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Counsel sets rules for Regent hearing

Concerns arise over privacy issues in UT policy

By Jacob Kerr @jacobrkerr

Moving forward with its investigation into UT System Regent Wallace Hall, the House Select Committee on Transparency in Stage Agency Operations decided Hall’s attorneys would not be allowed to cross-examine witnesses during the upcoming hearings.

The decision, which came after the committee spent more than 1.5 hours in executive session at its meeting on Monday, was based on

advice from special counsel Rusty Hardin. Hardin, who was hired by the committee in late August, explained that no cross-examination should take place since the committee is not trying Hall.

“We intend to make this as absolutely fair as we can to Mr. Hall,” Hardin said. “This is an investigation, not a trial.

Our investigation may determine that nothing is to happen after this.”

If the committee decides to proceed with impeachment after the hearings process, articles of impeachment

would be presented by Hardin to the Texas House of Representatives. If a majority in the House votes in favor of charging Hall with impeachment, the Senate would conduct a trial in which Hall’s attorneys would be allowed to cross-examine witnesses.

A two-thirds vote in the Senate would be required to remove Hall.

At the meeting, Rep. Dan Flynn, R-Canton and committee co-chairman, said the

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Houston Attorney Rusty Hardin speaks with Allan Van Fleet about the allegations of Hall’s actions Monday afternoon.

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A student walks into the McCombs School of Business on Monday afternoon.

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Faculty members voiced concerns at a Faculty Council meeting Monday about how a comprehensive new policy designed to disclose potential conflicts of interests among University employees could invade employees’ privacy.

The policy, known as UTS180, would create an online public system to document employee activities outside UT that run the risk of creating conflicts of interest or commitment.

The disclosure policy was meant to take effect in April after the UT System Board of Regents approved it in January, but System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa delayed its system-wide implementation for further review. Now, the policy will not take effect until January 2014.

Kinesiology professor Jody Jensen said the System would gather information unrelated to faculty members’ activities outside of UT that should not be published online, but didn’t specify what information was unnecessary for determining conflicts “The relevant information is in the case of a conflict of interest,” Jensen said. “Everything else seems irrelevant yet is still stored.”

Article 6.2 of the policy says faculty must disclose their activity if they determine it constitutes a conflict of interest or commitment and their outside compensation exceeds $5,000.

President William Powers Jr. said at the meeting that he understands faculty concerns about privacy, but believes much anxiety over the policy’s implementation stems from faculty’s

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Ole Miss student in CapMetro defends cuts to routes critical condition

By Amanda Voeller

By Alberto Long @albertolong

Carson Otter, a senior at the University of Mississippi, was hospitalized with lifethreatening injuries following an assault near the intersection of Trinity and Seventh Street Saturday night. Otter is being treated for brain trauma at the University Medical Center where he remains in critical condition.

Candy Otter, the mother of Carson Otter, posted on Facebook on Sunday that Carson was showing signs of progress.

“Today Carson was able to breathe on his own for a few hours, still on ventilator but showing great signs!,” Candy Otter said on Facebook Sunday. “Considering his surgery was only 30 hours ago, he is doing fantastic!!”

In the post, Candy Otter said that the doctors caring for him were pleased with his progress and that he had been responsive, opening his eyes and nodding at her.

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At a public hearing Monday, Capital Metro explained its rationale for significantly reducing two shuttle routes and heard criticism from students affected by the suggested change.

CapMetro has proposed reducing the Cameron Road route’s scope to only serve the Camino la Costa area beginning in January. Students who live around the Cameron Road and Mueller areas would be directed to the 37 route. CapMetro has also proposed eliminat-

ing the Wickersham Lane shuttle route, and suggested students use either the 20 or the 100 route.

Blanca Juarez, the UT Parking and Transportation Services alternative transportation manager, defended the proposal, saying the transition to CapMetro‘s mainline service instead of the UT shuttle service would benefit students because it would offer longer operational hours as well as 365-day service.

Juarez said the shuttle system is funded by the Student Services Budget Committee and, because of flat funding, the UT shuttles

had to cut 10 percent of the service to remain within budget.

“As long as funding remains flat to the [budget committee], then we will continue to face operational challenges,” Juarez said.

Juarez said the motivation behind the changes is students’ use of a service, rather than their presence in the area.

“The issue isn’t how many students may or may not live in the area but how many students utilize the shuttle,” Juarez said.

The number of people who ride the shuttle is recorded by automatic pas-

senger counters, which are infrared beams at the front and rear doors of the buses that track the number of people who board and leave the bus, according to CapMetro.

The Cameron Road and Wickersham Lane routes serve 1 percent of the total shuttle riders while using 7 percent of the hours that the shuttle operates, Juarez said.

“Our role is to ensure that the shuttle operates in a ways that serves the greatest number of students since they all pay equally into the system,” Juarez said.

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Mathematics professor William Beckner speaks at the Faculty Council meeting in the Main Building Monday afternoon. Among other issues, the meeting addressed a new policy designed to disclose potential conflicts of interests among university employees.

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reluctance to publicly discuss financial affairs.

“Once information gets collected, it is subject to public display,” Powers said. “People don’t like their financial information disclosed.

Unfortunately, that is just what people are curious about.”

In May, Dan Sharphorn, associate vice chancellor and deputy general counsel for the System, said the policy merited further consideration after faculty protests.

“The chancellor heard from some of the faculty members and some of the presidents, who expressed concerns,” Sharphorn said in May. “He decided to take another look at some of the elements of the policy to see if there’s a need for revision.”

In addition to gathering information on employees’ outside affairs, the council also reviewed newly enacted policy concerning employee travel.

The travel policy requires University employees make travel arrangements

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continues from page 1 UT is projected to pay CapMetro $6,435,351.18.

This contribution is 50 percent of the direct operating costs of CapMetro. The University pays CapMetro $5,509,509.05 for shuttle service, CapMetro spokeswoman Melissa Ayala said.

Funding from the University to CapMetro is not the issue, Ayala said.

“It does not take more

money to keep the route running — it takes more passengers,” Ayala said.

CapMetro said walking six blocks to the mainline bus route, which is what some students who don’t live in the Camino la Costa area will have to do beginning in the spring, is not considered a hardship for bus riders. Some students at the forum objected to this, and introduced an alternative proposal decreasing the frequency of

the Forty Acres and West Campus bus routes instead of cutting the Cameron Road and Wickersham Lane routes.

CapMetro spokesperson Roberto Gonzalez said CapMetro already reduced the Forty Acres, West Campus, Intramural Fields and Red River bus route frequencies in August.

CapMetro will make an official decision at a Board of Director’s meeting on Sept. 23.

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committee would be investigating whether Hall left off several state and federal lawsuits on his original application for the regent position, disclosed sensitive student information to the public and overstepped his authority as a regent. The committee began investigating Hall in July after he began filing massive open records requests to the University and state legislators accused him of working with his fellow regents to oust President William Powers Jr. Allan Van Fleet, one of Hall’s attorneys, criticized the committee’s decision and the way it handled the meeting.

“Today, we heard the committee spend 10 minutes of platitude on transparency and spend two hours in secrecy,” Van Fleet said. “It’s important that the full story come out, not just the limited amount Mr. Hardin may decide is relevant.”

After the meeting, Van Fleet defended his client against the accusations the committee will investigate, and said Hall’s massive open records requests were not part of a larger plan to get Powers fired.

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“[Hall] is not after President Powers,” Van Fleet said. “What he is after is a UT System that is fully transparent [and] that is open to people of Texas.

Along the way, if there be legislators, if there be other officers in UT who should have done their job as good as Wallace Hall has been doing his, then the chips will fall as they are.”

Flynn added the committee would keep its investigation focused on Hall for the time being, though Hall’s attorneys have indicated they feel the focus should be on documents Hall has obtained from the University.

“We are not investigating the University of Texas at this time,” Flynn said. “However any information that does come out by the committee, it will be disclosed in the spirit of the transparency of this committee.”

If impeached, Hall would be the first executive appointee in the state’s history and third official overall to be removed from office.

Hardin noted that crossexamination was allowed in 1917 during the investigation into Gov. James Ferguson, but not in the investigation into Judge O.P. Carillo in 1975.

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According to Ole Miss’ campus newspaper, the Daily Mississippian, Otter received emergency brain surgery at the hospital.

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A University program designed to help the 10,000 students employed on campus develop professional and life skills hosted its first of 16 interactive workshops to educate and offer professional growth opportunities.

