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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.
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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.
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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.
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Rising stars The Naked & Famous from New Zealand will play La Zona Rosa with White Arrows. The show starts at 9 p.m.
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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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voice his opinions and articulate them into films. He said in the past the people he surrounded himself with during production of films positively taught him lessons for later productions. Landau said after coproducing “Dick Tracy” with Warren Beatty, Beatty told him his greatest quality as a producer was that he dreamt of the film every night. “Whatever your fields are, go out and dream,” Landau said. “And remem-
possible phase-out programs of smoking in public areas and exactly what smoking devices will be prohibited by the rule, Tovo said. Tovo said in addition to easing worries about wildfires in Austin, the ban will create healthier parks for visitors and a healthier habitat for plants and wildlife in the area. “It will be healthier for everyone,” Tovo said. “We won’t have families at the park exposed to secondhand smoke or litter left behind by smokers.” Elizabeth Richard, Parks and Recreation Health and Human
ber though — when you dream, it’s a leap of faith. When you innovate, it’s a leap of faith. Whenever a leap of faith is involved, failure has to be an option but fear cannot be.” The Distinguished Speakers Committee hosted the event, part of a line of other famous speakers including Maya Angelou and Frank Abagnale Jr. Government senior and first-year member of the committee Adriana Perez said the event was a great start for the year.
QUAKE continues from PAGE 1 make it difficult to understand the exact causes of the earthquake. “This did not really [happen] on the Balcones escarpment so there’s no clear surface information to my knowledge,” Hayman said. “All passive margin earthquakes (those that are not on major plate boundaries) are a bit mysterious — actual causes are really speculative.” Hayman said the characteristics of Thursday’s earthquake do not offer any clues on what to expect for the future of Texas earthquakes. “It would be difficult to draw any lines from one event to a pattern,”
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“I think an event like this helps draw in different crowds,” Perez said. “It’s cool to see the man behind the scenes. It gives the untold story.” Journalism professor Regina Lawrence said that she was surprised to see Landau. “I think films are the master narratives of our culture,” Lawrence said. “As a teacher, I was pleased to see how strongly Landau communicated his compelling lessons in the business to the audience.”
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Hayman said. “In general, recurrence intervals in these settings are so long that we can’t describe any systematic behavior.” Alan Dutton, department chair of geological sciences at UT San Antonio, said the earthquake was most likely not caused by the large amount of hydraulic fracturing taking place around the San Antonio area, as some suspected. “The focus of the earthquake was around 16,000 feet,” Dutton said. “That’s clearly deeper than where they’re doing hydrofracking.” Dutton said the earthquake did not occur on any major fault zones but speculates it may be related to other geological areas. “This might be associated with a smaller fault zone such as the upper coastal plane,” Dutton said. “It’s not unusual to have low intensity earthquakes there.”
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Services program coordina- t o r , said a large amount of litter from cigarettes is found during park cleanup events. “This past year we worked with Austin Parks Foun-d a tion, Keep Austin Beau- t i ful and Active Life to de- t e r mine how prevalent cigarette butts were in our parks,” Richard said. “During just five cleanup events we collected almost 38,000 cigarette butts from j u s t 38 different parks.” Richard said during an additional event, clean- u p participants found 3,000 d i s carded cigarette butts on
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as acting moderately and I think that today, excess is praised rather than moderation. I would like to encourage people to act moderately and [with propriety]. DT: What have you seen about the culture of our University that concerned you or prompted you to found the Anscombe Society? RH: The cultural norms regarding sexual restraint and possibilities of having sexual partners have been radically changed in the past few decades, and one question I think is helpful to ask
when there’s a radical change, especially to something so fundamental to living as reproduction, we’re inclined to ask questions about what the benefits are of this lifestyle and whether this lifestyle is beneficient to society as a whole. I don’t really go to parties where people drink a lot of alcohol so I don’t know specifically what they do there but I hear stories. DT: If you could sum up what you think the UT student body should know about the Anscombe Society, what would
the UT campus. Some UT smokers, such as English senior Andrew Layman, said he does his best to keep from littering while enjoying a cigarette and uses ashtrays whenever available. Layman said although he smokes, he does not feel the ban imposes on his personal rights. “It’s been banned everywhere else because so many people think it’s a public health issue,” Layman said. “I like being able t o smoke, but I don’t feel like people should be forced to breathe smoke. That’s infringing on their rights.”
you say? RH: I would say that the Anscombe Society is a non-denominational, student political organization that aims for the advancement of the ideals of chastity, modesty, charity and marriage. We believe that these ideals are integral to a healthy, flourishing and benevolent society and that they’re not partial to any sectarian political or religious creed, but we think they can be rationally demonstrated and universally beneficent to all people.
