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Co-author Dorothy Budd discusses her book, “Tested: How Twelve Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held Onto Hope,” about wrongfully convicted men in North Texas. The event begins at 11:30 a.m. in the UT Law School Eidman Courtroom, and admission is free.
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State census data not reflected in student body By Melissa Ayala Daily Texan Staff
Census data released last week shows dramatic growth in Hispanic and Asian populations in Texas, but state trends do not necessarily reflect the demographics of UT students. According to the 2010 Census, 37.6 percent — about 9.5 million — of Texans have Hispanic or Latino origin, while only 19.4 percent — nearly 7,500 — of UT undergraduate students are Hispanic. “When the data came out for racial
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and ethnic change last week, it showed dramatic diversification of the Texas population,” said Steve Murdock, former census director and Rice University sociology professor. “Enrollment levels [for minorities] are not where they should be. Non-Anglo populations have fewer resources and as a result they are less likely to go to college. It’s one of the major challenges for Texas and one of the most important things for us to do.”
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TEXAS VS UT DEMOGRAPHICS Texas Demographics | Total 25,145,561
UT Undergraduate Enrollment | Total 38,420
White Hispanic Black or African American
32.8% 37.6%
51.7% 19.4%
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White Hispanic Black or African American
Asian only American Indian
3.7% 0.7%
Asian only American Indian
17.9% 0.4%
Hawaiian/ Pac. Islander only)
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Hawaiian/ Pac. Islander only)
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Other
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The UT Film Committee will screen “Paul,” starring Seth Rogen. The movie will begin at 7 p.m. at the Texas Union Theatre and is free with a UT ID.
Today in black history In 1989
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Supporters of worker’s rights in Wisconsin lead a candlelight vigil at the Texas AFL-CIO building at Lavaca and 11th streets on Monday. Attendees marched to the Capitol steps in protest of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s bill to limit bargaining rights for public employees.
INSIDE: For more about the protests in Wisconsin and the solidarity vigil in Austin on pages 3 & 6
Campus watch Adult beverages
1800 block of Guadalupe Street A UT Police Officer observed a vehicle travelling the wrong way on a posted one-way street. During the traffic investigation, the officer detected a moderate odor of alcohol on the non-UT driver’s breath. The officer soon learned the driver was under the legal age of 21 and had been consuming adult beverages at an unknown location. Both non-UT passengers were issued court appearance citations and were released at the scene.
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Proposed federal cuts threaten KUT By Ahsika Sanders Daily Texan Staff
The University-operated radio station, KUT, could lose a half a million dollars in federal funding if a proposed spending cuts bill passes the Senate. The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill Saturday that would cut $60 billion from the federal budget. If the Senate passes the bill, the government would eliminate federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcast-
ing, which would result in an estimated $531 million in savings. The corporation funds public television and radio stations, including National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service. Funding from the corporation makes up about 7 percent of KUT’s operating budget, or roughly $500,000 a year, said KUT director Stewart Vanderwilt. “It would have a profound impact on the station if federal funding to KUT was cut,” he said. “It would be very difficult for the sta-
tion [to] continue to run the way it currently does.” KUT uses federal funds to purchase programs from NPR such as “Morning Edition” and “Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me!”’ and to hire and pay local reporters and producers who contribute to the station, Vanderwilt said. “Without those funds we would either have to find ways to replace the money or reduce those costs in a substantial way,” he said.
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Quote to note “We tend to associate beauty with classical forms or with taste, but we rarely think of beauty as an attitude or spirit.”
— Ursula Davila-Villa Curator of Latin American art at The Blanton Museum LIFE&ARTS PAGE 12
North Campus uneasy after tire slashing suspect’s arrest By Lauren Giudice Daily Texan Staff
Texas men’s basketball is playing against the Iowa State University Cyclones at the Frank Erwin Center. The game begins at 7 p.m., and tickets range from $2-$191.
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince win the first rap Grammy for their hit single, “Parents Just Don’t Understand.”
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Regents’ Renovations The Butler School of Music
$20 million
Texas Advanced Computing Center
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Regents okay plans for music academy, advanced computers By Huma Munir Daily Texan Staff
Bob Branson, the local news anchor for KUT Austin, prepares for the afternoon broadcast of All Things Considered from the studios in the CMB on the UT campus.
Although Tommy Joe Kelley, who police think could be involved in hundreds of tire slashings around Hyde Park, has been arrested, many North Campus residents are still concerned about safety. History senior Katie Carson said she is frustrated it took so long for police to catch Kelley. While visiting her boyfriend on 41st Street last May, someone slashed Joe Kelley her tires. “I thought that I had just run over something,” Carson said. “I went to a tire place and they said, ‘This was done by an ice pick.’” According to Austin Police Department, Kelley used a long, thin piece of metal sharpened to a point to puncture tires.
New initiatives for the University’s scientific research and music programs could help students gain career-oriented skills and new opportunities to earn money. On Friday, the UT System Board of Regents approved two separate renovation plans totaling more than $70 million for the Texas Advanced Computing Center and the Butler School of Music. The music school has to raise at least $20 million to start its new project. The center will attempt to win a $56 million grant under the unexpend-
ed plant fund — money that the University has accumulated over time to fund different programs, said Kevin Hegarty, vice president and chief financial officer of Financial Affairs. “[The Center] wants to apply to attempt to win a grant that would pay for the development and operation of the next generation of supercomputers,” Hegarty said. Center director Jay Boisseau said they will submit a proposal on March 7 to win the grant. The grant will benefit the School of Natural Sciences because every scientific
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CENSUS continues from PAGE 1 Jacqueline Angel, a public affairs and sociology professor, said the UT Hispanic population has not grown as fast as the state because of high high-school dropout rates, the cost of higher education and socioeconomic status. “Hispanic enrollments in higher education may not be projected to increase proportionally to growth [in Texas],” Angel said. “It’s going to be important to address the problem of the lack of Hispanic individuals getting baccalaureate and post-graduate degrees. We need to make sure we are mirroring the rest of the state.” Brandon Hunter, co-director of UT’s Latino Leadership Council, said the University could help increase the Hispanic student population by recruiting more aggressively, providing bilingual
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programs for parents and making tuition more affordable. “I think they’re pretty evident of the University’s not-so-great job of increasing diversity,” Hunter said. “You see this with the rolling back of the top-10 percent rule and the little attempt the University has done to keep retention up among Latinos. I think it’s been a general failure but also a lack of prioritization of diversity.” Angel said there are ways to increase the number of minority students such as adding additional minority faculty. “When you have faculty members who understand your background, it really shows students how education pays off,” she said. “We need to work very hard at this in light of the staggering trends that we’re seeing.” Murdock said legislators could also help diversification by maintaining TEXAS Grants and needbased financial aid in the 201213 biennium budget. “The thing we can do right
now in light of all these budget cuts is not to cut the TEXAS Grants program but in fact to look at it and put it at the level it was proposed to be in the early 2000s,” he said. Unlike the Hispanic student population, the Asian undergraduate student population of UT — 17.9 percent including international students — surpasses the census estimates of AsianAmericans making up 3.8 percent of the Texas population, or approximately 965,000 people. Madeline Hsu, director of the Center for Asian American Studies said Asian immigration into the U.S. since 1865 has included many middle class families with parents who already have college degrees. “There is a tendency for families who have college degrees to continue getting an education,” Hsu said. She said by 2014, Asian-Americans are projected to be the second-largest minority population
in Texas, with a larger population than African-Americans. Deputy Director of Admissions Augustine Garza said the disparity exists and partially results from the top-8 percent rule — legislation passed last session allowing UT to limit the number of automatically admitted high school graduates from the previous top-10 percent. “We’re going to continue to talk to students who are the top of their class,” Garza said. “The population we target in our recruiting does not necessarily mirror the population of the state of Texas.” Hsu said if the top-8 percent rule were eliminated, UT could have more minority groups on campus. “Focusing on class rank is a vary narrow kind of system,” she said. “In general, the University would benefit by having a broader array [of enrollment]. It is an imperfect mechanism to accomplish diversity.”
