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Staff warned 
of expressing 
political views

By Maya Srikrishnan
Daily Texan Staff

U n iv ersity sta ff m ay have to 
use more caution than professors 
and stu d en ts w hen exp ressin g 
their political ideologies, despite 
UT policy upholding freedom of 
speech, said a m ember of the UT 
Staff Council in an e-mail to Uni­
versity staff.

"M y ad vice for staff is to err 
on the sid e o f cau tio n w hen it 
co m e s to [p u b lic ly ] d is p la y ­
ing y o u r p o litic s ," said co u n ­
cil m em b er D an ielle Fou rn ier. 
"U nfortun ately, we do not have 
the acad em ic im m u nity faculty 
have and m ust be m ore careful 
re p re sen tin g ou r d ep a rtm e n ts 
and our positions."

A cco rd in g to the go v ern in g 
p rin cip le s stated in the R eg is­
tra r's C ourse C atalog, students, 
faculty and staff are free to ex ­
press their view s in any form as 
long as it preserves the m ission 
of the U n iversity and the equal 
rights of others.

Jeff Graves, associate vice pres­
ident for legal affairs, said these 
rules apply equally to all m em ­
bers of the U niversity, but said 
F o u rn ier's e-m ail distributed to 
staff in late Septem ber said staff 
mem bers have less freedom than 
faculty in term s of revealing their

political beliefs.

A m ong the gu id elin es in the 
e-m ail, Fournier said staff m em ­
bers can adorn political buttons 
and T-shirts except when repre­
senting the U n iv ersity in an o f­
ficial capacity. For exam ple, em ­
ployees cannot w ear O bam a or 
M cCain buttons if they are giv­
ing a presentation, w orking a re­
ception desk or providing assis­
tance to the public or students.

G o v ern m en t p ro fe sso r G ary 
F re em a n said th a t u n d e r the 
p resu m p tio n of free sp eech , it 
is not ou t of line for facu lty to 
w ear political T-shirts and b u t­
tons to class.

"W e w an t them to fo ster an 
e n v iro n m e n t w h ere s tu d e n ts 
can express their op inions, and 
if that's done, professors can ex­
press their own views as long as 
they don't impose their views on 
students," Freem an said.

Freem an said he keeps his po­
litical ideologies to him self when 
teaching governm ent but not ev­
ery professor feels the sam e way.
He said alm ost every p ro fes­
sor in his d epartm ent has p o lit­
ical sig n s on th eir o ffice w alls, 
and he considers it a form of art 
expression. U T policy states that

FREEDOM continues on page 2A

A circulated 
e-mail has 
suggested 
that UT 
staff should 
refrain from 
publicly 
displaying 
political 
affiliation.

Photo

illustration

D aily Texan Staff

A border patrol agent searches an area in Browsville where a suspect in a black SUV was chased through the River Bend Resort Country 
Club and into the Rio Grande on Saturday morning. As planned, the construction of the controversial Texas-Mexico border fence will 
gap at the country club, not cutting through the property.

Andrew Rogers | D aily Texan Staff

Unease rises as fence appears

As some hold out to 
survey UTB wall’s 
impact, others riled

By Andrew Kreighbaum
Daily Texan Staff 

BROW NSVILLE — The old, 
disused fencing has been re­
moved from the south end of 
the U T -B row nsville cam pu s, 
just north of the Fort Brown Me­
morial Golf Course. In its place, 
crews from Construction Rent-a- 
Fence have laid the foundation 
over the last two weeks for a 10- 
foot fence that will stretch 1,100 
feet across the campus.

U T-B row nsville golf coach 
Bobby Lucio, who also owns the

golf course, said there have been 
no surprises about the location 
of new fencing but said he will 
have to w ait and see over the 
next six months how the fence 
affects his business.

"It has slowed down to less 
than a trickle, a droplet," Lucio 
said of illegal border crossings 
on his course. "You just don't see 
it. You don't see it anymore."

Lucio attributed the low er 
number of observable crossings 
to the steadily increasing num ­
ber of border patrol agents sta­
tioned in the area for the past 
eight to 10 years. He said the 
fencing on the university cam ­
pus m ay be the only area fin­
ished by the Dec. 31 deadline, 
as Customs and Border Protec­

tion spokesman Daniel Doty ac­
knowledged may be the case.

UT-Brownsville professor Jeff 
Wilson becam e involved with 
a working group that subm it­
ted testimony to the Inter-Amer­
ican C om m ission on Hum an 
Rights in Washington, D.C., on 
Wednesday. Wilson first became 
involved in the project by try­
ing to map out exactly where 
the wall would be built through 
Brownsville.

"They're placing the wall in 
poorer areas, higher-percentage 
Hispanic areas, Spanish-speak­
ing, lower-educated areas," Wil­
son said. "This is all based on 
U.S. Census data."

Wilson said the next step in 
his studies would be an analysis

of the environmental impact of 
the fence, which he admits will 
be difficult until the fence is ac­
tually constructed.

"They want to have gaps and 
herd people into gaps w here 
they're more identifiable," Wil­
son said. "They're not going to 
admit to racial profiling."

At around 8:30 a.m. on Satur­
day, more than 10 border patrol 
vehicles were parked outside the 
front office of River Bend Coun­
try Club. A man, who border pa­
trol agents guessed was a drug 
smuggler, had driven a black sub­
urban into the Rio Grande River 
after being chased by agents.

A group of nearly 30 residents

FENCE continues on page 2A

A&M Republicans, 
UT Dems debate 
presidential politics

By Viviana Aldous
Daily Texan Staff

U T 's University D em ocrats de­
bated Texas A & M 's C ollege R e­
p u blican s Sunday, on the p res­
id en tial ca n d id a te s' p la tfo rm s 
and politics.

At Burdine Hall in the organi­
zations' third annual debate, the 
participants debated such issues 
as national security, foreign poli­
cy, the economy, immigration and 
social issues.

"It's important for this type of 
dialogue to continue," said Emma 
V ernon, the U n iv ersity D em o­
crats events coordinator, who has 
planned all three debates. "In the 
past, we've had debates about spe­
cific issues, but due to the presiden-

tial election this year, we were able 
to cover a broad range of topics."

Gay marriage was among the is­

sues debated.

"H om osexual couples deserve 
the respect that heterosexual cou­
ples get," said government junior 
David Black, in his third time de­
bating the rival school.

Black said gay marriage would 

not redefine marriage itself.

Texas A&M senior Tun Jadlows- 

ki responded to the argument.

"States should decide what they 
choose to recognize," Jadlow ski 
said. "It's called federalism."

Debaters had three questions to 
ask their opponents. Moderators

DEBATE continues on page 2A

Ashley 
Crooks 
listens as 
her team,
University 
Democrats, 
prepares to 
respond to 
Texas A&M's 
College 
Republicans.

Peter Franklin

Daily Texan Staff

Survey: For grads, a tough job market awaits
Report shows smallest 
increase in number 
of jobs in seven years

You might get a jo b that m aybe in better times 
you might not have considered. ”

By Clay Sampson
Daily Texan Staff 
A survey released last w eek 
confirm ed w hat m any already 
know : A cq u iring a jo b w ill be 
tougher in light of recent eco ­
nomic woes. The National Asso­
ciation of Colleges and Em ploy­
ers projected the lowest increase 
since 2002 in the num ber of col­
lege g rad u ates hired. Em ploy­
ers plan to hire 1.3 percent more 
graduates from the class of 2009

— Minn i oil in *, 
N ittm nal Association of ( oíb l e s am i 
E m 1 1 t o y i -rs sftoh t • worn a n

than they hired from the class of 
2008, according to the report.

"The job market is going to be 
much tougher this year," said as­
so ciatio n sp okesw o m an M im i 
Collins. "You might get a job that 
maybe in better times you might 
not have considered."

The group surveyed em ploy­
ers from various industries in Au­

gust and again in October, during 
w hich several industries expect 
to hire few er college graduates. 
The construction industry expect­
ed to hire 19.2 percent fewer col­
lege graduates, while finance and 
insurance fell by 6.2 percent.

Despite the numbers and eco­
nom ic fear, b u sin ess stu d ents 
may not have to worry.

"E v e ry sin g le BBA stu d en t 
should be able to walk away with 
a job," said Velma Amey, director 
of BBA career services in the Mc­
Com bs School of Business. "We 
have not found a decrease in fi­
nance hiring; it is at the same lev­
el compared to last year. The [as­
sociation's] stats are at a national 
level, and we are fortunate to be 
in a region where our hiring has 
remained stable."

A r n e y sa id s tu d e n ts w h o 
so u g h t a jo b in fin a n ce w ere 
usually successful, w hile others 
respond ed to th e econom y by 
diversifying.

JOBS continues on page 2A

Site offers profs methods to increase student turnout
Research says talking 
to individuals may 
lead to participation

m akes people more likely to ac­
tually vote."

ou t, a cco rd in g to the Teacher- 
s4Turnout Web site.

based the initiative on research 
th at sh o w s th a t a sk in g in d i­
vid uals in a certain m anner to 
vote w ill influence them to do 
so. Johnson and W eber created 
a script, available at unvw.teach- 
ers4turn out.org, that professors 
can use as a guideline for ques­
tio n in g s tu d e n ts a b o u t th e ir 
plans to vote.

"Young people have the m ost 
to g ain or lose from the e le c ­
tio n s, but they have the lo w ­
est turnout at the p o lls," Jo h n ­
son said . "M o st w an t to vote, 
b u t th ey find re a so n s n ot to. 
T h e scrip t m akes them th in k 
ab ou t im p lem en tatio n o f v o t­
ing, which studies have shown

T h e q u e stio n s in the scrip t 
apply two ideas from social sci­
ence. The first, som etim es called 
the m ere-m easu rem en t effect, 
sh o w s th a t a sk in g q u e s tio n s 
about socially desirable behav­
iors can increase how often peo­
ple act on those behaviors.

T h e seco n d , m e a su rin g b e ­
h av io ra l in te n tio n s, in d ica te s 
that u hen people m ake explicit 
plans to take an action, they are 
m ore lik ely to follow through 
on th o se p la n s . S tu d ie s th at 
hav e ap p lied th ese tw o id eas 
to voting behavior have show n 
th a t th e y ca n in c re a s e tu r n ­

"T h e id eas b eh in d T each er- 
s4T u rn ou t are co n siste n t w ith 
re s e a rc h d o n e o v e r th e p a s t 
20 y ears, but w e c a n 't tell for 
sure how e ffe ctiv e it w ill b e ," 
sa id U T p s y c h o lo g y p r o fe s ­
sor Jam es P ennebaker. " If you 
e n c o u ra g e p e o p le to b e h a v e 
a ce rta in way, th ey w ill. A n y ­
th in g th a t e n c o u ra g e s s o c ia l­
ly r e s p o n s ib le b e h a v io r is a 
good id e a ."

Som e stud ents agree that pro­
fesso rs e n co u rag in g th e ir stu ­
dents to vote is a good idea.

VOTING continues on page 2A

By Nehal Patel
D aily Texan Staff 
To g et y o u n g v o te rs to th e 
polls, tw o C olu m bia U n iv ersi­
ty p ro fesso rs have launched a 
grassroots effort called Teacher- 
s4Turnout that urges professors 
across the nation to talk to their 
students about voting.

The fo u n d ers, b u sin ess pro­
fe sso r E ric Jo h n so n and E lk e 
W eber, a p sy ch o lo g y and in ­
ternational bu sin ess professor,

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FENCE: Residents disapprove

DEBATE: UDems team chosen by auditions

From p agel A

gathered in River Bend's main lodge for 
breakfast after Border Patrol told them 
to restrict themselves to the area.

“Over the years, there's been a lot of 

activity," said guest Dave Odle.

Odle, a resident of Pines City, Minn., 
and a yearly guest of River Bend since 
1995, said people crossing the border 
w ould often show er and change in the 
bathhouse below the lodge.

"They're pretty easy to pick out of a 

crowd," he said.

Odle said he has the num ber for lo­
cal Border Patrol agents plugged into 
his cell phone in case he ever sees any­
one crossing illegally. He relayed sever­
al anecdotes of friends finding bundles 
of marijuana on the course.

