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New York Times writer discuss Madoff fraud

Through extensive writing and research, Diana Henriques has become an expert on the Bernie Madoff fraud incident, which involved one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history.

She will discuss both the media and financial aspects. Join her from 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. in the TNH building’s Francis Auditorium 2.114.

Battle Hall turns 100

The Centennial Celebration kicks off at Jessen Auditorium at 5 p.m. and a reception will take place in the Architecture & Planning Library afterward that includes tours of this historical building and refreshments.

Wizard World Austin Comic Con

Join fans, celebrities and industry professionals for a weekend-long comic convention. The event kicks off at 4 p.m. today at the Austin Convention Center. Depending on what package you purchase, tickets range from $25-$150.

Bob Schneider at ACL Live

See Austin local Bob Schneider play Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater tonight at 9 p.m. Doors open at 8:30 p.m.

Tickets range between $20 for balcony seats and $45 for a VIP meet-and-greet session.

Today in history In 1918 Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies, bringing the fighting of World War I to an end at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

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Senior Micah Harbour sits in a formula car he has logged more than 400 hours building in a machine shop underneath the ETC building on campus. Harbour is a member of UT’s student chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers, which placed eigth out of eighty teams last June.

By Allie Kolechta Daily Texan Staff

A student organization left most other schools in the dust after doing better than ever at an international car racing competition this year.

The University’s student branch for the Society of Automotive Engineers was created in 1981 and designs and builds a race car each year to enter into the Formula SAE competition.

Formula SAE is the largest intercollegiate competition in the world and consists of 400 teams, team manager Mark Wise said.

The team typically races every summer and will race in Nebraska in June this summer, he said.

“With all of this buzz about Formula One going on, we’ve got that here and we’ve had it here prior to all that buzz,” he said.

“SAE is a student-run race team.

There’s a team of Longhorn racers, and I think it’s important for

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people to recognize that.”

SAE allows students to network with employers in the automotive industry, said Micah Harbour, team captain and suspension lead. As suspension lead, he is in charge of anything involving the car’s suspension system.

“We can apply what we learn in class and get some hands-on experience,” he said. “It’s a fun way to get a learning experience with real engineering cases.”

Other hands-on experienc-

es offered by engineering organizations include a group that builds small airplanes for competition and a Rube Goldberg competition, which involves creating complicated systems to do simple tasks, Harbour said.

At the Formula SAE competition last June in California they placed eighth out of 80, which is the highest percentage they’ve ever placed, he said.

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Campus resources for student veterans are getting a home today in a new student center dedicated to students who have served in the military.

Juan Gonzalez, vice president for Student Affairs, will host the dedication ceremony for the Student Veteran Center for Veterans Day at 11 a.m. today for Veterans Day, and speakers at the ceremony will include congressional members. A reception for student veterans and an open house for the student body will follow.

The center, which is located on the fourth floor of the Student Services Building, will help veterans transition from combat to the classroom, help establish a sense of community and educate student veterans on their resources, said Assistant Dean of Students Latoya Hill.

“This is a monumental event for the University,” Hill said. “They’ve put so much energy into making us a military-friendly school. This is another step in supporting those who have served.”

Margarita Jimenez founded the Student Veterans Association with two friends when she started attending UT seven years ago after the three discussed the lack of veteran resources on campus, she said.

“We were thinking about what was available to students and what we would like to see,” she said. “We wanted to have that same camaraderie and connection with other veterans who’ve had other similar experiences as non-traditional students.”

The Student Veterans Association

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Students battle it out in Penn State University firings rile campus real estate competition

By Jody Serrano Daily Texan Staff

By Jody Serrano Daily Texan Staff

Real estate graduate students from 16 universities across the country competed for cash prizes and top honors at the McCombs School of Business’ 10th annual Real Estate Challenge this week.

This year’s challenge attract-

ed some of the most distinguished real estate students from programs across the nation, including the winners from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and attracted leading corporate sponsors. Glenn Lowenstein, a partner at the Lionstone Group real estate

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Quote to note We’ve always set the bar high at Texas.

We’re not going to change that. And we’ve told those guys that they came to the University of Texas because, you know, where our program has been, and we still want more. There’s no question.

Students who served given benefit center

had heard anything about it be- al arts honors last spring and curfore. Penn State’s Board of Trust- rently studies higher education UT alumnus Brad Kurz was ees dismissed Paterno for failing administration at Penn State. Kurz said before he got to Penn State he writing a paper Wednesday night would joke with his friends that when he heard Pennsylvania State Paterno was like a mascot they University’s Board of Trustees had only let out for games. He said his fired long-time football coach Joe perception of Paterno has changed Paterno. Moments later, Kurz heard since he got to Penn State. a police officer pass by his room.

“Just being around and seeing “He said ‘there is a mob of stuhis impact, you have to grow close dents trying to break into the main to ‘Joe Pa,’” Kurz said. “I don’t even building,’” Kurz said. “He came know half of the stories, but what I back a few moments later and said do know is so impactful, so incredithe students were heading towards ble.

I’ d be blind not to be impacted.”

Beaver Street, the main site of the —Brad Kurz, Kurz said although there is an protest [Wednesday].”

Penn State student ethical debate surrounding PaPaterno’s dismissal and the subterno’s actions, students still want sequent student riots after the him to stay. announcement made nation“The feeling here is that ‘Joe al headlines yesterday night and Pa’ is Penn State,” Kurz said. “He spurred conversation on many to report rape accusations against and have wife have created tradicollege campuses. Kurz said stu- his former assistant football coach tions here and have given so much dents were in a state of shock that Jerry Sandusky. quickly turned to anger after the Kurz graduated from UT with announcement, because no one a degree in psychology and liberPENN continues on PAGE 2

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“The feeling here is that ‘Joe Pa’ is Penn State.”

Elisabeth Dillon | Daily Texan Staff

Real estate graduate students Brian Thomas, Jason Levine and Allen Logue finished competing in the 10th annual Real Estate Challenge on Thursday. The competition, hosted by the McCombs School of Business, featured sixteen teams from universities across the nation.

Unknown environmental effects revealed through butterflies

By Omar Gamboa Daily Texan Staff

Studying the dispersal patterns of butterflies has led to ground-breaking research in understanding the biological harm done by climate change, said biology graduate student Nikhil Advani.

With his research on the effects of global warming, Advani said he want-

ed to show a broader perspective of the problem instead of focusing on the effects of weather or people as is usually done.

“The news usually neglects biological impacts of climate change,” Advani said. “I feel butterflies are so sensitive, and we can gain so much in-

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Penn State students and others gather off campus following the firing of football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier amid the growing furor over how the school handled sex abuse allegations against an assistant coach on Wednesday.

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Advani said he attributes the usefulness of focusing on the Glanville Fritillary butterflies to their limited dispersal abilities and takeoff temperatures. This means the butterflies tend to not migrate because they lack flexibility and their bodies need to reach certain temperatures to be able to fly.

However, to measure their temperature, a thermal photograph needs to be taken at the perfect time, which is a very frustrating process, but reveals ON THE WEB: how climate is changing the Check out the butterflies, video online at: Advani said.

The point bit.ly/dt_video of measuring this is the hope that others will use the data to incorporate it to future species distribution models, Advani said.

An accumulation of other such studies would lead to better understanding rather than crude models that already exist.

Ecology, evolution and behavior graduate student Ben Liebeskind said he knew Advani as a good guy but not about what he does. He said he learned about the cool system of de-

tailing precise effects of climate on a specific species that Advani is working with.

“I think the value is that if you want to be making predictions, you have to mix physiology and climate,” Liebeskind said. “And it’s not just predicting, it’s about getting right down to it.”

Professor Larry Gilbert, who has also worked with butterflies, said not even natural selection would help the butterflies survive if changes keep up.

“As these populations may be pushed into extreme environments, they’ll begin losing numbers so that they just lose variation,” Gilbert said.

The presentation was a part of the Science Under the Stars series, featuring graduate students interested in reaching out to broader audiences with the research they are conducting.

Graduate student and event organizer Eben Gering said hosting the events outdoors by the Brackenridge Field Laboratory gives the public the sense that science doesn’t have to be confined to the lab.

“We have a couple of goals, specifically to give grad students the opportunity for outreach,” Gering said. “Our education doesn’t really give training for public speaking.”

Rebecca Rodriguez | Daily Texan Staff

Nikhil Advani, an ecology, evolution and behavior graduate student, holds small caterpillars, which he uses for his research on the dispersal patterns of butterflies to understand the biological harm done by climate change.

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money to charities. Everywhere you go, you see their names.”

Rachel Perrotta, political science sophomore at Penn State, said students will hold a candlelight vigil for the victims of Jerry Sandusky Friday night. A group of Penn State alumni have also recently partnered with the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, an organization providing support for victims of sexual abuse, with a goal to raise $500,000, one dollar for each of Penn States’ alumni, according to the organization’s website.

Paterno released a statement Wednesday saying he was disappointed with the Board of Trustees decision, but he had to accept it. Before the Board announced their decision he said he would retire at the end of the season.

“This is a tragedy,” Paterno said in the statement. “It is one of the great sorrows of my life.

With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more.”

Glenn Frankel, dean of the School of Journalism, said the only moment equivalent to the firing of Joe Paterno is when Margaret Thatcher stepped down as prime minister of the U.K. “It was a very sudden thing,” Frankel said. “She thought she was going to be there until the end, then the wise men of the Conservative Party came to her and told her ‘it’s over.’”

This sits ver y well with the modern American narrative that no institution can be trusted and everyone in authority is like the emperor with no clothes, Frankel said.

