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In a speech on campus Wednesday, Suk-bum Park, consulate general of the Re-public of Korea, said that, although there are many cultural differences between the U.S. and South Korea, increases in trade have im-proved the two countries’ diplomatic relationship with each other.

Park is responsible for spreading Korean cultural awareness in Southeastern U.S., including Texas, Mis-sissippi and Oklahoma.

Park said that despite dif-fering in cultural viewpoints, the two countries have still managed to get along.

“The U.S. is seen from the outside as a superpower,” Park said. “It’s a big jugger-naut, a behemoth, something [Korea] cannot touch. … But the status quo in East Asia is changing. South Korea has … formed a relationship based on mutual trust with the U.S.”

Park said a major bench-mark in U.S.-Korea relations was the Mutual Defense Treaty, signed in 1953, which led to a 60-year friendship

between the two nations.“The U.S.-[Republic of

Korea] treaty gave birth to an unshakable alliance be-tween the U.S. and Korea,” Park said. “These alliance relations … were the lynch-pin to peace and stability in East Asia.”

Stratton Gaines, an Asian cultures and lan-guages sophomore, said

he attended the talk be-cause of his enthusiasm for the region.

“I have a strong interest in East Asian relations,” Gaines said. “I plan on working, maybe, in the future in a dip-lomatic position, so it’s a field I’m interested in.”

Robert Oppenheim, director of the Center for East Asian Studies, said the

relationship between the U.S. and Korea was particularly important because of the economic ties between the two countries.

“The alliance between the U.S. and [Korea] is one of the oldest relationships the U.S. has in Asia, and factors as well into a lot of other

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Faculty, staff donate to campaignsTHROWBACK

Strong’s hire comes long after athletic integrationTwo UT System Regents

gave almost 10 times more in campaign contributions to Greg Abbott than what more than 100 UT indi-viduals combined gave to Wendy Davis, according to the latest campaign finance reports from the Texas Ethics Commission.

Data collected on UT-affiliated contributors to Davis and Abbott demon-strate a trend also present in the Texas governor’s race at large: Davis attracts more in-dividual contributors while Abbott has more money on hand. Abbott, the current Texas attorney general and the likely Republican nomi-nee for governor, has about $27 million in donations.

Davis, a state senator from Fort Worth and the likely Democratic nominee, has raised $9.5 million. Davis reported more than 71,000 contributions in January over Abbott’s 11,000.

The information in the thousands of pages of campaign finance reports show Republican-leaning

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Greg AbbottRepublican

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Two years after a 1961 student referendum called for integration of the Uni-versity’s athletic programs, the UT System Board of Regents removed all of its race-based student re-strictions on Nov. 9, 1963. Seven days later, the Uni-versity’s Athletic Council opened its doors to black athletes for the first time.

In 50 years, UT has made policy-based strides toward racial equality in athletics. But the hype sur-rounding the recent hir-ing of head football coach Charlie Strong — who is UT’s first black men’s head coach — indicates that many racial barriers are still unbroken.

Darrell K Royal, UT’s former athletic director and head football coach, announced the Athletic Council’s decision to open all University sports to black athletes on Nov. 16, 1963.

“The Athletic Council

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As students plunge into the throes of Thin Mint sea-son, young girls toting boxes of cookies and bags of change seem to take over every street corner — but, in reality, the University only allows two Girl Scout cookie booths on campus.

The on-campus booths are organized by the Girl Scouts of Central Texas council, which includes smaller ser-vice units, such as Sunnyside. The booths are located on the West Mall and outside the Perry-Castaneda Library. According to Cindy Cas-sidy, Sunnyside’s service unit director and cookie man-ager, girls who sell at these two booths must be in sixth grade or older.

The University deter-mines the locations and the dates with the Girls Scouts

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Ethan Oblak / Daily Texan StaffDakoda Dauner buys cookies from Girl Scouts Mackenzie Soldano (left) and Emma Schmidt in front of the University Co-op. For more than 10 years, the Co-op has allowed Girl Scouts to sell cookies in front of the store. RACE page 2

Ransom Center aquires Billy Collins’ archives.

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Professor advocates black queer representation.

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We hope we get to play in the snow again.

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Charlie Strong differ?PAGE 6

Vince Young files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

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Science Scene notes a tweet from space.

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To better understand student earning and debt after graduation, the UT System will be gathering data about students who are one year and five years out of school and publish the findings on a new website, seekUT.

Stephanie Huie, vice chancellor for the UT System Office of Strategic Initiatives, said her office was responsible for creat-ing the seekUT site.

“I knew that there was a need for us to look at what happens to our students after they graduate,” Huie said.

Thomas Melecki, direc-tor of Student Financial Services, was a member of the task force that led to seekUT’s creation.

“I do think they did a re-ally nice job with it,” Huie said. “This is a tool that, at least, could suggest what might be an affordable level of borrowing, especially if a student uses this in con-junction with some other

tools that are provided by the U.S. Department of Education.”

Huie said her office partnered with the Texas Workforce Commission and Texas Higher Educa-tion Coordinating Board to acquire the data avail-able on the website. Ac-cording to Huie, employ-ers in Texas are required to file information about every employee’s wages to the Texas Workforce Commission.

“We developed an agreement with our legal counsel within [the UT System] and within the workforce commission so that we could match the unemployment insurance with the student records so we could find out, of these students [who] graduated, where are they working and in what fields and how much money are they making, one and five years later,” Huie said.

According to Huie, seekUT only provides in-formation about students

SeekUT to provide data on student debt

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South Korean ambassador hosts lecture

Shweta Gulati / Daily Texan StaffAmbassador Suk-Bum Park, consul general of the Republic of Korea, gave a talk on the future of Korea-U.S, relations in the William C. Hogg Hall on Wednesday afternoon.

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who find employment in Texas following their graduation, but not those who venture out of the state.