PLANS continues from PAGE 1 field involves extensive computational research, such as weather tracking and seismic activity systems, he said. “We want UT researchers to have [the] best instruments,” he said. The computational research resources will help graduate and undergraduate students who are involved in computation-heavy research obtain their master’s or doctoral degrees by learning to use the emerging technology for discoveries, Boisseau said. “They [will be] better prepared for research careers and for careers in industries that use advanced computing technologies [such as] aerospace engineering, petroleum engineering, etc.,” he said. The center hires 10 students
every semester to help develop and support systems and assist researchers in using advanced computing programs. The board also granted permission to raise a $20 million fund for the School of Music. Hegarty said the responsibility to identify and secure donors for the project lies with the school itself. If the school succeeds in raising the money, Hegarty said a new building will be built in East Campus and will serve as a music academy for Texas youth. “A lot of money generated from these lessons will go back directly to students,” Hegarty said. According to the board’s docket, music graduate students earn $120,000 per year in financial aid by teaching 330 K-12 stu-
dents how to play instruments. The UT Academy of Music is expected to enroll 2,000 students, which will in turn increase financial aid by almost $900,000. School of Music Chair B. Glenn Chandler said they will solicit private donors who are interested in funding these kinds of projects. The state is not providing any funding for this initiative, he said. He also said now that the school has the board’s approval to raise money, they will start making the efforts to reach donors and start designing the building. The project does not yet have a scheduled timetable for completion, he said. “We would love to see construction starting within the next couple of years,” Chandler said.
SLASH continues from PAGE 1 For a long time, Carson did not park her car by her boyfriend’s apartment. “I still have a feeling someone is going to come and slash my tires,” Carson said. Nursing senior Justin Savino said the tire slashings are one of the reasons he is moving out of his North Campus apartment. “I park in an apartment parking lot on Helms [Street] and Speedway,” Savino said. “The person who we park next to [had] all four of her tires [slashed]. She went out and bought new ones and the tire slasher came back and reslashed them.” He said seeing his neighbor’s troubles really made him concerned about his car, so he asked his landlords to install cameras so the offender could be caught. They never did. Savino said he is not concerned about copycats. “My personal opinion is that tire slashing is a pastime and is probably caused by one mentally deranged individual doing something stupid,” Savino said. “Once you get him and put him away and [help his] mental health, you probably eliminate the problem.” Lindsay Taylor, a public relations and government senior, said the Austin Police Department should keep North Campus residents more informed about potential safety issues. “North Campus is a pretty neglected part of University life in general,” Taylor said. “Even though it is so far away from campus, a ton of students live there and keeping us more aware of situations like this is a really good idea.” Communication studies junior Thomas Nguyen, who lives in North Campus, is mostly concerned about the safety of his car rather than his own personal safety. “In general, it is pretty quiet in North Campus,” Nguyen said. “It’s a little shady sometimes. The buildings are older than West Campus and sometimes the conditions of the street and the alleys between the buildings seem a little sketchy, but overall I feel like it’s a decently safe place.”
RADIO continues from PAGE 1 Vanderwilt said since the station is just learning about the potential cuts, they are still in discussion about what action to take, but hoping for strong community support. “We are going to inform the community about this potential threat and we hope people will make their interests known,” he said. “If they feel that continued funding is important, we hope they will let their representatives know.”
KUT intern Mario Carrillo said public broadcasting shouldn’t be on the chopping block for funding because it is a unique facet of news reporting. “I think cuts are a horrible idea because public broadcasting is a great medium,” he said. “I think it’s one of the best mediums we have for storytelling and it’s very different and unique from print or broadcast.”
Carrillo said cutting funds would limit the station’s ability to cover the city as best they can. Jessica Hamilton, a journalism senior and KUT news copy editor, said any cuts would be disheartening, but those affecting student workers take away from the learning experience. “The purpose of student workers here is to get hands-on experience and to get your feet wet,” she
said. “So if it comes down to it and budget cuts affect student hiring, it would limit and hurt the experience that we have.” Hamilton said although public broadcasting is in line for budget cuts, she doesn’t feel targeted. “I don’t think they are attacking us, because it’s all across the board,” she said. “It’s hard times for everyone, and I’m not surprised.”
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City in New Zealand thrown into disarray after 6.3 earthquake By Steve McMorran The Associated Press
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A strong, 6.3-magnitude earthquake rocked the southern New Zealand city of Christchurch on Tuesday, seriously injuring people and damaging buildings throughout the city. Police said there were reports of multiple fatalities, but Prime Minister John Key told Parliament details were still too shaky for those reports to be confirmed. Live video footage showed parts of buildings collapsed into the streets, which were strewn with bricks and shattered concrete. Sidewalks and roads were split, and hundreds of dazed, screaming and crying residents wandered through the streets as sirens blared throughout the city. Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker said he was on the top floor of the city
council building when the quake hit just before 1 p.m. local time, throwing him across the room. “I got down onto the street and there were scenes of great confusion, a lot of very upset people,” he said. “I’ve had some reports of serious injuries throughout the city.” Radio New Zealand reported that a church near the city center collapsed. The station said staffers in its Christchurch newsroom had to cling to their desks during the shaking, with large filing cabinets toppling over. “The details we have are extremely sketchy,” the prime minister told Parliament. “The worrying fear, of course, is that this earthquake has taken place at a time when people were going about their business — it is a very populated time, with people at work, children at school. Sadly, I cannot rule out that there have been fatalities.”
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Kathryn Schulze wears a message written on tape over her mouth inside the state Capitol on Monday in Madison, Wis. Opponents to Gov. Scott Walker’s bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers are taking part in their seventh day of protesting.
GOP may sway Wisconsin budget vote By Ryan J. Foley The Associated Press
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People look at a damaged church after a powerful earthquake struck Christchurch, New Zealand, on Tuesday. The 6.3-magnitude quake collapsed buildings and is sending rescuers scrambling to help trapped people amid reports of multiple deaths.
MADISON, Wis. — To end a high-stakes stalemate over union rights that has captured the nation’s attention, a handful of Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin might have to stand up to their new governor. Gov. Scott Walker made clear Monday he won’t back off his proposal to effectively eliminate collective bargaining rights for most public employees. Senate Democrats who fled the state last week to delay the plan vowed not to come back to
allow it to pass — even if they have to miss votes on other bills Tuesday. And union leaders said they would not let up on protests that have consumed Wisconsin’s capital city for a week and made the state the center of a national debate over the role of public employees’ unions. That dynamic means it might take Republicans in the Legislature who believe Walker is going too far to try to break the impasse. One idea that has been floated by GOP Sen. Dale Schultz would temporarily take away bargaining rights to get through the
state’s next two-year budget, then immediately restore them. While it’s unclear whether that would be acceptable to his colleagues, Democratic Sen. Jon Erpenbach said in a phone interview from the hotel room in Chicago where he’s hiding out that Schultz was brave for making the proposal. He said Schultz, of Richland Center, and five or six other Republican senators who have ties to organized labor are in the best position to get both sides to negotiate a deal. Protesters who crowded inside
the Capitol for a sixth day Sunday had a similar message. They hung a banner in the Capitol reading “Wisconsin needs 3 cou(R)ageous Senators,” referring to the number of Republicans needed to join with Democrats to block the bill. The protesters have included teachers, who have sometimes arrived in such high numbers that their districts were forced to close due to understaffing. The Madison School District was closed Wednesday through Monday but was expected to reopen Tuesday.
Attacks on protesters provoke UN action By Edith M. Lederer The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — Key Libyan diplomats disowned Moammar Gadhafi’s regime on Monday and the country’s deputy U.N. ambassador called on the longtime ruler to step down because of its bloody crackdown on protesters. The Libyan ambassador to the United States also said he could no longer support Gadhafi, and the ambassador to India resigned. Almost all Libyan diplomats at the United Nations backed deputy ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi’s pleas to Gadhafi to end his 40-year rule and to the international community to intervene. The U.N. spokesperson’s office said late Monday that the Security Council had scheduled consultations on the situation in Libya for Tuesday morning. Earlier, Dabbashi had said he was writing to the Security Council calling for action to stop the bloodshed. As diplomatic support for Gadhafi began to crumble, Dabbashi warned that if he doesn’t leave, “the Libyan people will get rid of him.” Gadhafi’s security forces unleashed the most deadly crackdown of any Arab country against the wave of protests sweeping the region, with reports Monday that demonstrators were being fired at from helicopters and warplanes. After seven days of protests and deadly clashes in Libya’s eastern cities, the eruption of turmoil in the capital, Tripoli, sharply escalated the challenge to Gadhafi. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Kimoon late Monday expressed outrage at the reported aerial attacks, saying they would be “a serious violation of international humanitarian law,” and again called for an immediate end to the violence, U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said. Earlier Monday, Ban spoke to Gadhafi for 40 minutes urging a halt to the bloodshed, respect for human rights and protection of the civilian population. Libya’s ambassador in Washington, Ali Adjali, told BBC World that the reports of firing from warplanes spurred his decision not to support the government any more. “To me it is a very sad moment seeing Libyans killing other Libyans,” he said. “I’m not supporting the government killing its people ...
