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s I am sure you are all aware, Halloween is T-minus four days away. (Insert crazed costume shopping and pumpkin carving here). While my sentiments seem to lie with the Halloween boycotter on page 5, the Longhorn Life staff was more than happy to give you what you Longhorns wanted: Halloween hoopla. And when you think of All Hallows Eve, a lot of associations come to mind: costumes,
pumpkins, candy, spending entirely too much money on a single holiday — but hey, we don’t judge! In fact, we’ve packed this issue with all sorts of helpful black-and-orange info. Don’t have a Halloween costume, or simply don’t care enough to spend money on one? See page 4. Craving some pumpkin-flavored goodies? Check out page 7. And, whether you love or hate the holiday, get a kick out of the college student trick-or-
treat list on page 4, courtesy of our hilarious friends at the Texas Travesty. So whether you’ve got your Lady Gaga costume hanging neatly in your closet or are planning an all-weekend non-scary movie marathon, we at Longhorn Life wish all of our fellow ‘Horns a happy and safe Halloween. Jordan D. Schraeder Special Editions Editor
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THE WEEKEND Student chatter around the 40 Acres Compiled by Sylvia Butanda | Photos by Kaneez Fizza Longhorn Life
What is your costume of choice this Halloween weekend? Eric Ojeda biology freshman
“The House from ‘Up.’ I’ll just hold up balloons.”
Most Creative
Chelsea Bippert music sophomore
Claressa Cueva
“Audrey Hepburn, because she’s been my idol for a while.”
textiles and apparel sophomore Wearing: J.Crew blouse, Gap skirt, J.Crew belt and Michael Kors shoes and bag. Signature Style: Right now, I’m business casual, but I normally like dressing slightly edgier. I like to lay low — but still have the brightness of color. I’m also really into the ‘60s style, like the “Mad Men” collection.
Most Classic
Joey Ovalle
music studies sophomore
“A lion, because of my hair. My nickname is ‘Little Lion Man.’”
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No Halloween plans? No problem! Head to one of these campus events.
Thursday WOMEN’S BASKETBALL GAME
The UT women’s basketball team plays an exhibition game against nearby-rivals St. Ed’s University at the FEC. Time: 7 p.m. Location: Frank Erwin Center Cost: FREE with UT ID
Friday TASA’S NIGHT MARKET
The Taiwanese American Student Association hosts their ninth annual market, complete with free food, prizes and a photobooth, on Main Mall. Time: 7 p.m. Location: Main Mall Cost: FREE
saturday STARCRAFT SHOWDOWN
Join the Texas e-Sports Association at the SAC for a StarCraft II tournament. Thanks to the support of AT&T, the prize pool is a whopping $3,000. Time: 10 a.m. Location: SAC Ballroom Cost: $2
sunday LONGHORN HALLOWEEN
This annual celebration for kids of UT students, faculty and staff offers a bonus: an opportunity to get some volunteer hours! Time: 2 p.m. Location: Frank Erwin Center Cost: FREE
What’s in your bag? Shayda Sarkosh graduate student
Sanchir Enkhbaatar graduate accounting major
Wearing: AllSaints Spitalfields jacket, Armani Exchange shirt, Banana Republic belt, United Colors of Bennetton jeans and ALDO shoes. Signature Style: My signature style has always been leather shoes and a black belt. Everything else comes and goes.
Thanks to the books and fashion magazines she carries, Shayda is fully prepared to take on her Textiles and Apparel coursework as she works towards her master’s. With a study emphasis on fashion and fabrics, Shayda’s major requires her to keep an eye out for the latest trends in the industry at all times — even when she’s on the 40 Acres. Think you’ve got better stuff? Let us feature your bag in our next edition! specialeditions@texasstudentmedia.com
A trick-or-treat wish list Try these for college students costumes 15. A job
14. “Halloween” VIP pass/director’s wrist band. Did you hear Johnny Depp is going to be there? 13. Caramel-apple-flavored condoms 12. Self-Actualization 11. A date with Tad Hamilton 10. An extension on that thesis, Doc 9. Free ink refills 8. A job 7. 10 years of our lives back 6. Jesus’ forgiveness for celebrating Satan’s holiday 5. A way to tell the guy in the Joker costume that he’s three years late 4. Rocks 3. Please, please give me a job. I interned at my dad’s company once and I swear I can pass a criminal background check. 2. Since this is a fantasy where college kids can trick-or-treat: A pony! 1. Snickers brought to you by our funny friends at the
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on for size! Halloween outfits:
Inspired by current events, pop culture Christine Imperatore LONGHORN LIFE
Not really feeling the black cat or witch costume this year? Try one of these up-to-date costume ideas ripped straight from the headlines!
Michele Bachmann This one is pretty easy; all you really need to do is dig out your 3-year-old Sarah Palin costume and you’re good to go! However, be prepared to constantly remind people that you are NOT Sarah Palin — a nametag may remedy this problem.
