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Vote todayFind your polling location at the Travis County Clerk’s website.http://bit.ly/traviscountyvote

Election Night watch partyUT Hook the Vote and the Department of Government will host an election night watch party in the UT Tower. Associate professor Sean Theriault will provide analysis on results. Main 212. 7:00 p.m - 11:30 p.m.

Distinguished Speaker SeriesBarry Salzberg, CEO of tax and consulting firm Deloitte LLP, is part of the McCombs School’s distinguished speaker series. UTC 2.102A. 5:30-6:30 p.m.

In 1983 President Ronald Reagan signs a bill to create Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

— Mack BrownHead football coach

Expert panel on diabetesHook the Cure hosts a panel of experts on medical and cultural aspects of diabetes. Union 3.116. 7-9 p.m.

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“The lack of produc-tion in the red zone has been unbeliev-able. That percent-

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President who?Beauford H. Jester Center-WestPossession of Alcohol by a Minor: A UT staff member reported a UT student was passed out in the hallway outside a 10th floor dormitory room. The officers located the subject and noted he was wearing evidence on the front of his shirt that he had experienced an adverse physical reaction to the over-consumption of alcohol. The student was asked who the president of the United States was and he stated, “Not I.” As the student was entering his room with the officers’ aid, the officers observed two bottles of alcohol, a shot glass and glass mixer sitting on a table. The student looked at the bottles, then at the officers, and stated, “That will be a problem.” The officers had already determined the student was under the legal age of 21.Occurred on Sunday at 5:20 a.m.

Campus watch

Midterms marked by ‘hot ticket’ Increase in early voting implies highinterest level

Erika Rich | Daily Texan Staff

Technical troubleshooters for the Travis County Clerks Office David Dale and Derek Singleton set up polling booths at the Univeristy Co-op on Monday.

Parties clash over accusations of bias at Travis County polling centers

Samuel Bean, Beki Halpon, and Karon Rilling take part in a rally supporting Proposition 1 at City Hall. The legislation, up for vote today, proposes a $90 million overhaul of bike and pedestrian road facilities.

Andrew TorreyDaily Texan Staff

Hometown hero physics professor awarded for work

Cut foreign language programs revived

Eiichiro KomatsuPhysics professor

By Audrey WhiteDaily Texan Staff

Republicans and Democrats are both certain that record-high ear-ly voting totals in Travis County indicate support for their respec-tive party’s candidates, and both are fighting to get voters out to the polls today.

According to Travis County re-cords, about 134,000 people vot-ed early this year, up from 99,000 in the last midterm election in 2006. Usually, about 50 percent of the electorate votes early, so the county is expecting vote totals to reach at least 250,000, said Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir. Statewide, early voting totals are up 61 percent from 2006, accord-ing to records from the Secretary of State.

“We’ve got a hot ticket this year,” DeBeauvoir said. “There are races that are competitive starting right there at the top, and you can mark your way down the ballot with tight races.”

The Travis County Democrat-ic and Republican parties will both have volunteers working at the county’s 211 voter precincts, as well as phone banking and reaching out to Election Day vot-ers with signs and personal in-teractions. Polls show incumbent Republican Governor Rick Per-ry ahead of Democrat Bill White by about 12 points, according to a statewide newspaper poll, but Democratic Party representatives said they are confident the results will favor them.

By Anna Fata & Vidushi ShrimaliDaily Texan Staff

Austin residents will decide Tuesday whether a $90 million bond proposal to fund road im-provements and build sidewalks and bike lanes is an effective so-lution to the city’s transportation problems.

Get Austin Moving, a group that supports Proposition 1, held a final rally Monday at City Hall Plaza to lay out the reasons behind its sup-port for the package and to thank

supporters.Representatives from the organi-

zation and other groups in favor of the proposition said the improve-ments are necessary for the city.

“It’s going to pass,” said Glenn Gadbois, a Get Austin Moving vol-unteer. “What I wish is that we get the people of Austin to vote for it, to get this trend of multimodal trans-portation going.”

George Cofer, executive direc-tor of the Hill Country Conservan-cy, said the proposition is a need-

ed solution for the city’s current traffic congestion and that the im-provements would connect East and West Austin, which have been separated by Interstate Highway 35 since its construction in the 1950s.

“It’s good for the businesses of Austin,” Cofer said. “It addresses water and air pollution. Proposi-tion 1 begins to bring the city back together.”

Cofer said Austin voters do not

By Shivam PurohitDaily Texan Staff

Physics professor Eiichiro Ko-matsu remembers listening to sto-ries as a child about the late Hideki Yukawa, Japan’s first Nobel Lau-reate in physics. He never thought he would one day be awarded the honor-ary Nishinomiya-Yukawa Memorial Prize for physics.

“My father was the vice principal of an elementary school in Nishinomiya, [Ja-pan], where a stone monument com-memorating Yuka-wa’s achievements was,” Komatsu said. He said he often visited the monu-ment as a child and was impressed by Yukawa’s accomplishments.

Komatsu, director of UT’s Texas Cosmology Center, was honored with the distinction for his studies of the early universe as a member

of NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe science team.

Using the satellite, Komatsu and his team measured the radia-tion left from the Big Bang to gain a deeper understanding of the ear-ly universe, he said.

Since the mission was launched in 2001, the team has mapped the Cosmic Microwave Back-ground radiation to produce a complete map of the micro-wave sky, calculat-ing the approximate age of the universe and determining the approximate per-centage composition

of dark energy in the universe, ac-cording to NASA.

Komatsu will travel to Nishi-nomiya, his birthplace, to receive the prize at its city hall on Nov. 4.

By Nolan HicksDaily Texan Staff

With polls opening on Election Day at 7 a.m., Democrats and Re-publicans have spent the past sev-eral days dueling over allegations of voter intimidation in heavily minority precincts in Harris and Travis counties.

The Travis County Republican

Party charged that Travis County sent out an urgent call for staffers last weekend because of a short-age because they hadn’t contacted potential Republican poll-workers. Travis County Democrats retaliat-ed, charging that Travis County Republicans had dispatched poll workers to predominately minor-ity precincts to intimidate.

“The Travis County Repub-lican Party held a training [ses-sion] where they told people to go to precincts that are in East and Southeast Travis County,” said Andy Brown, chairman of the Tra-vis County Democratic Party. “We are asking them why they are only sending people to the high-minor-ity precincts. It appears they’re

only targeting those precincts.” Brown said that during the Re-

publican training, one of the GOP volunteers asked jokingly if he could wear camouflage and bring a baseball bat to the poll he was watching. Travis County Republi-can Party chairwoman Rosemary

By Collin Eaton & Audrey WhiteDaily Texan Staff

Vietnamese language instruc-tion will return to campus next summer as part of an intensive immersion language program that will also include Czech, Rus-sian and Modern Greek.

In an effort to keep UT’s smaller language programs alive, the Col-lege of Liberal Arts will launch a

new multi-language summer pro-gram next year that will bring to-gether students from UT and oth-er universities to learn a year’s worth of foreign languages in two months. Last spring, the Univer-sity’s Department of Asian Stud-ies cut the Vietnamese language program in response to a state-di-rected 5-percent budget cut to the University as a whole.

Thomas Garza, associate profes-sor and director of the Texas Lan-guage Center, said the multi-lan-guage program is a trial balloon and will be open to the public. It will test whether it can generate revenue from the larger fees that non-UT students will pay. Garza said in light of budget cuts, each language department is trying to find ways to get students through

their programs more cost effec-tively without reducing the quali-ty of education, and the new sum-mer program will help keep small-er language courses running if it is continued each summer.

“We have a wonderful Spanish program, but to ignore all those other wonderful languages that are out there would just be a traves-ty,” he said. “We don’t want to see

something as stupid as a budget cut be the reason why we lose all of our incredible intellectual content.”

When UT alumna Nickie Tran learned of the cut in April, she spent the weeks leading up to her May 2010 graduation work-ing with Student Government, Senate of College Councils and

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Edwards told the volunteer that he could not bring those items.

“If that is the mentality of the volunteers that are going to be watching the poll, they should pull the program down,” Brown said.

The Travis County Republican Party is sending poll watchers to minority-dominated precincts in Travis County because of vot-ing irregularities during the past few elections, said David Nalle, spokesman for the party. He said many of the complaints were be-cause non-English speakers had trouble casting ballots.

