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Religious authorities have not decided whether an openly gay woman can become a minister at University United Methodist Church. / PAGE 5 Austin has looked into building an urban rail system for decades. This year, the plans may come one step closer to reality. / PAGE 6

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Red is the new color for what some are calling the city’s fastest buses, MetroRapid, which will debut in spring 2014. / PAGE 7

State legislators must work together to approve a transportation funding plan before the end of the special session Tuesday. / PAGE 4

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TEXAN HEADLINES

WHAT YOU MISSED City asks citizens for input on bike shares

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Listen: UT Regents, MyEdu and ESPN’s X Games

Austin is now accepting recommendations on where to put the city’s first bike shares, some of which are set to be available by the end of the year.

In June, the city approved a $150,000 agreement that will provide Austin with 40 kiosks holding 400 bikes and 600 docking stations by spring 2014. Bikes will include GPS systems and software that shows miles ridden, number of trips and most popular routes.

People can vote or create a location at www.votebikeshareaustin.com and can view information about the program’s progress. bit.ly/austinbikeshare

UT Regent Wallace Hall and his future as a regent are common topics at the Texas Capitol, and the saga is gaining traction.

This week on The Daily Texan Podcast, host Bobby Blanchard leads a discussion on Hall’s future and the legislative committee investigating him. Panelists discuss UT’s $10 million stake in MyEdu. Blanchard also questions the impact of the ESPN X Games on the city of Austin and UT. The X Games are scheduled for May 15 to 18 next year, the same week as the Class of 2014 commencement. bit.ly/june26podcast LOUIS SAN MIGUEL / Daily Texan file photo

Construction of 2400 Nueces St. apartments has come to an end in preparation for incoming UT students.

New apartment complex opens in West Campus

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A woman waits with her bike at a Guadalupe Street bus stop on July 24. Many cyclists use public transportation to increase the range they can travel without a car.

Another apartment complex opened its doors in West Campus this month, adding 622 bedrooms to the area.

2400 Nueces St. is the first apartment complex built on land owned by UT, but will be managed by an outside company. Rates range from $796 per person for a four-bedroom apartment to $1358 for a single-bedroom apartment and the complex is 99 percent full.

UT receives about $100,000 a year for its land.

Housing officials say the new addition could lower costs in West Campus, which are some of the highest for student housing near campus. bit.ly/2400nueces

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Daily Texan reporters and editors record The Daily Texan Podcast each week to discuss recent announcements, events and other hot-topic news. Tune in every Friday at thedailytexanonline.com.

LOOKING FORWARD Athletes premiere reality show

Former Longhorns Sanya Richardsg Ross and Aaron Ross debuted their new WE reality TV show “Sanya’s Glam & Gold.” The show follows the Richardsn Ross, a four-time Olympic gold medalist, ght and her husband, a New York Giants cornerback, through their experiences.

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Competitions keep Longhorns busy

ColdTowne co-founder talks improv

Expect updates on Longhorn athletes who have been busy over the summer in both national and international competitions. Includes swimming, basketball and track.

Meet a major force behind ColdTowne Theater, Arthur Simone, and find out how one of Austin’s most popular comedy clubs gained success.

Find out more about the ins and outs of improvisational theater and how they are more complicated than they seem. We’ll look at the performance skills it takes to be an artist of improv.

For breaking news and updated content check out dailytexanonline.com

Series offers more than just drama

“The Bridge,” a new crime drama on FX, revolves around a mismatched pair of detectives working to solve cases in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. The show garnishes shock value with its violence, but also educates viewers with an unexpected portrayal of border life. Find out how in our review of “The Bridge.”

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LAURA WRIGHT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, @DTeditorial MONDAY, JULY 29, 2013

VIEWPOINT

Legislators must keep Texas moving Congratulations may be in order for the Texas Legislature for finally sealing up this session’s last official item of business: transportation funding. While nothing is set in stone yet, on Friday negotiators from the House and Senate declared a break in the impasse that had temporarily ground the much-needed constitutional amendment to a halt.

