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he was fascinated by the antiquity and mystery of the plaque and wondered to himself, “Where are those ladies now?” Thirty to 40 percent of the cathedral has already been dismantled,

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Above, Vincent “Junk King” Hannemann stands in front of the remains of the work of art he spent 21 years creating, the “Cathedral of Junk.” Hannemann was forced to downsize his creation because of anonymous complaints regarding safety regulations. Below, the entrance sign to the Cathedral of Junk remains despite the significant downsizing of the structure. Hannemann continues to remove pieces of the cathedral to comply with the city’s requests.

Artist disassembles structure after failure to comply with city By Leah Wise Daily Texan Staff What was once an innovative and remarkable three-story “cathedral” made of unusual objects such as bicycles, hubcaps, old plaques and stained-glass walls now lays in an array of smaller structures and piles scattered across Vincent Hannemann’s backyard. Hannemann, creator of the “Cathedral of Junk,” has officially closed his backyard wonderland in South Austin to all visitors because of anonymous complaints regarding safety violations. Many citizens of Austin have been so fascinated by the structure that Hannemann has even held weddings, plays and birthdays at the cathedral for free. The Cathedral of Junk is a large

construction of different items that Hannemann has collected over time and consists of different rooms, two of which he has labeled “The Throne Room” and “Surf Canada.” The cathedral has been a major hot spot for both tourists from all over the world and local visitors for many years, and was considered a large part of the “Keep Austin Weird” cultural movement. “I think it’s ridiculous they’re making him take it down. It’s a travesty, and a step backwards for the city,” said Red Wassenich, who originally coined the phrase “Keep Austin Weird.” Wassenich said he hopes this isn’t the end of the Cathedral of Junk. Hannemann said he has continually added elements to the cathedral for 21 years, and admir-

State commission proposes changes to align with EPA The proposed changes come By Nolan Hicks just two days after the EPA told Daily Texan Staff The Texas Commission on En- Chevron Corp. and Garland vironmental Quality made pub- Power & Light to bypass state lic a series of proposed chang- officials and directly apply for es to the flexible-permitting pro- federal clean-air permits. Travis County Democratic cess, which has come under fire Party chairman from the EnviAndy Brown atronmental Protacked Gov. Rick tection Agency. Perry’s environThe proposed mental record. changes align “Perry has the permitting Perry has had the process for ma- opportunity to act and had the opportunity to act and jor polluters hasn’t, and our air hasn’t, and our in Texas more closely with quality has suffered.” air quality has suffered,” he federal regula— Andy Brown said. tions. The EPA The Bill had threatened Travis County White and Perto take over the Democratic chairman ry gubernatoTexas permitrial campaigns ting process bebegan exchangcause of noning barbs over compliance. TCEQ spokesman Terry Claw- the threatened takeover soon son told The Associated Press on after the EPA announced it Wednesday that the announce- would federalize the permitment was not directly related to ting process that allows large entities to pollute. the EPA’s actions this week. Perry attacked the agency’s de“It’s certainly an attempt to satisfy the EPA’s concerns about mands that the TCEQ more closethe flex permits, but not neces- ly comply with EPA regulations sarily in response to yesterday,” EPA continues on page 2 he said.

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INSIDE: Read the editor’s take on the cathedral’s closure on page 3 ers of the cathedral donated most of the objects that made up the astonishingly large structure. Hannemann’s favorite object that went into the cathedral is an old plaque he came across that reads, “Donated by The Women’s Golf Association 1959.” He said

UT cameras track down drivers with ticket debt By Collin Eaton Daily Texan Staff UT Parking and Transportation Services officials are finding that the number of citations recorded in recent months are about equal to what they were years ago, since the department has mounted cameras with the ability to scan license plates on cars with outstanding citations. PTS employs cutting-edge technology to collect on unpaid tickets — which come to more than $550,000 total — left by past parking violators, and one PTS director said she sees the office’s duty as protecting permit-holders through the energetic enforcement of rules with regard to those who snub signs and permits. The department uses a Canadian-built camera system called “AutoVu” to recognize the license plates of cars with outstanding parking tickets. The cameras are mounted on two sides of a pick-up truck that is driven around campus lots and through University parking garages at least once a day. Some cars belonging to repeat offenders are outfitted with an immovable “boot” that PTS removes after drivers pay their fines. “When we first put the [AutoVu] system on campus, the number of boots that we were finding increased about 30 to 45 percent,” PTS manager Charles Smith said. “But that only lasted for several months because [once] people figured out what was going on, they moved to different places. If you’re hitting one area, they’ll move somewhere else — it doesn’t stay consistent. What we’re finding with the camera system now is that the number of boots per day, per week and per month is only a little higher than it was when we were [recording citations] manually.” Several times a day, a red light blinks to life when its camera alerts UT’s parking enforcement officers to a license plate with an outstanding citation, and if a plate is on the PTS system “boot list,” the officer slaps a boot on the car’s tires. But the number of hits the cameras record every day has decreased since

