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Romney and Obama remain noncommittal on immigration at Tuesday’s debate.

NEWS

A lecture informed students on how copyright laws apply to academic work.

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Lowly Baylor defense provides offensive chance for Horns.

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Ph.D. candidates dance out theses in video contest.

Ash playing with broken wrist, source says.

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UNIVERSITY

Self-supporting entities assist funding

By Alexa Ura

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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Although UT has compensated for state appropriation cuts by increasing tuition and implementing internal reductions, the University’s self-supporting entities have increased their budgets in the last few years while paying millions of dollars into the academic budget.

University operations that generate external income are considered self-supported,

and come from two sources: auxillary enterprises and other entities. Auxiliary enterprises include Intercollegiate Athletics, the Division of Housing and Food Service and the Frank Erwin Center. Other entities include KUT Radio and the McDonald Observatory. The self-supporting portion of the University budget for the 20122013 fiscal year is $386 million, or 16 percent of UT’s $2.3 billion total budget. Most of the

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a look at University funding auxiliary enterprises $386 million

Self-Supporting Budget (2012-2013) $137 million Intercollegiate Athletics

$2.3 billion

$77 million Housing & Food

UT Total Budget (2012-2013)

$28 million AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center $22 million Frank Erwin Center $17 million Parking & Transportation $105 million Other

Source: UT Budget Office

Graphic by Natasha Smith| Daily Texan Staff

MULTIMEDIA | PUMPKIN PICKIN’

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Tyler Perry stars in movie that entertains, but doesn’t impress.

By Lazaro Hernandez

TODAY Study Abroad Fair

The College of Fine Arts will hold a Study Abroad Fair from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m in the Co-op Fine Arts Student Center and DFA FAB Gallery 1.101.

Information on a variety of programs specifically designed for fine arts majors will be available.

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An informational session on the repayment options available for various loans and loans in general will be held from 4-5 pm. in GAR 2.112.

Pu Ying Huang | Daily Texan Staff Two girls play patty-cake outside Tarrytown United Methodist Church’s pumpkin patch Wednesday evening. The church is hosting a pumpkin patch sale to fund a youth missionary trip to Houston and Guatemala.

Today in history In 1968

The US Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving a “black power” salute as a protest during the victory ceremony.

Their credentials are taken away, which makes it mandatory for them to leave the Olympic Village within 48 hours.

The clenched fist gesture causes mixed emotions.

Some consider it a gesture of independence but others find it offensive and embarassing.

As the legal battle over religious expression at a Texas public school continues, the state has officially taken action to intervene.

Gov. Rick Perry held a press conference Wednesday to discuss the lawsuit over the Kountze Independent School District’s rule preventing cheerleaders from holding banners with Bible verses on the field at football games.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced at the press conference he had filed a motion to take part in the lawsuit.

“We will not allow atheist groups from outside of the state of Texas to use menacing

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CITY

Thong Jog supports homeless

By Tiffany Hinman

It’s a Girl

The White Rose Society and Orange Jackets present “It’s a Girl,” a documentary calling attention to the 200 million girls who go missing every year due to gendercide, the deliberate and systematic destruction of a gender. The screening will take place from 7-8:30 p.m. in Union Building, Quadrangle Room 3.304.

Kountze ISD cheerleaders spark debate in state court

Yaguang Zhu | Daily Texan Staff Students sign a wall made by Texas THON in the front of Gregory Gym on Wednesday. Texas THON is a philanthropic organization that raises money for Dell Children’s Hospital.

Texas THON dancers raise funds for children

By Taylor Hampton To prepare for its 11th annual 12-hour dance marathon, Texas THON invited students to sign a wall to express their support for patients at Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas.

Texas THON is a student organization dedicated to raising awareness and money for Dell Children’s Medical Center by hosting a dance marathon every year. This year’s marathon will be Feb. 16 and the wall will be on display in Gregory Gym during the marathon. At the marathon, students pledge to stand for 12 hours straight in honor of patients that are unable to stand.

At Wednesday’s event, students and faculty signed the “Why We Stand” wall to explain why they participate in

the dance marathon.

“I stand because I feel we are making a statement,” Rhonda Cox, Texas THON faculty adviser, said.

Dell Children’s hospital provides treatment to children from 46 counties, regardless of their ability to pay. Last year Texas THON raised $50,839.51.

Cox said the goal is to raise $100,000 this year.

Cox said the children that overcome adversity inspire her passion for Texas THON. After a Texas THON benefit dinner, she gave Harley, a 14-year-old whose brain tumor is causing him to gradually lose his vision, a ride home.

“Even though he is blind, he is so engaged in what is going on,” Cox said. “He doesn’t see it as a deterrent.”

She said the organiza-

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Members of the Austin community will jog downtown Saturday wearing thongs, feather boas and glitter to raise proceeds for the homeless in honor of the late Leslie Cochran, a homeless Austin icon.

The Thong Jog packet pickup starts at 9 a.m. at Lipstick24, and the race will begin at 10 a.m. Participants can choose to jog one mile or run a 5K. Participants are encouraged to dress eccentrically in memory of Cochran. Lipstick24 will host an after party where participants may compete in a flip cup tournament. Organizers will donate part of the proceeds from registration fees

to Mobile Loaves & Fishes, a social outreach ministry that provides food and clothing to the homeless.

Cochran died last March after battling illnesses suffered since a head injury in 2009.

The race is designed to honor Cochran in a respectful manner, race coordinator Sara Henry said.

“Leslie had a sense of funkiness and when he died, Austin lost a little bit of its personality,” Henry said. “The goal of the Thong Jog is to keep that alive, and to keep that weird Austin culture going.”

This will be the first Thong Jog, but Henry said she hopes it will become an annual event.

“The point of the race is not to over-sexualize things,”

Leslie Cochran Austin icon

Henry said. “There are children registered to participate in the race. We want people to keep in mind that it is a family friendly event.”

Registration for the Thong Jog ends Thursday. Register online at austinthongjog.com.

The fee is $40.

UNIVERSITY

UT: not at fault for missed emergency texts

By David Maly Officials said the University was not at fault when members of the UT community did not recieve text alerts sent during two emergency situations earlier this semester.

UT spokesperson Cindy Posey said the University determined that some members of the UT community did not recieve the text alerts sent during a false bomb threat made against the campus in September and a false report of a gunman on campus last week mainly because they did not

have the correct phone number entered into the system.

She said others did not receive messages because of technical issues. Their cell phone carriers dropped the messages because such a high volume of them were being processed at once. Posey did not have an exact number for how many did not receive the text alerts.

An AT&T spokesperson was unable to provide information or comment on the situation.

Posey said the text alerts are mainly limited to students, faculty and staff because recieving them requires a high-assur-

ance UT EID. She said only one phone number can be associated with each UT EID for the text alerts.

Bob Harkins, associate vice president for campus safety and security, said students, faculty and staff can assure they are registered for the text alerts with the correct phone number by going to the University’s emergency preparedness website or by calling the University of Texas Police Department.

He said on the first Wednesday of each month, the University tests the text alert system by

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and misleading intimidation tactics to try to bully schools to bow down at the altar of secular beliefs,” Abbott said at the conference.

Abbot is widely known for successfully advocating the state’s right to display the Ten Commandments in front of the Texas Capitol during the 2005 Van Orden v. Perry U.S. Supreme Court case.

At the conference, Perry said the Kountze cheerleaders should be allowed to show religious materials because that expression is protected by freedom of religion. He said he’s glad Abbott plans to become involved in the case.

“It is frankly astonishing that, here in the 21st century, we have to go to court to fight for [religious freedom],” Perry said. “In Texas, we’re lucky to have an attorney general willing to fight those battles, and I applaud General Abbott for his efforts to support and liberate the people of our state to worship, or even simply make a reference to their religion, as they see fit.”

The legal battle began after the Kountze school district received a letter from the Freedom From Religion Foundation saying the cheerleader’s banners, which included Bible verses, violated constitutional doctrine. The organization advocates for the separation of church and state. After consulting with two lawyers, school officials stopped the cheerleaders from displaying the banners. The cheerlead-

tion hosts the event to help children overcome their medical conditions.

