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Student stabbed in nose with fork By Jordan Rudner @jrud
A female UT student was stabbed in the nose with a fork in the Engineering Science Building on Wednesday night, according to UTPD spokeswoman Cindy Posey. The victim’s name has not been released. Posey said UTPD received a call at 5:45 p.m. about an assault in progress, and UTPD and Austin Police Department officers
were both dispatched to the scene. According to Posey and witnesses at the scene, the assailant, Chenxi Deng — who is not a UT student — stabbed the victim, after which he was restrained by several UT students until police officers arrived. Posey said the victim, who was initially treated by an EMT on the scene, has been taken to St. David’s Medical Center for further treatment. Posey said Deng has been arrested for ag-
gravated assault, though this could not be confirmed by Roger Wade, public information officer for the Travis County Sheriff ’s office as of Wednesday night. Electrical engineering junior Priscilla Chang said she did not see the attack itself but was witness to the immediate aftermath. Chang said she reached the third-floor elevator and saw a bleeding girl sitting on the bench outside the elevator, surrounded by
other students. “She was crying, obviously,” Chang said. “There was a puddle of blood on the floor, kind of off to the side.” Chang said she saw Deng being restrained on the ground by a group of other students. “I saw the guy being pinned down by a few other guys, and he was going nuts,” Chang said. “He was yelling some crazy stuff, but I couldn’t really tell what it was — he seemed incoher-
ent. He was fighting the guys trying to hold him down.” Dylan Zika, an electrical engineering junior, said he was studying in the ENS building when the stabbing occurred. Zika said when he approached the elevator, he was denied access by the police. “They wouldn’t let anyone in the elevator on the third floor for 20 or 30 minutes,” Zika said. “I think they’d already cleaned up the blood by the time I got there.”
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Students recollect cancer experiences By Lizzie Jespersen @LizzieJespersen
Though many children have strong attachments to comfort objects, Kalie Kubes had a special relationship with her stuffed kangaroo: She kept her company during radiation treatment for childhood cancer, sometimes for entire days when she had no significant human interaction. Kubes, an applied learning and development senior, said she remembers the treatment well. “Whenever I went through radiation I would always have my kangaroo stuffed animal with me,” Kubes said. “Through radiation, they would have to put like a tape ‘X’ across my stomach where my kidney was, where the radiation would be done, and I was so scared … So I would have my kangaroo with me and
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Bucky Ribbeck was diagnosed with cancer in 2009 and finished treatment by the end of that same year. While a child diagnosed with cancer today has a 80-90 percent survival rate, many will deal with the cancer side effects for the rest of their life.
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Editor’s note: This is the first in a weekly series in which The Daily Texan looks back at something it covered in its 113-year history. An early morning Big Bite feast after a night of barhopping until closing time is not an unfamiliar scenario to many UT students. But female students in the early 1960s were not so lucky. The Daily Texan ran an article that announced an extended curfew in UT’s women’s residence halls on Sept. 17, 1963. The University-enforced curfews applied only to UT’s female students, an example of the disparity in gender equality at the time. The curfew extension, granted by Margaret Peck, who served as the dean of women, changed the students’ Sunday through Thursday curfew from 11 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. and the Friday and Saturday curfew from 12:45 a.m. to 1 a.m. “Residence halls are being kept open later to make it possible for women to take advantage of the additional study time,” Peck said in the Sept. 17 article. The University imposed curfews on the majority of its female students in 1963. The then-called “coeds” were
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McCoy making his case for the starting quarterback position By Garrett Callahan Fans of Case McCoy have gotten their fair share of excitement this season. The senior quarterback has already appeared in three games, including one start, and there’s a good chance that more appearances are coming. Throughout his four-year career, the younger brother of former Texas star Colt McCoy has appeared in 25 games, which is well above the average for a typical backup quarterback. But McCoy hasn’t been a typical backup quarterback. He’s been a starter, a backup and even a third stringer at one point, and his experiences have varied through all those periods. Texas is also no stranger to this issue of quarterback switches. “We play behind all of our quarterbacks,” sophomore running back Johnathan Gray said. “When one is down, the other one comes in, we rally around whoever is in the game.” In his career, McCoy has