Pregnant Beyoncé and optional Proud Papa Jay-Z You can take this costume in many directions, so get creative! While Beyonce has had several great outfits over the years, combine her signature style with
good-natured humor by suiting up in the Single Ladies leotard — baby bump and all. If you opt for the couple’s costume, add a little sympathy weight to your Jay-Z and have him carry around a book titled “The Hustler’s Guide to Newborns.”
The Drought This is sure to be one of the “hottest” costumes of the night. All you really need to do is attach some empty water bottles and a few tumbleweeds to your clothing. As the night wears on, you can even add some empty beer bottles. To top it off, add a yellow-orange sun halo as a headpiece. Now you have the perfect excuse to walk around asking people, “Is it hot in here, or is it just me?”
Aggie Heading to the SEC Texas A&M has finally decided
they want out from under UT’s shadow, planning to leave the Big 12 for the Southeastern Conference in time for the 2012-13 season. A true Longhorn should have no problem manifesting their own unique interpretation of an Aggie, but for this costume, add a piece of luggage and a sign that reads “SEC or Bust.” Luckily, the traditional “Gig ‘Em” hand gesture looks eerily similar to a hitchhiker thumbing down a ride.
Jo Calderone, Lady Gaga’s Alter Ego The Lady Gaga costume may be overdone by now, but in true Gaga form, she continues to give us something to talk about. All you need is a white T-shirt, black cuffed jeans and a slicked-back hair-do. And of course, you must be sure to throw on that Guido accent all night long!
Inspired by being a (broke) UT student Lauren Daly LONGHORN LIFE
Don’t feel like splurging on costumes this year? Raid your closet for some free, quirky alternatives. These three collegeinspired costume ideas will make for a full wallet and extra free time — not to mention some pretty hilarious Facebook photos.
The College Freshman First, walk to your closet. Dig out one of your filthiest burnt-orange shirts and throw it on with a tattered pair of sweats. Pull on a backpack, and you’re pretty much set. Why do you have to be so unclean? Close your eyes and imagine you are a freshman.
During your first year, did you know hygiene? Maybe. Did you have time to shower during all of your intense studying? Not always. Did you know how to do your own laundry? Nope. Open your eyes. You must become this image. Don’t just look like the freshman. Be the freshman.
The Sorority Girl Naturally, I’m addressing the ladies on this one. However, boys, feel free to try this costume idea, too — I don’t judge. If you’ve ever walked around the 40 Acres, you probably know what you have to do: grab your brightest pair of Nike shorts and the largest T-shirt you own, making sure no one can tell that you have
shorts on underneath. Throw your hair in a messy bun, and don’t put on a lick of make-up. There, you’re set.
The Freshman Fifteen To put this costume together, you’re going to have to get a little dirty. Go through the multitude of trashcans and recycling bins in your dorm or apartment complex, pulling out any Starbucks frappucino cups, candy bar wrappers and Tiff ’s Treats containers you find stashed in there. Clean them to your liking, then attach to your clothes with safety pins or Krazy glue. Grab a marker and draw a big 15 on your chest, and voila! Your costume is complete.
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Weekend to-dos for the All Hallow’s Eve boycotter Here are Longhorn Life’s top picks for all you boycotters this All Hallow’s Eve.
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orror flicks, cheesy festivals, girls in racy costumes — ugh. It’s that time of year again. Does this sound like you? With the plethora of festivals and events happening this weekend, it may feel impossible to escape the Halloween hullaballoo this year. But thankfully, we live in Austin, one of the most eclectic cities in the country, so you may just have to think a little outside the box to find fun alternatives.
GAZE: Stay on campus Friday night, recruit a friend or significant other, and head over to Painter Hall for a free viewing from the telescope. All ages are welcome. When: Friday, Oct. 28, 8-10 p.m. Where: 24th Street and Inner Campus Drive, across from the Tower Cost: FREE LAUGH: Trade the worn-out parties for something new and fun(ny). UT’s own student-run humor magazine, the Texas Trav-
esty, is hosting a free High Society Variety Show tonight at Tailgatorz, featuring comedians like Ramin Nazer, Ryan Cownie and Zach Hanes. When: Thursday, Oct. 27 at 8 p.m. Where: Tailgatorz, 2828 Rio Grande St. Cost: FREE
PRAY: The Austin Interfaith Arts & Music Festival this Saturday will include a variety of musical and performing arts acts with the goal of uniting people of all faiths and nationalities. Experience all the weirdness — I mean diversity — that Austin has to offer; there is
David Cook at The Moody Theater.
something for everyone! When: Saturday, Oct. 29 from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Where: St. Ignatius, 120 West Oltorf St. Cost: FREE
HEAR: The Live Music Capital of the World does not disappoint this weekend; check out local bands playing at Whole Foods for Live @ Lamar tonight. If you’re willing to spend a bit more on concert tickets, catch folk band Beirut at Stubbs or Bassnectar at Austin Music Hall Saturday night. On Sunday, Austin City Limits Live will be hosting Gavin Degraw and
As for Halloween itself, the fact that it falls on a weekday makes other events scarce. So, rather than staying in and shutting out the Halloween-goers, throw your own anti-Halloween party. Have some friends over and watch the “Scary Movie” series or host your own raging bash and unite with fellow Halloween boycotters. Who knows, maybe Halloween-goers will even be jealous of how much fun you’re having — but if they decide to join, make sure they know costumes are NOT allowed.
