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The state is encouraging UT-ACC type partnerships so students can receive their associate degree after transferring. PAGE 6
SPORTS Kabongo has lit a fire under the Longhorns since his return and will need to lead against Oklahoma State this weekend. PAGE 7 Women’s basketball excited about the future but not looking past a weekend matchup in Stillwater. PAGE 7
The baseball team travels to Stanford this weekend.
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NEWS There are many ways to get a job in the federal government, according to a talk by a Department of Energy official. PAGE 6
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Program to ease transfers from ACC By Zach Lozano Following a new deal between Austin Community College and UT, students will automatically gain admission to the University after meeting minimum eligibility requirements at ACC starting fall 2013. In
an effort to reduce tuition costs and increase graduation rates, ACC and UT established a program called Path to Admission through Co-Enrollment, which will give students the opportunity to earn transferable credits off campus. At a financial aid panel Thursday, David Laude,
chemistry professor and senior vice provost for enrollment and graduation management, said he hopes the policy will save students thousands of dollars while giving them a UT-quality education at the ACC Rio Grande campus. Students admitted to the new program will take four
core classes at ACC and an undergraduate studies signature course on the UT campus. Laude said the core classes offered at ACC will be comparable to UT courses. “There won’t be much of a difference between a chemistry class here and at ACC,” Laude said. “The syllabi and
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SG leaders chosen
Softball looks to continue dominating as it heads to Florida for the Citrus Classic this weekend. PAGE 8
Mike Doughty plays the Cactus Former Soul Coughing frontman and current alternative singer/songwriter Mike Doughty visits Austin for an intimate show at the Cactus Cafe. Doughty will be playing from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. and tickets cost $20.
Today in history In 1932
American aviator Charles Lindbergh’s 20-month-old son, Charles Lindbergh III, is kidnapped from the family’s home in New Jersey.
Media board will consider budget cuts for next year
that we want to change the campus with,” Villarreal said. “The people that are going to be working with us are just as hardworking as
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Desi Culture Night presents showcase Desi Culture Night promotes awareness of South Asian religions and cultures to bring more diversity and knowledge to the university campus. The showcase features music, dance, educational games, fashion, food, magic, art and a bouncy house. This event is free and will take place on the West Mall from 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.
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The Texas Student Media Board will meet Friday to discuss and possibly vote on a dramatically reduced budget for the 20132014 school year. The board operates five media properties including The Daily Texan, The Texas Travesty, Cactus yearbook, Texas Student Television and KVRX. The proposed budget, submitted by Jalah Goette, Texas Student Media director, includes a reduction in the publication schedule of The Daily Texan, proposing a print schedule of four days a week. The proposed budget also includes a 25 percent reduction in student wages for all five media properties, a 25 percent reduction in the tuition reimbursement student managers receive and one less issue of The Texas Travesty. The budget also projects reduced advertising revenue for all media properties “to reflect current advertising trends.” Goette, a nonvoting board member, said she followed the budget philosophy chosen by the board. “I did my job, which is what the board asked me to do — to present a budget that is balanced and look at
A guide to celebrating Texas’ 177th birthday, from barbecue to Shiner and two-stepping. PAGE 12
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LIFE&ARTS
The current and future Daily Texan staff must contend with the broadest if not biggest challenge the Texan has ever faced. It is the fight for this newspaper’s life and existence as a future force, not historical artifact. PAGE 4
the level of difficulty will be similar.” UT spokesperson Tara Doolittle said ACC and UT faculty are working together to make sure the core curriculum at ACC lines up with classes at UT. Doolittle said unlike
Chelsea Purgahn | Daily Texan Staff Sociology and education senior Ugeo Williams and history senior Horacio Villarreal were elected vice president and president of the University’s student body Thursday evening.
Horacio Villarreal, Ugeo Williams win Student Government head office By Christine Ayala After two weeks of retweeting campaign platfoms and sharing Facebook pledges, student chose their Student Government leaders Thursday, electing Horacio Villarreal and Ugeo Williams as president and vice president, respectively. Villarreal, a history senior, and Williams, a
sociology and education senior, won 53 percent of the vote. Students elected positions in organizations including Student Government, Graduate Student Assembly, Texas Student Media, the University Co-op and University Unions. Villarreal said he hopes to deliver on their platform points including providing upper division tutoring in the Sanger Learning Center,
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OTHER RESULTS Daily Texan Editor Laura Wright (59.69%) University-Wide Representatives Caroline Carter, Nash Horne, Kyle Mason, Ali Raza, Veronica Rivera, John David Roberts, Taylor Strickland, Kenton Wilson Graduate Student Assembly President Columbia Mishra Graduate Student Assembly VP Brent Cockerham
For the full results, please visit bit.ly/dt-elections providing incoming and transfer students with upperclassman mentors and improving safety for students living off campus by introducing more police call boxes. “Ugeo and I have ideas
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Online lecture details gastronomic chemistry By Amanda Voeller About 400 aromatic compounds make up one tomato, MSG isn’t that bad for you and “umami” is a taste. A Thursday webinar broadcast around the country featured two chemists from the American Chemical Society discussing food chemistry. The University’s undergraduate chapter of the American Chemical Society sponsored this event. This organization’s goal is to encourage undergraduates to start research early in their career, said chemistry junior Jessica Chan. Guy Crosby, one of the chemists, said contrary to popular belief, there is no proof MSG causes long-term chronic health issues. Also, chefs who say they have caramelized their meat are incorrect because
caramelization can only occur with sugar. Sally Mitchell, the other chemist on the panel, said using honey as a substitute for sugar moisturizes cookies and other baked goods. High fructose corn syrup isn’t as bad as people say, and dark chocolate stays fresh longer than white chocolate because it contains antioxidants, Mitchell said. Because people are more sensitive to bitter tastes than sweet tastes, salt is added to baked goods in order to reduce bitterness and allow the sweet taste to come through, Crosby said. Mitchell said the flavors of fruits are difficult to replicate because they contain so many compounds that contribute to their flavor. Crosby also explained the taste of “umami” as a meaty,
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Geophysics sophomore Nick Benz and biology sophomore Lynn Xie climb the new routes at Gregory Gymnasium’s rock wall open house Thursday. The renovations added more than 1000 square feet of new climbing surface. Chelsea Purgahn Daily Texan Staff
Rock wall renovations complete By Barak Bullock Climbing enthusiasts, old and new, scaled brand new rock walls at the grand reopening of the Gregory Gym rock climbing wall. Thursday was the wall’s open house, which attracted dozens of climbers with games, prizes and free climbing.
“We’re offering free climbing, bottles and Tshirts,” said computer science senior Ashley Ng, student manager at the rock wall. “It’s just a big grand opening right now.” The wall is open again after closing for extensive renovations. Chris Burnett, outdoor recreation coordinator, outlined some of the rock wall’s enhancements, which include
new cracks for climbing, new flooring, a beginner area and more than 1,000 square feet of new climbing surface. “We’ve added three crack features, which were not present in the previous design.” Burnett said. “We’ve also added an instructional and beginning area and a much safer floor.”
