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Brown labels horns down symbol disrespectful and a double standard. SPORTS PAGE 6
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The editorial board’s take on the election, and the top 10 reasons to vote TODAY.
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Students are partnering with local restaurants to raise money for orphans.
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Texas-Texas A&M matchup real possibility in Cotton Bowl.
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Regent joins PACs in support of Prop. 1
Candidates stay close in home stretch
By Alexa Ura UT System regent R. Steven Hicks donated $1,000 to Keep Austin Healthy, a political action committee supporting the establishment of a proposed UT-Austin medical school. The Keep Austin Healthy PAC supports Proposition 1, an initiative on Tuesday’s
ballot that would increase the county property tax rate from 7.89 cents to 12.9 cents per $100 of assessed property value to help fund the proposed UT medical school. The Harden Healthcare Texas PAC, a committee for senior health care services provider Harden Healthcare, which Hicks’ private investment firm Capstar Partners, LLC oversees, also
donated $5,000 to Keep Austin Healthy. Hicks is the top contributor to the Harden Healthcare Texas PAC, contributing $25,000 in 2009. Filings with the Texas Ethics Commission show Hicks and Harden Healthcare Texas PAC donated to the Keep Austin Healthy PAC in August.
Partisan groups spur student turnout at polls By David Loewenberg R. Steven Hicks
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Tournaments and Games Committee puts on “Halo 4” preview.
TODAY Bevonomics 101 Budgeting and Building Credit
Learn the basics about budgeting, building credit and saving money from 2 to 3 p.m. in GEA 114.
“The Many Nobody Knew” screening “The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA spymaster William Colby” will be screened from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in ACE 2.302 followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Carl Colby.
What do you do when there’s an active shooter?
UTPD Police Chief Robert Dahlstrom will explain what to do in an active shooter situation in this lecture hosted by University Future First Responders. It will take place from 6 to 7 p.m. in SAC 2.120.
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Quote to note The horns down are disrespectful for players on the field. If horns down are OK, we ought to have guns down be OK. — Mack Brown, Head football coach SPORTS PAGE 6
Today in history In 1934
Parker Brothers, now a board game giant, acquired the patent for Monopoly from its original patent holder Elizabeth Magie.
Students at UT will join voters from across the nation Tuesday as they head to the polls to select the next president and shape the next Congress. After a year and a half of campaigning, debating and fundraising, President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney remain neck and neck in national polls leading up to Election Day, although Obama appears to hold a slight lead in several key battleground states. Senior government lecturer John McIver said he predicts a very tight race that could possibly continue beyond Tuesday night. “I think the short-term question will simply be whether or not we have a decision [Tuesday] night,” McIver said. While Texas will not be the center of attention in the presidential race, students have the opportunity to
VOTE continues on page 2 Fanny Trang | Daily Texan Staff Charli Kilpatrick and her chocolate Labrador Dudley became Internet celebrities after the government senior directed a video called “Ruff Dog Day.” The video, which has attracted over 1.4 million viewers so far, was created for a UT class focusing on the circulation of entertainment and people.
Viral video stars ‘ruff dog’ By Joan Vinson
When the role of a UT student’s dog in her video “Ruff Dog Day” helped attract more than 1.4 million viewers, a communications professor found the perfect example of entertainment circulation at work.
Celebrity Culture, a class offered at UT, focuses on the circulation of entertainment and people, including celebrities and politicians who circulate as images that reappear on computer, television and cinema screens. Students in the class split into groups to create either a blog or YouTube video to
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attract as many hits or visitors as possible. The project did not focus on the development of the blog or video; instead, it focused on publicizing the project. Government senior Charli Kilpatrick and four other students banded together to make a YouTube video titled “Ruff Dog Day,”
starring Kilpatrick’s Labrador, Dudley. The video shows Dudley performing common morning rituals with human hands. The video gained much publicity and appeared on “Good Morning America,” NPR, “Anderson Live” and other
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Following the privatization of more than 1,500 jobs at Texas A&M University this summer and thousands of other positions across the state, UT students are working with state-worker advocacy agencies as a measure to prevent the same from happening at UT. Members of the UT chapter of United Students Against Sweatshops are collecting signatures on a petition started by the Texas State Employees Union with the goal of restoring funding cuts to higher education during the 82nd state legislative session. According to the petition, the funding cut during the 2011 Texas legislative session led to “radical increases in tuition and fees charged to students and forced the elimination of thousands of university teaching and staff positions” statewide. Representatives from the organizations said they fear widespread privatization of staff jobs at UT.
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Fear of job privatization initiates student action By Dave Maly
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There is no such thing as hiding when this kind of thing goes down ...They will privatize and they will not spare anyone. — Jim Branson, Texas State Employees Union
“The only thing you have to be afraid of is if you don’t do anything, you are going to get hit in the head,” Jim Branson, assistant organizing coordinator for the Texas State Employees Union, said. “There is no such thing as hiding when this kind of thing goes down. There is not hiding. They will privatize and they will not spare anyone.”
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Hermelinda Zamarripa and LBJ first-year graduate student Julian Garza from the Office of the Police Monitor explain to students ways to file complaints about the misconduct of APD officers during a forum on racial inequities. Fanny Trang Daily Texan Staff
Forum addresses racial injustice By Taylor Hampton Students who are victims of racial discrimination have resources available on campus to help address the issue, according to speakers on a panel hosted by the Black Homecoming Planning Committee and the Black Graduate Student Association. Timothy Bailey, executive co-chair of the Black Homecoming Planning Committee, said there is a lack of conversation between marginalized
groups and the majority. To create dialogue, he said they have begun the “End to the Injustice” initiative to create a space where leaders from different organizations can educate each other on what is offensive or acceptable. Bailey has clear goals for the initiative. “Create knowledge between the majority and minority to decrease the acts of discrimination,” Bailey said. Stacey Jackson, secretary of the Black Graduate Student Association, said
the goal is to educate students so they can become empowered. “There is a system, and now that we know the information, we can hold the University accountable,” Jackson said. Mary Beth Mercatoris, assistant dean of students, said every complaint that comes to the office is investigated to determine if the incident violates any University rules. She said the office uses an educational proactive approach
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news outlets. Kilpatrick said her job was to make the video while the other members worked to promote and circulate it. She said their group was hoping to get 1,000 views by December, but managed to pass that goal in a matter of hours. The group then sent the video to reddit.com, Comedy Central, “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and other television shows that accept web videos. “Making the video was a fun experience, but the best part was the end effect,” Kilpatrick said. “It is enlightening to know that you can post something on the Internet and peo-
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“My involvement in the election is as an individual member of the community supporting the proposition,” Hicks wrote in an email to The Daily Texan. “I see no conflict of interest. Regents are also members of their communities and all are deeply involved in them.” Gov. Rick Perry appointed Hicks to a six-year term as a UT regent in February 2011. He currently serves as vice chairman of the board. The System does not have a policy against political contributions, but a rule on political activities states staff are only allowed to participate in political activities that do not involve the UT System in partisan politics. The proposed tax increase is expected to raise an estimated $54 million annually to be used to fund various health services, including $35 million annu-
ple from around the world will enjoy it.” Kilpatrick said Dudley is a relaxed dog who happened to be tired on the day the filming took place. She said the video took about 30 minutes to film. “I dipped his toothbrush into dog food in order to brush his teeth,” Kilpatrick said. “Dudley also went through about six sandwiches before I could get the right picture.” Communication studies associate professor Joshua Gunn, who teaches the Celebrity Culture class, said publicity today has shifted to a logic of circulation, staying in the “public eye” and getting noticed. He said it is not the object itself that gains value in a culture, but
whether or not the object is circulated and seen. “The experiential takeaway for the students, when I’ve used this assignment in the past, is that it is hard work to promote something into circulation, however good or bad that something is,” Gunn said. “The assignment also illustrates, however, the sheer contingency of publicity, too — what we call, simply, ‘luck.’” Latin American studies junior Matthew Flores said he was impressed by the clever idea of the video. “I think [Kilpatrick] has a knack for marketing because she recognizes what gets people’s attention,” Flores said. “If this video was used for a commercial, the product would sell.”
