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When U.S. News & World Report 
released its coveted annual graduate
school rankings in April, MBA pro­
grams at UT's McCombs Business 
School and Texas A&M University's 
Mays Business School tied for 23rd 
place. The ranking was a loss for 
UT, which tumbled six spots, but a 
major win for A&M, which jumped an 
impressive 28 spots from its 51st rank­
ing last year.

A&M's jum p was largely a result of 
gains in one of the three categories U.S. 
News uses to determine its rankings: 
how manv of each school's students 
snared jobs. Other categories include

the quality of programs — rated by the 
directors and deans themselves, as well 
as by companies who recruit at those 
schools — and the caliber of students 
accepted at each institution, based on 
test scores and undergraduate GPAs.

A&M went from 62nd in the country 
for its job placement at graduation and 
74th for its job placement three months 
later, to No. 1 in both categories for the 
2003-04 school year.

Compared to A&M's stellar place­
ment — 86.5 percent of Aggies 
employed at graduation and 95.9 per­
cent three months later — UT's MBA 
grads fared dismally. Only 50.1 percent 
were employed at graduation and 67.3 
percent had jobs three months later.

"Our placement hurt us," said Dean 
George Gau of McCombs. "Our stu­
dents at graduation and three months 
out did not do as well."

Gau said McCombs placed 

low 
because the quality of its job place­

ment services was "not at the level we 
wanted it to be."

He added that many UT MBA stu­
dents were looking for jobs in Austin 
and did not match the out-of-state 
companies that typically recruit at UT.

is "apples 

But, Gau said, comparing McCombs 
to oranges." 
to Mays 
A&M has a much smaller class than 
McCombs, and the two schools tend to 
target different industries.

But A&M's high placement results 
certainly earned the school notice in 
what was, as director of UT's Ford 
Career Center Sharon Lutz termed it, 
"a poor economy for MBA graduates."
"It's very rare, very rare that schools 
jump that much," said Robert Morris, 
director of data research at U.S. News.

So what did A&M do to catapult 
themselves into the No. 1 position in 
the country when it comes to placing

See A M I, page 5

Graduates 
employed at 
graduation

Graduates 
employed three 
months after 
graduation

Round Rock changes last 
call without an election

2003-04 MBA Graduate employment rate

A&M Univeristy 
Total full-time graduates: 88 

UT— Austin
Total full-time graduates: 380

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Service for Peace
unites volunteers

10-day camp that promotes 
diversity brings youth together 
to do community projects.

SEE PAGE 5

Mental health report 
released, API) team up

Status and needs of mentally 
disabled detailed in report, 
APD and county expand crisis
training.

S E E P A G E 1 0

OPINION

A look into m ost recent 
Sophia King lawsuit

Editors examine contradictory 
claim s regarding a knife at 
the time of King’s shooting by 
an APD officer.

SEE PAGE 4

SPORTS

K arissa W eatherly, a b arten der at the R oadh ou se Bar and Grill, pours a drink for a regular custom er. 

W eatherly su pports the petition to chan ge the last call tim e from 12 a.m . to 2 p.m.

Petitioners have until late Ju ly to change bar hours

T o d d G r e e n b a u m _____
Daily Texan Staff

Bar patrons in Round Rock 
may be watching the clock 
more carefully if they want to 
order alcohol.

The Round Rock City 
Council repealed an ordinance 
passed last August that allowed 
the sale of alcohol until 2 a.m 
last week. The council's move 
changes the last call deadline 
to midnight on weekdays and 1 
a.m. on Saturdays.

On Oct. 3, residents submit­
ted a petition to city leaders to 
end the sale of alcohol at mid­

night. The city council accepted 
the petition into law without 
requiring an election.

Many residents approve of 

the council's decision.

"It's a family community 
here," 
said Richard Hart, 
spokesman for the Lifesteps 
Council on Alcohol and Drugs. 
"We are glad to support any 
law 
that helps maintain a 
friendly atmosphere for our 
occupants."

While protests surfaced after 
last year's ordinance, which 
allowed alcohol to be served 
until 2 a.m., moving the last 
call time to midnight also faces

opposition.

"There has already been a 
petition drive to move the hours 
back," said Will Hampton, a 
spokesman for the city. "But 
that petition has fallen short, 
*
so far." 
According to the city's provi­
sions, a petition that accumu­
lates the signatures of 5 percent 
of local registered voters forces 
either a city council ruling or an 
election.

Many restaurant and bar 
owners find the new law nega­
tively affects business because it

See LAST CALL, page 2

Hospital District seeking board 
members to oversee activities

Richards still running
in race lor A thens

Despite losing her first race in 
15 months, Sanya Richards 
is still vying for a spot on the 
Olympic Team.

SEE PAGE 7

CORRECTION

The story “ King’s family files 
lawsuit against city” in the 
Tuesday, June 15 edition 
incorrectly reported the date 
of the Sophia King shooting. 
The shooting occurred on 
June 11, 2002.

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Appointees' job to 
manage budget, staff 
for Brackenridge

B y K r i s t in e G l o r i a
Daily Texan Staff

The Travis County Commis­
sioners' Court and the Austin 
City Council are ready to begin 
the task of appointing the nine 
board members who will over­
see the newly approved Travis 
County Hospital District.

The commissioners' court and 
the city council will each appoint 
four members. The ninth member 
will be jointly selected by both 
governing bodies.

"The board will basically man­
age the budget, the staff, etc. for 
health service delivery, primarily 
Brackenridge Hospital and all of 
the 13 clinics," said County Judge 
Sam Biscoe.

Requirements to be on the 
board range from an extensive 
knowledge of business practices 
to being a resident of the Travis 
County Hospital District area.

Biscoe said the city of Austin

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Housing affordability, parking among 
parts of rezoning plan that need tweaking

B y Z e i n B a s r a v i
Daily Texan Staff

The Austin City Council is 
expected to revisit the West 
Campus rezoning issue in late 
June. City planners and West 
Campus property owners will 
spend the next few weeks re­
evaluating the current plan to 
address issues involving hous­
ing affordabilty for students, 
height requirements set forth by 
the new zoning proposal and 
parking issues.

Council members approved 
the first draft of a comprehensive

rezoning proposal Thursday. 
If the plan passes two more 
votes, neighborhoods west of 
the University will be open to 
high-rise, multi-use buildings 
expected to create businesses 
and housing and increase popu­
lation density in the area.

Proponents of the plan say 
high-density housing is a good 
way to bring people back to 
West Campus. Student coopera­
tives in support of the proposal 
expect to see development of 
more affordable student hous-

See CAMPUS, page 2

Legislature considers 
payroll tax for Texas

Some lawm akers 
say tax w ould cost 
jobs in parts o f state

B y R a c h n a S h e t h
Daily Texan Staff

Instituting a payroll tax as 
a means of funding public 
schools would result in the loss 
of 166,000 jobs, according to the 
Texas Comptroller's office.

During the special legislative 
session in April and May, the 
House passed a bill calling for 
the introduction of a payroll tax, 
the reduction of property taxes 
and the repeal of the state's 
business franchise tax.

The two tax-cutting measures 
would boost the economy and 
create 254,000 jobs, according to 
the analysis. However, with a 
payroll tax in place, there would 
only be a net gain of 88,000 
jobs.

"The com ptroller's analysis

of it showed it caused an overall 
increase in jobs," said Ky Ash, a 
spokesman for Rep. Jim Keffer, 
R-Eastland. "It's how you com­
bine [measures]. That's kind of 
Economics 101; if you look at 
the effects of any new tax, it will 
result in a loss of jobs."

L aw m ak ers 
who represent 
w ith 
areas 
l a b o r - i n t e n ­
sive business­
es are saying 
a payroll tax 
would unfairly 
take jobs from 
less wealthy 
reg io n s 
of 
Texas.

nHJohn Keffer

"In the Valley, we have peo­
ple who work in factories, call 
centers and packing — all of 
those are labor intensive," said 
Brian Graham, a spokesman for 
Rep. Juan Manuel Escobar, D-

See TAX, page 2

Travis 

County 

Judge 

S am u el 

T. Biscoe 

pores over 

d o cu m e n ts 

related to 

the new 

hospital 

district 

plan.

 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16,2004

Last day to drop a first-term, 
nine-week, or whole-session 
course without a possible 
academic penalty

Children help Austin 
keep its beauty, do 
community service

Sum m er program 
for children builds 
com m unity pride
By Andrew Tran
Daily Texan Staff

A collective groan arose from 
beneath the pavilion sheltering 
40 children, ranging from 6 to 
12 years in age, w hen a sum m er 
intern for Keep Austin Beautiful 
shouted, "Let's go and pick up 
som e trash."

Eleven-year-old Melody Aka- 

paka w as not am used.

"If w e're going to do chores, 
then w e may as well be at home," 
A kapaka said.

This response w as 

typical, 
Kevin Kelly, 
the enthusiastic 
intern, said, b u t he guaranteed 
that the children w ould get into 
it and turn il into a competition.
The children scattered them­
selves around the area in search 
of litter under the watchful eye 
of the City of Austin Parks and 
Recreation Departm ent's Summer 
Playground Program volunteers. 
True to Kelly's word, Melody w as 
seen later proudly holding up the 
largest bag of garbage.

The S um m er P layground 
Program is a netw ork of free day 
cam ps situated in various parks 
w ithin the city.

"With this program, children 
can stop by and get aw ay from 
their televisions, computers and 
N intendos," said M ary Jane 
Kipple, special events coordinator 
for Austin Parks and Recreation.
T hroughout June and July, rep­
resentatives from Keep Austin 
Beautiful will visit 12 Sum m er 
Playground Program sites with 
a presentation on litter, recycling

and the environm ent.

Keep Austin Beautiful project 
coordinator Jeff Campbell said 
the overall goal is to build pride 
and a sense of responsibility for 
the area while educating the chil­
dren about the environment and 
the different w ays they can help.

The organization is also using 
this outdoor activity as a means 
of evaluating different environ­
mental education program s that 
grant money could fund in the 
future, Cam pbell said.

“ With th is program, 
children can stop by 
and get away from 
th e ir televisions, com­

puters and N intendos.”

Mary Jane Kipple, 
special events coordinator for Austin 
Parks and Recreation

"The project w e're trying to 
develop will 
incorporate this 
type atm o­
classroom -lecture 
sphere followed up with rein­
forcing projects like gardens, 
com post heaps and other beau­
tification projects," he said.

In the meantime, the program 
helps keep A ustin's parks clean.
"We don't w ant nolx>dy to come 
into the city and say iTs ugly," said 
8-year-old Deshone Leger. "So we 
have to follow the three r's: reuse, 
reduce and recycle."

However, 6-year-old Dayton 
W eather had a solution of his 
own: "D on't let anyone into the 
city."

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Despite the questionable weather, several Austin residents enjoy the great outdoors at Zilker Park. 
Pretending that the weather is fine, Rick Viotor, right, punts a football to his buddy Alex Wallace.

Lawmakers propose payroll tax

TAX, FROM 1

Kingsville. "It falls m uch harder 
on them than a chemical plant 
that has 50 people, and it's all 
autom ated."

Proponents of the payroll tax 
say it is a fair and effective way 
to fund public schools.

"It's tim e for every business to 
pay into the state a tax that is fair, 
that is sim ple and that will gen­
erate the revenue that we need in 
the state," Keffer said.

Keffer said a payroll tax is 
not equivalent to an income tax 
because it takes a certain am ount 
of tax m oney from a business, 
rather than taxing the employee 
directly.

C om ptroller Carole Keeton 
Strayhom conducted the analy­
sis of the H ouse's school finance 
bill in response to a request from

Escobar.

Escobar said the com ptroller's 
findings indicate that such a 
tax w ould hurt businesses that 
require m ore employees, such as 
call centers and small businesses 
that have sm aller budgets.

Strayhorn's spokesm an Mark 
Sanders said 
the com ptroller 
does not like the payroll tax and 
w ould not support an increased 
sales tax because she feels the 
state should be "offering incen­
tives and not disincentives" to 
businesses.

The office of Sen. Florence 
Shapiro, R-Plano, said the com p­
troller's statem ent confirm ing 
an increase in sales tax revenue 
released on M onday w ould 
help bolster the validity of an 
increased sales tax to support 
public schools.

U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady, R-

H ouston, is pushing to make 
state sales taxes deductible from 
income taxes, m aking 
federal 
a higher sales tax "m ore palat­
able." Shapiro, w ho serves on 
both the Finance and Education 
Excellence w orking groups, said 
she supports a mix of taxes rath­
er than a single tax burdening 
one group.

Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, 
said a payroll tax w ould defeat 
the purpose of reorganizing the 
school finance system because it 
would result in job losses in the 
less wealthy areas w hich need 
the m ost school funding.

The legislature m ust find a 
system of taxation that w ould tax 
everyone fairly, Zaffirini said.

Lowering the sales tax but 
increasing the scope of items 
may provide a fairer alternative, 
she said.

New time for last call 
a concern for drivers

LAST CALL, FROM 1
reduces the am ount of time they 
can sell alcoholic beverages.

"S topping 

the sale earlier 
m eans less m oney com ing in," 
said 
local b ar ow ner D arby 
Smith. "Plus, keeping the bars 
open later will keep people here, 
so they w on't have to drive else­
where to find a drink."

Larry Cowan, the senior m in­
ister at Round Rock Christian 
Church, agrees.

"I d o n 't think stopping people 
at 12 [a.m.] will deter drunken­
ness," Cow an said. "M y concern

is alw ays w ith people driving 
and going elsewhere to drink."

The petition to change last call 
back to 2 a.m. has until July 
26 to accum ulate the necessary 
signatures.

W hile Round Rock residents 
will have to leave tow n for a 
late-night drink, Austinites will 
not face a sim ilar ordinance any 
time soon.

According to Austin M ayor 
Will W ynn's office, there are cur­
rently no proposals from city 
leaders to change the alcohol cut­
off deadline.

Council, district to work together often

HOSPITAL, FROM 1

and Travis County will transfer 
certain health services and bud­
get concerns to the district.

Biscoe also said comm ission­
ers hope the budget for the dis­
trict will be ready an d approved 
by Oct. 1.

Since m ost of the assets con­
trolled by the district are also city 
assets, the city council an d the 
disirict will be w orking togeth­
er on a num ber of issues, said 
Councilw om an Betty Dunkerley.
The new hospital district, 
approved by voters in an elec­
tion held on May 15, requires an 
increase in health-care taxes for 
Travis C ounty residents living

outside the city limits.

residents 

Previously, 

living 
in the city contributed 6 cents 
per $100 of assessed property 
value and 1.3 cents in county 
taxes for public health, said John 
Stephens, chief financial officer 
for the city of Austin. Travis 
C ounty residents living outside 
city limits paid only 1.3 cents for 
health care.

Stephens said that he expects a 
uniform tax rate of 7.3 cents will 
be recom m ended by the board.

Don Zim m erm an, founder of 
Save O u r Taxpayers, opposed 
the original proposal for the hos­
pital district.

Now, Z im m erm an says that 
hospital district opponents aren't

"We 

paying attention to taxpayers.
are being 

ignored," 
Zim m erm an said. "They [hospi­
tal district opponents] are now in 
complete control."

The city council and the com­
m issioners' court plan to make 
appointm ents for the board by 
the end of July.

H ard copy applications for the 
board of m anagers will be avail­
able in the county judge's office 
today. The A ustin City C ouncil's 
version of the application is avail­
able on the city's Web site.

The deadline for the applica­
tions is 1 p.m. on June 28. The 
com m issioners' version of the 
application will be d ue at 5 p.m. 
on July 1.

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ing and commercial services that 
w ould help limit traffic.

"The affordable housing require­
m ents haven't been worked o ut yet 
and are still being tw eaked," said 
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W ednesday. June 16, 2 0 0 4

Iraqi fire­
fighters try 
to extin­
guish a 
sm oldering 
oil pipeline 
north of 
Faw, Iraq. 
Explosions 
ripped 
through two 
oil pipelines 
in southern 
Iraq on 
Tuesday, 
cutting oil 
exports by 
more than 
half.

Attack on pipelines cuts oil exports

By Danica Kirka_____
A ssociated Press

Iraq's 

BAGHDAD, Iraq— Insurgents 
their campaign 
stepped up 
against 
infrastructure 
Tuesday, blasting two oil pipe­
lines, cutting the country's oil 
exports and driving up world 
oil prices. Gunmen also attacked 
a convoy of civilian contractors, 
killing some of them.