LGBT coalition lobbies for equality laws equality bills passed, both related to anti-bullying.” The anti-bullying bills, Equality legislation for the House Bill 1942 and House lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans- Bill 1386, will protect all chilgender community in Texas dren regardless of sexual orihas rarely had much success, e n t a t i o n b y r e q u i r i n g a l l but now has a better chance school boards to adopt an anof passing in the 2013 Tex- ti-bullying policy in time for as legislative session based the 2012-13 school year. on progress made in the preColeman said the LGBT vious two sessions, said Dennis Coleman, executive director of Equality Texas. Coleman and Zac Evans, a Texas legislative aide and UT law student, spoke at a talk hosted by OUTLaw, the LGBT alliance for the UT School of Law, on Thursday about the progress made in the recently concluded legislative session and the steps the LGBT community will take to work for equality in 2013 and beyond. “The 81st session was the — Zac Evans, UT Law student first session where we were not on the defense,” Coleman said. “We didn’t have good things go through, but we were not fighting bad things and we actually saw some community will focus on adheadway.” vocating legislation that proThe 82nd session was his- tects workers from being fired toric for the LGBT commu- for their sexual orientation nity because it was the first and allows same sex parents time pro-equality legislation to be named on birth certifipassed, Coleman said. cates of children in 2013. “We had over a dozen proEvans said he and others equality bills that received are also working to make the hearings, which is unheard state legal code match a Suof,” Coleman said. “A lot of preme Court ruling that made people were amazed — not Texas’ anti-sodomy laws illeonly in Texas but outside of gal. Evans helped present the Texas — that this was taking case for House Bill 604, a bill place. As many of you know, that would have eliminated we were able to get two pro- anti-sodomy laws, during the By Megan Strickland Daily Texan Staff
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UT President William Powers Jr. presented a $750,000 check to the local charity Austin Community Foundation to aid victims of the recent Central Texas fires. The money was raised by the Oct. 17 “Fire Relief: A Concert for Central Texas,” an event put on by local Austin musicians Ray Benson, Eric Johnson and Peter Schwarz and held at the Frank Erwin Center. Featuring acts from Willie Nelson, Dixie Chicks and George Strait, the concert sold more than 16,000 tickets. In addition, more than $11,000 was raised by encouraging people to text “FIRE” at the concert to contribute $10, according to concert officials. In a press release about the event, Powers said part of being a great university meant supporting the community and helping it solve problems. “I’m delighted that UT could help make this benefit a reality, and I’m gratified by the enormous response from the people of Central Texas,” Powers said. “Every catastrophe eventually leaves the headlines, but we should all continue to think of ways to help those who are rebuilding their lives in Bastrop County.” The Bastrop fires destroyed more than 1,500 homes and burned more than 41,000 acres in Leander, Cedar Park, Pflugerville, Steiner Ranch, Spicewood and Bastrop. — Jody Serrano
2011 legislative session. “HB 604 would have effectively amended the state penal code, to match what the Supreme Court laid out in Lawrence v. Texas,” Evans said. “Section 21.06 still makes it a misdemeanor to have deviant sexual relations with a person of the same sex. It’s shocking to me to see it on the books, frankly.” Evans said the LGBT community will also fight to legally amend provisions withi n t h e Te x a s H e a l t h C o d e that require public schools to teach students that homosexuality leads to increased rates of HIV. The best way to support legislation in the future is to continue to voice concerns to legislators while they are out of session now, Evans said. “Even the hardest nuts do crack and come around every now and again, if you are persistent,” Evans said. Law student Richard Sawyer said he is torn between supporting measures to take anti-sodomy laws off the books and legislation for equality in the workplace as the most important LGBT issue in Texas. “My instinct is to say they need to repeal existing criminal laws, but they don’t have any practical effect on peoples’ lives,” Sawyer said. “They are symbolic. Anti-discrimination laws in the workplace affect every LGBT person in the workforce, so that’s p ro b a b l y a m o re p r a c t i c a l place to start.”
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ATHENS, Greece— Clouds of tear gas choked central Athens as rival demonstrators fought with stones and firebombs outside parliament Thursday, leaving one man dead and dozens injured. Inside, the Socialist government grappled with dissent over the deeply unpopular new cutbacks demanded by creditors to keep the country afloat. Greece has been kept solvent only by international bailout loans from the International Monetary Fund and other eurozone nations since May of last year. Creditors have demanded that Greece pass
Other leaders have fallen in the Arab Spring uprisings, but the 69-year-old Gadhafi is the first to be killed. He was shot to death in SIRTE, Libya — Dragged from his hometown of Sirte, where revohiding in a drainage pipe, a wound- lutionary fighters overwhelmed the ed Moammar Gadhafi raised his last of his loyalist supporters Thurshands and begged revolutionary day after weeks of heavy battles. Also killed in the city was one of fighters: “Don’t kill me, my sons.” Within an hour, he was dead, but his feared sons, Muatassim, while annot before jubilant Libyans had other son — one-time heir apparent vented decades of hatred by pull- Seif al-Islam — was wounded and ing the eccentric dictator’s hair and captured. An AP reporter saw cigaparading his bloodied body on the rette burns on Muatassim’s body. Video on Arab television stations hood of a truck. showed a crowd of fighters shoving The death Thursday of Gadhafi, and pulling the goateed, two months after he was balding Gadhafi, with driven from power and blood splattered on his into hiding, decisively face and soaking his shirt. buries the nearly 42-year Gadhafi struggled regime that had turned against them, stumbling the oil-rich country into and shouting as the fightan international pariers pushed him onto the ah and his own personhood of a pickup truck. al fiefdom. One fighter held him It also thrusts Libya down, pressing on his into a new age in which Moammar thigh with a pair of shoes in its transitional leaders Gadhafi a show of contempt. must overcome deep diA government account of Gadvisions and rebuild nearly all its institutions from scratch to achieve hafi’s death said he was captured unharmed and later was mortaldreams of democracy. “We have been waiting for this ly wounded in the crossfire from historic moment for a long time. both sides. The outpouring of joy reflected Moammar Gadhafi has been killed,” the deep hatred of a leader who had Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said in the capital of Tripoli. “I would brutally warped Libya with his idlike to call on Libyans to put aside iosyncratic rule. After seizing powthe grudges and only say one word, er in a 1969 coup that toppled the monarchy, Gadhafi created a “revwhich is Libya, Libya, Libya.” Although the U.S. briefly led the olutionary” system of “rule by the relentless NATO bombing campaign masses,” which really meant all that sealed Gadhafi’s fate, Washing- power was in his hands. He wieldton later took a secondary role to its ed it erratically, imposing random allies. Britain and France said they rules while crushing opponents, ofhoped that his death would lead to a ten hanging anyone who plotted against him in public squares. more democratic Libya. By Christopher Gillette & Kim Gamel The Associated Press
the extra austerity measures before they give the country more funds from that $152 billion bailout loan. Greece says it will run out of money in mid-November without the next $11 billion installment. On the second day of a general strike that has paralyzed the country, demonstrators marched to Syntagma Square before parliament to protest the new measures that include pay and staff cuts in the civil service as well as pension cuts and tax hikes for all Greeks. The draft law calls for 30,000 public servants to be put on reduced pay and for collective bargaining rights to be suspended. State hospital officials said a 53-year-old man died of heart failure and at least 74 people were injured
after hundreds of rioting youths attacked some of the 50,000 peaceful demonstrators with firebombs and stones. Some of the injured were covered in blood from head wounds. Police said at least six people were arrested and another 24 detained. Six officers were injured. Youths set mounds of trash on fire in Syntagma Square and across the city. Young men in crash helmets and gas masks used crowbars and clubs to smash marble from building facades and rip up paving stones to throw at riot police. Parliament approved the new round of austerity cuts in principle late Wednesday and was to vote on individual articles late Thursday. The Socialists have a four-seat ma-
jority in parliament. Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos issued an impassioned appeal to Socialist and opposition lawmakers alike, warning that not approving the measures would be disastrous. “The country will be exposed to the danger of a non-rational development, and will once again serve as the scapegoat on which Europe’s historic, political and institutional shortcomings will be dumped,” he said Thursday. But Greece’s international creditors, meanwhile, warned that the second rescue package may not be enough to save the country from bankruptcy, according to a draft of a debt inspectors’ report obtained by The Associated Press.
