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FRIDAY Game, set, match!

Women’s tennis competes against Oklahoma State in the Big 12 Championship quarterfinals. PenickAllison Tennis Center, 3 p.m. Runs through Sunday.

GLBT support

Peers for Pride hold a year-end performance. RLM 4.102, 6 to 8 p.m.

Spring fun

The Pakistani Students Association hosts Basant, a celebration of spring featuring kites, food and performance. Main Mall, 6:30 p.m.

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Step it up UT Ballet Folklorico Spring Show features performances of traditional Mexican folkloric dances. School of Social Work, UTOPIA Theatre, 5 to 6:30 p.m.

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Anderson High School’s film festival will showcase student creations.

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St. Edward’s University philosophy major Messeret Fessehai stands next to fellow anti-abortion protesters outside of the Austin Convention Center, where Sarah Palin was scheduled to speak Thursday.

Event attended by Gov. Perry aimed to excite Republican base during tough re-election battle By Alex Geiser Daily Texan Staff Fewer than 50 protesters gathered outside the Austin Convention Center on Thursday night during an anti-abortion rally headlined by former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. Almost 900 people responded to a Facebook event promoting the protest. The crowd, composed primarily of

men, stood around the building waving signs supporting abortion rights and attacking the former Alaska governor, who spoke at “An Evening With Sarah Palin,” sponsored Heroic Media, an anti-abortion nonprofit group. Despite the size of the anti-Palin protest outside the convention center, Jackson Duhon, creator of the Facebook event, said it was mainly geared to bring together people with similar political and social views. “I would feel uncomfortable with Sarah Palin coming to speak in Austin without there being a group of people publicly stating that they don’t like it,” said Duhon, a Austin

By Shamoyita DasGupta Daily Texan Staff Often when people think of long eyelashes, they think of actresses trying to sell mascara. But biomedical engineering senior Zephyr Lutz-Carrillo might change that perception. The single, 7-centimeter eyelash on his left lid stands to take the Guinness World Record for the longest eyelash in the world.

UT groups protest, ask for repeal of Ariz. bill By Audrey White Daily Texan Staff Protesters from local activists groups used signs, chants and pink boxers to demonstrate their discontent with a controversial Arizona immigration law that has made headlines since it was signed into law April 23. UT Chicano student activist group MEChA and local civil rights group ¡ella pelea! coincidentally staged a protest at the same time as one held by the League of United Latin American Citizens on the West Mall on Thursday. Both demonstrations expressed local frustrations over the law, which will give Arizona police the authority to ask citizens to prove their residency status on demand. The law authorizes police to question any person about whom there is “reasonable suspicion” that he or she may be an illegal immigrant. If the person cannot prove their legal resident status by producing verifiable alien registration papers, they may be subject to arrest and other penalties. “They’re not going to stop someone who they don’t think looks illegal, but how do you determine that?” said Jenipher Paredes, a member of the league and a biology freshman at UT. “The constitution doesn’t say, ‘If you look Latino, you look illegal,’ but that’s what this law will mean. It’s insane. It’s racial profiling, and it is a big deal.” The league staged their demonstration to educate students about

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Textiles and apparel senior Steve Campos says his line has a distinctive “geek chic” feel. The collection, presented during the “High Voltage” fashion show on Thursday evening, is inspired by menswear.

In mid-summer, the hair suddenly began growing rapidly, he said. “It was just this normal eyelash, and then it just turned white and started growing long,” Lutz– Carrillo said. He considered removing the hair but decided against it. “At one point, I decided it was either I had to get rid of it, or I had

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Community College freshman. “I don’t think she deserves anything but contempt, really.” Clad in her familiar red coat with her hair half pinned up, Palin was introduced by Gov. Rick Sarah Palin Perry and warmly welcomed by hundreds of pro-life supporters inside the convention center.

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By Aziza Musa Daily Texan Staff The Senate of College Councils unanimously passed a resolution in its last meeting of the semester on Thursday, encouraging student input and administrative transparency in the midst of University-wide budget cuts.

Three Senate members authored the resolution a week after the Vietnamese language program was cut. The administration announced the elimination of the program in early April, and Vietnamese classes will no longer be offered beginning in the fall of 2010.

The resolution asked each college and department to seek a representative sample of student input when changing the quality or quantity of academic programs. They also sought to increase student awareness

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the bill and encourage them to protest it. Members wore pink boxers and handcuffs in reference to Joe Arpaio, an Arizona sheriff famous for forcing prisoners to wear pink underwear and pink handcuffs. ÂĄella pelea! organizer Sarah Carswell said their protest was a way for students and community members to take a united stand against the law and the precedent it sets. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just appeal to the consciousness of the decision-makers, because they are obviously not taking our issues into account,â&#x20AC;? Carswell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important for people to get together and send a message en masse that we wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stand for this type of thing and we want to set our own agenda for what policy looks like.â&#x20AC;? However, proponents of the law argue that it is simply enforcing existing federal standards on immigration in an effort to protect the rights of citizens. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The federal government is too willing to play politics with the immigrant population to do anything productive,â&#x20AC;? said Tyler Norris, a member of Young Conservatives of Texas and government junior.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;People on both sides of the border are suffering while the federal government tries to be politically correct. This bill is a step towards protecting those citizens.â&#x20AC;? The Arizona legislation gained local significance this week when two Texas House members announced their intentions to introduce similar legislation when the House convenes for session in January. State Reps. Debbie Riddle, RHouston, and Leo Berman, R-Tyler, have publicly stated that they support the Arizona legislation and believe it gives law enforcement agencies necessary power to respond to illegal immigration. However, on Thursday, Gov. Rick Perryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office issued a statement that said that although he intends to work with the Legislature to explore more comprehensive ways to secure the Texas-Mexico border, he does not believe the direction Arizona has chosen is appropriate for Texas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I fully recognize and support a stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right and obligation to protect its citizens, but I have concerns with portions of the law passed in Arizona and believe it would not be the right direction for Texas,â&#x20AC;? Perry said in the press release.