Authorities curbed oil exports 
through the Persian Gulf by half 
— from an average of 1.85 mil­
lion barrels per day to more than 
800,000 barrels — after saboteurs 
blasted the two pipelines on the 
Faw peninsula of southern Iraq.

sent 

The attacks 

ripples 
through international petroleum 
markets. Iraqi officials told Dow 
Jones Newswires they expected 
to have the damage repaired 
within a few days. However, 
petroleum analyst Paul Horsnell, 
the head of energy research at 
Barclays Capital in London, said 
that as a result of the blasts, Iraq 
would probably fail to meet its 
export target of 2 million barrels 
a day for June.

Reviving petroleum exports is 
the key to restoring Iraq's econ­
omy after decades of war, inter­
national sanctions and Saddam 
Hussein's tyranny.

On Monday, a car bomb killed 
13 people in Baghdad, including 
three foreign engineers working 
to restore the electricity sector.

Meanwhile, new allegations 
surfaced about the professional­
ism of the Iraqi police, who are 
due to assume greater responsi­
bility for security after the formal 
end of the occupation June 30.

On Tuesday, dozens of Iraqi 
Shiites complained that Shiite 
truck drivers who had sought 
refuge in a police station in the 
Sunni town of Fallujah were 
instead handed over to extrem­
ists, who killed them after they 
were unable to pay a ransom. 
Six of them were found dead 
Monday in a morgue in Ramadi, 
also a Sunni town.

At a protest rally, a 12-year- 
old boy, Mohammed Khudeir, 
said he was among those alleg­
edly handed over by the police 
to a hardline cleric. But the cleric

and his followers let him go, 
apparently because of his age.

H e said the cleric "handed us 
over to a group of Arabs w ho 
spoke with non-Iraqi accents. I 
w as tortured for a while, but 
then I was released."

His brother and uncle w ere 

killed.

O ne man, Alaa Mery, said that 
on June 8, he w ent to Fallujah 
to negotiate for the hostages 
release. He said he met with 
identified 
som e Syrians w ho 
them selves as m em bers of the 
extrem ist W ahhabist sect and 
said they w ere holding the driv­
ers because they collaborated 
w ith the Americans.

The Syrians dem anded 

the 
money, w hich the families could 
not pay, he said.

"Fallujah clerics and p eo­
ple m ade a big fuss regarding 
Abu Ghraib torture, but now 
they are killing and m utilating 
M uslim s," M ery said, 
refer­
ring to the A m erican abuse of 
Iraqis at the Abu G hraib prison. 
"T hey are not resistance. They 
are a copy of Saddam ."

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WORLD BRIEFS
Web site displays video off
U.S. hostage in Saudi Arabia

CAIRO, Egypt — An Islamic 

Web site showed a video­
tape Tuesday of a blindfolded 
American hostage in Saudi 
Arabia and said abductors threat­
ened to kill him unless Saudi 
authorities free al-Qaida prison­
ers within three days.

Paul Johnson, 49, of Stafford 

Township, N.J., was abducted 
Saturday by a group calling 
itself al-Qaida in the Arabian 
Peninsula. The organization is 
believed to be headed by al- 
Qaida’s chief in the kingdom, 
Abdullah-aziz al-Moqrin, who was 
identified as speaking on the 
tape.

A U.S. official said the threat 
should be taken “very seriously” 
because the posting appears to 
be credible and militants have 
used the site before.

The Web site was posted on 
the same day Saudi Arabia’s ruh 
ing crown prince warned Islamic 
militants that the kingdom 
planned to deploy more security 
forces than they had ever faced 
before.

The tape on the Web site 

showed a hooded man reading a 
statement and holding an AK-47 
rifle. His statement w as similar 
to a printed message on the 
Web site that carried the name 
of al-Qaida. It said the group 
gave Saudi authorities 72 hours 
— by Friday — to release “muja- 
hadeen" militants or it would kill 
the hostage.

Colombian leftist rebels 
bind, slay farm workers

BOGOTA, Colombia —

Suspected leftist rebels killed 
at least 34 farm workers early 
Tuesday on a remote ranch in 
northeast Colombia, a town 
mayor said.

The workers were sleeping in 
hammocks at a ranch near La 
Gabarra, 31 0 miles northeast of 
the capital, Bogota, when gun­
men burst through the doors, 
tied the workers up and shot 
them with automatic weapons, 
said La Gabarra Mayor Taiz 
Ortega.

At least five people survived 
with injuries and were taken by 
boat to a hospital in the nearby 
town of Cucuta.

NATION BRIEFS

Southern Baptist Convention 
finds global fed. too liberal

INDIANAPOLIS — The Southern 

Baptist Convention quit a global 
federation of Baptist denomina­
tions Tuesday as SBC leaders 
denounced the Baptist World 
Alliance and other groups for 
accepting liberal theology.

Patterson said som e in the 
group question the inerrancy 
of the Bible and that one U.S. 
member denomination, American 
Baptist Churches, includes a 
group of “gay-friendly congre­
gations.” He urged Southern 
Baptists to lobby Congress in 
favor of an anti-gay marriage 
amendment.

The SBC is the world’s larg­
est Baptist denomination and 
America’s largest Protestant 
body, with 16.3 million mem­
bers. The S B C 's pullout means 
it will lose $300,00 0 next year, 
but “our concern is not finan­
cia l,” said the Rev. Denton Lotz, 
general secretary of the alliance. 
“Our concern is schism and divi­
sion. Christians need to be a 
united voice.”

Mars rover keeps rolling 
after minor difficulties

PASADENA, Calif. — The Mars 

rover Spirit has developed a 
problem with one of its six 
wheels, but NASA officials said 
Tuesday they believe the robot 
geologist can continue working.

The right front wheel has 
become balky, requiring more 
electrical current to turn, said 
Mark Adler, mission manager at 
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory 
in Pasadena.

The Spirit rover also had a 
problem last week receiving com­
mands from Earth, due to cold 
temperatures.

“So right now, what we’re see­
ing is Spirit’s gotten a little hard 
of hearing due to temperature, 
not due to age, and also sh e's 
gotten a little bit of arthritis in 
one of her joints, and that is due 
to age, and that’s a real degrcF 
dation,” Adler said.

Spirit and the twin rover 

Opportunity landed on Mars in 
January and completed their pri­
mary mission.

Compiled from 

Associated Press reports

Bush wants assurance 

Iraq can hold Saddam

By Terence Hunt
A sso ciated P re ss

WASHINGTON — President 
Bush insisted Tuesday he must 
have assurances Saddam Hussein 
will stay in jail and not return to 
power before releasing him to 
Iraq's interim government, refus­
ing to commit to the June 30 time­
table envisioned by Iraq's new 
prime minister.

Raising concerns about security 
arrangements once Saddam is out 
of U.S. custody, Bush said, "He's 
a killer. He is a thug. He needs to 
be brought to trial." Bush said it 
was legitimate to ask the interim 
governm ent "How are you going 
to make sure he stays in jail?"

Bush's reluctance to turn over 
Saddam raised new questions 
about the extent of Iraq's author­
ity when the interim government 
claims sovereignty from the U.S.- 
led coalition on June 30. Bush has 
encountered widespread skepti­
cism from ¿world leaders about 
whether the United States truly 
intends to relinquish control, with 
135,000 American troops remain­
ing in Iraq to maintain security.

Asserting anew that the new 
government would be sovereign, 
Bush backed away from a U.S. 
confrontation w ith M uqtada 
al-Sadr, the radical Shiite cleric 
whose troops have led an insur­
gency against the U.S.-led occupa­
tion. Bush said it would be up to 
the Iraqi authorities to deal with 
al-Sadr, who has been named by 
U.S. officials in an arrest warrant 
in the assassination of a moderate 
rival cleric.

"When we say we transfer full 
sovereignty, we mean we transfer 
full sovereignty," Bush said at 
a news conference in the Rose 
Garden with Afghan President 
Hamid Karzai. "And they will 
deal with him appropriately."

In Baghdad, Iyad Allawi, the 
interim prime minister, said the 
United States would turn over 
Saddam by the transfer of sov­
ereignty. Saddam has been in 
U.S. custody at an undisclosed 
location in Iraq since his capture 
in December. Salem Chalabi, the 
Iraqi official in charge of setting 
up a tribunal to try former gov­
ernment figures, said he expected 
an arrest warrant filed against 
Saddam and other former offi­
cials before June 30.

"We have been working quite 
hard in the last few days on that, 
believe me," Chalabi said.

Chalabi said he believed Iraqi 
authorities would have grounds 
for holding Saddam if and when 
he was handed over.

Bush said Saddam 's transfer 
would depend on "appropriate 
security" being in place.

"I mean, one thing obviously 
is that we don't want — and I 
know the Iraqi interim govern­
ment doesn't want — is there to 
be lax security and for Saddam 
Hussein to somehow not stand 
trial for the horrendous murders 
and torture that he inflicted upon 
the Iraqi people," Bush said.

He said he wanted to make 
sure that "when sovereignty is 
transferred, Saddam Hussein ... 
stays in jail."

"When we get the right answer 
— which I'm confident we will, 
we will work with them to do 
so — then we'll all be satisfied," 
Bush said.

In 

B aghdad, 

occupation 
spokesman Dan Senor suggested 
that U.S. authorities had grounds 
to hold Saddam far beyond the 
handover ceremony, saying the 
Americans could keep him "until 
the cessation of hostilities," which, 
he said, weren't expected to stop 
on June 30.

He said the U.S. goal is to put 
Saddam "into Iraqi hands some­
time after June 30."

White House spokesman Scott 
McClellan said a U.N. Security 
Council resolution passed last 
week gave the United States and 
its occupation partners the right 
to keep prisoners indefinitely.

"It provides authority for the 
multinational force to continue 
to detain individuals in Iraq after 
June 30 and to detain new indi­
viduals where it is necessary for 
security purposes," McClellan 
said. He refused to say who would 
decide when it was "necessary for 
security purposes" for Americans 
to keep Iraqi prisoners.

"Certainly the detention pol­
icy is one of the fundam ental 
security issues on w hich the 
the 
m ultinational 
interim governm ent in Iraq will 
coordinate closely," McClellan 
said.

force and 

At his news conference, Bush 
defended Vice President Dick 
Cheney's assertion that Saddam 
had "long-established ties" with 
al-Qaida, an assertion that has 
been repeatedly challenged by 
some policy experts and law­
makers. Bush pointed to terror­
ist Abu M usab al-Zarqawi, who 
is accused of trying to disrupt 
the transfer of sovereignty as 
well as last m onth's decapitation 
of American Nicholas Berg.

"Zarqaw i is the best evidence 
of connection to al-Qaida affili­
ates and al-Qaida," the presi­
dent said.

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Wednesday, June 16, 2 0 0 4

VIEWPOINT

Resurrecting Sophia King: Another lawsuit

Backyard 

trash. Black flip- 

flops. A cell phone. A knife.

The objects, bright in summer 
heat, imply the absence of the 
woman who used them. Sophia

K i n ^ -Her trash infuriated neighbors, 
irritated city employees and led, 
indirectly, to the entry of an offi­
cer's bullet into her left shoulder. 
Police had arrived after a series of 
disturbances involving backyard 
garbage and loud music. The 
arm beneath King's shoulder was 
raised, witness Statements say, 
and her fist swung a knife down 
at a Housing Authority employee 
sprawled on the ground.

The photographs of junk come 
from a voluminous file Austin 
police released publicly in the 
spring. The release wiped up only 
a little of the criticism that poured 
last fall when APD Chief Stan 
Knee said he wouldn't release an 
outside investigator's report into 
the shooting. It certainly didn't 
placate King's family, which filed 
a federal lawsuit June 9, two days 
before the anniversary of the June 
11, 2002 shooting. The family's 
previous lawsuit, filed in state 
district court by the Texas Civil 
Rights Project, was withdrawn in 
February.

The anniversary of last year's

shooting victim — Jesse Lee 
Owens — won't come until next 
month. So King, instead, reminds 
us that summer is a bad time for 
police and guns in East Austin.

The old and new lawsuits are 
variations on a theme. Where 
the previous lawsuit used the 
Texas Wrongful Death statute, 
the second claims discrimina­
tion based on the Americans 
With Disabilities Act. King was 
schizophrenic, the federal law­
suit states, but officers who 
visited the day before she died 
in response to neighbors' com­
plaints weren't trained to deal 
with mentally ill subjects. Officer 
John Coffey, who shot her the 
next day, hadn't received such 
training, either, though two offi­
cers who accompanied him had.

This sounds like the old case. 
But the federal case presses a 
point that deserves particular 
investigation from a city gov­
ernment now trying to outlive 
its second consecutive year of a 
summer shooting in East Austin: 
There was no knife.

An August 2002 Austin 
Chronicle article said this belief 
was "widely held (although not 
unanimous)" in King's neighbor­
hood. It doesn't appear in the 
several witness depositions at the

Compromise 
makes for better 
nights in bed

challenge. My favorite caveat is 
in the advertisement for Levitra, 
which warns that anyone with 
an erection that lasts longer than 
four hours should seek "conve­
nient" medical attention. I can't 
imagine anything more incon­
venient.

Maybe all of the homy old 
men running around are the 
problem. I've yet to see any 
for products 
advertisements 
making the females of society 
more amorous — other than 
wine, of course.

If there is one art to keeping 
relationships alive, it is probably 
compromise. My girlfriend con­
sents to watching a few innings 
of a Houston Astros baseball 
game, and I watch a bit of a 
Lifetime movie. It doesn't kill 
us. Often the game gets exciting, 
she gets into it, and we have a 
great time.

However, our world is full of 
products such as dual climate 
zones that are designed to abol­
ish this skill. The worst of these 
is the Sleep Number Select bed 
that allows each companion to 
select his or her own sleep set­
ting. Let's be realistic here: If 
you can't agree on the firmness 
of your bed, you can't agree on 
anything. "Well, I want children, 
but Ted would rather I get my 
tubes tied ... I'm against drugs 
but he does coke in the bath­
room every day after work. But 
everything will be okay because 
I can sleep on a 22 while he 
sleeps on a 58!"

In the end, I think we have 
more divorces because more 
people are able to. In the days 
of yore, you'd be shunned, 
sent out on your own and seen 
as undesirable if you were 
divorced. The prospects were 
pretty awful.

Now, under amicable condi­
tions, filing for divorce is easier 
than filing your taxes. A coun­
try such as Japan, which has 
seen increased liberalization, is 
now facing an increasing rate 
of divorce.

Is this a bad thing? I think not. 
It is a good thing mat people in 
unhappy, abusive, or unfulfill- 
ing relationships can get out of 
them. There is an old joke that 
goes, "There's a test to get a 
drivers license, but no test to get 
a marriage license." Maybe there 
should be, because the problem 
isn't really that more people are 
getting divorced. That's just a 
symptom.

The real problem 

is that 
people who should not be get­
ting married are. So if you're 
thinking about matrimony but 
have a few concerns, maybe you 
should get those concerns out in 
the open ... or if all else fails, get 
a remote control mattress.

Matt Hardigree is a government
and geography senior and presi­

dent of the Student Events Center.

Matt Hardlgree
Daily Texan Columnist

On this campus, as on others, 
the spring brings not only blos­
soming flowers, but blossoming 
loves as well. However, that's 
all over because summer is here, 
the flowers are dead and that 
person you thought was cute 
in the spring is now getting on 
your last nerve.

This got me thinking about 
all of those divorce statistics I 
read about from time to time 
in articles ranting about dimin­
ishing values and the impend­
ing doom the American family 
faces. According to the Centers 
for Disease Control, which for 
some reason had the best sta­
tistics on this, marriage is a 
disease contracted by 7.8 out of 
1,000 individuals in the United 
States per year, and is cured by 
divorce for four out of 1,000 
individuals.

In Texas, around 192,000 
people were married in 2002, 
and 84,000 divorced, according 
to the CDC. That's more than 
two divorces for every five mar­
riages each year. Yee haw.

Is it, as some on the right 
would propose, that homosexu­
ality, abortion, women's rights 
and other such activities are 
eroding family values? Rush 
Limbaugh, who is a famous 
critic of each, has just started 
his latest divorce and, unless 
he is splitting up with his wife 
for another man, I'd be hard- 
pressed to think of any way 
homosexuality plays into it.

Political Blogger Atrios dug 
up a great quote from Rush 
who said on July 16, 19% that 
"Marriage is a responsibility... 
[and] to be tossed around in this 
manner is to devalue it, which 
is to devalue the fundamental 
building block of our society. 
And I think that's what's wrong 
with this whole process of 
same-sex marriage. It just sim­
ply denies the definition of what 
the institution is."

All of this from a man who 
met his wife online. But to be fair 
to Rush, he believes in marriage 
so much that he's done it three 
times, according to Reuters, and, 
we can now assume, is moving 
on to No. 4.

