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Students offer input about tuition changes Liberal arts college survey finds support for allocating funds to student resources

By Allie Kolechta Daily Texan Staff

A newly formed student committee submitted recommendations to decrease tuition and increase the quality of UT’s liberal arts education to the college’s dean on Wednesday.

The College Tuition and Budget Advisory Committee for liberal arts compiled information from a survey of more than 400 liberal arts students and urged the college to improve faculty, career services and advising and guarantee smaller classes.

According to the recommendations, 65 percent of students are against any kind of increase in tuition, but if a hike is unavoidable, the money should first go toward the resources students feel the most strongly about.

Once approved by the dean of the College of Liberal Arts, the committee’s suggestions must be approved by Tuition Policy Advisory Committee. TPAC is a nine-member committee made up of four UT students and five Randy Diehl faculty and staff members, including vice provost Steve Leslie Dean of Liberal Arts and chief financial officer Kevin Hegarty. If TPAC approves timately sets tuition. the recommendations, they will The college will implement be reviewed by President Wil- CTBAC’s recommendations, liam Powers Jr. before going to the Board of Regents, which ulCTBAC continues on PAGE 2

Advisory committee holds first public forum, receives outside input about policies

By Liz Farmer Daily Texan Staff

Students voiced concerns over potential tuition increases at the Tuition Policy Advisory Committee’s first open forum of this tuition-setting term Wednesday.

This is the first year the committee has held a public forum more than a month before it makes tuition recommendations to President William Powers Jr. Committee members explained the tuition-setting process the University has used since 2003 when the state legislature handed its pow-

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er to set tuition rates over to state universities’ governing boards.

TPAC gets input from each of the colleges’ and schools’ College Tuition and Budget Advisory Committee. TPAC will take this input and make tuition recommendations to Powers, who will then recommend tuition policy to the UT System Board of Regents later this semester. However, tuition policy for the next two years will ultimately be set by the Board of Regents.

Student Government President Natalie Butler said the UT System suggested that any tuition increase must be tied to an effort to improve four-year graduation rates and should stay within a 2.6 percent increase.

TPAC continues on PAGE 2 Ezra Masch plays a song in the Visual Arts Center Wednesday night. His performance, a fusion of music and lights, was part of the “Music of the Spheres” exhibition the center is hosting.

Stop by the Bastrop Volunteer Reception Center all day to learn about ways to support victims of the recent wild fires. The center needs all types of workers.

Under the Sea

The UT Scuba club will meet in SAC 1.118 at 7 p.m.

Members receive discounts on gear and classes.

Today in history In 1981

Egyptians elect Hosni Mubarak president.

Inside In News:

First openly gay Texas House member speaks page 6

In Opinion:

Quotes to note from the TPAC forum page 4

In Sports: A look at Fozzy Whittaker’s season page 8

In Life&Arts:

Everybody cut ‘Footloose’ page 14

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Quote to note “Gene regulation has the promise of treating and curing almost every disease out there that has a genetic basis, that’s the tantalizing and exciting prospect of it.”

— Chad Mirkin Northwestern professor NEWS PAGE 7

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Art performance impresses with character commitment

By Kayla Jonsson Daily Texan Staff

As studio art graduate student Ezra Masch tapped the buttons on his keyboard, 73 colorful lights corresponding to the notes flooded the Visual Arts Center.

The keyboard performance was only

one element of Masch’s show, “Music of the Spheres,” presented at the center on Wednesday. At the visual and musical art display, Masch arrived in a procession of drummers wearing Victorian style clothing with skeleton painted faces. Girls in gold robes, who also had skeleton-painted faces, threw rose pedals as Masch, dressed like the drummers but with

a white, curly wig, danced to his seat behind the keyboard.

“I traveled across reality to get here,” he said while still in character, opening his show.

“Eventually everyone is going to die, but what I want to know, what I really want to know, is what are we going to live for? We’re all going to live tonight.”

The performance included a variety of

music including classical, blues, jazz and rap.

The audience was encouraged to clap, dance and sing along. Masch became silent at moments as he listened to spectators echoing his notes.

“It was really interactive,” said fine arts graduate student Shalena White.

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Shops on the Drag open after careful planning Young Texans try to correct

flaws in higher education

By John Farey Daily Texan Staff

Business on Guadalupe Street near West Campus appears to be booming with new restaurants opening this fall, despite slower economic conditions nationally.

Qdoba owner Kortney Otten, who opened a Mexican restaurant for the first time Wednesday, said locating her business next to the Drag was a critical decision in the two-year planning process.

“It’s tough, but we’re hoping that this location gives a little bit of a buffer zone from the economy,” Otten said. “It’s tough for restaurant and small business owners all over the country right now. Austin in general has been pretty competitive. It would be a lot easier if there was someone down at Austin City Council to work with us on getting everything approved.”

Verts Kebap co-owner Michael Heyne said adequate planning was the key to getting restaurant plans

By Jody Serrano Daily Texan Staff

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Cody Gatlin prepares a kebap for a customer at Verts Wednesday afternoon. Verts is one of several new restaurants that have recently opened on Guadalupe Street despite the difficult national economic situation.

approved. Heyne and fellow UT “It was complicated with many McCombs almnus Dominik Stein steps, but we never felt left alone opened two locations for their through the process,” Heyne said.

German-style fast food in August “It doesn’t need to be difficult.” this year, one on Guadalupe and the other in the Dobie Center.

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Current UT student leaders and alumni launched a group to call upon elected state officials to support the UT and Texas A&M dual missions of education and research.

The Young Texans for Excellence in Higher Education formed in response to the June efforts to reform the higher education system by measures that included massive enrollment expansion, separating the teaching and research bodies of the University, increasing class sizes and expanding online courses. In addition to launching on Wednesday, the group publicized their “Our Degrees Matter” campaign — a campaign for UT degrees to grow in value over time instead of being dragged down by negative reforms.

Natalie Butler, a founding member of the Young Texans and current Student Government president, said one of the main goals of Young Texans is to make students pay attention to the issues surrounding higher education and get them involved in the conversation. Butler added she is not in Young Texans as the UT student body president but as a concerned student.

“This is just a group of students coming together,” Butler said. “We think students deserve a seat at the table, and this group hopes to provide that.”

Young Texans currently has 133 members, mostly current UT students and recent graduates. The group welcomes all current and former students.

Keshav Rajagopalan, another

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which also include funding a summer enrollment program for incoming freshmen and hiring more lecturers for courses that might delay a student’s graduation time, said Randy Diehl, the College of Liberal Art’s dean.

“It’s been key to have [CTBAC] involved in the discussion early on,” he said. “They’ve provided thoughtful and well-organized recommendations.”

The college plans to accept the committee’s recommendations with the addition of extending increased support for study abroad programs in the college, Diehl said.

The letter of recommendation coincided with TPAC’s first open forum, as the Committee has traditionally held closed meetings.

The $92 million state cut for UT’s budget over two years will not be made up by tuition increases, Leslie said at the forum.

“We will try to cover the necessary costs to keep the University strong,” he said.

TPAC members will state their official opinion on the Liberal Arts CTBAC’s recommendations on Friday, after reviewing the committee’s letter to Diehl, said Carisa Nietsche, president of the Senate of College Councils and a TPAC member.

“In terms of personal thoughts, I was really impressed with their recommendations,” she said.

“They did a really fine job of combining student opinion from the survey with what’s most feasible.”

A lt hou g h , ide a l ly, tu it ion would not go up, the college’s CTBAC took into account that a tuition hike may be necessary and stated what they wanted to focus on whether there should be an increase, Nietsche said.

“It’s a nice balance, saying we recognize we aren’t the only college involved so we might not get what we want, but here are our priorities should tuition raise,” she said.

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Mar y Knight, associate vice president and budget director, said the Board of Regents limits graduate tuition to 1 percent more than undergraduate tuition.

TPAC co-chair Steven Leslie, executive vice-president and provost, said his office wants to monitor the graduate programs, but the tuition decisions have focused on the fouryear graduation rates of undergraduates, as directed by the board.

“Driving force of the economy is driven by these big universities,” Leslie said. “We do not want to force students through the University.”

During the forum, students

School of Nursing seems imp o s s i b l e b e c au s e s tu d e nt s must apply to pre-nursing first and then reapply to upper division nursing. “[When I was in pre-nursing,] they told me about 75 percent of students who get into pre-nursing get into upper division,” Rosenthal said.

She said the nursing school could not afford to keep two teachers this year, which lowered the upper division capacity to admit only 55 percent of students who applied. Rosenthal said some of her nursing classmates take classes outside their degree plan as they wait to be admitted to the upper division nursing sequence.

