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Education prioritized for next legislative session By Audrey White Daily Texan Staff With cuts to higher education on the horizon and textbook costs rising, college affordability is on the minds of many students, Texas student government leads said at a conference to set lobbying goals for the next legislative session. The Texas Students Association, a group
of student government leaders from Texas colleges and universities, met this weekend and voted to prioritize these topics when they lobby at the state legislature in the session that begins in January. The lobbying goals — tax free textbooks, maintaining state funding of universities — impact all students, representatives said. “We have so many opportunities this leg-
islative session to make a difference,” said John Lawler, the association’s chair and a liberal arts representative in UT’s Student Government. “These are things that if you walk up to a student on the sidewalk and ask if they support this, you won’t find anyone who doesn’t agree.” Issues like domestic partner benefits, which would provide insurance benefits to
the partners of GLBT employees, and concealed carry on campus did not make the list of legislative goals because it would be hard to accomplish goals that fall along such partisan lines, Lawler said. Questions of partisanship came up anyway, as some representatives questioned
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TODAY Season opening The Longhorn basketball team will kick off their season at 8 p.m. at the Frank Erwin Center.
TUESDAY ‘Amélie’
The Alamo Drafthouse Downtown will present a special screening of the French film at 7 p.m. Tickets start at $8.50.
WEDNESDAY Rock on
Reel Rock Tour presents the fifth annual showcase of top rock climbing videos from around the world. The event begins at 7 p.m. in the Gregory Games Room. Admission costs $5.
Lyle Lovett
The Texas singer-songwriter will play a show at the Paramount Theatre. Tickets start at $50 and doors open at 8 p.m.
THURSDAY Veterans Day
The city will host a parade to commemorate the holiday. Lineup begins at 7 a.m. at the Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge, and will begin marching toward the Capitol at 9 a.m.
FRIDAY Election debriefing
If you aren’t burnt out on politics, stop by New Politics Forum’s Election Debrief Conference from 1 to 9 p.m. in the Capitol. Panelists will give an overview of the midterm and discuss what it might mean for the next legislative session.
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Check out game footage and an interview with Austinite and creative director of “Epic Mickey,” the Wii’s latest game featuring Disney creations in a desolate world.
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Above, On the one year anniversary of the Fort Hood shooting, a relative of Michael Grant Cahill, the only civilian killed during the attack, mourns following the unveiling of a granite memorial stone honoring the 13 victims killed. Below, A pair of boots, an M-16 and a helmet stood at the center of the stage during the public remembrance service attended by hundreds of family members.
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Families, colleagues gather on anniversary to remember 13 victims by erecting memorial stone
By Collin Eaton A young boy made faces and held tightly to his father’s army fatigues as they smiled for a photograph with the secretary of the Army. Maj. Steven Richter led the medical operation during last year’s Fort Hood shooting and was nearby when he heard gunfire rip through the air 50 feet away in an adjacent building. But Friday morning, only a breeze swept through a
silent memorial as friends and family gathered to honor the living for their courage and to remember their ON THE WEB: fallen comrades at the ceremony for the shooting’s See our Fort Hood one-year anniversary. memorial slideshow Secretary of the Army John McHugh awarded 52 @dailytexan medals to service members and civilians for acts of online.com
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Former Longhorn killed by gunshot, woman left injured By Aziza Musa Daily Texan Staff Family and friends laid to rest two former UT students this weekend after a Nov. 2 incident in North Austin left them dead and one woman injured. Phu Truong and Howard Huynh met through their involvement in the Vietnamese Student Association and IC2 Productions, a community service and social organization. They later lived together with two other roommates in a home near MoPac Boulevard and Parmer Lane. Huynh worked at an Asian fusion restaurant, Sea Dragon, while Truong graduated from UT with a philosophy degree in spring 2010 and who friends said wanted to pursue law. Friends remembered both as helpful, loyal and full of life.
Doan Bui, a UT alumnus who joined both organizations with the two, said Truong was nice, hard-working and motivated. “Sometimes I think how nice he was got the best of him because he was always willing to help,” he said. “He went out of his way to help me move when everyone else was busy with finals.” At about 5:20 a.m. on Nov. 2, Austin Police responded to a shooting call in a residence near 12300 Tomanet Trail. The officers approached the front door, and Huynh fired at them. He fled the scene when Officer Jason Martin fired back in response, said Senior Police Officer Veneza Aguinaga, an APD spokeswoman.
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By Nolan Hicks Daily Texan Staff Oscar Brockett, a former UT professor who was considered one of the world’s foremost theater historians, died early Sunday morning from a stroke. He was 87. Brockett served as dean of the College of Fine Arts from 1978 to 1980. He left the post to run the Department of Theatre and Dance’s doctorate program, which he expanded from five students to 30. “He was probably one of the Oscar Brockett most imRetired UT professor portant theater historians, not only nationally but internationally,” said Richard Isackes, a UT theater professor who worked with Brockett. “He’s had a profound effect on theater students for the last three or four generations.” Isackes said even though Brockett had retired from teaching full-time, he kept an office in the basement of the Winship Drama Building where he would talk to groups of graduate students throughout the day. “He would regale them with stories about the department and about his teaching career,” Isackes said. Theater professor Fran Dorn, who helped engineer Meryl Streep’s visit to the UT campus on Friday, said Brockett was known for empowering his students. “He was frank and brilliant,” said Dorn, who moved into Rockett’s office after he retired. “Fortunately, I’m in his old office, and the vibe is very good in there.” In 2001, the Winship Drama Building’s Theatre Room was renamed the Oscar G. Brockett Theatre in his honor. His friends
Vicky Formica, a two-year breast cancer survivor, waits for her ride near the survivor tent as the Komen for the Cure’s festivities come to a close Sunday afternoon. The Austin affiliate was founded in 1999 and has donated nearly $7 million toward the fight against breast cancer. Danielle Villasana Daily Texan Staff
Austin hosts eighth Race for the Cure By Nick Mehendale Daily Texan Staff Cancer treatments left Austin resident Nancy Thibert too weak to walk the 5K route at Sunday’s Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. Instead, she sat at the finish line to support her family and other participants. “I come here every year to show
my support for the cause,” Thibert said. Thibert underwent a single mastectomy, the result of a breast cancer diagnosis three years ago. She said both of her daughtersin-law were diagnosed with cancer — the first with breast cancer in March and the second with brain and lung cancer in June,
when she was pregnant. The baby was delivered two months premature and is now doing fine, Thibert said. “We all help each other,” said Thibert, whose sons and daughters-in-law walked in the race. “We depend on each other for
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