“It’s not widespread,” Nalle said.

“Travis County doesn’t have a lot of problems. Our elections are pretty well-run.”In Harris County, Democrats charge that Republicans are us-ing predominately white poll watchers trained by King Street Patriots, a tea party group, to in-timidate minority voters in heav-ily Democratic precincts.

“The Department of Justice has been called in, and they will be monitoring polling locations on Election Day,” said Antho-ny Gutierrez, deputy executive director of the Texas Democrat-ic Party. “All of the people who

are familiar with this would testi-fy that this is far beyond anything we’ve ever seen before.”

Gutierrez said the poll work-ers trained by the King Street Pa-triots had been overstepping their bounds, talking to voters and peering over voters’ shoulders as they cast votes.

Republicans counter that Dem-ocratic poll workers have been roughing up King Street Patriot poll watchers.

“There is no factual basis for the complaint. Poll watchers just observe,” said Kelly Shackelford, president and CEO of the Liber-ty Institute, which provides legal representation for the Patriots.

“What is really special about this prize is that it is coming from my hometown,” he said. “My father passed away in 2005, but my mother thinks that if he would have known, he would have been thrilled.”

Komatsu now plans to explore dark energy using the Hobby-Eber-ly Telescope in West Texas, he said.

Physics graduate student Jon-

athan Ganc has been research-ing cosmic inflation under Ko-matsu’s guidance for about two years. He said that Komatsu’s award reflects well on Texas and the department.

“We are all very excited for him,” Ganc said. “Besides his hardworking and modest nature, what is really impressive about him is that he tries to make sci-ence a collaborative effort, be-tween departments at the Uni-

versity and between universities themselves.”

Komatsu has also advised as-tronomy graduate student Chi-Ting Chiang on his Cosmic Mi-crowave Background research.

“He is very good at explaining things and also makes an effort to spend time with his students,” Chiang said. “He is also the only one who can unify diverse con-cepts: physics and astronomy, theory and observation.”

“Bill White is still within spit-ting distance, and if folks get out there and vote, Bill White can win. If you want a new gover-nor, go vote for one,” said Kath-erine Haenschen, the coordinat-ed campaign director for the Tra-vis County Democratic Party.

However, Travis County Re-publican Party chairman Rose-mary Edwards said that the high voter turnout indicates a state-wide frustration with federal politics.

“There has been so much pent-up anxiety about the overreach of the federal government,” Ed-wards said. “This is clearly a ref-erendum on the Obama admin-istration and his failed policies.”

To handle the higher-than-usual turnout expected at the polls tomorrow, DeBeauvoir said county precincts have ramped up tech support and will have 1,500 paid workers at the polls after meeting a projected 100-person worker shortfall this week.

“We gear up for election day.,” she said. “We’ll send extra trou-bleshooters to make sure judg-es have their supplies and every-thing is running smoothly.”

administrators to try to find a way to restore the Vietnamese language program. The new in-tensive program is a first step to-ward bringing the language back to students who want to study it, she said.

“This is a good start, and I hope it leads to more Vietnamese cours-es whether in Asian Studies or other departments,” said Tran, former president of the Vietnam-ese Student Association. “Right now, things are more geared to China and India, but it would be great to see more diversity in the department.”

Since students interested in studying Vietnamese are used to seeing the programs offered in the fall and spring, not summer, Tran said it might be difficult to get a

high level of enrollment to accu-rately demonstrate students’ in-terest in the language.

Joel Brereton, chairman of the Department of Asian Studies, is leading the search for a new Viet-namese instructor to replace Ho-ang Ngo, formerly UT’s only Viet-namese professor. In April, Brere-ton said cutting the Vietnamese language program would save the University about $50,000.

Costs for the summer language program, which includes instruc-tors’ and teaching assistants’ sal-aries, are expected to be about $49,000. The funds will come from the college’s $2.6 million summer instructional budget, and any ex-tra revenue the program generates will go back to individual depart-ments, such as French and Italian.

In order to be a flagship uni-versity, UT must find a way to offer languages that smaller in-stitutions cannot cover, said Es-ther Raizen, associate dean for research in the College of Lib-eral Arts. Raizen said UT’s Ara-bic Flagship Program serves as a precedent for the new summer program and has proven success-ful at helping students gain flu-ency in Arabic.

Helena Schneider, events coor-dinator for the Arabic program, said almost all students increase a full level in the summer immer-sion institute, improving from beginner to intermediate or inter-mediate to advanced.

“Students are eating, breath-ing, sleeping Arabic. This is all they are doing,” Schneider said. “We recruit directly from the summer institute into the Ara-bic Flagship Program. Students showing exemplary progress get handpicked.”

Students in the new program will be completely immersed in ei-ther Czech, Russian, Modern Greek or Vietnamese. They will live in the Dobie Center on language-specif-ic floors with a paid teaching as-sistant and other students who are learning the same languages in dai-ly three-hour classes.

Assistant instructor Nicholas Gossett, who will teach the sec-ond summer session of Russian, said foreign language courses are taking a hit from upper adminis-trators who believe foreign lan-guages are expendable, but the University should pursue being well-known for its students’ lan-guage skills.

“Our students need these lan-guages to prepare them for the job market,” Gossett said.

Russian and Polish sophomore Philip Rychlik said the program would provide a unique and ef-fective alternative for students wishing to learn a language quick-ly but who lack the time or mon-ey to study abroad. Although Ry-chlik has already completed the first three semesters of Russian and would be ineligible, he said it is a promising option for younger students interested in Russian.

“I’ve been interested in Russia since I was 14, and I’ve planned to study abroad but I just don’t have the money right now,” he said. “Having the ability to work on language skills in an immer-sion-type environment without having to spend all the money to go to the country is a really great opportunity.”

SCIENCE: Mentor looks to dark energy

POLL: Department of Justice to intervene

IMMERSE: Classes’ value to be tested

UT System opens applications seeking sixth Student Regent

The UT System is accepting applications for its sixth Student Regent, a non-voting member of the Board of Regents whose primary duty will be to act as a communicator between students and the board.

Student Regents are expect-ed to read 300 pages of agen-da material before attending Board of Regents meetings, go through eight hours of train-ing on UT System issues and disclose their personal financ-es to the Texas Ethics Com-mission. Each Student Regent is appointed by the Governor of Texas after going through a process that involves Student Government, said UT System spokesman Matt Flores.

“First, Student Government submits its list of recommenda-tions to the Chancellor [of the UT System,]” Flores said. “From among those, the Chancellor can whittle down to as few as two, but the Governor doesn’t have to choose from among those two.”

The term for the current Stu-dent Regent, Kyle Kalkwarf, ends on May 11, 2011. The job of student regent also entails going to each campus, speaking with student leaders and relaying the information back to the Board of Regents.

— Collin Eaton

EARLY: Parties link turnoutto frustration

CORRECTIONBecause of a reporting error,

Monday’s page-one news story about the groundbreaking for the new Bill and Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex should have said the project will cost $120 million.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Ari-zona’s immigration law faced tough scrutiny from a federal appeals panel Monday as Gov. Jan Brewer appeared in per-son to support the controver-sial provision the day before the election in which she’ll seek her first full term.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals signaled it was ready to toss out the provi-sion of Arizona’s law that criminalizes the failure to car-ry immigration papers show-ing lawful residency in the United States.

U.S. Deputy Solicitor Gen-eral Edwin Kneedler argued Monday that the provisions in question violate laws making immigration enforcement the exclusive domain of the feder-al government.

Among the provisions at is-sue is the requirement that po-lice — when enforcing oth-

er laws — must question the immigration status of people they have reason to suspect are in the country illegally.

Kneedler responded that re-quiring local law enforcement officials to check the immigra-tion status of everyone they suspect as being an illegal immigrant takes away from their investigatory discretion. He also said the law intrudes upon foreign policy and diplo-macy, areas that are left for the federal government.

Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the federal courthouse in San Francisco before the hour-long hearing. Opponents of the law in this liberal city outnumbered sup-porters.

Afterward, Arizona’s gov-ernor said she intended to ap-peal any adverse ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. Illegal immigrants are overwhelming Arizona’s health care systems, schools and prisons, she said.

