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Norberto Flores of the National Assembly of Braceros and Stuart Schussler of the Mexico Solidarity Network will speak about the Bracero Program, the largest binational labor agreement in the world, from noon to 1 p.m. in SRH 1.313
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Flu shots will be available for students, faculty and staff on the ground floor of the Student Services Building from noon to 4 p.m. Shots cost $10 and no appointment is necessary.
WEDNESDAY Prevent abuse
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Fans cheer after rock band The Sword finishes a song at ACL on Friday afternoon.
Visitors provide boost of revenue to local businesses, restaurants
THURSDAY The veil Associate sociology professor Mounira Charrad and some of her students will present their research about the history and politics behind veiling in Middle Eastern culture from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in CRD 007. Erika Rich | Daily Texan Staff
Elizabeth Sun of gypsy-punk band Gogol Bordello performs at the Austin City Limits Music Festival on Saturday.
FRIDAY Fest Africa The African Student Association will present Fest Africa from 7 to 10 p.m. in the Main Mall. Theme for this year’s event is “ROOTS: Remembering Our Own Traditions.”
‘Say it ... vampire.’ Master Pancake Theater presents “Twilight” at the Alamo Ritz at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Tickets start at $13.50.
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Quote to note “Once you’re in golden goal, any minute of the game you’ve got to stay focused. Once the ball goes past you, you do whatever you can to get behind the goal. I was fortunate enough to be at the right place at the right time.” — Erica Campanelli Women’s soccer captain SPORTS PAGE 6
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Voices Against Violence will present an interactive dialogue about harmful relationships from 7 to 9 p.m. in BEL 328.
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Monday, October 11, 2010
THE WEEK AHEAD
TOMORROW’S WEATHER
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By Daniel Sanchez Daily Texan Staff Before Austin City Limits Music Festival even began Oct. 8, local music club Emo’s was already busier than normal for a weekday. This year, the once-again sold out festival drew an estimated crowd of 65,000 attendees a day and made an overall economic impact of $82 million over the course of the three days, said Jennifer Walker, director of marketing communications at Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau. A significant portion of the impact comes from out-of-state attendees, with 25 percent of three-day passes and single-day passes sold to people not from Texas. “The local businesses benefit from [the economic impact],” Walker said. “Basically it goes into the pockets of the people who work here. It helps sustain jobs.”
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Fired shots result in one injury, police investigating By Aziza Musa & Collin Eaton Daily Texan Staff Austin police are investigating a shooting involving two collegeage men in West Campus early Saturday morning. At around 2 a.m., two separate groups left a party near the 2600 block of Salado Street and two men became involved in a physical altercation, said Cpl. Anthony Hipolito, Austin Police Department spokesman. One man pulled out a pistol and shot the other, Hipolito said. The victim was sent to University Medical Center Brackenridge and was treated for injuries that were not life threatening but will not be identified until his family is notified, he said. Police are still searching for the shooter. Hipolito said he did not know whether the shooter aimed the gun specifically at the victim or how many shots were fired, but three people near the scene said they heard two gunshots. One witness said the victim had a gunshot wound to the leg. Ryan Henson, a biomedical engineering and Spanish senior, said he was watching a movie in the Gamma Beta house that night when suddenly he heard what he thought were two fireworks at the apartment next door, Salado Place. Checking the window, he saw a large group of people crowding around someone. “Three cop cars rolled up and barricaded the street [shortly after],” Henson said. Frank Middleton said he was in a room on the first floor of Salado Place when he heard a fight escalating outside. He was about to call the police when he heard two gunshots, he said. Petroleum engineering sophomore Tyler Watkins was in his apartment next door with a couple of friends at about 1:45 a.m. when he heard several people yelling. Watkins said he saw men wearing red shirts and red hats
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College-educated couples wed more, file for divorce less
1990 has dropped to 62 percent, By Anna Fata which leads to the conclusion Daily Texan Staff College-educated couples that the tables have turned and are more likely to marry and degree holders are now more less likely to divorce than peo- likely to marry. Economics associate prople who have no college degree, according to a study from fessor Tom Wiseman said that Pew Research Center. The mar- because college graduates are more likeriage rates of ly to have staboth college-edble sources of ucated people income, they and those withMarried couples are more able to o u t a d e g re e commit themwere down in typically pay higher selves to long2008, compared income taxes than term plans such to 1990. they would if they as marriage. Pew based the “Married cousurvey on U.S. were single and filing ples typically Census data. separately, so relative pay higher inUT economists poverty could be an come taxes than said the declines they would if may have ocincentive not to get they were single curred because married.” and filing sepayounger people are waiting lon— Tom Wiseman rately, so relative poverty could be ger to get marEconomics associate an incentive not ried and are coprofessor to get married,” habiting more Wiseman said. frequently withThe study out getting foralso reports the mally married. In 1990, 75 percent of adults marriages of college graduates younger than 30 without college are more likely to last longer degrees were married, a number than the marriages of nondethat has dropped drastically to gree holders. Economics professor Daniel 60 percent. The marriage rate has fallen Hamermesh said that money less drastically for those with is only one issue and a lasting degrees. The 69 percent of marWED continues on page 2 ried college-educated adults in
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Seniors Jessica Chong and Ronald Thai wait in line before stepping out onto the Main Mall for the Chinese Student Association’s fashion show, one part of the entertainment at the Mid-Autumn Festival on Saturday.
Students celebrate lunar holiday terns. They drank tea, played on a dragon-shaped moonwalk and learned a game that uses chopsticks and marbles. “The festival is really a time for family and friends to get togethBy Amy Thornton er, and usually eat a lot,” said psyDaily Texan Staff The Chinese celebrate the har- chology senior Eva Hung. “We vest moon every fall with tradi- want to spread this special time to tional food and lanterns, and on the campus and give UT a taste of Saturday night the Chinese Stu- what Chinese culture is all about.” The event also included tadent Association brought the ancient Mid-Autumn Festival to the bles from other campus organizations, such as the Indian CulUT campus. The air was filled with the tural Association and the Taiwansmells of Chinese cuisine as stu- ese American Student Associadents walked along the Main tion, as well as an appearance by Mall under brightly colored lan- the Texas A&M Chinese Student
Festival commemorates harvest moon with food, skits of ancient folklore
Association. In order to combine the event’s social and educational purposes, the organization also put on a skit to illustrate one of the variations of the ancient folklore behind the festival. “The version we are performing tonight is essentially a love story,” said aerospace engineering freshman Louis Yu, the junior officer in charge of the skit. “According to this story, the festival is celebrating the sun and moon being together.” Hung said because the Chinese respect the moon, the Chinese calendar is lunar based.
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