An inform al poll of the River Bend 
resid en ts g ath ered for b reakfast re­
vealed that not one supported the con­
struction of a border fence along the 
border with Mexico.

"N obody w ants this fence because it 
takes aw ay from our view," said Mar- 
ilynne Short, a Brow nsville resident 
since 1950. "We m ight find som ething 
stolen out of our shed — so what?"

Homeland Security has a congressio­
nal mandate from the 2006 Secure Fence 
Act to construct 670 miles of fencing 
along the Mexican border by the end of 
this year. Rio G rande Valley Border Pa­
trol agents identified Brownsville as a 
high-priority area for fence construction.
In A ugust, the university and the 
D epartm ent of H om eland Security re­
solved a yearlong legal battle over the 
construction of a border fence on the 
campus. H om eland Security brought a 
lawsuit against the university in Janu­
ary after President Juliet Garcia denied 
surveyors access to the cam pus to plan 
a border fence.

A settlem ent reached in M arch or­

dered the tw o sides to cooperate in 
finding alternatives to physical barri­
ers to prevent border crossings on the 
campus. The university took the feder­
al governm ent to court once more be­
fore the current settlement was reached 
in August.

U nder the A u g u st settlem ent, the 
u n iv e rsity ag re ed to c o n stru c t th e 
fence itself w ith m oney p rovided by 
the UT System.

Doty said each place w here fencing 
was planned w as deemed a high-prior­
ity area.

That priority, he explained, w as to 
keep narcotics out of urban areas. Doty 
said River Bend Golf Resort and the ar­
eas immediately to the west were hard­
ly urban. By contrast, he said the Fort 
Brown Memorial Golf Course is right 
next to the city and just south of the UT- 
Brownsville campus.

"The goal is to stop the narcotics and 
the smuggling from getting into urban 
areas," he said.

Doty said the vehicle involved in Sat­
urday m orning's incident contained a 
drug shipment. By Saturday afternoon, 
Customs and Border Protection had lost 
the vehicle's location due to the high 
w ater line and planned to pick it up 
downstream.

UT-Brownsville psychology senior 
Tonantzin Juarez said she com m utes 
from home in Matamoros, Mexico each 
class day.

Juarez said she, like m ost Browns­
ville students, w as opposed to the wall 
but w as glad that at least the universi­
ty w ould retain control of the fence by 
paying for the construction. She said 
students generally felt powerless to do 
anything about the fence.

"We don't have the motivation to ac­
tually do something about it," she said. 
"People just say w hat's the whole point, 
they're going to build it anyway."

From pagelA

also took questions from the 
audience.

"W e p r a c tic e d a n d w e 
g o t q u e stio n s th a t, for the 
m o st p a r t, w e e x p e c te d ," 
Black said.

U niversity D em ocrats se­
lected the debaters through 
an audition process and chose 
stu d en ts w ho strongly su p ­
p o rted Sen. Barack O bam a 
and his platform, they said.

" O b a m a is b o th a v i ­
sio n a ry an d a p ra g m a tist," 
said A shley C rooks, a Plan 
II a n d g o v e rn m e n t ju n io r 
w h o particip ated in the d e ­
bate. "Both of these qualities

m ake him extrem ely q u a li­
fied to be president."

The team from A&M said it 
w as important to discuss Sen. 
John McCain's record and ex­
perience.

"McCain is always referred 
to as a maverick, but he really 
is a true statesman," Jadlows- 
ki said. "H e's not afraid to dis­
agree w ith his own party."

UT g o v ern m e n t an d h is ­
to ry s e n io r P riy a S iv a ra - 
m a n s a id th a t w h ile s h e 
s u p p o r ts O b a m a , s h e a t ­
te n d e d th e d e b a te to le a rn 
m ore ab o u t McCain.

"I h a v e a lo t of re sp e c t 
fo r M c C ain , a n d I w a n t ­
ed to learn m ore ab o u t his

record," sh e said . "M aybe 
m ost people at this point al­
ready know w h o they w ant 
to vote for, b u t this debate 
could ch ange th e m in d s of 
some sw ing voters."

U n iv e r s it y D e m o c r a ts 
P re s id e n t Z a c k H a ll sa id 
both team s p e rfo rm e d w ell 
a n d th e d e b a te e x c e e d e d 
h is e x p e c ta tio n s . T he d e ­
bate can be v ie w e d o n lin e 
at myfoxaustin.com.

"I hope th a t p eo p le w ill 
vote for every position on the 
ballot," H all said. "C hange 
doesn't stop at the top. It's im­
portant th at w e vote all the 
w ay down. Otherwise, you're 
wasting your voice."

FREEDOM: Staff may discuss, but not push

From page 1A

W endt said.

political advertisem ents can 
be p u t up in offices and cu ­
bicles as long as they are n ot 
v isib le to the p u b lic , su c h 
as p o ste d on w in d o w s, ac­
c o rd in g to th e g u id e lin e s 
from legal affairs o u tlin e d 
in F o u rn ie r's e-mail.

B io lo g y s e n io r Je s s ic a 
W endt said she has n o t yet 
h ad a professor w h o sh ared 
h is o r h e r p o litic a l id e o l­
o g ie s w ith s tu d e n ts . V ery 
o ften h e r p ro fe sso rs sp e c ­
ify th a t th e y w ill refu se to 
sh a re such beliefs if ask ed , 
she said.

"I think it's fine for them 
to show their political le an ­
in g s as long as th e y a r e n 't 
p u s h in g th e ir s tu d e n ts in 
o n e d ire c tio n o r a n o th e r,"

D an a C lo u d , an a s s o c i­
a te c o m m u n ic a tio n s t u d ­
ies p ro fe sso r, is an a c tiv e 
m e m b e r o f th e I n t e r n a ­
tio n a l S o cia list O r g a n iz a ­
tio n an d w as listed in D a ­
vid H o ro w itz 's book, "T h e 
P ro fe ss o rs: T he 101 M o st 
D a n g e ro u s A c a d e m ic s in 
A m erica."

"I h av e been very c o n tro ­
v ersia l, b u t I d o n 't u se m y 
c la ssro o m as a s o a p b o x ," 
C loud said in an e-m ail.

C loud said she striv e s to 
cu ltiv ate an a tm o sp h e re for 
free d iscu ssio n in h er class­
es. S he a lso s a id h e r d e ­
p a r tm e n t c h a ir a n d d e a n 
h av e b ee n v ery s u p p o rtiv e 
of h er rig h t to exp ress h e r ­
self politically.

G ra v e s sa id U n iv e r s ity

p o lic y is d e s ig n e d to fu r­
th e r its e d u c a tio n a l m is ­
sion and th at allow ing a ro­
b u st d eb a te on political is­
sues is p a rt of the academ ic 
experience.

G raves also said p u n ish ­
m ent for b rea k in g any rules 
re g a rd in g p o litic a l ex p re s­
sio n is d e c id e d on a case- 
by-case b a sis. In a d v e rte n t 
v io la tio n s ra r e ly w a r ra n t 
p u n ish m en t, he said.

" If s o m e b o d y w e re to 
d o s o m e th in g e g r e g io u s 
like sp ray p a in t th e side of 
th e b u ild in g , th a t w o u ld 
be ta k e n v e r y se rio u s ly ," 
G raves said.

In fo rm a tio n on U n iv e r­
s ity r u le s o f f re e d o m of 
speech, e x p re ssio n and a s ­
sem bly can be fo u n d online 
at the R e g istra r's Web site.

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version of the story "UT blocks Web site for spam." The Web site is no longer 
blocked, and the updated version of the story can be found at 
www.dailytexanonline.com.

Also on Friday, the story "UT hosts panel examining presidential 
candidates" should have read "The town-hall-style debate Thursday... 
attracted about 150 students and five professors."

The Texan regrets the errors.

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"It en c o u ra g e s u s to p a rtic i­
p a te in w h a t the rest of the n a ­
tion is d oing," said electrical e n ­
g in e e rin g ju n io r S am e ep Shah. 
"W e're the future, an d this elec­
tion d irectly affects u s."

M ore th a n 155 fa c u lty m e m ­
b e r s w h o te a c h m o r e th a n 
12,000 s tu d e n ts a t u n i v e r s i ­
tie s a c r o s s th e n a t io n , s u c h 
as P rin c e to n U n iv e rsity , N ew 
York U niversity, D u k e U n iv e r­
sity a n d the U n iv e rsity of C a l­
if o rn ia a t L os A n g e le s , h a v e 
sig n ed up on the Web site since 
its O ct. 17 launch. T he fo u n d ers 
are p le a se d w ith th e re sp o n se , 
Joh n so n said.

"P ersonally, h a v in g a p ro fe s­
so r telling me to v o te w o u ld n 't 
influence m y decision, b u t th e y 
sh o u ld still m en tio n it to c la ss­
es b e c a u s e it m ig h t in flu e n c e 
o th e rs to v o te ," sa id b u s in e s s 
freshm an John A quino.

T he in itia tiv e is n o n p a rtis a n 
a n d d oes not p u sh specific c a n ­
d id a te s , Johnson sa id . T h ere is 
n o sp e c ific m a rk e tin g ta rg e t, 
an d ad v e rtisin g relies on w o rd 
of m o u th . P rofessors w h o sig n 
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A ccounting senior A lbert C hen 
used career services to secure an 
internship at Microsoft last su m ­
m e r an d m ay head back to the 
com pany after he graduates in the 
spring. He said there will likely be 
cutbacks in the banking industry, 
yet prospects are positive.

"In term s of overall landscape, 
it's pretty good," Chen said. "Stu­
d en ts just m ight have to change 
w hat [they're] looking for."

A ccording to the survey, g o v ­
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jum ped 19.8 percent from A ugust 
to October.

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er to react than private com panies, 
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WORLD BRIEFLY

Iraqi Cabinet cancels meeting

to discuss U.S. security pact

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi Cabi­
net canceled a meeting to discuss 
the U.S.-Iraqi security pact Sun­
day, saying proposals for amend­
ments to an earlier draft were still 
being submitted, a government 
adviser said.

It was the latest setback to U.S. 
hopes to reach a quick agreement 
on a deal that would extend the 
presence of American forces be­
yond the end of this year.

Sadiq al-Rikabi said Sunday's 
extraordinary meeting was can­
celed because “proposals are still 
arriving."

The draft has faced opposition 
from a number of critics who con­
sider the deal an infringement on 
national sovereignty, especially a 
provision that would continue to 
give the U.S. the right to prosecute 
American soldiers and contractors 
for most offenses.

The pact would replace the 
U N. mandate providing a legal 
basis for foreign forces in Iraq that 
expires Dec. 31.

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T h e D a i l y T e x a n

Congo civilians flee renewed rebel fighting

By M ichelle Faul
The Associated Press

K IBU M BA , C ongo — R ebels 
seized an east Congo army base 
and the headquarters of a refuge 
housing some of the w orld's last 
mountain gorillas, in heavy fight­
ing Sunday that sent thousands of 
civilians fleeing, U.N. officials and 
rebels said.

An unknow n num ber of so l­
diers, rebels and civilians w ere 
killed in the renewed fighting in 
North Kivu province, according to 
civilians who said the onslaught 
began around 2 a.m.

Government troops raced down 
the road north from the provincial 
capital of Goma to reinforce a coun- 
terattack Sunday m orning. O ne 
tank careened into a group of flee­
ing civilians and killed three teen­
age boys, civilians said.

Sunday's attack was the second 
time rebels have seized the Ru- 
mangabo base since Aug. 28, when 
rebel leader Gen. Laurent Nkun- 
da accused government troops of 
breaking a January cease-fire deal.

More than 200,000 people have

fled their homes since then, joining 
at least 1.2 million displaced when 
the conflict began in 2007, the Unit­
ed Nations said.

“There's heavy fighting. A lot of 
people have been killed — rebels, 
soldiers, civilians. We're lucky we 
got away," says Jean-Baptiste Bushu 
Mbusho, a builder who works for 
the Italian aid agency AVSI.

