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UT language requirement to stay same Dean scraps proposed curriculum change due to large negative response

By Lena Price Daily Texan Staff After Liberal Arts faculty members showed overwhelming disapproval for reducing the number of required foreign language hours at an open forum Monday, the proposed changes will no longer be voted on at the upcoming Faculty Council meeting Oct. 26.

Dean Randy Diehl notified the instructional staff in an e-mail Tuesday morning that the foreign language classes will continue to be taught in the same way.

If the proposed changes had been implemented, students would have been required to take 12 hours of a foreign language instead of 16. The administration originally proposed a model in which students would take two six-hour classes to complete their language credits. The department chairs negotiated for a plan that would require one six-hour course followed by two three-hour courses.

Monday’s forum lasted more than three hours and no one, including the six language department heads who helped write the counterproposal, spoke in favor of the changes.

“In view of the overwhelming

negative reaction to the proposal, I have decided to withdraw it from further consideration,” Diehl said in the e-mail.

Daniela Bini, chairwoman of the French and Italian Department, said it is good that the dean is willing to listen to objections from faculty members.

“I wish we didn’t have to get to this point, because we spent a lot of time making the counterproposal,” Bini said. “But I am glad that he realized these are major changes that cannot be made overnight.”

Bini said she was never ecstatic about the 6-3-3 proposal.

“I personally would like to up the number of hours required in a foreign language,” Bini said.

“But under the current budgetary constraints, that obviously isn’t an option.”

Peter Hess, chairman of the department of Germanic Studies, said he is still trying to make sense of the implications that keeping the same requirements will have on the college.

“I think it creates an opportunity for all of us to channel the discussion we’ve had over the past three months in a positive direction,” Hess said. “But there is an underlying unresolved issue.”

The college will still have to reallocate between $10 million and

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Austin bridges housing gap

Tamir Kalifa | Daily Texan Staff

Francisco Doñes stands outside of his federally funded home in North Austin. Doñes has lived in affordable housing for eight months since his disabilities prevented him from finding work.

Tax credit program provides for affordable renting options

By Rachel Platis Daily Texan Staff Three development companies have been awarded tax credits that will help fund 827 units of affordable housing in Austin.

Rebecca Giello, a city spokeswoman, said having three development companies from the same city earn The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs award is unprecedented for a community with fewer than 1 million residents. She said the program will help the city fulfill its need to provide approximately 1,000 low-income

apartments annually for the next decade to meet its rental housing gap.

The tax credit program directs private capital toward the creation of affordable rental housing, giving investors the opportunity to offset their federal taxes in exchange for providing affordable renting.

“It’s a very extraordinary thing for three applicants in Austin to all get funding,” Giello said. “827 additional units doesn’t close the gap for affordable housing, but it does address a dire need here in Austin.”

One housing development current-

ly exists as Malibu Apartments, a 476unit apartment complex in North Austin, but will be transformed into a rehabilitation community.

The other two planned developments include M Station, a 150-unit family development which will be located across from the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard Capital MetroRail station, and Wildflower Terrace, a 201-unit senior community that will be located within the Robert Mueller Municipal Airport redevelopment area.

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Downtown project violates ordinance, draws criticism

By Alex Geiser Daily Texan Staff Some community organizations are worried that two City Council members may approve a project along Lady Bird Lake after initially campaigning against such developments.

Council members Chris Riley and Bill Spelman both supported the Grayco Planned Unit Development, which exceeds Waterfront Overlay ordinance restrictions, on first reading and sparked talk among members of Save Town Lake and other neighborhood associations about how campaign promises have not been upheld.

In a Sept. 29 post on his campaign Web site, Spelman said his tentative approval of the project does not contradict his previous commitment to the ordinance, despite his claim that he would not approve of any project which would exceed the protective ordinance during his campaign.

The 1986 ordinance, which set limits to restrict development around the lake in order to protect the lakefront from construction, was revised in 1999 to remove height limitations. The Waterfront Overlay Task Force, created in 2007, established a restrictive amendment to the overlay that set unique height standards for developments bordering the lake.

On the land the Houstonbased construction firm would like to develop, the city restricts the height of buildings to 60 feet.

Grayco would like to build a mixed-use tower reaching 90 feet, which has fueled the debate.

“By offering my tentative support to a project that can protect and enhance the natural values offered by this portion of the wa-

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terfront, I believe I retained my commitment to the spirit of the Waterfront Overlay,” Spelman wrote.

Multi-use projects, such as the one proposed by Grayco, that meet land-use requirements but are not bound by existing zoning restrictions are not specifically written into the waterfront ordinance. Planned unit developers can petition for exceptions to the ordinance if the developer offers community benefits.

Jeff Jack, member of the Zilker Neighborhood Association, said the community benefits offered warrant some increase in height, but 90 feet is excessive.

“By granting the PUD, this increase in height is like saying don’t bother going through the standard zoning process,” Jack said, explaining how developers will go with PUDs and petition for exceptions more often.

Other residents from Save Town Lake and neighborhood associations at the previous council

meeting expressed their fear that the PUD would create a dangerous precedent that would open the door for other developers to bypass the overlay ordinance.

Marisa Ballas, Riley’s policy aide, said the council’s decision should set a needed precedent for other PUDs. She said developers must understand they will need to offer a great deal of community benefits in order to bypass the Waterfront Overlay ordinance.

Riley said the community benefits the development offers fit the community’s vision of the lakefront area and, for this reason, is consistent with his campaign promises.

“Without PUD zoning, the owner of this property could rebuild these apartment buildings up to 60 feet high,” Riley said in an e-mail sent out to interested parties. “There would be no requirement to provide public

Campus Fusion covers diversity

By Viviana Aldous Daily Texan Staff More than 50 students of various ethnicities and backgrounds voiced opinions and concerns regarding diversity on campus to UT faculty, staff and fellow students in the San Jacinto Multipurpose Room on Tuesday evening.

The seventh annual Campus Fusion town hall meeting addressed issues of diversity on campus, including the top 10 percent law, same-sex partner benefits and UT budget cuts.

“Students have a range of complex concerns that the administration may not even be aware of,” said Campus Fusion co-chair Jenaya McGowan, a global studies graduate student. “It’s important that students voice [their] opinions and concerns to faculty and administration because it’s students that ultimately make a university existent. If they aren’t happy with the state of things on campus, [they] have the power to take [their] money, talents, skills

Daniela Trujillo | Daily Texan Staff

James Cox sits with other panel members of The Division of Diversity and Community Engagement on Tuesday night in San Jacinto dormitory. and ingenuity elsewhere.”

Less than one week after a University e-mail encouraged students to re-identify and refine their ethnicities for University records, the meeting focused on recruitment, retention and re-identification.

“We have some issues with certain groups of underrepre-

sented students,” McGowan said. “It could be students of color, first-generation college students, students from low-income backgrounds. We have a different time of recruiting them to a tier-one university like UT, and we have a hard time retain-

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Cronkite legacy enters UT archives

Tamir Kalifa | Daily Texan Staff

A plot of land on Lakeshore in East Austin could be redeveloped by Grayco Planned Unit Development if city council members vote to approve new height limitations on the construction site.

By Lena Price Daily Texan Staff Walter Cronkite was no stranger to the University of Texas at Austin, and now most of his personal papers and photographs will be permanently filed in the archives of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History on campus.

Three months after his death, the will of the legendary broadcaster and former student has been finalized, and the papers are now being transferred to UT.

“These are some of the most influential documents in the history of broadcast journalism,” said center director Don Carleton.

Cronkite dropped out of the University in 1935 during his junior year, but while he was a student, he worked as a reporter for The Daily Texan. He went on to work as an anchor for CBS News and famously declared the Vietnam War could not be won.

The center already has the majority of Cronkite’s papers stored in its archives, in-

cluding all of his reporter’s notebooks from his 1968 tour through Vietnam and some of his old Texan articles.

The center is waiting to receive some personal papers and photographs from his home and office.

All of the Cronkite memorabilia will be put on exhibition in May, and Carleton said he hopes students at UT will take advantage of the chance to view the exhibit.

Carleton worked with

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“Working with Walter Cronkite has been one of the highlights of my career,” Carleton said. “He had a wonderful sense of humor and was always very willing to have fun.”

At Cronkite’s funeral in July, Carleton said speakers were quick to acknowledge how much Cronkite actually lived up to his reputation.

“So many people don’t live up to expectations when you actually meet them in person,” Carleton said. “Walter Cronkite was not one of those people.”

Journalism lecturer Katherine Dawson said she showed one her classes a “60 Minutes” special on Cronkite shortly after his death and that she hoped they

NEWS BRIEFLY Austin Police event discusses students’ off-campus safety Students living off-campus can hear advice from the Austin Police Department and the Austin Fire Department about staying safe.

The 2009 Safety Coalition Forum will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. today at UTPD headquarters, located at 2201 Robert Dedman Drive.

“Hopefully, we can open up discussion and talk about issues pertinent to students that live in those areas,” said UTPD Officer Darrell Halstead.

The event is held annually to educate students about protecting themselves and their belongings.

Students living off-campus lack

felt the impact of the loss to the entire industry.

“I hope [the donations] will be very significant,” Dawson said.

“I’m not sure if UT students understand the impact that people like Edward R. Murrow or Walter Cronkite had on broadcast journalism. If you were born in the ‘80s, you just become used to more sensationalized television news.”

Dawson said the broadcast industry has started dumbing down phrases in the past 20 years, but Cronkite did not talk down to his audience. She said he assumed that his audience would understand the complex material he covered.

“People felt confident he doubled-checked all of his sources and facts,” Dawson said. “When he did interviews, he exuded this sort of morality that we unfortunately don’t see a lot of in broadcast journalism today.” some safety measures taken by the University to look after students in dorms, Halstead said.

“You don’t have an RA [resident assistant] telling you to lock your door,” Halstead said. “You rely on yourself for the little things, and you need to be aware.”

Halstead said most students, not just those living off-campus, take their safety for granted and are not conscious of relevant dangers, including various forms of theft. “‘Bad things happen to other people, they’re not going to happen to me.’ That’s the mindset students have,” Halstead said.