ally toward the proposed UT medical school In May, the UT regents voted unanimously in favor of committing $25 million annually to operate the medical school and an additional $5 million per year for eight years to cover laboratory equipment. The Seton Family of Hospitals pledged $250 million in April to fund a teaching hospital to accompany the medical school. Hicks said a UT-Austin medical school would benefit the community but not provide financial benefits to Harden Healthcare. Harden Healthcare CEO Lew Little is the chair-elect of the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, which also supports the proposition. The Travis County Taxpayers Union, which opposes Proposition 1, formed its own political action committee. Don Zimmerman, Travis County Taxpayers Union founder and treasurer, said Hicks’ contri-
bution underscored what an individual in a position of power can do. “[Hicks] is part of a very large group of very powerful corporate insiders and wealthy individuals who are behind Prop 1, and he is in very good company,” Zimmerman said. “When people with these positions of power exert their power through government, it can be kind of frightening.” Dr. Guadalupe Zamora, treasurer of the Keep Austin Healthy PAC, said he was unaware Hicks had donated to the committee. “I can tell you the regents believe in the dream of a medical school, and that is why he contributed,” Zamora said. “The idea behind [the campaign] is not so much the school, but expanding services.” The Keep Austin Healthy PAC had raised $619,343.55 as of Oct. 29, and the Travis County Taxpayers Union PAC had raised $19,640.28, according to Texas Ethics Commission filings.
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Taylor Barron | Daily Texan Staf Representatives from the Texas State Employees Union urged students to speak out against job privatization Thursday night.
JOBS continues from page 1 Ted Hooker, organizer for the Texas State Employees Union, said the petition has received roughly 5,000 signatures so far statewide. Branson said one of the best things UT workers can do to protect themselves from privatization is to join a union. He said only about 700 UT workers have joined the Texas State Employee Union. Christine Williams, sociology professor and department chair, said joining a union and speaking out about University injustices isn’t always easy to do for many at UT. “If workers make noise, they get fired, unless they are tenured professors,” Williams said. “That’s why it’s so important that students speak out, because they are not going to fire you. They need you and your tuition.” UT spokesperson Rhonda
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Weldon said there are no official regulations at UT prohibiting employees from joining unions, and if informal actions were taken to prevent unionization, the administration would want to stop it. Weldon said the only recent job privatization at UT was for 36 custodial workers at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus earlier this year. She said no employees lost their jobs in that process, and the 36 workers were transferred to the main campus. Weldon said the move helped Facilities Services achieve the Universitymandated 2 percent selffunded contingency reserve, a fund set aside to pay for future issues. Branson said although privatization is not currently rampant at UT, it could occur quickly. He said members of the UT community should come together now to prevent it by taking action including joining unions, speaking out and signing the petition.
ter and the University Coop on Guadalupe Street will serve as two of 247 polling locations in Travis County on Tuesday. The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. In order to vote, students can present their voter registration card, driver’s license or a utility bill with a current address, among other options. Polling locations across the county, including the FAC and Co-op, are open for voters registered in any Travis County precinct. Many student groups on campus are spending the last few hours of the campaign season encouraging students to let their voices be heard in national, state and local elections. Danny Zeng, communications director for College Republicans, said his group will be displaying a homemade debt clock on the West Mall throughout Election Day to convey the stakes of this election to voters. “I think it’s important for us to remind voters of the context and background we’re voting in,” Zeng said. “I do think the future prospects of students obtaining a job depend on the electoral result of this election.” A total of 12,320 votes were cast at the Flawn Academic Center during the two-week early voting period. Lines snaked through the FAC Friday and even longer lines can be expected on Election Day. University Democrats historian Justin Perez said the organization will set up a “war room” from which people will be dispersed throughout campus to remind students to vote and provide snacks to people waiting in voting lines inside the FAC. Perez said even though Texas is not a battleground state, there are many important state and local elections students have a particular stake in. “Down ballot I would say those races affect you as much as or even more so than the presidential race because it’s local and there are direct impacts you can notice right away,” Perez said. “Those have a lot less participation so their voice matters a whole lot more.” After the polls close, UDems will host a watch party at Cuatro’s, and College Republicans will meet at Scholz Garten. Students seeking a nonpartisan event can head to the Student Activity Center Ballroom where multiple nonpartisan organizations will be hosting a watch party.
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Protesters observe Guy Fawkes night LONDON — Several hundred protesters wearing masks gathered outside the British Parliament to mark Guy Fawkes night. The protesters Monday were supporters of Anonymous, a loosely-organized movement of cyber rebels and activists. Anonymous draws much of its iconography from the story of Fawkes, and the anti-hero’s ghostly white mask is a staple of demonstrations. The date of the latest protest, Nov. 5, coincides with that of Fawkes’ failed 1605 gunpowder plot to blow up the House of Lords.
Power still lacking in Cuba’s Santiago
HAVANA — Cuban city Santiago is still struggling to recover from the effects of Hurricane Sandy two weeks after the storm, even as streetlamps in hard-hit lower Manhattan shine brightly and its subways begin rumbling through tunnels again. The electrical grid has been restored to 28 percent as workers labor to replace power lines downed by thousands of fallen trees, the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina reported Monday. “Sources in (state-run power company) Empresa Electrica emphasized that the task is titanic since it means building practically all of the secondary networks from the ground up,” the agency said.
Parents pour acid to punish daughter ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani couple accused of killing their 15-year-old daughter by pouring acid on her carried out the attack because she sullied the family’s honor by looking at a boy, the couple said in an interview broadcast Monday by the BBC. The girl’s death underlines the problem of socalled “honor killings” in Pakistan where women are often killed for marrying or having relationships not approved by their families or because they are perceived to have somehow dishonored their family.