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Oil moratorium met with resistance By Nolan Hicks Daily Texan Staff Republicans from the Texas delegation attacked President Barack Obama’s continuation of the moratorium on drilling in the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday. The moratorium was put in place May 27, after an explosion sank BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil platform, unleashing a torrent of oil into the Gulf of Mexico — now estimated at up to 60,000 barrels per day — from a damaged oil well. Using the government’s 60,000-barrel-a-day figure, the spill rate is roughly equal to an Exxon Valdez spilling into the Gulf of Mexico every four days. Congressional Republicans, who announced Saturday that they were launching an effort to repeal the moratorium at the Republican convention in Dallas, complained the policy would do more economic harm to an area already devastated by the oil spill. “The deepwater drilling moratorium will hurt our economy, cost Texans jobs and is a blow to our national security because it makes the U.S. even more dependent on foreign oil,” said Sean Brown, spokesman for U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, who is the ranking member on the Committee on Energy and Commerce. Drew Hammill, spokesman for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, wouldn’t offer a comment about whether or not Pelosi would allow such legislation to move to the floor for a vote.

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A pelican sits covered in oil at Queen Bess Island in Barataria Bay, just off the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, La., on June 5. “The hearings yesterday made clear that while BP caused this problem, other companies are all using the same response plan, and CEOs admitted no company has the ability to deal with another such spill right now,” Hammill said, defending the moratorium. Gov. Rick Perry’s office estimates that as many as 46,000 jobs could be at risk because of the moratorium on drilling, Perry spokeswoman Lucy Nashed said. “It’s important to everyone that these [rigs] operate in a safe manner, but it’s vitally important to thousands of Texas families that we get these rigs back into operation as quickly [as] possible,” Nashed said. Perry campaign spokesman Alejandro Garcia said Perry

was focused on making sure that the oil is cleaned up as soon as possible. A congressional report released by the committee cast doubt whether other oil companies were better prepared than BP to respond to a Deepwater Horizon-like disaster. The report said disaster response plans from Chevron Corp., Exxon Mobil Corp., Shell Oil Co. and ConocoPhillips were almost identical to BP’s plan. “With the news yesterday that the Exxon Mobil oil spill response plan includes 40 pages dedicated to how it will deal with the media and only five pages for how to deal with protecting resources from an oil spill, we have to be

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The Texas High-Speed Rail and Transportation Corporation, headed by Judge Robert Eckels, is in the early stages of developing a high-speed rail system and transportation corridor that will link major Texas cities and extend to metropolitan areas in Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. Eckels said Monday during the corporation’s community and press briefing that the rail will create a Texas metroplex compared to individual Austin, Houston, Dallas and San Antonio metroplexes and will strengthen Texas as well as the state economy. Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, also showed his support for the rail during the briefing. “There is very little space and even less money to expand existing highways and roads,” Watson said. “The Texas triangle, or ‘T-Bone,’ won’t just be a reference to oil but [will] refer to a population of people driving the economy of Texas, and it will take more than we have

now in the current transportation system.” Temple Mayor Bill Jones said at the briefing that there are projections that 80 percent of the Texas population will be in the T-Bone region in the coming years, and that it is important to look at alternative methods of transportation. Jones said the plan for the high-speed rail system is technology-neutral, and it will most likely be a steel-onsteel system, projected to be built in the next 10 to 15 years, with a total cost between $20 billion and $25 billion. “The general Texas population generally does not know how critical the transportation issues are in the state and of the rapid population growth,” Jones said. “We cannot build more highways and must focus on the passenger rail. We are continuing to visit with investors from different countries interested in the potential of Texas.” — Hannah Jones

they were put in place a year and a half ago, Smith said. From September to May, PTS collected $77,035 from parking fines. Last month, the department identified 97 parking violators who owed $8,500 to UT, and there are more than 90,000 citations still at large. The money will not go to fund University programs or colleges, but sustains the enforcement of parking rules as the PTS is entirely selffunded, receiving money from neither the University nor the state of Texas. “These are people that owe the University money,” PTS assistant director Jeri Baker said. “It’s not untapped [revenue], it’s uncollected.” Baker said citation revenue nearly pays for the active enforcement of parking regulations and that rather than pursuing debt to raise revenue, the enforcement is a form of protection for permit carriers with a reasonable expectation of parking availability. “Every year, the biggest expense that the PTS has is the debt service or the house payment for the garages, so every year, we’re paying about $6 million for the construction costs and the debt service for the nine garages that we have on campus,” Baker said. Genetec, a technology company in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, produced the cameras 10 years ago, but the high-tech product first saw commercial success among university parking services three years ago when it developed a

