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Grad exec 
pay at UT 
ranks high 
in Big 12

University nixes some 
faculty-led programs 
in Mexico due to flu

By Mohini Madgavkar
Daily Texan Staff 
University officials announced 
Wednesday that several faculty-led 
study-abroad program s to M exi­
co will be canceled because of the 
swine flu outbreak.

Those students will have the op­
tion of taking the same courses at 
UT this summer and will receive a 
full refund of program fees. Students 
would be responsible for the cost of 
their own airfare, but Givens said 
several airlines are refunding fares to 
Mexico because of the threat of the vi­
rus. The College of Natural Sciences

ing and health care students will be 
canceled altogether.

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Monterrey

UT Vice Provost Terri Givens 
said a marine-life study program 
usually held in A kum al, M exi­
co, will likely be moved to a lab 
in Puerto Rico, but that two G ua­
dalajara-based programs for nurs-

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Faculty-led program that has been 
canceled or moved

1 1 Programs still on track

Fatal cases of H1N1 flu

|f§l Confirmed cases of H1N1 flu

f|$ Suspected cases of H1N1 flu

Source: flutracker.rhizalabs.com

McCrackens

This is the second in a three-part series on pay 
for elected students.
By Amy Bingham 
Daily Texan Staff

As the elected representative of UT's 12,000 grad­
uate students, the Graduate Student Assembly pres­
ident receives a $6,630 stipend during his yearlong 
term, making him one of the highest-paid graduate 
student officers in the Big 12 conference.

Of the eight schools surveyed, Texas A&M Univer­
sity's Graduate Student Council president receives 
the highest compensation — about $19,200 during the 
2008-2009 academic year. But unlike UT's graduate stu­
dent officers, A&M's are not paid w ith student fees.

"Our administration and our students see a need 
to have graduate student interests represented, and 
they are willing to invest the necessary resources to 
ensure that this happens," said Daniel Spikes, UT's 
Graduate Student Assembly president, in an e-mail.

At A&M, the academic department in which the 
graduate president is enrolled provides the stipend, 
which is equivalent to what graduate research assis­
tants in the same department earn. Tracey Welling­
ton, the school's outgoing graduate president, said 
she receives her stipend from the Department of 
Physics, in which she is working toward a Ph.D. in 
Materials Science and Engineering.

Vyellington said she participated in nearly 30 com­
mittees during her term, represented about 9,000 
graduate and professional students and worked 
more than 20 hours per week.

"If the Graduate Student Council president was 
not paid for the position, they probably could not do 
it," she said. "That's what you live on."

Officer stipends composed half of the UT assem­

bly's $60,839 budget in 2008 and 2009.

"Our budget adequately reflects where we place 
our emphasis — on ensuring that we have quality 
officers who can devote time to meet student needs," 
Spikes said.

In UT's assembly, 10 paid executive positions, ex­
cluding the president's, range in pay from $707 to 
$4,335. The president and two vice presidents also 
receive a free parking pass.

"I don't think you can ever compensate [us] enough, 
but it's the kind of thing I would do even without any 
pay, just for my resume and experience," said Paul 
Gavaza, UT's graduate assembly vice president for ex­
ternal affairs, who receives $4,335 per year.

Bradley Carpenter, a former UT assembly presi­
dent, said he worked about 40 hours per week. He 
said he was appreciative of his stipend but gave it 
little thought.

STIPEND continues on page 2

Austin mayoral candidate Lee Leffingwell, left, has accused opponent Brewster 
McCracken's campaign of violating city campaign finance rules by raising money for 
a runoff election that has not been declared.

Lara Haase | Daily Texan Staff

PlPE-BOMB SCARE LEADS TO EVACUATION OF COURTHOUSE

Akumal

Illustration by Jante Shaw | Daily Texan Staff

City looking to lawyers 

to help settle dispute 
over cam paign finance

By Pierre Bertrand
Daily Texan Staff 
The debate surroundin g the 
crim inal charges filed again st 
mayoral candidate Brewster Mc­
Cracken over a possible breach of 
the city's charter continues into its 
fourth day as Saturday's munici­
pal election approaches.

Attorneys with the city's law 
departm ent are looking for le­
gal guidance from lawyers out­
side city government to help settle 
a dispute between mayoral can­
didates Lee Leffingwell and Mc­
Cracken over campaign fundrais­
ing limits stipulated in the city's 
charter.

Under the charter, a candidate 
may not collect more than $30,000 
per election from individuals liv­
ing outside the city limits. In the 
case of a runoff election, the can­
didates can raise an additional 
$20,000 from outsiders.

In cam paign finance reports 
submitted Friday, McCracken re­
ported collecting about $41,525 
from contributors outside the city. 
On Sunday, Leffingw ell's cam ­
paign issued a written complaint, 
and on Monday, Leffingwell is­
sued criminal charges in munici­
pal court.

"This is an absolutely legitimate 
debate in political opinion," said 
Colin Rowan, McCracken's press 
secretary.

But any attem pt to settle the 
disagreem ent between the two

FUNDS continues on page 2

Photographer of feet has 
drawn complaints for years

By Avi Selk
Daily Texan Staff 
Keep your socks on — a mys­
terious photographer of women's 
feet has been prowling cam pus 
for years, according to witnesses 
and police.

Since at least 2006, a man in 
his 50s or 60s has periodically ap­
proached fem ale students and 
asked to take pictures of their bare 
feet or hands, said UT police Offi­
cer Darrell Halstead.

A student who said she had al­
lowed the man to photograph her 
foot in October alerted police after 
she spotted him again in late April 
walking away from a woman who 
w as rolling up her sock near Lit­
tlefield Fountain.

After asking around, the stu­
dent told UTPD the man had re­
quested modeling services from

several women in the area that 
day, including a few members of 
her sorority.

UTPD has received seven or 
eight similar complaints in the last 
several years, said Halstead, who 
believes he spotted the photogra­
pher about two years ago when he 
saw a man of the same description 
snapping photos of women's feet 
at 24th and Guadalupe streets.

The photographer, who seems 
to be most active during the spring 
semesters, is a white, middle-aged 
bald man who usually presents 
himself as an art student, according 
to police. Though his requests have 
disturbed several students, police 
say he has committed no cnme be­
cause he doesn't photograph with­
out subjects' permission.

PHOTO continues on page 2

The Travis County Courthouse 
was evacuated for about an hour 
Wednesday after a passerby mis­
took a broken car part on the side­
walk for a pipe bomb.

Ambulances, a bomb squad 
and police responded to the call at 
about 10:50 a.m., said Roger Wade, 
a spokesman for the Travis Coun­
ty Sheriff's Office. "Literally hun­
dreds" of people were moved a safe 
distance from the building, Wade 
said.

By about noon, the car part had 
been cleared of suspicion and "ev­
erything was back to normal,"
Wade said.

Wade defended the multi-agen­
cy response and evacuation as an 
abundance of caution.

"From a layman's perspective, 
you just can't tell," he said. "Ev­
eryone did the appropriate thing 
here. The person reported it to 
[security] like they should have. 
All the agencies responded like 
clockwork. Luckily, it wasn't an 
explosive."

— A vi Selk

Evacuees gather outside the Travis County Courthouse on Wednesday afternoon. Police evacuated 
he building for about an hour after a passerby mistook a car part for a pipe bomb.

S a n Y oun g | Daily Texan Staff

COMING TOMORROW — As the end of the school year nears, the Texan takes a look back

 Thursday, May 7, 2009

PHOTO: UTPD 
recommends 
walking away

From page 1

Still, H a ls te a d u rg e d a n y ­
one w h o e n c o u n te rs the m an 
and is uncom fortable w ith his 
requests to sim ply w alk aw ay 
from him and im m ediately con­
tact police.

A m b itio u s fo o t p h o to g r a ­
p h ers are not u n iq u e to UT. A 
UT history senior, a stu d e n t at 
N ew York U n iv ersity a n d a n ­
o th er at a college in C o n n e c t­
icut h av e all re p o rte d rec eiv ­
in g n e a rly id e n tic a l e -m a ils 
re q u e s tin g p ic tu r e s o f th e ir 
b a re feet in th e la s t s e v e ra l 
m onths.

"I am som ebody from school, 
b u t I w ish to rem a in a n o n y ­
m o u s," rea d a N o v e m b e r e- 
mail to the history senior, w ho 
d id n 't w an t her nam e p rinted. 
"I am doing an art project u s­
ing p ic tu res of bare feet, an d 
I h av e alw a y s th o u g h t y o u rs 
w ere nice."

"If y o u h a v e an y in te re st, 
just send m e a few pictures of 
the tops and or bottom s of your 
b are feet to th is e-m a il," th e 
m essage continued.

It is u n k n o w n h o w m a n y 
other students received sim ilar 
e-mails or w hether the m essag­
es are connected to the cam pus

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There'a a white box invading Mexico! 
Good luck on your finals, everyone!

Meredith Clark, a Spanish literature doctoral student, reads a poem by Pablo Neruda on Wednesday as part of the Surrealism in Latin 
American Poetry event celebrating the Harry Ransom Center's acquisition of Frida Kahlo's famous self-portrait.

Students and faculty listened as associate Spanish professor En­

rique Fierro read aloud Vicente Huidobro's poem "El Espejo de 
Agua" at the Harrv Ransom Center on Wednesday afternoon.

The center hosted Poetry on the Plaza to celebrate Latin American 

surrealist poetry and present Frida Kahlo's 1940 "Self-Portrait with 
Thom Necklace and Hummingbird."

Kahlo's self-portrait is a well-known work that has been loaned to 

Meredith Clark, Sean Manning and Francisco Plata, Hispanic liter­
ature graduate students, read the poetry’ of different Latin American 
surrealists, including Octavio Paz and Pablo Neruda.

Fierro said Latin American poetry provides a new view on verse.
"Latin American poetry is pure sound in the language of the fu­
ture," Fierro said. "The poetry is the deriding of literary history using 
techniques of modernism, creationism and surrealism."

museums around the world.

— Priscilla Pelli

MEXICO: Students enrolled in non-faculty-led programs must appeal to University

From page 1

w ill p ay to change p lane tickets 
from Mexico to Puerto Rico for stu­
dents in the marine-life program.

S tud en ts planning on studying 
abroad in Mexico this sum m er via 
non-faculty-led program s will be 
req u ired to ap p eal their p lans to 
the University. G ivens said the ap­
peals process w ould likely not pre­
vent students from going to Mexi­
co but that they w ould ensure that 
stu d en ts are aw are of the risks in­
v o lv e d a n d tak e th e n ec essary 
precautions.

T he N u rs in g in G u a d a la ja ra 
and H ealth C are in M exico p ro ­

gram s teach studen ts Spanish and 
clinical skills in public health and 
hospital settings. G ivens said stu ­
dents w orking in health care facil­
ities th at m ig h t be treating sw ine 
flu cases could be particularly v u l­
nerable to the H1N1 virus.

"W e're n o t so*m uch w o rrie d 
about the bro ad spread ing of the 
in flu e n z a ," G iv e n s sa id . "B u t 
since s tu d e n ts w ill be in h ealth 
care facilities, there's a question of 
increased risk."

N ursing senior Candice D uran­
te said she h ad been looking for­
w ard to sp en d in g the sum m er in 
Guadalajara.

"[The p rogram ] seem s like it's

going to be a lot of fun," D u ra n ­
te said. "It's a m uch better w ay to 
learn Spanish than in A ustin."

D u ra n te said the U n iv e rsity 's 
decisio n to cancel th e p ro g ra m 
w as overly cautious.

"T h a t p isse s m e off, a c tu a l­
ly," D urante said, ad ding that she 
d id n 't think the virus w as a signif­
icant threat.

N u rs in g ju n io r K elly Easley, 
w ho had also p lanned on partic­
ipating in the program , also said 
she w as upset by the decision.

"I d o n 't know w h a t to think. 
1 m ean, it sucks," Easley said. "I 
think [the threat] is overblow n."

Program leader A lexandra G ar­

cia declined to com m ent.

M arine science professor K en­
neth D unton said all 15 of the n atu­
ral sciences students w ho planned 
on spending a M aym ester in Aku- 
mal have confirm ed they w ill go 
to Puerto Rico instead.

D unton, w ho has led the p ro ­
gram since it began in 1988, said 
the change w ould interrupt several 
years of monitoring m arine plants' 
reactions to increased nutrient in­
puts caused by developm ent along 
the coast of the Yucátan Peninsula.
"I'm a little concerned," D u n ­
ton said. "Yes, it is an interruption, 
but hopefully only in tim e, not in 
the program . ... We do this every

"That pisses me off, 
actually."

— Candice Durante, 
nursing senior

tw o years, so h o p efu lly in 2011 
w e'll be back."

D unton said that in som e w ays, 
th e change m ay actually benefit 
students.

"I'm very optim istic," D unton 
said. "I thin k it's going to be an 
excellent experience. The quality 
is going to be superb because stu ­

d en ts w ill w o rk at a research in­
s titu tio n a ro u n d 15 o th e r facu l­
ty m em bers, w hereas in Mexico it 
will just be m e."

The U niversity is still deliberat­
ing the future of a faculty-led pro­
gram to Xalapa, Mexico, for Span­
ish students. O fficials say a deci­
sion will be reached by Monday.

Mexico has been easing restric­
tions developed to prevent the vi­
rus' spread, including a five-day 
shutdow n in Mexico City.

By Monday, universities, elem en­
tary schools, m useum s and church­
es should be back to norm al. Offi­
cials now say 42 Mexican citizens 
have died due to the virus.

ODDLY ENOUGH

Painting the town odd: Get 
paid to celebrate rare dates
SAN FRANCISCO — Prepare 

to be awed by O dd Day.

For the mathematically chal­
lenged, Thursday's date, 5/7/09, 
is one of only six this century that 
will feature three consecutive odd 
numbers.

Numbers lovers say the rare oc­
currence is an excuse to celebrate.

"The previous stretch of 
six dates like this started with 
1/3/1905 — 13 m onths after the 
Wright Brothers' flight," said 
Ron Gordon, the Redwood City 
teacher who enthusiastically 
prom otes these numerical hol­
idays, like Square Root Day on 
3 /3 /0 9 .

Gordon is offering a prize of 
$579 to those w ho celebrate the 
date with the most zeal or who 
get the most people involved in 
an Odd Celebration.

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FUNDS: McCracken campaign 

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cam paigns is gone d u e to the 
p e n d in g c rim in a l c h a rg e s , 
Rowan said.

"B rew ster h ad am ple tim e 
to correct the situation," Lef- 
fingw ell said. "Instead, he is 
trying to defend the practice."
The McCracken cam paign's 
defense against the charges re­
flects a different interpretation 
of the contribution clause. The 
clause, R ow an said, p erm its 
M cCracken to raise fu n d s for 
a potential runoff election, but 
not spend them. The city char­
ter does not stip u late explic­
it m om ents w h en can d id ates 
can or cannot raise fu n d s for 
elections, Rowan said.

M cC racken can ra ise th e 
m oney b u t c a n n o t sp e n d it 
yet, Rowan said.

"The intent of the law is to 
restrict the influence of o u t­
siders in an election," Row an 
said. "The influence of outsid­
ers is in the spending of m on­
ey, not in the collection."

