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In 1984 Truman Capote, the author of true crime novel “In Cold Blood,” dies at age 59 from liver cancer. — Kenny Boyd Head of football athletic training Work Here The Daily Texan is currently hiring in all departments. Stop by the HSM basement until Sept. 7 to pick up an application. TODAY SPORTS PAGE 9 “If you call having a less than 5 percent chance of being able to walk nor- mally and two years lat- er returning to the field a miracle, then I would say it is a miracle.” Quote to note UT to invest in technology commercialization Victoria Montalvo | Daily Texan Staff Barry Burgdorf, vice chancellor and general counsel for the UT system, asks for continued sponsorship in a meeting Wednesday afternoon. The voices of University stu- dents and faculty will be heard this year through the represen- tation of one student and one faculty member on the Univer- sity Budget Council. In an effort to increase the variety of perspectives on the University’s budget, UT Pres- ident William Powers, Jr. ap- proved a resolution by Student Govern- ment in- stating the in- creased represen- tation. Before he approved the res- o l u - tion this week, seven UT ad- ministrators served on the council. Student Government Presi- dent Natalie Butler and pharma- cy 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 mak- ing budgetary decisions, and he Students will soon have another option for purchasing health con- scious, local groceries at the Uni- versity Co-op grocery store sched- uled to open next week. Co-op management decided to build the grocery store after re- ceiving positive feedback for it on their annual student survey, said Co-op CEO and president George Mitchell. Mitchell said the grocery store, which is located on the 2200 block of Guadalupe Street at the Co-op Outlet’s former lo- cation, will be larger than a con- venience store and unique to the UT community. “We did a lot of research and checked out a lot of universi- ties,” 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 Co-op will make the build- ing an addition to the Co-op grocery store. “That part of the store will house Texas products specifical- ly,” 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-in- spired but will also house prod- ucts specific to the needs of stu- dents who live on campus. He said the store will carry a variety Student body representation increases on budget council Thomas Allison | Daily Texan Staff 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 Thomas Allison | Daily Texan Staff Julian Villalobos walks past the renovated Co-op Outlet Wednesday morning. Grocery store aims for October opening F rom the first UT yell to the school’s choice of burnt orange, the Big Yell on Wednesday offered insight into school traditions and separated fact from UT myth. Each fall the Texas Exes Spirit and Tra- ditions Council hosts the Big Yell to high- light historical origins of UT’s school spir- it traditions. This year, the program took place in the Student Activities Center ball- room and included door prizes, a brief his- tory of the early years and traditions of UT and lessons in all of the UT yells that have existed since the University’s first football team was established in 1893. The event included a musical perfor- mance by the Texas Spirits, who sang a 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 ex- panding statewide business ventures in which the UT System will share ownership. Bryan Allinson, exec- utive director for technology com- mercialization, said the commit- tee’s focus is on UT-owned intellec- tual 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 informa- tion more accessible is one way the UT System is trying to in- crease transparency. The search engine tools include information about research, faculty, patents and technologies for business ac- cess. 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 to- ward 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 invest- ments will be a source of new capi- tal — money that would otherwise go to Silicon Valley. The fund is also an opportu- nity for the UT System to diver- sify the businesses that invest in UT technologies. “We think this will help align our interests and put UT in a better ne- gotiating place,” Allinson said. UT President William Pow- ers Jr. said before the formation of the committee six months ago, the board discussed commercial- Andrea Gore Pharmacy professor By Victoria Pagan Daily Texan Staff By Allie Kolechta Daily Texan Staff COUNCIL continues on PAGE 2 YELL continues on PAGE 2 TECH continues on PAGE 2 GROCERY continues on PAGE 5 By Victoria Pagan Daily Texan Staff Friend Request Denied 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. Campus watch By LIz Farmer Daily Texan Staff
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Thursday, August 25, 2011>> Breaking news, blogs and more: www.dailytexanonline.com @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan
(FRESH)MAN ON THE STREET HAS AN OPINION TO SHARE ON THE DAY ONE
@bit.ly/dt_video Tight end recovers from terrifying knee injury to play season opener
DOWN BUT NOT OUT
SPORTS PAGE 9
Want to dress like a pop star and sing like no one’s watching?
PRINCESS OF POP
LIFE&ARTS PAGE 16
‘‘
Calendar
Today in history
Pop RoyaltyPretend 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 WeekBoutiques and salons around town will hold events today for Austin Fashion week. For more details, check out the website at www.fashionweekaustin.com.
In 1984Truman Capote, the author of true crime novel “In Cold Blood,” dies at age 59 from liver cancer.
— Kenny BoydHead of football athletic
training
Work HereThe Daily Texan is currently hiring in all departments. Stop by the HSM basement until Sept. 7 to pick up an application.
TODAY
SPORTS PAGE 9
“If you call having a less than 5 percent chance of being able to walk nor-mally and two years lat-
er returning to the field a miracle, then I would say
it is a miracle.”
Quote to note
UT to invest in technology commercialization
Victoria Montalvo | Daily Texan Staff
Barry Burgdorf, vice chancellor and general counsel for the UT system, asks for continued sponsorship in a meeting Wednesday afternoon.
The voices of University stu-dents and faculty will be heard this year through the represen-tation of one student and one faculty member on the Univer-sity Budget Council.
In an effort to increase the variety of perspectives on the University’s budget, UT Pres-ident William Powers, Jr. ap-proved a resolution by Student G ov e r n -ment in-s t a t i n g t h e i n -c r e a s e d represen-t a t i o n . Before he approved t h e r e s -o l u -tion this w e e k , s e v e n U T a d -m i n i s t r a t o r s s e r v e d o n the council.
Student Government Presi-dent Natalie Butler and pharma-cy 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 mak-ing budgetary decisions, and he
Students will soon have another option for purchasing health con-scious, local groceries at the Uni-versity Co-op grocery store sched-uled to open next week.
Co-op management decided to build the grocery store after re-ceiving positive feedback for it on their annual student survey, said Co-op CEO and president George Mitchell.
Mitchel l said the grocer y store, which is located on the
2200 block of Guadalupe Street at the Co-op Outlet’s former lo-cation, will be larger than a con-venience store and unique to the UT community.
“We did a lot of research and checked out a lot of universi-ties,” 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 Co-op wi l l make the bui ld-
ing an addition to the Co-op grocery store.
“That part of the store will house Texas products specifical-ly,” 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-in-spired but will also house prod-ucts specific to the needs of stu-dents who live on campus. He said the store will carry a variety
Student bodyrepresentationincreases onbudget council
Thomas Allison | Daily Texan Staff
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
Thomas Allison | Daily Texan Staff
Julian Villalobos walks past the renovated Co-op Outlet Wednesday morning.
Grocery store aims for October opening
From the first UT yell to the school’s choice of burnt orange, the Big Yell on Wednesday offered insight into school
traditions and separated fact from UT myth.
Each fall the Texas Exes Spirit and Tra-ditions Council hosts the Big Yell to high-light historical origins of UT’s school spir-it traditions. This year, the program took place in the Student Activities Center ball-room and included door prizes, a brief his-tory of the early years and traditions of UT
and lessons in all of the UT yells that have existed since the University’s first football team was established in 1893.
The event included a musical perfor-mance by the Texas Spirits, who sang a
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 ex-panding statewide business ventures in which the UT System will share ownership. Bryan Allinson, exec-utive director for technology com-mercialization, said the commit-tee’s focus is on UT-owned intellec-tual 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 informa-tion more accessible is one way the UT System is trying to in-crease transparency. The search engine tools include information about research, faculty, patents and technologies for business ac-cess. 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 to-ward 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 invest-ments will be a source of new capi-tal — money that would otherwise go to Silicon Valley.
The fund is also an opportu-nity for the UT System to diver-sify the businesses that invest in UT technologies.
“We think this will help align our interests and put UT in a better ne-gotiating place,” Allinson said.
UT President William Pow-ers Jr. said before the formation of the committee six months ago, the board discussed commercial-
Andrea GorePharmacy professor
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TECH continues on PAGE 2
GROCERY continues on PAGE 5
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Friend Request Denied201 East 21st StreetSuspicious 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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looks forward to seeing how the new members can further bene-fit the University.
“I believe having a faculty member and a student as per-manent positions within the council will add two impor-tant dimensions to this delib-erative body, will help us bet-ter incorporate the perspective of those crucial constituencies, and demonstrates our commit-ment to transparency,” Powers said in the blog.
Former student body pres-ident Liam O’Rourke said he and UT alumna Shara Kim Ma, who served as the vice president of the student services budget
committee, first suggested the idea of a student representative informally in 2009.
“We presented him with an af-fordability platform,” O’Rourke said. “We told him that there was no way to achieve some af-fordability measures unless we had real representation on some of these committees that make budget decisions.”
Faculty Council chairman Alan Friedman said he suggest-ed Gore to Powers because she has a good sense of how the in-stitution works. Friedman sug-gested five other faculty mem-bers for the council, but only Gore was selected at this time. He said because Gore has been a member of the Faculty Ad-visory Budget Committee, she
will be able to think indepen-dently but also work well with administrators.
Gore said she feels she was nominated for the council be-cause she has only worked here for a few years, she doesn’t have
a lot of preconceptions and keeps an open mind. She said she thought it was also impor-
tant that she has served on mul-tiple University committees.
“I have a reputation for hav-ing a lot of energy and getting
things done,” Gore said. “I try to exhibit the right amount of tenacity. If something is impor-tant, I stick to it and don’t let it drop.”
Butler said she was proud to be chosen as the student rep-resentative by Powers. She said adding a student to the council had been a personal goal of hers since her campaign for Student Government President began, and she is excited to be part of the council.
“I think it’s going to be a lot of work, and I imagine there is a lot to learn,” Butler said. “Budgets are very com-plex, but I’m excited to do the work to learn all I need to be a good advocate for students on the committee.”
song to the tune of “Summer Nights” from Grease about UT traditions and the football sea-son. Advertising junior Erica Flores and five other officers of the Spirit and Traditions Coun-cil opened the event.
“I hope everyone is as excited for this year and Big Yell as we are,” Flores said.
The Texas Lassos, the Texas Hellraisers, the Orange Jackets and other campus spirit organi-zations came together Wednes-day night to teach students about their school and some old-school cheers to pull out this football season.
The first UT yell, written in 1892, reads “Hullabaloo! Hoo-ray! Hoo-ray! Hullaba-loo! Hoo-ray! Hoo-ray! Hoo-ray! Hoo-ray! ‘Varsity! ‘Varsi-ty! U.T.A!”
The University was referred to as ‘varsity in the yell be-cause in the late 19th century
when the university opened, it was commonplace to short-en University to “‘varsity”, said event host Jim Nicar, direc-tor of campus relations for the Texas Exes.
Texas A&M University was referred to as “the college” when that yell was still in use, Nicar said.
