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LIFE&ARTS PAGE 10 T HE D AILY T EXAN www.dailytexanonline.com Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 Friday, November 12, 2010 49 Low High 67 TOMORROW’S WEATHER COMICS PAGE 8 It’s Sunburst Color Friday! SPORTS PAGE 6 Master Cleanse makes a comeback Soccer competes in first round of NCAA Championships By Allison Kroll Daily Texan Staff In her new book, former Sec- retary of State Condoleezza Rice gives a candid view of her child- hood and college years, especial- ly how they influenced her tenure as the country’s top diplomat. Rice stopped by BookPeople on Thursday, greeting about 350 people, to promote her new book “Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family.” In her discussion with KXAN’s Leslie Rhode, Rice shared details of her family, childhood and how she became the person she is to- day, all topics addressed in her book. Rice said her parents’ val- ue of education eventually deter- mined her success in the Bush ad- ministration. “It really started with my grandfather,” Rice said. “He re- ally believed, along with my par- ents, in the transforming pow- er of an education — not only for me, but for everyone. They passed this belief on to me.” Rice’s memoir not only ad- dresses her education and rise to success but also the challeng- es she overcame in her life, in- cluding racism and her parents’ deaths. As a child in Birmingham, Ala., Rice said 1968 was the year of her political awakening and repre- sented a turning point in her life, recalling the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy. “So much happened in that year,” she said. “At 13, I felt the country was falling apart. I re- member being quite frightened of what was going on in the world.” By Collin Eaton Daily Texan Staff Several academic centers in the College of Liberal Arts face budget cuts next year after a college com- mittee recommended cuts based on performance reviews. The centers provide classes for students who are interested in spe- cialized courses and obtain special- ized research grants for UT. The cuts from the college also affect how many grants the centers are likely to receive. Liberal Arts Dean Randy Die- hl formed the Academic Planning and Advisory Committee last year to advise him on which areas of the budget to cut in light of a $3.75 million deficit in the college. Die- hl said the committee has worked hard over the course of the year to make the changes and will help him make an informed final deci- sion. The committee began collect- ing data in April from each of the academic centers, which most of the centers provided by late sum- mer. APAC made recommenda- tions to Diehl on Friday, but there is no deadline for when the final deci- sion on cuts will be made. Richard Flores, liberal arts asso- ciate dean for academic affairs, said the committee chose how much to cut from the centers based on sev- eral performance metrics, includ- ing total number of semester credit hours offered, total number of stu- dents in the major and monetary in- put. Flores said UT told the college a year ago that its budget would re- main flat over the next two years, creating a budget deficit. “We had laid out some assump- tions in our plan based on recur- ring money we thought we would be getting,” Flores said. “When that didn’t happen, we had to go back to the drawing board.” By Collin Eaton Daily Texan Staff The UT System’s chief gov- ernmental relations officer said Thursday that System leaders must continue to push for in- creased state funding during the next legislative session, even in the face of a massive state bud- get deficit. Barry McBee, general counsel for the UT System, said the next Legislature could face the worst budget shortfall in Texas histo- ry, and budget maneuvers used to quell the $10 billion shortfall in 2003 cannot be used again. He said UT will need more — not less — state funding in the 2012-2013 biennium to keep up with the cost of growth. “We will ask as further cuts are made to be treated equitably and not bear a disproportionate per- centage of further reductions,” McBee said. “We all acknowl- edge the need of UT-Austin for more funding in its quest to be- come the nation’s greatest public university.” The previous Legislature spent $6.4 billion in temporary stimulus funds to fill its own budget gap, including $9.9 million for UT. So the Legislature will begin its ses- sion behind where it would nor- mally be, he said. The state’s shortfall goes back to 2006, when legislators slashed property taxes but failed to gen- erate enough revenue from new business taxes to sustain the bud- get. The sales tax also failed to By Amy Thornton Daily Texan Staff The nationwide Veterans Day celebrations were brought clos- er to home for students with a ceremony under the Tower and commemorative displays on campus Thursday. Graduate student Nick Hawk- ins has a different relationship with Veterans Day than other students walking around cam- pus. Unlike most of the student population, Hawkins spent the five years after his high school graduation in the military, expe- riencing “life abroad” on a year- long tour of Iraq. “Coming to UT after my time in the military was a tough tran- sition,” Hawkins said. “Every- one is obviously younger, and the college atmosphere is com- pletely different than the mili- tary life I had been a part of for five years.” Hawkins is now the president of the Student Veterans Associa- tion, a social club that provides a place for veterans to go for sup- port and camaraderie with other veterans on campus. By Allison Harris Daily Texan Staff Three new restaurants will de- but next spring in the space where Follett’s Intellectual Property bookstore once stood on the cor- ner of 24th and Guadalupe streets. The space will host The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Qdoba Mexican Grill and Noodles & Company. Anita Howard, controller and marketing director for Lone Star Bean, which will operate The Cof- fee Bean & Tea Leaf, said the pres- ence of three tenants in the build- ing has created unique challenges. “The planning process has tak- en a little longer, but we are all pleased and excited about this lo- cation,” she said. The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf cafe will likely begin construc- tion in December, Howard said. Construction and set up will take about three months, put- ting the opening time at around early March. The store, the sixth in the Austin area, will oc- cupy the ground-level corner location on 24th and Guadal- upe streets, with an entrance on both streets. Howard said the local franchise chose the loca- tion because of heavy foot traf- fic in the area. A Starbucks Coffee store sits nearby at the corner of 24th and Nueces streets, but Howard said the store is not afraid of the com- petition. “There are lots of potential guests in the area, and we hope to win over our share,” she said. The Qdoba Mexican Grill will begin construction next month, said Kortney Otten, owner of fran- chise Q-Up Texas, LLC. The res- taurant will be located on the side of 24th and San Antonio streets, directly across from Starbucks. Ot- ten said the new location would give the franchise a greater chance to become involved in the Univer- sity community. “We feel that Qdoba brings a not only a good, fast casual alter- native option but also comple- ments the food options already in place,” she said. Noodles & Company will open its first Texas restaurant in late spring, said corporate spokes- woman Jill Preston. The main en- trance will be on the east side of the building off of Guadalupe Street. FRIDAY Quote to note Cats A talented group of performing house cats ride skateboards, jump through hoops and play in a rock band. Show starts at 7 p.m. and tickets are $15 at the door. The Marchesa Hall & Theatre. Politics The New Politics Forum will hold its fall 2010 election debrief conference, which will include a look toward the 82nd Legislature and a keynote address by former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. Event starts at 1 p.m. at the State Capitol, and the tickets cost $25 for students. Cheers The 2010 Austin International Wine Fest, which will include local musicians and a silent auction. The event starts at 4 p.m. and admission is free. — Dan Parrott owner of Old School BBQ ‘ ‘ WEEKEND L&A PAGE 9 SATURDAY ‘Closer’ Joshua Radin performs at La Zona Rosa at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $17 SUNDAY ‘Bohemian Like You’ The Dandy Warhols will perform at La Zona Rosa. Show starts at 7 p.m. and tickets cost $18 “There’s something that’s much more important to me than money: time. You can always make more money but time is something that you can’t replace.” Curtain Kimber Lee, a masters in fine arts candidate, presents her play, “Fight,” at the Oscar G. Brockett Theatre. Show starts at 2 p.m. and admission is $20 Former Secretary of State attributes success to college Liberal arts committee recommends budget cuts Photos by Shannon Kintner | Daily Texan Staff Veteran Dan Dopkant salutes while singing the national anthem. Serving in the Air Force was “the best duty I could ask for,” he recalls. Dopkant and fellow veterans were honored under the Tower on Thursday. An anonymous helmet and boots, along with wreaths from various organizations, honor fallen soldiers. Danielle Villasana | Daily Texan Stafff Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice discusses her book, “Extraordinary, Ordinary People,” on Thursday evening at BookPeople. Campus honors military service To read about Longhorn football, see Double Coverage UT System plans to push for more state funding FUNDS continues on page 2 MEMOIR continues on page 2 VETERANS continues on page 2 DEFICITS continues on page 2 Community members, students come together for ROTC Veterans Day gathering held at Tower Restaurants to replace vancancy on the Drag
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LIFE&ARTS PAGE 10
THE DAILY TEXANwww.dailytexanonline.comServing the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900Friday, November 12, 2010
49LowHigh
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TOMORROW’S WEATHER
COMICS PAGE 8It’s Sunburst Color Friday!
