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Kearney files discrimination suit By Shabab Siddiqui @shabab_siddiqui

Bev Kearney, former women’s track and field head coach, filed a lawsuit against the University alleging discrimination based on her race and her gender Thursday, according to her attorney, Derek Howard. Kearney resigned in

January after being told the University was prepared to fire her for a having a consensual relationship in 2002 with Raasin McIntosh, who was a student-athlete on Kearney’s team. In her lawsuit — which seeks more than $1 million — Kearney said Bubba Thornton, former men’s

track and field head coach, consistently demeaned her in front of others and falsely accused her of committing NCAA infractions. The lawsuit points fingers at a wide range of University officials who Kearney claims she reported the harassment incidents to and chose to do nothing about it. The list

includes men’s and women’s head athletic directors DeLoss Dodds and Chris Plonsky; Jody Conradt, former women’s head athletic director; Patricia Ohlendorf, vice president for legal affairs; Gregory Vincent, vice president of the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement; and individuals in the human

UT Regents authorize South Texas expansion

resources department. “The University of Texas will thoroughly review the unfounded allegations of Ms. Kearney’s lawsuit and respond through proper legal channels,” Ohlendorf said in a statement. The lawsuit also alleges

By Madlin Mekelburg @madlinbmek

percent of season ticket holders are Longhorn Foundation donors. “There is not a set amount [of tickets] in each area. It’s

The UT System Board of Regents approved an allocation of $265.6 million of the Permanent University Fund for capital projects at its regular meeting Thursday. The allocation was recommended by Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa and outlined a $142 million allotment for the UT South Texas Project, which is dedicated to creating a new university in South Texas that encompasses existing UT facilities in the Rio Grande Valley. “I would like to convey to this board that this would be the first time in the history of the University of Texas System where a board allocates Permanent University Funds to the Pan American Campus, the Brownsville campus and then the establishment of an academic building, for the region-wide school of medicine in Rio Grande Valley,” Cigarroa said in the meeting. Vice Chairman Gene Powell choked up when making the motion to approve the recommendation. He said he was proud of how far the Board has come in their efforts to establish another University. “Thank you for the opportunity to make this historic motion,” Powell said. “It’s really a great moment today.” Of the remaining allocation, $10 million will go toward building an extension to the existing Texas Advanced Computing Center building on UT-Austin’s campus. The center is located at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus and focuses on advancing science through the use of advanced computing technologies. The board also approved the construction of a new 12-court tennis facility at Whitaker Field because the existing PenickAllison Tennis Center is scheduled to be demolished in May of 2014 in order to accommodate the construction of new Dell Medical School buildings. President William Powers Jr. recommended the action and said the projected total cost of construction would be $15

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TICKETING TURNOVER

Longtime fans crowd out best stadium seats for new grads By Christine Ayala @christine_ayala

On game day, the stands of Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium are filled with cheering fans, many of whom left the UT campus years ago but keep coming back for Longhorn football. Attending games becomes a family pastime for some alumni who continue to renew their season tickets year after year, saving their seats for a lifetime. Combined with ticketing policies, this has made it unlikely for recent graduates to obtain the quality seats that alumni who purchased their tickets decades ago at lower prices can keep. Previously, alumni would purchase tickets to football games through Texas Exes, UT’s alumni association, and would have first priority to the best seats in the stadium. The Longhorn

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UT alumnus Warren Chancellor and his wife Suzy have been working their way to better seats in the stadium since they first purchased season tickets in 1955. Ticketing policies have made it more expensive to obtain good seats.

Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to fundraising for UT Athletics, took over ticket operations in the 80s and restructured ticketing policies to create a three-tier priority system, according

to Mark Harrison, UT Athletics assistant athletics director for ticket operations. Foundation members who pay a $150 yearly membership fee and make additional donations acquire the

best available seats. Texas Exes members have second priority, and individuals who purchase general admission tickets have the final priority. Harrison said 70

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Race could bring rise Austin braces for football, Formula 1 crowds in human trafficking By Anna Daugherty @daughertyanna

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Anti-human trafficking efforts during the Formula 1 weekend are a focus for law enforcement units who suspect an increase in trafficking over the race weekend. Over the course of the F1 weekend, there could be anywhere between 200 to 300 thousand tourists in Austin, according to Austin Police Commander William Manno.

According to Laurie Cook Heffron, School of Social Work Institute for Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault research coordinator, there is a concern shared by many people that with any increase in visitors to a city, there will potentially be an increase in the number of people being exploited. “The logic is that if there is an increase in the commercial sex industry, there could

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This Saturday is the second Formula 1 United States Grand Prix race in Austin. But unlike the first, this Saturday is also UT game day and the city is bracing itself for the traffic these two events will bring. John Julitz, Capital Metro spokesperson, said he feels Cap Metro is ready for the challenge. “Last year being the first one, we didn’t really know what to expect,” Julitz said.

“This year we were able to take a lot of the lessons we learned from last year to streamline our services. There’s a UT game as well and that presents another new challenge.” This year, Cap Metro has focused their efforts on expanding the Metro Rail service hours, which will mean additional costs. Julitz said Cap Metro contracts with Circuit of The Americas, which hosts the F1 race, to provide buses. The

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The city is bracing for extra traffic this weekend because of the F1 race and UT football game.

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UT researchers analyze graduation rates at ACC.

International students find UT a top place to study. ONLINE

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continues from page 1 Circuit is then responsible for the shuttle service to the tracks. “Last year the shuttles were free, but this year they are charging $5 per ride,” Julitz said. “We’re trying to be clear that we’re happy to be partnering with [Circuit of The Americas], but the cost to ride the shuttle is all from COTA.” The race last year brought in an estimated $546.3 million of spending in Texas, according to numbers provided by Shilpa Bakre, spokeswoman for the Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau. The data was tracked through the Major Event Trust Fund application that the Circuit Events Local Organizing Committee sent to the state comptroller. According to this application, the race also brought in an additional $30.5 million in state taxes. This year, it will be more difficult to track state revenue because of the the UT game bringing in additional visitors.