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savory flavor as he spoke about how chemical reactions enhance flavors. The Younger Chemists Committee takes some members to its national conference in the spring. The group is going to New Orleans in 2013 and Dallas in 2014, Chan said. The group also will participate in an April event celebrating Earth Day with children and with chemists from high school age to retired, chemistry postdoctoral fellow Stephanie Taylor said. The group has taken trips to breweries, a water treatment plant and the Austin Children’s Museum to demonstrate experiments for kids and has had a wine tasting, chemistry senior Daniel Phan said. They have also gone to the glass blowing shop next to Welch Hall, Chan said.
we are, and we’re going to try to uphold the reputation of Student Government to get stuff done on campus and make life a lot better.” Williams said the alliance also hopes to connect with members of the student body that have not always been represented in Student Government and voice the concerns of as many students as possible, including graduate students. “I’m so overwhelmed and inspired that people believed in our mission and what we stand for,” Williams said. Williams said he and Villarreal have reached out to the other executive alliances and hope to work together to accomplish their platform initiatives. “They were talking about making this culture different and engaging students, and that is what were trying to do as well,” Williams said. “There
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continues from page 1 is no type of bad blood between us. We all had a platform point and if we can take those ideas that they had and let them keep their names on them, because even if it wasn’t our idea we feel that students do want them to happen.” The Ryan ShingledeckerMaddie Fogel campaign came in second with about 30 percent of the vote and the Connie Tao-Ryan Upchurch campaign came in third with about 13 percent of the vote. Chris Gilman and Alison Stoos garnered 4 percent of the vote for fourth place. Ali Raza, government senior and one of eight newly elected University-wide representatives, said his campaign to better represent minority groups on campus will fit well with the new executive alliance. “I’m really passionate about serving students and
want to represent everyone on campus,” Raza said. “In the past Student Government has really hasn’t been there for people. Representatives tend to push forward their own agenda [and] their own self-interests within communities that are already visible.” Elections started Wednesday morning and went until 5 p.m. Thursday. A total of 7,623 students voted for the president and vice president candidates, which is about a 14.9 percent student turnout. Last year only 4,483 student voted. Dean of Students Soncia Reagins-Lilly said she was glad the candidates took the election code seriously and treated each other respectfully throughout the campaign period. “I could not be more excited about an election period that was clean and ended with so much jubilation,” Reagins-Lilly
expense cuts.” She said the board did not direct her to look at other college newspapers for budget models. “The board didn’t say, ‘Go out and research 10 colleges and give us your best thinking on a good
model for TSM,’” Goette said. “They said, ‘Bring us a budget that’s balanced, that shows cuts to match declines in advertising revenue.’” If the board does not approve a budget, it will meet again March 22 to do so.
Seven of the 10 voting members of the board began their terms within the last six months. The voting members have served an average of 7.4 months each. Robert Quigley, journalism senior lecturer and board member, said
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said. “I’m excited to be working with these student leaders and have the opportunity to be a part of the evolution of their platform and how they operationalize that platform.” Villarreal and Williams will begin their terms April 2, taking the place of current Student Government president and vice president Thor Lund and Wills Brown.
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he plans to listen to the discussion at the meeting, but he would not vote to approve the budget proposal in its current form. “It feels like we’re throwing our hands up a little bit, saying we just need to cut money without having a plan to replace it or move forward,” Quigley said. “It sends a message that our core product isn’t valued, because we aren’t saying we have a robust new website. Cutting print feels like a step backward, when we should be charging forward as hard as we can.” Julia Newtown, board member and advertising senior, said she would vote to approve the proposed budget. “There is a lot of hard work and research behind the budget,” Newtown said. “Though cutting print is unfortunate, in the real world, newspapers are declining, and I just think it makes the most sense.” Raynaldo Ortiz, a finance and business honors sophomore who began serving on the board in November, said he is undecided about how the board should proceed. “I think it will depend on how I feel in the moment, and the arguments people present,” Ortiz said. The meeting will be held in the Texas Union Theatre to accommodate for the large crowd of guests expected at the meeting. The meeting will be held at 1 p.m.
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Friday, March 1, 2013
VIEWPOINT
Editor-in-Chief Susannah Jacob
The fight going forward
When the Texas Student Media board of trustees meets today, its members should not curtail the number of days The Daily Texan is printed, as has been proposed. The Texan may be financially fragile at present, but, as a powerful forum for student voices, this newspaper has led and informed this campus for more than 100 years. We live in a period of transition. The world is changing, and institutions from the last century are not guaranteed to continue into this one. In such an environment, a forum for student voices is needed more than ever; a restricted printing schedule could diminish it severely, with no assurance that it could be rebuilt when needed. Drastic action and quick collaboration must happen. Today, board members should address TSM’s annual deficit by drawing from its $814,830.35 in reserves. There is no single solution; in future weeks, the staff must undertake methodical trial and error of the many ideas and resources to raise the Texan’s relevance and revenues — ideas and resources that have already been offered by students, alumni and faculty. To ensure and enhance the future of the Texan, the students, professional staff and TSM board members must act on three fronts: the printed page, the electronic screen and the bottom line. The walls that once divided the editorial, web and business departments are coming down, and the students must lead the efforts to revise the conceptual architecture of a news organization. That is the educational experience TSM has to offer. The entire Texan staff must become a web department and pursue our audience on their screens. This needs to happen not
because it will necessarily replace the money lost from declining print revenues, but to draw more readers, the source of not just revenues but also relevance for the Texan. Student staff must be given more control to make immediate changes to the website and take part in the development a mobile application that offers more than just stories and photos. These digital efforts must serve to create a comprehensive campus guide for everyone and a meeting place for students to organize, bulletin and congregate online. We must make an online product that offers a gratifying experience on its own rather than one that simply parrots the print edition. A TSM policy shift over website control would increase the number of students in the Texan’s basement office who are able to monitor and manipulate the website, ultimately improving it and integrating it with the rest of the newsroom. Not every newspaper struggling to make its way online is connected to a large university teeming with programmers and byline-hungry young people, and those advantages should not be squandered. A newly-organized Texan alumni organization has offered to and should be welcomed to serve in an advisory role not only to the board and professional staff, but also to the students. Many alumni work at news organizations facing these same challenges and therefore can lend their advice on how to restructure the newsroom. Our system must begin producing a robust website early in the morning and naturally transition to putting to bed an equally strong newspaper late into the night. The five-day-a-week publication schedule of the printed Texan must be preserved. The physical paper permeates the
campus; students read it at bus stops, over lunch and during breaks in between classes. Our orange boxes convey awareness of the Texan to each incoming freshman class, and the papers inside should not be abandoned lightly or without a fight. The approach to publication and distribution should be thoughtfully modified so that the Texan’s print operation is nimble, targeted and deeply connected with its readers. In all its years, the Texan has served two purposes: as a gathering place for information useful to the UT community, and as a teaching tool for student journalists destined for employment in news organizations all over the world. But the current and future Texan staff must contend with the broadest — if not the biggest — challenge the Texan has ever faced. Past staffers fought for the freedom to print without prior review and to regain readers’ trust after making mistakes. Our fight concerns not one mistake or the fight for a free press, but every single day at the Texan from now on. It is the fight for this newspaper’s life and existence as a future force, not a historical artifact. The Texan is equipped for this fight. We are alumni-rich, we know who and where our likely readers are and our staff works for little pay. The hope of many professional editors and publishers is that the Texan (and its peer college newspapers) survives and becomes stronger than ever so their student journalists can enter the workforce knowing how to keep journalism alive. Our hope is that we may succeed so our work at the Texan teaches our roommates and classmates the significance and the necessity of knowing what happens around you.
