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ban rail system so far. The council will decide whether to take the next major step, starting the environmental-review process, for the urban rail system in December. “We have to find ways for people to get into Central Austin,” Spillar said. He said that widening existing streets throughout Central Austin wasn’t an option because there simply isn’t any space

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The Dude

Devin the Dude takes the stage at Lamberts Downtown Barbecue at 10:30 p.m. Tickets cost $30.

Dinner and a movie

Master Pancake Theatre takes on “The Blind Side” at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at the Ritz at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $13.50.

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Bad to the bone

Stubb’s Bar-B-Q’s second round of celebrity-chef cookoffs begins at 8 p.m. at the Waller Creek Amphitheatre. Audience text voting decides the winner.

Who’s the dummy now?

Ventriloquist comedian Jeff Dunham cracks up the Frank Erwin Center at 8 p.m. Tickets start at $55.

SUNDAY ‘Go Daddy-O’

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy swings its way through a set at the One World Theatre at 6 p.m. Tickets start at $20.

Inside In Opinion: Slow Simkins response tarnishes UT’s image page 3

In Sports: Two Longhorns picked in the NBA draft’s first round page 6

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“Amelie” director releases a top-notch new film page 4

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Quote to note “Not everyone who plays is always the best of athletes. But it seems as though they all have their moments.”

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Photos by Erika Rich | Daily Texan Staff

Above, Austin McDaniel leaves a City Council meeting on the expansion of bicycle lanes in Austin on Thursday. McDaniel is a member of The League of Bicycling Voters and relies on his bike for transportation. Below, Major Lee Leffingwell listens to speakers at Austin City Hall at Thursday’s briefing on the proposal to build a light-rail system in Austin.

Bicycle boulevard, bond on City Council’s agenda in last session before break By Destinee Hodge & Michelle Truong Daily Texan Staff City Council convened for its last session Thursday to discuss more than 150 items before a monthlong break. Council members spent much of the time discussing the Downtown Bicycle Boulevard, which is slated to begin construction in the winter, as well as the mobility bond that is part of the Austin Strategic Mobility Plan.

Bike Boulevard The Downtown Bicycle Boulevard saga pushed on and was arguably the lengthiest discussion at the meeting. Because of the varying opinions on the effectiveness of the plan, the discussion leading up to Thursday has been contentious at times. The plan, proposed by the Public Works Department, is to have Nueces and Rio Grande streets specifically cater to bicycle traffic. From Third and Fourth streets to MLK Boulevard, the department plans to have more lanes for bike traffic as well as fewer stop signs and lower speed limits. “We are considering looking at lowering the speed limit on Nueces as part of the staff recommendations,” said Annick Beaudet, project manager with the department’s Neighborhood Connectivity Division. “However, we didn’t want to outright recommend it, as we will be looking at removing some north-south stop signs.” Beaudet stressed that because of the high UT and Austin Community College student traffic in the area,

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Rail system to be reviewed; ridership increase expected By Nolan Hicks Daily Texan Staff City planners told the City Council in its meeting Thursday that Austin’s best long-term option to relieve traffic congestion in Central Austin is to build an urban rail system. Mayor Lee Leffingwell and the council members were briefed during the meeting by city transportation director Robert Spillar on the progress of planning for the ur-

Campaign sheds light on light pollution By Shamoyita DasGupta Daily Texan Staff In an effort to help reduce light pollution, the UT McDonald Observatory is launching a radio and Internet campaign to educate the public about people’s effects on the night sky. “What we’re doing in our campaign is trying to educate people to the problem,” observatory assistant director Anita Cochran said. “We’re utilizing our [radio] programs along with education on the Web in order to sort of explain to people not only what the problem is, but how they can go about helping to alleviate the problem.” Light pollution is caused when excess lighting from man-made fixtures on the ground radiates upwards, drowning out the night sky. The light effectively prevents researchers from observing stars and other objects. While the observatory is located in one of the darkest regions of the country, West Texas, growing and glowing metropolitan areas miles away are slowly shining away what it can see. “When light goes up into the sky, it’s making the whole background lighter, so you can’t see the stars,” Cochran said.

Research measures impact of investment By Collin Eaton Daily Texan Staff UT has a leading role in testing a new federal pilot program designed to create a scientific, quantifiable measurement of the economic and social impacts of federal research spending. STAR METRICS, or Science and Technology in America’s Reinvestment: Measuring the EffecT of Research on Innovation, Competitiveness and Science, is a data-compiling program that will report the number of jobs created as a result of federal research spending at all universities. Susan Sedwick, co-chair of the STAR METRICS steering committee and director of UT’s Office of Sponsored Projects, said the University became part of a working group of six universities that was established to develop a standardized measure of the effects of federal research spending, or phase one of the STAR program. Sedwick said the program is aimed at demonstrating the value to society of investments by developing a mechanism for demonstrating matching data from institutional administrative records with those on outcomes such as patents, publications and citations “[UT] is participating in the proof of concept — we extract data from our systems and provide that to [STAR METRICS operators]. They import that data into their system, manipulate it and publish it into their reports.” When the U.S. Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the $787 billion distributed across the country came with requirements for quarterly reports on how the money was spent and how spending translated into job creation. Congress spends more than $31 billion on research every year, and the idea of a quantifiable way to measure research spending’s effect on the economy came to the forefront of federal science policy soon after the stimulus bill was passed. Julia Lane, program director at the National Science Foundation, is now spearheading the effort to present early STAR METRICS testing to the Federal Demonstrations Partnership. Lane said before STAR METRICS, there was no empirical infrastructure or any cumulative data on the impact of $31 billion in federal tax dollars spent on research. Early tests show that once research administrators collect the existing, scattered data created by

Veteran Texas songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard plays the Cactus Cafe at 8:30 p.m. Tickets cost $15 at the door.

