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WEEKEND FRIDAY ‘Reinventing Your Exit’
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Christian metal band Underoath will play a set at Emo’s on Friday, along with Thursday and Animals as Leaders. Tickets are $20 in advance and $22 on Friday. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
‘The dude abideth’
The Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek will be showing The Big Lebowski in quote-along format. Tickets are $10. The movie will start at 10 p.m.
SATURDAY Deli Duel
Austin delis will compete Saturday in the Restaurant Throwdown series for the title of the best reuben in the city. The contest begins at 2:30 p.m. at 9503 Research Blvd.
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The 5K Gorilla Run, a benefit event featuring participants in gorilla suits, starts at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Austin City Hall plaza. Online registration is available until Friday at 4 p.m. The cost of registration, including a gorilla suit, is $99.95.
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Roberto Martinez reels an oil hose back into a fuel truck on Rio Grande street. Construction between MLK and 24th street is expected to continue until August.
Traveling down Rio Grande Street is even more difficult than usual because of a construction project that a city spokeswoman said is expected to continue until August 2012. The construction is a part of the Rio Grande Public Works Project, to improve and renovate the street from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to 29th Street. The project, which began in late December, includes the relocation and renovation of
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SUNDAY
‘Buy Your Horse’
91.7 KVRX and Converse are sponsoring a show that includes bands Whiskey Shivers and East Cameron Folkcore. Tickets are $5 and the concert starts at 2 p.m. at 2906 Fruth St.
Campus Watch Reservations required
Colorado Building Garage A non-UT person was found sleeping under a sign that plainly read “Reserved UT System Administration At All Times.” The person was found to have previously been issued a written criminal trespass warning and was taken into custody.
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Quote to note “We didn’t get an NC-17 for what they saw. We got it for what they felt while watching it.” — Derek Cianfrance Director and co-writer of Blue Valentine
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utilities under the roadway, new streetlights, curbs, sidewalks, driveways, trees, reconstruction of the intersection at 24th Street and possible modifications to the existing bicycle lane. C onstruction workers completed the first part of the project, located at the intersection of Rio Grande and MLK, before the beginning of the spring semester. Construction narrowed MLK to one lane, but the road is now fully operational. Repairs on
Rio Grande, from MLK to 24th, started on Jan. 17 and are scheduled for completion in August 2011. City planners are also designing improvements between 24th and 29th Streets, and the city will soon start accepting bids from independent contractors for the renovation. The projected start date for this segment of Rio Grande is August 2011, around the same time as the projected finish date for the
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Rock and bowl
Scientists and experts will be identifying natural objects, such as fossils and rocks, and archaeological materials, such as arrowheads and pottery fragments, at Texas Memorial Museum on Sunday. The event begins at 1 p.m.
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Ethernet inventor takes professorship, brings corporate smarts to technology By Matthew Stottlemyre Daily Texan Staff
A principle inventor of Ethernet joined the Cockrell School of Engineering this month as its only professor of innovation. Robert Metcalfe brings years of private sector and large-scale commercialization experience to the University. He said he hopes his future research here will connect other work at the engineering school to the entrepreneurial system of start-ups and investors in Austin. While working for the Xerox corporation and working on his doctoral dissertation at Harvard in 1973, Metcalfe developed Ethernet along with other researchers, although he is credited as its
principal inventor. Metcalfe then left Xerox and founded 3Com, a network technology company. He said the company standardized and introduced the Ethernet commercially and merged into a part of Hewlett-Packard Co. last year for more than $7 billion. Ethernet provides a basic layer of the Internet — the connection between computers, which are often in the same building, on Local Area Networks. When developing the Internet, computer scientists organized it in layers, Metcalfe said during his first public lecture at UT on Thursday. Physical structures, such as a personal computer, make up the first
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China’s rising prominence is likely to encourage greater enrollment of UT students in study abroad programs to the country, said Tracy Dahlby, the journalism professor with the Reporting China Maymester program. The growing interest among UT stu-
to the fact that computer science is a valuable major, said computer science professor Calvin Lin. Students in both the Department of Computer Science and the McCombs School of Business are heavily recruited by Fortune 500 companies, including Amazon and Google. Lin said he is not surprised so many students pursue computer science degrees because many employers seek
dents coincides with the Obama administration’s goal of doubling the number of students studying abroad in the largest Asian country by 2014. First lady Michelle Obama also stressed student travel to China at a Wednesday speech at Howard University in Washington, D.C., which came shortly after
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A worker throws water out of an ancient metal pot that served as an emergency fire extinguisher in the Gugong, or Forbidden City, in Beijing, China.
Survey pinpoints majors with top career potential Computer science and business majors may have better luck than anyone at finding top jobs in 2011, according to a new job outlook survey. The National Association of Colleges and Employers named the two majors the most desirable to potential employers. UT students have caught on
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Students study abroad in China, learn of upcoming superpower
Bob Metcalfe, future UT professor and inventor of Ethernet, spoke to students and colleagues about the internet and its relation to the energy crisis Thursday.
By Ahsika Sanders Daily Texan Staff
The production, sale and use of synthetic marijuana could become a felony if Texas lawmakers move forward with legislation to ban drugs that mimic the active ingredient in marijuana. State Sen. Florence Shapiro and state Rep. Jerry Madden, both Plano Republicans, introduced the bill after constituents raised concerns about the increasing use of the drugs in North Texas. Synthetic marijuana — more commonly referred to as K2 or spice — is sold in specialty smoke stores and gas stations as substitutes for tetrahydrocannabinol, marijuana’s main ingredient, said Christine Mann, a Department of State Health Services spokeswoman. “Many young individuals have been using K2, and it includes many serious health risks,” Mann said. “It’s a relatively new product, so little is known about its exact contents. We really don’t know what the long-term effects could be.” According to the Texas Poison Center Network, side effects include chest pains, respiratory issues, seizures and nausea. About 474 people reported exposure to marijuana homologs — synthetic marijuana — since January 2010. “If K2 is banned in Texas, we
experts in the field. “It’s been true for years, in terms of job strength, that computer science has been one of the best majors to go into, and I think a lot of students didn’t know that, so maybe that’s catching up with people now,” he said. Computer science is one of the 15 most popular majors for both
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MOST DESIRED MAJORS According to the Huffington Post, other majors employers desire are: • Accounting • Finance • Electrical Engineering • Mechanical Engineering • Business Administration / Management
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may see a decrease in consumption,” Mann said. “One reason why abuse of the substance has been reported regularly is because it is so readily available.” State legislators in 16 states have proposed legislation to ban the product. “When smoked, marijuana homologs give users a marijuanalike high,” DSHS drug epidemiol-
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construction from MLK to 24th Street. City spokeswoman Sara Hartley said the project is a mandatory maintenance project, required for any street that regular maintenance can no longer preserve. At least one lane will always be open, and the city will halt construction during high-traffic times, such as move-in and moveout and during special events. “ The voters approved bonds in 2006 that allowed us to move forward with reconstructing this stretch of Rio Grande,” Hartley said. “This will definitely benefit a very busy corridor running from the University to downtown, by not only improving utilities under the roadway but the surface and the amenities along the street, such as sidewalks, additional trees and improved bicycle facilities.” Rio Grande project supervisor Derrick Staton described the street’s reconstruction as a “beautification” project. He noted that when completed, the road should look like the newly renovated area of MLK where Pluckers is located. Although it may be inconvenient, most people simply try to avoid the area of Rio Grande that only has one open lane, Staton said. Psychology senior Cameron Bina said find parking can be stressful, but the construction’s outcome will be worth it. “The construction has cut off 21st Street past Rio Grande, and it makes parking very difficult because the construction is ripping up the street,” Bina said. “I hear them tearing up the street, and it’s a bit annoying but the noise isn’t that much of an issue. I think the beautification is a positive thing because Austin has a lot of messed up streets and it creates jobs, so the positives outweigh the negatives.”
