LIFE&ARTS PAGE 14 T HE D AILY T EXAN www.dailytexanonline.com Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 Thursday, October 28, 2010 46 Low High 76 TOMORROW’S WEATHER LIFE & ARTS PAGE 14 Austin rapper stops battling, begins work on releasing albums SPORTS PAGE 8 House of Torment offers Halloween thrills, chills Longhorns add to win streak with defeat of Huskers By Aziza Musa Daily Texan Staff If elected as state attorney general, Houston lawyer Barbara Ann Radnof- sky, a Democrat, promises to sue Wall Street firms. But Republican incum- bent Greg Abbott is already involved in a suit against the federal govern- ment over individual mandates in the national health care reform law. Like many other Republican can- didates this election cycle, Abbott is seeking to make regulations and Washington, D.C., mandates cen- tral to the campaign, while also talk- ing about border security and sexual crimes. The two-term attorney gen- eral leads his Democratic rival 55 to 35 percent in the latest UT/Texas Tri- bune poll, released Monday. The attorney general enforces Texas laws and challenges state boards and agencies who do not adhere to them. The office also holds one of five seats on the state legislative redistricting board, a group designated to redraw district lines every decade if the state legislature fails to do so. Abbott served as district court judge in Harris County and a state Supreme Court justice before reach- ing the attorney general’s office in 2002. During his two four-year terms, he has focused on protecting families and children through programs such as the Cyber Crimes Unit and the Fu- gitive Unit. For the November 2010 election, Abbott said he wants to add programs targeting money launder- ing and other crimes associated with the drug trade. “I have a proven record of fighting crime, having arrested more crimi- nals than any other attorney general in Texas history,” he said. “This race puts someone with a proven record of fighting against government man- dates from Washington, D.C., and myself versus someone who embrac- es growing government.” Despite the lead, Democratic can- didate Barbara Ann Radnofsky said she remains optimistic that her cam- paign, which is based on suing Wall Street firms such as AIG for fraud — the true reason for the state’s mas- sive budget shortfalls, she said. Rad- nofsky said the proposed lawsuit will send billions of dollars back to the state. “My proposal is not novel nor un- usual,” she said. “It’s just Mr. Abbott doesn’t want to do it. While I’m pro- posing to fight Wall Street, he has filed a number of pointless lawsuits that won’t bring a penny to Texas.” Abbott also faces opposition from Libertarian candidate Jon Roland, who promises to expand the role of grand juries to include investigation of complaints of local public corrup- tion. Roland said the other candidates are not proposing to do anything about the issue of local corruption, but hopes the future attorney general will bring his agenda forward. “The main purpose of a candida- cy like ours is to shift the direction of public discourse and of public office,” said Roland, who has run against Ab- bott twice before. “It’s not about win- ning or losing. It’s about shaping pol- icy. If a third-party candidate gets 5 to 10 percent of the vote, the other two parties are going to be scrambling to adopt their issues.” By Audrey White Daily Texan Staff Student Government’s internal structure could receive some major changes with a recommendation from the SG Reform Task Force. The task force voted to approve an outline of its recommendations Tuesday night. Major changes in- clude a condensation of the agency structure, reduction of the number of SG agencies from and the addi- tion of several positions to the leg- islative body, including a parlia- mentarian to oversee meeting or- der, a clerk to take meeting minutes and run logistics and a chair, who would replace the vice president in the role of running the meetings. “We’re making more opportu- nities for students to get involved in agencies,” said task force chair- woman Cecilia Lopez. “It will change the structure and create more avenues for students to be involved, because we are recom- mending that agencies have mem- bers and not just directors.” The recommendations also in- clude suggestions about how to most effectively interact with Sen- ate of College Councils, Gradu- ate Student Assembly, Faculty and Staff councils, registered student organizations and the student body at large. “Not all student organizations aspire to have a relationship with SG, but we should get interested parties into the same room to talk about what resources SG has and how these organizations can col- laborate with SG,” said task force By Alexandra Carreno Daily Texan Staff The beer was flowing and the chips and queso were plentiful. Rangers faithful came out by the dozens Wednesday night to cheer for their team in game one of the World Series, which Texas lost 11-7 to San Francisco. But the Texas-sized wait is over, the World Series is final- ly here. Neither team hails from the Bronx or Boston, but the excitement Rangers fans have for their team’s first World Se- ries appearance was evident Wednesday night. “Ever since the playoffs have started, we Rangers fans keep hoping for the best and enjoy- ing every second of it,” said electrical engineering freshman Greg Pruss. While San Francisco is 1,503 miles away from Austin, many Texas fans did not restrict them- selves to watching the game in the comfort of their dorm or liv- ing room. Donning their ruby red and royal blue hats and T- shirts, fans came out by the doz- ens to watch the Rangers take the field at Cuatro’s on 24th and San Gabriel streets. The bar was By Matthew Stottlemyre Daily Texan Staff Civil engineering senior Chris- tine Fuentes said she has expe- rienced breast cancer through a family friend who was diagnosed with the disease in 2006. Fuentes and about 20 students danced to hip-hop and electroni- ca music Wednesday on the Main Mall at a dance-a-thon hosted by Sigma Lambda Gamma. The Susan G. Komen for the Cure raises money and awareness to fight breast cancer and sup- port survivors of the disease. Ac- cording to its website, the Dallas- based international organization has invested nearly $1.5 billion for breast cancer research and pre- vention and treatment programs since it was created in 1982. Fuentes said her friend, who is like a sister to her, went through chemotherapy and three years of surgeries during her treatments. She said the cancer spread and part of her lung had to be re- moved, but the cancer has now been in remission since 2009. “Being with her, it’s like I’m ex- periencing [breast cancer] emo- tionally, too,” Fuentes said. “It’s hard to be strong emotionally for her and also help her be strong.” Hillary Martinez, an unde- clared sophomore who orga- nized the event, said the founda- ‘ ‘ Calendar Today in history Women’s day of action In celebration of National Young Women’s Day of Action, this event in the Texas Union’s Santa Rita Room from noon to 2 p.m. will encourage political involvement and also serve as a forum for a discussion of women’s rights and equality. Dating in the Arab world Ghada Abdel Aal, Egyptian blogger and author of “I want to get married!” will discuss personal dating stories and her works about what it means to be single and young in the Arab world. The talk is from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the AT&T Executive Education Center, Classroom 105. “Open Happiness” The Coca-Cola Company’s Heritage Communications will discuss how the characteristics of this trademark brand are preserved at this lecture hosted by the Society of America Archivists. The lecture is in Mezes 1.306 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. In 1954 Ernest Hemingway wins the Nobel prize for literature. — Michael Coronado, House of Torment actor Ghostland Observatory The indie rock and electronic band duo composed of Aaron Behrens and Thomas Turner will take the stage at the Cedar Park Center at 8 p.m. Tickets start at $28. TODAY LIFE&ARTS PAGE 14 “I’m a bit of a haunted house purist, and if you aren’t here to scare people, then you shouldn’t be here. I can’t stop and tell a crying kid everything’s OK and that it’s just an act. I’d ruin the show for ev- eryone. When I’m in costume, I’m supposed to be the bad guy, so I just have to walk off have people think, ‘Wow, he’s mean.” Quote to note By Nolan Hicks Daily Texan Staff Election records from around Texas indicate that early voting for the 2010 midterm election is up sharply in several Rio Grande Valley counties as well as key ur- ban areas throughout the state when compared to 2006. During the first eight days of early voting, turnout in Hidal- go County is almost triple what it was during 2006 midterm elec- tion. Webb County saw turnout almost double when compared to 2006. Democrats in Webb County, which contains the city of Laredo, believe multiple factors have con- tributed to the dramatic increase in voter turnout. “Webb County is unique in the Valley because we moved our municipal elections and school district elections up to Novem- ber instead of having them all separate during various points of the summer,” said Sergio Gar- cia, chairman of the Webb Coun- ty Democratic Party. He said turnout for the general elections in Novembers past had been depressed because the parti- san races are decided in the Dem- ocratic primaries, which happen in the spring. “In Webb County, not only has [White] been here numer- ous times, they have invested a lot of money and resources into running a well-tuned, highly technological get-out-the-vote effort,” Garcia said. “We have Early voters from Texas’ urban areas increasing Proposed SG reforms address low student input Mary Kang | Daily Texan Staff UT students Mike Burney, Jesprey Brown, Adam Foster and Miguel George watch in despair as the Rangers lose game one of the World Series Wednesday night at Cain & Abel’s, located on 24th and Rio Grande streets. Giants take World Series lead at home Rangers fans revel in championship hopes despite loss Students raise money for cancer awareness State attorney general race heats up Jeff Heimsath | Daily Texan Staff Sorority sisters Sabrina Rodriquez and Vanessa Price dance at the Sigma Lambda Gamma dance-a-thon for breast cancer awareness. RANGERS continues on page 10 DANCE continues on page 2 VOTE continues on page 7 VALLEY continues on page 2 REFORM continues on page 2 Barbara Ann Radnofsky Democratic candidate Jon Roland Libertarian candidate Greg Abbott Republican incumbent
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By Aziza MusaDaily Texan Staff
If elected as state attorney general, Houston lawyer Barbara Ann Radnof-sky, a Democrat, promises to sue Wall Street firms. But Republican incum-bent Greg Abbott is already involved in a suit against the federal govern-ment over individual mandates in the national health care reform law.
Like many other Republican can-didates this election cycle, Abbott is seeking to make regulations and Washington, D.C., mandates cen-tral to the campaign, while also talk-ing about border security and sexual crimes. The two-term attorney gen-eral leads his Democratic rival 55 to 35 percent in the latest UT/Texas Tri-bune poll, released Monday.
The attorney general enforces Texas laws and challenges state boards and agencies who do not adhere to them. The office also holds one of five seats on the state legislative redistricting board, a group designated to redraw district lines every decade if the state legislature fails to do so.
Abbott served as district court judge in Harris County and a state Supreme Court justice before reach-ing the attorney general’s office in 2002. During his two four-year terms, he has focused on protecting families and children through programs such as the Cyber Crimes Unit and the Fu-gitive Unit. For the November 2010 election, Abbott said he wants to add programs targeting money launder-ing and other crimes associated with the drug trade.
“I have a proven record of fighting crime, having arrested more crimi-nals than any other attorney general
in Texas history,” he said. “This race puts someone with a proven record of fighting against government man-dates from Washington, D.C., and myself versus someone who embrac-es growing government.”
Despite the lead, Democratic can-didate Barbara Ann Radnofsky said she remains optimistic that her cam-paign, which is based on suing Wall Street firms such as AIG for fraud — the true reason for the state’s mas-sive budget shortfalls, she said. Rad-nofsky said the proposed lawsuit will send billions of dollars back to the state.
“My proposal is not novel nor un-usual,” she said. “It’s just Mr. Abbott doesn’t want to do it. While I’m pro-posing to fight Wall Street, he has filed a number of pointless lawsuits that won’t bring a penny to Texas.”