We certainly can't link it to 
the fading desires or abilities 
of us male folk, as Bob Dole so 
. famously demonstrated. First, 
it was Viagra, but now we have 
a host of other drugs on the 
market to aid the poorly per­
forming male in rising to the

Photo provided by APD

This is one of several knives found at the Rosewood Courts housing 

project after the 2002 shooting death of resident Sophia King.

beginning of the APD investi­
gative file. Of these, two of the 
officers, a bystander and two of 
the housing employees claimed 
to have seen a knife. Two others 
said they heard Coffey telling 
King to drop a knife.

Yet, one detective's report 
shows he tracked down a witness 
who said on television that King 
was unarmed.
. "When asked if he saw any­
thing in King's hands, he said 
no," according to the report.

The 

inter­
same detective 
viewed another witness who also 
said she was unarmed.

The presence of a knife is 
significant to whether Coffey 
— who was cleared of wrongdo­
ing and given an officer of the 
year award — was justified in 
shooting King. If she attacked the 
housing employee with an empty 
fist, no one should have fired.

Witnesses agree that King threw 
a knife from her apartment. And 
crime scene photos show several

Photo provided by APD

King’s body lay beneath a sheet behind the Rosewood Courts housing 

project. The police officer who shot her said she was holding a butcher 

knife and preparing to stab an apartment manager.

knives lying arouncf her yard. 
It's conceivable that, in a tense 
moment, Coffey and the four oth­
ers who mentioned a knife saw 
something that wasn't there.

The city should consider this 
second version of events. It

should release publicly any infor­
mation from the independent 
inquiry that supports it — even if 
that means another investigation. 
Because as long as King's story 
reappears in the court system, the 
heat won't dissipate.

Useless bills disgrace congressional session

M ichael Cowles
Guest Columnist

Fred
Actor-turned-politician 
that
Thompson once mused 
"after two years in Washington,
I often long for the realism and 
sincerity of Hollywood." It seems 
that this observation is more rel­
evant in 2004 than ever before. 
In the age of sound-bite politics 
and news programs, magazines 
and Web sites designed to give 
you an up-to-the-minute report 
of what was said or done without 
any analysis of what it meant, it 
has become easier and easier to 
manipulate popular opinion.

session GOP 
Enter 108 th 
C o n gressio n al 
lead ers.
Republicans in Washington have 
shown that in the 2004 elections 
they are committed to good pub­
lic relations first, with good poli­
cy taking a back seat.

Last month Republicans inten­
sified their PR campaign with 
the reintroduction of several 
old pieces of legislation, accord­
ing to a recent Washington Post 
article. These bills have already 
passed through the House pre­
viously, only to be rejected by 
the Senate afterwards. Since the 
Senate that is going to vote on 
them now is the same one that

______ ______________ — — 

Continuous reintroduction of old bills 
in Congress would seem to be idiotic 
and tremendously inefficient.

rejected the bills the first few 
times around, the outcome is 
expected by everyone to be the 
same. The intent, of course, is 
not to get the legislation passed, 
but to use the recent failures as 
talking points on the campaign 
trail. Congressional Republicans 
are hoping that their constitu­
ents won't notice the superfluous 
nature of the bills, and that they 
can pass them off as new and 
relevant legislation.

Continuous reintroduction of 
old bills in Congress would seem 
to be idiotic and tremendously 
inefficient. Perhaps this is what 
Thomas Jefferson had in mind 
when he wrote the parliamentary 
rule that "a question once carried 
cannot be carried again at the 
same session."

Congressional Republicans 
have found a way around this, 
however, by slightly rewording 
otherwise identical old bills. A 
recent bill, HR 4280, for exam­

ple, is identical to the previously 
failed bill HR 5 with the chang­
ing of only a few words. This 
particular piece of legislation was 
rejected by the Senate three times 
this session and has no chance of 
passing this time.

A misleading but very busi­
ness-friendly bill, HR 4280, is an 
attempt to put caps on medical 
malpractice lawsuits for non-eco- 
nomic damages. Similarly, the 
failed bill HR 660 that meant to 
alter the rules on small business' 
health insurance requirements 
has been resurrected as HR 4281 
with a slight rewording to bypass 
the rule barring such wasteful 
political manipulation. A week 
before, several unsuccessful edu­
cation bills were given the same 
treatment.

Adding insult to injury, GOP 
leaders are allowing Republicans 
who are facing tough re-election 
bids to sponsor the regurgitated 
bills. One can only imagine what

tUpQp rpnrpspntatives are tí
these representatives are telling 
their constituents about "fights" 
for such meaningless legislation.

While Democrats have played . 

their share of dirty' tricks when 
in power, why all the extra effort 
from Republicans now in a ses­
sion that was five-and-a-half 
months late in passing this year's 
budget? Perhaps it is because 
Republicans have committed to 
playing PR politics before con­
cerning themselves with good 
policy. Or it could be that all 
this is meant to be a distraction 
from what they have not accom­
plished in their last two years in 
control of the Senate, the House 
of Representatives and the White 
House. Or maybe, with the cre­
ation of record deficits, a floun­
dering job-creation rate and a 
mounting death toll in Iraq, it is 
an attempt to distract the public 
from what the GOP has done.

Whatever the answer is, the 
outcome will probably be the 
same as long as enough people 
aren't paying attention. In the 
2004 election, Republicans don't 
have common decency on their 
side, but they do have one pow­
erful PR machine.

Michael Cowles is a government 

junior.

THE FIRING LINE
Lose the belts and get naked

Robert Walsh presented an 
interesting argument against the 
enforcement of seat belt laws 
in Texas. By interesting, I mean 
completely asinine.

Texas has every right to enforce 
seat-belt legislation because not 
wearing your seat belt costs tax­
payers.

Without seat belts, the human 
body can be easily injured, even 
in low speed collisions.

Where do people go when 
they're injured? The hospital. 
And is hospital care free? No. 
Does everyone have health insur­
ance? No. Who pays in the end? 
Taxpayers.

See, logical deduction is not 
so difficult after all. Not wear­
ing your seat belt is stupid, not 
only because it can kill you, it 
also creates a lot of work for 
other people (nurses and doc­
tors), who could otherwise be 
doing other, more productive 
things.

By using Mr. Walsh's strategy, 
I can argue that people should 
be free to walk around naked. 
Walking around naked is not 
infringing on anyone's rights, 
therefore the state cannot coerce 
me to wear clothes.

If it makes you uncomfortable, 
don't look at me. But I'm sure we 
all see the fallacy in that argu­
ment all the same.

James Zhang 
Computer sciences senior

‘Passion’ source vilifies Jews

I am deeply disturbed by the 
announcement from the Vatican

that Anne Catherine Emmerich, 
an early 19th century German 
nun, will be beatified on Oct. 3, 
and likely canonized. For those 
who are not aware, Emmerich's 
book, "The Dolorous Passion of 
our Lord Jesus Christ," was the 
basis for much of Mel Gibson's 
controversial film, "The Passion 
of Christ."

Emmerich's book depicts the 
Jewish people in a sinister man­
ner and makes references to 
events that have no historical 
basis, such as a scene in "The 
Passion" in which Jesus's Jewish 
captors hang hint over a bridge 
on a chain and pull him back 
up.

Gibson admitted in an arti­
cle in Forward (June 11) that 
Emmerich's book, 
"supplied 
[him] with stuff [he] never would 
have thought of."

Obviously, he never would 
have thought of scenes like this 
one because they do not appear 
in any of the Gospels, which 
Gibson claimed he used as his 
sole source, or any historical 
records, strictly in Emmerich's 
"visions" that she put down on 
paper and transformed into a 
book.

Emmerich's book contains ref­
erences to Jews such as "hook­
nosed demons," and "blood­
thirsty Jews."

She describes Jesus' crucifixion 
as "far from exciting a feeling of 
compassion in the hard-hearted 
Jews," and said that Jesus' suffer­
ing "simply filled them with dis­
gust and increased their rage. Pity 
was, indeed, a feeling unknown 
in their cruel breasts."

Aside from my anger at such 
a glaring anti-Semite's beati­
fication, this represents a scary 
thought for Jews such as myself. 
According to an article in Reuters 
(May 30), Diane Apostolos-

Cappadona, an art professor 
at Georgetown University 
in 
Washington, said that since the 
release of Gibson's movie, "The 
sales of [Emmerich's] book have 
gone through the roof."

In a time when anti-Semitism 
is on the rise virtually all over the 
world, the fact that large numbers 
of Christians are reading this mis­
information from someone who 
is to be beatified will surely raise 
more misconceptions about Jews 
and fuel more hatred towards 
them.

Dan Kleiner 
Journalism senior

Fake response to our fake 
Firing Line

To Ms. Moneybags ("Caution? 
Crap," June 15), you should 
know better than to assume that 
all of the students who take five 
plus years to graduate are long­
haired hippies.

I am sure a frat daddy or 
two has taken the six-year plan 
through college.

The fact that some students 
wish to enjoy themselves and 
complete college at their own 
pace speaks not towards their 
abilities but to their philosophical 
outlook on life.

And perhaps, just perhaps, the 
ability to enjoy oneself and pon­
der tough issues before taking 
action is desirable trait in future 
leaders.

Ran dum thought 
6th year history major 
(Randy Mathisen 
History and UTeach Liberal Arts 
junior)

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Wednesday. June 16, 2004

Service For Peace brings diverse volunteers together

Chie Kim, 13, 
from Houston, 
participates in a 
group exercise 
called the blind 
search game. 
The exercise 
is part of the 
Service for 
Peace organiza­
tion’s Summer 
of Service pro­
gram that trains 
team leaders to 
mentor groups 
of volunteers 
between the 
ages of 14-24 
to promote 
diversity in vol- 
unteerism.

Caroling Lee I

Daily Texan S ta ff

Washington, D.C., in 2002 and 
has since spread to 32 cities across 
the country and several others 
worldwide.

This summer is the first time 
the program is running in Austin, 
said project coordinator Linde 
Brewer, a radio-television-film 
junior who spent last year intern­
ing at SFP in Washington, D.C.,

doing volunteer work.

A typical day for SOS volunteers 
consists of meeting at a designated 
site where they discuss their daily 
goals. After a day of service, par­
ticipants return to their meeting 
site and reflect on their activities.

Reflecting on 

their service 
projects, Devine said, is impor­
tant, because it gives volunteers

a chance to solidify the insights 
they receive during the day.

He said each day ends with a 
sport or fun activity that gives 
team members a chance to con­
nect with each other.

Brewer said a goal of the pro­
gram is to bring together a diverse 
group of participants from different 
religious and racial backgrounds.

Aiman Janmohamed, a govern­
ment junior and team member, 
said the interfaith part of the proj­
ect, in which Christians, Muslims 
and Jews are brought together, is 
very important to her.

"As a Muslim, I hope to repre­
sent a group that often does not 
have a voice in the Austin com­
munity," she said.

A&M lacks records to prove graduate employment

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PALS helps international
students adjust to life at UT

The Partnerships to Advance 

Language Study program, or 
PALS, which helps incoming 
international students transition 
between two contrasting cul­
tures, is holding its orientation 
for both interested University 
and international students 
today.

“ It’s the first program that 
international students are intro­
duced to when they arrive on UT 
campus,” said PALS coordina­
tor Daniel Reyes. “Our program 
matches an international student 
from China, Korea, Latin America 
and various European countries 
with a native UT student.” The 
program helps facilitate social 
interaction through events such 
as weekly coffeehouse talks, 
intramural sports and dinner 
outings.

“ It really helps you to develop 
patience by working with the lan­
guage barrier, and you come to 
not only understand cultural dif­
ferences, but also to appreciate 
them,” Reyes said.

The orientation will take place 
at the Texas Union, Room 3.128, 
from 5 p.m.r7 p.m.

—

 S a m Li

Colleges fighting boredom 
at commencement ceremonies

LOS ANGELES — When the 
Boston Globe ran a photograph 
last month of Boston College 
graduates snoozing through their 
commencement speech, univer­
sity outcry compelled the paper 
to apologize. It did, saying the 
decision was “ inappropriate” and 
misrepresented the reality of the 
ceremony.

The speaker? Tim Russert, of 

NBC’s “ Meet the Press.”

A fixture of the college com­
mencement, featured speakers 
often tend toward the sentimen­
tal — and the soporific. Some 
universities begin courting them 
months in advance, spend thou­
sands of dollars to reel them 
in and often issue honorary 
degrees as compensation.

Finding speakers is a calculated 

effort, an exercise in politics as 
much as in predicting the value 
of their end-of-year message. At 
UCLA, commencement speakers 
for the largest ceremony must 
have graduated from the univer­
sity to be allowed to speak.

The restriction rules out many 

high-profile, highly sought-after 
names in the political and enter­
tainment circles — Secretary 
of State Colin Powell, National 
Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice, 
Jon Stewart of Comedy Central’s 
“The Daily Show” and “ Nightline” 
host Ted Koppel among them.

—

 U-Wire

Researchers develop new variety
of low-carbohydrate potato

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A 

University of Florida researcher’s 
newly developed potato is jockey­
ing for favor in the low-carbohy­
drate diet craze.

Assistant professor Chad 
Hutchinson worked with HZPC 
Holland BV, a Dutch seed com­
pany, and the SunFresh of Florida 
Marketing Cooperative to develop 
the Spud-u-lite, which should be 
available in January.

Even before the potato's low- 

carbohydrate properties were 
first discovered early this year, 
Hutchinson had been working to 
get the Spud-u-lite out to consum­
ers.

“We've been looking at this 
particular potato for five years 
now, based only on its internal 
qualities and taste,” he said.
“We evaluate approximately 

300 to 400 different potato 
lines a year at the university,” he 
added.

Scientists who sampled the 
potato said it has exceptional 
quality and taste.

“ It’s kind of a gourmet potato, 

if you will,” Hutchinson said.

—

 U-wire

32 U.S. cities

Program for young 
adults and children 
active in 

Neta Peles
Daily Texan Staff

Tony Devine doesn't believe 
children are the leaders of tomor­
row.

“Young people are the leaders 
of today. Why wait until tomor­
row?" said the director of edu­
cation and training for Service 
For Peace, a community service 
program for youths and young 
adults ages 13 to 24.

This is what Devine said to 
motivate youth yesterday at the 
kickoff of Summer of Service, a 
10-day day camp in which partic­
ipants will be doing several com­
munity projects. These include 
volunteering at the Central Texas 
SPCA Animal Shelter in Austin, 
working on a river clean-up proj­
ect, mentoring at the Ebenezer 
Child Development Shelter and 
helping to bring together differ­
ent religions at the Ahlul Bayt 
Mosque.

"It's not just about charity; 
it's also about learning," Devine 
said.

The 

program 

began 

in

A&M, FROM 1

MBA graduates?
Carroll Scherer, director of 
Mays' MBA program, credited 
A&M's higher ranking to a push 
to better prepare students for the 
job market.

"We recognized that it was 
never going to be a good year for 
students," Scherer said. "We truly 
doubled and tripled our efforts 
- it paid off for us."

Jim Dixie, A&M's direc­
tor of Mays' graduate business 
career services, said the school's 
famously tight-knit alumni net­
work, as well as a new focus on 
students' responsibility to find 
their own jobs, helped boost its 
placement.

But after outshining even 
schools such as Harvard, A&M 
could not verify any of its data. 
An open records request yield­
ed figures that backed up UT's 
2003-04 results, but A&M officials 
said no such records exist at their 
school.

"There is no way" to confirm 
the data, Scherer said. "IFs not 
a record we're required to keep. 
We simply do not track that infor­
mation. We collect the data and 
that's that."

However, out of all the schools 
the Texan contacted - includ­
ing business schools at Harvard, 
Berkeley, Stanford, the University 
of Pennsylvania, Northwestern, 
the University of Michigan and 
UT - A&M is the only school 
that does not keep such infor­
mation.

Julie Morton, associate dean of 
the University of Chicago's career 
services departm ent, said her 
department keeps the informa- 
tiory h u t was uncertain whether 
she could provide it, given the 
restrictions of the Federal Rights 
and Education Privacy Act, which 
classifies some student informa­
tion as private.

A&M's Dixie first said he also 
thought that information would 
be protected under FREPA.

"It's a privacy issue," he said, 
adding that he was surprised UT 
would release such records.

"Is it really UT's business to 
release such information?" he 
asked.

But in late May, an open records 
request was denied, not because 
of privacy concerns, but because 
no such records exist.

"[A&M] had no such file, it's 
not a requirement, and there 
is no such information," Dixie 
said.

