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State Sen. Mario Gallegos died Tuesday at the age of 62.
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First year coach Capitani sets sights on topping alma mater.
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The UT Ballet Folklórico Club dances to traditional Jalisco beats.
4 Twenty-first birthdays: the misplaced inebriation expectation.
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NASA teams with UT to fuel program By Bobby Blanchard NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will fund UT research projects after the University signed an agreement with the space program Tuesday. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory added UT to its Strategic University Research Partnership program Tuesday. The program, which
includes 11 other institutions of higher education, partners NASA with universities so student researchers and faculty can propose collaborative research and educational projects with Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers. Under the agreement, UT student and faculty projects are eligible for Jet Propulsion Laboratory federal funding. NASA’s Jet Propulsion
Laboratory is a research institute based in California that handles active space exploration projects like the Mars Exploration Rovers. In August, the Mars Curiosity Rover, a project Jet Propulsion Laboratory worked on, landed on the red planet. Undergraduates, graduates and UT faculty from specific programs will be able to propose research projects to the Strategic University
Research Partnership program, Byron Tapley, director of UT’s Center for Space Research, said. Tapley said this is an exciting opportunity for undergraduates. “It is a major benefit to be able to interact with Jet Propulsion Laboratory,” Tapley said. “It is stimulating. The fact that it is being done and the fact that they can be involved in what is happening really benefits
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Research + Pizza presents ‘Beauty Pays’ From noon-1 p.m., Dr. Daniel Hamermesh of the Department of Economics discusses the research underpinning his 2011 book, “Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful.” Free pizza will be served while it lasts. This event will be held in Room 2.500 inside the PCL.
Peace Corps coffee talk held
Attend an informational coffee talk on the Peace Corps. Talks are held on the first and third Wednesdays of every month and feature former Peace Corps volunteers and the UT recruiter. Meeting will be held at Starbucks, 504 West 24th Street from 5:30 6:30 p.m.
Today in history In 1964
The Yankees fire manager Yogi Berra. Berra played for the New York Yankees from 1946 to 1965. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.
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Quote to note ... I started interjecting some of that sarcasm, some of that snark, and poking fun at people, but not poking fun at them as an individual. — Darrell Halstead, UTPD officer on Campus Watch reports
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Emergency texts not reaching all those at UT By David Maly
The Daily Texan & Texas Travesty hold open house
Tour the newly renovated newsroom of The Daily Texan and Texas Travesty, where walls have come down to promote collaboration and the transition to a digital future. Snacks and cake provided. RSVP to rsvp@ texasstudentmedia.com. From 2-4 p.m. head over to the Hearst Building (HSM), 2nd floor.
undergraduate students.” Tapley said it was an exciting moment for him. “This is a very big day and a very important day,” Tapley said. “I think it is something we really needed here. I am happy to see this day come to pass.” Charles Elachi, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said before the formal
Marisa Vasquez | Daily Texan Staff Spectators watch the second presidential debate of the 2012 election season at Cuatros on 24th Street Tuesday evening. The town hall-style debate addressed immigration and women’s health, two issues that were not discussed the previous debate.
Candidates discuss tuition, immigration in fiery debate By David Loewenberg In a decidely more heated debate than the first, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Gov. Mitt Romney fielded questions straight from the voters in a town hall-style setup Tuesday night. Obama and Romney stood
before an audience of undecided voters at Hofstra University for the second presidential debate, where they were pressed on issues of job growth, education, immigration and women’s health, among other topics. After what was generally considered a disappointing debate performance by Obama in the first debate, the president quickly estab-
lished a more aggressive approach Tuesday night. On several occasions, Obama and Romney engaged in heated exchanges that were broken up by moderator Candy Crowley, CNN’s chief political correspondent. The first question of the debate was posed by Jeremy Epstein, a 20-year-old college student who asked about job prospects for college graduates. “What we have to do is two things,” Romney said. “We have to make sure that
we make it easier for kids to afford college and also make sure that when they get out of college, there’s a job. With half of college kids graduating this year without a job and without a college-level job, that’s just unacceptable.” Obama restated the importance of college affordability and referred to the expansion of Pell Grants under his administration. “We’ve expanded Pell Grants for millions of
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State registered voter numbers hit new high By Lazaro Hernandez Texas set a new record this election season by achieving the highest number of registered voters in the state’s history, according to a press release from the Texas Secretary of State. Despite the record-breaking numbers, officials remain concerned for a low voter turnout in November.
The Vote in Texas
2012*
Voter Registration 13,594,264 Voter Turnout
N/A
2008
2004
2000
1996
13,575,062
13,098,329
12,365,235
9,698,506
8,077,795
7,410,765
6,407,637
1,019,803
*Not all registration cards have been counted.
As of Monday, 13,594,264 people were registered on the Official List of Registered Voters, breaking the previous record of 13,575,062 set in the 2008 general election. The
current number of registered voters is expected to increase once all voter registration applications submitted the day of the deadline are processed, said Alicia Pierce, spokesperson
for the Texas Secretary of State’s office. “There tends to be a rush of registration right before the deadline, and those are
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The University announced Tuesday that some students did not get the campus-wide text alerts sent during two emergency situations this fall. According to the Campus Watch report issued Tuesday by UT police officer Darrell Halstead, some students reported to police that they did not get emergency text alerts the University sent during a false bomb threat made against the campus in September and a false report of a gunman on campus last week. According to the report, police found that some of those students’ parents signed up for the text alerts, and when they did, “the student’s cell number was knocked out of the system,” because only one phone number can be associated with a student, faculty or staff member’s account. UTPD spokesperson Cindy Posey said she is unable to comment. Only students, faculty and staff are eligible to receive the text alerts, according to the University’s emergency preparedness website. In response to the exclusivity of the alerts, Texas Exes and Texas Parents, the UT alumni association and parents’ association, respectively, have been working with UTPD to aid in alerting the public during emergency situations by sharing information with the public, including through the Texas Exes
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... some students reported to police that they did not get emergency text alerts the University sent during a false bomb threat made against the campus in September...
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Veterans struggle for game seating By Bobby Blanchard Many of UT’s student veterans may skip the annual veteran’s football game next month because of difficulties with seating. Marc Hamlin, vice president of the Student Veterans Association, said student veterans are frustrated with
UT athletics because of student seating issues. This past summer, Hamlin and Stephen Ollar, president of Student Veterans Association, approached the Texas Athletics Department about the possibility of working around Texas Athletics’ current group seating system to get student veterans
better seats. UT was not able to help them. “This is pushing a lot of veterans away from getting to go to the football game,” Hamlin said. “Student veterans do not want to sit next to what is to them an obnoxious 18-year-old.