THE FIRING LINE
GALLERY
A great Texan, a musical moment
Learning today of the death of Van Cliburn, I thought back. I remembered back to January or February of 1959 in Austin when I was very fortunate that my freshman roommate, Ed Pickett from Liberty (as I was) insisted that I get up early one Sunday morning to hustle over to Gregory Gym from Goodall Wooten. Van Cliburn gave a wonderful 10 a.m. concert, still fresh from his Moscow musical victory. It was a musical moment, the personal significance of which has grown more important to me over the years. I thought of Van Cliburn when I visited Moscow in 1990. A great Texan. Dale P. Johnson, UT alumnus 1962
Arms full of Daily Texans
We Asked: The Texan and you THE QUESTION: WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE IN THE DAILY TEXAN? “To be perfectly honest I don’t read The Daily Texan ...Doyoutalkaboutenvironmentaloutreachprograms at all? I know they do a lot of activities around town, it could be cool to get more people involved in that... Do you do a comedy section? That’d be cool.” — Justyn Huckleberry, biology (ecology, evolution and behavior) sophomore “Honestly, I don’t read the paper right now... I think it would actually be cool to incorporate a broader Austin view, including maybe a volunteer page talking about local nonprofits, and ways to get people involved outside of campus — so it’s not so insular, so it’s a bigger community.” — Katie Floyd, Latin American Studies sophomore “I like The Daily Texan right now. I can’t think of anything to improve it, to be honest with you.” — Mike Schneider, electrical engineering freshman “I like the coverage, as long as it’s diverse and covering more topics going on around campus. I think the coverage is pretty good. Sometimes I feel like it’s not as relevant to a student perspective, but I’m sure that’s because y’all have a wider audience than just students. I guess just like campus life in general, things that are going on in Austin that would pertain to students. It’d be good to get stuff more relevant to groups on campus... I’m a business major and you could do all kinds of things, like a stock ticker, like how Google News has a business section. But I think overall it’s pretty good. I’d like to see it more on like
24th Street, it’s right next to the boxes for the Dallas Morning News and all that. I’m definitely not interested in Dallas news, and even the Austin AmericanStatesman I can just go on the website and get Austin news in general. That’s why I like The Daily Texan to read during class, so it’d be good if more students knew that it was a really relevant newspaper just because they go to UT.” — Andrew Bowen, MIS Junior “I guess I’d just like to see it around more. Sometimes things get so busy it’s just like out of sight, out of mind ... Just try to raise awareness.” — Julia Tocker, RTF freshman “Nothing I can think of, to be honest. There is one thing that I really do like — I live out by Riverside, and I like how the newspaper’s right next to the bus stop, so when I go on the bus I always read the paper there ... It’d be nice to feature different groups, or different research that’s going on — like, have you heard of [Professor Eric Anslyn]? He’s an organic chemistry professor and he’s doing a lot of research and I’ve looked at some his stuff — like the Navy’s paying him to do research, and one of his projects cost them $4 million, actually, and that would be something interesting, in my opinion. Sports, of course. Maybe some cool events going on, like music? I don’t know a lot, I just read it cause it’s right next to the bus stop. Me and my roommate read it all the time.” — Tony Chhay, public health sophomore
The first time I stepped foot on the 40 Acres after I’d received my admittance from the University was nearly three years ago, on a yearbook field trip with my high school. It was the first time I laid my hands on a Daily Texan. I began to call Austin home about three months later in August 2010, and every single day I’ve spent on campus since then has been spent with a Texan tucked under my right arm. I read on the bus, in between classes, in classes ... cover to cover. I even grab extra copies to take home to my grandfather, who consumes the paper even more voraciously than I do. He doesn’t read the online version — he’s nearly 73 years old, for goodness sake. He awaits my trips home, arms full of unread Daily Texans for him to examine. The Texan is the only paper I read religiously, in print, on a day-today basis. I read a number of newspapers online — the Statesman, the Times, the Post — on a daily basis, but I’ve ventured to the Texan’s website maybe a total of 50 times. Why? Because this campus is truly fortunate to have a freely-distributed daily newspaper that covers a range of news events beginning right here on campus and reaching out to every corner of the world. Maybe I’m one of the few. Maybe others wouldn’t care if the Texan cut back a day or two of publication and shifted to an increasingly online format. Maybe some wouldn’t care if the Texan shifted to an entirely online format. But as the Texas Student Media board prepares to hash out the matter at their Friday meeting, let it be known that people like me exist, people who would be lost without their DAILY Texan. Please, don’t break our hearts. Keep our paper around. Keep it daily. The Texan is not just a newspaper — it’s a living, breathing manifestation of life on the University of Texas campus. It’s the arm that reaches out beyond campus to let others know that, of course, what starts here really does change the world. By slowly stifling the Texan’s voice, administrators are wrapping a tourniquet around that arm. And what happens if you cut off circulation for too long? The limb falls off. Katey Psencik, journalism senior
Newspapers may change, but their value is undiminished
I was saddened, but not surprised, to learn from your web staff’s recent column that students have much less involvement in the management and design of the newspaper’s website than they should. To me, this is the key issue for The Daily Texan’s future — any discussion of cutting print runs (and the corresponding reduction in ad rates) must include a plan for improving the paper’s web tools and student staff’s engagement in online publishing. To settle for anything less is a great disservice to student journalists and the UT community that looks to the Texan for news it can’t get anywhere else. For better or worse, Texas Student Media has mostly been a reactive organization focused on its bottom line. I’d urge the board to consider that this problem is about more than the budget — it’s about providing the support the Texan needs to extend its status as one of the best college newspapers into its online presence. I’d love to see the paper continue its strong tradition of print, but if cutting back is truly the answer after exploring alternative funding options, then a more robust website will help ease the transition. Pulling back on print now and figuring out a web solution “when we can” is not an acceptable solution for the students working there now. By the way: The fact that newspapers are changing (notice I didn’t say “dead”) doesn’t diminish the value of working for one. The Texan will always have a captive audience at UT, and the skills that students learn in writing, editing and designing for a print publication are still relevant in a wide array of professions. Just look at how many alumni who started out in journalism went on to be successful in other fields. Erin Keck Inks, former Daily Texan managing editor
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NEWS BRIEFLY
French forces to remain in Mali till July at earliest
Judge sets trial date for Fort Hood shooter FORT HOOD — The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage is to go on trial in three months, after several delays in the case. A military judge Thursday set Maj. Nidal Hasan’s courtmartial for May 29 at the Texas Army post. After about four weeks of jury selection, testimony is to begin July 1. The judge, Col. Tara Osborn, said she expects testimony in the trial to last up to three months. The government has nearly 300 witnesses. Hasan, 42, faces the death penalty or life without parole if convicted of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder.
High-rolling ‘pimp’ arrested in Hollywood LAS VEGAS — A selfdescribed pimp was arrested Thursday in Los Angeles, ending a manhunt that began after a vehicle-to-vehicle shooting and spectacular, fiery crash that killed three people on the Las Vegas Strip a week ago, police said. Ammar Harris, 26, surrendered to a team of police and federal agents who found him inside a North Hollywood apartment after a woman answered the door, authorities said. Harris, whose Internet posts show him with fists full of money boasting of a high-rolling lifestyle with prostitutes, was the subject of the multi-state search after the Feb. 21 attack at a neonlit intersection that’s home to posh casino resorts such as Bellagio, Bally’s, Flamingo and Caesars Palace. —Compiled from Associated Press reports
Riley Brands, Wire Editor
By Jamey Keaten Associated Press
Michael Sohn | Associated Press A helicopter with Pope Benedict XVI onboard leaves the Vatican in Rome on Thursday. The 85-year-old German Pope Benedict stepped down on Thursday evening. He is the first pope to do so in 600 years.
Benedict XVI officially resigns By Frances D’emilio & Nicole Winfield Associated Press
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — Benedict XVI left the Catholic Church in unprecedented limbo Thursday as he became the first pope in 600 years to resign, capping a tearful day of farewells that included an extraordinary pledge of obedience to his successor. As bells tolled, two Swiss Guards standing at attention at the papal palace in Castel Gandolfo shut the thick wooden doors shortly after 8 p.m. Benedict, who will spend his first two months of retirement inside the palace walls, leaves behind an
eight-year term shaped by struggles to move the church beyond clerical sex abuse scandals and to reawaken Christianity in an indifferent world — efforts his successor will now have to take up. For the time being, the governance of the Catholic Church shifts to Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the camerlengo, or chamberlain, who along with the College of Cardinals will guide the church and make plans for the conclave to elect the 266th leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics. On Benedict’s last day, the mood was vastly different inside the Vatican than at Castel Gandolfo. At the seat of the popes, Benedict’s staff tearfully bade the pontiff good-bye in scenes
of dignified solemnity. A more lively atmosphere reigned in the countryside, with well-wishers jamming the hilltop town’s main square shouting “Viva il Papa!” (Long live the pope!) “I am simply a pilgrim beginning the last leg of his pilgrimage on this Earth,” Benedict told the cheering crowd in his final public words as pope. It was a remarkable bookend to a papacy that began on April 19, 2005, with a similarly meek speech delivered from the loggia overlooking St. Peter’s Square, where the newly elected Benedict said he was but a “simple humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.” Over eight years, Benedict tried to set the
church on a more traditional course, convinced that all the ills afflicting it — sexual abuse, dwindling numbers of priests and empty pews — were a result of a misreading of the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. His successor is likely to follow in his footsteps given that the vast majority of the 115 cardinals who will elect the next pope were appointed by Benedict himself and share his conservative bent. For the most part, his cardinals have said they understood Benedict’s decision. But Sydney Cardinal George Pell caused a stir on Thursday by saying it was “slightly destabilizing” — a rare critique of a pope by one of his cardinals.
