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J.M. Coetzee’s archives are now available at the Harry Ransom Center for research. PAGE 5

SPORTS Can linebacker Steve Edmond keep his spot in the starting lineup with Jordan Hicks back and Peter Jinkens showing promise? PAGE 6 Texas baseball takes two of three from Minnesota as Silver’s threehit, three-RBI game in Saturday’s win sparks Longhorns. PAGE 6

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Longhorns clutch during pair of wins over Bears.

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Monday, March 25, 2013

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Kearney files to sue University

By Shabab Siddiqui Bev Kearney, former women’s track and field coach, is alleging she was “singled out and treated differently” than her male, nonAfrican American counterparts, according to her filed

complaint with the Texas Workforce Commission.

“I believe that I was subjected to a severely hostile work environment and constructively discharged by forcing me to resign in lieu of being fired because of my race, color and gender,” Kearney said in the complaint.

In her complaint, Kearney alleges she was publicly demeaned and falsely accused of NCAA violations by Bubba Thornton, men’s track and field head coach; she was harassed and her complaints were ignored by administrators; she was not given salary raises granted to other

coaches; and she was told she was being fired for violating an “unwritten” policy, despite colleagues not receiving the same treatment for similar acts.

Kearney’s attorney, Derek Howard, said he filed the

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Barton pool renovations delayed again

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By Hannah Jane DeCiutiis

Depsite its troubled past, Roundup shows some of Texas’ true colors. PAGE 10

VIEWPOINT A fall break sounds great, but faculty concerns must be addressed. PAGE 4

TODAY Postdoctoral fellowship candidate talk The talk will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Chicano Culture Room 4.206 in the Texas Union Building (UNB).

Isabel Millán, a finalist for a Center for Mexican American Studies Carlos E. Castañeda Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mexican American Studies for the 20132014 academic year, presents “Niñas Raras, or the Odd Girls, in Transborder Children’s Literature and Media.”

The event is free and open to the public.

Bitcoin & the regression theorem are Mises Circle topics Is Bitcoin money? The Mises Circle thought they settled that at the last meeting on Bitcoin, but the debate rages on among Austrian scholars. In light of the regression theorem, Bitcoin’s status and potential as money remains a hot topic.

The discussion will be from 7 to 8:15 p.m in Waggener Hall (WAG) 308. The event is free.

What is today’s reason to party?

Bev Kearney Former women’s track and field head coach

Shweta Gulati | Daily Texan Staff Students dance to the Yin Yang Twins in Roundup at ZBTahiti on Saturday afternoon. Around 20,000 people took part in the weekend’s festivities, but it was reported to be safer than the previous Roundups.

Glowing success

Strict wristband enforcement helps Roundup stay safe, successful

By Alberto Long Despite the hordes of people, alcohol, concerts and neon, Roundup 2013 was relatively successful in terms of safety, according to the University Interfraternity

Council and the South West Emergency Action Team, a group of independently contracted first responders.

Tannifer Ayres, president of the emergency team, said Roundup 2013 was safer than previous Roundups and noted a lack of trauma-

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related injuries.

“To my knowledge, we only treated minor injuries this weekend,” Ayres said. “I’ll have to look at the comprehensive report, but nothing stands out.

In years past, we’ve had to treat a lot of trauma injuries. Last year, someone was stabbed outside a Roundup event.”

Ayres said safety initiatives implemented for Roundup have made it a safer event to

participate in, and she said even stricter initiatives will be implemented for Roundup 2014.

“The frats did a good job providing security and medical detail,” Ayres said. “This year, the frats had us rolling from house to house. Next year, we will have individual units at each house. It will facilitate quicker responses

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As Austin City Council prepares to make decisions regarding structural changes to Barton Springs, it has a pool of conflicting voices concerned about the proposed changes.

The Barton Springs Pool Master Plan, adopted by the council in 2009, lists various improvements as a way to “return the site to its former glory,” according to the City of Austin. These improvements include working on the infrastructure of the pool, planting and replacing trees in the area, replacing the fence and improving the water quality.

Lewis Leff, chief of staff for Council Member Chris Riley, said several of the changes would require bypassing certain city ordinances to make structural changes. Several of these structural changes, including increasing parking and handicap accessibility, would require using more impervious surfaces. These are impenetrable surfaces including concrete and asphalt that can have negative environmental effects on a natural area.

“Some of the ideas being recommended by staff would require some variances to some ordinances that are in place,” Leff said. “The issues that are

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Low-income program increases opportunities

By Miles Hutson Tari Jordan wants to teach elementary school English, and Free Minds, a program administrated out of UT, is helping her to do it.

“I thought I knew so much already,” Jordan said. “I don’t want it to end. I love the professors.”

Jordan, a mother of two, said the program should help her go to college and pursue her dream. Free Minds’ free humanities course, which she

is enrolled in, took a field trip to UT this weekend in a bid to draw inspiration from the Blanton Museum’s collection. The seven-year-old program is a collaboration between the University’s Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, Austin Community College and Foundation Communities.

“We want them to become comfortable being on a college campus and to feel that they belong there,” program

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Shweta Gulati | Daily Texan Staff People enjoy the festival of colors “Holi” at South Mall on Sunday. The event involved around 6,000 students and was organized by the the Hindu Students Association to celebrate the Indian holiday.

Students embrace Holi festival

By Miles Hutson

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Chelsea Purgahn | Daily Texan Staff Free Minds project director Viv Griffith leads her students on a tour of the Blanton poetry project Thursday evening.

The South Mall was soaked with dyes and water Sunday, as students partook in the Hindu Students Association’s tenth Holi event.

The event was intended to celebrate cultural diversity and to parallel the Indian holiday, also known as

the Festival of Colors or the “spring festival.”

“In India, this is a big deal,” HSA CEO and President Swati Verma said.

“This is the beginning of the farming season.”

Verma said she hopes the event connects UT students with another culture and symbolically celebrates differences in color.

“We’re all the same,” Verma said. “We’re all people.”

Sneha Gurajala, co-chair of the Holi event, said the event helps celebrate Indian culture. She said HSA members worked the lines and handed out shirts to people who knew what Holi was.

“We put a lot of emphasis

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continues from page 1 coming up are based on some of the suggestions to do an [Americans with Disabilities Act] pass and suggestions to reach the parking, so you’re talking about pervious versus impervious coverings which is always a big deal.”

Leff said the council item, which passed unanimously at the March 7 meeting, originally called for a public hearing to be held March 28. The item was amended to postpone the hearing until April 11 and instead hold a staff briefing on March 28 to allow city staff to outline possible variances and options for the council. “[The hearing was held] so that folks would come talk about those improvements and if they agree we should be doing variances on certain city codes to let the improvements be made,” Leff said. “The briefing will be useful to help council better understand the issues involved and to make a better decision about what to do.”

Robin Cravey, former president of the Friends of

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Maria Arrellaga | Daily Texan Staff Minor Mishap Marching Band plays a show Saturday near Spider House Cafe for HONK!TX.

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continues from page 1 complaint March 12 with the “Civil Rights and Discrimination Division” of the Texas Workforce Commission. The commission has 180 days to investigate the complaint and determine whether Kearney has a right to sue.

“Coach Kearney’s allegations of discrimination will be reviewed thoroughly and responded to according to [the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission] and Texas Workforce Commission procedures,” said Patricia Ohlendorf, the University’s Vice President for Legal Affairs, in a statement last week.

Kearney resigned in January after being told the University was prepared to fire her for a having a consensual relationship with a former student-athlete in 2002. In the

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continues from page 1 director Vive Griffith said.

“The resources at UT are theirs to explore and use.”

Free Minds aims to help its students, some of whom have never been in a college class, advance themselves in their career paths and lives by using its lessons to potentially go on to education elsewhere. The group hosts a bi-weekly nine-month course at the M Station apartments in East Austin, where

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complaint, she cites the University’s handling of an incident concerning football offensive coordinator Major Applewhite as a “glaring example” of differing treatment. Applewhite engaged in “inappropriate, consensual behavior with an adult student” in 2009. Applewhite’s salary was suspended for a year following the incident, but he has since received promotions and raises.

The complaint also levies several allegations of harassment by Thornton, who she alleges would speak negatively about her character, professionalism and coaching abilities to others in the athletic department. She said while several administrators including head athletic directors DeLoss Dodds and Chris Plonsky acknowledged the harassment, they did nothing to stop it.

