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What’s up, doc? Dr. J. Lyle Bootman, dean of the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, will present a keynote on health care reform at 12:15 in Pharmacy Building 3.106.

‘Use Somebody’ Rock group Kings Of Leon will take the stage at the Frank Erwin Center tonight. Band of Horses opens.

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Children erupt into cheers after the Longhorns make a turn around against Missouri on April 1. Improvements at the plate and on the mound advanced the team to a No. 1 ranking in the Big 12 Conference.

INSIDE: Texas baseball gears up for the second half of the season on page 6

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to travel into space and perform the first manned orbital flight.

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UT Medical Branch at Galveston may appeal last week’s decision by the Texas Attorney General that requires it to release a portion of the documents an animal rights group requested under the Freedom of Information Act in January. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals submitted an

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Quote to note “The numbers would give everyone a reason to doubt [the Texas] team, but the numbers don’t always speak to how people can perform, and people can perform differently on any given day.” — Augie Garrido Baseball head coach SPORTS PAGE 6

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City officials look at plans for bike paths, storm tunnel An underground tunnel project designed to reduce Waller Creek flooding could lead to improved bike paths between UT and downtown and a river walk, said city officials. The Waller Creek Tunnel Project is a large, mile-long storm tunnel being built 70 feet under the last mile of Waller Creek, stretching from Waterloo Park to Lady Bird Lake. The tunnel project would regulate flood water in the mile stretch of Waller Creek between 12th and Red River streets. The city broke ground on the project on April 8. When the tunnel project is finished, the city will begin to work to improve pedestrian bike lanes around and between Lady Bird Lake, UT and downtown, said public works department spokeswoman Carolyn Perez. “What has to happen first is getting the flooding under control,” she said. “After that, improving those lanes is one of the goals that the city has.”

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UT Medical Branch at odds with PETA

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San Jacinto Residence Hall A UT staff member reported a UT student was providing alcohol-enriched compost to the University landscape. After the student was void of any addition alcohol-enriched compost he entered the dormitory and refused to swipe his ID card. The officers located the subject inside his room after his girlfriend gave the officer a spare key. During the investigation, the officers located the student hiding in the bathroom with another student, who was not his girlfriend. The officer observed several open bottles containing alcohol.

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Pharmacy professor Andrea Gore asks, “Are environmental contaminants making us infertile, fat and less intelligent?” at 11 a.m. in Pharmacy Building 3.106.

The Longhorns take on Dallas Baptist University at 6 p.m. at Disch-Falk Field.

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open records request to UTMB in January in response to reports of abuse from within the medical school, said Alka Chandna, a senior researcher for PETA. The organization requested records from January 2010 through January 2011. PETA also filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture with claims including improper administration of anesthetics during experiments, inad-

equate health care during and after the administration of experimental drugs and inadequate care following experimental surgery. She said in the school’s initial response to the request for six sets of documents, including medical care and acquisition records and adverse event reports for animals under UTMB’s care, the University promised to send two sets

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Government undergraduate Christina Wright discusses her findings on the Congressional response to natural disasters with Dan Sternemann.

Research Week aims to engage students in creative activity By Amy Thornton Daily Texan Staff

Two UT groups hosted the fourth annual Research Week to show students that research is an opportunity for them to broaden their educational horizons. Hosted by the Senate of College Councils and the Office of Undergraduate Research, the sponsored events and presentations promote

undergraduate research and creative activity. “Research is a key part of academic culture at UT,” said council spokesman Michael Morton, a multimedia journalism junior. “We want to emphasize how important research is to the University and how students can get involved.” This year, the event takes on great-

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RESEARCH WEEK EVENTS April 12 - 15: The Comics Art Show, 6:30 - 7 p.m., DFA 1.101 April 12: Louis C. Littlefield Pharmacy Research Excellence Day 10 a.m.- 4 p.m., PHR 3.106 April 13-14: College of Liberal Arts Oral Research Symposium 10 a.m.- 4 p.m., GEB 3.312 April 14: Bridging Disciplines Programs Poster Session 2:30 - 4 p.m., MAI 212 April 15: McNair Scholars Research Presentations 2 - 4 p.m., SSB 4.212

TODAY’S TIP: Biking, Biking, Biking

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Named the 2011 Exemplary Migrant Students, high school students from all around Texas gather in the Texas Union Ballroom on Monday to accept awards for their achievements. Children of migrant workers, the students travel with their families to work on farms while maintaining high grades in school.

Migrant students honored for successes By Huma Munir Daily Texan Staff

Rene Mendoza, an Edinburg High School senior, spent most of his mornings and afternoons cleaning sugar beets and working in fields. At night, he returned home to finish a day’s worth of schoolwork in a few hours. Mendoza was one of 40 students

from across Texas that the University honored at a ceremony Monday. The ceremony celebrated the students in UT’s Migrant Student Graduation Enhancement Program for their outstanding grades and community service while facing the difficulties of the migrant life. Program leaders selected Mendoza as one of the students of the year because of his extensive in-

volvement in community service. He received a $2,000 scholarship and plans to pursue biomedical or civil engineering at UT. “Migrating back and forth was tough,” Mendoza said. “This is why [the] migrant program was helpful, because it helps us catch up [with schoolwork].”