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ogist Mathias Forrester said in a report updated earlier this month. “The symptoms of marijuana homolog use may resemble severe marijuana intoxication.” Patients taken to poison centers tend to be men in their teens or early twenties, and the reason for the exposures are intentional abuse. Most patients reported to poison centers are treated
layer and applications, including websites such as Facebook and YouTube, make up the top layer. “There are wired and wireless ethernets,” Metcalfe said. “It is the pipeline of the Internet.” Me tc a l fe’s pre s e nt at i on , which he said was his first PowerPoint presentation even though he was part of the company that developed and sold PowerPoint to Microsoft for $14 million, addressed one of his newer interests — energy. Metcalfe applied lessons from the development of the Internet to problems facing the development of “clean and safe energy.” This semester marks the start of Metcalfe’s fifth career, sixth if he counted his 23 years as a student, he said. Since completing his doctoral dissertation at Harvard University which laid the basis for the Ethernet, Metcalfe said he worked as a journalist, entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He said he has given many lectures but has never worked as a teacher.
at health care facilities and have mild or moderate side effects, according to the report. Synthetic marijuana has a number of unpleasant side effects and is usually sold for a higher price than marijuana, said Jane Maxwell, a senior research assistant in the School of Social Work. The side effects are not life-threatening, but there are cases in which peo-
ple have been hospitalized with ailments including heart palpitations or disorientation, results not seen with marijuana use, she said. “What makes K2 and all of the other synthetic marijuana mixes attractive is that they aren’t picked up on any urine screens,” Maxwell said. “People who are using them are trying to avoid being caught for marijuana.”
“I have to learn to be a real professor,” Metcalfe said. “I’ve had an audience before but not students.” Metcalfe will teach one class next fall. He said he has until February to design the course and right now only knows he will teach about innovation. Gregory Fenves, dean of the engineering school, said Metcalfe’s arrival will bolster the college’s ability to commercialize the research already going on. “Bob is bringing research and private sector experience in developing and identifying research problems and solutions that will be successful in the marketplace,” Fenves said. After attending Metcalfe’s talk, electrical and computer engineering graduate student Debarati Kundu said she is excited about the experience and knowledge Metcalfe brings to the school. “While I won’t pretend I followed everything he said [in the talk], I was very impressed with the way he said energy can be approached as another network,” Kundu said.
The hundreds of variations of marijuana homologs make the drug difficult to trace, she said. “The real way to solve it is to develop a urine test that can detect it,” Maxwell said. “It’s a good effort, but you’re going to have to include all of those combinations in the legislation and be able to test them all in order to make a difference.”
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A man rows a small boat taking tourists around the famous fresh water lake, Xi Hu, or “West Lake” in Chinese, in Hangzhou, China.
CAREER continues from PAGE 1 graduate and undergraduate students at UT, with about 1,100 students enrolled in the department. Lin said many high-tech companies nationwide come to UT to recruit students. “For instance, Amazon only recruits at 20 schools across the country, and they come to us,” he said. “I think you have to go as far west as San Diego and east to Georgia Tech to get the next-closest school that is recruited by Amazon.” Participants in the Turing Scholars Honor Program in the Department of Computer Science have held jobs at Amazon, Apple, IBM, Microsoft and dozens of other high-tech companies in the past three years. Google also considers UT a great place for recruiting, said Ricky Skidmore, a 2010 graduate of the McCombs School of Business and the Priority Account Manager at Google. “They only recruit at certain universities that have proven to have students that can fit with their culture and have a re-
ally good reputation of preparing their students in a very holistic way,” he said. Skidmore said he switched from a pre-law concentration to a business major because he saw the versatility in having a business degree. “I wanted a degree that would give me the flexibility to get a good job and wouldn’t just pigeonhole me,” he said. Computer science senior Carine Iskander, historian of Women in Computer Science, said the field is appealing because the skills can be applied to multiple facets of the work force. “I love how pervasive it is,” she said. “Technology is useful in virtually any field, so whatever your interests are, you can usually find something that combines them with computer science.” Iskander said studying computer science has changed her way of thinking, a skill she can use no matter what job she pursues after graduation. “It has definitely made me more flexible and solution-oriented, and I perceive the difference even in my daily life,” she said.
CHINA continues from PAGE 1 the Obamas welcomed Chinese President Hu Jintao at a state dinner at the White House. C u r r e n t l y, 1 8 U T s t u dents are enrolled in the 2011 Maymester program, which runs from May to June. Dahlby said he expects student interest in China to increase because of general curiosity and the country’s greater presence in the professional world. Dahlby said study abroad programs help young individuals understand the relationship between the United States and rising superpowers. He said the programs are long-term investments, not institutions designed to generate immediate results. “We won’t see the exact shape of things to come,” he said. “But we can see the vector.” He said China is emerging as a world superpower because of its technological and economic expansion. Foreign exchange programs allow students to view different nations and cultures on an individual level in lieu of viewing different countries on a collective level, Dahlby said. “Stu dy abro a d pro g r ams
are beneficial because it gives students the opportunity to exp erience dif ferent count r i es and c u ltu r a l v a lu es ,” s a i d Tom my Wa rd , C h i n a program coordinator of UT’s International Office. Multimedia journalism and economics senior Simrat Sharma, who participated in the China Maymester in 2009, said she gained experience in the country by witnessing different cultural interactions. Sharma said Hu Jintao’s visit to Washington, D.C. signified improvement in the often strained relationship between the U.S. and China. “Simply engaging in talks is a great step into U.S.-China relations,” Sharma said. Advertising junior Suchada Sutasirisap said she saw the changing nature of China as well as its traditional roots when she studied there in fall 2010. “In a city like Shanghai, there is a mix of Chinese and Western culture,” Sutasirisap said. “It is a very developed city but you also see people hanging clothes. In some ways, you see China is still China.”
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Portuguese president likely to be re-elected because of economy By Barry Hatton The Associated Press
LISBON, Portugal — Portuguese voters fearing their nation is heading toward economic disaster seem poised to re-elect a conservative economist as president by a landslide Sunday in a vote that could make governing difficult for the nation’s Socialist prime minister. The presidential job carries no executive powers, but a big win for front-runner Aníbal Cavaco Silva would be seen as a rebuke for Prime Minister José Sócrates’ fiveyear record in power as he tries to prevent debt-heavy Portugal from being forced to accept the next European bailout package. Portugal’s minority government is walking a tightrope, trying to
win back the confidence of international investors unnerved by its high debt while scrambling to maintain shaky public support for austerity measures including pay and welfare cuts and tax hikes. The Socialists don’t face a general election until 2013, but rightof-center opposition parties — including the Social Democratic Party that Cavaco Silva once led — have warned they may call for a vote of no confidence in Parliament if the government admits failure and resorts to a bailout. Many analysts believe Portugal will end up needing a financial rescue like the ones provided to Greece and Ireland last year. The government insists it can weather the storm alone, but its reforms will likely take years to revive
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Portuguese presidential candidate and incumbent Anibal Cavaco Silva, with wife Maria at right, waves to supporters while campaigning in downtown Porto, Portugal on Thursday.