The eighth annual Keep Austin Weird festival kicks off at 2 p.m. on the South First Street Bridge and includes a 5K run, as well as live music, food and vendors.

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Mountains provide encouragement, change of scenery Editor’s note: Riders from the Sense Corp Texas 4000 for Cancer correspond with The Daily Texan through a series of articles from the road. Each week over the 70-day trek, riders from the Rocky Mountain and Coastal routes will describe their experiences along the journey, depicting the places they pedal through and the people they meet along the way.

crease their usability and save energy, Cochran said. “If you focus the light downward — which is where you want it, on the ground — not only does it not block

By Jordan Deathe Daily Texan Guest Columnist Rocky Mountain Route Our team began a new chapter this past week as it entered the Rocky Mountains pathway. The mountains were so faint in our first sighting that they could have been mistaken for clouds. But, our arrival was exciting and brought new energy to everyone. Riding through Colorado has been beautiful — far better than the droll wheat fields of Oklahoma. Of course, the scenery of the front range of the Rockies is a sight to see: From the sprawling and rolling plains, the ground shoots upward, eclipsing everything behind the mountains. Our hosts continue to greet and provide for us,

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UT’s McDonald Observatory, located in West Texas, is launching a campaign to increase public awareness of the causes and effects of light pollution. This light pollution can be caused by anything from lights on billboards pointing skyward to lights placed on people’s property as a safety measure. The best way to reduce light pollution is to point these lights at the ground instead of into the sky, which will in-

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By Michael Sherfield Daily Texan Staff Austin’s traffic collisions have been reduced in a flash — a redlight camera’s flash — after the implementation of a 2-year-old safety program that is making strides to limit the number of collisions and fatalities that occur when people run red lights. Collisions are down in the 10 intersections that have cameras, said Austin Police Department Lt. Brian Gruetzner, the APD manager of the “Keep Austin Safe” program, which works with the municipal court to run the cameras. “We have so few locations, it would be unfair to compare all over the city,” he said. “But we have averaged a 30-percent reduction in collisions in those intersections.” In 2007, the city estimated that more than 1,300 collisions were caused by drivers running red lights. Austin uses red-light cameras

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to do so without seriously impacting existing neighborhoods and businesses. As currently proposed, the system is projected to cost $885 million — laying 33.8 miles of track, which would create two rail corridors linking Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, downtown, UT and East Austin. “Trains are larger and more comfortable,” Spillar said. “Cities that have replaced bus routes with urban rail have seen dramatic increases in ridership.” He said that installing urban rail systems will aid efforts to boost the number of people and increase the population density of Central Austin. “We’re encouraged by the work the city transportation department is doing,” said Charles Betts, executive director

of the Downtown Austin Alliance. “We can’t just do mindless sprawl anymore.” Betts said urban rail systems have been effective in promoting developments with a high population density in other cities where they’ve been deployed. “[Urban rail] is an important part of the city’s ability to increase population density downtown,” he said. “It could go north all the way to the Triangle [Residences] and south down Congress into [South Congress],” he said. “It’s a solid core.” Spillar said the plan was part of a larger regional effort to expand the availability of mass transit services, including Capital Metro’s just-launched Red Line, which provides service to Leander, and the proposed Green Line, which would run to Elgin.

uating circumstances, Telles said, such as turning right on red or having to move for an EMS vehicle. Each camera costs the city a flat rate of $4,870 per month to operate through Redflex, Telles said. “There’s a human element,” he said. “People think it’s just a flash and a ticket.” A team of APD officers then review the tapes and decide whether or not to issue a ticket. “We review each violation thinking, ‘If you’re a patrol on the street, would you write a ticket?’” Gruetzner said. Revenue raised from the cameras is split between the state, which takes half, and a trafficsafety fund that is used to maintain street safety. Most of the cameras are positioned near Interstate Highway 35, with the most active intersection at I-35 and 11th Street, while some also monitor Lamar Boulevard and MoPac Expressway.

out the light, but you can use a lower-wattage light bulb to give basically the same effect, so you can save energy,” she said.

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At UT, members of the Department of Astronomy organize star parties twice a week, where members of the public view the skies from telescopes atop Robert Lee Moore Hall, which is one of the tallest buildings on campus. Participants have noticed the detrimental effects light pollution has on their ability to see farther into the sky. “[Light pollution] kind of washes out most of the sky, especially in the warmerweather seasons when our air quality might not be as good, like on Ozone Action Days,” said Lara Eakins, a laboratory and technical services supervisor with department. “Even when we’re looking through the telescopes, we can’t see a lot of faint objects.” The observatory hopes this campaign will help inform

In response to overwhelming concerns about the growing traffic congestion in Austin, City Council discussed the almost $85 million mobility bond proposal that was revealed by city manager Marc Ott earlier this month. Rob Spillar, the city’s Transportation Department director, presented detailed information about the proposed distribution of the funds to council members. The package includes improvements for sidewalks, bicycle amenities, trails and transit facilities. Spillar said that with regard to roadway projects, there will be significant investments in highway improvement, although the urban rail system is not part of the bond proposal. “By 2015, once our pass-through finance project gets underway, we will soon have a continuous roadway without stoplights from approximately where the road begins at Oak Hill now, all the way

the public about how easily light pollution can be reduced and prevented. “Once you get rid of light pollution, it’s actually gone. There’s no residual,” observatory spokeswoman Rebecca Johnson said. “[The campaign] is really about letting people know how easy it is to prevent light pollution.” The McDonald Observatory plans to use StarDate, a radio program that broadcasts nationally about science every day, and Universo, a Spanish-language radio program that broadcasts daily in Central America. It will air information on these stations from June 28 to July 4. In addition, it has created a video about light pollution that can be viewed at the observatory’s website, mcdonaldobservatory.org.