“It’s very hard to track students once they leave the state,” Huie said. “We decided, for now, just to focus on Texas because we had such a large sample and sort of brainstorm and talk to different people about ways we might be able to capture the other students [who] leave at a later date.”

Melecki said users should be careful about the way they process the data available on seekUT.

“Ten years of paying back a student loan, while difficult and could make me eat a lot of ramen noo-dles … might be a price worth paying for a 40- or 50-year career in some-thing I love doing that I’ll get a great deal of satisfac-tion out of,” Melecki said, as an example.

met with the administra-tion this morning and de-cided that any Negro stu-dent who meets academic and athletic requirements is eligible to try out for any sport as of this mo-ment,” Royal said in the Texan article. “We will recruit those Negroes that fit into our program.”

The Texan reported that, even though black males were allowed to try out for sports, their odds of making a team other than track were extremely low, as many sports had already start-ed their seasons and were competitive.

“The first boy who plays for Texas will re-ally have to be something special to do anything for his race,” an unnamed UT coach said in the ar-ticle. “He must be a fine athlete as well as have the ability to take jibes and ridicule.”

UT was the first school in the Southwest Confer-ence to declare athletic integration, and, accord-ing to the article, the an-nouncement ended a “gen-tlemen’s agreement that supposedly existed be-tween Southwest Confer-ence coaches.” As a result, in the weeks that followed, all but two schools in the conference integrated their athletic programs.

Two black athletes be-gan working out with the freshman track team a few weeks after the in-tegration, according to a Dec. 4, 1963 article in the Texan. Former head track coach Jack Patterson said that because they joined the squad late, he would likely allow the boys more opportunity to “show off their wares.”

“Anybody with any po-tential at all we’ll encour-age,” Patterson said. “I’ll have to trim the squad to 40 eventually, and that’s too many to work with really. If there’s any prejudice shown at all, it will be in favor of these boys.”

It took Royal seven years to find the right “fit” for his team, and, in 1970, Julius Whittier became UT’s first black football player. Though today’s teams are diversi-fied, it wasn’t until 1993 that the University hired its first black head coach, former women’s track and field head coach Beverly Kearney. A decade later, Strong’s hire made head-lines when he became UT’s first men’s black head coach.

UT athletes are far more diverse than they were in 1963, but, 50 years later, the low num-ber of black head coaches at the University and the media attention sur-rounding Strong’s em-ployment demonstrate that race is still relevant in UT Athletics.

important regional is-sues,” Oppenheim said. “South Korean technol-ogy, industry and invest-ment of other sorts are themselves increasingly important, globally.”

Park also pointed out economic benefits Ko-rea brings to the U.S., mentioning the coun-try’s role in manufac-turing products, such as computers, cars and chemicals.

“South Korea has trans-formed into one of the major trade nations,” Park said. “Take, for ex-ample, some major brand names, like Hyundai [or] Samsung. These names, somehow, have become household names for many people.”

Park said the influence of pop stars, such as South Korean singer PSY, has boosted the Korean econ-omy and U.S.-Korea rela-tions as well.

“His name and his style have become famous throughout the world,” Park said. “He’s even more famous than the [Korean] president.”

of Central Texas council. Service units may sell at council booths based on a lottery system.

Assistant dean of stu-dents Mary Beth Mercato-ris said both nonprofit and for-profit organizations are usually restricted from coming on campus and sell-ing items. The Girl Scouts were authorized to use the sites in a letter from Marla Martinez, associate vice president for financial and campus services.

Despite restrictions on campus, Sunnyside service unit tries to target college students in another way — by selling in West Campus. The six booth locations in-clude the Co-op, Kerbey Lane, Wag-A-Bag and three different apartment build-ings owned by The Block.

To mark the beginning of cookie season, almost 200 boxes were sold by a Sun-nyside booth at the Co-op on Sunday, and more than 53,000 cases of cookies were delivered to the Austin area, according to Cassidy. Booth sales began Saturday and will continue through Feb. 21.

Hulan Swain, University Co-op corporate assistant to the president, said the busi-ness has allowed the Girl Scouts to sell in front of the store for more than 10 years.

“They’re part of our com-munity, and our mission is to support our local commu-nity,” Swain said. “We allow them to sell in front of the Co-op because we like and respect what they stand for.”

Swain said the only prob-lem Sunnyside has had with the location is girls from other areas selling indi-vidually within sight of the cookie booth in front of

the Co-op. Currently, girls are only allowed to sell in residential areas or at their service unit’s desig-nated booths. Sierra Fer-nandes, product program manager for Girl Scouts of Central Texas in Austin, said the term “residential” has not been clarified yet, so individual Girl Scouts may technically sell on Guadalupe.

“[The Co-op is] an awe-some location,” Cassidy said. “The students are al-ways friendly and buy lots of cookies.”

Sunnyside’s disadvan-tage to its student-centered boundaries is its lack of a shopping mall and big stores that many units have the luxury of being able to sell at.

“It’s not like we have the best place in the city,” Cas-sidy said. “There are other places that have great cook-ie sales also.”

Mengwen Cao / Daily Texan StaffA student studies at the Belo Center for New Media on Wednesday afternoon.

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Waller Creek Tunnel Project will redirect potential floods

For years, business own-ers avoided building in some parts of downtown — the chance the area would flood made the de-cision too economically risky. If the City of Aus-tin’s Waller Creek Tun-nel Project is successful, 28 acres of downtown will be reclaimed to allow for area redevelopment.

Waller Creek begins north of campus and runs south through downtown and into Lady Bird Lake. The project’s goal is to redirect water flow away from a 100-year flood-plain, a low-lying area near a river which is subject to flooding.

According to Caro-lyn Perez, Austin Public Works Department com-munications manager, the project will allow for eco-nomic redevelopment of the area.

“It will provide flood pro-tection and make it possible to revitalize parts of down-town that have been stag-nant for years,” Perez said.

Perez said area resi-

dents have tried to add improvements such as park benches to the creek area, but their efforts were unsuccessful.