Senate policy director David Liu listens to Francisco Tamayo of the Academic Enrichment Committee during the Senate of College Councilsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; last meeting of the spring semester Thursday night.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;For example, some aspects of the law turn law enforcement officers into immigration officials by requiring them to determine immigration status during any lawful contact with a suspected alien, taking them away from their existing law enforcement duties.â&#x20AC;? Students and activists who rallied Thursday said the Arizona law is a step in the wrong direction for much-needed immigration policy reform. The Austin Immigrants Rights Coalition is holding a citywide rally at 4 p.m. Saturday at the state Capitol in support of an immigration policy overhaul that will increase access to citizenship and human rights for immigrants. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The call for immigration comprehensive reform is not new; it has been ongoing for a very long time. The closest we got was during the start of the Bush administration, but the course of the presidency took a different turn,â&#x20AC;? MEChA member Diana GĂłmez said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to get big projects done in the Legislature, but with the passing of this Arizona bill, this has to happen now. The march is more important now than ever.â&#x20AC;?

of the budgetary process by making the administration provide an explanation of why the decision was made. Students were blind-sided by the cuts to the Vietnamese language program, Senate President Chelsea Adler said. It was too late to do anything by the time students found out about it, she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We understand, as a student body, that cuts will be made,â&#x20AC;? Adler said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just ask that our voice will be included in those tough decisions.â&#x20AC;? According to the resolution, students and faculty â&#x20AC;&#x153;have been forced to play a reactionary role in the budget-cutting process.â&#x20AC;? This role is not effective, said Michael Morton, Senate communications director and pre-journalism freshman. Morton said the resolution will give students a more participatory role in determining which programs will be maintained. After passing the resolution,

the senators will send it to Executive Vice President and Provost Steven Leslie, Executive Vice President and Provost Gretchen Ritter and all of the collegesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; deans within the next week. The provost could not be reached as of press time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Senate is really looking forward to furthering the conversations with the administration about the budget cuts,â&#x20AC;? Morton said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[The resolution] is a springboard for a conversation that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to end at the semester. It will continue into next year, especially with the legislative session starting up in January.â&#x20AC;? The decreased quality of education because of budget cuts is tragic, Senate policy director David Liu said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We hope this legislation will bring students to the table to know whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening to our education,â&#x20AC;? Liu said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This legislation is not advocating that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the decision makers. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d just like to be at the table where the decision is making made.â&#x20AC;?

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are attempting to spin what it is they are actually doing,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I believe they are a very political organization, and the event has one purpose, and that is to limit the choices women have with their reproductive rights. Why else would they invite Sarah Palin when she is one of the most partisan people in the United States to come raise money for them if it is not a political event?â&#x20AC;? He said the reason she agreed to speak at the event was to boost the sales of her 2009 book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Going Rogue: An American Life.â&#x20AC;? Brown said his organization held â&#x20AC;&#x153;An Evening Without Sarah Palinâ&#x20AC;? to coincide with Heroic Mediaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event as a way for members and supporters of the Democratic Party to protest Palinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s values. The media was not invited to Heroic Mediaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event and all cameras and recording devices were not permitted. Proceeds will go to the nonprofit organization.

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Protest brings â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;people powerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to Wall Street By Cristian Salazar The Associated Press NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Noisy protesters with signs took over two bank building lobbies on Thursday in a prelude to a Wall Street rally by workers and union leaders angry over lost jobs, the taxpayer-funded bailout of financial institutions and questionable lending practices by big banks. Hours before the scheduled rally, more than 100 people entered a midtown Manhattan building housing JPMorgan Chase offices. They handed a bank executive a letter requesting a meeting with the CEO, and chanted â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bust up! Big banks!â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;People power!â&#x20AC;? A half-hour later, they were calmly escorted outside by officers, who remained expressionless as the protesters chanted, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The police need a raise.â&#x20AC;? They then walked a few blocks

up Park Avenue and crowded into the lobby of the Seagram Building, where Wells Fargo and the bank it merged with in 2008, Wachovia, have offices. The protesters held up signs reading, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Save Our Jobsâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Save Our Homes.â&#x20AC;? One included a Great Depression-era photograph. Police arrived on horseback as curious office workers watched the scene unfold from their windows. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re here today to stop the corporate greed that is ruining our neighborhoods,â&#x20AC;? said Andrea Goldman, 59, of Springfield, Mass., whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of a group called Alliance to Develop Power. The banks did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rally was organized by the AFL-CIO and an association of community groups. The protesters included people hurt by the mortgage crisis.

Copycat attacker wounds Chinese kindergarteners said a delivery man used a fire By Christopher Bodeen extinguisher to knock Xu down. The Associated Press Most of the recent school invaTAIXING, China â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The screams of the 4-year-olds inside sions have been blamed on people the kindergarten could be heard with personal grudges or sufferout in the street. When people ran ing from mental illness, leading to in to investigate, they found what calls for improved security. Accounts in Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stateone witness said was a scene â&#x20AC;&#x153;too horrible to imagineâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; blood ev- owned media have glossed over erywhere as a knife-wielding man motives and largely shied away slashed 28 children, two teachers from why schools have so often and a security guard Thursday in been targets. Yet experts say outthe second such school attack in bursts against the defenseless are frequently due to social pressures. China in two days. An avowedly egalitarian soExperts called it a copycat rampage triggered by similar ciety only a generation ago, Chiincidents Wednesday and last naâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s headlong rush to prosperimonth. They said the wave of ty has sharpened differences beschool attacks falls amid poor tween haves and have-nots, and the public health care for the system has atmentally unstarophied even as ble and growing pressures grew. feelings of soâ&#x20AC;&#x153;We must crecial injustice in We must create a ate a more healthy the fast-changing country. more healthy and just and just society,â&#x20AC;? said Zhou XiaoThursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s society.â&#x20AC;? zheng, a sociolattack at the Zhongxin Kinâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Zhou Xiaozheng ogy professor at Renmin Univerdergarten left Sociology professor sity in Beijing. five students hosWhile itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not pitalized in critknown if Thursical condition in dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attacker the eastern city of Taixing, said Zhu Guiming, an knew about previous school stabofficial with the municipal pro- bings, Zhou said such sensational, paganda department. Two teach- violent acts often draw copycats. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Normally, with these kind ers and the security guard were of violent events we hope the also hurt. The official Xinhua News media wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t blow them up too Agency identified the attacker much, because that tends to as Xu Yuyuan, a 47-year-old un- make it spread,â&#x20AC;? Zhou said. On Wednesday, a man in employed man using an 8-inch the southern city of Leizhou knife. No motive was given. A witness to the early morning broke into a primary school attack said people outside heard and wounded 15 students and a screams coming from the three- teacher in a knife attack. That attack came the same story building and rushed inside. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was too horrible to imag- day a man was executed for ine. I saw blood everywhere, and stabbing eight children to death kids bleeding from their heads,â&#x20AC;? outside their elementary school a visibly shaken Hu Tao told The last month in the southeastern city of Nanping. Associated Press hours later. The Ministry of Education â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some of them could not open their eyes because of the blood,â&#x20AC;? did not immediately respond to a fax Thursday asking whether he said. Hu, who owns a small restaurant this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attacks would lead to across the street from the school, changes in school security.

