Students can measure their energy use through technological tools. at’s what Greg Nemet, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin in the La Follette School of Public Affairs and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, told students during an energy symposium urs- day in the Peter O’Donnell Jr. Building. Nemet, who studies mod- els of alternative energy systems, explained how en- ergy policies influence the lives of college students. His research shows students should be able to analyze their energy use with tech- nological tools. “Young people have more at stake on energy and cli- mate issues than anyone else,” Nemet said. “My great- est source of optimism in addressing these profoundly difficult challenges is that we have lots of smart peo- ple setting out on careers and thinking about ways to engage.” e energy symposium discussed research methods that could explain the pro- cess of technological change in energy and its interaction with public policy. Nemet talked about the in- fluences of past technological changes and the effects of en- ergy policies on future tech- nological outcomes. e talk was held by the UT Energy Institute, a body of scholars from mul- tiple schools and research institutes within UT, whose members study a variety of energy issues. e Insti- tute holds weekly energy symposiums with different speakers to introduce stu- dents and faculty to energy policy questions. Carson Stones, global policy studies graduate and teaching assistant for the symposium, explained how attendees benefit from the Institute’s events. “Attendees can expect to get access to cutting-edge research, which is highly Friday, September 20, 2013 @thedailytexan facebook.com/dailytexan Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 dailytexanonline.com bit.ly/dtvid SPORTS PAGE 5 LIFE&ARTS PAGE 8 COMICS PAGE 7 CITY Park to renovate, improve concerts Ole Miss student hospitalized aſter attack CITY Being “team-oriented” has never seemed more appropriate for the Texas track and field/cross-coun- try program. at is the phrase head coach Mario Sategna said he and his new coaching staff preach to their team — a team entering the first sea- son as a conjoined program in school history. No more separate men’s and women’s meetings or practices. Instead, with the start of the cross- country season on Aug. 30, the program officially began its new era as a single unit. e most critical thing for Sategna, who had been an associate coach at Texas for 10 years before tak- ing the head spot in June, is giving every one of his athletes an opportunity to get acquainted with the new staff. “e main thing for me right now is to actually take a little bit of a step back on the day-to-day coach- ing piece and allow my new assistants to take the reigns,” Sategna said. “I think that way when they are hands-on, they’re going to get to know everybody a lot sooner.” Sategna described a scene three weeks ago when the men and wom- en were put into groups while liſting weights. e long-tenured coach said that as he watched, he no- ticed how both the men and women cheered for each other throughout the workout. e sight, which would have been uncommon before this fall, should become routine for the program. Associate coach Tonja Buford-Bailey, who was hired by Sategna from the University of Illinois this sum- mer, has experience coaching both men and women. Her time as the women’s track and field head coach and men’s as- sistant coach at Illinois gives her knowledge the Longhorns value in the early stages of the change. It’s a program that, according to an article by the By Alberto Long @albertolong Auditorium Shores will only host one more event — Fun Fun Fun Fest — un- til Feb. 2015, while the park undergoes renovations. Terry Jungman, Aus- tin Parks and Rec- reation department business process represen- tative, said improvements to the park will include new drought-tolerant grass, a new irrigation system and a larger dog park area. He said they are necessary for Auditori- um Shores to continue to sustain its high number of visitors. “[If] you take a look at the health of the turf grass and the health of the trees, just the general landscape — it’s degrading, and it’s happening rather quickly,” Jungman said. “So it’s im- portant that we step in and do these improvements to bring balance back to the park.” Anne Palone, a land- scape architecture gradu- ate student who uses the park, said she thinks Au- ditorium Shores has the potential to be more than a dog park, but needs improvements first. “In my experience, Auditorium Shores is dom- inated by the dog park, which is great, but there’s almost no shade, the grass is dead and dry and there’s nowhere to stop and enjoy the view of downtown Aus- tin,” Palone said. “Usually it’s just a place that people on the Lady Bird Lake Trail are moving through, not stopping to spend time.” Bill Fraser, a representa- tive for Friends of Austin Dog Parks, said students will benefit from the renovated park because they make up a large part of the audiences at concerts and festivals that take place there. “It’s creating a renovated space that [students] can go out and enjoy, and it’s part of bringing in new stu- dents,” Fraser said. “It’s a new attraction for the city, By Amanda Voeller @amandaliz94 Game day tailgating goes unmonitored POLICE Despite the presence of alcohol and the potential for underage drinking at tailgat- ing events, Austin police say they generally stay out of the parking lots on game day. According to Linsey Du- ett, special events manager for University Parking and Transportation Services, thousands tailgate on UT property and adjacent state- owned properties around campus. Although Parking and Transportation Services works with police agencies, it’s mainly for traffic control. Tailgating spots on state- owned property require a reservation and a fee. Cen- tennial Park, which is lo- cated along Trinity and 15th streets, is the only regulat- ed grass space on campus that requires a reservation and permit. Lt. Derek Galloway said Jonathan Garza / Daily Texan Staff Members of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity shotgun beer while tailgating before the UT - New Mexico State football game on Aug. 31. Despite the presence of alcohol and potential for underage drinking, Austin Police usually stay out of the parking lots. 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Jermaine Kilgore, a public information officer for the Austin Police Depart- ment, said witnesses have come forward and are work- ing with police. Based on witness ac- counts, investigators were able to confirm the initial argument that led to Otter’s attack was not related to the football game later that day, police said. Otter was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries following an assault near the intersection of Trinity and Seventh streets on Sept. 14. Veneza Bremner, public information specialist for APD, said Otter was attacked by an unidentified assailant at 2:08 a.m., following an ar- gument. Otter was punched in the face and sustained ma- jor head trauma upon hitting the ground. Otter’s parents told KVUE that their son was wearing an orange shirt on the night of the attack. e assailant returned to his vehicle and fled the scene. e assailant was a passenger in a silver or white four-door sedan. Otter is being treated for brain trauma at the University Medical Center Brackenridge in Austin, where his condi- tion continues to improve. By Cinnamon Cornell @CinnamonCornell Eric Park / Daily Texan Staff Both the women’s and men’s track and field team will work under one set of coaches for the first time in program history — a merge that has encouraged team unity. By Alberto Long @albertolong New coach debuts conjoined program TRACK page 5 ENERGY page 2 By Sebastian Herrera @SebasAHerrera
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Students can measure their energy use through technological tools.