completed 178 passes, tallying 2,086 yards on 278 attempts. He has also recorded negative 22 yards of rushing on 46 attempts. McCoy saw little action in his freshman campaign with appearances against Rice and Florida Atlantic, attempting just one pass and one rush through those two games. In his sophomore season, the Graham native helped fill in after the end of the Garrett Gilbert era. He started in five games and appeared in five others, setting the school record that year for the most consecutive passes to start a career without an interception (124). While he only started one game in his junior season, he came into four others, and in just the first four weeks of this season, he has almost matched this number of appearances. In Texas’ loss to Brigham Young University this season, starter David Ash suffered a head injury that took him out of the rest of the game and the following week
against Ole Miss. Against Kansas State, Ash left the game at halftime because of those same injuries. McCoy has appeared in the place of Ash in all of those contests, winning just one. Statistically there isn’t a
huge difference between when McCoy starts and when he comes into games as a backup. When starting he has tallied 1,370 yards with a total QBR of 41.6. When he has come into the game to replace the starter he has
tallied 610 yards with a total QBR of 65.12. In his lone start this season against Ole Miss, McCoy led an inconsistent offense that was held to zero points in the last half. The senior has had good
luck when he gets on the field mid-game. In 2011 — after boos serenaded thenstarter Gilbert — McCoy came in and switched off plays with Ash to lead the
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they would put a little tape ‘X’ over her pouch too.” As National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month comes to a close, UT students who survived cancer in their own childhoods reflected on their personal experiences, frustrations and moments of triumph while wrestling with cancer. Less than 1 percent of all cancers are diagnosed in children aged 0-14 and young adults aged 15-24, according to Cancer Research UK. The survivors of these cancers and their treatments often face lasting side effects such as disabilities, growth impairments, weak immune systems and risk of further cancers. “Survival rates for childhood cancer have changed dramatically over years,” Barbara Jones, social work associate professor, said. “They are 80-90 percent for a child diagnosed today. It’s fantastic. But that means we have a lot of people dealing with the side effects of childhood cancer.” Kubes was first diagnosed with neuroblastoma cancer when she was 15-months old. Though two diagnoses later she finished treatments, she still deals with the effects of chemotherapy: muscle atrophy, chronic pain, low energy and hearing loss. Bucky Ribbeck, human biology senior, said he never let himself think the cancer would beat him. But he found that this was not the case for all pediatric cancer patients. His hardest moment living with the disease was losing a good friend and fellow patient to cancer. “Her name was Natalia,” Ribbeck said. “She was my first friend I ever lost … I know she’s not physically here but every day I try to
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enjoy the association of other girls in the dorm and do not have time to cook their own meals,” the article said. None of the articles explained why female students were given curfews and males were not, or why male students would have had more time to cook than females. UT’s first coed residence hall, the Jester Center, was built in 1969, housing men and women in two separate towers within the same building. Gender equality continued to progress at the University from there, and today 80 percent of UT’s residence halls are coed. Women of 2013 are now left to complain about the ID card swipes required after midnight for entry into residence halls. But compared to a life without late-night Pluckers, last-call drink orders, 3 a.m. dog walks and after-hours movie premieres — it probably doesn’t seem too awful.
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Two days after the women’s curfew article was published, the Texan ran a story that said freshmen and sophomore male students had been permitted to live in an approved, privately-owned apartment building for the first time. The apartment would not enforce a curfew, as no men’s University dormitories had curfews, the apartment building’s manager said in the Sept. 19 article. “The approval was given to provide better housing for those who want to cook their own meals,” R.A. Sininger, assistant dean of student life, said in the Sept. 18 article. “Many feel this saves money.” This explanation came one month after the August article cited a housemother, who gave an opposing argument to female students’ desire to cook. “Few girls want apartments, even after they become seniors, because they get to
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This new development was brought to the attention of the University, which reiterated its stance of total transparency it declared when the study was first published. UT spokesman Gary Susswein said the public is encouraged to keep in mind who the contributors and sponsors of the study were while reading it. “Critics of the study are drawing much of their information from records and documents that UT-Austin has voluntarily released or posted online,” Susswein said. “As we learn of any additional affiliations that should be disclosed, we are doing so.” Nicholette Zeliadt, a representative from the PNAS news office, said PNAS is working to correct the authors’ disclosure statement, but they do not foresee any other changes being made to the study. “We are working with the authors to finalize the text for a revised disclosure statement as quickly as possible,” Zeliadt said. “The statement will be published as a correction to the paper.” Miskimins did not return emails and a call for comment.