U.N. peacekeepers from India 
w ho tried to investigate the acci­
dent involving the three boys were 
instead turned away by angry civil­
ians hurling stones.

Such attacks have become com­
mon, with civilians accusing the 
U.N. peacekeeping mission — the 
biggest in the world with 17,000 
troops — of not fulfilling its man­
date to protect the population.

The U.N. force has failed to halt 
the fighting in the vast region of ru­
ral hills and forests, and both sides 
in the combat also accuse the Unit­
ed Nations of siding with the oth­
er. The UN deployed a rapid reac­
tion force on Sunday and appealed 
to both sides to cease fire — at least 
to allow civilians to escape.

Bankers, brokers leaving Wall Street 
due to collapse of financial markets

By Valerie Bauman
The Associated Press 

ALBANY, N.Y. — Bankers and 
brokers looking to escape the fi­
nancial meltdown are scrambling 
to relocate their families, posses­
sions and rarified talent far from 
Wall S .Teet to places such as Flor­
ida, Chicago, Milwaukee, Virgin­
ia and Asia.

Travis Lacey left investm ent 
bank Jeffries & Co. and Wall Street 
behind in September to work for 
Baird in Chicago. He also left be­
hind the nagging sense of w or­
ry that had plagued him since his 
company had started announcing 
layoffs earlier in the year.

“Anyone in that environment, 
you never know what's going to 
happen," Lacey said. "There are a

lot of good bankers that unfortu­
nately are at the wrong place at the 
wrong time."

Corporate headhunters say Wall 
Street's malaise will lead to a per­
manent talent loss for New York. 
It could help small boutique firms 
become bigger players with em ­
ployees they would never have 
been able to lure from the city 
long-regarded as the w orld's fi­
nancial capital.

"W e're definitely hiring," said 
R o b ert E sco b io , c h ie f e x e c u ­
tive officer of Coral Gables, Fla.- 
based Southern Trust Securities 
Inc., a broker-dealer and invest­
m ent banking firm. "R ight now 
we have the capital, and right now 
we're looking to expand."

Escobio said in the past few

months, one out of every four or 
five resumes comes from top Wall 
Street firm s — com pared with 
about one out of 100 in years past.
Former Wall Streeters also tend 
to bring clients with larger net 
worth — another potential long­
term blow to firms flying to recov­
er from the meltdown — so bou­
tiques and middle market firms 
stand to reap the profits. In turn 
they deliver something that's cur­
rently elusive on Wall Street: sta­
bility. Jobs in the financial sector 
can pay anywhere from $100,000 
to well into the seven-figure range 
depending on location, experience 
and the size of a firm, said Kim­
berly Bishop, vice chairm an of 
Slayton Search partners, a Chica­
go-based headhunting firm.

Indian UN soldiers d rive past p e o p le fle ein g S unday in eastern C ongo. M inu te s later displaced p e o p le p elted 
th e veh icle w ith rocks for fa ilin g to protect them , th o u g h n o b o d y was injured. Rebels seized a m ajor arm y 
cam p in heavy fig h tin g th a t sent th ou sa n d s o f civilia n s fleeing.

Karel Prinsloo | Associated Press

NATION BRIEFLY

People across nation funding 

Calif, gay marriage ban

SAN FRANCISCO — At least 
64,000 people from all 50 states and 
more than 20 other countries have 
given money to support or oppose 
a ban on same-sex marriage in Cal­
ifornia, reflecting broad interest in 
a race that some consider second 
in national importance only to the 
presidential election.

Ten days before the vote on Prop­
osition 8, campaign finance records 
show that total contributions for 
and against the measure have sur­
passed $60 million, according to an 
analysis by The Associated Press.
That would be a record nation­
ally for a ballot initiative based on 
a social rather than economic issue, 
campaign finance experts say. It also

eclipses the combined total of $33 
million spent in the 24 states where 
similar measures have been put to 
voters since 2004.

If approved by California vot­

ers, Proposition 8 would over­
turn a state Supreme Court ruling 
that legalized same-sex marriag­
es by changing the state constitu­
tion to limit marriage to a man and 
a woman.

Campaign committees formed 
to back or battle the amendment 
were close in fundraising as of Oct.
25 the AP's analysis found. Sup­
porters had raised at least $28.2 mil­
lion; opponents had taken in $32.3 
million, closing a fundraising gap 
that had them $8 million behind a 
month ago.

The figures for each side are actu­

ally higher because small cash do­
nations made since Sept. 30 had not 
yet been reported.

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Entitled? Not so much

Entitlement is the American plague. Or is it? Editor-in-Chief Leah Finnegan and columnist 

Andrew Friedenthal discuss what the word means to students —

 and America.

Death to the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

By Leah Finnegan
Editor in Chief

It used to be that you'd graduate from college, find a job and work 
in that job until your fingers atrophied and your typewriter disinte­
grated 40 years later. And you wouldn't complain, ever, because work­
ing hard (and to a vague objective) to put pot roast on the table was 
the American way.

But people also used to think that things like cigarettes, Velveeta and 
drinking during pregnancy were good for them. People used to hide 
that they were gay. And it was only 50 years ago that blacks and whites 
drank from separate fountains.

Yep, Am erica's due for another one of those big changes she loves. 
But this time, it's happening not because of global battle or social up­
heaval This w ill be a subtle, silent revolution as our generation is 
charged with the task of changing the way America works — and for 
good. Since we can't all join Teach For America or go to law school, 
most of us will be part of the wave that tries to update dinosaur indus­
tries like finance and media.

First, however, we have to nose our way into those fields, which 
won't be easy. According to a recent report released by the National As­
sociation of Colleges and Employers, prospective employers expect to

hire a measly 1.3 percent more graduates in 2009 than in 2008. To some 
this is good news — analysts expected a deficit in hiring rates. But to 
the class of '09, this statistic is reason enough to scramble for post-grad­
uate fellowships, slide into four more years of school or slouch home.
It is not a good time to be graduating from college, and the percep­
tions that surround our generation confound this situation. The Wall 
Street Journal's Ron Alstrop has dubbed us the "Trophy Kids," and the 
No. 1 word associated with our fresh faces is "entitled." According to a 
report in the Journal, we're seen as needy, overly precocious and som e­
what clueless, expecting employers to accommodate us rather than the 
other way around.

At the risk of being labeled a thin-skinned baby, it hurts to be 
stamped with these condescending generalizations. Speaking from the 
inside, I find that the defining factor of our generation is enduring op­
timism. Even in the face of top-down opposition — a workplace that is 
rejecting us like a bad kidney transplant — we remain hopeful and re­
tain a sense of humor. The student-to-worker transition will never be 
seamless and will be even less so if our elders keep looking down on 
things like the open communication, positive affirmation and indepen­
dent thinking that com e along with our perverse expectation for re­
spect.

Things will adapt, though. They have to. After all, it's not the kid­
ney that's defective but the body it's going into. Maybe it was all that 
Velveeta.

Finnegan is an American studies senior.

Scenes from entitlement, American style

in an imperialistic manner that alienates the majority of the world and 
sets back global politics by years, perhaps decades.

W here does this personal and national sense of entitlement com e 
from? W hat makes people think it's all right to break the accepted rules 
of society just because they can get away with it?

Perhaps, as a nation, we are simply exceptionally selfish. Our nation­
al origins, after all, go back to a large number of colonists who support­
ed the Revolutionary War largely because they didn't want to have to 
pay back their debts to British merchants. Exceptionally selfish or not, 
many people would lead us to believe that we are just plain excep­
tional." This includes Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sar­
ah Palin, who has more or less directly stated (as has running mate Sen. 
John McCain) that she believes in American exceptionalism. The prob­
lem with this is that the myth of American exceptionalism has been 
thoroughly debunked by respectable historians and academics as an 
outdated product of Cold War rhetoric.

M m inors be d a m n e d , 

in A m erica we take 
o u r opp o rtun ities 

w h ere we ca n g et 

them a n d exploit 

them fo r all they 're 

w o rth ."

Historically, Am erica is not significantly different 
from other internationally powerful empires, such as 
Rome or Great Britain. To appropriate Tyler Durden of 
"Fight C lub" fame, Americans are not special; A m eri­
cans are not beautiful and unique snowflakes. They are 
the same organic, decaying matter as everything else. 
This is not to say that there is nothing special, unique or 
valuable about the laughably short (relatively) Am eri­
can experience but rather that there is something spe­
cial, unique and valuable in every nation on Earth to­
day. As Barney the purple dinosaur, the natural ideo­
logical rebuttal to Durden, tells us, everyone, and by 
extension every place, is special.

W hether you subscribe to Durden's nihilism or Bar­
ney's optim istic, up-w ith-people M arxism , w hether 
you want to tear down society or support it, it's not difficult to recog­
nize that this society only exists thanks to the basic set of rules estab­
lished by both law and basic politeness and consideration. Entitlement 
and opportunism, though, strike at the heart of this consideration, put­
ting the self above the social unit, leading ultimately to a sort of neo­
objectivism. The roots of this selfishness, this constant drive to (both 
figuratively and quite literally) get ahead, lie in the rhetoric that drives 
America economically and socially: capitalism.

When the main societal and personal goal is to get ahead in business 
and gather increasing amounts of money, power and social standing, 
why should we be surprised that people extend this drive to their dai­
ly lives? Manners be damned. In America we take our opportunities 
where we can get them and exploit them for all they're worth. Sure­
ly this does ultimately make America exceptional, but the question is, 
in what way?

Friedenthal is an American studies graduate student.

By A n d re w Friedenthal
Daily Texan Colum nist

A list o f frustrations resulting from Americans' sense o f opportunism and 

self-entitlement:

1) You're stuck on one of the interminably long mid-day lines at the 
CVS on the Drag. A second register opens up, and the next person in 
line steps forward. Immediately behind that person, a second line sud­
denly forms, composed of people who are only just getting to the reg­
ister now and seem to think that the giant line winding into the aisles 
is there just for fun.

2) You're in the unmoving right lane of one of Austin's numerous 

highways at rush hour, waiting patiently to exit. As
you're approaching the point w here the exit lane di­
verges from the rest of the road, a car zooms by you 
in the lane to your immediate left then hits the brakes 
and forces itself in front of you. W hy wait in the lane 
with the rest of the rubes, after all, when they can bet 
that nobody will be willing to have a car accident just 
to keep them from cutting in at the last moment?

3) You're at the Austin City Lim its Music Festival 
where vou've been sitting for two hours waiting for 
your favorite band to play. You're right up near the 
front, close enough to see the beads of sweat glisten 
on the forehead of that sexy lead singer. With 10 or 15 
minutes left to go until show time, the crowd has got­
ten so thick vou can't sit anymore and have to stand.
With five minutes left, you find yourself losing ground, being jostled 
backward by the people who are only just arriving and using their el­
bows to clear a path so they can get close enough to actually collect that 
sweat in a small jar (they have an odd collection) without having had 
to wait to get it.

4) On Sept. 11, 2001, in what was to become what some have called 
the most recorded and reported event in human history, terrorists hi­
jack several commercial airplanes and crash them into the Twin Tow­
ers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, forcing Americans to ex­
perience, for the first time, the kind of horrific and despicable terrorist 
acts that have plagued the rest of the globe for centuries. Other coun­
tries express outpourings of grief, sympathy and support. The global 
community comes together in a way that it never has before, allowing 
for the potential of positive change in reaction to such a negative event. 
America (as represented by its government, at least) instead chooses to 
feel like it has been wronged in a way that no people ever have before 
and within two years is using 9/11 as a justification for conquering Iraq

GALLERY

The struggle for 
truth

By Robert Jensen
Daily Texan Guest Colum nist

When I announced that John 
Pilger was com ing to UT to lec­
ture, a student w ho had read a 
critique of the U.K.-based jo u r­
nalist asked, "Is he objective?"

"Oh, heavens no," I said. "H e's 

interested in the truth."

My lighthearted response was 
meant to suggest that "objective 
jo u rn a lism " often obscures as 
much as it reveals.

If "o b jectiv ity " is defined as 
a com m itm ent to being honest 
and open-minded in the pursuit 
of knowledge, then objectivity is 
a good thing — for journalists, 
scholars, p reachers, politicians 
and everyone else.