Portugal’s ailing economy. about 60 percent of the vote. There are four other candidates, The economic crisis has been at The president can veto legisla- and the winner must get 50 percent the heart of the campaign, and most tion, though Parliament can over- plus one vote or a runoff will be polls have Cavaco Silva collecting turn the veto. held for the two top vote-getters.
Authorities arrest 127 in largest mafia takedown By Tom Hays The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Federal authorities orchestrated one of the biggest Mafia takedowns in FBI history Thursday, charging 127 suspected mobsters and associates in the Northeast with murders, extortion and other crimes spanning decades. Past investigations have resulted in strategic strikes aimed at crippling individual crime families. This time, authorities used a shotgun approach, with some 800 federal agents and police officers making scores of simultaneous arrests,
stemming from different mob investigations in New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island. They also used fanfare: Attorney General Eric Holder made a trip to New York to announce the operation at a news conference with the city’s top law enforcement officials. As of late Thursday, 125 had been arrested, including four who were already behind bars. Holder called the arrests “an important and encouraging step forward in disrupting La Cosa Nostra’s operations.” But he and others also cautioned that the mob, while having lost some of the swagger of the John Gotti era, is known for
adapting to adversity and finding new ways of making money and spreading violence. In the past, the FBI has aggressively pursued and imprisoned the leadership of the city’s five Italian mob families, only to see ambitious underlings fill the vacancies, said Janice Fedarcyk, head of the FBI’s New York office. “We deal in reality, and the reality is that the mob, like nature, abhors a vacuum,” she said. However, the FBI has gained a recent advantage by cultivating a crop of mob figures willing to wear wires and testify against gangsters in exchange for leniency in their
own cases. “The vow of silence that is part of the oath of omerta is more myth than reality today,” she said. In the latest cases, authorities say turncoats recorded thousands of conversations of suspected mobsters. Investigators also tapped their phones. In sheer numbers, the takedown eclipsed those from a highly publicized assault on the Gambino crime family in 2008, when authorities rounded up 62 suspects. All but one of the arrests resulted in guilty pleas. The deluge of defendants Thursday forced the FBI to move pro-
cessing — normally done at its lower Manhattan headquarters — to a gym at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn. The defendants, most arrested in raids at dawn, stood in line in handcuffs while waiting to be photographed and fingerprinted. In Brooklyn, three judges in three separate courtrooms were needed to enter pleas and decide bail for dozens of defendants. Normally, one is on duty. The indictments catalogued murders, extortion, arson and other crimes dating back 30 years. If convicted, the defendants face a wide range of maximum sentences, including life in prison.
JOHANNESBURG — Authorities in Central Africa have arrested five people who were found with the heads of 12 chimpanzees and an endangered gorilla in a seizure that officials said Thursday was the largest of its kind in a decade. World Wildlife Fund said the raid last week in the coastal nation of Gabon also included 30 chimpanzee hands and body parts belonging to leopards, elephants and a lion. If convicted, though, the suspects only face up to six months in prison. Officials said they did not know what the body parts were intended for. “Heads and hands, for example, are sometimes used for ritual ceremonies,” said Natalia Reiter, communications manager for WWF International. “Some people believe it would bring them luck and some just keep it as souvenirs. Hands are believed to bring more power or are used as trophies.” Wildlife officials believe the case spans far beyond Gabon’s borders, as lions are not native to the country. Reiter said the five suspects in Gabon are being held by authorities while an investigation is conducted. They are expected to appear in court this week. But she said the arrests are only part of the fight against animal poaching and trafficking. “We really need to target the dealers, as they are the ones who are selling them everywhere in the world,” she said. “Unfortunately there are a lot of markets for leopard skins, ivory and other wildlife, so it is an international operation.”
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Discuss reforms impacting students Student Government will vote Tuesday on a bill to alter the SG constitution based on changes recommended by the Student Government Reform Task Force last fall. Though many of the recommendations, such as changing the title of executive director to “chief of staff ” and renaming student government president the “student body president,” are minor and would only affect the internal structure of SG, some are significant and, if passed, would affect the entire campus community. Coupling trivial, lexical changes with substantial reforms may cloud an effective discussion about the more impactful changes. While students outside of SG may not care what the SG president is called, they should care about representation in the assembly and changes to elections. By combining the important changes with the minor ones, the reform bill diminishes the emphasis on the significant issues. For example, bill sponsors are pushing for the creation of two first-year representative positions on the assembly. While we applaud SG for attempting to increase representation among freshmen and transfer students, the creation of such positions is poorly conceived and redundant. If the changes are approved, filing for the first-year representative positions would begin the day before fall classes start. The candidates, many of whom would be three months graduated from high school, would have an insufficient amount of time to develop a thoughtful understanding of the institution of which they are running to be a part and of the issues of the students they wish to represent. Additionally, freshmen are already represented in SG. Theoretically, current representatives serve the students of the colleges they were elected to represent, not their respective classes. Rather than create these positions, members of the SG should put greater informal effort into effectively representing their current constituents, which already include first-year students. The task force also recommends the creation of a judicial branch that would not only settle disputes within SG but would also oversee the Election Supervisory Board, likely a response to the ethical issues that have surrounded previous elections. Attention should be drawn to these significant changes that would affect how students on campus are represented and how their student leaders are chosen. If SG passes the bill at Tuesday’s meeting, the changes will be up for vote by the student body in a special election in February. The election would be held a few weeks before the general election to ensure the next SG administration will be elected under the changes. Because specialelection turnout is traditionally low, SG must focus not on the semantics of the constitution that only matter to those in SG but rather on the issues that will motivate students to vote. SG held two public forums this week, with SG and task force members comprising the majority of attendees. Before voting on the bill, SG will hold two more forums at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Sunday in Room 2.102 of the Student Activity Center. We encourage all students to attend and refocus the attention onto the most important issues. — Viviana Aldous for the editorial board
How to program UT TV By Daniel Isaac Treadway Daily Texan Guest Columnist
On Wednesday, the University announced a deal with ESPN to create a television network that will show athletic and, ahem, academic activities at UT. The contract stipulates that ESPN will pay the University $247.5 million over 20 years for the rights to air the allLonghorn channel. UT President William Powers Jr. wrote in an e-mail to the University community on Wednesday, in fantastically non-direct lawyer speak, that $25 million from the deal, or a little more than 10 percent of the money earned from the deal, is guaranteed to go toward academics. This is outrageous. How is the University going to build a larger stadium for people to funnel out of at halftime if they’re blowing $25 million on nerds? What is this? A research institution dedicated to higher education? Let’s not forget the core mission of the University of Texas: OU sucks. While some in the past have been inclined to call the University of Texas the Yankees of college football, this deal ensures that a more apt comparison would to call the Longhorns the Wal-Mart of college football, underpaid staff and all. But perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the network is that it is set to broadcast content 24 hours a day while only showing one live football game per year. So it appears that UT TV will attempt to attract TV subscribers without showing a live broadcast of the University of Texas football team 364 days out of the year.
