op. Bennett and other artisans began advocating two years ago to have an increased police presence put in place around the Renaissance Market and its surrounding West Campus area. With the appointment of APD Offi-
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because he did not start taking out Pell Grants until a few years into his college education. But he does not think 12 semesters should be the maximum amount of time for students to use Pell grants. “Only 12 semesters is going under the guise that you have everything figured out from the beginning of your college career,” Ovalle said. “I have a lot of friends who don’t like their majors now, but they can’t change it because they don’t think they can afford it.” Brittany Lamas, a journalism junior who is also on a Pell Grant, said 12 semesters should be enough for any student to graduate. “Even if you change majors, it should not take you more than six years to finish your degree,” Lamas said.
NEWS BRIEFLY Equipmnent missing; Texas fears radiation
State health officials say a search is on for a missing piece of oil field equipment containing a potentially dangerous radioactive material. A Texas Department of State Health Services statement Thursday described the item as a small stainless steel cylinder, about 7 inches long and an inch across. The sealed cylinder contains radioactive Americium-241/Beryllium. A Halliburton crew was taking the cylinder from a well outside Pecos to another well south of Odessa. When they arrived, however, the crew found the shielding in which the cylinder is transported was unlocked and the tool was missing. The cylinder is stamped with the words “danger radioactive” and “do not handle,” along with a radiation warning icon. The statement says it isn’t highly radioactive but extended close contact could result in a harmful radiation dose.
Disposal revenue reaps $3.4 million
ANDREWS — Andrews County and the state have gotten their first payments from the company operating a radioactive waste disposal site in West Texas. Waste Control Specialists spokesman Chuck McDonald said Thursday that the Dallas-based company paid $630,000 to Andrews County and about $3.4 million to Texas earlier this month. He says the payments cover the quarter that ended Aug. 31. Future payments will come within 31 days of the end of each quarter based on the revenue taken in for disposing of low-level radioactive waste. McDonald says the county gets 5 percent from Waste Control Specialists LLC and the state gets 25 percent. Environmental groups worry about the site’s geology and contamination of nearby underground water sources. However, the company says the site about 375 miles west of Dallas is safe. — Compiled from Associated Press
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NEWS BRIEFLY Texas may increase public school year Top education leaders in the Texas Senate are examining ways to extend school days and years to improve learning. Members of the Education Committee heard testimony Thursday from a school administrator at Houston Independent School District, where officials sought permission to increase the school year by 10 days at some struggling campuses. The district also made the school day longer by an hour at some campuses using government grants for at-risk children and donations from businesses and the community. More time at school helped students improve dramatically academically.
Volcano explodes near Guatemala city ESCUINTLA, Guatemala — A long-simmering volcano erupted Thursday outside Antigua, one of Guatemala’s most famous tourist cities, hurling thick clouds of ash nearly two miles high, spewing rivers of lava down its flanks. Guatemala’s head of emergency evacuations, Sergio Cabanas, said more than 33,000 evacuees were ordered to leave some 17 villages around the Volcan del Fuego, about six miles southwest from the colonial city of Antigua, home to 45,000 people. Authorities said the tourist center was not currently in danger, but they expected the eruption to last for at least 12 more hours. —Compiled from Associated Press reports
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NEW YORK — The stock market staged a huge rally Thursday after investors got the aggressive economic help they wanted from the Federal Reserve. The Dow Jones industrial average spiked more than 200 points and cleared 13,500 for the first time since the beginning of the Great Recession. The average is within 625 points of its all-time high. The Fed said it would buy $40 billion of mortgage securities a month until the economy improves. It left open the possibilities of buying other assets and of buying after the recovery picks up. The central bank also extended its pledge of superlow short-term interest rates into 2015, and extended a program to drive down longterm rates. It was the package known as QE3 — a third round of quantitative easing, in market-speak. It was just what investors were hoping for. “They’re saying that the punch bowl, the fuel for the economy, isn’t going away. It’s going to be here as long as you need it,” said Tony Fratto, a former aide to President George W. Bush and managing partner at Hamilton Place Strategies, a policy consulting firm in Washington. The Dow closed up 206.51 points, the seventh-biggest gain this year, at 13,539.86, its highest close since the last days of December 2007, the first month of the recession. The broader Standard & Poor’s 500 index was up 23.43 points at 1,459.99, also its highest since December 2007. The Nasdaq
Richard Drew | Associated Press Specialist Frank Babino works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday. The Federal Reserve unleashed a series of aggressive actions intended to stimulate the still-weak economy by making it cheaper to borrow and spend.
composite index, which has been trading at its highest levels since 2000, was up 41.52 at 3,155.83. David Abuaf, chief investment officer at Hefty Wealth Partners, said he expects investors to keep shifting from safer assets like government bonds to stocks. That could push stock prices higher and start a cycle of increased wealth and spending. “People will feel more confident, consumers will buy more goods and GDP growth will increase,” he said, referring to the gross domestic product. The stock market had already enjoyed a summer rally, in part because investors were betting on more Fed
action. The Dow has climbed more than 1,100 points since the start of June. Still, stocks spiked Thursday in industries across the economy. Materials companies, which tend to do well when the economy picks up, enjoyed the biggest gain — 2.6 percent as a group. Bank stocks also surged. This is the third round of bond-buying by the Fed since the financial crisis struck in the fall of 2008. The goal is to lower long-term interest rates, get people to borrow and spend more and push investors into stocks. If history is any guide, stocks could rally a bit more. In the three months following March 2009,
when the Fed said it would expand its first round of buying, the S&P 500 rose 18 percent. In the three months after the Fed hinted at a second round of buying in August 2010, the S&P rose 14 percent. Some economists and investors have warned that the bond-buying will have a limited impact because interest rates are already near record lows. Critics of the stock rally say investors should focus on why the Fed is acting in the first place: The U.S. economy is weak. Economic growth in China is also slowing, and much of Europe is in recession and struggling with very high debt.
Earlier this month, Mario Draghi, the head of the European Central Bank, said the bank would buy the debt of countries that use the euro and are desperate to keep their borrowing costs down. “I’m not buying anything,” Gary Flam of Bel Air Investment Advisors said as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke at a press conference. Flam added, referring to Draghi and Bernanke: “These two guys are propping up market in the hope it will trickle down to the economy, but after several years of this we haven’t seen a sustainable impact. The underlying problems of debt and deficits remain.”
