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THE DAILY TEXAN Wednesday, November 10, 2010
TODAY Calendar Happy birthday
The graduate school will celebrate its 100th anniversary with cake and live music from 3 to 5 p.m. on the West Mall. More than 125,000 people have received degrees from the school since it opened.
The Legendary Pink Dots
The experimental rock group will make a stop at the Elysium during their 30th anniversary tour. Tickets cost $20 at the door and the show starts at 9:45 p.m.
Yard show
The Wildflower Center will display the art of the creator of the Cathedral of Junk and other yard art in the McDermott Learning Center gardens beginning at 9 a.m.
‘The Real Dr. Strangelove’
L.A. Theatre Works presents the story of Edward Teller, the creator of the H-Bomb. Tickets cost $24 and the show will take place in the Hogg Memorial Auditorium.
Today in history In 1969 “Sesame Street” debuts on PBS.
Campus watch Lost in the jungle A grey Nike wallet with a safari print containing $400 in cash, several credit cards and personal identification was stolen after being left unattended and unsecured on the bleachers during a handball tournament.
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Undocumented students support DREAM By Audrey White Daily Texan Staff Six students repeated a simple message: “I am undocumented, and I am unafraid.” Their voices rose above the hurried shuffle of the West Mall on Tuesday morning as they shared their stories of coming to the U.S. and to UT. Despite the danger of possible deportation, these students said it was time to speak on behalf of themselves and their communities. An estimated 200 undocumented students attend UT, according to the Office of Admissions, and 65,000 undocumented students graduate each year from U.S. high schools, according to research group The Urban Institute. In their speeches, the students urged U.S.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to put the DREAM Act on the Senate’s agenda before the new Congress takes office, and they want it to pass. The Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act would provide conditional permanent residency and a pathway to citizenship for undocumented minors who have lived in the United States since at least age 15, and who either attend college or join the armed services for at least two years. The earliest version of the legislation appeared before Congress in 2001 and despite consistent bipartisan support, it has never passed into law. “I remember driving up [Interstate High-
Government junior Alejandro Barrientos and electrical engineering junior Jesus Contreras rally in support of the DREAM Act in the West Mall on Tuesday.
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Regents’ Expenses
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Board spends on football games, resorts as part of ‘official duties’ By Collin Eaton Daily Texan Staff UT Board of Regents Chairman Colleen McHugh likes to live comfortably when she travels on university business. McHugh ran up $950 in charges in January at the Montage Beverly Hills hotel while in California to attend the BCS National Championship game between UT and the Alabama Crimson Tide. She also reported $687 in airfare expenses for that trip. The costs weren’t unusual for McHugh, who spent more than $22,000 in UT System funds to attend official University or UT System events in 2009 alone, according to reports obtained by The Daily Texan. Those costs included $12,578 in lodging for football games and board meetings that year, mostly at the Four Seasons Hotel Austin. McHugh is not the only regent to rack up large expense bills. Three other regents have spent at least $10,000 in UT System funds in a single year on official business since 2005, her first year on the board. But McHugh — who could not be reached for comment — has reported expenses of $10,000 in four separate years herself, not including $8,822 in the first half of 2010. Though the University has had to pinch pennies to avoid laying off employees and cutting classes, in 2008 and 2009 the UT Regents spent $116,750 of the system’s endowment payout on top-dollar luxury hotels, travel to football games and other travel expenses related to official duties. Regents are reimbursed for travel and hotel expenses from the Available University Fund, the UT System’s return on investment of its endowment assets. At UT, the endowment payout funds internship programs, technology services, library services and visiting lecturers — but in recent years, because state funding has not kept up with rising costs, UT has relied on AUF money for electricity and similar expenses. UT System spokesman Anthony de Bruyn said the regents — who are unpaid for their work — volunteer their time and effort to support UT and attend UT football games as part of their official duties. “It provides them opportunities for engagement with other friends and supporters of the University such as donors and alumni,” de Bruyn said. Faculty across the UT System have had to cut back on their
Flights = $62,738
John Barnhill Jr.
Colleen McHugh
Scott Caven Jr.
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own travel expenses, and some say they wish to see the regents share in that fiscal discipline. James Ramirez, a travel and purchase information specialist with the state comptroller’s office, said unlike other state employees who travel exclusively on the taxpayer’s dime, the regents have no technical limit on what they can be reimbursed for out of the AUF, according to the Texas Education Code. “As far as reasonable expenses, it could be almost anything,” Ramirez said. “Generally, we find that the Board of Regents are the ones that really take advantage of everything.” UT System travel-expense reports from the past five years show
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Injured woman aided by coworkers By Aziza Musa Daily Texan Staff Before last Tuesday, Austin resident Jasmin Rodriguez could carry out mundane tasks, such as walking and sitting, without any aid. Now, she cannot stand for an extended period of time without becoming exhausted. Rodriguez suffered from a gunshot wound to her stomach after a shooting in her neighborhood on Nov. 2. Austin-Travis County EMS transported Rodriguez to St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center, where she was in stable condition in the intensive care unit. Doctors moved her to immediate care Thursday and restricted her to a clear, liquid diet, said former coworker John Johnston. “She needs to rebuild her abdominal muscles so she can get out of bed or out of a chair by herself,” Johnston said. “It’s about teaching her body to get used to the regular, daily routines.” At about 5:17 a.m. on Nov. 2, Rodriguez let her dog out of her house before heading out to Seton Medical Center Austin for her nursing shift. She saw someone peeking through the fence in her backyard, but didn’t think much of it, said coworker Vanessa Martz. Rodriguez brought her dog indoors and made her way into the hallway when neighbor Howard Huynh, a former UT student, shot at her. Jasmin Rodriguez Rodriguez began to yell at her partner and roommate, Darlene Derocher, to call 911. Derocher went to Martz said. “She looked at the guy for a second and use a phone in her home office when she spotted the realized what was going on. She went into the room, gunman in their home, Martz said. “He had his gun down when Darlene saw him,” INJURED continues on page 2
UT hires Google to update e-mail, expand features By Audrey White Daily Texan Staff The UT e-mail system will have a new look, more space and more features once the University finalizes a contract to outsource its e-mail platform to Google, likely during spring 2011. The announcement came after months of research and planning to meet the demands of students who find Webmail unattractive and difficult to use, said Chief Information Officer Brad Englert. Of the 52,000 currently registered student Webmail accounts, more than 20,000 set up auto-forwarding to an outside platform such as Hotmail or Gmail. The new Google-based platform will look just like Google and have all the same functions, such as chat and calendar sharing, Englert said.
“From space and archiving to aesthetics, everything in Gmail is better than Webmail,” said Senate of College Councils President Chelsea Adler, who served on a student-led steering committee to choose a new e-mail platform. “So many people on campus are outsourcing to Gmail, including me, because things like chat and sharing calendars makes it more than just e-mail.” While choosing a new email host, the steering committee considered three possible clients. Members spoke with representatives from universities that use each of the servers and considered each choice’s features. Google led the way in every category, Englert said.
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A woman died Monday after a man shot her outside an East Austin establishment over the weekend. Eula Nutall, 37, and her boyfriend Johnny Barr, 37, had a confrontation at the Airport Bar and Grill, near Airport and MLK boulevards. Barr struck Nutall, prompting her cousin to assist her, said Austin Police Department Detective Anthony Nelson. Barr confronted Nutall and her cousin as they left the bar. He shot Nutall and fled the scene, Nelson said. The dating couple were looking to go separate ways, he said. When police arrived at the scene at about 1:10 a.m. on Sunday, they found Nutall with a gunshot wound in the bar’s parking lot. Austin-Travis County EMS trans-
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shut the door and ducked as he raised his gun.” Huynh was attempting to flee from police when he jumped the fence into Rodriguez’s backyard in the 12300 block of Tomanet Trail in North Austin. Officers heard gunshots near her home, where they found her with a gunshot wound. APD Officer Will Ray later fatally shot Huynh in a Jaguar dealership behind Rodriguez’s home. Since about 2004, Rodriguez worked as a vet technician at the Emergency Animal Hospital of Northwest Austin. Her former co-
workers at the animal hospital established a fund to raise money for her living expenses for the next couple of months. They raised about $700 as of Monday — about 18 percent of their goal of $4,000, said Jennifer DeRuyck, a veterinarian at the hospital. “At work, she could sit with people, help them understand what was going on and try to make the best of the situation,” she said. “Now that things have turned around, we’re trying to do the same thing for her. Medically, we couldn’t do much other than be there for her, so we thought we could give her money.”
googlE: Gmail presents larger storage, alumni support with the UT brand, he said. “Alumni are very interested in The new Google platform will this,” he said. “I’m a 1984 gradcost $80,000 to $100,000 per year, uate of the LBJ School of Public the same amount as the current Affairs, and I’m going to be the University-created platform, but first to sign up. There’s a lot of the benefit per dollar will in- unity out there among alumni, crease drastically, Englert said. but it’s hard to maintain without The new platform will also al- [the singular brand].” For graduate students who low alumni to set up a UT e-mail account and permit graduates to frequently send large research keep using their address in or- documents and use e-mail for reder to keep their e-mail affiliated search and job searching, thou-
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sands of gigabytes are needed, much more than Webmail’s 100 megabytes. The Google option is the most attractive, said educational administration graduate student Amardeep Khalon, a member of the steering committee. “I have to constantly purge my account so I can keep receiving e-mails,” Khalon said. “[Google] is a very technologically astute choice for UT.”