A pair of 2004 letters sent from Kearney to Dodds highlights a longstanding friction between Kearney and two UT professors, two ACC professors and one UT graduate writing student spend both semesters teaching literature, philosophy, history, creative writing and sometimes drama.

“We’re looking for motivation, and then we’re looking for need,” Griffith said. “We’re targeting the people who have barriers in front of them.”

To qualify, students must have a GED or high school diploma and be at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level. They must then write an essay and go through an interview for a shot at being a

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Donald James McNamara, president of the IFC, said the weekend went according to plan and cited the importance of safety initiatives.

“I haven’t looked at the comprehensive incident report,” McNamara said, “but to my knowledge, there were no serious injuries. Pretty good considering we handed out over 19,000 of our 20,000 wristbands.”

During the weekend, several parties were shut down by

Thornton. In the letters, obtained by The Daily Texan through the Texas Public Information Act, Kearney alleges Thornton offered her job to a coach at another university and would speak openly about becoming head coach of both men’s and women’s track and field programs.

The complaint is filed against the entire University, not just the athletic department. In 2011, a former UT employee, Glyn Rogers, filed a complaint with the Texas Workforce Commission alleging racial and retaliatory discrimination specifically against the athletic department, according to documents obtained by the Texan through the Texas Public Information Act. UT spokesman Gary Susswein said the case was dismissed by the Texas Workforce Commission and no lawsuits were filed.

—Additional reporting by Hannah Jane DeCiuitiis

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continues from page 1 on this not just being a color dance party,” Gurajala said.

The event, which ran from 1-4 p.m., involved approximately 6,000 students.

To provide these students with the dyes and water balloons they threw at each other throughout the festival, HSA ordered ten 55-pound bags of dye and handed out more than 1,000 water balloons at intervals

member of the 25-student course.

Griffith, who teaches creative writing in the course, said visiting the Blanton Museum is an opportunity to help with her lesson. Students were expected to write their own poetry on a piece of art after reading and seeing examples.

Teachers in the program say they have learned from their students.

Domino Perez, director of the Center for Mexican American Studies, associate English professor and a threetime teacher for the course’s literature unit, said she gets a

different perspective from her students and admires how hard they work.

“Working with people who have not had equal access to education has been humbling. Their mindset is completely different,” Perez said. “They teach me how to see familiar literature in new and exciting ways.”

Perez said she hopes students see themselves from a different perspective as well.

“I want them to think about themselves as students,” Perez said. “As critical thinkers engaging the world around them.”

the Austin Police Department.

On Saturday night, police responded to a riot outside a West Campus concert featuring rapper Juicy J in which a crowd of about 200 attempted to break through a gate to gain entrance to the concert, according to an arrest affidavit.

According to the affidavit, only one arrest was made after police broke up the crowd.

Juicy J tweeted at 10 p.m. that police had shut down his concert. McNamara said most parties are shut down to promote the safety of those in attendance, and that police shut downs aren’t indicative of illicit activity more serious than fire hazards.

“A lot of events are shut down because there are so many people,” McNamara said. “At capacity, a lot of these places can hold 6,000 people.

We had close to 20,000 attend Roundup. The numbers get too high and the authorities have to shut down the parties to keep everyone safe.”

McNamara said wristband distribution efforts contributed to the weekend’s success.

“In years past there have been a lot of problems,” McNamara said. “Our teams this year did a great job getting the wristbands out in a timely manner. It kept everything very manageable.”

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I’m baffled by the idea that some people who have cried out over and over for public process now don’t want to go forward with public process.

— Lewis Leff, chief of staff for Council Member Chris Riley

Barton Springs Pool, said there has been too much caution around going forward with the plan.

“I’m baffled by the idea that some people who have cried out over and over for public process now don’t want to go forward with public process,” Cravey said at the meeting. “This project is the culmination of three or four years of public process, and we went through a year of planned process in 2010. This was subsequent to 2007 when the council allotted funding for this project as a short-term project.” throughout the event. The event also drew on the musical talent of “DJ Chet.”

Melody Rodsuwan, a senior from Thailand, said Holi reminds her of Thailand’s water festival.

Cary Kuo, an electrical engineering freshman, said he went to the event because it served as a nice break from his heavy workload.

“I thought I’d take some time off from the life of a ‘double E,’” he said. “It seemed like a creative and cool event.”

NEWS BRIEFLY UGS dean candidates present on campus The School of Undergraduate Studies is searching for a new dean, and candidates are in the process of visiting campus.

Five candidates will visit to share presentations and speak with students and faculty. The finalists were selected by the school’s search committee, which includes UT faculty, staff and students who will help advise University President William Powers Jr. Michael Morton, Senate of College Councils president and member of the search committee, said the visits will help determine the best option to fill the position.

“It is very important for the dean candidates to come to campus and see how everything operates,” Morton said. “It’s even more important for them to listen to students and get a firm grasp on the issues affecting them, because these are the issues they’ll be tasked to solve and address.”

The candidates include Bernard Mair, the provost of undergraduate affairs and mathematics professor at the University of Florida, who visited campus Thursday.

Selmer Bringsjord, chairman of the Department of Cognitive Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will visit Tuesday.

Paul Diehl, a political science and law professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, will visit Thursday and Friday.

Steven Brint, the vice provost for undergraduate education and a sociology professor at the University of California at Riverside, will visit April 1 and 2.

Brent Iverson, UT Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry chairman and professor, will give presentations April 4 and 5.

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NEWS BRIEFLY Family recovering from airport accident MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A woman and two of her sons were improving Sunday after being seriously injured when a flight information billboard fell on them at an airport.

A third son was killed Friday when the electronic board, weighing at least 300 pounds, fell from a wall at the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport.

The boys’ mother, Heather Bresette, had broken ankles and a crushed pelvis. She had surgeries over the weekend, but she was still in intensive care and unconscious, University Hospital spokeswoman Nicole Wyatt said.

The Bresettes, a family of seven, took a weeklong spring break vacation to Destin, Fla., and were about to fly home to Overland Park, Kan., when the flight information panel fell.

Powerball ticket info to be relased Monday TRENTON, N.J. — Details on where and when the winning ticket for a $338.3 million Powerball drawing, held Saturday, was purchased and other related information were not disclosed Sunday by New Jersey Lottery officials, who also would not say if anyone claiming to hold the ticket had contacted them as of Sunday afternoon.

They said information on the ticket would be released at a news conference on Monday morning at the lottery’s headquarters in Lawrenceville.

Lottery officials say it was the fourth-largest jackpot in Powerball history. The numbers drawn were 17, 29, 31, 52, 53 and Powerball 31. A lump sum payout would be $221 million.

No one had won the Powerball jackpot since early February.

Libyan rebel fighters besiege PM’s office TRIPOLI, Libya — About 200 former rebel fighters in Libya have besieged the prime minister’s office, demanding that he resign.

The militia members, who did not threaten violence, want Prime Minister Ali Zidan to step down in accordance with a law banning members of the former regime from political life.

He served as an ambassador under Moammar Gadhafi.

The law is controversial because it bans anyone who worked with Gadhafi from 1969 until he was killed in 2011.

The prime minister’s convoy was seen moving around the capital, Tripoli, last week with more security guards than usual — after an influx of militias from around the country.

Icelandic skydivers didn’t open parachutes MIAMI — Two Icelandic skydivers who died during weekend jumps at a popular southwest Florida camp did not deploy their main parachutes, the co-owner of the facility said Sunday.

Deputies found the bodies of the skydiving instructor and a student Saturday after the two didn’t return from a jump with a group, setting off an hours-long air and ground search around the Zephyrhills facility, about 30 miles northeast of Tampa. Pasco County sheriff ’s authorities identified the victims as 41-year-old instructor Orvar Arnarson and 25-year-old student Andrimar Pordarson of Iceland. The men jumped separately, not in tandem.

— Compiled from Associated Press reports

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Syrian opposition dealt double blow

By Ben Hubbard Associated Press

BEIRUT — Syria’s opposition plunged into disarray Sunday as its president quit and its military chief refused to recognize the newly elected prime minister of an interim government for rebel-held areas.

The moves reflected deep splits in the body the U.S. and its allies hope will emerge as the united face of the opposition and advance the fight to topple President Bashar Assad’s regime.

