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New caucus created for young Texans

By David Loewenberg

Scholars meet at UT to discuss digital advances in the biomedical field.

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Students hoping to influence legislation during the upcoming legislative session may have an additional avenue to work through thanks to a new bipartisan caucus.

State Rep. Eric Johnson, D-Dallas, announced Friday the formation of the Young Texans Legislative

Caucus in the Texas House of Representatives. The caucus will track and promote legislation affecting the 58 percent of Texans below the age of 40. In the Texas Legislature, caucuses serve as bodies around which members can organize to address the needs of a specific party, group or demographic.

Johnson, 37, said the caucus will create an

organization through which young people, including college students, can voice their concerns and ideas on policies being discussed in the Legislature.

“This new caucus will serve as a natural outlet for student organizations seeking to directly engage with the legislature,” Johnson said. “The 1.4 million Texans in our higher education system are

overwhelmingly a part of our target age demographic and we will be reaching out to student groups across the state after we get the caucus organized.”

Preston Covington, director of UT Student Government’s state relations agency, said he welcomes the announcement of the new caucus especially as Student

Rep. Eric Johnson

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‘Hanging Garden’

The Center for East Asian Studies is hosting a free screening of the “Hanging Garden,” a contemporary Japanese film, on Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. The story follows the drama of an unusual family and the secrets they each hide from each other.

The screening will be in UNB 2.228.

Retirement Guidance

Attend a free financial seminar, hosted by Human Resource Services, entitled “How am I doing?” The seminar focuses on the future of your financial goals, specifically retirement. The seminar will be held in NOA 4.106A and you must register through TXCLASS to attend.

Orange Santa

Friends of Orange Santa is hosting a sausage wrap sale in order to raise money for children’s bicycles. These bicycles will be given as Orange Santa gifts to those in need. The event is free and located between 2200 and 2300 Speedway.

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The 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, bringing prohibition to an end. The state of Utah became the last needed state to achieve the threefourths majority necessary to ratify any amendment to the Constitution.

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Marisa Vasquez | Daily Texan Staff Brian Takats, Taylor Weldon and Molly Richter eat at the newly opened East Side King on Guadalupe Monday afternoon. Local Chef Paul Qui’s fourth East Side King location is in the back room of Hole in the Wall, with a separate entrance that allows for patrons under 21.

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Leaders offer relaxation tips before finals

By Christine Ayala With the stresses of the last week of class and upcoming finals, students should make time for their personal care, according to the UT Counseling and Mental Health Center.

Center Associate Director Jane Morgan Bost said students often disregard their diets and sleeping patterns because of academic stress when they should be doing the opposite. She said students can focus better while studying if they continue with their normal routine rather than trying to go without sleep and increasing their caffeine intake.

“Sleep tends to be one of those things that goes out the window the fastest when students are stressed, but it’s generally not effective or efficient to pull an all-nighter,” Morgan Bost said. “Students should have a plan that’s broken down day to day so it is not overwhelming. They should try to stick to as regular a sleep routine and diet as they can so they can maximize the time

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Marisa Vasquez | Daily Texan Staff UT Law student Cody Wilson printed a plastic lower reciever of an AR-15 with a 3-D printer, attached it to a real gun and fired six rounds before the plastic piece broke.

Student aims for 3-D gun

By David Maly UT law student Cody Wilson said he is trying to decide between continuing with school and taking a break from UT and devoting more time to his increasingly successful efforts to revolutionize the gun industry.

Wilson has been working to create

digital files for guns that could be used with a 3-D printer, a piece of technology that converts digital designs into a solid, plastic form. On Saturday, his efforts materialized when he printed the lower receiver of an ArmaLite AR-15, a semiautomatic rifle. He then substituted it for

A bill in the state Senate seeks to improve a zero-interest loan program that forgives loans for students who complete their degrees in a timely fashion.

The B-On-Time loan program was established in 2003 by a bill written by state Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo.

Zaffirini also authored the current bill to amend the program. The program provides zero-interest student loans that may be forgiven if students complete their degrees within four years for a four-year degree and five years for a five-year degree, maintain a 3.0 grade point average and do not exceed their degree plan by more than six credit hours.

In a statement issued to The Daily Texan, Zaffirini said the current legislation is a “shell bill,” meaning the bill does not include all intended elements and may be amended throughout the upcoming legislative session.

“Our goal is to ensure that more students who need help paying for college have access to this critical program,” Zaffirini said.

In its current form, the bill excludes students who attend community colleges and technical schools from the program. Zaffirini said the program has not been successful at two-year institutions because the program’s parameters are too narrow.

At UT, 954 students who enrolled in the B-On-Time program received an average loan of $5,955 during 2010-11, according to data provided by the Office of

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FOR THE RECORD Because of a production error, a news story in Tuesday’s paper about student veterans inaccurately attributed a pullquote. The quote was said by Stephen Ollar, president of the Student Veterans Association and economics senior.

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That year, the office issued almost $5.7 million in BOn-Time loans.

During the 2011 legislative session, the state reduced B-On-Time funding by $45.2 million. During the 2011-12 academic year, UT issued $3.8 million in B-OnTime funds to 595 students, averaging $6,392 per loan.

This year, 386 UT students received an average of $6,877 from the program out of a pool of about $2.6 million.

In March, the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission recommended increasing the yearly and credit hour graduation requirements for loan forgiveness and requiring the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to set minimum credit requirements to obtain a loan through the program.

In response to the committee’s report, the Coordinating Board released a report in March recommending turning the loan program into a rebate program among other This issue of The Daily Texan is valued at $1.25

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Efforts to increase participation in the program may not have the intended impact if federal law prohibiting the state and public institutions from marketing the program remains in place.

In order to market the program, the federal government requires institutions to publish a preferred lender agreement that lists private lenders students may obtain loans from as an alternative to federal subsidized and unsubsidized loans.

Zaffirini said she is working with U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and other federal officials to request changes to federal regulations that limit institutions’ ability to market the program.

Thomas Melecki, Office of Student Financial Services director, said when the federal law was enacted in November 2011, it prevented additional state money for the B-OnTime program from being distributed to UT students.

“That really hurt us last year,” Melecki said. “If we had been able to educate students on the program, we could have dispersed another $2.8 million to students who needed the money.”

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By Joshua Fechter A bill in the Texas Senate could help fund the construction of a new building for the Cockrell School of Engineering by allowing the UT System Board of Regents to issue bonds for the project.

The bill, introduced by state Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, would grant the board authority to issue tuition revenue bonds for various construction projects. Tuition revenue bonds are repaid using a revenue stream that includes tuition, university funds, state funds and other funding sources.

The board may only issue tuition revenue bonds for

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the lower receiver on a real AR-15 and along with his partners from his company, Defense Distributed, managed to fire off six rounds before the gun broke.

Wilson said he plans to print an entire gun with a 3-D printer as soon as possible, and he will be working with other types of more durable plastic to make the guns more effective. He said while a license was not required to print just the lower receiver of the AR15, he may need a federal firearms license to print an entire gun, and he has not yet received one after applying for it roughly a month ago.

Wilson said printing the lower receiver is very significant, as it showed people the seriousness of his efforts in a material way, and in the future they may be able to access the file through his website to print a low receiver themselves, allowing them to create an unregulated gun.

Government prepares to play an active role in advocating for student issues during the upcoming legislative session.

“This will serve as another avenue that we will use to reach out and inform representatives about the issues we face,” Covington said.

Student Government, the Senate of College Councils, the Graduate Student Assembly and 25 other student organizations plan to organize students to lobby he Legislature through the “Invest in

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they do spend studying.”

Morgan Bost said the University offers students various resources to combat a stressful week including the center’s MindBody lab, which provides students with a quiet room with calming music to relax; the Healthy Horns Nap Map, an online tool pointing out places to nap on campus; and exercise and massages at RecSports.

Aside from promoting a healthy diet and exercise, the center suggested students make time for themselves at a petting zoo Monday at the East Mall. The event was

facilities-related projects.

Gregory Fenves, Cockrell School of Engineering dean, said the project would cost about $310 million from 2013 to 2018.

He said the project will be funded by $105 million in Permanent University Fund bonds approved by the board in August, $105 million in philanthropic funds and $95 million in tuition revenue bonds.

If the legislature grants the board authority to issue tuition revenue bonds, the project is expected to be completed in July 2016.