A HALLOWEEN RECIPE
to sink your teeth into Get ready for the Halloween holiday with this easy recipe, fit for any dorm or apartment party!
CANDY CORN RICE KRISPIE TREATS
INGREDIENTS ½ cup butter 10 cups Rice Krispies cereal 9 cups miniature marshmallows 2 cups candy corn 1 package snack-sized Hershey’s chocolate bars DIRECTIONS 1. Mix cereal and candy corn together in a large bowl, then set aside. 2. Melt butter in microwave-safe bowl. 3. Add marshmallows to the melted butter and microwave until completely dissolved. 4. Add cereal mixture to the pot of melted marshmallows. Stir quickly to combine all ingredients until blended. 5. Grease baking pan or foil, then spread the cereal mixture on a greased baking pan or foil with your hands or a spatula. 6. For Halloween, shape treats into a pumpkin using a cookie cutter or your hands.
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If you want to go the extra mile, use chocolate syrup or orange frosting to add accent lines for a more realistic pumpkin-shaped treat.
7.Decorate by using candy corn for eyes and nose and Hershey’s chocolate for the mouth and stem.
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The House of Torment The Austin Chronicle calls this twobuilding haunted house a “world class haunt” that prides itself on making multiple people pee their pants by creating bigger and better horrors every year. A general admission ticket for both houses, The Cursed and The Reckoning, is just $20. If you can afford it, spend the
extra $10 to upgrade to a VIP pass, which places you in a faster line. Both houses will be open through Halloween night. 523 Highland Mall Blvd., 407-9449
event will feature scientists who will introduce kids to creepy crawlers such as bugs and snakes. There will also be a blood drive for attendees 17 years and older. 2400 Trinity St., 232-5509
Fright at the Museum Fright at the Museum is a free one-day event that will be held this Sunday, Oct. 30 from 1-4:45 p.m. The
Doc Avery’s Haunted House For the weaker-hearted, or Longhorns with children or younger sib-
lings, I suggest Doc Avery’s Haunted House. The story-based, humorous adventure is appropriate for kids ages 6-14, and the proceeds go to organizations such as the American Red Cross and Texas 4000. Tickets are just $5, and the house will be open Oct. 28-30. 14413 Mowsbury Dr., docaveryhaunt@aol.com - Lauren Daly
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Getting involved on campus
Counting down the days until you see your family at Thanksgiving? Get over your homesickness by making some new friends during this weekend’s org events.
“Cowboys and Aliens” Showing What: The Student Events Center Film Committee presents a showing of the blockbuster “Cowboys and Aliens” in the Texas Union.
“Get into the GAME”
Where: Texas Union Theatre When: Thursday, Oct. 27 at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. How much: FREE with UT ID
Whitis Court Haunted House What: The Whitis Court Residence Hall Council puts on a Haunted House right on the 40 Acres. Where: Whitis Court Residence Hall When: Friday, Oct. 28 from 8-10:30 p.m How much: FREE with UT ID
Midnight Munchies with K∆ What: The Kappa Delta sorority hosts a late-night junk food fest with live music and prizes. Where: K∆ Parking Lot
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Good eats on a student budget
Local ‘haunts’ serve up your pumpkin fix Alison Killian LONGHORN LIFE
When it comes to fall, certain images come to mind: changing leaves, cooler weather, and of course, pumpkins. No matter where you are, there’s bound to be a pumpkin-flavored goodie nearby that will bring the joy of fall to your taste buds. And Austin is no exception. In and around campus, stores are throwing their hands up and giving in to the pumpkin mania. Here are Longhorn Life’s picks for the best pumpkin-flavored food items in Austin. Best Pumpkin Bread: Central Market’s Harvest Pumpkin Bread This Central Market specialty combines toasted pumpkin seeds with nine other grains and is baked fresh daily. This bread is not only a great source of whole-grains, but is perfect with almost any meal — or even just as a snack.