Abbott also faces opposition from Libertarian candidate Jon Roland, who promises to expand the role of grand juries to include investigation of complaints of local public corrup-tion. Roland said the other candidates are not proposing to do anything about the issue of local corruption, but hopes the future attorney general will bring his agenda forward.
“The main purpose of a candida-cy like ours is to shift the direction of public discourse and of public office,” said Roland, who has run against Ab-bott twice before. “It’s not about win-ning or losing. It’s about shaping pol-icy. If a third-party candidate gets 5 to 10 percent of the vote, the other two parties are going to be scrambling to adopt their issues.”
By Audrey WhiteDaily Texan Staff
Student Government’s internal structure could receive some major changes with a recommendation from the SG Reform Task Force.
The task force voted to approve an outline of its recommendations Tuesday night. Major changes in-
clude a condensation of the agency structure, reduction of the number of SG agencies from and the addi-tion of several positions to the leg-islative body, including a parlia-mentarian to oversee meeting or-der, a clerk to take meeting minutes and run logistics and a chair, who would replace the vice president in
the role of running the meetings. “We’re making more opportu-
nities for students to get involved in agencies,” said task force chair-woman Cecilia Lopez. “It will change the structure and create more avenues for students to be involved, because we are recom-mending that agencies have mem-
bers and not just directors.”The recommendations also in-
clude suggestions about how to most effectively interact with Sen-ate of College Councils, Gradu-ate Student Assembly, Faculty and Staff councils, registered student organizations and the student body at large.
“Not all student organizations aspire to have a relationship with SG, but we should get interested parties into the same room to talk about what resources SG has and how these organizations can col-laborate with SG,” said task force
By Alexandra CarrenoDaily Texan Staff
The beer was flowing and the chips and queso were plentiful. Rangers faithful came out by the dozens Wednesday night to cheer for their team in game one of the World Series, which Texas lost 11-7 to San Francisco.
But the Texas-sized wait is over, the World Series is final-ly here. Neither team hails from the Bronx or Boston, but the excitement Rangers fans have for their team’s first World Se-ries appearance was evident Wednesday night.
“Ever since the playoffs have
started, we Rangers fans keep hoping for the best and enjoy-ing every second of it,” said electrical engineering freshman Greg Pruss.
While San Francisco is 1,503 miles away from Austin, many Texas fans did not restrict them-selves to watching the game in
the comfort of their dorm or liv-ing room. Donning their ruby red and royal blue hats and T-shirts, fans came out by the doz-ens to watch the Rangers take the field at Cuatro’s on 24th and San Gabriel streets. The bar was
By Matthew StottlemyreDaily Texan Staff
Civil engineering senior Chris-tine Fuentes said she has expe-rienced breast cancer through a family friend who was diagnosed with the disease in 2006.
Fuentes and about 20 students danced to hip-hop and electroni-ca music Wednesday on the Main Mall at a dance-a-thon hosted by Sigma Lambda Gamma.
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure raises money and awareness to fight breast cancer and sup-port survivors of the disease. Ac-cording to its website, the Dallas-based international organization has invested nearly $1.5 billion for breast cancer research and pre-
vention and treatment programs since it was created in 1982.
Fuentes said her friend, who is like a sister to her, went through chemotherapy and three years of surgeries during her treatments. She said the cancer spread and part of her lung had to be re-moved, but the cancer has now been in remission since 2009.
“Being with her, it’s like I’m ex-periencing [breast cancer] emo-tionally, too,” Fuentes said. “It’s hard to be strong emotionally for her and also help her be strong.”
Hillary Martinez, an unde-clared sophomore who orga-nized the event, said the founda-
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Today in history
Women’s day of actionIn celebration of National Young Women’s Day of Action, this event in the Texas Union’s Santa Rita Room from noon to 2 p.m. will encourage political involvement and also serve as a forum for a discussion of women’s rights and equality.
Dating in the Arab worldGhada Abdel Aal, Egyptian blogger and author of “I want to get married!” will discuss personal dating stories and her works about what it means to be single and young in the Arab world. The talk is from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the AT&T Executive Education Center, Classroom 105.
“Open Happiness”The Coca-Cola Company’s Heritage Communications will discuss how the characteristics of this trademark brand are preserved at this lecture hosted by the Society of America Archivists. The lecture is in Mezes 1.306 from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
In 1954 Ernest Hemingway wins the Nobel prize for literature.
— Michael Coronado,House of Torment actor
Ghostland ObservatoryThe indie rock and electronic band duo composed of Aaron Behrens and Thomas Turner will take the stage at the Cedar Park Center at 8 p.m. Tickets start at $28.
TODAY
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“I’m a bit of a haunted house
purist, and if you aren’t here to
scare people, then you shouldn’t be here. I can’t stop and tell a crying kid everything’s OK and that it’s
just an act. I’d ruin the show for ev-
eryone. When I’m in costume, I’m supposed to be the bad guy, so I just have to walk off have people think, ‘Wow, he’s
mean.”
Quote to note
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By Nolan HicksDaily Texan Staff
Election records from around Texas indicate that early voting for the 2010 midterm election is up sharply in several Rio Grande Valley counties as well as key ur-ban areas throughout the state when compared to 2006.
During the first eight days of early voting, turnout in Hidal-go County is almost triple what it was during 2006 midterm elec-tion. Webb County saw turnout almost double when compared to 2006. Democrats in Webb County, which contains the city of Laredo, believe multiple factors have con-tributed to the dramatic increase in voter turnout.
“Webb County is unique in the Valley because we moved our municipal elections and school district elections up to Novem-ber instead of having them all separate during various points of the summer,” said Sergio Gar-cia, chairman of the Webb Coun-ty Democratic Party.
He said turnout for the general elections in Novembers past had been depressed because the parti-san races are decided in the Dem-ocratic primaries, which happen in the spring.
“In Webb County, not only has [White] been here numer-ous times, they have invested a lot of money and resources into running a well-tuned, highly technological get-out-the-vote effort,” Garcia said. “We have
Early voters from Texas’ urban areas increasing
Proposed SG reforms address low student input
Mary Kang | Daily Texan Staff
UT students Mike Burney, Jesprey Brown, Adam Foster and Miguel George watch in despair as the Rangers lose game one of the World Series Wednesday night at Cain & Abel’s, located on 24th and Rio Grande streets.
Giants take World Series lead at home
Rangers fans revel in championship hopes despite loss
Students raise moneyfor cancer awareness
State attorney general race heats up
Jeff Heimsath | Daily Texan Staff
Sorority sisters Sabrina Rodriquez and Vanessa Price dance at the Sigma Lambda Gamma dance-a-thon for breast cancer awareness.
RANGERS continues on page 10
DANCE continues on page 2
VOTE continues on page 7
VALLEY continues on page 2
REFORM continues on page 2
Barbara Ann Radnofsky Democratic candidate
Jon RolandLibertarian candidate
Greg AbbottRepublican incumbent
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member Mykel Estes.In a task force meeting last
week, Senate members asked the group to consider removing the Academic Affairs Commit-tee from SG because Senate is the student governance organization charged with legislating on aca-demics. However, Lopez said be-cause academics is a part of stu-dent life, it would be inappropri-ate to remove the committee.
“We feel [the Academic Af-fairs Committee] does fulfill a very useful purpose,” said James Lloyd, a law student and the chairman of the Internal Af-fairs Subcommittee. “The issues that Academic Affairs will ad-dress will not conflict with Sen-ate because they will be issues that are academic but affiliated with student life.”
There is still much that the task force must consider, in-cluding defining the judicial branch, determining how the chair of the assembly would function in relation to the exec-utive board, discussing wheth-er to add a freshman represen-tative in the assembly and iden-tifying how to restructure the SG website, which is more than six months out of date.
“We have to approve our main goals and ideas before we can move forward with details,” Lopez said.
The task force must still flesh out its recommendations and write the language that will be-come part of the SG constitu-tion, bylaws and best practices, pending assembly approval. The group will present the final rec-ommended documents to the as-sembly before Thanksgiving.
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tion is the sorority’s national phi-lanthropy, which means the soror-ity’s main community service goal is to support breast cancer aware-ness and prevention.
Fuentes said she knew about Sigma Lambda Gamma’s com-mitment to the foundation and the breast cancer cause when she joined the sorority in June of 2008. Her friend was still undergoing
treatment for her cancer at the time, and she said joining the so-rority helped her emotionally.
“It’s really heartwarming, be-cause when I joined the sorority I knew I joined an organization that would always support the cause,” Fuentes said. “Coming to an event like this, it makes me proud.”
Christine DeSoto, the sorori-ty’s vice president for marketing, said Sigma Lambda Gamma will try to try to host the event again
every October.“We are all ambitious, intelli-
gent women and we will continue to host events with a purpose that help our community — events like this one,” she said.
Three-quarters of the money raised by the run will support programs around Austin, such as the Seton Cancer Care Out-reach Programs, which provide low-income and under served women with mammograms, ex-ams and breast health education
services. The rest goes to the Susan G. Komen Breast Can-cer Foundation.
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He said a confluence of fac-tors — closely contested local races, moving municipal elec-tions from the summer to Elec-tion Day in November — were all pushing turnout significant-ly higher.
“Local races are driving in-creased voter turnout in the Valley,” said Bob Stein, a poll-ing expert and political sci-
ence professor at Rice Univer-sity. “[Those] races are impor-tant in the Valley because they provide services.”
Major urban areas around Texas have also seen increases in voter turnout.
“The big urban counties, led by Harris at 210 percent over 2006, are uniformly up by about 65 percent, which is good for White,” said Cal Jillson, a political science professor at Southern Methodist University. “But so are the suburban coun-ties Collin, Denton, Fort Bend and Williamson, where Perry should run strong.”
With the latest polls show-ing White down by eight to 11 points, experts doubt an increased turnout of groups that lean Democratic will be enough for him to win the election.
“Everybody is waiting for the inevitable,” Stein said. “The increased turnout will help Bill White, but it won’t win him the election.”
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner — the country’s most powerful politician along with his wife, current leader Cris-tina Fernandez — died suddenly Wednesday after suffering a heart attack, the presidency said.
Kirchner, 60, died after he was rushed in grave condition to the Formenti de Calafate hospital while having a severe heart attack, the presidency said.
“It was a sudden death,” his doctor, Luis Buonomo, told report-ers in El Calafate, where Kirchner and his wife had gone to rest and await their turn to be counted in the nation’s census. Buonomo said an official medical report would be released later in the day.
He was accompanied at all times by his wife, the presidency said.
Kirchner had undergone an an-gioplasty after a heart attack in September, but was still a likely candidate in next year’s presiden-tial elections. He also served as sec-retary general of the South Ameri-can alliance known as Unasur, as a congressman and as leader of the Peronist party.
The news shocked Argentines, who by law were staying at home Wednesday to be counted. Kirch-ner’s supporters planned a mass gathering for Wednesday night outside the Casa Rosada, Argen-tina’s presidential palace.