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At a time when the words “budget cuts” are on everyone’s lips, the dreary conclusion seems to be that a tuition increase is necessary to maintain the quality of a UT education. The UT System Board of Regents recently gave UT’s Tuition Policy Advisory Committee two directives: to limit any request to increase tuition to 2.6 percent and to use any increased tuition revenue to improve fouryear graduation rates. The second condition seems to limit the first. The best way to improve four-year graduation rates is to not increase tuition at all. A tuition increase that has as its primary purpose of improving four-year graduation rates is self-contradictory. Tuition increases play a large part in students’ not completing their degrees. A recent study commissioned by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation found that the primary reason students at four-year universities do not finish their degrees is the stress of maintaining a balance between working a part-time job and going to school. Rising cost of tuition and fees came in second. Of course, the two are directly linked. Higher tuition bills mean an increased number of students need to work more to pay them. According to a recent Texas law, 20 percent of any new tuition revenue needs to be directed toward financial aid programs. Superficially, this law may seem to counter the negative effects of rising tuition on those unable to pay, and it does to a certain extent. But the report also notes that 69 percent of students who do not complete their degrees receive little financial aid in any form and often have to support themselves. The additional tuition revenue, which would presumably go to students already receiving significant financial aid, would leave these students working more hours and studying less. If the board’s message to TPAC seems contradictory, it is because it is contradictory. Low college-completion rates are directly related to the astronomical cost of attending college now. Raising tuition will only make the problem worse. There are certainly students who take longer than four years to finish their degrees because they change their path, cannot get the courses they need or decide to pursue a double-major. But these students are not the problem. Changes to advising procedures, which the College of Liberal Arts College Tuition and Budget Advisory Committee recently urged in its report to the provost’s office, would do little to stem the true hemorrhage of economic waste: students who enter UT but drop out without finishing their degrees. For these students, the problem is not that they are academically adrift; it is that they are financially drowning. And it is disturbing that the tuition advisory groups on campus, which are charged with representing the interests of students, have at best paid only lip service to the idea that tuition does not have to increase next year. If the plea falls on deaf ears, so be it. But resignedly accepting the inevitability of tuition increases by cryptically “recognizing that [they] may be unavoidable” semester after semester only gives political cover to the legislators who created this problem by refusing to fund education in this state at the levels our growing population demands. Appeals to the saving power of technology and of purging lazy professors will only work for so long. Meanwhile, state funding continues to decline, tuition rates continue to rise and wages continue to stagnate. This has been happening for decades, but it has to stop. — Matt Daley for the editorial board.
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Military crushes hopes of democracy in Egypt By heba dafashy Daily Texan Guest Columnist
At approximately 3 p.m. on Oct. 9, my dad received a frantic phone call from a family member in Egypt. All my family could hear was my dad saying, “Hello? What, Michael?! I can’t understand what you are saying! What massacre happened?!” My mom and I instantly shot glances at each other and rushed toward the television to switch the channel to an Arabic news station. The headline read, “Egyptian military kills dozens of Coptic Christians.” Reading this headline left a sinking feeling inside my stomach. As tears started to blur my vision, I sunk down into the couch and realized the efforts of the January Revolution have been in vain and Egypt may never experience the joys of freedom, human rights and democracy. Coptic Orthodox Christians make up about 10 percent of the population in Egypt. This minority has sustained a history of persecution and continues to experience daily prejudices in the school and work place. In addition, Egyptian law requires Christians to receive a presidential decree to allow the construction of a new church and that they state their religion on their national identification card. As a Coptic Christian living in America, I find that it is my responsibility to be a voice for this oppressed minority. Sectarian violence broke out in Cairo on Oct. 9, leaving 25 Coptic Christians dead and more than 300 wounded. Over onethird of the deaths were from being run over by army vehicles. BBC News called it the “worst violence since Egypt’s former President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in
February.” On this day, thousands of Coptic Christians protested against a church that was burned in the Aswan province by Muslims radicals. Rather than being able to demonstrate peacefully, the Copts met bullets and tear gas from the soldiers. The nature of this violence was not just a feud between the military and the Copts. There were intermediary groups that instigated the conflict and wanted to disrupt national unity. In 1952, Egypt experienced its first national revolution as it overthrew King Farouk. Parallel to the January revolution, the military also gained control after the king fell. Elections were planned, but ultimately, the fate of Egypt was left in the hands of the military. Leaders of the military became the leaders of the State, which later perpetuated this quasi-democratic experience. The military gave birth to all of Egypt’s modern leaders, including Gamal Abdel Nassar, Anwar El-Sadat and Hosni Mubarak. Today, the acting president of Egypt is Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi. Since the 1952 revolution, Egypt has been in the hands of military protégés. On Oct. 9, it was clear that the military was no longer interested in protecting the people, nor did it have the national interest in mind. During the January revolution, Copts and Muslims held hands saying, “We are one.” This was the national interest; Egyptians wanted unity and peace. However, the military’s aggressions towards the Copts show otherwise. On Oct. 12, the Egyptian military council held a press conference stating that the military acted in defense of the protesters because it was afraid of the masses of
people who were allegedly “armed.” Copts deny that the protestors were armed. Coptic Pope Shenouda III released a statement saying that the protestors walked peacefully, “without weapons, full of courage.” The military’s excuse for its actions is unjustifiable. Egypt will never reap the fruits of the January revolution if the minorities in Egypt are not protected. The death of 25 Copts serves as a symbol of the disruption of national unity and the grim future facing Coptic Christians in Egypt. As an emerging democracy forms, the voice of the minority can often be lost. This is what happened in Egypt on Oct. 9. Coptic Christians will now be afraid to rise up against oppression if the end result is violence toward them. They must now choose to live as silent sheep, waiting for the fate of their country and the management of their lives. One way that the Copts will be able to find their voice again is if a greater international force places pressure on Egypt to protect this minority. All eyes have been on Egypt since the January Revolution, and now the ball ought to be in international courts. The United States sends $1.3 billion to the Egyptian military. Our taxpayer dollars cannot go to a military regime that murders its own people. U.S. funding must stop to send a clear message that these actions are not tolerated. International voices have been silent for too long about the rising sectarian tensions. However, silence is no longer acceptable. A few seconds after my dad received the phone call from Egypt, the call dropped, as did all hopes for a better future in Egypt. Dafashy is a Plan II senior.