“There is an ever-present fear of floodwater,” Perez said. “If you go down to that part of the creek, you can actually see places where people have tried to make improvements, but they were washed away with the next flood.”

Phillip Fry is co-editor of “Austin’s Waller Creek,” a book about the history and vision of Waller Creek, which will be published later this year. Fry said he is concerned that real estate in the area will become so expensive that only high-rises or multiple-use build-ings will be able to afford building there.

“I think there will be posi-tive things, but I’m starting to think that there will be many changes that some of the old-timers will regret — like the [elimination of the] music scene from 9th Street down to the river,” Fry said. “Commercial development will really have an impact there unless they preserve [the area].”

Perez said the process of lining the 5,600-foot tun-nel with concrete is about 40 percent completed and said the tunnel will be fully operational by the end of 2014. According to Perez, the overall project costs $146.5 million — including land acquisition, engineer-ing and project management — and is funded through the Waller Creek Tax Incre-ment Financing Zone. The flood control tunnel con-struction, a major compo-nent of the project, will cost $106 million.

The Waller Creek Con-servancy is implementing a design that will rehabilitate the creek ecology and revi-talize area parks. Stephanie McDonald, Waller Creek Conservancy executive di-rector, said the Conservancy will focus on areas between 15th Street and Lady Bird Lake, including the flood-plain that the tunnel project is reclaiming.

“Within walking distance of UT, you’ll have a repur-posed Waterloo Park and Symphony Square,” Fry said. “It will be accessible by bike-and-hike and even possibly by rail.”

By Alyssa Mahoney@TheAlyssaM

Shelby Tauber Daily Texan Staff

Construction workers work on the Capital Austin’s Waller Creek Tun-nel Project on Wednesday afternoon. The project’s goal is to redirect water flow so some areas of downtown would be at less risk of flooding.

members of the UT System Board of Regents, who have in the past been politically at odds with many UT fac-ulty more likely to donate to Democrats. The regents, who serve six-year terms and who were all appointed by outgoing Gov. Rick Perry, will either be re-appointed or dismissed by the future Texas governor.

Regent chairman Paul Fos-ter gave $75,000 to Abbott’s campaign, while Regent Jef-frey Hildebrand — who was appointed last February — gave $100,000. Their com-bined contributions make up the majority of the $179,761 raised by Abbott’s six UT-affilliated contributors. Meanwhile, 107 different contributors from the Uni-versity gave at least $17,700 to Davis. Battleground Texas, a political action committee supporting Democratic ef-forts in Texas, also reported $2,524 contributions from UT faculty, staff and admin-istrators. Together, at least 130 different UT-affiliated individuals donated to Davis or Battleground Texas.

When donating to cam-paigns, individuals have to disclose their employers. This analysis identifies do-nors who put UT as their employers. It is possible that there are more UT employ-ees who have donated to the campaigns but are not reflected here, as they may have listed a different em-ployer or listed a spouse as the primary donor.

Manuel Justiz, dean of the College of Education, was one of Abbott’s six UT-affiliated contributors. Justiz contributed $1,000 and was the only dean to donate to ei-ther gubernatorial campaign. Justiz did not return requests for comment.

Management senior lec-turer John Doggett, who gave $1,000 to Abbott the day after he announced his campaign, said his college may have more conservatives than other colleges. He said he rejects the idea that the University is as liberal as the number of contributions to Davis may imply.

“The University is more conservative than people would have you believe,” Doggett said. “The liber-als here just tend to make more noise.”

Faculty in the Moody Col-lege of Communication and the College of Education each gave combined totals of $1,000 to Abbott. He did not receive contributions from any other colleges’ fac-ulty. Faculty from the col-leges of Natural Sciences and Liberal Arts — the two largest colleges at the Uni-versity — contributed the most from any college at UT, giving a combined $3,774.75 and $3,540.14, respectively, to Davis.

Molecular biosciences professor Jacquelin Dudley

donated $1,000 to Davis. Dudley said she supports Davis’ platform, but the senator’s stance on abortion particular resonates with her. Dudley acknowledged Da-vis is the underdog, but she said she feels the senator has a chance.

“Certainly the change in demographics in Texas and maybe more of a focus from the Democratic Party in Tex-as will help her,” Dudley said. “But there is often a lot of big money conservative interest in Texas that have dominated

here for decades.”The party primary elec-

tions will take place on March 4, and the general election will take place on Nov. 4.

Government profes-sor David Prindle said po-litical contributions tend to mean more in elections without an incumbent — such as the upcoming gubernatorial election.

“But, remember, there is also the fact that the Repub-licans tend to be dominant in Texas,” Prindle said. “Some-thing that is very important

is voter turnout. If the Demo-crats could mobilize their en-tire base, Wendy Davis could win. The problem is, over the past 20 years, the Demo-crats have been trying, trying and trying to get people to go to the polls. And they’ve been failing.”

Prindle said he acknowl-edged Davis’ impressive number of contributors, both from inside and out the Uni-versity, but said it does not necessarily mean voter turn-out will surge in November.

“It’s really too early to

expect anything,” Prindle said. “It’s like asking now, well, do you think the Detroit [Tiger’s] are going to win the American League again? You can write a column in the sports page, but it doesn’t mean anything.”

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Individual contributors Totals

Davis:

$17,707.62

Abbott:

$179,761.46

“The information represented in this story and corresponding graph(s) was gathered from the Campaign Finance Reports from Wendy Davis and Greg Abbott on the Texas Ethics Commission’s website while searching for contributors who listed “The University of Texas,” “UT Austin” or “UT-Austin” as their employer. There could be more donors, as there might be other contributors who did not list the University as their employee.

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It’s really too early to expect anything. It’s like asking now, well, do you think the Detroit [Tiger’s] are going to win the American League again? You can write a column in the sports page, but it doesn’t mean anything.”

—David Prindle, Government professor

The University is more conservative than people would have you believe. The liberals here just tend to make more noise.