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live with her in mind so that she can live through me, because I know that there’s a reason that I made it and others didn’t.” Ribbeck was diagnosed with cancer in May of 2009 and finished his treatment near Christmas of the same year. “It was probably the best Christmas gift and New Year’s gift that you could ever get — to be done with cancer,” Ribbeck said. Other survivors of childhood cancer have used their experiences to become advocates for childhood cancer research and awareness. Public relations sophomore Devin Duncan has spoken at numerous events and interviews as an advocate. “I would have to talk to a crowd and try to convince them of the underfunding of childhood cancer,” Duncan said. “People assume that ‘oh, well, they’re children, of course people are taking care of them’ … but that’s not the case at all.” Duncan was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia twice, both at 3-years old and again 13 years later. As a cancer patient, she struggled with medications that affected her ability to keep track of details, at times forgetting entire days at the hospital. Still, she is able to look back at her experiences and see the good that has come from her struggles. “I’ve had so many doors open for me,” Duncan said. “I feel like everybody in life has this want to be something bigger than themselves and have this want to make a name for themselves. I feel like it’s really cool that even though I am the cancer girl, or the cancer advocate, I’ve made a name for myself in a way that I would have never been able to before. That’s something that’s really fulfilling.”
NEWS BRIEFLY Texas football players first in monetary value
UT football players may not top any national rankings at the moment, but they do rank No. 1 in one area — individual financial value. A recent analysis conducted by Business Insider (BI) calculated that each of the 85 players who are awarded scholarships were valued at an estimated $578,000 per individual, averaging more than any other college player in the country. The study referenced the University’s 2012 football revenue, which totaled $104.5 million. BI then calculated individual players’ hypothetical salary if UT abided by the same collective bargaining agreements within the NFL — wherein players receive a minimum 47 percent of all revenue. According to a 2011 report by Business of College Sports, UT football players are only given scholarships collectively amounting to 3.2 percent of football-related revenue. This number is common among other universities: such as Oklahoma State and Texas Tech, paying 4.2 percent and 7.6 percent, respectively. Iowa State, however, whom the Longhorns face off against Saturday, pays 10.6 percent. —Anthony Green
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Student city council district isn’t perfect, but it’s a start On Tuesday, UT’s Student Government Assembly passed a resolution calling for the creation of a “student district for city council elections.” The creation of such a district would be part of the 10-one redrawing of Austin City Council districts, which voters approved last fall and which will dramatically change the Austin City Council representation system from seven at-large members to 10 members elected from specific geographic districts across the city. The question remaining, and the one that the aforementioned SG resolution attempts to answer, is how those district lines should fall. We side with UT’s Student Government in saying that we believe the 10 districts should include one specifically drawn to include the majority of the city’s college student population. The districts will be decided by a 14-member citizen commission, and the decisions that committee makes will have the power to unite or divide groups in the Austin community. Each district must have roughly the same population (around 80,000 citizens), and several districts must include substantial black or Hispanic populations, as required by the Voting Rights Act. According to Carson Jones, the director of Student Government’s City Relations Agency and the author of Tuesday’s legislation, while a student district encompassing only West Campus would fail to meet the 80,000-person population requirement for a district, a district that encompassed areas of West Campus, North Campus and East Riverside could meet the 80,000 population requirement and would include a sufficient number of students. At first glance, drawing a single student district seems problematic, both because students are transient residents and because students in different neighborhoods may
have dramatically different needs. Though West Campus is the densest neighborhood in Austin, the number of students registered to vote is incredibly low, a fact that skews the census numbers and makes the West Campus population look lower than it actually is. If students can’t even register to vote, the urgency of tailoring a district just for them is admittedly less pressing. But the urgency of city issues facing students is easier to illustrate. Between 2004 and 2012, for example, the average value of highrise-occupied land in West Campus rose from $50 per square foot to $100 per square foot, a cost increase that has been passed along to students in rent prices. Issues of crime, transportation and housing costs end up affecting students more, not less, because of their status as transient Austin citizens. The greatest justification for the creation of a student district, then, is not that students are clamoring for its creation, but that we have sufficient reason to believe that they would be clamoring at the door of a City Council member elected specifically to deal with student problems. “This is almost like the first domino, in a sense. Understanding that there is a student district can help students to realize that they can influence the city that they are living in and help them grasp that while they are in school here they can affect siblings, friends, eventually children that might be coming years later,” Jones said of the legislation. At a redistricting commission meeting held Wednesday night, the issue of a student district was not addressed, despite two students testifying in support of the idea. As the commission moves forward with the process, we hope that they will take into account the needs of students and the ability of a student district to drive student engagement.