Leslie said both the nursing school and the pharmacy school must confront these issues because they are competitive, professional schools and receive significantly less funding than medical programs.

Government senior Cr ystal Zhao said she worked as an orientation adviser this summer and registration posed challenges for incoming freshmen to prepare for an efficient graduation plan.

“I had a very hard time putting students in classes that they needed,” Zhao said, who is also a College of Liberal Arts representative. “It really discourages the four-year graduation rate.”

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“The grand entrance was really cool. I thought they were some kind of Victorian undead. It made me feel some sense of wonder about the human race.”

Masch exited in the same parade style in which he entered, and the audience followed along with the original procession.

The crowd was led outside under a pavilion where the drums continued to play as Masch continued to rap and dance.

“It was like he traveled here from another time and universe to awaken something in us,” said studio art graduate student Christina Coleman.

Masch left the pavilion with his parade saying it was time to go back to the alternate universe. The crowd continued to fol-

Although hungry students have effectively shielded the restaurant trade from decreased consumer spending, the tradeoff appears to be exorbitantly high commercial rates for business owners, Heyne said. Commercial spaces in Austin range from $15-40 per square foot, with Guadalupe Street at around $38.50 — rivaling the Sixth Street bar area.

“The most difficult part was to find a location. The rents are very high,” Heyne said. “Restaurants come and go very fast on Guadalupe. We were warned of the risks; three restaurants closed last fall alone. The overall market size is not relevant if you have a successful concept.”

Isbah Raja, a Plan II senior, said it was

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and parents voiced their concerns about tuition increases.

Information studies graduate student Michael Redding, who is also a member of the school’s College Tuition and Budget Advisory Committee, said students in his two-year graduate program are worried. He said the emphasis on four-year graduation rates in setting tuition policy may not accurately reflect the academic needs of two-year graduate programs.

“If you do it in four years, you’re doing it wrong,” Redding said. “The concern is we’ll have these really nice buildings but no faculty to teach us.”

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To see and hear “I love that he wouldn’t Masch practice for his show visit break character,” said art history senior Katy bit.ly/ dt_video Gelhausen. “The whole thing was a performance.”

Studio art senior Carris Adams appreciated Masch’s enthusiasm and felt his connection to the crowd.

“I love that he brought in the audience and didn’t just yell at us,” she said. “It seems like so many artists today don’t care about their audience and just ignore them, but he included us. We were part of the show.”

good to have new restaurants opening on Guadalupe, as the options become repetitive very quickly.

“I eat out at least once a day, trying to spend about $7 per meal,” Raja said. “Recently, I’ve been pretty disappointed just because I’ve eaten at all these places so many times.”

Business junior Karishma Hossain said she would probably eat out more than the three times a week she does currently if there were healthier options near campus.

“There’s a lot of variety, but I really feel like they’re not that healthy for me,” Hossein said. “If you go for the cheaper options, the reality is they are not very good for you.”

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“Every student who graduates from the University expects a certain degree of caliber from their degree and they expect the caliber of that degree to grow,” Rajagopalan said. “They want to look back in 20 years and say, ‘I went to UT and it means more now than when I graduated.’”

Rajapalan said the group hopes to expand to Texas A&M and other colleges and universities across Texas.

Jenifer Sarver, spokeswom-

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“In many ways, young people have the most to lose if shortsighted reforms that undermine the quality and integrity of our institutions of higher education prevail,” Sarver said. “The value of their degrees and their ability to compete in the global economy hang in the balance, and it is important that their perspective be heard.”

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Immigration law spurs protests

Dave Martin | Associated Press

Jose Contreras and his wife Nelva discuss reasons for closing their store in Albertville, Ala., on Wednesday.

Businesses across the state shut down as Hispanics protested against Alabama’s new immigration law.

Workers, businesses halt activity to show disapproval

By Jay Reeves The Associated Press

ALBERTVILLE, Ala. — Along Main Street in this small Alabama town, the Mexican restaurant was closed, lights were out at a Hispanic-owned grocery store and even a bank catering to Spanish speakers was dark. Nearby, the usual hum of a chicken processing plant was silent.

Businesses dependent on immigrant labor were shuttered Wednesday as workers took the day off to protest the state’s strict new immigration law.

The work stoppage appeared largest in northeast Alabama, the hub of the state’s $2.7 billion poultry industry, but metropolitan areas were also affected. At least a halfdozen chicken processing plants closed or scaled back operations because employees, many of whom are Hispanic, didn’t show up for work or told managers in advance they wanted to join the sick-out to show disapproval of the law upheld by a federal judge two weeks ago.

“We want the mayor, the governor, this judge to know we are part of the economy of Alabama,” said Mexican immigrant Mireya Bonilla, who manages the supermarket La Orquidea, or “The Orchid,” in Albertville.

The town of about 19,000 people has one of the highest concentrations of Hispanics in the state.

Out of 4.7 million people in Alabama, there are an estimated

185,000 Hispanics, most of them of Mexican origin.

It wasn’t clear exactly how many workers participated in the protest, but the parking lot was virtually empty at a Wayne Farms poultry plant, which employs about 850 people in Albertville. All along Main Street, Hispanic businesses were closed.

Jose Contreras shut down his restaurant and store, a move he said cost him about $2,500.

“We closed because we need to open the eyes of the people who are operating this state,” said Contreras, originally from the Dominican Republican and a U.S. citizen.

“It’s an example of if the law pushes too much what will happen.”

Since the law was upheld, many frightened Hispanics have hid in their homes or fled. Some construction workers, roofers and field hands have stopped showing up and schools have reported high absentee rates among Hispanic students. Officials said even more students were absent Wednesday, apparently because of the protest.

The Obama administration has asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to at least temporarily block enforcement of the law, arguing in court documents Wednesday that the statute oversteps the state’s authority and could lead to the discrimination of legal residents. The appeals court has not indicated when it may rule on the administration’s request for a preliminary injunction.

The law allows police to detain people indefinitely if they are suspected of being in the country illegally and requires schools to check the status of new students when they enroll.

Republican supporters say the new immigration law, considered the toughest in the nation, was intended to force illegal workers out of jobs and help legal residents find work in a state suffering from high unemployment. GOP Gov. Robert Bentley, who signed the law, had no immediate comment on the protests.

Spanish-speaking radio stations and Facebook users helped spread the word about the sick-out.

At Crossville Elementary School in DeKalb County in the northeast part of the state, principal Ed Burke said about 160 of the school’s 600 students weren’t in class.

“We normally would have about 20 or 30 out,” he said.

A few miles away, a Hispanic-owned grocer y store was closed. Morning business was slow at a convenience store typically full of Hispanic workers buying breakfast.

“There’s nobody. We’re usually wide open,” said a store worker who would not give her name.

Albertville Mayor Lindsey Lyons said the protest wouldn’t hurt the city very much, even though dozens of businesses were closed.

“It will only be a minor impact.

Most of our major retailers are open,” Lyons said.

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Efforts to repeal first law on gay rights history fail

Southern California shooting results in 6 killed, 3 injured

BOGOTA, Colombia — The women of the Colombian town of Barbacoas have declared their sex strike over.

It is not clear how many women took part, and compliance is impossible to prove. But the women of the remote southwestern town say their demand for a road was met.

They announced June 22 that they would deny their partners sex until authorities began paving a 35-mile road linking the town of 35,000 people with the provincial capital of Pasto.

Army engineers began work Tuesday. The paved road will cut travel time by at least six hours.

Barbacoas Mayor Jose Arnulfo Preciado tells The Associated Press he’ll happily submit to a polygraph to prove the protest was honored. He says his wife slept in a separate room during the strike.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Opponents of a California law requiring that the contributions of gays and lesbians be taught in public schools have failed in their attempt to qualify a ballot referendum to repeal the law.

Groups that had been circulating signature petitions said they would not meet the Wednesday deadline to file.

Traditional Values Coalition spokesman Benjamin Lopez tells The Associated Press the groups felt they were not in a position to file. He would not say how close they came to collecting the required 505,000 petition signatures.

The groups wanted to force a vote on Senate Bill 48, the nation’s first law requiring that public schools include gay rights milestones and gay and lesbian contributions in social studies lessons. It takes effect in January.

SEAL BEACH, Calif. — Southern California police are trying to determine the motive in a shooting that has killed six people and critically wounded three others in a hair salon in the city of Seal Beach.

