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UT professor writes computer programs to analyze videos, help

the elderly and memory-impaired

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NEWSWhy Austin should share

the Colorado RiverPAGE 3

Comparing school diversity policy at UT and Alabama

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OPINIONIf Brown goes, who’s the

next head football coach?PAGE 4

Freshman setter Collins has quick success

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SPORTSFemale broadcasters face extra pressure to be pretty

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Wearable technology con-tinues to be a rising trend

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LIFE&ARTSUT professors escavate

World Heritage SiteHealth Alliance for Austin Musicians raises funds

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Balloon victims lack legal recourseUNIVERSITY

Fisher v. UT case placed on appellate schedule

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LITERATURE

Readers bound by banned booksPhotos by Jarrid Denman, Gabriella Belzer and Marshall Nolen / Daily Texan Staff

Professors Randolph Lewis, Julia Mickenburg and Jacqueline Jones pose with their favorite banned and challenged books. National Banned Books Week draws attention to frequently challenged and currently banned books, as well as emphasizes the consequences of censorship.

By Eleanor Dearman@EllyDearman

What do “Beloved,” “The Kite Runner“ and “Captain Underpants” all have in common? These three books all made the list of the most frequently challenged books in the United States for 2012. According to the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, 464 books were challenged in the U.S. last year.

Banned and challenged books are very similar.

Banned books have been re-moved from public shelves, while challenged books are books people have at-tempted to remove from public shelves.

This week is National Banned Books Week. It serves to remind people about the consequences of censorship, draw at-tention to books that are currently banned and cel-ebrate the frequently chal-lenged books remaining on bookshelves today.

The Daily Texan asked

seven UT faculty members and graduate students about their favorite banned and challenged books.

Randolph Lewis, American Studies, “1984”

“I am going to go with ‘1984’ by George Orwell, which has been banned in schools because it’s thought to be sympathetic to one po-litical ideology or another. It is misunderstood often, yet I think it is one of the essen-tial books for understand-ing the 20th century and the

world we are living in now.”

Jacqueline Jones, History, “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” “Beloved”

“Zora Neale Hurston’s book, ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God,’ is a very evocative novel about a black woman in Florida in the early 20th century and her struggles. Certainly, ‘Beloved’ by Toni Morrison [too]. It’s based on a real incident where an enslaved woman kills her own child rather than [let it] grow up

and allow it to be a slave. I was struck by the number of books on the list called banned and challenged clas-sics that I’ve actually used in class.”

Sara Saylor, English, “Fun Home”

“I would say my favor-ite is Alison Bechdel’s book ‘Fun Home.’ This is a graphic memoir. The rea-son people object to this book, especially for high

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Longhorns defense, blocks contributing to early success

When the Longhorns begin conference play on Wednesday night, they’ll be under much less pressure than they were before.

Fifth-ranked Texas (6-2) opens up Big 12 play against TCU after notching its third comeback victory of the season against Nebraska. The Longhorns amassed 16 blocks to the Cornhuskers’ nine, showcasing a defense that has propelled the team

to victory all season.“Blocking is an important

aspect of this,” head coach Jerritt Elliot said. “Not so much about numbers, but more about how we are get-ting touches and putting pressure on teams.”

Texas has registered 91 total blocks this season com-pared to 65 for its oppo-nents, while only recording 14 block errors. In the team’s eight games, only three foes have compiled more blocks.

Sophomore middle blocker Molly McCage has

emerged as one of the Long-horns’ premier blockers after seven blocks against Nebras-ka brought her season total to 35. The top-ranked recruit of the class of 2012 takes special pride in defending the net.

“[Blocking] not only fires me up, but it fires my whole team up,” McCage said. “To have that solid defense on our side of the court is a huge advantage. All around we are a great blocking team, but to Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan Staff

Texas’ early season success has been due, in large part, to its ability to get blocks and force opponents to work around its forwards. The Longhorns take on TCU in BIg 12 action tonight.

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By Alberto Long@albertolong

Hearings for Fisher v. Uni-versity of Texas are sched-uled to be given for the second time on Nov. 13 in the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

The case was initiated by Abigail Fisher, who sued UT in 2008 after she was denied admission into the University. Fisher, who has since graduated from Louisiana State University and currently lives in Aus-tin, claimed the University violated her right to equal protection because its ad-missions policy considers race as a factor for students who do not automatically qualify under the Top 10 Percent Law.

Judges Carolyn King, Patrick Higginbotham and Emilio Garza will hear oral arguments from both sides. The judges heard the case when it last reached the Fifth Circuit Court in 2009 and the appeals court originally deter-mined the University could use race as a factor in its admissions policy.

After hearing the case in October 2012, the Supreme Court ruled in June that the Fifth Circuit Court did not apply strict scrutiny to UT’s admissions policy when it ruled in the University’s fa-vor. In the 7-1 decision to relegate the case to a lower court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg provided the only dissent.

Applying strict scrutiny will require the court to look into whether the Uni-versity’s diversity goals can be achieved without using race as a factor in admis-sion decisions, accord-ing to Gregory Vincent, UT law professor and vice president for diversity and community engagement.