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“It will be hard to get those numbers for this year because we don’t know how many visitors will be here for F1 and how many will be here for the UT game,” Bakre said. “And the UT games bring in 100,000 people, but we don’t know how many of those people already live here.” Samantha Park, spokeswoman for the Austin Transportation Department, encouraged the use of public transportation as an alternative to being stuck in traffic. “… If you’re going to the [UT football] game, come downtown after the game, but leave your car parked,” Park said. “Consider walking down here, bicycling, taking a pedi-cab or taking Capital Metro. There will be limited parking.” Julitz also recommended avoiding certain areas if possible. “If you aren’t interested in F1 activities, avoid the area around Republic Square Park and the convention center,” he said. “If people want to come to the downtown area, allow extra time and [Cap Metro] will be able to get you where you want to go.”

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operations, Miljenovich said. “We’re keeping it quiet and not putting it out to the public,” Miljenovich said. “As far as the public stance, [the community] can do more of an education and outreach type thing...This means really looking for people that look like they’re not free to leave, that look like they’re being controlled, manipulated.” Business freshman Brianna Spiller said she does not know much about the suspected increases in trafficking over F1 weekend, but suspects it would be a huge problem. “Of course it’s extremely important,” Spiller said. “I will probably look it up and see what goes on during a Formula 1 weekend … I definitely

think people who are going should protect themselves and know what to look for.” Miljenovich said the best thing for locals to do to contribute to anti-trafficking efforts over the race weekend is to raise awareness. “It’s something that’s commonly looked at by citizens that’s something that’s always happening somewhere else, or that always happens in the movies,” Miljenovich said. “It’s very surprising to people in Austin that it happens here too … [The community can help by] stepping up and saying that human trafficking is not condoned so that we don’t have the environment in our city where it’s easy for that to happen.”

“I can’t say it’s exactly court for court to [the Penick-Allison Tennis Center,] but this will satisfy our intercollegiate men’s and women’s tennis requirement,” Powers said. The Board also authorized an increase in funding for the construction of a pedestrian bridge connecting the Belo Center for New Media and the Jesse H. Jones

Communications building across Dean Keaton. With the Board’s approval Thursday, the total project cost went from $65.765 million to $75.765 million. The Moody Foundation donated $50 million to the newly named Moody College of Communication in October and $5 million of the donation will go toward renovations.

evident that Ms. Kearney displayed a serious lack of judgment by having an inappropriate, intimate, long-term relationship with a member of her team. The team member later reported it to university officials who pursued all appropriate action.” Kearney took the helm of the women’s track and field program in 1992, and her teams won six NCAA championships. She was placed on

administrative leave by the University almost exactly one year ago, after McIntosh revealed her past relationship with her coach to officials in UT athletics. Since then, much has changed in the department. Thornton announced his retirement in June and Dodds plans to step down in August. The UT System Board of Regents voted to approve Steve Patterson, the newly hired men’s head athletic director, Monday.

continues from page 1 also be an increase in human trafficking for sex within that industry,” Heffron said. Last year’s police department’s anti-trafficking efforts included collaborations with local nonprofits to create Cap Metro awareness ads and other city-wide efforts. Bob Miljenovich, Austin Police Department Human Trafficking and Vice Unit sergeant, said these efforts were successful in raising awareness but did not lead to any trafficking-related arrests. This year, the human trafficking unit will take a more under-the-radar approach to overturning sex trafficking

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continues from page 1 million, with funds coming from the money contributed by Auxiliary Enterprises — self-supported, UT affiliated entities, such as the Frank Erwin Center and UT Athletics, that contribute 3.25 percent of their gross revenue to the University.

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continues from page 1 that other University employees — predominately white males — have been involved in relationships with students or direct subordinates and have not received disciplinary action. It cites the University’s handling of an incident with football co-offensive coordinator Major Applewhite as an example. Applewhite engaged in “inappropriate, consensual

behavior with an adult student” in 2009, according to a letter from Dodds obtained by The Daily Texan through the Texas Public Information Act in February. Applewhite’s salary was suspended a year following the incident, but he has since received promotions. “When the university reviews inappropriate behavior by its employees, each case is evaluated on its individual facts,” Ohlendorf said in a statement. “In this case, it was

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LAURA WRIGHT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF / @TexanEditorial Friday, November 15, 2013

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Friday Firing Lines for the week of Nov. 11: Sex, pizza, shared services Every Friday, the Daily Texan editorial board will publish a selection of tweets and online comments culled from the Daily Texan website and the various Daily Texan Twitter accounts, along with direct submissions from readers. Our intention is to continue the tradition of the Firing Line, a column first started in the Texan in 1909, in which readers share their opinions “concerning any matter of general interest they choose.” Just like in 1909, the Texan “will never express its approval or disapproval of opinions given under the [Firing Line] header.” In other words, take your shot. Submissions can be sent to firingline@ dailytexanonline.com. On the benefits of free pizza Dear Editor, I write today over concern that those criticizing the Graduate Student Assembly expenditures on pizza and a community event fail to understand the nature of graduate student organizing. I represented my department (Cell & Molecular Biology) in the Graduate Student Assembly for two years, and I represented the entire Graduate School in Student Government for a similar period. I don’t eat pizza (food allergies) and I’m a science doctoral candidate, so you can rest assured my motivations for participating involve neither my resume nor my stomach. In my experience, people join Student Government either in order to serve or because they plan to attend law school (or both). Most graduate students are already serving, however: We create information and research for the public good, and we do it for little or — more likely — no pay. In my doctoral program, the salary is $24,000 per year, unusually high. Many of us have families to care for, or second jobs to worry about. We don’t have many classes, so we don’t meet other graduate students outside of our departments. When something comes up which affects UT’s ability to recruit or retain promising researchers (alias: graduate students), it’s nearly impossible to let our fellow post-baccalaureates know — let alone gather information or address the problem. Yet pizza accomplishes something: It gets a bunch of masters and doctoral students together every other week, in hopes that they might become engaged to make UT a better place. The carnival is probably more important. It helps graduate students coalesce into a community, something that undergraduates take for granted. “What starts here changes the world.” That sentence is referring at least in part to the research we do here. When people talk about the quality of an institution, they’re usually referring to the quality of