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Q&A: Former Ambassador Krueger’s perspective Editor’s note: Bob Krueger served in the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate and on the Texas Railroad Commission before becoming the American ambassador to Burundi in 1994. He spoke with Daily Texan associate editor Kayla Oliver about the death of Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, the political prospects of Texas Democrats and the lessons of public service. This fall, Krueger is teaching a Liberal Arts Honors and Plan II class called “Heroes in Life and Literature.” Daily Texan: When you were ser ving as ambasWhat we need in such instances sador to Burundi in the 1990s, you narrowly esare cool heads, historical caped an assassination attempt by an extremist group unhappy with your advocacy for the disenunderstanding, broad vision and franchised. Could you describe why you chose to not a silly cowboys and Indians take such an active role in the country’s politics, as did Ambassador Stevens in Libya? approach. Senator Bob Krueger: Well, an ambassador is a per— Bob Krueger sonal representative of the president of the United States. That’s what being an ambassador plenipoten- DT: How should the American government respond to tiary means: you have all the powers of the president the situation? for United States citizens in that country. It is a huge BK: I think we’re responding appropriately. We have sent privilege, of course, to represent the United States Marines to shore up the defense at the embassy itself. anywhere. The genocide I was amid — if you adjust- Fifty United States Marines are worth a lot more than ed for the difference in population between Burun- that many from any other location, and they will come di and the United States — was like having ten Twin equipped and trained and ready to protect American inTowers attacks every week nonstop. Nothing was be- terests. And we are sending a couple of destroyers that ing reported. There was not a single international will have drones for observation. I think there’s no doubt reporter there. I thought, I can do two things: I can that we’re responding with strength, but we don’t know do what I can to save democracy, and I can do what just which group was responsible for this attack, and we I can to save lives, and nothing else mattered to me. certainly can’t go out in another country and think we’ll If I was to remain silent, then who was to speak? find the perpetrators. What we need in such instances If the representative of the world’s most powerful are cool heads, historical understanding, broad vision country was afraid to speak, who else would speak? and not a silly ‘cowboys and Indians’ approach — saying, “By gosh, I’m going to pull out my gun and get ‘em!” We DT: Does the Libyan government have any respon- wouldn’t know who to get. sibility for failing to prevent the attack? BK: What we have to understand is we are the old- DT: You were the last Democrat to serve as U.S. Senest continuous democracy in the world. We are an ator from Texas. What realistic odds do you give the immensely powerful nation, and we still have assas- Democrat on the November ballot, Paul Sadler, for sins and crazies who do things like killing Sikhs in that seat? a church or who take out a gun in a Colorado mov- BK: Well, obviously the odds are against him. On the othie and shoot fifty-odd people. And that’s where we er hand, one never knows in an election what can haphave a strong legal government. Think about what pen. Sadler is a responsible individual; he is not an ideohappens where you have a fledgling government logue. He has sought to work with people of both parties, just trying to get underway. We have to understand and I think he is better qualified to bring some sort of that their government is still under threat from rad- coherence and comity in Washington than an extremist icals in Libya and radicals coming from outside. The whose economic and other policies are antediluvian. government is seeking their own footing. We’ve had a couple of hundred years and we still have these DT: What have been the disadvantages for Texas challenges. We have to put this in a global and his- to not have a Democrat representing it in the U.S. torical context and understand that their country is Senate when one occupies the White House? just trying to get underway in a democracy. It’s the BK: I think a Democrat is likely to be a better, more same position we might have been in in 1777. responsible senator and it’s always a benefit, particularly for the second most populous state in the Union, to have connections with both parties rather than just one.
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DT: What one lesson do you think UT undergraduates may take away from their years on campus that will inspire them to work to stop, if they have the opportunity in their lifetime, a genocide like the one you made the world pay attention to in Rwanda and Burundi? BK: My own experience in life is that there is no real satisfaction in simply seeking money or things. Looking back, the richest experience I had actually was not either during my time in the Senate or perhaps even in the House. It was when I was in Burundi, an assignment that most people would not have wanted. It gave me a chance to work to save democracy and work to save lives. That was for me an immense privilege. I wouldn’t trade a hundred million dollars for that privilege.
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you answered: Every Friday, we’ll hit the streets to ask students what they think. This week we stopped by the Co-op to gauge opinion on today’s court date for members of the Make UT Sweatshop-Free Coalition. Eighteen student members of the coalition were arrested in April when they refused to leave UT President William Powers Jr.’s office after the end of the business day. They had occupied the office to protest UT’s refusal to join the Worker Rights Consortium, a labor rights group that guarantees humane working conditions in factories that manufacture apparel for UT. During the summer, UT acquiesced to the protesters’ demands and joined the Worker Rights Consortium, but the Travis County Attorney’s Office is still pressing criminal trespass charges against the protesters. We asked students whether or not UT should remain silent on the issue, or attempt to convince the county attorney to drop the charges against the students. “UT should take no action. If the students knew they trespassed, and even if they have already come to an agreement, they still have to pay for what they have done.” Celeny Benitez, electrical engineering freshman from Houston. “Charges should be dropped because there’s no malicious intent or bad faith in what the protesters were doing, which would be a reason to charge them. Since it was peaceful and there was no harm done, UT should attempt to drop the charges. Even though they did break the law by staying in a building past certain hours, I don’t think it’s something they should be charged for.” Rashi Agrawal, public relations senior from Houston. “I think that even though there were laws that were broken and they shouldn’t have stayed past five, they didn’t revolt or turn to violent aggression. They went peacefully. If UT already gave in to their demands, they should probably drop the charges. This isn’t going to go anywhere. It doesn’t make any sense that UT would continue on when the fight is essentially already over because they got what they wanted and at the end of the day UT got them out of the president’s office.” Maria Ponce, Latin American studies junior from San Antonio.
When the yell leader gets it wrong Imagine your football team in the midst of losing on the field, and an opposing team player suffers a fatal injury. In response, a yell leader for your team begins a disrespectful chant at that very moment. Yuck, right? Then factor in that the yell leader was a player who hadn’t made the cut to stay on the field. Okay, now you have the metaphorically apt description for what happened Sept. 12, when Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a former yell leader for Texas A&M, whose bid for the Republican presidential nomination crashed and burned with his goofy gaffes, issued his statement criticizing the President’s response to an attack in Libya that left three people, including an ambassador, dead. “Ambassador Chris Ste vens and three other Americans are now dead in the chaos of a destabilized Middle East. President Obama said he ‘rejects’ these brutal acts, and condemns them in ‘the strongest terms’ - yet still acknowledges our attackers’ supposed justification. This kind of language broadcasts an impotent foreign policy that fostered this crisis in the first place,” Perry said, adding unhelpfully, “Combined with President Obama’s shameful lack of leadership in Egypt that culminated in the burning of our flag in our own embassy in Cairo yesterday, it is no wonder our enemies in the region are emboldened and our allies are afraid.” Perry’s statements drew less national attention than those made by Republican Presidential candidate Mitt
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Perry, as the first Aggie yell leader to become Texas governor in the state’s history, should think more before he chants.
