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82ND LEGISLATURE

Bills propose changes for education even with cuts

WEEKEND FRIDAY ‘Untouchable’

The South Asia Institute presents this documentary about a group of untouchable drummers from a village in Tamil Nadu, South India in Welch Hall 2.256 at 3:30 p.m.

By Melissa Ayala Daily Texan Staff

While Texas House members moved forward Thursday tentatively approving changes to education, Gov. Rick Perry reiterated his plan to increase college affordability.

The House’s proposed budget, which the 150-member chamber approved earlier this month, will cut higher education appropriations by more than $400 million and will cut the TEXAS Grant program in half.

Texas Baseball

Longhorns play Texas Tech at UFCU Disch-Falk Field at 6 p.m.

Tickets range from $5-$12.

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Cactus Cafe presents Seth Walker at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $12.

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TriBall

The Filipino Students Association hosts a charity dodgeball event benefiting Austin Speech Labs at Anna Hiss Gym 133 and 135 at noon $60 to register for a team of 6-8 players and free to watch.

SUNDAY Texas Men’s Tennis

Longhorns play Nebraska at the Penick-Allison Tennis Center at 1 p.m.

Today in history

Trent Lesikar | Daily Texan Staff

Hunter Stewart plays a public piano located on the Lamar Boulevard pedestrian bridge Wednesday morning. Artist Luke Jerram installed 14 pianos all across the city as a part of his “Play Me, I’m Yours” project.

I I’m Me Yours Play

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Quote to note “Democracy can result after the 2011 elections, but they must keep the solidarity alive.”

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UT loses ranking as No. 1 party school

The Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Mustang at the New York World’s Fair.

Jester West Dormitory, 201 East 21st Street At 7:35 p.m. Friday, a UT staff member observed a UT student carrying a clear plastic baggie containing an unknown substance the staff member thought was mushrooms into a fourth floor dorm room.

A UT student answered the door after several minutes of knocking by the officers. The student told the officers he was trying to clean his room before he let them in and also that he watched cops and knew how it was going to end. The officers discovered a clear plastic bag containing a green leafy substance that tested positive for Marijuana. The student told the officers he forgot about the bag as he was cleaning.

n the middle of the Lamar Boulevard pedestrian bridge over Lady Bird Lake lives a single piano — its keys painted a deep blue and its body covered in stickers, colorful illustrations and paintings. “Play Me, I’m Yours” is painted in large white block letters across the front of the instrument.

The piano is one of 14 in locations around downtown Austin as a part of “Play Me, I’m Yours,” a public art installation sponsored by the Austin Art Alliance and curated by local artist Johnny Walker, for the entire month of April.

“One thing that’s special that I think the Art Alliance is trying to promote is to bring art into the community,” Walker said. “Art that makes them active and makes them think about who they are and what they are doing and how they live.”

United Kingdom artist Luke Jerram started the project in London in

A textbook affordability bill authored by Rep. Dan Branch, R-Dallas, won tentative approval in the House today. The bill would require students to have access to a list of course textbooks before registration.

“It is about trying to reduce the cost of textbooks,” Branch said.

“It also brings our state statute in alignment with the Higher Education Opportunity Act.” The federal act — which went into effect after the 2009 Texas legislative session — lowers costs of course materials and allows price transparency from publishers and universities. Branch’s bill would align state law with the federal statute.

Thomas Allison | Daily Texan Staff

Finance junior Alex Ramirez is one of many UT students that work as interns at the Texas Capitol, aiding lawmakers in their daily duties.

Students interning at Capitol acquire valuable experience

By Melissa Ayala Daily Texan Staff

It’s Friday night, and Alex Ramirez sits in the gallery of the Texas House, overlooking the 150 members who debate back and forth across two podiums in the center of the chamber.

As a Texas Capitol intern, he feels a part of history in the making as lawmakers battle to balance a state budget shortfall between $15 billion and $27 billion.

The UT finance junior watched the culmination of months of research and long hours at the Capitol as the House passed its version of the 2012-2013 budget earlier this month.

“On that night, a lot of us would leave our office and go to the gallery and watch it from there,” Ramirez said. “It just goes to show how important that night was and how

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memorable it was.”

When the session began in January, Ramirez and the six other interns in the office of Rep. Sergio Muñoz Jr, D-Palmview, analyzed bills, briefed Muñoz on policy and met constituents to get feedback on the budget bill.

“Usually in our office, we saw mostly constituents for the budget,” Ramirez said. “We’ve had superintendents come by from school districts and teachers, state employee workers.”

As a finance major with no previous experience in government, Ramirez felt the internship would broaden his experiences.

“Coming into college, I had a very hard time figuring out what major I wanted at UT,” Ramirez said. “Naturally, government fills every issue that there is out there,

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UT has a “work hard, party hard” ethos, but the University no longer holds the Playboy Magazine No. 1 party school title.

Playboy’s editors, who considered feedback from readers, students, alumni and campus representatives, ranked UT fifth. They also looked at factors such as male-female ratios on campus, academics, proximity to recreational hot spots and athletic records, according to a statement from the magazine.

Meagan Heeren, a senior engineering major and Alpha Delta Pi so-

rority member, said she thinks UT’s rank dropped mainly because of UT’s rough football season this past fall.

Heeren said her sorority maintained frequent social events this year, and she went to more parties this year than she did before.

“We party hard, but I guess we didn’t party hard enough this year for Playboy,” Heeren said.

April Tieu, a student associate in Student Activities and Leadership Development, said she did not see a significant drop in activities or social events registered on campus, and she blamed the lower ranking on difficult economic times.

“It’s possible we are not ranked first

anymore because of the heavy workload students receive at UT or because of financial problems our economy is facing,” Tieu said.

