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Dodds to step down in August 2014 By Madlin Mekelburg @madlinbmek

In a swanky suite nestled in a stadium he’s transformed, DeLoss Dodds announced he will retire from the men’s head athletic director post at the end of August. Dodds said he is retiring after 32 years on the job because he wants to spend time with his wife, Mary Ann

Dodds, traveling and experiencing the world. “[Mary Ann] and I need to go to Tuscany,” Dodds said. “We need to see the leaves turn. There’s a lot we haven’t lived because we’ve worked.” Tuesday’s press conference came after representatives from the University and UT Athletics strongly denied rumors of Dodds’ impending retirement for months.

Since Dodds took the helm of the program, the Longhorns have claimed 14 national championships and 108 conference titles in nine different sports since Dodds took the job. But the announcement comes in the middle of a 2418 football record over the past four seasons, well below normal program standards. By announcing his resignation early on, Dodds said he hopes

to facilitate a smooth transition into new leadership. “My intent in all of this is that it’s the best thing for the University, and it’s the best thing for the athletic department,” Dodds said. “Announcing this early gives the University time to find new leadership, and it gives that leadership time to work with me on a transition. I’ll play whatever role needs to be played in that.”

Head football coach Mack Brown said in a press release that Dodds had an unparalleled influence on the athletic department at UT. “[Dodds] has been the best athletics director in the country for a long, long time and built a model athletics department here,” Brown said in the statement. “He

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AD exits as quiet giant with lasting legacy

By the numbers: DeLoss Dodds

National Championships won with Dodds as Athletic Director

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DeLoss Dodds spent most of his time in the background during his 32-year tenure at Texas, making deals and silently elevating the program. His steps were quiet; the shadow he cast, anything but. The University hired Dodds as the men’s athletic director on Aug. 14, 1981, and just over 33 years later, he will step down from the position. It’s a dose of consistency for a man who was defined by it. In Dodds’ time at Texas, he steered the Longhorns to 14 national titles and 108 conference championships. “DeLoss’ vision reshaped UT-Austin,” UT President William Powers Jr said. “It reshaped college athletics, the entire NCAA. DeLoss, let me say, it has been an honor to work with you, to call you my friend.” Dodds, a former track coach, arrived at Texas from Kansas State in 1981 and spent the next 32 years nurturing a

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million dollars of revenue generated by Texas athletics in 2011-2012, the most ever

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Gabriella Belzer / Daily Texan Staff Throughout his 32- year tenure at Texas, DeLoss Dodds built the Texas athletic program into a revenue generating giant. The athletic program most recently generated $163 million in 2012 and has given more than $400 million dollars to the University during his time as AD.

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UT rules protect on, off campus By Alberto Long @albertolong

Victims of pranks in West Campus often lack legal recourse to seek justice through judicial outlets, but the University provides additional avenues for students who feel they have been wronged. UTPD chief of police David Carter said pranks in West Campus typically fall outside the criminal spectrum, which hinders police action. The less severe the offense, the less police are able to do with it in terms of investigation and interrogation. “Once we establish that there’s no crime, then there wouldn’t be anything the police can do with [a case],” Carter said. “It’s really hard to prosecute lower offenses. That doesn’t mean that there shouldn’t be administrative action.” Dean of Students Soncia Reagins-Lilly, who has primary authority and responsibility for the administration of student discipline, said administrative action is

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a viable option if there is a breach in UT’s institutional rules, on or off campus. Unlike UTPD, University administrators’ jurisdiction extends well beyond campus. “Any time something happens — something is thrown from a balcony, for instance — whether it be West Campus, Riverside, North Campus or Far West, two litmus tests determine whether or not and how Student Judicial Services will engage off-campus behavior,” Reagins-Lilly said. “Student-to-student” incidents are the University’s first litmus test. Reagins-Lilly said the judicial process begins with information gathering and proceeds into an investigative phase. Conduct violations occurring during UT-sponsored activities — the second litmus test — are also included in the University’s jurisdiction. “If we are in Spain, and the trip is a Universitysponsored trip, and we have student-to-student violations, those parameters [will allow us to] begin our

process,” Reagins-Lilly said. According to chapter 11 of UT’s Institutional Rules on Student Services and Activities, the University’s expectations for student conduct are grounded in the University’s Code of Conduct and Student Honor Code. ReaginsLilly said her office will refer to chapter 11 any time they engage a student or gather information specific to a situation, and she encourages students to contact Student Judicial Services if they feel an institutional rule has been violated. “The beauty of our administrative process is that we’re focused on the development of students,” Reagins-Lilly said. “What’s most important is that students have the opportunity to learn from their mistakes and conduct. It’s not punitive, punitive, punitive. We want to have constructive conversations and help students reflect and think about their behavior.” History junior Anne

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Local business owners are concerned as to how construction may affect their business. Renovations will include bike lanes, wider sidewalks and improved storm drains.

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Sixth Street construction will benefit city, local businesses By Alyssa Mahoney @TheAlyssaM

In the next two years, Sixth Street may undergo major construction that will change pedestrian and vehicle traffic and expand the variety of businesses in the area. At the Sixth Street stakeholder meeting Tuesday, Louis Lindsey, project

management supervisor, and the Public Works staff in Austin presented designs that would make changes to Sixth Street, such as new roads and sidewalks, wider pedestrian areas and trees. According to Lindsey, the Downtown Austin Plan, a long-term plan to promote sustainability in the city, is the guide for the project. Austin City

Council passed an ordinance in 2011 to begin the implementation process. The main motivation for the redesign is to reduce tripping hazards because of uneven or broken sidewalks, to mitigate the difficulty maintaining and cleaning sidewalks and to eliminate pavement

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CORRECTION In the Sept. 30 edition of The Daily Texan, a reporting error was made. The reporter wrote that the new voter identification law requires voters to present one of seven valid forms of government-issued identification, along with a voter registration card, at the polling location. In reality, a voter may vote with just the photo ID.

