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Dumpster-diving for art’s sake
THE DAILY TEXAN Friday, April 23, 2010
Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900
FRIDAY Desegregation
A panel discussion featuring five of the first African-American students to attend UT in the 1950s will take place in the Almetris Duren Hall Multi-purpose Room from noon to 1 p.m.
Health coverage
Kelly Mikelson, a sociologist whose research focuses on social policy and child health disparities, will examine how the Children’s Health Insurance Program impacts the health insurance coverage for young children in immigrant families from noon to 1 p.m. in BUR 214.
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You’re invited
Celebrate Eeyore’s birthday with an eclectic bunch of Austinites at Pease Park all day.
Batter up
Texas softball faces Oklahoma State at Red and Charlie McCombs Field from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
To go or not to go
Austin Shakespeare is celebrating the Bard’s birthday from noon to 4 p.m. with a Sonnet-a-thon and artisan market at Richard Garriott’s Castleton Village.
SUNDAY Past accounts
An oral history exhibit chronicling the stories of the women and children from the Vietnam War opens in RecSports 2.112 at 2 p.m.
Today in history In 1962
First U.S. satellite to reach the moon launched.
Mary Kang | Daily Texan Staff
Trang Nguyen and her daughter Nhi take a break from work at Thanh Ni, a restaurant they started after moving to Austin from Saigon nine years ago. ie Tran, who spearheaded the move- of the program’s cancellation came ment to save the Vietnamese language VIETNAM continues on page 2 program at UT. The announcement
Cafe fails to repeat past revenue success By Shabab Siddiqui Daily Texan Staff Although the Cactus Cafe saw a surge in attendance and profit in February, the venue was unable to repeat its success in March. The on-campus music venue lost nearly $7,000 last month, according to documents obtained by The Daily Texan through the Texas Public Information Act. The cafe lost $250 in the same month last year. Most of the cafe’s revenue came from the $25,000 it collected through admissions at the door and about $11,660 through alcohol sales. While the revenue was enough to cover the cost of paying performers, they fell short of covering labor costs and other expenses. The cafe, which won its ninth consecutive award for “Best Acoustic Venue” at the South By Southwest music festival in March, has a profit model different from most other alcohol-serving venues, which derive two-thirds of their revenue from alcohol sales, according to a 2002 study by market research firm Mintel. The Cactus receives
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two-thirds of its revenues from admissions and one-third from alcohol. March’s revenue from admissions was about $20,000 short of what it made in February. However, according to the Texas Union calendar, February may have simply boasted a stronger month of bookings. Gene Ween, a guitarist from Pennsylvania, sold out three straight nights, while
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By Aziza Musa Daily Texan Staff In an era when the media industry is in flux, the UT School of Journalism is also changing and has been without a permanent director since 2008. The group of candidates for the school’s new director has narrowed to two after one stepped down. The two remaining candidates are Linda Steiner, professor and director of research and doctoral studies at the University of Maryland, and Glenn Frankel, a former Washington Post reporter and editor and visiting professor at Stanford University. Steiner could not be reached as of press time, and Frankel declined to comment. The third contender, Robert Rivard, editor of the San Antonio Express-News, stepped out of the running this weekend. Rivard said the search committee invited him to interview and that the idea of moving out of a newsroom and into a university where he could take a different approach to facing the challenges of journalism initially intrigued him. “It is evident, however, that the journalism faculty is deeply divided on the leadership question, with the professionals and academics disagreeing on whether the next director should come from a newsroom or within academia,” Rivard said in a letter quoted by the San Antonio Express-News. “Until that question is resolved, it will be hard for anyone to win the kind of affirmation the new director will need to be successful.” Rivard said the newspaper and media industry is still in a profound state of change and that he wished to remain with the Express-News for the transition. “I kind of consider myself an editor through that era of transition,” he said. “We haven’t completely emerged from one era into the next yet, and I’m committed to seeing it through.” Because of the transition, journalism schools also need to undergo changes to produce the kind of journalists that will be needed in the future, Rivard said. “The real challenge is that schools are going to have to do that in a time when they can rely less and less on the Texas Legislature to provide the necessary funding,” he said. “Governor [Rick] Perry wants to cut funding by 5 percent. That is a deep cut at a time when the school is already trying to fulfill its mission with insufficient funds.” The current director of the school, Tracy Dahlby, will voluntarily step down from his position when the dean of the College of Communication, Roderick Hart, chooses a candidate. Hart said he is hoping to make a decision in the next two weeks
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Cactus closing mirrors film program canning By Shabab Siddiqui Daily Texan Staff Stephen Bearden has seen a lot of change at the University. A white-haired retiree who worked 31 years as a UT employee, he still makes his way to the 40 Acres four to five times a week for squash games at Gregory Gym. Since 1979, he’s witnessed the construction of new buildings, the changing of administrations and the growth of a diverse student body. But the
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By Priscilla Totiyapungprasert Daily Texan Staff Government junior Kieu Pham was 10 years old when she had her first slice of pizza on her first airplane trip — a taste of her soon-to-be adopted country — as her plane made its way to Texas. It has been 13 years since she and her five siblings moved with their parents from the humid countryside of Sóc Trång, a small city on the southern tip of Vietnam, to the windy plains of Amarillo. Today, Pham is one of the many Vietnamese-American faces on campus, in a city where the Vietnamese have surpassed the Chinese and Indians to make up the largest Asian-American population. Pham and the Vietnamese Students Association recently worked with Vietnamese-language student Nick-
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Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series profiling VietnameseAmerican immigrants in Austin.
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SATURDAY
LIFE&ARTS: ‘Why Don’t We Do It On the Road’ travels to Bandera, Texas
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Jazz bassist and vocalist Esperanza Spalding performs in Hogg Memorial Auditorium from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. with special guest André Mehmari. The 23-year-old Spalding has quickly become one of the most talked-about jazz artists in the field.
Champion cross-country rider Zac Hearnsberger saddles up a horse at the Twin Elms Guest Ranch in Bandera, Texas. His father, Cap’n Kury Hearnsberger, is the manager of the ranch, which offers western-style vacations.
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Texas baseball takes on Oklahoma State at Disch-Falk Field from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
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current controversy surrounding the closing of the Cactus Cafe feels like deja vu. In fact, things are feeling a little too much like deja vu, he says. “I know exactly how [Cactus Cafe manager Griff Luneburg] feels,” Bearden said. Bearden served as the director of the Texas Union Film Program for more than two decades before it was phased out by the Texas Union in 1997, despite protests
FILM continues on page 2 Stephen Bearden is a retired former senior retail manager of the Union Underground.
singer-songwriter Mike Doughty sold out two. Admissions from March were also about $25,000 short of admissions in March 2009. Unlike 2009, the cafe closed during the South by Southwest music festival during spring break. Additionally, the cafe hosted no shows on Mondays throughout the month.
Bobby Longoria Daily Texan Staff
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