the research produced. When graduate students head off to other posts in academia and industry, it reflects well on UT for its researchers to look back fondly upon the experience. Seems like pizza is the least we can do. Sincerely, John Woods National Science Foundation Fellow Defending on November 25th, 2013 (without the benefit of pizza or carnivals) Further confusion about the regents “Can’t tell if he’s clueless or making himself look clueless” — Twitter user Fernand J Sosa, in response to the Daily Texan editorial board’s Q&A with student regent Nash Horne.

On Wednesday, city officials announced that Austin would introduce its first bike-sharing program on Dec. 21. The bike program, officials promised, will benefit even non-users by helping reduce Austin’s notoriously horrible downtown traffic. We’d love to celebrate this new initiative, but unfortunately, it does a very poor job of including students like us in the bike-sharing fun. While officials professed a wish to engage students, those of us at UT shouldn’t expect to find bike-sharing stations on campus when we return from the holidays, and the city does not plan to move the program out to UT anytime soon. If the program’s organizers really want to include students as part of their target demographic, they should have backed that claim up by putting some of the new bikes near campus.

HORNS UP: ABBOTT’S POLICY POINTS SPUR ETHICS DISCUSSION Texas Attorney General and 2014 gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott released a proposal Monday that would significantly reform the Texas Legislature’s conflict-of-interest rules. The proposed reform would require greater disclosure of campaign donations and private financial dealings and would also strengthen the enforcement of those laws — even to the point of criminal penalty. There is no good reason not to have strict restrictions of lawmakers’ unethical behavior, and we hope Abbott’s proposal makes its way into state law.

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You still don’t like the sex columns “Your sex coverage is polluting my Twitter stream. Unfollow.” — Twitter user Bob Metcalfe, in response to The Daily Texan’s tweet, “Fabulous Frank needs your advice: how does he get a good blow job?” Shared Services will make a difference for staff “I think Associate Professor Martinez needs to rethink the following sentence: ‘If the aim of Shared Services is really to help UT’s core missions: teaching and research, then its benefits should be used for teaching and research. Not spent on a ridiculously expensive way to make administrators’ jobs easier. It’s just not that important for them to make three keystrokes instead of ten.’ As a UT staff I must say that it is incredible infuriating to see how deeply disconnected faculty can seem from the reality that staff faces at this university. First of all, the argument presented, ‘It’s just not that important for them to make three keystrokes instead of ten’, is completely ignorant and simplistic. Staff process an incredible amount of documentation on behalf of faculty on a daily basis. Without this type of administrative assistance faculty would not be able to survive in the academic system. What would this university be without administrative staff ? Faculty, their research, their teaching, and their lucrative careers would simply not exist. The issue is not that black and white and I encourage Professor Martinez to talk to the staff in his department. Especially with the staff who process his documentation.” — Online commenter “V,” in response to Associate Professor Alberto Martinez’s Opinion column, “The problem with Hegarty’s plan to save UT money? It costs too much.”

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As the Austin American-Statesman reminded us Thursday, Central Texas cancer patients are likely to see longer wait times if private treatment centers don’t work out their issues with the Affordable Care Act. The fear is that Texas Oncology, the largest private cancer care provider in Texas, won’t join the federal health insurance marketplace rolled out over the past six weeks. If Texas Oncology opts out, the Seton Shivers Center at University Medical Center Brackenridge will likely have to shoulder the burden of the additional patients, an unneeded strain on the already overworked employees there. As the Statesman article points out, the delay isn’t entirely the fault of Texas Oncology and other similar companies; there are other complicating factors originating with insurers that will have to be worked out to save patients from having to wait longer for care. With that in mind, we believe all parties involved should work together so local cancer patients can get the care they need in a timely manner.

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It’s not about ‘going corporate,’ it’s about changing UT for the better By Chris Jordan

Daily Texan Columnist @ChrisAlanJordan

In October of this year, University administrators presented a draft of a plan to implement a Shared Services model at UT. The report, called “Smarter Systems for a Greater UT,” informed the University community about new cost reduction measures and recommendations provided by business leaders across the state. While backlash from some members of the University community has been prevalent across campus, the facts of the plan have been consistently lost in the rhetoric of the opposition, which is founded on deep-seated misunderstandings about Shared Services and the plan to optimize the performance of certain UT systems. Accenture LLP, the firm UT has hired to help with this initiative, is in the middle of this rhetorical flurry. While Adam Tallman and Dana Cloud, the authors of a guest column in this newspaper late last week, The Texas State Employees Union (TSEU) and other detractors from the Shared Services plan would lead you to believe Accenture is working to mount a corporate takeover of the University of Texas, this view is not only ill-informed but dangerous. In a declining economic environment with accelerating rates of attrition, keeping UT competitive for employees while affordable for students will be harder and harder — and UT administrators have a responsibility to address these challenges. If open discussion, debate and transparency are the primary focus of the opponents of these measures, as Tallman and Cloud’s column claimed, let’s begin with facts. Critical to understanding what the plan for the University of Texas constitutes is understanding the distinctions between words like “corporatization” and “privatization”

In a declining economic environment with accelerating rates of attrition, keeping UT competitive for employees while affordable for students will be harder and harder — and UT administrators have a responsibility to address these challenges.