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OPINION

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Editor in Chief: Jillian Sheridan Phone: (512) 232-2212 E-mail: editor@dailytexanonline.com Associate Editors: Jeremy Burchard David Muto Roberto Cervantes Dan Treadway Lauren Winchester

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GALLERY

VIEWPOINT

Perry’s office hits a discordant note

Gov. Rick Perry’s office recently weighed in, rather ironically, on the Cactus Cafe debate. Casey Monahan, director of Perry’s Texas Music Office, voiced staunch support for the institution in a letter to President William Powers Jr. that has been posted on Save the Cactus Cafe’s website. “The Cactus’ importance as a proving ground for young artists cannot be questioned,” he wrote. “So very many Texas artists built their first real audience at the Cactus. Once an artist gains an audience, they ... build a team that builds careers and the Texas music industry in general.” But Perry himself refrained from commenting. Perry spokeswoman Allison Castle explained that decision to the Austin American-Statesman: “The governor leaves those types of decisions up to the University.” Well, at least that’s one decision Perry will leave to the University. Unfortunately, it is a decision Perry’s actions have necessitated. The proposed closure of the Cactus came in the wake of a January announcement by Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and House Speaker Joe Straus that the UT System should prepare to reduce state appropriations for the current biennium by 5 percent. This resulted in an approximately $10 million unexpected cut to UT-Austin’s budget, adding to the financial pressures the University was already facing. While it is clear that UT administrators had discussed closing the Cactus Cafe long before the proposed cut was announced, this financial pressure added to the weight of the University’s mandate. Powers has also requested a 5-percent cut to fund faculty salaries and retain a rainy day fund in the face of a flat budget. Final cuts to the budget are currently being evaluated and should be announced in the near future. The announcement will undoubtedly spell the end for many of UT’s programs. And these significant cuts to UT’s budget portend crisis in the upcoming year. If Perry will demand 5 percent back from state institutions in the middle of a contested election for governor, UT should be preparing to face steeper cuts if he solidifies his position in November. It makes sense that the Texas Music Office would speak up for the Cactus Cafe while the governor demurely leaves it to the administration. If Perry speaks out against any budget cut at this institution, it will raise the question: How can Perry reach into the University’s pockets to take back state appropriations while demanding that UT students supplement the declining state revenues to fund his office’s priorities? — Jillian Sheridan for the editorial board

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THE FIRING LINE The division of SG and UDems Dave Player’s column on Wednesday, “Student Government misrepresents students,” inaccurately insinuated improper actions on the part of University Democrats in relation to Student Government. Our focus as a student organization is to elect Democrats, to support Democratic public policy and to encourage student political engagement. Yes, many of our members are involved in Student Government, but that is because, as Player states, we are “the largest political organization on campus.” It is just natural that a large political organization would have members who take part in more direct campus politics, too. This has happened for years. Even a former student body vice president, Marcus Ceniceros, was a proud University Democrat. But we do not ask our members to represent UDems when in SG. We hope that they represent liberal arts students, engineering students or the student body at large, just to name a few constituency parameters. You may remember that University Democrats have found themselves on opposite sides of SG battles. Most notably was our recent election, when former UDems Vice President Alex Ferraro ran the Azemi/Stein campaign and former UDems President Jimmy Talarico ran the Parks/Kabir campaign. We happen to agree with the SG resolution regarding the State Board of Education, and as students fighting for an issue that will affect our younger siblings and our children, we are proud of every success in depoliticizing our education. We’ll be supporting Democrats Judy Jennings and Rebecca Bell-Metereau in November for the State Board of Education, not so much because they are Democrats but because they seek to avoid writing a partisan curriculum, unlike their Republican counterparts. We agree with the resolution, but electing quality members to the state board is much more

UT students need sex education By Anna Russo Daily Texan Columnist During my four years here, I have taken more than 130 hours of classes. My course choices have allowed me to dabble in studies ranging from American studies to Middle Eastern studies to biology to statistics. I consider my time here a quite wellrounded learning experience, and one in which I’ve tried a little bit of everything — well, except maybe computer science, to the dismay of my neighbors. All this being said, there is one course I took my second year that was by far the most important and beneficial course I enrolled in at UT, and one I think should be a requirement to graduate. My second year, I enrolled in a women’s reproductive health course, partially in response to what was an exhaustively long existential crisis, and partially because I thought it might be more interesting than another science component such as “Cognitive Processes of the Brain,” or something like that. But the information presented to me in this class convinced me that no student should leave UT without taking a course that focuses on men’s and women’s reproductive health — especially considering the current state of abstinence education in Texas and the historical politicization of reproductive organs. Ninety-nine-point-nine percent of us in our lifetime will engage in sexual activity. Question: Does the state let you

important to us than a nonbinding resolution.

— Michael Hurta Government junior Public relations director, University Democrats

Finally, we need to stop viewing immigration as a favor we’re granting immigrants. Like most aspects of the free market, both immigrants and natives profit from increased immigration.

regarding sexual and reproductive health in lieu of neglect at the secondary level. Proper understanding of men’s and women’s reproductive health among the top students in the state has the potential to disseminate this type of knowledge into the larger Texas community and introduce education where there is none. This may not only improve the sexual and reproductive health among Texans but also help the state to tighten its belt in a time of budgetcutting. In 2007, Texas received $18 million from the federal government to fund abstinence-only education. That same year, Texas led the nation in teen birth rates, a clear example of the negative health and economic impact the lack of comprehensive reproductive knowledge is having on the state of Texas. Again, this is not meant to suggest that it is the University’s primary responsibility to educate Texas youth about their sexual and reproductive health, but until the state implements more comprehensive knowledge of sexual and reproductive health in secondary curriculum, the University should step in and be the beacon of knowledge in these matters through a required course or workshop. These measures would benefit not only the UT campus but the larger Texas community as well, promoting healthier and happier lives for all Texans. Our individual and collective reproductive health is central to our lives and is not something to be neglected. Russo is a government and women’s and gender studies senior.