That’s what Greg Nemet, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin in the La Follette School of Public Affairs and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, told students during an energy symposium Thurs-day in the Peter O’Donnell Jr. Building.
Nemet, who studies mod-els of alternative energy systems, explained how en-ergy policies influence the lives of college students. His research shows students should be able to analyze their energy use with tech-nological tools.
“Young people have more at stake on energy and cli-mate issues than anyone else,” Nemet said. “My great-est source of optimism in addressing these profoundly difficult challenges is that we have lots of smart peo-ple setting out on careers and thinking about ways
to engage.”The energy symposium
discussed research methods that could explain the pro-cess of technological change in energy and its interaction with public policy.
Nemet talked about the in-fluences of past technological changes and the effects of en-ergy policies on future tech-nological outcomes.
The talk was held by the UT Energy Institute, a body of scholars from mul-tiple schools and research institutes within UT, whose members study a variety of energy issues. The Insti-tute holds weekly energy symposiums with different speakers to introduce stu-dents and faculty to energy policy questions.
Carson Stones, global policy studies graduate and teaching assistant for the symposium, explained how attendees benefit from the Institute’s events.
“Attendees can expect to get access to cutting-edge research, which is highly
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CITY
Being “team-oriented” has never seemed more appropriate for the Texas track and field/cross-coun-try program.
That is the phrase head coach Mario Sategna said he and his new coaching staff preach to their team — a team entering the first sea-son as a conjoined program in school history.
No more separate men’s and women’s meetings or practices. Instead, with the start of the cross-country season on Aug. 30, the program officially began its new era as a single unit.
The most critical thing for Sategna, who had been an associate coach at Texas for 10 years before tak-ing the head spot in June, is giving every one of his athletes an opportunity to get acquainted with the new staff.
“The main thing for me right now is to actually take a little bit of a step back on the day-to-day coach-ing piece and allow my
new assistants to take the reigns,” Sategna said. “I think that way when they are hands-on, they’re going to get to know everybody a lot sooner.”
Sategna described a scene three weeks ago when the men and wom-en were put into groups while lifting weights. The long-tenured coach said
that as he watched, he no-ticed how both the men and women cheered for each other throughout the workout. The sight, which would have been uncommon before this fall, should become routine for the program.
Associate coach Tonja Buford-Bailey, who was hired by Sategna from the
University of Illinois this sum-mer, has experience coaching both men and women. Her time as the women’s track and field head coach and men’s as-sistant coach at Illinois gives her knowledge the Longhorns value in the early stages of the change. It’s a program that, according to an article by the
By Alberto Long@albertolong
Auditorium Shores will only host one more event — Fun Fun Fun Fest — un-til Feb. 2015, while the park undergoes renovations.
Terry Jungman, Aus-tin Parks and Rec-reation department business process represen-tative, said improvements to the park will include new
drought-tolerant grass, a new irrigation system and a larger dog park area. He said they are necessary for Auditori-um Shores to continue to sustain its high number of visitors.
“[If] you take a look at the health of the turf grass and the health of the trees, just the general landscape — it’s degrading, and it’s happening rather quickly,”
Jungman said. “So it’s im-portant that we step in and do these improvements to bring balance back to the park.”
Anne Palone, a land-scape architecture gradu-ate student who uses the park, said she thinks Au-ditorium Shores has the potential to be more than a dog park, but needs improvements first.
“In my experience,
Auditorium Shores is dom-inated by the dog park, which is great, but there’s almost no shade, the grass is dead and dry and there’s nowhere to stop and enjoy the view of downtown Aus-tin,” Palone said. “Usually it’s just a place that people on the Lady Bird Lake Trail are moving through, not stopping to spend time.”
Bill Fraser, a representa-tive for Friends of Austin
Dog Parks, said students will benefit from the renovated park because they make up a large part of the audiences at concerts and festivals that take place there.
“It’s creating a renovated space that [students] can go out and enjoy, and it’s part of bringing in new stu-dents,” Fraser said. “It’s a new attraction for the city,
By Amanda Voeller@amandaliz94
Game day tailgating goes unmonitoredPOLICE
Despite the presence of alcohol and the potential for underage drinking at tailgat-ing events, Austin police say they generally stay out of the parking lots on game day.
According to Linsey Du-ett, special events manager for University Parking and Transportation Services, thousands tailgate on UT property and adjacent state-owned properties around campus. Although Parking and Transportation Services works with police agencies, it’s mainly for traffic control.
Tailgating spots on state-owned property require a reservation and a fee. Cen-tennial Park, which is lo-cated along Trinity and 15th streets, is the only regulat-ed grass space on campus that requires a reservation and permit.
Lt. Derek Galloway said Jonathan Garza / Daily Texan StaffMembers of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity shotgun beer while tailgating before the UT - New Mexico State football game on Aug. 31. Despite the presence of alcohol and potential for underage drinking, Austin Police usually stay out of the parking lots.
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Board of Regents boosts administrator salaries
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ONLINE
NEWSIf Texas executes at all, it
must do so fairly PAGE 4
Sen. Dan Patrick’s playing partisan politics
PAGE 4
OPINIONVolleyball head coach
Jerritt Elliott gets 300th win PAGE 5
One writer says Ash should sit out this weekend
PAGE 5
SPORTSBreakfast taco book offers Austin guide plus recipes
PAGE 8
Museum day provides something for everyone
PAGE 8
LIFE&ARTSAdjunct to argue case
before U.S. Supreme CourtONLINE
Austin is a growing source of agricultural innovation.
dailytexanonline.com
ONLINE REASON TO PARTY
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Energy Institute hosts Wisconsin researcher
The investigation into the assault and subsequent hos-pitalization of University of Mississippi senior Carson Otter is “making progress,” police said. Jermaine Kilgore, a public information officer for the Austin Police Depart-ment, said witnesses have come forward and are work-ing with police.