Police Sgt. Steve Bowles says a man was taken into custody near the scene and inves ti g a tors a re try i n g to determine if he has a relationship to the salon or anyone there.

A witness to the Wednesday afternoon shooting described the man and officers detained him as he was driving away.

Bowles says it’s not clear if the victims were employees or patrons, but he says the salon was busy.

He says some people escaped the business without harm.

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QUOTES TO NOTE

Talking points from TPAC The following quotes are from the Tuition Policy Advisory Committee’s open forum held Wednesday evening. TPAC, composed of four students, five faculty and administrators and three non-voting members, makes recommendations on tuition policy to President William Powers Jr., who then presents a recommendation to the Board of Regents, which is ultimately responsible for setting tuition.

“Tuition at this institution has gone up dramatically, and it has gone up past inflation. There were a number of reasons for that. We readily acknowledge that the total cost to attend, which includes fees, etc., has gone up dramatically.”

— Kevin Hegarty, UT’s chief financial officer and co-chair of TPAC, on the realities of tuition trends at the University.

“We’re still keeping [future] revenue estimates flat.

We’ve heard it could be a difficult [legislative] session next session as well, so we don’t know if this is a conservative estimate. It could get better; it could get worse.”

— Mary Knight, associate vice president and budget director, on the projections

of future state appropriations. According to the UT Budget Office’s presentation, the University received about $297 million in each of the past two years from the state for its academic core. Consequently, the committee is projecting UT will receive about the same amounts in the following two years as well.

“Any requests to increase tuition has to be tied to increase four-year graduation rates. The other thing is that the maximum amount [of a tuition increase] that can be requested is tied to the consumer price index, which is about 2.6 percent.”

— Student Government President Natalie Butler on the guidelines issued by the UT System for the committee and its counterparts at other system institutions as they deliberate on how much of a tuition increase to recommend. The consumer price index is a method to account for cost of living adjustments in the state.

“There are so many unknowns that we have a difficult time forecasting [what the cost of tuition should be for the next four years]. If we could bring some [certainty] over a four-year period of time in clumps of what that funding might be ... we’d love to say, ‘Here’s your rate and it’s fixed for four years.’”

— Hegarty on whether the committee has considered implementing four-year fixed tuition rates. Under UT’s current system, a tuition increase applies to all students — both current and incoming — whereas a four-year fixed tuition rate would increase tuition for incoming students but keep them the same for continuing ones.

“This university works very hard to ... be completely open and transparent so that you will see what the charges are. ... When students and families see a tuition bill for the University of Texas at Austin, that is what you pay, and that transparency is what we need to continue to work on.”

— Steven Leslie, provost and co-chair of TPAC, responding to a question about

hidden fees in the cost of tuition.

Meeting great expectations

By Katherine Taylor Daily Texan Columnist

I would be excited for the Texas Book Festival, which is the weekend of Oct. 22, if I could remember the last time I read a book for pleasure. I miss reading, and because my majors — Plan II, which is liberal arts personified (or perhaps degree-ified) and rhetoric and writing, which entails reading speeches — are as liberal artsy as can be, this should come as a surprise.

In the past week alone, I read 75 pages about our declining education system, 30 pages of my U.S. history textbook, 90 pages from a rhetorical theory handbook and a 25-page narrative, and this wasn’t even all the reading I was supposed to do for my classes. I skipped two whole classes worth of reading because I knew I simply didn’t have time to do it.

I have a feeling I’m not the only one this happens to. For some reason, professors seem to think that assigning upward of 100 pages per week to read is a feasible task for students. Multiply that times five classes, and that’s 500 pages per week. If it takes me three minutes to read each page — a conservative number, as textbooks are often complicated and take much more time to read, annotate and highlight — that’s 25 hours of reading per week. On top of that, teachers expect us to engage with the material, too. Add assignments, papers and tests to this equation and the time it takes to study and prepare for each of those, and there is no time left at all.

Do teachers not realize that even if all I did was school, I still wouldn’t be able to get all my reading done? We’re all balancing jobs, internships, volunteer work, student organizations and occasionally friends, too. Sometimes we even frequent that small strip of street dedicated to hedonism and a lack of inhibitions that is fondly referred to as “Dirty Sixth.” Whatever it is, on top of the

reading load you undoubtedly carry, you have a real life as well.

So this load of reading each week becomes even more impossible. I feel like my professors are setting me up to fail. Since I know I don’t have time to do everything, I learn the art of reading only the beginning and end of chapters. I learn which classes have reading that is unnecessary. Wikipedia becomes my best friend.

Reading is no longer about soaking up knowledge but about cannibalizing information as quickly as possible.

Now, even if I do have time when I could read for fun again, I can’t. I simply feel too guilty. No matter how hard I try to finish it, I always have reading I could be doing for school, so that’s the reading I limit myself to. When I go home for breaks, my brain is so tired from all my textbooks and rhetorical analyses that I cry out for mindless engagements and end up reading literary trash such as the “Twilight” series just so I don’t have to think.

As a kid, I read all the time. The New Yorker just celebrated the 50th anniversary of one of my favorite childhood books: “The Phantom Tollbooth.” My sixth grade English class read parts of it and ended up using the plot to hold a debate over an age-old query: Which is better: numbers or letters? I still remember that debate. I still wonder which one is better and if we could every truly live without one of them.

When was the last time that happened with reading for school? I probably couldn’t summarize half of what I read for the past week, much less the past three years. My heroes used to be Heidi, Anne of Green Gables and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Now, with the heavy weight of unmet expectations on our shoulders, it is no wonder that the heroes of today’s college student are the things that help us forget our failures: Shiner, Smirnoff and Sixth Street.

Taylor is a Plan II and rhetoric and writing senior.

Crowdsourcing democracy

By Rui Shi Daily Texan Columnist

A recent Gallup poll shows that congressional job approval was riding high at a sizzling 15 percent for the month of September. This continues to highlight America’s disenchantment with the economy and state of the nation. Popular protests such as Occupy Austin and Occupy Wall Street send a clear message: our representatives must protect the interests of the people.

An inherent problem of a representative democracy is that people’s votes do not directly translate to policy changes. In theory, our elected officials represent the will of the majority and are to pass legislation to advance the interests of the people. Yet, in practice, our representatives only cater to a few select groups. Campaign contributors and lobby groups often drown out the voices of regular citizens. A new project by the Texas Legislature, however, could prove to be a game-changer.

The Texas Senate Committee on Business and Commerce plans on implementing crowdsourcing legislation in anticipating of the 2013 legislative session, according to The Texas Tribune. Crowdsourcing is the concept of gathering information from a wide range of people via the Internet. The idea is to introduce an electronic forum that would allow for anyone with Internet access to provide input on a piece of legislation. This would allow people who are unable to have access to legislative hearings to join the conversation.

In times of budget cuts for UT, this development could have major implications for students. Crowdsourcing would provide students with a powerful tool to participate in the debate on higher education funding and with a direct outlet to their representa-

tives down the street.

The committee has not yet determined what form the crowdsourcing will take, but regardless, this project signifies an important first step in opening up the legislative process.

The bottom-up approach to governance is exactly what we need in times of political strife. The integration of something such as social media or a legislative Wikipedia would allow for the collection of data to supplement the formation of legislation. This use of technology would allow for the widest range of input, viewpoints and ideas. An open forum would also increase transparency, as all relevant information related to a piece of legislation would be accessible to anyone.

Despite its benefits, crowdsourcing will also face a variety of challenges.

Because of the complexity of writing legislation, those who hope to contribute to the process must have substantial knowledge of current laws and specific topics. The committee must also come up with a fair metric to measure the value and weight of individual inputs. And because of the nature of the Internet, many of the opinions will be anonymous and may come from the extremes. The committee must find a way to moderate these type of entries and must also ensure that this is not an anonymous process. Each piece of input must be able to be tracked down to an individual or group in order to maintain transparency.

Nonetheless, crowdsourcing is an innovative idea that would greatly improve the legislative process, and Texas is taking an important first step toward political reform.

Shi is an electrical and computer engineer junior.

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They are not necessarily those of the UT administration, the Board of Regents or the Texas Student Media Board of Operating Trustees.

THE FIRING LINE A specious argument I must say I was upset after reading Friday’s column, “The Texas Stampede.” I am pleased that students are starting to realize how important scientific computing is, but I am disappointed at how little they know about the programs and opportunities that UT offers.

The column calls for an interdisciplinary computational program to be created. Little did the author know that such a program already exists on our campus. In fact, the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) offers a program that is almost exactly like the one he described. It is well-known and appreciated in the computational science community, both in academia and industry. In fact, the original online article linked to a page about Stampede that mentioned ICES explicitly.

