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Everything you need to know about SXSW.
NEWS Planning to go to Colorado for the break? Remember that certain laws apply there but not here. PAGE 2 The most iconic photos of the last 80 years are discussed by renowned photojournalists Diana Walker and Lucian Perkins. PAGE 5
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Web of investments Investments link UT System, regent with drilling company leasing UT land By Alexa Ura
SPORTS After racing for Nigeria in Summer Games Christy Udoh brings Olympic experience to Women’s Track team. PAGE 7 Women’s Basketball enters Big 12 Tournament with huge momentum after win on senior night. PAGE 7
The flow of investments between five companies links an oil and gas production company that drills on university land to the UT System’s investment company and to UT System Regent
Alex Cranberg. In 2011, the University of Texas Investment Management Company committed $200 million to a private investment firm that has a financial stake in an oil and gas production company that operates on University land — B C Operating Inc. Cranberg,
an energy investor, is chairman of a holding company that is partially owned by another investor with a financial stake in B C Operating. UT System spokeswoman Jenny LaCoste-Caputo said UTIMCO CEO Bruce Zimmerman confirmed UTIMCO is aware of the connection to B C Operating, but it presents no investment conflict.
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UT System Regent Alex Cranberg is chairman of a company that is partly owned by an investor with a financial stake in B C Operating.
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ACC ready to transform old mall into new campus
Texas hires former Alabama director Patrick Suddes as director of player personel. PAGE 9
By Hannah Jane DeCiutiis
LIFE&ARTS Life&Arts associate editor dreads SXSW, anticipating anxiety. PAGE 12 “Oz the Great and Powerful” not great and powerful, but still managed to entertain. PAGE 12
VIEWPOINT IFC endorsements distort the playing field for SG elections. PAGE 4
TODAY FAFSA info session Attend this session for help completing your FAFSA. Bring 2012 tax returns for yourself and your parent(s), or 2012 W-2s or 2011 tax returns. UT Austin’s priority deadline is March 15. This info session will be held in Mezes Hall (MEZ) 2.120 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Chelsea Purgahn | Daily Texan Staff Janet Walkow is a clinical associate professor in the College of Pharmacy and co-founder of Leading Women, an organization focused on helping women achieve their personal goals. Walkow also helped create the Drug Dynamics Institute labs at the Dell Pediatric Research Institute.
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UT clinical associate professor works to help young women achieve goals By Christine Ayala Janet Walkow is reminded of her motto every time she takes a sip of coffee. The words “ask for
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young women. Walkow said trying to guide her three daughters toward their career goals made her realize how young women need to be encouraged to determine what they want out of life and go after it.
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83RD LEGISLATURE
TEXAS grant budget up for substantial increase
Acting Undersecretary of State speaks Rose Gottemoeller, the government’s chief arms control negotiator and senior adviser to the president and secretary of state on arms control, nonproliferation and disarmament policy, leads a roundtable on nuclear policy for the 21st century in the Sid Richardson Hall (SRH) 3.384, LBJ School of Public Affairs from 2 to 3 p.m.
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what you want” and “make noise” written across the mug are the driving force behind her determination to improve whatever situation she is in and enhance the lives of people
around her. Walkow is a clinical associate professor in the College of Pharmacy and the executive director and chief technological officer of the Drug Dynamics Institute. She is also involved in various outlets outside the University to engage and empower others, particularly
The partially abandoned Highland Mall property will now be converted into grounds for a new Austin Community College campus starting later this month, as part of a larger city initiative to transform Airport Boulevard into a more pedestrianfriendly corridor. A resolution by the Austin City Council directs the City Manager’s office to find possible financial solutions for funding the renovation of Airport Boulevard, which could include adding sidewalks, improving roads and adding more residential and commercial properties in the area. One of the possible financial solutions that the city will be exploring is tax increment financing, or a TIF. The Highland Mall property, which was purchased in August 2012 by ACC, will start converting the space March 27. The first phase will renovate the area previously used as a J.C. Penney on the north side of the mall. The rest of the mall will remain in business during this first
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Ilustration by Darien Chen | Daily Texan Staff
Gaps found in financial literacy By Alberto Long A survey of 40,000 firstyear college students demonstrates how financial attitudes held by incoming students predict future behavior and are indicative of larger gaps in education. The report, titled, “Money Matters On Campus: How Early Attitudes and Behaviors Affect the Financial Decisions of First-Year College Students,” was published in February and conducted by EverFi, an educa-
tion technology company. It highlights student attitudes toward financial behavior, like incurring debt, saving and banking, to indicate the extent of their financial consequences. Heidi Toprac, a senior lecturer at the McCombs School of Business, said financial literacy should be taught to maximize students’ ability to make sound decisions and that poor financial management is a symptom of a larger problem in education. “We’re doing a lot of
things in our schools nationally to teach only academic things to our children,” Toprac said. “We’re creating a herd of academically skilled students who have zero life skills. Financial literacy is just another life skill.” The report suggests enhancing current financial literacy curricula by incorporating information on student attitudes and their development from childhood through adulthood.
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The Texas Legislature could boost TEXAS Grant funding to historical levels if it follows recommendations unanimously approved by the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday. The committee approved adding $150 million for the TEXAS Grant Program to the Legislature’s preliminary budget proposals. The
initial proposals would have allocated $559.5 million to the program for the 2014-15 biennium, the same amount approved during the previous legislative session for the 2012-13 session. Rep. John Otto, R-Dayton and chair of a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee that deals with higher education funding, said the increase would
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Chelsea Purgahn | Daily Texan Staff Rep. John Otto speaks during the the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday morning.
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allow the program, which serves students whose expected family contribution to their cost of attendance is $4,000 or less, to serve more students statewide. “This is not only the largest biennium-to-biennium increase ever in TEXAS Grants, it is also the highest total ever in the program, which should cover approximately 87 percent of all eligible students,” Otto said. Raymund Paredes, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board commissioner, told
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“The direction was to explore financing options or potentially a TIF in the area,” Rousselin said. “We’re working with stakeholders in the area to kind of get the sense of what would be the transformative projects that would be under various financial structures.” ACC spokeswoman Alexis Patterson said the first phase of the new campus will include classrooms, a library, a student union and a top-notch “math
emporium.” This emporium will be an open lab to help students who need a refresher in developmental math skills and will be the largest of its kind, Patterson said. “The whole idea is to become the premier community college in the nation,” Patterson said. “It’s going to be an innovative facility, and we believe it will be a pride point for the city and the area.” David Hagan, history and liberal arts honors
senior, said he fully supported the conversion of Highland Mall into a higher education space. Hagan said while the addition of walkable sidewalks and the improvement of roads would be positive, he still enjoys Airport Boulevard as it is. “I like Airport Boulevard,” he said. “As long as they don’t touch the Popeyes, I’m OK. I feel like Austin is sort of progressively moving toward pedestrian-orientated city, which I am definitely in favor of.”
