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THE DAILY TEXAN Monday, May 10, 2010
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TODAY Calendar: Concert
The Guild of Student Carillonneurs performs on the UT Tower bells. South and West Malls, 6:15 to 7:30 p.m.
In Sports: Ball game On TSTV: Watch it
KVRX News 9 p.m. College Pressbox 9:30 p.m.
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Softball vs. Georgia, McCombs Field, 6 p.m.
TOMORROW’S WEATHER
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UTIMCO CEO Bruce Zimmerman has said he does not believe the company should consider the social responsibility of the companies it invests in.
By Audrey White Daily Texan Staff A UT graduate student is taking an energetic stance in support of ethics and social responsibility, and he’s starting at the top. Ben Snyder, a theater and dance graduate student, wants The University of Texas Investment Management Company to change its investment policy to include consideration of the so-
cial responsibility of the companies in which it invests. Currently, the policy, which is set by the UT System Board of Regents, explicitly directs against UTIMCO investing “so as to achieve temporal benefits for any purpose including use of its economic power to advance social or political purposes.” Essentially, the policy requires that UTIMCO not consider any factor except economic
viability when investing. “I am strongly opposed to a policy that states we do not consider the social and political actions of a company. That is not ethical or moral,” Snyder said. Both Student Government and the Graduate Student Assembly passed resolutions this school year in support of UTIMCO changing
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Fallen Longhorns remembered
In News: Symposium The Hispanic Faculty/Staff Association hosts the 2010 Leadership Symposium “Sustaining Leadership Through Troubled Times.” Texas Union Ballroom, 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
In Life&Arts: Summer movie season begins The Daily Texan reviews some of the summer’s biggest films.
WEDNESDAY Calendar: Fitness first To celebrate National Employee Health and Fitness Day, RecSports is hosting a Poker Walk. Participants walk a onemile course, gathering poker chips along the way that can be turned in for a free T-shirt. Gregory Gym, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
In Life&Arts: The end comes too quickly Hump Day columnist Mary Lingwall signs off.
In Sports: Texas 4000 Check out a feature about the athletes who take part in the Texas 4000.
Katherine Medlin | Daily Texan Staff
History professor Howard Miller pauses to remember the members of the University community who have died in the past year at the UT Remembers ceremony held Friday in the Tower Garden.
THURSDAY Calendar: Celebration End of Year Celebration Lunch presented by The Carillon restaurant. The AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, 11:30 a.m to 1:30 p.m.
FRIDAY
Calendar: Waller talk
The Design Commission and Waller Creek Project Review Committee will meet at 12:00 p.m. at One Texas Center, Room 560.
In Sports: Tennis
Women’s tennis plays Wichita State in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament, Norman, Okla.
FRIDAY Championship Softball heads to the Big 12 championship in Oklahoma City, which runs through Sunday.
Ceremony commemorates staff, students who passed away in past year By Vidushi Shrimali Daily Texan Staff As the sun set Friday night, UT students and Austin residents noticed a change in the Austin skyline — the sea of bank buildings and skyscrapers was missing one famous burnt-orange glow. To commemorate students, faculty and others affiliated with the University who have died in the past year, only the top level and crest of the tower were lit white on the day known
annually as “UT Remembers.” “It’s saying that we, as a University community, grieve over those we lost,” said Neal Armstrong, vice provost and chair of the UT Cares Committee, which started UT Remembers in 1998. “To me, the light at the top of the Tower means that even in loss, there is life; life ends for one and begins for another.” On the last class day every spring, families and friends of University community members who have passed away are
invited to the Main Mall to pay their respects. The darkened tower is the culmination of UT Remembers. This year’s commemoration started with a lowering-of-the-flags ceremony on the Main Mall, after which visiting families and friends were invited to a grief session in the Texas Union and lunch at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center. The event ended with a service in the Tower Garden, where University members read the names
of each community member who passed away. After each name was read, a bell tolled in the Tower to signify each member’s life. Sisters Silvia Cantu and Nellie Gildner attended UT Remembers for their mother, Paula Rangel, who worked as a custodian at UT for 10 years before she passed away in January. They said the event helped them cope with their loss. At the grief session, they
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Charity sees benefit from Program aids college life transition annual underwear event Group helps students As the group of students ran By Collin Eaton out of the lot to circle around GuaDaily Texan Staff Drivers on Rio Grande and dalupe Street, a man standing on Guadalupe Streets may have Rio Grande said, “Man, I thought been shocked by the sight of I’d seen it all.” After the run, radio disc jockabout a thousand college students running down the road eys from KROX hosted several contests includin nothing but ing “Fittest Guy,” their skivvies. “Fittest Girl” and Throngs of “Best Themed Unstudents packed Run Group.” into the parkWe’ll probably donate die The winner of the ing lot across from Pluckers about 4,000 articles of themed group contest was called “Alon Rio Grande clothing this year.” ice in Underland,” Street on Friday, socializing —Weston Carls which included a with other peoUndie Run co-founder white rabbit, a purple cat and a “Mad ple in their unHatter” who wore a derwear, playwide top hot, a coling Frisbee and orful bow tie and generally avoiding a man in a Borat-style thong boxers that said, “Stay Away From suit. The lot was lined with AXE My Rabbit Hole,” on the back. banners that read, “Think of it as RUN continues on page 2 Good Samaritans Gone Wild.”
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with disabilities learn to become independent
By Alex Geiser Daily Texan Staff For some college students dealing with developmental disorders, achieving a level of independence is a difficult task. But through programs like College Living Experience, it is a task that can be accomplished. “They taught me how to live on my own and be healthy and social to other people,” 20-yearold Kristiana Keahey said. Keahey is not alone. Many students who graduate from College Living Experience, an organization that focuses on helping college students with developmental disorders, learn the skills they need to become independent. For some, the process is a matter of learning to organize and prioritize, but for others, it’s much more difficult.
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Athena Newsom is the director of College Living Experience, an organization that focuses on helping students with disorders. The majority of the 34 students in the program attend Austin Community College, but some are enrolled at UT and St. Edward’s University, while others plan to attend one of these institutions at a later date. Keahey will be taking an art
class at UT this summer as she continues working with the program. P ro g r a m d i re c t o r A t h e na Newsom said many of the students in the program felt
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