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UT faculty responds to Egypt crisis Four students evacuated from studies abroad By Jody Serrano Daily Texan Staff
Recent political unrest in Egypt has prompted UT officials to bring several students there studying abroad back to Austin. The evacuation process for the four UT students studying in Egypt started Jan. 25, when the University learned
about the protests, said Robin Garrow, assistant vice president for public affairs. Jordan Bellquist, an Arabic language and literature senior, studied in Alexandria, Egypt’s second largest city, with the yearlong federally funded Arabic Flagship Program. She arrived in Austin on Tuesday morning, after the federal government
ordered all students enrolled in the program in Egypt to return to the United States. “I was really mad when we got home,” Bellquist said. “We didn’t have a choice if we could come back or not.” Bellquist had been in Egypt since June of last year and scheduled to remain there un-
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An open letter from a UT professor urging President Obama to support the cause of the Egyptian protesters has drawn the signatures of more than 150 political scientists across the country. In the face of demonstrators demanding the
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‘Breakneck Speed’
Indie rock band Tokyo Police Club is playing at La Zona Rosa with supporting acts Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin and TV Torso. Doors open at 7 p.m. and tickets start at $16.
Really, just relax
Comedic group Master Pancake Theater is lampooning music videos at Alamo Ritz for its Video Jukeboxx II event. The show begins at 10 p.m. and tickets start at $8.50.
Today in history In 1887 Punxsutawney, Pa., observes the first Groundhog Day.
Campus watch Turtle-ly off limits
300 Block West Inner Campus Dr. UT Police Officers responded to the Turtle Pond after receiving a report an unknown subject had written “Joseph Jon Jacob Fiend” with a UT Logo along with 60 multicolored polka dots onto the outer shell of the live animal. Officers notified Biological Sciences to have the offended animal cleaned and its dignity restored.
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Quote to note “There are two direct goals aimed at the U.S. government. The first is that President Obama should stand on the side of the demonstrators and withdraw his support from Hosni Mubarak. The second is to reassess U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and consider how we got here in the first place.” — Jason Brownlee Associate professor of government and Middle Eastern studies NEWS PAGE 2
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After waiting in 30 degree windy weather with Yajaira Fraga, right, Jessica Medina smiles as she sees their bus approaching. The weather will remain below freezing for the remainder of the week but is expected to rise to the 60s by this weekend.
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uan Martinez stood with his back firmly planted against the wind, hands stuffed into the pockets of his gray hooded sweatshirt. Martinez, a construction worker on the Belo Center for New Media, kept a positive attitude, basking in the midday sun after a cold, cloudy morning. “You don’t understand, I’ve been out here since 5:00 a.m.,” Martinez said. “It can always
be worse.” Austin experienced a midday low of 32 degrees Tuesday with winds upward of 25 mph, according to The Weather Channel, and a hard freeze was expected last night. While Martinez stood guard by the barricades blocking off the north side of Whitis Av-
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Brown’s coaching staff to receive raises By Matthew Stottlemyre Daily Texan Staff
Mack Brown’s new assistant coaching staff will cost almost $3.7 million this season. Brown, UT’s head football coach and the state’s highest paid employee, leads a nine-member assistant coaching staff. Eight of the nine assistant coaches will receive pay increases this season. The only position to be paid less is the offensive coordinator. Six of the coaches are new to UT this sea-
son, and the five who left another collegiate coaching position will be paid more than they were last year. The University released the assistant coach salaries to the Austin American-Statesman last week in response to open records requests for the information. In a press conference, Brown said he found a changed hiring landscape from when he came to UT in 1998, when he started rebuilding the coaching staff. He said other than having much higher salaries, agents now handle the deals
— and multiple-year contracts are more common. He said he took the shake-up following last season as an opportunity to start fresh, and he has enjoyed the challenge. “I thought we got exactly what we wanted. I think we got the best coaches possible for Texas,” Brown said. “We can hire good coaches at Texas. [UT Men’s Athletic Director] DeLoss [Dodds] lets us pay them.” A vocal critic of the increasing coaching salaries, Thomas Palaima
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2011 salary
2010 salary for the position at UT
Manny Diaz, defensive coordinator and linebackers coach
$625,000
$907,000
Bryan Harsin, co-offensive coordinator
$625,000
$477,084
Major Applewhite, co-offensive coordinator and running backs coach
$500,000
n/a
Jerry Gray, defensive backs coach
$425,000
$318,509
Stacy Searels, offensive line coach
$425,000
$292,519
Bo Davis, defensive tackles coach
$325,000
$205,950
Darrell Wyatt, receivers coach
$315,000
$212,519
Oscar Giles, defensive ends coach
$200,000
$162,451
$200,000
$187,039
Bruce Chambers ,tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator
*According to Austin American-Statemen’s report Friday
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Roberto Flotte addresses the forum hosted by Student Speak, an organization aiming to eliminate budget cuts at the University.
Faculty notably absent during Students Speak deliberation By Ahsika Sanders Daily Texan Staff
A Students Speak forum on Tuesday focused on planning and agenda setting because administrators declined to attend the meeting. The organization formed to counter a $1 million proposed cut to ethnic and identity studies centers such as the Center for Mexican American
Studies. The student group met Tuesday with more than 100 students and community members, with the goal of creating a working foundation for what they will press the administration to do in regards to the ethnic centers and how they will go about getting their demands met.
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Students will have the opportunity to share a variety of information in an effort to improve the undergraduate experience in a survey that opened Tuesday. The Student Experience at the Research University survey, which UT calls the Ultimate Student Survey, takes about 20 minutes to complete and asks for information on topics such as financial aid, campus diversity and financial and personal characteristics. It cost UT $18,000 to participate in the survey. “It turns out to be a much more valid comparison, to say compare civil engineer majors from one university to other civil engineer majors at another university,” said Steve Chapman, director of the survey project at the University of California, Berkeley. “It builds the ability to look at issues in their real complexity.” The survey does not sample a percentage of undergraduates. Instead, the University encourages everyone to weigh in, with options for open-ended responses. “The theory is students at large institutions in different colleges are having different experiences [than other students in other colleges in the same university],” said Gale Stuart, a director at UT’s student affairs office. “If we don’t ask everyone, we might miss smaller sections of populations.” This is the second year UT will participate in the survey. Last year,
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only 15 percent of students finished the entire survey. Stuart said she hopes to see increased participation this year. The survey will be available until March 18. The Center for Studies in Higher Education at UC-Berkeley created and has been implementing the survey for more than 10 years. Students from public research flagship universities, such as the University of Florida, the University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota are eligible to take the survey. More than 130,000 students respond each year from across the nation. This year’s survey results may influence policies such as budgeting, identifying college readiness and different ways to inform admissions, said Harrison Keller, vice provost for UT’s Higher Education Policy and Research. “The survey gives us rich information to get a better sense of where students feel prepared and where they get useful support,” Keller said. Four UT students who participate will receive $250 toward textbooks. Other prizes include an Apple iPad and tickets to UT athletic events. Tim Gabriel, mechanical engineering junior, said a progress bar at the bottom of each page would be helpful so he could know how much of the survey he had left. “Sometimes surveys are repetitive, but I liked that this one wasn’t,” he said. “It covered a broad base and it was nicely categorized.”