Artists to build replacement for ‘Touchdown Jesus’ statue

MONROE, Ohio — Two Cin-cinnati artists have been select-ed to design the replacement for a giant Jesus statue destroyed by lightning last summer.

The 62-foot foam and fiber-glass bust of Jesus overlooked a highway in southwest Ohio and was one of the area’s most fa-miliar landmarks. It sat in front of the Solid Rock Church in Monroe, just north of Cincinnati. It was destroyed June 14 when a lightning strike sparked a fire.

The statue was nicknamed Touchdown Jesus because of the way its arms were raised, simi-lar to a referee signaling a touch-down.

The Hamilton JournalNews newspaper reported Mon-day that Steve Brauch and Tom Tsuchiya were chosen to design and sculpt a new 51-foot statue depicting Jesus’ full body.

Church officials say the statue should be completed by spring or early summer.

Discovery shuttle to be retired after final trip to space station

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA has cleared space shuttle Discovery for its final flight.

Mission managers gathered at Kennedy Space Center in Flori-da on Monday morning for the traditional flight review. They voted unanimously to press to-ward a Wednesday afternoon liftoff. The forecast calls for a 70 percent chance of favorable weather.

This will be Discovery’s grand finale. NASA is close to wrap-ping up its shuttle program. Only one other mission remains on the official lineup, by the shuttle Endeavour.

Discovery and its crew of six will head to the Internation-al Space Station with a load of equipment, including a human-oid robot.

It will be the 39th flight for Discovery. Its first was in 1984.

Liftoff is set for 3:52 p.m.— The Associated Press

By Slamet RiyadiThe Associated Press

MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia — Deafening explosions of hot gas rattled evacuees miles from an In-donesian volcano Monday, the lat-est eruption in a week. The coun-try reported increased rumblings at 21 other active volcanoes, rais-ing questions about what’s caus-ing the uptick along some of the world’s most volatile fault lines.

No casualties were reported in Mount Merapi’s new blast, which came as Indonesia struggles to re-spond to an earthquake-generated tsunami that devastated a remote chain of islands. The two disas-ters unfolding on opposite ends of the country have killed nearly 500 people and strained the govern-ment’s emergency response net-work.

Merapi has killed 38 people since it started erupting a week ago. Officials have also raised alert levels at some of the 129 active volcanoes in Indonesia, with two under watch for possible eruption within two weeks and 19 showing increased activity — more than double the usual number on the watch list, an official said.

Indonesia, a vast archipelago of 235 million people, is prone to earthquakes and volcanoes be-cause it sits along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” a horseshoe-shaped string of faults that lines the western and eastern Pacific.

Booming explosions sound-ed during Monday’s eruption, which shot massive clouds from the glowing cauldron and sent ash cascading nearly four miles down the southeastern slopes, said Sub-randrio, an official in charge of monitoring Merapi’s activity.

Even in the crowded govern-ment camps, miles away from the mountain, the explosions sent evacuees scurrying for shelter.

The government has raised alert

levels of 21 other volcanoes to the second- and third-highest levels in the last two months because they have shown an increase in activi-ty, said Syamsul Rizal, a state vol-canologist.

Geophysicist Pall Einarsson of the University of Iceland said that

such an increase could be an indi-cation that some of the volcanoes — if any are very close — could be affecting one another. He said this idea is a new one for volca-nologists, but they are increasing-ly seeing evidence of interplay be-tween neighboring mountains.

Eruption adds damages to recovering Indonesia

NEWS BRIEFLYImmigration lawfaces grievances in appeals court

A.K Hendratmo | Associated Press

Mount Merapi erupts in Indonesia on Monday. Indonesia’s most volatile volcano unleashed its most powerful eruption in a deadly week, spew-ing searing clouds of gas and debris thousands of feet into the air.

Jeff Chiu | Associated Press

Rick Oltman shows his support for Arizona’s immigration law out-side of a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals building in San Francisco.

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Elect to lead, moderatelyBy Emily Grubert

Daily Texan Columnist

Abuse of privilege By Mikael Garcia

Daily Texan Columnist

A disservice to all Texans

As Texas and the United States vote today in the 2010 elections, one has to wonder: What’s the big issue? A reces-sion, poverty, energy security, environ-mental security, health care, education, governance, funding and myriad other issues confront us, and it’s difficult to know what to prioritize.

I think that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have the right idea with their Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, which took place in Washington, D.C. and spawned satellite rallies around the country, including in Austin. The goal of the rally? To call attention to the ma-jority of Americans who aren’t political extremists (on either side). As the rally’s website explains: “We’re looking for the people ... who think the only time it’s appropriate to draw a Hitler mustache on someone is when that person is ac-tually Hitler. Or Charlie Chaplin in cer-tain roles.”

Stewart and Colbert are correct to fo-cus on an underlying issue that, if con-fronted, could make addressing all of our social and political challenges a lot easier. Namely, it’s really hard to get things done without a stated willing-ness — I’ll go so far as to say a stated goal — to compromise; to concede that we have financial, infrastructural and social constraints; and to acknowledge that we live in a multi-issue world.

My issue — the focus of my graduate work — is energy’s impact on the en-vironment. Most of what I do involves constant acknowledgment that there is no perfect solution to problems such as supplying energy to people and keep-ing us all healthy and happy. Climate change presents us with a large risk — we don’t really know exactly what will

happen, but we suspect a large poten-tial for it to be bad. But some methods of reducing carbon emissions hurt wa-ter systems; others are costly or don’t work well with our existing infrastruc-ture. And suddenly an engineering problem about supplying low-carbon energy becomes a massive internation-al discussion about empowerment, land use, women’s rights and all sorts of oth-er important facets of our lives as hu-mans.

Similarly with reducing water pol-lution and conventional air pollution (such as smog): Cleaning one stream might mean killing fish in another, and whatever you do, you’re stepping on property rights.

So I really think that our best bet is not to focus on issue politics. Pledging to clean 1,000 miles of streams or to re-duce air emissions of nitrogen oxides by 30 percent can be good goals, but they need to be made in a context of holis-tic thinking, willingness to consider a daunting scope of needs and acceptance of the idea that no solution is perfect. We need to stay alert and try to mini-mize both anticipated and unanticipat-ed secondary effects.

What’s Texas poised to do? We live in the second most populous state in the country, blessed with bountiful of nat-ural resources and a lot of people who care deeply about Texas. This state is in a position to make a deep impact as a leader in the United States and the world.

A couple of disclaimers before I com-ment on today’s gubernatorial race: First, I mainly pay attention to ener-gy and environmental issues, so that’s what I’m going to talk about. Second, I don’t vote in Texas. I’m glad to be visit-ing from the most populous state in the

country, also blessed with huge amounts of natural resources and a lot of people who care deeply about California. Ac-tually, my Californian ballot includes a controversial proposition that has ex-plicitly brought some of the big differ-ences between the Texan and Califor-nian views of environment into sharp relief — another reminder that reason-able people can often disagree on im-portant problems.

In looking at Texas’ Republican gu-bernatorial candidate Rick Perry’s state-ments on energy and the environment, then comparing them to Democratic candidate Bill White’s, I wonder wheth-er Texas is willing to make compromis-es and help to lead the nation in inno-vative energy and environmental strat-egies. Both candidates are aware of Tex-as’ enormous bounty of energy resourc-es. Oil, gas, solar, wind and other re-sources are found in abundance here, and Texas is responsible for supplying many other American states with ener-gy. Both candidates claim to be commit-ted to using these resources wisely. Both also claim to want to make Texas a lead-er in energy and environmental issues, but I am concerned by the relative lack of commentary on how that might hap-pen. Perry in particular mentions past accomplishments in a tone that implies enough has happened already, and no increased effort is necessary. I hope that Texas is willing to step forward and as-sume the mantle of leadership to which it is well-suited. As a nation, we need to prepare to make compromises and ac-knowledge the moderates; reasonable leadership from qualified quarters is going to be vitally important.

Grubert is an environmental and water resources engi-

neering graduate student.

