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Sen. Kel Seliger takes our questions about the upcoming session.

NEWS

The University of Texas women’s track and field head coach Beverly Kearney has been placed on paid administrative leave, according to a University statement released Monday. Kearney has served as

SPORTS

David Ash can get an early start on his 2013 Heisman campaign.

Longhorns turn the ball over 26 times but improve to 2-0.

The Lone Star Crash gaming tournament returns.

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LIFE&ARTS PAGE 10

Staff change leaves no tracks

By David Leffler

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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

head coach since 1993.

The track team met Monday evening but was not made aware of the specifics of Kearney’s standing within the program or why she was on paid leave, according to a source.

UT publicized its decision in a Department of Athletics email sent to

media outlets. Although it did not reveal specifics, the University cited a need to review issues pertaining to the program as the reasoning behind the decision.

Several phone calls seeking clarification and further detail were not

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Beverly Kearney Women’s track and field head coach

CAMPUS

Time of appreciation

LIFE & ARTS

UT professor David Collins finds peacefulness through meditation.

TODAY Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

The Liberal Arts Council presents this information session on studying and working abroad from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the FAC patio. Admission is free, and free food will be served.

The Frank Erwin Center hosts the memorial service of Darrell K Royal, the school’s all-time winningest football coach who died last week. The service begins at noon and is open to the public.

Bob Dylan Talk

Tom Palaima, professor of classics, gives a talk, “Second Last Thoughts on Bob Dylan’s ‘Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie,’” on two tributes by Dylan to the classic American singer. The talk will be from 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. in BMC 5.208.

Today in history In 1982

On Nov. 13 the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was officially dedicated in Washington following a march of thousands of veterans of the conflict. The memorial, designed

by Maya Lin, was opposed because of its minimalism but soon became one of the most visited memorials in the nation’s capital.

Veterans Day commemorates national service, connects UT student veterans with community

By Taylor Hampton

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tudent members of UT’s ROTC programs stood in formation as the flag raised over South Mall during a Veterans Day ceremony Monday.

The ceremony was a joint effort between the Texas Army, Navy and Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps programs in order to pay tribute to the men and women that served in the United States Armed Forces.

“It’s important to pay attention to a sacrifice someone has made for you,“ Stephen Ollar, president of the Student Veteran Association and economics senior, said.

He said being a veteran is something to be proud of. He served in the Army before attending UT and, through the association, tries to make life as students easier for veterans at UT. “We try to help veterans find friends, find a source of communication, something that can help them from going into some of the pitfalls of being a veteran: the isolation, the loneliness, the suicide that can come with being a veteran,” Ollar said.

He said it is a common misconception that all veterans suffer from traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder or other post-service disorders. He said it is easier to relate with people that have been through similar experiences.

Benjamin Armstrong, coordinator of Student Veteran

Fanny Trang | Daily Texan Staff Above: Airforce ROTC students stand in front of the tower during a ceremony honoring Veterans Day on South Mall on Monday afternoon.

Bottom: ROTC students take down the American flag and the Prisoner of War flag.

Services, served as a Marine and said he has worked with 1,947 of UT’s student veterans through the Student Veteran Services office.

Student Veteran Services opened on Veterans Day

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Student Veteran Services is hosting events all week to honor veterans.

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CAMPUS

University Co-op tests ethical apparel

By David Maly

Members of the UT chapter of United Students Against Sweatshops are continuing their efforts to make UT apparel sweatshop-free — this time by getting the

University Co-op to purchase $53,000 worth of apparel from a factory with fair working conditions.

Members of the organization contacted George Mitchell, president and CEO of the University Co-op, earlier this fall and asked him to order $250,000

worth of the store’s apparel from Alta Gracia, an apparel factory in the Dominican Republic that has come to represent the pinnacle of fair working conditions in an underdeveloped country, United Students Against Sweatshops members said.

Legislators prefile bills for session Higher education focus of more than 10 motions

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Darrell K Royal memorial service

STATE

After multiple correspondences with organization members, Mitchell announced the decision Friday to make an initial order of $53,000. He said it would not be practical for the University

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By Alexa Ura

Monday marked the first day of filing bills for the 83rd session of the Texas Legislature, and several bills related to higher education have already been filed.

A total of 231 bills were filed with the legislature Monday: 131 House Bills and 100 Senate Bills.

Sen. Judith Zaffirini, DLaredo, filed a total of 30 bills, more than any other senator who filed Monday. Richard Raymond, D-Laredo, led the House with 37 bills. Out of the 30 bills Zaffirini filed, seven were related to higher education, including bills related to tax exemptions for textbooks, the use of tuition revenue bonds to fund construction projects at higher education public institutions and eligibility for loan forgiveness program Texas B-On-Time loans.

Zaffirini sits on the Senate Committee of Higher Education and previously served as committee chair.

Rep. Dan Branch, R-Dallas, filed four bills related to higher education, including student outcomebased financial funding for universities and facilitation of transfer students.

Branch is the chair of the Texas House Higher Education Committee.

Nineteen amendments were also filed through the House and six through the Senate.

Legislators will begin filling the Capitol for the 83rd legislative session, convening Jan. 8 at noon.

higher education Bills filed MONDAY SB 27: eligibility for a Texas B-on-Time loan SB 30: allocation of the National Research University Fund SB 46: sales tax exemption for textbooks SB 120: creating Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at El Paso HB 29: fixed tuition rate plan for undergraduates HB 30: facilitating timely graduation and transfers in public higher education HB 67: establishing a UT System law school in the Rio Grande Valley

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Fanny Trang | Daily Texan Staff Carly and her daughter, Perry, 5, watch the Mozart’s Coffee Roasters’ annual holiday light show on the outside deck. Every day until December there is a 15-minute show every hour beginning at 6 p.m. on Lake Austin Boulevard.

CITY

STATE

Local temperatures drop, forecasts predict freeze

SH130 accident inquiry continues

By Joan Vinson

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TOMORROW’S WEATHER High

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We’ll just have to see how it goes.

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A cold front blew into Austin on Monday and will leave lows approaching freezing until Thursday.

In Austin the high temperatures will be in the 60s and lows in the 30s and 40s through Thursday, with wind speeds between five and 11 mph.

The National Weather Service issued the first freeze warning of the season Monday afternoon for much of South Central Texas and the Hill Country. The warning was set to expire Tuesday at 9 a.m.

