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TODAY Calendar Foreign film night

International Education Week will screen several foreign films — including Germany’s “The Edukators,” Russia’s “Country of the Deaf” and Mexico’s “Rojo Amancer” — around campus beginning at 5:30 p.m.

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By Audrey White Daily Texan Staff Ethnic studies centers and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies may fall under the swinging axe of University budget cuts, and members of a new student organization called The Students Speak said they will do whatever it takes to fight back.

The College of Liberal Arts announced

last week that under a recommendation from the Academic Planning and Advisory Council, 15 centers and institutes stand to lose a combined $1 million, with the centers for African and African American, Mexican American and Middle Eastern studies taking the largest hit.

In response, members of Chicano advocacy group MEChA organized the first Stu-

dents Speak meeting Tuesday night with about 50 students from different area studies majors, as well as Student Government representatives and other interested students. They said they hope that through protests, education and working with student leaders and the administration, they can reduce cuts they say could irreparably harm the education of students who use the

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UT playwright Kimber Lee’s production about a female boxer will premier at 8 p.m. in the Oscar G. Brockett Theatre.

Tickets start at $15.

Today in history In 1973 Richard Nixon infamously told a group of reporters “I am not a crook.”

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Illustration by Camri Hinkie Source: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

Texas ranks fourth among all U.S. states in the number of guns sold that are eventually used in crimes.

One of every 50 guns recovered by Texas law enforcement agencies during criminal investigations in 2009 can be traced to Austin. The city ranked ninth among all municipalities in Texas for guns used in crimes, following Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio, among other cities, according to statistics from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

The bureau says Texas is the nation’s fourthlargest interstate exporter of guns involved in criminal matters. Pistols and rifles made up nearly 70 percent of the weapons recovered by Texas authorities, 256 weapons out of a total of 16,149 recovered statewide last year.

“Texas has really weak gun laws and a number of interstates,” said Josh Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. “The sheer volume of firearms in Texas may also have something to do with it.”

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Explosives estimated that there were about 48,000 firearms dealers nationwide and 3,800 firearms dealers, or nearly 8 percent, in Texas. Casey Watnon, an owner of Tex Guns in South Austin, said ATF agents inspect his store and records at least once a year.

“If you’ve been in business for any amount of time at all, you’ll have at least one gun trace,” Watnon said.

The ATF’s National Tracing Center began taking gun-tracing requests in 1988 as a result of the Gun Control Act of 1968. The federal law stipulated regulations on owners’ firearms, including requiring dealers to maintain records. The center traces guns for domestic and international law enforcement agencies that need to know the gun’s owner in criminal investigations. The bureau traced more than 343,000 firearms across the world in 2009.

Once agents receive a request, they will handwrite records to trace the firearm from the manufacturing company to the retailer, then to the first purchaser. The bureau is not allowed to collect records in a computerized method because of government restrictions on registration databases.

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Cuts endanger UT jobs, programs

By Collin Eaton Daily Texan Staff The latest round of 3-percent budget cuts to state agencies could mean a reduction of about $9 million in UT’s state funding. But University officials could not say a day after the cuts were announced which jobs or programs might be vulnerable.

The University received $300 million in state funding for the 2010-2011 biennium.

Leaders of the Texas House and Senate an-

nounced further budget cuts after setting the state’s spending limit for the next legislative session at a meeting of the Legislative Budget Board on Monday. About 14 percent of the University’s overall budget comes from state funding, compared to 47 percent in 1985.

Kevin Hegarty, UT’s chief financial officer, said the University does not yet have a plan to deal with the new budget cut, but there will likely be

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Do you think the Food and Drug Administration should have banned energy drinks, like Four Loko, that contain alcohol?

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Josue Joseph of the Haitian National Amputee Soccer Team moves to keep Austinite David Escame from gaining control of the ball.

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centers for classes, research, programs and organizational support.

“I started school at Brown, and I transferred here because of the Center for Mexican American Studies,” said Diana Gomez, a Mexican American studies senior. “We’ve agreed that this organization needs to be a

Confiscated firearms leave officers on gun-tracing campaign

Independent journalist Nir Rosen will speak about his reporting in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan from 7 to 9 p.m. in TCC 1.110.

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“It’s really eyeopening to see that music really shapes all aspects of life. The way that music changes, remixes and grows to become popular over time really fascinates me.”

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Two robberies occurred in West Campus over the weekend of Nov. 14 with the same suspect description. In both cases, the victim was walking down the street when a white or cream colored sedan pulled up alongside of them. The three suspects exited the vehicle and robbed the victims at gunpoint.

If you have any information on these cases contact Detective Steve Boline with the Austin Police Department at (512) 9745000.

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Alcoholic energy drinks are seen in a cooler reflecting overhead lights at a convenience store. Four Loko has been under investigation by the federal Food and Drug Administration.

Four Loko to eliminate caffeine

By Ahsika Sanders Daily Texan Staff The makers of the popular caffeinated alcoholic drink Four Loko announced Tuesday that they would remove caffeine and other stimulants from their products. Phusion Projects made the announcement after it became apparent the Food and Drug Ad-

ministration would rule caffeine is an unsafe additive to alcoholic beverages.

The three founders of Phusion Projects insisted that Four Loko and other alcoholic energy drinks were still safe but acknowledged the products had received increased scrutiny recently. Four states have banned caffeinated

alcoholic beverages such as Four Loko and Joose.

“We are taking this step after trying — unsuccessfully — to navigate a difficult and politically charged regulatory environment at both the state and federal levels,” the statement said.

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By Yvonne Marquez Daily Texan Staff Emmanuel Ladouceur was on the bottom floor of a three-story building with his family when a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti last January. A goalkeeper for a local soccer team, Ladouceur lost his parents when the building collapsed, and only he and his sister survived. After the loss of his left arm in the quake, he is determined to continue playing the sport.

Of the 15-member Haitian soccer team, three players lost their limbs in the earthquake. The team played on the Texas Capitol grounds Tuesday afternoon as part of their national tour. The team faced representatives from various nonprofit groups, including Dennis Borel,

the executive director of Coalition of Texans with Disabilities, and Jerry Davis, Goodwill of Central Texas CEO. “People with disabilities are typically the most disadvantaged group demographic in every society,” Borel said. “These folks are coming from the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. These folks have demonstrated that given the opportunity and the encouragement that they can do incredible things.”

Ladouceur and his teammates played on forearm crutches on a field smaller than one used in professional soccer games. They could not use their crutches to detour the

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The challenge of gun tracing is in carrying out the process, said ATF-Houston Field Division spokeswoman Franceska Perot. “You have to depend on everybody’s records,� Perot said. “The paperwork is maintained by the dealer ’s storefront, and the paper trail only gets you to the original purchaser. Sometimes, it can take quite a while.�

Gun control advocate Abby Spangler is the founder of protesteasyguns.com. She said guns sold at a gun show — where up to 50 percent of sellers at the show are private and unli-

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more jobs lost. “[Our response] will be as methodical and thoughtful as it possibly can, the worst thing we can do is just react,� he said.

UT cut $14.6 million from its budget earlier this year — mostly from administrative and nonacademic areas — after legislative leaders asked most state agencies to cut 5 percent of their budgets. By comparison, the School of Architecture’s budget is $8 million. Months later, they asked for cuts of 10 percent to state agencies’ 2012-13 budgets.

a partial trace, at best, Spangler said. “We want the gun show loophole to be closed to protect our police, our children and Americans,� Spangler said.

But gun tracing allows the gun-control lobby to demonize a firearms dealer, said Dave Workman, spokesman for the Second Amendment Foundation, a pro-gun rights group. “Once a firearm leaves a dealer’s building, he’s not responsible for what the user does with it,� Workman said. “People blame dealers for catering to the criminal market, but just to say that a particular gun dealer is an outlawed gun dealer is not really fair.�

Higher Education Coordinating Board in September proposed cuts that would drop grants for 24,000 first-time recipients of the TEXAS Grant program.