Absolute Texxas’s vice president, Amanda Jarman, also said that the social organization held the same events it did last year, and she is not sure what made UT’s ranking drop.

Playboy’s 2011 top party school went to the University of Colorado at Boulder. Editors noted the school is the “home to reefer madness,” housing more than 50 medical marijuana dispensaries.

Every April, more than half of CU’s

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Allen Otto | Daily Texan Staff

UT has lost its place as Playboy’s No. 1 party school to the University of Colorado at Boulder and now ranks 5th. The decision is based off factors such as male-female ratio and proximity to recreational hot spots.

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Lawmakers are also facing the task of redrawing election maps for various offices, including the State Board of Education, the agency that sets curriculum standards for Texas public schools.

As part of the redistricting process this session, House members supported a new map by Rep. Burt Solomons, R-Carrollton, in a preliminary vote mostly along party lines.

Representatives will hear public testimony today and again on Sunday, while Solomons said he would like to see a vote “as soon as possible.”

Democratic members said the new map did not satisfy minority growth in the state, although Solomons said it was “fair” to everyone.

Rep. Roberto Alonzo, D-Dallas, offered that it would increase representation in heavily urban, minority areas. The House Committee on Re-

districting tabled Alonzo’s proposal.

“They should be allowed influence and vote for someone of their choice,” said Rep. Carol Alvarado, D-Houston, who supported Alonzo’s amendment.

Solomons did not accept the amendment because he said it broke up current districts and changed the map too much. He said the bill is likely to be heard again next week, giving members the weekend to submit their amendments to the bill.

State of Higher Education Perry gave an address on the state of higher education and the changes he would like to see in the coming future.

“We still face challenges in our higher education system, challenges we must overcome to maintain our status as a national economic leader,” Perry said. “I’ve said before,

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Across the hall, in the office of Rep. Ryan Guillen, D-Rio Grande City, Spanish and religious studies senior Merrit Martin considers her internship a stepping stone for the one she will have this summer at a progressive think tank in Washington, D.C. “I’m learning a lot from this internship about what goes on in a

legislative office,” Martin said. “I’m going to spend [this summer] in Washington interning with the Center for American Progress. I definitely want to work in helping craft legislation.”

Robert McVey, Guillen’s chief of staff, said the representative’s office has hired hundreds of interns over the years, averaging 10 to 12 per semester, who typically work 20 hours a week.

“They learn the legislative process, including how you pass laws

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change often doesn’t come easy, and our state university systems have a lot to be proud of.”

Perry said the proposed measures, including four-year tuition freezes, would help make universities more affordable, accountable and accessible.

“I’ve challenged our institutions of higher learning to leverage new technology to create a bachelor’s degree program that costs no more than $10,000 — books included,” he said.

Perry recommended outcomebased funding which would fund universities according to how many graduates they have yearly versus funding based on enrollment numbers.

“This is a vital issue because every student who can’t afford to go to college or gives up early due to the cost is a lost opportunity, not just for that individual, but for our state as well,” he said.

2008. Since its inception, more than 400 pianos have been installed in places across the globe, including Sydney, New York and Sao Paolo.

“Music is a universal language,” Walker said. “Music touches us and, even without lyrics, music is something that crosses over cultural lines.

Music speaks the language that everybody can tune to.”

Meredith Powell, executive director of the alliance, said the organization started working on assembling “Play Me, I’m Yours” in September after the New York project was featured in the New York Times.

After months of fundraising, acquiring public permits and tracking down 14 pianos through Craigslist and donations, the project came to fruition, and the pianos were put in place on April 1. Powell and Walker said before they were even able to bolt the piano down on the Pfluger Bridge, someone sat down and tried their hand at the notes.

“The more barriers that are broken down, the more you understand and appreciate different perspectives,” Powell said. “Somebody you would have possibly never connected with or taken the time to get to know or even say a word to or say hello, suddenly you are sharing a piano bench or listening to them play.

You are really leaving your mark on the piano. I really do believe the more we are connecting through art, the stronger our community is going to be.”

The 14 pianos are strategically placed around the city, from high foot-traffic areas such as the Lamar Boulevard bike and pedestrian

and the politics on how representatives get elected,” McVey said.

Martin said although she is busy with 17 course hours this semester, being a part of crafting and filing legislation has made the experience worth it.

“What I have enjoyed the most has been seeing how much of an impact entry-level staffers, aides and interns really have,” Martin said.

“You definitely learn a lot that you probably won’t learn in your government classes.”

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bridge and Lady Bird Lake hike and bike trail, to areas with good acoustics such as the City Hall plaza.

“It’s fabulous. Actually, it’s delightful,” said Jayme Moore, whose two children were playing the piano on the trail while taking a break from their evening bike ride. “To be on the hike and bike trail is already great, then to hear beautiful music.”

When the weather is bad, there are volunteer piano “buddies” assigned to protect to each instrument. When the 50- to 100-year-old pianos fall a note flat, four volunteer tuners from the local Piano Technician’s Guild are on call to bring them up to speed.

“It’s interesting to think that this piano was used for many years and then was put into storage, and its days were really over until now,” said Steve Walthall, a member of the guild and UT piano technician.

“At least these pianos got pulled out and repaired to the point that they would play and be tuned, and now they are stars. They are being appreciated again, and to me, in some sort of magical way, that’s special.”

Some people only know a few notes, others know components to symphonies. Whatever skill level the many players have obtained, they play out the purpose of project — getting the community involved with music, their city and, most importantly, each other.

“I’ve never had a public art project with people saying, ‘Thank you for doing this,’” Walker said. “This is what Austin art projects should be like. People of all ages get to get out and to play and to listen and to just engage. I hope in the end when these pianos go away, people stay engaged in this kind of dialogue with their community.”

