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No class next Monday or Tuesday and the final examination period will begin on Wednesday, Dec. 7.

Foam sword Friday Come celebrate the last day of classes and have an epic foam sword battle with the School of Architecture. The battle will commence at noon at the Coop crosswalk, and foam swords will be provided.

Ugly sweater party

Don your ugliest sweater for a night of festivities, raffle prizes and good cheer to celebrate the end of the year. Meet at the Local Pub and Patio at 8 p.m. and wear your best (worst) sweater!

Queen singalong

Come join the Action Pack at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz tonight and pay tribute to Freddie Mercury and the rest of Queen in an epic sing-along. Festivities start at 10:30 p.m., and complementary mustaches are available.

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Mike Sherman was fired Thursday, a week after the Aggies wrapped up their regular season with a 27-25 loss to the LongTexas A&M will make the horns. Texas A&M awaits a bowl transition to the SEC with a new invitation at 6-6, a disappointing head football coach. mark for a team that came into

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the season ranked in the top 10 of this year’s pre-season polls.

Sherman posted a 25-25 record in four years as the Aggies’ head football coach, the first two of which resulted in losing records before a nine-win season that

Only 23 percent of sexually active students at UT use condoms regularly, said Guli Fager, health education coordinator for University Health Services at the fifth annual World AIDS day conference at UT. The conference, hosted by the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, the English department and student advocacy group Face AIDS, explored the current state of AIDS treatment and the policies that allow the disease to continue to spread.

Fager said she was concerned to find that of students who choose to have sex, only some regularly use condoms. She said condoms are the only way to protect from HIV without having both partners tested for the disease. Fager said her data came from 800 student respondents to a National College Health Assessment survey of UT students in 2010. She said outside research indicates students may believe testing both partners for sexually transmitted infections or using condoms is not necessary because they trust their partner.

The UT chapter of Face AIDS, a student group dedicated to combating AIDS, spent Thursday hosting free HIV testing for students and coordinating a fair of AIDS awareness booths on the West Mall, president and nursing junior Reba Carethers said. Face AIDS helps those affected

by AIDS in Austin, including underrepresented groups often not taken

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Junior public health major Megan Dietz signs a banner Thursday morning in the West Mall as part of an organization fair for World AIDS Day. Student groups participated in the fair to bring awareness to and fundraise for topics related to HIV/AIDS.

care of by conventional programs, such as incarcerated people affected by the disease, Carethers said.

Carethers said the group also raises funds to combat HIV/AIDS in

Rwanda. She said Face AIDS held a Child Back to School campaign this year to help children in Rwanda who have AIDS return to school. “We raised $2,000 and were able

to send 20 kids back to school,� Care- and even thrive.� thers said. “We found that when we Face AIDS holds fundraisers place them back in school it helps a throughout the year, such as the a lot more with their disease. They are AIDS continues on PAGE 2 able to cope better with the disease

Students gain experience by pitching companies

Shelley Herbert examines one of the books in the exhibition “Banned, Burned, Seized, and Censored� held at the Harry Ransom Center.

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Two weeks ago while staying up late cramming for a test, finance senior Ian Beckcom wished he could talk to s om e b o dy ab out t h e qu e s tions he had before he took the exam the next day.

Beckcom said he wondered what it would be like to chat w it h profe ss ors and fel l ow students while he studied and why there was not already a technology to meet this need.

His answer reminded him of why he and three other classmates decided to form Homero om , a s of t w are c omp any that runs an online learning management information system similar to Blackboard.

Beckcom and his team were one of the 20 teams that presented a 5-minute company investor “pitch� to a crowd of more than 200 students, profess ors and lo c a l ent repreneurs at the 1 Semester Startup “Demo Day� showcase Thursday night. 1 S emester

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Exhibition offers glimpse into literary history

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Harry Ransom Center curator Danielle Sigler said when developing her own curator’s tour of the “Banned, Burned, Seized, and Censored� exhibition that took place Thursday night, she did not want her guided discussion to be as boring as a laundry list.

Jennifer Tisdale, director of Public Affairs for the center, said a curator’s tour allows visitors to learn

more about the displays than if they visited on their own, as curators like Sigler created the exhibits.

The exhibition, which opened Sept. 6 and ends Jan. 22, 2012, features excerpts and symbols of literary works banned in the decades before World War II. Also on display are documents and photographs demonstrating the censorship organizations of the time, such as the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, led by John S. Sumner, who organized controversial book

burnings. “It was a sort of celebratory burning of books,� Sigler said. “Censorship was in the newspapers, in the magazines and in the public eye.�

The danger of book burning became realized after the war began, Sigler said. A 1942 poster displaying the words, “Books are weapons in the war of ideas,� caused some Americans to perceive book burning as a brainwashing tactic of tyranny

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Startup is an interdisciplinary course that began this semester and allows undergraduates with startup companies to gain first-hand experience in r unning and de veloping successful businesses.

Engineering professor Bob Metcalfe, f inance profess or John Butler and computer science sp ecialist Joshua B aer lead the class. Baer said the class consists of 75 enrolled students from across all majors and 25 mentors from the Austin entrepreneur community. “ The biggest value comes f rom br i ng i ng exp er ienc e d mentors to spend time with the students,� Baer said. “Some of this you can’t get from textbooks.�

In order to b e a mentor, entrepreneurs need to have st ar te d one or more st ar t up companies. Students meet with mentors once a week to conve y up d ates, cha l lenges and progress.

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preceded this year’s flop.

Not only did Texas A&M lose half of their regular season games this year but they did so in excruciating fashion, as blowing second-half leads became a trademark of Sherman’s squad. The

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Alejandro Weibel, Dakota Gordon, Ian Beckcom and Andrew Miller formed Homeroom, a company that runs an online learning management system, as part of the 1 Semester Startup class.

PITCH continues from PAGE 1 Baer said along with the mentorship program, the professors wanted students to take care of t heir he a lt h and focus on their planning, writing, speaking and selling skills. He said engineering and computer science students are not usually taught the latter three skills.

Metcalfe has numerous startups under his belt, including the multi-billion dollar networking company 3Com Corp.

Wit h 3C om Me tc a lfe de veloped the UNIX, TCIP and Ethernet, three monumental technologies that re volutionized the Internet. “The idea is giving students permission to create their own startup,� Metcalfe said. “We’d li ke to int ro duc e t hem to a lot of experienced entrepre-

neurs and show that these people aren’t gods, show how ordinary people can do it.� Russell Hinds, a managing partner at RSH Ventures, mentors Beckom and the group behind the Homeroom startup. Hinds said he loves working with the group because there’s a lot of passion but not a lot of business sense of what might be important to an investor. “With students, a little bit of advice goes a long way,� Hinds said. “It’s amazing what you can accomplish in t his sp e cial environment. It’s a spiritual getaway for an entrepreneur, doing more than what they expected in a short period of time.�

C omputer science senior Andrew Miller, also a part of

Homeroom, said the team is working to develop a beta vers i on of Home ro om and h a s professors and students that have agreed to try the program out once it is finished. “The fact is that this class is a set up, it’s low risk, � Miller said. “If we fail we’re not $50,000 in debt.�

Miller said if the company does not work out, there would a lways b e next s emester for more opportunities.

Rudy Garza, an investor at G-57 Capital, said he saw three student pitches he would follow up on and potentially invest in. “As f ar a s s tu d e nt s s t ar t u p s g o, i t’s i n t e r d i s c i p l i n ar y and that’s monumental,�

Garza said.

BANNED continues from PAGE 1 used by the Nazi Party. “The Nazi Party book burnings did give some people pause,� Sigler said. “A radio broadcast would have listeners imagine Nazis going into American classrooms and telling students that Abraham Lincoln never existed.�

Sigler said support for censorship existed even after the antiNazi propaganda campaign, and those supporting it believed they were upholding American principles. “‘The Grapes of Wrath’ was banned in Kern County, California where it took place, and afterwards John Steinbeck tried to get out of the country as fast as he could,� Sigler said. “Once this happened, it became threatening and scary for him — he feared for his life.�

UT alumnus Deborah Garza said she found it interesting that anyone would burn books, let alone remove them from the market. Garza said it must have been a political statement. “It’s surprising that people considering themselves to be literate would [prevent] others from enjoying any books,� she said.

Psychology senior Sarah Solomon said she worked in the archives of the Ransom Center and got to see the plethora of works and collectors’ items held by the Center. “I think it’s really kind of amazing that our university has so many resources,� Solomon said. “There’s still a lot from here that you’re not seeing yet. It’s comparable to the other large archives of the world.�

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A former UT dean was fired from his position of president at the University of Oregon after expressing clashing viewpoints with the state’s Board of Higher Education.

Richard Lariviere was fired Tuesday after members of Oregon’s State Board of Higher Education unanimously voted him out of his position. The board decided to remove Lariviere after he gave pay raises to more than 1,300 university employees even after an order from Gov. John Kitzhaber to limit salary increases. According to the Associated Press, he lobbied against the board’s goal to make the University separate from the rest of the University of Oregon System and worked against the opinions of board members by doing so.

