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Miscalculation slashes student aid By Liz Farmer Daily Texan Staff
Hundreds of UT undergraduate students did not receive needbased financial aid this fall because of a $3.2 million miscalculation by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, said Tom Melecki, director of UT’s student financial services.
The miscalculation affected the state-funded TEXAS Grant, which awarded $2,500 per semester to qualifying UT Austin students this academic year. Melecki said the board double-checked its calculations, found an error and verbally notified the financial services office last week. Melecki said although 644 prospective freshman
did not receive the grant because of the error, $3.2 million will be granted to the University for distribution to students. “Hopefully, we’re going to be able to help some of our freshmen, but we just need a little time to do some analysis,” Melecki said. Melecki said according to state law, the TEXAS Grant is awarded to
first-year students and must continue to be awarded throughout their undergraduate studies. He said his office will try to distribute the rest of the grant funds in early spring, but the time frame also depends on their analysis of how many students the grant can fund throughout their
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Study break In the Doty Fine Arts Building (DFA), Fine Arts Library 4.104 buildings will show short films from 2-5p.m. for students wanting to take a study break.
Toy drive
The McCombs Business School is hosting a toy drive competition to benefit the children of the clients at the DePaul Treatment Centers. The winning group will having bragging rights at future competitions and the awesome feeling of helping others out.
White Christmas Tonight at 7 p.m., the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar will be showing the 1954 classic “White Christmas,” featuring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. It will be shown again tomorrow at the same time.
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Today in history In 1941 At 7:55 a.m., Pearl Harbor was bombarded by Japanese dive bombers. The bombardment of Pearl Harbor is what ultimately pushed the United States into World War II.
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Maria Thomas, whose daughter was murdered 20 years ago in what is known as Austin’s “yogurt shop murder,” hugs Sumer Wassef during People Against Violence’s 21st annual Tree of Angels event at the Central Christian Church. Now held in 51 Texas counties, Tree of Angels invites family members, friends and surviving victims affected by violent crimes to place an angel on a tree in hopes of beginning support and comfort to those grieving during the holiday season.
Gone but not forgotten Tree of Angels event gathers people to remember victims of violent crime
Glistening with silver lights and hundreds of palm-sized angels of different shapes, sizes and colors, two pine trees stand tall before rows of people gathered together Tuesday evening to remember friends and family members who were victims of violent crimes. Founded in 1991 in Austin by Verna Lee, People Against Violent Crime’s annual Tree of Angels is a tradition that has allowed people to come together during the holiday season in solidarity and to remember those they have lost. Over the past 21
years, more than 1,000 angels have been placed on the trees and the service is now held in 51 Texas counties, Oklahoma City, Okla., and Newcastle, Australia. “One of the biggest non-spoken messages in this room full of hundreds of people is that everybody gets it, they know what it’s like to be without their loved ones,” said Travis County Sheriff’s deputy Kimberly Orts, who has attended the event for 16 years and has taken the torch as event organizer. After placing their angel on the tree, people gather together to enjoy refreshments while volunteers place an additional two to three hundred angels on the trees for those who cannot be present. This year
also marks the 21st anniversary of Austin’s “yogurt shop murder,” referring to the death of four teenage girls in a yogurt shop on ON THE WEB: Dec. 6, 1991, and two of For more video and the mothers were presphotos from the Tree ent to light candles in of Angels their memory. “I miss biily/dt_tree_ being the luckiest mom of_angels in the world. I’ll always be Eliza’s mom, but I want Eliza alive,” said Maria Thomas, who lost her 17-yearold daughter in the murder. — Danielle Villasana
UT asks court not to review affirmative action lawsuit By Megan Strickland Daily Texan Staff
UT is filing a response today that asks the U.S. Supreme Court not to review a lawsuit challenging its consideration of race in the undergraduate admissions process, vice-president for legal affairs Patricia Ohlendorf said. The lawsuit Fisher v. Texas was originally filed in 2008 on behalf of two white students denied admission to the University. UT’s filing with the court responds to the suit’s appeal to the Supreme Court, which only one of the students pursued. Ohlendorf said UT argues in the response that the University is in accordance with a 2003 Supreme Court case, Grutter v. Bollinger, which allows universities to use race in the admissions process to promote diversity. “UT believes that its arguments are strong,” Ohlendorf said. “UT believes that its admissions policy is consistent with the U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Grutter v. Bollinger.” Race and ethnicity is one of eight special circumstances that, along with personal and academic achievement, are factored into the freshman admissions process, according to the University’s website. Fisher v. Texas was defeated by an Austin district court and the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. In a 9-7 vote the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to re-hear the case. These lower courts have ruled UT’s policy is in accordance with the Supreme Court decision in Grutter v. Bollinger. In an opinion written for the 5th Court of Appeals by judge Emilio Garza, he concurred UT was within legal bounds set down by the Supreme Court but was critical of the University’s use of race as a contributing factor to admission in part because UT already had existing policies that effectively promoted diversity. “The University was able to obtain approximately 96 percent of the African-American and Hispanic students enrolled in the entering in-state freshman class using race-neutral means,” Garza said. The race-neutral policy Garza referred to is the state law passed in 1997 that mandates UT to admit all Texas public school students in the top
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Entering students required to receive meningitis vaccine By Jill Bliss Daily Texan Staff
A state law will require students new to the 40 Acres this spring to have received meningitis vaccines before the start of the semester. The law, passed in May, requires all students entering an institution of higher education from 2012 on to be vaccinated for meningococcal disease, also known as meningitis, within at least five years before entering the institution. First-year college students, students transferring to a new university and those returning from a semester abroad or other leave are required to present evidence of their vaccination before the first class day
Marty Qureshi of the University Health Center holds up a vial of the meningitis vaccine. The Texas Legislature recently passed a law requiring all students to be vaccinated against meningitis, not just those living on campus.
of the semester in which they plan to enroll. The law exempts students returning for concurrent semesters, students age 30 or older and students only enrolled in distance education courses. According to an informational pamphlet distributed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, chances of contracting meningitis are more prevalent in crowded spaces, such as college dormitories. The disease is transmitted through human contact. It infects the meninges, the protective covering of the brain and spinal chord, and can also cause blood infections. Meningitis can be prevented with the vaccine or treated with antibiotics, but the
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Professors receive Inventor of the Year recognition By Sarah White Daily Texan Staff
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The professors responsible for two of the most significant inventions developed at UT received Inventor of The Year Awards on Tuesday from the Office of Technology and Commercialization. Engineering professor John Goodenough received recognition for helping to develop lithium-ion rechargeable batteries, and engineering research professor Adam Heller received recognition for developing a painless blood-glucose monitoring device. The office also recognized the 48 faculty members who received patents in the last year during the first award ceremony. Goodenough’s lithium-ion rechargeable batteries have allowed the miniaturization of common electronic devices such as cell phones and computers. He said he appreciates being recognized for his inventions, but he hopes his legacy will be that his research helped connect the fields of physics, chemistry and engineering. “The University has to have a culture of interdisciplinary communication, which can be hard to foster,” Goodenough said. He said he has studied and taught in all three fields because he believes the work of individual faculty members is necessary to achieve this cooperation between fields. Heller also said he recognizes the need for interdisciplinary communication in the research process. There are no longer any products which a single industry can design and manufacture,” Heller said. “Sometimes making a product is a balance between making room for someone else to do their job and still retaining enough room
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Education board to set amount of state funding to be available The amount of state funding per student for the 2014-2015 biennium will be discussed at a Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board meeting on Thursday. The board’s General Academic Formula Advisory Committee makes funding formula recommendations that are due to commissioner of higher education Raymund Paredes by Dec. 15. The recommendations will include “a set of formulas that provide the appropriate funding levels and financial incentives” to achieve major goals in the state’s higher education plan, according to the committee agenda. The higher education plan, Closing the Gaps, intends to improve state education by making state higher education more affordable and accessible. For the 2012-2013 biennium, the approved formula appropriated $53.71 of state funding per weighted semester credit hour. The committee’s final recommendation is due Feb. 1. — Liz Farmer
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Engineer professor John Goodenough and engineering research professor Adam Heller received the Inventor of The Year Award from the Office of Technology and Commercialization at the AT&T Conference Center on Tuesday evening.