Based on witness ac-counts, investigators were able to confirm the initial argument that led to Otter’s attack was not related to the football game later that day, police said.
Otter was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries following an assault near the intersection of Trinity and Seventh streets on Sept. 14.
Veneza Bremner, public information specialist for APD, said Otter was attacked by an unidentified assailant at 2:08 a.m., following an ar-gument. Otter was punched in the face and sustained ma-jor head trauma upon hitting the ground. Otter’s parents told KVUE that their son was wearing an orange shirt on the night of the attack.
The assailant returned to his vehicle and fled the scene. The assailant was a passenger in a silver or white four-door sedan.
Otter is being treated for brain trauma at the University Medical Center Brackenridge in Austin, where his condi-tion continues to improve.
By Cinnamon Cornell@CinnamonCornell
Eric Park / Daily Texan StaffBoth the women’s and men’s track and field team will work under one set of coaches for the first time in program history — a merge that has encouraged team unity.
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The UT System Board of Regents approved sal-ary increases for UT Sys-tem Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa and five other ex-ecutives from the System Administration.
The decision, which was made at the board’s special meeting last week, increas-es Cigarroa’s salary by 15 percent to $862,500. Randa
Safady, vice chancellor for external relations, received the largest increase in percentage, with a 20 per-cent increase to $550,000. Francie Frederick, gen-eral counsel to the board, received a 15 percent in-crease, bringing her salary to $484,085.
System executives Dan Sharphorn, Patricia Hurn and J. Michael Peppers re-ceived smaller salary increas-es as well.
According to Sys-tem spokeswoman Jenny LaCoste-Caputo, the de-cision was made largely to keep the executives’ salaries competitive.
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Although President Wil-liam Powers Jr.’s salary will
not increase for the 2014 fiscal year, he received $195,058.50 in deferred compensation at the end of the 2013 fiscal year in Au-gust. According to LaCoste-Caputo, the regents use deferred compensation — which can only be collected at the end of a multi-year term — to encourage insti-tution presidents to stay at their respective institutions instead of accepting posi-tions elsewhere.
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and it’s something that has been deteriorating over the years. You’re go-ing to have this fresh new space that should bring people in.”
City officials will close the middle lawn area of the park in the next two weeks in order to begin installing an irrigation system, a project which Jungman said will last un-til November.
Once the irrigation sys-tem is finished, the next step will involve relocating the off-leash dog zone to an area next to the Lady Bird Lake shore — which will last from November to July. During this time, a temporary off-leash region will be avail-able in the middle section of the park.
Auditorium Shores’ running trail, which will be slightly realigned to make room for the dog park’s new location, is between the current dog park and the shore. This causes problems for both runners and dogs.
“We have trail traffic moving east and west, and we have dogs moving north and south — all intersect-ing at a single common point in the park,” Fraser said. “By relocating the dog park to the west end of the park, we eliminate this dan-gerous intersection.”
The $3,500,000 proj-ect is funded entirely by musical festival producer C3 Presents.
the Austin Police Depart-ment is swamped during home games and his de-partment does not monitor tailgaters inside the lot.
“I do not think APD monitors the tailgaters very much,” Galloway said in an email. “Most of them are UTPD areas and we are usually stretched thin with call load before, during and after a home game.”
Lt. Keith Walker, who oversees DWI enforce-ment, said his unit does not monitor the football-fueled festivities.
“Our unit, DWI enforce-ment, [aren’t] the ones who would monitor parking lots,” Walker said. “Those areas that aren’t [monitored by] UTPD would primar-ily be handled by Region 1 patrol.”
Scott Hume, a busi-ness graduate student and president of the Texas Wranglers, said his orga-nization hosts a tailgating event in the parking lot of the Bullock Texas State History Museum for every home game.
Hume said he’s aware of the possibility for underage drinking, but maintained that the tailgate environ-ment is safe for everyone.
“The cops are lenient in the lots,” Hume said. “No one’s driving and no one can take an open container off the lot.”
Briana Denham, a r a d i o - t e l e v i s i o n - f i l m senior and member of Texas Sweethearts, said third-party security helps distribute wristbands to students who are of age. However, Denham said minors like to drink prior to tailgating.
“I think the third party that our spirit guy groups have are a great way to limit the risk of minors drinking,” Denham said. “If a person wants to consume alcohol prior to the tail-gates, there isn’t a whole lot anyone can do.”
Denham said her organi-zation tries to keep tailgate attendants hydrated. In the event that someone has one too many drinks, Den-ham said the Sweethearts make sure to get them back home.
“We always encourage the people at our tailgates to stay hydrated and make sure that they limit the amount they drink due to the high temperatures,” Denham said. “I have seen several people in [the] area surrounding our tailgate get very sick due to dehy-dration. The safety of our members is the main prior-ity in any situation.”
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The Institute gives students the opportunity to broaden their educational experi-ence by creating a commu-nity around energy issues of importance to the Univer-sity. The talks are organized
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International relations and global studies senior Alaina Heine said she at-tends the weekly events and explained how the in-sights of different speakers influence students.
“Learning about a ho-listic look on energy, poli-tics and economics gives a different view of every sector,” Heine said. “The level of speakers is incred-ible and allows students the opportunity to speak with graduate students with different viewpoints.”
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Crafting a professional online identity will help students market them-selves to potential employ-ers, and an online course offered Thursday by UT Libraries sought to assist that process.
The course, accessible online and open to the public, was developed to help students conduct themselves professionally online and through social media. It was part of a Li-brary Classes series aimed at both undergraduate and graduate students.