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Safety precautions may not stop spill in Gulf, experts say

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Police surround some of the demonstrators detained while protesting Thursday in Kampala, Uganda. Witnesses say police fired tear gas into a hospital during a skirmish with stone-throwing protesters.

NEW ORLEANS — With everything Big Oil and the government have learned in the year since the Gulf of Mexico disaster, could it happen again? Absolutely, according to an Associated Press examination of the industry.

The government has given the OK for oil exploration in treacherously deep waters to resume, saying it is confident such drilling can be done safely. But there are still serious questions in some quarters about whether the lessons of the BP oil spill have been applied.

The industry “is ill-prepared at the least,” said Charles Perrow, a Yale University professor specializing in accidents involving high-risk technologies. “I have seen no evidence

that they have marshaled containment efforts that are sufficient to deal with another major spill.”

The worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history began with an explosion April 20, 2010, that killed 11 workers aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig. More than 200 million gallons of crude spewed from the well a mile beneath the sea.

Since then, new drilling rules have been imposed, a system for capping a blown-out well and containing the oil has been built, and regulators have taken steps to ramp up oversight of the industry.

But deep-sea drilling remains risky. The effectiveness of the containment system is being questioned because it hasn’t been tested on the sea floor, and a design flaw in the blowout preventers widely used across the industry has been identified but not corrected.

Uganda police strike back against protesting citizens

By Godfrey Olukya The Associated Press

KASANGATI, Uganda — Military police officers shot Uganda’s top opposition politician in the right hand Thursday and fired tear gas into a hospital as demonstrations against rising fuel and food prices broke out in several locations across the country, officials said.

The opposition politician, Kizza Besigye, was walking to work to protest high gas prices.

A spokeswoman for the Ugandan Red Cross, Catherine Ntabadde, said

Besigye was hit by a bullet that was fired by military police as they tried to disperse the crowd of supporters around Besigye. Ntabadde said she did not know if it was a rubber bullet or a real one.

“Military police coming from Kampala confronted the crowd,” she said. “They could have shot him accidentally. We took him to hospital for treatment.”

The skirmish broke out after police surrounded Besigye. Ugandan youths then allegedly began harassing the police. Some demonstrators sought shelter in a nearby hospi-

tal, from where police officer Ronald Okello said the demonstrators threw rocks at authorities. Okello said police then fired tear gas.

A hospital worker in the town of Kasangati, just outside Uganda’s capital of Kampala, said patients were affected and that some mothers moved sick children from their beds to get away from the gas. The worker, Mary Nabu, wiped tears from her eyes from the gas as she spoke.

Besigye was arrested on Monday, during a similar march to protest high fuel and food prices. The police called it an illegal demonstration. He

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Besigye is Uganda’s top opposition politician. He took second place in Uganda’s February presidential election to President Yoweri Museveni.

Uganda on Thursday saw protests in at least four other cities.

West of Kampala, in Mbarara, motorcycle taxi drivers used their bikes to block the road. Demonstrators say they are protesting the rising price of fuel and food. The price of a liter of gas has increased in Uganda from about $1.05 a liter to close to $1.50 over the last month.

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A visit to Arizona State University “Officials at ASU made it clear that ASU wanted to be an institution defined by its high degree of inclusiveness and ability to manufacture a significant number of degrees at a low cost.”

— Student Body President Natalie Butler on her recent trip to Arizona State University with regents Alex Cranberg and Brenda Pejovich, according to a letter Butler sent the UT System Board of Regents. ASU president Michael Crow has implemented reforms to the university, such as offering more online classes, consolidating academic departments and increasing enrollment in an attempt to build the “New American University.”

“UT-Austin, rather, is defined by its academic rigor, excellence and support for the intellectually curious who are looking to answer the world’s questions.”

— Butler, who grew up six miles from ASU,

said she chose to attend UT for its reputation of academic excellence.

“From a student perspective, I value having researchers teach my classes, and my courses in the vast array of disciplines have added immeasurable worth to my education.”

— Butler on the importance of research in the

classroom.

Perry speaks “I’m amazingly happy with the boards of regents across the state of Texas.”

— Gov. Rick Perry on the extreme joy that the

boards of regents have brought him, according to the Austin American-Statesman.

“I’ll be honest. I’m not spending a lot of time looking for new forms of revenue in the state of Texas.”

— Perry on the budget and non-tax revenue,

according to the Austin American-Statesman.

Bridges between East and West

By Hudson lockett Daily Texan Guest Columnist

When making budget cuts, there is a habit of whittling departments down to only what we deem necessary — what we could not live without. To that end, we tend to look inward during tough times and take stock: What makes us Americans? What makes us Texans? What makes us us?

In his recent cuts to the College of Liberal Arts budget, Dean Randy Diehl ended 100 percent of University funding for three centers, including the Center for East Asian Studies. As a former Daily Texan reporter who covered the University budget crisis from its early rumblings in 2009 to the grim fallout faced today, I understand that these cuts were not an easy choice. I do not envy him.

But I have also walked the streets of Beijing among migrant workers who labor for

pitiful wages in baby-blue construction helmets. I have spoken with young women in Shanghai who hope to capitalize on the city’s rising real-estate values and listened to young men worry about scrounging ever more money for a house — a must for any middle-class bachelor in China looking for a fiancée. I have peered through the morning fog of the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas on the 38th parallel, smiling back at the Southern soldiers standing guard nearby. I have spoken with a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as an assistant at the BBC’s Tokyo news bureau.

At each step I understood more about my own country’s inextricable connections to the rest of the world, and to East Asia in particular.

I could not have done any of these things — and would not be returning to Beijing in May for language study — without the patience and encouragement of the faculty and staff at the

Center for East Asian Studies. To pull all funding from the center now, when China’s rise is featured more prominently (and often, hysterically) in the news than ever before, strikes me as a grave misstep.

