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UT System plans to push for more state funding

By Collin Eaton Daily Texan Staff The UT System’s chief governmental relations officer said Thursday that System leaders must continue to push for increased state funding during the next legislative session, even in the face of a massive state bud-

get deficit.

Barry McBee, general counsel for the UT System, said the next Legislature could face the worst budget shortfall in Texas history, and budget maneuvers used to quell the $10 billion shortfall in 2003 cannot be used again. He said UT will need more — not less

— state funding in the 2012-2013 biennium to keep up with the cost of growth.

“We will ask as further cuts are made to be treated equitably and not bear a disproportionate percentage of further reductions,” McBee said. “We all acknowledge the need of UT-Austin for

more funding in its quest to become the nation’s greatest public university.”

The previous Legislature spent $6.4 billion in temporary stimulus funds to fill its own budget gap, including $9.9 million for UT. So the Legislature will begin its session behind where it would nor-

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The New Politics Forum will hold its fall 2010 election debrief conference, which will include a look toward the 82nd Legislature and a keynote address by former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. Event starts at 1 p.m. at the State Capitol, and the tickets cost $25 for students.

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Veteran Dan Dopkant salutes while singing the national anthem. Serving in the Air Force was “the best duty I could ask for,” he recalls.

Dopkant and fellow veterans were honored under the Tower on Thursday.

‘Closer’

Joshua Radin performs at La Zona Rosa at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $17

SUNDAY ‘Bohemian Like You’ The Dandy Warhols will perform at La Zona Rosa. Show starts at 7 p.m. and tickets cost $18

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Kimber Lee, a masters in fine arts candidate, presents her play, “Fight,” at the Oscar G. Brockett Theatre. Show starts at 2 p.m. and admission is $20

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Quote to note “There’s something that’s much more important to me than money: time. You can always make more money but time is something that you can’t replace.”

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An anonymous helmet and boots, along with wreaths from various organizations, honor fallen soldiers.

Restaurants to replace vancancy on the Drag

By Allison Harris Daily Texan Staff Three new restaurants will debut next spring in the space where Follett’s Intellectual Property bookstore once stood on the corner of 24th and Guadalupe streets.

The space will host The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Qdoba Mexican Grill and Noodles & Company.

Anita Howard, controller and marketing director for Lone Star Bean, which will operate The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, said the presence of three tenants in the building has created unique challenges.

“The planning process has taken a little longer, but we are all pleased and excited about this location,” she said.

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf cafe will likely begin construction in December, Howard said.

Construction and set up will take about three months, putting the opening time at around early March. The store, the sixth in the Austin area, will occupy the ground-level corner location on 24th and Guadalupe streets, with an entrance on both streets. Howard said the local franchise chose the loca-

tion because of heavy foot traffic in the area.

A Starbucks Coffee store sits nearby at the corner of 24th and Nueces streets, but Howard said the store is not afraid of the competition.

“There are lots of potential guests in the area, and we hope to win over our share,” she said.

The Qdoba Mexican Grill will begin construction next month, said Kortney Otten, owner of franchise Q-Up Texas, LLC. The restaurant will be located on the side of 24th and San Antonio streets, directly across from Starbucks. Otten said the new location would give the franchise a greater chance to become involved in the University community.

“We feel that Qdoba brings a not only a good, fast casual alternative option but also complements the food options already in place,” she said.

Noodles & Company will open its first Texas restaurant in late spring, said corporate spokeswoman Jill Preston. The main entrance will be on the east side of the building off of Guadalupe Street.

By Amy Thornton Daily Texan Staff The nationwide Veterans Day celebrations were brought closer to home for students with a ceremony under the Tower and commemorative displays on campus Thursday.

Graduate student Nick Hawkins has a different relationship with Veterans Day than other students walking around campus. Unlike most of the student population, Hawkins spent the

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five years after his high school graduation in the military, experiencing “life abroad” on a yearlong tour of Iraq.

“Coming to UT after my time in the military was a tough transition,” Hawkins said. “Everyone is obviously younger, and the college atmosphere is completely different than the military life I had been a part of for five years.”

Hawkins is now the president of the Student Veterans Association, a social club that provides a place for veterans to go for support and camaraderie with other veterans on campus.

A talented group of performing house cats ride skateboards, jump through hoops and play in a rock band. Show starts at 7 p.m. and tickets are $15 at the door. The Marchesa Hall & Theatre.

The 2010 Austin International Wine Fest, which will include local musicians and a silent auction. The event starts at 4 p.m. and admission is free.

mally be, he said.

The state’s shortfall goes back to 2006, when legislators slashed property taxes but failed to generate enough revenue from new business taxes to sustain the budget. The sales tax also failed to

By Collin Eaton Daily Texan Staff Several academic centers in the College of Liberal Arts face budget cuts next year after a college committee recommended cuts based on performance reviews.

The centers provide classes for students who are interested in specialized courses and obtain specialized research grants for UT. The cuts from the college also affect how many grants the centers are likely to receive.

Liberal Arts Dean Randy Diehl formed the Academic Planning and Advisory Committee last year to advise him on which areas of the budget to cut in light of a $3.75 million deficit in the college. Diehl said the committee has worked hard over the course of the year to make the changes and will help him make an informed final decision. The committee began collecting data in April from each of the academic centers, which most of the centers provided by late summer. APAC made recommendations to Diehl on Friday, but there is no deadline for when the final decision on cuts will be made.

Richard Flores, liberal arts associate dean for academic affairs, said the committee chose how much to cut from the centers based on several performance metrics, including total number of semester credit hours offered, total number of students in the major and monetary input. Flores said UT told the college a year ago that its budget would remain flat over the next two years, creating a budget deficit.

“We had laid out some assumptions in our plan based on recurring money we thought we would be getting,” Flores said. “When that didn’t happen, we had to go back to the drawing board.”

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Former Secretary of State attributes success to college

By Allison Kroll Daily Texan Staff In her new book, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gives a candid view of her childhood and college years, especially how they influenced her tenure as the country’s top diplomat.

Rice stopped by BookPeople on Thursday, greeting about 350 people, to promote her new book “Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family.”

In her discussion with KXAN’s Leslie Rhode, Rice shared details of her family, childhood and how she became the person she is today, all topics addressed in her book. Rice said her parents’ value of education eventually determined her success in the Bush administration.

“It really started with my grandfather,” Rice said. “He really believed, along with my parents, in the transforming power of an education — not only for me, but for everyone. They passed this belief on to me.”

Rice’s memoir not only addresses her education and rise

Danielle Villasana | Daily Texan Stafff

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice discusses her book, “Extraordinary, Ordinary People,” on Thursday evening at BookPeople. to success but also the challenges she overcame in her life, including racism and her parents’ deaths.