the Firing line Emphasizing the wrong points I was very surprised and saddened by the front page of Wednesday’s Daily Texan. I attended Mikhail Gorbachev’s lecture Tuesday, and I feel like your article has completely corrupted and distorted the character of the talk. It is very disappointing to think that my university’s newspaper was unable find a better way to sell such an interesting and unique story other than by emphasizing the wrong points. In my opinion, the article made the talk sound very political and critical to current American foreign policy, while Gorbachev tried to stay away from those topics as much as he could. Although the Texan did mention that Gorbachev “said he does not make it a habit to give advice to other countries,” it also stated that he said America “acted arrogantly and tried to build a new empire instead of working together with other countries and needs to think in terms of cooperation for the future.” The story could have talked about how, before coming to power, he could not talk about all the policy changes he was to make and how, if discovered, he would have been imprisoned or killed. The Texan could have also mentioned any of the stories he told about his relationship with President Ronald Reagan during the Cold War negotiations. After all, he is Mikhail Gorbachev!
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Brazil’s energy program could teach US Editor’s note: Some portions of this interview were translated from Portuguese and Spanish.
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Renowned Brazilian energy mogul Rubens Ometto Silveira Mello encouraged the U.S. to develop a green energy partnership with Brazil to increase the world’s energy sources and protect the environment in a lecture Thursday night. Mello spoke as a part of the “Faces of the Americas/Rostros de las Américas,” a lecture sponsored by the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the Harry Ransom Center. Mello spoke on the history of Brazil’s energy consumption and the emergence of cleaner energy based on biofuels. Mello said he hoped President Obama’s trip to Brazil this past March would inspire a partnership between the two countries to help America become more energy-independent. “One country cannot have an advantage over the other,” Mello said. “One can complete the other one, there are some advances they have that we don’t.” Mello said the introduction of corn-based ethanol in the U.S. was a very important step for the country in terms of renewable energy but that there was still more that could be done. Mello said 48 percent of Brazil’s current energy comes from renewable sources. In comparison, the U.S. uses about 8 percent of renewable energy to meet its energy needs, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. “Some people criticized [the introduction of ethanol to U.S.
NEWS BRIEFLY UHS offers free STI testing to hundreds of cautious students University Health Services treated more than 200 students in their free HIV and STI testing workshop on Thursday. UHS holds free STI testing every semester in conjunction with the Austin/Travis County Health Department to encourage high-risk students to get tested. The test in-
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Rubens Ometto Silveira Mello, left, chairman of the board of the Brazilian ethanol production company Cosan, prepares to give a speech in the Harry Ransom Center Thursday afternoon. Mello and several other speakers were hosted as part of The Faces of America series to speak about the future of alternative energy sources.
markets],” Mello said. “But the U.S. did a very good thing. It showed America and it showed the world that ethanol worked.” Mello is currently head of Cosan, a Brazilian-based energy company that revolutionized the use of ethanol and helped make renewable energy more accessible in Brazil. Cosan recently joined with energy giant Shell to produce over 2 million liters of ethanol from sugar cane. Marco Munoz, assistant director of the IC^2 Institute, said Brazil is 30 years ahead of us in terms of renewable energy, referencing the 1973
Arab oil embargo. Brazil imported 90 percent of its oil at this time and oil prices for Brazil rose from three dollars a barrel to $12. Brazil declared energy independence and turned to its sugarcane-based ethanol industry in the time of crisis and has relied heavily on the source ever since. “Corn-based ethanol is not efficient because it affects the U.S. and world food supply,” Munoz said. “If the U.S. is dedicated to finding a cleaner source of energy, sugarcane-based ethanol is the way to go.” Geosciences professor William
Fisher spoke alongside Mello at the lecture and said the U.S. should follow Brazil’s lead on sustainable energy. Fisher has been traveling to Brazil since the 1970s and was in Brazil during the Arab oil embargo. Fisher said in order to become more energy independent the U.S. needs to remove the tariffs and subsidies on Brazilian ethanol. “Brazil has a very good product and they have a lot of investments in [renewable] technology,” Fisher said. “When they kill a hog, they eat everything but the squeal.”