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and Shared Services — distinctions that have been blurred by the opposing side, which has vilified UT administration for its proactive cost-cutting measures during a harsh economic climate, a tuition freeze and drastic decreases in state support. Shared Services is a tested supply-chain optimization plan which has been successfully implemented, not only by Accenture, in many other public and private institutions, including Yale, the University of Michigan and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. According to Rowan Miranda, associate vice president for finance at the University of Michigan, one of the misunderstandings surrounding a shared services model is that it’s a simple, across-the-board solution that ignores the needs of individual departments. “It’s a model that recognizes differences among the customers and tries to develop processes that are responsive to them,” Miranda said. Equating a shared services plan with outsourcing, as the opposition has consistently done in recent weeks, is simply not in line with the facts of these business models. UT stands in stark contrast to universities who have opted for actual privatization, like Texas A&M, whose consolidation plan included cutting 1,600 food service, maintenance, custodial and landscaping jobs and employing outside companies. “I do think we have a certain responsibility to our employees. [That is] part of our DNA that’s different,” Kevin Hegarty, chief financial officer for UT, told the Texan. “I can say this having done 25 years in corporate, is that we actually do care about people.” Of course, transparency should be a top concern for the members of the UT community. We have a responsibility to make sure the UT administration is making decisions that are best for students, faculty and staff. The administration understands this – that’s why they aren’t haphazardly accepting recommendations and are consulting with focus groups composed of faculty and students. “I want to see the detail, I want to see what backs it up,” Hegarty said in response to the recommendations. “So does President Powers… [That’s why he said,] ‘Hegarty, organize groups, and let’s study… let’s adapt them to our campus, our situation and have the committees come back to me with recommendations as to what they think we ought to do.’” Ultimately, there are some services public institutions cannot provide for themselves and seeking advice from a private company is warranted. The “Smarter Systems for a Greater UT” plan is about supporting UT’s mission to be one of the premier research institutions in the country — a lofty goal which cannot come without sacrifice. In discussing “Smarter Systems for a Greater UT,” it’s time to move past rhetoric and learn the facts. Jordan is an English and finance junior from Missouri City.

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continues from page 1 just based on how much you paid, based on priority at the time you got the tickets,” Harrison said. “You could have two fans sitting next to each other and one could be paying quite a bit in donation for those seats, and someone else, if they’ve had them for a long time, may not be paying anything [in donations].” Alumnus Warren Chancellor and his wife Suzy have been attending football games together since 1946 — as long as they have been married. The Chancellors, both 85-years-old, have witnessed the changes in ticketing policies. Even though they’ve held season tickets since 1955, they sat at the 20-yard line for years. It was not until seven years ago that the priority system allowed them to move to the 40-yard line on the stadium’s ninth floor. “We married and our

1. DWI: Nov. 12 at 1 a.m. A vehicle on Dean Keeton Street was seen swerving around cars and ignoring traffic signals. A UT police officer chased the vehicle a short distance before the driver pulled over on an entrance ramp to IH-35, facing the wrong way. The subject was arrested for driving while intoxicated.

3. BURGLARY OF BUILDING: Nov. 10 at 6:50 p.m. A UT student reported a stolen MacBook Pro from a reserved room on the second floor of the Flawn Academic Center. The room was restricted to students, staff and faculty. UTPD estimated a loss value of $1,500. The case is under investigation, and there are no suspects at this time.

2. POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA: Nov. 10 at 1:40 a.m. A vehicle making an illegal left turn almost crashed into a UT police officer. Once the driver was stopped, the officer found multiple beer bottles and marijuana inside the vehicle. The subject did not have a driver’s license or proof of insurance. He was arrested and transported to Travis County Central Booking.

4. THEFT: Nov. 8 at 7:10 p.m. Three UT students were victims of theft at Clark Field. The students reported credit cards and cash stolen from their wallets, which were left on benches next to the field. The students lost a total of about $200. The investigation is ongoing.

honeymoon was coming down [to Austin] and getting enrolled, finding a job, and we have been coming to the games since then, pretty much,” Suzy Chancellor said. “It’s very much a family tradition.” The couple introduced their children and grandchildren — all Longhorn fans — to Texas sports over the years. While the Chancellors have only passed down their school spirit, some alumni transfer on their season tickets. Architecture professor Larry Speck grew up watching the Longhorns with his family. “I can remember going to football games when I was five-years-old,” Speck said. “I remember being [in] the stands and not being able to see anything, basically just people’s butts when they stood up.” His family’s seats were secured for years through season tickets renewed every year under his father’s name.

Speck lost his parents’ seats. Speck said he and his sister could not justify paying the current season ticket price for the seats. Instead, he now purchases faculty tickets at a discounted rate. “My sister and I looked into if we could get those tickets now that my parents are gone. The price is way more,” Speck said. “I think for more middle class people, it’s very hard for them to afford four tickets for them to bring their kids.” The influx of fans and graduating students spurs the competition for good seats with new customers every year. Still, some ticketseekers look for the gameday experience. Beyond the challenge to obtain good seats, Texas Exes spokesman Tim Taliaferro said the hype around game day is about more than just the plays on the field and includes the atmosphere created on San Jacinto Street by fans who not only love football but also like to visit campus. “There are people who start near the history museum and work their way toward the stadium, and the alumni center is right across the street. So, for a lot of

They were paying a whole lot less than the people in front of us who were just buying in as 30-somethings. —Larry Speck, Architecture professor