Leriviere resigned as dean of UT’s College of Liberal Arts in 2006 to become provost and executive vice chancellor at the University of Kansas. He became pres-

ident of the University of Oregon in 2009. “I have never understood the argument that a strong University of Oregon was bad for the university system,� Leriviere told the Associated Press.

During his time at UT, Lariviere worked to create a positive atmosphere and improve problems associated with issues like diversity and academic excellence, said liberal arts graduate coordinator Joel Suarez. “I had a very positive experience working with Richard,� Suarez said. “He was a very strong leader because he had a very strong vision about how a college or a university should be running.�

During his time as dean, Lariviere would hold weekly team meetings to discuss issues and ideas on how to solve them, Suarez said. “He did a lot for the college,� he said. “It was clear that he would get input from us, but he would make the decision he thought was best for the college.�

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Te x a s A & M h a d a 3 5 - 1 7 halftime lead over Arkansas, a national title contender until falling to LSU last weekend, 42-38. Two overtime losses , includ ing a qu ad r upleovertime, heartbreaking 5350 loss to Kansas State, didn’t help Sherman’s case.

But the nail in the coffin was likely the two-point defeat Texas handed his Texas A&M team this Thanksgiving. In the final meeting against the Longhorns before the Aggies leave the Big 12, Texas A&M scored the game’s first 13 points before being outscored 17-0 in the third quarter and watching Justin Tucker hit a 40-yard game-winning field goal as time expired. With that gutwrenching loss taking place in College Station, Sherman was unable to survive that game, his last as the Aggies’ head coach.

The frontrunner to replace Sherman is former Texas A&M of fensive co ordinator Ke vin Sumlin, who has led Houston to a 12-0 record and likely a BCS berth should the Cougars beat Southern Mississippi in the Conference USA title game Saturday. But the Aggies

could use a defensive-minded SEC man like Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart, whose name was been associated with several head coaching opponents, including the one at Mississippi.

Mississippi State head coach Dan Mullen could get a call f r o m C o l l e g e S t at i o n , b u t there’s a good chance he leaves Starkville for Penn State. And don’t count out Louisville head coach Charlie Strong, who was a Texas A&M graduate assistant in 1985.

Sherman should land on his feet as he is still respected as an impressive offensive mind.

He’s even rumored to be in the running to become the Jacksonville Jaguars’ head coach.

The Aggies owe Sherman $5.8 million as their athletic department continues to rack up costs with the exit fee to join the SEC set at $28 million, although it’s believed to be negotiable.

But the millions that Texas A&M is willing to pay to part ways with Sherman goes to show how much pressure the fans put on it to replace him and how badly the Aggies felt that they needed a new head football coach.

AIDS continues from PAGE 1 condom fashion show where contenders dress up in creations made entirely out of condoms and their wrappers, Carethers said. She said the group also sells beaded redribbon pins handcrafted in Rwanda for $4. “The cost of one pin can stop a mother-to-child transmission,�

Carethers said. “It also pays for three months of anti-viral treatment for the child. In sub-Saharan Africa, life-saving retroviral medicine for one person costs 40 cents per day. That’s nothing compared to the cost in the U.S.�

Sociology professor Matthew Flynn said the cost of comparable anti-viral treatment in the U.S. for

one year ranges from $10,000 to $15,000. “That’s due to a variety of contributing factors, but patent laws play a big part,� Flynn said.

Neville Hoad, English professor and member of the advisory committee to the Rapport Center said the mix of Face AIDS’ good work and the tolls AIDS has taken on its victims were the reasons for mixed reactions to World AIDS day. “On one hand it’s a remembrance for those who have fallen to the illness,� Hoad said. “On the other hand it’s a celebration of the steps we’ve taken to prevent its spread.�

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NEWS BRIEFLY Islamist parties win plurality at behest of liberals in Egypt CAIRO — Islamists appear to have taken a strong majority of seats in the first round of Egypt’s first parliamentary vote since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, a trend that if confirmed would give religious parties a popular mandate in the struggle to win control from the ruling military and ultimately reshape a key U.S. ally.

Final results, expected Friday, will be the clearest indication in decades of Egyptians’ true political views and give the long-banned Muslim Brotherhood a major role in the country’s first freely elected parliament. An Islamist majority could also herald a greater role for conservative Islam in Egyptian social life and shifts in foreign policy, especially toward Israel and the Palestinians.

Judges overseeing the Egyptian vote count said Thursday that nearcomplete results show the Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s largest and best organized political group, could take as many as 45 percent of the contested seats.

In addition to the Muslim Brotherhood wins, parties backed by ultraconservative Salafist Muslims looked poised to take 20 percent, giving Islamist parties a striking majority in the first round of voting.

The Islamist victories came at the expense of a coalition of liberal parties called the Egyptian block, the group most closely linked to the youth activists who launched the anti-Mubarak uprising — and which is expected to win only about 20 percent of seats.

Maastricht Treaty reconsidered by troubled France, Germany PARIS — France and Germany plan to push for fundamental changes to the European treaty governing the euro in order to save the currency, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Thursday.

Sarkozy said in a speech in the southern port city of Toulon that during their meeting in Paris on Monday he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will unveil proposals to try to lift Europe out of its debt crisis and “guarantee� its future. “France will push with Germany for a new European treaty refounding and rethinking the organization of Europe.The Maastricht Treaty has revealed itself to be imperfect,�

Sarkozy said, referring to the pact that led to the creation of the euro currency in 1999.

Changes in the treaty would have to be approved by all 27 EU members, 10 of whom don’t use the euro currency.

Sarkozy said the process of reforming the treaty “will be long and difficult� but is necessary to protect Europe’s place in the world.

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Senate approves indefinite detention of any, all domestic terrorism suspects

By Donna Cassata The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Ignoring a presidential veto threat, the Democratic-controlled Senate moved methodically Thursday to complete a massive defense bill that would deny suspected terrorists, even U.S. citizens seized within the nation’s borders, the right to trial and subject them to indefinite detention.

The Senate rejected an effort by Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein to limit a military custody requirement for suspects to those captured outside the United States. The vote was 55-45.

Feinstein, D-Calif., said her goal was to ensure “the military won’t be roaming our streets looking for suspected terrorists.�

The issue divided Democrats with nine senators, many facing reelection next year, breaking with the leadership and administration to vote against the amendment. Republicans held firm, with only three holdouts backing Feinstein’s effort.

In an escalating fight with the White House, the bill would ramp up the role of the military in handling terror suspects. The bill’s language challenges citizens’ rights under the Constitution, tests the boundaries of executive and legislative branch authority and sets up a showdown with the Democratic commander in chief.

— Compiled from Associated Press reports

It reflects the politically charged dispute over whether to treat suspected terrorists as prisoners of war or criminals. The administration insists that the military, law enforcement and intelligence agents need flexibility in prosecuting the war on terror after they’ve succeeded in killing al-Qaida’s Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki.

In its veto threat, the White House said it cannot accept any legislation that “challenges or constrains the president’s authorities to collect intelligence, incapacitate dangerous terrorists and protect the nation.�

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and FBI Director Robert Mueller have opposed the provisions.

Republicans counter that their efforts are necessary to respond to an evolving, post-Sept. 11 threat, and that Obama has failed to produce a consistent policy on handling terror suspects.

The bill would require military custody of a suspect deemed to be a member of al-Qaida or its affiliates and involved in plotting or committing attacks on the United States. American citizens would be exempt. The bill does allow the executive branch to waive the authority based on national security and hold a suspect in civilian custody.

The legislation also would give the government the authority to have the military

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Israel doesn’t want to but would strike first against nuclear Iran JERUSALEM — Israel does not want to take military action against Iran over its nuclear program, but at some point may have no other option, Israel’s defense minister said Thursday.

At this point, Israel does not intend to launch a strike against Iranian nuclear facilities but it retains the option as a “last resort,�

Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Israel Radio. “We don’t need unnecessary wars. But we definitely might be put to the test,� he said. “The non-diplomatic point is a last resort. The fact that all options are on the table is agreed upon by everybody.�

Israel, like the West, suspects Iran is developing a nuclear bomb, despite Tehran’s insistence that its nuclear program is designed to produce energy.

Israel says a nuclear-armed Iran would threaten the Jewish state’s survival, citing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s repeated references to Israel’s destruction, Iran’s arsenal of ballistic missiles and its support for militant groups that fight Israel.

The U.S. — as well as some security experts in Israel — have loudly opposed the prospect of an Israeli military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, because of its potential for touching off retaliation against Israel and a broader, regional conflagration.

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hold an individual suspected of terrorism indefinitely, without a trial.

That provision had no exception for a U.S. citizen.