Several colleges across the nation host dance marathons to benefit Children’s Miracle Network, a foundation that aims to raise funds for children’s health care in local communities. Texas THON raises money for Dell Children’s hospital through the Children’s Miracle Network.

Kip Holmes, Children’s Miracle Network coordinator, said the hospital had 135,000 visits by children seeking medical attention last year.

“I feel like I have the dream job of the world because I get

to raise money to help sick kids,” Holmes said.

She said Children’s Miracle Network is trying to raise $11 million to go toward building a new wing at Dell Children’s hospital. She said the group is also trying to raise funds for a magnetoencephalography, or MEG. The MEG is an ultra-precise imaging device for the brain, which Holmes said will enhance treatment for children with epilepsy and brain tumors.

Aaron Aranda, psychology sophomore and Texas THON member, said the event shows how students can make an impact.

“I stand for kids who are always in the hospital,” Aranda said.

He said when the marathon’s 12 hours are complete, the immense relief he feels when he sits down is knowing that he helped.

UT students and faculty who participate in the event are called “miracle makers.” To register for the event, miracle makers raise $100 to donate to the cause. Texas THON hosts several fundraising events through the year in addition to its dance marathon. Last week the organization raised $1,092 at THON Pancake Night.

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by paying into the University’s academic budget despite the fact they don’t receive tuition dollars.

Auxiliary enterprises are required to contribute 3.25 percent of their gross revenue to reimburse the University for administrative services, including accounting, human resources and legal services. They are also required to contribute any income from investments.

“The thought is that we benefit from them and they benefit from us aside from the backoffice operations we provide,” Hegarty said. “These auxiliary activities contribute to campus in many different ways, so we incentivize them to go out there and do their best.”

Hegarty said the University began collecting 3.25 percent contributions and investment income in 2008 to offset reductions to other areas of the University’s academic budget.

Intercollegiate Athletics, the University’s largest auxiliary enterprise, makes up $137 million of the budget — a $56 million increase since 2006, including a $23 million increase in 2011 after the launch of the Longhorn Network.

The athletics department usually contributes between $15 million and $20 million to the University’s academic budget each year, including revenue from trademarks sales and the Longhorn Network, Hegarty said.

The University also has access to all profits from the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, the University’s third-largest auxiliary enterprise, Hegarty said.

“We sit down and decide what amount we want to set aside for future capital and renovation,” Hegarty said.

“The rest goes to the University’s academic budget and the McCombs School

of Business.”

The Division of Housing and Food Services is the University’s second-largest auxiliary enterprise, and its budget has increased $16 million since 2006. Hegarty said the division usually contributes $1 million to the academic budget every year.

The division’s budget increase comes from room and board rate increases in recent years, Heather Pruitt, assistant director of financial services for the division, said.

Room and board rates have consistently increased for the last 11 years, including a 2.5 percent increase this year and an average 3.9 percent increase annually, according to figures obtained from Pruitt.

“The cost of labor and cost of food has gone up, and we have been investing in renovation projects with all expenses coming from our revenue,” she said. “At any given time, we have around 1,000 employees, and we pay all salaries including those of administrators.”

As the upcoming state legislative session approaches, Hegarty said the University will continue to look for ways every business affiliated with UT, including auxiliary enterprises, can contribute to the academic budget in the event of funding cuts from the state. During the last legislative sesion, the University faced a $92 million decrease in state funds. State general revenue makes up 13 percent of UT’s $2.3 billion annual operating budget.

Hegarty said the University has resisted negative effects from state-level funding cuts by increasing tuition in previous years and implementing a 5-year internal reduction plan for each college, school and department.

self-supporting portion of the budget comes from auxiliary enterprises, which total $281 million, a figure that has steadily increased for the past decade.

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Dave Ryan | The Beaumont Enterprise / Associated Press In this Sept. 19, 2012 file photo, Kountze High School cheerleaders and other children work on a large sign in Kountze, Texas.

ers then hired lawyers to fight against the school’s decision.

Kountze ISD Superintendent Kevin Weldon said in a statement to the media that the school district works hard to foster an atmosphere that values the voices and opinions of all students, teachers and the community.

“We were pleased to have the opportunity to explain the district’s position regarding this matter in court, recognizing that Kountze ISD must follow all applicable laws in its operations, even if this practice is at times in conflict with personal beliefs of administrators and board members,” Weldon said.

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Harkins said the University found one reason students did not have the correct number registered with the text alert system was that their parents went onto the University’s website, entered their student’s UT EID and added their own phone number, inadvertently deleting the student’s number from the system.

Harkins said he believes this problem did not occur because of a clarity issue with the University’s emergency preparedness website. The website explains that only one phone number can be associated with the text alerts and only allows one phone number to be entered for the text alerts.

He said some parents of UT students, UT alumni, local business owners and residents of the area surrounding UT have said they would like to be able to sign for the text alert system.

Harkins said the University does not plan to make the system available to the general public, since the University’s responsibility is to the students, faculty and staff at UT. He said others can stay informed during emergency situations by following the University on Facebook and Twitter, monitoring the University’s website and by watching the mainstream media.

Susie Smith, director of Texas Parents, an organization for the parents of students at the University, said representatives from the organization have explored the possibility of creating a separate text alert system for parents and others that would like to receive the text alerts.

Harkins said the University is willing to collaborate with Texas Parents in creating another text message system by providing them with necessary information during emergency situations. He said he believes the project is feasible.

UT spokesperson Posey said roughly 70,000 people are currently signed up to receive the text alerts.

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Currently, no academic or administrative unit from the University is allowed to discriminate against student groups on the basis of a religious viewpoint expressed on a sign, according to UT’s Institutional Rules on Student Services and Activities.

At the conference, Perry promised the state Legislature will continue to find ways to preserve religious expression during the upcoming legislative session.

“As government leaders, we owe it to people of all religions to protect expressions of faith, to ensure everyone has the right to voice their opinions and worship as they see fit,” he said.

Lance Armstrong resigned as the chairman of Livestrong, his foundation dedicated to fighting cancer, in a statement issued Wednesday amidst mounting evidence that the award-winning cyclist used performance-enhancing drugs.

“To spare the foundation any negative effects as a result of controversy surrounding my cycling career, I will conclude my chairmanship,” Armstrong said.

On Oct. 10, the United States Anti-Doping Agency released a report outlining the drug use by Armstrong and 11 of his teammates when he won the Tour De France seven times from 1999 to 2005.

In a statement accompanying the report, USADA CEO Travis Tygart said the team, which was sponsored by the U.S. Postal Service, created a “professionally designed” conspiracy to “groom and pressure athletes to use drugs, to evade detection, to ensure its secrecy and ultimately gain an unfair competitive advantage through superior doping practices.”

The report includes statements from 26 people, including 15 cyclists with knowledge of the team’s drug usage and documentary evidence including financial payments, emails and drug test results.

“The evidence shows beyond any doubt that the U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team ran the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen,” Tygart said.

Livestrong vice chairman Jeff Garvey will replace Armstrong as chairman, and Armstrong will remain on Livestrong’s 15-member board of directors, according to Armstrong’s statement.

Calls and emails to members of University of Texas Cycling, a student organization that is sponsored in part by Armstrong’s cycling store, Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop, were not returned by press time.

— Joshua Fechter

Proposed honor code may please students The Senate of College Councils will vote on a new honor code for the University at its meeting Thursday night.

If the vote passes, the new honor code would say: “As a student of the University of Texas at Austin, I shall abide by the core values of the University and uphold academic integrity.”

Michael Morton, journalism senior and president of the organization, said he thinks the Senate is ready to vote to approve the honor code. At its last meeting two weeks ago, legislation to approve the honor code was tabled.

“It has been a long process, of which I am extremely proud of the councils for getting involved, taking this seriously and giving us as much feedback as possible,” Morton said.

“Some people might consider the amount of work as a hindrance but I see it as the process working and representation actually happening.”