Form er A ustin m ayor G us 
G arcia said the c h a rte r's lan­
g u a g e is s u ffic ie n tly c le a r 
enough to outline w hat is and 
w h a t is n o t p e rm itte d . Mc-

C rack en 's defense is n o t a p ­
plicable in regards to that spe­
cific clause in the charter, Mc­
Cracken said.

"That section has nothing do 
w ith sp en d in g ," G arcia said. 
"It has to do w ith collection. 'In 
the event of a runoff election' 
— those are the key w ords. If 
there is a run-off election, then 
you can go get $20,000."

Leffingwell said he filed the 
charges to u p h o ld the city's 
ch a rter ra th e r th a n gain the 
up p er hand in the close m ay- 
oral race. The consistent inter­
pretation of the charter since 
1997 is that the limitations ap­
ply from election to election, he 
said. One cannot raise or collect 
funds for one election if it has 
not yet been declared, he said.

G a rc ia , w h o w a s m a y o r 
from 2001 to 2003 and served 
on the City Council from 1991 
to 1997, said that if he w as p u t 
in M cC racken's p o sitio n , he 
w o u ld retu rn the m oney im ­
m e d iately to clear his n am e 
an d p reserve his ca m p a ig n 's 
legitimacy.

"I would not want the may­
or's race clouded by a city 
charter controversy," Garcia 
said.

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Graduate officer compensation

Graduate officers'compensation in tuitio n and 
stipends per year at some public Big 12 
universities

Compensation paid by student fees:
University of Texas 
Oklahoma State 
Iowa State University

University of Missouri
University of Oklahoma

20,000

15,000

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Iowa Texas 
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STIPEND: Some graduate officers 
receive less than undergraduates

From page 1

"I ran unknowing w e were 
even paid," Carpenter said. 
"I was more excited about the 
parking pass in the Brazos Ga­
rage than the stipend."

Alaine Amott, president of the 
University of Missouri's Gradu­
ate Professional Council, said she 
earns $4376 per year for working 
about 40 hours per week, during 
which she attends meetings with 
administrators, works on council 
legislation and organizes gradu­
ate student events.

Missouri's graduate student 
president is paid $2,693 less 
than the school's student body 
president. Amott said this may 
be attributable to the fact that as 
graduate student president, she 
represents only one-fourth of 
the student population.

"The great thing about the 
graduate and professional stu­
dents is we pick our battles very 
wisely," Amott said. "We have a 
different frame of mind about life 
and what will influence the uni­
versity. The undergrads will pick 
a battle just to pick a battle."

At Kansas State U niversi­
ty, Graduate Student Council

presidents are paid $2,0 00 dur­
ing their year in office, while the 
three other top executives re­
ceive $1,000, said council Presi­
dent Kara Dillard.

Dillard said she works 15 to 
20 hours per week attending 
council meetings and planning 
events for the school's 4,500 
graduate students.

"Certainly for the amount of 
work we do for graduate stu­
dents, we aren't compensated 
what we should be," Dillard said. 
"But I guess I should be thankful 
that we get something."

Dillard also works as a teach­
ing assistant and a graduate re­
search assistant, and she said 
each job requires her to put in 
20 hours of work per week in 
exchange for a monthly stipend 
and tuition waiver.

Aaron Gross, president of 
Iowa State's Graduate and Pro­
fessional Student Senate, said 
he is paid about $3,000 per year 
— about half the cost of his tu­
ition — and that he works about 
five hours per week.

"Everyone wants to make more 
money, but I believe stealing from 
the poor [students] is not the best 
way to go about this," he said.

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NATION BRIEFLY

Wal Mart escapes criminal 

charges with safety changes

MINEOLA, N Y — Wal-Mart 
agreed Wednesday to pay nearly $2 
million and improve safety at its 92 
New York stores as part of a deal 
with prosecutors that avoids crim­
inal charges in the trampling death 
of a temporary worker last year.

Nassau County District Attorney 

Kathleen Rice said that if she had 
brought criminal charges against the 
retailer in the worker's death, the 
company would have been subject 
to only a $10,000 fine if convicted.
Instead, she said, the compa­
ny has agreed to implement an im­
proved crowd-management plan 
for post-Thanksgivmg Day sales, 
set up a $400,000 victims' compen­
sation and remuneration fund and 
give $1.5 million to Nassau County 
social services programs and non­
profit groups.

The agreement included no ad­

mission of guilt by Wal-Mart.

Nazi death camp guard requests 

to not be deported to Germany

CLEVELAND — John Demjan- 

juk, branded a Nazi death camp 
guard by the U.S. government asked 
for the Supreme Court on Wednes­
day to stop his deportation to ( *er- 
many where an arrest warrant ac­
cusing him of 29,000 counts of acces­
sory to murder during World War 
II waits.

A federal appeals court in Ohio 
has cleared the way to deport him. 
The 89-year-old retired autoworker, 
his family and his lawyer say he's in 
poor health and too frail to be sent 
overseas.

The Supreme Court didn't say 
when or if it would rule. The appeal 
goes first to Justice John Paul Ste­
vens, who will decide the request on 
his own or refer it to the full court.
The arrest warrant in Germany 
accuses Demjanjuk of being a guard 
at the Sobibor camp in Nazi-occu­
pied Poland in 1943. Demjanjuk; a 
native Ukrainian, maintains he was 
a prisoner of war, not a camp guard. 
Evidence the U.S. government has 
used against him includes a Nazi 
document: an identification card 
placing him at a training camp and 
then at various death or forced-la­
bor camps, including Sobibor.

A German court on Wednesday re­

jected an attempt to block his depor­
tation, saying the issue would have to 
be decided by American courts.

Two New England states move 

toward legalizing gay marriage

AUGUSTA, Maine — New Eng­

land states signaled an increasing 
willingness to sanction gay marriage 
on Wednesday as Maine legalized 
the practice and the New Hampshire 
Legislature voted to do the same.
If New Hampshire Gov. John 
Lynch signs the bill or lets it become 
law without his signature, his state 
would become the sixth overall to 
allow gay marriage.

Maine Gov. John Baldacci, a 
Democrat who hadn't indicated 
how he would handle his state's 
bill, signed it shortly after the legis­
lation passed the Senate on a vote of 
21-13 — a margin not large enough 
to override a veto.

"In the past, I opposed gay mar­
riage while supporting the idea of 
civil unions," Baldacci said in a state­
ment read in his office. "1 have come 
to believe that this is a question of 
fairness and of equal protection un­
der the law, and that a civil union is 
not equal to civil marriage."

C om piled from Associated Press reports

P resid en t Barack O b a m a m a kes rem arks in th e G ra n d Foyer o f th e W h ite H o u se in W a s h in g to n on W e d n e s d a y after m e e tin g w ith A fg h a n P resid en t H a m id K arzai, left, a n d 

P akistani P resid en t A s if Ali Z a rd a ri. T h e lea d ers d isc u sse d th eir c o m m itm e n ts to fig h tin g th e Talib a n a n d a l-Q a id a m ilitan ts in b o th A fg h a n is ta n a n d Pakistan.

G e rald H e rb e rt | Associated Press

Obama obtains agreement to fight Taliban

By M a tth ew Lee
The Associated Press 
W A S H IN G T O N — P r e s i­
dent Barack Obam a declared he 
got the com m itm ents he w ant­
ed W ednesday from the leaders 
of Pakistan and A fghanistan to 
more aggressively fight Taliban 
and al-Q aida m ilitants w ho are 
gaining pow er and sow ing vio­
lence in their countries.

T h e p re s id e n ts o f the tw o 
countries stood at his side after a 
day of joint meetings. Obam a is 
sending 21,000 fresh U.S. troops 
into A fghanistan to help w ith 
the anti-terror war.

T h e h ig h -s ta k e s d ip lo m a ­
cy had A fg hanistan P resid ent 
H am id Karzai and P a k ista n 's 
A sif Ali Z ardari m eeting w ith 
U.S. officials separately and to­
gether, first at the State D epart­
m en t and th en at th e W h ite 
H ouse. L oom ing over the ses­
sions was a bom bing on M on­
day in Afghanistan that officials

there said killed dozens of civil­
ians and for w hich the Obam a 
administration apologized.

Secretary o f State Hillary' Rod­
ham Clinton told Karzai that the 
Obam a adm inistration "deeply, 
deeply" regretted the loss of ci­
vilian lives. W hen Obam a went 
before the cam eras, he pledged 
his administration would "m ake 
every effort to avoid civilian ca­
s u a ltie s" in both A fg h an istan 
and P ak istan , w here U.S. air- 
strikes have stoked anti-A m eri­
can sentiment.

In Afghanistan, the U.S. forc­
es com m and er said it w asn't a 
certain tv that the d eaths h ap ­
pened as a result of U.S. military 
action. Gen. David M cK iernan 
said American forces came to the 
aid of A fghans w ho m ay have 
been ambushed by the Taliban in 
Farah province on Sunday.

G a th e rin g th e th re e le a d ­
ers together at one table, along 
w ith low er-level officials from

the three countries, "reflects the 
kind of concrete cooperation and 
detail that is going to ultimately 
m ake a difference in improving 
opportunity and democracy and 
stability in Pakistan and in Af­
ghanistan," Obam a said.

le a r n e d 

"W e h a v e 

tim e 
and again that our secu rity is 
shared ," the president said. "It 
is a lesson that we learned most 
painfully on 9 /1 1 , and it is a les­
son that we will not forget."

T he presid ent said all three 
governm ents m ust cooperate in 
fighting insurgents w ho control 
parts of Pakistan and A fghani­
stan and m ust "d en y them the 
space" to threaten local residents 
— or Americans.

Earlier in the day, Clinton told 
reporters that Karzai and Zard­
ari m ade specific com m itm ents 
o f how th ey w o u ld in crease 
the fight against m ilitants. She 
w o u ld n 't n am e th eir p ro m is­
es yet, but said the talks were

"p rod ucing som e very prom is­
ing early signs" of greater coop­
eration.

P akistan launched an o ffen ­
sive against the Taliban in the re­
gion after the collapse of a peace 
deal that had seen the extremists 
expand their territory toward the 
capital. Taliban forces recently 
have alarmed the U.S. and its al­
lies by striking out from strong­
holds on the P akistani-A fghan 
border to areas closer to the cap­
ital of Islamabad.

It is th e b ro a d e r s tr u g g le 
against terrorism, with forces led 
by the United States often fight­
ing shadow y enem ies on ill-de­
fined battlefields, that got Karzai 
and Zardari invited here in the 
first place.

The pair responded positively 
W ednesday to the call for great­
er cooperation, saying they, too, 
were com m itted to the struggle 
ag ain st the "co m m o n th rea t" 
posed by the Taliban and other

militants.

As for the b om b in g , Karzai 
ordered a probe into allegations 
by local officials that more than 
30 civilians were killed by U.S.- 
led troops battling m ilitants in 
western Afghanistan. The Inter­
national C om m ittee of the Red 
Cross said a team it had sent to 
the area saw "d ozen s of bodies 
in each of the two locations," in­
cluding women and children.

The U.S. has sent a brigadier 

general to investigate.

O bam a w an ted a renew ed 
com m itm ent by Karzai to better 
coordinate operations w ith Pak­
istan and the U.S., which will ex­
pand its military presence in Af­
ghanistan under the president's 
revised war strategy against the 
Taliban.

The U.S. also w anted assur­
a n ce s fro m Z a rd a ri th a t his 
country's atomic w eapons were 
secure.

Rapid flooding in Brazil prompts air, land rescue

By A lan C le n d e n n in g
The Associated Press 

SAO PAULO — Brazil rushed 
aid Wednesday by air, over land 
and through rapidly rising w a­
ters to scores of cities and towns 
iso la te d by flo o d s th at hav e 
killed at least 32 and left nearly
200,000 homeless.

But in an om inous sign that 
w orried o fficia ls, rain co n tin ­
ued to fall across a vast region 
stretching from the Amazon jun­
gle to the north eastern A tlan ­
tic coast and meteorologists pre­
dicted the bad w eath er could 
last for weeks.

Isolated looting was reported 
in com munities cut off by flood­
ing, and some areas experienced 
their heaviest rainfall in two de­
cades, officials said.

In th ree A m azon sta te s, at 
least 3,000 Ind ians near rivers 
that overflow ed fled to higher 
ground or into the jungle after 
seeing their crops of manioc, ba­
nanas and potatoes destroyed, 
said Sebastiao Haji M anchiner, 
executive secretary of the Brazil­
ian Amazon Indigenous Organi­
zation.

In the hardest-hit state of Ma- 
ranhao, som e rivers were rising

as m uch as 1 foot per day, de­
stroying bridges and m aking it 
too dangerous for relief workers 
to navigate waterways.

T h e u n u su ally h eav y rains 
that have slam m ed the region 
for two m onths are now affect­
ing 10 of B razil's 26 states in a 
zone three times the size of Alas­
ka. It stretches from the normal­
ly w et ju ngle to coastal states 
know n for len g th y d rou gh ts, 
though not all parts of the states 
have been affected.

M o st v ic tim s d ro w n ed or 
w ere killed w hen m u d slid es 
sw ept apart ram shackle homes,

but authorities feared the situa­
tion could get much w orse be­
cau se som e areas h av e b een 
isolated for days w ithout ship ­
ments of food or water.

C ivil d efen se w o rk ers used 
arm y helicopters to airlift su p ­
plies to some places. Trucks lad­
en w ith em ergency ship m ents 
of food and w ater were forced 
to stop at highway washouts so 
aid w orkers could transfer the 
goods onto boats for delivery, 
said A bner Ferreira, a sp o k es­
m an for M aran h a o 's civil d e ­
fense department.

In the Para state city o f Al-

tam ira, more rain fell in three 
h o u rs than the ju n g le city of
9 0 ,0 0 0 n o rm a lly g ets in tw o 
m onths, M ayor O d ileid a Sam- 
paio told the state-run Agencia 
Brasil news agency.

M e te o ro lo g ists b lam ed the 
rains on an Atlantic weather sys­
tem that typically m oves on by 
April but has rem ained longer 
this year.

M eanw hile southern Brazil is 
in the midst of a severe drought 
blam ed on the La Nina w eath­
er phenom enon, w hich lowers 
water temperatures in the Pacif­
ic Ocean.

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VIEWPOINT

Slimy machine

Political appointments grease the wheels of the Texas political 
machine L Hten, they are shamelessly quid pro quo and are used to 
reward loyal political insiders. While this may be inherent to the ap­
pointment process several considered appointees in the upper eche­
lons of Texas' government have made it clear that this systemic flaw 
must be dealt with.

Yesterday, a seemingly innocuous meeting was held in the Texas 
Senate. 'The Senate nominations committee met and rubber-stamped 
Gov. Rick Perrv's nominations to a handful of government boards, 
count ils, commissions and authorities. The appointments are now 
waiting for approv al by the majority-Republican Senate.

But one of these appointments, namely Shanda Perkins for the 
Texas Board of Pardons and Parole, is obviously politically motivat­
ed and unmerited.

According to a press release from the governor's office, Perkins' 
past positions include: banking executive, m em ber of the U nit­
ed Way of Johnson Countv Board of Directors and Burleson Lions 
C lub, director of the Johnson County Chamber Summit and mem­
ber and past ambassador of the Burleson Chamber of Commerce.