As a child in Birmingham, Ala., Rice said 1968 was the year of her political awakening and represented a turning point in her life, recalling the assassinations of

Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy.

“So much happened in that year,” she said. “At 13, I felt the country was falling apart. I remember being quite frightened of what was going on in the world.”

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UT Army, Naval and Air Force ROTC members stand together for the annual Veteran’s Day retreat ceremony on the South Mall on Thursday.

veterans: Traditions continue

57 years after first Armistice Day The association, which started in 2006, has approximately 138 members and has worked with the University to help support student veterans with GI Bill issues. The group also plans to create a student veterans center on campus. Hawkins said recent changes in the GI Bill have

allowed more veterans to come out of the military and go to college, which is why more flags were present to symbolize veterans in the association’s display on the South Mall.

Thursday marked the 57th year of Veterans Day, which originally started as “Armistice Day”

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to celebrate the end of World War I in 1918.

The UT campus honors Veterans Day every year when the UT Army, Naval and Air Force ROTC departments come together for a joint retreat ceremony by the Tower, which is a simple ceremony designed to honor the flag and veterans.

“It really represents a joint effort of the military forces, for all veterans in all branches,” said army recruiter Weston Payne, a UT graduate.

Veterans Day celebrations also extended beyond campus, with a downtown parade sponsored by the city of Austin and Travis County Veterans Services, featuring bands, military vehicles and various veterans’ groups. With the theme of “100 Years of Military Aviation,” this year’s parade showed a stronger turnout of both attendees and participants.

“Patriotism is really in right now,” said Austin resident Anne Linville, whose husband is a Vietnam veteran. “There seem to be a lot more people on the sidelines and a good variety of veterans from different wars and conflicts.”

Rice, who now teaches at Stanford University, said the central theme of her book is the importance of receiving an education and finding a life passion.

“Until my sophomore year of college, I wanted to be a pianist,” Rice said. “Junior year I wandered into a course on international politics, and then I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a Soviet specialist. It must have been a divine intervention. I always tell my students to look for their passions, but sometimes they find you.”

Students should seek mentors because a push in the right direction is almost always necessary to reach their goals in life, she said.

“Education is so transform-

ing, it’s the opportunity to do something you’re passionate at and do it well,” Rice said.

“My life was a journey and a process. You’ll be more fulfilled by overcoming things you find difficult than doing what is easy.”

Rice represents a political scientist, not a politician, said Jason Rocen, an Austin resident who purchased one of the 375 books sold at the event.

“I come from Alabama as well, and because of this, she’s kind of iconic,” he said. “I’m a fan of political scientists who enact changes directly for the public, instead of trying to appease them. When it comes down to it, the book is really about her development and representing the importance of education in today’s society.”

deficits: Research centers

face loss of University funds Flores said centers such as the Texas Language Center do not teach but do specialized research.

The college may cut 100 percent of their contribution to the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies and the Center for East Asian Studies’ budgets, 40 percent from the Center for Mexican American Studies and 30 percent from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, among cuts to several other academic centers.

Only 15 percent of the $3.75 million deficit the college needs to fill is tied to faculty and teaching assistants, said James South-

erland, assistant dean for business affairs.

Only the Center for European Studies gained college funding — about $10,000. The largest monetary decreases hit the Center for Mexican American Studies, the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Centers that are cut 28 percent or more will get a two-year window to find outside funding sources.

Carl Thorne-Thomsen, an economics senior and president of the Liberal Arts Council, said he has not seen the proposed cuts and does not know how they will affect students. He said there was no direct student involvement in the decisions.

“I don’t know if it would have changed anything, but it would have been helpful to have students directly involved,” he said. “But I think APAC is a pretty good representation of student and faculty needs.”

Kristen Brustad, chair of the Middle Eastern Studies Department, said cuts to the Center for Middle Eastern Studies college funds could also endanger its

federal grant money, so the center is scrambling. The center’s staff helps maintain grants and if the University does not show support for the center, the U.S. Department of Education may pass up the center for grants, Brustad said.

“We stand to lose staff who help run our programs and grants,” she said. “We’re gritting our teeth about the whole thing.”

reGent: Budget shortfall complicates efforts perform as the economic recession started to settle in — even the population and economic growth that Texas enjoyed put budget strains on the state’s public education and health services, McBee said. The result is a budget shortfall estimated as high as $25 billion.

After Republican lawmakers increased their majority to 48 seats in the Texas House in the midterm election, there will be little enthusiasm to spend the Rainy Day Fund, Texas’s saving account, because the state may face another shortfall in the next legislative session, he said.

Regent James Dannenbaum said legislation after the introduction of new business taxes in 2006 exempted more and more businesses, leaving the state fewer tax dollars.

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economic activity, it’s a policy change by the Legislature — regardless of how you feel about it, it’s not likely to change,” Dannenbaum said.

Texas saved $1.2 billion from cuts to state agencies’ budgets this year, but because many areas were put off-limits, 40 percent of the cuts came from higher education. The UT System dropped $200 million into the state’s combined higher education contribution of $520 million.

The cuts amount to $500 per student at UT’s academic institutions and $7,000 per student at health institutions.

McBee said in an odd way, the budget shortfall could also present an opportunity for UT to cast off regulatory burdens — eliminating the need for unused, unread reports and approval for decisions from other governmental agencies. But UT’s top priority will be to ask the Legislature for general revenue to replace the stimulus funds in the University’s budget, he said.

How UT’s chief administra-

tors interact with the Legislature will be key to pushing the University’s goals.

UT Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa said after the next legislative session begins in January, he will start living at the Capitol for the next six months.

He said UT representatives have met with 150 legislators to convey the interests of the UT System campuses, and must continue to express the idea that higher education is an investment in the future.

“We will be easily accessible to legislative leadership,” he said.

“It’s very important to have that presence. We’re all going to be in this together — and the regents are going to have to support us in articulating the importance of higher education.”

Regent William Eugene Powell said the board should create a schedule so they can always be at the Capitol speaking with legislators.

“I know that’s a time commitment for all of us, but I know that would be helpful,” Powell said.

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Pessimism at G-20 summit over currency, trade splits

By Jean H. Lee The Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea — A strong sense of pessimism shrouded the start of an economic summit of rich and emerging economies Thursday, with President Barack Obama and fellow world leaders arriving in Seoul sharply divided over currency and trade policies.

The Group of 20 summit, held for the first time in Asia, has become the centerpiece of international efforts to revive the global economy and prevent future financial meltdowns.

Failure in Seoul could have severe consequences. The risk is that countries would try to keep their currencies artificially low to give their exporters a competitive edge in global markets. That could lead to a destructive trade war. Coun-

tries might throw up barriers to imports — a repeat of policies that worsened the Great Depression.