Striking results in poor 
economic year

The University of Chicago's 
Morton said every year, specu­
lation abounds about whether 
some schools could have per­
formed as well as their ratings 
claim. It's simply part of the com­
petitive environment of the MBA 
community, she said.

U.S. News' Morris said he 
called Scherer to confirm A&M's 
data because such a big gain 
seemed out of place in a rela­
tively bad economic year.

"I challenged them on the data.
I said everybody would be won­
dering if their placement data 
was that great, especially not in 
the greatest year," he said. "It 
would be very, very embarrass­
ing for them ... especially if I had 
challenged them on it."

Morris said A&M's placement 
results were striking because pri­
vate schools like Harvard normal­
ly perform better in placement.

"Many of the top schools usu­
ally do better in placement," he 
said. "And because it was such 
a tough year, it made [A&M's] 
placement seem greater than it 
would have been in a normal 
year."

MBA grads at the top three 
business schools - Harvard, 
Stanford and the Wharton School 
at the University of Pennsylvania 
- trailed behind A&M with only 
87.4 percent, 85.5 percent and 
86.7 percent of their students 
em ployed 
three months after 
graduation, respectively, about 
10 percent less then A&M's 95.9 
percent.

Dan Naegeli, the former direc­
tor of Mays' graduate business 
career services department, said 
he was surprised and impressed 
when he saw the rankings.

"I wasn't expecting it," said 
Naegeli, who left A&M in May 
2003 and now heads the career 
services departm ent at 
the 
University of North Texas.

The num ber of graduates 
A&M reported to U.S. News in 
September to have been placed 
by graduation day is about 50- 
percent higher than the figures 
Naegeli said he saw when he left 
in May.

Typically, there is a difference 
between the data in May and 
the data reported to U.S. News 
about employment at gradua­
tion day, simply because it can 
take graduates awhile to submit 
their employment information, 
he said. Universities are required 
to turn in their final placement

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figures three months after gradu­
ation.

"But it's quite a big jump. I 
was a little surprised at the size," 
he said.

When asked about the differ­
ence between the figures Naegeli 
claimed to have seen and the 
final figures, Dixie, Mays' cur­
rent GBCS director, denied that 
Naegeli had anything to do with 
the data.

Dixie said Naegeli left A&M 
in February, but according to 
A&M's hum an resources depart­
ment, Naegeli worked at the 
school until June 30, although he 
had the m onth of June off.

Pressure to up rankings

"There's a lot of pressure on 
people to do what's right or to do 
what's keeping [their] job safe," 
Naegeli said. "People are con­
stantly being fired based on a 
drop in rankings."

Naegeli said the pressure to 
up the rankings finally became 
too much for him. He said he 
thought his personal experience 
reflected what he saw as a larger 
problem among all MBA career 
services departments.

"They have to make sure they 
meet some number, so that the 
school continues to move up or 
maintain where they're at," he 
said. "It was tough. We were 
sitting in College Station, Texas, 
and there's not a lot of indus­
try. Whenever we wanted to find 
industry, we're going to UT, SMU 
or Rice's backyard."

An applicant who interviewed 
for Naegeli's position at A&M but 
declined to be named echoed his 
sentiments about her experience 
at A&M. She said she was told 
that "the metrics for placement 
directors was placement rate and

salary, and those needed to go up 
every year. Student satisfaction 
was not a metric, and that was 
why I got into the business."

Rankings do play a very large 
role in the success of an MBA 
program, so it's hardly surpris­
ing that there's pressure to up the 
rankings every year. According 
to A&M's Web site, "Rankings 
are without a doubt one of the 
most visible measures of a busi­
ness school's success."

Not only do high scores attract 
successful students and respect­
ed faculty, but they also inter­
est companies looking for new 
recruiting hotspots.

Because rankings can determine 
so much, major controversies have 
swirled around the methodology 
used to determine them.

U.S. News' Morris is the first to 
acknowledge that methodologi­
cal questions can present difficul­
ties. U.S. News does not audit 
any of its data and essentially 
relies on good faith, trusting the 
schools to report accurate data.

"Using self-reported data can 

cause problems," he said.

In 1994, 

the MBA Career 
Services Council was formed to 
standardize the collection and 
reporting of such data. The coun­
cil compiled specific standards 
about how and what to report 
when it comes to MBA employ­
ment statistics.

The University of Chicago's 
Julie Morton, who also chairs 
the MBA CSC's standards com­
mittee, said the organization just 
finished its first pilot audit and 
hopes to start implementing a 
full-fledged auditing process 
by next year, where all member 
schools, including UT and A&M, 
will be randomly audited at least 
once before the end of 2007.

But, Morton said, surveying an 
entire class of MBA graduates is 
not an easy task, and neither is 
making one school's information 
comparable to that of another 
school.

Many schools keep records, 
despite no requirement

While it may not be simple, 
"We should make sure [rankings] 
are truly acceptable," Morton 
said.

Without an auditing mecha­
nism, there is no way to know 
whether placement data reported 
by A&M, or any other school that 
doesn't keep records, is accurate.

MBA CSC does not require that 
schools keep this information. But 
Naegeli, A&M's former GBCS 
director, said he kept A&M's 
records for his entire eight-year 
tenure there.

Jamie King-Belinne, a former 
committee member of MBA CSC 
and former McCombs placement 
director, said she kept McCombs 
placement data for all 11 years 
she worked there.

She said the information still 
exists, calling it "important his­
torical data." She added schools 
use such information to keep 
track of how companies recruit 
from their campuses.

"The standards don't require it, 
but you have to have it to func­
tion," King-Belline-said. "That 
data is too key."

Although most of the schools 
interviewed said they need that 
data for their own records, there 
is no requirement for them to 
keep it and no auditing mecha­
nism.

U.S. News' Morris said, "You 
simply have to trust the schools 
and catch the things that your 
intuition tells you is not correct."

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T h e D a il y T e x an

‘E-Waste’ program targets
millions, report says

As a result of large amounts 
of electronic hardware being dis­
carded in exchange for upgraded 
technology, older working com­
ponents are exported to coun­
tries such as China and India,

M anagem ent Seminar gath­
ered business leaders and envi­
ronmentalists from around the 
country to discuss new strategies 
for dealing with toxic trash from 
computers, televisions and cell 
phones.

Disposal o f used 
electronics costs state 

By Matt Wright
Daily Texan Staff

Disposing of Texas' unused 
electronic hardware, such as 
computer monitors, will cost the 
state at least $606 million over 
the next decade, according to 
an environmental study released 
by the Texas Campaign for the 
Environment on Monday.

E nvironm ental 

advocacy 
group Keep Texas Beautiful 
published figures regarding the 
waste, saying more than 250 mil­
lion computers nationwide will 
become obsolete by 2005, and an 
estimated 130 million cell phones 
will be discarded every year.
E-Waste 

R esource

The 

The conference, hosted 
in 
Austin by Keep Texas Beautiful 
and the Recycling Alliance of 
Texas, focused on e-waste recy­
cling.

"This reminds us that [recy­
cling] is as im portant as any 
other component of technologi­
cal improvement," Austin Mayor 
Pro Tern Jackie Goodm an said.

Robin Ingenthron, president 
of Vermont-based Good Point 
Recycling, advocated greater 
availability of recycling nation­
wide, noting that 80 percent of 
the materials his company pro­
cesses comes from household 
waste.

“The big thing is to 
increase affordable recy­
cling and reuse without 
exporting harm.”

Robin Ingenthron, president of Good 
Point Recycling

Ingenthron said.

"There's no market [in the 
United States] for working dis­
carded monitors, but China and 
India need them. It makes perfect

toxic technology

sense," he said.

However, these countries do 
not monitor the disposal of e- 
waste as closely as the United 
States. There are health and envi­
ronmental concerns surrounding 
the disposal of scrap materials 
after metals used in electronic 
manufacturing are extracted.

"The big thing is to increase 
affordable recycling and reuse 
harm ," 
exporting 
w ithout 
Ingenthron said.

Executive director of the Texas 
Campaign for the Environment 
Robin Schneider wants great­
er regulation of e-waste in the 
United States, holding the manu­
facturers wholly responsible for 
collection and disposal instead of 
shipping the problem overseas.

Schneider called for the "pro­
ducer take-back" policy in which 
manufacturers properly dispose 
of electronic products after con­

sumers finish using them. Such 
a policy, Schneider said, would 
encourage producers to design 
products with conservation in 
mind.

"They can include the cost 
[of producer take-back] in the 
product, so the companies are 
competing in how easily their 
products can be deconstructed," 
she said.

Allen Whitley of Dell Inc. said 
that while his company already 
has a 100-percent take-back pol­
icy, there are "many different 
models" to solving the problem 
of producer responsibility.

"We believe 

it's a shared 
responsibility between the pro­
ducer, the government and the 
consumer," Whitley said. "After 
all, if I bought a car from Ford, I 
w ouldn't expect them to take it 
back when I was done. Getting 
rid of it would be my job."

| 

State Web site helps 
job-seekers in Texas

By Susan Shepard
Daily Texan Staff

Job seekers in Texas have a new 
tool to assist them in their search. 
The Texas Workforce Commission 
announced on Tuesday the launch 
of WorkInTexas.com, a new Web 
site devoted to matching Texas 
workers and employers.

"The great thing for employers 
is it's free," said Jesse Lewis, the 
director of external relations for 
the commission.

Other job sites and classified ads 
charge for those seeking employ­
ees, but WorkInTexas.com will be 
free of charge for both employers 
posting jobs and workers seeking 
positions.

Gov. Rick Perry touted the site's 

focus on Texas.

"There are other avenues for 
finding jobs. This, I think, hap­
pens to be one of the tightest ones 
out there. We're focused on Texas. 
I'd love it if Monster.com just 
focused on Texas, but they prob­
ably don't," he said.

“There have already 
been about 3,800 folks 

placed so far.”

Jesse Lewis,
Texas Workforce Commission

WorkInTexas.com has a unique 
advantage in being a partner­
ship between 
the Workforce 
Commission and the state's local 
workforce boards, said Leanne 
James, the public affairs officer for 
WorkSource.

WorkSource, the state's system 
for helping workers in their job 
searches, provides support cen­
ters for assistance to those using 
the Web site. Applicants can come 
to their local WorkSource center 
to be given skill assessments, such 
as typing tests, to better match

them to a job, James said.

"They'll post here, and then 
we'll close it, run a match, and 
then we'll screen the candidates ... 
Then we send them on," she said. 
"Instead of the employer getting 
200 applicants, they might get a 
pool of 15 that we know for sure 
are going to meet their qualifica­
tions."

also 

said 

Jam es 

th at 
WorkInTexas.com will be replac­
ing their previous job search pro­
gram.

"We had an old system called 
Hire Texas that had been in place 
for many years. It wasn't nearly 
as nice. It didn't have as many 
dynamic components to it. This 
one has a great matching sys­
tem," James said.

State agencies, including the 
University, will use WorklnTexas. 
com extensively.

"All state jobs are done through 

WorkInTexas.com," said Lewis.

Present at 

launch was 
the 
Adrienne Mendoza, who success­
fully found a job in the child-care 
division of WorkSource through 
the site.

"WorkInTexas.com allowed me 
to find a job really quickly. It let 
me search many jobs that matched 
my skills," said Mendoza.

According to Lewis, the com­
mission expects to have more 
than 400,000 jobs posted per year. 
"Since May 24th, there's been 
about 27,000 jobs posted," Lewis 
said. "There have been about 
3,800 folks placed so far.

Major Texas employers are 

already using the site.

"I think it's an addition to the 
tools we already utilize," said 
Roger Williams of Bell Helicopter. 
"W hat w e're able 
to access 
through a job site like this is not 
just the engineers and other pro­
fessionals that populate some­
thing like Monster.com, but we're 
talking about the aircraft mechan­
ics, the dispatchers, the assem­
blers and so forth that are making 
themselves available."

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Phone: (512) 232-2206

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Wal-Mart finds slow cookers 
defective, issues recall

Wal-Mart Corporation initiated 

a voluntary recall of 146,000 
General Electric Cool Touch Slow 
Cookers yesterday, after 27 
reports of scorched or damaged 
counter tops.

‘The heating element can 
drop to the bottom of the slow 
cooker and melt through the 
plastic outer shell, posing a 
burn hazard to users,” the 
U.S. Consumer Product Safety 
Commission announced in a 
press release,

No injuries have been report­

ed, but consumers are being 
advised to stop using the prod­
uct immediately and return the 
slow cooker to Wal-Mart stores 
for a full refund.

— Sam Li

Census shows Hispanic, Asian 
populations growing in U.S.

Hispanic and Asian populations 
are by far the fastest-growing 
groups in America today, accord 
ing to new U.S. Census informa­
tion released Monday, and Texas 
is not an exception.

These populations have 

increased 13 percent and 12.6 
percent, respectively, between 
April 2000 and July 2003.

In Texas, the Hispanic popula­

tion is expected to increase 
by 257.6 percent between 
1992 and 2030, said David 
Chan, founder and chairman 
of the Texas Asian Chamber of 
Commerce.

Besides showing a more 
diverse ethnic makeup emerg­
ing, the report also indicated 
that the American populace is 
getting older, with the median 
age at 35.9 in 2003, a slight 
increase over the median in 
2001.

The Census Bureau predicted 

that, by 2025, 27 states will 
have 20 percent or more of their 
population over the age of 65, 
while only Florida approaches 
this level today.

— W olf McGavran

Middle-schooi students honored 
for reducing youth violence
The brown leather chairs 
in the chamber of the Texas 
House of Representatives were 
occupied by a slightly younger 
crowd Tuesday morning as 14 
middle-school students from 
across the state were honored 
for their efforts to reduce youth 
violence. Texas First Lady Anita 
Perry and representatives from 
the National Campaign to Stop 
Violence applauded the efforts 
of the youngsters.

Every year, the NCSV, a 

public interest group based in 
Washington, D.C., sponsors 
an essay contest called ‘‘Do 
the Write Thing.” The essay 
asks seventh- and eighth-grade 
students to write about their 
experiences with youth violence 
and to propose solutions to the 
problem. Out of 13,000 entries 
from Texas, 14 were chosen 
as national finalists. They will 
attend a national recognition cer­
emony in D.C.

— David Kassabian

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W ednesday, June 16, 2 0 0 4

Pistons dominate, win series 4-1

By Chris Sheridan
A ssociated P re ss

AUBURN HILLS, Mich.— 
MotowTi is Titletown. The descen­
dants of the Bad Boys made sure 
of it with a stunning upset that 
was really no contest at all.

Without a superstar among 
them and without being given 
much of a chance, the Detroit 
Pistons hum iliated 
the Los 
Angeles Lakers 100-87 Tuesday 
night in Game 5 of the NBA 
Finals for their first title in 14
years.

With finals MVP Chauncey 
Billups and Ben Wallace lead­
ing the way, the Pistons were at 
their very best in the clincher, 
defeating Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe 
Bryant and the rest of the Lakers 
in every facet of the game. It 
was b o ^ methodical and shock­
ing the way they pulled ahead 
and pulled away for one of the 
biggest surprises in NBA finals 
history.

"I never stopped dreamin'.

man," Billups said.

Wallace took a big step toward 
becoming a superstar with an 
18-point, 22-rebound effort that 
helped Detroit become the first 
Eastern Conference team to win 
the htle since the Michael Jordan- 
led Chicago Bulls in 1998.

Equally 

im portant was 14 
points from Billups, the best 
guard on the floor throughout the 
series, 21 from Richard Hamilton 
and 17 from Tayshaun Prince.

"W e just took it to 'em ," Prince 
said. "We knew we could play 
with anybody in this league, and 
I think we showed it."

Game 5 was so lopsided that 
Lakers owner Jerry Buss, carry­
ing his jacket and accompanied 
by an entourage, headed for the 
exit before the third quarter was 
over. By the time the last timeout 
rolled around, fans were already 
being urged to keep their celebra­
tions under control.

As the final buzzer sounded 
and confetti began dropping, 
Pistons coach Larry Browm stoi­

cally walked to midcourt and 
received an affectionate hand­
from 
shake and warm smile 
Lakers coach Phil Jackson and a 
hug from Bryant.

After the game, Jackson said 
the chances of him returning 
to coach the Lakers are "pretty 
slim."

losing 

"M aybe 

this one 

is 
enough for me to say it's time 
to give it up," said Jackson, who 
has won a total of nine titles as 
a coach with Los Angeles and 
Chicago, "but I'm not yet ready 
to make that statement."

Many fans at The Palace stood 
through the final several minutes, 
savoring every moment they had 
waited for since the Bad Boys of 
1989 and '90 won back-to-back 
titles.

