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Groups face off on health care

Mary Kang | Daily Texan Staff

Republican Christian Collins, a government and journalism junior, and Democrat Garrett Mize, a government and religious studies senior, debate health care at the Graduate School of Business Building on Thursday evening.

Timely debate on merits of reform leaves some unmoved

By Jordan Haeger Daily Texan Staff The words flew Thursday night as members of College Republicans and University Democrats debated health care reform, but some students in the audience were unimpressed.

The two groups met in the Graduate School of Business to debate what changes, if any, should be made to the U.S. health care system.

University Democrats argued for swift reform to make health care accessible to every American, while College Republicans argued for more delay to discuss the implications of new reforms.

University Democrats debater Doug Luippold said health care is such a big issue because no one knows when

he or she may need treatment or what it would cost.

The College Republicans argued that the public option, which would be open to some Americans without insurance, would undermine competition from private insurance companies and the free-market system.

“We do need reform, but not the public option,” said College Republicans debater Colin Harris. “Competition works.”

The debaters’ passion did not necessarily translate into informative commentary, according to students in the audience. Management senior Alex Ferraro, who has followed the national health care debate closely, said he did not learn much from the debate.

But psychology sophomore Arielle Ennis said the debate was helpful for each side to strengthen its stances.

“It’s important to get the opposing side’s view because then you are better equipped to argue with them,” she said.

The Democrats argued that there are several industries in which private companies flourish despite having public competition, including education and mail delivery.

“Republicans want to delay change, delay reform,” said University Democrats debater Grace Zheng. “They don’t want to piss off businesses.”

Garrett Mize, a University Democrats debater, said military health care coverage, which is free or subsidized to

all members, is the “golden standard” by which all government-run agencies should be measured.

Both groups agreed that the government can efficiently run a medical coverage plan, but Republicans voiced concerns about taxing the wealthiest members of society to pay for health insurance.

Republican debater Christian Collins said the government should not force some Americans to pay more to enact health care reform because the terms “rich” and “poor” are subjective.

“It is fair that wealthy people who have benefited the most from society should have to give back to it at a

Campus crime spree reveals false sense of security at PCL

By Bobby Longoria Daily Texan Staff Students have been losing more than just sleep at campus libraries in recent weeks.

UT police officers have reported a rise in campus thefts — in particular at the Perry-Castañeda Library — throughout the month of October. UT officials are warning students to keep a constant watch on their belongings in light of the recent slew of locker breakins by brazen thieves.

Thirty-five incidents of oncampus theft, not including stolen bikes, have been reported to UTPD since Oct. 7, accruing a total estimated value loss of $13,994. At the PCL alone, there have been 19 incidents of theft, comprised of eight lockers being broken into and 11 instances of items being left unattended either on the floor or on desktops.

Jenifer Flaxbart, PCL head librarian for reference and information services, said the recent uptick in thefts is highly unusual for this time of the semester. She has filed incident reports at the library for the past five years.

A more ambitious set of thieves has set its sights on the PCL, said UTPD Officer William Pieper.

Thefts have included not only unattended items, but also those left within secured lockers.

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Cemre Mengu, computer science junior, studies alone on the third floor of the Perry Castaneda Library on Thursday. or so, a thief realized there are a lot of opportunities [at the PCL],” Pieper said. “They may have a particular tactic they use to defeat the locker. They may have some knowledge or some tool that allows them to do it proficiently.”

“The key thing is kids have to guard their books, their purses and their bags better than they are doing,” said Kenneth Jones, owner of Beat the Bookstore, where some thieves have attempted to sell back stolen books. “You want to think things are safe, but there always seems to be some kind of predator.”

Jones and Pieper both referred to a theft that occurred at the Texas Union on Oct. 20, in which a female student was working on her laptop and using headphones when her backpack — with her books and wallet inside — was stolen from under her seat.

The student, after realizing the disappearance of her backpack, immediately notified UTPD and began searching in bookstores and on the Drag.

“She actually had written on one of the pages in her textbook a unique identifying number

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Zilker greens reopen after ACL damage

By Rachel Platis Daily Texan Staff Zilker Park’s Great Lawn will reopen to the public today after four weeks of rest and recovery from the rain and mud that accumulated during the Austin City Limits Music Festival weekend, Oct. 2-4.

The city will replace about one acre of the 46-acre lawn in the spring, as the Parks and Recreation Department projected this summer. Park staff have aerated the lawn since its closure, and have been working to remove the mud that developed over the grass, said Victor Ovalle, spokesman for the Parks and Recreation Department.

“We felt that we should turn it over back to the public at this point,” Ovalle said. “The lawn should start to come back naturally.”

To minimize damage to the turf, park patrons should be cautious of some saturated areas in the park.

The turf should return to its green state in the spring, Ovalle said.

“We’re hoping the weather will stay warm for a while, so the grass won’t go into dormancy,” he said.

When temperatures drop, grass

will stop growing, which could delay repairs to the park.

City employees are also working on a drainage system and on putting soil back in different areas to restore the lawn, he said.

C3 Presents, the company that produces ACL, will pay for any repairs to the grass.

“C3 has told us that they will spend whatever expense to make sure the lawn is restored as it was found before the festival,” Ovalle said. “We have a great commitment from them.”

Despite the park being closed earlier this summer in preparation for ACL and after the festival, Ovalle said the number of visitors to Barton Springs and the Zilker Park area have increased from last year.

Barton Springs Pool saw an increase of 50,000 visitors this year, he said. They also saw an increase in attendance for the Zilker Park Kite Festival.

“The Great Lawn is only 13 percent of Zilker park,” Ovalle said.

“The park represents a high quality of life that Austinites expect, and it’s a great opportunity for

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An ACL-goer crosses a puddle during the last day of festival. The heavy rain during the festival turned the ground at Zilker Park into mud.

Employee union targets UT layoffs

By Lena Price Daily Texan Staff More than a thousand students, professors and faculty have put their names on a petition to protest proposed layoffs during the new budget cycle.

The Texas State Employees Union is organizing the petition and asking participants on campus to call the UT Board of Regents, UT President William Powers and state legislators with their concerns.

Organizers cannot say what kind of impact the petition will have on the UT administration.

French lecturer Peter Fazziola said he has seen the petitions posted in hallways, but has not done much to circulate them.

“I am opposed to the cuts,” Fazziola said. “But I do, perhaps rightly or perhaps wrongly, have a sense of futility in stopping them. The UT administration controls the money, and if they don’t release it to the department, there is not much we can do.”

The union began circulating the petition this month to raise opposition to proposed cuts to the College of Liberal Arts budget.

Union secretary James RubarthLay said the response to the petition has been mostly positive and a definitive end date for the campaign has not been set.

“The petition is meant to put pressure on the administration to reconsider the emphasis they want to place on hiring presti-

gious faculty,” Rubarth-Lay said.

“We’re still discussing a definitive plan, but we will bring it to the administration.”

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The petition is meant to put pressure on the administration to reconsider the emphasis they want to place on hiring prestigious faculty.”

— James RubarthLay Union secretary

Union members gave the copies of the petition to faculty, staff and lecturers, who then distributed them to their classes and posted them on notice boards around campus.

To free up funds to pay for the new Liberal Arts building and to support newly hired faculty, Liberal Arts Dean Randy Diehl announced in August the college would reallocate between $10 million and $13 million, in part by eliminating lecturer and teaching assistant positions.

Because of a flat budget for the upcoming academic year, the University has asked all colleges to internally reallocate resources to cover hiring, faculty and staff

raises and any new initiatives.