Best Pumpkin Dessert: TCBY’s Pumpkin Spice Frozen Yogurt This seasonal favorite is a combination of TCBY’s original golden vanilla fro-yo with pumpkin extract. Together, the two flavors create a unique spice that’s only available in the fall. Sweet tooth still not satisfied? Try these other pumpkin-flavored desserts: • Hey Cupcake’s Pumpkinator Cupcake • Red Mango’s Pumpkin Spice Frozen Yogurt
Best Pumpkin Drink: Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte This espresso blend with nutmeg, cinnamon and clove, combined with their pumpkin-flavored syrup and steamed milk, creates a warm treat for every coffee-lover. Top it off with some whipped cream and pumpkin spices for a little extra flavor, and you’re good to go. Starbucks isn’t the only site stirring up the essence of fall in a cup. Try one of these other pumpkin-inspired drinks:
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• The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf’s Pumpkin Latte • Einstein Bros’ Pumpkin Latte • Jamba Juice’s Pumpkin Smash Smoothie Up for a culinary challenge? Try making your own pumpkin delicacies using whole pumpkins from Austin grocery stores Kroger, Wal-Mart, Whole Foods and HEB, starting from $3.99 apiece. Pumpkins are delicious in any form, whether it’s an appetizer, dessert, or the main course. Fall is here (minus the weather) and that means it’s time to embrace our orange friends and dig in mouth-first. Bon Appétit!
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Kerbey Lane Café’s signature pumpkin pancakes can’t be missed this fall! Made with local ingredients, these all-natural spiced pancakes are only available for a limited time, so get ‘em while they’re hot.
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What’s in Your Pantry?
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A quick & easy weekday fiesta Allie Murphy
board and a can-opener.
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Let’s imagine that it’s a school night and you’re craving a meal with some Mexican flare—but you don’t have the money to go out to eat or the time to prepare a complicated dish. What do you do? Whip up these bad boys with ingredients you likely have in your pantry, make a margarita, and enjoy a little weekday fiesta!
BLACK BEAN TACOS Yields 4-6 tacos KATRINA FUNTANILLA/LONGHORN LIFE
You will need: a bowl, a skillet, a spoon, two hands, a knife, a cutting
INGREDIENTS 1 can black beans, rinsed and drained 1-2 avocados, peeled, pitted and cubed 1/3 cup red onion, diced ½ cup cilantro, chopped 2 tablespoons lime juice 2 teaspoons chili powder Salt 4-6 corn tortillas DIRECTIONS 1. Combine rinsed black beans, cubed avocado, diced red onion, chopped cilantro, lime juice and chili
powder in a medium-sized bowl and stir well. Salt to taste. 2. Heat up a skillet on the stove. Heat each side until warm and golden brown. (You can also heat them up in the microwave if you are feeling lazy). 3. Spoon black bean salsa into tortillas and serve!
Tip:
Make the black bean salsa in advance, refrigerate, and let sit for an hour for the best flavor. The salsa can also be eaten with tortilla chips, on top of chicken or even just out of the bowl!
Restaurant in Review: Sputnik, the newest burger joint on East Sixth Channing Holman LONGHORN LIFE
It’s hard to find a truly satisfying burger outside of my own kitchen. But now, thanks to new Sixth Street-eatery Sputnik, everything I love about my homemade burger is now possible without help from my George Foreman. Sputnik, which just opened in September, is a true burger joint
and bar, boasting a variety of burgers and cool blues music that creates, in the words of a friend, a “hipsterish” feel. Located in the former home of The Good Knight, an upscale French eatery, Sputnik is away from the drunken chaos of downtown Sixth Street. The burgers, which are big and juicy, are sure to make your taste buds do flips — without breaking the bank. At
Sputnik, the menu ranges from finger-licking french fries for $1.50 to a bacon cheeseburger for $8.25. How often can you find a restaurant with good eats for an inexpensive price? At the bartender’s suggestion, I sprung for the “Alter-Beast,” which is basically an In-N-Out burger with some added Texas twang. With a thick patty and a combination of Sputnik’s special
sauce, ketchup, mayonnaise and mustard, the burger was so big I could barely hold it in my hands. Bite after bite, this Angus beef and smoked bacon burger was like heaven in my mouth. And what’s a good burger without great fries? (Yes, they’re better than Wing Stop!) But Sputnik is also more than just burgers. Dig into their already popular coneys and see what you
think. Sputnik is looking forward to expanding their menu, but in the meantime, take advantage of the great daily drink specials; Sputnik has $4 wine and $3 beers daily. I must say, Sputnik surpassed all the burger chains and runs a tough race with my own burger. Stop by Sputnik on any day of the week after 3 p.m. and see if their burgers change your expectations like it did mine.
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Weather aside, Swirl your way into fall with these fro-yo flavors Channing Holman LONGHORN LIFE
SPOON • SLAYER • PUBLIC ENEMY REGGIE WATTS • LYKKE LI • DANZIG LEGACY ODD FUTURE • HENRY ROLLINS • HUM THE DAMNED • MAJOR LAZER • BRIAN POSEHN PASSION PIT • HOT SNAKES • DIPLO TURQUOISE JEEP • M83 • KID DYNAMITE FLYING LOTUS • UCB TOUR CO • GIRLS ...AND SO MANY MORE IT’S RIDICULOUS. DANZIG / SAMHAIN / DANZIG & DOYLE PERFORM MISFITS
Though it many not seem like it outside, summer has transformed into fall — and with the new season comes new flavors at local fro-yo favorite Swirl. These flavors include green apple, passion fruit, peanut butter, mountain blackberry and my favorite, pecan praline. Swirl has all the flavors I love in Blue Bell’s pecan praline ice cream —with half the calories. Top your fall-inspired yogurt with pecans (hint: pecan praline), chocolate chips and caramel syrup for an ultra-decadent combo.