Romney, who criticized the U.S. embassy’s response to the attack by saying, “When our grounds are being attacked and being breached, [the] first response of the United States must be outrage at the breach of the sovereignty of our nation. An apology for America’s values is never the right course.” Romney took a slamming for politicizing in a time of crisis and he refrained from the same tack the next day. But arguably his initial comments could be considered an understandable misstep made in the throes of a presidential campaign. Perr y, on the other hand, having just returned from a trip to Italy to promote Texas, faced no such pressures to speak out and instead gratuitously offered his thoughts on foreign policy. Since his days bumbling as a presidential candidate, one can hardly imagine anyone eager to have Perry lead the nation’s foreign policy. But beyond that consideration, Perry, as the first Aggie yell leader to become Texas governor in the state’s history, should think before he chants.
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University of Texas researchers have patented the concept for a hybrid nuclear reactor that may reduce nuclear waste by combining fission and fusion, processes that produce nuclear energy by splitting and fusing parts of the atom. Researchers Swadesh Mahajan, Prashant Valanju and Mike Kotschenreuther of the College of Natural Sciences Institute for Fusion Studies have received a patent for the tokamak device. Nuclear power does not produce greenhouse gases, but it does produce radioactive waste. This device will use magnetic fields to produce fusion reactions and burn nuclear waste from the fission process. This will generate additional energy, reducing the amount of waste. Mahajan, a physics and fusion research professor, said in order for nuclear energy to become useful, the waste must be destroyed. Currently nuclear reactors produce energy through nuclear fission, which creates short-term and long-term radioactive waste. He said short-term radioactivity has a lifespan of about 20 to 30 years, but long-term radioactivity causes the major environmental concerns. “Fusion is still a research project,” Mahajan said. “Its promise is wonderful, because one will be able to produce large amounts of energy for large amounts of time and will not leave
too much environmentally damaging residue.” Mahajan said they were the first to come up with this technology because they were able to devise a system in which the fusion reaction could take place in a compact machine. In order for it to be compact, the researchers had to develop several technologies. Mahajan said a crucial invention was the Super X Divertor, which diverts the heat produced by the fusion reaction. This made it possible to produce and sustain large numbers of neutrons in a small volume. Valanju, who also worked on the project, said nuclear fusion generates neutrons that will destroy the nuclei of the waste. Nuclear power does not emit greenhouse gases, but there are questions about nuclear safety, senior researcher Kotschenreuther said. “If you replace every coal fire and gas power plant with a nuclear power plant, you not only eliminate the greenhouse gases, you eliminate the number of people, civilians. These are not coal miners, civilians, you and I, killed from the various forms of pollution produced from the other plants,” Kotschenreuther said. The researchers all agreed the fundamental drive for their research was to find a solution to the nuclear waste produced by nuclear power plants so the technology could be safe. “I do not ever object to people having high standards from nuclear energy,” Mahajan said. “That is the right thing to do.”
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With General Motors, Apple and Samsung all announcing plans to bring new operations to Austin, students looking to work in the technology industry will soon have more options close to the 40 Acres. General Motors announced last week it will build an IT Innovation Center in Austin and hire as many as 500 to work at the facility, which is expected to be in the Tech Ridge area of Northeast Austin, according to the Austin American-Statesman. GM, which makes the fifth highest revenues in the nation, will employ software developers, project managers, database experts, business analysts and other information technology professionals at the new center, it said in a statement. Some technology professionals say the GM plan is part of a trend in Austin. In March, Apple announced it would hire 3,600 employees and build a new facility in Austin. Samsung also announced an additional multi-billion-dollar investment in its existing chip manufacturing center in Austin. Randall Mott, GM vice president and chief information officer, said a skilled workforce is already in place in Austin. “The next generation of IT workers, the talented visionaries we want contributing at the Innovation Center, are being trained at top computer science schools in Texas and surrounding states,” Mott said in the company’s statement. UT’s computer science graduate program ranked eighth in the 2010 U.S. News and World Report college rankings among computer science departments including Stanford, Massachusetts Institute of Technoloy, Carnegie Mellon and Princeton. UT’s Computer Science department chair Bruce Porter said the local industry growth has picked up in the past two years. “During the economic downturn, frequently students would
New York City or somewhere else for an internship or a job,” Porter said. “So the growth in Austin is going to make a big difference to our students.” UT’s computer science program is not only competitive but large, with more than 1,300 undergraduates. The department routinely sends students to intern and work for Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple, Porter said. Porter said the technology industry operates as an ecosystem made up of universities, companies and venture capitalists. “You need all those things together to make a community as vibrant as what we have in Austin right now,” Porter said. Tech companies tend to gravitate to one area, Roger Kay, founder of tech analysis company Endpoint Technolo-
gies Associates, said. He said Dell was one of the first major tech companies in Central Texas. Dell currently has its headquarters in Round Rock. “Dell is very much a trickledown company, in that secondary and tertiary levels of the company got rich,” Kay said. This company’s success spawned growth in Austin, he said. The growth attracted big companies like General Motors and Apple, and it also attracted entrepreneurs looking to invest in tech startups, Kay said. Tommy Nguyen, a UT corporate communications and computer science alumnus, works as a software consultant for BP3, a technology consulting company. Nguyen said he was happy to find a tech industry job that allowed him to stay in Austin and use his computer science skills. Nguyen interned at BP3, which employs up to 30 people, during his last year at UT and got the job after graduation. “We’re actively trying to look for college recruits,” Nguyen said. “We’re one of the fastest-growing companies in Central Austin.”
Zachary Strain | Daily Texan Staff College of education junior, Daniella Torres, participates in a trivia game at Celebracion de Independencias in the Student Activity Center Thursday evening. The event celebrated the nine Latin American countries that gained their independence in September.