Otto’s subcommittee in February that the TEXAS Grant Program would need $1.3 billion to fully fund all eligible applicants during the 201415 biennium. However, the coordinating board requested $719.6 million in state funds for the program during the 2014-15 biennium. The funding levels recommended by the committee Thursday for TEXAS Grants fall short of that request. However, when $15 million in donations to the program are factored in, the total amount available to the program equals $724.5 million, exceeding the coordinating board’s request. The program serves 8,449 students at UT. The
Legislature allocated $50.7 million to eligible students during the 2012-13 biennium, according to the Office of Student Financial Services. The committee also recommended increasing all formula funding to state higher education institutions by 3 percent. The state uses formulas that include enrollment and graduation rates among other factors to determine the state’s contribution to universities and colleges throughout the state. Mary Knight, associate vice president and chief financial officer, said she does not know how the increase in formula funding will
impact the University, but she doubts the increase will make up for past budget cuts. Under preliminary proposals, the Texas House of Representatives would allocate $478.8 million in state general revenue funds to the University during the 2014-15 biennium, while the Senate would allocate $483.8 million over the biennium. Both of the initial proposals are $9 to $14 million less than the $492.5 million the Legislature allocated to UT in the last biennium. “When we get the actual documents that show the appropriations by institution, we will know how we’ll be affected,” Knight said.
type of readers she wants to influence. Although Leading Women is currently separate from her work at UT, she said hopes to eventually collaborate with groups on campus and spread her message of selfawareness. She and Jacobs are writing three books on women in leadership, with the first one being focused on younger women. “There is a lot written about being a teenager and about being a 20-something,” Walkow said. “There is very little to nothing out there about how to transition effectively and gaining a real
sense of leadership going from adolescence to being a young woman.” Walkow earned her undergraduate and doctorate degrees at UT and said she stayed connected to many of her friends on campus, which helped her transition to her current position. Assistant Pharmacy Dean Susan Brown said Walkow is always working on a new project and encouraging collaboration between people with similar interests. “She is a real champion for women and for women’s rights,” Brown said. “Especially for young girls, she
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“Until you can lead yourself you cannot lead anyone else,” Walkow said. “Everyone should be writing their own script and choose the people you associate with as your cast of characters.“ Walkow co-founded Leading Women with her former colleague Christine Jacobs, to help women realize and achieve personal goals. Walkow said the young women on campus are the
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Students who spend spring break in Colorado risk facing felony charges if they bring marijuana into Texas, said Sylvia Holmes, UT Legal Services for Students attorney. UT Legal Services for Students, housed in the Office of the Dean of Students, offers free legal counseling to UT students. This ranges from advice on student business startups to dealing with parking tickets. Every year, Holmes said the week after spring break is one of her busiest times of the year. But during the weeks after spring break, Holmes said the most common legal advice she gives deals with public intoxication and minor in possession charges. But this year, she is concerned she will see students facing felony charges for bringing marijuana back from Colorado, which recently passed a law legalizing the recreational use of marijuana. “I want to emphasize to our students they really cannot bring [the marijuana] back,” Holmes said. “If they decide to go up to Colorado, please be safe up there, please be responsible and please remember that you are a young adult. But you cannot bring [the marijuana] back.” A citizen caught with marijuana in Texas would normally face a misdemeanor charge. But anyone who buys the drug legally in Colorado and illegally brings it into Texas will violate interstate commerce laws. Holmes said this is a felony, and students will face much more serious charges, including much higher fines and possibly probation or jail time. “I’ve got a hunch that the major highways leading out of Colorado are going to be covered with highway patrols,” Holmes said. “It’s not hard to spot college kid tourists.” Holmes said if students get in any legal trouble during spring break, they should schedule an appointment with her office online at deanofstudents.utexas.edu/ lss/appointment.php before paying any fines or taking any action. She said it is important that students not wait or delay. aims to show them that anything is possible and to promote women in science.” Pharmacy Dean M. Lynn Crismon said in the four years Walkow has headed the Drug Dynamic Institute, she has created and implemented initiatives including TherapeUTex, UTech Dorm Room and UT Advance, which allow researchers on campus and entrepreneurs in the community to create, test and ready their products for investors and the market. Crismon said Walkow’s work has helped improve communication between the University and the private sector. “She’s one of the most productive, energetic people I’ve ever met,” he said. “When we meet, she has a new idea every time.” Brown said Walkow’s personality and experience allows her to seamlessly transition between her organizations and UT work. “Janet is one of the few people who does really well with the science part and also really good at personal interaction and artistic side,” Brown said. “She is always looking at the next area to make a difference in.” Walkow said through her different pharmaceutical experiences, travels and work with women she continues learning every day and learning more about herself. And she keeps asking for want she wants.
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The IFC endorsement endgame Natalie San Luis Daily Texan Columnist
On the last day of the 2013 Student Government elections, a screenshot image of an email circulated Facebook. The subject line read, “Greeks in SG Elections ’13,” and the author — the president of the Interfraternity Council — listed candidates “that the executive board selected.” The message included no justifications for the endorsements, aside from the Greek organization to which the candidate belonged and his or her major. IFC sent the email to almost all fraternity members at the University. All but two of their endorsed candidates won. Endorsing a candidate — that is, telling someone to cast his or her vote for your chosen candidate — is tricky territory. Newspapers have a longstanding tradition of endorsing candidates in elections through endorsement editorials, which has been the subject of much debate. On the one hand, our news media is supposed to offer a balanced, honest presentation of the facts, free from bias or agenda. On the other hand, the average American citizen probably doesn’t seek or receive enough information to cast an informed, educated vote. Media endorsements serve as the newspaper’s flimsy reconciliation to that dilemma, by announcing and justifying their opinion of the ideal candidate. But that debate doesn’t quite extend to the IFC’s yearly endorsement. Offering a reasoned explanation for a particular
vote is distinct from encouraging members to exercise their democratic rights, then casting their ballots for them. This year, Connie Tao and Ryan Upchurch, candidates for student body president and vice president, campaigned to specifically reach students who didn’t normally vote in student body elections. That’s a significant demographic: Less than 15 percent of UT students voted in the SG election last week. Tao and Upchurch originally posted the email to their Facebook page. They claimed, “This may be within the rules, but no other candidate has the power to reach 14 percent of the student body in one message,” and characterized the lack of platform explanation as a request to follow blindly. “You feel like your vote doesn’t really matter,” Tao said in the week following the election. “No matter how hard you try to push for a candidate, if they have a network that hits 14 percent of students and they all vote in a block, 90 percent of votes, you’re guaranteed to make that email the election results.” Tao suggests amending UT’s election code to prevent against further instances of blind endorsements. For example, at UTSan Antonio, candidates can’t use university mail services (like listservs) to contact voters en masse. But preventing organizations from endorsing candidates altogether is impossible and unnecessary. If one executive board
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is charged with directing the votes of thousands of students, they should at the very least explain their choices. Even better, the IFC could provide information to Greek students on all candidates’ platforms and trust them to make their own decisions. In all likelihood, though, IFC will continue to operate as they have in years past, because empirically those endorsement emails have controlled elections. UT students still have recourse, though: Vote. The students who don’t receive IFC emails vastly outnumber those who do, and the Greek community controls the elections because the rest of us let them. Admittedly, this is not some life-or-death situation. Regardless of which students are elected to office, UT policy will remain largely the same. Our Student Government elections are certainly not some important microcosm of how politics operates outside our University’s bubble. However, if what starts here really does change the world, we should all be worried that the wealthiest organizations on campus control our elections while the majority of us passively observe. San Luis is a women’s and gender studies and English senior from Buda.