But if "o b jectiv ity " is a syn ­
onym fo r the n ew sg a th e rin g 
practices in corporate-com m er­
cial journalism as it's typically 
practiced in the 
U n ite d S ta te s , 
su ch o b je c tiv i­
ty can be d a n ­
gerous, trapping 
jo u r n a l i s t s 
in 
the con v en tio n ­
al wisdom of the 
statu s qu o and 
limiting what we 
learn.

" O b j e c t i v e " 
journ alists from 
conventional me­
dia o u tlets rou­
t in e ly d e fe n d 
them selves from 
criticism with an 
assertion of their 
n e u tra lity , and 
indeed the vast 
m a jo rity o f re­
porters and ed ­
itors do a rela­
tively g ood job 
o f b r a c k e t in g 
out — to the de­
gree possible — 
p erso n a l view s 
as they rep o rt.
But the w ay that 
powerful people in government 
and business so often shape the 
news and provide the majority 
of the sources for conventional 
journalism means that those al­
legedly objective practices actu­
ally bias the news in favor of the 
views of the powerful. This is as 
true of FOX as CNN as MSNBC.
In that conventional sense, Pilg­
er is not objective. He not only in­
vestigates the specific claims that 
the powerful make but contests 
the larger framework they try 
to impose. For example, conven­
tional journalists eventually did 
report on whether Bush adminis­
tration assertions about weapons 
of mass destruction and terror­
ism that were made to justify the 
invasion of Iraq were true. Pilger 
not only questioned those claims 
before the invasion but also ana­
lyzed the more likely reasons the 
United States went to w ar and 
critiqued the way in which pow­
erful countries routinely manip­
ulate a n d /o r ignore internation­
al law. His 2003 film, "Breaking 
the Silence: Truth and Lies in the 
War on Terror," offered informa­
tion and analysis that the con­
ventional news media wouldn't 
report until much later, if ever.

But Pilger is neutral, in the 
sense that his skepticism about 
the powerful is applied to liber­
als and conservatives, Republi­

cans and Democrats. His report­
ing on C linton ad m in istration 
foreign policy was as harshly cri _ 
ical as that on the Bush adminis­
tration. His 2000 film , "P ay ing 
the Price: Killing the Children oi 
Iraq," provides in-depth analysis 
of Clinton's policy that devasta - 
ed Iraq through the harshest eco ­
nomic embargo in modem histo 
ry, something that conventional 
reporters mostly ignored.

In his most recent book, "Free 
dom N ext Tim e," Pilger trains 
his critical eye on the powerful 
across the globe, detailing how:

• The British government lied 
to the people of Diego Garcia in 
the process of handing the island 
ov er to the United States for a 
military base.

• The Indian g o v ern m en t's 
m edia cam p aig n s have high 
lighted the successes in the high- 
tech industries and downplayed
th e m o u n t i n g 
problem s of the 
poor.

• The deals at 
the end of white 
political rule in 
South Africa al­
l o w e d m a n y 
w hites guilty of 
a p a r t h e i d - e r a 
crim es to avoid 
r e s p o n s i b i l i t y 
during the truth- 
and- re c onci l i a- 
tion process, as 
the prom ises of 
a more egalitari­
an society evap­
orated.

In m o d ern 

d em o cra tic 

societies, the role 

o f jo u rn a lists is to 

p ro v id e in d ep en d e n t 

in fo rm a tio n , 

analysis a n d opinion 

to citizens to help 

us u n d e rs ta n d the 

way p o w er really 

w o rk s,''

H e also co n ­
tinues to bring 
that same scru 
tiny of power to 
the screen. His 
latest film, "The 
War on D em oc­
r a c y ," s h o w s 
h ow the U n it­
ed States' com ­
mitment to dem ocracy in other 
parts of the world masks a strat­
egy rooted in the familiar goal of 
economic dominance.

In m odern dem ocratic soci­
eties, the role of journalists is to 
provide independent inform a­
tion, analysis and opinion to cit­
izens to help us understand the 
w ay power really works. Jour­
nalists who do that honestly with 
an open mind — in other words, 
objectively, in the best sense of 
the term — inevitably must con­
front the ways in which the po­
litical and economic systems that 
dominate our world have con­
centrated wealth and power, and 
how ordinary people around the 
world have suffered but also re­
sisted that injustice.

By the standards of contempo­
rary corporate commercial jour­
nalism, Pilger indeed may not be 
objective — because he is hold­
ing himself and other journalists 
to a higher standard.

Pilger will speak on "Journalism 
and the 'War on Terror"’ on Tues­
day, Oct. 28, at 7 p.m. in WCH, 
Room 1.120. The fr ee event is open 
to the public.

Jensen is an associate journalism professor. 

His latest book, "All My Bones Shake," will be 

published in 2009 by Soft Skull Press.

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Council to serve local 
high-end businesses

By M elanie Gasm en
Daily Texan Staff

D xial luxury businesses and brands 
will soon receive help with market­
ing and a venue for gathering. The 
Luxury Marketing Council launches 
its Austin chapter Thursday

"A ustin is an attractive market 
and continues to grow," said Rich­
ard Baker, CEO of Luxury Market­
ing Council Texas.

The cou ncil is also startin g a 
chapter in Houston and has an ac­
tive chapter in Dallas. It m et last 
w eek at The Domain, a high-end 
mall in north Austin, and will meet 
again Thursday for a luncheon at 
Jasper's Restaurant.

Baker said the majority of mem­
bers of the council are "in difficult 
tim es" due to the current econom­
ic crisis. He said the local merchants 
are shifting their marketing strate­
gies to concentrate on "taking care 
of their best customers" rather than 
attracting new customers.

Baker said they began talking with 
the merchants about the council in 
July, before the economic downturn.
"There is more interest from mer­

chants as to how the council can af­
fect them ," Baker said. "It's useful
for members right now in crisis."

M embers of the council include 
real estate agents for luxury homes, 
retailers, restaurants, luxury auto­
mobile dealers and travel agents.

"A general market like Austin is 
more successful and has a wide va­
riety of merchants participating in 
the council," Baker said.

Baker said Proposition 2, which 
would forbid the city from giving 
sale subsidies to any business devel­
oper whose project surrounds a re­
tail com ponent, will not affect the 
Luxury Marketing Council itself.

Linda C u rtis, an organ izer oí 
the Stop D om ain S u b sid ies e f­
fort, also said the council and the 
retail stores would not be affect­
ed. Instead, she said, the proposi­
tion would ultimately hurt Simon 
Property Group, w hich ow ns de­
velopment at The Domain.

"Th ey w on't get their $60 m il­

lion kickbacks," Curtis said.

T h e S im o n P ro p e rty G ro u p 
could not be reached for comment 
by press time.

Former professor earns 
$10,000 literature award

By Lena Price
Daily Texan Staff 
The Robert W. Ham ilton Book 
Author Award, one of the highest 
awards for literature at UT, was pre­
sented to Denise Schmandt-Besserat, 
professor em eritus in the depart­
ments of Art and Art History and 
Middle Eastern Studies, on Wednes­
day at the Four Seasons Hotel.

S c h m a n d t-B e s s e r a t re ce iv e d 
a $10,000 grand prize, and four 
oth er facu lty m em bers received 
$3,000 each.

A ll faculty and staff at UT are 
eligib le to apply for the aw ard. 
Sch m an d t-B esserat won for her 
book "When Writing Met Art: From 
Symbol to Story." Her work exam ­
ines the relationship betw een the 
earliest forms of writing and art.

"[It] is not only a work of superb

scholarship, but also it is truly pi­
oneering," said M ichael G ranof, 
chairman of the selection com m it­
tee. "Exquisitely written, it covers 
a broad expanse of academic disci­
plines as well as a time span of mul­
tiple centuries."

Schmandt-Besserat said she had a 
two-part reaction when she realized 
she was the grand-prize winner.

"The first part is a thrill of rec­
ognition from your peers, which 
is always im portant," Schm andt- 
Besserat said. "T h e second part is 
the encouragement it gives you for 
further work."

Other professors honored were 
Carlton K. Erickson, associate phar­
macy dean of research; English pro­
fessor James N. Loehlin; physics pro­
fessor John T. Marked; and govern­
ment professor Kurt G. Weyland.

Leo Lopez, w ith sons Robbie, 6, and Polo, 8, helps p lan t on e of a b o u t 300 trees in B a rth o lo m ew D istrict Park on Saturday. Lopez represents 
Catellus D evelopm en t, the g ro u p th at d on ated th e trees in hon or o f A rb o r Day.

Lauren Tucker | Daily Texan Staff

Volunteers celebrate Arbor Day

AustiniteSy service 

groups join to plant 

trees in local park
By Lena Price
Daily Texan Staff

The dirt-covered shovel w as 
three times the size of the little 
blond boy, but that d id n't stop 
him from hauling it around Bar­
tholom ew Park on Saturday in 
an attem p t to help plant new 
trees for Arbor Day.

The boy was just one of several 
hundred volunteers from around 
Austin w ho visited the park to 
plant trees and listen to speeches 
about the importance of conserva­
tion in celebration of Arbor Day.

Civilian Community Corps, a na­
tional organization of 18 - 24-year- 
olds who spend 10-month peri­
ods traveling around the country 
in small teams to help with disas­
ter relief and community service 
projects. At least five teams were 
present Saturday.

AmeriCorps volunteer Amber 
Reed has helped build houses and 
participated in flood relief pro­
grams. She said smaller, commu­
nity events are just as important as 
national relief efforts.

"T o d a y w e n t re a lly w e ll," 
Reed said. "I think we planted a 
couple hundred trees. It's good 
to show people they can help 
out in their com m unities, even if 
it's just by giving up a Saturday 
morning."

M any of the volunteers were 
members of AmeriCorps National

Shannon Allison, another Ame­
riCorps volunteer, said events like

the Arbor Day celebration help 
people take ow nership of their 
communities.

In addition to the AmeriCorps 
v olu nteers, citizen s concerned 
about the environm ent show ed 
up to help.

"I would love to see more trees 
in Austin because of all the bene­
fits they provide," said volunteer 
Paige Frederick-Pape. "C leaner 
air, more shade. Trees can solve 
so many problems."

Keep Austin Beautiful, anoth­
er group at the event on Satur­
day, offered inform ation about 
the three m ain projects it orga­
nizes regularly: education, beau­
tification and cleanup.

"W e're mostly known for our 
cleanup events," said Alarma Reed, 
events manager for Keep Austin

Beautiful. "Some of those can have 
upwards of 7,000 people."

A lth o u g h Reed said larg e- 
scale events can have a big im­
pact, she also stressed the fact 
that Keep Austin Beautiful need­
ed to attend com m unity-orient­
ed projects as well.

"We are absolutely a grassroots 
organization," Reed said. "These 
types of events are important just 
so people know we are local in 
their communities."

Frederick-Pape, who has partici­
pated in both types of cleanup proj­
ects, said she prefers smaller ones.

"W ith bigger clean-up events, 
som etim es you ju st becom e a 
num ber," Frederick-Pape said. 
"These events really bring people 
together. I do this type of work be­
cause it fills my soul."

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With dance and fashion, event celebrates Africa

By M e g a n Gerard
Daily Texan Staff

The M ain Mall w as transform ed on 
Fridas evening into an African-centered 
showcase' of talents through cultural dance 
events, African and Indian step teams, po­
etry, dram a and a fashion show.

The 10th annual Fest Africa was hosted 
bv the African Students Association to cele­
brate the different cultures of Africa.

The main goal of Fest Africa is to break . 

dow n typical African stereotypes and let 
the UT and Austin community in on what 
the beauty of African culture really is," said 
the organization's president Soluto Uba.

More than 1,000 students attended the 
event to experience the traditional dress, 
dance, music and food of Africa.

Music freshman Chris Daily said he was 
drawn to Fest Africa because of the musical 
connection and the cross of cultures.

Being in the School of Music, I have 
heard African music before, b ut seeing it 
here, there is a real visual com ponent that 
is lacking w hen you just hear it on stereo 
speakers," Dailv said. "It really stimulates 
all the senses when you are here."

