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Iraq oil well may make UT regent a billionaire

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A UT System regent’s day job could make him a billionaire thanks to a new oil well drilled in Iraq.

ShaMaran Petroleum Corp. announced a new well last month in Iraq’s Kurdistan region could produce hundreds of millions of barrels of oil. UT System Regent Alex Cranberg is chairman of Aspect Holdings, LLC, whose subsidiary, Aspect Energy International, LLC, is a partner of ShaMaran and Houston-based Marathon Oil on the well. Aspect, which has the largest stake in the project, holds 53 percent of the oil exploration license for the land where the well was drilled.

Aspect could see a combined return on investment close to $1 billion if it buys out ShaMaran’s stake in the project, estimated to reach $500 million, according to Forbes Magazine.

Cranberg declined to answer The Daily Texan’s questions about the well in an email but told Forbes that partners involved in the project have invested more than $130 million.

“I am a big believer in the Kurdish Region and its long-term prospects for

The Daily Texan and the OU Daily trade trashtalking columns before the big game. OU, as it happens, still sucks.

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Return of the PRI

Professor Sergio Aguayo discusses return of Mexico’s Partido Revoluciionario Institucional (PRI) in the Santa Rita Suite 3.502 at the Union.

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Learn how to repair and preserve your personal book collection using readily available materials at 1 p.m. at PCL 1.124.

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Coinciding with a restructuring of UT’s career services on campus, MyEdu.com will now help students in the hunt for jobs and internships.

The online higher education platform launched an overhaul of its website Wednesday morning and introduced “the student profile,” designed to connect students with potential employers. Students can search for jobs and internships, while employers can search for candidates who are matches for their company.

“Our mission is to help students get a better return on higher education,” said Frank Lyman, senior vice president of products and marketing at MyEdu. “After a couple of years of doing a lot to help students on the academic side, we are now adding this career aspect.”

Last year, the UT system invested $10 million in the online platform. MyEdu executive board member John Cunningham is the son of former UT President and UT System Chancellor William Cunningham.

Previously, MyEdu was a tool students could use to plan out their schedules for years in advance. The website has course data collected from more than 800 institutions, and Lyman said the scheduling service helps students graduate on time and save money. The scheduling service is still a part of MyEdu’s website, but now students can create a profile that shows their interests, skills and abilities.

Lyman said MyEdu spent a lot of time talking to students and trying to figure out what kind of services they were not receiving. He said many

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Participation takes about four minutes and will occur from 12 to 2 p.m. in the sculpture shed at the Art Building.

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prosperity,” Cranberg told Forbes. “I intend always to be an investor in Kurdistan one way or another.”

Testing rates on the well totaled 42,212 barrels of oil per day, according to a statement from ShaMaran Petroleum.

Average wells in the Middle East produce between 5,000 and 10,000 barrels of oil per day, said Erik Kreil, international petroleum expert for the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

“That’s a sizable well anywhere in the world,” he said.

“It could also push for an increased production rate in Iraq, who is trying to export 200,000 barrels of oil per day by the end of the year.”

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officer candidate.

The 86-member UT battalion began the first leg of the 200-mile trek to Dallas on Monday, alternating groups of runners until the entire group reaches Dallas the Thursday before the game.

“This tradition also reminds us that we as a student

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Every year the Naval ROTC battalions from UT and OU run the game balls for the Red River Rivalry game to Dallas. When the two batallions meet in the middle, they hold their own rivalry football game.

The tradition, which began 30 years ago, continued

this year when UT head football coach Mack Brown tossed the game ball to the UT Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps at Wednesday night’s Torchlight Parade and Rally.

“The tradition allows every midshipman in our unit to come together and carry out a highly challenging yet highly rewarding event,” said Rene Perez, a UT NROTC

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Andrew Messamore | Daily Texan Staff UT President William Powers Jr. stands in front of the the United States Supreme Court building with the family of Heman Sweatt. After successfully winning a lawsuit against the University in 1950, Sweatt became the first black law student to attend the University of Texas.

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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court pressured UT to justify its use of race in admissions Wednesday as the justices picked apart the meaning of racial diversity in court.

Arguments in Fisher v. Texas centered on whether UT’s use of race creates essential and meaningful diversity on campus. Supporters of affirmative action, including civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton, convened in the capital to show support for UT’s position during the proceedings.

The hearing kicked off the last stretch of the legal saga of Abigail Fisher, now a graduate of Louisiana State University. UT rejected Fisher in 2008 and she later sued the University, claiming her right to equal protection was violated because race was a fac-

tor in her application.

Fisher attended the hearing and issued a brief statement supporting her case when arguments concluded.

A decision on the case is expected sometime next year.

Bert Rein, Fisher’s counsel, said he did not intend to challenge the current precedent that race may be used to further diversity — a position affirmed in the court’s decision in Grutter v. Bollinger in 2003.

Instead, Rein said he intended to challenge Grutter’s “unlimited mandate” to use race classifications that discriminate against some applicants without creating measurable diversity.

“What we are concerned about is universities like UT that have read [Grutter] to be a green light to use race with no discernible target — critical mass,” Rein said.

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Yassine Enterprises trial continues

By David Maly & Tiffany Hinman Jury deliberations began Wednesday in the trial of former downtown nightclub owners Hadi Yassine, Hussein “Mike” Yassine and Mohammed “Steve” Yassine.

The three face money laundering charges that could carry a hefty jail sentence if they are found guilty. Their trial began Oct. 1 and is the result

of a five-year FBI analysis of the dealings of Yassine Enterprises, a family-run company co-owned by the defendants.

The company operated nine downtown nightclubs, which were seized by the federal government last spring. The government also seized the site of a future club earmarked

by Yassine Enterprises in the west downtown area.

A fourth defendant originally charged along with the three Yassines, Marisse Ru-

ales, did not stand trial with the three defendants. Her case is still pending, officials said.

The trial of the three defendants focused on testimony and evidence from their cousin, Mohammed “Mo” Yassine, an FBI informant during the investigation. According to the Austin American-Statesman, Mo Yassine was paid $340,000 throughout the investigation for his undercover work.

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Correction: Because of a production error, an Oct. 10 story on Page 5 incorrectly identified Jerry Sandusky.

Correction: Because of a production error, an Oct. 10 headline on Page 5 incorrectly stated Malala Yousufzai was killed. She is still alive.

Correction: Because of a production error, an Oct. 9 story on Page 1 mistated the number of books associate sociology professor Gloria González-López has published as “several.” She has published one book.

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“What we are trying to accomplish is help students tell their story uniquely,” Lyman said. “The resume is a piece of paper, and everything interesting about a student is in one line at the bottom.”

The student profile will allow students to create an interactive resume where they show their work experience, volunteer hours, passion, skills, dream job, Facebook and twitter accounts, projects and more.

MyEdu’s new service coincides with UT’s establishment of the University Career Interview and Recruiting Center, which will oversee each college’s career services. The center was announced last spring.

Gretchen Ritter, vice provost for Undergraduate Education and Faculty, said having multiple career

services across campus that were not overseen by one center made it confusing for employers who were trying to find an entry point to the University.

“We also felt that some of our students were not being served as well as we’d like them to be,” Ritter said. “Some of the smaller schools may not have as many resources.”

Ritter and Brad Englert, UT’s chief information officer, help lead the implementation effort for MyEdu on campus. Englert said this center will encourage students to use MyEdu’s student profile.