“There will be a demonstra-tion to honor Kirchner and to show Cristina that we’re with her, supporting her,” said the leader of the Evita Movement, Emilio Persico.
After an intimate ceremony in El Calafate, his body was being flown to Buenos Aires to lay in state in the palace, where a vigil was to be-gin at noon on Thursday.
Kirchner worked hand-in-hand with his wife to maintain the rul-ing party’s hold on power. Even more than Fernandez, he was seen as the heir to Argentine strongman
Juan Domingo Peron and one of the few people capable of manag-ing Argentina’s unruly and chaot-ic political scene.
It was Kirchner who did the hard work of managing relation-ships with labor unions, activ-ist groups, governors and mayors — the political players who move thousands of voters and whose al-legiance is vital to maintaining public order.
With him gone, Fernandez is likely to face many new threats to her leadership.
Argentina’s most power-
ful union leader, Hugo Moyano, quickly expressed his allegiance, ordering an emergency board meeting of the General Labor Con-federation, or CGT.
Juan Carlos Dante Gullo, a rul-ing party congressman, said “this will leave a huge hole in Argentine politics. We will have to follow his example. Argentina has lost one of its greatest men.”
The leader of the human rights group Grandmothers of the Pla-za de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto, said Kirchner “gave his life for his country.”
“Our country needed this man so much. He was indispensable,” she told radio Continental.
Kirchner served as president from 2003-2007, bringing Argen-tina out of severe economic crisis and encouraging judicial chang-es that set in motion dozens of hu-man rights trials involving hun-dreds of dictatorship-era figures who had previously benefited from an amnesty.
As secretary general of the Union of South American Repub-lics, or Unasur, Kirchner mediated one of the many border disputes
between Venezuela and Colombia. Both countries’ leaders mourned his loss on Wednesday.
“Oh my dear Cristina ... how sad! What a huge loss suffered by Argentina and our Ameri-ca! May Kirchner live forever!” Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Tweeted.
U.S. President Barack Obama also praised Kirchner’s significant roles in Argentina and Unasur. “Michelle’s and my thoughts and prayers are with President Fer-nandez de Kirchner and their chil-dren,” he said.
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PARIS — France’s customs au-thority says police have recovered sunken Roman coins and a gold plate snatched from an underwa-ter site 25 years ago.
The DGDDI customs author-ity says the recovered treasures are worth an estimated $1.4 mil-lion-$2.8 million.
The plate is considered the star piece of the so-called “Lava Trea-sure,” discovered by fishermen in the Gulf of Lava, off the western coast of the French Mediterranean island of Corsica.
French authorities opened an investigation after some coins from the treasure appeared on the antiquities market. The plate was found to be missing in 1985, and it was feared it would end up on the black market.
In a statement Wednesday, the DGDDI said called the recovery a “historic seizure.”
Iran likely member of UN women’s equality agency
UNITED NATIONS — U.S. diplomats and human rights groups are outraged that Iran is set to become a member of the board of the new U.N. agency to promote equality for women.
Rights groups are angry that Iran has convicted a woman of adultery and sentenced her to death by stoning.
Some rights groups are also upset that Saudi Arabia, where women aren’t allowed to drive and are barred from many fa-cilities used by men, is also ex-pected to join the board of UN Women.
Thirty-five board members are to be chosen by regional groups, and Asia has put for-ward an uncontested 10-nation slate that includes Iran, U.N. diplomats said.
U.S. Mission spokesman Mark Kornblau said Wednes-day that Iran’s membership “would send the wrong signal at the start of this exciting new initiative.”
Former Argentine president dies of heart attack
Natacha Pisarenko | Associated Press
A man writes a note in support of President Cristina Fernandez outside the government palace in Buenos Aires on Wednesday. Nestor Kirchner, Argentina’s former president and husband of current President Cristina Fernandez, died Wednesday after suffering heart attacks.
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Free to go LokoBy Jonathan RienstraDaily Texan Columnist
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In moments of desperation, I have stood in front of the beer aisle at 7-Eleven with an uneasy feeling in my stomach. I shuffle left and right, comparing prices, volume and alcoholic content before settling in front of a row of gigantic, neon-Pollock cans that promise me not only 12 percent alcohol by volume (ABV), but caffeine as well. And I will admit, that in that moment of great de-spair when I had $5 to my name, I grabbed a can of Four Loko.
I’m not proud of the fact that I have con-sumed a Four Loko here and there. There isn’t much redeeming quality in the bubbly, sugary beverage, but then that’s not why people buy it. I get it, Four Loko is cheap and packs a mighty punch, but that doesn’t make up for the killer hangover or just how weird it tastes, which is why I gave up on them af-ter the second try.
But more and more, the powers that be around college campuses don’t want to give students the opportunity to come to the logi-cal conclusion that Four Loko sucks. Instead, Four Loko is the subject of a media firestorm that misses the major points the drink’s de-tractors try to make.
Two weeks ago, Ramapo College in New Jersey banned Four Loko after 23 individu-als required medical attention after drink-ing them. Recently, nine Central Washington University students were taken to the hospi-tal after drinking Four Loko and passing out. Google “Four Loko,” and the first word to come up is “banned.”
Four Loko shouldn’t be banned. The peo-
ple who want it banned, though their hearts are in the right place, miss the real issue.
First, Four Loko should not be in trouble because students get drunk. Part of the prob-lem with this is a lack of education or con-cern about what is actually inside the bright-ly colored can. Twelve percent ABV is a lit-tle more than double what one would find in Keystone Light, but one can find beers next to Four Loko that are 7 percent ABV.
The issue is that few people consider drink-ing a 23.5 ounce Loko to be the same as drink-ing about five beers, but that’s what it is. The problem isn’t about the drink’s contents, but rather how people perceive them. Whiskey or vodka have nearly four times as much alco-hol per volume but calling for a ban on those would be silly because people generally un-derstand that they are stronger drinks. We’ve also tried alcohol bans before, and they didn’t work out too well. People drink Four Loko faster because people often think one can equals one drink. This is important later in the night, when you’re counting drinks and that Four Loko is only taking one spot when it should be five. Make the can half the size and already, there is a mentality that you have had two drinks. One could say the new size is still more than two mixed drinks or beers, but I implore you to find a college student who pours a mixed drink with only one “mixed drink’s” worth of alcohol in it.
Most arguments against Four Loko cen-ters on the caffeine. Many experts warn against mixing alcohol and caffeine be-cause the caffeine can make you feel less drunk than you actually are. It’s a valid point, and the one most commonly lobbied against Four Loko, but the inclusion of caf-
feine is not a strong enough argument for banning the drink altogether.
Four Loko did not invent the idea of com-bining the two ingredients. Caffeine and alco-hol can be found in each other’s company at any party with a liter of Coke next to a bottle of Jim Beam, at the bar serving “H-Bombs” or even at a posh bistro selling Irish coffee.
Banning Four Loko will not stop college students from drinking too much, nor will it stop one from pairing vodka with Red Bull. If anything, this national discussion about Four Loko has only made it even more popular, be-cause if there’s one thing young people want more than anything, it’s something that’s about to be taken away by older people.
Instead of banning drinks, universities should educate their students about the dan-gers of alcohol poisoning, and if they’re con-cerned about what caffeine mixed with alco-hol will do, tell students what it will do. A col-lege’s purpose is to educate — this is a great opportunity to do so.
But if universities really want to get stu-dents to stop drinking Four Loko then they should just work to make the cans smaller. I would reckon that after trudging through one nasty-ass 12 oz. can of Four Loko, the idea of another would not be appealing.
Four Lokos are like Quarter Pounders at McDonald’s. They are cheap, fast and essen-tially devoid of any nutritional value. But nobody eats two Quarter Pounders, even though that’s just a Double Quarter Pound-er, and I’m willing to bet that if you shrink a Four Loko, drinking two of them will carry the same stigma.
Rienstra is a journalism junior.
In May, Gov. Rick Perry ordered a 10-per-cent budget decrease for every state agency, which includes all state colleges and univer-sities. UT released its budget reduction plan for the 2010-11 fiscal year on its website, say-ing that more than 90 percent of the proposed budget cuts come from administrative units, with only a half of 1 percent coming from ac-tual academics.
However, many UT faculty members are dissatisfied with how the budget cuts were decided and how they will be implemented. President Powers warned that a 10-percent budget decrease would result in 600 lost jobs, but many UT members felt they should have had a say in forming the budget reduction plan. With good reason, the UT Faculty Coun-cil passed a resolution on Monday calling for “significant” faculty involvement in budget matters, according to the Austin American-Statesman. This is a resolution by which the UT administration should abide.
The University ensures that academics are not directly suffering from much of the bud-get decreases, but lost jobs result in responsi-bilities being transferred to unsuspecting in-dividuals. I have advocated in a previous col-umn for all members of the UT community to shoulder the burden of the budget cuts, in-cluding faculty members. But faculty mem-bers are the true experts in what administra-tive positions matter the most. The Universi-ty has a responsibility to provide the best edu-cation possible, and UT faculty are the instru-ments by which UT completes that job.
Computer science professor Alan Cline told the Statesman that UT faculty had in-
volvement in the budget plans 25 years ago. If the University has included professors in the process before, there should be no reason to refrain from including the faculty mem-bers now, especially given the severity of this year’s budget crisis.
I am sure that our faculty are understand-ing and mature enough to know that some jobs do in fact have to go. The budget cuts are mandatory, and their impact on many UT employees is inevitable. But to not include the faculty in the decision-making process is wrong and deeply disconcerting. Who has to create an academic environment suitable for UT students day-in and day-out? Who has to conduct hours upon hours of research on en-gaging academic topics with hopes of bring-ing more money into the University? The fac-ulty should have had a say in this process from the beginning.
The decision for the administration to keep faculty out of the loop breeds suspicion. If the University was so sure about the bud-get cuts not greatly affecting the academic colleges and schools, then what was so bad about letting the faculty in on the decision-making process? One can only suspect that the administration dropped the ball some-where down the line with the budget plans. Perhaps the administration did not want fac-ulty to be in the drawing room while drafting the budget cuts proposal because of a feared backlash against the administration’s own plans. Perhaps the budget cuts are not in the best interest of academics and may serve oth-er needs — or just desires — of the adminis-tration. Without faculty input, we could nev-er know for sure.
Avelar is a government and journalism senior.
When we recently asked President William Powers Jr. to list his priorities for the upcoming legislative session, his answer was anything but ambiguous:
fect nearly every facet of UT, not least of which is the University’s ability to address persisting issues of campus inequality.
The gender pay gap is one such issue high-lighted in The Daily Texan’s breakdown of UT’s budget. The Texan found that in every catego-ry, from lecturer to full professor, females were paid less than males. But the Gender Equity Task Force report, published in 2008, discov-ered that the only statistically significant pay gap was at the full professor level when the numbers were adjusted for salary structures of field and rank.