Former officer Quintana jailed UT System investment company for assault, trespassing charges awards bonuses to employees Leander police charged and arrested former Austin Police Officer Leonardo Quintana on Tuesday for misdemeanors, said Wayne Vincent, Austin Police Association president. The Austin American-Statesman reported that Quintana, who is now in Williamson County Jail, faces two counts of assault, one count of criminal mischief and one count of trespassing in a confrontation with his former fiancee in October 2009. The former officer became the center of controversy in May 2009, when he fatally shot 18-year-old Nathaniel Sanders II. Quintana received a 15-day suspension for his failure to activate his dashboard camera at the time of the incident. Quintana faced driving while intoxicated charges eight months later after he crashed his car in a Leander neighborhood. His blood alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit of .08 at the time. APD Chief Art Acevedo fired Quintana after the DWI charges, but the former officer appealed. An arbitrator reinstated Quintana to the force on Oct. 21 on the grounds that no other officers with first-time DWI offenses had been indefinitely suspended. APD fired Quintana for the second time in five months on Oct. 27 for violating company policy following his assault allegations from his ex-fiancee. — Aziza Musa
University of Texas Investment Management Company’s board of directors gave $5.1 million in bonuses to 30 employees Tuesday, citing high investment returns that raised the Permanent University Fund asset values by $1 billion this year. The Permanent University Fund manages royalties of 2.1 million acres of West Texas land owned by the UT System and each year, UT and Texas A&M University receives a small percentage payout of the PUF. The payout funds enhanced academic programs, the Center for Technology Commercialization and library services at UT. Bruce Zimmerman, UTIMCO’s chief investment officer and CEO, said the company’s efforts to hire the best money managers paid off after they outperformed their market counterparts. But the extra compensation UTIMCO distributed to its employees is very small compared to what a private investment management company would provide, Zimmerman said. “The incentive compensation represents less than one-half of 1 percent of the value added,” he said. “As a contrast, a hedge fund manager typically gets 20 percent of the value added.” He said the investment specialists who benefited from the bonus ranged from individuals with undergraduate degrees and few years of work experience to senior management. Of the $5.1 million bonus, Zimmerman was awarded $1.15 million, double his normal salary. — Collin Eaton
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DeRuyck said Rodriguez is working hard throughout the long recovery process, which includes physical training and eating progressively solid foods. “She’s trying to make the best of this,” DeRuyck said. “She got so excited today because someone brought her macaroni and cheese, and she could actually eat some of it, even though it was only a few bites at a time.” Doctors have scheduled Rodriguez’s release for Friday, but she will continue physical therapy and visits to outpatient centers until she is fully recovered, DeRuyck said.
ported the victim, who was critically injured, to University Medical Center Brackenridge, where she died Monday. The Lone Star Fugitive Task Force, a conglomeration of APD officers and U.S. marshals, found Barr on Monday night in a residence in Elgin. Barr, who was arrested without incident after APD SWAT swarmed the home, is currently being charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, but police expect him to face murder charges soon. Nelson said police cannot release the weapon information, the number of shots fired, the location of Nutall’s injury or the details of the argument because the investigation is still ongoing. The incident marked the 32nd murder of the year in Austin, compared to 20 at the same time last year. — Aziza Musa
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tor and sought help from family members and strangers. Lopez now works in odd jobs and as a designer to put herself through school and support her three orphaned younger siblings, two who are still in Guatemala and one who is living in Houston. “I still have one more year to graduate, and I recently was nominated for the Presidential Leadership Award at UT,” Lopez said. “I have to support my siblings financially because I am the only support they have, and I have to support myself and maintain myself in school so I can succeed. There are many who call me a criminal because I am undocumented, but I didn’t have the choice to come here.” These students are not in serious threat of deportation, as immigration officials have shown little interest in targeting individuals without ties to major crime, said sociology professor Nestor Rodriguez, who specializes in migrant and immigration research and policy. However, their cries for the DREAM Act’s passage may fall on deaf ears as Republicans approach legislation with new energy after
success in the Nov. 2 elections, and prospects for the 2011-12 congress are even bleaker for DREAM Act supporters, Rodriguez said. “The group that got increased presence and power are the Republicans, including the minority of tea party people,” Rodriguez said. “These are not the sources for more inclusion of immigrants and amnesty or legalization. For these undocumented students, that means a larger wall.” Reid campaigned for re-election on a promise to put the DREAM Act up for a vote during the lame duck session, but his office reported that although he hopes to pass it before January, they are uncertain of being able to gain the necessary Republican support. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, RTexas, said she would not vote for the current version of the DREAM Act, although she does support expanded educational options for undocumented students. “The DREAM Act now being discussed in the Senate needs to have more input in order to determine a fair process, and I would not support the bill as it is,” Hutchison said. “I previous-
ly worked on an alternative that would allow young people who have gone through school in the United States and want to pursue a college education to get a student visa.” However, ULI members said the fight for the DREAM Act will not end until the law passes. State legislators have added more than 15 immigration-related bills to the spring docket since Monday, when it became possible to do so. Many came from state Rep. Debbie Riddle, R-Houston, including two that mirror aspects of the controversial Arizona bill SB 1070. With this in mind, ULI students said they will keep fighting for representation and rights as the Americans they believe they are. “I’m very much like everybody at this University, except for a nine-digit number,” said Him Ranjit, biomedical engineering and government sophomore and ULI treasurer who came from Nepal with his family at age 10. “The opposition doesn’t want us to achieve our full potential, but we are fighting for our lives, and we won’t stop until we win.”
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Outbreak of cholera heads to Haiti capital By Jonathan M. Katz The Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The cholera epidemic has spread into Haiti’s capital, imperiling nearly 3 million people living in Port-au-Prince, nearly half of them in unsanitary tent camps for the homeless from the Jan. 12 earthquake. Health authorities told The Associated Press on Monday that tests confirmed a 3-yearold boy who hadn’t been out of the city had caught the disease. More than 100 other suspected cholera cases among city residents also were being tested. The outbreak has already killed at least 544 people in Haiti, Health Ministry Executive Director Gabriel Timothee told the AP. The boy was tested after be-
ing taken to the Bernard Mevs/ Project Medishare hospital Oct. 31 suffering from severe dehydration, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. He was treated with oral rehydration, IV fluids and antibiotics and released. A stool sample tested by Haiti’s national laboratory contained vibrio cholerae 01, the bacteria causing the disease, the chief medical officer, Dr. Antonia Eyssallenne, confirmed the AP in an e-mail. The boy’s family had not traveled in more than a year or had contact with anyone from the Artibonite Valley, where the epidemic was first registered and has wreaked its most ferocious damage. Cholera had never been documented in Haiti before its appearance last month.
A woman holds a serum bag as she helps a relative with cholera symptoms at the the St. Nicholas Hospital in Saint Marc, Haiti. After at least 20 people died when Hurricane Tomas brushed past Haiti, officials are now turning their attention back to a worsening cholera epidemic that has killed more than 500 people and hospitalized more than 7,300.
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Obama reaches out to Muslims President visits mosque, advocates mutual respect between diverse nations By Ben Feller The Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia — From the most Muslim nation on earth, President Barack Obama is reaching out to the Islamic world, declaring that efforts to build trust and peace are showing promise but are still clearly “incomplete.” Obama on Wednesday will deliver one of the most personal and potentially consequential speeches of his presidency, reflecting on his own years of upbringing in Indonesia and giving an update on America’s “new beginning” with Muslims that he promised last year in Cairo. At the same time, the path to lasting peace in the Middle East was hardly looking smoother. A reminder of that difficult road was waiting for Obama when he landed here Tuesday on a steamy afternoon in southeast Asia. Israel’s decision to build more apartments in east Jerusalem, a disputed territory claimed by Palestinians, had already earned a rebuke from American diplomats before a tired, traveling president weighed in himself. “This kind of activity is never helpful when it come to peace negotiations,” Obama said when questioned at a news conference alongside Indonesia’s president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. “I’m concerned that we’re not seeing each side make the extra effort involved to get a breakthrough. ... Each of these incremental steps can end up breaking down trust.” Heavily invested and eager for Mideast stability, Obama insisted: “We’re going to keep on working on it.” Obama’s criticism came during a cherished, fleeting and twice-delayed homecoming in Indonesia. He canceled plans to come earlier this year because of domestic troubles, and now he’s dodging a big
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President Barack Obama, left, and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono hold a joint news conference at the Istana Merdeka in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Tuesday. cloud of volcanic ash. India’s most volatile volcano, Mount Merapi, has erupted with deadly force for days. The White House determined Air Force One could fly in as scheduled to Jakarta but that Obama should shorten his stay given the flow of airborne ash. That meant Obama would be in Indonesia for just 19 hours, still long enough to visit a famous mosque and deliver his speech. The president, who is Christian, is eager to hold up Indonesia as a model: an overwhelmingly Muslim nation where other religions are respected freely and an evolving democracy is gaining strength despite a legacy of corruption. He will revisit themes of his famous 2009 Cairo speech, one in which he called for mutual respect: from the United States for Muslims in a post-Sept. 11 world, and also from Muslims for the United States for its diversity and compassion.