“I think they’re going to coordinate multiple tools to help students,” Englert said.

“MyEdu is one of the tools in the toolbox. It is something that can be used.”

Ritter said UT System officials have been working with MyEdu since the company approached them about the

REGENT continues from page 1 Forbes reported ShaMaran’s share value increased $100 million after news of the well broke. Representatives of ShaMaran Petroleum did not return multiple requests for comment.

Oil production in Iraq has steadily increased since 2007. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimated Iraq’s oil reserves at 143.1 billion barrels in 2012, ranking fourth in the world behind Saudi Arabia, Canada and Iran.

“Iraq is notable because it’s one of the last areas that has been heavily unexplored,” Kreil said. “National oil companies usually control oil production in places like Saudi Arabia, but Iraq is one of the places where an outside company can make profits.”

Kreil said Iraq’s production potential has hardly been tapped into because of insufficient infrastructure to This issue of The Daily Texan is valued at $1.25

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export oil at a high volume and a lack of a national hydrocarbon law to govern oil contracting and regulation.

“American companies are coming in with the resources needed, but they are frustrated because of a lack of a national hydrocarbon law that would protect investors and set the rules of the game,” he said.

Instead, companies like Aspect and Exxon Mobil are turning to the northern Kurdish region where the regional government passed its own hydrocarbon law in 2007. The Kurdistan Regional Government signs off on oil production in the region for itself.

Despite his entrepreneurial success, Cranberg does not advocate business-oriented principles for the UT System, he wrote in an email.

“The UT System has a variety of social goals that are not the same as for a business,” he said. “It would be more accu-

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The UT System has a variety of social goals that are not the same as for a business.

— Alex Cranberg UT System Regent

rate to state that I have confidence in the power of the scientific method for informing the decision-making process in order to achieve goals. Of course, both business and higher education can use improvements in their decision-making processes.”

Gov. Rick Perry appointed Cranberg, a 20-year veteran of the oil business, to a six-year term on the UT System Board of Regents in February 2011.

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TRIAL continues from page 1 That money went toward covering moving expenses for Mo Yassine as he moved from Denver to Austin to better connect with his family. The money was also used to cover cost-of-living expenses, among other costs.

Both the prosecution and defense commented on Mo Yassine’s credibility because of his alleged history of illegal drug abuse and theft, and his drug use during the investigation that was determined by periodic drug tests.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregg Sofer said Mo’s participation in the investigation was necessary for it to be successful.

“Mo was no angel,” Sofer said. “He committed crimes and was not an upstanding citizen. But could anyone else have gotten inside the Yassine family business?

Sometimes it takes a crook to catch a crook.”

Sofer said the FBI asked Mo Yassine to perform various illegal actions because of his informant status, including money laundering and drug sales so his family would trust him with information on their illegal dealings.

Sofer described one instance where Mo Yassine gave Mike Yassine $100,000 to launder as part of his

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undercover role. Sofer said Mike Yassine’s willingness to break the law was obvious.

“Anyone else would have avoided this like the plague,” Sofer said. “It was quite the opposite for Mike.

Instead, he wanted to make the money look legitimate and cover Mo’s tracks.”

Throughout the trial, hours of recordings and film strips that Mo Yassine collected while wearing wires during the investigation were played. The clips included multiple drug deals, incidents of money laundering and other illegal activity.

Lily Reznik, who served as a stenographer throughout the course of the trial, said she is unsure how long jury deliberations in this case will take because the jury has a lot of evidence it could review.

The nightclubs formerly run by Yassine Enterprises were Austin Bottle Service, Roial, Kiss and Fly, Malia, Fuel, Treasure Island, Qua, Spill and Pure.

According to the Austin American-Statesman, plans are in place to replace Spill with Bourbon Girl, a country bar; Kiss & Fly with 404, a dance club; and Fuel with Chicago House, a bar focusing on craft beers. The rest of the nightclubs remain vacant.

ROTC continues from page 1 organization are an integral part of the University of Texas,” Perez said. “We execute this tradition with great pride.”

Thomas Shirley, UT NROTC battalion commanding officer, caught the ball at the Torchlight Parade.

“It is a great honor and privilege to be representing the Naval ROTC battalion,” Shirley said. “I am excited for getting the opportunity to catch the ball from Mack Brown.”

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Englert said the UT System responded very positively to MyEdu’s intial presentation of the student profile.

Lyman, senior vice president of products and marketing at MyEdu, said MyEdu will work with career service officers across the nation to ensure they understand what the new student profile can do for students.

“Career services uses a lot of different tools to help students,” Lyman said. “Our hope is that this will be another tool career services will recommend to students.”

MyEdu is a free service for students, and the company said Wednesday it will always remain free.

Following the arrest of three of its members during a weekend “Tent City” encampment effort, the End Homelessness working group of Occupy Austin is back in action, said Tent City organizer Peter Cooper.

Cooper said the the organization began a Tent City encampment Wednesday at an undisclosed location in Austin in honor of what has unofficially been declared World Homeless Day. He said the Tent City encampment will consist of a makeshift campsite on public property, meant to give the homeless a place to go until city resources catches up with their needs.

Cooper said the organization is not disclosing the location of the Tent City encampment to the public for now because it is uncertain about the legality of its actions. He said current city laws prohibiting certain uses of public land are very complex and confusing, causing members of the group and homeless people every day to be unsure of where they can legally sleep at night.

Austin Police did not return requests for comment on where in Austin the group could legally set up the encampment.

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Before the catch, Shirley addressed the crowd to explain the run and tell students about another tradition.

The NROTC programs from UT and OU began their own Red River Rivalry 10 years ago. The Friday before the football game, the two NROTC programs play in a flag-football game.

“We have a record of 8 and 2 against the Sooners,” Shirley said. “We are hungry for a ninth win.”

OU’s NROTC has a similar tradition to begin its run.

The OU head football coach, Bob Stoops, passed OU’s game ball to Lauren Winn, OU NROTC batallion commanding officer. The OU NROTC began running groups of its members in a relay Wednesday morning.

They expect to arrive in Dallas around noon Friday.

The outcome from the last two Red River Rivalry meetings has been a loss for both the UT NROTC and the Longhorn football teams.

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Chemical exposure trial begins in Ore.

NEWS BRIEFLY North Texas mother: ‘I’m not a monster’ DALLAS — A Dallas mother who admitted to beating her toddler and gluing the child’s hands to a wall says she’s not a monster and can change.

Elizabeth Escalona took the stand Wednesday at a sentencing hearing after she pleaded guilty in July to felony injury to a child.

Police say the 23-year-old mother lost her temper last year with her then2-year-old daughter, Jocelyn Cedillo, over potty training problems.

Escalona said Wednesday she would never forgive herself. But she added, “I want everybody to know I’m not a monster. I love my kids.”

Rooftop sleeper charged in Wisc.

MADISON, Wis. — Police say a Minnesota man who broke into the Wisconsin Capitol through a first-floor window and was found unconscious on the roof is now facing criminal charges.

The Wisconsin Department of Administration says 21-year-old Andrew Bishop smashed a window Sunday to get into the Capitol.

Police found Bishop passed out on the fourthfloor rooftop just below the dome’s observation deck.

Bishop is charged in Dane County with felony criminal damage and entry into a locked building, a misdemeanor.

