LIFE&ARTS PAGE 7 T HE D AILY T EXAN www.dailytexanonline.com Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 Tuesday, August 3, 2010 77 Low High 100 TOMORROW’S WEATHER SPORTS PAGE 8 Where to find the best bar food in Austin The greatest children’s sports movie of all time ‘ Calendar Today in history Inside Bourbonitis blues ... Alejandro Escovedo & The Sensitive Boys play the Continental Club at 10:30 p.m. Tickets cost $15 at the door. What a burger! Wear orange to a Whataburger between 5 and 8 p.m. and get a free sandwich in celebration of the chain’s 60th anniversary. ‘Bueller ... Bueller ... ’ Play hooky at the Paramount Theatre with a screening of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” at 1 p.m. Tickets cost $9 at the box office. In 1934 Adolf Hitler joins the German offices of president and chancellor to become the supreme ruler of Germany — the Führer. In Life&Arts: 3-D TV isn’t all it’s cracked out to be page 7 — Catherine Bacon Texas Rollergirl In Opinion: More women in the workplace not a sign of equality page 4 In Sports: The lineup for special teams positions page 8 TODAY SPORTS PAGE 8 “It’s [a] ... wonderful feeling to knock someone down who’s trying to get past you or successfully hold back a jammer or blocker. It’s so hard to really articulate.” Quote to note By Collin Eaton Daily Texan Staff As the University prepares to submit a budget plan to the Leg- islature with a 10-percent reduc- tion that was due Monday, UT’s chief financial officer warned that the next round of budget cuts will most likely have an impact on staff and other jobs. Two factors, the 5- to 8-percent budget cut and merit-pay increas- es, have resulted in a $14.6 million cut from UT’s budget as well as the elimination of at least 80 facil- ities and maintenance jobs. From September to June, the Universi- ty laid off 273 full-time employ- ees because of budgetary reasons. Several colleges have already set aside funds for the 2-percent mer- it-pay increases, but some, such as the School of Information, have implemented hiring freezes to pay for the raises. The 10-percent cut that was mandated by the state leadership May 28 must be submitted by Aug. 30 to the Legislative Budget Board. The cut may have an un- avoidable impact on jobs at the University, UT CFO Kevin He- garty said. “Should additional budget re- ductions be required, they are like- ly to be painful for the campus,” Hegarty said. “Because 70 percent of what the University spends is for salaries and benefits, it is dif- ficult to conceive of a reduction plan that won’t involve further reductions in University jobs. We all hope that we can avoid fur- ther job loss, but in the end, the state must balance its budget and the University must do the same. I am sure that any actions will be thoughtful and considerate just as they have to date.” Hegarty said the University will review the portfolios of vice pres- idential offices, colleges and oth- er administrative offices over the next semester. “We have not asked the VPs to submit any plan other than the one they submitted last May for the 5- to 8-percent reduction plan, and the details of those plans are confidential,” he said. The 10-percent cut will be for the 2012-2013 biennial budget and will apply to all state agencies, By Hannah Jones Daily Texan Staff Incoming freshmen, out-of-state transfer students and internation- al students residing in on-campus housing this fall are now required to have the meningococcal vaccine as a part of a Texas law that went into effect Jan. 1. Meningococcal disease is a po- tentially fatal bacterial illness that can affect anyone, but young peo- ple who live in crowded environ- ments such as dorms are more sus- ceptible to contracting the disease. It is most commonly transmitted through the exchange of saliva and can cause healthy people to become sick within a few hours. According to the Texas Medi- cal Center, about 15 college stu- dents die annually and about 1,500 cases of meningococcal dis- ease are diagnosed in the Unit- ed States each year. More than 50 cases of the disease were diag- nosed in Texas in 2009. “Vaccinations take seven to 10 days to become effective, there- fore students are required to get the vaccination at least 10 days prior to coming to school so they will already be immune,” said Nadine Kelley, program coordi- nator of the Division of Housing and Food Service. “If students haven’t received the vaccination, it doesn’t stop them from going to class, but they are not allowed to check into housing.” According to the Univer- sity Health Services website, symptoms include kidney fail- ure, learning disability, hearing loss, blindness, permanent brain By Ashley Meleen Daily Texan Staff UT Student Government may soon join a statewide organization uniting Texas stu- dent government assemblies. Representatives from student govern- ments across the state gathered Saturday at the University of Houston to discuss the formation of the Texas Student Asso- ciation, which SG will vote on joining this fall. The University of Houston’s Student Government Associ- ation hosted the con- ference to discuss the organization, elect the leadership and review the goals of the re-estab- lished TSA. “We had a lot of student leaders come together and give ideas and make commit- ments to making each of these universi- ties better,” said Kevin Sanders, president of the University of North Texas Student Government Association. The convention included representatives from UT, University of Houston, Universi- ty of North Texas, Texas State University, Rice University, Texas Tech University, Sam Houston State University, Stephen F. Austin State University and Galveston College. “One of the major points of emphasis was the point that our name is the Texas Student Association, not the Texas Public Student Association, therefore we shouldn’t leave out any student in the state of Texas,” Sanders said. “Our goal as an organization is that if you’re a student in Texas at any institution, you’re taken care of and your voice is taken to the state Legislature.” The organization dates back to 1948, when TSA began as a collaboration of uni- versities advocating student issues. Ac- cording to the TSA website, it disbanded after 45 years, but in recent years the Uni- versity of Houston, University of North Texas and Texas A&M University have been working to bring it back. Reach for the sky Deadline in sight for budget revisions Photo courtesy of Caleb Bryant Miller The Flatiron Building, constructed in 1902, was one of the first skyscrapers ever built. The efficient structure inhabits a triangular island block at 23rd Street, Fifth Avenue and Broadway. INSIDE: 48 Hours reports from New York City on page 5 SG may join student leaders alliance Cost of West Campus too pricey for some Meningitis shot required to live in dorms Jeff Heimsath | Daily Texan Staff Charlotte Katzin, managing nurse of the UHS Allergy/Immunization Clinic, calls out patients’ names in the waiting room. By Destinee Hodge Daily Texan Staff As difficult economic times persist, the high price of hous- ing in the West Campus area is causing students to consider cheaper alternatives. With an average price per bed- room of more than $600 a month, the area has become increasingly unaffordable for most students. “Most one-bedroom apart- ments and studios around the campus area start at the low- est [at] $600, but I would say on the average of closer to $800 to $900,” said Chris Zaiontz of Sky- light Living, a realty office with- in a few blocks of UT. “Of course the newer, loft-style condos and some of the newer buildings can go anywhere from $1,000 or $1,500 per bedroom.” Many of the large apartment complexes also do not include the cost of a parking pass and some utilities in their pricing. As a result of these high pric- es, students are beginning to consider more novel living ar- rangements, such as coopera- tive houses. “Our members live togeth- er and work together, so that’s how we can offer low rates,” said Kim Penna from College Houses Cooperatives. The company has operated in the UT area since 1965 and of- fers affordable housing through- out West Campus. Penna said that all the responsibilities usu- ally taken care of by property management in normal apart- ment complexes are transferred to students, which helps lower the cost of living. Some students have turned to more economical areas such as North Campus and Hyde Park. Even lower pricing can be Derek Stout | Daily Texan Staff Jimmy Talarico discusses the Texas Student Association conference, which was held on Saturday in Houston, during a meeting Monday. Students more susceptible to contracting disease; vaccination mandatory UT continues on page 2 SG continues on page 2 ZONING continues on page 2 SHOTS continues on page 2 Still-weakened economy causes students to select cheaper living options Legislature-mandated cuts responsible for elimination of full-time University jobs SPORTS PAGE 8 The Hell Marys stay tough in an epic roller-derby battle ‘The Situation’? West Martin Luther King Boulevard A UT police officer discovered two non-UT subjects arguing and fighting inside a vehicle. As the officer approached the vehicle, a non-UT passenger got out and began walking toward the officer in an aggressive manner, removing his shirt. The unknown driver decided her best option was to leave the area, and as the officer was telling her to turn off the car, she drove away. During the investigation, the officer learned the passenger had an outstanding arrest warrant from another county. The subject was taken into custody and was transported to Central Booking. Occurred on Thursday at 2:30 a.m. Campus watch INSIDE: Read the editorial board’s take on SG and the TSA on page 4
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THE DAILY TEXANwww.dailytexanonline.comServing the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900Tuesday, August 3, 2010
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Where to find the best bar food in Austin
The greatest children’s sports movie of all time
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Calendar
Today in history
Inside
Bourbonitis blues ...Alejandro Escovedo & The Sensitive Boys play the Continental Club at 10:30 p.m. Tickets cost $15 at the door.