SPORTS PAGE 6
Master Cleanse makes a comeback
Soccer competes in first round of NCAA Championships
By Allison KrollDaily Texan Staff
In her new book, former Sec-retary of State Condoleezza Rice gives a candid view of her child-hood and college years, especial-ly how they influenced her tenure as the country’s top diplomat.
Rice stopped by BookPeople on Thursday, greeting about 350 people, to promote her new book “Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family.”
In her discussion with KXAN’s Leslie Rhode, Rice shared details of her family, childhood and how she became the person she is to-day, all topics addressed in her book. Rice said her parents’ val-ue of education eventually deter-mined her success in the Bush ad-ministration.
“It really started with my grandfather,” Rice said. “He re-ally believed, along with my par-ents, in the transforming pow-er of an education — not only for me, but for everyone. They passed this belief on to me.”
Rice’s memoir not only ad-dresses her education and rise
to success but also the challeng-es she overcame in her life, in-cluding racism and her parents’ deaths.
As a child in Birmingham, Ala., Rice said 1968 was the year of her political awakening and repre-sented a turning point in her life, recalling the assassinations of
Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy.
“So much happened in that year,” she said. “At 13, I felt the country was falling apart. I re-member being quite frightened of what was going on in the world.”
By Collin EatonDaily Texan Staff
Several academic centers in the College of Liberal Arts face budget cuts next year after a college com-mittee recommended cuts based on performance reviews.
The centers provide classes for students who are interested in spe-cialized courses and obtain special-ized research grants for UT. The cuts from the college also affect how many grants the centers are likely to receive.
Liberal Arts Dean Randy Die-hl formed the Academic Planning and Advisory Committee last year to advise him on which areas of the budget to cut in light of a $3.75 million deficit in the college. Die-hl said the committee has worked hard over the course of the year to make the changes and will help him make an informed final deci-sion. The committee began collect-ing data in April from each of the academic centers, which most of the centers provided by late sum-mer. APAC made recommenda-tions to Diehl on Friday, but there is no deadline for when the final deci-sion on cuts will be made.
Richard Flores, liberal arts asso-ciate dean for academic affairs, said the committee chose how much to cut from the centers based on sev-eral performance metrics, includ-ing total number of semester credit hours offered, total number of stu-dents in the major and monetary in-put. Flores said UT told the college a year ago that its budget would re-main flat over the next two years, creating a budget deficit.
“We had laid out some assump-tions in our plan based on recur-ring money we thought we would be getting,” Flores said. “When that didn’t happen, we had to go back to the drawing board.”
By Collin EatonDaily Texan Staff
The UT System’s chief gov-ernmental relations officer said Thursday that System leaders must continue to push for in-creased state funding during the next legislative session, even in the face of a massive state bud-
get deficit.Barry McBee, general counsel
for the UT System, said the next Legislature could face the worst budget shortfall in Texas histo-ry, and budget maneuvers used to quell the $10 billion shortfall in 2003 cannot be used again. He said UT will need more — not less
— state funding in the 2012-2013 biennium to keep up with the cost of growth.
“We will ask as further cuts are made to be treated equitably and not bear a disproportionate per-centage of further reductions,” McBee said. “We all acknowl-edge the need of UT-Austin for
more funding in its quest to be-come the nation’s greatest public university.”
The previous Legislature spent $6.4 billion in temporary stimulus funds to fill its own budget gap, including $9.9 million for UT. So the Legislature will begin its ses-sion behind where it would nor-
mally be, he said.The state’s shortfall goes back
to 2006, when legislators slashed property taxes but failed to gen-erate enough revenue from new business taxes to sustain the bud-get. The sales tax also failed to
By Amy ThorntonDaily Texan Staff
The nationwide Veterans Day celebrations were brought clos-er to home for students with a ceremony under the Tower and commemorative displays on campus Thursday.
Graduate student Nick Hawk-ins has a different relationship with Veterans Day than other students walking around cam-pus. Unlike most of the student population, Hawkins spent the
five years after his high school graduation in the military, expe-riencing “life abroad” on a year-long tour of Iraq.
“Coming to UT after my time in the military was a tough tran-sition,” Hawkins said. “Every-one is obviously younger, and the college atmosphere is com-pletely different than the mili-tary life I had been a part of for five years.”
Hawkins is now the president of the Student Veterans Associa-tion, a social club that provides a place for veterans to go for sup-port and camaraderie with other veterans on campus.
By Allison HarrisDaily Texan Staff
Three new restaurants will de-but next spring in the space where Follett’s Intellectual Property bookstore once stood on the cor-ner of 24th and Guadalupe streets. The space will host The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Qdoba Mexican Grill and Noodles & Company.
Anita Howard, controller and marketing director for Lone Star Bean, which will operate The Cof-fee Bean & Tea Leaf, said the pres-ence of three tenants in the build-ing has created unique challenges.
“The planning process has tak-en a little longer, but we are all pleased and excited about this lo-cation,” she said.
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf cafe will likely begin construc-tion in December, Howard said. Construction and set up will take about three months, put-ting the opening time at around early March. The store, the sixth in the Austin area, will oc-cupy the ground-level corner location on 24th and Guadal-upe streets, with an entrance on both streets. Howard said the local franchise chose the loca-
tion because of heavy foot traf-fic in the area.
A Starbucks Coffee store sits nearby at the corner of 24th and Nueces streets, but Howard said the store is not afraid of the com-petition.
“There are lots of potential guests in the area, and we hope to win over our share,” she said.
The Qdoba Mexican Grill will begin construction next month, said Kortney Otten, owner of fran-chise Q-Up Texas, LLC. The res-taurant will be located on the side of 24th and San Antonio streets, directly across from Starbucks. Ot-ten said the new location would give the franchise a greater chance to become involved in the Univer-sity community.
“We feel that Qdoba brings a not only a good, fast casual alter-native option but also comple-ments the food options already in place,” she said.
Noodles & Company will open its first Texas restaurant in late spring, said corporate spokes-woman Jill Preston. The main en-trance will be on the east side of the building off of Guadalupe Street.
FRIDAY
Quote to note
CatsA talented group of performing house cats ride skateboards, jump through hoops and play in a rock band. Show starts at 7 p.m. and tickets are $15 at the door. The Marchesa Hall & Theatre.
PoliticsThe New Politics Forum will hold its fall 2010 election debrief conference, which will include a look toward the 82nd Legislature and a keynote address by former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. Event starts at 1 p.m. at the State Capitol, and the tickets cost $25 for students.
CheersThe 2010 Austin International Wine Fest, which will include local musicians and a silent auction. The event starts at 4 p.m. and admission is free.
— Dan Parrottowner of Old School BBQ
‘‘
WEEKEND
L&A PAGE 9
SATURDAY
‘Closer’Joshua Radin performs at La Zona Rosa at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $17
SUNDAY‘Bohemian Like You’The Dandy Warhols will perform at La Zona Rosa. Show starts at 7 p.m. and tickets cost $18
“There’s something that’s much more
important to me than money:
time. You can always make more money but time is
something that you can’t replace.”
CurtainKimber Lee, a masters in fine arts candidate, presents her play, “Fight,” at the Oscar G. Brockett Theatre. Show starts at 2 p.m. and admission is $20
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Former Secretary of State attributes success to college
Liberal artscommittee recommendsbudget cuts
Photos by Shannon Kintner | Daily Texan Staff
Veteran Dan Dopkant salutes while singing the national anthem. Serving in the Air Force was “the best duty I could ask for,” he recalls. Dopkant and fellow veterans were honored under the Tower on Thursday.
An anonymous helmet and boots, along with wreaths from various organizations, honor fallen soldiers.
Danielle Villasana | Daily Texan Stafff
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice discusses her book, “Extraordinary, Ordinary People,” on Thursday evening at BookPeople.
Campus honors military serviceTo read about Longhorn
football, see Double Coverage
UT System plans to push for more state funding
FUNDS continues on page 2
MEMOIR continues on page 2
VETERANS continues on page 2 DEFICITS continues on page 2
Community members, students come together for ROTC Veterans Day gathering held at Tower
Restaurants to replacevancancy on the Drag
News Friday, November 12, 20102
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veterans: Traditions continue 57 years after first Armistice Day
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UT Army, Naval and Air Force ROTC members stand together for the annual Veteran’s Day retreat ceremony on the South Mall on Thursday.