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and their hospitality keeps our teams alive. There is simply no way that we could make the trip if our hosts didn’t provide food and shelter for us. In Oklahoma we faced headwinds and crosswinds from the south, which came in handy as we turned north for Colorado. Since then, the wind generally has been in our favor. At the Colorado border, the team celebrated visiting its third state during the trip by climbing all over the “Welcome to Colorado” sign and taking a variety of pictures. Shortly afterward, we headed north to Springfield, Colo. Here, we stayed at Springfield High School, home of the Springfield Longhorns. It was nice to see Longhorn decor all around us. We finally saw the Rocky Mountains as we road toward Pueblo, Colo., two days later. The next five days took us along the eastern edge of the mountain range. During that time, a group of team members attempted the Mount Evans challenge, which consists of 72 miles

the boulevard is a particular advantage in increasing safety. The department also allowed economist Angelos Angelou to speak on the effectiveness of the proposition. He vouched for the plan by drawing on success stories in California, Arizona and Oregon as case studies for the potential of the boulevard. Contention over the proposal comes mostly from business owners who fear that diverting traffic and possibly reducing parking spaces will reduce the number of customers they receive. Some business owners also feel that the way the plan was proposed to them gave the impression that they were being taken advantage of. “Well, the initial circumstance that made us oppose it was the way it was handled,” said Monica Thomason, who owns a software company on Nueces Street. “We found out through the newspapers that they were going to build it.”

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ride: Cyclists make epic trek of road inside the Arapaho National Forest to the Mount Evans peak, rising about 9,000 feet over Denver at an elevation of 14,270 feet. The scenery was as awesome as you could imagine it to be. On one side, you could see flat earth strolling away, and on the other side rose ridge after ridge of mountains. All six Rocky Mountain Route riders who attempted the ride to the summit on North America’s highest paved road completed it. The climb to 14,000 feet was incredibly difficult, and our riders suffered multiple moments of exhaustion. Yet, like the cancer victims we ride for, we had to persevere. We put ourselves into a state of mind in which failure was not going to happen. Despite resting many times, we eventually reached the summit. Once there, we celebrated with enormous smiles and hugs, took our picture, loaded our bikes and drove to Boulder, Colo., to meet up with the rest of the team. By the end of that day, we had all accomplished something that we weren’t sure was possible.

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far less than many other cities in Texas. The Texas Tribune reported cities in the state collected $62 million from traffic citations from cameras last year and more than $100 million since 2007. Austin contributed just $750,939 to that total, compared to Houston with $24 million and Arlington with almost $7 million. Reyne Telles, who manages the municipal court part of the program, said that disparity comes in part because of the emphasis Austin put on safety, not on revenue, when instituting the program in 2008. This means vendor Redflex Traffic Systems from Arizona, the company that operates the cameras and reviews infringements before sending them to APD for further action or dismissal, doesn’t have an incentive to seek out more citations than it should. This results in more than 50 percent of potential violations being disregarded for exten-

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to the [Austin-Bergstrom] International Airport,” Spillar said. As a result of pass-through financing being used for some of the projects, the contracts will be subject to the new Texas Department of Transportation rules that put a 10-percent cap on the difference between contracted budget prices and the actual reimbursement a city receives for highway projects. One of the major questions asked regarding the bond was why the improvement of Interstate Highway 35 and Texas Loop Highway 1 was not included in the proposal. Spillar said that because those roadways are managed by TxDOT, they would have to continue discussions with the department to implement changes. He said that a way of addressing the problem more holistically is to work with all the regions that have highways feeding into I-35, rather than adding a few lanes to facilitate more traffic.

Star: Program totals growth data From page 1 individual researchers, the program can turn the large data dump into a standardized report in one hour and can create a jobs report in 24 hours. After phase one, the steering committee will collaborate with the universities to develop data on the impact of research spending on social health, the environment, the growth of the economy and scientific knowledge by compile information on patents, university-based business start-ups, publications and citations, student mobility and employment. Cynthia Hope, assistant vice president for research at the University of Alabama and STAR METRICS steering committee member, said the variety of methods used to compile existing data, rather than generating new economic data and jobs reports, reduces the amount of paperwork and makes the program less costly for university science administrators. The program has taken off at “warp speed,” but it’s impossible to predict when phase two will begin to be implemented, said Richard Seligman, co-chair of the steering com-

mittee and associate vice president of research administration at the California Institute of Technology. Seligman said he has heard it could be by the end of the current year. ”When we get to phase two, we will be using information that identifies investigators, so there’s the whole issue of privacy and the federal requirements regarding information and what can be released,” he said. The program may give policymakers at the federal-, state- and local-government levels a scientific approach to investing in research, he said. “[Congress] invests a tremendous amount of money in research and development, largely at universities, and while we all think that it’s inherently a good idea, it’s very hard to demonstrate that it makes sense not just for being a good idea, but that it actually has a very positive and notable impact on the economy and on life in general,” he said. “Research and development at a university, over the long haul, has an impact that far exceeds the amount of the investment. What we need to do is start finding the methodology that we need to start using now to what the investments of the past have produced.”