The missteps of the opposition’s mostly exile political leadership drew little notice inside Syria, where rebel fighters dismissed it as ineffective and pushed ahead with their offensive to gain ground near the country’s southern border with Jordan. Nearby, the Israeli military in the Golan Heights responded to fire by shooting back at targets inside Syria.

The first blow to the opposition Syrian National Coalition was the surprise resignation of its president, who said he was quitting in frustration over what he called lack of international support and constraints imposed by the body itself.

Mouaz al-Khatib, who

Riccardo De Luca | Associated Press In this Feb. 28, 2013 photo, Syrian opposition coalition leader Mouaz al-Khatib speaks during a press conference with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, not pictured, following an international conference on Syria at Villa Madama, Rome.

rose to prominence as a preacher in Damascus’ most famous mosque, said in a statement posted on his Facebook page that he was making good on an earlier vow to quit if undefined “red lines” were crossed.

Despite electing a new, U.S.-educated prime minister last week to head a planned

interim government, the Coalition has failed to make much of a mark inside Syria, where hundreds of independent rebel brigades are fighting a civil war against Assad’s forces.

Reflecting the growing dissension over that move, the head of the Coalition’s military branch,

Gen. Salim Idris, said his group refused to recognize the new prime minister, a little-known IT professional from Texas, because he lacked broad support among the opposition.

“For the purpose of giving power to a prime minister to unite the

revolutionary forces and lead the Syrian revolution toward certain victory, we unequivocally declare that the Free Syrian Army ... conditions its support and cooperation on the achievement of a political agreement on the name of a prime minister,” Idris said in an online video.

African leader overthrown Israelis, Palestinians

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BANGUI, Central African Republic — Rebels overthrew Central African Republic’s president of a decade on Sunday, seizing the presidential palace and declaring that the desperately poor country has “opened a new page in its history.” The country’s president fled the capital, officials said.

The rebels’ invasion of the capital came just two months after they had signed a peace agreement that would have let President Francois Bozize serve until 2016. That deal unraveled in recent days, prompting the insurgents’ advance into Bangui and Bozize’s departure to a still unpublicized location.

Witnesses and an adviser to Bozize said rebel trucks were traveling throughout the town on Sunday hours after the palace was seized. Former colonial power France confirmed the developments, issuing a statement that said French President Francois Hollande “has taken note of the departure of President Francois Bozize.”

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Ben Curtis | Associated Press In this Jan. 8, 2013 photo, Francois Bozize, president of the Central African Republic, speaks to the media at the presidential palace in Bangui, Central African Republic.

“Central African Republic has just opened a new page in its history,” said a communique signed by Justin Kombo Moustapha, secretarygeneral of the alliance of rebel groups known as Seleka.

“The political committee of the Seleka coalition, made up of Central Africans of all kinds, calls on the population

to remain calm and to prepare to welcome the revolutionary forces of Seleka,” it said.

Central African Republic has long been wracked by rebellions and power grabs. Bozize himself took power in 2003 following a rebellion, and his tenure has been marked by conflict with myriad armed groups.

RAMALLAH, West Bank — A senior Palestinian official on Sunday rejected the idea of a partial Israeli settlement freeze as a way of restarting peace talks, a sign of tough times ahead for the Obama administration’s new attempt to bring the sides together.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met separately late Saturday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to talk about ending a deadlock of more than four years over settlements.

Abbas says he won’t return to negotiations without an Israeli construction freeze, arguing that Israel’s building on war-won land pre-empts the outcome of talks on a border between Israel and a future state of Palestine. Abbas last held talks with Netanyahu’s predecessor in late 2008.

Netanyahu has refused to halt construction and instead calls for an immediate return to negotiations. President Barack Obama sided with Israel’s position during a visit to the region last week, saying the Palestinians

should return to talks to sort out the settlement issue.

The U.S. has not spoken publicly about possible compromises in recent days, though there has been some speculation it would propose a partial construction stop in the West Bank heartland, east of Israel’s separation barrier.

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Sunday that the Palestinians do not seek a confrontation with the Obama administration, but appeared to suggest that nothing short of a full freeze will bring them back to negotiations.

The Palestinians want a state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, areas Israel captured in 1967. Since that war, Israel has built dozens of settlements — considered illegal by much of the world and now home to more than half a million Israelis — in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

Much of the construction takes place in socalled “settlement blocs” close to Israel and in east Jerusalem. Israel’s separation barrier cuts off east Jerusalem and some of the settlement blocs from the rest of the West Bank.

Violence breaks out at protest against gay marriage bill in Paris

By Michel Euler & Oleg Cetinic Associated Press

PARIS — Paris police used tear gas and batons to fight crowds who pushed their way onto the landmark Champs-Elysees avenue and toward the presidential palace as part of a huge protest against a draft law allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt children.

Hundreds of thousands of people — conservative activists, schoolchildren with their parents, retirees, priests — converged on the capital Sunday in a lastditch bid to stop the bill, many bused in from the French provinces.

The violence took pro-

testers and police by surprise, and suggested that the anti-gay marriage protests have become outlets for anger and disappointment in the presidency of Francois Hollande’s presidency.

The lower house of France’s parliament approved the “marriage for everyone” bill last month with a large majority, and it’s facing a vote in the Senate next month.

The first few hours of the protest were peaceful.

But as it was meant to be winding down, about 100 youths tried to push past police barricades onto the Champs-Elysees. In an indication of the sensitivity of the issue, protesters had been barred from marching

Protesters face riot police officers during an anti-gay marriage demonstration in Paris on Sunday.

Thibault Camus Associated Press

on the Champs.

Police officers wrangled with the youths and fired tear gas to force them back. Gaining momentum, more and more

protesters took side streets to reach the avenue, blocking a key intersection.

The official estimated that 300,000 people took part in Sunday’s march,

slightly less than a similar march in January. Organizers estimated some 1.4 million people took part in Sunday’s march, more than in the January protest.

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Editor-in-Chief Susannah Jacob

VIEWPOINT

Break or no break, fall semester needs fixing

Members of the General Faculty, which comprises most (but not all) of the professors on this campus, vote today on two proposed amendments to the University’s academic calendar. The first would institute a fall break on the Monday and Tuesday of the ninth week of the fall semester, and the second would move the fall semester’s start date from Wednesday to Monday in the fourth week of August.

Students and some faculty members have already demonstrated significant desire for a fall break, which many believe would provide a brief but welcome respite in the 10 uninterrupted class weeks between Labor Day and Thanksgiving. Similar proposals passed unanimously in Student Government and the Graduate Student Assembly, and on Jan. 28, a majority of members on the Faculty Council, an elected representative body of 113 UT professors, approved the proposal as well.

As students, we like the idea of a fall break, which we believe would alleviate stress in the middle of the semester. Students, especially new students transitioning to life at UT-Austin, would find the fall semester more pleasant with a break to look forward to. And given that many of UT’s peer institutions have implemented similar breaks, the proposal seems achievable.

But those gains to student happiness could potentially be offset by faculty headaches and disrupted course structures. We think it’s best to defer to faculty judgment on whether it would be wise to implement a fall break. If they feel it would compromise the quality of a UT education, we should respect their hesitancy as the people responsible for educating us.

Because the proposal is deemed “major legislation,” it requires a vote of the General Faculty. At least 366 faculty members must attend the meeting to meet the required 15 percent quorum.

Then, if a majority votes in favor of it, the proposal will move on to UT President William Powers Jr. for approval.

But in addition to demonstrations of student and faculty support, the proposal has engendered a significant outpouring of opposition from other faculty members, especially those in the College of Natural Sciences and Cockrell School of Engineering. Much of their disapproval hinges on the proposed break’s interference with laboratory courses, which require special setup procedures and are thus generally feasible only during full weeks.

Between fall’s Wednesday start, Labor Day and Thanksgiving, the semester currently offers only about 80 percent of the number of full weeks of instruction that the spring semester does.

In one of 61 complaints filed by faculty against the fall break proposal, Seth Bank, an engineering professor, expressed those concerns. “When coupled with UT’s commitment to preparing undergraduates for life in four years,” he writes, “I believe the proposed action will put undue additional burden on students in engineering and the physical sciences.”

Another problem with the proposed scheduled respite is that it might unintentionally encourage students to miss even more class the break’s allotted two days. John Deigh, a law professor, articulated this claim in another written complaint: “From long experience with the Thanksgiving break I know that too many students, when given a two day break, regularly turn it into more than two days. Since that is already occurring at Thanksgiving, I think it is pedagogically unwise to introduce a second such disruption into the fall semester.”