PARIS — French troops will stay in the West African country of Mali at least until July, amid tougher-thanexpected resistance from Islamic fighters, officials have told The Associated Press, despite earlier government promises to begin a quick pullout within weeks. France’s leadership has painted the intervention against al-Qaida-backed radicals in Mali, which began in January, as a swift and limited one, and said that France could start withdrawing its 4,000 troops in Mali in March and hand over security duties to an African force. But the combat in rugged Sahara Desert mountains is growing harder, and there’s a rising threat that the militants will turn to suicide bombings, hostage-taking and other guerrilla tactics. One French diplomat acknowledged this week that a French military presence is expected to remain for at least six months. Two other French officials told The Associated Press that the French will remain at least until July, when France is hoping that Mali can hold elections. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the military campaign. Any French pullout in March is likely to be small and symbolic, leaving behind a robust force to try to keep the peace in a poor and troubled country, the officials say.
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Dr. Eric White presents Tarlton Law Library’s earliest printed books during the ninth annual rare-book lecture in the the School of Law Thursday afternoon.
Energy representative offers advice on careers By Matthew Hart
Gabriella Belzer Daily Texan Staff
Curator gives rare-book lecture By Mark Carrion The UT School of Law houses some of the oldest and rarest printed books in the world. Eric White, a curator for the Bridwell Library at Southern Methodist University, discussed several of the books in detail on Thursday in a lecture hosted by the law school’s Tarlton Law Library. White explained the processes behind the early years of mechanized printing in Europe in the latter half of the 15th century. He also identified the unique aspects of individual books in the library from that era. “Tarlton Law Library’s holdings are important for research,” White said.
The first printed books were produced when the German blacksmith Johannes Gutenberg printed copies of the Latin Bible in Mainz, Germany, during the 1450s. Gutenberg’s method of printing, including the invention of the printing press and movable type, was so popular that by 1500, 10 million books had been printed in Europe, White said. White’s lecture focused on the typefaces and histories behind specimens of 15th-century printed books, and his talk highlighted several books from Tarlton Law Library’s rare book collection. White also talked about the printing of early law books in the 15th century — several of which can be found in their original form
at the library. “Tarlton’s earliest books are useful specimens for early 15th-century printings,” White said. “There is much for the serious researcher of Northern European law to study here.” White’s talk was the ninth annual lecture of the library’s Rare Book Lecture Series. The lecture was organized by Elizabeth Haluska-Rausch, director of special collections at the library. Rausch said the lecture series was created to promote the library’s book collection. “The early history of the printed book is integral to understanding the intellectual history of the early modern period,” Haluska-Rausch said. “Books produced with movable type constituted a genuine
Livestrong to continue despite doping scandal By Michael Tarm Associated Press
CHICAGO — Leaders of the cancer charity founded by Lance Armstrong struck a determined, sometimes defiant tone on Thursday as they declared the organization will persevere in the wake of the cyclist’s admission that he used performance-enhancing drugs. “I am on safe ground to say that the past year did not go as planned,” Livestrong’s executive vice president Andy Miller said at The Livestrong Foundation’s annual meeting in Chicago. “Things happen that we cannot control — cancer has taught us that. What do we do? We adapt.” He added later, “This is our message to the world: The Livestrong Foundation is not going anywhere.” The meeting, its first such gathering since Armstrong’s troubled departure in October, comes amid a swirl of uncertainty about whether donors could back away or whether people worldwide will stop showing their support by purchasing the foundation’s trademark yellow “Livestrong” bracelets. Addressing some 500 people in his 30-minute keynote speech, Miller mentioned Armstrong by name only four times. But there was no mistaking what he meant
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continues from page 1 Burnett said the increased space will benefit experts and beginners alike. “Before when we hosted a class … we’d have to shut down almost half of the wall,” Burnett said. “Now, we can still have our classes and have the exact same amount of climbable surface that we used to have before the renovation.” Fans of the rock wall, including Kendra Kwoka, a speech and language pathology junior, said the rock wall is improved. “I like the new routes,” Kwoka said. “There are a lot
by the foundation being “caught in the crossfire of the media frenzy.” “We faced headwinds that were not only stiff, but heartbreaking,” Miller said, without getting more specific. Armstrong won seven Tour de France titles — all of which were stripped in August. He is also banned for life from sports. He stepped down as chairman of the charity in October, saying he didn’t want his association to damage the foundation’s ability to raise money and continue its advocacy programs on behalf of people with cancer. Livestrong’s president, Doug Ulman, echoed Miller’s sentiments in prepared remarks. “Our success has never been based on one person,” said Ulman, who was unable to deliver the speech in person because of travel delays. “Will the Livestrong Foundation survive? Yes. Absolutely, yes. Hell, yes.” A common theme Thursday was disappointment in Armstrong’s actions but gratitude for how he parlayed his fame into raising cancer awareness. “We were deeply disappointed when we learned along with the rest of the world that we had been misled during and after Lance’s cycling career,” Miller said. “We accepted the apology ... and we remain grateful for what he decided to create and helped build.” of harder routes, which is nice because I like a challenge.” The reopening of the wall also means climbers like Kwoka once again have a convenient climbing spot back. “It’s nice to have a convenient location,” Kwoka said. “I get out of class at noon, then I can do homework and climb instead of having to go off campus somewhere and climb.” Burnett said at $80 for a semester pass, the Gregory Gym climbing wall is less expensive than off-campus alternatives. “Austin Rock Gym currently charges $75 a month for their pass, and we’re going to do $80 for three and a half months,” Burnett said. “[Gregory’s rock wall is] still well below the going rate for a gym of this quality.”
communication revolution.” Information studies graduate student Aizul Ortega said she attended the lecture Thursday because of her interest in preservation studies. Ortega said she was surprised by the number of rare books that can be found at UT. “They really interest me,” she said. “I want to know as much as I can about them.” Ortega said studying antique books like those presented by White allows people to see where knowledge has originated. “It’s part of our history,” Ortega said. “It teaches how people would think [during the 15th century] and how we have evolved from those thought processes and what we have in common with them.”
An executive from the Department of Energy gave insight Thursday night into how students could use their degrees to land a career in the federal government. Sarah Lynch, spokeswoman for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the Department of Energy, spoke at the Jackson School of Geosciences to explain the federal government’s continual interest in revitalizing its workforce by hiring new qualified people. Lynch said there are many different entry points into the federal government. “The federal government communications outreach values teamwork, insight and people that like to think about complex problems and actually understand the idiosyncrasies,” Lynch said. Working for the federal government also has benefits in terms of salary. Lynch said it is very feasible to double an entry-level salary in 10 years. “The starting salaries are pretty darn solid.” Lynch said. “I doubled my salary in seven years. You’re not going to get that in the state, and you’re not going to get that in nonprofit. You also have to work really hard. I’ve never had a free hour of work in my life.” Entry-level positions are accompanied by training on the job. Lynch said hired students can expect a learning curve every six months. “What I learned in
It was encouraging to hear her say how much she loves her career. — Bernardo Daniel Paredes, Government freshman
graduate school were very applicable skills, but my first year of work blew me out of the park,” Lynch said. Some of Lynch’s work includes interviewing high-level government officials and evaluating operational plans with federal employees. Lynch said she evaluated contractor reports when they were trying to reconstruct the oil sector in Iraq. She said Department of Energy jobs promise rewarding retirement benefits. “In terms of retirement, there is something equivalent to a 401K called the TSP whereby the government after a couple years matches what you’re putting in,” Lynch said. “That becomes significant after a while and is a great benefit as a federal employee.” Government freshman Bernardo Daniel Paredes said he realizes the competitive nature of the job application process, but he was motivated by Lynch. “It was encouraging to hear her say how much she loves her career,” Paredes said. “She believes you will not find a more powerful mission than the federal government agencies in which you apply.”