Feinstein offered another amendment, one that would prohibit the indefinite detention of a U.S. citizen without charges or trial. She has said the last time the government held U.S. citizens indefinitely was when Japanese-Americans were interned in camps during World War II. Kirk has called the provision unconstitutional, violating the Fourth Amendment and the right of individuals to be secure in their homes from unreasonable searches and seizures.

Countered Sen. Kelly Ayotte, RN.H.: “We need the authority to hold those individuals in military custody so we aren’t reading them Miranda rights.�

ATLANTA — Herman Cain is still campaigning for president.

But by most measures, his White House bid is all but over.

His standing in polls is cratering. Supporters are wavering if not fleeing. Fundraising is suffering.

And, these days, the former pizza company executive is less a serious candidate than the butt of late-night comedy jokes after a string of accusations of sexually inappropriate behavior and, now, an allegation of a 13-year-long extramarital affair. “His chance at winning the presidency are effectively zero,� said Dave Welch, a Republican strategist who worked on both of John McCain’s presidential bids.

And Republican strategist Kellyanne Conway said: “It’s the daily dose of the wince-and-cringe factor that leaves people wondering what could be coming next,�

As it has since Ginger White stepped forward Monday, the allegation of an affair overshadowed Cain’s campaign for another day Thursday, when he told the New Hampshire Union Leader that his wife, Gloria, did not know he was providing the 46-year-old Atlanta-area businesswoman with money for “month-to-month bills and expenses.�

And, Cain said, his wife also didn’t know of what he called a friendship with White until she said publicly that she had a casual 13-year affair with Cain that ended about eight months ago.

It is the latest chapter in a saga that has played out in recent weeks as his campaign has been rocked first with allegations of sexual harassment and, now, White’s

affair claim.

Over the past month, Cain has watched his standing in polls sink.

He acknowledged his fundraising took a hit after White came forward, and political experts predict that his ability to take in campaign cash will evaporate now that he is re-evaluating whether to remain in the race. If he decides to continue running, Cain would face another big hurdle: the loss of grassroots support, which has provided the core of his base for his anti-establishment campaign.

Atlanta Tea Party Patriots cofounder Debbie Dooley typifies the falloff of support. She had been vigorously defending Cain as the sexual harassment allegations trickled out. But White’s accusation proved too much. “I don’t know what to believe,� Dooley said. “I just think he needs to get out now and focus on his family.�

Charlie Gruchow, one of Cain’s earliest and most devout supporters in Iowa, has said he has moved his support to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, because he doesn’t think Cain can survive politically. “I still don’t believe all the allegations,� he said. “But it’s really damaged him.�

Even Cain’s supporters acknowledge his odds have grown even steeper with a cloud planted over his campaign and just weeks before voting gets under way in Iowa. “I’m still backing him, but I definitely think it’s a bigger and bigger mountain to climb,� Florida state Rep. Carlos Trujillo said Tuesday, the day after White emerged. “It’s going to be difficult to make up that ground in so short an amount of time.�

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Friday, December 2, 2011 | THE DAILY TEXAN | Viviana Aldous, Editor-in-Chief | (512) 232-2212 | editor@dailytexanonline.com

QUOTES TO NOTE From the debate surrounding the Tuition Policy Advisory Committee’s proposed tuition increases to Gov. Rick Perry’s latest presidential campaign ad, the following quotes are among the best from the last few days.

“You know, we’ve all lost our train of thought before, but not many have done it on national TV. Now if you want a slick debater, I’m obviously not your guy.”

— Gov. Rick Perry in his ad that aired Thursday during Perry’s

interview with Jay Leno. Many criticized Perry after, in the Nov. 9 GOP debate, he could not name the third agency of government he would eliminate if elected president of the United States.

“We will not stand for these tuition increases, nor will we sit as passive cogs in an interest-driven loan-vending machine. ... It is our Board of Regents and state legislators who have systematically legalized unregulated tuition hikes as well as the encroaching privitization of our entire university system.”

— Occupy UT members protesting at the Tuition Policy Advisory Committee’s open forum Wednesday. TPAC recommended in a memo to President William Powers Jr. on Monday that tuition be increased by 2.6 percent for resident undergraduates and by 3.6 percent for nonresident undergraduates and all graduate students.

“There is a fundamental conflict between the welfare of the institution and the welfare of the board. I’d rather be fired ... trying to seize an act to make the university better than watch it on the glide path to mediocrity.”

— Richard Lariviere, president of the University of Oregon and

former UT dean, after getting ousted by the Oregon State Board of Higher Education on Monday, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Lariviere, who was the dean of the College of Liberal Arts from 1999 until 2006 before leaving to become provost of the University of Kansas, became unpopular with the board after increasing faculty and staff salaries and proposing the flagship university break off from the system, among other things, over his tenure. The board made the decision despite wide faculty and student support for Lariviere.

“There have been a number of well-publicized incidents involving Dr. Lariviere that have eroded trust and confidence with the Board of Higher Education. He disregarded Board direction on more than one occasion.”

— Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, in a statement, on the firing of Lariviere.

Losing more than a game

By Katherine Taylor Daily Texan Columnist

Every Thanksgiving for as long as I can remember, I’ve watched the Texas-Texas A&M game while I let my casserole-filled stomach digest my dinner. This event is preceded by watching the Dallas Cowboys play. Even when I did not have any history or affiliation with either school, watching both games was as much a part of Thanksgiving in my mind as seeing my family.

I’m sad to see the tradition of the TexasTexas A&M rivalry come to a close. Even though Texas will go down in history as the ultimate victor in the 118-year-long contest based on the overall record and score of the last game, students across the state ultimately lose with the end of this rivalry.

Sure, we love hating on Aggies — they’re an easy butt of any joke. I’m sure both sides will miss the traditions, such as the Hex Rally and the bonfire, associated with preparation for the game. Plus, our fight song makes a whole lot less sense now that we won’t play them.

But the rivalry between our two schools is a lot more than mere sport. The showdown linking our universities represents a historical tradition that is embedded within the Texan culture. Go to any Walmart or major store outside of the near vicinity of Austin or College Station and you will see T-shirts from each school side by side. Talk to any student attending a public elementary or middle school in Texas and listen as they exclaim which color they bleed.

Students may be raised biased toward one university over the other, but unlike in many other states, students have the luxury of choosing between two world-class public universities that are both academic and athletic powerhouses.

One might argue that it’s just a football game and just because the game’s ending, the relationship won’t change. But whenever we talk about peer institutions, my first thought always goes to the school 100 miles down the road. Sure, A&M is not a part of our official peer-institution group, but I’m much more interested in what goes on at there than

what the schools way out in California, such as UCLA and Berkeley, are up to. Aggies just seem to understand us better.

For instance, prior to orientation, incoming freshmen at Texas A&M attend Fish Camp while their Texas counterparts go to Camp Texas. This is only one of a number of complementary traditions. So much of who we are as UT students derives from acknowledging how we are not like those Aggies: We don’t say “Gig ‘Em,” we’re not obsessed with the Corps, we didn’t originate as a rural school for farmers’ kids.

Since the universities are not considered peer institutions, football is the tether that maintains the competition between the schools, and it gives it a special showcase to play out. When we end the athletic contests between the two schools, we undermine the history, culture and rivalry between them. We lose more than a game; we lose a source of competition that breeds accountability, pride and identity.

Taylor is a Plan II and rhetoric and writing senior.

THE FIRING LINE Time to start over The UT System has invested $10 million in MyEdu, a commercial business providing students information — and maybe advice — about the choices they make in working toward an academic degree. The information MyEdu relies on, as its senior vice president told The Daily Texan, comes from public sources and from “key university contacts.”

So why is anyone questioning a program that seeks to help students complete a satisfactory college career? Here’s why: MyEdu is a profit-making enterprise and owes its first duty to stockholders not to students. Many kinds of profitmaking enterprises seek students as customers. There’s nothing wrong with that. But a problem comes when a public university takes a position as a stockholder in an enterprise engaging in activities where the university has a first duty to students.

It is no answer to this problem to say that MyEdu wants to help students just as much as does the university. It does not. If MyEdu says it can help students find an “easy” course and the University would like to explain why a hard course might be more worthwhile in the long run, there is conflict. MyEdu’s first duty is to its stockholders, and if MyEdu gains a bigger database of students to sell to advertisers by listing easy courses, it has a duty under corporate law to do just that.

Second, the University should not play favorites among competing businesses.

If the University were not providing anything to MyEdu, the only issue would be whether the University should be offering the service itself rather than opening its students to the commercial market place. But if UT decided to defer to the market, companies should compete on equal terms. No favorites. No one company getting access to “key contacts.” No $10 million of UT funds invested in a company headed by the son of a former UT System chancellor, who may himself have a financial stake in the enterprise.

Francis D. Fisher Senior Research Fellow, LBJ School

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As World AIDS Day 2011 approaches, I can’t help but wonder what Texas is doing to decrease alarmingly high rates of HIV/AIDS in youth. Texas has the third highest rate of new cases of HIV/AIDS diagnosed in teenagers, yet our policy-makers aren’t doing much to fix the situation. Education is the most effective tool in preventing the spread of HIV, and only through comprehensive sex education will we begin to see a decrease in rates of infection in young people.

