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‘JUSTICE HAS BEEN DONE’

Erika Rich | Daily Texan Staff

Following President Barack Obama’s announcement late Sunday night of Osama bin Laden’s death, students celebrate at Cain & Abel’s. Out on the street, fireworks went off in West Campus.

President Obama announces death of al-Qaida leader By Julie Pace & Matt Apuzzo The Associated Press

Trent Lesikar | Daily Texan Staff

Robert Pigford, a custodian at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, watches a television report announcing the death of al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden.

STUDENTS REACT “I was in disbelief and then immediate celebration. I think it’s a significant event in the war on terror because the widest-known terrorist has been killed by the U.S. Strategically, I’m not sure how much it matters, but it helped close the chapter on 9/11.”’

• August 1988 Al-Qaida, an international terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden, begins operations.

Trucks with explosives crash into U.S. embassies in East African cities. The attacks were linked to bin Laden. President Clinton responds with cruise missile strikes in Sudan and Afghanistan.

Bin Laden and four others sign a fatwa to declare a holy war against the West and Israel.

Travis Knoll Latin American Studies sophomore

Melanie Schwartz History senior

Planes crash into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville, Pa. About 3,000 people die in the attacks, which bin Laden claimed responsibility for.

Barack Obama inaugurated as the 44th President of the U.S. In his May 1 speech, Obama announced that shortly after taking office, he asked CIA director Leon Panetta to make the killing of bin Laden top priority of the war against al-Qaida.

• May 1, 2011

President Obama announces the assassination of bin Laden in a Abbottabad, Pakistan, by a small team of Americans.

A PROLONGED PURSUIT • Feb. 23, 1998

“Some people are going to be really partisan about it, and you can’t avoid that happening, but I think most people realize the hunt for Osama has been going on since the Clinton administration. It’s one of those nights where no matter who your source is, everyone is saying the same thing.”

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• Jan. 20, 2009

• Sept. 11, 2001

• Aug. 7, 1998

Cameron Bina Psychology senior

“Every time 9/11 rolls around, I don’t know how to feel because so much was twisted to justify so much. So tonight, I’m cynical about the national security brouhaha, but I’m glad Obama got him rather than Bush. In a decade where American security looked helpless, intelligence triumphed over brute force.”

WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed thousands of Americans, was killed in a firefight Sunday with U.S. forces in Pakistan, ending a manhunt that spanned a frustrating decade. “Justice has been done,” said President Barack Obama in a dramatic late-night announcement at the White House. A jubilant crowd of thousands gathered outside the White House as word spread of bin Laden’s death. Hundreds more sang and waved American flags at Ground Zero in New York. U.S. officials said the helicopter raid in Pakistan was carried out by CIA paramilitaries together with the elite Navy SEAL Team Six. The U.S. team took custody of bin Laden’s remains, which American officials said were being handled in accordance with Islamic tradition. The death marks a psychological triumph in a long

struggle, although its ultimate impact on al-Qaida is less clear. The greatest terrorist threat to the U.S. is now considered to be the al-Qaida franchise in Yemen, far from al-Qaida’s core in Pakistan. The Yemen branch almost took down a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas in 2009 and nearly detonated explosives aboard two U.S. cargo planes last fall. Those operations were carried out without direct involvement from bin Laden. Obama said he gave the order for the operation after receiving intelligence information that he did not further describe. Former President George W. Bush, who was in office on the day of the attacks, issued a written statement hailing bin Laden’s death as a momentous achievement. Senior administration officials said the terrorist mastermind was found inside a custom-built compound with two security gates. They said it appeared to have been constructed to harbor one

• Oct. 12, 2000

Al-Qaida organizes a suicide attack against the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole. Bin Laden later bragged about the attack in a recruitment video and encouraged further violence.

• Oct. 7, 2001 U.S. Armed Forces launch Operation Enduring Freedom and send troops to Afghanistan in response to 9/11.

• August 2010 American intelligence agents brief Obama on a possible lead about the whereabouts of bin Laden. Source: Compiled from press reports

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Texas senators are expected to debate two controversial pieces of legislation this week — the budget and concealed carry on campus. The state House and Senate are looking for methods of easing the $15 to $27 billion budget deficit for the 2012-13 biennium. The House passed its version of the budget bill last month, which included major cuts to education and health care. Last week, the Senate Committee on Finance passed its version, which restores some of that funding. The Senate’s proposed budget would cut UT’s funding by about $51 million and attempts to tap into the Rainy Day Fund, a $9.4 billion emergency fund lawmakers can use during financial crises. Sen. Jeff Wentworth, R-San Antonio, filed a bill that would allow concealed-handgun license holders to carry on campus. The bill, which seemed likely to pass without much opposition at the beginning of the session, lost support after constituent pressure. Wentworth will try to give the concealed carry on campus issue new life through an amendment.

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A week after the Senate Committee on Finance passed the budget bill, senators may soon begin to debate the 2012-13 biennial budget on the chamber floor. The Senate budget bill, which totals $178.6 billion and would restore $12 million in funding for UT from the House version, was originally slated for debate Thursday, but the legislation did not have enough votes and was pushed back. Senators anticipate the bill will reach the floor today. The proposed budget has drawn heat from both political parties, with some legislators opposing the use of $3 billion of the Rainy Day Fund. The disagreement over the fund is one of the main reasons the bill has stalled. “While each of us could point to something in the budget we would change, I am comfortable with the method of finance for the budget,” said Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in a letter to senators last week. Dewhurst said he prefers to use recurring nontax revenue, such as economic growth, to balance the budget instead of using the Rainy Day Fund. On Friday, lawmakers approved Sen. Robert Duncan’s, R-Lubbock, fiscal matters bill, which would add $4.1 billion from existing tax revenue to help ease next biennium’s budget deficit. The budget bill’s author and chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, Sen. Steve Ogden, RBryan, said members have been divided on the use of the Rainy Day Fund. “If we’re not going to use the Rainy Day Fund when it’s raining, we might as well get rid of it,” Ogden said.