Fenves said the proposed Engineering Education and Research Center would replace the Engineering Sciences Building, located west of San Jacinto Boulevard and south of E. Dean Keeton Street. Fenves said some facilities in the current building are almost 50 years old and are inadequate to serve the school’s

growing needs.

“This building is going to transform the school through project-based learning and the development of research,” Fenves said.

Fenves said the proposed eight-story building would include teaching laboratories for students to complete design projects and research laboratories for students and faculty to conduct research projects and would house the electrical and computer engineering department. The building would be connected to Ernest Cockrell Jr. Hall.

The board must send the Legislature a list of all projects the system intends to fund with tuition revenue bonds to include in the bill.

The bill also grants other Texas public university systems the authority to issue tuition revenue bonds, including the Texas State University System and Texas A&M University System.

Texas” campaign — a nonpartisan program designed to advocate for adequate higher education funding.

The YTLC will be open to any representative 40 years old or younger or any representative who represents a district in which the percentage of those younger than 40 surpasses the state percentage. A total of 94 out of the 150 representatives are eligible to join the caucus through one of the two requirements, according to Johnson’s chief of staff Juan Ayala. The YTLC will join the ranks of caucuses such as the Mexican American Legislative Caucus and the Texas Legislative Black Caucus.

Johnson pointed to specific issues such as education, infrastructure and management of natural resources that he hopes the new caucus can address on behalf of young Texans. He said he was motivated to create the caucus after looking at the composition of the state and House of Representatives.

“Nearly 6 in 10 Texans are 40 years of age or younger, and that demographic definitely deserves to have a stronger voice in our legislative deliberations,” Johnson said. “When I looked at the makeup of the House, I realized we had a solid core of younger members that we could organize around.”

hosted by the Natural Sciences Council and aimed to give students a relaxing distraction from academic stress.

Council Vice President Juan Herrejon said the event attracted hundreds of students with goats, sheep, bunnies, chickens and pigs from Rachel’s Barnyard, a mobile zoo. Herrejon said the council hosted “Pet Your Stress: Ease Your Stress” to provide students with a fun break during the busy week.

“It was a shock to a lot of people to see animals as they were coming from class and definitely worked as a little distraction getting to see something a little different on campus,” Herrejon said.

Rhonda Cox, RecSports memberships and guest

services coordinator, said this week that RecSports is offering two free upgrades on table massages for students because the last week of class comes with added stress.

Upgrade options include aroma therapy, hot towel hand or foot treatments and deep tissue massage.

In addition to massages, Cox said students can relieve stress with a quick walk around campus or the Gregory Gym track, or a short cardio work out. The gym will be open with limited hours throughout finals.

“During high-stress times, things like massages and working out regularly can help reduce tension and keep you focused on studying,” Cox said.

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NEWS BRIEFLY Top Irish gang chief shot to death in chase DUBLIN — A senior figure in Ireland’s criminal underworld was chased down the street and shot to death Tuesday near his Dublin home, two years after surviving a similar assassination bid, in the latest chapter of a long-running feud involving Irish Republican Army die-hards.

Eamon Kelly, a 65-yearold gang chief dubbed “The Godfather” by Dublin’s tabloid press, was shot up to six times as he fled from a lone gunman in northeast Dublin, a police detective told The Associated Press. The Real IRA paramilitary group was suspected of being behind the hit.

Second mega-rover to go to Mars in 2020 LOS ANGELES — NASA is headed to Mars — again.

The space agency said Tuesday it plans to launch another mega-rover to Mars in 2020 that will be modeled after the wildly popular Curiosity. To keep costs down, engineers will borrow Curiosity’s blueprints, build from spare parts where possible and use proven technology including the novel landing system that delivered the carsize rover inside an ancient crater in August.

The announcement comes as NASA reboots its Mars exploration program.

Like Curiosity, the mission will be managed by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but many other details still need to be worked out including where the rover will land and what instruments it will carry to the surface.

McAfee speaks to AP after fleeing Belize GUATEMALA CITY — Software company founder John McAfee has surfaced in public for the first time in weeks, saying Tuesday that he plans to ask for asylum in Guatemala because he fears persecution in Belize.

McAfee spoke to The Associated Press in a restaurant near a high-end hotel where he is staying in Guatemala City after sneaking out of neighboring Belize. Police in Belize have called him a person of interest in the November slaying of a fellow American ex-pat.

McAfee says he is being persecuted by the Belizean government, and he has sensitive information about official corruption in the country where he lived in a compound guarded by aggressive dogs and armed guards.

Nude statue mounter gets 12 weeks in jail LONDON — A man who climbed naked onto an equestrian statue in London’s government district, ripped off its sword and bit it has been sentenced to 12 weeks in jail.

Dan Motrescu brought central London traffic to a standstill when he mounted the bronze statue of the 19thcentury Duke of Cambridge on Nov. 23.

Police cordoned off Whitehall, a street that is home to several government departments, as Motrescu climbed up and down the statue, at one point balancing himself on the duke’s head.

It took several hours for officers to talk him down.

Motrescu, a Ukrainian citizen of no fixed address, was convicted Tuesday of possession of an offensive weapon, criminal damage and a public order offense.

A magistrate at Westminster Magistrates’ Court sentenced him to 12 weeks in jail.

—Compiled from Associated Press reports

Riley Brands, Wire Editor

Syrian fighting approaches Damascus

By Ben Hubbard Associated Press

BEIRUT — Syria’s civil war is closing in on President Bashar Assad’s seat of power in Damascus with clashes between government forces and rebels flaring around the city Tuesday, raising fears the capital will become the next major battlefield in the 20-month-old conflict.

Numerous reports emerged of at least a dozen people killed near the ancient city and elsewhere, and the regime said nine students and a teacher died from rebel mortar fire on a school. The state news agency originally said 30 people had been killed in the attack.

While many of the mostly poor, Sunni Muslim suburbs ringing Damascus have long been opposition hotbeds, fighting has intensified in the area in recent weeks as rebels press a battle they hope will finish Assad’s regime.

“The push to take Damascus is a real one, and intense pressure to take control of the city is part of a major strategic shift by rebel commanders,” said Mustafa Alani of the Geneva-based Gulf Research Center. “They have realized that without bringing the fight to Damascus, the regime will not collapse.”

The increased pressure has raised worries that he or his forces will resort to

Narciso Contreras | Associated Press In this Monday photo, a Syrian man runs for cover during heavy fighting between Free Syrian Army fighters and government forces in Aleppo, Syria.

desperate measures, perhaps striking neighbors Turkey or Israel, or using chemical weapons.

NATO foreign ministers approved Turkey’s request for Patriot anti-missile systems to be deployed along its southern border to defend against possible strikes from Syria.

“We stand with Turkey in the spirit of strong solidarity,” NATO SecretaryGeneral Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters after

the meeting in Brussels. “To anyone who would want to attack Turkey, we say, ‘Don’t even think about it!’”

Before the meeting, Fogh Rasmussen said he expected any use of chemical weapons to get an “immediate reaction from the international community.”

On Monday, President Barack Obama said there would be consequences if Assad made the “tragic mistake” of deploying chemical weapons, and Israeli Prime

Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he agreed with the U.S. position.

“We are of the same opinion, that these weapons should not be used and must not reach terror groups,” Netanyahu said.

U.S. intelligence has seen signs that Syria is moving materials inside chemical weapons facilities recently, though it is unsure what the movement means. Still, U.S. officials said the White

House and its allies are weighing military options should they decide to secure Syria’s chemical and biological weapons.

In July, Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi told a news conference that Syria would only use chemical or biological weapons in case of foreign attack, not against its own people.

The ministry then tried to blur the issue, saying it had never acknowledged having such weapons.

Photo of man on tracks Palestinians to ask for building freeze raises ethical questions

By Karin Laub

By Verena Dobnik Associated Press

NEW YORK — Police questioned a suspect Tuesday in the death of a subway rider pushed onto the tracks and photographed while he was still alive — an image of desperation that drew virulent criticism after it appeared on the front page of the New York Post.

A day after Ki-Suck Han was hit by an oncoming train, emotional questions arose over the photograph of the helpless man standing before an oncoming train at the Times Square station.

The moral issue among professional photojournalists in such situations is “to document or to assist,” said Kenny Irby, an expert in the ethics of visual journalism at the Poynter Institute, a Florida-based nonprofit journalism school.

He said that’s the choice professional photographers often face in the seconds before a fatality.

Irby spoke to The Associated Press on Tuesday, a day after the newspaper published the photo of Han desperately looking at the train, unable to climb off the tracks in time. It was shot for the Post by freelance photographer R. Umar Abbasi.