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It’s a little embarrassing to attend a University that is now nationally recognized for having a dorm that commemorates a former Klansman, and it’s frustrating that the name change had not been addressed sooner. Allegedly, the news about William Simkins’ KKK involvement wasn’t a surprise to UT, and according to the University’s first official response to the subject in May, it wasn’t planning on changing the name. In a May 5 KXAN article, Leslie Blair, UT’s associate director of communications, said, “We feel that a better use of our time and money would be to continue to recruit and to provide programs that support more students, faculty and staff from populations underrepresented at the University and to further a climate of inclusiveness and cultural diversity that looks to the future instead of dwelling on the past.” Although changing the name of Simkins Hall Dormitory will not be cost-prohibitive, as was explained by the committee in Tuesday’s forum, the University was worried that changing the dorm’s name would set a precedent “that could end up costing a great deal of money and time,” Blair said. It was only after a community outcry that the administration decided it would consider changing the name of Simkins Hall. Now, almost six weeks after the controversy started, we are awaiting the recommendation of a 21-member panel, which was created to advise President William Powers Jr. regarding the name change. But the administration should recognize how much its hesitance to address race on this campus is really costing. By preserving Simkins’ name on our campus, or even showing that it’s a consideration, UT is doing everything but fostering inclusiveness — it’s alienating the majority of its students and the majority of U.S. population. UT’s slow response in considering the dorm’s name change sends a discouraging message to talented prospective students and faculty across Texas and the country. Most students or professors would not want to be associated in any way with the Ku Klux Klan or an institution that has any connection with it, even if the relationship is symbolic. Those targeted by the terrorist organization — any non-white ethnicity group, non-Protestant or member of the GLBT community— would be especially apprehensive about attending a school that continues to host landmarks named after prominent Klan leaders, such as Simkins. This debacle could have a significant effect on the University’s recruiting, in-state and out-of-state. Honoring diversity and attracting talented scholars trump any financial costs associated with renaming Simkins Hall. If the administration valued diversity as much as it claims, then the decision to change the dorm’s name would have been made long ago — without negative press as a catalyst. The administration said the deliberative process is necessary to establish a precedent for this type of issue. What does it say about our University and its devotion to diversity if it must set a precedent for deciding whether or not it will continue honoring violent racists such as Simkins? — Heath Cleveland for the editorial board

THE FIRING LINE Gov. Perry has led Texas to prosperity In response to Professor David Herrin’s call for new leadership, I ask: Why? Under Gov. Rick Perry’s watch, the state has become a model of prosperity. Six out of 21 (nearly a third) of “recession-proof” cities are in Texas; 43,600 jobs were added in just the month of May, with 136,000 this year; and Texas has pretty much avoided any kind of real estate crash suffered by other states. Texas has consistently been pointed to as the best state to do business, and more people are moving into Texas than are moving out. Herrin goes on to claim that Perry has “lost his authority he once had as a leader in education.” But what about the fact that financial aid levels have increased by 900 percent, public education funding in Texas has increased by 43 percent and the state has introduced performance pay for teachers? I would argue that Perry’s leadership has proven to be beneficial to Texans. Furthermore, what we know of Bill White’s track record shows him leaving Houston in a financial crisis, giving advice to President Barack Obama on how to sell cap and trade and using his position as mayor of Houston to give business to (and benefit from) companies he has ties to. And this is just from what we have been shown, as he has yet to release his tax returns for all of his years in public service. So I close by asking the question: Why should we replace proven leadership with a man who will not even show us where he made his millions during his years of public service?

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Higher-education reforms should be realistic By Susannah Jacob Daily Texan Columnist N e w Yo r k Ti m e s b l o g g e r a n d c o n tributor Stanley Fish had a few words to say about the allegedly nonpartisan think tank Texas Public Policy Foundation, which has proposed a number of reforms to higher eduction. “Retrograde,” “cockamamie,” “formulaic” a n d “ d u m b e d - d o w n t e a c h i n g ” w e re some of the choice phrases Fish used to describe the foundation’s suggestions, which are backed by Gov. Rick Perry and enthusiastically embraced by Texas A&M University regents. The foundation’s objective, which w a s o r i g i n a l l y i n t ro d u c e d d u r i n g a May 2008 higher-education summit attended by Perry and 45 regents from Te x a s u n i v e r s i t i e s , i s t o re t u r n c o n trol of universities to “the customer”: students, parents and taxpayers. The think tank says there is little oversight of the money students and parents invest in higher education, and their reforms will make the system more efficient and transparent. One of the proposed reforms would award instructors with up to $10,000 based on anonymous student evaluations, according to The Eagle. This reform in particular inspired the swiftest rebuttal by Fish, who said educatio n is a utility that may no t b e im m e d i a t e l y re c o g n i z e d , u n l i k e o t h e r goods and services. Identifying the crux of the issue, Fish said, “They actively want their colleges and universities to be like car dealerships, with an emphasis on the bottom line, effi ciency and consumer choice.” And he’s right. There is no real disagreement about what the intentions o f t h e re f o r m s a re — j u s t t h e i r c o n sequences. Reform backers see higher education as a business and believe their changes will increase efficiency and customer satisfaction. Conversely, Fish and other naysayers see the proposed reforms as a perfect storm. The notion that college students could be equipped with the power to determine their professors’ salaries and tenure