Senators are likely to take up the concealed carry on campus debate this week after Wentworth lost support for his original bill, which left the issue looking dead. Senators had also proposed amendments to allow public universities to opt out of the requirement as well as an amendment to leave the decision up to regents, both of which were not accepted and resulted in lost votes. Last week, Wentworth surprised senators when he proposed an amendment to allow concealed carry on campus during debate for the higher education bill by Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo. Zaffirini’s bill would reduce reporting requirements for higher education institutions and in turn translate into lower tuition fees. “That was the first bill I saw this [amendment] would be eligible for,” Wentworth said. “I have 20 votes to suspend the vote for freestanding, but you only need 16 votes for an amendment.” Wentworth said the move was a “routine parliamentary tactic used by members all the time.” Concealed carry on campus has generated heated opinions throughout the legislative session. Supporters said the measure would allow for personal protection, while opposers said it could make campuses more dangerous. Zaffirini accepted six prior amendments to the higher education bill but pulled it down after Wentworth brought his final amendment forward. The San Antonio Republican may be left searching for another option to pass concealed carry because Zaffirini said she is likely to kill her bill. “If he is able to successfully pass his amendment, I will have to kill the [higher education] bill,” Zaffirini said. “It is unfortunate that it might happen because the [higher education] bill could help save universities millions of dollars. We will have to see what he does.”

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Nearly 10 years after the 9/11 attacks, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

OSAMA continues from PAGE 1 high-value target and that for undisclosed reasons, officials believed the hideout was bin Laden’s. Officials also said they believe the death puts bin Laden’s al-Qaida on a path of decline that will be difficult to reverse, but there was no word on the whereabouts of bin Laden’s second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri. The stunning end to the world’s most widely watched manhunt came just months before the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Centers and Pentagon, orchestrated by al-Qaida, that killed nearly 3,000 people. The attacks a decade ago seemed to come out of nowhere, even though al-Qaida had previously struck American targets overseas. The Sept. 11th attacks set off a chain of events that led the United States into wars in Afghanistan and then Iraq, and America’s entire intelligence apparatus was overhauled to counter the threat of more terror attacks at home. A senior administration official said Obama gave the final order for U.S. officials to go after bin Laden on Friday. The official added that a small team found its

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NEWS BRIEFLY US court decision repeals ban restricting stem cell research A U.S. appeals court lifted the ban on federal funding used for embryonic stem cell research in a 2-1 vote Friday. Paul Simmons, director of the Centre for Stem Cell Research at the Health Science Center in Houston said the ban had not yet affected the school’s research funding. “Had the appeals court ruling gone the other way, that could have been a very different scenario from now on,” Simmons said. Two groups at the Houston Health Science Center are researching the use of embryonic cells in curing immunology and blood deficiencies. Embryonic stem cells’ potential use in curing diseases is based on the flexibility of the cell to adjust itself to mirror any cell in the body and the potential impact of curing diseases and removing strains on the health care system is enormous, Simmons said. Research at the UT Health Science Center in San Antonio will not be affected by the ruling because research at the center uses adult stem cells, said vice president for research Brian Herman. — Katrina Tollin

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VATICAN CITY â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Some 1.5 million pilgrims flooded Rome on Sunday to watch Pope John Paul II move a step closer to sainthood in one of the largest Vatican Masses in history, an outpouring of adoration for a beloved and historic figure after years marred by church scandal. The turnout for the beatification far exceeded even the most optimistic expectation of 1 million people, the number Rome city officials predicted. For Catholics filling St. Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Square and its surrounding streets, and for those watching around the world the beatification was a welcome hearkening back to the days when the pope was almost universally beloved. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was like a king to us, like a father,â&#x20AC;? Marynka Ulaszewska, a 28-year-old from Ciechocinek, Poland, said, weeping. Pope Benedict XVI praised John Paul for turning back the seemingly â&#x20AC;&#x153;irreversibleâ&#x20AC;? tide of com-

munism with faith, courage and â&#x20AC;&#x153;the strength of a titan, a strength which came to him from God.â&#x20AC;? John Paul is universally credited with helping bring down communism in his native Poland with support for the Solidarity labor movement, accelerating the fall of the Iron Curtain. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He rightly reclaimed for Christianity that impulse of hope which had in some sense faltered before Marxism and the ideology of progress,â&#x20AC;? Benedict said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He restored to Christianity its true face as a religion of hope.â&#x20AC;? John Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beatification, the fastest in modern times, has however triggered a new wave of anger from sex-abuse victims because much of the criminality occurred during his 27-year watch. Critics also say John Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legacy is clouded by evidence of a dwindling faith: empty churches in Europe, too few priests in North and South America, priests who violate their celibacy requirement in places like Africa and a general decline of Catholicism in former Christian strongholds.

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Editor’s note: On Friday the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) hosted a panel to discuss several issues pertaining to Texas higher education, including a set of controversial reforms published by the foundation. Former TPPF staffer Rick O’Donnell generated controversy when he was hired as an adviser by the Board of Regents in February and was subsequently fired last month. UT President William Powers, Jr. attended on behalf of the University. The following quotes were reported by The Texas Tribune.