cludes a blood sample, urine test and questionnaire. Gulielma Fager, a health education coordinator for UHS, said UHS holds these free workshops because more than 50 percent of students at UT do not practice safe sex and are at risk to contract a STI or HIV. Fager said one of the main reasons students don’t get tested is because they assume if they had an infection they would recognize the symptoms. She also said many students know they have not engaged
in safe sex practices and simply do not want to know if they’ve contracted a STI. “One of the things you can do to get people who don’t plan on getting testing is bringing the testing to them,” Fager said. “The irony is that people who use condoms consistently are the ones who want to get tested.” Deanna Kilgore, a Healthy Sexuality peer mentor, said she’s known many people who refuse to get tested because they think it’s easy to
predict if their partner has a STI. Kilgore became a mentor because she felt the sex education students get before coming to college is inadequate and wanted to create an open dialogue about sex. “Everyone should get tested,” Kilgore said. “The test is easy and quick and it only takes one sex experience to get an infection.” — Jody Serrano
With local ecosystems facing difficulty surviving the ongoing drought, many are interested in increasing the use of native, droughtresistant Texan plants. The Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center marked Texas Native Plant Week with an open tour of its garden on Thursday, led by director of horticulture Andrea DeLong-Amaya. The center, which former first lady Ladybird Johnson and actress Helen Hayes founded in 1986, has been affiliated with UT since 2006. The center hopes the tour will educate visitors on the value of using native Texas plants, said Barbara Rodriguez, spokeswoman for the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center. “People will become more empowered in using gardening plants when they’re familiar with new species,” DeLong-Amaya said. “Many people are turning to native plants because they’re quite happy using less water.” Guiding a small group through the tour, located just outside of Austin, DeLong-Amaya walked between the flowers, shrubs and trees, giving each one a detailed description and
answering questions about identifying and using various plants. “The talk and garden walk will help people understand why native plants are useful in helping the environment since they are not only beautiful, but functional,” Rodriguez said. This is the first tour on native Texas plants the Center has offered since Texas Native Plant Week was signed into law by Gov. Rick Perry in June 2009. Its creation was expedited through lobbying by the Native Plant Society of Texas with the support of Texas Rep. Donna Howard, said DeLong-Amaya. The growth of Native Plant Week, along with the drought, has brought many botanists to the Center for new information, said Sarah Haggerty, an Austin resident who comes to the Center regularly. “There’s always something to learn here at the Wildflower Center,” Haggerty said. “Every time I come here I learn something new.” With this summer’s drought, many Texans have developed an interest in using native plants because they are better adapted to Texas’ climate. “With the drought you want to do anything you can that will save you water,” Haggerty said.
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Betsy Heard looks at Prickly Pear Cactus while attending the Texas Native Plant Week Thursday at Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center. The Center hosted an open tour of its garden to educate visitors on the value of using these drought-resistant plants.
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Brewer wants wins, hopes to lead team to postseason again By Matt Warden Daily Texan Staff
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The Longhorns will begin their season this weekend in Dallas as they compete in the SMU Swim Classic. With sophomore Ashley Brewer, Texas hopes to improve upon its sixth place finish at the NCAAs last year.
Ashley Brewer is an emerging star for Texas, one who is probably most known for her decorated sports family. Yet Brewer, a sophomore and one of the key members of the Longhorns’ swimming team, walks a path all her own. “I started swimming at five years old and just had a natural feel for the water,” Brewer said. “All of my siblings started with swimming but I was kind of the natural of the fam-
ily and fell in love and stuck with it.” Although becoming a competitive college athlete is difficult, Brewer found deciding where to go to school to be just as tough. “I wanted to go to UCLA because both my brothers played baseball there, and I grew up loving USC,” Brewer said. “But I couldn’t turn down the program, coaches and the team at Texas.” With a natural ability and
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Head of the Charles beckons Horns Top-ranked Texas heads to Orlando By Chijioke Okorie Daily Texan Staff
Head coach Carie Graves and the Longhorns are gearing up for the Head of the Charles meet this Sunday in Boston, Massachusetts. The team’s last meet was the Head of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City, in which their varsity’s first boat, consisting of coxswain Megan Kelly, Jacqueline Gorcyca, Laurel McCaig, Sydney Boyes and Felicia IzaquirreWerner, took first place in the collegiate four, finishing in 14:50.103. Their second and third boats, with the second boat consisting
of coxswain Rachel Donnelly, Taylor Parker, Karli Sheahan, Hannah Moon and Courtney Nicklas, finished in 3rd and 10th place respectively, with times of 15:19.941 and 15:53.197. The Head of the Charles Regatta meet has started to become one of the world’s largest annual rowing meets since its debut 47 years ago. As of now, 9,000 rowers, from about 650 universities, schools, and rowing clubs compete in the event. This weekend’s meet in Boston will be the team’s first trip to the Head of Charles since October of 2005.
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Texas travels to Orlando this weekend looking to win its third consecutive event. The Longhorns, who rose to No. 1 in the Golfstat Head-to-Head standings last week, will compete in the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational on Sunday, Oct. 23 through Tuesday, Oct. 25. Texas will be one of 15 teams taking part in the three-day event. Texas’ biggest competition in the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational will likely come from Stanford, who is ranked third in the Golf-
stat standings. Stanford finished in first place at the Olympia Fields Invitational last month, with the Longhorns placing fifth. Senior Dylan Frittelli has been perhaps the biggest reason for the Longhorns’ success this year, as the Big 12 Conference Golfer of the Month for September has finished as one of the Texas’ top two scorers in each event. The Longhorns, who have won consecutive tournaments for the first time since 2006, have a chance to make it three victories in four tries in 2011 this week with another strong outing.
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Longhorns on five-match win streak Gaul aims to regain defensive edge By Chris Hummer Daily Texan Staff
Texas has almost completed half of the Big 12 schedule, having played every team in the conference with the exception of Missouri, who the Longhorns will square off with this weekend at home. The No. 10 Longhorns (13-4, 6-1 Big 12) have played well in conference play, with their only loss coming in a tough five-setter against rival Oklahoma in Norman. The team is also riding a five-match winning streak. They have won these games in dominating fashion,
dropping only three sets in that span. Texas has been led by freshman Haley Eckerman during this run. Eckerman was named Big 12 Freshman of the Week for the second time this year on Tuesday, after averaging a .318 hitting percentage the previous week. She didn’t slow down much against Baylor on Wednesday either, recording 15 kills and a .387 percentage. The Longhorns also expect help from All-American senior Rachael Adams, after her dominating 13 kills on .500 hitting percentage against the Bears.