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Ste p one of t he pl an is building the tunnel itself and step two, which is much farther down the road, is building a river walk downtown, Perez said. “I think it’s important to differentiate,” she said. “A lot of people think we’re just turning downtown into a river walk, and that’s something that will happen in the future, but we’re not building one right now. And it’s not going to be a carbon copy of the one in San Antonio, it’s going to be very uniquely Austin.” The plan would primarily affect the area south of 15th Street, but the project would increase connectivity to major destinations on campus, such as the Erwin Center and Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, said architect Jim Robertson, manager of the Urban Design division of the Planning and Development Review Department. “Our hope is that the campus and major destinations within the campus would become more closely connected and better accessible to and from the Waller Creek improvements at Water-

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A cyclist enjoys a summer stroll down a trail at Town Lake on Monday afternoon. With the addition of Waller Creek’s bicycle lanes, riders will be able to commute from Town Lake to the University area along one trail.

loo Park and South Austin,” he said. While the tunnel will mostly affect Eastern downtown, it would still positively impact pedestrian and bike travel between downtown and campus along with other areas of the city, Robertson said. “Our hope is that the benefits will extend beyond just

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from UT.” Started in 2008, the weeklong event showcases the broad spectrum of research disciplines, ranging from history to engineering. “The main goal is to get the average student involved in research, as opposed to those who are ingrained in research due to their majors,” said astronomy senior Alyx Stevens, one of the organizers of the week. One of the central events is the Longhorn Research Bazaar, a carnival-like event for more than 30 departments, colleges, programs and student organizations to present posters that highlight their undergraduate research activities. The event will take place on the Texas Union patio on Wednesday from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. A part of the Senate for College Councils, the Undergraduate Research Committee is responsible for making research opportunities more accessible, in addition to hosting Research Week and planning a reception honoring excellence in undergraduate research that will take place in two weeks. The planning for this year’s Research Week started shortly after the conclusion of last year’s event. “This collaboration of students and administrators is unique,” Stevens said. “Both groups want to recognize excellence in undergraduate research to the best of our capabilities, as well as create more opportunities for students on campus.”

that area,” he said. “The community’s vision is of a true ‘destination’ type experience that would be of benefit to not only the broad Austin community but also an attraction for visitors.” Many problems currently face bikers riding downtown from UT’s campus, including streetlights that favor motorists

and unfriendly drivers, said radio-television-film sophomore Demi Adejuyigbe who frequently bikes downtown. “I’d love better bike lanes,” he said. “The bike lanes right now aren’t terrible but they could use some renovation and improvement. Better bike lanes would definitely be good to have.”

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Senators on the State Affairs Committee picked up the sonogram bill on Monday to figure out the amount of time women would have to wait between receiving an abortion sonogram and getting an abortion. The bill was declared an emergency item by Gov. Rick Perry and would require women to receive a sonogram and hear a description of the fetus before getting an abortion. The House version of the bill would require women to wait 24 hours between the sonogram an the abortion, while the Senate bill would require only a two-hour period between procedures. The discussion resulted out of a concern by Sen. Carlos Uresti, D-San Antonio, who said women in his district would have to travel more than 100 miles to reach an abortion clinic, and that the 24-hour period would be an inconvenience for them. The committee came to an agreement to allow the two-hour waiting period option for women who live more than 100 miles away from a clinic or in counties with a population of 60,000 or fewer. Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, who authored the bill, said the changes were “not significant” and that most abortions do not occur within the rural areas they were discussing but rather in major cities that are in 55 out of 254 counties. “In 75,000 abortions in Texas, 4,000 were in counties under 60,000 [people],” Patrick said. “That indicates most of our abortions occur in counties over 60,000.” — Melissa Ayala

Concealed carry bill stalls after two senators remove support Senators anticipated voting on the concealed carry on campus bill Monday, but it stalled on the floor for the second time in a week. The controversial bill would allow concealed handgun license holders to carry guns on college campuses. Supporters have said the bill would allow personal protection, while opponents are concerned it could lead to campus violence. The bill was pulled on April 7 after state Sens. Mario Gallegos, DGalena Park, and Eddie Lucio, DBrownsville, withdrew their support, which left the bill short of the 21 votes needed for it to pass the upper chamber. Gallegos said he decided to pull his support after constituents, including university students in his district, called his office to speak out against the bill. “I would vote for an amendment Sen. Wendy Davis, [D-Fort Worth], has that would allow the Board of Regents to opt out,” Gallegos said. “I don’t think it’s fair to allow some of the private colleges to opt out under this bill and not afford the same opportunity to Board of Regents at other [public] colleges.” Sen. Jeff Wentworth, R-San Antonio, the author of the bill, said he is hopeful the bill will pass out of the Senate like it did last session when the House did not have enough time to vote on the bill. — Melissa Ayala

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FOIA requests. In its comments to Abbott before his ruling, PETA claimed because the medical committee only functions to improve animal and not human health care systems, it was not exempt from the request. PETA and UTMB received the decision last week. Abbott ruled UTMB must disclose all the documents requested except those created by UTMB medical committees. He wrote that Texas law makes no distinction between human and non-human medical committees for public information purposes. He also wrote that the remaining documents consist of routine medical research records and must be given to PETA. UTMB has 30 days to appeal to the decision. UTMB spokesman Raul Reyes