Discussing higher education “The big bulk of what we do is undergraduate teaching, and that needs to undergo revision and change as well. If the issue is change, we embrace it and have been doing it for a long time.” — UT President William Powers Jr., at the panel, responding to criticisms of the role of research within the University.

“I agree with almost everything Bill said. I agree with almost nothing Dr. Trowbridge said.” — Texas A&M accounting professor Robert

Strawser who sat on the TPPF’s panel on behalf of A&M’s faculty senate.

“I’m not certain what that means.” — Strawser responding to a question on

“results-based contracts,” one of the TPPF’s seven “breakthrough solutions.”

“A recent study issued by the American Enterprise Institute reveals, for example, that from 1980 to 2006, 21,674 scholarly articles were published on Shakespeare. Do we need the 21,675th?” — Forum attendee and TPPF senior fellow

Ronald Trowbridge in a column published in The Texas Tribune. Trowbridge, who has been critical of what he calls an overemphasis on research by universities, cited several points from his column throughout the forum.

“Football coaches, who work with bodies, are subject to intense accountability. Professors, who work with minds, are not. Go figure.” — Trowbridge calling for increased account-

ability measures for professors in his column.

“How is research actually practiced throughout all academic disciples in a research university? My suspicion is that no one fully knows and that the assumption is that all research is valuable.” — Trowbridge, reiterating his criticism of the

Pay attention, be vocal By Holly Heinrich Daily Texan Columnist

As summer approaches it’s tempting to let thoughts of the University slip into the back of our minds. But if you’ve been advocating for higher education at the Capitol, it’s time to pay closer attention and get more active: Major decisions are still being made. With one month left in the regular legislative session, many major higher education decisions are still up in the air. It’s possible the Legislature will intentionally bring up heated higher education issues while most students and faculty are out of Austin. That’s happened before. The Senate Committee on Criminal Justice, for instance, scheduled a key hearing on legislation regarding guns on campus during spring break, when the committee was aware that students would be out of town. So whether you’re staying in Austin or heading home for the summer, don’t let the Legislature believe you’ve stopped paying attention to politics. If students don’t stay aware and involved, policymakers will be far more comfortable making decisions that students oppose. No one wants to return to campus in the fall to discover their University has been downgraded from an institution striving to reach the top tier of academic excellence to one that has become a budget education superstore, the Costco or Sam’s Club of public universities. The following are a few issues to follow and contact your legislators about in summer and fall 2011.

The Board of Regents The Board of Regents has considerable power to set University policy — and it is also one of the least transparent and accountable policy-making entities in the state. Recently,

the regents have been embroiled in a conflict centered around the hiring and subsequent firing of an adviser who advocated cutting back research, a goal which is out of step with the University’s long-standing mission to be a top research institution. There is also controversy surrounding a recent challenge by Gov. Rick Perry, who asked university regents to create a $10,000 bachelor’s degree (including textbooks), a feat which many experts say is only possible if most classes are online. The Board of Regents has assembled two task forces to review these issues: the Task Force on Blended and Online Learning and the Task Force on University Excellence and Productivity. Be on the lookout for their recommendations because their findings may influence the Regents’ decisions on whether to implement plans which would make the quality of a UT degree very different from what it is today. The regents are also expected to raise tuition during the upcoming school year, but due to expected state budget cuts, this decision wouldn’t be surprising. State contributions to the University have been decreasing since 2003, when the Legislature gave the regents the power to set tuition; between 2003-2008, tuition and fees rose 63 percent. Students have the best chance of preventing drastic tuition increases by advocating for university funding from the Legislature. The Board of Regents will hold public meetings on May 11-12, July 13-14 and Aug. 24-25.

offers to next year’s incoming freshman class because the University does not know how much aid, if any, it will be able to provide. The budget passed by the Texas House cuts nearly $1 billion from higher education. The proposed Senate budget cuts less, but still reduces higher education funding by $500 million. This is an important issue to speak out on now, and when you return home, ask family and friends to contact legislators and tell them to continue funding universities.

Redistricting

Congressional redistricting has never been a hot-button issue for college students, but it matters, especially at UT. Logically, the University would be best represented by a congressperson who lives in Austin and understands the concerns of the University and its students. Instead, the University lies in Republican Congressman Lamar Smith’s district, which stretches all the way to San Antonio, where Smith resides. UT students make up a minor part of his constituency, so the University does not have to be a significant consideration in his congressional votes or elections. Redistricting has long been viewed as a political game, but voters are increasingly taking interest, especially in areas where a community has been intentionally gerrymandered and people cannot elect the representative who best represents their needs. The University we return to in the fall will be directly affected by the decisions made by the Legislature and the Board of Regents durThe Higher Education Budget ing the summer. If you care about the quality Tuition increases and financial aid are and cost of your degree, keep paying attendependent on the amount of funding the tion, and stay vocal while you’re away. University receives from the state. The UniHeinrich is a government freshman. versity has postponed releasing financial aid

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The 21, 675th article on Shakespeare By andres Martinez Daily Texan Guest Columnist

In a guest column in The Texas Tribune on Friday, Ronald Trowbridge, a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, outlined the TPPF’s position that universities are prioritizing research over teaching. Citing a recent study by the American Enterprise Institute, Trowbridge stated that from 1980 to 2006, 21,674 scholarly articles were published on Shakespeare and then asked, “Do we need the 21,675th?” At a panel discussion on Friday on higher education reforms, which included President William Powers Jr., Trowbridge stuck to his script and read from his column in The Texas Tribune. However, in a seemingly unscripted moment, Trowbridge looked up from his paper and asked: “Why don’t they instead read the plays?” Trowbridge neglects to examine what actually goes on inside the classroom. Never in my experience as an English major at

