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Men’s rowing team Bakery serves up colorful French sweets looks to spring season after successful fall SPORTS PAGE 11 SPORTS PAGE 9
TCU to join Big East Conference
THE DAILY TEXAN Tuesday, November 30, 2010
TODAY Calendar Klezmatics
Award-winning klezmer band gives a performance in celebration of Hannukah. Bass Concert Hall. 8 p.m. Tickets start at $24.
Texas Politics Series State Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, gives a preview of the upcoming legislative session. Gebauer Building, Dean’s Conference Room 3.312. 3:305p.m.
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Students voice concerns over labor rights group By Allie Kolechta Daily Texan Staff An affiliation with an antisweatshop nonprofit group is not enough to ensure that all UT apparel is made only under ethical working conditions, said students in a meeting with UT’s trademark licensing department on Monday. After the Oxfam and Students Against Sweatshops protest on
Nov. 8, assistant athletics director Craig Westemeier agreed to meet with three members of the groups to discuss the University’s potential affiliation with the Worker Rights Consortium, a global labor rights organization. UT is currently affiliated with the Fair Labor Association, a nonprofit group seeking to end sweatshops in factories. Westemeier
serves on the association’s board. “We’re certainly going to take into account the information that the students we spoke with today provided,” he said. “We’re going to take a look at it and do what we think is best for the University.” The consortium is composed of students, university
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Allen Otto | Daily Texan Staff
English junior Rachel Schelter talks to Craig Westemeier, assistant athletic director, about sweatshops that may be associated with some UT apparel.
A life stranger than fiction
Journalist Anna Badkhen will talk about her book “Peace Meals,” about her experiences in war zones in Iraq, Afghanistan and Chechnya. CMA, Room 5.160. 11 a.m.
‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ The holiday classic is in high definition digital format at the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar. 7p.m.
B a c h Ca n t a t a Project performs
The collaboration of the Blanton and the Butler School of Music performs Bach’s “Christen, ätzet diesen Tag.” Blanton Museum of Art. 12 p.m. Free to UT students, faculty and staff.
Campus watch Kinsolving Dormitory, 2605 Whitis Ave. Consumption of Alcohol by a Minor: A UT student, who was under the age of 21, was reported as being intoxicated. The student was observed rolling around in her own stomach contents while in a 4th floor women’s restroom. The student was found to be under the influence of an alcoholic beverage but not to the point she was deemed to be a danger to herself or anyone else. Occurred on Wednesday at 2:31 a.m.
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Quote to note
Caleb Bryant Miller | Daily Texan Staff
John Tschirhart, 90, gives a rascally wink. The nonagenarian is a veteran of World War II, where he served as a bombardier in the Army Air Corps, taking part in D-Day and the invasion of Normandy.
INSIDE: The life, love, war and llamas of John Tschirhart on pages 6&7
Korean Austinites respond to deadly artillery attack conditions of North KoreGovernment corruption living an people. deters south from giving Richard Jung, vice president of the Korean American Assoaid to ‘starving’ north ciation of Greater Austin, said By Anna Fata South Koreans want to help the Daily Texan Staff North Korean people by donatAfter North Korea launched ing money, but they are hesitant artillery shells that killed four to send money when the corSouth Koreans last week, the Ko- rupt North Korean government rean community in Austin ex- spends it on its army. pressed their concern for both “It is a dictatorship,” he said. countries and said they were “The people are starving to saddened by the impoverished death, and they are still buying
luxury goods for the elite.” The division of the peninsula began during World War II, when the Soviet Union controlled North Korea and the U.S. controlled South Korea. While South Korea’s capitalist economy thrives, the people of North Korea live in poverty under the rule of the country’s communist regime, Jung said. The countries have seen violent
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“When I walked in, the first thing I saw was the macarons’ amazing colors. I guess you can call it love at first sight. When I saw them, I knew I was going to do something with them for the rest of my life.” — Soraiya Nagree Owner of La Pâtisserie by Luxe Sweets LIFE&ARTS PAGE 14
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Anastasia Garcia | Daily Texan Staff
Originally from South Korea, UT alumnus Don Choi actively participates in the community to raise awareness for human rights issues in North Korea.
TxDOT faces additional budget woes with deficit By Nolan Hicks Daily Texan Staff Texas’ budget shortfall, which could be as much as $25 billion, could exacerbate long-term funding problems facing the Texas Department of Transportation. TxDOT won’t directly feel the pain that many other agencies will, since it is mostly funded by the state’s 20-cents-per-gallon tax on fuels such as gasoline and diesel, as well as vehicle registration fees. “I don’t mean to say that the state’s problems don’t affect us — of course they do,” said Chris Lippincott, a spokesman for TxDOT. “Like most government agencies, we have greater needs than we have resources.” The Legislature usually diverts money from the Texas State Highway Fund, which funds TxDOT, to help pay for other programs. A quarter of the state gas tax is used to help pay for public education, and an additional $1.6 billion is allocated to help fund the Department of Public Safety. The Texas Constitution limits
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UT forces high school to change similar logo change its mascot seems unnecBy Lauren Giudice essary, it is the responsibility of Daily Texan Staff To protect the integrity of its the owner to protect their tradetrademark Longhorn logo, the mark. “We continually are out proUniversity made a Kansas high tecting the mark and educatschool alter its own. The schools have been com- ing people on the need for us to municating for several months do that,” he said. “That is part and administrators at Gardner of owning a trademark — you Edgerton High School are now have to be out there protecting the mark and to in the transition maintain its inprocess of removtegrity and its ing the logo from value and, more school property. importantly, the “They were very We took the tact of legal rights to cooperative and educating them on it.” wanted to underour marks and our In recent stand,” said assistant athletics direasons for having to years, UT has seen an increase rector Craig Westprotect them.” in the number emeier, who oversees the Office of — Craig Westemeier of trademark violations, WesteTrademark LicensAssistant athletic director meier said. ing. “We took the “ Wi t h t h e tact of educating growth and them on our marks popularity of and our reasons the University for having to probrand as well as the Internet, we tect them.” The high school’s new logo have seen additional issues suris more detailed than its previ- rounding infringement and diluous one and now includes the tion of the marks,” he said. A recent trend shows that U.S. full body of an ox instead of just its face. Calls to the school were colleges have been instructing not returned as of press time on high schools across the nation that they cannot copy their logos, Monday. “We gave them time to change according to a Nov. 26 New York it on their field and their uni- Times article. Law professor Robert Bone forms, as well as other areas,” Westemeier said. “We have said that universities protect worked with them so we could their brands especially against cut a deal to allow them to tran- people who make their own sition out of the use of the logo.” UT gear without first getting Westemeier said although making a high school in Kansas LOGO continues on page 2
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