The compromise contains a healthy mix of elements from House Joint Resolution 2 and Senate Joint Resolution 1 that the Legislature should pass as soon as possible. From SJR 1, the compromise will take a funding mechanism, expected to generate $850 million for transportation, that diverts to the highway fund half of all future oil and gas production taxes (which would otherwise have gone to the rainy day fund, a fund for state economic emergencies). To the House it concedes a statutory, rather than constitutional, minimum for the rainy day fund below which its reserves could not fall.

As a constitutional amendment, the plan will require a two-thirds vote of both the House and Senate to advance to voters in November 2014.

The floor, as the minimum amount allowed in the rainy day fund is being called, would give the Legislative Budget Board the authority to adjust the limit as it saw fit.

HORNS UP, HORNS DOWN HORNS UP: The city of Austin has developed an innovative water treatment system that will give customers the option of purchasing cheap, though non-potable, reclaimed water for purposes other than human consumption. The program will lessen the burden on the already overtaxed lakes Buchanan and Travis, which have dwindled in the ongoing drought.

We applaud the Legislature for agreeing to a floor for the rainy day fund.

While some legislators fear that such a baseline would crimp the state’s flexibility in times of need, we fear what would happen if oil and gas prices plummeted again like they did in the ‘80s. That may seem unlikely now given the plethora of news stories, such as the ones this paper ran in April in a special edition of the Texan, that focus on the booming economies of oil towns in West Texas, but as Dermot Gately, an economics professor at New York University, has written, the 1986 oil price collapse that crippled the Texas economy took most analysts by surprise.

The Texas Department of Transportation says it needs $4 billion more a year to maintain current levels of congestion. While the current compromise would only cover around 20 percent of that, it is a good first step on the road toward solving Texas’ transportation problems. With Gov. Rick Perry promising to call a third special session if the Legislature doesn’t approve a measure by the end of the special session Tuesday, it is imperative that legislators make one last push in the next two days to keep Texas moving. We don’t need any more traffic jams in the 83rd session.

HORNS DOWN: With the threat of a third special session looming, we have to wonder why Gov. Rick Perry still hasn’t placed tuition revenue bonds on the special session call. TRBs, as they are known, would help fund more than 60 badly needed construction projects on Texas campuses, including the new Engineering Education and Research Center here at UT. HORNS UP: Texas A&M sophomore quarterback Johnny Manziel, also known as Johnny Football, was kicked out of a West Campus frat party Friday night, according to deadspin.com. We think it’s a shame that Manziel had to leave, but we appreciate his recognizing that UT has the superior party scene.

HORNS DOWN: Houston businessman and oil pioneer George Mitchell passed away Friday. However you feel about the oil industry, Mitchell’s life story is a refreshing and rare reminder that, on occasion, individuals can propel themselves to success through hard work and ingenuity, and we’re sad to see him go.

A QUICK LOOK AT TRANSPORTATION FUNDING Current Gas Tax Distribution

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Compromise on Oil and Gas Production Tax Revenue Distribution

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RAINY DAY FUND The compromise would mean an $850 million funding increase for transportation starting in 2014 - 2015.

FIRING LINE

Don’t discount technologies that don’t turn a profit I was disheartened by Nick Spiller’s focus on the profitability of research in his recent column regarding the Horizon Fund. Undoubtedly, royalty payments on University-developed technologies represent an important (and probably underdeveloped) part of the UT System’s revenue stream.

But to criticize the University by comparing total research funding to royalty revenue generated is misguided. For every successful new technology, there are dozens of failures; for every new drug candidate in trials, tens, even hundreds, discarded at the bench; and for every Newton or E = mc², a thousand who toil in obscurity on discoveries far less groundbreaking but no less important to the process.