The association, which start-ed in 2006, has approximately 138 members and has worked with the University to help sup-port student veterans with GI Bill issues. The group also plans to create a student veterans cen-ter on campus. Hawkins said re-cent changes in the GI Bill have
allowed more veterans to come out of the military and go to col-lege, which is why more flags were present to symbolize vet-erans in the association’s display on the South Mall.
Thursday marked the 57th year of Veterans Day, which orig-inally started as “Armistice Day”
to celebrate the end of World War I in 1918.
The UT campus honors Veterans Day every year when the UT Army, Naval and Air Force ROTC depart-ments come together for a joint re-treat ceremony by the Tower, which is a simple ceremony designed to honor the flag and veterans.
“It really represents a joint effort of the military forces, for all vet-erans in all branches,” said army recruiter Weston Payne, a UT graduate.
Veterans Day celebrations also extended beyond campus, with a downtown parade spon-sored by the city of Austin and Travis County Veterans Servic-es, featuring bands, military vehicles and various veterans’ groups. With the theme of “100 Years of Military Aviation,” this year’s parade showed a stron-ger turnout of both attendees and participants.
“Patriotism is really in right now,” said Austin resident Anne Linville, whose husband is a Vietnam veteran. “There seem to be a lot more people on the sidelines and a good variety of veterans from different wars and conflicts.”
Sikh group dances for awareness
reGent: Budget shortfall complicates efforts
Flores said centers such as the Texas Language Center do not teach but do special-ized research.
The college may cut 100 per-cent of their contribution to the Center for Russian, East Euro-pean and Eurasian Studies and the Center for East Asian Stud-ies’ budgets, 40 percent from the Center for Mexican American Studies and 30 percent from the Center for Middle Eastern Stud-ies, among cuts to several other academic centers.
Only 15 percent of the $3.75 million deficit the college needs to fill is tied to faculty and teach-ing assistants, said James South-
erland, assistant dean for business affairs.
Only the Center for Europe-an Studies gained college fund-ing — about $10,000. The largest monetary decreases hit the Cen-ter for Mexican American Stud-ies, the John L. Warfield Center for African and African Amer-ican Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Centers that are cut 28 percent or more will get a two-year window to find outside funding sources.
Carl Thorne-Thomsen, an economics senior and president of the Liberal Arts Council, said he has not seen the proposed cuts and does not know how they will affect students. He said there was no direct student in-volvement in the decisions.
“I don’t know if it would have changed anything, but it would have been helpful to have stu-dents directly involved,” he said. “But I think APAC is a pretty good representation of student and faculty needs.”
Kristen Brustad, chair of the Middle Eastern Studies Depart-ment, said cuts to the Center for Middle Eastern Studies college funds could also endanger its
federal grant money, so the cen-ter is scrambling. The center’s staff helps maintain grants and if the University does not show support for the center, the U.S. Department of Education may pass up the center for grants, Brustad said.
“We stand to lose staff who help run our programs and grants,” she said. “We’re gritting our teeth about the whole thing.”
Rice, who now teaches at Stanford University, said the central theme of her book is the importance of receiving an education and finding a life passion.
“Until my sophomore year of college, I wanted to be a pi-anist,” Rice said. “Junior year I wandered into a course on in-ternational politics, and then I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a Soviet spe-cialist. It must have been a di-vine intervention. I always tell my students to look for their passions, but sometimes they find you.”
Students should seek men-tors because a push in the right direction is almost always nec-essary to reach their goals in life, she said.
“Education is so transform-
ing, it’s the opportunity to do something you’re passionate at and do it well,” Rice said. “My life was a journey and a process. You’ll be more ful-filled by overcoming things you find difficult than doing what is easy.”
Rice represents a political sci-entist, not a politician, said Ja-son Rocen, an Austin resident who purchased one of the 375 books sold at the event.
“I come from Alabama as well, and because of this, she’s kind of iconic,” he said. “I’m a fan of political scientists who enact changes directly for the public, instead of trying to ap-pease them. When it comes down to it, the book is real-ly about her development and representing the importance of education in today’s society.”
perform as the economic reces-sion started to settle in — even the population and economic growth that Texas enjoyed put budget strains on the state’s pub-lic education and health services, McBee said. The result is a bud-get shortfall estimated as high as $25 billion.
After Republican lawmak-ers increased their majority to 48 seats in the Texas House in the midterm election, there will be little enthusiasm to spend the Rainy Day Fund, Texas’s saving account, because the state may face another shortfall in the next legislative session, he said.
Regent James Dannenbaum said legislation after the intro-duction of new business taxes in 2006 exempted more and more businesses, leaving the state few-er tax dollars.
“Part of that shortfall is not
economic activity, it’s a policy change by the Legislature — re-gardless of how you feel about it, it’s not likely to change,” Dan-nenbaum said.
Texas saved $1.2 billion from cuts to state agencies’ budgets this year, but because many ar-eas were put off-limits, 40 per-cent of the cuts came from high-er education. The UT System dropped $200 million into the state’s combined higher educa-tion contribution of $520 million. The cuts amount to $500 per stu-dent at UT’s academic institu-tions and $7,000 per student at health institutions.
McBee said in an odd way, the budget shortfall could also pres-ent an opportunity for UT to cast off regulatory burdens — elimi-nating the need for unused, un-read reports and approval for de-cisions from other governmen-tal agencies. But UT’s top priori-
ty will be to ask the Legislature for general revenue to replace the stimulus funds in the Uni-versity’s budget, he said.
How UT’s chief administra-
tors interact with the Legislature will be key to pushing the Uni-versity’s goals.
UT Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa said after the next leg-islative session begins in Jan-uary, he will start living at the Capitol for the next six months. He said UT representatives have met with 150 legislators to con-vey the interests of the UT Sys-tem campuses, and must contin-ue to express the idea that high-er education is an investment in the future.
“We will be easily accessible to legislative leadership,” he said. “It’s very important to have that presence. We’re all going to be in this together — and the regents are going to have to support us in articulating the importance of higher education.”
Regent William Eugene Pow-ell said the board should create a schedule so they can always be at the Capitol speaking with legisla-tors.
“I know that’s a time commit-ment for all of us, but I know that would be helpful,” Powell said.
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Murkowski camp says observerschallenging legitimate ballots
JUNEAU, Alaska — U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s campaign on Thursday accused observers for rival Joe Miller of challenging perfectly cast write-in ballots in an effort to drag out the heat-ed Alaska Senate race and “delay the inevitable.”
Shortly after the second day of write-in ballot counting began, a Miller observer challenged a vote for Murkowski that ap-peared to have her name spelled and printed correctly, though the “L’’ in “Lisa” was in cursive handwriting.
At another table later, at least 10 ballots in which Murkows-ki’s name appeared readable were challenged, including one in which the vote read: “Lisa Murkowski Republican.”
Miller’s campaign said observ-ers are simply challenging votes that don’t meet the strict letter of the law — including those with minor misspellings of Murkows-ki’s name or those with legibility or penmanship issues.
“The Murkowski campaign can say whatever it wants,” Chip Gerhardt, a Miller observer and attorney sent to the state by the National Republican Senatori-al Committee. “What’s going on here, our focus is on following the law.”
— The Associated Press
By Rebecca Santana & Barbara Surk
The Associated PressBAGHDAD — Iraq’s president
gave Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki the nod to form the next government Thursday after an eight-month deadlock, keeping him in his post despite a dramat-ic Sunni walkout from parliament that demonstrated the deep dis-trust between the two sides.
The walkout and the fact that it came just one day after an accord was forged to work together dealt a blow to hopes for a unified gov-ernment — especially one that en-sures continued Shiite domina-tion while giving Sunnis a role far short of the greater political pow-er they seek.
Sunni support is crucial. The Americans had been pushing for them to have a significant role, fearing that otherwise, disillu-sioned Sunnis could turn to the in-surgency, fueling new violence as the last of U.S. troops prepare to leave by the end of next year.
The power-sharing deal reached Wednesday night was heralded by some politicians as a break-through, ending the months of wrangling since the inconclusive March 7 parliament elections. But Sunnis were already accusing al-Maliki of not fulfilling promises and have warned they could pull out if they are not met.
At a press conference after the walkout, a lawmaker from the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc, Haid-er al-Mulla, did not answer when asked whether the bloc would participate in the government. In-stead, he said Iraqiya would seek “explanations from al-Maliki and State of Law over their broken commitments.”