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Thousands of UT students and Austin residents participated in National Night Out, a nationwide event fostering community involvement in crime prevention, on Tuesday. National Night Out was introduced in 1984 by the National Association of Town Watch, a non-profit organization that promotes and develops a variety of crime prevention programs in conjunction with neighborhood watch groups, state and regional crime prevention associations, businesses and law enforcement agencies. The event is designed to promote involvement in crime prevention activities, policecommunity relationships and neighborhood camaraderie. UT has participated since the program’s beginning. Currently, the program involves over 37 million people

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and 15,000 communities from all 50 states, U.S. Territories, Canadian cities and military bases worldwide. “It’s a chance for communities to come together, meet law enforcement and take a stand against crime,” UTPD officer Layne Brewster said. The Jester, Duren and Creekside dorms hosted National Night Out parties attended by UTPD officers. From noon to 4 p.m., officers greeted students in Gregory Plaza. Students were encouraged to learn about the dangers of drinking while driving by wearing Fatal Vision Goggles, a tool used to simulate the effects of alcohol on a person’s vision. While wearing the goggles, students practiced throwing beanbags at targets to demonstrate how hand-eye coordination is impaired. “In a controlled environment like this, you can put the goggles on and just see what it’d be like,” officer Irene Benavides said. “It’s about as close as we can get without actually putting students behind the wheel.” UTPD chief David Carter, who began his term on July 1, said he was excited to be establishing a positive rapport with students. Awareness and strong communication

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Resident assistants Katelyn Czarnecki, Mitchell Burket and Oluchi Ifebi karaoke during National Night Out hosted by DHFS at Jester on Tuesday night.

are qualities of a safe community, according to Carter. “Safety is about community, and I think that’s really important,” Carter said. Individual National Night Out parties take place in neighborhoods across the country every year on the first Tuesday of August. In Texas, the date was moved to October because of the heat. “National Night Out is for community awareness, but also so that residents can see

law enforcement officers outside of negative situations,” said Robbie Barrera, a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper. “They can see that we are real people and we are part of the community.” Mechanical engineering freshman Skylar Wong said she felt more connected to UTPD officers after the event. “I feel like now they are more interactive,” Wong said. “Now that they’re here,

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Americans got their first chance Tuesday to shop for health insurance using the online marketplaces that are at the heart of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, but government websites designed to sell the policies struggled to handle the traffic, with many frustrated users reporting trouble setting up accounts. State and federal agencies were working to fix the sites, which represent the biggest expansion in coverage in nearly 50 years. There should be time to make improvements. The open-enrollment period lasts for six months. Administration officials said they were pleased with the strong consumer interest. At least 2.8 million people had visited the healthcare. gov website as of Tuesday

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Anne Hull, a journalist for The Washington Post, speaks to students in The Joynes Room in Carothers. Hull is a part of a lecture series hosted by the Plan II program.

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Journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Hull questioned the intersection of truth and the standards of journalism at a talk on campus Tuesday. Hull, a reporter for The Washington Post, discussed her career in journalism as well as some of the specific stories she has covered, including topics of immigration, current journalism standards and race. Hull also explained how journalism students begin to understand what is defined as the truth. “You are working in the frontier of journalism,” Hull said. “What is true and what portion of stories is true must be decided by new journalists.” Hull also discussed controversies over sexual orientation and young teenagers, specifically explaining the violence teenagers experience when they come to terms with their sexuality. Hull said her stories about gay

teenagers included spending extra time with the story and involving herself in the teens’ lives. She said that the details she includes in her stories are not always accepted by readers. “Journalism is when one leaves [one’s world] for someone else’s and does not focus on the cutand-paste journalism,” Hull said. She said she gets people to trust her work through face-to-face interviews, as opposed to emails. “I have learned that 60 percent of journalism is waiting around for the story and learning journalists need to see things for themselves,” Hull said. Hull received the 2008 Pulitizer Prize for Public Service after covering the Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s treatment of wounded soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. She said the journalist’s job is to get the story, but sometimes the pressure of the story is hard to handle. “In some stories,

nothing happens, and in others, events continuously happen,” Hull said. “But one of the purposes of journalism is to work for someone who has the same ideals as the [journalist] and will pay them something for their ideals.” Grace Biggs, Plan II honors and biology seniors, said Hull’s advice affected her perception of journalism. “Hull explained how our generation of journalists do not care about the truth but should consider focusing on it,” Biggs said. The Plan II Honors Program hosted the event as part of the Joynes Lecture Series. Matt Valentine, the series’ program coordinator, said students interested in journalism, politics, storytelling, writing or history will likely appreciate Hull’s perspective as a professional reporter. “Hull’s stories challenge the simple narrative,” Valentine said. “She does not cover the liberal point of view or the conservative point of view, but the journalist point of view.”