GALLERY

— Clark Patterson UT alumnus

The economics of Arizona’s law In his Wednesday Viewpoint, “Texas must not follow Arizona,” Bobby Cervantes argues against Arizona’s immigration law on the grounds that it will lead to selective enforcement. In fact, the law should be opposed because its tentacles will affect all Arizonans — citizens and noncitizens alike. Proponents of the law erroneously believe that it will apply only to illegal immigrants and that citizens and legal immigrants will be largely undisturbed. But laws are necessarily blunt instruments that impact law-abiders as well as lawbreakers. The new Arizona law leads us down a slippery slope to the day when all Americans will be required to carry some form of personal documentation and continually account for their whereabouts to some branch of government. Ironically, some of the law’s proponents correctly oppose gun registration on the grounds that they don’t want the government to know whether or not they own a firearm. But if we don’t want the government to know where our guns are, why would we want to give the government more power to locate us? The law will also affect construction company owners, restaurant owners, farmers and other businesspeople who employ unskilled labor. Many of these people are conservative Republicans. While the proponents of Arizona’s new immigration law aren’t racist, they clearly don’t understand free market economics, particularly with respect to labor markets. Immigration is basically imported labor. The supply of imported labor should be determined by its demand in the market, not by arbitrary limits set by the central government. The presence of millions of gainfully-employed illegal immigrants means that Washington, D.C., should at the very least greatly increase the nation’s annual immigration quotas.

drive a car before you understand the basic mechanics of that car and the risks involved? No. If it is common practice for the state to make us understand the parts of a car before we drive one, why would it not to be common practice of the state to make sure we are knowledgeable about our reproductive health organs before we participate in sexual activity? More than 70 percent of UT students are engaging in sexual activity, according to the National College Health Assessment. Considering this percentage and the risk involved in sexual activity — especially STI’s that can be spread rapidly if proper protection and treatment are not understood by participants in sexual activity — it behooves the University to make sure all UT students understand “the parts of the car.” As does it behoove each student at UT to understand their own sexual and reproductive health so that everything “runs” smoothly for health purposes of both health and pleasure. As is common knowledge among UT students, Texas is the poster child for abstinence-only education — there is little need here to rattle off the same statistics about how our state is in a sexual-health crisis. But it is important to note that along with abstinence-only education comes a neglect to adequately educate secondary students about their own genitalia and reproductive organs. While UT does not hold the primary responsibility to educate Texas youth and young adults about “the birds and the bees,” UT has a vested interest in educating the most intelligent minds in the state

American individualism Americans are not inherently better than other people. However, it’s also true that America is the only country in history to be founded on the principle of recognizing the individual rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That makes America, in its founding principles, more moral than any other country in history. While the doctrine of white supremacy is, of course, nonsense, it’s also true that Christopher Columbus should be honored as the first bringer of the values of reason, rationality and respect for the individual — i.e., civilization — to the Western hemisphere. Without these, there would be no such things as universities and electronic media that even make it even possible for people to publish opinions decrying Western civilization. Unfortunately, Jeremy Grodin does the U.S. no favors in trying to defend it in his Firing Line, “Why deny American exceptionalism?” Every one of his examples details how the U.S. has helped other nations with its aid, money and military resources. That is not the proper standard of morality. Indeed, if “helping others” is taken as the highest value, it is counter to what made America great. The unique discovery and value of the United States is that it recognized and codified each individual’s right to live for his or her own life. History is full of examples of demands that individuals should sacrifice their lives for others — or the tribe or the government — which only leads to blood and destruction. It is only by rejecting such calls for altruism and sacrifice that America gained, and can continue to keep, the moral high ground.

— Alan McKendree UT staff

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Friday, April 30, 2010

Lecturer argues history hid Jeffersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enslaved mistress By Shamoyita DasGupta Daily Texan Staff More than 200 students, faculty and community members gathered in the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center on Thursday to listen to the first lecture by Annette Gordon-Reed, the distinguished speaker for the 2010 Littlefield Lectures series. The lectures are part of the Littlefield Fund for Southern History, which was created in 1914 by George Littlefield to support the UT Libraries acquisition of materials related to the South, according to the fundâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website. Every two years, a distinguished lecturer is brought to UT to speak. GordonReed will speak again today at 11 a.m. in the Will C. Hogg Building. Gordon-Reed is a history professor at Rutgers University and a law professor at the New York Law School. She is the author of two books about Thomas Jefferson and his slave mistress Sally Hemings â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,â&#x20AC;? which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. She recently received the National Humanities Medal from

President Barack Obama, an honor which has only been bestowed on 20 Americans. The focus of Gordon-Reedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lecture was the portrayal of Jeffersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relationship with Hemings, who bore seven of his children, and how it has changed in past decades as scholars have argued the validity of the relationship.

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Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no such thing as 100-percent objectivity.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Annette Gordon-Reed History and law professor

â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is a viewpoint [in history], and there has to be a viewpoint,â&#x20AC;? Gordon-Reed said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no such thing as 100-percent objectivity.â&#x20AC;? When Gordon-Reed decided to write her first book, she discovered through her research that many Jefferson scholars were focused on protecting Jeffersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

reputation, rather than portraying the truth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Usually, we reserve our greatest sympathy and care for people who are the objects of oppression, not the people who are doing it,â&#x20AC;? Gordon-Reed said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Here it was exactly reversed. All of the attention [of the historians] was on [protecting] Jefferson, not â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s figure out what actually happened.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Gordon-Reed hopes that her research and her books will help people maintain a more objective approach to reading and learning about history. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really do hope that what I have done in this area has contributed to a change in peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thinking in writing about the founding generation,â&#x20AC;? GordonReed said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were people. They were human beings. They had great accomplishments, but they had great weaknesses and failures as well.â&#x20AC;? Though many students in the auditorium attended to receive extra credit for their classes, some came to gain a different perspective on history. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You get two sides to the story,â&#x20AC;? biology freshman La Toya Crenshaw said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always good to be knowledgeable.â&#x20AC;?

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed, gave a lecture over Thomas Jeffersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relationship with his slave-mistress, Sally Hemings.

History senior Bo Killen tunes his tall bike from his home bicycle workshop. Killen began collecting bike tools gradually as he needed them and built an in-home workshop last year. National Bike-to-Work Week is May 17-21 and Bike-to-Work Day is May 21.

City, organizations join to promote Bike Month Major goals of festivities, events include promoting bikes as car alternative By Hannah Jones Daily Texan Staff With the onset of National Bike Month in May, the city of Austin is encouraging Austinites to forgo their cars and ride bikes around town instead. The city has coordinated with numerous local organizations to sponsor this and other events to increase bike ridership and awareness. National Bike-toWork Week is May 17-21, and Bike-to-Work Day is May 21. The Austin Public Library has teamed up with the Austin Yellow Bike Project and the Austin Cycling Association to kick off their first event, Bikein-Book-Swap, which will be held on Saturday in the parking lot of the Terrazas Branch

Jeff Heimsath Daily Texan Staff

RECORD: Student protects eyelash by wearing glasses Lutzâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Carrillo decided that the best From page 1 way to protect it would be to wear to go for the record,â&#x20AC;? Lutzâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Car- his glasses. rillo said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I looked up what the â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wear my glasses so I can world record was, and I decided protect it from people,â&#x20AC;? he said. I could do it.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;They think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a hair on my face Lutzâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Carrillo e-mailed Guin- or something, and they try to get ness World Records and learned it off for me.â&#x20AC;? that the current record stands at The glasses also prevent the 6.99 centimeters. Although he hair from protruding too far in will not have to remove his eye- front of his face. lash, he will have to have witHis main motivation for keepnesses or a notary present when ing the hair is the possibility of he measures it. becoming the world-record holdAs the hair began to grow longer, er in Guinness World Records. If

he does break the record, he will remove the eyelash and frame it, along with his award. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would just be excited to get in the Guinness Book of World Records,â&#x20AC;? Lutzâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Carrillo said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the main motivation, or I would have gotten rid of it a long time ago.â&#x20AC;? Though noticeable, his friends think the eyelash goes with his personality, government senior Mikael Garcia said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[The eyelash] makes him unique,â&#x20AC;? Garcia said.

