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THE DAILY TEXAN Wednesday, November 24, 2010
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Environment report reveals gas prices could cost struggling families millions By Allison Kroll Daily Texan Staff Texans could save about $16 million in gas costs traveling this Thanksgiving holiday with more fuel-efficient cars, according to a Environment Texas report released Tuesday. Four environment experts gathered at an old gas station at the 1500 block of San Jacinto Boulevard to discuss the newly released report, “Gobbling Less Gas for Thanksgiving: How Clean Cars Can Save Americans Money and Cut Oil Use.” “We’re here today because efficiency is the best of all worlds,” said Andy Wilson, Public Citizen policy analyst for global warming and campaign finance reform. “Texas families need to be protected from high fuel costs at a time when everyone is struggling to pay their bills. We have the technology to meet these goals — we know we can do this.”
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Austin police will intensify patrols over Thanksgiving for auto-fatality prevention By Aziza Musa Daily Texan Staff The entire Austin police force will take to the streets during the next month for a department-wide initiative to decrease the amount of traffic injuries and fatalities during the holiday season. The program, Home for the Holidays, requires every officer, from corporals to Austin Police Department Chief Art Acevedo, to patrol the city for aggressive and
Michael Baldon | Daily Texan Staff
To counteract the rise in hazardous driving behavior during the holiday season, APD is starting its fourth Home for the Holidays program.
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UT professor says profiling not effective against terror
Thanksgiving on ice
The Barton Creek Resort & Spa will open its 3,800-square-foot ice rink at noon, and it will be open every day through Jan. 2.
Eisley
The indie pop group will play a show at The Parish for $15. Doors open at 8 p.m.
‘No one ever leaves a star’
The Alamo Drafthouse Ritz will present a special screening of the 1950 classic “Sunset Boulevard” at 7 p.m. for $12.
Hey Monday
The pop-punk group will play at Emo’s with Cartel, The Ready Set, This Century and We Are The In Crowd for $15 beginning at 7 p.m.
Today in history In 1869 Charles Darwin publishes “The Origin of the Species.”
Allen Otto | Daily Texan Staff
Former basketball player Kris Clack has returned to UT to finish his degree in corporate communications. He left UT in 1999 for the NBA draft but never officially signed to a team.
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Campus watch Green means go
2700 block of Guadalupe Street Two UT students reported being approached by an unknown subject as they were heading back to their dormitory at 2:12 a.m. on Nov. 23. While waiting for the traffic light to change, a man approached them and tried to start up a conversation. He began asking personal questions and wanted to know where they were going. As soon as the light changed, both students took off running to the dormitory where they notified the police. Officers searched the area with negative results.
Retired basketball player focuses on coaching, finishing education
By Chris Hummer
will call out. Kris Clack started for the Longhorns bass he strolls into class in the Jes- ketball team from 1996 to 1999, finishing his se H. Jones Communication career seventh overall in scoring and fourth Center, he looks like any other overall in rebounding in Texas history. He student looking to get in a lit- was named to the All-Big 12 second team tle last-minute studying before his junior and senior years. After pursuing a the day’s exam. But a few fellow students professional career overseas and in the U.S., Clack is back at UT to finish his degree. still recognize the 6-foot-5-inch man. “Kris was a starter and our most consis“Hey Kris, I watched you play,” someone
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Jurors expected to deliberate Wednesday on ‘complex’ case of political money laundering
“I love doing comics in the socalled traditional format because it makes them easy. I think they’re more readable, affordable and accessible.”
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DeLay awaits final jury decision
Quote to note
— Mike Bertino Comic artist
tent player from the day he walked into the door,” said former Texas head coach Tom Penders, who coached the Longhorns from 1988 to 1998. The Boston Celtics took him with the 55th overall pick in the 1999 NBA draft. But after failing to land a roster spot, he decided to take his game to Italy.
By Allison Kroll Daily Texan Staff Racial profiling is a “fundamentally flawed” method of catching terrorists, and is no more effective than random sampling techniques, according to a recent study by a UT computer science professor. William Press addressed the weaknesses of racial profiling as a means to identify terrorists in his Nov. 18 article, “To Catch a Terrorist: Can Ethnic Profiling Work?” published in Significance, the magazine of the Royal Statistical Society and American Statistical Association. According to Press’ study, racial profiling is dependent on the idea that specific ethnic or racial groups are more likely to commit criminal acts than other groups. Press took a mathematical and statistical view on the process and compared it to the effectivness of random sampling techniques. No racial profiling strategy is actually any more effective at catching terrorists than random sampling, he said. In fact, Press writes, uniform sampling works surprisingly well. Because, according to the article, “It is robust against false assumptions, it is a deterrent, it is easy to implement, it is about as effective as any reallife system can be.” “The most basic idea behind it being a faulty approach is that it’s based on stereotypes and overgeneralizations about specific groups of people,” said Germine Awad, an assistant educational psychology professor. “We as human beings are not always accurate at predicting racial categories for certain individuals.”
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Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay waits for his attorneys in Travis County courthouse on Oct. 26.
By Nolan Hicks Daily Texan Staff The Travis County jurors deciding the fate of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay told the trial judge on Tuesday that they were making progress but would need more time to arrive at a verdict. Jurors will return Wednesday to continue deliberating on DeLay’s fate. He faces charges of money laundering and conspiracy to launder money, which stem from his role in helping to orchestrate the controversial 2003 redistricting of Texas’ congressional districts. “It’s going to be a long deliberation because of the complexity of the case,” said Gary Cobb, Travis County’s lead prosecutor on the case. “We’re not concerned about the time it’s taking them to
come to a decision. We are heartened by the fact they say they are making progress.” DeLay’s defense attorney, Dick DeGuerin, promised to appeal any convic-
hard because they’re writing intelligent questions,” he said. “It means they’re looking very hard at the evidence. I think they’re zeroing in right on the weaknesses of the prosecution’s case.” The indictment was based on questions about the propriety of money used to help finance Republican candidates for the Texas House in the 2002 election. DeLay’s Texas political action comIt’s going to be a long mittee, Texans for a Republican Majority, sent $190,000 in corporate campaign deliberation because of the contributions to an arm of the Republicomplexity of the case.” can National Committee in October 2002, along with a list of seven candidates to — Gary Cobb donate money to and how much money Lead prosecutor to send to each campaign. Just a few days later, the RNC sent a total of $190,000 from a separate bank account — money that could be contribtion on grounds that Texas’ ban on cor- uted to campaigns in Texas — to the sevporate campaign contributions is an un- en listed candidates. constitutional violation of a corporaThe Travis County District Attorney tion’s right to free speech. DELAY continues on page 2 “We know [the jurors] are working
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