I’m [not] resigning Moammar Gadhafi’s government, but I am with the people. I am representing the people in the street, the people who’ve been killed, the people who’ve been destroyed. Their life is in danger.” Dabbashi, the deputy U.N. ambassador, also said he and the U.N. diplomats were not resigning because they served the people of Libya and not the regime. “This is in fact a declaration of war against the Libyan people,” he told reporters, surrounded by a dozen Libyan diplomats. “The regime of Gadhafi has already started the genocide against the Libyan people.” Libya’s U.N. Ambassador Mohamed Shalgham was not present at Dabbashi’s press conference. He told the U.N. correspondent for the pan-Arab newspaper, Al-Hayat, that all diplomats at Libya’s mission supported Dabbashi “excluding me.”
Shalgham said he was in touch with the Gadhafi government and was trying “to persuade them to stop these acts.” In New Delhi, an Indian diplomatic official told the AP that the Libyan ambassador to India intends to resign. However, as of Tuesday morning the ambassador, Ali al-Essawi, had not officially met with the foreign ministry to turn in his credentials. Earlier, al-Essawi told the BBC he had resigned because of “massive violence against Libyan civilians.” Abdel-Moneim al-Houni, who resigned Sunday as Libya’s ambassador to the Arab League in Cairo, demanded that Gadhafi and his commanders and aides be put on trial for Alaguri | Associated Press “the mass killings in Libya.” “Gadhafi’s regime is now in the Residents stand on a tank holding a pre-Gadhafi era national flag inside a security forces compound in trash of history because he betrayed Benghazi, Libya, on Monday. his nation and his people,” al-Houni said in a statement.
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Preserve mental health funding In the last few years, Gov. Rick Perry has repeatedly rejected federal dollars, reminding Texans that he is oblivious to the severe economic recession to which even Texas is not immune. In 2009, Perry rejected $555 million in federal stimulus money to aid the unemployed, and last year, he rejected up to $750 million in stimulus money for Texas schools. Now legislators are looking to plug holes in the budget and to cut funding from various state agencies and areas. The result? Texans will pay the price. After the state mandated a 10-percent budget reduction for all state agencies for the 2012-13 biennium, the University has been among a number of institutions carefully examining its budget. University administrators cut funding from several academic programs, and cuts to the Counseling and Mental Health Center were not far behind. Last fall, the center began charging students $5 for each individual, couples and psychiatric appointment — appointments that were previously free — to continue to offer services without cutting staff, CMHC Associate Director Jane Morgan Bost told The Daily Texan. More than 26 percent — or about one in four — of those 18 and older suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder each year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Moreover, about 8 percent of 18- to 25-year-olds had a serious mental illness in 2008, according to the most recent data available from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. When applied to the University, this statistic suggests that more than 4,000 students at UT have a serious mental, behavioral or emotional disorder that interferes with at least one major life activity. Nonetheless, because Perry refuses to accept federal dollars or to tap into the $9.4 billion Rainy Day Fund, legislators are looking to cut funding from several areas, including mental health, public and higher education, nursing homes and public safety. Academic budget reductions are certainly detrimental to the quality of education institutions can offer: As class sizes increase, class availability declines and, ultimately, accessibility to higher education decreases. However, when funding is cut from mental health services, there is only one result: A vital resource is limited, as the number of people who can receive necessary treatment is directly minimized. In fact, Texas is $27 million short of providing mental health services for about 7,200 adults enrolled in disease management or ongoing community support, David Evans, Travis County Integral Care executive director, told the Texan. It is no surprise that Texas ranks 49th in the nation on the amount it spends per person on mental health services, according to the Texas Medical Association. Cuts to mental health services will be counterproductive for the state, as each person who is repeatedly hospitalized, admitted to a detoxification center or jailed rather than properly treated can cost the state an estimated $55,000 per year, according to the Texas Medical Association. As a result, taxpayer dollars will make up the difference. The state’s lack of support of mental health services is disheartening, and it sends the message that mental health is not important. Mental health is as important as physical health, and mental illnesses, like physical sickness, cannot go untreated. Though most state agencies will take a hit from the budget cuts, mental health services should remain a top priority for legislators and funding for them should be preserved.
The case for a smoke-free UT By Matt Daley Daily Texan Guest Columnist
Over the past several years, hundreds of colleges and universities across the nation have been embracing the growing body of scientific research which continues to document the health, environmental and economic costs of tobacco use by making their respective campuses smoke-free. The benefits of a smoke-free policy present a compelling case for UT to consider adopting a similar position. As a part of its mission to promote healthy lifestyles and environmental consciousness, the University should seriously consider the implementation of a 100-percent smoke-free campus policy. That tobacco use is harmful to one’s health now seems beyond contention. The consequences of tobacco use for users and those around them are well-known and well-documented. Cigarette use releases dozens of toxic air pollutants, and casually discarded cigarette butts languish on the ground, defying biodegradation for years and offering an unsightly diversion to passers-by. Perhaps somewhat less obvious are the economic costs of tobacco use, notably in the context of health insurance premiums and health care costs later in life. If UT adopted a smoke-free policy, health insurance premium payments in the future would be reduced both for the University and for faculty and staff members, saving all parties involved money in an economic climate in which every bit of savings is important. In the American College Health Association’s 2008 national college health assessment, 65.7 percent of respondents from UT reported never having used cigarettes, but 83-per-
cent of those same respondents reported a belief that the “typical student” at UT Austin had used cigarettes within the previous thirty days. These numbers indicate an interesting disparity. In the same survey, 66.8-percent of respondents reported never having received information about tobacco use from the University, which regularly strives to educate incoming students about alcohol use. Because freshmen students are often viewed as a high-risk group for picking up the habit, the University should take steps to educate young Longhorns about the risks of tobacco use. A smoke-free campus policy would send a strong message and undoubtedly discourage tobacco use among first-year students, especially those who live on campus. Taken together, the above data present an opportunity for UT Austin to improve its current stance on tobacco use and education. Of course, a smoke-free campus policy would affect faculty and staff to an even greater degree than it would affect students. Their different circumstances mean that any conversation about smoking on campus must involve the entire University community and take the different needs and concerns of everyone into account. A recent resolution introduced in the Student Government Assembly would seek to address the above issues by calling on the administration to work with students, faculty and staff to design and implement a smoke-free policy at UT Austin. In doing so, UT Austin would join other UT System schools, a number of UT’s peer schools, schools in the Big 12 Conference and hundreds of schools nationwide in making a commitment to promoting a healthy and environmentally conscious lifestyle on campus. Expanding education programs and pro-
viding support during any transition period would be critical to this process. University Health Services currently operates a smoking-cessation program which is free for UT students and is offered at a low cost to faculty and staff. The UHS Pharmacy also offers discounted tobacco-cessation products. These programs should be expanded. Additionally, the City of Austin has recently received a $7 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control to address the issue of tobacco use in Austin in cooperation with the UT School of Public Health. A significant portion of that grant has been earmarked for use at UT. This money could be put toward implementing a smoke-free policy, should the University decide to adopt one, in the form of education, cessation programs and support. Technical costs, including signage and publicity, could also be partially mitigated. It goes without saying that this process would be a gradual one. In no way would it be reasonable to simply remove all ashtrays on campus one night and have the campus suddenly be smoke-free. In that sense, this is merely the beginning of a much larger dialogue. But the time has come to begin such a conversation. Students, faculty and staff should be brought together to discuss this important issue. Compared to the nation as a whole, few schools in Texas have adopted smoke-free policies. UT has an opportunity to be a leader in a movement which seems to gain momentum every day and to emphasize in a major way its commitment to promoting healthy and environmentally conscious living. Daley is a College of Natural Sciences SG representative.
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gallery THe FIrINg lINe Simply untrue. Dangerously untrue. The Daily Texan has reprinted an article by Jim Vertuno of the Associated Press claiming that a bill in the Texas Legislature would allow “students and professors” to carry guns on campus. This is simply untrue and poor reporting. I encourage everyone to look the bill up online and read the actual document. It’s clear Mr. Vertuno did not. The words “student” and “professor” do not appear in the bill. Instead, it allows those who have a concealed carry license to bring a gun onto campus, concealed. This might as well have been reported that plumbers and carpenters and delivery people will be allowed to carry guns on campus — if they have that license. The bill does not empower “students and professors” to do so by virtue of being students and professors. This is irresponsible journalism on the part of Mr. Vertuno because it misrepresents a law under consideration. Reasonable people will disagree as to the merits of the bill, but public debate cannot go forward constructively if reporters won’t do basic research on what they report to the public. It is criminally irresponsible because if the bill becomes law, this kind of reporting might give people the idea that they can bring guns to campus just because they are students or professors. Dangerously untrue. To get a concealed carry license one must be 21, in addition to passing rigorous background checks and proficiency tests. This rules out most undergraduates from the start, and again, certainly does not allow them to carry because they are students. Mr. Vertuno should take some reporting courses from our own excellent School of Journalism, where higher standards of reporting are taught.