Kori Rady, a government and corporate communications sophomore who authored the fall break legislation in Student Government, is unconvinced by dissenting faculty arguments.

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Not being enrolled in either the natural sciences or engineering colleges, Rady was hesitant to criticize those faculty members’ disagreement with his proposal. But he points to peer institutions, such as Harvard, which currently only have 10 or 11 full weeks of instruction for laboratory courses in the fall compared to UT’s 12.

Furthermore, Rady said a fall break could potentially help with retention and recruiting, because “a lot of high school students would love a fall break.” For all of us, Rady says, some time off in the fall would “aid the big mental health crisis” he sees on campus.

The majority of faculty members in the General Faculty agree.

Many were inclined to put student interests first. Notable exceptions include William Doolittle, professor of geography, who wrote in a complaint, “I see no need for this, especially because of Thanksgiving. If it were up to me, I would eliminate spring break.”

The benefits of a fall break would not be lost on students. It remains to be seen whether faculty agree that a break would be worthwhile, and even with their approval, the proposal will still face significant obstacles before becoming policy. But regardless of the outcome of today’s vote, the stress that new and returning students face in the fall ranks as an issue that demands examination, and not just in terms of adding a new break.

We agree with Michael Morton, president of the Senate of College Councils, who said of the fall break proposal: “One thing that’s been a little disheartening about this entire conversation is that I don’t think we’re really addressing the root issue that we’re trying to address.” The traumas of fall semester remain significant for students, and the introduction of a break should only be one of many conversations had on campus about how to improve those initial experiences of college life for UT students.

Cleaning up, not cracking down Roy Cathey Daily Texan Columnist

What to Watch March 25-29 At the beginning of every week, we provide a list of opinionworthy events to expect during the coming week.

This afternoon, the General Faculty will meet in the Hogg Memorial Auditorium to vote on a proposal for a fall break at UT. If the General Faculty approves the fall break proposal, it will still need to be approved by UT President William Powers Jr. before the break is added to the University’s calendar. The meeting will take place at 3:15 p.m.

Also this afternoon, Dennis Lettenmaier, a guest lecturer from the University of Washington, will present “Climate Change and the Water Resources of the Western U.S.” The lecture will take place in JGB 4.102 at 3 p.m.

On Tuesday, University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer will present a lecture titled “Can China Rise Peacefully?”, during which he will focus on China’s political and economic ascendency and the extent to which its rise could create tensions with the United States. The lecture takes place in Bass Lecture Hall 2.104 at 12:15 p.m.

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As March draws to a close, the city of Austin can reflect on its first month without single-use bags.

Working at a local grocery store through it all has proved to be much like a bad “Portlandia” skit, as customer after customer apprehensively asks how I can bag their groceries.

Ardent opponents of the ordinance spout caveats of socialist takeover while the silent majority kindly hand over their reusable bags. All things considered, I think Austin is going to survive the “bag ban” just fine — and we have every reason to try.

The single-use bag ordinance is a small step towards Austin’s Zero Waste Plan goal of diverting 95 percent of our trash from landfills by the year 2040. While the city of Austin doesn’t seem to be making too much of a fuss, we are geographically bound to the state of Texas, which is home to many who feel differently about the ordinance.

Texas Rep. Drew Springer, RMuenster, is serving as the voice for Texas’ dissenting opinion, claiming the ordinance is just another example of “an attempt to push forward a misguided nanny-state agenda.”

Springer has formalized his opposition in the form of the “Shopping Bag Freedom Act,” legislation, which he introduced with the intent of overturning Austin’s new ordinance as soon as possible. In short, a state representative from a North Texas town of 1,500 is trying to overturn Austin’s local ordinance on the grounds that it is governmental overreach.

The irony of that statement aside, it is our right to be given bags, right?

This is a matter of American freedom. But Andrew Dobbs, program director for the Texas Campaign for the Environment, doesn’t see it that way.

“I have a right to a community that’s safe, clean, and healthy,” Dobbs said. “We have shopped at markets for 3-4,000 years as a series of civilizations, and it’s only in the last 30-40 years that we’ve had an expectation that we’ll get a single-use bag for free.

Our founding fathers were expected to bring containers for their goods, and we can, too.”

Our insistence on convenience has allowed us to create an illusion of necessity, and this illusion is so wellestablished that something as minute as what our groceries are put into has turned into a hotly-contested policy debate. This ordinance could be perceived in many more productive ways than as a deprivation of

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This ordinance could be perceived in many more productive ways than as a deprivation of freedom.

freedom. Though it may be small, it is by all accounts a step in the right direction.

The quantifiable possible effects of single-use bags on a city are considerable. According to research done

by Austin Resource Recovery, the stream of single-use bags is costing the city approximately $800,000 annually through litter cleanup and landfill costs alone. Paper bag production requires relatively large amounts of water that Texas does not have to spare, assuming the bags are not being imported from abroad. According to Dobbs, however, this ordinance means more than what can be translated into dollars and cents.

“It’s significant as a symbol of commitment to our community,” Dobbs said with pride. “It’s moving beyond a disposable culture towards a culture of responsibility for our resources.”

Environmental pride is the key to “surviving” this ordinance, and the many more to come. Businesses like Buffalo Exchange on Guadalupe and 29th share this pride, and have had a reward system in place for customers who want to abstain from using a bag since long before the ordinance. If customers chose not to use a singleuse bag to carry home their purchases, they were given a token to donate to an environmental cause of their choice. Now that they have no bags of any kind, patrons simply receive a token at the end of every transaction.

Single-use bags make up less than 2 percent of the waste stream in Austin, which leaves room for much environmental improvement. There is no “nanny state agenda” behind these modifications, just a city that wants to start cleaning up after itself. These small adjustments will soon become just as much of a habit as singleuse bags were, and we, as a community, can move onto bigger and greener things.

Cathey is a journalism sophomore from Dripping Springs.

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TSTV hosts annual 24Seven fundraising event

By Jeremy Thomas Nearly 200 volunteers at Texas Student Television plan to go beyond the standard 40-hour work week to produce 168 consecutive hours of live content for an annual broadcast and fundraising event.

24Seven started Sunday at 7 p.m. in the Unofficial Zach Anner Studio. For an entire week, TSTV will place continual live content on air that includes programming such as a cereal show, girl talk, the Newlywed Show, student organization shows including Student Body President Thor Lund and Vice President Wills Brown and a late night talk show, as well as regularly scheduled shows like KVR News and Videogame Hour Live.

Rebecca Rushworth, station manager and RadioTelevision-Film senior, said 24Seven and all programming on TSTV is the culmination of hard-working individuals who volunteer their time and effort to help produce shows all while going to class and learning at UT. “The purpose of the event is to show that our volunteers are working hard to maintain the standard of being the only Federal Communications Commission licensed entirely student-run station in the country,” Rushworth said.

“Part of being entirely student run is that we support ourselves along with some very appreciated support from the Student Services Budget Committee.”

24Seven raised approximately $1,500 last year,

Rushworthsaid . She said the event began in 2008 as a fundraiser to purchase the station’s digital antenna but did not become an annual event until Spring 2012.

In his second year as a volunteer for 24Seven, journalism junior and TSTV assistant news director Jon Scott said producing 168 hours of consecutive live content can get pretty crazy.

“We have people at the station all the time,” Scott said.

“We have to. People sleep at the station. Someone has to be on camera at all times.”

Scott said he will spend around 20 hours on air throughout 24Seven, but not consecutively.

“Last year, I actually had to register for fall classes on camera at 8 a.m.,” Scott said.

Journalism senior and TSTV sports director

RTF sophomore Luke Swinney works in the TSTV control room as they kickoff 24Seven on Sunday. The fundraising event will run for 168 consecutive hours, pulling in nearly 200 volunteers as well as airing online and on television.

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Alexandra Stockwell said she enjoys the challenge.

“Some of the best content happens last minute at 3 a.m. so it’s one of those things that’s so much fun even though it’s technically work,” Stockwell said.

Content from 24 Seven will air all day online and on television — on digital antenna channel 29.1 and in dorms and Apogee on channel 15. Content will also air Monday through Friday from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. on

Channel Austin for service providers Time Warner and AT&T U-verse.

Rushworth said she hopes to raise nearly $3,000 this year and establish a relationship with businesses and student organizations.