“I’m sorry. Somebody’s on the tracks. That’s not going to help,” said Al Roker on NBC’s “Today” show as the photo was displayed.

Larry King reached out to followers on Twitter to ask: “Did the (at)nypost go too far?”

Commentary posted on social media and in news broadcasts came down to one unanswered question: Why didn’t Abbasi help Han? But Irby said it’s not that simple.

“What was done was not necessarily unethical,” Irby said. “It depends on the individual at the time of action.”

It depends, he said, on whether the photographer

was strong enough to lift the man, or close enough.

Abbasi said he got the shot while running to the scene and firing off his camera in hopes the flash would attract the attention of the train conductor, the Post reported.

“So there was an attempt to help,” said Irby, who blames Post editors “for the outcry” because they made the decision to publish the image.

The Post didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press and didn’t immediately make Abbasi available. His number isn’t listed in New York area telephone directories.

Another professional reluctant to reach conclusions was veteran photographer John Long of the National Press Photographers Association, where he is chairman of the ethics committee.

“I cannot judge the man,” he said. “I don’t know how far away he was; I don’t know if he could’ve done anything.”

However, both Long and Irby said that as a photographer, “you are morally obliged to help” — if possible, rather than take a picture.

Added Irby, “I would argue that you’re a human being before you’re a journalist.”

New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said investigators recovered security video showing a man fitting the description of the assailant working with street vendors near Rockefeller Center.

Witnesses told investigators that they saw the suspect talking to himself before approaching Han, getting into an altercation with him and pushing him into the train’s path.

Police took the man into custody Tuesday, but he hasn’t yet been charged.

Han, 58, of Queens, died shortly after being hit on the tracks. Police said he tried to climb a few feet to safety but got trapped between the train and the platform’s edge.

Associated Press

RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinians will ask the U.N. Security Council to call for an Israeli settlement freeze, President Mahmoud Abbas and his advisers decided Tuesday, as part of an escalating showdown over Israel’s new plans to build thousands more homes on war-won land in and around Jerusalem.

Such construction will destroy any lingering hopes of setting up a Palestinian state, Abbas aides warned.

The plans include 3,000 more homes for Jews in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, as well as preparations for construction of an especially sensitive project near Jerusalem, known as E-1.

Israeli settlement construction lies at the heart of a four-year breakdown in peace talks, and was a major factor behind the Palestinians’ U.N. statehood bid.

Since 1967, half a million

Sebastian Scheiner | Associated Press In this Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2007 file photo, construction workers are seen at the E-1 construction site near the West bank settlement of Maaleh Adumim on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem.

Israelis have settled in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

The Israeli plans for Jerusalem and nearby West Bank areas “are the most dangerous in the history of settlement expansion and apartheid,” Abbas and senior members of the PLO and his Fatah movement said in a statement after a meeting Tuesday evening.

Israel has rebuffed the international criticism, which

put it at odds with some of its strongest foreign allies, including Australia.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Tuesday that construction plans would move forward, particularly in east Jerusalem and nearby West Bank settlements. “Israel makes decisions according to its national interests, and not in order to punish, fight or confront,” he said.

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VIEWPOINT

Editor-in-Chief Susannah Jacob

Save our professors from MyEdu

A professor stands at the front of the lecture hall, one hand running through his thinning gray hair while the other nervously clutches a stack of burnt-orange Scantron sheets. “I’m going to step outside now,” he says. “Please fill out the course evaluations thoroughly and have a wonderful break.”

At UT-Austin, professors take their students’ evaluations seriously, as they should. But the incentive system, which encourages professors to pander to student demands, risks being counterproductive to academic excellence. Student evaluations influence decisions about the future of faculty members’ careers: decisions about tenure, various awards and even job security. At the end of each semester, students are given an opportunity to be brutally honest — or not — about their professors’ performance, in the hopes that faculty members will receive feedback as an opportunity to develop alongside their pupils.

Anonymous evaluations allow students to opine freely at the risk of encouraging vindictive behavior. Unfortunately, students often reveal more about a course’s convenience than its quality. A cursory glance at the course rating website MyEdu, in which the UT system invested $10 million in 2011, makes clear the danger of students’ tendency to be capricious with their commentary. Outrage at undesired grades and praise of light workloads abound. Some professors are denounced for scheduling their lectures too early in the

morning; others are applauded as GPA-boosters. The most popular recommendation of one introductory chemistry professor reads, “Class is easy … A lot of people found it difficult to stay awake … Best part is that the homeworks are so indicative of the tests … Take [this professor].”

UT’s investment in MyEdu demonstrates its commitment to humor students’ wishes, a seemingly laudable goal, but also a dangerous one. There is an important distinction between using students’ feedback and acting in their best interest. Students are constantly exposed to University rhetoric promoting education as a worthwhile goal, including an inscription on the Main Building that reads, “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set ye free.” That mission does not, and should not, come easily.

The value of a college education extends far beyond the (strongly encouraged) four years of its duration. It’s impossible for students to judge that lasting worth before they’ve left the University, but they are asked to do just that in their course evaluations, and indeed at the most stressful time of the semester. Many students from challenging high schools eagerly, and with a hint of braggadocio, quip about the academic struggles they overcame on the way to college. Fortunately for them, four strenuous years of delayed gratification gave them necessary skills for collegiate success. Fortunately for their teachers, the students were not invited to pass

judgment on the quality of their instructors during the time of instruction. Otherwise, many of the hard-earned skills honed through persistent academic effort would have gone undeveloped.

In August 2011, UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa articulated his “Framework for Advancing Excellence,” a plan to improve graduation rates and make UT System universities operate more efficiently. Central to the framework is a call to “strengthen annual performance evaluations” for faculty, in order to “better define performance levels.” Cigarroa is right to suggest that professors need to be held accountable and that student input has its place in the class room.

But it’s important that objective and credible sources of evaluation carry the most weight. At an August 2012 meeting of the Board of Regents, Board Chairman Gene Powell spoke of the plan’s success: “From what I understand, the chancellor’s framework is quickly becoming a national model.”

If the habits of UT students on MyEdu are any indication, Powell’s claim may spell bad news for university professors nationwide. Professors deserve reasonable room to operate without fear of harsh student feedback. Whereas student evaluations can provide critical feedback for faculty to improve teaching methods, they hardly represent a fair metric of professor performance.

Top 10 ways to avoid studying for finals

GALLERY

By Laura Wright Daily Texan Columnist

Listen, folks: The PCL being open 24 hours, 7 days a week could be taken as a license to increase your productivity — imagine all the extra books you can digest with 24 whole hours in those fluorescent-lit halls! — but you and I both know that most UT students will be doing a little, if not a lot, of procrastinating in the coming weeks.

Instead of putting off your studying by devouring reddit.com posts in the dingy chairs of the library, I’d like to offer you a few other ways to avoid studying while sailing the stormy seas of finals season: 1. Drive to an all-night diner and eat a decadent meal Studying for hours at a time is hard work, not unlike swimming miles of laps or running endless yards on the track. That’s right: You’re a mind athlete, and, like Olympians, you need excessive amounts of calories to be a student. If you’re feeling flush, drive to 24 Diner on Lamar for a maple milkshake and chicken and waffles or order a luxuriously tall stack of pancakes at Kerbey Lane.

Protect the Internet, in Syria and in Texas

By Grayson Simmons Daily Texan Columnist

On Nov. 29, all of the Internet Protocol addresses in Syria simultaneously became unreachable. The entire country lost the Internet until it was restored just as mysteriously two days later. Syrian state-run TV reported a “malfunction” in a power grid that shut down all 84 of Syria’s IP addresses, but opposition groups claim the shutdown was a move by the government to silence potential observers of the mass murders the Syrian government orchestrated Dec. 1. Whatever the reason for the shutdown, it’s unacceptable. In this day and age, the Internet is a basic human right.

Before the widespread use of the Internet, information was always somewhat hard to come by. Whether by runners, messengers on horseback, or even birds, long-distance communication was a slow process. But with the Internet, there is an almost infinite amount of pure, unadulterated information right at our fingertips, and that’s why it is so powerful. As Internet users, we can search this incredible database of knowledge and discover a multitude of views and opinions to help us formulate our own. And that is precisely why any form of regulation or censorship will leave the internet bereft of what makes it so amazing. If even one small bit of information is removed, if just a few ideas are censored, our free will becomes inhibited and we are forced to make assumptions based on incomplete information. Instead of making a choice and deciding on something ourselves, our thoughts will have become altered and guided by those doing the regulating.