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Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Susannah Jacob Associate Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drew Finke, Pete Stroud, Edgar Walters Managing Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Aleksander Chan Associate Managing Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Trey Scott Digital Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hayley Fick News Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matt Stottlemyre Associate News Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Boze, Samantha Katsounas, Allie Koletcha Senior Reporters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bobby Blanchard, Joshua Fechter, David Maly, Alexa Ura Enterprise Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Audrey White Enterprise Reporters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Messamore, Megan Strickland Copy Desk Chief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kristine Reyna Associate Copy Desk Chiefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Riley Brands, Amyna Dosani, Sherry Hu, Luis San Miguel Editorial Copy Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nile Miller Design Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nicole Collins Senior Designers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pu Ying Huang, Omar Longoria, Jack Mitts Special Projects Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Natasha Smith Photo Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Lawrence Peart Associate Photo Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elisabeth Dillon, Andrew Torrey Senior Photographers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pu Ying Huang, Zachary Strain, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fanny Trang, Marisa Vasquez Multimedia Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jorge Corona Associate Multimedia Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrea Macias Senior Videographers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oluwademilade Adejuyigbe, Thomas Allison, Shila Farahani, Lawrence Peart Life&Arts Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kelsey McKinney Associate Life&Arts Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jorge Corona, Sarah-Grace Sweeney Senior Life&Arts Writer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Helen Fernandez, Shane Miller, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hannah Smothers, Alex Williams, Laura Wright Sports Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christian Corona Senior Sports Writers . . . . . . . . . . . . .Lauren Giudice, Chris Hummer, Sara Beth Purdy, Rachel Thompson, Wes Maulsby Comics Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ao Meng Associate Comics Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Riki Tsuji Web Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ghayde Ghraowi Associate Web Editor, Social Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ryan Sanchez Associate Web Editors, Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Helen Fernandez, Omar Longoria Administrative Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Albert Cheng Editorial Adviser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Doug Warren

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Reporters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carly Coen, Taylor Hampton, Joan Vinson Multimedia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Raveena Bhalara, Rebecca Gamache, Ricky Llamas Page Designers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kyle Cavazos, Stefanie Schultz Sports Writers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nick Cremona, David Leffler, Hank South, Peter Sblendorio Columnist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Patrick St. Pierre Life&Arts Writers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Shane Miller, Stuart Railey Copy Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Meital Boim, Jori Epstein, Lauren Lowe Comic Artists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marty Eischeid / Amanda Nguyen, Rory Harman, John Massingil, Andy McMahon, Comic Artists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Riki Tsuji, Stephanie Vanicek, Colin Zelinski Editorial Illustrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anik Bhattacharya Web Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Angela Bumstead, Vince Gutierrez, Hannah Peacock, John Solis

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ing temperatures Monday night and Tuesday morning, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures are expected to dip as low as 28 degrees in the coldest areas, and the freeze is expected to last between two and six hours.

The warning advises people to cover up their plants before any potential freeze to prevent damage.

Temperatures will warm up Friday with a high near 72 degrees and low near 43 degrees. Highs Saturday and Sunday will remain in the 70s with lows in the 40s and 50s, according to the National Weather Service.

Sunday will also bring a 20 percent chance of rain.

By David Maly Police said they are still investigating the first fatal accident to occur on the new stretch of State Highway 130 that, at 85 miles per hour, has the highest speed limit in the nation.

Police said an accident occurred Sunday on the highway around 2 p.m. in Mustang Ridge, roughly 20 miles south of Austin.

The driver of a Honda Civic, Martha Harris, 60, of Lockhart, was killed after colliding with a Chevy Tahoe in the southbound lanes of the highway. Harris had just entered onto the road.

The driver and passenger of the Chevy Tahoe suffered minor injuries.

A 41-mile stretch of the highway that runs from Mustang Ridge to Interstate Highway 10 in Seguin opened Oct. 24, connecting the Austin and San Antonio areas.

Police said the accident occurred on the section of the highway with an 85 mile per hour speed limit, but they do not know how fast the drivers were going or if the speed limit was a contributing factor to the accident.

Police said one safety issue that has arisen with the new stretch of highway is the presence of feral hogs and other animals on the roadway. They said that was not a contributing factor to this accident.

Tolling began on the newly opened stretch of the road Sunday. No toll was implemented at first to

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CO-OP continues from page 1 Co-op to make a $250,000 initial purchase.

“Anyone in the retail business will tell you that [$53,000] is a ‘significant purchase.’” Mitchell said.

“Anything more as an opening order would be irresponsible on my part.”

Mitchell said he wants to test out the apparel before making a larger order, and his decision came after looking into the success of other university bookstores. He said the bookstores at New York University, Oregon State University and Washington University have all made initial orders of a similar size from Alta Gracia.

Mitchell said he would be open to ordering more of the apparel in the future if it sells well.

In a letter to its members sent Friday, Mitchell said the success of the apparel’s sales will depend largely on the actions of the organization.

“If you do accept this offer and would like to work with us, we will do our part in marketing the

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allow drivers the chance to try out the new roadway. Tolls can only be paid through the TxTag program or by mail.

The ride on the new section of the road is $4.23 by TxTag and $5.63 by mail for noncommercial vehicles without trailers.

According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, rural areas of Texas and Utah contain the nation’s roads with the secondhighest speed limits at 80 miles per hour. Sixteen states have roadways with a speed limit of 75 miles per hour, 36 with a speed limit of at least 70 miles per hour and all states except Hawaii have roads with a speed limit of at least 65 miles per hour. The highest speed limit in Hawaii is 60 miles per hour.

If you do accept this offer and would like to work with us, we will do our part in marketing the merchandise in a civilized and positive fashion.

— George Mitchell, University Co-op CEO

merchandise in a civilized and positive fashion,” Mitchell said in the letter.

“All the bookstore managers I contacted emphasized the fact that the Alta Gracia product sales were successful only if the student organizations stayed actively involved.”

Bianca Hinz-Foley, Plan II sophomore and United Students Against Sweatshops member, said the organization will remain involved in the University Co-op’s efforts to sell the apparel, and she hopes this purchase can be the start of a strong relationship between the organization and the store.

In response to the purchase, Hinz-Foley said the organization has planned an event titled “RACE TO

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THE TOP: UT students celebrate the beginning of an ongoing relationship with the UT Co-op over the issue of ethical apparel” for Wednesday at 1 p.m.

The event will be held outside of the University Co-op on Guadalupe Street. Attendees will run from there to the UT Coop Administration office, located at 507 W. 23rd St., roughly two blocks away.

The run will symbolize “that collegiate garment manufacturing does not have to be a race to the bottom ... but can instead be a chance to uphold human rights and embody ‘what starts here, changes the world,” according to a statement released by the organization Monday.

continues from page 1 returned Monday.

The official University statement reads as follows: “The University of Texas is reviewing issues pertaining to its women’s track and field program. Until this process is completed, head coach Beverly Kearney will be on paid administrative leave.”

Kearney, 54, is entering her 21st season as the women’s track and field coach and has led Texas to three outdoor national titles (1998, 1999, 2005) and three indoor championships (1998, 1999, 2006) during her tenure. In 2007 Kearney was enshrined into the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Kearney, the first African-American coach at Texas, has been named National Coach of the Year three times and under her watch 70 Longhorns have earned All-America status.