— Barry Brummett Charles Sapp Centennial Professor in Communication Department of Communication Studies Chair
legalese Opinions expressed in The Daily Texan are those of the editor, the Editorial Board or the writer of the article. They are not necessarily those of the UT administration, the Board of Regents or the Texas Student Media Board of Operating Trustees.
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Study of dropout factors may improve policies, plans By Katrina Tollin Daily Texan Staff
Students most frequently withdraw from universities because of depression and a loss of financial aid, according to a study led by researchers at Michigan State University. The report was funded by the College Board, a nonprofit organization that creates standardized tests including the SAT and AP tests. Other significant factors contributing to student withdrawal found in the report include recruitment by another job or institution, an unexpected bad grade, roommate conflicts and a raise in tuition or living expenses. “Identifying these specific events can help universities decide what type of services to provide,” said Jessica Keeney, a psychology doctoral student at Michigan State University and co-author of the report. About 20 percent of entering UT freshmen in 2004 did not complete their degree within six years, compared with the national average of 43 percent, according to data from the UT Office of Information Management and Analysis and the National Center for Education Statistics, respectively. By knowing what causes students to drop out, universities can improve their policies, said Tim Pleskac, an assistant professor of psychology at Michigan State University and lead researcher for the report. For example, to avoid a student being shocked
by a bad course grade, making grades available online can help that student track their progress, he said. “We have a better sense of what factors get people thinking about quitting,” Pleskac said. The study, which was released last month, surveyed 1,200 enrolled students from 10 universities and was based on previous research on the influence of precipitating events or shocks that influence withdrawal, Pleskac said. UT Student Financial Services director Tom Melecki said OSFS tries to reduce unexpected financial pressures on students. “We try to make a commitment to a student for the full school year,” Melecki said. Students may lose financial aid from one year to the next as a result of a poor GPA or failure to adhere to rules of the program. These students have the option of appealing if they experienced a hardship that affected their academic performance, Melecki said. Jane Morgan Bost, associate director of the Counseling and Mental Health Center, said counselors help students decide the best plan for their situation and that may include dropping out when their academic work is negatively impacting their mental health. “We [work] with the student collaboratively to come up with a plan of action,” Bost said.
2004 DROPOUT RATES Of an entering class of 6,750 freshman: • 324 dropped out after their first year • 635 dropped out after their second year • 655 dropped out after their third year • 803 dropped out after their fourth year • 824 dropped out after their fifth year • 797 dropped out after their sixth year Note: The Office of Information Management and Analysis tracks dropout rates for entering freshman every year for six years per incoming class. Information for 2004 is the most recent. Source: Office of Information Management and Analysis
Legislators plan to honor Barbara Jordan By Allie Koletcha Daily Texan Staff
To honor a former UT professor, congresswoman and state senator, the Texas Legislature will pass a resolution today to commemorate the birthday of Barbara Jordan. Monday marked the 75th birthday of Jordan, former Texas senator and professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Jordan was the first African-American woman to join the state senate and was later elected to the United States Congress, before teaching in the School of Public Affairs. She died in 1996. Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, will present a House resolution to the Senate that will be passed today in honor of Jordan’s birthday, while Rep. Dawnna Dukes, DAustin, will present it to the House, said Laura Langham, a staff attorney and researcher with the Texas Senate. Lawmakers have invited 100 fifth graders from Barbara Jordan Elementary School to watch the resolution pass in the House and the Senate, Langham said. “Besides the fact that she was an outstanding woman, it seems
appropriate to honor her birthday because of all that she accomplished in the Senate,” she said. “It’s important to embody her values as a senator and to celebrate her.” The resolution is part of a weeklong symposium co-sponsored by the Legislature and LBJ School to celebrate the life of Barbara Jordan. Ellis spoke to a crowd of 130 in the LBJ School about Jordan’s legacy. It’s especially important to celebrate her legacy and impact on UT and the School of Public Affairs so that future students can accomplish what she could not, Ellis said. “Of all of the accolades on her resume to have put on her headstone in the state cemetery, the one that stands out in the boldest print is teacher,“ he said. “Maybe that’s because at the end of the day, the most significant gift that any of us can give to future generations is being a teacher.” Tiffany O’Neal, a graduate student in the LBJ School and one of the student organizers, said she wanted to get as many student groups involved as possible.
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Texas Sen. Rodney Ellis speaks with an audience member before delivering the keynote address at a luncheon for the Barbara Jordan Forum. The forum is a weeklong tribute commemorating Barbara Jordan’s 75th birthday.
“Every student group we contacted jumped on board,” she said. Student groups involved with the symposium include Public Alliance for Communities of Color, the Green Society, the Center for Health and Social Policy and Social, Health, and Economic Policymakers. Issues that Jordan fought on behalf of, including environmental justice, juvenile jus-
tice and education, are still on the forefront of issues dealt with by students in the School of Public Affairs, O’Neal said. “The one thing I knew about the LBJ School was that Barbara Jordan taught here, and that’s why I decided to come,” she said. “We all need to keep alive her legacy, her spirit and her passion for social justice.”
A&M medical school faces dilemma of too many acceptances By Matthew Stottlemyre Daily Texan Staff
Texas A&M’s medical school accepted more applicants for the class entering next year than it has room for, said an A&M administrator. Thomas Shomaker, dean of A&M’s College of Medicine, said 250 students accepted offers to the school, which is accredited for a class size of 170 students. He said the school will accept volunteers from the class to defer until next year and will offer the volunteers a scholarship worth just more than $6,500 — about 60 percent of tuition costs for one year. So far, 10 students have deferred or accepted offers elsewhere. In addition to deferment,
the school will offer preferred or guaranteed admissions into other medical research or cross-discipline programs it offers. Shomaker said the school will assign mandatory deferments to bring the class down to 170 on April 1. He said they will assign the deferments on that deadline to resolve the issue before it interrupts students’ financial and housing plans for next year. Because of the guessing game medical schools have to play when deciding how many acceptance offers to extend, A&M is not alone in dealing with overadmissions, Shomaker said. “You’re always in a position of trying to predict how many students are going to accept your offer
of admission and sometimes you get it right, and sometimes you’re off,” Shomaker said. He said A&M has historically had to accept just under three students for every one who decides to attend the school. This year, he said, every two offers yielded an acceptance. He said the school built new campus facilities in Round Rock and College Station for this year, which may have contributed to the increased interest in the school. In Texas, the eight public medical schools all participate in an application program called Texas Medical and Dental Schools Application Service. The program matches applicants with medical schools based on their qualifications and the schools make their final selections
by Feb. 1. Schools can make prematch offers to applicants through December of the previous year. David Jones, associate dean of admissions at the UT Health Science Center in San Antonio, said medical schools’ dependence on historical data means they have to be conservative when guessing how many offers to make before the match date. Last academic year, the UT Medical Branch at Galveston had a similar admission problem to the one A&M faces now. UTMB spokeswoman Molly Dannenmaier said the school adjusted the number of offers it made because it expected fewer responses because of the damage done to the area by Hurricane Ike.
Outstanding Student and Cactus Goodfellow Awards The Cactus Yearbook is soliciting nominations for their Outstanding Student and Cactus Goodfellow Awards. For your convenience, we have placed the nomination forms on the Cactus web page: http://www.utexas.edu/tsm/media/cactus/ All rules and instructions are included, so all you have to do is either print the nomination form or pick up one at the William Randolph Hearst Building (HSM), 25th and Whitis Avenue, Room 3.304. The deadline for nominations is Feb. 25th. Send us your applications today! If you have any questions, please call 471-1084 for more information. Recognizing extraordinary UT students for over 75 years.