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Post-Sandy procedures facilitate voting process By Beth Fouhy & Bruce Shipkowski Associated Press
Nam Y. Huh | Associated Press People vote early during at a polling place in downtown Chicago on Monday. About 30 million people have already voted in 34 states and the District of Columbia, either by mail or in person.
Obama, Romney make last push By Julia Pace & Kasie Hunt Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The White House the prize, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney raced through a final full day of campaigning on Monday through Ohio and other battleground states holding the keys to victory in a tight race. Both promised brighter days ahead for a nation still struggling with a sluggish economy and high joblessness. “Our work is not done yet,” Obama told a cheering crowd of nearly 20,000 in chilly Madison, Wis., imploring his audience to give him another four years. Romney projected optimism as he neared the end of his six-year quest for the presidency. “If you believe we can do better. If you believe America should beon a better course. If you’re tired of being tired ... then I ask you to vote for real change,” he said in a Virginia suburb of the nation’s capital. With many of the late polls in key states tilting slightly against him, he decided to campaign on Election Day in Ohio and Pennsylvania, where he and Republicans made a big, late push. The presidency aside,
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there are 33 Senate seats on the ballot Tuesday, and according to one Republican official, a growing sense of resignation among his party’s rank and file that Democrats will hold their majority. The situation was reversed in the House, where Democrats made no claims they were on the verge of victory in pursuit of the 25 seats they need to gain control. National opinion polls in the presidential race made the popular vote a virtual tie. In state-by-state surveys, it appeared Obama held small advantages in Nevada, Ohio, Iowa and Wisconsin — enough to deliver a second term if they endured, but not so significant that they
could withstand an Election Day surge by Romney supporters. Both men appealed to an ever smaller universe of undecided voters. More than 30 million absentee or early ballots have been cast, including in excess of 3 million in Florida. The state also had a legal controversy, in the form of a Democratic lawsuit seeking an extension of time for preElection Day voting. There were other concerns, logistical rather than legal. Officials in one part of New Jersey delivered voting equipment to emergency shelters so voters displaced by Superstorm Sandy last week could cast ballots. New York City made
arrangements for shuttle buses to provide transportation for some in hardhit areas unable to reach their polling places. In his longest campaign day, Romney raced from Florida to a pair of speeches in Virginia to Ohio and then an election eve rally in New Hampshire. Obama selected Wisconsin, Ohio and Iowa for his final campaign day, an itinerary that reflected his campaign’s decision to try to erect a Midwestern firewall against Romney’s challenge. Vice President Joe Biden and Republican running mate Paul Ryan of Wisconsin went through their final campaign paces, as well.
TOMS RIVER, N.J. — One storm-battered New Jersey county was delivering ballots to emergency shelters Monday while New York City was lining up shuttle buses to ferry people in hard-hit coastal areas to the polls. With the presidential election looming just a week after Superstorm Sandy’s devastation, authorities were scrambling to make voting as manageable as possible while election watchers warned any shortcuts could compromise the integrity of the balloting. Election officials in both New Jersey and New York were guardedly optimistic that power would be restored and most polling places would be open in all but the worsthit areas for Tuesday’s election. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order Monday allowing residents to cast a so-called “affidavit,” or provisional ballot, at any polling place in the state for president and statewide office holders, an opportunity New Jersey was extending to voters as well. “Compared to what we have had to deal with in the past week, this will be a walk in the park when it comes to voting,” Cuomo said. Affidavit or provisional ballots are counted after elected officials confirm a voter’s eligibility.
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The ballot choices you don’t (and should) know about Last week, a young woman walked along the polished, concrete corridor dividing the Tower’s left façade from the Flawn Academic Center on her way to the on-campus polling location. She held her cell phone to her ear. “Mom, mom,” she said, “I’m going to vote, who do I vote for?” In 2008, UT students, moved by candidate Barack Obama’s call to action, energized this campus. Their enthusiasm appears, however, to have been a temporary diversion, not a permanent departure. In 2008, during the Democratic primary, Obama came to UT-Austin for a debate, and received a standing ovation from a roaring crowd. Today, increased numbers of UT students don’t think much or often about the presidential election, and many are not persuaded that either Obama or Romney can lift this country from its current woes. Based on the past four years, college students have no good reasons not to expect to live life in a leaner, more stagnant version of the previous century. Yet they still hold out hope they will enjoy the lives their parents lived, if not better. College students’ conflicting perspective is much like Obama and Romney’s, who, despite sounding on the campaign trail as though they support vastly different visions, share some views. Obama’s Affordable Care Act resembles in many respects the health care law Romney helped enact as Massachusetts Governor. And last month, during the candidates’ final debate about international affairs, they often agreed about U.S. policy overseas. Ironically, the ballot choices that matter to UT students are the ones the students lining up in the FAC know the least about. Examples abound: Proposition 1 in the City of Austin Special Election asks voters if the general election date should be moved from May to November. Moving the election date will ensure UT students are more likely to participate in the election, which determines Austin’s mayor and city council members. Under the current election schedule, these positions receive little attention from college-aged
voters. Proposition 4 entails a change to the city charter that would refashion the city council. Instead of a seven-member body of at-large councilpersons and the mayor, the council would consist of an eleven-member body that would be made up of two at-large councilpersons, eight council members representing specific geographic districts within the city and the mayor. The council structure suggested by the proposition balances local and city-wide interests by including at-large members on the council. Students stand to benefit from the singlemember geographic districts mandated by Proposition 4 because the city council members who would represent council districts with high student populations — those that might include West Campus, Riverside and the Forty Acres — would advocate for student issues at city council. And Proposition 1 in the Central Health Tax Ratification Election would increase Travis County property taxes to help fund a new UT medical school and teaching hospital. The addition of such a facility would build on the university’s existing relationship with the Dell Pediatric Research Institute, and would serve to strengthen UT’s already highly ranked nursing, pharmacy, biology and education programs. During the summer of 2010, President Obama spoke to UT students in Gregory Gymnasium. Standing against a sea of orange, he concluded that education, specifically college education, is the “prerequisite for prosperity and an obligation for the next generation.” He said he wanted the U.S. to produce eight million more college graduates by 2020 and make college more affordable. Obama told the gymnasium full of students about “An economy that is built around three simple words: Made in America, because we are not playing for second place, we are the United States of America, and like the Texas Longhorns, you play for first, we play for first.” Two seasons later, we know that’s not always the case — for our country or our football team. But we still have a responsibility to vote locally and vote intelligently.