The school’s burnt orange and white colors were first de-termined when two football players desperate for school spirit ribbons took what the manager of a general store had the most trouble selling, Nicar said. He said they went through changes, including a burnt or-ange and maroon phase but eventually returned to burnt orange and white.
UT’s first live Longhorn mas-cot was served for dinner be-fore a football game in the ear-ly 1920s, and Bevo was named by a magazine, not because of
a practical joke by the Aggies, Nicar said.
“In reality, the very first foot-ball game that was ever on the campus was the fall of 1883, the very first semester UT was open,” he said. “There wasn’t anybody to play because it was 1883, so we challenged a local private high school, and we lost. We don’t talk about that game very much.”
Math and economics sopho-more Roger Hung attended Big Yell last year and said the pro-gram provided insight into tra-ditions. His favorite part was learning what myths weren’t true, how the yells changed over the years and all about UT traditions, he said.
“I came [to school] here last year and school spirit wasn’t that big,” he said. “This year, it’s before the year starts, and I can already tell school spirit is going to be so big. I came here to sup-port the school spirit.”
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ization, but the committee im-proved those discussions. Pow-ers said the University does not normally engage in seeking part-nerships with businesses to gen-erate revenue.
UT System spokesman Matt Flores said expectations of new board leadership included the need for more focus on advanc-ing technological-based efforts. He said the board wanted to be less reactive and more proac-tive when it comes to intellectu-al property within the UT Sys-tem institutions.
“It’s becoming a more compet-itive market out there for patents for discoveries,” Flores said.
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WASHINGTON — After months of unrelieved gloom and discord, Congress and President Barack Obama are starting to make a dent in the federal budget deficit. It’s pro-jected to shrink slightly to $1.28 trillion this year, and bigger savings from this month’s debt ceiling deal are forecast over the next decade.
No one’s celebrating. There will be plenty of red ink for years to come.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projected Wednesday that annual budget deficits will be re-duced by a total of $3.3 trillion over the next decade, largely because of the deficit reduction package passed by Congress earlier this month. The office also forecast persistently high unemployment, a troubling polit-ical prospect for President Barack Obama in the crucial months of his campaign to win a second term.
Even with the anticipated big sav-ings, annual budget deficits are ex-pected to total nearly $3.5 trillion over the next decade — and much more if Bush-era tax cuts scheduled to expire at the end of next year are extended. In all, nearly $8.5 trillion would be added to the national debt over the next 10 years if the tax cuts and certain spending programs are
kept in place, the budget office re-port said. The national debt now stands at more than $14.6 trillion.
The numbers help illustrate the urgency facing a new joint commit-tee in Congress that is charged with finding $1.2 trillion to $1.5 trillion in budget savings over the next decade.
Most of the improvement in this year’s deficit picture comes from higher than anticipated tax collec-tions from 2010 returns filed in the spring. Over the longer term, the belt-tightening required in the new deficit reduction law will mean even bigger savings, the report says.
Deficits could end up larger if CBO’s economic forecast, which is more optimistic than private pro-jections, proves to be too rosy. The agency doesn’t foresee anoth-er recession but modest economic growth over the next few years. And it expects the unemployment rate to fall only slightly, to 8.5 percent in the last three months of 2012, and staying above 8 percent through the following year.
“A great deal of the pain of this economic downturn still lies ahead of us,” said CBO Director Douglas W. Elmendorf.
At $1.28 trillion, this year’s bud-get deficit would be the third high-est, surpassed only by those of the past two years.
MOSCOW — North Korean leader Kim Jong Il says his country is ready to impose a nuclear test and production moratorium if interna-tional talks on its atomic program resume, in Pyongyang’s latest effort to restart long-stalled, aid-for-disar-mament talks.
It remains to be seen, howev-er, whether Kim’s reported ges-ture at a summit Wednesday with Russian President Dmitry Medve-dev will satisfy the most skeptical of the five other nations at talks meant to end the North’s nuclear weapons ambitions — the United States, South Korea and Japan.
U.S. State Department spokes-woman Victoria Nuland said Wednesday that Kim Jong Il’s re-ported offer to refrain from nucle-ar and missile tests was “a welcome first step” but not enough to restart six-party disarmament talks.
Kim, at the summit in eastern Siberia, reportedly made no men-
tion of an issue that lies at the heart of negotiators’ worries: North Ko-rea’s recently revealed uranium en-richment program.
Medvedev spokeswoman Natalya Timakova was quoted by the ITAR-Tass news agency as saying that Kim expressed readiness to return to the nuclear talks without pre-conditions, and, “in the course of the talks, North Korea will be ready to resolve the question of imposing a moratorium on tests and produc-tion of nuclear missile weapons.”
The North promised to freeze its long-range missile tests in 1999, but has since routinely tested short-range missiles and launched a long-range rocket in April 2009. It has also con-ducted two nuclear tests, most re-cently in 2009, and last year it shelled a South Korean front-line island, kill-ing four, and allegedly torpedoed a South Korean warship, killing 46.
The North has repeatedly said it wants the so-called six-party nucle-ar talks to resume. Washington and Seoul, however, have been wary, calling first for an improvement in the abysmal ties between the Ko-
reas and for a sincere sign from the North that it will abide by past commitments it has made in previ-ous rounds of the nuclear talks.
The six-sided nuclear talks in-volving North Korea and the Unit-ed States, China, Japan, Russia and South Korea have been stalled since December 2008. But faced with deepening sanctions and economic trouble, North Korea has pushed to restart them.
On another subject, Medvedev said Russia and North Korea moved forward on a proposal to ship nat-ural gas to South Korea through a pipeline across North Korea.
North Korea had long been reluc-tant to help its powerful archenemy increase its gas supply, but recent-ly has shown interest in the project. The South wants Russian energy but is wary of North Korean influence over its energy supply.
With deficit battle fought, lawmakers turn to red ink
North Korea could resume talks to end nuclear enterprise
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, right, and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, are seen during a meeting at a military gar-rison near the city of Ulan-Ude in Buryatia, Russia, on Wednesday. North Korea is ready to impose a moratorium on nuclear missile tests if interna-tional talks resume.
Dmitry Astakhov Associated Press
By Stephen OhlemacherThe Associated Press
By Foster Klug & Mansur MirovalevThe Associated Press
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While you were away from Austin this sum-mer, President William Powers Jr. set new goals for UT. He shi�ed from seeking money to �-nance the ever-escalating cost of college in the pattern of the past and explained to us that UT must change itself to make college a�ordable in the future.
Remarkably, Powers e�ected this reorienta-tion amid belt-tightening made necessary by the recession and the state balanced-budget requirement. While the recession concentrated attention on �scal matters, Powers’ redirection does much more than shave costs from doing things in old ways.
�e underlying problem, of course, is that higher education is labor-intensive, and since the invention of the book and movable type, it has not found ways to add capital to im-prove productivity. Historically, we have raised salaries to match what is paid beyond our ivy walls where productivity has increased. �e resulting ever-escalating costs of higher edu-cation are unsustainable, and it seems we have reached the limits of what the Legislature and families can pay.
While the Legislature will support larger en-rollments due to a growing Texas population and the greater rate at which Texans attend college, it will no longer pay more to teach the present college population with present meth-ods just because productivity has increased elsewhere. Families, too, have reached the lim-
its of what they can pay. Today, it costs about one-fourth of median family income to send one Texas resident to a four-year public uni-versity for one year. We risk limiting higher education to the rich.
�e shi� in Powers’ thinking from more state aid and higher tuition to changes in the form of college is dramatic. In his 2008 Report on Tuition, Powers sought to justify increases in tuition and state support because, as he re-ported, the costs of instruction at UT since 1990 had risen at an annual rate of 2.8 percent, a�er adjusting for in�ation.
Now, the reality that real costs cannot con-tinue to increase at that rate (doubling in the next 25 years) has sunk in. Powers concludes that changes must be made in at least in three areas: entering students must know more col-lege material, technology can increase produc-tivity of learning and success should be mea-sured by outputs.
�e Commission of 125, a group comprised largely of alumni, said in its 2004 report that “university-level curricula” should be learned at the University. Course requirements, it ad-vised, should not “be easily satis�ed through advanced-placement examinations.” And the Task Force on Curricular Reform, which Pow-ers led while dean of the School of Law, echoed this dim view of learning college material in high school. It recommended establishing “lim-its on the number of examination and transfer credits that can be counted toward graduation.” Now, to condense learning and to move more rapidly to a degree, at less cost to students and
the state, Powers proposes considering a three-year degree, with AP accomplishment to help achieve it.
In his important speech this summer, Pow-ers cited the use of new information technolo-gies “to support learning inside and outside the classroom.” UT has initiated course redesign programs for introductory courses in chemis-try, biology and statistics “to shi� the emphasis from traditional teaching methods to more in-novative and e�ective student-centered learn-ing.” Powers announced a partnership with Harvard and Carnegie Mellon universities “to use advanced instructional technology and in-teractive tools to develop free educational ma-terials and online interactive tutors.”
In his speech, Powers called for judging education by outputs, such as the number of degrees granted in a set number of years. �is represents a healthy shi� from earlier attention to inputs such as the student-faculty ratio, a perverse measure of productivity. While re-ducing a lecture class from 200 to 100 greatly a�ects the student-faculty ratio, it does noth-ing to increase student-faculty contact. In his speech, Powers also praised the new �rst-year signature courses, small classes taught by es-tablished faculty, as an important innovation designed to assure that every student has a small class, where a member of the faculty will know him or her well enough to give advice and write a letter of recommendation.
Fisher is a senior research fellow in the Lyndon B. Johnson
School of Public Affairs.
Charles Dharapak | The Associated Press
Republican presidential candidate, Gov. Rick Perry speaks at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, on Aug. 15.
In the less than two weeks since he threw his hat in the ring, Gov. Rick Perry has catapulted into the national spot-light as a top GOP contender for the 2012 presidential race. In fact, Perry has taken the lead among Republican candi-dates, according to results released Wednesday from the most recent Gallup poll.
This is not the first time Perry has received national me-dia attention. Last year, numerous reputable news outlets clamored to cover the governor’s showdown with a coyote; while jogging, the governor shot the animal with his laser-sighted pistol when it threatened his daughter’s Labrador retriever. Similarly, the media spotlight currently focused on Perry portrays the image of a rugged and fearless Texan ready to make the federal government as “inconsequential”
as he can, as he promised he would in his presidential announcement speech on Aug. 13 in Charleston, S.C.
While Perry continues to soak up the media sun, voters across the nation will continue to learn about his decade-long term as governor of Texas. Within days of becoming governor in 2001, he told Texans higher education would remain his top priority, according to the Austin American-Statesman. However, serious improvements have yet to be seen. Perry’s support for the “seven breakthrough so-lutions,” or proposed reforms for higher education, and his style-over-substance call for a $10,000 bachelor’s degree pro-gram show how disconnected he is from the realities of higher education in the state.