“Anyone or any institution that has power and authority over other people needs to be looked at and held accountable,” Frankel said. “That applies to Joe Paterno, Penn State, UT and any other institution.”

Student Government president Natalie Butler said although she thought Paterno was a great football coach the incident was tragic and she felt bad for all of the victims.

“I don’t think people in that position have a higher moral obligation,” Butler said in response to allegations that Paterno should have known better. “It is unfortunate this is the way his career had to end.”

Engineering senior Phillipe Brady said he always thought of Paterno as the grandfather of college football and a stand up guy. He said Paterno was to Penn State what Mack Brown is to UT — they represent all that’s good at their university.

“I don’t think that would happen here, and if it did I don’t know what I would do,” Brady said. “It’s frightening to see someone that good fall as far as Joe Paterno.”

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The team’s success in California can be attributed to a healthy mix of good teamwork, good leadership and a team that had plenty of spare time to dedicate to the project, the team’s faculty advisor Ron Matthews said. Matthews founded the student branch during his second year on faculty at UT. “We’re doing well this year.

We’ve got good team leadership and good team chemistry,” he said. “I think we’ll do well if we can come up with sufficient money.”

The team is funded primarily through oil company sponsorships and the Dean’s Office of the Cockrell School of Engineering, but this year money has been particularly hard to come

across, Matthews said. The team requires between $25,000 and $35,000 each year in order to engineer their car for the Formula SAE competition, he said.

“We perceive this competition as the equivalent to a basketball game or a football game,” he said. “You’re asking a guy who’s had football tickets for 33 years, so I would know.”

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provides student veterans with access to resources such as clearing houses, which help provide financial services, and related organizations, she said.

“When someone says the word ‘veteran,’ it’s not just one thing,” she said. “This organization was started by three women who served in three different branches. It’s so diverse; we come from many different backgrounds, political view-

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points, career paths and research interests, but somehow this experience of serving brings us together.”

Tania Nesser, an international relations and global studies sophomore, started off her first semester at UT this fall with UT’s first veterans’ banquet to welcome veterans to UT and educate them on resources that were available. The University also recently hired a veteran liaison for

student veterans to go to for direction on issues such as mental health, finances and the GI bill, she said.

“I kind of had it easier than most veterans because I’ve been friends with [Margarita Jimenez] since we were in basic training,” she said. “It seems to me that the services being provided now have grown. The veteran center is going to make it grow even more.”

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firm, said his firm sponsors the competition because the partners really believe in the Real Estate Finance and Investment Center at UT and want to offer graduate students a real-life experience.

“I’m an investor nationally, and I think this real estate center has the potential to become the best in the U.S.,” Lowenstein said. “We especially support it so the best real estate students from around the nation can come and compete.”

Lowenstein said his firm plans to continue sponsoring the competition in the future.

Students in the challenge competed in teams of six and had four days to analyze a case sponsored by investment firm J.P. Morgan, identify the issues of the case and develop a solution. The teams then presented their findings in 20-minute PowerPoint presentations to a panel of real estate executives who judged them on analytics, judgment and clarity of presentation, Lowenstein said.

This year’s challenge included teams from Duke University, New York University, University of California at Los Angeles and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, among others.

connect with one another, so one of the most exciting aspects of the center is a TV lounge for veterans to relax and bond, Nesser said.

“A lot of us are older so it’s a place where we can go to talk to other veterans,” she said. “It’s really important for the transition that someone makes from a military environment to an academic environment.”

Christina Griego, administrative associate in the Department of Finance, said every school has to be invited in order to participate in the conference. She said McCombs chose their team through a specific application process.

“The quality of the teams and the quality of the case is different from last year,” Griego said.

Business graduate student Brian Thomas competed for UT in the challenge and said it was a great opportunity to get hands-on experience and get exposure to industry leaders. Thomas said his team worked on it every hour they could and that deal structures, understanding of the other parties’ interest and understanding of the finance market were major components in the competition.

Although UNC-Chapel Hill took the grand prize, Thomas said all the teams brought different skill sets and perspectives to the case and that UNC deserved to win.

“I’m not disappointed,” Thomas said. “You can spend a lot of time reading a book, but the only way to really learn is to experience it.”

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Italy, Greece to replace leadership during crisis

NEWS BRIEFLY Iran leader issues stiff warning against first world provocations TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s supreme leader says that if the United States and Israel attack Iran, Tehran’s response will be tough.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says such a strike would provoke Iran to respond with “a strong slap and an iron fist.”

His remarks were broadcast on Thursday by Iran’s state radio — two days after the U.N. atomic agency released a report that for the first time said Iran is suspected of conducting secret experiments whose sole purpose is developing nuclear arms.

The report was the IAEA’s most unequivocal yet in suggesting Iran is using the cover of a peaceful nuclear program to produce atomic weaponry. Iran insists it is pursuing nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday also slammed the IAEA report.

Russia nears WTO membership after 20 years of big capitalism GENEVA — Russia cleared a major hurdle toward opening up its huge oil-driven economy Thursday, with negotiators agreeing to final terms that would allow it to join the World Trade Organization after an 18-year effort.

Under the deal, Russians would be able to buy European-made cars and trucks, furniture, clothes and all sorts of consumers goods and industrial machinery at far lower prices.

For their part, Russia would be able to sell its oil and gas more efficiently — and its steel industry would no longer be subject to Europe’s quotas imposed on non-WTO members.

“That means, by definition, all aspects of market access. It’s about a 5 percent increase in European exports, just because of WTO accession,” Peter Balas, the European Commission’s deputy director-general for trade, told The Associated Press. “In these difficult economic times, it’s a substantive, positive effort.”

Until now, Russia has been the only member of the Group of 20 leading economies still outside the WTO. Once that is approved, Russia would become a WTO member 30 days after it notifies WTO that it has ratified membership — presumably early next year.

Economic outlook kind of bright despite weak labor market WASHINGTON — The outlook for American jobs and trade looked a little brighter Thursday, despite growing uncertainty overseas.

The number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week fell to a seasonally adjusted 390,000, the Labor Department said Thursday.

That’s the fewest since April.

The U.S. trade deficit narrowed to $43.1 billion in September, its lowest point of the year, the Commerce Department said. Foreign sales of American-made autos, airplanes and heavy machinery pushed exports to an alltime high.

The data suggest layoffs are easing and the economy grew slightly better over the summer than the government had estimated a month ago.

The reports “are modestly strong relative to expectations — encouraging confidence that the economy is gaining a bit of momentum,” said Pierre Ellis, an analyst at Decision Economics.

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Protesters react and shout slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, known for brutal crackdowns in recent months, in Taiz, Yemen on Thursday.

Yemeni protesters meet gunfire

By Jamal Al-Jashini The Associated Press

SANAA, Yemen — Gunmen in civilians clothes opened fire on anti-government protesters in Yemen’s capital, and tanks shelled residential neighborhoods in another major city, killing a 13-year-old boy and leaving at least a dozen people wounded Thursday, witnesses and a medical official said.

The attacks came as thousands of activists marched in the capital Sanaa and in the central city of Taiz, calling for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to face trial for his government’s crackdown on protesters.

For nearly 10 months, protesters have filled streets and public squares across Yemen, calling for the oust-

er of Saleh, who has been in power for three decades. While Saleh’s security forces have used deadly force to suppress the protests, international diplomacy has failed to resolve the crisis.

The U.N. Secretary General’s special envoy to Yemen, Jamal bin Omar, arrived in the country Thursday to seek progress on a U.S.-backed proposal to end the crisis. The plan was put forward by Yemen’s powerful Gulf Arab neighbors.

Under the plan, Saleh would step down and pass power to his vice president in exchange for immunity from prosecution. Saleh has agreed to the proposal three times, only to refuse to sign at the last minute.

Many Yemeni activists criticize the proposal for granting Saleh im-

munity and allowing him to stay on as head of the ruling party. They complain that it falls short of the democratic reforms and new government they want their uprising to achieve.

Thousands took to the streets in Sanaa and Taiz Thursday to call for Saleh to stand trial for his government’s deadly crackdown.

In Yemen’s second largest city, Taiz, tanks shelled residential neighborhoods, destroying several buildings, and security forces opened fire on a protest in the city’s center, killing a 13-year-old boy and wounding nine others, a medical official said.

The medical official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters.

ATHENS, Greece — Europe’s financial crisis eased Thursday as Greece installed a respected economist to replace its prime minister and Italy appeared poised to do the same — both hoping that monetary experts can do better than the politicians who drove their nations so deeply into debt.

The announcement in Athens — coupled with the prospect that volatile Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will be ushered out soon — quieted market fears, at least for now, that turmoil in Europe could threaten the global economy.

But significant challenges remain in both debt-heavy Mediterranean countries.

Greece’s new prime minister, Lucas Papademos, a former vice president of the European Central Bank, must quickly secure the crucial loan installment without which his country will go bankrupt before Christmas, and approve the EU’s $177 billion bailout deal.

In Italy, lawmakers have to pass new austerity measures over the next few days. However, expectations that respected economist Mario Monti will lead an interim technocratic government after Berlusconi goes helped lift the gloom.

Monti, 68, now heads Milan’s Bocconi University, but he made his reputation as the European Union competition commissioner who blocked General Electric’s takeover of Honeywell.

Still, the European Union warned that the 17-nation eurozone could slip back into “a deep

and prolonged” recession next year amid the debt crisis. The European Commission predicted the eurozone will grow a pallid 0.5 percent in 2012 — much less than its earlier forecast of 1.8 percent.