The semester-long series is hosted by the Student Employee Excellence Development Program, referred to as SEED, a program launched in fall 2012 by the University’s Human Resource Services department.

Cecilia Lopez, Hogg Memorial Auditorium manager and member of SEED’s employee committee, presented a lecture on customer service with an emphasis on the FISH! Philosophy, a client-centered work model established in the Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle.

FISH! focuses on employees engaging customers and enjoying work in a high-energy environment, using four tenets: “be there,” “play,” “make their day” and “choose your attitude.”

“They exuded this positive attitude towards something that I wouldn’t think I would do if I worked at a fish market,” said Adrienne Teter, a radio-television-film junior who works at Hogg Auditorium. “They make remedial tasks seem really fun and exciting.”

Though customer service desks often deal with many of the same questions, Lopez said employees must treat each customer as if he or she were the first to ask.

“We get a lot of calls — exact same calls — hundreds of people call in a day,” said Zach Lozano, a computer science junior who works at the Information Technology

Services help desk. “It’s a matter of treating each customer as if they were your first call.”

After speaking on the FISH! Philosophy, Lopez divided workshop attendees into two groups that were given two separate scenarios unrelated to the philosophy to solve.

In one scenario, a customer approached an employee with a question about safety that the employee was unable to answer. The group concluded that employees should tell the customer if they don’t have an answer and should clarify with a supervisor later.

“Give them the disclaimer upfront: ‘I’m not 100 percent sure,’” said Damien Tubbs, an African and African-American studies junior. “If we can’t give them any information at all, we have to tell them they have

to come back.”

Modeled after similar programs at other universities, SEED strives to educate and offer professional growth opportunities to on-campus student employees. Students may earn a SEED program certification by attending workshops and writing a final two-page paper about what they learned over the course of the program.

“We started it because we value our student employees and recognize the huge contribution they make to the University,” student employment coordinator Amy Lebowitz Greenspan said. “We also feel that what our student employees learn on the job is an important and valuable part of what they learn at the University.”

A new study led by the University measured the amount of methane emissions produced by 190 hydraulic fracturing well sites across the United States to fill gaps in current scientific literature.

David Allen, a chemical engineering professor and the principal investigator and author for the study, said researchers sought to clarify gaps in the current scientific literature regarding what methane emissions are along the natural gas supply chain.

“The No. 1 finding is that for a category of emissions called completion flowback, the emissions that we found were much less than what are in the current national inventory,” Allen said. “The second major finding was for a different category of emissions — pneumatic controllers. We found much larger emissions than is in the current national estimates. Finally, if you combine all of our findings what we come up with is a total that is very similar to the current national inventory, but there is not as much from well completions and there is more from pneumatic controllers.”

The study, which lasted nearly two years, was completed in partnership with the Environmental Defense Fund and nine natural gas production companies.

Allen said the team was not surprised by the well completion information, seeing as in the fall of 2012, when the team was collecting data, regulations changed requiring reduced emissions completion equipment to be put in place at well completion sites.

“We want to go out and collect additional data to refine our understanding of what is causing [pneumatic controller] emissions to be higher than we expected,” Allen said.

“That’s a natural part of doing research, to learn from what you’ve done and ask the next generation of questions.”

Drew Nelson, clean energy project manager at the Environmental Defense Fund, said Allen’s study is one of 16 studies the Environmental Defense Fund is helping to facilitate to learn what the leak rate of natural gas production is.

“Methane is a very potent greenhouse gas, and the more methane that is leaked into the atmosphere, the greater climate impact there is,” Nelson said. “We want to make sure that as folks switch from coal and gasoline and diesel to natural gas [so] that we’re not making things worse for the climate.”

Mark Brownstein, the associate vice president and chief counsel of the U.S. Climate and Energy program at the Environmental Defense Fund, said he hopes to see improvements in the industry as a result of the study.

“There has been a raging debate about what are emissions associated with natural gas production,” Brownstein said. “Universally, people have been talking about the need to get actual data. This is actual data. It’s the first time that we’ve had the opportunity to get actual data from unconventional natural gas developers. There’s more work to be done, but this is a really important step.”

The last time UT released a study on fracking, a controversy emerged when it was revealed that Charles Groat, former UT geology professor and lead researcher for the 2012 study, was also a paid board member of Plains Exploration & Production Company, a company that performs hydraulic fracturing. The earlier study was not altered after this revelation, though Groat was removed from his position as head author.

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Hold fire on UTIMCO’s Burck Core curriculum may bore, but don’t discount its value As The Daily Texan reported Friday, a former UT System chancellor, R.D. Burck, serves on the Executive Committee of the University of Texas Chancellor’s Council, an advising board to the current chancellor, Francisco Cigarroa. Cigarroa serves on the board of directors for the University of Texas Investment Management Company, an independent company that manages the investments of both the UT and Texas A&M systems. Among UTIMCO’s many investments is a $1.5 million stake in American Campus Communities, a studenthousing company, of which the chairman of the board of directors is none other than R.D. Burck.

Absent any new information, it seems that the relationship isn’t entrenched enough to cross the bounds of legality. Burck isn’t actually an employee of ACC, although, as the chief representative of its shareholders, he would have considerable influence over the company. And the investment was made in 2008, three years after Burck left the UTIMCO board of directors, although admittedly, his time on the boards of ACC and UTIMCO overlapped for a period of a year.

UTIMCO spokeswoman Christy Wallace told the Texan that the company maintains a restricted list of businesses that are off-limits for investment, and that no money would have been invested in ACC while Burck served on both boards. “[American Campus Communities’]

public equity securities were on the restricted list when Mr. Burck was on the UTIMCO board, so none of UTIMCO’s investment managers held any of their securities at that time,” Wallace said. “As Mr. Burck is no longer chancellor or on the UTIMCO board, [American Campus Communities] securities are no longer on the restricted list.”

It’s also worth noting that UTIMCO has seen a good rate of return on the money; ACC’s stock has risen by approximately 75 percent in the five years since the investment. And $1.5 million isn’t even a drop in the $21.7 billion bucket that is the UT System’s endowment.

On the other hand, this isn’t the first time UTIMCO investments have been linked to high-profile members of the System leadership. In 2011, the company invested $200 million in a different private investment firm, Post Oak Energy Capital, which in turn invested $60 million in an oil and gas company tied to UT System regent Alex Cranberg that drills on land owned by the University.

It’s impossible to tell whether the investment in ACC happened because of Burck’s involvement. But his and Cranberg’s multifaceted relationships with UTIMCO are a predictable phenomenon. With such large quantities of money invested in such a large number of businesses, it’s unsurprising that some of it ends up going near the System’s leaders — many of whom are prominent businessmen in their own right.

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By Eric Nikolaides Daily Texan Columnist @eric_KTurner

I have a love-hate relationship with UT’s core curriculum requirements. On the one hand, I’ve learned a lot in all of those classes that I never thought a government major would have to take. At the very least, when I finally find myself in one of those mythical, real-world adult social situations, hopefully I can come across as well-rounded and educated when I quip about the life cycle of stars or offer insight into the process of language acquisition. But on the other hand, I am a graduating senior and I still haven’t taken English 316K — the dreaded literature requirement.

Granted, very few graduating seniors would look forward to having to take a freshman class. But the decision to put off that English requirement for so many semesters points to a broader problem: Many students fail to see the value in the core curriculum requirements at UT. In fact, a poll conducted by the Senate of College Councils in 2012 revealed that 77 percent of students think that it is either only slightly important or not important at all to take core curriculum courses on campus instead of testing out or taking them elsewhere.

And it’s easy to understand why. College students during their first semester are finally cut free from the limitations of high school curriculums and, for the first time, they can take classes about whatever their interests are. As a result, the problem is particularly serious for students with majors in the College of Natural Sciences who just don’t want to take those pesky humanities classes anymore. According to that same survey, 81 percent of CNS students think that American history courses are either only slightly important or not important at all. For American government, it’s 78 percent, 67 percent for English and 80 percent for visual and performing arts.

But maybe it’s just that UT students aren’t quite ready to understand the value of these classes yet. According to Dr. Penne Restad, who teaches core curriculum survey courses in American history, it can be hard for students who are still in school to engage in the courses that aren’t directly relevant to them.

“The engagement will show up later on,” she explained. To Restad, graduating seniors have so much on their minds — from paying back student loans to finding a job and a place in

the world — that it can be hard to appreciate why, as an engineering student, you would have to take an English class.