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Gov. Rick Perry appointed on Tuesday two new members to the UT System Board of Regents and reappointed another. The governor’s office issued a press release Tuesday morning announcing the appointments. Board chair Colleen McHugh and vice-chair Janiece Longoria’s terms on the board expired Tuesday along with Brenda Pejovich’s, who was reappointed. The board will appoint its new chair internally. The terms for the new appointees expire Feb. 1, 2017, and the appointments must be approved by the Texas Senate before the appointees can take their seats. The two new appointees, Alex Cranberg and Wallace Hall, live in Austin and Dallas, respectively. Brenda Pejovich, who Perry reappointed, lives in Dallas. All three earned undergraduate degrees at UT. Hall and Pejovich have both served as board members on the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. “These individuals have shown a commitment to higher education issues, and the governor looks forward to their service on this board,” said Lucy Nashed, a spokeswoman for the governor, in a statement.
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until May. When some parents heard about the protests on the news, they called the program’s coordinators and demanded they take the students out of Egypt, she said. Even her Egyptian host family insisted on keeping Bellquist indoors. “We saw the protesters and everyone encouraged Americans to stay out of it because [the United States] is really supportive of the ruler, [so] the situation is a danger for them as well,” Bellquist said. The Center for Arabic Study Abroad program, a national initiative housed at UT, currently sponsors 26 students in Cairo. Some are studying at the American University in Cairo on the Tahrir campus, where many of the protests have occurred, said Martha Schulte-Nafeh, the center’s director. Schulte-Nafeh said the center has not taken their students out of Cairo, but has instructed them to stay in their homes, store plenty of food and water and keep their cell phones on. Of the 26 students in Cairo, only one chose to go to a safe haven in Turkey, while the others chose to stay. Christopher Rose is an outreach director for UT’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He has led various study abroad trips with students and local public school teachers for the past 15 years. During his trips, Rose said he saw political apathy in the Egyptian people, who seemed to give up hope that the government was going to be responsive
to their needs. “Domestic rebellion in the state is unprecedented for the people of Egypt,” Rose said. Rose said he never hid his American nationality during his multiple trips to Egypt. He was in Cairo during the U.S.-led 2003 bombing of Baghdad, and he said he felt safe. “If I told them I was American, they had an opinion they wanted to share with me,” Rose said. “[But] I feel safer on the streets of Cairo than in New York. There’s petty crime [in Cairo], but violent crime is very, very rare.” Both Bellquist and Rose hope to return to Egypt in the coming weeks. Bellquist wants to continue her study abroad ex-
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dle East and consider how we got here in the first place.” Signatories include historians and researchers in relevant fields, including renowned author and lecturer Noam Chomsky; Clement Henry, a retired UT government professor and specialist in Egypt; and dual-degree master’s student Rebecca Hopkins. “Dr. Brownlee’s weight in the field is what led me to sign onto his letter,” said Hopkins, who is pursuing her degrees in public affairs and Middle Eastern studies. “I also just thought it was a cogent, thoughtful, well put together letter that addressed the constraints on both the U.S. and Egypt.” Roy Casagranda, an Austin Community College government professor, is from Egypt. He said sending an open letter to Obama to change the direction of U.S. foreign policy could be effective. “The U.S. government gives
RAISE continues from PAGE 1 is a classics professor and University representative to the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics. He said the coaches’ salaries are inappropriately high and result from a flawed relationship between the University and its athletic department. “I think it is literally obscene,” Palaima said. “The University is made up of many components. All of those components are or should be subject to central supervision and oversight and cooperative participation in the values and cultural and educational mission of the University. And there is one glaring exception and that is the NCAA athletics program.”
perience, while Rose is expected to take a group there during spring break with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Neither Flagship nor UT have come to a decision about whether travel to Egypt is an option in the immediate future. “I’m staying really positive,” Bellquist said. “We’ve all made so many good friends there and there are so many people we love. After President [Hosni] Mubarak comes out to make his speech, we’ll have a better idea.” The Egyptian president announced on state television Tuesday that he will not seek reelection in the next presidential election, which is scheduled for September. Jordan Bellquist is one of four UT students who had to return from studying abroad in Egypt because of political protests in the country.
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removal of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Obama was slow to declare a position, said Jason Brownlee, an associate professor of government and Middle Eastern studies. Brownlee said he wrote the letter to draw public and political attention to the United States’ role in the unrest. In an announcement on staterun television Tuesday, Mubarak said he would not run for another term in the next presidential election scheduled for September. The same day, Obama urged the Egyptian president, who has held the position since 1981, not to seek a re-election bid. “There are two direct goals aimed at the U.S. government,” Brownlee said. “The first is that President Obama should stand on the side of the demonstrators and withdraw his support from Hosni Mubarak. The second is to reassess U.S. foreign policy in the Mid-
For Kristin Schroter, a procurement and payment services staffer, the cold offers no benefits. “There’s an overall malaise when it gets cold,” she said. “I don’t want to exercise. I don’t want to move at all.” Austin’s projected forecast for the remainder of the week promises more cold temperatures, with highs in the mid-30s and lows in the teens, but little evidence of possible precipitation. By the weekend, the temperature is expected to rise to highs in the low 60s with sunny skies. In Dallas, frozen streets and high winds have shut down much of the metroplex. Local weather alerts warned Dallas residents of winter storms, hard freezes and a wind chill until at least Thursday. Much of the country, in a strip stretching from Oklahoma to Maine, is also facing severe snow storms this week.