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The question arises: What the hell will they show on this thing? A daily repeat of the national championship game against USC is a given, but that still leaves 21 hours of dead air. Even showing live broadcasts of every other UT sport, accompanied with gross over-analysis of
Fortunately, the channel will broadcast some programming related to academic affairs, which opens up an entire range of show possibilities related to student life at UT.
each individual contest, that will leave a three-month gap during the summer in which no scholarship sports are played. It sounds like the program director is going to need to get creative in order to keep the network afloat. Fortunately, the channel will broadcast some programming related to academic affairs, which opens up an entire range of show possibilities related to
student life at UT. Perhaps they could introduce a new drama called “Waitlist” in which students desperately refresh their web browsers through a 12-episode season to see if they can get into the only class they need to graduate. The show has the potential to stretch for multiple semesters. And imagine the twist during the series finale when their advisors were misguiding them all along. “Department Drop” could be the hottest new game show on TV. A cutthroat quiz competition in which department heads are forced to see how much staff they can cut before the end of the legislative session. The losers will have their department dropped from the University altogether. Who says crippling budget cuts can’t be good old fashion fun? Or perhaps they could pick up “The Amazing Race: UT Shuttle Edition.” Watch as six students from Riverside attempt to catch the only bus that will get them to campus in time for their test at 8 a.m. But the challenge doesn’t stop there. How will the students use the resources available to them to get to campus once the out-of-date, poorly maintained vessel breaks down 20 minutes away from their lecture hall? I suppose there are plenty of possibilities for programming after all. Now all the network needs is a name, one that will net the most possible subscribers. “Coming to a television set near you this fall, the University of Texas presents: Horny TV.” Treadway is a political communication senior.
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Modern gender roles alter power in relationships By Preethi Srikanth Daily Texan Staff
As women pursue higher education and professional careers, men are holding even more power in sexual relationships, according to research from sociologists at UT and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In their new book, “Premarital Sex in America,” UT sociology professor Mark Regnerus and Jeremy Uecker, a postdoctoral scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill, show that changes in the educational levels between the sexes are beginning to affect relationship dynamics. As marriage and thoughts of settling down are pushed further from from the minds of most young women and men, the role of sex in relationships is also altering the notion of long-term commitments. “The college sex scene isn’t quite as salacious as most people think,” said Regnerus, a research associate with UT’s Population
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AUSTIN TRAFFIC STATISTICS Extra gallons of fuel consumed due to idling: 25.6 million Number of “rush hours:” 5.5 Hours wasted during peak hour traffic delays per commuter: 39 Cost of the congestion to the city: $691 million Percent of miles traveled conducted during peak times: 58
Highway 130 make I-35 a more economical option. Kockelman said she would like to see a system established to limit the amount of time people spend on highways. If someone exceeds a certain number of trips on a highway, they would have to pay a fee each month. She said she hopes this would limit traffic congestion during peak hours. Austin’s traffic congestion has declined slightly over the past five years but is on the rise again as more people move to Austin. “Whenever it’s convenient, I take the shuttle because it is better than driving, and parking at school is overpriced,” said history junior Gabriel Parra. “The traffic on MoPac is terrible but seems inevitable.” Kockelman and Lomax said taking the bus or walking are all very promising solutions to clear up traffic in Austin.
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University gaining vast social media presence By Allie Kolechta Daily Texan Staff
Although only about 6,000 people follow UT on Twitter, a website recently ranked UT one of the top-10 most influential college Twitter accounts in the U.S. along with universities like Stanford, Syracuse and Harvard. Klout.com rated UT 10th out of the top 10 most influential university Twitter feeds earlier this week. The website rates the influence of Twitter feeds on a scale of one to 100 based on 35 factors including number of tweets, retweets and how often tweets are used in Twitter conversations. UT’s Twitter account opened about two and a half years ago, and website administrators have
posted about 600 tweets to date, said Nyleva Corley, manager of web and new media in the Office of Public Affairs. “We were interested in taking advantage of what was a new channel at the time to reach out to students,” she said. “We thought they would gravitate to a social media platform like Twitter, and we were interested in experimenting with it.” The account currently has 6,627 followers, and that number is steadily growing, Corley said. The account posts at least one and no more than seven tweets a day. “It really captures the pulse of what’s happening on campus,” she said. The Stanford Twitter page, which topped the Klout.com list, has more than 23,000 followers. Major news days on campus are the busiest days for UT’s Twitter feed, said Samantha Stiles, public affairs specialist and a primary author on UT’s account. On Jan.
19, the Twitter account was bustling with activity because UT announced a $300-million contract with ESPN to create a Longhorn TV network, Stiles said. Twitter administrators posted three tweets with details about the new network between noon and 1:30 p.m.
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The Twitter account is a great outlet for patting ourselves on the back. — Samantha Stiles, Author of UT’s Twitter account
“We’re able to align traditional outlets with social media outlets,” she said. “The Twitter account is a great outlet for patting ourselves on the back.” The Twitter account is not linked to UT’s Facebook account,
cited about coming to UT,” she said. “I like to tweet a message back to them and say ‘Congrats, welcome to the Longhorn family.’ A pretty popular hash tag is ‘hook’em.’” The Student Government Twit-
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Genes a contributing factor to skin cancer, research finds By Preethi Srikanth Daily Texan Staff
Researchers from UT and the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center have found a gene that indicates nonthreatening nonmelanoma skin cancer susceptibility. The new find can lead to more information and possible treatment of the various forms of nonmelanoma cancers, said John DiGiovanni, professor of pharmacology and toxicology, pharmacy and nutritional sciences. “Our discovery will primarily impact the prevention of nonmelanoma skin cancer by helping to identify high-risk individuals and by identifying novel molecular targets for future prevention strategies,” DiGiovanni said. “We want to understand how this gene works, as it could lead to model molecular data for possible prevention.” Nonmelanoma skin cancers, such as basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, are the most common forms of skin cancer — and while they aren’t life-threatening, they can cause disfigurements and have lasting side effects on the skin, DiGiovanni said. He served as director of the MD
Anderson Center from 1997 to 2009. He hopes this research will help find treatments and links to other skin and pediatric cancers, like melanoma, leukemia and lymphoma. “We started working on identifying cancer susceptibility genes in mice almost 30 years ago with the intent of finding genes that would also be involved in human cancer susceptibility,” DiGiovanni said. “Our original interest came from our early studies in mice that showed wide variation to both chemically-induced and UVB-induced skin cancer susceptibility among different inbred strains of mice.” MD Anderson professor Joe Angel, who worked with DiGiovanni, primarily conducted genetic studies which led to the identification of the gene as a candidate for non-melanoma cancers. Angel said the impacts of this research will be far-reaching in terms of finding genes that lead to susceptibility of melanoma, lymphoma, leukemia, liver and lung cancers. “We’re still working on finding more of these genes,” Angel said. “These findings could lead to novel approaches in the prevention of skin and other kinds of cancers out there.”