— Additional reporting by Trey Scott

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UPS ceases funding for Boy Scouts

Dalai Lama accused in self-immolations BEIJING — China accused the Dalai Lama of allying with Japanese right-wingers in an island dispute as a way of attacking China and blamed him for glorifying a wave of self-immolations among Tibetans. The comments came as state media reported two more Tibetans died after setting themselves on fire.

On Monday in Okinawa, the Dalai Lama criticized Chinese media for making up a claim that he sided with the Japanese.

The Dalai Lama fled to India following an abortive 1959 uprising against Chinese rule over Tibet. He denies seeking the region’s independence, saying that he wishes Tibetans to enjoy real autonomy and protection of their traditional Buddhist culture.

UK officials question companies on taxes LONDON — British lawmakers on Monday accused major multinational companies of aggressive tax avoidance, amid calls by the U.K. government for a global crackdown on firms that seek to evade taxes.

At a three-hour parliamentary committee hearing, legislators questioned Starbucks, Google and Amazon about the amount they pay to the U.K. government in taxation.

Companies operating in Europe can base themselves in any of the 27 European Union nations, allowing them to take advantage of a particular country’s low tax rates.

Last week, Britain and Germany called for the world’s largest economies to do more to collectively fight tax evasion, especially in online commerce.

— Compiled from Associated Press reports

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Max Nash | Associated Press BBC Director General George Entwistle, left, stands with Lord Chris Patten, the Chairman of the BBC Trust, as he announces his resignation as director general outside New Broadcasting House in central London on Saturday.

BBC scandal taints British media

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LONDON — Few seem to be enjoying the management meltdown at the venerable BBC more than Rupert Murdoch, the News Corp. chief whose rival British newspapers have been caught up in their own lengthy, embarrassing and expensive phone-hacking scandal.

But the troubles for both media organizations highlight that the news industry in Britain is at rock-bottom in public esteem, and could face increased restrictions from the government of Prime Minister David Cameron, which appears

Seth Wenig | Associated Press John Papanier, 12, directs traffic on a street congested by vehicles during cleanup after Superstorm Sandy in the New Dorp section of Staten Island, N.Y on Saturday.

Disaster tourists flock, gawk at Sandy wreck

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NEW YORK — Garbage trucks, hulking military vehicles and mud-caked cars move slowly through a Staten Island waterfront neighborhood still reeling from Superstorm Sandy’s storm surge.

Then comes an outlier: a spotless SUV with three passengers peering out windows at a mangled home choked with sea grass.

Residents recognize the occupants right away. They’re disaster tourists, people drawn to the scene of a tragedy to glimpse the pictures they’ve seen on television come to life.

Two weeks after the superstorm socked the region, cleanup continues in New York and New Jersey, which bore the brunt of the destruction. At its peak, the storm knocked out power to 8.5 million in 10 states, and some during a later nor’easter.

About 73,000 utility customers in New York and New Jersey remained without power late Sunday, most of them on Long Island.

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bring darkness and despair; it also brought the gawkers.

Seaver Avenue on Staten Island was sloppy with mud, sand and curbside mounds of couches, personal photos, mattresses and sodden sheetrock. Mickey Merrell’s front porch was askew, and the storm surge nearly knocked a neighbor’s house into hers.

Across the street a house was washed off its foundation. It was a scene of human misery — and one of New York City’s new attractions, like the construction crane that collapsed and dangled high above midtown Manhattan on Oct. 29.

“Sometimes it’s like we’re at the zoo,” Merrell said. “So many people come and stop and stare at this place.”

Domenick and Kim Barone said they could tell the tourists apart from the volunteers because the gawkers’ clothes and shoes are clean, and they’re often snapping pictures.

Peter Lisi, a renter who is fighting a landlord trying to evict him from his damaged home, said he doesn’t mind the gawkers, “as long as they’re not making fun.”

Some of them are drawn in to what’s happening and help, he said.

convinced it has been unable to police itself.

The British Broadcasting Corp. has moved into full-bore damage control since it retracted mistaken allegations by its marquee news program that a politician sexually abused children. That serious mistake followed the BBC’s earlier failure to report on widespread child sex abuse allegations against one of its biggest stars, the late Jimmy Savile.

The scandal follows several years of turmoil over the phone-hacking scandal, which exploded with the discovery that employees of Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid hacked into a kidnapped girl’s mobile phone. The scan-

dal widened when scores of celebrities, sports stars and politicians said they, too, had been hacked. The tabloid folded, Murdoch’s media paid out millions in compensation and still faces scores of lawsuits. Several news executives have been arrested.

A report due this month from Lord Justice Brian Leveson, based on months of jarring testimony about wrongdoing by Murdoch’s reporters and others, may prompt the government to impose statutory regulation on the British print press, which is overseen by an industry watchdog.

Many say the reputation of the British media is at an all-time low.

BBC chief George

Entwistle resigned this weekend, and on Monday the head of news, Helen Boaden, and deputy Stephen Mitchell were temporarily removed from their positions, though the broadcaster said neither were implicated in the errors involving its child sex abuse reports.

Iain Overton, who was involved in preparing the “Newsnight” story about the politician, resigned Monday as editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a nonprofit muckraking group that works with several news organizations.

Further resignations or suspensions at the BBC are likely as the investigation develops.

ATLANTA — The philanthropic arm of shipping giant UPS said it will no longer give money to the Boy Scouts of America as long as the group discriminates against gays, the second major corporation to recently strip funding from the scouts.

The UPS Foundation made the change Thursday after an online petition protesting its annual grants to the Boy Scouts attracted more than 80,000 signatures. UPS, based in Atlanta, follows computer chip maker Intel in withdrawing corporate support for the Boy Scouts.

The UPS Foundation gave more than $85,000 to the Boy Scouts in 2011, according to its federal tax return.

Federal tax returns for 2011 for Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, were not immediately available.

Some media reported the Calif.-based company gave hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years.

UPS spokeswoman Kristen Petrella said grant applicants will have to adhere to the same standards UPS does by not discriminating against anyone based on race, religion, disability or sexual orientation.

The UPS Foundation distributed $45.3 million in grants last year. Petrella said she was not aware of any other grant recipients who would be affected by the new policy.

Petrella said the company had been concerned about discrimination by the Boy Scouts before the petition drive.

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INTERVIEW

Editor-in-Chief Susannah Jacob

Q&A: Sen. Kel Seliger looks forward

Editor’s Note: Kel Seliger is a Republican senator in the Texas State Senate from the 31st District, which includes the Panhandle and Permian Basin. In the spring Seliger will replace Sen. Judith Zaffirini (D-Laredo) as head of the Senate Higher Education Committee, a position she has held since the committee’s creation in 2009. Daily Texan Associate Editor Pete Stroud talked to Seliger about UT’s outlook in the upcoming session and skyrocketing tuition. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. A full version is available at www.dailytexanonline.com.

Daily Texan: What’s the outlook for UT and other public universities in the upcoming legislative session? What’s on the schedule to consider this spring?