UT have professors forced research upon me. Trowbridge could have discovered this had he glanced at a couple of English class syllabi. The vast majority of classes require readings of these “plays,” novels and poems — never any scholarly articles. After reading the actual texts, our professors prefer that we discuss the texts in class rather than lecture on what others have had to say about them. It is then our responsibility to interpret the texts in some original way and compose an essay — one that with time and dedication could very well become the 21,675th scholarly article on Shakespeare. As students, we need those 21,674 articles on Shakespeare to inform us and guide us in our search for an original thesis. While researching for term papers, it was always rewarding to encounter scholarly articles and books published by my professors. Their research and publications emphasize their qualifications and makes me proud to be studying at UT. To have an authority on the text take the time to seriously discuss the

text with you and guide you through it leaves a lasting impression. After finding those publications, my professors have always been there to discuss their relevance with me and offer any additional help with composing a strong, original argument. Never have they been too busy with their own research to skip their office hours or to accommodate me at another time. As a senior English major at UT, I take offense at Trowbridge’s assertion that another scholarly article on Shakespeare would contribute nothing to academia. If that 21,675th Shakespeare article is unnecessary, then I ask myself, what is the point of an English major at all? The essence of the English major is to critically engage these texts and consider them in a new light, not exclusively read others’ opinions about them. Perhaps Trowbridge should consider attending a few classes himself before leveling ignorant charges at the academy. Martinez is an English senior.

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Last season, Texas entered the Big 12 tournament as the conference’s No. 1 seed and had the advantage of playing in Austin. It was a different story this season — after going 3-3 in conference, Texas wound up with the No. 3 seed and had to go through the top teams in the conference if it was going to have a chance to repeat. That spelled defeat for Texas, which was swept by Texas A&M 4-0 on Saturday in the semifinals at Baylor Tennis Center in Waco.

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Texas rowers get ready to hit the water at practice, carrying their boat to the water. The rowers put the practice to good use on Sunday when they won their third straight Big 12 title.

Horns win third-straight Big 12 championship By will Anderson Daily Texan Staff

Winning the Big 12 tournament has become commonplace for Texas, which picked up its third-straight conference crown over the weekend, but the meet is still an important test for the Longhorns as they gear up for the rest of the postseason. No. 15 Texas earned 111 points

over the weekend, besting Oklahoma, Kansas and Kansas State. The Longhorns won all five of their races, including a 10-second victory in the first varsity eight, clocking in at 6 minutes, 47.7 seconds compared to second-place Oklahoma’s 6:57.9 Texas has now won all of the Big 12 rowing conference tournaments, which began in 2009. This year, however, the team is hoping

to carry that momentum further into the NCAA tournament. That starts in two weeks at the Conference USA Championship, which begins May 14. Texas rows as part of Conference USA because the Big 12 only fields four teams. The two-step conference finals will prepare the Longhorns for the national tournament, set to begin May 27. The team hasn’t been to the NCAAs since 2009.

FLATcontinues from PAGE 6 after Walsh grounded into a 5-4-3 double play. With the bases loaded in the sixth, Walsh batted nicely against Oklahoma’s Dillon Overton, drawing a full count. But he swung and missed on what would have been ball four — a fastball at his eyes. “I just can’t believe I swung at that,” Walsh said. “I came up with a couple situations where I had guys on base, and I didn’t come through for the team, so that was my bad.” Head coach Augie Garrido singled it out as a turning point in the game. “You strike out on ball four with the bases loaded, and that’s a momentum buster,” he said. This stinker of a game looked like Texas’ 10-1 loss to Maryland or its 7-3 loss to Brown — early-season defeats that featured an offense somewhere in between lethargic

and nonexistent. “That’s something we struggled with early in the season,” Walsh said. “It’s something we’re still working on.” The relapse comes at a bad time. Not only was the dud featured on national television, but it knocks the Longhorns out of the catbird’s seat in the Big 12 conference race. With Texas A&M losing two of three at Missouri this weekend, a sweep over Oklahoma would have put Texas in prime position to finish first in the standings, all but guaranteeing a national top-eight seed and homefield advantage for the Regional and Super Regional tournaments. But the Sunday loss puts the Longhorns tied with the Aggies, meaning the mid-May series against A&M is now a must-win. “We really would have liked to come and sweep this series,”

Walsh said. That would have been accomplished if the Texas bats had shown up like they did in the first two games of the series — a 5-0 win Friday and a 4-3 win Saturday. But only one Longhorn finished with multiple hits (Shepherd), and two of the team’s best players failed to register a hit, as Brandon Loy went 0-for-5 and Erich Weiss went 0-for-3, which means that the freshman’s hit streak comes to an end at 15 games. “We didn’t have that burning desire,” Garrido said. “There’s a level of complacency that sets in after you’ve won a series, if you let it.” Clearly, Texas had their old foes, contentment and complacency, come back to haunt them again Sunday. But how could the Longhorns let it happen again? They’re still scratching their heads trying to figure that out.

home run by Craig in the bottom of the fifth inning capped off the afternoon’s scoring. “I think this is the hardest weekend we have had to play with the challenge and just battling back and really showing what we can do in the conference,” Craig said. “It is just a great feeling to know that we did get the turnaround today and have a great week coming up.”