Festival celebrates independence By Christine ayala Students celebrated the independence of nine Latin American countries Thursday night with music, food and an address from a Texas representative during the fifth annual Celebracion de Independencias. The celebration was hosted by the Student Events Center’s Mexican American Culture Committee, Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc. and Lambda Theta Phi Fraternidad Latina, Inc. At the event, various organizations provided cultural information about each country and offered free tamales, rice and beans to students who went to three or more tables. State Rep. Mary Gonzalez, D-El Paso, spoke on
the importance of education and political involvement in the Latino community. The Latino Leadership Council also provided voter registration sheets for the event. Belize, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua all won their independence during the month of September. Most became independent in the early 19th century, while Belize became independent in the late 20th century. “We are here to celebrate and recognize our countries of origin and their independence,” Gonzalez said. “We have to remember the power of community, the power of revolution and the power of resistance. This reminds us we have a revolutionary history. The legislative session
begins in January, so think about the bills y’all want to offer. I’ll offer y’all bills or, better yet, fight bills.” Gonzalez said the contacts she made in Latin American organizations as a student at UT were some of the first donors to her political campaigns. “This celebration brings the community together as ‘familia,’ for you to think what you are doing for the world and what your organization is doing for the world,” Gonzalez said. Mexican American Culture Committee chair Yadira Ramos Luna said the celebration was planned with performances by local Latin American musical and dance groups. “All the organizations that said they would be here
came even though it rained and were really accommodating,” Luna said. “I had to cancel some of the performers, but Marimba Tropical came out and played a few songs outside when it was raining before taking everything down.” League of United Latin American Citizens’ UT chapter secretary Karen Grimaldo said this was her second time at the independence celebration. “League of United Latin American Citizens is a political organization [that] focuses on changing policy,” Grimaldo said. “We like to come to these events and meet people and other Latino groups. We are looking forward to a similar event for Dia de los Muertos, with the music and dances.”
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Hispanic and black students, who are disproportionately from low-income backgrounds, Robinson said. “West Campus has long been expensive and recently became enormously more expensive,” Robinson said. “Since income remains, unfortunately, associated with race, it could be that there is more racial segregation.” These new high-rises also raised the total cost of living in West Campus, possibly creating an income barrier for Hispanic and black students, Robinson said. According to The Daily Texan’s analysis of demographic data sets, more than 40 percent of all white undergraduates lived in West Campus in 2010, as well as 38 percent of Asian undergraduates. Twenty-two percent of Hispanic undergraduates and 15 percent of black undergraduates also lived in West Campus then. These numbers are significantly higher for whites and Asians than in 2000, when only 27 percent of white undergraduates and 21 percent of Asian undergraduates lived in West Campus. Fifteen percent of Hispanic undergraduates and no black undergraduates lived in West Campus in 2000. In Riverside from 2000 to 2010, the white population declined from 44 percent to 29 percent among college-age people, while Asians declined from 9.7 percent to 6 percent. College-age Hispanics increased from 37 percent to 47 percent, and blacks increased from 6.3 percent to 9 percent. The 2010 American Community Survey estimates that 5,598 undergraduates live in Riverside. “Massive construction started in 2004 and was intended to allow more students to live closer to campus,” Robinson said. “The plan for that construction was to make the new apartments affordable, but the irony is that the exact opposite has occurred.” The Daily Texan shared this data with city and UT officials, who have not yet returned requests for comment.
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The University and the neighborhoods around campus were facing a swelling population problem in the late 1990s. At that time, West Campus was a medley of small and aging apartments that did not allow new development, and the increased size of the UT student body had outgrown available rental housing near campus. Many students had to commute from apartments across town, which hurt the University and hindered student success, said Mike McHone, a longtime Austin real estate broker who helped design today’s West Campus. “When you look at the graduation time line, it became extended,” McHone said. “Class scheduling became less efficient and more costly. Alumni funding, it significantly dropped.” Austin City Council brought the neighborhoods around campus into the Central Austin Neighborhood Planning Advisory Committee in 2002 to attract students to West Campus. CANPAC then created the Central Austin Combined Neighborhood Plan in 2004 to manage the future development of the University area. The University Neighborhood Overlay, or UNO, was a key component, McHone said. “You knock down [the older, smaller buildings] and build new housing that can house over 300 people on the same piece of land,” McHone said. “What we did was create an overlay to bring the University students back by doing that.” The University Area Partners, the neighborhood association of West Campus, and developers interested in the area created UNO. It passed unanimously in Austin City Council in 2004. The University did not take a position on the plan at the time of its creation.
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From 2000 to 2010 West Campus developers added about 5,236 new beds in high-rises, according to UAP. The average cost for a single bedroom in these apartment buildings today is between $900 and $1200, available listings show. McHone said West Campus was always expensive, but the construction boom following UNO caused the cost of living in West Campus to stay lower than developers expected in 2004. Developers hoped to make high profits but had to offer lower rental rates because so many complexes opened at the same time, he said. Richie Gill, a Plan II and economics senior who founded real estate agency Mr. West Campus, said the cost of monthly rent in West Campus has risen by 7 percent every year since 2004 and now runs between $700 and $900. Gill said most of the new high-rises in West Campus are catering to a luxury market and were not built for low-income students. “You’re going to get a lot of debt from building on expensive property in West Campus,” Gill said. “It wouldn’t make sense for developers to build these expensive buildings and target them for a low-income audience. The new buildings were more targeting a middle-class demographic from a suburb of Houston or Dallas.” Today, the demographic makeup of West Campus is much different than that the University. In 2010, white undergraduates made up 51.7 percent population, compared to 63.8 percent in 2000. Hispanic undergraduates increased from 13.5 to 19.4 percent in the same period. Asian undergraduates increased from 14.9 to 17.9 percent. Black undergrads grew from 3.4 percent to 4.7 percent.
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Brian Donovan, a member of CANPAC and administrator of the Inter-Cooperative Council, a West Campus cooperative organization, said the cost of all West Campus apartments has
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risen since UNO as a result of rising property values. According to Travis Central Appraisal District records, the average value of land occupied by high-rises in West Campus increased from $50 per square foot to $100 per square foot between 2004 and 2012. This led apartment owners to charge more for rent since they had to pay more in property taxes, Donovan said. “The property taxes of all the land in West Campus went up when the new zoning went in, and you can’t fight the value of the dirt,” Donovan said. “A lot of the older apartments, students are living there, too, but now they are charging high rates because they can get away with it as the area becomes more expensive.” These property taxes rose in response to demand for land in West Campus, which became more profitable after UNO, Donovan said. Inter-Cooperative Council doesn’t pay property taxes because it is a non-profit. Rent for a single room at one of the coops has risen from $600 to $685 since 2004 due to increased expenses, Donovan said. Cathy Norman, president of University Area Partners, said the creators of UNO aimed bring all students to West Campus, not just a middle-class or white demographic. “What we intended was to create housing for all students, not just any exclusive group,” Norman said. “Now, how we are doing on that is a little bit more of a complex question.” Norman said UNO has been successful in bringing students closer to campus, but there may be flaws in the plan. “We probably didn’t focus on ethnic diversity at all when we created this plan. I don’t think it was a priority then,” Norman said. “It takes an ongoing process. It’s not like you can have a static plan for ten years.”