During a September Legislative Budget Board meeting, officers asked UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa and several UT System presidents if they would prefer to cut their funding for special items, such as the McDonald Observatory or formula funding, which makes up most of UT’s state funding. Most of the presidents responded that their special items are crucial to the growth of their institutions.

primary goal, translator says From page 1 ball and can only use one leg.

Fred Sorrells is the team’s translator and organized the U.S. tour. Most players do not have access to rehabilitation resources in their home country, said Sorrells, the president of the International Institute of SPORT, which provides therapeutic recreation and education to amputees in poor countries. “We’re basically using therapeutic recreation to help them develop self-esteem for themselves but more importantly in places in Haiti for other people to recognize their value,� he said. “In third world countries, there’s not enough resources to go around so people with disabilities are marginalized, pushed to the side.�

Before the earthquake, Ladouceur was a goal keeper in an able-bodied soccer team. Despite losing his left arm, he has

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more opportunities on the amputee soccer team. “It’s been [an] extremely important thing to be involved in recreation therapy, particularly with amputee soccer,� Ladouceur said. “I never had a chance to be involved, just at a low level when I was playing able-bodied soccer as a goalkeeper.�

Ladouceur said he was depressed when the nonprofit rehabilitation group was looking for new goal keepers to play in the 2010 Amputee Football World Cup in Argentina. He was skeptical but decided to attend the last day of tryouts. He eventually made the team, which lost to England at this year’s tournament. He is ready for the 2012 World Cup in Japan, where he will again be the goal keeper, he said. “It’s been the most magnificent thing that has happened to me,� Ladouceur said.

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UT budget director Mary Knight said the University’s special items include large research units that benefit Texas, such as the Bureau of Economic Geology, which provides research on energy and environmental issues in the state. “I don’t know that it’s an either or question, [UT needs] both,� Knight said.

UT is still going through the process of planning for the possible 10 percent cut, and if the new budget cuts affect UT during this fiscal year, the budget planning process would be rushed, Knight said.

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generates quick FDA response From page 1 Sen. Charles Schumer, DN.Y., who has lobbied state and federal authorities to ban the drinks, announced in a statement that the FDA will make the ruling today, effectively banning the drinks. The Federal Trade Commission will also notify manufacturers that they must cease production of distribution of the beverages. “This ruling should be the nail in the coffin of these dangerous and toxic drinks,� he said in a statement. “Parents should be able to rest a little easier knowing that soon their children won’t have access to this deadly brew.�

One can of Four Loko contains the equivalent of two to three cans of beer and two to three cups of coffee, according to Schumer’s website.

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ing caffeinated alcoholic beverages led the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission to discuss an action plan to regulate drink sales said spokeswoman Carolyn Beck.

Beck said TABC will do as mandated by the FDA once a law is in effect because the administration has deemed the drinks hazardous. “If FDA makes the decision, there will be a quick turnaround,� she said.

The TABC would post bulletins online and e-mail notifications to permitted merchants.

She said although the commission did not begin discussing pulling the drinks as a result of any particular case, they are taking recent incidents into account. A 14-year-old girl died in a car crash Sunday in Denton.

Police reported five empty Four Loko cans in the car, which her boyfriend was driving, indicating the drink may have contributed to the fatal crash.

The bright and eye-catching cans and the fruity flavor of the actual drink suggest an appeal to younger consumers, said advertising associate professor Marina Choi. “I can’t say whether or not that was their angle, but their design and marketing strategy would suggest that they are targeting a younger audience,�

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The $1 million dollars is part of $3.5 million that the dean’s advisory council must identify for cuts to fill an unexpected shortfall in money received from tuition. That money was used to fill other budgetary holes in response to cuts ordered by legislative leaders. Other plans include cutting faculty by offering early retirement packages and leaving vacant positions unfilled.

The College of Liberal Arts will not be out of deficit until the 201415 school year, according to projections from the advisory council.

Richard Flores, the senior associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts, attended the Liberal Arts Council meeting Tuesday night and gave a presentation to explain the metrics used to determine cuts for each center, including how they use the funding they have and how many students major in programs related to the centers. Although the original recommendations included no student input, Flores said College of Liberal Arts Dean Randy Diehl and other administrators hope to meet with students, faculty and staff from each center to get input on the possible effects of the cuts. “We’re pulled in two directions.

One is we want to hear and consult broadly, but on the other hand, center directors need to start making decisions,� Flores said.

The Students Speak members left their meeting to attend the Liberal Arts Council meeting, and they said it was the first time they had access to the information Flores presented. There was some confusion because the council members said their meetings are not a forum open to all Liberal Arts students. “We were left out of the process, and it’s not until tonight that we managed to finagle our way into this [council] meeting and see some of the metrics they used to make these cuts,� said Mexican American studies senior Bernardino Villasenor. “In slashing these programs, they’re slashing our cultures and identities, too.�

Liberal Arts Council President Carl Thorne-Thomsen said he wants to work with SG to plan open forums so students can get involved in future conversations about Liberal Arts cuts.

In addition, the Senate of College Councils expects to launch the College Tuition and Budget Advisory Council for liberal arts before the semester ends, providing a direct link between the administration and students in the college.

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President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Honor to Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta, who rescued two members of his squad in October 2007 while fighting in the war in Afghanistan on Tuesday, at the White House.

Soldier receives highest medal

By Darlene Superville The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Ambushed in Afghanistan, Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta stepped into a “wall of bullets” and chased down two Taliban fighters who were carrying his mortally wounded friend away.

Three years after acts of battlefield bravery, Giunta on Tuesday became the first living service member from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars to receive the nation’s top military award, the Medal of Honor. He’s the first

living medal recipient in nearly 40 years.

Far from the perilous ridge where his unit was attacked on a moonlit night in October 2007, Giunta stood in the glittering White House East Room, in the company of military brass, past Medal of Honor winners, his surviving comrades and families as President Barack Obama hung the blue ribbon cradling the medal around Giunta’s neck.

“I’m going to go off script here and just say, ‘I really like this guy,” Obama said, calling

him “a soldier as humble as he is heroic.”

“When you meet Sal and you meet his family, you are just absolutely convinced that this is what America is all about, and it just makes you proud.”

For Giunta, the tribute was bittersweet. It was a bloody day in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley and the two soldiers he rescued later died.

“Although this is so positive, I would give this back in a second to have my friends with me right now,” the 25-year-old from

Hiawatha, Iowa, said afterward on the rain-soaked White House driveway.

Obama said Giunta “charged headlong into the wall of bullets.” The sergeant at first pulled a soldier who had been struck in the helmet to safety, then sprinted ahead to find two Taliban fighters dragging away the stricken Sgt. Joshua C. Brennan.

“Sal never broke stride,” Obama said. “He leapt forward.

He took aim. He killed one of the insurgents and wounded the other, who ran off.”

By Desmond Butler The Associated Press WASHINGTON — In a blow to President Barack Obama, chances faded Tuesday for Senate approval of a major nuclear arms treaty with Russia this year, tripping up one of the administration’s top foreign policy goals: improving relations with Moscow.

Obama has been pushing to get enough Republican support for a vote before the Democratic majority shrinks by six in January, and was optimistic just over the weekend about sealing perhaps his most significant foreign policy achievement.

Part of the task included winning over Sen. Jon Kyl, the leading Republican senator on the New START agreement, who has demanded more funds for the U.S. nuclear arsenal as a condition for approving the treaty. The White House proposed adding $4.1 billion to modernize the arsenal and officials traveled to Kyl’s home state to sell the pact, according to a congressional aide. But

the senator wasn’t sufficiently impressed.