Morton said the college councils have been actively involved in the legislation. The honor code has gone through a few revisions, he said.

“We’ve gone a couple of different directions, but we’re in a place where I believe students will be happy with the honor code,” Morton said.

Currently, UT’s honor code says: “The core values of The University of Texas at Austin are learning, discovery, freedom, leadership, individual opportunity and responsibility.

Each member of the University is expected to uphold these values through integrity, honesty, trust, fairness and respect toward peers and community.”

It was created in 2004.

“It is a very broad and vague statement more than it is an honor code,” Morton said, referring to the current honor code.

If the Senate passes the honor code, it will go to President William Powers Jr. for approval.

— Bobby Blanchard

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Candidates charge campaign trail

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Nam Y. Huh | Associated Press President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks at a grassroots event at Cornell College, Wednesday in Mount Vernon, Iowa.

Barack Obama President’s post-debate strategy addresses women, U.S. relations President

By Julie Pace Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s campaign moved swiftly Wednesday to try to capitalize on his spirited debate performance, making an aggressive push on women’s issues and Libya and pressing the notion that Mitt Romney’s economic proposals are “sketchy.”

Obama’s strategy aims to solidify his crucial lead among female voters and his standing as the candidate viewed more favorably on foreign policy. Democrats had worried that both advantages could slip away after the president’s lackluster performance in the opening face-off with Romney and the fallout from last month’s deadly attack on Americans in Libya.

Obama, visibly energized on the campaign trail, hammered Romney on a flurry of women’s issues, from fair pay to Planned Parenthood funding. And he poked fun at his Republican

rival for saying during the debate he had relied on “binders full of women” to find more female employees while serving as Massachusetts governor.

“We don’t have to collect a bunch of binders to find talented young women,” Obama said at a rally in Mount Vernon, Iowa.

The impact of the second debate on the tightly contested White House race won’t be clear for several days. But Obama’s rebound provided much-needed reassurance to anxious Democrats, some of whom feared the president lacked the passion to fight for his job.

Advisers said the debate exchanges on women’s issues and Libya gave them the biggest opportunity to appeal to the narrow swath of voters in key states who remain undecided less than three weeks from Election Day. Obama’s campaign is expected to target Romney’s positions on women’s health issues. In particular, they plan

to contrast Romney’s assertion that “every woman in America should have access to contraceptives” with his support for legislation which sought to reverse the administration’s policy requiring religiousaffiliated institutions to cover contraception costs.

The Democratic ticket was also buoyed in the latest debate by the candidates’ exchange on the September attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, were killed in the attack, and the Obama administration has faced intense criticism about its security levels at the consulate and shifts in its explanation about the attack.

The president countered Romney’s criticism by saying that as president, he is “always responsible” for attacks on American interests overseas.

And Romney got tripped up on his accusations that the president didn’t refer to the attacks as terrorism in the immediate aftermath.

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Female activist arrested at holy site JERUSALEM — Israeli police say they have arrested Anat Hoffman, a female Jewish activist leader, for wearing a traditionally male prayer shawl at a Jerusalem holy site, an act police prohibit because of Orthodox Jewish sensitivities. She was with an American Jewish women’s group.

Police spokesman says police detained the activist for causing a public disturbance.

She said police stripsearched her and detained her overnight. She was released Wednesday after agreeing to stay away from the site for a month.

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Mitt Romney Romney backpedals conservatism, message shifts as election nears GOP Presidential Candidate

By Kasie Hunt & Steve Peoples fered a moderate message U.S. border with Mexico was Associated Press

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — On immigration, taxes and women’s issues, Mitt Romney is abandoning his “severely conservative” talk of the Republican primary season and moving sharply to the political center as he looks to sway on-the-fence voters in the campaign’s final three weeks.

One day after the debate, Romney’s camp conceded that Obama had a strong performance and mapped out a plan for the Republican to focus on the economy in the coming days, including delivering a speech on spending and debt early next week. Romney also intends to continue aggressively reaching out to the narrow slice of moderate, undecided voters.

The former Massachusetts governor, who described himself as “severely conservative” in February, ofPro-life demonstrators dressed in animal costumes holding protest signs that read in Spanish, “Save the humans,” perform in front of the Uruguayan Congress in Montevideo, Uruguay, Wednesday.

Meningitis outbreak death toll rises to 19 NEW YORK — Four more people have died in the national meningitis outbreak, bringing the death toll to 19, health officials said Wednesday.

The deaths are among the 247 people in 15 states sickened in the outbreak.

They all received shots of an apparently contaminated steroid medication made by a Massachusetts specialty pharmacy.

Most of the patients contracted a rare fungal form of meningitis, after getting the shots for back pain over the past few months.

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gestures while speaking at a campaign stop at Tidewater Community College in Chesapeake, Va., Wednesday.

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Uruguay legalizes abortion

By Michael Warren Associated Press

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay’s Senate voted to legalize firsttrimester abortions for all women Wednesday in a groundbreaking measure that came with so many strings attached it left neither side in the bitter debate completely satisfied.

Senators voted 17-14 to back the measure, which has already passed the lower house, and President Jose Mujica was expected to quickly sign it into law.

The legislation establishes that the public health care system must guarantee every woman the freedom to decide without pressure whether or not to have an abortion.

That’s a big step for Latin America, where only Cuba grants all women the right to abortions. But it comes with so many conditions that both sides wonder how Uru-

guay will keep this promise.

Among other things, a clear declaration that “every adult woman has the right to decide whether to end her pregnancy during the first 12 weeks of gestation” was dropped in order to get enough votes for passage. In its place, lawmakers agreed to 10 pages of fine print intended to bring about the same results.

It’s not the best law, “and not the solution we wanted, but it’s an advance,” Sen. Luis Gallo, a supporter and member of the ruling Broad Front coalition said. Women who decide to get abortions can now avoid the “humiliating secrecy” of illegal abortions, he argued.

All the ruling Broad Front coalition’s senators voted in favor, joined by one member of the opposition, Jorge Saravia of the center-right National Party.

The immediate reaction to the vote was muted since the result had

been expected.

When Senate president Danilo Astori declared the measure’s passage, a small group of abortion rights activists briefly applauded.

There were no street protests, just a blast of fresh anti-abortion graffiti painted overnight on the sidewalks outside Parliament.

“It’s a huge step,” ruling coalition Sen. Rafael Michelini said, adding that women will now no longer have to ask the state for permission. “The woman who decides to have an abortion does it.”

There are no firm estimates for how many women have obtained abortions illegally in Uruguay, but thousands were ending up in hospitals with complications each year until the government made morning-after pills widely available. Ruling party lawmakers said reducing dangers from illegal abortions was their primary motivation.

while appealing directly to women voters Wednesday in Virginia, which Obama won four years ago and is up for grabs now.

Earlier this month, he told the Des Moines Register’s editorial board that he didn’t intend to pursue any abortion-related legislation as president, and then back tracked.

Looking to cut into Obama’s polling edge with Hispanics, Romney assailed Obama on Tuesday for failing to live up to a promise to try to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill. He tried to offer a sunny explanation for a phrase he favored earlier this year: selfdeportation — essentially, creating employment and enforcement conditions so harsh that immigrants are forced to leave.

During the primary season, Romney insisted he wouldn’t talk about a comprehensive plan until the

more secure.

Romney also is emphasizing his plan to overhaul the nation’s tax system, including the declaration that wealthy Americans won’t get a tax break under his plan.

The tax pledge is a departure in tone, if not policy, from his position during the primary, when his comments were squarely focused on his plan to cut tax rates by 20 percent across the board.

“By reducing the tax on the next dollar of income earned by all taxpayers, we will encourage hard work, risk-taking, and productivity by allowing Americans to keep more of what they earn,” Romney told the Detroit Economic Club earlier this year.

Tuesday night, it was a different message. Romney said: “I’m not looking to cut taxes for wealthy people. I am looking to cut taxes for middleincome people.”

Reports find rebels killed loyalists in Libya

By Maggie Michael Associated Press

CAIRO — Libyan rebels appear to have “summarily executed” scores of fighters loyal to Moammar Gadhafi, and probably the dictator himself, when they overran his hometown a year ago, a human rights group said Wednesday.

