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THE DAILY TEXAN Tuesday, November 2, 2010
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Find your polling location at the Travis County Clerk’s website. http://bit.ly/traviscountyvote
Election Night watch party UT Hook the Vote and the Department of Government will host an election night watch party in the UT Tower. Associate professor Sean Theriault will provide analysis on results. Main 212. 7:00 p.m - 11:30 p.m.
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Cut foreign language programs revived By Collin Eaton & Audrey White Daily Texan Staff Vietnamese language instruction will return to campus next summer as part of an intensive immersion language program that will also include Czech, Russian and Modern Greek. In an effort to keep UT’s smaller language programs alive, the College of Liberal Arts will launch a
new multi-language summer program next year that will bring together students from UT and other universities to learn a year’s worth of foreign languages in two months. Last spring, the University’s Department of Asian Studies cut the Vietnamese language program in response to a state-directed 5-percent budget cut to the University as a whole.
Thomas Garza, associate professor and director of the Texas Language Center, said the multi-language program is a trial balloon and will be open to the public. It will test whether it can generate revenue from the larger fees that non-UT students will pay. Garza said in light of budget cuts, each language department is trying to find ways to get students through
their programs more cost effectively without reducing the quality of education, and the new summer program will help keep smaller language courses running if it is continued each summer. “We have a wonderful Spanish program, but to ignore all those other wonderful languages that are out there would just be a travesty,” he said. “We don’t want to see
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“The lack of production in the red zone has been unbelievable. That percentage is killing us.”
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Technical troubleshooters for the Travis County Clerks Office David Dale and Derek Singleton set up polling booths at the Univeristy Co-op on Monday.
Parties clash over accusations of bias at Travis County polling centers “The Travis County Republican Party held a training [session] where they told people to go to precincts that are in East and Southeast Travis County,” said Andy Brown, chairman of the Travis County Democratic Party. “We are asking them why they are only sending people to the high-minority precincts. It appears they’re
Hometown hero physics professor awarded for work
of NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave By Shivam Purohit Anisotropy Probe science team. Daily Texan Staff Using the satellite, Komatsu Physics professor Eiichiro Komatsu remembers listening to sto- and his team measured the radiaries as a child about the late Hideki tion left from the Big Bang to gain Yukawa, Japan’s first Nobel Lau- a deeper understanding of the earreate in physics. He never thought ly universe, he said. Since the mission he would one day be was launched in awarded the honor2001, the team has ary Nishinomiyamapped the Cosmic Yukawa Memorial Microwave BackPrize for physics. ground radiation to “My father was produce a complete the vice principal of map of the microan elementary school wave sky, calculatin Nishinomiya, [Jaing the approximate pan], where a stone age of the universe monument comand determining the memorating YukaEiichiro Komatsu approximate perwa’s achievements Physics professor centage composition was,” Komatsu said. He said he often visited the monu- of dark energy in the universe, acment as a child and was impressed cording to NASA. Komatsu will travel to Nishiby Yukawa’s accomplishments. Komatsu, director of UT’s Texas nomiya, his birthplace, to receive Cosmology Center, was honored the prize at its city hall on Nov. 4. with the distinction for his studies of the early universe as a member SCIENCE continues on page 2
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Party charged that Travis County sent out an urgent call for staffers last weekend because of a shortage because they hadn’t contacted potential Republican poll-workers. Travis County Democrats retaliated, charging that Travis County Republicans had dispatched poll workers to predominately minority precincts to intimidate.
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only targeting those precincts.” Brown said that during the Republican training, one of the GOP volunteers asked jokingly if he could wear camouflage and bring a baseball bat to the poll he was watching. Travis County Republican Party chairwoman Rosemary
Hook the Cure hosts a panel of experts on medical and cultural aspects of diabetes. Union 3.116. 7-9 p.m.
By Nolan Hicks Daily Texan Staff With polls opening on Election Day at 7 a.m., Democrats and Republicans have spent the past several days dueling over allegations of voter intimidation in heavily minority precincts in Harris and Travis counties. The Travis County Republican
something as stupid as a budget cut be the reason why we lose all of our incredible intellectual content.” When UT alumna Nickie Tran learned of the cut in April, she spent the weeks leading up to her May 2010 graduation working with Student Government, Senate of College Councils and
By Audrey White Daily Texan Staff Republicans and Democrats are both certain that record-high early voting totals in Travis County indicate support for their respective party’s candidates, and both are fighting to get voters out to the polls today. According to Travis County records, about 134,000 people voted early this year, up from 99,000 in the last midterm election in 2006. Usually, about 50 percent of the electorate votes early, so the county is expecting vote totals to reach at least 250,000, said Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir. Statewide, early voting totals are up 61 percent from 2006, according to records from the Secretary of State. “We’ve got a hot ticket this year,” DeBeauvoir said. “There are races that are competitive starting right there at the top, and you can mark your way down the ballot with tight races.” The Travis County Democratic and Republican parties will both have volunteers working at the county’s 211 voter precincts, as well as phone banking and reaching out to Election Day voters with signs and personal interactions. Polls show incumbent Republican Governor Rick Perry ahead of Democrat Bill White by about 12 points, according to a statewide newspaper poll, but Democratic Party representatives said they are confident the results will favor them.
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Barry Salzberg, CEO of tax and consulting firm Deloitte LLP, is part of the McCombs School’s distinguished speaker series. UTC 2.102A. 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Beauford H. Jester Center-West Possession of Alcohol by a Minor: A UT staff member reported a UT student was passed out in the hallway outside a 10th floor dormitory room. The officers located the subject and noted he was wearing evidence on the front of his shirt that he had experienced an adverse physical reaction to the overconsumption of alcohol. The student was asked who the president of the United States was and he stated, “Not I.” As the student was entering his room with the officers’ aid, the officers observed two bottles of alcohol, a shot glass and glass mixer sitting on a table. The student looked at the bottles, then at the officers, and stated, “That will be a problem.” The officers had already determined the student was under the legal age of 21. Occurred on Sunday at 5:20 a.m.
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Samuel Bean, Beki Halpon, and Karon Rilling take part in a rally supporting Proposition 1 at City Hall. The legislation, up for vote today, proposes a $90 million overhaul of bike and pedestrian road facilities.
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Austinites split over Prop. 1 proposal By Anna Fata & Vidushi Shrimali Daily Texan Staff Austin residents will decide Tuesday whether a $90 million bond proposal to fund road improvements and build sidewalks and bike lanes is an effective solution to the city’s transportation problems. Get Austin Moving, a group that supports Proposition 1, held a final rally Monday at City Hall Plaza to lay out the reasons behind its support for the package and to thank
supporters. Representatives from the organization and other groups in favor of the proposition said the improvements are necessary for the city. “It’s going to pass,” said Glenn Gadbois, a Get Austin Moving volunteer. “What I wish is that we get the people of Austin to vote for it, to get this trend of multimodal transportation going.” George Cofer, executive director of the Hill Country Conservancy, said the proposition is a need-
ed solution for the city’s current traffic congestion and that the improvements would connect East and West Austin, which have been separated by Interstate Highway 35 since its construction in the 1950s. “It’s good for the businesses of Austin,” Cofer said. “It addresses water and air pollution. Proposition 1 begins to bring the city back together.” Cofer said Austin voters do not
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