—John Doggett,Management senior lecturer

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Editor’s Note: To the average Longhorn, it may seem like Capital Metro is constantly run-ning late, leaving students steaming and won-dering if they’ll get to their destination on time. However, big changes that some stakeholders are confident will resolve those concerns are coming to the system. But all proposals have their detractors, and whether you’ve been pay-ing attention, the new ideas will certainly affect the way you get around town. This week and next, the editorial board will examine these is-sues, starting with urban rail.

It may have escaped your notice amid the turmoil surrounding President William Pow-ers Jr. and the stress of finals last semester, but December saw the passage of a very im-portant piece of transportation planning that could fundamentally change the mobility landscape of Austin.

Early last month, the Central Corridor Ad-visory Group approved the development of an urban rail route that will skirt the eastern edge of campus along Red River Street and

head from Riverside Drive — a busy and high-need transit corridor — across the river and up to Highland Mall. Tabled in favor of this route was a much more sensible one that would have run from the same southern starting point up Guadalupe Street and North Lamar Boulevard — in other words, on the other side of campus. And if you’ve taken a walk along either route anytime in the past 50 years, you’ll know how the two alignments compare.

For starters, if you’ve ever taken a walk through the no-man’s-land east of campus, you would be lucky to see anyone besides yourself on the sidewalk, whereas, among the hustle and bustle of the Drag, you can’t walk two feet without nearly being knocked over. In other words, the Drag is where it’s at. It’s where people want to be and go, and urban rail should have followed the de-mand and placed the line where the most people would be encouraged to use it. Sure, it would require some tricky maneuvering to squeeze in the track, especially between 27th and 29th streets, where the road nar-rows, but that’s not an insurmountable problem and would be offset by the reduc-tion in car traffic.

So why did the planners throw their sup-port behind a route that will one day carry a train through nowhere? Because of the pre-dictions of Project Connect, a partnership between Central Texas transportation agen-cies that was charged with selecting a route for the new rail line. Put simply, Project Con-nect expects there to be greater demand along Red River Street in 2030 than will exist on

Guadalupe Street and North Lamar Boule-vard at the same time.

By what math, though? Even with the new focus on the selected area, it leaves us scratching our heads that the powers-that-be would consider Red River a justifiable route at all.

Dan Keshet, a member of Austinites for Urban Rail Action, crunched the numbers back in November and concluded that Proj-ect Connect’s proposal didn’t fit the data. In a blog post, Keshet shined a light on a peculiar criterion. The methodology used by Project Connect could actually rank a corridor that was less congested both today and in 2030 as being in greater need of Cap Metro’s atten-tion if it showed a larger increase in traffic over that time period. In other words, even if the absolute numbers gave the edge to a route with flat, awful traffic, it would fall to the bot-tom of the ranking just because it didn’t get worse. In the case of the Drag, it might be because traffic simply can’t get much worse. As Keshet put it at the time, “In [Project Con-nect’s] methodology, two birds in the hand are worth one in the bush.”

What do the city and the mayor’s office, both of which support the Highland route, have to say about that? Well, according to Keshet, very little.

“I have not gotten any real engagement from anybody who disagrees with my analy-sis,” Keshet told us Wednesday. “I think it’s noteworthy that, when confronted with large public dissatisfaction with the selection that they made, the mayor’s advisory group chose

by and large not to engage with the criticisms. Instead, at the last minute, they changed the topic to [Federal Transit Administra-tion] grants, something that had not previ-ously been discussed at any mayor’s advisory meeting, although no new information had been introduced.”

Project Connect was more responsive to us, if you can call it that. Cheyenne Krause, public information specialist at the Austin Transportation Department, defended the organization’s methodology but steered clear of rebutting any of Keshet’s specific claims.

“The Project Connect team stands be-hind our evaluation during Phase 1 of the Project Connect: Central Corridor High-Capacity Transit Study, and the areas iden-tified for the next high-capacity transit investment, which were endorsed by the Austin City Council in December,” Krause said. “We look forward to working with the community to identify mode, alignment and service alternatives in Phase 2 of the Project Connect: Central Corridor High-Capacity Transit Study, in order to define a Locally Preferred Alternative.”

A locally preferred alternative? How about extending that to the locally pre-ferred route, the one that the most people need at this time? Luckily, the recently ap-proved route is not a foregone conclusion. The route could still be revised — plus, voters will have to OK any proposal before construction can begin. Voters shouldn’t be afraid to use those tools as they consider the options before them.

HORNS UP: UT EQUESTRIAN CLUB REVIVED

HORNS DOWN: WINTER STORM WATCH FOR AUSTIN

On Thursday, the National Weather Service issued a Winter Storm Watch for much of Central Texas, with significant snow and ice accumulation pos-sible into Friday morning. It’s been three years since Austin last saw snow, and those of us who were on campus back then will never forget how that dusting brought the city to an absolute grinding halt — all

over less than a quarter inch of the white stuff, which was mostly gone by 3 p.m. when temperatures returned to the 70s. Sure, everybody knows that Texas weather is unpre-dictable; it just wouldn’t be winter in Texas without 40-degree temperature fluctua-tions. But when you go to school in Austin, trekking through West Campus in hats, scarves and mittens is neither expected nor pleasant. Hell, many of us don’t even own hats, scarves and mittens. So Horns Down, Texas winter. Horns Down. Unless we’re granted a snow day — in which case, thank you.

The UT equestrian team has returned after a yearlong hiatus, according to the Austin American-Statesman, which reported that the team is train-ing again after students successfully campaigned to bring back the sport. Though the team of 12 pays $600 to participate in the sport, the cost would be much greater to board individually owned horses.

Instead, the team uses retired race horses who so rarely get the care they need and de-serve after leaving the track. We’re glad to see the team back in action.