The session was called so law-makers could take the first for-mal steps toward forming the new government by naming se-nior leadership positions. It be-gan with a show of unity, as al-Maliki and his top rival, Iraqiya’s leader Ayad Allawi, sat next to each other in the chamber, smil-ing and chatting.
The first vote went smoothly, with a Sunni from Allawi’s Iraqi-ya block, Osama al-Nujaifi, elect-ed parliament speaker. But before the vote to elect a president, about 57 Iraqiya lawmakers walked out. They had demanded that law-makers first vote to reverse a ban on three of the blocs’ members by a committee charged with root-ing out members of Saddam Hus-sein’s regime from government posts. Their demand was rejected.
Iraqiya lawmakers have said that as part of the power-shar-ing deal, the other factions agreed to get rid of the controversial De-Baathification law entirely with-in two years. Sunnis view the De-Baathification process as a thinly veiled Shiite attempt to bar Sunnis from returning to power.
Despite the walkout — which Allawi joined — lawmakers pro-ceeded with the session and elect-ed Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani as president for a second term. Tala-bani addressed the lawmakers re-maining in the parliament hall, de-claring: “Today is a day of victory, the victory of the free Iraqi will.”
He then formally requested al-Maliki form a new government. Al-Maliki has 30 days to do so, as the factions work out the allot-ment of ministry positions, includ-ing key posts like foreign affairs and the interior ministry in charge of security forces.
By Jean H. LeeThe Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea — A strong sense of pessimism shrouded the start of an economic summit of rich and emerging economies Thurs-day, with President Barack Obama and fellow world leaders arriving in Seoul sharply divided over cur-rency and trade policies.
The Group of 20 summit, held for the first time in Asia, has become the centerpiece of international efforts to revive the global economy and pre-vent future financial meltdowns.
Failure in Seoul could have se-vere consequences. The risk is that countries would try to keep their currencies artificially low to give their exporters a competitive edge in global markets. That could lead to a destructive trade war. Coun-
tries might throw up barriers to imports — a repeat of policies that worsened the Great Depression.
Hopes had been high that the G-20 — encompassing rich nations such as Germany and the U.S. as well as growing giants such as Chi-na and Brazil — could be the world forum for hashing out an economic way forward from financial crisis.
But agreement appeared elusive as the summit began, divided be-tween those such as United States that want to get China to allow its currency rise and those irate over U.S. Federal Reserve plans to pump $600 billion of new money into the sluggish American economy, effec-tively devaluing the dollar.
Obama told fellow leaders that the U.S. cannot remain a profli-gate consumer using borrowed
money and needs other coun-tries to pull their weight to fix the world economy.
“The most important thing that the United States can do for the world economy is to grow, because we continue to be the world’s larg-est market and a huge engine for all other countries to grow,” Obama said at a news conference.
Brazil’s president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, warned that such pol-icies would “bankrupt” the world.
So far, officials can’t even agree on the agenda, much less a draft statement. Government ministers and senior G-20 officials have la-bored for days without success to come up with a substantive joint statement to be issued Fri-day, G-20 summit spokesman Kim Yoon-kyung said.
Pessimism at G-20 summitover currency, trade splits
Sunni walkout hindersIraq parliament session
Karim Kadim | Associated Press
Members of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Sunni-backed coalition are seen as they walk out of Iraq’s parliament session in a protest before a vote on the presidency in Baghdad on Thursday.
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Barack Obama enters the G-20 working dinner at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday.
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All is not lost, Texas faithful. Sure, the Long-horns’ loss to Kansas State last Sunday plunged Mack Brown’s squad to a losing record for only the second time in his 13 years in Austin. But there is hope for Texas football, and his name is Cam Newton.
Yes, Newton, the star quarterback and Heis-man candidate for undefeated Auburn. Yes, Newton, the subject of this week’s allegations of academic misconduct and recruiting viola-tions involving $200,000. Yes, Newton, the man whose scandal reignited rallying cries to pay college athletes.
Allegations against Newton are only the latest in a series of incidents involving players accept-ing cash. Reggie Bush’s virtually forced forfei-ture of the Heisman Trophy and Josh Luchs’ de-tailed confession of paying athletes in October’s Sports Illustrated set the stage for the Newton saga this November.
The sum of these episodes has led some to be-
lieve that the NCAA should be regulating, rather than prohibiting, payment to players. Sam Far-ber of the sports blog Real Clear Sports argues, “[to] prevent an athlete from pursuing additional compensation as dictated by the open market cre-ates an environment vulnerable to and rife with the corruption the NCAA so desperately seeks to avoid.” To be fair, this is frequently the argument against any type of prohibition.
Still, Newton’s place as the Heisman frontrun-ner and leader of a potential national champion-ship team is a recipe for catastrophe. Should the Auburn quarterback deliver on both accounts and the allegations prove true, voices of reform will only get louder. And, though unlikely, a re-formed NCAA that allows payments to college athletes would have a significant impact on the competitive landscape of college football.
Enter the Texas Longhorns.The Associated Press reported on Wednesday
that the University of Texas Board of Regents ap-proved a recommendation granting UT President William Powers Jr. the ability to find a broadcast partner for the long-considered “Longhorn Net-work.” That partner, MSNBC has reported, is
ESPN.Modeled after the Big Ten Network, the Long-
horn Network would air cable TV programming of both athletic and nonathletic events at Texas. Unlike its counterpart, however, the Longhorn Network would operate exclusively for the Uni-versity of Texas. Said Texas athletic director De-Loss Dodds, “We felt a Texas network would work better than people seeing a 12th of Texas on a conference network.” Everything is truly bigger in Texas.
What’s the value of an exclusive network? Ac-cording to Chip Brown of the Longhorn sports site orangebloods.com, $12 million annually, the amount ESPN is offering to distribute the net-work. Add to that figure the $20 million Texas is expected to earn starting in the 2012 season for its part in the Big 12’s TV contracts, bringing the total to 32 million big ones. The Longhorn Net-work, expected to launch in August 2011, would make Texas the top TV revenue-producing school in the country.
Also, don’t forget that Texas rests atop the standings of collegiate merchandise sold, with 2010 royalties estimated at $10.1 million, as re-
ported by The Daily Texan in August.Now back to Cam Newton. Should the Auburn
quarterback’s controversy lead to a pay-for-play NCAA, the university with the deepest pockets surely stands to benefit the most. And with the recent development of the Longhorn Network, that university is most assuredly Texas.
Like the New York Yankees, whose ma-jor league baseball leading payroll is upwards of $200 million, 27 percent more than its clos-est competitor, Texas could dominate the mar-ket for college athletes. And while the Yankees’ payroll doesn’t assure them of a World Series championship every year (see Texas Rangers), they do have a tendency to make the playoffs. That is something that is in doubt for the Long-horns this year.
Whether or not you agree with paying college athletes, it’s hard to deny that the practice would benefit Texas football. So if you are a Longhorn fan, it might be time to cheer for Cam Newton and the Auburn Tigers.
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An urgent issueState officials said Wednesday that they will not
implement a new federal program aimed at reduc-ing greenhouse gas emissions, according to The Dallas Morning News. The policy, issued by the En-vironmental Protection Agency, gives states discre-tion to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from in-dustrial sources by ensuring that facilities use the best available technology in an effort to reduce emissions.
But Texas officials have said the agency lacks the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The Clean Air Act delegates the role of protecting and preserving air quality to the agency. Under the act, the EPA can limit the amount of air pollutants emit-ted by industrial sources. Nevertheless, the state has filed seven lawsuits against the EPA in the last nine months.
Though Texas is not the only state whose officials have filed lawsuits against the agency for its regula-tion of greenhouse gases, it is the only state refusing to implement the program.
Officials cite three reasons for protest in this case. Bryan Shaw, the chairman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, told The Dallas Morning News that the new policy will not yield any envi-ronmental benefits and will only raise costs for en-ergy companies and manufacturers. Shaw also said as a result of the new guidelines, Texas will “see the additional bureaucracy associated with permitting in this state and across the U.S.”
However, total greenhouse gas emissions in the United States have risen by 14 percent from 1990 to 2008, according to the EPA. Declining air qual-ity is an urgent issue that needs to be addressed, whether through the implementation of this policy or through future policies that Texas officials find more effective.
Bogus bonusThe University of Texas Investment Management
Company awarded more than $5 million in bonus-es to 30 employees Tuesday.