For $5, stu d e n ts could taste A frican 

delicacies, Uba said.

"We w ere offering lots of rice, fried 
plantains know n as d o d o and different 
types of m eat pies," he said.

Fest Africa su p p o rts a different cause 
each year and this year featured A ustin 
to Sudan.

K eshia T h o m p so n , a h isto ry junior 
and spokesw om an for A ustin to Sudan, 
spoke to the audience about the organi­
zatio n's goal to m eet the p rim ary needs 
of Southern Sudan and encouraged stu ­
d ents to buy T-shirts and wristbands to 
S upport the cause.

"A ustin to Sudan is special because it 
is a new cause on cam pus to raise money 
to serui a former UT and African Students 
Association member to Sudan to build per­
m anent w ater wells schools an d health 
care structures," Uba said.

F art of Fest Africa is to show how oth­
er cultures have influenced A frica and 
h o w A frica has in flu e n ced o th e r c u l­
tures This influence w as dem onstrated 
bv a d ance co m petition an d collabora­
tion betw een the A frican S tudents Asso­
ciation's step team and the Indian dance 
troupe N ritya Sangam .

A dvertising junior Toy Scott, a m em ­
ber of the association's step team , said 
this is her second year to participate in 
Fest Africa. She said d an cin g is a great 
w ay to show A frica's uniqueness.

Uba said the overall idea of the event 
is to sho w African culture as som ething 
m ore expansive th a n w h a t one w ould 
com m only see on TV.

"Fest Africa is to showcase African cul­
ture, but also to break dow n typical views 
of Africa, w hether it be a foreign student 
w ith a heavy accent, a great athlete or pov­
erty-stricken people w rio alw'ays need 
handouts," Uba said.

Tobi A kinsenw a, M im i U ban i an d Lande K a y o d e participate in a fash io n sh o w for Fest Africa on the M a in M a ll o n Friday N ight. The 
e ve nt included p erform ances, poetry a n d fash io n that celebrated African culture.

NEWS BRIEFLY

Business school first to receive 
eco-friendly soap in restrooms
Starting today, UT students can 

w'ash their hands with environ­
mentally friendly foam soap.

Custodial Services is installing 
new' soap dispensers in academ­
ic buildings on campus, starting 
with the McCombs School of Busi­
ness. The new soap is certified as 
"environmentally responsible" by 
the nonprofit group Green Seal.

Foam soap is less wasteful than 

the liquid soap currently used 
in cam pus bathrooms, said Sally 
Moore, associate director for Facil­
ities Services. Moore said the new 
dispensers only dispense 0.4 mil­

liliters of soap at a time, w'hereas 
the liquid soap dispensers meter 
out 2 milliliters.

"It's a significant reduction in 
the am ount of soap you need to 
wash your hands," Moore said.
"It's going to decrease the am ount 
of soap going into waste service."
Moore said installing dispens­

ers in all the bathrooms could 
take about three to four months to 
complete.

The transition could save about 
$10,000 per year in labor costs, be­
cause the dispensers will not have 
to be refilled as often if people use 
less soap, Moore said.

"We're hoping everyone will 
embrace that you need less of this 
soap," she said. "One little squirt 
is gonna do the job just fine."

— Lauren W inchester

UVA student calls for excused Nov.
Unlike in Texas, Va. 
residents must have 
excuse to vote early

class or being late for a class," 
said the stu d e n t, C olleen Clark. 
"If they are w aiting in line, they 
should be able to fulfill their civ­
ic d uty w ithout fear of academ ic 
repercussions."

vote, the applicant m ust mail in 
the ballot or go to the reg istrar's 
office to cast their ballot.

By M ichae l M oran
Daily Texan Staff 
A U niversity of V irginia s tu ­
d en t has sta rte d a petition ask ­
ing professors to consider voting 
to approve excused absences for 
students on Election Day.

"The lines are going to be long, 
and they are going to be chaotic, 
w hich is another reason w hy stu ­
d ents sh o u ld n o t have to stress 
o u t or w o rry a b o u t m issin g a

Clark has collected m ore than 

2,700 signatures.

Voting early in Virginia, unlike 

in Texas, requires an excuse.

According to the Virginia State 
Board of Election, students there 
can vote early if they have a rea­
son for not being in the county or 
city in w hich they are registered 
on Nov. 4. To vote early one has 
to fill out an early voting ap p li­
cation and be approved for it. To

C lark w ants professors to fore­
go grad in g stu d en ts on their at­
tendance and particip atio n that 
day and to reschedule exam s and 
m ajor assignm ents th at are d u e 
Nov. 4. Clark said she hopes the 
university will m ake Nov. 4 a hol­
iday in future elections.

UT government professor David 
Prindle said Virginia's voting laws 
may keep students from voting.

"If in fact the state has the dif­
ficult requirem ents, I think it's a 
good idea to give students the day 
off to go hom e and vote," Prindle

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said. "O f course, not all of them 
w ill go hom e and vote. Som e of 
them will go to the beach."

The U niversity of Virginia does 

not supp o rt the petition.

"If p eo p le w h o w o rk from 8 
to 5 can m ake it to the polls, cer­
tainly students w ith their flexible 
schedules should be able to find 
the time to vote," said university 
spokesw om an Carol Wood.

The U niversity of Virginia will 
p ro v id e b u ses to tra n sp o rt s tu ­
dents to the voting places.

"The polls are op en early, for 
th e e n tire day, so th e re w o u ld 
h av e to be tru ly e x tra o rd in a ry 
c irc u m sta n c e s for s tu d e n ts to 
have to m iss a 50-m inute class," 
U n iv e rsity of V irginia p o litics 
p ro fe sso r P aul F re ed m a n sa id 
in an e-mail.

The UT Dean of Students Son- 
cia R eagins-L illy said it is UT 
professors' decisions w hat to do 
in their classes on any day.

"In the rules an d re g u la tio n 
of the University, the faculty has 
the right to m anage their class­
room s in a w ay th at best m eets 
their needs and the needs of their 
students," Lilly said.

Jack W ashburn, re g istra r for 
A lbem arle County, w hich covers 
part of the U niversity of Virginia, 
said the U niversity H all precinct 
w ill have four voting m achines 
capable of serving 2,432 voters.

A t C olum bia U niversity an d 
the U niversity of Haw aii, Nov. 4 
is a holiday. H aw aii allow s ea r­
ly voting w ithout an excuse, but 
N ew York, like Virginia, requires 
an excuse.

"I'm su re it m ig h t d iss u a d e 
som e [Virginia] stu d e n ts, b u t I 
think there's a lot of people w ill­
ing to go through hell to vote this 
year," said UT radio-television- 
film senior and early voter M ark 
Hastings.

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Longhorns breeze through BYU

By Austin Talbert
Daily Texan Staff

At the midpoint of the Big 12 
season the Longhorns had a break 
to reflect back on the first half of 
conference play.

Despite the breakthough, Texas 

still had volleyball to play.

They m ade the m ost of their 
break — sweeping Brigham Young 
3-0 Friday at Gregory Gymnasium.
"I thought our starters did a 
nice job of staying focused," said 
head coach Jerritt Elliott. "W e 
got an opportunity to play a lot 
of different people today, which 
was a huge benefit for our depth 
and getting them experience."

The No. 3 Lon ghorns (16-2, 
9-1 Big 12) cruised past the ou t­

m atched C ougars 25-11, 25-16, 
25-19, hitting .345 for the match 
while limiting BYU to a weak .105 
hitting percentage.

"They struggled a little bit in 
serve-receive. I thought our block 
did a really nice job of shutting 
them down," Elliott said.

Texas w as blazing on the ser­
vice line; the Longhorns finished 
with seven service aces — three 
of which cam e from senior Ki- 
ley Hall. Junior Destinee Hooker 
continued her high-flying ways, 
racking up 13 kills on .600 hitting. 
H ooker added six digs, two ser­
vice aces and a solo block.

"It w as an ad ren alin e rush. 
That's the best way to explain it," 
H ooker said. "C om ing back on

the court, being energized, feed­
ing off other's energy and giving 
energy created it."

But while H ooker m ay have 
dom inated once again, on F ri­
day the Longhorns were trying 
new things before resuming con­
ference play Wednesday against 
Oklahoma. Sophomore Elizabeth 
Graham had three kills on .600 hit­
ting, playing in all three games.

Elliott substituted in players 
more than he had all season, work­
ing in young players and practicing 
new looks. In the third set, fresh­
man Sidney Yogi donned the black 
jersey taking over libero duties from 
Heather Kisner.

"S h e 's been w o rk in g h ard . 
She's been producing in practice.

She's not at the point yet to take 
H eath er's [Kisner] spot, but we 
need her to be challenging Heath­
er to m ake this team better," E l­
liott said. "She's getting better de­
fensively for us and getting an op­
portunity to be in there. You never 
know what happens."

But Elliott didn't limit himself to 

just one change in the third set.

"In game three, we flipped our 
outside hitters so that in a match, 
if one is struggling, we'll be pre­
pared to m ake that change and 
look at som e different things," El­
liott said. "W e just tried to throw 
som e d ifferen t things ou t that 
we may have to do in the second 
half of the Big 12 or in the NCAA 
tournam ent."

C l o s e c a l l

Junior outside hitter Destinee Hooker (21) gets one of her 13 kills Friday 
against Brigham Young.

P eter Franklin | Daily Texan Staff

Texas running 
back Vondrell 
McGee scores 
a touchdown 
in the second 
quarter in the 
Longhorns' 
28-24 win over 
Oklahoma 
State on 
Saturday.

Paul Chouy
Daily Texan Staff

big fourth-quarter stop

By David R. Henry
Daily Texan Staff

In a g am e w h ere C o lt M cC oy 
show ed g lim p ses of hum anity, it 
w as the d efen se th at b ailed out 
No. 1 Texas.

Sophom ore defensive back C ur­
tis Brow n, starting in place of in­
jured starter Chykie Brown, knocked 
aw ay O klahom a State quarterback 
Z ac R ob in so n 's H ail M ary at the 
3-yard line as time expired to give 
top-ranked Texas a 28-24 win over 
the No. 6 Cowboys.

The Longhorns surv ived their third 
straight game against a ranked oppo­
nent and will face yet another test Sat­
urday against No. 6 Texas Tech.

" I t w a s a n o th e r g a m e w h e n 
w e answ ered in stead of fo ld e d ," 
Brown said. "O u r defense stepped 
up and fo rced tw o fo u rth -d o w n 
stop s, and that really w as the d if­
ference in this ballgam e."

M cCoy was 38 of 45 for 391 yards 
w ith on e in te rc e p tio n , and one 
called back, along with two touch­
dow ns. He set another school re­
cord w ith 18 consecutive com p le­
tions. O klahom a State changed up 
its looks d efen sively to throw off 
Texas and stopped the Longhorn 
ru nning gam e from g ettin g an y ­
thing going. Chris Ogbonnaya had 
11 carries for just 27 yards.

Will M uscham p's strategy on de­
fense was to roll the coverage toward 
Oklahoma State's playmaker Dez Bry­
ant. That and Brown and Deon Beas­
ley's play limited Bryant to just six 
catches for 74 yards.

"W e did a good job of lim iting 
the e x p lo s iv e p lay s b ecau se we 
knew that w as som ething we had 
to d o ," M uscham p said. "[Brow n ] 
w as huge to n ig h t and m ade the 
most of his opportunity."

Brown's last-second deflection was 
the second of two big fourth-quarter 
stops for Texas. With the Longhorns 
up 28-24 and driving for the knock­
out blow with 5:27 left, McCoy fum­
bled on third and six at the Oklahoma 
State 10-yard line and Jeray Chatham

DEFEN SE continues on page 2B

SOCCER

No. 12 ’Horns 
notch big wins 
over KU, Mizzou

By Michael Sherfield
Daily Texan Staff

Pushed to the brink of defeat, Texas responded 
with two late goals within seven minutes to steal a 
vital victory on the road Sunday.

Down 1-0 to No. 20 Missouri, strikes from senior 
Kasey Moore and freshman Lucy Keith saved the 
No. 12 Longhorns (12-2-3; 5-2-2 Big 12).