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Ivory Coast president steps up after capture of Laurent Gbagbo By Marco Chown The Associated Press

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — A bloody, four-month political standoff ended Monday when troops loyal to Ivory Coast’s elected president — backed by French ground and air forces — captured the West African country’s longtime leader who had refused to give up power. Video of former President Laurent Gbagbo being led into a room in a white undershirt was broadcast on television as proof of his detention. He would not sign a statement formally ceding power after losing a Nov. 28 election to economist Alassane Ouattara. More than 1 million civilians fled their homes and untold numbers were killed in the power struggle between the two rivals that threatened to re-ignite a civil war in the world’s

largest cocoa producer. Gbagbo’s security forces have been accused of using cannons, 60 mm mortars and 50-caliber machine guns to mow down opponents during the standoff. Gbagbo’s dramatic arrest came after days of heavy fighting in which French and U.N. helicopters fired rockets at arms depots around the city and targets within the presidential compound. Ouattara’s final push began just after French airstrikes ceased at around 3 a.m. Monday. A simultaneous French armored advance secured large parts of the city, and pro-Ouattara troops entered the presidential compound after midday. “This is an end of a chapter that should never have been,” said U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. “We have to help them to restore stability, rule of law, and address all humanitarian and security issues.”

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An unidentified veiled woman, flanked by her two friends, is taken away by police officers in Paris on Monday. France’s new ban on Islamic face veils was protested in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral.

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In this television image, Laurent Gbagbo is seen after his arrest at the Golf Hotel in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

PARIS — The world’s first ban on Islamic face veils took effect Monday in France, meaning that women may bare their breasts in Cannes but not cover their faces on the Champs-Elysees. Two veiled women were hauled off from a Paris protest within hours of the new ban. Their unauthorized demonstration, on the cobblestone square facing Notre Dame Cathedral, was rich with both the symbolism of France’s medieval history and its modern spirit of defiance. While some see encroaching Islamophobia in the new ban, Presi-

dent Nicolas Sarkozy’s government defended it as a rampart protecting France’s identity against inequality and extremism. Police grumbled that it will be hard to enforce. The law affects barely 2,000 women who cloak themselves in the niqab, which has just a slit for the eyes, and the burqa, which has a mesh screen over the eyes. The law enjoyed widespread public support when it was passed last year. But it has worried French allies, prompted protests abroad and has come to epitomize France’s struggle to integrate Muslim immigrants in recent generations. Though only a very small minority of France’s some 5 million Muslims wear the veil, many

Muslims see the ban as a stigma against the country’s No. 2 religion. Many have also felt stigmatized by a 2004 law that banned Islamic headscarves in classrooms. The law says veiled women risk a $215 fine or attendance at special citizenship classes, though not jail. People who force women to don a veil are subject to up to a year in prison and a $43,000 fine, and possibly twice that if the veiled person is a minor. The ban affects women who wear the niqab and the burqa. Moderate Muslim leaders in France and elsewhere agree that Islam does not require women to cover their faces, but many are uncomfortable with banning the veil.

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3 MEXICO CITY — The Mexican government is asking for help from the United States and Canada to put out two large fires in an area close to the border with Texas. Mexican Environment Secretary Juan Elvira Quesada tells The Associated Press that the fires are about 60 miles from the border and are spreading aggressively to the southeast, away from the border. Elvira said Monday that he sent a letter to the U.S. embassy asking for heavy tanker airplanes that can unload fire retardants. Mexico also requested aid from Quebec. Mexican Environment Department spokesman Ruben Romero said that fires had spread over nearly 245,000 acres of pastureland and desert vegetation in several townships of the northern state of Coahuila by Monday afternoon.

Iranian agency plans to build additional nuclear reactors TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will need more enriched uranium to fuel the “four or five” new research reactors it is planning on building, the country’s nuclear chief said on Monday. Fereidoun Abbasi told the semiofficial ISNA news agency that Iran is planning to build the new research reactors “in the next few years” to produce medical radioisotopes for patients. To fuel these reactors, Iran needs to continue enriching uranium to 20 percent — something that alarms the West because the process could eventually be used to produce material for a nuclear weapon. Tehran contends its nuclear program is intended only for a civilian power. The United States and its allies suspect is seeking to build nuclear weapons, and the United Nations has laid down four rounds of sanction to force Iran to stop its enrichment program. — Compiled from Associated Press reports

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Research can be nonsense By ronald l. Trowbridge Daily Texan Guest Columnist

In the April 8 issue of The Daily Texan, four UT faculty members criticized my Houston Chronicle op-ed on research. I have no quarrel with the value of their selected citations of research, but the picture is vastly wider than the one they paint. In my 49 years of working in higher education as a professor, vice president and director of the Fulbright Program for the U.S. government, I have witnessed endlessly that departmental chairs, deans, presidents and even trustees will rarely intervene to say that any topic of research has little or no value. Nearly anything goes. No administrator will say, “We do not need to conduct research on how many angels can rest on the head of a pin.” The point survives my exaggeration. I could provide a voluminous list of real examples. Harry Lewis, a former dean at Harvard University, writes: “Academic presses now publish books selling fewer than 300 copies. ‘The demands of productivity,’ a humanities editor says, ‘are leading to the production of much more nonsense.’” The problem here is that such futile research costs taxpayers money and takes professors out of the classroom — leaving students to be taught by teaching assistants.