He said the main goal of the event is to have a group of more cognizant students by bringing all the key players in student safety to the table to trade information.

— Molly Triece

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Carlos Medina | Daily Texan Staff

Jordan Deathe, UT student, is a survivor of non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and will be riding in the Sense Corp Texas 4000 for Cancer this summer, a 4,500 mile charity bike ride from Austin to Alaska.

ON THE WEB: Video profile of Jordan Deathe @ dailytexanonline.com

DIVERSITY: Panel members discuss admissions factors From page 1 ing them once they get here.”

The event featured a panel including Gregory Vincent, vice president for diversity and community engagement; James Cox, an assistant English professor; Amy Yearwood, associate admissions director; and Linda Millstone, associate vice president for institutional equity and workforce diversity.

The panel also included business management junior Nicholas Mercado; Muneezeh Kabir, an English and women’s and gender studies senior; and Martin Kareithi and Beth Casey, LBJ School of Public Affairs graduate students.

When asked about the top 10 per-

cent law, which automatically admits high school students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their class, Vincent said limiting automatic admissions to the top 8 percent of high schools could have a positive impact on the student body.

The top 10 percent law will cap automatic admissions at 75 percent of the entering freshman class in 2011, which roughly equates to automatic admission of the top 8 percent of graduating high school seniors.

The top 10 percent law provided automatic admissions to 78 percent of this year’s entering class and 81 percent of the entering 2008 class.

“I think this is positive because it preserves the diversity with the automatic admissions while allowing

the faculty to make good decisions when selecting who should comprise this amazing student body,” Vincent said. “Though it may provide some challenges, I think we can still continue to aggressively recruit a robust, diverse student body who really represents the leadership in and out of Texas.”

Panelists were also asked about whether the absence of same-sex partner benefits hinders the University.

“We’ve heard this phrase: ‘What starts here changes the world,’” Casey, a transgender lesbian, said.

“But the world has already passed us by. As Senator Olympia Snowe said, when history calls, history calls.

The University has not answered, and we’re getting left behind.”

The town hall meeting was one of five Campus Fusion events this week aimed at celebrating diversity on campus. There will be a celebration of the National Young Women’s Day of Action at 6 p.m. today in the Texas Union Santa Rita Room. There will also be a talent showcase at 7 p.m. Thursday on the Main Mall.

“I definitely feel like the University of Texas needs to be made more aware of these identities on campus,” Mercado said. “I feel like it’s my social responsibility; it’s my duty to be an active voice for the underrepresented people here on campus. By having these discussions, we can move on to progress towards equality.”

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Anjum Naveed | Associated Press

A Pakistani police officer and a reporter look through a hole caused by a suicide bombing Tuesday at an Islamic university in Islamabad. The suicide bombers attacked a women’s cafeteria and a faculty building in a suspected retaliation on behalf of an escalating army offensive.

Suicide bomb kills 4, wounds 18

By Chris Brummitt The Associated Press ISLAMABAD — Suicide bombers attacked an Islamic university in Pakistan’s capital Tuesday, killing four students in apparent retaliation for an escalating army offensive on a Taliban and al-Qaida stronghold near the Afghan border.

The suicide bombers hit a faculty building and a women’s cafeteria at the International Islamic University, where nearly half the students are women and hundreds are foreigners.

The blasts, which left bits of flesh and body parts strewn on the floor, killed two male and two female students and wounded at least 18 others. The two attackers were also killed, officials said.

No group claimed responsibility for the attack on what some people thought was a surprising target for Islamic extremists, but the president of the univer-

sity and authorities said they believed it was the work of militants in the northwest.

Authorities have been warning that militants would try to bring the war to Pakistan’s cities since the army began its offensive.

Many schools and universities were closed after receiving word from authorities on Monday they could be targeted.

After the attack, the government ordered all educational institutions closed for a week in three of the four provinces.

The university is attended by 18,000 students. It has close to 2,000 international students, many from China. While it is a seat of Islamic learning, most students take secular courses such as management science or computer studies. “Those who call themselves champions of Islam, they have today proved by attacking the Islamic university that they are nei-

ther friends of Islam nor Pakistan,� said Interior Minister Rehman Malik, whose motorcade was stoned by angry students as he left the campus on the outskirts of Islamabad.

Many students did not accept that militants were responsible for attacking a hub of Islamic learning and instead blamed shadowy forces out to discredit Islam or weaken Pakistan — variations of conspiracy theories that are often heard after bombings. “It shows clearly that anti-Islamic elements are involved in these attacks,� said economics student Abul Hassan.

Militants from South Waziristan have claimed responsibility for a string of recent terrorist attacks, including a 22-hour siege on the army headquarters close to the capital and a suicide attack on a U.N. office in Islamabad that killed five people.

The army has deployed some

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The AMA began airing ads last week saying the increase would “protect seniors’ access to quality care.� A late 2008 study by the Medicare Payment Advisory Com-

mission found that nearly 30 percent of Medicare patients looking for a new primary care doctor had trouble finding one.

Yet the AMA won’t yet pledge support for the major health care bill that is the chief objective of the White House and congressional Democrats, despite a request that several officials say was made at a meeting last week with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. — The Associated Press

White House, Democrats seek support for health care bill WASHINGTON — In the war over health care, the White House and congressional Democrats have the nation’s drug makers and hospitals generally on their side; the insurance industry, not so much.

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30,000 troops to South Waziristan against about 12,000 Taliban militants, including up to 1,500 foreign fighters, among them Uzbeks and Arabs. The region is also considered a major al-Qaida operations and training base.

In a brief statement, the military said troops backed by aerial bombing were advancing on three fronts but were meeting stiff resistance from militants on high ground firing rockets and small arms.

It reported four more soldiers were killed, bringing the army’s death toll to 13, while 12 militants were slain, bringing their death toll to 90.

The United Nations said at least 32,000 people have fled South Waziristan over the last week, joining more than 80,000 people who left earlier when the army began making preparations for the offensive. Authorities say more will leave in coming weeks.

By Marcia Dunn The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s lofty new rocket arrived at the launching pad Tuesday for a test flight next week that comes at a time when the future of the country’s spaceflight program is up in the air.

It’s the first time in 34 years that a rocket other than the space shuttle has stood at Launch Pad 39-B. NASA modified the pad for this rocket, which is supposed to carry astronauts to the moon.

But the White House may scrap those plans. A panel of aerospace experts that provided President Barack Obama with a list of possible exploration options is issuing its final report later this week.

The experimental Ares I rocket — taller than the Statue of Liberty — spent all night traveling from the hangar to the pad. The four-mile trip took more than seven hours.

The test vehicle will blast off next Tuesday on a 2½-minute ballistic flight to demonstrate how the partial first stage performs. It’s costing NASA $445 million.

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327 feet, the Ares I-X looks like what will carry astronauts into orbit, possibly by 2015. But much of it is a mock-up, and no person or payload will be on board. The shuttle is 184 feet tall.

Shuttle program manager John Shannon said the Ares I-X is safe enough to launch even though Atlantis is just 1½ miles away on the other pad. The impact zone if there is a launch explosion “just barely clips byâ€? the pad holding Atlantis, he said.

He noted that there’s proven technology in the Ares’ first-stage booster. It’s the same type of solid rocket booster used to propel space shuttles. “My personal opinion is that if we really thought that I-X was going to have a problem, that we’re not ready to launch it, even on a test flight,� Shannon said late last week.

The booster will parachute into the Atlantic and be retrieved for analysis. The rest of the rocket, all false pieces weighted with ballast, will crash, uncontrolled, into the ocean.

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NASA’s new experimental rocket, scheduled to launch Oct. 27, approaches its launch pad after a nearly seven-hour journey Tuesday.

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Lessons from Dan Rather

Students will have a unique opportunity to hear from one the most notable journalists of the past 30 years this Thursday. Dan Rather, the Emmy-winning former anchor of the “CBS Evening News,” will deliver a free lecture, “The Future of News: The Crisis in American Journalism and Why People Should Care,” at the Texas Union Ballroom on Thursday at 4 p.m.

As a network television journalist, Rather was the first to break news of the Kennedy assassination and provide in-depth coverage of the Watergate scandal and Nixon impeachment. As a correspondent for “60 Minutes” and the successor to beloved Texas journalist Walter Cronkite on the “Evening News,” Rather won numerous Peabody awards for his news coverage and special reports on topics such as the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison. Clearly, Rather is one of the most qualified figures in American journalism today.

But criticism followed Rather throughout his career. Although he retained the strong viewership Cronkite pulled at CBS, the popularity of the “Evening News” fluctuated during his tenure as managing editor and anchor. While Rather plans to speak on the crisis of journalism in America, he was criticized

by Peter Boyer of The New York Times for doing little to stop severe news staff layoffs in 1984. He has also been accused of having a double standard in his story selection, leaning toward coverage of more “liberal” issues, though he was among the first to point out a similar conservative bias on Fox News Channel, which he argued received talking points from the Bush administration and portrayed them as “news.”

Rather may be famous for his hard-nosed interviews of world leaders and his low-pitched Texas drawl, but he’ll be infamous for the 2004 Killian documents controversy, during which he was castigated for reporting a story on George W. Bush’s Air National Guard service record after consulting what most experts consider inauthentic documents. CBS defended itself by claiming it was misled by the provider of the documents, and Rather was quoted on “Larry King Live” in 2007 saying, “Nobody has proved that they were fraudulent, much less a forgery.” The fallout from the story led to several management changes at CBS and most likely hastened Rather’s retirement in 2005. Rather later unsuccessfully tried to sue CBS for making him a scapegoat in the aftermath of the story.

But despite the rocky ending of Rather’s CBS career, he is considered one of the most influential figures in journalism. Rather has accused journalists of softness in the covering news and missing the true story — what many journalists need, he has said, is a “spine transplant.”

Few journalists have walked the walk like Rather, who has long spoken out for courageous and critical reporting. It may be that drive that led him and the “CBS Evening News” to go ahead with the Killian documents story. But Rather’s historic and decorated background proves his style has ultimately benefited American journalism. He has experienced the gifts of a judicious mind and the consequences of brash action. His background, with its triumphs and criticisms, is a reminder of why it is important to be strongheaded and thorough in reporting, and his speech is sure to remind us why journalism matters.