In short, voters across the nation don’t know Perry like we know him. His educa-tion track record is one of many that sug-gests he is charging around the country on a platform of minimal substance. We
hope voters and journalists in the other 49 states will look past our governor’s “cowboy mystique” and seriously evalu-ate the decisions he has made in office.
Earlier this month, President William Powers Jr. an-nounced that the University Budget Council will be ex-panded to include a student and a faculty member for the first time since its establishment in 2000.
The council is a high-level committee that advises the president on how to allocate University funds among its various units and strategic initiatives. Since its inception during former UT President Larry Faulkner’s tenure, it has operated with an administrator-only membership, and its behind-the-scenes nature has left its real influence up to speculation.
This move is a much-needed step in the right direction of fiscal transparency in light of the current climate, which has included large budget cuts and pressure from outside groups to change how the University operates. The change was produced by a productive collaboration between Stu-dent Government, Senate of College Councils, Graduate Student Assembly, faculty and administrators.
The end all, of course, is not simply membership but ac-tion. Tough times have illustrated that shared sacrifice re-quires shared decision-making and, moving forward, shared accountability. We hope that the two new council members — Student Body President Natalie Butler and pharmacy professor Andrea Gore — utilize the voices of their re-spective groups and add perspective and value to ongoing budget discussions.
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UT students may need more than just a de-gree to be successful in the workplace, according to a recently published book by a UT professor.
Beauty Pays, released on Monday and authored by economics professor Dan-iel Hamermesh, is a study on the effect of a person’s physical appearance in the work-place. According to the book, after adjusting for educational differences, beautiful people make 5 percent more money than their aver-age looking coworkers and are likely to make between 10 and 12 percent more than their worst looking coworkers.
Hamermesh saw another project on the subject 20 years ago and was inspired to pur-sue serious economic research on the topic, he said.
“The book notes that beauty is inherently scarce and is thus a fit topic for thinking ec-onomically since economics deal with scar-city,” he said.
After writing seven scholarly papers on the subject, Hamermesh said he felt it was time to make his research public. The book also con-tains the research of many other economists who have done work in the area, he said.
The book uses ratings from interviewers or from pictures to determine who is or isn’t beautiful, Hamermesh said. While the rating of beauty is largely subjective, most people tend to view other’s looks in a similar way, he said.
“If you think somebody is good looking, the odds are that most other people will feel the same way about him or her,” Hamermesh said. “If you think a person is ugly, most on-lookers would agree.”
The book discusses why beauty affects how well we do in the work place and in oth-er parts of life, what “beauty” means in the workplace, how each sex is affected, wheth-er the trend is a form of discrimination and other factors related to the issue.
“Beauty affects outcomes on jobs, in dat-ing and marriage, and in lending — essen-tially in any market,” he said. “It affects how happy we are, too.”
Biology freshman Stephanie Jacobs said
she thinks beautiful people may have better luck getting hired for certain jobs because they seem more confident.
“People like to see perfection,” she said. “It could make bosses feel as though certain
candidates will have a more successful time in the workplace.”
Although Jacobs said she does not think this is fair, those who are not viewed as beautiful should use other resources avail-
able to them so they can help narrow the gap in success, she said.
A beautiful appearance does provide an advantage over less attractive people when getting hired, while in the workplace and in
other parts of life, said radio-television-film sophomore Areli Casiano.
“Success should be determined by the po-tential people have,” Casiano said. “A person has a lot more than their appearance.”
Higher pay associated with good looks, professor finds
Photo illustration by Thomas Allison | Daily Texan Staff
A new book authored by UT economics professor Daniel Hammermesh argues attractive people earn between five and 12 percent more than their less attractive co-workers.
Rodeo Austin stimulated the Austin area’s economy to the tune of $68.8 million in 2011, accord-ing to an economic impact study released Wednesday.
The 16-day fair and rodeo, which was held in March, saw 300,000 attendees this year, up from 165,000 a decade ago.
According to the study, which was conducted by an Austin-based eco-nomic consulting firm, 75 percent of this year’s out-of-town attendees came to Austin primarily for the rodeo.
Of the $68.8 million total eco-nomic impact, $20.9 million went directly to the company that hosted
the events, and during the past 11 years, the event has brought $14.2 million to the city of Austin and $1.8 million to Travis County in the form of tax revenue. Rodeo Austin also donated $1.9 million in revenue to Texas youth charities this year.
— Matthew Stottelmyre
Evidence-tamperer loses appeal in West Campus murder case
On Wednesday, a court denied the appeal of an accessory to a West Campus murder case who was previously convict-ed of tampering with murder evidence.
Laura Ashley Hall claimed the convic-tion was not valid because prosecutors did not reveal the allegations that the Austin Police Department forensics lab “had been accused of doing substandard, shoddy and incomplete DNA analysis with lax training and quality controls,” according to the court document.
In 2005, then-UT student Hall was sentenced to 5 years in jail for altering evidence in the murder of Austin resi-dent Jennifer Cave. Prosecution claimed Hall assisted then-UT student Colton
Pitonyak in the mutilation of Cave’s body and also helped him escape to Mexico. While Pitonyak received a 55-year sen-tence for murder, Hall appealed during the hearing, according to the Aug. 24 court appeals document. Hall’s case went back to court in 2009 before a new jury, where she was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the same crime based on pre-viously unpresented evidence.
The appeals court cleared the crime lab of all allegations and stated Hall’s appeal would more likely be hurt than supported by allegations of false lab results, since original results came back clear of Hall’s DNA.
Hall’s representative, attorney Joe James Sawyer, could not be reached for comment.
— Jillian Bliss
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Danielle Villasana | Daily Texan file photo
A bull tramples a rider during the 2011 Austin Rodeo this past March. A recent report shows that rodeos continue to thrive, despite a weak economy.
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“We feel this is especially im-portant because the food is not freshly prepared so we are try-ing to provide the best nutri-tion to students we can offer,” Voelker said.
The store will also carry a number of products that are distributed in smaller packag-es, Voelker said. He said the store will sell small packag-es to benefit students because they do not go to waste and fit in the smaller storage ar-eas available to students living on campus.
Rhetoric and writing senior Rebekah Luna said she is ex-cited about the prospect of more health food being avail-able near campus. She said she hopes the items available are made affordable to students.
“It’s exciting and will be real-ly convenient to have around,” Luna said. “I think it’s also kind of silly because it doesn’t look to be much bigger than a convenience store and students can just take public transporta-tion to H-E-B.”
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Hunter uncovers $4 million worth of marijuana
DETROIT — Medical marijua-na cannot be sold through pri-vate shops, the Michigan appeals court said Wednesday in a major decision that strikes at business-es trying to cash in on pot and cuts off a source for people with chronic ailments.
A three-judge panel said the 2008 medical marijuana law, as well as the state’s public health code, does not allow people to sell pot to each other, even if they’re among the 99,500 who have state-issued marijuana cards.
The court said Compassion-ate Apothecary in Mount Pleas-ant, Mich., can be immediately shut down as a “public nuisance.” The 3-0 decision means local au-thorities can pursue similar busi-nesses, estimated at 200 to 300, in their communities.
It was not immediately clear whether they would, but state Attor-ney General Bill Schuette said he’s notifying all 83 county prosecutors.
“This ruling is a huge victo-ry for public safety and Michigan communities struggling with an invasion of pot shops near their schools, homes and churches,” Schuette said in a statement. “The court echoed the concerns of law enforcement, clarifying that this law is narrowly focused to help the seriously ill, not the creation of a marijuana free-for-all.”
Of course, not everyone shares that view. Chuck Ream, president of an Ann Arbor shop, called the ruling an “assault on democracy” nearly three years after voters ap-proved marijuana as a way to re-lieve pain or other medical prob-lems. He estimates that one-third
of people with marijuana cards get pot through dispensaries, with oth-ers growing their own or getting it through a registered caregiver.
“If they want wheelchairs chained to every door at the Capitol, if they want to fight about this — oh, boy, they’ll have a fight,” said Ream of A2 Compassionate Healthcare. “There are a lot of people who don’t want to be drooling idiots on Oxy-contin. They’ve found a medicine that relieves their pain and makes them happy.”
There is no dispute that the marijuana law makes no men-tion of dispensaries; it doesn’t even indicate how people should get their dope. It says people can possess up to 2.5 ounces of “us-able” pot and keep up to 12 plants in a locked place. A caregiver also can provide marijuana.
Compassionate Apothecary, and owners of the mid-Michigan com-pany, claimed they weren’t doing anything illegal because the law al-lows the “delivery” and “transfer” of marijuana. The business allows its 345 members to sell marijuana to each other, with the owners tak-ing as much as a 20 percent cut. In less than three months, Compas-sionate Apothecary earned $21,000 before expenses after opening in May 2010.
“The ‘medical use’ of marijua-na does not include patient-to-patient ‘sales’ of marijuana. De-fendants, therefore, have no au-thority under the (law) to operate a marijuana dispensary that ac-tively engages in and carries out patient-to-patient sales,” said ap-peals court judges Joel Hoekstra, Christopher Murray and Cynthia Diane Stephens.
Ricky Lewis, 53, of Southgate said he’s relied on a Detroit-area
dispensary to ease symptoms of glaucoma. He said he can’t afford to grow marijuana because lights add $300 to $400 to his monthly electricity bill.
When people are compelled to buy marijuana on the street, “you may not get what you need; you may get robbed,” said Lewis, no re-lation to the attorney.
Corrina Neff, a board mem-ber with the nonprofit Weidman Compassion Club in Isabella County, said the phone was ring-ing nonstop Wednesday from peo-ple “freaking out, panicking, won-dering where they’re supposed to get their meds from.”
“We’re going to do everything we can to comply with the law, but I just can’t say no to people who are really suffering,” Neff said. “So I’m probably just going to give it to them for free and I’ll have to offset my costs somewhere else.”
Nick Tennant, who advises mar-ijuana users at a Detroit-area trade school called Med Grow Cannabis College, said he wasn’t surprised by the decision. Opening a shop, he said, was “extremely risky.”
“Our law gives no specific guide-lines to the operation of dispensa-ries — nothing. Other states do. Look at Colorado,” Tennant said.
Indeed, medical marijuana is more than 10 years old in Colora-do. On July 1, dozens of rules took effect there allowing and regulating the sale of pot at commercial busi-nesses. Sixteen states and the Dis-trict of Columbia allow the medical use of marijuana.
It was the first time the Michigan appeals court has ruled in a case in-volving medical pot sales. The state Supreme Court, meanwhile, has agreed to hear appeals on other as-pects of the medical marijuana law.
By Ed WhiteThe Associated Press
Courtesy of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office
This photo provided Tuesday by the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office shows some of the 10,000 mari-juana plants found growing in a national forest near Montgomery, Texas.