The vast majority of Texas school districts teach failed abstinence-only programs. We need a new path. Most teens do not even remain abstinent until high school graduation. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, seven out of 10 Texas teens have sex by the age of 19. By denying students medically accurate information, we put them at risk of contracting HIV. Sign the petition to support comprehensive sex education in public schools at http://tfn.org/sexed.

This World AIDS Day more than 250 Longhorns have come together to educate, raise awareness and mobilize UT about HIV. The World AIDS Day Coalition is made up of 12 student organizations, led by the Texas Freedom Network Student Chapter. Together we can make a difference to prevent HIV at UT and around the world.

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Husband kills wife, children after breakup

Mary Dixon listens to students from Akin High School present a community issue at the Speak Up! Speak Out! Civics Fair on Thursday evening at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.

The event was organized by Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Participation.

By Ramit Plushnick-Masti The Associated Press

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UT hosts state-wide service skills competition

By Megan Strickland Daily Texan Staff

Future Longhorn Joe Ramos said the community service skills he learned through a state-wide competition at UT will be tools he brings onto campus as a freshman at the McCombs School of Business next year.

The Stony Point High School senior was one of 150 students from 11 high schools and middle schools from across the state that participated in the 10th annual Speak Up! Speak Out! competition, hosted by the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Participation at UT on Thursday.

She said Speak Up! Speak Out!

is a civics fair where teams of students identify an issue they have researched within their communities and present a solution to judges at the fall event.

Ramos presented his team’s plan for reducing the number of teens engaging in at-risk activities such as substance abuse and v iolenc e by incre asing extracurricular engagement.

“We identified that extracurricular activity decreases the risk of engaging in destructive behaviors,” Ramos said.

He said his team formulated an incentive program that would reward extracurricular organizations that increased outreach to students in the summer and

winter breaks.

“Above all we’re trying to create opportunities for students that might not otherwise be able to participate,” he said.

Ramos said he believes the experience will benefit him as he enters the McCombs School of Business next year.

“I think it will definitely help in McCombs because McCombs, and the entire Austin community, has such a strong value of community engagement,” Ramos said.

The teams make three rotations during the competition, spokeswoman for the Annette Strauss Institute Erin Geisler said. The first rotation consists of two speeches, one informative and one per-

suasive. Judges then question students about the speeches, Geisler said. In the next round students present a tri-fold display in a style similar to a science fair presentation. In the final round judges evaluate students during a session where they are asked to personally reflect on their findings, she said.

The top three teams win a $300, $200 and $100 cash prize to put towards their community issue, Geisler said.

Deborah Wise, program coordinator for the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Participation, said the entire goal of Speak Up! Speak Out! is to give students the capability to change their com-

munities in the future.

“Our hope really is that students learn skills they can use for the rest of their lives,” Wise said.

“The goal of this is to equip them with the basic skills to make a difference in community.”

Pflugerville High School counselor Sarah Mullin said she believes the program is an innovative way to get students involved.

“I think it’s really helpful to have students step out from themselves and think about the community as a whole, and how they can make a positive impact,” Mullin said. “I like seeing students getting involved and thinking of solutions to community issues and not just talking about the problems.”

BAY CITY, Texas — Laura Gonzalez was happy to be back at work after three weeks away that included a stay at a battered women’s shelter. She saw it as the beginning of a new life. One without her husband and the father of her four children, she told co-workers. She wasn’t going back to him this time, she said, and left for home.

Less than an hour later, her 24-yearold husband, Jose Avila, launched a brutal final assault. First he shot his wife three times. Then, he began shooting the children. Avila’s final act was to kill himself.

Two of the children died at a hospital Thursday, a day after their two siblings were killed in the shooting that rattled the small southeast Texas town of Bay City. Their mother is hospitalized in critical condition.

As details trickled out, a picture emerged Thursday of a family long struggling with violence, including an assault reported by Gonzalez just before Thanksgiving. After that, she went to a battered women’s shelter.

“I asked her how she was doing because I knew she was at the crisis center. She said she was trying to make something of her freedom and a better life for herself and her children,” said Alejandro Gonzalez, a fellow waiter at La Casona, the Mexican restaurant where Gonzalez worked.

“She wanted to make a better life for his kids because they see all the violence,” he added, recounting the conversation he had with Gonzalez hours before Avila turned on her.

Although Gonzalez left the trailer home she shared with her husband after reporting the assault, Bay City Lt. Andrew Lewis said she refused to press charges. He didn’t know how long she stayed at the shelter.

“We heard ... that he was walking around waving a gun,” Lewis said, describing the violent scene that unfolded on a lawn now decorated with a makeshift memorial of teddy bears, candles and prayer books.

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Man allegedly drives $1.2m sports car into lake for insurance money HOUSTON — The insurer of a $1.2 million sports car that plunged into a Galveston Bay lagoon two years ago says the owner deliberately drove into the marsh to collect on a $2.2 million insurance policy.

No trial date has been set in the federal lawsuit that Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Co. filed against Lufkin auto dealer Andy House, the Houston Chronicle reported.

The lawsuit accuses House of intentionally driving his Bugatti Veyron EB into 3 feet of salt water in La Marque, 36 miles southeast of Houston.

House, who sells exotic cars, denies the allegations. He has countersued the insurer, saying the company failed to pay as promised. His attorney was not available for comment, the newspaper said.

The Chronicle reported that the lawsuit also alleges House ran the car engine for 15 minutes after the November 2009 splashdown, furthering damaging the engine.

House told police that car, with its 1,000-horsepower engine capable of reaching 253 mph, ended up

in the lagoon when he swerved to avoid a seagull. He also said he delayed turning the engine off because of an attack of mosquitoes, according to the lawsuit, filed in June 2010 in federal court in Galveston.

However, a video of the incident taken by a passing motorist and posted on YouTube showed no seagull and no attempt to brake as the Italian sports car swerved into the water, the insurance company claims.

Furthermore, a confidential informant told company investigators that House had offered to pay the informant to steal and burn the car so House could collect on his policy, according to the lawsuit. The informant told investigators that House business associate Lloyd Gillespie, who is also a defendant in the lawsuit, loaned the money to buy the car and is listed on the policy as payee, the lawsuit said.

Gillespie has denied the allegations in court filings. His attorney declined to comment to the newspaper.

In this Nov. 11, 2009 file photo, Gilbert Harrison attaches a towing cable to a Bugatti Veyron that was driven into the water near Omega Bay in La Marque, Texas.

In a federal lawsuit, the insurer of the $1.2 million sports car says the owner deliberately drove into the marsh to collect on a $2.2 million insurance policy.

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Endangered lizard decision put on hold Teenager’s body discovered after 40 years gone

By Susan Montoya Bryan The Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A decision on whether a lizard found only in parts of New Mexico and Texas should be added to the endangered species list has been put off another six months, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday.

Federal wildlife officials were set to deliver their decision on the dunes sagebrush lizard later this month, but the agency said it wants to solicit additional scientific information and public comment before making any final decisions regarding the lizard proposal.

The move comes after congressional representatives from several states, including New Mexico and Texas, sent letters to the agency and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.

Environmentalists accused Fish and Wildlife of caving to political pressure and oil and natural gas interests. “There’s not any scientific disagreement about the status of the lizard. An independent scientific peer review showed a clear need to list the lizard, so this is just politics in an election year,� said Taylor McKinnon, the public lands campaigns director for the Center for Biological Diversity.

The Fish and Wildlife Service

initially proposed listing the dunes sagebrush lizard as an endangered species last December, saying habitat loss and fragmentation have pushed it toward extinction.

The lizard is native to a small area of southeastern New Mexico and West Texas. The reptile is so specialized that it’s only found in sand dune complexes that include shinnery oak.

Environmentalists accused Fish and Wildlife of caving to political pressure and oil and natural gas interests.

The primary threat to the lizard is oil and gas development near the dune complexes and oak removal stemming from the need for more forage for grazing, according to federal biologists.

Environmentalists contend lizard habitat makes up only a fraction of the areas being used by energy developers. However, the developers, some lawmakers and state officials in Texas are concerned that a listing decision would have severe implications for the region’s economy.

U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M.,

and others have complained that a listing would result in oil and gas development being limited on thousands of acres in the Permian Basin, costing jobs, tax revenues and royalties.

Pearce was among 18 House members who sent a letter to Salazar in late November, saying new scientific evidence collected since the initial listing proposal supports the view that the lizard isn’t endangered. “It’s essential that the job creators who will be directly impacted have the opportunity to have their concerns heard before this potentially devastating listing goes forward,� Cornyn said in a statement Thursday.

Ben Shepperd, president of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association, spent Wednesday in Washington trying to lobby legislators against the listing. He said Thursday he was pleased the agency is giving people more time to weigh in on the proposal.