— Jeremy Burchard for the editorial board

March against the death penalty

By Hooman Hedayati Daily Texan Guest Columnist Would you oppose the death penalty if it were proven that Texas has executed an innocent man? If so, remember this name: Cameron Todd Willingham. He was innocent and Texas executed him. There are plenty of executed death-row inmates with strong claims of innocence, such as David Spence, Ruben Cantu, Carlos De Luna and Gary Graham. But the state of Texas has never admitted to killing an innocent person. Willingham’s case could become the first case in which the state of Texas will have to admit that it made a mistake.

Willingham was executed for arson and murder in 2004. He professed his innocence until he was strapped down on the execution gurney, saying “I am an innocent man — convicted of a crime I did not commit. I have been persecuted for 12 years for something I did not do.”

Now, we know that he was telling the truth. In August, Craig Beyler, the investigator hired by the Texas Forensic Science Commission to review the Willingham case, released his report in which he found that “a finding of arson could not be sustained” by a scientific analysis.

He concluded that the fire in the Willingham case was accidental and not arson.

In fact, there was no arson, so there was no crime.

David Grann wrote a 16,000-word article for The New Yorker in which he discredited all the evidence used to convict and sentence Willingham. Barry Scheck, co-director of the Innocence Project said, “After reading Grann’s report, fairminded people will know beyond a reasonable doubt that an innocent person was executed.”

The proven execution of an innocent person should have resulted in a call by Gov. Rick Perry for a statewide moratorium on executions and a commission to conduct a comprehensive study of the Texas death penalty system. But shortly before a scheduled Texas Forensic Science Commission meeting to discuss this case, in a move that looks like an elec-

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tion-year cover-up, Perry replaced several members of the commission with his own political allies, including John Bradley, a tough-on-crime Williamson County defense attorney, as chairman. Bradley canceled the public hearing indefinitely, leaving the investigation in limbo.

Scott Cobb, director of the Texas Moratorium Network, said, “No matter how things turn out, people are looking at the death penalty in a new light. They’re thinking if it could have happened to Willingham, then it could happen to many other people.”

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in 2006 that in the modern judicial system there has not been “a single case — not one — in which it is clear that a person was executed for a crime he did not commit. If such an event had occurred in recent years, we would not have to hunt for it; the innocent’s name would be shouted from the rooftops.”

This Saturday, at the 10th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty, people from all walks of life and all parts of Texas, the U.S. and other countries will gather at the Texas Capitol to raise their voices and shout out Todd Willingham’s name. The march is a gathering of activists, exonerated inmates and family members of the victims and those on death row.

Eugenia Willingham, mother of Todd Willingham, will be among the special guests at the march on Saturday at 2 p.m. on the South Steps of the Capitol.

On Friday, students can also join a panel discussion with exonerated deathrow inmates Shujaa Graham and Curtis McCarty (7 p.m. in the Texas Union’s Sinclair Suite, Room 3.128).

I encourage everyone to attend the march to support the Willingham family as they fight to prove that Todd Willingham was innocent.

For more information and to sign a petition, visit camerontoddwillingham.com and marchforabolition.org.

Hedayati is a government and Middle Eastern studies senior and member of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty.

SUBMIT A COLUMN The editorial board welcomes guest columns. Columns must be between 200 and 700 words. Send columns to editor@ dailytexanonline.com. The Texan reserves the right to edit all columns for clarity and liability if chosen for publication.

Prison and pregnant drug users but the state placed her in a facility that the government had already found unsanitary and unsafe, espeBy Anna Russo cially for pregnant women. If the state had wanted to Daily Texan Columnist address Ms. Lovill’s drug use, it could have enrolled her in a program that specializes in treating pregnant women. It deliberately chose a punitive and less effecAs a proud Texan, I cling to the legacy of leaders tive alternative.”

Indeed, Lovill expressed her desire to participate in such as Barbara Jordan and Ann Richards. These women fought a tireless battle to end sex discrimination such a program. As she told the trial court, “I know that I can stay clean again. I’d just like and leave future generations a world where justice and compassion guide the chance because I want to keep my us. Unfortunately, Texas doesn’t albaby with me.” But instead, for the ways honor their legacy and pay tribremainder of her pregnancy, the state Punitive treatment ute to their struggle. locked her up in Nueces County Jail.

A case in point: Today, the highHer probation officers openly testified of pregnant women est criminal court in Texas will hear that because of Lovill’s pregnancy, with substance a case involving the unfair and disthey were not willing to “work with” criminatory incarceration of a pregher and felt there were no “other opabuse problems nant woman who violated her probations” besides putting her in jail. is not only tion. A lower court has already ruled The state took this approach despite the that probation officers treated Amber fact that Nueces County Jail was known discriminatory, Lovill differently from others who vito be unsanitary and unsafe — despite but it also olated probation but were not pregreports of a pregnant woman having to undermines ... the nant. The American Civil Liberties sleep on the floor at the jail; the fact that Union and several other women’s the jail could not meet Lovill’s medical health of mothers rights groups have asked the Texas needs for both prenatal care and suband newborns.

Court of Criminal Appeals to affirm stance abuse; and that leading experts in this ruling. the fields of maternal health, fetal health Punitive treatment of pregnant and child welfare uniformly condemn women with substance-abuse probthis approach. lems is not only discriminatory, but it also underThe state clearly discriminated against Lovill because mines rather than improves the health of mothers she was pregnant, and it created less, not more, access and newborns. to appropriate care during her pregnancy. Thus, while According to an ACLU brief, officers repeatedly ad- we are all concerned about the risks of drug use durmitted that if Lovill were not pregnant, less restrictive ing pregnancy, locking up pregnant women with subalternatives would have been the typical response to a stance-abuse problems is not the answer. We as Texans positive drug test. Further, as Lisa Graybill, legal di- can and must do better. rector of the ACLU of Texas says, “Not only was Ms. Russo is a government and women’s and gender studies senior.

Lovill discriminated against because she was pregnant,

THE FIRING LINE Prison is bad for pregnancy Jillian Sheridan’s Monday editorial, “Punishing pregnancy or protecting a child?” suggests that the state can do one or the other. But as every leading public health group has concluded, punishing pregnant women is bad for both women and babies.

Although Lovill had finally been able to find a drug-treatment program in the community designed to actually help pregnant women, the state chose punishment over treatment. They sent her to the Nueces County Jail for the remainder of her pregnancy.

This was a jail that a year earlier had been deemed so unsanitary that the government removed federal prisoners from the facility. While there, she was denied water in an unairconditioned cell block in the middle of summer, and her doctor’s orders for things like low-sodium meals to control her blood pressure were repeatedly ignored. This hardly seems like protecting a fetus.

If it is true that the state should be able to imprison pregnant women to protect fetuses, then we need to start building more prisons. Science has not found that methamphetamines in fact cause the kinds of harms suffered by the editor’s friend’s son or even harms greater than those posed by drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, living in poverty, being obese or engaging in a range of potentially dangerous activities.

In 2005, more than 90 leading medical doctors, scientists, psychological researchers and treatment specialists released a letter requesting that “policies addressing prenatal exposure to methamphetamines and media coverage of this issue be based on science, not presumption or prejudice.” They wrote, “Our experience with almost 20 years of research on the chemically related drug, cocaine, has not identified a recogniz-

able condition, syndrome or disorder that should be termed ‘crack baby’ nor found the degree of harm reported in the media and then used to justify numerous punitive legislative proposals.” That’s the good news.

The bad news is that if the court allows the state to imprison women because they are pregnant, we can expect to see more unhealthy mothers and babies. If the message is “you will go to jail if you can’t overcome your drug problem in the short term of a pregnancy,” some women will have abortions as the only sure way to avoid incarceration. Other women will stop telling their doctors about their health problems or stop going to doctors, preventing them from getting care that could help them have healthy babies even if they are unable to stop using drugs altogether.

It is precisely because punitive measures scare women away from health care that the American Medical Association and every other leading health group oppose the punitive measures endorsed in the editorial.

We agree that society has a right to protect children, but using the courts to create a precedent for imprisoning pregnant women is not only discriminatory but also just plain bad for babies.

— Farah Diaz-Tello National Advocates for Pregnant Women UT alumna

Reasons to oppose Prop 4 Brian Haley is going to make a fantastic journalist for The New York Times someday.

In his column Monday titled “Vote for Prop 4,” Haley claims that Young Conservatives of Texas has no evidence to prove that Proposition 4 is a bad investment for Texas.

Apparently, Haley failed to do his research, because a simple Google

search would have brought him to our Web site, yct.org, where our press release and handout list our evidence for opposing Prop 4. He would have also found the video on YouTube called “Not for 4” that we just released as well.

In each of these, we explain how Proposition 4 does nothing but take professors out of the business of educating students — the original purpose of universities. The majority of classes in universities today are taught by nontenure-track faculty, graduate teaching assistants or part-time adjuncts. Tenured faculty spend 78 percent of their time on research-related activities. All this does is cause universities to hire more staff, increasing payroll and, therefore, increasing tuition rates for students.

We also explain how Ohio University economist Richard Vedder has shown that universities that over-invest in education actually have a lower growth rate than states that do not. Here in Texas, universities have spent $9 billion on research that has generated $8.3 million per year income, a rate of return of less than one-tenth of 1 percent.

By alternatively investing that money in the free market under conservative conditions, the return on that investment would have provided a four-year college degree to 50,000 Texans a year.

Last but not least, we explain how 87 percent of research and development in the U.S. is done by private companies and laboratories — not universities. Profit drives innovation, not government.

As you sift through all that evidence, keep in mind that the entire YCT state organization opposes Prop 4, not just the UT chapter. Tell the professors in this state to get back in the classroom and let the free market do its job by voting against Proposition 4.

— Dustin Matocha Management and government junior Chairman, Young Conservatives of Texas

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UT program gets funding to study global warming

Tamir Kalifa | Daily Texan Staff

St. David’s staff dentist Caesar Collard and assistant Esmeralda Lopez perform a routine check up on Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell. The mayor was the first patient aboard the newest addition to St. David’s mobile dental unit.