Reconsider For the past two months I’ve worked

with Judy Jennings on her campaign for the State Board of Education and as such, I would respectfully disagree with The Daily Texan’s endorsement of Marsha Farney. The endorsement focused primarily on the need for educators experienced in writing cur-riculum, and on that basis I fail to see a difference between Dr. Farney and Dr. Jennings. Dr. Jennings has more than 15 years of experience as an educator, holds a doctorate in educational psy-chology and currently works with teach-ers in preparing curricula best suited for teaching and assessing students.

On a far more important note, Dr. Farney has made some extremely inflammatory comments that have

clearly set her on the side of the social conservative bloc currently on the board. Despite her claims of non-partisanship, her association with the Tea Party, her statement that Democrats are “America-hating” and her support of anti-evolution and pro-abstinence education definitely set her right of center. Dr. Jennings is a true moderate who wants to take politics out of the classroom and focus on preparing our children with a 21st century education. Unlike her opponent, she will not let her personal, religious or political beliefs skew her vote when deciding what is best for our public schools. I would urge you to reconsider your support of Marsha Farney.

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Certain cities are notorious for being playgrounds where the local power-elite can get away with virtually anything, places like Chicago or the fictional Gotham City.

One city that usually doesn’t come to mind, though, is our beloved city of Austin. But in March, state Rep. Ed-die Rodriguez, who represents Southeast Austin in the Texas House (including all of Riverside, for those of you who live and vote there), was arrested for allegedly driv-ing while intoxicated. And although the dash-cam for the stop shows a clearly inebriated Rep. Rodriguez walking in and out of frame, his case was mysteriously dropped last week by a Travis County Judge on grounds that his traffic stop was “invalid.” Rep. Rodriguez and the judge have ef-fectively tarnished the reputation of good-natured politics in Travis County.

Rodriguez was pulled over by an APD officer in March on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. The officer had seen Rodriguez “swerve approximately 25 feet into the bike lane,” which prompted the traffic stop. The dash-cam shows Rodriguez swaying back and forth, even admitting on camera to drinking “about four glasses of wine” pri-or to driving his vehicle. When the officer asks Rodriguez to take the field sobriety test, Rodriguez begins to com-ply — only to resist a few moments later, commenting that his lawyer advised him to not take any tests. Rodri-guez is then promptly arrested and spends the night in jail. Fast forward to last week: while Rodriguez was awaiting charges, his case was dropped by a judge who commented that “weaving in a driver’s own lane doesn’t constitute a traffic violation [that] warrant[s] pulling the driver over.” This is all fine and dandy, but it completely ignores Rodri-guez’s 25-foot swerve into the bike lane and what horror may have happened had there been a biker riding in that lane at that moment.

Rodriguez’s opponent, Marilyn Jackson, argues that Ro-driguez wouldn’t have known what to tell the police offi-cer had this not been a regular occurrence, implying that

his late-night liquored-up joyride might not have been his first. This argument holds water. I mean, let’s face it: Most of us don’t have a get-out-of-jail-free card, but Rodriguez seemed to have one that night. However, considering the nature of some of our elected officials in Texas, I’m not so surprised or bothered that some might have a DWI-back-up plan they intend on executing someday. (Rodriguez’s attorney’s website proudly boasts that he is the “go-to law-yer in Texas for DWI, DUI and complex federal white-col-lar crime in the state.”)

Several things about the situation are irksome. The first is that, when analyzing the evidence, it’s clear that there is some funny business going on in this ruling. Perhaps Ro-driguez wasn’t involved directly, but most of us know that if it had been us behind the wheel that evening in March, we would have to pay for our crimes behind bars. The baf-fling thing about this, though, is that this decision seemed to be conveniently timed with the election. However, it doesn’t make any sense for Rodriguez to seek a dismissal this election cycle. He had already suffered all of the dam-ages he was going to suffer from this back in March when he was arrested. Dismissing the charges called attention to Rodriguez’s wrongdoings, not against them. Had he owned up to his DWI and not played the legal system, this would all be water under the bridge. Politically, it doesn’t make any sense for Rodriguez to seek an acquittal; it opens him up for accusations of cronyism (as it has done in the past week). In trying to save his reputation, all he has now is egg on his face.

If we don’t hold our elected officials accountable, they’ll keep abusing their privileges. By not caring and not no-ticing when there might be a better choice on the ballot, we tacitly endorse their behaviors. If you think Rep. Rodri-guez deserves another go in the House, I encourage you to vote for him. But if you think Southeast Austin has had enough corruption and cronyism for the past eight years and it’s time for a change, don’t be afraid to give him the boot he so pointedly deserves.

Garcia is a government senior.

Barring a 21st-century version of Dewey defeats Truman, Gov. Rick Perry will (unfortunately) be elected to a third term tonight. The occasion will mark the end of a year-long guber-natorial campaign that has been an insult to Texans and Per-ry’s own supporters. Through his cavalier approach to the of-fice of governor and refusal to subject himself to any signifi-cant scrutiny, Perry has done a disservice to all Texans.

But he will be re-elected later tonight, and the campaign will end. To celebrate the end of this travesty of a campaign, we will analyze some of Perry’s actions and what they imply about his attitude toward Texans, especially his supporters.

Let’s approach this task in reverse chronological order. Yes-terday, Perry announced he would embark on a nationwide book tour to promote his new book. In other words, Perry will leave the state in which he is currently serving as gover-nor to advertise himself to the rest of the country.

As glad as we are that Perry will be out of the state for a while, we would prefer the state’s governor to remain work-ing on behalf of the state’s citizens.

Perry also said he could not commit to serving the full four-year gubernatorial term. He told the Houston Chroni-cle, “It’s always very premature to be making a statement about what you’re going to be doing two, four, six or eight years from now — I don’t ever take anything off the table.”

Actually, making a statement about what you’re going to be doing two, four, six or eight years from now is pretty com-mon — its called a contract. Athletes, businessmen and pol-iticians do it all the time. The day before winning a contest, Perry is essentially saying he might not even want the prize.

What do these two things indicate about Perry’s attitude toward Texans? For one, it’s obvious that he cares more about himself than Texans. We feel a little contrived mak-ing this point because the Bill White campaign has made Perry’s self-interest a central campaign point, but seriously, leaving the state and possibly the office shortly after being elected reeks of self-interest. Republicans who love Texas more than Perry should consider his admitted lack of com-mitment to the state before pulling the lever.

Moving backward in his campaign controversies, we ar-rive at Perry’s refusal to debate Bill White or meet with newspaper editorial boards. Traditionally, candidates for public office meet with newspaper editorial boards both as a sign of respect for the media and as a means of broadcast-ing their views to the newspaper’s readership. Perry said he would rather meet with Texans than editorial boards. If Perry wanted to communicate with as many Texans as pos-sible, using a medium whose utility is its ability to reach the masses would have been a good place to start. By ig-noring the newspaper, Perry is telling the world his sup-porters do not read newspapers.

Similarly, Perry has refused to debate White. Although Perry will win, White still has substantial support through-out the state. White supporters, Perry opponents and the press have all criticized Perry significantly for the decision, so we won’t touch on this too much, except suffice to say Perry either doesn’t think Texas voters deserve to see him debate a man for whom millions of Texans will vote. This implies Perry doesn’t think his supporters have anything but blind loyalty to him.

Lastly, and now we’re going very far back in time, is Per-ry’s temporary mansion. Perry’s palatial mansion costs up-wards of $10,000 a month. To be sure, the governor deserves a nice home, especially after the trauma of somebody try-ing to burn down his old house, but $10,000 is pretty steep. Hopefully we won’t be charged the rent when Perry is on his book tour.

Perry’s campaign has been incredibly insulting and disre-spectful to his supporters and constituents. He has not en-gaged in the public discourse expected for a democracy to function, and he has insulted his supporters in the process.

— Douglas Luippold for the editorial board

Editor’s note: Garcia is a former member of Marylin Jackson’s campaign

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Human development senior Perla Hernandez shares information about diabetes while tabling for Diabetes Awareness Week at the West Mall on Monday afternoon.

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Two out of three people with di-abetes die from heart disease or stroke, according to the American Diabetes Association.

To spread the word about the severity of the disease, sever-al UT student groups will host a series of events for Diabetes Awareness Week.

Event organizers rallied on the West Mall on Monday to in-vite students to the week’s events and hand out information about the disease.