Policymakers who advocate and attempt to justify restrictions of the Internet are closer to home than some might think.

Just last year, U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith (RAustin) introduced the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill that sought to regulate the Internet and fight copyright infringement. The purpose of the bill was “to promote prosperity,

If even one small bit of information is removed, if just a few ideas are censored, our free will becomes inhibited and we are forced to make assumptions based on incomplete information. creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation by combating the theft of U.S. property.” In that pursuit, the bill attempted to stop online copyright infringement by forcing service providers to censor websites that allegedly violated copyright law. In the face of a great deal of protest, Congress didn’t pass this legislation, but it could enact something similar at any time. For instance, earlier in 2011 a bipartisan bill called the Protect IP Act was proposed in the Senate and is currently awaiting further debate.

And other threats exist. Early in 2013, the five major Internet service providers are planning on implementing a new policy for monitoring internet copyright infringement. Under the new program, known as “Six Strikes,” users will lose their Internet connection after six notifications of alleged illegal activity.

These measures and Congress’ proposals may seem harmless to the many Internet users who obey the law, but they represent a step in the wrong direction toward Internet regulation and censorship. If they go unchallenged, more and more restrictive policies will reduce the Internet to a hollow shell of its original promise.

The tragedy unfolding in Syria should serve as a wake-up call. If governments have the power to take such an inalienable right from us, we should be willing to fight back when they try.

Simmons is a aerospace engineering junior from Austin.

2. Jump in a campus fountain Jumping in Littlefield Fountain will wake you up faster (and more cheaply) than shooting an energy drink, and you’re guaranteed to make the next edition of “Campus Watch!”

3. Calculate and re-calculate the grade you need on the test Why practice the problems you’ll be tested on when you can practice the art of prediction? Who knows — maybe figuring out the number of points you need on the final project to balance the grade you got on the midterm is the only way you’ll know whether you’re the next Nate Silver.

4. Buying new school supplies and alphabetizing your textbooks How can you study without brand new Post-it notes in a variety of different colors? You can’t, damn it! Put down your textbook and head to the University Co-op.

5. Pore over your future plans Go ahead, Google those grad school statistics. What better time to ask major questions about your life plans than two hours before that crucial test?

6. Sleep I know, snuggling between your comforter and your mattress on a cold winter night when you should be studying seems antithetical, but who knows? Maybe sleeping the night before the big test will allow you to regurgitate the answers with something resembling competency in the subject.

7. Prank strangers who are sleeping in public places If you’re not sleeping yourself, why not build a pyramid with the belongings of that dude sleeping in the PCL? Sure, there’s the risk that he’ll wake up and you’ll suddenly be tumbled into a confrontation with a stranger, but what’s your alternative? Watching another kitten video?

8. Confess your love to that classmate you’ve had a crush on all semester Hear me out: The window to shyly stare at his neck from the adjacent seat is closing.

Soon, you’ll just be another cute stranger from that intro class he took, passing each other as you both walk to class. Take a chance and invite him to your study group. When in doubt, be honest. Try this: “I need to study for finals, and also, I’ve wanted to make out with you for the majority of the semester — would you like to grab a coffee and talk about the course material?”

If you get rejected, assume he has a mailorder bride and just isn’t wearing his wedding ring.

9. Relentlessly monitor your friend’s Facebook and Twitter updates Has Emily finished her final? Has Dave finished his? Are they infinitely superior to you because of their fortunate finals schedules?

10. Make coffee (the long way) Listen, you need the caffeine. Why not hand-grind the beans and steam the milk yourself?

Wright is a Plan II and biology junior from San Antonio.

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Experts advocate for Research Cyberinfrastructure

By Tiffany Hinman University of Texas institutions will not be able to yield the best research and medical breakthroughs without advancing the UT Research Cyberinfrastructure initiative, a panel of experts said Tuesday.

The Austin Forum on Science, Technology & Society hosted its monthly speaker series in the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center to discuss the benefits digital data, supercomputing and visualization can have on biomedical discoveries.

“The UTRC is going to help manage the data tsunami,” said Patricia Hurn, vice chancellor for research and innovation of the UT System.

“Scientists are starting to ask questions for the first time that have enormous amounts of data, questions that are something more than what you would be able to handle in your commodity software or hardware.”

The system is collaborating with the Texas Advanced Computing Center to advance the UT Research Cyberinfrastructure initiative.

This initiative will provide the institutions with advanced computational systems, large data storage opportunities and high bandwidth data access between the institutions to facilitate research. The system notes UT SysNet’s plan to ensure a connection between the routers of the 15 UT System institutions, connecting each institution and the three data centers in Arlington,

Emily Ng | Daily Texan Staff Vice chancellor for research and innovation at UT, Dr. Patricia D. Hurn discusses the uses of supercomputing resources in helping biomedical research in health care at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center on Tuesday. The presentation detailed the UT Research Cyberinfrastructure initiative’s capabilities for computational resesarch.

Houston and Austin.

Matthew Vaughn, Texas Advanced Computing Center life sciences computing group manager, said the advanced computational systems will provide researchers with ways to compare, collaborate and further research on recent medical innovations.

“We’re working hand in

hand with biomedical researchers to fundamentally change our approach to disease treatment and prevention,” Vaughn said.

Steven Leslie, UT executive vice president and provost and professor in the College of Pharmacy, said the initiative will work with the recent passage of

Proposition 1 by attracting medical professionals from around the world. Proposition 1 is an Austin ballot initiative passed in November that will raise property taxes collected by Central Health to help fund a proposed UTAustin medical school and purchase medical services from students and faculty

there for the general public.

“The capacities of computational science will turn research into therapies, and with the sophisticated researchers that will be employed, some of the leading minds in the world have already said they want to be in Austin, Texas,” Leslie said.

Hurn said the initiative’s

technology improvements will lead to innovations useful to citizens as well as researchers, such as electronic health records that will allow individual health care to be accessible regardless of location.

“These innovations are ubiquitous throughout science and I believe this is where the future is,” Hurn said.

Lawyer fights for career Armey leaves conservative tea party group despite hospitalization A Texas attorney who is a patient at a psychiatric hospital and was found incompetent to stand trial in an assault case is still trying to practice law and get a theft charge against a client dismissed.

However, an appeals court has questioned whether Carolyn Barnes can continue representing her client while she remains institutionalized.

The Austin AmericanStatesman reported Sunday that Barnes has been committed to Kerrville State Hospital since mid-2011. She is facing charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after being accused of firing a handgun in 2010 at a census worker outside her home in Leander, northwest of Austin.

Despite being hospitalized, Barnes’ law license remains in good standing. Barnes, who has been fighting her commitment, told the newspaper that if she can practice law, she is competent to be tried. Barnes has been licensed to practice law in Texas since 1984.

Three weeks ago, Barnes filed a motion with the 3rd Court of Appeals in Austin, asking that charges against her client, Randy Gourley, be dismissed. He is accused of trying to sell a small amount of prescription animal medication on Craigslist.

In a two-page opinion piece issued last week, the appeals court wrote it

questioned “whether Barnes, having been found incompetent to stand trial in her own matter, may represent Gourley in this separate matter.”

The appeals court sent the case back to a lower court to determine if Barnes can continue representing Gourley.

Kim Bueno, a spokeswoman for the State Bar of Texas’ Chief Disciplinary Counsel, said strict confidentiality rules prevent her from commenting on Barnes’ case, other than to say Barnes had no public disciplinary history.

Bueno said the state bar is aware of Barnes’ case.

The Williamson County district attorney’s office, which is prosecuting Barnes in the assault case, has asked the state bar to suspend her license.

Instances in which regulators prohibit an attorney from practicing because of a disability are rare. State bar records show such cases arise only about once a year, although it’s not publicly revealed if a case involves a mental or physical ailment.

Such complaints, which are kept confidential, are reviewed by a disciplinary board, which can suspend a lawyer’s license if it determines the attorney can’t practice law because of a disability. Attorneys who want to resume practicing law must convince the board they are better.

—Associated Press

Joe Kennedy III marries Texan Lauren Birchfield BOSTON — Congressman-elect Joe Kennedy III, the grandson of the late Robert F. Kennedy, has married.

A spokeswoman said Kennedy and Lauren Anne Birchfield were married on Saturday at the Community Church in Corona del Mar, Calif., in a ceremony officiated by the bride’s father, the Rev. Jim Birchfield.