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Even if more housing becomes affordable in West Campus, many black and Hispanic students may still choose not to live there, said physics senior Jazmin Estrada. Lower prices may not improve an environment that many students of color consider hostile. “In certain areas of West Campus, especially where there’s a lot of white Greek houses, you feel kind of uncomfortable,” said Estrada, who is a member of the Latino Leadership Council. Estrada said she moved out of West Campus to Riverside after hearing about balloons filled with bleach being thrown at Hispanic students and seeing Facebook photos of a West Campus theme party where participants dressed up as “Cowboys” and “Illegal Aliens.” Estrada, whose family moved from Mexico to the Rio Grande Valley before she was born, said she lives in Riverside because she, like many other first-generation students, cannot afford to live in West Campus. “It’s kind of impossible to live in West Campus if you’re a firstgeneration college student, it’s so expensive,” said Estrada. “Most of us are on financial aid and a bunch of us could maybe afford to live there, but we would have to give up something else.” History senior Joshua Tang, who is Asian and black, said part of the problem is low Hispanic and black representation in the area. Most white students in West Campus do not commit racist acts in the neighborhood but may look the other way if racist incidents occur, he said. “When you aren’t around people of color and people of color are the hyper-other, then it becomes acceptable to do racist things,” said Tang, who is a student associate in the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement. Tang has also experienced racism in West Campus. “As I was moving into my apartment in West Campus, someone threw [the n-word] at me from their balcony,” Tang said. “Very recently someone dropped a balloon that had bleach in it very close to me. Thankfully, it missed.” Tang says some white students believe that students of color receive favorable treatment from University admissions and other programs, which might be why they act racially intolerant. “There are people from homogeneous areas who think people who belong at the University of Texas should look like them,” said Tang. Premed freshman Meagan Elferink, a member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority, said West Campus is less diverse than
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— Jazmin Estrada, physics senior
most parts of Texas. She graduated from Ball High School in Galveston, where she said different racial groups are equally represented. West Campus seems exclusive to students from a “certain type of background,” she said. She lives in the Castillian, a private dormitory at 24th and San Antonio streets. At Ball, “it didn’t matter where you were from or how much money you had,” Elferink said. “I think that’s a more realistic representation of society.” The UT Police Department and the Austin Police Department say they have received no reports of bleach-filled balloons being thrown at students. UT students concerned about alleged racial discrimination in West Campus and at UT will meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 18 in UTC 2.112A. The event will feature student panelists sharing their experiences with discrimination at UT.
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Alan Robinson, administrator of West Campus cooperative organization College Houses Cooperatives, is supporting the Affordable Housing Initiative that will go before Austin City Council on Sept. 27. High-rises built in West Campus since UNO was established must offer between 10 and 20 percent of their units at “affordable” rates, but the definition of what was affordable was very high, Alan Robinson said. “Someone who qualified for an affordable room was expected to pay a little over $1,000 per month for rent,” Alan Robinson said. “Those were [U.S. Department of] Housing and Urban Development definitions, and weren’t based at all on students.” The AHI will change the definition of an affordable room from city-wide averages based on families to a different algorithm, lowering it to about $700, he said. “That’s still pretty high, but I think it’s going to help a lot of people out,” he said. The AHI will also change the definition of an affordable unit to an affordable bedroom, which Alan Robinson says will double the number of affordable rooms in West Campus. “They currently have to provide about 20 percent of their units at affordable rates,” he said. “By changing the definition to bedrooms, we think we can double the number of people living in affordable housing.” West Campus faces both economic and racial challenges. For students choosing whether to live in the neighborhood, the two often go hand in hand.
where minorities live (2010) A large number of college age blacks and Hispanics continue to live in East Riverside, where the number of college age whites dropped by more than half between 2000 and 2010.
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assessing asian affluence (2010) Asians have the second highest median income in Texas, and their affluence may explain their unique growth in West Campus.
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East Riverside
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VOLLEYBALL Sara Hattis (15) prepares to receive a set from Nicole Dalton (7). A former basketball standout, Hattis is adjusting to her new role playing volleyball for Texas. The Longhorns will take on Illinios Friday as part of Time Warner Cable Texas Invitational.
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Hattis off to fast start for Horns By Sara Beth Purdy After only three months of club volleyball, freshman Sara Hattis walked onto the 40 Acres as Prep Volleyball’s No. 9 recruit in the nation in 2012. The New Mexico native was originally recruited by colleges across the coun-
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Saturday’s matchup between Ole Miss and Texas pits the SEC against the Big 12 in ESPN’s College Football Finale. However, for the thousands of Longhorn fans making their way to Oxford, Miss. this weekend, there may be more buzz around the tailgating scene than the game itself. The Grove at Ole Miss is known nationwide for the tailgating atmosphere that makes Oxford truly one of the greatest experiences in all of college football. Longhorn fans can expect to see tents sitting one beside the other and a large array of spreads as far as the eye can see. Chandeliers will hang from tents with tables covered with tablecloths, while thousands of fans dressed in red hold the drink of their choice. The late kickoff on Saturday will give Texas fans in Oxford plenty of time to spend in the Grove and walk around a campus that was voted the most beautiful campus in the country by Newsweek in 2011. As kickoff gets closer, fans can turn their attention toward the Walk of Champions — a traditional walk the football team makes through the Grove on their way to the stadium roughly two hours before game time. It’s a sight that must be seen on game day in Oxford. When game time arrives, Longhorn fans should make their way toward Vaught-Hemingway Stadium for the matchup Texas and Ole Miss fans everywhere have been waiting for.