Hopes had been high that the G-20 — encompassing rich nations such as Germany and the U.S. as well as growing giants such as China and Brazil — could be the world forum for hashing out an economic way forward from financial crisis.

But agreement appeared elusive as the summit began, divided between those such as United States that want to get China to allow its currency rise and those irate over U.S. Federal Reserve plans to pump $600 billion of new money into the sluggish American economy, effectively devaluing the dollar.

Obama told fellow leaders that the U.S. cannot remain a profligate consumer using borrowed

money and needs other countries to pull their weight to fix the world economy.

“The most important thing that the United States can do for the world economy is to grow, because we continue to be the world’s largest market and a huge engine for all other countries to grow,” Obama said at a news conference.

Brazil’s president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, warned that such policies would “bankrupt” the world.

So far, officials can’t even agree on the agenda, much less a draft statement. Government ministers and senior G-20 officials have labored for days without success to come up with a substantive joint statement to be issued Friday, G-20 summit spokesman Kim Yoon-kyung said.

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Barack Obama enters the G-20 working dinner at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday.

Sunni walkout hinders Iraq parliament session

By Rebecca Santana & Barbara Surk The Associated Press BAGHDAD — Iraq’s president gave Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki the nod to form the next government Thursday after an eight-month deadlock, keeping him in his post despite a dramatic Sunni walkout from parliament that demonstrated the deep distrust between the two sides.

The walkout and the fact that it came just one day after an accord was forged to work together dealt a blow to hopes for a unified government — especially one that ensures continued Shiite domination while giving Sunnis a role far short of the greater political power they seek.

Sunni support is crucial. The Americans had been pushing for them to have a significant role, fearing that otherwise, disillusioned Sunnis could turn to the insurgency, fueling new violence as the last of U.S. troops prepare to leave by the end of next year.

The power-sharing deal reached Wednesday night was heralded by some politicians as a breakthrough, ending the months of wrangling since the inconclusive March 7 parliament elections. But Sunnis were already accusing alMaliki of not fulfilling promises and have warned they could pull out if they are not met.

At a press conference after the walkout, a lawmaker from the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc, Haider al-Mulla, did not answer when asked whether the bloc would participate in the government. Instead, he said Iraqiya would seek “explanations from al-Maliki and State of Law over their broken commitments.”

The session was called so lawmakers could take the first formal steps toward forming the new government by naming senior leadership positions. It began with a show of unity, as alMaliki and his top rival, Iraqiya’s leader Ayad Allawi, sat next to each other in the chamber, smiling and chatting.

The first vote went smoothly, with a Sunni from Allawi’s Iraqiya block, Osama al-Nujaifi, elected parliament speaker. But before the vote to elect a president, about 57 Iraqiya lawmakers walked out.

They had demanded that lawmakers first vote to reverse a ban on three of the blocs’ members by a committee charged with rooting out members of Saddam Hussein’s regime from government posts. Their demand was rejected.

Iraqiya lawmakers have said that as part of the power-sharing deal, the other factions agreed to get rid of the controversial DeBaathification law entirely within two years. Sunnis view the DeBaathification process as a thinly veiled Shiite attempt to bar Sunnis from returning to power.

Despite the walkout — which Allawi joined — lawmakers proceeded with the session and elected Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani as president for a second term. Talabani addressed the lawmakers remaining in the parliament hall, declaring: “Today is a day of victory, the victory of the free Iraqi will.”

He then formally requested alMaliki form a new government.

Al-Maliki has 30 days to do so, as the factions work out the allotment of ministry positions, including key posts like foreign affairs and the interior ministry in charge of security forces.

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OVERVIEW An urgent issue State officials said Wednesday that they will not implement a new federal program aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to The Dallas Morning News. The policy, issued by the Environmental Protection Agency, gives states discretion to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources by ensuring that facilities use the best available technology in an effort to reduce emissions.

But Texas officials have said the agency lacks the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The Clean Air Act delegates the role of protecting and preserving air quality to the agency. Under the act, the EPA can limit the amount of air pollutants emitted by industrial sources. Nevertheless, the state has filed seven lawsuits against the EPA in the last nine months.

Though Texas is not the only state whose officials have filed lawsuits against the agency for its regulation of greenhouse gases, it is the only state refusing to implement the program.

Officials cite three reasons for protest in this case.

Bryan Shaw, the chairman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, told The Dallas Morning News that the new policy will not yield any environmental benefits and will only raise costs for energy companies and manufacturers. Shaw also said as a result of the new guidelines, Texas will “see the additional bureaucracy associated with permitting in this state and across the U.S.” However, total greenhouse gas emissions in the United States have risen by 14 percent from 1990 to 2008, according to the EPA. Declining air quality is an urgent issue that needs to be addressed, whether through the implementation of this policy or through future policies that Texas officials find more effective.

Bogus bonus The University of Texas Investment Management Company awarded more than $5 million in bonuses to 30 employees Tuesday.

UTIMCO oversees profits for universities in the University of Texas and Texas A&M systems. The company is responsible for managing the largest public endowment fund in the country. The bonuses come after a high investment return of endowments.

Bruce Zimmerman, UTIMCO’s CEO and chief investment officer, was awarded nearly $1.2 million, double his annual salary, according to the Austin American-Statesman.

The fact that bonuses are being awarded given the current economic climate is disconcerting, and the level of those bonuses — $5 million — is appalling.

Awarding excessive bonuses is nothing new to UTIMCO. The company was criticized by many, including Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, in 2008 after awarding $3.4 million in bonuses to employees, including $1 million to Zimmerman. As a result, the company’s chair, Robert Rowling, resigned in February 2009. When the bonuses were awarded, the endowment fund was down 27 percent.

Despite the criticism, UTIMCO awarded employees another $3.4 million in bonuses last year even with a $4.4 billion decline in the endowments, according to The Associated Press.

This year, investment returns for the 12-month period that ended on June 30 totaled 17 percent, which board members said was 6 percentage points higher than benchmark returns for real estate, international stocks and other asset classes, according to the AP. Though board members feel the company’s performance merits the bonuses, it is absurd to award millions to employees for simply doing their jobs.

The glory of typing thing your professor said in his morning lecture, you simply leave a comment in your notes reminding you to go back and obtain the information from a friend I am told that I am an aggressive typ- without having to worry about how ist, but I prefer to call it “typing with pas- much space you should leave for the insion.” I find the soothing pitter-patter of the keys to be comforting. Typing represents more than just the appearance of characters across the blank document on my computer screen — it is the swirling of ideas, morphing, evolving and undergoing revision after revision until my thoughts and utterances come together in perfect harmony.