marketing package designed for universities, AutoVu product manager Chris Yigit said . “A lot of parking enforcement activities are done on foot, and we thought the process would be more efficient in an automated way,” Yigit said. “Also, doing parking enforcement at universities is relatively complex, as officers must remember permit schedules for many different permits and parking zones. So, by automating it, officers can focus on their task at hand.” Baker said the cameras have improved the efficiency of officers’ jobs, since the time it takes to examine an entire garage has decreased significantly. The AutoVu is still efficient, however, and enables PTS to search areas it doesn’t have the manpower to search manually, such as in a garage during a large campus event, Smith said. Manual searches can also lead to mistakes, such as when Matt Jones, a UT alumnus and Plan II and communications major, said he found a ticket on his car despite having the correct permit for the space. “There was a parking ticket on my car, and there was a note on my windshield that said, ‘Hey, I backed into your car, let me know if there’s any damage,’” Jones said. “But the note she left covered my parking pass, so I came back to a dented car and a parking ticket.” Jones said he appealed the ticket online but was instructed to place his parking pass in a more visible spot on his dashboard.

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ed a $20 billion compensation guarantee and an apology to the concerned,” said U.S. Rep. Lloyd nation from BP on Wednesday, Doggett, D-Texas. announcing the company would “This tragedy will not end oil set up a major claims fund for exploration, but it should end the shrimpers, restaurateurs and tolerance of ‘Big Oil’s’ evasion of others whose lives are being safety requirements,” he said. wrecked by the oil flooding into In Washington, Obama wrest- the Gulf of Mexico.

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Applause broke out during a community meeting in Orange Beach, Ala., after the announcement was made. “We asked for that two weeks ago and they laughed at us,” Mayor Tony Kennon said. “Thank you, President Obama, for taking a bunch of rednecks’ suggestion and making it happen.” Obama had said he would “make BP pay,” and the company’s chairman said after four hours of intense White House negotiations that BP was ready to do so. Creation of the fund — to be run by an administrator with a proven track record — is the first big success Obama has been able to give to Gulf residents and the nation in the eight weeks since the explosion. As huge as the $20 billion figure seems, both Obama and BP said it was by no means a cap. Additional reporting by The Associated Press.

but the city of Austin continues to reject Hannemann’s attempts to acquire a building permit for the structure. On March 9, the city received a citizen complaint about the cathedral having electrical extension chords, no building permit and no certificate of occupancy. Hannemann said that on March 10, the city gave him seven days to alter the cathedral so it would comply with building regulations. Hannemann and several volunteers set out to make it happen, but it proved to be a much more difficult process than expected as they also strove to preserve the original structure. Each week, Hannemann called the city to ask for an extension so he could continue to modify the cathedral in accordance with the city’s standards. “When you’ve got aluminum

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during his acceptance speech at the Texas Republican Party convention in Dallas on Friday. “We take offense at the unelected bureaucrats who conspire to derail energy industry while ignoring the environmental progress that we’ve made,” Perry said. “They tighten the red tape with which they bind us, choking the life out of important industries.” White previously attacked the TCEQ for what he called its ineffectiveness. “In Houston, we realized we couldn’t count on the TCEQ,” he said. “We took matters into our own hands to independently measure and analyze toxic chemicals in the air.” Neither the Perry nor White campaign s could provide comment on this late-breaking story. Additional reporting by The Associated Press.