The game steadily got away 
from the Lakers from the sec­
ond quarter on, unraveling com­
pletely over the latter part of 
the third quarter when it became 
clear they weren't going to make 
a game of it.

Richards could be Athens-bound

Richards loses fo r the 
first time in a year

By Eric Ransom
Daily Texan S ta ff

Sanya Richards lined up in Lane 
5 for the 400-meter race Saturday, 
focused like any other race this sea­
son. After running a 50.86 in the 
prelims, Richards aimed to become 
the third collegiate runner to break 
the 50-second barrier.

As 

the highlight race for the 
national championships, the 400 is 
one lap, and though the competition 
was the toughest Richards faced all 
year, most expected the race to be a 
victory lap for the sophomore who 
already has tw'o individual NCAA 
titles.

Richards came out fast, running 
the first 2(X) meters in 23.4 seconds to 
gain the lead. She ran past her team­
mates sitting in the stands with IIX) 
meters remaining.

Past 13 family members cheering 

her on.

Passed by Dee Dee Trotter with 50 

meters remaining.

Richards finished 

third behind 
Tennessee's Trotter and UCLA's 
Monique Henderson, walking off 
the track without breaking her 50- 
second goal.

It was the first race she had lost in 

almost 15 months.

The loss shocked the crowd, her 
team and especially the winner, who 
thought she had no chance of catch­
ing Richards at the halfway point.

"I kept thinking that I didn't know 
if I could catch up, but I just kept 
running and ran it all the way into 
the line," Trotter said. "I was almost 
surprised at the line, because I was 
so far behind earlier in the race. 
I surprised myself that 1 caught 
up in time and passed [Sanya and 
Henderson]."

Sanya was caught, but Texas' title 
hopes had suffered on the first event

See RICHARDS, page 8

Kyu-Heong Kim
Daily Texan Colum nist

Tradi and
Field in
need of big 
changes

Sawed-off tennis balls, mul­
tiple lightning delays and more 
simultaneous events than a 
person can register.

that plagued 

Those are just some of the 
the 
problems 
NCAA Outdoor Track and 
Field Cham pionships Texas 
hosted last week.

Unbeknown to the rest of 
the University that scurried 
betw een classes and Sixth 
Street, more than 1,1 (X) of the 
best collegiate athletes in the 
country were in town to com­
pete on the greatest stage of 
the year.

As competition got under­
way Wednesday so did the 
rain clouds, which meant an 
inevitable delay.

Sure enough, as thunder­
storms rolled in, the play at 
the lightning-conducting, alu­
minum-clad Mike A. Myers 
Stadium was su.spended.

While a few' dozen diligent 
fans stuck around and sought 
refuge underneath Darrel K 
R oyal-M em orial 
Stad iu m , 
most of the meager crowd fled 
the tournament after the sec­
ond rain delay.

In all, out of the 30-odd 
events scheduled for the open­
ing day, only six were com­
pleted — the last well into the 
first hour of the next day.

Of course the weather isn't 
anything meet officials could 
control, but as a result of the 
weather, the NCAA bigwigs 
decided to cram the unfin­
ished events into the three 
remaining days.

What ensued were three days 
of continuous action and mass 
confusion with fans, coaches 
and players alike 
running 
around the field like chickens 
with their heads cut off.

Players scurried about tiy'ing 
to warm up and comjxde in 
their multiple events, coaches 
jumped across the stadium to 
keep tabs on their teams and 
fans struggled to figure out just 
when and where ^ e ir favorite 
athletes w'ere competing.

Although 

the announcer 
attempted to keep things in 
order, the barrage of rahdom 
times and distances over the 
PA 
from m ultiple 
events did more to disorient 
the audience than help.

system 

With such confusion, how 
can college and professional 
track officials expect the com­
mon man to become fans in 
such an atm osphere? They 
must realize that any sport that 
involves more athletes than 
fans watching in the stands 
surely can't succeed.

But for more than 2,tMX) 
years, track and field has sur-

Manson wins championship, awaits Olympics

Hlghiumper Andra Mason had the night of his life Saturday, including this clearance of 7 feet, 71/4 inches to 
give him the national outdoor title. Manson came up just short of a Texas record before calling it a season.

Photo courtesy of UT media relations

to live up to Trackwire's top rank­
ing. So, when Manson failed on 
his first two attempts at 7 feet, 5 
inches while Kansas State's Kyle 
Lancaster and South Florida's

Jimmy Baxter cleared the height 
with ease, there was plenty of 
pressure facing the Longhorn.

Manson was faced with a jump 
that would tie his collegiate best

— a jump he had only once com­
pleted in NCAA competition. With 
14,000 pairs of eyes on him and

Sm MANSON, page 8

Sec KIM, pa^ 8

Pistons sec­
ond-year 
forward 
Tayshaun 
Prince cel­
ebrates in the 
final moments 
of the Pistons’ 
Game 5 
and series 
win over the 
Lakers. The 
championship 
is the Pistons’ 
first in 14 
years. Prince 
had 17 points 
in the win.

Michael Conroyl

A s s o cia te d Press

Sanya 
Richards 
competes 
in the 400- 
meter last 
weekend 
in Austin. 
Richards, 
who hadn’t 
lost a race 
in more than 
a year, fin­
ished third 
in a disap­
pointing 
weekend for 
the UT wom­
en’s track 
team that 
also saw one 
of its relay 
teams get 
disqualified 
for using 
tennis ball 
halves 
to mark 
exchange 
locations. 
Richards 
hopes to 
make it to 
Athens this 
summer.

Photo courtesy 

of U T media 

relations

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SiDFI.INE

Pitching duo named 
first-team all-Americans

Longhorn pitchers J.P. Howell 
(left) and Huston S tre et (right) 
were both nam ed first-team 
all-Am ericans by the National 
Collegiate Baseball W riters 
A sso cia tio n Tuesday. The two 
Longhorns were two o f 15 
players to receive the honor 
nationwide. The NCBW A is 
the third organization to 
award Howell with first-team 
honors, and the award was 
S tre e t’s first this se a so n .

BASKETBALL

I ’exas’ top recniit makes 

it official, he’s coming

LaM arcu s Aldridge, Texas' 
m o st prized recruit, officially 
withdrew h is nam e from the 
NBA Draft Tuesday. Aldridge 
had entered his nam e into the 
draft, but rem ained NCAA eli­
gible because he did not hire 
an agent. The announcem ent 
to com e to school co m es a s 
no surprise, a s the 7-footer 
from Seagoville w as unable 
to garner much interest from 
N BA scouts becau se a stre ss 
fracture in h is back kept him 
from participating in many of 
the pre-draft cam ps. Aldridge, 
a M cD o nald’s All-American, 
averaged 2 8 .9 points and 
1 3 .4 rebounds as a senior.

TENNIS

Bad hip forces Agassi 
from 2 0 0 4 >\im hledon

The 

1 9 9 2 W im bledon 
cham pion withdrew from this 
year’s Grand Slam tournam ent 
Tuesday, citing an ailing hip. 
in 
The 34-year-old A gassi is 
the grips of a four-match los­
ing streak, the longest of his 
career. D espite 
recent se t­
backs, Agassi is still ranked 
ninth in the world.

VOLLEYBALL

Former Baylor coacii 

liired as 4Vxas assistant

Texas head coach Jerritt Elliott 
announced Tuesday that Brian 
Hosfeld h a s been hired as 
a ssista n t coach. Hosfeld w as 
m ost recently the head coach 
at Baylor, a job he had from 
19 9 6 -2 0 0 3 . The Job becam e 
available on May 3 1 , with the 
resignation of Robert Pulliza.

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M ilw aukee 3, S e a ttle 2 
C h iC u b s 4, Houston 2 
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I

High-jumper wins 
national title, 
misses UT record
By Jeff Zell
Daily Texan S ta ff

After becoming the 14th high- 
jum per in the ind oor/outdoor 
era to pull off a clean sweep 
of both titles, one would likely 
think that the high jump would 
be the topic of conversation for 
Texas' Andra Manson.

"Well, I never thought I was 
that good," Manson said Saturday 
night. "Basketball is still my first 
love."

In all likelihoods, one would 
more likely find Manson remi­
niscing his two-point loss in the 
UIL class 4A Regional quarterfi­
nal game than hear him speak of 
his track success — even though 
there has been plenty of it.
came 

into 
last week's NCAA Outdoor 
Championships as a heavy favorite, 
having cleared 7 feet, 5 inA es at the 
Penn ^ la y s earlier in the season.

The Longhorn 

After being 

successful on 
his first attempt at the first five 
heights, Manson looked poised

 Lance Armstrong 
held a press con­
ference Tuesday 
to announce his 
sponsorship by 
the Discovery 
Channel. Instead, 
the talk focused 
on the most 
recent drug alle­
gations against 
him. Armstrong 
denies any 
wrong-doing. His 
quest for a sixth 
consecutive Tour 
de France title 
begins in 2 1/2 
weeks.

Manuel Balee 
Cenetal
Associated Press

8

Round Rock 
catcher Hector 
Giminez is hit­
ting .438 this 
season against 
the Arkansas 
Travelers. 
Giminez is a 
top prospect 
in the Astros 
organization.

S pouts

Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Armstrong denies doping allegations

By Joseph White
Associated Press

SILVER SPRING, Md. — Lance 
Armstrong juggled controversy
and ceremony Tuesday, promis­
ing to take action against “abso­
lutely untrue" doping accusa­
tions and announcing a new 
sponsor.

Just tvvo-and-a-half weeks before 
he begins his attempt to win an 
unprecedented sixth consecutive 
Tour de France, Armstrong strongly 
denied claims by a former assis­
tant in a new book. The assistant 
says Armstrong onoe asked her to 
dispose of used syringes and to 
give him makeup to conceal needle 
marks on his arms.

"I can absolutely confirm that 
we don't use doping products," 
Armstrong said at a news con­
ference at the headquarters of 
Discovery C om m unications, 
which will begin sponsoring his 
team next year.

"This is not the first time I've 
lived through this. I heard it in 
1999. I heard it in 2002, again in 
2003. It happens all the time."

Armstrong said he usually 
ignores such claims but decided 
he had had enough. He also said 
he was frustrated to have to deal 
with a distraction so close to the 
Tour de France.

"We're sick and tired of these 
allegations, and we're going to

KIM, FROM 7
vived, and in this millennium 
the sole reason is the event that 
returns home this summer, the 
Olympics.

With household names such 
as Jesse Owens, Jim Thorpe 
and Jackie Joyner-Kersee gone, 
it is the Olympics that keep 
track and field afloat. That, 
plus the ever-entertaining ste­
roid controversies surrounding 
track stars, but that's another 
column in itself.

Even the Olym pics aren't 
what they used to be. Like 
it or not, viewers' attention 
spans are getting shorter, and 
they want more bang for their 
buck. The sprint is king — net­
work executives know it, and 
it's about time track officials 
should realize it as well.

Here are a few suggestions 
for the Olympics and for track 
events everywhere for the bet­
terment of the game:

Viewers won't sit at the tele­
vision for more than five min­
utes for an event, so get rid of 
those long cross-country events. 
Scratch runs longer than a mile.

Shannon Sibayan I

Daily Texan Staff

Arkansas can't 
stop Express 
catcher Gimenez

Gimenez cant wait 
until the Travelers 
come to the Diamond
By Ryan Derousseu
Daily Texan Staff

I very player has a favorite team to 
hit against. For Round Rock Express 
catcher Hector Gimenez, that team 
might he the Arkansas Travelers.

The Express started a four-game 
series with a win over the Travelers 
on Saturday, 10-7, with the stand­
out player being without a doubt 
Gimenez. He went 4-for-5, and had 
four-hit gam e with 
his 
Round Rock.

first-ever 

“ I have been working with the 
pitching coach, Sean Berry, and 
Spike Owen in the cages — working 
to keep my eyes on the ball and to not 
try and pull the ball,” Gimenez said 
about his hitting performance.

Gimenez is a young catcher who 
is thought well o f in the organization 
and ranked highly in the organiza­
tion’s list o f top prospects.

He showed how he could help 
a team when he started the bottom 
o f the third inning with a single to 
right field, and then scored on Mike 
Rodriguez’s double to lett field. By 
the time the inning w as over, two 
more runs crossed the plate.

Gimenez also started the fourth

inning with a single and scored on a 
wild pitch.

This, however, was not an ordi­
nary day at the ballpark. Saturday 
w as “ U sed-Car Night,” where people 
won used cars. However, the club 
drives them around the ballpark, and 
as Gimenez was running out o f the 
dugout to take his position, he was 
nearly hit by an old Cadillac Seville.

Gimenez w as able to regain his 
composure to single again in the sixth 
inning and scored on a Rodriguez 
triple. He capped o ff his big night 
w ith an RBI triple o f his own in the 
seventh.

Express head coach Jackie Moore 
spoke highly o f Gimenez, calling 
him “ a good, young prospect” who 
has a “ chance to become a big league 
catcher.”

On Sunday, the Express played the 
second gam e o f its series against the 
A rkansas Travelers. Gimenez started 
with his first at-bat lining an inside 
fastball down the right-field line and 
scored on a Jon Topolski home run.

G im enez w as not 

ju st about 
offense, showing his defensive skills 
when he threw out tw o Arkansas base 
runners who were trying to steal sec­
ond. Gimenez ended the gam e going 
1 -4, and boasts a .438 season average 
against the Arkansas Travelers.

Track and field is 
behind the times

do everything we can to fight 
them," he said. "They're abso­
lutely untrue."

The allegations took som e 
of the shine away 
from the 
announcement of a three-year, 
multimillion-dollar deal with 
Discovery, which will replace the 
U.S. Postal Service as the spon­
sor of Armstrong's team. The 
prospect of not having a sponsor 
left the 32-year-old Armstrong 
contemplating retirement, but

now he says he'll ride in next 
year's Tour de France and pos­
sibly beyond.

"I just didn't want to go away," 
said Armstrong, who was accom­
panied by his girlfriend, rocker 
Sheryl Crow. "I love what I do. I 
still love the bike."

The latest accusations appear 
in 
the French-language book 
"L.A . Confidential, the Secrets 
of Lance Armstrong" by David 
Walsh and Pierre Ballester.

The heart of the accusations 
come from Emma O'Reilly, who 
worked 
for several years as 
Armstrong's m asseuse, physical 
therapist and personal assistant. 
The book contends Armstrong 
asked O'Reilly to dispose of 
a black bag containing used 
syringes after the Tour of the 
Netherlands in 1998. O'Reilly 
said she did not know what was 
in the syringes, according to the 
book.

Manson hopes to 
build on career day

MANSON, FROM 7
pressure weighing greater than a 
Japanese sum o wrestler, Manson 
successfully cleared the bar.

Before Manson's head hit the 
mat, he instantly sprang to his feet, 
clenched his fist and received an 
ovation from the crowd on hand.

"It was hard to explain what 
happened tonight," he said. "I 
have never been in a pressurized 
situation like that."

Manson and Lancaster proceeded 
to duel it out, setting personal bests 
on their second attempts at the 7- 
foot-6-inch mark.

At the next height, 7 feet, 7 1/ 4 
inches, Manson stole the show. 
The Longhorn high jumper suc­

cessfully jumped over the bar on 
his first attempt. Lancaster failed 
all three of his attempts, giving 
Manson the outdoor title.

After claiming 

the national 
championship, 
the Brenham- 
native didn't stop. Manson had the 
officials raise the bar to 7 feet, 9 1 / 4 
inches — a mark that would break 
a school record set in 201X) by All- 
American Mark Boswell.

After a pair of unsuccessful 
attempts, Manson hung up his 
shoes.

season 

With Texas' 

over, 
M anson has already switched 
his focus to the sum mer where 
another gold medal awaits — at 
the Olympics.

Olympic trials up next 
for several Longhorns

RICHARDS, FROM 7
of the championships as the team 
w as caught with a disqualifica­
tion for using tennis ball halves 
to mark the third exchange in the 
4x100-meter relay.

leading 

After their appeal was denied, 
the team tried to build momen­
tum 
into Saturday. 
Nichole Denby won her first title 
in the 100-meter hurdles in 12.62 
seconds, the third-fastest colle­
giate time ever. Though she faced 
an imposing field, Denby fed off 
Richard's 50.86 prelim time that 
w as run minutes before her race.
"I didn't get out as well as I want­
ed, and in the middle 1 felt almost 
out of control, I had never mn that 
fast," Denby said as Richards ran

Any event that involves a 
pointy stick (the javelin), a can­
nonball (shot put) or a rock 
on a rope (hammer throw) 
should be banished from the 
field events. Besides, nobody 
is trying to slay Goliath, and 
when's the last time you saw 
a legion of Phalanxes charging 
the Spartan guard?
Why doesn't 

I.O.C. 
replace them with more practi­
cal events like the grocery bag 
carry?

the 

Finally, 

those antiquated 
and trivial rules in track have 
to go, which brings us back to 
Wednesday.