afternoon, said Medicare administrator Marilyn Tavenner, whose office is overseeing the rollout of the Affordable Care Act. The website had seven times the number of simultaneous users ever recorded on the medicare.gov site. The marketplaces represent a turning point in the nation’s approach to health care. The Obama administration hopes to sign up 7 million people during the first year and aims to eventually sign up at least half of the nearly 50 million uninsured Americans through an expansion of Medicaid or government-subsidized plans. Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, which helped work for passage of the law, cautioned against rushing

to judge on first-day performance. Numerous observers had predicted bugs and setbacks. Trained outreach workers in many states are having trouble getting the certification they need to start helping people to enroll. In Texas, a federally funded network of “navigators” hired to help people enroll was off to a rocky start because of backtracking participants — including some cowed by the politics of the health law. Many states predicted that an initial surge of interest would test the online system, but they expect most people to sign up closer to Dec. 15, which is the deadline for coverage to start Jan. 1. Customers have until the end of March to sign up in order to avoid tax penalties. —Associated Press

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Davis should run for governor, even if only to lose This Thursday, State Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, is expected to announce whether she will seek the Democratic nomination for governor. All signs point to yes. We’re keeping our fingers crossed that she does, but not because we believe she’s the best possible candidate or even that she can win the race. We want her to run because it will open up a new era in Texas politics in which our state government is as diverse as our demographics. Securing the party’s nomination will be a mere formality if Davis throws her hat in the ring. The state senator isn’t likely to face any competition after her 11-hour filibuster this summer against an omnibus abortion bill rocketed her to political superstardom. With Davis as the Democrats’ presumptive nominee, the real challenge will come in the general election. Davis will almost certainly have to go up against Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, a well-funded Republican powerhouse who enjoys a 10-point polling lead over the Fort Worth Democrat in early speculative polls, according to Austin Democratic consultant Jason Stanford as reported in a Reuters article published this weekend. Democratic Party operatives are hopeful

that Davis can close both the funding and polling gaps, but we’re skeptical she can pull it off because of the state’s still strongly conservative voting demographics. Although the majority of the state’s growth in recent years has been in the Hispanic community (today, more than 50 percent of Texas public schoolchildren are Hispanic, according to Texas Education Agency data cited by The Huffington Post), journalist and academic Thomas Edsall predicted in a May New York Times column that the percentage of eligible white voters in Texas will drop to 35 percent in the next 12 years, with a concomitant rise to 44 percent in the Hispanic community. The state’s demographics are changing, but they aren’t yet at the more “Democratfriendly” levels Edsall predicts for the future. Apart from the question of whether Davis can win is whether she should win. We agree with most of Davis’ policies and admire her work on issues such as abortion rights and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. However, we question Davis’ suitability as a candidate for governor. As Associate Editor Riley Brands argued this summer, Davis’ qualifications leave us wanting more. Yes, she

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has experience in local and state government, but are her terms on the Fort Worth City Council and in the Texas Senate really enough? More importantly, would anyone even be considering Davis as a contender if not for that famous filibuster? Still, despite the fact that we have doubts about Davis’ qualifications and her ability to win, we think it is critically important that she run. Hype is energy, and the energy that has been created surrounding Davis’ persona and leadership abilities can go a long way toward re-energizing a party that better represents the needs of the new Texas that is emerging, which in turn would go a long way toward moving our political conversation in a more productive and diverse direction. The Democratic party hasn’t won statewide office in close to 20 years, and its most recent offerings for governor never inspired anywhere near the level of excitement that Davis has generated. That energy probably won’t be enough to get Davis over the hump, but this election presents a special opportunity for the Democrats to show their resilience. True, their continued nomination of candidates could be taken as proof of some sort of kick left in

them, but really, the party has spent the past decade merely going through the motions, putting up a candidate every four years out of a mechanical desire to cling to relevance. This election is different, however, because Democrats have to show everyone, including themselves, that their current optimism can weather the storm of defeat. Granted, the survival of that spirit beyond the end of the legislative session is suggestive of something more than a fleeting fad, but it’s going to have to last longer than a few months to really mean something. To put it more bluntly, Davis needs to run in part so that she and the Democrats can lose. While another shellacking at the polls will mean at least four more years of a Rick Perry-style Republican in the Governor’s Mansion, that time will give the Democrats a chance to do two things: 1) regroup and reconsider whom to run in 2018 or 2022 and 2) wait for the current demographic shifts to swing the balance more decidedly in their favor. The Democrats will need those two things if they are to have any shot at regaining the governorship in the near future.

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Affordable housing, student efforts can help the homeless By Amil Malik

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Walking down the Drag on any given day, you’re almost certain to come across multiple homeless individuals lying on the sidewalk, sitting outside store windows or just roaming the streets. This phenomenon is not unique to our campus. Take a drive through Austin, and you’ll notice something similar: people holding up signs at traffic lights asking for money, food or both. Neither is it something exclusive to our city. On a single night in 2012, there were 633,782 homeless people in the United States, according to the 2012 Annual Homeless Report to Congress. But our encounters with homelessness have become so constant that the issue has almost become part of the background — a constant sign of unending poverty that doesn’t seem to get any better. And, when discussions do arise on the topic, the first question that comes up is whether or not we, as students, can even do something to help. After all, it seems as though all the programs we have in place so far (such as food banks and homeless shelters) haven’t been getting to the root of the issue; if they had, wouldn’t there be fewer homeless? It turns out, though, that the issue is not so simple. In fact, the face of homelessness is very different from the perception of homelessness many of us have formed based on our daily street-side encounters. Children and families make up a large part of the homeless population — a fact that evokes a very different image than that of the oftenscruffy, adult wanderers on the drag. Garrett Olin, the HMIS Director at ECHO, a Continuum of Care program committed to the goal of ending homelessness, reiterated this fact. He said that one of the biggest trends he has noticed on the job has been the increasing number of homeless children and families in the past few years. This does not mean just single mothers with kids, but rather larger, four- or five-person familial units. Tiffany Ryan, a Ph.D. candidate in social work at The University of Texas who has done extensive research on homeless youth, noted a similar trend, saying that a lot of youth who find themselves homeless have come from abusive homes or failing foster care systems. The 2012 report to Congress documented the increase as well, stating that homelessness among persons in families has increased 1.4 percent since 2011. What’s the solution? For Olin, affordable housing seems to top the list. According to him, Austin has a real lack of it. A lot of homeless people have jobs, but due to high housing costs, they just can’t afford to pay rent. Ryan agreed, pointing out that while shelters might be the go-to solution, they aren’t sustainable. “A lot of time people just say we need more shelters, but that’s really not what we need,” Ryan said. “Shelters are not places where people want to go, not long term. They

