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SG proposes laptop code of conduct Rule would allow any speaker to request all computers be shut off By Jordan Haeger Daily Texan Staff The Student Government proposed a new code of conduct last night regarding the use of computers during Assembly meetings. The code would give any speaker in the Assembly the right to request that all laptops be turned off while in session. Computers may be used with

permission from the chair as long as they are not connected to the Internet, according to the bill. Agency directors may be exempt from the rule if their jobs depend on the use of laptops. Campus technology agency director Allyson Holley said she proposed the bill after a friend of hers, who is not a member of Student Government, said the assembly doesn’t listen to people who are not among its members.

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Erin Pate and her daughters, Jasmine, 6, Jordan, 14, and Sydney, 8, gathered Tuesday to support Albert Cochran, also known as “Leslie,” after he was hospitalized Oct. 3 for head injuries. Leslie used to live around the corner from Pate’s home in South Austin. “The kids got to see him in regular clothing and got to know him as a person,” Pate said.

Austin icon confirmed to be in ‘fair condition’ at Brackenridge By Rachel Platis Daily Texan Staff A vigil of remembrance turned into a celebration of hope Tuesday night for a wellknown Austinite who has been in the hospital since Oct. 3. Albert Cochran, better known in the city as “Leslie,” was upgraded to “fair condition” by hospital officials after undergoing brain surgery due to a fall last Saturday.

The cross-dressing icon had fallen next to a taxi on Oltorf Street near Interstate Highway 35 at about 1 a.m. Cochran, 58, is known for making heads turn as he rides his bike and walks downtown in a bra, thong or other women’s garments. He is a poster child of the popular slogan, “Keep Austin Weird,” and a champion of the homeless and once ran for mayor of Austin.

Cochran’s status was released Tuesday after a niece came into town three days ago, said Debbie Russell, Cochran’s friend and president of the Central Texas Chapter of the ACLU of Texas. She said Cochran suffered from an aneurysm but did not know if it was what made him fall. “As of Friday, he was still unconscious

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Public voices concerns on Cap Metro fare hike At meeting, directors push plan to enact rate increase early By Molly Triece Daily Texan Staff Capital Metro hosted the first of three public meetings Tuesday to receive input on a proposed plan implementing a 25 percent fare raise eight months ahead of schedule. A two-tier public transportation fare increase was approved by the Capital Metro board of directors in August 2008. Bus fares went from 50 cents to 75 cents that August and were due to increase to $1 in August 2010, but Capital Metro wants the date moved forward to January. “Even with the proposed fare increase we’re still among the lowest in the state and even the country,” said Capital Metro spokeswoman Misty Whited. Bob Newell sits in on the Capital Metro meeting regarding the upcoming route and fare changes. Newell has been riding Capital Metro for two years and expressed concern regarding the fare increases.

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Whited said Capital Metro employees surveyed community members and found that people would prefer to pay a higher fare price than have services reduced. If fares are not increased, Whited said Capital Metro would make its own cost-cutting measures, including eliminating routes or certain stops to keep the business afloat. “For the amount of service we provide it’s a very good deal,” Whited said. “When we talk to people we try to make them understand we provide a lot of services and it’s not cheap.” Capital Metro receives most of its profits from sales taxes rather than from fare revenue. Whited said part of the goal of the fare increases is to generate a larger portion of the company’s profits from fare revenue. “It’s just part of a business

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Student Government Administrative Director Katina Rajunov, center, helps legislative assistants Jesse Hernandez, left, and Melissa Dunn, right, set up computers to type the minutes for Tuesday night’s meeting.

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Professor Peter Frumkin engages in an intimate discussion about nonprofit organizations. UT students attended the talk Tuesday in the business school.

By Molly Triece Daily Texan Staff Public Affairs professor Peter Frumkin identified a few of the biggest differences between nonprofit and for-profit businesses in today’s economic climate during a Net Impact Undergraduate talk Tuesday. The student group organizes lectures about business issues that might not be found in classes. “A lot of our members are interested in nonprofits,” said Elaine Hsu, Net Impact undergraduate academic director. Hsu said students often look for jobs in the nonprofit sector immediately after graduating without giving themselves the opportunity to find out what business transactions happen behind the scenes of every nonprofit’s mission. “Lots of people who work in the nonprofit sector maybe mean well but don’t have the business background that could make them more effective,” Hsu said.

Frumkin said although both nonprofit and for-profit sectors of the business world “push a product,” the philosophy and results of the two differ. “The objective and purpose of for-profit organizations is often extremely clear and very defined,” Frumkin said. “Nonprofits’ goals are more amorphous.” Nonprofits conduct business in the context of a specified mission, Frumkin said, and the progress a nonprofit makes toward its mission is more difficult to measure than the revenue a for-profit business generates. “At the end of the day, they’d ring up the register and say how much was sold,” Frumkin said. The contents of the “register” depend on how many products the retailer sold to customers. In for-profit businesses, the buyer of the product is also typically the user.

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ACLU raises questions about intelligence center plans By Bobby Longoria Daily Texan Staff The American Civil Liberties Union is expressing concern about the privacy policy draft for the soon-to-be established Austin Regional Intelligence Center, citing unclear language regarding military involvement and the administration of information. The center will be a single intelligence-gathering entity led by the Austin Police Department with participating agencies from across Central Texas, including the Round Rock Police Department and the sheriff’s offices of both Travis and Williamson counties. The City Council approved a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Aug. 6 to pay for the renovation of an existing Texas Depart-

ment of Public Safety building to house the center. “The [center] was established in response to the increased need for timely information-sharing and exchange of crime-related and counterterrorism-related intelligence information among members of the law enforcement community,” according to the privacy policy draft. The ACLU first requested the privacy policy Aug. 14, but the City responded by asking the Texas Attorney General’s office if some of the information could be exempt from public disclosure. Meetings were held between the ACLU and APD beginning Sept. 2 to address the withholding of information. APD gave the ACLU a Sept. 3 draft of the center’s privacy poli-

cy, and the ACLU then submitted their concerns, including the lack of a clause that specifically states military participation in domestic intelligence-gathering be forbidden in compliance with federal law. “Anything that is not made very clear in the privacy policy may not be clear to the officers who are working in the intelligence center,” said Rebecca Bernhardt, ACLU of Texas policy development director. “I think that this language is very broad and without a clear prohibition on sharing information with military intelligence.” Funding was granted after the federal government gave Austin an Urban Areas Security Initiative designation in 2008. The designation recognizes that Austin is “large enough and [has] enough

critical infrastructure to warrant paying attention — to make sure something doesn’t happen here and try to figure out ways to prevent something from happening,” said David Carter, APD chief of staff. “No, [the policy] does not specifically say that the police department can’t operate or work with military criminal investigative services,” Carter said. He will be the chairman of the center’s executive committee. “There are issues involving both federal and state crimes, so the issue about military intelligence is controlled by the federal government.” Carter said the center will ensure that it will not be involved in “nefarious activity,” and no

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David Carter, Austin Police Department assistant chief, will oversee the fusion center, which he expects will be operational by early 2010.

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decision to have a more financially stable Capital Metro in the future,â&#x20AC;? said Gerardo Castillo, Capital Metro business and community development director. Castillo said other companies have increased fares over time, but Capital Metro did not start charging more until two years ago. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Costs go up over time,â&#x20AC;? Castillo said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a company we never made the tough decision to raise fares.â&#x20AC;? Some raised concern at the public meeting about the extent of the fare increases. In the past, bus passes for riders with disabilities allowed them to make one initial payment of five dollars and then use a bus card for a period of up to two years. Under the proposed fare increases, those with the card would have to pay an additional 25 cents per ride. Many complained that for people with disabilities, the bus is their only option of transportation, and fixed incomes make it difficult to cope with price increases. Negotiations with UT were also mentioned. Whited said Capital Metro officials were beginning talks with the University about possibly adjusting the terms of student benefits. Students currently ride for free, but over the next few years the agreement between the bus company and UT might be adjusted. Renata Strebe, communication studies and human development senior, said students should continue to be able to ride Capital Metro for free. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since UT is a commuter school and not everyone can live on campus, people need to have an easy and accessible way to get to campus,â&#x20AC;? Strebe said.

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Filmmaker Kevin West and visual artist Earl Saathoff burn a â&#x20AC;&#x153;smudge stick,â&#x20AC;? a sage plant from New Mexico used as an herbal cleanser. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to do this for Leslie so that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get better,â&#x20AC;? West said.

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and had no brain activity,â&#x20AC;? Russell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This changed over the weekend, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a miracle from what I understand. That boy has a lot of life in him.â&#x20AC;? The vigil was held outside of Brackenridge Hospital. Friends and acquaintances held signs and made toasts to the man loved by many in the community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was just a day ago that we were preparing for the end of his life,â&#x20AC;? Russell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gathering to support him and show him how much heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cared for in this town.â&#x20AC;? Though Cochran may not be able to live the lifestyle he had before the accident, he represents a part of the Austin community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Certainly, he represents the weirder side in Austin, but he also represents the democratic aspect,â&#x20AC;? Russell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He repre-

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sents the activist side of this community thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not afraid to take on police accountability of the tough issues.â&#x20AC;? Cochran is a multifaceted, intelligent and unique individual who mostly chose to live as he does, Russell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What Leslie does as a spectacle is his gift to the community because he keeps people interested,â&#x20AC;? Russell said. The vigil got off to a slow start, but more and more attendees drifted across Red River Street with candles and stories to join the vigil held by Leslieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s friends. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m disappointed in the turnout because so many of my friends know Leslie and said that they couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come,â&#x20AC;? said Austin resident Elizabeth Balentine. Tera Bock, an AmeriCorps family advocate at SafePlace, a center for victims of domestic

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helps solve a crime, adjudicate that crime within the rules of law, is it constitutionally collected, are there sensitive things in there that we have to worry about [and] if there is a [confidential] information issue,â&#x20AC;? Carter said. Carter said the center will not retain records for more than five years unless there is a criminal predicate justified by an ongoing investigation. The ACLU is concerned about the ways information is gathered, in particular the practice of data mining, in which private information such as such as details from a driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license and addresses can be attained via electronic means. Carter said detectives use the Internet to gather only open-source

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violence, has worked with the homeless population in Austin for about a year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Leslie has the intention of making people happy,â&#x20AC;? Bock said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In working for SafePlace, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned what people need to be happy, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s having someone to be there to believe in them.â&#x20AC;? One commonality that Austinites share is the crazy experiences theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve shared with Cochran, said Austin photographer Mike Mann. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once, I was at a coffee shop, and Leslie tried to bum a cigarette off of me but couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t because of his fingernails,â&#x20AC;? Mann said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We [talked], and then I saw him again when I took this girl out on our first date, and I said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You gotta meet this guy.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Mann said that they took â&#x20AC;&#x153;lewdâ&#x20AC;? pictures with the man who has become a fixture in the

Austin community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whom else in Austin have they made refrigerator magnets out of?â&#x20AC;? Mann said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once you get past the initial shock, you realize heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just trying to put a smile on your face.â&#x20AC;? Erin Pate and her family live in South Austin at a house across the street from where Cochran often stays. She said she had gotten to know Leslie when she sold jewelry on Sixth Street. Pate brought her four children to the vigil in support of the homeless and to show them how important it is to take care of those in need. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Leslie is an Austin icon,â&#x20AC;? Pate said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fun figure thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made this town fun, though he is a bit inappropriate sometimes.â&#x20AC;? Pateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter, Jordan, echoed her mother â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sentiments. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He keeps Austin weird,â&#x20AC;? she said.

campus watch Cruel Intentions DKR TEXAS MEMORIAL STADIUM, 2200 Robert Dedman Disorderly Conduct- Offensive Language: A UT staff member reported two non-UT creating a disturbance within a section located on the east side. During the investigation, one subject continued to chime in from afar, interfering with the interview. As the second subject turned to leave the stadium, he informed the first subject what he intended to do with his derriere. The subject was taken into custody for Disorderly Conduct. The second subject was escorted from the stadium and released. Occurred on: 10-10-09, at 6:55 PM.