In support of Prop. 1 By Thor Lund and Wills Brown Guest Columnists
Proposition 1 and the creation of a medical school at UT-Austin is this generation of Longhorns’ most important moment, and we are fortunate enough to be a part of this historic occasion. Recently, 19 of the 20 former student body presidents signed a letter in support of Travis County Central Health Proposition 1. On Tuesday, Oct. 30th, UT’s Student Government Assembly unanimously approved legislation in support of Proposition 1. Today we write, as the current student body president and vice president of UT, in support of Proposition 1. A medical school at UT-Austin will benefit the community, our school and future Longhorns. Austin Chamber of Commerce estimates that the establishment of the medical school will create 15,000 new jobs and generate over $2 billion dollars for the city of Austin. In addition, Central Texas is going to experience a shortage of doctors in the coming decade. A medical school would help ward off this harrowing prospect. A quick look at a list of the top-tier institutions in the nation shows a common thread — each of them has a medical school. If we want to continue on the path to becoming the top public research university in the nation, it is imperative we have a medical school. It will provide a valuable incentive for even more topquality faculty and staff to come to this University. We already have top research
programs in the fields of health sciences, biomedical engineering and pharmacy that would go hand-in-hand with a medical school and provide improved research and innovation in one of the nation’s fastest growing fields. This brings us to the last and most important point: the future students. This University has provided great opportunities for students to learn from the best and then go off to change the world. Students here do not hope to change the world — they expect to. We cannot grow complacent; we must always strive for the best educational opportunities. That is what students before us did to help shape the great University we have today, and it is what we must do today to help those who will come after us. The next generation of Longhorns may very well find the cure for the disease that someday affects those around you. The skeptics will say the property tax increases are not worth it. However, considering the benefits the added revenue will provide to the city, the University and the students, it is clearly a great investment. We are at a tipping point in propelling our University to become an even greater institution. We urge you to vote “yes” to Central Health Proposition 1 to change the University that so often changes the world. Lund and Brown are Student Government president and vice president.
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Hensen’s comments: insulting and insensitive
In regards to Justice Diane Hensen’s remarks toward Grant Rostig at “Meet the Candidates: Austin’s Town Hall Meeting,” telling an immigrant to go back where he or she came from is not just insensitive but insulting. Like Mr. Rostig, I emigrated to America as a child, albeit from Malaysia in my case. It’s not easy for a family to move to a completely different country, and it’s a lifelong struggle for an immigrant child to fit into American society. Like Mr. Rostig, I am also a naturalized citizen, and I further showed my loyalty to this country by serving in the military in Afghanistan as a member of the Marine Corps Reserves last year. Justice Hensen said her remark was made to highlight how “silly” Rostig’s view that there was too much government control in Texas and how socialism has “crept” into the state. That’s understandable; the
term “socialism” has been tossed around too easily the last few years and made into a boogeyman. But she also claimed her comments were made as a “citizen, not a judge.” I take issue with that as well. She is a citizen, but she is still an elected official and whatever she says will always reflect her office. Also, if you have an issue about a person’s remarks, focus on the remarks and not the person. And as much as I hate to drag race into this, I wonder if it was easy for the crowd to cheer Justice Hensen’s remarks because Mr. Rostig is white and from Canada. I’m certain Justice Hensen would not have said what she said and the crowd would not have cheered if Mr. Rostig were a person of color or had emigrated from a ThirdWorld country. Te-Yee Jonathan Eng is a government alumnus of the class of 2010.
The top 10 reasons to vote, TODAY By Laura Wright Daily Texan Columnist
1.) The lines: Normally, when you find yourself spending more than 45 minutes standing next to complete strangers with strong opinions in a long, winding line, you are either waiting to buy an iPhone or attend a Lynyrd Skynrd concert. On Election Day, you’re about to participate in American democracy, which, unlike the previous two options, is free to all citizens. 2.) The free sticker: Put it on your shirt, your backpack, your phone; hell, stick it on your forehead and wear it for the remainder of the fiscal year. Things haven’t changed much since kindergarten, and an authority figure giving you a free sticker still speaks volumes about your value as a human being. (Hint: It means you’re better than everyone else.) 3.) You like feeling like you’re taking a midterm you haven’t studied for: Maybe you’re a genius who always marks the right answer on the test, and you long to experience, just once, that feeling of not knowing which box should be checked. As the election workers will tell you, we’ve got a long ballot this year, full of races you’ve heard of and ones you haven’t heard of. Unless you bring a cheat sheet, it will only take a few clicks for you to experience that precious “what-the-****-is-this-question-asking” feeling that you’ve been missing out on. 4.) You enjoy feeling like you’re back in kindergarten: On the other hand, every race is color-coded, so just pick the color you like best. (I think they might be affiliated with political parties? I just clicked on the color that complemented my outfit.) 5.) To cast a vote for Paul Sadler for U.S. Senate: It’s like the time you tried out for American Idol despite knowing that your singing voice sounds like the meow of a dying cat. It’s never going to happen, but isn’t it cute that you tried?
Things haven’t changed much since kindergarten, and an authority figure giving you a free sticker still speaks volumes about your value as a human being.
6.) To cast a vote for Proposition 1: All the cool kids are totes voting for Proposition 1, bro. Because medical schools are LEGIT. What, do you live under a rock?
7.) To try to find the effective difference between Proposition 3 and Proposition 4: Nope. Can’t. Still trying.
8.) To make friends with a retiree: As soon as you make it to the front of the line and meet the election volunteers, you’ll realize that the only people who still care deeply about the foundations of our democracy are people from your grandparents’ generation. I hope you washed the back of your ears and registered in the proper county.
9.) To have something to live-tweet: It’s difficult to find the right situation in which to bombard your unwitting Twitter followers with unwanted tweets. That’s why the election’s so valuable — for democracy and for your online ego. Tweet, baby, tweet — your followers need to hear it.
10.) To get laid: Nothing’s hotter than civic engagement, and there’s no better place to try out your political pick-up lines than while in line to participate in politics. Try the following gems: “Obama’s policies may have left me broke, but I’ve still got the money to take you to dinner.” “Hey, girl. Romney and Ryan aren’t the only ones who want to over-regulate your lady parts.” “I’m a libertarian because no government entity can control me in the bedroom.” Wright is a Plan II and biology junior.
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Raveena Bhalara | Daily Texan Staff Ernesto Montejano, an artist and activist from Southern California, spoke about his artwork during the “Surveillance, Space, and the Public“ lecture Monday evening. Montejano’s work focuses on visually portraying the cultural issues that circulate through the Chicano community.