HORNS DOWN: LBJ PLANE TO STAY IN OHIO

UT’s Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library will not be expanding its collection to include the U.S. Air Force One that President Johnson was on when he took the oath of office. The memorabilia will remain in Ohio, despite the hopes of LBJ Library officials who campaigned for the acquisition of the historic plane. Military officials announced Wednesday that there is

no intention of moving the plane to the LBJ Museum or any other place for exhibition, according to the Austin American-Statesman. We understand Ohio has dibs on the plane, but a museum dedicated to the man would have been a pretty good resting place for the aircraft. Thanks for humoring our interest in the LBJ artifact and dashing our hopes of a fresh and historic exhibit on campus.

In other words, the Drag is where it’s at. It’s where people want to be and go, and urban rail should have followed the demand and placed the line where the most people would be encouraged to use it.

Tamir Kalifa / Daily Texan Staff Students play in the snow on Whitis Aveune in February 2011.

We understand Ohio has dibs on the plane, but a museum dedi-cated to the man would have been a pretty good resting place for the aircraft. Illustration by John Massingill / Daily Texan Staff

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UT scientists have developed an environmentally friendly alternative to biodiesel, using yeast and ordinary table sugar.

The oils can be used in nu-merous everyday products, in-cluding biodiesel, plastics and waxes, said Hal Alper, an assis-tant chemical engineering pro-fessor working on the research.

“[Alper’s] innovative work with undergraduate and grad-uate students [is] developing sustainable energy platforms through tools like metabolic engineering, synthetic biology and evolutionary strategies,” said Tom Truskett, professor and chairman of the chemical engineering department.

The team has used simple sugar to create a platform for use in petroleum-based prod-ucts, Alper said. Through a fermentation process, chemi-cally harvested yeast cells are rewired to increase oil produc-tion from 10 percent to 90 per-cent. This is the highest level of lipid concentration recorded so far, making the extraction of these oils an economical op-tion for the first time.

Today, environmentally friendly biodiesel is mainly harvested from soybean oil. After nearly five years, Alper and his team of seven other researchers developed a process in which the yeast cells take on a similar com-position and serve as a more

viable option for fuel.“Plant growth is much more

slow and seasonal than micro-bial growth,” said Andrew Hill, a chemical engineering gradu-ate student who worked for nearly two years on the project.

If found successful as a fuel source, the lipids could be pro-duced in factories within the U.S., and maximization of the process on a large scale could potentially lessen foreign oil imports, Alper said. Despite the potential of the use of lip-ids in the biodiesel industry, Alper said there are many more avenues to explore.

“Our petroleum depen-dency is about more than just our liquid transportation fuels,” Alper said.

Alper said he hopes to dis-cover new substitutes for table sugar in the yeast fermentation process. In the meantime, he is working to continue to beat his previous record of lipid con-centration, and, since the publi-cation of his study, already has.

While there has been no testing on the longevity or the exact economic benefit of the potential biofuel alterna-tive, Alper and his team said they believe the environmen-tal impact is significant.

“At the rate society is con-suming these limited re-sources, we need a sustain-able way to produce things like biofuels and plastics,” Hill said. “[This project] is just one aspect of what needs to be done.”

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Sarah Montgomery / Daily Texan StaffAssisstant chemical engineering professor Hal Alper exam-ines equiptment being cleaned.

Professor catalogues black, queer films

The omnipresence of the Internet and search engines such as Google has not made professor Matt Richardson’s search for black queer films, literature and music any easier.

Richardson, associate Eng-lish and African and African diaspora studies professor, discussed his goal to contin-ue identifying and archiving films for the UT Libraries Black Queer Studies Collec-tion during a talk Wednesday. Richardson said this mission can be difficult because typing the words “black” and “queer” into a search bar will not nec-essarily bring up this type of cultural material sufficiently.

“If you go into the library website catalog and you type in ‘black queer studies col-lection,’ there are more than 600 searchable items that will pop up,” Richardson said. “And that’s not actu-ally everything that is in the library. Some materials are not even actually tagged.”

Richardson said before any of the films or literature can be gathered and become part of the library, the materials must physically be retrieved from

a wide range of off-campus locations. To aid in develop-ing UT’s collection of black queer art and cultural content, Richardson said he spent time in Glasgow Women’s Library’s Lesbian Archive in Scotland, going through its materials.

“What I ended up doing there was spending a week in a cold attic with no heater, searching through boxes of information and trying to find

this history,” Richardson said.Antonio Santana, an Af-

rican and African diaspora studies graduate student, said he has been following Richardson’s whole process of digitizing black queer art and cultural content for UT, which, according to Rich-ardson, now has one of the largest collections of black queer film in the country.

“This is a good initiative

of making the queer black experience visible,” Santana said. “This kind of material is usually erased from main-stream media.”

Richardson’s talk, given in the large study room on the second floor of the Perry-Cas-taneda Library, was the first event related to the library’s Learning Commons initiative to use the study space for the betterment of students.

Amy Ahang / Daily Texan StaffAssociate English and African and African diaspora studies professor Matt Richardson speaks at the “We Have Always Been Here” event on Monday afternoon.

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Two-term U.S. Poet Lau-reate Billy Collins didn’t start publishing poetry until he was already in his 40s — but now, even writings from his early childhood will be available at the Harry Ran-som Center.

Collins, now 72 years old, is one of the most widely read poets in America. Ste-phen Enniss, director of the Ransom Center, said Col-lins’ agent offered to add the expansive archive to its col-lection. The archive contains

photos and compositions from Collins’ childhood, as well as diaries, datebooks, re-cordings and drafts of poems.

Enniss said the Collins ar-chive will be a worthy addition to the center’s poetry holdings.

“Billy Collins is a rare poet whose work has at-tracted a wide popular audi-ence, and, at the same time, he has been recognized with some of the highest honors a poet in this country can earn,” Enniss said.

Collins’ popularity has not made him immune to criticism. English profes-sor William Scheick, who

disagrees with Collins’ ap-proach to poetry, said he still finds his work engaging.

“Collins is simply wrong about the nature of lan-guage, especially in narrative forms,” Scheick said. “Even so, Collins is clever, inviting-ly readable and, so, a delight to accompany into the expe-riences he celebrates.”