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Prof. discusses expertise on the supernatural Alison Killian Longhorn Life
For most, October is the time to indulge in ghosts, ghouls and all things Halloween. For associate professor Joshua Gunn, that time is ever-present. A faculty member in the Department of Communication Studies, his teachings include rhetorical theory and criticism, as well as rhetoric and religion. Drawing from his occult expertise, Gunn answered our questions about his studies and the presence of the paranormal and supernatural in everday life. Longhorn Life: Tell us a little about yourself. What made you want to study ghosts
and the paranormal? Where did you begin? Gunn: The answer to this question depends on how far I go back in my personal history. If I were to stay in recent history, I started teaching a course on the paranormal and supernatural because I find the topic fascinating, of course, but also for pragmatic reasons. I’ll explain. For my first job as an assistant professor at Louisiana State University, I had to teach the courses of the person I replaced. One of them was titled “Rhetoric and Religion,” a course I would have never taught by choice. During graduate work I discovered that when my colleagues and I taught about religious topics, students would sometimes get into
verse battles with each other or challenge the teacher by quoting scripture. I just didn’t want to be on the defensive as a teacher, nor did I want my students to feel defensive about their faiths. After all, one’s religious convictions are often at the very core of their identity—especially atheists. I soon realized that having students read about more unusual beliefs ironically helped them to maintain an open mind. Then, at the end of the course, I asked students to think about how strange their beliefs actually are. Yes, Whitley Strieber’s alien abduction story is very strange, however, so is the narrative of the deity who came to earth for the purpose See Q&A, on page 10
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continued from page 9 of being tortured to death. Students really seem to dig this approach— the devoutly religious, especially. I teach courses on celebrity culture, popular music and rhetorical theory. My course on the supernatural and paranormal has been and remains the most popular. I think that popularity says something about the purchase of the supernatural in our culture, and more specifically, two persistent human obsessions: mortality and the problem of evil. So, I teach about these topics because I find it is a great way to reach students for the sake of the “bigger picture.” And, of course, owing to our longings for immortality, the supernatural intrigues people because it flirts with some confirmation of life after death. In the end, the supernatural and paranormal are implicated in religious belief. These topics seem tangential, and are often culturally coded that way, but I think they are in fact central to the “big questions” of life. My interest in researching and teaching on these topics is rooted in childhood. I grew up in an evangelical church that taught young people that any interest in the supernatural and occult was “of the devil,” even that one could be possessed by seeing a horror film or enjoying heavy metal music. I believed in spiritual warfare until my early or mid-teens (Cars and sexual awareness were the route of my growing doubt). So, part of my interest concerns wrestling with my own “demons,” deep-seated fears about what I once thought was a supernatural force, but now believe is essentially human: evil. Too much concrete evil is done in the name of fighting an abstract evil. As a species, humans routinely turn other people into monsters. It makes them easier to kill. This is the ugly side of the supernatural, and that needs to be taught as well. LL: Have you run into any critics of your work? How do you combat them? Gunn: Absolutely. Of course, there’s a student every now and again who does not appreciate my approach to things. Usually, these students drop the course (my classes are electives). When you teach and research on topics assumed to be non-traditional, that
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“Who isn’t intrigued by things that go bump in the night? And why are we intrigued? Cultural narratives about the supernatural and occult permeate our culture, providing not only enjoyment but also meaning for many, many people.” - Joshua Gunn, associate professor, Department of Communication Studies can invite scrutiny. I just try to make the best case I can to students, that what at first appears weird or strange is, in the end, not that weird or strange at all. Of course, just as in any profession, academics can be just as closed-minded as the most dogmatic zealot. When I started researching in this area (focused mostly on popular culture—films, books, and so forth), I was told indirectly and—sometimes directly—that taking the supernatural, occult, and paranormal seriously was a “career destroyer” and a waste of time. In part, that attitude is the legacy of a very long and often bloody history of freethinkers trying to make sense of the world without persecution (Galileo, for example, was accused of practicing witchcraft). That attitude has changed a lot since I entered the academy over a decade ago, thankfully, but it still remains. These attitudes are backwards. Who isn’t intrigued by things that go bump in the night? And why are we intrigued? Cultural narratives about the supernatural and occult permeate our culture, providing not only enjoyment but also meaning for many, many people. The supernatural does things for people, helps them make sense of the world; it helps them interrogate themselves, and sadly, it helps them demonize others. Isn’t that worth studying? This stuff deserves a hard, critical look. Otherwise, it becomes fodder for uncritical forms of entertainment. LL: What do you consider your most interesting piece of research? Gunn: That’s a bit like making Sophie’s choice! Let me answer this at a slant: I’ve found that the work I’ve done that is most interesting to others concerns political rhetoric. In some of my scholarship I have tried to show how supernatural or paranormal beliefs have influenced (or at least justified) foreign policy. One of my most cited articles is the one I wrote about Bush’s