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Whitehead looks to stay white-hot T he L ong hor ns are ready to get back in the swing of things this weekend in the ITA Texas Regional Championships in College Station. Texas is lead by junior Daniel Whitehead, ranked No. 59 on the ITA preseason rankings after posting a 27-9 singles record last season. Junior Ben Chen also earned the No. 113 ranking after compiling a 16-11 singles record last season. The state of Texas is considered its own region, so Texas will be facing com-
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Texas is hoping to get back on track when it hosts Seattle University in an out-of-conference match Sunday afternoon at Mike A. Myers Stadium. The Longhorns are coming back from a bittersweet road trip in which they managed to stop No. 10 Oklahoma State’s 15-match win streak with a 1-1 draw last Friday in Stillwater, but lost to Texas Tech 3-2 in double overtime two days later in Lubbock. The Redhawks (10-5)
look to keep their twomatch win streak alive when they take on the Longhorns, who dropped 9-6-1 and 3-3-1 after last week’s matches. St ar t i ng go a l ke e p er Alexa Gaul will look to bounce back after allowing three goals last Sunday. The junior had only allowed three goals in her three previous matches combined. The Naperville, Ill. native might also try to get back on the score sheet after netting her second career goal against the Red Raiders on a 30-yard free kick.
petition from Baylor, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, and Texas Christian, among other schools. The winning team from this tournament will go on to compete at the USTA/ITA Indoor Intercollegiate Championships in Flushing, New York at the beginning of November. The Longhorns last tournament was the ITA AllAmerican Championships, in which Whitehead fell one win away from making the main draw. Other Longhorns that earned victories at the tournament included Chen, freshman Soren Hess-Olesen, and sophomore David Holiner.
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It’s been two years since junior Aeriel Ellis won the ITA Texas Regional Championship, and Texas is poised to win it’s first ITA title this season in Fort Worth. The tournament will feature every NCAA Division I team in Texas, competing in singles and doubles. The Longhorns will not just be competing to win a tournament, but more importantly to advance to the ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championship in New York
next month. Playing at the site of the U.S. Open will give Texas more motivation, especially for the freshmen aiming to prove their talent. “I’m pleased with the progress our freshmen have made,” said head coach Patty Fendick-McCain. “They have good work habits, and we hope to see them reap the benefits.” Building on success at the Longhorn and Rice Invitational, along with Ellis’ singles win at her seventh national championship, Texas has set the stage for a very possible win this weekend.
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The Longhorns will open their season today and tomorrow at Perkins Natatorium in Dallas. The event will showcase six nationally ranked teams, including No. 7 Florida, No. 11 Wisconsin and No. 13 Virginia. This will be the first time Texas has competed in the Swim Classic since 2000. The Longhorns return 25 women from last year’s team that finished sixth at the NCAA Championships. Head coach Kim Brackin enters her sixth season at Texas and is the reigning 2011 Big 12 Conference Swimming Coach of the Year. — Nick Cremona
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Games to watch during UT’s bye week By Nick Cremona Daily Texan Columnist
It’s officially the second half of the season and teams are in the thick of conference play. While Texas takes the week off, here’s three games to keep an eye on over the weekend.
LSU is too powerful for the de- fense is no match for the tenure of Andrew Luck and the dominant fending national champs. offensive line of Stanford.
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The Huskies are no longer the laughing stock of the Pac-Whatever; in fact, they’re off to their best start in 10 years at 5-1. A lot of the Huskies’ success can be attributed to the play of sophomore quarterback Keith Price. Price is secNo. 20 Auburn vs. No. 1 LSU ond in the nation with 21 passing touchdowns and has only thrown This game had all the makings of four interceptions while leada potential upset before three LSU ing the Huskies to three straight players were suspended for test- conference victories. ing positive for synthetic marijuana this week. Cornerbacks Tyrann Mathieu and Tharold Simon along with starting running back Spencer Ware will all miss this game, but probably not the more important tilt against Alabama which comes in two weeks. The Auburn Tigers will unveil The key for the Huskies to have starting quarterback sophomore a chance at knocking off Andrew Clint Moseley, who will be mak- Luck and the Cardinal is by dising his first career start in the rupting Luck in the pocket. Easformidable Death Valley. Fellow ier said than done — Luck hasn’t sophomore running back Mi- been sacked for a career-high chael Dyer may have to shoulder three games. Three whole games the load early on in order to get and no one has even touched him. Moseley acclimated to the Bayou If the Huskies don’t lay a hand on Bengals’ defense. Luck then any shot at an upset My prediction — Auburn 21, will be long gone. LSU 30. Auburn keeps it close My prediction — Washington but even with three men down, 24, Stanford 38. The Huskies de-
No. 6 Wisconsin vs. No. 16 Michigan State Even with transfer quarterback extraordinaire Russell Wilson leading the way, the Badgers could have their hands full in East Lansing this weekend. It’s been nine years since the Badgers have defeated the Spartans on their home turf. The Spartans have the fourthranked defense in the nation but suffered a loss along their defensive front with the one-game suspension of defensive end William Gholston. Gholston has recorded 20 tackles and 1.5 sacks for the Spartans this year and his suspension could be the difference in this game. Wi ls on is more than capable of dealing with anything the Spartans’ defense will send at him. Expect those big boys along the Badgers’ offensive line to control the line of scrimmage and allow Wilson the time to find open receivers all day. My prediction — Wisconsin 45, Michigan State 24. I don’t care if it’s been 90 years since the Badgers Dave Martin | Associated Press have won on the road against Sparty, this year’s squad is light-years Auburn quarterback Clint Moseley (15) looks for a receiver in the second half of a game at Jordan-Hare better than any team in the Big 10. Stadium in Auburn, Ala., on Oct. 15. Moseley wil start his first career game at LSU this weekend.
This game had all the makings of a potential upset before three LSU players were suspended for testing positive for synthetic marijuana this week.