Don’t leave now Sam Hays Daily Texan Columnist
We Asked: spring break?
Why on Earth would you want to leave Austin during spring break? As I hope you know, next week, Austin plays hosts to one of the greatest annual events nationwide, the South By Southwest Music, Film and Interactive Festival, or SXSW. The myth on the street is that you have to buy a wristband or a badge to enjoy the festival at all. While the purchasing of the unnecessarily expensive wristbands and badges will grant you access to exclusive shows and most of the film and interactive events hosted during SXSW, the sheer volume of free music shows and parties hosted during SXSW is too good to pass up for anything else — I don’t care what they let you do in Colorado while you ski. SXSW music is the gift that keeps on giving. To start, there are the three nights at Auditorium Shores that are chock-full of free music. It costs literally nothing to attend — you just show up with a pair of ears and enjoy the night’s lineup. What’s even better is that the headlining act for 2013 is none other than The Flaming Lips, the rock act notorious for putting on a live show that no one in the crowd could forget. The Flaming Lips take the stage on the night of Friday, March 15th. They cap off an awesome lineup of totally free music, put together so the people of Austin — college kids included — could enjoy the city the way it was supposed to be enjoyed. But that’s not where the free events end. Even now, a week before the glorious event is set to begin, local and nationwide companies are releasing the lineups for their showcases, many of which are free. It just takes a little more effort to find out about them. Search the web for SXSW showcases. Set up Google Alerts to notify you whenever a post appears that says “SXSW free” or something similar. Follow Twitter accounts that specifically deal with SXSW showcase announcements. I didn’t purchase a wristband or a badge, but I still have free showcases lined up for every day from Tuesday, March 12th all the way to the last Sunday of spring break. Check the showcase posters for any badge/wristband requirements and make sure that, if you are underage, the posters don’t bear the menacing “21+” stipulation. These showcases usually last the better part of the day and consist of five or more bands playing set after set, all for our enjoyment. Youth Lagoon, Toro y Moi, Surfer Blood and Unknown Mortal Orchestra are just a few of the bands that are gracing the streets of Austin, free of charge. We break our academic backs left and right in this great city, our lives sometimes moving so quickly that we don’t get the opportunity to stop and enjoy Austin. SXSW during spring break provides such an opportunity. Hays is a journalism freshman from Dripping Springs.
THE QUESTION: IS THERE ANYTHING YOU ALREADY KNOW YOU’LL REGRET ABOUT SPRING BREAK? No, I’m just going home and chilling with my family. I’m really looking forward to it, I miss them. You know, I miss hanging out with my brother ... We’re probably going to go to a party. Any regrets? We’ll probably do some things at the party that I wouldn’t condone, parents wouldn’t condone, you know, that kind of stuff. —Kelvin Obimah, biology freshman Not keeping up with my studies enough — I’ll be traveling. —Donald Grant, exercise science senior No, no, I don’t think so. We’re going to go to LA, hang out with some friends there. Don’t have anything planned that I’m going to regret. That’s counter-intuitive. —Logan Brown, computer science sophomore Not getting enough sleep. I’m going to be volunteering. —Heather Schneider, biochemistry and pre-med sophomore No, not really. I’m actually going to go for a camping trip with my roommates. Just pretty low-key, spending some quality time together. —Zachary Kuvo, theatre and dance sophomore Well, it’s my friend’s birthday, so I’m going to drink a lot ... I regret that. —Adrianne Williams, anthropology senior No, I’m going home, I’m working, going to a concert. Going to see my friends. Don’t think I’m going to regret anything about it. —Craig Rosenbaum, Master in Professional Accounting fourthyear
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Gabriella Belzer | Daily Texan Staff Fred Cook, chief executive officer for GolinHarris, speaks to students about persuing a future career in public relations.
PR firm representatives share words of wisdom By Tatiana Marceleno Fred Cook, CEO of GolinHarris, said confidence is key in landing new work experiences. Cook shared personal experiences that led him to create his own public relations firm in a talk on Thursday. Cook discussed how having courageous qualities could lead to gaining new work experiences. “You have to have the confidence and reassurance to follow the path that is the right one for you,” Cook said. “You have to have the courage on the way to improvise a little bit and to try something new, because in the end, where you end up isn’t nearly as interesting as the trip you took to get there.” Cook said the most important thing for students to learn is to separate themselves from others when looking for jobs. “Companies like ours and our clients have really big problems and really big challenges, and we’re looking for people with new ideas and new thinking and new skills to help solve those problems,” Cook said. “So the most important thing, I think, is to expose yourself.” Jacqi Moore Richardson, UT alumna and senior
manager at GolinHarris, also spoke at the event. Richardson said looking into a career in public relations gives students the opportunity to learn more about things that interest them. “Yes, you’re here studying communications, but one thing to really take with you is, anything you’re interested in, dive deeper into it,” Richardson said. “PR gives you the opportunity to learn more about something.” In her presentation, Richardson shared her work experiences with different clients and celebrities. Public relations junior Kelly Nash said she enjoyed hearing about Richardson’s experiences at GolinHarris. “I thought it was really cool to learn all the different types of things that she’s done,” Nash said. “She hasn’t just done one thing and that’s what’s cool about an agency.” Nash said the presentation was helpful because she was able to learn about different careers in public relations that interest her. “She was really informative with her whole experience, and it was cool to see someone that’s done the same thing and not switched around,” Nash said. “I’m just trying to see all the different types and kind of go from there.”