Clark insists that this weekend was a good learning experience for her team. After going 12-0 in conference play, she said that her team needs to remember that anything is possible, especially during postseason. After the win Sunday afternoon, the Longhorns are now 44-5 on the season and still lead the conference with a 13-1 record.

ov breaking A&M. But the Aggies came back, winning the next five games to claim the match and the doubles point. That gave the Aggies the lead, which they never lost. “We played well at No. 2 doubles, and I thought we had some chances at No. 1,” said Texas head coach Michael Center. “But they just outplayed us.” A&M won every first set of singles, and was able to put away both Corrie and Damico in straight sets to advance to the finals on Sunday. The Aggies eventually won the conference title, defeating Oklahoma 4-0.

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Texas falls just short of conference title By Alex endress Daily Texan Staff

Texas had a rough showing against No. 7 Baylor in the Big 12 finals Sunday, beginning the match by winning the first doubles match but the 25th-ranked Longhorns never found their stride after that and lost 4-1 to the Bears. The 54th-ranked tandem of senior Amanda Craddock and freshman Cierra Gaytan-Leach kicked off the doubles side with a bout against Baylor’s 59th-ranked Nina

Secerbegovic and Karolina Filipiak. Craddock and Gaytan-Leach were tied 5-5 with the Bears at one point but pulled away for the 8-5 victory. But Baylor secured the doubles point with two wins after that. The Bears rushed to a 2-0 lead over Texas, as Secerbegovic beat Maggie Mello 6-0, 6-3 at third singles. Next up, No. 26 Aeriel Ellis faced 11th-ranked Sona Novakova at first singles. Ellis prevailed 6-2, 6-2 against her top-15 opponent putting Texas on the board at 2-1.

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HOAGLAND continues from PAGE 6 by junior Courtney Craig, who set the record last year. A pair of back-to-back singles by freshmen Brejae Washington and Taylor Thom put the Horns in scoring position. A sacrifice bunt by Amy Hooks and a wild pitch by Oklahoma starting pitcher Keilani Ricketts allowed Washington and Thom to score, putting the Longhorns ahead for good. A

The Longhorns found themselves in a rubber match against A&M with a spot in the finals at stake. Using a different lineup than usual, Texas struck first at the second doubles spot. The tandem of sophomore Ben Chen and senior Kellen Damico got out to an early 3-1 lead against the Aggies. They eventually secured the 8-3 win, but A&M followed up with an equally dominant win at the No. 3 doubles spot over Texas’ Chris Camillone and Daniel Whitehead, 8-2. In the first doubles match, Texas got up 3-1 with senior Ed Corrie and sophomore Vasko Mladen-

Sam Stafford started for Texas (33-11, 15-6 Big 12) but lasted only 3.2 innings. He allowed the leadoff runner on in the first three innings and picked up his second loss of the season. Cale Ellis led of the third inning with a single for Oklahoma, and consecutive sac-bunts moved him to third base. Then Tyler Ogle slapped a double to right field that scored Ellis. “I left it up in the strike zone, and he did his job with that RBI double, which was big,” Stafford said. Garrett Buechele then hit a line drive directly at shortstop Brandon Loy, but Loy tried to backhand the ball and misplayed it for an error, which scored Ogle from second base to put Oklahoma up 2-0.

“He makes that play 99 out of a 100 times,” Stafford said. Shepherd’s third home run of the season cut into the Sooners’ lead an inning later, but the Longhorns were, for the most part, stagnant on offense. Jonathan Walsh had runners on first and second in the fourth inning but grounded into a double play. He was up again in the sixth with the bases loaded and a full count but swung at pitch out of the zone to strike out and end the inning. “That was terrible,” Walsh said. “It was definitely a ball, it wasn’t even close. I can’t do that in that situation.” The Longhorns left eight runners on base, five of which were in scoring position. Texas didn’t

It was all Baylor after that. “We fought hard, as we expect to each time out,” said Texas head coach Patty Fendick-McCain. “We didn’t play our best tennis, and we knew we needed to. We’re still waiting for everybody to play their best tennis on the same day. We’re looking for that in the postseason from this point on.” Texas came through Kansas State and No. 22 Oklahoma to reach the finals. It was the Longhorns’ seventh consecutive appearance in the Big 12 finals.

get a leadoff runner on base until the ninth inning, when Paul Montalbano walked. Walla lined a single up the middle two batters later, but it wasn’t enough. “We competed differently in the ninth inning than we did in innings one through eight, and if we can recognize that and get back on the competitive platform to be consistent, then it’s worth a loss,” Garrido said. “If we just blow it off and start making excuses, that’s when we’ll have a problem.” Though they lost the final game, the fact that they won the series was not lost on the Longhorns. The two wins move them into a tie with Texas A&M for first place in the conference, with only six conference games remaining.

LUNA continues from PAGE 6 “We were better confidence wise,” Luna said. “I feel like yesterday after the first run was scored, we were a little defeated, but today, we didn’t give up.” She settled down in the second and got out of the inning without a scratch. But then, in the following two innings, the Sooners managed to tack runs on the board by using small balls and walks. Af ter t hat, Luna worke d through the rest of the game without allowing another runner to cross home, leading the Long-

horns to a comeback victory over their rivals. Luna wasn’t flawless, as she allowed a runner to reach base in almost every inning of the game, a rarity for her. “It was definitely one of the most stressful games I’ve ever pitched,” Luna said. “Oklahoma did a great job, their pitchers and their hitters, and I’m just really glad we split with them.” Perhaps the biggest teller of Luna’s struggles was her lack of strikeouts. She is normally in double digits in that category, but on Sunday she only managed to fan

two batters, forcing her to rely on the defense to make the plays behind her. At the very least, Luna found out that she does not need to strike out every batter to be successful. Instead, she can just watch one of the best defenses in the country make the plays, for the same end result. “She learned trust. You don’t have to have 10 strikeouts every time if you trust that defense and those hitters who are in the foxhole with you,” said Texas head coach Connie Clark. “She doesn’t have to be the dominator every time.”

