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THE DAILY TEXAN Monday, September 13, 2010
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Three naval officers will deliver a lecture titled “Climate Change and Energy: 21st Century Global Security Challenges” at 5 p.m. in Sid Richardson Hall.
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Campaign intends to register student voters By Brittney Martin Daily Texan Staff Around 70 students took to the streets of West Campus Sunday, distributing more than 15,000 voter registration forms as part of the Hook the Vote campaign,
only three weeks before the Oct. 4 deadline to vote in the November midterm elections. The campaign aims to educate UT students on voting deadlines and ballot initiatives. In the coming weeks, Student Government,
University Democrats and the College Republicans at Texas will table on the West Mall and sponsor three more block walk events. “We have three main objectives: register students to vote, educate them through debate watch par-
ties, forums and panels and get them out to the polls,” said Yaman Desai, an SG Legislative Relations agency director and part of the campaign’s five-member, bipartisan leadership team. Participants of Sunday’s block
Eid tradition unites community
The Harry Ransom Center will kick off its David Foster Wallace exhibit at 7 p.m. Writers and actors will read passages from Wallace’s work. The event will be followed by a small reception.
WEDNESDAY State of the University
President William Powers will deliver his fifth State of University address from 4 to 5 p.m. in the B. Iden Payne Theatre. The event will also be broadcast on UT’s website beginning at 3:45 p.m.
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Female congregants of the Nueces Mosque socialize in the Sister’s Activity Center prior to the final call to prayer on the last night of Ramadan. Muslims traditionally eat dates prior to breaking the fast at sunset.
Central Market North will host a Mexican Independence Day celebration with musical acts Vitera, Gina Chavez, Vanessa Lively and Charanga Cakewalk.
UT Muslims struggle to balance identities, attempt to eliminate negative stereotypes
FRIDAY Steroids in sports An international sport science scholar from Denmark’s Aarhus University will give a presentation about doping and the media in sports from noon to 1 p.m. in room 328 of Bellmont Hall. He will focus on the media coverage of Lance Armstrong’s doping scandal.
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Quote to note “Physically we can play with anybody. It’s just a matter of finding the right group that can play with one another and the right players we can put next to each other to come up with the right lineup.” — Jerritt Elliott Texas volleyball head coach SPORTS PAGE 6
walk included members of SG, College Republicans, the Sierra Club, the Black Students Alliance and the University Leadership Initiative, which lobbies for
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Shafi Abduallah prays before the books of the Quran on Saturday night. The Quran is the central religious text of Islam.
By Audrey White Daily Texan Staff Pari Wafayee first began wearing a hijab this summer, just before the start of her sophomore year. She said despite a sense of growing distrust and negativity toward Muslims in the U.S., her decision to wear the traditional head ON THE WEB: scarf has both brought her closer to God and givFor a slideshow of en her the opportunity to speak to non-Muslims images from Eid about her faith. al-Fitr Wafayee, a nutrition sophomore and the outreach @dailytexan coordinator for Nueces Mosque’s executive commitonline.com tee, is still working to reconcile her Western and Muslim identities — as many Muslim students at UT are. “The community includes hundreds of individuals who represent
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Students clear ground for UT community garden plot used to have a house on it, so the team turned up some interesting finds that could be used to benefit the garden, Lewis said. “We found a lot of wacky stuff laying around,” she said. “There By Allie Kolechta was glass, a windshield, a big Daily Texan Staff Past the stadium in which crowds hammer. We’re thinking that had been celebrating not 24 hours with all the leftover junk we’ll before, students spent their Sunday recruit an art student to make a mornings doing something a little centerpiece, something to show quieter than cheering on a football the history of the site.” Biology sophomore Daniel team — gardening. Sunday was the first day of work Quintanilla, who attended the for the UT Community Garden, event as a representative from the which was established on a plot of College of Natural Science’s Unland on Concho Street across Inter- dergraduate Research club, said that his organization will use the state Highway 35 from campus. Students will plant mostly garden as a mothering area for fruits and vegetables, but also plants in their greenhouse. “It’s important to start developflowers and herbs as soon as debris is cleared away. Some of the ing the land for the future so that produce will be donated to local we can start planting,” he said. Spanish and Portuguese junior food shelters. Architecture junior Daniella Alejandra Spector, who gardens at Texas Hillel, said she enjoyed Lewis organized the garden. “Community gardens are awe- the garden because of the sense of some,” she said. “It’s kind of been community it gives her. “I like the autonomy it gives something we’ve wanted to do since a few years ago, and we felt you, to grow your own food and be able to say you don’t need anylike making it happen.” Volunteers spent the morning body else, you just need your comclearing the area and getting it munity,” she said. “People have ready to install raised beds. The been doing it for millennia.”
Symposium highlights green work on campus By Matthew Stottlemyre Daily Texan Staff The renovations to the William Randolph Hearst Building have nearly cut in half the building’s utility costs, since construction was completed in the fall 2009 semester, said UT project manager Bethany Trombley at a symposium on campus sustainability. Sponsored by the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the UT Campus Environmental Center, the Friday lectures aimed to bring together both University groups that focus on green initiatives and some not usually affiliated with the green movement, including business students and design professors. Barbara Brown Wilson, interim director of the Center for Sustainable Development, said the conference achieved its goal of uniting more than 20 environmental groups on campus. “Just in organizing, we got people talking to each other,” she said, adding that there are plans to hold the symposium on an annual basis. Meagan Jones, an environmental specialist in UT’s Division of Housing and Food Service, said the division’s composting initiative, scheduled to begin later this year, and other operations, such as the Eco2Go reusable tray program, require a high rate of individual participation among students and faculty. The new three-bin recycling units around campus — which accept paper, aluminum and plastic — have replaced the old system of paper- and plastic-only bins, said Jeff Basile, a manager in the Department of Facilities Service. Even with the old recycling system, the department collected
SYMPOSIUM continues on page 2 UT students make pancakes for the Charity: Water fundraiser Thursday. Kinesiology and pre-med junior Huey Huynh, right, and other volunteers try to flip a giant, longhornshaped pancake.
Volunteers inspired to grow own food, develop land for future benefits
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Group helps provide needed water By Audrey White Daily Texan Staff More than one billion people in the world live without access to clean water and sanitation, and corporate communications and rhetoric senior Blake Mankin has been working to reduce that number since high school. As the founder of a new organization called Students For Clean Water, Mankin and a group of dedicated friends are
raising money to help fund water projects in the underdeveloped world. The organization hosted its first fundraiser Thursday night, a pancake party and art sale that more than 200 people attended. They collected $1,550 toward their $40,000 goal. That amount would fund water and sanitation systems for two grade schools, most likely in Ethiopia, through a nonprofit organization called
Charity: Water. A lack of sanitation and access to clean water kills more people every year than all forms of violence combined, including war, according to the Charity: Water website. This means it is necessary to fight poverty from the bottom up by helping provide water resources to the one billion people worldwide who don’t have
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