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Vice Chancellor Burgdorf resigns to join private sector By Jordan Rudner Barry Burgdorf, UT System vice chancellor and general counsel, has resigned. Burgdorf, who has served since 2005, could not be reached for comment, but Dan Sharphorn, associate vice chancellor and deputy general counsel, said Burgdorf is leaving to pursue other endeavors. “He saw opportunities come along, and he has decided to explore them,” Sharphorn said. According to System spokeswoman Jenny LaCoste-Caputo, Burgdorf told UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa that he is leaving to pursue a career in
the private sector. “The chancellor is proud of the work Barry has done here,” LaCoste-Caputo said. “He is sorry to see him go, and wishes him well.” Rumors of Burgdorf ’s departure appeared in late January on an online forum dedicated to UT news and discussion. According to documents obtained by The Daily Texan through the Texas Public Information Act, Paul Casey, System information security analyst, sent a link to the post, which said Burgdorf had been fired, to Lewis Watkins, chief information security officer, three days after the unattributed information was posted.
A photojournalist whose work became a pop culture phenomenon joined with a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and UT alumnus to discuss iconic photographs from the past 80 years of U.S. history on Thursday. Renowned photojournalists Diana Walker and Lucian Perkins discussed their favorite photographs, journalistic topics and their own experiences covering presidents and their staff members from the Carter administration to the Obama presidency in the Lyndon B. Johnson Auditorium. More than 500 people attended the event sponsored by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History and the LBJ Presidential Library. Perkins and Walker selected their favorite photographs from each other’s work and images taken by other photojournalists, providing commentary on the still images. Moderator Neal Spelce picked his favorite two photographs each from Perkins and Walker. One of Walker’s recently known photographs includes then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wearing black shades with her phone in hand. That photo sparked widespread praise and even inspired countless memes. Walker said she was not happy when her photograph was not credited to her and turned into a meme. “The secretary of state,
Chelsea Purgahn | Daily Texan Staff Lucian Perkins discusses a photograph with fellow photojournalist Diana Walker and moderater Neal Spelce at an event sponsored by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History and the LBJ Presidential Library on Thursday evening.
on the other hand, her staff thought it was great,” said Walker. “She handled it so well … That was her way of dealing with it and I said, ‘Diana get a life. Relax about this and enjoy it.’ Time [magazine] finally got my credit on it and the picture went viral, as they say, and went all over the world. It’s still out there somewhere.” Photographic work by Perkins and Walker is on display at a Briscoe Center exhibit titled “News to History: Photojournalism and the Presidency”. The exhibit presents a collection of photographs from the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration to the current administration. “News to History” is
the inaugural exhibit in the new temporary exhibition space added during the renovation of the LBJ Library. Even as the two featured photojournalists discussed a variety of historical and iconic photographs, they covered journalistic topics within the context of present-day issues. Perkins said each presidential administration, regardless of party affiliation, learns from the other how to manage the press and get their message out. “When I first came to Washington in 1979 under Carter and then Reagan and look at it today, the control that the White House has — it’s a successive step each administration,” Perkins said. “They seem to manage to curtail us a little
bit more each time. I think a lot of it is that the press is underrun in many ways.” Photojournalist David Valdez just recently donated his life’s work to the Briscoe Center. He said for aspiring members of the press, and photojournalists especially, it is important to pursue your passion for photography. “Shoot, shoot, shoot,” Valdez said. “I really embrace the new media — Flickr and Instagram — I put stuff up there and that can generate following and assignments. Some people see it as passive but if you really put up real pictures, it’s a way to promote yourself. You never know where life takes you. It is fun to be part of history.”
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Global economy talk lends historical view By Mark Carrion
A lecture Thursday explained the collapse of an entire global economy at the beginning of the 19th century — all because of just two colonial revolutions in the Americas. John Tutino, a history professor at Georgetown University, gave a talk over what he called the three primary areas of global economic interactions and how they were influenced by the Americas. “Broadly described [history] has become increasingly global and decreasingly Eurocentric,” Tutino said. “We as a field have been enormously influenced by a turn toward Atlantic history.” The first era of history discussed in Tutino’s talk, the Era of Global Trade, began in the 16th century and was initiated by the colonization of the Americas and the linking of global trade routes, Tutino said. “European empires paid for Asian goods with American bullion,” Tutino
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said. “The new world was not a side player, but in fact American bullion was a pivotal center.” Tutino said the importance of silver as a currency in the 18th century caused European empires like the British, French and Spanish to clash over resources in the Americas. “War is as important as markets in understanding the evolution of global economic history,” Tutino said. “Revolutions can be as important as wars among nations. They provoke fundamental change along the way.” The American Revolution inspired similar revolutions in both Haiti and the Bajio, a resource-rich basin in Central Mexico. The pair of revolutions cut off the Spanish and French empires from important colonial resources, contributing to their declines and the eventual collapse of the first global economy, Tutino said. “The locations of these revolutions had been the growth poles of the global economy in the late 18th century,” UT history professor Jonathan Brown said. Brown, a close friend of
Yamel Thompson | Daily Texan Staff John Tutino gave a lecture entitled “The Fall of the First Global Economy: Hairi and the Bajio 1790-1820” on campus Thursday.
Tutino’s, helped organize the lecture on Thursday. Brown and Tutino attended UT’s graduate school together and both received their doctorates from UT in 1976. Brown said the lecture was a way to celebrate Tutino’s successes on a recent book he published, titled “Making a New World: Founding Capitalism in the Bajio and Spanish North America.” History graduate student Susan Zakaib said she attended the lecture because her studies focus on 18thcentury Mexican history. Zakaib said history is more
than just chronicling what has happened, but is about understanding why people do what they do and the results of their actions. “The very idea that local rebellion could be fueling massive global economic changes is amazing,” Zakaib said. Brown said the importance of studying Latin American culture comes from the United States’ historic ties to the region. “We inhabit the same hemisphere as Latin Americans,” Brown said. “It’s becoming our own history.”
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UTIMCO’s $200 million commitment was to Post Oak Energy Capital, a private investment firm. Post Oak then committed $60 million to oil and gas company Crown Oil Partners IV, LP. The owner of Crown Oil owns half of B C Operating. B C Operating drills on part of the 2.1 million acres of land that make up the Permanent University Fund and has transferred ownership of some of its leases to Crown Oil. Mark Warner, UTIMCO’s managing director of natural resources investments, said UTIMCO is involved in its partners’ investment decisions, but he would not elaborate on Post Oak’s investments. “I will say in any of these partnerships there is a very thorough discussion on strategy and approach,” Warner said. “We certainly had that discussion with Post Oak. This is an ongoing conversation.” UTIMCO, a nonprofit corporation established by the System, invests profits from leasing the land for projects ranging from oil and gas production to cattle herding. Through the Available University Fund, the UT System receives two-thirds of profits from those investments and the Texas A&M University System receives one-third. UT-Austin received $200 million from the fund, which made up about 9 percent of
the University’s 2012-2013 operating budget. B C Operating is a longtime University land lease owner, with records of oil production dating back to the 1950s, according to University Lands Office records. Through the lease sales, B C Operating has contributed more than $921,000 to the Permanent University Fund, not including production royalties. Post Oak was two years old when it entered a limited partnership with UTIMCO. Limited partnerships are one of multiple investment arrangements UTIMCO makes. Warner said Post Oak presented an opportunity to create a private equity partnership with a smaller, middle-market company that invests specifically in the energy sectors. “They were well known to many people known by us,” Warner said. “It was easy to do diligence on them.” Warner said UTIMCO’s portfolio had a gap that Post Oak’s market could fill. Cranberg, appointed by Gov. Rick Perry to the UT System Board of Regents in 2011, is connected to Crump Energy Partners, whose owner also owns the other half of B C Operating. Like Crown Oil, Crump Energy has partial ownership of some land leases originally obtained by B C Operating from University Lands.