He was in jail on a $1,000 bond Wednesday and doesn’t yet have an attorney.

He’s due in court next week.

— Compiled from Associated Press reports

Riley Brands, Wire Editor

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Shakil Adil | Associated Press A supporter of Pakistani political party Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), center, reacts while she and other women chant prayers in support of 14-year-old schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai.

Shooting sparks outrage

By Rebecca Santana & Riaz Khan Associated Press

ISLAMABAD — Schools shut their doors in protest and Pakistanis across the country held vigils Wednesday to pray for a 14-year-old girl who was shot by a Taliban gunman after daring to advocate education for girls and criticize the militant group.

The shooting of Malala Yousufzai on Tuesday in the town of Mingora in the volatile Swat Valley horrified Pakistanis across the religious, political and ethnic spectrum. Many in the country hoped the attack and the outrage it has sparked will be a turning point in Pakistan’s long-running battle against the Taliban, which still enjoys considerable public support for fighting U.S. forces in neighboring Afghanistan.

Top U.S. officials condemned the attack and offered to help the girl.

A Taliban gunman walked up to a bus taking children home from school and shot Malala in the head and neck.

Another girl on the bus was also wounded. Pictures of the vehicle showed bloodstained seats where the girls were sitting.

Malala appeared to be out of immediate danger after doctors operated on her early Wednesday to remove a bullet lodged in her neck.

But she remained in intensive care at a hospital in the northwestern city of Peshawar, and Pakistan’s Interior Minister said the next 48 hours would be crucial.

Small rallies and prayer sessions were held for her in Mingora, the eastern city of Lahore, the southern port city of Karachi and the capital of Islamabad.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton praised the young Pakistani girl.

“She was attacked and shot by extremists who don’t

want girls to have an education and don’t want girls to speak for themselves, and don’t want girls to become leaders,” she said.

Malala is admired across Pakistan for exposing the Taliban’s atrocities and advocating girls’ education in the face of religious extremism.

At the age of 11, she began writing a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC about life under the Taliban in the Swat Valley. After the military ousted the militants in 2009, she began publicly speaking out about the need for girls’ education, something the Taliban strongly opposes.

The group claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s attack and vowed to target her again.

Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said authorities have identified her attackers and know how they got into the valley, but no arrests have been made.

PORTLAND, Ore. — A war contractor knew a critical southern Iraq oilfield plant was riddled with a wellknown toxin but ignored the risk to soldiers while hurrying the project along, firing a whistleblower and covering up the presence of the chemical when faced with exposure, the soldiers’ attorney said in opening arguments Wednesday in a federal civil suit.

An attorney for the contractor, Kellogg, Brown and Root, fired back in his opening salvo of a trial expected to last weeks that the soldiers’ injuries weren’t a result of their exposure to the toxin, called sodium dichromate. Geoffrey L. Harrison argued that the company had no knowledge of the chemical’s presence at the plant and when they found it, they promptly and repeatedly warned the military of the danger.

A jury of six men and six women will decide whether the company is culpable for

12 Oregon National Guardsmen’s exposure to the toxin, a known carcinogen, and whether that exposure led to their ongoing respiratory illnesses. The soldiers will also try to show that the fear of future illnesses is causing them to suffer emotional distress.

The irony, said the soldiers’ attorney, Mike Doyle, “is that every single one of these men had a chemical hazard suit they would have put on instantly if they had known.”

KBR tried to warn the U.S. Army about the dangers, Harrison said, but didn’t go to the soldiers themselves because that wasn’t the proper channel of communication.

Doyle said an attempt by a KBR employee in August or September 2003 to blow the whistle on the company’s role in the alleged deception of the soldiers was met with the man’s dismissal from the plant. Doyle said the company was seeking an incentive from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to finish the work quickly and would brook no complaint from employees about safety concerns.

Don Ryan | Associated Press Attorney David Sugerman, right, and an unidentified plaintiff walk into federal court for opening arguments in a lawsuit against defense contractor Kellogg, Brown and Root in in Portland, Ore.

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Editor-in-Chief Susannah Jacob

City Hall: The mural didn’t need to go

By Pete Stroud Daily Texan Associate Editor

Unt i l a coupl e of we eks ago, ar t f l o ate d i n t he sky ove r Tow n L a ke. O n one s ide of t he mu r a l, t he ar t ist p ainte d an u nab ashe d ly w himsi c a l but ar t f u l ly rende re d ro cke t bl asti ng tow ard a dist ant st ar e xplo di ng w it h c ol or.

O n t he ot her side he or she de pi c te d a stor m toss e d s e a , d one i n a v iv id, l i ne ar st y l e re m in is cent of 1 9 t h - c e ntu r y Jap ane s e u k iyo-e p ainte rs li ke Ut ag awa Hiroshige and Kat sush i k a Hokus ai. B et we e n t he t wo image s , t he ar t ist w rote i n l arge, cl e ar, cl e an letters , “Fo c us one p oint and bre at he.”

The mural was prominently displayed on the Western side of the Union Pacif ic R ailroad Trestle over Town L ake.

It lay in full view of commuters on the L amar B oulevard Bridge, bikers and r unners on the James D. Pf lueger Pedestrian Bridge and boaters on the water.

Whoever the ar tist was, he or she sought no credit for the work, signing it only with the initials “SKO,” and charging no fee for its display.

A couple of we ek s ago, at t he b ehe st of Aust in cit y gove r n-

me nt, a Un i on Pac i f i c maintenance cre w t hat happ e ne d to b e re pl acing t he br i d ge’s r ai l t i e s p ai nte d ove r t he mur a l.

I d i s c ov e re d t h i s a s I was paddling under t h e br i d g e , i nt e n d i n g t o t a k e a pi c tu re of t h e p a i nt i n g f or my g i r l f r i e n d , w h o h a d of t e n e x pre s s e d h e r a d m i r a t i on f or it . As t h e a r t h a d b e e n up t h e re f or m a ny m ont h s a n d w a s w e l l re g a rd e d by t h e g e n e r a l pu b l i c , t h e e x p a n s e of mu d - brow n m e t a l t h at g re e t e d m e i n it s p l a c e c a m e a s a n u np l e a s a nt s h o c k .

I pro b a b l y s h ou l d n’t h av e b e e n s o s u r pr i s e d ; t h e “f o c u s on e p oi nt a n d bre at h e” mu r a l w a s m e re l y t h e l at e s t c a s u a lt y i n a n e n d l e s s w a r b e t w e e n s t re e t a r t i s t s a n d t h e p ow e r s t h at - b e . B ut i n a c it y t h at pr i d e s it s e l f on a r t , mu s i c , c u ltu re a n d “ w e i rd n e s s” m ore t h a n a ny t h i n g e l s e , c ou l d n’t those p ow e r s h av e l o o k e d t h e ot h e r w ay — at l e a s t t h i s on c e ?

The cit y gover nment do e s not s e e m to und e rst and t he dist inc t ion t hat must b e mad e b e t we e n si mple vand a lism and works of ar t. Yes, t he mur a l w asn’t of f i c i a l ly s anc t i one d, and t he ar t ist t resp ass e d on pr ivate prop e r t y to c re ate it, but it wasn’t

gang-rel ate d. It wasn’t of fens ive. It was n’t ug ly, and it wasn’t doing e ven t he slig htest iot a of har m to any b o dy. It was swe et , b e aut if u l and irre press ibly che er f u l.