The marriage comes less than a month after the 32-year-old Kennedy, making his first run for political

office, defeated Republican Sean Bielat in Massachusetts’ 4th Congressional district.

He’ll take over the seat of the retiring Democratic Rep. Barney Frank in January.

Kennedy and Birchfield, a fellow Harvard Law School graduate from Houston, announced their engagement in January.

Kennedy is the son of former U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy II and grandson of the late Robert F. Kennedy.

—Associated Press

By Jack Gillum & Stephen Braun Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Eased out with an $8 million payout provided by an influential Republican fundraiser, former GOP House Majority Leader Dick Armey says he has left the conservative tea party group FreedomWorks because of an internal split over the group’s future direction.

A confidential contract obtained by The Associated Press shows that Armey agreed in September to resign from his role as chairman of Washington-based FreedomWorks in exchange for $8 million in consulting fees paid in annual $400,000 installments. Dated Sept. 24, the contract specifies that Armey would resign his position at both FreedomWorks and its sister organization, the FreedomWorks Foundation, by the end of November.

According to the contract, Armey’s consulting fees will be paid by Richard J. Stephenson, a prominent fundraiser and founder and chairman of the Cancer Treatment Centers of America, a national cancer treatment network. Stephenson is on the board of directors of FreedomWorks.

Armey’s exit comes as a new sign of acrimony in conservative and Republican ranks as the party’s bruised leadership struggles with its November electoral losses and uncertainty over how to recast its principles and issues to compete with an ascendant Democratic Party.

Armey confirmed his departure Tuesday, telling the AP that “my differences with FreedomWorks are a matter of principle.” Armey said he made the decision to quit FreedomWorks in August, but Stephenson and other board members urged him not to leave until after the Nov. 6 election. Stephenson did not immediately respond to calls from AP for comment.

Armey would not describe his specific concerns, but he told Mother Jones magazine that the tea party group was moving in an unproductive direction. He also indicated dissatisfaction with the November election results, in which several GOP candidates supported

by FreedomWorks Super PAC donations lost to Democratic Party rivals.

In an internal Nov. 30 resignation memo published by Mother Jones, Armey told FreedomWorks CEO Matt Kibbe to remove his “name, image and signature” from

all the group’s materials and Web operations. Kibbe and other FreedomWorks officials were not immediately available for comment.

Armey, who had been with the tea party group since its 2004 founding, is a veteran Texas Republican Party political figure who was intimately involved in the GOP’s conservative “Contract with America” congressional movement in the 1990s. While Armey, 72, was FreedomWorks’ co-chairman and intellectual authority and at first, its public face, the younger Kibbe has been its most active official, appearing at the group’s public gatherings.

FreedomWorks flourished after a wave of tea party House candidates swept into office in 2010, but despite spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to back favored GOP candidates in November, the group’s influence appeared to wane at the polls. Among the GOP losers supported by FreedomWorks in November were Senate candidates Josh Mandel in Ohio, Connie Mack in Florida and Richard Mourdock in Indiana.

Overall, tea party-influenced House legislators fared better in the recent elections, although their ranks thinned.

At least 83 of 87 members of

the tea party-powered House GOP freshman class of 2010 ran for re-election to the House in November. All but 11 of them were returned to office while a twelfth, Rep. Jeff Landry, R-La., faces an uphill runoff election this month against another GOP incumbent.

FreedomWorks’ internal secrecy and its role as a highfinanced super political action committee became an issue in the weeks before the election when federal campaign finance documents revealed that a shadowy Tennesseebased corporation had funneled seven donations totaling $5.28 million to the tea party group. The amount was the largest political contribution to a super PAC in 2012 from a business group that would not identify its donor, citing changes to campaign finance rules that allow more secretive donations.

FreedomWorks would not identify the anonymous donor, and a Tennessee lawyer who set up the apparent shell company, Specialty Group Inc., declined repeated requests for comment.

The Tennessee firm changed its name to Specialty Investments Group Inc. on Nov. 28, although the group appears to advertise no product or service.

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Elisabeth Dillon | Daily Texan Staff Malcolm Brown runs the ball down the field during Texas’ loss to Kansas State on Saturday. After injuring his ankle during the Oklahoma State game, Brown was sidelined for five games. Although Texas lost, he finished the game with 40 yards on seven rushes.

BROWN RETURNS Malcolm Brown finally has the return he wanted during Texas’ loss to KSU

By Lauren Giudice Last season, Malcolm Brown became the first true freshman to lead Texas in rushing since Cedric Benson.

Because of an injury and increased competition, this season hasn’t been quite as

monumental for him.

Brown injured his ankle during Texas’ win over Oklahoma State in September. After missing five games, he rushed 10 times against Iowa State and had his first carry in the fourth quarter of that game.

But he was dormant with no rushes in Texas’ loss to TCU.

Running backs coach Major Applewhite said it was because of his tweaking his ankle during the game against the Cyclones. After a long absence, Brown finally made an impact during Texas’ loss to Kansas State.

“It was great to get back out on the field with my team,” Brown said. “It has been a while. It is not about me or anything. We just wanted to come out here

and just play our best. Nothing was solely just on me.

We did not come out with a ‘W,’ so it was disappointing.”

He finished the game with seven rushes for 40 yards, averaging 5.7 yards per carry. He made an even bigger impact in the passing game and caught six passes for 43 yards and had his first career touchdown reception. The only points Texas scored during the second half were

made by Brown.

As a freshman, he led the team in rushing with 742 yards and five touchdowns.

He missed Texas’ games against Texas Tech and Missouri last season. His absence was certainly felt during Texas’ 17-5 loss to the Tigers.

Freshman Johnathan Gray had little playing time early in the year, with young talents

Looking back at this season’s key statistics

By Hank South

Daily Texan Columnist

Regular season play has concluded and bowl games are set.

The 2012 college football season hasn’t disappointed in terms of excitement and is sure to raise some eyebrows before it’s all said and done. Let’s take a look at the top 10 stats of the season.

yards Baylor averaged in total offense per game. The Bears didn’t skip a beat after Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III headed to the NFL. Behind senior quarterback Nick Florence, Baylor ended the season No. 1 in yards per game.

8.) 1,983, the number of combined yards Georgia freshmen Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall rushed for in their inaugural season. The duo

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Shooting thwarts Texas during loss

By Nick Cremona

Many great games have been played in Madison Square Garden in its storied past. But Texas turned in a flat performance Tuesday night that likely won’t be remembered as anything besides its value as another learning experience for the youthful Longhorns.

Georgetown dominated in the 64-41 win, snapping Texas’ three-game win streak and further cementing the notion that the Longhorns are going to struggle without suspended point guard Myck Kabongo on the court.

“I am really disappointed in the lack of will and that we did not continue to fight,” head coach Rick Barnes said. “We talked over and over about turning the ball over. The way we turned it over and the decisions we continue to make and the fact that we do not do what we practice. Georgetown did not do one thing tonight that we weren’t expecting and I don’t understand.”

Kabongo did not travel with the team, a decision the NCAA made Monday after previously allowing Kabongo to travel to Hawaii for a tournament last month. Texas

Sheldon McClellan shoots over Greg Whittington during the second half of Georgetown’s win over Texas.

McClellan led the Longhorns with 12 points.

complemented quarterback Aaron Murray and the passing game, rushing for a combined 24 touchdowns. Gurley alone rushed for 122 yards and two touchdowns versus Alabama in the SEC Championship.

7.) 4, the number of quarterbacks from the Big 12 Conference in the Top 10 in passing yards per game. Texas Tech’s Seth Doege, Baylor’s Florence, Oklahoma’s Landry Jones and

West Virginia’s Geno Smith rank 2, 3, 5 and 6, respectively.

6.) 0, the change in Stanford’s win-loss column from 2011. The (11-2, 8-1) Cardinal impressed in the post-Andrew Luck era, winning the Pac-12 title and a spot in the Rose Bowl.

5.) 693, the number of yards Baylor running back Lache Seastrunk rushed for in the final

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Longhorns lacking edge, need discipline on defense

By Wes Maulsby Daily Texan Columnist

Killer instinct. It is necessary to play any sport at its highest level. It’s what gets a pitcher a strike out in the bottom of the ninth.

It’s what a quarterback uses to convert a third and long on a game-winning drive.

And it’s what a two guard has when he nails a corner three in the final minute of the game.