Restad conceded that faculty could probably do more to break it down for students and explain to them exactly why these courses matter.

Brent Iverson, the dean of the School of Undergraduate Studies, had a slightly different take on why the core curriculum matters.

“There’s a lot of talk these days about the return of investment for an undergraduate education,” Iverson said. And according to how a student pursues his or her education, that student will get different things out of it. “Some students might have the idea that the easiest thing to do is look for the path of least resistance,” he continued. “But when you get out and start looking for jobs, you realize that it’s all the different things that you’ve learned that help you define which path you’re going to take.” To Iverson, these classes help students figure out exactly what they will become, and for that, they are invaluable. “When you look at it that way,” Iverson concluded, “the goal would be to see how much you can take … and how you can enrich yourself to the maximum possible.” According to Iverson, this essentially becomes a value question: Are you getting the most enrichment out of your tuition dollars?

The trickiest part of this question of core curriculum engagement, however, is figuring out where the responsibility lies. Is it up to us, as students, to find some sort of rationale for engaging in a course that seems like it doesn’t matter? Or is it up to the faculty to make their courses seem relevant and to push their students in the right direction? Interestingly, the same survey that showed how few students valued taking core curriculum courses at UT also showed that 75 percent of students thought that the courses they’ve already taken at UT — in striking contrast to the survey results for classes they haven’t taken — did add some value to their education. So maybe the instructors of these courses are doing something right.

Perhaps, then, there is nothing that we can do. The best solution to this problem might just be to bite the bullet when we’re in these classes, trust that there is a good reason for the core curriculum, and take solace in the fact that we’ll be able to appreciate its value later.

Nikolaides is a government and Spanish senior from Cincinnati.

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HORNS DOWN: TEXAS INHOSPITALITY Carson Otter, a visiting student from Ole Miss is in intensive care after being assaulted in Austin in the very early hours of Saturday morning before the football game. It’s unclear whether the assault was in any way connected to the matchup, but regardless, we show our support for the victim and hope our city represents itself better to visitors in the future.

HORNS UP: WRITING ON THE WALL UT football head coach Mack Brown acknowledged that the students who booed his name at the UT-Ole Miss game Saturday had a right to be unsatisfied with his performance, and added, “I might boo me now too.”

It’s good to know that another losing record wasn’t his target for this season.

HORNS DOWN: MISPLACED PRIORITIES A&M raised almost twice as much money in donations as UT last year. They’re also a lot better at football now, and the fact that around two-thirds of the money was marked for improvements to the school’s Kyle Field suggests that its gridiron success was the cause of the sudden generosity.

HORNS UP: BEVO ISN’T DRUGGED AFTER ALL Despite the steer’s docile appearance at UT events, an article in this paper yesterday reported that Bevo is not, despite popular opinion, under the influence of calming drugs when he appears in public. It’s good to know that our lovable longhorn needs no chemicals to keep him happy.

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By Travis Knoll

Daily Texan Columnist @tknoll209k

On Sept. 4, UT journalism professor Robert Jensen penned an op-ed in the Austin Post titled “With Truce at the UT Factory, Time to Face Tough Choices.” In the article, Jensen defended the University “from right-winged attacks on critical thinking” and criticized the University’s close relationship with private industry.

Jensen also criticized the pretensions of academia and of “self-indulgent professors” in the humanities that conduct research that “doesn’t much matter.” Jensen raises some important points, but his exaggerated language oversimplifies UT’s educational mission and ignores its potential benefits to the public .

Jensen is right that a lack of intellectual courage in the academia discourages practical solutions to pressing questions. Nevertheless, the best instructors know how to balance complex theory with practical applications. For example, in his article “Neoliberal Multiculturalism: The Remaking of Cultural Rights and Racial Dominance in Central America,” UT anthropology professor Charles Hale explains how the illusion of multiculturalism can be appropriated by institutions such as the World Bank that grant cultural recognition but also potentially stymie legitimate efforts by indigenous activists at autonmous economic development.

The title is a mouthful, and at first glance, the study might seem of little use to many students. But the article smartly explains the risks and rewards of indigenous activists working within the globalized capitalist system. It gives examples of activists who have turned the system to their advantage. Any student working to make change could learn a lesson from Prof. Hayle’s research, regardless of how “self-indulgent” Jensen might deem the work.

Moreover, though the tone of Jensen’s

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article seems to imply that political activism is a must, professors can critique existing systems without being blatantly militant. For example, English professor Douglas Bruster. As a former research assistant for Bruster, I can vouch for his engagement in the classroom. While he is not particularly partisan, his syllabus puts Shakespeare’s sonnets warning us of the frailty of our temporary monuments side by side with Andrew Marvell’s “An Horatian Ode,” forming a subtle yet effective critique of military ambition and societal acquiescence.

Though Dr. Bruster’s research topics are specialized and might seem inapplicable to most, his willingness to take on research assistants from outside his field shows a desire to give others transferable research and critical thinking skills. The key for professors is not to give up their “uninteresting research” but to balance it with rigorous teaching. Professors like Bruster were key in teaching me to develop interdisciplinary connections inside and outside the circles of academic theory.

Jensen’s pessimism regarding this equilibrium is ironic. Having taken one of his classes and consulted him on some of my own research in masculinities, I have no doubt that he strikes this balance between provocative teaching and solid scholarly research. However, by saying that the University is failing its students, Jensen ignores the practical resources available on campus and in the Austin community, such as the Texas Civil Rights Project and the Workers Defense Project (which he had a part in promoting). Both of these organizations were brought to my attention by UT faculty.

The University is already doing its part to open doors for students. It’s our job to walk through them, no matter how frustrated that makes Jensen.

Knoll is a first-year master’s student in Latin American studies from Dallas.

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September 17, 2013 All Students at The University of Texas at Austin Dr. Soncia Reagins-Lilly, Senior Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Subject: Texas Hazing sTaTuTe summary and THe universiTy of Texas aT ausTin’s Hazing regulaTions The 70th Texas Legislature enacted a law concerning hazing. Under the law, individuals or organizations engaging in hazing could be subject to fines and charged with a criminal offense.

According to the law, a person can commit a hazing offense not only by engaging in a hazing activity, but also by soliciting, directing, encouraging, aiding or attempting to aid another in hazing; by intentionally, knowingly or recklessly allowing hazing to occur; or by failing to report, in writing to the Dean of Students or another appropriate official of the institution, first-hand knowledge that a hazing incident is planned or has occurred. The fact that a person consented to or acquiesced in a hazing activity is not a defense to prosecution for hazing under this law.

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks to reporters after attending a Security Council meeting about Syria at United Nations headquarterson Monday.

UN confirms the reported use of chemical weapons in Syria UNITED NATIONS — Careful not to blame either side for a deadly chemical weapon attack, U.N. inspectors reported Monday that rockets loaded with the nerve agent sarin had been fired from an area where Syria’s military has bases, but said the evidence could have been manipulated in the rebel-controlled stricken neighborhoods.

The U.S., Britain and France jumped on evidence in the report — especially the type of rockets, the composition of the sarin agent and trajectory of the missiles — to declare that President Bashar Assad’s government was responsible.

Russia, Syria’s closest ally, called the investigators’ findings “deeply disturbing,” but said it was too early to draw conclusions. The Syrian government’s claims that opposition forces were responsible for the attack “cannot be simply shrugged off,” Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin insisted.

The conclusions represented the first official confirmation by impartial scientific experts that chemical weapons were used in Syria’s civil war, but the inspectors’ limited mandate barred them from identifying who was responsible for the Aug. 21 attack.

“This is a war crime,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Security Council when he presented the report. “The results are overwhelming and indisputable. The facts speak for themselves.”

The deep division between Western backers of rebels seeking to overthrow Assad and Russian and Chinese supporters of the regime has paralyzed the U.N. Security Council since the Syrian conflict began 2 and a half years ago.

Even though the United States and Russia agreed Saturday on the framework to put Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile and precursors under international control for future destruction, their top diplomats were at odds Monday over a new Security Council resolution that would make the deal legally binding — and whether there should be a reference to possible military enforcement if Syria doesn’t comply.

After months of negotiations, the U.N. inspectors went to Syria to visit the sites of three alleged chemical attacks earlier this year and were in the capital of Damascus on Aug. 21 when reports and videos began surfacing of a shelling attack in which victims experienced shortness of breath, disorientation, blurred vision, nausea, vomiting, weakness and a loss of consciousness.