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people ... and as a consequence, we’ve seen millions of young people be able to afford college,” Obama said. The candidates also addressed topics that were left out of the first presidential debate, including immigration and gun control. Obama criticized some of the positions that Romney took on immigration during the Republican primary. “His main strategy during the Republican primary was to say, ‘We’re going to encourage self-deportation, making life so miserable on folks that they’ll leave,’” Obama said. Responding to Obama’s self-deportation comments, Romney said he’s not in favor of rounding up undocumented residents but instead supports the ability for immigrants to make their own choice based on the opportunities available to them. “I want our legal system to work better,” Romney said. “I want it to be streamlined; I want it to be clearer. I don’t think you should have to ... This issue of The Daily Texan is valued at $1.25
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hire a lawyer to figure out how to get into this country legally.” Speaking from a debate watch party on campus, Andre Treiber, communications director for University Democrats, said Obama’s performance Tuesday night was a welcome contrast to the first debate. “Obama was really on the ball tonight and was really able to drive some points home that he wasn’t necessarily able to in the first debate,” Treiber said. “This time around I thought Obama had both the style and substance necessary to win the debate.” Saul Mendoza, president of College Republicans, said the debate produced no clear winner but Romney won on particular issues, including energy. “I thought it was a great debate, and I thought Romney did a little better than Obama,” Mendoza said. “One of the best parts of the debate was when they talked about energy. Obama tried to avoid the subject most of the time.” The third and final presidential debate will take place Oct. 22. Early voting in Texas begins the same day. Students can vote in the Peter T. Flawn Academic Center.
VOTE continues from page 1 the ones the counties are still counting right now,” Pierce said. “What we do know is that up until now, 2008 had our highest number, and we’ve already broken that number, so we already know this year will have the largest number of registered voters in Texas.” Despite the high number of registered voters, the state is now looking at ways to encourage Texans to go out and cast their ballots, Pierce said. During the 2008 presidential election, only 60 percent of registered voters in Texas cast their vote, while in 2004 the number was even lower at 57 percent, according to the Texas Secretary of State. Peck Young, director of the Center for Public Policy and Political Studies at Austin Community College, said although many people view voter registration as a social obligation, the same does not apply to actual voting. “We’re all told that voter registration is a good thing and it is something
we should do,” Young said. “Everybody registers like everybody goes to church on Easter or Christmas, but voting is more complicated than that.” Despite low voter turnouts in previous elections, voters in college are significantly more likely to participate in the election process this year than most young people, Young said. “We have seen a general uptick in young people’s voting patterns over the last two presidential elections,” he said. “We have especially seen a significant surge among those in college and those who just graduated from college exponentially in a big way.” Young said people in the 18 to 25 age range could have a significant impact on the outcome of this year’s election. “Nationally, [young voters] can be significant, because Obama and his folks have been appealing to them and Romney has not been ignoring them,” he said. Hook the Vote, a non-
partisan UT student organization, has been working on campus to promote voter registration among the student body. In August the organization worked with the Division of Housing and Food Services to distribute 11,000 voter registration cards in residence hall mailboxes, Hook the Vote director Billy Calve said. In person, Hook the Vote and partners registered around 3,000 students to vote throughout the semester and 3,500 on the day of the deadline, Calve said. “This was the first year we provided voter registration cards in dorms,” he said. “We can’t say for sure how many of those students filled out their forms yet, but our hope is that this new resource has boosted student registration at UT.” Early voting begins Oct. 22 and runs through Nov. 2. Election Day is Nov. 6. Registered students can cast their votes on campus at the Peter T. Flawn Academic Center.
TEXTS continues from page 1 Twitter account. Texas parents director Susie Smith said several issues exist with the text alert system that require the University to limit it to students, faculty and staff. Smith said the text alerts are currently being delivered to at least 70,000 students, faculty and staff through one University system and that
the system could crash if a large group of text alert recipients were added to it. She said adding another system to send alerts might not solve the problem. Smith said placing an additional burden on wireless providers could slow its service down, which would delay delivery of the texts during emergency situations.
Smith said University police have been working to address the issue of the exclusivity of the text alerts since the false bomb threat in September. “The University should offer to send the text alerts to anyone who could be put in danger by an emergency situation in the area, regardless of their status at UT,” biology
senior Karthikeyan Baskaran said. Baskaran is also a community assistant at the Castilian, a private dorm located at the corner of West 24th Street and San Antonio Street. “It should be [the University’s] responsibility to look out for the safety of everyone, regardless of who they are,” Baskaran said.
NASA continues from page 1 agreement signed Tuesday NASA had more than 50 years of work with UT. UT and Jet Propulsion Laboratory collaborated on the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellite program, which launched two satellites in 2002. The satellites are currently taking measurements of the Earth’s gravitational field. Tapley is one of the professors who worked on and continues to work on the project. “We have had a long-term relationship with individual faculty at UT,” Elachi said. “What we wanted to do was build a stronger and longer relationship.” Elachi said outside of California, UT is one of the largest sources of Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s employees. Almost 150 of Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s employees are UT alumni, Elachi said. For example, UT alumni
Richard Cook is the project manager of Mars Rover Curiosity. According to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA employs about 5,000 employees at its research site in California. “This program can be a source of both more research collaboration and future UT students becoming employees at Jet Propulsion Laboratory,” Elachi said. In a statement Tuesday, Juan Sanchez, UT’s vice president for research, said this partnership will enhance UT’s educational experience. “Our partnership will enrich the educational experience of undergraduate and graduate students in science and engineering, as well as offer faculty members opportunities to collaborate on JPL’s far-reaching projects of exploration,” Sanchez said in his statement.
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Moderate Hutchison worked for Texans
When Kay Bailey Hutchison, the senior U.S. Senator from Texas, retires at the end of this legislative session, we will have a front-row seat to a marked shift in the Texas Republican Party. Likely to replace her is Republican nominee Ted Cruz, a Tea Party favorite who currently leads his opponent, Democrat Paul Sadler, by nearly a 2-1 margin. While both the senator and her likely successor are Republicans, a comparison of Hutchison’s legislative record with Cruz’s goals highlights the contrast between them. Hutchison, a former UT cheerleader who graduated at 19 and obtained a law degree five years later, was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1993. During her 19 years in that office, Hutchison stood with the GOP on most issues, voting with the majority of Republicans almost 90 percent of the time, according to The Washington Post. She invariably supported the oil and gas industry at the expense of environmental protection, and voted for an outright constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. She also voted to exclude sexual orientation from hate crimes criteria. However, her breaks with recent trends in the Republican Party show that she isn’t as through-and-through conservative as many of her colleagues. Hutchison’s voting record presents a mixed bag on the issue of abortion. She consistently voted for strict restrictions on abortion and contraceptives, but supported Roe v. Wade and repeatedly voted against efforts to prohibit the practice altogether. In a 1993 Senate debate, she argued for restricted but legal abortions up to the third trimester, saying, “I’m not for abortion … The question is, should I make that decision for you, and that’s where I come down on the other side.” In 2003, she told the Dallas Morning News, “I’ve always said that I think that women should have the ability to make that decision, even if I disagree with it.”