MONTGOMERY — About 10,000 marijuana plants being carefully tend-ed at a national forest in Texas have been destroyed.
The Montgomery County Sheriff ’s Office said Wednesday that the plants were discovered by a hunter seeking wild hogs. Lt. Philip Cash told The As-
sociated Press that the street value of the marijuana is about $4 million.
Deputies were notified Sunday of the patch, about 45 miles northwest of Hous-ton, and began surveillance. Cash says a man carrying a bag of ice showed up Monday, but fled when he noticed the law officers. No one has been arrested.
Cash says the site had chemicals, ice chests with food and drinking wa-ter, plus hoses to draw water from a pond and tend the plants.
Officers burned the marijuana Tues-day.
— The Associated Press
Michigan appeals court bansselling of medicinal marijuana
Texas-born orangutan dies a�er worsening illness
Courtesy of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium
This undated photo released by The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium shows Willie, a 20-year-old Sumatran orangutan. Willie has died at the zoo after battling a respiratory disease for years.
POWELL, Ohio — A 20-year-old Su-matran orangutan has died at an Ohio zoo after battling a respiratory disease for years.
The Columbus Zoo and Aquari-um said Wednesday that the orangutan named Willie had periodic infections and pneumonia and had been trained
to take an inhaler.The zoo says he underwent a lung
washing and other procedures on Tuesday after staff noted his condition had worsened. He was thought to be recovering when he died overnight.
The zoo now has two Sumatran orangutans, Tara and Sally, who was
paired to breed with Willie.Willie was born at Gladys Porter Zoo
in Brownsville, Texas, in 1991. He has been at the Columbus zoo since 2002 on a breeding recommendation.
The median life expectancy for a male orangutan is 21 years.
— The Associated Press
NEWS BRIEFLYHouston becomes second city to disable red-light cameras
HOUSTON — Houston has become the latest U.S. city to turn off its red-light traffic cameras, less than a month after Los Angeles did the same.
Groups opposed to such cameras say the Houston City Council’s vote Wednes-
day reflects a gradual nationwide trend to abandon the devices, largely because of arguments that the cameras simply gen-erate revenue without improving safety. More than a dozen cities ban the camer-as, as do nine states.
But supporters say such programs have widespread support, noting that about 500 municipalities still use them.
Houston residents voted nine months ago to banish the cameras, which ticket motorists running red lights. The company that operates the program says canceling the contract will cost Houston $25 million.
Los Angeles officials decided to end its program because it was losing money.
— The Associated Press
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Idaho professor kills graduate student
BOISE, Idaho — A college pro-fessor who alternately referred to himself as a “psychopathic killer” and “the beast” committed suicide after killing a graduate student he had recently dated, police said in newly revealed court documents.
Meanwhile, Katy Benoit’s fam-ily said Wednesday that the psy-chology student had become in-creasingly alarmed about Er-nesto A. Bustamante’s behavior and had taken steps to get away from the man police say eventu-ally killed her.
Bustamante’s body was found early Tuesday in a Moscow hotel room after the 31-year-old for-mer University of Idaho profes-sor apparently shot himself in the head with a revolver, police said. Benoit, 22, had been killed on the front porch of her Moscow home a day earlier.
Her two roommates told po-lice they had been baking cookies late Monday when Benoit stepped outside for a cigarette and about two minutes later, they heard gun-fire. Benoit had been shot multiple
times with a .45-caliber handgun.A neighbor, Lorne Hetsler, told
police he heard the shots and saw a man, whom authorities later identified as Bustamante, leaving the home in a dark trench coat and hat.
A police affidavit filed Tuesday offers details of the relationship between Bustamante and Benoit, including violent encounters that were described by their friends and roommates.
Meghan Walker-Smith and Emma Gregory, Benoit’s room-mates, told police that the ro-mance ended in March. Gregory told authorities that Benoit after the breakup had said Bustamante pointed a handgun at her on mul-tiple occasions and at one point had put a gun in her mouth, ac-cording to the statement.
Benoit’s family said Wednesday she had previously shared details with them about her issues with Bustamante and had been deeply worried about his behavior.
“After receiving threats and in-timidation from Bustamante, we believed Katy had obtained a re-straining order, changed addresses and filed a complaint with the Uni-
versity of Idaho,” the family said in a statement.
“Our family had grave concerns when we learned that the Univer-sity of Idaho had received dozens of complaints from other students about Bustamante, and that, from what we understood, Katy was the only one willing to sign her name to a complaint,” the family said.
“We hope that the University of Idaho will be forthcoming in dis-closing everything that went on this past summer in response to Bustamante’s behavior toward Katy and others, including the universi-ty’s involvement.”
The university has said Busta-mante resigned effective Friday, but declined to comment on any spe-cifics related to his employment, including saying whether Benoit had been one of his students, citing public records laws, school policy and the ongoing investigation.
“At this time, the university cannot provide any further infor-mation about either the existence of a relationship or actions the university may have taken with respect to these two individuals,” school officials said in a state-ment Wednesday.
By Jessie L. BonnerThe Associated Press Heat wave forces Austinites
to conserve energy for nowThe manager of the state’s
power grid is again urging Tex-ans to conserve electricity as ex-treme heat pushes demand near record levels.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas initiated a “Level 2” emer-gency Wednesday, asking large-scale customers to shut down parts of operations as reserves fell below 1,750 megawatts.
Kent Saathoff, ERCOT’s vice president of system planning and operations, said the risk of rotating outages was low, but the agency urged customers to con-serve from 3 to 7 p.m. each day through the weekend.
ERCOT issued similar warn-ings in early August, when record demand of 68,294 megawatts was set Aug. 3. The agency said de-mand Wednesday was expected to surpass 67,000 megawatts.
Austin broke an 86-year-old record Wednesday with its 70th day of triple-digit temperatures this year.
— The Associated Press
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Law-yers for the federal government and for a coalition of civil rights groups asked a federal judge Wednesday to block a new Alabama law cracking down on illegal immigration, ar-guing that it stomps on such basic rights as free speech and free travel.
But attorneys for the state argued the law allows the state to regulate illegal immigration in the absence of action from the federal govern-ment and that many opponents have overreacted about the law’s expected impact.
Deputy Assistant U.S. Attor-ney General William Orrick told U.S. District Judge Sharon Black-burn that sections of Alabama’s law — which has been described by opponents and supporters as the toughest such law in the country — should be blocked because they conflict with federal law.
Blackburn was holding a hearing on lawsuits filed by the U.S. govern-ment, civil rights groups including the American Civil Liberties Union and Alabama church leaders that seek to block the new law signed by Gov. Robert Bentley in June. The all-day hearing in Birmingham continued Wednesday evening.
The law allows police officers,
in conducting routine traffic stops, to arrest those they suspect of be-ing illegal immigrants. Other pro-visions in the broad measure also make it a crime to transport or pro-vide shelter to an illegal immigrant. It also requires schools to report the immigration status of students, a provision opponents say will make many parents afraid to send their children to school.
Orrick said the law intrudes on the authority of the federal gov-ernment, which enforces immigra-tion policy. Judges have blocked all or parts of similar laws in Arizona, Utah, Georgia and Indiana.
“There’s no room for the states to be legislating in this area,” Orrick told Blackburn, who heard three hours of arguments from the law’s opponents in the morning.
Alabama Attorney General Lu-ther Strange later told the judge that the immigration law should not be seen as a sign that Alabama doesn’t welcome those from other nations.
Strange said the state’s recruit-ment in recent years of such for-eign-owned businesses as Hyundai from South Korea and Mercedes from Germany shows that “nothing is further from the truth.” He urged the judge to let the law take effect as planned Sept. 1.
In asking Blackburn to thrown out parts of the law, Orrick told
Blackburn it makes criminals out of people who rent houses to ille-gal immigrants and in some cases makes it a crime to work.
Orrick also argued that the law harms the reputation of the U.S. with other countries.
“It corrodes the reputation of the United States for American values like openness and welcom-ing others,” Orrick said.
He also criticized a section of the law that requires schools to report the immigration status of students, saying it would make parents afraid to send their children to school.
The state’s attorneys defended that provision.
A recent high school graduate, 19-year-old Victor Palafox, told Bea-son the teens were worried the law would prevent them from attending college or getting good jobs. Beason told the teenagers he respects their opinions, but the law does what’s best for the people of Alabama.
During the hearing, ACLU at-torney Cecillia Wang questioned a provision of the law allowing police to detain people after a routine traf-fic stop if they suspect them of be-ing in the country illegally. She said that would turn “law enforcement officers into immigration agents” and would subject innocent citizens to detention while their immigra-tion status is determined.
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David Snow starting at center seemed to be one of the only sure things coming into this year.
What a difference an offseason
can make.Despite being the lone senior
returning starter on the offensive line, Snow won’t start at the posi-tion he played all last season. In-stead, he’ll move over to guard while redshirt freshman Domi-nic Espinosa will take over at cen-ter. The transition should not be too difficult for Snow as he made
At the beginning of this year’s fa l l camp, t ight ends coach Bruce Chambers called for the “27 Naked Ohio” play and then waited to see what Blaine Irby would do.
“He just kind of bounced out of the huddle like he always does,” Chambers said. “He then ran the play and caught the ball and came out.”
It was a mental test.On Sept. 20, 2008, Irby caught
a pass on the same called play in a game against Rice. As a Rice defender came in to tack-le him at shin level, Irby’s foot
was caught beneath the defend-er and the forward momentum of his torso caused his knee to wrench backward.
His injury was diagnosed as a severe knee dislocation with nerve injury — a traumatic and limb threatening injury. Most of the ligaments and tendons in his knee were shot. In addition, he suffered nerve damage that caused loss of feeling in his leg. Irby was given a less than 2 per-cent chance of walking normal-ly again.
And as the 2011 season be-gins, it’s ironic that Irby — who can now walk and run and play football — will play the first game back on his road to recov-
ery against a team that, three years ago, nearly ended his ca-reer.
In 2008 and 2009, he under-went three major surgeries to reconstruct his knee. Since the injury, the athletic trainers at Texas have put in hundreds of hours with the hopes that the former all-state tight end from California would be able to walk again.
“There was probably about t w o w e e k s w h e re I re a l l y thought that I was not going to be able to play again,” Irby said.
In December of 2009, Irby ex-perienced a breakthrough. Dur-ing a position meeting, he felt a twitch in his right foot.
After that, Irby put in more time with trainers and in the weight room to build up his strength. During the next year, more feeling came back to his leg, and he became able to walk
without a brace. He steadily gained back his full capacity.
“If you cal l having a less than 5 percent chance of being
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Texas basketball recruit Kevin Thomas did not enroll in class this semester and will choose a junior college to play for this season.