“[UT has] to demon-strate that there are no other race-neutral ways

Gregory Vincent, vice president for the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, issued a state-ment to UT students saying that water balloon attacks in West Campus are more than just “school yard pranks.” But according to the victims, criminal investigations into the attacks may be fizzling.

Eduardo Belalcazar, an

international relations and global studies junior who had a water balloon thrown at him outside 26 West on Sept. 7, said authorities in charge of handling his case have been lax in their follow-up investigation, although he said he has not pressed the matter further.

“UTPD hasn’t contacted me [and] neither has APD,” Belalcazar said. “The Univer-sity just gave me some type of outreach, but when I asked

what the school was doing about it, they didn’t respond. It’s just a very disheartening thing for me to see the lack of importance that this has on my campus. I honestly don’t know what else I could do.”

Because he was not actu-ally hit by the balloon, Be-lalcazar is at a legal impasse, according to UTPD chief of police David Carter.

“If there’s no crime that can be prosecuted because it fails to meet the criteria

listed in the penal code, then we’re limited to what we can do,” Carter said. “That’s why we wanted to know if there was bleach or some caustic chemical in the balloon that can hurt somebody. That would be more than a class C misdemeanor and could conceivably be prosecuted.”

An attempted water bal-loon attack that does not cause physical harm would fall well below what is consid-ered “criminal,” Carter said.

According to Carter, pen-alty groups include capital felony, first-, second- and third-degree felonies, as well as misdemeanors A, B and C.

“A Class C misdemeanor for assault, which refers to assaults by physical contact, is the very lowest of its kind,” Carter said. “There’s nothing below that. So if an assault is attempted, it’s not even on the legal spec-trum. It can’t be prosecuted.”

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Researchers at the Univer-sity are working to perfect a computer algorithm designed to summarize first-person perspective films, with the hope of aiding the elderly and memory-impaired.

Kristen Grauman, a com-puter science associate profes-sor and project leader, said her team produced an algorithm capable of analyzing long seg-ments of video and creating short, storyboard summaries. The algorithm uses a combi-nation of machine-learning technology and optimization to predict the important ele-ments in a video and demon-strate how they are connected.

The story-driven video summarization technology is the first of its kind to fo-cus on egocentric, or first-person perspective, video. Grauman said this allows

for greater applications of the summarizing feature and may be of use for mem-ory-impaired individuals.

“If you think about who needs a first-person video summarized, you first think about life loggers, people who just do this for fun or for social media,” Grauman said. “What I would say are even more serious applications are clini-cal health or elder care kind of things where you need to monitor someone’s ability to do activities of daily living, or to help them recap or re-expe-rience visual memories to help them jog [their] memory.”

Grauman conducted her initial research with former postdoctoral research fellow Lu Zheng and former doc-toral student Yong Jae Lee. Lee said he focused on how machine-learning techniques can make the technology pre-dict important objects.

“Since the video can be

many hours, we aimed to find the frames that contain the most important people and objects,” Lee said. “In or-der to find these frames, we train an algorithm to predict important image regions us-ing egocentric cues, like how often objects appear in the center of the frame.”

Zheng said he worked closely with Grauman in or-der to shape their ideas and formulate solutions to prob-lems they encountered.

“I was mainly respon-sible for coming out with the research ideas, working on details of the algorithm, programming the algorithm and designing and perform-ing experiments,” Zheng said. “Professor Grauman worked with [us] closely in various ways, such as shap-ing the initial idea and sug-gesting possible solutions to difficulties encountered along the way.”

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to meet that [goal],” Vin-cent said. “The University feels that it met the strict scrutiny standard.”

UT law professor Joshua Fishkin said the Supreme Court decision means the appeals court will have to more thoroughly analyze UT’s admissions policy.

“The Fifth Circuit thought it was applying strict scrutiny,” Fishkin said. “The Supreme Court basically concluded that the Fifth Circuit had been too deferential to UT about the question of whether this kind of program was really needed.”

Fishkin added that the Fifth Circuit Court might send the case further down to the district court so that UT’s admission policy can undergo even further analy-sis before the Fifth Circuit makes another ruling.

Vincent said the case could eventually reach the Supreme Court a second time.

“Once the Fifth Circuit has determined those ques-tions, I am sure there will be an appeal in whatever they decide,” Vincent said. “I am sure that the Supreme Court will have to consider that again.”

According to Vincent, the use of race in admissions has long been a point of debate in federal courts.

In the 1978 Regents of the University of Califor-nia v. Bakke case, the Su-preme Court decided insti-tutions of higher education could consider race in their admission decisions. In 1996, the Fifth Circuit ruled in the Hopwood v. Texas case that Texas uni-versities could not use race in their admissions policy. The Hopwood rul-ing was overturned by a 2003 Supreme Court rul-ing in the Grutter v. Bol-linger case. UT has since used race as a factor in its

admissions policy.In discussing the his-

tory of affirmative action cases, Vincent noted that race is not the only fac-tor used by universities in admitting students.

“One of the things that we note from Bakke, as well as the Grutter deci-sion, is that race is just one among many factors,” Vincent said.

According to UT spokes-man Gary Susswein, law firm Latham & Watkins will again defend the Uni-versity at the Fifth Circuit hearing, as it did before the Supreme Court. Texas Attor-ney General Greg Abbott de-fended the University when the case first reached the Fifth Circuit.