Europe has already bailed out Greece, Portugal and Ireland — but together they make up only about 6 percent of the eurozone’s economic output, in contrast to Italy’s 17 percent. Italy, the eurozone’s thirdlargest economy, is considered too big for Europe to bail out. It has a mountain of debt — $2.6 trillion — and a substantial portion of that needs to be refinanced in the next few years.

The 64-year-old Papademos, who also served as Bank of Greece governor, will lead a government backed by both Greece’s governing Socialists and the opposition conservatives until early elections, tentatively set for February.

Many Greeks are angry after 20 months of government austerity measures, including repeated salary and pension cuts and tax hikes to meet the conditions of the country’s first bailout. Despite the belttightening, the Socialist government repeatedly missed its financial targets as Greece fell into a deep recession, amid rapidly rising unemployment.

Papademos’ appointment followed 10 days of political turmoil triggered by Papandreou’s shock announcement that he wanted to put the latest European bailout deal to a referendum. Fears that the agreement would be defeated led to mayhem on international markets and angered both European leaders and his own Socialist lawmakers.

African black rhinoceros extinct from hunting GENEVA — The Western Black Rhino of Africa has been declared officially extinct, and two other subspecies of rhinoceros are close to meeting the same fate, a leading conservation group said Thursday.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature said a recent reassessment of the Western Black Rhino had led it to declare the species extinct, adding that the Northern White Rhino of central Africa is now “possibly extinct” in the wild and the Javan Rhino is

“probably extinct” in Vietnam, after poachers killed the last animal there in 2010.

A small but declining population of the Javan Rhino survives on the Indonesian island of Java, it added.

“A lack of political support and willpower for conservation efforts in many rhino habitats, international organized crime groups targeting rhinos and increasing illegal demand for rhino horns and commercial poaching are the main threats faced by rhinos,” the group

said in a statement accompanying the latest update of its so-called Red List of endangered species.

About a quarter of all mammals are at risk of extinction, IUCN said, adding that some species have been brought back from the brink with successful conservation programs.

The Southern White Rhino numbered just 100 animals at the end of the 19th century, but has John Kuntz | File photo from The Plain Dealer since flourished and now has a Inge, a black rhinoceros at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, receives a population of more than 20,000.

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The colonel comes back with more than his secret recipe LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A manuscript hidden for decades shows Colonel Harland Sanders was more than an entrepreneur with a special fried chicken recipe and a vision that helped create the fast-food industry.

It reveals that the white-jacketed man had his eye on another lucrative market — celebrity food books.

The recent discovery of the unpublished text shows that while Sanders was helping build Kentucky Fried Chicken into a global brand, he was recording his life and love of food for the world.

The typewritten manuscript from the mid-1960s was found recently by an employee rummaging through KFC’s archives.

The approximately 200-page document is full of homespun anecdotes and life lessons. It also includes a helping of his favorite personal recipes.

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Friday, November 11, 2011 | THE DAILY TEXAN | Viviana Aldous, Editor-in-Chief | (512) 232-2212 | editor@dailytexanonline.com

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Rioting distorts sentiment Late Wednesday night, the Penn State University Board of Trustees announced its rejection of legendary head coach Joe Paterno’s offer to resign at the end of the season and fired him and the university president. However, the large gathering of students in front of Paterno’s house initially as a show of support for their beloved and longtime coach slowly transformed into a riot. Public utilities along the street were damaged, and, in a scene frequently replayed on media outlets, a news van was flipped over and beaten.

Violent rioting is an easy thing to condemn. The various Occupy protests over the past few months have showed the power of nonviolent protest and America’s collective distaste for violent confrontations. The outburst at Penn State can be, and has been, criticized as supporting a man who did nothing to follow up on a case of molestation of children over the past nine years that he knew about. In these two important senses, the rioting was reprehensible and embarrassing for a storied and respected institution, and it did a tremendous disservice to the man the protesters were trying to defend.

Many journalists have criticized the protesters and have characterized the campus as appearing to care more about football than about the victims of the alleged crimes. Yet the media’s recent focus on the rioting itself, the image of the flipped news van and the thousands of students marching the street has much the same effect. The victims should be the center of the story.

Most students at Penn State did not march, and most of those who marched did so peacefully. Judging the entire campus by the actions of a few of its students is unfair. While those responsible for the violence should be punished, they should not be given the power to change the narrative by outraged journalists.

The story of Paterno’s firing can be seen as a series of knee-jerk reactions. The Board of Trustees overreacted by immediately firing Paterno, fearing the power of a sex abuse scandal; students overreacted by rioting; and many in the media have overreacted by stressing the absurdity of the protest and further distorting the real issue: the victims.

In case of emergency

By Helen Hansen Daily Texan Columnist

THE FIRING LINE Uphold academic standards

Through the efforts and generosity of so many students and members of the UT community, Longhorns continue to show that we truly do care.

Hannah Tucker Samian Quazi’s suggestion in his column titled, “Inflate grades in STEM proCo-chair of Outreach and Development Committee, Senate of College Councils grams,” that ran in The Daily Texan on Tuesday that professors should hand out higher grades in science classes is a request for deliberately dumbing down courses. Integrative biology professor David M. Hillis’ arguments in Thursday’s firing line against grade inflation are sound, but more needs to be said on this is- In waning hours, Paterno fumbles opportunity for a final lesson sue. Students do not seem to realize that they grade themselves. Every semester, Joe Paterno, legendary head football coach of Penn State’s Nittany Lions, ansome of my best pull out way in front whereas others lag far behind. The resultnounced Wednesday that he would retire at the end of the season amid a child ing gaps in student scores determine break points between letter grades. abuse scandal that has rocked State College and captivated the country.

If we educators don’t uphold academic standards, who will?

“The Board of Trustees should not spend a single minute discussing my staEric R. Pianka Professor, Integrative Biology tus,” the coach said in a statement, “I want to make this as easy for them as I possibly can.”

Paterno — who declined to notify police after being told that his friend, forLiving up to the University’s core values mer defensive coordinator and heir-apparent Jerry Sandusky raped a 10-yearAlthough the Bastrop fires have faded from the headlines, students continue old boy in the Penn State football facilities — believed that continuing to serve to work hard through relief efforts for those affected by the fires that caused as the face of the university for five more Saturday’s after facilitating the most property damages estimated at more than $250 million. Included in these ef- devastating cover-up in sports history was somehow an appropriate response. forts was a T-shirt fundraiser organized by the Senate of College Councils and Wednesday evening, Penn State’s Board of Trustees declined Paterno’s bizarre the University Co-op. In just two weeks, with 100 percent of the proceeds from offer to finish the season and fired him along with the university’s president, the shirt sales going toward the American Red Cross, the fundraiser was able to Graham Spanier. raise more than $9,000. Although the monetary value of the donation from the Paterno, until a week ago the most beloved coach in college athletics, preached T-shirt sales pales in comparison to the generosity of many others, what stands integrity, honor and selflessness to his student-athletes for more than 40 years. out the most isn’t the amount of money raised but rather how quickly students After failing to protect an unknown number of young children from rape at the came together to reach out and help those affected by the fires. hands of his close friend in the football facilities where he ruled supreme, a quiet Through their willingness to give back to those affected, Longhorns once and immediate resignation seemed like a low hurdle and an opportunity to end again showed why they continue to change the world and truly live up to the his tenure with a scintilla of dignity.

University’s core values of leadership and responsibility.

Instead, Paterno fumbled the opportunity to impart on his students a final lesAs a fellow student and on behalf of the Senate of College Councils, I want to son: Even in the face of great personal failure and disappointment it is possible thank Co-op President George Mitchell and the University Co-op for their par- to act with integrity and to take responsibility for one’s mistakes. It is an unfitting ticipation and generosity with the fundraiser and thank all of the students who end for a once-great teacher and coach.

Michael Vitris not only purchased a T-shirt but also participated in various other fundraisers, Third-year UT law student donation drives and cleanup efforts hosted by other organizations.

If you were comatose in a hospital, wouldn’t you want your parents to know? Alarmingly, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) prevents hospitals from releasing any information about a patient’s condition to anyone if he or she is 18 years or older, including parents, unless the patient has signed a HIPAA authorization and Medical Power of Attorney document. This form allows the patient’s parents or former guardian to access medical information about you.

Giving your parents HIPAA authorization and Medical Power of Attorney lets them make health decisions for you if you are incapacitated. Your parents will be able to decide such important things such as whether to take you off life support or continue lifesustaining measures. J. Raymond Schiflett, the director of Legal Services for Students, encourages all students to sign a Medical Power of Attorney appointing someone as their agent, preferably someone near Austin, calling the protection “common sense.”

However, there is little to no information about HIPAA authorizations and Medical Power of Attorney forms given to UT students. The information and help about the Medical Power of Attorney form is there if students actively look for it at Legal Services for Students — which does not do HIPAA authorizations — but very few undergraduate students know that they need to look. Schiflett estimates that the office does about 50 will signings a year, but most are for graduate students with a spouse and children.

During orientation, the Dean of Students Office should conduct a short information session for undergraduate students and parents about these precautionary documents and the safety they promote. At the very least, a brightly colored flyer alerting students and parents to these headache-avoiding documents should be included in students’ orientation packets.

When my parents had me sign all these documents last week, I wondered, “Why have I never been told about any of this before?” By not introducing such important legal measures to us, the University does students a serious disservice. Get these documents drawn up. You could save your parents an unnecessary legal headache later on, and you will ensure that you always have your parents to represent you in the chance that you cannot represent yourself. Peace of mind is at least worth a trip to the Legal Services for Students office.

Hansen is a Plan II and public relations freshman.