Texas, though out of the Big 12 regular season 
title chase, greatly improved its chances of a high 
seed for the Big 12 postseason tournament, a title 
it has won the past two seasons.

Two days earlier, the 'H o rn s recorded their 
fourth consecutive shutout in a 1-0 win over Kan­
sas, with Moore again providing the telling touch 
in front of goal. After a poor start to conference 
play, Texas has won four of the past five games 
and forged a five-game undefeated streak.

It certainly was not easy against Missouri.
The T ig ers ou t-shot Texas 20-15 and forced 
sen ior g o alk eep er D ianna P fen n in g er into 10 
saves. The hom e side took a 1-0 lead in the 56th 
m inute through junior forw ard K ristin A ndri- 
g h etto and pu t the Texas goal under pressure 
for m ost of the match.

With Moore, Texas' two-time All-American de­
fender, leading the front line in search of goals, 
freshman defender Leah Payne was drafted in for 
her fifth start of the season alongside sophomore 
center-back Erica Cam panelli at the heart of the 
Texas defense.

"Working with Leah [Payne] has also forced me 
to step up because I wanted her to feel com fort­
able," Campanelli said. "After her performance, es­
pecially as a freshman, we couldn't be happier with 
the way she is playing back there."

But after m uch experim en tation in the lin e­
up, head coach Chris Petrucelli appears to have 
found a com bination capable of scoring goals 
and p ro v id in g a stou t d efen se . W ith M oore 
playing as a forward the last five gam es, Texas 
is undefeated, outscoring opponents 8-1.

"She has given us a little bit of a spark up front 
and certainly we were able to get a goal out of her 
today," Petrucelli said. "You know wins on the road 
are hard to come by, so this is a good win for us."

Against Kansas (10-6-1; 3-4-1 Big 12), Moore 
struck the winning goal in the 21st minute, latch­
ing onto a pass from freshman midfielder Kylie 
Doniak up the sideline, turning her defender and 
placing a low shot into the side netting past goal­
keeper Julie Hanley.

With gusting winds and temperatures hovering 
in the mid-40s, the game descended into a slop­
py and defensive affair. The Longhorns were out- 
shot 13-10, but rarely threatened, with Pfenninger 
forced into only three saves.

"O ur thought really in the second half was real­
ly to kill the game as much as we could," Petrucel­
li said. "We had the lead and we just didn't want 
to give that up. They didn't get any great looks. I 
thought we were pretty solid defensively."

The hosts did have one good chance, w hen 
Shannon M cCabe, the league's offensive player 
of the week, hit the crossbar from inside the box. 
However, the Jayhawks sputtered offensively for 
the rest of the game, allowing Texas to head for 
Columbia, Mo. with three points secured.

The tw o-g am e road trip sw eep w as T exas' 
first p erfect w eekend in co n feren ce play this 
season and sets up their regular season finale at 
hom e against Baylor.

Eliot Meyer | Daily Texan Staff

Senior defender Kasey Moore lines up a kick in a 
game earlier this season. Moore provided a late 
goal to help Texas over Missouri on Sunday.

No. 1 Texas survives OSU scare
Brown holds Bryant, 
takes control, makes 

Longhorns' defense 

Texas
cornerback 
Curtis Brown 
celebrates 
after stopping 
Oklahoma 
State at the 
end of the 
fourth quarter 
Saturday.

steps up to lead Texas 
secondary over OSU

By Brad Gray
Daily Texan Staff

W hen Texas corn erb ack C u r­
tis Brown learned last week that 
he would have to cover Oklaho­
ma State receiver Dez Bryant in 
his first start, he probably should 
have panicked.

Or maybe started working on 

those transfer papers.

"I would have," joked head coach 

Mack Brown.

W ith s ta r tin g c o rn e rb a c k s 
Chykie Brown (ankle) and Ryan 
Palmer (hyperextended elbow) in­
jured, Brown learned Thursday 
that he would have to start his 
first game and cover Bryant, who 
had already caught 45 passes for 
809 yards at that point.

Instead of transferring or hid­
ing under a table all week, C ur­
tis Brown took faith in the fact 
that when he cam e off the bench 
the previous week against M is­
souri, he wrapped up receiver Jer­
emy Maclin for eight catches and 
66 yards.

M aclin and B ry an t back to 
back? It doesn't get much worse 
than that.

"1 guarded Maclin and I thought 
that he was just the greatest thing 
in the w orld just by listening 
to everyb od y talk about h im ," 
Brown said. "I w as m ore confi­
dent this week because I held my 
own against him, but I wasn't too 
worried. Honestly, I was nervous, 
but after that first kickoff things 
got better."

With the help of a safety rolled 
over the top, Brown turned the Cow­
boys' most potent threat into a blan­
keted target on almost every play. 
Brown looked every bit as comfort­
able with Bryant and showed the 
athleticism that earned him nick­
names from his teammates.

"W atching him in practice, we 
call him 'the cat' because he's so 
athletic. He never falls d ow n ," 
defensive tackle Roy Miller said. 
"We knew how athletic he is, and 
w e just expect that type of play 
from guys like Curtis."

Ryan Propes
Daily Texan Staff

O klahom a State q uarterback 
Zac Robinson looked for Bryant 
on the last play of the game with a 
Hail Mary pass from 49 yards out. 
Brown leaped up to bat the ball 
down as time expired.

That's when Ryan Palmer start­
ed calling him another nickname: 
Jordan, as in Michael Jordan.

"H e had a couple of high point 
balls where he jumped up there 
looking like Jordan," cornerback 
Ryan Palm er said of the sopho­
more. "H e has good leaping abil­
ity, and he has great speed."

Brow n w as one of the lead ­
ing can d id ates for the starting 
job at cornerback until he pulled 
his ham string during fall w ork­
outs this A u gu st. T h at's when 
coaches turned to Chykie Brown 
and Palmer.

"Honestly, it was hard. Two-a- 
days are the most important part 
for playing," Brown said. "I missed 
a lot of practices so I didn't learn 
my playbook as well, and it just set 
me back."

But when both starters suffered 
injuries during the week, Curtis 
Brown knew he could step in.

"There's no question we were 
banged up a little bit. One man's 
misfortune is another m an's op­
portunity and he's cashed in on 
it," d efensive co o rd in ato r Will 
Muschamp said.

Head coach Mack Brown point-

ed to Curtis' play as one of the rea­
sons the Longhorns were able to 
pull ahead.

W ith B ryant cov ered up, the 
Cowboys had to turn to tight end 
Brandon Pettigrew and their run­
ning game with tailback Kendall 
Hunter. The Texas defense strug­
gled ag a in st each of them but 
cam e up w ith tw o key fourth- 
down stops in the fourth quarter 
that won the game.

"Curtis probably learned Thurs­
day or Friday he w as starting," 
Mack Brown said. "H e did a good 
job, and that's w here our depth 
cam e into play. We felt like our 
depth is one of the reasons we 
w ere able to com e back against 
them the last few years, but their 
depth is better than it's been."

But for now, the challenges just 
seem to be getting bigger and big­
ger every week. After Maclin and 
Bryant, the Texas secondary has to 
face Michael Crabtree this Satur­
day against No. 6 Texas Tech. In a 
span of just three weeks they will 
have played three probable first- 
round draft picks with Maclin, 
Bryant and Crabtree.

"If you just look at the receivers 
in this league, it's unbelievable," 
Brown said. "You've got Maclin, 
Bryant, Crabtree and even [Kansas 
receiver Dezmon] Briscoe in such a 
short span."

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S P O H I 'S 

Monday, O ctober 27,2008

Texas’ novice rowers sweep Head of the Colorado

By W ill Anderson
Daily Texan Staff

Texas' novice rowers swept 
the Head of the Colorado rac­
es on Oct. 25 and 26 with three 
first-place finishes, and upheld 
their unbeaten record at the aptly 
named "Pumpkinhead" regatta.

Amidst NCAA rowers decked 
in Halloween garb, the novice 
team notched wins in both of 
their novice eight regattas, as well 
as in the novice four race.

The Longhorn varsity squad 
also placed a high number of row­
ers in top finishes, including wins 
in the open single, open four and 
women's doubles.

"It was very exciting to watch

the novices prepare to race this 
week as all six novice eights read­
ied themselves to com pete for 
the first time," head coach Carie 
Graves said. "They were focused, 
diligent and quietly very excit­
ed to represent The University of 
Texas for the first time."

Texas' success has become rou­
tine at the Head of the Colorado 
event, where burnt orange rowers 
captured three wins last year.

Both the varsity and novice 
teams will travel to Tennessee 
to compete in the Head of the 
Hooch race on Nov. 1 and 2, com­
pleting their fall head season.

"We are looking forward to 
next weekend when the novice

and varsity teams travel to Ten­
nessee," Graves said.

In the first novice eight race,
Texas captured first, fourth and 
fifth place. The first place boat 
was rowed by Tatiana Dillon, Liz 
Keenan, Liz Bowlin, Katrina Cerk, 
Lauren Conrad, Ashley Hanigan, 
Marika Whitehurst and Kaiti Kirk. 
The boat's coxswain, Emma Dirks, 
is a recruited freshman from St. 
Catharine's, Ontario with five years 
of experience.

Dirks was also the coxswain for 
Texas' win in the novice four, where 
the crew of Dillon, Cerk, Conrad 
and Keenan finished first.

"I remember not feeling like I 
was ready [for my first race]," said

Lianna Burton, an assistant coach 
to the novice team and a former 
Texas rower. "But when you get
out on the water, you feel great."

T h e v a r s i t y 

te a m o v e r ­
whelmed the open pair division, 
placing boats in first, second 
and third place. Freshman Anna 
Thomson, also a member of the 
team's second place open eight 
boat, combined with junior Sara 
Cottingham to cross the finish 
line first.

The team also had a first- 
place finish in the open four, a 
second-place finish in the open 
eight and a first-place finish for 
sophomore Jelena Zunic in Tex­
as' only singles entry.

C E N T R A L IN TELLIG EN C E A G E N C Y

DEFENSE: Cowboys give Longhorns tough test

Texas row ers co m p e te at the Head o f th e C o lorado at Lady Bird Lake 

last w eekend.

Ryan Propes | Daily Texan Staff

From page 16

recovered, giving the Cowboys a 
chance to take the lead.

Defensive end Henry Melton 
had a big sack on second down 
and forced Oklahoma State to a 
fourth and six with 2:45 left to 
play. Coach Mike Gundy decid­
ed to go for it rather than punt. 
Zac Robinson threw to receiver 
Bryant on a tunnel screen, and 
Texas defensive tackle Lamarr 
Houston tripped him up for a 
3-yard loss as the record crowd 
of 98,518 erupted.

“They tried to run some screens 
early on in the game and had 
some pretty good success, and 
we knew they needed about four 
yards, so we thought they might 
do it," Houston said. "We were 
just trying to stay focused and 
keep our heads cool."

The game wasn't quite over, 
though. When Texas took over 
on downs, the Cowboys forced 
them to a third down and McCoy 
hooked up with his roommate Jor­
dan Shipley on a fake screen down

for a 20-yard gain down to the 6. 
The Longhorns had two chances 
inside the three to punch it in with 
Cody Johnson, but came up short. 
Rather than kick a field goal on 
fourth down and make it a seven- 
point lead, the Longhorns decided 
to go for it. There was some mis- 
communication, as McCoy's boot­
leg to running back Chris Ogbon-

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The Texas defense gave up 419 

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plays in the second half when it 
counted and we didn't."

A game that many expected 
to be an offensive shootout was 
anything but. Oklahoma State 
forced Texas to punt on its open­
ing possession of the game.

"A fter that I told our team, 
'Boys we got us a fight; this bunch 
came to play'/ Brown said.

Texas got on the board in the 
first quarter when McCoy threw 
a pretty fade toward the cor­
ner for Shipley against an all-out 
blitz for a 14-yard touchdown. 
Shipley had 15 catches for 168 
yards and set a school record for 
most receptions in a game.