Palaima said the money could fund the creation of a new NCAA sports team at UT, which would provide opportunities to more student athletes. Athletics receive no state funding and generated more than $140 million last year at UT. That revenue, which includes 90 percent of the University’s licensing revenue from UT product sales, makes the department selfsufficient. Budget Director Mary Knight said the UT System and the University once managed licensing for UT, but the athletics department has since taken over that responsibility. She said the academ-
about $1.5 billion per year,” Casagranda said. “It’s the number-two recipient of U.S. foreign aid and accounts for about 10 percent of the world’s sum of foreign aid.” Brownlee visited Egypt as a semester abroad student in 1995. His most recent visit was in 2009, when he witnessed demonstrations over the Israeli attack on Gaza, which drew 100,000 protesters to Alexandria, Egypt’s second largest city. “Lots and lots of people were getting together around foreign policy issues,” Brownlee said. “That was new.” Brownlee also took note of early dissent against the Mubarak regime, which he described as “white collar opposition: op-ed columnists and other middle-class active dissenters.” He said he hopes to get people thinking about U.S. policy in the Middle East. “It’s difficult to change foreign policy, and it tends to come from
ic side of the University receives 10 percent of the licensing revenue and more in years when the revenue is higher than normal, including when the football team won the national championship in 2005. She also said in the last fiscal year athletics contributed $5 million to the University’s general revenue to ease the 5-percent state budget cuts. “Having a successful athletics program is beneficial to the University as a whole,” Knight said. “Our athletics program is self-sustaining. We don’t put any state funds into athletics, so its not negatively impacting academics.”
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NEWS BRIEFLY Man accused of molestation; crimes span four decades LONG BEACH — A former California state mental hospital director lured young boys with pizza and trips to a mountain cabin to sexually abuse them over a span of four decades, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Prosecutor Danette Gomez told jurors during her closing trial argument that former Napa State Hospital director Claude Foulk, 63, used his degrees and accolades as a shield to fend off allegations involving the horrific abuse. The boys — now grown men — turned to alcohol and drugs, and struggled to form lasting relationships due to the crimes, she said. “Look beyond that facade and what you’re going to see is nothing but a wolf in sheep’s clothing,” Gomez said as Foulk watched with a blank expression. Foulk, who is charged with molesting his adopted son over the course of a decade, has pleaded not guilty to 35 counts of sex crimes including lewd and lascivious acts on a child and sodomy by use of force. Prosecutors say 11 men have come forward to claim Foulk molested them as children as far back as 1965, but only the case of Foulk’s son could be prosecuted because of the statute of limitations. Four other men, including one of Foulk’s foster sons, also took the witness stand over the week long trial to recount allegations of abuse. After his arrest last year, Foulk was fired from his post at the hospital, which houses adults mostly judged mentally incompetent to stand trial or found not guilty by reason of insanity.
ATHENS HUNGER STRIKE Dominican Rep. deporting illegal Haitian immigrants By Danica Coto & Jacob Jushner The Associated Press
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An Afghan immigrant holds a baby as Afghan immigrants protest in central Athens on Tuesday. The migrants have been camped outside a university building in the city center since Nov. 22, 2010.
Massive crowds across Egypt demand Mubarak ousted By Hadeel Al-Shalchi & Sarah El Deeb The Associated Press
CAIRO — More than a quarter-million people flooded into the heart of Cairo on Tuesday, filling the city’s main square in by far the largest demonstration in a week of unceasing demands for President Hosni Mubarak to leave after nearly 30 years in power. Protesters streamed into Tahrir Square, among them people defying a government transportation shutdown to make their way from rural provinces in the Nile Delta. The peaceful crowd was jammed in shoulder to shoulder — schoolteachers, farmers, unemployed university graduates, women in conservative headscarves and women in high heels, men in suits and working-class men in
scuffed shoes. marches to get the president out of They sang nationalist songs and power by Friday, and similar demchanted the anti-Mubarak “Leave! onstrations erupted in at least five other cities around Egypt. Soldiers at checkpoints set up the entrances of the square did nothing to stop the crowds from entering. The military promised on state TV Monday night that it would not fire on protesters answering a call for a million to demonstrate, a sign that army support for Mubarak may be unraveling as momentum —Musab Galal, Unemployed builds for an extraordinary erupuniversity graduate tion of discontent and demands for democracy in the United States’ most important Arab ally. “This is the end for him. It’s time,” said Musab Galal, a 23-yearold unemployed university graduLeave! Leave!” as military helicop- ate who came by minibus with his ters buzzed overhead. Organiz- friends from the Nile Delta city of ers said the aim was to intensify Menoufiya.
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Airlines canceled thousands of flights on Tuesday, erasing much of their service in the middle of the U.S. as ice coated runways in Dallas and Chicago braced for a major snowfall. Flight tracking service FlightAware logged more than 6,000 cancellations on Tuesday and more than 3,000 for Wednesday. American Airlines operations took a one-two punch, with storms hitting its hubs in Dallas and Chicago. Ice closed Dallas-Fort Worth International for more than two hours in the morning. Even after it reopened, few American flights took off, in part because high winds made it too dangerous to send de-icing crews up in bucket trucks, said American spokesman Tim Smith. American canceled some 1,900 flights on Tuesday, more than half of its schedule, Smith said. Some flights were diverted to San Antonio or Austin because of the ice. Roughly three-quarters of all American flights at Dallas were canceled, he said. Blizzard conditions were expected later in the afternoon in Chicago, another American hub. United Continental Holdings Inc. canceled 1,450 flights, including 850 by United Airlines, many in Chicago. United and its feeder carriers would usually fly 540 departures a day out of O’Hare, but roughly 300 of those were canceled, spokeswoman Megan McCarthy said. The company’s Continental Airlines unit canceled about 600 flights, including many at its hub in Newark, N.J. “We expect to have very limited operations at Newark and O’Hare,” she said.
JIMANI— The Dominican Republic has deported thousands of illegal immigrants in recent weeks, sowing fear among Haitians living in the country and prompting accusations its government is using a cholera outbreak as a pretext for a crackdown. In the largest campaign in years to target Haitians living illegally in the Dominican Republic, soldiers and immigration agents have been setting up checkpoints and conducting neighborhood sweeps, detaining anyone without papers and booting them from the country. Erickner Auguesten, a 36-yearold father of three who has been in the Dominican Republic illegally since 1991, said agents stopped him as he exited a hospital where his pregnant wife was getting a checkup. “When we left to get some food, the police pulled up and told me to get into the truck,” he told The Associated Press in the border town of Jimani. He said a friend who works for the border patrol helped him sneak back in. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians live at least part-time in the Dominican Republic, enduring frequent discrimination and the constant fear of being deported. A cholera epidemic in Haiti that has killed at least 4,000 people and sickened 200,000 has made matters worse. Dominican officials eased border controls and halted deportations for humanitarian reasons after the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake near Port-auPrince that killed estimated 316,000 people and devastated the already impoverished nation. But right at
the one-year anniversary of the quake, the deportations resumed with greater enforcement than has been seen since 2005. More than 3,000 people have been handcuffed and sent across the border in the past three weeks, including some legal residents who were simply caught without their documents, according to migrants and advocates. “They grab them from the streets,” said Gustavo Toribio of Border Solidarity, an organization that provides assistance to migrant workers. “They don’t care if they have children, if they have property. They only ask them for their documents.” The government denies that any legal residents have been deported. Dominican immigration chief Sigfrido Pared defended the deportations, saying his country cannot be an escape valve for Haitians fleeing extreme poverty and political instability. The United Nations estimated before the earthquake that some 600,000 Haitians were living illegally in the Dominican Republic, which has a total population of nearly 10 million. Dominican authorities say number of refugees has since grown to 1 million, most of them there illegally. “It is very easy for some countries or some organizations to criticize the situation in the Dominican Republic,” Pared said. “No [other] country in the world has a border with Haiti. No country in the world has a Haitian problem like the Dominican Republic has.” Dominican officials say the immigration crackdown is necessary to prevent the spread of cholera from Haiti, which shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic.
