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UT recipients of Pell Grants rising as cuts threaten funds
TODAY Calendar ‘Sexuality and Hate Crimes’
By Amy Thornton Daily Texan Staff
The Brazilian Film Series presents this documentary on human rights themes in SRH 1.115 at 2 p.m.
Adhesions of Neurosurgery
The Institute for Neuroscience hosts a panel talk on the adhesions of neurosurgery in SEA 4.244 at 4:30 p.m.
Texas Baseball
Longhorns play Oral Roberts at UFCU Disch-Falk Field at 6 p.m. The theme is superheroes and tickets range from $5-$12.
Want to be a Rock Star
The Communication Council hosts Patrick Terry, the owner of the restaurant P. Terry’s, to discuss how flipping burgers can turn you into a rock star. The lecture will be held in BUR 208 at 6 p.m.
‘Internet Privacy is Here’
A panel of experts will discuss cyber safety at 6 p.m. in GEA 105. The Student Organization Safety Board will host the event.
Today in history In 2004 The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.
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Two partygoers embrace at the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity in West Campus on Saturday during Roundup, an annual festival among the Greek culture attended by high school and college students from across the state and country.
Roundup Crime Rates
By Marty McAndrews
Last weekend’s annual Roundup event for prospective members of UT fraternities and sororities may have seemed like a wild time for some West Campus residents, but it resulted in fewer arrests than last year, according to the Austin Police Department. Roundup, a weekend synonymous with neon colors, tank tops, fanny packs and free alcohol, is an annual celebration put on by the Interfraternity Council and the University Panhellenic Council, said Paul Kleiman, a member of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity. The event draws hundreds of pro-
spective UT students to Austin’s West Campus area to interest them in the University and the Greek system. This year, crimes in the West Campus area between Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard and 28th Street and Guadalupe Street and Lamar Boulevard totaled eight exclusively nonviolent crimes and zero public intoxication charges. The number was a decrease from Roundup 2010’s total of 31 crimes within the same area. In 2010, APD reported seven counts of public
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Porcelain gods
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Quote to note “I learned to treasure family, man. Live every day to the fullest and anything that you do, give it your all because you never know when it can be taken away from you.” — Trevante Rhodes Sprinter SPORTS PAGE 6
March 25-26, 2011
March 18-19, 2011
March 26-27, 2010
Public Intoxication
7
Assault w/ Injury
1
Burglary of Residence
1
Burglary of Vehicle
2
2
5
Criminal Mischief
1
1
7
Disturbance/Other Lost Property
3 3
Minor in Possesion Theft of Bicycle
1 2
Theft Total
8
1 1
1
4
27
Note: This data from APD represents crimes that occurred in the West Campus area between Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and 28th Street and Guadalupe Street and Lamar Boulevard.
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Speaker discusses drug war in Mexico
Campus Watch Jester West Dormitory, 201 E. 21st St. A UT police officer observed a UT student being carried into the dormitory by three other students. While talking to the officers the student began exhibiting signs of the onset of an extreme physical reaction to the overconsumption of alcohol. The student was rushed into the closest restroom and she began paying homage to the porcelain gods. Austin EMS was notified and treated the student at the scene for alcohol poisoning and transported the student to a local area hospital.
ROUNDUP CRIME STATS
Although many of the nation’s elite colleges are unsuccessfully recruiting low-income students, the University of Texas has experienced growth in the population of undergraduates receiving Federal Pell Grants, which are designated for low-income students. An analysis by The Chronicle of Higher Education of data from the Department of Education showed less than 15 percent of the undergraduates at the country’s 50 wealthiest colleges received Pell Grants in 2008-09, a percentage that has not changed since the 2004-05 school year. However, UT has experienced a growth of 1.7 percent, or 541 more students, on the Pell Grant. Currently, 8,542 UT students — about 21.4 percent — attend the University with the help of a Pell Grant. UT gained more Pell Grant students than its peer institutions, which include Michigan State University, University of Washington and The Ohio State University. Student Financial Services director Tom Melecki said there are strong concerns about the effects of Congress reducing or eliminating the program and the burden it will place on the University’s neediest students. “One of the University’s missions is that no qualified student should be prevented from attending the University for financial reasons,” Melecki said. “I think that it has done a terrific job to make sure that’s not the case.” The federal government gives Pell
By Yvonne Marquez Daily Texan Staff
Local Mexican law enforcement agencies must combat drug traffickers by avoiding corruption and receiving proper training to provide a network of safety to citizens, said Mexico’s security spokesman Monday. Alejandro Poiré, secretary of the Mexico’s National Security Council, discussed the country’s national
public safety strategy to an audience of about 60 people at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. He said Mexico’s federal government needs the state and local authorities to move more quickly to confront drug cartels. “These originally traditional cartels became very, very, very powerful organizations and structures that had a lot of money and lot of guns and great organizational capacity that really challenged the state institutions at the local level,” Poiré said.
Plataforma Mexico, a project to coordinate and integrate information about crime and public security, is one way the Mexican government is combating violence. Poiré said the database can hold up to 400 million public safety records to coordinate between the federal, state and city levels. Poiré said Mexico is also focusing on social development by providing
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Ted Patzek, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering chair, has been appointed to a federal advisory committee on offshore drilling safety.
Professor appointed to ocean safety team after oil spill in Gulf By Amy Thornton Daily Texan Staff
A UT professor will serve on the newly-formed Ocean Energy Safety Advisory Committee, a federal advisory body created to improve offshore drilling safety, well containment and spill response. After last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Ted Patzek, chair of the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, was called to appear as an expert in front of the Congressional committee in charge of investigating the incident. He said he partly attributes his testimony about the causes and mit-
igation of the spill’s effects to his committee appointment. “This committee was formed after the realization that the industry was not prepared to deal with spills,” Patzek said. “We will be advising the Department of the Interior about how to safely drill in an offshore environment, how to contain spills should they ever happen and, even better, how to prevent spills from even happening.” The committee consists of 15 experts representing academia, federal agencies, the offshore oil and gas industry and environmental groups.
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Event focuses on immigrant family life By Katrina Tollin Daily Texan Staff
As a child of Cambodian refugees, Kappa Phi Lambda sorority member Cindy Tan experienced a childhood different from many of her peers at UT. With parents unaccustomed to American life, she was kept at home instead of being allowed to socialize with her friends when she was young and admits now she can be less social as a result of her strict upbringing. Tan shared her story at “I am an Immigrant,” an event hosted by Asian sorority Kappa Phi Lambda. The event invited other first-generation American students to discuss the cultural barriers they face with their parents. “They had their ways of growing up when they were in Cambodia, and it was very different then, especially what they went through — escaping genocide,” said Tan, a junior in the College of Natural Sciences. “Even now, there are still cultur-
Jono Foley | Daily Texan Staff
Allan Concepcion discusses the difficulty of being a second generation immigrant. Concepcion, a second generation Filipino, was wrongly put into Spanish ESL classes.
al and communication barriers between me and my parents.” Participants discussed how they try to bridge the cultural gap between themselves and their families. “For minorities, most of our parents are from a different country, and as first-generation Americans there
is a culture gap because we grew up in American culture, whereas our parents grew up in a different one,” said dance and radio-television-film senior Shirley Luong, the cultural chair of Kappa Phi Lambda and or-
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