The graduate program is called Computational Science, Engineering and Mathematics (CSEM). Students in the program are required to demonstrate proficiency in three areas: mathematics, computation and scientific application. Students are required to take classes in each of the three areas and then choose an applied area to focus on.

Applications that students focus on range from business and finance to engineering and traditional science. This is the framework of the program that Friday’s article describes and then claims does not exist at UT. I realize that the author of the article may have been trying to say that UT does not have an undergraduate program of this nature. Although CSEM does not have an exact undergraduate counterpart, it does have a Computational Science and Engineering Certificate Program for undergraduates who are interested in computational science. I commend the author for being able to envision such a program without knowing that it exists.

However, that the presence of such a program at UT and its success have been ignored and improperly researched is unfortunate.

— Kathryn Farrell Graduate student, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences

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Undocumented students subject of UT, A&M clash natures as of Wednesday morning, Aggie Conservatives chairman Steven Schroeder said. The UT and Texas A&M have long students’ goal is 1,000 signatures been rivals on the athletic field, by the end of the week, he said. and now a group of UT students Schroeder said Texas taxpayhave established a political rival- ers should not be forced to set ry as well. aside money for undocumented Members of the University adults who cannot work in this Leadership Initiative, a UT stu- country legally. dent group, are condemning a “This is not about who goes to petition that seeks to limit fund- college,” Schroeder said. “This is ing for undocumented students simply about who pays the bill. circulated by the A&M student [Supporters of the bill] believe ilorganization, the Texas Aggie legal immigrants are entitled to Conservatives. reduced tuition, which is ridicStudents with undocument- ulous. It is not mean spirited to ed Texas residency receive fund- say that adults breaking the law ing under a current law once the should not be rewarded with a student proves he free ride or reor she has graduduced tuition.” ated from a TexInternationas high school, al students maintained state and American residency for at citizens pay least three years $15,000 more and pledged to each year than change their legal the undocustatus once eligimented stuble to do so. dents who atThe petition tend A&M, proposed by the he said.

— Steven Schroeder, Texas Aggie ConAt h a r s a i d Aggie Conservatives chairman she is an uns er vatives aims to pre ve nt u n documented documented stus tu d e nt , a n d d e nt s f rom re if it was not ceiving funding for the bill, for higher education, said ULI it would be a lot tougher to get member and anthropology and funding for her education. There international relations junior are 15,000 undocumented stuAinee Athar. dents in Texas that are in college “During the last state legisla- because of the funding provided tive session, ULI spent months through this bill, she said. combating dozens of bills that “The Aggie Conservatives want would deny undocumented stu- to leave thousands of people in a dents equal access to a higher lurch for the sake of an ill-thought education,” Athar said. “We did out publicity stunt, the premise of this because thousands of young which is not even supported by people, who are not responsi- Rick Perry,” Athar said. ble for the circumstances of their Biology and art sophomore migration, get into college on Lauren Ross said she supports their own merit and deserve the the efforts made by ULI to save same accommodations as any the bill and protect the funding other student.” for undocumented students.

The petition to destroy the bill “I think everyone deserves a has received more than 300 sig- good education,” Ross said.

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Politician shares stories from time in office

By Jody Serrano Daily Texan Staff

The University Democrats welcomed a Texas politician who overcame public misconceptions surrounding the gay community to campus Wednesday night.

Former state representative Glen Maxey spoke about his life and experiences before and after he was elected in a candid discussion at the University Democrats general meeting. Maxey was the first openly gay man to serve in the Texas Legislature and fought aggressively to establish health care and education facilities for Texans with HIV. He also played a key role in passing the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.

Maxey began his discussion with many anecdotes about his early years in Texas politics and the different people he met when he registered voters. Maxey said he once helped register a 98-year-old African-American woman who was told she could not vote.

“After about 45 minutes, she had voted and I asked her what it felt like to vote,” Maxey said. “She looked at me and a tear was running down her eye and said ‘My, my, mister, it feels mighty fine.’”

To this day, Maxey said he personally registered more than 10,000 voters and holds the U.S. record for registering more naked individuals than any other politician by standing outside bars from dusk until dawn.

Holly Heinrich, public relations chair for the University Democrats, said Maxey was a very important person to the organization because he is a big supporter of the group and spends a lot of time speaking to students.

“In politics, so much knowledge is passed down in stories,” Heinrich said. “There is so much about politics that you can only learn from the people who have lived it.

He has insights you’ll never find in a government textbook.”

Heinrich said students would enjoy hearing from Maxey because the initiatives he worked on in office still benefit people across the state today.

Government junior Robert Nunez said it was very exciting to

see Maxey, who he had formerly learned of and met through the University Democrats.

“It’s always exciting to have people who spend time in politics come with the younger politicos,” Nunez said. “For the first openly gay man in the legislature to come speak to us [speaks] to the promise and opportunity everyone has.”

Maxey ended the discussion with the reading from his upcoming memoir and encouraged people to enter politics for the right reasons and not to step on other people.

“The most important thing you can ever do is make one person’s life a little better,” Maxey said.

“And that’s what I hope you all can do in your political careers.”

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Glen Maxey speaks about his experiences as the first openly gay state representative before University Democrats on Wednesday evening.

Maxey is currently working on a book of memoirs about his distinguished career.

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Project focuses on Latino representation

By Jennifer Berke Daily Texan Staff

Mexican Americans were historically neglected both in education and in government representation, according to two UT professors who presented their research Wednesday.

Emilio Zamora, professor in the Department of History and Jason Casellas, assistant professor in the Department of Government discussed their current research projects funded by the Center for Mexican American Studies.

Casellas’ project will focus on how well Mexican Americans are represented within the educational sphere. He said education tends to be the most concerning issue in Latino communities.

“High school drop out rates and a low socioeconomic status, among other issues, demonstrate how Latinos are consistently dis-

advantaged,” Casellas said. “Congress in turn has responded by paying scant attention to Hispanic education issues.”

The drop-out rate and the low socioeconomic status have been consistent throughout MexicanAmerican history, he said. Casellas said that as a political scientist, his study would also look at the larger implications of bilingual education.

“The Bilingual Education Act, along with other legislation was a great advancement for the Latino community,” Casellas said. “I want to take a look at the trends and patterns in social, political and economic spheres and explain why the trends seem to continue without improvement for Latinos.”

Zamora said his project will focus on Mexican Americans’ representation from 1940 to around 1980. The group was represented poorly in both the House and the

Lawrence Peart | Daily Texan Staff

Professor Chad A. Mirkin, director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern University, speaks to a group of students and faculty Wednesday about the future of the science and the potential of chemical engineering.

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Emilio Zamora, a professor in UT’s Department of History, inaugurates the Center for Mexican American Studies’ newly instated “Faculty Research Platicas.” Zamora discussed Mexican-American representatives in government from World War I until the present.

Science innovator speaks at UT ♲ ♲ Nanotechnology professor lectures at seminar about stopping cancer growth

By John Farey Daily Texan Staff

Packaging the building blocks of DNA into microscopic nanostructures capable of being applied as a skin cream may be the future of cancer treatment, according to one nanotechnolog y pioneer speaking on Wednesday.

Chad Mirkin, director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern University, talked about the groundbreaking potential of chemically engineering nucleic acids and constructing DNA arranged in a spiky, spherical nanostructure that utilizes normal cellular processes to attack the genetic component of cancer cells.

Mirkin is researching therapeutic application for nanostructures ranging from one to 100 nanometers in length, about onemillionth of an inch.

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like glioblastoma [most common form of brain tumor] that is basically a death sentence,” Mirkin said. “If we could create chemical constructs that could be delivered systemically to increase the lifespan of a patient from one year to five years, that would be unbelievable. To cure would be spectacular.”

The technology has successfully interrupted the growth of cancer in more than 50 types of cells and tissues, such as liver and nerve cells. Crucially, cancerous cell bodies that resist treatment are permitting the nanostructures to enter the cell for the first time — essential in delivering medicine to cancer sites effectively. Mirkin said trials treating brain tumors in mice are already showing promising results.

“Gene regulation has the promise of treating and curing almost every disease out there that has a genetic basis, that’s the tantalizing and exciting prospect of it,” he said.

He said he was honored to discuss his research at UT. “The Center for Nano- and Molecular Science is an incredible place,” Mirkin said. “[UT] has a

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Biomedical engineering graduate student Brandon Slaughter said he wrote to Mirkin in fall 2010 inviting him to speak at UT. He was initially rebuffed but persisted in proposing dates well into the future.