track is preposterous, and it’s frighte n i n g t h a t Te x a s A & M h a s p u t t h i s idea into motion. S o f a r, U T re g e n t s h a v e n ’ t p u s h e d t h e c h a n g e s w i t h t h e s a m e f o rc e f u l ness as their Aggie counterparts, but it’s incorrect to assume UT may never be subjected to similar reforms. Regardless, the purported practical implications of the reforms — good and bad — are hard to entirely accept from adults so far away from their own college careers. On the touchy matter of the studentevaluations reform mentioned above, Fish argues that college students lack the perspective to effectively evaluate professors. Perry and others argue that evaluations are necessary to make universities accountable for their spending. However, both sides are sligh tly misguided in assuming all students take evaluations completely seriously. At the close of last semester, I was tasked with picking up student evaluations for my Music for Non-Majors class, distributing them to my peers and returning them to an administrative office in the music building. I was the only one who showed up. I filled out my evaluation in a hurry and in typical fashion: checking off the boxes without too much thought and leaving the “further comments” section blank. If $10,000 was hinging on my response — after all, I was the only one to fill out the form — I’d like to say I would have filled it out a little more carefully. W h e t h e r y o u s u p p o r t t h e re f o r m s hinges on whether you believe that the consequences of treating the University as a business will be negative or positive. But when making such a determination, it is important to ask: “How would this actually pan out?” My ow n reflect ion led me to skept i cism, not because students lack the ability to evaluate their college classes but because of the reality of my own experience in the music building, filling out a form alone and a little haphazardly. Jacob is a history sophomore.

As reported by The Daily Texan this week, looming alterations to the current residential zoning of the University area — including portions of West Campus and North Campus neighborhoods — threaten to minimize the availability of Greek, cooperative and semi-dense housing. Besides a misunderstanding that the changes would affect a centrally located portion of West Campus known as University Neighborhood Overlay, or UNO, I am proud that The Daily Texan is bringing to light such a critical conversation going on within the University community. For those new to the world of zoning, its applicability to everyday life may be hard to appreciate at first. In fact, the zoning and ordinances that Austin uses have a dramatic impact on nearly every facet of an individual’s day. The places we live, the paths we walk and even the food nearby is pre-determined by zoning. Obviously, any changes to the laws governing an area’s zoning will impact its population. Of course, navigating the issues of zoning, ordinances and city planning often requires a bit of bureaucratic background knowledge. In the case of a West Campus tenant such as myself, my duplex resides in the central portion of West Campus, which is part of UNO. UNO, which will not be impacted by these changes, resides in the area overseen by the larger West Campus association, University Area Partners (UAP). Next up the ladder is the Central Austin Neighborhood Planning Advisory Committee (CANPAC), which serves as an umbrella advisory board to the citywide planning commission. The planning commission holds the ultimate authority to recommend action to City Council. Changes to zoning, such as the ones being currently proposed, are complicated, easily misrepresented and require a bit of research and personal interest to truly grasp. It’s an intricate issue that requires critical thinking. But that’s what we students do on a daily basis during the school year, right? If anything, our classroom experience and firsthand knowledge of the area should be considered a doubleasset to discussions such as the zoning debate, right? Furthermore, we as students make up the majority of the University-area population, so we should at least have the opportunity to generate a stance on the issue, right? Wrong. According to the City of Austin Planning Commission’s subcommittee on zoning and ordinances, the simple request of waiting to hear student opinion about zoning changes was ignored. In a letter to the subcommittee from UAP, the West Campus neighborhood association — which is composed of property owners, businesses, Greek life and church representatives — requested the city hold off on any action until students had a chance to consider the options at hand. The city staff requested the same action of the subcommittee, citing the necessity to build a neighborhood-wide consensus on individual properties. These requests were overruled, and now the planning commission, the rung on the ladder just below City Council for zoning issues, will hear the zoning proposals while students are gone for summer break. If you favor students having an active voice in how the community we live in is shaped, then I assume you are equally frustrated by not being given the time to organize ourselves and provide a thought-out response to the changes. It would be fairly simple for myself, or any student remotely involved with activism on campus, to charge into City Hall, proclaim a stance on the issue and deem it to be the best option for students. However, individual actions are nowhere near as effective as an organized response. Regardless of where you may stand on the issue of zoning, the fact that students are not given a chance to respond is truly the controversy at play. This year, Student Government is taking a much bigger role in representing student concerns before the City Council, neighborhood associations and the community at large. Please get involved with the different facets of municipal activism SG is currently spearheading. Furthermore, I implore you to contact city relations co-directors Thaddeus Woody and Nicole Faulkenberg at utsg.cra@gmail.com for more information. Together, we have the ability to make a difference not only in the places we live but also in how the larger student voice is perceived. Together, students can. Lawler is an SG appointee to University Area Partners and a member of CANPAC.

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jax neighborhood cafe

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Cafe’s sandwiches mix bland flavors, reasonable prices By Zach Miller Daily Texan Staff JAX Neighborhood Cafe, located off 29th Street near Toy Joy, is one of the newest additions to the campus-area food scene. This eatery provides sandwiches, salads and pizza, as well as a wide assortment of alcoholic beverages. With the majority of its sandwiches priced at $5.95, JAX isn’t a burden on the wallet. Unfortunately, the quality of the food reflects the cost. The Italian Classic sandwich seems like a winner until the first bite. The sandwich’s combination of mortadella sausage, del oro salami, provolone cheese and chopped peppers didn’t make for a pleasant eating experience. The meat was very thinly sliced and didn’t play a dominant role in the flavor of the sandwich. The provolone could have been excluded as well. Only the roasted peppers succeed in adding flavor, albeit a very mild one. Only a small step better than something pre-made at the grocery store, the sandwich didn’t