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Over spending on the Super Bowl With the Super Bowl only days away, Texas is preparing to host the biggest game of the football season by doling out $31.2 million of tax money stored in a state trust fund, according to The Dallas Morning News. The Major Events Trust Fund uses tax revenue to provide financial support to communities that host large sporting events, and though the fund has supported major events such as Final Four basketball tournaments, no sum compares to the tens of millions that will be spent on Sunday’s game, which will be held at the newly renovated and expensive Cowboys Stadium in Arlington. The game is estimated to generate $611 million, according to Dallas-Fort Worth news station WFAA. Estimates such as this one may make it easy to justify spending more than $30 million of taxpayer dollars. However, regardless of the accuracy of the estimate — which is debated by many — the question to ask is whether taxpayers will see the money generated from the game. Most of the money from the game will benefit hotels, restaurants and other local businesses and national chains, employees hired to clean up or provide game security, vendors at the game and, of course, the NFL. So how much will actually benefit taxpayers? The state’s trust fund provided $8.7 million to support Houston when it hosted the Super Bowl in 2004, according to The Dallas Morning News. Though the game generated about $340 million, according to D Magazine, WFAA estimates that taxpayers only saw about $6.5 million in return. Moreover, why is the state spending a record amount of money to host the game? Bill Lively, president and chief executive of the North Texas Super Bowl Host Committee, estimated the cost of security at $5 million to $6 million. The committee will also reimburse the NFL with nearly $10 million on admissions tax on game tickets. The admissions tax reimbursement was only about $150,000 in 2004. Additionally, taxpayers have already picked up some of the bill. The construction of Cowboys Stadium, which was completed in 2009, cost more than $1 billion, and Arlington taxpayer money funded more than one-fourth of the cost, according to The Dallas Morning News. Instead of using tax dollars to pay for what is essentially a weekend-long party, legislators and other state leaders should ensure taxes support services that unquestionably benefit taxpayers. It is absurd to spend $31.2 million on an event even as big as the Super Bowl, especially when the state is facing one of the largest budget shortfalls in its history. Meanwhile, state legislators are cutting funds in areas such as public education, financial aid, mental health, Medicaid and elderly care. Though the Super Bowl is an important and exciting event in American culture, spending taxpayer money on entertainment at a time when serious necessities are being cut is unfortunate and disappointing. — Viviana Aldous for the editorial board
THE FIRINg LINE Regarding the liberal arts budget cuts In light of the recent budget reduction process within the College of Liberal Arts, we believe that it is imperative to the academic integrity of the college that students be consulted, listened to and actively engaged in the process. Students are the lifeblood of the college and cannot be justifiably kept out of discussions surrounding implementing cuts involving academic programing. We, on behalf of our constituents, demand the openness and transparency of the administration in this process to continue and to grow. We believe that students having open access to all documents pertaining to the college budget and its current cuts upholds the core values of UT — “integrity, honesty, trust, fairness and respect toward peers and community” — and allows a greater encompassing view of what can be done during these tough times. Additionally, as the College Tuition and Budget Advisory Council’s mission states the importance of “bridg[ing] the divide between students and administrators ... and inform[ing] administrators about the students’ thoughts and opinions regarding [college budget reductions].” We believe that openness and transparency must also be reflected in its actions as well. To ensure the mission of this council is fully, accurately and effectively carried out, we request that these meetings are widely announced to the student community well in advance and that all meetings are open and accessible to students and encourage all interested students to attend. As your representatives, we promise to never withhold any information we find. We believe that every liberal arts student has an equal and fundamental right to any and all information presented to their peers and student leaders. We promise to make ourselves available to you to help answer questions, seek information, share your thoughts about issues and let your voice be heard.
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The other side of signing day By Dan Treadway Daily Texan Guest Columnist
take multiple-choice tests — definitely an asset at a school like UT. Although he’s currently in the business school, Griffin also projects as a strong computer science major, one of his best subjects in high school. Weaknesses: Griffin’s world history aptitude isn’t going to blow you away, but most students at UT probably couldn’t point out Egypt on a map without help, so he should be able to adapt. He also plans to join a fraternity, which may affect his freshman GPA and subsequently his brain cell count in coming years — all that Keystone needs to go somewhere.
As most know, today is the most important day of the year at the University of Texas: national signing day. College football recruits all around the country are faxing in their letters of intent to attend various universities, and by all prognostications, Texas has locked down another stellar class. But while hundreds of sports journalists nationwide will be hard at work today analyzing every last chin hair of every 18-year-old that has received an offer to play Division 1-A football, perhaps Name: Lamar Brittany Allan it would be worthwhile to take a look at High School: Bishop Lynch (Dallas, Texas’ other incoming class. Texas) After all, 2011 marks the 128th conHeight/Weight: 5’6”, 100-130 lbs, desecutive year that UT has out-recruited pending on her mood Texas A&M for academic talent around Class ranking: top 5 percent the state. 40-yard dash time: was not sure what a Let’s take a look at some of the early 40-yard dash was signees to the class of 2015: Other offers: A&M, University of Oklahoma, Mary-Hardin Baylor Name: Michael Griffin Breakdown: Allan is an interesting High School: Strake Jesuit (Houston, prospect for the Horns. Although she’s Texas) been accepted to the College of Liberal Height/Weight: 5’11”, 145 lbs Arts, Allan’s best subject is math, making Class ranking: 5 her one of the most unique prospects in 40-yard dash time: 5.1 seconds this class. But it’s probable that a change Other offers: Boston College, Texas in major is in her future. Lamar wants to Tech, Texas A&M run a wedding-planning business, and Breakdown: He may share a name McCombs is right across the street from with a former all-American safety at UT, Jester. but make no mistake, this Michael GrifStrengths: Although her test stats don’t fin is probably more well-suited for game jump off the page at you, Lamar possesses theory than, well, games. While his frame intangible studying habits that will elevate lacks bulk, his SAT score doesn’t — Griffin her in this class. She enjoys turning in asscored 2330 on the exam. Given his class signments days, even weeks, in advance. ranking and high test scores, his mind is You just can’t teach that kind of puncturelatively close to where it needs to be to ality. She has a very accomplished mind, thrive at the college level. He’s a good take but she still has the frame to add a lot of for Texas — like Phi Beta Kappa good. knowledge in the first couple of years in Strengths: Based on sheer numbers, it’s college. hard to imagine there’s a much better acWeaknesses: She struggles with foreign quisition in the class. Griffin is a great visu- languages and English, which are a big al learner who has proven he knows how to part of the core requirements she’ll face at
UT as a freshman. Those six-hour French classes are a GPA killer.