That speech also essentially set up an Obama scorecard on Iraq, Iran and efforts to combat Islamic extremists. Obama is also giving substantial attention to the new partnerships his government has reached with Indonesia’s. And he is talking freely about his time here, from age 6 to 10, when he was running around as a boy named Barry. The two presidents touted a deal that will have both countries cooperating on energy, education, the environment and many other subjects. More broadly, Indonesia offers the United States one more strategic, democratic voice in a continent of emerging powers and lucrative markets, while U.S. support can help Indonesia’s own economy and regional security. Obama’s stop in Indonesia came after he spent three days in India — the most attention any foreign country has received from him.
US president confirms India’s ‘rising’ importance in world NEW DELHI — For much of the last decade, New Delhi sold itself as “India Rising.” Barack Obama’s trip here delivered a new message: India has risen. During his three day visit that ended Tuesday, the U.S. president delivered nearly everything on India’s wish list, affirming the country’s growing importance. Most importantly for India, he backed its bid for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council, a mostly symbolic move that affirmed its place as a new global power. “In Asia and around the world, India is not simply emerging; India has already emerged,” Obama told the Indian parliament Monday night. He also lifted export controls, allowing India to buy high-tech weaponry from the U.S.
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QUOTES TO NOTE: DAILY SHOW EDITION Editor’s note: On Monday night, two of our favorite media personalities, comedian Jon Stewart and Gov. Rick Perry, discussed current issues with American government on an episode of Stewart’s “The Daily Show.” We’ve excerpted a few choice quotes.
“But should they be able to tell you how much lead can be in your paint, or how much salmonella can be in your lettuce?”
— Stewart, questioning Perry on the role of the federal government in forcing regulations on to states
“States, by in large, are run by thoughtful people: men and women who aren’t going to let their environment go to hell in a hand basket.” — Gov. Perry explaining how state autonomy through flexible permitting has allowed Texas to reduce air pollution
“There are very few people who would go back to a pre-1920 United States, because that movement didn’t arise out of nothing, children worked in factories, women were not allowed to vote.” — Stewart responding to Perry’s opposition to the 16th amendment, which was passed in 1913
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By Marc Nestenius Daily Texan Columnist With Thanksgiving break only a few weeks away, you’re probably already looking forward to Grandma’s pumpkin pie and spending time with your family. It’s just too bad that your vacation is cut short since you have to attend class the Wednesday before the holiday. This really pisses you off, doesn’t it? Come to think of it, there’s a lot around campus that angers you. How about resorting to a Snickers-with-Coke dinner because campus vending machines don’t offer healthier foods? Or maybe you’re upset when you log into UT Direct, only to then log in to Blackboard and then once again into eGradebook? Usually, frustrated students rant against the University through the only medium they know: Facebook statuses. But this does nothing but offer a few “like” notifications. Wouldn’t it be great if instead we had a place to share our concerns with the University? The Ideas of Texas, the experimental website you’ve probably never heard of, ends its inaugural year this month. It was created to provide alumni, faculty and of course students with a place to share ideas on improving the University. Anybody can post, comment on or rate suggestions, and the administration picks the most popular and reasonable ones to implement. The system is not well-known but has enormous potential to lead to positive change on our campus. To explain what exactly I mean by “idea,” I’ll describe the one I posted in March. During
one night at the RLM, I noticed how wasteful the escalators became in the evenings. I was probably the only one to use them within a span of 15 minutes. Therefore, I suggested a motion-detecting function that could save a lot of money. It is exactly this type of spur-of-the-moment thought that has great potential to be implemented. Some students have probably noticed that computers at Burdine have been upgraded from the ancient Windows 98. Visitors to the University’s homepage can now read why the Tower is occasionally lit up. Commuters on 24th Street can now enjoy the native plants that line the road. These changes arose from thoughts posted on the Ideas of Texas. And these thoughts don’t just offer small changes to our campus. One idea that was implemented integrated technology into the renovation of the UT Police Department’s dispatch center. This improvement has saved UTPD about $250,000. Using a method called crowdsourcing, the Ideas of Texas promotes an open forum that lets the UT community, instead of the administration, specify problems around campus and offer potential solutions. The complaints I mentioned above are just four of the 215 ideas posted on the website. The vending machine and log-in integration suggestions have even been formally approved, along with 44 others. With 10 ideas already implemented and 13 more currently in the process, the website has clearly made progress. But the system needs as many students as possible to join to make crowdsourcing effec-
tive. Online communities are useless without user participation. How would you know which professors are the best teachers if no one commented on sites such as MyEdu? Lately, enthusiasm for the Ideas of Texas has been waning. As of last week, there were 4,331 student and alumni members on the website. Also dissapointing, only five new ideas have been posted in the last two months. Considering that UT has more than 50,000 students, each with 50,000 thoughts on how to improve our campus, it’s such a shame that Facebook hoards all our concerns. Geoff Leavenworth, special assistant to the president, whose office oversees the website, said “[UT asks], What are the front-end costs and how long is the payback?” when regarding ideas that can become money-saving initiatives. Thus, with more budget cuts looming, students can use the Ideas of Texas website to offer money-saving solutions to the University. Not only that, but students can also respond to changes and cuts that the administration will ultimately have to make. Leavenworth acknowledges that “the bureaucracy sometimes has no idea of the community impact [of some of its actions].” Therefore, students must voice their concerns and their suggestions to improve the University. It would be great to see year two of the website met with even more student involvement. Already have a suggestion? Then log into the Ideas of Texas on UT’s home page or at ideas.utexas.edu. Nestenius is a mechanical engineering sophomore.
A sandwich worthy of Texas Editor’s note: A Texas House bill recently proposed by Rep. Dan Flynn would make the hamburger the official sandwich of Texas. Two columnists weigh in.
Hamburger By Dave Player Daily Texan Columnist The 20th century brought billions in oil money. The 1960s spawned a tech boom that made North Texas the “Telecom Corridor” and Austin the “Silicon Hills.” But ask any Texan, and he or she will tell you this state was built on beef. Our heroes are cowboys and our palates are naturally inclined to bovine fare. From steaks to chilies, Texans love their beef, but the most popular vessel by far is the hamburger. Texans should make the hamburger the official state sandwich not only to honor our cattle-driving heritage but also because, quite simply, the hamburger is the best sandwich. A hamburger perfectly exemplifies all the best aspects of Texas. Like Texas, hamburgers are diverse and accept different tastes and inclinations. Texans put a wide variety of toppings on the hamburgers, such as guacamole in the Rio Grande Valley, sauerkraut in Fredericksburg or whatever gross stuff they eat in College Station. Hamburgers are as gracious and accommodating as the Texans who eat them. But most of all, hamburgers embody our Texan sense of autonomy and independence. Hamburgers give those who consume them the liberty to choose their own
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toppings or style. Don’t like onions? No problem, no one’s going to make you put them on your burger. Love chili and onion rings? Well, hell partner, put ‘em on there. No one from the government is going to tell you what you can or can’t put on your burger. As Burger King once told us, “Have it your way,” not whatever way Obama’s sandwich czar thinks is best. The same can’t be said for all sandwiches. Consider the Reuben; a Reuben consists of corned beef, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut and Soviet — excuse me, “Russian” dressing. Anything less is not a Reuben; anything more is a perversion. Like most sandwiches, a Reuben has no room for individuality, demanding conformity of its partakers. Beef and the hamburger are an intrinsic part of our state identity. To not recognize the burger as our state sandwich would be an act of self-estrangement. Look at our own University’s mascot. On Saturdays we don’t cheer for the Texas Pastrami on Rye. So please, legislators, do right by Texas and put the hamburger on the pedestal it so rightly deserves. Afterwards, meet me down at the Whataburger. I’ll be having mine with mustard, lettuce and extra freedom. Player is a Plan II and history senior.