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Harry Ransom Center acquires scientist’s research collection The Harry Ransom Center received a $10,000 grant from the Friends of the Center for History of Physics to preserve and create an online inventory for a rare set of historical papers. The Herschel papers, which have been at the center since the 1960s, are a comprehensive collection of the studies of 18th-century British scientist Sir John F. W. Herschel and his family. The center will use the grant to hire temporary staff to help catalog the Herschel archives, said Margie Rine, the center’s associate development director. Rine said the temporary staff will properly arrange, describe and preserve the papers in folders.
“Now that they are rehoused and better-protected they’ll last for a long time,” she said With the grant, the center will create an online database of the Herschel material that scholars across the world can access. The Herschel material at the center is one of two copies in the world, with the other set belonging to the Royal Society in London. “This is a nice project because the Ransom Center is well know for it’s literary collection, but Harry Ransom was very interested in the history of science,” Rine said. “He happened to get these papers, and now it’s exciting that new generations of scholars will have access to them.” —Ahsika Sanders
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eading into Saturday’s matchup in Lawrence, Texas and Kansas are the only remaining undefeated teams in conference play, but the two teams have taken different paths to get there. The second-ranked Jayhawks (180, 3-0 Big 12) still have a perfect record and received six first-place votes in the most recent media poll. But prior to stomping Baylor on Monday, Kansas was defeating conference opponents by an average of only 4 points. In non-conference play, the Jayhawks scored marquee wins against Arizona and then-No. 13 Memphis, both at home, although they’ve only faced one ranked opponent and struggled against Michigan and UCLA. “Where we are right now is we are a team that has a chance to be really good,” said Kansas head coach Bill Self on Monday. “I think our ceiling is high.” In contrast, Texas (15-3, 3-0) has beaten its three league opponents by an average of 24 points, including a blowout of No. 11 Texas A&M on Wednesday. Its non-conference resume includes road wins over Michigan State and North Carolina, plus a win against Illinois in New York
12-time NBA All-Star Hakeem Olajuwon is born in Nigeria. In 18 years in the league, “The Dream” won two NBA Championships with the Houston Rockets, was a member of the Olympic gold-medal-winning United States team in 1996, and finished his career with 26,946 total points.
LONGHORNS IN THE NBA D.J. Augustin Career-high 31 points, 8 assists
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PREVIEW VS. Date: Saturday Time: 3 p.m. Place: Allen Fieldhouse (Lawrence, Kan.) On Air: CBS Derek Stout | Daily Texan Staff
Freshman forward Tristan Thompson, center, tips in a bucket over Texas A&M's David Loubeau, left, and Nathan Walkup, right. Thompson gave Texas fans a scare when he left the game with cramps, but he will be ready to go against Kansas this weekend.
Horns can reverse Phog Allen fortunes By Will Anderson Daily Texan Staff
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Freshman guard Cory Joseph brings the ball up against Texas A&M. Texas will need Joseph, who is averaging 11 points and three assists per game, to control the point Saturday against the Jayhawks.
Texas just can’t catch a break at Allen Fieldhouse. The Longhorns have never beaten Kansas at home — not once in nine tries — and as the only Big 12 arena the team has never won in, it has a sort of mythic aura to it like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster. Superstition is necessary to explain the defeats as well. At Kansas in 2009, Texas jumped out to a seven-point half-time lead. Former Longhorn Damion James scored 26 points, but the Jayhawks’ strong second half enabled them to come back and win by 10. James took just four shots in the second half, and the entire team looked like there was something in the Gatorade slowing them down. The meeting before that, on March 3, 2007, saw Texas establish a double-digit lead at the break. Even with eventual Naismith winner Kevin Durant scoring 30, Texas was not able to withstand a late rally, in part because Durant went down with a mysterious ankle injury that greatly limited him in the second half. The closest game in Allen Fieldhouse between the storied programs came on Jan. 27, 2003. T.J. Ford and Royal Ivey, two of the greatest guards in school history and current NBA veterans, combined for 31 points and 11 rebounds, while reserve Brian Boddicker exploded off the bench with six 3-pointers for the third-ranked Longhorns. This push did not matter as Jayhawk Nick Collison totaled 24 points
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Eddie Reese is heading back to China. The longtime head coach of the Texas men’s swimming program, who coached Team USA at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, is reprising that role this summer. Reese will travel to Shanghai for the 2011 FINA World Championships in July, USA Swimming announced Thursday. Joining him will be senior Longhorn swimmer Scott Spann plus alumni Ricky Berens, Dave Walters and Garrett Weber-Gale. The 2011 world championships are the last major races prior to the 2012 London Olympics.
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Big-time football recruit to announce his future plans Texas offensive lineman recruit Christian Westerman is expected to announce his commitment today during an 11 a.m. press conference. Westerman is a four-star recruit on rivals.com and is rated as the third-best tackle in the country. The Chandler, Ariz., native is verbally committed to Texas but is also considering Auburn. Westerman chose the Longhorns instead of USC in April but decided to reopen his recruitment when offensive line coach Mac McWhorter retired last December. Westerman was supposed to fly to Austin today for an official visit but instead scheduled a press conference, which indicates he will choose Auburn instead of Texas.
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Senior Ed Corrie prepares to serve. Corrie and junior Jean Anderson team up to make the nation's fifth-ranked doubles tandem. They'll play in a dual-match against Michigan on Saturday at noon at the Varsity Tennis Center.
Horns prepare for Michigan matchup By Wes Maulsby Daily Texan Staff
This weekend, Texas will be making a trip to Ann Arbor to take on No. 25 Michigan. The match against the Wolverines is coming on the heels of a dominant week for Texas, in which the Longhorns beat No. 19 California and dominated its match against Tulsa. Texas has had success in the past against Michigan, winning their last match 6-1 in 2010, as well as a perfect record against them in the Key Biscayne Invitational just two weeks ago. But that doesn’t
mean that Texas will be able to coast their way through this one and come away with a victory. “Obviously, playing them in Key Biscayne will be much different than playing them indoors at their home courts,” said head coach Michael Center. Center isn’t shying away from the competition to start this season. Texas has already played one ranked team at a neutral site and will now be taking its show on the road to play another top 25 team in their own house. “We want to play good teams,” Center said. “We want to see
where we’re at and what we need to work on. Playing teams like California and Tulsa in tough environments showed us what we needed to do to continue to improve.” Even with a tough non-conference schedule, Texas is primed for a great season and is ranked No. 5 nationally in the ITA preseason poll. The Longhorns also have the fifthranked doubles pair in the nation with senior Ed Corrie and junior Jean Andersen, who had a strong showing in the ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships in the fall. In addition to Corrie
and Andersen, Texas has two more pairs in the top 25 — sophomores Ben Chen and Daniel Whitehead as well as senior Kellen Damico and redshirt freshman David Holiner. Michigan is no slouch either, boasting a doubles team ranked in the top 30 and a singles player ranked No. 35 nationally. “We’ll learn a lot more about the team this week when we play Michigan,” Center said. Texas has a challenging road ahead of them before conference play begins, and it starts this weekend in Michigan.