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Austin just got a little less weird. After a months-long battle with the city, Austin artist Vince Hannemann has decided to dismantle the 33-foot-high sculpture in his backyard known as the “Cathedral of Junk.” The famed and beloved cathedral is a towering monument of found objects: forks, hubcaps, lamps, bicycles, golf clubs, CDs, typewriters, etc. Any and every object you can think of is probably tangled in wire somewhere in the cathedral’s massive skeleton. It’s a veritable shrine to clutter. Hannemann had been constructing the cathedral for more than 20 years, adding rooms and arches to the edifice as he accumulated more objects. Art like that doesn’t go unnoticed. Thousands of visitors, some of them international, visit the cathedral every year, and The Wall Street Journal even ran a front-page story on the monument, calling it “a local landmark.” But the Cathedral of Junk is more than just Hannemann’s 20-year art project; it’s a community space, a place where people are married and plays are performed. It’s a testament to the quirky creativity that defines Austin — though Austin’s weirdness is slowly being diluted as the city expands, not least by the heavy-handed enforcement of building codes. The city turned its attention to the cathedral in March after a visitor called 311 to register an anonymous complaint. Hannemann’s neighbors had also complained about the noise and traffic that inevitably came along with the sculpture’s popularity. (Nevermind that Hannemann started construction on the cathedral when the now-residential Lareina Drive was a string of rural land plots known as “Bubbaland.”) Austin officials made a visit to Hannemann’s backyard, declared that the cathedral was not just a sculpture, but a building, and required Hannemann to bring the tower to code and procure a building permit. Officials also declared the cathedral structurally unsound, and told Hannemann that visitors could no longer climb on the sculpture with ladders or crawl underneath it. In other words, they couldn’t interact with the art. Furthermore, if Hannemann wanted to continue hosting gatherings at the Cathedral of Junk, his property would need to be zoned as commercial. Despite the onslaught of red tape hurled at Hannemann, community members volunteered to assist in the sculpture’s modifications. However, after three months of reconfiguring 60 tons of junk to meet city specifications, Hannemann decided that his tower of junk was no longer a work of art, no longer a cathedral and no longer worth the trouble. “The city has made me alter the cathedral so much that little of its original charm is left,” Hanneman said in a statement. “They are still wanting a building permit for what is left. Therefore, I will be continuing to dismantle what remains. ... It’s a sad day for me, but much more so for Austin and, by proxy, the world.” Instead of preserving the junk as a huge cathedral, Hannemann has decided to dismantle it into smaller pieces, no higher than 20 feet, which would not require a building permit. Even as Hannemann works to dismantle the tower of junk to create “Junkhenge,” the city has kindly butted in and reminded him that he’ll need a demolition permit to do that as well. City officials like to tout Austin’s quirkiness as one of its main attractions, but hitting a local artist over the head with regulation after regulation until he is all but forced to dismantle his art makes Austin seem less like a unique cultural haven and more like an insufferable bureaucracy. Although the city did try to work with Hannemann to bring the cathedral up to code and even gave him an extension to meet all the requirements, ultimately the city’s regulations were too onerous and failed to reconcile safety and art. The Cathedral of Junk is a unique Austin landmark, and as such, it should be treated uniquely by city officials. Perhaps city bureaucrats are just worried about setting a bad precedent by turning a blind eye to the existence of the cathedral. After all, if they let this violation go, the next thing you know, world-famous 30foot-high monuments of imagination that are 20 years in the making will start popping up left and right. A city that supposedly prides itself on art certainly wouldn’t want anything like that to happen. — Lauren Winchester for the editorial board

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The worth of a degree By Dave Player Daily Texan Associate Editor “For-profit” universities have garnered an increasing amount of press coverage in recent weeks following an investigative report last May by PBS’ news program “Frontline,” which revealed that for-profit institutions, such as the University of Phoenix and DeVry University, have grown into an industry. That growth has been facilitated by the rise of online classes, the availability of student loans and an increased emphasis on college education in the job market. Hundreds of thousands of students are now enrolled in for-profit colleges, with many attending classes online. However, many for-profit industry practices have drawn widespread condemnation. “Frontline’s” report revealed that these for-profit institutions engage in shady recruiting practices that target atrisk demographics, as well as knowingly deceiving potential students as to the quality of education offered by the university. The report revealed that for-profits often recruit students from low-income households, and even recruit outside homeless shelters. The Obama administration is set to announce a new set of regulations today that target for-profits. The new rules would prohibit schools from paying recruiters based on the number of new students they enroll; the administration claims that such practices sucker students into taking out student loans they can’t afford. Washington has a sufficient interest in the issue since such loans often take the form of federal aid. Last year, for-profits received $26.5 billion in federal aid via students paying tuition with loans. Graduates often suffer from the perceived quality, or lack thereof, of their degrees. “Frontline” reported that recent graduates experience difficulty finding employment after graduation, even with their new credentials. This unemployment then leads to those former students defaulting on their loans, which in turn places a burden on the federal government. The government is right to step in when taxpayer dollars are at risk, but the free market must also play a part in