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By Dan Treadway Daily Texan Guest Columnist While I’m sure Rep. Dan Flynn’s heart is in the right place by advocating for the hamburger to become the official sandwich of Texas, his reasoning is inherently flawed. While I salute him for finally addressing the pressing need to honor food in this state, hamburgers are simply not the most deserving item. Part of Flynn’s motivation in introducing the bill and arguing that it is appropriate is that “A Texan was instrumental in introducing the hamburger to the American public, and that sandwich has gone on to become a mainstay in the cultural and economic life of the Lone Star State.” While there’s no denying the cultural significance of the hamburger, its origins are greatly disputed. Flynn claims in his bill that it was discovered in 1904 by Fletcher Davis in Athens, Texas. But numerous other sources track the invention of the hamburger as occurring at a much earlier time in several other locations outside of the state. Scandal! Theoretically, honoring hamburgers would be as reasonable as awarding car wrecks for being the official “blunt trauma experience” of Texas. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in this country. And what is one of the main culprits of heart disease? Fast food. And what is the cornerstone of just about every fast food restaurant? I’ll give you a hint: It’s not foie gras. And don’t even get me started with mad cow disease. Hamburgers should be regulated, not given an honorary distinction. The hamburger ’s time has come and
gone. If Texas truly wants to think progressively, it should broaden its horizons. As Texas moves into the future, it must be progressive in honoring a lunch-related menu item. Thus, in order to honor the past, present and future, the Texas Legislature must refocus its efforts and recognize the cuisine item with the most potential: the taco. To put it simply, every state offers good hamburgers, but Texas without tacos is Oklahoma. I’m not a particularly religious man, but I could swear I found God while eating a “Trailer Park” taco at Torchy’s this afternoon. The freshest ingredients in Texas are being placed inside of tacos, and the best tacos in the world are being made in Texas (citation needed). Even more exciting, we have only begun to discover the endless wonders that the taco provides. The taco offers a degree of diversity that hamburgers simply cannot compete with. While the ingesting of breakfast hamburgers is reserved for drunk students that wander into Whataburger at 6 in the morning, the breakfast taco is one of the cornerstones of the most important meal of the day. Why honor hamburgers and turn our back on chicken, pork and fish, each of which has collectively contributed to our state becoming among the most proud — and heavy — in the union. A hamburger is but a metaphor for close-mindedness, the vanilla of meat-related dishes. Texas is a bold state that deserves more. Give us salsa, give us guacamole, give us tacos. Treadway is a communication studies senior.
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REGENTS: Opinions divided over fund usage A&M tuition bill splits From page 1 that the regents often frequented high-end hotels such as the Four Seasons in Austin, the Ritz-Carlton in California and the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. Lodging expenses were even higher for football games. Since 2005, the regents averaged $570 per hotel visit for UT football games, and 18 of those charges were more than $900. Hotel stays unrelated to football games cost $335 on average. In Austin, the regents spent a total of $122,000 at the Four Seasons over five years, mostly for football games and board meetings. Former regent John Barnhill, a retired executive vice president of Blue Bell Creameries, reported the largest expense when he was reimbursed for $1,669 in 2006 for a stay at California’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Marina Del Rey during the Rose Bowl. He reported $1,065 in other travel expenses for the game. Other regents filed only a few expenses or did not file any since 2005. Former Regent James Huffines, who spent four and a half years as chairman of the board, never filed one expense report in the five years of data acquired by The Daily Texan. Huffines declined to comment for this story. Former Student Regent Ben Dower, a UT law student, said he saw several important conversations between the regents and alumni in the football stadium skybox with the other regents. Dower said it is not enough to send a letter or an e-mail to high-level donors who may donate $1 million to UT, and the regents must help foster a relationship between the alumni and UT. “You have to keep these people involved and give them a vested interest in the institution so that they feel like they’re not just giving money, they’re participating in an ongoing relationship,” he said. “This isn’t about the game to them. They’re working on a whole other level.” Classics professor Thomas Palaima, a former UT Faculty Council chairman, said it is hard to understand how expenses such as
Division of UT Regental Expenditures in 2010
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McHugh’s could be justified as a legitimate business expense for the University. He said business can be conducted at regular meetings, and there’s no need to charge the University for $300-a-night rooms. “I don’t understand why the regents can’t be setting an example of frugality,” Palaima said. Todd Richardson, a literature professor at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, said faculty travel has been on the chopping block during tight budgetary times. “Ideally, faculty would like to see everyone share that burden equal-
ly,” Richardson said. “We certainly like to think that we’re all in this together for the good of the students of Texas and that everyone will be willing to make sacrifices.” Robert Hard, an associate anthropology professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, said the system is facing large deficits, but he understands the regents’ job is to entertain and build relationships with people in the Legislature. “Part of their job is to have good relationships with people, and this is how they do it,” he said.
In the grand scheme of things, the regents run up large expenditures because funds are classified as discretionary, so there is less of a feeling that one has to use the money wisely or carefully, Palaima said. “If you earn money by working in a steel mill and at the end of the week you earn $800, you’re going to spend that money in a different way than if somebody walks up to you and says, ‘Hey, here’s $800, I just found it, you can use it however you wish,’” he said. — Additional reporting by Ryan Murphy
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By Allison Kroll Daily Texan Staff When Texas A&M University’s student body President Jacob Robinson vetoed a bill from the university’s senate earlier this week, the issue of in-state tuition for undocumented Texas residents again took the spotlight. If the bill passed, it would have allowed A&M’s Student Government Association to lobby the Texas Legislature to overturn a state law that currently allows undocumented students to pay in-state tuition at public colleges, as long as the students graduated from a U.S. high school and meet other residency requirements. Justin Pulliam, a student senator for A&M’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, was one of the senators who proposed the bill last semester. The bill, which passed with a 41-26 vote, was purely a tuition issue, not a comment on who should be allowed to live in the U.S. or attend its universities, he said. “It’s about making a fair tuition policy for Texas students and taxpayers,” said Pulliam, an animal sciences junior. “Texas universities are public resources, and we should not be subsidizing education for people who can’t legally work after they graduate.” Current state law allows U.S. citizens, permanent residents and certain international students to claim Texas residency if they meet the criteria set by the bill. For an A&M undergraduate enrolled in 12 hours of classes, in-state tuition is $4,193 per semester, according to A&M’s Division of Finance website. Tuition for nonresident undergraduates is $11,843. “We don’t think it’s right that Texas is giving the privilege of in-state tuition to illegal immigrants,” Pulliam said. “We feel like they should be treated more like international students, and Texas shouldn’t reward them for
being in the country illegally.” Pulliam said the student body president did not pay enough attention to students’ opinions before he made his decision to veto the senate’s bill. “I believe there is overall support for the bill, and it is outrageous that our president is listening to lobbying groups, many who support the DREAM act, and seems to be supporting their opinions over the views of A&M students,” Pulliam said. Robinson vetoed the senate bill because it would not have an effect on A&M students, he said. “The state clearly defines who can get in-state tuition, and at the end of the day we’re really not helping anyone unless we define what residency is,” he said. “This needs to be addressed at the state Legislature and not the Texas A&M Student Senate.” After the senate’s External Affairs Committee proposed the bill last spring, senators sent it back to the committee for more research and an intent to survey the entire student body about the issue before voting on it, according to The Battalion, A&M’s student newspaper. “There was no data with this bill,” Robinson said. “It only expressed the opinion of the student senate. I don’t want my name attached to a bill that has no official data behind it. It’s simply hearsay.” Chelsea Adler, president of UT’s Senate of College Councils, said the issue of who is allowed to receive in-state tuition is one that students should be forming their own opinions about. “I believe every effort should be made to educate students on the current situation,” Adler said. “This is ultimately an issue for the state Legislature to address, and this conversation should take place on every college campus in Texas so that student opinion is accurately reflected.”