can be scary places where lots of bad things happen. More transitional housing would help, more long term that would allow you to deal with issues within the housing.” Affordable housing seems to top the city’s agenda as well. On Tuesday, Nov. 5, a special election will be held in which voters will consider a 2013 Affordable Housing Bond. According to the city’s website, the bond “allows the city to borrow $65 million to partner with organizations to utilize funds for affordable rental and ownership housing and preservation of existing affordable housing.” The money would also put on programs such as rental housing development assistance, homeownership programs, and repair programs. On the other hand, Ryan noted that while housing is important, the best way to combat the issue at a systematic level is to focus on prevention. Once someone becomes homeless, it’s much harder to assist him or her. Prevention methods, on the other hand, would help remove some of the root causes. Such programs would include helping support families that are prone to child abuse, helping support families financially or through professional development training programs, and providing counseling and mental health services to adults, particularly to veterans returning from war. But perhaps the most overwhelming challenge to eradicating homelessness is that the issue is tied in with an even more chronic one: poverty. Even if someone finds a job, a question remains: “What kind of job will they get?” Ryan asks. “One on minimum wage. When we look at a living wage, it’s certainly not minimum wage. If you are earning a minimum wage, you are going to be living in poverty.” Which brings us back to the first question. With a problem so large, do small-scale, one-on-one programs students participate in even make a difference? Yes. Oftentimes, families on the brink of poverty have to choose between eating and paying the rent. That’s where a free meal from a shelter or free grocery shopping can make all the difference. By saving on food, families can divert their income to paying rent or utilities, helping them out of the cycle of homelessness. Similarly, through affordable housing options, many of which offer community learning and counseling programs on the side, families can get back on their feet more quickly, and help reduce the duration of homelessness, a goal that Olin feels is more attainable. Ultimately, every bit helps, especially since the true faces of homelessness differ from those perceived. Students should feel like they are contributing when they donate their time to food shelters or other non-profits that help the homeless. But they should also get educated about the Affordable Housing Bond, which addresses the issue at a policy level, and go vote. Malik is a Plan II and business honors sophomore from Austin.

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HORNS UP: OF COURSE THEY SHOULDN’T BE PAID Of Texas’ congressional delegation, Sen. John Cornyn, as well as Reps. Joaquin Castro, Pete Gallego, Randy Neugebauer, and Beto O’Rourke have all announced that they will refuse their $174,000 annual salary during the federal government shutdown. It’s a touching gesture of solidarity with the 800,000 government employees who don’t get to choose whether or not they’ll be paid while our nation’s leaders continue to struggle in their own web of irresponsibility and inability to compromise. Sen. Ted Cruz has also said that he will donate his pay to charity, after initially stating that he “had no intention to do so.” We’d give him a Horns Up for it, too, but instead, we’ll give it to whichever PR representative recognized that his pocketing the money would make him look like even more of a jackass and convinced him otherwise.

HORNS DOWN: SHUTDOWN DOES NOT EQUAL SNOW DAY Across campus Tuesday, it wasn’t hard to overhear halfserious conversations between students about whether or not the UT campus would be shutting down alongside the federal government. But UT-Austin continued about the day almost as usual (the LBJ Presidential Library shut its doors), because, as we hope would be obvious, this public institution belongs to the state of Texas, not the federal government (it’s in the name). However, given the disturbing nature of this political ignorance, maybe the University should consider suspending formal classes and instead gather the student body in front of the tower for a remedial government class. Maybe screen some “Schoolhouse Rock!”?

HORNS UP: RAIN, SNOW, SLEET OR SHUTDOWN, YOU’LL GET MAIL While many important federal agencies have closed their doors, we’re happy that the U.S. Postal Service isn’t one of them — mostly because we mailed our rent checks today and would prefer not to get evicted. Moreover, this is a good opportunity to point out how criminally unappreciated the Postal Service is. You can give them any object smaller than, say, a washing machine, and they’ll get it anywhere in the country in less than ten days — and they’ll do it for less money than you spent on your lunch. Yet somehow, every Dec. 23, a line of ungrateful procrastinators snakes out the door of the Post Office screaming to the anonymous hero behind the desk because their hastily bought gift won’t make it to Buffalo by Christmas morning. Show some respect, people. The Postal Service is the best, and we’re glad they’re still open.