Name: Heather Anderson High School: River Hill High School (Dayton, Maryland) Height/Weight: 5’7”, 135 lbs Class ranking: 50 40-yard dash time: “I don’t know” Other offers: Maryland, Penn State, Georgia Tech Breakdown: At 5’7”, 135 pounds and possessing two X chromosomes, Anderson probably won’t see time at middle linebacker this fall, but she should fit right in with the general student body as she likes sports and cowboy boots. Anderson is a rare out-of-state pick-up for the Horns, but she was an easy take given her impressive numbers coming out of high school. Anderson is thrilled to be moving to Texas from Maryland, a state best known for its crab cakes and The Wire. The Terrapins are probably reeling over this lost recruit. Strengths: Anderson is a computer science major all the way; I don’t anticipate a college change. She wants to be a computer programmer, and there isn’t a better place to want to be a computer programmer right now than Austin. Weaknesses: History. Overall, this appears like it will be a very well-rounded class that will fill a lot of needs for the University, particularly in terms of the number of female computer science majors, which to the best of my knowledge will now be elevated to at least one. The class will probably consist of about 7,000 students, give or take 500. Given the rise in total applications nationwide, which has resulted in more competitive admissions around the country, this has the chance to be the smartest incoming freshman class ever. I wonder if any of them can run the spread offense. Treadway is a political communication senior.
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APD considering updated technology; head, in-car cameras By Allison Kroll Daily Texan Staff
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Larry Abraham explores the AT&T Conference Center before a forum that emphasizes the use of graphics of scientific data.
Visualization key to understanding data Presenting data in a visual form omits the complexities and makes the information more palatable, said Kelly Gaither, a UT research scientist and lecturer, on Tuesday. The talk, “Picture This: Visualizing Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,” discusses the prominent role of visualization — the presentation of data in a relatable form — in scientific advancements. The event served to inform, educate and inspire people about science and technology issues and their impact on society, said spokeswoman Faith Singer-Villalobos. “Visualization is of utmost importance, not just drawing a picture, but bringing out the infor-
mation that is present in under“We try to make a beautiful picstanding data and presenting it us- ture, while it’s not the point, it cering all our perceptutainly helps al senses,” said comget attent ion,” puter science proGaither said. fe ss or C hand r a The center apjit Bajaj, who stud- Offering these not only plies visualizaies graphics and tion by assisting betters the University research teams in visualization. Gaither said visuthe presentation of Texas, but the alization is being reof their data. shaped by advances scientific community in Gaither dein technology. scribed the cengeneral. “It’s been around —Anu Srivastava ter’s progress, such for a thousand years,” Undergraduate research as providing fashe said. “All that’s assistant cilities for scienchanged is the techtists and the technology to present it.” nolog y necesVi s u a l i z at i o n sar y to visualhighlights the interize research data. section of science, technology and Achievements include storm simartistry, she said. ulations of Hurricane Ike in 2008
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At the meeting, the group created a list of demands in addition to eliminating the proposed budget cuts. The list includes more direct communication between the administration and students and a more democratic university. Liberal Arts Dean Randy Diehl said he will continue to meet with registered student organizations for their input about the budget cut proposal. This excludes Students Speak because they have decided not to become a universityregistered group. A registered student organization must have at least three officers, including a president and vice president, which Students Speak is opposed to, said Tatiana Young, a women’s and gender studies graduate student. Young said they are trying to maintain a space where everyone has an equal voice that is “mutually respected” by all members. She also said the group wants to have com-
plete freedom of speech and registering would limit that. “You can’t hold [the administration’s] feet to the fire if you get registered,” Young told The Texan on Monday. “It forces you to their hierarchal structure and determines how and what you can say.” Recent contention within Students Speak stems from a flier that members of the Chicano activist group and Students Speak supporters Ella Pelea made. The flier depicts Diehl and President William Powers Jr. in Ku Klux Klan robes. Ella Pelea distributed it without permission from other Students Speak members. Latin American studies senior Carina Souflee, spokeswoman for the Students Speak, told those with concerns about dissension within the group that the members’ array of opinions makes the organization unique. “The beauty of Students Speak is that there is a diversity of opin-
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and the projected path and spread of the H1N1 epidemic in spring 2009, she said. The center also provided the supercomputers and visualization experts in running visual simulations on the BP gulf oil spill of 2010. The center brought researchers to the University because they require the means to present their data, said computer science sophomore Anu Srivastava, an undergraduate research assistant in the center’s visualization and data analysis unit. Means of presentation include the supercomputers and the personnel capable of converting data into a visual medium. “Offering these not only betters the University of Texas, but the scientific community in general,” Srivastava said.