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Fulbright scholarship awarded to professor By Allie Kolechta Daily Texan Staff Z. Jeff Chen, a professor in the Section of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, will head to the University of Cambridge in England on a scholarship to research and teach as a 2010 Fulbright Scholar. Each year, the Fulbright Commission awards scholarships to academics in the U.S. and the U.K. to conduct research and teach in other countries. He will research the role of the biological molecule RNA with professor David Baulcombe at the University of Cambridge starting in January, as well as teach an class on epigenetics, or the study of inherited physical differences, to senior undergraduates. The award, which is less likely to be given to molecular biologists, will help him further his research, he said. “I’m looking forward to being on campus and getting the chance to further my research at a first class university like Cambridge,” he said. “These awards are typically given to people in humanities and the social sciences, but an award given in biology is much less common.” Professor Chen’s lab just received a $3.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study the genetic basis of fiber and production in cotton, said Marisa Miller, a molecular biology graduate student who works under Chen. “I’m currently investigating the molecular basis of hybrid vigor, and the link between hybrid vig-
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The whirling dance of the dervishes is a traditional form of worship practiced by the Sufi sect of Islam. The dance is performed to achieve a trancelike religious state. By Ahsika Sanders Daily Texan Staff A brief eulogy to Islamic prophets and a medley of flutes opened the floor for the spinning dance of worship delivered by the Whirling Dervishes of Rumi on Tuesday night. The Islamic Dialogue Student Association presented the celebration of God through dance and song to over 200 people who attended. The dervishes, dressed in ankle-length white skirts and tan cone-shaped hats standing 1-foot high twirled nonstop for at least five minutes. Following the dervishes, a comedic act brought about 30 children from the audience on stage to learn a Turkish dance. The show, in addition to the dervishes, trav-
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eled from Turkey to participate in last month’s 20th annual Houston Turkish Festival and agreed to travel to Austin to perform on campus before heading home. The Whirling Dervishes of Rumi dates to the 13th century and began with Rumi, a Turkish poet, who was moved to begin dancing after an encounter with a holy man, said journalism graduate student Mustafa Oz. “The dance, in which he spun incessantly, was done in devotion to Allah and the organic powers of the universe,” he said. “While he whirled, he repeated the name of God — Allah — until he fell into a trance state of deep worship.” The group’s main objective is to improve interactions at UT
by bridging the dialogue gap between Muslims and other faiths, Oz said. “We value constant, positive action based on universal values such as love, respect, tolerance, mercy and compassion, which are crucial for healthy dialogue in a diverse university environment,” he said. In its early existence, Turkey was a paradise of peace, said Ahmed Atik, Islamic studies senior and the group’s president. “Istanbul was a civilization of all colors and religions, and they all existed peacefully thousands of years, so it’s proof that we can have that, too.” The ritual is broken into four segments, called “selams.” Each has a distinct movement that in-
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crease in speed as the song progresses, which represents a significant element of worship. “It’s not a performance, but a form of worship,” he said. “The [dance] speed, getting faster represents man escaping evil and getting closer to God.” International relations senior Michelle Quinones said although she is not Muslim, she appreciated the dances because they reminded her of traditions in her own culture. “I’ve seen Latino dances that are similar, where they spin with long flowing dresses to blend all the colors,” she said. “But this was more of a spiritual and religious dance, and in the Latino community, it’s a celebration of culture.
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By Austin Laymance Daily Texan Staff As the old saying goes, if you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen. Rachael Adams stays out of the kitchen at home, where she lives with teammate and close friend Amber Roberson, but the reason has nothing to do with her ability to withstand the heat. Actually, the junior middle blocker just can’t cook. At least not as well as her fellow junior and roommate. “Amber is the head chef and I’m the chef-in-training,” Adams said, laughing and looking over her shoulder towards the smiling Roberson. “She cooks and I clean.” But that doesn’t mean Roberson, an outside hitter, isn’t showing her partner the ropes in the kitchen. “I’m trying. Sometimes I have got to watch her a little bit more before she burns the house down,” Roberson said. “So it’s not good.” While Adams continues to hone her skills — she’s currently learning to fix steak — she can’t help but enjoy living with an experienced chef. Roberson said years of watching and learning from her mother and grandmother have prepared her to feed her “chef-in-training.” Coming from a big family, she would cook for her brothers and sisters when her parents were out of the house. Now, Roberson is busy keeping her roommate happy. “Our favorite is Texas Skillet,” Adams said. “That is our meal when we are having a
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good week.” It’s a meal they learned from the team’s nutritionist, and one the girls may be tiring of because of Texas’ success of late — the Longhorns have won nine straight matches. But while the duo may agree on their favorite meal, the same cannot be said for their sleeping habits. Adams is an early bird, a morning person. And, as Roberson admits, she isn’t afraid to blast her music when she wakes up. But while Adams is busy getting ready for bed in the evening, usually around 10 p.m., Roberson is wide-awake and far from tired, much to Adams’ chagrin. “She talks really loud at night on the phone and on Skype when no one else is in the house,” Adams said. “But I’m getting used to it now. We’re pretty compatible. I can’t complain — it’s a good living situation.” Ever since the two moved in together last spring, they’ve improved their connection on the court as well as off and are a major reason behind Texas’ hot streak. “It translates well,” Roberson said. “We don’t have any problems because we live together and are comfortable with one another.” But while the two enjoy one another’s company at home and behind the net, there’s one thing they don’t do well together. “We communicate really well but we are not compatible pepper partners,” Adams said, referring to the team’s pregame warm
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By Sameer Bhuchar Daily Texan Columnist With the Dallas Cowboy’s latest loss, my dreams are officially dashed. At the beginning of the NFL season, my hope was to see the Houston Texans play the Dallas Cowboys in the Super Bowl. Now with the Cowboys out of the picture, I still have hope that my beloved Texans can at least make a playoff push. Had you asked me if this was possible when they were 4-2, I would have said, “Are you kidding me? Of course the Texans are winning it all. To assume otherwise would be like assuming the Longhorns are headed to Glendale. But like always, the Texans are on pace to take eight steps forward and then another eight back. However, unlike the Cowboys, the Texans are still in the thick of their division race. With at least six more wins, Houston has a legitimate shot at extending its season. To do it, the Texans are going to need to implement some midseason changes to get to the promised land: the playoffs.
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By Will Anderson Daily Texan Staff Missed free throws, numerous turnovers, errant 3-pointers instead of working the ball inside — the first 20 minutes of Texas’ opener against Navy on Monday looked like a repeat of last year’s self-destructing team near the end of the season. “We didn’t fight for space on the floor,” said Texas head coach Rick Barnes. “We didn’t get the ball. We didn’t deflate the defense.” That all changed after the break. Forward Jordan Hamilton came alive, finishing with 26 points — 21 of which came in the second half — as the Longhorns won their opening game for the ninth straight year under Barnes. “They kept us off balance a little bit, but we really worked hard on putting the ball inside and we didn’t do that until late,” Barnes said. “Some of that had to do with jitters a little bit.” The Longhorns settled for 3-pointers in the first half against Navy’s compact zone but only made one of their nine longrange shots. In the second, they worked inside more and, thanks to dynamic off-ball screens, were able to pick apart the Midshipmen on defense. Texas outscored Navy 40-26 in the paint and got to the free-throw line almost twice as often.
“I thought we did a great job in the first half,” said Navy head coach Billy Lange. “In the second half I think we just kind of lost our way a little bit and stopped competing underneath.” Barnes hopes the winning ways continue tonight versus Louisiana Tech in the second game of the 2K Sports Classic. As host of a regional, Texas will advance to next week’s championship round in New York City to face Illinois whether or not it wins tonight, but an early-season loss to the Bulldogs would seriously damage the team’s standings. The Longhorns are just outside The Associated Press Top 25 and ranked No. 25 in the ESPN/USA Today coaches’ poll. Louisiana Tech defeated Champion Baptist College of Hot Springs, Ark., in an exhibition last Tuesday, but today will be the team’s official opener. Last season it finished 24-11, one loss worse than the Longhorns, and made it to the second round of the CollegeInsider. com Tournament. Tech’s returning leading scorer, junior Olu Ashaolu, is a lengthy forward with doubledouble potential every night. He finished last year averaging 10.7 and 8.1 rebounds per game. Luckily for Texas, Hamilton had a coming-out party on Monday night and should prove a handful for the Bulldog defense.
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Acho takes losing season in stride as learning experience By Laken Litman Daily Texan Staff Sam Acho can’t think of any other time in his life when he didn’t live up to expectations. The senior defensive end joked that the lowest point of his athletics career happened in third grade when he missed a wide-open shot for his Tornadoes basketball team that would have won them the game. But then he got serious and explained he’s never experienced more adversity in his life than he has this year with the Longhorns. From his freshman through junior years at Texas, Acho was a part of a team that had a 35-5 Derek Stout | Daily Texan file photo overall record and went to three Sam Acho, 81, talks with his fellow defensive linemen during the bowl games, including last year’s Baylor game on Oct. 30. Acho says the team is never going to quit. national championship. Last season he played a sig-
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nificant role in helping the Longhorns defense rank as one of the most elite in the entire country. But now in his senior season, the Longhorns sit uncomfortably with a 4-5 record and may not become bowl eligible for the first time in 13 years if they don’t win at least two of their next three games. But rather than sulk and give up, Acho sees this season as a blessing in disguise. “I’m learning so much about myself, about this team, about persevering,” Acho said. “Obviously I would love to win, but if it had always been all roses my entire time in college, I wouldn’t have learned how to deal with situations that will face me later on in life.”
