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By Jillian Bliss Daily Texan Staff
Symposium The Department of Spanish and Portuguese hosts the Second Central Texas Cervantes Symposium on Friday and Saturday in Benedict Hall (BEN) 2.104.
Founding Fathers Zombie Crawl The Libertarian Longhorns’ Founding Fathers Zombie Crawl is a chance to dress as your favorite founder or libertyminded historic figure and march from campus to the Capitol. The group is meeting on the West Mall at 7 p.m.
Fest Africa
The African Students’ Association announces Fest Africa, an annual cultural showcase of African culture featuring dance, song, poetry, drama and step performances. Join them at 7 p.m. on the Main Mall.
‘One in a million’ Fabolous and Kreayshawn Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and record producer Ne-Yo performs at the Frank Erwin Center with special guests Fabolous and Kreayshawn, tonight at 8 p.m.
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Academy Award winning producer Jon Landau speaks Thursday evening about his movies “Avatar” and “Titanic.” The lecture was presented by the Distinguished Speakers Committee in the Texas Union Ballroom.
Landau discusses success as producer By Name Here Daily Texan Staff
Academy Award-winning film producer Jon Landau said story-
telling has been the most important part in making “Titanic” and “Avatar,” the two highest-grossing films of all time.
Landau gave an in-depth perspec-
tive of both films, as well as other successes as a producer, at the Union Ballroom on Thursday evening. Landau, a frequent collaborator with film director James Cameron, said while he cannot act or direct, his job encompasses everything necessary in the making of a film, which he said is like a “startup company.”
Despite the mainstream financial successes of some of his films, Landau said their success was due to their ability to artistically relate to the audience and innovatively incorporate the technology used. “‘Titanic’ was about being able to rise from a desperate situation and succeed,” Landau said. “In ‘Avatar,’ it’s the idea of ‘I see you.’ That
Lupe Fiasco, RJD2, Milkman, Bun B, and a host of other artists will perform at the Austin Music Hall. Tickets are $35.
By Nick Hadjigeorge Daily Texan Staff
‘Young Blood’
Rising stars The Naked & Famous from New Zealand will play La Zona Rosa with White Arrows. The show starts at 9 p.m.
Today in history In 1945
Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time Elisabeth Dillon | Daily Texan Staff / Associated Press
Ryan Haecker, a second year graduate student, is the founder and head of the Anscombe Society. The society supports celibacy and promotes modesty and charity.
“Around the planet we produced an architecture of boxes, some glass, others transparent and windowless. We created cities disconnected from nature.”
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Anscombe Society promotes chaste values
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A 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck 103 miles south of Austin in Karnes County yesterday morning at 7:24, sending tremors throughout downtown San Antonio and as distant as Round Rock. Earthquakes of this magnitude are a rare event in Texas, and Thursday’s quake was the strongest on record for Texas’ southern region. The quake broke the record for southern Texas with the previous largest quake having a 4.3 magnitude in 1993. Social work freshman Megan Ziegler said she felt the earthquake from her Kinsolving dorm room around 7:30 a.m.
“I looked out the window and thought it had to be something else,” Ziegler said. “I lived in Uzbekistan in high school and felt earthquakes all the time there so this felt familiar, but I had never heard of earthquakes in Texas before.” San Antonio Police Department spokespersons said they received no earthquake related dispatch calls Thursday morning. No injuries or damage was reported according to the Associated Press. Nicholas Hayman, research associate and lecturer at the Jackson School of Geosciences, said the recorded location and strength
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Editor’s note: This is the first in Ryan Haecker: It’s named afa series looking at distinctive UT ter Elizabeth Anscombe. She student organizations. was a famous philosopher at Oxford University. The PrincBy Allie Kolechta eton Anscombe Society, which Daily Texan Staff A new student organization aims to educate the student body on the ideas of modesty, chastity, marriage and charity, said information sciences graduate student and founder Ryan Haecker. The UT Anscombe Society, which consists of roughly 12 students, was formed this semester following the lead of universities across the country such as the Michigan Institute of Technology and Princeton University. The Anscombe Society is working on a presentation to help explain their values to other students and encourage them to become members and hopes to become an official student organization in the spring semester. The Daily Texan sat down with Haecker to discuss the society’s origins and principles. The Daily Texan: First, I was hoping you could talk to me about what the Anscombe Society is and what it does?
Societies and we all have a similar aim, to promote modesty, chastity, charity and marriage. Principally what we’re concerned about is the sexual promiscuity that proliferates on college campuses and especially the way in which universities seem to have [ignored] this sort of lifestyle. DT: Why did you decide to create a chapter here at UT? RH: What concerned me is that college is a formative period in peoples’ lives. They come here and they learn all sorts of new things and they determine what direction they’d like to follow. I feel like a lot of people see it not so much in edu— Ryan Haecker, Anscombe Founder cational terms in a formal academic setting but in terms of experiences they can have, and they believe that having a wide variety of experiences is preferable to having a limited was the first Anscombe Soci- number of experiences. If peoety, chose Elizabeth Anscombe ple are meant to act virtuously, as the patron of the Anscombe and I believe that they should, Society and there are Anscombe then I think that they need to Societies now on many campus- restrain themselves. Aristotle es throughout the United States. describes this sort of restraint My organization is communicating with other Anscombe
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the inside of us is more than just the outside.” He said many filmmakers incorporate unnecessary technology in their films at the cost of degenerating the story. Landau said many of his personal successes came from his ability to
Sparked by Texas wildfires and crowding at area festivals, Austin City Council passed a proposal Thursday to ban smoking in all public parks. Council members passed the proposal by consent during the council’s regular meeting at City Hall yesterday. The plan, co-sponsored by Kathie Tovo, Mike Martinez and Laura Morrison, intends for a citywide ban on smoking at Parks and Recreation sites to be implemented within the next year. The resolution must be approved and amended by the Parks and Recreation Department before it returns to City Council on Dec. 8, where council members will vote whether to adopt the rule. Tovo said following the September fires in Bastrop and Central Texas, she and others felt it was important to keep public areas as free from fire hazard as possible. She said the Austin City Limits festival also brought about concerns related to preventing smoking in large crowds. “We are expected to stay in this period of drought throughout this year,” Tovo said. “With drier conditions and without all the rain, the vegetation and trees are very susceptible to fire. A discarded cigarette could risk it all.” Members of the PARD will also decide on enforcement procedures of the ban,
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Texas Rangers’ Ian Kinsler is congratulated in the dugout after scoring during Game 2 of the World Series on Thursday.
Rangers rally in the ninth to even out World Series By Ben Walker The Associated Press
ST. LOUIS — Josh Hamilton and the Texas hitters looked lost. They chased pitches that bounced, broke their bats and seemed totally overmatched. Hamilton, the reigning AL MVP seemed to be wearing down with every swing in his first three
at-bats. Hamilton shattered his bat the first time up and slowly jogged to first base. Later, he weakly waved and appeared overmatched as he struck out on three pitches. That left him with an 0-for-16 Series slump dating to last October. Hamilton’s teammates were
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