Students, residents race for funding By Hannah Jones Daily Texan Staff For the first time ever, UT students and local residents will run either a 10K or a two-mile race around campus in an effort to help support student organizations in need. Nearly 2,500 students, alumni, faculty, staff and community members signed up for the Longhorn Run, a course in the campus area Saturday. The race will begin in front of the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center and will end inside the Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. Coordinator Liam Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Rourke, former Student Government president, said the proceeds from registration will go to the Excellence Fund, an SG endowment that allocates money to student organizations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the resources to give to student organizations who have outstanding projects,â&#x20AC;? Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Rourke said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to give monetary resources for them to do great things, and the run was a great opportunity to promote health and wellness and for students to help students.â&#x20AC;? Veronica Cantu, financial adviser for Student Government and the Senate of College Councils, said that in 2009, the Excellence Fund committee allocated a total of $5,000 to students. Alex Bonetti, president of the Texas Wranglers spirit group and member of the operations and logistics team, said the run was also a uniting effort, bringing students and alumni together.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Health, fitness and nutrition are central to Austin, so we took that to target students at the University and the community,â&#x20AC;? Bonetti said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The demand was really high, and all the spaces filled up for registration.â&#x20AC;? One registered runner, petroleum engineer senior Elizabeth Stice, said she thought the different approach to fundraising was good for student organizations with-

out corporate sponsors who lack funds, but said she would have been more inclined to run on behalf of a charitable fund. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important for student organizations to have funds, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always nice to have things going to charity,â&#x20AC;? she said. The two-mile run will begin at 8:30 a.m., followed by the 10K race at 9 a.m.

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off Cesar Chavez Street. There will be a book swap and a pannier, or saddlebag, workshop using recycled cat litter boxes to mount on bicycles to safely carry books while riding. Book swap coordinator Monica Jones said the library wants to be a part of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s initiative to create a safer environment for bikers by 2011 and make Austin a gold-standard city that includes streets with stop signs for cross traffic and a network of boulevard routes for safer biking on par with Seattle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the first time weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve tried to do something on this level,â&#x20AC;? Jones said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We would like to see the libraries as a destination that you can reach on your bike.â&#x20AC;? The Yellow Bike Project will also have the grand opening of its new store Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m. The store will allow cyclists to repair

their bikes with donated parts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bikes generally tend to make the streets safer when drivers see more bike riders and they drive more carefully,â&#x20AC;? project spokesman Pete Dahlberg said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Drivers see the road as a shared space, and cars cannot have free reign over the streets.â&#x20AC;? According to the League of American Bicyclistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; website, in 2001, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that 728 bicyclists were killed in crashes with motor vehicles and that 45,000 were injured. These numbers represent only 2 percent of the total number of people killed or injured in traffic crashes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are so many locations that you can easily access on your bicycle,â&#x20AC;? Jones said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to show our neighborhoods [so] you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to drive your car all the time.â&#x20AC;?

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Big 12 Championship in sight After clinching regular season, Longhorns ready for Big 12 Tournament By Rishi Daulat Daily Texan Staff Is there anything left for the thirdranked Longhorns to play for? Texas has already locked up the Big 12 regular season championship and is virtually guaranteed a top seed in the upcoming NCAA Championships. But despite the incredible season, the Longhorns are still hungry to capture this weekend’s Big 12 Tournament — hosted at Texas’ own Penick-Allison Tennis Center — to double their conference titles. So, yes, there is plenty to play for. “The fact that we’re playing at home gives us that feeling that this is our tournament and because of that we are going to fight hard,” assistant coach Ricardo Rubio said. “The players aren’t thinking about it like they are going to win the whole tournament. We will just go at it one match at a time. Once the players see teams like A&M and Baylor in the competition, then they’ll really start getting serious.” Texas is 23-2 in the season and finished 6-0 in conference play to win the Big 12 outright. The Horns were led by Bulgarian senior Dimitar Kutrovsky, who played all year at first singles and is currently ranked No. 10 in the nation. Junior Ed Corrie was the Horns’ other star at singles as he dominated all year at the second spot and is currently just 10 spots behind Kutrovsky at No. 20. Corrie was also just named to the First Team of the 2010 Academic All-Big 12 Men’s Tennis Team.

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Senior Jon Wiegand hits a backhand during a match against Oklahoma back in March. Texas faces off in the Big 12 Championships today. Kutrosvky and Corrie also both shine at doubles. Kutrovsky teams up with the senior from Amarillo, Josh Zavala, to form the No. 6 doubles team in the nation, while Corrie and Kellen Damico are ranked No. 23. Damico, a junior from Colorado, battled a few injuries this season, yet still managed an impressive singles record: 4-1 in conference play and 19-10 overall, play-

ing at third singles. The bottom half of UT’s singles lineup has been solid all season as well. Zavala, who has played all season at fifth singles, is an outstanding 25-7 in the season, while going 5-1 in conference play. For his clinching performances last week against No. 10 Texas A&M and No. 40 Nebraska, Zavala was named the Big 12

Player of the Week, the second time he has received the honor in his UT career. South African sophomore transfer Jean Andersen and freshman Vasko Mladenov have been clutch at various times throughout the season, and their records on the season are 16-5 and 24-7, respectively. Texas is the only team in the tourney to receive a bye, and

WHAT: Big 12 Championships WHERE: Penick-Allison Tennis Center WHEN: Friday-Sunday, All Day the Horns first match will be on Saturday against either No. 15 Texas Tech or No. 20 Oklahoma at noon.