In the midst of a four-game skid, the Longhorns have every right to be frustrated. “I’m just extremely disappointed,” Texas coach Gail Goestenkors said. “We have to start playing smarter basketball.” For the first time ever, even dating back to the Old Southwestern Conference, Texas (11-7, 0-4) has been faced with the task of digging themselves out of an 0-4 hole in conference play. In the second leg of their season, overtime upsets against Missouri and Oklahoma and secondhalf meltdowns against Baylor and most recently Texas A&M, have become a common occurrence for the Longhorns. When Texas begins a game, the lack of confidence that often plagues a team and its players during a losing streak is nowhere to be seen. At halftime in their past four Big 12 games, Texas has led each of its opponents — except Baylor, who they trailed by a mere two points — by a count of four, three and four points, respectively. But as the Longhorns’ season record details, each of those leads was whittled away in the second half. Whether by turnovers or lack of rebounds, the past four conference games, in which they came out strong, have resulted in staggering losses. “I feel like it’s always in the second half where we just lose our focus and fall apart as a team,” said freshman Chassidy Fussell. Unfortunately for Texas, extensive turnovers throughout each of their matchups continue to be a decisive factor. The Longhorns have
averaged about 20 turnovers per game so far in the season, with a season-high 27 turnovers coming back in early December against Michigan State. Texas comes in at No. 8 in the Big 12 in assist-to-turnover ratio with a middle-tier ratio of 0.86. But in what could be the turning point for Texas, Saturday marks a home matchup against a similarly ailing Oklahoma State (13-4, 1-3) squad, who beat Colorado earlier this week for their first win in Big 12 play. Like the Longhorns, the Cowgirls have also lost to conference foes Baylor and Texas A&M. Sophomore Toni Young is leading OSU with 14.3 points and 8.2 rebounds per game while three other players average at least 8.5 points per game. The last time Texas lost to OSU was in 2007. For the Longhorns, Fussell continues to provide a presence in almost every game. As of Jan. 19, Fussell’s average of 17.2 points per game is best on the team and also good enough for sixth in the entire conference. Right behind Fussell, both senior Kathleen Nash and junior Ashleigh Fontenette have proven to be crucial playmakers for the Longhorns. Nash is ranked No. 10 in scoring in the conference with an average of 15.7 points per game, while Fontenette rounds out the top 20 at No. 18 with an average of 13.8. Confidence is key for Texas as it tries to find a way out of its four-game losing skid. “In every Big 12 game, you have to come out with your best game because you know the opponent is going to come out with theirs,” Nash said.
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Texas begins its spring dual-match season Saturday versus Rice after a successful individual season saw the Longhorns rise as high as No. 16 in the nation. At the Penick-Allison Tennis Center this weekend, the Longhorns welcome the Owls, who swept Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 7-0 on Tuesday. Sophomore Aeriel Ellis, No. 8 in the ITA preseason rankings, leads Tex-
as into the dual match and will be the team’s top singles player. Ellis was the Big 12 freshman of the year in 2010. She also teams up with junior Krista Damico in the squad’s top doubles pair, which will face Ana Guzman and Rebekka Hanle of the Owls early Saturday afternoon. “It will be a good early test for us, and we look forward to the challenge,” said Rice head coach Elizabeth Schmidt about the trip to Austin. Texas has already faced some Rice players in fall’s ITA Regional, when
Kim Anicete defeated Texas’ Maya Zein-El-Abdin in straight sets. Anicete currently plays in the Owls’ fifth singles spot and will likely face Elizabeth Begley or Caroline Larsson this weekend. The Longhorns are 3-0 versus Rice since 2008 with a combined score of 17-3 against the Owls. Texas begins its long road to the Big 12 Championship this weekend with the first of nine dual matches on the non-conference slate and its first test of the team season.
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Kat Nash, left, defends Texas A&M's Sydney Colson during Wednesday's loss. The Longhorns look to bounce back against OSU.
Coaching carousel finally over as Brown hires Georgia's Searels around the country, and he has de- ing at Georgia, Searels served as the veloped some of the best offensive offensive line coach for LSU from lines in the nation.” 2003-2006, where he won a nationMack Brown finally found his al championship in 2003. While at man. LSU, Searels coached two All-AmerTexas filled its final coaching staff ican offensive linemen and five that vacancy yesterday, naming Stacy went on to make NFL rosters. Searels as offensive line coach. In his playing days, Searels was Searels spent the past three seaa three-year starter as an offensive sons as the offensive line coach for lineman at Auburn. He blocked for Georgia. Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson “When you’re in this profession, in 1986 and earned First Team Allyou want to coach at the highest America honors as a senior in 1987. level,” Searels said in a statement. While he may have started his col“From afar, I had always been inlege football career in the SEC, Searels terested in the University of Texas said the talent and leadership at Tex— Stacy Searels, Offensive line coach as was what tempted him to stray. because I thought it was one of the premiere jobs in the country.” “Georgia was a very tough Searels replaces Mac McWhortplace to leave, but Texas is one er, who retired in December after of those few places that I knew if seven seasons at Texas. they called, I had to look into it,” “I have admired [Searels’] work Searels brings a great pedigree and Searels said. “At the end of the day, as a coach for many years,” Brown a wealth of knowledge about the of- the opportunity here was just too said. “He has a great deal of respect fensive line to Texas. Before coach- much to pass up.”