Thomas, a forward from Cana-da, signed with the Longhorns out of high school and was projected to make an immediate impact in the Texas frontcourt this season. In-stead, Thomas will take his game to the junior college level as he tries to become academically eligible to play at Texas.
Thomas is an athletic and versa-tile player who can play multiple positions. He played in the Jordan Brand Classic this year and was one of the top recruits from Canada.
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‘Quandre The Giant’
Listed as a slight 5-foot-10 — though, that may be two inches too generous — Quandre Diggs would not seem like one to merit a nickname be-fitting Goliath.
But Diggs, says junior safety Kenny Vaccaro, has earned himself quite the moniker.
“We call him Quandre The Giant,” Vaccaro said. “He is an explosive player. People say he’s short, but he’s not small.”
The younger brother of former Longhorn Quen-
tin Jammer, Diggs finds himself in the thick of the battle for time in the cornerback rotation, and is also seeing action at punt and kick returner.
“He is playing big for us and he’s doing really well,” Vaccaro said.
Longhorns multidimensional inv the secondary
Versatility seems to be the word of choice for this offseason. Multiple Longhorns have stressed the need to be able to do multiple things very well, and the secondary players are no different.
AGAINST ALL ODDSIrby’s miracle recovery
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ABOVE, Tight end Blaine Irby talks with the Texas medical staff after dislocating his knee in a game against Rice on Sept. 20, 2008. The injury ended Irby’s season and sidelined him for the entire 2009 and 2010 campaigns. BELOW, Irby discusses his return from a career-threating injury with the media as the California native prepares to play in Texas’ season-opener against Rice on Sept. 3 after missing nearly three seasons.
IRBY continues on PAGE 11
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MOST IMPORTANT LONGHORNS NOTEBOOK
Freshman corner turning heads at camp
Defensive back Kenny Vaccaro examines the offense dur-ing Texas’ game against Oklahoma last season.
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By Trey ScottDaily Texan Staff
NOTEBOOK continues on PAGE 11
Snow anchoring young line, moving from center to guard
By Christian CoronaDaily Texan Staff
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David Snow prepares to snap the ball in a recent game for the Longhorns. The senior will move from center to guard this season.
Tight end fully recovered from serious knee injury
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Emmanuel Acho was selected as a candidate for the 2011 Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award, which honors football student-athletes who excel both on and off the field.
The senior linebacker is a two-time first-team Academic All-Big 12 selection and is one of 30 candidates for the award.
Each summer, Acho joins his father and brother Sam, former Longhorn defensive end and current rookie for the Arizona Cardinals, on a medical mission trip to Nigeria.
Missed our first live football chat? Fear not, here are some highlights.
Question from Jake15: Do you think Texas will use multiple QBs against Rice?
Double Coverage Editor Sameer Bhuchar: Great question.
Sports Editor Trey Scott: I think they have to. Not necessarily alter-nate them, but they need to play the backup and maybe the third-stringer in the fourth quarter.
Scott: All we saw last year of Case was a brief appearance in the Rice game ... Texas needs to know that these guys have in-game expe-rience so that, down the road, they can turn to one of them if [Garrett Gilbert] plays like he did in 2010.
Bhuchar: They should. [Tex-as head coach] Mack Brown will run Gilbert through the first three quarters to give Texas its usual lead and then open the 4th up to the backup.
Question from Sara: Who will see the most reps at running back?
Scott: Fozzy Whittaker to start. Then Malcolm Brown. Cody John-son on the goal line and D.J. Monroe in special situations.
Scott: Oh, and don’t forget about Joe Bergeron. Saw him on campus today — looks like a defensive end.
Bhuchar: Fozzy came to media days, Fozzy is a senior ... he’ll take the starting reps.
Question from Frank: What does the Christian Scott suspen-sion (3 games) mean to the second-ary?
Scott: Well, it’s better than los-ing him for the entire season, which looked like the case last week. I didn’t think Christian Scott would start anyways (Vaccaro is better) but it gives the Longhorns some depth and experience at safety.
Bhuchar: It will hurt, but it isn’t a big deal for those three games. I like Texas’ DBs from top to bottom.
Question from Nick: Can Quan-
dre Diggs really be as good as the team is saying he can be?
Scott: You mean Quandre The Giant? He’s not very big, but I think he can be really good.
Bhuchar: Checkout his highlight reel ... it’s pretty impressive.
Question from Wes: Who do you think takes up the second defensive tackle spot next to Kheeston Ran-dall?
Scott: A rotation of Calvin How-ell, Ashton Dorsey, Greg Daniels and Desmond Jackson. I’m not sure one of them will separate themselves though.
Question from Ron: We al-ways have depth, even if the guys are young, how do our re-serves stack up against OU?Scott: I really like the depth; it’s young and talented. And I think Texas has more in the cupboard than Oklahoma does.
Bhuchar: Especially by way of Texas’ better recruiting pool.
Scott: Some backups to watch: Demarco Cobbs at outside line-backer, Nolan Brewster at safety and Reggie Wilson at defensive end.
Question from Cali: Which of the new coaches do you see mak-ing the biggest difference?
Scott: [Strength and Condition-ing Head Coach Bennie Wylie] has really changed the culture of
the program — much tougher work-outs and the players look jacked.
Bhuchar: Whether Wylie has changed the culture or not, the an-swer should be [co-offensive coor-dinators] Bryan Harsin and Major Applewhite if Texas hopes to ascend back into the top 10.
Question from Dillon: Who is going to be starting in the second-ary?
Scott: Kenny Vaccaro. He’s up to 220 lbs, Blake Gideon calls him “the best cover guy on the team,” and he has a penchant for delivering blows.
Bhuchar: Let’s bring something up. Should Texas A&M go to the Southeastern Conference?
Scott: They haven’t won a game against a SEC team since 1995, haven’t won a bowl since 1991, have a 10-25 record against top-25 teams since 2001.
Bhuchar: Last bowl game they won was the galleryfurniture.com bowl in 2001.
Scott: I understand the promise of the SEC, but I don’t understand the Aggies suddenly thinking they’re a force to be reckoned with when they have really struggled against top teams the past 10-15 years.
Bhuchar: I see the move to the SEC as a possibility for utter failure for their program. They’d revert to Ole Miss status, only relevant every five to 10 years.
Comment from reader, Cali: You just listed off every reason why A&M is terrible, why would you want them dragging down the Big 12?
Scott: A&M is a lot better in the Big 12 than the SEC. Ags are just now getting some work done in this conference, and it sure took them a while. Not sure why they’d want to throw that away and start over in the super tough SEC.
Bhuchar: Sports mean something because of the way the fans perceive situations ... fans would be lost with-out Texas vs. Texas A&M game.
Comment from reader, Cali: As someone who didn’t miss a home game for 23 years and is fully aware of tradition, I’d be happy to never play A&M (and their ignorant cul-ture) again. Now, if TX/OU is ever stopped, that hurts. Are you really picking A&M as the better rivalry?
Bhuchar: I didn’t say that. Scott: Texas/OU is the better ri-
valry. But Texas-Texas A&M means more to this state — spouses against spouses, co-workers against co-workers. Winner gets to brag for a year.
Bhuchar: This is a tradition steeped in a two-hour drive down the road where both teams’ fans hate each other. What better way to celebrate Turkey Day than pig-ging out and watching this grudge match?
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For the past three seasons, the Longhorns have reached at least the national semifinals of the NCAA Tournament, and all three times they have come up short. Two of those three defeats have come against Penn State, a team that is quickly becoming a ri-val to Texas. For freshman hitter Khat Bell, the gameplan this year is simple: Beat Penn State.
“I want to beat them,” Bell said. “Our goal this year is the nation-al championship, and if that path goes through [Penn State], then that’s who I want to beat.”
Mu c h o f t h e r e a s o n Te x -as has found itself among the fi-nal four teams in recent years has been because of the play of hitter Juliann Faucette. Faucette start-ed three years for the Longhorns, and at the end of her time at Tex-as, she had become a force to be reckoned with.
Having graduated last year, she now sits among the all-time greats that have played for head coach Jerritt Elliott and the Long-horns. As good as Faucette was for the Longhorns, there’s not much drop-off between her and Bell. Both players are natives of San Diego and were highly regarded coming out of high school.
Bell knows how important Fau-cette has been for the Longhorns, and she hopes to make a seamless
transition into her role.“They are definitely big shoes
to fill,” Bell said. “I hope to start and help this team continue to do well.”
Bell checks in at 6 feet 1 inch and attended Mesquite High School outside of Dallas. She was ranked as the No. 2 recruit na-tionally — the same number Fau-cette was ranked when she came to Texas.
Bell, along with fellow freshmen Madelyn Hutson and Haley Eck-erman make up another incredi-ble recruiting class for coach El-liott. All three are ranked within the top 15 national recruits for the class of 2011.
“We have high expectations for
this group,” Elliot said. “The three freshmen are pretty spectacular.”
Like many athletes that have come before her, Bell had to make a tough decision on where to at-tend college. She had been leaning heavily toward attending Oklaho-ma, but a visit to Norman put to rest any doubt on where she was going to play.
“I was a big fan of Oklahoma as a kid, mostly for the football,” she said. “But after I went up and vis-ited the girls there, I felt more at home with the girls at Texas.”
Elliott has done an outstand-ing job of nabbing recruits from nearly every corner of the coun-try. This year’s squad includes two Hawaiians, girls from Ohio, Tennessee, Arkansas, California, Iowa, Illinois and Maryland.
Hutson, a 6-feet-5-inch utili-ty player from Brentwood, Tenn., described the entire program as having a “family environment.”
With team practices in the gym starting just a week ago, Bell has quickly established herself as a vo-cal leader on the team.
“I’m really loud,” she said. “I like to keep things exciting and yell all the time.”
A vocal leader is exactly what the Longhorns need entering this season. Bell provides a power-ful replacement to Faucette and should bring the same intensity to the team. With her in the spot-light, the Longhorns should be more confident than ever before.
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five starts there as a sophomore. In fact, the position change may not be the tough-est thing Snow, who battled mononucleo-sis this spring, had to deal with.
“I was not very happy going through the spring,” Snow said. “It felt like you would just flop over dead at any time. Mono makes everything slow. It makes you drudgey. You have no energy. By the grace of God I made it through.”
Snow’s shift from center to guard and Es-pinosa impressing the coaches enough to let him fill in for Snow says a lot, not only about Snow but about the offensive line he plays on. It’s certainly a testament to his ver-satility. In high school, Snow was a four-year starter at guard. As a freshman at Tex-as, Snow started two games at center when
Chris Hall was injured. A year later, he played all 14 games at right guard. Then, last season, Snow moved back to center and started all 12 of the Longhorns’ games there. Now, he’s being asked to make yet another switch, this time back to guard.