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The Longhorns claim they just came out flat. But how, against archrival Oklahoma? And how, with the chance to sweep the Sooners and claim sole possession of first place in the conference race? Flat with ESPNU in town? “We didn’t try to come out lazy or complacent,” said sophomore Jonathan Walsh. “It might just be

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subconscious.” The offense slept-walked through the first eight innings — save for Tant Shepherd’s fourth-inning home run — and, by the time the bats came to life, it was much too late. Oh, there were plenty of chances for Texas to rectify its slow start. After Shepherd’s long ball, two Longhorns got on base via walks but were sent back to the dugout

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Texas failed to close out the sweep of Oklahoma on Sunday, falling 5-2 to the Sooners at UFCU Disch-Falk Field. Tant Shepherd hit a solo home run in the fourth inning and Cohl Walla added another run in the ninth with a RBI single, but it was too little, too late for the Longhorns. “You saw a difference in performance in the bottom of the ninth inning,” Texas head coach Augie Garrido said. “We violated the inning-byinning concept. We let them get the momentum, and we never fought hard to get it back until the ninth inning, when you saw a different quality of at-bat.”

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ESPN picked a good weekend to focus on college softball. After dropping the first game of the series against No. 15 Oklahoma, the third-ranked Longhorns battled back and earned a 5-3 victory Sunday afternoon. The cable network featured the Red River Rivalry on Saturday night in front of a sold-out crowd at McCombs Field. The Sooners got on the scoreboard early in the top of the first inning and took it from there, earning five more runs in six innings. The Longhorns didn’t let that happen Sunday afternoon. After allowing Oklahoma to again score in the top of the first inning, the Texas offense produced runs early to challenge the Sooners. “I think it was tremendous that

Most stressful game of Luna’s career ends well as team comes out on top

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Texas right fielder Taylor Hoagland celebrates while rounding second base after delivering a homer in the third inning. Hoagland’s home run tied her for the single season Texas home run record at 13.

we had to grind it out,” said Texas head coach Connie Clark. “We talked about the difference of being under pressure and having to grind it out, having the right mentality and not being too hyped. We need to understand that we

are down in the foxhole together, and we just need to keep battling and keep playing — It is not going to be easy. Taylor Hoagland punched another solid pitch out of the park in the bottom of the third inning

to bring her season homer total to 13. Hoagland now leads the team in home runs and is tied for the UT single-season home run record, which is currently held

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She didn’t have her best stuff, pitches inside and out were being called balls, and Oklahoma was being extremely patient at the plate. But all-American Blaire Luna still managed to come through. Luna allowed three runs in her 25th complete game of the year but did enough to help her team come out on top Sunday. Luna came into the game following one of her worst outings of the year, when she allowed five runs to a potent Oklahoma squad Saturday. Those five runs were more than she had given up in the last eight games combined. Unfortunately for Luna, the same Sooner squad was there in the batter’s box the next day, and things were not any easier the second time she faced them. Luna quickly fell behind to Oklahoma for the second day in a row, giving up a pair of singles in the first as the Sooners drew first blood. But unlike the day before, Luna and the team were able to battle back.

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Former Longhorns start NFL journey Defensive backs highlight draft for Texas’ 2011 class with three corners chosen By Will Anderson Daily Texan Staff

In some ways, it was an atypical year for Texas players in the NFL draft, but there was a familiar theme to the seven-round affair — UT is still the place to look for talented defensive backs. Texas, which is colloquially nicknamed DBU, or “Defensive Back University,” by some, lived up to its moniker with three corners going in the draft. They helped the team rank No. 6 overall in pass defense

last season. In all, four young men made the official switch from Longhorn to professional over the weekend. Former Texas cornerback Aaron Williams went first, to Buffalo with the second pick of the second round and 34th overall. Fellow corners Curtis Brown and Chykie Brown (no relation) also had their names called by Pittsburgh and Baltimore, respectively. The program hasn’t had that many defensive backs in the annual summer draft since 2007. Michael Griffin, a safety, went to Tennessee, where he still plays, while corners Aaron Ross and Tarell Brown were also selected. Griffin and Ross both went in the first round.

In all, 12 defensive backs have been drafted from Texas to the NFL since 2000. But it was also the first time since 2008 that Texas did not have a first-round pick. Limas Sweed went in the second round that year to Pittsburgh. Jamaal Charles, now the starting running back for Kansas City and the league’s secondleading rusher last season, was also in that draft class and went in the third round to the Chiefs. Derek Stout | Daily Texan File Photo Sam Acho was the other exFormer Texas cornerback Aaron Williams looks to take a pick back Longhorn picked over the weekagainst Rice earlier in the 2010 season. Williams was selected 34th end, going to Arizona in the overall in the NFL draft by the Buffalo Bills. fourth round. Six other former Texas play- print: receivers James Kirkendoll end Greg Smith and defensive end ers had hoped to be drafted but and John Chiles, offensive linemen Eddie Jones. They are likely candiwere not picked up as this went to Kyle Hix and Michael Huey, tight dates for free agency.

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The number of trades the Dallas Cowboys made in the NFL draft this weekend, the first time they have done this since 2000. From 1989 to 2010 Jones had made 57 draft day trades.

254 The number of picks in the 2011 NFL draft that went from Thursday to Saturday of last week. It was also the number of the Mr. Irrelevant pick of the Houston Texans, Cheta Ozougwu from Rice.