While a few dedicated fans 
waited out the last few events 
after the rain cleared, NCAA 
track officials handed down a 
ruling almost as ridiculous as 
the time of day.

In the only event contested 
between 2 p.m. and 10 p.m., 
the qualifiers for the women's 
4x100-meter relay, Texas had 
apparently committed a rules 
violation.

Som e six hours earlier in the 
day, when the Longhorns ran 
away in the second heat of the 
qualifiers, they had apparently 
used saw ed off tennis balls 
instead of tape to mark off the 
exchange zones between relay 
legs.

That cost Texas a shot at 
some valuable points as the 
Longhorn women finished in 
fourth place overall.

Track and field needs to get 
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the season, Richards 
w as the rock. After scoring 18 
of Texas' 30 points at the Indoor 
Championships, Sanya broke the 
school record in the 400 after 
anchoring the collegiate record- 
breaking 4x400-meter team.

"The 

individuals m ake the 
team," coach Bev Kearney said. 
"But the team inspires the indi­
vidual."

On their own track, the same 
that held 20,000 fans a s they 
watched Texas shatter the col­
legiate record in the event, the 
first handoff resulted in a tumble 
and an insurmountable lead for 
LSU. In the prelims, Texas ran a 
3:25.58, good enough for the sec­
ond-fastest time in collegiate his­
tory, but the relay finals marked 
the end of a string of disappoint­
ments for Texas.

Richards held a look of resolve 
as she talked for the first time 
since her upset earlier in the day.
"Like my aunt alw ays said, 
'The great may fall but never 
yield.' I'm not going to give up 
on my dreams, and one dav I'll be 
the best in the wcfrld," Richards 
said. "H aving not lost the 400 in 
so long, I kind of forgot what it 
was like to lose."

The season does not end for 
Richards and many of her team­
mates, as they continue train­
ing with coach Kearney for the 
Olympic Trials in July. McIntosh, 
Hooker, Denby and several others 
have accepted invitations to the 
trials, and though several have 
graduated from the University, 
they continue their education 
alongside Richards.

And though Richards, like the 
team, fought through the cham­
pionships to rebound from the 
series of unfortunate events, they 
will continue to train together, 
now with different goals than the 
team title.

Richards will hold a press 
conference today to discuss her 
future with the sport. She has 
many goals beyond breaking 50 
seconds in the 400, and time will 
only tell how far she goes.

But looking at the unofficial 
time as the anchor of the relay 
team this Saturday, only another 
upset can keep her from Athens 
this summer.

It reads 49.9 seconds.

 Wednesday, June 16, 2004

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Sa u sa lito Apartm ents 
4 6 0 5 Avenue A 
2-1 $ 5 9 9 , 1-1 $ 4 9 9 
Central N o application fee.
O N E M O N T H F R E E !
F re e g a s .
4 5 3 -3 5 4 5

C O M E LIVE with us, clean quiet 
community. 
1st month's rent 
starting at $ 1 8 0 Paid water & 
extended cable, large pool, ac­
cess gates. 4 5 1 -4 5 1 4 .

H Y D E PA R K Hidew ay Cute & 
Small community 2-1 
$79 5 .
G a s paid. Apartment Finders 
3 2 2 -9 5 5 6

ALL BILLS p a id & walk to schooll 
Studio $ 4 7 5 , 1-1 $ 5 7 5 , 2-2 
$ 8 9 5 . 
Finders 
Apartment 
(5 1 2 )3 2 2 -9 5 5 6

$ 2 0 0 O F F 
1 st M o n t h s 
Rent
Central C a m pus & N. C am pus 
Effs $ 4 6 5 - $ 4 7 5 
1/1 's $485- $ 5 2 5 
1/1 Lofts $ 5 2 5 $ 5 7 5 
Locally O w n e d / M a n a g e d 

W a u g h P r o p e r t ie s , Inc. 

4 5 1 - 0 9 8 8

$ 2 0 0 O F F 

1 st M o n t h s 

R ent
Central
1 / 1 's & 2 / 2 's (Huge Closets) 
$ 5 7 5 - $ 8 2 5 
Large Eff - ABP $ 5 3 5 
Locally O w n e d / M a n a g e d 
W a u g h P ro pe rtie s, Inc. 
4 5 1 - 0 9 8 8

$ 2 0 0 O f f 
1 st month's 
Rent
Large N . C a m p u s / H y d e Park 
Effs $ 3 9 5 - $ 4 6 5 
M o s t Bills P a id 
Locally O w n e d / M a n a g e d 

W a u g h P r o p e r t ie s , Inc. 

4 5 1 - 0 9 8 8

W E S T C A M P U S . W a lk to UT. 
Cute efficiency ga ra ge apart­
ment. Appliances, ceiling fan, 
A C . N S / N P Perfect for profes­
sional/grad student. Available 
July. 
Lease 
4 5 4 -2 9 8 7

$49 5 /m o. 

P R IC E S S T A R T at $ 5 0 0 
U N IV ERSIT Y G A R D E N S 
A G A T E D C O M M U N IT Y ! 
N o w Preleasing Summer/Fall 
Opten Sunday I-4pm. 
Super-sized 1 bedroom apts. 
M icrow aves, elevators, & More!
2 2 2 2 Rio Grande St # D 
4 7 6 4 9 9 2 A S K A B O U T O U R 
R ESERVED PUBLIC P A R K IN G I

G IA N T 2X1 @ $ 6 9 5 for N O W 
through August, easy shuttle to 
C am pusl W o o d Floors avail­
able, but 
leasing up FASTI 
ApartmentExperts 
(5 1 2 )4 1 6 -8 1 0 0

P R I C E S S T A R T a t $ 4 0 0 
M A R Q U IS M G M T
N o w P re -L e a sin g 

S u m m e r/ F a ll 
O p e n S u n d a y l- 4 p m 
A w e s o m e L o ca tio n s! 

6 0 5 W . 2 8 t h S t r e e t 

4 7 2 - 3 8 1 6

amenity 
$ 3 5 9 + 

RESO R T STYLE living on UT 
packed 
shuttle & 
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 's 
includes
W / D , cable & basic phone! 
ApartmentExpertsA
(5122 )4 1 6 -8 1 0 0 .

p a

W E S T C A M P U S Studios, 1X1, 
2X1 & 2 X 2 for N O W & Pre- 
lease-walk 
at 
$ 3 9 9 up to $ 1 0 0 0 -E a sy on 
credit. 
(5 1 2 )4 1 6 -8 1 0 0 .

ApartmentExperts

class-starts 

to 

S O U T H UT Shuttle EFF $ 3 5 0 , 
1/1 $ 39 9 , 2 / 2 $ 5 7 5 Most 
Bills Paid Apartment Experts 
(5 1 2 )4 1 6 -8 1 0 0 .

H IG H D E M A N D W E S T C A M - 
PU S C O M P L E X E S I! C R O IX & 
S T .T H O M A S C O N D O M IN IU M S 
V ery 
N ice 
2 Beds-2 Baths O n ly $ 1 4 0 0 Call 
left at 
us Quickly! O n ly O n e 
each! 
C o nd os
4 7 4 4 8 0 0

C a m p us 

Unfurn

H Y D E PARK W onders-3 bus 
to cam pus/dow ntow n 
routes 
1 's @ $ 4 9 9 
but
2 's @ $ 7 4 9 , 
Pre-Leasing FAST! Apartment Ex­
perts. (5 1 2 )4 1 6 -8 1 0 0

PA R K PLACE C O N D O M IN IU M S 
Closest C o n d o s to Engineering 
& Law School Two 2-1 s Avail 
N o w 
for O n ly $ 1 0 7 5 O ne 
2 -1-Upgraded with H ardw ood 
Floors and N e w tiling 
Very 
N ice! O nly $11 0 01 C am pus 
C o n d o s 4 7 4 4 8 0 0

390 « Unfurnished 

Duplexes

6 - 8 B E D R O O M 

H o u s e s & D u p l e x e s 

Be st W e s t & N o r t h C a m p u s 
Properties available 
W ell maintained properties 
will large bedroom s and lots of 
windows.
$ 3 0 0 0 / m o - $ 5 2 0 0 / m o

4 7 6 - 1 9 7 6 E P I

2 8 2 5 S A N Gabriel, 3/1 w/car- 
port, balcony, C A C H . W a lk to 
Pease Park and UT 
$ 1400. 
3 4 3 -2 2 7 8

T A R R Y T O W N CUTE 
1-1/Du- 
plex Hardw oods. Deck, Big 
appliances 
All 
Yard/Trees. 
2 2 0 7 
w / d 
hook-ups. 
Stam ford/W indsor. 
$ 7 0 0 
4 7 3 -3 6 2 4

2/1 DUPLEX. C A C H Carport 
N e a r buses, frisbee/golf course 
N o smoking Available now. 
9 2 7 -9 5 0 4

4 -B E D R O O M DUPLEX. G reat lo- 
cation. W e st C am pus area 
C lose to Central Market A vail­
able September 
$ 2 0 0 0 / m o 
8 4 5 -7 5 8 7 M-F

H Y D E PARK 4-plex. 2-2 $ 9 5 0 , 
pets O K, water paid, W D . 
2 4 9 -8 6 1 0 . cell 2 0 3 -1 6 1 3

3BR, 

W A L K UT-NICE 
h ^ T 
woods, includes W / D , North of 
campus, 
Beanna, 
3 2 0 4 
$ 1500-3 people, $ 1 15 0 -2 peo­
ple, August 16th, 4 7 9 -6 1 5 3 , 
6 5 8 4 2 5 7 , no smokers/pets.

1/1

C H A R M IN G
UT/French Place, 3 2 0 0 D ancy 
$ 6 0 0 August 17th, 4 7 9 -6 1 5 3 , 
6 5 8 4 2 5 7 , no 
smokers/small 
pets negotiable.

BILLS PAID, $ 1000/m o., 2/1, 
hardwoods&carpet, cable, Pet 
near 
O K , 
Lamar,
Threadgill's 
3 2 9 -6 7 3 5

fenced 

yard, 

on 

W IL L IA M 
C A N N O N / M A N - 
C H A C A area 3 / 2 / 1 All appli­
ances. W / D connection Fenced 
yard. 
agent 
8 0 9 -9 3 7 0

$ 9 9 5 

Call 

2 / T 
1511

C H A R M IN G C E N T R A L 
great 
location, 
Kirkwood-early August, $ 7 9 5 , 
hardw oods, 
balcony,
4 7 9 -6 1 5 3 , 6 5 8 4 2 5 7 , no smok­
ers/small pets negotiable

400 - Condos-

Town homes

LACASITA 
2 9 0 0 Cole 
2/1 's only $695 
3 Blocks to UT 
Great Pool
476-1976

PRELEASING , 

■ (2 1 0 )7 4 4 -7 1 9 0

Townhomes

r<r CONDOS

Centennial Large
3/2 - $1995 
Centennial Small
3/2 $1895 
Croix
2/2-$1500 
Parapet
2/2-$1400 3/2 $1550 
Treehouse
4/2 - $2000 2/2 $1400 
Westview Large 
2/2 - $1200 
West University
2/2 - $1200_________________

2401 Rio Grande 
512-479-1300 
www.utmetro.coni

N O R T H C A M P U S I H uge 2x2. 
1 14 E. 31st! $1 150. Front Page 
(5 1 2)4 80 -8 5 1 8

W C A M P U S . 
8 0 8 W 29th 
# 2 0 6 . Big 2-2 W a lk to UT 2 
parking spots. N e w W / D , dish­
washer, microwave. G reat pool 
$ 1500/m onth! 
view. 
A vailable 
August.
5 1 2 -6 5 7 -6 1 9 8 .

Just 

420 - Unfurnished 
Houses
LIVING-UT 

C O U N T R Y 
14mi 
O ld e r Clean Spacious 21 24sqft 
4 /1 
W D C o n n / p o rch e s/ Y a rd / C a r- 
port. 1 8 7 3 3 F M 9 6 9 $ 9 5 0 
4 7 2 -2 0 9 7

C A / C H

N E A R 
IM Fields, Large 4 /1 , 
Hardw oods, W / D connec , g a ­
rage, 
fenced yard, pets O K 
$ 1 5 5 0 . 3 4 3 -2 2 7 8 .

FOR FALL

* 3 2 1 5 - A D a n c y *
4/1 with large bedrooms 
Great hardw oods, 2 living ar­
ea s w/fireplaces, large trees on 
property, W / D included and 
small pet O K $ 2 0 9 5 

* 3 6 0 7 B r i d l e P a t h *
5 / 2 House with 1/1 Apt in 
rear 2 living areas w/fireplace 
Saltillo tile, Lg deck and lots of 
large trees on property 
Storage room. $ 2 3 0 0
Call 407-3700
For current Availability 
Haustein Property C o m p a n y

LA R G E 5 / 4 Sleeps 6. UT Shut­
tle Lake Austin Blvd C A / C H , 
W / D , et. A vailable August. 
9 0 1 Newman. 5 8 9 -7 5 2 5 .

2 9 0 4 D A R C Y 3 B D / 3 B A 

h o m e in F re n c h P la c e 
Designer colors, W / D , 
dishwasher, microwave, fridge 
walk-in closets, high speed 
conn., hardw ood floors & 
carpet. Detached converted 
garage, very spacious room. 
Enough for 5 or 6 people
Call Matt - 345-2060

PR E L E A SIN G FALL 0 4 Nice. 
2-4 Bedroom Houses G reat 
Locations, Appliances, Fenced- 
Yards, C A / C H UT Shuttle Pets 
O k a y 6 5 7 -7 1 7 1 / 6 2 6 -5 6 9 9

N IC E 3-2 Fenced Yard, A ppli­
ances, Includes W / D , C A / C H 
on C R Shuttle Pets O k a y 1 3 1 0 
Berkshire Dr. $ 1 2 0 0 A vailable 
8 / 1 . 6 5 7 -7 1 7 1

N E A R IF Field! Very Spacious 
5 / 3 . H ardw oods Porch! N e w ly 
hardtiled kitchen+bath. $ 2 2 0 0 
Front Page 4 8 0 -8 5 1 8

" C A N 'T G ET a n y closer to UT!" 
Pre-leasing for August 4 bed­
room s Parking $ 1 5 0 0 + Tina 
3 3 1 -1 0 0 9

WrZ HO USES & 

DUPLEXES

> Westfield
6/3 - $2750, pool table

2905 Robinson
4/2 - $2200

310 Franklin
4/2 - $2000

1202 “A ” E. 29th St.
4/2 - $2200

706 "B “ W. 32nd
3/1 -$1600

1922 Holly Hill
3/2.5 - $1400

706 W. 32nd
4/3 - $2100
MANY OTHERS!
2401 Rio Grande 
512-479-1300 

440 - Roomm ates
O N E MILE to UT N e w 3 / 2 
house E. 16th St A vailable July 
1 st Send email:
dprechter@austin rr com

R O O M 
in North- 
AVAILABLE 
west Austin home Non-sm ok­
ing, professional/graduate stu­
dent. O w n bathroom, garage, 
cable C lose to PRC $ 5 u 0 / m o 
+ 1 /3 
utilities
4 7 1 -0 3 4 7 / 3 4 6 - 1 2 8 0

R ESPO N SIBLE, 
C LE A N ,
non-smoking female wanted to 
share 2 / 2 condo W / D , fire­
place, 
campus. 
walk 
5 1 2 -4 6 8 -1 6 2 6

to 

4 BLKS to UT - Nicel Large pri­
vate upstairs room, bath, walk-in 
non-smoking 
closet. 
W / D 
big 
shared kitchen, $ 2 9 5 / m o sum­
mer, 
ABP. 4 7 4 -2 4 0 8 , 
4 7 4 -2 0 3 6 , abbey-house com

Quiet, 
A / C , 

furnished 

year 

$ 3 2 5 / M O + 1/2 UTILITIES M a le 
roommate needed for 2 / 2 on 
Burton Dr UT Shuttle N o To­
bacco (5 1 2 )8 0 4 -2 0 4 9

N O N - S M O K I N G 
M / F
large 
2 b r/ 2 b a W est Cam pus, 
room s/living room, W / D , cov­
ered 
$ 6 5 0 O B O 
parking 
5 1 2 -2 9 3 -8 5 5 4