Making Daddy proud DKR TEXAS MEMORIAL STADIUM, 2200 Robert Dedman Consumption of Alcohol by a Minor: A non-UT subject was observed attempting to conceal a 12oz. beer as he entered the stadium. The officer learned the subject was under the legal age of 21. The subject claimed that his father had allowed him to drink a beer at the tailgate party they were attending. The officer had the subjectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father meet them at the entrance gate, and the subjectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father told the of-

ficer that his son was lying. The subject was issued a field release citation for Consumption of Alcohol by a Minor. Occurred on: 1010-09, at 8:18 PM. Crime Prevention Tip: While it is true that a parent can consent to allow their underage children to consume alcohol, that person must remain under the control of their parent.

Coffee break over PERRY-CASTENADA LIBRARY, 101 East 21st Street Theft: A UT student reported several textbooks, a Coach purse and a Sony digital camera stolen from a study desk on the 5th floor. The student reported these items had been left unattended when she went to the first floor to get a cup of coffee. When she returned she observed an unknown subject walking away from the area that she had been studying in. When the subject saw her he began to walk faster. He was described as a white male with dirty blond hair. He was last seen wearing blue jeans, solid green shirt and carrying a tan satchel. Loss value: $475.00. Occurred on: 10-10-09, between 2:45 PM and 3:00 PM. Compiled by UTPD Officer Darrell Halstead

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GOP Senator joins Democrats in advancing new health care bill

Abortion rate declines globally; unsafe procedures kill women

WASHINGTON — Historic legislation to expand U.S. health care and control costs won its first congressional Republican supporter Tuesday and cleared a key Senate hurdle, a triumph that propelled President Barack Obama’s signature issue toward votes this fall in both houses of Congress. “When history calls, history calls,” said Maine Republican Olympia Snowe, whose declaration of support ended weeks of suspense and caused the 14-9 vote in the Senate Finance Committee. With her decision, the 62-year-old lawmaker bucked her own leadership on the most high-profile issue of the year in Congress, and gave the drive to remake health care at least a hint of the bipartisanship Obama seeks. At the White House, Obama called the events “a critical milestone” toward remaking the nation’s health care system. Nearly nine months after the president pledged in his Inaugural Address to tackle health care, legislation to expand coverage to millions who lack it has now advanced further than President Bill Clinton’s ill-fated effort more than a decade ago — or any other attempt in more than a generation.

Nobel Peace Prize judges defend awarding Obama distinction OSLO — One judge noted with surprise that President Barack Obama “didn’t look particularly happy” at being named the Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Another marveled at how his critics could be so harsh and patronizing. In a rare public defense of a process normally shrouded in secrecy, four of the Nobel jury’s five judges spoke out Tuesday about a selection they said was both merited and unanimous. To those who say a Nobel is too much too soon in Obama’s young presidency, “We simply disagree. He got the prize for what he has done,” committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland told The Associated Press by telephone from France. Strasbourg, France. Compiled from Associated Press reports

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton take questions from the media after their meetings in Moscow on Tuesday. Clinton called on Russian leaders to pressure Iran to prove its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.

Clinton seeks support in Russia By Matthew Lee The Associated Press MOSCOW — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Russian leaders on Tuesday to urge their support in pressuring Iran to prove its nuclear program is peaceful. In talks with Russia’s president and foreign minister, Clinton is trying to gauge Moscow’s willingness to back specific measures that could be imposed on Iran if it fails to comply with international demands to come clean on its atomic activities. At the beginning of her meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Clinton said they would be discussing “im-

portant matters, both between our two countries but including important matters we are working on globally.” Beyond Iran, the two diplomats discussed a recent Obama administration decision to scale back a Bush-era proposal for an anti-missile shield in Europe. Also on the agenda was Afghanistan, nuclear-armed North Korea, NATO expansion, the situation in Georgia after its conflict with Russia last year, human rights and arms control. Clinton met later Tuesday with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. A senior State Department official traveling with Clinton said

Irish leader ousted over expenses

By Shawn Pogatchnik The Associated Press DUBLIN — The speaker of Ireland’s parliament resigned Tuesday after his years of lavish expenses and foreign travel were publically exposed. John O’Donoghue delivered a defiant, bitter parting speech that accused his fellow lawmakers of hypocrisy. He became the first speaker in the 87-year history of the parliament to be ousted. “I will accept the verdict of informed judgment, but not the verdict of the disingenuous,” said O’Donoghue, a widely liked lawmaker who became parliament’s moderator in 2007 after five years as Ireland’s minister of the arts, sports and tourism. Both are considered among the cushiest jobs in the Irish government. O’Donoghue’s ouster was inspired both by Ireland’s sudden nosedive into recession and debt, which fueled public anger at lawmakers still living large at taxpayer expense, and by the lawmaker-expenses furor in neighboring Britain. Irish broadcasters RTE, unusually, showed O’Donoghue’s parting shots live. “I never transgressed any procedure, guideline or regulation. I never committed any offense. I am not guilty of any corruption,” said O’Donoghue, a 53-year-old former lawyer who has been a lawmaker since 1987. “I never took money or abused my office for my own enrichment. All these costs were paid to service providers. I did not receive a penny from such costs. These are the facts.” His fall from grace began three months ago, when Irish newspapers began publishing previously confidential details of his expenses and trips abroad since 2002 with total bills exceeding euro700,000 ($1 million). The revelations proved politically fatal when documents demonstrated he continued to travel the world at taxpayer expense after swapping the travel-heavy tourism, sports and arts portfolio for the speaker’s chair. The biggest headline-grabbers included hotel rooms exceeding euro900 ($1,400) a night in Liver-

Mick Quinn | Associated Press

Speaker of the Irish Parliament and member of the Fianna Fail party John O’Donoghue, pictured in January 2007, resigned Tuesday. pool, Paris and Venice; euro472 ($700) for travel by car between two terminals of the same airport; and trips to horse races from England to Australia, usually accompanied by his wife, with a limousine standing by 24 hours a day, all at the Irish taxpayers’ expense. O’Donoghue published his most recent expense claims on a Friday night, the most common time for governments worldwide to bury bad news, on a day when Ireland’s news agenda was dominated by a national referendum on the European Union. Those documents demonstrated he was continuing to travel in his new job at exceptional levels, running up euro90,000 ($135,000) worth of trips, travel that received a further euro20,000 ($30,000) subsidy from Ireland’s state-funded agency for horse racing promotion. But in a half-hour address heard within the 165-member chamber, O’Donoghue insisted he had not pocketed an illicit cent nor behaved differently from other Irish lawmakers past or present. He said aides, consular officials or others arranged and booked everything, not him. He condemned as unfair the actions of the opposition Labour Party leader, Eamon Gilmore, who last week made his ouster from office inevitable by demanding a vote of no confidence

in the speaker. O’Donoghue and Prime Minister Brian Cowen had appealed for the accusations against the speaker to be discussed among the country’s lawmakers behind closed doors first. Most lawmakers applauded O’Donoghue at the end, but Labour lawmakers did not. Gilmore said he had no choice but to demand O’Donoghue’s removal given the government’s refusal to answer direct questions about O’Donoghue’s globetrotting habits as speaker. Cowen said all sides of the house recognized that O’Donoghue as speaker had demonstrated “impeccable fairness and sound judgment.” Lawmakers then elected a new speaker — Seamus Kirk, a 64-year-old lawmaker who has represented the border county of Louth since 1982 — in an 8751 vote. Both Kirk and O’Donoghue are lawmakers of Fianna Fail, the perennial top vote-winner in every Irish general election since 1932. The party has suffered a long string of ethical scandals involving bribe-taking, influence peddling and tax dodging. Two former Fianna Fail leaders, ex-Prime Ministers Bertie Ahern and Charles Haughey, were among those caught hiding secret payments from many of Ireland’s top businessmen.

she intended to speak to Lavrov and Medvedev about “what specific forms of pressure Russia would be prepared to join us and our allies in if Iran fails to live up to its obligations.” The official said it was critical to get tangible signs of support from Moscow because the more united the international community is, the more likely pressure on Iran will succeed. The official spoke under the condition of anonymity to discuss the pending private diplomatic discussions. Maria Lipman, an analyst with the Moscow Carnegie Center think tank, said Monday “there is still no certainty” that Russia

will agree to tighten its sanctions against Iran. “Repeatedly, Russia has been about, ‘Let’s give them another chance, let’s make sure that indeed Iran is not delivering on its promises,’” she said. In recent days, she added, Russian government officials have made statements that cast doubt on the Kremlin’s willingness to endorse any new sanctions. “Things do not look as good today as they did a week ago,” she said. On Sunday, Clinton warned Iran that the world “will not wait indefinitely” for evidence it is not trying to develop atomic weapons.

NEW YORK — Increased use of contraceptives has led to fewer abortions worldwide, but deaths from unsafe abortion kill 70,000 women a year, a research institute reported Tuesday in a major global survey. More than half the deaths are in sub-Saharan Africa, which was the region with the lowest rates of contraceptive use and the highest rates of unintended pregnancies. The report was compiled by the New York-based Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights and is a leading source of data on abortion-related trends. Researchers examined data from individual countries and several multinational organizations. The institute’s president, Sharon Camp, said she was heartened by the overall trends since Guttmacher conducted a similar survey in 1999, yet expressed concern about the gap revealed in the new report. “But in much of the developing world, abortion remains highly restricted, and unsafe abortion is common and continues to damage women’s health and threaten their survival,” she said.