When Speck’s father died, his family was able to keep their seats after their season tickets were transferred to his mother’s name. Speck’s parents were UT alumni who first bought season tickets in 1943 and attended home games in Austin for as long as they physically could. Speck said football became a very central part of the family, which usually had four to six season tickets. Because Speck’s parents bought their tickets before the current ticketing policies were implemented, the annual price they had to pay was lower than some of the fans around them. Aside from the priority system, alumni have also faced rising ticket prices. Three decades ago, a general admission season ticket was available for $60. Now, the price ranges from $325 to $405. “They were paying a whole lot less than the people in front of us who were just buying in as 30-somethings,” Speck said. “They were paying a lot more for those seats than my parents who were grandfathered in with a lower price.” Following his mother’s death three years ago,

Texas football ticket prices over time 1983 — $60 1993 — $105 2003 — $260 2013 — $325-405 people, we’re the last stop before going into the stadium,” Taliaferro said. “Since we’re open during the game, people who don’t have tickets will often stay and watch the game.” Gage Paine, UT’s vice president for student affairs, has attended Longhorn games since 1986 when she was a graduate student. Paine said the demand for tickets has been a longstanding concern throughout her time on campus and when she returned to work in the Office of Student Affairs last year. “We moved family weekend off of a football weekend years ago to the spring because we couldn’t get tickets for parents who would come to family weekend, and [they] couldn’t get seats with their kids,” Paine said. “That is one of our challenges here. People get mad that they can’t get tickets, and they feel like they should [be able to.]”

You could have two fans sitting next to each other and one could be paying quite a bit in donation for those seats, and someone else, if they’ve had them for a long time may not be paying anything [in donations]. —Mark Harrison, UT Athletics assistant athletic director of tickets

Without a change on the horizon to the priority system and an increasing demand for season seats, recent graduates will have to wait to obtain the seats that longtime alumni, like the Chancellors, will enjoy near the middle of the field for seasons to come. “We thoroughly enjoy the game,” Warren Chancellor said. “We just enjoy the whole thing. We have a wonderful huge band and love to see them come into the stadium. We’re big sports fans — period — but [we’re] real big Longhorn fans.”

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CHRIS HUMMER, SPORTS EDITOR / @texansports Friday, November 15, 2013

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Head coach Karen Aston and the Longhorns are having trouble avoiding fouls with the new guidlines set in place by the NCAA in 2013 to quicken the game.

Utilizing the new rules, head coach Rick Barnes and the men’s basketball team have seen a jump-start on offense leading to higher scoring games.

To avoid fouls, Longhorns must adjust defense

Texas improves scoring with help of new rules

CHANGING THE GAME

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Fans watch basketball because it’s fast. They enjoy the thrill of players sprinting down the court, executing an offense with speed and precision while avoiding defenders. But the NCAA wants the game to move faster. So it instituted rule changes for the 2013-14 season to quicken the pace. New rules restrict when coaches can call time-outs, when officials can review calls and how intense defenders can play on or off the ball. In addition to this more stringent foul call policy, the NCAA reinstituted the 10-second backcourt violation. Head coach Karen Aston said the rule changes balance out the 10-second rule. “Had the rules not changed simultaneously, we would have taken advantage by pressing backcourt,” Aston said. “But the rules make everyone back

up a little bit and back off.” The backcourt violation was reinstated at the NCAA Women’s Basketball Rules Committee meeting in June. According to the committee report, the rule change aims “to increase offensive scoring opportunities, reward defensive strategies and cause offensive teams to have to increase the pace of play from the backcourt to the front court.” Sophomore guard Brady Sanders didn’t think the rule would affect the Longhorns since they already focus on transitions. Even Aston wondered if it would ever be a factor. But against Texas State on Wednesday night, officials called Texas for a backcourt violation. “Players like [Nneka Enemkpali] are extremely aggressive and have been aggressive their whole life,” Aston said. “Now you’re asking them not to be? It’s going to be different, but our guards have to go into

the game and figure out how that officiating crew is going to call it.” Though the increase in foul calls has pinned Texas at 43 fouls in its first two games, the offensive benefits show. Texas’ 54-point win against the Bobcats on Wednesday was its highest score differential in three years.

By Chris Hummer @chris_hummer

Through two games last season, the Longhorns averaged 62 points a game. Two games into the 2013-14 campaign that average has ballooned to 80. This is a staggering shift from one season to another,

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especially after Texas lost its top four scorers from last year. With so little experience returning and a historically stagnant Rick Barnes offense, what explains the jump? A significant alteration to the rules, designed to stir a game previously grounded in school-yard basketball principals of contact without repercussion. In May, the NCAA rules committee enacted rules designed to increase scoring and quicken the static pace of college basketball games. The new rules — a crackdown on hand checking, placing more definition on the block-charge call and further dictating how a player can defend in the post — eliminate constant bumping on the perimeter, giving offenses more freedom to drive to the basket. “With these new rules in place, just about every coach

in the country is telling their guys to drive the ball whenever they can,” Barnes said. “If the officials call the game the way they are expected to, the rule will benefit guys who are aggressive on the offensive end.” Barnes adjusted his offensive principals in the offseason, altering his philosophy to best suit the rule changes. Instead of an offense based in working the ball around the perimeter while two shooters work off screens to find an opening, Barnes shifted his offense to up-tempo. He wants to see a shot go up six seconds into the possession. This shift has effectively jump-started the Longhorn offense, allowing the team’s quicker guards to penetrate in the lane, either drawing contact or kicking the ball out to a shooter on the outside. Texas lacks a

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Postseason goals prove too lofty for Longhorns By Brittany Lamas Daily Texan Columnist @brittany_lamas

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Two best teams, one bench By Evan Berkowitz @Evan_Berkowitz

Texas’ ‘B’ squad is good enough to run the table in the Big 12. At least, that’s what many of the Longhorn players believe. No. 1 Texas has glided through its opening conference stretch with ease. The Longhorns (18-2, 11-0 Big 12) have won all 11 of their games, never even allowing a match to reach the fifth set. Other than walk-on senior libero Megan Futch, every healthy Longhorn sees significant playing time and could probably start elsewhere in the conference. But instead of wearing crimson or green, they don burnt orange. The bench players may not start, but that doesn’t mean everyone underestimates them.