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to make your decisions.” Heller said he especially appreciates the research freedom he has been given at UT. “At the University of Texas, we are more open-minded about what the colleague can do than at any other university,” Heller said. Heller said this freedom to work in research that is more practical than academic allows professors opportunities to
teach their students useful skills. “If a company wants to make a product, our [engineering] students are under high demand because they operate in the real world,” Heller said. “We are not necessarily the best at abstract concepts. We may not produce a lot of professors, but we certainly produce a lot of CEO’s.” Heller said the Cockrell School of Engineering is one of the top engineering
schools in the nation because of the educational philosophy of professors and their dedication to teaching students through the research process. “The first thing I tell my students is that our final objective has nothing to do with our research. Our final objective is our product, and the research may or may not be the tool necessary to attain it. This principle is rare in academia,” Heller said.
Richard Miller, associate vice president for research, said the Office of Technology and Commercialization is responsible for campus wide patenting and licensing. “We as a university have a very important role in affecting society. That’s why celebrating invention is important,” Miller said. “Fifty years from now, I would like to see us recognizing the 50th inventor of the year.”
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UT careers. Melecki said $21.8 million went to 4,591 undergraduate students in June to aid them this past semester. “Those students will continue to receive the TEXAS Grants provided they re-enroll in the spring,” Melecki said. Melecki said the miscalculation is unfortunate, but the board acknowledged the error and is doing what it can to mend the situation. The board miscalculated for nine institutions, with the largest error occurring for UT-Austin, said Dominic Chavez, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board spokesman. Chavez said there was a higher level of uncertainty about funding this year because of state budget reductions. “We tweaked the methodology so we could stretch those dollars further,” Chavez said. Chavez said part of the change included a different strategy to calculate grant factors at individual institutions. He said the board
CDC pamphlet states 10 to 15 percent of those infected will die and another 11 to 19 percent will endure limb loss, nervous system defects, deafness, slowed brain functions, seizures or strokes. “Meningitis is dangerous because it progresses very rapidly,” said Sherry Bell, University Health Services consumer education and outreach coordinator. “An individual can be well one day and very ill or dead the next.” UT administrative officials have formed an implementation team to ensure that new and returning students targeted by the law are vaccinated and file documentation with the University, said registrar and vice provost Shelby Stanfield. Stanfield said the team is composed of staff from the offices of the registrar, admissions, legal affairs and University Health Services.
SUIT continues from PAGE 1 10 percent of their graduating high school class. Garza said the fate of UT’s admissions policy rests in the hands of the Supreme Court. UT’s top 10 percent rule has changed since the suit was filed, but the Supreme Court will base it’s decision on the 2008 policy. “The Supreme Court has chosen this erroneous path and only the court can rectify the error,” Garza said. A Supreme Court ruling striking down the race-based policy is something Edward Blum, a UT alumnus and member of the Project on Fair Representation, said his group supports.
underestimated the number of returning students to UT-Austin who would qualify for the TEXAS Grant again. “In financial aid, there’s constant movement that happens,” Chavez said. “It’s not like we calculate it and walk away. We constantly recalculate it.” Chavez said the allocation of the grant is up to UT-Austin, but in order for students to qualify for the grant, they must receive it during their first academic year in college. Communication studies junior Shelby Wallace has received the TEXAS Grant since her freshman year. “If I didn’t have it, I would have to get a loan, so it’s helped a lot,” Wallace said. Wallace said the students who did not receive the TEXAS Grant this semester may have to take out more student loans than she has had to in order to cover tuition. “It will affect them later in life financially,” Wallace said. “We disapprove of virtually all considerations of race in public policies,” Blum said. “What makes the UT case unique is that UT already had a law in place, known as the top 10 percent law, that was doing a better job of promoting diversity than the racebased policy.” Blum said the Project for Fair Representation, a nonprofit legal defense fund, is paying for Fisher’s lawyers, and he expects at least six outside agencies to file briefs in support of Fisher today. For past hearings of the lawsuit, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense Fund has filed briefs in support of the University on behalf of the UT chapter of the Black Student Alliance. Representatives of the organization did not indicate it had filed a brief with the
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Supreme Court. Cortney Sanders, government freshman and political action chair for the BSA, said she did not wish to speak of her or the BSA’s opinions of the lawsuit, but she encouraged her classmates to research the case’s factual background. “The fact is the plaintiff was in the top 12 percent of her class and did not qualify for automatic acceptance,” Sanders said. She said Fisher could have gotten points in the holistic admissions process for non-top 10 percent students by participating in extracurricular activities, being an athlete or demonstrating musical ability. “She chose not to do those things,” Sanders said. “It’s a point system. Students need to know that.” UT’s admission policy also may be
“A student has to be in compliance with the law before they can enroll,” Stanfield said. “The student, once admitted, will be barred from registration unless their vaccine records are submitted. They cannot attend classes until the bar is lifted.” The meningitis vaccine is available by appointment with UHS, at private doctors offices and minor emergency clinics. Brent Burkhardt, CVS Minute Clinic spokesman, said the nationwide pharmacy has increased supply of the vaccine in anticipation of the recent mandate. Customers seeking influenza vaccines sometimes find it easy to receive both immunizations at once, Burkhardt said. “We saw a lot of students in need of the vaccine come in over the Thanksgiving break,” Burkhardt said. “We do expect locations to get more busy, as we have a lot of locations close to college campuses.”
affected by new guidelines released last week by the Department of Justice and Department of Education that provide approved methods for increasing racial diversity. The guidelines focus on how universities should implement policies if they find race-neutral approaches to be ineffective to achieve the diversity the institution seeks. Previous guidelines administered in 2008 under the Bush administration stated, “before using race, there must be serious good faith consideration of workable race-neutral alternatives.” UT spokesman Gary Susswein said University officials are reviewing the guidelines but could not speak about the admissions policy due to the pending lawsuit. The Supreme Court is expected to decide in mid-January if it will hear the case, Blum said.