Russian court rules against Stalin’s grandson’s libel lawsuit MOSCOW — A Russian court ruled against Josef Stalin’s grandson Tuesday in a libel suit over a newspaper article that said the Soviet dictator sent thousands of people to their deaths. A judge at a Moscow district court rejected Yevgeny Dzhugashvili’s claim that Novaya Gazeta damaged the late Stalin’s honor and dignity in an April article that referred to him as a “bloodthirsty cannibal.” The ruling was a rare victory for Stalin’s critics in their fight against efforts to rehabilitate the dictator, who ordered the deaths of at least 724,000 people during a series of purges that peaked in the late 1930s. But defendants said that having the case even make it to court was evidence of a chilling tendency to question the dark side of Soviet history. Compiled from Associated Press reports

South African police make fatal mistake, kill woman By Anita Powell The Associated Press JOHANNESBURG — Police allegedly fired more than a dozen rounds at a car they mistakenly thought was stolen, killing a woman and fueling a debate about whether officers should have greater leeway to use deadly force to combat South Africa’s high crime rate. The fatal shooting comes just weeks after President Jacob Zuma said in a speech that South African police could use lethal force if their lives or the lives of civilians were threatened. Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa visited the woman’s family on Tuesday, underscoring the sensitivity of the overall issue. Police opened fire at a car carrying 30-year-old Olga Kekana and four others early Sunday near Pretoria. Kekana was shot in the head and died at the scene. Two others in the car were wounded; the driver was unhurt. Moses Dlamini, spokesman for the Independent Complaints Directorate that is now investigating the shootings, said Tuesday the policemen’s weapons had been taken as part of the investigation but that they were still working and had not yet been disciplined or reprimanded. “There hasn’t been any suspension. There hasn’t been any arrest,” he said. “At this point we don’t know who fired the shot that killed the woman. There are so many question marks here that it is difficult to say.” Witnesses said that police did not warn them before opening fire around 5 a.m. Sunday, Dlamini said. “ A c c o rd i n g t o t h e d r i v er, shortly after they saw police blue lights there were shots fired at them,” he said. The driver stopped his car and put on the emergency lights, and then tried to get out of the car when more shots were fired, Dlamini said. Driver Simon Mathibela told

The Star newspaper that after the shooting, the police stopped to look at the car and its wounded occupants and then left the scene without offering to help. “When they realized we were the wrong people, they kept on saying sorry,” he said. “The police action is disgusting.” Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa visited Kekana’s family on Tuesday in the town of Mabopane, near Pretoria. “We regret this unfortunate incident and wish to express our sympathy,” Mthethwa said in an official statement. “The police have a duty to fight crime while protecting the lives of citizens, and this must be done within the boundaries of the law.” Ministry spokesman Zweli Mnisi said the government was talking to the family about compensation but did not give specific details. Louisa Kekana said Tuesday that her cousin Olga was a self-employed hairdresser. “She loved to laugh and was very talkative,” she said. South Africa is struggling to bring its high crime rate under control before next year’s World Cup, when about 500,000 visitors are expected to attend. Sunday’s shooting prompted questions about whether South African authorities have gone

too far in trying to reduce the country’s crime rate. Government crime statistics released in September show that South Africa’s murder rate — one of the world’s highest — dropped 3.4 percent. That still leaves 50 murders a day in the country of some 50 million people. Sunday’s shooting prompted questions about whether authorities had gone too far in trying to cut crime. “This is a strong message to officers that they can shoot first and ask questions later,” read an editorial in The Times, a Johannesburg newspaper. Mnisi said he didn’t think Sunday’s shooting was a result of the debate over police use of force. Zuma’s comments late last month to police commanders supported a proposed amendment to give the police more lenience to shoot in dangerous situations. Parliament has yet to act on the measure. But the police minister warned officers that “trigger happy members of the police must not think that this is a license to kill. It is a measure aimed specifically at reducing serious violent crime and dangerous criminals, who place lives of both police officers and the public in danger,” Mthethwa said.

Alet Pretorius | Associated Press

Simon Mathibela, pictured in South Africa on Monday, was driving near the scene where police shot at a car mistakenly thought to be stolen.

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

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Editor in Chief: Jillian Sheridan Phone: (512) 232-2212 E-mail: editor@dailytexanonline.com Associate Editors: Jeremy Burchard David Muto Dan Treadway Lauren Winchester

Correspondence with The Oklahoma Daily In the spirit of our friendly rivalry with the University of Oklahoma, the editorial boards of The Daily Texan and The Oklahoma Daily have exchanged editorials. In anticipation of Saturday’s football game, both editorials are running in Austin and Norman today.

Dear OU,

It’s our understanding that we will be participating in a football match with you in the near future. We’re certainly delighted and wish you the best of luck. We would like to do anything we can to accommodate you as you visit us in our great state. Really, could we spot you a skill position player or two? Perhaps an offensive line? What about a victory in a BCS bowl? Anything at all — we strive to be great hosts. We still humbly feel that we were more deserving of that spot in the national championship game last year and are taking every precaution this season to ensure that we will make it to Pasadena. Naturally, one tremendous obstacle we face is our game against your fine university, namely the negative impact it will have on our strength of schedule. Luckily, we have UTEP to balance that aspect of the BCS formula for us — at least they’ve beaten a ranked team. Texas, like any other state, has been struggling with the economy. We thus sincerely thank the fans at your institution for making tickets available to the game on your side of the field for such bargain prices. Additionally, we thank you for all of our logos that you purchase and place upside down (we really do appreciate the royalties). But we do feel your money might be better spent purchasing players … oh, it seems you’ve already done that, which is why your program is on probation right now. When it comes down to it, we still don’t quite understand why there is such animosity between our schools. I mean, after all, we have a lot in common. For example, we all applied to the University of Texas out of high school. But we should really distance ourselves from these petty insults. It gets really old tossing around unfortunate observations about the poor dental hygiene of Oklahomans, the constant embarrassment you cause our conference on the national stage, your inferior academic rankings across all disciplines, the inability to field a team with athletes actually from Oklahoma and the fact that your state polluted the world by offering it Reba McEntire. We’re ready to move beyond this childish name-calling and simply accept you as the second-highest-ranked university in a state founded by land thieves. We’re expecting a fun and sportsmanlike match and are truly hoping this will serve as a good tune-up game for us before we play Central Florida in a few weeks. Of course, some of our fans, still enchanted with your lofty and undoubtedly deserved pre-season ranking, may be dismayed by the actual skill level of your team. Just know that when we chant our fight song, we’re not shouting “OU sucks!” but rather, in a surprised sense, “Oh, you suck?” When you do leave Dallas disappointed, know that you’ll have 45,000 burnt-orange faithful wishing you a safe trip back up Interstate Highway 35. We hope your band of duct-taped 1980 Ford Pintos are able to make the trip back. Good luck in the game. Hook ’em horns! — Hugs and kisses, The Daily Texan

Nothing compares to the State Fair By Anna Russo Daily Texan Columnist The Red River Rivalry is one of my favorite weekends of the school year, but not for the reason you might think. Although I love the heated competition between Texas and OU on the football field, nothing compares to the State Fair. For those of you attending the State Fair for the first time, there are a few things you must know. First, consider the food. You may be overwhelmed by the abundance of food stands, but there are a few important things to keep in mind when deciding what to eat. Long lines at food stands are not random. A long line probably means you want whatever people are waiting in the line for. For example, Fletcher’s corn dogs. Annual fair-goers would consider a fair visit without a Fletcher ’s corn dog a sin. I have even met vegetarians who momentarily gave up their dietary restrictions to indulge in a Fletcher’s corn dog. On the fairgrounds, there are a few Fletcher ’s stands, but for a shorter line, go to the stand located by Big Tex. You can also expect lines at Jack’s French Fries, which is located just outside of the main Cotton Bowl entrance. Again, this line is worth the wait. The fries’ special seasoning will make your mouth water. To wash this all down, don’t waste your tickets on beer that you can buy outside of the fair. Instead, get an ice-cold cup of State Fair root beer. There will probably be no line for root beer, but that doesn’t mean it’s not good. The second thing to remember when searching for food is that fried food is better in moderation. The State Fair proudly proclaims itself the “Fried Food Capital of Texas.”

You can pretty much eat anything you want fried: pickles, Twinkies, Oreos, Coke and — this year ’s big winner — butter. With all these options, it might be hard to resist trying them all. I suggest only indulging in one or two of the famous fried foods. Some of my personal favorites are fried cookie dough and fried Oreos. Both may sound a bit disgusting, but giving into your curiosity will not disappoint. A general note about the fair: dress accordingly. Do not wear your favorite white UT shirt on Saturday and expect it to remain white. Ketchup is drawn to light fabrics. After the food, the next best thing about the fair is the attractions. Car shows, livestock shows and Big Tex are a few staples. Everyone knows that no fair experience is complete without a peek at Big Tex’s latest fashion statement and Jeep’s newest car model. A lesser-known must-see is the Women’s History Museum. Opened in 2000, the museum houses permanent exhibits that cover topics ranging from women in health to women in business and technology. The museum is also home to several traveling exhibits and is currently hosting an exhibit featuring photos of famous women such as Gloria Steinem and Sandra Day O’Connor, taken by renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz. The Women’s Museum, a Smithsonian affiliate, is a testament to Dallas’ and Texas’ commitment to furthering the legacy of great women. So on Saturday, after we have annihilated OU, take some time and explore the State Fair and its unique place in Texas culture and history. Russo is a government and women’s and gender studies senior.