Krystal Wyatt-Baxter, instruction and assess-ment librarian who taught the course, used a webcam to speak to course attend-ees within an online cha-troom. Course attendees spoke about a range of online identity manage-ment techniques, including a case study of Beyonce’s
online life.Elise Nacca, senior li-
brary specialist, said the course is open to all stu-dents but could be es-pecially valuable for freshmen interested in developing their online identity early.
“With a mind for bringing attention to privacy issues online, we talk about tools to manage privacy online and thinking about how search engines like Google collect information for lots of rea-sons you may not know,” Nacca said.
Though the course was designed with students in mind, non-students were able to attend. Carl Webb, a former UT em-ployee, took the course to learn about software that could help him control his identity online.
“I needed to take this course to learn where to go so I could actually track my activity,” Webb said.
Identity management
online is important be-cause it is the primary way in which people encounter information about others, according to Jeffrey Treem, communication studies assistant professor.
“Once you see something you can’t un-see it,” Treem said. “Research says those opinions formed online matter and help to shape subsequent opinions.”
Despite the poten-tial risks of poor on-line identity manage-ment, Treem said it is not only about what could go wrong.
“It’s not an issue of a false self, it’s not an issue of not putting bad info out there,” Treem said. “It’s about management. When you talk about management, it’s just as likely that you have that ability to shape infor-mation in a positive light that it is that you present information negatively.”
Robert Quigley, journal-ism senior lecturer, said it
is important for students to think about what they are putting out to the public.
“I tell my students that now is the time to start building an identity that not only is not embarrass-ing, but also builds your own brand and identity on-line so that employers are able to hire you because of that,” Quigley said. “If you
are constantly railing on people or constantly saying how much you hate every-thing, as an employer look-ing at that I am wondering if this is someone who is a team player.”
Quigley commented on the potential of using on-line identity management to market ideas, ambitions and aspirations.
“I think [online identity management is] an oppor-tunity,” Quigley said. “As much as we worry about things that could go wrong, there’s a huge opportunity that wasn’t there, at least until 2008, to really build your own brand. That is something that could re-ally help a student out in a future career.”
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4LAURA WRIGHT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF / @TEXANEDITORIALFriday, September 20, 2013
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By Andrew WilsonDaily Texan Columnist
@andrewwilson92
If Texas executes at all, it must do so fairlyIn a speech before Parliament in 1868, the
English political philosopher John Stuart Mill — an ardent supporter of capital pun-ishment — pointed out the sole argument against it that gave him pause: “that if by an error of justice an innocent person is put to death, the mistake can never be corrected... The argument is invincible where the mode of criminal procedure is dangerous to the in-nocent, or where the Courts of Justice are not trusted.”
Nowhere in the United States is Mill’s warning of greater import than here in Texas, the state that consistently executes more pris-oners than any other.
On Wednesday, the American Bar Associa-tion released the results of a two-year study of the death penalty in Texas, which stated that Texas’ death penalty system “fell far short” of the necessary standards of proof for convic-tion and sentencing.
“In many areas, Texas appears out of step with better practices implemented in other capital jurisdictions, [and] fails to rely upon scientifically reliable methods and processes in the administration of the death penalty,” the report read.
The report began by praising several im-provements made to the process in recent years, including new laws meant to reduce the risk of misidentification and use of unre-liable science in convictions, and to require prosecutors to disclose eyewitness statements and police reports that could contain evi-dence in favor of the defendant.
However, the study also found several ar-eas of serious concern.
Firstly, the procedure of using “future dangerousness” as a justification for capital sentencing opens the door for bias to sway a jury’s decision.
For starters, evaluating “future dangerous-ness” serves no useful purpose; unless the jury can actually see the future, how can they correctly predict what a defendant may or may not do upon their release? Moreover, the practice can allow racial prejudice to stack the deck against defendants. Repealing it is absolutely necessary, particularly since over 70 percent of those on death row in Texas are minorities — one of the largest percentages in the country.
The report also recommended that Texas comply more effectively with the U.S. Su-
preme Court’s prohibition on executing the mentally retarded. While the state technically abides by the law, it has no scientifically ac-curate legal definition of the term. Instead, it uses a vague rule of thumb based on the char-acter Lennie Small in John Steinbeck’s novel “Of Mice and Men.”
In 2012, that distinction became of paramount importance to the case of Marvin Wilson, a 54 year-old with an IQ of 61 and the reading and writing level of seven-year-old. A neuropsy-chologist declared Wilson mentally retarded, but under the state’s archaic and insufficient standard he was still deemed fit for execution.
Marvin Wilson was put to death by lethal injection on Aug. 7, 2012.
The report also criticized the fact that Tex-as does not require indefinite preservation of biological evidence, despite the fact that DNA testing has led to the exoneration of 48 con-victed persons in the state. Texas also restricts death row inmates’ access to DNA testing when such testing would cast doubt on their death sentence.
The flaws continue. Texas does not pro-vide adequate instructions to its juries, and surveys show that many jury members are
allowed to operate under erroneous assump-tions about what constitutes grounds for ex-ecution. Texas’ post-conviction procedures make it in many cases impossible for an in-mate to bring up his case for appeal. And Tex-as does not ensure that defendants in death penalty cases are provided high-quality, state-appointed counsel, rather than often-under-qualified local attorneys.
These serious miscarriages of justice must be remedied without delay.
If we execute people at all, then the great-est care must be taken to ensure that those sentenced to die have been convicted with-out any reasonable doubt. No evidence may be left un-examined. No protection may be ignored or circumvented. And no unfair in-stitutional advantage may be given to the prosecution.
Under the current state of affairs, the mode of criminal procedure in Texas is “dangerous to the innocent,” and “the Courts of Justice cannot be not trusted.” There is no excuse for that, and we will not be satisfied until any person charged and sentenced to death in our state has as much protection under the law as they would in any other.
Longhorn fans reveled in hope leading up to Saturday’s game against ‘Ole Miss. With a new defensive coordinator, we were opti-mistic for a win. Halfway through the third quarter, though, many fans had left. Another loss was imminent.