Science is an iterative affair, and to ignore those iterations that don’t have dollar signs immediately attached is to misunderstand how science itself works, and to disregard the importance of the 1,001 discoveries and failures that allow that one brilliant (and profitable) idea to be viable, or even conceivable, in the first place.

— Ross McBee, Plan II and biology senior

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Gay clergy ordination under review

By Rabeea Tahir @rabeeatahir2

After years of work to receive ordination, Mary Ann Kaiser will have to wait months or even years for religious authorities to decide if she can become a minister as an openly gay woman.

Kaiser, a youth director and justice associate at University United Methodist Church on Guadalupe and 24th streets, was removed in June from enrollment in her church’s ordination process by religious authorities overseeing the church because of her sexuality. James Dorff, a Bishop of the Southwest Texas Conference that oversees Kaiser’s church, rejected an appeal by Kaiser’s pastor this month.

Dorff said it was not in his authority to challenge a decision by the Board of Ordained Ministry, the body that removed Kaiser from enrollment. He was given 30 days to review the matter.

“I was disappointed,” Kaiser said. “I would have rather had a ruling against me than a non-ruling, as it would have at least held some conviction.”

Dorff cited the United Methodist Church’s book of rules in his ruling, which states “homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching” and that a “selfavowed practicing homosexual” cannot be ordained.

“I understand that he’s trying to be a pastor and a leader to the whole community, which holds a variety of opinions,” Kaiser said.

“But it’s hard to hear nothing of substance as a response to this important and very timely issue of justice.”

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United Methodist Church youth director Mary Ann Kaiser must wait until at least October before a decision is made on whether she can become a minister because she is openly gay.

Ministry for ordination in April after seven years of preparation, will now head to the October meeting of the United Methodist Church’s Judicial Council.

The council is made up of members elected from churches nationwide and could uphold Dorff ’s decision or require him to conduct further review.

Kaiser said the decision indicated a lack of transparency and accountability about the operations of the Board of Ordained Ministry, and that it was frustrating that Dorff would avoid a ruling on the basis of a technicality without taking a stance on gay clergy.

The board did not interview Kaiser before making their decision, a usual requirement before they choose to deny ordination.

“This is a serious lingering question for me,” Kaiser said.

“There seems to be a level of unbridled authority functioning that should concern

Methodists of all varieties.”

Joy Butler, chair of the Southwest Texas Conference’s Reconciling Team, called Dorff ’s decision unfair.

“I believe that being biblically obedient means that orientation and gender identity should not be a barrier to following a call to be a leader in Church,” Butler said. “Jesus taught us to love all, and many of his followers included those who were denied a voice and excluded from society.”

Butler, who started a letterwriting campaign directed at Dorff during the 30-day period with the support of the Reconciling Ministries Network, said many United Methodists who are not socially progressive recognize the unfairness in the board’s decision to deny Kaiser an interview, which is outlined as part of the ordination review in the denomination’s rule book.

“United Methodists are wondering why the Board is stepping out of line from

protocol and refusing to fully review her ordination path,” Butler said.

Butler said she hopes the Judicial Council ruling will provide some clarity.

Kaiser said she is moved by the outpouring support for her and a more inclusive church, but also said she has lately become disillusioned by the church’s policies.

“I wonder how long my denomination will continue to pretend our policies of discrimination don’t contribute to a culture which greatly harms LGBTQ folks, and all in the name of God,” Kaiser said.

“Of course the Bishop cannot change this policy, but I do wish leaders would start making a public witness against this in the South as they have been doing in the North.”

Kaiser will have to wait until 2016 for a new decision if a ruling is not made in October, when the United Methodist General Conference meets to discuss church policy.

Literature and Sport Drawn exclusively from the Ransom Center’s collections, this exhibition showcases writing about baseball, football, boxing, tennis, and more, from such all-star authors as Ernest Hemingway, Don DeLillo, Joyce Carol Oates, and David Foster Wallace.

Contemporary Photographic Practice and the Archive View artwork created by the Lakes Were Rivers artist collective alongside Ransom Center materials chosen by the artists, including photographs, manuscripts, music scores, and film props.