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Dear UT,

Hello to all you hippies, nerds, cowboys and criminals down there in Austin. We too have heard some murmurings about an upcoming football matchup, and we are looking forward to it. Sure, we’ve had a tough go of it so far this season. We’ll readily admit a 3-2 start is not what any of us expected. But the season is young, and there’s a lot of football left. We remember feeling blue after a tough loss last season. Things looked bleak as our national championship hopes began to fade. But then with one reception and a magical touchdown in last year’s Texas Tech-UT game, something changed. We don’t know exactly how to describe it, but we’ll do our best. It was like “we dreamed it in our heads.” Weird. Anyway, we wouldn’t be too upset about your loss to Texas Tech last year. After all, the Red Raiders were really good, and you fought really hard. They almost beat everyone they played. Almost. But that was last year. This year is a little different. Quite honestly, we’re not used to being the underdogs. With the most wins since World War II, seven national championships, six Big 12 titles in the last decade and five Heisman Trophy winners, how could we be? Oh, and speaking of the Heisman Trophy, we have a funny story. OU quarterback Sam Bradford won it last year. That made us giggle. Now don’t get us wrong, Colt McCoy is really good, especially when he’s got his good ol’ fishin’ buddy Jordan Shipley by his side. Honestly, we hadn’t heard anything about how Colt and Jordan are so close until last weekend, when the commentators of the Colorado-UT football game let us in on a very well-kept secret: Colt and Jordan are fishin’ buddies! We couldn’t believe our ears! Two teammates who are also fishin’ buddies!? Who’da thunk it? We heard that one time Jordan even hopped on a boat and Colt done did throw him a football from the shore? That made us giggly giggle too! But let’s put football aside for a second. While we don’t doubt that everything in your editorial was well researched, we do take issue with one statement. You said that “we all applied to the University of Texas out of high school.” We think you might be taking for granted that everybody aspires to attend a massive university that provides its students with little to no personal attention in a big city. Personally speaking, we like OU. A lot. Here’s why: It’s located in a relatively small college town that doesn’t feature maddeningly molasses-like traffic. We actually know our professors, and we know or at least recognize most of the other students in our majors. We can walk anywhere on campus in less than 30 minutes. The price of living isn’t astronomical. And even though Norman is a smaller city, we are only 30 minutes away from a large metropolitan one. These are just a few of the many reasons why we chose to attend OU. And as a university, we would like to thank the good ol’ Lone Star State for oh-so graciously giving us some of its best and brightest. Good luck in the game. BOOMER SOONER! — The Oklahoma Daily

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Why we must march By Daniel Lenhoff Daily Texan Guest Columnist On Saturday, Oct. 24, the Campaign to End the Death Penalty will march toward the Texas Capitol demanding an immediate end to capital punishment. On Saturday, thousands of gayrights activists marched on Washington to demand equality for all. What causes these people to march against injustice when they face enormous headwinds of hostile public opinion? Even Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank, an outspoken gayrights supporter, called the National Equality March “at best, a waste of time.” Lawyers and politicians urge activists to trust the law alone to achieve their goals. Yet it was not law but rather soldiers on the march who crushed the Confederacy and overthrew slavery. It was not Brown v. Board of Education but a letter from a Birming-

ham jail that broke through the bondage. Thurgood Marshall believed that civil rights marches were a distraction and that true change would come from the courts. Yet it was images of fierce dogs and fire hoses — not the proclamations of old men in black — that silenced the white sheets and burning crosses of the Old South. Women marched for and won the right to vote. Workers went on strike and won rights we all enjoy today. And each time a group has given up on activism and trusted only the power of the law, it has seen its influence recede and deferred its dreams for another day. As we age, we become more conservative in our attitudes and our beliefs. It is easy to become cynical about the possibility of achieving change through activism because we have been disappointed so many times before. Hundreds of thousands marched against Bush’s war, but bombs still

fell on Baghdad. The masses of Iran rose up against Ahmadinejad’s thievery, but still he holds power. Yet what have we become when we view injustice in the face of popular movements as a reason to march less rather than more? Today, unions have lost membership and power the more they have bought into the institutions of law and government. Women and black and brown and gay citizens face calls for moderation so as not to threaten prospects for the next election. We have become interest groups rather than movements, and we are told to wait for justice another four years, and another, and another. Frederick Douglass once said, “If there is no struggle there is no progress. ... Power concedes nothing without a demand.” Do not give up. Have hope, have pride and, in solidarity, march on. Lenhoff is a law student.

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Institute of medicine elects UT provost for health work By Vidushi Shrimali Daily Texan Staff William Sage, UT Vice provost for health affairs, will be penciling in an extra annual travel weekend each year from now on, and not for a family vacation. Sage, who has doctorates of medicine and law from Stanford and teaches law at UT, was elected to the Institute of Medicine this year and hopes to use his background in health regulation and policy to assess and develop U.S. health care policy. Among his new responsibilities will be attending annual meetings to discuss health issues and policy suggestions with the other 1,778 members of the institute. Sage, who is focused on health care, sees this as an extension of what he already does. “Part of it is a[n] honor and part of it is a responsibility,” Sage said. “They [the Institute of Medicine] are advisers on a lot of health care issues.”

The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 as a brother association to the National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Sciences was established during Abraham Lincoln’s presidency as an independent science and technology advisory group for the government. “It is to bring together the best and brightest minds and help counsel a nation,” said institute affiliate Christine Stencel. The academy later branched out to include a separate academy for engineering. The three are collectively called the National Academies. Members are nominated to the institute, and upon accepting their nominations, are free to join any of the various councils, committees and projects the group is working on. “The institute is conducting dozens of studies every year, the studies are dependent on the issues of the year,” Stencel said.

“There is no set trend or specific topic areas we delve into; there’s no checklist with this number of hours, this kind of service … we expect them to contribute what their expertise is, [if] it’s necessary for a particular study.” The institute conducts research on medical issues and then shares the results with both its federal sponsors and the public. The institute recently published a study on the effects of obesity on children. Sage worked with the institute in 2002 to improve patient safety and increase doctor-related patient injury compensation time. He hopes to now use his expertise to work on developing affordable universal health care. “Basically, I want to make sure we get more value for our health for the same or less money,” he said. Sage will be joined by Roberta Ness, dean of UT School of Public Health, who was also elected to the institute this year.

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Cema Mastroleo, a disability services coordinator with SafePlace, watches a documentary about a domestic violence and sexual assault survivor. Mastroleo hosted a discussion about domestic violence and services for disabled persons Tuesday afternoon at the Student Services Building.

Campus event counsels disabled abuse victims Resource center hosts talk on handling domestic violence for handicapped By Vidushi Shrimali Daily Texan Staff The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 aims to provide support for the physically handicapped, but the office of Services for Students with Disabilities at UT explored what else can be done to help those affected by domestic violence. The office invited SafePlace to hold a brown-bag lunch event to discuss how to better deal with abuse in the community. The brown-bag lunch included an introduction to SafePlace and its facilities, a documentary about an abuse victim and a discussion about how to better deal with abuse in the community. SafePlace is a resource center for domestic violence survivors. The center serves Austin and Travis County residents and offers several opportunities for help and support, such as a 24-hour hot line, counseling and shelter when necessary.

Cema Mastroleo, a coordinator for SafePlace’s disability services group, spoke to members of the office and other faculty and staff Tuesday about disabled victims of physical violence and the proper ways to handle abuse situations. “Flyers go away,” Mastroleo said. “Put something that people can view that’s positive, a message. Usually people know what is wrong, what not to do.” The documentary featured Kimberly Wisseman, a former domestic violence counselor for SafePlace who was paralyzed from the neck down after a car accident at age 16. Wisseman suffered abuse in 1990 at the hands of her college boyfriend, who coerced her into an engagement and then later used physical torture to prevent her from leaving him. After landing in the hospital with a broken nose and several damaged bones, Wisseman left her boyfriend but lost a court battle against him. Wisseman said she blames her defeat on the court system’s then-inability to properly analyze the situation of disabled victims.

In 1996, Wisseman was attacked and raped by four unidentified men. “If I would have had education of domestic violence, I would have had options to get out [of] the relationship before I was beaten,” Wisseman said in the documentary. “I did go to a rape crisis center, and that was [crucial] to my recovery, and because of that, I’m no longer a victim, I’m a survivor.” Services for Students with Disabilities brings in speakers to address various aspects of the lives of the physically handicapped. October is Disability Awareness and Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and the office is pairing with the campus organization Voices Against Violence to host three other events, including one film screening and one guest speaker to promote the prevention of domestic abuse, said Assistant Director Stephani Wolfe. “Often there are individuals with disabilities who are assaulted and those who develop a disability after being assaulted, so it can be this vicious cycle that just keeps going,” Wolfe said.

Twitter could pay off for UTIMCO Social networking site attracts investors despite current lack of revenue

By Shabab Siddiqui Daily Texan Staff Twitter has accumulated nearly $1 billion in investments since first launching in 2006, according to the social networking Web site’s fifth fund statement, released earlier this week. The University of Texas Investment Management Company, which manages the endowments of both the UT and Texas A&M systems, reported a $3.1 billion increase in their own endowment fund, $30 million of which is directly attributed to Twitter’s fiscal expansion. “UTIMCO has an investment in a venture fund that invested in Twitter,” said company spokeswoman Christy Wallace. Currently, the media entity has no revenue and is entirely depen-

dent on acquiring funds through venture capitalists who invest sums of money with the intention of receiving a return in the future. The more money investors pool into Twitter, the more a company’s initial investment grows. Officials at Twitter indicated earlier this month that plans for creating revenue will be introduced later this year. T h e e n d o w m e n t g ro w t h comes six months after the investment company’s lowest reported earnings. In March, earning reports indicated a $6 billion drop in the endowment, or about 15 percent. Since Twitter ’s inception, the Web site has seen increasing growth. Studies released by Crowd Science Demographics and RJMetrics show the number of Twitter users increases by 8 million people per month and that Twitter is used more than any other social networking media in cars, movies, live perfor-

mances and bathrooms. While Twitter is often compared to the likes of Facebook and MySpace, the RJMetrics study shows that more than 75 percent of Twitter users have sent fewer than 10 Tweets and have fewer than 10 followers. Statistics indicate that users benefit more from the stream of information as opposed to its pure networking abilities. The McCombs School of Business maintains a Twitter account to keep interested students, staff, faculty and alumni updated on the happenings at the school. Rob Meyer, spokesman for the college’s public affairs division, said the use of Twitter, along with other social media outlets, has produced results. “We’ve had great success,” Meyer said. “It helps us build a community and stay in touch. Everyone’s got a Twitter now. It’s just a great way to interact with the community.”

The increasing use of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter during meetings has called for such a rule, Holley said. During the meeting, several members of the Assembly accessed Facebook or other Web sites and blogs unrelated to Student Government on their computers. Holley said she is concerned the perception of Student Government in the University population is warped due to inappropriate use of technology during meetings. Graduate Rep. John Woods,

one of the authors of the bill, said the Assembly could decide to change the rule depending on whether or not it was covering regular business or hosting guest speakers and announcements. The proposed rule also has a provision stating that members of the Assembly will disclose any conflicts of interest and gifts from constituents in exchange for votes. Fine Arts Rep. Jake Lewis said he disagrees with the intense wording of the bill. “The rationale that we would be lobbied by a group or given gifts for votes is beyond my comprehension,” Lewis said.

“We don’t do anything important enough to be lobbied for.” Lewis said he supports the rule but doesn’t think that Student Government members are lobbied or bribed as representatives of the University, and he believes they don’t need a rule to prohibit it. The Assembly voted for the bill to go to the External and Internal Affairs committees, respectively. Those committees will debate and try to perfect the bill, Woods said. “They have the option of letting it die in committee, but that’s not something that generally happens,” Woods said.