After teaching English for a year in the central Chinese city of Xi’an, poet and curmudgeon Bill Holm wrote of how different America looked upon his return. Despite America’s short, 200-odd-year history, he recognized its myriad connections to the rest of humanity and the importance of acknowledging this fact: “We gain nothing by playing ostrich except, conceivably, our own extinction. Either we remember and make conscious connections to the moral and physical lives of others, or we die.”

That is reason enough, I think, to continue supporting the men and women at UT who serve as bridges between the East and West.

Lockett is a UT and Daily Texan alumnus.

Debating concealed carry “Frankly, I do not hold sway over the person standing next to me in the produce aisle whether or not they get to go to medical school.

Here at the University of Texas, I do.”

— Associate biology professor Molly Cum-

mings on the implications of concealed carry in the classroom at a debate held by TIP scholars Wednesday night, according to The Daily Texan.

“The funny thing [is], these people who have these licenses are so law-abiding.”

— Kory Zipperer, vice president of Students for

THe FIrINg lINe Whose fear is more irrational?

On Wednesday night, the TIP program hosted a panel in the Union Theatre about the possible legislation that will force public colleges and universities in Texas to allow licensed individuals to bring their concealed handguns on campuses.

Tony McDonald of Young Conservatives of Texas and Kory Zipperer of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus argued that the dangerous world we live in is justification for these licensed individuals to carry their

Concealed Carry on Campus.

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handguns for protection and that to deprive them of this basic liberty is to leave them defenseless. This argument, however, is a false dilemma — to be without a handgun is not to be defenseless but to be lacking one of many options for self-defense.

When 93 percent of reported campus crime happens off campus, where guns are currently allowed, the need of a handgun to keep oneself safe on campus is an extreme solution to a rare problem. Tony and Kory argued that those, like myself, who oppose the possible measure to unwillingly force public universities (no university administrators in Texas have come forward in support of the bill) to allow CHL

individuals to bring their weapons into classrooms is an irrational fear, even though CHL individuals have been convicted of thousands of crimes, including murder.

My question for you is whose fear is more irrational: an opponent to the measure who fears the known presence of a lethal weapon around his or herself or a proponent who is so afraid of an area with an overwhelmingly minimal crime rate that he or she feels the need for a lethal weapon as a likely necessity for survival?

— Kathryn Sieverman Research assistant at UT’s Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology

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Harvard professor discusses prospects of Egypt leadership

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Islamic fundamentalists, removing elements of Mubarak’s regime and getting people to believe the Egypt has the chance to install revolution was good for them.

“The military is interrogating a true democracy if it conducts its elections effectively, a Harvard Uni- Mubarak and members of his regime,” said Mahmoud Al-Batal, UT versity professor said Thursday.

Former Egyptian President Hos- associate professor of Arabic. “Many ni Mubarak, who resigned in Feb- Egyptians see this as a positive step, ruary after weeks of a popular up- holding the old regime accountable rising, designed his autocratic gov- for corruption and embezzling.”

Masoud said he doubts the milernment to be a resilient institution that could stand up to attempts at itary’s desire to leave power as the overthrow and bring together elites greatest shareholder of public facto manage the country, Harvard as- tories and lands in Egypt but said sociate public policy professor Tarek they are taking very drastic steps Masoud said in a talk hosted by the that demonstrate they do want to Robert S. Strauss Center. Howev- get out of power.

“It is almost certain that [Islamer, the system created resentment ic group] the among the milMuslim Brothitar y, a segers will be in ment of the elite t he ele c t ion Mubarak needand get a good ed to hold on to portion of seats power, he said. in parliament,” “When push Al-Batal said. came to shove, “But the test is the military alabout the prolowed the people to continue — Tarek Masoud, Harvard professor cess of elections. These with the revowill be the first lution,” Masoud true elections said. “They sidin Egypt.” ed with the peoDespite ple. This [elite] institution actually weakened the these challenges, Masoud said regime because the military was not he is optimistic about Egypt’s democratization and the effect it on its side.”

Parliamentary elections, which could have on its neighbors, but were thought to be a longevity fac- if it does fail, the surrounding tor in the regime, actually weakened countries will “thank their lucky stars” for their own stability. it, Masoud said.

Farrah Farley, global policy stud“Young protesting people got their ideas from the institutions that ies graduate student, said she agrees are supposed to promote longevity,” with Masoud’s optimism.

“This is an unprecedented Masoud said. “People weren’t vested movement where the blue colin the regime.”

There are five challenges lars, educated class and past Masoud said he believes pose a Mubarak sympathizers united in threat to true democratic consol- a way they haven’t before,” Faridation in Egypt: getting the mili- ley said. “Democracy can result tary back to the barracks, forming after the 2011 elections, but they a new constitution, coping with must keep the solidarity alive.”

By Joe Layton Daily Texan Staff

UT cadets wait outside Sid Richardson Hall on Thursday afternoon. UT Army ROTC awards various merit-based scholarships that are merit-based to qualified individuals each year.

Census data reveal increased Austin diversity, youth Inter national immigration played a major part in the city’s population boom. The city’s white population is aging and remaining stagnant, while the Hispanic population is surging. Fifty-seven percent of the city’s population is now Hispanic, and one in two children born in Austin is Hispanic.

“Even when jobs were falling, international immigration continued to grow,” Robinson said. “Job creation, quality of life relative to competing cities and an extreme sense of [home] are some other things that might have sparked a population growth.”

Robinson said he also found an increase in people living around the University because students moved from the East Riverside area to the West Campus area.

“If UT wasn’t doing as well as it was today, the population in West Campus wouldn’t be as prominent as it is today,” Robinson said.

The black population in the main parts of the city went down.

Robinson said he noticed an increase in the black population in Austin suburbs, which may suggest that an increased number of black residents are moving from the city to surrounding areas.