So, almost two years after the task force issued its report, which included recommen-dations on how to reduce gender inequity, how much progress has UT made in bridg-ing the gap?
Statistically speaking, not much.From 2007 to 2010, the pay gap was re-
duced from 4.5 percent to 3.4 percent, accord-ing to sociology professor and vice provost Judith Langlois, who is spearheading the task force’s efforts.
The pay disparity has diminished slightly, but the numbers are nonetheless disappointing.
The culprit? Budget cuts, budget cuts, bud-get cuts.
In its report, the task force identified merit pay raises as a priority to address the pay gap. To determine meritorious faculty, department chairs were told to identify underpaid profes-sors, but to be especially cognizant of female professors who were underpaid relative to com-parison males in their field.
This method has started UT on the right track to bridge the pay gap, and in spring 2010, 46 percent of female faculty received a raise compared to 36 percent of male faculty. But the pool of money for merit raises in 2010 was very limited (the 2009 pool, by contrast, was nonexistent), and the overall impact of the raises is underwhelming.
Langlois said the economy is impeding UT’s efforts to address the pay gap, but she empha-sized that correcting the pay inequality is an on-going process — one that can’t be remedied in a few years by merely “throwing money at the problem.”
(Which is good news. Because we don’t have much to throw.)
The task force hasn’t let the recession and budget cuts derail their efforts, however stunt-ed progress may be. They’re working to put structures in place that will help reduce the gap. Each college will create a committee to identi-fy how it can best address their specific gender inequity problems. The College of Liberal Arts Gender Council, for example, identified prior-ities specific to faculty members in the college, such as addressing salary disparity and improv-ing avenues to promotion.
This is a smart move that recognizes the com-plexities of the pay gap and the different strug-gles faced by each college. It also recognizes the dismal financial realities of UT’s budget with-out dismissing the need for action on gender equity issues.
Of course gender inequality is manifested in more than just a pay gap. There’s also a leader-ship gap, and the task force report found that some faculty reported harassment and discrim-ination. Another important consideration is the family-friendly policies UT has in place for women on the tenure track who have children.
Statistics relating to the pay gap, however, are the easiest way to quantify UT’s progress toward equity. While the numbers look bleak on this front, we’re pleased that UT is forging ahead on the long road to gender equity, a path that isn’t made any smoother by budget cuts.
— Lauren Winchester for the editorial board
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Assault charges, violations lead to officer’s second firing
Austin police officer Leonar-do Quintana was fired Wednesday for the second time in five months for violating company policy, said Austin Police Department spokes-man Cpl. Scott Perry.
A dismissal board reviewed the investigation of assault allega-tions from Quintana’s former fian-cee Wednesday afternoon prior to his indefinite suspension. The as-sault charges, which surfaced last Thursday just hours after Quinta-na was reinstated, amounted to his fourth offense while on the force.
Quintana became a center of con-troversy in May 2009, when he fa-tally shot 18-year-old Nathaniel Sanders. The officer received a 15-day suspension for failure to acti-vate his dashboard camera at the time of the incident. Eight months later, he faced charges for driving while intoxicated after he crashed his car in a Leander neighborhood. His blood alcohol content was more than twice the legal limit at the time.
APD Chief Art Acevedo fired Quintana after the DWI, causing the officer to petition. An arbitra-tor, however, reinstated him on Oct. 21 because no other officers with the same offense had faced termination.
In addition to the other charges, Quintana faces two lawsuits relat-ed to the May shooting.
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Jeff Heimsath | Daily Texan Staff
Isaias Hernandez organizes the hundreds of pinatas in the back of his store, Raquel’s Party Land off Cesar Chavez Street. Hernandez says the pinata business is going strong.
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Stem cell research prompts call for funds, centralization
By Ahsika SandersDaily Texan Staff
The nonprofit organization Tex-ans for Stem Cell Research rallied for more state funding in Austin earlier this month. The group fol-lowed up Wednesday with a sym-posium on the UT campus to show how research is leading to practical benefits for patients.
James Willerson, president of the Texas Heart Institute, said he con-ducted tests with stem cell injec-tions in Rio de Janeiro that showed immediate and life-altering results for patients with enlarged hearts. A January 2009 FDA decision allows tests on humans in the U.S., but Willerson said the lack of funding has slowed advances in research.
Texans for Stem Cell Research plans to meet that challenge by cre-ating a central stem cell research fa-cility to pool funding by 2014.
Willerson was one of eight lead-ing state stem cell researchers who spoke Wednesday at the Learn and Live Educational Series symposium in The Thompson Conference Cen-ter. Researchers say degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, heart disease and diabetes could be cured with stem cell procedures.
UT kinesiology graduate stu-
dent Daria Neidre, a member of the nonprofit’s advisory council, said the group has proposed sev-eral pieces of legislation to the state legislature without success. They are now working toward combin-ing the stem cell centers across Tex-
as into one unified group.“By 2014, we want a central
stem cell hospital here in Austin to combine the efforts of all the Texas researchers instead of having mul-tiple facilities doing the same re-search,” Neidre said.
Willerson and his team of re-searchers found that heart and vascular diseases are treatable by injecting a patient’s own stem cells from their bone marrow di-rectly into the heart with a cathe-ter. When the cells are injected into the heart, the nuclei from the cells
fuse together and form regenerat-ed heart muscle.
He conducted the tests on pa-tients in Brazil five years ago with quick results for patients.
“Some of the people we test-ed had enlarged hearts the size
of a basketball and couldn’t walk 20 feet without heavy breathing and exhaustion,” he said. “With-in two months of the stem cell sur-gery, swelling had significantly de-creased and one of them was jog-ging on the beach in Rio.”
Willerson said stem cell transfu-sions can cure some of America’s most prevalent diseases.
State Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Aus-tin, said stem cell research should be well funded, as it can improve the quality of life for patients.
He said his 21-year-old son, a UT junior, was diagnosed with Type-1 diabetes at age 5, and he holds re-search for a cure close to his heart.
“I have made the pledge to him that I will do whatever I can to make sure there is a cure and I believe that [stem cell research] is where the best possibility is,” Wat-son said.
‘‘I have made the pledge to him that I will do whatever I can to make sure there is a cure and I believe that [stem cell research] is where the best possibility is.”
— Kirk Watson, State senator
By Destinee HodgeDaily Texan Staff
University Democrats and College Republicans squared off on political hot topics such as health care and immigration reform at the Hook the Vote debate on Wednesday.
The event was an attempt by the Hook the Vote coalition to encour-age students to vote in the midterm elections. The debate consisted of three sections all moderated by Dai-ly Texan Associate Editor Douglas Luippold.
Both teams had to respond to questions from The Daily Texan ed-itorial board, each other and audi-ence members. The moderator also included questions students sent to The Daily Texan editorial Twitter account.
Although questions included high-er education topics such as rising tu-ition, the debaters mostly stuck to controversial issues. College Repub-licans President Melanie Schwartz said the border needs to be secured before the DREAM Act would be effective, and that the act does not benefit legal immigrants.
“Republ icans think that the DREAM Act is a good idea, it’s just
that a lot of other things are attached to it,” Schwartz said.
The debate was marked by oc-casional wise cracks and attempts by both sides to win the audience’s favor.
“It’s not a good sign when your state education board is on Comedy Central,” said University Democrats President Michael Hurta.
Schwartz responded that Presi-dent Barack Obama will be on the channel soon.
“I think the most important thing for us was to show that while Dem-ocrats and Obama had this huge wave in 2008 in proposals, they have drastically under-delivered,” Schwartz said.
The student groups typically de-bate once a semester, but in light of the gubernatorial elections, the Hook the Vote coalition requested the extra debate.
“The whole purpose of the debate is to give students a source for infor-mation,” said Hook the Vote board member John Chapman. “It really is for the students who aren’t as well informed about the issues and it’s supposed to give them an opportu-nity to talk to their peers.”
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By Mary Ellen KnewtsonDaily Texan Staff
On Wednesday more than 400 eighth-grade students left the Capitol with new tools to com-bat the bullying and discrimina-tion they may face in their mid-dle schools.
The No Place For Hate Youth Summit gives middle school stu-dent representatives a chance to have conversations about bully-ing, stereotyping and prejudice, said assistant project director Me-gan Flowers.
Two hundred students attend-ed the first day of the two-day summit and another 200 are ex-pected to attend the second. Al-most 60 schools sent eighth-grad-ers as representatives.
“The kids leave here pretty jazzed up,” Flowers said.
Flowers said the day was struc-tured as a series of small sessions in which groups of 20 students from different middle schools participated in exercises to learn about prejudice, bullying and stereotypes. Wednesday’s event marked the first No Place For
Hate Youth Summit, but is a con-tinuation of the Prejudice Aware-ness Summit, he said.
One of the activities in a sum-mit session required four stu-dents to step out of the room as the other 16 were instructed to
form four circles and not allow the people in the hallway to join. Cedar Valley Middle School stu-dent Andrew Huet said this ac-tivity is an accurate representa-tion of events that occur at his school from time to time.
“People really do purposeful-ly ignore certain other people,”
he said. Huet plans on trying to pay
more attention to bullying and doing what he can to prevent it.
No Place For Hate is a pro-gram put on by the Anti-Defama-tion League that is celebrating its 10th anniversary in Texas and its seventh year in Austin. Schools can receive the “No Place For Hate” designation by conduct-ing three projects consistent with the goals of the program. For ex-ample, schools can host “mix-it-up” day at lunch, where students are required to sit with a different group than usual.
Lisa Hellmer, a counselor at St. Gabriel’s Catholic School and a faculty representative at the sum-mit, said education programs that teach about accepting di-versity have always been a pas-sion of hers. She brought seven eighth-graders, who were select-ed based on essays they had writ-ten, to the event.
“The expectation is that these seven students will go back and implement the strategies they learned,” she said.
Corey Leamon | Daily Texan Staff
Students and educators from 57 schools around the Austin, Houston and San Antonio areas gathered at the Capitol on Wednesday for the annual No Place for Hate summit to participate in anti-bullying workshops.
Student summit at Capitol addresses school bullying
UT improves sustainability grade
vote: Abbott holds race despite criticism
‘‘People really do purposefully ignore
certain other people.”
— Andrew Huet Middle school student
By Destinee HodgeDaily Texan Staff
A nonprofit organization that evaluates sustainability on col-lege campuses gave UT a B+ for the 2011 school year.
The Sustainable Endowments Institute provides a “Sustainabil-ity Report Card” for the 300 U.S. and Canadian universities with the largest endowments. The re-port card has nine sections, in-cluding green building efforts and recycling, that evaluate dif-ferent aspects of sustainability on college campuses.
“Doing well in these kind of surveys is a nice measure of the kind of sustainability work going on on campus,” said Jim Walker, director of sustainability at UT. “I think it’s probably too soon to tell if it’s a result of the Office of Sus-tainability’s work.”