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Students wait to board a bus near the West Mall on Wednesday afternoon.

Capital Metro’s MetroRapid initiative hopes to reduce wait times on Guadalupe and other streets with larger, more technologically advanced buses and dedicated lanes.

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City considers trains for alternative transportation

By Jacob Kerr @jacobrkerr

Future students may bypass cars, buses and bikes in Austin and take a train to class that could leave them right in front of the Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium.

The city of Austin, Capital Metro and other interested parties have partnered together to look into Urban Rail, a train system officials say will move people around UT, the Capitol and downtown areas. Officials hope to link the system to MetroRail, which runs between Leander and Austin.

In June, Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell convened the Central Corridor Advisory Group, which represents different organizations focused on developing Austin’s transportation footprint, to determine whether the city should move forward with the project.

A preliminary map released by the city shows there are at least four train stops near UT, including one at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, San Jacinto Boulevard and Dean Keeton Street.

At a May meeting of the UT System

Board of Regents, architecture professor Lawrence Speck presented a campus master plan that featured an urban rail built along San Jacinto Boulevard close to the new Dell Medical School.

Speck said the University prefers the line be built along San Jacinto Boulevard.

“After much study, that seems to be most convenient and least disruptive,” Speck said.

Regents unanimously approved Speck’s plan. Some students, however, have said they prefer the rail be built along Guadalupe Street.

UT Student Government passed a resolution in April suggesting the initial rail line be built on Guadalupe Street, where it can serve students living in West Campus.

Architecture senior Andrew Houston, a student government representative, said he and other representatives hope students will be involved in the Urban Rail planning process.

There are currently no students serving on the group convened by Leffingwell.

“We thought that the Urban Rail should be where people are already, not where they are projected to be,” Houston said. “What we are advocating for is an open, public

process in terms of determining where the Urban Rail should go and that students be involved in that process. We are [a] group that is going to use it.”

If an agreement is reached soon, Austinites could expect to see the project implemented by 2021. However, local bodies must also be willing to invest about $275 million and receive federal matching funds.

Julia Montgomery, a member of the Central Corridor Advisory Group, said the group will eventually determine whether the city should go forward with the project.

“By forming the group and the new public involvement plan, the Project Connect staff and the mayor have acknowledged that we really need to step back and do an open evaluation of where the next high capacity transit investment is going to go, whether that is Urban Rail or not,” said Montgomery, who is also a member of a separate Urban Rail advocacy group called Austinites for Urban Rail Action.

Although initial proposals from the city’s transportation department suggested the line be built along San Jacinto Boulevard,

close to the future Dell Medical School, Montgomery said a final decision would not be made until more public input is heard. “[AURA was] happy to hear Mayor Leffingwell and the Project Connect staff repeatedly emphasize that any of the maps that had already been drawn and put out on the website are just conceptual,” Montgomery said.

The group’s next meeting is scheduled for Aug. 16 at 1:30 p.m. in City Hall.

Karla Villalon, spokeswoman for the city’s transportation department, said the city and Capital Metro will be opening the discussion up to the public in the fall, as early as September. Villalon said the project has been a long time coming.

“The idea of rail for Austin has been around for 30-plus years,” Villalon said.

“Right now we’re looking at the Central Austin area and how rail could work through downtown.”

Although the city has recently moved closer to building Urban Rail in Austin, Villalon said there’s still a great deal of work ahead for the project.

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MetroRapid will speed up commute for UT students

By Rabeea Tahir @rabeeatahir2

CHELSEA PURGAHN / Daily Texan Staff

Top: Media representatives from around Austin take a ride in a MetroRapid bus during a media preview of the new form of public transportation.

Bottom: MetroRapid, Capital Metro’s newest transportation initiative, includes technological features such as signal priority and an application that provides real-time arrival information and mobile ticketing.