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Hacking report highlights need for greater cyber protection

By Jeremy Thomas Concerns about sensitive personal and business information in cyberspace are growing — and colleges and universities are no exception.

Mandiant, an American cybersecurity firm, released a detailed report in late February “exposing a multi-year espionage campaign by one of the largest ‘Advanced Persistent Threat’ groups.” The group hacked 141 companies from the United States, stealing many terabytes of compressed data.

The report indicates hackers also targeted two higher education institutions, whose

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names were not released for confidentiality concerns.

Cam Beasley, Chief Information Security Officer at Information Technology Services, said along with its own security program, ITS also uses traditional antivirus and anti-spyware software, host-based intrusion detection, browser security controls, password management tools and encryptions of various sorts.

“In most cases our security monitoring tools and services, many of which we’ve developed, help us detect such events,” Beasley said.

One of the largest data theft instances that occurred at the University happened in

spring 2003 when thousands of names and Social Security numbers were illegally accessed and downloaded to a personal computer. University officials said the discovery of the security breach occurred on March 2 and three days later a search warrant was issued and a computer and related materials were confiscated. Prompt action by the Travis County District Attorney’s Office, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the U.S. Secret Service secured the stolen data before they could be misused or further disseminated, according to University officials.

“Attacks that put sensitive University information

at risk are historically the most significant,” Beasley said. “Some steps [after a possibly hacking] include determining whether law enforcement is likely to become involved and if so, preserving evidence, containing or eradicating the problem and fostering an organized and professional response to the incident based on severity level, and type and scope of the threat.”

Lance Hayden, adjunct assistant professor in the School of Information, said figuring out how to protect intellectual property and other sensitive business information while also encouraging collaboration

in product development is going to be complex, difficult work.

“It will take us years, maybe decades to get it all sorted,” Hayden said, “But that’s okay, or at least not abnormal. Look at the growth of any disruptive technology from weapons to the printing press to the telegraph/telephone to the Internet. All of them created as many new challenges for society as benefits, changing and shaping their environments dramatically.”

Protecting personal sensitive information is a major concern for Government and Economics sophomore Travis Adams.

“I try not to upload

sensitive things,” he said. “I have different passwords for all of my important accounts so that if you break into one you can’t break into all of them.”

For UT faculty and students, user awareness and vigilance is key to protection from a cyber-attack, Beasley said.

“User awareness training is required for all faculty and staff,” Beasley said. “Be more vigilant with their browsing habits, keep browser and browser plug-ins updated on a regular basis and encrypt portable devices [such as] laptops, iPhones and thumb drives. A rational distrust of most things can often be your best defense.”

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for research. e of “There’s no end to the disdentcoveries that can be made in rchthis archive, but I think it’s essitspecially valuable for students bestto see how many times Coe-

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Included in Coetzee’s archives is a letter from the UT English department offering Coetzee a job as a teaching assistant, with a $2,000 per year salary.

“It is a privilege to have graduated from being a teaching assistant at The University of Texas to being one of the authors whose papers are conserved here,” Coetzee wrote in a blog for the Ransom Center.

Coetzee, who was born in South Africa, now lives and teaches in Australia. However, he remembers the initial impression he had of the Ransom Center when he came to UT as a doctoral student.

“In the 1960s the Ransom Center already had a certain fame, worldwide, for having struck out into a new field for collectors — the field of living authors and their manuscripts,” Coetzee wrote. “The word ‘brash’ tended to find its way into comments on

the Ransom Center and its activities, as did the phrase ‘oil money.’”

The archives fill more than 140 document boxes, Barnard said, and trace Coetzee’s writing process through multiple drafts.

Jan Wilm, a lecturer and doctoral candidate at Goethe University Frankfurt, will use the archive for his dissertation on the similarities between literary and philosophical writing.

“Whereas the philosophical — aesthetic, ethical, epistemological — implications of J.M. Coetzee’s work are a fascinating subject for thematic studies of his oeuvre, I am more interested in how philosophical dimensions are integrated into the form of his writing,” Wilm said. “For such a study, it is of inestimable value to track the developments from draft stage to published work.”

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NCAA TOURNAMENT

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David J. Phillip | Associated Press Minnesota’s Maurice Walker, right, shoots as Florida’s Will Yeguete, left, defends during the first half of a third-round game of the NCAA college basketball tournament Sunday in Austin. Florida defeated Minnesota 78-64.

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Florida, Miami join Sweet 16

(15) FGCU

By Nick Cremona The road to the Sweet 16 varies from one region of the NCAA Tournament bracket to the next, but one constant between all games played in the first two rounds is that anything can happen.

The Frank Erwin Center was one of four regional sites for the first two rounds of tournament action and served as the backdrop for six games that would decide two of the Sweet 16 members.

There weren’t any crazy upsets by a 15-seed over a heavily favored No. 2 seed, or any games marred by a controversial call with time winding down, however there were still plenty of

chances for fans inside the Erwin Center to get their fix of March Madness.

Friday was a long day filled with several tantalizing matchups and 16 games that were played in Dayton, Ohio, Philadelphia, Pa., Kansas City, Mo. and Austin. While other sites experienced mid-majors taking down established powerhouse schools, buzzer beaters and come-from-behind wins, Austin’s first round of the 64 games were much more subdued.

No. 2 seed Miami made quick work of a tired Pacific team and held the 15seed Tigers to their lowest offensive output of the season. The Hurricanes made a tournament-high 12 three-pointers and dealt long time Pacific head

coach Bob Thomason a loss in his final game at the helm for the Tigers. A graduate of Pacific in 1972 who has spent the last 41 years coaching, Thomason earned a school record 414 wins in 25 years with the Tigers. Oddly enough, the last time the Hurricanes made it to the tournament in 2008 they were eliminated in the second round 75-72 by Texas.

Seventh-seeded Illinois nearly blew a 16-point halftime lead against 10seed Colorado, but would grind out a 57-49 win to advance to play Miami on Sunday night.

No. 3 Florida flirted with the idea of letting the nation’s highest

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Editor’s note: Sophomore linebacker Steve Edmond is the third of five “Players to Watch” who will be featured leading up to the Orange-White scrimmage March 30. The fourth, Quandre Diggs, will be featured Thursday.

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The sophomore linebacker, known among coaches for his softspoken nature, has been overlooked as a leader in the past because of his shy ways.

“Steve is very quiet,” head coach Mack Brown said last year of Edmond.

“He’s very bright. He’s not going to let you know he’s bright, because he’s not going to talk to you. He won’t look at you in some cases.

But he’s got great instincts.”

On the field, the unobtrusive characteristics drift away, and he morphs into a powerful ax with hard hits and speed. Edmond, who won three straight state championships in high school and came to Texas as one of ESPNU’s top 150 national prospects, played in 12 games during his first year, adding 16 tackles.

As a sophomore, he played in all 13 games, starting 12 at middle linebacker, and his numbers made him second on the

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Elisabeth Dillon | Daily Texan file photo Sophomore Steve Edmond returns an interception against Ole Miss last September. Edmond may prove to be a key player for Texas next year as he returns for his junior season.

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A day after picking up their first road victory of the season, the Longhorns jumped out to an early lead Sunday and held on to win the rubber game of their series against Minnesota.

Texas (14-9) recorded double-digit hits for a second straight day to top the Golden Gophers 6-3 in the series finale.

Five Longhorns reached base at least twice in the contest, and three had multiple hits.

After taking a quick lead on an Erich Weiss RBI single in the first inning,

Texas scored three times in the second to open up a 4-0 score. Alex Silver scored on Ben Johnson’s first career triple to jumpstart the rally, and Jacob Felts and Weston Hall each had an RBI in the frame.

The Longhorns would add a pair of runs in the fourth inning, with the big blow being an RBI double off Hall’s bat. The junior center fielder finished the game three for five with a pair of RBIs and a run scored.

Nathan Thornhill had a strong start for Texas to improve his record to 2-2. The right-hander al-

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Charlie Pearce | Daily Texan file photo Junior infielder Erich Weiss slides back to first base during a 4-3 win over Nebraska on Feb. 23.

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“Good weekend for us in Minnesota.

Thankful for another win today. Now take me back to TEXAS #texmex #bbq #hookem”

SPORTS BRIEFLY Sophomore Day brings first commit This past Saturdaymarked the inaugural sophomore day for the Texas football program.

Schools across the country have been putting on events such as this for years, but this was the first year Texas decided to join in.