What a burger!Wear orange to a Whataburger between 5 and 8 p.m. and get a free sandwich in celebration of the chain’s 60th anniversary.
‘Bueller ... Bueller ... ’Play hooky at the Paramount Theatre with a screening of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” at 1 p.m. Tickets cost $9 at the box office.
In 1934 Adolf Hitler joins the German offices of president and chancellor to become the supreme ruler of Germany — the Führer.
In Life&Arts:3-D TV isn’t all it’s cracked out to be page 7
— Catherine BaconTexas Rollergirl
In Opinion:More women in the workplace not a sign of equality page 4
In Sports:The lineup for special teams positions page 8
TODAY
SPORTS PAGE 8
“It’s [a] ... wonderful feeling to knock someone down who’s trying to get past you or
successfully hold back a jammer or
blocker. It’s so hard to really articulate.”
Quote to note
By Collin Eaton Daily Texan Staff
As the University prepares to submit a budget plan to the Leg-islature with a 10-percent reduc-tion that was due Monday, UT’s chief financial officer warned that the next round of budget cuts will most likely have an impact on staff and other jobs.
Two factors, the 5- to 8-percent budget cut and merit-pay increas-es, have resulted in a $14.6 million cut from UT’s budget as well as the elimination of at least 80 facil-ities and maintenance jobs. From September to June, the Universi-ty laid off 273 full-time employ-ees because of budgetary reasons. Several colleges have already set aside funds for the 2-percent mer-it-pay increases, but some, such as the School of Information, have implemented hiring freezes to pay for the raises.
The 10-percent cut that was mandated by the state leadership May 28 must be submitted by Aug. 30 to the Legislative Budget Board. The cut may have an un-avoidable impact on jobs at the University, UT CFO Kevin He-garty said.
“Should additional budget re-ductions be required, they are like-ly to be painful for the campus,” Hegarty said. “Because 70 percent of what the University spends is for salaries and benefits, it is dif-ficult to conceive of a reduction plan that won’t involve further reductions in University jobs. We all hope that we can avoid fur-ther job loss, but in the end, the state must balance its budget and the University must do the same. I am sure that any actions will be thoughtful and considerate just as they have to date.”
Hegarty said the University will review the portfolios of vice pres-idential offices, colleges and oth-er administrative offices over the next semester.
“We have not asked the VPs to submit any plan other than the one they submitted last May for the 5- to 8-percent reduction plan, and the details of those plans are confidential,” he said.
The 10-percent cut will be for the 2012-2013 biennial budget and will apply to all state agencies,
By Hannah Jones Daily Texan Staff
Incoming freshmen, out-of-state transfer students and internation-al students residing in on-campus housing this fall are now required to have the meningococcal vaccine as a part of a Texas law that went into effect Jan. 1.
Meningococcal disease is a po-tentially fatal bacterial illness that can affect anyone, but young peo-ple who live in crowded environ-ments such as dorms are more sus-ceptible to contracting the disease. It is most commonly transmitted through the exchange of saliva and can cause healthy people to become sick within a few hours.
According to the Texas Medi-cal Center, about 15 college stu-dents die annually and about 1,500 cases of meningococcal dis-ease are diagnosed in the Unit-ed States each year. More than 50 cases of the disease were diag-nosed in Texas in 2009.
“Vaccinations take seven to 10 days to become effective, there-fore students are required to get the vaccination at least 10 days prior to coming to school so they will already be immune,” said Nadine Kelley, program coordi-nator of the Division of Housing and Food Service. “If students haven’t received the vaccination,
it doesn’t stop them from going to class, but they are not allowed to check into housing.”
According to the Univer-sity Health Services website, symptoms include kidney fail-ure, learning disability, hearing loss, blindness, permanent brain
By Ashley Meleen Daily Texan Staff
UT Student Government may soon join a statewide organization uniting Texas stu-dent government assemblies.
Representatives from student govern-ments across the state gathered Saturday at the University of Houston to discuss the formation of the Texas Student Asso-ciation, which SG will vote on joining this fall.
The University of Houston’s Student Government Associ-ation hosted the con-ference to discuss the organization, elect the leadership and review the goals of the re-estab-lished TSA.
“We had a lot of student leaders come together and give ideas and make commit-ments to making each of these universi-ties better,” said Kevin Sanders, president of the University of North Texas Student Government Association.
The convention included representatives from UT, University of Houston, Universi-ty of North Texas, Texas State University, Rice University, Texas Tech University, Sam Houston State University, Stephen F. Austin State University and Galveston College.
“One of the major points of emphasis was the point that our name is the Texas Student Association, not the Texas Public
Student Association, therefore we shouldn’t leave out any student in the state of Texas,” Sanders said. “Our goal as an organization is that if you’re a student in Texas at any institution, you’re taken care of and your voice is taken to the state Legislature.”
The organization dates back to 1948, when TSA began as a collaboration of uni-
versities advocating student issues. Ac-cording to the TSA website, it disbanded after 45 years, but in recent years the Uni-versity of Houston, University of North Texas and Texas A&M University have been working to bring it back.
Reach for the sky Deadline in sight for budget revisions
Photo courtesy of Caleb Bryant Miller
The Flatiron Building, constructed in 1902, was one of the first skyscrapers ever built. The efficient structure inhabits a triangular island block at 23rd Street, Fifth Avenue and Broadway.
INSIDE: 48 Hours reports from New York City on page 5
SG may join student leaders alliance
Cost of West Campus too pricey for some
Meningitis shot required to live in dorms
Jeff Heimsath | Daily Texan Staff
Charlotte Katzin, managing nurse of the UHS Allergy/Immunization Clinic, calls out patients’ names in the waiting room.
By Destinee Hodge Daily Texan Staff
As difficult economic times persist, the high price of hous-ing in the West Campus area is causing students to consider cheaper alternatives.
With an average price per bed-room of more than $600 a month, the area has become increasingly unaffordable for most students.
“Most one-bedroom apart-ments and studios around the campus area start at the low-est [at] $600, but I would say on the average of closer to $800 to $900,” said Chris Zaiontz of Sky-light Living, a realty office with-in a few blocks of UT. “Of course the newer, loft-style condos and some of the newer buildings can go anywhere from $1,000 or $1,500 per bedroom.”
Many of the large apartment
complexes also do not include the cost of a parking pass and some utilities in their pricing.
As a result of these high pric-es, students are beginning to consider more novel living ar-rangements, such as coopera-tive houses.
“Our members live togeth-er and work together, so that’s how we can offer low rates,” said Kim Penna from College Houses Cooperatives .
The company has operated in the UT area since 1965 and of-fers affordable housing through-out West Campus. Penna said that all the responsibilities usu-ally taken care of by property management in normal apart-ment complexes are transferred to students, which helps lower the cost of living.
Some students have turned to more economical areas such as North Campus and Hyde Park. Even lower pricing can be
Derek Stout | Daily Texan Staff
Jimmy Talarico discusses the Texas Student Association conference, which was held on Saturday in Houston, during a meeting Monday.
Students more susceptible to contracting disease; vaccination mandatory
UT continues on page 2SG continues on page 2
ZONING continues on page 2 SHOTS continues on page 2
Still-weakened economy causes students to select cheaper living options
Legislature-mandated cuts responsible for elimination of full-time University jobs
SPORTS PAGE 8
The Hell Marys stay toughin an epic roller-derby battle
‘The Situation’?West Martin Luther King BoulevardA UT police officer discovered two non-UT subjects arguing and fighting inside a vehicle. As the officer approached the vehicle, a non-UT passenger got out and began walking toward the officer in an aggressive manner, removing his shirt. The unknown driver decided her best option was to leave the area, and as the officer was telling her to turn off the car, she drove away. During the investigation, the officer learned the passenger had an outstanding arrest warrant from another county. The subject was taken into custody and was transported to Central Booking. Occurred on Thursday at 2:30 a.m.
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including the UT System and all other UT academic campuses and health science centers.
The UT System Board of Re-gents will meet Aug. 11 and 12. The system also restructured in part to focus on commercializa-tion efforts and in part to obtain
$2 million in recurrent savings.The last 5-percent cut totaled
about $14.6 million from the bud-get, mostly from vice presidential and other administrative offices. Hegarty had said the 10-percent cut could equal about $30 million from UT’s budget — and if those savings come from jobs, it would equal roughly 600 jobs.