LEGALESE Opinions expressed in The Daily Texan are those of the editor, the Editorial Board or the writer of the article. They are not necessarily those of the UT administration, the Board of Regents or the Texas Student Media Board of Operating Trustees.

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Medical humanities make degree worldly 65 percent of about 130 students for medical school and 70 percent of about 20 students for denTo help pre-med, pre-dental tal school. and pre-pharmacy students make “Baylor has a much higher rate themselves more attractive to pro- going into medical school, so we’re fessional schools, the Senate of Col- hoping [the rate at] UT will also inlege Councils has proposed a cer- crease,” Morton said. “Anyone entification in the humanities, said tering the health profession should Senate communcations director practice the humanities, dealing Michael Morton. with people and communicating.”

Support for a medical humaniCell and molecular biology gradties certificate program was signed uate student Kacie Gardella said by the Senate at its Nov. 10 gener- she would have liked to have takal assembly in an effort to increase en more than the two courses in the rate of pre-med students be- the humanities she remembers taking accepted to medical profession- ing as an undergraduate student at al schools. UT already offers many Louisiana State University. of the courses that would be re“They were okay, but you’d just quired for the certificate, includ- want to get them out of the way,” ing Sociology of Health and Illness, Gardella said. “Its good to not stick Philosophy of Mind and Body and to only biology. Medical schools Global Health. want to see the character.”

“There will not be an increase in Biology professor Michael Singer tuition because they are based off of said he went through college on the courses already extreme oppotaught,” Morton site of what the said. “It is essenSenate’s program tially drawing proposes. Havfrom different ing attended Oxcourses from UT ford, he said the and designed to English educaf i t s t u d e nt s’ tion system only needs.” allowed him to Morton said study zoology. the new pro“I certainly — Michael Singer, Biology professor would have liked gram wouldn’t affect teachers, to have learned but might inh u m a n i t i e s ,” stead fill up empSinger said. “I ty seats. Baywas educated at lor University, the Universi- Oxford and it was too narrow.” ty of Missouri and the UniverCo-chair of the Senate’s curricusity of South Carolina current- lum committee, Josh Fjelstul, said ly offer humanities certificates for meetings with administrators and pre-med students. deans of colleges could result in the According to the Senate’s num- implementation of the plan. bers, 58 percent of the 658 UT “We hope to see this certificate graduates who applied to medical program implemented as soon as school in 2009 were accepted and possible,” Fjelstul said. “We hope 47.8 percent of the 119 who ap- that this certificate program will plied to dental school were accept- help UT students interested in ed. Morton said the Senate hopes medicine, pharmacy, nursing and the new program will help UT get social work to differentiate themcloser to Baylor’s rate of acceptance, selves as they apply to professional which is typically between 60 and schools and [look] for jobs.”

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Everyone can be smart, professor says

By Megan Strickland Daily Texan Staff

The ability to succeed doesn’t necessarily depend on intelligence, but rather the ability to think and apply knowledge in a useful manner, said psychology professor Art Marksman.

Markman’s new book, “Smart Thinking,” to be released in January 2012, offers scientific evidence he’s encountered during his 20-year career studying the human mind and solutions aimed at making people smarter, even though they may technically be of lesser intelligence than their peers.

“Intelligence is usually this thing we try to measure with IQ tests,” Markman said. “The thing about IQ tests is that we know people who test very well but don’t really do anything all that interesting. You also have people who don’t test very well at all but go

on to do very productive work.”

The difference between these two categories of people lies in what Markman calls “smart-thinking” or the ability to take a background of knowledge and apply it in everyday tasks.

“We all have the basic tools that are required to be smart,” Markman said. “What makes one person better than another in school or in work is not some aspect of the way your mind works, but in the kind of knowledge you learn.”

Markman has spent the past six years teaching “smart-thinking” techniques that help employees of companies such as Proctor and Gamble become more effective problemsolvers. In the book, he gives many of these problem-solving strategies, including a tip he said can benefit studying students.

Markman said often students study by poring over chapters and notes re-

petitively before examinations.

“Whenever you’re trying to study for something, whenever you’re ever trying to really understand it, the best way to do that is to teach it to yourself,” Markman said.

He said if they know the material well enough to teach a lesson on the subject, they are probably more prepared than if they studied to regurgitate information.

Mechanical engineering freshman Erissa Hinshaw said she could see where this technique might come in handy.

“It would definitely help you understand a concept better if you knew it well enough to tell a friend how it works or what happened,” Hinshaw said.

Markman said a diverse university background helps students form problem-solving and analogy skills that will be useful later in life.

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Success has less to do with intelligence and more to do with the proper application of acquired knowledge, according to a new book by psychology professor Art Markman. The book, titled “Smart Thinking,” is scheduled to be released in January.

I was educated at Oxford and it was too narrow.

“The great thing about a university education is that you get to study many things that you think you might not need but you can apply to different situations later,” he said.

Students will be required to use innovative techniques and “smartthinking” skills in the workforce, Markman said.

“In the end we are going to ask people to think for a living,” he said.

“Once you graduate you are going to be put in a job where you are required to think.”

Hara Marano, editor-at-large of Psychology Today, said she believes “smart-thinking” leads to innovation, which in turn spurs job growth.

“Innovation is the quality that the economy needs most right now,” Marano said. “We can’t just be a country of consumers.”

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NCAA SOCCER TOURNAMENT

TEXAS at No. 20 SOUTH CAROLINA

Cummins leads Texas into first round of NCAA tourney

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VIRGINIA TECH

Last season the Longhorns finished on a sour note.

Despite a strong performance by current senior Kylie Doniak that resulted in the Longhorns’ only score, they fell 3-1 to James Madison in the first round of last seasons’ NCAA Tournament. This year, they face off against the University of South Carolina Gamecocks at Stone Stadium in Colombia, S.C. The Longhorns will take the field at 6 p.m. this evening, itching to erase last year’s early exit.

Texas enters today’s matchup with a season record of 11-8-1 and a Big 12 Conference record of 3-41. After upsetting Texas Tech in the first round of the Big 12 Conference Tournament this past weekend, the Longhorns were sent home in the second round after a double-over-

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Junior midfielder Kristin Cummins (3) battles a San Diego State player for the ball in a regular season game earlier this year. Cummins has scored the Longhorns’ only goal of the postseason during the Big 12 Conference tournament in a 1-0 victory against Texas Tech on Nov. 4.

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No. 5 STANFORD at No. 24 TEXAS

UT faces tough test in Stanford, Goestenkors looks to win again

By Stefan Scrafield Daily Texan Staff

Ryan Edwards | Daily Texan file photo

Sophomore guard Chassidy Fussell (24) dribbles past a defender during a game last season. Fussell returns for her second season after averaging 16.4 points per game last year.

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Freshmen will have to carry load until a leader emerges for Horns

By Sameer Bhuchar Daily Texan Staff

The Texas men’s basketball team seems to go from one young team to another just about every season.

The same holds true this year as Texas enters the 20112012 season with a corps of six freshmen and only three returning upperclassmen.

Because of this, Texas’ 27-7 record last year doesn’t carry much momentum into this season, but don’t think for a minute that head coach

Rick Barnes plans on letting off the gas.

“We’ve always set the bar high at Texas,” Barnes said.

“We’re not going to change that. And we’ve told those guys that they came to the University of Texas because, you know, where our program has been, and we still want more. There’s no question.”

He’ll be asking for that “more” to come from his three returning players, junior point guard J’Covan Brown, and senior forwards Alexis Wangmene and Clint

Chapman. Brown’s role is expected to expand the most, especially on offense. Recently named as one of the five 2011 preseason all-Big 12 Conference team members, Brown averaged 10 points a contest last season and was the team’s best freethrow shooter in only about 22 minutes of action. “[Brown] has had a great offseason. He’s got himself in the best shape he’s ever been in,” Barnes said of his start-

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Andrew Torrey | Daily Texan file photo

J’Covan Brown (14) drives past Texas A&M’s Dash Harris in a game against the Aggies last year. Brown is one of five returning lettermen from last year’s team.

Texas head coach Gail Goestenkors will look to get to 5-0 in season openers when the Longhorns take on No. 5 Stanford at home tonight.

It is the first time since 2004 that the Longhorns, who are ranked 24th, will open their season against a ranked opponent, and Stanford is the highest ranked team to visit the

Frank Erwin Center for a home opener in the team’s 37-year history.

Despite tough competition, Goestenkors and the Longhorns are confident in their veteran leadership to get the season started on a winning note.

“It starts with the three seniors that we have, Ashley Gayle, Ashleigh Fontenette and Yvonne Anderson,” Goestenkors said. “Those three have been with me through their careers and my

career at Texas, so they know what I want, what I need, what the expectations are.”

Gayle, Fontenette and Anderson, along with sophomore Chassidy Fussell, were all starters on last

No. 2 Longhorns head to SMU, hope to bounce back from loss

By Matt Warden Daily Texan Staff

The Longhorns tasted defeat last week, but with many great performances already under their belt, it won’t likely become a habit.

Despite splitting a win and a loss in the dual meets with Indiana and Michigan, Texas is swimming at a high level and is currently ranked No. 2 in the CSCAA Poll.

Senior Neil Caskey has been the most pleasant surprise this season, recently being awarded the Big 12 Swimmer of the Week honors following his four wins in the last two meets.

Sophomore Patrick Murphy looked impressive in the Southwest Collegiate Plunge, winning two events easily, and senior Jimmy Feigen turned heads in the dual meet by winning both the 50 and 100-yard freestyle events.

Senior diver Matt Cooper has been the most consistent member of the team, placing first in at least one event in both of the meets this season. His contribution will continue to be required for the Longhorns to make a run at a national title.