The most striking departure from others in her party, however, was her openness toward government spending. In contrast to the Republican holy war on earmarked funds, a major talking point for some Republicans, Hutchison unabashedly sought a great deal of pork barrel government money for her home state. In 2008 and 2009 alone, she claimed almost half a billion dollars in earmarks for spending in Texas and was outspoken in her support of the practice. “I’m proud of being able to garner Texans’ fair share of their tax dollars,” she said in 2009. Hutchison has also enthusiastically supported federal funding for higher education in Texas. Her website proudly proclaims that she “has worked to move Texas from sixth in the nation in federal research funding to third.” That friendly view toward government spending combined with her relatively moderate stance on abortion crippled Hutchison in a 2010 run for Texas governor. Although she was the early frontrunner by a large margin, incumbent governor Rick Perry succeeded in portraying her as a pro-choice, liberal spender and himself as a fiscally and socially conservative alternative to retain the governor’s office for another term. Hutchison had difficulty adapting to an electorate that had turned from predominantly moderate “country club Republicans” to right-wing ideologues, and she lost big. That defeat was more or less the end of her career on the national stage. Two years later, Hutchison has confirmed her long-rumored retirement and opened up her seat for the next generation. Tea Party Republican Ted Cruz is the overwhelming favorite after his defeat of the GOP establishment’s preferred candidate, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, in the Republican primary. Cruz, by finding
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It’s a shame Hutchison’s retiring, because she’s the kind of senator Texas needs right now.
room to the right of the Republican leadership in one of the reddest states in the country, represents a new breed of conservative. Unlike Hutchison, he supports a repeal of Roe v. Wade, calling it a “shameful decision,” and opposes abortion even in cases of rape or incest. He also proposes the complete elimination of the Department of Education, which would end federal financial aid for college students. Furthermore, Texas can kiss the gravy train of government spending it enjoyed under Hutchison goodbye. In a recent interview with Texas Monthly, Cruz said, “I am absolutely opposed to earmarks. When 435 members of Congress and all 100 members of the Senate go to Washington and view their jobs as feeding at the public trough, that’s how we bankrupt our country, and I don’t think Texans want their senator to be part of that.” Being a fiscal conservative is one thing, and earmarked spending can certainly be taken too far, but completely cutting off federal support for states and students in a weak economy makes no sense. It’s a shame that Hutchison is retiring, because she’s the kind of senator Texas needs right now. As she rides into the sunset, a less open-minded generation of Republicans takes her place. That means all the federal spending that brought jobs and growth to Texas, and much-needed help to students, will soon be a thing of the past. That should be cause for concern.
Twenty-first birthdays: the expectation of inebriation By Edgar Walters Daily Texan Columnist
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The European dream By Maria-Xenia Hardt Daily Texan Columnist
Europeans faced with a crushing economic crisis have gotten a lot of bad news in the past few years. Although I’m no economist, I am a German native studying in the States and I’ve recognized good news amid the bad. Last Friday, the European Union received the Nobel Peace Prize. Few people have asked me about that so far, which is a shame, since I’ve written a little acceptance speech for this memorable event: I’m proud to accept the Nobel Peace Prize. The EU has a lot of problems, and we Europeans tend to forget what this Union once was — and I believe still is — all about: The EU is one of the largest peace projects in history. I hope that today, all people who are part of this Union feel not only German or French or Spanish or Polish — but also European. The following lines, spoken by Winston Churchill in 1946, have been quoted countless times as part of the foundation of Europe: “If Europe is to be saved from infinite misery, and indeed from final doom, there must be this act of faith in the European family and this act of oblivion against all the crimes and follies of the past ... The structure of the United States of Europe, if well and truly built, will be such as to make the material strength of a single state less important … Therefore I say to you: Let Europe arise!” In 1951, six countries, including the wartime enemies Germany and France, founded the European Coal and Steel Community, which expanded in 1957 to become the European Economic Community. The history of the European Union is part of my own history as well. While officials were signing treaties about the future of France and Germany, my grandfather opened his house for guests from France as part of an exchange between his village and a French village. Neither my grandfather nor my grandmother spoke French. The husband in the exchange couple spoke a little German, but his wife Armelle spoke
none. Somehow, they communicated with my grandparents. And somehow, they all became friends. When I went to France in the summers growing up, my family always visited them. For me, they are like a third set of grandparents. When my grandmother died this spring, the couple sent one of the most touching letters I’ve read in my life. In a Europe without the dream of a Union and a peaceful future, none of this could have happened. The EU was not the sole savior of Europe. Without the American military presence in Europe and the financial assistance included in the Marshall Plan, things might have turned out quite differently. Without the EU, I am quite sure they would have, and I think it would have been for the worse. I don’t think the EU is perfect — far from it. Politicians have used the EU to adopt laws that their own parliaments would not have agreed upon. Some countries have welcomed the economic benefits of the EU without recognizing the responsibilities that come with them. In spite of that, I hope that today, we all remember the ideals on which the Union was built. The current crises might even give us a chance to re-think Europe and eliminate some of the weaknesses of the EU: its distance from the population, over-complicated structure, inflated administration and a deficit of democracy. The Nobel Peace Prize gives Europe the chance to look back on the enthusiasm that both politicians and ordinary people once felt toward the project. However, we should not consider the Prize reason to rest on these laurels. Europe is an unfinished project. Something I deeply admire about America is its undaunted belief in the American Dream, which glues the country together in spite of all its problems and differences. There is a European Dream, too. Both dreams might be myths. But that does not mean we can’t make them reality. If not now, then when can Europe start to believe in its dream again? Hardt is an English major from Freiburg, Germany.
I turn 21 today. Considering that it might be the last birthday entitling me to some new legal standing — before I become eligible for Social Security benefits, that is — I was unlikely to forget my special day. But just to be sure, UT sent me two “Happy Birthday Longhorn!” emails, one of which was two weeks premature. The emails link to a 25-second YouTube video encouraging me to “bust [my] 21st birthday move,” featuring a handful of people inexplicably dancing against the nauseating backdrop of those bare, beige walls one sees in every West Campus apartment. Other friends with recent twenty-first birthdays described receiving slightly different variations of the twenty-first birthday clip from UT, but I received the dancing video both times. I suspect it has something to do with my tendency to receive mistaken medical diagnoses from concerned onlookers as a result of “busting moves” in public, but I’m trying not to take it personally. One mystifying aspect of the video, which is part of the Know Your Line campaign developed by the University Health Services’ Health Promotion Resource Center, is that it doesn’t actually address the dancing elephant in the room: high-risk drinking. Fortunately, it’s not indicative of unwillingness on the part of the campaign to discuss the issue openly. In fact, the Know Your Line campaign’s frankness is one of its most appealing qualities. Susan Hochman, manager of the Health Promotion Resource Center and the chair of the UT Wellness Network, says that one of her most important objectives is encouraging more responsible drinking. “Not saying don’t go out and drink, but if you do, know where your line is. The line is, of course, different for everyone.” One aspect of Hochman’s job is addressing celebrations associated with heavy-episodic drinking, like twentyfirst birthdays. For the majority of UT students — those who sit comfortably on the drinking spectrum somewhere in between teetotalers and blackout bros — the campaign reassures and reminds that the University is addressing the realities of alcohol. UT is aware that its students (underage or not) have ready access to alcohol, and that they like to consume it. The campaign is backed by significant data about UT students’ drinking habits, collected in three different surveys. Students on this campus are drinking, and no one’s pretending they aren’t. So what’s special about 21? As someone who has spent time in countries where I could legally purchase alcohol even five years ago, today’s date lacks much of its significance as a “first step” toward something, aside from invalidating what
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In the U.S., a twenty-first birthday marks the end of more than two decades of hearing a loudly stated and often repeated rule: You can’t have this widely enjoyed substance.