wHat: JAX Neighborhood Cafe wHere: 2828 Rio Grande St. Hours: Sunday-Friday, 11 a.m.midnight; Saturday, 11 a.m.-1 a.m. web: jaxjoint.com offer quality or uniqueness. The Pollo Italiano chicken sandwich has the same bland taste as the Italian Classic but with some basil paste. It is filling and only $6, but the mellow peppers and basil flavor fizzle quickly and eventually fade out all together. JAX also provides a make-yourown section, where you can build the sandwich of your choice for only $6. Compared to other sandwich shops, this is a good value for students on a budget. Although JAX does offer something for a wide range of patrons, its looks less like a success and more like it’s having an identity crisis. Many students aren’t old enough to take advantage of the beer specials, and the skimpy, impractical menu isn’t thorough enough to please an older crowd.

Caleb fox | Daily Texan Staff

The Pollo Italiano chicken sandwich at JAX Neighborhood Cafe is filling and costs just $6, but its bland flavor reflects its low price.

Mary Kang | Daily Texan Staff

Maggie Lea and Scott Jawson organized Cinema East, an ongoing film series that features indie-film festival favorites every other Sunday on a field behind Baby Blue Studio on East 12th Street.

Cinema East hosts film favorites By Addie Anderson Daily Texan Staff Every other Sunday, as the sun sets on a usually unused field behind Baby Blue Recording Studio on East 12th Street, groups of filmhungry Austinites gather with blankets, towels and baskets of food and drink for what becomes a miniature film festival at dusk. Cinema East, an ongoing film series featuring more than 15 of the year’s indie-film festival favorites, was conceptualized by Scott Jawson and Maggie Lea. After witnessing the success of South By Southwest this year, Jawson and Lea decided to create a film series that highlights the same caliber of entertainment without the financial burden or hectic schedule of a major film festival like SXSW. “We wanted to make something that was just as accessible

for film as it is for music,” Jawson said. “Something that anyone can go to, easy to find out about and create the same experience people would get from a film festival, but for free.” After working in several event coordination and production positions, including Transmission Entertainment and the company’s annual music festival Fun Fun Fun Fest, Jawson felt as though he could actually pull off his SXSW-inspired idea. However, experience aside, Jawson felt that he needed someone a little more connected to the film scene to help him recruit content. He immediately thought of Lea. “The reason I approached Maggie in the first place is because she’s been to a lot of these bigger festivals and she’s more plugged into the film community,” Jawson said.

Lea felt as though the job would be a perfect fit and eagerly accepted. “It’s really fitting because it’s what I’ve been getting into the past few years — a lot of film stuff in the Austin film community, and a little bit outside of it,” Lea said. “I had gone to a bunch of festivals this year, and most of these films were screened at the festivals. It was a culmination of all of these other things I had been doing.” The film to be screened this week will be “The Fearless Freaks,” a documentary about the band The Flaming Lips, directed by Bradley Beesley. Food and beverages will be served by Karibu Ethiopian Restaurant & Bar, Mama’s, Frank and Daily Juice Foods, and the event is BYOB if you’re over 21. There will also be a pop-up vintage boutique by Laced With Romance.

wHat: Cinema East wHere: 522 East 12th St. wHen: Every other Sunday at 8 p.m. through September web: cinemaeastaustin.com adMission: Free The screenings are all ages, and there wasn’t a particular age demographic missing at the last screening, which pleased Jawson and Lea. The two anticipate the crowd growing as the series continues throughout the summer. “It’s a good way for people to break into Austin’s culture, you know, break into the community here,” Jawson said. “It’s very easy, I imagine, to feel detached from the city if you’re living on campus all the time, but this is a really great way to integrate yourself into the community.”

Movie review

micmacs à tire-larigot

‘Amélie’ director comes back with ‘Micmacs’ By Gerald Rich Daily Texan Staff “Amélie” writer and director Jean-Pierre Jeunet returned to the U.S. screens this month with his sixth and by far most entertaining vaudevillian film, “Micmacs.” Drawing upon classic, comedic and creative minds such as Buster Keaton and Jacques Tati, Jeunet offers a tantalizing visual feast of comedy that seems as

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though it could have been cowritten by Charlie Chaplin and Rube Goldberg. “Micmacs” follows the unlucky and ordinary Bazil on a quest to get revenge on the two rival arms companies that have ruined his life. As a young boy, Bazil was orphaned after his father accidentally stepped on a land mine. Later, Bazil himself was struck by a stray bullet to the head from a car chase. In most movies, having a character shot in the head might mark the ending, but for Jeunet this is only the beginning of an absurdly fatalist adventure. Bazil, now with a few involuntary muscle spasms here and there, soon is welcomed into a diverse circus of people living in a scrap-heap bunker. After discovering the factory that

made the bullet — located across from its rival, the weapons factory that made the land mine — he enlists the help of his new friends to get revenge. However, that’s where some critics feel the movie is too shallow. “Micmacs” is not a dramatic tour de force like Jeunet’s World War I love story “A Very Long Engagement,” and it’s definitely not a darkly romantic postapocalyptic comedy like “Delicatessen.” “Micmacs,” just like its full French title “Micmacs à tirelarigot,” is exactly what it translates into in English: “Nonstop shenanigans.” With a cast that Jeunet fans have come to adore, featuring Dominique Pinon and Yolande Moreau, the movie is a great celebration of all the screwball jokes

Jeunet always sprinkles throughout his films. From the Congolese ethnographer who scrambles up all the way to the literally explosive finale, Jeunet provides one massive cinematic treat. Disregarding the film’s fanciful nature, which may not be favored by more serious moviegoers, its R rating from the MPAA for “some sexuality and brief violence” seems odd. Don’t be fooled, though — “Micmacs’” jokes are funny because it’s like watching a Warner Bros. cartoon. By more conservative standards, Bazil could be seen as a malevolent Frenchman hell-bent on bringing down the military-industrial complex, but it’s doubtful, considering the guy also does “the robot” for spare change.