Sanders said one of the re-formed association’s main ob-jectives is to represent stu-dents across Texas by consider-ing their opinions on the many campuses involved. If TSA rep-resentatives can unanimous-ly agree on an issue, they will then go to the Legislature and lobby for it.
While UT representatives were present at the conven-tion, UT Student Government hasn’t joined TSA yet. This fall, the Student Government As-sembly can pass a resolution to join that must be signed by the president for membership to become official.
However, SG is already on the association’s leadership board, as representative John Lawler was appointed to a chair posi-tion at Saturday’s convention. Lawler said although the asso-ciation doesn’t have any official stances yet, issues such as text-book affordability and gradu-ate student health care are al-ready being discussed.
“Individual student afford-ability is something every Tex-
as student can see eye-to-eye on,” Lawler said.
Lawler hopes that UT’s in-volvement with the TSA will bring more immediate respons-es to issues important to indi-vidual students, rather than working toward other legisla-tive efforts that might not bring immediate results.
“It’s going to be about letting students experience the legisla-tive process, which is a learn-ing experience you’re never go-ing to get once you leave col-lege,” Student Government ex-ecutive director Jimmy Talari-co said.
According to Talarico, the as-sociation will encourage Student Government’s goal of getting students involved in decision and policy making. It will allow Texas schools to team up for lobbying power when it comes to statewide issues, but still lob-by individually for issues that they don’t all agree on.
“If we talk with the right peo-ple and start organizing early, we can have a lot of momen-tum in the spring and really get stuff accomplished for UT stu-dents,” Talarico said.
found across Interstate Highway 35 on Riverside Drive, where bedrooms cost as low as $450 a month in complexes such as Longhorn Landing and Univer-sity Estates.
In June, the Central Austin Neighborhood Plan Advisory Committee showed support for new regulations that could further increase campus housing. Several neighborhood associations with-in CANPAC are also in favor of MF-4, or multifamily, zoning reg-ulations that would limit the num-ber of shared living spaces in the area and would push co-op hous-ing and traditional group housing farther from campus.
Historically, West Campus has often been a hub of expansion and growth. According to the Austin Planning and Development Re-view Department website, the area has been home to the Ad-ams Extract Factory as well as the location of a community of freed African-American slaves called
“Wheatsville,” founded by former slave James Wheat.
Organizations such as CAN-PAC, however, are seeking to re-strict co-op housing and fraterni-ty and sorority houses from being built or moving to single-family neighborhoods near campus.
“Most of the objections that have been raised have to do with behavior,” said Robert Heil, a senior planner in the Planning and Development Re-view Department. “[It] is real-ly kind of a different issue than land-use discussion.”
John Lawler, a University-wide representative for Student Gov-ernment who is also a member of both CANPAC and Universi-ty Area Partners, said that as a re-sult of limited student input on is-sues of zoning in the past, there are plans to get students more in-volved with the issue this year.
“We’d like to have another town hall [meeting] just to basical-ly gauge, what are the issues that students are facing in West Cam-pus?” he said.
damage and death, which can oc-cur in eight to 24 hours. The ef-fects of meningitis can also dam-age extremities, which could re-quire amputation, and can cause gangrene, coma and convulsions.
Vaccinations are recommend-ed for those living in close quarters and college students 25 years old or younger, according to the website. Immunizations are effective against four of the five most common bac-terial types that cause 70 percent of the disease in the U.S., but do not protect against all types of menin-gococcal disease.
UHS coordinator Sherry Bell said this is the University’s first full semester that they’ve had to deal with the law.
Timothy Simmons, rhetoric and writing junior and Jester Center employee, said he thinks the ma-jority of students are vaccinated be-fore they get to the University.
“It probably isn’t efficient as a whole with only new students be-ing vaccinated,” Simmons said. “But right now, it’s working be-cause we haven’t had any cases here at Jester.”
SHOTS: Vaccine does not protect against all strains
A vintage advantage
Nasha Lee | Daily Texan Staff
Rachel Mescall, 20, shops for summer clothing at Cream Vintage on Guadalupe Street.
campus watch
ZONING: Possible regulations may push out group housing
UT: Ten-percent budget cut may cause loss of 600 jobs
SG: Parks must sign resolution for student group to join TSA
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Well, that’s just carelessParking Lot 108, 1500 Red River St.
Assist Outside Agency: A UT police officer discovered a white Buick parked with a set of keys in the ignition. A check revealed the vehicle had been reported stolen. The vehicle was impounded. Oc-curred on Sunday at 9:50 a.m.
Dude, where’s my car?600 Block, Colorado St.
Public Intoxication: A non-UT subject was observed staggering back and forth as he attempted to walk along the sidewalk. The sub-ject stopped and stood between two parked vehicles looking at both of them. With the use of a re-mote key unlock, the subject lo-cated his vehicle, staggered to the driver’s side and attempted to en-ter the vehicle. The officer stopped the subject after noting the signs of intoxication and the subject’s attempt to get into the vehicle. The subject was taken into custo-dy for Public Intoxication and was transported to Central Booking. Occurred on Sunday at 2:42 a.m.
This is your driving on drugs2300 Block, San Jacinto Blvd.
Possession of a Controlled Sub-stance/Driving without a Val-id License/Assist Outside Agen-
cy: A blue Dodge vehicle was stopped for exceeding the post-ed speed limit. During the traf-fic investigation, the non-UT driv-er could not provide the officer a valid driver’s license. The officer learned the subject’s license had been suspended. The driver was taken into custody. After the driv-er was removed from the vehicle, the officer noticed a plastic baggie on the driver’s seat that contained a white powdery substance. The substance later tested positive for cocaine. The subject was tak-en into custody for Possession of a Controlled Substance/Driving without a Valid License and was transported to Central Booking. Occurred on Saturday.
The traipse of wrathPharmacy Building, 2409 Universi-ty Ave.
Criminal Trespass Warning: A non-UT subject was discovered walking through the building. When stopped, the subject became very aggressive toward the officers. The subject told the officers that he was a prospective student and was looking around. The subject was is-sued a written Criminal Trespass Warning and was escorted from the area. Occurred on Friday at 7 p.m.
If it ain’t broke ...Student Services Building, 100 W. Dean Keeton St.
Suspicious Person: Two UT staff members discovered an unknown subject looking around inside offic-es located on the second floor. The subject informed the staff mem-bers that he was waiting for a re-pair man. One staff member of-fered the subject a chair inside the lounge to wait for the repair man while the other called to confirm his story, but discovered no repairs had been scheduled for their area.
The subject left the area ... quickly. The subject was described as: Black male, 25-30 years of age, curly hair, with hair products. He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt and camouflage shorts with black-and-white tennis shoes. Occurred on Friday at 2:22 p.m.
Keep your hands to yourselfMezes Hall, #5 South Mall
Disorderly Conduct-Offensive Gesture: A UT student reported an unknown subject had attempt-ed to grope her as he was walking past her on a flight of stairs. The unknown subject was described as: White male, 22 years of age, 5’10”, with short brown hair. Sub-ject was last seen wearing black pants and a black T-shirt. Oc-curred on Friday at 9:47 a.m.
Identity crisisCommunications Building B, 2504-B Whitis Ave.
Possession of Alcohol by a Mi-nor: A UT police officer observed a non-UT subject grab a 12-ounce cup of beer and attempt to walk into a event located on the sixth floor. The subject was stopped by a UT volun-teer and was asked for his ID. The subject opened up his wallet and the police officer saw the subject use his thumb to cover the picture on the ID. The officer observed he was being handed a counterfeit driver’s license and requested the subject’s real Texas driver’s license. The sub-ject produced a second Texas driv-er’s license that had been issued to him. The officer learned the subject was under the legal age of 21 and issued him a court appearance ci-tation for Possession of Alcohol by a Minor and escorted him from the area. Occurred on Wednesday at 8:15 p.m.
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The Associated PressVENICE, La. — Seafood from
some parts of the oil-fouled Gulf of Mexico has been declared safe to eat by the government, based in part on human smell tests. But even some Gulf fishermen are questioning whether the fish and shrimp are OK to feed to their own families.
Some are turning up their noses at the smell tests — in which in-spectors sniff seafood for chemi-cal odors — and are demanding more thorough testing to reassure the buying public about the ef-fects of the oil and the dispersants used to fight the slick.