reining in this speculative industry. In the job market, a college degree is only worth as much as the perceived quality of the institution that granted it. It is the responsibility of employers to view forprofit degrees with a deserved grain of salt, both to protect themselves from unqualified workers, and to exert their influence on the marketplace of secondary education. By applying greater scrutiny to these diplomas, employers are de-incentivizing potential students from burdening themselves with debt from an untrustworthy institution. However, for-profits aren’t the only universities whose degree should be reviewed more scrupulously. Ex-Harvard student Adam Wheeler made national headlines last month when it was revealed he had faked his way into the prestigious Ivy League school by lying on his transcript. Wheeler went as far as to claim a 1600 SAT score and 4.0 GPA and forged letters of recommendation from professors. For his dishonesty, Wheeler managed to rack up more than $44,000 in grants and financial aid. Almost as remarkable is that Wheeler managed to gain admittance to Stanford University after being expelled from Harvard. Stanford has since withdrawn his admittance in light of Wheeler’s transgressions. On the home front, McCombs School of Business student Jeffrey Chiang disgraced the University in October when it was revealed that he fabricated a job offer from Morgan Stanley to use as leverage while seeking a job at Bank of America. After his fraud was revealed, the news quickly circulated around the finance industry; Chiang has since been blacklisted by every major Wall Street firm. To be considered untrustworthy by a group as conniving as Wall Street investors is an achievement unto itself. The current recession has put greater stress on everyone, especially recent graduates faced with the prospective of unemployment. Yet, that is no excuse for falsifying one’s educational credentials, whether those come from a centuries-old premier research institution or a website that launched last week. Player is a Plan II and history senior.

Though summer is usually imagined as a well-deserved break following a busy spring semester, the reality is that for many students, summer is the perfect time to take classes that do not otherwise fit into their hectic academic schedules. As further reductions to the University’s budget may limit fall and spring class availability in the future, summer classes are likely to become an even more integral part of a student’s time at UT. The University needs to take the increasing importance of summer classes for many students into account, and make steps to improve the summer-semester experience for students. According to data compiled by the Summer Enrollment Committee last year, 9,264 students enrolled in UT summer classes in 2008. That’s nearly 3,000 fewer students than were enrolled in summer classes in 2002, the last year for which the committee makes enrollment data available. Though many factors influence a student’s decision not to enroll at UT for summer classes, the Summer Enrollment Committee lists cost and convenience as the primary reasons a student may choose not to do so. For the 2010 summer semester, six hours’ worth of classes for a liberal arts student costs $2,354 at UT. If this student were to take equivalent classes at Austin Community College, whose main campus is just a five-minute bike ride from the Tower, he or she would pay $822, nearly $1,500 cheaper than UT rates. Additionally, some students save money by living with family for the summer to avoid the high cost of living near campus. For these students, local community colleges offer the convenience of being near parents’ homes. Because taking summer classes at community colleges may seem to benefit students, the University misses out on valuable summer tuition revenue. The decrease in summer enrollment between 2002 and 2008 was reflected by a nearly $9 million decline in summer tuition revenue, despite higher tuition rates. While this may not seem immediately significant for individual students, in the long run it could mean reduced availability of summer programs and classes. While increasing summer enrollment is clearly a financial priority for the University, it must be an academic priority as well. Although community college classes are often refreshingly basic after two semesters of grueling coursework on the 40 Acres, many students who claim credit for these classes are missing out on the enriching education that courses at UT provide. Though it can be tempting to treat a degree plan like a to-do list, checking off as many boxes as quickly as possible, it should instead be treated like an academic roadmap to help guide students’ curiosity and intellectual growth. To make this treatment possible for students who are more limited by expenses and graduation times, the University must make summer programs more accessible and create more programs like the College of Liberal Arts’ Summer Stay program, which lets students register for hard-to-get classes and includes special thematic class groupings. While these programs still cannot compete with community college prices, they offer a greater educational value that justifies the higher summer tuition costs of UT. In order to attract more summer students, the University must reduce tuition rates, because while quality will always carry a premium, it is unrealistic for the University to expect more students to enroll in classes here during the summer when the acceptable alternatives are markedly less expensive. The University cannot take a “summer break” from working for students, and it must work to reduce the cost of summer classes and increase course availability. The summer semester needs to be an affordable and accessible option on the 40 Acres. To offer your thoughts on UT’s summer semester, visit the Senate of College Councils’ Facebook page and post your commentary under the “Discussions” tab. Finke is the vice president of the Senate of College Councils.

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Uchi’s Tyson Cole offers a preview of his latest project By Julie Rene Tran Daily Texan Staff Construction workers scurried back and forth through the calmingly dim dining area, readjusting light fixtures and measuring walls. In the far back of the restaurant, in a starkly bright kitchen, chefs-intraining moved with purpose from one station to the next, tasting and building plates, perfecting their culinary executions. It will be another month before Uchiko, renowned Austin chef Tyson Cole’s new restaurant, opens. But already, with the dining tables set and a mixture of organic and industrial decor in place, the Japanese farmhouse-inspired restaurant exudes a warm and welcoming aura. Uchiko means “child of Uchi,” and it is exactly that — an extension of Cole’s popular sushi spot. Cole opened Uchi, his first restaurant, seven years ago on South Lamar Boulevard. Since then, both Cole and Uchi have received national acclaim for his refined yet playful fusion of global ingredients and flavors with traditional Japanese culinary techniques; Cole was named “Best New Chef” by Food and Wine Magazine in 2005. On season 6 of “Iron Chef America: The Series,” Cole challenged Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto to a cooking showdown using the secret ingredient, ginger. Though Cole lost by seven points, his place on the show proved that though he’s a young chef, he’s also a force to be reckoned with. Cole first became interested in sushi while working at Japanese restaurants around Austin, according to his biography on the restaurant’s site. He worked intensively under Takehiko Fuse at the distinguished Japanese restaurant Musashino Sushi Dokoro, where he began experimenting with ingredients and flavor palettes. Uchi opened shortly thereafter. In his blog Tysonatuchi.com, Cole said, “There were many reasons to take the leap and try to open a sister restaurant to Uchi, and one of them was to meet the demand of many requests for reservations and bookings for larger tables/parties.” Located at the corner of North