Kel Seliger: It depends on what the expectations are. If the expectation is for huge amounts of additional money, well, gosh, I don’t think people are going to be very happy. If it is an opportunity to set the groundwork for ongoing mission completion of universities in the state of Texas for the future, then I think that I’m very optimistic. I’m looking forward to a very productive dialogue with both community colleges and universities and . . . some of those graduates as well as the general public who pay taxes.

DT: How do you feel about Gov. Rick Perry’s support for instate tuition for children of illegal immigrants? Do you share his views? Why or why not?

KS: Well, as chairman of the committee, I think we’re going to see legislation that deals with that. And I think it’s important that that legislation gets a full and complete hearing, because once again, we are a nation of laws. At the same time, what’s best for the University of Texas? In depriving in-state tuition to certain people, do we under-educate a population that then costs the state of Texas? And at the same time, if we educate all of those people and they are as productive as education can possibly make them, then is the overarching advantage to the University of Texas? Those are the questions that have to be answered; it’s not just simple “is it good, or is it bad.” What does it do, what does it accomplish, what do we need, all of those things. Clearly, if we have a population that’s not going anywhere, they’re not leaving — they’re not going to be deported, obviously. Where do we want them to go? Do we want them to have more education, do we want them to have some less education? I don’t know that I have the answers — my job’s going to be to see to it that legislation dealing with those issues gets a fair hearing ... We all have a personal stake in it. I haven’t determined what sort of legislative initiative I’m going to support, but we all have a stake in higher education and having an educated populace.

DT: Your appointment to the chairmanship of the Higher Education Committee was somewhat controversial, as your predecessor Sen. Judith Zaffirini had more experience in the realm of higher education than you do. But Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said he appointed you based on your “ability to work well with all members.” What makes you better suited to “work with all members” than your predecessor?

KS: Nothing necessarily — those are choices that the lieutenant governor makes. And I appreciate his faith in my ability. Sen.

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If the expectation is for huge amounts of additional money, well, gosh, I don’t think people are going to be very happy.

— Sen. Kel Seliger

Zaffirini and I have spent a lot of time discussing higher education; so far as I know she is very happily in my mind going to stay on that committee where she will continue to have, I think, a real impact. She and I are not rivals here.

DT: Skyrocketing tuition is a problem faced by all college students, and there’s a pretty direct correlation between state legislative budget cuts and rising tuition costs for students.

For example, in 1985, state appropriations for UT-Austin accounted for 47 percent of the University’s budget. Tuition and fees accounted for no more than five percent. Now, tuition and fees provide a quarter of UT’s budget while state funding has dwindled to a mere 13 percent. That, combined with the fact that 10 years ago the state Legislature started allowing the universities to set their own tuition rates, has led to an increase in tuition costs. Most of us are going to graduate with a ton of debt, which certainly hurts students, but also hurts the economy we’re entering. What does the Legislature plan to do about this issue?

KS: I can’t tell you. I don’t know what the Legislature’s going to do in March, April or May. But in that period of time, keep in mind, we have far more four-year universities and we have more health education facilities that also impinge on the budget, and so the pie gets cut up some more. We don’t want students to graduate with a bunch of debt, but we have to keep a sense of proportion about that debt, because anybody who uses a credit card, quite frankly, is not being all that picky about the debt that they incur. So we shouldn’t focus necessarily on that particular element.

When we look at the debt that probably will yield the most value over a person’s lifetime, it is that that they incur for their higher education. Everybody in the Legislature wants to make college education as affordable as is possible, but the cost of education and tuition are still going to be subject to the same pressures of the economy as every other good or service.

DT: Is there anything that you personally hope to accomplish with regards to that?

KS: No, I look forward to working with all of the parties, my col-

leagues in the Legislature, the universities and other interested parties to take a step forward so that we continue the job that’s been done, which has been a great job of developing first-class universities and first-class opportunities for education and see to it that we continue to do that in the future. I don’t have a big broad personal agenda.

DT: And I assume that goes not just for rising tuition but for most issues related to higher education?

KS: Sure it does. There are policies used all the time and things that come up, but the important thing is that — I’m a small government advocate, so the Legislature should not be running institutions. I think as time goes by we’re going to need to distill just what the role of the Higher Education Coordinating Board is. Is it there to run the universities or coordinate the efforts in higher education — and what does that mean?

DT: Is there anything you’d like to say to students in advance of the upcoming legislative session and your tenure as chairman of the Higher Education Committee?

KS: Watch what goes on, watch how it affects your education.

Your education affects your future, so be part of the process.

UT’s response to rape fails to protect students

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Prosecutors recently indicted Penn State’s ex-President Graham Spanier for allegedly covering up the Sandusky child abuse scandal.

University presidents, take note: Inadequate oversight of internal procedures can now land you in jail. Something needs to be done about UT’s official response to the rape and sexual assault of its students, because the current policy favors institutional interests over those of students at every turn. The University has a moral responsibility to give survivors access to records relating to their complaints, confirmation of appropriate crime reporting, full information about their options and legal assistance. That responsibility has not been fulfilled.

It starts when a survivor attempts to report a rape. Every common survivor contact point at UT — including the Office of the Dean of Students, UTPD and Legal Services for Students — fails to inform survivors of their full range of options for responding to rape. These options are criminal, University and civil complaints.

UT’s policy does not include the civil complaint as an option.

Civil complaints are almost always survivors’ best reporting option. The standard of proof in criminal cases is “beyond a reasonable doubt” — around 99 percent — compared to “a preponderance of evidence” in a civil case — around 51 percent. Civil complaints have a higher success rate because their standard of proof is about half as high as that of criminal complaints. According to UT, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) makes internal UT investigations nontransparent and thus incomparable. Survivors are only privy to the outcome, not the factors in making the decision.

These relative success rates matter. The outcome of a rape report can be evidence to a survivor of whether the world believes him or her.

Thus, scholars Patricia Martin and Marlene Powell call the experience of reporting sexual assault to police a “dual assault” for survivors. Unsuccessful criminal complaints are the norm, and they can cause survivors to feel even less safe. It stands to reason that if police do not believe you, they are not going to protect you.

The U.S. arrest rate for rape is only 24 percent out of all reported incidents, and the probability that a criminal rape report leads to conviction and prison sentencing for the perpetrator is in the single digits. Criminal complaints are vastly more likely to land survivors, not rapists, in police interrogation rooms. Furthermore, in criminal cases survivors risk imprisonment for refusing to testify before their attackers in court. This criminalizes a normal response to violent injury — fear.

Civil complaints carry no such risk. And unlike criminal or University complaints, they let survivors suggest appropriate remedies. Dean Soncia Reagins-Lilly states that as a practice in some cases, the University or the Office of the Dean of Students asks students involved in disputes or conflicts including reported rape incidents what outcome they feel would be an appropriate resolution to the situation. The University does not publish criteria or other data on when and how often this occurs. Conversely, incarceration of the rapist is the optimal outcome of a criminal rape complaint. Incarceration means placing the rapist in a cage where he himself will have a double-digit probability of being sexually assaulted. Some survivors might prefer other remedies.