Bv Perry's own admission, Perkins possesses no professional ex­
perience in the criminal justice system. As far as we can tell, her only 
exposure to the courts' inner workings is the moral crusade she led 
m 2004 against a Burleson woman who sold sex toys. The woman 
ended up serving jail time, while the law used to prosecute her was 
later overturned in federal court.

The Texas Constitution stipulates that the Board of Pardons and 
Paroles is responsible for determining which prisoners are released 
on parole and the conditions and revocation of parole and making 
recommendations for clemency decisions made by the governor. 
While her career experience is reason enough to question her nom­
ination we think that an individual so quick to publicly condemn 
others is not a wise choice for one of Texas' chief arbiters of mercy.

Also, as reported by the blog Capitol Annex, Lynne Cheney, the 
wife of former vice president Dick Cheney, joins an increasingly con­
troversial list of considerations for the State Board of Education's so­
cial studies board. Cheney, who has a Ph.D. in 19th-century British 
literature, spent the much of the '90s trying to rewrite national histo­
ry curricula. S h e felt that most courses of study at the time focused 
too heavilv on embarrassing elements of American history, such as 
the Ku Klux Klan and McCarthyism.

Now, 10 years after her efforts failed, she is set to join other di­
visive figures like the Rev. Peter Marshall, who hinted that Hurri­
cane Katrina was God's punishment for the "wickedness and deca­
dence" of New Orleans, to work on Texas' curricula.

Hoping for perfect meritocracy in governmental appointments 
and nom inations might be overly idealistic, but minimal experi­
ence in the field relevant to the position should be mandatory for 
all nominees. The Texas political machine might actually benefit the 
state's citizens if it was not run by people whose only qualification is 
their ideological loyalty to those in power.

— Josh Haney fo r the editorial board

THE FIRING LINE

How sweet it isn't

In response to the M ay 5 Fir­
ing Line by Audrae Erickson of 
the C orn R efin ers A ssociation 
("In defense of high fructose com 
syrup), I'm afraid I have to call 
BS on her claim s that high fruc­
tose com syrup has the same ef­
fects o i, the body as regular sug­
ar. High fructose com syrup is in 
fact metabolized by the body dif- 
ferentlv than regular sugar. Regu­
lar sugar is called sucrose and is 
m ade up of two sim pler sugars: 
fructose and glucose in a 1-1 ratio. 
High fructose com syrup, on the 
other hand, is made up prim ari­
ly of fructose, with a ratio of fruc­
tose to glucose sometimes as high 
as 9-1. Fructose is metabolized by 
the body differently from glucose. 
The by-products of fructose are 
glyceraldehyde and dihydroxyac- 
etone phosphate. Glyceraldehyde 
can be converted to a normal glu­
cose by-product, but it can also 
be converted to a product that is 
used to make fat by the body. In 
addition, fructose bypasses nor­
m al glu cose m etabolic ch e ck ­
points in the body, which leads to 
a greater production of fat.

H op efu lly that exp lan atio n 
w asn't too confusing, but, basi­
cally, fructose leads to greater fat 
production by the body than glu­
cose does. And since high fructose 
com syrup contains a higher ratio 
of fructose to glucose than regu­
lar sugar does, high fructose com 
syrup can lead to greater fat pro­
duction by the body than normal 
sugar would.

So no, high fructose com syrup 
does not have the same effects on 
the body that regular sugar does, 
and there has been growing con­
cern over the years that the use of 
high fructose com syrup is partia- 
ly responsible for the high rates 
of obesity’ in America. Who knew 
biochemistry could be so useful? 
(Source: "Essential Biochemistry" 
by Charlotte Pratt and Kathleen 
Comely)

from H1N1, commonly known as 
swine flu, visited UHS last week 
and was given Tamiflu and told 
to stay home. Now that he has re­
covered and w asn't on cam pus 
during his contagious period, all 
is supposed to be well and good 
("Possible swine flu case found at 
UT," May 6).

But is it? The scary thing about 
H1N1 is that we know so little 
about it. It is possible for som e­
one to be a carrier without hav­
ing any sym ptom s and be able 
to infect another person (possibly 
someone with a weaker immune 
system).

U H S's handling of the H1N1 
case is lazy and irresponsible. 
Governments in places like Hong 
Kong and China are going to great 
lengths to prevent the propaga­
tion of flu. They have quarantined 
hundreds of persons for a single 
suspected case. Perhaps UHS and 
the Austin Health Department do 
not have the measures or the will 
to impose a quarantine. Howev­
er, the least they can do is find out 
who else the infected person was 
in cor Lact with during his conta­
gious period: the friends he met, 
the people w orking at the su ­
permarket. All of them could be 
carriers and are possibly pass­
ing H1N1 to the greater Austin 
community.

Most scientists agree that it is 
not a matter of "if" but a matter 
of "w hen" a pandemic will occur. 
The handling of this case demon­
strates that Austin is not the least 
bit prepared to handle a pandem­
ic. UH S and the Austin Health 
Department better get their acts 
together before it is too late.

Nalini Belaramani 
Computer sciences graduate 
student

SU B M IT A FIRING LINE

E-mail your Firing Lines to firing- 
line@dailytexanonline.com. The Texan 
reserves the right to edit letters for 
brevity, darity and liability.

William Warshauer 
Nutrition junior

LEGALESE

UHS mishandled swine flu case

I w ant to thank U n iv ersity 
Health Services at the University 
o f Texas at Austin for putting our 
lives at rLsk.

A student possibly suffering

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the Texas Student Media Board of 
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The reality of plus/minus grading

By Jeremy Burchard
Daily Texan Columnist

Ready or not, here it comes — If you're an undergrad and plan to 
stick around for at least another semester, prepare to change your 
GPA calculation skills. To the displeasure of many students, the Uni­
versity will begin employing a plus/m inu s grading scale this fall.

According to a recently released Senate of College Councils in­
form ation sheet titled "W hat you need to know about P lu s /M i­
nus G rading," the plu s/m inu s issue has a history at the U niversi­
ty dating back to 1979. Most recently, the issue popped up in Febru­
ary of 2007 and escalated toward its imminent implementation. The 
University lists a num ber of reasons for using the scale, m ost no­
tably that 11 of its peer institutions use it and that the detailed na­
ture of the scale will more accurately reflect a student's academ ic 
performance.

The scale will make it harder for students to earn 4.0 gradepoints. 
Instead, m any students will find them selves receiving A minuses, 
worth 3.67 gradepoints. However, a student who earns a high B will 
receive 3.33 gradepoints per hour, instead of just three.

I may not catch too many high fives for saying this, but the move 
to the new scale is practical and smart — if colleges can amend some 
GPA-specific requirements.

Much of the case for plus/m inus grading makes sense. The new 
scale makes room for greater accuracy in GPA calculation and better 
represents a student's performance. Som e students miss an A or B 
by a few tenths of a point; they will be happy to receive more credit 
than before. On the other hand, some students barely squeak out the 
A or B. They w on't be as happy when the new system steals away 
a third of a point.

Regardless of where your grades fall on the line between C, B or 
A, the new number will be more precise than rounding up or down 
to two, three or four credits. But that doesn't assuage much student 
discontent.

Most students disapprove of p lu s/m in u s grading because they 
feel it will inevitably lower their GPAs. After all, many students who 
receive an A in a class actually receive a low A. Next year that grade 
will translate into less than the usual four credits per hour. There is

also no A plus on the scale to help students balance out A minuses, 
making the esteemed 4.0 GPA much harder to reach.

I say, so what? It's just a number. Some employers take GPA into 
account, but they rarely consider it the deciding factor between two 
prospects (one of whom, if he or she didn't attend UT, was graded 
on a variant of the p lu s/m in u s scale anyway). The num ber is only 
a num ber — unless it determ ines a student's status in a college or 
school within the Universitv.

If the U niversity seriously intends for the p lu s/m in u s grading 
scale to be beneficial, it should encourage colleges to amend GPA re­
strictions for certain programs. Many honors programs require stu­
dents to maintain GPAs as high as 3.5 if they wish to stay in the pro­
gram. But achieving those types of grades will be much harder un­
der the new system. Potentially, a student could get an A minus in 
every course and still be kicked out of the program.

The same type of duplicity applies in some engineering classes, 
where 54 out of 100 points is often the class average and a 65 is con­
sidered a B. Now, just differentiating between a C and a B w on't cut 
it. Instructors must create very specific lines between plus and m i­
nus, to the point w here a student's future in the m ajor teeters on 
one-tenth of a point.

Because the average GPA w ill undoubtedly decrease, colleges 
need to reevaluate GPA-specific requirements. If they don't, the Uni­
versity will see a lot more student frustration, not to mention a de­
crease in honors program enrollment, across campus.

So yes, a potential (read: probable) drop in that little number we 1 

like to judge so much by seems like a bit of a blow to the self-esteem. 
And yes, breaking up credits into thirds makes it harder to keep up 
and do the math in your head. And yes, the University saying "w ell, 
everybody else is doing it!" makes GPA calculation seem like a piss­
ing contest. And yes, all of that will be tough to deal with at first. But 
plus/m inus grading is a very logical strategy, at least in theory.

It's also a delicate topic am ong students. If the adm inistration 
wants this system to benefit students, it needs to carefully monitor 
how the new scale affects students' academ ic eligibility and adjust 
requirements accordingly.

Burchard is a liberal arts honors, rhetoric and writing, an d radio-television-film sophomore.

The diseases we should be worrying about

By Laura Covarrubias
Daily Texan Columnist

W hile we tem porarily overreact to sw ine flu, the d eveloping 
world is being ravaged by many m ore-serious diseases. W hile we 
allow our unfounded fears to envelop us, donning our surgical 
masks and protecting our stores of Tamiflu with National Guard 
troops, m illions die from preventable diseases, such as A ID S, tu­
berculosis and malaria.

Last year, an estimated 2 million people died of AIDS while an 
additional 2.7 m illion were infected with HIV, and today at least 
33.6 million people live with H IV /A ID S. M eanw hile, 11.7 million 
orphans w ho lost their parents to A ID S live in Africa alone, and 
three-fourths of those who die from AIDS live in the sub-Saharan 
Africa. While millions of dollars have gone toward preventing and 
treating the disease, bureaucratic problem s plague these efforts, 
leaving millions without access to testing or treatment facilities.

Too often these statistics have a num bing effect on us, and we 
invariably fail to think of each fatality as the tragic end to anoth­
er human being's life. Stephanie N olan's book "28 Stories of AIDS 
in A frica" w orks to combat this paradox, with 28 individual stories 
of AID S to represent the 28 million living w ith H IV /A ID S at the 
tim e of publication. One story is that of Prisca M hlolo of Z im ba­
bw e, who learned of her status only after her chronically ill 1-year- 
old daughter Agnes was diagnosed with HTV. Agnes lived just past 
her eighth birthday, and, shortly after her death, M hlolo's husband 
also died of AIDS. Prisca's family accused her of causing the deaths 
of her daughter and husband, physically attacking her and taking 
aw ay her rem aining children. Soon afterw ards her second-oldest 
son killed him self with pesticide because he believed he w as also 
infected w ith HIV and did not want to endure the sam e excruci­
ating death he w atched his sister and father undergo. A lthough 
Prisca eventually became a positive symbol of hope after AIDS, her 
story is all too com mon — but not com m only spoken of.

M eanw hile, m alaria and tuberculosis also threaten the lives of 
those in developing nations. Each year there are anywhere from 350 
million to 500 million cases of malaria in the world, with 1-3 million

deaths, m ostly in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2004, there were an esti- ' 
mated 14.6 million cases of chronic active tuberculosis with 1.6 mil­
lion deaths, and in som e African countries up to 80 percent of the * 
population tests positive for the disease.

W hereas H IV and A ID S can be m anaged w ith antiretroviral 
treatment, both malaria and tuberculosis are curable. But the much- 
needed m edications com e at a price. Although only a few dollars 
each month can pay for treatments, those typically affected by these 
diseases are im poverished, and the m oney provided by non-gov- 
em m ental organizations is often misused and unreliable. To c o m - ' 
bat these needless deaths, we m ust com m unicate m ore effective­
ly with those living in the affected com m unities, allowing them to 
take the reins in grassroots efforts that are free from governm ent 
intervention.

One can get invovled with or give to reputable organizations on 
cam pus as well. The U T chapter of FACE AIDS, which has a near­
perm anent presence on the West M all, has raised $25,000 through 
the sale of pins and T-shirts. The money goes to Partners in Health, 
a nonprofit that provides healthcare to AIDS sufferers in Africa.

N onprofit organizations like UNICEF m ake giving m oney sim ­
ple, and even though you m ay n ot have m uch to give, a s m a ll' 
am ount of money — what you m ight use to buy a cup of coffee or 
a pack of gum on any other day — can make an impact.

M ost im portantly, w e m ust learn to care about the plights of 
those affected by these diseases. The effect of a lifetim e of m edia 
exposure to images of AIDS is sim ilar to the num bing nature of sta­
tistics. Since HTV/AID S has been around for the entirety of m ost of 
our lives, many of us fail to understand the gravity of the disease. • 
Because we live in a nation that is geographically im m une to m a- ' 
laria and separated from the vast m ajority of tuberculosis cases, we 
forget their existence. But each day m illions of children m ust face ' 
these realities, m any of them dying from these diseases or being or- - 
phaned by them.

We must remember that each of these children has a name, a face 

and — if we can help give them one — a future.

Covarrubias is a radio-television-film and sociology junior.

 Thursday, M ay 7, 2009

Ne*

Kindle DX 
release stirs 
electronic 
book debate

Amazons latest wireless 
reading device designed 

to replace text on paper

By Samantha Deavin
Daily Texan Staff

A s th e s p r in g s e m e s te r 
com es to a close and students 
look forw ard to putting aw ay 
th e ir te x tb o o k s , th e u n v e il­
ing of A m a z o n 's la test K in ­
d le w ire le s s re a d in g d ev ice 
W ednesday again raised ques­
tio n s a b o u t re p la cin g tra d i­
tional textbooks.

A m azon first re leased the 
Kindle, a w ireless reading de­
vice for e-books, in 2007. The 
K indle DX, unveiled W ednes­
day, h as a scre e n 2 .5 tim e s 
larger that of its p red ecessor 
and was specifically designed 
for the ea sy read in g o f te x t­
books or new spapers.

A m azon an n o u n ced at the 
product's launch that five uni­
versities — Arizona State U ni­
versity, C ase W estern Reserve 
U niversity, P rinceton U n iver­
sity, the U niversity of Virginia 
and Pace U n iv ersity — have 
agreed to test the K ind le DX 
with their students.

K ev in H eg a rty , U T 's v ice 
presid ent and ch ie f fin ancial 
o ffice r, said he w o u ld hav e 
liked U T to have been includ­
ed in the testing. At the begin­
ning of this sem ester, Hegarty', 
in partnership w ith a publish­
ing firm , in itiated a research 
project at U T in w hich rough­
ly 1,000 students in eight class­
es w ere given free electro n ic 
textbooks.