The organization issued UT a B- last year. Walker said the im-provement was a result of bet-ter reporting on the initiatives al-ready in place on campus.
The University provided the
Institute with more complete in-formation about strategies imple-mented to improve sustainabil-ity, and distribution of endow-ment funds, which could have in-creased their score, he said.
The Campus Environmental Center, a UT student-run environ-mental preservation group, has led initiatives that may have fac-tored into the new grade the Uni-versity received. The CEC used to control some recycling on cam-pus and hosted the annual Trash to Treasure garage sale. They are also in the early stages of devel-oping a program to reduce car-bon emissions.
Since the University took charge of on-campus recycling this summer, the center has fo-cused on creating programs that allow more opportunities for en-vironmental awareness, includ-ing providing information about campus sustainability issues at new student orientations.
“Last year, they did take some steps to get more sustainability into new student orientation be-cause ... the ratings system that’s sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainabili-ty in higher education specifical-ly mentions that in their grading
system,” said Karen Blaney, ad-viser for the CEC. “And you can get points for having sustainabil-ity integrated in the new student orientation.”
Although the program was not implemented, the center be-gan discussing possible strategies with the coordinators of new stu-dent orientation.
“A lot of things have been go-ing on [on campus] for a long time, it’s just that we’re now getting recognition for that,” she said.
The center will begin other pro-grams this semester that may im-prove the University’s overall sus-tainability rating. Rachel Aitkens, co-director of the center, said UT is looking at how to make water fountains easier to use to refill water bottles and other measures to reduce plastic waste.
Walker said involving every-one on campus is another way that the Office of Sustainability hopes to improve ratings.
“We’d like to have more inter-est from the faculty and students on different aspects of the report card. We welcome a broader con-versation on different aspects of the card where the University can do better,” he said.
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Abbott has nearly $9.3 million cash on hand, while Radnof-sky has about $354,000. Radnof-sky criticized Abbott for accept-ing donations and later defending the same donors in state lawsuits, claims which Abbott denied.
“It’s a kind of desperate claim you see by the person behind in the polls by 20 percentage points,” he said. “They just cast lies about their opponents, and that’s the kind of situation that she’s in.”
Texans for Public Justice Re-search Director Andrew Wheat said the majority of Texas politi-cians do not recuse themselves because of campaign contri-butions. Texas does not have a high standard for disqualifica-tion, he said.
“The problem of course is politicians in our system have two constituencies,” Wheat said. “One is the voters, and ar-guably the more important one are the people that pay the cam-paign bills. I haven’t seen him
aggressively going after the oil and gas industry, but that’s something that doesn’t happen in this state.”
UT public affairs lecturer Sherri Greenberg said Abbott seemed to have a pretty firm hold on the race in spite of Rad-nofsky’s accusations.
“First of all, he has the pow-er of incumbency,” she said. “He’s running in a Republican state during a Republican year. He’s had the real advantage on the get go.”
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Texas creams Cornhuskers at homeHorns grow win streak, gain ground on Nebraska
By Sara Beth PurdyDaily Texan Staff
It’s called the “Cullinan.” It’s a difficult feat involving a half twist/turn move on the uneven bars, and only a handful of gym-nasts can do it. One such per-son is Shelby Cullinan, a redshirt sophomore diver who the move is named after.
In two years at Texas, Culli-nan has proven to be an unstop-pable force. Both her experience as a gymnast and her vivacious personality have propelled her in a sport that is relatively new to her. Cullinan spent much of her life in the gym perfecting routines on the uneven bars en route to becoming a nationally competitive gymnast. It was not until her sophomore year of high school after a torn ACL along with the encouragement of her aunt that she decided to try div-ing — just for fun.
After reinjuring her knee, Cullinan quit gymnastics and switched to diving full time, where she quickly became the top high school diver in her home state of Arizona. While her transition from an exceptional gymnast to an equally talented diver was sensational, it came as a result of hard work and a per-sistent attitude.
For Cullinan, the transition be-tween the two sports was easier than most would expect.
“You’re still flipping and you need air awareness [in diving],” she explained, “but it was really hard landing on my head, learn-ing to spot the water to know when to come out, and also try-ing to find the rhythm of the board because gymnastics is all power but with the board you have to be patient.”
Diving is also easier on the body than gymnastics. Cullinan
recalls feeling pain after a gym-nastics competition. With diving she is now able to walk and do other types of physical activity af-ter a meet.
Despite the differences, Cull-inan made the transition seam-lessly. Diving head coach Matt Scoggin has taken notice of how her gymnastics background has contributed to her success.
“As a diver, she is very gift-ed because she twists really well from gymnastics,” he said. “She has good visual references like most gymnasts do. [She] knows where [she] is in the air and that has really translated into [being] a consistent diver.”
Her physical skills have been helped along by her “Type A” personality. At competitions she is often found chatting with div-ers from other teams, as she
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Middle blocker Jennifer Doris, left, and outside hitter Juliann Faucette jump up to block a Nebraska spike on Wednesday night. Faucette fin-ished with 14 kills, second on the team, and Doris added six blocks as Texas won its seventh straight game.
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Texas diver Shelby Cullinan practices at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center on Wednesday. Cullinan is relatively new to diving but has improved in the sport quickly.
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Cliff Lee, front, sits in the dugout during the fifth inning of Game One of the World Series on Wednesday night.
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With ESPNU in the house and a raucous crowd on hand, there was a buzz in the air at Grego-ry Gym on Wednesday reminis-cent of playoff volleyball as Texas defeated Nebraska 3-1 to move a game-and-a-half behind the No. 2 Cornhuskers atop the Big 12 standings and extend their sev-en-match win streak.
With several fans sporting their Halloween costumes early, the No. 10 Longhorns (15-5; 9-2 Big 12) opened a house of horrors for the Cornhuskers (19-2; 11-1) certain to have them experiencing nightmares about their final game in Austin as a Big 12 foe.
It was not Nebraska’s night as the team committed 30 errors, not including a costly miscue in the fi-nal set in which the ball inexplica-bly fell to the ground amongst a ring of five Cornhuskers.
Buoyed by the numerous Ne-braska mistakes that kept giving the Longhorns easy points, Texas denied the Cornhuskers a chance to romp through the Big 12 undefeat-ed. With the decibel level dramat-ically rising and falling with each volley, Texas junior outside hitter Amber Roberson’s 16th and final kill put an exclamation point on a hotly contested fourth set to van-quish the Cornhuskers once and for all.
“We were good when it counted and aggressive,” Tex-as head coach Jerritt Elliott said.
By Ben WalkerThe Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Giants turned the World Series opener into an extra long round of batting practice — against Cliff Lee and the Texas Rangers.
Freddy Sanchez sprayed balls down the lines. Cody Ross and Aubrey Huff hit line drives up the middle. Juan Uribe launched a shot far, far over the wall.
So much for the unbeatable Mr. Lee.
The Giants battered him and the bullpen, with Sanchez hitting three doubles and keying a six-run burst in an 11-7 romp Wednesday night that looked even more lopsided.
What shaped up as a pitchers’ duel between Tim Lincecum and Lee quickly deteriorated into a rout. By the end, the Rangers played like
the World Series rookies they are — they made four errors, Ian Kin-sler took a mistaken turn around first base and manager Ron Wash-ington may have waited too late to pull his ace.
Former Giants slugger Barry Bonds had plenty to cheer for from his seat next to the San Francisco dugout, especially when a tie game suddenly became an 8-2 thumping in the fifth inning. Rangers presi-dent and part-owner Nolan Ryan sat there glumly in a suit and tie, his prized pitcher a wreck.
Added up, the Giants improved to 10-0 against Texas at AT&T Park. Showers are in the forecast for Game Two on Thursday night when Matt Cain and his 0.00 ERA in two playoff starts takes on C.J.
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There’s something about the twice-a-year Texas-Nebraska matchup that puts everything in the framework of past, pres-ent and future.
There’s a past, especially in the late 1990s to mid-2000s, when no matter how much Texas improved, no matter how much the championship banner glowed at Grego-ry Gym, the Longhorns would fall short against the Cornhuskers.
There’s a past when current Longhorns and Huskers were high school seniors, choosing between playing in Austin or play-
ing in Lincoln. Those same players would team up with each other for USA Volleyball, like senior outsider hitters Juliann Faucette (UT) and Tara Mueller (Nebraska) in 2007, and sophomore utility player Sha’Dare Mc-Neal (UT) with sophomore outside hitter Hannah Werth (Nebraska) in 2009.
Then there’s a more recent past, where the teams have split the series and neither could claim the upper hand.
Wednesday’s game even showed flashes of last year’s team that beat the Cornhusk-ers three times. There was Faucette bicker-ing with officials like Ashley Engle, in turn enlivening the packed-beyond-capacity
Gregory crowd. There was freshman libe-ro Sarah Palmer holding down the back-court like Heather Kisner. And there was Amber Roberson, spiking it from the back line like Destinee Hooker.
There’s also the present. The Longhorns have won seven in a row and 10 of their last 11, and showed that they can hit with the best of them on Wednesday night. The team’s Achilles Heel in Lincoln — serving errors — switched to the Huskers’ feet, as Nebraska hurt itself with nine serving errors to Texas’ four.
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Sogar, Taylor earn swimmer, diver of the week accolades
Laura Sogar and diver Maren Tay-lor earned conference honors this week after the pair helped the Horns to a recent win at California.
The Big 12 selected Laura Sog-ar as its women’s swimmer of the week and Taylor as the confer-ence’s women’s diver of the week on Wednesday.
Sogar posted the fastest time in the 200-yard breaststroke on Oct. 16 at California, as she won the event in 2:10.15. It was the fast-est time in the event this season by nearly 3 seconds.
Sogar also claimed the 100 breast-stroke at California in 1:00.97, good for the second-fastest time in col-lege swimming. She placed second in the 400 individual medley, be-hind Cal’s Caitlin Leverenz, the 2010 U.S. national champion in the dis-tance. Sogar was selected as College-Swimming.com’s National Division I Women’s Swimmer of the Week last week for her efforts at Cal.
Taylor dominated the one-me-ter event at Cal, as she outdistanced her nearest competitor by 60 points. She led Texas to a podium sweep in the three-meter event, where she was victorious with 310.13 points.
Sogar, Taylor and the Horns travel to Indiana on Friday for a dual meet.
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The Longhorns don’t play with passion. Senior defensive end Ed-die Jones can hook his horns and sing “Texas Fight” after losing to Iowa State and his fellow end Sam Acho can pump his fist after making a tackle, but as a whole, the team does not play with a passion or a purpose.
And head coach Mack Brown knows it. He could feel it in August.
“I worry about this team,” Brown said. “On the first Wednes-day scrimmage we had this year, I said that we didn’t see the emotion from players.”
Because the Longhorns have had nine consecutive 10-win seasons, they assumed this year wouldn’t be any different. But things aren’t looking so rosy right now and the players are learning that just be-cause they wear a longhorn on their helmets doesn’t mean wins are guaranteed. This season, enti-tlement won’t get them anywhere. It’s going to take more dedication and energy than ever before.