Dentists host affordable visits

By Molly Triece Daily Texan Staff Scrubs and suits mixed in front of Austin City Hall during the reception of two new additions to St. David’s mobile dental clinic.

Dentists and city representatives recognized the clinic’s achievements in the community and welcomed Mayor Lee Leffingwell as the first patient aboard one of two new mobile dental clinic vans.

The mobile clinic, founded in 1998 with one part-time dentist, has expanded to include a staff of six dentists, one hygienist, nine dental assistants and various volunteers who sign up for shifts. Children and adults who cannot afford dental care can schedule appointments in the van and are afterwards provided with a bag with toothbrushes, toothpaste and floss.

“In many families, that’s the first toothbrush that’s going home,” said Earl Maxwell, CEO of St. David’s Community Health Foundation.

When the mobile clinic consisted of four vans in 2008, 12,430 children were served. With two additional vans, St. David’s Dental Program hopes to increase this number by 2,800.

“It’s really grown to be a great program,” Maxwell said.

The clinics also provide dental care to local social service agencies, including the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians. The mobile clinics have served roughly 1,000 musicians over the past four years.

To schedule an appointment with the clinic, those seeking dental care can contact members of a service agency such as the musi-

cians’ health alliance who work with St. David’s. For children, parents can schedule appointments through their child’s school while the mobile clinic is providing service there. Some dentists receive more complex cases and treat those patients in their offices.

“It’s always been strange to me that our dental care is set apart from our health care,” Leffingwell said. “It’s something we ought to, in the future, do something about.

They should be fully integrated.”

Madge Vasquez, director of dental operations for St. David’s, said a child’s oral hygiene can influence how well they do in school.

“For us at St. David’s, we see oral health care as basic, so not having it means children are more susceptible to absences from school, affecting their performance,” Vasquez

said. “It can also make them selfconscious and affect their self-esteem.”

Vasquez said the mobile clinic also includes an educational program in which oral hygienists visit schools and talk to children and their parents about how to form healthy eating and cleaning habits that improve dental health.

“The mouth is kind of the window into your body, and you need to watch what you ingest,” Vasquez said.

Few dentistry programs exist that serve patients by reaching out directly into the community and providing free services as well as educational material, she said.

“It’s our only direct service program ... We’re probably the second- or third-largest mobile service in the country,” Vasquez said.

part of the University of Dublin

By Shabab Siddiqui in Ireland.

Daily Texan Staff Laura Jones, program coorThe University’s Robert S. Strauss Center for International dinator for the center, said the Security and Law received the grant money would provide for first part of a $7.6 million grant three professional research projfrom the U.S. Department of ects at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, giving students handsDefense earlier this week.

The five-year grant, with on research experience. She contingent options for addi- said the projects will also protional funding, was awarded vide students with the opportuto the center’s Climate Change nity to travel to Africa to look and African Political Stability at governance issues and support several graduate research program.

“We are excited to be able to le- assistants.

The grant was awarded by verage the extraordinary talents of the University of Texas at Aus- the Minerva Research Initiative, a program starttin and our reed by the U.S. Desearch team to partment of Debring a fresh, anfense to provide alytical perspecuniversities with tive and original We’re very grateful funding for socialthinking to an for this grant .” science-related reemerging global search in strateissue,” said Fran— Gregory Engle, gically important cis Gavin, the center’s director Strauss Center areas. UT is one the first benefiand the grant’s associate director of ciaries of the proprincipal invesgram. tigator, in a writ“ We ’ r e v e r y ten statement. grateful for this The center applied for the grant last year grant from the Minerva Research and was selected as one of only Initiative, which allows the seven higher education institu- Strauss Center and its partners tions, out of more than 200 ap- to address head-on the growing plicants, to receive grant mon- threat that climate change poses ey. According to its Web site, to Africa’s stability and developthe center ’s program aims to ment,” said Gregory Engle, asso“better understand the rela- ciate director of the center and a tionship between the growing member of the program’s team. threat of climate change and Engle is also an adjunct professor the ability of African countries at the LBJ School of Public Affairs to manage complex emergen- and a former U.S. Ambassador to cies, including humanitarian the Togolese Republic.

The Strauss Center is a muldisasters and violent conflict.”

The program consists of an t i f a c e t e d , c o l l a b o r a t i v e e f eight-member team that in- fort by the University to tackcludes faculty from UT as well le global issues. It combines as guests from the University resources from the school of of North Texas, Southwestern public affairs, the College of University, the College of Wil- Liberal Arts and the School liam and Mary, Brown Univer- of Law to address emerging sity and Trinity College Dublin, world issues.

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A Friend Dies. Who Cares?

Toxic drinking is an epidemic on campuses all across America.

It means consuming so much alcohol the drinker passes out. But while “sleeping it off,” the victim may be quietly dying.

Working with experts, they fine-tuned a course in techniques to handle these alcohol emergencies. Red Watch Band members can act fast, when every second counts.They know the quick steps they can take to rescue a passed-out student from a drinking death, and can immediately summon professional help. Everyone completing the course is given the distinctive red watch for identification.

Since its inception at Stony Brook University in March 2009, approximately 40 schools across the country have signed on to implement this lifesaving program.

To prevent toxic drinking deaths, go to redwatchband.org

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When you come right down to it, students themselves are the best ones to tackle this problem. So, in growing numbers, Stony Brook students have joined together in the Red Watch Band movement.

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Infamous con man speaks to students at UT about his life Speaker says meeting his wife, becoming a father made him change

Sara Young | Daily Texan Staff

A video for the hearing impaired is screened at a booth in Gregory Gym Tuesday afternoon for Disabilities Awareness Month. The booths were organized by Services for Students with Disabilities, a program that provides confidential counseling and other services to students.

Disability transcends difference

By Israel Perez Daily Texan Staff Hoping to dispel myths about disabilities, representatives from UT’s Services for Students with Disabilities hosted an event Tuesday for students to temporarily experience life with physical or mental impairments.

The event was part of the University’s Disability Awareness Month and featured interactive activities including a simulation of different visual impairments and a demonstration of assistive technology, such as wheelchairs.

“I think a lot of people are afraid of talking about disorders because they don’t know a whole lot about them,” said Krista Schutz-Hampton, director of UT’s Division of Diversity & Community Engagement.

“Without that information, we find that there are many myths about disorders.”

Schutz-Hampton said the first image people often have of the disabled are of wheel-

chair-bound and blind indi- said. “We find most students viduals. She said that isn’t the can benefit from a quieter testcase. ing place. Some need more time According to information re- to account for being distracted. leased by the disability servic- Others need a notetaker so they es office, the most common dis- don’t miss any key information ability on camduring lecture.” pus is attention L a u re n K i deficit hyperacnast, assistant tivity disorder. director for Nearly one-third UT’s Deaf and of students regWe can do anything” Hard of Hearistered with the ing Services, — Lauren Kinast, said the generoffice have the condition. assistant director for al perception Students of the deaf and UT’s Deaf and Hard of hard of hearwith the disorHearing Services ing is that they der, more commonly known have difficulty as ADHD, have functioning. difficulty con“We can do centrating, lisanything,” Kitening and completing every- nast said. “We can drive. We day tasks. can be involved in sports.

The condition can have a There is nothing that is holddevastating effect on students’ ing us back.” performance in school, but help Kinast also explained that is available, Schutz-Hampton many who are deaf and hard said. of hearing do not consider their “Our office tries to level the condition a disability. Those who playing field,” Schutz-Hampton are part of the deaf community

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consider deafness a difference in human experience rather than a disability, she said.

Biology senior Glenn Croft said his freshman-year roommate used a wheelchair.

“I really didn’t think he would be able to manage everything on his own, but he surprised me.”

Croft said. “He was very accepting of help but didn’t explicitly ask for help.”

Schutz-Hampton encourages all students with disabilities, including physiological disorders such as depression, severe anxiety and eating disorders, to get help because they are not alone.

There are 1,337 students registered with Services for Students with Disabilities. But the department estimates that there are more than 2,000 students with disabilities at UT, if students who choose to not selfidentify as having a disability are taken into account.

“We want to help,” SchutzHampton said. “We want to provide support.”

By Molly Triece Daily Texan Staff One of the world’s most famous con men gave advice to students on campus Tuesday.

Frank Abagnale, whose autobiography “Catch Me If You Can” turned into a film of the same name and who is now the CEO of a financial fraud consultancy company, spoke to students in the Texas Union Ballroom, sponsored

by UT’s Distinguished Speakers Committee.

The Distinguished Speakers Committee has hosted a variety of authors, comedians and poets in previous years, but Cody Johnson, Distinguished Speakers Committee chair, said Frank Abagnale represents a different kind of speaker.

“This is kind of an untapped genre. He’s a person who’s kind of had a story of redeeming himself,” Johnson said. “Now, he helps prevent the same things that he used to do. That’s something we thought was interesting rather than our regular sports star.”

Over the course of five years, Abagnale impersonated an airline pilot, a doctor and a lawyer, all before his 22nd birthday.

Some of the lecturers the committee hosted in the past stirred up controversy, but Johnson said it is important for students to hear different views.

“We’re all about trying to have an open dialogue,” Johnson said.

The reformed con man shared advice he said he gathered over the years after giving a brief summary of all of his exploits. His criminal activity began shortly after his parents were divorced.

Abagnale said he and his siblings were kept out of the loop and

surprised by the news, which came from a judge when Abagnale was summoned into a courtroom without explanation. Since he was 16 at the time, Abagnale was expected to decide which parent he would rather live with.

“A stranger told me to choose between my mother and my father,” Abagnale said. “There was no choice, so I ran.”

Abagnale ran away from home and sought employment for a while but found the pay insufficient. He said this was the beginning of his life as an outlaw.

He had several close calls throughout his criminal career, but as an adolescent he didn’t have a sense of fear or consequences. But Abagnale said he was aware the whole time that one day his charade would come to an end.