Survivors who are informed of the risks and benefits of all their reporting options would likely favor civil complaints over criminal or University ones, but at UT, the policy is to not even give them the option.

It gets worse. After the complaint has been made, the victims are prevented from knowing whether their case is being adequately investigated. The Office of the Dean of Students, citing FERPA, requires releases from both parties — the survivor and the alleged perpetrator — in order to release records relating to investigations of complaints of a sexual nature, except when those complaints meet definition of sexual assault. This means some survivors can’t access their complaint records to determine why UT won’t let them access their records.

Ironically, UT’s self-protecting responses to rape may endanger the institution’s longer-term interests and those of its most powerful administrators. If survivors were to realize that their experiences are not unique, but representative of larger patterns of institutional misconduct in response to rape, their stories might generate serious external pressures for reform. For example, the Department of Education might review the nontransparent records classifications that curtail survivors’ access to complaint records. Press from the results of such a review might harm UT’s reputation and fundraising capacity. Correspondence detailing high-level knowledge of some erroneous classifications and inadequate procedures might even cause individual administrators to incur criminal or civil liability.

Shame often keeps survivors silent. But the shame belongs on UT for its inadequate response to rape. UT’s moral imperative to assist injured students should be even more obvious when students are injured by other members of the same community of trust, but here the University has dropped the ball.

Sack is a member of the Liberal Arts Honors Program class of 2005. She researches administrative decision-making and advocates for students at the University of Virginia.

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“We are a one-stop shop on campus for veterans and their dependents to access this institution and understand how it works,” Armstrong said.

Armstrong said he is a natural fit for his position, because as a veteran he can connect with student veterans and help them get all the benefits for which they are eligible.

“I give them the lay of the land and a safe haven. The Student Veteran Association gives them that group of fellow travelers to be social with,” Armstrong said.

Lee Leffingwell, Austin mayor and Navy veteran, spoke at the ceremony about his experience during Aviation Officer Training School. He said 40 years later, he still remembers two of his sergeant instructors, who died in the line of duty during the Vietnam War. He said the lessons they taught him transferred from active duty into his life as a veteran.

“For my years of experience as mayor and retired Navy commander, I believe that the values you develop and will continue to develop will continue through aspects of your life,” Leffingwell said.

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Kopser, commanding officer of Texas Army ROTC, said it is thrilling to watch young students choose a life of service in the Armed Forces when they join one of UT’s ROTC programs.

“It is a huge honor to watch young people raise their right hand to join the United States Armed Forces during a time of war and take an oath to preserve the United States,” Kopser said.

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Raveena Bhalara | Daily Texan Staff Student Veteran Services tabled in the Six Pack Monday as part of Veteran’s Appreciation Week. The week’s festivities also include a benefit fair Thursday and veteran opportunity discussions Friday.

Veteran benefits rise to spotlight

By Carly Coen UT’s Student Veteran Services paid tribute to veterans enrolled in the University with a display of American flags arranged in the shape of the Longhorn logo to kick off Veterans Appreciation Week on Monday.

The annual flag display prepared by Student Veteran Services included a flag for each veteran enrolled at UT. This year’s Veterans Appreciation Week events include a twitter photo competition Monday, a benefit fair Thursday in the Student Services Building and veteran opportunity awareness discussions open to the public Friday at the University Teaching Center.

Student veteran coordinator Ben Armstrong said Veterans Appreciation Week is usually the one time every year veterans get the attention they deserve. Student Veteran Services encouraged students to take a pair of dog tags they distributed Monday and tweet a creative photograph that reminded them of veterans in Austin. Arm-

strong said students at UT and residents of Travis County have always been supportive of military events and the attention Student Veteran Services received from students at Monday’s promotion made him proud.

“Student Veteran Services is a one-stop shop for student veterans who don’t know about all the benefits they could be taking advantage of,” Armstrong said. “When we get attention from regular students, it helps all the veterans who aren’t already part of Student Veteran Services activities get involved in the community.”

Jeff Abadie, a veteran and UT alumnus, said student participation in Veteran Appreciation Week is important to him because any attention at all to student veterans is more than usual. Abadie said this week bridges the veterans in Student Veteran Services to others on campus who want to increase involvement with raising awareness.

“The main benefit of Student Veteran Services for me was the social aspect,” Abadie said. “It’s nice to have a group

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of friends who went through the same stuff I did after being in the military.”

Abadie said he thinks more people are getting involved in veteran support on campus and are interested in spreading the word. Students in Student Veteran Services participate in social events, including tailgating before football games and monthly meetings.

Veterans Appreciation Week helps student veterans gain access to education funding benefits, community outreach and health care benefits provided by the Veterans Administration health care system. Speech/language pathology sophomore Meagan Orsak said the flag display Monday was perfectly timed, because everyone still had Veterans Day on their mind.

“I didn’t realize how many students were in the military,” Orsak said. “Other students have fraternities or sororities and clubs that get all kinds of attention, so it’s cool to see the group veterans have created for themselves on campus.”

UT student organizations joined together to launch a campus-wide canned food drive this week, with the goal of collecting 1,000 cans for the Capital Area Food Bank.

Neighborhood Longhorns Program, a nonprofit focused on helping underprivileged youth, is bringing 30 students to UT’s campus Friday from Paredes Middle School in South Austin to help UT students organize donated cans and build a pyramid on Gregory Plaza. After this the Capital Area Food Bank will distribute the cans to food pantries and shelters in Central Texas.

Samuel Rhea, a member of the Neighborhood Longhorns Program, said bringing middle school students to a college campus will contribute to their education.

“It is especially important for kids at the middle school level to start thinking about what is next after high school,” Rhea said. “I think it’s really crucial to give these middle school students an opportunity to see campus and talk to students.”

The canned food drive is headed by Orange Outreach, a new initiative launched by Student Government earlier this semester that oversees and coordinates organizations for service projects. The canned food drive that started Monday and ends Friday is Orange Outreach’s second project and has 18 organizations participating, including several

sororities and fraternities.

Orange Outreach coordinator Holland Finley said the effect of having multiple student organizations work together on one project is powerful.

“Students’ ability to unite can affect huge change in the Austin community,” Finely said. “That is something we hope we can facilitate through Orange Outreach.”

Orange Outreach has 16 different drop locations for the canned food drive listed on its blog, orangeoutreach.blogspot.com. Among those locations are Gregory Gymnasium and the Student Government office in the Student Activity Center. Finley said since its launch, the organization’s Listserv has gained 7,000 subscriptions and the blog has racked up 600 views.

“Orange Outreach is available to everyone and is a platform where everyone, student or faculty member, can come together on service projects,” Finley said.