What t he hel l’s w rong w it h t hat ?

Union Pacif ic wou ld have much rat her let t he ar t st ay, a lb eit for more prac t ic a l re as ons .

“We prefer not to p aint over g raf f it i, b e c aus e it t a kes t ime away f rom work t hat ne e ds to b e d one to ensure t hat we have st able t rack st r ucture,” s aid Union Pacifi c sp okes woman R aquel E spinoza.

“Whene ver we have cre ws p ainti ng br idges , t hat me ans t hos e cre ws are not out insp e c t ing t racks. In ad dit ion, we have to stop t rain t raf f ic on a bus y rai l line.”

T h e on e c av e at t h at s h ou l d b e n ot e d i s t h at t h e a r t i s t put h i s or h e r s e l f at e x t re m e r i s k t o c re at e t h e mu r a l . “ T h o s e a re a c t i v e t r a c k s , a n d t r a i n s op e rat e 2 4 h ou r s a d ay, s e v e n d ay s a w e e k ,” E s pi n o z a s a i d . “ T h e re’s n ot a l ot of ro om f or e r ror w h e n y ou’re w or k i n g on t h e t r a c k s , a n d t h e y d on’t h av e t h e t r a i n i n g t h at ou r e mp l oy e e s h av e … i f t h e re h a d b e e n a n a c c i d e nt , it t ot a l l y w ou l d n ot h av e b e e n w or t h it .”

Photo courtesy Jessica Mullen

T h at’s a b s o lut e l y t r u e , a n d E s pi n o z a i s r i g ht t o re m i n d p e op l e n ot t o d o s om e t h i n g a s i n c re d i b l y f o o l h a rd y a s s n e a k i n g ont o a t r a i n t re s t l e ov e r a l a k e i n t h e m i d d l e of t h e n i g ht a n d h a n g i n g ov e r t h e e d g e f or a n e x t e n d e d p e r i o d of t i m e . B ut i n l i g ht of t h e g re at l e n g t h s t h e a r t i s t w e nt t o m e re l y t o m a k e s t r a n g e r s’ d ay s a l itt l e br i g ht e r, t h e c it y

R.J. Washington loves Justin Bieber Editor’s note: Every year, in advance of the Red River Rivalry, The Daily Texan and The OU Daily trade trash-talking columns before the big game. OU, as it happens, still sucks.

Well, it’s time for another Red River Showdown, and for the first time since 2007, both of our teams are coming in with a loss on their records. That’s because our defense’s tackling is about as reliable as a TCU quarterback behind the wheel, and your team handled Collin Klein about as well as Vince Young handles his money.

And once again, our University is in the national spotlight, this time for a highprofile Supreme Court case regarding our admissions policy. We figure you’d be able to empathize with the plaintiff, since no one in Norman was admitted to UT either.

It’s hard for us not to be so proud of our University. It’s often said that a burnt orange Texas sunset is a sign that God is a Longhorn fan. In reality, though, it’s just proof that anything looks glowing when you put it next to Oklahoma.

And, while last week’s loss to West Virginia stung, we got to welcome a new school to the conference. Their fans were great and nothing like the couch-burning, moonshine-swigging horror stories we’d feared. That should give y’all some relief, since embarrassing the rest of the Big 12 Conference has always been your domain.

But then again, we have to respect when a team is playing well and off to a great start, even if it is from Oklahoma. So congratulations, Tulsa, keep it up.

But we jest. We don’t really think your school is an elaborate prank designed to lure people into buying Toby Keith albums. In reality, the University of Oklahoma is outstanding and on par with our nation’s great academic institutions, a “lighthouse on the prairie,” if you will.

(Note from Copy Desk: isn’t that supposed to say “outhouse?”)

However, in past years these letters have gotten pretty mean, full of vitriol and references to trailer homes. We thought that this year we’d tone it down a little and instead offer some friendly advice for our Sooner friends — although, due to space constraints, shoe-tying lessons will have to wait until next year.

First, while you’re in Dallas this weekend, make sure to party responsibly. While brewskis in Oklahoma are only 3.5% ABV, here in Texas we drink grown-up beer.

A few too many of those and you’ll be stumbling around the West End, trying to

What’s the absolute worst that could happen?

You end up back in Oklahoma?

convince a light pole that you didn’t lose to Tech last year. But don’t worry. If by chance you do crush a few too many Natty Lites, what’s the absolute worst that could happen? You end up back in Oklahoma?

Next, come Saturday morning you’re going to want to get to the fairgrounds early to take in all the sights and sounds.

Make sure to try the Fair’s many culinary offerings, including buffalo flapjacks, pineapple upside-down cake and even fried bubblegum, or, as you call it in Oklahoma, “bubblegum.”

After that, you can make your way down to the Midway to try the games or rides. You might even see some celebrities in town for the game. But remember, if you think you see the cast of “Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo,” don’t be fooled. It just means you’re lost in the House of Mirrors.

Again.

Lastly, and this is important, we’ve been asked by the State Fair organizers to remind our Sooner neighbors that they do not condone any kind of grotesque freakshow attractions or theater. No matter how many coupons the children offer to give you.

But above all else, don’t forget to make it into the stadium in time for kick-off. Now, we know Sooners aren’t good with basic math, numbers or any of the other skills necessary to tell time, so we’ve come up with a more suitable frame of reference.

Kick-off is going to be about two hours after you pick up your cousin from the county jail, about an hour before you quit your Sudoku (because who doesn’t love Sudoku?) and somewhere between the third and fourth time you blame something on Obama that day.

For the rest of the civilized world, that time is known as 11 o’clock. Coincidentally, the National Weather Service has just confirmed that, at that time, OU will still suck.

We hope y’all enjoy the game. And by the way, we really applaud the OU Daily for “going green” this year. Your dedication to the cause really speaks to your willingness to recycle all your jokes from previous years.

s h ou l d h av e l e t t h e mu r a l s t ay.

I c an’t sp e a k for e v er y b o dy, but I fou nd t he mu r a l to b e one of t he co ol est s ig hts in t he cit y. T he ar t ist, w ho e ver he or she was , tur ne d a pl ain, brow n, unremark abl e r ai l ro a d t rest le into a char m ing , att rac t ive rem ind er to stop, rel a x and enj oy t he moment once in a w h i le. Ever y t ime I s aw

it, w het her f rom a k aya k on t he l a ke or one of t he ot her br id ges , I felt comp el l e d to ob e y t he mu r a l’s inst r u c t ions . I l o oke d of f into t he d ist ance, qu iete d my m ind for a he ar tb e at, and bre at he d.

And you k now w hat?

It felt g re at.

Stroud i s an inte rnational relation s and g lobal studies s opho more f rom S an Antonio.

Sooner-born, sooner-bred Dear Texas, We hate you.

We hate burnt orange, drugged-up steers, dress-up cowboys, “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” and losing to the Longhorns.

We hate the McCoy and Shipley brothers, Vince Young, Chris Simms, Cedric Benson and your dirty, overpriced state fair.

We. Hate. You. But do you know what we love?

Hearing one side of the Cotton Bowl roar as the other falls silent. Answering your call-and-return “Texas Fight” chants with “sucks.”

Forming our hands into upside-down horns at every opportunity. Listening to you brag about how awesome your high school football is, only to watch the Sooners steal the top recruits out from under your nose.