“I am told that I There are those who do not share my am an aggressive love for the thin, black keys that furnish typist, but I prefer the silver glory of my MacBook Pro. In particular, I am referring to last week’s to call it ‘typing study in the news magazine The Week, with passion.’” which mourns society’s tendency to type rather than write. The study’s authors even go so far as to say that the replacement hinders brain development. Handwritten letters and notes boast a personal touch, but that touch should be reserved for a birthday card or sympathy notes — occasions that require such sentiment. A keyboard is the practical college student’s formation.

There is no chance of losing your spibest friend.

The first benefit one gains from typing ral notebook or that piece of paper you is expediency. The efficiency with which borrowed from the girl in your socioloone can type notes in class allows for a gy class if your computer is your edumore comprehensive review come exam cational tool of choice. You never have time. The article claims that typing cre- to worry about your pen running out of ates a lack of lucidity. But the opportu- ink or the tip of your pencil breaking. A nity to elaborate is more prevalent on computer will stick by your side, as long the computer, as the opportunity to edit as you treat it with respect. It will keep and clarify is exponentially more simple. your subjects organized with a single Additionally, If you didn’t hear some- click, and if you happen to forget where

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you stored a document, your computer ’s search feature will help you track it down.

The true clincher that incites my love for typed text versus handwritten words is the legibility factor. I’ve tried print and script writing time after time, but it always ends in the same way — I can never read what I wrote. If you’ve been blessed with sorority girl handwriting where all of your letters are the same size and perfectly shaped, then more power to you. But those genes are just not in my DNA, and after accepting that fact, I have come to embrace the beauty of the fonts offered in Microsoft Word, particularly Cambria.

The best part of all is if you truly appreciate a fresh sheet of white paper, the tangible experience that comes with ruffling the pages and dog-earing tabs, you can still have it. When you complete your finalized document, or at any point along the path to it, you can print it out in a matter of seconds. And speaking of seconds, you can print a second copy if you so desire. Or a third. You can even send it to a friend halfway across the world.

Professors today expect assignments to be typed, even for foreign language classes. Company heads in the working world expect just the same. It seems only logical to forge a solid relationship with your keyboard and become a typing master in college. Appreciate the technology that decorates the desk in front of you, and don’t discount its glory.

Epstein is a Plan II and business freshman.

Texas has the most to gain from paying college athletes

By Brandon Curl Daily Texan Columnist All is not lost, Texas faithful. Sure, the Longhorns’ loss to Kansas State last Sunday plunged Mack Brown’s squad to a losing record for only the second time in his 13 years in Austin. But there is hope for Texas football, and his name is Cam Newton.

Yes, Newton, the star quarterback and Heisman candidate for undefeated Auburn. Yes, Newton, the subject of this week’s allegations of academic misconduct and recruiting violations involving $200,000. Yes, Newton, the man whose scandal reignited rallying cries to pay college athletes.

Allegations against Newton are only the latest in a series of incidents involving players accepting cash. Reggie Bush’s virtually forced forfeiture of the Heisman Trophy and Josh Luchs’ detailed confession of paying athletes in October’s Sports Illustrated set the stage for the Newton saga this November.

The sum of these episodes has led some to be-

lieve that the NCAA should be regulating, rather than prohibiting, payment to players. Sam Farber of the sports blog Real Clear Sports argues, “[to] prevent an athlete from pursuing additional compensation as dictated by the open market creates an environment vulnerable to and rife with the corruption the NCAA so desperately seeks to avoid.” To be fair, this is frequently the argument against any type of prohibition.

Still, Newton’s place as the Heisman frontrunner and leader of a potential national championship team is a recipe for catastrophe. Should the Auburn quarterback deliver on both accounts and the allegations prove true, voices of reform will only get louder. And, though unlikely, a reformed NCAA that allows payments to college athletes would have a significant impact on the competitive landscape of college football.

Enter the Texas Longhorns.

The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that the University of Texas Board of Regents approved a recommendation granting UT President William Powers Jr. the ability to find a broadcast partner for the long-considered “Longhorn Network.” That partner, MSNBC has reported, is

ESPN. Modeled after the Big Ten Network, the Longhorn Network would air cable TV programming of both athletic and nonathletic events at Texas.

Unlike its counterpart, however, the Longhorn Network would operate exclusively for the University of Texas. Said Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds, “We felt a Texas network would work better than people seeing a 12th of Texas on a conference network.” Everything is truly bigger in Texas.

What’s the value of an exclusive network? According to Chip Brown of the Longhorn sports site orangebloods.com, $12 million annually, the amount ESPN is offering to distribute the network. Add to that figure the $20 million Texas is expected to earn starting in the 2012 season for its part in the Big 12’s TV contracts, bringing the total to 32 million big ones. The Longhorn Network, expected to launch in August 2011, would make Texas the top TV revenue-producing school in the country.

Also, don’t forget that Texas rests atop the standings of collegiate merchandise sold, with 2010 royalties estimated at $10.1 million, as re-

ported by The Daily Texan in August.

Now back to Cam Newton. Should the Auburn quarterback’s controversy lead to a pay-for-play NCAA, the university with the deepest pockets surely stands to benefit the most. And with the recent development of the Longhorn Network, that university is most assuredly Texas.

Like the New York Yankees, whose major league baseball leading payroll is upwards of $200 million, 27 percent more than its closest competitor, Texas could dominate the market for college athletes. And while the Yankees’ payroll doesn’t assure them of a World Series championship every year (see Texas Rangers), they do have a tendency to make the playoffs.

That is something that is in doubt for the Longhorns this year.

Whether or not you agree with paying college athletes, it’s hard to deny that the practice would benefit Texas football. So if you are a Longhorn fan, it might be time to cheer for Cam Newton and the Auburn Tigers.

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Horns need defense to escape first round

By Lauren Giudice Daily Texan Staff The Longhorns are a long way from home in Chapel Hill, N.C., for the first round of the NCAA Championship against James Madison University.

After a tough loss to Oklahoma in the Big 12 playoffs, the Longhorns are, once again, looking to their defense to lead the way.

They haven’t made it to the second round of the NCAA Tournament since 2008.

“We need to be really in tune defensively,” said head coach Chris Petrucelli. “JMU is a little tricky.”

The Longhorns, who received an at-large bid in the tournament, hold a 6-8-1 record in NCAA Championship action and have advanced to the Round of 16 three times since 2004.

With only seven goals allowed and five shutouts in conference play, Petrucelli is confident that the defense, led by Big 12 second team senior Erica Campanelli, can give the Longhorns an advantage.

“All year we have been strong defensively,” Petrucelli said. “We have been stingy defensively, we’ve been hard to score against.

We have been very organized in the back, and I think that’s been our biggest strength this year.”

James Madison won its third straight Colonial Athletic Association championship this season and are coming off an eight-game undefeated streak.