Edward Blum, direc-tor of the Project for Fair Representation, who has represented Fisher in the case, could not be reached for comment.

Student Government pres-ident Horacio Villarreal said the Fisher case could impact the demographical make-up at universities.

“Not only is it a case that could potentially af-fect students across the na-tion, but it could change the diversity on our campus,” Villarreal said.

Video algorithm may help elderly, memory-impaired

The Fifth Circuit thought it was apply-ing strict scrutiny. The Supreme Court basi-cally concluded that the Fifth Circuit had been too deferential to UT about the ques-tion of whether this kind of program was really needed.

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University Towers is cur-rently investigating the Aug. 22 balloon attack on govern-ment senior Bryan Davis, which occurred outside the apartment complex. Davis said police have suspended his case until further evi-dence is produced.

Ronnie Davis, community manager for University Tow-ers, said the complex could not give specific information as to whether anyone has been caught or evicted.

Gina Cowart, a spokes-woman for American Cam-pus Community, which manages several West Cam-pus apartment complexes, including 26 West, could not be reached for comment.

Carter said he ultimately thinks incidents such as water balloon attacks are issues best handled at the administrative level.

“Just because certain in-cidents can’t be prosecuted as crimes, that doesn’t mean that [they’re] not wrong,” Carter said. “It may mean that the incident should be handled at the adminis-trative level. For instance, there’s Student Judicial Ser-vices, and their jurisdiction is primarily on campus, but they can respond to cer-tain incidents that occur off campus.”

According to Vincent, students responsible for the attacks in West Cam-pus are held accountable under the University’s disciplinary system.

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By Jen EbbelerDaily Texan Columnist

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Greek history class shows advantage of team-based learning

The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Alabama are two very different campuses. The football teams have had varying degrees of success in re-cent years, both schools have distinct takes on the Southern aesthetic and a raincoat might actually be worth buying in Tus-caloosa. However, it’s become clear that there is a more meaningful gulf between the two schools in how their respective ad-ministrations approach diversity.

Every historic Southern state univer-sity has to deal with the vestiges of dis-crimination on its campus. As a student at Texas and a former student at Alabama, I’ve had an opportunity to see how each institution approaches what can be a delicate issue.

In the past two weeks, coverage by UA’s student newspaper, the Crimson White (for which I wrote during my time at Alabama), revealed that multiple sororities at the Uni-versity of Alabama had declined to bid a particularly qualified applicant because she was black.

According to an article in the Guard-ian, people familiar with the univer-sity’s historic Greek system, including UA alum and Alabama governor Robert Bentley, have suggested that the outsize influence of Greek alumni has led to the sustained segregation.

For years, senior administrators like President pro tempore of the University of Alabama Board of Trustees Paul Bryant, Jr.; UA president Judy Bonner; and before her president Robert Witt, who is now Chan-cellor of the University of Alabama system, have shrugged off the responsibility to in-stigate change, despite the fact that, accord-ing to the Crimson White, other Southern schools with comparable Greek systems like Auburn and Ole Miss have made meaningful strides toward an integrated campus community.

Although Bonner worked with sororities to initiate a new round of rush that culmi-nated in multiple African-American girls re-ceiving bids, there is no denying that there’s a serious problem with racism on a school’s campus when it takes days of negative na-tional media attention to force the school’s administration to address decades-old bla-tant, institutional discrimination.

The severely delayed actions of the UA administration stand in stark contrast to those of the University of Texas in the Fisher v. Texas Supreme Court case. In the public-ity surrounding the case, President William Powers Jr. and his administration received significant attention for the racial compo-nent of the holistic evaluation used in UT’s admissions process.

Although the use of racial background in admissions decisions is a concept with its own merits and problems, the University’s strong defense of it demonstrates its clear commitment to diversity. UT spent years and, according to Inside Higher Ed, almost $1 million dollars defending its diversity policy in front of the Supreme Court, where-as Alabama felt it was enough to simply pay lip service to the concept in press releases that shrug off real responsibility to lead in-stitutional change.

At Alabama the segregation of the Greek system, barring a few newer orga-nizations, was an open secret. Although I can only speculate as to the reason why segregation and deep class divisions at Alabama are so persistent, the adminis-tration there has shown itself to be un-willing to address the problems from which these issues stem.

While the University of Texas deals with its own challenges in regard to race, defend-ing its admissions policy in Fisher and, ac-cording to CNN, renaming a residence hall previously named after a Klansman show a good-faith effort on the part of the president and the regents to remove obvious legacies of discrimination from campus. Although the University can’t promote diversity in ev-ery aspect of campus life, it can strive to cre-ate an environment in which racial divides are not openly tolerated.

The past several months have shown stark differences in how administrations can con-front these issues.

Alabama’s administration chose to ignore racial problems until BuzzFeed and The New York Times reported on it. UT’s administra-tion chooses to confront them head-on, even at steep financial cost.

So even though these universities may be facing difficulties, be they in the perfor-mance of the football team or the prejudices held on campus, it is important that the ad-ministration lead its students in achieving all the glittering generalities laid out in the admissions brochures.

Matula is a finance junior from Austin.