UTIMCO oversees profits for universities in the University of Texas and Texas A&M systems. The company is responsible for managing the largest public endowment fund in the country. The bonus-es come after a high investment return of endow-ments.
Bruce Zimmerman, UTIMCO’s CEO and chief in-vestment officer, was awarded nearly $1.2 million, double his annual salary, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
The fact that bonuses are being awarded given the current economic climate is disconcerting, and the level of those bonuses — $5 million — is appall-ing.
Awarding excessive bonuses is nothing new to UTIMCO. The company was criticized by many, in-cluding Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dew-hurst, in 2008 after awarding $3.4 million in bonus-es to employees, including $1 million to Zimmer-man. As a result, the company’s chair, Robert Rowl-ing, resigned in February 2009. When the bonuses were awarded, the endowment fund was down 27 percent.
Despite the criticism, UTIMCO awarded employ-ees another $3.4 million in bonuses last year even with a $4.4 billion decline in the endowments, ac-cording to The Associated Press.
This year, investment returns for the 12-month period that ended on June 30 totaled 17 percent, which board members said was 6 percentage points higher than benchmark returns for real estate, inter-national stocks and other asset classes, according to the AP.
Though board members feel the company’s per-formance merits the bonuses, it is absurd to award millions to employees for simply doing their jobs.
I am told that I am an aggressive typ-ist, but I prefer to call it “typing with pas-sion.” I find the soothing pitter-patter of the keys to be comforting. Typing rep-resents more than just the appearance of characters across the blank document on my computer screen — it is the swirl-ing of ideas, morphing, evolving and un-dergoing revision after revision until my thoughts and utterances come together in perfect harmony.
There are those who do not share my love for the thin, black keys that furnish the silver glory of my MacBook Pro. In particular, I am referring to last week’s study in the news magazine The Week, which mourns society’s tendency to type rather than write. The study’s authors even go so far as to say that the replace-ment hinders brain development. Hand-written letters and notes boast a personal touch, but that touch should be reserved for a birthday card or sympathy notes — occasions that require such sentiment. A keyboard is the practical college student’s best friend.
The first benefit one gains from typing is expediency. The efficiency with which one can type notes in class allows for a more comprehensive review come exam time. The article claims that typing cre-ates a lack of lucidity. But the opportu-nity to elaborate is more prevalent on the computer, as the opportunity to edit and clarify is exponentially more simple. Additionally, If you didn’t hear some-
thing your professor said in his morn-ing lecture, you simply leave a comment in your notes reminding you to go back and obtain the information from a friend without having to worry about how much space you should leave for the in-
formation.There is no chance of losing your spi-
ral notebook or that piece of paper you borrowed from the girl in your sociolo-gy class if your computer is your edu-cational tool of choice. You never have to worry about your pen running out of ink or the tip of your pencil breaking. A computer will stick by your side, as long as you treat it with respect. It will keep your subjects organized with a single click, and if you happen to forget where
you stored a document, your comput-er ’s search feature will help you track it down.
The true clincher that incites my love for typed text versus handwritten words is the legibility factor. I’ve tried print and script writing time after time, but it always ends in the same way — I can never read what I wrote. If you’ve been blessed with sorority girl handwriting where all of your letters are the same size and perfectly shaped, then more power to you. But those genes are just not in my DNA, and after accepting that fact, I have come to embrace the beauty of the fonts offered in Microsoft Word, particularly Cambria.
The best part of all is if you truly ap-preciate a fresh sheet of white paper, the tangible experience that comes with ruf-fling the pages and dog-earing tabs, you can still have it. When you complete your finalized document, or at any point along the path to it, you can print it out in a matter of seconds. And speaking of sec-onds, you can print a second copy if you so desire. Or a third. You can even send it to a friend halfway across the world.
Professors today expect assignments to be typed, even for foreign language class-es. Company heads in the working world expect just the same. It seems only logi-cal to forge a solid relationship with your keyboard and become a typing master in college. Appreciate the technology that decorates the desk in front of you, and don’t discount its glory.
Epstein is a Plan II and business freshman.
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By Lauren GiudiceDaily Texan Staff
The Longhorns are a long way from home in Chapel Hill, N.C., for the first round of the NCAA Championship against James Madison University.
After a tough loss to Oklahoma in the Big 12 playoffs, the Long-horns are, once again, looking to their defense to lead the way. They haven’t made it to the sec-ond round of the NCAA Tourna-ment since 2008.
“We need to be really in tune defensively,” said head coach Chris Petrucelli. “JMU is a little tricky.”
The Longhorns, who received an at-large bid in the tournament, hold a 6-8-1 record in NCAA Championship action and have advanced to the Round of 16 three times since 2004.
With only seven goals allowed and five shutouts in conference play, Petrucelli is confident that the defense, led by Big 12 second team senior Erica Campanelli, can give the Longhorns an advantage.
“All year we have been strong defensively,” Petrucelli said. “We have been stingy defensively, we’ve been hard to score against. We have been very organized in the back, and I think that’s been our biggest strength this year.”
James Madison won its third straight Colonial Athletic Asso-ciation championship this season and are coming off an eight-game undefeated streak.
Teresa Rynier leads the team with 29 points off nine goals and 11 assists and the team has
eight shutouts this season. In 21 games, the Dukes have scored 38 goals and Texas has scored 29 in 20 games.
With JMU goalie Diane Wsza-lek, the Longhorns will have to pick it up offensively.
“I think a big key for us is how dangerous are we going forward and really taking advantage of the opportunities that we get,” Petrucelli said.
Petrucelli said the team could be better going forward and have
been practicing keeping posses-sion of the ball and staying fresh. Although disappointed with their first round exit in the Big 12 playoffs, the team is not focusing on that loss.
“I think all year long we
have looked forward, and we have talked about not look-ing back,” Petrucelli said. “We were disappointed with our play against Oklahoma, but we got past it and now we’re moving forward again.”
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By Bri ThomasDaily Texan Staff
After joining Trinity Universi-ty’s 100-mile running club, Lori Smith became one of six mem-bers on the Tiger’s track and field team.
Though the team’s records and times were almost always beat by bigger schools such as A&M, Smith’s love for running spurred her on to encourage her son to run, which is how Collin Smith ended up at Texas.
When Collin Smith was in el-ementary school, his physical education teacher wanted him to be more involved, so he rec-ommended the Hershey Track and Field Games, a competition Smith ended up competing in up until high school.
“I would ask my parents to take me to the track when I was young, just so I could run a mile,” Smith said. “I loved it.”
In middle school, Smith con-tinued his running but did not get serious about the sport un-til he was a sophomore. At that time, a local athletic trainer, Chris Shrader, became interest-ed in Smith’s ability.
“He would train select high school students on separate times outside of school practic-es,” Smith said. “His training is different, and I just took to it.”
After this special attention, Smith was able to run a 4:15 mile his senior year, a great re-lief to a high school career that had not gotten him as far as he had hoped.
“I dropped five seconds off my mile in that race,” Smith said. “It was definitely
a breakthrough.”His senior year also brought
on a trip to the state cross coun-try meet, although a chance at state track and field was tak-
en away when he was beat by a couple of tenths of a second during the regional meet.
By Julie ThompsonDaily Texan Staff
The Longhorns will compete in the NCAA South Central Regional in Waco on Saturday, a meet where the team’s performance will deter-mine whether they are able to com-pete in the NCAA Championships later this month.
Texas is coming off a disappoint-ing finish at the Big 12 meet on Oct. 30. Head coach Steve Sisson said that individual athletes struggled at the conference meet, but those struggles are part of how the sport of cross coun-try works.
“Fifth place is just not acceptable for us, to be in the top 15 in the coun-try we should do better than that and we need to continue to do bet-ter,” Sisson said. “I think we learned from this, and we will do better at the regional meet.”
The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association pre-dicts the Longhorns will place first at the region meet. The association has Arkansas, Rice, Texas A&M and Ste-phen F. Austin following Texas.
The South Central Region in-cludes the eastern part of Tex-as, all of Louisiana and Arkan-sas. Eight other regions in the U.S. will also be having meets to deter-mine which teams can go on to the
NCAA Championships.In order to earn an automatic bid
to the NCAA Championships, the Longhorns must place in the top two in the Region meet. There are also 12 at-large bids in play, so if Tex-as finishes third they still have a pos-sible bid.
