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SPORTS PAGE 6 Horns set to capture Big 12 Championship
Western Week concludes with ‘Duel at High Noon’
THE DAILY TEXAN Friday, April 30, 2010
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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.
SATURDAY Ticket to ride
Free rides all day on the Downtownto-Leander MetroRail Red Line. 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
First Saturday on South First features specials and sales at businesses located on South First Street. Noon to 6 p.m.
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.
Inside In News:
First-ever Longhorn Run will benefit student groups. page 5
In Opinion: A Daily Texan columnist makes a plea for sex education. page 4
In Sports: Softball team shows resilience and “just keeps getting better.” page 6
On the Web:
Anderson High School’s film festival will showcase student creations.
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Jeff Heimsath | Daily Texan Staff
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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LIFE&ARTS: Check out our coverage of the “High Voltage” fashion show on page 10
There is hardly a restaurant in Fredericksburg that doesn’t have the words “Wurst,” “Bratwurst” or “Schwenkbraten” on the menu. — Layne Lynch & Katherine Kloc Daily Texan Life&Arts writers LIFE&ARTS PAGE 10
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.
Eyelash stretches into Guinness records book
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Abortion foes fired up by Palin WEEKEND
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Biomedical engineering senior Zephyr Lutz-Carrillo has a 7-centimeter eyelash that is competing for the Guinness Book of World Records
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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