83RD LEGISLATURE
Associate degrees may take less time By Joshua Fechter In January, UT and Austin Community College announced a partnership that would allow students who transfer from ACC to the University to earn an associate degree from their previous institution. Now, Texas lawmakers are considering legislation that would lower the number of credit hours necessary to receive an associate degree after students transfer. Currently, many students transfer from community colleges to universities without earning an associate degree. State Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo and Senate Higher Education Committee chairman, filed the Senate version of the bill and said he wants students who attend community college to receive the credentials they have earned, even if students earned that credential elsewhere.
“They’ve earned it. They’ve earned enough credits,” Seliger said. “They’ve moved on from the community college, which is a good thing, but we want them to make sure that they enjoy the full benefit of having attended community college so they get their associate’s degree after 60 hours.” Seliger’s bill would require universities to notify community colleges when transfer students earn 60 credit hours so colleges may award students associate degrees. Currently, students must earn 90 credit hours to be eligible. A companion bill filed by Rep. Ryan Guillen, DRio Grande City, would require universities to notify community colleges when transfer students earn 66 credit hours. In 2011, state higher education institutions awarded 104,817 bachelor’s degrees, according to the Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board. That year, state institutions awarded 52,813 associate degrees. “This isn’t necessarily a problem for students who get a [degree] from a fouryear college, but transfer students are often left holding no credential if they drop out, even after earning 60 credits, sometimes many more,” Guillen told the Texas House Higher Education Committee on Wednesday. Guillen said students who transfer without obtaining associate degrees detract from community colleges’ graduation rates, which his bill seeks to partially remedy. Increasing the number of associate degrees awarded has been one of the state’s higher education priorities for more than a decade. In 2000, the state enacted a plan to increase the annual number of associate degrees awarded to 55,000 by 2015. Community colleges exculsively awarded 52,089 associate degrees in
We’re putting the power in the hands of the students ... — John Fitzpatrick, Executive director of Educate Texas
2011, according to the coordinating board. John Fitzpatrick, executive director of Educate Texas, a nonprofit organization that seeks to improve K-12 education and college readiness, said enacting Guillen’s bill would help encourage students to earn associate degrees. “We’re putting the power in the hands of the students … and it’s really the responsibility of both the community college and the fouryear institution to ensure that the students get this credential,” Fitzpatrick said.
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continues from page 1 other UT system-wide coordinated admissions programs, which offer automatic admission to students completing eligibility requirements at other UT schools, the new program allows students to take classes taught by faculty from the main campus and be classified as UT students while also fulfilling requirements at ACC. “It is an extension of an existing relationship between ACC and UT announced last month that would allow students to get an associate’s, before going to UT,” Doolittle said. “Those who are in the top nine and 10 percent of their class, who would get automatic admission anywhere else, would qualify for this program.” Upon completion of core courses at ACC and
Gabriella Belzer | Daily Texan Staff David Bergeron, David Laude and Tom Melecki participate in a financial aid panel to discuss student dual enrollment in both ACC and UT-Austin. Starting in the fall, students will be allowed to be simultaneously enrolled in hopes of saving thousands of dollars in student loans.
meeting a minimum GPA of 2.5, students will be automatically admitted into UT, Doolittle said. Richard Rhodes, president of ACC, said the program is a collaborative effort to improve access to
higher education. “[The program] represents two sectors of higher education working together to create better pathways for students to achieve their dreams,” Rhodes said. “In this case,
that dream is to achieve a bachelor’s degree from UT Austin.” The announcement was made during a discussion on financial aid solutions and initiatives to increase four-year graduation rates.
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Christian Corona, Sports Editor
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Kabongo keys border battle Huge win is too little, too late for Horns
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By Wes Maulsby Daily Texan Columnist
The impossible happened Wednesday. Holding a 22-point lead with less than eight minutes to go, Oklahoma’s win seemed to be written in stone. After all, this was the Texas team that had made a habit of coughing up late-game leads, and that had been run out of the gym by Kansas and Kansas State recently. Oklahoma was a team fighting for NCAA tournament seeding. There was no way it was going to let a lead like that get away. The game was over. But then, suddenly, it wasn’t. The Longhorns dug deep and found some offense. Through the first 32 minutes and 22 seconds of the game, Texas scored 47 points on a 1.4 point-per-minute pace. Over the final seven minutes and 38 seconds, Texas scored 30 points to send the game into overtime on a 3.9 point-per-minute pace. Including overtime, Texas scored 44 points in the final 12 minutes of the game. This same Longhorn team scored 47 points in 40 minutes against Kansas and 41 against Georgetown. Its 49 second-half points were the most since scoring 53 in the first half against Nicholls State on Dec. 13, 2011. Texas had a mental toughness
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Chelsea Purgahn | Daily Texan Staff Myck Kabongo takes the ball strong to the hoop as Texas overcome a 22-point deficit to defeat Oklahoma on Wednesday night. Kabongo scored 24 of his career-high 31 points in the final eight minutes of regulation and overtime to fuel the Texas victory.
Duo shooting for more than OK By Nick Cremona In five games, Myck Kabongo has asserted himself as the clear leader for the Longhorns. Never mind him not playing in the team’s first 23 games. He’s put in the time to become a better, smarter player than he was a year ago. Not only is Kabongo improving as his sophomore season comes to its denouement, but he has made nearly every one of his teammates better as well. “There are not many guards in the country that
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can do what he does off the dribble or be able to create shots for other people,” Sheldon McClellan said. McClellan still leads Texas in scoring at 13.8 points per game and he has taken on a new role as Kabongo has transitioned back to the team. McClellan, also a sophomore, is a streaky scorer and can let frustration get the best of him when his shots aren’t falling. With Kabongo’s help, McClellan has a chance to become a more complete player rather than simply a scorer who prefers not to play much defense. Since Kabongo spreads
opponents out, McClellan is able to find more space to create or drive to the basket. McClellan was able to get to the free throw line 13 times the last time out for Texas, hitting every one of those attempts for the seventh time in a game this year. When McClellan gets to the line, Texas is a much better team because it means he’s actively pursuing points rather than just waiting for a pass on the wing so he can fire up a contested jumper. McClellan remains one of the Longhorns’ most reliable spot-up shooters despite
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Date: Saturday Time: 3 p.m. On air: ESPN his shooting percentage this year, but he can no longer afford to be one-dimensional when the team needs points. When Texas needed points against Oklahoma, McClellan was right behind Kabongo to lead a furious comeback
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Longhorns seek new win streak at Stanford By Peter Sblendorio After seeing their fivegame win streak snapped Tuesday, the Longhorns will look to right the ship against Stanford this weekend in their first road series of the year. Texas will send righthander Parker French to the mound in Friday’s opener to take on Cardinal ace Mark Appel. French is 2-0 with a 1.35 ERA and has struck out 11 batters in 13.1 innings thus far. The Longhorns will have their work cut out for them against Appel, who is 1-1 with a 1.93 ERA and 14 strikeouts in 14 innings. The right-hander is coming off a season in which he went 10-2 with a 2.56 ERA and tallied 130 strikeouts in 123 innings, and he is a strong candidate to be taken first overall in the 2013 MLB Draft. Left-hander Dillon Peters is slated to start Saturday’s game for Texas
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Friday: 7:30 p.m. Saturday: 3 p.m. Sunday: 3 p.m. against John Hochstatter, and Nathan Thornhill will oppose Stanford’s Bobby Zarubin in Sunday’s series finale. Thornhill is coming off his best start of the year last Sunday, in which he allowed just two hits in seven shutout innings. The Longhorns are hopeful to have better results this time around in their trip to Palo Alto after getting outscored 28-5 in a three-game sweep last year against the Cardinal. Outfielder Mark Payton, who leads Texas in 2013 with a .536 average and 11 RBIs, knows that Stanford poses a significant threat but expects his team to be motivated and ready
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Jorge Corona | Daily Texan Staff Parker French has been the ace for Texas through eight games this season. French is currently 2-0 with a team-leading 1.35 ERA as the Longhorns sit at 6-2 heading into its series with Stanford.