“My goal is to win,” Sisson said. “My goal is to win in such a way that folks go, ‘Oh my goodness, Tex-as is really that good.’ It is an impor-tant statement as a team to make.”
Junior runner Mia Behm said that the team’s difficulties at the conference meet could actually bene-fit them at the region meet.
“We are real-ly pumped know-ing we are so high-ly ranked going into the region meet,” Behm said. “But I
think conference is good because it is kind of a reality check for us and we realized if we don’t stay focused we won’t always perform at our op-timal level.”
The team hopes to make a state-ment at the region meet, then go for their ultimate goal — a national championship.
“We are just really excited to have a good long distance program,” Behm said. “That combined with the fact that we are really fit and really want it combines to make the per-fect storm.”
By Chris HummerDaily Texan Staff
On each end of the tee box, there are 12 ready competitors preparing to hit a perfect drive and put the pressure on the other team. Although in this instance the circumstances are a little different from a normal tournament because all of the participants on this day have one thing in common: They’re all Longhorns.
They are all participating in the sixth annual Weis Cup that is being held this weekend at the Texas Golf Club. The Weis Cup is a tournament between the current Texas squad and a group of for-mer alumni, including LPGA Tour play-ers, future Tour players, former all-
Americans and people that just love the game and their school.
The tournament is dedicated to for-mer Longhorn head coach Pat Weis, who established the program in 1969 as a club team and served as coach un-til 1993, while playing a prominent role four years later in earning the program Division 1 status.
“We had nothing, started out with nothing. We were just a little family building out program, happier than the kids out there today,” Weis said.
Despite starting out with little, she managed to carve a successful career Courtesy of UT Athletics
Former coach Pat Weis, left, and current head coach Martha Richards are all smiles as they prepare for the Weis Cup. Weis established the Texas women’s golf program in 1969.
Athletes, alumni compete in weekend tournament
CROSS COUNTRY
WOMEN’S GOLF
Road to nationals goes through Waco for Texas runners
Smith drawn to sport by mother
Courtesy of UT Athletics
Collin Smith runs in a cross country meet earlier this season. His love for running started with his mother’s encouragement.
Volleyball heads to Lubbock hoping to extend win streak
The seventh-ranked Longhorns hit the road for the second time this week to take on Texas Tech in Lub-bock on Saturday.
Texas will look to extend its win-ning streak to 11 matches against the Red Raiders, who sit at dead last in the Big 12 standings. The Long-horns haven’t lost to their in-state conference foes since 2000.
Senior outside hitter Juliann Fau-cette, junior setter Michelle Koch-er and freshman libero Sarah Palm-er are all coming off career highs in the team’s Wednesday night victo-ry against Baylor in Waco. Faucette notched 30 kills — less than a week after tying her previous career high of 28 — while Kocher tallied 59 as-sists and Palmer recorded 26 digs.
Junior outside hitter Amber Rob-erson, who is second on the team in kills per set behind Faucette with 3.04, is a game time decision. Senior outside hitter Lauren Dickson will likely get the starting nod if Rober-son sits.
In the only other matchup be-tween the two teams this year, the Longhorns swept the Red Raiders 25-13, 25-14, 25-14 in a mid-October game at Gregory Gym.
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Erica Campanelli dribbles the ball down field against the Sooners. Texas will take on James Madison in round one of the NCAA Championships.
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‘‘My goal is to win.”
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Resilience. It is a quality the Longhorns have learned to identify themselves with in this year’s off-season, and with this resilience, the team has grown closer and stronger.
“We have great team chemis-try,” said head coach Gail Goes-tenkors. “Everyone loves the game of basketball. So every-day when they show up they’re ready to play; they want to be better.”
So now the question remains, will the Longhorns be able to apply their newfound resilience and chemistry every game? The No. 17 Longhorns get their chance to prove they can to-night as they open their regular season at home against Missis-sippi Valley State.
“We love opening at home,” Goestenkors said. “There is a comfort level at home. It gives our crowd a chance to get a good look at the team and gives us a chance to progress.”
Texas is a youthful squad made up of six fresh faces, in-cluding freshman guard Chas-sidy Fussell, the only freshman featured in last Friday’s exhibi-tion lineup. The Longhorns re-turned only three starters to their roster this season, Ash-ley Gayle, Ashleigh Fontenette and Kathleen Nash, who have proved to be leaders, both on and off the court.
“I look at all the upperclass-men, they will always help you,” Fussell said. “If you have a question, they are going to an-swer it. If they don’t know the answer they go to coach.”
Coping with the loss of soph-omore Cokie Reed to injury, Texas was forced to find a new identity. The run-and-gun as well as fast break proved to be the squad’s new friend, as evi-dent from their exhibition game rout of Trinity, 132-38.
“We’ve pushed the ball in transition. That’s going to be who we are,” Goestenkors said. “Some people are going to try
and slow us down, but we’ve got a seven-second break that we run all the time, where you are pushing the ball, helping them get them into the mind-set that we are going to look to score really early in transition.”
Freshman Anne Marie Har-tung proved to be vital on both offense and defense for Tex-
as last Friday, as she posted a game-high 26 points and 13 re-bounds.
In the Longhorns’ first meet-ing against the Devilettes, to-night’s game will feature two squads who rely on their run-ning game to compensate for their height.
Mississippi Valley State fea-
tures junior guard Ka’Neshia Smith who boasts an impres-sive 545 career points along with 294 rebounds.
“I think it will be a really en-tertaining game because they love to run as well,” Geosten-kors said. “They are very ath-letic. They’re short. It’s going to be a very fun game.”
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“There was a silver lining to all that, though,” Smith said. “I end-ed up here.”
Smith’s talent allowed him to look at several schools, but a ro-mantic interest could have helped him decide on Texas.
Smith’s girlfriend, Megan Vasquez, is part of Texas’ wom-en’s track program and suggested Smith to the men’s assistant coach, John Hayes.
“Megan told him about an up-coming meet,” Smith said. “He
ended up coming to watch me race, we met, and it all worked out from there.”
This season, cross country has been really lifting off. Individual-ly, Smith was able to place 10th at the Princeton Invitational in Oc-tober, and the team recently fin-ished fourth overall at the Big 12 Championships.
“I didn’t do so well last year, but I’m able to travel with the team this year, so it’s cool,” Smith said. “We’ve traveled to conference, now hopefully on to regionals then nationals.”
highlighted by leading the team to 11 top 10 national finishes and earning coach of the year honors in 1987 and 1988.
However, the impact of Weis stretches well beyond the 18 holes of the course. She has left a lifelong impression on her former players, and they come back in flocks dur-ing the reunion to catch up.
“[It’s] a tribute to coach, school and program to get the num-ber turnout we do. Other schools have a hard time getting the num-bers for reunions that we do,” said Kate Golden, assistant coach and a former Longhorn.
The large turnout that this week-end’s event gets makes a great at-mosphere, and there is new blood at the tournament every year.
“There are two or three people coming back for the first time since the ’80s. It’s a surprise every year who will show up. We have pretty much covered the years I was there and even into [former Texas coach Susan] Watkins’ years,” Weis said.
This unity and feeling of Tex-as pride expressed from the alum-ni is what helps make this tourna-ment as fun and entertaining as it is to all of the participants, including the current Longhorns.
“Their participation shows how much they want this program to succeed. It’s good to know that there is a group of individuals that
knows what we’re doing. It’s great to have their support,” said sopho-more Katelyn Sepmoree.
The feelings of good will only last for so long. When they step out on the tee box, it becomes a competition.
“The play gets really competi-tive. There is a lot of needling and jabbing. It’s definitely a sporting event,” Golden said.
For the players, the tourna-ment isn’t all seriousness. Part of the tournament is the slightly loos-er atmosphere it presents as com-pared to the stress level of a Big 12 competition.
“We got to talk smack — don’t usually get to do that on a golf course. Although I don’t want all tournaments to be like that, but it was fun for this particular atmo-sphere,” Sepmoree said.
This tournament has been very competitive since its installment and even ended in a tie last year, al-though the final score of the com-petition has been a little one-sided.
“The youngsters have only beat-en us one time, but they are getting closer,” Weis said.
No matter the final total, the tournament is an excellent way for people to catch up or create new friendships.
“It’s a really good thing we do,” Weis said. “I know how much the players love coming back to see each other and renewing the com-panionships they had years ago.”
Weis: Coach ‘left lifelong impression’ on former players, draws turnout
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Kathleen Nash stretches past a Trinity defender to score a lay up. Texas beat Trinity in their exhibition game 132-38.