HORNS UP: CORNYN’S NOT FALLING FOR IT On Tuesday and Wednesday, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz railed against the alleged evils of the Affordable Care Act for over 21 hours. Cruz’s tactic does nothing to halt the vote for a new federal budget, but it does risk a disastrous shutdown of the government, a move that Democrats and most Republicans oppose. “While I remain committed to defunding Obamacare, I’m also committed to avoiding a government shutdown,” said fellow Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn. We applaud Cornyn for choosing restraint, and working toward his political goals in a way that does not endanger the country’s well-being.
HORNS DOWN: RACIALLY-CHARGED STUNT MISSES THE POINT Following in the footsteps of other conservative youth organizations, Young Conservatives of Texas held a bake sale on the West Mall on Wednesday with different prices for different students. White males paid the most at $2.50 per baked good. The stated purpose of the event was to protest the alleged unfairness of affirmative action programs, but by reducing the built-in discrimination against minorities to a simple sliding scale, these budding conservative leaders missed the point of modern holistic admissions processes like the one recently challenged in the Fisher case. There are plenty of reasonable ways to question the value of affirmative action, but Young Conservatives’ childish stunt wasn’t one of them.
HORNS UP: TEXAS (MOSTLY) ACKNOWLEDGES REALITY According to a survey released Tuesday by Yale University’s Project on Climate Change Communication, 70 percent of Texans believe in global warming, and more than half believe dealing with it should be a high priority for the federal government. Unfortunately, only 44 percent concluded that the global warming has been caused by human activity.
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Overwhelmed. Intimidated. Confused. These are the feelings that mark the first few weeks of freshman year. Dorms, however, serve as safe havens for the hordes of new students in those first few weeks. On-campus living is valuable to first-year students, and this is why 70 percent of the 7,200 students housed on campus are freshmen seeking the security and belonging found in a residential dormitory. Due to the fact that on-campus dorms require same-sex roommate pairing, many LGBTQ students have to tolerate rooming situations that range from uncomfortable to unbearable. The current same-sex roommate policy operates under very heteronormative assumptions. While it is intended to provide “appropriate” rooming situations, the policy ignores the unique housing needs of the LGBTQ community. Gender diversity in this community means students’ preferences and identifications fall beyond the traditional scope of gender norms, and the roommate policy does not acknowledge this diversity or support the many difficulties of this community. In fact, a study (Rankin and Beemyn, in progress) found that 44 percent of 50 transgender students from 14 universities experienced harassment in the form of derogatory remarks, verbal and physical threats, and denial of services. “Living in all-female dorms during both of my first two years on campus [was] an uncomfortable situation since I began questioning my gender. My request to change rooms was denied and I couldn’t afford a single room [on campus],” said Bridgette Kieffer, co-director of LGBTQ political activist group StandOut. Since then, the Division of Housing and Food Service has offered a welcome, though incomplete solution. “If an LGBTQ student is willing to share their gender identity, it is possible that they will be assigned an individual room at the same cost as sharing a room,” Kieffer said. “This is not ideal since it requires the student to come out to Housing, but it is a step in the right direction.” Associate Director of Residence Life Hemlata Jhaveri, who oversees these types of housing issues at DHFS, has been working with StandOut for the past year to fur-
ther evaluate the need for gender-neutral housing and study how it is provided at other universities. “It is very important that every student feels safe in their community living space, and we work with students on an individual basis,” Jhaveri said. Gender-neutral housing would give students the option to room together, regardless of the students’ biological sex or identified gender. DHFS has found that only two private schools in Texas offer it, and the majority of schools outside Texas offer it only to upperclassmen through university-owned apartments, suggesting its infeasibility at UT. StandOut, however, is not satisfied with these initiatives and has continued to petition for a gender-inclusive housing option that would allow students of any gender to freely room together for over a year now. Last year, DHFS suggested UT’s offcampus dorms as a solution because they allow students to choose any roommate. “That shows that they just wanted to throw the issue off campus, and I strongly agree with the idea that you should live on campus your first year,” StandOut co-director Devon Howard said. Since then, StandOut has