“It’s incredible,” he said. “We didn’t expect to get Professor Mirkin to come here, especially at a student-invited seminar. We discussed a few research opportunities this morning, so there may be something going forward.”

Chemical engineering graduate student William Liechty said Mirkin has the rare gift of being able to take lab technologies and translate them into commercial technologies.

“He did a great job covering a number of academic fields and tying it together in terms of controlling molecular architecture to do a number of neat things, such as diagnostic and therapeutic applications,” Liechty said. “Taking scientific discoveries and making them useful technologies is inspirational.”

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“I’ve compiled a set of data of Mexican Americans in the senate and the house from 1846 to 2011,” Zamora said. “When we measure data, we have to qualify. There are explanations, and I want to associate those numbers with trends and patterns.”

Program coordinator Luis Guevara said the grant both professors received from the center will further their research into Mexican-American representation in education and politics throughout history.

“It’s all work in progress at this point,” Guevara said. “They will be reflecting on the research they have done so far and hope to continue doing.”

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Fozzy Whittaker carries the ball during the Longhorns’ 55-17 loss to Oklahoma on Oct. 8 at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. Whittaker sparked the Longhorns with a 100-yard touchdown on a kick return in the second quarter of the Red River Rivalry but it wasn’t enough to beat the Sooners.

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He caught the kick, shot upfield, broke a tackle and 100 yards later, found himself in the end zone. Not bad for Fozzy Whittaker’s second career kickoff return.

“A big hole opened in the middle of the field,” the senior said. “All I had to do was take it and make the kicker miss. That’s what I did.”

Whittaker’s 100-yard kickoff return for a touchdown kept Texas in the game momentarily before Oklahoma reeled off 28 unanswered points and pulled out a 55-17 win. But Whittaker’s performance — six carries for 45

yards, a 15-yard reception and the long kickoff return — was a silver lining of sorts.

“Fozzy had by far his best game at Texas,” said head coach Mack Brown. “I thought he played like the way we need the rest of them to play. He ran hard, he broke tackles, he returned kicks, he was on punt block. He really took over and played great.”

With his most recent performance, Whittaker is making a convincing case for more touches. True freshman Malcolm Brown is the only Texas running back to have more than 10 carries in a game, but Whittaker is averaging seven yards per carry in his last three games and is playing with a reckless abandon and confidence.

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Spieth helps Horns earn top ranking after strong start In the Longhorns’ most recent tournament, the Jack Nicklaus InBy Nick Cremona vitational, Spieth paced the LongDaily Texan Columnist horns with rounds of 73-66-72 and finished tied for second on The collegiate golf season is only the individual leaderboard. Spieth about a month old, but the Long- has been getting out to fast starts horns are already playing at mid- in each of the club’s first three season form. Behind two straight tournaments this year. His firsttournament victories and excep- round average of 69 ranks No. tional rounds from freshman Jor- 20 in the nation and is a big readan Spieth, Texas is son Texas has won now the nation’s topconsecutive tournaranked team. ments for the first Spieth, a Dallas natime since 2006. tive, is not your avThere’s no doubt erage college freshthat he’s a special man. He has already player, but he is still cl ai me d t wo U. S . growing. That’s evAmateur Champiidenced by how he onship titles, one in finished the Jack 2009 when he was Nicklaus InvitationJordan Spieth 16 and the other just al. He was not able to this year. The only capitalize on his low Freshman other golfer ever to round of 66 and close achieve this feat is Tiger Woods. out the rest of the field. His last Spieth hasn’t reached Tiger’s lev- round average of 74 ranks much el of play just yet, but if he keeps lower in the nation at 1,183rd. playing the way he has this year, “Jordan’s finish was bittersweet,” he’s not too far off. Spieth has said head coach John Fields. also participated in the last two “These last two tournaments have HP Byron Nelson Champion- been contested at championshipships held in Dallas. He tied for caliber courses that are set up for 16th in 2010 and even missed his tough finishes. There have been high school prom to tie for 32nd some tremendously difficult finin this year’s event. Now that’s ishing holes. But Jordan is a team dedication. Amateurs are not al- player and is focused on the lowed to collect any earnings in same goal as his teammates — tournaments, so Spieth gained winning tournaments.” only experience by playing with PGA Tour professionals.

SPIETH continues on PAGE 9

“I thought he played the best of any offensive player,” Brown said. “He’s stronger. He’s more confident.”

But the fifth-year running back from Pearland, Texas, couldn’t keep his team from losing by nearly 40 points.

Texas committed five turnovers and forced just one, an uncharacteristic mark considering the plus-six turnover margin the Longhorns had going into this year’s Red River Rivalry. They’ll have to protect the ball better against Oklahoma State, whose offense will be hard enough to stop without it working with a short field.

Whittaker offered another solution Monday.

FOZZY continues on PAGE 9

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Haley Eckerman spikes the ball during the Longhorns’ sweep over the Red Raiders on Wednesday.

Eckerman finished the match with nine kills.

Eckerman, Adams lead UT in sweep

By Lauren Giudice Daily Texan Staff

The No. 10 Longhorns had their second sweep in a row with a 3-0 win over Texas Tech on Wednesday.

Bailey Webster had an impressive 11 kills on .320 hitting and middle blocker Rachael Adams finished the game with seven kills and hit at a .600 clip.

The Longhorns dominated the first set and Webster had six kills.

The beginning of the set was close, but by Texas’ 16th point, the Longhorns started pulling away with the lead. Four kills each from Adams and Haley

Eckerman aided the Longhorns in their 25-17 first set win over the Red Raiders. Texas had an impressive 17 kills in the set and a .344 hitting percentage.

Amber Roberson held her own with seven digs, half of the team’s total in the set.

The Longhorns got an early 6-3 lead in the second set and didn’t look back. A service ace by Hannah Allison improved Texas’ lead to 12-5. The Red Raiders would only get six more points in the set and a kill by Eckerman would finish the set 25-11.

Eckerman finished the set with four kills. Ashley Bannister was substituted in during the

set and made an impact. She had three kills and a dig. The Longhorns (12-4; 4-1 Big 12) finished the set with a .462 hitting percentage, while Texas Tech had .053 hitting percentage.

Amber Roberson had three digs by the end of the second set. “[Head coach] Jerritt [Elliott] talks about trust and knowing that Amber is working really hard and everyone else is working really hard on our defense,” Eckerman said. “That’s trust for us to know that they’re going to get it to the setter, the setter is going to get it to us.”

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Hannah Allison is a key part of team ly. Rachael Adams finished the game with a .600 hitting percentage. In the first set, she had 15 assists and in the second set, she had two serving aces.

She finished the game with 36 assists and five digs. She’s taken on a leadership role with her improved play and team attitude.

SPIETH continues from PAGE 8 Spieth is currently ranked 12th in the nation individually and is one of three Longhorns ranked in the top-50, nationally. Senior Dylan Frittelli has not finished lower than seventh in an event this year and sits at No. 3 in the nation while redshirt junior Julio Vegas is ranked 39th.

We could be witnessing the best golfer to come through Austin since the likes of Ben Crenshaw and Justin Leonard, who have both gone on to make a pretty comfortable living on the PGA Tour. Spieth still has a lot to learn, but he’s well on his way to becoming one of the nation’s top golfers.

SPORTS BRIEFly Pujols sparks Cardinals early, bullpen holds off Brewers late ST. LOUIS — Albert Pujols hit an RBI double during a four-run first inning and the St. Louis bullpen bailed out Chris Carpenter as the Cardinals beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-3 Wednesday night for a 2-1 edge in the NL championship series.

In a matchup of aces, neither Carpenter nor 17-game Yovani Gallardo made it past the fifth. The one-run lead Carpenter handed over was just enough, as four relievers combined for four perfect innings.

Fernando Salas, Lance Lynn, Marc Rzepczynski and Jason Motte shut down the Brewers to close out the victory. Motte, who had two saves lasting more than inning in September, got four outs for this save and fanned pinch hitter Casey McGehee to end it.

Carpenter won his seventh postseason game to tie Bob Gibson’s franchise record, but with none of the brilliance of his three-hit shutout over Roy Halladay and the favored Phillies in the deciding game of the division series.

He lasted only five innings, with nearly half of his 89 pitches for balls.

The starters’ ineffectiveness was surprising considering their track records.

Carpenter has been clutch throughout his career in the postseason, going 7-2 with a 3.14 ERA in 12 games. Gallardo allowed only two runs in 21 innings, a minuscule 0.86 ERA, before Game 3.