And then there’s the thing we love the most: beating the living hell out of you in your own state.

We love 55-17. We love 28-20. We love 28-21, 12-0, 65-13, 35-24, 14-3 and 6314.

To us, the Longhorns represent something more than just a football team.

They’re a symbol for everything we hate about the state of Texas: the entitlement, the inflated sense of importance and selfworth, the bigger-is-better mentality and, perhaps most of all, the lack of courtesy toward others on the road. (Seriously, this is an issue. How hard is it to use a turn signal and not run people off the highway for driving the speed limit?)

Most of the Texas fans I know realize that they’re hated or at least disliked, but they don’t understand why. They casually write it off as envy and carry on their merry way.

The thing we love the most: beating the hell out of you in your own state.

They’re the guy at the bar with a man tan and a way-too-tight Tapout shirt smirking and saying “haters gonna hate” when people call him a tool.

They have no clue.

Texas fans think everyone hates them for the same reason everyone hates Alabama football, when in reality, it’s for the reason everyone hates Notre Dame football.

Sorry for relying on cheesy analogies and sports metaphors to define our hate for your university, but it’s a hard thing to explain. People hate Texas because Texas thinks it’s awesome, not because Texas is awesome.

Texas is the Kanye West of universities.

I can’t think of a simpler way to put it.

No university has a bigger superiority complex, which creates an interesting dynamic for the Red River Rivalry: the humble folksiness of Oklahoma vs. the pompous pride of Texas.

And that’s where the rivalry transcends football. It’s not just a battle of football teams; it’s a battle of ideologies.

We have a saying here in the Sooner state: “Sooner born, Sooner bred, and when I die, I’ll be Sooner dead.”

Now, nothing in there mentions hating Texas or that sorry university that calls Austin home, but nonetheless, we still feel an obligation to despise our neighbors to the south.

So we’ll continue to hate the Lone Star State with every atom of our beings until the day we die. And we’re perfectly fine with that.

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CAMPUS Protesters from an unidentified organization picket outside the Texas Union on Wednesday.

The protestors, whose messages included slurs, were quickly joined by counter-protestors from LGBT and Islamic student organizations.

Jordan Rudner Daily Texan Staff

Offensive protest shocks students

By Jordan Rudner A small group of unidentified protesters using homophobic and anti-Islamic slurs demonstrated Wednesday afternoon outside the Texas Union and were quickly joined by counter-protesters from LGBT rights groups and members of the Muslim Students’ Association.

The unidentified protesters, who remained on campus for approximately two hours, attracted a group of spectators when they brought out picket signs and began condemning

gay marriage and advocating the importance of following the word of the Bible.

Eyewitness Nick Mitchell, a biology senior, said a group of between four and six people arrived around 1 p.m.

Mitchell and other witnesses said the majority of the protesters simply held protest signs, but one man shouted anti-homosexual, anti-feminist and anti-Islamic slogans at the surrounding crowd.

Mitchell, a member of LGBT rights student organization StandOut, said he encountered the protest just after 1 p.m. He and oth-

ers immediately went to the Gender and Sexuality Center in the Student Activity Center, where he found members of StandOut and other organizations that aim to promote LGBT equality. After a brief conversation, the members decided to head to the protest with banners and iconic rainbow flags.

Mitchell said the situation ultimately served an instructional purpose.

“People said they realized that discrimination still exists, is still powerful and is something we need to actively fight against,” Mitchell said.

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Answering questions from Justice Anthony Kennedy, who may be the swing vote in this case, Rein said UT did not pursue race-neutral alternatives that would have furthered diversity.

Kennedy took aim at this point in his dissent in Grutter and said diversity goals could be achieved through race-neutral methods.

“Race should have been a last resort and it was a first resort,” Rein said.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Rein was attempting to “gut Grutter.” By requiring UT and other universities to set specific targets for admissions, colleges would make their own policies unconstitutional, she said.

“Boy, it sounds awfully like a quota to me, which Grutter said you should not be doing,” Sotomayor said. “[Grutter said] instead you should be setting an individualized assessment of the applicants.”

UT factors an applicant’s race into admissions decisions for students not automatically admitted based on high school class rank. UT admits close to one-quarter of its students under its race-conscious holistic review process.

Gregory Garre, UT’s counsel, said UT’s data shows the University met legal precedents set under Grutter because the University’s race-conscious admissions benefit all groups and do not set any sort of target.

UT admits more white students than any other racial group under its raceconscious admissions policy, UT records show. The University has admitted lower percentages of black and His-

panic students through raceconscious admissions than through race-neutral admissions every year since 2007.

Garre said there was no way to quantify a critical mass of students from a particular group.

“I think the standard you would apply is to look to whether or not the University reached an environment in which members of underrepresented minorities do not feel like spokespersons for their race, an environment where the benefits are realized,” Garre said.

Garre also said UT did not rank students in ways where race could be a “tiebreaker” between two applicants, but Justice Samuel Alito questioned the feasibility of his comment.

Justice Antonin Scalia was critical of UT’s admissions records — especially reports showing that the majority of race-conscious admits came from households with incomes above $50,000.

“Does the United States agree with Mr. Garre that African-American and Hispanic applicants from privileged backgrounds deserve a preference?” Scalia said when questioning Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, who spoke on behalf of the United States government in support of UT. Verrilli said UT’s admissions policy was tailored to create diversity within different racial groups, not just between broad racial categories by only selecting underprivileged applicants. “[UT] will look for individuals who will play against racial stereotypes

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just by what they bring,” Verrilli said. “The AfricanAmerican fencer, the Hispanic who has who has mastered classical Greek.”

Verrilli also stated the opinion of the United States government that educational diversity is necessary to prepare soldiers and government officials for the diverse work environment they encounter after college.

Chief Justice John Roberts expressed concern about the amount of faith the court would need to place in UT’s claim that its policy is being used effectively without any numerical analysis.

“The compelling interest you identify is attaining a critical mass of minority students at the University of Texas, but you won’t tell me what the critical mass is,” Roberts said.

On the steps in front of the court, representatives from several UT student groups strove to place their own mark on the arguments cut in the courtroom. Those in attendance included Bradley Poole, president of the Black Student Alliance, and Joshua Tang, coordinator of a student campaign to support UT’s admissions policy.

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To conclude National Coming Out Week, student organization StandOut will be hosting a “Closet Door Signing” event meant to garner support for LGBT students Thursday.

Over the course of the week, various organizations hosted events aimed toward education - on LGBT issues. Tuesday, the n Gender and Sexuality Center t hosted a panel discussion about disclosing sexual orientation s in the workplace. Wednesday, n Shane Whalley, the center’s - education and outreach coory dinator, led a talk on how het, erosexual students can support s and serve as allies for LGBT stu. dents. The week of pro-LGBT 8 events will culminate Thursday ” with the door signing.

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2 p.m. near the East Mall, features a painted pink-and-purple wooden door students can sign to advertise their support for the LGBT community. According to StandOut secretary Matt Gracia, the signatures send a message to LGBT students on campus.

“Over the course of the day the closet door becomes a symbol of coming out for LGBT rights,” Gracia, a women’s and gender studies junior, said.

Although the door signatures serve a primarily symbolic purpose, the event will also involve political action. StandOut will have several computers set up so that students can contact legislators to communicate their support.