Acho’s maturity is refreshing. He doesn’t buy into what critics and fans think because he knows how hard his teammates and coaches work every week to fight on Saturdays. “This team is never going to give up or quit no matter what,” Acho said. “We’re still working hard, we’re still fighting. We’re going to find a way to win.” Mack Brown feels the same way. Following last Saturday’s massacre at Kansas State, the head coach gave a very pointed pep talk in the locker room. “I told the kids that tough times are when people define who they are. I told them to stay strong and that I’m going to compete as their
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SPORTS BRIEFLY Auburn defends QB Newton over allegations of cheating The Auburn Tigers found themselves defending quarterback Cam Newton for the second time in five days, this time adamantly sticking up for the Heisman hopeful in the wake of allegations of academic cheating when he was at Florida. The second-ranked Tigers’ head coach Gene Chizik dismissed the latest report as “pure garbage” Tuesday in an emotional 4-minute, 25-second rant. “I’m standing up here on a very important week trying to defend something that’s garbage,” Chizik said. The Tigers face rival Georgia on Saturday, and that’s where Newton insists his focus lies. Foxsports.com reported Monday that Newton was caught cheating three times and was to appear for a hearing in front of Florida’s Student Committee facing possible expulsion during the spring semester of 2009. — The Associated Press
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horns: Hamilton leads offense From page 8 Aside from draining buckets, for which he was known last year, the sophomore swingman helped on defense and against the glass. “Most of the time I’m known as a shooter,” he said. “But I want to be known for more than that, that’s why I crash the boards and try my best out there to defend.” The California native added 10 rebounds for his second career double-double plus a block and an assist. “He’s worked hard. From the beginning of last season, through the spring, the summer, the fall — he’s really worked hard,” Barnes said. “Overall he did a lot of really good things.” Equally impressive in the paint for Texas was senior forward Gary Johnson. Mostly seen as a role player last year, Johnson has stepped up as the team’s frontcourt leader in practice and exerted his new role on Monday with a 17-point, 10-rebound effort. “I feel like I’ve been through the most on the team so I think guys
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roommates: Close quarters improve communication ence Player of the Week in consecutive weeks before Roberson up. “We are so much alike that found her stride, but the girls don’t get on one another about we butt heads and I will tell her their performances. what to do and she will tell me “As long as someone in the what to do. But on the court the house is doing well, that’s all talking and communication be- that matters,” Adams said. tween us is really good.” And while Roberson has talThe middle blocker and out- lied more kills than Adams of side hitter have taken the Big late, it’s not something she holds 12 by storm in their junior sea- over her roommate. sons. Adams was named Confer“That’s not my style, I’m not a
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bragger,” Roberson said. Adams is content with living in Austin and sampling Roberson’s cuisine but the Cincinnati native still misses her other home. “Right now I’m really missing the changing of the leaves,” Adams said. “I’m sad about that. I wish there were orange and yellow trees.” The perfect cure for homesickness? Roberson’s Texas Skillet.
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Dogus Balbay cuts back in front of a Navy player on Monday. Balbay will start again tonight. look at me in a lot of aspects to try to pull them out of the slumps,” Johnson said. “So I take it upon myself to get us through and I think I did a good job of that. Texas leads the all-time series versus Louisiana Tech 2-0 but the last time the two met, on Dec. 30, 2002 in Austin, ninth-ranked
Texas won by just eight points. A loss tonight would signal a step backwards after Monday’s important win. “I wouldn’t want to be perfect tonight,” Barnes said after Monday’s game. “We can continue to build towards that, but overall there were a lot more good than bad.”
ple expect him to be crawling on the ground with the way this year has gone. But he refuses to give up or give in to losing because he knows that his players are watching every move he makes and the one time he breaks down, so will the team. This season has caused Brown to question his role at Texas more than he ever has in his 13 years. But after talking things over with his wife Sally, the two came to a mutual decision.
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“Our role is to really try to help these young guys grow up and learn from hard days,” Brown said. “Because they’re going to have hard days their whole life. All of us do. When your back is to the wall, when you are struggling and when everybody is pointing at you, that is when you better stand up and stay strong.” The Longhorns are at a low point right now, but the fact that they don’t have a quitter’s attitude is admirable.
texans: Wide-out Johnson needs help to relieve pressure on team’s most explosive player From page 8 Notice that if you rearrange the letters in “Foster,” you get “Forest,” one letter away from the titular movie character who ran cross country in the 1994 classic “Forrest Gump.” Coincidence? I think not. Arian Foster has clearly emerged as a premiere back in the NFL over the past eight games. Week in and week out, he has confused defenses with his snakelike cuts and his excellent vision. Yet somewhere between his 5.5 yards a carry, his league-leading 857 yards and his nine touchdowns, Gary Kubiak seemingly forgets his existence at times. Consider this: In the Texans’ loss to the Colts two weeks ago, Foster ran the ball only 15 times, but gained 102 yards. He did most of his damage early in the game, but then Kubiak abandoned the run-
ning back and let a struggling Matt Schaub take over. Last week he ran the ball much more against San Diego and posted another monster game. But when Kubiak opted to go for a crucial fourth-and-two in the waning minutes of the game, he asked the ever-athletic runner, Matt Schaub, to sneak a first down to no avail. Why wasn’t Foster in the backfield behind his full back, coach? Kubiak knows he messed up. “I wish I had it back, but I don’t,” Kubiak said of the call after the game. “I wish I would have called timeout and gone in another direction.” Let Foster win your games, manage your clock and take the pressure off Schaub and receiver Andre Johnson in late-game situations.
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The trade deadline is past, so in reality shopping around for a defensive star is out of the question. But watching the Texan defense is almost more painful than watching the team lose at their expense. Opposing offensive coordinators probably salivate at the idea of throwing into the Texans’ secondary. It’s porous. It’s slow. It gets beat for a big play almost every game, which puts the Texans in early holes. They are torched for nearly 300 yards a game, good for dead last in the league in pass defense. Much of this blame can be put on Kareem Jackson, Houston’s first round pick out of Alabama. In every game the Texans have lost, Jackson has been blown for a big play if not a touchdown. What is more embarrassing is that the Cowboys’ only win this season came off of Tony Romo picking on Jackson all
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Step 3: Someone give Andre Johnson a break Look, I’ll keep this part short and sweet. Johnson is the best player this franchise has seen. As a fan I get scared that at the end of every season he is going to leave Houston for a team that deserves his work-horse mentality and teamfirst philosophy. He has single-handedly won two games for Houston this season, and don’t be fooled into thinking he was the reason the team lost last week on that ricocheted pass-turned-interception. The other wide receivers, as talented as they’ve historically been, are underwhelming this
season, and it is their job to step up and take the pressure off the poor man. He is practically limping his way around the field with his high ankle sprain. There are certainly a few wide receivers on the waiver wire chomping at the bit to play for a top passing team like Houston, and up until a few days ago, a certain Randy Moss was up for grabs. If Joel Dreessen can be a stronger tight-end threat, then that may open up routes for Kevin Walter and Jacoby Jones to start catching something. Anything. If anything, the Texans certainly are entertaining to watch, even if they are the result of my receding hairline. And if me going bald is what it takes to see Houston in the playoffs, then I’m absolutely fine with that. I’ll just buy another Texans cap.
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Panel speaks on building Study: males likely to prize ‘green’ for sustainability commitment, love with sex By Vidushi Shrimali Daily Texan Staff Men are more likely than women to be satisfied from sex motivated by a relationship based on love and commitment, according to a study by UT psychology researchers. The study, released Oct. 22 in the Archives of Sexual Behavior journal, found women who have sex to increase love or commitment in a relationship are less likely to be satisfied. Headed by psychology graduate student Kyle Stephenson, the study analyzed the correlation between sexual motives and satisfaction. The research involved a 30-question survey administered to 93 college-aged males and 451 females, asking them to evaluate their motivations
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John Mooz, the president of Hines investment and property management firm, discusses the economic advantages of sustainable real estate at a panel discussion Tuesday. structure of the building should tion that has to happen within By Allie Kolechta be secondary to the organiza- our companies,” she said. “We Daily Texan Staff Implementing sustainable fea- tion that will purchase, lease or work very hard to educate comtures with the future of a com- construct the building, said Bet- pletely throughout our firms pany in mind is the best way to sy del Monte, director of sus- so that each of our employees maximize their economic bene- tainability at architecture firm understands a project so that when we put it into play, evfits, said Gregory P. Fuller, chief The Beck Group. “Sustainability probably wasn’t ery team member knows where operating officer at real estate thought about when this school we’re headed.” firm Granite Properties. The panel emphasized the ways On Tuesday, six panelists and [UT] was built, but here we are and moderator R.G. “Jerry” Converse it’s still serving its function,” she different industries look at the of law firm Fulbright & Jaworski said. “Any building that is going problem of sustainability, said arL.L.P. discussed methods of increas- to be occupied and is going to get chitecture graduate student Vince Ho. While ing the economic architecture benefits of sushas a strontainability feaSustainability probably wasn’t thought about when ger focus on tures added to innovation, buildings. this school [UT] was built, but here we are and it’s still architects Sustainable serving its function.” often overfeatures that look the contribute to — Betsy del Monte, e m p h a s i s “green” conbusinessstruction, such Director of sustainability for The Beck Group es place on as solar panels, profit, she provide future said. economic bene“ Y o u fits such as reduced energy costs when imple- the benefits of not just the reduced want to be able to implement susoperational costs, but also the in- tainability in the world so you mented correctly, Fuller said. “The longer you’re going to creased performance, is going to get need to know how the other industry is thinking and operating,” stay, the more you can utilize the additional economic benefits.” Adding sustainable features she said. “Architecture doesn’t apsustainability aspect for financial benefits,” he said. “We’re doing to a project at the last minute proach the problem with the same it for the employee base, we’re is the most expensive way to concentration on profit as busidoing it for potential business, construct a building, del Mon- ness, but there’s a kind of freeand if you’re doing it for all the te said. Thinking ahead is the dom that comes with that. If you right reasons, you can maximize simplest way to reduce costs of always just predict what is profadding sustainable structures to itable, then you might not move your return.” on and do something more innoTo increase the economic ben- a building, she said. “There’s an element of educa- vative.” efits of sustainability, the actual
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Both sexes had less positive experiences when having sex to gain self-esteem or favors. Astronomy graduate student Rodolfo Santana said he had similar experiences in real life, comparing the sex he had in committed relationships to one-night stands. “With a one-night stand, I don’t have any feelings for her,” Santana said. “Sex is a really emotional process, and it’s weird to be that intimate with someone I don’t know that well.” Women also had a wider range of motives than men to have sex — from love and commitment to self-esteem and pleasure. The study found that men primarily had sex based on motivations of love and commitment as well as self-esteem or favors.