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Retired, I teach at Lone Star community A few years ago the Texas Public Policy Foundation commissioned research on this college just for the pleasure of it; I enjoy seeproblem. For example, researchers found that ing light bulbs turn on. Every year a senior faculty member sits in on my class to evaluate my teaching ability, providing me and the administration with a written evaluation. University professors are not subjected to this written evaluation process, either for their teaching or their research. Too bad for students. A critical professor asked how I know that a professor is “good.” His logic is curious. He is implying that there can be “bad” professors — in which case, why are they permitted to teach? Should bad teachers, including those with tenure, be fired? I suspect that this critic approves of tenure — meaning that bad teachers can’t be fired. He argues in circles. On the matter of accountability, another curious matter arises. Football coaches, who work with bodies, are subject to intense acat Texas A&M in the spring semester of 2006, countability. Professors, who work with there were 28 sections of freshman composi- minds, are not. Go figure. tion and rhetoric (English 104), 25 of which It is often argued that if we question rewere taught by young, inexperienced teaching search, we are “anti-intellectual.” This is a non assistants. Meanwhile, professors were given sequitur because research, as Harvard Dean release time from the classroom to conduct Harry Lewis asserts, can be valuable or it can research. be “nonsense.” The taxpaying public should demand transTrowbridge is a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy parency and accountability in all university Foundation. research.

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Last week, the Texas Senate passed a bill that would further limit the availability of TEXAS Grants for many students in need. The measure would give priority to students with strong academic records when awarding TEXAS Grants, which is currently awarded on a first-come, firstserved basis. In light of budget proposals that would cut funding for the grant program by 41 percent, lawmakers are hoping to maximize the benefit of the grants. Research shows that about half of grant recipients do not graduate within six years, according to The Associated Press. Though the measure is intended to increase graduation rates and provide money for those who will complete their college education, it will likely increase the accessibility gap to higher education for minorities. Under the new criteria, institutions would consider academic performance, including class rank, rigor of courses and GPA. As a result, students from low-performing school districts will undoubtedly be at a disadvantage. Academic performance of students from different schools cannot be measured and compared by a universal system. For example, schools in lowperforming districts may not have the resources to provide students with the same rigorous courses that a school in a higher-performing district offers. Moreover, a student’s GPA at one school may not be comparable to a student’s GPA at another school. The purpose of the TEXAS Grant program is to provide financially disadvantaged Texas students with access to higher education. If the measure — which House members will consider this week — passes, the program would ultimately deviate from its original intention, substantially limiting accessibility for many in need.

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UT artist-in-residence dies before finishing opera By Yvonne Marquez Daily Texan Staff

Mexican opera composer Daniel Catán died over the weekend in Austin while working on a new piece for the Butler School of Music. He was 62. The exact time and cause of death is not confirmed, said College of Fine Arts spokeswoman Leslie Lyon. She said paramedics told Catán’s wife he died in his sleep. Catán was the first Mexican composer to have an opera performed in the U.S. when the San Diego Opera produced “Rappaccini’s Daughter” in 1994. His most recent opera, “Il Postino,” which is based on the Academy Award-winning Italian film of the same name, premiered in Los Angeles last September. The Butler School of Music commissioned Catán to write an opera titled “Meet John Doe,” dedicated to Sarah and Ernest Butler for their long history of support to the school. It was expected to debut in Fall 2012. “We are deeply saddened by the passing of our friend and colleague Daniel Catán, who has been artist-inresidence in the Butler School of Music this term,” Glenn Chandler, Butler School of Music director, said in an email. “We are honored to have had the opportunity to work with him. This is a tragic loss for the entire world

of opera and the arts. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.” Catán was supposed to be at the University of Houston on Saturday evening for the opening of their production of “Il Postino.” He never checked into his hotel and didn’t attend the performance, said Lyon. “The world has lost a special artist and, more important, his family has lost a gentle spirit, a humanitarian, somebody who had no enemies,” said Michael Alexander, a friend of Catán for more than 10 years. “He was remarkable in Daniel Catán the sense he Opera Composer was not only a remarkable talent but one of those kinds of people who was friendly to deal with and was not a remote individual.” Catán is survived by his wife Andrea Puente. Puente said Catán was 18 when his passion for opera began while he was a supernumerary, or extra, for different productions in England. “Opera talks about emotions and feelings and that’s why [he loved opera],” she said.

NEWS BRIEFLY UTPD searches for unknown man responsible for Sunday burglary Early Sunday morning, a burglary was reported in Moore-Hill Dormitory. The UT Police Department said the suspect has not been identified. A student reported that she woke up to find a male on top of her while she was in bed, and that he fled when she resisted, said UTPD Sgt. Chris Bonnet, the lead investigator on the case. “We’ve conducted interviews, but I wouldn’t call them suspects,” he said.

“We are continuing to ask the community for information on the suspect.” The suspect was described as an Asian male with short straight black hair wearing a white T-shirt and black shorts. Students should remain aware that the assailant is still around and possibly on campus, Bonnet said. “It’s important to keep your door locked and to be aware of your surroundings,” he said. “If you feel like someone’s watching or following you then you should trust your instincts, and don’t hesitate to call UTPD.”