In a statement Tuesday, Kyl said he didn’t think the issue should be considered this year, citing a busy Senate agenda and the complexity of the treaty. Democrats are unlikely to be able to move forward without his support.

“When Majority Leader Harry Reid asked me if I thought the treaty could be considered in the lame duck session, I replied I did not think so given the combination of other work Congress must do and the complex and unresolved issues related to START and modernization,” Kyl said.

The administration reacted swiftly with Vice President Joe Biden warning that Senate failure to ratify the treaty would endanger the national security of the United States. Without ratification, Americans will have no way to verify Russia’s strategic nuclear arsenal and cooperation would weaken between two nations that hold 90 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons, he said.

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“I thought it was quite nice because obviously she’s not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all. This was my way of keeping her close to it all,” William said.

While the romance of the two 28-year-olds is the stuff that dreams are made of, it is no exaggeration to say that the future of the Windsor dynasty depends to no small degree on the success of their union.

“We’re massively excited,” William said in the televised interview that marked the first time they have spoken publicly about the trials and tribulations of their love affair, which dates back to their days as university freshmen. “We’re hugely excited. We’re looking forward to spending the rest of our lives together.”

Prince William, fiancée schedule royal wedding for upcoming year LONDON — Thirty years after the fairy-tale nuptials with the unhappy ending, Britain will finally have another big royal wedding: Its dashing helicopter-pilot prince — second in line to the throne — will marry the lovely commoner who may someday become queen.

Prince William and Kate Middleton bubbled with joy Tuesday evening in their first public appearance since the palace announced their engagement after more than eight years of dating. Their wedding will be next spring or summer.

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Cooperation fails For the past 19 years, an agreement between Texas Southmost College, a community college in Brownsville, and the nearby University of Texas branch, UT-Brownsville, provided students the opportunity to transfer from TSC to UTB without having to re-apply to the four-year college (UTB). The program functioned much in the same way that the CAP program does and guaranteed students admission to UTB provided they maintain a certain GPA at TSC. All that changed on Nov. 10, when UT regents decided to sever the relationship — previously agreed to last 99 years — over a rent dispute in which TSC claimed UTB owes $10 million.

The decision, which will phase out the current opportunity of seamless transfer by 2015, will be most injurious to students, even more than any single administrator’s ruffled feathers on either side of the spat.

The decision also comes at a time when community colleges are viewed as a linchpin to economic recovery, particularly in Texas. A recent study conducted for the Texas Association of Community Colleges showed that Texas taxpayers get a 6.9 percent rate of return when they invest in community colleges.

The study also showed that the average mid-career annual income of someone with an associate’s degree is 35 percent greater than that of someone with only a high school diploma and that those increased earnings boost the Texas tax base by a staggering $4.25 billion each year. Furthermore, that education and the resulting increase in income improves people’s health, employment odds and overall economic well-being to the degree that it saves the state $190.9 million each year. Needless to say, steady commitment to community colleges, especially financial commitment, is critical.

Perhaps most aggravating, the dispute between TSC and UTB had nothing to do with the success of the nearly two-decade-old transfer program, but everything to do with a turf war between the UT regents and the TSC trustees.

Earlier this year, when TSC made noise over the $10 million in building rent UTB owed, UTB responded by proposing to legally absorb TSC into UTB — an agreement which would give the UT Board of Regents governing power over the presently independent community college. TSC trustees rejected the proposal, and after three weeks waiting for a counterproposal, the regents returned with their decision to end the relationship entirely, effective 2015.

The rhetoric on both sides rose in rancor up to the point of decision. UTB and TSC have been at odds about how to govern admissions for the past few years. The present fracture widened at an October TSC board meeting when TSC trustees argued they should have control since TSC collects local taxes.

UTB-TSC President Juliet Garcia responded by asserting that UTB has brought TSC $100 million in state funds, which should be acknowledged as outweighing the debt.

Ultimately, the UT regents rejected cooperation. “In our repeated good faith efforts to negotiate an acceptable partnership agreement, we have been both ignored and rebuffed,” said Janiece Longoria, Board of Regents vice chairwoman. “We cannot afford to be held hostage by unreasonable and unrelenting demands of new members of the TSC Board of Trustees.”

Francisco Rendon, chairman of the TSC trustees, countered by stressing the poor reasoning he saw in UTB’s logic. “Instead of paying the rent, they proposed, ‘Well, why don’t you give us all your assets and we’ll take them over,’” Rendon said.

That is not exactly a lesson in grown-ups practicing pragmatism.

Again, the consequences of the agreement’s termination won’t harm the trustees or regents, but it will hurt students.

While many TSC students will still be able to transfer to UTB, even without guaranteed admission, the relationship between the two schools fostered an environment that geared TSC students to seek a four-year degree. Furthermore, while the schools will probably continue to maintain some kind of relationship, the cost of dissolving the numerous institutional relationships, in the form of programs and cost-saving measures, will be high.

After the fact, TSC trustee David Oliveira told the Texas Tribune in a statement, “I can think of no way to effectuate all of these changes caused by separating the two institutions without cutting programs and services or a dramatic increase in taxes. Obviously, neither option is desirable. At a time when the state of Texas is facing a twenty billion dollar plus shortfall, now is not the time to be terminating a partnership model that has saved this community millions of dollars over the 20 years it has been in existence.”

Point taken, grimly. Reading through the remarks of both parties, one gets the impression few gave little consideration to the consequences of their decisions.

— Susannah Jacob for the editorial board

Talking about conservation

By Emily Grubert Daily Texan Columnist I spent part of the weekend in Joshua Tree National Park in the California deserts.

While wandering up a steep slope to an abandoned gold mine in a landscape that was industrially timbered, burned, graded and mined more than 100 years ago, my companion and I realized a truth about our modern perception of wild nature: We aren’t talking about the same things Teddy Roosevelt was when we discuss conservation.

The lands we fight to conserve now are not the pristine forests and grasslands past Americans and others recognized as valuable, but the mined-out desert areas of the Southwest, lands deemed of limited value for human use and a few anomalous treasures such as the Grand Canyon and Yosemite Valley. All beautiful in their own way, and environmentally precious, to be sure, but our modern concepts of “pristine” and “wilderness” are quite different from what they used to be.

As we use more of our land and resources, what environmentally sensitive, relatively untouched areas remain become more important to us as wildlife refuges and relatively humanless ecosystems. And as we face growing populations, growing environmental awareness and growing understanding of the risks of threats such as climate change, other air pollution, stressed water supply and rapid land use change, we also are challenged to develop physical and legal infrastructure that will support a healthy environment, adequate energy and clean water.

Which is why some of the political shenanigans visible in the United States right now are, frankly, frightening.

The satiric newspaper The Onion put it well with its Nov. 10 headline, “Glob-

al Warming Issue From 2 Or 3 Years Ago May Still Be Problem.” Like most other environmental issues, climate change is not something that gets fixed with talk, and the risk associated with inaction does not lessen with time (and inaction). To draw again from The Onion: “... it turns out that the things needed to stop [climate change], like substantive energy legislation, worldwide cooperation to reduce carbon emissions, and a massive cultural shift toward sustainable living actually didn’t happen at all ...We kind of just assumed that the threat of total annihilation spurred everyone into action back in ‘07 and that everything got better.”

So the fact that the Colorado House of Representatives changed the name of the House Transportation & Energy Committee to the Transportation Committee seems like a step in the wrong direction to me, given that no stand-alone “Energy Committee” has been created in its stead. Likewise, the current battle for control over the United States House Energy and Commerce Committee is being fought among three Republicans who have made their disapproval of climate and many other environmental regulations clear.