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SPORTS BRIEFLY Hartung to have knee surgery The struggles for the Texas Longhorns women’s basketball team got a bit worse Thursday after it was reported that forward Anne Marie Hartung will undergo arthroscopic knee surgery. Hartung has been suffering chronic left knee pain over the last week and it was determined that the surgery was necessary to determine the extent of the pain. The 6-foot-3 junior from Bowling Green, Mo. is averaging 2.7 points and 4.2 rebounds per game this season. She has only appeared in 10 games for the 11-16 Longhorns but is a great contributor on and off of the floor due to her experience. Texas has lacked consistency this season and losing quality minutes off the bench is the last thing it wants with two conference games remaining.
Ex-WNBA star could get 65 years Shelby Tauber | Daily Texan Staff Brady Sanders drives to the basket in the Longhorns’ 59-46 win over TCU on Tuesday night. Sanders played her most impressive game of the season with eight points and four rebounds.
UT still playing in Stillwater By Garrett Callahan The Longhorns hit the road one more time this weekend as they head north to Stillwater, Okla., to face Big 12 foe Oklahoma State. Texas (11-16, 4-12) will face the Cowgirls (19-8, 8-8) for the second time this season as it finishes its last two games of the season. The last time out the Longhorns beat struggling TCU, which sits at the bottom of the Big 12 standings. Freshmen Empress Davenport and Imani McGeeStafford led their team with 15 points each while Brady Sanders also stood out with eight points and four assists. Oklahoma State is coming off a loss against Texas Tech. Despite shooting 51 percent from the floor, the Cowgirls were unable to push past the Red Raiders with their 23 turnovers. Senior Toni Young leads her
team with 16.5 points per game along with 10.2 rebounds per game. The Cowgirls are also second in the Big 12 in both scoring offense (75.1 points per game) and field goal percentage (45.4 percent), second only to Baylor. Texas faced Oklahoma State in mid-January at home where they lost a 64-52 thriller. The Longhorns were in the midst of a nine-game drought in which they lost their first seven conference games. Head coach Karen Aston is starting to see her team come together. The young squad is beginning to realize what it takes to win in such a competitive conference. “They are feeling more comfortable with the expectations of our coaching staff and of the Big 12,” Aston said. “Our freshmen have had way too many minutes for us to be making excuses about
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Date: Saturday Time: 11 a.m. mistakes they are making or things that they do wrong. I think they have had way too many minutes to feel that way.” As the Longhorns round out their season, Aston looks forward to the years ahead as only one player is leaving after this season. “They’re all returning,” Aston said. “The bottom line is all of these players are coming back with a world of experience. Their chemistry will be so much better, and they’ll have a better understanding of what we’re doing. I am excited about the future, but I want them to remain focused on what we have left.”
Former Olympic gold medalist and WNBA star Chamique Holdsclaw used to be considered a basketball player who could transcend the women’s game. Now she may never get to see the game be transcended. On Wednesday night Holdsclaw was indicted on six counts by a Fulton (Ga.) County grand jury in relation to a November incident with her ex-girlfriend. According to those reports in November, Holdsclaw followed Jennifer Lacy (her ex and teammate with the Atlanta Dream in 2009) in her car, smashed windows in Lacy’s car with a baseball bat and even fired a gunshot into the car while Lacy was still inside. Holdsclaw, 35, faces two counts of aggravated assault, one count of criminal damage in the first degree, two counts of criminal damage in the second degree and one count of possession of a firearm in commission of a felony. The former women’s basketball star could face up to 65 years in prison if convicted on all six counts. – Matt Warden
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continues from page 7 against the Sooners. There has just been one instance this season, Jan. 9 against West Virginia, when McClellan has played more than 20 minutes and failed to score more than 10 points. Even with McClellan coming off the bench like he has done recently, the Longhorns still need him to play and score like a starter.
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continues from page 7 Zachary Strain | Daily Texan Staff Catcher Taylor King scores a run for the 16-1 Longhorns. King returns to her home state of Florida, where she played high school ball, for this weekend’s tournament.
Texas heads to Citrus Classic By Jori Epstein After escaping the eighth inning with a victory against No. 21 Tulsa last weekend, the Longhorns head to Kissimmee, Fla., for the Citrus Classic. Now ranked No. 5 in the country, the team faces No. 15 Louisville, Hofstra, No. 13 Louisiana-Lafayette and Syracuse this weekend. Freshman Taylor King is excited to compete near her hometown. “When I was around 9 years old I saw Texas play, and all I wanted to do was play here,” King said. “Hopefully, my energy in being there and our energy in being there will carry over to the field.” Texas trumped Louisville 14-4 and Hofstra 5-0 in the last matches against each of these teams in 2011. Pitcher
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to play. “That rivalry between Texas and Stanford is
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Blaire Luna struck out 10 batters against Hofstra, but the Pride have yet to see her two years of improvement. Against Louisville and Louisiana-Lafayette, Texas looks to improve its record against ranked opponents. The team is 161-168-1 all-time, but 36-26 since Luna and her class arrived on campus. “These are the fun games and these are the games that you play for,” Luna said of facing more competitive opponents. During the 16-1 campaign for Texas thus far, shortstop Taylor Thom has posed a strong offensive threat. The first Longhorn to win consecutive Big 12 Player of the Week titles, Thom earned her second after last weekend’s performance at the Texas Invitational. Her six runs and eight RBIs included a three-double
game to tie an NCAA singlegame record. On Feb. 16 in Houston, her single-game two grand slams tied another. “We continue to work hard in the cages,” Thom said. “The ball looks a little like a beach ball. I’m getting good swings on good pitches and going up to the plate with a plan.” Thom looks to continue the dominance as the Longhorns open the tournament Friday at 10 a.m. “We’re a mentally tough team,” Thom said. “We have the confidence in ourselves and I think we can go really far.”
just two schools built on tradition,” Payton said. “You’re just ready to go against them. [Against] a great team like them, if you’re not ready to go you shouldn’t be playing baseball. It’s going to be an
excited weekend and we’re looking forward to getting after it.” Friday’s series opener is scheduled to begin at 5:30 PT at Sunken Diamond, where the Cardinal are 4-0 this season.
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in this game that it had only shown glimpses of in the previous home overtime win over Iowa State. It started when Barnes went to the full court pressure in the second half. That move put energy back into the team and it responded by hitting outside shots. Those shots opened up the lane for Myck Kabongo, who took over the game and showed a knack for getting to the rim that had been severely missing from Texas’ arsenal this season.
After splitting the season series with the Sooners thanks to a remarkable overtime win, Texas will take on Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Okla., in its penultimate Big 12 road game. The Longhorns’ lone road win came against TCU in Fort Worth, and they sport a 1-6 road record in conference play. Gallagher-IBA Arena is a historically tough place to play, and this game won’t be any different. The Cowboys are led by a young cohort of rangy players who love to score with style.
In their first meeting in Austin on Feb. 9, freshman Marcus Smart dropped 23 points and nabbed five steals as the Cowboys secured a 13-point win over the Longhorns. McClellan scored four points in that game against the Cowboys, but with the help of Kabongo he should get more opportunities to show why he is the team’s leading scorer and perhaps even lead Texas to its first two-game conference winning streak since February of last year.