WHAT: Uchiko WHERE: 4200 N. Lamar Blvd. WHEN: Opens in July oN THE MENU: Japanese fusion cuisine Lamar Boulevard and 43rd Street, Uchiko is twice as large as Uchi, with 200 seats and 4,954 square feet. The main dining room will take reservations throughout the evening, and the bar/cafe area will serve walk-in guests. “The new location opens up the Uchi experience to a wider group of people who prefer a reservation over just walking in,” Cole said in a press release about the opening of Uchiko. “We wanted to offer the same level of cuisine and service that people expect at Uchiko with a different menu. But fear not — the cuisine is all Uchi.” Uchiko spokeswoman Lindsay Novy said sustainable products are sourced throughout the restaurant, from seating and lighting to the placement of the kitchen and sushi bar. Guests are greeted with a wall of antique apothecary cabinets and mailboxes. Dark wood floors run throughout the restaurant, complementing the walls of red brick. The restaurant’s space is broken up into four separate dining areas: an eat-in bar, a sushi bar, a dining room and a private dining room that can be divided into two small spaces by a glass wall or curtain. The private room is sectioned off from the rest of the restaurant by an iron-andglass door, and inside, a large window exposes the kitchen to guests. The window will be used as a way to serve food directly to guests and also as a way for chefs to perform cooking demos. The design of the space is, once again, helmed by prominent Austin architect Michael Hsu, whose masterful spaces, such as La Condesa and P. Terry’s, are showcased throughout Austin. Hsu isn’t the only familiar face that Cole re-hired, however, as he named Uchi’s current chef de cuisine, Paul Qui, the executive chef of Uchiko. Qui will oversee both Uchi and the new Uchiko while Cole will remain Uchi’s executive chef. Qui graduated from Austin’s Texas Culinary Academy in 2003 and was introduced to Uchi by a friend. On his first visit, Qui was so impressed with his dining experience that he asked if he could work in the kitchen for free, which resulted in his six-year career at Uchi. Qui had a large part in creating the Uchiko menu with Cole, Novy said. The cuisine will be akin to Uchi’s, with the fusion of Eastern and Western cuisine, but the menu will feature new dishes such as cobia with mint, jalapeno and cured cucumbers as well as rabbit with pea, pear, mustard seed and quail eggs. Uchiko, like Uchi, will offer both permanent and daily menus, with the permanent menu featuring familiar categories such as hot and cool tasting, sushi and sashimi and pastry chef Phillip Speer’s awardwinning desserts.

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Henri Mazza and Greg MacLennan introduce the “Anchorman” Quote-Along at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at the Ritz.

Alamo Drafthouse stays ‘classy’ By Katherine Kloc Daily Texan Staff Dressed in retro suits, complete with fake mustaches and glasses of scotch, Greg MacLennan and Henri Mazza introduced the “Anchorman” Quote-Along at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at the Ritz. As members of “The Action Pack,” a team dedicated to quirky film screenings, they rarely present a film in a conventional manner. “When we put these outfits on, we realized we did not look like news anchors from Austin’s No. 1 news team — we just look like alcoholic fathers,” MacLennan said. “Or Freddie Mercury turned straight and really shitty.” They continued by describing how the movie was subtitled with the best lines in a style similar to that of karaoke. The audience would read the quote aloud along with the character.

into popular culture so quickly, and it’s still so relevant to so many people that I was like, ‘I want to see a theater of mustachioed people drinking scotch.’” Mazza began hosting quoteand sing-alongs at the Ritz six years ago, quickly making them Thursday-night staples. As the first step toward expanding the program, Mazza recruited MacLennan in early 2008 as his cohost after a lengthy and covert evaluation process. “We met through mutual friends,” MacLennan said. “I had no idea that he was evaluating me to see if he could put me onstage and host with him. I was just inviting him to my house to play video games because I thought we were friends, but it was really just an extremely long, drawnout employee interview.” The Action Pack has recently expanded to include a feature