New digital video technology may allow the Austin Police Department to use cameras worn on the head to record evidence and update in-car technology that the UT Police Department has already implemented. This spring, APD will begin testing 75-100 new head cameras, which will be useful in recording evidence and increase trust in the community, said APD Cmdr. Troy Gay. “We’ve gathered all the requirements that we believe are necessary in officer-worn cameras,” Gay said. “There’s only a handful of companies that may meet our requirements. We want to be able to manage the equipment as best as we can and have real strict guidelines so that the images are unable to be manipulated.” APD is looking for an officer-worn camera that meets these guidelines, possibly even one that fits on the uniform, Gay said. The officer-worn cameras are an estimated $200,000, he said. Head cameras would provide additional evidence that cannot be recorded by using cameras on patrol cars, but more testing is needed to determine if cameras should be worn on officers’ uniforms instead. “Our major concern is the safety of the equipment,” said Wayne Vincent, Austin Police Association president. “If we’re wearing cameras we want them to be on the uniform or some place we know they will be secure.” A portion of APD officers ride bicycles or horses and currently have no way to record evidence, Gay said. “Everything is moving towards the digital, and unfortunately we have a number of our officers who
don’t have vehicles to access that technology,” Gay said. “The cameras will help us create transparency and increase our ability to record any instances that may occur on duty.” APD is in the process of updating their in-car video technology from VHS to digital, a process that will take about 15 months and cost an estimated $15 million to implement. Wireless network components, backup systems and storage technology must be established at each substation before the new system can be entirely effective, Gay said. In May 2009, former APD Officer Leonardo Quintana fatally shot 18-year-old Nathaniel Sanders II in what he said was self-defense. Quintana did not activate his camera at the time of the shooting. “Our department is trying to keep up with the advances in technology to provide a better visual image of what occurred, to create trust and transparency within the community,” he said. The high cost of officer-worn cameras may prevent UTPD from using them in the foreseeable future, UTPD Lt. Dennis Chartier said. While APD’s in-car digital cameras are in the implementation process after two years of planning, UTPD is already using similar devices in their patrol cars. “All of our patrol cars have incar cameras that come on automatically when the overhead lights turn on,” Chartier said. “The officers also have microphones on their uniforms that they can use to turn the cameras on manually.” UTPD’s in-car cameras have the ability to go back and record the previous minute, a technology useful for traffic cases, Chartier said. “They help a lot in traffic incidents and are a tremendous value in DWI cases,” Chartier said.
ion in the room, and we don’t come together to try to prove each other wrong or right,” Souflee said. “We are working together to form a movement.” The group decided to be active in influencing the administration by hosting large flash mobs, lobbying and marching to the Capitol, and by creating a testimonial video of students directly affected by the ethnic centers. Former UT Latin American Studies student Candace Lopez added “respect, space, and integrity” to Students Speak’s proposed list of demands because she believes all three would be lost with budget cuts. “You need respect as a student who deserves the right to learn and explore your history, space to do that constructively and integrity because when you start slashing marginalized programs you lose integrity as a university that alleges to be a progressive institution,” she said.
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Today is national signing day, when high school football recruits finalize their college decisions. With most of its recruits committed but unsigned, Texas has one of the top-ranked classes in the country. With such a tumultuous offseason that saw a change at six coaching positions, it is amazing that the Longhorns did not lose many recruits. “I was very proud of the recruits,” said Texas head coach Mack Brown. “I thought they trusted my staff and I to hire the right guys, and most of them
didn’t even waver.” Offensive lineman Christian Westerman was the only blue chip defector, choosing Auburn over the Longhorns. Texas was able to retain top running back prospect Malcolm Brown. Brown could have an immediate impact at running back for the Longhorns, even with the depth they have at the position. Quandre Diggs, who has already signed, is listed as the top cornerback prospect on ESPN. Though recruited as a defensive player, Diggs rushed for more than 1,000 yards for the third
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Sophomore Ben Chen prepares to hit a forehand in November’s Texas Invitational. Alongside Daniel Whitehead, Chen won the doubles title.
Underclassman’s performance boosts Horns to perfect record By Wes Maulsby Daily Texan Staff
Expectations are high for the Texas men’s tennis team this year. The Longhorns are expected to make another run to the Final Four and compete for a national championship, and sophomore Ben Chen is one of the young players already proving himself. Texas has reliable upperclassmen, but the key to the season will lie in the development of the underclassmen. Even though the first two matches against Cal and Tulsa were never in doubt, Chen’s victo-
ry sealed both team wins. Against Michigan on Jan. 22, Chen proved to be the difference between a win and a loss. With the Longhorns and Wolverines tied 3-3, it was up to Chen to win his match to keep Texas undefeated. “Ever yone circled around his court near the end, but he just played with a lot of poise,” said Texas head coach Michael Center. Chen won the first set but dropped the second, forcing a decisive third set to decide the match. “I was the last guy on the court
and the pressure was on,” Chen said. “But with the help of coach and the support of the guys on the team, I was able to settle in and play good in the last set to get the win.” Coming into the season, Texas had known commodities in seniors Ed Corrie, Kellen Damico and junior Jean Andersen. However, there were still some unproven players on the team without their experience. “It’s definitely new to me,” Chen said. “Last year I didn’t play in the lineup.”
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SPORTS BRIEFLY Men’s golf team travels to Hawaii for first tournament of 2011 Just as a wintry blast and frigid temperatures hit Austin, the Longhorns travel to the Amer Ari Invitational in Hawaii for a three-day tournament beginning today at the Waikoloa King’s Course in Kohala Coast. The No. 7 Longhorns will tee off against some of the nation’s top teams, including No. 1 UCLA, No. 2 Oklahoma State, No. 5 Georgia Tech and No. 11 Stanford. At last year’s Amer Ari, Texas placed fourth overall in a 22-team field and senior Bobby Hudson won the tournament. Hudson will lead the team on the course as the top starter this time. The honorable mention AllAmerican will be joined by Cody Gribble, Dylan Frittelli, Toni Hakula, Adam Wennerstrom and Julio Vegas, the younger brother of former Texas player Jhonattan Vegas who just finished third at the Farmers Insurance Open PGA Tour event. The freshman Hakula is making his first collegiate appearance. — Will Anderson
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Kansas freshman Josh Selby drives to the basket in Saturday’s win over Kansas State. Selby averaged 14.5 points last week, earning him Big 12 Rookie of the Week.
Former Kansas consultant could face 20 years for ticket scandal By Andy Lutz Daily Texan Staff
Turns out the 69-game home winning streak that the Longhorns snapped two weekends ago at Kansas’ Allen Fieldhouse was not the only major loss that occurred on the Lawrence campus in January. Thomas Blubaugh, a former consultant to KU’s basketball program, had knowledge of a ticket-selling scheme headed by his wife Charlette, an employee in the university’s ticket office. She was reportedly put aside huge amounts of season tickets and illegally sold them in an unofficial, non-KU-affiliated ring. She would then split the proceeds from the illegal sales with her husband, who last Friday pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, tax evasion and transportation of stolen goods. The tickets were reportedly worth more than $2 million in total, and the sentence could be up to 20 years in jail with a hefty fine, in addition to the mandatory repayment of the lost revenue. “[Thomas Blubaugh] will continue to cooperate with the government in the prosecution of others in this case,” Stephen E. Robison, Blubaugh’s lawyer, said to a judge last week.
The Blubaughs and three others were indicted in November. Kassie Liebsch, also a former employee in the ticket office, and former Kansas assistant athletic director Rodney Jones pleaded guilty to similar charges. Ben Kirtland, a former developmental director, is the last remaining defendant and is scheduled to go to trial in March.