While it may be happening too late to really be relevant, Texas is starting to show what could have been this season. To his credit, Kabongo has come in and put some energy into this team. The losses to Kansas and Kansas State are still very bad and slightly humiliating, but the wins over Iowa State and Oklahoma are significant. Texas beat a pair of NCAA tournament teams with nothing to play for except pride. Oklahoma State will be a different monster though. The Cowboys have a shot at a No. 3 seed in the NCAA
tournament with a strong finish and cannot afford a late home loss to Texas. The Cowboys have everything to play for. Considering that the Longhorns’ only road win came last Tuesday against TCU, it would have been asking a lot for this team to steal a win even before taking into account the kind of emotional fatigue that will plague them on Saturday. Avoiding a blowout in this circumstance would be a mild success. But who knows, maybe this team is starting to figure something out. It certainly did on Wednesday.
ROWING| Sam jackson The Heart of Texas regatta hosted by Austin Rowing Club is one of the first sprint regattas of the season. Hundreds of competitors station their crews at Lady Bird Lake for the weekend, rowing the fully buoyed 1000-meter course. Texas has not only been training on the familiar waters for weeks now but feels confident going into their races this weekend. Captain and junior Lauren Studey highlights personal goals, her role as a leader and the Heart of Texas races Texas will face this weekend. “My job as a captain is to maintain a positive atmosphere at the boathouse, work hard at every practice and lead by example. My
personal goal entails team unity and making sure that my teammates know that they are fast,” Studey said. “Looking toward the weekend, it will be exciting to see the time differences between the first, second and third varsity boats since we’re such a deep team. Rowers typically love sprint racing in the spring more than the longer head races in the fall since it is a shorter, faster race. Having boats racing on either side of you gives you such an adrenaline rush and these anaerobic races test your physical and mental strength.” It seems that Texas is not only well equipped for the weekend, but its season ahead as well. The Heart of Texas race is preparing them
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for their next 2000-meter race at the Longhorn Invitational, which is also a home race, hosted by Texas. “The weekend races will help get us excited about spring racing and practice high stroke ratings,” Studey said. The races take place Saturday.
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Michael McBroom dominated the 500-yard freestyle event Thursday, recording a time of 4:20.17, the secondfastest time in the nation this season.
By Brittany Lamas Texas continued its dominating steak at the Big 12 Championships Thursday, sweeping both the 50-meter freestyle and the 1-meter diving. The team finished the day at 318 points, 101 points ahead of West Virginia. Junior Ellen Lobb, senior Kelly Amundsen and senior Bethany Adams swept the 50-meter freestyle in that order, giving Lobb her second Big 12 title. On the diving end, redshirt junior Maren Taylor, freshman Meghan Huston and senior Samantha Holland went 1-2-3 on the 1-meter board. It is Taylor’s third Big 12 title; she now holds one on each board. In the 500-meter freestyle, sophomore Kelsey LaNeave took second, five seconds behind West Virginia’s Rachael Burnet, who set a new Big 12 record with 4:38.40. Sophomore Kaitlin Pawlowicz finished fourth. Texas added a one-two finish in the 200 IM with
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Through Saturday sophomore Skylar Smith placing first with 1:57.12 and Senior Laura Sogar coming in second at 1:58.64. It is Smith’s first Big 12 gold medal. The Longhorns ended the night with a win in the 400 medley relay by junior Sarah Denninghoff, Sogar, and sophomore Gretchen Jaques and junior Lobb, securing an NCAA Automatic qualifying spot. Texas has won every relay so far.
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McBroom, Longhorns dominate By Rachel Wenzlaff Coming off a high from yesterday’s domination, the Longhorns suited up for another successful night. Texas kicked off the night with a massive onetwo-three-four-five finish in the 500-yard freestyle. Senior Michael McBroom led the pack for the full
500 yards with a time of 4:20.17, the second-fastest time in the nation. McBroom was closely followed by sophomores Jacob Ritter and Clay Youngquist and freshmen Sam Lewis and John Martens. Head coach Eddie Reese expected a large showing from Sam Lewis at this meet, and Lewis hasn’t let him down yet. “Without a doubt he
did a great job,” Reese said. “He’s gonna make me famous.” In the 200-yard IM senior Austin Surhoff took first with a time of 1:44.23, automatically qualifying him for the NCAA Championship. Senior Dax Hill came in second followed by senior Conor Swanson. “Austin’s gonna kill that time cause he’s not shaved and not rested, so
Women’s Tennis Preview | CHRIS CARAVEO Big 12 play is just two weeks away and the Longhorns are already early favorites to win the conference. All nine coaches from the other Big 12 schools gave Texas, the reigning Big 12 Champions, their first-place votes for preseason favorite. Baylor received one first place vote from Longhorns coach
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as a home base partly because they believed Austinites would be accepting of The New Movement, not only as a business, but also as an artistic community. “Austin is a very smart, attentive audience,” Trew said. “If you work hard and put on interesting shows, Austinites show up. They are good at supporting the arts, especially when its something they haven’t seen before.” Perhaps the main reason so many Austinites have been showing up to The New Movement is because of its unique brand of improv instruction. “We’re the only improv theater in the world that doesn’t take suggestions before our shows,” Trew said. “Our students and groups are trained to just get onstage and improvise together without needing a prompt from the audience.” Since The New Movement is a multi-city network of theaters, they are able to provide unprecedented opportunities for their students. Members benefit from connections fostered in the Austin entertainment markets. The theater and its students have been booking festivals, going on tours and getting involved in film projects.
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Since their students have an abundance of opportunities to practice through these outlets, The New Movement is responsible for turning out professional comedians who in turn build careers off their improv passions. “There really isn’t another theater in town that has such a large base of improvisers who are so tightly knit with one another,” improv student James Blake said. “It’s pretty common to have multiple [The New
Movement] events happening in several places at the same time because [The New Movement] has so much talent and so many connections.” The theater has a diverse blend of students from different backgrounds with many different goals. Lawyers, teachers, college students and actors are all included in the broad range of people who want to learn comedy at The New Movement. Many members want to get involved with the
vibrant improv community and meet new people, while others simply want to have fun while working on their interpersonal skills. “Improv helps you be a better communicator and vastly improves your quality of life,” Nelson said. “It gives people an opportunity to collaborate with other adults in an environment that is supportive. You’re able to be more honest and be rewarded for being you. I think people get addicted to that.”
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Of age? Don’t you dare allow any beer that isn’t Shiner or any sort of local brew to pass your lips.
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you can: brisket, ribs — any barbecue really — breakfast tacos, chili, Tex-Mex and kolaches for those of the CzechTexan persuasion. Of age? Don’t you dare allow any beer that isn’t Shiner or any sort of local brew to pass your lips. Dripping Springs Vodka or Tito’s is also acceptable if beer isn’t your thing. Talk crap about Santa Anna. Idolize Davy Crockett. Converse about why Texas is
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Photo courtesy of The New Movement The New Movement comedy theater is a part of the growing improv comedy scene in Austin. The theater is the only one in the world that doesn’t take suggestions before shows.
the best. If you are new to the state and are unsure of why this is, consult the recent viral BuzzFeed article that conveniently lays out many reasons. If you aren’t new, you should have already learned all this in Texas history class in seventh grade. Weighed down from all the food? Burn off some calories two-stepping. It is unacceptable to show up without cowboy boots and a pearl snap, but luckily those are not in short
his jokes land well and his chemistry with co-lead Teller drives much of the film’s middle section. Miller is a raging jackass of a character, on a crash course to offending practically everyone he meets. Teller attacks every joke with tangible charm and infectious enthusiasm, taking the stereotypical, lovable screw-up and turning him into something much more soulful and engaging. Even though “21 & Over” manages to hit some effective notes, it’s fairly predictable throughout, and it’s not difficult to get a few steps ahead of the characters in their quest to figure out their friend’s address. Even the most intriguing material, the secrets that Miller and Casey learn about Jeff throughout the evening, ends up sputtering out without really paying off. “21 & Over” can only end one way,
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“College Forward overall just made it simple for me to apply [to college]. … My parents went to college in Mexico, but it’s a completely different process here in the United States, so we were just kind of left in the dark,” Vazquez said. College Forward currently makes use of both “college coaches” and “college persistence coaches.” College coaches assist students attempting to gain acceptance to college. College persistence coaches focus on keeping accepted college students enrolled up to and through their college graduation. This wasn’t always the case, however. College Forward originally focused only on college admissions. Fielder said it took time to truly address the root of the problem. “In 2003, our goal was just to help kids get into college. We found out that that is doable. All that really takes is care and attention,” Fielder said. “But keeping [students] there is a whole different thing.” College Forward re-tailored its strategy over the following years and began offering continued services to students attending college. Convinced by his successful enrollment at UT, Vazquez decided to reapply for “persistence” services when he first arrived on campus. “It was kind of a culture shock. I’ve never left home before,” Vazquez said. “College Forward provided me a way to ask for help.” College Forward functions not as an advocate for students, but as a conduit to teach students selfadvocacy. Even though his family lives in Austin, Vazquez said he was encouraged by the program to gain a “full experience” by spending his first year at UT in a dorm.