UT students will soon be able to hop onto what some are calling the fastest buses the city has ever seen.

Capital Metro is launching MetroRapid next spring, a $38 million transportation initiative that will offer 40 new buses traveling north and south between 77 new stations. Buses will travel in their priority lanes, which will allow them to bypass heavy traffic and make fewer stops than the average bus.

Two new stations have already been added near the UT campus by Dean Keeton and the West Mall with features such as signal priority, transit priority lanes, limited stops, multiple-door boarding, real-time arrival information and a mobile ticketing app, said Linda Watson, president and CEO of Capital Metro. Watson said MetroRapid is likely to increase ridership and reduce the number of cars on the streets.

“The service will be very competitive with the automobile and the advanced technology will also appeal to the student population at UT,” Watson said.

Officials said Capital Metro will start testing the buses, which will be painted red to represent Capital Metro’s faster service, and training operators in August. Capital Metro received grant money from the Federal Transit Authority and put up the other funds itself, officials said.

Neither of the services’ two routes will offer stations in East Austin or near East Riverside, a major student housing area. One route, 801, will travel along North Lamar Boulevard and South Congress Avenue, while the other, 803, will ride from Burnet Road to South Lamar Boulevard.

Stations were placed in the highest community areas to ensure accessibility to the majority of commuters, Watson said.

Each bus will measure 60 feet, about 20 feet longer than current Capital Metro buses, and hold around 100 people, officials said.

Watson said MetroRapid buses will lead to Capital Metro operating fewer buses and reduce their carbon emissions.

Signal priority will also allow buses to “talk” to the traffic lights, enabling them to stay on schedule by altering the duration of the green

light. Displays will also be placed at the bus stations giving the exact time of arrival, and commuters will be able to pay for their tickets on a mobile phone app.

Lawrence Deeter, Capital Metro transportation planner, said MetroRapid will stop in popular student living areas like South Central Austin, Hyde Park, the Triangle and Crestview.

“From the housing information we get from the University, we know that the student population is growing at the Triangle and moving up as far as Crestview,” Deeter said. “We are seeing this quarter along the MetroRapid route become a student area.”

Radio-television-film senior Leah Perez, a frequent commuter on Route 20, said her main challenge with current buses is the lack of information on when buses are running late or early.

“The real-time arrival information will be really helpful in terms of scheduling trips,” Perez said.

Since MetroRapid will hit stations every 10 minutes during peak hours and every 12 to 15 minutes at other times, Perez said she thought the new buses would help her with time management.

UT students will be able to use their student IDs for the service, which will have two dedicated lanes running on Guadalupe and Lavaca streets.

“MetroRapid will bring dramatic improvement in terms of how transit operates and the number of people that use it in the future,” Watson said. “We see our future as a high capacity transit service in Central Texas.”

The service will be very competitive with the automobile and the advanced technology will also appeal to the student population at UT. —Linda Watson, president and CEO of Capital Metro

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By Diego Contreras @texansports

LAWRENCE PEART / Daily Texan Staff

Texas head coach Mack Brown talks to seniors Adrian Phillips and Jackson Jeffcoat at the Big 12 Media Days last week.

Ash, Horns ready to go up-tempo

By Sara Beth Purdy @sara0beth

DALLAS — Some changes are coming to the 40 Acres this fall as the Longhorns enter fall workouts.

Last week’s Big 12 Media Days in Dallas highlighted several important changes that fans would see in the upcoming football season. Head coach Mack Brown was enthusiastic about junior David Ash’s cemented role as the starting quarterback and the Longhorns’ new uptempo offense.

For the first time in his career, Ash won’t be entering fall workouts in the middle

of a quarterback controversy.

“We’re so excited to have David with experience, with maturity,” Brown said.

“We think we’ve got better players around him now.

We should be better in the offensive line. He is much more confident.”

Ash has been in a battle with teammate Case McCoy for the starting spot ever since he stepped on campus.