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24,000 undergraduates participate in the “4/20 smoke-out on school grounds,” according to the magazine. Boulder is also a top beer drinking school, possessing four breweries within its city limits.

Second place went to Pennsylvania State University, followed by Arizona State University and University of Western Ontario, the first Canadian university to make Playboy’s list.

The rankings will be published in Playboy’s May edition, which will also include “the best (and worst) of everything on campus this spring” with categories such as “Best Naked Parties” — Yale University — “Coolest Course” — University of California, Berkeley’s “The Sociology of Seinfeld” — and “Hottest Sorority” — San Diego State’s Alpha Phi.

A provocative paper authored by a special research assistant to the University of Texas regents contains about two dozen errors, including quotes attributed to the wrong people, inaccurate citations and fuzzy data, according to an analysis by the San Antonio Express-News.

Written by Rick O’Donnell, a Colorado transplant and advocate of higher education reform, the paper’s premise that the bulk of academic research in Texas produces “few tangible benefits” whipped up a firestorm of controversy over the past month as did his hiring at $200,000 a year.

O’Donnell wrote the paper, “Is Academic Research a Good Investment for Texas?” in 2008 for the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative Austin think tank where he was an unpaid fellow.

David Guenthner, a foundation spokesman, claimed responsibility for the errors, saying staff merged several drafts of the document, jumbling the footnotes and leaving some out entirely.

O’Donnell concedes he did not carefully review the final product and said Thursday he is not sure how some mistakes made their way into the published version.

“I am a little flabbergasted,” O’Donnell said. “I do my best to produce quality work. This is a production snafu.”

— Melissa Ludwig San Antonio Express-News

By Donovan Sanders Daily Texan Staff

Austin is growing more diverse, and more students are migrating to the University area, said a city demographer.

Ryan Robinson, a city demographer, analyzed the 2010 census figures and presented his findings to a group of about 60 people on campus Thursday.

Austin’s total population is now more than 790,000, according to the census. Austin is the 14th-largest city in the country, one spot up from where it ranked in 2000.

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The census also showed how different racial groups inhabited different parts of Austin and which parts were the wealthiest. Slowly, East Austin is losing its previously black majority, while West Austin remains predominantly white, and North Austin is seeing a more concentrated group of Hispanics.

“I find this information very enlightening with regard to how the city is becoming more divided and look forward to seeing how the city will respond to the results,” said Drew Blair, a retired economics professor from St. Edwards University.

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By Sara Beth Purdy Daily Texan Staff

The Longhorns erased their mid-week loss against Stephen F. Austin with an 8-0 victory against North Texas on Thursday night.

Freshman hurler Rachel Fox had a nearly perfect game against the Mean Green. Fox only gave up one hit on the night while fanning six batters without giving up a walk.

The shortened mercy-ruled game was Fox’s second one-hit shutout of the season. Fox was backed up by a stellar defense that did a good job of preventing base hits.

On Wednesday night against SFA, the defense committed several mistakes that motivated their performance Thursday night.

“I thought she did a nice job,” said Texas head coach Connie Clark.

“She had a great game, and we had some great defensive plays to give her the opportunity to get that done.

She pitched a great ball game.”

The offense, which uncharacteristically faltered Wednesday night, produced eight runs in only four innings off nine hits. Junior outfielder Courtney Craig described the offense’s return to normalcy as an important mental concern —

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Rachel Fox pitched five innings of one-hit softball Thursday night against North Texas. With the win, the freshman from Sugar Land FOX continues on PAGE 7 improved to 15-1 on the year and lowered her ERA to 1.09.

Pitching and defense nearly perfect in win

Courtney Craig makes a diving catch in the fourth inning to rob North Texas of a hit.

The junior also went 2 for 2 at the plate.

Freshman Rachel Fox one hit away from perfect game From that point on, Fox was excellent and had a perfect game bid going into the top of the fifth, when Courtney Bradshaw broke up the bid with a bloop single into left field.

“It sucks that she got a little blooper, but we got a ‘W’ and that’s all that really matters,” Fox said.

Part of what worked so well for Fox in the game was taking advantage of the North Texas hitter’s aggressiveness at the plate, throwing her off-speed pitches well and keeping the hitters out in front.

“We were getting ahead and working the pitches well, we kept

Coming off of a very disappointing loss to Stephen F. Austin on Wednesday, the Longhorns came out motivated. Thanks to a onehitter from freshman Rachel Fox and some stellar defensive plays, they were able to get rid of the bad taste quickly against North Texas.

Fox came out of the gate with her best stuff, keeping the hitters off balance all game. She allowed only one hard hit for the night, from the first batter of the game who hit a line drive into center that Brejae Washington was able to snag.

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them off-balance and it was just a great performance from [Amy] Hooks calling pitches behind the plate,” Fox said.

The perfect game that was so

close for Fox would not have been Courtney Craig made a great divpossible without some spectacular ing grab down the left field line to plays from the defense behind her. keep the perfect game bid alive.

The best of these plays came in the fourth inning when junior DEFENSE continues on PAGE 7

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Rowers pick up accolades in classroom

Astros desperate for more fans, Sharks could win Stanley Cup

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By Blake McAdow Daily Texan Staff

We have seen what they can do in the water, but most recently, Texas has been making headlines in the classroom. On Tuesday, 18 rowers were named to the inaugural All-Big 12 At-Large Team. Unlike other sports, this all-conference team recognizes 161 studentathletes from Big 12 schools participating in nontraditional sports such as horseback riding, bowling,

men’s gymnastics and rowing.

In addition to Big 12 honors, 22 student-athletes were named to the Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll, and three Longhorns received C-USA academic medals. Sophomore Katie Sayre and freshmen Tea Vrtlar and Jessica Glennie all received medals for maintaining GPAs of 3.75 or higher.