Powers recognized the college in his State of the University address as one that is taking steps toward meeting the overall priorities of the University.

“These are very difficult decisions to make in Liberal Arts,” Diehl said in a statement. “We’re trying to accomplish this in ways that have the least impact on student education and faculty research.”

Diehl eliminated a proposal to revamp the foreign language curriculum by cutting required credit hours — and possibly increasing class sizes — last week after an overwhelmingly negative response from faculty.

Marcin Rusinkiewicz, a comparative literature graduate student, has worked with the Union to circulate the petition. He said that keeping the same requirements was not an “unqualified victory.”

“It’s not entirely clear what else is going to be cut in order to make up for it,” Rusinkiewicz said.

Because the foreign language changes were taken off the table, each department will be responsible for reallocating funds. Discussion about where the money will come from has already started among department chairs, but nothing has been solidified.

Linguistics sophomore Rixon Rouse heard about the petition

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Daniela Dasuta, Spanish sophomore, hands out candies to Paul Vallejo, 5, and Las’hanti Maxwell, 6, on Thursday evening at Kinsolving Dormitory. in an effort to show students’ appreciation for the custodial staff who clean the halls daily and prepare student meals, said Samantha Perry, Duran hallway coordinator.

Both residence hall councils and residence assistants from each dorm decorated halls to provide a safe place for chil-

Division of Housing and Food Service celebrated Halloween on Thursday by inviting the children of the custodial and food service staff to come trick-ortreating.

Almetris Duren Hall and Kinsolving Dormitory held a carnival for the children

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forward to having park back From page 1 them to experience the outdoors and to have a good time out there.”

Business sophomore Lauren Scroggs worked at ACL in 2008.

At the time, patrons did not have to slog through rain and mud, but rather battle summer temperatures, she said.

“I was so glad to hear that they made improvements to the lawn because it’s such a good venue,” Scroggs said. “It was so dusty before.”

Scroggs said that she has been to the Great Lawn for a couple of

school events including Gone To Business, a freshman orientation event for McCombs students.

“It’s just nice to get out of all the buildings and into an area that’s so green and open,” she said.

Crosby Cook, a computer science freshman, is originally from Austin and has grown up making trips to the Zilker area.

“In high school, we’d go and play pick-up soccer games,” Cook said. “I haven’t visited the lawn since I’ve been at UT, but maybe I’ll get to introduce some new people to it through the Trail of Lights.”

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dren to tour and interact with students dressed up in full costumes, and even participate in an interactive pirate shipwreck on the fifth floor.

“We want to create a positive experience for the kids of our support staff, and for the support staff themselves,” Perry

said. “The students want to support our support. [The Halloween carnival] exposes children to good feelings about college in general. When they look back ten years from now, we hope this is a memory that stands out.”

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that thefts can happen anytime From page 1 related to her,” Pieper said. “She went back to the bookstore and said ‘on this page you will find this,’ and because of that, the operator of the bookstore knew what to look for.”

Jones said the description of the book from the student allowed an employee to identify it when the alleged thief attempted to sell the book. Jones “instantly knew he was not a student,” examined the book and then called the student and UTPD. The man was arrested and the student is pressing charges.

Jones said numerous people that attempt to sell back textbooks, who either look suspicious or do not possess a student ID, could be turned away. An identification number encoded into each book sold at Jones’ bookstore helps identify its true owner.

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The total value of the stolen goods is $5,650, including the cost of the laptop.

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user services, said the PCL has started a series of announcements over the PA system and will display new signs to warn students not leave their items unattended.

She said increased security of the more than 800 lockers in the PCL is important, but a cost-effective way of solving the problem has not yet been determined.

Pieper said following the student’s example of writing a unique ID mark, like your driv-

er’s license number, within the book is the best method of recovering a stolen book. But nothing matches sheer awareness.

“The biggest thing students can do to prevent thefts is to be mindful of where their property is, and when I say that I mean have it in your possession,” Pieper said. “Students don’t realize a theft can occur in just seconds, and that’s all the time a thief needs.”

it could increase the amount cause students need to have as of students in each class,” much speaking time per hour as through his Italian professor and Rouse said. “I think it’s impor- possible.” signed it. tant to have small classes beAlthough Rouse has almost “If the college cuts lecturers, finished his Italian credit hours, he said the reallocations indirectly affect him because he may want to take another language.

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The Republicans argued for the revision of laws regarding medical malpractice. If doctors don’t have to worry about being sued, they will perform more efficiently and at a lower cost, Republicans said.

Tort reform laws have already been put in place, and only reduced medical care spending by one-half percent, Democrats said.

Many of the students at the debate will soon be buying their own health insurance for the first time, said David Warner, a UT health and social policy professor.

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Fred Massoomi, pharmacy operations coordinator at Methodist Hospital in Omaha, Neb., holds a box containing five doses of the swine flu vaccine, part of the first shipment of vaccination.

By Marilynn Marchione The Associated Press A new treatment for swine flu may already be on pharmacy shelves — cholesterol-lowering statin drugs like Lipitor and Zocor.

A large study found that people who were taking these drugs when they caught seasonal flu and had to be hospitalized were twice as likely to survive than those who were not on such medicines.

This doesn't prove that statins can cure flu, or that starting on them after catching the flu would help. A federal study is under way now to test that.

Doctors are optimistic, because previous studies also found that statins may improve survival from infectious diseases.

"It's very promising," said the new study's leader, Dr. Ann Thomas of the Oregon Public Health Division. Results were discussed Thursday at an Infectious Diseases Society of America conference in Philadelphia.

"It's intriguing and exciting," and the benefit seen from statins is "substantial," said Dr. William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University doctor whose hospital in Nashville, Tenn., was involved in the research.

"There are relatively few downsides to trying statins," which are cheap, relatively safe, and already among the most widely used medicines in the world, he said.

Treatment is a crucial issue for swine flu because the vaccine is slow to reach the public, and flu medicines like Tamiflu

are being reserved for only the sickest patients.

Statins have long been known to reduce inflammation along with cholesterol. Much of the damage that flu causes, whether it's seasonal or the new H1N1 virus, is from inflammation and an overreaction by the immune system as it fights the virus.

Earlier studies found that statins improved survival from pneumonia and serious bacterial bloodstream infections. The new research, sponsored by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is the first large one in the United States to look at statins for flu.

It involved 2,800 people hospitalized with lab-confirmed seasonal flu in 10 states in 20072008. Medical records show that 801 received statins in the hospital. They probably were just continuing the cholesterol treatment they had been taking before catching the flu, though researchers don't know this for sure.

More than 3 percent of those not taking statins died in the hospital or in the following month.

The rate was half that among statin users, even though they were more likely to have underlying health problems like heart disease. Researchers took other factors such as age into account and still saw the same benefit from statin use.

"It's an important study," said Dr. Andrew Pavia, a pediatrics professor at the University of Utah and head of the Infectious Diseases Society's pandemic flu task force.

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Harry E. Johnson Sr., left, President and CEO of the Memorial Foundation sits with Christine King Farris, sister of Martin Luther King Jr., at a ceremony announcing the approval of construction to begin on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington.

By Brett Zongker The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Construction can finally begin on the longdelayed Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial slated for the National Mall after the National Park Service issued building permits Thursday for the project.

The memorial was first authorized in 1996. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar joined King's only surviving sibling, Christine King Farris, and members of the Congressional Black Caucus to sign off on the project. A private foundation will build the memorial before turning it over to the park service.

Farris, 82, said she was moved to tears when she saw a video depicting the memorial plaza and towering statue of her brother, nestled among Washington's famous cherry blossoms. She said King would have been humbled.