However, after his performance in last year’s Alamo Bowl, the team has not questioned his ability to lead.

“He’s doing an outstanding job,” said senior offensive guard Trey Hopkins.

“He’s more comfortable as a leader. He’s doing a job just

communicating with each and every player. The respect was building after that Oregon State game.”

Even though he has no current competition, Ash is still in the media spotlight and will enter the season with a target on his back.

Expectations of championships surround him.

“I wouldn’t have it any other way. I wouldn’t want to be in a place where 9-4 is a good season,” Ash said. “That’s not what I came to Texas for. I came to Texas to win a national championship.”

Ash is one of two returning quarterbacks that have significant experience starting in the Big 12. Casey

Pachall is returning for TCU after sitting out most of the 2012 season after being arrested for driving under the influence.

The Longhorns will debut their new up-tempo offense when they take the field at the end of August, a move coaches and players praised at the Big 12 Media Days last week. Texas is following in the footsteps of a host of other Division I schools, such as Ohio State and UCLA, who have utilized these faster offenses in past seasons. The faster pace is expected to increase the number of plays in a game

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There is no puck, there are no skates, players don’t fight and — as in true hockey tradition — there is plenty of beer and good times. This is Max Retter’s and Molly Muranka’s version of hockey and they’re bringing it to Austin.

The Street Bird Hockey League is their creation. The idea was sparked after watching the Stanley Cup Playoffs when the pair became intrigued by the idea of playing hockey themselves. After they weren’t able to find a non-skating street league in Austin, they decided that the best solution was to create one of their own.

Street hockey does not stray very much from its inspiration on ice. The game is played with a ball rather than a puck, and players wear shoes and minimal equipment. Protective gear is worn at the players’ own discretion.

Though competitive,

the league has a clear and simple goal: to “organize a league where people can play street hockey...and have lots of laughs.”

The Street Bird Hockey League is catering to a specific group of hockey enthusiasts.

“It’s pretty much for people who like watching hockey, but don’t know how to play ice hockey,” Muranka said. “You don’t need any experience. We have one guy that showed up yesterday from Reddit and he was really worried. I think he scored twice.”

The league features various social events hosted for the players, and because of a love of beer, participants are asked to be at least 21 years of age.

However, Adam Annen, a member of the league, doesn’t want anyone to get the wrong impression.

“We’re not running around with a stick in one hand and a

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Players compete in the street hockey league. Street Bird Hockey is a new league in Austin that is open to all skill levels and focuses on the love of competition and good times.

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continues from page 8 from 60-70 to around 80-90, according to Brown.

“I think that changing to the up-tempo will help our defense more than our offense,” Brown said. “Nobody was substituting and the ball was being snapped so quickly.”

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continues from page 8 beer in the other,” Annen said.

Annen first heard about Street Bird after picking up a flier on his lunch break. He has been active with inline hockey leagues throughout the Austin and Round Rock areas, but enjoys the experience of Street Bird.

“I think the biggest appeal to me is to get together with

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The new up-tempo offense employs the same play schemes but features shorter intervals between plays. There is less time to substitute players or decide on calls.

The Longhorn defense has already been given a look at the up-tempo offense in practice in order to prepare them for the upcoming

season. Brown said the defense struggled in past games when facing up-tempo offenses without the proper preparation.

“Almost every team in the Big 12 does the tempo offenses,” senior defensive end Jackson Jeffcoat said.

“It helps us analyze offenses quickly, get our reads before the snap.”

friends and share something that I love doing,” Annen said. “I think hockey, unlike other mainstream sports, has a pretty strong sense of community because it isn’t as popular as football or basketball...so it has a sort of pride to it in that way.”

Street Bird provides a very family-like camaraderie and that aspect is heavily emphasized.

“We all help each other out

with borrowing equipment, to sharing tips, to giving rides to the sporting goods store,” Annen said.

In order to join Street Bird, players must sign a liability form and then they are free to play. Practices are held at 8 p.m. every Monday and Wednesday at Metz Park.