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Luna pitches Horns to road win over Tech’s Red Raiders By Matt Hohner Daily Texan Staff Texas has shown resilience this season. Whether it’s facing a deficit in the last inning or an unpleasant victory the game before, the Longhorns have always fought back. “We just keep getting better,” head coach Connie Clark said. “It seems like even with the games that we’ve dropped this year, we are able to come back out and immediately fix the errors the following game.” No. 12 Texas beat Texas Tech in Lubbock 7-2 Thursday night. The Longhorns improved to 11-2 in conference play as they are about to finish Big 12 play this weekend. The top of the lineup produced well for Clark. The Longhorns busted the game wide open with a solid fourth inning. Center fielder Brittany Chalk and left fielder Courtney Craig hit back-to-back solo home runs, while catcher Amy Hooks doubled to bring in two runs. The top of the lineup combined for five hits, five runs and five

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RBI. The first four Longhorn hitters have proven to be very deadly for the Longhorns, as they can do it all — bunt, run bases and slug one out of the park. Hooks knows that their fate is in their own hands. “Our opportunity is still out

SPORTS BRIEFLY Longhorns head to Oklahoma to defend Big 12 title

WHAT: No. 12 Texas (38-10) at Iowa State (25-25) WHERE: Southwest Athletic Complex (Ames, Iowa) WHEN: Saturday 2 p.m., Sunday 12:30 p.m.

we wanted to go out and win every game.” Blaire Luna had a solid outing throwing a complete game, with five strikeouts, three hits They are still in and one earned. the driver’s seat, Texas will travel to Iowa State but I like that to finish off conference play. The Cyclones are at the bottom their mindsets of the standings with a 3-11 rearen’t really in the cord, which should be an easy standings.” weekend for the Longhorns. With the eyes still on the Big — Connie Clark 12 prize, Clark and her squad aren’t getting too caught up in Head coach the standings. “They are still in the driver’s seat, but I like that their mindsets aren’t really in the standthere, and in the clubhouse, ings,” Clark said. “They were we know that,” Hooks said. on a toughly played game that “We know we have to take they didn’t get their outcome in. I care of business and, coming think they have the right mindset into this series, we knew that regardless of the standings.”

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Freshman pitcher Blaire Luna hurls a pitch during Texas’ 5-2 win over Missouri earlier this month. The Horns take on Iowa State this weekend after defeating Texas Tech on Thursday night 7-2.

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Texas freshman leftfielder Cohl Walla leads off second base during Saturday’s 5-0 win against Oklahoma State at Disch-Falk Field.

Longhorns looks to extend winning streak to 18 games By Chris Tavarez Daily Texan Staff Texas has been in this position before. After rolling off 16 straight wins, Texas returned to the No. 1 spot atop the Collegiate Baseball poll on Monday for the first time since the start of the season, when it was a unanimous preseason No. 1 across all the major baseball polls. This time, the Longhorns hope to stay atop college baseball’s regularseason mountain for a while longer. With the nation’s top ranking, Texas lost its only series of the season in the opener against New Mexico. “Any time you accept expectations, you’re setting yourself up for failure,” head coach Augie Garrido said. “We try to avoid it. We didn’t the first time, and we’ll see whether we’re able to the second time.” On Tuesday, it looked as if Texas would fall victim to the pressure of having to defend its ranking when it pulled out an ugly 6-4 win over UTSA. But left fielder Cohl Walla didn’t put any of the blame of Texas’ poor performance on its ranking. “A lot of us didn’t even know we were No. 1,” Walla said. “We’re gonna come out here and play the same game, no matter where we’re ranked.” Texas’ next test will be against Baylor this weekend. The Bears have a measly 25-17 record, but they also have home-field advantage in tonight’s series opener, which could give it the perfect recipe to snap Texas’ 17-game win streak, its longest since 1988. Of Texas’ seven losses this season, all of them have been

WHAT: No. 2 Texas (35-7) at Baylor (25-17) WHERE: Friday: Baylor Ballpark (Waco) Saturday/Sunday: UFCU Disch-Falk Field WHEN: Friday 6:30 p.m., Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 2:30 p.m. ON AIR: Friday 1300 a.m., Saturday ESPNU, Sunday Fox College Sports against teams it should have, at least based on record, easily beaten. For third baseman Kevin Lusson, all Texas needs to do to avoid its first loss in a month is to continue riding the wave of success it’s been on. “[We need to] keep the momentum going and not really worry about what the outside world looks at us, what they rank us or anything, just play our game,” Lusson said. “We still have the momentum on our side. We’ve had quite a few sweeps in Big 12 play. If we play the same kind of baseball we’ve been playing the last few weeks, we’ll be all right.” Continuing to play like nothing has changed will be the hardest thing about playing with the No. 1 ranking, though. Those struggles come not because the team focuses on its ranking but because the people around it place expectations on the team to uphold that ranking. “We try to teach not to have expectations,” Garrido said. “We try to teach not to make assumptions, and we know that the rankings aren’t really what’s important, but when everyone around you is congratulating you, [it’s hard].”

The Longhorns will compete against Kansas, Kansas State and Oklahoma this weekend at the Big 12 Championship Regatta in Oklahoma City, Okla. The Longhorns will battle for points in five competitive races with the aim of earning the first-place trophy and keeping their reigning title as Big 12 champions. The last time out, the Longhorns didn’t fare well against top competition from No. 2 California, No. 3 Stanford and No. 11 Wisconsin in the Lake Natoma Invitational Regatta in Sacramento, Calif. Texas’ first and second varsity-eight teams and the varsity-four team all placed second in the C group finals, losing its season-long winning streak. If history is any indication, Kansas State will provide a challenge. At last year’s championships, Texas held first place with 51 points, but the Wildcats finished just three points behind. Kansas followed just six points behind Texas with 45 points and nabbed third place. The Longhorns look to win this weekend and hope to better prepare themselves for the Conference USA regatta and NCAA Championships later in May. — Emily Brlansky

Second round begins today in Women’s Big 12 Championship Play commenced for the women squads at the Big 12 Championship yesterday as the fifth through 11thseeded teams fought for a chance to appear in the second round of the tournament. Texas, seeded second in the tournament, had a bye yesterday. No surprises occurred in Thursday’s play, as all three of the four higher-ranked teams easily beat their lower-seeded opponents. Advancing were Oklahoma, Texas Tech and Oklahoma State — the fifth, sixth and seventh seeds, respectively. Only ninth-ranked Colorado overcame its higher-seeded opponent Kansas State by a count of 4-1. Today marks the beginning of the tournament’s second round, as those teams that secured first-round byes will begin play. Top-seeded Baylor is slated to take on Colorado at 9 a.m., while Texas will take on Oklahoma State at noon. The Horns beat the Cowgirls by a count of 5-2 back in March. — Alexandra Carreno