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Bombing in Kabul kills 56, raises fear of sectarian strife By Deb Riechmann & Rahim Faiez The Associated Press
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A member of the pro-Kremlin youth movement Stal wearing a Darth Vader mask participates in a rally in downtown Moscow on Tuesday. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he’s satisfied with the performance of his party in Russia’s parliamentary election even though it lost a significant number of seats, adding that a drop in support is “inevitable” for any ruling party.
Fireworks thrown at Moscow protest By Mansur Mikrovalev The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Police clashed with demonstrators protesting alleged election fraud in Moscow and at least two other major Russian cities on Tuesday as anger boiled over against strongman Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his United Russia party. At least 250 people were detained by police at a protest in downtown Moscow that included fireworks thrown at a group of pro-Kremlin youth, said city police spokesman Maxim Kolosvetov. Russian news agencies reported about 200 were arrested at a similar attempt to hold an unsanctioned rally in St. Petersburg and another 25 in the southern city of Rostovon-Don. The Moscow protest ended after around 3 1/2 hours and the others were broken up by police. It was the second consecutive night of large protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg, an unusually sustained show of indignation as Russian police routinely crack down hard on unauthorized rallies, and protesters generally take time
to regroup for a new attempt. The protests follow Sunday’s parliamentary election, in which United Russia lost a share of the seats it had held in the State Duma. The party maintains a reduced majority, but opponents say even that came because of vote fraud. Local and international election observers reported widespread ballot-stuffing and irregularities in the vote count. The protesters appear to be both angered by the reported fraud and energized by the vote’s show of declining support for Putin and his party, which has strongly overshadowed all other political forces in Russia for the past dozen years. But pro-Kremlin supporters also put on a pair of large rallies in Moscow, attracting thousands and showing vehement divisions in Russian society. The Moscow protest demonstrated the violent potential of those divisions. Several hundred young men with emblems of United Russia had gathered with police at Triumphal Square in the city center ahead of the planned opposition rally. Police
waded into several groups of opposition supporters, pushing them away from the square — roughly grabbing many and throwing them into police vehicles. Detainees included prominent opposition leaders Boris Nemtsov and Eduard Limonov. After the protesters were pushed back, they and government supporters shouted at each other — “Shame, shame” was the call from the opposition, while the others, some of whom beat drums, shouted “Putin victory.” Members of the pro-authorities group gravitated toward the nearby Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, continuing to chant and bang drums. Then at least two flare-type fireworks were thrown into their midst. It was unclear who threw the devices or if anyone was injured. The confrontation lasted more than three hours before pro-government youth began leaving. About a half-mile away, around 100 demonstrators chanting against Putin held a short march from the U.S. Embassy toward the Russian White House, but scattered when police arrived.
A heavy police presence was visible throughout the city, including several police trucks parked around Pushkin Square, another popular demonstration site. United Russia won slightly less than 50 percent of Sunday’s vote, according to nearly complete preliminary results. Although that gives the party an absolute majority in the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, it is a significant drop from the 2007 election when the party got a two-thirds majority, enough to change the constitution unchallenged. Sunday’s election results reflect public fatigue with Putin’s authoritarian streak and with official corruption in Russia, signaling that his return to the presidency in next March’s election may not be as trouble-free as he expected. Putin, meanwhile, called his party’s reduced number of seats in Sunday’s parliamentary election an “inevitable” result of voters always being dissatisfied with the party in power. He also dismissed allegations of corruption among his United Russia party members.
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SEATTLE — Occupy Wall Street protesters across the country are reclaiming foreclosed homes and boardedup properties as they find it increasingly difficult to camp in public spaces. Groups in more than 25 cities held protests Tuesday on behalf of homeowners facing evictions. In Atlanta, protesters attempted to disrupt an auction of seized homes. New York protesters rallied outside a Brooklyn foreclosed house and said a group of homeless people were going to move in to the building. The events reflect the protesters’ lingering frustration over the housing crisis that has sent millions of homes into foreclosure after the burst of the housing bubble.
SAN ANTONIO — New research casts doubt on a radiation treatment for breast cancer that is shorter but only reaches part of the breast. Medicare records show that women who had the partial radiation were twice as likely to need the whole breast removed later because the cancer came back. The shorter treatment uses radioactive pellets briefly placed in the breast instead of radiation beamed from a machine. At least 13 percent of older patients in the U.S. get this now, and it is popular with working women. — Compiled from Associated Press reports
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A man is comforted by relatives outside of a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday. A suicide bomber struck a crowd of Shiite worshippers in a wave of violence against the minority Islamic sect.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — In Afghanistan’s first major sectarian assault since the fall of the Taliban regime a decade ago, a suicide bomber slaughtered 56 Shiite worshippers and wounded more than 160 others Tuesday outside a Shiite shrine in the capital. The body of a woman, clutching a dead child in each arm, was sprawled along a dirt road littered with shoes, bloodstained clothing, hats and body parts after the blast, which took place as a bombing killed four Shiites in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. The Taliban condemned the attack, which was reminiscent of the wave of sectarian bloodshed that shook Iraq during the height of the war there. Suspicion centered on militant groups based in neighboring Pakistan where Sunni attacks on minority Shiites are common. A man who claimed to be from Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a Pakistan-based group that has carried out attacks against Shiite Muslims, called various media outlets in Pakistan to claim responsibility for the bombing in Kabul. The validity of the claim could not be determined. Until now, the decade-long Afghan war has largely been spared
sectarian violence, where civilians are targeted simply for their membership in a particular religious group. Tuesday’s attack suggests that at least some militant groups may have shifted tactics, taking aim at ethnic minorities such as the Hazara who are largely Shiite and support the Afghan government and its Western partners. The Afghan Taliban, who are mostly ethnic Pashtuns and nearly all Sunni Muslims, had been attempting to diversify their ranks, expanding to areas outside their southern homeland, recruiting some Tajiks and others and forging an alliance with Uzbek militants in the north in an attempt to present themselves as a national resistance movement. Unlike some Iraqi militant groups — who consider anybody from the rival community a target — the Taliban have generally refrained from mass attacks against purely civilian targets. They usually focus instead on the U.S.-led coalition, Afghan forces or government offices, although recently the Taliban have been responsible for a rising number of civilian deaths in smaller attacks, according to a U.N. report. Tuesday’s powerful explosion in Kabul was the deadliest attack in the capital since July 7, 2008, when a suicide car bombing at the gates of the Indian Embassy killed more than 60 people.
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QUOTES TO NOTE
A semester in review
The following quotes are from viewpoints and overviews written by The Daily Texan Editorial Board this semester. We’ve selected quotes that paint a picture of the noteworthy events that occurred this fall.
“Voters across the nation don’t know Perry like we know him. His education track record is one of many that suggests he is charging around the country on a platform of minimal substance. We hope voters and journalists in the other 49 states will look past our governor’s ‘cowboy mystique’ and seriously evaluate the decisions he has made in office.” — On Gov. Rick Perry shortly after he delcared his candidacy for the
GOP presidential nomination. Despite sky-rocketing to the top of the pack, Perry is rolling in at 9 percent in Iowa and 3 percent in New Hampshire, according to and NBC/Marist College poll released over the weekend.