“They definitely can,” senior setter Hannah Allison said. Sophomore middle Molly McCage agrees. “Honestly, I think they could,” McCage said. With the ongoing mixing of the Texas lineup, there is no set ‘B’ squad. But on any given day, accounting for a few positions because of injury, the lineup could consist of freshman Pilar Victoria and sophomore Amy Neal as the outsides, freshman Chloe Collins as setter, sophomore Sara Hattis in the middle and sophomore Kat Brooks as libero. But let’s take this one step further by putting that lineup in terms of accolades. Victoria was named to the national team in Puerto Rico at the age of 16 and was her home country’s top volleyball prospect. Neal was the No. 18

overall recruit in the class of 2012 and the 2011 Texas Gatorade Volleyball Player of the Year. Collins was a first-team All-American her senior year of high school. Hattis was the No. 9 recruit and New Mexico Player of the Year for volleyball. And Brooks was the starting libero for the top volleyball team in Hawaii. If you give the Longhorns back their two injured players, sophomore do-it-all Nicole Dalton and junior outside Tiffany Baker, the ‘B’ squad could be a top-10 team in the nation. “It’s kind of crazy how competitive our gym can be,” Allison said. “Our B side continuously beats our A side. I don’t know what other team can say that.” Head coach Jerritt Elliott doesn’t mind the surplus of talent. “They are making

decisions difficult for the staff,” Elliott said. “It’s a great dilemma for the coaching staff. Nobody’s job is safe in our gym.” The talent keeps stockpiling, too. Elliott recently announced that libero Cat McCoy from Southlake and middle Mirta Baselovic from Croatia will join the Longhorns in 2014. McCoy is a first team All-American honoree. Baselovic is 6-feet-3-inches and has been on the Croatian junior national team for three years. According to Texas, when the Longhorns travel to Lubbock on Saturday for a 1 p.m. matchup with the Red Raiders, the two best squads in the Big 12 will be sitting on the same bench. “We do have a really competitive gym,” McCage said. “But I think that’s what makes us No. 1 in the nation.”

past, Texas’ guards were encouraged to body up to their man, leaving little space and using a series of subtle hand checks to restrict movement. “We taught defense the way we’ve always taught them,” Barnes said. “[The

new rules] have taken aggression away.” The augment of offense and restriction of defense can be accredited to the rules. Now, Barnes must continue to modify his strategies, helping his young team adjust to a giant shift in college basketball.

Throughout its regular season, Texas soccer surpassed its mediocre results from 2012 and showed it was capable of winning close matches. Except when it mattered most. The Longhorns’ season came down to two games: Texas Tech in the regular season finale and Oklahoma State in the Big 12 tournament. But when Texas needed it, they could not win, cutting their postseason shorter than their potential lended. Texas held a perfect record at home and managed an overall winning percentage of .650 and .688 in conference play but was knocked out in the first round of the Big 12 tournament. And when the NCAA tournament field was revealed, Texas fell short for the second year straight. In the heart of the conference schedule, the Longhorns built a win streak, proving they could be a contender for a Big 12 title. The team secured four wins in a row, each by at least two goals before losing to West Virginia, a team which has yet to lose a single regular season conference game since joining the Big 12. Aside from the West Virginia loss and a tie against Oklahoma State, Texas’ only other defeat in conference was a 1-0 loss in the regular-season finale to the Red Raiders. The loss dropped the Longhorns to the third seed, which proved to be costly. They had to play the Cowgirls, who, despite their

Texas held a perfect record at home and managed an overall winning percentage of .650 and .688 in conference play, but was knocked out in the first round of the Big 12 tournament. meager two conference wins, gave Texas trouble earlier in the season. But, as the Longhorns showed in Kansas, Mo., ranking does not mean much in the postseason. After giving up a 20thminute goal, sophomore midfielder Chantale Campbell got her head on a ball crossed in from freshman forward Jasmine Hart three minutes later to equalize. Oklahoma State’s Courtney Dike put the game and the Longhorns’ postseason hopes away in the second half on a long shot from the 18-yard box. With two losses in a row and an early exit in the conference tournament, Texas fell short of the NCAA tournament, failing to get one of 33 at-large bids. Before its late-season tumble, Texas ranked as high as 34. Afterward, it ranked 44. Had the Longhorns managed to win at least one of their last two games, they would likely be preparing for a first-round matchup this weekend. Instead, they choked when expectations were high, and they will have to wait until next season to prove their strengths.

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Texas soccer’s regular season performance showed it could be a conference title contender, but it fell flat in the postseason.

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Friday, November 15, 2013

MOVIE REVIEW | ‘THE BEST MAN HOLIDAY’

‘Best Man’ to cheer up holiday-film gloom By Lee Henry

From left, Taye Diggs as Harper, Morris Chestnut as Lance, Harold Perrineau as Julian and Terrence Howard as Quentin, serenade ladies in the film “The Best Man Holiday.” The movie will be released in theaters Friday.