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Wisconsin conflict inspires Austinites to march in support By Yvonne Marquez Daily Texan Staff
said the proposed union cuts hit home. Her friends and family who are teachers and hospital workers More than 100 union and would be affected. She said their community supporters marched whole lives can potentially change. to the Capitol from the Texas “It will give power to people chapter of the AFL-CIO head- from Austin and people from Madquarters on Lavaca and 11th ison are paying attention to what’s streets to send a message of sol- going on elsewhere with our supidarity to public employees in port or not,” Cohen said. Wisconsin. Polls show 65 percent of people, They held flashlights and excluding government officials and posters while chanting in sup- their families, think the governor port of Wisconsin public work- has gone too far, law professor Juers. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker lius Getman said. It is a combinaproposed public employees pay tion labor union and community more for benefits to balance the issue, he said. state’s $137 million shortfall. The “I think the governor of Wisconbill would also eliminate collec- sin has awakened the sleeping gitive bargaining ant and it’s going rights for many to be interesting state workers. how it plays out An attack on because the laone union perbor movement son is an attack has been much on all union too dormant in p e op l e , s ai d recent years,” he Texas AFL-CIO said. President Becky He said this Moeller. will be a turn— Becky Moeller, Texas AFL-CIO President “We’re coning point for lac e r n e d w it h bor unions. If what is happenthe workers lose ing in Wisconthey would have sin,” Moeller said. gained some“What they’re trying to do is attack thing, and if they win it will be a labor unions across the country.” tremendous victory not only for Public employees in Texas do Wisconsin but for unions all over not have the right to collective the country. bargaining, the right to nego“Similar legislation was pending tiate salaries and working con- in other places and if they’re not ditions. But if they can do it in going to get it in Wisconsin they’re one state they could do it in oth- going to back off,” Getman said. er states, Moeller said. Getman said that ever y“Labor unions have helped build one is surprised by the concern a middle class in this country,” she and magnitude of the protests said. “For Gov. Walker to just de- around the nation. cide to attack labor unions in Wis“By being militant, the Democonsin, we think it’s the tip of the crats and the union people have iceberg.” shown there is still power in Tara Cohen, a Madison native, union,” he said.
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UT group looks to ‘Rainy Day Fund’ to soften cuts By Yvonne Marquez Daily Texan Staff
Although the sun was out on Monday, members of The Students Speak chanted “It’s raining, it’s pouring, the Legislature is snoring,” under umbrellas. About 20 group members handed out fliers in front of the Tower to inform students about the $9.4 billion Rainy Day Fund, and to suggest the Legislature could use it to offset cuts to higher education. The Rainy Day Fund is a pot of excess revenue, mostly from natural gas and oil taxes, set aside for use during times of a budget shortfall. Women’s and gender studies senior Teri Adams said the group wanted to raise student awareness of the fund, especially with the budget cuts UT is facing. The Legislative Budget Board, a committee that suggests potential cuts to state agencies, recommended cutting about $93 million from UT’s budget for the 2012-13 biennium. “The Rainy Day Fund is going to have everyone wanting a piece of it, and it’s not enough to cover the budget shortfall,” Adams said. “We want people to be aware that it’s like a political football, and there are ways to spend it that will make it go as far as possible for
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Latin American Studies senior Natasha Mevs-Korff rallies against budget cuts on the Main Mall on Monday. Holding umbrellas, the protesters urge Texas government to use the Rainy Day Fund, a savings fund that sets aside excess revenue for use in times of unexpected shortfall.
the people of Texas and we want people to have their eye on it.” Adams said in the past Gov. Rick Perry has used the fund to give businesses tax breaks and build infrastructure for businesses. “We want this fund to be used for
the people of Texas and not for the corporate interests,” Adams said Texas leaders have seen these budget issues coming for a while, said Perry spokeswoman Lucy Nashed, which is why they chose to not tap into the Rainy Day
Fund last session. “Emptying the savings account to pay for recurring expenses not only postpones tough-but-necessary decisions, but would also leave us illequipped to handle bigger emergencies in the future,” Nashed said.
UT coalition lobbies for higher education at Capitol By Allie Kolechta Daily Texan Staff
A student coalition met with four Texas senators and two Texas House representatives on Monday to raise the Longhorn voice at the Capitol. Students from groups such as Student Government, the Senate of College Councils and the Graduate Student Assembly formed the Invest in Texas coalition, a group that will lobby for higher education issues such as opposing budget cuts to higher education, supporting competitive insurance benefits and gun control on campus. Chelsea Adler, Senate of College
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Councils president, said she and students Jimmy Talarico and Daniel Spikes met with senators and representatives on Monday to talk about the coalition’s platform and gauge their responsiveness. “The meetings today have gone really well. Everyone has been really receptive to our ideas,” said Alder, a government and social work senior. The group’s main priority is to keep budget cuts to higher education proportionate to the total amount spent on higher education, she said. Gov. Rick Perry’s $182.3 billion two-year budget plan, which will last from Sept. 1, 2009 until Aug. 31, 2011, allots 12 percent of all spending to higher education, but in the last fiscal year higher education made up almost 42 percent of all budget cuts with a $75.5 billion deficit, she said. This session, the Legislative Budget Board, an agency that recommends potential cuts to state agencies, suggested a $93.2 million cut to UT,
said University Chief Financial Officer Kevin Hegarty. The group will also lobby for competitive insurance benefits and work with other universities to gain the ability for public schools to choose their own individual safety policies, including the ability to choose to outlaw guns on campus, she said. “This is such a pivotal time for our University, and we need as many students as we can to get involved with lobbying for these issues,” Adler said. “There’s lots of ways to get involved and make an impact, and the easiest one is lobbying.” The coalition’s first lobbying day will be in March at the Capitol, she said. Eventually, the group wants to work with other Texas schools and the rest of the UT System to gain the same benefits for all schools in the state, said Talarico, SG executive director and government senior. “Students have seen the effects of budget cuts on our campus al-
ready with things like increased class sizes, entire programs cut, reduced facility hours and fees at the doctor’s office,” he said. “If we want to prevent that from happening again, students must become involved in the legislative process. These lawmakers are deciding the future of our campus.” One of the group’s plans is to have members of its organizations send postcards to their hometown’s representatives explaining the Invest in Texas platform, Talarico said. Getting home districts on the side of the students is a good to reach out to the Capitol, said Rep. Elliott Naishtat, D-Austin, who met with Adler, Talarico and Spikes. “The Capitol has to hear your voice from all over the state before you really have an impact on these issues,” said Spikes, the legislative director of the Graduate Student Assembly and an educational administration graduate student.
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By Lauren Giudice PLAYER OF THE WEEK Taylor Jungmann, P Position: Right-hand pitcher Height: 6’ 6” Class: Junior Hometown: Temple
A few days after he recorded his first career complete-game shutout Friday in the Longhorns’ 8-0 over Maryland, junior Taylor Jungmann was named the Phillips 66 Big 12 Pitcher of the Week. Jungmann nabbed his first win of the 2011 campaign with his five-hit, nine-strikeout performance against the Terrapins, his 11th career win at Disch-Falk Field.
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@realTristan13 Top, Dax Hill performs his freestyle stroke during Monday’s practice. Bottom, Kerrington Hill, background, glances over to his brother Dax during Monday’s practice at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
Hill brothers bring childhood memories, experience to Longhorns Although they display typical sibling rivalry behavior, Dax and Kerrington Hill are not your average brothers. Dax, a sophomore, and Kerrington, a freshman, are Longhorn swimmers who are regular teammates when competing. But things are different when they’re away from team activities. “Having Kerrington at UT with me is interesting,” Dax said. “The swimming part is all right. Outside of that, we still bump heads over some stuff.”
Despite being team mates, Dax still considers Kerrington to be the typical annoying little brother. “Sometimes he has his moments when he’s cool,” Dax said. “Other times I just want to, you know, choke him.” Dax recalled one of their most memorable fights when he was given permission from his parents to teach Kerrington a lesson. “For the longest time I wasn’t allowed to fight my brother,” Dax said. “My parents gave me the green light one time and we got into it. I’m pret-
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ty sure the fight was over a chair. I was sitting in a chair and he got mad at me because he wanted to sit in it. It got intense.” Despite their differences, the Hill brothers have respect for each other. “He is pretty clutch,” Dax said. “That’s pretty cool. At our state relay in 2009, my senior year of high school, I was the leg before him and I knew that if I got close he would be able to finish it. I knew he’d be able to knock the guy out.” The brothers, both freestyle specialists, got their start playing
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The Longhorns had to go to class on Sunday. Taught by head coach Rick Barnes, Texas sat through an extended version of its film study so they could learn what exactly went wrong Saturday against Nebraska. The team watched an entire replay of the 70-67 loss in Lincoln less than 24 hours after it happened. Dribble penetration defense, screening and rebounding were a few of the many topics discussed. “It was an eye opener,” said freshman Tristan Thompson. “We still have a lot of room to grow.” Texas looks to take what they learned from the film session on Sunday to build a new win streak tonight when they take on the last-place Iowa State Cyclones. Prior to watching the video of Saturday’s loss, Barnes’ message to his
PREVIEW VS. Date: Tonight Time: 7 p.m. Place: Frank Erwin Center team was simple. “I told them, ‘You got to look at this tape and you got to be honest with yourself and be able to evaluate yourself and see the areas where you got to get better,’” Barnes said. “Every time they go back and look at the game, they are always surprised because they always think they are playing hard.”