They finally gained access to three towns where the Aug. 21 attack occurred, and on one occasion their convoy was hit by sniper fire, but the inspectors were nonetheless able to collect a large amount of material and talk to survivors and witnesses.

“The environmental, chemical and medical samples we have collected

provide clear and convincing evidence that surface-tosurface rockets containing the nerve agent sarin were used … in the Ghouta area of Damascus,” the inspectors’ report said.

The rebels and their Western and Arab supporters have blamed Assad’s regime for the attack in the rebelcontrolled area of Ghouta.

The Syrian government insists the attack was carried out by rebels.

The U.N. report did not mention how many people were killed in the Aug. 21 attack. The U.S. says more than 1,400, but other death toll estimates have been far lower.

“The large-scale use of sarin, the direction of the rocket attacks, and kind of rockets used in the attacks all point to use by Assad’s forces beyond reasonable doubt,” said Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Washington-based Arms Control Association.

“The conclusions reached by the United States and European governments would now appear to have received corroboration by a source the Russians and Syrians will have trouble discrediting,” Kimball said.

The inspectors described the rockets used to disperse the sarin as a variant of an M14 artillery rocket, with either an original or an improvised warhead. The report said the rockets that hit two of the suburbs — Zamalka and Ein Tarma — were fired from the northwest, but it didn’t say who launched them.

U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power noted that chief inspector Ake Sellstrom said the weapons “were professionally made.”

“It defies logic that the opposition would have infiltrated the regime-controlled area to fire on oppositioncontrolled areas,” Power said. “Only the regime could have carried out this largescale attack.”

But Churkin wondered why there were no reports of casualties among opposition fighters if government forces fired rockets filled with sarin to try to oust opposition groups from the area.

“Is it theoretically possible to fire five or six rockets and miss your opponent?” Churkin asked.

The inspectors cautioned that the five sites they investigated had been “welltraveled by other individuals prior to the arrival of the mission.”

“During the time spent at these locations, individuals arrived carrying other suspected munitions indicating that such potential evidence is being moved and possibly manipulated,” the report said. The areas were under rebel control, but the report did not elaborate on who the individuals were.

In the report, Sellstrom said the team was issuing the findings on the Ghouta attacks “without prejudice” to its continuing investigation and final report on the alleged use of chemical weapons in three other areas. Ban said he expects the inspectors to return

to Syria “as soon as possible” to complete their investigation.”

Under an Aug. 13 agreement between the U.N. and the Syrian government, Sellstrom’s team was scheduled to investigate an alleged chemical weapons attack on March 19 on the village of Khan al Assal outside Aleppo and alleged attacks on two other sites that were kept secret for security reasons. The inspectors’ report for the first time identified the two sites still to be investigated as Sheik Maqsood and Saraqueb.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his French and British counterparts worked on a two-pronged approach to Syria: They called for enforceable U.N. benchmarks for eradicating the chemical weapons program and an international conference bolstering the moderate opposition.

An agreement reached with the Russians calls for an inventory of Syria’s chemical weapons program within one week, with all components of the program out of the country or destroyed by mid-2014.

The next step must be a decision by the executive committee of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which implements the convention that Syria has agreed to join, to endorse the U.S.-Russian agreement. The OPCW is based in The Hague, Netherlands, and it isn’t certain when it will meet, although several diplomats said probably later this week.

Once the OPCW approves the agreement, the Security Council must adopt a resolution endorsing both the U.S.Russian agreement and the OPCW decision.

“This resolution needs to enshrine the OPCW decision in legally binding form, because the OPCW does not have the ability to impose legally binding obligations,” Britain’s Lyall Grant said.

France and the U.S. insisted that a military response to the Aug. 21 attack remained on the table, and were pressing for a U.N. resolution reflecting that.

Kerry said the agreement “fully commits the United States and Russia to impose measures under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter in the event of non-compliance.” Chapter 7 resolutions allow for military enforcement.

Lavrov said Chapter 7 was the subject of “fierce debate” during the talks but stressed that “the final document … doesn’t mention it” and that the Security Council resolution being negotiated will not be under Chapter 7.

He said if Syria fails to cooperate, the Security Council can pass an entirely different resolution “which may employ Chapter 7.”

Lavrov stressed that ongoing attempts to threaten the use of force against Syria would provoke the opposition and disrupt a chance for peace negotiations in Geneva that the U.S. and Russia have been trying to organize.

In an effort to encourage reporting of hazing incidents, the law grants immunity from civil or criminal liability to any person who reports a specific hazing event in good faith and without malice to the Dean of Students or other appropriate official of the institution and immunizes that person from participation in any judicial proceeding resulting from liability that might otherwise be incurred or imposed as a result of the report. Additionally, a doctor or other medical practitioner who treats a student who may have been subjected to hazing may make a good faith report of the suspected hazing activities to police or other law enforcement officials and is immune from civil or other liability that might otherwise be imposed or incurred as a result of the report. The penalty for failure to report is a fine of up to $1,000, up to 180 days in jail, or both. Penalties for other hazing offenses vary according to the severity of the injury which results and include fines from $500 to $10,000 and/or confinement for up to two years.

Hazing defined The law defines hazing as any intentional, knowing or reckless act, occurring on or off the campus of an educational institution, by one person alone or acting with others, directed against a student, that endangers the mental or physical health or safety of a student for the purpose of pledging, being initiated into, affiliating with, holding office in or maintaining membership in any organization whose members are or include students at an educational institution. Hazing includes but is not limited to: A. any type of physical brutality, such as whipping, beating, striking, branding, electric shocking, placing of a harmful substance on the body or similar activity; B. any type of physical activity, such as sleep deprivation, exposure to the elements, confinement in a small space, calisthenics, or other activity that subjects the student to an unreasonable risk of harm or that adversely affects the mental or physical health or safety of the student; C. any activity involving consumption of food, liquid, alcoholic beverage, liquor, drug or other substance which subjects the student to an unreasonable risk of harm or which adversely affects the mental or physical health of the student; D.any activity that intimidates or threatens the student with ostracism, that subjects the student to extreme mental stress, shame or humiliation, that adversely affects the mental health or dignity of the student or discourages the student from entering or remaining registered in an educational institution, or that may reasonably be expected to cause a student to leave the organization or the institution rather than submit to acts described in this subsection; E. any activity that induces, causes or requires the student to perform a duty or task which involves a violation of the Penal Code.

universiTy disciplinary rules This law does not affect or in any way limit the right of the university to enforce its own rules against hazing under Chapter 14 of the Institutional Rules on Student Services and Activities.

dangerous or degrading acTiviTies Activities which under certain conditions constitute acts which are dangerous, harmful or degrading, in violation of Chapter 14 and subsections 6-303(b)(3) and 11-404(a)(7) of the Institutional Rules on Student Services and Activities include but are not limited to: c calisthenics, such as sit-ups, push-ups or any other form of physical exercise; c total or partial nudity at any time; c the eating or ingestion of any unwanted substance; c the wearing or carrying of any embarrassing, degrading or physically burdensome article; c paddle swats, including the trading of swats; c pushing, shoving, tackling or any other physical contact; c throwing any substance on a person; c consumption of alcoholic beverages accompanied by either threats or peer pressure; c lineups for the purpose of interrogating, demeaning or intimidating; c transportation and abandonment (road trips, kidnaps, walks, rides, drops, etc.);

c confining individuals in an area that is uncomfortable or dangerous (hot box effect, high temperature, too small, etc.); c any form of individual interrogation; c any type of servitude that is of personal benefit to the individual members; c wearing of embarrassing or uncomfortable clothing; c assigning pranks such as stealing, painting objects, harassing other organizations; c intentionally messing up the house or a room for clean up; c demeaning names; c yelling or screaming; and c requiring boxing matches or fights for entertainment.