The report by Human Rights Watch on alleged rebel abuses that followed the October 2011 capture of the city of Sirte in the final major battle of the eight-month civil war is one of the most detailed descriptions of what the group says were war crimes committed by the militias that toppled Gadhafi, and which still play a major role in Libyan politics today.

The 50-page report, titled “Death of a Dictator: Bloody Vengeance in Sirte,” details the last hours of Gadhafi’s life on Oct. 20, 2011, when he tried to flee the besieged city. The longtime leader’s convoy was struck by NATO aircraft as it tried to escape and the survivors were attacked by militias from the city of Misrata, who captured and disarmed the dictator and his entourage.

Misrata was subjected to a brutal weeks-long siege by Gadhafi’s forces that killed hundreds of residents, and fighters from the city became among the regime’s most implacable foes. HRW says it seems the Misratans took revenge against their prisoners in Sirte.

“The evidence suggests that

opposition militias summarily executed at least 66 captured members of Gadhafi’s convoy in Sirte,” Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director at Human Rights Watch said.

The New York-based group’s report says that new evidence unearthed in its investigation includes a mobile phone video clip taken by militiamen showing a large number of prisoners from Gadhafi’s convoy being cursed and abused by opposition fighters.

The remains of at least 17 of the detainees in the phone video were later identified in a group of 66 bodies found at Sirte’s Mahari hotel, some still with their hands tied behind their back. Human Rights Watch said it used hospital morgue photos to confirm the victims’ identities.

The dictator himself was seen alive in a widely-circulated video made public shortly after the battle.

“Video footage shows that Moammar Gadhafi was captured alive but bleeding heavily from a head wound,” the HRW report says. But footage showed that he was “severely beaten by opposition forces, stabbed with bayonet in his buttocks, causing more injuries, and bleeding. By the time he is filmed being loaded into an ambulance half-naked, he appears lifeless.”

Bouckaert said the group’s “findings call into question the assertion by Libyan authorities that Moammar Gadhafi was killed in crossfire and not after his capture.”

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No straight talk on immigration During Tuesday night’s debate, President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney discussed a wide range of topics, including immigration — an issue of particular importance to Texans, given our 1,200-mile border with Mexico. While the candidates mostly relied upon familiar, oversimplified talking points, an attentive viewer could grasp much more about their respective positions on immigration based on what they didn’t say rather than what they did.

When asked, “Mr. Romney, what do you plan on doing with immigrants without their green cards that are currently living here as productive members of society?” Romney took the president to task for not fulfilling a 2008 campaign promise to reform the immigration laws in this country.

“Now when the president ran for office, he said that he’d put in place, in his first year, a piece of legislation — he’d file a bill in his first year that would reform our immigration system, protect legal immigration, stop illegal immigration,” said Romney. “He didn’t do it. He had a Democrat House, a Democrat Senate, super-majority in both Houses. Why did he fail to even promote legislation that would have provided an answer for those that want to come legally and for those that are here illegally today? … A question I think the president will have a chance to answer right now.”

“Good, I look forward to it,” Obama said as he rose from his seat.

The honest answer to Romney’s question might have been that Obama was not willing to spend his political capital trying to pass immigration reform in this term, when health care took center stage. But the president didn’t give that answer.

Instead, Obama presented an oft-heard string of clichéd platitudes about how America is a nation of immigrants, before giving an unspecific overview of his immigration philosophy and referring to his support of

the DREAM Act, which would provide a pathway to citizenship for undocumented students and members of the military.

Obama accused Romney of calling for policies meant to encourage self-deportation, “making life so miserable on folks that they’ll leave,” and declaring the infamous Arizona immigration law a model for the nation during the Republican primaries.

Then, Romney, pressed by the debate moderator to address his support of self-deportation, deflected too.

“I did not say that the Arizona law was a model for the nation in that aspect,” he said. “I said that the E-Verify portion of the Arizona law, which is the portion of the law which says that employers could be able to determine whether someone is here illegally or not illegally, that that was a model for the nation.”

Romney went on to say that “self-deportation says let people make their own choice… And if they find that they can’t get the benefits here that they want and they can’t find the job they want, then they’ll make a decision to go to a place where they have better opportunities. But I’m not in favor of rounding up people and taking them out of this country.”

Romney’s description makes his stance sound very similar to the status quo, which is not what advocates of self-deportation intended when they first proposed it. Obama described Romney’s economic plan as “sketchy,” and the word applies equally well to the governor himself.

In Texas, immigration does not separate voters by one clean partisan line. Both former President George W. Bush and current Texas governor Rick Perry support more lenient immigration policies. During the Republican primaries, Perry, despite opposition from others on stage

Down here in Texas, we try to talk a little straighter about an issue that has no easy answers.

and booing from the audience, confidently justified his support of a Texas law that allows undocumented students to qualify for in-state tuition at state colleges and universities: “Texas had a decision to make: Are we going to kick these young people to the curb and pay for their existence in our state through social programs or some other type of government dollars — up to and including incarceration?” Perry said.

At the time, Romney responded by sending reporters a document about Perry’s immigration record titled, “Rick Perry brings his liberal illegal immigration policies to New Hampshire,” and he told an audience in that state that if the U.S. government wants to stem the tide of illegal immigration, it should “build a fence, have enough people to patrol it and turn off the magnets that draw people here illegally, like giving them in-state tuition.”

The Romney behind that position was clearly not the same man who accused Obama of not doing enough to help immigrants Tuesday night.

After watching Romney and Obama hem and haw about immigration, circumventing the subject at every opportunity, Texans of both parties should remind the two candidates that down here, we try to talk a little straighter about an issue that has no easy answers.

Robots and us

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By Ross McBee Guest Columnist

The Turing test has long been a major tenet of machine-human interaction and the study of Artificial Intelligence. Devised in 1950 by Alan Turing, a British informatician, computer scientist, mathematician and code-breaker who famously helped crack the German ENIGMA code during WWII, the test attempts to address a long-standing and thorny question in AI theory: “Can machines think?” Turing’s proposed test was genius in its simplicity: Judge the bot against the gold standard on this planet — human beings. Turing suggested that if a bot could successfully convince 30 percent of human judges that it was itself human, it would be truly “intelligent” artificial life.

No bot to date has passed the test, but they’re getting closer. This September, during Turing’s centenary year, a team of computer scientists here at UT led by Professor Risto Miikkulainen claimed the BotPrize. The BotPrize, brainchild of Australian AI researcher Philip Kingston, is a modified version of the Turing test that uses video games as a medium. The goal of the competition was to successfully convince human players in a first-person shooter video game that their opponents were also human when they were in fact robots. The UT program performed incredibly well, “out-humaning” the humans by achieving a convincing 52 percent “humanness rating” compared with only 40 percent for actual humans.

Admittedly, even the most sophisticated bot in a video game is limited to activities far more simplistic and constrained than most human socializations, but on some level, playing a video game

Research like this allows us to probe not only the fascinating field of machine-human interaction, but also the way we interact with other humans.

is a subset of the same human interaction that the Turing test mandates is the ultimate benchmark for intelligence. These bots didn’t just approach this benchmark, they surpassed it.

This has me excited. Not because I want a new breed of robot overlord or want to become god in the machine myself, but because research like this allows us to probe not only the fascinating field of machine-human interaction, but also the way we interact with other humans. The strange thing about video game bots is that it’s easy to create a bot that is a force to be reckoned with, that dominates human opponents on the virtual battlefield. But it’s very hard to mimic real humans convincingly, because humans aren’t perfect. They’re inconsistent. They hold grudges and make patently unwise emotional decisions. They rage and cheat and calculate and scheme and fail. And if we can learn to code all these flaws and biases and quirks, then maybe we can examine them, better understand them and even fix them. The Turing test and the BotPrize aren’t just important ways of measuring intelligence. They’re also compendiums of those things which we humans consider important, and those flaws which are most evident. They’re not just metrics by which we judge a robot’s humanity, they’re metrics by which we judge our own as well.