Kyle Lohse, pitching on 12 days’ rest, starts Game 4 Thursday for the wild-card Cardinals against Randy Wolf.

The Cardinals batted around against Gallardo in the first. Pujols delivered an RBI double after starring in a Game 2 win with a home run and three doubles.

St. Louis had its chances to break away later, but hit into three double plays and stranded nine runners.

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Sha’Dare McNeal is back In her first start since opening night against Pepperdine on Sept. 26, McNeal made her presence known on the court — and it wasn’t because of her knee brace.

She had an incredible downthe -line kill that made the score 23-17 in the third.

“I figured that Rachael’s hitting numbers would go up 100 to 150 points with Sha’Dare next to her because she pulls a blocker

Low on blocks, high on digs with her and makes it a lot more challenging with that,” said head coach Jerritt Elliott. “With the numbers that Sha’Dare is able to put up and Rachael to go up for big numbers and get good balance, it was really nice to see.”

McNeal said that she is learning to trust her knee again.

“It’s been kind of a challenge,” she said. “But everyday [I’m] getting in the practice room and I’m working to get where I was.”

Elliott expected that McNeal’s return would lead to an increased amount of blocks for Texas.

But Texas had 43 digs and three team blocks. Amber Roberson had nine digs while libero Sydney Yogi and McNeal both had eight. The team’s defense has continued to get better and better this season.

Although blocks weren’t necessarily the team’s strong suit tonight, the team still dominated.

“We’ve got so much velocity

FOZZY continues from PAGE 8 “Senior leadership is the biggest key on this team,” he said. “A lot of the senior leaders were here last year. We know exactly what it feels like for something to snowball and how to turn it around.”

Oklahoma State’s defense, while not as strong as the team’s offense, is an opportunistic one.

The Cowboys have forced 10 more turnovers (17) than it’s committed (7), and their secondary has picked off nine passes in the last three games. “ They have guys that f ly around,” Whittaker said. “Their defensive line is really quick.

They’re big guys that can still move around very fast. Their linebackers are fundamentally sound, and they have great defensive backs. They have a lot of turnovers, so that’s a thing that’ll be key to protecting the ball against that defense.”

Against Oklahoma, Whittaker apparently suffered a minor ankle injury, but it barely kept him out one play. Brown said he “couldn’t get [Fozzy] out of the game” because of how badly he wanted to play despite the lopsided margin the scoreboard showed. That kind of effort is

and we’re digging balls far off the net and making it challenging,” Elliott said. “I would have thought we would have won the blocking game tonight, but we didn’t.”

He was impressed with how the team was able to slow down balls by getting touch blocks and soft blocks.

“There wasn’t a lot of balls hit to the wood and when that happens, we’re pretty successful,” Elliott said.

SWEEP continues from PAGE 8 The Longhorns started out strong in the third set and took a 15-7 lead. But once Elliott put in substitutes, the Red Raiders were determined to win the set.

At one point in the third set, Texas was outhitting Tech .349 to .040. The Longhorns had a 24-19 lead, but a surge by Tech brought the score much closer. But a kill by Haley Cameron ended the game 25-22.

With Sha’Dare McNeal back

in t he st ar ting lineup, t he Longhorns had some adjustments to make, but after sorting out some passing problems in the first set, they took the win with ease.

“With the new lineup, there’s going to be some relationship issues,” Elliott said. “But the things we thought we would get out of this lineup and knew that we would get is a lot more balance from our team.”

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Malcolm Brown carries the ball in a recent game for Texas.

Whittaker has taken the freshman under his wing this season.

catching the attention of some of his teammates on offense.

“Fozzy did outstanding,” freshman receiver Jaxon Shipley said.

“He did great for us on offense.

That kickoff return really sparked something for us. I know we were behind, but that showed a little bit of his character on that kickoff to try so hard.”

Even those that aren’t his teammates are taking notice of Whittaker. Mack Brown’s wife, Sally, mentioned to her husband

how great of a mentor he is after observing Whittaker maneuver Malcolm Brown, his partner in the backfield, around a dinner table much like he does on a gridiron.

Whittaker’s response?

“Someone was good to me,” he said.

The best thing Whittaker could do for now, though, is to do what he’s been doing all season — showing how it’s done on the field.

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Week 6 is upon us. Just like every other week, you’ll have some tough decisions to make with your roster.

Here are a few suggestions of players to start and to sit.

Players to Start: Josh Freeman, Tampa Bay Buccaneers — Freeman is a quarterback that leads his teams to wins and comes up clutch in the fourth quarter (except for last week’s embarrassing loss to San Francisco).

But unfortunately for Freeman’s fans, his fourth quarter stats count for the same amount as the numbers in the other three — where Freeman is an average quarterback mostly because of Tampa Bay’s heavy reliance on the run. But this week, he will be forced to throw the ball to keep up with the explosive New Orleans Saints, so expect Chris O’Meara | Associated Press at least 300 yards throwing and a Tampa Bay quarterback Josh Freeman congratulates receiver Mike few touchdowns.

Williams during a recent game for the Buccaneers.

Cedric Benson, Cincinnati Bengals — The former Longhorn running back hasn’t had the greatest start to the season. He’s seen eight man fronts all year as defenses try to force rookie quarterback Andy Dalton to throw. But this week Benson comes up against a very favorable matchup with the Colts’ run defense, so he is a must start.

Players to Sit: Santana Moss, Washington Redskins — Moss has been a solid fantasy option this season, averaging just under nine points a contest. But this week, the Redskins are going against an Eagles team that desperately needs a win, and a desperate team is a dangerous one. Expect Washington’s offense to be handcuffed all game, especially Moss who will be covered by this offseason’s biggest prize, Nnamdi Asomugha.

Mike Williams, Tampa Bay Buccaneers — The wideout has had a horrendous start this year with only 183 yards in five games after a stellar rookie campaign where he compiled 1,147 yards and 12 touchdowns. Expect Williams to get back Joseph Addai, Indianapolis on track this weekend against New Orleans, as Freeman should be tar- Colts — Without Peyton Mangeting his most talented receiving ning, the Colts have struggled, and Addai is no exception. He option early and often.

has only 249 yards and a touchdown this year, and to make matters worse, he went down with a hamstring injury last week. Don’t expect Addai to provide anything for your lineup this weekend, as it is questionable as to whether he will even see the field.

Jahvid Best, Detroit Lions — The second-year running back had a breakout game Monday against the Bears, rushing for 163 yards and a touchdown. But because Best had only rushed for 190 total yards in four previous games, his owners should be careful of the statistical anomaly.

This week Best comes up against a stingy San Francisco defense, further raising the likelihood he will underperform.

By Noah Trister Associated Press

DETROIT— The Texas tag team of Nelson Cruz and Mike Napoli was too much for the Detroit Tigers.

Cruz made a rocket throw to keep the score tied, then hit a crushing three-run homer in the 11th inning off Jose Valverde that helped send the Rangers over the Tigers 7-3 Wednesday night for a 3-1 lead in the AL championship series. Napoli had put Texas ahead with an RBI single earlier in the 11th.

Cruz, whose grand slam in the 11th inning won Game 2, once again starred for the Rangers in a game delayed at the start for more than two hours by rain.

With Detroit runners at the corners in the eighth and the score 3-all, Cruz caught Delmon Young’s flyball to right field and made a strong peg to Napoli, the catcher, to nail Miguel Cabrera.

“For you guys that haven’t seen Nelson every day, he’s capable of doing exactly what he’s doing,” Texas manager Ron Washington said. “We’ve been waiting for it for a long time, and as I always say, I don’t judge Nelson just because he hits balls out of the ballpark. He’s a complete player. He takes pride in every part of the game.”

Napoli blooped a go-ahead single in the 11th and Cruz soon added his fourth home run of the ALCS. Cruz became the first player in major league history to hit a pair of extra-inning homers in the same postseason series.

Texas tries for its second consecutive AL pennant on Thursday, sending C.J. Wilson to the mound to face Detroit ace Justin Verlander.

The ALCS has marked quite a turnaround for Cruz. After going just 1 for 15 in the firstround playoff win over Tampa Bay, he’s 5 for 14 with nine RBIs in only four games against the Tigers — and seven of those

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Texas’ Nelson Cruz rounds first base after hitting a 3-run home run in the 11th inning to help the Rangers beat Detroit.

RBIs have come in the 11th inning alone.

Brandon Inge hit a solo home run in the Detroit seventh that tied it. The Tigers wasted a terrific chance an inning later following some risky Texas strategy.