"I w as in te reste d in fin d ­
ing ou t w h at the level of in ­
terest w as and how effective 
textbooks m ight be, consid er­
ing that students have histori­
cally not em braced them ," H e­
garty said.

The su ccess o f the p ro ject, 
and the e xten t to w h ich stu ­
dents and teachers em braced 
the e le c tro n ic m a te ria l, w ill 
be e v a lu a te d in th e co m in g 
weeks, w hen student and staff 
surveys are com piled.

C h a d S t i t h , d ir e c t o r o f 
co u rse m a te ria ls at the U n i­
v e rsity C o -o p , said on ly 0.5 
percent of the p o tential sales 
o f the 200 e-b o o k titles w ere 
m ade during this semester.

A n d re w D illo n , d e a n o f 
U T 's Sch o o l o f In fo rm a tio n , 
said the psychological attach­
m ent to paper books is an im ­
p o rta n t facto r in e x p la in in g 
this slow uptake of electronic 
textbooks.

"T h e tangibility and human 
c o m p a tib ility o f p a p e r and 
b o o l¿ is im portant to u s," D il­
lon said.

About the Kindle DX, Dillon 
said , "W e m ay hav e actu ally 
made enough progress for this 
to be a lan d m ark d evice, but 
the caveat that hu m ans have 
proven is that they are resistant 
to change. Fightin g 700 years 
of hum an fam iliarity with pa­
per is a huge challenge."

But M ichael G ranof, profes­
sor of a cco u n tin g and ch a ir­
m an of the Co-op, said the ad­
v an tag e o f electro n ic read ers 
such as the K ind le DX lies in 
its potential to change to keep 
up w ith the material.

"The real ad vantage [is] in 
the flexibility. W h en te a ch ­
ing m ath or calculus, you can 
sh o w fig u re s ro ta tin g and 
changing. It has the potential 
to change the learning experi­
ence," Granoff said.

The Kindle DX entered the 

market today at $489.

Finan ce junior Janine Lip- 
man said she is m ore likely to 
buy expensive textbooks than 
invest in a Kindle DX.

"In theory it's a great idea, 
but I personally need an ear­
m arked book to find my w ay 
through m y co u rse," Lipm an 
said. "There would have to be 
a psychological shift because 
right now I expect to pay a lot 
for m y textbooks.

Jere Locke, director of the Texas Climate Em ergency Cam paign, discussed the governm ent's role in curbing carbon dioxide em issions at MonkeyW rench Books on W ednesday.

Activist urges Congress to regulate carbon dioxide

By Priscilla Pelli
Daily Texan Staff

C o n g ress shou ld p ass a bill 
that will reduce carbon dioxide 
em issions by m ore than 20 per­
cent, said a local clim ate change 
e x p e r t W e d n e s d a y n ig h t at 
M onkey Wrench Books.

Je re L o c k e , d ir e c to r o f the 
Texas Clim ate Em ergency C am ­
paign, said the federal gov ern ­
m en t sh o u ld step in to pu t a

stop to risin g carb o n d io x id e 
em issions.

"E v ery th in g hinges on a bill 
passed by the United States," he 
said. "T h e rest of the world has 
been looking at us as an exam ­
ple for a very long tim e."

The Intergovernm ental Panel 
on C lim ate C hange has w arned 
of the dangers of global tem per­
atures exceeding 2 degrees C el­
siu s a b o v e p re -in d u stria l-ca r-

bon-dioxide levels.

E xceed in g that tem p eratu re 
m ay cre a te a d ra s tic c lim a te 
change, according to the panel. 
Stu d ies also show th at if tem ­
p eratu res exceed th e 2-d egree 
th resh o ld by 2 0 1 2 , the w orld 
will lose 20 p ercen t of its o x y ­
gen even as carbon dioxide con­
tin u es to b e re leased into the 
air.

C a m p a ig n m e m b e r A ly s -

sa B u rg in said the o r g a n iz a ­
tion aim s to end the influence 
o f la rg e c o r p o ra tio n s on the 
S e n a te Energy and C om m erce 
Com m ittee.

"T h e large co rp o ra tio n s are 
a ffe ctin g a lot o f p eo p le w ho 
sit on that co m m ittee," Burgin 
said. "There are going to be pol­
lu tion allo w an ces sold. If you 
w ant to pollute above a certain 
lev el, you can buy a p o llu tion

allow ance. It's w rong."

The cam paign pushed for the 
legislators to pass a strong sci­
en ce-based bill that follow s or 
exceeds the clim ate change pan­
el's recom m endations and regu­
lations. The organization hopes 
th at the p a ssin g o f a new bill 
w ill be a sig nal to U nited N a­
tion s n e g o tia to rs to an a g re e ­
m ent that can succeed the pre­
vious K yoto Protocol.

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Peter Franklin | Daily Texan Staff

Peter Stone, an associate com puter sciences professor, has 
been using a fellow ship fund to research program m ing for 
robotic soccer. The UT robot soccer team traveled to Maine 
this weekend and defeated the University of Pennsylvania 
to receive the 2009 R oboCup U.S. Open. The team will now 
travel to Graz, Austria, for the R oboCu p W orld Cham pionship.

UT's robot soccer team, Austin Villa, clenched the 2009 Robo­
Cup U.S. Open after defeating the University of Pennsylvania 3-2 
in the finals.

The U.S. RoboCup Open, held at Bowdoin University in 
Maine over the weekend, is part of an annual competition in 
which programmed humanoid robots play soccer against one an­
other. The competition aims to develop a team of fully autono­
mous humanoid robots capable of defeating a human world soc­
cer champion team by 2050.

The robots used this year, the two-legged Alderbaran Nao, 
were an improvement from last year's four-legged competitors.
Four UT faculty members and computer sciences students 
make up the Austin Villa team, which took second place at last 
year's competition.

Team member Todd Hester, a computer sciences graduate stu­
dent, explained how the robots operate on the field without any 
external computer or human controlling.

"The robots are programmed before they play,' Hester said. 
"They have a camera in their head, and w'e program them to fig­
ure out what they see and react to it. We just have to hope that 
when they see a ball coming to them they know what to do."

Hester is optimistic that robots will be able to defeat a human 

world championship soccer team by 2050.

"Forty years is a long time," he said. "Think about comput­

ers 40 years ago and where they are today. Robots can hard­
ly walk now, but there's a good chance they can get there by 
2050."

UT's Austin Villa will travel to Graz, Austria, to compete in the 

RoboCup World Championship from June 29 to July 5.

— Samantha Deavin

NEWS BRIEFLY

Austin dog returns to owner 

8 years after running away

A pup named Dancer that 
scampered away from home in 
Austin is all grown up now and 
mysteriously back after eight 
years.

Owner Alison Murphy says 
obedience school is the next stop 
for her newly recovered pet.

Murphy isn't sure where Danc­

er has been.

KVUE-TV reports the friendly 
brown and white creature was left 
last week at the Humane Society 
in New Braunfels, about 45 miles 
away. A musician found the dog 
in his neighborhood, and took the

well-kept looking animal to the hu­
mane society and few days later to 
see if it had a microchip implant.

Dancer did.
Murphy says Dancer's teeth 
"are in great shape," and the dog 
is "still the same old girl."

The only difference is that the 

dog now answers to the name: 
Fern.

— The Associated Press

 6

Thursday, M ay 7,2009

Sports

T h e I > \ i i y T e x \ \

Sports Ed ito r David R Henry 
E-mail: sports<a>dailytexanonline com

Phone: (512) 23/ 2210 
w w w dailytexanonline.com

Softball seniors reflect on success at Texas

By Lena Price
Daily Texan Staff
During the opening ceremony of the Big 12 Con­
ference cham pionship tournam ent four years ago, 
senior center fielder Kacie Gaskin rem em bers the 
Longhorn softball team doing something a little un­
expected — dancing.

"I remember how much more fun we seemed to 
have than a lot of the other team s," Gaskin said. 
"And I loved that. It was a very good memory for 
me because we could have a good time and still get 
the job done."

Texas definitely got the job done in 2006.
That year, Texas all-star pitcher Cat Osterman led 
the Longhorns to a 15-2 conference record, a first- 
place finish in the Big 12 and an appearance in the 
Women's College World Series.

"Cat automatically brought a lot of support and a 
huge fan base," Gaskin said. "I was just very proud 
to be a part of the group."

This weekend will mark the last Big 12 champion­
ship appearance for Gaskin and three other gradu­
ating seniors — first baseman Desiree W'illiams, sec­
ond baseman Kelly Melone and left fielder Crystal 
Saenz.

The Longhorns w ent 11-7 in conference this sea­
son and earned the fourth seed in the tournam ent. 
They play Nebraska on Saturday. They're not where 
they were when the seniors first joint'd the team, but 
Saenz is confident.

"I hope that the underclassmen will get to experi­
ence making it to the World Series," Saenz said. "Be­
cause we know w hat that feels, and it's great."

Regardless of w hat happens this weekend, Saenz 
said the best part of the season was sweeping confer­
ence champions Oklahoma at home.

"Granted they took conference this year," Saenz 

said. "But we run-ruled them."

Beating Missouri in the conference opener was a 

highlight for Melone.

"At the start of Big 12, we split with Missouri, who 
was supposed to be at the top," Melone said. "That 
really pum ped us up and got us going. It helped our 
team mesh together really well."

Between the four of them, the women have almost 

50 years of softball-playing experience.

They all started playing in elementary school and 
stuck with it through college. Williams came close to 
quitting after her first little league game.

"I couldn't throw strikes, so I just hit everybody," 
Williams said. "My team lost every single league 
game the first time I played."

The fifth-year senior has come a long way since her 
days in little league. Williams leads Texas in home 
runs, stolen bases and games started.

She majored in corporate communication, but soft­

ball was an important part of her education.

"I think learning how to conduct yourself in dif­
ferent situations that might not be ideal has helped 
me the most," Williams said. "W hen you get inter­
viewed, you d o n 't always get the questions about 
how great you are. You have to learn how to proj­
ect yourself in a way that will still get your answ er 
out there."

After the end of the postseason, all of the seniors 
will be heading in different directions. But they are 
all ready to play in Oklahoma one last time.

"Even the year we w ent 0-2, my experiences in 
Oklahoma have always been very rewarding," Wil­
liam s said, "ju st because it's the stadium w here 
the World Series is held. It's going to be great to go 
and compete and be a part of the stadium one last 
time."

Photos by Paul Ch ou y and Jacqueline Gilíes | Daily Texan Staff

Top left, Crystal Saenz works her defensive m agic as 
she did for four years at Red and Charline M cC o m bs 
Field. Top right, Kacie Gaskin gets ready to take off. 
Bottom Left, Senior Kelly M elone runs the bases. 
Bottom Right, Desiree Williams, one of the best 
hitters to come through Texas, show s her speed on 
the basepaths.

BASEBALL
Texas 7, Texas Southern University 3

CLUB PROFILE

Eyeing nationals, wrestling club bounces back

Pitching sees more success 
in Texas’ 7-3 win over TSU

By Austin Talbert
Daily Texan Staff 
Texas m ay have found an ­

other pitcher.

Not that it needed one.
The Longhorns (34-11 -1) came 
into Wednesday's game against 
Texas Southern (20-26) with the 
NCAA's lowest ERA at 2.48. Af­
ter their 7-3 win over the Tigers, 
the H orns had found them ­

selves another reliable arm.

Stayton Thomas earned his 
third win of the season pitch­
ing five innings while allowing 
seven hits and three runs. Four 
of the hits and all three runs 
cam e in the sixth, an inning 
that Thomas started but failed 
to get an out in before being re-

BASEBALL continues on page 7

Texas 
junior 
Kendal 
Carrillo 
pitches 
against 
TSU on 
W ed­
nesday 
Carrillo's 
pitching 
didn't 
allow a 
run in 
relief.

Tamir Kalifa

Daily Texan 

Staff

Groups president revived 
organization; returning 

m em bers hope for title

By Jonathan Babin
Daily Texan Staff
When Justin Belle became pres­
ident of UT wrestling in his soph­
omore year, there w asn't much of 
a club left. But Belle was deter­
mined to revive the team.

And with more than 25 m em­
bers now on the team, that's ex­
actly what he did.

"We started up the club again 
my sophom ore year, and it was 
only me and a few other guys in 
the beginning," Belle said. "It's 
definitely a good feeling seeing it 
grow. Now, you can count on guys 
being at practice each week."

As the club has grown, it has 
attracted experienced w restlers 
who have had a major impact on 
the program. Club member Doug 
Rivas was nam ed an All-Amer­
ican this past season in the N a­
tional Collegiate W restling As­
sociation and placed eighth at 
nationals.

"I chose not to wrestle in col-

lege and came to UT for academ­
ics," Rivas said. "The club has 
given me a chance to compete. If 
they d id n 't have the club, there 
would be no other chance for me 
to wrestle here."

Reflecting on his success this 
season, Rivas described the lev­
el of sacrifice necessary to be suc­
cessful in an individual sport.

"I had to work hard all season, 
and it was great to achieve that 
[All-A m erican] title," he said. 
"Going to nationals was a big trip. 
I had to sacrifice spring break for 
wrestling, and it was the biggest 
tournament I've wrestled in since 
I started in seventh grade."

Rivas, w ho is finishing his ju­
nior year, has lofty goals for his 
final cam paign next season as a 
wrestler at UT.

"N ex t seaso n, p e rso n a lly I 
would like to go undefeated and 
win the national championship," 
he said.

With Rivas and other key mem­
bers of this year's team returning, 
next year's squad will try to make 
its first-ever trip to nationals.

"Locking forward, we have a 
lot of guys coming back," Belle 
said. "Everyone has been work-

Nancy Rosenthal j Daily Texan Staff
Nick G ebhart and Terrance W ickm an hit the m ats d u ring UT w restling 
clubs off-season practice in Belm ont Hall on M o n d a y night.

ing hard in the offseason, and 
I think the team has a lot of 
potential."

For Terrance Wickman, a senior 

on the team, feels the same w ay 

"Getting to see the club grow 
has been inspiring," he said. "It's 
hard to get away from the sport 
because it's so intense."

Wickman said he has benefited 
from the wrestling club and that

the team was a source of motiva­
tion and stability for him.

"The club has given me a reg­
imen to follow, and that has al­
low ed me to plan m y days out 
and stay p ro du ctive," he said. 
"I've done better in school be­
cause of the routine."

The team will continue to train 
during the offseason and prepare 
for another run in 2009-2010.

 b P O R l

7

Longhorn seniors head into what could be their final weekend

By M att Hohner
Daily Texan Staff
It's that tim e of the year again 

The m adness of M ay begins.

The Texas w o m e n 's golf team 
w ill com pete in the N CA A West 
Regional C ham pionship today in 
Tempe, Ariz.

The L o n g h o rn s w ill vie for a 
to p -e ig h t finish in a field of 21 
team s. The top eight team s from 
each of the four regional sites will 
advance to O w ings Mills, M d., for 
the NCAA cham pionships.

The com petitive field will be a 
test for the w om en in burnt orange 
as the H o rn s take on team s th a t 
h av e card ed low scores this sea­
son, such as A rizona State, South­
ern C alifornia, P ep p erd in e , N e- 
vada-Las Vegas and Texas A&M.