Singletary, Selby earn honors After big weeks for No. 2 Kansas and resurgent Texas Tech, Jayhawk freshman Josh Selby and Red Raider senior Mike Singletary earned the Phillips 66 Big 12 Rookie of the Week and Player of the Week awards, respectively. For Selby and the Jayhawks, the week started with a tough road win at Colorado and ended with a home romp over crumbling rival Kansas State. Selby averaged 14.5 points while shooting more than 50 percent from the floor in the two wins for the one-loss Jayhawks. Meanwhile in Lubbock, Pat Knight’s Red Raiders are starting to gain some momentum after wins at Iowa State and in overtime against Oklahoma State. Senior swingman Singletary was a major player to the big week for Tech. He averaged a stel-
lar 29 points and nearly nine boards per game while shooting 60 percent on 18-of-30 from the floor and 91.3 percent free-throw shooting. Last week, Texas frontcourt mates Jordan Hamilton and Tristan Thompson took home the weekly awards.
Weather delays Baylor game A conference game between Oklahoma and Baylor, scheduled to be broadcast as part of ESPN2’s Super Tuesday, has been postponed until today because of the monumental winter storm that has torn through more than half of the country. Up north in Norman, Okla., officials predicted large amounts of wintry weather last night and did not want to take any risks with the game. A huge event for both teams, including bubble tournament contender Baylor, the makeup game will take place today at 3 p.m. at the Lloyd Noble Center, and OU will offer free admission to all. The Sooners have won three straight since their trip to Austin, while Baylor has lost three of five and only received one vote in the ESPN/USA Today coaches’ poll this week. However, the Bears can move to 5-3 in the Big 12 with a road win at Oklahoma.
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and will play the same position his brother did. Jaxon is a four-star recruit, according to Rivals, which is the same rating Jordan received. While Texas has not been too hurt on the recruiting trail for this season, next season may be a different story. The coaching changes could still have an effect on current
high school juniors’ decisions. “We’re a little behind on the juniors, simply because we’ve had the same staff for three years and they knew those guys,” Brown said. “Now the new guys have to look out and find the juniors. It slows us down a bit on our offers through the junior process.”
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number of coaches that includes University of Texas graduates, current students and former Longhorn basketball players Chico Vasquez and Kris Clack. “I heard about the program from my teammate Kris Clack, and since we both wanted to get into coaching, it was a perfect fit,” Vazquez said. Vazquez and Clack bring experience playing the college game to the Wildacts. In return, both have taken away valuable lessons in coaching, they said. “I’ve learned how to organize a practice and figured out how kids learn, how different strategies work with different kids and the different methods you have to use to teach,” Vasquez said. The program started in 1999 with only one team with three coaches but has now grown into a league with more than 500 students and 30 coaches. Part of the reason the Wildcats continue to expand at such a rapid rate is because of the program’s consistency. All of the teams run the same basic system of defenses and sets while hammering in basketball principals at an early age. “There are no agendas in the program,” Smith said. “The kids just get two hours of hard work in. We just want the kids to get better at basketball.”
The program shows no favorites and there is no showboating — they work on skills such as jump stops and the three-man weave at an early age. These drills are all designed to get the kids ready to make their high school teams. “We win here when we hear kids made their school teams, and when we get e-mails from parents saying their kid made varsity as a freshman,” Smith said. The players involved with the Wildcats are not the only ones that benefit. All of the coaches get teaching experience, establish themselves as coaches in the present while honing their skills for the future. “The program is great due to the cohesion and the bond it forms with coaches. We have the freedom to coach how we want as long as it’s not totally crazy,” said Alex Hubbard, coordinator of the seventh-grade program. “It is an environment where all the coaches are willing to help each other out and share ideas.” Teaching coaches how to coach and players how to play helped the program establish itself throughout the city, attracting kids coming from all over Austin. “We are taking steps to be a really big program — we’re even starting to branch out into the suburbs,” said Garrick Gon-
zales, a coach in the program. As the program expands, it has a need for more instructors, and a large majority of these coaches come from UT. The core coaching group consists of current University students with majors ranging from kinesiology to advertising. For most of these students, the program is their first experience coaching and might be their last, but they said will take the skills they learned as coaches with them throughout life. “I’ve learned to motivate people, which is a big part of life no matter what field you’re in,” said Mike Taylor, the Wildcats’ fourth-grade coordinator. There are a number of Wildcat coaching alumni that have moved on in their coaching careers to be head coaches at middle schools and high schools throughout the area, including Daryl Rentfro at Three Rivers High School, Jason James at Cedar Park Middle School and Brittney Baiba at Austin Community College. Those chose said they partially attribute their coaching success to the Wildcat program and what they experienced there. “ They know how to do things there, you pick up the basic fundamentals of teaching while also learning basketball for yourself through trial and error,” Rentfro said.
CHEN continues from PAGE 6 Even though he was not in the lineup last year, others see Chen as a veteran. “I knew he was prepared for that moment,” Center said. “I think he had a lot of confidence going into that match, and that’s what you get yourself ready for. You’ve got to be prepared to be that last guy on the court. I thought he handled the moment really well, and played with a lot of poise and it didn’t surprise me
at all that he won that match.” Chen used the off-season to his advantage, improving every day, whether through practice or tournament play. “It’s really been a culmination of last year, this summer and this fall,” Center said. “The work he’s put in and the time and the commitment to go play in tournaments in the summer has allowed him to be successful this year.”
While Chen and Center are both aware of the vast improvements that the underclassman has made since last year, they both agree that the most important stat is Texas’ record. “You have to have a team,” Center said. “One of the things we pride ourselves on is to not only have a great team but a great program where guys are developing and getting better and are ready to step into that role.”
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Environments go through unpredictable transitions in “Dead Space 2,” such as a tram ride that goes haywire, leaving you sliding downward as you shoot at passing foes.
“Uncharted 2” and “Modern Warfare” for inspiration, replicating their cinematic voice and breakneck pacing without abandoning the unsettling, calm moments of exploration and survivalist item management of the original. The game has no qualms about throwing impossible foes at you in a controlled scenario for cinematic effect. In an early scene you find yourself gliding in space to catch a subway car, crashing into it, then stuck hanging upside down shooting an onslaught of aliens and, at last thrown into a cutscene of running from the resulting explosion. Moments like these are spread throughout, serving as action highlights within the game’s languid exploration. The camaraderie between Clarke and his allies is believable and gives the game a level of emotion rare in this genre — it’s hard to remember a time when he wasn’t visibly haunted. Clarke’s visions of his dead girlfriend are standard horror fare, but the game finds the time to build relationships that make key scenes bittersweet and effective. “Dead Space” has done more for building the visual means of storytelling in games than any release since “Half-Life 2.” The
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in-game display shows you how much ammunition you have. Publisher Electronic Arts isn’t willing to gamble on single-player only games these days, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that “Dead Space
2” has a multiplayer component to it that borrows from other online successes such as “Left 4 Dead” and “Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.” The real surprise is that it’s a worthwhile distraction. Its unique take on
objective-based 4-on-4 combat captures the tension and claustrophobia of the story mode, while offering unlockable rewards and a leveling system that could form the basis for an unhealthy addiction.