As the old saying goes, “You play how you practice,” and ju-nior receiver Malcolm Williams admitted that the energy levels have been lower than usual at practice all year.
“It’s been there at times, but it’s been more sketchy,” Williams said. “Some days it’s there, oth-ers it’s not and in the past, it’s al-ways been there. We always found a way to bring it. Even at 6 a.m. practices we found a way.”
The enthusiasm was there in the past because of leadership. Play-ers like Roy Miller, Brian Orak-
po and Colt McCoy never would have stood for indifference. In fact, those players were ready to call out their teammates if need be.
Brown recalled the 2008 Fiesta Bowl when Texas was about to play Ohio State. He was worried his team didn’t have an edge in pre-game, but then he heard a lot of commotion coming from the locker room.
“I heard all this ruckus and I turned to [strength and condition-ing coach Jeff Madden] and I say, ‘Jeff, something’s happening in there, go see what’s going on. It sounds like a fight,’” Brown said.
“So he goes in and walks back out with a smile on his face and he says, ‘Uh, no coach, it’s Roy [Mill-er]. He’s just getting everyone ready to play.’ He was throwing trash cans and screaming.”
This team may not be the type to throw trash cans, but a few players discussed what they are going to do this week to change the overall attitude.
“Now is the time where it’s not a time to be comfortable,” he said. “Everybody has to get out of their comfort zone whether that’s in their leadership styles or in their style of play. You have to be un-
comfortable in order to grow.”Williams said that he is going to
lead by example.“It’s not just about being vo-
cal anymore, it’s my actions, too,” Williams said. “Every time I step out on the field, I try to go to work and work my hardest.”
Senior receiver John Chiles is going let the rest of the team know they still have a lot to play for.
“We have to keep playing each and every game like we are going to win the national championship,” he said. “We have to keep on play-ing, keep on going, keep on work-ing hard and gel as a team.”
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Malcolm Williams looks to split a pair of Tech defenders on Sept. 18. Williams says energy levels have been low in practice and that he wants to motivate his teammates this week.
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“When a team fights like this, you are really pleased with their perfor-mance, and it shows a lot about the character that they [have]. I’ve al-ways felt there was something spe-cial about this group with all the things we’ve been going through.”
The Longhorns set the tone in the first with the Texas faith-ful treating the squad to a stand-ing ovation after junior setter Mi-chelle Kocher stole a kill to give the Longhorns an early 11-6 ad-vantage. A pair of kills by junior middle blocker Rachael Adams and Roberson sent Cornhuskers crashing to the hardwood as they attempted to dig out the sizzling strikes — to the delight of the 3,235 screaming fans. Roberson led the way with five kills, sparking a 5-0 run to seal the deal.
Nebraska initially looked shell-shocked with the rowdy crowd seemingly getting to the team. It was most evident in the second set when a pair of Cornhuskers crashed into each other and the ball fell to the court for a Texas point.
Senior outside hitter Juliann Faucette took over in the second, pacing the Longhorns with four
kills and maintaining Texas’ en-ergy level. As the Horns headed into the locker room for intermis-sion with a 25-19 win in hand, ev-ery seat was empty with the en-tire building standing to show their support for the team’s hustle — the noise alone was enough to blow the roof off the place.
The third was a back-and-forth affair with 12 ties and four lead changes. The Cornhuskers made plays when they counted, grind-ing out the win 27-25. Faucette did her best to keep the set close with six powerful kills — a few of which left skid marks. But the Cornhusk-ers showed why they are the No. 2 team in the nation as they kept their composure and never showed any quit with their backs against the wall and an unblemished Big 12 re-cord hanging in the balance.
“I was just thinking about win-ning this game and doing it with my team that’s worked so hard all year,” Faucette said. “These are the matches that you work for. To see our team go out and fight through every single play and battle to get the win is what counts.”
But Roberson and the Long-horns stormed back in the final set to win their 10th-straight at home.
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prefers to have fun while diving. Her methodology, while out of the ordinary, has proven successful.
“When I first came here I was really nervous competing and I thought that I needed to be real-ly serious and focused, but every meet I was getting last, I was do-
ing horribly,” Cullinan recalls. “I need[ed] to figure out what works for me ... I can’t focus on the dives in competition ... I have to talk, lis-ten to my music, just get my mind away from it and have fun.”
Cullinan’s transition to div-ing has not been totally seamless. There was one significant hurdle she had to overcome as a diver —
she is afraid of heights. With the encouragement of her coaches and consistent practice she has able to begin to conquer that fear. She ad-mits that her best event is proba-bly the highest dive, off the 10-me-ter platform.
Her fear of heights is a “work in progress,” Scoggin said. But he added that some of the best
divers in history have been afraid of heights.
If Cullinan can continue to stave off her fear of heights and contin-ue to get stronger, there is nothing stopping her.
Senior middle blocker Jenn Do-ris and Faucette both notched their sixth career win against Ne-braska, more than any other play-er in Texas history.
“I think it says a lot about the program,” said Faucette, who posted a 14-kill, 15-dig effort. “The four years that Jenn and I have been here, the Nebraska ri-valry has been huge.”
The future remains bright, albeit uncertain. Texas still has tough out-ings left against Texas A&M and Oklahoma at home and 12th-ranked
Iowa State in Ames this season.As for the seemingly ageless
Nebraska rivalry, a decade and a half of players in red and burnt orange circling two dates on their calendar every year may come to an end when the Cornhuskers leave for the Big Ten in 2011.
But just because there won’t be conference implications be-tween the two in future matchups doesn’t mean there will be any less intensity.
“I’m sure there will be [the same excitement],” Nebraska head coach John Cook said. “That’s go-ing to hang around for a while.”
HISTORY: Rivalry remains intense as departure from Big 12 looms
SPORTS Thursday, October 28, 201010
Cliff Lee was untouchable. Until Wednesday night.
He’d won two ALDS games against the Rays on the road and an ALCS game in Yankee Stadium. His 2010 postseason ERA was 0.75. He became a franchise savior. But by the bottom of the fifth inning in Game One of the World Series on Wednesday night, Lee was out.
He started off the night business as usual with a three-up, three-down inning. Then he worked the offense at the plate with some claw and antler action with a double be-fore advancing to third base on a sacrifice fly in the second inning.
But then things went sour on the mound. Giants’ second base-man Freddy Sanchez had his way with Lee, getting a World Series re-cord three straight doubles on the Rangers’ ace. After 4 2/3 innings, Lee had given up seven runs, six of which were earned, on eight hits. Coming into the game, Lee had only given up 13 hits and two earned runs this whole postseason.
The fact that he struck out sev-en batters will be minutia in the morning.
Sports Illustrated’s Tom Verduc-ci said in his World Series preview this week that the only way the Gi-ants would be able to win games started by Lee would be if the Rang-ers’ bullpen had to take over. Well they don’t call Verducci the great-est baseball writer in the world for nothing. The Rangers’ bullpen took over early and Texas lost 11-7 and it wasn’t even that close until a three-run rally in the top of the ninth.
If the Rangers had won Wednes-day night, Lee would have become 8-0 in postseason starts. That would have made him the first starter ever to win Game One of the World Se-ries in two consecutive years with two different teams, and only the second pitcher to win Game One on the road twice.
So what was the deal? Where were those eight innings of shutout baseball he had against the Yanks nine days ago? Maybe he was dis-tracted by the Giants fans wearing Tim Lincecum wigs.
But the Rangers didn’t lose just because of Lee. The stars just weren’t aligned. Literally, the Rangers stars of Lee, center fielder Josh Hamilton and third baseman Michael Young were not on top of their games.
Hamilton, the ALCS MVP who had six runs on seven hits against the Yankees, went 1-for-4 in his World Series debut. Young went 0-for-4 and had a crucial error in the third inning that allowed the Giants to tie the game at 2-2, start-ing San Francisco’s scoring frenzy.
By game’s end, the Rangers had
four errors, which was more than they had in the entire ALCS. May-be they were just getting it all out of their system in one game.
The Rangers are not the giving-up kind. They came back and beat the Yankees after giving up a five-run lead and losing Game One, and they came back Wednesday night and rallied in the ninth inning to shorten the scoring gap to four runs.
So there’s no need to worry. Stay confident. There’s a lot of baseball to be played. At least that’s what I’m telling myself.
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Although Mia Behm has al-ready had two successful years as a Longhorn athlete, the junior from Tyler isn’t focused on her past achievements — she is look-ing toward new goals.
“There is a lot left for me to try and accomplish,” Behm said. “But I feel like what I have done so far is good because it has given me the confidence to accomplish new goals.”
Both Behm and cross country head coach Steve Sisson say that Behm’s competitive nature and perseverance make her a unique contributor to the 15th-ranked Longhorn team.
“She is not a quiet girl but she brings a quiet intensity to the team,” Sisson said. “She keeps her goals and ambitions to her-self and that allows her to keep really focused.”
Behm said a competitive atti-tude plays a role in every part of her life — from playing the Wii to running a race. Her compet-itive nature, coupled with her close relationship with her team-mates, has helped many of the runners improve. An example of this dynamic is freshman runner Marielle Hall, who has battled with Behm all season for the top spot on the team.
“I enjoy that Marielle is chal-lenging me,” Behm said. “I am competitive, but I’m glad because it is improving both of us.”
Sisson said that Behm has al-ways been an extreme competi-tor at the team’s meets, but more recently, her spirited attitude has benefited her in practice as well.
The relationship between Behm and Hall has increased the intensity of Behm’s work-outs — something Sisson be-lieves will benefit her in the highly competitive meets the team will be facing soon.
“This year I have noticed that Mia and Marielle run side by side, stride by stride almost in every workout,” Sisson said. “What they have done best for each other is to be able to motivate from a training
perspective. Mia has never trained as hard as she has this year and that is thanks to Marielle.”
The Longhorns are current-ly a young team, with many of the top competitors being fresh-men. Sisson said this has allowed Behm to step into the leadership role she was meant to fill.
“Mia is quiet in her way of being a leader,” Sisson said. “She brings a consistency, a con-stancy and a guarantee that she is going to get the job done that the girls can sort of lean on. She has sacrificed and everyone else has to sacrifice.”
Behm, however, credits her teammates for keeping her motivated.
“When you are on a team to-gether and you suffer through pain together you are pretty much required to be friends,” Behm said. “We get along so well, which is something I think we have on other teams.”
Sisson takes some credit for the spirit of camaraderie among his athletes.
“I look for balance, a lev-el of focus and commitment to running but also a fun-lov-ing, positive, almost looseness and confidence that there is in the group of girls,” Sisson said. “Their friendship brings to the table an amazing feel.”
The team is well balanced but also highly competitive. Sisson says each athlete has individual goals, goals that they encourage each other to reach.
Behm hopes this season she will achieve her ultimate goal — becoming an All-American. To accomplish this, a runner must place in the top 40 at the NCAA Championships.