Frontrunner Fred Upton, R-Mich., recently wrote in The Washington Times that the House’s Select Committee on Climate Change should be ended and the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulations on issues such as smog and coal ash disposal should be halted. Like his main competitors for the Energy and Commerce Committee chairmanship, Joe Barton, R-Texas, and John Shimkus, R-Ill., Upton has expressed doubt that climate science accurately predicts major risk from human-caused climate change pollution. However, Upton does support phasing out energy-intensive 100-watt incandescent lightbulbs, which has led other Republicans to attack him as too liberal.

The most likely alternatives to Upton seem to be Texas’ own Barton, the former committee chair and current ranking minority member, or Illinois’ Shimkus, who frequently cites Biblical passages as solid evidence that climate change cannot harm humans and claims that preventing carbon emissions from entering the atmosphere will hurt plants, which convert carbon dioxide to fuel themselves. By the way, a longterm study at Stanford that exposed plants to higher CO2 concentrations and other conditions expected from climate change suggests a dramatic decrease in species diversity because of higher atmospheric CO2.

Barton is at the center of a heated debate about Republican House committee term limits: House Republicans may not serve more than six years as chair or ranking minority member of a committee, and Barton was chair for two years and ranking member for four. Though he has requested a waiver on the grounds that time spent as ranking minority member is not equivalent to time spent as chair, few predict he will receive that waiver. Barton is famous for having apologized to BP after the Macondo oil spill in spring 2010; Shimkus will likely not seek the chairmanship unless Barton is denied a waiver.

It seems likely that the U.S. will end up with Upton as chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee. Though Upton is the most moderate on environmental issues of the major candidates, he has made it clear that environmental protections will not be a priority. In this time of major infrastructure and policy choices, coupled with increasingly precious environmental resources, the effects of this attitude remain to be seen.

Grubert is an environmental and water resources engineering graduate student.

Age limits and concealed carry

By Marc Nestenius Daily Texan Columnist Seven weeks after tragedy occurred on the sixth floor of the Perry-Castañeda Library, students at UT have resumed their weekly routines.

However, just a few blocks down Congress Avenue, the Texas Legislature will surely keep reminding us of the incident throughout the spring.

In January, the 82nd legislative session will commence, and a bill on concealed carry on college campuses has already made it on the agenda.

Filed by Rep. David Simpson, R-Longview, H.B. 86 will no doubt be one of the most closely followed bills of 2011. As Simpson states on his website, “In light of the recent incidence of gunfire on the University of Texas campus, this legislation is overdue.”

Can we, as young adults, expect ourselves to behave civilly enough to bring weapons to class? Is there a chance the presence of handguns on campus will be dangerous?

I, and probably many others, asked these questions during the Sept. 28 lockdown. It is clear that we need reasoned, healthy debate on this issue.

But as much as I want to hear the best persuasive arguments on campus, I must point out a blatant, yet overlooked, flaw in the debate.

If the Legislature passes the bill, students must obtain a state concealed handgun license before legally carrying a handgun on campus. They must have clean criminal records, of course.

They must be of sound mind. Makes sense.

And they must be 21 years of age. This is exactly where my support begins to unravel.

Many UT undergraduates are under 21, and if the Republican-controlled Legislature only grants students over 21 this power, it would discriminate against younger UT students and make us more vulnerable than ever.

Why? The right to protection should not be selective, but current concealed carry laws would make my safety contingent upon older students’ prudency. I would never trust the sixth-year se-

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nior sitting in the back of my lower-division physics course to be the only one in class allowed to pack heat.

As with the Virginia Tech shooting, campus shootings are often planned and calculated. A gunman could know to choose an introductory chemistry class filled with 400 freshmen over an upper-division government class with potential concealed-handgun license holders.

Many have heard the two schools of thought regarding nuclear weapon proliferation: disarmament and deterrence. A weapons-less utopia is popular; President Barack Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize largely for his efforts in bringing the nuclear world to “Global Zero.”

But as Roger Cohen opined in The New York Times last Friday, this type of “idealism will not keep [countries] safe.” Supporters of nuclear deterrence claim that if all countries had nukes, then it is less likely anyone will dare to use them.

The same arguments can apply to campus carry. Supposedly, a campus filled with CHL holders

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is safer than one without any. But a plan only allowing some students to carry guns will be hypocritical, discriminatory and even dangerous. Legislators should either grant concealed carry privileges to all students or not even consider the notion.

There is no room for compromise or experiments.

If legislators are unlikely to grant CHLs to recent high school graduates, would I suggest the campus carry debate be dropped completely?

Maybe. Debating legislation without addressing the underlying policy upon which the legislation’s intent is contingent doesn’t make any sense.

But to many, 18 is far too young for someone to carry a weapon, and legislation to lower the CHL age requirement would probably be more hotly contested than the idea of concealed carry on campus.

Permitting guns in classrooms would be a monumental action, but if it only half-heartedly fulfills its purpose, then it will do students no good.

Nestenius is a mechanical engineering sophomore.

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Texas Crew team members Hillary Hansen, Alex Mitroski and Trinidad Gaytan train on the West Mall to raise money for the rowing program.

Collectively the team will row 801 miles, enough distance to cover the state of Texas, to raise money for the program.

Crew rows to raise equipment funds

By Audrey White Daily Texan Staff Texas Crew members said passion for their sport gets them up each weekday at 5:15 a.m. for practice. They took that passion to the West Mall on Monday and Tuesday to raise awareness and funds for their sport.

The team’s 50 members collectively rowed 801 miles — the distance between the two farthest points in Texas from Brownsville to the north part of the Panhandle — on a set of rowing machines, called “ergs.” The Texas Crew team has conducted the Row Across Texas fundraiser for years in hopes of attracting attention and donations through a letter-writing campaign to let alumni, friends and family know about their efforts.

Because men’s crew is not an NCAA sport, the team receives no

funding from the athletics department. NCAA does sponsor women’s rowing, so women can choose between the NCAA team and club team. It costs Texas Crew about $150,000 to pay coaches, fund travel to competitions and purchase the equipment they need each year, and the $15,000 they received this year from the Division of Recreational Sports as a club team barely scratches the surface, so every team member must pay $700 per semester in dues.

“All our operating costs come from dues and the allocation that we get from RecSports,” said Texas Crew captain Tyler McDonald, a biochemistry and psychology senior. “The money we get from fundraising helps us grow as an organization and lets us expand our fleet and buy new boats.”

Row Across Texas raises be-

tween $20,000 and $50,000 each year. The team hopes to raise enough money this year to buy a new eight-man boat for their varsity men’s team. The team has to regularly buy new boats to replace out-of-date equipment, since newer boats are faster and more efficient, said varsity men’s team member Zach Boven, a Plan II and business honors sophomore.

In addition to raising money, the fundraiser helps the team recruit new members and educate the campus about the team, Boven said.

“You make good friends, get in good shape, the competition is incredible because we get to race some of the best athletes from around the country,” he said. “It’s something a lot of people don’t know about because [the sport is] not as big in Texas. Row Across Texas is something we do as a team to

Book explores Latino depictions

By Allison Kroll Daily Texan Staff M ov i n g “ beyo n d e l b a rrio” means challenging stereotypes and highlighting the social, cultural and political struggles that shaped Latina/o communities in the past and present — ideas the five authors of “Beyond El Barrio: Everyday Life in Latina/o America” convey in their anthology.

A symposium and book signing sponsored by UT’s Center for Mexican American Studies, the Department of American Studies and the Department of History honored the book in the San Jacinto Conference Center on Tuesday. “Beyond El Barrio” is a collection of essays analyzing Latina/o representations in the media, popular culture and public policy within and across national affiliations.

History and African Diaspora associate professor Frank Guridy said it is important to explore the problems and possibilities of “el barrio” as a framework for understanding

Latina/o experiences.