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Graduate student Ryan Haecker enjoys a hamburger courtesy of Alpha Phi Sigma to promote global health and AIDS awareness Monday afternoon.

Group raises funds for AIDS initiative By Lauren Giudice Daily Texan Staff

Dr. Stephanie Marton, who spent more than two years in Swaziland fighting pediatric AIDS, will speak about her experience on campus tonight as a part of UT’s series of events for Global Health Awareness Week. Alpha Phi Sigma, a pre-med honors society, is hosting the week to raise money and awareness of global health issues. The week is an annual event the organization puts on to benefit the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative. On Monday, the group had their kick-off event on Speedway, where they grilled and

sold hot dogs, hamburgers and baked goods. This year the group is hosting a Mr. Pre-Med competition on Wednesday, a global health fair at Speedway Plaza on Thursday and a dinner at Plucker’s on Monday. Through these events, society members hope to raise more than $3,000, said the group’s officer candidate coordinator Lillian Mohamed. “Last year we had two doctors that worked with BIPAI who had just come back from Africa come speak to us,” Mohamed said. “What they do is set up clinics in different parts of the country. They run them for a year or two, and then after that

they transfer all the administrative duties to the locals.” These clinics help women with AIDS avoid passing the disease on to the children they are carrying, Mohamed said. “They’ve made a lot of strides in Africa, and it’s really nice to see that the money we are donating goes to a good cause,” she said. Sadaf Zendehdel, executive adviser for Alpha Phi Sigma, said the group decided to support BIPAI five or six years ago. “Dr. Mark Kline started the program about 10 years ago and our organization went and saw him speak because he comes to the University every once in a while,” Zendehdel said. “And what

he spoke about grabbed the attention of a lot of our officers.” She said that is when the officers knew they wanted to help that organization. “It’s helping children, and it’s an issue that’s very near and dear to our hearts,” Zendehel said. Freshman Erika Martinez was on her way to Chick-fil-A when she decided to purchase food at the kick-off booth. “I definitely would like to support any organization on campus that would help people who need it, especially kids suffering,” Martinez said. “The food was really cheap, and it’s amazing that students can come together and make a difference for such a great cause.”

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n their first year of use, the new power-sapping NCAAmandated bats have made their mark on Texas. Through 32 games, the Longhorns have only hit six combined home runs. Last season, Texas hit 81 homers in 63 games. Sophomore center fielder Cohl Walla is expected to make his return to the lineup within the week. Walla hasn’t played since fouling a hit off his right leg March 29 against Oral Roberts and suffering a deep bone contusion above his left knee. Only three Longhorns have started all 32 games this year: Tant Shepherd, Brandon Loy and Erich Weiss. With the addition of third baseman Alex Silver, who made his career debut last week after beating non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Weiss has been moved to left field. Texas plays Dallas Baptist (20-11) tonight at UFCU-Disch Falk Field. Sam Stafford (5-0, 1.43 ERA) will get the start for the Longhorns.

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Sophomore pitcher Hoby Milner warms up between innings in a game against Missouri. Milner has been made the regular starter on Saturdays. The Longhorns look to improve on their strong first half as they move into the race for a Big 12 and national championship.

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{ PITCHING { Behind Jungmann, Horns’ staff leads way in first half of season By Trey Scott It should have been just about impossible for Taylor Jungmann to set the bar any higher for himself. After all, Jungmann was already in the conversation as one of the best Texas pitchers ever, had garnered 19 wins in his first two seasons and had pitched himself into Longhorn history with a 120-pitch effort against LSU in the College World Series his freshman year. But there he was, in the first game of his junior seasons, pitching the first complete-game shutout of his career against Maryland. The feat impressed even the one man, who after watching Jungmann firsthand for two years already, should be used to such dominance. “I was not expecting him to pitch a complete game shutout,” said his head coach Augie Garrido. “I have almost no expectations, and still they are exceeded. I’m surprised.” It set the tone for the first half of the season. In his next outing, in Hawaii, Jungmann again registered a complete-game shutout. Against Stanford, he threw 120 pitches and was one out away from another complete game before incredible fatigue got the best of him. Jungmann then blanked Brown and a week later did the same to Kansas State. He didn’t allow a run in Stillwater against Oklahoma State, either. The right-hander is 7-0 on the year, his ERA a salty 1.10, and Texas is 8-0 when he starts. He grabs most of the attention, but there are other pitch-

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By Jon Parrett If offense wins games and defense wins championships, where does this Texas team fit in? Texas doesn’t rank in the top five of any major hitting statistic in the Big 12, yet the Longhorns are tied for first in the conference with a 9-3 record. Head coach Augie Garrido said his team is built on pitching, and he has one of the best pitching staffs in the country. So how concerned should he be with a team that only hits .266? “The numbers would give everyone a reason to doubt this team, but the numbers don’t always speak to how people can perform, and people can perform differently on any given day,” Garrido said. “I have confidence in this team’s ability to score enough runs when it’s matched up against the kind of pitching we have and the defense we have, and give us the ability to win games.” That’s just what they’ve been doing. Texas came within two stranded runners of sweeping Baylor last weekend, after clobbering Missouri in three games the weekend before. The Longhorns have hit .321 the past two weekends, raising their team batting average in conference from .210 to .261. “I think we’re all taking more quality at-bats,” said catcher Jacob Felts. “We’re looking for our pitches and not taking their pitches and being patient.” The Longhorns will tell you this is all in response to their first series loss of the season against Oklahoma State. Texas hit .201 that weekend and only managed five runs in three games. Texas has been on a tear offensively since that series in Stillwater, putting up 6.5 runs per game during an 8-0 stretch. Garrido attributes his team’s recent success at the plate to the players feeling more comfortable and fielding a lineup that has fewer bad at bats. “The players are trusting each other to make productive outs,” he said. “They’re sustaining rallies better, hitting with runners in scoring position, getting two out hits — the pressure is coming off and that makes it easier for everybody.”