“If I put fish in a barrel of wa-ter and poured oil and Dove de-tergent over that, and mixed it up, would you eat that fish?” asked Rusty Graybill, a fisherman from Louisiana’s St. Bernard Parish. “I wouldn’t feed it to you or my fam-ily. I’m afraid someone’s going to get sick.”
Despite splotches of crude that wash up almost daily in marshes east of the Mississippi River, Lou-isiana has reopened those waters to fishing for certain finfish vari-eties, and will allow shrimping when the season begins in two weeks. Oysters and blue crabs, which retain contaminants lon-ger, are still off-limits.
Smell tests on dozens of spec-imens from the area revealed barely detectable traces of toxic substances, the Food and Drug Administration said. The state of Louisiana has also been testing fish tissue for oil since May and has not found it in amounts con-sidered unsafe.
In Mississippi on Monday, FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Ham-burg said the government is “con-fident all appropriate steps have been taken to ensure that seafood harvested from the waters being opened today is safe and that Gulf seafood lovers everywhere can be confident eating and enjoying the fish and shrimp that will be com-ing out of this area.”
Similarly, BP chief operating of-ficer Doug Suttles said Sunday that authorities “wouldn’t open these waters ... if it wasn’t safe to eat the fish.” He said he would eat Gulf seafood and “serve it to my family.”
Dawn Nunez, whose family op-erates a shrimp wholesale busi-ness in Louisiana, said he finds it absurd that the government is re-opening the fishing grounds when so many doubts linger.
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she said. “It’s going to take years to know what damage they’ve done. It’s just killed us all.”
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CAMP KOROONA, Pakistan — Relief efforts in Pakistan’s flood-ravaged northwest picked up pace Monday, but survivors complained about government inaction — a worrying sign for authorities seeking public sup-port for the fight against mili-tants in the region.
Around 300 people blocked a major road in the hard-hit Nowshera district to protest at receiving little or no aid, wit-nesses said. Other survivors re-turned to devastated villages, wading through waist-high wa-ter to salvage chairs, plates and other possessions from beneath mud and debris.
“We have nothing, we are just depending on the mercy of God. Nothing left except this wet wheat,” said Marjan Khan, sort-ing through piles of the grain laid out on wooden beds.
Scores of bridges, roads and buildings have been washed away by the torrents, which were triggered by exception-ally heavy monsoon rain. The floods are the worst in a gener-ation, and weather forecasters say more rains are due to fall in south and central Pakistan.
The death toll was at least 1,200 on Monday, with up to 2 million survivors requiring as-sistance.
The northwest is the epicen-ter of Pakistan’s battle against al-Qaida and the Taliban. Alongside military and police operations, the government —
with the support of the West — is trying to improve its servic-es and living standards there to blunt the appeal of militancy.
The Pakistani army, which has the helicopters, boats and infrastructure needed for relief work, is delivering food, med-icine and tents, as are govern-ment agencies and several dif-ferent political parties and wel-fare organizations.
At least one extremist group — a welfare organization alleg-edly linked to the Lashkar-e-Tai-ba terror network — is also help-ing survivors. The group, Falah-e-Insaniat, helped civilians flee-ing the Swat offensive.
The United States is provid-ing $10 million in emergen-cy assistance. It has also pro-vided rescue boats, water fil-tration units, prefabricated steel bridges and thousands of packaged meals that are being distributed by the army and the government.
Other foreign countries, aid groups and the U.N. have prom-ised or are delivering aid.
But for victims now most-ly surviving in hot camps or in the open, it can not come quick enough.
“This is the only shirt I have,” said Faisal Islam, sit-ting on a highway median, the only dry ground he could find in Camp Koroona village. Hundreds of people in make-shift shelters constructed from dirty sheets and plastic tarps were also there. “Everything else is buried.”
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Survivors protest lack of aid after floods in Pakistan
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Mohammad Sajjad | Associated Press
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By Lindsey PurvinDaily Texan Columnist
Football is about as popular in Texas as barbecue, air condition-ing and breathing. Given that the state is home to the nation’s most extravagant high school, college and professional football stadi-ums, it is obvious that the sport plays a huge role in our culture.
Most states in the Union cannot compete with our football prow-ess, but Texas fails to meet stan-dards in the most important as-pect of the game at the high school level: safety.
The Dallas Morning News re-ported online Sunday that the University Scholastic League, the governing body of high school sports in Texas, has an outdated concussion protocol in compar-ison to those used by the NFL, NCAA and the National Federa-tion of State High School Associ-ations.
The UIL is more relaxed on rec-ommendations for how soon stu-dent athletes should return to play after head injuries, allowing ath-letes to return to play on the same day if the athlete hasn’t lost con-sciousness. However, less than 10 percent of athletes who suffer con-cussions lose consciousness. The UIL guidelines also allows ath-letes to return to play if concus-sion symptoms are resolved with-in 15 minutes. This is troubling when considering a 2003 study found that 33 percent of college football players who returned to play after a concussion didn’t de-velop symptoms until three hours after their injury.
The report also found many other problems with concussion prevention throughout Texas.
Fifty-three percent of public schools in the state do not have a
full-time athletic trainer on staff, and 33 percent of public schools do not even have weekly access to a certified athletic trainer. This leaves many concussion evalua-tions in the hands of coaches.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said concussions make up one in 10 sports injuries, so being educated about the dan-gers of such an injury should be a huge aspect of coaching in full-contact sports.
Though the UIL’s concussion guidelines are meek by national standards, retired Mesquite High School athletic trainer Bucky Taylor told The Dallas Morning News he believes more than half of UIL schools don’t even follow the guidelines.
If stricter standards are good enough for the college and profes-sional level, they should be good enough for Texas high schools. Furthermore, the UIL should take the matter more seriously by no longer using “guidelines” and begin to implement rules. If any high school coach, after receiv-ing proper education about con-cussions, fails to comply with the rules, the UIL should punish the school harshly, implementing ei-ther forfeits or suspensions. Im-pacting the actual football season will bring more community pres-sure — which should exist any-way given the severity of the mat-ter — on these coaches without access to athletic trainers.
I can hear the “good ol’ boys” diminishing the seriousness of the situation already, the tired rhetoric stating that everyone is simply be-ing overly cautious and kids now-adays are too soft. Anybody with that train of thought is just lucky enough to have never had a team-mate who ended up with paraly-sis or permanent brain damage,
or else their opinions on the mat-ter would surely be different.
There’s nothing anyone could do to take concussions out of the game, of course, but dealing with the injuries properly is essential. Broken arms and sprained an-kles can be bandaged or put in casts, but mistreated concussions can cause irreparable trauma to the brain. The athletes who suf-
fer under these relaxed guide-lines are not getting million-dol-lar contracts or even free tuition for their time on the field. They’re simply doing it for the love of the game, and often for the pride of their community. The UIL owes it to these athletes to get tougher on concussion prevention.
Avelar is a government and journalism senior.
Update student-athlete safety standards
In The New York Times last week, columnist Nich-olas Kristof reported that for the first time in history, men no longer dominate the American labor force. In fact, women were the majority of payroll employees for the five months preceding March, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Women occupy more than half of the professional and managerial positions in the country.
Kristof argues that this phenomenon is partially be-cause three-quarters of the Americans who lost their jobs in the recession were men. But he also offered an-other explanation: Perhaps women are “simply better-suited” for today’s jobs. He cited Hanna Rosin from The Atlantic, who argued today’s postindustrial econo-my values predominantly female attributes such as so-cial intelligence and communication over men’s physi-cal strength and size.
But have women actually achieved equality — or even, as Rosin suggests, superiority — in the workplace?
Statistics demonstrate that the number of male-dom-inated, labor-intensive positions has decreased as a re-sult of the current recession, while female-dominated positions, such as secretarial and daycare workers, have increased. Women’s presence may be more dominant in the current workforce but not necessarily the result of equality so much as an increased demand for fields traditionally occupied by women. More importantly, the job market remains segregated in terms of salary.
Still, there is a growing enthusiasm that the current recession may provide a turning point for women in the workforce. Although women increasingly demon-strate prowess in professional fields, surveys indicate that the distribution of men and women across fields is lessening.
There is no denying the fact that women continue to ad-vance academically. According to a 2010 report from the Center on Education Policy, while boys and girls perform equally in math, 79 percent of elementary schoolgirls can read at a proficient level compared to 72 percent of boys.