WHAT: “Anchorman” QuoteAlong WHERE: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at the Ritz WHEN: Today and June 24 at 7 p.m. TIcKETS: $11 at originalalamo. com called HeckleVision, which allows audience members to text at the screen and see their message scrolling alongside the movie. HeckleVision usually showcases so-bad-they’re-good movies, such as Vanilla Ice’s film debut “Cool As Ice” and Lifetime’s “Invisible Child.” “Because we have such a good time [hosting], I feel like most people have a good time, too,” MacLennan said. “There’s this energy that goes back and forth between us and the people who come to our shows.”

City hot spots concoct red-hot Bloody Marys THIRSTY THURSDAY

By Mary Lingwall Editor’s note: This is the first in our summer series on uniquely crafted alcoholic drinks in Austin. For those of us who are over 21 and stuck trudging through the banalities of summer school, various Austin bars and eateries offer unique twists on the relaxing liquid brunch classic — the Bloody Mary — to help us unwind this weekend. For you poor souls who still haven’t celebrated your 21st birthday, then hit the books with a bottle of V8 juice. Because college is about studying, right?

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“Now, gentlemen, you might have to help out the ladies because their brains are a third of the size of yours, so these instructions might be going over their heads,” Mazza said, referencing the movie. “That’s just scientific fact.” In addition to quoting along with the characters, Mazza and MacLennan gave the audience members fake mustaches and “jazz flutes” to enhance their viewing experience and encouraged everyone to drink scotch whenever the words “San Diego” were mentioned during the movie. The Action Pack decided to host the “Anchorman” QuoteAlong because of the movie’s continued prominence in pop culture, MacLennan said. “The day after [you first watch it] you’re already calling your friends ‘pirate hookers,’” MacLennan said. “It made its way

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Above, Texas football head coach Mack Brown and Texas basketball head coach Rick Barnes at Tuesday’s press conference, where it was announced Texas will remain in the Big 12. Below, Texas alumnus Colt McCoy scrambles away from Ndamukong Suh in 2009’s conference title game, which the conference will cease to hold after Nebraska leaves. By Chris Tavarez Daily Texan Staff The biggest news coming out of all the conference realignment talk is no news, really — at least, as far as Texas football is concerned. The Longhorns aren’t changing conferences, their two main rivalries are still intact and they can still pursue their own Longhorn Sports Network. Nebraska’s departure to the Big Ten and Colorado’s to the Pac-10 will still have ramifications, though. Everything from Texas’ schedule to how it makes money will feel the effects of these changes. “I will hate that probably Nebraska and Texas will not be playing a lot in the future unless it’s an out-of-conference game,” Texas football head coach Mack Brown said at a press conference Tuesday. “I think what you do is, it is what it is, and we’ll all have to wait and see. But Nebraska will make it work for them, Colorado will make it work for them, and

the Big 12 will make it work. Even if it’s different, it can still be really good.” One of the most notable changes will be the absence of the Big 12 championship football game. The NCAA requires a minimum of 12 teams to hold a conference championship game, which, despite the league’s name, it won’t have anymore. If a conference wants to, it can petition for an exemption from the rule, but because of how opposed all the Big 12 coaches are to a conference championship game, it seems as if the Big 12 will continue on without it. However, because there is no longer a conference championship, there will finally be a true league champion. The Big 12 will adopt a round-robin conference schedule in which all 10 teams play one another, just like what the Pac-10 used to have. Since each school will play every other school in the conference, there won’t be any more controversies

as there was with Texas and Oklahoma two seasons ago. The results on the field will be the only thing that matters, and that’s what will determine a true league champion, not mathematical formulas and the BCS. “It’s very, very difficult, in my estimation, to crown a champion unless you play everybody in the league,” Brown said. Texas’ current schedule has only eight conference games. Each year, the Longhorns play the five other schools in the Big 12 South, along with three teams from the Big 12 North, in a home-and-home series every two years. So, this past season, Texas finished up its homeand-home series with Colorado, Kansas and Missouri, and this upcoming season, it will start a new two-year cycle with Kansas State, Iowa State and Nebraska. Except now that Nebraska will join the Big Ten in 2011 and Colorado will join the Pac-10 in 2012, there is a scheduling conflict, leaving Tex-

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as with a hole in its 2012 schedule since Nebraska was supposed to come to Austin. But in a 10-team league, Texas will have to play one more conference game, which will take away one of its nonconference games. Instead of playing four out-of-conference games and eight conference games, Tex-

as will play only three nonconference games and nine conference games. “Obviously DeLoss [Dodds] and [deputy athletic director] Butch [Worley] and I will sit down and look at out-of-conference scheduling and see what that has to do now,” Brown said.