"I think he would say, 'No, don't do this for me,' but we have to do it because generations yet unborn need to know about Martin Luther King Jr.," she said.

A disagreement over how to secure the site against domestic terrorism delayed the project for a year, but a federal planning agency signed off on a compromise earlier this week.

As Salazar signed the construc-

tion permit with Harry Johnson, president of the King Memorial Foundation, a crowd of supporters and government officials cheered. Salazar said the long planning process "made absolute sense and was in keeping with the law."

The monument will be the first on the mall that is not dedicated to a president or war hero, but rather to a man who waged a battle with peace and nonviolence, Johnson said.

"When future generations visit Washington, they will see a mall that more closely reflects the diversity of our great nation," he said.

Organizers have raised $107 million of the $120 million needed to complete the project — enough to let them begin building.

Construction is expected to begin within 30 days, said Deryl McKissack, who heads the design-build firm that will manage the project. The family business dates back five generations to a slave builder, she said. Organizers hope to complete construction in 18 to 20 months with an opening in 2011.

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have long pushed for the memorial and gathered at the site along the Tidal Basin.

Insider jailed for aiding terrorists

By David Mercer The Associated Press PEORIA, Ill. — An al-Qaida sleeper agent who admitted having contact with the alleged mastermind behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was sentenced to more than eight years in prison Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Michael Mihm could have sentenced Ali al-Marri to as many as 15 years.

But he handed down the lighter sentence of eight years and four

months in consideration of what defense attorneys' called harsh treatment during the almost six years al-Marri was held without charges in a U.S. Navy brig.

The judge's decision could have far-reaching consequences because the United States still holds more than 200 people without charge at Guantanamo Bay. If convicted, those detainees also could argue their time in custody should be considered at sentencing.

Al-Marri, a 44-year-old Qa-

tar native, pleaded guilty in May to conspiring to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization.

He wept through his 10-minute testimony Thursday, telling Mihm he was sorry he ever helped the terrorist organization and glad his actions never led to any harm.

Mihm told al-Marri he didn't believe he'd renounced al-Qaida and thought he was likely to attack the U.S. if given the chance.

But he also said al-Marri deserved

credit for the time he'd spent in isolation in the Navy brig in South Carolina.

Al-Marri quietly thanked Allah in Arabic when Mihm delivered the sentence.

Al-Marri's relatives heard the news at about 11:20 p.m. in Saudi Arabia. They had been hoping alMarri would receive probation. , and his brother said previously he hoped to see al-Marri soon.

"I don't know what to say," Naji al-Marri, al-Marri's brother said.

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By Solvej Schou The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — A gunman shot and wounded two men in the parking garage of a North Hollywood synagogue Thursday, frightening worshippers who heard gunshots and screams before the bleeding victims stumbled in during morning services.

Authorities initially put Jewish schools and temples on alert before saying the attack appeared to be isolated.

Police detained a 17-year-old high school student near the tem-

ple because he matched a "very loose" description of the attacker, who was described as a black man wearing a hoodie, Deputy Police Chief Michel Moore said.

They later released the youth, saying while he was still a potential suspect, they didn't have enough evidence to hold him.

Two men, ages 38 and 53, were shot in the legs near the Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic Orthodox synagogue in the San Fernando Valley, Moore said. The men, both members of the synagogue, arrived in separate cars

for the morning service shortly before 6:30 a.m. and were in a stairwell leading up to the synagogue sanctuary when the gunman shot them several times, police said.

The victims, who were hospitalized in good condition, told police the attacker did not speak.

Worshipper, Yehuda Oz, said he and about 14 others were praying in the temple when they heard four gunshots and screams from the parking area. Two men stumbled into the temple, Oz No one saw the attacker.

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Amending the Texas Constitution

Ad valorem taxation, residence homesteads, municipality buffer areas. Yes we … can?

It’s not the fierce urgency of 2008, or what is sure to be the heated gubernatorial battle of 2010, but it’s all language set to appear on ballots Tuesday as Texans — fewer than 10 percent of them, in all likelihood — head to the polls to exercise their civic duty by voting on 11 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution in an off-year election.

In a nation whose founding document has been amended only 27 times since its drafting in 1787, 11 seems like an absurdly high number.

But unlike the federal document, the Texas Constitution — signed in 1876 with the intention of limiting governmental overreach — is conferred only the powers expressly granted to it. In 133 years, voters have passed 456 amendments that attempt to specify and clarify the state’s powers.

Not as muddled as the similarly longwinded California Constitution — which has hamstrung that state in its current budgetary crisis — the Texas Constitution theoretically offers the state’s citizens a deeper reach into consequential decisionmaking. In 1979, for instance, voters approved an amendment that gave the governor authority to replace appointed statewide officials.

Unfortunately, constitutional-amendment elections attract little fanfare. In 2007, about 9 percent of Texans cast ballots. In 2005, a proposal to ban gay marriage attracted uncharacteristically high interest for an amendment, yet only about 18 percent of voters went to the polls. Voting on these amendments, therefore, often doesn’t reflect the voice of the people but rather the power of special-interest groups that use the Constitution to dominate policy-making.

Throughout the years, critics of the Texas charter have proposed holding constitutional conventions in which legislators could rework the charter to address these concerns. Such efforts, including an attempt in 1998 that didn’t even make it onto the floor of the Legislature, have failed to gain traction. We encourage Texans to reconsider such a revamp, which, while ostensibly extreme, makes political sense.

In the meantime, we here at The Daily Texan won’t exhort you to feel civic passion for an amendment “authorizing the Legislature to authorize a single board of equalization for two or more adjoining appraisal entities that elect to provide for consolidated equalizations.” But we encourage you to recognize the importance of an election cycle that revises Texas’ founding document every two years. And with an amendment on the ballot looking to expand research opportunities for emerging public universities — as well as the help of our endorsements in Tuesday’s paper and a breakdown of the convoluted ballot language — we hope you’ll even consider voting.

Yes we … should for the sake of a document with the potential to reshape our state’s social and political fabric.

— David Muto for the editorial board

UT discriminates

By Meg Susong Daily Texan Columnist The University of Alabama is considering providing health benefits to the domestic partners of employees, pending an investigation to ensure that the benefits would be legal. Domestic partner benefits are already in place at the university’s satellite schools in Birmingham and Huntsville, where they are called “sponsored adult dependent benefits.” We should be ashamed that Alabama is leaving UT-Austin in the dust when it comes to offering domestic partner benefits.

UT does not provide benefits to partners of faculty and staff members unless the relationship qualifies as a “marriage,” according to Texas law. A married employee enjoys significantly greater overall compensation than a non-married employee, even though both perform identical work.

The estimated difference in compensation for a faculty member earning $80,000 per year is $8,108.

Since UT is a public university beholden to the Legislature, it is banned from offering domestic partner benefits. However, many states that have Defense of Marriage Acts (DOMA) written into their state constitutions (as Texas does), are still providing benefits in another fashion. The University of Arizona issued a report that recommends reimbursing eligible employees for the cost of covering domestic partners under private insurance plans, or offering coverage under self-insured plans. So while it is not legally possible to offer domestic partner benefits plans, UT could work with unmarried couples to provide them with benefit plans in an alternate fashion.

Other Texas universities — albeit private universities — already offer same-sex domestic partner benefits, including Southern Methodist University, Texas Christian University, Southwestern University, Trinity University and Rice University. UT currently has no such provisions to either instate domestic partner benefits or provide adequate compensation for couples with-

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out health benefits due to marital status.