used to be my best excuse for circumventing the BYOB rule at parties. Many other UT students will have purchased alcohol before they turn 21, either because of similar international experience to mine or a fake ID. It seems unlikely that the opportunity to purchase alcohol is the real enticement behind the celebratory heavy-episodic drinking that UHS has observed among UT students. Still, there’s clearly some great significance attached to the twenty-first birthday that contributes to our cultural expectations for it. Depending on how cool your boss or professor is, advance warning is often enough to merit an excused absence on your special day, or at least the morning after. It’s also a universally accepted excuse among group project members, as I recently discovered. In the U.S., a twenty-first birthday marks the much-anticipated end of more than two decades of hearing a loudly stated and often repeated rule: You can’t have this widely enjoyed substance. No wonder one’s twenty-first birthday enjoys legendary status. If nothing else, your special day presents the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to head to Trudy’s, order a Mexican martini, and upload an Instagrammed photo with an ironic caption about your “first taste of alcohol.” The significance may be particularly emphasized at UT because of its reputation as a party school. Despite evidence indicating that the reputation may be increasingly out of touch with reality — UT just dropped out of the Princeton Review’s top ten party schools for the first time in five years — the cultural expectation of a thirsty twenty-first often extends off campus to high school friends, many of whom want to be regaled with stories from their friend who goes to “that crazy state school.” The Know Your Line campaign reassures students that it’s okay to resist those expectations. If you don’t want to drink, don’t; if you do want to drink, know your line and approach it responsibly. Or, if you’re like me and ready to celebrate but have a twenty-first birthday on the Wednesday of a busy week, save yourself the weekday “planning-induced” headache and wait until the weekend to find your happy line, where the naysayers become irrelevant and you can bust that move without inhibition. Walters is a Plan II junior from Houston.
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Landmarks program promotes interaction with art By Joan Vinson Much of UT’s public art takes on abstract forms, and a tour Tuesday offered insight into the artists and histories of the pieces. Zack Smith, docent and studio art junior, gave a tour Tuesday, looking closely at four works of art. He began the tour by observing Magdalena Abakanowicz’s sculpture called “Figure on a Trunk,” which stands in front of the Performing Arts Center. The sculpture depicts a headless figure made from iron standing atop a plank of wood. “It is almost as if this figure is guarding the entrance of the theater,” Smith said. According to Landmarks, UT’s public art program, it has 31 art pieces on the main campus. The first 28 pieces UT acquired were loaned from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and UT is continuing to build its collection, according to the website. Landmark Docents, a group of volunteers who recieved training on the art collection, lead tours which are available to the UT community and campus visitors. Tour leaders give background information on the artists and explain the artwork in detail. Smith said he became a docent to reach out to the public and stimulate interest in the artwork displayed around the UT campus. He said he is especially drawn to the “Clock Knot,” located off of Dean Keeton Street in front of the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Building. “I hear people hang tire
Emily Ng | Daily Texan Staff Student docent Zack Smith discusses the significance of the statue “Figure on a Trunk” by Magdalena Abakanowicz. Smith guided fellow UT students on a tour of Landmarks public art projects around the Performing Arts Center Tuesday afternoon.
swings and hammocks from it,” Smith said. The tour proceeded to look at a square marble statue adorned with two spheres by Louise Bourgeois called “Eyes,” located inside of the Performing Arts Center. The next stop was a piece of art in front of the Texas Memorial Museum called “Amaryllis” by Tony
Smith. The artist constructed a model of the statue out of cardboard while in the hospital and then sent it to a fabricator who transformed the form into steel. Finally, visitors viewed a video clip of a snail climbing over a razor in the Visual Arts Center. In addition to tours led by docents, viewers can take their own journey
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State senator remembered for passionate advocacy By Lazaro Hernandez State Sen. Mario Gallegos Jr., a long-term Texas lawmaker, died Tuesday in a Houston hospital from complications related to a 2007 liver transplant at the age of 62. Gallegos, who became the first Hispanic to represent Harris County in the Senate, was well known for his interest in education, fighting for teacher pay raises and higher education funding. “The senator’s family is enormously grateful for the outpouring of support, thoughts and prayers expressed during the last few days,” Democratic political consultant Harold Cook said in a prepared statement. Gallegos represented Senate District 6 in Harris County, which covers the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area, since 1995 and served in the Texas House the previous four years. Before running for office, Gallegos was a long-time firefighter with the Houston Fire Department, where he retired as Senior Captain
after 22 years. In 2006 Gallegos announced he would begin treatment for alcoholism. Later he learned he had cirrhosis of the liver. The senator underwent a liver transplant in 2007. Despite Gallegos’ body trying to reject the new liver and against doctor’s orders, he returned to the Capitol in 2007 to cast a vote opposing a bill that would require people to have a photo ID to vote. Republicans failed to pass the photo ID bill in 2007 but eventually made it into law in 2011. Gallegos was running against Republican R.W. Bray in the upcoming November election. It is now too late to remove Gallegos’ name from the ballot. If he wins, the governor will need to set up a special election to replace his position. Sen. Judith Zaffirini issued a statement in response to Gallegos’ death. She said Gallegos was known for fighting passionately for health and human services for the poor, the young, the old and the disabled. “Senator Gallegos never quit,” she said in the
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statement. “Even those who disagreed with him politically admired his passion, his generosity and his sense of duty to his constituents.” Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, who worked closely with Gallegos at the Legislature, wrote about the death on her website. “This is truly a tragic day for Houston, the Senate and Texas,” she said. “Mario Gallegos leaves some very big shoes to fill, and a hole in our hearts.” Gallegos is survived by his wife, Theresa, three children and five grandchildren. According to Cook’s statement, the Gallegos family intends to hold a memorial service in Austin.
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throughout campus on selfguided tours as well as audio tours. Landmarks offers dowloadable guides on its website that adults can use to educate children of all ages about various pieces around campus. Landmarks education coordinator Taylor Browning said she began working with Landmarks because it opens up to
both the UT community and the local Austin population. “As an educator I am really interested in interdisciplinary connections,” Browning said. “I think using art as a medium to do that has a lot of potential.” Art history senior Miranda Massie is training to become a docent. She said she enjoyed the way people discussed the
art during the tour. “It’s nice to get a blankslate perspective from somebody who might interpret art from a different angle than you,” she said. Browning said a Landmarks bike tour will take place Oct. 27, allowing visitors the opportunity to view a greater number of pieces spread around campus.