Hans Howk, a completion coach at College Forward, said his job is to be more of a resource than anything else. “Coach is really the best word. We just coach. We don’t tell them what to do and they don’t owe anything to us,” Howk said. “We just help them persist through college.” Since being founded, College Forward has been continuously reshaping its approach to helping disadvantaged students. Fielder and her team have realized over the years that the key to success is not one simple fix. “We know that escaping poverty takes more than getting into college,” Fielder said. “You have to finish college. And more than just getting finished with college, you have to get a job that pays a professional salary. That is not a service that we do yet, but … we will be rolling that out this fall.” Vazquez is nearing the completion of an electrical engineering degree. He recently interned with Cisco Systems and is now working for a startup company that provides technological infrastructure and server support around Austin. Attributing much of his success to College Forward, Vazquez did not hesitate to recommend the program to students who might have reservations about continuing their education. “What happens a lot in minority schools and lowincome schools is that a lot of those students who apply, for some other reason, decide that they’re not going to college,” Vazquez said. “What College Forward does is that they push you to follow through, and that’s one of the important reasons why I would recommend students to [the program].”
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body they spend most of the film lugging around. “21 & Over” suggests that their friend has been hiding some big secrets, but it’s most interesting when it brings out underlying tensions in Miller and Casey’s friendship. Lucas and Moore have touched on the struggles of male camaraderie before, not to mention threaded something of a mystery through their boozy narrative, in the “Hangover” films. However, they manage to get to some fresh and touching truths about the ways college can reshape friendships formed in grade school, much of it sold on the undeniable charm of Teller and Astin. Astin is easily the bigger name of the two, and he’s been funny in “Pitch Perfect” and an episode of “Girls.” Here, he’s a straight man more than anything, but
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21 & OVER Director: Jon Lucas & Scott Moore Genre: Comedy Runtime: 93 minutes and its final moments fully embody every uninspired beat a savvy watcher would expect, dragged across the finish line by the charisma of its cast. The theme of “21 & Over” has been done before in other films, often in a much funnier way. There’s nothing here that hasn’t been seen before, and many of its best moments work thanks to Teller’s hilarious and compelling performance. Lucas and Moore have certainly figured out their storytelling niche, but their increasingly generic work is getting harder and harder to recommend.
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Program narrows education gap By Stuart Railey For UT senior Miguel Vazquez, the prospect of successfully attending college would not have seemed possible six years ago. The college admissions process — from financial aid forms to general applications and essays — remains a notoriously intricate barrier to higher education for economically disadvantaged students and first-generation immigrants like Vazquez. After hearing about a new mentoring program called College Forward in high school, Vazquez decided to take a leap of faith and sign up. In 2002, a pair of close friends recognized that there was a huge gap in the quality of education for high-income students and low-income students — a gap that was quickly growing. Although many high schools in the Austin area had reasonable graduation rates, college enrollment appeared to drop off. By September 2003, friends Lisa Fielder and Doreen Wise had enough and decided to launch a new nonprofit organization in Austin: College Forward. Receiving both funds and educators from AmeriCorps, a federal program designed to subsidize community service organizations, College Forward set out to tackle this discrepancy in education for disadvantaged
Yamel Thompson | Daily Texan Staff Miguel Vazquez is an electrical engineer senior in College Forward, an organization that helps economically disadvantaged students finish college. College Forward was founded in 2003 by Doreen Wise and Lisa Fielder.
students. High school juniors and seniors who qualify for free or reduced lunch, or are recent immigrants to the United States, can apply for the program’s free mentoring services. At schools with larger
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student populations, access to guidance counselors is often restricted by the volume of students requiring assistance. When Vazquez attended Del Valle High School southeast of Austin, only two college
advisers were made available to counsel more than 1,000 juniors and seniors. Vazquez knew he needed more personal attention than his school could offer.
It was kind of a culture shock. I’ve never left home before. College Forward provided me a way to ask for help.
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— Miguel Vazquez, UT senior
MOVIE REVIEW | ‘21 & OVER’
Comedy improv group Movie proves to be just another bro flick keeps Austin laughing By Alex Williams
By Stephanie Robalino
THE NEW MOVEMENT
As a city that boasts numerous comedians, clubs, troupes and its own annual Moontower Comedy and Oddity Festival, Austin is attracting funny people left and right. Austin’s premier comedy theater, The New Movement, is now in its fifth year of operation. The conservatory provides both free and paid comedy classes to the public. Both newcomers and comedy veterans study under seasoned comedic professionals Chris Trew and Tami Nelson. Trew and Nelson founded The New Movement in 2009 after returning from a two-year tour around the country, during which they performed at as many
When: March 1 at 8 p.m Where: 616 Lavaca Street Web: newmovementtheater.com/austin/ comedy festivals as they could, while continuing to hone their crafts through workshops. The tour opened Trew and Nelson up to what was happening with comedy on a national scale. The diverse array of improv they experienced in each city allowed them to bring back a broad knowledge of comedy they now offer to their students. After the tour, Trew and Nelson decided on Austin
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Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, the writing and directing team behind “21 & Over,” have staked their claim in Hollywood making a very specific type of film — the booze-fueled buddy flick. In the last four years, the duo has penned both “Hangover” films, “The Change-Up” and they’re making their directorial debut with “21 & Over,” a derivative and predictable cruise through familiar territory kept afloat by a game, engaging cast. Old friends Miller (Miles Teller) and Casey (Skylar Astin) spring a surprise visit on third musketeer Jeff Chang (Justin Chon) on the day of a major milestone in his, and any other college student’s, life — his 21st birthday. Despite an important interview the
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next morning, Jeff agrees to go out after some extensive threatening from Miller. A few beers and a few dozen shots later, he’s unconscious
and his buddies have no idea where he lives. As Miller and Casey proceed to stumble through a wide range of mishaps, they
begin to unravel a dark mystery surrounding the lightweight Jeff, whose comatose
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STATE
How to celebrate all things Texan By Alexandra Hart Daily Texan Columnist
Saturday marks the 177th anniversary of the nation of Texas’ independence. And while its run as a sovereign country was far too shortlived, there are ample reasons to celebrate the best state that’s ever existed, with overflowing Lone Star Beer, brisket and state pride. If you care about Texas at all, you’ll visit the Alamo. Don’t be underwhelmed by the fact that it’s smaller than it looks in movies and pictures, because all kinds of Texan saints including Jim Bowie and William Barret Travis perished here, so it’s hallowed ground. Don’t be one of those jerks who stick gum on the walls, because this is the St.
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Peter’s Basilica of Texas and nobody likes sacrilege. Can’t make the pilgrimage to San Antonio? Fear not, loyal Texan. A fitting celebration can be held in our humble capital.
Start your day by pledging allegiance to the Texas flag. Round up a handful of your friends and cook every kind of stereotypical Texan food
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