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and 23 rebounds in the comeback victory for No. 13 Kansas. Roy Williams, then the Jayhawk’s head coach, called it one of the best games he ever saw. In the Kansas-Texas series, there have certainly been some memorable matchups, but not once has Texas come out on top in Lawrence. The Longhorns have won at home (and big: see Feb. 25, 2006) and even in the Big 12 tournament but never inside the Phog. That could all change, of course. Yes, even without James, the Big 12’s all-time leader in double-doubles. Yes, even without Durant, a consensus player-of-the-year and one of the greatest talents in school history. Yes, even with two freshmen in the starting lineup and only one — maybe two — guaranteed NBA prospects on the team. If you saw the way Jordan Hamilton scored from inside, outside and even flying under the basket against Pittsburgh — which boasts a comparable frontline, in both size and viciousness — you might agree. If you witnessed freshman Tristan Thompson post up and slash through
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City. The team’s three losses came from No. 5 Pittsburgh, No. 8 Connecticut and Southern California. “I do think our schedule has helped us, no question about it. We’ve learned from everywhere we’ve been,” said Texas head coach Rick Barnes. “Going to Greensboro to play North Carolina, yeah, there’s no doubt that it’s helped us.” The Longhorns started the season outside of The Associated Press Top 25 while Kansas has crept up five spots from its original rank of No. 7. Both have built their rise on stifling team defense and good rebounding. Both teams score well, averaging more than 75 points per contest, although Kansas has the best field-goal conversion rate in the nation at 52.4 percent. Both teams move the ball efficiently, although Kansas averages nearly 4 more assists per game. Running a motion-heavy offense this season with plenty of off-ball picks and screens, Texas is able to use the inside-out combination of Tristan Thompson and Jordan Hamilton to keep teams guessing. “I think Kansas is the best team in the country from what I’ve seen,” Barnes said. “It’s a team that — they have it all. There’s nothing they don’t have.” Thompson, the Longhorns’ leading rebounder and frontcourt scorer, finished with 18 points and six rebounds against A&M on Wednesday and did so against the 6-foot-8 David Loubeau. The Jayhawks have forwards Marcus Morris (6-9), Markieff Morris (610) and Thomas Robinson (6-9),
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The UFC gives a whole lot more than money to its favorite charitable endeavors, and soldiers are Dana White’s favorite cause. The mixed martial arts league will host its third fight card on a military base this Saturday when the UFC visits Fort Hood in Texas. Every seat at Fight for the Troops 2 was given away to base personnel, and fans watching on television will be encouraged to donate to charities benefiting wounded veterans. White, the UFC president, has been aware of a profound bond between MMA fighters and soldiers ever since he purchased the company with his partners 10 years ago. Many soldiers love studying martial arts, and the UFC has several fighters with military experience. “The troops are very into the fights, but the UFC is very into the military,” White said. “I don’t know what it is for me, but I have this thing for the military, too. I think these guys are real heroes. I consider myself a pretty tough guy, but I don’t want to crawl into the jungle with a gun, or go into some desert. Some of the stuff they have to do is messed up. They respect and look up to the fighters, and you know our fighters look up to them.” Rising lightweight star Evan Dunham will fight Melvin Guillard in the main event at Fort Hood, and Canadian Mark Hominick can earn a featherweight title shot with a victory over George Roop. Former NFL player Matt Mitrione also appears on the card. Guillard exemplifies the MMAmilitary connection: He grew up in a military family, and he lives with the family of a soldier while training in Albuquerque. “I have a ton of friends out of high school that are in the military,” Guillard said. “For the UFC to even ask me to fight on this card, that’s an honor in itself. I’m going to give these guys a show. They work so hard to protect us, year after year. To me, it’s just all part of being an American.” The UFC first held a show at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in southern California in 2006, setting up an octagon in an aircraft hangar. White still remembers the pre-show national anthem as one of the highlights of his promoting career, with thousands of soldiers rising in unison to salute the flag. During its first official Fight for the Troops at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg in December 2008, the UFC raised $4 million toward the construction of a research center for traumatic brain injuries. White has sent thousands of UFC DVDs and tons of merchandise to soldiers stationed overseas over the past decade, and the UFC
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Liquor company makes on-the-go whisky products By Amber Genuske Daily Texan Staff
Panama-based liquor company Scottish Spirits Lmtd. is releasing the first-ever whisky in a can. The company is toting mobility as the inspiration for the 12-oz. can — or eight 1.5oz. shots if drinking a beer-sized tin of straight whisky is not your thing. “We are really thrilled with the idea — it’s going to be a part of every lifestyle and occasion,” said chief executive Manish Panshal. “The can is the perfect size to be shared between three people ... It’s lightweight and portable and entirely recyclable ... It will be one of the hot picks for any outdoor activities.” Though portable and recyclable might seem like novel ideas for liquor — especially one like whisky, which is associated with the ruggedness of “outdoor activities” — there remains the question of quality. Considering that the company also produces rum, tequila, vodka and — possibly more laughable than whisky in a can — alcohol-free whisky, it lowers the bar for craftsmanship and specialization in the liquor which origins date to 1100 in Ireland and Scotland. Scottish Spirits Lmtd.’s website does not include its distillation process. It is easy to assume that the canned variety does not go through a meticulous oak-aging process, and most certainly does not gain the smoothness of well-aged varieties when the appeal of the can in the first place is to crack one open with the good ol’ boys. The Scotch Whisky Association is on the company’s tail, though, making sure potential consumers do not assume that the Panama-based company is producing actual Scotch whisky. Though, as with any other debacle involving alcohol and its origins or ingredients (see champagne versus sparkling wine or Four Loko versus liquid cocaine), a note declaring the ever-important difference between the real deal and the farce will be slapped onto the bottle, or the can in this case.
Alcoholic drinks to be recycled as ethanol car fuel By Gerald Rich Daily Texan Staff
On Jan. 6, The Associated Press announced that recently banned alcoholic energy drinks, such as Four Loko, will be recycled into ethanol fuel. Four Loko gained notoriety after numerous individuals reported suffering alcohol poisoning from it and was issued a warning letter by the Food and Drug Administration on Nov. 17. The letter came after an investigation found that the alcoholic energy drinks lead to a false wide-awake drunk experience — you’re buzzed but still feel entirely cognizant. Of course, we already knew that what many were calling “liquid cocaine” and “blackout in a can” was basically rocket fuel for your brain, but it’s not the Loko that will be making cars run. The truth is that all safely consumable alcohol contains ethanol alcohol. Technically, you’re getting your car “lok’d” every time you tank up with ethanol. According to the same report, the ethanol is currently being recycled by three recycling plants. That means you can’t just take all those cans you stashed away in the co-op fridge and pour them straight into your car. Of course, if you’re a graduate chemistry student who has a lot of time and money this semester, you could potentially create a Four Loko mobile, but no such creation has been reported. Furthermore, one of the plants, MXI Environmental Services, is trying to recycle almost everything involved in the packaging and shipping of the drinks. In addition to the ethanol that will be sold off to be blended into gasoline, the company has said it will also be selling the aluminum cans, cardboard boxes, water component and shipping pallets. Once the aluminum is sold, it will take approximately 30 days before it’s placed back on the shelves as a shiny new beer.