F A B U L O U S / Q U IE T 
H O U S E 
share 5 min walk to cam pus 
bedroom /bath
Private 
Furn/unfurn W / D , D W , cen­
tral 
cable 
$ 6 8 7 50/month+utilities 
4 6 9 -0 0 7 9

H A C , wireless, 

FEM ALE 

R E SPO N SIB L E 
room- 
mate wanted for extra room at 
The W o o d s on Barton Skyw ay 
$ 400/m onth 7 3 6 -2 7 5 3

M a le 
LIVE A T O ra n g e Tree 
roommate wanted 
Rent $ 3 6 0 
2 / 2 , 5min to UT, parking Call 

R O O M M A T E T O 
share 4 / 2 
near UT with male college stu­
Internet $ 3 0 0 + 1 / 4 bills 
dents 
N o 
or 
6 8 9 -2 1 4 4

5 0 7 -0 2 7 2 

smoking. 

fur­
AT 2 2nd /N ue ce s, 
1/1 
nished, $ 2 7 5 / m o negotiable, 
utilities paid, summer/beyond 
1-minute 
Ashu:
4 7 2 -9 7 1 6 ,
ashu@m ail utexas.edu

UT 

to 

EDUCATIONAL

590 - Tutoring
N E E D A TUTO R? C H E A P S P A N ­
ISH TUTOR, LEA R N IN C O N ­
TEXT st nadiakhan@ yahoo com 
9 2 4 - 5 9 Í7

SERVICES

650 - M oving-
H auling

rock 

repair, 
Free 

S T O R M 
Painting, 
pressure 
estimate 

M O V IN G / H A U L IN G 
d a m a ge 
clean-ups 
sheet 
w ashing. 
2 7 6 -7 7 9 8
750 - Typing
C A R O L Y N 'S T Y P IN G Service, 
UT-Downtown, hours by appoint­
ment, 8 1 0 East 13th Street 
2 3 6 -0 5 6 8 , 6 5 6 -5 6 8 3

EMPLOYMENT

793 - Internship
L A B R A D A N U T R I T I O N 
seeks articulate, reliable, 
outgoing, and fitness-minded 
college sophomores or junior 
with a minimum 3 .0 G P A M ust 
have reliable transportation and 
be able to work 12-20 hours a 
week $ 10 / h r . E -mail resume, 
photo and cover letter on the 
following, "W h a t Fitness 
M e a n s to M e and H ow I M a k e 
Fitness a Part of M y Life" to 
¡nte rnships@ labrada.com
790 - Part time

E A R N $ 2 5 ,0 0 0 
T H IS S U M M E R 
A S A R E A L E S T A T E A G E N T
W e are hiring 9 new agents 
for UT's top producing 
real estate com pany W e 
will sponsor unlicensed 
individuals. A p p ly at
6 0 8 W . 2 4 th St.

to UT, 

LO VE T O clean? Clean home 2 
filing, errands. 
Blks 
$ 10/hr. 
re­
quired 
4 7 4 -2 2 1 6 .

6-12hrs/w eek

Fragrance 

free 

G R E A T PAY/FLEXIBLE Hours 
Seeking 3 goal-oriented entre­
preneurs 
or 
w w w .N o M o re M o n d a y s com

2 5 8 -7 6 8 1 

PART/FULLTIME 
S A L E S P E R S O N W A N T E D 
W o rk in oriental gift shop in 
Lakeline or Barton Creek M all 
Sales, social experience 
required Long-term.
Basic hourly payment 
alus sales bonus 
plus
C a l l :

2 5 8 -3 5 9 8 for 

interview or send resume to 
blcimport@austm rr.com

370 - Uni. Apts. 

370 - Uni. Apts.

EFF. & 1-2-3-4 BDRM
N o w Preleasing! . 
Starting in $400s; S

P R O P E R T Y 
O F T H E

1 Gated Community 
1 Student Oriented
■ On UT Shuttle Route 
1 Microwaves 
1 Water & Sand Volleyball • Spacious

I* Lofts W/Fans 

■ 5 Min. to Downtown 

Plans
• Basketball

P O IN T S O U T H 444-7536

Rental Office: 1910 Wiiiowcreek

s n m

m
790 - Part time
1 7 ST U D E N T S needed w ho w 
be paid to lose weight 10C 
natural. 
3 29 -5 4 1 
Vivian 
w w w ezthin.com

;

Pizza 
Classics
NOW HIRING
Drivers & Couponers S10-S15/ 

hr. pd. daily. Also Cooks 

^ a O 2 0 - 8 0 8 ^ f t e r 4 p r r ^

PT C O L L E C T O R Evening hours 
outbound colls 
Responsibilities 
to collect on defaulted 
loans 
Interested ca nd i­
Fridays off 
dates 
tc 
resume 
forward 
jobs@ ezcorp.com

PT HELP desk 
Responsibilities 
provide first level tech support 
Evening
and 
hours 
to 
|obs@ ezcorp.com

troubleshoot 
Forward 

resume 

W A N T E D BA B Y sitter in Circle 
C (South Austin) for kids a ges 8 
from 2:30p m -6 30pm 
and 5 
M onday-Friday, 
Fall 
M ust have car to pickup kids 
from school C all 9 7 0 -2 6 3 9

starting 

PART-TIME JOB, photogiaphy 
assistant and pet sitting morn 
ings a nd w eekends Pay cash 
4 5 3 -0 3 9 9

PART-TIME CLERICAL- ’"
position: M ed ica l supply 
com pany looking for office help
Duties include filing
answ ering phones, 
and data entry 
Position to start immediately ana 
extend through summer and 
perhaps longer.
Flexible work schedule and a 
fast-paced environment await 
E-mail your resume to 
chris.yule@travismedica! com

E A R N C A S H helping students 
bridge the digital divide 
Breakthrough an education 
non-profit, seeks C om p Sc i 
student to be a Tech Support 
Intern for middle schoolers, 
troubleshooting hardware and 
software problems via phone 
email and occasional home 
visits Proficiency in Spanish 
and W in 9 8 preferred 
Position available 6/21 8/7, 
5-15 hrs/wk, $8 10/hr. 
Contact Sheila at 5 6 0 -3 8 0 8

A N A L Y ST INTERN
N e e d e d for d a ta a na lysis, 
m a p p in g , Q C , other. 
Exciting o pportunity for a 
M a r k e t in g / G e o g r a p h y / 
E c o n o m ic s m ajor 
W e are a marketing intelligence 
and services consulting groun 
in W e st Austin Email resume 
jobs@ConclusiveStrateg íes com

sleep & 

G ET PA ID serious money while 
you 
friends watcn 
DVDrentals G o to 
w w w .m ym oviebiz net/ 
havefunow

C A R E G IV E R S
N U R S E R Y 
Needed. Sundays 9am lp m for 
a ge s 6month$-5years Holy Trii 
ify Episcopal Church, 
W o o d la n d A ve 
4 4 4 -5 3 1 1

1 7 0 2 
Call Rpbm 

K IN D P E R S O N needed to care 
for pets, keep house clean, d o 
light secretarial work, run er­
rands, etc (5 1 2 )3 4 5 -4 5 5 5

80 0 - General

Help Wanted

FT/PT 
SECURITY O FFIC E R 
positions available in Austin a nd 
surrounding areas. Flexible 
schedules M ust be 18yrs of 
age, have a high-school 
diplom a or G E D , clean 
background, security experience 
preferred but not required for 
some sites 5 1 2 -4 5 4 -6 6 0 0 or 
fox 5 1 2 -4 5 4 -6 4 5 5 EO F

SALES A SSISTAN T”
Students needed to set up 
a nd display equipment 
for sales people 
$ 2 1 4 0 a month 
Plus incentives, plus college 
scholarships, no experience 
necessary, will train
(512)670-9900

ATHLETIC 
to
M E N 
$ 100/hr. M o d e lin g for calen­
dars, greeting cards etc N o ex­
perience needed 6 8 4 9 2 9 4

$ 3 5 

O N -SIT E M A N A G E R needed for 
4 4 units north Strong leasing 
accounting skills. 1 BR/ 1 B A Apt, 
bonus. N o pets. Fax resume 
3 3 9 -3 6 7 8

N E A R UT 
renovar >n, 
fix-it, 
maintenance, $ 9 -1 0 PT Flex FT 
Perm 
benefits 
4 7 4 -2 6 1 8
w w w LawyersAidService com

$10 -1 2 , 

B A R T E N D IN G ! " $ 3 0 0 a da y p 
tential. N o exp nec, training 
8 0 0 -9 5 6 -6 5 2 0 e»t 
provided 
113

for account 

STU D Y B R E A K S m agazine look- 
reps 
ing 
Flexible 
Great 
hours. 
pa y
5 1 2 -4 8 0 -0 8 9 3

experience 
G o o d 

sales 

H Y D E PARK 3BR/2B A, G a ra g e 
Super efficient C A / C H , W / D , 
Lap pool $ 1 6 5 0 4 8 0 -9 5 7 6 .

R E F U R B I S H E D 1 / 1 

O N 5 T H F L O O R ,
view of UT Tower and 
Dobie M a ll 1 block to UT 
N e w appliances Secured park­
ing and building Pool a n a hot 
tub All bills paid $ 7 0 0 month 
(2 1 0 ) 4 9 6 - 8 9 0 4 

u t c o n d o @ a o l . c o m

W E S T C A M P U S 
1 BRw/spa- 
cious loft. Ideal for 1-2 people 
Wlk/shuttle to cam pus Avail­
able August $ 7 7 5 / m o 
7 8 9 -3 3 8 5

W A L K T O UT. 2/2, w /d, micro- 
wave, dishwasher, 2 parking 
spots. 
A vailable 
June 3 2 2 -9 2 9 2

$ 1 0 9 9 / m o 

W A L K T O UT. Large 1 /1 .5 loft. 
C a n accommodate 2 students 
w/d, microwave, dishwasher, 1 
parking spot. $ 79 5 /m o . Avail­
able August. 3 2 2 -9 2 9 2 .

C o n d o s F o r S a l e

I b d r m s 
2 b d r m s 

5 7 K +
- 1 0 5 K +

M E T R O R E A L T Y 

4 7 9 - 1 3 0 0

^ w W j U t m n t r o x a n J

2 B R / 2 . 5 B A T H , H y d e P a rk 
C o m p le t e r e m o d e l 
4 4 0 1 Sp e e d w a y W / D , 
gigabit ethernet in all rooms 
O n IF bus route $1000/m onth, 
water included. To view picture 
h t t p : / / h o m e p a g e . m a c c o m 
/ ly le r b / P h o t o A lb u m 4 . h t m l 
C o n ta c t: e m o r y @ a p p le . c o m 

o r c a ll 3 2 7 4 4 3 4

G O R G E O U S 2 / 2 N W Hills 
condo. All new interior M ic ro­
w ave & W / D incl Pool, tennis. 
$ 8 9 5 6 9 9 -7 8 3 8

 

 

 www.utmetro.com

Tiled 

SUPER 3/2 Fenced yard Pets 
appli­
floor, 
welcome 
ances, covered patio 
South 
Austin. 
9 2 3 3 Vigen Circle 
$ I 300/m om . Move-in July or 
August Call 2 8 0 -9 1 0 5

4 / 2 

H U G E H O U S E 
i f a i 
w oods, Shuttle, Very Nice, Rent 
Q uickly 15 0 2 N orthndge Dr. 
$ 1 6 0 0 Alan 6 2 6 -5 6 9 9

H Y D E PARK. BEAUTIFUL LARGE 
3 / 2 / 1 , D E C K , TREES, H A R D ­
W O O D S , N E W A PP LIA N C E S, 
W / D , C A / C H , C -fA N S , G A ­
R A G E , N O PETS O R S M O ! ¿ 
ERS 
$ 15 0 0 / M O AVAILABLE 
7 / 1 5 .2 8 0 - 5 4 7 7

H Y D E PARK- Large 3 B R / 2 B A 
H ouse for Lease. $ 15 0 0/ m o . 
plus one month security deposit 
4 6 7 -6 9 0 4

W E S T C A M P U S Huge 3 / 2 for 
A u g 1 Big enough for 4 H ard­
w oods, 
G arage, 
Fireplace, 
W / D conn 8 0 7 W 2 8 1/2 St 
@ Pearl $ 1 8 0 0 / m o 2 3 1 -1 0 0 7

located be 
3 B R / 2 B A H O U S E 
hind Capital Plaza, UT Shuttle, 
$ 1 8 0 0 / mo , $ 1 0 0 0 security de­
posit Ow ner/Agent. 9 9 0 -8 7 4 7

425 - Rooms

R O O M FOR rent in busy family 
household 4-blocks from UT Fe­
male only, 
foreign welcome 
4 7 8 -1 2 5 6

426 Furnished

Room s
BIG B R A S S bed in furnished, 
upstairs room. Just 5 minute 
walking distance from UT 
Available in exchange for just 4 
hours a d a y babysitting twin 4 
year ola boys C harm ing 
tutor-revival house in lovely 
Hemphill Park neighborhood, 
and such fun kids-it might as 
well be free References 
required C all 4 7 4 - 8 4 7 0

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APD, county expand crisis training

Network releases 
mental health 
status report

County s disabled 
residents waiting for 

services, report says

By Nikki Buskey

Daily Texan S ta ff

There are approximately 1,380 
disabled residents of Travis 
County waiting for community- 
based living assistance services, 
according to a report released 
Monday by the Community 
Action Network.

The network, a partnership 
of Austin-area government 
organizations, 
collaborated 
with the Mental Retardation/ 
Developmental Disabilities 
Planning Group to release the 
report detailing die status and 
community needs of the dis­
abled in Travis County.

The report highlights the 
problems of housing, employ­
ment and medical services for 
the mentally and developmen- 
tally disabled.

According to the report, more 
than 30 percent of the nation's 
adults with mental retardation 
live below the poverty line, three 
times the rate of the general 
population. Many are depen­
dent on Social Security Income 
to make ends meet. The maxi­
mum monthly SSI payment is 
$564. However, in Austin, the 
report finds the average cost of 
an efficiency apartment to be 
$567.

"We're challenged here in 
Travis County with high hous­
ing costs," said Susan Eason, 
executive director of the Arc of 
the Capital Area, a non-profit 
organization that provides ser­
vices to the disabled.

The waiting list for public 
housing units in Travis County 
for people with disabilities is 
over five years long, according 
to the report.

The 

report 

encourages 
employers to hire residents with 
developmental disabilities and 
mental retardation, but in the 
competitive Austin workforce, 
doing this can be difficult, Eason 
said.

Many Austin 

employers 
would be able to hire disabled 
workers if they made small 
improvements in accessibility 
and technology support, said 
Louise Lynch, director of Mental

Retardation Services for the 
Austin Travis County Mental 
Health Mental Retardation 
Center.

Still, only 50 percent of people 
with disabilities are currently 
employed nationwide.

Another problem discussed 
in the report is access to medical 
support and services. It states 
that 12 percent of Medicaid 
recipients in Texas had disabili­
ties in 2002.

However, in the last legisla­
tive session, certain services 
for adults — including hearing 
aids, dental care, counseling and 
other necessities important to 
the disabled — were cut to con­
trol Medicaid spending.

"I opposed the cuts because 
they would make life extremely 
difficult for adults who would 
receive benefits," 
said Rep. 
Elliott Naishtat, D-Austin, vice­
chair of the Human Services 
Committee. "I felt the cuts were 
misguided, insensitive, punitive 
and unnecessary."

In February 2001, President 
Bush signed the New Freedom 
Initiative to mark the 12th anni­
versary of the Americans with 
Disabilities Act, which made it 
illegal to discriminate against 
those with disabilities. The ini­
tiative was an executive order 
designed to promote tl\e inclu­
sion of disabled Americans by 
expanding employment activi­
ties and community involve­
ment, two of the major areas 
cited in the Community Action 
Network report.

While Lynch said she supports 
the federal plan, she added that 
the real problem lies at the state 
level with the Medicaid waiver 
services, which allow people 
with disabilities to utilize feder­
ally funded, community-based 
services. In Texas, the wait for 
these services can be as long as 
five to 10 years, according to the 
Community Action Network 
report.

Despite this, no new state 
funding has been provided for 
this program in several years, 
Lynch said.

According to the Community 
Action Network report, there 
are approximately 24,000 people 
in Travis County with a devel­
opmental disability.

"We still have a long way to 
go to make Austin a fully inclu­
sive community," Lynch said.

Betty Fabre teaches a class at the APD Crisis Intervention Center, training officers from the Travis County Sheriff’s D ep a rtm e nt and the Austin 
Police Department.