Finley said the creation of Orange Outreach is an expansion of SG’s service project efforts. Finley said SG traditionally has a philanthropy chair who oversees one year-long service project. She said Orange Outreach is aiming to coordinate five projects this year. She also said the Orange Outreach blog serves as a communication tool where other service project opportunities are posted.

SG Vice President Wills Brown said Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell expressed support and approval of the idea of Orange Outreach when they met with him several months ago.

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The Longhorns may not be in line to win any beauty pageants with their play, but after stuffing Coppin State 69-46 on Monday, the only statistic the team is concerned with is the two in the win column.

“We’ll clean it up,” sophomore guard Sheldon McClellan said. “We just have to be more patient offensively.”

With a combined 39 turnovers in its first two contests, Texas is still searching for consistency on offense. With Myck Kabongo and Jaylen Bond sidelined, freshman Javan Felix logged a team-high 33 minutes on his way to dishing out nine assists. Felix had his share of mistakes as he turned the ball over eight times and couldn’t connect on any of his three shot attempts.

Freshman center Cameron Ridley struggled holding onto the ball when it came his way and had six turnovers of his own. For the second time in as many games, McClellan carried the team on his back and led all scorers with 25 points on 7-of-10 shooting. McClellan was able to find space all game long, and unlike his first game, his shots began to fall.

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Zachary Strain | Daily Texan Staff Texas shooting guard Sheldon McClellan paced the Longhorns with 25 points in the team’s 23-point win against Coppin State. This is the second game in a row where McClellan was the team leader in points scored. He scored 20 points in the team’s season opener.

“It’s like I’m a different guy this year,” McClellan said. “I’m not discouraged by my misses or anything like that, because I know Coach Barnes wants me to score for this team.”

After flirting with the idea of letting the Eagles hang around as the second half progressed, Texas eventually took control of the paint and, in turn, the game. The Longhorns held the

Eagles to less than 25 percent shooting from the field and forced 17 turnovers.

“We kind of just settled after we got a lead,” McClellan said.

Texas finished the game with

a 50-25 rebounding advantage, with freshmen Prince Ibeh and Ioannis Papapetrou leading the charge with nine boards apiece.

Papapetrou added 10 points

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Texas commits 26 turnovers in win Texas didn’t waste any time pulling away from Coppin State. The Longhorns squeaked past a Fresno State team that won only 13 games last year, 55-53, in their season opener last Friday, never leading by more than five points. Despite committing 26 turnovers and shooting 55 percent from the free throw line, they won by 23 points Monday.

turnovers Texas committed, the most by the Longhorns under Rick Barnes, breaking the mark of 25 set in 1999.

It was also twice as many turnovers as Texas had in its win over Fresno State on Friday.

24.6: Coppin State’s field goal percentage. After holding Fresno State to 35.6 percent shooting last week, the Longhorns’ defense stepped up again, holding the Eagles to 24.6 percent shooting from the floor and outrebounding them, 50-25.

What’s next Texas gets a week off before next Monday’s game against Chaminade in Hawaii, its first in the Championship Round of the Maui Invitational. The Longhorns will face either Southern California or Illinois in Tuesday’s semifinals. Texas made its last Maui Invitational appearance in 2008, when it finished in third place.

In their only meeting, the Longhorns beat Chaminade, 84-62, in

Sheldon McClellan: The sophomore guard struggled with his shot Friday, scoring 14 of his 20 points from the free throw line. He was much more efficient Monday, going 7-for10 from the floor and connecting on three of four three-point attempts on his way to scoring a career-high 25 points.

STOCK DOWN Prince Ibeh: The 6-foot-10 freshman was solid Monday, grabbing nine rebounds in 20 minutes.

His free throw shooting wasn’t. He went 0-for-4 from the charity stripe and missed the rim on a pair of free throw tries in the second half.

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Game breakdown First half: Sheldon McClellan, who scored a game-high 20 points in Texas’ season-opening win over Fresno State last week, picked up right where he left off. He had 13 points by halftime while Texas’ defense held Coppin State to 21.4 percent shooting from the floor.

After recording just three assists in the win over the Bulldogs a few days earlier, Texas had nine in the first half. Freshman point guard Javan Felix, starting his second straight game in place of Myck Kabongo, who continues to be investigated by NCAA, had six of them.

Second half: Texas got off to a sluggish start after halftime, hitting just one of five shots and committing five turnovers in the first 4:45 of the second half. But a three-pointer from McClellan, sandwiched between a pair of dunks by Prince Ibeh, one on the back end of an alley-oop from McClellan, got the Longhorns back on track. Texas shot 54.5 percent from the floor in the final 20 minutes after shooting 40.7 percent in the first half.

mainly because of the Longhorns’ perfect record and his high passer efficiency rating.

However, that talk stopped after his stumble against Oklahoma. Davis has established himself as Ash’s go-to receiver, leading the team in yards. With the exception of Malcolm Brown, the running game holds its own, too.

Although the Heisman is out of the question for Ash at this point, the next few

weeks will thrust the sophomore quarterback and his accomplices into the national spotlight. The Thanksgiving meeting with TCU will air on ESPN and the final game of the season versus Kansas State will undoubtedly be shown across the country. Ash can get an early jump on his 2013 Heisman campaign, while Davis can secure his spot among the

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1. Baylor 2. Connecticut 3. Duke 4. Stanford 5. Maryland 6.. Kentucky 7. Notre Dame 8. Louisville 9. Penn State 10. Georgia 19. Texas

— Christian Corona

By Peter Sblendorio

Ash will have shot at 2013 Heisman Thanks to the production of quarterback David Ash, receiver Mike Davis and a powerful rushing attack, Texas has re-emerged as one of the hottest teams in the country the past two weeks.

Early in the season, Ash drew Heisman speculation

Lawrence Peart | Daily Texan Staff Freshman point guard Javan Felix had eight turnovers, adding to the Longhorns’ 26, the highest total in the Rick Barnes era.

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This bodes well for the rest of the season for the Wildcats, who have a trip For the first time in to Baylor and a home affair school history, Kansas against Texas remaining on State is the top-ranked their schedule. team in the BCS standings. The Wildcats made West Virginia WRs’ dynamic West Virginia (5-4) has the jump to the top after been a major disappointNo. 15 Texas A&M upset ment after starting the No. 1 Alabama on Saturday. year with five wins, but Oregon and Notre Dame this should not overshadnow sit in second and third ow the contributions of the place, respectively.

Mountaineers’ wide receivKansas State defeated TCU on Saturday to im- ers. The dynamic duo of prove to 10-0 on the year, Stedman Bailey and Tavon and wins in its last two Austin has put up eye-popgames would likely earn ping statistics all season the Wildcats their first ever long, and these two were a national title game berth. major reason why quarterHeisman hopeful quarter- back Geno Smith was the back Collin Klein put inju- Heisman favorite through ry concerns to rest against five games.