disciplined organizaTions, including THose resolved via muTual agreemenTs In accordance with requirements of the Texas Education Code Section 51.936(c), the following organizations have been disciplined for hazing and/or convicted for hazing, on or off campus, during the preceding three years: c alpha epsilon pi Penalty issued August 17, 2011 (Probation through August 17, 2013). c alpha Kappa delta phi* Conditional registration is three (3) years (Completed June 10, 2013). c alpha Kappa psi-Business* Conditional registration is one (1) year (February 21, 2014). c alpha rho chi-architecture* Conditional registration is three (3) years (May 29, 2015). c alpha Tau omega* Conditional registration is two (2) years (August 15, 2014). c delta sigma phi* Conditional registration is two (2) years (September 3, 2015). c delta sigma Theta sorority, inc. Penalty issued November 10, 2009 (Suspension completed December 31, 2009; Probation completed October 30, 2012). c delta Tau delta* Conditional registration is two (2) years (Completed September 9, 2012). c Kappa phi gamma sorority, inc.* Conditional registration is two (2) years (April 30, 2014). c lambda phi epsilon Penalty issued December 20, 2005 (Cancelled through December 19, 2011; Suspended through May 31, 2014; Probation through May 31, 2015). c omega phi gamma* Conditional registration is three (3) years (July 12, 2014). c phi chi Theta-Business* Conditional registration is two (2) years (July 7, 2014). c phi delta Theta* Conditional registration is two (2) years (August 9, 2014). c pi Kappa phi* Conditional registration is two (2) years (February 27, 2014). c sigma alpha epsilon* Conditional registration is five (5) years (Completed April 7, 2013). c sigma alpha mu* Conditional registration is two (2) years (April 20, 2014). c sigma phi epsilon* Conditional registration is two (2) years (Completed September 1, 2012). c silver spurs* Conditional registration is two (2) years (Completed July 13, 2013). c Texas cheer and pom* Conditional registration is two (2) years (Completed July 23, 2011). c Texas iron spikes* Conditional registration is three (3) years (March 7, 2014). c Texas omicron (formerly known as Kappa alpha order)* Conditional registration is three (3) years (April 11, 2015). c Texas Wranglers* Conditional registration is two (2) years (Completed October 6, 2010). c zeta Beta Tau* Conditional registration is one (1) year (August 26, 2014). *Resolved via Mutual Agreement To report an act of hazing to the Office of the Dean of Students, visit deanofstudents.utexas. edu/complaint.php. For further information or clarification of probationary member activities, please contact Student Activities in the Office of the Dean of Students, Student Services Building (SSB) 4.400, 512-471-3065.

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Thirteen killed in Navy Yard shooting rampage WASHINGTON — A former Navy reservist went on a shooting rampage Monday inside a building at the heavily secured Washington Navy Yard, firing from a balcony onto office workers in an atrium below, authorities and witnesses said. Thirteen people were killed, including the gunman.

Authorities said they were looking for a possible second attacker who may have been disguised in an olive-drab military-style uniform.

But as the day wore on and night fell, the rampage increasingly appeared to be the work of a lone gunman.

The attack unfolded about 8:20 a.m. in the heart of the nation’s capital, less than four miles from the White House and two miles from the Capitol.

Investigators said the motive was a mystery.

Mayor Vincent Gray said there was no indication it was a terrorist attack. But he said the possibility had not been ruled out.

It was the deadliest shooting at a military installation in the U.S. since Maj. Nidal Hasan killed 13 people and wounded more than 30 in 2009 at Fort Hood in Texas.

He was convicted last month and sentenced to death.

President Barack Obama lamented yet another mass shooting in the U.S. that he said took the lives of American “patriots.” He promised to make sure “whoever carried out this cowardly act is held responsible.”

The FBI took charge of the investigation and identified

the gunman killed in the attack as 34-year-old Aaron Alexis of Texas. He died after a running gunbattle inside the building with police, investigators said.

At the time of the rampage, Alexis was working in information technology with a company that was a Defense Department subcontractor.

Authorities said he may have had a badge that enabled him to get onto the base, but they were still investigating.

Alexis was a full-time Navy reservist from 2007 to early 2011, leaving as a petty officer third class, the Navy said. It did not say why he left. He had been an aviation electrician’s mate with a unit in Fort Worth, Texas.

—Associated Press

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In the past five years, no age group in Texas sought more concealed handgun licenses than those aged 50 or older, the newspaper reported Monday.

Last year, 57-year-olds topped all ages, with more than 3,600 of them seeking licenses.

“That group of people is the most aware and alert,” said Charles Johnson, a Houston attorney and board member of the Houston Police Foundation. “They watch the news the most. They follow changes in the law, news on a national and state level and they see any increase in crime.”

The newspaper compiled the data from the Texas Department of Public Safety.

There are more than 580,000 active concealed handgun license holders statewide, and about a quarter of those were issued last year.

The oldest Texans are also looking to arm themselves.

State records shows that at least 16 people in their 90s applied for licenses last year, including at least one 95-year-old.

Texas law requires residents to be at least 21 to get a concealed handgun license, which is good for four years initially and then for five years after. A license typically costs $140 and renewals cost $70.

Among 21-year-olds, nearly 2,000 sought a license last year. About 1,600 license-seekers were 23.

By contrast, nearly 3,600 64-year-olds sought a license in 2012. The ages of 53, 54 and 55 combined to seek more than nearly 10,700 licenses.

Older Texans also may lead the way because of the cost of training and the license, as well as the cost of ammunition, fingerprints and other supplies needed, said Bob Wieland, a concealed handgun license instructor in Plano.

“Older citizens have more life experience and may be more likely to have been a crime victim or know somebody who has,” Wieland told the newspaper. “Younger people tend to think they are indestructible.”

Earlier this year, lawmakers passed several measures geared to give Texas gun owners more freedom.

The new laws shrunk the required training time for those seeking concealed handgun licenses and let Texans renew their permits online without taking a renewal class.

—Associated Press

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Widening economic gap pulls families in WASHINGTON — The gap in employment rates between America’s highest and lowest-income families has stretched to its widest levels since officials began tracking the data a decade ago, according to an analysis of government data conducted for The Associated Press.

Rates of unemployment for the lowest-income families — those earning less than $20,000 — have topped 21 percent, nearly matching the rate for all workers during the 1930s Great Depression.

U.S. households with income of more than $150,000 a year have an unemployment rate of 3.2 percent, a level traditionally defined as full employment. At the same time, middle-income workers are increasingly pushed into lower-wage jobs. Many of them in turn are displacing lowerskilled, low-income workers, who become unemployed or are forced to work fewer hours, the analysis shows.

“This was no ‘equal opportunity’ recession or an ‘equal opportunity’ recovery,” said Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University. “One part of America is in depression, while another part is in full employment.”

The findings follow the government’s tepid jobs report this month, showing a steep decline in the share of Americans working or looking for work.

On Monday, President Barack Obama stressed the need to address widening inequality after decades of a “winner-take-all economy, where a few do better and better and better, while everybody else just treads water or loses ground.”

—Associated Press

Pride participants contest censorship Initiated as small, defiant, sexually daring protests, gay pride parades have become mainstream spectacles patronized by corporate sponsors and straight politicians as they spread nationwide.

For many gays, who prize the events’ edginess, the shift is unwelcome — as evidenced by bitter debate preceding Sunday’s parade in Dallas.

At issue was a warning from police and organizers that rules related to nudity and sexual behavior would be enforced more strictly than in past years. Police said anyone violating indecency laws in front of children could be charged with a felony.

The warnings outraged some local activists, whose reactions swiftly echoed through gay-oriented social media nationwide.

“To make the parade more ‘family friendly’ and to accommodate comfort for the increasing number of attending heterosexuals and corporate sponsorship, participants are being asked to cover up!” activist Daniel Scott Cates wrote on his Facebook page. “The ‘queer’ is effectively being erased from our pride celebration.”

Another activist, Hardy Haderman, wrote an aggrieved column for the Dallas Voice, a weekly newspaper serving the gay community.

“The assimilationists insist we tone down and throw away all our joyous sexiness,” Haderman said.

“Why? To do that turns the Pride Parade into a We-AreAshamed parade, and I refuse to be part of that.”

Despite the controversy, the Dallas Voice reported that the parade was “business as usual,” with larger than normal turnout marking the event’s 30th

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A participant poses in a Gay Pride rally in Katmandu, Nepal, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. About 1,000 people, including gays, lesbians, transvestites and their supporters hold the rally that has now become an annual festival for sexual minorities.

anniversary. The only reported arrests were for intoxication, not for nudity or lewdness. Some marchers did dress in skimpy underwear, despite pre-parade speculation this would not be allowed.

The parade is organized by the Dallas Tavern Guild, an association of gay bars.

Its executive director, Michael Doughman, said the change this year did not involve any new rules — but rather a warning that existing rules would be more strictly enforced.

These rules, he said, were drafted to conform with the city’s public nudity ordinance and the state’s antiobscenity law, which bars the parade from featuring sexual paraphernalia and “real or simulated sex acts.”