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Date: Today Time: 3 p.m. Place: UFCU Disch Falk Field and shortstop Brandon Loy managing to hit .188. “We’ve got a lot of guys thinking about a lot of things. The whole idea is to stay focused on being a ballplayer because that’s all you can control,” Garrido said. “We failed at that. If we’re going to be a winner, we have to elevate our attitude.” Texas will use Sunday’s 16-0 win as the blueprint for today’s
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thanks to a furious rally put together in the bottom of the eighth inning when Texas scored five runs. “I hope that we can realize the energy, competitiveness, fight and focus it takes to play each inning that way,” said head coach Augie Garrido. “Our goal is to do it inning-by-inning and not have to wait until we’re in such a difficult position.” Freshmen Erich Weiss, Mark Payton and Jacob Felts have a collective .572 batting average and are models of the consistency for the rest of the team. “The best players on the field right now are the younger guys,” Garrido said. “They go out, keep it simple and play ball. That’s what they did and that’s why they’re successful.” Some of the older players failed to get into form over the weekend, with junior second baseman Jordan Etier going hitless in 10 at-bats
sports like soccer and basketball and made the transition to swimming when they were seven and eight years old. “I would always jump into the pool before I could swim and my mom would have to jump in and save me. So she put me in swim lessons. I did that for about a year, and then she put me in summer league and I just stuck with it,” Kerrington said. Kerrington was not too thrilled
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The season-opening series against unranked Maryland was a case study in consistency. When the No. 6 Longhorns are at their best, sharp in the field and smart at the plate, they’re tough to beat — as illustrated by their 16-0 win over the Terrapins on Sunday. But when they get away from the little things, they struggle; evident in their 10-1 loss to the same team a day prior. The Longhorns (3-1) outscored Maryland 32-14 over the weekend, but the results of each game were inconsistent, suggesting that Texas didn’t always play the game it’s capable of. The Longhorns enjoyed blowouts in the first and fourth games, got stomped in the second game and had to scratch and claw their way to a 7-4 win in the third game,
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After being embarrassed by Oklahoma last Saturday, Texas head coach Gail Goestenkors held a practice she referred to as an NBA practice — as in no babies allowed. On Monday night against Iowa State (19-8; 7-6), Goestenkors got the mature physicality she was looking for but not the result, as Texas (17-10; 6-7) dropped its second game in a row in overtime, 66-57. The Longhorns stormed out with a fiery aggression as Goestenkors’ game plan of a dribble-drive offense came into play immediately. Freshman Chassidy Fussell scored Texas’ first points with a hard drive against four Cyclone players, knocking one to the ground. The tactic worked for much of the first half as it freed up shooters and allowed for easy lay-ups but was derailed in the second half when Iowa State’s man-to-man defense tuned up, forcing Texas to settle for contested jumpers. As has been the case in recent years between these two teams, the game was a back-and-forth battle the whole way through. With Texas down by two with less than a minute remaining, the dribble-drive worked again. With 13 seconds remaining in regulation, junior Ashleigh Fontenette slashed to the basket, causing the Iowa State defense to collapse onto her. She dished the ball to freshman post Anne Marie Hartung who tied the game at 54-54. Overtime was much crueler to Texas. With Hartung and junior Ashley Gayle both fouled out and playing her worst game of the season, the Longhorns simply lost steam. They were outscored 12-3 in the extra period. With Goestenkors preaching physicality, Yvonne Anderson certainly stepped up her game on Mon-
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day. The junior guard scored 14 points and snagged 10 rebounds in the losing effort. Senior Kathleen Nash added 15 points and Fontenette, who was playing with a broken shooting thumb, managed 12 points and three steals. Though she scored the first points of the game, normally sure-handed Fussell went 1-11 from the field for two points. Gayle’s foul trouble had her riding the pine for most of the game. This opened up inside scoring for the Cyclones, and forward Chelsea Poppens took advantage. Poppens had a career-high 23 points and 11 rebounds. This was the second game in a row in which Gayle fouled out. Texas committed 22 team fouls to Iowa State’s 12. The loss will send Texas’ NCAA tournament bid further into speculation as it appears to be flirting with the edge of the bubble. With only three games remaining, Texas will likely need to win at least two to stay in consideration for a seed.
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Kansas State beat Oklahoma 77-62 on Saturday to move to .500 in Big 12 play. The win came after knocking in-state rival Kansas from its perch atop the college basketball rankings on Feb. 14. The Wildcats have finally started playing like the team many expected to see before the season started, thanks to the improved play of senior point guard Jacob Pullen. Pullen started the week off scoring a season-high 38 points against Kansas. He followed with a 27-point effort against the Sooners to put the Wildcats back in the hunt for a first round bye in the Big 12 tournament. Pullen was the aggressor in both games, going to the free throw line 27 times, and found his stroke from distance, going eight-for-12 from beyond the arch. Kansas State will need Pullen to keep stepping up in big games as the toughest part of its schedule begins Wednesday when the team travels to Nebraska. The road doesn’t get any easier after that: No. 21 Missouri will visit the Wildcats in Manhattan on Saturday before the Wildcats’ pivotal matchup against No. 5 Texas on Monday in Austin.
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Rebounding stood out the most to Thompson when reviewing his performance. “I played 18 minutes and had three rebounds,” he said. “That’s unacceptable. For me being the player that I am, that’s unacceptable.” Barnes showed his team how they did not execute their game plan throughout the game. The failure to do so enabled Nebraska to do what they wanted. “We didn’t play our usual defense,” said senior Gary Johnson. “We let them get comfortable at home. Any team that is that comfortable at home already has a foot up in the game and that’s what they did.” Once again the Longhorns got off to a quick start against the Huskers, taking a seven-point lead into halftime. Throughout the 11-game streak, Texas had been struggling more in the second half, but a large enough first half lead had previously proven insurmountable for its oppo-
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about being on the same team as Dax when they were younger, but it doesn’t bother him anymore. “People tease me about having Dax here, but I just try to not think about it and swim my own race,” Kerrington said. Although the brothers are very different, they are both extremely competitive and grateful for their parents. “Our parents really supported us and pushed us a lot, especially early on,” Dax said. “As we got older, we were able to push ourselves independently. So they just got to sit back and kick it.” The two were competitive back then and still are, but it isn’t limited to the pool. Dax and Kerrington are known to go at it on 1 video games, but everything usually ends peacefully — as long as one of them doesn’t sit in the other’s chair.
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The previously top-ranked Jayhawks were not the only top-10 team from the Big 12 to lose on the road last week after Nebraska upset second-ranked Texas on Saturday. The fact that the conference’s two best teams stumbled didn’t surprise KU’s coaching staff. “I think the home court [advantage] is worth ‘x’ amount of points, depending on who it is and the situation,” Self said. “The later you play in your season, with the way the conference schedules are usually set up, the tougher the games become.” The Cornhuskers moved to 16-1 at home with their win over Texas, and Self said the Longhorns’ 70-67 loss was not a bad one. Self didn’t say the same for his team’s defeat to rival Kansas State — a 16-point loss on national television. The road losses didn’t cost either Orlin Wagner | Associated Press program much in the rankings, with both teams staying in the top Kansas State’s Jacob Pullen attempts a shot in Saturday’s win over Oklahoma. Pullen averaged 65 points in two games last week. five in both polls.
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Baylor senior shooting guard LaceDarius Dunn needs 40 points to become the Big 12’s all-time leading scorer. Dunn is the first player in Bears history to surpass 2,200 points (2,217) and has his sights set on former Red Raider Andre Emmett’s scoring mark. Emmett became the conference’s top scorer in 2004 after four years in Lubbock. Playing four years in the league certainly has its benefits and, unlike Dunn, few great scorers stay on campus for all four seasons. “If [former Longhorn Kevin] Durant had stayed four years, there’d be a chance he could be the all-time leading scorer,” said Kansas head coach Bill Self. “But I don’t think that should discount the career that LaceDarius has. Guys that stay deserve to get rewarded.” Dunn has caused numerous headaches for opposing coaches, which Self attributed to Dunn’s unorthodox style and ability to make mid-range jump shots and three-pointers. “He may be the only guy I have coached against who can do that, he keeps you off balance and doesn’t need much space,” Self said. “At times he looks like he’s in slow motion but that’s part of his game plan.”