The Longhorns will look to get back into the win column as they head to Dallas for a meet at SMU this weekend.

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VOLLEYBALL Injuries continue to plague team, lineup undergoes more changes

By Lauren Giudice Daily Texan Staff

After Sha’Dare McNeal hurt her knee in first match of the year, the Longhorns altered their lineup to compensate. Now they face a new challenge: losing Khat Bell for the rest of the season.

“We’ve got a very talented group, and there will be players ready to step up and play at a high level,” said head coach Jerritt Elliott.

“We’re still in the national championship picture. We still have a lot of confidence in what our group can do and we’ll get this group ready.”

He said the team needs to get comfortable with the lineup and the team will work on getting acclimated with different players next to them. With six matches left on the schedule, players like freshman Haley Eckerman and senior Rachael Adams are going to need to lead the team.

Elliott said it is important that the team remembers that they are still a very good team, even without Bell.

“We’re going to have to do a lot of studying over the next couple of weeks to make sure we have the right lineup out on the floor,” Elliott said.

The No. 8 Longhorns (17-4, 101) return home on Saturday to play Kansas State, who they swept earlier this season.

SPORTS BRIEFLY San Antonio police investigating possible Penn State allegations SAN ANTONIO — Penn State’s trip to the Alamo Bowl in 1999 has attracted the interest of Texas authorities amid allegations of child sex abuse involving a former assistant coach.

San Antonio police Sgt. Chris Benavides said Thursday his department is “looking into the possibility that an offense may have happened” while the football team was in town.

Former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky faces child sex abuse charges in Pennsylvania. A grand jury report says Sandusky took one boy he allegedly molested to the game and threatened to send him home when the victim resisted his advances.

The Alamo Bowl was Sandusky’s last game at Penn State, where he coached for more than 30 years and was once the heir apparent to Joe Paterno. Paterno was fired for failing to do more about an abuse report involving Sandusky.

— The Associated Press

Cowboys moving training camp after a year away from Oxnard IRVING, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys are working to complete a deal to return their training camp to Oxnard, Calif.

Cowboys chief operating officer Stephen Jones said Thursday that the team looks forward to going back to California next year.

The new deal would be for at least three years.

The Cowboys have trained in Oxnard five times, the last in 2010 when they split camp between Oxnard and San Antonio. Camp this year was in San Antonio.

Dallas’ training camp has been in Oxnard or San Antonio since 2001.

Jones says the Cowboys are exploring ways to have a continued presence in San Antonio. He didn’t say how.

New Orleans spent a week in Oxnard for camp in August. Saints coach Sean Payton is a former Cowboys assistant.

— The Associated Press

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ing guard. “He’s emerged as the leader of this team, and we know he can score. We’re going to count on him to score. He’s going to be a marked man wherever we go play.”

Brown won’t be the only guard on the court. Of Texas’ six freshmen, four of them are guards who are expected to get significant amounts of playing time, and though they are raw, Brown thinks they’ve progressed very fast.

“When [the freshmen] got here, they were far from where we wanted them to be,” Brown said of the youngsters. “But they’ve gotten better in practice and learned the speed of the college game. They’ve buckled down and really learned to pay attention to the details.”

The four guards — Myck Kabongo, Julien Lewis, Sheldon McClellan and

Sterling Gibbs — are joined by firstyear forwards Jaylen Bond and Jonathan Holmes. Kabongo, the team’s self-proclaimed prankster, was highly recruited out of high school and is expected to make an immediate impact. A native of Canada, Kabongo played with former Texas basketball standouts Cory Joseph and Tristan Thompson in his high school days.

The Longhorns will welcome Boston University into the Frank Erwin Center on Sunday for their first game of the year. BU, 21-13 last season, is led by John Holland, who averaged 19 points and six rebounds last year.

The Terriers are an early dose of strong competition for the young Longhorns, but Barnes said he likes scheduling tough competition because he thinks Texas can handle it.

On Sunday, he’ll know for sure.

WOMEN continues from PAGE 7 year’s team and will be expected to needed. She’s also become a betcontribute on and off the court ear- ter passer. So we’re excited about ly on in the season. her progression.”

“I think we’ve all been wantThe Longhorns also got some ing more, and they’ve really made good news off the court on Thursa great commitment and become day when high school standgreat leaders,” Goestenkors said. out Empress Davenport signed The three her letter seniors, who of intent to each played in play at Texall 33 games as, startfor Texas last ing in 2012. year, averaged Davenport, a combined 31 a guard, is points, while ranked No. Fussell led the 70 in the team in scorclass of 2012 ing, averaging

by ESPN 16 a game.

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Fussell, who “Empress was named to is a trementhe Pre-S eadous athlete son All-Big 12 and one of team, is expectthe best deed to lead the fensive play—Gail Goesteakors, Head coach ers that I’ve team on both ends of the seen in a court this year. long time,” “S h e’s i m Goestenproved her kors said. game,” Goestenkors said. “She’s “She loves to pressure the ball, more fit than she was last year. push the ball in transition and And she was in good shape last her high energy will fit in well year, but she wanted to get quick- with our running and pressing er. She’s much quicker. She made style of play. She’ll be an asset to a commitment to the defensive our program and will commit to end of the floor, which is what we ‘Texas toughness.’”

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I think we’ve all been wanting more, and they’ve really made a great commitment and become great leaders.

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At the conclusion of the tournament, junior midfielder Kristin Cummins was the only Longhorn named to the Big 12 Tournament team. Against Texas Tech, Cummins scored the Longhorn’s lone goal and secured a spot against Oklahoma State in the semifinal round. Cummins’s goal was the only goal scored by the Longhorns during the tournament.

The Longhorns have been seeded against 22nd-ranked South Carolina and will meet them for the first time in school history. The Gamecocks are 15-6 on the season and 9-2 in SEC Conference play.

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Texas holds an all-time record of 18-7-4 over teams in the SEC. This season, they defeated Georgia 3-0 on the road. In what might seem like a good omen for the Longhorns, the Bulldogs turned around and beat the Gamecocks in double-overtime later in the season.

With the exception of the 2009 season, the Longhorns have been invited to the NCAA Tournament each season since 2001. This appearance marks their 10th appearance in 11 years. After a spell from 2001-2003 where the Longhorns fell in the first round of the tournament, Texas holds a 4-2 record in firstround matches.

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Cowboys giving up big plays to opponents

By Steven Hawkins The Associated Press

IRVING— The Dallas Cowboys defense is suddenly getting run over.

Rob Ryan’s group was the league’s top rushing defense on ly t wo we e k s a go. T h e n LeSean McCoy of Philadelphia ran for a career-high 185 yards against them and Seattle’s Marshawn Lynch followed with his first 100-yard game in nearly three years.

“When you’re doing well and you don’t give up 100 yards, then you do, you have to pay attention to that,” linebacker Bradie James said. “We have to definitely concentrate on that and try to fix it.”

After allowing only 418 rushing yards the first six games, the Cowboys have allowed 401 the last two — both coming when Dallas lost leading tackler Sean Lee, who dislocated his left wrist at Philadelphia and then missed the Seattle game.

Maybe they just had a couple of bad games. “ Things that are f ixable,” l i n e b a c k e r A nt h o ny S p e n cer said after watching film.

SPORTS BRIEFLY Kicker placed on injured reserve, Cowboys re-sign offensive guard IRVING — The Dallas Cowboys placed kicker David Buehler on injured reserve Thursday because of a right groin injury, ending his season.

“That’s probably the positive thing about it is because the things we are messing up on can be corrected.”

Dallas has gone from allowing only 70 yards rushing per game to 100, now 10th in the NFL. “We didn’t go from 1 to 32. So, we’ll be fine,” James said.

Coach Jason Garrett believes the Cowboys (4-4) just have to improve their execution.

“There have been some plays that teams have run against us, but we’ve defended those runs throughout the year as well.

It’s not the first time we’ve seen that,” Garrett said. “The thing that makes us feel good is we’ve defended the run really well for a large portion of the season. We’ve just got to get back to doing that.”

And fast, with Buffalo (53) and Fred Jackson, the NFL’s third-leading rusher, heading to town Sunday.

Jackson already has five 100yard rushing games this season, and his 803 yards trail only McCoy (825) and Chicago’s Matt Forte (805).

“The best rusher in the game right now, Action Jackson,”

James said. “He’s mobile. He’s the real deal. He’s a full package. We have our work cut out for us because we’ve given up a couple of 100-yard rushing games, so we’ve got to hone in on what we need to do defensively. We have to stop the run to give us a chance to win.”

Jackson also has 30 catches for 391 yards, and is the first Buffalo player since Thurman Thomas with 1,100 yards from scrimmage in the first eight games of a season.

“He’s really explosive,” Spencer said. “Whenever he has the ball in his hands, he’s a threat of scoring. We’ve definitely got to keep him under wraps.”

This is also trip home for Jackson, who went to high school in Arlington and grew up in a neighborhood that is no longer there. The area is where Cowboys Stadium now stands.

“It was a lot of fun. We were young kids playing football out in the middle of the street,” Jackson said. “It’s a completely different place than what I grew up in. So it will be a lot of fun to get back.”

Jackson has been back since

Cowboys Stadium was built, and last February he got tickets for the Super Bowl there for his parents, who still live nearby.

Lee, who is also the Cowboys’ leader in interceptions and fumble recoveries, practiced Thursday for the second day in a row wearing a big cast to protect his wrist.