Grade: A+

Kiersten Marian | Daily Texan Staff

Guli Fager, supervisor of sex education and outreach at UT, dishes on her current favorite music.

Sex educator gets down, dirty with top 10 songs

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and outreach under her belt, Fager ’s musical tastes have obviously reflected some of the sexiest tunes, but she still counts her brother- and sisterin-law’s, Asa and Dorthy Fager’s, self-recorded ode to their recently born daughter among After graduating with a mas- the top 10 songs she’s listening ter ’s degree in public health to now. Her No. 8 pick — Outfrom Columbia University in kast’s “I’ll Call Before I Come” 2007, Guli Fager had a very dis- — is especially interesting to mal view of Texas. Known for the college crowd. “This is a great song about failing abstinence-only sex-edusexual etiquette, [which is cation programs and a teen important] because pregnancy rate constantguys don’t want to ly hovering among ON THE WEB: ask and girls don’t the top three in the want to tell,” Fager entire nation, Texcheck out guli said. “So, then the as was never where fager’s full playlist guy just does what with links to songs Fager thought she he thinks he should, would find herself. @dailytexan online.com and then the experiBut after a job ence turns out unsatissearch that favored factory for everyone.” New York, Washington, Fager ’s top 10 songs reflect D.C. and San Francisco, she stumbled upon UT’s sex-edu- a wide range of artists, from cation outreach supervisor posi- R. Kelly to Passion Pit, and intion. Now, Fager heads UT’s sex clude The Bird and the Bee’s “I education by training peer ed- Can’t Go For That,” Black Joe ucators, distributing condoms Lewis & the Honeybears’ “Get Yo Shit” and the Dixie Chicks’ and counseling students. With years of sex education “The Long Way Around.”

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Friday, June 25, 2010

Sports Editor: Dan Hurwitz E-mail: sports@dailytexanonline.com Phone: (512) 232-2210 www.dailytexanonline.com

T HE DAILY T EXAN

SIDELINE

IM SPORTS

Intramural ref shines on the court and off By Bri Thomas Daily Texan Staff The C-league softball team was down one run with two outs in the final inning as its last batter stepped up to the plate. The batter whiffed at the first pitch, which was lobbed right over the plate. The next pitch came; he swung and missed again for strike two. The outfield scooted in after witnessing previous poor performances from this player. Then, with his eyes closed, the batter swung at the final pitch, only to hit the ball over the entire outfield and drive in two runs to win the game. The victors went crazy, and no one knew how it happened. Official Kyle St. Nicholas was as surprised as anyone else to see the championship game conclude in this fashion. “It just reminded me how anything can happen, and that the game is never over,” St. Nicholas said. “I really enjoyed being proved wrong, and some of the most enjoyable times reffing are the ones like that where you get surprised.” St. Nicholas, an international relations senior, transferred to Texas from UTSA and decided to start officiating games to earn some extra cash. He has officiated every intramural sport UT offers, from softball to pool volleyball, working his way up to be an intramural supervisor, who oversees and trains other officials. St. Nicholas now works in five different positions at RecSports in all, including one as a lifeguard. In the fall, St. Nicholas will serve as a program assistant, a promotion that will include more responsibilities, such as solving player conflicts and leading supervisors. “Kyle is one of our best officials,” student employee supervisor Darci Doll said. “His strengths are his positive communication style, rules knowledge and his experience as a player. Our top officials are the students who work really hard for the players, and Kyle gives them the type of ef-

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WORLD CUP Group A Uruguay

Mexico

South Africa

France

Group B Argentina

Natasha Lee | Daily Texan Staff

Intramural official Kyle St. Nicholas, an international relations senior, intently watches a volleyball match in Gregory Gym while refereeing for RecSports on Tuesday.

South Korea

fort he would expect when he is playing.” An athlete himself, St. Nicholas is often surprised by how some of the most surprising people accomplish amazing things. “Not everyone who plays is always the best of athletes,” St. Nicholas said. “But it seems as though they all have their moments. Take the batter who won the softball game, for example. The student seemed quite unathletic, yet with a little luck, was able to win the championship, causing a huge uproar.” St. Nicholas‘ own volleyball team made it to the semifinals this past year, and he hopes that in his last year at UT, he finally goes all the way.

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“It seems as though almost every championship game for every sport comes at a high level of intensity, no matter what division is playing, Men’s A or Coed C,” he said. “It’s always great to see such athletic ability in recreational games.” According to St. Nicholas, many teams pass through intramural sports simply to have fun. On the other hand, there are players within intramurals who shine and possess the skill to play at a lower college level but instead chose to attend UT to pursue academics. “It’s nice to see that they haven’t completely given up on sports and can still enjoy them,” he said. “Though their level of

play sometimes seems unfair to play against.” After serving as an official for so long, the rules and regulations usually come back to this student easily year-after-year, though there are still those nervewracking moments. “Basketball is the hardest because in football, I can throw a flag and have time to think about what I’m going to call,” St. Nicholas said. “Basketball is too fastpaced for that.” With so much pressure, St. Nicholas said he always wants to make a strong appearance to remind himself that he’s a trained professional, but everyone slips up. “My first year, I was reffing a

football championship when a player bobbled the ball in the inzone,” he said. “I said he caught it, causing this girl to get pissed. She started yelling and cursing, and I tried to calm her down, but it was funny. ON THE WEB: There are always frusCheck out more photos of St. Nicholas trations.” in action Despite @dailytexan all the disonline.com agreements, St. Nicholas is almost always thanked for his good work after games. “I totally understand when it doesn’t happen, though,” he said. “I’m competitive, too, but I just try to keep my cool.”