continued to push for an on-campus dorm with a pilot floor for gender-inclusive housing. DHFS, however, has not confirmed any plans of the sort, and LGBTQ students are still forced to manage with the roommate policy in the current oncampus housing options. Even if DHFS did approve plans for a pilot floor, it is still questionable that that would completely solve the problem. “I don’t believe this is purely housing-related,” Devon said. “UT has pretty awesome LGBTQ policies, like the nondiscrimination policy or preferred pronoun change on non-legal documents. A lot of the issues come from the students and their ignorance — not much [that] the University itself can directly cure.” I think I speak for all of us when I say it is time to reexamine initiatives to cure the true source of the problem — ignorance and intolerance. StandOut and DHFS’ initiatives to explore gender-inclusive housing are a sensible approach to sensitive student issues, but the solution has to start and end with education and stronger student initiatives to promote tolerance and diversity on and off campus. Huynh is a Plan II and business honors sophomore from Laredo.
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Dese’Rae L. Stage, founder and photographer of the “Live Through This Project,” speaks to a group of students Tuesday evening as part of Suicide Prevention Week.
Students can prevent suicide By Chris Jordan
Daily Texan Columnist @ChrisAlanJordan
Students at UT are under incredible pressure — finding a job, dealing with relationships and making the most of their four years on the 40 Acres. But when these pressures turn into something destructive and thoughts of suicide and self-harm begin to seem reasonable compared to what’s ahead, it’s time to seek help. As much as college is about exploring yourself, having fun and becoming a productive and successful human being, there are aspects of college life that no one wants to talk about — loneliness, boredom and fear. This University is daunting, and students coming straight from high school can slip through the cracks more easily than any of us want to admit. It’s our responsibility as members of the university community to lift those people up, and this week is the perfect time to start. This week is Suicide Prevention Awareness Week at the University of Texas. Spearheaded by the Counseling and Mental Health Center (CMHC) in partnership with Student Government, the Tejas Club and Texas Parents, the week is full of events aimed at helping all members of the University of Texas understand that they are not alone. As both a member of the student advisory board for the CMHC and the Tejas Club, I believe suicide prevention efforts should always be supported and expanded at the University of Texas. According to the Daily Beast, as of 2010, among those aged 15-49, suicide was the leading cause of death, surpassing heart disease, AIDS and cancer. Among that group, more people were dying by suicide than the year before. The jump in suicide rates is seen by some as generational. Others see suicide as preventable, and predict that rates will drop with less access to guns or a better economic climate. The reality is that suicide is a public health issue, but one that has
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been consistently misunderstood. For college students, suicide is part of our everyday life. According to the CMHC, 18 percent of undergraduate students and 15 percent of graduate students have seriously considered suicide as an option. Of those, 8 percent of undergraduates and 5 percent of graduate students have acted on that consideration. This means that most students on this campus are close with someone who has thought about self-harm, whether they know it or not. The excuse that suicide does not affect you does not hold up to the truth. Events all week include workshops to help students, faculty and staff recognize peers who might be thinking about suicide. Many people do not have significant outward expressions to let others know they are thinking about suicide, which is why it is important to receive professional training to recognize those who are in need. Organizations around the globe have made progress in eliminating the stigma associated with suicide and mental health in general. But every time “kill yourself ” is thrown around as an insult or threats of suicide are treated in the same vein as casual complaints, we take two steps back. It’s easy to walk past the flyers and look past suicide prevention week as just another University campaign. But it’s not nearly as easy to get educated or to treat suicide and mental health with the same severity as other diseases with large mortality rates. It’s high time that suicide was treated as more than a generational tic, and mental health as more than something to be overcome. Suicide is not the last resort of the weak, the product of bad genes or a way of seeking attention. For every student on the 40 Acres, suicide should always be a serious concern and help should be offered readily. We cannot afford to keep waiting until it’s too late. Jordan is an English and finance junior from Missouri City.