English professor Kurt Heinzelman said he believes Collins’ work is important to the world of poetry.

“Billy Collins has given poetry a popularity and a performative stature that has been lacking since the time

of Dylan Thomas and Robert Frost,” Heinzelman said.

Enniss said Collins’ col-lection of notebooks would be one of the more engaging features of the archive once it were to become available to patrons of the center.

“Certainly Collins’ manu-script notebooks, in which he works out the shape of a new poem, are some of the most fascinating things in the archive,” Enniss said.

The archive will be available at the Ransom Center once all the docu-ments have been processed and catalogued.

By Kate Dannenmaier@thedailytexan

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Texas’ strategy was clear Tuesday night in a back-and-forth game against No. 22 Kan-sas State: cup feed the big man.

And sophomore cen-ter Cameron Ridley didn’t disappoint.

Ridley connected on seven of 10 shots and a perfect 4-for-4 from the line, a year after shooting 33 percent. His 18 points, six rebounds and three blocks anchored the Long-horns as they completed their second upset over a ranked op-ponent in as many tries. With the surprising success of Texas midway through the season, Ridley’s emergence may just be the biggest.

When the Longhorns’ bas-ketball season came around, it was met with moans and groans.

Their best rebounder, Jaylen Bond, left for Temple.

Their best scorer, Sheldon McClellan, left for Miami (FL).

Their best shooter, Julian Lewis, left for Fresno State.

Their best point guard, Myck Kabongo, left early to go un-drafted in the NBA.

And the expected go-to player for this season, Ioannis Papapetrou, left to play profes-sionally in his home country of Greece, just before students

returned to school in the fall.At best, the preseason pre-

diction was that this team could sneak into the National Invitation Tournament. Head coach Rick Barnes missed out on the rare hometown talent Julius Randle — who chose Kentucky — and was left with-out a star freshman. When the season finally got going, the Longhorns lived up to their billing.

They barely escaped Mercer. They rallied from down eight in the final minutes against South Alabama. They couldn’t pull away against UT-Arling-ton. As the schedule grew more difficult, fans were ready for the blowouts to begin.

But, then, next thing you know, Texas pulls off a stun-ner in Chapel Hill, N.C. Then it played Michigan State, and fans finally started believing.

So did Texas basketball.Junior forward Jonathan

Holmes leads by example. Sophomore guard Javan Felix shoots with confidence at the end of the game. Freshman guard Isaiah Taylor is playing far beyond his years.

But, most importantly, Rid-ley is living up to the billing.

The former five-star cen-ter was a flop in his fist year. He was a higher rated recruit than Oklahoma State superstar Marcus Smart, but Ridley aver-aged just four points and four

rebounds as a freshman, shoot-ing an abysmal 33 percent from the line. For reference, Shaq shot 42 percent in his worst season. Ridley even struggled to catch the ball.

But this year, Ridley could be the most improved player in college basketball.

He is averaging more than 10 points per game to go with seven rebounds. He’s on the floor 54 percent more often than last year. He’s respectable at the charity stripe. His field goal percentage has gone up, and he’s blocking more shots.

He scored 16 and 18 points with eight total blocks in back-to-back upsets over No. 8 Iowa State and No. 22 Kansas State respectively.

He’s more effective than for-mer Longhorn center Dexter Pittman ever was, and it is just halfway through his sopho-more campaign.

After losing the first two in conference play, Texas has now won four in a row and sits only behind Kansas in the Big 12 standing.

The surprising success has many people jumping on the bandwagon, but fans aren’t the only ones who are excited about the Longhorns’ potential.

“We’re capable of beating any team we play if we go out there and do what we need to do,” Barnes said. “This team has shown character from day one.”

Since leaving Texas for a career in the NFL, Vince Young has had trouble both on and off the field. Now, nine years after winning a national championship for Texas, Young has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Attorney Brian Kilm-er, who was unable to be reached for comments, filed a voluntary petition in the federal bankruptcy court in the Southern Dis-trict of Texas for Young. The document, filed Fri-day, states Young’s assets are between $500,001 and $1 million while his liabili-ties are estimated between $1,000,001 and $10 million.

Young is indebted to ap-proximately 20 individuals and companies, including the Pro Player Funding, which has been after Young since he defaulted on a loan he took out in 2011. Young obtained about $1.7 million from the New York lender during the NFL Lockout. Young claims

to have had no involvement in the obtaining of the loan or the takings. He has since filed a lawsuit against his former agent, Major Adams, and financial planner, Ron-nie Peoples, both of whom he says took the money for their keepings.

Young, a 30-year-old Houston native, has been criticized in the past for be-ing irresponsible and an out-of-control spender. Young is currently left with little from a contract that guaranteed him $26 million, as attorneys argue what happened to it.

After leaving Texas his junior year, Young was the third player taken in the 2006 NFL draft. He played four seasons with the Ten-nessee Titans and appeared in two Pro Bowls before be-coming the backup for the Philadelphia Eagles. After the Buffalo Bills cut him in 2012, Young had a chance to get back in the NFL but was released within a month of signing with the Green Bay Packers at the start of this season.

6STEFAN SCRAFIELD, SPORTS EDITOR / @texansportsThursday, January 23, 2014

SIDELINE

There are not many similarities between Mack Brown and Charlie Strong. They’ve both won football games — a total of 281 between the two as head coaches — and they’ve both won national championships, but those seems to be the only simi-larities between Texas’ newest head coach and his predecessor.

But Texas wasn’t looking for another Mack Brown,

the head of Texas football for 16 years. Texas wanted a change.

Strong brings a new culture to the Longhorns, who haven’t had a 10-win season since 2009 after a streak of nine straight.

“We’re going to be a pro-gram that has the right at-titude,” Strong said. “We’ll have the right commitment. It will be a program that’s built on accountability and responsibility. It will be a program that will represent not only this great univer-sity, but it will represent the great national stage.”