Alabama considered offering benefits when it realized it was losing employees to other research schools, such as Duke University and Johns Hopkins University. UT should have the same concern: We are losing exceptional employees, not only professors, but staff as well. President William Powers wants UT to be the top public research university in the nation, but that goal is severely hindered by our lack of domestic partner benefits.

Domestic-partner benefits are important not only to ensure UT is a competitive university, but also to reinforce the University’s own statements on diversity. Powers has said, “As the flagship of Texas — and as an institution that expects from itself nothing less than the absolute best — the University of Texas at Austin must tap into the diversity that our state embodies.”

These should be encouraging words coming from the president of UT. Powers has even expressed support for domestic partner benefits. However, like Obama’s current tactic of small gestures and flowery words for the national gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, Powers has shown little interest in pursuing real gestures of equality for GLBT faculty and staff. What Powers has done is the equivalent of putting a bumper sticker for equality on your car and patting yourself on the back for eradicating homophobia.

We can talk about how GLBT professors are welcome at UT as much as we want.

We can point to the classes offered on GLBT subjects and the numerous groups on campus as evidence for the diversity on the campus. But while UT has a diverse population, it is a population that is discriminated against.

By not offering domestic partner benefits, UT undermines both its own non-discrimination policy and its ability to create and foster a diverse workforce. Our academic environment suffers when our pool of professors shrinks, because many ideal candidates look elsewhere when UT subtly signals that they are not as desirable because of their sexual orientation — an irrelevant factor in competence and ability.

Susong is a women’s and gender studies sophomore.

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By Dave Player Daily Texan Columnist Students across campus are currently logging in with their UT EIDs, perusing every possible combination of courses, and repeatedly hitting the refresh button, hoping an alternative will open up for that 8 a.m. Friday class. Students sometimes get the classes they want.

Sometimes they don’t. The latter is often accompanied with lamentations about the inequalities of registration time. Some of those complaints have merit, though; the current system is innately unfair in at least one aspect.

The system allows for priory registration for certain groups of students who warrant it. Students who are employed by the school or university athletics are allowed to register first to accommodate their schedules, since these students provide a service that benefits the school.

Students with disabilities are also given priority registration to accommodate any particular needs they may have; these advantages are certainly acceptable since the concerned students have a legitimate need to have their classes at specific times.

After priority registration, students are assigned a registration time based on their classification, with seniors registering first, then juniors and so on. Classifications are based on the number of hours a student has taken.

The more hours completed, the earlier a student’s registration time. Seniority is a logical practice in determining registration times. Seniors are closer to graduation than freshmen and have fewer classes (and class times) to choose from.

But the number of hours students are documented as having completed is not always an accurate reflection of his or her progress toward a degree. Upon entering, University students have the option to claim college credit based on their performance on tests taken during high school. Programs like Advanced Placement (AP) courses offer high school students a more intensive curriculum with the option to “place out” of introductory col-

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lege courses. Whether or not a student qualifies for that exemption is based on a student’s major or college.

The course-credit system has a great deal of merit. It would be redundant to force new students to take classes in subjects that they have already mastered. The problem lies in using that imported high school credit as part of the registration process. Students entering into the same major or program can have a drastically different number of hours or different classifications all together.

Using course work that carries over from high school is unfair. UT students hail from across the state and attend a variety of schools. Not all high schools are created equal: Some do not offer many AP classes; others, especially competitive private schools, may offer AP classes, but restrict the number in which a student may enroll. Inequities in AP offerings in high schools translate into inequities in the registration process once in college.

Later registration times give some students less flexibility and opportunities in scheduling.

The counter-argument would be that incoming students should be rewarded for taking more challenging AP courses. That is true, and those students are rewarded by not having to take introductory courses. The course credit itself should be ample reward.

AP courses are designed to give students a tougher curriculum geared more toward the difficulty of material they will be tackling in college. However, that does not equate those high school classes to a college-level education. The Department of Admissions has already ascertained that as incoming students, our educational backgrounds are all satisfactory. The registrar shouldn’t be further evaluating or classifying students beyond what their test scores have already proved, which is whether or not they need to take an introductory course. Ideally, only hours completed at the college level, whether here at UT or transferred from another institution, would be applicable toward registration access. In the meantime, those of us who were not lucky enough to be able to take a full AP course load are left picking up the scraps. At least until add/drop.

Player is a Plan II honors junior.

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Model demonstrates effect of imaginary zombie attack

By Nehal Patel Daily Texan Staff Zombies, the longtime subjects of savage horror movies, have now become the subjects of epidemiological studies.

A mathematical analysis of a hypothetical zombie plague by two researchers from Canadian universities inspired UT ecology, evolution and behavior graduate student Sam Scarpino to create models of his own.

“There are so many different aspects of the real world that may or may not be incorporated in epidemiologic simulations, so no one model will be perfectly accurate, but I think mine was close, given my assumptions,” Scarpino said.

All diseases have modes of transmission, Scarpino said. The three main modes are susceptible people who contract the disease, infected people who transmit the disease and people who are no longer sick — whether deceased or cured.

“Scientifically speaking, a very severe infection that jumped from another species might cause a zombie epidemic,” Scarpino joked.

But, Scarpino said, zombie-like behavior is not as far-fetched as it may seem.

“It’s common knowledge that zombies seek out non-zombies to infect,” Scarpino said. “Mosquitoes infected with malaria act the same way. They actually increase the number of times they feed on hosts, which increases the transmission of the disease. Humans infected with

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malaria are actually more attractive to mosquitoes than uninfected humans,” he said.

Scarpino simulated what would happen to Travis, Bexar, Comal and Hays counties in 50 days if a single zombie, originating in Travis County, were to begin infecting others. According to Scarpino’s models, the bigger populations of Travis and Bexar counties would be wiped out faster than the populations of Comal and Hays counties.

After five days of infection, only a small percentage of people would be affected in any of the counties, but after 35 days, more than 75 percent of Travis County would be infected, Scarpino said.

In his model, Scarpino assumed that there would be a “homogenous mixing of people in a county” where everyone interacts with everyone else. He also assumed that people would move freely about a county and few infected people would move to other counties and spread the disease.

Scarpino explained that if there was a zombie epidemic, the worst reaction would be to aggregate all non-zombies in a safe haven such as a military base — a tactic commonly seen in popular zombie movies with predictable results.

“People who are latently infected with any disease would simply wipe out the entire population of non-infected people,” Scarpino said. “This happens in every movie and always has disastrous results.”

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Ellie Willis and Aydin Shazad enjoy a Science Study Break presentation about what to do in case of a zombie attack.

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UT mulls move to third-party e-mail provider

By Shabab Siddiqui Daily Texan Staff Almost half of UT students forward their e-mails from their University accounts directly to personal e-mail addresses, said Brad Englert, chief operating officer of UT’s Information Technology Services.

UT is now one of a number of institutions considering moving to a third-party e-mail provider like Google or Microsoft. The move, if made, would allow UT students to retain their University e-mail accounts after graduating.

Almost 25 percent of doctorate-granting institutions are considering discontinuing the practice of giving students a university-based e-mail account, up from 1 percent to 2 percent in 2004, according to a report released last week.

Incoming University students prefer using their personal e-mail accounts because of personal preference and

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convenience, according to a report conducted by the nonprofit Educause, a primary reason for the possible changes.

The move to a third-party provider would not involve taking away student e-mail accounts, Englert said.

“I think we certainly will continue providing student e-mails with the University address,” he said. “A lot of universities, though, have moved to a thirdparty provider to run student emails, and that’s just something we’ll have to consider looking into in the coming year.”