Crump Energy received a $100 million commitment from energy equity company Quantum Energy Partners. In a statement to The Daily Texan, Cranberg said Quantum Energy Partners owns 11 percent of his company, Aspect Holdings. Aspect Holdings, a private exploration and energy investment company, is also an investment portfolio company for Quantum Energy Partners,
according to Quantum Energy. However, Cranberg said he does not receive any compensation from Quantum Energy Partners. Quantum Energy continues to have a financial stake in Aspect Holdings. Cranberg also has other connections to the founders of Quantum Energy through the creation of a hybrid investment fund and an oil and gas operating company called Quantum Resources Management,
but it does not have investments in B C Operating or its affiliated companies. The UT System recently laid out a new disclosure system to avoid conflicts of interest by requiring faculty, administrators and staff who serve on boards of other organizations or participate in businesses beyond their university to disclose their involvement. LaCoste-Caputo said this
policy does not apply to the regents because they are governed by state conflict of interest laws. As a regent, Cranberg is required to file a personal financial statement with the Texas Ethics Commission, which was obtained by The Daily Texan. But the financial statements do not require public officials to report who has financial ties to their businesses.
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year. The Bevonomics website will soon make the workshops available online. Jaime Brown, communications coordinator for the Office of Student Financial Services and financial aid officer, said the Bevonomics coordinators want to improve their program. “I think the most important thing Bevonomics needs to figure out is a way to define their evaluations by tracking student attitudes and
outcomes during college and beyond,” Brown said. Bevonomics coordinators are considering placing a registration bar on first-year students who fail to complete their training. The report also demonstrates a significant correlation between incurring debt early in life and not being affiliated with a banking institution. Furthermore, risky attitudes held by students at
matriculation, like compulsive spending and viewing debt as a necessity suggest negative financial outcomes for students during their college careers and later in life. In contrast, banking behavior among first-year students presents encouraging statistics. Of the freshmen surveyed, 86 percent have a checking account. The report indicates that students who bank regularly are more
likely to follow a budget, make timely payments on credit card bills and report buying only necessities. Everfi also created AlcoholEdu for College, which is a required training program for first-year students at UT. John Ramsey, finance senior and president of the University Residence Hall Association, said financial literacy should be a part of every college student’s education. Ramsey said
residence hall counselors will often host Bevonomics sessions in various residence halls across campus. “If you think about the steps we take with AlcoholEdu and other programs, it’s about trying to better students’ lives down the road,” Ramsey said. “If you mess up your life financially, that can be just as big as messing up your life through alcohol, drugs or something else.”
continues from page 1 Recent modifications to financial literacy education at UT echo the report’s suggestions. Bevonomics, a financial education program at UT, made an online introductory training program mandatory for first-year students last
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By Sebastian Herrera It was just last August that junior Christy Udoh found herself racing alongside the world’s premier sprinters at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Udoh was one of 21 current and former Longhorns to compete in the Games, on a list that includes Texas legends like Kevin Durant and Sanya Richards-Ross. Unlike the majority of her fellow Longhorns however, Udoh did not sport the red, white and blue of the U.S. Instead, she donned the green and white colors of Nigeria, the country where both her parents were born and where she shares dual citizenship. “It dawned on me that if I wanted to be on an Olympic team, I would have to beat out a lot of Americans to do so,” Udoh said. “I was glad to have another nationality to run for, so I contacted someone from Nigeria and they wanted me to run for them.” In fact, the African country had been pursuing Udoh since she was in middle school, wanting the talented sprinter to run for the nation that holds
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Jonathan Garza | Daily Texan Staff Junior Christy Udoh brings Olympic experience and heart to a solid women’s track and field program after competing for Nigeria in the 2012 London Games. Udoh has been named to the Big 12 first-team 10 times and looks to add more accolades this season.
her roots. Udoh would go on to qualify for Nigeria’s 4X100-meter relay team as well as a spot in the 200-meter dash. What Udoh achieved by getting to the London games has changed her career and life forever. And despite not medaling at
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the Olympics, the young sprinter has never taken the experience for granted. “That was the biggest thing in life that I ever accomplished,” Udoh said. “Now when I train for my next Olympics I know what to do and what not to do.” Since returning to the 40
Acres, Udoh has not lost a step. The 10-time All-Big 12 First Team runner (six times outdoor, four times indoor) has had two topthree finishes in the 60-meter dash and five top-three finishes in the 200-meter
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Horns ride Senior Night win into Big 12 tournament spot Big 12 Tournament Texas vs. Kansas St.
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Shelby Tauber | Daily Texan Staff Sophomore Jaylen Bond tries to establish position inside against Baylor. Bond gives Texas needed energy inside.