By Chuck MatulaDaily Texan Columnist

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Editor’s Note: This column is the first in a series by associate classics professor Jen-nifer Ebbeler on the changing nature of higher education at UT-Austin and other institutions. Look for Prof. Ebbeler’s column in the Opinion section of this paper every other Wednesday.

At the start of the semester, each student in assistant history professor Adam Rabinow-itz’s CC 301: Introduction to Ancient Greece class was assigned to a permanent team of seven students. These groups work together on structured in-class activities each Friday and also produce a group project at the end of the semester.

Every Friday morning, the students find their assigned seat near their teammates, pick up their team folder and get ready for the day’s activity. This past Friday, the topic was the date and effect of the eruption of Thera in the Bronze Age.

In preparation, the class had watched a PBS documentary and also read scholarly articles presenting various theories about the possible role of the eruption in the disappearance of Minoan civilization. At the start of Friday’s class, students took a short i>clicker quiz on their own and then took the same quiz in their groups, us-ing a scratch-off “lottery” card. Once the group agreed on an answer, they scratched off that space. They kept going until they got the correct answer, marked by a star. The classroom was loud as students de-bated one another, working to persuade their group members but also learning

to be more sensitive to the limits of their own expertise. Most of all, though, they were reminded that their peers are an im-portant source of knowledge. “Almost invariably,” notes Rabinowitz, “the group scores are better than the individual scores.”

Using the feedback from the i>clicker quiz, Dr. Rabinowitz briefly clarified points of con-fusion and common misconceptions and then turned the groups loose to work together on a more challenging discussion question. The groups were asked to adopt a position and de-fend that position with evidence-based argu-ments. For instance, one available position in Friday’s class was, “The decline or collapse of a complex civilization or social order is most often the result of a major natural disaster, and is most likely to happen fairly quickly (in the space of a generation).”

Once the groups had had time to decide on their position and arguments, the class came together and each group was asked to hold up a card indicating its position. Dr. Rabinowitz then called on groups to pres-ent their case. Frequently, other groups weighed in with correctives or additional arguments. The result was a spectacularly rich, deep and thoughtful discussion of a complex issue.

Rabinowitz’s approach to his class draws on the principles of team-based learning, a method of instruction that is well studied and has proven to be extremely successful in university classrooms. It is clear from watching Rabinowitz’s enthusiastic and en-gaged students and listening to their per-ceptive analyses of a complicated historical event that his approach is working — and it is working at scale (CC 301 enrolls 225 stu-dents each semester) with non-majors who have rarely had previous exposure to the subject matter.

The current form of the class is the result of several cycles of evolution and was very much shaped by the feedback Rabinowitz re-ceived from previous classes. For instance, he

has created a detailed rubric and decreased the work required for the final group project (an addition to the Geo-Dia spatial timeline designed by Rabinowitz); and has developed a formal procedure for groups to “fire” mem-bers who are not pulling their weight.

Still, using the techniques of team-based learning in such a large course has not been without its challenges. Perhaps the most sig-nificant one is logistical: how to arrange stu-dents in groups in an auditorium that was designed for lecture (FAC 21)? The solution was assigned seating, which necessitated the creation of a seat map — something that had not previously been done for this classroom. Similarly, it took a lot of time and a dash of creativity to figure out how to manage the distribution and collection of materials for the groups (the solution was numbered fold-ers). Perhaps the biggest challenge for Rabi-nowitz was the sense that he was trying to problem-solve in a vacuum. “Both staff and faculty were willing to share ideas and solu-tions when I asked,” Rabinowitz said, “but I had a hard time finding people who were trying these methods in large classes. When I did, I realized that sometimes they had al-ready developed resources that I really could have used — I just didn’t know they were out there. I’d like to see some sort of central place emerge where we could share our tools and experiences.”

When I asked Rabinowitz why he decided to incorporate elements of team-based learn-ing into his large enrollment course, he ex-plained, “I feel very strongly that students learn best when they can take ownership of information, not just passively consume it. Explaining ideas to someone else, defend-ing a position, building an argument — that helps you internalize what you’ve learned. Team-based learning is a way to get students learning by doing in a big humanities lecture course where we don’t have labs.”

Lecture nevertheless has a prominent place in the course. Monday and Wednesday

class meetings are structured around lectures that review content. “On one level, I see my-self in this class as a tour guide for a visit to a place that’s both familiar and strange. It’s like taking the students to a foreign country, though this one happens to be distant in time as well as space,” Rabinowitz said. As he lec-tures, however, Rabinowitz regularly pauses to ask and answer questions. Frequently, lectures morph into interactive discussions. Attendance in this large enrollment course is regularly more than 200 students and, not unexpectedly, in the fall 2012 version, grades on midterm exams and in the course were noticeably higher than usual.

From what I observed in Rabinowitz’s class, his approach is working, but we need to hear more from UT students themselves. Have any students taken this class or an-other class that utilizes team-based learn-ing? What experience did you have? Did you think it helped you to learn the course material better or more efficiently? Was it too much work? What is the value of team-based learning? Drawbacks?

These are all questions we must answer go-ing forward, and I am interested in hearing student responses. If you are interested in sharing yours, you can reach me at [email protected].