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High school launches New Tech programs By Lena Price Daily Texan Staff When the state shut down Johnston High School in the summer of 2008, nobody thought about throwing a pep rally. But Tuesday, more than one year after the campus re-opened as Eastside Memorial High School, students piled into the gym and listened to the school band as if nothing had happened almost a year before. Eastside Memorial celebrated the official launch of two New Tech schools, Green Tech and Global Tech, as part of the New Tech Network, an organization that works to implement innovative instructional methods in high schools across the United States. It is the first high school in the country to contain two New Tech schools on the same campus. State Sen. Kirk Watson, who pushed for funding for the school’s funding in the state Legislature, addressed the student body at the ceremony. “I can’t point to anything else in the past 12 years that I’ve been in public service where the community has come together to accomplish something this substantial,” Watson said. “For me to tell you things didn’t look good last year would have been a major understatement.” After receiving poor academic ratings on state testing for four consecutive years, the school closed for two months in 2008. It re-opened for the 200809 school year and operated like other high schools in the district, but at the start of this year students enrolled in one of the two new programs. Every student in the Global Tech school will be issued a laptop when they enroll to promote technology-based learning

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Eric Ou | Daily Texan Staff

Elizabeth Perez and Brittney Adam, students at Eastside Memorial High School, attend a ribbon-cutting for the new Green Tech and Global Tech schools. Green Tech’s curriculum focuses on current environmental issues while Global Tech’s is centered around international issues. for the 21st century. The teaching will be focused on international issues and competition in the global market, and students make a pledge to leave the domestic United States at least once after they graduate. Students studying in the Green Tech campus will focus on a curriculum centered around current environmental issues. They will take classes heavy in science,

math and technology and take career classes with an emphasis on engineering. “We’ve partnered with more then 40 businesses, so students can really see what it’s like to work in these ‘green’ collar jobs,” said Green Tech principal Connor Grady. Senior Beatrice Rojas was placed in the Green Tech program when the school reopened

in August. “I’m liking it so far,” Rojas said. “I’m taking an AP physics course and learning a lot of different things I don’t think I would have otherwise.” History teacher Stephanie Lamarca said the changes to the curriculum will benefit the students. “I taught here last year, and it’s just a complete 180,” Lama-

rca said. “There’s a much larger emphasis on making students more culturally literate and aware.” Watson said the new programs will not guarantee student success. “Now, we have to focus on graduating every Eastside student that is ready to graduate and go to college or technical school,” Watson said.

While for local nonprofits, the community can see the direct impact of their donations, Frumkin said on the international scene, many donors have to trust in the organization to use their money wisely. “In a nonprofit context, the buyer and the user are separated, like international development or international relief,” Frumkin said. “The donor and the user are separated, which creates all types of complex problems. How do you know you’re getting what you paid for?” This arrangement allows donors to reach areas of the globe through the expertise and knowledge of the nonprofit’s employees. “The nonprofit sector is full of people who are not there for the money,” Frumkin said. “They’re there because nonprofits give them a chance to enact their values.” Teach For America is a nonprofit that recruits students to dedicate two years to teaching in underserved communities. Teach For America representative Jiacheng Yu said that, for her, the organization provided more motivation than other job options. “There’s more sense of a mission, like what I’m working towards is something I really care about,” Yu said. “It really drives me.” Frumkin said efficiency is a main goal of for-profit institutions while philanthropy is that of nonprofits — though the two are rarely equally exhibited by an organization. Yu said successful nonprofits operate with both concepts in mind. “Teach For America is an extremely efficient organization. I felt like I could really use a business mind and a nonprofit heart,” Yu said.

UHS encourages diligent hygiene, frequent hand-washing Study says many students claim better cleanliness habits than they practice By Austen Sofhauser Daily Texan Staff With Halloween a few weeks away, the University Health Services Web site has a costume idea for coughing and sneezing students. “Cross your arm across your face (like Dracula) and use your elbow or upper sleeve,” reads the advice on the Healthy Horns flu FAQ. UHS is promoting hygiene for the flu season by posting bathroom mirror signs and posters and handing out 7,500 bottles of free hand sanitizer at the “Health Hut,” a mobile health-education station. Senior program coordinator Sherry Bell said students need to remember three basic things — sanitize hands, cough only

into a sleeve or elbow and keep hands away from mouth and eyes. She said UHS is now in the second week of its flu shot campaign. “The best way to prevent the flu is still going to be to get your flu shot,” Bell said. She said it is also vital to avoid sharing smoking materials or drinks and to throw tissues away directly after use. “If you’re using a tissue, if at all possible, you want to wash your hands right after,” Bell said. Ben Chapman, a North Carolina State University assistant professor and a food safety specialist, is a frequent contributor to the food safety blog “BarfBlog.” He recently published a study, which found that students say they wash their hands more often than they actually do. “While college students reported that they did things right, we watched, and it was about 17 percent who did,” he said.

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Tristan Worthington turns on a washing machine at Neighborhood Laundromat on 29th Street.

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Frequent hand-washing can help prevent the spread of germs. Chapman said it is important to use rushing water to rinse the hands during washing and to use paper towels to wipe off any germs that are left. Tom Hladish, a UT computational biology graduate student,

uses computer models to simulate the growth of virtual epidemics. He said the likelihood of a person becoming ill in his model is linked to the number of times they come into contact with infected people.

Hladish said people share germs with one another by being in public places, and it’s not always obvious when it occurs. “You don’t know all the people who are touching your grocery cart, but you’re interacting with those people,” he said. Hladish said the flu changes just a little every year, so the conventional wisdom is to make time for a vaccination each fall — beating the flu one year will not necessarily give a person immunity for the next. “The people who need the vaccine the most are people who haven’t gotten sick in a while,” he said. Hladish said that UHS’s focus on mirror stickers in bathrooms make sense, since people are already in bathrooms a couple of times a day and may decide to wash their hands after seeing the signs. The door handles, though, are still a source of concern, he said.

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“My biggest pet peeve is bathrooms with doors that swing inwards, because you have to touch the handles after you’ve just washed your hands,” he said. To see a CDC video demonstration of proper handwashing techniques, visit http://www.cdc. gov/CDCTV/handstogether/.

Sierra Club protests permits for power plants By Jordan Haeger Daily Texan Staff Texas has 17 active coal plants and 12 in various stages of permit application and construction — more than any other state in the nation, according to the Sierra Club. Tuesday’s was the first in a series of hearings in which the Sierra Club, a national environmental protection organization, will challenge the permit for the expansion of International Power’s Coleto Creek coal plant, located southeast of Austin between Goliad and Victoria counties. The Lone Star Chapter of the organization is challenging the construction of several new coal plants in the state. These include plants in Corpus Christi, Sweetwater and Bay City, said Christina Mann, an attorney for the Environmental Integrity Project, the nonprofit organization representing the Sierra Club. “[The Sierra Club is] deeply concerned with public health,” group spokeswoman Donna Hoffman said. Coal plant pollution can cause asthma, respiratory illness and heart disease, and contributes to pre-cancerous conditions as well as developmental and brain disorders, she said. Hoffman said the Sierra Club is also concerned about the en-

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Visitors attended a hearing Tuesday morning at which the Sierra Club spoke against expanding the Coleto Creek coal plant. vironmental harm coal plants cause. Texas has the highest level of carbon dioxide emissions in the nation, she said. The Coleto Creek plant discharges 557 million gallons of water every day for cooling purposes, said Hoffman. If the expansion permit is approved, the new plant will use 1.15 billion gallons

of water per day, she said. “It’s a huge amount of water, and in these times of extreme drought we can’t afford to tie up so much water,” she said. The water for the plant comes from Coleto Creek, a reservoir built specifically for the power plant’s use, said plant manager Michael Fields.

International Power is the seventh largest wind generator in the world, Fields said. “We have been very aggressive in trying to acquire wind energy,” Fields said. The Coleto Creek hearings will continue for another week, and if it is approved, the plant will open for commercial use in 2015.

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Hooker thrives in TV spotlight Injuries plague Horns’ outside hitter brings out killer moves to televised games By Jordan Godwin Daily Texan Staff Destinee Hooker makes explosive and flashy plays all the time, but when the cameras are on for a televised match, she becomes “TVD.” “When I play on TV, I shine,” said Hooker. “You don’t want to mess up on TV, and you don’t want to lose on TV. No one likes losing, period, but when you’re on TV, everyone sees, and it’s a chance to prove yourself.” Hooker, a 6-foot-4-inch frame of athleticism, has never been shy in front of the cameras. She earned the nickname “TVD” her freshman year in a home game against then-No. 1 Nebraska. Despite losing in five sets, Hooker had 24 kills. An announcer gave her the nickname after the game. With a successful freshman campaign, Hooker earned Honorable Mention AllAmerica honors, but while her offense was dominant, her defense stunk. And she’ll admit it. “It was really, really shaky,” Hooker said. “I was always timid, and if the ball came to me, I would dodge out of the way. I’d get really frustrated and down on myself.” Head coach Jerritt Elliott said that at

times, Hooker would cost the team more points than she could regain, and he’d often be forced to substitute her. This season, Hooker has blossomed into an all-around player. Her offensive numbers are still there and better than ever — she leads the Big 12 Conference in points and kills per set, which p l a c e s her ninth, nationally. But her newfound defense is helping the second-ranked Longhorns the most. She’s averaging fewer errors than ever before, and while she’s still no Heather Kisner, Hooker has quadrupled her digs per set from her freshman season. “I guess after four years of practice, I’ve finally found some rhythm,” Hooker said. “Now, I have a more positive mind-set, and I’m more confident with my defense.”

And her teammates have taken notice. “She’s been diving around, jumping into the stands, running into people and really showing effort,” said fellow senior Ashley Engle. “You can tell how much she wants the team to do well by her added emphasis on defense.” Hooker has shown hustle, and the Big 12 has noticed. Coming off a junior season where she was honored as the Big 12 Female Athlete of the Year, Hooker is already hogging the conference awards, being named offensive player of the week in half of the first six weeks of play. “When she’s on, there’s not many players in the country who can duplicate what she does,” said Elliott. “It’s stressful on our opponents because she’s a more skillful, multiple-threat player. We’ve been able to use her in a lot more areas, and she continues to be a bright spot.” But Hooker still has weaknesses she’d like to improve. Because, while she may excel for the televised matches, she said it’s usually painful to watch herself. When she’s not pulverizing helpless defensive specialists or snapping

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the first half of a surprising season

By Dan Hurwitz Daily Texan Columnist One week of college football this season has produced more drama than every new show on prime-time television. Teams have been upset, quarterbacks have been injured and even more teams have been upset. We are roughly halfway into the season, and the unexpected has already taken place. So what should we expect for the second half? More of the unexpected. But in case you have been living under a rock for the past two months, here is what you’ve missed.

Snead fails to lead One of the biggest headlines of the offseason came during the SEC media days. South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier had voted Mississippi quarterback Jevan Snead as his pick for the SEC offensive player of the year. It was later revealed that Spurri-

er’s choice was a mistake and he “of course” had Tim Tebow as his selection. Since then Snead has failed to play anything close to the player of the year. The preseason Heisman candidate fell off quickly after Snead and the Rebels were upset by Spurrier’s Gamecocks in their SEC opener.