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Daniel Lorenzetti discusses transmedia Tuesday at the AT&T Conference Center. Transmedia storytelling uses various forms of media in marketing and entertainment to enhance a narrative. ment and examine and further the story through this social media platform.” Lorezentti explained how transmedia works in fiction such as video games, publishing, films and on television using Discovery Channel’s Shark Week 2009 campaign as an example. The campaign allowed viewers to realize the horror of being attacked by creating their own shark attacks scenarios through interactive features online. Lorenzetti said he was in Los Angeles talking to 70 entertainment attorneys concerned with intellectual property issues within transmedia. Issues about whether the storyteller or the person who created the character actually owns the character are on the minds of agents, writers and producers in the transmedia world. “Once you let the fan base in and let them play in your story
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‘Sleepwalk’ links wit, misery Comedian’s memoir tells awkward, lovable stories in translation of his act By Christopher Nguyen Daily Texan Staff Fans of the NPR program “This American Life” will recognize Mike Birbiglia from his occasional contributions to the show, including his breakthrough segment, which recounted his time as a sleepwalker and how he would literally act out his dreams. On that and many other his other segments, Birbiglia undercuts his humor as an awkward underdog with poignant sadness. The successful mix has made Birbiglia a rising comic, leading to the release of his first memoir, “Sleepwalk with Me: And Other Painfully True Stories.” In the vein of David Sedaris, “Sleepwalk” features short, humorous stories about his life from his dad, who always tells him never to reveal anything in his life on his journey to becoming a comedian. A number of the stories come almost verbatim from his stand-up comedy show, except for the extra detail or two. As a result, the book reads like a
transcript from his performances with his perfectly timed zingers and the extreme colloquialisms. At times, Birbiglia can capture his blend of hilarity and misery in just one sentence, evident in his detailing a break-up while in the Bahamas. However, the book loses a lot jumping from his act to the paper. Not only does much of the surprise dissipate, but his anecdotes also come off as a bit immature. By adding that extra pause or hushed vocal enunciation during his show, Birbiglia’s method of retelling allows the story to detach from the juvenile details. In “Sleepwalk,” Birbiglia loses that control to direct his stories’ tone, and as a result, some anecdotes come off clunky and forced. The memoir would have been more successful had Birbiglia fleshed out his stories with more thoughtfulness rather than merely transcribing his jokes. Dedicated followers of Birbiglia will enjoy having more of his tales as a man trying to figure it all out, but newcomers would do themselves a favor by first taking a listen to his comedy show.
Grade: B
the book’s supposed impenetrability. “I drew that at a time when I didn’t “I think I first came up with the char- have any other reason,” Chippendale acters just as a joke. I had this one mini- said. “There was no publisher and comic I made in ’99 or 2000, maybe 10 there was no audience. I just filled that years ago. It was this tiny little comic, book, which was a Japanese book catmaybe 2 inches by an inch and a half,” alog I was just drawing in, and I had a Chippendale said. “And then sudden- lot of time. I was just broke and hangly, around 2008, I dreamed up this big, ing out and doing that book; that was epic story.” about halfway through Fort Thunder, Chippendale, based in Providence, and at that time I had zero aspirations R.I., is best known for being the drum- for being a cartoonist.” mer of seminal noise rock duo Lightning But these days the man is extremely Bolt and for being one of the co-found- busy — recently, as Chippendale was ers of Fort Thunder, an extremewrapping up a world tour with ly influential art collective Lightning Bolt, he was also ON THE WEB: in the mid to late ’90s. The putting together his first Fort, which is actually the Visit Brian solo art show at Brooklyn’s second floor of an old texChippendale’s perCinders Gallery. On top of tile factory, came togethsonal blog that, he also regularly uper when Chippendale, then dates a gag web comic, @marvelousa printmaking major at the coma.blogspot. “Puke Force.” com Rhode Island School of De“When I was doing “If ‘n sign, and three other artists from Oof,” I would just have figthe school needed somewhere cheap ments of ideas I knew I couldn’t use,” to live. Eventually, Fort Thunder be- Chippendale said. “‘If ‘n Oof ’ was came the residence of more than a doz- such a long, drawn-out process that I en young artists. Not that they could get wanted something that could balance any sleep, as the warehouse became an it out. Just so I could draw stuff quick important venue in the Providence un- and get it over with in a day or somederground noise rock scene. thing. But now, it’s become something It was at the Fort in ’96 when Chip- serious, yet another stressful thing in pendale started working on “Mag- my life I have to deal with.” gots,” an extremely dense semi-autoBrian Chippendale’s website (mostly biographical work that made his name dedicated to his band Lightning Bolt) and style instantly recognizable, if is laserbeast.com. His personal blog is sometimes only to casually reference marvelous-coma.blogspot.com.
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Comedian Mike Birbiglia takes stand-up to the page, with the release of his memoir, “Sleepwalk with Me.”
odyssey: Game retells classic ‘Journey to the West’ From page 14
ation has to offer. “Enslaved” is a sci-fi retelling of the classic Chinese novel “Journey to the West” by Wu Grade: A Cheng’en, telling the story of two For fans of futuristic design, ’80s prisoners trying to find their way action heroes and “Gears of War” home. Between screenwriter Alex Garland (“28 Days Later,” “SunEnslaved: Odyssey to the West shine”) and actor Andy Serkis, who brought Gollum to life in the “The (PS3, Xbox 360) Lord of the Rings” films, there is During many moments in “En- some noteworthy Hollywood talslaved,” it’s easy to forget that ent behind this title, and it shows. you are playing a game. The per- The exchanges between the game’s formances, story and art direction characters seem alive and natural. of the Ninja Theory Limited’s lat- They capture a nuance that has alest are among the best this gener- ways been amiss in video game per-
formances. The world feels equally inspired. Players climb and run through a post-apocalyptic United States full of bright green and red flora under a cool, blue sky. Unfortunately, playing the game isn’t nearly as enticing as uncovering the secrets of the plot. “Enslaved” is a jack of all trades, but master of none. You sneak, shoot, fight, solve puzzles and climb stuff. All these elements are equally superficial and contrived in their execution. Nearly every battle and obstacle feels like filler in between memorable set pieces and cutscenes, but
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the game delivers when it counts. “Enslaved” opens with one of the most intense, awe-inspiring introductions in some time. You escape from an airborne prison ship, jumping across wings as the ship squeezes between weathered New York skyscrapers covered in weeds. It’s in these great moments of spectacle, when the tight leash of its game play goes unnoticed, that “Enslaved” succeeds.
Grade: B For fans of offbeat sci-fi, “Prince of Persia” and ancient Chinese literature Shereen Ayub | Daily Texan Staff
story: Webcomic ‘Puke Force’ provided break from book
Ula Uberbosen steps up to perform at the air sex competition at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz on Tuesday evening. The Air Sex World Championship has been on its 2010 tour since July 28.
to start something as a joke and then get too serious. Then before BC: Yeah, “Puke Force” takes I know it, it’s just turned on me place in the world where “Nin- — yet another stressful event in ja” [Chippendale’s first book] my life I have to work on! takes place. When I was doing “If ‘n Oof” I would just have figDT: Did you feel this way ments of ideas I knew I couldn’t with “Maggots”? When did you use. You know, a bit too jok- feel that became serious? ey then what I was going for. BC: Well, that never became “Puke Force” was just me doing serious. I mean, that was drawn a page every once in a while. It’s maybe, ’96 or ’97. got these old characters, and it’s fast. “If ‘n Oof” was such a long, DT: You were a screen-printdrawn-out process that I want- ing major at the Rhode Island ed something that could balance School of Design right? it out. BC: Yeah! Well, the major is And now that I’m getting into printmaking, with other aspects that, well, I’ve got this tendency of that like etching or lithogra-
play: Lewis’ wife receives attention
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phy. But screen printing is what I took out of it, because it’s the one thing you can set up at home really easily. It was the one thing that you could continue outside the school. DT: That’s cool. Alright, let’s get back to “If ‘n Oof.” I read in the Robot 6 interview that “If ‘n Oof” was panels of “Ninja” blown up to the size of the page. When you started making “If ‘n Oof,” were you using this format? BC: When I first made them they were these tiny little books, but it was; the first comics were these tiny little comics per page.