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game against Texas A&M Corpus Christi. The Longhorns’ starting pitcher will be a gametime decision, but Garrido has said he will send a multitude of pitchers to the mound tomorrow against the Islanders (4-0), who are coming off a series sweep of Mississippi Valley State. Last year, Texas came out on top with a combined score of 22-5 in two games. The Longhorns would be wise to not overlook the Islanders and to focus on the little things against them and their starting pitcher Justin Meza. Garrido will be the first one to say that. “We need to keep working on the things we did well Sunday,” he said. “It’s not about who your opponent is, you need to play the game the exact same way. As a team you can’t reach your full potential unless you respect the game and concentrate on all the details of the game, no matter who the opponent is.” day, month day, 2008
Dunn and the Bears face Missouri on the road Wednesday then return home Saturday for a matchup with Texas A&M, leaving the door open for the scoring record to be broken in front of the Baylor faithful.
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Math-rockers play Austin; lo-fi lies low the Mohawk tomorrow evening at 9 p.m. with experimental math-rockers Tera Melos and Austin’s own Zorch. But be on the lookout for a kissing booth, just in case. Tickets are $8 at mohawkaustin.com or $10 at the door.
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Marnie Stern hits up the Mohawk In November 2008, the beautiful Marnie Stern and her band received a hefty speeding ticket while on tour and couldn’t afford to pay it. Their solution was to set up a kissing booth at a San Francisco show, charging $3 for cheek kisses, $10 for lip kisses and a whopping $100 for a French kiss. Apparently the mood at the kissing booth was one of nervous tension among the men too timid to make a move, although there were a few takers. Fortunately, Stern and her retinue have dug themselves out of that hole by now and will play at
EXHIBIT continues from PAGE 12 vision, Laren deemed the paradigm for everything “arte light.” Laughing quietly to himself on a sunny afternoon in his pink-tinted sunglasses, baseball cap and bright yellow Hawaiian shirt, he seemed weightless and indifferent to trouble. Laren’s piece, “Searching for Prices,” is part of the Blanton’s permanent exhibit and is on display with its contemporaries for the first time. Laren was never able to show the piece at the Rojas Gallery because of transportation issues and weather conditions. Early in his strange quest for artistic fame, Laren made the piece with the intention of selling it to a local grocery store called El Tigre. Using his own technique, Laren painted the work on glass with acrylic paint and laid a collage of holographic paper behind it. The painting depicts a giant tiger towering above buildings from Laren’s hometown of San Nicolás. Giant commer-
The death of lo-fi “The ravages of age — and the Internet — [has] pushed lo-fi into the 99-cent ‘Buy It Now’ eBay bin,” said Jared Phillips, guitarist for the lo-fi indie rock band Times New Viking in a recent article in Vice magazine. “Now lo-fi’s the new slap bracelet. Max headroom. Moon shoes. JNCO jeans.” It’s surprising to hear Jared Phillips mourn the death of the genre, considering his band and many others in the past decade have pushed to make its presence known. Times New Viking along with
cial products such as lipstick, brandy and cleaning supplies are strewn about the tiger’s feet. “We were immensely happy to discover that Benito’s work was the most ridiculous, the most happy, the most savage of all of us,” said artist Marcelo Pombo, remembering Laren’s entrance into the arte light community. One of Pombo’s eight works in the exhibit, “Garland with Rotted Fruit,” presents a festive, yet unsettling scene of decay. In the foreground, thousands of pink, red and white drops of enamel paint form garlands that hang across the canvas and contrast the blue-green world of celluloid forms behind, while rotten fruits made from coffee filters and filled with pebbles hang off the canvas. Like other artists in the exhibit, Pombo ignored Argentina’s troubled political past and sought beauty in his immediate environment using the limited means available to him. An untitled piece of his uses juice box labels in a collage on wood, while another, called “Casper,” is an arrangement of scrunchies, Q-tips and Sty-
Marnie Stern, a songwriter and tap-style guitarist, will play at the Mohawk tomorrow night. Stern gained notoriety in 2008 after setting up a kissing booth at a show to help pay for a speeding ticket.
bands such as Psychedelic Horseshit and Wavves are part of a subgenre of lo-fi known as “shitgaze;” the genre’s proponents play traditional indie rock songs but in an abrasive way, maxing out amplifiers’ capabilities and distorting the sound to the point where it sounds like psychedelic noise. Shitgaze became popular in the past decade because of its affordability and ease; using sub-par equipment and shoddy recording techniques is appealing to bands on a budget. But Phillips’ claim doesn’t bode well for many of the lo-fi bands in Austin. His solution? Get out while you can or record music correctly. He recommends recording properly, buying the best gear money can buy and practicing proper maintenance. Or if all else fails, “Watch the Grammys and learn, dumb-ass.” Read the full article from Vice at http://j.mp/dt-deathoflofi.
rofoam on a “Casper the Friendly Ghost” blanket. To the left of the two pieces, a quote of Pombo’s reads, “The only risk worth taking is for beauty sake.” Out of context, it seems silly; what could Pombo have risked arranging scrunchies on a child’s blanket? However, following the tragedy of Argentina’s “Dirty War” in which thousands of suspected left-wing sympathizers were kidnapped or killed, conceptual and political art dominated the Argentine art scene. It was the very lightheartedness of Pombo and others’ art that made it controversial and innovative. “We tend to associate beauty with classical forms or with taste, but we rarely think of beauty as an attitude or spirit,” said Ursula Davila-Villa, curator of Latin American art at the Blanton Museum. The most striking piece of the exhibit, a construction by Gordín, is an intricate model of the Pontoise Street pool, where he often swam when living in France, and enclosed it in a wooden box with a eyepiece on the side. The view from the eye-
piece looks out from the top of a diving board over a placid blue pool at night. Gordín and Laren emphasized the distinctiveness of each artist’s work rather than the similarities that brought them together some 20 years ago. Still, they said there was something special about having their art shown together once again. “I don’t like to talk about history in capital letters, as a big thing,” Gordín said. “[Our work] was a very small part of Argentine history. I feel that’s a period that has closed. We are moving in different directions now, and I love to see how we started all together.”
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season, the show quickly became more serial and much more compelling as a result. Season two is more streamlined, quickly introducing its seasonal arc while also working in a case of the week for Givens and his fellow marshals to deal with. The season’s serialized story line deals with a family of pot dealers led by actress Margo Martindale. Martindale’s Mags Bennett is a new addition to an already strong cast. Ruthless drug kingpin is not the first thing that comes to mind when one looks at Martindale, but she effortlessly sells her character’s particular mix of deep-fried Southern maternity and ruthless business savvy. Also memorable are Walton Goggins’ reformed criminal and fellow newbie Jeremy Davies. With “Lights Out” and the new season of “Justified,” FX continues a stellar television season. “Lights Out,” which airs on Tuesdays, is halfway through its first season while “Justified” is only two episodes in, but both shows are quickly becoming some of the best on television.
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CD REVIEW The King of Limbs
Adele matures, polishes vocals in ‘21’ Radiohead plays safe By Ali Breland Daily Texan Staff
Adele represents something truly unique within the realm of female singer-songwriters. Her vocal ability is unparalleled and the staying power of the music she creates is unmatched. For every album of hers that rests in its place within contemporary music history, many more Katy Perry and Lily Allen albums will fall by the wayside and into the depths with their disposable companions. Adele’s latest album, 21, opens with the single “Rolling In The Deep,” a powerful song about lost love and heartbreak that serves as both a fitting introduction to Adele’s vocal talents for new listeners and a brilliant reminder for old fans.
21 continues with inspiring and deep piano and guitar accompaniments with heavy, piercing backbeats, all complementing Adele’s incredible voice. Another gem on the record comes later with the acoustic guitar-lit cover of The Cure’s “Love Song.” The song is a shift from the slightly catchier, more rhythmically charged songs that precede it on the album. The more mellow effort adds a level of depth and diversity to 21 that contrasts nicely with the energetic recordings earlier on the album such as “Rumor Has It,” giving 21 a sense of completeness. Stylistically, Adele doesn’t take many risks nor does she move away from the general paradigm she adhered to in her previous album 19 — creating deep, soulful blues songs. While something new is al-
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Adele Genre: soul, Blues For those who like: Jessie J, Amy Winehouse, Ellie Goulding
Grade: A ways appreciated, Adele is wise to stick to what she knows and what she’s good at. It is within this medium that her art excels and she is able to do something many aspire to but fail at: Create a legitimate pop record centered around love and heartbreak. Adele connects to the listener, making them feel her pain as she reflects on loves lost,
wailing lyrics such as, ”We could have had it all,” and “Tears are gonna fall,” rolling in between introspective thoughts of a relationship destroyed. Adele invites the listener to gaze at her vulnerabilities, in turn revealing their own. In this sense, 21 fosters a connection between the artist and her audience — the mark of a great album.