Quarterbacks in pain It began in week one when O k l a h o m a ’ s S a m B r a d f o rd sprained his right shoulder while playing against BYU in its opening game at the new Cowboys Stadium. The Sooners lost two of their first four games by a combined two points as they failed to get by BYU and Miami. Florida quarterback Tim Tebow took the biggest hit of his career Sept. 28 against Kentucky. Tebow suffered a concussion but still managed to continue his streak

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Longhorns fall to No. 3 in Texan Top 10, too Running the ball was just so boring to him, so he manufactured ways to make his ground game fail. And it always worked out well. Until the time the teams were a little too evenly matched, and the wind was a little too strong, and the rain made the ball just slick enough that he couldn’t get a very good grip. Let’s hope that Greg Davis has been telling his offensive line and running backs to purposely have the running game fail in hopes of tricking the Sooners. If not, then Texas may actually be in trouble.

By Austin Talbert Daily Texan Columnist

I remember this kid I grew up with. He had a great arm and could chunk the ball — football, dodgeball, baseball — farther than anyone else. He was always one of the captains picking the teams or the very first pick at recess. He was that good. On Friday nights, on the field behind the bleachers, he would zip passes past middle schoolers. His arm was golden and couldn’t be stopped. One day, between memorizing my multiplication tables and reading a chapter of “Where the Red Fern Grows,” I remember playing a game of football on his team. Somehow, through the complex elementary school gerrymandering of the teams, our team had become a juggernaut. Our opponents, on the other hand, were hapless. We could have run the ball over them, pitched the ball left and scored a touch down, handed it off up the middle and knifed through a mass of confused, slower defenders. But instead, we would huddle up, and he would instruct me — I was playing running back that day — to take the ball and, before I turned the corner to run past the defense, to fall down. Of course, I listened and time after time I would take the handoff into my belly, start off sprinting toward an opening and then slip. As we came back to the huddle, our teammates who had been politicking to run the ball past our slower, weaker opponents were now clamoring in unison to utilize the golden arm of our quarterback. He would look at me, wink and say in his best reluctant-sounding voice, “I guess that might work.”

Florida

I was not particularly impressed by the Gators’ win over LSU — who is the least impressive No. 4 team since fellow SEC West pal Ole Miss — but currently, it is a far more impressive win than either Alabama or Texas have. Going deep into Death Valley on a Saturday night and chomping on the Tigers is a big win, regardless of how bad LSU’s offense may be. If Alabama would have traveled to Blacksburg, Va. and conquered the Hokies instead of dropping Virginia Tech at the Georgia Dome, the scales would be tipped ‘Bama’s way.

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Not that Ole Miss is a particularly salty opponent, but the Tide continues to roll over and completely swallow opposing offenses.

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Alabama wide receiver Julio Jones battles Mississippi cornerback Cassius Vaughn over a second quarter pass into the end zone Saturday in Oxford, Miss. And, from then until the loud history teacher would scream at us to come in and get back to work, he threw the ball every play.

Oh where, oh where has the offense gone? Oh where, oh where could it be?

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The Horned Frogs conquered icy mist, strong A perfectly placed deep route for a touchdown here, a beautifully winds, bitter cold and a pesky Air lofted post there, a bullet of slant, a laser beam deep out. TOP 10 continues on page 8

BIG 12 FOOTBALL

Coach says Nebraska must improve vs. Texas Tech By Eric Olson The Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. — A Nebraska offense that came out flat in its two biggest games had better improve if the Cornhuskers hope to keep up with high-scoring Texas Tech this week. So says coach Bo Pelini, whose 15th-ranked Huskers (4-1, 1-0 Big 12) were unstoppable against BCS outsiders Florida Atlantic, Arkansas State and LouisianaLafayette. Against Virginia Tech and Missouri, they mostly sputtered. “We’ve got to be able to run the ball better,” said Pelini Tuesday. “Not just against Texas Tech, but all the time.” Nebraska’s offensive plan

against Missouri didn’t incorporate much of the run even though the game was played in a downpour. Zac Lee forced pass after pass before the Huskers found a spark in the fourth quarter and wiped out a 12-0 deficit to win 27-12. Pelini has no qualms with the plan. It’s the execution, or lack of, that bothers him. “Everyone wants to panic about the offense and what happened the other night,” Pelini said. “It’s a team game. You have to find your way through things. You have to pick each other up. The offense struggled. When they needed to, they picked it up. Because of that we won the football game.” The defensive-minded Pelini

said he offers an occasional suggestion to offensive coordinator Shawn Watson, but he leaves the game plan to him. “I know this: Our offense is in extremely capable hands,” he said. “You hire good people. You let them do their job. It’s been getting done very well. I have no reservations about what we’re doing on offense.” Neither does Lee. “People are going to draw conclusions,” he said. “That’s how it is here in Nebraska, the football world we live in.” Nebraska averaged 472 yards and 47 points against the non-BCS opponents but just 303 yards and 22 points against Virginia Tech (a one-point loss) and Missouri.

Lee completed 76 percent of his passes against the lightweights but just 40 percent against the major-conference schools. Texas Tech is second nationally in scoring offense (43 ppg), passing offense (444 ypg) and total offense (522 ypg). Pelini hopes to be able to play keep-away with the ball, like the Huskers did in last year’s 37-31 overtime loss at Tech. Nebraska held a 20-minute advantage in time of possession. “I don’t know if you’ll ever be in a game where you have that kind of time of possession,” Pelini said. “The bottom line is we have to score points. You’re not

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Rogelio V. Solis | Associated Press

Mississippi quarterback Jevan Snead and defensive end Greg Hardy show their disappointment with their team losing to No. 3 Alabama, 22-3 on Saturday.

MEN’S GOLF

Texas finishes in second place behind Alabama By Laken Litman Daily Texan Staff Despite the rainy weather, the No. 9 Texas men’s golf team earned second place honors at the Jerry Pate National Intercollegiate at the par 70, 7,204-yard Old Overton Country Club on Tuesday. Freshman Cody Gribble shot a 4-under 66, and sophomore Dylan Frittelli carded a 2-under 68. The first two rounds were supposed to take place on Monday, but because of inclement weather, the 12 competing teams played 18 holes on Tuesday to determine the tournament winners. Host Alabama shot a collective 7-under 273 to take the team title, and the Longhorns shot a 4-under 276, which was only three shots behind the Crimson Tide. The Longhorns’ finish marks the third time UT has placed in the top four for team finishes this season. “Our team responded well to the challenges,” said head coach John Fields. “It was an 18-hole tournament today, and, though we did not catch Alabama, the guys played exceptional golf through a difficult stretch on the back nine.

[Gribble] was outstanding with birdies on five of his last seven holes. Every week, we are going to experience a different line-up. I’m proud of our young men for overcoming the circumstances we were handed this week.” Gribble carded a 34 on the front nine behind birdies at the first, sixth and seventh holes, and he also carded bogeys at Nos. 10 and 11. Gribble finished his round by sinking birdies on five of his last seven holes to finish with a 32 on the back nine and a 4-under 66. Frittelli started his day with a 33 on the front nine behind birdies at the fifth, sixth and eighth holes. He also added another birdie at the 15th hole to finish with a 2-under 68, tying for fourth place. Behind Texas, East Tennessee State and UNLV tied for third place at even par, and Louisville rounded out the top five at one-over par. Alabama’s Hunter Hamrick shot a five-under 65 to edge out the Longhorns’ Gribble for medalist honors. The Longhorns will resume competition on Sunday, Oct. 18 at the UTSA Lone Star Invitational in San Antonio.

Michelle Connolly | Daily Texan file photo

Senior Charlie Holland takes a swing at a tournament last season. The Texas golf team finished in second place at the Perry Pate National Intercollegiate tournament Tuesday.

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CYCLING

commitment to winning it all From page 7

Ralph Barrera | Austin-American Statesman

Austin cyclist Lance Armstrong speaks with reporters as he is joined by other cycling enthusiasts at Mellow Johnnyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bike Shop for a ride to celebrate Livestrong last week.

Armstrong in France for Tour route unveiling By Samuel Petrequin The Associated Press PARIS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and 2009 winner Alberto Contador will be on hand Wednesday when organizers unveil the 2010 route for cyclingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest race. Armstrong and Contador worked together as Astana teammates during this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tour de France, and the Spaniard won the Tour for a second time while Armstrong finished third. Armstrong has since left the Kazakh-funded team to launch his own outfit, RadioShack, which has yet to be granted a ProTour license. Andy Schleck of Luxembourg, who finished second behind Contador in July, and sprinting ace Mark Cavendish of Britain are also expected at the Paris ceremony. The 2010 Tour will start from Rotterdam, Netherlands, on July 3 with a final stage in Paris on July 25. In between, riders are expected to celebrate the first crossing of the Pyrenees 100 years ago

with as many as four stages in the daunting mountains that border France and Spain. Armstrong skipped the 2009 Tour route presentation after race organizers gave him a cool reception upon his return to cycling after three years in retirement. Jean-Etienne Amaury, president of Amaury Sports Organization, which runs the Tour, said Armstrongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comeback was an embarrassment for cycling. But Armstrong was cheered all the way this year, a marked turnaround from previous years when his cycling feats were often greeted by skepticism and accusations of doping â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which he has always denied. In 1910, Tour riders for the first time climbed the four legendary Pyrenean passes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Peyresourde, Aspin, Tourmalet and Aubisque. According to La Depeche du Midi newspaper, there is a strong possibility that the Tourmalet, one of the toughest climbs in cycling, will be scaled twice next July. One stage in the Pyrenees could see the pack go through

Peyresourde, Aspin, Aubisque and Tourmalet on the same day for the first time since 1969. That year, Belgian great and five-time Tour winner Eddy Merckx won the stage in Mourenx after a sensational breakaway. International Cycling Union president Pat McQuaid is also expected in Paris despite a new feud with the French anti-doping agency, known as AFLD. McQuaid promised last week to keep up the â&#x20AC;&#x153;endless fightâ&#x20AC;? against doping. But he has been accused by AFLD president Pierre Bordry of giving favorable treatment to Astana, with the team receiving advance notice of drug tests during the Tour. The UCI responded by saying it â&#x20AC;&#x153;scrupulously respects the obligations imposed by the World Anti-Doping Code,â&#x20AC;? and that â&#x20AC;&#x153;the equal treatment of teams and riders is strictly guaranteed.â&#x20AC;? The two organizations have had a tense relationship in recent years, with the AFLD accusing the UCI of not taking a tough enough stance against doping.

NFL

Limbaugh already down a vote in his bid to buy Rams By Jimmy Golen The Associated Press BOSTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rush Limbaughâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bid to buy the St. Louis Rams ran into opposition within the NFL on Tuesday, when Colts owner Jim Irsay vowed to vote against him and commissioner Roger Goodell said the conservative commentatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;divisiveâ&#x20AC;? comments would not be tolerated from any NFL insider. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I, myself, couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even consider voting for him,â&#x20AC;? said Irsay at an ownersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; meetings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When there are comments that have been made that are inappropriate, incendiary and insensitive ... our words do damage, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something that we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need.â&#x20AC;?