Nigeria

Group C USA England Slovenia Algeria

Group D Germany

NBA

Two Longhorns among first picked in basketball draft

Atlanta took Damion James By Will Anderson with the 24th overall pick, just Daily Texas Staff B y t h e t i m e Wa s h i n g t o n the second time in Texas history opened the 2010 NBA draft with that two Longhorns went in the first round after the first overall Travis Mays and pick, it was mostLance Blanks ly a formality Avery Bradley was both went in that the Wizards 1990. James set would select John the first Longhorn the all-time reWall. The former to go in this year’s bounding record Kentucky point draft when Boston at Texas and had guard was prethe second-most dicted to go No. selected him 19th double-doubles 1 since the end of overall. Bradley left in school history the season. school early to join with 55. Av e r y B r a d With Bradley ley was the first the NBA after an and James going Longhorn to go impressive freshman in the first round, in this year’s draft season that saw him 12 Texas players when Boston selected him 19th earn All-Rookie and have now been selected in the overall. Bradley All-Freshman honors NBA draft since left school early to in the Big 12. 1999. join the NBA afFormer center ter an impressive Dexter Pittman freshman season did not go in the that saw him earn All-Rookie and All-Freshman first round but was predicted to be a mid-second rounder. honors in the Big 12.

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John Wall, the first pick of the NBA draft, sports a cap supporting his new Washington team while addressing fans and press.

WORLD CUP

Italy goes down; Japan advances By Naishadh Bhonsle Daily Texan Staff

Australia Serbia

Slovakia 3, Italy 2 As the defending world champion, Italy has been very disappointing so far in the World Cup, notching only two points from two draws. Its game against Slovakia was an easy game on paper, but in reality turned into a struggle for the Italians, who found it hard to muster any creativity the entire tournament. The Slovaks took an unlikely lead early in the game from Róbert Vittek, who received the ball after some casual defending from Daniele De Rossi, and finished with a precise shot. The Italians seemed shellshocked, as it was the third straight game where they had gone down a goal early. As the pressure mounted, World Cup-winning coach Marcello Lippi brought on attacking players in the second half to find the goal needed for qualification. Instead, the Slovaks doubled their lead in the 73rd minute through Vittek again, who finished the first time after an accurate ball from Marek Hamšík. The goal meant Italy’s chances looked bleak, but it finally seemed inspired as Antonio Di Natale finished into an empty net to make it 2-1. Italy had another goal disallowed and a ball cleared off, and it was Slovakia who put the game away on the 89th minute after substitute Kamil Kopúnek beat the Italian keeper to the ball to finish with his first touch. Italy fought back again after an exquisite chip from Fabio Quagliarella in the 91st minute. Italy’s inspired 10 minutes was not enough, though, as Slovakia held on for a historic win that put it through to the next round and eliminated Italy.

Ghana

Group E Japan

Netherlands

Denmark Cameroon Erika Rich | Daily Texan Staff

Ruben Keijzer and Arend Moerman watch the Netherland versus Cameroon World Cup game at Fado’ Irish Pub on their last stop in a three-week vacation through America. The Netherlands beat Cameroon 2-1 to win Group E with nine points.

Paraguay 0, New Zealand 0

Japan 3, Denmark 1

Paraguay needed a win to assure it the top spot in Group F and possibly a much more favorable draw for the next round. A win was equally important for New Zealand, which found itself in the unexpected position of having not lost a game. The pressure was on New Zealand to win as a draw would satisfy Paraguay, still earning it the top spot. Both teams had a number of missed opportunities as New Zealand’s defense, led by captain and Blackburn Rovers player Ryan Nelson, stood strong. Shane Smeltz, who scored against the Italians in the last game, missed from outside the box in the fifth minute. Nelson Valdez and Óscar Cardozo nearly scored before the half, and the second half producing more of the same disappointment. The game eventually ended in a stalemate as Paraguay sealed the top spot in the group, and New Zealand’s World Cup campaign ended undefeated and just one goal short of qualification.

Both teams knew a win would seal the second spot in the group behind the Netherlands, with Japan in the more comfortable position of being able to draw and still advance. Japan hit Denmark early on a free kick from 30 yards out as Keisuke Honda hammered the ball from distance past Thomas Sørensen. Thirteen minutes later, Japan won another free kick from a central position, and Yasuhito Endo curled the ball into the back of the net, making Denmark’s job increasingly difficult. The Danes got back into the game a little too late after Jon Dahl Tomasson converted his saved penalty on the 90th minute to make Japan nervous in the last 10 minutes of the game. That was the idea, at least, but Honda, the man of the match, received the ball in the box, juked past a Japanese defender and played an easy pass for Shinji Okazaki to finish into an open net. The game ended in Japan’s favor, making it the second Asian nation to qualify for the next round. Its opponents will be Group F winners Paraguay.

Group F Slovakia Italy

New Zealand

Paraguay

Group G Brazil Portugal

Ivory Coast North Korea

Group H Chile Spain

Switzerland

Honduras