“Most people abided by the rules — but we had some

individuals who decided to push the envelope a little to see how far they could go,” Doughman said of recent parades. “So we asked our police security officer to bring it up as a reminder.”

“We aren’t trying to stifle anybody’s right to be gay or express themselves,” Doughman said. “We are trying to create a friendly environment for everybody. We can be gay without being naked.”

Among gay activists beyond Dallas, the dispute elicited sharply divided opinions. Those agreeing with Doughman included John Aravosis, a prominent Washington-based blogger.

“I got involved in gay politics 20 years ago in order to win the right to serve in the military, have a job, and get married, among others,” Aravosis wrote. “It had nothing to do with pub-

lic nudity … I’m open to a good explanation of how this links back to our civil rights, but I’ve not heard a good one yet.”

However, Michael Diviesti of Austin, Texas — leader of the state branch of the gayrights group GetEQUAL — said pride parades were in danger of losing their essential character.

“This is my celebration of myself,” Diviesti said. “Why should I have to tone that down because someone else might be looking? It’s like putting yourself back in a closet.”

Nationally, there’s no question that pride parades have become more mainstream and family-friendly as more gays and lesbians raise children and more heterosexuals turn out to watch. With the surge of corporate sponsorships, they’ve become a big

business in some cities.

As a result, there’s disagreement within the gay community as to what sort of imagery the parades should present.

“It’s something we’ll continue to struggle with,” said Gary Van Horn of Pittsburgh, a co-president of InterPride, which represents organizers of pride events across the U.S. and abroad.

Richard Pfeiffer, an organizer of Chicago’s annual pride parade for 40 years, said rules on lewdness and nudity vary from city to city, dependent on local laws and attitudes.

“We have our rules in Chicago, and on the whole our entries follow them,” Pfeiffer said. “If people step over those guidelines, we will just say, ‘For next year, don’t do that.’ We don’t pull people out of the parade on the spot.”

—Associated Press

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After failing to score in the second half against Ole Miss last week, the Longhorns’ offense could be in even bigger trouble this Saturday.

Texas enters the week with five offensive starters battling injuries, headlined by junior quarterback David Ash, who is questionable. Ash missed Saturday’s game against the Rebels after sustaining injuries to his head and right shoulder on Sept. 7 against Brigham Young University.

Head coach Mack Brown said Ash returned to practice for a walk-through on Sunday, though his status for the rest of the week remains unclear. The

training staff plans to evaluate Ash each morning, and Brown said the quarterback could be back in practice Tuesday if he passes the concussion tests.

“They’re monitoring him to see if he can return Tuesday,” Brown said. “They’ll work him out briefly in the morning and then they’ll allow him to return Tuesday afternoon if there’s no symptoms there.”

If Ash remains unable to play, Brown plans to start senior quarterback Case McCoy for the second straight week. McCoy completed 24 of 36 passes for 196 yards and a touchdown against Ole Miss.

Freshman quarterback Tyrone Swoopes may also factor into the game plan if Ash can’t play. Brown said the coaching

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(Clockwise from left) David Ash, Daje Johnson, Mason Walters, Mike Davis and Josh Cochran are all battling injuries heading into the Longhorns’ Big 12 opener against Kansas State on Saturday.

staff discussed playing Swoopes last Saturday, but opted against it following McCoy’s productive first half.

“We talked about it and said if we need to play him, we’ll play him,” Brown said. “Case was doing well. We’re scoring points and moving the ball as an offense so [we decided to] leave him in.”

In addition to Ash, the Longhorns listed senior wide receiver Mike Davis as questionable because of a sprained ankle injury that occurred early in the game against the Rebels. Davis managed to remain on the field following the injury, but he wore a walking

boot after the game.

The potential loss of Davis poses a major threat to the Longhorns’ passing game, as Texas already ruled sophomore running back/wide receiver Daje Johnson out for Saturday’s game. Johnson was unable to play against Ole Miss after hurting his left ankle against BYU one week earlier, and he has yet to shake the walking boot and return to the field.

With Johnson out, Texas named sophomore wide receiver Kendall Sanders as a starter for the second-straight week. Sanders hauled in seven passes for 55 yards against the Rebels, and recorded a

51-yard kickoff return.

In addition, the Texas offense is injured up front, as senior right guard Mason Walters, with a hip injury, and junior right tackle Josh Cochran, with a shoulder injury, enter the week listed as questionable.

Sophomore linemen Kennedy Estelle and Sedrick Flowers filled in admirably after Walters and Cochran left in the first half of last Saturday’s game, and Brown believes they have the ability to step up again if the starters are inactive.

“Most of the game really, Kennedy Estelle and Sedrick Flowers stepped up and played,” Brown said. “They

have to step up and play if the other two can’t.”

Despite these injuries, the Longhorns believe their depth on offense allows them to maintain consistency if any starters are out. Co-offensive coordinator Major Applewhite refuses to use injuries as an excuse, preaching the need for the Texas backups to step up when pressed into action.

“There is an overall mentality of we have to go with who we’ve got and engineer a win out of the pieces that we have,” Applewhite said. “You can mope and complain, but that’s not where our staff is. Just move on and try to find a way to do it with this.”

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A football team gets physically injured. Players get tossed around and thrown into scrums, and bones get broken.

But most people do not see the mental injuries. Coming off back-to-back losses to non-conference opponents, Texas’ attitude has changed since the last time it saw a win 17 days ago.

“Everybody is pretty hurt,” senior defensive tackle Chris Whaley said. “No one wants to lose two games back-toback like that.”

For a football program with the revered history of Texas, losing is unacceptable, never mind losing two of its first three games.

The last time the Longhorns started 1-2 was 1998 in Mack Brown’s first year at Texas. On Monday, Brown joked about how a friend told him in 1998 that Brown would not find enough friends to even be pallbearers for him by going 1-2, so he would have to be cremated.

Wonder what he’s thinking now?

On Saturday evening, after the loss to Ole Miss, there was a somber mood among the players as they talked about what went

wrong. The week before, after the shellacking they took against BYU, most Longhorn players just sat quietly and answered questions as quickly as possible.

Senior safety Adrian Phillips said there wasn’t much difference in the feeling between this weekend’s loss and last weekend’s.

“Every loss feels the same,” Phillips said. “You’re aggravated and wondering what you could have done differently to change the outcome.”

Brown spent most of fall camp hyping up his team, promising Longhorn fans that his 9-4 unit from last season would get back to Texas expectations.

“You work so long for this time, and it’s a slow start,” Phillips said. “But we can still get it turned around. You’re angry, but at the same time, we still have the rest of the season to go.”

That is what Texas is trying to do. Brown explained that the preparation and effort has always been there, and it is just a matter of going out and playing. While the team may be hurt, it must hold together as a unit.

“They’re doing everything right,” Brown said. “They’re not splitting [or] breaking up;

they’re fighting. Good lesson for all of us. When things are bad, you don’t lay down — you keep fighting. And that’s what we’re doing.”

Players on the defense said they are ready to go out and change what they have seen in the past two weeks.

“Nothing else needs to be said,” Phillips said. “It comes to the point now where you just have to go out and get it done.

All that hoo-rah stuff doesn’t matter when you aren’t putting out the work. Now it’s to the point where we know what needs to be done and now it’s time to go do it.”

Brown and his team have emphasized one specific overused cliche since their loss on Saturday: staying positive. Instead of breaking apart, which often causes an even worse downward spiral, the Longhorns’ seniors have come together and tried to propel forward in fixing the 1-2 mess.

“It’s tough taking two losses, especially when they’re in a row,” senior defensive end Jackson Jeffcoat said. “We’re going to use that as fuel.

There are things you can learn from a loss. We can’t let this get us down.”

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Comparisons to 2010 difficult to ignore

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In 2010, the Texas football team entered the season fresh off a BCS National Championship appearance, ranked fifth in the country. Led by quarterback Garrett Gilbert, who had a promising showing against Alabama in the Rose Bowl, the Longhorns appeared primed for another title run. But Texas fell flat on its face, finishing with a 5-7 record and failing to play in a bowl game for the first time in the Mack Brown era. With the Longhorns getting blown out in two straight contests and Big 12 play looming, 2013 is beginning to feel a lot like 2010 — if not worse.