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His numbers aren’t nearly as high as they were at the start of the year — the kid from Brenham hit .818 in the Maryland series — but his team-leading .385 batting average is among the best in the Big 12. The freshman is second on the team in hits, tied for first in RBIs with 21, four of which came on a grand slam against Brown, and has drawn far and away the most walks with 30. “My eye at the plate has gotten a lot better since I was in high school,” Weiss said. “I’ve been seeing many pitchers in practice and in games and that’s helped me a lot.”

Most valuable player Taylor Jungmann, RHP • (7-0, 1.10 ERA, 55 strikeouts) Given his talent and past success, nobody should be too surprised that Jungmann is undefeated, sports a 1.10 ERA or has opposing batters hitting .158 against him. What’s most impressive is the way he’s gotten those numbers, as he’s pitched deep into the game, averaging eight innings on the mound per start. “Going into the season I worked on the strength of my lower body, which goes in to stamina and longevity, it’s worked well for me so far,” Jungmann said. His extraordinary combination of efficiency and his endurance gives Texas a definite advantage over Friday opponents, and makes Jungmann its MVP halfway through the year.

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New bats bring resurgence of ‘Augie ball’ PITCHING By Will Anderson Daily Texan Columnist

Sometimes, “Augie ball” is infuriating for Texas fans. The proliferation of small ball, the endless sacrifice bunts — Texas head coach Augie Garrido is a master of getting base runners on, even when it isn’t the most exciting way to play. After hitting a school-record 81 homers in 2010, it’s back to Garrido’s preferred style of deliberate, formulaic offense for the Longhorns. However, fans aren’t complaining this time: Augie ball is the only chance this team has of making it back to the College World Series. The biggest reason why Texas can’t rely solely on the long shot is college baseball’s new metal bats are supposed to reduce ball speed and increase player safety. There are some other factors at work. Kevin Keyes and Cameron Rupp, who combined for 35 blasts in 2010, are gone; so is Russell Moldenhauer, who knocked nine out of the park. Tant Shepherd is still here, but he’s only managed two home runs so far, half of his total at this point last season. Disch-Falk Field is also known as a pitcher’s park, with a left-field line of 340 feet, bigger than all except Kansas State’s Tointon Family Stadium and Missouri’s Simmons Field in the Big 12 and larger than a number of professional stadiums such as the Royals’ Kauffman Stadium and Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. And with ace Taylor Jungmann, Texas has an immediate advantage in almost any pitcher’s duel. All of that means Garrido is perfectly content to reign his hitters

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Texas head coach Augie Garrido has had to use his small ball strategy more often this year due to new bats and a new lineup. Garrido is the college baseball’s winningest head coach.

in. Anyone rooting for the Longhorns should be thankful to have the 62-year-old coach on their side, as there’s no better mind in college baseball to lead such an attack when home run numbers across the country are down. “It’s easier to do than hitting,” Garrido recently said about bunting, although he could have just as easily been talking about his entire offensive philosophy. “It’s about situations and staying out of the double play and advancing runners to scoring situations so that if the opposition makes a mistake or you get a hit, you score a run.” In fact, offensive figures across

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Tant Shepherd certainly isn’t feeling any pressure at the plate. The senior, who was drafted last summer but decided to play one more year at Texas, hit .478 the last two weekends and increased his average to .308 for the season. “We’re hitting the ball a lot better and he’s a big reason for that. Hitting is a little bit contagious, and he’s one of the leaders on this team, and there is a little bit of follow the leader in this game,” Garrido said. “He’s been a very positive influence on everyone in the batting order — every one person who does something like that takes one or two others with him and makes them better.” Shepherd is tied for the team lead in RBIs with 21 and leads the team with two home runs, onethird of the Longhorns’ total. “The home run isn’t going to be

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a rising pitch count led the Texas coaches to pull him out after seven innings. Going into the season, Texas’ starting rotation was a known commodity. However, many were worried about the bullpen, as the Longhorns would be without the services of departed closer Chance Ruffin. A day before the opener, some asked Garrido how he would fill the void left by Ruffin, and he admitted that his team was without a surefire replacement. “The bullpen is one of our biggest concerns,” he said at the time. “We are going to do it by committee, rotating guys in and out based on match-ups.” The by-committee approach worked for about a week or so, until freshman Corey Knebel emerged from the pack out of nowhere and made it hard for Garrido or pitching coach Skip Johnson to go with anybody else out of the bullpen. Knebel has taken complete control of the closer role, stepping to the mound at the end of games in tight situations and throwing 95-mph heat. With eight saves already, he is more than halfway to Ruffin’s mark of 14 last year. As usual, Texas’ pitching looks to be in good hands. The dominant Jungmann, the experienced Green, the improving Milner and Stafford, and the flamethrowing Knebel give the Longhorns one of the best staffs in the nation — a staff that, barring injury, represents Texas’ best chance to make it back to Omaha.