Smaller Big 12 offers round-robin scheduling By Will Anderson Daily Texan Staff Last week’s discussion surrounding Texas and the Big 12 focused on the effect realignment would have on Longhorn football, but the new, smaller conference will also affect the University’s basketball program. In a statement issued Tuesday, Texas head coach Rick Barnes reiterated his support for his bosses and the league as a whole through all of the recent controversy. “We are very fortunate to work under the leadership and direction of our president, [William Powers Jr.], and our athletics director, DeLoss Dodds,” Barnes said in the statement, “We have full confidence in our administration that they will always do what is best for the University of Texas. We also want to thank the Big 12 Conference staff for their work in ensuring the stability of our league.” Barnes came to Texas in 1998, just two years after Big 12 athletic competition began, and has seen the conference evolve from an NCAA-tournament outsider to a league with multiple ranked teams every year. The smaller conference might change how interdivisional games are scheduled. Currently, Texas plays all five opponents in the Big 12 South twice, but only faces each North squad once in the regular season. With 10 teams in the conference, it is likely each program would be required to play every other Big 12 team twice in the reg-

ular season, regardless of division. “Our staff is most excited about the possibility of using a full round-robin schedule during the regular season,” Barnes said. “This should create even more excitement about our league.” That means Texas fans will get to see top teams such as Kansas and Kansas State, which finished last season ranked No. 6 and No. 7, respectively, play at the Frank Erwin Center every year. “Ever since I’ve been here, I’ve been talking about [how] I wish we could play Kansas home-andhome and create the rival I think they could become,” Barnes said in a press conference Tuesday. “I’ve always believed that’s how you really determine a true champion, is by playing everybody twice.” Texas’ overall scheduling won’t change much, aside from playing an additional two league games. “I think the regular season is going to be great,” Barnes said. “We’ll go to 18 conference games. The last couple of years, we’ve been playing 22, 23, 24 really tough games, and that won’t change for us. Our schedule won’t change very much. Everybody in the league is going to have to go out and play that type of schedule.” It isn’t likely the Big 12 postseason tournament will change dramatically, and Barnes was optimistic about its future. “There’s no doubt I think we’ll play it. It will just become a bye, probably, for the top seeds,” he said.

sporTs BriefLY Pac-10 commissioner says no hard feelings toward Texas NEW YORK — Pac-10 Commissioner Larry Scott says he has no animosity toward Texas for declining an invitation to join his league and at no point did he think his grand expansion plan was a done deal. Scott said in a telephone interview Wednesday that he never felt he had an agreement with Texas and the four other Big 12 schools he was trying to add to the Pac-10. The conference would have become a 16-team league had Texas joined with Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and Texas A&M. The Pac-10 had already landed one Big 12 school in Colorado. “In my experience in professional sports and college sports, nothing’s ever done until it’s done,” Scott said in a 45-minute interview with The Associated Press, his first since the Pac-10’s bold attempt to expand failed. The Big 12 also lost Nebraska to the Big Ten, but will remain as a 10team league. Scott said when the news came down that Texas and the rest were not joining Pac-10, he called Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe to congratulate him on saving his conference. Scott would not reveal the Pac10’s next move, but he said that his expansion plans are “multidimensional.” “We developed this plan with our eyes wide open,” he said. “We knew that this would be seen as a very bold stroke and there would be all kinds of reasons why it might not be possible at the end. “I think there was a sense that this was an incredibly compelling vision and certainly created a lot of excitement among the schools that we were talking to as well as our members. And it captured a lot of other people’s attention as well.” — The Associated Press

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Former Longhorn Avery Bradley shoots over Kansas’ Sherron Collins in Austin last year. In a smaller Big 12, Texas and Kansas will play a home-and-home series every season. Aside from talking about the future of the basketball program at Texas, Barnes also offered a glimpse into how the administration handled the crisis. “From the beginning, the administration told us that was the goal, to keep the Big 12 together,” Barnes said. “A lot changed back and forth, but from what they were telling me, they never wa-

vered in terms of wanting to keep the Big 12 together.” In the end, the new, smaller Big 12 is a good thing for all of the schools’ basketball teams. “I think the rivalries are going to become even more intense now because of the home-and-home,” Barnes said. “Basketball-wise, this league can really make an argument that it’s the best basket-

ball league from top to bottom in the country.” Additionally the school’s decision to stay within the Big 12 did not have a major effect on any of the Longhorns’ recruiting plans. “You want to be in a conference that everybody can identify with,” Barnes said. “But our biggest recruiting [tool] is the University of Texas and what we do here.”

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