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Hornsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; final meet will be crucial Slew of talent By Jim Pagels Daily Texan Staff Only one more meet stands between the Longhorns and the allimportant Big 12 Championships. The Longhorns will welcome Baylor, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Rice, TCU and seven other regional rivals to Mike A. Myers Stadium on Saturday for the Texas Invite. With the season coming down to the wire, many of the Horns realize the importance of these final meets. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all really important,â&#x20AC;? junior Logan Gonzales said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coming down to the wire. I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t gotten the regionalqualifying mark yet. Those other meets were important, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re coming into the meets that everyone cares about.â&#x20AC;? Sophomore thrower Jacob Thormaehlen agreed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Coming up to the conference meet, which is one of the biggest meets of the year for us, every meet is important,â&#x20AC;? Thormaehlen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re learning everything we need to do to throw further. Getting the competition experience will help us at the conference meet.â&#x20AC;? Many of the Texas athletes are coming back from injury late in the season. Freshman Marquise Goodwin, who was one of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best long jumpers in the indoor season, has yet to jump outdoors. He will make his debut Saturday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m so excited because I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t jumped in a while,â&#x20AC;? said Goodwin, who has run the 100 and 4x100 this season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m finally 100 percent healthy, so I can go out there and jump. Right now, I just need to qualify for regionals and jump the best that I can. Knowing that this is my first meet, I have high expectations.â&#x20AC;? Texas, which normally competes at various meets across

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ball team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great to have the opportunity to compete in front of everybody at home.â&#x20AC;? With only two weeks left before the season ends, head coach

WHAT: Texas Invite WHERE: Mike A. Myers Stadium WHEN: All Day

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â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Marquise Goodwin, long jumper

empty two weeks ago at the dual meet versus Arkansas. Regardless of the attendance, the Horns still feel like competing at home is a major advantage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like home-field advantage in football, and now out here for track,â&#x20AC;? said Goodwin, who also stars at wide receiver for the foot-

Bubba Thornton said that he is focusing on finalizing who will compete at the Big 12 championships in two weeks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our last opportunity [to compete] before we get into the final exams,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to put our shoes up for a while and take care of our academic needs

WHERE: Mike A. Myers Stadium

By Ryan Betori Daily Texan Staff For the first time since the Texas Relays, Mike A. Myers Stadium will find itself home to some premier track and field talent. Starting Saturday, Texas will play host at the Texas Invite, a meet that will feature the likes of No. 2 Texas A&M and No. 4 Oklahoma, in addition to other top regional teams. With conference meets just two weeks away, the staunch competition will provide a chance for the No. 16 Longhorns to see what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re up against as championship season draws near. If history repeats itself, Texas should find this weekend to be a perfect precursor to the Big 12 Championships. Last year at the Texas Invite, the Longhorns picked up six NCAA Regional qualifying marks. This factor should be well complemented by the Longhornâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent history. The Longhorns performed aptly last week at the Penn Relays, one of the largest and most competitive meets in the country. The team was led by the standout showing of junior Chantel Malone, who captured a secondplace finish in the long jump with her personal-best leap of 6.41 meters. Also impressive was senior Jordyn Brown. The All-American has been a solid force all year, and last week was no different. She placed fourth in the shot put and seventh in the hammer throw, with tosses of 15.91 meters and 52.04 meters respectively. The defending national championship 4x400-meter team, composed of

A Texas pole vaulter vaults during the Texas Relays at the beginning of March. Both men and women will get to use the Texas Invite as a warm-up for the Big 12 Championships in two weeks. the country, will host its third home meet this month. While thousands of fans showed up for Texas Relays four weeks ago, the stands were almost

WHAT: Texas Invite

before we get out there again.â&#x20AC;? Texas appears ready to compete at the Big 12 Outdoors after a disappointing sixth-place finish at the Indoor Championships two months ago. First, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to face many of the same rivals theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve already seen many times at other meets this season. Thornton seems to like the rematches, though. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It should be a positive and help our guys get better,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re good teams with top competition, so it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hurt to see them more than once each season.â&#x20AC;?

WHEN: All Day Stacey-Ann Smith, Alicia Peterson, Angele Cooper and Chantel Malone, continued to be a big contributor to the Longhorn effort, finishing fifth with their time of 3 minutes, 34.02 seconds. But more important for the Longhorns was the exceptional, if not somewhat surprising performance that the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s distance group delivered. The distance medley relay team (DMR), made up of Betzy Jimenez, Judy Nwosu, Julie Amthor and Mia Behm, placed second in the event at the Penn Relays. Their time of 11:22.72 was the eighth-fastest in Texas history. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With what our DMR did, I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a very good placing heading into the conference championship,â&#x20AC;? head coach Beverly Kearney said after the meet. Though the DMR performance may have helped the team tremendously at the Penn Relays, the Longhorns will have to make do without the squad at this weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Texas Invite. Two of the DMRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top performers, Jimenez and Behm, will be heading to Stanford University to compete in the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invite 5K. Overcoming this temporary loss of talent will be the biggest challenge as the Longhorns head into Saturday. But regardless, the emphasis will be on fine-tuning for conference meets. And this weekend, all members of the Texas team will have a chance to do just that.

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DR. RICHARD J. (DICK) LAGOW , PhD, was carried home by his angels on Monday, April 26, 2010, after a long battle with Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Disease, with his beloved wife Roxann Parker-Lagow at his side. Dr. Lagow was born on August 16, 1945, in Albuquerque, N. M. to parents Faye and Ruthe Lagow. He graduated in 1963 with honors from Bryan Adams High School in Dallas, TX. He received a football and chemistry scholarship to Rice University where he was a three year letterman and went on to graduate with his B. A. in 1967 and earned his PhD in 1969. In 1970, Dr. Lagow earned a N. S. F. Postdoctoral Fellowship, and received the I. R. 100 Award. From 1974-75, Dr. Lagow was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. In 1992, he was bestowed the Alexander von Humboldt Award while being honored as a Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1997, Dr. Lagow was bestowed the great honor of the American Chemical Society Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry. Dr. Lagow was an instructor in the Department of Chemistry at Rice University, Houston, from 1967-69; Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969-76; Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, 1976-80; Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, 1980-1994; and L. N. Vauquelin Regents Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, September 1994 - onward. Dr. Lagow honorably received tenure from UT-Austin. Dr. Richard J. Lagow, founded and served as President of Exfluor Research Corporation in Austin, TX. He authored 212 chemical publications and was responsible for 81 U. S. Patents in various fields of chemistry.