“I knew I couldn’t get away with it forever,” he said. “The reality is, you get tired of running and tired of people chasing you.”

Abagnale was caught after five years of forgery and impersonation and spent time in French, Swiss and American prisons. Abagnale said the next chapter of his life began when the FBI reduced his sentence in return for unpaid help in catching check-forgers much like himself.

“Prison rehabilitates no one,” he said. “Prison did nothing for me ... My life didn’t change until I met my wife.”

Abagnale said the importance of family and the responsibility of being a father were the only two factors in his life that made him change the man he was. He said he found peace in the family life he established but is burdened by the crimes he committed in his past.

“Life is very long, so the mistakes you make, you have to live with for many, many, many years,” he said.

Students’ leisure time interrupted by sprinklers, accidental fire

Sara Young | Daily Texan Staff

Gabriel Valadez, Sarah Daniel and Rachel Crowther, residents of The Block in west campus, wait outside the apartment complex during an evacuation for a fire.

During time typically reserved for afternoon snacks and postclass nap sessions, about 30 students were left to graze outside as Austin firefighters responded to an alarm at The Block on Campus apartment complex on West 28th Street on Tuesday afternoon.

The Austin Fire Department responded at 4:01 p.m. with six vehicles and was gone by 4:42 p.m. after discovering the source was minor.

“Just food on a stove. Sprinkler system’s activated, so there is a lot of water,” said AFD Battalion Chief Brian Nolan. “We evacuated the whole building, just wanted to get the smoke to clear out and make sure nothing else is going on.”

Nolan said the small fire occurred on the fifth floor and resulted in some water damage. He said AFD would reroute the water damage cleanup to the apartment’s management and maintenance department.

The apartment’s manager did not comment.

— Bobby Longoria

Lauren Gerson | Daily Texan Staff

Frank Abagnale, the inspiration for film “Catch Me If You Can,” speaks at the Texas Union Ballroom on Tuesday evening.

Mayor promotes energy efficiency with low-interest financing proposal

By Shabab Siddiqui Daily Texan Staff Mayor Lee Leffingwell promoted Project Energize, a proposed city initiative that would provide households with lowinterest financing options for energy-efficiency modifications, on Tuesday.

To promote energy efficiency, the bill would allow the city to provide low-interest loans for homeowners interested in installing solar panels on their rooftops or taking any other clean-energy initiative. Homeowners could then pay off their loans over time through their property tax bill.

The proposed resolution — co-authored by Leffingwell, Mayor Pro Tem Mike Martinez and Councilwoman Randi Shade — will be voted on during Thursday’s City Council meeting, and until the item

goes for a final vote, the mayor is trying to gather support for it. Tuesday’s event was the first time Martinez and Shade spoke in favor of the initiative.

“I really couldn’t be any more enthusiastic about the potential of this program,” Leffingwell said. “I firmly believe Project Energize can help propel the city of Austin to the very forefront of the renewable energy race over the long term while helping homeowners in very real and very immediate ways.”

Martinez said many homeowners cannot afford the outof-pocket $10,000 it takes to install solar panels on their rooftops, and this provides them with an opportunity to do so.

Shade said the most exciting part of the project is it essentially eliminates the risk of investing in infrastructure for home-

the debt, the infrastructure, and the savings are all directly tied to the home. It’s simple, but it’s huge.”

State Rep. Mark Strama, DAustin, said the city’s proposal creates a take-more-than-yougive scenario. “[Homeowners will] pay more each year in their taxes, but they’ll pay less each year in their electricity bills,” he said. “So the savings should be greater than the cost annually.”

The initiative was made possible after the state legislature unanimously passed House Bill Daniela Trujillo | Daily Texan Staff 1937 during the last session.

Mayor Lee Leffingwell leads a discussion in South East Austin regardThe bill allows municipalities ing the solar panel proposition Tuesday afternoon. to create pools of money from low-interest, tax-free bonds to lend to homeowners who are owners. to do so because they fear they making energy-improvement “There are lots of people who won’t recoup the costs if they initiatives. Austin is one of the are interested in making ener- decide to sell the house,” Shade first cities to act on the bill. gy upgrades but are reluctant said. “Under Project Energize,

Austin Energy spokesman Carlos Cordova said the energy company’s solar power rebate program, which pays part of the installation costs for homeowners purchasing solar panels, has grown tremendously in the last year. He said the demand for solar energy has increased, and that the number of solar power installers in the city has grown from four to 22 in a few years.

Strama said the program provides potential benefits for the University as well.

“Making Austin an early leader in the development of distributed solar power gives UT the ability to study its effectiveness and add to its research credentials in the area of solar power,” he said. “I would like to see the University of Texas be the national leader on issues related to renewable energy.”

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Durant brings thunder to Austin Despite win, Horns look for learning experiences

Peyton McGee | Daily Texan Staff

Former Longhorn Kevin Durant made his Austin homecoming debut Tuesday night in a preseason game at the Frank Erwin Center.

Thoughts of what team could have been swirl in minds of Durant, Barnes

By Laken Litman Daily Texan Staff University of Texas fans got a chance to see Kevin Durant play in Austin again. Durant didn’t come back to Texas for his senior year, but he did bring the NBA to his old stomping grounds Tuesday night when the Oklahoma City Thunder played against the San Antonio Spurs in a preseason game at the Frank Erwin Center.

“It felt good walking in the door and seeing my jersey in the rafters and the Longhorn on the floor,” Durant said. “It brought back a lot of memories. I was very fortunate and grateful to come and play back here.”

Although it was Durant’s home-

coming, the majority of the 10,290 fans in attendance cheered for the Spurs, who ended up winning 119102. But Durant did put on a show, scoring 23 points, 19 of which came in the first half.

“It felt like playing at home, and there were a lot of Spurs fans, but when we scored they cheered for us as well,” Durant said. “It brought me back to when I was playing here and the fans were behind us.”

If Durant hadn’t left for the NBA, the upcoming season would be his senior year, and he said he often wonders what it would be like.

“It would have been a lot of fun,” he said. “I also wonder what it would have been like if LaMarcus Aldridge and T.J. Ford and P.J.

Tucker would have stayed when I was playing here. There’s a lot of what-if’s, but I’m glad I did it the way I did it. This Texas family is always going to be a part of me for the rest of my life.”

Before the game, Texas basketball head coach Rick Barnes raved about Durant’s character and what it means for Durant to still be a part of the Longhorn family.

“The first thing he wanted to do when he got here was go see the guys in study hall,” Barnes said.

“He just wanted to hang around for as long as he could before getting ready for the game.”

This past summer, Durant spent time in Austin, taking classes and playing basketball with his former

Longhorn team. Barnes said that Durant still has plenty of love for Texas and takes every chance he can get to catch up with his former teammates and teach the new ones what it means to be a Longhorn And like Durant, Barnes often wonders what it would have been like if his No. 35 had remained a Longhorn for a few more years.

“A year ago, we could have had him and [LaMarcus] Aldridge and D.J. Augustin,” Barnes said. “That would be a pretty good team, but I’m happy for those guys. Those guys made more of an impact that people realize. And [Durant] has opened so many doors for us, and now it’s just fun watching him grow.”

VOLLEYBALL

Height helps the Longhorns lead nation in block parties

Sara Young| Daily Texan file photo

Senior Destinee Hooker goes up for a block earlier this season against the Italian National A2 team. UT currently leads the nation in blocking.

By Jordan Godwin Daily Texan Staff Texas’ outside hitters often embarrass their opponents with face-crushing kills, but an aspect that’s often overlooked is blocking. The second-ranked Longhorns lead the nation in that category, a ranking that head coach Jerritt Elliott is not too surprised by.

“We knew we had a shot,” Elliott said.

“With how physical we are and athletic we are, we knew we’d have a team in position.”

Physicality and athleticism, yes, but when blocking, height helps too. With an average height of 6-foot-4 on the front line, Texas has a size advantage attributing to the nation-leading 3.10 blocks per set.

“Coach tells us that if we do what we’re supposed to do, no one can hit over us,” said freshman Sha’Dare McNeal. “I knew that blocking was one of my weaknesses coming in, but I’ve learned a lot, and I think I’ve im-

proved.”

At 6-foot-1, McNeal is the shortest player that Texas uses for blocking. The team is led by 6-foot-2 middle blocker Rachael Adams, who has 1.15 blocks per set. Adams’ blocks have often provided a spark for Texas when the team is out of rhythm.

“She continues to improve,” Elliott said. “She’s been working really hard and has had a good season to show for it. Our team has been excellent at learning, and several players are really coming along on that front.”

Turns out, it’s not all about height and athleticism. Though she may stand 6-feet-5 inches tall, Jennifer Doris, who is second on the team in blocking, has a very scientific approach.

“Eye sequencing and picking up approach patterns are things we work on every day,” said Doris. “We have to watch their acceleration and deceleration, the depth of the set and several

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By Blake Hurtik Daily Texan Staff It might be impossible to please Texas defensive tackle Lamarr Houston — at least during the season.

Even after the senior led the Longhorns’ defense in holding Oklahoma to the lowest rushing yards in the history of the Red River Rivalry (-16 yards), Houston wasn’t satisfied.

“We had some busted coverages, some busted plays,” said Houston, who had four tackles (one for loss) against Oklahoma. “Our mental toughness can get a lot stronger. There’s no satisfaction on defense.”

The Longhorns wreaked havoc in the Oklahoma backfield, racking up 10 tackles for loss and two sacks. Defensive end Sergio Kindle led the way with four tackles for loss and half a sack.

He would have had another sack late in the fourth quarter had a Sooner lineman not tackled him. His pressure still caused quarterback Landry Jones to throw an interception to cornerback Aaron Williams, a result he’ll take.

“I think I would have had the sack,” said Kindle. “He tackled me like I had the ball.”

How exactly did Texas corral a Sooners offense that came in averaging 187 rushing yards per game? By adopting defensive coordinator Will Muschamp’s “blue-collar, lunch-pail” attitude.

“I just think our work ethic is showing, that’s all it is,” Houston said. “We can get way better.”

The Greg Smith effect Flex tight end Dan Buckner didn’t see much of the field against Oklahoma. When he did play, he was only thrown to once and drew a pass interference penalty.

