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Calendar Pop Royalty Pretend you’re Lady Gaga, Katy Perry or Rhianna at the Alamo Drafthouse’s Pop Princess sing along. Tickets cost $12 and the event starts at 10:15 p.m. Read more about the event on page 16.
Fashion Week Boutiques and salons around town will hold events today for Austin Fashion week. For more details, check out the website at www.fashionweekaustin.com.
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UT to invest in technology commercialization By LIz Farmer Daily Texan Staff
The UT System Board of Regents convened Wednesday to develop ways to generate more revenue by utilizing technology and research through entrepreneurial outreach. The plan was discussed during the board’s technology transfer and research committee. It includes expanding statewide business ventures in which the UT System will share ownership. Bryan Allinson, executive director for technology commercialization, said the committee’s focus is on UT-owned intellectual property. Investments will be put towards technological programs that support more commercializa-
tion for the UT System. “We think there’s $2.4 billion worth of research here,� Allinson said. Development of search engine tools to make research information more accessible is one way the UT System is trying to increase transparency. The search engine tools include information about research, faculty, patents and technologies for business access. Allinson said these tools are a way to communicate that UT is open for business. In 2010, the UT System had 33 new startups and will vote today on an investment fund, which will pay $10 million in phase one toward the outreach efforts. Phase
two of the UT Horizon Fund has not yet been planned but will be larger, according to the meeting agenda. Allinson said the investments will be a source of new capital — money that would otherwise go to Silicon Valley. The fund is also an opportunity for the UT System to diversify the businesses that invest in UT technologies. “We think this will help align our interests and put UT in a better negotiating place,� Allinson said. UT President William Powers Jr. said before the formation of the committee six months ago, the board discussed commercial-
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Barry Burgdorf, vice chancellor and general counsel for the UT system, TECH continues on PAGE 2 asks for continued sponsorship in a meeting Wednesday afternoon.
Student body representation increases on budget council
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Today in history In 1984
By Victoria Pagan Daily Texan Staff
Truman Capote, the author of true crime novel “In Cold Blood,� dies at age 59 from liver cancer.
The voices of University students and faculty will be heard this year through the representation of one student and one faculty member on the Univer-
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sity Budget Council.
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201 East 21st Street Suspicious Person: A UT student reported she was approached by a subject outside the residence hall. The subject asked the student for her name, floor that she lived on and room number. The student told the subject her name and what floor she lived on, but no further information. The stwudent left and was visiting a friend on the same floor she lived on. As she was leaving the same subject was walking along the floor reading the name tags. During the investigation, the officers were able to locate the suspicious person. The subject was identified as a current UT student. The student informed the officers that he simply wanted to have a conversation with the female student since he believed they were friends on Facebook.
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Freshman Chris Akin raises the Hook ‘Em Horns while he and others sing the Eyes of Texas during Wednesday’s Big Yell event in the SAC. The Big Yell is hosted by the Texas Exes to teach UT songs, history and traditions to new students.
Big Yell salutes school spirit Each fall the Texas Exes Spirit and Tra- and lessons in all of the UT yells that have
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ditions Council hosts the Big Yell to high- existed since the University’s first football light historical origins of UT’s school spir- team was established in 1893.
rom the first UT yell to the school’s it traditions. This year, the program took The event included a musical perforchoice of burnt orange, the Big Yell on place in the Student Activities Center ball- mance by the Texas Spirits, who sang a Wednesday offered insight into school room and included door prizes, a brief his-
traditions and separated fact from UT myth.
By Victoria Pagan Daily Texan Staff
“If you call having a less than 5 percent chance of being able to walk normally and two years later returning to the field a miracle, then I would say it is a miracle.�
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— Kenny Boyd Head of football athletic training
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tory of the early years and traditions of UT
In an effort to increase the variety of perspectives on the University’s budget, UT President William Powers, Jr. approved a resolution by Student Government instating the increased representation. Before he approved Andrea Gore the resPharmacy professor o l u tion this week, seven UT administrators served on the council. Student Government President Natalie Butler and pharmacy professor Andrea Gore will join the other seven members of the council on Sept. 1, Powers wrote in his blog Tower Talk. In the blog, Powers wrote the council is instrumental in making budgetary decisions, and he
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Julian Villalobos walks past the renovated Co-op Outlet Wednesday morning.
Students will soon have another option for purchasing health conscious, local groceries at the University Co-op grocery store scheduled to open next week. Co-op management decided to build the grocery store after receiving positive feedback for it on their annual student survey, said Co-op CEO and president George Mitchell. Mitchel l s aid t he g ro c er y store, which is located on the
2200 block of Guadalupe Street at the Co-op Outlet’s former location, will be larger than a convenience store and unique to the UT community. “We did a lot of research and checked out a lot of universities,� Mitchell said. “Stores like this are a big deal especially on the west coast. The layout itself of our store is really unusual and seems to cover all of the areas of what students need.� Mitchell said once the bank next door closes Sept. 17, the C o-op will make the build-
ing an addition to the Co-op grocery store. “That part of the store will house Texas products specifically,� Mitchell said. “We hope to open [that section of the store] on Oct. 1.� Zach Voelker, manager of the Co-op grocery store, said the store was not only student-inspired but will also house products specific to the needs of students who live on campus. He said the store will carry a variety
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