“It can end up like Nicole Scherzinger, who despite being the only vocal talent in The Pussycat Dolls, failed when it came to a solo career. Or it can end up like Fergie, who has complemented No. 1 hits with The Black Eyed Peas with some of her own. Currently UT is hoping to become a Fergie.” — On the possible outcomes of the University’s decision to partner with
Public concern on what is private By Rui Shi Daily Texan Columnist
A recent discovery by a security researcher, Trevor Eckhart, created a media firestorm around the Mountain View, Calif. startup Carrier IQ. In a Youtube video, Eckhart details how the Carrier IQ software logs every text message, Google search, phone number and URL of visited websites on a variety of smartphones such as HTC and BlackBerry. This development put Carrier IQ under a microscope, and it raises new privacy concerns regarding the collection of personal data from consumers. As it turns out, media outlets rushed to vilify Carrier IQ. Selfappointed “web police” slammed the company for violating federal laws. Even senators such as Al Franken jumped into the fray in requesting an explanation. While benign in nature, these allegations are misdirected and people must wait for more information before coming to a conclusion. The most serious accusation that Carrier IQ faces is that its software records what people type without their knowledge. This claim, however, is unfounded as there is no evidence that Carrier IQ is capturing, recording or transmitting any sensitive user data. Dan Rosenberg, a world renowned security consultant, dug into the code and found no evidence in suggesting that. The Carrier IQ software is intended to be used as a diagnostics and data-collection tool. The company itself makes no decisions on what data is collected. It only sells this software to cell phone carriers and allows them to decide which options to enable. Rather than vilifying Carrier IQ, customers must look to carriers for an explanation. AT&T, Sprint and other major players must disclose
to their customers what data is being collected and how that data is being used. Ultimately, carriers should make available an easy opt-out mechanism for people who do not want their data to be logged. The issue of collecting data without customers’ knowledge lends itself to the bigger issue of privacy in an interconnected world. The proliferation of social media platforms alongside mobile technologies has blurred the line between what is public and what is private. If a user on Facebook neglects to change his or her privacy settings and posts sensitive information, then does it mean that this information is now in the public domain for anyone to use? In most cases, companies provide their customers with a lengthy privacy agreement. However, most users simply press the “agree” button and skip over the details. This creates an environment in which companies are free to collect data as they see fit, and they are able to justify this with one or two lines in their hundred-page agreements. Companies must exhibit more transparency to protect consumer interests. In no circumstances should companies collect sensitive personal data without user permission. Companies must also provide a detailed list of data that they collect from their customers and how they are being used. In a constantly evolving technological world, data is the currency. The collection of this data, however, comes at a price, as private information might be made public. Technology companies must work together with the public to come to a consensus on redefining privacy. Shi is an electrical and computer engineering junior.
ESPN to launch The Longhorn Network this fall.
“With a wide-pleasing message comes a wide range of interpretations, and the chancellor will be evaluated based on how institutions such as UT will react to the plan. After all, planks can be used to keep a boat afloat or to push someone off the edge.” — On UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa’s highly publicized
nine-plank Framework for Advancing Excellence across the UT System. Cigarroa’s plan worked to quiet some of the noise surrounding the state’s higher education controversy, but the move from the conceptual to the practical is still in process.
“The biggest reminder from Powers’ speech is that a university’s role goes well beyond job training. The greatest skill a university can teach its students is critical thinking. ... A university that can empower students to channel intellectual curiosity to create these ideas is the university of the future.” — On President William Powers Jr.’s sixth annual State of the University
Address in September.
“What Powell fails to realize, however, is that the controversy was not born out of an aversion to the messy kitchen of healthy debate, but rather a fundamental mistrust of misguided and agenda-driven chefs.” — On the second meeting of the Legislature’s Joint Oversight Committee
on Higher Education Governance, Excellence and Transparency. Powell, facing his biggest critic, State Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, compared the state’s higher education controversy to preparing a Thanksgiving meal, with Cigarroa’s Framework being the end result, or the turkey. The committee concluded its final meeting focusing on governance in November with excellence being next on the agenda.
“Since Texas A&M signaled that it will leave the conference next year, the Big 12 has started to look more like the Nervous 9, as it fired commissioner Dan Beebe on Thursday.” — On the UT System Board of Regents’ granting President William
Powers Jr. the right to negotiate conference realignment discussions on behalf of the University. The semester featured the end of the 118-year streak of playing the Aggies on Thanksgiving day.
“Hopefully the University can, as Powers has suggested, mold MyEdu to serve better purposes than it currently does and, in so doing, make the site worthy of its new burnt orange hue.” — On the Board of Regents’ controversial decision to partner with
and invest $10 million in MyEdu, a privately-held educational services company.
“Wednesday’s open forum put an end to the motions of the Tuition Policy Advisory Committee, as it presented its proposal to the public. And that’s all the process consisted of — motions.” — On the role of the Tuition Policy Advisory Committee this semester.
In November, TPAC proposed a 2.6-percent tuition increase for resident undergraduates and a 3.6-percent tuition increase for all other students.
An open letter on tuition to President Powers By Katherine Taylor Daily Texan Columnist
Dear President William Powers Jr., I know you said last week that you would take student input about the tuition debate into consideration, so here’s mine: Don’t raise tuition. On Monday, President Barack Obama held a discussion with educational leaders, including UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa, to talk about how to make college more affordable. Last week, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said, “Three in four Americans now say that college is too expensive for most people to afford,” according to The New York Times. Even for those who can afford to attend college initially, students are unduly burdened with financial loan debt that now averages more than $25,000. While I realize that everyone is affected by the current economy, Duncan highlighted measures other schools are taking, such as offering discounts for certain majors, offering tuition-free education to low-income families and cutting tuition by drastic percentages. There are other options out there that other schools are using. Here at UT, we pride ourselves on our dedication to innovation. We should partake in these measures and others, too. I realize the opposing argument is that
tuition increases are necessary so we don’t lose funding for important programs or so we don’t have to fire important faculty members. However, according to a recent University budget projection, about 84 percent of total expenditures go toward funding for faculty salaries, college program costs, facility costs and scholarships, while only about 16 percent of funding goes toward student services. I’m not citing the argument that our faculty do not work hard enough or aren’t “productive” enough. I’m not trying to say that the percentage of the budget toward faculty over student services is even incorrect — to be a top university, we should have a huge focus on faculty. Nor am I trying to imply that faculty are unimportant or that they should be paid less. What I’m trying to say is that every year we manage to provide significant medical, recreational and logistical services to approximately 50,000 students for a much smaller fraction of the budget. Why are we not this efficient with our budget when it comes to the largest part of it: instructional costs? Are we in fact offering so many courses that some of them duplicate each other? Could students not more efficiently fulfill core requirements if they were allowed to take similar courses from different colleges outside of their own? Are there ways to encourage cross registration amongst colleges, ease replication of classes and
thereby reduce faculty workloads and more efficiently use our budget? I don’t want to suggest that we lower the quality of services offered to either students or faculty, but that we instead find ways to encourage collaboration between the two so that we more efficiently utilize our budget. Perhaps none of the solutions I’ve offered are feasible, or perhaps we’ve already tried all of them. That’s beyond the point. Our University is fully capable of leading the way in this college-costs crisis with innovative solutions focused on partnerships and collaboration, not tuition hikes that never fully solve the problem. The tuition increases represent more than just a financial strain on students. They also represent an ideology that is adverse to change and to trying new things to solve problems. We need to stop the paradigm of taxing students to chip away at our budget issues. As you said during your State of the University address in September, “Every productivity gain in history has come from redesigned processes and better capital equipment.” UT should fulfill that promise and lead the field in innovative solutions. I leave you with a question you’ve asked us before in this year’s State of the University address: Doesn’t Texas deserve the best? Taylor is a Plan II and rhetoric and writing senior.