Oklahom a State got on the 
bo ard in th e -s e c o n d q u a r­
ter when running back Kend­
all Hunter, from Tyler, Texas, 
ran to the outside for a 24-yard 
score. Hunter had 18 carries for 
161 yards. It's the first time a 
back has rushed for more than 
100 against Texas this year.

"We didn't underestimate him 
or nothing," said defensive back 
Ryan Palmer. "He just ran real 
hard every time he got the ball."

Texas extended the lead to 21-7 
when Quan Cosby caught a 17- 
yard touchdown pass from Mc­
Coy as he fell toward the ground. 
The Longhorns went into the half 
up 21-14.

McCoy and Texas caught a 
break in the third quarter when 
Oklahoma State defensive back 
Perrish Cox intercepted McCoy's 
pass at the 11-yard line, but the 
play got called back due to a 
roughing-the-passer penalty on 
the Cowboys' Andre Sexton. The 
Longhorns would go on to score 
and go up by two touchdowns.

The Cowboys cut the lead to 28- 
21 and then got even closer toward 
the end of the third. McCoy lobbed 
the ball up for Cosby and Cowboy 
defensive back Jacob Lacey came 
up with it. It was Lacey's fourth 
McCoy interception in the last two 
years. Dan Bailey's 39-yard field 
goal made it 28-24 with 12:58 left 
to play in the fourth.

Of course, only for a guy like 
McCoy is an effort like Saturday's 
considered sub-par.

"I felt like there were a couple 
of series where we played pretty 
good, but he still found ways to 
make enough plays," said Okla­
homa State defensive back Sex­
ton. "H e's a Heisman hopeful 
for a reason."

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By M att Hohner
Daily Texan Staff

The Longhorns' w om en's golf 
team has yet to finish in the top 
three at a tournament but is staying 
positive heading into the next tour­
nament in Boulder City, Nev.

The Longhorns will play in the 
Las Vegas Collegiate Show down 
on Monday. University of Nevada 
at Las Vegas hosts the event that 
will be played at Boulder Creek 
Golf Club.

The Longhorns have built up 
their frequent flyer miles this sea­
son, traveling to tournam ents in 
A lbuquerque, N.M . and Skokie, 
111. as well.

But freshm an N icole Vander- 
made knows it doesn't take a toll 
on her or the team.

“Coach prepares us really w ell," 
Vanderm ade said. "She gives us

flight times so we can prepare for 
the time changes. We were per­
fectly prepared for this last tour­
nament."

Texas played a ver)’ strong field 
in its last tou rnam ent at S ta n ­
ford, and came away tied for 10th 
p lace. T h e team a ck n o w le d g ­
es that it w as the most difficult 
course it had played all season. 
Head Coach Martha Richards had 
a positive outlook on the outcome 
of the tournament and did all she 
could for her team playing at Stan­
ford, her alma mater.

"I had a distinct advantage on 
that golf course and that helped 
me to tell my players how to play 
the field, because it was a very 
difficult co u rse," Richards said. 
"There is ju st a know ledge you 
have of having been there and 
how things flow and feel."

Richards also helped her team off 
the links as well, with the help of 
her mother, who lives in California.
"We started a tradition when I
was coaching at Vanderbilt, that 
my mom would play 'team mom' 
for the w eekend," Richards said. 
"I'd bring my team over for la- 
sagna and w e'd hang out at her 
house for the evening, and she 
would bring sandwiches for lunch. 
The team really enjoyed it."

The team has found it difficult 
to spend time with each other off 
the fairways, but you could prob­
ably find them all together at a 
particular time on Thursdays.

"Everybody on the team loves 
'G rey 's A n ato m y '," said Ju nior 
Shannon Fish. "We have to coor­
dinate our team meeting accord­
ing to G rey's if w e're out on the 
road. We all get in one room and

watch it together."

Fish led the Longhorns at the 
last tournament finishing with an 
individual place of 21st.

"S h a n n o n p la y ed g re a t all 
w eek," Richards said. "She strug­
gled on this course last year, but 
to see her come back and lead us 
made me proud. Shannon's hard 
work is all com ing together, and 
this was 54 holes where she saw it 
beginning to pay off."

Fish w ill start in the Las Ve­
gas Collegiate Show down, along 
w ith V and erm ad e and sen io rs 
C aney H ines, Kelley Louth and 
Kristin Walla.

Fish and Vandermade are excited 

to make their first trip to Sin City.

"I'm excited to go to Las Ve­
gas," Fish said. "It's our last tour­
nament of the season and an op­
portunity to end on a good note."

Monday, October 27,2008 

WOMEN'S GOLF

Senior Caney 
Hines tees off 
w ith a driver as 
her teammates
look on. The 
Longhorns will 
head to Las 
Vegas, Nev. 
to compete in 
their fourth 
tournam ent of 
the season.

Jon Huang

Daily Texan Staff

MEN'S SWIMMING

Top-ranked Texas dominates Big 12 Relays

By Ben Freed
D aily Texan Staff

The Longhorn m en's swimming 
and diving team got their season 
off to a fast start Friday at the Big 
12 Relays in Lawrence, Kan.

The sw im m ers captu red first 
place in 14 of 16 races. Not to be 
outdone, the divers handily won 
the 3-meter diving relay.

It w as a big day for first-year 
Texas sw im m ers. Six true fresh­
men swam on winning relay teams

in their first meet as Longhorns. 
They were joined by Austin Stahl- 
ey, who swam in his first meet af­
ter redshirting his first year. Jimmy 
Feigen, last year's National High 
School Swimmer of the Year, led the 
way for the newcomers, swimming 
in four first-place relay teams.

" I t w as a great start for our 
freshmen to be indoctrinated into 
what Texas swimming is all about, 
and that is racing tough and try­
ing to finish w ell," assistant coach

Kris Kubik said.

The Texas swim m ers won rac­
es by large and sm all m argins. 
The larg est m argin of the day 
w as a 22-second victory in the 
3x500 freestyle relay, swum by se­
nior Michael Klueh and freshmen 
Kyle M cN eilis and Jackson W il­
cox. Leaving less room for comfort 
were Jonathan Jackson, Ben Van 
Roekel, Feigen and Ryan Verlatti, 
who pulled out a narrow victory 
in the 4x100 freestyle relay just five

one hundredths of a second ahead 
of the squad from Texas A&M.

Despite the success, as soon as the 
meet was over, the coaches' attention 
was already focused on improve­
ments that needed to be made.

"We raced well, and we learned 
that we have a long way to go to be 
in top form at season's end," Ku­
bik said. "There are many things 
we need to fine-tune, such as our 
starts, our efficiency in the water 
and our race management."

SPORTS BRIEFLY

Women's team wins Big 12 

Relays for first tim e since 2005

For the first time since 2005, the 

Texas women's swim team nar­
rowly took first place at the Big 
12 Conference Relay held in Law­
rence, Kan. Texas teams won eight 
of the 16 women's events.

The women gained momen­
tum early on in the competition, 
winning the first three relays — 
the 300-yard butterfly, backstroke 
and breastroke.

The Longhorns then won the

1,500 freestyle relay, the 400 free­
style and medley, as well as the 
800 freestyle relay.

Texas A&M finished second, 
losing to the Longhorns by four 
points with a score of 98. A&M 
had won the meet for the past 
two years.

The diving team finished fifth 
in the 1-meter dive and second in 
the 3-meter dive.

After the meet, Texas is still 
ranked seventh in the nation. 
They will face a pair of Top-25 
foes in Michigan and Indiana 
this Friday in Ann Arbor, 
Michigan.

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Ben Folds wows crowds 
in smile-inducing show

By Jennifer Rother
Daily Texan Staff

Turn that frown upside down. 
Ben Folds has arrived to make sure 
you have a pleasant tomorrow. 
And such was the plan of action for 
Folds as he and his band graced the 
stage for a sold-out show Saturday 
night at Stubb's Bar-B-Q.

The sin g er-so n g w riter m ade 
a stop this weekend in Austin in 
support of his latest album , Way 
to Normal, which debuted in late 
September.

Before he took the stage, A us­
tralian -bo rn sin ger M issy H ig ­
gins opened for the crow d, tak­
ing comfort in switching between 
her keyboard and the guitar, play­
ing a variety of velvety rock mel­
odies from her latest album, On a 
Clear Night.

The singer strummed her guitar 
along to a selection of songs that 
talked about heartbreak, egos and 
hidden secrets in tunes such as 
"Scar" and "W here I Stood."

Higgins interacted with the au­
dience, getting everyone to clap 
along, leading up to near the end

of her set when the female vocalist 
proudly covered the Patty Griffin 
song "M oses," putting a spritz of 
rock onto the classic. Higgins man­
aged to be all smiles throughout 
the night, on what the singer noted 
was her final show of the tour.

A smiling Folds and crew then 
took the stage and the ensemble 
headed straight into “Way to Nor­
m al," the only song that didn't 
make his latest album but ironical­
ly, he joked, is the song for which 
the album is named. Folds then 
played a string of songs from his 
latest album , including the duet 
"You D on't Know M e," bringing 
back Higgins to accom pany him 
in the quirky song about love and 
misunderstand ing.

The pianist treated the crowd 
to many of the fake songs he pur­
posely leaked on the Internet over 
the summer, because he said that he 
and his band "actually ended up re­
ally liking them." Naturally, Folds 
churned out the fake versions back 
to back with their updated succes­
sors with "Dr. Yang," "Bitch Went 
Nutz" and "Free Coffee Town."

The show included tons of im­
m en se folly, with Fold s b rin g ­
ing his bandmates on stage wear­
ing h u g e, sulking sm iley faces 
for "T h e Frown Song" and even 
clim bin g on top of the piano at 
one p o in t in the show, only to 
climb down again and sing to one 
of the faces, hand in hand.

A fter playing an 18-song set, 
F old s left the stage, only to re­
tu rn in his se lf-p re d icte d e n ­
core to play several old favorites 
from his previous albu m s, pro­
d ucing high audience energy as 
fans shouted every word. Folds 
thanked Austin at the end of the 
e n co re and left the stag e, only 
to return for a second encore in 
w hich he played "Philosophy" as 
the show 's finale.

W ith Folds wowing the crowd 
w ith his piano skills and his fun- 
loving supporting band, it seems 
Stu b b 's w as the place to be this 
weekend. But it w asn't just Folds 
basking in all the am usem ent — 
the crowd was w elcom ed along 
for the ride, which proved to be 
fun for everyone in attendance.

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WATAIN: Aim goes 
beyond music

From page 66

“We w ere k illing a n im als 
outside the venue because we 
didn't have any blood, and [the 
venue owners] didn't like that so 
much because they were vegan, 
so fuck them," Danielsson said.

The stage show and m usic 
are sm aller aspects of Daniels- 
son's views on the material and 
spiritual worlds.

“M ankind, the minute he is 
bom , is placed in a prison," he 
said. "O utside the prison walls 
lies our true hom e, w h ich is 
com pletely void of all the law 
and order, all hum an eth ical 
and moral codes, laws of times 
and space. It is a fiery, deadly, 
chaotic place filled with energy 
and pow er from w hich m an­
kind has been set aside, trapped 
inside what we called existence. 
What w e're doing with Watain 
is to communicate with a force 
that lies beyond the barriers of 
comprehension."

Watain played a little under 
an hour, but with its u n com ­
p ro m isin g approach to m u ­
sic, the stage and life, its set 
felt much shorter. A potent live 
band should leave its audience 
wanting more. Watain did this, 
thanks to its conviction in more 
than just sound.

A group
prays at a
makeshift
memorial
outside the
Chicago
home of
Jennifer
Hudson's
family
Sunday.

Paul Beaty
Associated Press

Singer-songwriter Ben Folds is currently touring to promote his latest 
album, Way to Normal, which debuted in late September.

Courtesy of Ben Folds

Nephew missing after Hudson family tragedy

By Rupa Shenoy
The Associated Press 
C H IC A G O — The 7-year-old 
nephew of Oscar-winning actress 
Jennifer Hudson was still missing 
Saturday, a day after the shooting 
deaths of H udson's m other and 
brother in their Chicago home.

A su sp e ct in the d eath s re ­
mained in custody Saturday, but 
young Julian King had not been 
seen since the bodies of Darnell 
Donerson, 57, and Jason Hudson, 
29, were found Friday afternoon.