SEATS continues from page 1 They are just on different maturity levels.” Veteran students are usually much older than UT’s traditional students, and Hamlin said many veterans are not attending the games right now because of frustrations with seating. Under Texas Athletics‘ current system, students who want seating with their friends or a student organization can make a group when they purchase their football tickets. UT’s Athletics Department assigns tickets based on a group’s lowest class qualification. A group with all seniors is likely to get seats in the lower deck, and a group with all seniors and one freshman is likely to get seats in the upper deck. Hamlin said this system is fair for most students but has created a problem for student veterans. If the student veterans register for a group all together, with both seniors and freshmen, then they will be seated with other freshmen, likely in the upper deck. “We will have a 31-yearold student veteran who is
classified as a freshman, so he is sitting with 18-yearolds,” Hamlin said. “That is a problem for him. He does not go to the games.” Hamlin said he went to UT’s box office first this past summer to see if he could work around UT’s current system. He said he was told that only spirit groups can get special seating. Then Hamlin said he went to UT’s Athletics Department to try to get the Student Veterans Association classified as a spirit group. There Hamlin tried to contact Mack Brown, Texas football head coach, but Brown’s secretary referred Hamlin to others in the Athletics Department. “We got a lot of sympathy but not a lot of action,” Hamlin said. “The Dean of Students has been working with us great. But when it gets outside of the Dean of Students, not a lot happens sometimes.” The email Hamlin sent to Brown’s secretary was bounced around to many people, but no action was ever taken. Hamlin said conversations about the possibility of giving the Student
Veterans Association special seating eventually died. Nick Voinis, senior associate athletic director, said they could not help the student veterans because they approached them too late for this season. When asked if TexasSports would be able to help the student veterans order tickets differently next year because of their concerns, Voinis said, “That’s the way all other students do it ... next year they can go online just like other students do and order them as a group.” Currently Hamlin said as few as eight veteran students are sitting together at the football games. Hamlin said they are requesting seating for 30. Attending football games together is one social activity Hamlin says the Student Veteran Association does to foster a bond between fellow veterans. Because of this, Hamlin said it is important that student veterans can sit together at football games. “A good student life for a veteran is to be around other veterans,” Hamlin said. “But we can’t get that.”
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By Chris Hummer It’s been three games since Jordan Hicks hobbled off of the field with a hip injury against Ole Miss. In the three subsequent contests, Texas has allowed 147 points. In the three games prior, including the Ole Miss game, the Longhorns gave up 48. See a connection there? Kenny Vaccaro does. “Everybody just needs to understand how important Jordan Hicks is and how much his return is going to help us,” Vaccaro said. “He’s a leader, and he holds that linebacker corps together. He’s the oldest guy in the room. He’s smart, and he’s just a great football player.” Those qualities made Hicks the team’s most effective tackler before his injury through the first three games, when he led the Longhorns with 15 tackles. He was all over the field for Texas. Hicks plugged up holes in the middle of the defense and had the speed to keep up with running backs and tight ends in the passing game. Ever since he exited with his hip injury, however, the Longhorns’ defense has struggled. It has been gashed in the run game for 270 yards a contest, and Texas is now 118th nationally in opponent’s long rushing plays of
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“Lets get it mediator!!! Put ur foot down then girl” Lawrence Peart | Daily Texan file photo Junior linebacker Jordan Hicks plays a crucial role on the defense, both as a player and as a leader. Before he was injured during Texas’ game against Ole Miss, he led the Longhorns with 15 tackles.
more than 10 yards. Actually, the Longhorns have allowed 17 rushes of more than 30 yards a carry this season. But perhaps the most telling statistic for Hicks’ impact is this: In the three games Hicks played, the Longhorn defense allowed 3.9 yards a carry, and over the last three Texas has been shredded for
6.1 yards an attempt. That means Hicks’ presence on the field is good for more than two yards a rushing attempt. A staggering number, even when you take into account Texas’ level of competition has increased since it entered conference play. “He’s a guy that it’s not one position that is affected when
he’s not game. It’s four or five positions because of his ability to do the things before the play,” defensive coordinator Manny Diaz said. “And you don’t want to get beat before the play begins, and sometimes it can be six inches in your alignment that can really hurt you or hinder you in doing your job.” It doesn’t help Texas that
the players replacing Hicks had little to no collegiate experience heading into the year. The man — actually, more like kid — that has stepped directly into Hicks’ role is 18-year-old Dalton Santos. He’s a talented and imposing presence at 6 feet 3 inches and
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Offense looking ahead to Baylor after OU blowout By Lauren Giudice The offense will look to bounce back Saturday against Baylor after its dismal play against Oklahomalast weekend. The Bears sit at the bottom of the Big 12 in both scoring defense and total defense. Longhorn wide receiver Marquise Goodwin is motivated by the fact that other teams have been able to score on them. But he knows that things can easily change from week to week. “You really can’t look at how
other teams played a certain defense, because they’re definitely going to play you a different way,” Goodwin said. “In the past I can say that we looked at them and were like, ‘Maybe we can score a few points and get a few yards.’ But at the end of the day, they come and play Texas even harder than they play anybody else.” The Bears are coming off of a 49-21 loss to TCU. During the game, redshirt freshman quarterback Trevone Boykin completed 22 of 30 passes for 261 yards and four touchdowns. This season the Bears
have given up an average of 41.6 points per game. Both the Longhorns and Bears are coming off of crushing losses. Tackling remains a problem Each week the coaches and players emphasize that the tackling issues that have been plaguing the Longhorns can be fixed. But Texas has now hit the halfway point of the season, and missed tackles are allowing opponents to gain huge yardage. The most telling image of
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Elisabeth Dillon | Daily Texan Staff Wide receiver Marquise Goodwin and the rest of the offense are hoping to bounce back after struggling against Oklahoma.
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Longhorn head coach Carol Capitani remembers losing to Texas when she swam at Cal-Berkeley. Now she is coaching the Longhorns in hopes that they will defeat her alma mater.
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competition intensifies during this point in the year. “This is always a tough time for all teams,” Elliott said. “The beginning of the year is kind of a warm-up. The NCAA tournament is kind of getting closer, but it’s also midterms, and players get a little bit more exhausted. It doesn’t get any easier in this conference with Iowa State. It’s a big match for us.” Iowa State junior libero Kristen Hahn was named Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week four straight weeks earlier this season, making her the first to win the honor that many times in a row. The Cyclones are coming off of two consecutive wins against West Virginia and Texas Tech, and they are 10-6 overall, 4-2 in Big 12 play.
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Capitani changes allegiance By Evan Berkowitz She saw the Longhorn women’s swimming and diving team win its fifth NCAA championship in a row in 1988 in front of its home crowd. Then again in 1990. Texas’ sixth championship, and obtained at home. But Carol Capitani was a swimmer at Cal-Berkley then, and Texas was the team to beat. “I remember Texas winning,” Capitani said as she looked around the pool she competed in many times. “And they were dominant at the time, and we looked up to them. I mean, you always look up to the best team.”