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Wells Fargo gives funds to competition for green technology By Andrew Messamore Daily Texan Staff
As part of a national effort to support green technology, Wells Fargo has announced that it will grant $125,000 to UT’s Venture Labs to support a green category in a business startup competition to be held on campus next May. In t h e 2 0 1 2 G l o b a l Ve n ture Labs Investment Competition, graduate students and their teams from around the world will present original business plans to panels of investors and judges who select the best new-venture opportunity. The competition is hosted by Venture Labs, a part of the McCombs School of Business that brings together graduate students from different UT schools to t a ke p ar t in st ar tup and entrepreneurial programs. Ten thousand dollars of the grant will go to the team that wins the clean energy competition, and the rest will be divided between funding for Venture Labs, the competition and the Energy Management and Innovation Center, said Venture L abs post-graduate manager Aaron Lyons. “ B e c a u s e o f We l l s F a r go, we can award additional
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A student walks above the McComb’s School of Business atrium Tuesday afternoon. The school will host the 2012 Global Venture Labs Investment Competition next May and will receive a $125,000 Wells Fargo grant to support a green category in this start up competition.
money that hasn’t been there in the past,” Lyons said. “It brings more exposure and credibility to the competition, which is already one of the largest of its kind in the world.” The competition also benefits Wells Fargo, which invests heavily in clean energy research, Lyons said. “It a reciprocal relationship,” Lyons said. “Many of the judges in the competition are from
We l l s Far go, an d t h e c om petition helps them network with students and business ventures interested in working in green ways. This grant couldn’t have happened at a better time for cle an energ y, esp e ci a l ly here at the University of Texas where going green has become so important.” Wells Fargo selected the competition for its grant because it s pur p os e a lig ns w it h t he
company’s core values, said Michael Klein, regional executive of Wells Fargo’s commercial banking office in Austin. “We have a clean tech practice at Wells Fargo and an investment in the green industry,” Klein said. “Green and clean tech is imbedded in what we do as a firm and we also have it as a focus in terms of our business practices. UT has been a leader in what they do and [the com-
petition] reflects our interest in clean technology.” The grant ref lects well on the McCombs School of Business and the leadership of Dean G i l l i g a n , s a i d m a n a g e m e nt professor John Butler. “What makes programs great at McC ombs are its endowments and grants,” Butler said. “Venture Labs has been a fabulous idea, and it’s the best way to take students in the sciences
and technology and introduce them to the real world and network them with professionals. It shows off our creativity and how we make research happen and also manage to bring it to the real world.” T h e r e g i o n a l Te x a s Ve n ture Labs Investment Competition will take place in February, when UT students can compete to qualify to take part in the global competition in May.
Student privacy not dramatically affected by changes to FERPA law, director says By Andrew Messamore Daily Texan Staff Recent changes to the 1974 law that outlines privacy regu l a t i o n s f o r s t u d e n t s ’ p e rsonal and academic information may not be as dramatic as initially thought, said Tom Melecki, director of Student Financial Services. The 1974 Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act restricts student records from all parties without written consent, including parents. It
applies to all institutions receiving funding from any program under the U.S. Department of Education. The act was recently revised by the Department of Education and will allow state and local education officials to share student information more easily without violating federal privacy law. However, the revision does not cause any change to the degree of privacy that student records enjoy, Melecki said. “It mostly just clarifies some things that quite frankly we
are already doing,” Melecki said. “It may be that there were some other institutions that weren’t doing this, and I won’t claim that we’re somehow smarter than other institutions. We just happened to already be doing these things.” So far, Student Financial Services has yet to find any c h a n g e s f ro m t h e l a w t h a t would cause records to be fully disclosed to government or other public institutions, Melecki said. “ I f s o m e b o a rd d o w n i n
Congress said that we want a list of all of your students that want this kind of financial aid, we would certainly take exception to that,” Melecki said. “We could give them a count, but this would not open up the doors to the kind of sharing that would put private information at risk.” The revisions will allow institutions greater control on how information is classified beyond simply public and private, said Jeff Graves, associate vice president for
legal affairs. “Before it was either directory information for everybody or for nobody,” Graves said. “What the new regulations do is say that directory information can be restricted to specific people or for specific purposes or for both. It basically says that we can have directory information that is only for specific groups of people, types of people or only for specific purposes.” The law should mean little will change for students in the
regular transmission of their records, said Shelby Stanfield, vice provost and registrar. “I don’t think necessarily that changes to FERPA infer or imply that there is less privacy on behalf of the student records,“ Stanfield said. “Some people think that when there’s a change in policy that inherently means there’s going to be less stringent or less rigorous policies with respect to protecting student information and that’s not necessarily the case.”
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Photo boasts nine semesters, thinks back on experiences It still did not get to me that today is my last day to work at the Daily Texan, after being here for nine semesters. But I have a feeling that when it gets to me, I will probably think mostly about how crazy it has been. When I first made it to the photo staff, I remember wondering why they even chose me because I honestly did not even know how to
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Lena Price, managing editor (left), looks back at her seven-semester legacy while Sydney Fitzgerald, associate managing editor (right), ends her fourth and final semester at The Daily Texan.
‘Things we will miss about the Texan’ By Lena Price & Sydney Fitzgerald Daily Texan Staff
Things we are going to miss about the Texan: Tuesdays (and Thursdays.. and Wednesdays...) at Hole in Wall. Associate Managing Editor George. Fall 2010. Four Loko. Funny Weather. Copy log Lolcats. Jody’s baked goods. Listening to Selena with V-
Ros. Gossiping with Pussy Chiffon. 4 a.m. basement talks with Josh. Getting advice from Doug. The elusive midnight scriptset. Likealittle. Playing catch in the sports office. Sleeping on the news couch. And the sports couch. And the ME couch. Tots. iChat conversations. Nova Haus. Walking down the steps to the basement. Being a parent. Growing up with Viv. Growing up with Elyana. Learning from some incredibly
talented people. Having an excuse to fall behind on homework. Double Coverage paychecks. Pho Saigon. Ming’s. Unproductive Thursdays with Claire and Pierre. Ray <3. Multiplug devices. Ryan’s sugar glider. Will’s puns. 3 a.m. pancakes. KVRX. Andrew’s brother. Learning more about football than we ever wanted to know. Andre. Texancest. Orange Bobby. Name Here. Sweatpants. “Go listen to Taylor Swift”. SO. MANY.
