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THE DAILY TEXAN Friday, October 22, 2010
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Gorillaz and special guest N.E.R.D. perform at the Erwin Center. Tickets are $50, and the show starts at 7:30 p.m.
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South Indian classical musicians Ranjani and Gayatri perform at the Texas Union Theater. Student admission is $10, and the show starts at 7 p.m.
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Co-op asks faculty for on-time book lists By Audrey White Daily Texan Staff If all faculty submit their book lists to the University Co-op before the Oct. 31 priority deadline, the bookstore could save $250,000 — translating into serious savings for students. When the store receives book requisition lists by that date, it helps store management determine how many books to buy back from students and gives the Co-op time to shop around for
prices on used books from wholesalers, said Chad Stith, director of course materials. About 60 percent of faculty usually submit their requisitions on time. When the store gets book requests late, it doesn’t buy as many books from students and ends up having to buy a greater number of more expensive new books from publishers, so students lose money in two ways. “[Prompt book list submissions] can easily mean a quarter
of a million dollars per semester in savings, because there are more used books at the Co-op and better payout at buyback,” he said. Business junior Chase Covington, a Student Government liberal arts representative, is spearheading a letter-writing campaign to encourage faculty to submit their lists on time. At its Oct. 12 meeting, SG passed a resolution authored by Covington to support efforts to
increase timely requisition requests. He has met with student organizations to ask their members to urge professors to submit their lists on time during class, at office hours or by e-mail. Stith said when the inquiry comes from SG and other students, professors know prompt submission of book lists doesn’t only help the Co-op. After a similar SG initiative in fall 2009, 102 more faculty members submitted their requisitions on time than in
the previous fall. Covington said he hopes this year will be more successful and far-reaching. “There is still a lot of room for improvement,” he said. “We can institutionalize this so it happens every semester and it will be easier to implement.” Covington and other SG members will distribute letters and emails to department heads next week and continue to ask stu-
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Life in rural India Pragya Bhagat and Nikhil Gulati talk about their journey from Austin to Shreeji ka Kheda, a small village in India, where they examined rural life in the world’s second most populous nation. Talk starts at 5 p.m. in ENS 115.
Bloodsucker
Award-winning opera “Vampyress”, based on the true story of murderer Erzsebet Bathori, opens at the Vortex Cafe & Yard. Tickets are $30, and the show starts at 8 p.m.
SUNDAY Halloween fun
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center hosts its fourth annual Goblins in the Garden family festival, which includes a pumpkin patch and face painting. Starts at 4 p.m. and tickets cost $8.
Love potion
The Butler Opera Center presents Donizetti’s comic opera “Elixir of Love,” about a poor peasant who sets out to woo the love of his life with the help of a magic potion. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. in the McCullough Theater, and tickets are $17 for students.
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The Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium’s 100,000 seats are nearly all filled at the start of the football game against UCLA on Sept. 25.
Home games draw in revenue for Austin businesses, contribute to UT donations EVOLUTI O GARRET N OF T GIL BERT
By Daniel Sanchez Daily Texan Staff onghorn fans may not be sitting where they thought they would be at the start of the season with a 4-2 record and a No. 19 ranking in the BCS, following a surprising 34-12 loss to underdog UCLA and a mistake-filled loss to Oklahoma, but win or lose — home football games mean money for Austin businesses. In its home opener against the University of Wyoming Cowboys, Texas set an attendance record of 101,339 — the second
largest crowd at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium ever, trailing the 2009 game against Kansas, which drew 101,357 fans. “The way that we talk about it is we have eight Christmases,” said Brian Jewell, vice president of marketing of the University Co-op. “We have one on Dec. 25 and then we have one every home game day.” During the weekend of the Wyoming game, the Co-op on Guadalupe Street turned in a six-figure profit, Jewell said. “Not only does it bring us sales but again, let’s remember, every time we sell something, that gives us an opportunity
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Quintana reinstated to police force UT program obtains grant By Aziza Musa Daily Texan Staff An arbitrator reinstated Austin police Officer Leonardo Quintana on Thursday after five months off the force following a drunken driving offense earlier this year. Quintana’s indefinite suspension for the DWI was not appropriate because the discipline was not consistent with those of other Austin Police Department officers who also were convicted of the same offense, wrote arbitrator Louise Wolitz. She reduced
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his suspension to 15 days. Quintana, a center of controversy after the May 2009 shooting of Nathaniel Sanders II, petitioned for reinstatement after his suspension in May. In addition to the DWI charges, Quintana faces two lawsuits related to his involvement in the shooting of the 18-year-old Sanders and 22-year-old Sir Lawrence Smith in 2009. “Officer Quintana is reminded that he now has two 15-day suspensions
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By Ahsika Sanders Daily Texan Staff A program to improve language impairments of bilingual first grade students, initiated by UT speech-language researchers, received a $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. During the first year, researchers will work with 24 Georgetown students to test the effectiveness of the language intervention pro-
gram, which they believe will lead to increased English literacy. Program instructors will teach bilingual children devices to help them learn the basic phonics of English. Children who have language impairments have trouble properly structuring well-organized sentences and appropriately using words, said Lisa Bedore, an
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