I know very little about football, but it doesn’t take an expert to know that the status quo is not effective, and the obvious solution is a new approach. But football isn’t the only defense lagging on our campus. The scenario transcends the seats of DKR and finds itself on the intellectual playing field as well.
As the economy declined over the last few years, many people started discrediting the value of the humanities in favor of vocation-al degrees, which often carry job security. In response to this shift, various scholars, stu-dents and others have come to the defense of the liberal arts. Op-eds frequently emerge in the pages of the New York Times and New Republic. The lengthy articles hinge on the same fundamental premises – the study of the humanities teaches us how to think criti-cally and view the world through a broad and diverse lens, and most applicable to the professional world, it teaches us how to write clearly and cogently. That last point was recently made by professor Verlyn Klinen-borg, who wrote in a New York Times op-ed, “Writing well isn’t merely a utilitarian skill. It’s about developing a rational grace and energy in your conversation in the world around you.”
On the more emotional value of Liberal Arts, New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik recently wrote that “[The humanities] help us enjoy life and endure it better. ”
Both statements are poignant. Unfortunately, both statements are about 1,000 words into their respective articles. Who reads them? I do. My liberal arts peers do. The eloquent and en-lightened words reaffirm our belief in our edu-cation and give us hope for our professional fu-ture. Meanwhile, our business and engineering peers are busy gaining educations that carry job security. Bottom line? The current approach to defending the liberal arts succeeds in convinc-ing everybody but the people it targets – the non-liberal arts folk.
But why do we care what others think? Faith in our own majors is enough to carry us through the current burden of a broad education, right? Wrong.
As liberal arts students, we have a ten-dency to isolate ourselves and contemplate the difficult questions we face on a daily ba-sis. The problem with that trend is that we regularly encounter the engineers and the
business people. In fact, in many situations, they’re our potential employers. Concise and effective communication of the value of the liberal arts is key, especially considering the fast-paced society in which we live.
To emphasize this point even more, there are increasingly more graduates in technical fields and less in the liberal arts. New York Times columnist David Brooks recently wrote that the number of humanities degrees awarded across the nation has dropped from fourteen percent to a mere seven percent in the last half-century.
A similar trend is taking place at UT-Aus-tin. Enrollment numbers in the College of Liberal Arts have dropped from over 13,000 in 2003 to right at 10,000 in 2012. What used to be the largest college on our campus is now in second behind the College of Natural Sciences.
There are many well-articulated argu-ments supporting the study of the humani-ties and social sciences. Unfortunately, these advocates often lack brevity, which narrows their audience to liberal arts majors. This approach is not working. Across the nation, there is an increased emphasis on priority STEM fields, and from personal experience I know many students in the College of Lib-eral Arts continually have to defend their majors to others.
One solution is to personalize the arguments. The critical thinking point is overstated and dry. For me, a kid from a small town in East Texas, studying the humanities has opened the door to a world I didn’t know existed, and it has radically changed my life for the better.
Maybe the personal touch works, maybe it doesn’t, but something has to change.
Wilson is a Plan II and history senior from Canton.
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Every Friday, the Daily Texan editorial board will publish a selection of tweets and online comments culled from the Daily Texan website and the various Daily Texan Twitter accounts, along with direct submissions from readers.
Our intention is to continue the tradition of the Firing Line, a column first started in the Texan in 1909, in which readers share their opinions “concerning any matter of general inter-est they choose.” Just like in 1909, the Texan “will never express its approval or disapproval of opinions given under the [Firing Line] header.” In other words, take your shot.
Sen. Dan Patrick hasn’t even won the Lt. Governorship yet, but he’s already playing the game of unnecessarily partisan politics. In an interview with Texas Tribune Editor-in-Chief Evan Smith, Patrick stated that, if elected, he would place considerably fewer democratic senators in leader-ship positions. Currently, there are six democrats in the 18 committee chairmanships in the Texas senate, a proportion that Patrick deems far too high. Patrick said that he wanted committee chairs with “strong conservative credentials,” but we think it’s more likely that he’s just playing politics for publicity’s sake. We agree with Smith that Patrick’s behavior begs the question of whether Patrick is “running to be lieutenant governor of only republicans or of all Texans.”
Not Impressed
“Is a 0.2 percent change after less than one year really worth reporting? This issue will take time and the intricacies of the universi-ty structure, how colleges and schools work so separately and providing the funding to keep academic support programs a prior-ity will all contribute to whether or not we reach this goal or even get close to it.”
#IJS” - From commenter “contemplative1” on our website in response to “UT releases enrollment, retention and graduation rates report.”
Too much sex
“Lewd. Offensive. Lacking any sign of journalistic merit. Why are these columns still being posted? What’s the objective guys?” -From twitter user @Nathan_J_Wood, in response to a tweet from @thedaily-texan, “We are off to bed for the night. Make sure you’re up to date on the first week of sex columns.”
“Apparently, @thedailytexan twitterfeed has gone all sex, all the time. I guess they need clicks to pay the bills, but I have to un-follow.” -From twitter user @JimBuhler
Fair weather fans
“Horribly embarrassed by our fans appar-ent new slogan ‘boo often, leave early, cry like baby.’” -From twitter user @kjfromaus-tin, in response to a tweet from @thedailytex-an linking to Travis Adam’s opinion column, “Leaving early shows disloyalty and shame for Longhorn football team.”
“Fair weather friends and sunshine pa-triots can be found everywhere, even in Austin.”-From twitter user @dgtbow, in re-sponse to a tweet from @thedailytexan on Longhorn fans leaving the stands early
“Can’t blame fans for leaving early when the team checks out of the game early.”-From twitter user @lindstex84 in response to
a tweet from @thedailytexan on Longhorn fans leaving the stands early.
Unnecessary Drama
“‘However, by saying that the University is failing its students, Jensen ignores the practical resources available on campus and in the Austin community, such as the Texas Civil Rights Project and the Workers Defense Project (which he had a part in pro-moting).’ In this sentence you say that Jen-sen ignores resources on campus, but then you go on to say he promotes them. I find there to be an error in your logic here, sir.