McBee is a biology junior from Austin.

Compensate UT athletes beyond scholarships

By Juan Carlos Delafuente Guest Columnist

In recent years, major university athletic programs have made millions off the achievements of their student-athletes. Many student-athletes receive a full-ride scholarship, which covers the cost of tuition and housing, but the university still gets all the revenue from jersey sales, ticket sales, television broadcasts and collegiate trademark licensing. Some argue that the trade-off is not fair — what the players put into the system (long practice hours, yearly dedication, mandatory workouts, strict diets and on-field success) exceeds the value of their fullride scholarships, which players contend do not cover all college-related expenses. Others believe that players are compensated enough through their athletic scholarships and should not receive any additional money.

UT’s athletes should receive additional monetary compensation so that all of their college expenses (and even more, if possible) are covered. Not only are they under pressure to do well in class, but they also have to perform well on the field, because their athletic scholarships are not guaranteed for four years. The current scholarship amount is not enough to pay for all college-related expenses, and between school and sports, student-athletes do not have time for paid employment to make up the difference.

Mark Emmert, president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, aims to help, but only to a point.

He supports a proposal to “allow conferences to increase grants to student-athletes by $2,000, to more closely approach the full cost of attending college, beyond the athletic scholarships given for tuition, fees, room, board and books.”

However, when asked whether that amounts to monetary compensation for athletic performance, Emmert backed off. “If we move toward a pay-for-play model — if we were to convert our student-athletes to employees of the university — that would be the death of college athletics,” Emmert told the New York Times’ Joe Nocera. “Then they are subcontractors. Why would you even want them to be students? Why would you care about their graduation rates? Why would you care about their behavior?”

This sums up the main argument against paying college athletes — that it would effectively destroy the value of the degrees they’re ostensibly pursuing. However, under the system currently in place, they are little more than an inexhaustible supply of highly profitable indentured laborers.

Universities and television networks have cashed in on society’s fixation with sports. Last year, the University of Texas and ESPN closed a deal in which UT would make even more money (an additional $11 million a year) through a UT-exclusive Longhorn Network to cover its sporting events.

The Longhorn Network deal will give the school an estimated $300 million over the next 20 years, but it ex-

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UT does not have a problem with making money off of its athletic programs, so the student-athletes responsible for those profits shouldn’t have to spend their own money on college expenses.

ists only because of the huge popularity of UT’s athletic programs — especially its football team. According to a 2011 Forbes report titled “College Football’s Most Valuable Teams,” Texas made $71 million in profit from its football program that year, more than any other university. Clearly, people are willing to pay big money to watch amateurs play football. UT does not have a problem with making money off of its athletic programs, so the student-athletes responsible for these profits shouldn’t have to spend their own money on college expenses.

Beyond the scholarship increase, student-athletes should receive royalties, so that whenever UT uses an athlete’s likeness and makes a monetary gain, the player will receive a percentage of the profit. This would give players extra motivation to perform well and add to an already large fan base, which would increase sales of UT merchandise. When someone buys a jersey with the number 14 on it, they do it because that’s David Ash’s number, so why not let him receive a portion of the sale?

It is time for the players to receive their fair share.

Delafuente is an undeclared sophomore from Palacios.

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If you didn’t already know he was hurt before he spoke to reporters this week, you would have thought the wrapping on his left wrist was decorative.

The last time David Ash’s non-throwing wrist was seen without something covering it up, it looked like a black and blue golf ball was lodged under his palm. A source told The Daily Texan that the doctors who treated Ash believe his wrist is broken but could not find exactly where the break took place.

But, somehow, Ash was back on the practice field Sunday, taking snaps and throwing passes. The day after that, he spoke of playing Saturday against Baylor as if it was a foregone conclusion.

And that’s exactly what Texas needs right now.

After suffering the third worst loss in the 186 games that the Longhorns have played since Mack Brown took over as head coach in 1998, their injury list is a long one. Jordan Hicks has missed

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Andrew Torrey | Daily Texan Staff David Ash looks downfield during Texas’ 63-21 loss to Oklahoma at the Cotton Bowl last Saturday. Ash suffered a broken left wrist in the fourth quarter of the defeat but will still take the field when the Longhorns face Baylor at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Saturday.

the last three games with a hip injury. Malcolm Brown has missed the last two with a hurt ankle. Jackson Jeffcoat is out for the rest of the year with a torn pectoral muscle.

Donald Hawkins (ankle) and Brandon Moore (neck) were hurt against OU and may miss this week’s game as well.

“It definitely looks worse than it feels,” Ash said, shrug-

ging off the injury. “When it hit in the game, I just kind of said, ‘Shoot, that kind of hurt.’ I was running off and looked down and went, ‘Oh, shoot.’ Everyone started freaking out. I threw a towel on it and I walked out.”

There’s a difference between being hurt and being injured. You can’t play if you’re injured. But if any of those guys are hurt, they need

to follow Ash’s example and get on the field Saturday.

“It shows a lot of toughness,” junior guard Trey Hopkins said. “We have a lot of guys banged up. Just the fact that he was out there with us [Sunday], shows how he’s continuing to be a leader on the team. I think that really shows how he’s stepped up as a person. That’s what we re-

ally need with so many guys banged up. We need everyone to know that you can still play through it.”

Without knowing the intricate details of his teammates’ injuries, here’s to hoping Ash playing through pain this weekend sets a precedent that can help turn this season

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Terrible Baylor defense could offer relief

By Lauren Giudice Mack Brown felt his offense and offensive line didn’t merit having most valuable players for their play against Oklahoma.

The offense accumulated just 289 yards. But it can breathe a sigh of relief as Baylor comes to town Saturday.

The Bears are last in total defense. No, not last in the Big 12. Last in the country.

They are 118th in scoring defense, 117th in pass defense and 89th in rushing defense.

Their offense and an unchallenging nonconference schedule has helped them maintain a winning record.

But in Big 12 play, the Bears are 0-2. Both Texas and Baylor are looking to put an end to a two-game losing streak. Last week, the Bears were shocked when TCU’s redshirt freshman quarterback Trevone Boykin scored five touchdowns in a 49-21 win over them. The Horned Frogs were allowed

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Texas head coach Mack Brown is hoping Baylor’s No. 124 total defense is just what the doctor ordered for his offense, which was stagnant in a 63-21 loss to Oklahoma.

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Marisa Vasquez | Daily Texan Staff Junior outside hitter Bailey Webster had 17 kills as the Longhorns battled the Cyclones for a win in Gregory Gym.

Longhorns claim tenth straight win against ISU

By Rachel Thompson Texas was kept on its toes against Iowa State Wednesday night, claiming a burnt orangetainted victory despite two initial strong sets for the Cyclones.

The Longhorns crawled out of an early rut to win a 10th straight match this season, marking the first time the team has won after a two-set deficit since its 2009 season opener.

“Our defense was really struggling early on,” head coach Jerritt Elliott said. “Getting [Haley] Eckerman back into the match and the passers doing a great job led up to the better efficiency. We got a lot calmer and stayed consistent.”

Eckerman, an outside hitter, had six kills and a block in the first set, while junior set-

ter Hannah Allison pitched in 12 assists. An early 10-4 lead handed Iowa State an initial advantage, but senior utility Sha’Dare McNeal added several kills, allowing Texas to gain its first lead in the set, 20-19. A UT hitting error allowed Iowa State to claim the first set.

An early Texas lead in the second set was overpowered by five consecutive points by the Cyclones. Despite Allison’s seven assists, the Cyclones launched another 8-1 run to gain a 2-0 lead in the match.

Strong performances by McNeal shifted the momentum of the match in the third set, as McNeal contributed three kills, two blocks and two assists. Allison tacked on 13 assists and two aces, bringing

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They don’t give up. Although until now, they have had an easy time handling their opponents, the No. 8 Longhorns haven’t forgotten how to win a tough nailbiter. Plus a low team error count and great performances by Haley Eckerman, junior Bailey Webster and senior Sha’Dare McNeal guaranteed the win.