SPORTS BRIEFLY NFL back to lockout after one day break on first day of draft If you’re a football fan, this weekend’s NFL draft may be the last time you get to see any of it for a while. As the NFL after a short break from the lockout on last Thursday, is back to being locked out. The next step in this process could take place as early as today in St. Louis, where the appeal’s court will decide whether the ruling in Minnesota to lift the lockout will stand. If it does, the lockout will be lifted and the players can go practice, and things like free agency can start. If not, fans could be looking at a long wait without football. — Chris Hummer

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IN a better world

Film tells powerful story despite lackluster ending By Alex williams Daily Texan Staff

As far as Academy Award categories go, Best Foreign Language Film is always a hard one to call. It’s hard to tell if the Academy will decide to award a bold narrative coming from a fresh perspective or a more traditional, Oscar-bait film that happens to have subtitles. “In A Better World” is a little of both, telling a compelling, disturbing story in a very classical and deliberate way before arriving at its lackluster ending. It’s unclear where the film is going for most of its first act. Newly motherless preteen Christian (played by William Nielsen) befriends outcast Elias (Markus Rygaard) who is often picked on. Christian decides to stand up for his friend and proceeds to beat a bully with a bike pump and hold a knife to his throat. Thus begins a sprawling meditation on the nature of violence, which also manages to drag in Elias’ father, Anton (Mikael Persbrandt), a doctor who spends much of his time in Africa. As both Elias and Anton find their moral codes shaken by the angry, vengeful Christian, the film turns into a ticking time bomb, building to an epic tragedy of an ending. Unfortunately, the film’s final moments are disappointingly toothless, ending with a whimper instead of the bang the audience has been expecting. It also turns distressingly literal, spelling out everything the audi-

ence already knows about the characters and their motivations. Even if the film’s ending does fall flat, there’s a lot in the build-up that’s very much worth watching. Nielsen gives an absolutely chilling performance as a very damaged little boy, a debut on the level of Hailee Steinfeld’s performance in last year’s “True Grit.” Nielsen runs the film and is so convincing in his warped worldview that it’s easy to believe Anton would be affected by it. Persbrandt’s Anton is a similarly great character, and while he spends much in the film in his own little overseas medical drama, Persbrandt is just as good negotiating with menacing African drug lords as he is with spending time with his son. In the hands of a lesser director, the film’s multinational narrative might have seemed disjointed, but director Susanne Bier’s confident presentation ties the film together easily. Bier stages several unshakable moments of harsh brutality, often involving children, but always makes them feel organic to the story and the three-dimensional, fascinating characters. Thanks to a few great performances and an engrossing story, “In A Better World” is a solid film. While its flat ending keeps it from being the best nominee in this year’s Best Foreign Language Film category (an honor that goes to the riveting “Incendies”), it’s a film well worth checking out.

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In Susanne Bier’s drama, “In a Better World,” Christian (William Nielsen), reeling from his mother’s death, draws his friend Elias (Markus Rygaard) and Elias’ father Anton (Mikael Persbrandt) into a vicious cycle of violence and revenge. The Daily Texan interviewed director Susanne Bier about her Oscarwinning film at this year’s South by Southwest festival. “In a Better World” was Bier’s first nomination at the Oscars and won Best Foreign Language 1 Film over other strong films such as Canadian “Incendies” and the Greek “Dogtooth.” The film was written by Anders

Thomas Jensen, but Bier helped shape the direction of the film’s story line. “He’d written some scenes where some boys were being interrogated by police. We started somewhere, and we moved on to what it became. We’d talk about a lot of things, and then he’ll write like 10 pages, and then we’ll discuss those and move on from there,” Bier said. Nielsen made his debut as Christian, the role around which the film revolves. Casting was a long and difficult process for Bier. “We did an extensive search, probably 120 kids. I auditioned 12 of them myself, but I was very keen on this guy [Nielsen],” she said. “I thought he had something really charismatic and fascinating. I was kind of anx-

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By Julie Rene Tran Using a quarter from the pocket of his shorts, local magician Michael Kaufman enchants his audience with his nimble hands and charming humor. Like a human piggy bank, he knocked the coin into the top of his head and out it came from his mouth. In his thick, raspy New York accent, Kaufman said that he had just what he needed in his pockets to put on a show. Playing cards, a handkerchief, a metal ring and the quarter. A full-time professional magician for more than 30 years, 58-year-old Kaufman, or Mystical Magical Michael, has performed more than 20,000 shows and is one of at least 60 magicians in town. Austin has a surprisingly viON THE WEB: brant magic scene. Along Check out Michael w it h HarKaufman’s website r y Houdimagicalmysticalmichael.com ni’s personal collection of theater arts at the Harry Ransom Center, the city has three magic club organizations: International Brotherhood of Magicians, Society of American Magicians and Young Magicians Club. The Austin chapter of the most prestigious and oldest, the Society of American Magicians, is the secondlargest assembly in the world.