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the board are down for Texas, with the team hitting at a .266 clip this year. The team is even bunting less and fewer leadoff batters are making it to base. That’s no problem for the master of small ball, though. Garrido still has the Longhorns scoring six runs a game through a mix of pinch-hitting switches and smart two-out play plus a little sheer luck. At 24-8, Texas has one of the best records in the Big 12 and a No. 7 national ranking in the coaches’ poll. It’s also the same exact mark that the Longhorns had through 32 games in 2009, the year the Longhorns made it all the way to the College World

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Panda Bear’s ‘Tomboy’ offers pop cacophony By Christopher Nguyen Daily Texan Staff

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Hipsters across the country have been losing their Urban Outfitters-cool, apathetic facade to get their hands on Panda Bear’s (Noah Lennox’s solo effort) Tomboy, the follow-up to 2007’s Person Pitch. It’s also Lennox’s first solo album since his other band, Animal Collective, released its critically acclaimed Merriweather Post Pavilion in 2009. On first listen, the hype seems to be over noise. Another couple of spins reveals that Tomboy is just that — beautiful, clattering, chaotic and triumphant noise. There are subtle but significant differences between his breakthrough album Person Pitch and Tomboy. Lennox is less focused on capturing Person Pitch’s lengthy, sampled patchwork compositions and instead works with original music that relies on hooks, leaning on the relatively poppier side of things. Moreover, the album is calmer and more centered compared to his more blatantly adventurous work with Animal Collective on Merriweather. While those particular aspects contributed to the adoration of critics and fans alike for those al-

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Grade: Astead, he latches onto repetitious chants to drive home his point. In “Last Night at the Jetty” he goes over phrases pining for innocence and a simple peacefulness with different intonations, as though he is a child figuring out how best to articulate his longing. On “Surfer’s Hymn,” Lennox taking the Beach Boys’ wall of sound to its natural progression by reverberating the harmonizing vocals and adding ska and dub to the melody. People may criticize musicians like Panda Bear for their high conceptual themes, unfriendly melodies and indecipherable lyrics. In a way, Tomboy is Panda Bear’s uncompromising answer. Lennox forces the listener to let go and understand the simplistic pleasure in finding music in the noise.

bums, Lennox has comfortably evolved his sound into something familiar yet remarkably fresh. On Tomboy, Lennox breaks down his rhythms, melodies and lyrics to their barest bones to capture the basic, visceral thrill of listening to music. What matters is not a particular synth or lyric so much as how all the aspects come together to make the listener react and understand that this is what differentiates cacophonic noise from music. With his childlike vocals, he creates a tribal theme for the new century on “Slow Motion.” The song has thumping, looped electronics over an atmospheric haze that whirl around his wailing, echoing vocals. Throughout the album, most of his lyrics are indecipherable. In-

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Call it sentimentality, but there’s something to be said for a well-crafted love song, and TV on the Radio has 10 of them on their latest album, Nine Types of Light. The release marks an interesting return after the political funk of 2008’s Dear Science and the aggressiveness of their breakthrough album Return to Cookie Mountain. It’s as though the band chose to forget about the chaos in the Middle East, the stalemate on Capitol Hill and the corruption on Wall Street in exchange for the sunny pastures of relationships. While these are not torch-love ballads like “The Lady in Red,” TV on the Radio reworked their funky, clattering signature sound for songs that are, like a lady in red, seductive. On “New Cannonball Blues,” they even reach Princelike heights against smooth horns, playful synths and lead singer Tunde Adebimpe’s vocals that switch from silky,

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It’s unfair to hold mainstream pop and indie acts to the same qualitative standard because in most cases they have completely different goals. The work put into making the new Arcade Fire and Britney Spears albums offers a stark contrast: both albums have memorable tracks, existing in vastly different sonic spectrums; both were given four-star reviews by Rolling Stone. If you’re willing to take a few steps back, you’ll marvel: “TiK ToK” is kind of brilliant. Yes, plenty have argued that Ke$ha’s dance style is lifted straight from electronic artist Uffie, but the greatness of “TiK ToK” is a separate success that owes nothing to her. It represents the success of taking that inspiration nearly to its saturation point for maximum effect; his technical skill accomplished the difficult task of creating a hit song. Your almost subconscious mouthing of the lyrics, wherever you hear it, is the result of a careful creation of beats, hooks and words. It’s a piece of art. But since when was music not informed by other music? The animus flung at pop music seems

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The incredible success of recent mainstream pop acts such as Katy Perry and Ke$ha can be attributed to lesser-known â&#x20AC;&#x153;super producersâ&#x20AC;? such as Dr. Luke, who have won numerous accolades for their catchy and danceable technical magic.