With him from Louis-ville, Strong brings a large set of expectations that he’s laid out to his players one-by-one since taking his new position. Strong’s pro-gram, he said, will focus on winning and education.

Strong looks to continue the high academic stan-dard left behind by Brown, who engineered a 2013 team that held the highest GPA of any team in Texas history. Strong repeated the fact that his players are here to get an education, and professors should get the same amount of respect

that coaches get.“You are a student-ath-

lete, so you are a student first,” Strong said. “I expect you to be up front, and, if you have a hat on, to take your hat off in class, be-cause you don’t have a hat on in my meetings. You don’t have a cell phone out in my meetings, so don’t take your cell phone out in class.”

While Brown was a poli-tician — always saying the right thing and gathering a large set of PR skills — Strong’s main concern is football. He came here for

football first, as he said in his opening press confer-ence, and he looks to focus on winning football games.

“We’re going to have our football program, and then we can handle wherever someone else needs us,” Strong said. “But let’s make sure we get this football program going. I think ev-eryone’s more interested in that than anything else.”

Brown has already laid the foundation for Strong. But Strong, who begins his second head coaching job, looks to make his own mark on Texas.

Much improved Texas team continues to pull off upsets

MEN’S BASEKTBALL | COLUMN

By Garrett Callahan@CallahanGarrett

Vince Young in debt, files for bankruptcy

FOOTBALL

CHARLIE STRONG

Head coaching record: 37-15Head coaching winning percentage: 71 percentBowl record as head coach: 3-2Years as assistant coach: 27

No cap on Strong’s standards

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Elisabeth Dillon / Daily Texan file photoNine years after lifting the crystal ball in Pasadena, Calif., Vince Young filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday.

Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan StaffFew expected the Longhorns to be a team worth watching, but with freshman center Cameron Ridley’s improved play, Texas finds itself second in the Big 12 standings.

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Women’s tennis beats UT-San Antonio 6-1

The No. 17 Longhorns defeated the UTSA 6-1 on Wednesday in their first dual-match of the spring season.

The ladies took the early lead after they won the first doubles point. Freshman Neda Koprci-na and senior Elizabeth Begley clinched another team point in the sec-ond doubles match with a 6-2 victory.

All-American sopho-more Breaunna Ad-dison defended home court with a quick 6-0, 6-2 win over Jacobea Junger.

With Texas holding a 2-0 advantage, Koprcina and freshman Ratnika Batra won their singles matches, securing the win for Texas.

Another freshman, Pippa Horn, and senior Juliana Gajic swept their opponents with the match already clinched.

Begley almost had the sweep for Texas but lost 11-9 in the third set.

Texas will play Au-burn at home on Satur-day in the first round of the ITA Kick-Off Week-end. Either Rice or Flor-ida State will await the Longhorns on Sunday.

—Chris Caraveo

Softball No. 3 in Big 12 Preseason Coaches Poll

Texas was projected to finish behind defend-ing National Cham-pions Oklahoma and Baylor in the preseason coaches poll released Wednesday, as voted on by the league’s coaches.

The Longhorns were listed at No. 10 in the 2014 USA Today/NFCA Preseason Poll, and fin-ished the season last year at No. 3 in all polls.

The season begins at LSU on Feb. 6.

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Local artists make wood jewelryTwo years ago, Texas

A&M students Michael Murphy and Meredith But-ler decided to start using scraps of wood from left-over architecture projects to make intricately designed pieces of jewelry. The couple vowed against the culture created by the diamond market, which shaped the idea of Diamonds Are Evil.

Since Diamonds Are Evil’s founding, Murphy and But-ler have relocated the busi-ness from a wood shop in College Station to their spare room in Austin, where they design, cut and assemble each piece of jewelry by hand. The jewelry pieces are made from multiple layers of birch plywood. The layers are laser-cut with their original designs, laminated together and then attached to neck-lace chains or other metal findings made of antiqued brass-finished steel.

In their booth on South Congress Avenue on a Sat-urday afternoon, they sell their jewelry next to dozens of other vendors.

“Who would have thought to use plywood to make jewel-ry,” said Marvin Henderson, a Diamonds Are Evil customer. “That’s just really interesting. It’s beautiful. I don’t know; it’s just different. I always look for jewelry for my mom, and she just likes things that are really different.”

Murphy and Butler pride themselves on making origi-nal products. Over time, diamonds have become the standard jewel of engage-ment rings, wedding rings and luxury jewelry. The rock gives Americans three ways to measure commitment: carat, cut and clarity. Accord-ing to the World Diamond Council, the United States’

diamond market makes up 50 percent of the world’s total diamond consump-tion and is an approximately $36-billion industry.

“We chose Diamonds Are Evil because diamonds are pretty repetitive,” Murphy said. “It’s just a ‘blingy’ rock, and a lot of people think it’s pretty and that it’s cool, but I don’t think there’s a lot to the design of it, whereas you can do the opposite of that and take a sustainable resource and turn it into art work and make it affordable for people to enjoy.”

Besides the qualm they have against the mainstream popularity of diamonds, Mur-phy and Butler also are con-cerned with the existence of blood diamonds — diamonds that are mined in a war zone in order to fund warlords. This type of mining occurs most commonly in Africa, where about 65 percent of the diamonds sold globally are mined, according to the World Diamond Council.

“There’s no guarantee that you’re not buying a blood diamond whenever you buy a diamond from a store,”

Butler said. “They can say that it’s not a blood diamond, but, once it comes through the processing centers in the states, they all get mixed up and there are blood dia-monds and non-blood dia-monds, and you never know which is which.”

While Diamonds Are Evil has grown by 600 percent as a business in the past year, it is not the couple’s main source of income. Butler works full time as an intern architect, and comes home after work to make jewelry and complete online orders,

in addition to selling at their booth on weekends.

“It can be really stressful if I forget that it’s just a side thing,” Butler said. “It’s busy for sure balancing both and also hard because I know I want to do this full time eventually, so I want to put everything into it, but I know I need to put everything into my real job, and what’s left over goes to this at the end of the day.”