Ebbeler is an associate professor in the de-partment of classics from Claremont, Calif. Follow Ebbeler on Twitter @jenebbeler.

UT beats ‘Bama on diversityAustin should share the riverOne of the most important and overlooked

episodes in the history of the American West was the battle over the water of Owens Val-ley in California around the turn of the 20th century.

The California Water Wars, as the quar-rel became known, began a long tradition of conflict between the cities and rural areas of the West for the region’s most precious resource. One such dispute is taking place right now in Texas, over Austin’s share of the Colorado River.

The Owens Valley, populated mostly by small farmers and ranchers, had the misfor-tune to be the most accessible source of fresh water to the growing city of Los Angeles. The leaders of that city, eager to sustain its rapid expansion, engaged in a decades-long cam-paign of deception and underhanded tactics to strong-arm the locals out of their water.

Once the rights to the water were secured, they built a 223-mile-long aqueduct to divert it from Owens Valley to Los Angeles. Owens Valley dried up, and everybody knows what happened to Los Angeles.

Cut to central Texas in the present day.The Lower Colorado River Author-

ity, which manages water, energy and flood control for much of Central and Southeast Texas, came under fire in August for debat-ing whether to artificially lower the level of Lake Austin by 2 to 4 feet to capture more rainfall and deal more effectively with the current drought.

Lake Austin is normally kept at a constant level with inflows from Lake Travis and Lake Buchanan further upstream.

Many Austinites, primarily those with lake-front property that would be devalued if the water receded, vehemently protested the plan to lower the water level. LCRA Chairman Timothy Timmerman announced on Sept. 12 that the idea had been shelved.

“Our board is looking at innovative ways to expand and extend our water sup-ply, but the idea of lowering the lakes is not and has not been a serious consideration,” Timmerman said.

The next innovative proposal, it seems, is to shut off the flow of fresh water from the High-

land lakes to Matagorda Bay, the second-larg-est estuary system on the Texas Gulf Coast. On Sept. 18, the LCRA board voted to request an exemption from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s requirement that it release fresh water from the lakes to the bay.

If the LCRA gets its way, the denial of water to Matagorda Bay would persist for 120 days, or until the combined level of Lakes Travis and Buchanan returns to 900,000 acre-feet. It currently sits at 638,000 acre-feet, or 32 per-cent full, and in the current climate such a rise seems unlikely.

Matagorda Bay depends on the consistent influx of fresh water from the Colorado to sustain its ecosystem, which includes a wide variety of fish, shellfish, waterfowl and other wildlife. Salinity levels have risen in the estu-ary due to cuts LCRA has already made to the freshwater flows, and cutting the flows off completely would almost certainly push the salinity to lethal levels.

It’s not only a question of environmen-tal conservation. One of the state’s largest shrimping fleets operates in Matagorda Bay, and local officials say the rising sa-linity levels have already hurt the area’s fishing industry.

Cutting the bay’s fresh water would save less than 5 percent of the amount Austin uses in a year. Austin currently operates un-der Stage 2 water restrictions, and residents can only water their lawns once a week. The city has done an admirable job in recent years of lowering its total water consump-tion despite increasing its population, but in such a severe drought we fail to understand why the lawns need to be watered at all. They’re lawns.

We agree with those in the Matagorda Bay area that the estuary needs the water far more than Austin does if Austin still has enough left over to water lawns and preserve expensive lakefront property. The amount of water that goes to Matagorda Bay is insignificant next to the amount used by Austin, and in times of scarcity, it’s only fair that the most demanding consumers should bear the heaviest burden.

Sadly, the protesters from the bay area and from state environmental groups failed to persuade the LCRA, as the louder voices of Austin’s lakefront property owners had suc-ceeded less than a week before in convincing the agency to not lower Lake Austin. But the Texas Commission on Environmental Qual-ity has a little under two weeks to approve the agency’s request. We hope they send the LCRA back to the drawing board.

In such a severe drought we fail to understand why the lawns need to be watered at all. They’re lawns.

I feel very strongly that students learn best when they can take ownership of information, not just passively consume it.

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Who’s next in line for Texaswith Brown on his way out?

FOOTBALL | COLUMN

With last week’s win over Kansas State, head coach Mack Brown still has hope the Long-horns can run the table and win the Big 12. That dream will be shattered by early No-vember and it seems likely that Brown will either resign or be fired at the season’s end. Let the rampant speculation as to who will coach next year begin.

Candidate: Mack BrownCurrently: University of Texas head coachPluses: A UT legend. Longev-ity here means he knows al-most all the three-letter build-ing codes.Minuses: Just a 23-19 re-cord since Colt McCoy hurt his shoulder.Chances: Likely none. Texas had to improve on last year’s 9-4 mark for Brown to keep boosters’ support. The win over Kansas State was impres-sive, but the meat of the sched-ule is still to come — 5 percent.

Candidate: Nick SabanCurrently: University of Ala-bama head coachPluses: Four national champi-onships, including three since Colt McCoy hurt his shoulder. Minuses: He may not stay very long, and we don’t know how he looks in burnt orange.Chances: Although Texas is one of a handful of programs that arguably occupy a higher position on the college foot-ball ladder than Alabama, Sa-ban seems to have found his home in Tuscaloosa. But if he wins again this year, maybe he reaches for a higher rung —

12 percent.