“We want students to call representatives in their district and say, ‘I support gay and transgender rights and you should too,’” Gracia said.

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According to the Human Rights Campaign, a national LGBT rights group, LGBT activists Rob Eichberg and Jean O’Leary founded the first-ever National Coming Out Day in 1988. UT student organizations started sponsoring celebratory events on campus more recently. Ana Ixchel Rosal, Gender and Sexuality Center director, said National Coming Out Day has been celebrated in some way at UT for at least eight years.

“This event has happened at least every year since I’ve been here,” Rosal said. “It’s coordinated differently every year.”

Although all of the week’s activities are meant to support LGBT students in general, they are also geared toward encouraging heterosexual students and elected officials to “come out” as allies in support of community issues.

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By Christian Corona

Texas sophomore point guard Myck Kabongo is being investigated by the NCAA for possibly receiving impermissible benefits from agent Rich Paul, Longhorns spokesman Scott McConnell confirmed to The Daily Texan on Wednesday.

Yahoo! Sports first reported the NCAA’s probe into Kabongo’s relationship with Paul, who also represents former Longhorn standouts Tristan

Thompson and Cory Joseph, along with the Miami Heat’s LeBron James.

McConnell said that Kabongo is still practicing with the team and that no timetable has been set for the NCAA to make its decision on Kabongo’s eligibility. Until the NCAA makes that decision, Kabongo is cleared to play. Texas begins its season Nov. 9.

The report cited sources that said the NCAA is looking into whether travel expenses or any other costs were paid by Paul

when Kabongo traveled to Cleveland in May for workouts with professional trainer Jerry Powell, who said Paul was not present during the workouts.

According to the NCAA rulebook, a player would be declared ineligible if he or she agreed, verbally or in writing, to enter an agreement with an agent. NCAA Bylaw 12.3.1.2 states that a studentathlete would be ineligible if they accepted “transportation or other benefits from ... any person who represents any in-

dividual in the marketing of his or her athletics ability [or] ... an agent, even if the agent has indicated that he or she has no interest in representing the student-athlete.”

After averaging 9.6 points and a team-best 5.2 assists per game as a freshman last year, Kabongo turned down a chance to be selected in this year’s NBA Draft to return to Texas.

Attempts made to reach Paul Wednesday night were unsuccessful.

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By Lauren Giudice Kenny Vaccaro isn’t afraid to call out his teammates. The senior safety has a lot of experience under his belt.

With linebacker Jordan Hicks’ hip injury keeping him off the field the past two games, Vaccaro’s leadership is needed now more than ever.

The Longhorns’ young linebackers struggled against West Virginia on Saturday and gave up 207 rushing yards to Andrew Buie — five more than Texas gave up to any team last year. Although Vaccaro doesn’t mind yelling at his teammates, he understands the position that the inexperienced linebackers are in.

“On the field, I just give them praise and tell them to keep their head up and just keep fighting,” Vaccaro said. “I remember when I was young, I was making mental mistakes in the game, I wasn’t perfect.

People get down on those guys, but the game is hard.”

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country. West Virginia and Oklahoma State are two of those teams. Their up-tempo

offenses challenged the young Longhorns the past two weeks.

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urday, the coaches had Vaccaro covering West Virginia running back Tavon Austin.

McCoy a slick pick in fantasy this week With fantasy contenders beginning to emerge in many leagues, the emphasis now is on staying competitive and not falling behind in the standings.

Whether the goal is to remain in first place or climb out of last, it only takes a few key lineup modifications:

Elisabeth Dillon | Daily Texan Staff Cornerback Quandre Diggs makes a tackle during last week’s West Virginia game. After battling the high-scoring Mountaineers, the Longhorns will face off against Oklahoma’s hot offense.

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During the game, the two were joking around with each other

52-point-a-game attack.

Now they face and Landry Jones and Oklahoma, which is averaging 38.3 points a game. Some break, huh?

It will be a challenge for the Longhorns, but they insist heir experiences over the past two weeks have ad-

equately prepared them.

“Oklahoma State, West Virginia, along with Baylor are all very similar,” cornerback Carrington Byndom said. “They all run the same type of offenses, so we kind of have a little bit

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Players to start:

1) LeSean McCoy, RB, Philadelphia Eagles The Eagles are an anomaly for a number of reasons, one of them being their inability to consistently get the ball to the explosive McCoy. However, with Michael Vick struggling to hold onto the football and the Eagles facing a Lions defense that has allowed over 100 rush yards per game this season, “Shady” McCoy should have a solid week. Expect him to get plenty of touches and reach the end zone.

2) Larry Fitzgerald, WR, Arizona Cardinals After looking practically invisible the first two weeks of the season, Fitzgerald has emerged as the fantasy stud people thought he would be, averaging just under 90 receiving yards over the past three games. With a weak Buffalo Bills defense coming up Sunday, Cardinals quarterback Kevin Kolb will be looking in Fitzgerald’s direction any chance he gets.

3) Alfred Morris, RB, Washington Redskins While everyone has been talking about another Redskins rookie, Morris has quietly put together a very solid season. Morris has been the model of consistency, topping 89 yards rushing in all but one game this year, including back-to-back 100-yard games the past two weeks. Whether quarterback Robert Griffin III plays or not Sunday against the Vikings, look for the Redskins’ offense to lean on Morris.

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Three games down, three wins

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Three games in and it already looks promising for the Longhorns.

Texas took a 7-2 win over Alvin Community College at McCombs Field. UT senior Kim Bruins started on the mound and struck out four during the first two innings. Texas allowed just three base runners over the

last 5 2/3 innings. Freshman Holly Kern replaced Bruins on the mound and shined with a 1-2-3 third inning. In the bottom of the third Torie Schmidt tripled and scored on a double by Erin Shireman, putting the Longhorns on top, 3-2.

Kern’s dominance over the Dolphins continued with a scoreless fourth. Texas added two more runs in the fifth while Blaire Luna

retired the side in the next two innings while striking out five batters. Sophomore Marlee Gabaldon put the Longhorns up 6-2 with a solo home run. Texas finished it off with a final run in the seventh.

“We kept the same goals as we had last Friday, which were advancing base runners and continuing to work the process,” head coach Connie Clark said.

Andrew Torrey | Daily Texan Staff Senior pitcher Blaire Luna struck out five batters during the Longhorn’s fifth inning against Alvin Community College.

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Texas, Ohio State to play in 2022, 2023

Apparently craving some Southern hospitality, Ohio State announced Wednesday its plans to play Texas in 2022 and 2023. The Buckeyes will also face TCU for a home-andhome series in 2018 and 2019.

Avid college football fans can rejoice as two of the winningest college football teams of all time face off on Sept. 17, 2022 in Austin and Sept.

16, 2023 in Columbus.

In addition, Ohio State will get a taste of another Big 12 team, Oklahoma, in 2016 and 2017.

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Armstrong report still pending

The world may soon know what the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has on Lance Armstrong.

In August, USADA ordered the results from 14 years of Armstrong’s career erased, including his seven Tour de France titles, and banned him from cycling for life because of the doping case against him.

It is planning within days to send a report detailing its “reasoned decision” to the International Cycling Union, the sport’s governing body.

The document is widely anticipated because USADA is expected to include detailed evidence — including witness names and specific allegations — that USADA said it had when it charged Armstrong with performance-enhancing drug use while winning the Tour every year from 1999-2005.