Increasingly, these same skills are translating into col-lege level academics. At UT, the 2009 summer/spring enrollment indicates 55 percent of entering freshmen are female. While the average SAT score across the Univer-sity for admitted freshmen was higher for males than fe-males, females consistently had higher GPAs than their male counterparts in the respective SAT ranges, accord-ing to a University report.
But the steady rise in female performance at UT has not yet translated in to equitable salaries in the workplace.
Although declaring women’s superiority in the workforce may still be presumptuous, the result re-inforces indicators that women’s increased perfor-mance in academics is having a positive impact as more women pursue professional fields. We are mak-ing headway as academic performance translates into professional equality. More importantly, Kristof’s ral-lying declaration that women are well on their way to achieving job equality reinforces the growing gender support for an issue that began significantly divided within “the battle of the sexes.”
Purvin is a rhetoric and writing senior.
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Last weekend, Student Government representatives drove to Houston for a Texas Student Association (TSA) conference, a student advocacy organization composed of public, private and community colleges throughout the state.
The TSA is a nonpartisan group that focuses exclusive-ly on student-oriented issues. UT is not currently a mem-ber of the group, but the SG members took promising steps toward making this group of students more prom-inent and effective.
The TSA was established in 1948, but in the 1990s, large and small schools were unable to agree on certain issues, which eventually rendered the group impotent. Over the past two years, leaders from the University of North Texas and University of Houston re-established the organization, but the lack of involvement from larger state schools such as UT, A&M and Tech impeded its ef-fectiveness — until now.
UT representatives’ willingness to travel to the meeting shows an initiative that will help boost UT’s reputation. Many leaders at other colleges see UT as snobby, elitist and pretentious and feel as though UT views itself as better than every other school. While most Longhorns would probably think this status is rooted in jealousy, its existence is impossible to deny, and it can impede our ability to work with other schools. UT representatives’ pilgrimage to the confer-ence will send the message that we are more interest-ed in results than ourselves.
Beyond the positive public relations impact of our at-tendance at the conference, a successful TSA has tremen-dous potential to benefit both Longhorns and college stu-dents across the state.
While concealed handguns, domestic partner bene-fits and sustainability efforts are certainly — and rightly — student issues to Longhorns, our counterparts at oth-er colleges throughout the state do not share the same views. The TSA solves the problem of political divisive-ness because as a strictly nonpartisan group, it advocates only for student affordability and other politically-neu-tral issues.
With the TSA focusing on these issues, UT Student Government and student leaders will be more available to lobby legislatures and promote the more partisan is-sues that are better handled by a UT-centric approach. The TSA helps compartmentalize our lobbying efforts and will help us be effective on both fronts.
But before we get ahead of ourselves, UT is still not of-ficially a member of the TSA, and it cannot rejoin until Student Government reconvenes in the fall; however, we are confident that the SG administration understands the TSA’s importance and will support UT’s participation in the association.
The TSA has the potential to promote student is-sues like never before. Lawmakers give SG credibil-ity because it represents 50,000 UT students, and the influence of an effective and well-organized TSA, which represents 500,000 Texas college students, is immeasurable.
— Douglas Luippold for the editorial board
Peter Morgan | Associated Press
New York Jets football helmets sit on the field at Giants Stadium before a football game between the Jets and the St. Louis Rams in East Rutherford, N.J. in this Aug. 14. file photo. The results of an independent study commissioned by the NFL and the players’ union show modern helmets meet all national safety standards, though it stressed that no helmet can prevent concussions and more studies are necessary.
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By Laken LitmanDaily Texan Staff
NEW YORK — Somehow be-tween exploring hip areas such as Tribeca and the East Village, transferring from local to express trains, running in Central Park and working at Sports Illustrated, I have discovered the city’s great-est cupcake.
In December I found out I’d be spending the summer interning in New York and quickly gave myself a mission to accomplish during my time the city: Find the best cupcake. First, I laid down some ground rules:
1. I have to order the same cup-cake (chocolate with vanilla but-tercream frosting with sprinkles) at every single bakery.
2. The cupcake has to be baked on-site that day.
3. The cupcake must be moist. This really should be rule No. 1.
4. The bakery has to smell like heaven.
Upon my arrival in early June, the first cupcake bakery I went to was Crumbs. Their cupcakes are just too big, and it’s more like eating cake than a cupcake. Cup-cakes are the perfect dessert be-cause you can hold them in your hand and eat them in a myri-ad of ways. The only way to eat
Crumbs’ cupcake is with a fork. It turns out they don’t bake their cupcakes in-house, nor are they fresh daily.
Up next was Amy’s Bread. Amy’s version of my usual had hot-pink buttercream icing, which was appealing. The cup-cake met the moistness criterion and was extremely luscious, but something about the cake and ic-ing was too sweet.
Baked By Melissa, a closet-sized bakery, serves quarter-sized cupcakes that come in 10 differ-ent flavors. I got my usual, plus a tie-dyed cupcake that was re-ally just vanilla with food color-ing. Both cupcakes were extreme-ly moist and the frosting was per-fect — not too sweet, not too hard, not too soft but just right. The rea-son why Baked By Melissa doesn’t rank above Magnolia Bakery is be-cause its cupcakes are just minis.
I found out about Butter Lane from Food Network. There were so many flavors to choose from, but don’t worry — I didn’t stray. I ordered the Vanilla French, which is its chocolate-vanilla butter-cream duo. It was delicious. The frosting was silky smooth, and the cake, in the words of Barbra Streisand, was like “butta!” My teeth literally sunk into this de-lectable creation.
Next stop: Magnolia Bakery. Now, I know Magnolia is famous because of Carrie Bradshaw and “Sex and the City” as well as the
fact that it is all over New York and has produced a famous cook-book, but that doesn’t matter.
Magnolia aced all four of my rules with flying colors. Inside, the air smells like sugar, but in a cupcakes-are-just-out-of-the-ov-en way that doesn’t give you a headache. The charming treats are lined up uniformly behind fingerprint-free glass cases, and the flavors aren’t complicated. The little name tags in front of each group read “chocolate” or “vanilla” or “red velvet” rather than “The Elvis” or “Strawberry Swing” or “Mama’s Favorite.”
Not only are these cupcakes sa-vory and divine, but before you even take a bite, you know it’s go-ing to be perfect because the serv-er behind the counter pulls them fresh off the cooling rack.
After the first bite, Magnolia Bakery soared to my No. 1 spot, but there were more bakeries to try. There’s a place called Sweet Revenge that serves beer and wine according to which the cup-cake you order. It only has spe-cialty cupcake flavors, though, with names like “Bird of Para-dise” and “Crimson & Cream.”
Some say Magnolia is too hyped up, others call it average. But I say, put the same flavored cupcake from all these different bakeries in front of me without telling me where they’re from, and I bet you $100 that I still pick Magnolia as the best.
By Audrey WhiteDaily Texan Staff
NEW YORK — Like soda stands, sky-scrapers and celebrity sightings, artists selling original works are a fixture on New York City streets. But a set of new regulations may cut the number of artists who can vend in four Manhattan parks.
The Parks Department put codes in place July 19 after a group of artists lost an injunction that would have delayed the regulations. As a result, spaces for what the city calls “expressive-matter vendors” are limited in Union Square, Central Park South, Battery Park and High Line Park. Vendors must station their stands behind small medallions on the ground, and once all medal-lions are taken, no more artists can set up in that park.
The department said the regulations are intended to reduce congestion in parks, but artist Joel Kaye, a professor at NYU who also makes and sells ceramic tiles with original photographs in Union Square, said he has never seen any traf-fic problems or heard about anyone be-ing injured because of street artists in the parks. The restrictions run counter to the city’s history of diverse arts culture and a constitutional mandate for freedom of expression, said Kaye, who is a plaintiff in the appeal fighting the ruling.
“This is opening the door to let gov-ernment agencies limit people’s rights because by coming down on us, the
city is coming down on all free speech,” he said.
Kaye and other artists said they believe the city and Mayor Michael Bloomberg aim to drive all artists out of the parks so they can set up commercial vending and charge for permits in the areas where art-ists currently sell for free. City officials in-sist they are concerned about safety and congestion because the number of ven-dors has risen over the past few years.
Street art is a vibrant and standard part of park culture for local residents and tourists, said digital artist Miriam West and her partner Tony Chisholm. The pair have been selling art in Union Square for seven years, but West said they may have to relocate.