And yeah, the book is just the ON THE WEB: same idea: to create these Read the full interrhythmic view with Brian Chippendale images per @dailytexan page. online.com
D T: I w a s a hundred pages into “Maggots” before I finally figured out, “You’re supposed to read it that way!” BC: Especially with “Maggots,” it barely makes sense if you read it the right way and probably makes just as much sense if you read it the wrong way.
insisting that their relationship is completely platonic. When tor. Lewis meets and befriends Gresham contracts a deadly Joy Gresham, a brash American form of bone cancer, only then writer and poet. The two de- does Lewis discover his true velop a strong, intellectual and feelings for his legal wife. emotional friendship, much to Linda Miller Raff, who plays the chagrin of Lewis’ disap- Gresham, is glad that “Shadproving brother and friends. owlands” has brought attenWhen Gresham leaves her tion to Gresham’s legacy. abusive, alcoholic husband for “She’s kind of gotten suba new life in England, she calls sumed under [Lewis’s] legend,” upon her friend Lewis for help. Raff said. “I’m really pleased that Lewis secretly marries Gresh- people are getting to know her, am so that she may go on liv- because she’s kind of been foring in England, all the while gotten in American literature.”
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If ‘n OOf
Artist creates vibrant, rhythmic adventure book Creator’s cinematic style makes graphic novel pop with larger than life color By Ao Meng Daily Texan Staff Brian Chippendale’s new book “If ‘n Oof” is a rollicking adventure comic that reads like an explosion of fun and energy. “I kind of picture ‘If ‘n Oof’ as one long ’70s jam,” Chippendale said. “It’s got that pace, and every once in a while a pretty melody will crest as you’re grooving away.” “If ‘n Oof” is an impressive object, almost as thick as it is wide. The cover, a collage work with drawings, screen printings, scraps of paper and spray-paint trails, is crazy with color. Clocking in at 650 pages, the comic’s chapters are amusingly referred to as “Giants.” Each page is one giant panel, making the door-stopper a fun and rhythmic read. And he fills those pages in with super dense and detailed art; one gets the sense that Chippendale had to really pack it in, with the comic’s proper beginning and ending within the book’s endpapers. His choppy line is tightly controlled, kind of like a punk Gary Panter (“Jimbo”), if Gary Panter could get more punk rock. “My favorite comics have always been comics that read really cinematically,” Chippendale said. “They lead you around the page and you can see how the characters and figures move and whether the Brian Chippendale’s newest comic book “If ‘n Oof,” is about adventure and awesomeness in a world sorely lacking both. movements make sense. I love it was a little stressful at the time, trythat stuff.” Characters have experienced ing to finish [“If ‘n Oof”], getting ready A story about two best alterations since they were first for the art show and a Lightning Bolt friends (If, a tall boy whose all at the same time. It felt a little head looks like a volleyball created in a Kinko’s 10 years ago tour crazy but somehow I pulled it all off. with Dumbo ears, and Oof, By Ao Meng a small, mute dude with inDT: I read in an interview [with Daily Texan Staff visible pockets that can store The Daily Texan got a chance to talk Robot 6] that you didn’t work on “If an infinite amount of things) to artist Brian Chippendale about his ‘n Oof” in order. Could you tell me who go on a video-game-innew book “If ‘n Oof,” his previous about the process of coming up with spired quest to overthrow a tyworks and how to make comics that the characters? Because it does feel rannical king in a post-apocalike these characters were around a read with cinematic flair. lyptic wasteland, “If ‘n Oof” long time before you started doing seems to be a look into a dark the book proper. The Daily Texan: I know you do a and twisted fantasy world as BC: Mat Brinkman was making these lot of stuff. You got Lightning Bolt as viewed through the eyes of exwell as other musical projects. I heard mini comic at Kinko’s, and just to make tremely positive characters. At you did a show a couple of months fun, I drew it in the Kinko’s. It was the one point, a denizen in a blastback for Cinders Gallery; would you fastest, crappiest comic. If walks up to ed nightmare realm tells Oof, a tree, looks up and sees one lone aplike to talk about that? who has been battling the likes Brian Chippendale: Sure. Cinders is ple on the tree. So he throws Oof at the of ice cream androids, caped a Brooklyn gallery, and I filled it with tree to knock the apple down. And that ninjas and swarms of roamI don’t remember how many pieces. was the first relationship; it was origiing cannibals, that he’s the first It isn’t a huge gallery, but I packed it nally a little more brutal. If was kind bright-eyed fellow he’s seen in with these collages and drawings, big of a jerk, and Oof got thrown around. a long time. colorful collages made of silk-screen And then I made a few more minis in prints and drawings. It was fun. Well, the same size over a couple of years COMIC continues on page 13
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— it was totally not serious. And then suddenly, I dreamed up like this big story and it got more serious. And I think If and Oof were in this other comic that was never finished. I drew a hundred pages of a comic probably around 2000 or something; it was one of many things that unfinished. It’s now kinda sitting there, but [If ‘n Oof] appear at the end of that one, as just a couple of characters in this huge gang. So yeah, they’ve been around but no one’s really seen them. DT: Yeah, that’s no surprise to me considering the huge amount of projects you’re involved in. Along with all your musical enterprises you’re also doing “Puke Force,” a webcomic being serialized on Picturebox’s website. Were you working on “Puke Force” at the same time you were finishing up the book? Just a continuous stream of work?
Self portrait by Brian Chippendale
Personal life of C.S. Lewis portrayed by theater group By Katie Stroh Daily Texan Staff For three weekends this November, Austin-based theater group the Trinity Street Players present “Shadowlands,” a play based on the life of famed British author and Christian apologist C.S. Lewis. Most people are familiar with Lewis’ works, most notably his beloved “Chronicles of Narnia” children’s series among others. However, few know very much about Lewis’ personal life. “Shadowlands,” adapted by William Nicholson from
his own film of the same name, reveals the secret passion of the man behind the enchanted world of Narnia. The Trinity Street players are a faith-based theater group grown out of the First Baptist Church of Austin. “Shadowlands” deals with, among other themes, Lewis’ struggle with his own faith after the loss of his wife Joy Davidman Gresham. Whether or not viewers are Christian, they can appreciate the play’s exploration of the purpose of emotional suffering — what Lewis called
God’s “megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” Director David McCullars did extensive research on both Lewis and Gresham to better understand their motivations and personal convictions. “Because he was previously an atheist, [Lewis] comes at Christianity from a very practical point of view,” McCullars said. “He was a logical person. He really wanted to create Christianity for the layperson. But at the same time he was all about fairy tales and magic. The marriage of those together is really what makes his writings special.” “Shadowlands” centers around Lewis’ later life, after he had converted from atheism to Christianity and had already become a successful and well-known author and ora-
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TiCkeTS: Performances are free, but please reserve seats at (512) 476-2625.
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VanquIsh, EnslaVEd: OdyssEy tO thE wEst
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“Enslaved: Odyssey to the West” fills the sci-fi void “Avatar” left with its lush, colorful world and strong virtual performances.
Battles, graphics captivate players thing lovably bad about 1980s video game protagonists, the player will rocket through battle arenas Vanquish (PS3, Xbox 360) that look like the spotless white Western game design over the future of “Tron,” while slowing last five years owes more to Shinji down time for critical shots. GideMikami than anyone on this conti- on’s suit is equipped with jet boots nent. “Resident Evil 4” (2005) pop- that let the player boost from covularized the third-person shooter er to cover, a necessary task givgenre so familiar today, and “Van- en their temporal protection. The quish” seeks to reinvent it with a sleek design and fast-paced acfocus on core mechanics and un- tion is what separates “Vanquish” abashed attitude once so preva- from its competitors. Where “Unlent among Japanese video games. charted” and “Gears of War” plod Playing as Sam Gideon, a charac- through their self-serious, cineter that seems to embrace every- matic campaigns, “Vanquish” enBy Allistair Pinsof Daily Texan Staff
courages players to blaze through the game’s eight hours for a high score. The game’s nonsensical story and macho characters with horrible one-liners are a breath of fresh air. No emotional interplay is necessary when you are gliding between collapsing buildings and firing rockets at giant robotic spiders — so why bother? This isn’t Mikami’s answer to “Uncharted 2.” This is the game you daydreamed about during history class in 1997.
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