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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
FROM THE EDITOR There will be no classes Thursday and Friday. Classes will resume Monday. The Daily Texan will resume printing Monday. Online coverage will continue during the break.
INSIDE 4 OPINiON
The under-told Thanksgiving story you need to read.
How to keep Thanksgiving dinner local.
Texas dominates Jackson State to seal third win.
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STATE
First Latina Secretary of State resigns By David Maly Texas Secretary of State Hope Andrade submitted her letter of resignation Tuesday to Gov. Rick Perry. Her resignation goes into effect Friday, and it will now be up to Perry to appoint someone new to the position. Alicia Pierce, a spokesper-
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The Blanton is restoring pieces in its Suida-Manning Collection.
son from Andrade’s office, said Andrade was satisfied with her time in office and was ready to move on. “Having finished a successful statewide election, her fifth, the secretary believed that it was a good time to make the transition and let someone else have this great office,” Pierce said. Andrade’s resignation comes after controversy
Funding for higher education at UT-Austin makes up almost 13 percent of the state’s budget, and going into the 2013 legislative session UT President William Powers Jr. and Gov. Rick Perry are each expected to be involved in discussions that will influence funding for the next two years. Powers and Perry agree making a college degree more affordable is a priority both in the higher education community and at the state level, despite dealing with a $555.8 million, 2.5 percent budget cut to higher education in the last legislative session. Perry has said fixed tuition rates are key, but Powers has called for stable state funding to offer students financial stability beyond fixed tuition rates. Their views fall more in line now than they did in previous months. Last May, Powers recommended a 2.6 percent in-state tuition hike for the University. The UT System Board of Regents, whose members are appointed
10 LIFE & ARTS
‘Life of Pi,’ directed by Ang Lee, reviewed.
TODAY Chicken Run
Today in history In 1877
On Nov. 21, 1877, Thomas Edison announced his invention of the phonograph, a machine to record and play back sound. It allowed him to record his own voice, and the first recording was of Edison singing “Mary had a Little Lamb”. The phonograph would lay the groundwork for future generations of audio recording technology such as magnetic tape, compact discs and audio compression standards like MP3.
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Hope Andrade Texas Secretary of State
By Alexa Ura
Men’s basketball loses to USC in overtime at Maui Invitational.
The Metz Recreation Center is inviting adults ages 18 and older to participate in Karate Classes for free. The workouts will consist of sparring and is an excellent means of selfdefense. Classes are held Mondays and Wednesday beginning at 7 p.m.
of State on July 23, 2008. She will leave office as the fourthlongest serving Secretary of State in Texas history. Before serving as Texas Secretary of State, Andrade served as chair of the Texas Transportation Commission. In the press release, issued Tuesday, Andrade said it has been her honor to serve in
Higher education funding, tuition the focus of debate
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surrounding an effort overseen by her office to remove dead voters from lists of those registered, which resulted in many voters who are still alive getting letters telling them they would be removed from the voter registration list if they did not respond within 30 days. Andrade was sworn in as Texas’ first Latina Secretary
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Today, at 11 a.m. The Alamo Drafthouse in South Lamar is hosting its Free Family Fun event where they screen a free film enjoyable for the whole family. This weeks screening is the ever popular animated film, “Chicken Run.” Seating is first come, first served.
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by Perry, rejected Powers’ recommendation and instead froze undergraduate tuition at UT-Austin for the next two years while increasing tuition at every other System institution. To make up for the money the tuition hike would have raised, the regents approved a one-time allocation of $6.6 million from the Available University Fund, allocations available to the regents through a state land endowment, for each of the next two academic years. In an email to the UT community, Powers said he was disappointed in the regents’ decision and called their one-time allocation a shortterm remedy. “A one-time allocation, however much it might mitigate short-term problems, cannot substitute for stable, recurring, sustainable funding needed to support long-term efforts
TUITION continues on page 2 Illustrations by Colin Zelinski | Daily Texan Staff
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
POLICE
SG to vote on bill requiring video addresses
French fries fail to lure furry invader from Tower
By Bobby Blanchard Student Government’s increased presence on YouTube might become permanent if a new bill passes through the general assembly next week. Wills Brown, Student Government vice president, and Joshua Fuller,
College of Liberal Arts representative, authored a new bill which would require future Student Government presidents and vice presidents to create at least four video addresses to the student body via YouTube every term. The general assembly will vote on the bill during Tuesday’s student government meeting in
the Student Activity Center at 7 p.m. Transparency and outreach were part of Student Government President Thor Lund and Brown’s campaign platform when they ran for their positions last spring. The two promised they would do regular YouTube addresses to update students on what Student
Government is working on. Student Government has released two videos this semester under Lund and Brown, one for September and another for October. They have made various announcements in these videos, including making the Perry-Castañeda
deep-rooted desire to help
This article was originally published on The Daily Texan’s news blog, The Update. UT police investigated a break-in at the Main Building on Tuesday, and despite their efforts to lure a ‘suspect’ by tempting him with Jack in the Box French fries, the perpetrator still managed to escape. According to UTPD officer Darrell Halstead’s Campus Watch report released Tuesday, several University of Texas Police Department officers responded to alarms in room 8 of the Main Building on Tuesday around 2:41 a.m. and discovered entry to the office had been made through the ceiling. According to the report, an air conditioning vent was lying on the floor of the room, along with dust and other ceiling materials. Officers began searching the office and discovered a “masked non-UT subject attempting to hide by
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UNIVERSITY
UT joins national challenge to reduce food waste By David Loewenberg The UT Division of Housing and Food Service is teaming with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reduce its food waste by 5 percent in one year. The department announced Friday its participation in the EPA’s national Food Recovery Challenge, which tasks participants with decreasing food waste by reducing unnecessary consumption and increasing composting and food donations to charity. The EPA estimates 34 million tons of food are wasted annually
in the U.S., much of which ends up in landfills and becomes a significant source of greenhouse gases. DHFS environmental specialist Hunter Mangrum said the department has been working to reduce food waste for many years by introducing singlestream recycling in dorms, composting, monitoring purchasing and donating over-produced food. Mangrum said it is important that UT be a leader in developing and implementing projects aimed at sustainability and waste reduction. “In my opinion, this is a global issue, and we are a
Shelby Tauber | Daily Texan Staff Ph. D. student Soo-hyun Yang throws away her trash in a compost bin at Littlefield Cafe.
part of an institution that is globally minded. Thus, it is our responsibility and
By David Maly