Some athletes are lucky

and they are born with a knack for it. For everyone else, it has to be cultivated.

It has to be developed. It comes from experience, work, determination and effort. And it is what Texas has none of.

The Longhorns are listless on offense and undisciplined on defense. When Texas actually did manage to get into a scoring position, Georgetown was at times surgical on offense and aggressive on defense.

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officials have stated that the NCAA has yet to notify the team of any progress, or lack thereof, in the investigation surrounding a summer training session Kabongo participated in during the off-season.

Jaylen Bond also sat out his fifth straight game after re-aggravating a foot injury against Chaminade in the Maui Classic.

The Hoyas led by as many as 17 points in the first half, as Otto Porter scored eight of his game-high 14 points in the first period. The

Hoyas’ deliberate offensive style, made effective by crisp team passing, allowed players to find open areas near the basket all game and led them to 41 percent shooting from the field.

Entering the game, Texas had led the nation in field goal percentage defense, but Georgetown overpowered the Longhorns on the boards and converted baskets around the rim. The Longhorns had a bit of success

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10.) 17, the number of spots Arkansas dropped when the Razorbacks fell from the Top 25 after a loss in the second week of the season to LouisianaMonroe. After beginning the year ranked in the Top 10 and seeming to some like a darkhorse national title contender, Arkansas (4-8, 2-6) finished the year under first-year head coach John L. Smith.

9.) 578.8, the number of

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Frank Franklin II | Associated Press Javan Felix looks to pass the ball. He went 1-for-9 in field goals and committed five of Texas’ 22 turnovers.

SPORTS BRIEFLY Volleyball players honored by ACVA Bailey Webster, Haley Eckerman, Khat Bell and Sha’Dare McNeal earned AVCA Division I All-Central Region honors. The four players are eligible for All-America status.

Eckerman, who was named Big 12 player of the year, leads the team with 456 kills. She also boasts 41 aces and 521.5 points.

Both Bell and Webster have experienced serious injuries during their time at Texas, but both came back to lead Texas to a Big 12 title.

—Lauren Giudice

Bielema leaving, takes Arkansas job FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Bret Bielema is taking his brand of power football to Arkansas, leaving Wisconsin after seven seasons.

Arkansas released a statement Tuesday night saying Bielema has agreed to a deal to take over the program following the firing of former coach Bobby Petrino.

A person familiar with the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the information hasn’t been released publicly, says the deal is for six years and $3.2 million annually.

Bielema, Barry Alvarez’s hand-picked successor at Wisconsin, was 68-24 with the Badgers, with four double-digit win seasons.

The move was the second stunning hire this year at Arkansas, which brought in John L. Smith as the interim coach after firing Petrino for hiring his mistress to work in the athletic department.

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Marisa Vasquez | Daily Texan Staff Baylor quarterback Nick Florence avoids being tackled during the Bears’ loss to Texas. The senior finished first in the country in passing yards per game.

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continues from page 6 five games of the season. The Oregon transfer was one of the keystones in the Kansas State upset, rushing for 185 yards and a score.

4.) 63, the number of additional yards on average the

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continues from page 6 When Georgetown controls the ball, either it or the players are constantly on the move. When Texas played man-to-man, it used backdoor cuts, screens and shot fakes to get lay-ups.

When Texas was in zone, it used ball movement and ball reversals until a shot opened up or a lane cleared.

That is not the case for the Texas offense. The Longhorns stand around with the ball. They’ll run one off-ball

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record in its inaugural season in the SEC. Many wrote off the Aggies before the season began.

Behind Heisman favorite freshman Johnny Manziel (4,600 yards, 43 touchdowns), Texas A&M upset the No. 1 Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and lost two games by a combined eight points. The Aggies will play Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl next month.

screen and if it’s not open, nothing happens. There is no ball movement except for when a guard wears a hole in the court with it.

Even when Texas began to show some semblance of an offense, it was shut down. The Hoyas took control of the game. Their length on the perimeter was too much, and when they shut down the initial pass into the post, the offense became stagnant.

This is a team in search of everything right now.

The Longhorns are not assertive on defense and they don’t have an identity on

offense. They don’t have anyone that is “the guy.�

There is no one on the court who doesn’t just want the ball, but needs the ball.

No one who takes control of the game is the leader of the team on the court.

All eyes have been looking toward Myck Kabongo to provide that missing element for the team. But there is no guarantee that he will provide it even when he is eligible.

Texas has no mean streak in it. It doesn’t play with an edge. It doesn’t have any nasty and doesn’t know how to go for the throat.

These are all essentials that the championship-level athletes and teams have.

Indiana has it. Duke has it.

Georgetown has shown a bit of a knack for it. Texas has none. Until it is able to play with an assertiveness and an attitude, it will be the same story after every game: Texas got muscled around on offense, dissected on defense and treated the ball like a plague. This team needs someone who can slap them all in the face and command effort from them. If they can’t get that, then it will be another long season for the Longhorns.

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continues from page 6 slowing down the Hoyas by switching to a zone defense, but any momentum Texas had entering halftime had dissipated once the second half started. “We don’t have the winning attitude as a group yet that you need to have,�

Barnes said. “We are better than how we are playing.

Obviously I am going to hold myself responsible for that. I know how hard we are working, but you come

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to a point in time where they are the ones that are going to have to execute it.�

Sheldon McClellan led the Longhorns in scoring once again with 12 points, and the only other player to score double figures for Texas was Cameron Ridley with 11. The Longhorns’ starting five of Ridley, Javan Felix, Jonathan Holmes, Demarcus Holland and Julien Lewis accounted for 17 of the team’s 21 turnovers and Texas shot its lowest percentage from the field since 1996 (28.6). The Longhorns’ 41 points were also the lowest during Rick Barnes’ 15 years at Texas.

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alone, was not invited to New York for the Heisman Trophy ceremony. Northern Illinois will play Florida State in the Orange Bowl.

2.) 10.3, 10.7, the number of points the Notre Dame and Alabama defenses give up per game on average respectively, ranking No. 1 and 2 in the nation.

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like Brown and Joe Bergeron in the backfield making it difficult to get the freshman touches. In Brown’s absence, Gray found his way around the offense and now leads the team in rushing. But based on Brown’s performance Saturday, who sits in that top running back spot is once again a question. The running back corps is described as the most closely knit group on the team, but the depth is likely forcing some healthy competition.

Before Texas’ loss to Kansas State, co-offensive coordinator Bryan Harsin said Brown’s injury was just part of the reason he wasn’t getting significant playing time. “When guys get injured, other guys step up,� Harsin said. “That’s what you ask them to do, what you expect them to do. Guys have done that. He’s getting himself back in the mix.

He has to continue to keep preparing well, practicing hard, gets his opportunities in games to make them count. We evaluate as the week goes on in practice how they look, how they’re competing, operating in the offense that week.�

Although his absence this season was felt, Gray

and Bergeron kept the backfield productive.

With the Alamo Bowl as the sole remaining game, Brown’s return comes at a good time for the Longhorns. Third-down specialist Jeremy Hills is out for the season with a fractured leg and Oregon State sits in 32nd in the country in run defense with 137.9 rushing yards given up per game.

Brown and the rest of the Longhorns are heading to San Antonio for the Alamo Bowl on Dec. 29. Brown, who is from Cibolo, gets the opportunity to play near his hometown. “I will definitely be looking forward to it,� Brown said. “I know a lot of friends and family are going to be there for me, and we have a couple other guys from San Antonio also on the team.

It’s going to be a great family atmosphere for us, and anybody else who lives here in Texas, I know their families will be there also.�

After two consecutive losses to end the regular season, Brown hopes that this game will send the few Texas seniors out on a positive note and prepare returning players for 2013. “Just for us younger guys we want to focus in on that game, prepare, and take that momentum to the next season,� Brown said.

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taste is of spice, grease and all the good things a dark bar like the Hole in the Wall should offer, but the second bite gets you nothing but the fiber of fresh vegetables. The combination may not be for everyone, but it makes for enjoyable innovative dining.

After the appetizers, order the Gekkeikan Sake to wash it down (provided, of course, you’re of age). A friend put it best when she said that Gekkikan is what you imagine children’s mixed drinks must taste like: refreshing, smooth, magical.

But the real standouts of the menu are the three ramen options (which, incidentally, are the only ones that don’t come in vegan or gluten-free options). Sapporo beer bacon miso ramen may seem a little heavy, especially when you read that it’s made with two different forms of bacon, beer, butter and pork belly, but you didn’t come to a dark bar to behave healthfully, did you?