Texas offensive coordinator Greg Davis used traditional tight end Greg Smith most of the time to compensate for Oklahoma’s pass rush and to help the running game.

Smith, who came into the game with one catch on the year, was Texas’ leading receiver heading into halftime with two catches for 19 yards.

Texas head coach Mack Brown said Smith will continue to see more playing time, but he also hopes to get Buckner more involved.

“We’ll be more balanced on offense with Greg playing and Dan Buckner playing instead of all four wide [receiver sets],” Brown said. “We just feel like people can catch up with four wides … and you can’t run the ball consistently.”

Texas coaches have stressed an increased focus on the running game as well.

“We felt like, going into the game, we wanted to play more with a tight end,” said Davis.

“We felt like it gave us more flexibility in the run game.”

In that sense, it worked. Texas rushed for 142 yards, but it was at the expense of the passing game, which produced just 127 yards.

Lawrence equals money Of all the praise being heaped upon Texas’ special teams success, almost none of it had been reserved for kicker Hunter Lawrence.

That may change after his three field goals —

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Defensive tackle Lamarr Houston looks to block one of Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones’ passes last weekend at the Red River Shootout.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Ellis, Liu, Leyden find success in tournament, secure berths in finals matches

By Alexandra Carreno Daily Texan Staff The Longhorns took the Wilson/ ITA Texas Regional Championships by storm this past weekend as the team successfully advanced players in each round of both the singles and doubles draw.

The squad’s great success in the tournament was exemplified by the solid playing of freshman Aeriel Ellis and the junior Abby Liu and sophomore Carlene Leyden duo.

All secured berths in finals matches of the tournament.

Ellis continued her winning ways as she breezed through the singles round of 64 with a quick defeat against Texas A&M’s Janelle Cuthbertson, 6-2, 1-1, ret. While her match in the round of 32 may

have posed a little more difficulty fellow teammate sophomore Krista for the freshman Damico. phenomenon, she “I am really pulled through happy for Aeriwith a win against el Ellis,” said TexTexas Tech’s Elizas head coach Patabeth Ullathorne, [Carlene Leyden and ty Fendick-Mc6-4, 4-6, 6-0.

Cain about the Abby Liu] have After posting freshman player. an easy win in the “She wasn’t able taken out a lot of round of 16 and to practice much very good teams.” rallying for a pair this week, and she of wins in both the — Patty struggled early in singles quarterfitournament to Fendick-McCain the nals and semififind her form. She head coach fought through it nals, Ellis secured a spot for herself and was incrediin the singles fibly determined.” nals of the tournaThird-seeded Elment with a comelis played against back win, 4-6, 6-0, 6-2, to defeat her Baylor’s eighth-seeded Nina Secer-

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begovic in Tuesday’s final match.

Meanwhile, Leyden and Liu pulled out a pair of victories in both the quaterfinals and semifinals of the doubles consolation round, defeating Houston’s Bryony Hunter and Elena Kazakova by an 8-5 margin and then ousting SMU’s Casey Kennedy and Sophie Quis by an 8-3 count.

“Carlene Leyden and Abby Liu have been on a tear,” Fendick-McCain said of the twosome. “They had a rough draw in the main draw and have just been playing great. They have taken out a lot of very good teams.”

The pair took on Nicole Briceno Tina Hogue | Daily Texan file photo and Shahazoda Hatamova of SMU in the finals of the doubles consola- Sophomore Krista Damico puts muscle into it during a tournament last season. tion round.

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gets nominated for Lott Trophy From page 7 including a pair from 42 yards — against Oklahoma that served as the deciding points in the game. He is a perfect 6 for 6 on field goals against the Sooners.

“Coming in, I kind of knew it was going to be more of a low-scoring game just watching,” said Lawrence after the game. “So I had kind of already prepared myself. You knew that a couple of kicks were going to come down to that.”

Lawrence is tied for the Big 12 lead in field goals with 12 and has only missed two on the season.

“He stepped up with wind in his face and made a 42-yarder … which really got us started,” Brown said.

Thomas, Acho recognized Safety Earl Thomas was named Big 12 defensive player of the week for the second time this season. The sophomore led Texas with seven tackles and his fifth interception of the year, tying him for the national lead.

Junior defensive end Sam Acho was named a quarterfinalist for the Lott Trophy on Tuesday. The trophy is awarded to the nation’s top defensive player who exhibits excellence on the field, in the classroom and in the community.

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Big 12 Power Rankings S OUTH :

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Texas: The win over archrival Oklahoma on Saturday in Dallas wasn’t pretty, but on a weekend when Florida narrowly escaped an upset and Ohio State lost to Purdue, it didn’t have to be. The Longhorn offense was nonexistent all day at the Cotton Bowl, but the defense stepped up and left Sooner fans shaking their heads in defeat. Will Muschamp’s group forced five turnovers Saturday and is holding opponents to 7.3 yards rushing per game over the past four weeks.

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Oklahoma State: Mike Gundy finally got over the hump. It wasn’t anything spectacular, but Oklahoma State snapped its four-game losing skid to Missouri on Saturday night in a 33-17 victory. Zac Robinson continues to lead the Cowboys offense without his top threats Kendall Hunter, who is out with a sprained ankle, and Dez Bryant, who was ruled ineligible three weeks ago after lying about a meeting with Deion Sanders.

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Texas Tech: It is safe to say that the Red Raiders have found their new quarterback in Steven Sheffield. While Taylor Potts started the season strong, recent struggles have pushed Sheffield into the limelight. The Red Raiders took a day off from their win-with-offense style of play and watched their defense earn the ‘W’ over the Cornhuskers 31-10.

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Oklahoma: Coming in with two losses to face Texas, the Sooners felt like they had everything to gain and nothing to lose. But nine offensive plays into the game, Oklahoma lost Sam Bradford after he reinjured his shoulder on a corner blitz from Texas defensive back Aaron Williams. Landry Jones stepped in and tried to fill the void on the big stage going 24-for-43 with one touchdown and two interceptions.

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Baylor: The Bears didn’t look so hot in their loss to Iowa State that ended the Cyclones’ 11-game Big 12 skid, but Baylor is still keeping things close without its star, Robert Griffin III, as quarterback. The Bears headed into the weekend against the Cyclones coming off a hard-fought battle with the Sooners in Norman the week before. Senior quarterback Blake Szymanski completed 23 of 38 passes for 223 yards.

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Texas A&M: At 3-0, the Aggies were full of confidence, and Aggieland was seeing signs of hope in Mike Sherman’s second season as head coach. But since the team’s 47-19 thumping at the hands of Arkansas, things have looked bleak. This past weekend, A&M lost in blowout fashion to Kansas State in Manhattan, Kan. 62-14.

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Kansas: Defensive struggles have haunted the Jayhawks all season long and were apparent last weekend when Colorado upset the Jayhawks 34-30. Kansas’ Todd Reesing was 30-for-51 with 401 yards, two touchdowns and an interception. KU fell into a huge hole early but rallied only to lose the game when a lastsecond pass to Dezmon Briscoe fell incomplete.

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Nebraska: The Cornhuskers looked abysmal on Saturday during their loss to Texas Tech at home, and now rumblings of a quarterback change are in order after head coach Bo Pelini mentioned the idea at his press conference. This was Nebraska’s fourth consecutive loss to the Red Raiders. If the Cornhuskers have any aspirations of claiming the Big 12 North title, some sort of a running game must be in order.

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Kansas State: Thus far, the Wildcats have been exposed to many ups and downs. They won their first game, then lost to Louisiana-Lafayette and UCLA. They beat Iowa State in an epic last-second finish, but then Texas Tech handed down a 66-14 embarrassment. But Saturday, the Wildcats got to do a little embarrassing of their own as they gave the Aggies a 62-14 loss, the team’s most lopsided conference victory since 2002 against Iowa State.

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Missouri: Since beginning the season with four straight wins, losing has become all too common for the Tigers. First, they lost 27-12 to Nebraska at home in a game they dominated until the fourth quarter two weeks ago. Then, on Saturday, Missouri fell to Oklahoma State 33-17 on national television. It doesn’t get any easier this week as No. 3 Texas comes to town for a primetime battle on ABC.

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Iowa State: In the little picture, all things were good over the weekend in Aimes, Iowa as the Cyclones stopped their 11-game conference losing streak after beating Baylor 24-10. It was the team’s first Big 12 win since 2007. But in the big picture, Iowa State still only beat the Robert Griffin-less Bears by 14 at home.

Quarterback Austen Arnaud threw for 166 yards, one touchdown and one interception.

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Colorado: Head coach Dan Hawkins breathed a sigh of relief after his Buffaloes salvaged the school’s biggest upset when they beat Kansas 34-30 last weekend. For now, Hawkins’ job is safe, and the Buffaloes avoided starting the season 1-5 as quarterback Tyler Hansen completed 14 of 25 passes for 175 yards and a touchdown.

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Heisman Watch

— Dan Hurwitz

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Mark Ingram, RB, Alabama

For a second consecutive week, a new name pops into the Heisman race after a stellar primetime performance on ESPN. The Crimson Tide took over the top spot in the AP rankings in large part to the play of Ingram against South Carolina last week.

Ingram ran 248 yards and a touchdown against a Gamecock defense that had been one of the best in the SEC. Ingram’s role has been enhanced this season with the induction of the Wildcat offense to Nick Saban’s playbook. Ingram is third in FBS with 905 rushing yards and eight touchdowns through seven games this year.

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Tim Tebow, QB, Florida

The legend of Tim Tebow grew slightly as the Gators had to come from behind for the first time all season to avoid a major upset from Arkansas last week. After the Razorbacks missed a field goal late in the fourth quarter, Tebow led his team down the field to set up the game winner to preserve the Gators’ perfect record. Tebow passed for 255 yards and a touchdown, raising his season’s stats to 1,032 passing yards and eight touchdowns plus five rushing touchdowns.