The W est R egional, hosted by 
A rizona State, w ill be held at the 
ASU K arsten G olf C o u rse. The 
S un D evils w ill h av e a b ig a d ­
v an tag e off the tee box, play in g 
on their hom e course. The L ong­
h o rn s h a d th is sa m e o p p o r tu ­
n ity last year, w h en Texas h o st­
ed the N C A A C e n tral R egional

C ham pionship.

Senior Kelley L outh feels that 
the co u rse is for the te a m 's tak ­
ing because it is a good fit for ev ­
eryone. She and the othef seniors 
h a v e p la y ed on the c o u rse b e­
fore, an d they know h o w to a t­
tack the fairw ay s a n d ap p ro a ch 
the greens.

H isto ric a lly , th e L o n g h o rn s 
h a v e fo u n d success at th e ASU 
G o lf C o u rse . T he te a m h e ld a 
school record of 285 at th e 2003 
P IN G /A S U In v ita tio n al, taking 
second place. C aney H ines shot a 
career low of 68 in the sam e tour­
nam ent in 2006.

T he p la y e rs are n o t alo n e in 
finding success in Tempe — head 
coach M artha Richards has as well. 
The form er Stanford Cardinal w as 
aw ard ed the individual m edal at 
the 1993 PIN G /A SU Invitational.

R ichards w ill play a lineup in­
cluding Louth, Caney H ines, Kris­
tin Walla, S hannon Fish and N i­
cole V anderm ade.

For seniors like Louth, it m ay be 
their last oppo rtu n ity to w ear the 
L onghorn across their chests, as

the season m ight com e to a close 
over the w eekend. Louth d o esn 't 
look at it that way, though she has 
dem onstrated som e senior leader­
ship in the clubhouse.

“G o o u t an d p lay y o u r best," 
L o u th said. "W e've sp e n t som e 
tim e to g eth er and told each o th ­
e r w e can d o th is W e're b u ild ­
ing each other up and letting each 
other know that w e'll do well "

The team has struggled w ith not 
ca rd in g low scores on the sam e 
day. The team w ill try to p u t to­
gether a string of scores to advance 
to the NCAA cham pionship.

"O ne of those things I feel like, 
w e h a v e n 't played to o u r p o te n ­
tial all year," L outh said. "W e're 
seeded at som ething start of day, 
have w hat it takes, m atter of p u t­
ting scores together."

Louth has played o u tstan d in g ­
ly over the spring sem ester, lead­
ing the L onghorns as the top fin­
isher in three straight tournam ent 
appearances.

V anderm ade has also concluded 
the first chapter of her L onghorn 
career on a high note. The fresh-

WHAT: NCAA West Regional 

I C ham pionships

WHERE: ASU Kareten Golf 

I Course (Tempe, Ariz.)

~ WHEN: Thursday through 
| Saturday

m an received All Big 12 W om en's 
H onors, the 13th player to receive 
the accolade in Longhorn hi>tory.

"It's an h o n o r [for) this aw a rd 
to com e," V anderm ade said. "Its 
nice to look back and get rew ard ­
ed for the hard w ork I've put in."

V anderm ade w as a w a rd e d All 
T o u rn am en t team h o n o rs a t th e 
Big 12 cham p io n sh ip a couple of 
w eeks ago for placing in the top 
10 of the individual standings. Yet 
all of her in d iv id u al accom plish­
m ents m ean nothing to her if h er 
team d oesn't com e out on top this 
w eekend.

"M y g o als are se t on h ig h e r 
things," V anderm ade said. "W e're 
all focused and ready to play our 
best. We all know how good w e 
are, and the rankings d o n 't really 
reflect that."

Thursday, May 7, 2009

WOMEN'S GOLF

Texas junior 
Shanon 
Fish eyes 
a putt at 
a tourney 
earlier this 
season. The 
Longhorns 
will
advance 
to the 
NCAAs this 
weekend.

Sara Young
Daily Texan 
Staff

BASEBALL: Thomas pitches solid outing; Belt powers offense

From page 6

placed by K endal Carrillo.

N o t b ad for h is first sta rt as 
a L onghorn — a sta rt he d id n 't 
know he w o uld be m aking until 
he a rriv ed at U FCU D isch-Falk 
Field on W ednesday afternoon.

"It d e fin ite ly w a s ex c itin g ," 
T hom as said. "I d id n 't find out I 
w as starting till I got to the ball­
park this afternoon, and then the 
b u tte rflies w ere go in g all over 
the place. But after the first pitch 
I really settled dow n."

With three straight strong o u t­
in g s, T h o m a s h a s b ee n s lo w ­
ly b u ild in g u p co n fid en ce. O n 
W ednesday, his confidence took 
a big leap.

"I have just been trying to w ork 
h a rd ," T ho m as said. "A fter the

Texas State gam e I had a big con­
fidence boost I just realized you 
can't overpow er everyone on this 
level. You have to hit spots."

F o r th e f irs t fiv e in n in g s , 

T hom as w as hitting every spot.

"We w anted him to pitch four 
to five inning s, an d he pitch ed 
brilliant in four to five innings," 
Texas h ead coach A ugie G a rri­
do said. "We violated the plan by 
sending him out there in the sixth, 
an d th a t u su a lly d o e s n 't w o rk 
o ut well. We tried to squeeze an ­
other inning out of him ."

A fter the hiccup, C arrillo sh u t 
d o w n the Tigers, allo w ing only 
one hit in his three innings of re­
lief. F reshm an A ustin D icharry, 
w h o b eg a n th e season sta rtin g 
m id-w eek gam es before m oving 
in to a m id d le relief role on the

"We wanted [Stayton Thomas] to pitch four to 
five innings, and he pitched brilliant in four to 
five innings"

— Augie Garrido1, 
head coach

w eekends, cam e in to close d ow n 
Texas Southern and threw a per­
fect ninth inning, striking out one 
Tiger.

T hom as m ay be w o rk in g to ­
w ard a role sim ilar to Dicharry's.
"[Thom as] is building tow ard 
a m id d le relief ro le," G a rrid o 
said. "W ith the breaking ball his 
has and w ith the location he has 
right now, he can get a lot of hit­
ters out."

In a m idw eek gam e squeezed 
b etw e en Texas' final tw o Big 12 
se rie s — in c lu d in g th is w e e k ­
e n d 's show dow n w ith rival Tex­
as A&M that will likely decide if 
Texas w in s a Big 12 c h a m p io n ­
sh ip — it w o u ld be easy to fall 
asleep W ednesday, or n o t even 
show up, as the m ajority of Tex­
as fans did.

"W e p la y ed a lot like a p ro ­
fessio n al te am ," G a rrid o said.

"N ot a high level of em otion but 
w e play ed w ith a high level of 
fundam entals."

Texas w as even out-hit by Tex­

as Southern 8-7.

"It is n 't just a b o u t hitting, if 
th a t w a s th e case they w o u ld 
have beat us," G arrido said. "O ur 
throw ing w as good, ou r fielding 
w as good, w e h ad good rhythm 
and tim ing."

Of Texas' seven runs, three were 
unearned, the result of three Tiger 
errors. Texas, w hich has com m it­
ted 11 errors in 30 hom e gam es all 
season, continued to play strong 
defense on the slow FieldTurf at 
UFCU Disch-Falk Field.

B randon Belt lead the offense 
w ith tw o hits an d tw o RBI. Belt 
leads the team in batting w ith a 
.346 average.

SPORTS BRIEFLY
Cubs overpower Astros 6-3 
as Harden tops Hampton

Rich Harden pitched into the 
eighth inning and Reed Johnson hit 
a bases-loaded triple Wednesday 
to lead the Chicago Cubs to victory 
over the Houston Astros 6-3.

Aramis Ramirez added a solo 
home run for the Cubs, who have 
won five of their last six games.
Harden (3-1) allowed his first 
run with two outs in the fourth 
before retiring the next 10 batters.

Harden didn't give up another 

hit until Michael Bourn singled 
in the eighth, and Lance Berk- 
man followed with a home run.
Johnson, who entered the 
game with one RBI this season, 
put the Cubs ahead in the first 
against Mike Hampton (1-3). 
Johnson scored on a passed ball 
by Ivan Rodriguez to make it 4-0.
— The Associated Press

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SAVE: Dollar store 

offers good deals 

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on basic products ?

From page 10

b u y a p air of read ing glasses, Fri­
day's brand potato chips, a 25-ounce 
bottle of antibacterial soap, a frozen 
pizza or a pregnancy test for, yes, $1 
each.

D ollar Tree offers the usual d ol­
lar store fare as w ell: can d y b a rs, 
m in iatu re p o rcelain b allerin a fig ­
u rin es, m u lticolored leis and o th ­
er strange or silly item s that aren 't 
w o rth 9 9 c e n ts . B u t I w a s im ­
p re sse d by its s e le c tio n o f s u r ­
p risin g ly useful item s, p a rticu la r­
ly in the frozen food and cleaning 
supp ly categories. M icrow aveable 
b u rrito s are m icrow aveable b u rri­
tos, and dish soap is dish soap, so 
w hy pay more than $1 for either?

D ollar stores offer d iscou nts on 
m any everyday necessities, but you 
should keep certain precautions in 
mind. Many dollar stores, like D ol­
lar D eals near the Fiesta g ro cery 
store on 1-35, do not actually sell ev­
ery product for $1. If you don't pay 
attention to the prices, you may not 
be getting a deal at all.

D ollar Tree sticks to its prom ised 
price but sit is easy to get carried 
aw ay w ith a false sen se o f fru g al­
ity. D ollar stores lure you in w ith 
legitim ate deals on toothpaste and 
Tu pperw are, but they o v erch arg e 
you on snack crack e rs and paper 
stream ers or trick you into buying 
things you d on't really need (in my 
case, a gold "scru n ch y " hair tie) 

But if you stick to necessities and 
d on't get sucked into the "it's just a 
d ollar" mindset, visiting the dollar 
store can be exciting again.

Radio-teievision-film senior Fatima Carbajal tests a lighting project for her video installation course in the stairwell of the William Randolph Hearst Building on Wednesday.

Tamir Kalifa | Daily Texan Staff

KURTISS: Accused murderer found not guilty, resumes boxing 

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From page 10

m u rd er is pu nishable by deatn. 
D esperate and still on his knees, 
he talked to God.

"If it's your will, when I get out 
of this, I'll remember this and nev­
er com e back. But right now I'm 
dead. I'm dead to the w orld."

Bleary-eyed from crying and se­
verely sleep-deprived, he ripped a 
staple out of a booklet that he re­
ceived in his m ental-health class 
and carved into his right big toe. 
He watched a drop of blood splat­
ter on the concrete floor. The bright 
crim son cut was in the shape of a 
toe tag.

He may as well have been in a 

morgue.

But n ot long after he started 
having strange dream s — epip h­
anies, he calls them.

K urtiss d id n 't get m uch sleep 
in his jail cell. He averaged four 
hours of sleep a night in prison, 
w here he lay in a rock-solid con­
crete bed cushioned only by one 
body-length pillow. But that night 
he slept for eight hours. It w as a 
good sleep. And his dream:

" W ill th e d e fe n d a n t p le a s e 

rise?"

" We find the defendant Kurtiss 

Colvin not guilty."

K urtiss w oke up at 5 a.m. that 
m orning. H e had b reakfast at 6 
a.m. He smiled, recalling the good

om en from the night before.

M onths later he w as no longer 
deemed a security risk and moved 
from solitary confinement into the 
general population, where he was 
allowed more time out of his cell.

O ne day a com m ercial caught 
h is a tten tio n . It w as an ad for 
A gape C hristian M inistries. The 
flat-screen TV projected an im ­
age of a b oxer as the an n o u n c­
er of the com m ercial plugged the 
m inistry's boxing classes. Kurtiss 
missed being in the ring.

"If I ever get out of here," Kurtiss 
said. "I promise I'm gonna go there 
and see what it's all about."

Kurtiss began his athletic career 
in high school. His track prowess 
at M cC allum eventu ally earned 
him a scholarship to the Universi­
ty of Kansas.

He w as flashy, confident, even 

cocky.

In 2006, he switched sports. He 
left Law rence, Kan., to begin an 
am ateur boxing career. He found 
quick success, w inning the m id­
dleweight title in the novice divi­
sion of the regional Golden Gloves 
tournament. Not long after, he was 
turning down pro contract offers.

They called him "K ing C obra" 
in the ring for his snappy but ce­
reb ral sty le. O u tsid e th e rin g, 
Kurtiss w as upbeat and talkative, 
rem em bers Rick Cantu, a sports- 
w riter for the A ustin A m erican-

Statesm an who covered Kurt iss' 
track career. K urtiss rem em bers 
talking a lot about his Air Jordan 
and Air Force O ne sneakers. He 
had 15 pairs, m ost of w hich he 
lost when he went to prison.

Kurtiss had a knack for details. 
He rem em bers the night of June 
19, 2007, lucidly.

It w as Ju neteenth, the annual 
com m em oration of the day Tex­
as slaves learned of their em anci­
pation. Kurtiss was sitting at home 
when he got a call from Jervis Tay­
lor, the younger brother of his girl­
friend, Rajeanea Thomas. Jervis and 
his friend Sammy Byrd had gotten 
into an argum ent in East Austin, 
Kurtiss said. He met up with them 
and put an end to their fight.

As he was leaving, a 1976 candy- 
apple red droptop pulled up. The 
driver, Willie Warren, and his pas­
sengers, Charles Bernard Davis and 
Brandon Cleveland, told him to hop 
in. They rolled through the crowded 
streets with music blasting.

T h e y p u lled up to T h o m p ­
son Street in East Austin, w here 
Kurtiss exited the car.

A c o u p le o f g irls ran up to 
K u rtiss and sh o u ted , "M ik e y 's 
been hit."

He arrived to a scene where he 
found Mikey, a toddler, prostrate 
on the ground. The boy had been 
struck by a driver who w as weav­
ing through pedestrians celebrat­

ing Juneteenth.

was dead.

Kurtiss initially thought Mikey 

He approached the driver of the 
car, Victor Medel, whom he told to 
wait for the cops.

David M orales, a resident of a 
nearby apartm ent com plex, cam e 
to M edel's defense and implored 
Kurtiss, along with a group of five 
to 20 others, to let him go.

"Y ou need to chill. You need 
to tell your partner to give us the 
keys," Kurtiss told Morales.

M eanw hile, a group of teenag­
ers kicked and pounded on Me- 
del's car. One of the teens thought 
Morales was reaching for a gun.

"M an, what you reaching for?" 
K u rtiss rem em bers asking. M o­
rales issued another warning, and 
the teen agers began to b eat the 
driver's car furiously.

W h e n M o ra le s re a ch e d fo r 
so m eth in g in his b ack p o ck et, 
K u rtiss grabbed his right hand 
and struck him with an open fist, 
pushing him to the floor and caus­
ing both to stum ble. Kurtiss was 
afraid M orales w ould com e up 
shooting, so he fled immediately.

It's likely that a band of attackers 
beat M orales to death that night; 
his autopsy report revealed "sev ­
eral abrasions, a rib fracture, con­
tusions, and a skull fracture." A 
gun was not found on his person, 
according to an arrest affidavit, but

it was later revealed he was carry­
ing a large razor-like weapon.