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continues from page 1 cave-ins, she said. Program coordinator Susan Garnett said the streets will be widened to include three lanes, including a managed lane. The managed lane will be open to vehicle use in the mornings during increased traffic flow and will be used for parking and unloading the rest of the time. The remaining two lanes will be used for permanent traffic flow and will be redesigned. Garnett said the pavement and subgrade — the material put underneath roads — are failing. “Sixth Street, I believe, will become a much more pleasant place to go to after this project is done,” Lindsey said. “It will be more flexible, more usable, more pedestrian-friendly.” Lindsey said the redesign will benefit students who want to enjoy the Sixth Street area. ”To the extent that UT students like to go there,

I think they will like to go there even more after this project is done,” Lindsey said. Lindsey said the improved street environment will provide the conditions for more variety in the kinds of businesses on Sixth Street. The way the street is constructed now, it is difficult to maintain and clean, according to Lindsey. But the improved physical aspects of the street would invite more daytime activities that are family-friendly. At the stakeholders meeting, Fred Schmidt, co-founder of Wild About Music Galleries, said as a downtown business and property owner, there will be short-term costs because of redevelopment, but there will be longterm benefits, including higher rents. In response to those citizens and business owners who are against the project, Garnett said the conflicts are typical, and the Public Works staff is providing both incentives and

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Kevin Sweat speaks to local business owners about Public Works’ plans to renovate areas of Sixth Street. Public Works hopes to have the project complete within two years.

penalties to encourage completion on time. Garnett said two years is a

conservative estimate. “We’re talking about people’s livelihoods,”

Garnett said. “Construction can be devastating to businesses … We’re trying

to tailor the [construction] contract to meet the needs of our community.”

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New E-Bus routes pave road to confusion By Anna Daugherty @DaughertyAnna

Many students may head to Sixth Street on the weekend, but not everyone can get there on his or her own. Students often rely on several E-Bus routes to get downtown, but recent changes to the stops might leave them stranded. The routes of the E-Buses — short for Eating and Entertainment Bus — have recently changed and may cause some confusion for students, since the Capital Metro website has not yet been updated. “There’s a delay,” CapMetro

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spokeswoman Melissa Ayala said. “The website updates take time and will be caught up as soon as possible.” There are three E-Bus routes: 410, 411 and 412. All the routes previously dropped off and picked up at Seventh Street and San Jacinto Boulevard. The 410 & 412 have moved to Seventh Street and Neches Street, and the 411 will now be at Sixth Street and Brazos Street. Biology sophomore Dulce Vasquez was one of many students who had trouble finding the new bus locations on time. “[A friend and I] were

down there last weekend and went to the old bus stop first,” Vasquez said. “There were a bunch of people there and then somebody started saying the bus wasn’t going to stop there. My friend found the new stop on her phone and we had to haul it down there. We barely caught the last bus of the night.” Ayala said the changes to the E-Bus routes were implemented to maximize efficiency in the busy area downtown. “We were operating at the old locations for some time and we’ve had ongoing discussions with adjacent businesses about the

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location,” Ayala said. “Due to the amount of students and buses, the new stops were better located.” The route changes come at a time when other route disruptions are sparking public debate. CapMetro announced Aug. 28 that the UT shuttle routes near the Cameron Road and Wickersham Lane areas would be canceled in spring of 2014. Transportation engineering professor Randy Machemehl, who has spent several years as a faculty member on the UT Committee on Parking Strategies, said funding problems have

caused recent route changes and cuts within the UT shuttle bus system. “The basic issue we have been dealing with for a couple of years now is that the funding for the shuttle comes through the student services fee,” Machemehl said. “The fees committee has not been able to increase the amount of money that goes to the shuttles. Meanwhile, the cost of running the shuttles has gone up.” Machemehl said he thinks further routes will be cut until the budget is changed. “We’re trying to make sure nobody loses access to

campus,” Machemehl said. “Shuttle routes will continue to be replaced by Capital Metro. In the future there will have to be an increase in student services fees.” Ayala said the E-Bus route changes were not affected by the UT shuttle budget because they are operated separately by CapMetro. For now, students may have a hard time adjusting to the new E-Bus stops, but Ayala said CapMetro has no plans to move them again soon. “We have permanently moved the pick-up and drop-off,” Ayala said.

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continues from page 6 athletic liaisons on the UT System Board of Regents. Regents Steve Hicks and Robert Stillwell currently serve in the roles. According to system spokeswoman Jenny LaCoste-Caputo, the regents will have to approve the new athletic director’s contract if it is over $250,000. Powers said he does not expect any issues with

selection of the University’s men’s athletic director, the most overlooked fact may be Dodds’ qualifications. Dodds, who received recommendations from many

highly respected football authorities — including Dallas Cowboys personnel director Gil Brandt, Southwest Conference commissioner Cliff Speegle, Big Eight

commissioner Carl James and CFA executive director Charles Neinas — has made a national reputation for himself with his work at Kansas State.

the board. “The Board of Regents, [as with] any appointment at this level, will have to approve it,” Powers said. “That will be a smooth enterprise.” Last month, the Associated Press reported Regent Wallace Hall and Tom Hicks, a former UT regent and brother to Steve Hicks, looked into replacing Texas football head coach Mack Brown. According to the AP, Hicks and Hall called Jimmy Sexton, agent

to Alabama head coach Nick Saban, to gauge whether his client would be interested in replacing Brown at UT. The inquiry was dropped when Brown informed Hicks he was not ready to retire. According to the AP, Powers was not notified about the call. According to both NCAA rules and the Board of Regents’ rules, the institution president has the authority to appoint a new athletic director or head coach.

Dodds will remain at the University as a consultant. According to his contract, he will earn a salary of $100,000 in his new role. Dodds currently has a base salary of $550,000. As part of his contract, Dodds will also receive a $1 million annuity payment next year. Susswein said the next athletic director will be paid at market value. Last year, Texas A&M University hired Eric Hyman as its athletic director with a base salary of $800,000.