Texas looks for victory over Tech in Lubbock By Nick Cremona Even with a win on Jan. 26 against Texas Tech, Texas cannot get back to a .500 record for the season. But that doesn’t mean the Longhorns (14-16, 6-11) aren’t looking to enter the Big 12 Tournament with a head of steam and a win in their final regular season game. Any chance the Longhorns have of making the NCAA tournament rests on the conference tournament, and if they don’t win the tournament they are likely headed for the significantly less noteworthy College Basketball Invitational. The Red Raiders (1018, 3-14) were handed a 16-point loss in their first game against the Longhorns Jan. 26 in Austin, and after its surprising win over Baylor
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It’s been a long road but after its first new season under a new head coach, Texas enters the Big 12 Championships with a lot to prove. The Longhorns (12-17, 5-13) enter this weekend’s tournament coming off a big 13-point victory over West Virginia on Senior Night. Despite all of the ups and downs the season has brought, Texas showed on Tuesday night that its defense and inside game can cause nightmares for any team it draws in the tournament. “I think you could honestly say we are playing as good as anybody in the Big 12 and could beat
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Date: Friday Time: 6 p.m. anybody in the Big 12 on a given night,” head coach Karen Aston said. “I feel really good about our team and where we are and how we’re playing.” Texas earned the No. 9 seed in the tournament and will play No. 8 seed Kansas State in the first round. The two teams split the season series, with Texas beating the Wildcats, 59-40, in
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the first meeting before dropping the second by 21 points. The Texas frontcourt
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mound after a shutout loss last weekend on the road at Stanford. The sophomore is 2-1 on the season with a 1.77 ERA. In his opening appearance, French blanked Sacramento State through seven innings before the Texas bullpen surrendered five runs in the 6-5 Longhorn victory. Against former Big 12 rival Nebraska, French gave up two runs in the second
before keeping them at bay through six innings. This past Tuesday, the Longhorns (7-5) defeated UT-Pan American at home, 6-1. The win broke the Longhorns’ four-game losing streak which saw Texas lose to Sam Houston State in a midweek game before being swept for the second year in a row by Stanford
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Iowa State game moved to Thursday The Big 12 recently announced the Thursday night football game schedule for next season and the Longhorns are on it twice. Texas is slated to play Iowa State in Ames, Iowa, on Oct. 3, and Texas Tech on Thanksgiving Day in Lubbock. The other two Big 12 Conference Thursday night games will pit TCU against Texas Tech in Lubbock on Sept. 12, and Oklahoma against Baylor on Nov. 7. —Matt Warden
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Spring break brings more tests for Texas By Evan Berkowitz The No. 10 Longhorns will host the Texas State Bobcats on Friday and Sunday at Red and Charline McCombs Field and will travel to Bobcat Softball Stadium on Saturday as part of the three-game series. The Bobcats (3-17) have struggled mightily this year, picking up their only wins against Mississippi Valley State and Texas A&M Corpus Christi. The Bobcats have struggled even more against Texas pitchers, not scoring a run against the Longhorns since the sixth inning of the March 30, 2011, contest in San Marcos, a span of 22-straight scoreless frames. The weekend after this weekend’s series, March 1416, the Longhorns will make the long trek to Fullerton, Calif., for the Judi Garman Classic. The classic is full of tough competition including No. 3 Arizona State and No. 19 Washington. The Longhorns will also be taking on North Carolina State (11-5-1), Depaul (12-8) and Penn State (4-9). Arizona State (21-1) started the season 21-0
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before dropping its first game to the first Big 12 opponent they faced: Baylor. With the conclusion of the Judi Garman Classic comes the conclusion of Texas’ non-conference season. While it appears that head coach Connie Clark is beginning to figure out her lineup and rotation, she will be looking to have it set for the start of Big 12 play March 23.
Clark will have her hands full as the Longhorns are clicking on all cylinders, especially after two impressive victories over No. 13 Louisiana-Lafayette in the double-header Wednesday where the Longhorns won, 9-4 and 7-1. But that’s a dilemma she doesn’t mind. Taylor Hoagland, Stephanie Ceo, Taylor Thom and Mandy Ogle all boast batting averages greater than .400,
while Brejae Washington is a hit away at .397. The top two in the circle, Blaire Luna and Kim Bruins, are a combined 16-0 with a 1.13 ERA. Luna is currently leading Big 12 pitchers in strikeouts, complete games and opponents’ batting average, in addition to being second in ERA. Thom is leading the Big 12 in doubles while fourth in home runs and total bases.
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four of the seven games he has been back for. “We are just taking things one day at a time,” Kabongo said. “You can’t look too far ahead.” Kabongo will need help from his teammates if the Longhorns are to make a serious run at a conference tourney title — something they have not done in the 16-year existence of the tournament.
Cameron Ridley is coming off the most complete game of his budding career, and players like Ioannis
Papapetrou and Connor Lammert have shown improvement in the last few games as well. If sophomores Sheldon McClellan, Julien Lewis and Jonathan Holmes can add a reliable scoring punch to the Texas offense, the Longhorns could catch fire and make things interesting when the Big 12 Tournament starts March 13 in Kansas City, Mo.
“You can tell we have been improving,” Kabongo said. “This is the time of year we are no longer sophomores — we are juniors. Freshmen are
We have been through everything and it has been a tough year. We have to build momentum and work at it every day. — Myck Kabongo, sophomore point guard no longer freshmen, they are sophomores. We have been through everything and it has been a tough year. We have to build momentum and work at it every day.” First, the Longhorns will have to take care of the Red Raiders on the road, which
has been relatively easy for nearly every team in the conference. The Red Raiders have had their fair share of struggles this season and barring a huge turnaround, they don’t have the necessary tools to keep up with a team like Texas that seems to be figuring out how to win.
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dash this indoor season, two of those coming as victories. Udoh also holds the school’s eighth fastest mark ever (22.72) in the outdoor 200-meter dash, a time she clocked last summer at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. And while NCAA competition is no laughing matter, it does not compare to the level of athleticism present at an Olympic event. Through Udoh, the Longhorns have found experience that is hard to come by. What the Olympian has been able to provide is track and field wisdom at its highest level. For the Texas squad and its interim head coach Rose Brimmer, it is that type of intangible that makes her special to the team. “She’s gained some wisdom and some knowledge about the level of what it takes to be a scorer not
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on the road. Junior third baseman Erich Weiss and sophomore second baseman Brooks Marlow both headlined the Texas offensive efforts while freshman pitcher Chad Hollingsworth got his third win of the season in as many starts. Weiss logged three RBIs to add to the three earned last weekend during the Longhorns’ 0-3 series loss at Stanford. The junior is hitting .302 for the season and joins freshman C.J. Hinojosa and junior Mark Payton as the three starters hitting above .300 for the year. Marlow notched the Longhorns’ first home run of the season, a two-run shot over the right field line. The
sophomore, who until recently had not been featured in the starting lineup, has four hits and two runs with two RBIs through eight games played. UC Santa Barbara is sporting an 8-4 record and is currently riding a four-game win streak. The Gauchos dominated St. Mary’s, 10-1, this past Monday and swept San Jose State in a three-game series the weekend before. The Santa Barbara offense is hitting .280 on the season with a team ERA of 3.25. Texas will follow up this weekend’s series with UC Santa Barbara with a Tuesday matchup with Oral Roberts and a series against Texas Tech at home next weekend.
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. 7 pete The only thing that could daytear Patrick Suddes away atfrom his beloved Crimam-son Tide was a splash of theburnt orange. has The former associate sondirector of football opera013.tions at Alabama was hired tedas director of player personwithnel at Texas, Mack Brown bin-announced Thursday. best Suddes will juggle Texas Football camps, the High inSchool Coaches Clinic Fri-and recruiting efforts in mi-his newly created position with the Longhorns. e is He wasn’t necessarily on ‘A’the hunt for a new job, but oneafter Texas posted the job er,”opening Feb. 22, Suddes I’msaid he decided to go for it. this “When I was growing up, ofthe University of Texas was .” always one of the programs that I thought about as a great place to be,” he said in a press release Thursday. “This is the only job I would have left the Alabama program for. I think being able to grow within a system and building something new here is an opportunity I couldn’t pass up.” Suddes brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience. He jumpstarted his career as a recruiting intern at LSU and spent two seasons with the Miami Dolphins from 2005 to 2006. The past six years were spent at Alabama, his alma mater. “He’s a guy that is very passionate about recruiting and building a team,” Brown said in the press release. “Everyone we talked to said he’s the guy you need, and then Patrick knocked us out in his interview. I think he’s the perfect fit to build and lead our player personnel department.” Nick Saban, whom he worked under for eight years, has been a teacher and key figure in the shaping of Suddes’ career, Suddes said. “I worked for Coach (Nick) Saban for years and learned everything I know from him,” he said in the press release. “I can’t thank him enough for all of the great opportunities he gave me. But, when this came up, I was really interested in using what I learned and taking it somewhere else and trying to help out in whatever way I can.”