With the Big 12 only having four teams in Division I rowing (Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Kan-

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sas State), the Big 12, SEC, and C-USA teams merged and are all part of Conference USA. In 2010, Tennessee won the first ever CUSA Championships, edging out third-place Texas.

With just two weeks left until the Big 12 Championships, Texas is looking to prove its prowess as it takes on nationallyranked Michigan State, Clemson and UCLA at the Virginia

ROWING continues on PAGE 7

By Dan Hurwitz Daily Texan Columnist

After only seven games at Minute Maid Park, new attendance records are popping up day by day. But they are not the type of numbers owner Drayton McLane was hoping for.

These records include the smallest opening day crowd, the lowest weekend crowd and second-small-

est crowd at Minute Maid Park.

People just are not going to Astros games anymore. It’s really a shame.

Yes, the team is not very good, but come on, what else is there to do in Houston?

The promotions to try to get more fans out have already begun. And as the season goes by and losses pile up, they will be extended. Kids will not just get in free all

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Versatile Milner moving to pen

By Trey Scott Daily Texan Staff

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Hoby Milner will be used out of the bullpen this weekend against Texas Tech.

Starting pitching isn’t the problem. Closing a game out in the ninth isn’t, either. But if the No. 6 Longhorns have an Achilles’ heel, it’s that their pitching sometimes falls apart in the middle innings.

Take the seven runs Texas gave up in the seventh against Oklahoma State on March 27 in a 10-3 loss that gave the Cowboys the series, or the four runs the Longhorns gave up last Saturday against Baylor in a 7-6 loss. Granted, it is a small sample size, but head coach Augie Garrido knows it’s a problem.

“In two of the three conference games that we’ve lost, it’s been as a result of us not being able to get from the fifth to the eighth inning,”

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The All-Star had an MRI exam Thursday that confirmed the sprain.

Ginobili hyperextended the elbow in the first quarter of Wednesday’s loss at Phoenix.

The Spurs said Ginobili will be listed as doubtful for the playoff opener Sunday. San Antonio locked up the No. 1 seed in the West last week and plays the Memphis Grizzlies in the first round.

Coach Gregg Popovich sat his stars Tuesday at the Los Angeles Lakers but played them against the Suns with the goal of keeping them in a rhythm for the playoffs.

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he said. “We have been choosing right- or lefthanded pitchers based on matchups to get to our closer, and we’ve been unsuccessful twice.”

So Garrido plans to fix it.

Texas has moved sophomore left-hander Hoby Milner out of the starting weekend rotation (Milner has been the usual Saturday starter since March 15) and into the

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DEFENSE continues from PAGE 6 “I couldn’t breathe, I landed straight on my glove, it knocked the wind out of me,” Craig said. “But I was just going out there hard, being aggressive and doing what I can.”

Craig making the play says a lot about the team’s depth, as she wasn’t even starting in right field for the night, coming into the game for Tori Schmidt in the second inning.

“Tori Schmidt was feeling a bit under the weather tonight, so when we got the opportunity to make a change with Courtney Craig we didn’t miss a beat,” said Texas head coach Connie Clark. “To see depth like that is exciting for us as coaches.”

The Longhorns boast a defense ranked first in the country with a .984 fielding percentage. The defense was great again tonight al-

FOX continues from PAGE 6 They needed the win before going into the weekend series against Iowa State.

“We just needed to prove that we had that mental game to come back from a tough loss [that] night and prove to ourselves we could bounce back that easily,” Craig said. “Coach told us to bounce back, play Texas softball and show that we have the grit to come back.”

Freshman center fielder Brejae

Washington did not see a lot of playing time in the loss to SFA. Washington made up for it Thursday, leading the offense past the Mean Green with her own perfect game. She went 3-for-3 and produced three runs and accounted for three RBIs. “I was just making contact with the ball, not taking too many pitches but being selective,” said Washington. “That was my mindset going into tonight, and tonight,

ROWING continues from PAGE 6 Invitational in Lake Monticello, Va. The No. 18 ranked Longhorns crushed Kansas in their last outing, but should see much closer races against teams all currently ranked ahead of them.

Earlier in the season, the Longhorns dominated No. 10 ranked Wisconsin at the Longhorn Invitational.

“Wisconsin is pretty strong. That was a good marker to have success there,” said head coach Carie Graves.

Despite a very successful spring thus far, Graves knows there are still improvements to be made.

“We need to row more effectively at a higher stroke rating,” Graves

lowing Fox to pitch free, because she knew if there was a sharp grounder in the hole, or a laser to the outfield, someone would be there to snag it.

“It’s so good to know that your defense is behind you, and we’re probably the best in the country statistically,” Fox said. “It’s just so relaxing as a pitcher to pitch and know you have defense behind you.”

we were on.”

Craig also had an explosive night with two hits and two runs scored. Junior Lexy Bennett joined in, hitting her third triple of the season and ending the night with two RBIs. The No. 3 Longhorns are now 35-4 on the season and remain undefeated in the Big 12. Texas will host unranked Iowa State for a two-game series beginning Saturday afternoon.

said. “[We must] continue to maintain speed, think about getting faster every race, and be more efficient, physically.”

Even with just a few events remaining, the coaching staff continues to tweak the lineup to make sure they have the absolute best combination of rowers for each event.

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Seniors hope to finish with win over Huskers

By Wes maulsby Daily Texan Staff

Texas will play its final home match of the season on Sunday against Nebraska. Only two matches remain in conference play before the Big 12 tournament begins on April 29.

Sitting at 2-2 in conference, Texas is currently No. 4 in the Big 12 and only has tournament seeding at stake as the season winds down.

If the current standings remain, Texas will face Texas Tech in the first round of the tournament.