The Hispanic Student Associa-tion and the Hispanic Health Pro-fessions Organization will join sev-eral other campus organizations to host events all week. Experts will speak about diabetes in the Texas Union today at 7 p.m. The League of United Latin American Citi-zens will host a fitness field day in the South Mall lawn Wednesday at 6 p.m.

Proceeds from Thursday’s ben-efit dinner will go to the Amer-ican Diabetes Association. Tex-

as Latin Dance will lead a salsa workshop Friday afternoon. All of the events lead up to the Step Out Walk to Fight Diabetes on Saturday morning.

Eunice Castro, vice president of the Hispanic Health Professions Or-ganization, said diabetes is promi-nent in the Hispanic communi-ty because traditional food is high in fat and carbohydrates. Hispanic groups on campus will be hosting most of the Diabetes Awareness Week events.

According to the American Di-abetes Association’s website, dia-betes is more prevalent in minori-ty communities.

Although genetic, cultural and economic factors increase dia-betes in minorities and every-one is at risk, said Daniel Foster, a diabetes and metabolic research professor at UT Southwestern Medical School.

“Diets are bad everywhere,” he said. “All you have to do is look at the commercials for hamburg-ers; it’s not just minorities that are obese with poor diets.”

Foster said that unlike cancer, diabetes can be cured through weight loss, but only 5 per-cent of diabetics make the life-style changes necessary to lose weight.

John Ivy, professor of kinesi-ology and health education, said although it is best to get 30 to 45 minutes of aerobic exercise a day, any little bit helps.

“If you take somebody who is very sedentary and get them walk-ing daily, there are big gains, and they will improve as they increase frequency and intensity,” Ivy said.

Type 2 diabetes involves the body’s resistance to insulin and can be prevented through diet and exercise. Type 1 is genetic and can-not be prevented.

Ivy said that because Type 2 is about 10 times more common and preventable, it receives more atten-tion than Type 1.

Diabetes causes other health complications, such as kidney failure, blindness and gangrene, which can require limb amputa-tion, he said.

By Aziza MusaDaily Texan Staff

The Austin Police Department will be the first law enforcement agency in the nation to use door triggers to activate an updated dashboard camera system in pa-trol cars and motorcycles.

Public Safety Commission chair-man Michael Lauderdale said the developments are an overall step in the right direction, but he ques-tioned the officers’ ability to deacti-vate the dash-cam triggers at their own discretion.

“I think [keeping the cameras on] is critically important because in the long run, it protects the of-ficer,” he said. “But what I think is more important is that it provides information to us, as citizens. It lowers the likelihood of questions being raised around the conduct and integrity of the officer.”

Lauderdale said that if the po-lice department had digital cam-eras earlier, there would have been fewer questions of propriety in of-ficer-involved shootings, includ-

ing when former Officer Leonar-do Quintana fatally shot 18-year-old Nathaniel Sanders II in May 2009, without activating his dash-board system.

The existing system requires officers to manually turn on the cameras to record footage, which is operated by VHS tapes. APD officers save the tapes for 180 days before wiping the foot-age and reusing them — only if the tapes do not contain crimi-nal evidence, according to current department rules.

Under the new system, dash-cams will be automatically activat-ed through various triggers on po-lice vehicles, including when offi-cers turn on their lights, sirens or are involved in a crash. Camera footage will be stored on a card and will be wirelessly transmitted to APD headquarters downtown from substations across the city.

The new system will cost an es-timated $15.5 million, and the de-partment has used $3.5 million to buy equipment and carry out staff

services. The city borrowed the money and will be under contrac-tual obligations until the debt is paid, generally over a five-to-sev-en year period.

“When I look at the amount of money and look at potential set-tlements of the city being sued, I think it’s a good investment,” Lau-derdale said.

The police department recently chose a server and wireless trans-mitter network for the dash-cam system. APD will continue to test the substations and receive officer input to ensure the system meets their internal standards, said Sgt. Art Arevalo, supervisor for the po-lice and technology unit.

“We’re looking for a solution that is going to last us for the next five to 10 years,” he said. “So we’re trying to pick our product wisely and to use the money wisely.”

APD plans to employ the new system in 38 vehicles in January and will ask City Council in Febru-ary to approve the additional $12 million to finalize the project.Groups to tackle diabetes

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PROP: Critics say bond will not reduce congestionFrom page 1support the arguments by those who oppose the proposition. He specifically cited Sensible Trans-portation Solutions’ efforts to de-feat the proposition, including advertising efforts in the Austin American-Statesman and stirring up disaffection with the proposi-tion among East Austin neighbor-hood groups that are largely Mex-ican-American.

Jim Skaggs has donated $10,000 to Sensible Transportation So-lutions and is on the executive board of another advocacy group, the Coalition on Sensible Trans-portation. He said engineering firms and nonprofit groups sup-port Proposition 1 for their own special interests.

“If you want to make beautiful streets by reducing their capacity

to carry vehicles, then promote it as that,” Skaggs said. “Don’t pro-mote it as a traffic congestion solu-tion because it’s not that.”

Skaggs pointed to an incident in 2000, when the public seemed to be in favor of a citywide tran-sit rail line.

“The entire city was for that rail,” Skaggs said. “We won that election.”

Despite supposed popular sup-port for the rail, voters did not pass the proposal. Skaggs has sim-ilar hopes for Proposition 1.

In addition to Proposition 1, the Austin City Council will dis-cuss spending an additional $1.1 million on bike lanes around the city on Thursday. City spokes-man Matt Curtis said Mayor Lee Leffingwell supports Proposition 1, and city leaders will continue

to discuss efforts to decrease traf-fic and environmental pollution in the city.

“Austin roughly doubles in size every 25 years since the 1870s, and there is no sign that we will stop growing,” Curtis said.

Investing in alternative trans-portation will help keep the city of Austin sustainable through growth, he said.

“Oftentimes bicycle commut-ers are very savvy in their route and can move more freely on their route to get where they need to go, so it certainly has the effect of re-ducing congestion,” Curtis said.

Collier Miers, an engineering junior and bicycle mechanic at University Cyclery, said bike lanes make bicyclists feel safer on the roads and cause less frustration among drivers.

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ARLINGTON — The prize that eluded Willie and Barry at long last belongs to the San Fran-cisco Giants, thanks to a band of self-described castoffs and misfits and their shaggy-haired ace.

Tim Lincecum, Edgar Rente-ria and the Giants won the World Series on Monday night, beating the Texas Rangers 3-1 in a tense Game 5 and taking the trophy home to the city by the Bay for the first time.

It was an overdue victory — the Giants last wore the crown in 1954, four years before they moved West. So much for a fran-chise that never quite got it done in October despite the likes of baseball giants Willie Mays, Bar-ry Bonds and Juan Marichal. It’s November, and now new stars stand tall in San Francisco.

“This buried a lot of bones — ‘62, ‘89, 2002,” Giants general man-ager Brian Sabean said, ticking off losing Series appearances. “This group deserved it, faithful from the beginning. We’re proud and humbled by the achievement.”

Lincecum outdueled Cliff Lee in an every-pitch-matters match-up that was scoreless until Rente-ria earned the Series MVP award by hitting a stunning three-run homer with two outs in the sev-enth inning. Nelson Cruz hom-ered in the bottom half, but Lince-cum returned to his wicked self and preserved the lead.

Lincecum won this game of Texas Hold ‘em, beating Lee for

the second time in a week. The two-time NL Cy Young winner gave up three hits over eight in-nings and struck out 10.

Brian Wilson closed for a save, completing a surprising romp

through the postseason for a pitching-rich team that wait-ed until the final day to clinch a playoff spot.

Manager Bruce Bochy enjoys calling his Giants a ragtag bunch.

Maybe Renteria, Cody Ross, Au-brey Huff and Freddy Sanchez fit that description. Cut loose by other clubs this season and be-fore, they all wound up in San Francisco.

But the foundation of this team — for now, for the foreseeable fu-ture — is totally home grown, built on a deep, talented and

By Will AndersonDaily Texan Staff

No matter who head coach Rick Barnes decides to start in next Monday’s season opener against Navy, some things are sure to be different from last year’s record-setting season. With a smaller line-up, both in number and average height, Texas may choose to go small against slower teams. Ad-ditionally, sophomore J’Covan Brown is likely to play at the two and has been getting increased minutes in that scoring role.