Candidate: Will MuschampCurrently: University of Flori-da head coachPluses: The former UT “coach-in-waiting” is performing well in his internship at Florida.Minuses: Can we trust him to stay this time?Chances: This makes the most karmic sense, and it’s not a bad football move either — 27 percent.

Candidate: Greg SchianoCurrently: Tampa Bay Bucca-neers head coachPluses: Proven success at Rut-gers, defensive-minded and an excellent recruiter.Minuses: May have culture shock after living his whole life in New Jersey, Chicago and Florida.Chances: The 0-3 record and locker room grum-blings means he won’t sur-vive the season with Tampa Bay, and it seems the college game is a better fit for him — 17 percent.

Candidate: Bill O’Brien

Currently: Penn State Univer-sity head coachPluses: Took on an im-possible task at Penn State and succeeded.Minuses: May be uncom-fortable working in an en-vironment not rife with institutional failures.Chances: He’ll be hard to pry away, but his sterling reputa-tion means he’ll at least get a phone call — 11 percent.

Candidate: Kevin SumlinCurrently: Texas A&M head coachPluses: Stellar record, impec-cable resume and reputation.Minuses: He’s an Aggie.Chances: He’s deserving and would be a fine choice, but he already makes $3.1 million and might not be ready to leave College Station — 18 percent.

Candidate: The fieldIt’s doubtful the search pool

will include any unknowns or first-time head coaches. The agents for Brett Bielema, Mark Richt and Art Briles will prob-ably all get phone calls. Chances: 10 percent.

David J. Phillip / Associated PressKevin Sumlin and Nick Saban are a couple of the coaches who could possibly make the move to Texas in 2014.

be able to contribute to that is a great feeling.”

The Longhorns’ stellar de-fense has buoyed the offen-sive charge as the team has outhit opponents .242-.226 this season. That production has forced opponents into 38 more attack errors this sea-son and spearheaded a 4-1 record against ranked oppo-nents for Texas.

“This team is really big on consistency, and I’ve improved in that as well by playing with my amazing teammates,” McCage said. “Everyone on the team has so much to contribute. I’m going to try my best to give them everything that I have, because they would and will do the same.”

Although Iowa State is the only other team in the Big 12 ranked in the Top 25, the Longhorns know the road doesn’t get any easier.

“We’re super excited. I feel like we ended pre-season on a good note,” McCage said. “We’re ready to get back to the Big 12 and really ready to com-pete because we have a lot of in-state rivals, and I feel like that’ll prepare us well for the tournament.”

This team is really big on consistency, and I’ve improved in that as well by playing with my amazing teammates. Everyone on the team has so much to con-tribute. I’m going to try my best to give them everything that I have, because they would and will do the same.

—Molly McCage, middle blocker

Chloe Collins remembers her first time on a volley-ball court. She was a child in Cypress, Texas, clad in a YMCA uniform.

“I remember the ex-act place and time,” Col-lins said. “[With] our little blue jerseys. I was in the back row.”

Since then, the fresh-man setter has grown a few inches and swapped blue for burnt orange to become one of three freshmen on the defending national championship team.

“Texas was always my number one school,” Col-lins said. “I committed re-ally early. As soon as Texas offered, I took it.”

Collins’ path to Texas

included a trip to Turkey for the 2011 FIVB World Cham-pionship as a member of the United States Girls’ Youth National Team.

It also included an explo-sive senior season at Cypress Woods High School, where Collins helped catapult the team to a 40-4 record, con-tributing 305 kills, 51 aces, 318 digs, 1,313 assists and 62 blocks. That season land-ed her a spot among honor-ees on the Under Armour High School All-America First Team.

Collins opted to leave Cypress Woods a semester early and enroll at Texas.

“It was an all-around great decision,” Collins said. “I was able to get ahead in academics, as well as learn-ing the offense and defense at Texas.”

As spring play com-menced, Collins suited up and went onto the court without hesitating. In her first game at Gregory Gym, a 3-2 win over Wichita State in April, she tallied 18 assists, four kills and three digs.

“We had the best friends here yelling and cheering and the atmosphere was amazing,” Collins said of her first game. “Having the support that we have here and the team being so sup-portive of us coming in is great.”

The spring semester in Austin allowed Collins to fine-tune her competence on the court, as well as work on her time manage-ment skills, responsibility and priorities. She found a mentor in senior setter

Hannah Allison, a team leader who helped pave the way for the Longhorns’ national championship.

As the team’s fall sched-ule kicked off, Collins added a match-leading 33 assists against UTEP in Honolulu. Against Penn State, the No. 1 team in the country at the time, Collins added her first double-double of the sea-son with 22 assists and 16 digs. Her second straight double-double came the following day against No. 2 Stanford.

While Collins didn’t expect to contribute so much at the start of the season, head coach Jerritt Elliott quickly saw poten-tial, calling her “one of the best pure athletes I have ever coached.”

Collins, who cranks up music and dances be-fore games to shake out the jitters, has quickly es-tablished herself as an enthusiastic presence on the court.