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Jimmy Clausen, QB, Notre Dame

Had Clausen finished the comeback against USC last week, he would be at the top spot this week. Clausen had three consecutive incompletions to the end zone in the final seconds of the Fighting Irish’s loss to the Trojans. Despite the loss, Clausen passed for 260 yards and two touchdowns and ran the ball in for a score. He has 1,804 yards on the season with 14 touchdowns and only two interceptions.

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BLOCK: Hooker uses physics,

experience to stay at the top From page 7 other things to get the block.”

No, she’s not talking about physics homework, she’s talking about blocking. Through intense mental preparation, Elliott gives his players an edge over their opponents.

Even the 6-foot-4 national high jumping champion and arguably, the most athletic player in college volleyball, Destinee Hooker resorts to the science to improve her blocking. With 16, to date, she’s on pace to have her careerbest season in solo blocks. Her deadly combination of athleticism and height actually used to work against her.

“I would get too high, and my

blocking wasn’t very effective,” Hooker said. “It’s better to reach low and over the net because if they do hit over my hands, it’s going out of bounds.”

While Hooker leads the team in block solos, she ranks seventh in block assists. Her offensive play as an outside hitter leading the team in kills and points will always be her forte, but Elliott said her blocking impact could be tremendous once tournament play begins.

“She needs to make a few improvements,” Elliott said. “We’ve been spending a lot of time with it, and if she can learn to dominate the outside of the net, we’ll make some big strides here in the last couple of months.”

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

HOUSING: Project counteracts

‘They call me Litllejohn’

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Station developments. The corporation is expected to approve $2 million for Wildflower Terrace.

DMA Development Company, the developer that is building Wildflower Terrace, applied for the housing tax credit at the end of February and received a $2 million award in tax credits last Thursday, said Janine Sisak, senior vice president of the company.

The developer specializes in senior affordable housing and received the development opportunity in response to an invitation from Catellus, the developer of the Mueller property. “The most important part of a senior community is the location,� Sisak said. “You need to have a location where seniors can access transportation and amenities like grocery stores and restaurants and have access to blocking for grab bars and certain accessible features in the apartment itself.�

The Mueller site offers opportunity for outdoor recreation and has various community parks and pools that create an active environment, she said. “We’re trying to capture and embody mixed-income, mixeduse and a pedestrian-friendly community with lots of green space,� Sisak said. “The Mueller redevelopment offers that diversity that you see in Austin across various age groups.�

The company will work on financing for the rest of the year and hopes to start construction in the early summer of 2010.

The construction period could

last 15 to 18 months, and residents should be able to move in early 2012.

About 85 percent of the units in Wildflower Terrace will be restricted to those making 60 percent of the median income or below. Around 30 of the 201 units will be sold at market-rate value, so anyone can reside there. “As people continue to move to Austin, the city continues to be developed and becomes less affordable, putting less importance on maintaining affordable communities in Central Austin,� Sisak said. “Austin is at a critical juncture right now where it can keep the diversity it’s famous for by providing opportunities for residents to stay in Central Austin, no matter what their income.�

Francisco DoĂąes has lived in federally funded affordable housing in North Austin for about eight or nine months, he said. “This place treats you pretty good,â€? DoĂąes said. “If there were no houses like this, I don’t know where I would be right now, to tell you the truth. It’s so important for the people around here, for people who are in need.â€?

DoĂąes is disabled and lives with his wife and 16-year-old granddaughter. The family pays $275 a month for their two-bedroom apartment. “The affordable-housing situation in Austin could be improved because Austin is growing every year,â€? DoĂąes said. “There needs to be more places like this.â€?

The developers received awards that ranged from $1 million to $3 million. Individuals who make roughly $30,000 to $40,000 a year are eligible for the affordable housing, Giello said.

Currently, 156,000 affordable-housing units exist in Austin, Giello said. But unlike other larger cities, the majority of Austin’s affordable-housing units are privately owned. “This can make it hard to maintain affordable housing,�

Giello said. “If you own property that happens to be affordable or Class C, you may feel inclined to sell your property to Eric Ou | Daily Texan Staff a condo developer. It makes it Evan Littlejohn pulls out his wallet to show off his pink ribbon credit card. Littlejohn, a firefighter from difficult to preserve the affordHutchins, is one of four firefighters this year taking part in the Pink Heals Tour hosted by the Guardians of able housing that we have.� the Ribbon. The Pink Heals Tour features firefighters wearing pink fire suits and driving pink fire trucks to Getting developers to buy spread awareness of breast cancer. into incentive programs to offer affordable housing can be difficult as well, she said. “If you want a city that offers an inclusive, diverse quality of life, you have to speak to individuals at all income levels,� tions and asked Grayco to revise pending on the revised affordFrom page 1 she said. their plans to allot more space to able housing options.

The issue seems to be imporMatt Curtis, spokesman for access, non-residential uses or tant to Austin voters as well.

Mayor Lee Leffingwell, said Lefany affordable housing at all.�

The approval of Proposition 5 fingwell has been very involved Grayco has promised to proin 2006 allocated $55 million in the issue and has examined vide such public amenities as for the affordable-housing bond both sides thoroughly. The maya rent-free community space program, which is typically unThere would be or will willingly participate in and sidewalks and bike lanes common for voters to comno requirement to discussions centered around the throughout the development. mit to, Giello said. The Ausissue but does not support the Its efforts to beautify the south tin City Council has extended provide ... affordable PUD breaking the ordinance, shore area include public plazas support by providing local fi1 housing at all.�

Curtis said. with art, no visible parking and nancial support to the three apLeffingwell voted in opposithe preservation of trees along plications. Through the Austin — Chris Riley tion to the height amendment the lakefront, according to RiHousing Finance Corporation, council member upon first reading in late Septemley’s e-mail day, correspondence. day, month 2008 LASSIFIEDS the city approved $5 million for Spelman was unavailable for ber. Curtis said Leffingwell plans the Malibu Apartments and M comment. to oppose it in further readings At the Sept. 24 City Counas well. cil meeting, council members such housing.

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Type 2 diabetes, the University announced Tuesday.

The National Institutes of Health awarded Sharon Brown, a nursing professor and associate dean of research, a four-year, $1.3 million grant to identify better ways for those with diabetes to achieve control of the level of glucose, a sugar, in the blood.

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expectation unreasonable From page 12 the gradual regrowth of hair was akin to a gradual re-entrance into adulthood.

But last week, I came across a woman who could not have a more opposite reaction to the fad of Brazilian waxing.

Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of “Prozac Nation,” “Bitch” and “The Secret of Life: Commonsense Advice for Uncommon Women,” was featured in a blogging conversation at Nerve.com where she had no reservations in asserting that hairless vaginas are the best vaginas.

Jack Harrison, editor-in-chief of Nerve.com and the moderator of Wurtzel’s discussion, tried every politically correct tactic to get Wurtzel to question her enthusiasm for completely bald privates.

Harrison mentioned apprehensions about the “jailbait” vibe of a hairless crotch and the fact that the trend was borne more or less out of the pornography industry, but Wurtzel never took the bait.

Standing firmly by her proBrazilian convictions, Wurtzel argued that “we women don’t feel entirely female unless we’re slaves to beauty.”

Under the pro-woman guise of her defense, there is an overwhelming sense that it is not the being hairless that satisfies Wurtzel so much as the self-satisfaction she gets from putting herself through hell to meet “standards” that she lets others set.

After discussing her love of facial peels, her pilates regimen and the fact that she has “spent a good deal of [her] life on a treadmill to nowhere,” Wurtzel admitted to the futility of her efforts to be physically attractive.

“I guess there is a philosophical sickness that drives us to do things like go to salons for hair removal,” she said. “It’s an insane drive toward achieving a state that we’ll never get to, that we’ll always be approaching.

[We’re] stuck at some horrible asymptote, [but] I guess it makes me feel better to try.”

The fact that so much of Wurtzel’s life — and the lives of many American females — revolves around achieving an unattainable state merited purely by physical aesthetics instead of any mark of actual health or wellness is a very depressing reality.

While Wurtzel slaves away with her beauty products, workout routines and Brazilian waxes, I think that I’ll stick to the advice of a candid male peer of mine who, when I asked him about his opinions on vaginal hair, gave me the first instance of compassion I had encountered in this widely talked about debate.

“My girlfriend is never completely hairless,” he told me.

“Sometimes there’s a tuft in the front and sometimes it’s pretty closely trimmed, but there are things about both situations that turn me on. It’s just hair.”

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many opportunities at hand From page 12 The book is organized into six basic sections on general photography topics and then into subsections complete with stunning sample photos that illustrate the various principles.

For example, Peterson pairs an explanation of aperture and macro photography with a photo of a single blade of grass in a field onto which two morning dew drops are clinging and reflecting a tree in the field beyond.

Then, Peterson explains the principles behind these images. The helpful, lead-by-example commentary runs throughout the book and is what makes it so user-friendly for beginners learning about the inner workings of their cameras.

“There is nothing else quite like photography,” Flukinger said. “It possesses the qualities being immediate, thoughtful, realistic and seemingly objective, while also having the capacities to be deliberate, instantaneous, manipulated and rigorously subjective. Its potentials are only as limited as

the character of the person holding the camera.”

After getting some basic instruction from a book like “Understanding Exposure,” Flukinger recommends that beginners in Austin look to the many resources available to them by virtue of living in a college town.

“Almost any educational community will offer classes and opportunities in photography,” Flukinger said. “Also, membership in organizations like the Austin Center for Photography or the Texas Photographic Society will provide more and varied opportunities for learning and networking.”

But what’s the one thing beginners should keep in mind as they learn more about photography? “As those who excel in any art form will know, it takes time, commitment, experience, hard work, a bit of fear, a bit of luck and the intense desire to always see and do more,” Flukinger said. “You will never learn it all, but you can have a mighty fine time trying to.”

Jordy Wagoner | Daily Texan Staff

In a scene from the City Theatre Company’s production of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy “Hamlet”, Hamlet (Aaron Black) is told by ghost of his father (McArthur Moore) that he was murdered. The play opens this Thursday night.

PLAY: Live music essential part of drama From page 12 makes in regards to Fortinbras, revised the play by setting it in 1935. The revised setting also helps make the character more relatable to modern society and younger generations. “[Hamlet’s] sense of humor is something I think this generation can relate to,” said Aaron Black, the actor portraying the character of Hamlet. “He is sarcastic, destructive, cynical and selfish.”