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recognition of her amazing opportunities, the 12-time high school All-American hopes to take it as far as possible. “I’ve been so blessed to swim in college, but I want to swim in Olympic trials, which I’ll be doing next year,” Brewer said. “And I would love to win a national championship here with Texas.” While a price cannot be placed on winning either competition, one holds a special place in Brewer’s heart. “I think it would be so awesome to be a national champion,” Brewer said. “But I’ve always dreamed of standing on a podium with a medal so I would totally want to be an Olympic gold medalist.” Brewer’s motivation stems from the group that has always been her biggest support and competition. “It’s so much fun in my family, and we grew up constantly playing games together and trying to beat each other,” Brewer
equally feeble. Maybe it was because none of the Texas starters had ever faced Garcia, maybe it was carryover from the stress that began in last year’s World Series wipeout against San Francisco. Until the ninth inning, that is. Their hardest hit early in the game came in the fourth — rather, it was the hardest a Texas player got hit. Kinsler was at third base when Adrian Beltre sent a solid, one-hopper down the line. The foul ball nailed a ducking Kinsler in the right shoulder, and he grinned while playfully rubbing it off. No smiling, though, when Beltre took a poor cut at a low pitch and struck out to strand runners at the corners. Down to their last three outs, and in danger of dropping into a serious World Series deficit, the Rangers rallied against St. Louis’ vaunted bullpen. Hamilton and Michael Young lifted sacrifice flies in the ninth and Texas startled the Cardinals 2-1 on Thursday night to even the Series at 1-all. For the second straight night, Cardinals pinch-hitter Allen Craig greet-
said. “And there was always just a standard of excellence in my house where my parents would push us to always be the best, which definitely helped us get to where we wanted to go.” Competing is a big part of an athlete’s life. However, it’s not everything for Brewer. “I do Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and I help lead a bible study for all the Texas women’s athletes so I am very involved in my faith,” Brewer said. “I want to be a sports broadcaster, so getting established with communications is a big goal for me.” Through her ambition and athletic prowess, Brewer will never fail to be recognized for her own accomplishments. “When I leave, I would love people to just remember me as being a great leader, a motivator to my teammates and for helping others become better people in their faith,” Brewer said. “Those are the most important things to me.”
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ed reliever Alexi Ogando with a goahead single. This time, Craig did it the seventh. In Game 1, his hit in the sixth sent the Cards to a 3-2 win. The Rangers, however, were not done quite yet. Now, after a travel day, they will host Game 3 on Saturday night. Matt Harrison is set to start for the Rangers against Kyle Lohse. “It would have been hard,” Hamilton said of possibly facing being 0-2. “We would have been comfortable going back to our place, having three games. They’re just like we are, never say die, until the last out is made. It makes it fun.” Texas has not lost two straight games since Aug. 23-25. They sure waited a while to save themselves on this night that began as a duel between starters Colby Lewis and the Cardinals’ Jaime Garcia. Ian Kinsler opened the ninth with a bloop single against closer Jason Motte. Next up was Elvis Andrus, whose tremendous play at shortstop kept the game scoreless much earlier. He singled to center, sending Kinsler to third, and when
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the relay throw got away for a moment, Andrus scampered to second. Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, who’s been making all the right moves this October, brought in lefty Arthur Rhodes to face Hamilton. But the slumping slugger, slowed throughout the postseason by a groin injury, hit a solid fly ball that scored Kinsler and moved Andrus to third. La Russa went to his bullpen again, bringing in Lance Lynn to face Young. The steady Texas veteran did his job, lofting a fly ball that sent Andrus scampering home. Then it was Rangers manager Ron Washington’s turn. He signaled
for closer Neftali Feliz, who worked around a leadoff walk to earn the save. Mike Adams got the win. Garcia and Lewis dominated at the outset, and no one got a hit until Furcal doubled with two outs in the St. Louis third. Before that, the closest anyone came was Jon Jay, whose bunt danced along the third base line chalk before trickling foul. Perhaps both sides could have used some hitting tips from Stan Musial. A month shy of his 91st birthday, Stan the Man was sitting in a Busch suite. The Cardinals Hall of Famer was shown on the video board and drew a big cheer.
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Zeus, an 11-year-old Maine Coon cat, encounters a mountain lion through a sliding glass door in Boulder, Colo. Loveman, Zeus’s owner, told The Denver Post she was busy in the office of her home when she heard a noise and turned to see a young mountain lion on the porch. BOULDER, Colo. — Gail Loveman’s 11-year-old cat named Zeus usually stands tall and hisses when he sees a squirrel outside his owner ’s home. He wasn’t as much of a tough guy when the animal on the
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“Sal” Premieres: Oct. 23 at 12 p.m. Writer/director/actor/producer/professor/painter/pilot/model/ musician James Franco will screen his unconventional biopic of actor Sal Mineo, the teen star of “Rebel Without a Cause.” The film chronicles Mineo’s final hours on February 12, 1976, the day his life was tragically cut short by a senseless act of
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high and generally make cities more enjoyable places to live, he said. The social impact of design is important, Steiner said. “Certainly we spend a lot of money as tourists to go to environments that make us feel better,” he said. The Woodlands, an environmentally sound community outside of Houston, is one example where sustainability and livability have gone hand and hand. Now one of the country’s largest, most
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“Beavis & Butt-Head” Premieres: Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. Series creator Mike Judge will preview about an hour’s worth of new episodes of his iconic animated series about two presumably orphaned teenagers whose lives comprise mainly of watching music videos, broken up with bouts of delinquency. The new episodes, however, will see Beavis and Butt-Head’s viewing preferences shift away from music videos and toward the cultural black holes of “Jersey Shore,” Ultimate Fighting and YouTube. MTV will begin airing fresh episodes of the revived series on Oct. 27 at 9 p.m.
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Austin Film Fest gathers basket of cinematic talent By Benjamin Smith Daily Texan Columnist
Yesterday marked the beginning of this year’s Austin Film Festival. The festival will run through Oct. 27 and seeks to balance local flavor with Hollywood flair. Among the many events that The Daily Texan will be on hand to cover are several red carpet premieres at the Paramount Theatre that are being billed as the highlights of this year’s festival.
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Dean of Architecture Frederick Steiner’s book, “Design for a Vulnerable Planet,” will be featured at the Texas Book Festival this weekend. The book talks about sustainability and uses examples from the UT campus.