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was after every season, to discuss the year and McWilliams’ job status. After the talk, McWilliams knew it was time to step down, but he never felt pressured. “I never had to worry about DeLoss,” McWilliams said. “He was upfront, and if it was time for me to step down, he would do it in a way that was first class.” Former Texas shortstop Jordan Etier, who patrolled the middle of the Longhorn defense from 2008-2011, would see Dodds at practices and games 15 or 20 times a season. Etier remembers the team running extra hard in sprints when Dodds came around because they wanted to impress the man. “He cared about winning, don’t get me wrong,” Etier said. “But he really wanted to help us develop as a person. He really cared about us, and the life we’d have after UT.” The now 74-year-old

Dodds didn’t always make the right coaching decisions — McWilliams and John Mackovic preceded his hire of Mack Brown — but he nailed his selections more often than not. Brown, basketball head coach Rick Barnes and baseball head man Augie Garrido have overseen Texas’ three juggernaut programs for more than a decade. Each of those coaches were hired in a two-year span and Dodds has shown an impressive knack for finding and keeping some of the best coaches in the industry. Perhaps that’s because of the way he treats them. Cliff Gustafson, Texas’ baseball coach for 29 seasons and a two-time national champion, remembers his first interaction with Dodds fondly. “When I first met him, he told me that he knew I was the best baseball coach in the country,” Gustafson said. “Well, from that mo-

ment on, I thought he was a pretty good guy.” James Vick, an ex-officio facility representative on the Men’s Athletic Council, was one of seven people who originally interviewed Dodds for the athletic director position. The interview took place in a basement of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, and Vick knew right away Dodds was the man for the job. “I had no idea the impact he would have,” Vick said. “It’s impossible to duplicate individuals, and it’s hard to say you can get another person to do what he’s done.” Dodds is ready to move on and spend time with his family. He wants to see the country and take his wife to Tuscany. But even halfway across the world, Dodds’ shadow will remain, silently watching over the program. —Additional reporting by Christian Corona

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continues from page 6 athletics director — one he’s held for 32 years — Dodds will resign from his post next August. Unwilling to show Brown or Barnes the door, he chose to walk out of it himself. We don’t know who the Longhorns’ next athletic director will be, but we know whoever it is, they will shake things up. Whether it is Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby, West Virginia athletic director Oliver Luck or another less obvious candidate, they will almost certainly — and should — hire new head football and men’s basketball coaches. Unless Brown’s Longhorns somehow win the Big 12, as he insists they’re capable of doing, his 16th year as the Texas head football coach should be his last. Barnes has found a way to field a team worse than the one that turned in its first losing season during his 14-year tenure. It’s his time to go, too.

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continues from page 1 is absolutely as good a boss as anybody could ask for, and he really cares about the coaches, kids and everybody in all of our programs.” Dodds said the reality of his decision has yet to set in. “I feel good about it,” Dodds said. “The reality will come when somebody else comes in and sits at my desk. I feel good about the University. I feel good about the athletic department and I feel good that I was part of it and making it what it is today. I’m going

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Dodds had to go through the Fred Akers, Tom Penders and John Mackovics of the world before hitting home runs with Brown and Barnes, who took the hoops program to unprecedented heights but is poised for another losing season. Dodds has turned the Texas athletic department into a well-oiled, money-printing machine. If it was his fault the Longhorns weren’t winning as often toward the end of his 36-year tenure, Dodds should at least be credited for keeping his athletics program the most profitable in the country despite the dip in on-field performance. “He did much of what Mack did as a football coach,” former women’s basketball coach Jody Conradt said. “He brought all these factions that had gone in various directions together. We became a team and that team had, as its number one goal, to be good for the University of Texas.” With that goal in mind, Dodds picked the perfect time to step down. to be a Longhorn the rest of my life.” President William Powers Jr. said Dodds had a significant impact on campus and the athletic department. “Over the last three decades, our teams have not only won conference championships and national championships, but they have produced the highest quality of student athletes who, like [Dodds], embody all that is great about our University, the state of Texas and college sports,” Powers said. “He laid the foundation for generations of Longhorn athletes to come.”

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ART

Artist’s whimsical work gains an audience By Claire Gordon @tclairegordon

With a mix of artistic skill and technological savviness, Janis Fowler is making a name for herself in the art world. Her astonishingly lifelike portraits, mainly of celebrities, are infused with her whimsical sense of humor. Although she shows much of her work in more traditional ways — on the walls of local restaurants including Trudy’s and Opal Divine’s — Fowler is using sites such as Reddit and Twitter to show her work to a much larger audience. Last week, her charcoal portrait of Bill Murray in a top hat and monocle was on thechive. com, which gets 750,000 views per day. For Fowler, who is selftaught, it all begins with the eyes. At a bluegrass festival, she met a boy whose artistic skill impressed her so much she followed him around in hopes of learning from him. “I was 6 and he was 11, and I’m sure he gave me the most basic of lessons, but I took it so to heart,” Fowler said. “He got me to start drawing eyes — human eyes — and I love them. They’re just so expressive, and they convey so much about a person’s kindness and emotion and coldness, just majesty. I thought if I could capture that, I would be home free.” Using the people of Austin as her inspiration, as well as a bad-tempered rooster that often chased her when she was riding her bike, she began creating her first true series in 2012, Eastside Zoo. A raccoon in a plaid shirt holds a Pabst Blue Ribbon can while wearing oversized glasses. A cat with a dapper mustache and septum ring smokes a cigarette while wearing a cycling cap and bandana. All are

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Artist Janis Fowler draws inspiration for her portrait art from celebrities and her whimsical sense of humor. Fowler’s work features hip hop artists such as Snoop Dogg and Notorious B.I.G.

done on locally-produced scratchboard. “I thought I could make caricatures of these hipsters — they’re my friends and I love them,” Fowler said. “I’m just playfully making fun of them. I’m not trying to be mean at all. I would go down to Shangri-la and do field research, sit and drink some beers with a sketchbook and be like, ‘Look at this hipster right here,’ and write down what he was wearing and why it was so absurd, and then go home and think about it.” Matt Moore, general manager of Opal Divine’s Penn

Field, has had a tough time keeping up with the demand for Fowler’s works, especially the Eastside Zoo series. “Some of Janis’ work won’t stay on the wall for more than a day,” Moore said. “People are always calling up and asking for new stuff from her, so I’m always harassing her for new stuff.” After the Eastside Zoo series, Fowler turned her attention to celebrity portraits. Inspired by largerthan-life personalities, she mixes in unexpected elements to give humor and character to her creations.