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Freshman middle blocker Chiaka Ogbogu tallied six kills in Texas’ Big 12 opener against TCU on Wednesday night. The Longhorns defense stymied the Horned Frogs, notching their second sweep of the season.
Longhorns’ defense stifles TCU By Matt Warden @themattwarden5
After a gauntlet of challenging preseason matches, the Longhorns cruised to a three-set victory in their conference opener. Fifth-ranked Texas (7-2, 1-0 in conference play) established its offensive presence early on en route to a 25-18 victory in the opening frame. The set was a backand-forth battle for dominance with five lead changes as both teams tried to find their grooves. The Longhorns went on a 9-2 run after trailing 17-16, taking the set behind five kills by junior outside hitter Haley Eckerman and three blocks by senior setter Hannah Allison. Texas notched
just a .194 hitting percentage in the opening set, but its play at the net forced TCU into a .026 hitting percentage on seven total errors. The second frame was all Texas as the Longhorns ended the set on an 11-4 run to take their lead to two with a 25-16 victory. Senior outside hitter Bailey Webster and freshman middle blocker Chiaka Ogbogu produced four and three kills respectively in the set as Texas outhit TCU .417.161 while only committing two errors. Entering the third set the Texas offense and defense were working in perfect harmony, forcing the Horned Frogs into 13 errors while only surrendering 19 kills to that point.
Texas stifled the Horned Frogs and forced them into 23 attack errors to go along with a .030 hitting percentage — the lowest total for any opponent all season. The Longhorns opened the final set on an 11-4 run with four early kills and two blocks before the Horned Frogs fought back to bring the score to 14-13 in favor of Texas. Eckerman notched a kill on the very next play and the Longhorns never looked back, ending the set and game on an 11-2 run. Eckerman led the offensive charge for Texas with 13 kills in the match to go along with 10 digs. Webster and Ogbogu added eight
and six kills respectively while Allison amassed a team-high 25 assists. Texas stifled the Horned Frogs and forced them into 23 attack errors to go along with a .030 hitting percentage — the lowest total for any opponent all season. The win also marked the second shutout for the Longhorns in 2013. With every part of their game firing on all cylinders, the Longhorns will ride this momentum into a weekend tilt at home against Oklahoma.
Colin Kaepernick — Kaepernick is a better quarterback than he has shown in the last two weeks. I gave him a pass against the Seattle defense, but his follow up performance against Indianapolis is worrisome. However, I have faith that the Kaepernick that we saw throw for over 400 yards in week one will return sooner rather than later. DeMarco Murray — Murray might finally string two solid performances together. Last week the Cowboys’ offense ran through Murray, as he totaled 175 rushing yards and a touchdown against St. Louis. This week the Cowboys travel to San Diego to face the Chargers 28th ranked rushing defense.
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Sit: Philip Rivers — Rivers started to look like a candidate for bounce-back player of the year by totaling 51 fantasy points in his first two weeks. However, he regressed greatly against a strong Titans defense, throwing for less than 200 yards and only one touchdown last week. Look for more of the same against an equally physical Cowboys’ defense in Week 4. Any Patriots Receiver — This is where things start to get interesting in New England. Kenbrell Thompkins is looking like quarterback Tom Brady’s favorite red zone target, and Aaron Dobson seems to have solved his problem with dropped passes but all might change this week. Rob Gronkowski may return from his injury, which provides Brady with his favorite weapon in the passing game. This offense will be unrecognizable come week six or seven. Ahmad Bradshaw — Bradshaw delayed the Trent Richardson arrival party last week by rushing for 95 yards and a touchdown. Bradshaw seems to be part of the Colts’ game plan moving forward, but look for him to be more of a spectator for Richardson’s official arrival this week. time comes, he has to strap it on and lead the team to victory,” Gray said. ”Case does a great job of getting the team going and stepping in for David.” Fans will most likely get the chance to see McCoy again. With Ash still questionable, McCoy might have the chance in the future to prove he actually is a starting quarterback.