But now Cal-Berkley is the team to beat, having won three of the last four NCAA championships, and Capitani is on the deck, this time in burnt orange as the new women’s swimming and diving coach. “When I was approached about this job, it was special because it’s one of the places I have fond memories of competing,” Capitani said. “And at that time in my life, Texas was the team to beat. Now it’s just ironic that Cal is the team to beat.” Capitani took over for Kim Brackin on April 20, following a ninth-place finish at the NCAA championships. Texas, once the swimming powerhouse that won seven of the first 10 national
championships, has not won since Capitani’s senior season at Cal. “Texas certainly has a good history and many championships,” Capitani said. “I want to make people proud, I want to make Longhorn nation proud and I’m doing my best to make that happen. Hopefully, I can bring wisdom and experience.” The experience she is talking about is not just from her eight All-American years at Cal but from her days as an assistant at Villanova, her two years as an assistant for the Singapore national women’s swimming team and her 14 seasons as an associate coach at Georgia, helping them to
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Big 12 play continues Wednesday night as No. 8 Texas faces No. 22 Iowa State in Gregory Gym. The Longhorns are no strangers to ranked opponents, completing nine matches against Top 25 teams this season. They’re also on a roll, hitting .295 on their current nine-match win streak. Valuable Texas assets include sophomore All-American outside hitter Haley Eckerman, who is currently third in the nation for points per set, sixth in the nation in kills and leads the Big 12 in points and kills. She was also named Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week this week for the third time this season. Junior outside hitter Bailey Webster ranks fourth in kills for the Big 12, while sophomore middle blocker/outside hitter Khat Bell comes in at third in blocks. Despite the Longhorns’ strong points, head coach Jerritt Elliott said the
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SPORTS BRIEFLY Cowboys’ Murray likely out next game
IRVING — The Dallas Cowboys are expecting to be without running back DeMarco Murray for Sunday’s game. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says it “looks obvious” that Murray won’t play at Carolina because of his sprained left foot. Speaking on his weekly radio show Tuesday on KRLD-FM, the team’s flagship station, Jones said the team is encouraged that the sprain wasn’t more serious than it was. Murray had an MRI on Monday. Murray got hurt in Sunday’s 31-29 loss at Baltimore. He missed the final three games of his rookie season last year because of a broken right ankle. Felix Jones is expected to start in Murray’s place. Murray has run for 330 yards and one touchdown for Dallas (2-3).
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CHICAGO — Houston, San Francisco and South Florida are bidding for the 2016 and 2017 Super Bowls. NFL owners will vote next May between San Francisco — the 49ers are building a new stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., — and South Florida for the 50th Super Bowl in 2016. The loser of that race will then compete with Houston for hosting the 2017 game. Several owners have said a return to SunLife Stadium in Miami would require major upgrades to the building, and commissioner Roger Goodell says Tuesday that the Dolphins “feel that (renovations) are a large part of their bid.” South Florida has hosted the most Super Bowls, 10, the last in 2010. Houston has done two, the most recent in 2004. — Compiled from Associated Press reports
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three great recruiting years,” Capitani said. “It’s going to take work, great kids and more work. We have to establish a great culture, similar to that of the men’s team. It’s hard being number one; otherwise everyone would be.”
But at the same time, Capitani said she realized that she still has a very competitive squad, one that she feels can win the Big 12, where they finished second last year to Texas A&M (who has moved on to the SEC).
play is steadily improving, but they’ve been out of position in run and pass coverage frequently enough that it has cost Texas. “Our youth and inexperience is showing up,” Diaz said. “We’re playing in difficult environments, difficult learning environments. Nobody has any sympathy for our plight ... Nobody is going to wait for us to grow up. We
have to do it in a hurry.” There is still no guarantee Hicks will return this week — the medical staff listed him as doubtful for last week’s game — but for the Texas defense, he can’t hit the field soon enough. “He’s one of the best leaders we have on defense, and he’s certainly the leader in the linebacker room,” Diaz said.
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the issue was Sooner Damien Williams’ 95-yard touchdown run. Three players surrounded him at the Texas 25-yard line. Due to sloppy tackling, he broke through and made the score, 13-2. “We’re still giving up way too much space and room, and linebackers and the deep safeties are not tackling like they need to when we get the ball out in the field,” head coach Mack Brown said. Ash will play Saturday When quarterback David Ash went down in the fourth quarter against Oklahoma Saturday, it seemed as though everything was going wrong. Luckily for the Longhorns, he said he will be ready to play Saturday against Baylor.
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By Robert Starr There is a stereotype of the first-time novelist who writes as if he’ll never have another shot, cramming everything he possibly can into his debut novel because he has nothing to lose. Michael Chabon still writes this way, even in his seventh novel. “Telegraph Avenue,” which incorporates a record store in Oakland, Ca., a Zeppelin, blaxploitation films, pregnancy, estranged fathers, secret sons, kung fu, funerals and murder, among other subjects — and that’s not even touching on the stylistic flourishes, such as the chapter that runs 12 pages consisting of only a single sentence. At its core, the novel focuses on Oakland resident Archy Stallings, who has a pregnant girlfriend, a father who keeps on popping in to borrow money and a record store that would be teetering toward failure even if a planned music megaplex wasn’t about to be built down the street. And amidst all of this, Stallings’ son, who he’s never met, arrives in town to complicate things further. This barely cracks the spine of what goes on within the 480-page book. Although not without its frustrations, “Telegraph Avenue” brings a fully realized world to life, populated with colorful characters that feel real despite their eccentricities. While the way Chabon handles these
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elements makes the book feel personal, “Telegraph Avenue” goes beyond that: it’s a novel written in spite of what anybody else might think. It’s a novel that the author wrote just because he can, including details and long stretches that any sensible editor would cut — all the while shamelessly showing off, making sure that no more than a page or two pass without a $10 word or an all-star Jeopardy-level reference. Some books are best read with an accompanying dictionary — this one needs Wikipedia. Is this kind of writing necessary to tell an already bloated story that gets lost several times along the way? Almost certainly not. There are plenty of moments when it even gets in the way, but the stylistic prose and obscure references add charm to what would otherwise be a small, restrained story. And anybody who’s read “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” knows that restraint is not one of Chabon’s specialties, nor should it be. Despite its showiness — or perhaps because of it — Chabon’s writing is still both beautiful and a blast to read. This book is the result of a writer who always knows the perfect word or analogy for something and loves the way it looks on the page. “Telegraph Avenue” is not without its flaws, but it’s also written by a confident man with obvious talent who still feels the same
hand-in-hand with the staff putting up signage, but still Gregory Gym remains in the top five. It’s a revolving door. DT: How many volts are in a tazer? Halstead: I think somewhere around 250,000 volts. I’ve done it three times. Do you want to be tazed? DT: Let’s stay on topic. What is your favorite part of the job? Halstead: I’ve been working here for 25 years. I still enjoy putting bad guys in jail, and I still get a kick out of chasing someone down. But I get a bigger kick out of meeting a freshman, and then five years down the road having them come back and say, “Hey Officer Halstead, none of my stuff got stolen, had a great time here, learned a lot from the Campus Watch.” DT: What does the future look like for Campus Watch? Halstead: It’s always evolving and changing. The stories pretty much write themselves. But sometimes it’s better to create a good description of something rather than saying, “someone’s peeing” or “some-
Photo courtesy of Jennifer Chaney Author Michael Chabon who released his seventh novel, “Telegraph Avenue”, will be visiting the University of Texas Wednesday, Oct. 17.