“We’ll just evaluate him as he goes. We feel like he’s practiced well the last couple of days, he’s certainly trying to get acclimated to playing with that thing,” Garrett said. “We’re hopeful he’ll continue to get comfortable by week’s end and be ready to go.”

Since there is no tackling in practice, the Cowboys won’t get to see how Lee will be able to handle that wearing the bulky protection until he gets into a game. There are also the limitations on how he will be able to use that hand to shed blockers or grab loose balls.

“You make your best assessment of the situation, factoring in what he’s been able to do in the past,” Garrett said. “You watch him this week in practice, what kind of guy is he, how does he look. You put it all together and you make your best judgment.”

The move came a day after Buehler re-aggravated the injury in practice. The kickoff specialist had been back for only two games after missing the previous four.

“We felt like it was importantfor us to give him a chance to come back and kick, so we were very patient with him,” coach Jason Garrett said. “I’m not so sure that he was completely healthy.”

After Buehler was limited in training camp by the injury, rookie

Dan Bailey took over kicking field goals. Bailey has made 20 of 21 attempts, including his last 19 in a row for a Cowboys rookie record.

Buehler, a third-year player from Southern California, was 24 of 32 on field goals last season, when he had 22 touchbacks on kickoffs. He led the NFL with 29 touchbacks as a rookie in 2009, and had nine on 18 kickoffs this season.

While Garrett liked having the kickoff specialist, the team just didn’t

feel like Buehler would have time to get fully healthy this season.

“We just feel like it’s going to take him much too long to come back,” Garrett said. “Start factoring in how long he’s going to be out, how many games we’ve got left, we felt like that was the best decision for our team.”

Dallas also re-signed guard Daniel Loper, who had just been released Saturday.

— The Associated Press

Texans’ running backs give team solid one-two punch Houston (6-3) has won three in a row heading into Sunday’s game at Tampa Bay (4-4) and is HOUSTON— The Texans al- the only team with two running ready knew they could depend on backs among the league’s top 10.

Arian Foster. Turns out they can Foster, last year’s leading rusher, rely on Ben Tate, too. ranks eighth with 656 yards and

By Chris Duncan Daily Texan staff

Tate is right behind him in ninth with 623.

“It just makes the team stronger,” coach Gary Kubiak said.

“More guys contributing makes the team stronger, continues to push everybody to a new level and that’s what we’re trying to do right now.”

Foster and Tate have both run for more than 100 yards in two of the last three games. Foster has been getting slightly more carries each game, and averages 4.3 yards per rush. Tate is averaging 5.7 yards per carry, No. 1 in the league among backs with at least 100.

“I don’t think we talk about it,” Tate said. “I just kind of know he’s a competitor, and he knows I’m a competitor, so it’s not anything that needs to be said. We just go out there and show it by touching the ball and try to outdo the guy who just touched it before you.”

With Kubiak splitting their carries, the two have learned to work together on the sideline.

“Every time I come off the field I talk to him, just to kind of see what he sees and what he feels,” Foster said, “because we are both kind of going through the same thing. So it’s

good to kind of get little bits of information. I try and share everything I know with him and vice versa, so it’s a good thing we have going.”

It’s evolved almost by necessity, as both backs coped with early-season injuries.

Foster was bothered by a left hamstring strain through much of training camp and early in the regular season. Tate, a second-round draft pick in 2010, sat out last season with a broken right ankle, so he was eager to show what he could do in the pros.

T h e for m e r Au bu r n s t ar rushed for more than 100 yards in Houston’s first two games and immediately gained the confidence of his teammates.

“We knew what we had in Arian last year and what he was able to do,” tight end Owen Daniels. “It’s been impressive to see Ben come out. I’ll be the first to tell you, I didn’t expect this out of him this year. He’s worked his butt off and been really unselfish about playing.”

When Tate was sidelined with a groin injury, Foster ran for 155 yards in a victory over Pittsburgh.

Once they were both healthy, Kubiak saw no reason not to play them together.

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Woods atop leaderboard, continuing to improve

By Doug Ferguson The Associated Press

Lawrence Peart | Daily Texan Staff

Freshman point guard Myck Kabongo is one of six incoming freshmen that will be leaned on heavily to provide scoring for the Longhorns this season. A native of Canada, Kabongo was one of the nation’s top recruits at the point guard position and should play a major role for Texas.

Kabongo to play crucial role for Longhorns

By Matt Warden Daily Texan Staff

Perhaps the best pure point the Longhorns have seen since T.J. Ford, freshman Myck Kabongo has a chance to completely change the style of Texas basketball if given the chance.

The Breakdown:

Kabongo’s best attribute is his explosive speed. He gets from end to end in a heartbeat and has the agility to blow by any defender.

Add this to his excellent ball-handling, and you get a guy that can potentially make any opponent look stupid. Kabongo has slick handles, as he comfortably dribbles with both hands and could be described as a “ball-on-a-string” ball handler. Although he can get a little flashy with this at times, it plays to his advantage more often than not.

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A player that sees the floor extremely well, Kabongo displays an innate ability to find open teammates anywhere on the court. His can penetrate into the lane past defenders to provide many opportunities to drive and dish on a consistent basis. If his teammates day, month day, 2008

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can take advantage of opportunities on the perimeter, Kabongo has a chance to get 10 assists a night.

Kabongo has a very high basketball IQ, playing well beyond his years. His ability to make good decisions has made him a top point guard prospect in the class of 2011. Although he is a bit more turnover-prone than some would like at this stage, he possesses the ability to make the right decisions any time he wants.

“I’m an extension of the coach,” he said. “My job as a point guard is to facilitate. I’m trying to get my teammates in spots to score and make their jobs easier.”

Lockdown:

He is an excellent on-ball defender with the ability to be a true lockdown defender if he puts his mind to it. Any basketball fan would enjoy watching him on defense, as he constantly puts himself in the right spot to disrupt the movement of the ball.

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It should be noted that Kabongo’s best attribute could very well be his personality. He is considered a tremendous leader, both vocally and by example. It’s al-

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While Kabongo’s game is very hard to compare to any current or former star point guard, his game seems most comparable to Mike Conley of the Memphis Grizzlies — a true floor general with the quickness and intelligence to get past any defender, and a truly intelligent all-around defender, one with the ability to make any team better.

Transcendent: Kabongo should fit in well with the scheme of defensive-minded Rick Barnes, but if Barnes is willing to let Kabongo play at his own tempo, the Texas team could quickly turn into a fast-break and attacking team that will look to score the majority of their points in transition. Much like T.J. Ford was able to control the tempo of a game, Kabongo has the talent — and most importantly the speed — to dictate the pace of any game. If Kabongo is given the right amount of freedom, fans could witness the start of an era of Texas basketball that is more exciting than any before: Run-and1 gun offense at its finest.

“Whenever you push the ball up, it’s a great thing,” Kabongo said. “It’s to my advantage; I love playing fast.”

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The only true flaws that can be seen in Kabongo’s game are his inconsistent jumper and small frame. When Kabongo fills out his frame, he will be an above-average finisher as the extra strength would allow him to not shy away from contact inside and allow him to finish more on his own rather than dishing when bigger defenders step up in the lane.

Much like any novice college player, Kabongo has an inconsistent jump shot that will only get better with practice. His shot seems a bit flat, but he shows the ability to knock down shots if defenders decide to sag off of him enough.

If he adds muscle to his frame and develops a consistent jumper, he could easily turn from an average scorer to a virtually unguardable player at the point guard position.

His ceiling:

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“I’m calm, but on the courts I know the fine line between having fun and taking the game seriously, and I take the game very seriously,” he said.

SYDNEY — Tiger Woods walked off golf course to see his name atop the leaderboard Friday in the Australian Open.

Even more pleasing to him was the way he got there.

If it holds up at the end of the day, it would be his first time in the lead after any round since the third day of the Chevron World Challenge last year, and the first time against a full field since his last win two years ago in the Australian Masters. Woods was tied for the first-round lead at The Barclays last year.

“I really played well,” Woods said. “Even though I shot 5 under, it felt it could have been 8 or 9 deep.”

Peter O’Malley is a member at The Lakes and birdied his last two holes for a 66. O’Malley is memorable to some golf fans in the United States as the No. 64 seed who beat Woods in the opening round of the Match Play Championship at La Costa in 2002.

Robert Allenby, who has pl aye d w it h Wo o ds many times over the years, saw a game that was starting to look vaguely familiar.

“Probably in the last six months, that’s the best I’ve seen him play,” Allenby said. “I’ve seen him at his absolute best ... that was a different human being. He’s on his way back, that’s for sure.

“I think where he is right now is good enough to win. I think you’ll find if he keeps going the way he is going, he’ll win over the weekend.”

Woods has hit plenty of crisp shots, but if there was one that showed an increasing confidence in his swing, it came toward the end of the round on the par-5

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The shot was pure, a bullet with the slightest fade to skirt a bunker and roll onto the green.

“I hit that good,” Woods said.

“It was a slightly hanging lie and I had to start it at the bunker and just hammer it. It slid about 3 yards. That was the best shot I’ve hit the last couple of days.”

Woods still didn’t take advantage of the all the par 5s, failing to make birdie on No. 11 and No. 17, and having to settle for one when he missed a 10-foot eagle putt on the 14th. And he finally made a bogey on the 30th hole of this tournament with a drive into a dune, and an approach that left him a bad angle to the green.

He followed, however, with a 25-foot birdie putt on No. 4 that broke some 6 inches at the end and caused Woods to let out a little emotion, tapping his fist toward the ground. His only other mistake was a stinger 3-iron into the wind on the sixth that turned just enough to catch the sand amid more dunes.

