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Spring 2010 — Exam Week Extra
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potential nominees, including Kagan and Wood. Perry said Obama’s announcement Monday shows his desire to create more diversity on the bench and to fill the seat with someone who could remain for a long period of time. Perry also said Obama would have probably liked
By Shabab Siddiqui Daily Texan Staff The office that oversees a variety of nonacademic functions on campus will see its budget cut by about $4 million, the largest reduction in the University’s plan to cut its budget by more than $14.6 million by August 2011. The Office of the Vice President of University Operations manages building maintenance, parking and transportation, and human resources, among other operations. Patricia Clubb, vice president for University operations, said that while the reduction amount might be the largest, its percentage works out to be the same as most other vice president budgets. “We’re not being asked to cut more than anyone else,” Clubb said. “We just have the largest budget.” The offices of the president, development, legal affairs and public affairs will cut the most at 8 percent, while the provost’s office and research office will face reductions of 4 percent and 0.7 percent, respectively. Colleges will be asked to reduce 0.2 percent of their budgets. President William Powers Jr. said the decision to look at vice president budgets first was made to ensure that the academic side of the University is affected least. Clubb said some of the cuts to the individual units within the University operations budget were made based on the size of their budgets. She said campus security was one area that was prioritized when making the decision. “Everyone’s committing something,” Clubb said. “[But] the police
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Royal flush
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In News: Student-led committee wants to outsource UT Webmail page 6A
In Opinion: The editorial board says goodbye to another school year page 4A
In Sports: Softball team hopes the third time’s the charm this weekend page 1B
In Life&Arts:
We continue our quest to discover the best tacos in Austin page 10B
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Quote to note “Through all the angry Firing Lines, the encouraging comments and late night trips to Wendy’s, I’ve learned a lot as a writer, a citizen and a fervent lover of spicy chicken nuggets.” — Dan Treadway Associate editor OPINION PAGE 4
Peyton McGee | Daily Texan Staff
Six-year-old Leslie Ramirez fishes with her family at a pond near Cesar Chavez and South First streets on Tuesday. Ramirez and her family have been going to the pond about once a week for the past two years because they say it is where they find the big fish.
President passes on Texas alumna Elena Kagan surpasses Diane Wood to become Supreme Court nominee
Justice nomination, which went to U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan. President Barack Obama likely chose Kagan because of her background as a federal lawyer and her younger age, said UT By Alex Geiser associate government professor Daily Texan Staff Despite possessing similar ide- H.W. Perry. Kagan, who was appointed as ologies, UT School of Law alumna Diane Wood was passed over the first female solicitor general Monday for the Supreme Court in March 2009, supervised and
conducted government litigation on the Supreme Court. She graduated from Princeton University before attending Oxford University for two years and finished her education with a degree from Harvard Law School, where she would later serve as dean. After Justice John Paul Stevens announced his retirement in April, Obama selected four
Group prepares for 4,500-mile ride Students to document By Will Anderson Daily Texan Staff Steely figures on skeletal bicycle frames glide past closed storefronts and sleepy exteriors of oncampus dormitories in the postdawn stillness. It’s just past 7 on a Saturday morning, but the cyclists are already decked out in full riding gear, sweating, stretching and warming up for the five or so hours ahead of them. This is just another weekend of training for members of the Sense Corp Texas 4000 for Cancer cycling team, which seeks to raise awareness and funds for cancer research. The real ride begins June 5, when the team’s 56 members set out from Cedar Park with 4,500-plus miles ahead of them. They’ll cover between 30 and 113 miles per day, depending on the terrain, which alternates from oceanside causeways to grueling mountain climbs. The riders battle all sorts of conditions, and they don’t stop for rain. The two teams — one heading to Alaska via the West Coast, the other traveling through the Rocky Mountains — will spend some days in 100-degree heat, cross deserts in California and Nevada and encounter sub-zero temperatures in the Yukon Territory.
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Members of the Sense Corp Texas 4000 for Cancer bike down San Jacinto Boulevard during training Tuesday. The Texas 4000 is the world’s longest annual charity bike ride, with a course that runs from Austin to Anchorage, Alaska. To make it to their destination on time, they’ll have to cover a pre-determined distance every day. For instance, the team taking the Rocky Mountain route will travel approximately 4,734 miles in 62 days, with eight days of rest interspersed throughout the trip. That’s an average of 76 miles per riding day. Riding from Cedar Park to Anchorage, Alaska, would be the same as completing the en-
tire Tour de France twice — plus an extra couple hundred miles. The team has no fitness requirements for incoming riders. While some of them could pass as elitelevel athletes by the end of the trip, many begin the journey having never run more than a mile in their lives. “No riding experience neces-
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“I grew up in a household By Priscilla Totiyapungprasert that was very media-conDaily Texan Staff For the past semester, eight scious,” Spence said. “In colUT students have been prepar- lege I started thinking about ing to spend a month in Koso- the global impact of storytellvo, where they will film a doc- ing and how the media can be umentary showing the strug- a tool for social change.” The team consists of filmgles related to financial illitermakers Juan acy and bankElizondo, also ing in the cona Daily Texflict-torn rean staffer, and gion. Alex ArreThe stuI grew up in a dondo; prodents make up ducer and the UT team household that was Texan staffof Students of the World, an very media-conscious.” er Kara McKTexan Austin-based — Courtney Spence enzie; staffer Amnonprofit that CEO and founder of ber Genuske; partners college students Students of the World photographer Lara Haase; with socialfilm interly conscious viewer Tamilcompanies la Mirzoyeva; to document how these companies use inno- graphic designer Melissa Revative ways to solve different ese; and fundraising and events planner Emma Miller. problems around the globe. Kosovo — a country in EastCourtney Spence, CEO and founder of Students of the ern Europe bordered by MonWorld, started the program 10 tenegro, Serbia, Macedonia and years ago during her second year at Duke University. FILM continues on page 2A
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