“The offense fits me,” Brown said. “There’s not too much pres-

sure to bring the ball up like last year so I’m happy with that.”

With the addition of freshman Cory Joseph, the Longhorns have a point guard who demands the attention of opposing defenses for the first time since D.J. Augustin.

“We’re putting guys at their strengths,” said senior Gary Johnson.

Johnson added that this team has a higher basket-ball IQ than the last one.

Two early birdsLike last year, the incoming

freshmen are nationally regarded

recruits expected to play immedi-ately and have a large impact. Un-like last year, these two enrolled at the University during the first ses-sion of summer school and began practicing with the team in May.

“It’s a tremendous advantage,” Barnes said. “It’s the difference in night and day.”

In 2009, Jordan Hamilton and Avery Bradley enrolled in the sec-ond summer session, and then-freshman Brown did not arrive until the fall semester. Because of their early arrival, Cory Joseph and Tristan Thompson have adapted much quicker, Barnes said.

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By Andy LutzDaily Texan Staff

This weekend, ESPN Col-lege GameDay will head to Salt Lake City to cover possi-bly the biggest game that the Mountain West Conference has ever put on. Kyle Whit-tingham’s No. 5 Utah Utes will host the powerful No. 3 TCU Horned Frogs in a game that will leave one team right in the thick of things in the BCS race and one team likely out of BCS talks altogether.

The Horned Frogs are led by senior quarterback Andy Dalton, a four-year starter who has completed 66 per-cent of his passes this year, and a vaunted defense that hasn’t yielded double-digit points in its last five games (including two shutouts).

Sophomore quarterback Jordan Wynn leads the Utes who, under Whittingham’s notoriously tricky playbook, have averaged 49.0 points per game this season, good for third in the nation. Both teams have played consid-erably soft schedules, with Utah’s best win coming at home in overtime over cur-rently unranked Big East leader Pittsburgh.

TCU has two notable vic-tories; a season-opening 30-21 win over Oregon State and a 45-10 stomping of Big 12 South leader Baylor. To the Frogs’ credit, every infe-rior team they have played, they’ve stomped.

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the first time this season last week, as the USC Trojans weren’t able to hold off LaM-ichael James and the explo-sive Oregon offense in a 53-32 loss at the Coliseum. TCU will look to continue this new trend and pull out a win in Salt Lake City.

Last year, it was Gary Pat-terson’s Horned Frogs who spoiled BYU’s GameDay in Provo on their way to a date with Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl. TCU should be able to stay disciplined on defense and stifle some of Utah’s trick plays and use enough big plays from Dalton to pull out a crucial road victory.

USC to build new facilityN e w a t h l e t i c d i re c t o r

Pat Haden and universi-ty president Max Nikias an-nounced before Saturday’s game against No. 1 Oregon that the University of South-ern California will start rais-ing funds to build a long-an-ticipated $70 million athlet-ic center on the Los Ange-les campus. The new com-plex, which will be adjacent to the famed-yet-jaded Heri-tage Hall, will be two stories tall and more than 110,000 square feet in size.

According to Haden, who has had myriad scandals and adverse conditions to deal with in his first year as USC athletic director, construction on the new center will begin in January, with a scheduled completion date of July 2012. The building will take up

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The San Francisco Giants celebrate after beating the Texas Rangers in Game 5 of the World Series. The title has not been claimed by the Giants since 1954.

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Junior Aaron Williams enters Darrel K Royal-Memorial Stadium before the Longhorns’ loss to Baylor on Saturday. Williams and his teammates have struggled catching punts this season.

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The Longhorns’ stat sheet af-ter every game has been mislead-ing when it comes to red zone con-versions this year. For example, last weekend against Baylor, Tex-as was 4 of 4 in the red zone, but that’s because kicker Justin Tucker made four field goals, not because the offense scored touchdowns.

Head coach Mack Brown said at this time last year, the team was 24 of 38 in the red zone and this year they are 15 of 36. The Longhorns are driving downfield and getting into scoring position, they just aren’t finishing with touchdowns.

“The lack of production in the red zone has been unbelievable,”

Brown said. “That percentage is killing us.”

Brown told offensive coordina-tor Greg Davis that they need to be more aggressive if they want to score more points, and one way to do that is to have quarter-back Garrett Gilbert run more.

“I told Greg to go back and turn it loose,” Brown said. “We gotta score and we gotta take more chances.”

Making changesFor the past few weeks, punt

returners Aaron Williams and Curtis Brown have muffed quite a few punts. But when asked if he’ll make a change, Brown has been adamant that those two play-

ers are the best the team has and they’ll continue to play that role.

After Brown dropped two punts against Baylor inside the 20-yard-line, Mack Brown said this week they would try out new players.

“Punt block/return has been the best in the country for us for years, and it has been a real strug-gle to say the least,” Brown said.

Curtis Brown is ranked 13th in the country in punt returns and has averaged 14.9 yards per re-turn this season. However, he’s really struggled in that position. Brown said that defensive backs Christian Scott and Adrian Phil-lips and receiver Mike Davis

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part of a plot of land that cur-rently serves as an intramural practice field just off of Har-bor Freeway, but USC offi-cials say it’s time the Trojans’ football program catches up to the rest of the nation’s elite college football schools in re-gards to facilities.

Bray to start for TennesseeHead coach Derek Dool-

ey’s first season in Knoxville hasn’t gone exactly as he had planned it, and he will turn to highly recruited freshman quarterback Tyler Bray to try to turn things around for the Volunteers this weekend against the Memphis Tigers. The Vols have never lost more than five games in league play, but this season they are a disappointing 2-6 over-all and 0-5 in the SEC. Bray has showed promise in sig-nificant playing time against Georgia, No. 6 Alabama and No. 19 South Carolina, and he will replace junior Matt Simms in the starting line-up this weekend in Memphis. Tennessee has three winnable SEC games left on its sched-ule (vs. Ole Miss, at Vandy, vs. Kentucky) if it wants to avoid losing six conference games in one season for the first time

in school history. For now, it’s looking like a first-year head coach and a first-year signal

caller will be behind those ef-forts for the orange and cream boys from Knoxville.

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Quarterback Andy Dalton, getting ready to throw, will lead TCU in an important Mountain West Conference game against Utah.

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GIANTS: Series MVP wins third championship

young rotation, a rookie catcher named Buster Posey with huge star potential and their bearded closer.

“They did all right,” Bo-chy said. “I couldn’t be proud-er of a group. They played with heart and determination. They weren’t going to be denied. My staff, they accepted their roles and had only one mission.”

Renteria reprised his role of postseason star. His 11th-inning single ended Game 7 of the 1997 World Series and lifted Florida over Cleveland. Forget that he

made the last out in the 2004 Series that finished Boston’s sweep of St. Louis — this journeyman’s path led to another title, helped by his go-ahead home run in Game 2.

“It was a tough year for me,” the oft-injured shortstop said. “I told myself to keep working hard and keep in shape because something is going to be good this year.”

A team seemingly free of egos did everything right to take the lead. Ross, the surprising MVP of the NL championship series, stayed square and hit a leadoff single and Juan Uribe followed with another hit up the middle.

That put a runner at second base for the first time in the game and brought up Huff, who led the Giants in home runs this year. So what did he do? He ex-pertly put down the first sacrifice bunt of his career.

Lee struck out Pat Burrell to keep the runners put, but Ross began hopping home as soon as Renteria connected, sending a drive that kept sailing and landed over the left-center field wall.

And just like that, all the Gi-ants’ past troubles seemed like ancient history.

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will get a shot at returning this week.

Out for the seasonSenior Michael Huey has likely

played his final snap as a Long-horn. The starting left guard is out 4-6 weeks with a right knee injury that he suffered in the first half of the Baylor game last Sat-urday.

The timetable, however, is re-ally code for out for the season as team trainer Kenny Boyd told Brown that Huey will not be healthy in time for Texas A&M,

the last game of the regular sea-son. It is unknown at this point if Huey would be healthy enough to play in a potential postsea-son game. Huey is now the third offensive lineman to go down with an injury this season. The first was right guard Tray Allen, who broke a bone in his left foot in the spring and re-aggravated it during fall camp, and the sec-ond was backup left tackle Luke Poehlmann, who tore his ACL against Wyoming.