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Usually, sequels are cranked out as quickly as Hollywood can produce them, whether the demand from the audience is there or not. “The Best Man Holiday” is a marked exception to the rule, hitting theaters a full 14 years after 1999’s “The Best Man.” While the sequel took a while to surface, it features an entertaining mix of raucous humor and touchy-feely moments, and functions as a perfect palate cleanser in a fall film season full of downers. “The Best Man Holiday” begins with its considerable cast of characters reuniting 15 years after Lance (Morris Chestnut) and Mia’s (Monica Calhoun) drama-filled wedding. At the end of the last film, Harper (Taye Diggs) published a successful novel that topped the best-seller list, but the sequel finds him recently laid off and unable to duplicate that success. Unable to tell his pregnant wife Robyn (Sanaa Lathan), Harper decides to reunite with his friends at Lance and Mia’s house with the intention of secretly writing a biography on retiring football star Lance. It’s a flimsy excuse to get the cast under one roof, but all the characters bring along their own melodramatic baggage. It isn’t likely that audiences

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will watch “The Best Man Holiday” to pick out plot holes or comment on its implausibility. Regardless of the film’s narrative shortcomings, it is extremely entertaining. Terrence Howard delights as Quentin, a bachelor who impishly meanders from scene

to scene and does whatever he can to stir the pot. Regina Hall, best known as Brenda from the “Scary Movie” series, goes over the top at times, but primarily serves as an emotional touchstone for the massive ensemble. The entire cast fires on all cylinders and car-

ries the film through its many implausible moments. “The Best Man Holiday” is at its funniest in the film’s first 45 minutes — the cast clicks wonderfully and writer and director Malcolm Lee’s direction zips the film along. It begins to sag quickly, relying on bursts of

humor from Howard and his co-stars to lift it out of the melodrama it occasionally wanders into. Despite its weaknesses, “The Best Man Holiday” is a fun, but occasionally weepy, two hours that does what it’s designed to: give its audience a reprieve from the array of

highbrow depressing dramas that surround it this season.

THE BEST MAN HOLIDAY Director: Malcolm D. Lee Genre: Comedy Runtime: 122 minutes

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‘McConaissance’ gives actor second chance at serious roles By Lee Henry @leehenry220

Matthew McConaughey’s career was laughable two years ago. The image of a shirtless, stoned McConaughey playing the bongos became etched in the national consciousness after his brush with marijuana possession in 1999. After a string of critical and commercial disappointments like “Sahara” and “Fool’s Gold,” McConaughey became the butt of numerous jokes. But since 2011, McConaughey has enjoyed a slow, unstoppable turnaround in both the quality of his work and the public’s reception to it. McConaughey was not always a romantic-comedy mainstay, but began his career working for well-known directors like Steven Spielberg, Richard Linklater and Joel Schumacher and turning in performances worthy of a serious leading man. His first significant role was the Austin-centered comedy “Dazed and Confused.” But after achieving recognition, McConaughey moved quickly toward dramatic parts in films

like “A Time to Kill,” “Contact” and Spielberg’s “Amistad.” These were all well-received leading roles alongside ‘A’-list co-stars and directors, but were followed by increasingly fluffy romantic comedies like “The Wedding Planner” and “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.” By “Failure to Launch,” it seemed official: McConaughey was a laughing stock. “Sahara,” his first attempt at carrying a studio tent pole in eight years, did not recoup its budget and sounded the death knell for his career. After a few more lightweight romantic comedies, McConaughey surprised audiences with 2011’s “The Lincoln Lawyer.” While the critical consensus was “good but not great,” McConaughey received praise across the board and the film was financially successful. A year later, McConaughey came roaring back with roles in Richard Linklater’s “Bernie,” William Friedkin’s “Killer Joe” and Steven Soderbergh’s “Magic Mike.” All three played to McConaughey’s strengths, allowing him to utilize the Texas drawl and southern charm he is so famous for.

The pitch-black comedy “Bernie” reunited McConaughey with Linklater, the director who made him a star with “Dazed and Confused.” Watching McConaughey spit out the words “Les Miserables” like they were poison was comedy gold, but that was just the beginning of the actor’s incredible comeback. “Killer Joe” was another dark comedy involving murder, mayhem and fried chicken, and McConaughey walked the line between charming and chilling so effortlessly it feels like watching Robert Mitchum in “Night of the Hunter.” “Magic Mike” proved to be the clincher. As veteran stripper Dallas, McConaughey owned the best parts of the image he spent the past decade accidentally cultivating, displaying genuine range while subtly acknowledging his past as a frequently shirtless sex icon. “Bernie” and “Killer Joe” were small, independent films that made modest returns, but “Magic Mike” netted $167 million on a budget of just $7 million. All three garnered attenntion for McConaughey. Combining all

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continues from page 10 on their hands to bingewatch an entire TV series got an early Christmas present when Netflix posted “Chuck,” one of the most charming, entertaining series in recent memory. Zachary Levi stars as a tech supporter at a technology chain store who accidentally downloads a massive supPhoto courtesy of NBC ply of government secrets into his brain. While the Zachary Levi and Yvonne Strahovski star as the crime fightpremise is more than a ing duo, Chuck and Sarah, in “Chuck.” little silly, “Chuck” consistently entertains with its Strahovski, who plays a spy on track. Before long, Lanendearingly nerdy sense on Chuck’s team. gella recruits the robot of humor and a refreshto assist him with heists, ing ability to reinvent itself “Robot & Frank” and the story that unfolds every season. Genre fans (2012, 88 minutes) is equal parts buddy film, Few films tackle the crime caper and sci-fi ruwill also be delighted to see “Firefly”’s Adam Bald- struggles of aging with mination. “Robot & Frank” win pop up in a pivotal the delicacy and wry hu- manages to be funny, exsupporting role, as a hard- mor of “Robot & Frank.” citing and heartbreaking ened CIA agent charged Frank Langella stars as an all at the same time, often with keeping Chuck safe. elderly cat burglar whose thanks to Langella’s graceThe show thrives on slipping memory leads his ful and sympathetic perLevi’s electric chemis- kids to get him a robot pro- formance, which is not to try with co-star Yvonne grammed to keep his mind be missed.