The e-mail system is run directly through the University. Englert said that using a third-party provider would still allow students to have a mail.utexas.edu domain. The University’s e-mail system allows 100 megabytes of storage and a typical Gmail ac-

count provides more than 50 times as much storage space. “[The University’s e-mail system] would be hard-pressed to try to replicate the amount of space a commercial account gives you,” Englert said.

Texas A&M University is considering making the switch to a third-party provider as well, said Pierce Cantrell, A&M’s associate provost and vice president for information technology. A&M had 76,000 e-mail accounts in 2008.

Englert said the major obstacle of switching to a third-party provider is privacy issues regarding faculty e-mail accounts.

According to the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, faculty and staff e-mails regarding students must remain strictly confidential. Third-party providers, therefore, can only

operate student accounts.

Having an official UT e-mail account may carry benefits for some students, according to Greta Fenley, a McCombs undergraduate career advisor. Fenley said a student will automatically have an advantage with potential employers once they see “McCombs” in their address.

“It helps students who don’t have a vast array of alum friends,” Fenley said.

Samir Hegde, a business honors freshman, said he maintains both a UT e-mail account and a personal account.

“It’s nice to separate the two because you don’t want to have an e-mail for a class mixed in with something else,” Hegde said.

“Also, I feel if I’m using a University e-mail, a professor would be more willing to respond than an e-mail from a personal one.”

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Jordan Shipley goes out of bounds after a catch against Oklahoma. The Longhorns hope for an easier win against Oklahoma State.

Mack Brown, Colt McCoy plan to keep up winning streak against Oklahoma State

By Blake Hurtik Daily Texan Staff Mack Brown and Colt McCoy agree on just about everything: their love for Austin, taste in offensive schemes, favorite color and so on.

But when it comes to the law of averages — that all things, such as win-loss records, will eventually even out — they differ. The quarterback rejects it, the head

coach embraces it.

Even so, when talking about Oklahoma State, the two tend to agree again. Neither thinks that any cosmic forces are going to bring the Cowboys a win Saturday night at Boone Pickens Stadium on Halloween night, no matter how much the Longhorns’ 21-2 all-time record against the Cowboys suggests that they’re due for an upset.

“I also believe that I’d rather be in our position than theirs,” Brown said. He is 11-0 all time against Oklahoma State.

But the Cowboys (6-1, 3-0 Big 12), who come into Saturday’s game ranked 13th, haven’t dug that all-time hole for a lack of trying, especially recently.

There were the back-to-back miraculous comebacks in 2004 and 2005 when Vince Young brought the Longhorns back

from 28- and 19-point deficits, respectively. Those performances apparently rubbed off on McCoy, who piloted a similar comeback in 2007 and weathered an Oklahoma State rally in last year’s win.

The key in Texas’ desperate wins has been the fourth quarter. The Longhorns outscored the Cowboys 58-3 in the fourth

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Young set to start as Titans take on Jaguars

By Teresa M. Walker The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams wants more of Vince Young. He’s getting just that with his winless team switching from veteran Kerry Collins back to the 2006 Offensive Rookie of the Year.

Coach Jeff Fisher announced the expected move Thursday following practice for the 0-6

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Costumes will stay hung up in closet

By Jordan Godwin Daily Texan Staff On the eve of Halloween, eighth-ranked Nebraska will look to scare second-ranked Texas in what promises to be a haunted house at Gregory Gym. Texas will put its perfect, 17-0 record on the line in front of what’s expected to be a capacity crowd for the highly anticipated match. To provide the most chaotic environment possible, students are encouraged to show up in their Halloween costumes one night early.

“We have one of the best environments in the country,” said head coach Jerritt Elliott. “Our students bring an enthusiastic insanity the entire time, and it put a lot of anxiety on our opponents. It really helps us against good teams like Nebraska.”

According to regulations, the Longhorns will be required to wear their typical home uniforms, but imagine what they would look like if they wore their Halloween costumes.

No one knows killing like Des-

tinee Hooker. The senior outside hitter gets more kills per set than anyone else in the Big 12 Conference and ranks fifth in all of college volleyball. She has more kills than Freddy Krueger and Jason combined, but Hooker is not the slasher type. With her ability to fly and deliver face-crushing kills that are sometimes downright mean, she’ll be the Tooth Fairy, collecting the lost teeth of her victims.

Hooker’s fellow outside hitter, Juliann Faucette, is equally ruthless on the attack. While Hook-

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With Damion James and Dexter Pittman returning for their senior seasons, the Longhorns were ranked third in the USA Today/ESPN preseason poll that was released Thursday.

The University of Texas men’s basketball team is ranked No. 3 in the USA Today/ESPN preseason poll.

The ranking is tied for the highest spot in the preseason coaches’ poll in school history, matching the No. 3 spot held in the 2005-2006 preseason poll.

This marks the ninth consecutive year that the Longhorns have been ranked in the coaches’ preseason poll. UT was tabbed No. 22 in 2001-02, No. 5 in 2002-03, No. 11 in 2003-04, No. 15 in 2004-05, No. 19 in 2006-07, No. 16 in 2007-08 and No. 8 last year.

The Longhorns are one of three Big 12 teams in the top 25. Kansas is ranked No. 1, and Oklahoma is No. 16.

Mark your calendars because UT will face five opponents in the regular season who are ranked in the preseason top 25: No. 1 Kansas (Feb. 8 in Austin), No. 2 Michigan State (Dec. 22 in Austin), No. 4 North Carolina (Dec. 19 in Dallas), No. 14 Connecticut (Jan. 23 in Storrs) and No. 16 Oklahoma (Feb. 6 in Norman, March 1 in Austin).

The Longhorns’ season opener is only a few weeks away. They’ll tip off the season with a home game against UC Irvine on Sunday, Nov. 15 at 1 p.m. at the Frank Erwin Center. The game will also be nationally televised by ESPNU. — Laken Litman

er uses speed and athleticism to spike the ball, Faucette’s sheer strength makes her unstoppable.

The daughter of a former Chargers linebacker and current assistant strength and conditioning coach for the Rams, Faucette is undoubtedly the strongest player on the team. Although she grew up wanting to be a gymnast, Faucette is the team’s Incredible Hulk.

“I don’t know about being the strongest,” said Faucette with a

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Destinee Hooker would be the Tooth Fairy if she were allowed to dress up on the court for the Horns’ matchup with Nebraska.

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Texas can be No. 2 seed with a win

By Laken Litman Daily Texan Staff Before the Longhorns head to their 14th straight Big 12 Championship tournament, they have to make a pit stop in Aggieland.

Texas (8-7-3, 4-2-3 Big 12) is tied for third place in the Big 12 with Colorado and Oklahoma State, but the team’s last regular season game tonight against No. 20 Texas A&M (11-5-2, 5-52 Big 12) still has some big implications. If Texas wins in College Station, it will surpass the Aggies to finish second in the league. Texas would also receive the No. 2 seed in the Big 12 Championship, which takes place next week in San Antonio. The Longhorns and the Aggies are the only two league teams to have advanced to every postseason tournament since the inception of the Big 12 in 1996.

“This game still means a lot.

We want to beat A&M really bad,” said freshman Sophie Campise, who scored the winning goal in double overtime against Colorado last weekend.

“We are pumped up even more actually because we have nothing to lose. We just need to go for it and beat them.”

Last year, the teams tied 0-0

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expect to be able to handle crowd From page 7 quarters of those games. When pushed against a wall, Texas has found a way to respond.