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try to play basketball. As a senior, Hattis was in the top 100 nationally for women’s basketball before deciding that volleyball was where she wanted to be. “I played basketball my whole life, and I still love the game,” Hattis said of her decision to play volleyball in college. “It was a
matter of the team and the school for me ... it ended up being volleyball because of Texas.” In high school, Hattis was named the New Mexico Player of the Year for volleyball in her senior season. As a junior and a senior, she earned a spot on the all-state team in New Mexico. In her final sea-
son at Cleveland High School, she posted a .485 hitting average with 289 kills, numbers that would make any coach salivate. In fact, although it is not widely known, Hattis is a triple threat. In high school she also competed with the track and field team during her junior and senior sea-
sons. Her team won the state title in New Mexico during her senior season, with Hattis finishing second in the high jump. Head coach Jerritt Elliott said Hattis has a quick arm swing, and he expects her to be one of the best blockers on
to start their first competition.” Leading the team will be senior Aeriel Ellis, who enters this season as the No. 20 ranked singles player in the country. Ellis earned her second consecutive ITA singles All-America selection last season and has also advanced to the round of 16, improving on their 2011 finish, where they made it to the round of 32 at the NCAA Women’s Tennis Championship. Sophomore Lina Padegimaite is coming off of a spectacular freshman campaign that saw her post a 22-5 singles record en route to being named Big 12 Freshman of the Year. Junior Elizabeth Begley posted
an impressive 34-7 overall singles record, including a perfect 9-0 mark in conference play last season. Padegimaite and Begley will likely move to the top of the lineup with the departure of Krista Damico. Sophomore Noel Scott will also look to carry some of the load for the ladies as she is coming off of an impressive freshman season much like her doubles partner Padegimaite. The pair enters this season as the No. 18 ranked duo in the country. The Longhorns will be one of 16 teams to begin their seasons this weekend at the Duke Fab-Four Invitational. “There will be several highly ranked players at this Duke
tournament,” Fendick-McCain said. “It will be a great opportunity to challenge ourselves as we start off the fall season.” The tournament has a strong field that features players from Illinois, North Carolina, Alabama, Yale and tournament host Duke, with play beginning Friday afternoon.
out while allowing nine goals. Meanwhile, Texas has given up 11 goals in its last four games while only being able to score one. While it is likely that these two teams could play to a draw — something Fresno State is certainly used to — one of these teams is bound to get a break tonight and pick up a much-needed win this season. The game will kick off at 8 p.m. and will be shown on the Longhorn Network. Texas’ final non-conference game will come Sunday against Denver. The Pioneers
are riding a six-game unbeaten streak, in which they have won five games and tied once. Denver is coming off of a strong two-game showing at the Denver University Invitational, where it beat Colorado 4-1 and later beat UC Irvine 4-0. Denver will be one of the stronger teams to face Texas in non-conference play, but it will be coming into Austin two days after a showdown in Lawrence against a solid Kansas team that hasn’t lost since mid-August. Texas may be able to take advantage of the Pioneers’
fatigue after Friday’s game against the Jayhawks. Texas and Denver will kick off at 7 p.m., and the match will be shown on the Longhorn Network before the Texas begins conference play against Iowa State next week.
where they will compete in the Olympia Fields Club Invitational. Heading to Midland are freshmen Andrew Korinek and Nick Naumann, along with sophomores Jacoby Lewis and Joey Swaysland. The tournament hosts athletes from 14 different schools, including Texas A&M and a number of other Big 12 schools. The Longhorns are no strangers to success out in Midland as senior Daniel Whitehead won the tournament last year. On the other side of the country, the Longhorns will bring junior David Holiner
and a trio of seniors made up of Chris Camillone, Alex Hilliard and Ben Chen. Holiner and Camillone, open the fall season as the eighth-ranked doubles team. Texas has four players ranked nationally by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, but only Holiner, ranked 99th, will be competing this weekend. Holiner finished his sophomore campaign with a 25-8 record and All-Big 12 honors, and will be looking to parlay that into a stellar junior season. Both tournaments will begin today and carry over into the weekend, with the finals being played Sunday.
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A disastrous non-conference season comes to an end for Texas soccer this weekend. The Longhorns have limped out to a 2-6 start this season. Now they’re looking down the barrel of Big 12 play starting next week. First on tap for this weekend, the Longhorns host Fresno State Friday. The Bulldogs may be the team that finally gets the Longhorns out of their funk. Fresno State is 0-4-3 and have given up 10 goals in their last three games while only scoring three. In their three games against ranked opponents, the Bulldogs have been shut
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WEEKEND PREVIEW They say actions speak louder than words. With that said, the Longhorns intend to let their rackets do all the talking this season. The women’s tennis squad comes into the 2012-2013 season returning six athletes from a team that finished No. 10 in the final Intercollegiate Tennis Association team poll. Despite a strong year that saw the Longhorns claim a Big 12 title, a loss in the round of 16 at the NCAA Championships leaves some unfinished business for this year. “We are just excited for play to begin this fall,” head coach Patty Fendick-McCain said. “This team has been training hard, and the ladies are ready
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TCU and Texas Tech have agreed to deal with FOX Sports for a multiyear television contract. TCU and Texas Tech althetic events will be shown on FOX Sports Southwest and other FOX Sports affiliates. The agreement is for one football game from each school, all availible mens basketball games, as well as other Olympic sports. “We are very proud of our new relationship with Fox Sports.” said TCU athletic Director Chris Dek Conte. Also this week, Oklahoma agreed to a 10-year deal with FOX Sports for football games and other Sooner Sports TV programs. — Wes Maulsby
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MISS continues from page 8 Be sure to be locked in and focused about 15 minutes before the game begins to ensure you don’t miss the Rebels’ traditional “Hotty Toddy” chant. By this point, Texas fans will probably be tired of hearing the chant, but when a celebrity asks the question, “Are you ready?” the sea of red packed closely inside the stadium will join
in unison to yell the chant. At that point, it’ll be game time and the atmosphere should be electric, and everyone will finally get to see what they’ve been waiting for: football. The game has the potential to be a thriller if Rebel head coach Hugh Freeze can design some plays to cut into the Texas defense. On
9 Ole Miss fans celebrate game day in Oxford. The Grove provides an atmosphere like no other in college football with the Walk of Champions and the “Hotty Toddy” chant.
the other side of the ball, the Ole Miss defensive line will see where it really stands going against a huge Longhorn offensive line and big running backs Joe Bergeron and Malcolm Brown. It should be an epic showdown Saturday in Oxford, and one that Texas fans making the trip will remember for a lifetime.