T w e lv e d a y s a fte r th e in c i­
dent, Kurtiss was taken into cus­
tody T hey held him on ch a rg ­
es of m anslaughter, theft and as­
sault. The first charge stem m ed 
from the blow he had delivered. 
He w as also accused of rum m ag­
ing through Morales' wallet.

For 15 months, Kurtiss' life hung 
in the balance. He didn't know if 
he'd ever get out of jail, step in the 
ring again or see his daughter Ka- 
mari — w ho had been bom , said 
her first word and took her first 
steps while he was in prison.

On Oct. 22,2008, he awaited his 
sentencing. It was the scariest mo­
m ent of his life, he said.

As he stood before the judge, he 

quivered and teared up.

He was found not guilty of man­
slaughter but received 10 years pro­
bation for assault.

B yrd , w h o had arg u ed w ith 
Kurtiss' brother-in-law earlier that 
Ju n eteen th night, later plead ed 
"tru e," the equivalent of a guilty 
plea in a juvenile court, to deliver­
ing the fatal blow. He received eight 
years probation for manslaughter.

D e sp ite th is, th e c o u rt h eld 
Kurtiss responsible for paying the 
Morales family more than $15,000 
for the cost of his death.

But he had his freedom back.
T he night he w as released he

called R ajeanea and asked if he 
could see his daughter. W hen he 
arrived, 15-month-old Kamari lay 
asleep in her m o th e r's bed , her 
m outh slig h tly op en. He crep t 
close to her and whispered, "D ad ­
d y 's back, and I ain 't going n o­
where. I'm sorry for leaving."

Tw o d ay s later, he k ep t the 
prom ise he m ade in prison and 
trekked to Agape Christian M in­
istries on Manchaca Lane. He had 
no gear and went in street clothes: 
a red m uscle shirt, black b asket­
ball shorts and a pair of Air Jo r­
dan sneakers.

F ro m N o v e m b e r to M a rch , 
K urtiss focused on boxing w ith 
the help of Agape Christian Minis­
tries trainer Ed Tijerina. In March, 
Kurtiss won the highest am ateur 
boxing award in the state: the Gold­
en Gloves title, awarded to the best 
amateur boxer by tournament.

This week he is com peting for 
the national title. So far, he has 
won his bout against the titlehold- 
er from Iowa, Matt Schuh. H e's set 
to be ranked nationally, but Kurtiss 
aspires to be the world champion.

K urtiss' sneakers now conceal 
the scarred toe tag he once carved 
into his skin, but he chooses not to 
focus on that grim reminder of his 
dark days. In fact, a few week ago, 
Kurtiss got a new tattoo: Etched in 
black ink on his left bicep are the 
words "Justice Served."

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dence — "I see you girls check­
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vice — "Then on our next date 
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Ufe&Arts Editor: Ana McKenzie 
E-mail: !ifearvdarts<a>daiiytexanon!ine com'
Phone: (512)232-2209 
www.dailytexanonline.com

At dollar stores, frugality and frivolity

Boxing 
champion 
out of jail, 
inthering

By JJ Velasquez
Daily Texan Staff

Kurtiss Colvin is on his way to 
becoming a nationally ranked am­
ateur boxing champion this week. 
He still remembers when he was 
nicknamed Lucky. It was a name 
that eventually proved ironic.

In high school, the moniker suited 
Kurtiss, a charmed kid and McCa£ 
lum High School star athlete who 
was cm his way to boxing glory.

But behind bars the nickname 
got old quickly. There, they called 
him Boxer.

Kurtiss, cramped into a 9-by-7- 
foot jail cell for most of 2007 and 
2008, didn't know who he was 
anymore. But he knew he wasn't 
a ldller.

Kurtiss spent the time on 23- 
hour lockdow n, only allow ed 
to leave his cell to shower. The 
shame, the fear and the sleepless 
nights drove him stir-crazy.

He had just returned from a 
counseling session to quell emo­
tional and anger-management is­
sues that his stay in prison had 
worsened. Suddenly, a news re­
port blared from a television in 
the day room.

Kurtiss, kneeling at his bedside, 
listened from his cell. New charg­
es had been brought against him.
There had been new develop­
ments in the case surrounding 
the beating death of an Austin 
man, a voice announced. He had 
been charged with capital murder 
stemming from the death of Da­
vid Morales.

Kurtiss burst into tears. Capital

KURTISS continues on page 9

Dollar stores, notorious for their uniform pricing and questionable quality, are expanding the variety and caliber of their goods at the same low price.

Lara Haase | Daily Texan Staff

In times of economic hardship, finding useful items at discount shops becoming easier

By Mia Avramescu
Daily Texan Staff 
When I was young, my family took 
frequent vacations to our hometown 
of Montreal to visit relatives. The most 
exciting part of every trip, without fail, 
was when my aunt would take me to 
the dollar store. I did not notice that 
the troll dolls were off-brand or that

the Barbies' packages were damaged. 
All I knew was that I was allowed to 
pick out one thing, anything in the 
whole store, and my aunt would buy it 
for me. The dollar store was heaven.

But when I outgrew plastic dolls, 
I outgrew the dollar store as well. I 
came to view it as a sad, dirty place 
that people entered only out of frivoli­

ty or desperation.

Now, d o lla r sto re s are am ong 
the few b u sin esses boom ing. Our 
sh rin k in g w a llets h ave renew ed 
A m erica's love for these one-price- 
fits-all m arkets, and they are not 
ju st for teddy bears and coloring 
books anymore.

It is no secret that much of what

lines dollar store shelves is of ques­
tionable quality and utility, but as 
these stores are becoming more pop­
ular, they are offering more and bet­
ter merchandise at the promised $1 
price. Currently, at Dollar Tree locat­
ed at 5431 N. Interstate 35, you can

SAVE continues on page 9

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Great atmosphere, fun people and authentic Italian food served 
family-style, meant te be shared. Make it a day to remember for yen 
and your family, or bring all your friends. Come celebrate with us!

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Flight of the Conchords, the folk duo of small-screen fame, will be performing tonight at Bass Concert 
Hall. Tickets for the concert sold out in minutes in February.

Courtesy of the Flight of the Conchords

Folk duo of HB0 fame to play 
songs from eponymous show

By Sean Beherec
Daily Texan Staff 

New Zealand's fourth-most- 
popular comedy duo — Flight 
of the Conchords — will make a 
stop in Austin tonight to perform 
its signature sub pop set at the 
newly renovated Bass Concert 
Hall for those who were lucky 
enough to snag a ticket in the few 
minutes before they sold out.

The visit is part of an inter­
n atio n al tou r follo w in g the 
com pletion of Jem aine C lem ­
ent and Bret M cK enzie's sec­

ond season of HBO's "Flight of 
the Conchords" and the upcom­
ing release of their second album 
through Sub Pop Records.

Flight of the Conchords — as 
if you haven't heard of the duo 
— has slow ly taken over the 
states and left infectious songs 
like "M uth a'u ckas" and "The 
Prince of Parties" echoing in lis­
teners' brains. Their imaginative 
lyrics put to shame the famous 
comedic artists of old such as 
Weird A1 Yankovic and Cheech 
and Chong.

FoT C co v e rs s u b je c ts w e 
care abo u t, from h ittin g on 
the best-looking girl in a room 
— "Y ou're so beautiful / You 
could be a part-time m odel" — 
to struggling to pay the bills — 
"You know you're not in high 
finance / Considering second­
hand underpants."

In a d d itio n to th e d u o 's 
m ore w ell-know n songs, con- 
cert-goers may hear hits from 
the second season that were sold

FLIGHT continues on page 9

 DT WEEKEND

M ay 7, 2009

 Editor’s Note

MY 6 - y e a r - o l d b r o t h e r j u s t l o s t h i s f i r s t t o o t h .
It’s a maxillary central incisor in dental terms, but 

he simply calls it “my front to o f” without shame.

1 remember that when I started losing teeth, my 
parents blatantly led me to believe that if I put my 
teeth under my pillows, I’d be rewarded by a tooth 
fairy. I usually got a couple o f dollar bills.

As I got older, I started to realize $3 a tooth wasn't 
going to cut it — tooth selling could be a very lucra­
tive business, and I wanted to be the Andrew Carn­

egie of teeth.

Then someone at school told me the tooth fairy 

wasn’t real. It was a doubt I’d harbored all along, 
something that gnawed at me without restraint. And 
when 1 got home from school, I looked in the jew'elry 
cabinet my mother prohibited me from looking at and 
saw it. A disgusting mound o f molars, canines and 
cuspids, each wrapped in the note I had addressed to 
“ToOtH FaiRy.” 1 thought my parents were sick.

But I soon realized they were the source o f the 
mysterious tooth fairy money. The next time I lost a 
tooth, I passive-aggressively bemoaned the meager $4 
I found under my pillow.

“Mom, is the tooth fairy poor? Why did I only get $4? 
Does the tooth fairy need to put the tooth on layaway at 
Wal-Mart?"

The exasperated sigh she gave me in return was a 
sign that I was winning. For the next molar 1 lost, I 
got $5, but then I pushed it too far one day and got 
nothing when I lost a lateral incisor. My parents said 
maybe the tooth fairy thought I was “a damn spoiled 

But talking to my little brother over a phone line 
stretching hundreds of miles away, 1 wished 1 could 
go back to that time when everything was still so 
mysterious. The harsh realities of life kick in just 
when you’re enchanted enough with the world to 
think everything's OK.

This summer, I’ll be in constant search o f the hid­
den mysteries I forgot about as I matured, and I hope 
to grow from it. I hope you’ll grow, too.

I also hope my brother got more money for his 
front tooth than I did, if only because of inflation.

See you next semester,

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A quick escape is only a page away

M U S IC
I t ’s Korn season

5 

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Vocalist Jonathan Davis divulges details about ex- 
bandmates, tour life and s new album

brat.”

6 Punk Paradise
BY BEN COX
Hardcore musical festival expans to a full five days

7 S ongstress’s h eartb reak rakes in record sales

BY VALERIE LAI
Erin McCarley balances tour life while writing passionate 
ballads

10 Prolific pub houses b est beer selection in Texas

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Fion offers an array of affordable booze options

11 S treet vendors titilla te tastebuds

BY JACQUELYN NEWELL .
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BY FRANCISCO MARIN

Fine arts seniors exhibit final design pieces after months 
of preparation

14 Ears, Eyes + Feet

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 Summer Recommendations by Francisco Marin

School’s Out, Let’s House
Friday. 8 p.m.
U.S. Art Authority (next to Spider House)

1 can ’t th in k o f a more perfect way to cap o ff 
a long sem ester than w ith the Hype Headz 
collective. W ith DJs Yayyay and Shook Nite 

(am ong others) at the decks on the inside 
stage and the endearingly cute glam - 
inspired Tum m y Toast playing the outside 

stage, Let's House is the place to be this 

Friday night.

Glass Candy
Saturday, 10 p.m.
The Mohawk
Italodisco darlings Glass Candy hail from 
Portland but are more rem iniscent o f un­
derground 1980s European electrónica than 
A m ericana (think “More, More, M ore” by 

A ndrea True Connection i f it were sung by 
haunted ghosts). W ith an obscene am ount 

o f blog love built up through the last few 
years and an increasingly diverse repetoire 
o f music, I thin k it’s safe to bet Glass Candy 
is the tastiest treat you’ll have all weekend.

Her Space Holiday
May 13,10 p.m.
The Mohawk
Beautiful music, droll lyrics. T h e last tim e 
Holiday rolled into ATX , friends o f mine 
were disappointed in the show. It’s difficult 
to like a one-m an band tap away at a laptop 
after listen ing to Holiday’s gorgeously com ­
posed electronic pop album s. But if overall aesthetic 

appeals to you more than the live experience, I sug­

gest you show up and groove out anyway.

The Field & Juan Maclean
M ay 29, 8 p.m.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE FIELD

The Mohawk
From Here We Go Sublim e, T h e F ield ’s debut

is not to be m issed.

Come visit us at 24th and 
Horn
Guadalupe for a 
Dog or Austin’s Classic with 
the purchase of a combo. Also 
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lists, not n ece ssa rily b ecau se it w as in n o v ative or 

g ro u n d b re a k in g but b e cau se it w as c a tc h y and 
re fre sh in g . W h ile T h e Field m akes ch ill, te c h n o ­
in sp ire d e le ctró n ica , Juan M a clea n ’s b o m b a stic 

m u sic is th e p erfe ct so u n d tra ck to a n ig h t o f 
s w e a ty d a n c in g and regretfu l d e cisio n s. T h is show 

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 ‘Even Cowgirls Get 

the Blues’
Tom R obbin s w e a v e s de ep 
p h ilo s o p h ica l q u e s ti o n s into the 

tale o f Sissy H a n k s h a w , a girl 
w h o s e e x t r a o r d in a r y t h u m b s 

m a ke her q u ite p o ss ib ly the 

w o r l d ’s b e st h it c h h ik e r. T h e 
b o o k w a s p o p u la r a m o n g th e 
h ippie c o u n t e r c u l t u r e in th e 

‘70s for its h o n e s t look at h o m o ­

s e x u a lit y a nd d r u g use.

‘On The Road’
T h i s is t h e cla ssic, m u s t read 

c o m in g -o f -a g e novel. K e r o u a c ’s 

a cco u n t o f his tra ve ls t h r o u g h 
the U.S. a nd M e x ic o set h im at 

th e fo re fro n t o f t h e s tre a m -o f- 
c o n s c io u s n e s s n ar ra tiv e style, 

but i t ’s as re le v a n t n o w as it w a s 
w h e n it w a s p u b lis h e d in 1957.

‘Fear and Loathing in 

Las Vegas’
H u nter S. T h o m p s o n ta k es a 

t r u n k full o f d r u g s to V eg a s in a 
big red C h e v y co n v e rtib le. H o w 

is tha t not epic? T h i s firsth a n d 
acco u n t m e rg e s s t o r y t e l l i n g a n d 

real life in a w a y t h a t no o n e has 

do n e b efo re or since.

A Little

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T H I N K I N G OF ALL T H E PROFESSIONS 
in the world, the life o f a rock 
star has got to top the list as the 
most glamorous, romantic and 
sought-after position for anyone 
to hold. I got to sit down with 
Jonathon Davis, the vocalist 
for Korn, earlier this week to 
discuss his b an d ’s past, the new 
album it is w orking on and what 
he feels the future holds for 
them.

“W h e n 1 had the opportunity 

to actually go in and cut up 
dead bodies, I thought that was 
really cool,” Davis said about 
a previous job as a m ortician’s 
assistant. "1 was 16 or 17. So I did 
it, then 1 totally fell in love with 
it and started getting serious 
about it.”

Davis has been a vocalist since 

a year before he joined Korn.
“All o f us have been doing 

music since we were kids,”
Davis said. “1 think it’s just how 
God made us. W e love playing 
music. Yeah, w e ’ve gotten all the 
success and stuff like that, but 
it doesn’t change the fact that 
I just have to keep creating, or 
else I’ll go crazy.”

Longtime guitarist Brian 
“Head” Welch left the band a 
few months before the release 
o f See You On The O ther Side, 
rejecting stardom to become a 
born-again Christian.