Also, unless Jensen specifically made ref-erence to Professor Charles Hale’s research, you shouldn’t have written this: ‘Any student working to make change could learn a les-son from Prof. Hale’s research, regardless of how “self-indulgent” Jensen might deem the work.’ To write that way is to fabricate a con-flict between two professors for the benefit of your story which is WRONG.”
-From online commenter EvoDevoLong-horn, in response to Daily Texan Columnis t Travis Knoll’s column, “Robert Jensen thinks that UT acts too much like a factory. He’s wrong.”
“You wasted your time responding to Jen-sen’s article. The guy has a long history of be-ing an idiot at UT. You are only encouraging him to continue being stupid.”
-From online commenter apeters, in re-sponse to Daily Texan Columnist Travis Knoll’s column, “Robert Jensen thinks that UT acts too much like a factory. He’s wrong.”
Friday firing lines: too much sex, fabricated fights, bad fans
Move over Mack, step aside Augie. Texas has a new 300-win man.
Jerritt Elliott, head coach of the Longhorn volleyball team, notched his 300th win at Texas this past weekend with a vic-tory over Illinois. While it’s a huge accomplishment for any coach, the usually modest El-liott deferred all of the credit to his athletes.
“It’s an honor, and I’m blessed to be here, but the ath-letes are the ones that are re-sponsible,” Elliott said. “It just means I’m a little bit older and have had some great athletes in this program that we’ve done a great job of managing.”
Elliott became the second volleyball coach to bring Texas a national championship last season and earned Coach of the Year honors for his effort. Known as a relentless recruit-er, he credits the staff’s ability to draw in the best talent for his success.
“Recruiting is your base in terms of your ability to create a great program,” Elliott said. “It’s a big part of it and we have to keep up with the times because it’s tough to keep a program at this level year-in and year-out. You never get rest.”
Since his tenure began in 2001, the Longhorns have made 11 NCAA tournament appearances, in part due to six top-two recruiting classes.
“I think he is our base to
all of our wins,” junior Haley Eckerman said. “That is where we start at, and his coaching is where we come from and how we became so great.”
Elliott demands a lot on the court, which can make him tough to play for initially, but the team knows he cares for his players more than anything.
“The first time I talked with Jerritt was in Puerto Rico, and I said in my mind, ‘Why he is so serious? I’m scared,’” fresh-man Pilar Victoria said. “How-ever, now I can say that he cares about his players and I’m not scared.”
Elliott began his collegiate coaching career as an assis-tant at Cal State Northridge in 1993 and served as an assistant at USC for four years before eventually becoming the in-terim head coach in 2000. Vol-leyball in Texas wasn’t as big at the time, but the move worked out eventually.
“It’s very different [in Tex-as]. I came out of California where volleyball is very big,’ Elliott said. “Texas is now one of the best recruiting bases in the country and we have more resources and more things that we can offer the student athletes.”
Texas is currently ranked No. 6, and the pressure is on the team as defending national champions.
“Now we’re at the point where if we don’t get to the final four and win a national cham-pionship it’s a disappointing year,” Elliott said. “If you don’t
keep that milestone, then it’s a failed year and you can never rest. It can be overwhelming at times, but we’re in a good posi-tion, and it’s good to be here.”
Winning a national title
last season was a boost to Elliot’s resume, but the job remains unfinished.
“For me, it’s trying to build a program and create a legacy, and this is bigger
than me,” Elliott said. “And at some point, I’m going to step down so that the next coach can be successful at Texas and continue what we’ve built here.”
It’s pretty simple — the Longhorns are in desperate need of a win over Kansas State, and junior quarter-back David Ash gives them the best chance to do that.
But if head coach Mack Brown and his staff make the right decision on Saturday, Ash will be in civvies for this weekend’s contest against the Wildcats.
Twelve days ago, Ash suf-fered a concussion. The fact that Brown is even consid-ering starting him is an-other unfortunate example of the “play through it” mentality that still exists in college football.
This is not a sore ankle, a tight shoulder muscle or a bruised rib, but a seri-ous head injury. There is no such thing as a mild con-cussion, and when it comes to a student-athlete’s brain, there is no such thing as being too cautious.
We are not talking about
a professional athlete here, but about a student-athlete who will most likely make a living doing something other than throwing spi-rals. Regardless of wheth-er or not he is medically cleared to play this week, the reality is that the health of Ash’s brain is safer on the sidelines.
And as far as concus-sions go, re-injury can be life threatening — just ask Canadian football star Kevin Kwasny.
Kwasny, a high school col-league of mine, has spent the last two years rehabilitating and trying to rebuild his life after suffering a severe head injury while playing for the Bishops Gaiters of the CIS, Canada’s version of the NCAA.
A defensive end, he was rushed back into a game after sitting out with a bad headache and other concussion-like symptoms. A few plays later, Kwasny sat in an ambulance bound for the emergency room to remove blood from around his brain.
Instead of anchoring the right side of the Gaiter de-fense, the 23-year-old now spends his Saturday after-noons relearning to use the right side of his body. Kwasny
requires around-the-clock assistance and will most likely never be able to pro-vide for himself. His parents are suing Bishops University for $7.5 million for failure to properly diagnose and treat their son.
Obviously the circum-stances are not identical, but is it a situation that Brown, the Texas football program and the University as a whole want to risk putting one of their students in? Is the in-creased prospect of winning a football game really worth endangering a student’s life-long health? These are the questions that go unasked when the higher-ups lose focus and forget why these athletes are on this campus in the first place: to learn.
5CHRIS HUMMER, SPORTS EDITOR / @texansportsFriday, September 20, 2013
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Elliott wins 300th gameBy Matt Warden@TheMattWarden5
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There is no such thing as a mild concussion, and when it comes to a student-athlete’s brain, there is no such thing as being too cautious.