Both Retter and Muranka encourage people of all skill levels and abilities to go out and play.

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By Chris Jordan @DTlifeandarts

“Thomson swings and tomahawks the ball and everybody, everybody watches,” Don DeLillo reads in his modest New York inflection. “Pafko at the wall. Then he’s looking up...The Giants win the pennant and they’re going crazy.”

On Thursday night, American author DeLillo read from the prologue of his Pulitzerprize winning novel “Underworld,” which recounts the famous “Shot Heard Round the World,” Bobby Thomson’s 1951 gamewinning home-run against the Brooklyn Dodgers. In a rare public appearance, DeLillo read and answered questions to a packed house at the Jessen Auditorium in Homer Rainey Hall.

Excerpts from “Underworld” are included in the Literature and Sport exhibit at the Harry Ransom Center, which runs through Aug. 4. The exhibit includes corrected drafts, handwritten notes, letters and photographs which contributed to DeLillo’s creative process. Other featured authors include Ernest Hemingway, Tom Stoppard and Marianne Moore.

DeLillo, whose novel “White Noise” brought him widespread acclaim, has been celebrated for his portrayal of the modern American experience, an experience he sees as riddled with paranoia, conspiracy and irony.

The crowd, which sat in the red velvet seats of the Jessen Auditorium, did not resemble the usual undergraduate crowd the room houses, but rather a much older audience, some coming straight from work.

Much of DeLillo’s writing explores memory and verbal retelling. For many present, who, like the narrator of the prologue, were children in 1951, DeLillo’s interpretation of the “Shot Heard Round the World” mirrored their own experiences.

“I was in Seattle when ‘Underworld’ first came out, and saw you read from it,” said one man as he began his question on memory in DeLillo’s work. “I remember vividly reading that first chapter of ‘Underworld,’ I remember vividly hearing you recite it that night, and I trust I will again from this night.”

However, DeLillo’s appearance also

CHELSEA PURGAHN / Daily Texan Staff

Oliver Terry reads an excerpt from Don DeLillo’s work on display in the Literature and Sport exhibit at the Harry Ransom Center.

attracted a noticeable amount of younger readers. Some, like radio-television-film junior Graham Norwood, draw inspiration from DeLillo’s acute combination of humor and philosophy.

“He can make serious subjects very funny and full of anxiety,” Norwood said. “But [he] gets it out in a very cathartic way... [It’s] not depressing.”

DeLillo spoke slowly and quietly, his short stature almost completely eclipsed by the podium.

“It’s really strange to meet a writer — he’s quite a small presence. I didn’t even notice him sitting right there,” said Jenny Howell, a fifth-year PhD student in the English department. “I think a lot of writers are like that.”

Howell is working on her dissertation, which will include some of DeLillo’s work.

“I’m in the early stages,” said Howell of her dissertation. “I’m interested in historical fiction and DeLillo’s novel “Libra.” [In that book DeLillo] invents a whole conspiracy of why Kennedy was shot...He did painstaking research.”

Often, DeLillo’s work touches on the interplay of culture and sports with famous events in 20th century history.

“He has this very unusual outlook on history,” Howell said. “[It’s] a mixture of history as conspiracy and contingency.”

David Foster Wallace, the late prophet for lost American 20-somethings, famously wrote DeLillo for advice while writing his

magnum opus “Infinite Jest,” wanting to understand how DeLillo’s writing managed “to marry Fun and Seriousness in a profound way, somehow — a sense of Play that’s somehow even Funner because it’s not sophomoric or self-aggrandizing or childish or even childlike.”

Just as many 20-somethings draw inspiration from Wallace, many of the 60-somethings in the audience Thursday night consider DeLillo the voice of their adulthood.

DeLillo, who normally shuns public appearances, signed books and talked with fans after the reading. As the crowd filed out, DeLillo’s reading still lingering, both young and old took with them a wave of nostalgia.

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