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Richard was exceptionally passionate about travel for both business and pleasure, served as visiting professor and lectured at universities around the world, all along with his wife at his side. Dr. Lagow is preceded in death by his loving parents, Faye and Ruthe Lagow and brother, Bill Lagow. He is survived by the love of his life, his wife Roxann ParkerLagow. He is also survived by daughters Micale Crawford (husband Neal), Kristen Bettis (husband Craig) and son Robert D. Lagow (wife Carrie); Grandchildren MeKenna, Caelan, and William Crawford, soon to be born, granddaughter Skyleigh Lagow and the mother of his children, Bobbie D. Lagow. He also leaves behind his beloved Mother-InLaw, Lucille Parker and numerous nieces and nephews. Visitation will be held Thursday, April 29, 2010, from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, at Cook-Walden Capital Parks Funeral Home, 14501 N. IH-35, Pflugerville, TX, 78660. (512) 251-4118. Funeral services will be held on Friday, April 30, 2010, at 3:00 pm at Gethsemane Lutheran Church with Pastor Karl A. Gronberg officiating, followed by graveside services at Cook-Walden Capital Parks Cemetery Pflugerville, TX. Memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Association, 3429 Executive Center Drive #100, Austin, TX, 78701. A special gratitude to Dr. Lagowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s extraordinary caregivers Maria Herrera, Candice Nichols and for the loving care by Maria Chagoya and her family and all the staff members of Grady Woods II Nursing Home. Dr. Lagow was a caring son, a loving husband, a dedicated and loving father, a brilliant professor and a loyal friend. He will be deeply missed by all whose lives he touched. To share memories of Dr. Richard J. Lagow, please visit www.CookWaldenCapitalParks.com x ID 2926076

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By Gerald Rich Daily Texan Staff The undergraduate career of 32 students finished all too quickly Thursday night at the UT senior textiles and apparel fashion show, “High Voltage.” Somewhat larger than a single New York or European fashion show, about 5,000 people packed the Frank Erwin Center for the hour-and-a-half show that featured the collections of design seniors. Hours before the show started, models rehearsed their technique, from their walks to their facial expressions, while designers put the finishing stitches on their clothes. Glimpses of the show’s grandeur came through at the long rehearsals — bits of music played and the spotlights hit the runway. Suddenly, the doors to the arena opened. Thousands of

guests flooded into the space, hoping to grab a good view of the spectacle. The lights dimmed, and Eve Nichols, director of the show, and Mary Anne Rankin, dean of the College of Natural Sciences, introduced the evening’s events. Tension rose as designers, hairstylists and makeup artists checked clothes, teased hair and curled eyelashes to perfection. And then the show started. Designers hid backstage as the models and garments were cheered on by friends, family and fans. Each designer showed three different outfits for their collection, in addition to an evening dress and a bride’s gown. Then the show was over. The lights came up and all 139 garments had been shown. Every stitch, every zipper and every designer had its moment on the catwalk.

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Top Left, model Taylor McCausland grimaces as her hair is teased in preparation for the “High Voltage” fashion show. McCausland wore the work of several seniors during the show. Left, models adorning bridal garments pose during a practice run. Above, A model sporting a floral romper and striped sweater from apparel senior Jill Lancaster’s design poses during the show.

Why don’t we do it on the road? Fredericksburg Tourists become ‘Enchanted’ by German-influenced town Editor’s note: This is the sixth in a weekly series exploring day-andweekend trip destinations across Texas.

Venture into any earthy, homey or country shop around Texas, and the likelihood of seeing these candles is high. The plain, metal building is not By Layne Lynch & Katherine Kloc a reliquary box for what lies inDaily Texan Staff side. Behind the facility’s doors lie Throughout the 1800s, thou- shelves upon shelves of candles sands of settlers came to the Lone stacked high to the ceiling. Star State to plant new roots, joinThe candles come in numerous ing the likes of Stephen F. Austin sizes, from the most minute to the in colonizing and cultivating Tex- size of a cookie jar, and the most as land. popular are the bird of paradise, Germans were the largest ethnic group from Europe to immigrate to Texas, according to The Handbook of Texas. Although Fredericksburg they settled in numerous colonies provides UT students throughout the state, an abundant an easily attainable number of Germans built prominent and prosperous communities foray into the quaint, in the Texas Hill Country. leisurely lifestyle of a Fredericksburg’s German insmall town fluence was as prominent back then as it is today. Throughout the city, travelers will see both blatant and subtle references to hill country bluebonnets, honeytheir original homeland. suckle and Hawaiian pineapple. There is hardly a restaurant in The wonderfully subtle floral and Fredericksburg that doesn’t have spicy scents of these candles aren’t the words “Wurst,” “Bratwurst” the type that cause headaches. or “Schwenkbraten” on the menu. To some, these candles can be a For a student looking to seek bit on the pricey side. If that is the solitude for a weekend, the hour- case, search for the “damaged” and-a-half drive it takes to get to candles that are on discount beFredericksburg is an opportu- cause of minor blemishes, such as nity to not only escape but also nicks and scratches. explore an intriguing chapter in After finishing up at the canTexas history. dle factory, a tourist can finalAlthough the city of Freder- ly progress into downtown icksburg is a beautiful sight to Fredericksburg. behold, the drive there is anyFredericksburg’s most notable thing but appealing. Especial- claim to fame is Enchanted Rock, ly approaching summertime, the the largest pink granite rock hill dead vegetation and dried-out in the United States. Open seven grass appear more like a trip to days a week, Enchanted Rock ofthe desert. But the destination is fers visitors a beautiful, challengworth the unpleasant scenery. ing-but-not-too-challenging climb Before venturing into the cen- and, for the more outdoorsy type, ter of Fredericksburg, the Circle E camping sites. Candles factory is one place worth The trail is straightforward, stopping at for a tour. Just on the simple and entertaining throughoutskirts of the German town, out its duration because of the the factory manufactures and diversity of the landscape and sells candles throughout Texas. the numerous climbable rock

formations that scatter the surface of the granite. The trail is ideal for any group, regardless of age or hiking experience. Unfortunately, Enchanted Rock’s universal accessibility has made the park so popular it frequently exceeds parking capacity on highON THE WEB: traffic days. Preview of lucha For visitors libre and Anderson arriving at High films the park af@dailytexan ter 11 a.m. online.com on holidays and weekends, it is common to be turned away. But the wait is well worth it, if only for the breathtaking view from the top of Enchanted Rock. After hiking Enchanted Rock, it’s off to lunch at the Peach Tree Tea Room, which has become one of Fredericksburg’s most popular tourist attractions over the past few years. In order to avoid a wait, it is necessary to make a reservation. The Tea Room is only open for lunch and is known for its light meals and small portions. It specializes in soups and salads, offering customers unique options, such as the “Super Good for You Sandwich” (Gruyere cheese, avocado, tomatoes, spinach and garlic mayo on a whole-grain bread), and Southern favorites, such as the jalapeño-pimento cheese sandwich. Their chicken-salad sandwich is a popular item on the menu, mostly because of its unique flavor of the Peach Tree herb mayonnaise that is made inhouse, which adds an interesting twist to the Tea Room staple. Only an hour-and-a-half drive from Austin, Fredericksburg provides UT students an easily attainable foray into the quaint, leisurely lifestyle of a small town and offers visitors many diverse entertainment options.