A family member entering Don- 
erson's South Side home found the 
wom an shot on the living room 
floor. Officers later found Hudson 
shot in a bedroom, police said.

At least one of the victims suf­
fered defensive wounds, said au­

thorities who described the shoot­
ing as domestic violence.

W illiam B alfo u r w as a rre s t­
ed F rid a y b u t had n o t b ee n 
charged, law enforcem ent sourc­
es told the C hicago Tribune and 
C hicago Sun-Tim es. A statew ide 
A m ber A lert for Ju lia n that re­
m ained in effect Satu rd ay said 
B a lfo u r w as a s u s p e c t in the 
double hom icide.

Police spokesw om an M onique 
B ond said in v e s tig a to rs w ere 
talking to "a num ber of people 
in cu sto d y " but she declined to 
elaborate.

Illin o is State P o lice Lt. Luis 
Gutierrez said there was no indi­
cation that Julian may have been 
taken outside the state.

Balfour w as m arried to H ud­

son's sister, Julia, for several years 
but they were separated, said his 
mother, Michele Balfour. She said 
D onerson had ordered him to 
m ove out of the fam ily's hom e 
last winter.

Authorities would not confirm 
the identity of Julian King's par­
ents, but family friends said he is 
Julia Hudson's son. There was no 
immediate word on the identity of 
the boy's father.

Je n n ife r H u d so n 's p erso n al 
publicist, Lisa Kasteler, said the 
fam ily w anted privacy. She did 
not immediately respond to mes­
sages seeking comment Saturday.
Records from the Illinois D e­
p artm en t of C o rrectio n s show 
Balfour, 27, is on parole and spent 
nearly seven years in prison for at­

tempted murder, vehicular hijack­
ing and possessing a stolen vehi­
cle. Public records show one of 
B alfou r's addresses as the home 
where Donerson and Jason Hud­
son were shot.

The Cook County medical ex­
a m in e r's o ffice said au top sies 
w ere being conducted Saturday 
morning, but results would not be 
available until later in the day.

The tragedy com es as Jennifer 
H udson, who grew up in C hica­
go, continues to reach new heights 
in her career. Her song "Spotlight" 
is No. 1 on Billboard's Hot R & B/ 
Hip-Hop charts and her recently 
released, self-titled debut album 
has been a top seller. She won an 
Academy Award for best support­
ing actress in 2007 for her role in

"D ream girls." In an interview last 
year with Vogue, Hudson credited 
her mother with encouraging her 
to audition for "A m erican Idol," 
which launched her career.

The singer described herself as 

very close to her family.

H udson' s representa ti ves would 
not disclose her whereabouts Fri­
day. She had been scheduled to

appear Monday in Los Angeles to 
collect an ensemble cast honor at 
the Hollywood Awards for "The 
Secret Life of Bees" with co-stars 
including Alicia Keys, Queen Lat- 
ifah and Dakota Fanning.

AP M usic Writer Nekesa M oody 
in New York and AP Entertainment 
Writer Derrik J. Lang in Los Angeles 
contributed to this report.

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By Andy O'Connor
Daily Texan Staff 

i nk Danielsson, vocalist and bassist for 
Sw edish black metal group Watain, w as 
turned on to black metal through a tape 
o f D arkthrone's Under a Funeral Moon 
and never looked back. Since its form a­
tion in 1998, Watain has p ro v en itself 
to be a live maelstrom. Saturday night, 
Austin metalheads finally got to witness 
W atain's live power. Its blend of M ay­
hem's fury and contempt for life and Dis- 
section's approach to m elody w hipped 
the audience into a frenzy. Though Dan- 
ielsson w as pleased by the Texas crowds, 
he also loves some Southern mythology.

1 thought [the Texas sh ow s] w ould 

be a bit more violent," he said.

In terms of all-out chaos, D anielsson 
w a s particularly im pressed by M exico 
C ity and Chile.

They're far aw ay from Eu rope and 
U SA in term s of a g g re ssiv e an d fuck­
i n g die-h ard p e o p le ," he sa id . "You 
h a v e them every w h ere. T h ey 're ju st 
sp read out all over."

Metal music is less p op u lar outside of 
Europe due to religious, social a n d /o r 
political oppression, as well a s a sim ple 
lack of commercial opportunities. M any 
tans see Europe as the metal mecca, but 
D anielsson d o es not sh are their view. 
H e "like{s] to be the en em y" and thrives 
on intolerance.

People in E u ro p e accep t b ecau se 
they haven't understood it," Danielsson 
said. "In the USA, at least, you have op­
position in terms of Christians and mor­
al and ethical people in general that un­
derstood that black is a threat — the en­
ergies that come out of the speakers, that 
com e out especially w hen w e perform 
live, they are dangerous."

The m ost controversial aspect about 
Watain's live show is not the m usic but 
the literal smell of death. Impaled animal 
heads emit a god-awful yet totally appro­
priate stench of rotting. C an dles placed 
on sp ears brought the sen se o f an oc­
cult ntual, n<'t a mere concert. Combined 
with the m usic, W atain's perform ances 
brought the Red-7 crowd closer to total 
self-destruction. In a town known for per­
ceived animal friendliness and overall lib­
eral social attitudes, Watain certainly dis­
rupted the norm. In fact, a gig w a s can­
celed in C anada because of this setup.

W ATAIN continues on page 5B

Swedish black metal band Watain performs at Red 7 Saturday night. Lead singer Erik Danielsson 
enjoys disrupting norms and includes impaled animal heads surrounding the stage. In Canada, 
vegan venue-owners canceled a Watain show because of the practice.

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CONCERT REVIEW

Mraz satisfies fans 
at Stubb’s on Friday

By Lara Haase
Daily Texan Staff 
E x p ectatio n s w ere h igh am id 
the cro w d , p a c k e d in like liv e ­
stock for the lon g so ld -ou t sh ow 
F rid ay at S tu b b 's Bar-B-Q, w ait­
ing to see Mr.A-Z him self. H e did 
not fail to im press.

With an im pressive eight-m an 
band (including Jason M raz him ­
self), the show started slow ly with 
a few m o o d -settin g so n g s from 
M ra z 's new alb u m We Sing. We 
Dance. We Steal Things. T h rough­
o u t the sh ow , the b a n d p la y e d 
m ostly new stuff with a few oldies 
thrown in, but M raz alw ays m ade 
sure to get the audience involved.

In betw een so n g s he talked to 
the crow d, at one point describing 
how the u n iverse is w o rk in g for 
everyone and a thing he practic­
es called "p ro n o ia." U nlike p ara­
n oia — w o rry in g a b o u t th in g s 
co m in g after y o u — " p r o n o ia " 
requ ires y ou to look straigh t on 
an d be excited ab o u t the th in gs 
com ing your way. H e w ent on to 
tell a sto ry ab o u t h o w he knew 
he w a s lucky becau se a blue bird 
had relieved itself on his lap.

In a d d itio n to h is e n te rta in ­
ing gim m ick s, M r a z 's articu late 
sin gin g and w itty lyrics m ad e the 
sh o w fun for e v ery o n e — even 
th o se w ith little k n o w le d g e o f 
his new album w h o w ere hearing

m any so n g s for the first time. H e 
dan ced a few tim es for the crow d 
an d h ad them repeat g o o fy scat 
p h rases after him.

True to h is typical sty le M raz 
co vered a few so n g s a d d in g his 
ow n rhythm. H e turned C o o lio 's 
"M a ry Ja n e " into a m ello w re g­
g a e / r o c k so n g , rath er th an its 
original hip-hop style. A fterw ard 
he p la y e d "T h e D y n am o o f Vo­
lition ," a so n g from his n ew a l­
b u m , a n d h ad the cro w d g a v e 
him air-fives du rin g the ch orus. 
H e then en d e d the set w ith his 
hit "I'm Y ours."

The band cam e back for an en­
core an d covered "B u ild M e U p 
Buttercup" and M raz's old hit "The 
R em edy (I Won't Worry)," during 
which he had the audience singing 
along. While the band jam m ed, he 
in tro d u ced each m u sician , con- 
sisiting o f him self on guitar, a bass 
guitarist (who also played a classi­
cal b a ss on a few songs), a d ru m ­
mer, a percussionist, a keyboardist 
and a three-man horns section. A s 
he introduced them, he took a Po­
laroid o f each ban d m em ber and 
tossed it into the audience, c a u s­
ing a frenzy each tim e w h ere v ­
er the picture landed. They ended 
the sh o w w ith the so n g "B u tter­
fly" and left the stage after a group 
bow an d a special m e ssag e from 
M raz about love and community.

In this im age released by Disney Enterprises, Zac Efron, left, and 
Vanessa H udgens are show n in a scene from "H igh School M usical 3."

Fred Hayes | Associated

Disney musical grosses 
$42M in first weekend

By Alex Regnery
Daily Texan Staff

You can figh t it. You can hate 
it. A fter this w e e k e n d , th o u gh , 
y ou c a n 't d e n y the p o w e r that 
Z ac Efron p o ss e ss e s . Teen g irls 
turn ed ou t in m a s se s to see the 
latest in the " H ig h Sch o o l M u ­
sic a l" sa g a , "H ig h Sch ool M u si­
cal 3: Senior Year." A fter the first 
two TV m o vies b rou gh t in som e 
o f the h igh e st n u m b e rs seen in 
cable history, it w a s a foregon e 
co n clu sion that the first theatri­
cal release w o u ld be big, but not 
$42 m illio n b ig . D irected on ce 
again by K enny O rtega, the film 
fo llo w s Troy, G ab riella, S h arp ay 
an d the rest o f the sin g in g an d 
d an cin g crew a s they attem p t to 
d e a l w ith c o lle g e a p p lic a tio n s 
an d the sp rin g m u sical. W hat's 
a high schooler to d o ab ou t such 
problem s except break into song? 
A fter this o u tsta n d in g o p en in g, 
th ere's really n o reason for D is­
ney to stop the "H S M " m ad n ess. 
H o p efu lly they snatch u p Efron 
an d V anessa H u d g e n s for "H igh 
S ch ool M u sical 4: C o lle g e M u ­
sic a l" w ith so n g s su ch a s "D ate 
R ape S u ck s" an d "L e t's Sh otgun 
These Beers."

S p e a k in g o f u n n e cc e sary s e ­
q u els, "S a w V " m a d e $30.5 m il­
lion th is p a st w e e k e n d , w h ich 
m eans that there will not only be 
a "S a w VI," which is already slat­
ed for next H allow een, but m ore 
than likely a "S a w V II," which is 
just sad . The film only cost about

$11 m illion to m ake, so it h as al­
re a d y re c o u p e d its p ro d u c tio n 
co st p lu s m a rk e tin g . T h is alsf> 
h e lp s a n sw e r w h y o u r co u n try 
is in su ch d ire econ om ic tim es, 
seein g a s how p eop le ju st collec­
tively spen t $30.5 million to see fe 
god -aw ful sequel.

C lin t E a stw o o d 's latest d ire c­
torial effort "C h a n g e lin g " m a d e 
a pretty go o d per-screen av erage 
o f $502,000 from 15 sc ree n s, a s 
d id C h arlie K a u fm a n 's "S y n e c ­
doche, N e w Y ork" w ith $19,22j2 
on nine screens.

It's pretty clear that the biggest 
w inner in the box-office listing is 
the K irk C am eron m arital-dram a 
"Fireproof." M ade for su p er cheap 
(aro u n d $500,000), the film h as 
gone on to gross $23 million in five 
w eeks. I think stu dio h ead s need 
to tak e n otice a n d re alize how 
p opu lar M ike Seaver still is. Sure, 
every fem ale lead op posite C a m ­
eron will have to be played by his 
wife, but that's a sm all price to pay 
to have such a bright star draw ing 
in the m asses.

Weekend Top Five

1. High School Musical 3: 

Senior Year — $42,000,000

2. Saw V — $30,500,000
3. Max Payne — $7,600,000
4. Beverly Hills Chihuahua — 

$6,916/)00

5. Pride & Glory — $6,325,000