By the numbers 5: The number of sets it took to defeat Iowa State. This marks the first Big 12 match this season that the Longhorns did not sweep their opponents.

10: Hannah Allison’s ranking in Texas’ record books for career assists. Allison logged 54 assists against the Cyclones bringing her career total to 2,211.

12: Errors committed by the Longhorns through five sets compared to the Cyclone’s 28. The Longhorns had trouble earlier in the season with errors and have been trying to minimize them.

23: Kills for Eckerman against the Cyclones. Eckerman was named the Big 12 Offensive Player of the week last week for the third time this season. This is her 10th career Big 12 award.

36: The number of consecutive Big 12 matches that the Longhorns have won at home, a school record.

Stock up/stock down Stock Up: McNeal and freshman Molly McCage. Both had a great night against Iowa State.

McCage registered five kills while hitting .400 and McNeal contributed 10 kills with a .476 hitting average. Both have seen an increase in playing time over the past few weeks and keep getting better each week.

Stock Down: The Texas defense during the first two sets.

The Longhorns got off to a rare slow start against the Cyclones.

They allowed the Iowa State offense to hit over .300 in each of the first two sets. However, they did have a comeback, limiting the Iowa State’s offensive production by a large margin in the Longhorn’s come from behind victory.

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SPORTS BRIEFLY VP candidate Ryan mistakes McCoy On a visit to the Cleveland Browns, vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan fumbled.

Ryan stopped by the team’s complex with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — a lifelong Cleveland fan — as the Browns were beginning practice Wednesday. While addressing the huddled players, Ryan confused Browns backup quarterback Colt McCoy for starter Brandon Weeden.

As Ryan spoke, it became obvious that while he was looking at McCoy, he was talking about Weeden, the rookie from Oklahoma State who got his first NFL win last Sunday on his 29th birthday. A few of the Browns players began laughing quietly while others looked away before the candidate realized his mistake.

“I think he saw the red (practice) jerseys and got us mixed up,” Weeden said. “But he’s got more important things on his mind right now than me and Colt.

It was a good laugh.”

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Preseason Basketball Coaches’ Poll 1. Indiana 2. Louisville

Up next for texas The Longhorns are off this weekend, but will face Baylor for the second time this season when the Bears travel to Austin on Oct. 24th at 7 p.m. The Longhorns swept the Bears the last time they met at the end of September in Waco. The Longhorns are 70-2 against Baylor. The Bears have an overall record of 15-7 for the season and 2-5 in Big 12 conference play. They will host West Virginia in Waco on Saturday before traveling to Austin.

3. Kentucky 4. Ohio State 5. Michigan 6. NC State 7. Kansas 8. Duke 9. Syracuse 10. Florida 18. Baylor T24. Florida State T24. Texas

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Manning due for a giant day against Redskins

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touchdowns and surrendered zero turnovers, which should give him some confidence heading into Sunday’s game against the Patriots. Since he is facing a defense that has allowed at least three touchdown passes in each of its last four games, Sanchez is a good sleeper pick this week.

This week is stacked with great matchups, including several division rivalry games. The environment of these games is sure to be electric and players will be looking to elevate their performances against hated foes.

With plenty at stake Sunday, 3) Chris Johnson, RB be aware of who will be a Tennessee Titans Though Johnson’s disapsmart fantasy start. pointing season has devastated many fantasy owners, Players to start: he has looked improved in 1) Eli Manning, QB two of the past three weeks New York Giants Outside of an opening-day and is seeing a larger workdud against the Cowboys and load with backup quarterlast week’s blowout of the back Matt Hasselbeck under 49ers, Manning has been a re- center. Johnson should be liable fantasy player. Expect in store for a strong game him to air it out this week against the Buffalo Bills, who against a Redskins defense have allowed the fourth-most that makes every quarterback fantasy points to opposing it faces look like a fantasy all- running backs.

Mark J. Terrill | Associated Press New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning (10) calls a play at the line of scrimmage against the San Francisco 49ers during the first quarter of an NFL football game in San Francisco on Sunday.

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21 unanswered points in the fourth quarter.

Boykin went 22 of 30 with four touchdowns passing.

Not what the Bears were hoping for.

“It is very frustrating,” Baylor head coach Art Briles said. “It is very humiliating, not just to us, as coaches, but to our players also and to our University. We did not do a good job of showing up for Baylor tonight.”

The Longhorns offense will look to bounce back from its dismal showing at the Red River Rivalry.

They did not find the end zone until there were less

than five minutes left.

The Sooners dominated the line of scrimmage and made David Ash’s life very difficult, and the running backs felt the consequences. The team only had two rushing yards at the end of the first half and 74 total yards rushing by the end of the game.

Texas was averaging 209.4 yards of rushing per game before Saturday.

A game against the Bears’ terrible defense could be just what the Longhorns need to get back on track. But while Baylor has given up 70, 49

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TEXAS INJURY REPORT Player

Injury

David Ash

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Malcolm Brown

ankle

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Donald Hawkins

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Brandon Moore

sprained neck

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Jackson Jeffcoat

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Jordan Hicks

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and 42 points in three different games this season, wide receiver Marquise Goodwin doesn’t focus on those numbers.

“You really can’t worry about what happened last weekend, you’ve just got to worry about what I can do to help my team win this weekend,” Goodwin said.

“And I think that’s maybe where some teams go wrong, where some people go wrong.”

Goodwin said teams play even harder than usual when they face off against Texas. Offensive lineman Luke Poehlmann

doesn’t pay attention to the numbers, either.

“Every week is going to be a challenge,” Poehlmann said. “We’re not going to look at stats. We’re not going to look at anything else but the guy we’re lining up against.”

If the Longhorns defeat Baylor, it certainly won’t make up for what happened at the Cotton Bowl.

But it will even their conference record and boost their confidence.

“We’re done with Oklahoma,” Poehlmann said. “That was last week. We’re working on Baylor now.”

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You really can’t worry about what happened last weekend, you’ve just got to worry about what I can do to help my team win this weekend.

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the score up in Texas’ favor.

The Longhorns closed the set at 25-17, segueing into a fourth set.

Strong Texas performances punctuated the fourth set, as junior outside hitter Bailey Webster added four kills and three blocks, while McNeal pitched in three kills and two blocks. Allison continued her roll of assists, adding 14. A back row kill by Eckerman allowed Texas to gain a significant lead and force a fifth set.

Webster and Iowa State’s Victoria Hurtt battled in the fifth set, but a block by McNeal moved the set along in Texas’s favor. Freshman Molly McCage jumped the score to 9-6, and a Webster kill sparked a 5-1 run to conclude the set.

“Anytime you go undefeated in the Big 12 is huge,” Elliott said. “There are still a lot of things we can do and points we can touch on to get more proficient in terms of our touches but we have time before the next match.”

That next match will take place in one week, as the Longhorns take on the Baylor Bears next Wednesday in Gregory Gym.

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ASH continues from page 6 around. Texas’ defense has sorely missed Hicks since he went down a month ago.

Hawkins and Moore, both junior college transfers, have provided a valuable presence at the line of scrimmage.

And, while freshman Johnathan Gray has impressed in his first few games as a Longhorn, Malcolm Brown is Texas’ best option at tailback.

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five games this year, it would the entire game. Although he be wise to avoid him this week. should be expected to play more this week versus the Rams, Finley’s lack of pro3) Jermichael Finley, TE duction cannot be blamed Green Bay Packers Finley was a non-factor solely on his health; the forin the Packers’ 42-24 blow- mer Longhorn hasn’t had out of the Texans on Sunday more than four catches in a night due to a shoulder in- game or scored since a weekjury, playing only 24 snaps one loss to San Francisco.

against a strong 49ers defense fantasy points to opposing looking to rebound from a quarterbacks.

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By Jasmin Castanon When it comes to Latin dance, Salsa is the first, and sometimes the only, type that comes to mind. In reality, Latin dance consists of an array of styles.

The Mexican American Culture Committee aims to break these types of societal stereotypes by educating the UT community through entertaining and educational events throughout the semester.