speeches after 9/11, “The Rhetoric of Exorcism: George W. Bush and the Return of Political Demonology,” which was published in the Western Journal of Communication in 2004. In this essay I argue that the rhetoric justifying that the second attack on Iraq to the U.S. people draws from idioms rooted in the spiritual warfare and Deliverance movements. LL: Have you ever experienced any sort of paranormal activity personally? Gunn: Yes, but I’m always the reticent, open-minded-but-skeptic in these activities. Because my interest in the supernatural and occult is as a cultural critic, I tend to “read” stories of hauntings or alien sightings as the manifest narrative for something else. Other than listen to these stories, what I usually end up doing is providing contacts to paranormal investigators (there’s more than one ghost-hunting group in town). I tend to pull out of invitations to “investigate” the paranormal on a first-hand basis; it’s just outside of my domain of expertise. Because I think so much of this is psychological in origin—that is, because I tend to believe there is a secular explanation—getting involved would require a scientific or medical training that I do not have. I will say, however, there are many times in my life I have been “spooked,” especially as a young person. I used to get “night terrors” as a kid, and although in retrospect I know my hallucinations (of seeing demons, ghosts, and so forth) were psychological or biological or what have you, that did not make the experiences any less terrifying. That we all experience terror or feelings of panic is one of the reasons stories of the supernatural have such a common purchase. We can all relate to the feelings these stories inspire, and they can anchor and validate our personal experiences. It is often comforting to have a label and explanation for an intense feeling of
fear, dread, or shock—even if others would disagree with that label. LL: How do you evaluate the legitimacy of other people’s accounts of paranormal experience? Gunn: I don’t. Let me explain. I was once contacted by a student (not at UT) who believed she was possessed; we had a very unusual series of email exchanges and phone conversations. I worried that she may be a danger to herself or others, as she seemed absolutely panicked. I gave her the name of a Shaman who performs exorcisms in town, as well as encouraged her to seek medical attention. I contacted behavioral services on campus, but since this was not our student, they could not get involved. So, I contacted the student’s dean, who got in touch with her parents. It turned out she was schizophrenic and had gone off her meds. I related this story for a reason: many people have asked me if I believe in demonic possession. Personally, I am an agnostic on the issue of angels or demons (and by extension, ghosts and so on). But really, what I believe is beside the point. The fact is that people do believe that they are possessed or are haunted, and they are seeking help. Someone who reaches out for help is someone who can be helped. I don’t doubt that those who have exorcisms feel better, or that some are moved to happier lives. I don’t doubt that those who hire ghostbusters, or light sage and smokecleanse their homes, feel a sense of relief. And that’s why I offered the troubled woman my Shaman contact. I admit, as an educator and as a person my preference is psychotherapy and psychiatrics for possession cases. I would also tend to think a haunting is about personal demons, not supernatural ones. Even so, most therapists will tell you that you do not help someone who believes she is possessed or haunted by denying her reality. As discrete, biological creatures, we
do not necessarily share the same realities—that is, the same maps of meaning—even though we occupy the same world. LL: What is your opinion on college kids using Ouija boards and other methods to try to contact ghosts and the dead? Gunn: It’s fun. The history of the talking board is pretty interesting. When ghosts started “talking” to humans in the nineteenth century, they did so in “raps”—knocks on walls and floorboards. The humans had to count the knocks to figure out the message. This practice mirrored the communication rage at the time: Morse code and the telegraph. William Fuld designed the Ouija board as a labor saving device. Instead of the painstaking counting of “raps,” humans could ask ghosts to move around a pointer across a printed alphabet! It certainly was a time-saver (and a relief to those of us who have a problem with counting). I think it’s instructive to know that “talking boards” say as much about cultural responses to communication technologies as they do our yearning for immortality. LL: There’s a place in my home state of Pennsylvania called Satansville that is supposedly full of evil spirits, and people go all the time to check it out. Are there any supposedly haunted places around Austin that UT students can visit? Gunn: Yes! There are many haunted places in Austin. Perhaps the most haunted is the Driskill Hotel on Sixth Street. Many stories circulate about the ghosts that inhabit it. Many of the stories are about prostitutes that “serviced” politicians who stayed there who haunt because they were shortchanged. Perhaps the most told haunting of the Driskill involves a woman who was jilted and committed suicide there after a shopping spree. Buffalo Billiards, right across the street, is also said to be haunted (I was told it used to be a brothel)— the bartenders there can tell you some pretty creepy stories. The Tavern on Lamar is also rumored to be haunted, although I have not been able to get a confirming story from an employee there. I would highly recommend the “ghost tour” companies in town; I’ve been on a number of them and you can learn a lot about the history of Austin—in addition to its many ghosts!