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joy of sharing his ability with the world that he did the first time around. The novel is too long and, at the same time, too brief for all of the elements that it attempts to include, but it’s also exciting and, at times, heartfelt. And while it never quite reaches the greatness of Chabon’s “Wonder Boys” or “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” most readers will enjoy the time they spend on “Telegraph Avenue.”
Chabon will be speaking Wednesday with L.A. Times book critic David Ulin at 7 p.m. in Jessen Auditorium, located in Homer Rainey Hall. The event has limited seating and is presented by the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies.
from porn “ruins society,” to “porn is my reward for studying hard” and “I have a girlfriend, we both watch it.” It is vital to distinguish that due to religious beliefs, varying cultural norms and moral codes, it is improbable that any opposing views in the debate over pornography will resolve their differences, even when presented with research or statistics. What we can do is educate ourselves about sex and pleasure, realize porn sex is often highly scripted, practice our communication skills and truly care about the sexual bliss and needs of the people we have sex with. Whether you want to watch Peter Griffin give it to Lois, see “The Sex Life of
Robots” by brilliant artist Michael Sullivan, read “Fifty Shades of Grey,” watch LGBTQ porn, hardcore porn, feminist porn, hipster porn, mature porn or threesomes, foursomes or more-somes, anything that you can think of has been made into porn. No one person expresses his or her sexual desires in the same way as another, so why should pornography be any different? As long as you realize that most women don’t reach orgasm six times in a minute, that nurses don’t perform happy endings after a flu shot and you’re not skipping class everyday to watch XXX feature films or breaking any laws, porn can be a healthy endeavor for those who choose to watch it.
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continues from page 10 bright dresses of Jalisco.” These easily identifiable outfits represent the vibrancy of the folklórico dance. Usually portraying a rendition of the “courting ritual,” the dances feature flirtatious interactions between men and women in traditional Mexican society. While many students recognize the iconic dress, few realize the cultural significance. “This club is important on campus because of what it represents. We are a part of Mexican culture,” Ruiz said. “There are festivals and dances where this is very heavy. We need that representation here at UT.” Dancing annually at Sábado Gigante, a Hispanic organization fair at UT, the club showcases a variety of dances, including the most recognizable Jalisco dance. This serves as the club’s main form of recruitment for potential members. Hispanic students looking to get in touch with their roots can find a tightknit community in the ballet folklórico club. “Though we have mostly Hispanic members, we are diverse because we all have different personalities and dif-
sex, relationships and porn literacy, Cindy Gallop started makelovenotporn. com, a website and blog offering an alternative to hardcore porn in order to “rehabilitate” generations to become more considerate sexual partners. Last week I interviewed strangers in a coffee shop in New York City and discussed porn with my Longhorn lovers back home about habits and opinions of pornography. I was elated by the sheer amount of responses and thoughtful opinions I received. Conversations included detailed descriptions of categories of porn they found most appealing, a tip about a porn film shot near the UT Tower and answers ranging ferent majors,” Daniella Torres, RecSports representative and instructor, said. “Though we are the same in our heritage and our cultures, we are very diverse. We like different things, but UTBF connects us.” Promoting ballet folklórico to an array of students, the club stresses that all people and ability-levels are welcome. Explaining the basic paso de tres, Torres takes the time to educate new members on the stomp, heel, stomp, stomp pattern. Torres’ agile movements seem fluid as she spins across the floor, leading the dance for newcomer Mariela Lopez. “I joined because I really like to dance, and I thought it would be great to experience something from my own culture,” Lopez said. She had previously learned only pieces of dances from her family in Mexico. With experience levels ranging from three weeks to 14 years, the club strives to create a welcoming but challenging environment. New members immediately begin learning the tapping and twirling, while experienced dancers begin teaching their own dances. “We treat new members the way we treat old members. We want them to feel welcome, not worried that they aren’t getting the steps done,” Torres said. “We all understand how a new member feels.”
With only 10-15 members, the organization hopes to add new members while maintaining a familial atmosphere. Rooted in a common cultural identity, members evolve together as dancers and as a community. However, UT Ballet Folklórico has always been relatively small, and the organization faces low membership turnout and a lack of officer experience this fall. The club lost one of its most knowledgable members when its vice president graduated. Ruiz has taken over a large part of the coordination and organization, but the club struggles to attract and retain talent. “Inexperienced officers have been trying to manage as best we can. Right now our officers are struggling to show up and teach the dances. Usually it’s the president and vice president,” Ruiz said. “We are trying to show up often, but Daniella is doing a really great job keeping us afloat while the other officers work behind the scenes.” Despite the difficulties this semester has posed for the club, the officers continue to pursue opportunities for members to learn and perform. From the State Fair in Dallas to local performances at elementary schools, the club promotes ballet folklórico throughout Texas.
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one’s puking.” Create a little visual for that, and leave it to the reader’s imagination. But we’ve got eight or nine programs in Crime Prevention that we do now, all of which promote the Campus Watch, expanding the number of readers as best as we can.
DT: What do you do when off duty? Halstead: I definitely like to go out to the lakes and go fishing. When it’s dove season, [I] go out and do some bird-hunting.
DT: Are police officers ever off duty? Halstead: No.
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supplemented by revelatory photographs, anecdotes from family and friends and excerpts from Richards’ own 1989 memoir, “Straight from the Heart: My Life in Politics and Other Places.” The most interesting part of “Let the People In” is when the young Richards family moves to Austin in 1969. Upon arriving, they become acquainted with many of the musicians and counterculture figures of the era, such as Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker and writers Gary Cartwright and Bud Shrake. It is surprising to read how closely connected these seemingly opposite ends of the cultural spectrum were in that era. In describing the scenes and episodes from the era, Reid provides us with an eloquent portrait of Austin while also documenting the confluence of politics, history and cultural studies. She peppers the story with references to many recognizable Austin landmarks, such as the Armadillo World Headquarters, the Broken Spoke, Sholz Garten and the Texas Chili Parlor, as well as an extensive list of the colorful characters who populated them. Reid then details Richards’ big break: getting the call to deliver the keynote address at the 1988
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porn is often one-sided, male-centric and a fantasy that does not depict condom use, proper lubrication or sexual pleasure of all parties involved. Porn literacy enables us to understand that no one’s anal cavity is as receptive to sex without practice as in porn; porn literacy enables us to understand not all pizza boys get oral sex from horny housewives. Porn literacy helps us accept our bodies the way they are and celebrate their triumphs and challenges, even when our penises can’t stay as hard as the penis of Mr. Naughty MacNasty, the plumber who is here to fix our, uh, pipes. Because parents and teachers often do not give sufficient guidance about
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Democratic National Convention. This introduced Richards to the nation, making her an overnight political star with her famous attack on then-president George H.W. Bush: “Poor George, he can’t help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.” The final section of “Let the People In” describes the ups and downs of Richards’ tenure as Texas’ 45th governor, from her initial successes at diversifying the office to her struggles and ultimate failure in fending off George W. Bush in her bid for reelection in 1994. Overall the book is an engaging, informative read. In the current election cycle, this book is an excellent way to gain perspective on the changes in the political climate over the last 20 years. Like any politician, Ann Richards was a somewhat polarizing figure, garnering many admirers and detractors alike. However, she was one of the major figures of late 20th century Texas politics, casting a highly influential shadow on subsequent generations. “Let the People In” is a definitive biography, with a story as inviting as its title suggests. Jan Reid will be speaking and signing at BookPeople Wednesday at 7 p.m..