The agency’s decision also drew praise from Texas Comptroller Susan Combs, Railroad Commissioner Barry Smitherman and the Texas Association of Business.

Texas officials noted that the lizard’s range coincides with parts of the Permian Basin, which produces more than 1 million barrels of oil a day, or more than two-thirds of Texas’ total production.

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HOUSTON — A Houston teenager who left for work four decades ago and was never heard from again was among at least 28 young men and boys who were kidnapped, tortured and killed by a serial killer in the early 1970s.

Harris County forensic anthropologist Sharon Derrick said Wednesday that DNA and circumstantial evidence enabled investigators to identify Roy Eugene Bunton as one of Dean Corll’s many victims, the Houston Chronicle reported.

Bunton was last seen leaving for work at a Houston shoe store, and the medical examiner’s office said that was in 1971 or 1972, when he would have been 17 or 18. Like many of Corll’s victims, investigators believe Bunton may have accepted a ride from Corll or one of

Corll’s two teenage accomplices.

Corll’s known victims were found in three mass graves. Four bodies were buried in St. Augustine near Lake Sam Rayburn in East Texas; seven were buried on the beach at High Island in Southeast Texas; and 17 were buried in a Houston boathouse of Corll’s.

Authorities say Corll forced some of his victims to write false runaway letters to their families.

Corll’s killing spree ended when he was slain by one of his two accomplices, Elmer Wayne Henley Jr., in August 1973.

Henley and another accomplice, David Brooks, were convicted in the teen murders and remain in prison.

Bunton’s body had been one of two still unidentified victims of the serial killer.

A Houston woman contacted

Derrick in 2009 to say Corll might have killed her missing brother.

Derrick reviewed her files, but found no unsolved cases that could have matched Bunton, an unusually long-legged teen with blonde hair and a wide smile who was 6 feet tall.

But in 2010, Derrick discovered an error had been made back in 1973: A body buried in a family plot thought to be that of Michael Baulch, another Corll victim, was not Baulch after all.

The body was recently exhumed and examined by Derrick and her team. “As I kept working, I kept seeing things that reminded me of Roy Bunton. He would have gone missing at the same time and he was either 18 or 19,� Derrick said. — The Associated Press

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Horns hungry for Final Four berth

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By Chris Hummer Daily Texan Staff

App e ar ing in t hre e f i na l fours in three years — along with a number of All-American award-winners — has made Texas volleyball one of the best and most respected programs in the country.

But despite of all of the records and accomplishments the Longhorns have reached under head coach Jerritt Elliott, there is still one last step for the team to take to become a truly elite volleyball power: Texas needs to win a national championship.

The last three seasons the Longhorns (22-5) have come agonizingly close to reaching that goal, losing in the final four each of those tournaments. In 2009, Texas lost a two-set lead to Penn State in the finals, falling just two points short of finally winning a national title.

The defeats in those final four matchups still sting, especially for the members of this year’s senior class. The team will look to use that disappointment to their advantage this time around, starting today in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Texas State. Texas is trying to funnel the memories and lessons learned from previous losses to fuel the fire.

“We are definitely hungry,” said senior R achael Adams.

“That’s exactly what our senior class brings. That experience and that drive and determination that a lot of teams don’t have, we are definitely ready.”

This year’s squad has worked through a lot to get to this point.

At the beginning of the season, there was an influx of youth on the roster, leading to an adjustment period while the team fought through chemistry issues.

But the Longhorns never believed it would hamper them

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Freshman Madelyn Hutson (3) spikes a ball over the net during a game in Gregory Gym. In each of the past three seasons, the Longhorns have reached at least the Final Four. With one of their best teams under coach Jerritt Elliott they are ready for yet another deep postseason run.

for long, and it only took a few games for the team to really come together and form the right blend. Despite losing the services of freshman outside hitter Khat Bell to a knee injury, the Longhorns have bounced back. The mid-season return of utility player Sha’Dare McNeal helped the lineup really hit its stride — Texas has reeled off 14 straight wins.

“We always have our rough patches at the beginning of the season, especially with a lot of new players coming in,” said sophomore Hannah Allison.

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LONGHORNS UNDER JERRITT ELLIOTT Elliott’s career  with year, overall record, Big 12 record, finish in Big 12 and NCAA finish

GEORGETOWN 23-9 overall record, 4th-place in Big 12, second round

17-4 overall record, 6th-place in Big 12, second round

24-7 overall record, 3rd-place in Big 12, NCAA Regional Finals

27-4 overall record, 1st-place in Big 12.

NCAA Regional Final

15-14 overall record, 7th-place in Big 12, missed tournament

29-4 overall record, 1st-place in Big 12, NCAA Final Four

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24-5 overall record, 2nd-place in Big 12, second round finish in NCAAs

29-2 overall record, 1st-place in Big 12, NCAA Runner-Up

27-6 overall record, 2nd-place in Big 12, NCAA Final Four

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No. 24 TEXAS at No. 8 TENNESSEE

After redshirting last season to improve his offensive skills, Clint Chapman has returned to the lineup for Texas. So far he and fellow senior Alexis Wangmene have been playing better than some may have expected.

Longhorns prep for another test, Lady Volunteers seek win at home

By Stefan Scrafield Daily Texan Staff

Elisabeth Dillon Daily Texan Staff

Chapman, Wangmene provide leadership for UT After playing overmatched opponents in their last two games, the Longhorns head to California this weekend to take on college basketball powerhouse UCLA. Although, it’s not what it used to be.

The Bruins — who are eighth all-time with 1,709 wins — haven’t been their usual selves in recent years, failing to reach the NCAA Tournament in 2010 and getting out to a slow start this year with a 2-4 record. They began their season with backto-back losses to Loyola Marymount and Middle Tennessee and then, after a win, got pounced by both Kansas and Michigan.

The game Saturday will be a far cry from 2007’s thriller, in which the Longhorns knocked off UCLA at Pauley Pavilion, 6361. Texas was ranked No. 8 at the time, UCLA No. 1. Both schools come into this game unranked. And, because of renovations to Pauley, the game will be played at Los Angeles Sports Arena — which might lessen UCLA’s home advantage.

The Bruins have talent — Travis and David Wear are twin transfers from North Carolina and Reeves Nelson averaged 14 points

26-5 overall record, 2nd-place in Big12, NCAA Regional Semifinals

a game last season — but don’t have anybody who can individually match J’Covan Brown, assuming the junior guard is on his best game. Brown began the season by posting point totals of 28 and 35 in his first two matches, but has cooled off since, scoring just six points in a win over North Texas.

“I don’t really think he’s not shooting as well. I think he’s just picking his spots,” said freshman Jonathan Holmes. “It’s a long season, and I think he understands that.”

Brown’s teammates said he was in good spirits after the game, which is a good sign for Texas (4-2). Assuming Brown can’t find his shot for the third straight game, expect more and more touches for emerging post threats Holmes, Clint Chapman and Alexis Wangmene. Holmes is a skilled freshman who possesses an outside touch, Wangmene is a nice banger inside and Chapman is a finesse player who makes up for his defensive deficiencies with a nice shooting touch. Two games ago, Wangmene hit a career high with 13 points.

“I try to score when I get the chance to do so,” Wangmene said. “That’s one of the things I worked on all summer long. I had to make sure I am able to finish around the rim and make some free throws. I just want-

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ed to add something to the team.”

Added Chapman: “Offensively, we have guys that can score.”

The weekend will be of particular importance for Chapman and Wangmene, the lone seniors on the team. Both are set to graduate this weekend but, due to the game, won’t be able to participate in their ceremonies.

Wangmene walked last spring and Chapman plans to walk this coming May. CLINT CHAPMAN: BY THE NUMBERS Average Over First Four Years

Statistic

2011-2012 Season

1.7

Points per game

5.7

1.5

Rebounds per game

3.5

41.2 % (61-148)

Field Goal % (FG - Attempts)

58.3% (14-24)

6.9

Minutes per game

17.0

ALEXIS WANGMENE: BY THE NUMBERS 2.1

PPG

6.7

2.2

RPG

5.7

42.0% (66-157)

FG% (FG-A)

57.7% (15-26)

9.0

MPG

27.2

The Longhorns are heating up and their timing couldn’t be any better.

Texas has now won five consecutive games, including a come-from-behind victory over California this past weekend to clinch the Waikiki Rainbow Wahine Showdown Championship in Honolulu.

The team is expecting more of the same heading into Sunday’s match up against the No. 8 Tennessee Lady Volunteers (32) in Knoxville.

“Texas Fight, that’s the tradition around here,” said senior post Ashley Gayle. “You keep fighting. No matter what the score, we keep fighting back. That’s what Texas basketball is all about.”

Since dropping their home opener 7259 against No. 5 Stanford (5-1), the team has adopted the slogan “together or not at all,” and have displayed a will to win that is rare from such a young group.

“We have heart that just doesn’t give up,” Gayle said. “It’s so easy to get down when you miss a shot or when you mess up a play but we’ve all been very positive.