“I think it’s just understanding that [the game is] 60 minutes. It’s a fight and never giving up,” McCoy said. “I think that’s one of the qualities of our team. We’re never going to give up, and we’re going to fight until the end.”

That’s been the case for Texas throughout much of 2009. Its habit of slow starts have people labeling the Longhorns a secondhalf team, though last week’s win at Missouri bucked that trend, at least for the time being.

Even if the Longhorns find themselves in a familiar hole against Oklahoma State, they’ve been through it enough to know what to do.

“You don’t have to do anything special. You don’t have to make it happen right away,” McCoy said. “You just got to be under control. Stay focused, and something’s going to work out in the end.”

But Texas hopes it won’t have to resort to those strategies. And if the Longhorns were looking for less of a heart-attack-inducing game against the Cowboys, this year may be it.

Despite coming into the season with one of the nation’s top offenses — thanks to the trio of quarterback Zac Robinson, tailback Kendall Hunter and receiver Dez Bryant — the Cowboys have a much different look eight weeks into the season.

Robinson has been his usual self with 1,547 passing yards, 12 touchdowns and just three interceptions. He has the highest passer-efficiency rating in the Big 12.

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as lucky.

Hunter has missed five games with a hamstring injury and will only get “8-10 carries” Saturday, said head coach Mike Gundy.

Bryant wishes he were as fortunate. The NCAA suspended the All-American for lying about a meeting with former NFL star Deion Sanders.

Still, their replacements haven’t been slouches.

Keith Toston has filled in nicely for Hunter, rushing for 606 yards and six scores. At receiver, Hubert Anyiam has stepped up as Robinson’s new favorite target and leads the Cowboys with 25 catches for 306 yards and two touchdowns.

“They’re solid,” said cornerback Curtis Brown. “They still have wide receivers that can run good routes.”

And while the Cowboys have scrambled to piece their offense back together, they’ve made big strides on the other side of the ball. After giving up more than 400 yards per game last season, Oklahoma State has cut that down to 352 yards per game, 56th-best in the nation.

They’ll also have the help of what is expected to be the largest crowd ever at Boone Pickens Stadium. It doesn’t hurt that the sidelines are some of the narrowest in the nation and are just several yards away from the stands.

“Thank God I’m just able to ignore people,” said defensive tackle Lamarr Houston about the crowd noise.

Still, if history is any indicator, Texas knows it will always have a chance, intimidating crowd or not.

“Usually something’s going to work out,” McCoy said.

He’d just prefer it not come down to that this time.

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Junior Bryan Collins is shown doing the backstroke during the Orange-White Classic in September. Collins and the Longhorns have their first home meet of the season as they welcome Indiana to the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center for a two-day event that begins today.

After taking first at the Southwest Collegiate Plunge last weekend, the Longhorns look to stay on top as they host Indiana today in their home opener.

The event will start with the 200 medley relay and will be followed by the 50, 100, 200, 500 and 1,650 freestyle relays; the 100 and 200 backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly; and the 200 and 400

From page 7 laugh. “We do a lot of different things in the weight room, so it’s hard to tell.”

When senior setter Ashley Engle plays, she’s all over the court, getting kills, diving for digs, stretching for blocks and setting up the hitters with some spot-on assists. Because of her versatility on the court, Engle

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Titans, and Young got the news from his coach in the morning.

Fisher insists it was an organizational decision resulting from the team’s winless start and that he won’t play musical chairs with the position.

“We’re in a unique situation right now. We haven’t won a game. We wouldn’t be having this conversation if we were 3-3,” Fisher said.

That means Young will start Sunday against Jacksonville (3-3), the team that helped send him to the bench in the 2008 opener by picking him off twice and spraining his knee. Collins started 20 of the 21 games since then.

Young has eight career interceptions against Jacksonville with only three touchdown passes. He also has more career interceptions (33) than TD passes (22).

forget the blockers. With their ability to police the net against pesky hitters, blockers Rachael Adams and Jennifer Doris are the cops.

Texas will look to utilize all of its elements in what promises to be a wild game tonight. In anticipation of the student crowd, the gates will open early at 4:30 p.m. for the 6 p.m. match. Students are

But he has won five of his last six starts and is 18-11 as a starter.

Young thanked Fisher for giving him a chance to sit back, develop and learn from Collins.

“For him to give me a shot again to go out and give it a chance again is big for me because I’ve been waiting,” Young said.

The move appeared inevitable since the Titans lost 59-0 at New England on Oct. 18. Adams told The Tennessean newspaper after that loss in New England that he wanted to see more of Young.

The No. 3 overall pick in the 2006 draft split the work evenly with Collins at practice Wednesday but took all snaps with the first-team offense Thursday.

Collins wasn’t happy or surprised by the move, which came a day after the Titans started prepping for their next game.

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Engle sets Hooker and Faucette up for some big points for the Longhorns, but senior libero Heather Kisner prevents just as many with her 3.62 digs per set.

Kisner’s masterful skills in rescuing the points and preventing things from touching the ground would make her Spiderman.

And digs are great, but don’t

encouraged to arrive by 5 p.m. to guarantee that they’re a part of history — a victory would extend the regular season winning streak to 27 matches, breaking a record set nearly 20 years ago.

“It’s hard to be great against great teams,” Elliott said. “Our No. 1 priority is getting the win, and sometimes you have to scratch and claw to get it.”

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The divers take the spotlight Saturday as they conclude the weekend’s events.

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weekend match From page 7 in Austin. The Longhorns have actually had the Aggies’ number since 2005, winning four of the last six matches with only one tie and one loss. Texas’ four wins are the most against Texas A&M by any Big 12 school over the last five seasons.

“There will be a lot of excitement,” said senior captain Emily Anderson. “There’s going to be a lot of rowdy, rowdy fans, and I know [the team] is going to bring intensity. I know they’re through to the Big 12 tournament, but just being Texas vs. Texas A&M, they’re going to bring their game. But so will we.”

This Longhorn team has overcome many adversities to make it to this point of the season. Unexpectedly, the underclassmen have stepped up to serve as the team’s backbone.

“We’re a young team, and we’ve got to continue to get better,” said head coach Chris Petrucelli. “Every week is important, and every training session is important to us to continue to improve, and we expect that the game in College Station will be a difficult game for us. But I know we’ll go there and play hard for sure.”

Though Texas A&M has been ranked in the top 20 of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America poll throughout this entire season, the Horns and the Aggies are neck and neck in the Big 12, and the winner will finish out the season as No. 2 in the conference. “[The Aggies] are talented,” Petrucelli said. “They’re traditionally very good, and they’ve done well again. I think we’ll see a team that’s very fired up to play against us as they always are when we go down there. It’s a fun environment to play in. It’s going to be a really good experience, especially for our young guys.”

Tonight’s game kicks off at 7 p.m. at the Aggie Soccer Stadium in College Station.

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penter discussing the “tasty, and nasty, politics of food” Sunday at 2 p.m. in the House Chamber at the state Capitol.

Lethem, author of “Motherless Brooklyn” and “The Fortress of Solitude,” is promoting his new novel, “Chronic City.” He is also known for The Promiscuous Materials Project, which offers the rights to 17 of his short stories to be made into short films or one-act plays for $1 each. Lethem will appear with Robert Olen Butler, Jim Crace and David Eagleman on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. in the state Capitol’s Senate Chamber.

A couple of perennial Austin attendees are Kinky Friedman, promoting his book “Kinky’s Celebrity Pet Files” in the music tent Saturday, and photographer Dan Winters, who will give a talk about his photographs of celebrities, scientists, architects and everyday Americans at the Austin Museum of Art on Sunday at 2 p.m.