Claire Hule I Daily Texan S taff

Agreement allows Travis County team to call on APD in mental-health crisis situation

By Jeremy Edwards
Daily Texan S taff

The crisis intervention teams 
at the Austin Police Department 
and the Travis County Sheriff's 
Office have 
joined forces to 
address the concerns of the 
county's mental health patients, 
spokespeople for both units said 
Monday.

The agreement would allow 
the Travis County team to call 
on APD's team members in a 
crisis situation outside Austin's 
city limits.

"If you have a mental illness, 
and you happen to be on a coun­
ty street comer instead of a city 
street corner, you should be able 
to get the same level of care no 
matter where you are," said Sgt. 
Todd Smith, who heads the APD 
team.

APD's mental health train­
ing, which the crisis interven­
tion units provide to patrol offi­
cers, came under public criticism 
in 2002 after the controversial 
shooting of mentally ill Austin 
resident Sophia King by APD 
officer John Coffey. At the time, 
APD Chief Stan Knee said his

goal wras to provide training to 
all officers with more than two 
years experience on the force 
on how to deal with mentally ill 
subjects.

Since the incident, the number 
of officers with mental health 
training certificates has increased 
from 97 to 150.

“ Most places don’t 
have this. Most places 
just have a police offi­
cer that says, ‘We’ll do 
our best.’”

Jonathan Singer, 
social worker

Today, Austin's crisis inter­
vention services are among the 
best in the country, said Jonathan 
Singer, a licensed clinical social 
worker who has taught cri­
sis intervention courses at the 
University's School of Social 
Work.

"Let's say you were mugged 
on the street ... in Austin, they

will have a victims' services 
social worker show up and talk 
with you briefly, provide some 
referrals and some basic informa­
tion," Singer said. "Most places 
don't have this. Most places just 
have a police officer that says, 
'We'll do our best.'"

But Smith argued that, while 
crisis intervention training for 
officers is important, it's no sub­
stitute for adequate psychiatric 
care for subjects with the mental 
health problems. He suggest­
ed that King's shooting could 
have been prevented if she had 
received better treatment earlier.
"She had been in and out of 
the state hospital so much, all 
brought on by police that were 
trying to get her help," he said. 
"Right now the state hospitals 
can't wait to get the mentally ill 
out of their hospital beds because 
they cost a lot of money and take 
up a lot of time .... They are so 
underfunded that a lot of times 
people have to rely on the police. 
If we didn't follow up with these 
people in need, nobody would."
The APD and Travis County 
crisis intervention teams, once

known as mental health units, 
also perform specialized work 
such as hostage negotiations 
and psychiatric evaluations. The 
Travis County team started in 
1984, but when APD started its 
own unit in 1999, the two teams 
had different jurisdictions and 
separate facilities.

They moved Friday to a joint 
office on the grounds of Austin 
State Hospital, solidifying the 
new 
resource-sharing agree­
ment between the city team and 
the county team. The new facil­
ity will enable the two units to 
expand officer training services 
and to work more closely with 
hospital staff, said Roger Wade, a 
spokesman for the Travis county 
team.

The move, approved by City 
Manager Toby Futrell in May, 
puts an official stamp on an 
informal relationship the two 
units have worked out over the 
past few months, Smith said.

"If Travis County needs our 
help outside the city, we'll help," 
Smith said. "Instead of taking 
two cars to San Antonio, we'll 
take one."

Search program helps reunite families separated by adoption

Group provides 

workshops, guest 

speakers, support

By Kristine Gloria
Daily Texan S taff

In 51 years, Nancy Johnson had 
never known her birth mother. In 
the fall of 1987, Johnson began 
her quest to find the woman who 
gave her up for adoption when 
she was 3 months old.

"I was driven, yes, obsessed. 
Everything else fell to the bed­
side," Johnson said. Johnson 
had been put up for adoption in 
Kansas City, Mo. After years of 
trying to find the woman, includ­
ing several months of researching 
in various libraries throughout 
the Midwest, Johnson located 
documents that would reveal the

answer.

"I went to the juvenile courts, 
public 
libraries and colleges 
until I found the papers with my 
mother's name," Johnson said.

On Jan. 14, 1988, Johnson con­
tacted relatives from her birth 
mother's family.

Now, Johnson and other mem­
bers of the Adoption Knowledge 
Affiliates conduct monthly meet­
ings that assist and educate 
those interested in locating fam­
ily members disconnected by 
adoption. The search program 
offers pointers, online sources 
and emotional support for those 
in the process of reuniting with 
family members.
"Sometimes 

the experience 
may have a good or bad out­
come, but I know that everyone 
I've ever asked says that they 
would do it again, no matter the

outcome," Johnson said.

The search assistance program 
is one of many offered by the 
group that encourages and edu­
cates everyone in the adoption 
community, also known as the 
includes birth 
"triad," which 
parents, adoptees and adoptive 
parents.

"It is a great opportunity for 
people to hear the other's per­
spective and to learn from each 
other," said Fiona Mclnally, a 
member-at-large and an adop­
tive parent of two.

Created nearly 13 years ago, 
AKA is a non-profit organiza­
tion that educates the commu­
nity about adoption issues. Every 
third Thursday of the month, 
the organization hosts a general 
meeting in which guest speakers 
are invited to speak on issues that 
range from Internet adoption to

cultural awareness in adoption. 
AKA also provides educational 
workshops, an emotional sup­
port group and a quarterly news­
letter.

“ I know that everyone 
I’ve ever asked says 
that they would do it 
again, no matter the 
outcome.”

Nancy Johnson, 
on searching for her birth parents

Joellen Peters has volunteered 
and attended AKA meetings for 
12 years. Peters is an active mem­
ber who has used many of AKA's 
resources, such as the search

assistance program and the lend­
ing library, which provides books 
that deal with adoption.

"I was able to work with AKA 
when searching for my birth par­
ents. They offered helpful steps 
and support," she said.

According to Peters, the biggest 
piece of help that AKA offered 
was the opportunity to meet oth­
ers with similar experiences.

"I was able to see other birth 
mothers and leam what it may 
have felt like for my own moth­
er," Peters said.

Janie Cravens, the owner of 
a private adoption agency for 
more than 25 years, is an avid 
supporter of the AKA.

"AKA offers a unique and 
wonderful service for the people 
of Austin," said Cravens, a regu­
lar guest speaker at AKA general 
meetings.

At 

the meetings, Cravens 
addresses issues that range from 
cultural gaps to, "So you're think­
ing of adopting?" which provides 
the pros and cons of different 
types of adoption.

The American Adoption 
Congress and the Texas Coalition 
for Adoption Resources and 
Education recognize AKA as a 
valuable resource for information 
about the adoption process and 
link to AKA from their Web sites.

Members of the organiza­
tion encourage anvone to 
attend meetings and the 
upcoming conference in 
November. More informa­
tion can be found at www. 
adoptionknowledge. org.

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Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Celebrating Bloomsday without a literary twin

By John R o d d e n ___
G uest Columnist

This week marks the centennial 
of one of the biggest ceilidhe (a 
Gaelic term meaning, roughly, 
“celebration") on the literary cal­
endar — Bloomsday 0une 16). 
The day is named after Leopold 
Bloom's 1904 odyssey on that 
date through the streets, pubs 
and brothels of Dublin in James 
Joyce's "Ulysses."

The weeklong festivities, which 
will be centered in Dublin (known 
in Joyce's novel as Bloomstown), 
will amount to a grand birthday 
bash for Joyce as well as for his 
novel. The celebration will fea­
ture reports from family and rela­
tives, virtuoso scholarly exegeses 
of his novels and arcane academic 
debates about his work and life.

Bloomsday has long been a 
special event in the international 
literary calendar. And such treat­
ment is highly appropriate, for 
Joyce (1882-1941) was maniacally 
obsessed with dates in general, 
and particularly his own birth 
date. June 16 is his symbolic birth­
day, but his own actual birth date

preoccupied him, too. Indeed 
the multivalent twists of Joyce's 
adventures with his own birth 
date reveal not only an intrigu­
ing and seldom-discussed dimen­
sion of his curiously superstitious 
nature, but the outline of a deli­
ciously Joycean short story.

Joyce's birth date, Feb. 2, was 
(in the Irish 
liturgical calen­
dar) the feast day of St. Bridget 
(patroness of poets and healers) 
and Candlemas Day (commemo­
rating the Virgin Mary's purifica­
tion) — thereby uniting historic 
import with divine mission and 
supreme irony.

When he discovered in 1927 
that fellow Irish poet-novelist 
James Stephens (best known as 
the author of "The Crock of Gold" 
and other stories about Irish leg­
ends) had been bom on the same 
February 2, he invested the cir­
cumstance with mystical signifi­
cance. For years Joyce had, report­
edly by chance, been carrying a 
wallet photograph of Stephens, 
whom he barely knew, next to one 
of his father. The apparent rea­
son was that, by some accident, 
both photos had appeared next to

each other in different newspaper 
stones. But when Joyce learned 
about Stephens' birth date, he 
concluded that his possession of 
Stephens' photograph had been 
no accident. He and Stephens 
were doubles.

Joyce solemnly explained to 
Stephens that his surname almost 
matched the name of Joyce's 
autobiographical hero, Stephen 
Dedalus, in "A Portrait of the 
Artist as Young Man"; that both 
their Christian names were 
James; that they both had two 
children, a boy and a girl; and 
that, as Stephens later recalled, 
"He and I were bom in the same 
city [Dublin], in the same year, in 
the same month, on the same day, 
at the same hour, six o'clock in the 
morning."

Joyce had formerly considered 
Stephens "my rival, the latest 
Irish genius." Now he saw him 
as a beloved twin.

But what would Joyce say 
today if he knew, as Stephens' 
biographers now suspect, that 
the self-portrait of Stephens as 
a young man included a little 
fabrication? Most scholars now

believe that Stephens was bom 
two years earlier than he claimed 
— and on Feb. 9, not Feb. 2. Was 
his blarney about his birth date 
designed to avoid conscription 
by making him appear younger? 
Did he invent the date at random 
to cover up an illegitimate birth? 
Or did he knowingly obscure it 
because his mother remarried 
and young Stephens felt uneasy 
with his stepfather and unwanted 
at home?

Whether Stephens changed his 
birth date to match Joyce's is also 
not known. But the likelihood is 
that the matching dates were a 
coincidence. Or was it Stephens 
own selfish propensity to turn his 
life into art? One will probably 
never know. Stephens liked to 
shroud his childhood in mystery, 
as if making a Gaelic legend out 
of his origins.

Whatever the truth about the 
Feb. 9 date, it seems more than 
possible that Stephens and life 
out-joyced Joyce and art.

John Rodden is an adjunct assistant 
professor in the Department of
Communication Studies.

A statue of James Joyce beside his grave in Switzerland. Today is 
the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, from Joyce’s novel Ulysses.

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Around the world, 
with I ittle to write 
home about

Forgetting Verne, 
but discovering that 
martial arts are 
universal

By Mike Disen
Daily Texan Staff

The title of "Around the World 
in 80 Days" is curious. While our 
heroes do indeed circumnavigate 
the globe, and do so in 80 days 
— or so we are told — they 
could have just as easily spent the 
week at home in London, and the 
movie could have worked just as

A r o u n d t h k 
W o r l d in 8 0 D a y s

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D irector: f rank Coral i 

Starring: Steve Coogan, Jackie Ch an

well. Aside from some occasional 
visual flair, the entire premise of 
the film is utterly wasted, and 
in place of an exciting and ten­
sion-filled world romp we are 
presented with slapstick carica­
tures, an empty plot and as many 
excuses for Jackie Chan to fight 
as possible.

Chan stars as Passepartout, an 
English-speaking, bank-robbing

martial arts instructor-cum-valet 
of French and Chinese origins 
on the run from the law. In the 
course of his latest escape, he 
stumbles into the yard of Phileas 
Fogg (Steve Coogan), a zany 
inventor eager to prove himself 
to his skeptical scientific peers. 
Fogg's confidence in technolo­
gy's ability to change the world 
is openly mocked by the leader 
of the Academy of Science (Jim 
Broadbent), who challenges Fogg 
to a wager. If Fogg can traverse 
the globe in 80 days, he will not 
only be recognized and accepted 
as an inventor, but he can take 
his place as head of the acad­
emy. Passepartout, meanwhile, is 
eager to get home to China, and 
decides Fogg is likely the fastest 
way.

Jackie Chan 

is likable and 
fun to watch, but he is not an 
actor, and even this movie's bare 
plot asks a lot of him. His best 
moments (and indeed, the film's) 
come during the myriad trade­
mark fights, showcasing Chan's 
creative choreography 
skills. 
Coogan does the best he can with 
the material, but Fogg ultimately 
comes across as too arrogant and 
annoying to really be someone 
we want to root for. Broadbent 
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depravity with the gender-bent 
emcee, played brilliantly by 
Susanne Abbott, as love and loy­
alty are stretched to the break­
ing point by the rise of the Nazi 
Party.
As 

song, 
"Wilkommen," invites the audi­
ence to leave its troubles outside, 
it becomes clear that this is not 
a stage production of the 1972 
Oscar-winning film.

opening 

the 

Cliff Bradshaw, played master­
fully by Greg Gondek, is a strug­
gling writer from Pennsylvania 
who must come to terms with his 
sexual proclivities, his love for the 
most remarkable woman he has 
ever met and his abhorrence of 
the growing political mood infect­
ing Germany. The choice involves 
giving up a part of himself that 
he can never get back, no matter 
which path he follows.

One of Cliff's losses may be 
the girl of his dreams, the incorri­
gible Fraulein Sally Bowles, a role 
so compelling that Liza Minnelli 
won an Academy Award for con­
veying Bowles' passion and angst 
on film. At ZACH, Meredith 
McCall sings life into the complex 
world of the woman who wants 
fame and love at the expense of 
everything else with a.voice that 
could bring down the rafters, and 
almost does.

As the Nazis grow in popular­
ity, the love between Cliff and 
Sally is trampled by indifference 
and outrage, safety and success.

Karen Kuykendall brings a

Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan) and Passepartout (Jackie Chan) circumnavigate the globe with DaVincian ingenuity and Disney-style m artial arts in 
the new movie “Around the World in 80 Days,” directed by Frank Coraci.

make a villain out of a man who 
never leaves his desk. The less 
said about the rest of the primary 
actors the better, so instead watch 
for the several cameos peppered 
throughout the film.

Jules Verne, the 19th-century 
author of the source novel (and 
other well-known adventures of

the fantastic), would find little 
here resembling his story. The 
world is encompassed in seven 
stops from London to New York. 
There is little thought given to 
methods of transportation or 
even the possible difficulty in the 
execution of the trip. It is simply 
assumed that Fogg can make the

journey without any problems, 
were it not for those chasing (and 
fighting and chasing and fight­
ing) Passepartout. Small obstacles 
like the Himalayas or the Pacific 
Ocean are glossed over in flashy 
animated transitions that belong 
in a far more deserving film than 
this one, but are used here to

cover the holes in the threaLibare 
script.

The movie exhibits a great deal 
of visual polish, but it cannot be 
built on this alone. Ultimately it is 
a film without substance; without 
respect for its source material, 
characters or the audience, and 
without a reason to exist.

Photo courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures

Reviving a musical favorite, dancing girls, fascists and all

Meredith 
McCall stars 
as Sally 
Bowles in the 
Zachary Scott 
Theater’s new 
production of 
the Broadway 
hit “Cabaret.”

K ir k R. T u c k

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the Zach Scott 

Theater

rapturous voice to her portrayal 
of Fraulein Schneider, who, after 
finding a new love during old 
age in Herr Schulz (played by 
the jovial Scotty Roberts), must 
choose which is more important: 
loyalty or her livelihood.

In the spirit of the sinisterly 
campy rebirth of the show, this 
production is sexually charged: 
the Kit Kat Girls and Boys fol­
low an androgynous Master 
of Ceremonies who resembles 
Marilyn Manson, and the danc­
ers are clad in outfits that merge

the styles of a schoolgirl, a punk 
rock princess and a dominatrix 
into one flawless, outrageous cos­
tume.

The sexual energy flows in all 
directions with 
indiscriminate 
choreography that puts almost 
everyone into almost everyone 
else's path at one point or anoth­
er.

Under the direction of Ann 
Ciccolella, who also staged the 
brilliant "Who's Afraid of Virginia 
Woolf?", the show takes on her 
style of distorting the boundary

between actors and audience, 
which, combined with the inti­
macy of the Kleberg Stage, allows 
for an unparalleled level of inter­
action; some performers are liter­
ally in the audience.

It may be true that life is a 
cabaret; if only it could always be 
this good.

“ Cabaret” will run through July 18 
at Zach Scott Theater on Thursdays, 
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and
Sundays at 6 p.m.