Play after play we’re talking to each other, staying in the game and not being so concerned with our own mistakes. That’s what’s so good about this team.”

Head coach Gail Goestenkors likes what she is seeing from the team, and thought this past weekend’s victory over the Golden Bears was a great example of her team’s resilience.

“It was a perfect game because we had to fight back so many times,” Goestenkors said. “We kept fighting, we stayed together as a team and that’s what great teams do. This was so important for us to see how are we going to respond in the tough times. It’s easy to respond when everybody’s hitting their threes, high-fiving

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SPORTS BRIEFLY New collective bargaining deal effective through 2016 season IRVING, Texas — Major League Baseball players have ratified a fiveyear collective bargaining agreement that runs through the 2016 season and ensures 21 consecutive years of labor peace.

The deal starts blood testing for human growth hormone and institutes restraints on signing bonuses for amateur draft picks and international players coming to the big leagues.

Owners may hold a telephone conference call to approve it rather than wait for their next meeting, in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Jan. 11-12.

Baltimore’s Jeremy Guthrie said “the changes in our labor contracts contain improvements for all classes of players.”

Rangers cut ties with Teagarden, send former Horn to Baltimore ARLINGTON, Texas — The Texas Rangers have traded catcher Taylor Teagarden to the Baltimore Orioles for minor league right-hander Randy Henry and a player to be named.

Teagarden hit .235 in 14 games for Texas last season. He has played 118 games for the Rangers over the last four years and has thrown out nearly 31 percent of runners who have tried to steal.

The Orioles also designated lefty Pedro Viola for assignment.

—Compiled from Associated Press reports

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Point guard lineage continues to expand, Kabongo next in line

By Chijioke Okorie Daily Texan Staff

Freshman Myck Kabongo appears to be next in a long line of point guards Texas has produced in the Rick Barnes era.

The timeline begins with T.J. Ford, who played two years — the 2001-02 and 2002-03 seasons. Ford made an immediate impact in his rookie year, becoming the first freshman in NCAA history to ever lead the nation in assists, with 8.2 per game, and earning Big 12 Freshman of the Year honors by consensus. The following season, Ford led the Longhorns to their first Final Four appearance since 1947, was named the Naismith College Player of the Year and received the John Wooden Award.

Ford decided to forgo his junior year and enter the NBA Draft, but the era of star Longhorn point guards had just begun.

In 2006, freshman D.J. Augustin started 35 games with an average of 14.4 points and 6.7 assists per game,

earning him All-Big 12 Second Team and Big 12 All-Rookie honors. The following year (2007-2008), after losing Kevin Durant, Augustin had a large hand in what was one of the most successful seasons in the program’s history — a 31-7 regular season record and an Elite Eight appearance.

Augustin would also go on to win the Bob Cousy Award, which honors the best men’s college point guard in the country. Then, like Ford, he declared for the draft after his sophomore season.

Avery Bradley and Cory Joseph were the next highly-recruited point guards that Texas wooed. Bradley (2009-2010) started 34 games for the Longhorns, averaging 11.6 points per game, and Joseph (20102011) started 36 games, averaging 10.3 points per game. Both left after their freshman seasons: Bradley was selected by the Celtics with the No. 19 pick in the 2010 NBA Draft and Joseph was chosen at No. 29 by the Spurs. While both were very productive in each of the seasons

Elisabeth Dillon | Daily Texan Staff

Freshman point guard Myck Kabongo (12) lifts a shot over a defender in a recent game. Kabongo is the latest in a long line of successful point guards to attend Texas under head coach Rick Barnes. Through six games Kabongo has averaged 9.7 points and 5.5 assists per game.

they played for Texas, it has been that they should have stayed for anbelieved that they left before they other year or more. could develop their game enough Many have compared both Kafor the pros, leaving many to say bongo’s approach, quickness and

cerebralism to Ford. Thus far, the freshman averages 9.7 points and 5.5 assists per game. If he can deliver on the expectations — he was, af-

ter all, a five-star recruit — it seems that this year’s team and the Longhorns’ point guard lineage will be in good hands.

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Sophomore Chassidy Fussell, last year’s team leader in scoring, also appears to be hitting her stride just in time for Sunday afternoon’s important game.

Fussell scored a career high 30 points

against Virginia to open the Showdown and was named tournament MVP. She was also named Big 12 Player of the Week for her first time on Monday after averaging 20 points, 3.7 rebounds and shooting 50 percent from the field for the week.

“She’s a great player,” Goestenkors said. “We knew it was just a matter of time before she started hitting her shots.

She’s also very confident, so she’s not somebody who’s easily shaken. Now that she’s hitting her shots we feel like she’s going to be real confident.”

Alabama’s streak over after Georgetown field goal

By John Zenor The Associated Press

Elisabeth Dillon | Daily Texan Staff

Senior center Ashley Gayle (22) puts up a shot in the lane against Alcorn State this season.

Gayle recently became the school’s all-time leader in blocks and is a presence down low.

HUNGRY continues from PAGE 8 “I think that even though we were struggling, we had that confidence that this is where we are now and this is where we want to be by the end of the season.”

Texas is the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA tourney this year after winning its fifth Big 12 Championship and is ready to embrace the expectations.

“You would think we’d feel pressure,” Adams said. “But we found out [the seeding], swept it behind us and moved on. We just continue to get better. A lot of teams would feel the pressure, but none here.”

The pressure will be on the other schools when they step into Gregory Gym this weekend to partake in the regional round, as they not only have to deal with one of the best squads in the nation, but also perhaps the loudest crowd.

The first opponent for Texas in the NCAA Tournament is Texas State, the Southland Conference champion.

The Bobcats will look to come in and knock off their in-state rivals, so Texas is certainly not taking them lightly.

“We’re very ready,” Adams said.

“Texas State is in front of us and when the first ball is served we’re going to be ready to go.”

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Hollis Thompson hit a long 3-pointer with 1.8 seconds left to lift Georgetown to a 5755 win over No. 12 Alabama on Thursday night, ending the Crimson Tide’s 24-game home winning streak.

Jason Clark, who had 22 points, dribbled up the court and practically handed off to Thompson in front of the Hoyas’ bench. Thompson drilled it to give Georgetown (6-1) its second win in three games over a team ranked in the Top 12.

Alabama (7-1) had taken its second lead of the second half on Trevor Releford’s two free throws with 13 seconds remaining. After a quick timeout by Georgetown, Clark and Thompson silenced a crowd thinking it was going to escape with the nearly 2-year-old streak alive.

The Tide rallied from a nine-point deficit over the final 3 minutes. Thompson hit the final two baskets for Georgetown, which also beat then-No. 8 Memphis in overtime last week.

Henry Sims scored 13 points and Thompson added 12 points and eight rebounds for the Hoyas, who came in averaging 82 points but matched Alabama’s stingy defense stop for stop.

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Tony Mitchell scored 16 of his 20 points in the second half for Alabama and finished off a couple of alley-oops from Trevor Releford.

JaMychal Green also seldom got the ball inside against Georgetown’s zone and scored six of his 13 points over the final 5 minutes. Releford had nine points and six assists.

Georgetown exposed Alabama’s biggest weakness. The Tide missed its first 11 3-point attempts after making just one from beyond the arc against VCU on Sunday night.

Alabama’s leading scorers Mitchell and Green combined for eight straight points after Georgetown took a 54-45 lead on a basket by Thompson with 2:57 left.

Georgetown’s Clark came up big again against stiff competion. He scored 26 and hit the go-ahead basket in overtime to beat Memphis.

Clark made 4 of 7 3-pointers against

a defense that came in holding opponents to 22 percent shooting from beyond the arc.

Georgetown exposed Alabama’s biggest weakness. The Tide missed its first 11 3-point attempts after making just one from beyond the arc against VCU on Sunday night.

Freshman Trevor Lacey hit two in a row to end the drought, but Alabama still wound up 3 of 16.

Georgetown fought off rally attempts time and again. The Hoyas went up by eight points early in the second half, the Tide’s largest deficit of the season at the time. Alabama closed within two points six times in the next few minutes and even took the lead briefly, but the Hoyas answered every time.

Sims scored seven straight points after Alabama grabbed a one-point lead, Clark drilled a 3-pointer and Thompson got added a basket for that ninepoint cushion.

The Hoyas mostly kept the ball out of Green’s hands in the first half, taking a 23-16 lead and giving the Tide fits with their zone. It was the biggest deficit Alabama had faced all season.

Alabama missed all nine 3s in its lowest scoring opening half since scoring 16 at Oklahoma State last Dec. 18.

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King of Pop’s status will remain despite posthumous trial

By Linda Deutsch The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — The private world of Michael Jackson, fiercely shielded by the superstar in life, was exposed in the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray. But rather than suffering harm from revelations of drug use, experts say Jackson’s legacy and posthumous earning power will survive any damage done and could actually grow after he was portrayed as a victim of a money-hungry doctor.