The Longhorns made eight scholarship offers with one verbal commit.

Aaron Garza from Sherman High School verbally committed to Texas during the day after an offer from head coach Mack Brown. Garza is a 6-foot-4, 300 pound offensive lineman who led his team to a 9-3 record this past season. Maxpreps.com, a CBS Sports site for high school sports, ranked the sophomore as No. 148 in the state of Texas.

While many players have been offered already, Garza is the first in his class to commit to the Texas program.

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weekend recaps Women’s Golf| Jeremy Thomas

Women’s rowing| Sam Marie Jackson

The “Drives of Texas” were upon the Longhorns on their home turf as they captured first place in Sunday’s three-team match against Baylor and SMU. The top four players’ scores counted toward the team total as Texas finished atop the team leaderboard with a total of 309.

Longhorn seniors dominated the majority of the top four. Katelyn Sepmoree led the team as she scored a round low of 73. She finished as the top woman out of all participants in the triangular match. Desiree

This Fridays’ opening races proved for a great start to what has been a victorious weekend for Women’s Rowing. After the opening races, Texas was tied for first with San Diego at 20 points. Iowa and Oklahoma trailed in third while UCF and Kansas State were tied for fifth.

SMU and Tulsa had yet to earn any points.

Saturday, Texas hit the water strong, posting seven wins throughout the third session of the Longhorn Invitational.

The Longhorns finished day two with a total of 60 points and the lead over

Dubreuil finished the match with a 76 while Madison Pressel entered the clubhouse with a round of 78. Sophomore Bertine Strauss scored an 82 to round out the top four for the Horns.

Junior Alyssa Morgan and freshmen Tezira Abe and Natalie Karcher finished with a round of 87, 89 and 85, respectively.

In the triangular match, Baylor carded a team total of 318 while Mustangs of SMU ended their round at the UT Golf Club with a team total of 325.

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The Longhorns are slated to be back in action next Sunday for The Farms Collegiate Invite at the The Farms Golf Club in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.

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rival Oklahoma, who trailed close behind with 58 points.

Texas opened the final round Sunday with their championship dual against Oklahoma and won with the first novice boat lead by sophomore Christine Young, beating the Sooners by 15 seconds. During the varsity’s second eightboat face-off the Sooners claimed the lead over Texas, taking the win with a time of 6:37.0. Texas’ first varsity four, lead by stroke seat Katio Trovato, finished close behind Oklahoma with a time of 7:36.0 but failed to gain

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enough points to override the Sooners. Texas took a second place overall at the Invitational. The Longhorns will travel to San Diego April 6-7 for the annual Crew Classic.

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Sam Ortega | Daily Texan Staff Senior Blaire Luna winds up to pitch in Sunday’s win over Baylor. Luna recorded 11 strikeouts and allowed just two hits as the Longhorns took the victory. Texas won both of its games against the Bears. The team played one in Waco and the other in Austin.

Horns overwhelm Bears in first Big 12 play

By Jori Epstein Though unable to score in the first four innings of either weekend match this weekend, No. 9 Texas (294, 2-0) trumped No. 18 Baylor (26-7, 0-2) in both contests to start off conference play. The teams faced off on both opponents’ turfs, as the Longhorns rose to 8-2 against ranked teams this season.

Texas opened the weekend in Waco with an oldfashioned pitchers’ duel.

Both Blaire Luna and the Bears’ Whitney Canion struck out 14 batters as Luna didn’t allow even a single hit

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about playing chess and not getting consumed.”

Back at McCombs Field Sunday, the Longhorns started off slow again. A Hoagland error allowed pinch runner Justine Young to score unearned in the second as the Bears took their first lead of the weekend.

A series of fifth- and sixthinning fielding errors and unearned runs brought the final score to 5-1. Though shaky, Texas managed to pull away undefeated in conference play.

“The outcomes are good,” head coach Connie Clark said of the weekend matches. “Our biggest takeaway from the locker room today

needs to be that you learn to love to play under pressure. Yesterday I thought we were in A+ dealing with [adversity]. Today I thought we were a C+. It’s going to be tough but I love that we did get two Ws and that we were challenged in both.”

Thom echoed Clark’s mentality, helping the Longhorns with one run, one hit and two RBIs this weekend.

“I love pressure situations like that,” Thom said. “That’s what we live for and thrive for. I’m just excited to be up there in that situation — get a base hit and get my runners in. But for us to beat teams like that, we’re going to have to be consistent.”

isn’t giving Edmond an easy time. But the teammate rivalry between the two has helped Edmond as a player.

“Dalton Santos has made Steve Edmond better,” defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Manny Diaz said. “I think Steve has made some big improvements over the last week or so. It’s just a battle, and I am keeping score.”

Hicks is returning from last year’s hip injury and will provide another threat for Edmond if he can stay

healthy. A fellow junior who played in every game as a freshman and in 13 games as a sophomore, Hicks brings strength, size and leadership to the field. Sophomore Peter Jinkens, who served as a reserve linebacker and started three games last season, is also vying for a starting slot.

For now, Edmond will continue to plug away in the spring, toning his body, working on tackling and growing quietly as a leader.

output and he hopes the lineup would continue being productive.

“I want to see how we bounce back on top of some of the fundamentals of our offense and continue to make productive outs,” Garrido said. “We just want to see if we can keep the same level of intensity.”

The Longhorns dropped the first game of the series Friday 5-1 as Minnesota starter Tom Windle struck

out 12 batters in a complete game performance.

Texas would rebound with a 5-4 extra innings victory Saturday, with the big hit being a go ahead RBI single by Alex Silver in the 10th inning.

The Longhorns will look to extend their win streak to three on Tuesday as they return home to host Texas State. The game is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.

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team in tackles and tied for second in forced fumbles.

But now the stakes are higher for the Daingerfield, Texas native, who will enter his junior year with the pressure of keeping his starting spot and competing against other top linebackers including Dalton Santos and Jordan Hicks.

“The competition between Dalton Santos and Steve Edmond has been great because Steve’s playing much better and Dal-

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until the eighth inning.

Three baseless innings further focused the action on the mound before Taylor Thom’s ninth-inning bases-loaded single plated Stephanie Ceo. Kim Bruins then doubled to the gap in left center to drive in Taylor Hoagland and Brejae Washington. Thom’s unearned run closed the game 4-0 when Luna allowed a leadoff single to the Baylor batting lineup.

“It’s about staying pitchto-pitch and controlling what I can control,” Luna said. “It’s more just not overthinking things. Being that this is the fourth time they have seen me, it’s

ton’s all over the place,” Brown said. “I think Steve is at a different place with his intensity than he was this time last year.”

A large part of that intensity has come with increased conditioning to trim down during spring practice. As Santos worked tirelessly to lose weight, Edmond followed suit, Brown said.

Santos, a sophomore who saw action in all 13 games last year and led the team in special teams tackles,

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lowed three runs in six innings of work and struck out five batters.

Thornhill held the Golden Gophers scoreless though the first six innings before loading the bases without registering an out in the seventh. Relievers Ty Culbreth and Ty Marlow combined to allow each of the inherited runners to score but limited the damage to three runs.

Corey Knebel pitched a pair

of scoreless innings to pick up his fourth save of the year and nail down the win for Texas.

Mark Payton had two hits on the day to extend his hit streak to 12 games. The junior right fielder went six for 13 over the weekend to boost his season average to .415.

After Sunday’s game, head coach Augie Garrido said he was pleased with his team’s offensive

Texas capped its season off with a ninth place finish at the NCAA Championships but landed its first individual title winner since 2001 as senior Laura Sogar won the 200-yard breaststroke.

“It feels so good,” Sogar said. “That was the last swim of my college swimming career. There have been some ups and downs.

It was great to finish it off well and with a win.”

Sogar pulled ahead Saturday in the last 50-yards, beating out a former champion in the event, Minnesota’s Haley Spencer, and the American record holder Breeja Larson. Sogar finished in 2:05.41, Spencer in 2:06.15 and Larson in 2:06.24. Sogar’s best time is 2:05.04.

“I’m happy she was able to put it together at the right time,” head coach Carol Capitani said. “It was a little off of her best time but at this meet the time doesn’t matter. It’s about winning.”

Sogar finished sixth in the 100-yard breaststroke Friday.

Texas finished ninth

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place overall with 186 points, while Georgia took the top spot with 477, followed by California at 393 and Tennessee at 325.5.