The Longhorns opened up 2013 with a victory over unranked New Mexico State, a one-win team in 2012. Although the Longhorns wound up breaking out for 56

points to overcome a sluggish start, questions remained about the team’s lack of scoring in the first half. Those questions became realities for Texas in its second game, a 40-21 drubbing

by Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

Saturday had a similar feel when the Longhorns blew a 23-17 halftime lead, allowing Ole Miss to score the game’s final 27 points in a 44-23 win. In a game that was the second-worst home loss in Brown’s tenure at Texas, the Longhorns managed 90 yards of total offense in the second half while the Rebels had four touchdowns in the same time frame.

The 2010 team opened its season in similar fashion, falling behind 3-0 to the Rice Owls before pulling ahead for a 34-17 victory. This underwhelming play continued through Texas’ next two games, although the Longhorns defeated the Wyoming

Cowboys 34-7 and defeated an unranked Texas Tech team by 10. Neither of these were impressive showings — Texas failed to reach 35 points in any of its first three games for the first time since 1994.

Where does this leave the 2013 Texas team?

By almost all statistical counts, this year’s team has actually started worse than the 2010 squad that finished 5-7. After three games this year, the Longhorns are 1-2. They were 3-0 in 2010. While the offense has been a little better this year, scoring 100 points compared to the 92 scored in the first three games in 2010, 56 of those came in the opener against New Mexico State.

Things get uglier when contrasting the defenses. Texas has yielded 91 points this season, the most given up by a Longhorn defense in its first three games since Mack Brown’s inaugural season in 1998. The 2010 team, on the other hand, only

Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan Staff

After a 1-2 start to the season, Case McCoy and the Longhorns are in danger of having their worst season since 2010, when they went 5-7 and failed to qualify for a postseason bowl.

allowed 38 points through its first three games.

Of course, this comparison does not tell the whole story. Things unraveled quickly in 2010, beginning with a 34-12 home loss to unranked UCLA, Brown’s worst defeat at Darrell K

Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. Texas went on to lose seven of its last nine games and finished with the team’s first in-conference losing season in 13 years.

The 2013 Longhorns have fared worse than the 2010 team so far, and it’s

realistic to say this year’s team could wind up the biggest disappointment in Texas football history. With a struggling offense and a defense on pace to give up a school record 5,896 yards, things are getting ugly on the 40 Acres.

Unanswered questions in wide open Big 12 Conference DES MOINES, Iowa — The season is three weeks old, and yet there seems to be as many question marks in the Big 12 now as there were in August.

It’s probably a good thing that nearly half the league has the weekend off.

Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, TCU and Iowa State started bye weeks Monday, and each team is doing its best to take advantage of its early-season break.

The 14th-ranked Sooners (3-0) will use it to re-evaluate their quarterback situation.

Oklahoma went with Blake Bell as quarterback last week after quarterback Trevor Knight was sidelined with a bruised knee. All Bell did was earn Big 12 offensive player of the week honors in a 51-20 rout of Tulsa.

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some things around. But we got to get some guys in position where we have people open that will catch the ball.

The other night we could have run the ball a little bit more effectively.”

Iowa State’s bizarre early season schedule includes a pair of byes following by back-to-back Thursday night games.

The Cyclones can only hope their second bye in September will help them turn things around.

Iowa State (0-2) remains the Big 12’s only win-less team after losing to Iowa 27-21. The Cyclones needed a pair of touchdowns in the final five minutes to make the score seem more respectable.

Iowa State’s offensive line has struggled to open consistent holes for its backs, and quarterback Sam Richardson’s ability to run the ball was limited by an ankle injury. The Cyclones ran for

59 yards against the Hawkeyes, and Richardson was often under intense pressure from Iowa’s front four.

Iowa State plays at Tulsa next Thursday in a rematch of last season’s Liberty Bowl.

“We need to sustain and finish blocks,” Iowa State coach Paul Rhoads said. “We need to provide our quarterback longer pass protection.”

Three of the six Big 12 teams that play this weekend are home favorites, as Kansas (1-1) hosts Louisiana Tech, No. 20 Baylor (2-0) plays LouisianaMonroe (2-1), and Texas Tech (3-0) faces Texas State (2-0) on Saturday.

West Virginia (2-1), Kansas State (2-1) and Texas (1-2) are the only Big 12 schools with socalled “big games” on Saturday, and the Longhorns and Wildcats play each other in Austin.

—Associated Press

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as easy. They face regionalrival Maryland in Baltimore on Saturday.

For TCU, the bye will give it additional time to bounce back from a 1-2 start.

The Horned Frogs were 4-for-16 on third-down conversions and picked up 13 penalties for 115 yards in a 20-10 loss to Texas Tech, which helped the Red Raiders snag the final spot in this week’s Top 25.

TCU is allowing nearly 25 points a game, is ninth in the Big 12 with 190.7 yards passing per game and has just two touchdown passes this season.

The Horned Frogs host SMU on Sept. 28.

“I think it’s a combination of a lot of things,” TCU coach Gary Patterson said. “Obviously the coaches always get blamed. But we’ve had 2-3 days of talking about things we need to do. We need to tweak some things, change

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Still, the Cowboys (3-0) head into their first break on a roll after pounding Lamar 59-3. Gundy noted improvements in tackling, special teams coverage and overall fundamentals against the Cardinals.

Oklahoma State, ranked No. 12 in the nation, has two weeks to prepare for its Big 12 opener at West Virginia (2-1) on Sept. 28.

“I think we’re about where we wowuld expect to be,” Gundy said. “We obviously have a plan for our football team. It’s obviously a longterm plan. It’s to try to make us the best team we can in the end of November and December, and I feel like were close to being on track.”

The West Virginia Mountaineers don’t have it nearly

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touchdowns in his first career start.

“The competition was very close,” Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said. “He did keep a positive attitude and kept working weekly. He was set to play, kept working hard and he knew if he had his opportunity he was going to be prepared for it.”

The Sooners now have an extra week to allow Knight to get healthy. Stoops said Monday that Knight’s status for the game at Notre Dame on Sept. 28 won’t be clarified until later this week.

But it appears that Bell will be given every opportunity to wrestle the job away from Knight regardless of health.

“Blake’s the guy right now, but we’ll see how things go,” Stoops said. “That’s just something that we’ll see as time goes. But right now, there isn’t an issue.”

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Pageant sparks diversity talks ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Nina Davuluri isn’t the first Miss America of color. She’s not even the first Asian-American to wear the crown. But her victory has clearly struck a chord in some quarters.

At a news conference held after her name was announced Sunday night, the first question was about a slew of social media users apparently upset that someone of Indian heritage had won. Some tweets called her Arab and a terrorist.

“I have to rise above that,” said Davuluri, who competed as Miss New York. “I always viewed myself as first and foremost American.”

She said she’s delighted that the nearly century-old pageant sees beauty and talent of all kinds.

“I’m so happy this organization has embraced diversity,” Davuluri said. “I’m thankful there are children watching at home who can finally relate to a new Miss America.”

Her pageant platform was “celebrating diversity through cultural competency.” Her talent routine was a Bollywood fusion dance.

Davuluri, a 24-year-old native of Syracuse, N.Y., wants to be a doctor and is applying to medical school, with the help of a

$50,000 scholarship she won as part of the pageant title. She’s the second consecutive Miss New York to win the Miss America crown, succeeding Mallory Hagan, who was selected in January.

Davuluri’s grandmother said she cried when she saw the news on television.

“I am very, very happy for the girl. It was her dream, and it was fulfilled,” 89-year-old Vege Koteshwaramma said by phone from her home in Vijaywada, in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

There are numerous doctors in the family, in the U.S. and India, Koteshwaramma said, and if her granddaughter wants to become one, she is sure she can do it.

Asked about her granddaughter appearing in a bikini, given the conservative attitudes in India, Koteshwaramma said, “I haven’t seen any such thing.

This must be all part of the competition.”

Davuluri is the second Asian-American winner, after Angela Perez-Baraquio, who is of Filipino descent and won in 2001.

She now heads to New York City to prepare for TV talk show appearances and plans to see Broadway musicals over the next several days.

On Tuesday, she’ll see

“Pippin.” On Wednesday, she’ll meet former Miss America and fellow Syracuse native Vanessa Williams and see “The Trip To Bountiful,” in which Williams appears.

Williams became the first black Miss America in 1984, but resigned after Penthouse Magazine published nude photographs of her.

Monday morning, Davuluri took the traditional ocean frolic dip in the surf in front of Boardwalk Hall, where she won the title hours earlier. The pageant, which originated in Atlantic City in 1921, spent the past six years in Las Vegas before returning to New Jersey.