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Scientists publish droll memoirs SCIENCE SCENE By ByRobert RobertStarr Starr @RobertKStarr
In one corner, we have prominent astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, well-known for his books about the universe. In the other, we have evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, who popularized the “selfish gene” view of natural selection and provided a face for the atheist movement. These major scientific figures both released memoirs this month, but neither one offers the level of insight that readers expected. Hawking’s memoir, “My Brief History,” is the lighter of the two and perhaps does a better job of providing an overview of the author’s life. At a scant 144 pages, with many pictures, there are times when it reads like a high school essay. It goes over the expected beats, but there’s little that can’t be found in Hawking’s Wikipedia entry. His style is light and modest, sometimes amusing — “When I was 12, one of my friends bet another friend a bag of sweets that I would never amount to anything. I don’t know if this bet
was ever settled, and if so, which way it was decided,” — but the point of a memoir isn’t to just go over the details of your life, it’s to provide some level of perspective looking back on it. Major events, such as Hawking’s divorces, are glossed over briefly, without going into details about the events or emotions that led to them. Dawkins’ memoir, “An Appetite for Wonder,” suffers from the same problem, which only adds to the stereotype of the emotionless Spock-like scientist. Additionally, Dawkins distracts himself every chance he can to make obvious and out-ofplace jabs at religion. Though some of his stories are amusing, many of them more closely resemble the ramblings of a man who needs to let go of the talking stick and give someone else a chance. The second half of both books are more exciting than the first because instead of looking at childhood moments, they focus on the science they each did in order to become prominent in their fields. Hawking’s thoughts on black holes and other strange phenomena in our universe read interestingly at times. But when it comes to astrophysics, it’s nearly impossible to present anything in a way that will make sense to a layperson. Dawkins fairs better,
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but he’s working with easier material — animal behavior. Neither book is entirely satisfying, with Dawkins’ being especially disappointing because it includes a few problematic passages that will likely rub readers the wrong way: One has already made headlines for dismiss-
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ing claims of childhood sexual abuse and another accuses his critics of attacking him for being an educated white male, showing that he doesn’t understand the first thing about the concept of privilege. Hawking also offers up a few lines that will make some readers cringe, such as his
suggestion “that disabled people should concentrate on things that their handicap doesn’t prevent them from doing and not regret those they can’t do.” Despite the underwhelming nature of both titles, it’s hard not to recommend them to those who admire the
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Local punk band expands fanbase By Hillary Hurst @hillary_hurst
With a band name like Not In The Face, it would have been easy for the original twopiece rockers to play the local club scene, never getting serious about making it in music. But this punk band has gone from dark stages in downtown Austin to supporting rock acts such as ZZ Top. Since the band’s formation in 2009, its first LP, Bikini, was named one of the top 10 albums of 2011 by KUT. The group headlined Fun Fun Fun Fest last year, showcased at South By Southwest and just returned from a Midwest U.S. tour. Their new album, due out this fall, is the first released with four members. Lead guitarist Michael Anthony Gibson and bassist/vocalist Ross Dubois were added to the original twosome of singer/ guitarist Jonathan Terrell and drummer Wes Cargal. In June, the band traveled to Vancouver, British Columbia to work with producer GGGarth Richardson (Rage Against the
scientists. These are brilliant men who at least attempt to describe the paths they took. That they can’t truly reveal any of their dark secrets, mistakes and regrets they’ve made along the way perhaps reveals more about their personalities than they realize.