Barbecue enthusiasts should know that Wyatt McSpadden will discuss about his new photography book, “Texas BBQ,” Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at the Austin Museum of Art. The festival is free and open to the public. For those interested in getting their books signed, many authors will oblige.

Fifteen minutes after the end of their scheduled talks, the writers be available at the book signing tent located at 13th and Colorado streets. Participants are allowed to bring a maximum of two books that have not been purchased at the festival, but at least one book must have been purchased at the Barnes & Noble sales tent.

More information and the complete schedule of the Texas Book Festival are available at texasbookfestival.org.

By Susannah Jacob Daily Texan Staff This weekend marks the 14th annual Texas Book Festival, an event that hosts more than 200 authors and more than 45,000 visitors to Austin.

The festival promises two days chock-full of author readings, panel discussions, book signings and musical entertainment at the Capitol.

The festival’s impressive roster of writers this year will have bibliophiles drooling.

Starting alphabetically from Austinite Jeff Abbott, author of the novel “Trust Me,” and ending with UT alumna Gwendolyn Zepeda, author of the novel “Houston, We Have a Problema,” the book festival coordinators have invited nationally recognized, Texas-savvy and otherwise compelling authors for the weekend.

To help you sort through the overwhelming array of possibilities, please find below a few writers and events we recommend.

Jonathan Safran Foer and Jonathan Lethem have more in common than their first names. Both writers live in New York City, pen fiction often set in New York and are scheduled to appear at the book festival.

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Three actresses dressed as witches perform a scene from Shakespeare’s Macbeth for Spooky Shakespeare performed at the Curtain Theater in Northwest Austin.

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By Layne Lynch Tempest,” “A Midsummer Night’s Daily Texan Staff It seems odd to celebrate Shake- Dream,” “Hamlet” and “The Merspeare in conjunction with Hal- ry Wives of Windsor.”

Several characters are related loween. Yet tonight and tomorrow, Austin Shakespeare will be to Shakespeare’s fascination with putting on a production starring fantasy, seen in his use of ghosts, the eeriest characters of Shake- monsters and fairies.

But, the play isn’t a collaboraspeare’s plays.

The venue’s location, The Cur-1 tion of all of the characters into one tain Theater on Coldwater Can- large, chaotic production. In fact, yon, is much like a hidden treasure each scene is central to the play it chest. The stage, a replica of the originally appeared in, and every LASSIFIEDS original Curtain Theatre used in scene differs from the one before.

Elizabethan times, is worth marvel- Even though they seem unrelated ing at — it is a stage similar to one to each other, they share an eerie nature and are, at times, emotionShakespeare would have used.

The production, entitled ally haunting.

“Every verse of Shakespeare “Spooky Shakespeare,” is a compilation of all of Shakespeare’s ee- has meaning,” said Christina Gutiriest and most haunting scenes errez, the dramaturg of the play from many of his plays, including and a UT doctoral student in per-

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formance as public practice. “If the [pronunciation of the] stress pattern or the iambic pentameter is off, it completely changes the meaning of the dialogue. So, it’s important to hit every line with clarity.”

Shakespeare wasn’t just a man who wrote about two households divided over a romance, Gutierrez said. In fact, his work can relate to every single human emotion, especially fear, thus making the Halloween production unexpectedly appropriate.

“Shakespeare is all about his stories,” she said. “He knows what makes us love, what makes us happy, but most importantly, [he knows] what scares us. [For example,] in ‘Richard III,’ Richard was England’s most unpopular king, and when he returned, he realized

the majority of his nobles were against him. In the play, he gives a whole speech about death all tied to his fear of history and how he will deal with the weight of what history has placed upon him. All of it is tied to his inner fear.”

The Halloween production is the ideal escape away from the gaudy costumes of trick-or-treaters and a great retreat to an array of beautiful Elizabethan costume pieces. The cast does a wonderful job of transporting audiences into a sea of Shakespeare’s eeriest scenes.

At 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, in front of a stage covered in fake cobwebs and flameless burning candles, audiences can catch the show for $15 at The Curtain Theater on the shores of Lake Austin.

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A dictionary definition describes it as one of the earliest combinations of European ballroom traditions with African rhythms. Modern blues dancing is very open to musical interpretation, and styles of dancing range just as much as the styles of music.

“Although most people think blues music is always slow and

Molly Wahlberg Daily Texan Staff After changing out of your classic pumpkin and ghost outfits from Halloween, switch into your best “Dancing with the Stars” costumes and head over to Galaxy Dance Studios for the two blues dance workshops that will take place Sunday afternoon.

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“Once you know how to connect with your partner and the general blues aesthetic, almost anything goes.”

Because of its flexible nature, blues’ popularity is growing rapidly in the United States, especially among younger generations.

Sunday’s “Solo Blues” class will cover individual movement, body

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But if you’re not quite ready to put on your dancing shoes, you can watch blues dancing around Austin. The Blues Association of Austin runs a weekly dance venue called Kick Butt Blues every Friday night at Kick Butt Coffee, Campbell said.

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By Kate Ergenbright Daily Texan Staff When asked about her opinion on foreign policy issues, Madeleine Albright, the first female Secretary of State, often instructs inquirers to “read my pins.”

Former Secretary of State Albright’s legacy in Washington extends beyond her gender and foreign policy expertise and into the elite halls of the fashion world through her immense collection of unique brooches.

In her fourth book, “Read My Pins: Stories From a Diplomat’s Jewelry Box,” Albright explores the complex world of foreign policy through her use of costume jewelry as a unique and symbolic diplomatic weapon.

Beginning in 1993, shortly after the Gulf War, Secretary of State Albright was instructed by Washington “to say perfectly terrible things about Saddam Hussein all the time.”

In response to the Secretary of State’s biting remarks, a poem appeared in the Baghdad press, comparing her to an “unparalleled serpent.” In response to the comparison, she cheekily wore a serpent brooch whenever dealing with Iraqi officials.

Albright’s use of jewelry in tough political situations did not stop there. The legacy of her unique, ornate pins has “developed a life of its own,” she said. “[After the serpent pin,] I thought, ‘Well, this is fun,’” Albright said. “So I bought a lot of different kind of costume jewelry to kind of fit whatever we were doing or what mood I was in. On good days, I’d wear flowers and butterflies and balloons, and on bad days, spiders and bees and snakes. I decided my niche, basically, is trying to talk about foreign policy in a way that ordinary normal people can understand, that isn’t in a lot of diplo-speak.

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In other words, kind of make foreign policy less foreign. I call it a ‘spoonful of sugar.’”

“Read My Pins” contains fascinating stories about foreign policy accompanied by beautiful, glossy photographs of Albright’s pin collection.

One of the book’s most interesting stories describes her reaction to the State Department’s startling discovery that the Russians had bugged one of their conference rooms. In a sassy response, the next time Albright saw the Russian foreign minister, she adorned her lapel with a giant, gaudy bug pin in reference to their tapping of the department.

“He got that right away,” Albright said.

Now out of office, Albright continues to wear pins in order to express her opinions on the current political climate.

Recently, she’s worn “a lot of doves because there is so much need for peace talks in the Middle East,” she said.

The infamous pin collection is currently displayed at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, and Albright has certainly felt its absence.

“People have been giving me what I call pity pins because they know that my pins are gone,” she said. “I realize that it’s going to be some time before I get them back.”

One of such recent gifts is a small frame with a piece of paper that reads, “Lent on display,” symbolizing the collection’s absence from Albright’s jewelry box.