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three performances, he won Best Supporting Actor awards from the New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics and Independent Spirit Awards. Before that, his last major award was an MTV Movie Award from 1997 for Best Breakthrough Performance in “A Time to Kill.” Twenty years after “Dazed and Confused,” McConaughey has engineered something most people in entertainment only dream about: a second chance. In 2013, he starred in “Mud,” another gritty,

southern-fried thriller with shades of Tom Sawyer that earned him scores of praise and comparisons to Paul Newman. He ends the year with two Oscar contenders, “Dallas Buyers Club” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.” The former is a role for which he is expected to receive an Oscar nomination, and the latter is a film by one of cinema’s highest regarded filmmakers, Martin Scorsese. Critics have dubbed this period from 2011 to the present the “McConaissance,” and it’s hard to argue with that.

Over the past two years, McConaughey switched effortlessly from thriller to comedy to biopic. He’s reasserted his bank-ability as a leading man and turned in award-winning supporting performances. Next year, McConaughey will star in Christopher Nolan’s latest film, “Interstellar,” and co-star with Woody Harrelson in “True Detective,” a miniseries for HBO. American celebrity culture does not give many second chances, but it’s clear that McConaughey isn’t wasting his.

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FOODIE FRIDAY

The easiest thing since slicing bread By Elisabeth Dillon @ElisabethDillon

In the baking world, bread is notoriously difficult to perfect. Why spend hours in the kitchen nervously waiting for the dough to rise when you can buy a soft, yet slightly crunchy loaf from a local bakery or grocery store? Growing up, bread was a homemade treat reserved to the mysterious confines of our grandparents’ kitchens. Anything involving yeast was like some strange science project that was difficult to master. But, somehow, by dinner time, a basket of warm bread was always waiting on the table — with butter, of course. But sometimes things go terribly wrong and there is a last-ditch effort to save the rolls by letting them rise in

the dishwasher. There are also people who dedicate their whole lives to creating the perfect loaf and babying their sourdough starter — a mixture of water, flour and microbes — until it is just right. Just read the “air” section of Michael Pollan’s “Cooked,” and you will truly be in awe at what goes into making a genuine whole grain loaf. It would appear that college students have neither the time nor experience to bake a perfect loaf of bread, but don’t be fooled. Start off simply. Work up to yeast and then maybe the sourdough starter. Bread isn’t as hard as family legend may lead you to believe. More complicated endeavors like pretzel rolls, cinnamon loafs, focaccia and challah can be in your future. It’ll be a tasty, carb-filled journey, and this recipe has just about the easiest starting point: beer. Beer bread is an accessible and simple starting point for amateur bakers and carbaholics alike.

Ingredients: -2 cups bread flour -1 cup whole wheat flour -1 tbs baking powder -1 ½ tbs sugar -1 ½ tsp salt -3-4 tbs honey, to taste -1 bottle of beer -3 tbs melted butter

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With its simple ingredients and recipe, beer bread is an easy start to learning how to make bread. After beer bread, college students should tackle breads with yeast.

You’ll want a pale ale from a microbrewery, giving more flavor than otherwise in this bread. There isn’t too much sweetness added to this, and the end result is a hearty, almost cheesy, flavor

and texture. The melted butter gives the top of the loaf the perfect amount of crunch and browning. You are going to want to show off this bread, if you can manage not to eat

the whole thing. The bread can be served on its own, with butter, cheese or some jalapeno jelly. Or a mixture of all of these. With a little practice, you could help your family with

Directions: -Preheat oven to 350 degrees and lightly grease a loaf pan. -Mix together the dry ingredients. -Add the honey and beer, and let sit for a minute. -Stir until combined. -Pour batter into loaf pan and put the melted butter on top, covering all areas of the dough. -Bake for 50-55 minutes, until the top is brown and a knife comes out clean. -Let cool for several minutes before removing from the pan.

the bread this holiday season. Maybe it will have to rise in a dishwasher, but in the end, it will turn out just right, like a bit of magic covered it in the oven and ensured the perfect loaf.

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Netflix: abundant source of distraction, lesser-known films By Alex Williams @alexwilliamsdt

There’s no better procrastination tool than Netflix. But with only 24 hours in a day, it is easy to become overwhelmed by the multitude of titles available to stream on the service. There are plenty of films that ended up on Netflix simply because they weren’t going to be seen under any other circumstance — and often for good reason. After

extensive research, The Daily Texan has come up with a few titles that are well worth your time. “In Bruges” (2008, 107 minutes)

This release from Irish writer-director Martin McDonagh is, simply put, the best-kept secret on Netflix. Colin Farrell stars as Ray, a hit man banished to Bruges, Belgium, after accidentally killing a kid on a hit. Farrell gives perhaps

his strongest performance to date here, bringing a potent mix of tenderness, regret and frustrated boredom to the character. McDonagh’s Oscar-nominated screenplay is full of quotable lines, and boasts memorable moments that are both politically incorrect and thematically appropriate. “In Bruges” tells a sordid story full of foul people, and still manages to infuse an undeniable beating heart into the blood-soaked proceedings.

“Sharknado” (2013, 87 minutes)

Everyone with a Twitter remembers when “Sharknado” took the internet by storm. This made-for-TV schlock-fest more than lives up to its viral reputation. The tale of what happens when sharks meet tornadoes has plenty of cheesy moments, laughable performances and special effects that would be outdated in a Nintendo 64 game. Even so, the film’s final moments

feature some of the most preposterous images ever, and it’s hard not to recommend a movie that so gleefully disregards the laws of physics and science. “Side Effects” (2013, 105 minutes)

Steven Soderbergh’s reported retirement from cinema comes with “Side Effects,” an elaborate shell-game of a film. Structured like a psychological thriller, “Side Effects” is elevated by Rooney

Mara’s fearless, engaging performance as a mentally bruised woman, whose regimen of antidepressants causes danger for the people in her life. “Side Effects” is stylishly directed, surprisingly pulpy and a memorable finale to Soderbergh’s film career. “Chuck” (2007-2011, 91 episodes)

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