“Dead Space” was a game that stood on the shoulders of the medium’s biggest successes, but its sequel has proven it can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with more successful franchises.
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No Internet,noproblem; Protesters communicate via comics By Ao Meng Daily Texan Staff
As revolution rocks Egypt, the country continues to endure a state-imposed communications blackout after President Hosni Mubarak, with the eyes of the world on his country last week, blocked Internet access for the country’s 80 million and disrupted SMS text messaging services. So, how did the protesters logistically organize a million man march on Tuesday? The answer: comics. Mubarak’s move was an attempt at disrupting communication between the young Egyptians protesting the regime’s turbulent decadeslong reign, marked by high unemployment and political repression. In the wake of the jubilant Jan. 25 demonstrations, protest and opposition groups had to face a hard reality — without an effective way to guide the energy of the crowd, last Friday’s historic nonviolent protest might have been a complete disaster.
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helpful suggestions on how to deal with the massive crowd (protect one another, keep a buddy at your side), how to sabotage armored vehicles (wet towel in the tailpipe) and the proper place to pitch tear gas canisters (past the riot police lines).
The most universal and striking aspects of this document, which the Guardian UK hails as “slickly produced,” are the numerous illustrations. The images are iconic. The illustrator’s sketchy drawings are fast and full of righteous energy, filled
with stylized Egyptians’ faces bursting with expression. They become integral parts of the guide book. They communicate ideas and diagram complex dynamics that words alone cannot address. The copy and the drawings work to-
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Centrally located in downtown Austin, Second Bar + Kitchen offers its guests a chance to relax with friends and enjoy creative cocktails and legendary burgers. By Marie-Louise Friedland Daily Texan Staff
Chef David Bull, formerly of the Driskill Grill and Food Network’s “Iron Chef America,” opened one of the most wellrounded restaurants in Austin last month. Second Bar + Kitchen is nestled on the ground floor of the intimidating Austonian building located in downtown Austin and offers some of the best cocktails, wine, beer and food in the city. The decor is reminiscent of an American bistro that got lost on its way to the boroughs of New York City. The mix of stainless steel, dark wood, cloth kitchen napkins and organic shaped artwork hanging from the ceiling evoke a neighborhood bistro feeling that makes you want to melt into the high-backed
booths and never leave. Instead of displaying the daily specials, the chalkboards above the bar give credit to the people who created every menu item. The bar is equally impressive. With artisan liquors and clever concoctions, master mixologist Adam Bryan has all the necessary tools of his trade. The Congress GT is a take on the gin and tonic with a creative flair in the addition of persimmon bitters. The wine list, curated by former Uchi beverage director June Rodil, is well-suited to the multifaceted menu. Not limiting their wines to domestic bottles, the restaurant’s wine selection features uncommon choices, such as wines with Verdejo grapes from Spain and wine on tap that tasted like wine from a box. The only problem with the bar was the service. When overwhelmed with choic-
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In the sequel to 2008’s sleeper hit, engineer-turned-hero Isaac Clarke has found his voice, and so has the franchise. “Dead Space 2” is a louder, bolder and more gruesome sequel that transcends its survival-horror roots in favor of blockbuster pacing. In the original “Dead Space,” Clarke trekked through the halls of space shuttle Ishimura as he laid waste to an alien race known as necromorphs. With his face hidden by his helmet, Clarke never spoke. The silence was deafening. It impacted the horror, but it had a way of making Clarke look like a monster himself. Often to humorous effect, he watched powerless, as his crewmates and girlfriend were murdered before him and shook his head. Much like James Cameron did for the “Alien” franchise, Visceral Games has turned down the horror
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es, asking the bartender was no help, as she had to be prodded to offer up any suggestions. The food is where this restaurant shines. The menu, looked over by Ethan Holmes of Snap Kitchen and Taverna, is classic American Bistro fare arranged i nto t wo m e nu s — lu n ch , served until 4 p.m., and dinner.
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Grade: A and ramped up the intensity. Constant chatter between Clarke and others, colorful environments and a faster pace builds on the horror of the first game and makes nerveracking action its first priority. Despite the faster pace and lighter atmosphere, Visceral Games has found ways to keep the player on edge. An alarm clock will ring from a corner in an empty room, a light at the end of a hallway will go out and an elevator will arrive with a vicious
visitor inside. A good jump scare isn’t the only thing the developer has mastered this time around. The list of games that the original “Dead Space” borrowed from — “Resident Evil 4,” “Bioshock,” and “Half-Life” — is as prestigious as it is long. The novel additions and unique setting the game brought have set the sequel apart from its influences. Its sequel looks to
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Hidden diaries inspire professor’s book
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By Madeleine Crum Editor’s Note: This is the third installment of a column exploring the literary world in Austin.
Laura Furman’s “The Mother Who Stayed” When former UT professor Laura Furman purchased a 19th century farmhouse in Upstate New York in 1972, she discovered that the walls of her new abode could talk. Amidst other dusty, 150-year-old relics, the writer stumbled upon a collection of in-
timate, tersely written diaries. Belonging to a housewife of the era, they continue to intrigue Furman. “I was only the second person to live [in the house] that wasn’t part of the original family who owned it, so you get the sense that you’re part of a long run of people,” said Furman, a retired creative writing professor of 28 years. “I was haunted by the 19th century. And the diaries were so mysterious. They weren’t written to be read.” After finding the diary owner’s grave and researching the women’s rights movement, Furman began to weave the elusive woman’s life into her fiction. The result was a trio of short stories that is included in her latest collection, “The Mother Who Stayed.” At BookPeople on Thursday, Furman spoke about the book, which is composed of nine loosely connected short stories all relating
to motherhood. Though Furman cites Virginia Woolf and Anton Chekhov as her literary inspirations, her work has also been compared to that of Alice Munro because of their shared focus on the domestic lives of women. “You won’t find any female CEOs in my stories,” Furman said. Though the stories’ themes in “The Mother Who Stayed” resemble one another, they span both time and space, with settings ranging from Upstate New York in 1874 to present-day Austin. Furman’s collection is also unique in that it is inspired by concerto music, which consists of three movements, each highlighting a different instrument, accompanied by an entire orchestra. Her nine stories are divided into three trios that move as fluidly as
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