Junior Sarah Denninghoff added points for her team with an eighth-place finish in the 200-yard backstroke.

The 400-yard freestyle relay featuring juniors Alex Hooper, Denninghoff, Samantha Tucker and senior Kelsey Amundsen finished seventh on the last day of competition.

Senior diver Shelby Cullinan and redshirt junior Maren Taylor missed the championship but managed a one-two finish in the consolation final. Cullinan won with 315.35, while Taylor had 309.55.

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scoring team, 14-seed Northwestern State, hang around for an upset bid but quickly muffled the small contingent of Demon fans who made the trip from Natchitoches, La. and dominated in a 79-49 win.

In Friday’s last game 11-seed Minnesota knocked out sixth-seeded UCLA in an 83-63 win.

Although Bruins head coach Ben Howland declined to comment on rumors about his imminent firing after the game, by Sunday night his termination was all but official. The Bruins had not made it past the NCAA second round since 2008 under Howland, who was let go after ten years with the program.

Minnesota head coach Tubby Smith expressed intrigue in playing former SEC foe Billy Donovan for the first time in six years, but the Gophers would bow out Sunday as Florida cruised to a 78-64 win to advance to its third consecutive Sweet 16. Mike Rosario scored 25 against the Gophers and is the Gators’ leading scorer through two tournament games with 33 total points.

The Gators will play the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles, the first 15-seed to make it to the Sweet 16, Friday at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.

The sixth and final game on Sunday night featured Illinois up against Miami, who looked every bit deserving of its No. 2 seed until the Illini fought back and began alternating leads with the Hurricanes late in the game.

Junior guard Rion Brown made 5-of-10 three point shots and is shooting 8-of13 from three in his first two tournament games.

Through eight lead changes the Hurricanes held on and will advance to the Sweet 16 to play Marquette at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. on Thursday.

After the dust settled, the two top-seeded teams playing in Austin advanced to their respective Sweet 16 and Elite Eight sites. With the surprise appearance of Florida Gulf Coast there are three teams from the state of Florida in the Sweet 16 for the first time in NCAA Tournament history. Miami and Florida may not have blown the socks off anyone watching, but their ability to pull out two tough wins apiece reinforces why they were rewarded for solid regular seasons with high seeds in the tournament. Both teams have the same goal of winning a national title, and they could clash in the Final Four if they remain hot.

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was unbelievably prescient about the media-technology nexus, but I’m not sure describing the world is a primary function of literature anyway.

DT: Which fiction writers from previous decades [succeeded] in their analysis of the future?

Franzen: It’s safe to say that Arthur C. Clarke, who foresaw commuter service to the moon in 2001, did not. But again, who cares?

DT: Do you think the changes brought on by the internet make us more of a reading country, or less?

Franzen: I think there’s no question that the average attention span has suffered. But a strong enough novel will draw you into it and out of the internet world. The only question is whether you’re too anxious to let is happen.

DT: What do you advise college-age people to read?

Franzen: Dostoyevsky.

DT: What have you gone back and re-read since

you were young and how has it changed?

Franzen: Certain modes of cerebral fiction that I enjoyed in my twenties leave me cold now. But the Narnia books still do it for me.

DT: What do you think of TV today?

Franzen: I binge on stuff like “Breaking Bad,” “Homeland” and “Friday Night Lights” like crack cocaine.

DT: What are you reading right now?

Franzen: Mario Vargas Llosa’s “The War of the End of the World.”

Elizabeth is the damsel in distress of “Bioshock Infinite,” the newest installment in the “Bioshock” series created by Irrational Games.

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on Irrational Games to create an interesting and intricate game. The original “Bioshock” was praised for its morality-based plotline, which took into account a player’s actions toward other characters in the game. In other words, shoot a good guy to get ahead, and the game’s characters and plot will treat you like you’ve made a morally dubious choice. Defend an innocent character, and you’ll be treated as if you’ve made a good choice.

If the trailer is any indication, “Bioshock Infinite” doesn’t stray away from the themes of the series’ original title. Set in the fictional floating city of Columbia circa 1912, the game follows a former Pinkerton agent, Booker DeWitt, on a quest

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“Bring us the girl, and wipe away the debt. That was the deal,” a grizzled voice says at the beginning of the trailer, which goes on to showcase several minutes of colorful violence inflicted with steam-punk-inspired weapons. All this, in typical “Bioshock” style, happens against a richly realized city stuffed with detail.

Ken Levine, the Creative Director of “Bioshock,” seems to have fully realized the city of Columbia, which in the game was created by the U.S. Government as a showcase for the World’s Fair but seceded after political turmoil broke out on

board. Lost for years, it has simply floated away into the sky.

Levine, however, doesn’t seem to have put much thought into breaking the annoying “damsel in distress” trope that so often defines videogame plotlines. In a promotional trailer about the making of the character Elizabeth, Amanda Jeffrey, a level designer at Irrational Games, points out that one of the most impressive things about the character is that “she will be by your side, no matter what you end up doing,” Levine said. “She really is the emotional center of the game.”

Whether or not that emotional center rises above the familiar cliches is, like the city of Columbia, up in the air.

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school students in any Roundup event was enforced this year by the Greek governing bodies. The University Panhellenic Council and the Interfraternity Council threatened to enforce large fines to any organization found “dirty rushing,” or associating with future rushees, or helping any high schoolers get into Roundup events. Standardized wristbands were required to attend any event, and valid college ID’s were scanned at each wristband station to ensure no high school students could gain access.

Any unapologetically loyal member of a sorority or fraternity, including myself, would naturally want a leg up on the competition in recruiting new members, but this policy creates a much more fair process.

You see, the advantage a potential new member can gain by knowing even one person in the house of their choice is astronomical. It is very difficult to get into any sorority at UT if the rushee does not

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articles and columns about the Pew’s report are missing some of the rays of sunlight.

To start with, a shocking development has happened that no one could have predicted.

Online paywalls are working, and they are not just working at The New York Times. They are also working at smaller papers and news organizations, and digital subscriptions are beginning to slowly make up for the loss of print subscriptions. Circulation is back on the rise.

And adding to speculation that this is a “grim” day for journalism, the Pew’s report itself is facing criticism.

Within the many pages of this report, something big is missing — college media. As Bryan Murley and Dan Re-

Monday, March 25, 2013 send in multiple letters of recommendation, pictures and references. But even that isn’t enough. Just like searching for a job in the real world, who you know is everything.

As I said before, I am an outof-state student. I did not know a soul before stepping onto this campus last August, and I was at an extreme disadvantage for recruitment. Women and men from Texas could easily take a weekend trip to Austin, get their name out, make friends in sororities and secure their spots months in advance by attending Roundup. Thousands of other out-of-staters had no such opportunity.

It is a commendable step on the part of the UPC and the IFC to halt any unfairness in recruitment that comes with Roundup.

Obviously there is no way to cut off all high schoolers from attending Roundup. The hype and tradition is extremely attractive to the sheltered rebels in Texas high schools.

I presume there will never be a year without some seriously underage party-goers. This year a box of wristbands was stolen from the wristband station at the corner of 25th

Street and Pearl Street with the stolen wristbands likely distributed to sneaky high schoolers. The station was forced to move on campus to prevent further theft.

Even with the intense restrictions, some impressively sly high schoolers still made their mark on West Campus last weekend. But the fact that the Greek community is finally taking action on this unfortunate and unfair reality should be appreciated.

I won’t lie and say that Roundup is something the University should be proud of. It is dangerous, baffling and frankly, insane. But the Greek community is actually taking steps toward positive change and taking advantage of the infamous party scene to do some good.

There are plenty of complaints that can be made about Roundup Weekend, many of which I will wholeheartedly agree with. However, this year I can take a look at this large student community and know that we are one step closer to a fairer system in recruitment, and a more positive presence on campus.

imold noted on the “College Media Podcast,” the Pew Research Center for Excellence in Journalism did not cover or reference college media.

As Slate Magazine pointed out, the State of Journalism Report focuses and laments the fall in news revenue and does not talk about the positive data the report found in regards to digital and online journalism. Slate Magazine, which is fittingly an onlineonly publication, argues there is more good content for people to read online than ever before, and that online journalism is growing stronger.

Some of the best news for journalism comes from the “Digital Development” section of the report, a section that has not been as widely covered in the news. For instance, this section shows 27 percent of people who followed the news on election night in November did

so through multiple platforms — television and online. And social media usage, including Twitter and Facebook, is still on the rise. This is especially true for the younger generations.