Despite the busy schedules and stress of running a small business, they both claim the experience has not worn

down their relationship, but strengthened it.

“We do balance each other out pretty well,” Murphy said. “We’re both creative. She’s more organized, but I usually have more common sense.”

Diamonds Are Evil pieces are sold at the couple’s booth every Saturday and can also be purchased from their on-line store Diamondsareevil.com. Fifteen percent of their profits go to Aid for Africa, where Murphy and Butler hope the money will help those negatively affected by diamond trade.

Sarah Montgomery / Daily Texan StaffOn South Congress Avenue, Michael Murphy and Meredith Butler stand at their booth where they sell their handmade, laser-cut jewelry under the name Dia-monds Are Evil. In addition to making their own jewelry, the couple also custom-makes all of their booth displays.

By Sarah Montgomery@WithALittleJazz

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

After a 10-year journey and 31 months of deep-space hibernation, Roset-ta — the European Space Agency’s comet-chasing spacecraft — awoke to be-gin the final stage of its path toward comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Launched in 2004, Rosetta began a journey toward 67P, but was later put into sleep mode to await its eventual date with the comet.

The mission team that oversees the comet-chaser’s journey waited anxiously for communication signals from the control room of the European Space Agency in Darmstadt, Germany. As the team huddled in tense silence waiting for the comet-chaser to phone home, Rosetta was exercis-ing its solar panel body and reorienting its GPS system. Seven hours later, the solar-powered spacecraft deter-mined its position in the universe and prepared its antenna for its first com-munication with Earth.

Rosetta sent its first mes-sage home at 9 a.m. Monday via Twitter: “Hello, world!”

This historic event marks the beginning of the final stretch toward the craft’s goal of landing on comet 67P, which is as old

as Earth itself. Rosetta shares its name

with the Rosetta Stone, a slab of volcanic basalt found in 1799 that revolution-ized our understanding of Egypt’s lost culture. Scien-tists hope the comet can provide information about the origin of life through an analysis of dust and gas both before the landing and on the surface.

Comet surfaces are rich in organic molecules, which serve as a founda-tion for life on Earth. Be-cause the molecules that make up these compounds can be found on comets, scientists plan to study the origins of life through surface material. For ex-ample, scientists hope that an analysis of the surface may help to isolate a pos-sible origin of the organic molecules that make up our DNA and RNA.

Scientists contend that, like taxi cabs, comets can act as transporters of these carbon-containing com-pounds, helping them to

spread across the universe. Studies of star and plan-

et formation are also at the forefront of endeavors surrounding Rosetta. The material that formed the comet billions of years ago may provide vital clues about the early era of our solar system. The Euro-pean Space Agency hails Rosetta’s mission, stating on its website that “It will allow scientists to unlock the mysteries of the oldest building blocks of our solar system: comets.”

According to StarDate Online, the UT-sponsored website of the McDon-ald Observatory, cameras housed in the craft will begin sending detailed pictures to Earth in May. These photos will serve to chronicle its journey, as well as scope out an ideal base for its lander in Oc-tober. While these high-resolution photos are sure to end up on social media sites for the world to see, they will also serve as a medium for measuring

the microscopic particles emitted from the surface of 67P.

Rosetta is designed to use the orbit of the comet to pull itself close enough to begin mapping the icy sur-face in August. At this time, the comet will be at perihe-lion, or its closest point to the sun.

Rosetta’s lander, a minia-ture robotic vehicle named Philae, is set to be deployed in November for an on-camera one-month driving stint on the surface of the comet until the end of the mission in December. Phi-lae will then battle condi-tions of the extremely low gravity of 67P by ejecting harpoons into the surface like anchors.

If the lander’s anchors fail, Philae will be slung into space. If the landing is successful, this event will mark the first time a space-craft has touched down on the surface of a comet, a mission in which Ro-setta could truly live up to its namesake.

By Paepin Goff@paepin

Chris O’Meara / Associated PressMary Dowd of Myers Fine Art auction house adjusts an Andy War-hol drawing of Martin Burgoyne on Tuesday in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Art dedicated to friend of Madonna to be sold

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Long before Newsweek called her a “tarted-up floo-zy,” way before she married and had babies and adopt-ed babies, Madonna was a young woman in New York trying to make it big.

That ambition can be seen in a collection of photos, art and drawings that are on the auction block Feb. 9 in St. Pe-tersburg, Fla.

The collection is owned by the parents of Martin Bur-goyne, an artist, Studio 54 bartender and Madonna’s best friend during that time.

Burgoyne and Madonna befriended each other before she became famous. He man-aged her first tour and drew the cover image of Madonna for her 1983 Burning Up EP album cover. They partied with artists Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and others.

Burgoyne died in 1986 af-ter battling AIDS. He was 23.

Mary Dowd, the co-owner of Myers Fine Art, said Bur-goyne’s parents live in the Tampa Bay area and are in their 80s.

“I think they came to a point in their lives where they figured that it was

time to do something with the collection,” Dowd said. “And so they phone us up and asked us if we would come take a look at it, which we did, and so we saw the breadth of the collection, it was really pretty incredible.”

There’s a hand-drawn por-trait of Burgoyne by Andy Warhol. There’s an invitation to a fundraiser for Burgoyne by Keith Haring. But in Bur-goyne’s collection in Florida, there are no photos from when he had AIDS, only from the happier years.

And then there are the Ma-donna photos. Some are can-did Polaroids of her making goofy faces with Burgoyne. Others are black and whites, intended for an album cover. There are also numerous photos of Burgoyne, a hand-some young man in a white shirt and suspenders.

Some of the photos were taken by Burgoyne, Dowd said, while it’s unclear who took others. She said it’s pos-sible that Andy Warhol took some of the Polaroids, be-cause they date to same years that he experimented with Polaroid portraits.

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Comet-bound spacecraft greets Earth

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