“[Offensive line coach] Stacy Searels is trying to get everybody to play every posi-tion except for center because we are thin on the offensive line,” head coach Mack Brown said. “Center is a unique position of course, and you can’t get everyone to play that position.”
Searels, like any college football coach, will be working with freshmen and sopho-mores but will be more dependent on them than most coaches. Excluding Snow, sopho-more guard Mason Walters is the only oth-
er offensive lineman who has started a game and Tray Allen is the only other senior on the offensive line. Two sophomores, Walters and Trey Hopkins, along with one fresh-man, Espinosa, figure to join Snow on the first-team offensive line. Even most of their backups are underclassmen.
“There is this group of Luke Poehl-manns and [Dominic] Espinosas, plus the five freshmen that are coming,” Brown said. “The thing that we’ll look at in the offensive line is trying to create some depth.”
Because of Texas’ plethora of young line-men and the need for many of them to con-tribute right away, leadership from some-one like Snow could come in very handy this season. Espinosa, Walters and Hopkins make up a trio of talented offensive linemen
but none have more than a year’s worth of experience. Snow, who has 39 games and 19 starts under his belt, has expertise that could prove useful to the young linemen, especially Espinosa, whom he’ll be lining up next to this season.
“[Espinosa]’s a smart guy that makes the right decisions out there,” said co-offen-sive coordinator Bryan Harsin. “I’ve been pleased with his performance, his snaps and I think he’s got the feel for playing that po-sition. All those centers have really come along. We put a lot on those guys, but Dom-inic has done a good job.”
Texas’ offense struggled mightily in 2010. Better offensive line play would go a long way toward helping Garrett Gilbert improve on his 10-17 touchdown-interception ratio,
helping someone in the Longhorn backfield get over the 600-yard hump that has eluded them since 2007, or helping Texas improve on the 23.8 points per game they put up in 2010. With Snow anchoring the offensive line, whether it’s from center or guard, Tex-as has a chance to accomplish all of that.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. —Pat Summitt struggled for several months with how to tell the women’s basketball players at Ten-nessee, recruits and fans that she was hav-ing memory loss problems.
Finally, her son Tyler helped convince her to open up.
The 59-year-old Hall of Fame coach surprised the sports world Tuesday by saying she had been diagnosed with early onset dementia — the Alzheimer’s type.
Step down after 37 seasons? Not a chance.
“I plan to continue to be your coach,” she said in a statement released by the university. “Obviously, I realize I may have some limitations with this condition since there will be some good days and some bad days.”
Tennessee athletics director Joan Cro-nan said Summitt initially chalked up her memory problems to side effects from medicine she was taking to treat rheu-matoid arthritis. The coach first consult-ed local doctors, who recommended she undergo a more extensive evaluation. In May, she traveled to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., where doctors per-formed a spinal tap and other tests that eventually produced the diagnosis.
Summitt’s first reaction was anger, but
that soon gave way to determination.“She’s ready to fight this and move on,”
Cronan said. “She had to come to grips with how she wanted to face it.”
Talking about it was a big step and her son was instrumental in making that happen.
“Tyler has been so courageous in this,” Summitt’s longtime associate head coach Holly Warlick said. “He encouraged her to come forward.”
Tyler has been supporting his mother throughout this process; he went to the Mayo Clinic with her in May. And though he has been a great sounding board, the 20-year-old said his mom’s revelation is a life lesson for everyone.
“It seems like she teaches me some-thing new every day, and she is current-ly giving me one of the best life lessons of all: to have the courage to be open, hon-est, and face the truth,” he said. “This will be a new chapter for my mom and I, and we will continue to work as a team like we always have done.”
Summitt’s family and closest confidants have known about her condition since she first learned of it, but the Hall of Fame coach first revealed the news publicly to the Washington Post and Knoxville News Sentinel. She informed the Lady Vols about her diagnosis in a team meeting on Tuesday afternoon.
Junior guard Taber Spani said the meet-
ing was business-like, with Summitt calm-ly telling the Lady Vols nothing would get in the way for their quest of a ninth na-tional title this season.
“More than anything she just empha-sized that she’s our coach and that she wanted us to have complete confidence in her, and we do,” Spani said.
Warlick said the players told Sum-mitt that they were committed to her and the Tennessee family and would not let her down. Warlick said for Sum-mitt, the support was “like a weight was off her shoulders.”
“I watched how our team reacted to us today,” Warlick said. “They said, ‘Pat we love you. We’re a family. We’re go-ing to get this done. You’re going to get through this.’”
Warlick said Summitt also wanted to crush any speculation about her health af-ter the announcement.
“We got on the phone immediately and called kids and commitments and had nothing but a huge amount of sup-port,” Warlick said. “I think it’s one thing to see it on the [TV news] ticker. It’s an-other thing to hear from Pat Summitt that we’re here, we’re going to be here and nothing is going to change about Tennessee basketball.”
Cronan and UT-Knoxville Chancellor Jimmy Cheek have pledged their confi-dence in Summitt as well.
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A few of the defensive backs — mainly, Adrian Phillips and Vac-caro — are being cross-trained to play all over the field, depending on the set.
“It gives me a chance to get on the field more,” Phillips said. “With me knowing lots of posi-tions, when somebody gets hurt, I can jump in and we won’t lose a step at all.”
Phillips and fellow sophomore Carrington Byndom are the front-runners to start at corner-back, with Vaccaro joining Blake Gideon as the starting safety. But when Texas goes with three or four corners in passing downs (Nickel and Dime sets), Vacca-ro could cover the slot receiver, Phillips can rotate back to safe-ty and Diggs can take an outside corner spot.
“They have me working cor-ner for depth,” Vaccaro said. “I
can play Nickel, I can play Dime. I can play outside linebacker. We just turn on the defense.”
Defensive ends stand out
Alex Okafor and Jackson Jeff-coat make up quite the one-two punch on the edge for the Long-horns, and the two defensive ends say that defensive coordi-nator Manny Diaz’s scheme plac-es a premium on versatility.
“It’s just a matter of going with the flow,” Okafor said. “If the of-fense does no-huddle and we get caught on a different side, just go with it. We both know how to play each side, and we’re both strong enough to play strong and weak end, so there’s no dif-ference. We’ve been trained from day one to play both sides, and we plan on doing that
this season.”Jeffcoat says that he’s add-
ed seven pounds to his 6-foot-5 f rame, and that the add-ed strength is helping him shed blocks.
“We are reading on the run,” Jeffcoat said. “We go out with the blockers instead of getting off the ball and two-gapping somebody. It’s a lot different in this defense — a little more aggressive.”
Jeffcoat is also impressed with the complete transit ion that Chris Whaley has made from running back to defensive end, a switch similar to the one Henry Melton made a few seasons ago.
“He’s looking great,” Jeffcoat said. “He is a guy who can play multiple positions, so he is ver-satile. He is quick and good off the ball, so he is looking good this fall.”
this group,” Elliot said. “The three freshmen are pretty spectacular.”
Like many athletes that have come before her, Bell had to make a tough decision on where to at-tend college. She had been leaning heavily toward attending Oklaho-ma, but a visit to Norman put to rest any doubt on where she was going to play.
“I was a big fan of Oklahoma as a kid, mostly for the football,” she said. “But after I went up and vis-ited the girls there, I felt more at home with the girls at Texas.”
Elliott has done an outstand-ing job of nabbing recruits from nearly every corner of the coun-try. This year’s squad includes two Hawaiians, girls from Ohio, Tennessee, Arkansas, California, Iowa, Illinois and Maryland.
Hutson, a 6-feet-5-inch utili-ty player from Brentwood, Tenn., described the entire program as having a “family environment.”
With team practices in the gym starting just a week ago, Bell has quickly established herself as a vo-cal leader on the team.
“I’m really loud,” she said. “I like to keep things exciting and yell all the time.”
A vocal leader is exactly what the Longhorns need entering this season. Bell provides a power-ful replacement to Faucette and should bring the same intensity to the team. With her in the spot-light, the Longhorns should be more confident than ever before.
Freshman hoping to replace Faucette
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Summitt diagnosed with dementia, decides to continue coaching Lady VolsBy Beth RuckerThe Associated Press
able to walk normally and two years later returning to the field a miracle, then I would say it is a miracle,” said Kenny Boyd, head of football athletic training.
Right before the fal l 2010 season, Irby approached head coach Mack Brown about play-ing that year. Even though Irby had been cleared by physicians, Brown wanted him to wait and make sure he was ready and evaluate if he wanted to risk in-jury again.
Irby reluctantly listened to Brown but agreed after see-ing teammate Trey Graham go through a similar injury.
Finally, in the spring of 2009, the coaches agreed that he was ready to get back on the field. Irby continued to work with trainers all spring and summer so that he could be ready to take hits during fall practice.
All of his coaches and trainers
commented that Irby was stub-bornly committed to returning to the field. Assistant athletic director for strength and condi-tioning Jeff Madden comment-ed that they had to pull Irby off the weight machines so that he could rest his leg.
“It’s one of those deals where
I wouldn’t come back if I wasn’t 100 percent ready,” Irby said.
Although he was back, others were nervous for him. Senior Blake Gideon remarked that the defense was reluctant to tackle him during practice.
“It was like the Red Sea would part when Irby got the ball,” Gideon said. “No one wanted to hurt him.”
But Irby also mentioned that if he could go up against Alex Okafor and Jackson Jeffcoat in practice, then he could probably face anyone.
Irby has three years of eligi-bility left with the Longhorns. However, the thing that he is looking forward to the most is getting to put his pads back on, wearing his burnt orange uni-form and running onto the field as part of the team.
Which is something they said he might never get to do again.
IRBY continues from PAGE 9
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got the ball. No one wanted to hurt him.
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HOUSTON— Receiver Jacoby Jones has been a role player on of-fense and a key contributor to spe-cial teams since the Houston Tex-ans drafted him in the third round out of tiny Lane College in 2007.
The Texans are expecting Jones to do even more. Houston signed the free agent to a three-year deal worth more than $10 million, hop-ing he can help boost an already explosive offense better known for Andre Johnson, Matt Schaub and Arian Foster.
Jones shakes his head thinking about how much he’s matured in his years in Houston.
Early in his career, he had trou-
ble with dropped passes on the field and wasn’t allowed to make a trip to Jacksonville to play the Jag-uars in 2009 after he was late to a team meeting a day before the game.
“When I first got here, I was like a little kid running around all day,” he said. “I’ve matured a lot. I had a lot of guys to look up to and learn from. Coach Kube (Gary Kubiak) took me under like one of his own and that was big.”
Jones said watching that Jack-sonville game from home pushed him into getting himself together.
“That was really the light that went off and just shook me,” he said. “I was like: ‘I never want to be in this type situation ever again.’ The guys took their time and had
faith in me so I’ve got to buckle down.’”
And he did. The 27-year-old Jones hasn’t had any problems like that since, and he’s also taken a bet-ter approach to everything he does surrounding the game.