Lawrence Peart/ Daily Texan Staff Junior quarterback David Ash sustained a concussion and shoulder injury in the second game of the season against BYU two weeks ago. He is questionable for Saturday.
Austin American-Statesman in June, finally joined the 228 out of 268 Division I schools with combined men’s and women’s track and field teams.
“I had my experiences with [coaching both men and women] at Illinois when I started working with the men’s sprinters, and I just feel like every-one really enjoyed [work-ing together] a lot,” Bu-ford-Bailey said. “It gets kind of boring when you have just girls and just guys, so it’s good to mix it up a bit … You can see that there is a really great team camaraderie, pushing each other.”
With the ultimate goal being a “winning mental-ity,” both Buford-Bailey and Sategna agree that success during the cross-country season will set the tone for the rest of the year. As the cross-country squad sets to meet those responsibilities this fall, there won’t be a shortage of support from their shorter distance teammates.
Reigning outdoor
shot-put national cham-pion Ryan Crouser said when the cross-country Big 12 Championships be-gin at Baylor in November, many team members plan to take a bus to Waco in support of each other — team unity is key.
“The same thing will hap-pen at the end of [track and field] meets, when you see the 4X4 relays,” Crouser said. “Before we would have the men’s team and women’s team at separate sides of the track, but now we will be together.”
For sports with such individually-minded na-tures, the Longhorns are determined to honor what their new program pro-motes and make its team mentality most important. Their task begins Friday night, when the cross-country unit competes at the Ricardo Romo Classic in San Antonio.
“This is a big year for [Texas track and field/cross country],“ Sategna said. “More importantly, for the rest of the UT community, it’s impor-tant that they see what a special time this is going on at Texas, especially within athletics.”
Women’s golf hits road for second tournament
The women’s golf team will compete in their sec-ond tournament of the season this Friday, Sept. 20 in Franklin, Tenn.for the Mason Rudolph Championship, hosted by Vanderbilt University. It will include 15 teams, among them Duke and Alabama, who grabbed first and fourth place, re-spectively, at last week’s match up with Texas. The tournament will be three days and played on a par-72 course.
At its season opening tournament, Texas ended 14th out of 15 teams with an overall score of 36-over par 596. Sophomore Nat-alie Karcher led the team with a 27th place finish and shot 5-over par 145.
This weekend Karch-er and junior Bertine Strauss will lead, with freshmen Anne Hakula and Julia Beck and soph-omore Tezira Abe follow-ing. This group hopes to pull the team within the top 25, while freshman Sara Scarlett will play in her first collegiate event as an individual.
—Shelby Dobson
Horns face in-state foe Texas State Friday night
Soccer returns home for their last two matches before Big 12 play, facing Texas State Friday and UTSA Sunday.
The Longhorns split their two games in Colo-rado this past weekend, beating Air Force 3-1 but falling to Colorado Col-lege 2-0.
Texas only managed 19 shots over the weekend and was outshot 9-15 in the loss to Colorado College.
Texas will start the weekend against Texas State at 7 p.m. Friday. The Bobcats come to Austin with a 3-4-1 record.
Sunday’s matchup, UTSA, is currently on a five-match losing streak and holds a 1-7 record. The Roadrunners have only scored three goals in 2013 and have given up 15 goals through eight games.
—Jacob Martella
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Sarah MontgomeryDaily Texan Staff
In his 12th seasons as head coach, Jerritt Elliott has made 11 NCAA tourna-ment appearanc-es. Last weekend he recorded his 300th win at Texas by beating Illinois.
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This Sunday, Museum Day features free exhibits in museums all over the city for art aficionados, music lovers and facial hair fa-natics. Here are a few of our top picks to check out.
Elisabet Ney MuseumGet downright artistic at the Elisabet Ney
Museum. The former studio of German-born portrait sculptor Ney will host live sculptors at work, musical portraits and a clay sculpture cor-ner — there will even be caricature drawings. When: 12 p.m.-5 p.m.Where: 304 E. 44th St.
LBJ Presidential LibraryThere will be a photo booth with former
President Lyndon Johnson. And if buddy shots with LBJ are not reason enough to visit — even though they totally are — Museum Day is one of the last chances to see the ex-hibit “News to History: Photojournalism and the Presidency.”When: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.Where: 2313 Red River
Public Art CrawlChoose your own adventure, sort of, with
the public art crawl. The crawl begins on cam-pus and can be followed as either a docent-led tour or a self-guided tour with the help of a downloadable map. After scoping out vari-ous sculptures and works on campus, take the CapMetro #7 to see the 2nd Street Art District.When: Guided tour 10 a.m.-12 p.m.Where: Begins at 23rd St., west of San Jacinto
Umlauf Sculpture Garden and MuseumBrace yourselves, because it’s SculptFest
2013 over at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum. Members of the Texas Society of Sculptors will be flexing their skills and ex-plaining their creative processes. And what better way to celebrate sculpture than by cre-ating one at the Clay Corner?When: 10 a.m.-4 p.m.Where: 605 Robert E. Lee Rd.
Neill-Cochran House MuseumFulfill those childhood dreams of eat-
ing cookies and ice cream with historical
re-enactors at the Neill-Cochran House. The house, built in 1855, was a temporary Texas Asylum for the Blind and a federal Recon-struction-era hospital. Owners from 1895-1958, the Cochrans were the last family to live in the house. Their furniture, along with an exhibit on the nitty-gritty details of house restoration, will be on display. When: 12 p.m.-5 p.m.
Where: 2310 San Gabriel St.
Save Austin’s CemeteriesFor the creeps and preservationists,
Save Austin’s Cemeteries will be hosting tours of Oakwood Cemetery. Learn more about preserving the historic cemeteries of Austin. When: 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Where: 1601 Navasota St.
O. Henry MuseumPurveyors of fine facial hair from the
Austin Facial Hair Club will be talking about O. Henry’s handlebar mustache. Enough said.When: 12 p.m.-4 p.m.Where: 409 E. 5th St.