TWISTS. Awkward krazy. Hook’em! Cosmo. Reese’s love for pie. Aleks and Trey’s bromance. Doug’s critiques. Hide your plants, hide your pipes. Holiday Cheer. I can always edit your face. Martina’s sassy pants. Last nights of the semester. We were both too emotional about leaving the Texan to write full 30 columns. We’ve had a great time working here and we’ll miss everyone.
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tience while I was undeserving. It is a blessing to be able to have worked with such admirable people because I learned so much. I am truly going to miss all of the good and bad times from this basement. These involve walking up the dungeon stairs at midnight (or sometimes even later than that), having to run around all day with heavy gear in bad weather, getting parking tickets, eating popcorn for dinner, dancing to “This
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By Mary Kang Daily Texan Staff
I must credit my coworkers for all of the encouragements, trust and patience while I was undeserving. — Mary Kang, Photographer
work the camera. My first semester here, I was very shy and did not talk at all — to the point that one of the staffers didn’t even know I worked that semester. It must have been that I was intimidated by everyone else’s great talent. Right now I am definitely talkative, a lot more confident and after switching my major a few times, finally found passion (which is photography). For these changes, I must credit my coworkers for all of the encouragements, trust and pa-
Must Be The Place” by Talking Heads, a space bar with a sticker that says “Mary Stinks,” inspirational photo wall, intense news spirit and so much more. None of these experiences are regrettable to me and I will cherish them instead. Outside of the Texan, I want to thank God, family, friends and professors. All have given me an incredible amount of support that I will not be able to forget and that will help me move forward.
The Daily Texan not just office for staff photographer The most significant end of my college career is the end of my time at The Daily Texan. I learned more working for the Texan than I did in any class at UT. My best friends worked here, and I can’t even begin to think about where I would be without the experience I gained from working at the best college newspaper in the country. I knew I wanted to study photojournalism before I came to UT, but what I didn’t know was that I
needed to do that at the Texan. I learned a lot about patience, dealing with other people and making the best out of bad photo assignments that read, “I don’t know what this is about.” I frequently spent more time in the photo office than I did studying for exams or working on projects, but I wouldn’t have had it any other way. The office was my home on campus, and I took that a bit too literally sometimes. I don’t know if there are other organizations on campus that can possibly measure up to the Texan. I was able to do exactly what I wanted to do
out of school while I was in it, and I was free to mess up and try again (and I did). The Texan has a long-standing reputation, and I am proud to have been even a small part of that. I’m going to miss the bad moods everyone put me in, skipping class to take pictures of some guy standing on a stage under terrible lights, Thomas’s terrible song choices, Andrew’s toothpicks, Ryan and Lawrence’s brains, Danielle’s loud mouth, Mary’s extended laughs, watching Shannon lose her mind and everyone’s faces. But most of all, I will miss taking photos for The Daily Texan.
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Trent Lesikar (left) and Mary Kang (right) both recall fond memories.
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For about 15 minutes UT-Arlington kept the game interesting. That is, until Texas’ firepower became too much. The Longhorns, a squad full of scoring threats, found their shot from an unlikely source. Freshman Sheldon McClellan had played quietly well throughout the season, but had a 23 point, six rebound performance to help the Longhorns (6-2) take down the Mavericks 80-62 Tuesday night. Four other Longhorns ended up with double-digit points to add to the barrage. “[McClellan] is tremendously talented. He still doesn’t understand how good he can be. But believe me, a game like Sheldon had tonight, Julien [Lewis] could go off and do the same thing,” Texas head coach Rick Barnes said. “We’ve got guys that can score the ball.” McClellan, along with fellow freshmen Jonathan Holmes (7 points), Julien Lewis (13 points), and Myck Kabongo (13 points), were instrumental in helping put the game out of reach. With the Mavericks breathing down their backs for much of the first half, the Longhorns, led mostly by the aforementioned freshman, put together a 10-5 run to end the half. Jorge Corona | Daily Texan Staff From then on out, the Texas offense played just well enough to coun- Junior J’Covan Brown attacks the basket in a 80-62 win against University of Texas at Arlington. Brown had a season low 11 points on the night. ter anytime the Mavericks flirted with bit Tuesday night against UT-Arlinga single-digit lead. With 13:46 to go Freshmen comes off of ton, coming off the bench to score 13 and an eight point lead, Lewis snaked the bench, sparks team of Texas’ first 17 points on his way to his way to the paint for an easy jumper with career high 23 points a career-high of 23. to give Texas the 10 point edge. Again “My shot was falling, and my teamwith 9:44 to go and a nine point admates did a good job of finding me in vantage, Kabongo fronted a defender, By Trey Scott the open court,” McClellan said. “I juked right and drove left to the basket Daily Texan Staff was just trying to find my shot, play for the layup. Sheldon McClellan averaged 26 within the team.” UT-Arlington coach Scott Cross points as a senior at Bellaire High Subbing in for Julien Lewis after a said Kabongo’s pacing is what really School — he says he had to shoot a little more than one minute of play made the difference. lot for his team to win games — but in the first half, McClellan scored a “[Kabongo] just did an unbelievcame to Austin this summer with a quick eight points in just two minutes able job getting in the paint. He creates surprising reluctance. of work. The guy who Barnes calls “a for all those guys, and of course they During fall camp, head coach Rick closet athlete” for his dunking ability can shoot it extremely well,” Cross said Barnes would stop practice every instead did most of his damage from of the freshman point guard. “The time McClellan passed up an open behind the arc, hitting three of four Jorge Corona | Daily Texan Staff number of points they got in the paint shot and then make him run up and 3-pointers in the first half. was tremendous (32) and I think it all Freshman Sheldon McClellan looks to make a pass during a Texas 18 down the court. “When I play, everybody says, point victory. His sharp shooting off the bench was the key in Texas’ win. starts with him.” “That got annoying,” McClellan ‘watch the shooter,’” McClellan said. said. “Instantly.” “Coach wants me to shoot the ball The 6-foot-4 McClellan ended clung to a 35-28 lead. Only one other McClellan got Barnes off his back a when I’m open.” POINTS continues on PAGE 8 the first half with 17 points as Texas WIN continues on PAGE 8
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Senior outside hitter Amber Roberson (right), senior Sydney Yogi (left), and the rest of the team will take on Kentucky in Lexingt in the Sweet 16 on Friday night, where their mettle on the road will be tested.