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Erica Campanelli dribbles the ball down field against the Sooners. Texas will take on James Madison in round one of the NCAA Championships. eight shutouts this season. In 21 games, the Dukes have scored 38 goals and Texas has scored 29 in 20 games.

With JMU goalie Diane Wszalek, the Longhorns will have to pick it up offensively.

“I think a big key for us is how dangerous are we going forward and really taking advantage of the opportunities that we get,” Petrucelli said.

Petrucelli said the team could be better going forward and have

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Smith drawn to sport by mother

By Bri Thomas Daily Texan Staff After joining Trinity University’s 100-mile running club, Lori Smith became one of six members on the Tiger’s track and field team.

Though the team’s records and times were almost always beat by bigger schools such as A&M, Smith’s love for running spurred her on to encourage her son to run, which is how Collin Smith ended up at Texas.

When Collin Smith was in elementary school, his physical education teacher wanted him to be more involved, so he recommended the Hershey Track and Field Games, a competition Smith ended up competing in up until high school.

“I would ask my parents to take me to the track when I was young, just so I could run a mile,” Smith said. “I loved it.”

In middle school, Smith continued his running but did not get serious about the sport until he was a sophomore. At that time, a local athletic trainer, Chris Shrader, became interested in Smith’s ability.

“He would train select high school students on separate times outside of school practices,” Smith said. “His training is different, and I just took to it.”

After this special attention, Smith was able to run a 4:15 mile his senior year, a great relief to a high school career that had not gotten him as far as he had hoped.

“I dropped five seconds off my mile in that race,” Smith said. “It was definitely

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been practicing keeping possession of the ball and staying fresh.

Although disappointed with their first round exit in the Big 12 playoffs, the team is not focusing on that loss.

“I think all year long we

have looked forward, and we have talked about not looking back,” Petrucelli said. “We were disappointed with our play against Oklahoma, but we got past it and now we’re moving forward again.”

Road to nationals goes through Waco for Texas runners NCAA Championships.

By Julie Thompson In order to earn an automatic bid Daily Texan Staff The Longhorns will compete in to the NCAA Championships, the the NCAA South Central Regional Longhorns must place in the top in Waco on Saturday, a meet where two in the Region meet. There are the team’s performance will deter- also 12 at-large bids in play, so if Texmine whether they are able to com- as finishes third they still have a pospete in the NCAA Championships sible bid.

“My goal is to win,” Sisson said. later this month.

Texas is coming off a disappoint- “My goal is to win in such a way ing finish at the Big 12 meet on Oct. that folks go, ‘Oh my goodness, Tex30. Head coach Steve Sisson said that as is really that good.’ It is an imporindividual athletes struggled at the tant statement as a team to make.”

Junior runner Mia conference meet, Behm said that the but those struggles team’s difficulties at are part of how the the conference meet sport of cross councould actually benetry works.

My goal is to win.” fit them at the region “Fifth place is meet. just not acceptable — Steve Sisson “We are realfor us, to be in the top 15 in the counHead coach ly pumped knowing we are so hightry we should do ly ranked going into better than that the region meet,” and we need to Behm said. “But I continue to do better,” Sisson said. “I think we learned think conference is good because it from this, and we will do better at is kind of a reality check for us and we realized if we don’t stay focused the regional meet.”

The U.S. Track & Field and Cross we won’t always perform at our opCountry Coaches Association pre- timal level.”

The team hopes to make a statedicts the Longhorns will place first at the region meet. The association has ment at the region meet, then go Arkansas, Rice, Texas A&M and Ste- for their ultimate goal — a national championship. phen F. Austin following Texas.

“We are just really excited to have The South Central Region includes the eastern part of Tex- a good long distance program,” as, all of Louisiana and Arkan- Behm said. “That combined with the sas. Eight other regions in the U.S. fact that we are really fit and really will also be having meets to deter- want it combines to make the permine which teams can go on to the fect storm.”

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Collin Smith runs in a cross country meet earlier this season. His love for running started with his mother’s encouragement. a breakthrough.” en away when he was beat by His senior year also brought a couple of tenths of a second on a trip to the state cross coun- during the regional meet. try meet, although a chance at SMITH continues on page 7 state track and field was tak-

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NCAA South Central Regional When: Saturday Where: Waco

SPORTS BRIEFLY Volleyball heads to Lubbock hoping to extend win streak The seventh-ranked Longhorns hit the road for the second time this week to take on Texas Tech in Lubbock on Saturday.

Texas will look to extend its winning streak to 11 matches against the Red Raiders, who sit at dead last in the Big 12 standings. The Longhorns haven’t lost to their in-state conference foes since 2000.

Senior outside hitter Juliann Faucette, junior setter Michelle Kocher and freshman libero Sarah Palmer are all coming off career highs in the team’s Wednesday night victory against Baylor in Waco. Faucette notched 30 kills — less than a week after tying her previous career high of 28 — while Kocher tallied 59 assists and Palmer recorded 26 digs.

Junior outside hitter Amber Roberson, who is second on the team in kills per set behind Faucette with 3.04, is a game time decision. Senior outside hitter Lauren Dickson will likely get the starting nod if Roberson sits.

In the only other matchup between the two teams this year, the Longhorns swept the Red Raiders 25-13, 25-14, 25-14 in a mid-October game at Gregory Gym.

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Americans and people that just love the game and their school.

The tournament is dedicated to former Longhorn head coach Pat Weis, who established the program in 1969 as a club team and served as coach until 1993, while playing a prominent role four years later in earning the program Division 1 status.

“We had nothing, started out with nothing. We were just a little family building out program, happier than the kids out there today,” Weis said.

Despite starting out with little, she managed to carve a successful career

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Q. Why was Cinderella such a bad basketball player?

Athletes, alumni compete in weekend tournament

By Chris Hummer Daily Texan Staff On each end of the tee box, there are 12 ready competitors preparing to hit a perfect drive and put the pressure on the other team. Although in this instance the circumstances are a little different from a normal tournament because all of the participants on this day have one thing in common: They’re all Longhorns.

They are all participating in the sixth annual Weis Cup that is being held this weekend at the Texas Golf Club. The Weis Cup is a tournament between the current Texas squad and a group of former alumni, including LPGA Tour players, future Tour players, former all-

Mississippi Valley State vs. No. 17 Texas When: Tonight Time: 7 p.m.

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Former coach Pat Weis, left, and current head coach Martha Richards are all smiles as they prepare for the Weis Cup. Weis established the Texas women’s golf program in 1969.

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on former players, draws turnout From page 6 highlighted by leading the team to 11 top 10 national finishes and earning coach of the year honors in 1987 and 1988.