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FILM continues from PAGE 12 of the RED HD camera, which allowed Cianfrance to shoot for hours on end. “There’s the shower scene, where Ryan and Michelle are naked in the shower together. For the first couple of hours, they were cute and a little awkward,” Cianfrance said. “It was everything the scene shouldn’t be. But
by the ninth hour on the second day, Ryan’s nipples were bleeding, and him and Michelle wanted to get out of that shower. The central mystery of ‘Blue Valentine’ is what time can do to things, so I tried to use the process of filmmaking to show what time can do to a performance as well.” Scenes like the nudity-heavy
shower scene and the graphic, uncompromising sex scene that follows led to the Motion Picture Association of America slapping “Blue Valentine” with a highly restrictive NC-17 rating. Cianfrance said he was shocked by the ruling. “We wanted to look at sex the same way we looked at every oth-
er scene — straight on, raw and with a kind of responsibility,” he said. “I felt like we were punished for doing too good a job. We didn’t get an NC-17 for what they saw. We got it for what they felt while watching it.” The rating was eventually overturned by the MPAA in the first unanimous ruling in the associa-
tion’s history. The brutal honesty in “Blue Valentine” depicting a crumbling relationship makes for one of the year’s best films and boasts career-best performances from Gosling and Williams. To view the trailer of “Blue Valentine,” go to www.dailytexanonline.com
THAI continues from PAGE 12 who has ever been to Thailand, the portraits bring back memories of shops, markets and small street restaurants where a picture or calendar with the king can be found as a sign of respect toward the iconic leader. For starters to share with two or three people, try the som tam, a papaya salad with tomatoes and peanuts. The spicy, puckery zest and perfectly shredded papaya makes it a good choice for anyone who wants to try som tam for the first time. Sticky rice also goes well with it. Pick off a small ball of sticky rice and try a chunk of som tam with it. IM also serves a curry noodle bowl dish called khao soi, which is not common in local Thai restaurants. Thai khao soi is a dish consisting of noodles, curry made with coconut milk and meat with crispy noodles on top. Originating from Laos as a more brothy noodle soup, the dish underwent a stark transformation as it moved into Northern Thailand and Chiang Mai, where Chinese Muslims also influenced the dish. IM’s khao soi with chicken comes flavorful and aromatic in a hefty-sized bowl. It’s also an excellent choice for people who like curry and want to try something other than the typical Thai restaurant staple. Although delicious, the dish still loses points in authenticity. Since it caters to Western expectations, the curry soup is substantially thicker than normal Thai curry broth. Still, inauthentic and tasty is better than the inauthentic and flavorless dishes served in some other Thai restaurants. That the restaurant even serves this rare dish is a plus. The pad kee mao with beef comes in a nice balance of proportionately cut beef, bell peppers and mediumsized flat noodles but lacks the spicyness the dish calls for. A more well-known restaurant is Titaya’s on North Lamar Boulevard near Half-Price Books and Goodwill. The wait can be long depending on the night, but the decor with elephant tablecloths and dim lighting gives it a pleasant atmosphere. The lard na with tofu (pronounced “lahd na”) comes in a heaping portion that makes promising leftovers. Consisting of flat noodles drenched in a brown gra-
WHAT: IM Thai Cuisine WHERE: 5207 Brodie Lane PRICE: $3 to $6 for appetizer or dessert, $7 to $14 for entree WEB: www.imthaicuisine.com
WHAT: Titaya’s Cuisine WHERE: 5501 North Lamar PRICE: $2 to $7 for appetizer or dessert, $7 to $15 for entree WEB: www.titayasthaicuisine. com
vy sauce with Chinese broccoli and fried tofu chunks, the lard na is decent as one of the blander dishes. The som tam is also a disappointment as it lacks flavor and the finesse of IM’s som tam. The papaya slices were not as thinly cut and were as hard as a notquite-ready papaya. The pad plick king comes with small pieces of beef, bell peppers and green beans with a light, tangy curry sauce at the bottom of the plate. The only complaint is the overabundance of green beans, but taste-wise, Titaya’s once again sits at passable. Like most Thai restaurants, Titaya’s offers extra condiments, normally of the spicy variety, that are available upon request. Although several plates are satisfactory, if not impressive, the mediocrity in Austin’s Thai food scene means Titaya’s average to above-average satisfaction makes it one of the better Thai restaurants in the area. A possible reason behind the dilemma of American Thai food limitations is that chefs and restaurant owners, regardless of whether they are from Thailand or not, understand that westernized Thai food sells to the American majority. The westernization of Thai dishes makes them less spicy, less powerful in flavor and sometimes, they are prepared with incorrect ingredients. But to those curious about which restaurants in town are the most appetizing and at least somewhat authentic, it’s best to look further from campus.
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MUSIC PREVIEW
Denton artists bring experimental sounds to The Ghost Room By Francisco Marin Daily Texan Staff
Texas has a rich tradition of producing folk artists of the highest caliber, and the city of Denton is no exception. For all the hype about Austin’s singer-songwriters, it should be noted that Norah Jones, Roy Orbison and Pat Boone all got their start in Denton. Sarah Jaffe, who hails from Denton and also happened to tour with Norah Jones, will perform tonight at The Ghost Room. The 25-yearold has only one EP out, Even Born Again, and one full-length album, the critically acclaimed Suburban Nature. But the content of her catalog betrays how talented she is. Songs like “Clementine” strike right at the soul of audiences with its deep-
WHAT: Sarah Jaffe w/ Bosque Brown WHERE: The Ghost Room WHEN: Tonight, 10:30 p.m.
ly intimate lyricism and layers upon layers of warm sonic artistry, while songs like “Vulnerable” show that the steely-eyed artist is not afraid to venture into near-experimental territory with a lumbering drum beat and heavily reverberating vocals. Equally talented band Bosque Brown, which also hails from Denton, will open for Jaffe. Bosque Brown singer Mara Lee Miller recently contributed her hauntingly beautiful vocals to Dolorean’s “Country Clutter” on their upcoming album The Unfazed.
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At IM Thai Cuisine, the Som Tam, a type of spicy Papaya salad, is prepared using shredded green papaya, Thai peppers, tomatoes and roasted peanuts.
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Thai food itself comes in such a rich variety that it’s disappointing when a restaurant can only offer the same standard curry, noodle dishes and stir-fry found in every other restaurant. Even worse is when a standard plate comes out looking and tasting like something Thailand would never claim as its own. For example, see the atrocious slimy mess under the guise of “pad thai” at Madam Mam’s. Thai restaurants in Texas are hit or miss, and, unfortunately, in Austin they are more of a miss than a hit. There are, however, a couple noteworthy restaurants in the area — especially if eating stale food at Thai Noodle House gets old. One of the best Thai restaurants in Austin, IM, sits in a shopping strip on Brodie Lane about 15 minutes south of campus. Despite its questionable name choice (pronounced “eem” like the Thai word for “full”), the restaurant serves food that is leaps and bounds above the Thai restaurants closest to campus. Inside and above the back counter, two large portraits of King Rama IX and Queen Sirikit, poised in regal attire, overlook the restaurant. To anyone
Denton folk artist Sarah Jaffe will play at The Ghost Room tonight. She released her debut full-length album last year to critical acclaim.
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“Blue Valentine” director Derek Cianfrance describes the film’s early scenes as “filled with opportunity” for the characters portrayed by Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling.
‘Blue Valentine’ director inspires actors with approach to filming duction, Cianfrance shot on handheld cameras with 16mm film to capture the scenes set in the past, lendIn director and co-writer Der- ing them a visceral, in-the-moment ek Cianfrance’s “Blue Valentine,” the audience follows Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams) through their relationship’s hopeful beginning and devastating end. It’s almost like a quarter Cianfrance cast Gosling and of football for an actor. Williams years before producThey have 11 minutes tion, meeting Williams in 2003 — as the screenplay was on its 42nd to make something of 66 eventual drafts written over happen — to score a the course of 12 years. He met touchdown. Gosling two years later. During the several years between their casting and the film’s production, — Derek Cianfrance, director Cianfrance and the actors discussed the film and its characters over lengthy dinners. “By the time we started shooting, they knew who they were as characters,” Cianfrance said. “I almost consider them to be co- quality as the cameraman follows the writers on the film. When I start- actors. For the present-day scenes, he ed rolling the cameras, I felt like I used dual RED HD cameras, keeping one camera focused on each acwas making a documentary.” When the film finally entered pro- tor throughout the shoot to illustrate By Alex Williams Daily Texan Staff
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the growing emotional distance between Dean and Cindy. Cianfrance said he used the different styles to visually represent the dualities that run throughout “Blue Valentine.” “I always saw the film as a duet between a man and a woman, between their past and their present, their youth and their adulthood, their long-term memory and their short-term memory, between love and hate,” he said. “It was a duet between the battling realities of these opposites.” The different filming styles also inspired different performances from the actors. In the scenes captured on film, shooting took on a sense of urgency. “When you’re shooting with a 16mm, you have 11 minutes,” he said. “It’s almost like a quarter of football for an actor. They have 11 minutes to make something happen — to score a touchdown.” The present-day shoots were much longer and more grueling because of the higher capabilities
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