Horns ready to face Wildcats in Sweet 16 By Chris Hummer Daily Texan Staff
Texas rolled through the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament without dropping a set. At times, the Longhorns dominated opponents with their ability and overwhelming size and speed. However, the team knows that it will not be that easy the rest of the way. The teams will only get more talented, and the high level of play they displayed over the weekend will not always be there. Eventually, they will be forced to grind out a win. “We can’t expect to play at that level every night,” said head coach Jerritt Elliott. “We’d like to, but the great teams are the ones that are
able to win playing at different levels and finding ways to win. I’m assuming that I would like to go back and play at the same level that we left off at, but we know we’ll be in a battle, and we’ll have to make some adjustments throughout the weekend to be able to perform and come out of that bracket.” The bracket they are ready to step into is a very difficult one. It includes the regional host Kentucky, Pac-12 runner up UCLA and the team that has knocked Texas out of the bracket the last two years, Penn State. But a potential matchup with the Nitty Lions is in the future. For now, they will have to deal with a very good Kentucky squad that finished third in the SEC. On top
of that, they will be dealing with a raucous crowd that will be on hand to make noise for the Wildcats. It will be a disadvantage for the Longhorns to be the road team in the Sweet 16, but they are ready to embrace the challenge, and actually welcome it because they have seemed to play better on the road this season. “We enjoy [playing on the road] a lot,” said senior Sydney Yogi. “This year especially, our team has embraced chaotic situations. At A&M, I know that was very chaotic. At OU, we didn’t do that well, but that was in the beginning, and I think from that game especially we learned how to really embrace it and how to compete to win.”
Round one, they will say, did not go the Longhorn Network’s way. This summer saw a battle develop between ESPN/Longhorn Network and cable and satellite distributors such as Time Warner Cable, DirecTV and Dish Network. And unless you’ve been sleeping under a pile of 300 million greenbacks, you know the main players in the TV business never saw it necessary to carry the Longhorn Network. Now that the football season is all but over — the last game will be played by the time you pick up the next edition of this student newspaper — it’s clear the Longhorn Network has lost most of its leverage. If Mack Brown appearing in commercials imploring couchsquatters to get the network so they “don’t miss a minute” of his team’s 7-5 season didn’t work, then it’s unlikely that anything else will. I don’t mean to be harsh, but Rick Barnes suggesting that practices of his unranked teams are must-see TV just won’t cut it. This is a football state, remember? Football sells. But not even the promise of a brand new season, with shiny new schemes and an abundance of exciting new players was enough to put the network in households not carrying Grande or Verizon FiOS. What can be done to save some face? All the LHN’s eggs now in the baskets of the Erwin Center. First, it doesn’t help that fan interest in the basketball program is relatively low right now. A lack of recognizable players and surefire NBA first-rounders is one cause. If this team still had
Tristan Thompson and Jordan Hamilton or if this network came in the days of Aldridge, Tucker and Gibson, switching your cable providers to get the 12 games shown might be more appealing. But fans — excluding the die-iest of diehards — haven’t complained much about the inability to watch Longhorn basketball games in 2011, which is telling because there have only been two games not on the network this season. To that, you could argue that if fans can’t see the game on TV, they should go in person. Yeah, only if they want to pay $10 for parking and then pay another $10 per ticket — for a cheap game — and only if they live in a close enough proximity to Austin and only if they don’t have to work or stay home on Tuesday nights. The network will undoubtedly do some cool things with baseball season. Augie Garrido’s always a good time, the atmosphere is easy-going, the players are talented and goofy and the tradition is the best in the nation. But it’s also a program that does nothing more than break even financially, so don’t expect up-close-andpersonal batting practices to elicit hearty cries for Time Warner to carry the network. There’s nothing else for the Longhorn Network to do but wait for next fall, wait for negotiations to reopen and hope for Texas to put together a football season that is noteworthy enough to give big cable and satellite distributors no choice but to carry the Longhorn Network. So whenever you see Rick Barnes on the TV, telling you and your friends not to miss out on one more second of behind-the-scenes footage of his Horns, chuckle to yourself and think, “this battle’s already lost.”
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SPORTS BRIEFLY Johnathan Gray wins national player of the year award.
Aledo’s Johnathan Gray was named Gatorade National Player of the Year on Tuesday. Gray who is committed to Texas has rushed for 3435 yards and 59 touchdowns this season in only 14 games. Gray is the all time touchdown leader in Texas High School football history, and is only the third atleathe in Texas history to eclipse the 10,000 yard mark. He is ranked the No. 5 overall recruit in the Class of 2012 by ESPN and the top ranked running back. He will be looking to lead Aledo to a third straight state title on Thursday when they square off with Corsicana High in the semifinals.
— Chris Hummer
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Breaking down the 10 best stats of the 2011 season By Hank South Daily Texan Columnist
There is no doubt the 2011 season has been a roller coaster for the Texas football team. It was equally dizzying for the Stat Guy, who began the year predicting a bounceback season for Garrett Gilbert and ended it looking at Case McCoy and David Ash, trying to determine the more efficient of the two. Without further ado, the most important statistics of Texas’ season. 10) Seven wins, five losses Coming off the first losing season in the Mack Brown era in 2010, the Longhorns regrouped, flip-flopped their record and became bowl-eligible. The margin of victory was 22, the margin of defeat 18. 9) 1,206 kickoff return yards Between running back Fozzy Whittaker and other return men, the Longhorns finished the regular season ranked 18th in the nation in kickoff return yards, averaging 24.12 yards per game. Whittaker took two returns back for touchdowns. 8) 17-for-20 on field goals With senior kicker Justin Tucker most likely on his way to the NFL, the Longhorns have a big shoe to fill in the kicking department. Tucker became the latest to boot a big game-winner, hitting a 40-yarder to top Texas A&M as time expired. He also handled punting and kickoff duties. 7) 23 sacks
Mack Brown denies retirement rumors By Christian Corona Daily Texan Staff
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Freshman tailback Malcolm Brown has been a huge part of a Texas running attack that has averged 210.42 rushing yards per game this season.
After a slow start to the season, the Texas defensive front came alive to pile up almost two sacks a game. Defensive ends Alex Okafor — providing he comes back for his senior year — and Jackson Jeffcoat will be major threats in 2012. 6) 103.67 rushing yards allowed per game Texas has finished the regular season ranked No. 11 in the nation in rushing yards allowed. The defense will have to keep that up next year, despite losing front-seven stalwarts Kheeston Randall, Emmanuel Acho and Keenan Robinson.
POINTS continues from PAGE 6 Longhorn scored more than four points — Jonathan Holmes had seven while J’Covan Brown had just two — so McClellan’s contributions were certainly appreciated. “It puts a smile on my face, knowing what those guys can do,” Brown said. By the time the final buzzer rang,
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McClellan had a career-high with 23 points on 72-percent shooting from the field, just the second Longhorn to score more than 20 this season, not a typical stat line for a sixth-man. “Just from watching him in high school, I knew he was a great player. You can watch on tape, Shel-
5) 23.25 points allowed per game The Longhorns finished 42nd in the nation in this category, a lowranking compared to some of the defenses of the past. It probably didn’t help that so many offensive turnovers gave opposing teams a short field. 4) 28.67 points per game A statistic that places the Longhorns No. 52 in the nation, unchartedly low water for a Bryan Harsin offense. 3) 210.42 rushing yards per game The rushing offense came alive
in 2011, with the emergence of freshman running backs Malcolm Brown and Joe Bergeron. 2) Six games missed Then, of course, Bergeron and Brown combined to miss six games, dramatically affecting the Texas offense down the final stretch of the year. 1) Five starts vs. five starts Q u a r t e r b a c k s D av i d A s h and Case McCoy each started five games, with mixed results. No matter what people say, the key to success in the future is finding a capable starter at quarterback.
don can do it all,” said UT-Arlington head coach Scott Gross. “There’s a reason he was [highly ranked] coming out of high school. Some of those shots he hit were amazing. He’s a high-level player.” Which begs the question: why was McClellan ever so passive?