“Welcome home, Miss America!” Davuluri said as she stood barefoot in the shallow surf, wearing a lime green Miss America T-shirt and white shorts. “We’re back in Atlantic City!”

Davuluri had planned to go to the scene of a devastating boardwalk fire in Seaside Park and Seaside Heights on Monday afternoon. But pageant officials canceled that visit after learning that Gov. Chris Christie was making cabinet officials available at that time to business owners victimized by the fire and said Davuluri will visit later.

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Miss New York Nina Davuluri, front, is crowned as Miss America 2014 by Miss America 2013 Mallory Hagan on Sunday in Atlantic City, N.J.

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It all began with a squirrel and a hammerhead shark. This unlikely animal pairing is the cornerstone of the Vinca jewelry catalog, the brainchild of Austin-based designer Amanda Dimova.

Dimova creates laser-cut jewelry out of wood, acrylic and leather. Her designs range from adorable neon hedgehog rings to downright strange Sriracha sauce earrings and necklaces adorned with French expletives. She is also currently working on custom designs for Austin City Limits Music Festival.

Vinca’s products are carried in various boutiques around town. Lauren Bianchi, who owns SparkleKids: Upscale Resale, has watched Dimova and her designs blossom over the past few years.

“She’s a real go-getter,” Bianchi said. “She’s always at shows and always working to get her stuff in stores.”

Vinca started in 2006 while Dimova was attending UT. With a small catalog of designs in hand, she soon realized getting her line into stores wouldn’t be easy.

“I took it to stores trying to get customers and it was a lot harder than I thought it would be,” Dimova said.

“I thought you just go and people order, but no — they have to like it. So that was

an obstacle that I realized I’d have to figure out what the customer wants and then make it.”

Dimova said she tried designing popular trends at first but soon found that wasn’t quite laser-cutting it.

It turns out customers prefer Dimova’s quirky sensibilities to following fads.

“I decided I’m just going to make what I really, really like, and I made the squirrel hair clip and the hammerhead shark hair clip and I actually got orders for that,” Dimova said.

One of the first stores to pick up Vinca was Blue Elephant, a boutique on North Lamar Boulevard.

“At the time, Vinca was the first jewelry line out there using their laser-cut technology to create jewelry pieces out of acrylic and wood,” said Rachel McKee, store manager and buyer for Blue Elephant. “I liked it so much for the store because it was an original creation concept, but was also really cheeky and funny … [the pieces] mix really well with a more conservative look and add that element of edge.”

Dimova left UT in 2007 after her first daughter was born and went on to work for her parents’ shoe company, putting her jewelry business on hold.

“I remember thinking in my head, ‘How many thousands of pieces do I have to sell a month to

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Jewelry designer Amanda Dimova is the owner of Vinca, a company using laser-cut technology to create jewelry out of acrylic, leather and wood. Vinca Jewelry can do custom designs and can ship its items all over the country.

actually make it worth my time?’ And so I remember thinking, ‘I’ve got to put the jewelry behind me …

I’ve got to raise my family,’” Dimova said.

After the shoe business slowed down in 2011, Dimova decided it was time to go back to school just before Vinca gained momentum. At the same time, Fab, an online shopping website, began carrying her designs and built a

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wholesale customer base for the company.

“I thought, ‘Wow, I started school again and then business is picking up, so do I keep going with school, or do I focus on the business?’” Dimova said. “So I just balanced it to where I would pass my classes and get stuff shipped on time.

Those were my goals, and it worked out even though I was late on a couple

shipments and maybe I didn’t make such good grades, but I got it all taken care of. So it worked out.”

While orders flooded in, Dimova couldn’t help but marvel at the fact that her line was finally off the ground.

“I remember one of the first orders I got from Fab that was really big was 400 pairs of diamond earrings,” Dimova said. “I just sat on

the picnic table outside for a couple hours and I should have been doing my homework at the time but I was like, this is making me money, this is awesome, I can’t believe it.”

This past year has brought Dimova far from peddling her animal kingdom oddcouple from store to store. It’s only a matter of time before Vinca takes over all of our jewelry boxes.

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MGMT fails to meet expectations

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Elvis Costello and The Roots collaborate on funky new album, “Wise Up Ghost.”

Collaboration with The Roots renews interest in Costello

By Sam Hays

@samingtonhays

Classic rocker Elvis Costello has got his groove back. Teaming up with The Roots, Costello returns to the scene with his latest project, Wise Up Ghost.

With the help of The Roots, Costello sounds revitalized and more energetic than he has in some of his latest works.

His signature wail, always teetering between being on and off pitch, is confident as ever on top of the vintage, hip-hop beats The Roots are known for.

The partnership between a seasoned rock icon and a relatively young — but experienced — band represents a bold move by both parties, resulting in a successful collaboration.

Wise Up Ghost is as a collection of 12 solid, funky tracks laden with catchy melodies and tremolo-heavy guitar riffs. The Roots’ instrumentation allows Costello’s voice to drift between

different settings and contexts — a musical experiment that is the product of the collective genius of this talented bunch of musicians.

A trumpet sounds, sometimes accompanied by another one harmonizing on top of it. A Rhodes piano hammers out a riff that leads into a beautiful string arrangement that closes out the song. And of course, thumping bass guitars cruise side-by-side with the classic sound of Roots’ drummer ?uestlove — simply a sexy reward for listeners.

Some songs are Costello-centered ballads, such as the gentle “Tripwire.”

Some are Motown-infused parades, such as the album opener “Walk Us Uptown,” in which The Roots’ inf luence clearly bleeds through. Many songs, such as “(She Might Be A) Grenade,” are a remarkable blend of both Costello’s and The Roots’ signature styles, and are the album’s high points.

The album’s closer, “If I

The sound track to high school experiences, the feel-good songs of summer and just pure fun: MGMT was all of those things, but its new direction bears no resemblance to its former self.

MGMT’s self-titled third album is underwhelming.

The minds behind beloved break-out singles such as “Time to Pretend,” “Kids” and “Electric Feel” present a psychedelic sound that struggles to grab listeners’ attention.

While the songs on MGMT are textured and atmospheric, the catchy hooks have vanished. The duo’s vocals have faded into the background and become nothing more than an afterthought. The melodic synth lines from “Time to Pretend” and “Kids” have been diluted, resigned to single notes that last the length of an entire song. This is the new MGMT — a whispering, timid shell of its

former self.

The band has matured musically, using more complex beat patterns and creating sprawling soundscapes, but its craft comes across as self-indulgent and overdone, making MGMT the least accessible of the duo’s albums. The opener, “Alien Days” sounds like a late 1960s Beatles track that is somehow even more hallucinatory. “I Love You Too, Death” begins just as creepily as the title suggests, and as soon as the music appears to be going somewhere, the mumbled vocals and blaring synth pads fade, leaving listeners unsatisfied.

The album’s second single is perhaps its saving grace.

“Your Life Is a Lie” is the catchiest song, throwing relatable lyrics on top of triumphant synth organs and crashing percussion.

At a mere 2:06 runtime, the album’s best moment is short-lived.

A generally moody album that lacks gumption, MGMT feels incomplete.

MGMT Artist: MGMT Label: Columbia Songs to Download: “Alien Days,” “Your Life Is A Lie,“ “A Good Sadness“

Once headed to the top of the psych-pop genre, MGMT has receded to the fringes of the music scene, becoming less and less relevant with each album. But maybe, as the song “Introspection” suggests, that’s what the duo wants. The songs on this album feel like the songs that didn’t make it onto an Animal Collective album — skeletal, undefined and lacking in character. With a general lack of accessibility and overall effort, MGMT is the oncepromising group’s most disappointing album to date.

WISE UP GHOST Artist: Elvis Costello and The Roots Label: Blue Note Records Songs to Download: “Walk Us Uptown,” “Tripwire,“ “Puppet“

Could Believe,” could be a stand-alone Costello track — a soft piano ballad that punctuates the album perfectly after several tracks of exhausting variety.

Once an aging musician who seemed to be losing relevance, the brave, new collaboration has once again breathed life into Costello’s persona. Wise Up Ghost recycles musical ideas from rock, hip-hop and funk, but is spun with ingenuity that makes every song on the album innovative and entertaining.

Photo courtesy of Paradign Agency

MGMT’s third release is a disappointing effort from a once-promising psych-pop band.