Jackson died before he could launch a series of highly anticipated comeback concerts in London as he tried to regain the towering status he enjoyed when he released the “Thriller� album in 1983.

But his death did breathe new life into record sales and boosted other projects to generate hundreds of millions of dollars for his estate, even as his already tarnished personal life took another hit by revelations about his drug use.

Jackson zoomed to the top of the Forbes Magazine list of highest earning dead celebrities and his executors are moving quickly on more projects designed to burnish the performer’s image and expand the inheritance of his three children.

A Cirque du Soleil extravaganza, “Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour� opens in Las Vegas this weekend, a precursor to a per-

manent installation at the Mandalay Bay Hotel, and fans are expected to flock there for a “Fan Fest� exhibit of Jackson memorabilia.

After the trial, a judge made it clear that the defense effort to cast Jackson as the villain in the case had been a miserable failure. Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, called a reckless opportunist and sentenced to the maximum four years in prison.

Judge Michael Pastor also blasted Murray for experimenting on the pop star with the operating-room anesthetic propofol to help him battle debilitating insomnia, even though the drug was never meant to be used in a private home.

Some experts say the revelations made the King of Pop look more like a regular person coping with a difficult challenge. “In the final analysis, not a lot of damage was done,� Jackson biographer J. Randy Taraborelli said. “I think the trial humanized Michael Jackson. It presented him as a human being with problems.�

As evidence unfolded, “It definitely made our hearts go out to Michael Jackson. He was a person suffering a great deal and not getting the help he needed,� the author said.

Taraborelli said the entertainer’s family, fans and estate executors were concerned before the trial that testimony would paint Jackson as re-

Illustration by Betsy Cooper Two faces are better than one. Despite a mixed life with controversy from all sides, Michael Jackson managed to be the most prolific and bestselling pop artist of all time. While the trial brought up personal issues from his past, executors expect his albums to still sell quite well.

sponsible for his own death while resurrecting past accusations of child molestation and bizarre behavior by the King of Pop. But the judge limited testimony and evidence to Jackson’s final months and specifically ruled out any mention of the 2005 molestation trial.

Thomas Mesereau Jr., the attorney who won Jackson’s acquittal in that case, believes the Murray trial did damage Jackson’s reputation but said the impact would likely be short

term. “It certainly didn’t help to have all this testimony about drug use,�

Mesereau said. “But as time passes, people will focus more on his music and the negatives will fade.�

While Murray was ultimately shown to be negligent, the portrait of his patient that emerged during the trial was one of an aging superstar desperate to cement his place in entertainment history while providing a stable home life for adored children, Paris, Prince and Blanket.

FANS continues from PAGE 13 Jordan O’Neil, acting and RTF j u n i o r. “ Yo u j u s t l e t g o o f your inhibitions.�

During warm ups and improv skits, they rely on their principle of “Yes, and.� This is the idea that once a group member has offered an idea or price of information within the scene, another player should accept it and add on to it. This is especially helpful for new members learning how to continue someone else’s ideas.

Additionally, the troupe uses c h oi c e a n d c om m it m e nt i n practice and performance to create a decisive plot, while also recognizing the need to ensure the scene progresses. “With any choice you make in improv you can’t go wrong,� said

Colin Bates, captain and biology senior. “As long as you make a choice and stay committed to it you will always be right.�

Their ability to remain committed to characters and the scenes they’re in comes from the teamwork Gigglepants instills. From the beginning, it has never been about the humor of one member, but instead about a compilation of all of their talents. “You don’t have pressure to be good yourself because you’re there to help your fellow improvisers out and make them look good,� Bates said. “You just have to worry about everyone else.�

The troupe agreed that anything can be said or done to make a scene original while also

The image of Jackson as a caring father had never been illustrated quite so vividly. A probation officer who interviewed Jackson’s mother, Katherine, said she told him: “Michael Jackson was his children’s world, and their world collapsed when he left.�

A leading expert on the licensing and branding of dead celebrities believes the trial engendered so much sympathy for Jackson that in the long run it will eclipse negative fallout from his past.

“I don’t think any tawdry revelations that may have come out of the trial will have any impact on his lasting legacy,� said Martin Cribbs, who is based in New York. “We as a society tend to give everyone a second chance. Michael’s legacy will be like Elvis and the Beatles. It will be his music, his genius. and his charitable works “ Cribbs has represented the estates of such deceased luminaries as Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Steve McQueen and Mae West.

GIGGLE continues from PAGE 13 having an unpredictable nature to it. By remaining true to their “Yes, and� principle and also staying committed, scenes often evolve into something entirely different than they ever expect. “In improv we strive to const ant ly f ai l,� B ates s ai d. “It sounds weird, but in our everyday life of tests and work we are always striving not to fail, so much that mistakes are seen as horrible errors we instantly cover up and correct. In improv, the great thing is there’s no such thing as failure.�

The key to improv is listening, since the troupe is discovering the scene at the same time as the audience, they don’t know what’s going to be said either.

It’s important that they listen

to each other and the ideas will come to them. Other than that, the troupe relies on good scene work techniques and knowing how to play the games. “You have to stop wor r ying about what you’re going to say,� O’Conor said. “It’s just like life, you make it a lot harder if you’re constantly thinking.�

However for the troupe, being f unny is ac tu a l ly a s e c ondary goal to having a good t i me w hi le a ls o c re at i ng an enter taining environment.

They always strive to stay in character and produce an unforgettable show. “It’s addictive — it makes you want to be in it,� O’Conor said. “That show you saw, no one else will ever see it again.�

beloved show from cancellation came in 1968, when the original “Star Trek� series was performing dismally in the ratings by the end of its second season. A massive Trekkie letterwriting campaign convinced the network to bring the show back for one more season of intergalactic adventures.

More recently, the ever-growing popularity and protracted demands for a movie spinoff of short-lived but ingenious comedy cult “Arrested Development� have now prompted a reunion nearly six years after its 2006 cancellation. The original producers of the show are slated to produce a season of new episodes, which will be distributed exclusively on Netflix in

2013 in a completely unprecedented Internet revival.

Unfortunately, the “Save Community� campaign so far fails to resemble anything like the kinds of Herculean efforts behind “Star Trek� or “Arrested Development.� At this point, fans’ indignation remains devoted to getting the show to trend on Twitter and getting people to sign various petitions, neither of which are likely to do much on their own. If “Community� fans want to get “six seasons and a movie,� like fans have been tweeting for, they’ll have to commit to concrete action — the most effective of which is watching the show live as it airs and convincing others to do the same.

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Gigglepants improv ‘strives to consistently fail’

By Lindsey Cherner Daily Texan Staff

In groups of four, members of UT ’s Gigglepants improv comedy troupe began creating a scene based off of a word given to them by their peers. They only changed the direction of the scene when specific songs were played, cueing them to either give a monologue, die or find an excuse to touch. “[Improv] lets you release any boundaries you have during the day,” said Reid O’Conor, vice captain and radio-television-film sophomore. “I don’t get to act the same way during class — it’s a good way to loosen up.”

Gig g lep ants is UT ’s only shor t-form improv comedy troupe. The organization has been on campus for eight years, performing every other Friday night in hopes of providing “good, clean, fun.”

The show is set up in a competitive format, with two teams of four and a referee. The two teams compete throughout the night, but in the end, the points are irrelevant. The focus is on p e r for m i ng and e nte r t ai ning the audience. The referee makes an effort to help with this by explaining who everyone is and playing goofy games, all before the show starts. “ Wa t c h i n g p e o p l e m a k e

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Senior Shea Jones, middle, and junior Thomas Kelleher, practice an improv comedy game called “Where Have My Fingers Been?” in Parlin Hall on Thursday evening.

things up, if it’s done well, it comes even more fun.” looks rehearsed,” O’Conor said.

To prepare for each show, the “Even when it comes apart at troupe holds practices twice a the seams I think the show be- week. At the beginning of each

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After the mid-season schedule release, a “Save Community” campaign quickly up on Twitter and various media outlets, calling for “six seasons and a movie” in reference to one of the show’s more meta lines of dialogue, in addition to setting up things like Facebook pages and online petitions urging

NBC to keep TV’s most under- siastic as its viewers. rated on the air.

Although “Community” fans are justified in their disappointment — the show is one of the most cleverly crafted, delightfully playful and emotionally resonant sitcoms in recent memory — they certainly [We want] Six seasons shouldn’t be surprised. “Comand a movie! munity” is full of insular, selfreferential, convoluted jokes — “Save Community” Campaign that reward the kind of loyal viewers who watch and rewatch each episode carefully, combing each for inside-joke Easter eggs and obscure pop culture references they missed All of this panic is despite the first time around.

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After NBC did not include “Community” on its midseason schedule, fans on Twitter and Facebook have begun campaigning to save the show from potential cancellation.

the outrage of its tiny-but-vehement fanbase when faced with the specter of cancellation. Lowrated but much-adored shows like “Firefly,” “Twin Peaks,” “Roswell” and “Veronica Mars” have all inspired their fans to loudly protest their cancellation.