“It’s a huge blow that we’ve lost another starting offensive lineman,” Brown said. “Especial-ly since Michael Huey has been playing great.”

Huey has been the most consis-tent, hard-working offensive line-man for the Longhorns all season and the coaches have raved about his progression and leadership on the field.

The new starting left guard will be Trey Hopkins. Davis says he has a lot of confidence in the true freshman that Rivals.com ranked as the No. 1 offensive lineman in the 2010 recruiting class.

“Trey is extremely athletic,” Davis said. “He’s got a great wingspan, is very bright and has never complained. He’ll get better and better as he works out in the weight room and gets more snaps.”

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By Christopher NguyenDaily Texan Staff

Brooklyn-based duo Matt and Kim do not know what restraint is; stuffing drumbeats, major chords, piano melodies, synths, lyrical hooks and shouting vocals into a blender and sticking whatever comes out on an album. It sounds like one hell of a time, and the duo keeps the good times rolling with its third album, Sidewalks.

If there is one major differ-ence between their second album, Grand, and this album, it’s that this one is catchier and more immedi-ate. On the first song “Block After Block,” the synthesized beats do not sound too far from a Top 40 hip-hop infused pop song, espe-cially with the “yeah”s that jump in and out of the song. No matter what any hipster tells you, Matt and Kim make pop music, but

their best songs always had an off-kilter, hard edge to them. The exu-berance and the joy of their debut album get lost with Sidewalks be-cause the tracks begin to become indistinguishable. They all sound almost too perfect and too calculat-ed to be fun songs.

Oddly enough, the songs that stick out the most are the slower ones that build up to something more than ear candy. On “North-east,” singer Matt Johnson long-ingly sings for his favorite part of the country over restrained synths, tambourines and piano chords. With songs like that, Matt and Kim lose the guise of being only about jamming out.

Sidewalks provides a little more than 30 minutes of ear candy, but Matt and Kim would do well to stick something a little rougher

and substantial to the blender on

their next album.For fans of: Sleigh Bells, Blink-182

and Discovery

Matt and Kim’s ‘Sidewalks’ delivers aural sugar rush

Matt and Kim SidewalksGrade:B

WRITE: Challenge gives people encouragement to begin novel

CD REVIEW

from writing their novels.Now in its eleventh year, NaNo

is an active competition in more than 90 countries with more than 500 regional volunteers. NaNo is a nonprofit organization and runs on funds from its participants. While the competition runs on freedom of expression, there are

a few rules: One, don’t edit. Ed-

iting eats up too much time and can some-times dis-

c o u r a g e writers from

completing their novel. Leave the editing for De-cember after NaNo has ended and the winners have been an-nounced. Two, the novel has to be 100-percent fiction, as non-fiction requires more time and accuracy.

As an 11-time NaNo winner, Bristow keeps the challenge close to her heart. She participated in the first contest in 1999 and has participated in every contest since. She became a municipal liaison for Austin NaNo in 2004, moti-vated by the opportunity to meet and encourage other writers. Bris-tow organizes “write-ins” all over Austin, events where NaNo par-ticipants get together to eat, write and talk about their novels.

“It’s really hard for people to make NaNo work at this time of year because of Thanksgiving,” Bristow said. “They have to find the time and overcome the chal-lenges of working with their char-acters and their plots. One of the

good reasons to go to the write-ins is because you have people going through the same thing you are, you have a support group.”

Furthermore, NaNo also strives to make writing a social event, working to dispel the practice of writing in isolation. Four-time NaNo participant and history se-nior Ivy Crawford-Junker claims to have met some of her best friends in NaNo after transferring to Texas State University in 2005. On a whim, she decided to take on the NaNo competition. Partic-ipating in NaNo helped her make friends and adjust to life in Aus-tin. Despite her any achievement in the social aspects of NaNo, Crawford-Junker has never won a NaNo competition. She blames her loss on midterms and NaNo’s 100-percent fiction policy.

“NaNo always starts after mid-terms and I always have [school] papers to write. Plus, as a histo-ry major, I’m much better at writ-ing about things that actually happened instead of things that didn’t,” Crawford-Junker said. “I don’t essentially feel bad about not winning. The only [conse-quence] is being heckled by your best friend, forever.”

Out of the 167,150 participants that competed last year, only 32,178 reached their 50,000 words by Nov. 30. The winners receive a certificate from the website, a prize that is weighted in gold.

“It’s amazing when you win,” Bristow said. “The feeling of ac-complishment is one you can’t compare to anything else. You’ve done this thing that’s been really hard, you’ve made time, you’ve not slept, you’ve not done your

laundry, and now you did it!” After the contest is over, most

NaNo participants do not go for publication. Bristow said that most people write only for them-selves to prove that they can do it, although some do strive to go public after the event. More than 60 novels have been published since NaNo’s inception. At times, professional writers have been known to take on the NaNo to start their next projects.

The Austin region is one of the largest and most active in NaNo, ranking 14th worldwide based on its number of participants alone. The region had 500 participants last year; this year they have more than 1,000.

Among those participants is engineering sophomore Anny Pan, one of eight participants on campus. For Pan, NaNo provides the opportunity to write the nov-el she always dreamed of writ-ing. Pan plans to work on sched-ule, writing the suggested 1,667 words per day to reach the Nov. 30 deadline. To complete the task, Pan has done away with all dis-tractions. She told her best friend to change her Facebook password and banned herself from Hulu.

“I’m an engineer, not a writer at all,” Pan said. “But I want to write something that I enjoyed reading in middle school and high school.

And while the word count may be daunting, the WriMos are up to the challenge.

“Just do it. Don’t be afraid of losing, and try to make some friends while you’re at it,” Craw-ford-Junker said. “It’s like play-ing the lottery, if you buy a ticket, something good may happen.”

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back into baseball. In this sea-son, the HBO series, which of course means a lot of beloved obscenities and nudity, Powers finds his way back into the game, but in Mexico, which of course means constant racist jokes.

“The League”“The League” is a show about

five 30-something-year-old friends who compete in a fantasy football league. These immature drinking buddies will do whatever they can

to reign supreme in “The League.” In its second season on FX, the

show features lots of slapstick jokes that we all love so much. “The League” is full of grown men, some with wives and chil-dren, acting like kids.

The show is a little random, and yes, it is stupid. But who cares? It’s fun, entertaining and relatable for many people who take part in fantasy football.

“Blue Mountain State”

It’s difficult to understand how Spike TV gets away with putting “Blue Mountain State” on basic cable.

It’s a frat party on steroids. Let’s just say that the opening cred-its show bras being unhooked, two girls making out and the butt crack of a giant offensive lineman sitting on the bench.

This is the show that makes older generations wonder what in the world is wrong with our gen-eration. Its TV-MA rating is a lit-tle misleading, as you need to be

TV: Raunchy shows provide easy viewing

ON THE WEB:For more informa-

tion go to

nanowrimo.org

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LIFE&ARTS Life&Arts Editor: Amber GenuskeE-mail: [email protected]: (512) 232-2209www.dailytexanonline.com

THE DAILY TEXAN

10Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Burnt out on your favorite sports team? Can’t bear to watch the Longhorns or Cowboys anymore?

While you may have to wait for another run to a champion-ship next season, this season there are still tons of great sports to watch. Yes, all of the excite-ment on the field is great, but so is the other sports entertainment on the small screen.

A handful of sports TV shows are scattered through the air-waves and becoming popular amongst viewers.

These shows are mostly aimed at the 18- to 30-year-old male viewership — the beer-drinking, butt-scratching, fist-pounding dudes that will shape the future of America. This audience brings similar themes in many of these shows including raunchy humor, attractive women and, surprising-ly, not much in the way of sports.

Some of these shows are funny, and some are serious. Some are dirty, some really dirty and oth-ers are flat out grotesque. Some are popular, and some you may have never heard of. But believe it or not, they are all entertaining.

“Friday Night Lights”This is the best show that no-

body watches. “Friday Night Lights” gets amazing reviews, but it struggles to gain the audi-ence it deserves.

Entering its fifth and final sea-son, the show takes you to the small fictional town of Dillon, Texas, where high school foot-ball is life. It originally aired on NBC but after poor ratings was forced to move to DirecTV’s 101 Network in the beginning of its

third season in 2008. After each season is completely aired on DirecTV, it is then rebroadcast months later on NBC’s Friday night lineup.