“He’s grown up from the stand-point of his preparation,” Kubiak said. “Jacoby does a good job in the classroom now. So all those things of being a pro that make it easy to come out here and play, he handles that stuff now. Now he’s just got to work hard at re-finding his skills and running routes, studying play-ers and if he does that, then there’s another level for him to reach.”
Jones, who has 96 receptions for 1,229 yards and nine touchdowns in his career, said being around the
All-Pro Johnson helped him learn how to do things the right way.
“That guy, you look at him and he seems like he’s not really going hard, but it’s just that he makes it look easy because he’s so smooth,” Jones said. “He’s detail-orient-ed and does everything right. So I look at a person like that and I try to use the same ways he uses.”
Jones has returned two punts and one kickoff for touchdowns in his career, which is tied for the franchise record for return touch-downs. He will only return punts this season, with first-year Texan Danieal Manning taking over the kickoff return duties.
That will give him more time to focus on offense, where he’s com-ing off a year where he finished
with a career-high 51 receptions for 562 yards. Johnson is the ob-vious starter at one of the receiv-er spots, but Kubiak said he also sees both Jones and Kevin Walter as starters.
Kubiak’s expectations for Jones this season are straightforward.
“Continue to make more plays,” Kubiak said when asked what he needs from Jones. “He had his big-gest year with us as a pro last year. He and Kevin pushed each other every day. I think all three of those guys as starters. That’s the reason we wanted him back on this team. I think he’s in position now to make even more and more plays.”
Jones knows what he needs to do, even if he isn’t looking to reach specific numbers this season.
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Jaylen Bond has signed an Athletic Scholarship Agreement and will play basketball in the fall as a member of Rick Barnes’ squad.
Bond becomes the sixth mem-ber of the 2011 recruiting class, join-ing guards Myck Kabongo, Sterling Gibbs, Julien Lewis, Sheldon McClel-lan and forward Jonathan Holmes.
The 6-foot-6 forward from Phil-adelphia had committed to play for the University of Pittsburgh, but changed his mind this spring and decided to play elsewhere. On Au-gust 2, Bond shocked many in the recruiting world when he announced his plans via Twitter.
“Just committed to the University of Texas, thank God for this oppor-tunity!,” Bond tweeted.
Bond should be a factor in the Longhorn’ frontcourt from the get-go. With power forward Tristan Thompson gone to the NBA’s Cleve-land Cavaliers, and a lack of anoth-er strong option inside, Bond will see a large share of minutes. Fifth-year senior Clint Chapman will be in the mix as well after he redshirted last season.
B ond re leased a s tatement Wednesday after the signing of the agreement became official.
“I want to thank everyone at Pitt for granting me a full release on my National Letter of Intent,” Bond said. “Being able to play at Texas immedi-ately means so much to myself and my family. I’m already here on cam-pus at UT, and I’m very excited to begin classes today and to get start-ed with my teammates.”
Though he originally signed with Pitt, Bond also had offers from Vil-lanova, West Virginia, Temple, La-Salle and Penn State. He also re-ceived interest from Kansas, Con-necticut, Marlyand, Florida State and Seton Hall.
Bond averaged 18 points, 7 re-bounds, 4 assists and 2 blocks per game for Plymouth-Whitemarsh en route to a state title during his junior season. He also was named first-team All-State as a junior. Bond was named Class AAAA player of the year as a senior, averaging 19 points per game.
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Houston Texans wide reciever Jacoby Jones plays catch before the Texan’s preseason game against New Orleans on Saturday. Jones enters his fourth year in the league fresh off signing a $10 million contract with Houston in the offseason.
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the entertainment industry itself. Three musicals set in the 1960s — revivals of “Promises, Promis-es” and “How to Succeed in Busi-ness Without Really Trying” and the new musical “Catch Me If You Can,” based on the 2002 film of the same name — have premiered on Broadway in the last year and two new net-work television series slated for the fall, ABC’s “Pan Am” and N B C ’s “ T h e Playboy Club,” are both set in 1963.
G i v e n t h e show’s unpar-alleled success and far-reach-ing influence, it should come as no surprise that Banana Republic’s capsule collection isn’t the first thing to attempt to capitalize on the “Mad Men” name. Furniture collections, Barbie dolls, light-
ers, nail polish and mixology classes have all carried the “Mad Men” name. The idea to pro-duce clothes in the series’ name isn’t even itself a unique idea — Brooks Brothers offered a “Mad-Men Edition” suit during
the show’s third season run that was a l s o de-signed by Bry-ant and based on an ac tua l suit the compa-ny sold during the 1960’s.
C o n s i d e r -ing all the suits, knock-off tele-vis ion ser ies , revivals of Neil S i mon mu s i -cals and breast implants, “Mad Men” itself is not as widely known as one
might think. The show boasts an average viewership of less than three million, making its cultural clout perhaps all the more impressive.
The company has choppers, whip-pers and microsteamers. Updated FridgeSmart containers with the two familiar vents are embedded with dishwasher-resistant charts recom-mending how much air to let in for various fruits and vegetables. Broc-coli’s a heavy breather, for instance. Asparagus isn’t.
The Orlando, Fla.-based compa-ny has acquired a sense of humor with a set called Thatsa Bowl and Thatsa Mega Bowl, but left the Jel-Ring Mold pretty much alone while aggressively modernizing, diversi-fying and pursuing emerging mar-kets around the globe.
A few years ago, the company boasted that a Tupperware party was held somewhere in the world ev-ery 2.3 seconds. Now it’s 1.7 seconds, driven by a direct sales force of 2.6 million — still mostly women — in nearly 100 markets, said Rick Goings, the chairman and chief executive who arrived 20 years ago from Avon.
Worldwide sales last year totaled $2.3 billion, including beauty and per-sonal care products.
“I got here and found out the com-pany was in trouble,” Goings said. “The headquarters was for sale. They had just written off $100 million. Ev-erybody loved it but they loved it in a historical sense, like the Model T.”
One of the first things he did was hire Susan Perkins, the company’s first woman chief of design, to replace generations of stuffy industrial wonks who likely never had to use Tupper-ware at home.
Also on Goings’ plate: making products more appealing to young people, and ceding ground to low-er cost plastic containers and bags — which, according to him, are lousi-er than Tupperware for the environ-ment because they don’t last as long or work as well.
The company has had more than seven straight quarters of positive sales growth and expanding earnings, due largely to markets outside the United States, but nothing quite so ex-plosive as the early decades.
The “party plan” for selling in homes to friends and neighbors was put in place by inventor Earl S. Tup-per’s right hand, a divorced mom
from Detroit named Brownie Wise, after Tupper’s failed attempts to sell in stores. Home parties remain the way most consumers scoop up their Tup-perware, though there’s an option to host online parties and Tupperware itself sells from its website.
Admired by House Beautiful in 1947 as “Fine Art for 39 Cents,” Tup-perware today is functional, fun and fashionable, but it isn’t cheap. The mi-crowave SmartSteamer, for example, goes for $139 and a seven-piece Vent ‘N Serve set for $130.
“It IS quite pricey, but it lasts for-ever,” Hallman-Morris said. “It real-ly does.”
Pricey, that is, in today’s paloo-za of plastics. There wasn’t much by way of comparison back in 1938, when Tupper first got his hands on a sticky black glob of polyethylene slag, then figured out how to turn it into squishable kitchen storage and cereal bowls. Plastics of the time were hard, brittle and smelly, prone to leaks and easily breakable. With-out lids, homemakers used moist towels, tin foil or shower caps to make food last on the counter and in ever-improving refrigerators.
Tupperware’s success is a study in perfect post-war timing, a period of rapid growth in consumer products, consumption and the rise of subur-ban living after women were sent home from wartime factories.
Not bad for a New Hampshire farm boy and failed tree doctor who barely graduated high school. Tupper’s base material and introduction to the busi-ness came at DuPont during a year’s stint in its plastics division in Leom-inster, Mass. But it was the flamboy-ant Wise, not the all-business Tupper, who refined the party plan, allowing the company to soar to 20,000 dealers by 1954, a golden year.
Stanley Home Products used the party plan before Tupperware came along, but Wise refined it, whipping women into a frenzy for selling the newfangled plasticware. She first ped-dled Stanley, adding a bit of Tupper-ware to the mix and later switching al-together, catching Tupper’s eye with an impressive sales network in De-troit, then Florida.
Appointed vice president and head
of sales, Wise promised real mon-ey and recognition for hard workers, without the need for formal education or job experience.
The company’s lifetime guarantee that products won’t chip, break, crack or peel remains in place. So do big-ticket incentives for top sellers.
“I basically was able to walk away from not knowing where my next paycheck was coming from,” said Kevin Farrell, a Los Angeles actor who dons Daisy Dukes, crazy make-up and a blonde wig to sell Tupper-ware in drag as the brash southern trailer-dweller Dee W. Ieye.
He sells a lot of Tupperware — six figures’ worth most years. Far-rell’s a regular recipient of big Wise-inspired prizes, a Pontiac G-6 con-vertible for one.
“It feeds me better than doing tele-vision work. There’s a joy from go-ing into people’s homes and bringing them a great product and having fun at the same time,” he said.
Wise, an admirer of positive think-ers like Norman Vincent Peale, put on splashy Homecoming Jubilees ev-ery year for hundreds of Tupper-ware Ladies. Held at the company’s swank headquarters, the jubilees were equal parts circus and revival meet-ing, with themes like the Gold Rush-style “big dig” in 1954. Wise buried about $50,000 worth of mink stoles, diamond rings, gold watches and little cars that the faithful could redeem for the real thing after they dug them up.
Wise had her own rags-to-riches story: a meager Georgia childhood and a desperate need to support son Jerry after a bad marriage to an abusive alcoholic whom she di-vorced in 1941.
“Brownie made it clear, if you’re divorced, married, single, disabled, Asian, Hispanic, Jewish, Christian, it doesn’t matter. Tupperware is an opportunity for you,” said Laurie Kahn, who wrote, produced and di-rected the 2004 PBS documentary “Tupperware!”
“These women were very tradition-al, yet they were subverting the sys-tem from the inside,” she said. “They could earn more money than their husbands if they were successful, and be able to put their kids through col-
lege and buy houses.”Some made millions through
their own sales forces. Husbands quit jobs as firefighters, facto-ry workers or truck drivers to help when their wives’ Tupperware busi-nesses took off, Kahn said.
Wise, often photographed in her favorite peacock wicker chair amid fawning male Tupperware execu-tives, was the first woman to make the cover of Business Week, in 1954, well before Mary Kay, Martha Stew-art or Oprah. But four years later, she was unceremoniously dumped by the quirky, paranoid Tupper after seven heady years with the company.