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Described by those he’s worked with as ambitious, talented and tirelessly dedicated to his work, Suddes said he is thrilled to work under Brown. “First of all, when you think of Coach Brown, you think ‘great coach,’ but what you hear all the time is great character, great leadership and I think that’s important,” Suddes said in the press release. “This is someone you can really rally behind. He’s won before, he knows what it takes, he knows the system and what it takes to get there. That’s exciting to go from one winning coach to another.” Suddes also said he’s ready to use his skill set to impact the lives of the players he’ll recruit to Texas. “I’m really passionate about not just helping to find and recruit the best prospects, but getting to know the kids,” Suddes said in the press release. “When they get to the NFL, they’re pretty much set in their ways, but in college, you can really make an impact in a kid’s life, especially coming to a place like this with so much pride and tradition.”
Men’s TRACK & Field | Louis San Miguel The NCAA Indoor Championships gathers the best and brightest athletes in the college track and field circuit on one track. Within the group of talented individuals competing this year will be four Longhorns, ready and waiting for their shot at an individual national championship. The group that will head to Fayetteville, Ark., for Friday and Saturday’s meet is made up of a trio of seniors — thrower Hayden Baillio, long distance runner Joe Stilin and hurdler Keiron Stewart — and freshman Johannes Hock. All come off solid indoor seasons and have a chance to prove themselves as the best in the country after testing their formidableness at the Big 12 meet. Stewart, Hock and Baillio easily outmatched their competitors in Iowa, winning Big 12 titles in respective events and will hope to do just as well against topnotch competition in Arkansas. Their nerves shouldn’t be frayed as Baillio and Stewart are marking their third and fourth appearances at the meet. Hock, who hails from
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Charlie Pearce | Daily Texan Staff Junior Chassidy Fussell takes the ball to the rim against West Virginia in Texas’ 58-45 win Tuesday. Fussell leads the team in scoring with 14.5 points per game heading into the team’s first round Big 12 tournament matchup with Kansas State.
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has emerged as the team’s defining attribute this season, behind the strong play of Nneka Enemkpali and Imani McGee-Stafford. Enemkpali finished the season averaging 13.0 points and 9.3 rebounds per game while logging a team-high 13 double-doubles. McGee-Stafford stepped onto the court in her freshman season and showcased a talent that will likely lead the Longhorns for many years to come, finishing the season averaging 11.0 points and 9.3 rebounds including 12 double-doubles. The talented newcomer also earned Big 12 Freshman of
the Year in addition to being named to the All-Big 12 First Team. Junior Chassidy Fussell led the team in scoring for the third straight season, compiling a 14.5 season average to go along with 5.5 rebounds per game. Fussell is the veteran and leader of this Longhorns squad and makes them a threat to beat anyone when she’s in her zone. As a team, the Longhorns outrebounded their opponents in 22 of their 29 games and established themselves as a post-dominating team. The squad has also shown the ability to get in shooting zones
They buckled down and started playing for each other, more as a team, and bought into the way that we do things. — Karen Aston, head coach seemingly anytime, as they’ve outshot opponents by an average of 40.3 percent to 37.7 percent. Although a lack of focus and young age plagued the team for much of the season, the Longhorns seem to know how to play together when it counts and should be a team to watch this weekend. “I don’t think there is a measuring amount
for how much they have grown. The biggest thing I take from this is the character of the people that we have returning,” Aston said. “They buckled down and started playing for each other, more as a team, and bought into the way that we do things.” Texas will play its opening round game on Friday at 6 p.m. at the American Airlines Arena in Dallas.
Women’s Golf Preview | Jeremy Thomas While students enjoy the fun and relaxation of spring break, the Texas Longhorns women’s golf team will prepare for the upcoming Insperity Lady Jaguar Intercollegiate at the Forest Hills Golf Course in Augusta, Ga. The last time the Longhorns competed, they finished ninth at the rain-shortened Allstate Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate golf tournament. The team will look toward senior Desiree
Dubreuil’s recent hot streak to lead the team into Forest Hills. She leads the team in stroke average at 74.5 and finished as the highest ranked team player in two out of five tournaments. The Lady Horns lineup is scheduled for release later next week. The par-72, 6,248-yard Forest Hills Golf Course is home to Georgia Regents University Augusta, even though it is
referred to as Augusta State University. In their athletics department, the Jaguars’ men’s and women’s golf teams are NCAA Division I Independents. Augusta State is most recognized as a powerhouse in golf as the men’s team won the NCAA Division I Golf Championships in 2010 and 2011. UTSA finished last year’s event on top of the team leaderboard at 16over 880. They finished six strokes over host Au-
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Men’s Golf PREVIEW | Jacob Martella Two weeks after capturing their second victory of the season, the Longhorns will take to the course once again this weekend in the Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters in Las Vegas. Freshman Brandon Stone will also look to follow up his second win of the season with a strong performance. On Wednesday afternoon, Stone was named Big 12 Men’s Golfer of
the Month for February. In the two tournaments in the month, Stone led the Longhorns with a 69.2 stroke average. At the time, Stone was ranked as the top men’s golf player in the Golfweek rankings. However, the latest rankings place him at No. 2. As a team, the Longhorns are ranked No. 2 as well, behind California. Senior Cody Gribble is the next highest Longhorn in the rankings,
currently sitting at No. 27. Junior Toni Hakula is the final Longhorn ranked in the top 50 at No. 48. The Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters is considered one of the best collegiate tournaments in the country. Along with Texas, topranked California, defending tournament champions UNLV and nine other top 15 teams will compete for the title. Last year, the Longhorns
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Germany, will make his first NCAA appearance after a dominant first-place finish in the heptathlon at the Big 12 meet. He has grown well in a short time after joining the team in January. Stilin, another new face to team, will mark his second NCAA meet, but first in a Texas uniform. The Princeton transfer has already become an integral part of the team and is now part of Texas’ record books, holding the school’s top marks in the 3,000 meters and the mile.