Panel reveals police racial bias By David Maly Expert panelists shared their views on the overabundance of government surveillance in modern society and compared it to regulations of the past for students and other members of the UT community Monday. In an event titled “Surveillance, Space and the Public,” put on by the Humanities Institute and Hoffman Lectureship, panelists shared their personal insights and recent work in an effort to better inform the UT community of local political situations. Panelists included Simone Browne, assistant professor in the Departments of Sociology and African and African Diaspora Studies; Micha Cárdenas, a doctorate student in Media Arts and Practice at the University of Southern California; and Ernesto Montejano, a political artist who focuses on issues within the Latino community. Browne spoke first and explained the history of police
surveillance in the U.S. and New York City, comparing regulations of the past with those of the present. “How can the past allow us to ask questions about our present?” Browne asked. She said a current issue of controversy in New York City is the enforcement of stop-and-frisk laws. The laws allow New York City police to stop and question people they suspect of unlawful activity and frisk those they suspect are carrying weapons. Browne said the laws have been used to illegally target blacks and Latinos and can be an infringement on constitutional rights. She said the laws prompted the American Civil Liberties Union to create a mobile application that someone being subjected to such a search can use to send out an alert. Cárdenas said similar discrimination has occurred in Los Angeles. Montejano spoke last and presented several pieces of
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her artwork. Each was in protest of governmental activities or agencies. One piece was a poster of Edmund “Bubba” Gutierrez, a friend of his brother’s who Montejano said was beaten to death by police after running from them after being pulled over. After the lectures, participants moved into small discussion groups facilitated by students from architecture professor Patricia Wilson’s Participatory Democracy class. Economics freshman Brian Hellemn, one of the discussion facilitators, said the discussion offered a unique perspective that many could learn from. “I think in the end it was interesting how they all tied it into basic social injustices,” Hellemn said. The three speakers said they would urge members of the UT community to become more aware of their surroundings. “It’s just having a critical conscious,” Browne said.
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A UT student group has partnered with a local charitable organization and two West Campus restaurants to help provide financial relief to struggling orphans abroad. The Dobie Center location of Niki’s Pizza and the Guadalupe Street and Dobie Center locations of Verts Kebap will donate a portion of their proceeds this month to The Miracle Foundation to provide funding for orphanages in India. The initiative was organized by members of the UT chapter of Muslims Without Borders, a national organization working to help those in need outside the U.S. Niki’s Pizza will be donating 15 percent of its proceeds every Wednesday in November from 7 to 8 p.m., and Verts Kebap will be donating 10 percent of its proceeds Nov. 5-9 on orders where customers mention the initiative. Syed Hasan, government sophomore and
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and a reactive approach that includes disciplinary actions if a situation arises. In 2011, UT created the Campus Climate Response Team. The team does not have the power to administer disciplinary actions, but offers services that help the affected individual, said Ana Ixchel Rosal, director of diversity and community engagement. “Get support, then coordinate to get the best response to help the individual heal,” Rosal said.
president of the UT chapter of Muslims Without Borders, said his organization chose to get involved because of the positive work The Miracle Foundation has done in the past. “A lot of the kids were actually malnourished, but given the resources they got from The Miracle Foundation, today they are really healthy,” Hasan said. The Miracle Foundation works to bring basic necessities to orphans in need worldwide and has headquarters in Austin and Delhi, India. Niyoshi Mehta, education program manager for The Miracle Foundation, said the organization has helped hundreds of children around the world, and she hopes the organization can collaborate with the UT community again. “We haven’t partnered with a lot of UT student organizations in the past. However, we look forward to doing more work with students at UT,” Mehta said. “Over the years, we
have been fortunate to have several interns and volunteers from UT that have enabled us to accomplish so much. Muslims Without Borders is a group of passionate young individuals who are taking a stand and changing the world to help those in need, and we are excited to be able to work with them.” Taariq Chasmawala, electrical engineering sophomore and historian for the UT chapter of Muslims Without Borders, said this is the first initiative the organization has participated in with The Miracle Foundation, and he hopes it will be the beginning of a strong relationship between the two groups. “The Miracle Foundation was a pretty good choice because they are also based in Austin, so it could lead to a volunteering opportunity later on,” Chasmwala said. “It is generally just a good idea to begin with, working with a foundation like that.”
Students that have experienced discrimination can file a report, Rosal said. She said the staff investigates the reports and helps direct the students through their procedural options, which may include emotional support or legal actions. Robert Dahlstrom, chief of the UT Police Department, said if discrimination is illegal, students should contact the Austin Police Department or UTPD. He said West Campus is under APD jurisdiction, but UTPD does work closely with APD on all situations. Dahlstrom also said
that UTPD’s main goal is to protect students, but it cannot do this if situations are not reported. “I want to reiterate,” Dahlstrom said, “we need reports.” Resources for students affected by discrimination are not limited to the 40 Acres. The city of Austin opened the Office of Police Monitor as a resource to aid individuals who have had a conflict with an Austin Police Department officer regarding the complaint procedure. On the first Monday of each month, there is a public meeting with a panel of citizens to hear grievances.
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The Texas Tech crowd was at its fiery best. On a cool November afternoon, fans screamed expletives, tossed tortillas at players and, of course, threw their horns down as a sign of disrespect. Mike Davis had an answer for them. Davis ran a beautiful post route over the middle of the field while easily separating from the Red Raider pursuit en route to a 75-yard touchdown. The junior wideout reached the end zone and instead of his usual “horns up” celebration or flip of the ball to the referee, Davis made a change. He faced the Texas Tech crowd and demonstratively holstered his guns in a sign of disrespect for the Red Raider symbol of guns up. The demonstration cost him a 15-yard penalty and angered the Texas coaching staff. But Monday morning at his press conference, Mack Brown said it’s inconsistent that opponents can throw their horns down without penalty while other similar gestures are not allowed. “That’s something we ought to talk about as a league [Big 12],” Brown said. “The horns down are disrespectful for players on the field. If horns down are OK, we ought to have guns down be OK.” Horns down is an emblem seen consistently throughout Big 12 play. Players and opposing fans turn Texas’ symbol upside down as a sign of disrespect before, during and after games. Notably, Okla-
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homa quarterback Landry Jones laughed with his teammates while throwing his horns down after the team’s 63-21 victory over Texas at the Cotton Bowl. Although that’s far from the only example, Texas Tech players flashed the symbol on multiple occasions Saturday. Opposing coaches don’t seem to see the issue with horns down either. “I’m not gonna walk around and do it, but I’m not going to stop our players,” Oklahoma defensive coordinator Mike Stoops said Monday. It’s a sign Texas players and fans are used to, but that
doesn’t make it any less derogatory. Still, Davis knows he went a little too far with his celebration, especially considering the referees had already warned him against it earlier in the game. But Davis still didn’t think he’d draw a flag. “The refs were telling me not to do it again, and I did it again,” Davis said with a hint of a grin. The penalty cost Texas valuable field position, which eventually led to a Red Raider field goal. This was an extraordinarily valuable three points in what was a onepossession game for most of
the contest, which explains Brown’s in-your-face talk with Davis after the flag. It was a one-sided conversation with Brown doing all of the talking. And it didn’t take Davis long to sum up the contents of the conversation. “They ripped me,” Davis said. The message seemed to sink in. When Davis scored the game-winning touchdown later in the game, he didn’t holster any guns or raise any horns — he quietly handed the ball to the official. Still, Davis didn’t believe that he would be penalized
in the first place because he sees opponents putting the horns down all the time. It was a costly mistake, but a move, Brown said, the referees maybe shouldn’t have acted on. Seeing horns down is commonplace across the Big 12, but if Davis’ case is any indication, guns down won’t be nearly as common any time soon. Brown may want a change, but that wouldn’t happen until the offseason at the earliest. However, one thing is for sure — Davis won’t be pulling his guns out of his holsters for the rest of the year.