With one out and nobody on, the Rangers intentionally walked Cabrera, practically daring the rest of the struggling Detroit lineup to beat them. The AL batting champion hit a two-run double earlier in the game, in fact.

“First time shame on you, next time shame on me,” Washington said.

Victor Martinez, who hurt his ribcage on a home run swing in Game 3, followed with a single

to right and Cabrera lumbered around to third.

“I respect Martinez a heck of a lot,” Washington said. “Once again, he got that base hit and we almost paid for it, but I certainly wasn’t going to let [Cabrera] have a swing of the bat there and beat us.”

Young, another Tigers starter who has been banged up lately, managed to lift the ball to medium right. Cruz caught it and made a perfect, one-hop throw to the plate that beat Cabrera by several feet.

Cabrera bowled over Napoli, to no avail. Napoli held onto the ball and Cabrera never touched the plate.

“We throw to the bases every day,” Cruz said.

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Punk rapper transforms original dark, brutal style

By Ali Breland Daily Texan Staff

After three years, Houston grime-punk rapper, B L A C K I E All Caps, With Spaces is back sporting a fresh hair cut and a fresh album, True Spirit and Not Giving A Fuck. After ditching his signature B L A C K I E dreadlocks in favor of a cleaner look, his subsequent release of True Spirit deviates from the traditionally blown speaker sounds of past albums in favor of a cleaner production style. That said, the instrumentals are still pretty vitriolic, with quick, deeply distorted synth, guitar lines and enraged, thunderous beats.

The change works and B L A C K I E does a fantastic job of not sacrificing any of his unbridled rawness, despite not emulating the intensity of his live shows, where he has no less than 30 people surrounding him who violently flail and shove each other for the entirety of his set, occasionally using them to crowd surf.

Tr u e S p i r i t i s p r o b a b l y B L A C K I E’s most coherent release to date. While his two previous albums, Spred Luv and Wilderness of North America, were among the best releases of the underground Houston scene, True Spirit illustrates the actualization of his potential. Before, if you wanted to show your friends B L A C K I E, you had

slowly ease them into the artist’s dark, brutal world, showing them Spred Luv’s succinct and anthemic “My Window,” before moving onto the more caustic styling’s of “Regrets Of An Average African-American Amateur Drug Lord,” and “Don’t Cum 2 Houston.”

As in albums past, True Spirit is a very cathartic experience for B L A C K I E, as he makes allusions to and articulates his innermost thoughts, emotions and problems. On “Of My Enemy,” he woefully raps, “I want it so badly I might cr y/Get me the substance, here is the money/Let me forget everything I miss.”

BLACKIE frequently makes lyrical references to his mother on the record.

On “This Blood (Helmet Song),” he spits, “Before I walk out the door, I hear my momma shout/Michael, watch for cars.” He cites her as a person very important to him and the reason for his early interest in music. He even recorded the album in her kitchen in La Porte.

The album is definitely one of the best underground releases Texas stands to see all year.

Outside of the general amateurish tendencies and quirkiness local albums generally posses due to the lack of professional-level production, True Spirit And Not Giving A Fuck is really good and worth a listen by anyone who remotely likes hip-hop or punk or music.

The album is definitely one of the best underground releases Texas stands to see all year.

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Tom Cullen and Chris New star in Andrew Haigh’s romantic drama “Weekend.”

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Richard Linklater’s “Before Sunset” is one of those classic fallingin-love films, an elliptically-paced look at a single night in the lives of two young globetrotters. With “Weekend,” writer-director Andrew Haigh has produced a very similar film, a gay-themed riff on flash-in-the-pan romance that takes place over a weekend in the life of two British men.

The film’s central duet is made up of Tom Cullen and Chris New. Cullen plays the insecure Russell, who goes cruising at a gay bar one evening and meets Glen (Chris New). After what could be a onenight stand, Russell can’t get his mind off Glen and the two end up spending most of the weekend together in a romantic stupor, high

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Cullen and New are more or less the only actors in the film, save for a few scenes with a friend of Russell’s that bookend the film.

With the entire film resting on their shoulders, both actors prove to be pretty exceptional, selling every bit of their characters’ banter, bickering and discussion of their gay identities. Thankfully, they’re backed by a strong script from Haigh.

Haigh edited the film as well, bringing his background working on the editing team for films such as “Gladiator” and “Black Hawk Down” to a very different genre. Haigh’s script keeps the film moving very quickly, avoiding self-indulgent flab that could rob the proceedings of their emotional heft, and his script is

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While his first bike rests peacefully in the rafters above his workshop, Cason’s love for bike building has driven him to build bikes for friends, professional cyclists (including Olympic rider and gold medalist Ty-

we want,” Cason said.

In what Cason called a “me too” culture where “everyone has the same jeans and the same pair of tennis shoes,” he knows customers value the attention to detail and the uniqueness of each bike.

“Most [customers] want a bike, but at the same time, they want a conversation piece,” Cason said. “I don’t know, maybe there’s a little mystique with them. I mean when you go into doing everything just for that person, there’s definitely a difference.”

Cason, along with the help of good friend and artist Darin

Wheeler, has created some very special bicycles. One of Cason’s favorites was painted to look like mahogany wood and the letters were burned in with a branding iron. The KirkLee “Starry Night” bike, inspired by the Van Gogh painting won Best Paint at the 2011 North American Handmade Bicycle Show.

Wheeler recognizes the work Cason does to get this type of artistic freedom from the customers for bikes.

“Brad definitely trusts my artistic judgment, and that’s fantastic on my part,” Wheeler said. “Usually when it comes to the customers, he does a good

job saying ‘Hey, just trust me.

We’ll take care of it.’ So it’s just kind of a perfect mesh.”

Understanding the dynamics behind a bike has given Cason a whole new appreciation for riding. And like he said before, Cason plans on building KirkLees for years to come.

“As much as I love my bikes, the same mentality affects me in other things where I’ve been starting to think I can build my own motorcycle,” Cason said.

“I’m thinking maybe this winter I can start putting together a carbon fiber motorcycle and just pushing my knowledge and where I can go.”

FOOTLOOSE continues from PAGE 14 mack.” Once everything shifted and Craig came onboard and it was a clean slate, he got to start casting. I went in for the audition process and went through the steps of that and finally ended up at Paramount doing a screen test and it went my way.

Director Craig Brewer arrives at the premiere of “Footloose” in Los Angeles.

“Footloose” opens in theaters Friday.

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I really believed that if teenagers were going to have the same experience I had in 1984, then they needed a fresh new cast they could claim as their own. That’s what I did.

Kenny Wormald: I remem-

ber when it was the musical version before Craig was on board.

I was jealous. I grew up dancing, I had seen “Footloose” 100 times, and I thought “Dammit, I think I should be Ren McCor-

Real challenges.

Unreal support.

DT: What can the new generation get from this story?

Brewer: I guess when I look back on “Footloose,” because I’ve watched it almost every other year of my life, I saw things in the original “Footloose” I don’t think are in the VH1 remember-the-’80s reel. I remember there being some serious drama in it. I’ll never forget being in the audience and seeing Ariel yell at her father “I’m not even a virgin” in a church. As a young teen, I got to see this guy stand up for his individuality and stand up for what he believes in, and it was in a world that was both brutal and unfair and also joyous, with friends and allies. Let’s clean the slate. Let’s assume there’s no “Footloose” anymore. What movies do teenagers have, other than superhero movies or fantasy movies where they can explore those things? How better of a narrative than “Footloose” to give them that

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sense of self-worth that I got when I was 13?

DT: What was your biggest challenge in remaking the film?

Brewer: This moment with me talking to you all. I knew there was going to be two phases that would be challenging: One was making it, and that would be the first challenge, and that has all the minichallenges involved in it — Did we cast the right people, did we do the right music, did I write the right scenes, do we have the right costumes? There’s all these minichallenges inside the big challenges of “Did we pull the movie off?” I think we pulled the movie off. I’ve never been more confident of the fact that, without any arrogance, you are looking at the only two guys who could have and should have done the remake of “Footloose.”

It is a challenge. It’s a challenge knowing I had new actors that were going to have to take this kind of hate. I knew their heart was in the right place. I knew they had a love for the original and they wanted to do right by it and we were going to have to weather this time, and eventually, the movie was going to have to have its day.

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ler Hamilton and Swiss cyclist Christian Heule) or anyone who asks.

Cason’s bikes start at $4,600 and go up from there depending on the paint job and other factors. Customers are sent to an expert fitter and then bring the measurements to Cason. He says paying for the fitting is “the best money you will ever spend” in terms of getting the perfect fit. They discuss what type of bike the customer wants, and Cason makes it clear, he doesn’t have limits.