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Hard at work: James Daniels helps other sign shop employees assemble signage for the stadium recycling bins.
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Laminated pictures of a packed Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium lay strewn across a desk covered with plastic scraps and X-Acto knives. Pictures of UT’s greatest sports moments lay in piles around the room, rolls of colored vinyl breaking up the burnt orange. In the middle of this chaotic scene, James Daniels, who has been an employee at the University Sign Shop for 19 years, patiently seals the stadium pictures together around a plastic model of a trashcan. This model will ultimately be used to create new recycling bins for the football stadium The University Sign Shop provides signs, banners and graphics to programs, faculty, staff and students at UT. They are involved in every stage of the process, from graphic design to construction and installation. “We are really the jack of all trades,� said Matthew T. Carpenter, the shop’s supervisor and Sign Shop employee for the last 15 years. Carpenter and the shop receive requests that range from
temporary banners for events to designs for the signage on UT police cars, which has to be especially clear and effective. “You have to look at [signs] as a whole. It is probably one of the most underestimated design forms out there,� Carpenter said. “You don’t look at a sign for more than a few seconds, but you deal with signs every day and don’t want to have to sift through information to find what you need.� There is also a balance between clarity and aesthetic, according to Carpenter, who studied architecture in New York prior to joining the Sign Shop. At UT, he discovered design and the importance of foundational art skills such as drawing, painting and sketching. “I want the sign to have the right relationship to the environment
and be pleasing to the eye,� Carpenter said. “In order to achieve that, you must have a solid foundation in traditional hand techniques to understand the principles of design.� Carpenter notes that it was only in the 1980s that signage transitioned from hand painting to printing the graphics from computer design onto plastic, paper or other materials. And even now, the computer is merely a tool similar to a paintbrush or pencil. Orlando Ramirez, UT’s graphic sign technician, designs the signs with Carpenter and personally installs them. “I take a client’s idea, make it more interesting and then see it through the whole process,� Ramirez said. Ramirez particularly enjoys projects from the UT athletics
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department because they present a challenge, requiring different materials and going up in difficult locations. “It is hard to get [the sports murals] to look sharp and very professional,� Ramirez said. “Plastic wants to do its own thing, and you just can’t rush through a job.� Professionalism is one of the key components of the University Sign Shop, where every effort is made to understand what the customers’ needs are. “We’re a small shop and we try really hard to meet and exceed customer expectations,� Carpenter said. “We don’t want people to be like, ‘Ugh not another in-house service.’ We want people to look at us and say, ‘Let’s give in-house another shot.’� To do this, the University Sign Shop focuses on listening to whether they are constructing signs to motivate sports teams or helping student organizations communicate their ideals clearly. “We want people to come back and say, ‘Wow,’� Carpenter said. “I want people to get a design they like and enjoy, while still clearly communicating their message.�
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Beyond the 40 Acres: UT-Arlington
Researcher leads in ‘everyday mind reading’ Elaine Kovacs Longhorn Life
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ver thought you were good at reading people? If you just met someone, could you accurately predict how the person thinks and feels? At the University of Texas at Arlington, professor William Ickes has been studying empathic accuracy, or what he calls “everyday mind reading,” since the 1970s. The research center he founded on UT-Arlington’s campus, the Social Interaction Laboratory, is nearing its 30th anniversary. “The Mecca of empathic accuracy research,” as one of Ickes’ former students called it, the Social Interaction Lab in UT-Arlington’s Department of Psychology strives to conduct experimental social and personality research. “That general line of research — on how people’s personalities affect their initial interactions — has continued on and off for at least 30 years now,” Ickes said. While studying English in col-
lege, in addition to his interest in community theater, Ickes found his interests naturally progressed toward psychology. The connections he made between the study of character in literature and the study of personality in psychology became clear. “When I realized that I could study the naturally occurring ‘mini-dramas’ that occurred between pairs of strangers, friends, dating partners and married partners in the lab, I knew that I had struck gold,” he said. An alumnus of UT-Austin’s graduate program in psychology, Ickes, who arrived at UT-Arlington in the early 1980s, continues his quest today to understand how psychological processes work. Ickes engages students with “some of the most challenging methodological and statistical problems that were found anywhere in social psychology,” said Victor Bissonnette, one of the professor’s former graduate students. One primary aspect of human behavior that Ickes has been researching is empathic accuracy,
which is not to be confused with empathy. As social beings, we humans always make judgments about people’s thoughts and feelings. But how accurate are people at perceiving the feelings of others? Ickes says that people are constantly making empathic inferences to understand what others are thinking and feeling. “Empathic inference is [the] everyday minding reading that people do whenever they attempt to infer the specific content of other people’s changing thoughts and feelings,” he said. The issue is that we may not be inferring other people’s feelings correctly. That’s where empathic accuracy comes in. Empathic accuracy is about how successful we are at perceiving another person’s thoughts and feelings. While Ickes’ research reveals that strangers on average achieve about 20 percent of the possible “accuracy points” when inferring other people’s thoughts, close friends actually do score higher at 30 percent and married couples