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HATTIS continues from page 8 the team. “She is going to be special,” Elliott said. “Things are going to accelerate for her pretty fast. She is a big-time player. It just depends how quickly she adapts to the speed and physicality of our gym.” Hattis is a 6-foot-4-inch middle blocker who has big hands and plays long. However, the quirky freshman, who has the ability to make the big plays on the court, barely talked when she first stepped onto the 40 Acres. “She was really quiet,” said sophomore outside hitter Haley Eckerman. “We just kind of wanted to bring her actual self out.” Not long after summer workouts began, Eckerman and fellow sophomore middle blocker Khat Bell took Hattis under their wing in an attempt to bring the personality out of the shy freshman. “When she first got here, it was kind of like me, her and Eckerman,” Bell said of the trio. Bell claims they are not like the Three Musketeers. Through theirfriendship,theyhaveforced Hattis out of her shell and it has really shown. “Sara, she’s just quirky,” Bell said. “She is not like Haley; she is not like me. She kind of fits in the middle; she balances us out.” The No. 6 Longhorns will face No. 23 Illinois Friday in the first round of the Time Warner Cable Texas Invitational, hosted by the Longhorns at Gregory Gym. Over
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the weekend, Texas will play three games, one each against Illinois, the University of Cincinnati and the University of Central Florida. Friday’s game against the Fighting Illini marks the sixth game against a ranked opponent so far this season. Against ranked opponents, the Longhorns are 3-2, the losses coming to No. 4 Penn State on the road and No. 14 Minnesota at home. As of last weekend’s match against Minnesota, Texas leads the nation in blocks per set at 3.46. This ranks fourth in the Texas record books. The series record between the Illini and the Longhorns is tied at five games apiece. The two teams last met in December of 2010 when the Longhorns beat the Illini in five sets during the NCAA Women’s Volleyball Championship semi-final match played in Austin.
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“Haywire,” 2012
“The Grey,” 2012
Director: Steven Soderbergh Genre: Action Runtime: 93 minutes
The beginning of the semester is always brutal for the college student’s wallet. The combination of stupidly expensive textbooks, typically abrasive Texas weather and slim pickings at the multiplex are more than enough reasons to take shelter and turn your sights to Netflix. The Daily Texan has sifted through the thousands of films available and came up with a few recent releases that are worth adding to your queue. -Alex Williams
Between last fall’s squirmy “Contagion” and this summer’s abs-centric “Magic Mike,” Steven Soderbergh cranked out this fun little number. “Haywire” came and went from theaters this January, lost amid higher-profile Oscar bait. It’s a shame, too, because “Haywire” is a massively-entertaining spy movie, with Soderbergh’s stylish touch and featuring an uneven but compelling turn by mixed martial arts star Gina Carano. The film deserves to find an audience on home video, and its slick, retro pleasures and star-studded cast make it an easy, fun watch.
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“Goon,” 2012
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continues from page 12 buck him off my back. The UT judo club doesn’t have many female members despite its recruiting efforts. I don’t know why. As Mikaela Estep, the club’s treasurer, points out, in judo “even
if someone much heavier comes at you, you should still be able to throw them.” Although the intensity of martial arts may scare off some women, their fears are unfounded — if I can throw a man after a single class, any woman can. After I learn the throws, Che Valdez, volunteer judo coach, teaches the class a
Way on the other end of the spectrum, “The Grey” is a film that was completely bungled by its marketing campaign, which promised Liam Neeson fighting wolves. Instead, audiences got a somber, heavy story of men struggling to survive in a hostile climate, bolstered by intimate directing from Joe Carnahan and a devastating performance from Liam Neeson. “The Grey” is easily one of the best films of 2012 to date, and one that absolutely warrants a second look.
“Battle Royale,” 2000 Director: Kinji Fukasaku Genre: Action Runtime: 114 minutes
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn Genre: Biopic Runtime: 92 minutes
Director: Michael Dowse Genre: Comedy Runtime: 92 minutes
Anyone with a weak spot for underdog films will find plenty to like in “Goon,” a bloody, hilarious look at hockey players whose sole purpose is to beat the stuffing out of each other. Seann William Scott stars as a dim-witted but sweet bouncer who’s recruited to the local hockey team after a mid-game brawl with a player in the stands. Scott gives an unexpectedly touching, human performance here, and even better is Liev Schreiber’s grizzled, quiet role as an older goon who sees Scott as a threat to his legacy.
Director: Joe Carnahan Genre: Drama Runtime: 117 minutes
With “Lawless” and “The Dark Knight Rises,” Tom Hardy has been having a hell of a year, but the role that alerted audiences to Hardy’s talents was “Bronson.” “Drive” director Nicolas Winding Refn helms this biopic of notorious criminal Charles Bronson. Hardy tears into the role, displaying great range with a performance that is equally charismatic and terrifying. The film is also an excellent showcase for Refn, who gets a chance to try out the delicate pacing punctuated with bursts of brutality that makes “Drive” so entertaining.
Did you wish “The Hunger Games” was a little more ... splatter-y? Then you’ll love “Battle Royale,” a Japanese take on a similar premise. A few dozen schoolchildren are tossed on an island, given weapons and told they have three days to kill each other. Predictably, chaos ensues. The film is a notorious cult classic that didn’t receive a U.S. release until this year, and it’s full of distinct characters, shocking gallows humor and memorable moments of adolescent angst and bloodshed.
choking technique. In need of a partner, I walk up to a fellow newbie. “Hello,” I say. “May I choke you?” An hour and 40 minutes into the two-hour class, we begin to actually spar. Across the mats, pairs of students bow to each other and commence grappling. I look on, terrified. But like I told Peter at the door, I
begin fighting to the death (or, more accurately, to the tap out). I take a cautious move toward her. She pins me down so quickly it barely registers, except that it does — as confusion. Did the painfully shy girl I met at the beginning of class just pin my head under her armpit? Texas Judo holds meetings in the Recreational
am here for judo. I take a deep breath and walk up to Brittany, the timid biology major. “Hey, you want to spar?” I ask. “Sure,” she says quietly, looking down at the ground. We kneel on the mat and each give a little awkward laugh about not knowing the proper way to bow. “So ... ” I say, unsure how to
Sports Center every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. The first few meetings are free, but semester dues for longer-term memberships are $35 and include the price of a Texas Judo T-shirt. Either to man up or just to have fun, there’s no reason not to try it — after all, there’s no kicking or punching involved.
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Life & Arts 12
Friday, September 14, 2012
Kelsey McKinney, Life & Arts Editor
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Wolfe’s realism sets her apart By Hannah Smothers
Ben Chesnut | Daily Texan Staff Austin singer and songwriter Emily Wolfe graduated from St. Edwards University last May and has since been pursuing her music career. Wolfe will be performing her debut album “Director’s Notes” at Stubb’s Bar-B-Q this Sunday.