Under the new restrictions, there can only be 18 artists on Mondays, Wednes-days, Fridays and Saturdays — the days that the Greensmarket Farmers Markets is in the square — and 58 on other days. In the past, there would be between 100-150 artists on weekend days without con-gestion problems, Kaye said.
“People come to the park just to look at art, to converse with artists, to ex-change ideas,” Chisholm said. “By bring-ing our work, people can buy art that’s not homogenized. Not everybody can go to a museum or gallery, but here we can bring art to people who can’t afford to see or purchase it any other way.”
Tracy Kutch, a tourist from Coppell, went to Union Square on Sunday to buy art for her sons. Kutch said she was sur-prised by the high quality of the art avail-able and felt the venue was valuable for art sales.
“These are trained artists, not just people messing around to make a few bucks,” she said. “I would rather help someone who is out here than a gallery that will take a huge commission.”
However, the city said that because artists can still vend without restric-tion on any public street and in any of the other parks in the city, there is no compromise of free speech and the new regulations qualify as time, place and manner restrictions designed to pro-mote the “significant government inter-est” of avoiding congestion and main-taining public safety.
In the ruling against the injunction in July, Judge Richard Sullivan cited a pre-vious ruling on the same issue that stated “the First Amendment does not require
that New York City permit plaintiffs to sell their work directly to the public in an ideal venue.” Sullivan wrote in the rul-ing that artists may actually have more rights than other types of vendors.
“Expressive-matter vendors, unlike souvenir vendors, are free to sell at oth-er locations throughout the parks, so long as they do not use carts or stop in one spot for longer than necessary to complete a transaction,” Sullivan wrote. “And if expressive-matter ven-dors would prefer not to be bound by the restrictions set forth in the revi-
sions, they are always free to obtain a general vendor’s license.”
The city has drawn a line between it-self and the artists, Kaye said, and artists will continue to fight for their rights in court and through protests. Painter and screen-printer Mush Hosotani said the most important thing is that artists keep sharing their work as much as possible.
“The saddest part is so many artists have left completely,” Hosotani said. “We must continue to sell art here, even if there are only 58 or 18 of us. We can’t reduce our rights anymore.”
Laken Litman | Daily Texan Staff
The Vanilla French is a chocolate-vanilla buttercream cupcake from Butter Lane on East Seventh Street in New York City.
Creme de la creme of NY cupcakes
Street art vendors lose spaces in parks
Audrey White | Daily Texan Staff
New York City digital artist Miriam West shows a customer the gray medallion that she must place her stand behind to sell her art. Because of new rules enacted by the Parks Department on July 19, artists must be stationed at a medallion to vend in four Manhattan parks, and the limited number of spaces means many artists are unable to sell their work.
Texan reporter crusades for best Big Apple bakery with compact confections
Attempt to reduce congestion in New York City leaves artists without a place to sell their work
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7Tuesday, August 3, 2010
3-D television has broken through TV screens and is reaching out toward you, or more specifically, your wallet. If you can’t see it, maybe you’re not wearing 3-D glasses.
I’m not writing this as some-one who hates new technology or calls the TV the “boob tube” and complains about the degen-erative tendencies of humanity. I love my smartphone, relish in great television and believe the world isn’t filled with profit-seeking bloodsuckers. I should probably amend that belief, but we’ll get to my eye-popping dissatisfaction with 3-D later.
For those who may not have noticed, 3-D everything and anything is everywhere. From porno movies to comic books, a wave of illusionary imag-ing technology has descend-ed upon the entire entertain-ment industry. Currently you can watch some pay-per-view and ESPN programming in 3-D on DirecTV. Addition-
ally, the Discovery Channel has teamed up with Sony and IMAX for the 3-D version of its “Nature” series set for re-lease later this year.
“3-D has always been seen as compl icat -ed because you had technical is-sues during ac-quisition, post-production and dis t r ibut ion ,” said Mark Hor-ton from Quan-tel , a produc-er of digital-ed-iting hardware, in an interview with the BBC’s tech correspon-dent Mark Ward. “Now [that] we have digital ac-quis i t ion and digital distribu-tion and digital projection sys-tems, a lot of those problems have gone away.”
Long, semitechnical story short, Horton says that with technology such as digital film, anyone can easily review the 3-D imagery to ensure that it’s
truer to reality before it’s edited and made into a reel. When cre-ating 3-D television and mov-ies, film is shot on two cameras, separated by the average dis-tance between our eyes, and is
then projected as two ghostly images laid on top of one an-other. Once you put on special goggles, the im-ages are bet-ter directed into your retinas to fool your brain into thinking it’s viewing a whole object or person.
Now, I’ll ad-mit that when first viewing 3-D TV, it’s kind of cool. Walk into
any Best Buy and you can see a preselected montage of 3-D stock footage to entice you, like confetti from a Black Eyed Peas concert falling on you or cute puppies jumping out at you.
But after a while, the jig is up.
3-D TV looks no more ful-ly formed than picking up a pop-up book and calling its two stacked images “3-D.” You’ve got your foreground, maybe a middle ground and a background image layered on top of one another to give the artistic illusion of perspective. The only time it felt like I was truly experiencing something in 3-D was when one segment of the 3-D promotional loop had water splashing on the screen, but the thought of 3-D porn using the same trick con-sumed my imagination and caused me to shudder.
In the end, the idea of buy-ing an actual 3-D TV, at the low end costing $1,399.99 for a 46” Samsung, is like buying an M. Night Shyamalan video — there is no replay value.
But if you like pretty pic-tures with technology that’s still being refined, go ahead. I don’t know about you, but if I really wanted to experience “Shark Week” in 3-D, I’d rath-er just swim out far enough into the ocean. It’s cheaper, and I hear the blood looks ex-tremely realistic.
Raising the bar on pub cuisine Arcade Fire blends serene moments, rock ‘n’ roll swells
TV TUESDAYBy Gerald Rich
CD REVIEWS
Collage sounds collide in latest Books release
3-D television blows your budget, not mind
By Mark LopezDaily Texan Staff
“Grab your mother’s keys, we’re leaving,” Win Butler sings on the opening track of the new Arcade Fire album, The Suburbs. A few tracks off the new album have already circu-lated on the Web for months, giving fans a taste of the melancholic angst Arcade Fire is known for.
To fully understand The Suburbs, it’s important to take a look at the band’s previous work. Funeral, re-leased in 2004, played on the many themes of neighborhood living, in-cluding a night of severe, dead-ly winter as well as riding in the backseat and losing yourself in the scenery. Funeral solidified Arcade Fire’s reputation as a band that isn’t afraid to branch out into are-na-style rock and roll.
With The Suburbs, the band sticks with its familiar theme of subur-ban life, but it does so in a way that doesn’t sound tired or over-worked. All the songs fit together as a whole, each song molding into the next with ease. For instance, on
the song “Modern Man,” the band takes an introspective moment to examine man’s place in the world, hoping that “when you are older, you will understand.” The track is poignant and easy to relate to. An-other key track, “Rococo,” talks about the “modern kids” and their need to fit a certain mold, yet the song displays a deep sense of em-pathy for these so-called “intellec-tual” individuals.
The album’s smooth transitions from quiet, self-involved moments to balls-to-the-wall rock — particu-larly on the track “Month of May” — constantly engage listeners.
Arcade Fire has already made a major name for itself, and with The Suburbs, it will finally able to reflect on its success. This may not be the masterpiece that Funeral was, but it’s not too far behind.
By Jordan BodkinDaily Texan Staff
New York folktronica band The Books work in a style known as “col-lage music.” This style came into ex-istence after various 20th-century composers, such as Iannis Xenakis and John Cage, hit dead ends work-ing in the atonal and 12-tone musi-cal genres. First used to connect var-ious periods and styles of the past through musical collage, the trend mostly fizzled out during the com-positional shift to minimalism.
The Books have brought this style into the 21st century with their latest release The Way Out.
The album opens with the track “Group Autogenics I,” featuring heavy guitar plucking and a voice saying, “Hello, greetings and wel-come. Welcome to a new begin-ning, for this tape will serve you as a new beginning. That’s right, a new beginning.” The relaxation techniques doubled and looped with a collection of reminiscent and nostalgic field recordings offer a new take on collage music, synthe-sizing old ideas with the new to in-novate in an entirely different way.
Album track “Beautiful People” reverses, overlays and distorts a clear vocal to provide a nonsensical yet not entirely foreign collection of harmonies in the cassette-tape vo-cal. This is a piece treated at the top layer, while underneath lies the in-teraction between an electronic, driving beat and a synthesized or-chestra of only brass.