A large crowd that packed into the knolls and dunes became louder the longer Woods stayed atop the leaderboard, and even some of the tournament officials appeared to get wrapped up in the day. At one point, they had his name spelled simply “Tiger” on a leaderboard.

For Woods, it was a strange sight.

“It feels good,” he said of his name listed first. “It feels good to be there playing properly.”

He says he has not forgotten how to win, and that includes the understanding that the tournament is not even halfway over.

“I’ve got two more days to go, bro,” he told one reporter. “I may not have the lead.”

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FAB Gallery features UT alumnus’ work

By Megan Strickland Daily Texan Staff

Taylor Winn, a 2011 graduate, said he may never again utilize the ceramics skills he built while working toward his degree in studio art, but he will continue to pursue painting large abstract expressionist pieces, a field he neglected to study while at UT. Nine large pieces painted by Winn, measuring up to 7 feet by 14 feet in size, will be featured in the FAB Gallery, a student run space in the Fine Arts Building designated to feature student, faculty and alumni work, until Dec. 16. Taylor said Thursday night he didn’t think UT would have allowed him to express himself fully at the exhibit’s opening.

“The reason I didn’t study painting at UT is because I didn’t believe they would let me do large pieces,” Winn said. “I feel really restricted by small pieces. If I stretch a 3-by-3 I feel really constricted. It’s really gestural what

I do. With a small piece I can’t really make long movements.”

Winn uses long movements with a stick coated in metallic paint to make twists, turns and designs that stretch the length and width of the works on top of layers of paint poured directly onto large expanses of canvas. Inspired by the work of Jackson Pollock, they retain the distinct traits of Winn’s personal style that has developed since he began painting large works in 2005 after initial encouragement by a high school art teacher.

“In the beginning, I looked at a lot of Jackson Pollock’s work,” Winn said.

“Over time as I made my own paintings I’ve developed my own style. I’ve found things I like to do and techniques I don’t like.”

Winn said the majority of painting a work is complete within 15-20 minutes, although each piece contains between 10 and 15 gallons of paint.

Winn said he uses refurbished paint, which is paint that was deemed unac-

Movie RevieW

Drake Doremus

Romance film showcases young actors’ versatility

Genre: romance Runtime: 90 minutes For those who like: Blue Valentine, Once

Grade: AAnton Yelchin, left, and Felicity Jones, right, play starcrossed lovers in the romantic drama “Like Crazy.”

By Alex Williams Daily Texan Staff

Photo Courtesy of Paramount

final shot.

Any romantic film depends on the chemistry between its leads, and it’s clear that Yelchin and Jones have it in spades from their very first scene together, a just slightly awkward first date in a coffee shop. Every scene with the two is a highlight, and even when their characters are apart, both young actors excel at showing the pain of an aching heart.

Jones in particular stands out in an absolutely knockout performance.

Her Anna is all giggle and charm until it comes time for Jones to do some dramatic heavy lifting, and when she does, she effortlessly breaks your heart, especially in a teary late-night phone call to Jacob in the middle of the film. Jones is so good here that she almost makes Yelchin unlikable as their relationship starts to fray, and her performance here should get her some awards attention if there’s any justice in the world. However, Yelchin is strong, too, his big, alien-esque eyes portraying an uncertain pain and maturity that makes him relatable, even if his character’s actions don’t always rub you the right way.

The supporting cast barely registers thanks to the fireball intensity

of the leads’ chemistry, but it’s always hard to ignore the understated Jennifer Lawrence, who brings a quiet, sad resignation to her role as Jacob’s off-and-on stateside girlfriend. Alex Kingston and Oliver Muirhead bring welcome comic relief as Anna’s parents, and their scenes over the course of the film are invariably among the film’s best.

“Like Crazy” is a film in which its biggest moments are played with the same small delicacy as its most disposable ones. It slowly becomes clear that as great as the characters are together, they’re also becoming increasingly trapped — first by the circumstances of their relationship and then by each other. It’s a bold move to make a romantic film where the central relationship is the veritable antagonist, and yet Doremus pulls it off with his strong direction and the help of his two fantastic leads. It’s this boldness and refusal to adhere to the confines of the romantic genre that make “Like Crazy” stand out, and it’s the great, irresistible chemistry between Yelchin and Jones that makes it one of the most purely affecting romantic films in years, and absolutely worth seeing.

HARRY continues from PAGE 12 SPACE Tour (short for StarKid Precarious Auditory Concert Experience) will feature songs from “A Very Potter Musical” and its sequel, as well as its other musicals “Me and My Dick” and “Starship” being sung by familiar faces like Richter and Lauren Lopez, who played Draco Malfoy in “A Very Potter Musical.”

The troupe will be performing some songs originally composed by StarKid co-founder Darren Criss, who is now a member of the cast of “Glee.” Criss got his start with StarKid by playing Harry Potter in “A Very Potter Musical” and the sequel.

This has brought a lot of attention to the group as a whole. They sell T-shirts, their music on iTunes and DVDs of their musicals. They have 78,000 followers on Twitter and an extremely devoted fan base, but Richter does not feel like the group dynamic has really changed despite the success.

“Yes, there’s a lot of stuff we do at this point that has more money behind it, and there’s a bar set with everything we do,” Richter said. “But I don’t think as performers or friends or anything, that’s really affected who we are as a group.”

By putting “A Very Potter Musical” up for free on YouTube, they made a popular musical theater experience available to anyone with a computer. The musical quickly gained two million views and today the StarKid YouTube channel has over 99 million views. Musicals

like “Wicked” are usually only available at established theaters with tickets priced anywhere from $30 to $60.

“It’s hard for people to see really cool, exciting new theater nowadays,” Lopez said. “So it’s cool to be able to bring [theater] to light and show people it’s not as inaccessible as they once thought.”

Though the internet productions have earned Team StarKid a lot of attention, neither Richter or Lopez think they will stop doing live performances. “[Live performances] are where a lot of the spark from our shows come from.

A lot of that chemistry you witness between us on stage comes from live performances,” Richter said. “I don’t think that’s an aspect we’ll ever want to lose.”

Lopez said with every project the group does become more efficient and cohesive, but their sudden Internet fame is a bond that really connects Team StarKid. “We were kind of thrown into this accelerated path that kind of exploded out of nowhere,” Lopez said. “So we’re all kind of closer because we shared that.”

The characters played by Richter and Lopez and the rest of Team StarKid are what Richter calls “exaggerated versions” of themselves. Richter described playing Ron as taking the book character to a severe extreme in regards to his personality and relationships to other characters.

“I mean, ‘A Very Potter Musical’ we did in like a week. So there wasn’t a lot of time for really deep character analysis

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buckets of paint and giant canvases torn up and stretched out. It’s a wonderful space.”

The space also contains hundreds of huge concrete mixing tubes that store the pieces, Winn said. The pieces are stored carefully until Winn shows them at galleries or sells them, he said.

Moving the work for a show or sale is a monumental task, Winn said.

“We have to rent a huge 24-foot truck,” Winn said. “You can’t even fit them in the back of a pick-up truck. Some can weigh as much as 200 pounds.”

Despite the transportation difficulties, the largeness of the art appealed

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Like Crazy

Like Crazy

Romance has always been hard to nail down in film. Not to say that Hollywood doesn’t try, with what feels like a new Kate Hudson movie every week that inevitably climaxes with an inappropriately public proclamation of eternal love, but these romantic comedies are often more about momentary infatuation than something substantial. Realistic portrayals of nuanced, adult relationships are much harder to get right, and only a few films have managed to do so in recent memory. Thankfully, “Like Crazy” is one of those films.

Felicity Jones and Anton Yelchin are star-crossed lovers Jacob and Anna, a pair of college kids who fall in love just as Anna’s student visa is threatening to expire. When Anna bucks the system and decides to overstay her welcome in the States for a few more months with Jacob, the consequences put an ocean between the couple.

Long-distance relationships are rarely depicted on film, simply because it doesn’t make a ton of sense to make a love story where your romantic leads don’t share much screen time, but “Like Crazy” pulls it off spectacularly. The film manages to avoid, and even subtly mocks, many tropes of the romance genre, and director Drake Doremus’ natural, evocative direction takes small jabs at the audience as well. Doremus makes great use of emptiness in his frame, often keeping the characters separated by the camera even when they’re together, all the way until the gutting

ceptable by consumers and brought back to retailers for resale at a discounted price.

He said this allows him to use unusual colors in his work that he might otherwise overlook. Occasionally, refurbished paint is cast off because it’s chemical composition is wrong, which can backfire, Winn said.

Winn’s paintings typically take over a month to dry, but his parents have been very supportive in allowing him to utilize their garage to create and store over 200 pieces of work, he said.

“My parents have really let me destroy the garage,” Winn said. “There’s paint everywhere really.”

Winn’s mother, Elizabeth Winn, who helps her son stretch his canvases said she disagreed.

“It’s not torn apart,” Elizabeth Winn said. “It’s just been re-characterized and re-purposed. It’s a cool space to look at. Obviously there’s paint everywhere. There’s shelves and shelves of

Visitors look at Taylor Winn’s “Large Works” exhibit in the FAB Gallery at the Doty Fine Arts building on Thursday evening. Winn, who graduated from UT last spring with a degree in studio art, will have his work displayed until December 16.

sible going into the film. Scientist Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas) lives a subdued life, giving presentations about a synthetic, hyper-resistant skin he’s manufactured using means that may be less than ethical and tending to house guest/prisoner Vera (Elena Anaya). Robert’s servant, Marilia (Marisa Paredes), goes about her tasks quietly while trying to stifle her own conscience about the obvious immorality of Vera’s captive status, but when her son Zeca (Roberto Alamo) pays a fateful visit to the family home, Robert’s carefully constructed house of cards starts to collapse.