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Split crowd unique One of the best parts of the Red River Rivalry game is that it takes place at a neutral site, the Cotton Bowl, with the 92,000 fans split evenly down the middle between burnt orange and crimson.

Hearing the fans on both sides is almost comical for some of the players.

“When you walk out of the tunnel all you hear is ‘Boo! boo! boo!’” running back Joe Bergeron said. “Until you hit the 50-yard line and all you hear is ‘Yay!’”

and talking about “making money.” They were feeding off each other throughout the game. Vaccaro earned the Hard Hat award for being the hardest hitter on the team.

This Saturday, the Longhorns take on Landry Jones and Oklahoma. The Sooners beat them the past two seasons, including last year’s 55-17 rout.

Those losses aren’t sitting well with Vaccaro. The defense’s struggles this season aren’t sitting well with him either.

“It’s little things that are making a big difference,” Vaccaro said.

Saturday was an improvement for the Longhorns and

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It played two different quarterbacks, turned the ball over five times and allowed 453 yards.

The final score has served as excellent motivation for the team.

“It motivates us a lot,” cornerback Quandre Diggs said.

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tough, he’s smart, he and Alex [Okafor], Jackson Jeffcoat, have been really special players to try to help everybody on defense hang together.”

He had 11 tackles during the game Saturday and has two interceptions so far this season. There is no double standard with Vaccaro. He knows he has to perform well in order to be a leader of this defense.

“The fact is, in the DB room, we have our own problems,” Vaccaro said. “Until I start playing perfect games, which will probably never happen, I’m not going to yell at anyone. We have a lot of leadership in each group from d-line to linebacker to secondary.”

Against Landry Jones and the Sooners, Vaccaro will need to step up as both a defensive back and a senior leader.

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of experience under our belt by playing those other two teams, Oklahoma State and West Virginia.”

Ash different a year later It was in last year’s game at the Cotton Bowl that David Ash had one of his lowest moments as a Longhorn. He had three turnovers — two picks and a fumble — while throwing for 107 yards on 20 attempts and looking completely overwhelmed by the magnitude of the stage.

One year later, he’s a completely different quarterback.

He has thrown for 1,276 yards, 11 touchdowns and only one interception. He led the Longhorns on a gamewinning drive at Oklahoma State in front of a hostile crowd and features the second-best quarterback rating in the nation.

“They’re the same person, but then again, they’re

they only missed seven tackles, said defensive coordinator Manny Diaz. But the inexperienced linebackers, who are missing Hicks, were unable to stop the run game.

Vaccaro is one of the many seniors who have taken it upon themselves to leave this team the way it was when they arrived on campus. That goal for him makes Saturday’s Red River Rivalry game even more important.

Manny Diaz said while the younger players are struggling, the experienced players like Vaccaro are leading by example. Defensive backs coach Duane Akina compares Vaccaro to the best safeties he’s ever coached, including Michael Huff, Michael Griffin and Earl Thomas.

“Kenny’s been the key,” head coach Mack Brown said.

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not the same football player,” offensive guard Mason Walters said. “From last year to this year, he’s probably spent more time preparing, understanding the offense, understanding the importance of his role.”

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See video online: bit.ly/sciscene1011 Dual identities intertwine The United States is often thought of as a melting pot, a potpourri of cultures provided by the individuals who inhabit the country, although that’s not always the case in practice.

Previous studies have looked at bicultural Americans, showing that some of them find their two cultures similar and interconnected, whereas others find them separate and incompatible and for a given individual, this perspective appeared fairly fixed. However, a new paper published by two authors, one from the University of Hong Kong and the other from Columbia University, has shown that this cultural connectedness can shift, causing people to think of their dual identities in a more integrated manner while smiling or after focusing on the similarities of random objects such as keys or socks.

Although there’s much more to be learned about this subject, the study hints there may be better ways to help the tired, poor and huddled masses feel at home when they arrive in our country.

Quantum time possible Anyone who has spent any time learning about the world

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“What I love about science fiction is the subtlety of the craziness. There’s

of quantum mechanics knows that it’s weird, but a group working out of UCLA has developed a new framework for the subject that makes it even stranger.

Quantum mechanics, one of the great physics developments of the 20th century, explains how very small objects, such as electrons, behave. Unlike macroscopic objects, very small ones don’t exist at specific locations and exhibit strange and contradictory properties such as behaving both like particles and waves. If the UCLA group’s new framework is correct, then time is shifty as well, resulting in the intertwining of causes and effects, where the latter doesn’t necessarily occur after the former. Needless to say, this is strange even by theoretical physics standards, but only time and future experimentation can determine if it is too strange for reality.

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very much a lack of subtlety in the era that we live in,” Watson said.

In his free time, Watson is most likely working on a film score. During the band’s brief respite between tours, Watson has been composing the score to a short film he described, as “a Jim Henson porno in space narrated by

David Attenborough.”

Watson’s life is a busy one, filled with song writing, film scoring and the occasional hint of magic.

“When I go to write music, that’s my favorite part,” Watson said. “It’s a beautiful escape, it feels fantastic. I don’t think I could ever stop writing music.”

In a sense, a beautiful escape is what Patrick Watson as a band aims to provide through its live performances.

“Recordings always makes us a lot more melancholic than the music really is. It’s a fun show.

People usually like our live show better than our

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up, we’ve been through hell and back and we’ve survived.

Starting another band at this point is one of the most depressing things we could embark on.

Q: What’s up with the new album art? What is it?

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and exciting snapshot of life in a prehistoric time.

A: The album art is a picture of a place called Habitat 67 in Montreal that was built for the World Expo in 1967. I guess back in the ‘60s people had a quirky, crazy, utopian view of the future. It makes no sense in terms of practicality, it’s not about being practical, it’s about thinking outside of the box. That’s another reason we called it The North, it dates back to a time where places like Canada lost track of what the future should be. Now everything is so homogenous and they want everything to be the same.

contemporary bands?

A: We’re not very cool. We tried to be cool for a while, but we’ve given up on that. Contemporary bands are all very cool, but we’re not, which is totally cool with us. We play music for uncool people. Sometimes cool people sneak in to see us and like us, but nobody listens to them.

Q: Have you played ACL before? Are you excited for this year?

A: We’ve played at least three times. We love Austin. I used to not like Texas at all except Austin, but now, I love all of Texas. I love Dallas and Houston. I don’t like El Paso, though. Sorry El Paso, I just don’t like it there. But Austin — Barton Springs and Amy’s Ice Cream, great tacos, what more do you want?

Q: One distinct part about Stars’ sound is the two vocalists. What’re the advantages of having two singers?

Q: What would your 10-yearold self say if you traveled back in time to say you would one day be in a famous band?

A: Conversation! And it’s always good to have a girl in anything you do. I guess it’s kind of like that Brooks & Dunn song, “Put a Girl in It.” It’s a great song, it’s just about, to make things better, putting a girl in your life, band or just anything you do. It sort of diffuses the tension. It could be a disaster to have two singers, but it’s nice to have a conversation, to have two sides to the story.

A: No fucking way!! I used to joke when I was kid, when people asked me what I wanted to be, I would say I wanted to be a rock star to piss my parents off. We didn’t even make money; it was never supposed to be a viable career option. “Rock and roll musician” was not ever on the list, so I would probably laugh at myself but would be psyched at the same time. I really loved drums and rock and roll when I was 10. Me and my Walkman all day long; Me and Depeche Mode.