Nebraska comes into the match at 14-8 overall and 0-2 in conference. It has played the top two teams in the Big 12 so far and is one of only two teams in the Big 12 without a conference win.

That number will be cut in half this weekend as Nebraska travels to Stillwater on Friday to face Oklahoma State, the other winless team in the Big 12.

Sunday’s match will be the last conference matchup between Texas and Nebraska with the Corn-

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The last home match of the 2010-2011 season for the Longhorns is on Sunday against Nebraska.

huskers moving to the Big Ten it’s Senior Day for Ed Corrie and next year.

Kellen Damico,” Center said.

“Nebraska has significantly improved over the last couple of years,” said Texas head coach Minebraska at no. 8 texas chael Center.

Date: Sunday As it currently stands, Texas time: 1 p.m. would face the No. 1 seed in the Place: Penick-Allison Center (Austin, Texas) Big 12 tournament.

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Following win, Longhorns head to Bryan By nick Cremona Daily Texan Staff

No. 8 Texas is full of optimism as it heads into this weekend’s Aggie Invitational. The fifth-annual 54-hole tournament held in Bryan begins with two rounds on Saturday, with the finals on Sunday.

The field is very similar to the one Texas faced in Austin last week when it won the Morris Williams Intercollegiate in Austin, including top-ranked Oklahoma State, No. 6 Texas A&M, No. 16 Texas Tech and 24th-ranked Oklahoma.

The Traditions Club in Bryan boasts one of the most sce-

nic courses in Texas. Designed by PGA legend Jack Nicklaus, it is a 7,146 yard par-72 course.

“It’s fun for us to play a highly charged competitive tournament close to home,” said Texas head coach John Fields.

The Aggies swept last year’s event, winning both the team and individual titles. They finished a record 38-under and A&M junior Jordan Russell shot a 10-under to claim the individual title in 2010.

Texas will use senior Bobby Hudson, junior Dylan Frittelli, sophomores Julio Vegas, Jonathan Schnitzer and Cody Gribble, along with freshman Toni Hakula as its starters. Junior Alex Moon

will also be competing as an individual. Each team will field six players in the tournament, with the best five scores counting toward the team total.

“We hope to maintain the momentum we took from the Morris Williams Intercollegiate and get even more momentum going into the Big 12 Championships,” Fields said.

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After a brief stint as the Sunday starter, senior pitcher Cole Green will take the mound Saturday against Texas Tech. On the year, Green is 2-2 with a 3.23 ERA and has opposing batters hitting .207 against him.

MILNER continues from PAGE 6 bullpen, a move that bolsters Texas’ relief pitching — Milner is 3-2 on the year with a 2.72 ERA — and allows Sam Stafford (5-0, 1.34 ERA) to join the weekend rotation as the Sunday starter.

“If Hoby is usually going to give us five innings of work each weekend in one start, we would instead like to see him give us five innings over a span of 2-3 games,” Garrido said.

“Now, he can get us from the sixth through the seventh and eighth innings. Hoby’s making a big sacrifice because every pitcher wants to be a starter.

But this is what we have to do to plug this gap.”

Milner is the best candidate for the move to the bullpen because he’s a strike thrower, shows good command of his pitches and has a mentality as flexible as his elastic left arm.

“This is an opportunity for me

to pitch every game, so that’s exciting,” he said. “We need another lefty out of the pen, so I can help.”

Stafford resumes his old post as the Sunday pitcher, a step up in competition from the Tuesday games he’s been starting and the non-conference opponents the weekday schedule brings.

“The dugout and the environment will be a little bit more intense during the weekend games, but I have to have the same approach,” Stafford said.

All this switching around means senior Cole Green, who has been the Sunday starter the past month, will take the mound on Saturday.

Garrido stresses that these staff swaps are neither promotions nor demotions, just a way for Texas to maximize the use of its best pitchers against weekend conference foes. The plan will be for the starter to go about five or six innings — unless it’s Taylor Jungmann, who

RANT continues from PAGE 6 summer but all season. The allyou-can-eat buffet will no longer be a pricey, rare occasion but a daily deal that is much cheaper.

The Astros are trying to do their part to get people out to the ball game. They updated the scoreboard in right field. They hired nationally acclaimed chef Bryan Caswell to bring some unique dishes to the concession stands at the stadium.

They even made the wireless internet signal at the ballpark stronger.

But there are a few things they didn’t do. First of all, they didn’t lower ticket prices. But not only did they not lower the prices, they raised them again. Guess that scoreboard doesn’t come cheap.

In addition, they made very few attempts to improve the team over the offseason. The names Brett Wallace and Angel Sánchez don’t

really thrill Houstonians or any baseball fan.

It kills me to say this, but the Astros are going to keep losing. Minute Maid Park will remain close to empty. Even if they start giving away tickets, the stadium won’t be full.

Maybe during my four years in college, people have found things to do in Houston. Or maybe the Astros really are that bad. There aren’t any remotes at the ballpark to switch the channel on the new scoreboard yet.

Ice is nice My regular readers — aka my parents — may remember my newfound love for the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs.

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usually doesn’t need much relief help — and then have Milner pitch the Longhorns through the eighth.

There, closing pitcher Corey Knebel, who hasn’t allowed an earned run in 25.1 consecutive innings, will finish the game in the ninth. In essence, Texas is building a bridge to Knebel.

This formula will be put into action this weekend as Texas (258, 9-3 Big 12) takes on conference rival Texas Tech. The Red Raiders (22-13, 5-7) are sixth in the Big 12 standings, but they hit at a high clip, averaging six runs a game.

Tech has scored 38 percent of its runs in the sixth, seventh or eighth innings, so it should be a good first exam in middle-relief for Milner, a test he is ready for.