“I haven’t talked to him since 

he left,” Davis said. “The way 
he left the band and everything 
was kind o f jacked up, so I had a 
grudge over that. 1 love the guy 
and he’s happy, and that’s what 
counts.”

Former drum m er David 

Silveria, who took an indefinite 
hiatus before Untitled, is not 
c om ing back, Davis said.

“We played with different 
drum m ers,” Davis said. “W e did 
tryouts, and some drum m ers 
just didn't fit or don’t get it, and 
we got lucky with Ray [Luzier]; 
he just fell into our laps.”

But Davis still dream s to one 

day share a stage again with 
the five original m em bers o f his 
band.

“I’d love to see that,” Davis 

said. “It’d be cool, but it is 
what it is right now, so w e ’ve 
just gotta deal with it. I know 
there’ll be a day when you see 
the four o f us.”

On the Back to Basics tour 
a few years ago, Korn allowed 
fans to vote on which songs they 
wanted in their setlist, and al­

though “Daddy,” likely the most 
em otionally charged song in the 
b an d ’s catalogue, topped the 
list, Davis declined to perform 
it live.

“I don’t play that song live 
because it’s just magic,” Davis 
said. “If I play that song over 
and over every night, it’d lose 
its meaning. I don’t want people 
to expect me to freak out like I 
did on that. That was what hap­
pened in that point in time, and 
that magic was captured, and I 
don’t want to fuck w ith it.”

Davis admitted the truth in 
the son g’s lyrics but declined to 
go into further details on the 
matter.

“T h a t’s what happens when 
you play songs over and over 
and over again,” Davis said. 
“W e ’ve played that song maybe 
three times in its entirety. It’s 
just a special song. If you wanna

hear it, listen to it on the CD.”
But lyric-writing and vocals 

was fucking so insane. Different 
vibes but everyone gets it.”

are not his only passion.

“If I’m learning instruments it 
challenges me, so there’s a c h a l­
lenge there,” Davis said. "W ith 
my voice, I just open my mouth 
and this came out. Around the 
Untouchables era, th a t’s when 
I started getting vocal coaches 
and all that shit. My favorite v o ­
calist o f all time is Robert Plant. 
T h a t’s the guy 1 look up to as a 
singer. He’s the shit.”

Korn will tour Europe later this 

year with Metallica, though the 
band and Davis would most like 
to tour with shouldn’t surprise.

“ Rage Against the Machine,” 
Davis said without pause. “Korn 
and Rage would be amazing. We 
did that in Germany at a tour 
called Rock A m Ring where we 
opened for them. It was aw e­
some. So we did two shows; it

Korn recently announced it 
would take part in this year’s 
Download Festival am ong a 
plethora o f others.

" There’re a lot o f good bands 

we're up against,” Davis said. 
“W e’re up against a lot o f c o m ­
petition. It really pushes us. It’s 
good, a good thing.”

Currently, the band is on the Es­
cape from the Studio tour, taking 
a break from the creation process.
“Haven’t heard it, but the 
guys say it’s going great,” Davis 
said. “They've just been writ­
ing riffs and songs, compiling 
them with [music producer]
Ross [Robinson]. T h e y ’re doing 
it with Ross again, who did the 
first tw o records. O n ce they get 
that all compiled and put into 
songs, th a t’s when I’ll come in 
and do my shit.”

PHOTO BY JORDAN SMOTHERMON

The new Korn album is only 
in the b egin nin g stages, but it 
should drop by the end o f the 
year, Davis said.

“Right now the writing process 

is really different,” Davis said.
“It’s Fieldy, Munky and Ray in a 
room. I took myself out o f it pur­
posefully because I always found 
myself telling everybody, ‘Try 
this melody over this part,’ or Do 
this over that.’ It kind of screwed 
me when it came to my parts,
I’d have to come up with other 
melodies. [Ross and 1] talked 
about that, plus I’ve been working 
on my solo record, too, so it just 
works out. I’m really excited.”

— JA C O B P A Y N E

Korn
Saturday, noon
Pizza Hut Park @ Frisco
Sunday, noon
Mitchell Pavilion @ The Woodlands

 IN PAST Y E A R S , C R U S T PU N K and 
hardcore kids have converged on 
Emo’s late in May for Chaos in 
Tejas, a festival featuring both 
new punk bands and elders o f 
the scene. This year, however, the 
Chaos will spread and sink its 
claws even deeper into down­
town Austin. The festival has 
expanded to five days and six 
venues and will offer a selection 
of underground rock ranging 
from amped-up indie pop to the 
dreariest sludge metal. Here are 
some of best acts Chaos in Tejas 
has to offer.

— b e n co x

Teenage Cool Kids
Red 7 Kickoff Party, May 20 
Much media ink has been spilled 
over local up-and-comers Harlem, 
also on this show’s bill. Equally 
exciting is this group whose press 
releases name-drop Built to Spill 
but whose sound screams early- 
90s Lookout! Records, albeit with 
less of an aversion to breaking 
the three-minute mark on songs. 
Teenage Cool Kids hail from the 
prolific punk scene o f Denton and 
has recently run into some legal 
trouble with the rap group that 
shares two-thirds of its moniker, 
but the band can deliver infec­
tious music by any other name.

Drunkdriver
Beerland, May 22,
Emo’s Outside, May 23 
Sound on Sound Records, May 24 
Chaos in Tejas still abounds with 
hardcore bands, but New York’s 
Drunkdriver stands out from a 
sea o f tempo-pushing clones. 
Drunkdriver’s music — dirge-like, 
industrial-influenced hardcore 
— bears more resemblance to the 
dissonance o f Scratch Acid and 
the barely held-together riffing 
of Flipper than Black Flag and its 
innumerable spawn.

Pierced Arrows
Emo’s Outside, May 23 
Fred and Toody Cole are no strang­
ers to Chaos in Tejas. The husband 
and wife duo played the festival in 
2006 as part of Dead Moon and has 
been performing together in vari­
ous bands for nearly 30 years. Fred 
Cole has been making music since

the first wave of garage rock in 
the mid-’6os and has consistently 
delivered straightforward rock 
songs that often take on a sinister 
bent under Cole’s paranoid-warble 
singing style.

wonder, The Strange Boys, should 
need no further introduction. XYX 
and Ratas del Vaticano are two 
exciting bands out of Monterrey, 
Mexico, a city currently redrawing 
the lines of traditional punk.

Times New Viking, 
Nodzzz, The Strange 
Boys, X Y X , R atas del 
Vaticano
Emo's Inside, May 23 
Times New Viking, Columbus’ 
foremost practitioners of blown- 
out lo-fi pop, headline what may 
be the most solid bill of the entire 
festival. Nodzzz delivers a brand 
o f simple high-pitched pop tunes 
that make one wonder if they took 
to heart the Ramones’ advice on 
sniffing glue. Austin’s blues garage

Eyehategod
Emo’s Outside, May 24 
True elder statesmen of sludge, 
the members of Eyehategod have 
served up Sabbath worship for 
over 20 years now. The band hails 
from New Orleans, but its brand 
o f the blues is far removed from 
French Q uarter tourist traps. 
Repetitive, down-tuned riffs 
surround the listener in an aura 
of dread reflected by the band 's 
bleak choice o f album titles, such 
as In the N am e o f Suffering and 
C onfederacy o f Ruined Lives.

PHOTO COURTESY OF EYEHATEGOD

PHOTO COURTESY OF TIMES NEW VIKING

 Songstress’s heartbreak rakes in record sales

I met Jam ie, 1 
played a few 
songs for him , 
and we bounced 
off back and 
forth so easily.
He had alm ost 
the exact vision 
in his head of 
what was in my 
m ine for m e.”
Kenney sug­
gested they try 
it out for a week 
in Nashville, no 
strings attach ed , 
to see what could 
happen. The 
w eeklong effort 
resulted in two 
tracks, “Pony 
(It’s O k)” and 
“Sleepw alking," 
as well as a m usi­
cal partnership 
— Kenny ended 
up producing and 
co-w ritin g the 
album .

And so her 
career took off.
She spent the 
m ajority o f last 
year on the road 
and joined the 
Hotel Café Tour 
with Meiko,
Ingrid M ichael- 
son, P riscilla Ahn 
and oth er fem ale 
a rtists. At shows, 
various people 
approached Mc- 
Carley and co n ­
fessed th at her 
songs affected 
them deeply. I t’s 
not surprising, as 
McCarley has a 
way o f co n n ect­
ing with her fans 
at shows.

“W hen 1 was 

E R I N m c c a r l e y underestim ated 
the m ass appeal o f her ach ­
ingly personal songs. Before her 
album even debuted, her music 
was being used to capture peak 
m om ents o f young-adult angst 
and sorrow in “O ne Tree Hill,"
“Grey’s A natom y” and “He’s Just 
Not T h at Into You.” McCarley is 
set to play with M att N athanson 
and Ja c k ’s M annequin in Austin 
this weekend.

Love, Save the Empty, the indie 

songstress’s debut album, was 
released Jan. 6, the sam e day she 
performed on David Letterm an.
“I was freaked out and so 

nervous and excited at the sam e 
tim e,” McCarley said. “It was 
definitely a career peak because 
my record cam e out that day, 
and 1 had a record release party 
that night, so L etterm an was in 
the m iddle o f all that. It was a 
crazy day in New York.”

Her album is a seam lessly 
produced set o f 11 songs, ch ro n i­
cling the self-realization of a 
woman who has been in the 
depths o f love and tossed back 
out. They range from heartren d ­
ing and stirrin g (“P itifu l”) to 
quirky and cynical (“Blue Suit­
ca se ”), representing the dual 
personality o f McCarley.

Th e songs mostly stem from 
eye-opening experiences and an 
abundance of heartache. Growing 
up in a very happy, stable house­
hold in Garland, Texas, McCar- 
ley constructed a false sense of 
reality that ultimately shattered 
when she left her hometown.

“O nce you get out o f the house 

and school, you start becom ing 
your own adult and figuring out 
your own passions and ideals. It 
all sets in,” she said. “I had a lot 
o f really serious relationships 
at a young age, so a lot of songs 
com e from being so em otionally 
attached at such a young age and 
the ideals o f love, o f what they 
were then and what they are 
now. T his record was drawing 
from the past and present.”

McCarley moved to San Diego 
after college — being surrounded 
by m usicians there helped her 
discover her passion for song- 
writing. She began seeking a 
producer who possessed the right 
balance o f professionalism and 
creativity, but none fit the criteria 
until she met producer/writer/ 
keyboardist Jam ie Kenney.

“I went through a handful of 
producers — it was like a dating 
process,” McCarley said. "W h en

w riting the 
album , I didn’t 
necessarily know 
if anyone would 
even con n ect to it,” M cCarley 
said. "I w asn’t w riting it for it to 
be m assively heard, but once I 
started m aking the record, I felt 
like it was relatable.”

As a teenager, M cCarley 
dream t o f being a dancer in 
a m usic video, but the video 
she ended up starrin g in was 
her own. For her single “Love, 
Save the Empty,” she roam s the 
streets o f Paris holding a gold­

fish in a jar.

McCarley recounted the 
incident: “Twenty m inutes 
before I went to perform on 
Leno, my m anager called and 
asked, ‘Do you want to go to 
Paris and shoot the video?’ T he 
last th in g I wanted to do was 
make an other video th a t’s ju st 
my face singing to the cam era, 
but they were pretty adam ant 
about doing it. I had to do som e­

th in g quirky, so they suggested 
holding a goldfish. T h ere were 
five o f us who did it from 8 a.m . 
until 2 a.m . It was freezing cold 
and hysterical b ecau se none o f 
us knew French or had been to 
Paris, but 1 th in k the outcom e is 
pretty incredible.

For now, M cCarley is focused 

on touring and try in g to w rite 
songs for her next record. “It’s 
definitely som ething I’m learn-

PHOTO COURTESY OF ERIN MCCARLEY

ing right now, being on the 
road Before I had no sched ­
ule — I could w rite whenever 
I wanted to. Now I’m around 
people constantly, and I never 
have tim e to m yself.”

— V A L E R I E LAI

Brin M cCaricy
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$299 AR Faratgn Bettlas

S» AH Pitchers 5-11 pm

$1.09 lone Star Betties

$150 Ahy Pints mthaKmna!

$1.50 Domestic Bottles

WHd a Woeiey Wed. $1.5» 
Drain w/BoHet

$1 JO Bom. $2 Imp. $2 Saka

$1.50 Dom. $2 Imp, $2 Saka

$1.50 Dun, |2 Imp, $2 Sake

$1J0 Bern, $2 Imp, $1 Sake

$1.50 Dom, $2 Imp, $2 Saka

ft J9 Bow, $2 talp, S2 Sh i*

$110 DMA $2 hap, $2 Sake

Happy Hour 7 pm - close

Happy Hour 2 - 7 pm

$2.00 Domestic Pints

Happy Hour 2 pm - close

$7.25 Lone Star Pitchers

Happy Hour 2 - 7 pm

Posse East

Little Woodrow's

$2.50 Any Draft All day, 28 beers 
on tap

$2.50 Texas Beers All Day, Pearl 
and PBRS1 00

Big Beer Night

$3 Mimosas/$4 Glasses of Wine 
Poker Night 8 and 10

$4 Giant Mugs

$2 Lonestars & Shiner

$3 You Call It 7-10PM

Crown & Anchor

AH OayMidBanga and Pramiam 
Baer Spec.