MoVIE REVIEW Cedar rapids
‘Cedar Rapids’ boasts good casting, Helms’ versatility By Alex Williams Daily Texan Staff
In the 2009 box office giant “The Hangover,” Ed Helms (along with every other principal cast member) suddenly became a household name, and, like his “Hangover” costars, his next few projects have essentially been twists on the persona established in that movie. However, “Cedar Rapids” is smart in its use of Helms, taking what made him funny in “The Hangover” while making sure to invent a new character to go along with it. Helms plays Tim Lippe, an insurance salesman who has never left his Wisconsin hometown until his firm’s star agent dies in a hilariously raunchy fashion, leaving Tim as the only candidate to attend a major insurance convention in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He’s shouldered with the responsibility of continuing the firm’s tradition of winning the convention’s prestigious Two Diamonds award. Tim seems to be doing fine, until
he befriends Dean Ziegler (John C. Reilly), a recently divorced party animal who wastes no time in getting Tim into all kinds of alcohol-fueled trouble. “Cedar Rapids” seems slightly dead in the water for most of its opening sequences, as it sets up the plot and introduces its cast, which includes Isiah Whitlock Jr.’s laid-back Ronald and Anne Heche’s Joan. In these opening scenes, Helms’ pervasive awkwardness is played as too over-the-top to be truly funny. Once his character begins to loosen up and have some fun, the film does the same. Many of its best moments feature the four main characters bonding or engaging in drunken antics, such as a late-night dip in the hotel’s pool that gives Reilly his funniest scene. As far as the cast goes, there’s not a weak link. Helms’ boundless enthusiasm never gets old, but the film’s final act lets him show off some impressive dramatic chops as well. Reilly plays his typical boisterous man-
Cedar Rapids Miguel Arteta
Genre: Comedy Runtime: 86 minutes For those who like: “step Brothers”, “the Hangover”
Grade: B+ child here but continues to make his characters hilariously watchable.. Rounding out the supporting cast is Whitlock, who brings a low-key wittiness to his scenes and makes a few hilarious references that should have fans of his character in “The Wire” rolling with laughter. Anne Heche is uncharacteristically likable as Tim’s love interest, playing a character that feels like a grown-up version of the hipster dream girl that’s populated many a coming-of-age story. Despite a weak start, “Cedar Rapids” steadily becomes funnier and
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more interesting. The story is pleasantly unpredictable, with things getting a bit darker than one would expect, but the film stays warm and endearing at its center. “Cedar Rapids” isn’t the kind of movie that’s remembered during awards season. In fact, it will probably be forgotten by summer. Nonetheless, it’s a sweet, funny film with a few great performances, characters and a pleasant, under-the-radar surprise that’s absolutely worth checking out.
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Four years after the release of the critically acclaimed In Rainbows, Radiohead abruptly released The King of Limbs on Friday after announcing the album’s release only days before. The King Of Limbs sounds and feels like the efforts of an experienced group. Despite the unique, experimental nature of the album, it comes off as an incredible, succinct piece of art that still manages to catch people’s attention. The album walks the line between being extremely eccentric and easy to listen to. The album is composed around Thom Yorke’s slurred murmurs and yells, surrounded by wispy guitar, piano melodies and soft drum tapping. The byproduct is an intriguing album that captures and keeps the listener’s attention. While the album retains some post rock elements and is perhaps less coherent than its predecessors, there’s more mumbling and distortion than the catchy and conventional beat structure of “Body Snatchers” and other tracks off of In Rainbows. It still exists within the sphere of Radiohead, however melodic minimalism makes the album, as it did past records. Regardless, The King of Limbs manages to be incomparable all on its own both from Radiohead and anything else being produced right now. There’s something else much more striking about the album. Something about The King of Limbs is just so pure. It lets you peer into the hearts and minds of Yorke and company. “There’s an empty space inside my
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heart and it won’t take root,” sung in “Lotus Flower.” This and other songs are laced with sorrowful meaning by Yorke and coupled with intelligent but heartfelt instrumentals that draw you into the personal, emotional sphere. Although what they express isn’t always evident, it is clear that they put themselves deep into their work. “Slowly we unfurl as lotus flowers and all I want is the moon upon a stick dancing around the pit,” sung in “Lotus Flower” has no narrative, but features a composite of different scenarios put together in poetic format. Perhaps the only disenchanting portion of Radiohead’s latest effort Courtesy of is its lack of new direction relative toThe Blanton their catalog. While past Radiohead Museum of Art albums such as OK Computer and Kid A were steps in genre-defying directions, The King of Limbs is more indicative of a typical Radiohead content with glitchy, off-beat electronica rock. Maybe Radiohead is maturing or they have settled into a style that works. Regardless, it would be nice to hear an entirely new, revitalized Radiohead record in the future. Even if what they’re doing works, virtually every Radiohead album has “worked” in the same sense. Back from the days of Pablo Honey to The Bends and so on and so forth, Radiohead has proven themselves incapable of creating music that falls into the less-than-exemplary category. The King Of Limbs exists as a continuation of this.
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Blanton exhibits ‘light’ political art “Searching for Prices” by Benito Laren
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‘The King’s Speech’ challenges rival films By Christopher Nguyen Best Director Darren Aronofsky, “Black Swan” David O. Russell, “The Fighter” Tom Hooper, “The King’s Speech” David Fincher, “The Social Network” Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, “True Grit”
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By Clayton Wickham Daily Texan Staff
When you go to “Recovering Beauty: The 1990s in Buenos Aires” at The Blanton Museum of Art this month, don’t expect a typical museum-going experience. The world inside is joyful at times, unsettling at others, but always intriguing and intimate.
From Benito Laren’s large painting on glass, “Searching for Prices,” to Sebastián Gordín’s elaborately detailed constructions and dioramas, the exhibit presents a comprehensive collection of work created by the “arte light” group during the 1990s in Argentina. The “arte light” aesthetic ignored the political influences that pervaded Argentine art following the
oppressive military dictatorship of the 1980s and instead looked for beauty in both the simple and fantastical, using popular culture as inspiration. “That art, as life, leads nowhere is what makes our freedom meaningful and salvation possible,” said Jorge Gumier Maier, the director of the Rojas Gallery, where the group showed in the ’90s.
But Laren, who has six pieces in the show, claims he never had any sort of artistic mission, unlike Maier. “I wanted to be famous and a millionaire, the second more than the first,” Laren said. Despite or perhaps because of his indifference to Maier’s aesthetic
Even as “The King’s Speech” began picking up steam with awards, the director category seemed safe for David Fincher. The awarding by the Director’s Guild of Tom Hooper, however, made this a two-man race. The surge of love for “The King’s Speech” suggests that voters will do anything they can to reward the film, even if the directing in the film, while technically capable, is banal and indistinctive. But voters will still likely see “The Social Network” as a movie defined by Fincher’s touch from the opening scene to the credits and reward him accordingly, even if it’s one of few times the Director and Picture category have split.
Best Animated Feature “How to Train Your Dragon” “The Illusionist” “Toy Story 3”
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FX shows shine, knock out other networks’ lineups
Timothy Olyphant’s Raylan Givens and Margo Martindale’s Mags Bennet have a polite discussion in Season 2 of FX’s “Justified.”
TV TUESDAY
By Alex Williams For the past decade, cable networks such as HBO, FX , AMC and Showtime have been embroiled in a competitive struggle to produce the best programming. HBO continues to produce strong dramas, and AMC’s “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad” are among the best shows on TV. However, FX remains on top in terms of consistent quality, especially with
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its new boxing drama “Lights Out” and its Southern crime show “Justified,” which has just entered its second season. “Lights Out” is essentially a boxing film in the vein of “Rocky,” but extended to 13 hours. While this might seem like a bad idea, the story of Patrick ‘Lights’ Leary (Holt McCallany), a boxer forced into retirement because of an ultimatum from his worried wife and pushed back into the ring because of the recent economic downturn, is already a strangely gripping slow burn of a program with a spectacular cast. Usually cast as a stock intimidating thug,
McCallany is revelatory as Lights, instilling his character with a weary soulfulness and easy charm even while his character realizes just how much he misses hitting people. McCallany’s versatility is on display in the first episode’s climatic scene, which intercuts scenes of Lights bonding with his daughter with moments where he breaks a dentist’s arm for a loan shark and beats a man senseless outside of a bar. The rest of the cast is equally strong. “The Wire” alums Pablo Schreiber (as Lights’ fi-
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