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East End Wines owners offer up the cream of the crop
Exhibition game against Commodores showcases Longhorns’ new attitude
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Camera footage reveals Tooley’s bus ride on day of shooting
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TODAY Calendar Rugby Texas Stampede Wheelchair Rugby Team will hold a demonstration in Anna Hiss gym. Room 135.
Red Young The keyboard and piano player will perform at the Continental Club. 9:30 p.m.
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Bryant denies unspecified accusations By Collin Eaton Daily Texan Staff Associate athletics director for football operations Cleve Bryant said in a letter Monday that although he is currently under an internal UT investigation, the accusation made against him is false. The letter, written by Bryant’s attorney Tom Nesbitt, did not discuss the nature of the accusation. Bryant, who is currently on administrative leave of absence, said the leave was his idea and was arranged at his request. Bryant understands any allegation must be investigated by the University, “no matter how incredible,” and that a thorough investigation would clear him of the accusa-
tion, according to the letter. “He was not involuntarily placed on leave,” Nesbitt wrote. “After Mr. Bryant was instructed not to discuss the investigation with several co-workers with whom he works closely on a daily basis, he requested a leave of absence to avoid even the perception that he was talking with potential witnesses or interfering in the University’s investigation.” The letter said Bryant’s wife of 36 years, athletics life skills counselor Jean Bryant, also requested a leave of absence to avoid the perception that she was talking with co-workers about the investigation. “Jean Bryant’s office is just down
the hall from Cleve Bryant’s office in the football operations office,” Nesbitt wrote. California-based discrimination attorney Gloria Allred — who has worked on several high-profile cases involving Michael Jackson, Scott Peterson and O.J. Simpson — confirmed Monday that a former female UT employee has sought Allred’s legal services in regards to Bryant. “I do represent a woman in reference to Mr. Bryant,” Allred said. “I have no further comment at this time.” According to Allred’s
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Cleve Bryant greets former Texas football player Ricky Williams outside the locker room at the Rose Bowl in January.
Splashing into wild, open waters
Austin-based band reaches back to its Colombian roots in performances of vallenato and cumbia. 7 p.m. $7 at the door, $5 with a student ID.
Today in history In 1781 British General Charles Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington at Yorktown, Va. in the last major battle of the American Revolution.
Campus watch Danielle Villasana | Daily Texan Staff
200 Block W. 21st Street Public Intoxication: During another investigation, a UT student walked up to a UT police officer and exclaimed, “Did I really see that?” The officer asked the subject to sit down and said that he would assist him. The subject left the area on foot. Officers located the subject a short distance later and learned the subject had taken three hits of LSD. The subject was taken into custody and was transported to a local area hospital. No charges were filed. Occurred on Sunday at 2 a.m.
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Trinity University engineering student Matt Wey competes in the American Swimming Association’s open-water swimming competition on Lake Travis. Swimmers overcame challenges such as staying on course and cool water temperatures while competing with other universities.
Austinites take on city’s five lakes in world’s only swimming stage race By Madeleine Crum Daily Texan Staff Tomorrow morning at 9 a.m., a group of Austin swimmers that have outgrown the confines of the pools they train in will gather at the edge of Lake Buchanan, ready to embark on the only swimming stage race in the world: The High-
land Lakes Challenge. Over the course of five days, participants will race in each of Austin’s five lakes, braving choppy waters, witnessing native wildlife and ancient rock formations and racking up a total of around 16 miles. This race, along with a slew of other open-water swimming competitions, or
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non-traditional swimming races held in lakes, oceans and rivers, was created by American Swimming Association founder Keith Bell. An All-American swimmer at Kenyon College and arguably one of the most decorated Masters swimmers in
Pro-Israeli speaker sparks protests by opposing groups By Nick Mehendale Daily Texan Staff Signs reading “Stop Israeli Terrorism” and “No Occupation = No Rockets” could be seen outside Garrison Hall on Monday as about two dozen protesters showed up to voice their disapproval of an on-campus talk by-
pro-Israeli speaker Noam Bedein. Pace Davis, co-chair of the Palestine Solidarity Committee, the organization that held the protest, said that this was another episode in a trend of framing responsive actions of Palestinians as unprovoked violence. “These presentations garner
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Physics sophomore Ramsei Doany discusses the Israel-Palestine border at a talk about the situation in Garrison Hall on Monday evening.
uncritical support of Israel,” Davis said. “We want to draw attention to the narrative of the suffering in Gaza and other Palestinian territories; suffering that is often ignored.” Bedein, an Israeli native, served for three years in the Israeli Defense Forces as a sergeant for an artillery scout unit along the Lebanese border and later as an emissary for The Jewish Agency in Boston. After returning to Israel, Bedein started the Sderot Media Center, where he provides briefings in Sderot and the Western Negev for foreign diplomats, government officials and student groups. “The world doesn’t know the story,” said Zach Garber, president of Texans for Israel, who sponsored Bedein’s talk. “You never hear what people in Israel have to deal with. We want to raise awareness of the tragedies that take place in the city of Sderot that borders Gaza. People have
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Republicans petition for stimulus aid for projects By Nolan Hicks Daily Texan Staff Several members of the Texas Republican Congressional delegation have petitioned for federal stimulus funds for projects in their districts — after they voted against the 2009 Recovery Act and continue to campaign against it. Instead of using earmarks, where funds are designated for specific uses by legislators in the bills they write, at least 16 Texas Republicans used a process known as letter-marking to petition federal agencies for money to fund projects in their home districts. Unlike earmarks, which are part of legislation, agencies are under no obligation to grant lawmakers lettermark requests. “Lawmakers start writing letters behind the scenes to pressure or cajole or show support for a request pending before the agency,” said John Solomon, a reporter for the Center for Public Integrity, a non-profit investigative journalism organization. While critics of the budgeting process have long lambasted earmarks as a source of wasteful Congressional spending, it is a far more transparent process than letter-marking because the earmarks can been seen in the bills, Solomon said. He said there is little evidence that the letters written by various members of Congress influenced what projects were granted money from stimulus funds. For instance, Sen. Kay Bailey
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UAP seeking agreement on final plan for meters By Audrey White Daily Texan Staff West Campus infrastructure could get an update with funds from a new parking meter system if the city, business owners, neighborhood association and students involved can agree on a final plan. The Parking Benefits District proposal, from West Campus neighborhood association University Area Partners, has gone through several stages since the start of the summer, and stakeholders say they are nearing a resolution that will meet everyone’s needs. Under the association’s current proposal, the city would add 200 parking meters on Nueces and Rio Grande streets. Over the next 10 years, the association would receive 30 percent of the profits from the meters to use for infrastructure improvements. With a possible matching grant from the Neighborhood Partnership Program, the funds will bring light, irrigation and sidewalk improvements on 21st, 22nd, 25th and 26th streets from Guadalupe Street to San Gabriel
Street, said UAP board member Brian Donovan. “It’s dangerous to ride your bike and walk on the sidewalks in many places in West Campus,” Donovan said. “In my view, it’s about taxing people who drive into the neighborhood, whether they live here or not, in order to pay for improvements to the other modes of transportation.” Only a few points of contention remain in the proposal that is largely a satisfying compromise, he said. The first is a discussion of how to establish a two-way bike lane on Rio Grande Street while still accounting for car traffic and parking on that street, and the other relates to a plan to create a permit parking system for students who live in buildings that do not have adequate offstreet parking for residents. This includes certain co-ops and apartment complexes built before 1960, after which a city ordinance began to require that buildings include sufficient parking.
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