“It can be a little whiffer ball and I’ll get crunk on it because it’s a point,” Collins said. “Just being on the court really excites me because I have a passion.”

While adjusting to college life and navigating the pres-sures of intense play make for a interesting set of chal-lenges, Collins’ goals for her first season remain simple.

“[To] better my team, learn my role more and con-tinue to get better every day,” Collins said.

Additional reporting by Evan Berkowitz

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Freshman setter Chloe Collins’ early success has been a pleasant surprise for coach Jerritt Elliott. The Cypress, Texas, native has played an important role in Texas’ 6-2 start this season.

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subj.10 Defeats regularly,

in slang14 Muscular

strength15 30 Rock’s

architectural style16 Female mil. unit

created 5/15/4217 Like a patient

person’s attitude19 Analogy words20 Flying Cloud of

old autodom21 Take the top off

of, in a way22 Stray from the

subject29 Rooney ___,

star of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”

30 Browses, in a way31 Place to wallow

in mud32 Quick ballroom

dance

35 Relating to the calf

37 Mideast monarchy

42 Passion43 Term of address

for a 2-Down44 Model Carangi47 One of almost 20

French kings49 Fishing rod, flies,

lures, etc.50 Without delay54 Where some

ex-major-leaguers play

55 ___ Taylor (clothing retailer)

56 Company that once owned the trademark “Escalator”

57 Not corroborated64 Cork’s locale65 Component of

brass66 Words of

compassion67 Progeny68 Rash feeling?69 See 61-Down

DOWN 1 Vane dir. 2 Member of la

familia 3 Purchase from

Pat Sajak 4 Last figure on an

invoice 5 Tower over 6 Scanners,

webcams, etc. 7 Super ___ (old

game console) 8 Do superbly on 9 Shoe part10 Short, in a way11 Laps against12 Floating13 “Star Trek”

character who says “Aye” a lot

18 Modernist’s prefix21 Failing

inspection, say22 Some pickups23 Island with

Yokohama Bay24 Like many

presentations25 Statements in a

legal case26 Alpine land27 Irrefutable28 Some “Hair”

hairdos33 Sci-fi author

Ellison34 “___ the seventh

day …”36 “Cute” sound38 Month in l’été39 Where Duff Beer

is poured40 ___ Sea (now-

divided waters)41 ___ a one

44 Toys known as Action Men in the U.K.

45 Headed for sudden death, perhaps

46 Aim high

48 Swipe, as a purse

51 Shocked, in a way

52 Tolkien creature

53 Negro leagues star Buck ___

57 Assault weapon named for its designer

58 Minor complaint

59 Post-apartheid ruling org.

60 Chem. or biol.

61 With 69-Across, beach markings … 14 of which are hidden vertically and horizontally elsewhere in this puzzle

62 ’Fore

63 ___ Plaines, Ill.

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school age, or younger readers, is partly that it represents sexuality in pic-ture form. It’s really one of my favorite books across the board. It just happens to be banned. In particu-lar, this is a story about a young woman who goes to college and experiences some major challenges in the way she understands her own sexuality and her relationship to her family.”

Maley Thompson, English, “The Witches”

“I would say my favor-ite banned book is ‘The Witches’ by Roald Dahl. It is a children’s book, but it is so funny, and it is so scary, and it is so engaging and it takes you away to this other world. I remember read-ing it and other Roald Dahl books as a child and again as an adult, and he really captures what it’s like to be a child in a scary world. This book was banned be-cause it said witches could only be female. Books get banned for smaller reasons

than that. People should be able to determine for [them-selves] and I guess for their own children what consti-tutes a useful book.”

Lance Bertelsen, English, “Essay on Woman”

“My favorite is a poem called ‘Essay on Woman’ by John Wilkes, a famous radi-cal politician in 18th centu-ry Britain. It’s a lewd parody

of Alexander Pope’s famous poem called ‘Essay on Man.’ It was so notorious that Wil-kes was actually prosecuted by the House of Lords for its publication. Not a lot of people know about it, and it’s pretty funny, so if you do know about Pope’s ‘Essay on Man’ you can see the kind of crazy things that Wilkes is doing with it. And then there’s a lot of inside stuff

that wouldn’t mean a lot to the general public that makes it interesting as well.”

Julia Mickenberg, Ameri-can Studies, “Harriet the Spy”

“I started looking at some list of banned books, and it’s amazing how many there are to choose from, but I picked ‘Harriet the Spy,’ partly because one of my

specialties is children’s lit-erature. It’s my favorite for some of the same reasons it was banned. At the end, Ole Golly, her nurse, tells her sometimes you have to lie. But the book, I think, as a whole is controversial because it sets up a new dy-namic between adults and children that had not been seen before. I think it’s great literature, and it gives great

insight into how some peo-ple were starting to think about children and the role of children and adults in the 1960s.”

In honor of National Banned Books Week, UT’s English department will host a Banned Book Q&A Session on Sept. 26 in the Perry-Castaneda Library between students and censorship experts.

Barbie may be a child-hood toy, but her name is also the term Mary Bock gives to women in the video journalism industry today.

“We have women who are still expected to uphold very unrealistic beauty standards while also doing this very physical job,” said Bock, as-sistant professor of journal-ism at UT and author of “Video Journalism: Beyond the One-Man Band.”