“I wanted to do this series of large, elaborate portraits of hip hop artists, with an over-the-top, blinged out, tactile feeling,” Fowler said. “In this portrait of Snoop [Dogg], there’s a false chamber in the back, and some time this week I’m going to buy a fog machine, and hook that up. That straw in his mouth, I’m going to wrap in a blunt wrapper, and you flip it on and smoke starts blowing out of Snoop’s mouth.” After she finished the Snoop portrait, Fowler uploaded a video of it in action

onto Reddit. Social media gives artists a chance to show their work to a huge audience, outside the world of art galleries, where competition is fierce. Mando Gonzalez is an artist and friend of Fowler’s who works at Jerry’s Artarama. He’s one of the people Fowler turns to if she needs advice. “There’s more artists than there are places to show, a lot of the traditional galleries around town are just that, traditional,” Gonzalez said. “There are new and upcoming places, like the Canopy and the Pump Project

Art Complex. Things are finally changing.” Fowler earns about half of her income through the sale of her original work, prints and commissions, although art is something she would be doing regardless of getting paid. “I don’t feel like I’m actually working, and I’m not, because I love what I’m doing,” Fowler said. “Although I put in a lot of work and a whole bunch of hours. Basically every day I wake up and ask myself, ‘What do I want to make today?’ and then I make that thing.”

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DT: What do you guys do for fun on the road? AX: For me, I like to read books and watch films. Usually whenever we land in a new place I’m always Googling what to do. The boys have so much time on their hands that they end up writing these joke songs, like “Living Like Kings,” which we released on April Fool’s last year. You should check it out.

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Miley Cyrus performs at iHeartRadio Music Village, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013 in Las Vegas, N.V.

DT: Have you been to Barton Springs? It’s the best place to swim in Austin. AX: No, I haven’t, but I’m writing it down. I’ll check it out. Thanks for the recommendation.

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Cornell orchard breeds apples to create the perfect crunch GENEVA, N.Y. — Trees at Cornell University’s research orchard this fall are heavy with waxy apples, oblong apples, deep-red, round apples and aromatic apples that smell like autumn. The thousands of trees are tended for a single goal: to grow apples with just the right mix of sweetness, tart and crunch. The orchards, part of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, are essentially a 50-acre lab devoted to developing apples that are tasty for consumers and hardy for farmers. The station has released 66 apple varieties over the course of more than a century, including Cortland, Macoun and two new entries at farm markets this fall: SnapDragon and RubyFrost. “I could never be a medical

doctor; I don’t like blood. But I can create,” said Susan Brown, Cornell professor of agriculture who has been breeding apples since 1990. “I can manipulate things and create stuff that no one else has seen or tasted, and sometimes it’s a home run and sometimes it’s a spitter.” Brown’s team is looking for crisp apples with a good balance of sugar and acid. It also pays close attention to “volatiles,” or the aromas like a hint of cherry or grassiness that contribute so much to an apple’s flavor. But researchers also want farmer-friendly apples that hold up well against insects, fire blight and apple scab during shipping. The researchers have access to cutting-edge technology, but the mechanics of their breeding work is similar to what their

counterparts have done for generations. Pollen is collected from unopened blossoms and applied to female parts of another tree’s flower. It can take four years before a seedling produces fruit ready for tasting. Researchers try to combine desirable traits from two different apples, but just like a mom and dad can have children who are very different from each other, new apples can fall far from the tree, figuratively speaking. Research assistant Kevin Maloney says about 95 percent of the seedlings they plant are discarded. “It’s a numbers game. We plant out thousands and thousands of seedling trees,” Maloney said. “If they’re not exceptional quality or something we can use in the breeding program,

Aaron Green picks new varieties of apple at the Cornell University Fruit and Vegetable Research Farm in Geneva, N.Y., Sept. 23, 2013.

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they’re removed.” Brown has high hopes for their two new apples developed in partnership with the members of New York Apple Growers, which will initially be sold at dozens of farm markets in New York this fall. SnapDragon is a cross of

Honeycrisp with a Jonagoldlike hybrid that’s easier for farmers to manage. RubyFrost, which ripens later in the fall, has a high vitamin C content and resists browning, which is important now that apple slices are such a large part of the retail market.