FNL, as many choose to call it, is pretty much “The O.C.” with a little bit of football. The show has a little of everything — cute girls and football. But serious-ly, there are love stories, humor, drama, controversial issues such as abortion and race and some of the best characters who you just love to love and love to hate.

And if all that isn’t enough, it’s got the Texas pride that we all know so well.

“Eastbound and Down”Kenny Powers is the most ri-

diculous character on TV. He is the most self-centered, arrogant person that the small screen has ever seen.

Powers, played by Danny McBride, is a combination of John Rocker, Terrell Owens and Ron Artest. In other words, he is a jerk. But he sure does know how to put on a show.

“Eastbound and Down” tells Powers’ story of trying to get

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By Alex WilliamsDaily Texan Staff

Every few years, there’s a sud-den glut of films in a very specif-ic genre. Twelve years ago, it was the asteroid flick, with “Arma-geddon” and “Deep Impact,” and this summer had a rush of men-on-a-mission films with “The Los-ers,” “The A-Team,” and “The Ex-pendables.” However, if 2010 has one defining trend, it’s un-questionably the claustrophobic film, which feature a handful of characters trapped in a confined space. Earlier this year, “Frozen” and “Devil” started the pattern with a chair lift and an elevator, respectively. “Buried,” set entirely in a coffin, released last month to little fanfare. However, the best of these films, and one of the best of the year, is easily “127 Hours.”

Based on the true story of moun-tain climber Aron Ralston (James Franco), “127 Hours” is a film that almost defies classification into any given genre. It’s moving enough to be a drama, it’s brutal enough to be a horror flick and funny enough (mostly thanks to star James Franco’s dynamite per-formance) to be a comedy.

Fortunately, director Danny Boyle handles the shifts in tone ef-fortlessly. Continuing to reinvent himself with every film he makes, Boyle brings his trademark kinet-ic energy to every shot of the film, which is remarkable considering the majority of it takes place in the cramped space where Aron’s arm is trapped under a rock.

James Franco is the only per-son on screen for much of the film, and he gives the best performance of his career, likable and riveting.

Franco convinces the audience to not only care about him, but invest in him, and it makes Aron’s even-tual triumph all the more moving. While a few moments are ill-con-ceived, Franco’s infectious sense of humor and determination keep things moving along quickly.

(After this point, I’ll be discuss-ing the ending of the film, which is common knowledge: Spoiler-phobes who don’t know the story are warned).

Boyle’s buildup to Aron’s escape is methodical, impeccably building hopelessness in the character and viewer until it’s clear that amputat-ing the trapped arm is the only op-tion for escape. The climactic scene, which reportedly caused faint-ing at the film’s world premiere in Telluride, isn’t quite restrained. Boyle revels in making the audi-ence squirm with a few key shots but is by no means over-the-top, respectful of Aron’s plight but not above forcing the audience to feel his pain.

However, where the film hits its highest point is after Aron’s escape, as he staggers his way to rescue. These are the film’s best scenes, a moving and triumphant cathar-sis that is inspiring in all the right ways without being the slightest bit cheesy or overwrought. Boyle has always struggled with third acts (especially in 2007’s “Sunshine,” an otherwise perfect film), but the final moments of “127 Hours” are some of the finest you’ll see in a movie theater this year.

“127 Hours” is unquestionably a tour de force. It’s Danny Boyle’s best film yet and deserving of ev-ery award it will hopefully get at the end of this year. It’s exhilarat-ing; a transformation of the worst five days of a man’s life into a story of rebirth and redemption.

Grade: A

By Jody SerranoDaily Texan Staff

Last night at 12:01 a.m., more than 200,000 people all over the globe booted up their comput-ers and typed the first of 50,000 words of their novels into a blank document.

After 10 long months of wait-ing, it is finally November, and National Novel Writing Month has begun.

Known as NaNo by its par-ticipants around the globe, Na-tional Novel Writing Month is a 30-day competition that takes place throughout the month of the November. Participants, self-titled “WriMos,” have one month to write a 50,000-word

novel, roughly 175 pages, and must submit it to NaNo’s web-site by midnight on Nov. 30.

National Novel Writing Month started as a small challenge in the Bay Area of California in July 1999. Austin regional staff Emily Bristow said founder Chris Baty and his friends had always told themselves they would write a novel one day. However, because of work, life and grueling self-criticism — called the internal ed-itor — they had never quite real-ized that dream. In the summer of 1999, Baty and his friends de-cided that they would write that novel they’d been putting off. They gave themselves one month to write the novel and set the goal

at 50,000 words. On Aug. 1, 1999, one month after the start of their challenge, Baty and his friends reached their goal.

Their stories were unedited and unplanned, but they were finished. Furthermore, they had achieved this without the traditional nov-el-writing method of isolation and careful thought. Instead, their pro-cess consisted of get-togethers, food, talking, indulging in hideous amounts of caffeine and simple, unabridged writing.

“When you learn to read, it [seems] every step of the way you’re being corrected, you’re be-ing constantly judged,” Bristow said. “You learn the order of the alphabet, you learn how to put a

sentence together, and you learn the rules of grammar and syn-tax. With NaNo, nobody’s judg-ing you.”

In one month, Baty and his friends had developed a quick way of realizing the seemingly impossible dream of writing a novel. They had made two key revelations in their experiment. One, that deadlines gave peo-ple motivation to do things they wouldn’t otherwise attempt, and two, that writing for quan-tity instead of quality set off a rush of creativity and defeated the tormenting self-judging pro-cess that prevents most people

By James JeffreyDaily Texan Staff

Austin entrepreneur Sar-ah Vela has established a way for social media to do good through her online compa-ny HelpAttack! by combining the use of platforms such as Twitter with the act of making charitable donations.

HelpAttack! is a website where Tweeters can pledge 5 cents or more for every tweet made in a 30-day period to a n y of the 5,000 nonprofit

organizations listed on the

company’s database. At the end of the 30 days, the

Tweeter re-turns to the

website, pays the amount generated by the activity and can commit to a longer period.

Currently the facility is es-tablished for Twitter, howev-er, Vela said the plan is to uti-lize Facebook next and other social media in the future. She said people are increasingly tracking their activities online, be it counting chores, calories or fitness activities. This “idea of life streaming” allows Hel-pAttack! to benefit.

“If you can count it, you

can pledge it,” Vela said.Vela said the usual mod-

el of nonprofits sending out requests for sponsorship do-nations could be revamped to make the request into the support itself.

“What if that was turned around and instead of always asking, you were just giv-ing, simply by being online,” she said. “Instead of always sending out a tweet [asking for support], the tweet itself was the support.”

Vela was heavily influenced by her politically active par-ents who regularly supported a number of nonprofits. Her parents made donations solic-ited through the mail, though she said people don’t respond through snail mail anymore because they live online and want to be reached online.

When situations are not relat-ed to a dire event such as a nat-ural disaster, it can be hard for nonprofits to get a response, a problem they have been trying to solve for some time.

“This is hopefully a solu-tion,” Vela said. “You can de-cide which causes are relevant to you and can make giving to them integrated into your ev-eryday activities online.”

The website went live on Aug. 21, so it is in its early days with plans for expansion.

Danielle Villasana | Daily Texan Staff

Nicole Duson, an employee of UT’s School of Social Work, begins writing with fellow authors at Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy minutes after midnight on Halloween to kick off National Novel Writing Month. The international event challenges writers to complete a 50,000 word novel in 30 days.

Film defies genre; director astounds with final scenes

Diverse stories, humor offer twist on sports TV

Tweeting for goodwill updates giving process

Photo Courtesy of Fox Searchlight

“127 Hours” is based on the true story of Aron Ralston (James Franco) and his harrowing hiking trip that ends in a life or death decision.

Courtesy of NBC

Shannon Kintner | Daily Texan Staff

Through the website HelpAttack!, created by Austinite Sara Vera, tweeters can donate to a chosen non-profit organization anything from a penny to a dollar every time they tweet.

helpattack.com

ON THE WEB:Visit the HelpAttack!

website, TV TUESDAYBy Dan Hurwitz

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50,000 words; 30 days to write

One man’s life provides for exhilarating story of rebirth and redemption

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