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“The Artist of Disappearance”

By Anita Desai Available Dec. 6 Acclaimed Indian author Anita Desai will be releasing “The Artist of Disappearance,” a collection of three short novellas, all dealing with aspects of Indian culture, the paradoxically freeing and limiting nature of art and characters who find it impossible to escape their situations, hopelessly clinging to their pasts.

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Directed by Brad Bird In theaters Dec. 16 The punctuation-laden fourth installment of the “Mission: Impossible” franchise will be opening in IMAX screens five days before it hits regular theaters and many locations will boast a sneak preview of the opening scene to “The Dark Knight Rises.” If that’s not enough to get you into the theater, “The Incredibles” director Brad Bird has shown he knows how to film and stage action, and he rounded out the pre-existing cast with “Lost” favorite Josh Holloway and future “Avengers” star Jeremy Renner.

Usually, early January genre releases fall just below the bottom of the barrel in terms of quality, and “The Devil Inside” director William Brent Bell doesn’t exactly inspire confidence — his last film was 2006’s borderlineunwatchable “Stay Alive”. Even so, “The Devil Inside” appears to be taking a mildly different angle on the demonic possession subgenre that’s seen a resurgence in recent years thanks to the “Paranormal Activity” films, and its trailer has enough creepy imagery — a woman carving crosses on the inside of her lips! — to make the film worth noting.

“Haywire” Directed by Steven Soderbergh In theaters Jan. 20

“Young Adult”

Acclaimed Indian author Anita Desai will be releasing “The Artist of Disappearance,” a collection of three short novellas, all dealing with aspects of Indian culture, the paradoxically freeing and limiting nature of art and characters who find it impossible to escape their situations, hopelessly clinging to their pasts.

“Stay Awake: Stories”

By Dan Chaon Available Feb. 7 Dan Chaon, who was a finalist for the National Book Award for his short story collection “Among the Missing” in 2002, returns to the form that brought him acclaim with “Stay Awake.” The stories in “Stay Awake” promise to provoke suspense and disturbance. They feature characters are sure to make an impression: a widower dogged by inexplicable messages posted on nearly everything he sees (on trees, in magazines and on dollar bills), a college dropout haunted by a malevolent presence living in his late parents’ house and a father dealing with his son’s horrifying night terrors.

Directed by Jason Reitman In theaters Dec. 16

Here’s another January genre film, but this one packing considerable prestige. After all, it’s directed by Steven Soderbergh — who recently created droves of germaphobes with this year’s “Contagion” — and the cast is filled with consistently entertaining performers, like Michael Fassbender, Michael Angarano and Bill Paxton. MMA fighter Gina Carano stars in the female-driven action film as Mallory Kane, a government-trained superweapon who goes rogue after her organization betrays her.

The last time “Up in the Air” director Jason Reitman teamed up with screenwriter Diablo Cody, “Juno” injected several new phrases into the pop culture lexicon and cleaned up at the 2008 Oscars. The buzz surrounding “Young Adult” — which has been screening across the U.S. — is growing every day.

Charlize Theron stars as a young adult novelist returning home to steal high school flame Patrick Wilson away from his wife and newborn son, but much of the buzz is surrounding stand-up comedian Patton Oswalt’s performance as an old friend of Theron’s character from high school.

“This Means War” Directed by McG In theaters Feb. 17

Casting Chris Pine (“Star Trek”) and the always impressive Tom Hardy (“Inception”) as spies competing for the same girl (Reese Witherspoon) is a creative enough concept to make “This Means War” worth checking out.

While director McG’s track record could be considered spotty to say the least, his peripheral involvement in the long-running NBC spy comedy “Chuck” and smart casting earn him a bit of good faith. Hopefully “This Means War” can balance its spy and romantic comedy angles as well as its funny, propulsive trailer does.

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TV “Luck”

Premieres Jan. 29 on HBO From “Deadwood” creator David Milch and director Michael Mann, this drama set in the high-stakes gambling world of competitive horse racing looks to be just as moody, gritty and slicing as its creators’ filmography.

Dustin Hoffman stars as conniving mobster Chester “Ace” Bernstein, who returns to the racetracks and derby players after a four-year stint in prison. Nick Nolte plays a horse trainer caught up in his scheming. Knowing Milch, this won’t be about horse racing, but the price we pay for passion in a culture that encourages obsession.

“Smash”

Premieres Feb. 6 on NBC Set during the casting of a Broadway musical about the life and loss of Marilyn Monroe, “American Idol” finalist Katharine McPhee stars as the ambitious, breakout Iowa chanteuse favored for the role over a veteran actress.

Talked up as “Glee” for grown-ups, this pedigreed musical drama features Debra Messing and Anjelica Huston and looks to be the kind of serious, intriguing drama long missing from NBC’s schedule. It’s a highconcept, stylized work championed by new network president Robert Greenblatt, who developed Showtime’s trademark original series “Weeds” and “Dexter.”

“Mad Men”

Returns in March on AMC After being held up by financial and contract negotiations with series auteur Matt Weiner, the ‘60s drama finally returned to production in August, readying for a March premiere of its anticipated fifth season. We last saw suave ad man Don Draper (Jon Hamm) struggling with the thought of facing his mortality in the wake of his divorce — and in a whirlwind season finale, becomes engaged to his coquettish secretary. After a fall season of mediocre knock-offs (“The Playboy Club”), seeing this chicly designed drama about Fitzgeraldian reinvention back on the air will be warmly received.

— Aleksander Chan

Music Strange Weekend Porcelain Raft Available Jan. 24

After the Gone Blind EP and roughly 20 singles released as Porcelain Raft, Mauro Remiddi will debut his 10-track LP. Recently signed under Secretly Canadian, the same label as Nite Jewel, Jens Lekman and Yeasayer, the one-man-band has so far leaked a track on his Facebook page, “Put Me to Sleep.” The song provides listeners a quick glimpse of what they can expect from his full-length debut: a soothing melody and echoing waves of synthesizer diffusion. However, the lyrics are punctuated with irony because Remiddi, as the title indicates, asking the listener to put him to sleep. It will be interesting to see whether the album, recorded in a basement in Brooklyn, will display cohesion, since Mauro is a fan of releasing disassociated segments of music.

— Elizabeth Hinojos

Naked Purple Ladies The Internet Available Dec. 20 Of all the breakout act releases of 2012, The Internet’s Naked Purple Ladies has the chance to have the most substantial impact on music. The group is on the forefront of new, more accessible movement in R&B with the likes of fellow Odd Future member Frank Ocean and The Weeknd. The Internet is comprised of slightly lesser known Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All members Syd The Kid and Matt Martian. The group has already released two peculiar tracks, “Love Song” and “Cocaine.” The duo has released a video for the latter which resembles more of a low level acid trip than a coke tweak. The tracks simultaneously show promise and reason for concern as Syd’s strange but calming voice almost hits a dissonant tri-tone against Martian’s compelling, warped jazz beats.

— Ali Breland

The Dreamer/The Believer Common Available Dec. 20

Although Kanye West’s gorgeous My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy may still cast a long shadow over music and Drake’s Take Care may take all the accolades this year with his own introspective lyrics and meticulous production, Common trailblazed the original path as the thinking man’s rapper. He combined the political with the personal, the warmth with the hard reality. After his turgid attempt to full mainstream pop on his last album, his newest album reunites him with No I.D., who produced Common’s earlier works and contributed to West’s last album. With the catchy second single “Blue Sky,” Common has a bit more positivity about the world around him.

— Chris Nguyen

Mac & Devin Go to High School Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa Released Dec. 13

Hip-hop veteran Snoop Dogg and rising rap superstar Wiz Khalifa will be releasing a collaborative soundtrack to their upcoming film “Mac & Devin Go to High School.” The album, which features the Bruno Mars-assisted single, “Young, Wild & Free,” will also include guest appearances from Jet Life rapper Curren$y and Taylor Gang Records’ very own Juicy J. Similar to Method Man and Redman’s collaborative soundtrack for their 2001 film “How High,” Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa’s soundtrack will feature poppy, upbeat sounds, high school-based narratives and an array of marijuana references from two of hip-hop’s weed connoisseurs.

— Eli Watson

Our Version of Events Emeli Sandé Available Feb. 6

Scottish R&B songwriter Emeli Sandé’s debut album will shine a light on the dark side of pop. Sandé has written songs for Leona Lewis and Susan Boyle, and opened for Chris Martin, but this album marks her crossover as a recording artist. Her first single, “Daddy,” already unveils two things she will be known for — outstanding vocals and a talent for singing subject matter tainted with heartbreak. Sandé extraordinarily marries cold lyrics with a voice that radiates warmth. Our Version of Events is sure to be the hauntingly relatable breakup playlist that will steal playtime even on a happy day.

— Anjli Mehta