The update also allows for a nontraditional but stunning aesthetic, with women in silk gowns, pin curls and fur coats and men in dapper suits and

shined shoes.

“It’s a nice compromise between black turtlenecks and jeans and giant skirts, which wouldn’t fit down the aisles here,” Black said.

To add to the modernism, the play is set to a live musical soundtrack by Mother Falcon, a band composed of UT students.

“I thought they were geniuses,” Hinkle said of the band.

“I think that they are going to add richness to the play for the audience.”

Hinkle hopes this modern adaptation will allow audiences to leave with a new awareness of Hamlet’s character from the way

they interpret the play.

“I want [the audience] to see Hamlet a little differently,” he said. “I want them to see the real human, not the ‘iconic’ Hamlet.

I want them to see him as a person in a crisis, to see the depths of his humanity and the believability of it. My favorite thing [about Hamlet] is the thing that disturbs me the most; if we look at him without the glaze of love that we put on [the play], he’s not a nice guy. I’m disturbed by his treatment of Ophelia and his mom. It’s interesting how we, as audience members, forgive him of everything.”

For the last few weeks, the

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members of the City Theatre Company have dedicated themselves to this mission of showing audiences the true Hamlet.

“We keep a Bible stand next to the stage with ‘The Complete Works of Shakespeare’ open to ‘Hamlet,’” Hinkle said.

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PLAY REVIEW

Cafe’s raw cuisine surprises, satisfies Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ gets modern twist at local venue

By Sarah Pressley Daily Texan Staff Ghosts, betrayal, swordfights, live music and classical theatre: the City Theatre Company’s upcoming production of “Hamlet” has it all.

The company is putting an updated spin on the classic story of an angst-ridden young prince trying to avenge his father’s murder while struggling for a sense of identity.

Set in a more modern time period with music by a local band, the production is aiming to make Shakespeare’s play more accessible for a younger crowd.

“We are trying to include classical theatre once every season, and we decided to launch it with Shakespeare’s best,” guest director Jeff Hinkle said. “The themes in ‘Hamlet’ are universal and timeless, especially the quest for identity in the face of tragedy.”

This timelessness helped the company bring the play into the 21st century.

Hinkle, aiming to compare the war-fatigued United States with the political mistakes King Claudius

PLAY continues on page 11 Kari Rosenfeld | Daily Texan Staff

Above, Sisters Kaylea, Kandice and Kelsie Box have lunch at Beets Café on Saturday. They sampled each other’s meals to have a taste of the menu. Below, Beets Café has its own vegan and raw take on the classic BLT, the E.L.T. The sandwich (eggplant, lettuce and tomato) comes with dill veggie chips.

Chef creates healthy fare for those committed to, curious about veganism

By Layne Lynch Daily Texan Staff Raw vegan food is in. Kick the cow out of the pasture, the chicken out of its coop and don’t put that turkey in the oven.

Sylvia Heisey’s new restaurant, Beets Café, is on a mission: to bring raw food to Austin and to make it delicious.

Heisey previously worked in the corporate world as a consultant and grew tired of the fatigue and unhealthy lifestyle she endured while subjected to the quick, processed foods that people “on-the-go” are forced to grab.

Heisey said converting to a vegan lifestyle brought her mental and physical clarity.

And her restaurant, nestled under the Fifth Street Commons among other small restaurants, offers cuisine that is vegan, all natural/organic and raw (uncooked, unprocessed and not heated more than 104 degrees).

It is common knowledge that if you restrict or take something away from people, they only want it more. As a consequence, much of society is resistant to try things — especially diets — that place such heavy restrictions on what you can and can’t eat.

Veganism is one of the strictest diets to adhere to. But Beets Café is a novel-

ty because, in mastering combinations of flavor and texture, the restaurant allows a consumer to forget that they are “missing out” on anything simply because the food is so well prepared.

The Asian-style noodle salad came beautifully presented; the architectural structure of the dish looked like each piece had been laid one by one.

The salad consisted of broccoli, kelp noodles, red pepper, Napa cabbage, cilantro, sesame seeds, celery and radish and was topped off with a spicy

dressing. Overall, the dish was delicious, and the vegetables were perfectly crisp.

But there were areas where it was flawed — some parts of the dish seemed to have too much dressing, while others didn’t have enough. The same could be said about the cilantro and spice.

The other dish, The “E.L.T.,” was a sandwich made of almond-sunflower flatbread, crispy eggplant “bacon,” lettuce, tomato, sprouts and a creamy ca-

Facial offers fall spirit, not real results ent that caused them: the seemingly magical properties of the pumpkin.

The zinc and vitamins A and C found in pumpkin can be used in natural remedies to cure everything from kidney stones and acne to enlarged prostates and cat hair balls. As a female who is free of kidney stones who owns a dog, I decided to test out the recipe for a moisturizing and relaxing pumpkin facial.

I enlisted the help of my roommate, promising her Editor’s Note: This is the fifth part in a series about society’s au- the pumpkin facial would tumn obsession with pumpkin.

The pumpkin has finally smashed.

The last four weeks of The zinc and vitamins searching for and sampling all A and C found in things pumpkin has pushed pumpkin can be used in this column’s regular writer, Ben Wermund, over the edge. natural remedies to cure The search has been packed everything from kidney with stomachaches and heartstones to enlarged break over the loss of a beloved prostates and cat hair beverage. Not even a pumpkin ale brew could ease his pain. balls.

His disappointment rivaled Linus’ each time the Great Pumpkin failed to appear.

As a fellow pumpkin aficionado, I could never imagine ex- help cool her bright red sunperiencing pumpkin overload. burn from the OU game.

As soon as we opened the Maybe the cure to Ben’s mental anguish and stomach can of pumpkin puree, we pains, brought on by one too had second thoughts. In all many pumpkin shakes, could my years of gorging on pumpbe found in the very ingredi- kin pie, I had never actual-

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ly made one, and I was unaware that pumpkin insides, free of sugar, cinnamon and pie crust, smelled like soggy vegetables.

The facial called for two teaspoons of pumpkin puree, one teaspoon of honey and a quarter teaspoon of milk. Once we smeared on the goopy mixture, our kitchen and our faces smelled like warm babies.

After 15 minutes of looking like Oompa Loompas and trying to prevent pumpkin droppings from falling into our mouths, it was time to reap the benefits of soft, smooth and impurity-free skin.

Our faces looked about the same and smelled worse, but our sunburns did feel better.

My roommate commented that the pumpkin facial helped her get into the fall spirit, even though it was close to 80 degrees outside.

We put the rest of the pumpkin puree in the fridge, hardly convinced it would be used for anything else besides pumpkin bread.

I e-mailed Ben the recipe for the pumpkin facial and recommended he use it while watching “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” to help ease him back into the pumpkin state of mind.

He refused to comment.

shew dijonaise. The sandwich was the best dish of the day, served with crispy veggie chips that trick you into thinking that you aren’t in fact eating a veggie.

Although it didn’t seem very similar to a BLT, the sandwich really was both filling and satisfying. It is the best dish to order as your first raw, vegan meal.

For dessert, Heisey recommended the cheesecake. Raw cheesecake? I know, right? Instead of cream cheese, Beets Café’s version is made with cashew and Brazil nut milk, agave nectar and coconut oil with a raisin, coconut and palm-sugar crust. And as Heisey guaranteed, it was still as creamy and decadent as any other competitor’s cheesecake. In fact, it may have been better.

Beets Café is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner and labels itself as “upscale.” Overall, the atmosphere is very relaxed and feels more casual than anything.

The interior is beautifully designed, and in a little nook, there is a shelf offering books, vitamins and other products related to the raw, vegan lifestyle. Don’t worry. No one is pulling anyone’s hair or baptizing anyone in vegan water at Beets. It’s a place to come as you are, try anything on the menu and enjoy something different. It’s worth a visit.

BOOK REVIEW

Film amateurs need to know basics first

By Molly Wahlberg Daily Texan Staff Of photography, Lewis Carroll once said, “It is my one recreation, and I think it should be done well.”

But for those of us living in the times of Photoshop and digital cameras that can cost as much as a year’s salary, learning the art can be a much more intimidating process than it was for amateurs in Carroll’s day.

Luckily, there are masters of the craft out there like Bryan Peterson who insist that the journey to learning how take great photographs is not as daunting as it seems.

In his book, “Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera,” Peterson claims that despite the great advancements in technology, “every camera — be it film or digital — is nothing more than a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film or a digital care at the other.”

Roy Flukinger, Senior Curator of Photography & Film at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, agreed with Peterson that a basic knowledge of how cameras work with light is imperative for beginners.

“It is everything,” he said. “If you do not know the technical proficiencies and limitations of your medium’s apparatus and materials, you will never excel with it.”

For some good instruction in the overall technique, “Understanding Exposure” provides a great place to start.

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Hair and vaginas.

Although naturally paired, these two nouns have been slowly dissociated over the last three decades.

The sexual revolution, the rise of feminist empowerment, the dominating imagery of pornography and the opportunistic efforts of beauty companies peddling products and services to women have each contributed their share to our collective obsession with deciding once and for all what the “appropriate” grooming standards are for American women.

In the past decade, a completely hairless option called the “Brazilian wax” has emerged as one of the most popular and definitely one of the most talked-about options for the vaginas of today’s “sexiest” women.

Illustration by Carolyn Calabrese | Daily Texan Staff

To grasp what all this fuss is about, a few months ago I got my first Brazilian wax. All I can really say about my experience was that it was a very stupid idea.

In short, I paid a woman a little over $40 to cover my most sensitive areas with hot wax and strips of cloth which she then ripped off while I cried. In retrospect, the exchange is offsetting to say the least, but I left with a sense of satisfaction.

I was inherently more attractive post-wax, right?

But when all was said and done, the hairless vagina I came home with had the complete opposite effect on my state of mind.

I did not feel sexy when I looked down and saw the vagina of my prepubescent years staring back at me.

I felt creepy and inappropriate, and

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