Dance is a major part of the life of Mexican-Americans and Latinos and they would like to share this part of their life with their fellow students here at UT. The Mexican American Culture Committee invites students of all different backgrounds to come together and celebrate a historically rich and distinct culture. MACC is a group for Latino students who take pride in their culture or who are simply interested in learning more about their background to meet students with similar interests.

“Since joining MACC, I feel like I have found my little piece of home here in Austin,” junior MACC member Sonia Segundo said.

Cultural organizations are an essential part of student life at UT. They encourage students to take pride in their culture by sharing a part of themselves with fellow classmates and faculty members.

“Without cultural organizations UT would be cheating [students] out of an experience they can’t get anywhere else,” bilingual education junior Alejandra Gonzalez said. “Our university is known for being culturally diverse.

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SCIENCE worth considering is that it doesn’t rely on “imaginary numbers or complicated physics,” according to the authors. Still, would-be warpspeed travelers shouldn’t get their hopes up just yet.

As of right now, there’s no experimental evidence that the mathematicians’ results actually coincide with a reality as we know it and, as they are quick to point out, “we are mathematicians, not physicists.”

Guilt stops immoral action A new article written for the journal “Current Directions in Psychological Science” provides an overview of the authors’ work in the science of guilt proneness.

Unlike guilty feelings, guilt

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serve as the means of contact for the flyer.

Key’s cousin, Matt Bramlett, a 38-year-old Austin resident, said Key once climbed a water tower in small-town Elgin to attract the attention of a female Sonic employee when he was 18 years old. They eventually went on a date.

“He was walking around up there just doing anything he could to impress this girl,”

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continues from page 10 students are invited to attend Hook ‘Em Arts’ “Black Out to Stand Out” event on the sixth floor of Bass Concert Hall, sometimes referred to as The Loft. Hook ‘Em Arts is the official student organization of Texas Performing

Pu Ying Huang | Daily Texan Staff Yadira Ramos-Luna, Latin American studies senior, is the committee chair of Mexican American Culture Committee. MACC is hosting Noche de Baile Thursday at Gregory Plaza. Ramos-Luna hopes the event will be a great learning experience about Mexican-American culture for all who attend.

proudly support the different cultural organizations on campus.“ The MACC’s events are not only fun but are also a learning experience for all students who are open to embracing a culture that may be foreign to them.

“We program events whether it be educational or cultural to try and teach the UT student body about our culture, our traditions and our customs,” MACC committee chair Yadira Ramos-Luna said. “Our organization focuses on educating everybody, even Mexican Americans, be-

cause sometimes we don’t even know our own history or background.”

The MACC is hosting an event called Noche de Baile to celebrate their culture’s various styles of music and dance Thursday night.

Aguas frescas, churros, tostada chips and salsa will be served throughout the event so students can fully immerse themselves in Mexican American culture.

Noche de Baile will be split into two parts. The first half of the evening will be dedicated to live music provided by the Grammy award winning

Latin group Grupo Fantasma. Grupo Fantasma is an Austin based Latin group known for incorporating elements of funk, mambo, merengue and cumbia in their music. DJ Vladimir will provide the second half of the night’s music with a full spectrum of Mexican American music and dance.

MACC encourages students to come and learn the various styles of Latino dance, such as norteñas, huapangos and cumbias, amongt good company at Noche de Baile.

“This event is a way for

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continues from page 10 proneness occurs before even committing a delinquent act and, as a result, those of us who are more guilt-prone are less likely to commit immoral acts. As the authors note, “The anticipation of guilty feelings about private misdeeds indicates that one has internalized moral values” and they suggest that their tests be used when looking for ethical friends, making hiring decisions at a workplace or putting yourself in any situation in which your trust in a particular individual could be abused.

the results of a new experiment pan out. The experiment carefully analyzed how many calories participants burned in a day by keeping track of oxygen, carbon dioxide and water levels in sealed rooms the volunteers stayed in for two days. On days when they participated in interval bike workouts, which required five highintensity 30-second rides, each separated by 4 minutes of recovery, they burned an average of 200 more calories than they did on inactive days. Not bad for what amounts to only 2.5 minutes of total exercise.

Web discovers new planet It might be exciting enough that we’ve discov-

ered a planet in a quintuple star system, but what makes it even cooler is that the discovery was made by amateurs using Planet Hunters, a website. The site crowdsources data — in this case, from the Kepler spacecraft — and trains users to use the data to look for planets.

It’s paid off, as the findings have been confirmed and led to the discovery of a planet larger than Neptune orbiting a dual star system, which has an additional two stars in its close vicinity. The finding adds another extra-solar planet to our current list of over 800 and also provides a proof of concept which should lead to future attempts to crowd-source science.

Bramlett said. “He even got in trouble for it. He would do anything for a girl he’s interested in.”

Bramlett and others closest to Key originally thought the odds were against him when he failed to find his mystery girl at UT’s graduate school orientation for biology in the fall of 2011 and failed again when he cross-referenced her on social media websites with graduates from the business school at UT-Arlington. He was also unsuccessful when he posted flyers on campus last year, although it should be

noted a reward wasn’t offered as incentive.

“What would disappoint me would be never trying. That’s the only thing that would bother me,” Key said. “Failing, I don’t care. I’ll fail all day long, but trying, that’s the thing that gets me.”

Even with the money up for grabs, his closest family has some doubt.

“I’d have to admit, I’ve never heard of anything like this,” Bramlett said. “It seems kind of like a long shot, but you never know, some girls would be flattered.”

If Key’s girl isn’t at UT anymore, or never even made it to her graduate program, he says he has still held on to the brief conversation they shared and the hope that everything she said was true. When Key shops at Target he can’t help but wonder if his mystery girl is there too.

“I don’t really expect anything from her, she’s an attractive girl, she’s got a lot going for her, odds are, she probably has a boyfriend,” Key said. “But even if she didn’t, she may or may not be interested in me.

But at least I know I tried.”

Arts, dedicated to increasing student awareness of Texas Performing Arts.

“The Loft is the student space in Bass Concert Hall,” Leah Tott, co-director of Hook ‘Em Arts and bassoon player for the Wind Ensemble said. “It’s just going to be free food and all the other stuff college students love.”

Whether you find your niche in science, or pre-

fer to take pleasure in the arts, the Wind Ensemble’s unique performance of Holst’s “The Planets” offers something to students of all disciplines.

“The visual images are stunning,” Junkin said.

“The film is beautifully synchronized with the music. It’s the kind of piece I think the audience will love to watch and listen to.”

Quick exercise kills calories Everybody wants to go to the gym, but who has the time? Almost anybody, if

the committee to show off our culture through music and dance,” Segundo said. “We want people to hear the music we grew up listening to and learn the dances we’ve been dancing to since we could walk.”

Noche de Baile gives all students and faculty the chance to come meet new people and learn about a different culture all in one night.

“You don’t have to be Mexican or Mexican American to come,” Ramos-Luna said. “The event is open to everyone and people should come because it

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How much: $10 for students Website: www.texas performingarts.org/sea son/the-planets-austin

MACC’s Noche de Baile When: Thursday, 7 p.m.

Location: Gregory Plaza Cost: Free Website: www.utsec.org/macc

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cop to John C. McGinley (“Scrubs”) as Cross’ politicking boss to a winking cameo from “Breaking Bad’s” Giancarlo Esposito. Everyone has decent chemistry, but the script throws a wet blanket on any onscreen sparks. Perry looks the most uncomfortable here, and he simply flounders as an action hero. He doesn’t have the imposing build, badass demeanor or physicality to headline a franchise, and as Cross is plunged into increasingly dark territory, Perry becomes less and less convincing.

On the other end of the spectrum, Fox is undeniably effective as Picasso, the film’s bug-eyed villain. Fox plays Picasso with a bulging, manic intensity, and the film gets much more interesting (and unintentionally comedic) when Fox and his stable of contorted facial expressions are onscreen.