Limbaugh has long been a hero of conservatives and villain to the left, thriving on his place in the political spectrum while establishing himself as one of the most successful broadcasters in history. But the NFL tries to avoid controversy, as Limbaugh learned in 2003 when he was forced to resign from ESPNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sunday night football broadcast after saying of Philadelphiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Donovan McNabb: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well.â&#x20AC;? Goodell repeatedly distanced the league from Limbaughâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

statements on Tuesday, calling them â&#x20AC;&#x153;polarizing comments that we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think reflect accurately on the NFL or our players.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have said many times before that we are all held to a higher standard here,â&#x20AC;? said the commissioner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think divisive comments are not what the NFL is all about. I would not want to see those kind of comments from people who are in a responsible position within the NFL. No. Absolutely not.â&#x20AC;? According to transcripts posted on his Web site, in 2007 Limbaugh also said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.â&#x20AC;?

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middle blockersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fingers like twigs, Hooker spends her time winning national championships as a high jumper. So â&#x20AC;&#x153;TVDâ&#x20AC;? rarely finds time to even watch TV, but she does like to reminisce about her childhood days of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gullah Gullah Islandâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scooby-Doo.â&#x20AC;? And she can still sing the entire â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bananas in Pajamasâ&#x20AC;? theme song. But in her final season with Texas, the multi-talented Hooker is ready to shine, with or without the cameras. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Before every game, we seniors remind each other how committed we are to giving it our all,â&#x20AC;? Hooker said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our last year, and we want to go out with a bang.â&#x20AC;?

Bruno Morlan | Daily Texan Staff

Senior Destinee Hooker jumps to spike the ball in a game last week. Hooker has been a vital part of Texasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; volleyball team this season.

HUSKERS: Team looks to avoid a Texas

Tech shootout without RB Burkhead From page 7

Nebraska running back Rex Burkhead carries the ball against LouisianaLafayette during an NCAA college football game in Lincoln, Nebraska Burkhead injured a foot in practice Monday, and Nebraska head coach Bo Pelini said the freshman would be out â&#x20AC;&#x153;for a while.â&#x20AC;?

going to shut out this team. You would like to, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a pretty good offensive football team, and we need to match them.â&#x20AC;? Nebraska, averaging 404 yards and 37 points for the season, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to get into a shootout with the Raiders. If the Huskers are looking to run a lot, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to do it without promising freshman Rex Burkhead. Pelini said the No. 2 I-back would be out â&#x20AC;&#x153;for a whileâ&#x20AC;? after injuring his right foot in practice Monday. Pelini didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know the extent of the injury. Burkheadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s absence leaves starter Roy Helu Jr. to get most of the carries and a number of young backs to serve as backups. Helu and Burkhead have combined for 114 of the running backsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 120 total carries. Austin Jones has three and Marcus Mendoza, Collins Okafor and Lester Ward one each, all in mop-up time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be all right,â&#x20AC;? Pelini said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel worse for the kid. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a prideful, tough, competitive guy.â&#x20AC;?

Dave Weaver Associated Press

TOP 10: TCU, Boise State look to defy BCS From page 7 Force squad at a pretty high altitude in Colorado Springs, Colo. If the BCS figured in bonus points for navigating rough weather, TCU would be a lock for earning a top-tier bowl as they have won their last three games in less-thanpleasant conditions â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the first two wins each earn an added bonus for outlasting monsoons. The Air Force win propels TCU to the top of the strength-of-conditionconquered component after they outlasted three turnovers in the drizzly, miserable weather.

Boise State

The Broncos continue to cheer for Oregon who, after falling under the curse of the blue turf and being embarrassed by its own remake of Punchout, has reemerged as a legitimate team. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hurt that the Ducks play in the PAC 10, the second-best conference, or third-best conference way out west. If the Ducks, who are currently in sole possession of first place in the conference, can drop USC at the end of the month, they would be in the driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seat to win the PAC 10. This means that the likely WAC conference champion, Boise, might have a huge feather in their BCS cap â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a win over the PAC 10 champion. But first the Broncos must survive the Golden Hurricane tonight as they face off against for-

mer Texas quarterback G.J. Kinne record for most catches in a game. Lake Travisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; own Todd Reesiand Tulsa. ng was slinging record-breaking Iowa passes, throwing for a career-high It isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always pretty, or 442 yards and four touchdowns anywhere near impressive, as the Jayhawks barely escaped but the Hawkeyes just keep win- the Cyclones. ning. And in a conference chock Virginia Tech full of teams neither pretty nor The Hokies exorcised impressive, Iowa is thriving. their Boston College deThe rolling road show of ugly heads to Madison, Wis. this week- mons, snaring the Eagles out end for another road test. If they of the air and proceeding to rip survive, it only makes the eventu- their wings off. I am sorry for the al showdown with Ohio State at graphic description, but Virginia the Horseshoe that much bigger. Techâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beatdown of Boston College was pretty graphic. Cincinnati The Eaglesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; starting quarterThe Bearcats get their back, David Shinskie, finished the first true test of the season first half with just two compleThursday night as they hit the tions, both of which were to Hokroad to face South Florida. Ex- ies, who took a 34-0 lead at half. citing Thursday night Big East But luckily for Boston College, football: enjoy it while you can Shinskie improved in the second because it might not last long. half, completing one pass for four yards before being yanked.

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Kansas

The Jayhawks have survived their battle with their basketball brethren, and their offense is thriving. In their win over Iowa State, Kansasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; offensive talent spent as much time destroying their record book as they did the Cyclonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; defense. Dezmon Briscoe broke Kansasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; career record for receptions, but it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t last long as backup quarterback and standout receiver Kerry Meier leapt ahead of Briscoe later in the game. Meier, who snagged 16 catches, also broke his own school

South Florida

South Florida hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t played for nearly two weeks, and they are still picking off Syracuse quarterback Greg Paulus. Poor Paulus, whose turnover to assist â&#x20AC;&#x201D; er, I mean turnoverto-touchdown ratio â&#x20AC;&#x201D; isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t very good, as he has thrown 10 interceptions to only eight touchdowns. Greg, no matter how many charges (or in this case roughing-thepasser calls) you can draw, Coach K is never going to let someone that careless with the ball play.

RANK: Early loss out of the way, Trojans back up top From page 7 of consecutive starts for the Gators in their 13-3 win last week against LSU. One of the up-and-coming quarterbacks went out for the year when Baylor â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Robert Griffin III tore his ACL in a win against Northwestern State. South Floridaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Matt Grothe, who was looking to end his career as the Bullsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; greatest player, suffered another ACL tragedy. Grothe had started every game since his second game as a freshman. Also going down was Texas Techâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Taylor Potts, who suf-

fered a concussion two weeks ago in a game against New Mexico. Luckily for the Red Raiders, backup Steven Sheffield has continued the Mike Leach system, throwing for 490 yards and seven touchdowns last week.

Always better to lose early If there is a good time to lose in college football, it is in the first few weeks of the season so that the teams have enough time to slowly climb back up in the rankings. Without starting quarterback Matt Barkley, who also was injured, USC was upset by Washington, who scored

on a last-second field goal. The Trojans lost their No. 3 ranking but have already come back to No. 5 as plenty of other teams have lost. Oklahoma State also failed to get by an opponent that they were expected to defeat easily. The Cowboys lost to Houston in Stillwater, Okla. in their second game of the year and quickly fell out of the top ten. Penn State was hoping to seek revenge against Iowa, who ruined its run to a BCS National Championship last year but, once again, was unable to beat the Hawkeyes.

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Vancouver-based indie-rock band Japandroids will be playing in Austin tonight at Emoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

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By David Sieloff day, month day, 2008 Daily Texan Staff â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yeah, just living that fastpaced rock star life, you know?â&#x20AC;? Dave Prowse, one-half of indie rock band Japandroids, RTISE NTis giving E V D a phoneA interview The Daily TUDEtoOaround N! in Texan O while UR Swaiting I T Y A Z I a laundromat. RGAN â&#x20AC;&#x153;These machines arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t O even chrome.â&#x20AC;? The members of Japandroids, who will be playing at Emoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tonight to promote the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s debut LP Post-Nothing, are refreshingly straightforward. With Brian King on guitar and Dave Prowse on drums, they play roaring, steering-wheel-pounding indie rock with lyrics that mostly deal with girls and being bored in Vancouver, their hometown. Japandroids may be exploring familiar territory, but they make it exciting by injecting a little desperation into all the fuzz.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got a rawness that makes it fall into that lo-fi camp,â&#x20AC;? Prowse said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The big reason it sounds that way is we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have much money when we were recording. We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do any overdubs, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of our aesthetic now. At the same time, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a certain attention to detail. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still that clearness coming through the distortion.â&#x20AC;? The band name came about because of an inability to compromise. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Brian wanted to call the band Pleasure Droids, and I thought that was just ridiculous,â&#x20AC;? Prowse said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I voted for Japanese Scream, so he mashed those two names together to come up with Japandroids.â&#x20AC;? The bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s album title, PostNothing, has a similarly inspired origin. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a running gag with

our band for a long time. Like, It has been a very busy year LASSIFIEDS we used to refer to ourselves as for Japandroids. Post-Nothâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;post-nothingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, and we decided ing received a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best New Muto go with that,â&#x20AC;? Prowse said. sicâ&#x20AC;? award from the influential â&#x20AC;&#x153;All those â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;post-somethingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tags tastemakers at Pitchfork, bringing them new levels of attention. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on a nearly fourmonth-long tour that will last until December. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll play a show in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seeing your bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new ala new town, and bum among the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best New Musicâ&#x20AC;? on Pitchfork, then getting to thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a hundred play at the Pitchfork Music Fespeople, and they all tival and having everyone sing know the words.â&#x20AC;? your songs is pretty awesome,â&#x20AC;? Prowse said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still pretâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Dave Prowse ty weird, though. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll play a show in a new town, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Japandroids drummer a hundred people, and they all know the words.â&#x20AC;? But not everything has gone get so ridiculous. Post-Nothing, their way this year. Earlier in itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like, a dig at the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;post-thisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; the year, Brian King was hosand â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;post-thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bands ... and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pitalized a day before the band also the most pompous thing was set to begin touring. we could do.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Basically, they had to cut

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him open and fix a bunch of stuff, so he was out of commission,â&#x20AC;? Proswe said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had to cancel some of the tour dates right away, and once we realized how long he was going to be there, we canceled the entire tour. It was disappointing because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never done a big tour like that. Brian is way more important than some tour, though. So, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been playing a lot of the makeup dates for that tour.â&#x20AC;? Fortunately, these revised dates include Austin. Be sure to catch them letting loose all their post-adolescent angst tonight at Emoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