“For some ‘el barrio’ signifies ‘ghetto,’” Guridy said.

“For others, it means an autonomous Latina/o community with vibrant cultures in the face of American assimilation. We interrogate the notion of ‘el barrio’ as a way to highlight how our understandings of Latina/os remained trapped in many racial, gendered and class-based stereotypes.”

Co-editors Guridy and Gina Perez discussed the motivations behind the book and its broader conceptual framework, along with their own personal essays.

Guridy said recent debates about Latinos in the U.S. make the anthology relevant.

“The book is timely in that it sheds light on larger political questions, such as immigration, that affect U.S. society as a whole,” Guridy said.

“Sometimes methodologies don’t capture the lifestyles of the people,” Perez said. “The 2000 census and political and demographic shifts that oc-

curred during that time inspired us to create an interdisciplinary approach to Latin studies.”

Three of the contributors — associate professors in the College of Liberal Arts: Deborah Paredez, John McKiernan-Gonzalez and Cary Cordova — summarized their individual essays and how they explored different meanings of “el barrio” in the U.S. McKiernan-Gonzalez focuses on the diverse Latina/o populations in Tampa, Fla., while Cordova delved into the Mission District in San Francisco.

Paredez focused her essay on the absent mother figure in Latina representation. She said visibility in the media and popular culture doesn’t always result in power.

“Even among Latinos, there was an anxiety of young Latinas and their economic autonomy and mobility,” Paredez said.

“This strategically relocates the problem onto the mother, because she prevents the daughter from aspiring.”

Meteor showers cascade in Austin sky

By Ahsika Sanders Daily Texan Staff Between 20 and 100 meteors will be visible early Wednesday morning as the Leonid meteor shower soars into sight.

StarDate, the bimonthly magazine of UT’s McDonald Observatory, recommended that the best time to see the meteor is Nov. 17 and Nov. 18, just before sunrise.

Astronomy Professor Eiichiro Komatsu said when Earth orbits into a region where there is a lot of debris, dust comes into the Earth’s atmosphere and we see a meteor shower.

“They occur so regularly because we travel along the same path every year,” he said. “Unlike comets, that happen to fall to Earth, we are actually going into its path.”

The Leonid shower is unique because more than the usual dozen meteors will be visible every hour, said Rebecca Johnson, a McDonald Observatory spokeswoman.

“It’s generally one of the better showers in any given year because it’s one of the big ones,” she

said. “There should be a minimum of 20 meteors per hour and possibly more.”

Researchers at the McDonald Ob-

They will combine efforts with Texas A&M University and Pennsylvania State University using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, one of the world’s largest.

Johnson said astronomers thought the planet’s expansion would slow down and stop because of gravity, but surprisingly, We are calling this the opposite has occurred.

“Earth’s expansion is actually unknown force that’s speeding up, and no one knows causing [Earth’s why,” Johnson said. “We are calling expansion] to speed this unknown force that’s causing it to speed up ‘dark energy.’” up ‘dark energy.’”

There are four to five major mete— Rebecca Johnson or showers every year with the bigMcDonald Observatory gest occurring in August, November and December, she said. spokeswoman Astronomy graduate student Paul Robertson said the research will give insight into the beginnings of Earth.

“It’s going to give us an immense servatory generally research stars, amount of observational data to galaxies and planets surround- help pin down how this force is ing stars, but the National Science working,” he said. “For people who Foundation recently awarded a want to know about Earth’s origins $3.6 million grant to research dark and how it will evolve, this study energy, an unknown force in space. will be a source of answers.”

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show the University that we have dedication to our sport and show our gratitude for everyone’s support of our team.”

Such student interest and dedication keeps Texas Crew and other club teams alive, said RecSports assistant sport club coordinator Chad McKenzie. RecSports can only allocate $200,000 total to various club teams, and they look to give the most support to teams that show the most passion and interest in their sport, he said.

“These students do this because they absolutely love the sport, and their funding comes from them,” McKenzie said. “We have athletes in our clubs that could play NCAA sports at other schools, but they came to UT to get their education, and we are glad to be able to support their interests in our club teams.”

at UT in the fiscal year 2008-09,

By Allie Kolechta according to UT’s Facilities SerDaily Texan Staff While the Campus Environ- vices website. While the CEC mental Center has seen its share is getting ready to do another of success in the past year with trash audit, they expect to see an expanded on-campus recy- the numbers go up, said govcling program, the student group ernment senior Rachel Aitkens, urged students on Tuesday to the group’s director.

“I’ve seen a major change continue embracing sustainability efforts on campus, said en- since the green outdoor bins vironmental science sophomore went out,” she said. “I know that recycling has gone up beMichelle Camp.

The center celebrated America cause we take it to the comRecycles Day on the West Mall as panies we recycle with, and the group gave out free T-shirts we’ve physically been having to students who took a quiz on to make more trips. It’s really recycling on campus. All of the exciting to see that happen.”

The student environmenT-shirts were gone by 11:45 a.m.

Formed in 2002, the organi- tal group is working with the Freshman Orization is plane n t a t i o n P ro ning other camgram and respaigns to disidence halls tribute reusable to spread the bags and water word about onbottles, as well We need student campus recyas T-shirts made support to change cling, Aitkens from recycled said. The next cotton, in orUT’s practices” step to increase der to increase — Michelle Camp recycling on the awareness and draw students Assistant director UT campus is change in the into the idea of of CEC’s recycleing aattitude toward recycling, said committee it and increasCamp, assistant ing its awaredirector of the ness, she said.

CEC’s recycling Students can committee. take the next “Students restep in solvs p o n d re a l l y well to free stuff, especially if ing the UT’s sustainability it’ll save money,” she said. “We problem by monitoring what need student support to change they buy, instead of what they throw away, said geography UT’s practices.”

This semester, UT placed 35 senior Mark McKim, a memnew outdoor recycling bins with ber of the group’s recycling separate compartments for pa- task force committee.

“Recycling is very important per, plastic and aluminum, as well as indoor recycling bins for in the realms of environmenalmost every building on campus tal responsibility but it’s not the and compost bins for on-campus most important,” he said. “As eateries such as Jester City Lim- students, we should take the time to think about our purchasits and Cypress Bend Cafe.

A total of 21,406 trees were es and reduce and reuse rather saved by on-campus recycling than force ourselves to recycle.”

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LONGHORN SPOTLIGHT TREY HOPKINS Height: 6’4” Weight: 297 lbs.

Class: Freshman Hometown: Galena Park

When starting left guard Michael Huey injured his knee against Baylor, true freshman Trey Hopkins was thrown into the game. He’s been the Longhorns’ starter ever since.

Head coach Mack Brown and offensive coordinator Greg Davis are excited about Hopkins not only because of his impressive performances in the Kansas State and Oklahoma State games, but also because of his versatility that allows him to play all five spots on the line.

“He might be as good as any lineman we’ve ever had before he finishes his career at Texas,” Brown said. “He’s doing really well for a true freshman and that’s really unheard of in modern day football for an offensive lineman. He’s got great feet, great length, great quickness and great athletic ability.”

Davis compared Hopkins to former Texas right tackle Justin Blalock, who was a part of the 2005 national championship team.

Hopkins is one of three freshmen (Mason Walters and Paden Kelley are the other two) to have started on the offensive line the past couple of games.

—Laken Litman Shereen Ayub | Daily Texan Staff

Freshman Chelsea Bass brings the ball up the court during Wednesday’s 112-53 win over Northwestern State. Bass led all Texas reserves with 18 points.

By Alexandra Carreno Daily Texan Staff After last Friday’s season opener, Texas head coach Gail Goestenkors made her needs clear. She needed her bench players to come in with the same focus and intensity as if they were starting. One thing was clear af-

ter the Longhorn’s 112-53 defeat of Northwestern State Tuesday night: The bench took heed of Goestenkors’ advice.