tend to average of 30-35 percent when inferring the thoughts of their significant others. “There are no empathic superstars, however,” Ickes said. “The highest empathic accuracy scores we have seen in our research are in the general range of 50-60 percent.” Thus, even though people in general aren’t superb mindreaders, it seems we generally are better judges of the thoughts and feelings of those closest to us. At UT-Arlington’s Social Interaction Laboratory, the experiment process is fairly simple. The common materials used in the lab involve a space for interaction between two strangers who have never met and a camera to record that interaction. The participants are primarily introduction to psychology students, said Renee Coker, Ickes’ first appointed lab manager. Ickes and his fellow researchers monitor and record how each research participant judges the other in these simple, two-person interactions. After the participants
have interacted, they are shown a video of themselves during that interaction. Through the starting and stopping of the recording, one person guesses what the other thought at a certain moment, with the other providing the truth in how he or she was actually feeling. Through this feedback, people become better judges for future interactions with the person. “The two studies that have investigated [feedback] have found that if, following each of your empathic inferences, you get immediate feedback about what the other person was actually thinking or feeling, your empathic accuracy for that person increases significantly,” Ickes said. Entering its 30th year, the Social Interaction Lab has carried out a number of different studies with important applications to real-world situations. Ickes and his graduate students, including William Schweinle, have recently conducted a series of studies on the psychology of maritally See RESEARCH, on page 15
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5 Things I’ve Learned
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Robert Jensen Professor School of Journalism [20 years at UT] Ignore the advice to avoid talking about religion and politics. Religion and politics are the most interesting topics for human conversation.
Consider the possibility that our multiple ecological crises, which are undermining the capacity of the ecosphere to support human life on the scale we know, are likely to intensify in your lifetime, in ways that can’t be predicted. If that scares you, it should.
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If you are pissed off at older people for leaving you a planet in such condition, you have every right to be pissed off. If you do nothing to contribute to a more just and more sustainable society, you forfeit the right to be pissed off at older people.
When you tell Longhorn fans that the hook-‘em-horns sign reminds you of the Nazi salute and that UT home football games remind you of Nuremberg rallies, many will not find your observation humorous. That’s good, because it’s not a joke.
Make a speech: Professor L. Michael White, the night’s grand prize winner, accepts the prestigious honor at the Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards in the Four Seasons Hotel.
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aggressive and abusive men. According to UT-Arlington’s Department of Psychology website, Ickes and his students’ findings are published in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology. “This research has had a great deal of applied value in helping us understand how such men think and what kind of therapeutic interactions are most likely to help them,” Ickes said. Faced with mixed previous information about abusive men’s empathic accuracy, the researchers at the Social Interaction Lab set out to address the problem of “whether abusive men’s tendency to think that their wives were expressing criticism or rejection was accurate[ly] or inaccurately biased,” Schweinle said. First, the study indicated that abusive men are biased when they attribute critical or rejecting intent to women. Second, it showed that abusive men maintain this biased inferential style (despite all of the social cues available) through at least two social strategies: disattending women’s expressed thoughts and feelings (“tuning them out”) and through “emotional counter-contagion,” such as feeling contempt for women rather
than sympathy. But despite the findings with maritally aggressive men, Ickes’ research reveals that men are equal with women in terms of their empathic accuracy. Though women were shown to be more motivated to accurately read another person’s feelings regardless of money, while men were paid, both men and women on average showed equal levels of empathic accuracy. The researchers at the Social Interaction Lab show that empathic accuracy is a skill—in fact, something that we can improve upon. While some of us may be better equipped to understand how others feel, we can all become better through feedback and practice. Through this well-known research at the lab, the nuances of human behavior and social interaction are better understood on a daily basis. The research conducted at the Social Interaction Laboratory is, as former UT-Arlington graduate student Ronen Cuperman said, “another piece to the puzzle we call human behavior.” Through Ickes’ work, these studies heighten our awareness of how we understand ourselves in relations to others. So, the next time you see someone smile or frown, or someone says something that makes you mad or sad, stop and think for a second: What’s your empathic accuracy?
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Classics professor L. Michael White received the $10,000 grand prize at the University Co-op’s Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards on Oct. 19. His book, “Scripting Jesus: The Gospels in Rewrite,” details how the world’s earliest stories were written and rewritten over time. Instead of biographies, White identifies the gospels as dramatic presenta-
tions for an audience. This is the 15th celebration of the Hamilton Book Awards, a ceremony that honors faculty members who have published a book in the last year. White previously took home the Hamilton grand prize back in 2006, for a book also on Christianity. The subjects of the nominated books varied widely, with topics
ranging from socialism in Germany and folk music in the Jim Crow era to Texas history. The night’s other winners included Career Research Excellence Award winner J. Patrick Olivelle, Best Research Paper winners Barbara McArthur and George “Fritz” Benedict and Creative Research Award winner Steven Dietz.
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