While some members of the older generation get their news from newspapers and television, younger people are more connected online than ever before. Perhaps the old trope that young people don’t read news is totally false, and the truth is they just read it differently.

So this isn’t the apocalypse — yet. Maybe it is coming.

But while news coverage from media outlets including Mashable and The New York Times focus on the bad in the Pew’s report, good news is sprinkled throughout. Maybe it is the kind of good news newspapers and journalists do not want to hear, but its good news nonetheless.

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Author gives personal insights

By Susannah Jacob Jonathan Franzen has written essays and novels, including “Freedom,” his most recent book, and “The Corrections,” a National Book Award winner.

He graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in German in 1981. Through the mail, The Daily Texan asked Franzen about reading, college life, television and New York.

The Daily Texan: What and how often did you read in college?

Jonathan Franzen: I read constantly in college, but it was almost entirely for class.

I don’t think I read a single extracurricular book cover to cover, except during vacation and my junior year abroad, and even then I was reading more plays than novels.

DT: How did your reading habits change when you graduated?

Franzen: As soon as I finished college I pretty methodically went about making up for the lost years. By the time I was 28 I’d torn through most of the 19th and 20th century canon, from Austen to DeLillo. Only during baseball season, when I watched far too many games on TV, did I average less than three or four hours of reading per evening.

DT: What is being 18 to 22 years old good for?

Franzen: It’s good for leaving home.

DT: How have you personally observed the world change in the last 10 years?

Franzen: I think the general anxiety level has risen in concert with the technologization of everyday life. I think the new technology is a lot like cigarettes, which people used to reach for to assuage anxiety and which of course just made them more anxious.

DT: What would you do with four years of college if you had them now?

Franzen: I don’t regret majoring in German and going to Europe for a year, but I might have tried to learn a third language and take more courses in subjects like Milton and philosophy, which are really daunting to tackle on your own.

DT: What American writers have we forgotten?

Franzen: Steinbeck is seriously underesteemed, especially “East of Eden.” Jane Smiley’s fourth, fifth and sixth books may be, too.

DT: How do you advise young people uncertain what to do when they graduate, or should middle-aged people not be advising young people on that subject?

Franzen: We should probably not be advising, but I can at least safely advise reading good novels from a variety of eras.

DT: What’s so great about New York today? How has it

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changed in the last 10 years, based on your observations?

Franzen: I’m afraid the magazine N+1 was only slightly exaggerating when it said that Lower Manhattan has become one large bank. Truly, the proliferation of bank branches at the expense of more interesting small businesses may be the most striking change. And then there’s the rise of the

culture or cult of Brooklyn, which puts me in mind of the great Jane Smiley line about a character who has cultivated every nuance of his Norwegian heritage into “a fully realized affectation.”

Then again, who wants to stay in a borough that’s become one large bank?

DT: What is the logic or explanation behind the

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perception that studying the humanities is a lazy pursuit compared to studying sciences, and how does that affect the way we think about ourselves?

Franzen: I wasn’t aware that studying the humanities is considered lazy. Not only is reading Joyce or Kant difficult, these days it almost amounts to an act of cultural defiance.

DT: What literature from previous decades continues to accurately describe the world around you today?

Franzen: DeLillo, certainly, saw it all coming in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Edith Wharton saw a lot of it in the first decades of the last century.

Around the same time, the Viennese writer Karl Kraus

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MEDIA

Roundup weekend changes prove positive Future of journalism takes a positive turn

By Willa Young Daily Texan Columnist

Roundup has a bad reputation. It’s difficult to blur that clear-cut distinction because, in a way, this reputation comes with good reason. Thousands of young adults flood West Campus each spring, clad in different hues of radioactive glow, causing chaos and mayhem at the largest Greek event of the year. Alcohol flows, music booms and lights paint the sky in pulsing vibrancy.

So why is it that I am feeling this foreign sense of pride? Why is it that this event only makes me more sure of my decision to come to the University of Texas?

Perhaps it is because when friends and family back home in California ask me why I would leave paradise for the stagnant and blistering reality of the Texas plains, I have a simple answer.

My University is one of the finest institutions of higher learning in the nation, with many schools ranked with the likes of Harvard and Yale.

My school is placed in a city teeming with diverse and dynamic culture that begs to be different. My school has sports teams that cause childlike anxiety among the toughest men. And in one weekend,

Editor’s note: This is the first installment of Media Monday, a weekly column about journalism, media and news.

By Bobby Blanchard

Maria Arrellaga | Daily Texan Staff Sam Shrull dances with the American flag at the Sigma Chi fraternity’s party Saturday afternoon during UT roundup weekend.

my school of leaders, thinkers and achievers can have more fun than any other place can scarcely imagine.

But maybe that’s just my newly adopted Texas ego.

Surely applauding our student body for its ability to intake obscene amounts of alcohol while maintaining perfect GPAs isn’t exactly commendable. Roundup is, first and foremost, a massive party. Shocking as it may seem, it wasn’t always that way. It was actually once a

university-sanctioned event.

“For 60 years Roundup was a spring semester weekend of homecoming events, parades, competitions and dances,” Assistant Dean of Students Elizabeth G. Medina said in a letter to all Greek affiliated students. “The decision to discontinue sponsorship came after a series of racially inflammatory incidents associated with the weekend and as a result, Roundup has not been an official university event since 1990.”

High school recruitment was another factor that separated Roundup Weekend from the university. High school seniors would receive their acceptance letters to UT, then celebrate by attending Roundup weekend.

Greek organizations wearing their letters from head to toe would use this opportunity to do some early recruiting before fall rush.

A strict policy of no high

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For the past 13 years, journalism has been dying.

Kind of. Maybe. Sort of.

No one is really sure. Perhaps the industry is just shrinking, perhaps it is truly falling apart at the seams or perhaps it is undergoing an exciting digital evolution. In any case, it is evident that the way we learn about the latest development in the Powers/Perry conflict or see the hottest new Ryan Gosling paparazzi shot has changed.

The Pew Research Center for Excellence in Journalism released its annual report on the State of Journalism last week where it illustrates the uncertainty we have about the state of journalism. The report, an annual compilation

of data on the changing landscape of news and the way we consume news, came with a lot of bad news, but also some surprisingly good news.

First the bad news: Layoffs and cutbacks have put the number of full-time newspaper newsroom employees below 40,000 for the first year since 1978. The number of instances of TV newsrooms covering breaking, live news has dropped by 30 percent. Some news outlets, including Forbes Magazine, have even axed some human reporting in favor of technology that produces and writes news content using a complex algorithm.

The media response to the report has been, for the most part, terrifying. Headlines use the words such as “grim.”

Leads focus on cutbacks and the way news coverage is suffering as result of the cutbacks. But many blogs,

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GAMES

Much-anticipated Bioshock Infinite expected to thrill gamers

By Laura Wright Monday at 11:59 p.m., fans of the video game series “Bioshock” will be closer than ever to getting their hands on a copy of the series’ muchanticipated third installment, “Bioshock Infinite.” Many of those fans will be gathered at launch parties in GameStop stores throughout the United States and Canada, including

select GameStop locations in Austin.

Shayla Mattson, assistant manager of the Ben White Boulevard GameStop location, said she expects more than 150 people to attend the store’s midnight launch for the game.

“It’s gotten over 85 awards and it’s supposed to be amazing,” Mattson said of the game.

The game, which The New

York Times reported earlier this week took a team of 200 more than four years and $100 million to complete, swept up every award it was nominated for at the 2012 E3 game convention, including Best in Show. Though Irrational Games, the studio behind “Infinite,” has released a series of trailers for the game, the reviews are just now trickling out from gaming sites including IGN, and they

are so consistently gushing that it’s hard to tell the difference between promotional materials and press.

Though it’s only thematically connected to the first “Bioshock” game, the success of the original title has left “Infinite” with big shoes to fill. “Bioshock,” which, like “Bioshock Infinite,” is a first-person shooter, literally submerges players in an underwater world where

they navigate a dreary, highly stylized fallen city called Rapture. The plotline of the game culls inspiration from Ayn Rand — one of the main characters is even named Atlas — and deals with themes of class warfare.

If that all sounds a little heavier than what you expect from a shooter, then you understand the pressure

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BIOSHOCK INFINITE Developer: Irrational Games Type: First-person shooter Price: $59.99