“I think they did a better job,” Goestenkors said. “It’s still not where we want it to be. Chelsea [Bass] came in very focused and ready to play, we’ve got to get

everyone playing like that.”

Inexperience proved to be a one-time hindrance for the squad’s fresh faces, as the reserves combined for 30 points on Tuesday.

Bass was a standout coming off the bench for the Longhorns.

The freshman guard scored 18

points and grabbed six rebounds and was one of three players to have points in the double digits at half time.

“The freshmen give us some great versatility,” Goestenkors said. “Chelsea did a real great job tonight, and Anne Marie [Hartung] has already had

some great games as well. They come in with a lot of confidence and energy.”

Sarah Lancaster and Hartung also came out strong off the bench, combining for 10 points and 11 rebounds.

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Point guard Fontenette steps up with 23 points

By Sameer Bhuchar Daily Texan Staff In a game where seemingly every player on the Texas squad made respectable strides forward in their individual games, Ashleigh Fontenette’s day was particularly special.

“A-T,” as she is affectionate-

ly called by her teammates and coaches, was the driving force behind the Longhorns’ 115-53 victory. She dropped a gamehigh 23 points on Northwestern State for her second straight 20-plus scoring performance of the season. In addition to her scoring, she snagged eight re-

bounds, made six assists to just two turnovers, stole the ball four times and the 5-foot-8-inch guard even had a block.

In addition Fontenette was 2-of-4 from long range and only missed one of six free throws.

“I think [Ashleigh] is one of the best point guards in the

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country,” said Texas head coach Gail Goestenkors. “I think she showed that. She’s been really consistent with her play. She’s a tremendous defensive player, and she’s also got a lot of confidence offensively now.”

Goestenkors said she also saw a much smarter basketball play-

er on the court.

“I think last year was a learning year for her at that point position,” she said. “Now she knows exactly what we need and when we need it.”

Fontenette knew she needed

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the second time this season for her performances at Baylor and Texas Tech last week. “[Juliann’s] been playing really well,” said head coach Jerritt Elliott. “It’s how she’s doing it. Her attack selection has really changed, her feet to the ball is a lot better, and her confidence is a lot better.”

Faucette, who is also on the Academic All-Big 12 second team, has stepped up in place of injured teammates with some great setting. “[The situation] just calls for me to step up and [junior setter

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Texas quarterback Garrett Gilbert, 7, scrambles between Oklahoma State defenders during Saturday’s game. Gilbert finished with 55 yards on the ground and is now second on the team in rushing.

carries this season just behind tailback Cody Johnson’s 361 yards on 92 carries.

“But most of those were scrambles,” said Gilbert, who doesn’t consider himself a dual-threat quarterback. “That’s not really a situation you want to be in.”

That may be, but Gilbert is going to need to finish out the rest of the season as a runner since the tailback depth chart

slimmed down this week with Tre’ Newton ending his football career because of a series of head injuries.

That means Fozzy Whittaker, Johnson, Chris Whaley and D.J. Monroe need to pick up their games.

Whittaker, who has the best yards-per-carry average on the team (4.5), went down Saturday

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9-of-17 shooting 23 points 4 rebounds

T.J. Ford, PG 3-of-10 shooting 6 points 5 assists

Daniel Gibson, PG 6-of-12 shooting 18 points 8 assists

Maurice Evans, SF 0-of-3 shooting 2 rebounds

SPORTS BRIEFLY Lee meets with Rangers GM amidst surge of trade talks Free agent pitcher Cliff Lee has had another high-level visitor.

Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels said he met with Lee and his agent on Monday in Arkansas, the left-hander’s offseason home.

Daniels was at baseball’s GM meetings on Tuesday.

Lee also is being pursued by the New York Yankees. Earlier this month, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman visited Lee at his home.

The 32-year-old Lee was a combined 12-9 with a 3.18 ERA for Seattle and Texas last season. He was 7-0 with a 1.26 ERA in eight career postseason starts before twice losing to San Francisco in the World Series.

— The Associated Press

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Gilbert to start because of rushing

By Laken Litman Daily Texan Staff Quarterback Garrett Gilbert is not going to get benched. His interception to touchdown ratio may be 15:7, but he’s become a valuable part of the team’s running game.

Last Saturday night against Oklahoma State, he ran for 55 yards and became the team’s second leading rusher. He’s credited with 324 yards on 74

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By Shabab Siddiqui Daily Texan Staff “Fear the Faucette” may be the most appropriate saying to write on a sign for tonight as eighth-ranked Texas (19-5, 14-2 Big 12) faces off against Missouri (19-8, 11-6) at 6:30 p.m. inside Gregory Gym. The senior outside hitter and team co-captain has been on a tear as the Longhorns’ season approaches its final lap. The San Diego native has strung together averages of 27.3 kills per match on .389 hitting, to go along with 9.67 digs and 1.67 blocks.

On Monday, she earned Big 12 Player of the Week honors for

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Juliann Faucette, left, has been an integral piece of Texas’ latest winning streak, notching 54 kills in the last two games.

Following the NCAA Regional Championships last weekend, the U.S. Track and Field Cross Country Coaches Association announced a list of almost 450 all-regional Division I cross-country runners, including 10 Texas runners.

The Longhorn runners include: Mia Behm, Marielle Hall, Julie Amthor, Sara Sutherland, Laleh Mojtabaeezamani, Ryan Dohner, Patrick McGregor, Brian Rhodes-Devey, Bradley Lowry and Brock Simmons.

The men’s and women’s teams will compete at the NCAA National Championships next Monday.

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fontenette: Junior ‘one of the best,’ says coach Goestenkors From page 6 to force turnovers. Like a heatseeking missile, she was relentless in her pursuit of the ball in all phases of the game.

After scoring the first bucket of the game, a 3-pointer, she immediately stayed under the Texas basket to defend the inbound pass. Fontenette was alone at first on the press but then demanded help from her teammates. Her persistence paid off because that is where most of her six steals came from.

Most of her damage came in the first half of the game when she said she was looking to get as many people involved as possible.

“I think early I just looked to attack in transition and the defense started to collapse on me and I just found the open player,” Fontenette said. “We were looking to share the ball and I think we did a great job of doing that.”

Fontenette’s calm demeanor off the court does not translate to passive play on it. She was Texas’ workhorse last night, and she knows that she needs to continue having that attitude to ensure Texas’ long-term success.

Luckily, despite individual accomplishments, Fontenette always has a team-first mentality.

“I personally love it,” the freshman guard said, referring to the team’s tempo. “As a team, we have a lot of athletic guards and our posts can run the floor, and I think it’s great for us to be able to Shereen Ayub | Daily Texan Staff pressure the other team and get Longhorn guard Ashleigh Fontenette, right, drives against Northwestern State on Wednesday night. Fontenette scored a game-high 23 points and added eight rebounds. out and run.”

blowout: Reserves put up 30,

Texas scores most since 2000 two assists, two rebounds and a steal. She went on to score a “[The coaches] want us to game-high 23 points. push the tempo more than anyThe only freshman in the thing,” said guard Chassidy Fus- starting lineup, Fussell came sell. “Just get it up the court and out strong for the Longhorns, if you don’t have the shot, find as she recorded her secondan open player. I think we did a straight double-digit scoring efgreat job of that tonight.” fort of the season with a careerTrue to form, the four veteran high 21 points. players laid the foundation for “When you have leaders like victory against the Demons. we do, they pull me along with Ashleigh Fontenette was in the them and they drive us. It carries zone all night as she shot 8-of-13 over into the game.” from the floor. Just five minutes But once again, turnovers coninto the first half, the junior had tinued to plague the Longhorns scored 10 points and racked up and they finished with 21. It was

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an improvement over the 24 turnovers they amassed against Mississippi Valley State last Friday but Goestenkors is confident there’s room to grow.