Machine) and executive producer Bob Ezrin (Pink Floyd and Taylor Swift) on their new album. “[Richardson and Ezrin] made us work our asses off,” Terrell said. “But it was pretty easy. They were really smooth to work with. They had a great team behind them. Things would be ready and set up when we’d wake up in the morning, and they had a list of everything we needed to do. It was an all day project for six days a week. It was all about the feel, and if something just didn’t feel right we had to correct it.” Now that they’re back in Austin, Not In The Face has booked gigs at the second weekend of ACL and the 101X Homegrown Live concert Friday, Sept. 27. “I’ve known them since they first started,” said organizer of the Homegrown Live series Deidre Gott. “I’ve booked them before [when] they used to be a two-piece. Now they’re a four-piece so they’ve grown. The songwriting is even better, [and] the four of them playing together is really tight. They just have
Eryn Gettys, JoBeth Henderson and Melissa Vogt-Patterson perform Chime from Pythia Dust, an original cyberopera featured in CyberFest.
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What: 101X Homegrown Live When: Sept. 27, 8 p.m. Price: $6
so much raw energy.” But the band wants to dig into its Texas roots in Austin and across the state. “The plan is to do South By [Southwest] and keep on just working regionally,” band tour manager Andy Siron said. “We just started to break into the Dallas market a little bit more and the Houston market a little bit more, so we really want to pay attention to all of the Texas love we’re getting and milk that for all it’s worth.” Not In The Face will always remember Austin as the jumping off point. “There are so many good bands [in Austin] that the competition is really high,” Terrell said. “I think that they kind of see us as sweethearts [that] have come up from doing jackshit at Beauty Bar to doing some really cool things. I’m always excited about playing hometown stuff.”
Not In The Face plays a show at Holy Mountain over the weekend. They expect to release a new album this fall.
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Getting weird with CyberFest By Elizabeth Williams @bellzabeth
By most standards, Austin is not that weird. Food trailers, graffiti parks and music festivals do, in fact, exist in other cities. But CyberFest, on the other hand, is in a category of its own. CyberFest is a medley of cyberopera, sci-fi- and fantasygenre operas, songs composed over the last 25 years by Austin composer Chad Salvata that proves anything goes in this fair city. The show is presented by local performance company Ethos, which premieres twisted and quirky original theatre pieces. Long story short, this thing is weird. The night kicks off with a woman wearing a bodysuit with the breasts cut out, singing and seductively touching the faces of audience members. All right. This show’s going to have some boobs. On the whole, CyberFest is a science fiction house rave attended by one’s deepest fantasies and nightmares alike. The show is billed as an “audio-visual immersion” but feels more like an audio-visual assault. Electronic music is blaring, singers are snarling and touching the audience and dry-ice machines are full speed ahead.
The costuming blends sci-fi tropes with the homespun calculation of a fourth grade musical where everyone had to bring their own clothes from home. Exposed chests are as plentiful as the steam-punk goggles. Spandex clings to both male and female forms. The characters of Salvata’s worlds range from a laughable leather-clad imp seduced into a robotic dance frenzy to a giant spider-like creature called the Octax, whose poisonous, pointy black tentacles will no doubt haunt post-CyberFest dreams. Although the show is truly bizarre, it’s a barrel of fun to watch. The audience was not afraid to laugh, hoot and holler as the Vortex stage is overrun with demons, sorcerers and that freaky Octax. The performers’ enthusiasm is as infectious as the bumping synth music they’re singing along to. Each song follows a similar structure: eerie electronic buildup into a repetitive, contagious chorus explaining the general idea of every song. My date from that night is still serenading me with choice lines like “I am the Octax” and “You are the center of heaven.” It’s easy to dismiss these hidden worlds of cyberpunk
lore as nerdy and lame. But to do so dismisses the geyser of guilty pleasure fantasy that is Ethos’ work. I don’t know others who attended Cyberfest, but I’ve never seen a bustier fabricated out of black and red claws — or at least seen one that doesn’t look like total crap. CyberFest offers teasing glimpses into eight different cyberoperas that share worlds and characters, leaving you wondering what the hell these stories are really about. Is the Octax related to Earth’s spider? Why can’t she keep her cone hands off that poor Frigg? And who is this white centipede she claims to have swam with? Those that deem themselves too cool for school will not enjoy this venture into the many dimensions of cyber fantasy. But those who can laugh at a synth player dressed as a space samurai and laugh at themselves for paying $10 to see him, then this is the show to be at.
CYBERFEST Where: The Vortex When: Sept. 26-28, 9 p.m. Price: $10
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