Katy Perryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second album, Teenage Dream, is a force to be reckoned with: Each of its successive singles has climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the definitive measure of a songâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commercial success. Some might think it a surprising accomplishment given that one of the songs, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Firework,â&#x20AC;? poses the simple philosophical quandary: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?â&#x20AC;? So Katy Perry songs arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily known for their lyrical heft. Likewise, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unlikely youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find a defense of any of her songs much weightier than a tossed off, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a guilty pleasure,â&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really catchy.â&#x20AC;? But those excuses, particularly the latter, are telling of just what her main producer, Dr. Luke, wants you to feel. That ability to hook you despite inane lyrics is the result of masterful music production. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a technical mastery at work creating these pop hits, a skill great enough that we should reconsider how we measure the quality of song craft. Creating a modern pop hit is an inexact science, but if you take some of the best pop songs of the last decade â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Britney Spearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Toxic,â&#x20AC;? Kelly Clarksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since U Been Goneâ&#x20AC;? or Miley Cyrusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Party in the U.S.A.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; there seems to be a recurring set of elements: a strutting, danceable beat, a hookladen chorus and an anthemic rush of energy right around the bridge,. All three songs are from three different, successful super producers: Swedish production duo Bloodshy & Avant (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Toxicâ&#x20AC;?), Dr. Luke (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Party in the U.S.A.â&#x20AC;?) and his mentor, Max Martin (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since U Been Goneâ&#x20AC;?). Collectively, their music has a singular goal: make music so impossibly catchy as to consume you entirely, the ridiculous pop starlet singing be damned. These songs are not the result of following a formula but of skillful producers working their technical magic. Case in point: Ke$haâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;TiK ToK.â&#x20AC;? The accolades awarded this megahit, where popâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poster child for personal hygiene brushes her teeth with a bottle of Jack Daniels, are numerous and its cultural dominance is undeniable. Certified five-times platinum in the U.S., it spent nine weeks at No. 1 and is currently the sixth-best-selling song in digital history. No, the world isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t doomed to vapidity and cheap thrills â&#x20AC;&#x201D; there will always be the kind of cerebral music heralded by sites like Pitchfork. In fact, those songs and albums routinely find themselves on criticsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; year-end top 10 lists.

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BOOK REVIEW

HOROSCOPES FOR THE DEAD

Former Laureute still composes poetry for the people By Clayton Wickham Daily Texan Staff

Poet Billy Collins said during an NPR interview with Neal Conan this past week that poets themselves deserve much of the blame for their craftâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s waning importance to the av-

erage reader. Too often poets show off with obscure verses that lose the readerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interest. In his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Horoscopes for the Dead,â&#x20AC;? Collins displays an uncanny ability to set his reader down on the firm and mundane ground of everyday existence before transporting

Horoscopes for the Dead

Billy Collins

Genre: Poetry Pages: 106 For those who like: Garrison Keillor, Williams Carlos Williams

Grade: B+

them somewhere profound and often mysterious using his elegant and simple writing style. Collins, a former American Poet Laureate whose 10th book of poetry was released last week, strives to make his poetry accessible for the average reader, though he wants to avoid being pigeonholed by this characteristic of his work. Collinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; knack for finding meaning in the ordinary is as much the product of his talent as a viewer as of his formidable poetic skill. Whether the subject is time, death or his dog, Collinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; poems rely on observation and his eye for the poetic. In the poem â&#x20AC;&#x153;Vocation,â&#x20AC;? he reflects on his true vocation of â&#x20AC;&#x153;keeping an eye on things/whether they existed or not,â&#x20AC;? as he lies on a dock

contemplating the traffic of the night sky. Though he considers serious topics in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Horoscopes for the Dead,â&#x20AC;? Collins keeps things humorous in poems such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Feedbackâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;What She Said,â&#x20AC;? where he gives his take on improper use of the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;like.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;When he told me he expect-

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Courtesy of NBC

The indomitable Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) of NBCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parks and Recreationâ&#x20AC;? is among the most empowered and entertaining fictional women on TV.

Shows that portray true-to-life women bring promise to TV TV TUESDAY

By Katie Stroh

Scripted serialized television, in its current state, features an unprecedented array of compelling female figures. It would be nearly impossible to succinctly list every great woman on TV. These women defy shows such as HBOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Boardwalk Empire,â&#x20AC;? which has difficulty making its female characters much more than peripheral playthings for its leading men. Instead, the women of â&#x20AC;&#x153;30 Rock,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mad Menâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parks and Recreationâ&#x20AC;? make their female characters just as dynamic and important as their male counterparts. Perhaps the most well-known and most highly relatable character for women presently on TV is Tina Feyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goofy, harried, cheese-loving Liz Lemon of â&#x20AC;&#x153;30 Rock.â&#x20AC;? Liz represents every woman who would

rather stay in and watch a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Designing Womenâ&#x20AC;? marathon in her Snuggie than go clubbing; every woman who can quote Star Wars with ease and aplomb; and every woman who believes that â&#x20AC;&#x153;all anyone really wants in this life is to sit in peace and eat a sandwich.â&#x20AC;? Aside from her personal quirks, which other shows might shied away from, Liz is also a dedicated and respected professional. As the heavily put-upon head writer of an NBC sketch comedy program, Liz is an obvious and acknowledged takeoff of Feyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience as the first female head writer at â&#x20AC;&#x153;Saturday Night Live.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;30 Rockâ&#x20AC;? often uses Lizâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s position as a career woman to mock the idea that a woman in power is destined to rule with her impetuous emotions and make a self-effacing commentary on womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s positions in entertainment and business.

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