Bock, who had a 20-year career in television jour-nalism before becoming a professor, will give a talk Wednesday titled “Barbie is a Zombie: Women, TV Jour-nalism, and the Rise of the One-WOMAN-Band.”

Barbie, in Bock’s eyes, refers to the physical appearance of women in television jour-nalism after they have been dolled-up and given extensive makeup and hair treatments. Bock thought the expectation for women to look like Barbie would die away, but so far that hasn’t been the case.

“Women have a much tougher task,” Bock said. “They are carrying shoes into the field. Their gear bags have not only their makeup kits and their hair kits, but they also now have to carry an extra pair of shoes.”

According to Bock, being a female television journal-ist who is attractive has even more challenges.

“Actually, some of the pretti-est women have had the hard-est time being taken seriously,” Bock said. “Jessica Savitch was brilliant, but was treated like an idiot because she was very, very beautiful … The idea is that if you are beautiful then you are not thinking.”

Kate Dawson, senior lec-turer in the broadcast journal-ism department, noticed the pressure women felt to achieve physical perfection in her ca-reer as a television journalist.

“I was at Fox News Chan-nel, where certainly we had correspondents who felt pressure to look younger,” Dawson said. “They did Bo-tox. The idea that you have to stay young and attractive is really important.”

Kris Wilson, also a senior

lecturer in the broadcast journalism department, said men do not face the same challenges to appear young.

“Men can age on TV, but if a woman starts to age she gets taken off the air,” Wilson said.

Bock is concerned a wom-an’s physical appearance will always be important in tele-vision journalism.

“I’m not optimistic at this time, mostly because most news is still commercially sup-ported, so ratings matter and faces matter,” Bock said.

Nina Hernandez, a se-nior journalism major and

former student of Bock’s, is also worried about future working conditions for fe-male television journalists.

“The way that TV news is run, the way that any news is run, the standards are only go-ing to get higher, and the con-ditions are only going to get worse,” Hernandez said.

Bock said audiences also face a problem when pres-sure is put on women in broadcast journalism to achieve physical perfection.

“It’s not only a problem for the women who are being the journalists, it’s a problem for

people who have unrealistic expectations,” Bock said. “It’s a problem for the audience. It perpetuates the notion that it’s our job to decorate the world. And it’s not our job to decorate the world.”

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Wearable tech brings users one step closer to being glued to their devices by integrat-ing technology into clothing and accessories.

Wearable tech is not a new concept, but it has grown in popularity and general rele-vance the past two years, going back to when Google unveiled Google Glass at their annual I/O conference in 2012.

Glass and Samsung Galaxy Gear are the two devices most touted by the tech communi-ty, but both are generally con-sidered unattractive to those outside the community.

“It’s not our forte,” com-puter science associate pro-fessor Kristen Grauman said. “We don’t always know how to make the best design or [user interface] or what have you. We think about it and recognize the importance, but it somewhat falls outside our scope.”

Wearable tech combines two industries with very dif-ferent dynamics and skill sets: tech and fashion.

“We don’t know every-thing about computer sci-ence,” textiles and apparel lecturer Karen Bravo said. “You’re always going to have computer scientists invent-ing these new innovations, but unless there are talented designers working on these products to make them more appealing to real humans, they’re not going anywhere.”

Bravo teaches an apparel design class where students integrate technology into their designs. Students make pieces

such as jackets with blinkers for cyclists or hoods with cam-eras built into them for action sports athletes.

“It’s where that line is be-tween arts and design,” Bravo said. “We don’t want to just make it good to look at. It has to be used by real humans for a real purpose.”

Tilde Snyder, a student in Bravo’s class, plans on integrat-ing microphones and cameras into her garments to create ac-tive wear that can be used as a field recording device.

“I’m researching avail-able technology and how to incorporate it without sac-rificing aesthetics,” Snyder said. “As a former [computer science] major, I’m very in-terested in the intersection between the two fields.”

Wearable tech faces some major challenges in order to make its way into the daily lives of American consum-ers. It will take time to iron out the new technology and design methodologies. But there is no denying that wearable tech is quickly be-coming a hot new trend.

“It’s exciting and it’s cur-rent,” Bravo said. “It’s what people want to do now.”

By Jeremy Hintz@jeremy_hintz

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Wearable tech unites fashion, innovations

Mark Lennihan / Associated PressVincent Nguyen, editor-in-chief of SlashGear, wears Google Glass while covering the introduction of the Microsoft Surface

Photos by Jonathan Garza, Gabriella Belzer and Debby Garcia Daily Texan Staff

Professors Lance Bertelsen and assistant instructors Maley Thompson and Sara Saylor pose with their favorite banned and chal-lenged books. 464 books were challenged in the U.S. last year.

Illustration by Alex Dolan / Daily Texan Staff

We don’t want to just make it good to look at. It has to be used by real humans for a real purpose.

—Karen Bravo, textiles and apparel lecturer

‘Barbie’ reports the news

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MARY BOCKWhat: “Barbie is a Zombie: Women, TV Journalism, and the Rise of the One-WOMAN-Band”When: Wednesday from 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.Where: Burdine Hall, Room 214 Cost: Free

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