“I do not have limitations in my geometry, so we can connect two tubes together at any angle

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Pulitzer-winning writer Jennifer Egan will be reading and discussing her award-winning novel “A Visit from the Goon Squad” tonight. The coming of age novel received critical reception for its innovative delve into growing up and unconventional short story-like structure.

WHAT: The Michener Center for Writers presents Jennifer Egan WHEN: Thursday, Oct. 13 from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.

WHERE: ACE building, auditorium 2.302 ADMISSION: Free

To celebrate the debut of its latest exhibition, “El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You About Africa,” this month’s B Scene is ’70s funk and soul-inspired. A Ghana-born artist who grew up in Nigeria, El Anatsui’s sculptural and wall arts are heavily influenced and inspired by the West African region he grew up in. There will be performances from Hard Proof (members of Black Joe Lewis & the Honey Bears) and Black Red Black and gallery tours.

Trent Lesikar | Daily Texan Staff

Brad Cason, owner of KirkLee Bicycles, creates handmade carbon fiber bicycles in the garage behind his home. Cason will showcase his bikes at this weekend’s Texas Custom Bicycle Show.

Bike innovator enjoys success of small garage business

By Sarah-Grace Sweeney Daily Texan Staff

Brad Cason knows the devil is in the details.

He is a man who takes pride in his workmanship, something he views as a bit of a lost art form.

And he hopes his work will visible at this weekend’s Texas Custom Bicycle Show.

Cason is the man behind KirkLee Bicycles, a company that creates custom-made carbon fiber bikes. He builds them according to arm length, leg length and even shoe size, all

in a quaint workshop in the garage behind his home. He leaves the garage door up, welcoming friends and customers to ride by on their KirkLee bikes and say hello.

“I never thought I would do this for a career,” Cason said.

“But when I’m in my shop and I’m building, I’m absolutely at my happiest.”

Cason began KirkLee Bicycles in 2008 but has been building bicycles since his college days at Texas A&M, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering and later a master’s degree in

business. He spent time working with a corporate tool company in Las Vegas, but when the opportunity to start KirkLee presented itself, Cason couldn’t say no.

“I could handle the corporate world again, but I don’t see KirkLee going anywhere,” Cason said. “This was a challenge because I thought I’d start my own sporting goods company and do it my way and see if I can, and I feel like I’ve done it.”

Cason’s wife, Cecilia Burnside, who has been with him through the creation of

KirkL ee, s aid she has s e en how fulfilling creating bicycles is for Cason.

“He puts an unbelievable amount of detail into his work and a lot of time,” Burnside said.

“It’s kind of the best of both worlds for him because he has a very artistic side but also a very mechanical precision side.”

A cyclist since 1995, Cason has had a passion for cycling for a while now. But it wasn’t until 2001 that he considered building his own. He was in college and while he lacked money, he had the time to look into building

things. First it was his own surfboard and then his own mountain bike. He began researching how to build bikes and decided that even if his first bike fell apart immediately, it was something he had to try.

“One of my favorites is probably the first mountain bike that started it all,” Cason reminisced.

“I had hundreds of hours in it and well over a thousand dollars, and I didn’t even know if it was going to work. But you can’t be afraid or you’ll never get anywhere.”

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Chocolate festival fights multiple sclerosis with sweets ‘Footloose’ director contemplates casting choices, film perspectives

By Alex Williams Daily Texan Staff

By Sarah Benner Daily Texan Staff

Chocolate is an indulgent confection that evokes a stirring of comfort, pleasure and happiness. The fifth annual Austin Chocolate Festival is bringing the community together for a weekend of charity to support the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Steven Flood, owner of Fat Turkey Chocolate Company and festival planner, originally organized the festival as a medium for chocolate-related businesses to market themselves and to raise money for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation. But this year, Flood has chosen to support the National MS Society win honor of his friend, Katie Fowler, who was diagnosed with the disease in 2009.

Multiple sclerosis affects the brain and spinal cord, interrupting electrical signals to the rest of the body. Symptoms vary with each person but can range anywhere from fatigue and pain to motor impairment. Because of the variety of symptoms, MS is difficult to diagnose and expensive to treat.

“I didn’t really know much about MS until [Fowler] was diagnosed with it last year, and watching what she was going through, I realized it’s a really horrible disease,” Flood said.

“There’s a lot of treatments and breakthroughs that are right around the corner. I’m trying to do what we can to get around that corner, help her get around that corner because they’re

“Footloose” is director Craig Brewer’s fourth feature film, a remake of the 1984 Kevin Bacon classic. The film continues Brewer’s tradition of southern-set films, a collection that also includes “Hustle & Flow” and “Black Snake Moan,” two of the most distinctly deep-fried southern films to come out of the last decade. Star Kenny Wormald, taking the reins from Bacon as new kid in town Ren McCormack, has very little on-screen experience but performs admirably in a role that could have easily been a flavorless rehash. “Footloose” opens in theaters everywhere Oct. 14. Check back tomorrow for a review.

Tremt Lesikar | Daily Texan Staff

Allen DuBose and Sasha Rangel, co-owners of Cordial Creations, will launch their chocolate company at this weekend’s fifth-annual Austin Chocolate Festival. DuBose and Rangel will also be participating in a walk benefitting the National Multiple Sclerosis Society which is associated with the festival.

really close.”

Fowler and Flood attended high school together in Norman, Okla. Though they weren’t friends in high school and led separate lives with families in Texas and Colorado, respectively. Facebook has allowed them to reconnect and build an as-real-as-it-gets friendship.

This weekend will be Fowler and Flood’s first reunion since high school.

Before she was diagnosed, Fowler was a Montessori school teacher. She’s now part of a free medical study for an MS drug which normally costs up to $18,000 a month and could slow the progression of her disease.

However, most people aren’t as fortunate as Fowler. Copaxone, a commonly prescribed MS medi-

cation, can cost around $1,700 a month with insurance.

“Without organizations like MS Society there to help pay for research, she wouldn’t have access to that. One of the things I’d really like to see is the turnaround of that whole [healthcare] industry and make drugs and treatments affordable for people,” Flood said.

Allen DuBose and Sasha Rangel, co-owners of Cordial Creations, are launching their company at the festival this weekend. Cordials are cream- or liqueur-wrapped cherries dipped in chocolate. DuBose and Rangel will be offering two samples, their butter rum and mocha cordials. In honor of their immediate family members affected by MS, they also will be participat-

WHAT: Fifth-annual Austin Chocolate Festival WHERE: Norris Conference Center WHEN: Oct. 15-16, 10 a.m-6 p.m.

WEB: austinchocolatefestival.com TICKETS: Adults $21.65 per day, children $10.83 per day

ing in the walk MS team associated with the festival.

The Austin Chocolate Festival’s Walk MS team has raised $1,240 for MS research before t he fest iva l has e ven taken place.

“Just $10 helps a person with MS who is wheelchair-bound have home healthcare for one day,” Fowler said. “It just means a lot.”

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ny to me was the real southern relatives that I had didn’t mind stereotypes and sometimes would slip into it themselves ... I feel that the more movies I make that take place in the South, I kind of break down some of those things.

DT: What drew you to the project and was it difficult to put your own personal spin on a preexisting property?

Brewer: It was very daunting, and I turned it down a couple of times. In the original, the accident took place much later in the narrative, but having it right at the beginning changed the way not only audiences would feel about the movie but really changed the way I personally was perceiving it. What

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Firfth-annual fundraiser markets businesses, helps mutliple sclerosis patients

I knew they had a love for the original and they wanted to do right by it.

The Daily Texan participated in a roundtable interview with Brewer and Wormald last month after a screening at the Alamo Drafthouse.

— Craig Brewer

it did for me was play more to my concerns as a parent as opposed to just a guy. I consider myself pretty liberal, but when safety or harm or fear of death starts being introThe Daily Texan: How did being duced to my children, I change raised in the South affect your per- into a different person, and I guess spective in making this film?

I started to understand Reverend Craig Brewer: All of my fami- Moore a little bit better. ly comes from the South, but I had the opportunity to live elsewhere.

DT: Tell me about casting.

For me, I would always go back to Brewer: I felt very confident to the South during the summers, so move forward with it. Also in castI kind of felt like Ren McCormack. ing, I think that there were a lot of I was always very aware that there different ideas before I came onto was both a stereotypical south and the project on how to cast the movie. a real south. What was kind of fun-

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