However, the impact of Weis stretches well beyond the 18 holes of the course. She has left a lifelong impression on her former players, and they come back in flocks during the reunion to catch up. “[It’s] a tribute to coach, school and program to get the number turnout we do. Other schools have a hard time getting the numbers for reunions that we do,” said Kate Golden, assistant coach and a former Longhorn.

The large turnout that this weekend’s event gets makes a great atmosphere, and there is new blood at the tournament every year.

“There are two or three people coming back for the first time since the ’80s. It’s a surprise every year who will show up. We have pretty much covered the years I was there and even into [former Texas coach Susan] Watkins’ years,” Weis said.

This unity and feeling of Texas pride expressed from the alumni is what helps make this tournament as fun and entertaining as it is to all of the participants, including the current Longhorns.

“Their participation shows how much they want this program to succeed. It’s good to know that there is a group of individuals that

knows what we’re doing. It’s great to have their support,” said sophomore Katelyn Sepmoree.

The feelings of good will only last for so long. When they step out on the tee box, it becomes a competition.

“The play gets really competitive. There is a lot of needling and jabbing. It’s definitely a sporting event,” Golden said.

For the players, the tournament isn’t all seriousness. Part of the tournament is the slightly looser atmosphere it presents as compared to the stress level of a Big 12 competition.

“We got to talk smack — don’t usually get to do that on a golf course. Although I don’t want all tournaments to be like that, but it was fun for this particular atmosphere,” Sepmoree said.

This tournament has been very competitive since its installment and even ended in a tie last year, although the final score of the competition has been a little one-sided.

“The youngsters have only beaten us one time, but they are getting closer,” Weis said.

No matter the final total, the tournament is an excellent way for people to catch up or create new friendships.

“It’s a really good thing we do,” Weis said. “I know how much the players love coming back to see each other and renewing the companionships they had years ago.”

By Alexandra Carreno Daily Texan Staff Resilience. It is a quality the Longhorns have learned to identify themselves with in this year’s off-season, and with this resilience, the team has grown closer and stronger.

“We have great team chemistry,” said head coach Gail Goestenkors. “Everyone loves the game of basketball. So everyday when they show up they’re ready to play; they want to be better.”

So now the question remains, will the Longhorns be able to apply their newfound resilience and chemistry every game?

The No. 17 Longhorns get their chance to prove they can tonight as they open their regular season at home against Mississippi Valley State.

“We love opening at home,” Goestenkors said. “There is a comfort level at home. It gives our crowd a chance to get a good look at the team and gives us a chance to progress.”

Texas is a youthful squad made up of six fresh faces, including freshman guard Chassidy Fussell, the only freshman featured in last Friday’s exhibition lineup. The Longhorns returned only three starters to their roster this season, Ashley Gayle, Ashleigh Fontenette and Kathleen Nash, who have proved to be leaders, both on and off the court.

“I look at all the upperclassmen, they will always help you,” Fussell said. “If you have a question, they are going to answer it. If they don’t know the answer they go to coach.”

Coping with the loss of sophomore Cokie Reed to injury, Texas was forced to find a new identity. The run-and-gun as well as fast break proved to be the squad’s new friend, as evident from their exhibition game rout of Trinity, 132-38.

“We’ve pushed the ball in transition. That’s going to be who we are,” Goestenkors said.

“Some people are going to try

smith: Romantic interest led runner

to Texas despite other opportunities From page 6 “There was a silver lining to all that, though,” Smith said. “I ended up here.”

Smith’s talent allowed him to look at several schools, but a romantic interest could have helped him decide on Texas.

Smith’s girlfriend, Megan Vasquez, is part of Texas’ women’s track program and suggested Smith to the men’s assistant coach, John Hayes.

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ended up coming to watch me race, we met, and it all worked out from there.”

This season, cross country has been really lifting off. Individually, Smith was able to place 10th at the Princeton Invitational in October, and the team recently finished fourth overall at the Big 12 Championships.

“I didn’t do so well last year, but I’m able to travel with the team this year, so it’s cool,” Smith said.

“We’ve traveled to conference, now hopefully on to regionals then nationals.”

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Kathleen Nash stretches past a Trinity defender to score a lay up.

Texas beat Trinity in their exhibition game 132-38.

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and slow us down, but we’ve got a seven-second break that we run all the time, where you are pushing the ball, helping them get them into the mindset that we are going to look to score really early in transition.”

Freshman Anne Marie Hartung proved to be vital on both offense and defense for Tex-

as last Friday, as she posted a game-high 26 points and 13 rebounds.

In the Longhorns’ first meeting against the Devilettes, tonight’s game will feature two squads who rely on their running game to compensate for their height.

Mississippi Valley State fea-

tures junior guard Ka’Neshia Smith who boasts an impressive 545 career points along with 294 rebounds.

“I think it will be a really entertaining game because they love to run as well,” Geostenkors said. “They are very athletic. They’re short. It’s going to be a very fun game.”

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Gemma Arterton is radiant as the titular character in “Tamara Drewe.”

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Dan Parrott, owner of Old School BBQ & Grill, will be joined by three UT students this weekend as he ventures down to Houston to cater an event for Bill White’s campaign workers and supporters.

By Gerald Rich Daily Texan Staff Smoke licks across the blackened top of the yellow school bus of Old School BBQ & Grill like it was a normal day for serving up barbecue. But inside owner Dan Parrott’s mind, he was finetuning the special menu for Bill White’s send-off party in Houston this weekend.

“They’re going to have their socks blown off,” he chuckles and says in his deep, slightly raspy Southern voice.

Parrott greets some customers out of the window from the driver ’s seat before he steps out of the bus (aka “Big Mama”) and grabs his usual pack of Djarum cigarettes. Then he eases onto a bench before lighting one up.

“Andrea [White, Bill White’s wife,] heard about [Old School] after one of our staffers ate there until she said she couldn’t eat anymore,” explains Bill White spokeswoman Annalee Gulley. “She’s been wanting to get Dan to Houston ever since.”

Considering where Parrott, his son Danny and friend Trey Cook came from almost a year ago when they first opened near MLK and Airport boulevards in the freezing Austin winter, Bill White’s party for his closest friends and supporters is a masday, month day, 2008

sive stepping stone.

It was during those first few months, when he sometimes saw four customers a day, that Parrott said he met some of their first regulars, including three UT students who are joining

natics who is going to Houston. “It takes a lot of time and preparation but it’s made in this shabby location. Another part is that people have come to know Dan’s humble entrepreneurship.

He’s a very charismatic person

“People forgot to be hospitable somewhere along the line,” says Parrott while letting the smoke billow through his thick mustache and beard. “When I started, customers were used to mom’s cooking, and when you went out it was really something. Throwing away $120 worth of potato salad that I don’t like doesn’t make me a hero; it makes me old school.”