Q: What do you think sets you apart from other

CDs,” Watson said.

During the band’s firstever ACL performance, audience members can expect to see Patrick Watson’s usual signature antics, but will also enjoy a more subdued show compared to previous tours.

What definitely won’t be missing, however, is the

subtle magic Patrick Watson has managed to capture so well in Adventures In Your Own Backyard.

“When I’m on stage performing the album and I just feel it in my gut. There’s not another word to describe that feeling other than magic. I love that it has that kind of magic to it.”

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Life & Arts No limits to this year’s fun 10

Kelsey McKinney, Life & Arts Editor

Stars member shares carefree take on life

By Shane Miller

Stars

Date: Sunday Time: 1:15 p.m.

Location: Barton Springs Stage Patrick McGee has been playing drums for 30 years, 12 of which have been with Stars.

The Canadian indie band will be on tour until Christmas 2013 to promote their sixth album The North and will be playing the Austin City Limits Music Festitval this weekend.

The Daily Texan spoke with McGee about hockey, ACL and time travel.

Q: When did you know you wanted to be a musician?

A: Well when I was about six I decided I either wanted to be a drummer or a hockey goalie. I tried [ice] skating, I’ve skated since I was 6 years old, and then one day I got my big break to play goalie, but we lost 14-2. I figured I might as well play drums.

live for fun. I make jam, love girls, make ice cream, do drugs, go to concerts and ride dirt bikes. I’m all about fun!

Q: Why are you called Stars?

A: Well, [Stars lead singersongwriter Torquil Campbell] started the band. He had a philosophical idea back in his 20s. It has to do with the fact that [stars] are equated with a dual meaning of being beautiful, endless points of light that are untouchable and forever inspirational, and the rapidity of what we associate the word stars with on Earth, like Hollywood people that are just there to entertain us and look pretty.

It’s an empty notion of what the word star really means.

Q: You haven’t had any exmembers since your inception in 2000. How have you guys kept such solidarity?

Q: Any other hobbies?

A: We’re too afraid to break up, fear keeps us together [Laughs].

Well, we’ve been friends forever, we’ve had ups and downs, so what the fuck? We all get along and put a lot of work into it. We’ve become family at this point, we haven’t broken

A: I still skate recreationally. I

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From left to right, Quiet Company band members Tom Blank, Jeff Weathers, Taylor Muse, Cody Ackors and Matt Parmenter will perform on the Austin Ventures stage at the Austin City Limits Music Festival Saturday morning.

Trombonist Cody Ackors is a former student of the Butler School of Music.

Marisa Vasquez Daily Texan Staff

Taylor Muse ponders success

By Alexandra Hart

Quiet Company Date: Saturday Time: 11:15 a.m.

Location: Austin Ventures Stage

Somewhere in an unassuming East Austin neighborhood, a duplexturned-homemade recording studio lends its space to the rapidly ascending local talent Quiet Company. The sound booths are a work in progress, the floor tiles are uneven; the place seems like a humble setting for a band well on its way to national recognition.

“We just moved into this place,” front man Taylor Muse says. “It’s been a little bit of a hiccup trying to move from one place to another in the middle of recording the EP and everything else going on.”

This year has been big for Quiet Company. In the past few months alone, the group has added to its re-

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sume a successful South By Southwest run, several national tours, a full house at their recent Blues on the Green concert and a big haul at the 2012 Austin Music Awards, including Album of the Year and Band of the Year, to name just a few. Now they’re taking the stage at Austin City Limits.

“ACL, there’s not a whole lot bigger than that,” Muse said. “It was a bit of a surprise.

They just asked us. I think that maybe we just had such a great year here in Austin that they couldn’t really ignore us anymore.”

But if Muse had gotten his way to begin with, he never would have moved to Austin.

Originally from northeast Texas, Muse played in several bands growing up before joining the now-defunct Connotations, the band with which he moved to Nashville, Tenn., and eventually, Austin.

“I never wanted to live in Austin,” he said. “But my band all started wanting to move here, and I started dating a girl long-distance and figured it would get me closer to her.

Once we moved here we were

probably a band for a year or two. We played maybe six shows before breaking up. But I had these songs left over that I had written that I wanted to play.”

Through Craigslist, he met guitarist Tommy Blank and over time they began to solidify their lineup, eventually bringing on bassist Matt Parmenter and drummer Jeff Weathers as permanent members. By way of chance and a Facebook fan message, trombonist Cody Ackors eventually became a fixture in the group.

“Cody sent us this really adorable message on Facebook a while back, after a show we played in Waco,” Muse said. “We used him in one of our first videos as an extra, and later one of his friends mentioned how he was this great trombonist.

We had been toying with the idea of adding some horns so we talked to him about that.

I kind of fell in love with that sound and we stuck with it.”

Ackors, a former UT Butler School of Music student, said that he prefers his current ar-

rangement over his days in recital halls. Having played guitar and drums in previous bands, he said he was ready for a change of pace.

“I started to see an out from the whole music school thing once we started getting serious about playing,” Ackors said. “I liked the people in the trombone studio at UT, but they’re all kind of like athletes.

They’re all striving for this one sound, and they all try to sound exactly the same to get that one orchestra job out there that exists. And this year, I kind of realized, that’s not what I’m about. I want to play rock and roll music.”

With an EP in the works, an ACL performance this weekend, a national tour immediately following and a full-length album due out next year, the group won’t be slowing down anytime soon.

“I feel like we’ve worked really hard ever since we started, so every year so far has been our best year,” Muse said. “Every year is just a culmination of all the years before it. Hopefully next year, we’ll be saying that’s our biggest year yet.”

Watson’s whimsical show will charm

By Hannah Smothers

Patrick Watson Date: Friday Time: 1:30 p.m.

Location: Barton Springs Stage

Patrick Watson’s debut Austin City Limits Music Festival performance may turn out to be more of a magic show than a Brigitte Henry | Courtesy of Pitch Perfect musical performance.

Patrick Watson will be making their ACL debut at this Patrick Watson is not year’s festival. the lonely, goateed singersongwriter you might ini- band of Canadian men. ward humble subtlety with tially picture upon hearing According to audience ac- hints of magical whimsy. the name. The name refers counts, previous shows Inspiration for the album to a band composed of four have seen the band perform was drawn from familiar men, one of whom is named tricks such as transforming places inside Watson’s own Patrick Watson. a bicycle into an instrument metaphorical backyard.

“We didn’t have this am- while playing the song “Bei“Recording this album bition of being a band, we jing” from their junior al- inspired me to look at my were just kind of having bum, Wooden Arms. own neighborhood and these crazy evenings and For their most recent al- take a look at people I live were putting these elabo- bum, Adventures In Your around,” Watson said. “Inrate shows on,” Watson Own Backyard, the band stead of being inspired said. “We just got kind of left the bike on the rack by things far away, we try slumped into the name and stuck to conventional to be inspired by things Patrick Watson. I would’ve instruments during its pur- around us.” preferred to have a band posely subdued recording Watson’s self-proclaimed name, but life just happens sessions inside Watson’s love for old science fiction the way it does.” home. The result of these also plays a role in their The elaborate shows are toned-down sessions was an a signature attribute of this album that leans more to- MAGIC continues on page 8