Texas A&M did a lot to distance itself from the Big 12 — and Texas especially — this past offseason. But it may all be for naught if the Longhorns and Aggies square off in the Cotton Bowl this January. The Cotton Bowl, which pits a team from the Big 12 against one from the SEC at Cowboys Stadium, would likely sell its soul to get Texas and Texas A&M in the same stadium. The 7-2 Aggies have taken the SEC by storm, their only defeats coming to a pair of Top 10 teams, Florida and LSU, by a combined eight points. Texas A&M freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel has racked up 3,449 total yards this year, the second most in the country, and is leading an Aggies squad that is much better than the one that Ryan Tannehill commanded last year. But that’s no reason for Texas not to want to see Texas A&M in Arlington, Texas, on Jan. 4. Whether or not the Aggies would admit it, they would probably love nothing more than to get another crack at
the tea-sipping Longhorns who stole a victory away from them last Thanksgiving on their home turf. A date with Texas in the Cotton Bowl — where the Longhorns were humiliated by another rival, Oklahoma, last month — would give them that golden opportunity. “I haven’t even thought about it,” junior guard Mason Walters said. “We just have to beat Iowa State this week. That’s what we’re focused on. If we take care of business, it doesn’t really matter how the bowl game plays out. We’ll try to win this next game and keep on rolling.” Oddsmakers would almost certainly make Texas A&M the favorite in such a matchup, but the Longhorns should be salivating for another chance to put the Aggies in their place. There’s no way they’d say it on the record, but there has to be an unhealthy hatred for Texas A&M still brewing in many of Texas’ players. “I haven’t [followed Texas A&M],” head coach Mack Brown said. “Needless to say,
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a possible trip to the Final Four in Kentucky later this year. “We are excited,” Texas head coach Jerritt Elliott said Monday. “We are getting some great play out of a lot of our players and we are playing a lot steadier ... we are getting a lot more balance.” No. 7 Texas has a week off before facing No. 20 Kansas, second in the Big 12, Saturday on the road in Lawrence.
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By Peter Sblendorio Oklahoma State running back Joseph Randle does not receive the recognition that many of the quarterbacks in the pass-driven Big 12 do, but that does not mean the junior is not deserving of high praise. Randle leads the conference in rushing with 934 yards, nearly 200 yards more than anyone else in the Big 12. He has averaged 5.3 yards per carry and has scored nine touchdowns
in eight games on the ground. While a trio of quarterbacks have put up strong passing numbers for the Cowboys this season, Randle is the centerpiece of the offense and is a major reason why Oklahoma State is eighth in the nation in points per game. Klein likely to play Saturday Kansas State head coach Bill Snyder seems to believe that quarterback Collin Klein has a strong chance of playing
Saturday against TCU, saying Monday that he “seems fine to me” after leaving with a possible concussion in the third quarter of last Saturday’s win over Oklahoma State. The quarterback has emerged as the frontrunner to win the Heisman Trophy with his 1,875 yards and 12 touchdowns passing and 698 yards and 17 touchdowns rushing through nine games.
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Horns on roll entering final month With the conclusion of October, the Longhorns are more than halfway through their season and have exhibited more balance and consistency than was seen in August. They are excited about the next step, likely earning home court advantage in the first few rounds of the NCAA tournament plus
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The Longhorns’ impressive 20-3 season record and 12-0 conference mark only show a little of the inconsistency they struggled with at the start of the season. The Longhorns were plagued with high error counts and inconsistent play from their entire lineup. In back-to-back losses to Penn State and Minnesota in
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Lawrence Peart | Daily Texan Staff Head coach Jerritt Elliott addresses the media on Monday.
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Kendal Thompson suffered a minor concussion as a result of a huge hit he sustained in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s game against Texas Tech. Thompson lay on the field for several moments after the hit and was carted off, but was moving and aware of his surroundings. The sophomore strong side linebacker has filled in adequately for Jordan Hicks. Hicks has missed the past six games with a hip injury and is fifth on the team with 49 tackles. According to the Texas training staff, Thompson will continue to be evaluated and his status for Saturday’s game is unknown. — Chris Hummer
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continues from page 6 The senior has been the biggest reason that the Wildcats are 9-0 and ranked second in the BCS standings. Kansas State has three games remaining on its schedule, and convincing wins in each contest would likely give the Wildcats the opportunity to compete in the national championship game. West Virginia out of Top 25 Following its third consecutive loss, West Virginia is unranked for the first time this season. The Mountaineers, who began the year ranked 11th and climbed up to as high as fifth, are 2-3 in Big 12 play and have not won since Oct. 6. Quarterback Geno Smith, once a Heisman favorite, has thrown three interceptions in his last
two games after not throwing any in his first six contests. The Mountaineers will take on Oklahoma State in Stillwater this Saturday before hosting No. 12 Oklahoma on Nov. 17. Big 12 QBs piling up stats The Big 12 has emerged as arguably the best offensive conference in college football, thanks in large part to stellar quarterback play. Texas Tech’s Seth Doege leads the nation with 31 touchdown passes and Geno Smith is not far behind with 29. Baylor’s Nick Florence is third in the nation with 3,019 passing yards, while Doege is sixth with 2,869. In addition to registering these lofty numbers, the Big 12 quarterbacks have been extremely efficient in 2012. Collin Klein leads the nation with an efficiency rating of 174.4, and five other quarterbacks in the conference also crack the FBS’ top 20.
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September, high errors doomed the Longhorns. They racked up 17 and 23 errors in each game, respectively. Since then, the mistakes are down to much lower numbers on average. Sophomore Haley Eckerman and junior Bailey Webster have been the backbone of Texas all season. Webster was named Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week on Monday after her effort against Kansas State. Eckerman has won Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week four times this season and is in the running for National Player of the Year recognition. Early on, the Longhorns were receiving excellent performances from their star
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At the start of the season, McCage was rarely seen on the court and never played during crunch time. However, in the past few weeks she has graduated to a starting role as a middle blocker. McCage has put up two straight career highs with 10 kills in each of the last two matches and posted a combined hitting clip of .643 against TCU and Kansas State this past week. She was named Big 12 Rookie of the Week for her performance. The Longhorns have managed to keep their national title hopes alive during the toughest part of the season. “If you look around the country, almost everyone in the top 10 lost,” Elliott said. “For us to be able to go three wins in such a short amount of time was very pleasing. It’s a critical time but it’s a good time for us.”
players. However, they were inconsistent, which led to losses to talented opponents. “The development of where Haley and Bailey have gone is critical,” Elliott said. “We are starting to get a lot of good play out of both of them on the same night; early on we weren’t getting that.” Since then, they have won 14 straight matches in both sweeps and five-set matches. They are also finally receiving big numbers from their highly touted freshman class. Molly McCage, the No. 1 ranked freshman in the class of 2012, is finally living up to the hype she created when she stepped onto the 40 Acres. “She’s done a phenomenal job and her numbers continue to go up,” Elliott said. “We kept her confidence going and now she’s getting to the point where she can take some big swings in critical situations.”