Critics mark the band as aleator-ic, or having to do with randomized sound. But the band refutes these claims by stating that its music is very order-oriented. The sound of seeming randomness lies in the de-cision and interaction of cassette vo-cals used and the instruments the band members come into musical contact with, but techniques are not presented to the listener in a ran-dom way. The album comes across as an intensely structured, precisely planned collection of otherwise ran-dom bits of recording.
By Mary Lingwall Daily Texan Staff
Nothing really says college like a 3:55 a.m. stop at Whataburg-er. But as I grow up, I sure hope that I can wrangle myself out of the taquito choke hold and find new ways to avoid my biweek-ly (or whatever) serving of four tortillas full of bacon, egg and cheese. Hence, my new goal is to the best bar food in Austin. Obviously, I’m not much of a calorie-counter and my desire to avoid the taquito train isn’t motivated by health concerns so much as sheer convenience. If I can get my eating done along-side my drinking, then that’s one less stop where I have to yell at my wonderful but worn-out designated driver.
The Pour House Pub, 6701 Burnet Rd.
Known for “tasty burgers and cheap drinks,” The Pour House Pub has a variety of classic bar foods. But, my favorite beer-time snack is the Pour House’s fried pickles. Fairly unbecom-ing — the sliced pickles look more like chicken nuggets than vegetables — the Pour House’s fried pickles are a perfectly ex-ecuted bar-food option. A little bit spicy, covered in crumbly, fried goodness and served with a side of ranch dressing (and no, it’s definitely not Hidden Valley Ranch), these pickles are a tasty pairing for anyone’s fa-vorite beer. For those wanting something a little more well-
rounded, the Pour House also has a rotating variety of ta-cos, depending on chef prefer-ence. There is no real schedule for these tacos, so you’ll be sur-prised by a new selection each time you go. Just as surprising for a spot known for its beer, the Pour House has some damn good waffle fries.
The Hole in the Wall, 2538 Guadalupe St.
Conveniently located on the Drag, Hole in the Wall may be best known for its happy hour, but the dive bar’s offerings of tacos and other, more tradition-al bar foods have made it a com-fort-food haven for stressed-out summer-school students such as myself. When I sit down with a Shitty Lemonade, there is noth-ing quite like chowing down on a small bucket of french fries drenched in melted cheese and lightly seasoned with a spicy pa-prika mix. If I’m feeling partic-ularly hungry, Hole in the Wall also offers filling tacos for next to nothing. I usually opt for their pulled-pork taco. A little on the spicy side, overflowing with top-pings and costing about $3, the pulled-pork taco is one of the cheapest ways to ward off hun-ger on the Drag.
The Flying Saucer Draught Emporium, 4600 W. Guadalupe St.
With literally hundreds of
beers available and night-ly specials, The Flying Saucer Draught Emporium is a beer hall that has kept a surprising-ly close eye on its food options. While the food can’t necessar-ily be called “bar food” — the Flying Saucer has a full menu with everything from sal-ads to burgers — it does offer some bar staples such as pret-
zels and nachos. Falling some-where between bar food and restaurant-style food, the Fly-ing Saucer also offers cheese plates with a variety of spe-cialty cheeses such as Whis-key Cheddar, Cotswold and Brie and fancy pizzas with slightly refined toppings such as goat cheese and caramel-ized onions.
Photos by Derek Stout | Daily Texan Staff
Above, the goat cheese pizza topped with caramelized onions and roasted bell peppers is one of the types of pizza you can order by the slice at The Flying Saucer Draught Emporium. Below, The Pour House Pub offers fried pickle chips and a wide variety of beers on tap.
Arcade FireThe Suburbs
Grade: A-
Dishes such as fried pickles, pizza make for tasty fare at superb prices
The BooksThe Way OutGrade: B+
In the end, the idea of buying an actual 3-D TV, at the low
end costing $1,399.99 for a 46” Samsung, is like buying an M. Night Shyamalan
video — there is no replay value.
7A ENT
SPORTS Sports Editor: Dan HurwitzE-mail: [email protected]: (512) 232-2210www.dailytexanonline.com
THE DAILY TEXAN
8Tuesday, August 3, 2010
SIDELINE
MLBNational League
Houston 9St. Louis 4
Cincinnati 4Pittsburgh 0
NY Mets 1Atlanta 4
Milwaukee 18Chi Cubs 1
Washington 3Arizona 1
San Diego 10+LA Dodgers 4+
American League
Cleveland 6Boston 5
Minnesota 2 Tampa Bay 4
Toronto 8NY Yankees 6
Kansas City 0Oakland 6
SPORTS BRIEFLY
8A SPTS
The people have spoken. The win-ner of the search for the greatest kids’ sports movie is ... “The Sandlot.”
Should this be surprising? Al-though there were many worthy competitors and probably three or four others that were Final Four-worthy, I would say it is not a big surprise.
“The Sandlot” is a unique cin-ematic adventure when it comes to children’s sports movies. While the majority of these movies are about an awful team that im-proves with the addition of a new coach or player (or both), “The Sandlot” is different.
“This is a movie that breaks with that tradition, that allows its kids to be kids,” movie critic Roger Ebert wrote in a review from 2000. “That shows them in the insular world of imagination and dreaming that children create entirely apart from adult domains and values.”
“The Sandlot” is about kids try-ing to go out on the field every day and act like their favorite base-ball player, whether it’s by using chewing tobacco or doing some-thing as simple as hitting your fist into a glove, or touching your bat to home plate.
Not just about baseball“The Sandlot” is about a lot more
than just baseball. The beauty of the movie is that it doesn’t need to bring in any controversial topics to teach a lesson that deals with more than
just the game of baseball. It brings up a confrontation between the boys of the sandlot and the preppy kids who ride up on their awesome bikes with their cool uniforms.
That exchange between two po-lar opposite groups is the definition of childhood. “You bob for apples out of the toilet. And you like it,” the leader of the Little League crew says. And how does one respond to that? “You play ball like a girl!”
Obviously, I was not alive in 1962. I have no clue what summers were like back then. But when I pic-ture a 1960s summer, it is very simi-lar to “The Sandlot.”
Presently, especially among peo-ple who grew up in the ‘90s, “The Sandlot” is a staple of life. At least for me, “The Sandlot” seemed like the movie we would rent most of-ten whenever there was a slee-pover. At day camp, it was a mov-
ie that was shown every year — and still is played.
We’re doneAt a student newspaper, it is
not easy to put out a daily sports page without any collegiate sports being played. We have definitely stretched the definition of sports this summer by exploring all the options we could.
Summer Movie Madness, at least in my opinion, was a success. And it appears that the selection committee did a good job in choos-ing the seeds. Three of the four top seeds advanced to the Final Four with “Remember the Titans” squeaking by “Space Jam” in the Elite Eight. There were only four lower seeds that advanced past a higher seed.
Hopefully, you all enjoyed Sum-
mer Movie Madness. If we could, this is the time when we would show a montage of the highlights from our competition with the song “One Shining Moment” in the background, but copyright laws would definitely be violated.
By Bri ThomasDaily Texan Staff
As Fort Minor’s “Remember the Name” blared from the Play-land Skate Center’s sound sys-tem, the Hell Marys made their way onto the rink.
Sporting red, plaid miniskirts, destroyed black tanks with nick-names such as “Speedyrella” on the back and faces painted like Gene Simmons from KISS, the women looked more than ready for the 2010 Roller Derby Cham-pionship Bout on July 25.
While the rockin’ athletes warmed up, a rough group of fans poured in with cans of Lone Star beer, ready to see the Hell Marys take on the Honky Tonk Heartbreakers in the third-place match.
The two squads had their struggles this season.
The Hells Marys had lost a lot of players to other teams dur-ing the offseason. That transi-tion made things more difficult for the team.
“At the beginning of the sea-son, there were literally as many new Hells as there were vet-eran Hell Marys,” team mem-ber Catherine Bacon said. “That meant that we essentially had to build a new team, and everyone was learning how to work with and skate with basically every-one else on the team.”
Bacon, better known as Luce Bandit, serves as a jammer, one of the five players on each team who serves as the scorer. The other skaters block as the jammer attempts to weave her
way around the pack, earning team points.
Luce Bandit quickly put these skills to good use as the two teams stayed tied during most of the first 30-minute half and went into the second half with a score of 26-26.