Bailey hauled in 75 passthe Horned Frogs, playing es for 1,055 yards and 16 the entire game and scoring scores through nine games, two more touchdowns on the ground to put his season total at 19.

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SPORTS BRIEFLY Speith in Q-School, looks to advance

All-American sophomore Jordan Spieth will compete in the PGA Tour Q-School’s Second Stage in a four-day event beginning Tuesday at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney.

The event will be a four-day, 72-hole qualifying tournament, and there is no cut at any point in this event.

If Spieth plays well enough, he will advance to the final qualifying stage Nov. 28-Dec. 3.

There the top 25 finishers will earn PGA Tour Cards for the 2013 season, and all players in the final stage would earn status on the Web.com Tour for the following year.

Spieth is the No. 5 player in the Golfweek/ Sagarin College Rankings. He is one of the top amateur golfers in the world and helped lead Texas to a national championship last spring.

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LM Otero | Associated Press Kansas State, led by Collin Klein, defeated TCU 23-10 Saturday, helping to vault the Wildcats to the No. 1 ranking in the BCS standing for the first time in school history. Klein has been the spark for the Wildcats, and he finds himself in Heisman trophy contention.

He has passed for 2020 yards and passed for 12 touchdowns while adding 748 yards and 19 touchdowns on the ground in 2012.

while Austin recorded 96 catches for 968 yards and 11 touchdowns. Both players rank in the Top 15 in all three major receiving categories, with Bailey leading the nation in touchdown catches.

Chelf steps in Oklahoma State has been ravaged with injuries at the quarterback position, but this hasn’t stop

the Cowboys from having one of the nation’s top offenses. In his first career start Saturday, junior Clint Chelf stepped in and sustained the potent OSU passing game by throwing for 292 yards and four touchdowns against West Virginia. Chelf filled in for starter Wes Lunt, who was out with concussionlike symptoms suffered last week against Kansas State.

Sophomore J.W. Walsh also made three starts this season before suffering what is believed to be a seasonending knee injury Oct. 20.

Big 12 goes nine strong The Big 12 has been one of the strongest conferences in college football from top to bottom in 2012 and as many as nine teams from the conference who could be

bowl-eligible at the conclusion of the season.

Kansas State, Oklahoma, Texas, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and TCU have already clinched eligibility, and only Kansas has been eliminated.

West Virginia and Iowa State are each one win away from qualifying for a bowl, while Baylor needs two wins in its final three games.

HORNS continues from page 6 in his second consecutive start while Ibeh blocked three shots for good measure.

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Longhorn freshmen scored 31 of the team’s 69 points while gaining experience in pressured situations. The Eagles were able to disrupt numerous passes in the Texas backcourt and even flashed a full court

press at times.

For now Texas will take the win and hope it can get its two missing players back in the fold sooner rather than later.

Barnes hinted at getting Bond back on the practice court either Wednesday or Thursday

but was still unsure as to when Kabongo will return.

“When we get Myck and Jaylen back, we’ll definitely be a better team,” McClellan said.

“Myck brings leadership, and Jaylen brings strength, energy and rebounding.”

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preseason Biletnikoff award candidates. Let’s take a look at Ash’s and Davis’ current stats and what fans can expect next season.

Ash currently ranks 42nd in the nation in passing yards with 235.4 per game, 2,354 total. The sophomore has 17 touchdowns to five interceptions and has been the catalyst of the resurgent Longhorn offense. Looking back to last season, Ash finished the year passing for 82.2 yards per game, 1,068 total. Assuming Ash finishes the season maintaining his streak of stellar play – including the Longhorns’ bowl game – the sophomore will end the year with 3,060 yards passing, 23 touchdowns and six interceptions, yardage numbers that will mark a 186 percent improvement from 2011. If Ash made even half the improvement this offseason that he did last offseason, he would pass for well over 4,000 yards and 30 touchdowns in 2013. Those kinds of statistics would put Ash atop the Heisman favorites and if Texas could remain undefeated, the trophy would

be Ash’s to lose.

Davis, statistically, is already one of the best receivers in the country, ranking 29th in yards averaging, 83.7 per game, 837 total. The junior has seven touchdowns on 45 receptions thus far with three games to play. Davis caught 45 balls last season, accounting for 609 yards but only one score. Davis is on track to finish the season with 1,088 yards, which would mark a 79 percent improvement from 2011. If Davis made the same improvement this offseason, 2013 would see the soon-to-be senior account for close to 1,900 yards, the same pace Baylor wide receiver Terrance Williams is currently on.

Davis sits at seventh place alltime in receiving yards at Texas with 1,924 yards as of right now.

While the numbers look good on paper, it would be asking a lot for these two players to improve much more upon what they are doing this season. However, it goes without saying that Ash and Davis will be two of the most electric and productive players in college football come next fall.

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The use of complementary character abilities, high-paced maneuvering and teamwork are all keys to success when competing in each match. All 16 players who made it past qualifying rounds for the tournament were awarded with expense-free travel along with the chance to win cash prizes.

The success of the Lone Star Clash tournament demonstrates a very clear growth in the e-sports industry throughout the last couple of years.

TeSPA outreach director Vivian Tsai said that despite such humble beginnings, colleges across the country are now starting their own competitive teams.

“TeSPA will definitely continue to grow. We recently expanded to eight other universities, and we’re still looking for more representatives in other schools all over Texas,” Tsai said in an email.

Independent of the competitions and future prospects, however, TeSPA’s main focus is about growing a community of game-loving enthusiasts in the heart of Austin.

“Through this time, we’ve maintained the philosophy that a passionate and dedicated team can achieve impossible feats,” Tyler Rosen said.

By Ricky Stein Barrelling in with the appropriately titled retro-grunge rocker “Been Away Too Long,” King Animal boldly announces Soundgarden’s return to the spotlight with the band’s first orginal album in 16 years.

Sixteen years is a lifetime in the world of popular music, especially in the age of YouTube, Tumblr and the instantaneous reactions of Twitter and Facebook. The last time Soundgarden released an album, none of this existed.

So it comes as a relief that the band has not modernized its sound following the indie rock boom, instead relying on the same heavy riffs and idiosyncratic time signatures that made it one of the most popular bands of the early ‘90s.

Lead singer Chris Cornell ‘s voice sounds as sharp and distinctive as ever, screeching out lines such as “I’m a soldier for hire / Killing all you admire.”

Kim Thayil shreds away on lead guitar as if it’s still 1996, while drummer Matt Cameron and bassist Ben Shepherd make 14/4 time signatures sound perfectly natural, as on the seventh song, “Taree.”

Another standout track is the low-end heavy “Blood on the Valley Floor.” The band’s signature metal-meetsgrunge sound is matched with morose lyrics, similar to that of their 1994 landmark

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The following track, “Bones of Birds,” finds them incorporating a cryptic minor-chord key change over an equally cryptic set of lyrics: “Tried to build on bones of birds / Singing in the cold, fall to earth.”