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HALO Reimagining body image, beauty through art
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By Jasmin Carina Through the Cohen New Works Festival, presented by the UT University Co-op, students are given the opportunity to use theater as an agent for social change. Theatre studies junior Sarah Marcum and theatre and dance junior Paige Brown are taking advantage of this opportunity by collaborating on a project that draws attention to modernday beauty ideals and their various effects on women. Students have the opportunity to submit their own original pieces for consideration to be showcased during the weeklong festival that happens every other spring. The committee accepts all types of “new work,” whether it is theater, dance, music, film, design or visual art. The festival’s committee-at-large, which consists of about 40 undergraduate and graduate students, is currently in the process of selecting the works that will be showcased in the festival. “It is a process that incorporates a large number of voices to help create as diverse a festival as humanly possible,” PR/Marketing chair Isaac Gomez said. Marcum and Brown submitted an original piece about how Western culture’s modern ideal of beauty affects the day-to-day lives of women in the United States. Marcum said the piece was influenced by the people in her life
Theatre studies junior Sarah Marcum and theatre and dance and African American studies junior Paige Brown submitted an original piece to the Cohen New Works Festival.
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battling with the struggles of body image and beauty. “Sarah approached me one day about wanting to create a piece on beauty and appearance that really talked about the very real social and political ramifications of having this one idea of beauty and how it plays itself out on different types of women,” Brown said. Before submitting the play to the festival, Marcum received a Go! Grant to help develop it. Marcum and Brown then surveyed and informally interviewed women of different backgrounds and races to try and gain perspective on their own personal ideas of beauty and how this standard ideal of beauty has impacted their lives. It is important to both Brown and Marcum to represent women as a whole, not just women of a certain race or background. “My goal is to really try to represent these women as
closely as possible because it is their personal story,” Marcum said. “Beauty is very personal and I want to give respect to each one of their voices.” Brown describes the piece as “a string of experiences” and “a continuous conversation” with many different types of women who are all linked together through an idea of beauty and appearance. “I think that the ultimate goal is to leave the audience with questions about the society that surrounds them,” Brown said. “I want to challenge notions, and for people to experience these narratives and question the ideas that have been forced on them.” The play consists of different memory scenes that are connected through direct quotes from the women they interviewed and surveyed. Each scene will illus-
trate and represent different definitions of beauty. The scenes will also tell different stories from moments or times in these women’s lives when they felt beautiful or unbeautiful. Brown says, her intention is to create an open and safe forum for women to share their experiences with beauty, good and bad, as well as the function of beauty in their lives and how it has influenced their own self-awareness. “We are not presenting our own idea of what beauty is, we want to provide a space where women can come in and question their own ideals and find beauty for themselves, not through one monolithic ideal,” Marcum said. The projects chosen for the New Works Festival will be announced Monday. Marcum and Brown intend to continue work on this piece whether or not it is chosen.
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console, Halo is often acclaimed for its immersive multiplayer experience, which has accrued more than 3.3 billion hours of Xbox Live gameplay, said Anna Anderson, a PR spokesperson for Microsoft. 343 Industries, the new development team at Microsoft, has made a point of redesigning the credit system in multiplayer so that ranking up is more efficient, armor is more customizable and players are more invested in working together rather than betraying teammates and trolling. From kill assists to flag captures, points are now awarded more frequently than before so that slayer and other objective gametypes run smoothly. While the figures have yet to be released, “Halo 4” is expected to the most expensive gaming title to date for Microsoft in terms of marketing and game development. In its decade-long lifetime, the Halo franchise has made over $3 billion dollars and sold 43 million game copies, said Anderson. When the game is released Tuesday, fans will have to pay $60 for the standard edition game. Those possessing an even deeper wallet might consider spending an extra $40 on the limited edition, partly for the added bells and whistles, but mostly for bragging rights. Over the last couple of days, the most scrutinizing game critics have reviewed the final product. Outliers aside, “Halo 4” has earned top marks from IGN, Gamespot, Game Informer and
What: “Halo 4 Extended Play” When: Wednesday, Nov. 7 Where: 6 p.m. @ 2.410 SAC many other gaming websites, with an aggregate score of 87 out of 100. Although this falls short of “Halo 3”’s score of 94, by no means should it dissuade fans. Troy, an employee at Dobie Mall’s Resurrected Games, explained that despite the price, pre-orders are already through the roof. “This one should blow the other games out of the water,” Troy said. “And so far it’s got really great reviews, but we won’t know until Tuesday what the true fans think. There’s even a “Halo 4” game system edition which comes with a spruced up Xbox and controller.” Biomedical engineering freshman Jey Thirumavalavan, a diehard fan of the Halo series, plans to attend the Tournaments and Games Committee event so that he can see the game in action before he makes a purchase. “Generally, I like to wait before deciding to buy a game, that way I can borrow it from friends and see for myself if it’s worth the money. If it’s really good, then I’ll get my own copy,” Thirumavalavan said. The Halo 4 Extended Play event is free for all UT students with a UT ID. Fans hoping to score a copy of the game without throwing down $60 can enter the raffle for the opportunity to win “Halo 4.”
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ELECTION
Watch party unites cultures By Laura Wright Public relations and political communication senior Antonio Guevara first approached Carissa Kelley, the current president of the Student Events Center, with the idea for Decision 2012 last year. The Student Events Center is the arm of the University Unions that puts on programming for students. Guevara wanted to put on an “epically huge” Election Night watch party, public relations senior Kelley said. Kelley liked the idea. She envisioned a screen in front of the Tower to broadcast election results and a party on the Main Mall in which all major campus organizations from every cultural and political group would take part. The event, called Decision 2012, will take place Tuesday in the Student Activities Center Ballroom, but it will not be the campus-wide party that Guevara and Kelley originally imagined. When they approached partisan political groups like University Democrats and College Republicans, they found that those groups, like many others, wanted to watch the election individually at events that were openly partisan. When Kelly and Guevara couldn’t bridge the divide between political parties, they turned to bridging cultures. The watch party may not be truly campus-wide, but it will
be an event that brings together students from the African American Culture Committee, the Asian American Culture Committee, the Black Student Alliance and Longhorn League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), to name a few of the many participating organizations. “It really turned into a minority-driven thing, and I think everyone’s happy with the way that it turned out,” Kelley said. The event will “make sure the campus has a place that is multicultural and nonpartisan for students to watch the election,” said Chelsea Jones, a journalism sophomore and chair of the African American Culture Committee, which, like the Asian American Culture Committee and the Mexican American Culture Committee, is a subset of the Student Events Center that deals with cultural programming. Although an election watch party certainly can’t ignore politics, the organizers of Decision 2012 have attempted to make the event engaging and celebratory rather than divisive. The event will feature three screens, two of which will show live election coverage. The central screen will show a live Twitter feed. Event attendees will be told a hash tag (tentatively #Decision2012UT) as they walk in the door and will be encouraged to tweet questions they have
Twitter Tuesday Daily Texan Life&Arts @dtlifeandarts Do you think your vote matters? Why or why not? #twittertuesdays Every Tuesday, @thedailytexan Life and Arts section will run the best responses in print to our #twittertuesday question. Tweet us your response and your answer may appear in @thedailytexan. #twittertuesdays
Dennis Beaudo | @Bodowned
no. the electoral college creates an illusion of democracy. the only votes that matter are those in swing states.