“I felt ready to skate the night of the championship,” she said. “I was trying to focus on just skating at my personal best and working with my team. Win or lose, it was going to be a good, close game, which are the most fun to play.”
An early second-half lead was not enough, though, for the Hell Marys, who fell into a big hole because of Honky Tonk Heart-breakers skater Shortcut. She was able to outduel Luce Ban-dit in the match, which ended at 61-52 with a fourth-place season finish for the Hells.
Led by their jammer, Shortcut, the Heartbreakers were up 44-61 when five minutes were left on the clock.
“We have less numbers, so we are used to working together,” Shortcut said. “I feel we won by having a better feel for each other, which led to better teamwork.”
Luce Bandit realized that the Hells had potential but just couldn’t bring it all together in the end.
“We had to start from square one in some ways, getting ev-eryone on the same page be-cause we had skaters coming from so many different plac-es and experience levels,” she said. “It takes time to build
teamwork and communica-tion, but we definitely grew as a team — which is a significant achievement, I think.”
Luce Bandit’s performance showed that she in some ways mimics a bandit, sneaking past a pack of athletes with great agili-ty and ease.
“There are usually sever-al thoughts going through my mind simultaneously since there is always so much go-ing on when sneaking past the pack and breaking away,” Luce
Bandit said. “Usually it’s some combination of, ‘Yes, made it out! Am I safe? Where’s the oth-er jammer? I’m so glad that last blocker didn’t trap me! Need to get around to the pack again.’”
E v e n o p p o s i n g j a m m e r Shortcut agreed about Luce Bandit’s skills, though the Honky Tonk jammer ended up with the victory.
“She played really great,” Shortcut said. “Overall, it made for a really great game.”
Despite the loss, Luce Bandit
continues to enjoy the rush of competing with the Texas Rol-lergirls .
“It’s hard to explain why der-by is so fun, especially jam-ming,” Luce said. “I love the feeling of sneaking past a block-er or getting past a wall or juk-ing someone trying to hit you. It’s an equally wonderful feel-ing to knock someone down who’s trying to get past you or successfully hold back a jam-mer or blocker. It’s so hard to really articulate.”
Editor’s note: This is the eighth in a series previewing the prominent position battles that will take place
during Texas’ training camp.
By Jon ParrettDaily Texan Staff
In a downpour of burnt-orange and white confetti at last year’s Big 12 championship game, one player rose above the crowd on his teammates’ shoulders as the unquestioned hero of the game. That player wasn’t star quarter-back and Heisman hopeful Colt McCoy or ball-hocking safety and Thorpe Award finalist Earl Thom-as. In fact, it wasn’t any of the six Longhorns who were drafted in this year’s NFL draft sitting atop his offensive linemen’s shoulders. It was Hunter Lawrence.
Lawrence’s 46-yard field goal as time expired gave Texas its first Big 12 championship since 2005 and a chance at the nation-al championship in Pasadena. It also showed the importance of the oft-overlooked third side of the ball: special teams. While it can be as electrifying as a 95-yard kickoff return or as mun-dane as a 35-yard rugby punt, special teams cannot be over-looked by teams expecting to compete for conference and na-tional titles. Training camp starts Aug. 8, and Texas’ special teams positions will see just as much competition as any other posi-tions on the team.
Lauren Gerson | Daily Texan Staff
The Hell Marys roller-derby team high-fives fans after the Texas Rollergirls league championship bout July 25. The Honky Tonk Heartbreakers won the third-place bout against the Hell Marys 61-52.
Hell Marys fall in third-place derby matchROLLER DERBY
MOVIE POLL CHAMPION: THE SANDLOT
FOOTBALL
MARQUISE GOODWIN #8 Goodwin will be competing with Monroe in
training camp for the punt returner position. Neither has much experience returning punts, as most of that was done by Jordan Shipley last year. Goodwin does have one punt return on his resume, a 22-yard return against Colorado. Goodwin also will be returning kickoffs along-side Monroe. Goodwin’s biggest kick of return last year was a 95-yard touchdown that guaran-teed Texas’ win over the Aggies.
Sophomore 2009 stats
5’9”
177 lbs
349 yards / 21.8 YPR, 16 KR ,
one kickoff for a touchdown, one PR for 22 yards
JUSTIN TUCKER #19 Tucker will mostly be the man to re-
place Hunter Lawrence as the place kick-er for Texas. Tucker has yet to attempt a field goal in his collegiate career, so all eyes will be on him during training camp. Tucker will be retaining his kickoff and punting duties.
Junior 2009 stats
6’1”
185 lbs
43 punts/40.4 YPP,
two touchbacks;99 kickoffs/
62.3 YPK,14 touchbacks
Indianapolis clears issues with trio of Hughes, Mathis, Wayne
Colts first-round pick Jerry Hughes signed his contract Monday. Robert Mathis suited up and Reggie Wayne apologized to his teammates.
Yes, it’s starting to look like a Colts’ training camp.
“I thought about it [holding out], but it’s bigger than me,” Wayne said. “I had already let my team-mates down once.”
The contrite Pro Bowler wasn’t going to let that happen again.
Wayne, who was beaten to the ball that Tracy Porter picked off and returned for the game-sealing touchdown in the Colts’ Super Bowl loss, said he wrestled with the de-cision to come to training camp or hold out. When he woke up Sunday morning, he thought back to the practice tapes he had been watching all summer.
“I thought it was weird not see-ing No. 87 out there,” Wayne said, drawing laughter. “Yes, I under-stand the picture, I understand all of the pictures. But I want you to un-derstand my picture. It is what it is, and the fact is I’m still under con-tract. I’ve got two years left, and I’m going to go do my job.”
That’s all the Colts can ask now that their three biggest ques-tions heading into camp have been resolved.
Mathis, like Wayne, wanted to redo the final two years on his deal. He also skipped Indy’s offseason activities, including a mandatory three-day June mini-camp. But the Pro Bowl defensive end said Mon-day that he’s content to play under his current deal.
“After a certain point, you don’t let it be a distraction. You come in and take care of business,” Mathis said. “I never really thought about not coming [to camp]. In the end, it was about my teammates.”
Hughes’ situation was different.Drafted No. 31 overall, the rook-
ie defensive end from TCU spent most of the weekend waiting for his agent and team president Bill Polian to finish haggling over the final de-tails of a five-year deal.
Compiled from Associated Press reports
Jets still in contract negotiations with All-Pro cornerback Revis
Unless a major resolution occurs soon, it could be a while before the Jets see Darrelle Revis on the field. The All-Pro cornerback sat out the first two practices of camp Monday, locked in a contract dispute.
“We’ve got to get who we have ready to go,” coach Rex Ryan said. “If Darrelle’s not here, then we’re going to move on. We won’t make excuses. ... We think we’ll have a great defense anyway, and I know we will. It’s just a lot easier if Revis is out there.”
Revis has been hailed by his coach as the best cornerback he has ever coached. He is now looking to be-come the highest-paid in the league at his position, seeking a deal high-er than the three-year, $45.3 million extension Oakland’s Nnamdi Aso-mugha signed last offseason.
Getting a contract done with Revis has turned out to be far more com-plicated. He is scheduled to make $1 million in the fourth year of his six-year rookie deal, which general manager Mike Tannenbaum has ac-knowledged Revis has outplayed. Agents Neil Schwartz and Jon Fein-sod said Revis was very deliberate with the decision-making process, and his actions would speak louder than words.
Benny ‘� e Jet,’ ‘Sandlot’ run away with Movie Madness championship
Tucker to replace Lawrence as place kicker
DJ MONROE #26 Monroe returns this year as the lead
kickoff returner from the Longhorns’ 2009 campaign. He’s the only player in UT histo-ry to return two kickoffs for touchdowns, and what makes that statistic even more impressive, given Texas’ rich history, is the fact that he did so as a freshman. Monroe also hopes to take on punt-return duties for the Longhorns, but will have to prove himself during training camp. He has yet to return a punt at Texas.
Sophomore 2009 stats
5’9”
171 lbs
537 yards /33.6 YPR, 16 KR,
two KR for touchdowns
Eric Ou | Daily Texan file photo
Then-freshman Marquise Goodwin returns a kickoff for a touchdown against Texas A&M.
Justin Tucker kicks off the ball during Texas’ Orange and White game in the spring.
Eric OuDaily Texan file photo
Derek Stout | Daily Texan file photo
DJ Monroe runs the ball during the Orange and White spring game.