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Officer provides insight with side of sarcasm By Stuart Railey Crime Prevention is a job that requires vigilance, patience and a dry sense of humor. For Darrell Halstead, the primary writer of Campus Watch, abating the threat of public intoxication, traffic cone theft and West Campus groping comes one sarcastic blurb at a time. Officer Halstead talks to The Daily Texan about his Campus Watch reports. The Daily Texan: Is the snark something that was present in the original logs, or did it develop over time? Officer Darrell Halstead: No, no. We started the Campus Watch off in 1999. The sergeant that I had in this office with me was all about the facts. Just the facts. The Campus Watch was very dull, very dry. Then he retired, and I started interjecting some of that sarcasm, some of that snark, and poking fun at people, but not poking fun at them as an individual. There were a few sergeants that said, “Oh no, we can’t do that.” But the chief said, “Let’s give this a try.” And it just kind of evolved into what it is today, where it’s chock-full of a lot of crime prevention information, but at the same time it’s written in a humorous way to keep you coming back. DT: What was the motivation to start writing the Campus Watch? Halstead: After the Clery Act was passed in 1991, all campuses have been required to disclose their crime statistics on a yearly basis. On October 1, we released last year’s crime statistics. We then
Shelby Taubner | Daily Texan Staff UTPD Officer Darrell Halstead, primary writer of the Campus Watch reports, notifies students, faculty and staff of crimes occurring near and on campus. Halstead engages readers by adding sarcastic and humourous remarks to the informational reports.
have to wait until October [of next year] to release the new crime stats. It doesn’t do any good, to be honest, to wait that long. Even though the Campus Watch is not a supplement to the Clery Act, the folks that enforce the Clery Act have looked at this as a way of disseminating day-to-day business and have recommended it to other universities as well.
DT: How does your job in Crime Prevention correlate to the Campus Watch? Halstead: Basically, we’re taking everything that we’ve learned about: locks, windows, doors, lighting, landscaping, denying opportunity, reducing risk, delaying the thief, deterring the thief. We’re incorporating all of that into the Campus Watch whenever we get a chance to put in a crime
prevention piece. And we do. We’re not kidding when there are very simple things you can do to reduce threats. DT: What is the most common crime on campus? Halstead: Theft. It’s the most common crime here. With 52,000 students, there are 52,000 opportunities for someone to commit a crime. But if you look at UT
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compared to the entire city of Austin, we don’t have nearly the same number of problems that surround us. We do a good job. DT: Is theft preventable? Halstead: It takes three things for a criminal to be successful: desire, ability and opportunity. We can’t do anything about their desire or ability. That’s all personal. But we can elimi-
nate the opportunity. By leaving anything unlocked, you’re creating an opportunity.
DT: What’s one of the most problematic areas on campus? Halstead: Gregory Gym. We’ve gone in there, replaced the lockers and locked their stuff up. We’ve worked
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BOOK REVIEW | ‘LET THE PEOPLE IN’
Author lets people in life of politician Ann Richards
Members of the UT Ballet Folklórico Club practice a traditional Jalisco dance, one of many different types of traditional Mexican culture the club attempts to bring to the UT community.
By Olivia Arena
Raveena Bhalara Daily Texan Staff
Ballet club swirls, spins for new members By Olivia Arena “La Madrugada” blares in the background, a symphony of trumpets and guitarróns, as the dancers take their places in front of the mirror. Hands on their hips, white shoes poised to stomp, they count out the beat as the familiar gritos begin. The UT
Ballet Folklórico Club begins its practice with a full rehearsal of the traditional Jalisco dance. The organization strives to bring traditional Mexican folklóric dance to UT and better connect members with their Mexican roots. This group of UT dancers creates and performs ballet folklórico around the University. Dressed in the
familiar Mexican charro outfits and large, colorful skirts, the dancers create a distinct three-beat rhythm, paso de tres, with intricate footwork. “Each region has a different costume, music, style. Different people live in different places,” Javier Ruiz, vice president of UT Ballet Folklórico, said. “Up north we have norte, and that type of music
Meetings: Every Monday and Wednesday Where: Anna Hiss Gymnasium Room 136 Time: 6-8 pm is a bit western. They wear the bolo ties and the hats. Most people would recognize the
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In the long, sprawling history of outsized Texas political personalities, former governor Ann Richards’ star shone as bright as any. Her irreverent wit, small-town charm and straight-shooting personality led her from the rural fields of Lakeview, Texas, to the highest office in the state, blazing a trail for countless aspiring politicians inspired by her remarkable life story. It is a story that acclaimed Texas journalist and author Jan Reid captures poignantly in “Let the People In: the Life and Times of Ann Richards,” published earlier this month by the University of Texas Press. In the book, which Reid describes as “a biography that contains a thread of memoir,” the personal friend and one-time environmental policy advisor recounts not only the later years in which Richards entered the statewide and national political spheres but also the four-and-a-half decades of her life preced-
ing, which turn out to be just as captivating. Reid, whose background is mostly in music journalism, starts with the future governor’s working-class upbringing in rural North Texas. He follows her through Waco High School and Baylor University, where she starred on the debate team; then she describes her marriage and early family life with high school sweetheart David Richards. Reid moves the story along with a steady prose that is
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SEX
Differentiating between porn fantasies and reality HUMP
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By Milla Impola
Alone while masturbating, with a partner or while at a party, the many styles of pornography have the capability to enhance, scintillate and complicate our sex lives. All in all, porn is about as ubiquitous as vomit on the street after a Thirsty Thursday on Sixth Street. From erotic sculptures in ancient Khajuraho temples in India (of images such as a man pleasuring three
women at the same time while standing on his head) to late-night, 30-second Chatroulette sessions at the Perry-Castañeda Library — leading to at least seven sightings of something nude — sexual images have been and will continue to be a part of our existence. It is the way that we engage with and understand these images and pornography that is crucial to our sexual health. Although we live in a country where sex education often does not even properly educate us about basic anatomy, sexual images are all around us. If you do watch content of the pornographic nature, “porn literacy” is a
learned and vital skill to understanding our bodies and sexual pleasure in the world outside of cyberspace. Dr. Marty Klein, a sex therapist and author, discusses porn, specifically porn literacy, in his blog, Sexual Intelligence. To be porn literate is to understand that porn sex does not always mirror real sex or typical bodies. Sex in
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Photo illustration by Alyssa Creagh | Daily Texan Staff