Jessica Nicole | @LovelyLenny
Honestly no, in the end I feel like it just comes down to the electoral college.
Shimmer Show | @Shimmer_Show
Yes; change starts with the people. We can’t blame the Electoral College because we choose them, too.
Michael Hurta | @MichaelHurta
Our vote matters. Elections are decided by single digits all the time - as recently as last cycle in Austin!
Tyson Ferguson | @WhatTheFerguson
The electoral college vote is the only one that matters. #LetsBeHonest #Politics #election2012
Raveena Bhalara | Daily Texan Staff Student representatives from different campus-wide minority groups collaborate together Monday evening to finalize plans on the Decision 2012 Election Night watch party.
about the election or the election coverage. These questions will be answered via Twitter by the event’s organizers. If attendees want to show their political affiliations, one wall will be covered with a large piece of butcher paper divided into sections for the Democratic, Republican, Libertarian and Green parties. Students may
sign their name on the paper to show support for their party or submit an anonymous pre-cut “handprint” to be taped to the wall under their party’s name. “Something I always wanted to do was blend the cultures here on campus,” Guevara said. “It’s a very minority-heavy event, but at the end of the day, this is the first event of its kind [at UT], at
least since I’ve been here, and I’m going on my fifth year ... but what we’re all hoping is that we’re kind of laying the foundation for more events like this, so you don’t just have to come together for the watch party, and it’s not just centered around minority groups. [The whole campus] can come together like this any time of the year.”
What: Decision 2012 Watch Party Where: The Student Activities Center Ballroom When: Starts at 7 p.m. Cost: Free Admission
MUSIC
‘Skyfall’ outshines previous installments By Ricky Stein
This weekend, Daniel Craig’s reimagined James Bond character careens back onto movie screens worldwide. The 50-year-old, 23-film, billiondollar-generating franchise has steadily cultivated an impressive musical legacy, boasting hit theme songs by Shirley Bassey, Paul McCartney, Madonna and, most recently, Jack White and Alicia Keys. For the “Skyfall” installment, Eon Productions ups the ante, signing on prolific composer and Hollywood royalty Thomas Newman to handle scoring. The result is a riveting 79 minutes of music that updates the aural backdrop of the brooding secret agent while never veering too far from the series’ iconic original theme. The album opens with “Grand Bazaar, Istanbul,” setting the tone with an ominous fury that is sustained throughout the album’s 30 tracks. A sprinting string section darts around clamoring horn crescendos, both of which are locked into a frenetic ridecymbal drum pattern that paints the sonic picture of a desperate foot race. The mood levels out significantly by the fourth track, the lush, dreamlike, aptly titled “Severine.” The vitality and graveness of the underlying theme remain, but here Bond is imagined gliding through a gilded hallway to an ethereal Sirens’ call of violins, his mission no less imperative, just not
GAMES
as immediate. Another example of Newman’s adroitness at creating suspenseful-yet-subdued audioscapes drifts in in the form of the 17th selection, titled “Close Shave.” Intermittent stringed arpeggios spiral around a lone wind flute, augmented by a murky bed of ice-world vibraphones and a stringently dissonant synthed chorus pad. “Deep Water,” “Mother” and “Adrenaline” close out the set with a dramatic climax and austere resolve. Frustratingly, the album does not include British soul singer Adele’s soaring rendition of the movie’s eponymous theme song, which was instead released as a single last week. Even so, the album offers an eclectic, imaginative and thrilling 79 minutes of music, perfect for studying, exercising or battling cyberterrorists atop speeding trains.
Artist name: Thomas Newman; Adele Album title: Skyfall [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] Record label: Sony Classical Songs to download: “Skyfall” [Adele single], “Breadcrumbs”
Aerosmith –
Music from another Dimension!
The Boston-based band returns with its first album of all-new material since 2001’s Just Push Play. This album displays the same brand of formulaic arena schlock shuffled in with maudlin trash ballads that constitutes the majority of the band’s recorded output.
Artist name: Aerosmith Album title: Music from another Dimension! Record label: Columbia Songs to download: “Out Go the Lights,” “Freedom Fighter”
Ne-Yo – R.E.D. The accomplished songwriter and silk-voiced platinum-selling R&B crooner releases his first album with the revitalized (and now Island Def Jam subsidiary) Motown Records. The production is soulful and cutting-edge, but is also greatly marginalized by asinine lyrics such as “I’m a man of my word, but only when I ain’t lyin’.”
Artist name: Ne-Yo Album title: R.E.D. Record label: Motown Songs to download: “Lazy Love,” “Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)”
The Who – Live at Hull 1970 The iconic hard rock trailblazers release the recording of their concert that took place the night directly after the seminal Live at Leeds taping. As such, there is little difference between the two sets, with a majority of the contrast stemming from recording technicalities rather than performance.
Artist name: The Who Album title: Live at Hull 1970 Record label: Geffen Songs to download: “Tattoo,” “My Generation”
‘Halo 4’ release aims to please fans By Stuart Railey
Daily Texan Staff Art
Armed to the teeth with energy drinks, HD projectors and countless copies of the new video game “Halo 4,” the Tournaments and Games Committee will host a night of blood-splattering fun Wednesday. Students who attend the Halo 4 Extended Play tournament the night after the release will have the chance
to explore various aspects of the campaign, multiplayer and cooperative modes while dishing out bullets and inane trash talk. Although the title of the game belies its significance, the release of “Halo 4” marks a very distinct departure from previous iterations in the series. Bungie Studios, the former developer for the Halo trilogy and several offshoots,
forfeited intellectual property rights to Microsoft in 2007 so that it could become an independent company. After creating two of the highest-selling video games of all time, “Halo 2” and “Halo 3,” Bungie has set the bar extremely high for future versions of the game. Despite being made exclusively for the Xbox 360
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