“I was just kind of hesitant to shoot once I got to college,” he said. Which, to Barnes, doesn’t make any sense at all. “I’d say, ‘How do you know you’re going to miss if you don’t shoot it?’ He’s tremendously talented, and he still doesn’t know how good he can be,” said Barnes. “He’s tall, he’s long. Every time the ball leaves his hands, you think it’s going in.”
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During the week before Texas played Baylor, rumors swirled about Longhorns head football coach Mack Brown announcing his retirement following his team’s regular season finale this past Saturday. Jake Lebahn, a radio host in Topeka, Kan., said he was told Brown would retire from a source in the coaching world. “I promise you this, when I do retire, it won’t come from a tweet in Topeka, Kan.,” Brown said after the 48-24 defeat Saturday. “I plan on coaching for a long time.” Longhorns short on bowl experience With freshmen and sophomores taking up half of the starting spots on the Texas depth chart, there aren’t many players that have played in a bowl game before. Only 11 of Texas’ starters have ever participated in a bowl game, six of whom have played in more than one. Senior tight end Blaine Irby caught one pass for three yards in the 2007 Holiday Bowl, making him the only Longhorn on the roster with Holiday Bowl experience.
“We just had a defensive meeting and I asked our defense to stand if they have never been to a bowl, and three quarters of the team stood,” said defensive coordinator Manny Diaz. “When we think of programs, we think of tradition and history, but when you look at our football team with as many first and second year football players as we have, those guys have never been to a bowl game.” Texas not taking bowl appearance for granted After missing out on postseason play last year, the Longhorns appreciate their invitation to the Holiday Bowl more than they normally would. Prior to 2010, Texas strung nine-consecutive 10-win seasons together. The question was never if the Longhorns would play in a bowl game but how good of a bowl game they would play in. Texas is bringing a different attitude to San Diego this year. “I think we took it for granted last year,” said senior tight end Blaine Irby. “Getting those six wins to be eligible to go to a bowl game is really hard to do now with college football and how competitive it is.”
WINcontinues from PAGE 6 Alexi Wangmene provided the key defensive stops in the second half that really helped Texas put the Mavericks in their place. With just under four minutes to go, Wangmene extended for a block that looked like he ripped the ball right out of the air. It was officially recorded as a steal and he was rewarded on the other end with a power dunk in the paint off a J’Covan Brown assist. He ended with 10 points, seven rebounds, two steals and a block. The Mavericks (4-3) were never able to get in an offensive rhythm. Their leading scorer, forward Kevin Butler, only had 12 points on a threefor-10 shooting night.
“I didn’t feel like we played with the same juice and energy that we have been in the last few games, but with a lot of that, you have to give Texas credit,” Cross said. “That’s the one thing they do is play great defense.” The Longhorns were also able to out rebound the Mavericks, 39-36, but Rick Barnes said he hopes his team can continue to get better in this facet of the game before it takes on Texas State Saturday. “Overall there were some good things tonight,” Barnes said. “But we’ve got a long way to go.”
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A unique toy, any price WHERE: Toy Joy Toy Joy on the Drag is accommodating to UT students with its playful appeal and proximity to campus. An Austin staple, the toy store features plenty of genre-specific items for friends and family. The Best of Mad Libs, $6.99, includes 125 stories and celebrates 50 years of the classic game. The Jedi Path: A Manual For Students of the Force will be great reading material for UT students who are taking time off from textbooks and are willing to get their geek on for $19.95. Hysterical gag gifts include the “Cat Lady Air Freshener,” $3.95, and the “Accept The Fact That You’re Aging Breath Spray,” $5.95, for those who wish to share the gift of good humor. — Elizabeth Hinojos
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WHERE: Dog & Pony For your more fashion-forward friends, surprise them with a customized garment from our favorite local boutique. With spikes and studs all the rave on the runway, Dog & Pony offers a range of bedazzling, from small studs on pocket denims for the minimalists to fully spiked out shoulders on a leather jacket for the badasses. Custom works take about a week, but the stores have racks of denim, leather goods, sweaters, dresses, mullet shirts and more, studded, spiked and all ready to go.
Vintage Cowboy Ropers, $26 WHERE: Cream Vintage Nothing is a better Texas gift than a pair of boots. Bring out the inner cowboy and cowgirl in your friends with a pair of vintage ropers. Cream Vintage has a wide selection of them in all sorts of colors, stitchings and sizes for a wallet-friendly price.
Best Gift Cards P. Terry’s W H E R E : A n y P. Te r r y ’s location Appealing to vegetarians and carnivores and the Dublin Dr Pepper can’t be beat. Plus, just $10 goes a long way there, so it’s a good gift on the cheap. — Audrey White
Violet Crown Cinema One of our favorite local theaters, the Violet Crown offers a great selection of independent films each month and enhances the audience experience to the fine detail — side tables for your cocktails and snacks, extra padded cushions and a homey setting that doesn’t take away the thrill of going to the theaters. A $25 gift card guarantees one movie, a Chicago hotdog (must tr y!) and a cold beer, or a movie for two. — Julie Rene Tran
Waterloo Records & Video A retro video game, $10-50 WHERE: Resurrected Games & Movies One of few electronic stores conveniently located in the Dobie Mall, Resurrected Games & Movies offers everything for gamers, movie-watchers and action figure collectors. The store even offers limited edition Star Trek Monopoly, The Nightmare Before Christmas Jenga and Metal Gear Solid Risk. If you are a fan of older electronic systems such as the Nintendo 64, Playstation and Sega Dreamcast, you can purchase two video games and get one free throughout December. — Eli Watson
LIVESTRONG Rift Bike Helmet, $60 WHERE: Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop In a city peppered with bikers, the safety of riding is extremely important, especially with the recent spike in bike accidents. Kill two birds with one stone this holiday season with this LIVESTRONG bike helmet by supporting the local cancer awareness foundation and protecting your loved one’s noggin.
Did you or a loved one receive a gift card to a chain store such as Best Buy, Walmart or Target, and would instead prefer to use it on a local business serviced by a knowledgeable, friendly staff? Bring in a gift card from one of these and other national chains and Austin’s own Waterloo Records & Video will exchange it in full with store credit on any of their merchandise. — Katie Stroh
Texas Monthly One-Year Subscription, $18 Share Texas with friends and family by giving them a year of
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Ideal Bookshelf Wall Print, $26 WHERE: shop.idealbookshelf.com Artist Jane Mount creates homey yet offbeat prints of bookshelves lined with beautiful recreations of classics and modern favorites, and at $26, they make perfect gifts for the bookworm in your life. If you’re really feeling generous, you can have Mount paint a custom recreation of a shelf full your loved one’s handpicked favorite books for $220-450, depending on the size. — Katie Stroh
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