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By Gerald RichDaily Texan Staff
Smoke licks across the black-ened top of the yellow school bus of Old School BBQ & Grill like it was a normal day for serving up barbecue. But inside owner Dan Parrott’s mind, he was fine-tuning the special menu for Bill White’s send-off party in Houston this weekend.
“They’re going to have their socks blown off,” he chuckles and says in his deep, slightly raspy South-ern voice.
Parrott greets some cus-tomers out of the window from the driver ’s seat be-fore he steps out of the bus (aka “Big Mama”) and grabs his usual pack of Djarum cigarettes. Then he eases onto a bench before lighting one up.
“ A n d re a [ W h i t e , B i l l White’s wife,] heard about [Old School] after one of our staffers ate there until she said she couldn’t eat anymore,” ex-plains Bill White spokeswom-an Annalee Gulley. “She’s been wanting to get Dan to Houston ever since.”
Considering where Parrott, his son Danny and friend Trey Cook came from almost a year ago when they first opened near MLK and Airport boulevards in the freezing Austin winter, Bill White’s party for his closest friends and supporters is a mas-
sive stepping stone.It was during those first few
months, when he sometimes saw four customers a day, that Parrott said he met some of their first regulars, including three UT students who are joining
Big Mama in Houston to help out at the party. White even de-layed his return-home party for one week to accommodate Old School’s schedule.
Now Parrott says he gets dis-appointed calls when he’s off ca-tering private parties and not as his usual location.
“[White’s party was resched-uled] partly because of the icon-ic nature of [Old School],” said Talib Abdullahi, a liberal arts ju-nior and one of Old School’s fa-
natics who is going to Hous-ton. “It takes a lot of time and preparation but it’s made in this shabby location. Another part is that people have come to know Dan’s humble entrepreneurship. He’s a very charismatic person
who can connect with anyone.”But before Parrott was serv-
ing up his “tasty brisket” and “killer mac and cheese,” as de-scribed by several Yelpers, he was deeply involved in the hos-pitality business for roughly 35 years — prior to when he says it became trendy. He studied at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris be-fore coming back to the states to work at 56 restaurants and do numerous consultations for start-up restaurants.
“People forgot to be hospita-ble somewhere along the line,” says Parrott while letting the smoke billow through his thick mustache and beard. “When I started, customers were used to mom’s cooking, and when
you went out it was really something. Throwing away $120 worth of potato sal-ad that I don’t like doesn’t make me a hero; it makes me old school.”
It’s that kind of attitude, as well as his generosity of pro-viding a free meal or two to regulars, that’s made him no-table to many students on campus. Parrott adds that Anthony Bourdain, a well-known Travel Channel host, chef and author, first dis-covered Old School in late June after many students told the celebrity to vis-it the yellow school bus food trailer after he took a walk around campus.“There’s something that’s
much more important to me than money: time.” says Parrott before he finally sets down the cigarette. “You can always make more money but time is some-thing that you can’t replace. I could give a rat’s ass if they spend $30 or $40. We want to make [their time at Old School] valuable. That’s why we’re go-ing to make this party extra spe-cial and bring some of our big-gest fans along.”
Jon Foley | Daily Texan Staff
Dan Parrott, owner of Old School BBQ & Grill, will be joined by three UT students this weekend as he ventures down to Houston to cater an event for Bill White’s campaign workers and supporters.
White campaign hosts BBQ bus
By Alex WilliamsDaily Texan Staff
“Tamara Drewe,” adapt-e d f r o m t h e P o s y S i m -monds graphic novel of the same name, has an immense amount of talent on both sides of the camera.
The enormous cast is packed with familiar faces and most-ly enjoyable characters, and director Stephen Frears does his best to prevent the film from getting bogged down in the convoluted web of roman-tic entanglements that makes up the storyline.
But despite everyone’s best efforts, the film barely works when you’re watching it, and most of the details dissipate as soon as the end credits roll.
Things get going when the titular character (Gemma Ar-terton) returns to the small farming community she left years ago with a new nose and career as a journalist. The gossip mill quickly begins turning and the film spends the rest of its runtime toeing the line between British com-edy of manners and gaudy af-ternoon soap opera.
The film’s cast is both a blessing and a curse, filled with funny characters that play off each other well and keep the movie from becom-ing dull. Unfortunately, with nearly a dozen key charac-ters, the film feels more than bit cluttered at times, and gets frustrating when the hand-ful of compelling stories get swept aside so the film’s two worst characters can get some screen time.
These characters, two gos-sipy teenage girls, are irratio-
nal, irritating and frighten-ingly realistic. While the char-acters are completely true to life, they still grind the film to a screeching halt every time they’re on screen, and their antics get more than a little trying by the time they’re putting marriages in jeopar-dy in pursuit of meeting a celebrity crush.
Another downside is the film’s story, which makes it clear in the first half hour how the characters will be paired off in the final act, and the rest of the film almost feels like it’s going through the motions as a result. While things get a little darker than expected, the final results are completely unsurpris-ing, and the film takes far too long in reaching its foregone conclusion.
“Tamara Drewe” isn’t a bad movie. It’s charming, unde-manding and well-acted. Un-fortunately, it’s so taken with its characters and their ro-mantic exploits that it forgets to instill the slightest bit of creativity in its story, making for a disappointingly insignif-icant, predictable film.
Grade: C
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Gemma Arterton is radiant as the titular character in “Tamara Drewe.”
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— Dan Parrot, Owner of Old School BBQ
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10Friday, November 12, 2010
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Beyonce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Megan Fox and Anne Hatha-way are among the slew of stars said to have done a detoxifying cleanse in the past either to drop weight quickly or to detoxify the body — or both.
The Master Cleanse is a pop-ular fast that is meant to de-toxify the system, give a per-son more energy and help shed weight. However, the cleanse may have detrimental effects on the body and mind despite its quick results.
The Master Cleanse calls for the practitioner to subsist on a drink of water, lemon juice, ma-ple syrup and cayenne pepper for a minimum of 10 days — and eat nothing. During this 10-day period, the person should drink six to 12 glasses of the beverage throughout the day, wedged be-tween a laxative at night and a salt-water flush in the morning.
If you’re not eating food for 10 days, you’re definitely going to lose weight. But if you return to your old eating habits after the cleanse, you are likely to put the weight you lost back on.
“You know how people do a house cleaning, a spring clean-ing? With their cars, they get oil changes. With the computer, they get them defragmented. When do you ever do that with your body? When do you give your body a chance to have a spring cleaning,” said Matt Shook, own-er of organic and raw food bar The Daily Juice.
The Master Cleanse gained popularity in 1976 when Stan-ley Burroughs, a practitioner of alternative health methods, wrote a book called “The Master Cleanser” to teach people how to cleanse their bodies to rid them of toxins and illnesses. A varia-tion of the book, “Lose Weight, Have More Energy & Be Happi-er in 10 Days,” written by Peter Glickman in 2004, popularized the diet again.
Neither Burroughs nor Glick-man is a health professional, but they both believed in natu-ral remedies for healing different ailments in the body. Burroughs’ book says that through following the Master Cleanse program, all illness and disease will go away.
He recommends to practice the Master Cleanse when sick-ness has developed, when the digestive system needs to be cleaned or rested, when being overweight has become a prob-lem and/or when better diges-
tion is needed.In their books, Burroughs
and Glickman say that by eat-ing something with artificial preservatives, colors or flavors, we are taking in so many toxins each day that our bodies cannot eliminate all of them. Through cleansing the body by drinking the mixture of lemon juice, ma-ple syrup, cayenne pepper and water, the body is able to pro-cess the fat the toxins are stored in and excrete them over a 10-to-14-day period. Burroughs’ book explains that lemons are a rich source of vitamins and miner-als and have been used to treat stomach ulcers for decades. The maple syrup has a large variety of minerals and vitamins as well as sugars to give the body ener-gy. The cayenne pepper is used to break up mucus and increase warmth in the body and adds many B and C vitamins.
“The first five or six days there are a lot of toxins being flushed into the blood stream,” Shook said. “You’re not making your body digest food. You feel a lot of toxins in your blood. You feel really heavy and lethargic. But after that, it’s like the sun comes out, you feel like an angel on earth. You feel as light as air, your mind is super clear, you feel very energetic.”