The Longhorns (35) have been down as of late, having lost five of their last six matches, all against ranked opponents. As a result, the team has dropped to No. 38 in the rankings after starting the season at No. 11. A turnaround is needed if the Longhorns plan to make the NCAA Championships. The team will play in California from Sunday to Wednesday against
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SXSW NIGHTMARE SXSW By Sarah-Grace Sweeney Daily Texan Columnist
South By Southwest is actually my worst nightmare. For some perspective, I am afraid of all diseases, doctors, immaculate conception, the germs on keyboards and of one day going bald. So I am afraid of a lot of things, and I have recently added SXSW to that list. This is my third spring break in college, but I have not once stayed in Austin, mostly at the request of my adoring parents who want to shower me with gifts on my
birthday, which is March 17. Really, they just want to ask me if I have any concrete career plans yet. But here I am, staying for SXSW. What sounded enticing and exciting in November or December is now keeping me up at night. People will descend upon the city in droves. Basically, I won’t be able to eat anywhere, drive anywhere or be in public at all. I can picture it now: Every restaurant in Austin with lines out the door, visitors who read on Yelp that 24 Diner has really good chicken and waffles. Well, you know what? I was eating roasted vegetables from
24 Diner on a weekly basis before you got here and now what am I supposed to do besides save myself $11? I must, however, venture out to cover concerts with my press pass. After a recent Costco adventure, it appears my spring break diet will consist of black beans and corn tortillas. Not only do crowds take up space at SXSW, they can become angry. Last year I read about hordes of people storming into venues through barricades and police. I just keep picturing the wildebeests stampeding over the ledge in “Lion King.” But I am not a Disney animated jungle cat and I will probably not survive a stampede!
Do you know what else comes with lots of strange people? A lot of strange germs. I don’t know what kind of sickness you have, and when we have to brush shoulders and breathe the same air at Auditorium Shores, who knows what sort of nightmare I could be inhaling? I am also afraid of the sun. I often buy makeup labeled “translucent” or “barely there” and I don’t know how I am going to handle 12 plus hours in the sun when usually I am in the basement of a building editing this paper. I haven’t been out in the sun that long since I was probably eight years old and rollerblading on the driveway.
Now we are back to my fear of diseases, for I will surely develop skin cancer and premature wrinkles. Lastly, I am afraid of not seeing Justin Timberlake. While this may not seem like a legitimate fear since the rest of my list so obviously is, if I miss JT on his trip to Austin, I miss an opportunity to see perfection. My sole mission of this SXSW experience is to get a glimpse of that curly-headed, soulful, beautiful man. SXSW will be the true test of my young adult life. If I can survive this, maybe I can survive telling my parents that my “career” is moving back in with them in East Texas.
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WHAT TO BRING TO SXSW BADGE OR WRISTBAND
CHEAP SUNGLASSES
WATER BOTTLE
CHAPSTICK
PRINT A SCHEDULE
EAR PLUGS
GUM OR MINTS
CONDOMS
PHONE
PLASTIC BAGS
SNACKS
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HAIR TIES
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UMBRELLA OR PONCHO
WET WIPES
JOURNAL OR PAPER
MONEY
PEN FOR AUTOGRAPHS
PHONE CHARGER
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‘Oz’ misses ‘Great and Powerful,’ but achieves ‘good’ By Alex Williams Disney’s motivation to return to the world of “Oz” for another film was likely driven not by any creative urge, but by the boatloads of money that Tim Burton’s reimagining of “Alice in Wonderland” hauled in. Thankfully, director Sam Raimi has an innate ability to create an engaging fantastical world and retain his directorial voice without descending into self-parody, something that made Burton’s take on “Wonderland” nearly unwatchable. Raimi’s distinct directorial stamp works wonders for “Oz the Great and Powerful,” an effortlessly entertaining and endlessly imaginative film. “Oz the Great and Powerful” is a prequel to the classic 1939 film, focusing on Oz (James Franco), a schlocky, selfish magician who lacks the resolve to settle down with dream girl Annie (Michelle Williams), preferring to follow his aspirations of unquestionable greatness. Whisked away from Kansas by a tornado, Oz finds himself in the magical land that shares his name. Ever since his disastrous
stint as Oscar host, James Franco has brought a holier-than-thou attitude to his performances in blockbuster films, but he’s refreshingly subdued in “Oz.” Franco’s slow transition from smalltime magician to leader of men (and munchkins) is played with amusing reluctance and heartfelt sincerity, but he’s less effective when embodying Oz’s inner showman, alternating between infectious confidence and unimpressive cheesiness with frustrating consistency. The trio of witches that drive the conflict in “Oz” are realized by an impressive female ensemble. Michelle Williams is pure grace and wispy dialogue as Glinda the Good, but she’s just as effective and tender as Annie, Oz’s real-world love interest. Rachel Weisz plays Evanora with coiled frustration, barely able to hold back her contempt for Oz. Mila Kunis has the most challenging role of the three as Theodora, the young witch who discovers Oz upon his arrival. Kunis brings an innocence to the role that is slowly shattered as she becomes increasingly infatuated with the womanizing
OZ Director: Sam Raimi Genre: Fantasy Runtime: 130 minutes Oz, and her arc is where the film’s story becomes increasingly problematic. As anyone familiar with the “Oz” mythology is aware, Kunis’ Theodora eventually transforms into the Wicked Witch of the West. Although she has the spunk necessary to embody the role, Kunis struggles to register behind thick coats of unconvincing makeup, something that only serves to underline the shortcomings of the film’s story. While the awakening of Oz’s inner hero is more inspired than your standard origin story, the dynamics required to get Theodora seeing green are strained manipulations of character logic. Throughout the film, even when the story teeters on the edge of nonsense, Raimi never fails to inject his own personal touch into the proceedings. Raimi’s Oz is flooded with creativity, and the film overflows with imaginative designs and characters. One
Merie Weismiller Wallace | Associated Press This film image released by Disney Enterprises shows James Franco and Michelle Williams in a scene from “Oz the Great and Powerful.”
of the allies that Franco’s Oz picks up during the film is a small girl made of china, and Raimi pulls the impressive feat of making a delicate CGI character the film’s emotional core. “Oz” is most fun in the brief moments when Raimi lets some of the tricks he came up with on the “Evil Dead” trilogy loose, staging genuinely harrowing beats
in the midst of an immersive fantasy world full of beautiful colors and gorgeously scoped images. While Disney was clearly inspired by “Alice in Wonderland,” Raimi draws from a very different source: his 1992 horror-comedy “Army of Darkness.” The films share many common elements, from structure to how con-
flicts are resolved to character beats, and it’s a joy to see Raimi working to bring freshness to such familiar territory. While “Oz the Great and Powerful” struggles to make sense at times, it’s a pleasure to watch thanks to an interesting cast, a stunningly realized setting and the simple joy of having Sam Raimi behind the camera.