By Elizabeth Williams@bellzabeth
Illustration by Cody Bubenik / Daily Texan Staff
MOVIE REVIEW | ‘SALINGER’
Austin offers day of free artistic exploration
J.D. Salinger never gave Hollywood a second chance.
The author of “The Catch-er in the Rye” only consented to one film adaptation of his work. It was “My Foolish Heart,” released in 1949 and adapted from Salinger’s short story “Uncle Wiggily goes to Connecticut.” Salinger’s ha-tred of the film is the reason “The Catcher in the Rye” was never officially adapted into film. Despite the likes of Billy Wilder and Elia Kazan beg-ging the writer for his bless-ing, Salinger never relented.
It’s interesting that “Sa-linger” goes into such detail on this subject, given that director Shane Salerno is primarily a writer of Hol-lywood popcorn movies — including Michael Bay’s “Armageddon” — and that a number of the film’s inter-viewees are notable Holly-wood actors. Salerno’s film-ography helps shed light on why “Salinger” so often feels the need to interrupt an al-ready captivating story with the overproduced bravado
of a summer blockbuster. The movie begins with a
news photographer reen-acting a stakeout in 1979. The photographer waits outside the building where Salinger is rumored to pick up his mail and, after three days, manages to take a few shots of the author. The film devotes the majority of its two-hour runtime to Salin-ger’s famous seclusiveness, but the pounding score by Lorne Balfe during these opening moments feels more appropriate for “Mis-sion: Impossible” than for a biographical documentary. Thankfully, this overselling of suspense is not present throughout, although the tempo does increase when-ever Salerno returns to the over-hyped “great mystery of the 20th century.”
The heavy focus on con-spiracy is regrettable, as “Sa-linger” works best as a visual biography. The film covers most of Salinger’s life, with great attention paid to his experiences in World War II and how those would go on to inspire the voice of cynicism in his writing. The
“reveals” in this part of the movie, specifically unseen footage of Salinger in post-war Paris and a photograph of him writing, work be-cause they feel like natural progressions in the story of his life, rather than over-hyped revelations that will shock the world.
Over 150 subjects were in-terviewed for “Salinger,” but Salerno focuses primarily on those who had personal con-nections to the author. The parts of the film exploring Salinger’s romantic life are where the movie succeeds the most. The film does not condemn Salinger for his habit of romancing younger, sometimes even teenaged, women or for his absence from the lives of his children, but it does suggest that Salin-ger was entitled to his sen-sibilities on merit of having written an American classic.
“Salinger” tries in vain to add bombast to an already exhilarating story. Although the big reveal at the end of the film does deliver some never-before-released information on if and when the publica-tion of new Salinger works
could come but the over-wrought build to this climax makes the entire thing seem rather obvious. The biograph-ical sections and the explora-tions of what made Salinger remove himself from the pub-lishing world are fascinating, but they are too interwoven with speculation of whether or not the world will ever hear from Holden Caulfield again. Then again, perhaps the irony of the co-writer of “Arma-geddon” and of the upcom-ing “Avatar” sequel making a documentary about an artist who wholeheartedly rejected the world of Hollywood was lost on the people behind this movie.
There are more breakfast taco establishments in Aus-tin than there are Starbucks in Manhattan, according to the new book “Austin Break-fast Tacos: The Story of the Most Important Taco of the Day.”
Taco journalists Armando Rayo and Jarod Neece sifted through most of the 370 breakfast taco vendors in the city and covered history, sta-tistics and recipes in their new book.
Rayo and Neece, known for their blog “Taco Jour-nalism,” will take their talks to the kitchen in the first ever Austin breakfast taco demonstration Sat-urday at Central Market Cooking School.
“Being a published author is a big deal to me,” Rayo said. “Transitioning from blogging to having published work adds a lot of credibility. I went from taco journalist to cultural historian.”
After amassing an online following, independent pub-lishing company The Hisory Press proposed a book about Austin’s cultural fetish with breakfast tacos. Rayo and Neece went to work, and, after eating countless tacos, finished the book in two and a half months.
The book is separated into four sections: a cultural histo-ry, breakfast taco 101, Austi-nite profiles and Austin’s best breakfast tacos.
The taco journalists in-terviewed Tim and Karrie League, owners of Alamo Drafthouse, who reveal that Taco Cabana chorizo and egg tacos “were the fuel that built the first Alamo Drafthouse.” Other person-alities include local chef legend Paul Qui of Eastside
King and Aaron Franklin of Franklin Barbecue.
The selective list of “Aus-tin’s Best Breakfast Tacos” is the most intriguing part of the book. Twenty-four eater-ies are profiled, each offering up at least one recipe for taco enthusiasts. Even Juan Meza from Juan In A Million spills the beans about Austin’s most famous taco, the Don Juan. Familiar names like Tamale House, Tacodeli and Torchy’s Tacos are also inside.
“One time I had a Twitter battle with Torchy’s. They were upset that I gave them a bad rating, so they were hesi-tant to [be] in the book, but it was kind of like a peace offer-ing,” Rayo said, “I still stick to my guns, though.”
Rayo and Neece also iden-tify which restaurants have been around for the longest, giving credit to the old guard of taco suppliers, like El Sol y La Luna, located at the inter-section of 6th Street and Red River Street.
“Since I’m located on 6th Street, I’m very close to ho-tels and the convention cen-ter. Let me tell you, people love tacos. Everyone, even vegetarians. People are aware that they’re for everyone, not just Latin people,” said Nilda de la Llata, majority co-own-er of El Sol y La Luna.
The Taco journalists have capitalized on one of Austin’s current cultural phenom-enons and are toying with the idea of a sequel. Not only does Rayo love eating tacos, it turns out he loves writing about them as well.
“What I do is get the sto-ries beyond the tacos and identify what traditions are being passed on. That’s what makes the blog and book so unique,” Rayo said. “It’s not just a food review, it’s a story of a people, a place and a history.”
By Colin McLaughlin@Colin_Mc92
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