While all that’s outlined above sounds relatively innocuous, if not a bit odd, be assured that Almodóvar has crafted a delightfully weird film here, the intricacies of its plot slowly revealing

The Skin I Live In

Pedro Almodovar

Genre: Phychological horror Runtime: 117 min.

For those who like: talk to Her, Dead ringers

Grade: B+ themselves to the audience. Almodóvar makes every revelation land with just the right amount of dramatic weight and keeps the film from getting too ridiculous or serious.

Banderas is currently packing multiplexes with families eager to hear him lend a voice to the precocious “Puss in Boots,” but his work here is the exact opposite. He delivers a creepy yet suave performance; apppropriate, as he is one of Almodóvar’s oldest collaborators.

Banderas’ intensity is nicely balanced by Anaya’s enigmat-

ic work as Vera. Until we learn Vera’s backstory in an extended flashback in the second act, Anaya is forced to play things quite mysteriously, which she does well, but truly begins to shine in the film’s back half.

For those new to Almodóvar, “The Skin I Live In” would make as good a jumping in point as any. The film is filled with strong composition, good performances, and he impeccably meshes his images with Alberto Iglesias’ memorable score to create a deeply creepy and hugely entertaining horror film.

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or anything,” Lopez said. “I mean that character is a joy to play. He’s a silly yet a very, hopefully, endearing character.”

It is thanks to these first characters and the positive reactions received from the fans that Team StarKid has had such success.

“We wouldn’t have done anything else after that because we were all kind of going our separate ways,” Lopez said of the musical. “So the fans have really made it possible for us to stick together.”

As much as they owe to the fans, Lopez and Richter would not give anything away about the tour just yet. The show will be their shortest yet, compared to the usual three or three-anda-half hour shows on YouTube. The show will be StarKid classics, Richter said, including songs like “Granger Danger” and “Kick it Up a Notch.”

“The only thing we were told to expect [about touring] is that we are going to hate each other by the end from living on the buses,” Lopez said. “So I’m hoping that doesn’t come true.”

Though Richter and Lopez are excited to meet all of the fans and new faces that have never seen a live Team StarKid performance, the fame is not something either of them are used to just yet.

“I think we all feel lucky to be able to do what we do and to be able to do it so early in our careers,” Richter said.

“But we’re all going, ‘What the hell are we doing? Who do we think we are going on this month long tour?’”

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“I’m very impressed by it,” Kovas said. “A lot of times I see art like this and I just shake my head, and say ‘Why did they even bother?’ but not this time. I would have it in my home.”

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By Elizabeth Hinojos Daily Texan Staff

Austinites have shown their affinity for specialty coffee and a particular local appeal which has maintained the demand for coffee outlets. Progress Coffee , Texas Coffee Traders and

Third Coast Coffee are successful roasters in Austin that follow unique methods which cater to its customers tastes.

Faced with coffee prices that were the highest in 34 years , those who seek their caffeine fix spent a trying summer: According the U.S. Department of Ag-

riculture, coffee prices decreased in October due to an increase in coffee supply from Colombia, Brazil and Vietnam.

Whether it’s the community appeal, the trade policy or the method of roast, Austin is turning to its local coffee outlets for a fresh cup of joe despite the cash-crunch

economy. How is it that coffee shops and roasters are thriving in the midst of a recession? It seems coffee would be a commodity cutback, as food prices climb, but instead, the country’s coffee-drinking population has maintained its demand and Austin parallels this phenomenon.

Thomas Allison | Daily Texan Staff

Austin has a number of local coffee outlets that specialize in roasting their own beans, providing much needed caffeination for countless Austinites. Some popular local roasters include, from left, Third Coast Coffee, Texas Coffee Traders and Progress Coffee.

PROGRESS COFFEE There’s personality and characteristics to each cafe, each cup and each environment which people seek and find comfort and sociability in, Joshua Bingaman, founder of Progress Coffee said.

Bingaman, a former San Franciscan, chose the east side as a location for Progress Coffee because of its resemblance to San Francisco’s Mission District. The coffee shop then became a pioneer for East side development.

“I knew what I wanted and envisioned it growing,” Bingaman said. “Events became large and we had to hire management because of the art shows, film parties and concerts.”

As Progress grew, Bingaman had the opportunity to expand.

The owner was approached by Whole Foods Market to start a roaster. “I was importing coffee from roasters across the states that were doing the older artisan

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barrel roasting,” Bingaman said.

Because of the partnership with Whole Foods Market, Bingaman was able to produce a quality that was “pleasing to the palate in Austin.”

“The barrel roaster draws more focus on the kind of bean and its quality,” Bingaman said. A barrel roaster is a fuel-burning unit which features a firebox insulated to keep outer temperatures cool while allowing for strong coking energy within the oven itself. “It allows for attention to smaller quantities of beans roasted by hand.”

Owner and founder of Texas Coffee Traders, Robert Beall also established his coffee roaster in East Austin. After running a coffee roaster in Moscow for five years and opening a coffee roaster in Montana in 1981, Beall started Texas Coffee Traders when he moved to Austin in 1993.

Texas Coffee Traders brought a level of awareness to coffee roasting that Austin had yet to see, Beall said. “There was coffee being roasted but the knowledge and base was lacking.”

Beall uses a fluid air bed roaster, where streams of hot air convectively whirl beans around in a circular motion. According to Beall, the air bed roaster is the most practical method to roast specialty coffee, making a variety of light to dark coffee available to customers.

Beall said the company controls nearly all elements that affect cof-

MOVIE REVIEW

THE SKIN I LIVE IN

Body horror flick has intriguing plot

By Alex Williams Daily Texan Staff

“The Skin I Live In” inhabits a very dark and depraved corner of the horror genre, the body horror film that directors such as David Cronenberg made famous.

Generally obsessed with the human body and ways that it can be horrifically distorted to gain groans from an audience, the genre was spotlighted earlier this year with “The Human Centipede II.” But “The Skin I Live In” manages to put that film to shame with its restrained, carefully executed story of a scientist consumed by a very strange obsession.

Trying to solve the puzzle director Pedro Almodóvar has assembled for his audience is one of the greatest delights of “The Skin I Live In,” so it’s best to know as little as posIllustration by Betsy Cooper

Theater group breathes new life into hits on first tour ever

By Sarah-Grace Sweeney Daily Texan Staff

Team StarKid, a Chicago-based theater troupe originally started by a group of theater students at University of Michigan, decided to do something unique with one of their original musical productions. After working with writers to create “A Very Potter Musical,” the group uploaded the production online, not expecting the millions of views and Internet fame that followed.

“A Very Potter Musical” is a musical parody of the “Harry Potter” nov-

els by J.K. Rowling. The idea came from a set of jokes written by Nick Lang, Matt Lang and Brian Holden who went on to write the musical. The musical features the key characters like Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermoine Granger, but combines the story with original music, choreography and jokes.

It has not been performed live for most fans because no one expected it to be more than just friends putting on a play. However, with the group’s first and almost completely sold-out tour underway, it has clearly become much more than that.

SKIN continues on PAGE 11 WHAT: Team StarKid’s the Space Tour WHERE: Antone’s

WHAT: Texas Coffee Traders ADDRESS: 1400 E. 4th St. HOURS: Mon. - Fri. 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sat. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

ROASTING METHOD: Air Roaster

fee taste, including the quality of the soil, the location where coffee plants grow and the plants’ elevation. “Better coffee grows above 3000 feet and lower quality grows below that.” Texas Coffee Traders uses coffee beans from plants at both elevations. The higher-quality coffee beans are considered the company’s specialty coffee.

Texas Coffee Traders has grown substantially and provides its coffee to the UT campus, including cafes in the Robert Lee Moore Hall and the LBJ Law School. The company also delivers its coffee to local restaurants and coffee shops.

THIRD COAST COFFEE At Third Coast Coffee, consumer education is at the base of their business model. Employee Luke AuldThomas said Third Coast educates consumers on the origin of coffee and the “many impacting steps during the coffee-making process.” The company gets its product from farmers that practice equitable trading and environmental sustainability.

“Coffee is a huge part of the global economy,” Auld-Thomas said. “We’re capitalists, and in this economy, you need a good product in order to succeed and make a large social impact.

You have to be able to provide something good.”

The company’s interest in the global economy stems from its involvement in Cooperative Coffees, a collective of 24 roasters in the United States and Canada. The co-op maintains on-theground relationships with coffee farmers from around the world.

“You can be a small local roaster and be an actively involved part of the com-

NAME: Third Coast Coffee ADDRESS: 4402 S. Congress Ave #109 HOURS: Weekdays (except Wednesdays) 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.

ROASTING METHOD: Drum Roaster

munity but still be linked in to an important and huge global trading system,” Auld-Thomas said.

Compared to Bingaman’s and Beall’s method of roasting, Jose Lozano, owner of Third Coast, decided a drum roaster would be the best alternative to roast the company beans. Auld-Thomas said people can think of a drum roaster as a “rotating pizza oven.” A set of ceramic tiles run along the bottom of the roaster, which are heated by a gas flame, and both the height and air flow of the roaster are adjustable. “The roaster itself has a large drum which tumbles coffee through while evenly dispersing the heat throughout the entire batch of beans.”

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“You go into things with expectations, and this whole situation is a perfect example [that] you can’t,” said Joey Richter, a member of the troupe who starred as Ron Weasley. “It’s going to happen the ways it’s going to happen and that’s really exciting.”

Team StarKid’s tour, called The

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