By Jake Coyle The Associated Press About the hoopla surrounding the film adaptation of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where the Wild Things Are,â&#x20AC;? Maurice Sendak is characteristically gruff. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I kind of want it over,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not used to this invasion.â&#x20AC;? But that speaks more to the 81-year-old authorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fondness for privacy than his feelings about Spike Jonzeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film, co-written by David Eggers. In a phone interview from his home, Sendak said he considers both Eggers and Jonze to be good friends and believes the director has done a â&#x20AC;&#x153;spectacularâ&#x20AC;? job with his most famous work. The movie is a long time coming. Two directors earlier tried their hand at adapting the book, but their visions didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t impress. And it took Jonze years to finish his â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wild Things.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The people I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never gotten to meet, so I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say anything bad about them,â&#x20AC;? Sendak said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all in Hollywood, where they belong.â&#x20AC;? The beloved illustrator has always had a complicated relationship with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wild Things.â&#x20AC;? When it was published in 1963, Sendak was an up-and-coming childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book author. His life was irrevocably changed by the success of the book. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wild Thingsâ&#x20AC;? caused quite a stir in its day. It was revolutionary in its honesty about childhood: Max misbehaves and his mother loses her temper. The Wild Things, based on Sendakâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aggressively affectionate relatives, scared some children. For a time, many libraries refused to stock the book. Much in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wild Thingsâ&#x20AC;? can be found throughout Sendakâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work: the power of the imagination, the always looming threats of childhood. Sendak urged Jonze to remember those qualities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I advised him to make more mischief, and he made more than most,â&#x20AC;? Sendak said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a cruelty to childhood, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an anger. And I did not want to reduce Max to the trite image of the good little boy that you find in too many books.â&#x20AC;?

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HUMP: Fetish-sex

Bushels of fun

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LIFE&ARTS

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Illustration by Carolynn Calabrese | Daily Texan Staff

Tamir Kalifa | Daily Texan Staff

Members of the UT Cricket club search for a stray tennis ball in the bushes in front of the UT Tower during a match on the South Mall.

Contests, cocktails to curtail violence By Alexa Hart Daily Texan Staff Arm wrestling for charity — that’s the idea behind tonight’s Fierce Fest at the Lustre Pearl Bar. Attendees will have the opportunity to prove just how tough they are through competitions such as thumb wars, wall sits, staring contests and more. A portion of drink purchases will be donated to SafePlace, an Austin women’s shelter that helps victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse. William Schroeder, along with

Cause for Drinks, one of the organizations involved in planning the event, said that collaboration between Cause For Drinks and two other groups made Fierce Fest possible. “It started as a collaboration between myself, Libby Anderson and Carter Fisk,” said Schroeder. “I started an organization called Cause for Drinks in Austin where we look to find simple ways to build social awareness for local charities. I talked with Libby about partnering with Planning for Good Austin and Carter Fisk about part-

nering with Austin Pool Crashers, which they head.” Schroeder said that Planning for Good is a “group of brand planners and their friends that help bring strategic marketing help to nonprofit organizations,” while Austin Pool Crashers plans and hosts themed parties. “We help organizations through direct donations [and] sponsors, and a percentage of drinks sold go to charity,” Schroeder said. “We partnered together last year to help Emancipet, raised over $3,000 and had over 600 people attend our

event. Our organizations aid the charities free of charge.” After Schroeder heard SafePlace in Austin was under what he called “funding pressure,” he knew he had found his latest cause for drinks. “The idea behind Fierce Fest is a message of strength and empowerment,” he said. “The inspiration for arm wrestling and thumb war contests was an idea inspired from members of Planning for Good. We wanted to engage participants with one another while having a good time.”

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Taqueria Arandas 6534 Burnet Road (512) 452-9886

TA CO LO CO Sure Chipotle, Torchy’s Tacos, Trudy’s and On the Border are staples in every student’s diet, but these Mexican and Tex-Mex fusion diners can lighten your wallet. Looking past the mainstream joints can get you a little more bang for your buck along with a side of culture and real Mexican food. — Solomon Wang Sara Young | Daily Texan Staff

Huevos rancheros, a popular breakfast food at Taqueria Arandas, is served throughout the day. Many have had the shredded beef that Chipotle calls barbacoa; less have actually eaten true Mexican barbacoa. With a little bit of exploration off the Drag, true meaty goodness can be found. At Taqueria Arandas, you can get meltin-your-mouth beef cheek (yes, real barbacoa is beef cheek) on a taco for $1.50. Recommended serving style is the authentic combination of onion, cilantro and lime on corn tortillas. Taking it up a notch, you can order your barbacoa as a torta, a traditional Mexican sandwich, which comes with your meat of choice, avocado

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and rich sour cream all piled on bolillos, or buttery Mexican bread. The extremely filling sandwich will run you a measly $3, which sure beats an $8 burrito. Other meat options here can get pretty exotic ranging from cow stomach to pig skin. Don’t be put off by the plain decor, because the unpretentious authenticity is definitely one of the best attributes of genuine Mexican food. Spanish is the first language of much of the staff and clientele, so the restaurant definitely gives off a vibe of Mexico, affordable food included.

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Maria Torres and Abbel Benitez prepare homemade tortillas for Tuesday’s orders at La Cocina de Consuelo, located on North Burnet Road.

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“Taco Grande,” one of the entrees served at El Pollo Rico #5, located on Riverside Drive, is available in beef or chicken. Diving further into Mexican cuisine — and avoiding the overpriced chicken tacos found at Torchy’s — you can find a real treat at El Pollo Rico, a takeout shack on East Riverside Drive conveniently located for all those who live south of campus. El Pollo Rico offers a king’s feast for $8 that serves two. Included with this dinner are a half Mexican-spice roasted chicken, a container of Mexican rice and charro beans, eight corn tortillas, a whole grilled onion and salsas. Even heavy eat-

ers would have trouble eating the combination alone. As if the delicious food isn’t enough, the complimentary green sauce is outrageous; this creamy, spicy concoction offers the absolute perfect sauce to top off your tacos. For $1, you can get a taco-rice-andbeans “value meal” that blows the $4 tacos at Torchy’s out of the water. Take a seat at one of the picnic tables to enjoy your handmade tacos, and don’t forget to order water.

For a real homestyle Mexican dinner for not a lot of money, make your way over to La Cocina de Consuelo. Translated as “Connie’s Kitchen,” this inviting cabin offers a dining atmosphere comparable to the comfort of your own home. For those with unadventurous palates, traditional TexMex favorites such as enchiladas, fajitas

In the grip of pumpkin overload

PUMP IT UP

By Ben Wermund

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth part in a series about society’s autumn obsession with pumpkin. Pumpkins are taking over the world. Everywhere I look, I see a pumpkin something. Pumpkin Poppers at Einstein’s, pumpkin muffins and doughnuts at Dunkin’ Donuts, pumpkin drinks everywhere, pumpkins outside of every store, pumpkin big-and-tall tees, pumpkin costumes, pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin. People are putting motors on 700-pound carved-out pumpkins and racing them as boats in Damariscotta, Maine. I really do love pumpkin, but

this is out of control. We’re not even halfway through October, and pumpkins are already suffocating the daily scenery. They’ve already lost a good amount of their novelty, and pumpkin season lasts at least until Thanksgiving. The ridiculousness of the pumpkin pandemic reached its zenith at Wal-Mart the other night. I knew the store would be a good place to go to find a pumpkin item or two after other stores had closed their doors, but I had no idea how absurd some of their items would be. The first thing I noticed after a quick stroll through the grocery and clothing sections was that Wal-Mart is the ideal place to shop if you want to dress up in pumpkin. They sell pumpkin clothing items ranging from an $8 pumpkin baby play suit to the biggest orange pumpkin shirts I have ever seen hanging from the racks of the men’s clothing section. Eventually, I found my way to the seasonal section where everything was more than just a tad too much. Amid bags of gummy body parts, boxes of candy hands, and rows of glittery silver skeletons, was a bin of large pumpkin piñatas.

When I think of piñatas, I think of childhood birthday parties. I think of elementary school classes celebrating Cinco de Mayo on the playground and my second grade teacher reminding everyone that, even though my surname put me last in alphabetical order, it didn’t mean I was lesser than anyone else beating that hanging paper donkey. I feel that a pumpkin piñata is an attempt to combine two things that really can’t be. So I continued, satisfied, knowing it wasn’t just my imagination — pumpkins really are taking over everything, even my childhood memories. The costume aisle was where I found the epitome of pumpkin absurdity. There, on an end cap, past all of the prepackaged costumes, ranging from slutty Dorothy to sexy Spider-Woman and even Playboy Bunny ears marketed to eight-year-old girls, was the most ridiculous item in all of Wal-Mart — a pumpkin sweater for your pet cat. I have no words. I felt it when my stomach turned as I drank a pumpkin milkshake. This pumpkin cat sweater was really the nail in the coffin. Wal-Mart had no comment to ease my troubled soul.

and burritos can be found on the menu, though the flavors are definitely more refined and tasty than corporate places like On the Border. If a true taste of Mexican cuisine is desired, the chicken mole is the best option. This irresistibly rich chicken dish is stewed with chipotle peppers and Mexican cocoa.

Along with every meal, two sides are offered, so, in just one meal, you could sample Mexican favorites such as chicken in chocolate, cactus salad and fideo (Mexican spaghetti soup). Along with your meal, you can get a great view of the kitchen as the staff prepares fresh tortillas and cooks fresh authentic dishes.

Submitting to BDSM in bed opens variety of possibilities HUMP DAY By Mary Lingwall

Dear Mary, A few weeks ago, my boyfriend pulled my hair while we were having sex. It caught me off guard, but I can’t deny that I was really into it. Slowly but surely, we have started integrating all sorts of things I would have never imagined myself being into, including slapping each other in the face, him spanking me and me bit-

ing him. I enjoy what we are experimenting with, but I am worried that someday he will get bored with this. Like, if this becomes habitual, then what will be exciting in the future? And if we have to begin wearing masks and using whips and stuff, I am so not into [that]. How can I keep this up without taking it to a fetish-y extreme? — Anything but Leather Dear Anything but Leather, My first reaction to your letter is this: Have a conversation about this aspect of your sex life, and your intentions therein, with your partner as soon as possible. There is nothing wrong with wanting to play with the power dynamics of your relationship in a sexual way as long as you both are on the same page and all ac-

tions are consensual. As the old BDSM (bondage, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism) saying goes, you want to “be safe, sane and consensual” when you push the boundaries of sexual expression. With that being said, I think you underestimate the variety of possibilities lying in wait amid the behaviors you and your boyfriend are currently playing with. In situations like yours, where both partners are open to stretching and bending the stereotypical dynamics of a heterosexual relationship, you each have more room to explore your roles. The fact that you both get to express dominance — you explained that you and he slap one another equally — makes this even more

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