“Whenever they need me, I’ll come in and get us outs,” Milner said. “I’m the same pitcher, with the same approach, whether I’m starting or coming out of the pen.”

are than the NBA. There is no flopping, little arguing with officials, and the players will give their teeth for a win and come right back on the ice after a visit to the team dentist between periods.

This year, I am making a preplayoffs pick for a team that I am going to root for throughout the chase for the Stanley Cup. I have watched probably 10 seconds of live hockey games on TV this year and know close to nothing about any team. But I do know which teams are in America and which ones have cool mascots.

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No, really? Is there anything not to like about them? I have no clue.

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Shirley Jones prepares to throw the ball while Micheal Kaufman looks on during a game of petanque Wednesday at The French Legation.

FRENCH continues from PAGE 10 French culture with the Austin community, the exact size of the French community in Austin is unknown.

Since the figure comprises only those French citizens registered with the French Consulate’s office, the number could be higher. Evidently, their tricolor flag of blue, white and red rippling across pockets of neighborhoods is a subtle, yet influential presence of French culture and nationalism in Austin.

After a heated, yet still amicable, game of petanque on the shady lawn of the French Legation Museum, Dupin and his partner won their match with a perfect score.

Similar to the Italian game of bocce ball, pentanque is a game of finesse where players try to land metal weights closest to a marker. Old French for “feet together,” the player has to toss the balls while standing tightly in a hoop.

“You know, if we were in France, the losing team would have to kiss the fanny of a woman statue,” Dupin

said with a laugh.

Though Austin is far from Bordeaux, France, where he grew up playing petanque, traces of his home country resonate throughout the city.

“France and America have been brothers for generations,” he said.

“And when you’re brothers, you definitely have that special relationship where you help each other and go against each other.”

The presence of French culture in Austin can be traced to when Texas became a republic in 1836. France was the first European nation to recognize Texas as such. Before officially recognizing Texas as a sovereign nation, the King of France sent Jean Pierre Isador Alphonse Dubois de Saligny to scope out the land.

Dubois’ main objective in Austin was to gauge what Texas could offer.

France thought it could send colonists over to Texas and trade cotton and wine, noted Stephanie Jarvis, director of the French Lega-

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points-of-view, subjectivity, factuality and typographical layout. For the majority of “The Pale King,” Wallace doesn’t deploy his signature footnotes, instead saving them for chapters written in first-person narration from the perspective of a fictionalized David Foster Wallace within the novel. Nine chapters in, “The Pale King” is revealed to be a memoir from this fictionalized Wallace who decided to write a memoir rather than a novel because he felt that they sold better. Nevertheless, it says “novel” on the cover.

If these metafictional gymnastics seem confusing, annoying, dumb or forced, Wallace apparently agrees — he wanted his fiction to be accountable. Wallace was an unapologetic

tion Museum, Built in 1840, the legation served as a diplomatic outpost between the two countries as well as home to Dubois, who because of the treaty was promoted to “chargé d’affaires,” or a liaison. During his residency, Dubois pushed for the passing of the Franco-Texian Bill of 1841, an agreement that would have allowed exploration and settlement in West Texas and the import of more than 5,000 French colonists in a span of eight years. But the bill never passed, leaving the open question: could the French population be a lot bigger today had the bill passed?

Despite the diminutive size of the French community in Austin, there are plenty of opportunities for people to explore the country’s robust and intimate culture.

The Alliance Francaise hosts traditional annual events, such as “La Chandeleur,” or Crepe Day, in February and Bastille Day in July. The alliance also puts on monthly cafe meet

ups and petanque twice a month on the lawns of the museum.

For Dupin, instead of flying back to France to cure his homesickness, he’s brought France to him.

“When I first came to Texas [in 2005], there was a little bit of culture missing from my own country,” he said.

Dupin decided to create a club for the sport he loved playing with his grandfather as a child in the south of France to Austin. With only a few players three years ago, the club now has more than 70 members from all backgrounds, from Morrocan to Chilean to college students to the retired.

Though he has only lived in Austin for a handful of years, Dupin first came to the states more than 30 years ago. On a whim, he sailed from Paris to New York City with his motorcycle, and from New York, he rode to Alaska in a span of one-and-a-half years. Originally, he wanted to see all the national parks.

“The French people, they travel a lot, but they don’t immigrate,” Dupin said. “Because France in general is self-contained.”

But he also noted that there is a strong French culture that he identified with here in Austin.

“I carry France in my heart all the time,” he said, “But I became American, so my heart is to the U.S.A.”

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Members of The Heart of Texas Petanque Club look over the results of a round of their games Wednesday at the French Legation Museum. The game is the national sport of France and is one of many signs of the presence of French culture in Austin.

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According to the Alliance With a blue cap pressing down Française d’Austin, a nonprofhis silver, sweat-dampened hair, it organization that aims to share Arsene Dupin mischievously grinned and held out his cupped hand holding three lead balls, an arFRENCH continues on PAGE 9

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Bureaucracy, as a concept, could be described as otherworldly. In its grip, a bureaucracy has undeniable power, akin to weaponized tediousness, to make you understand both its terrible largeness and your insignificant smallness. To reason with a bureaucracy is to fight dragons. To write a novel about one, specifically the great-granddaddy of them all, the Internal Revenue Service, probably merits the author to be immortalized in verse and song.

“The Pale King” is mostly plotless. Instead, author David Foster Wallace’s goal is to capture a mood or maybe a place. The place is explicitly stated — IRS Regional Examination Center 047 in Peoria, Ill. The mood is “crushing, crushing boredom.” Boredom so mindnumbing and powerful as to cause existential dread, hallucinations and paralyzing physical pain. Wallace slowly introduces an unforgettable cast of characters that work in this hellish environment, slowly developing intense narrative weight as the novel, unflinchingly paced, gets

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