Dean emphasizes green construction By Clayton Wickham Daily Texan Staff
What we choose to build has a huge impact on our natural world. Buildings consume 50 percent of energy used in the United States and as the human population grows exponentially, our need for homes, offices, parks and public buildings is not easily abated. By 2030, half of the buildings in our cities will have been constructed in the last 30 years. In his book, “Design for a Vulnerable Planet,” UT Dean of the School of Architecture Frederick Steiner explores how design and planning can create a more sustainable world. Steiner is speaking at Texas Book Festival this Sunday. “There’s lots of challenges when we look at the planet becoming increasingly urban,” Steiner said. “But I think there is lots of opportunity
for creative people to shape a healthier and more beautiful future.” In his book Steiner argues that, to achieve sustainable design, we must understand the full economic social and environmental costs of development and act accordingly. Understanding these costs means being aware of the interplay between the man-made and natural environment. Archite c t Pau l Cret , w ho planned the UT campus in 1933 and designed many of its older buildings such as the Union and Goldsmith Hall, exemplified this kind of awareness in many ways. In one chapter of “Vulnerable Planet,” Steiner discusses what we can learn from Cret, who used local materials such as limestone and live oak and took sun angle, weather conditions and topography into consideration in his arrangement of UT campus.
The success of architects like Cret was achieved by consulting their environment but ignored by the Modernist movement, which shaped the design of many of our cities, Steiner said. “Around the planet we produced an architecture of boxes, some glass, others transparent and windowless,” he writes. “We created cities disconnected from nature.” According to Steiner, designers and planners need to abandon this “one-size-fits-all” point of view and use knowledge of the place if we are to shape a sustainable future. “The great English poet Alexander Pope said ‘consult the genius of the place.’ Japanese garden designers live a year in a place before they make a design,” Steiner said. “They try to understand the four seasons, the wind and the light.” But “consulting the genius of the place” does not just mean aes-
Third ‘Paranormal’ installment continues to scrounge up scares
WHAT: Dean Steiner at Texas Book Festival WHERE: Congress between 10th and 11th WHEN: Sun. 11:30 a.m.
Premieres: Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. Writer/director Bruce Robinson and actor Johnny Depp will screen their adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s 1998 novel of the same name. The film stars Johnny Depp as Paul Kemp, a freelance journalist who moves from New York to San Juan in the late-1950s to write for a newspaper. Kemp soon becomes obsessed with Chenault (Amber Heard), the fiancé of ruthless property developer Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart). When Sanderson recruits Kemp to write spin for his scrupulous enterprise, Kemp has to decide to either oblige him or bury the man engaged to the object of his desires. It has all the hallmarks of a Hunter S. Thompson narrative with the main characters being mostly crazed, alcoholic maniacs —
but don’t expect another “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.” Best known for British cult classic “Withnail and I,” Bruce Robinson has a wholly different approach to filmmaking than “Fear and Loathing” director Terry Gilliam. Look for a more layered offering that focuses on the relationship between comedy and tragedy. An encore screening of “The Rum Diary” will be led by Depp, Robinson and UT radio-televisionfilm faculty on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. in the SAC Auditorium. The Q&A session that follows the screening will be broadcast via satellite.
“Jeff, Who Lives at Home” Premieres: Oct. 22 at 6:30 p.m. Writers/directors Jay and Mark Duplass will present the regional premiere of their emotional comedy “Jeff, Who Lives at Home.” The film stars Jason Segel as a borderline agoraphobic man living in his parent’s basement whose journey begins when he interprets a strange coincidence as a sign that he might have discovered his fate. The movie also stars Ed Helms, Susan Sarandon and Judy Greer. As filmmakers, the Duplass brothers are best known for their films “The Puffy Chair,” “Baghead,” and “Cyrus,” but Mark Duplass is probably most recognizable from his starring role as Pete Eckhart on the FX come-
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WEB: texasbookfestival.org TICKETS: Free
thetics for Steiner. By understanding that the natural and manmade environments interact as part of the same ecosystem, designers and planners can bring about powerful environmental changes. Transitioning to renewable energy sources and reusing existing sites rather than encroaching on “prime farmland” or Matt Sayles | Associated Press
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Actor Johnny Depp will be in Austin this weekend for the premiere of “The Rum Diary” at the Austin Film Festival.
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The intriguingly eclectic mix of celebrities at this year’s Austin Film Festival. Including Johnny Depp, Mira Sorvino and Mike Judge.
Alex McLeod’s breathtaking miniature landscapes. These amazingly lifelike creations are all digital.
Hipster Cop. Solving crimes and making arrests in skinny jeans.
“How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age.” With new chapters on Facebook and Twitter.
Dirty Projectors announce new album for next spring. Finally!
Kelly Clarkson wants to be on “Parks and Recreation.” Her life would suck without Ron Swanson. Photo courtesy of Associated Press/ Paramount Pictures
“Paranormal Activity 3” comes with new directors but keeps the shock-based scares of its sequels. By Alex Williams Daily Texan Staff
Directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman weren’t exactly the most obvious choice for the next “Paranormal Activity” film, coming off of last year’s debut “Catfish,” which delved into the peril of online relationships using documentary techniques that were questionable at best. However, the pair prove to be a great fit for the franchise thanks to a focus on expanding the series’ mythology and some clever twists on the formula of the first two films. A prequel to “Paranormal Activity 2,” which was a prequel to the original, part three finds
Paranormal Activity 3
Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman
Genre: Horror Runtime: 85 minutes For those who like: Catfish, Paranormal Activity
“30 Rock” to satirize Occupy Wall Street. But is it too soon? Too serious?
“Margin Call.”This looks like a really solemn movie about wearing suits.
National Book Awards mistakenly nominates author. Then demands her to withdraw. Boo.
The disheartening video of a baby who thinks a magazine is a broken iPad.
Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon are divorcing. A sad day in punk.
Grade: B+ adolescent versions of sisters Katie and Kristi being terrorized by the now-familiar demon, here given a patronizing nickname and introduced as Kristi’s imaginary friend. When stepdad — or
live-in boyfriend, the film never bothers to clarify which — Dennis (Christopher Nicholas Smith) tries to get to the bottom of the
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“The Walking Dead’s” dialogue. More terrifying than the zombies.
Fed report puts student loan debt at $1 trillion. It’s all going to be worth it … right?
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