The 112 points Texas posted were the most since Dec. 16, 2000, when the Longhorns scored 135 against Centenary College.

“I want to score 100 points every game. That’s the mindset I want to go in with,” Goestenkors said. “If it doesn’t happen it doesn’t, but that’s the way we should go in to every single game we play. I think we are developing that mindset and identity.”

gilbert: QB now team’s No. 2 rusher in the first half because of a recurring stinger in his shoulder.

Johnson hasn’t performed like the back the coaches thought they were getting in fall camp, but as of late he’s getting more reps. Whaley, a redshirt freshman, has only appeared in one game this season and as far as Monroe goes, he’s not even listed on this week’s updated depth chart despite leading the team with 9.4 yards per carry.

Senior send off The senior class is only guaranteed eight more days, five more practices and two more games until their football career at Texas is over.

That is unless the seniors beat Florida Atlantic this Saturday and Texas A&M on Thanksgiving and become a 6-6 bowl-eligible team.

“The only thing we’re talking about now is getting the seniors out on the right note,” said receiver Malcolm Williams.

But despite the desperation surrounding Texas right now, the players and coaches are staying calm and positive.

“We can still have a winning season. We can still finish above .500,” said receiver James Kirkendoll, because if Texas wins its next two games plus a bowl game, it would end with a 7-6 record. “It’s crazy how you can go from playing in the national championship game to having a struggling season.”

Injury report Defensive end Jackson Jeffcoat, who hasn’t played a snap since Nebraska, says his sprained ankle is feeling better than it has in weeks. Jeffcoat told the coaches and head trainer Kenny Boyd that he should be able to play Saturday against Florida Atlantic.

Starting left tackle Kyle Hix, who got a concussion in the second half of the Kansas State game and didn’t play last weekend against Oklahoma State, is also probable for the weekend.

Whittaker ’s stinger is still nagging him, but he said Tuesday afternoon that his first practice back went well and he should be good to go for the game on Saturday.

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Michelle] Kocher’s setting great right now,” Faucette said. “It’s kind of just panning out that way.

It’s definitely me wanting to go out there and win the game.”

Texas played its last two games without junior outside hitter Amber Roberson, the latest victim on a laundry list of injuries the team has faced through the season.

With their second leading scorer out, Faucette shouldered a lot of the scoring burden, posting a career-high 30 kills against the Bears in an emotion-filled match that included plenty of jawing with the referees. Three nights later, she posted 24 kills against the Red Raiders in Lubbock.

Even with Faucette’s offensive showcase and Roberson’s injury, the team has managed to maintain the much-coveted offen-

sive balance Elliott has preached about since the beginning of the year, as the team continues to get double digit kills from senior middle blocker Jennifer Doris, sophomore utility player Sha’Dare McNeal and junior middle blocker Rachael Adams.

“It’s all pretty much coming together full circle from the beginning of our season to now,” Faucette said. “With just the ups and downs we’ve had, everyone has seen our chemistry grow. Supporting each other and getting to know each other off the court is really showing on the court.”

With Roberson listed as dayto-day, senior outside hitter Lauren Dickson has stepped into the starting role. The University of Virginia transfer and Westlake High School graduate operated primarily as a serving

specialist until these last two games. Dickson notched eight kills and 11 digs against Texas Tech on Saturday.

“She’s a great player,” Doris said. “She’s such a good contributor with her defense. It’s fun to play against her, but to see her get her shot and see her shine.

We’re so happy for her.”

The Longhorns hope to extend their winning streak against a Missouri team that is boasting its own six-game tear. Texas has also dropped a set in each of its last three matches. Doris said that has more to do with the team’s own mishaps rather than being overmatched.

“It all boils down to taking care of our side of the net,” Doris said. “Our errors ultimately gave them the set. So as long as we take care of our own responsibility, we’ll be fine.”

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honor: Separate developing teams cause loss of quality From page 10 new game types, including one where players start with only a knife and a pistol with one bullet. Zombie mode from “World at War” also returns with minor improvements.

The single-player mode is where the game falls short. It’s the most ambitious campaign yet, packed full of set piece moments every five minutes. Some players will get a thrill out of the rollercoaster pacing and constant interruptions, but I personally found these scenarios — along with sawing through the necks of unaware Vietnamese soldiers while a squad mate cheers, “Never gets old” — to be a trying attempt at creating shock value where a better designed series once stood. The good news is that most of what you like about the series remains. The bad news is that you probably own those parts already.

Grade: B For fans of: “Apocalypse Now,” Alex Jones and presidents killing zombies.

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2010 reboot. The franchise responsible for creating the World War II console shooter that led to genre fatigue has now returned in the form of a modern military shooter in a year that is full of them.

Thankfully, there are novel ideas, gorgeous visuals and a unique aesthetic to set it apart from the competition.

In what was a terrible decision from the start, the game’s two components are developed by separate teams. DICE handled the multiplayer, essentially stripping away the best features of their “Battlefield: Bad Company 2” without adding the ideas that stand out from the single-player campaign, developed by Danger Close.

There is a grounded realism to “Medal of Honor” that is at times fascinating in concept but too often boring in execution. Being able to slide to cover, peek around corners and pull out a pistol with the double tap of a button are all great additions (none of which appear in multiplayer), but they can’t prevent the game from feeling like an endless shooting gallery from an earlier age.

Grade: C

For fans of: “Call of Duty 4: ModThere’s an irony that comes with ern Warfare,” ATVs and gnarly the release of “Medal of Honor’s” beards.

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student relationship creates strong bond From page 10 accommodating assistance because she believes it’s more of a hassle than an aid to have one since she can’t understand words with one, and it’s also too much of a responsibility to change the battery.

“I came here for myself and my own education,” Wilkins said.

“There are great interpreters here.

People with other disabilities might be uncomfortable, but for me, it’s not uncomfortable.”

With interpreters such as Parker on campus, who has been interpreting professionally for the last 15 years, the hearing-impaired community has been provided with a sense of comfort on campus.

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Despite a somewhat tense rehearsal atmosphere, Spanish senior Sandra Khalil sat calmly in the back of the room. She listened attentively to questions and groups practicing their wenching, but overall the show’s producer seemed at ease.

“We’ve put a lot of thought into this show,” Khalil said.

“It’s going to be really epic.”

After acting for Madrigal Dinner for the past two years, Khalil decided to take on a different role for her senior year.

Juggling publicity and management of both behind the scenes and on-stage production was a sharp juxtaposition to her time spent acting on stage, but Khalil said she appreciated the opportunity to participate in Madrigal in a different way.

“I’m super excited about being a part of Madrigal in its 30th year,” Khalil said. “I fell in love with it my first year, and one of my dreams that surfaced through that was wanting to make the show grow. I think we’ve been able to do that.”

Khalil notes that it is the enthusiasm of the students that carries the production and makes it memorable.

“It has a very specific atmosphere,” she said. “When 1 you’re watching you can tell how much the actors and singers are having fun singing songs to you and interacting with you. The energy is infectious.”

“Considering the market right now with the way the recession is going, I think a lot of people would probably be interested just to see if there is another field,” Seymour said. He has been running around the past week posting flyers and letting students know about the event. “I don’t think video games instantly comes to mind.”

Driver admits to not knowing the average salary of a video game designer ($75,573 according to Game Developer Research’s 2009 report), but he says there are still commitments to be made, as with any competitive industry.

“If it’s going to take you four more years, are you willing to commit to that? If it’s going to take an internship, are you willing to commit to that?” Driver said.

“At the end of the day, it’s really your decision. We are just lucky enough to be facilitators of that conversation.”