All three locations of The Dai-
ly Juice sell the Master Cleanse drink by the gallon, so people who are on the go can still fol-low the Master Cleanse by buy-ing the premade drink.
“The Master Cleanse is a way to give people, give their bodies a chance to actually take some time to clean out,” Shook said.
Although the idea of a kind of “spring cleaning” for the body sounds like a good thing, we don’t need an extreme diet to cleanse our insides, said Betha-ny Dario, a registered dietitian at University Health Services.
Dario said that healthy peo-ple already have a built-in detox-ification system — the liver, kid-neys, lungs and skin. She says that exercise is a built-in detoxi-fication system as well.
“When we sweat, we release toxins through the skin,” Dar-io said. “It’s another reason that we should all focus on the be-havior of routine healthy exer-cise for health.”
A cleanse might not be neces-sary for eliminating toxins from the body, and it can actually be harmful, she said.
Dario said that when diets or cleanses fail, the dieters or cleans-ers often tell themselves that they have failed. Shame and/or guilt are, in effect, the results.
“When an individual attempts to restrict food, it is highly prob-able the individual will start to be obsessive over the food and eventually end up overeating on it,” Dario said. “The general pop-ulation seems to think that obe-sity and eating disorders are the right and left wings of nutrition, but I’d like to suggest both can be a result of food restriction.”
By Alex WilliamsDaily Texan Staff
On paper, “Morning Glory” sounds like a movie that would be easy to hate.
The story of a down-on-her-luck producer coming to reju-venate a low-rated morning talk show sounds like a not particu-larly original twist on every un-derdog movie ever made. But somehow, “Morning Glory” is effortlessly enjoyable; a light, funny chick flick that knows ex-actly what’s expected of it and then ex-ceeds those expectations with flying colors.
Rachel Mc-Adams leads a spectacular cast as Becky Fuller, who starts the film as a charac-ter we’ve all seen before — a perpetu-ally single workaholic who can’t put down her cell phone or talk about anything but her job. But her unlikely knack for physical comedy and pervasive likability not only anchors the movie, but elevates the character.
In fact, the entire cast is firing on all cylinders. “The A-Team’s” Patrick Wilson makes the film’s unavoidable romantic sub-plot surprisingly painless, com-bined with a script that makes the most of his easy charm and refuses to dwell on the roman-tic angst that pervades so many other films of its ilk.
However, the real star here is Harrison Ford. It’s been 13 years since Ford appeared in a truly enjoyable movie (the last being
1997’s goofy but fun “Air Force One”), and it’s apparent in ev-ery scene how relieved he is to finally be reunited with a good script. Mike Pomeroy, Ford’s eternally cranky character, is the film’s best-written charac-ter, and Ford plays the hell out of him, stealing every scene and reminding the audience why he’s a Hollywood icon.
Diane Keaton shines as Col-leen Peck, a co-anchor whose es-calating competition with Mike
to see who can be a b igger diva provides some of the film’s biggest laughs.
T h e r e ’ s not much to “Morning Glo-ry” besides the cast. The script i s u n e x c e p -tional, funny and heartfelt where it needs to be but nev-er stands out. Director Rog-
er Michell is equally serviceable, keeping the story moving with-out calling attention to himself and displaying an uncanny eye for sharp comedic timing.
Ultimately, “Morning Glo-ry” is the movie equivalent of comfort food. It’s endlessly en-tertaining, boasting an appeal-ing cast, an upbeat, pop-music soundtrack and has very little on its mind beyond entertain-ing the audience. It may not be looking for awards, and it may not be one of the best movies of the year, but it’s witty, spectac-ularly acted and wholly recom-mendable.
Grade: B
By Abby JohnstonDaily Texan Staff
In recent years, Austin has wel-comed a new annual tradition as fall reluctantly settles over the city.
Since 2003 the East Austin Studio Tour has demystified the largely private work of art-ists, allowing audiences to ex-perience processes and gain in-sight directly from the source. For nine days, the culturally in-tune populous of Austin scat-ters through east side galleries and work spaces for the chance to buy from, interact with and learn from local art authorities.
E.A.S.T. is not a tour in the traditional sense. There are no group leaders, headsets, quiet halls or critical curators. Rath-er, the self-guided and explor-atory event seeks to give the public a hands-on experience of their own. E.A.S.T. events predominantly occur on two tour weekends, but events will be held in the evenings of the week in between.
Studios will open their doors from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on both weekends, allowing tour partic-ipants to experience the creative environment that artists thrive in on a day-to-day basis. Exhibition galleries that display the art will be open during the same hours.
Original work and exhibitions created specifically for E.A.S.T., called Happenings, will take place
throughout the entire nine days of the tour. Happenings range from performance art to demon-strations and lectures by local art-ists. They are designed to be more participatory than exhibits.
E.A.S.T. is organized by non-profit art promotions group Big Medium. Artists ranging from glass blowers to painters apply directly to the group to partic-ipate in the event, but the selec-tion process is less about exclu-sion and more about authenticity.
“This is a community event, so we’re trying to make it about the community and give a pic-ture of the artists working over here,” said Big Medium director Shea Little. “We get a little selec-tive when it comes to artists just coming in to set up shop and try-ing to festivalize the event. We don’t want people coming in just for one weekend, we want to rep-resent the people who are work-ing here.”
After attending east side art openings and coffee shop art events, Little began brainstorm-ing bigger ways to promote these underrepresented artists.
“The basic goal is to promote the artists and create a way for the general public to experience the art,” Little said. “There are artists looking for a way to con-nect to the community, and we wanted to help give them that opportunity.”
The event began with 28 par-
ticipating exhibitors. By the next year, the number of studios dou-bled. This year E.A.S.T. will fea-ture 150 artists and studios. The tour, which began as a sin-gle weekend and a few days of events, expanded in 2009 to in-clude a second weekend because of the program’s growth.
“By the third or fourth year, it had become too big for one weekend,” Little said. “We had too many people trying to see everything. It became too much of a rush.”
Visual artist Liliana Wilson has watched E.A.S.T. grow from the inside, participating each year since its start. The Chilean paint-er has recently exhibited her work in San Antonio and New Mexico, and will bring some of the pieces from these shows back to the tour.
Wilson said she enjoys partici-pating in the studio tour largely for the local camaraderie.
“A lot of times you’re work-ing in the studio by yourself, so it’s nice to have people come by and see your work,” Wilson said. “You get to meet a lot of people that are coming from very differ-ent places in life, which is helpful because it can be a lonely profes-sion sometimes. I enjoy meeting local people and local artists.”
Wilson, who explains her ex-hibits as more of a party than a stuffy art show, seeks to bring her Latin American culture into more
than just her work. Her show this year will feature traditional South American food and music by Trio Valendoza.
She said she also looks forward to a new element in the tour that will allow specific times for exhib-itors to have the chance to leave their posts and see the works of other participating artists.
For new tour-goers, Big Medi-um has provided catalogues at various local businesses and an iPhone application mapping stu-dios by medium and providing a searchable artist database. Lit-tle cautions that although there is a lot to see, getting overly ambi-tious should be avoided.
“Seeing everything isn’t the point of the tour,” Little said. “The idea is to find things that in-spire or interest you. We encour-age people to take their time, re-search and take things at a slow-er pace.”
WHAT: East Austin Studio Tour
WHERE: Various locations around East Austin
WHEN: Saturday, Nov. 21
WEb: Eastaustinstudiotour.com
TICKETS: Free event. Pick up event catalogues at Justine’s, Whole Foods, Domy Books, East Side Pies, Hot Mama’s Espresso Bar
Shannon Kintner | Daily Texan Staff
Local artists, such as Liliana Wilson, will display their own artwork within their homes as part of the East Austin Studio Tour during this weekend and next. Maps of participating neighborhoods can be found online.
Tour features ‘E.A.S.T.’ side artists
HEALTHYHOOK
By Addie Anderson
Detox diet gains popularity; experts question side effects
Photo illustration by Shannon Kintner | Daily Texan Staff
The Master Cleanse, consisting of water, maple syrup, lemon juice and cayenne pepper, may rid the body of toxins and help with weight loss, but many dieticians claim it has harmful effects.
box offICE REvIEWMorning glory
Well-cast film breaks chick flick stereotypes
‘‘The movie equivalent of comfort food.”
— Alex Williams Daily Texan staff
Courtesy of Paramount Pictures
The cast, which includes Patrick Wilson and Harrison Ford, is the highlight of “Morning Glory.”