It’s that kind of attitude, as well as his generosity of proThere’s something that’s much more important to me than viding a free meal or two to regulars, that’s made him nomoney. You can always make more money, but time is table to many students on something that you can’t replace. “ campus. Parrott adds that Anthony Bourdain, a well— Dan Parrot, known Travel Channel host, Owner of Old School BBQ chef and author, first discovered Old School in late June after many students told the celebrity to visit the yellow school bus food trailer after he took a walk around campus.

Big Mama in Houston to help who can connect with anyone.”

“There’s something that’s out at the party. White even deBut before Parrott was serv- much more important to me layed his return-home party for ing up his “tasty brisket” and than money: time.” says Parrott one week to accommodate Old “killer mac and cheese,” as de- before he finally sets down the School’s schedule. scribed by several Yelpers, he cigarette. “You can always make Now Parrott says he gets dis- was deeply involved in the hos- more money but time is someappointed calls when he’s off ca- pitality business for roughly 35 thing that you can’t replace. tering private parties and not as years — prior to when he says I could give a rat’s ass if they his usual location. it became trendy. He studied spend $30 or $40. We want to “[White’s party was resched- at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris be- make [their time at Old School] uled] partly because of the icon- fore coming back to the states 1 valuable. That’s why we’re goic nature of [Old School],” said to work at 56 restaurants and ing to make this party extra speTalib Abdullahi, a liberal arts ju- do numerous consultations for cial and bring some of our bignior and one of Old School’s fa- start-up restaurants. gest fans along.”

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The enormous cast is packed with familiar faces and mostly enjoyable characters, and director Stephen Frears does his best to prevent the film from getting bogged down in the convoluted web of romantic entanglements that makes up the storyline.

But despite everyone’s best efforts, the film barely works when you’re watching it, and most of the details dissipate as soon as the end credits roll.

Things get going when the titular character (Gemma Arterton) returns to the small farming community she left years ago with a new nose and career as a journalist. The gossip mill quickly begins turning and the film spends the rest of its runtime toeing the line between British comedy of manners and gaudy afternoon soap opera.

The film’s cast is both a blessing and a curse, filled with funny characters that play off each other well and keep the movie from becoming dull. Unfortunately, with nearly a dozen key characters, the film feels more than bit cluttered at times, and gets frustrating when the handful of compelling stories get swept aside so the film’s two worst characters can get some screen time.

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Another downside is the film’s story, which makes it clear in the first half hour how the characters will be paired off in the final act, and the rest of the film almost feels like it’s going through the motions as a result. While things get a little darker than expected, the final results are completely unsurprising, and the film takes far too long in reaching its foregone conclusion.

“Tamara Drewe” isn’t a bad movie. It’s charming, undemanding and well-acted. Unfortunately, it’s so taken with its characters and their romantic exploits that it forgets to instill the slightest bit of creativity in its story, making for a disappointingly insignificant, predictable film.

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Well-cast film breaks chick flick stereotypes

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The cast, which includes Patrick Wilson and Harrison Ford, is the highlight of “Morning Glory.”

Shannon Kintner | Daily Texan Staff

Local artists, such as Liliana Wilson, will display their own artwork within their homes as part of the East Austin Studio Tour during this weekend and next. Maps of participating neighborhoods can be found online.

Tour features ‘E.A.S.T.’ side artists

By Abby Johnston Daily Texan Staff In recent years, Austin has welcomed a new annual tradition as fall reluctantly settles over the city.

Since 2003 the East Austin Studio Tour has demystified the largely private work of artists, allowing audiences to experience processes and gain insight directly from the source.

For nine days, the culturally intune populous of Austin scatters through east side galleries and work spaces for the chance to buy from, interact with and learn from local art authorities.

E.A.S.T. is not a tour in the traditional sense. There are no group leaders, headsets, quiet halls or critical curators. Rather, the self-guided and exploratory event seeks to give the public a hands-on experience of their own. E.A.S.T. events predominantly occur on two tour weekends, but events will be held in the evenings of the week in between.

Studios will open their doors from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on both weekends, allowing tour participants to experience the creative environment that artists thrive in on a day-to-day basis. Exhibition galleries that display the art will be open during the same hours.

Original work and exhibitions created specifically for E.A.S.T., called Happenings, will take place

throughout the entire nine days of the tour. Happenings range from performance art to demonstrations and lectures by local artists. They are designed to be more participatory than exhibits.

E.A.S.T. is organized by nonprofit art promotions group Big Medium. Artists ranging from glass blowers to painters apply directly to the group to participate in the event, but the selection process is less about exclusion and more about authenticity.

“This is a community event, so we’re trying to make it about the community and give a picture of the artists working over here,” said Big Medium director Shea Little. “We get a little selective when it comes to artists just coming in to set up shop and trying to festivalize the event. We don’t want people coming in just for one weekend, we want to represent the people who are working here.”

After attending east side art openings and coffee shop art events, Little began brainstorming bigger ways to promote these underrepresented artists.

“The basic goal is to promote the artists and create a way for the general public to experience the art,” Little said. “There are artists looking for a way to connect to the community, and we wanted to help give them that opportunity.”

The event began with 28 par-

ticipating exhibitors. By the next year, the number of studios doubled. This year E.A.S.T. will feature 150 artists and studios.

The tour, which began as a single weekend and a few days of events, expanded in 2009 to include a second weekend because of the program’s growth.

“By the third or fourth year, it had become too big for one weekend,” Little said. “We had too many people trying to see everything. It became too much of a rush.”

Visual artist Liliana Wilson has watched E.A.S.T. grow from the inside, participating each year since its start. The Chilean painter has recently exhibited her work in San Antonio and New Mexico, and will bring some of the pieces from these shows back to the tour.

Wilson said she enjoys participating in the studio tour largely for the local camaraderie.

“A lot of times you’re working in the studio by yourself, so it’s nice to have people come by and see your work,” Wilson said.

“You get to meet a lot of people that are coming from very different places in life, which is helpful because it can be a lonely profession sometimes. I enjoy meeting local people and local artists.”

Wilson, who explains her exhibits as more of a party than a stuffy art show, seeks to bring her Latin American culture into more

than just her work. Her show this year will feature traditional South American food and music by Trio Valendoza.

She said she also looks forward to a new element in the tour that will allow specific times for exhibitors to have the chance to leave their posts and see the works of other participating artists.

For new tour-goers, Big Medium has provided catalogues at various local businesses and an iPhone application mapping studios by medium and providing a searchable artist database. Little cautions that although there is a lot to see, getting overly ambitious should be avoided.

“Seeing everything isn’t the point of the tour,” Little said.

“The idea is to find things that inspire or interest you. We encourage people to take their time, research and take things at a slower pace.”