As picking season for SnapDragon dawns, Brown is already thinking of the next generation of apples. “I’ve already made the next generation, crossing SnapDragon and RubyFrost,” Brown said. —Associated Press

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THEATER

‘Dial M’ a call back to tradition By Eleanor Dearman @EllyDearman

It was Colonel Mustard in the kitchen with the candlestick. The theater department’s production of “Dial ‘M’ for Murder” by Frederick Knott is a classic murder mystery with a twist. This British classic was made famous by the Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name. “Dial ‘M’ for Murder” tells the story of Tony Wendice, a man who hires Captain Lesgate (aka Charles Swann) to murder his wife Margot because he discovered her affair with American crime novelist Mark Halliday. The plot seems simple enough, but it goes horribly awry. “The story is very intriguing because it is a whodunit in reverse,” said Brant Pope, director of the play and head of the University’s department of theatre and dance. “In this play we know early on who did it, the real question is if he will get away with it. My approach to it was to tell that story well. It’s very intriguing. It’s fun to watch.” The play’s complex plot, classical style and wide audience appeal made it an exciting show for Pope to direct. “It’s both a really good audience piece that the audience will enjoy and it’s really good training for all of our students —

actors, designers and technicians,” Pope said. When selecting the season, Pope and the other theater faculty members created a season with variation. “A season has to be balanced to give your audience and students different kinds of experiences,” Pope said. “So ‘Dial “M” for Murder’ is a classic. It’s a famous play that is traditional in the best sense of the word.” Theater senior Sean Moran, who plays Captain Lesgate, said he is excited to be involved in such a classic play that contrasts the more abstract plays often seen in Austin. “The theater department is just coming out of the Cohen New Works Festival,” Moran said. “It’s been a lot of new and experimental pieces and this is just a return to very stately theater. To have a very traditional play, with a very traditional set and structure is really refreshing to see.” The department held auditions for all fall shows earlier this year, and rehearsals began the last week of August. The “Dial ‘M’ for Murder” cast is composed of mostly undergraduate theater students with the exception of one graduate student — Ryan Belock, who plays Mark Halliday. “I’d urge people, especially in the university community, to come see the show because it’s your peers,” Moran said. “It’s a mostly undergrad cast, and being able to see people in your age range doing the kind of things you’d only expect professional actors to do is really encouraging for people who want to step into the arts.” Even though “Dial ‘M’ for Murder” called for a prescribed style of acting that required the cast to explore and experiment, the play remains a traditional theater piece at its core. “It’s just a really great night of theater, and I mean theater in all of its facets,” Belock said. “It’s beautiful design work, beautiful direction, and it’s incredible talent on and off stage. Especially for people who have seen the movie, this is a new, fresh look at ‘Dial “M” for Murder.’”

DIAL “M” FOR MURDER When: Oct. 4-13 Where: B. Iden Payne Theatre Cost: $15-$25

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ALBUM REVIEW | ‘BANGERZ’

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Bangerz is the guilty pleasure you hide from your loved ones and sneak off to your dorm room to indulge in. Miley Cyrus has produced pure musical crack that is so wrong it feels right. Bangerz is a bipolar mix of self-aware, wild child anthems and helpless heartbreak, hitting the highs and lows of the 20-something life. The “short hair, don’t care” attitude of “SMS (Bangerz)” and “Love, Money, Party” clash with the familiar pain of failed love in “Wrecking Ball” and “Maybe You’re Right.” “We Can’t Stop” and “Wrecking Ball” are the obvious singles on Bangerz. They are the only songs on the record with any genuine broad appeal. Southern hip-hop permeates the album and Cyrus even tries her hand at some rapping — she mentions an orangutan; it is not her finest lyrical hour. Bangerz is not deep by any stretch of the imagination. Lyrics discuss discovering suspect text messages and preferring a vibrator to a boyfriend, but was anyone really expecting the next “Peace Train” from the woman who performed “Party in the U.S.A.”? “FU” has Cyrus belting it out like some of the great lady singers, and for good reason. Her recent VMA performance got tongues wagging, for better or worse, in anticipation of the pop

star’s fourth studio album. Bangerz fulfills Cyrus’ evolution from the obnoxious, double-lifed hillbilly Hannah Montana to ratchet Miley 2.0, grill and tiny peroxide buns included. Those who are shocked by her transformation must not know much about 20-somethings. The “me generation” has a bizarre, self-aware wildness that Cyrus brings to the public eye. The revival of the “Pretty Woman” hooker dress, crop tops and superstacked platform shoes joined with the “I know I look crazy, but I don’t care” attitude creates a controlled rebellion of confidence and independence. Cyrus wears red carpet outfits that could have been easily knocked off years ago through Forever 21 and GoJane. One would witness more risque dancing Thursday night on Sixth Street. Frankly, Cyrus has garnered most of this criticism because her new persona is not sexy. Rewind to the VMAs — shots of Cyrus playing with long hair she obviously does not have and sticking out that infamous tongue while emerging from a teddy bear. It’s weird, it’s goofy and it’s in no way sensual. Pop princesses like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera have “grown up” through revealing performances. Remember Spears’ nude and crystal bodysuit at the 2000 VMAs? It was

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The New Zealand band The Naked and Famous will play at Stubb’s Barbeque on Wednesday, Oct. 2, to support its latest release, In Rolling Waves. The Daily Texan discussed “The Lord of the Rings” and island life with frontwoman Alisa Xayalith. The Daily Texan: What was it like growing up on an island? Alisa Xayalith: It was a pretty small place. I grew up in an area that was really close to the beach and it was quite beautiful. I feel very lucky to have lived in New Zealand. It’s a very special place, and after traveling around the world there’s still nothing like it. DT: Have you seen “The Lord of the Rings”? AX: Are you kidding me? Of course I have. Everyone in New Zealand has seen them. The entire band and friends would sit together and watch all three of them at a time — we’d have marathons. DT: Did your geographic location have any effect on your music? AX: I really don’t think it does. I understand how environments can change you, but for me music is such an insular and internal thing. It happens inside of us and we just try to get it out. It doesn’t end up sounding like the room or house I’m sitting in.

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