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THE WEEK AHEAD MONDAY Joe Nichols
Country singer Joe Nichols will perform in the Austin Rodeo Arena. Tickets range from $20$37. The concert begins at 7 p.m.
TUESDAY Battle of the bands
Nourish International will raise awareness of its summer development project while local bands duke it out.
WEDNESDAY Where are the twinkies?
The Department of Religious Studies will play “Zombieland” in BUR 436A at 5:30 p.m. Admission is free.
THURSDAY Planet taco Jeffrey Pilcher will discuss the globalization of Tex-Mex food at the Long Center for the Performing Arts. The event begins at 6 p.m. Admission is free.
‘I’ll be watching you’ “Little Fockers” will play at 6 p.m. and again at 9 p.m. in the Texas Union Theatre. Admission is free with a UT id.
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ARIZONA
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NO SWEET 16
Longhorns fall to Wildcats in third round of NCAA tournament
By Dan Hurwitz Daily Texan Staff
TULSA, Okla. — Cory Joseph usually looks for his teammates to make two or three cuts on an inbounds pass. With 14 seconds remaining and Texas up two points, Joseph decided he was only going to look for one cut by J’Covan Brown and one cut by Jordan Hamilton before calling time-out. But when he turned to the official to call time-out, he heard a whistle. “I called a time-out before he blew the whistle,” Joseph said. “So when he blew the whistle, I thought he was going to call a time-out for us. But he called five seconds.” Following the questionable call, Arizona’s Derrick Williams made a miraculous shot and drew a foul to regain the lead and beat Texas 70-69 to advance to the Sweet 16 and eliminate Texas from the NCAA Tournament. Hamilton tried taking a charge on the play but did not get the call. “I didn’t even feel contact at all,” Hamilton said. “But the ref made up his mind and called a foul. There’s nothing we can do about it now.” Texas had one last chance with nine seconds remaining as Brown, who scored Texas’ last 11 points — most of which were made at the free-throw line — went to the basket trying to get contact and this time could not get the call. Gary Johnson picked up the loose ball and was unable to get a shot off in the last second as Texas’ season came to an end. A handful of calls that could have gone either way determined the outcome of Sunday’s loss.
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By Matthew Stottlemyre Daily Texan Staff
Sue Ogrocki | Associated Press
Freshman guard Cory Joseph (right) goes up for a shot against Arizona in the third round of the NCAA tournament.
Three-6 Mafia will perform at Republic Live at 9 p.m. Tickets are $15.
By Ahsika Sanders Daily Texan Staff
Campus watch No Trespassing Frank Erwin Center, 1701 Red River St.
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“I just thought about the seniors that we have on our team. I just tried to give my all to them.” — J’Covan Brown Sophomore guard SPORTS PAGE 6
The University’s self-funding enterprises, research money and University land income make up approximately half the University’s $2.2 billion overall operating budget for fiscal year 2011, while less than half comes from tuition, state allocations and gifts. Auxiliary enterprises include Intercollegiate Athletics, the Division of Housing and Food Service and the Frank Erwin Center. UT budget director Mary Knight said the University’s auxiliaries, especially athletics, have increased consistently for the past five to 10 years. She said the other sources’ ties to the economy have made them less predictable over the same time period. Auxiliaries’ budgets, which are completely self-funded, have made up between 11 and 12 percent of the overall budget since 2000, while the budget has increased from $1.1 billion to $2.2 billion. Knight said while auxiliaries do not receive state money or tuition, they pay 3.25 percent of their income into the University’s academic budget. She said this fee pays for human resources, budget staff and other services University offices provide for the auxiliaries.
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Butler-Baker win SG alliance, begin to appoint student leaders
‘Stay Fly’
Quote to note
FUNDING 40 ACRES Non-academic project income makes up half of UT’s budget Editor’s Note: This is the final installation in a four-part series examining the sources of UT’s funding.
FRIDAY
A non-UT subject was observed kicking at an exterior door leading into the building. During the investigation, the subject informed the officers that he had been to a downtown establishment the night before. Due to the shenanigans the night before he had awoken to discover he did not know where he was nor how he had gotten there. The officers issued the subject a written Criminal Trespass Warning.
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Newly elected SG President Natalie Butler, right, and Vice President Ashley Baker are the first female executive alliance to be elected.
After surviving a runoff election and a series of campaign infractions, newly elected Student Government President Natalie Butler and Vice President Ashley Baker are gearing up to begin their new term in office. Butler and Baker are the first female executive alliance to be elected
into office. Butler, a political communications and Plan II senior, said once they appoint several key student leaders, they plan to further the efforts made by the Scott Parks administration to lobby the Texas Legislature for more funding, to redesign the SG website and to implement the suggestions made by the reform task force. They will kick off their administration by appointing new students
to fill the more than 100 positions of the executive board: policy and agency directors, staff and external appointments among others. Butler said their first order of business is to appoint an executive team. She said they plan on soliciting for executive board positions this week and are hoping to attract a diverse pool of applicants.
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Quake, tsunami Anti-death penalty event educates student advocates create anxiety among family of Japan victims By William James Daily Texan Staff
By Huma Munir Daily Texan Staff
UT associate professor John Traphagan and his wife, Tomoko, could not reach their family members for two days following the tsunami that hit Japan more than a week ago. Tomoko Traphagan said some of her family members live in the areas greatly affected by the disaster. “It took me until Sunday night to get confirmation that everybody was safe,” she said. She did not lose any immediate family members. Tomoko Traphagan and her family often visited the northeastern coastal areas of Japan. She said looking at the devastating pictures of the towns wiped away by the tsunami is very
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Students around the country gathered in Austin to advocate an anti-death penalty agenda as part of the Anti-Death Penalty Alternative Spring Break. The weeklong event offered 30 students a crash course in capital punishment education and the opportunity to lobby to end the Texas death penalty system. According to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Texas has executed 466 people since 1982, more than any other state. Virginia has the secondhighest number of executions, with 108 since 1976. Because of this record number of executions, the Anti-Death Penalty Alternative Spring Break held a rally at the Capitol in hopes of building on the momentum seen recently by other states. Earlier this month, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn repealed the state’s death penalty law, which made Illinois the 15th state to
Shujaa Graham (center) marches as part of the AntiDeath Penalty Alternative Spring Break on Sixth Street on Wednesday afternoon. Graham was wrongly accused and was on death row for three years because of police brutality. Mary Kang Daily Texan Staff
abolish the law. Participants involved in the Anti-Death Penalty Alternative Spring Break had a full itinerary, which began on March 14 with talks by UT assistant sociology instructor Danielle Dirks and exonerated death-row inmate Stanley Howard. The lec-
turers educated students on how to become a voice for change. “The death penalty is a very serious topic. Getting together with other informed, interested people is an opportunity to get in on the exciting, social parts of activism,” said women’s and gender studies se-
nior Teri Adams, a member of Campaign to End the Death Penalty Austin. Students als o attended a screening at the South By Southwest Film Conference and Festival of the documentary “Incen-
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