The beer foam that tops the ramen is the answer to every time you tried to slurp the foam off the top of your cup, and the option to add an extra egg — a soft-boiled, soy sauce-cured egg — shouldn’t be missed. The pork belly is as tender and tasty as Thanksgiving turkey.

Now, the real question: do the dishes still taste good the morning after, in the cold hard light of your refrigerator? Well, results are mixed.

Some leftover-samplers wrinkled their noses and said only “tastes like fish,” while others, like this reporter, ate the gelled ramen in all its salty, fishy glory till her spoon scraped the bottom of the paper bowl.

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promise to reunite someday. Heartbreak ensued. I have searched high and low to find a burger to fill the void, but all lack the perfect formula of taste, location, laid-back atmosphere and budget-friendliness offered by the Hole dining experience. My efforts have been in vain; nobody utilizes bacon salt quite like the Hole in the Wall chefs.

My hope was briefly rekindled when I caught wind of rumors that food would be reappearing at Hole, but was extinguished again when murals touting “East Side King” showed up on the building’s south wall. I had never actually tried the food from the trailers of the same name parked behind a handful of hip East Sixth Street dive bars, so I had no negative opinion about the food.

Yet somehow, I couldn’t get excited about the new arrival. Maybe my tastes aren’t refined enough to crave crafty Asian-inspired street food while I’m drinking cheap domestic beer by the pitcher and listening to the Rolling Stones on the jukebox.

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Letting Up Despite Great Faults, a fourpiece synthpop band, just released its newest album, Untogether, in October. The album has a youthful haziness that sometimes feels just like being in high school, in a good way.

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the Wall has remained, well, that hole-in-the-wall on the Drag. Unhappy fans of the Hole in the Wall feel that bringing the likes of Qui, a former executive chef at Uchiko, into the back will ruin the dingy authenticity of the bar. This reporter, like many UT students, can’t speak to that dingy authenticity: prior to Qui’s venture, minors weren’t allowed inside the Hole in the Wall.

Now all ages are welcome in the back room.

In that room, ramen is served hot and unceremoniously in disposable paper bowls, and the food is the better for its lack of pretension. The menu at the Hole in the Wall is intended to be a collection of “greatest hits” from the three other East Side King trailers. From the Liberty Bar location, for example, come beet home fries and a Brussels sprout salad.

The latter is a favorite of Hole in the Wall general manager Alex Livingston, who sounded only a little out of place when he exclaimed,“I’m psyched about the Brussels sprouts.

I’ve recently fallen in love with that vegetable, and it makes me really happy to think I’ll be able to eat it every day.”

His ardor for the dish isn’t unearned. The salad is a hearty and refreshing mix of fried Brussels sprouts and shredded cabbage, with three dainty slivers of deep-fried bun for garnish. The beet fries are memorable for their b ar- fo o d - g re a s e - me e t s fresh-vegetables taste. Tiny chunks of deep-fried beet are accompanied by thick Japanese Kewpie mayo. The first

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Upon examination of the menu of the newest location, my doubt remains. It features a sampling of just about everything I never wanted to try as a kid, including Brussels sprouts, beets and squid ink, plus a slew of other ingredients that aren’t bacon salt or queso. If I wanted bean sprouts and cucumber kimchi, I’d turn to Whole Foods, not Hole food. For $8 you can delight in what college students have been stockpiling for pennies on the dollar since their parents cut them off — ramen noodles. Granted, unless you have some fukujinzuke or benishoga on reserve in your kitchen, your ramen will likely pale in comparison. Nothing a little Sriracha sauce can’t fix, right? But if you take advantage of happy hour or other drink specials, you might save enough money to splurge on the noodles.

Will I try Hole’s newest offerings? Eventually. Will I like it? Maybe I will. Will I ever admit to liking it?

Unlikely, unless I can get some bacon salt on those fried beets.

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February to join Zambrana, who had returned to Austin two years earlier.

“For almost two years, we had a long-distance relationship, which are always hard,” Lee said. “It just got to a point in my life where nothing was tying me down to LA anymore. With work and relationships, I guess I was kind of free. We got super lucky and found Annah and Daniel and I consider them to be my close friends now.”

Following 2009’s self-titled full length album, Letting Up released Untogether in October 2012. Untogether is the musical equivalent of Crystal Castles and M83’s love child; Crystal Castles passed on its hypnotizing synth hooks and M83 passed on its youthful haziness. The synth is poppy, the guitar is shoegaze-y and the vocals are

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hushed, almost in a whisper at times.

The record sounds like being in high school, but in a good way. Remember walking around the hallways while staring at your shoes, wondering if your crush in English class even knows you’re alive, forever playing a hazy melody in your mind? “Take My Jacket, Pauline” is that melody. The shoegaze guitars meander through Lee’s dreamy vocals.

“It’s more like an organized diary,” Lee said.

“They’re all entries. If I listen to an old song, I know what I was going through or what I was trying to think about. They’re just really organized ideas that I have of my life.”

This organization is apparent throughout Untogether. While Letting Up’s sound is reminiscent of

youth, they avoid musical immaturity. Every sound is intentional. Every synth whoosh and drum machine hit seems to be perfectly in place. Lyrics are biting at times. “Postcard” is a rush of electronic noise that clears up in time to bare Lee’s voice as he sings, “The lights are on but I can’t believe you said those things to me.”

The album’s precision does not sound entirely effortless though. Songs like “Breaking” and “Numbered Days” are so full of sounds that they muddle the lyrics and second-guess the songs’ directions.

Second-guessing seems to be a habit for Lee, who chose the band name as a self-deprecating reminder to, well, not second-guess himself.

“I’m really hard on myself, so the ‘great faults’ are

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It was just letting up on the idea that you may not be the best or on the fact that you suck.

Just don’t worry about it.

— Mike Lee, Vocalist and guitarist

definitely pointed towards me,” Lee said. “It was just letting up on the idea that you may not be the best or on the fact that you suck.

Just don’t worry about it.”

Letting Up Despite Great Faults will be playing Dec. 14 at The Parish Underground.

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derly grandmother. Immediately after graduating from high school, Shields applied to Cheapo Records in St. Paul and was hired.

“I’ve been a music fan since I was born, so I decided that Cheapo would be a great place for me to work at,” Shields said.

Shields worked at Cheapo Records for five years before returning to Austin in 1994. Upon his arrival, Shields opened a record store of his own, called Under the Sun Vintage.

He later sold the store to his brother and used the profits to launch the music label Texas Jamboree and a magazine of the same name. The label released music from artists Nick Curran, The Jive Bombers and Miss Lauren Marie, until 2008.

In 1997, the founder of Cheapo Records in Minnesota asked Shields about forming a partnership.

Shields agreed and opened Cheapo Records in Austin the following year.

Before 914 North Lamar Blvd. housed Cheapo

Records, it was home to the Mother Earth nightclub, where Austin psychedelic rockers 13 Floor Elevators played in the early 1970s.

Shields renovated the inside, changing it into a full-fledged record store that carried an array of genres and formats (vinyl, cassette, CD).

“The logic was if we’re going to be a large store, we needed to carry everything,” Shields said. “We wanted to cater to as many people possible.”

And they did. Along with having an incredible music selection, Cheapo Records brought in local and national performers and hosted shows at Austin music festivals South By Southwest, Austin City Limits and Fun Fun Fun Fest.

However, with the gradual rise of free downloadable music and online music stores, selling music is more difficult for record stores.

“Nowadays it’s either the Apple way or the highway,” John Kunz, founder

Cheapo Records Where: 914 North Lamar Blvd.

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of Waterloo Records, said.

“MP3s, iTunes — the digital business changed the way people discovered and accessed music.”

With the rise of digital music sales came the fall of record stores. According to the Almighty Institute of Music Retail, a Los Angeles-based record retail support organization, within the past decade, more than 3,000 independent record stores (including some chains), have closed in the United States.

Some record stores such as Waterloo and California’s Rasputin and Amoeba still prosper. Unfortunately, most are either closed, or reopened but cater to a specific genre of music (such as Austin’s Encore Records).

Regardless, some Austinites will always cherish their experiences at Cheapo Records.

“The great thing about Cheapo is that you never knew what you would find,” nutrition/prepharmacy senior Anne Le said. “I once found Destiny Child’s #1’s compilation album and bought it immediately.”