Sisson says he does not typical-ly make goals for individual run-ners on his team but makes an ex-ception for Behm.
“My basic belief is that Mia is one of the best collegiate runners in the country,” Sisson said. “You will see much better performanc-es from her coming into the Big 12 and regional and national meets — this is the stage that Mia likes.”
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Freddy Sanchez, right, scores on a single by Nate Schierholtz during the eighth inning on Wednesday.
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Wilson and the Rangers.The Rangers did late damage,
scoring three times in the ninth. Nelson Cruz hit a two-out, two-run double off Brian Wilson be-fore the Fear the Beard closer fin-ished it off.
Sanchez finished with four of the Giants’ 14 hits, which includ-ed six doubles. Right after Lee walked off the mound in the fifth, Uribe greeted sidearming reliev-er Darren O’Day with a three-run jolt that broke it open.
San Francisco had gotten through the NL playoffs because of their dominant pitching, plus an ability to win one-run decisions. None of that came into play on this beautiful night for baseball.
Lincecum struggled at the be-ginning, making a strange men-tal error, but settled down as the
game progressed. The shaggy-haired ace walked off to a stand-ing ovation in the sixth.
The Rangers tagged him for eight hits, two of them shots off his left leg.
What happened to Lee was simply remarkable.
He came into the game with a 7-0 record in postseason play, one win shy of matching the record set by Orlando “El Duque” Her-nandez for the best start in these big games.
But the lefty who loves to stick to his routine was all over the place on eight days’ rest.
With the score 2-all, Andres Torres hit a one-out double in the Giants fifth. Sanchez, a former NL batting champion, followed with a sharp double and Texas pitching coach Mike Maddux was already on the way to the mound as the Rangers got the ball back to Lee.
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Mia Behm, left, and Marielle Hall run the Ricardo Romo Classic on Sept. 17. The two runners challenge each other to improve.
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buzzing all night, though the chat-ter dropped noticeably in the fifth inning when the Giants scored six runs to take the lead.
“It’s incredibly exciting to be here,” said UT alumna Jennifer Rasmussen. “I grew up watching the Rangers and it felt so amaz-ing to see them win their division. Hopefully they win so I can relive that feeling.”
Currently in their 50th sea-son, with the last 39 spent in Tex-as, the Rangers endured the lon-gest wait to make it to their first World Series; Montreal/Washing-ton and Seattle have endured 42 and 34 seasons, respectively, with-out making it to the champion-ship thus far. But for the Rangers, making it to the playoffs this sea-son did not come at an easy price. The team’s last division champi-
onship came back in 1999.“Being from Texas, this has
been an awesome experience,” said Jordan Walker, a patron en-joying Game 1 at Cuatro’s. “This is the biggest thing that has hap-pened for the state of Texas in a long time.”
Rangers fans have grown ac-customed to wearing their emo-tions on their sleeve, especially this post-season. Winning in game six over their old nemesis, the de-fending champion New York Yan-kees, in the American League Championship Series, could not have been better. But the icing on the cake came when ex-Ranger Alex Rodriguez struck out in a fit-ting finish to punch the Rangers’ ticket to their first World Series.
“There is a lot of anticipation. I honestly did not expect them to make it this far,” Walker said. “It’s a really good surprise.”
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At midnight on a Tuesday in early October at Mi Casa, a bar on Sixth Street, there is a crowd of peo-ple packed in, all in anticipation for Austin-based rapper Zeale’s per-formance. As soon as he gets on stage, the entire audience goes into a frenzy of hip-hop induced bob-bing. As Zeale lays down verse af-ter verse of carefully crafted and ar-ticulate rhymes, it is perfectly clear why he has the reputation of al-ways drawing a crowd and as one of Austin’s premier rappers.
In spite of this, fortune has not always favored the rapper. Zeale spent much of his early career on the rap battle scene, not receiving much notoriety or attention despite his numerous successes; including his qualification to the highly pub-licized World Rap Championships in New York where he competed collaboratively with fellow Aus-tin rapper and friend Phranchyze. Despite garnering attention in the rap battle world, Zeale gained lit-tle attention as an artist elsewhere. Realizing this, in 2008 the emcee moved his efforts away from com-petition and towards the sentimen-tal artistic aspect of his work.
“I’ve [battled] for so long, and it doesn’t really elevate you in terms of a music career,” he said.
That year, he put out his ini-tial mixtape, the Legendary Micro-phone of Time, now a rarity to find without talking to Zeale himself, and soon after, Haterz and Robotz. The latter encompasses a broad range of topics and styles repre-sentative of his varying influenc-es from the gritty street rap of Tu-pac to the playful yet substan-tive rhymes of Philadelphia new-comers Chiddy Bang.
Outside of his music, he main-tains many passions and inter-ests, including BMX, wakeboard-ing and business finesse, as well as studying advertising and geogra-phy at Texas State University.
Certainly a Renaissance man in 20th century terms, Zeale’s lat-est works have followed this par-adigm. His April EP Robot Radio, served as an experimental foray into the realm of digitally meshed
electronic hip-hop, a relative-ly original genre that few, includ-ing Zeale himself, had previous-ly delved into. His most current mixtape, Disasterkrft, is perhaps his most distinct and assorted work.
The mixtape itself is very eclectic, incorporating elements from the en-tire rap spectrum; from mainstream gangster rap styles, to Kid Cudi-esque rap ballads, to ambient story-based rap sequences that reflect the current indie rap scene. What is also particularly intriguing about Disas-terkrft is the political undertone pre-viously unseen in former works, even further adding to the assort-ment of styles and meanings that flow through the mixtape.
“My whole thing is that I want to make something that starts out, takes you back in, heats up
for a minute and then settles back down,” he said. “When I first put the songs on Disasterkrft togeth-er, I said I want to hit ‘em real-ly hard with something that cap-tures me. The next few songs are more commercial type, that any-one can get into whether or not they like rap. Then I finish it off with a track that samples a Mario [Bros.] beat.”
Despite his success and bril-liance in the art aspects of his work, like any true multifaceted per-son, Zeale understands every nu-ance of his work. While selling out isn’t a something the rapper plans on doing, money definitely factors into the equation. As a result, Zeale has taken a more systematic ap-proach to his music and its distri-bution than other local artists. He’s
worked on building connections and making sure his music gets placed in the right hands and trad-ing connections with artists from around the country to develop fan bases on a far more widespread scale, as opposed to haphazard-ly touring and randomly handing CDs out to people within the in-dustry who are already inundated by the oversaturation of artists that exist within the market.
In this sense Zeale has start-ed to make leaps and bounds, al-ready on the lineup for Fun Fun Fun Fest and South By Southwest and opening and playing with art-ists like Lil Wayne, A-Trak, KRS-One and Jason Mraz.
Even amidst Zeale’s successes and his current opportunities, he realizes the adversity that
comes with progression, main-taining your artistic identity in the face of it all.
“You wanna be a musician, this shit is not fucking easy,” he said. “You have to be able to take criti-cism like crazy and be able to take all that at the end of the day roll it up and accept some of it, disregard some of it, and still be you.”
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Zeale is an Austin-based rapper who started his career on the rap battle scene. Zeale will be performing at Fun Fun Fun Fest and South By Southwest.
By Ali BrelandDaily Texan Staff
Zeale’s third mixtape, Disaster-krft is littered with an assortment of songs that run the gamut of what occurs within the hip-hop world. This time around, he has tightened things and set the bar even higher than in his previous installment, Haterz and Robotz.
Zeale opens with “Beam In,” a song that features him the beat from Asher Roth’s latest single, “G.R.I.N.D.” This song place-ment is perfect and gives listen-ers an introduction to his signa-ture rapid-fire yet clean flow.
Zeale makes several bold movements within the mix-tape, emulating the wispy, care-free style of Kid Cudi in several songs while adding his own ap-proach with a bit of speed. The boldest statement on Disaster-krft, though, is Zeale’s politically charged track, “Monzter Hozpi-tal,” in which he raps about gov-ernmental skepticism.
Ultimately, his risks pay off, creating one of Austin’s fin-est mixtapes. Even the songs that have a radio pop-rap feel are better than actual radio-rap songs. That, meshed with Zeale’s innovation and sheer talent, results in a mixtape that simultaneously unites hip-hop in every aspect and creates a distinct sound all its own.
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entertaining, the film is a high-light of Boyle’s career and the zombie genre.
“Shaun of the Dead” (2004)Edgar Wright’s British zom-
bie spoof is a hilarious and memorable introduction to Wright’s collaborations with stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, who play friends caught in a zombie apocalypse. The
film mixes comedy and horror flawlessly and works both as a zombie film and a parody of zombie films.
Wright’s writing and direc-tion have never been better than here, and the film is consistent-ly funny, satisfyingly gory and surprisingly effective in every-thing it attempts.
“Trick ‘r Treat” (2007) After collecting dust for
years on the shelves at War-
ner Bros., “Trick ‘r Treat” was unceremoniously dumped to DVD in 2009; a real shame, given that it’s an unapologeti-cally fun and atmospheric Hal-loween tale. Telling a handful of intersecting stories, “Trick ‘r Treat” takes place in a small town where Halloween is close to a national holiday.
The film is a fun mixture of ev-ery Halloween urban legend — with a few new ones thrown in for good measure — making for a ballsy and fantastic anthology.
than ever before.“Nationwide, the Brewers As-
sociation reported at midyear that there were more breweries than at any time since Prohibition devas-tated the domestic industry near-ly a century ago,” wrote Ronnie Crocker earlier this month in the Houston Chronicle. “The over-whelming number of these 1,600-plus businesses are not major pro-ducers but either micro or regional craft breweries or brew pubs.”
That’s even after the national beer market has slumped, Crock-er added. Many of these producers get their start by simply brewing at home — a hobby that Graham says costs, at the low end, $50 to start
and $30 for each batch of about 60 bottles after that. From there, home brewers can turn to craft brewing.
According to the Brewer’s As-sociation’s definition, “An Ameri-can craft brewer is small, indepen-dent and traditional. Small: Annu-al production of beer less than 2 million barrels. Independent: Less than 25 percent of the craft brew-ery is owned or controlled by an al-coholic beverage industry member who is not themselves a craft brew-er. Traditional: A brewer who has either an all malt flagship or has at least 50 percent of its volume in ei-ther all malt beers or in beers which use adjuncts to enhance rather than lighten flavor.”
Oftentimes, that will lead to fla-vors that vary widely from the tra-
ditional American style Lager you taste in your typical can of Bud. While it’s their job to mass pro-duce a clean, consistent product across several million barrels, craft brewers can vary their lineup with more hoppy and bitter or malty and sweet varieties. They can even define and create new types like a Black India Pale Ale — a style whose very title is oxymoronic.