It helps that “Alex Cross” isn’t afraid to let Picasso wrack up a decent body count amongst the film’s major characters, but once Cross and Tommy get embroiled in a revenge plot, it becomes clear that those characters were nothing more than sacrifices to the altar of distracting the heroes from actually solving their case.

“Alex Cross” is by no means a good movie, but it’s an extremely watchable one. The worst thing a film like this can be is boring, and “Alex Cross” is never that. It’s a lot of fun to pick apart the film’s script or simply enjoy Tyler Perry running around with a shotgun. While horrible special effects, a paper-thin script and some tragic miscasting hamper the film, at least they keep things interesting, and that’s about the best you can hope for from “Alex Cross.”

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NASA video enhances wind ensemble concert

By Hannah Smothers

Antiquated art meets modern science in the University of Texas Wind Ensemble’s dynamic performance of Gustav Holst’s original composition, “The Planets.”

Holst’s most famous composition, originally composed for a full orchestra, is paired with Duncan Copp’s specially commissioned, high-definition film from NASA’s solar system exploration.

There are seven movements within “The Planets,” one for each planet known at the time Holst composed the piece, with the exception of Earth. The music is meant to capture abstract, mythical perceptions of each of the mysterious bodies, not their actual physical attributes.

This makes the pairing of Holst’s cosmic composition and Copp’s breathtaking footage especially intriguing. The abstract composition is juxtaposed against the strikingly real footage to create a unique, explorative journey through the enigmatic realm of outer space.

Hoslt’s meticulously composed arrangements evoke imagery of the mysterious, extraterrestrial bodies they represent. In the final movement, “Neptune, the Mystic”, the spindling harp gives listeners the sensation of whirling through space, and the chilling tones of the woman’s chorus create a sense of wonder that borders on ominous.

This particular pairing of Holst’s transcendental composition with Copp’s awardwinning film was originally

Pearce Murphy | Daily Texan Staff Members of the University of Texas Wind Ensemble rehearse Wednesday afternoon in Bates Recital Hall, which houses the country’s largest tracker organ (shown behind). This Sunday, the orchestra will perform Gustav Holst’s “The Planets” at the adjacent Bass Concert Hall.

performed by the Houston Symphony before sold-out crowds in 2010.

“The astronauts were so taken away by the sound of the orchestra, by the force coming out of this, that they said they had never experienced a similar thing,” Hans Graf, Music Director of the Houston Symphony said in an interview for the DVD created by the Houston Sym-

phony entitled “The Planets”.

Since their successful international tour, the Houston Symphony has begun marketing the performance to other orchestras. According to Jerry Junkin, conductor of the UT Wind Ensemble, this is the first time the performance will be given by a wind ensemble.

Composer and arranger, Merlin Patterson, tran-

scribed the wind ensemble version of “The Planets” from Holst’s original fullorchestra version.

“Mr. Patterson just started from scratch and made this wind ensemble version,” Junkin said. “It’s a really brilliant transcription. I think it captures the piece wonderfully.”

The UT Wind Ensemble is made up of students from

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the Butler School of Music. According to Junkin, students in the School of Music are required to audition for an ensemble during the first few class days of every semester.

Several students in the Wind Ensemble play in multiple ensembles. Due to their busy schedules, the Wind Ensemble just began rehearsals for “The Planets”

about a week ago. However, you would never be able to tell by listening to the talented collection of young musicians rehearse.

“They’ve worked remarkably hard to get this thing under their belts in really a week and a half,” Junkin said.

Before the performance,

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MOVIE REVIEW | ‘ALEX CROSS’

SCIENCE SCENE

By Robert Starr

For science scene video visit:

Photo courtesy of Summit Entertainment This film image released by Summit Entertainment shows Tyler Perry in the title role during a scene from “Alex Cross.”

bit.ly/dt_sci While Gangnam Style sweeps the nation, our science Ph.D. candidates have been hard at work trying to present their research in a similar vein. This week, the winners were announced for the 5th annual Dance Your Ph.D. contest, which challenges its entrants to present the topic of their thesis through the medium of interpretive dance. Among the winning videos, which can be viewed online, was a dance of performers portraying aluminum atoms forming to become stronger than steel; in another, the dancers

Tyler Perry movie at least entertains

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demonstrated what happens to muscles in a stroke victim, and yet another takes places in the core of a fusion reactor. And while it’s unlikely any of these dances will catch on the way that Psy’s single has, they all present tough ideas in fun and intuitive ways.

Lightspeed travel theorized Einstein’s special theory of relativity places a speed limit on objects traveling through space: 186,000 miles per second, or the speed of light.

And, while many have tried looking for loopholes to try to beat this limit, most have relied upon theorizing about

ideas that may not actually be possible in our universe.

A new group of mathematicians in Adelaide, South Australia, has published their humble contribution to faster-than-light literature, but what makes their attempt

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Student searches for ephemeral mystery girl

By Lindsey Cherner As Kaelin Mace, a 17-yearold Austin Community College student, toured the UT campus and glossed over the various message boards, she encountered the most romantic gesture she had ever seen: a boy looking for a cute, mysterious girl.

“It seemed like something out of a movie,” Mace said of the flyer she saw on campus offering a $500 reward for information on the girl. “That kind of romance just doesn’t exist anymore.”

Out of curiosity she emailed the man behind the flyer, Joshua Key, to find out why he went through all the trouble just to find a girl he met once at a Target in Fort Worth. Regrettably, he said, it was because he didn’t ask her name.

“You might see a beautiful flower in a garden, but you don’t have to pick the flower and take it home, you can just see it, and observe it, and appreciate how beautiful it is,” Key said. “I think that’s what I was thinking, I don’t have to know this girl’s name; I can just look at her, appreciate her, and that should be enough and not

complicate it.”

Key recalls this mysterious girl telling him she had her bachelor’s degree from UTArlington in marketing and international business and would be studying biology as a graduate student at UT beginning in the fall of 2011. He remembers her a a beautiful, half-Korean girl with an ambitious attitude toward life. But sadly, he said, his memory of their 10-minute conversation is beginning to fade.

Key posted flyers near the biology building in mid-September, in hopes of having even a cup of coffee with her.

“It bothers me at night, I mean I don’t sit around and think about her every night, but I do think, ‘man, I should have asked for her name,’” Key said. “So if I do this, I’ll never have to kick myself again.”

Key, a graduate student at UT-Arlington studying economics, was going through a difficult breakup when he met his mystery girl in 2011. He says he hasn’t let go of their interaction since, even going as far as creating the email address strangerthingshappensometimes@gmail.com just to

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The idea of an action franchise driven by Tyler Perry is nothing short of hilarious. Perry is famous for cross-dressing in stereotype-driven adaptations of his own work. The poster for “Alex Cross,” featuring a stern-faced Perry standing inside a silhouette of co-star Matthew Fox, is an obvious effort to show audiences this is a far cry from Madea. Unfortunately, the film is nothing more than a launching pad for a franchise that completely fails to lift off, and as a whole, “Alex Cross” is a special kind of stupid.

“Alex Cross” is a creation of popular novelist James Patterson, and was previously played by Morgan Freeman in a handful of late-90’s thrillers. When Perry takes over, Cross is a Detroit cop on the verge of transferring to the FBI. However, his plans are disrupted when a maniacal assassin known as Picasso, played by Fox, begins brutally murdering local big-shot foreign executives. When Cross and his

partner, Tommy (Edward Burns), get on Picasso’s trail, they find themselves in his crosshairs.

“Alex Cross” doesn’t have a bit of subtlety in its entire script, and the dialogue is about as deep and layered as your average puddle. The “surprising” climactic reveal of the film’s ultimate villain is made crystal clear with one line of dialogue before the character is even introduced. The script connects the dots for the characters as well as the audience, and despite how brilliant Alex Cross is supposed to be, he’s really more of a psychic, instantly knowing the answers to a case without doing any real detective work. It’s pretty funny as Perry struggles to justify his out-of-leftfield, 100 percent correct theories without any logic behind them and watching the film’s actors choke out the asinine dialogue is a masterclass in keeping a straight face.

The cast is full of recognizable faces, from Rachel Nichols as a fellow

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