Although not a novel in the traditional sense, “Read My Pins: Stories From a Diplomat’s Jewelry Box” is an entertaining book, perfect for any coffee table or library collection. Albright will speak about her book at Book People today at noon.

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As the film progresses, external conflicts make their way to the forefront. The zero-impact proj-

ect began to face heavy criticism on Colin Beavan’s blog. Even The New York Times has its reservations, questioning his motives.

Michelle Beavan bears the burden of her husband’s lifestyle choices, too. At one point, a co-worker’s wife instructs her husband not to shake Beavan’s hand for fear that she might be unsanitary.

Furthermore, in grand realitytelevision fashion (something the film acknowledges both humorously and seriously), she wants to have another child, sparking de-

bate between the couple.

The film, while at times is fascinating, tends to lose its edge in its second half. Here, the stakes don’t seem as high — everyone has fully transitioned into green living.

The ideological conflict that reared its head at the beginning seems to have been tamed.

But perhaps this is a good thing.

Perhaps this family’s ability to make these lifestyle changes seem invisible is a testament to the film’s success. Maybe it is that easy once you get your hands dirty.

“No Impact Man” frames an interesting experiment within a traditional familial sphere. Its deviations are interesting to behold, but it doesn’t stray too far from the beaten path.

While it might not have the ability to make you stop using toilet paper or become a slave to root-vegetable frittatas, it presents an interesting portrait of a man trying to find his connection with the earth.

profession’ key to success quite often.

We had a student who was on “Hell’s Kitchen” about four episodes ago.

My first mistake as a chef was catering a Jewish wedding of 125 people and having enough food to feed about 95 of them.

When instructing future chefs,

the things I stress are: Be on time, be in uniform looking like a professional chef and keep a clean kitchen. Have respect for the food and the profession.

The best advice for someone who would like to become a chef is to travel and work in Europe.

Young chefs should listen to any chef over 50 and heed their advice.

festival: Filmgoers

experience different side of film industry From page 12 was a finalist in the festival’s best sitcom teleplay.

It took serious prodding to learn what his teleplay was even about. And, from the self-effacing manner in which he presented his ideas, I would have never known that he would go on to win the competition.

From this very first interaction, I came into contact with the genuine modesty that permeates the festival and gives it its unique charm.

Even though the conference only lasts a few days, its character imbues the filmgoing section with a sense of fellowship. So, when you stand in an endless line to see “The Road” or sit in a small theater waiting for “Love and Tambourines” to start, you can’t help but talk to those next to you.

For a week, Austin Film Festival attendees fashion a film industry the way they wish it could be — genuine, kind and loving every chance they get to make and see movies.

Find your crew (they can be anybody). Download, print, and fill out a registration form with you team name and information. Drop that, and the $40 (per team) registration fee off in room 3.200 at the Hearst Student Media building on the UT campus. Provide your own equipment, such as a camera and a microphone.

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Sean London, Sabrina London and Bryanne Cooke listen as screenwriter Jessica Bendinger speaks during the round table session.

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Colin Beavan appears in the film “No Impact Man.” The film chronicles Beavan’s year-long quest to minimize his impact on the earth.

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Austin chef recalls background, culinary education By robert rich Steve Mannion was raised on a farm and quickly learned not to become too attached to the animals there, seeing as how they might one day be dinner.

These experiences, along with an inherent interest in food, set him on a path as a culinary artist. This journey culminated when he co-founded the Culinary Academy of Austin, the school at which he currently teaches.

Being the 11th of 13 children and growing up on a farm in northwest Nebraska with a large dining room table made for memorable familial gatherings at breakfast, lunch and dinner, everyone had to do their share when it came to taking care of the fruits and vegetables.

After high school, I didn’t know what I wanted to do and ended up working at a restaurant as a busboy. The rest is history.

In 1975, I moved to Ames, Iowa to open a new restaurant. I wanted to become a chef. I

worked with a graduate from the Culinary Institute of America and learned how little I really knew.

Before departing east to enroll at Johnson & Wales College in Providence, R.I., I discovered another art form I enjoyed — ballet.

I began working in Austin as the chef at Great Hills Country Club and dancing with the ballet company. It was very intense working eight- to 10-hour days and dancing two to three hours every evening.

I began Private Affairs Catering and catered parties and sold wholesale pastries to local hotels and restaurant chefs.

I continued to dance until 1988, at which time business seemed to consume all of my time. The life of a chef took its toll on my dancer body. As they say, never trust a skinny chef.

Shows like “Top Chef” and “Hell’s Kitchen” are great entertainment. The realism to the real world is there to a degree.

They’re also made to be very entertaining to the layperson, but both push the envelope

Steve Mannion stands in the kitchen of the Culinary Academy of Austin.

Mannion is the director and cofounder of the Academy.

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By robert Doty Daily Texan Columnist And the Austin Film Festival’s 16th incarnation comes to a close.

In the past week, this city has hosted some of the least-recognized but most influential names in film and television.

Steven Zaillian may not ever be on the cover of Rolling Stone or People, but without his artistry, “Schindler’s List” would still be a novel called “Schindler’s Ark.” Shane Black’s screenplay for “Lethal Weapon” provided the foundation on which Mel Gibson and Danny Glover would build their odd-couple cop relationship.

Do they deserve more recognition? Of course. And before I attended the festival, that’s what I thought this festival was all about.

But as the festival progressed, I realized that these storytellers didn’t crave the fame and fortune associated with Hollywood success or want to be on the cover of a magazine. The actors and direc-

tors can have the spotlight. These modern storytellers want to see their tales come to life on the big screen. That’s it. The rest is just window dressing.

The festival’s attendees lack the glamour of those at other film festivals. They wear hoodies and baseball caps while they share quiet, awkward conversations. They inquire about each another’s work and offer support to others who share in their thankless task. They discuss Hollywood with a mixture of unease and curiosity. And, most importantly, they talk about movies and the stories which they hope will grace the silver screen someday.

Attending my first panel, I struck up a conversation with a young, unassuming festivalgoer sitting next to me. He introduced himself as Benjamin Healy, and not until the end of the conversation did he even mention that he

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Director and actress Cheryl Hines is interviewed during the red carpet event for “Serious Moonlight” in front of the Paramount Theatre.

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By Javier Sanchez Beavan is hesitantly supported Daily Texan Staff “We’re cutting down too many by his daughter Isabella and wife trees,” said the seemingly scatter- Michelle, a successful Businessbrained Colin Beavan as he waited Week writer, as they begin the onein the green room before his guest year experiment that dramatically changes their lives. spot on “The ColMichelle Beabert Report.” “We van, painted as need the trees to a fierce consumsave the environer, is reluctant to ment ... and the polar bears.”

In a way, she becomes enter her husband’s unfamiliar These are the her husband’s world of conserwoes of Beavantithesis. vation and envian, the nonficronmental awaretion writer, blogness. In a way, ger and self-proshe becomes her claimed “guilty husband’s antithliberal” who deesis. While she cided that he and his family will live in the green- in no way attempts to undermine est way possible. This endeavor is his efforts, the film seems to sugdepicted in the new documentary gest that her consumerist characteristics unravel the fabric of soci“No Impact Man.” Together the Beavan family ety and the environment. A Staravoids creating waste, emitting bucks junkie, she caves in early carbon dioxide and using electric- on and buys a cup of coffee with ity. Similarly, they decide to shop the camera framing her in a closeonly at local farmer’s markets in up as the mega-corporation logo addition to not eating meat. The looms in the background.

Interestingly enough, Beavan film documents the family’s struggles with these limitations, where FILM continues on page 11 the distance between ideology and