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Emily Wolfe transcends the ranks of ordinary musicians. Already the charming innocence and genuineness that are all her own are apparent as she confesses that this is her very first time inside Caffe Medici. Wolfe graduated from St. Edward’s University last May and has lived in Austin for more than 10 years. It seems there are many places she has yet to explore and conquer, but her profound maturity and grace make up for any lack of experience the 22-year-old singersongwriter possesses at this point in her budding career. Wolfe has graduated from strumming out Eagles’ hit “Tequila Sunrise” on a battered, pawn shop guitar for her parents in her selfdescribed “super suburbia” home, to filling venues across Austin with self-written songs about everything from heartache to family to strange and inspiring dreams. Austin Community College professor Tim Dittmar agrees. “Emily’s music definitely stood out. I immediately knew there was something special about her,” Dittmar said. “She doesn’t have an ego, she’s not pretentious and, above all, she has a natural talent.” During a summer audio engineering course at ACC, Wolfe approached Dittmar with a homemade CD of songs and asked if he could help her record what turned out to be her debut album, “Director’s Notes.” “Emily knew what she was doing throughout the entire recording process. She’s very mature for her age, and she has
Next show
Who: Emily Wolfe, Elaine Greer, and Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk Genre: Folk-pop Where: Stubb’s Bar-B-Q When: Sunday, September 16 at 7:00 PM Price: $8-$10 emilywolfemusic.com
life that isn’t very much unlike their own. For Wolfe, relatability is key. “I feel like that’s the goal of a live performance: to feel like you’re in your room and nobody’s watching you. You’re just putting out an emotion and it’s like, ‘Here’s what I feel, connect with it or not, but I feel that,’” Wolfe said. Wolfe’s chilling honesty and her natural ease of character, both sparkling rarities in such a cutthroat business, have successfully charmed those around her and are now being used to charm audiences in Austin and several cities around the state. Wolfe isn’t wasting any time, and she’s already hinting at having plans for her sophomore album. As her tour circuit grows bigger, so will the venues, fan base and already-high expectations for an artist that is quickly claiming her place in the promised land that is the Austin music scene. Wolfe will be playing at Stubb’s Bar-B-Q Sunday as the opening act for Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk.
POP INDEX BY ALEKSANDER CHAN
By Laura Wright
“You here for Judo?” Peter Hoang asks chipperly. I am, in fact, here for judo — partly because I am interested in the sport and partly because my editors liked the idea of forcing me into strenuous physical activity. Looking around the room, I see that I have arrived early. Only about seven other people are hanging around on the matcovered floor. Sensing that I might have to do some sort of physical warm-up activity if I don’t busy myself, I begin to question Peter. He tells me he has been practicing judo for eight years, ever since his dad unilaterally decided that judo was the best sport for him. Peter’s dad made a good call: Peter is now the president of Texas Judo, UT’s judo club. So, I ask Peter, what makes judo different from other martial arts? “Judo is Japanese martial art that does not include striking, so no kicking or punching like in karate. It’s full-on grappling. You win a judo match either by throwing, pinning or submitting your opponent for an ippon, which in Japanese means perfect score,” Peter explained. When he says this, I privately panic. I had imagined this class would in some ways resemble the karate montages in the cartoon “SpongeBob SquarePants,” but I recall SpongeBob mainly waving his arms in slicing motions. I had suspected, coming into this class, that I could wave my arms in slicing motions and would, therefore, be okay. But grapple? The only person I have ever “grappled” with is my little sister, and I only did that to gain back control of the remote. (I lost.)
a very natural voice that makes you believe a lot,” Dittmar said. “She is very real and honest.” ‘Real’ seems to be a theme that radiates through Wolfe’s personality and music, which is a rarity in an industry that breeds more celebrities than actual musicians. She partially attributes this to the cornucopia of classic rock and Motown hits she grew up listening to with her parents. “I think older music just seemed really real back then,” Wolfe said. “The songs move people in a way that’s kind of transcendent, and that’s the kind of music I want to make.” When it comes to her album, however, real is somewhat of an understatement. With a track list of songs all drawn from Wolfe’s personal experiences, “Director’s Notes” is about as close to her personal diary as listeners can get. “There were times when I felt like I couldn’t direct my own life, or like someone else was doing it for me, so all of the songs are notes of things that were going on in my life at the time,” Wolfe said. Wolfe’s goal is for listeners to be able to relate to her songs in their own ways. This makes for a very personal concert experience, a fact to which friend and bandmate, Hannah Hagar, can attest. “As a performer, I think Emily is relatable on-stage, and that allows the audience to really connect not only with the music but with her as well,” Hagar said. This intimate connection is established by the way Wolfe gives everything she has to each show, providing the audience with a raw glimpse into a
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Daniel Day-Lewis in the trailer for “Lincoln.” The movie looks sappy as hell, but the man does know how to look presidential.
Grizzly Bear’s new album, “Shields.” A soaring sonic departure for the ascendant indie pop group.
Google’s (admittedly problematic) “Bacon Number” search. Find just how many degrees other famous folks are from Kevin Bacon.
Archivists in the UK found the first color movie ever filmed.
Pearce Murphy | Daily Texan Staff Jonathan Cheuk, Kinesiology and health promotions student practices a “take-down” on finance student Anthony Dang during their Texas Judo Club class in the UT Recreational Sports Center Wednesday evening. The club meets four times a week and offer the first few classes free of charge for new members.
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“Hello,” I say. “May I choke you?” I turn to my judo classmates and ask them why they chose to spend their Wednesday night grappling. Brittany Rood, a shy fellow judo classmate in only her third class, shrugs and explains, “I really wanted to try martial arts.” Ian Smith, a computer science junior, tells me that he just “finally decided to man up and do it.” When I ask him why he chose judo instead of any other martial art, he explains that he “didn’t want to be punched or kicked.” Soon the class begins to practice falling correctly. Again and again, we fall as instructed, with one hand striking the mat at a 45-degree angle. Just like Peter insists, a fall taken correctly doesn’t hurt. But this constant falling down and struggling up makes me feel like a
Sorghum syrup, the new hip foodie ingredient. Eh.
Radical idea: What if everyone walked on the right side of the sidewalk?
What: Texas Judo Club When: Every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday Where: Recreational Sports Center Price: Free for your first few classes, $35 for semester-long members novelty punching bag. After hitting the mat no fewer than 40 times, Peter volunteers to teach me two basic throws. I struggle to learn them. The fluid movements are hard to master and perhaps not pleasant for those who value personal space. It takes a lot of practice for me to lift the heavier Peter, but finally I manage to balance him on my back like an inappropriately large toddler. I can easily throw him down once I’ve lifted him up. I’ve simply got to tug the sleeve of his gi (the robes worn while practicing) and
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NBC’s mediocre new lineup of shows. Nothing must-see about “Go On,” “The New Normal” or “Guys with Kids.”
Eating Drag-atarian. Or eating an unhealthy amount of your meals on the Drag.
The iPhone 5’s infuriating new dock connector. A fleet of accessories rendered useless.
A&M retroactively claiming national championship titles. Lame.
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