The second half of the album mellows out with several acoustic-guitar-based songs, like “Black Saturday” and “Halfway There,” bringing to mind some of Led Zeppelin’s better acoustic ballads..

The album closes with two of the band’s oddest songs to date — the funk-grunge “Eyelid’s Mouth” and the reflective, brooding “Rowing.”

“Life is a hammer waiting to drop / Drift into shadows and the rowing won’t stop,” Cornell sings over a highly-compressed drum beat, a looping bassline and interlocking spaced-out guitar lines.

Overall, the album displays a fluid continuation of the band’s sound despite the long break.

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Doctor meditates on wellness

By Hannah Smothers

There is a calming stillness that resonates throughout the third floor of the Sarah M. and Charles E. Seay Building.

Aside from the occasional drumming of footsteps or the rare interruption of a ringing telephone, the halls and rooms are devoid of sound.

Such tranquility isn’t necessarily out of character for a psychology clinic, but the peacefulness can also be attributed to one of its staff members.

Dr. David Collins, administrative associate for the Department of Psychology, has two master’s degrees in religious studies and a doctorate in clinical psychology, but he considers his practice of meditation as his most meaningful achievement.

“Even with all the studies I’ve done in academia in religion and psychology, I’ve matter-of-factly learned so much more about human religiousness and the human psyche in meditation retreats than in any academic program,” Collins said.

Collins has practiced various traditions of meditation for 40 years and plans on completing his 40th meditation retreat before the year is over. He began practicing regularly at age 15 after reading an article on relaxation by Herbert Benson in a copy of Reader’s Digest.

“I found out that [Benson] had come up with that technique through studying transcendental meditation,” Collins said. “That’s when I began studying.”

Before stumbling upon the article in Reader’s Digest, Collins had several experiences to which he can attribute his interest in meditation.

“I came close to dying as a kid and got interested in what is most meaningful in life,” Collins said. “I woke up without thoughts and without remembering my name, but the fact that anything

Becca Gamache | Daily Texan Staff Dr. David Collins, administrative associate for the Clinical Psychology Program at UT, has been practicing meditation for 40 years. He considers meditation a complementary factor in health along with medicine

at all was happening, even though it was painful, was intrinsically beautiful.”

When Collins was seven, he nearly drowned while swimming in a neighborhood pool.

He described the sensation of waking up and not knowing anything except that he was alive.

“The process of identifying with my thoughts and opinions was forcibly taken away from me, because I was oxygen-deprived,” Collins said. “An analogous procedure can be cultivated within meditation.”

It may seem odd for someone who has spent so much of his life in an academic atmosphere to also be a meditation guru, but Collins said modern

psychology is heading in a direction that involves “a marriage between meditative experience and the scientific way of seeing things.”

Sucharit Katyal, president of the University Yoga Club and psychology graduate student, also has an interest in the partnership of meditation and science.

“I always had that curiosity of understanding the mind from all perspectives: the scientific perspective and the self-investigation perspective,” Katyal said.

Katyal has seen firsthand the psychological effects yoga and meditation can have on an individual. A close friend of his who suffers from bipolar disorder began practicing yoga

with Katyal and noted mental health improvements.

“He still has bipolar disorder,” Katyal said. “But over the last year I’ve observed him, and he himself tells me how much it has brought his mind to a balance.”

Collins said meditation isn’t necessarily something that can replace prescribed medicine for all psychobiological conditions, nor is the conversation centered on an either/or approach. Instead, the two can benefit each other in their own respective ways.

For those interested in taking up the practice, Collins said that jumping in without a lot of preconceptions can be useful.

Lydia Crooks, Plan II and

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It’s just about appreciating the bare fact that anything at all is happening.

— David Collins, Administrative associate for the Department of Psychology

psychology senior, said her interest in meditation was reignited after hearing Collins speak in her positive psychology class.

“I really liked that he was laid-back in his presentation,” Crooks said. “He was thoughtful and inspiring even though he knows so much about the subject.”

Collins’ overall demeanor is, in fact, very laid-back and noticeably serene. He sits very

GAMES

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Student gamers amass global competitors

By Stuart Railey

The increasingly popular “Lone Star Clash” gaming tournament, an invitational event pitting professional and collegiate gamers against one another for cash prizes as high as $15,000, returned this weekend.

The Texas e-Sports Association, founded by co-presidents Tyler and Adam Rosen, is the award-winning organization behind the tournament. Hoping to gather fans of the “Starcraft” video game series, TeSPA was officially created in August 2010 on the UT campus. The concept has since taken off.

“We’ve hosted one large hallmark event each semester, starting from a crowded 64-person LAN [Local Area Network] in a classroom all the way to Lone Star Clash 2, more than doubling in size and scope with each iteration,” Tyler Rosen said. “With each event, we’ve committed to redefining the limits of what is possible with a mere student organization.”

Considering the impressive display of custom stages, automated lighting and professional-line CPUs used at the tournament, it’s hard to imagine that two students were able to pull together such a complex event while also balancing class work.

Because of their previous success, the Rosen brothers needed to accommodate large crowds of fans at Lone

still in his spot in the waiting room of the psychology clinic and speaks in hushed tones as he describes the ins and outs of the world of meditation. But he makes the point to keep one thing clear.

“On one hand, [meditation] is profound,” Collins said. “On the other hand, it’s really, really simple. It’s just about appreciating the bare fact that anything at all is happening.”

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Star Clash 2. Because of limited space on campus, the tournament was held at the Marchesa Hall and Theatre.

Corporate sponsors such as AT&T, Redbull Gaming and Microsoft openly endorsed the tournament by providing equipment, concessions and, in the case of XSplit, even live-streaming of the matches on the Internet. TwitchTV, an e-sports broadcasting company, has been working alongside TeSPA since the spring of 2011, helping millions of fans around the world follow the gameplay.

Aerospace engineering freshman Lawrence Eo was able to keep up with each in-

dividual match throughout the weekend from the comfort of his dorm room.

“I only started getting in ‘League of Legends’ over this past summer, but since then I’ve been watching certain professional players to help improve my own technique,” Eo said while viewing the University of California, San Diego compete against Georgia Tech Saturday.

Now with eight separate chapters to its name, TeSPA oversees a majority of esports gaming events within the state of Texas. Gamers looking to keep in contact with event organizers and compete professionally of-

ten turn to the Rosen brothers’ organization to facilitate their online career.

“Our events bring in not only the student community but literally millions of viewers and participants from across the globe,” Tyler Rosen said. “We’re ... excited to continue showcasing what is possible with such a talented and passionate group of students.”

Although TeSPA originally started out with the video game “Starcraft,” the Lone Star Clash tournament has since added “League of Legends.” Both of these realtime strategy games require

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