Somewhat more controversial in Texas, this definition also in-cludes Shiner Beer and its Spoet-zl Brewery even though they, like larger national breweries, use ad-juncts — ingredients other than the traditional malt, hops and water like corn. However, brew-master Jimmy Mauric’s rebuttal is that the corn is used for flavor-
ing and to keep their Shiner Blonde light while keeping with that malt flagship.
So if you include the Spoetzl Brewery, Texas currently has a doz-en craft breweries, including four in Austin: Live Oak Brewing Co., Independence Brewing Co., (512) Brewing Co. and Thirsty Planet Brewing Co.
That’s really just the frothy head
on an overflowing pint. The Chron-icle also found that the Texas Alco-holic Beverages Commission cur-rently has nine pending license ap-plications for breweries and two active licenses for unopened brew-eries. If they’re all approved, that could mean a total of 23 Texas craft breweries by sometime next year.
“Initially Texas has been behind some of the other states, like Wash-
ington, Oregon, Colorado and Cali-fornia, since they’ve had craft brew-eries and brew pubs for longer,” said Tim Schwartz, Real Ale Brew-ing’s head brewer and a UT alum-nus. “The laws used to be more re-strictive but we’re starting to catch up. We had to work at it for a while and bring them these [craft] beers, but their palate has become much more demanding.”
McCullough was also im-pressed with Love, who already had a brush with entrepreneur-ship when he was 18 and used his college money to instead start his own music and event planning business.
Together with their staff, they doubled the size of the haunt-ed house the following year, and then doubled it again the next year when they moved House of Torment to its present location.
“At the time I had a job in life insurance,” Love said. “Man, life insurance sucked. After grad-uation we thought, ‘What if in-stead of working on the haunt-ed house three months out of the year, we take a huge risk by quitting our jobs and reducing our quality of living to making ends meet so we can work on the haunted house all 12 months to make it even better.’”
The goal was to build a per-manent haunted house the way people build movie sets and their own costumes, Love said. In or-der to make the house unique, the team brainstorms how to im-plement ideas — such as the illu-sion gravity is disappearing, the feeling of suffocation or some-one flying from the ceiling — rather than copy scenes straight from the movies or other haunt-ed houses, he added.
“It’s the coolest job ever,” Love said. “When my fiance asks me what I did at work today, I might say some paperwork and e-mails. The next day she asks me, I tell her I got a car from a junkyard, but it was too big so I had to saw it [in] half. The next time she asks me, I say I worked on a media campaign platform. The next day she asks me what I did at work
and I say I installed a zip line and got to ride it out.”
The biggest challenge, but also his favorite part, comes every November when the realization hits that there’s no such thing as good enough and next year has to be better, Love said.
McCullough now works in San Antonio where he operates a haunted house called 13th Floor. Built in a historic, 105-year-old building, the haunted house has its own storyline and remains separate from House of Torment.
This year, House of Torment
continues with the third part of an apocalyptic storyline that be-gan two years ago, so expect a fair share of zombies. The haunt-ed house also includes Nightmare Mansion, which tells the story of a sick scientist who performed ex-periments on his family.
“It’s always exciting seeing a big, tough guy come in with his girlfriend and then on the first scare, he’s running out yelling and throwing his girlfriend at the monster,” Love said. “A cou-
ple dozen people each year pee or crap themselves.”
UT alumnus Michael Coronado manages the icon actors and plays Sullivan, the man wielding the chainsaw. Donning new makeup for a new character is always a re-freshing feeling, he said.
The icon actors play specif-ic roles, have characters with names and are usually hired based on experience. They, along with the general staff of grue-some monsters, make up the team who try their damndest to get a good scare. Some of the best hires have been passionate college students, Coronado said.
“We had a former UT football player work here once,” Corona-do said. “He scared people by tak-ing up the whole damn room.”
Coronado admitted noncha-lantly that he has made both chil-dren and adults cry in the past, but crying kids aren’t something that phase him.
“I’m a bit of a haunted house purist, and if you aren’t here to scare people, then you shouldn’t be here,” Coronado said. “I can’t stop and tell a crying kid every-thing’s OK and that it’s just an act. I’d ruin the show for every-one. When I’m in costume, I’m supposed to be the bad guy, so I just have to walk off and have people think, ‘Wow, he’s mean.’”
House of Torment runs mid-Sep-tember to Halloween. Afterward the site turns into Dark Stalkers, where the lights go out and each group going in gets one glow stick that can possibly be stolen.
A rumor has circulated that actors can bag individuals and separate them from the group. When asked if the rumor is true, Love said in a mysterious tone, “I don’t think I can answer that. All I’ll say is you have to sign a waiver before you enter.”
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‘‘I’m a bit of a haunted house purist, and if you aren’t here to
scare people, then you shouldn’t be here.”
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Dress to impressThe Mohawk has their yearly Halloween show and costume contest. This year, The Wooden Shjips, The Growlers, Rayon Beach and Mondo Drag perform, and art installations by M. Lawrence Mcoy and Art Power Collective provide psychedelic visual stimuli.
What: Halloween at The MohawkWhere: The MohawkWhen: Thursday, 7 p.m.Web: mohawkaustin.comtickets: $13 at the door, $10 with costume
They did the Monster MashKVRX is launching their new website, and they want you to know it. The Procbaborgany Collective, Mister PKT, Drastik and Glitterbillies play inside, and DJ Rob, Yung Blue and Fat Tony throw down outside.
What: Monster Mash UpWhere: United States Art AuthorityWhen: Thursday, 9 p.m.Web: bit.ly/cvul1ftickets: $5 or $10 with purchase of KVRX Concert Series T-shirt
WEEKENDIt’s alive! It’s alive!
This year, over a hundred artists will be featured at the opening party for Domy’s fifth annual gallery show inspired by monsters and other scary things.
What: Monster Show 5Where: Domy Books, 913 E. Cesar Chavez St.When: Saturday, 7 p.m.Web: domybookstore.comtickets: Free
When all else fails add ninjasThis rap group out of South Africa went viral last year with their insane music video for “Enter the Ninja.” Yeah, they’re really freaky.
What: Die Antwoord with Rye RyeWhere: La Zona RosaWhen: Thursday, 9 p.m.Web: lazonarosa.comtickets: $22.50
Haunt spooks both young, oldBy Priscilla Totiyapungprasert
Daily Texan Staff There was a buzz of excite-
ment surrounding the sixth-grade class of KIPP Austin College Prep as they waited in line outside an animatron-ic pumpkin-headed tree mon-ster Tuesday evening. Their chatter was soon broken up, though, when a man wearing the mask of some deformed creature suddenly starts sniff-ing through their line, wildly swinging a club around. Any-one, young or old, is fair game at House of Torment.
Arguably Austin’s most
commercially well-known haunted house, House of Tor-ment looks out of place in the daylight next to Macy’s in the Highland Mall parking lot. The house’s earliest showtime is 7 p.m., but even in the safety of daylight, the students wail and keep away from the man — or creature or monster or thing — and the swing of his club.
Currently, House of Torment boasts an animatronics system, zip lines, night vision cameras and technology fit for a horror movie. It has definitely trans-formed since its early days as one man’s neighborhood
haunted house, said Jon Love, Torment’s vice president.
With a background in con-struction, Daniel McCullough began crafting his South Tex-as home into a place of ter-ror in the mid and late 1990s. What started out as just some-thing for his kids grew out of proportion when McCullough came home to a couple hun-dred people standing outside his house on Halloween.
Unequipped to handle the large turnout but inspired by the popular interest, Mc-Cullough expanded his haunt-ed house venture to Austin.
The city’s first taste of House of Torment came when it opened in 2003 in the Furr ’s Cafeteria of the former North-cross Mall.
Love, who was then study-ing business at UT, met up with McCullough two weeks before Halloween that year af-ter checking out the haunted house upon a friend’s sugges-tion. Despite his initial skepti-cism, he was impressed with the quality of the homemade set and even donned a cos-tume to help spook people.
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Crimson the imp, played by four-year veteran Cory Brown, greets a group of students from KIPP Austin College Preparatory school as they wait for their turn to enter Nightmare Mansion. The mansion is one of three attractions offered at the House of Torment.
THIRSTY THURSDAY
By Gerald RichWith two days left until
Austin Beer Week wraps up, there’s still time left to grab a pint of some savory local craft beers that pay homage to Tex-as’ German heritage while cre-ating distinct new flavors.
Rewind to 19th centu-ry Texas when the first beers were brought over by Ger-man immigrants and when the first Texas beers like Pearl and Lone Star were brewed. The reason being that Germa-ny, commonly known for its
beer, is highly fertile for the essential female flower clus-ters known as hops.
Like other alcoholic sub-stances at the time, the pass-ing of the Volstead Act in 1919 and the Prohibition forced many breweries to close, including the Lone Star and Pearl breweries. They eventually reopened after the anti-alcohol “Noble Ex-periment” was repealed in 1933, but the hardships of the Great Depression lead to the companies being bought out by the Pabst Brewing Com-pany in Illinois.
Nevertheless, beer is boom-ing and more experimental
By Alex WilliamsDaily Texan Staff
Every October, a glut of hor-ror movies hits cinemas — some of them good, some of them bad and most of them sequels. Video stores display their hor-ror selection prominently, and often the weeks before Hallow-een are marked by basic cable marathons of the “Friday the 13th” and “Nightmare on Elm Street” franchises.
However, most of the unsung classics of the horror genre go un-noticed. Here are a few of the hid-den gems that should be required viewing every Halloween.
“The Evil Dead” (1981) Sam Raimi’s directorial de-
but and the first of arguably the greatest trilogy in horror histo-ry, “The Evil Dead” is a low-bud-get gorefest about a group of col-lege students going out to a cabin in the woods for a weekend, only to find their trip interrupted by a demonic presence.
The film is a creative landmark, making the most of its extremely limited budget (only $350,000) and managing to be legitimately creepy in a handful of scenes as well. The other two films in the series, “Evil Dead 2” and “Army of Darkness” are equally essential, as is Raimi’s “Drag Me To Hell.”
“Poltergeist” (1982) Directed by “The Texas Chain-
saw Massacre’s” Tobe Hooper, “Poltergeist” is a simple haunt-ed house story, as something be-gins to haunt the Freeling family and targets their daughter Carol Anne (Heather O’Rourke).
The film packs a handful of iconic horror scenes (including a spine-tingling series of mo-ments involving a possessed clown doll), and is one of the main reasons the PG-13 rating was invented. It’s a dryly fun-ny, consistently creepy and re-freshingly human story, end-lessly rewatchable and an es-sential addition to any horror fan’s collection.
“28 Days Later” (2003) Danny Boyle’s zombie film is regarded as one of the best ever, bringing about the newer, faster variety of zombies and reinvigorating the genre almost single-handedly.
Starring Cillian Murphy, the British post-apocalyptic tale tells the story of a small group of survivors trying to prevent being infected by the incurable Rage virus. Gritty, gory and
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Austin’s annual Beer Week provides hops fanatics with an opportunity to sip on famil-iar national brews as well as experiment with some local Austin favorites.
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