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This connection between interpreter and student has made it so that both sides learn every day about the community, and for Wilkins, this specifically concerns her love of music.

“I have other ways of enjoying the music life, by watching the people singing in American Sign Language, feeling the vibrates of the beats and I also enjoy watching the musical movies,” Wilkins said. “I look for a deeper meaning in the visuals [instead of the sound].”

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has worked in the industry for nearly a decade, will be one of the panelists to join the conversation. She has worked for three Austin game developers, but now does contract work and runs her independent studio Pixelsea Entertainment.

“There is enough game development and support activity in Austin at any given point in time that there are always jobs for people with the right skills,” Snider said.

The event will be organized into two sections. The first will be a panel with four questions posed by the moderators, followed by audience questions. Afterward, the panelists will invite audience members to converse with them, giving students a rare opportunity to network with Austin game industry professionals.

“It’s one of those careers that I think that if you lived in any other city, probably getting six people who work in video game design wouldn’t be possible,” Driver said.

“I can tell you right now, back in Florida I couldn’t have done it.”

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Life&Arts Editor: Amber Genuske E-mail: lifeandarts@dailytexanonline.com Phone: (512) 232-2209 www.dailytexanonline.com

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Dinner offers traditional Renaissance food, music Classical theater, modern humor creates atmosphere in annual student-run play

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Jannifer Wilkins signs to her interpreter Barbie Parker outside the Texas Union. Despite being deaf, Wilkins is enrolled in a Literature in Music class because of her strong appreciation for music.

Music, rhythm fascinates deaf student

By Lindsey Cherner Daily Texan Staff Jannifer Wilkins spoke without words, her hands forming a language that Barbie Parker, her interpreter, decoded. Wilkins was born deaf, and has been singing since she was a child; since before she could remember. When asked about music, her hands moved with even greater dexterity exemplifying her passion for the subject.

Part of this passion inevitably came from her father, a professional jazz drummer who played gigs around the Houston area for years. Wilkins credits much of her passion for her studio arts major to him, as well as her overall love of music. Because of this upbringing, Wilkins enrolled in a Literature in Music class because it’s part of her degree requirements, and because she wasn’t interested in taking a music class that required instrument use.

“They do play music in the class, but for eryday life. me, the teacher uses images as a substitute,” “It’s really eye-opening to see that music Wilkins said. “I’m given a visual image and really shapes all aspects of life,” Wilkins said. then look for the meaning “The way that music changbehind it and I also have es, remixes and grows to bean interpreter in the class come popular over time rethat signs what’s being ally fascinates me.” heard — like rhythms and It’s really eye-opening Her fascination with muto see that music expressions so I can have sic has never just been in an understanding.” the classroom either. Mureally shapes all Although Wilkins is 36 sic has surrounded her for aspects of life” years old, before taking the years. Wilkins’ husband is class, she only knew the also deeply rooted in the — Jannifer wilkins very surface of all types of music industry, and like Musician her father, is a drummer. music, and most of what she knew came from her He plays rock ‘n’ roll but father. She appreciates in his younger years tried the music more now after out R&B and soul. To help learning about the different genres of mu- Wilkins hear what he’s playing, sometimes sic and their evolution. Wilkins also finds it he’ll sign the songs to her so she can see interesting to see context and music in ev- what they’re like.

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“It’s funny, when people say to my husband, ‘Why would you marry a deaf woman? Because she can’t even hear the music.’

My answer is that he can play as loud as he wants and I still can’t hear it,” Wilkins said.

Although she can’t hear the lyrics of songs, Wilkins can feel the rhythms in the vibrations.

“I can turn up the bass loud in my car, for my husband, and for my three kids,” Wilkins said. “I turn up the music at home. I’m not always involved [with the music] in a participatory manner, but it’s always there.”

She no longer uses a hearing aid because she feels more comfortable without one. Instead she focuses on seeing and feeling. She finds her days are more fulfilling without it, and feels natural without the aid of the device. Wilkins says she is glad UT has such

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By Allistair Pinsof Daily Texan Staff Finding a job in the video game industry has long been thought to be an extremely difficult task with success limited to a few lucky computer science majors. A panel on finding a career in video games sought to dispel this myth and others to UT wHaT: Video Game Career Panel wHere: UTC 2.102A wHeN: Wednesday 3:30 - 6 p.m. web: lifelearning.utexas.edu

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Video games’ multiplayer aspects vary in excellence and Russians in the Arctic.

But Treyarch, which previously developed “Call of Duty: World at War,” remain the greatest enemy of all. After

By Allistair Pinsof playing through a campaign Daily Texan Staff filled with unreliable team AI, getting stuck because of misdirection and facing endless Call of Duty: Black Ops (PC, swarms of Vietnamese troops PS3, Wii, Xbox 360) that don’t stop until you perThe latest annual update form a non-indicated action, to America’s favorite murder it will be Treyarch’s name that simulator presents many ene- you curse above all others.

Most of the 5.6 million copmies to the player: Tropas in Cuba, Vietcongs in Vietnam ies sold on the game’s release

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MEAL continues on page 9 wHaT: Madrigal Dinner wHere: Texas Union Ballroom wHeN: Wednesday - Friday, 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.

TiCKeTs: Student tickets start at $13; General admission tickets start at $26

Panel will prove gaming jobs exist

Video game reViews

call of duty: black ops, medal of honor

Both titles feature slight innovations while failing to significantly advance

By Abby Johnston Daily Texan Staff There will be plenty of singing, sword fights and bread pudding at the Texas Union this week when the 30th annual Madrigal Dinner takes over the ballroom from Nov. 19 to Nov. 22. The cast and crew have revamped old traditions for this milestone anniversary, with additions sure to please both the ears and the stomach.

Madrigal Dinner is a longstanding student-produced play. Each year, open auditions are held to cast actors, singers and crew, all supervised and coached by fellow students. The night includes singing classic Christmas carols, original songs and, this year, traditional Renaissance madrigals, all accompanied by dinner and dessert for the audience. Musical numbers center on a student-penned play that is largely in the vein of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, combining both classical theater elements and modern humor.

The cast and crew practiced far into the night in the Union Ballroom, perfecting fighting sequences and practicing audience interaction. Even during rehearsal breaks, the actors never broke character and instead practiced “wenching,” or serenading individuals or small groups, to standin audience members. Directors and costume designers did not break their focus while groups of actors circled them and sang snarky a capella, and modern madrigals sang in perfectly sweet

students on Wednesday.

High school fitness coaches and parents often tell teenagers that getting a job in video game development is a pipe dream. Karen Weems and Joel Driver, career counselors at the Sanger Learning and Career Center, have talked to many kids over the years who have been told the same.

“A lot of times we are talking and I’ll ask, ‘What’s your interest?’ and they say, ‘I like to play video games, but that’s not a career,’” Weems said.

“So we are doing this panel to show that, yeah, there really are careers associated with that interest that could be viable.”

Weems develops iPhone apps

when she isn’t on campus, and Driver plays video games with old classmates as a way to keep in touch, but putting together the panel has been a learning experience for both of them, Weems said.

Through a partnership with International Game Developers Association’s Austin chapter, the career center will bring five local game designers representing different aspects of game design to speak to UT students about a career that is open to them, “more so then the ones people usually think of,” according to career center assistant Matthew Seymour.

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date were likely purchased for multiplayer: Treyach’s strength. This year’s new features and maps are welcome additions to one of the best online shooters available. The perks and personalization of “Modern Warfare 2” are faithfully implemented along with a new leveling system that lets players earn points from matches that can be spent on new gear and perks. These points can also be gambled in

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Tamir Kalifa | Daily Texan Staff

Sylvia Cruz watches over her grandson Abel Castillo on the porch of their East Austin home Tuesday afternoon.