WHAT: East Austin Studio Tour WHERE: Various locations around East Austin WHEN: Saturday, Nov. 21 WEb: Eastaustinstudiotour.com TICKETS: Free event. Pick up event catalogues at Justine’s, Whole Foods, Domy Books, East Side Pies, Hot Mama’s Espresso Bar

1997’s goofy but fun “Air Force

By Alex Williams One”), and it’s apparent in evDaily Texan Staff On paper, “Morning Glory” ery scene how relieved he is to sounds like a movie that would finally be reunited with a good script. Mike Pomeroy, Ford’s be easy to hate.

The story of a down-on-her- eternally cranky character, is luck producer coming to reju- the film’s best-written characvenate a low-rated morning talk ter, and Ford plays the hell out show sounds like a not particu- of him, stealing every scene and larly original twist on every un- reminding the audience why derdog movie ever made. But he’s a Hollywood icon.

Diane Keaton shines as Colsomehow, “Morning Glory” is effortlessly enjoyable; a light, leen Peck, a co-anchor whose esfunny chick flick that knows ex- calating competition with Mike to see who can actly what’s be a bigger expected of it diva provides and then exsome of the ceeds those film’s biggest expectations laughs. with flying T h e r e ’ s colors.

The movie equivalent of not much to Rachel Mc“Morning GloAdams leads comfort food.” ry” besides the a spectacular — Alex Williams cast. The script cast as Becky Fuller, who Daily Texan staff i s u n e x c e p tional, funny starts the film and heartfelt as a characwhere it needs ter we’ve all to be but nevseen before er stands out.

— a perpetuDirector Rogally single workaholic who can’t put down her cell phone or talk er Michell is equally serviceable, about anything but her job. But keeping the story moving withher unlikely knack for physical out calling attention to himself comedy and pervasive likability and displaying an uncanny eye not only anchors the movie, but for sharp comedic timing.

Ultimately, “Morning Gloelevates the character.

In fact, the entire cast is firing ry” is the movie equivalent of on all cylinders. “The A-Team’s” comfort food. It’s endlessly enPatrick Wilson makes the film’s tertaining, boasting an appealunavoidable romantic sub- ing cast, an upbeat, pop-music plot surprisingly painless, com- soundtrack and has very little bined with a script that makes on its mind beyond entertainthe most of his easy charm and ing the audience. It may not be refuses to dwell on the roman- looking for awards, and it may tic angst that pervades so many not be one of the best movies of the year, but it’s witty, spectacother films of its ilk.

However, the real star here is ularly acted and wholly recomHarrison Ford. It’s been 13 years mendable. since Ford appeared in a truly Grade: B enjoyable movie (the last being

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Detox diet gains popularity; experts question side effects HEALTHY HOOK

By Addie Anderson Beyonce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Megan Fox and Anne Hathaway are among the slew of stars said to have done a detoxifying cleanse in the past either to drop weight quickly or to detoxify the body — or both.

The Master Cleanse is a popular fast that is meant to detoxify the system, give a person more energy and help shed weight. However, the cleanse may have detrimental effects on the body and mind despite its quick results.

The Master Cleanse calls for the practitioner to subsist on a drink of water, lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper for a minimum of 10 days — and eat nothing. During this 10-day period, the person should drink six to 12 glasses of the beverage throughout the day, wedged between a laxative at night and a salt-water flush in the morning.

If you’re not eating food for 10 days, you’re definitely going to lose weight. But if you return to your old eating habits after the cleanse, you are likely to put the weight you lost back on.

“You know how people do a house cleaning, a spring cleaning? With their cars, they get oil changes. With the computer, they get them defragmented. When do you ever do that with your body? When do you give your body a chance to have a spring cleaning,” said Matt Shook, owner of organic and raw food bar The Daily Juice.

The Master Cleanse gained popularity in 1976 when Stanley Burroughs, a practitioner of alternative health methods, wrote a book called “The Master Cleanser” to teach people how to cleanse their bodies to rid them of toxins and illnesses. A variation of the book, “Lose Weight, Have More Energy & Be Happier in 10 Days,” written by Peter Glickman in 2004, popularized the diet again.

Neither Burroughs nor Glickman is a health professional, but they both believed in natural remedies for healing different ailments in the body. Burroughs’ book says that through following the Master Cleanse program, all illness and disease will go away.

He recommends to practice the Master Cleanse when sickness has developed, when the digestive system needs to be cleaned or rested, when being overweight has become a problem and/or when better diges-

tion is needed.

In their books, Burroughs and Glickman say that by eating something with artificial preservatives, colors or flavors, we are taking in so many toxins each day that our bodies cannot eliminate all of them. Through cleansing the body by drinking the mixture of lemon juice, maple syrup, cayenne pepper and water, the body is able to process the fat the toxins are stored in and excrete them over a 10-to14-day period. Burroughs’ book explains that lemons are a rich source of vitamins and minerals and have been used to treat stomach ulcers for decades. The maple syrup has a large variety of minerals and vitamins as well as sugars to give the body energy. The cayenne pepper is used to break up mucus and increase warmth in the body and adds many B and C vitamins.

“The first five or six days there are a lot of toxins being flushed into the blood stream,” Shook said. “You’re not making your body digest food. You feel a lot of toxins in your blood. You feel really heavy and lethargic.

But after that, it’s like the sun comes out, you feel like an angel on earth. You feel as light as air, your mind is super clear, you feel very energetic.”

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The Master Cleanse, consisting of water, maple syrup, lemon juice and cayenne pepper, may rid the body of toxins and help with weight loss, but many dieticians claim it has harmful effects. ly Juice sell the Master Cleanse drink by the gallon, so people who are on the go can still follow the Master Cleanse by buying the premade drink.

“The Master Cleanse is a way to give people, give their bodies a chance to actually take some time to clean out,” Shook said.

Although the idea of a kind of “spring cleaning” for the body sounds like a good thing, we don’t need an extreme diet to cleanse our insides, said Bethany Dario, a registered dietitian at University Health Services.

Dario said that healthy people already have a built-in detoxification system — the liver, kidneys, lungs and skin. She says that exercise is a built-in detoxification system as well.

“When we sweat, we release toxins through the skin,” Dario said. “It’s another reason that we should all focus on the behavior of routine healthy exercise for health.”

A cleanse might not be necessary for eliminating toxins from the body, and it can actually be harmful, she said.

Dario said that when diets or cleanses fail, the dieters or cleansers often tell themselves that they have failed. Shame and/or guilt are, in effect, the results.

“When an individual attempts to restrict food, it is highly probable the individual will start to be obsessive over the food and eventually end up overeating on it,” Dario said. “The general population seems to think that obesity and eating disorders are the right and left wings of nutrition, but I’d like to suggest both can be a result of food restriction.”