The falling out was complicated, fed by Tupper’s disdain for Wise’s ex-cesses and his desire to sell the com-pany to avoid heavy estate taxes in the event of his death, by some accounts. According to Kahn’s film, Tupper felt that suitors for the company would have no interest in taking on a female at the top.
After receiving a paltry $35,000 set-tlement, slightly less than her annual salary, Wise was unable to make her Tupperware magic reappear. She dab-bled in real estate, took up pottery making and died in relative obscuri-ty in 1992 at age 79.
“She was living the life she wanted to, but Tupper held all the cards. She poured her whole life into Tupper-ware,” said Bill Kealing, who wrote the 2008 book “Tupperware Unsealed” (University Press of Florida).
Tupper’s patent for his famous air-tight, leak-proof seal, modeled on an inverted paint can lid, expired about a year after he fired Wise. He sold the business for $16 million to Rex-all Drug Co., renounced his U.S. citi-zenship and wound up living in Costa Rica. He died in 1983 at 76.
As for Tupperware parties? Rex-all, with access to thousands of drug stores, could have sold the products off shelves but kept the home par-ty plan in place. Tupperware Brands has since spun off as an independent once again.
Goings chalks up the party plan’s success to the power of the demo.
“It still works. People still have the same values,” he said. “We’re sensing people want to get reconnected.”
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As a man, I enjoy manly things such as whiskey and belts made out of rattlesnake. I grow facial hair for sport, and Sam Elliott voices my inner dialogue. I don’t go shopping and have rarely had occasion to go into a Banana Re-public — that is until very recent-ly, when the Gap-owned clothing retailer introduced a capsule col-lection inspired by AMC’s Mad Men. The limited edition series of mid-century apparel was de-signed in collaboration with Jan-ie Bryant, the show’s costume de-signer. The line features 65 differ-ent easy-to-wear items that can be mixed and matched to create a number of different, stylish en-sembles. The collection includes both men’s and women’s apparel.
To promote the new line, Ba-nana Republic sent out style guides that combined the various elements to create looks that em-ulated those of characters from the show. The guide consist-ed of inserts of look-alike mod-els posed in different ensem-bles superimposed with ques-tions such as “Are you a Pete?” As anyone who has watched the show can tell you, no one wants to be a Pete — Pete Campbell doesn’t even want to be a Pete and with good reason, because Pete Campbell sucks.
Two of the more central char-acters, Jon Hamm’s Don Draper and his increasingly unpalatable ex-wife Betty, portrayed by Jan-uary Jones, have specific items of clothing that are directly at-tributed to them. There is the grey, pinstriped three-piece suit referred to in the style guide as “The Don,” and the stylish, high-waisted “Betty dress.”
“Mad Men,” for the uninitiat-ed, is a one-hour television dra-ma about life at a New York City advertising agency on 1960s Madison Avenue. The three-time
Emmy Award winner for Out-standing Drama Series begins its fifth season in early 2012. The show employs a strikingly dis-tinctive, chic ‘60s style that has garnered it a number of Cre-ative Arts Emmy Awards includ-ing two for Outstanding Art Di-rection for a Single-Camera Se-ries. Janie Bryant herself is also an Emmy Award winner, albeit for her work on the HBO west-ern series “Deadwood.”
As a cultural phenomenon “Mad Men” has been credited with being the catalyst for a wide vari-ety of trends from the renewed in-
terest in 1960’s fashion to the pre-cipitous rise in breast enlargement surgery among British women in 2010. In January, The Telegraph reported that the British Associa-tion of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons suggested the 10 percent increase in breast implant operations the previous year was due at least in part to the popularity of the show’s curvy star, Christina Hen-dricks, who portrays plucky office manager Joan Harris.
The show has also had a more than significant impact within
The Alamo Drafthouse’s Down-town and Lake Creek locations will be putting on the Pop Prin-cess Sing-Along event for its third and final show of the year tonight. Audience members are invited to dress up as their favorite bubble-gum princess and rock out to the tunes of nearly every guilty-plea-sure pop diva of the past 30 years.
The Drafthouse has put on a Pop Princess Sing Along multi-ple times before, and in previous years, the sing-along show has fo-cused on the classic female pop artists of the ’80s and ’90s: think Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, Cyndi Lauper, Britney Spears and Chris-tina Aguilera. This year, the show has been updated to accommo-date the many upcoming female pop artists that currently infil-trate the charts and implant their maddeningly catchy tunes in our brains for days at a time.
“I had the thought that Katy Perry is making a run to be ce-mented in the history books as the pop princess of our time,” said Greg MacLennan, director of in-teractive programming at the Ala-mo Drafthouse. “I wanted to add the stuff that’s going on now, like Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, all those girls. So we’ll still keep in the ’80s stuff, but I also tried to include more contemporary stuff this time. It’s more fun that way.”
MacLennan said the Pop Prin-cess Sing Along evolved out of past sing alongs hosted by the Drafthouse, including the Boy Band Sing Along and the Disney Musketeers Sing Along.
Although the show is designed to be an interactive experience for the audience, MacLennan said that the audience determines both the level of interactivity and the amount of fun they’ll have.
“We’ll have fun, kind of passive things for the audience, like when we pass out flashing rings dur-
ing Beyonce’s ‘Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It),’” MacLennan said. “But it’s not aggressively interac-tive. I just say, ‘The only limits to the fun you’ll have tonight are your own inhibitions. Let’s just get over ourselves and have a good time. If you wanna dance in the aisles, get up onstage, dress up, you can take it to that level of interactivity.’”
Although one might expect a largely female audience in attendance for the Pop Princess Sing Along, Ma-cLennan says it’s easy for guys and girls to enjoy the saccharine sounds of Britney and Christina.
“No matter gay, straight, guy or girl, these are the songs you can’t help but sing in the car by your-
self,” MacLennan said. “Once you get into the theater, you real-ize, ‘Wow, I’m surrounded by 200 people who all do the same thing that I do,’ and then you just cut loose and enjoy yourself. I’ve seen a group of straight dudes sitting at a Pop Princess show and just hav-ing a good time.”
Cindy Hallman-Morris grew up with Tupperware’s burping bowls, gelatin rings and pickle keeper, but she considered herself a casual buy-er of the brand once she had her own kids.
Until this year, when she was sucked — happily — into the Tup-perware vortex.
“I attended a party and then host-ed a party and then it seemed ev-eryone I knew was giving a Tup-perware party,” said the 44-year-old high school math teacher in Asheville, N.C.
“It’s never ending!”Tupperware, it seems, is enjoy-
ing a renaissance 65 years after it first hit the market with Won-der bowls, Bell Tumblers and
Ice-Tup molds for homemade frozen treats.
Long gone is the signature burp, that whoosh of air from press-ing on the center of a lid to tight-ly seal in the goodness. Also gone is the color goldenrod, fussy floral accents and the soft pastels of the 1950s and ‘60s.
Today’s Tupperware is drenched in edgy shades of “purplicious” and “fuchsia kiss,” or crisp in greens dubbed “margarita” and “lettuce leaf.” You can buy contemporary takes on Wonderlier bowls and those little salt and pepper shak-ers, but Tupperware Brands Corp. also sells an appetizer tray that looks like a caterpillar, fancy chef’s knives, bakeware and heavy stainless steel pots and pans.
PAULA POUNDSTONEWHERE: One World TheatreWHEN: Friday at 7 p.m.HOW MUCH: $20-60 show alone; $55-95 with dinnerWEB: oneworldtheatre.org
The popular improv comedienne and regular NPR panelist is in town to promote her first book, “There’s Nothing In This Book That I Meant To Say” with a set at the One World Theatre.
THE AUSTIN SERIES, PART 3WHERE: Gallery Black LagoonWHEN: Friday at 7 p.m.HOW MUCH: FreeWEB: galleryblacklagoon.com
A curated collection of local artists with complimentary beverages provided by Circle Brewing Company.
PIXEL INVASION: AN 8BIT PARTY INSPIRED BY VIDEO GAME CLASSICSWHERE: The North DoorWHEN: Friday at 7:30 p.m.HOW MUCH: $5 before 10 p.m.; $10 after 10 p.m.WEB: bubblegummafia.com
Electronic music group Bubble Gum Mafia host their first Austin show, a dance party where participants are encouraged to dress as their favorite video game characters. Full bar for 21+.
GREEN GARDEN DOITYOURSELF DAY WHERE: Zilker Botanical GardensWHEN: Saturday at 9 a.m.HOW MUCH: $10 (registration required) WEB: ci.austin.tx.us/greengarden
Learn to build and maintain vegetable and rain gardens with gardening experts and take an optional tour of the Zilker gardens. Open to beginners and longtime gardeners alike.
LE GARAGE BOUTIQUE SALEWHERE: Palmer Events CenterWHEN: Saturday at 11 a.m.HOW MUCH: $10 a day (two-day event)WEB: legaragesale.net
Local stores and independent boutiques offer significant markdowns and new merchandise ranging from men and women’s apparel to jewelry and home furnishings.
AUSTIN CHRONICLE’S HOT SAUCE FESTIVAL FEAT. THE BRIGHT LIGHT SOCIAL HOURWHERE: Waterloo Park WHEN: Sunday, 11 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.HOW MUCH: Free with a healthy, nonperishable food items or a cash donation to the Capital Area Food Bank of TexasWEB: austinchronicle.com/hotsauce
The 21st annual Hot Sauce Festival features over 350 entries homemade, professional and commercial. The festival also has raffle prizes and proceeds go to the Capital Area Food bank of Texas.
SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE SERIES: GANGSTER MONTH AND SPAGHETTI DINNERWHERE: The Upper DecksWHEN: Sunday at 9 p.m. HOW MUCH: $19.95 for film screener, spaghetti dinner for two and a bottle of the house red wineWEB: upperdecksaustin.com
The Upper Decks kicks off its first Sunday night movie series with Gangster Month, featuring classic Italian mob films screened alongside a spaghetti and wine meal. This week’s film is “Goodfellas.”
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Thomas Allison | Daily Texan Staff
Participants of the Pop Princess Sing Along dance with balloons and glow sticks beneath Beyonce’s video for “Crazy In Love” at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz last Thursday.
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Greg MacLennan, left, and Spencer Smith, right, introduce the Pop Princess Singalong in drag at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz last Thursday.
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Tupperware parties bring opportunities with brand updates
Banana Republic debuts ‘Mad Men’ style
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Inspired by the television show Mad Men, Banana Republic released a limited edition line of apparel reflecting the characters’ style.
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This Friday, Aug. 5 photo shows Kevin Farrell dressed as Dee W. Ieye selling Tupperware products during a Tupperware party in Bellflower, Calif. Tupperware, it seems, is enjoy-ing a renais-sance 65 years after it first hit the market with Wonder Bowls, Bell Tumblers and Ice-Tup molds for homemade frozen treats.
Garrett CheenAssociated Press
By Leanne ItalieThe Associated Press
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