Kaufman’s tricks all share a common denominator: They tell a story. From small tricks such as “hypnotizing” an upside down jug of water to spill on command to grand finales such as levitating a person off a box, Kaufman’s acts lure the audience in for a surprise. “The art of performance is to suck people into my little world, my story. [The process] is kind of like a legal con game,” Kaufman said. His goal is to have people jump ahead with preconceived answers and then stump them with a clever twist. “Movies are like that, poems are like [that], music is like that, and magic is the same thing,” he said. While working as a busboy at Colorado University in his 20s during the 1970s, he became intrigued when he saw a magician performing a changing color handkerchief trick in the lunchroom. Coincidentally, the day after, he passed by a wizard magic shop in downtown Boulder. He went inside and told an employee what he saw the day earlier and bought the trick for about $2.50. He spent the next three hours under a bridge, trying to figure out the trick, looking at the step-by-step pictures. Unable to get the trick down, Kaufman returned to the shop the next day. “He brought me back to the back-

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Local magician Michael Kaufman does a sleight of hand trick that is part of his arsenal of magic tricks he has performed internationally for more than 40 years.

room and showed me, and I go, ‘Ah, that’s so easy!’” Kaufman said. “Suddenly, something that was so complicated became so easy.” After buying more tricks and performing for family and friends, Kaufman began doing street shows full time. In 1978, he joined the Renaissance Festival. With the festival ending in November in Houston, performers often stay in Texas for their time off in the winter, Kaufman said. The low cost of living was what got Kaufman to living steady in Austin in the mid-’80s and performing at some of the city’s oldest venues. In between touring with the fes-

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Atmosphere, composed of MC Slug and producer Ant, is an indie rap duo based out of the Twin Cities. Critics hailed Atmosphere’s most recent album, The Family Sign, as the most mature and focused record to date.

Indie hip-hop MC discusses latest album MUSIC MONDAY By Francisco Marin Atmosphere, the peerless independent hip-hop duo comprised of MC Slug (Sean Daley) and producer Ant (Anthony Davis), have re-established its legacy once again. Its most recent album, The Family Sign, dropped last month as one of its most fully realized, streamlined and focused albums to date. Ant, specifically, chose to go the more restrained route and found himself crafting genuine love songs with sparse arrangements — ballad-ready piano, slide guitars, single drum arrangements. Ant’s production, coupled ON THE WEB: with Slug’s neverending stream Read the rest of of witticisms the interview and ruminaonline at tions, makes dailytexan The Family Sign online.com a far cry from the rough, raw dynamic of the duo’s 1997 debut, Overcast! The Daily Texan spoke with Slug via phone about The Family Sign’s hidden messages, dealing with criticism and why he has been disappointed lately with his indie rap peers. DT: Can you tell me a little bit about what was going through your

mind as you recorded The Family WHAT: Atmosphere w/ Blueprint, Sign? I get the feeling that it’s a little Grieves With Budo, Sab the Artist, gloomier than your typical AtmoDJ Abilities sphere record. WHERE: Stubb’s SD: I don’t see huge changes between each record, and yeah, I can WHEN: Tonight, 6 p.m. try to step outside of it and see it from everyone else’s perspective but still. I TICkETs: $25 don’t really hear this record as being gloomy, but it’s definitely a little bit of a quieter album than we’ve made in celebrating the fact that I’m fortunate the past. It’s a little more introspective, enough to still be here. too. But then again, that’s just a sign of where we are in our lives right now. DT: Any last comments or shoutouts you want to make? DT: I was surprised to see that SD: Actually, yeah. I haven’t told “She’s Enough” was sort of the an- anyone this yet, but I feel like this tithesis to the anti-“Lucy” songs needs to be addressed. I’ve been readyou’ve done in the past. What was ing a lot of reviews of the record, and the reason for the optimism? I keep hearing about how “Bad Bad SD: I got away from Lucy in 2003 Daddy” is about a belligerent parent, because it was no longer a thorn but that song is more of a criticism in my side. Lucy was never about a about my peers right now. Not so woman, really, and I was just having much my peers, even, but all the indie fun messing with the idea of who the rappers that came out of my balls — protagonists or antagonists are in cer- they’re like my children. But it’s also tain relationships. Lucy was always a expressing disappointment about the lot about being an alcoholic, and once indie-rap scene, and it just sucks beI got over that, I pretty much stopped cause we created a community about writing about Lucy. When I wrote sharing good vibes and sharing infor“She’s Enough,” I wasn’t trying to cel- mation among one another, and it’s ebrate women necessarily, but I was turning into a thing that’s just, you trying to write about celebrating what know, “Hey, can I get some coke? Can you love. It’s definitely a far stretch I get some molly?” You know what I from when I was writing about my mean? That song is just my way of excodependency and issues in life. But pressing how disappointed I am with this song is an ode to what I’ve done, these indie rappers.

tival and performing locally, Kaufman has also performed internationally from Germany to Thailand to the Himalayas. To settle his nerves, Kaufman talks to himself before every show. Communication is a key component in his show, Kaufman says, because dialogue between him and the audience is what drives the show. “I know sometimes I’m a little bit anxious, I move a little bit fast. I grew up from New York City, so my speech pattern is a lot quicker,” he said. “I’ve learned how to slow it up in performances so people could understand me, and I don’t just roll over my punch lines.”

Through layers of stories, Kaufman said he controls the minds of his audience and inspires them to distend their belief. The trick where he levitates an audience member off a box, for instance, is an illusion. “You know no one could just do that,” he said. But for those who know how the tricks are done — magicians — the performance is enjoyable because of the unique style and personality the magician puts in the act. “Sometimes, I know how he does what he does, but he still entertains me,” said Kent Cummins, fellow local magician. “And sometimes, I

think I know what he does, but he tricks me.” Think of it as musicians, he said. A musician can watch another musician and know the chords but can also still admire that musician’s skills. That’s the same way with magic and magicians, Cummins said. For Kaufman, the applause that follows is just the cherry on top. “When you have 300 people looking at you, and they all do something [like applaud], their focus is all on you. It’s like the best drug in the world,” he said. “It is. It stimulates you, and when you’re done with the show, whew, you’re like buzzed.”