Shields plans to make the best of Cheapo Records’ closing. Along with increasing discounts each day, Shields will have instore performances every Saturday until the store’s Christmas Eve closing.

“We just want to thank Austin for supporting us for so long and end everything with one final hurrah.”

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orientation of patients.

“To date, there has been no scientifically adequate research to show that therapy aimed at changing sexual orientation (sometimes called reparative or conversion therapy) is safe or effective,” says the American Psychological Association.

In September, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a first-of-its-kind bill into law that bans “gay reparative therapy” for minors. The law will take effect Jan. 1, 2013 and will forbid therapy aimed at changing the sexual orientation of patients under the age of 18.

“This law will ensure that state-licensed therapists can no longer abuse their

power to harm LGBT youth and propagate the dangerous and deadly lie that sexual orientation is an illness or disorder that can be ‘cured,’” Equality California told CNN. U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller held a hearing Friday after four counselors and two sets of parents sued to overturn the law, saying the law infringes on First Amendment rights. The Associated Press reports that after reviewing the case, Mueller issued a ruling that will permit the ban on gay conversion therapy to take effect on Jan. 1. Although legislation that bans gay conversion therapy is receiving backlash, some legislators are stepping up

to protect LGBTQ youth.

Three House Democrats in the U.S. Congress, including Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-San Francisco/ San Mateo), introduced a resolution Nov. 28 called “Stop Harming Our Kids” (SHOK). The resolution serves as a further attempt to ban “LGBTQ conversion quackery” for minors.

Opponents of gay conversion therapy are also in the courts, including four gay men and two of their mothers, who filed a lawsuit in New Jersey against Jersey City-based Jews Offering New Alternatives to Healing (JONAH). The lawsuit was filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which claims the suit is

the first of its kind to use an anti-fraud statute to stop organizations such as JONAH from performing gay conversion therapy.

The narrative around gay conversion therapy goes beyond the courts as well.

Last week, both Dr. Drew Pinsky and Dr. Mehmet Oz received criticism from individuals and LGBTQ outlets, such as The Advocate, for hosting a show with both supporters for and advocates against reparative therapy. LGBTQ advocates claimed this created an illusion of legitimacy for the scientifically discredited practice.

Pinsky hosted “reparative therapy survivor” and LGBTQ advocate Ryan Kendall

on his HLN show “Dr. Drew on Call.” Kendall says undergoing reparative therapy “drove [him] to the brink of suicide.” Despite previous promises to the contrary, Kendall was aired simultaneously with National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) spokesman David Pickup. Kendall bravely shared his story of going through reparative therapy and powerfully discredited Pickup’s statements, saying the therapists engaged in “coercive attacks against [his] identity by saying that there is something defective about being a gay person.”

Sexual orientation and our sexuality are a part of who we are as human

beings. Although some say gay conversion therapy rid them of their same-sex desires, this form of therapy propagates the idea that there is something inherently wrong with same-sex relationships and sexual desires. This therapy is especially dangerous for minors, who are often coerced into treatment and must undergo humiliation and self-hatred within these programs.

As lawmakers, LGBTQ advocates and individuals fight relentlessly to put a stop to conversion therapy, we can spark national conversations that advocate for the sexual and mental health and rights of all people, regardless of sexual orientation.

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East Side Kings bring flavors to Drag Memories of old Hole still remain

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Marisa Vasquez | Daily Texan Staff ABOVE: Jave Del Rosario and AJ Elumn, neurobiology seniors, eat the squid ink curry ramen and Sapporo beer bacon miso ramen at East Side King on Monday afternoon. The newly opened East Side King is Chef Paul Qui’s first non-food truck location.

RIGHT: The menu features East Side King locations “greatest hits” such as Chicken Tortilla Ramen, Beet Home Fries, Brussels sprout salad and Sapporo beer bacon miso ramen.

Top chef debuts new Asian venue

By Laura Wright Yesterday, local chef Paul Qui opened the fourth location of his East Side King food trailer in the back room of the Hole in the Wall, the long-loved bar and music venue on Guadalupe Street.

In the back room, East Side King has redecorated by painting bright murals, installing Japanese beers on tap, and rearranging the furniture they inherited from the Hole in the Wall. Still, a line of vintage pinball machines stands at attention along one wall, harkening back to the bar’s beginning as an “arcade restaurant.” The division in the new

space between the front room, where live music is played, and the back room, where East Side King serves food, is noticeable, but Hole in the Wall owner Will Tanner says he’s not concerned about the venues being perceived as separate.

“People kind of seem to flow out and spill,” Tanner said, gesturing toward the back room.

Of course, there are those who remain concerned about the integrity of the Hole in the Wall after the addition of East Side King. Since winning the 2012 season of Bravo’s “Top Chef,” Qui has gained popularity in the foodie world, while the Hole in

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Tuesday marked the launch of the much-hyped, much-delayed opening of East Side King’s newest and first ever brick-and-mortar restaurant at the Hole in the Wall. This development no doubt has local foodies foaming at the mouth as revered Austin chef Paul Qui unveils new menu selections at the location. But in the midst of all the fanfare over dressed-up ramen noodles and things that are hard to pronounce, it is easy to overlook the lost crowning culinary gem of the Drag, the Hole Burger.

It has been months upon months since I’ve enjoyed the greasy cuisine at, if not my favorite, then certainly the most conveniently located watering hole that I frequent. Many an ill spirit have I nursed back to health with a basket of salty fried okra washed down with a cold Lone Star. Nothing quite cured the “I just bombed that exam” blues better than a pitcher and the Tuesday buy-one-get-one burger special shared with my sweetie.

The pains of a long and frustrating closing shift at my nearby retail job were blissfully whisked away by queso-smothered tater tots split with co-workers.

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Like a fleeting lover, one day I awoke to find that it was all gone. Never to be heard from again. No goodbye, no parting words, no

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Inside Austin record store Cheapo Records there are rows and rows of vinyls, CDs, DVDs and video games. Judging by Cheapo Records’ vast and up-to-date music selection, it would seem that the 15-year-old retail store has at least a few years left.

That is not the case:

Cheapo Records will be closing on Christmas Eve. Cheapo Records will become one of several other Austin record stores (BackSpin Records, Sound on Sound, Sound Exchange, Thirty Three Degrees) to close in recent years.

Cheapo Records’ origins lie in Minnesota, where the small franchise opened its first store in Minneapolis in 1972. Since then Cheapo

Mark Denton, an employee at Cheapo, packs CDs into boxes to prepare for its closing. Cheapo has has been open for 15 years.

Records has expanded to other cities and states: St. Paul and Blaine, MN; Denver and Austin. Each store is independently owned.

Jason Shields opened the Austin store on St. Patrick’s Day in 1998.

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Saturday, Pennsylvania lawmaker Mike Fleck publicly acknowledged that he is gay. An article in The Huffington Post notes his arduous yet inspiring journey into self-acceptance.

“I wanted to live a ‘normal’ life and raise a family. I also believed that by marrying, I was fulfilling God’s will and I thought my same-sex attraction would simply go away,” he said. Coming out as a gay man after the separation from his wife, he said, “I’m just trying to be authentic and I do owe it to my constituency to do that.”

When it comes to self-acceptance of one’s sexual orientation, there is a form of therapy sparking conversations and recent media coverage.

Gay reparative therapy, also known as gay conversion therapy, aims to change the sexual

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Austin is not known for its synth-pop bands. In a city teeming with folksy singer-songwriters and crusty rockers that probably should have aged out a few years ago, there’s nothing more refreshing than the sound of dreamy, effervescent electronic pop courtesy of Letting Up Despite Great Faults.

Letting Up Despite Great Faults is a four-piece synthpop band originally from Los Angeles. Mike Lee, an L.A. native and recent Austin transplant, founded the band in 2006. The project initially came about as a hobby but turned into something much more.

“I did music as a kid,” Lee said. “I was in bands in high school and junior high, but

it never occurred to me that I should really pursue it.

Once I really started to write my own stuff, it was a totally different feeling. When you’re in school, you’re always deconstructing stuff.

You’re always trying to analyze and I never felt like I was really great at that. I wanted to be the one creating it. I guess it wasn’t until that point, and it wasn’t even ‘Oh I want to be a musician,’ I just needed some time to write songs.”

Lee (vocals, guitar) and Kent Zambrana (bass) have been in the band since from the beginning. Austinites Annah Fisette (keyboards, vocals) and Daniel Schmidt (drums) were added to round out the band’s lineup in early this year. Lee relocated to Austin just last

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