AH Day Dom. Pitcher $CZ5 Pints 
$1.75

M i Bey Lena Star $1. 75 Pints, 
$825 Pitcher

M l Bmp Stone Nevada S27S 
Pints. $9.25 Pitch

M l Day Fet^TNVSimshroe $275 
Pints, $025 P it

Happy Hour 11 am - 7 pm (also 
ovary day)

AH Day Live Oak $275 Pint, 
$9.25 Pitcher

Library

$1 Domestic Drafts, $1 Wells, 
$2.50 Teas

$1 Domestic Drafts, $1 W eils

$1 Domestic Drafts, $1 W alls

$1 Doms & W ails, $2 Imp Drafts $1 D an & Wails, $2 imp Drafts

$2 U “C air h until 11P, $2J0 
Teas

$2 U "C air h until 11P, $2.50 
Teas

El Mercado (Lavaca) Margarita's $2.99 after 5 pm

$3.99 Mexican Martini 5 pm - 
Close (HH 3 - 7 pm + HH Buffet)

$299 Margarita's aft 5 (HH 3 - 7 
pm + HH Buffet)

$1.50 Lone Star 5 pm - close (HH 
3 - 7 -r-Buffet)

$299 Margarita's aft 5 (HH 3 - 7 
+HH Buffet)

Happy Hour 3 - 7 pm (FreeH.H. 
Buffet w/drink)

Logan's On 6th

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$1 Corona, $2 Ritas, 99 Cent 
Tacos till 12A

1/2 Off Apps 4-1 OP

$3 Dom Liters 7-1 IP, $2.25 Wells. 
$1 Jello

1/2 Off Apps 4-10P

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Fra# Chalupas 4 -1 pm ft M 
Ceors Draft

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$2.50 W eils, 12.75 Oomosdcs

HH 12 - 9 $250 Waits, $275 Dom 
(Staak Nile $1)

HH 12-9* $250 Wells, $275 
Domestics

HH 12-9*1250 W ells, $275 
Domestics

HH 12-9-11,50 W ells, $1.50 
Domestics

$2.95 Bloodys and Drivers

$2.50 Drafts, $3 Ritas 4 - 7:30P

$3.50 Mex Martinis

$2.50 Drafts, $3 Ritas 4 - 7.30P

$2.50 XX $2.95 Pinklades, $4 
Blasters

$3 Thus, $2 any Bad, $2 Rod 
SmppBt

$3 Teas, $2.50 Tecate, $2 Red 
Shan

Rain on 4th

$2.00 Mimosas, $2.50 Dom., 
$2.75 Well

$5.50 Patron Perf.Marg., $5.50 
Martinis, $4.50 Patron

$1.50 Uto Beers $2.50 Weil 
Drinks

$2. Ultra's, $3.50 Tuaca Shots, $4. 
Skyy Drinks

$3.75 JackDaniels, $3. Well, 
$250 Miller Lite

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$250 Wells

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$2 Dom & $2.50 Imp Drafts All 
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$2 Dom & $2.50 Imp Drafts All 
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$2 Tecate, Free Live Music

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$2 Dom & $2.50 Imp Drafts 
4-8PM

$2 Dom & $2.50 Imp Drafts 
4 8PM

Oil Can Harry's

Brag Show £U B t1 J9 ♦ Mate 
Dancers

Martini Monday + Karaoke @ 
10 pm

Dance Off Starts at 11 pm

$3 W eiis, $3 Beer + MALEBOX

$3 Welts, S3 Beer * Student 
Body Strip Off

D J Konrad 6 -10 ^Dancers, D J 
Bang 10 - close

D J Licious The Diva

$2 Dom Pints, $8 Pitchers

$2 Dom Pints and Tail Boys

$2 Do» Wots and Tall Boys

$2 Dom Pints mid Tall Boys

$2 Drafts (12 Taps}, $2 Waite

$2 Own Pints and Tall Beys

$2 Dom Pints and Tall Boys

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$5 Irish Coffee

$4.50 Imperial 20 oz. Guinness, 
Smithwick’s & Harp pints

$1 OFF all Imperial 20 oz. 
Draught Pints

$3.50 Tex Breweries (Real Ale 
& Live Oak)

$4 Wells

Chuy's Barton Springs NA

Jorge's

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$8.50 TX Tinis, $2.25 Dom.

HH 4-7 Nacho Bar w/$3.50 Ritas, 
$6.50 TX Tinis, $225 Dom.

HH 4-7 Nacho Bar w/$3.50 Ritas, 
$6.50 TX Tinis, $225 Dom.

HH 4-7 Nacho Bar w/$3.50 Ritas, 
S6.50TX Tinis, S225 Dom.

HH 4-7 Nacho Bar w/$3.50 Ritas, 
$6.50 TX Tinis, $225 Dom.

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$299Ritas AH Day

TOP SHEUF RITAS $5J9 M i Day

$6 Buckets of Beer Ail Day

$291 Mex. Martini's M l Day

1299 Ritas. $200 Bern. Beer 
3-7pm

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 Prolific pub houses best beer selection

U P O N w a l k i n g into Fion Wine 
Pub’s new location on Bee Caves 
Road, you may not expect it to 
house 700 types of beer and 900 
different wines. The first impres­
sion is where retail liquor store 
meets neighborhood pub hybrid 
— wine racks line the aisles in one 
room, while secluded booths offset 
a dimly lit bar in the other room.
But beyond this unassuming 

layout, an endless amount of 
exotic alcohol awaits discovery. 
Fion W ine Pub proudly boasts 
the largest selection of beer in 
the state, ranging from Belgian 
abbey brews and rare Lambic 
ales to every Texas beer one can 
possibly imagine. Many of the 
more obscure sudsy delights are 
housed in the Beer Cave, a walk- 
in freezer stocked from floor to 
ceiling w ith rare imports and 
m icrobrews from across the land. 
W hile these are available only 
for single purchase, Fion offers a 
create-your-own-six-pack option

f f * * "

for their rem aining bottled beers. 
W ith prices ranging from $6.99 
to $8.99, this option gives cus­
tomers a chance to try new beers 
without spending much more 
than they would for an average 
six pack at the grocery store. Fion 
also keeps 46 beers on tap, with 
selections that are frequently 
rotated to m axim ize diversity and 
placards that describe the flavor 
and origin o f each beer.

W here Fion really makes its 
name, however, is w ith its stag­
gering selection of wine. W ith 
more than 900 to pick from, the 
choices can be overwhelming, but 
the menu offers detailed explana­
tions of some o f the more popular 
options of each type of wine. If 
you’re still having trouble deciding 
between this or that Riesling or 
pinot noir, you can take a “flight, 
a predetermined set of three 
wines o f a certain grape. Since 
I’m preferential to Shiraz, 1 tried 
the Shiraz flight — for $10,1 had

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a small glass each of Four Sisters 
Shiraz, Spellbound Petite Sirah 
and Boom Boom Syrah. Each wine 
explored the flavors o f the syrah 
grape in a different way so that 
1 never felt as if 1 were drinking 
three glasses o f the same wine.

1 coupled my wine flight with 
one of Fion’s cheese plates — my 
choice was the Doux de Mon- 
tagre, a Havarti-like cheese from 
•France. The cheese menu sug­
gests pairings o f w ine and beer, 
and each plate comes attractively 
accentuated w ith crackers, wal­
nuts, pecans, dried currants, apri­
cots and cranberries. Each cheese 

costs betw een $3.5° and $4 -5°> 
with $2 tacked on per person for 
the nuts and fruit. There are also 
selections o f fudge — cookies n’ 
cream, peanut butter and turtle 
— that are prepared by one of the 
members o f the staff. A 3-ounce 
slab runs for $4, but the sheer 
deliciousness o f the stuff makes it 

worth the splurge.

PH O TO BY SH E IL A N E U M A N

> is quite a drive from campus, 
wide-ranging selections and 
lerally cheap prices make it 
rth the journey.

— A M I R A JE N SE N

Fion is unique in that it offers a 

bar and booths for in-store con­
sumption while also maintaining 
retail store prices. You won t spend 
typical wine pub money here. In 
addition, the staff is exceptionally 
friendly, helpful and knowledge­
able, making any ignorant ques­
tion welcome. Though Fion W ine

 P H O T O B Y TA M i P K A .

C asey’s, a little-known Austin 
favorite w ith a cult following, 

serves up cups o f freshly shaved 
ice New Orleans-style w ith 
“cream," or sweetened con­
densed m ilk. T hey have trad i­

tional flavors like cherry and 
waterm elon, or try one o f the 
house concoctions, w hich utilize 
the condensed m ilk to make fla­
vors like dream sicie and Boston 
cream pie. C asey’s is only open

during the sum m er months, 

of both savory and sweet crepes 

generally from late M arch to 
October, so get your fix now.

Flip Happy Crepes
400 Jessie St.
512.552.9034
Featured on Food N etw ork ’s 

“Throw dow n w ith Bobby Flay,” 
this hidden trailer is the snobby 

Iv y League sister o f Austin street 
food. The menu boasts a long list

sure to please any palate. I f 
you’re looking for lunch, try the 
smoked-salmon crepe w ith her- 
bed cream cheese, spinach and 

tomato or the roasted chicken 
crepe, topped w ith mushrooms, 
w hite cheddar and caramelized 
onions. For dessert, the fruit 
crepe w ith Nutella, a creamy, 
Italian chocolate hazelnut 

spread, is a perfect choice.

Street vendors 
titillate tastebuds

w e ’v e m a d e i t t h r o u g h the April 
rain to the bright months of sum­

mer, and the Texas sun has already 
begun to bring the laid-back atmo­
sphere we’ve all missed. Anticipat­

ing the return to casual clothes and 

daily agendas, Austin’s street food 
is back in full force and better than 

ever. Here are the top three Austin 
treats you just can't miss.

— J A C Q U E L Y N N E W E L L

Lucky J ’s
5703 Burnet Road 
512.296.9914

The newly opened trailer’s slogan, 
“Chicken for strength, waffles for 

speed," hardly seems fitting when 
you realize that after you eat a 
large, syrupy portion of chicken 

and waffles, the only thing you’ll 
want to do is take a nap. And then 

eat some more. Go with a friend 
and try “The Deal,” which includes 
two waffles w ith butter and syrup 
and half of a fried chicken, all for 

under $8. In the coming month, 
Lucky J’s promises to add outdoor 
seating as they complete plans to 
expand the “ dining room” to the 

adjacent building.

Casey’s New Orleans 
Snowballs
Corner of Airport Boulevard and 
51st Street
One th in g ’s for sure: These 
aren’t your average snow cones.

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The thin line between art and design

Fine arts seniors exhibit final design pieces after months of preparation

A S T H E SUN WAS s e t t i n g , the last few 
rays o f light sparkled off the brilliant 
pink and purple hair windswept into her 
face. Delicately scrawling u number “2” 
into my reporter s notebook with an art 
pen, Sarah Hood described why she was 
so fascinated with typography.

“I fell in love with 1TC Tiffany Heavy,’ 
Hood said while sketching the number in 
her favorite font with careful trepidation. 
“For me, everything needs to be as ornate 
as possible. My whole senior project and 
thesis was about stimulation. I need 
som ething that’s constantly stimulating 
— bright lights, color, crazy noises. So 
simple, clean, sleek fonts — they’re lovely 
and well-designed — but they can’t keep 
my attention for very long.

Where to draw the line?

Hood, who will soon graduate with a 
Bachelor o f Fine A rts in design, is among

17 seniors exhibiting their work this 
weekend at the Creative Research Lab. 
The program itself, Design in Conversa­
tion, is an attempt to transform the works 
o f these design students into person- 
to-person dialogue. T h e CRL, normally 
reserved for art exhibitions, will have a 
dedicated space for design students’ work 
— but don’t call the designers “artists."

“Oh no,” Hood said, “Don’t ever call a de­
signer an artist. T hat’s a huge debate in the 
design community right now: Where do we 
draw the line between artist and designer?"
Yet Hood’s work in the exhibit seems

to border on the abstract. In one piece, 
a video shows the process o f melting 
ice cream, Bomb Pops popsicles and 
whipped cream, with each medium 
shaped in the form o f a font. Hood said 
the aim o f her work was to stimulate an 
almost perverse perspective for people 
w atchin g the video.

“ 1 melted Bomb Pops down into molds, 

re-froze them and videotaped them 
m elting,” Hood said, grinning with en­
thusiasm. “It’s m aking you sit dow n and 
watch the melting process from begin ­
ning to end, and it’s kind o f masochistic 
and sadistic. You rush home from the 
grocery store because you d on ’t want 
your ice cream to melt, for example, but 
sitting down and w atching a video of

the process, you’re like, ’O h no no d on ’t 
melt.’ It’s enjoying to watch, like a kid 
with a m a gn ifyin g glass on ants.”

Cult typography

As she finished scrawling the “2,” Hood 
described why she is drawn to psychologi­
cal stimulation in her design pieces.

“I need som ething to distract me and 
keep me busy,” Hood said. “I was always 
the one in class who didn’t do everyth in g 
black and white, sleek, minimal — I’m so 
the opposite o f that. As I got more into 
typography, it helped me realize how 1 
want to design — to be mature but with 
more personality.”

At a South by Southwest screening of the 

horror film “A Haunting In Connecticut,”

 audiences w ere ecstatic and gen u­

inely frightened. A m ovie that 
w ould have probably received a 

stan d in g ovation ended w ith cred ­

its ty p e d in Papyrus font — cau s­
ing audien ce m em bers to groan 
and s co ff in disapproval. O n e 

man, w h o had previously been 
jum p in g in fright at qu ick cut- 

scenes th ro u gh o u t the film , called 

out "am ateur!” w hen the credits 

rolled. T h at kin d o f im pact, Hood 
affirm s, is w hy she w as draw n to 
typo graph y in the first place.

“T h e re are w h o le c u lts b e h in d 
fo n ts, lik e h u g e p e titio n s to ban 

C o m ic S a n s ,” H o o d said w ith a 
la u gh . " T h e r e ’s a lw a y s t y p o g r a ­

p h y d ra m a . L ike, if a d e sig n s tu ­

d en t g o e s to th e m a ll an d see s a 
b u s in e s s sign in a bad fo n t, th e y 
w o n d e r w h o w o u ld p ay m o n ey 

to se e th a t.”

Designers get ready
R achel Tepper, e x h ib it c o m ­

m itte e head for th e p ro gram , 

said th e go al o f th e sh o w is to 
in sp ire d iscu ssio n a b o u t th e 
d e sig n e rs ’ w ork.

“W e sp en d th e e n tire s e m e s ­
te r p re p a rin g for th e sh o w ,” T e p ­

p er said . “I t h in k it ’s im p o rta n t 
to k n o w th a t o u r p ro g ra m is a 
lib e r a l-a rts a p p ro a ch to d e sig n , 

so w e ta k e d e sig n th e o r y and 
h is to r y c la s s e s a n d g ro u n d 

o u r w o rk in t h in k in g , n ot ju st 
d e sig n . W e to o k a c tio n w o rd s 

lik e ‘p ro v o k e ’ a n d ‘e x p lo r e ’ an d 
g r o u p e d o u r w o rk u n d e r th e se 
c a te g o r ie s to tr ig g e r c o n v e rs a ­
tio n s , to m a k e p e o p le th in k 
a b o u t w h y d o e s th is p ro vo k e or 
h o w d o e s t h is e x p lo re .”

T ep p er, a d e s ig n e r h e rse lf, 

a lso fo c u s e d on ty p o g ra p h y 

b u t w a s m o re in te re s te d in 
th e h is to r y b e h in d fo n ts. H er 
w o rk c e n te rs on re v is itin g and 

u p d a tin g a fo n t o r ig in a lly c r e ­
a ted by E liz a b e th F ried lan d er, 
a H o lo c a u s t re fu g e e w h o w as 

fo rce d to leave G e rm a n y in 
th e 1930s. F rie d la n d e r n ever 
re ce iv e d c r e d it for th e ty p e fa c e 

sh e cre a te d , so T ep p er d e cid e d 

to p a y h o m a g e to h e r le g a c y by 

tr a n s fo r m in g th e fo n t in to S a n s 
F rie d lan d e r, a san s s e r if font.

“ I lik e to cre a te p ie ce s th a t 
a re v e ry th o ro u g h , w ith a lig h t, 
s o ft to u c h ,” T e p p e r said w h ile 
a v e r tin g h er e ye s an d s m ilin g . “ 1 

t h in k th a t I d e sig n w ell th a t w ay 

b e c a u s e it k in d o f re fle c ts m y 
s h y n e ss. It’s u n d e r s ta te d .”

— F R A N C I S C O M A R I N

Design in Conversation
Opening reception; Saturday, 6 p.m. 
Exhibit; May 9-May 30; noon-5 p.m. 
Creative Research Lab 
2832 E. MLK Blvd.

 Eyes, Ears +

Feet

COURTESY OF J EUSSA MARSHAL!

IN A CO LL AB O RA TI V E E F F O R T 

“T B D ” and “S h atte re d ."

betw een U T ’s School o f Music and 
D epartm ent o f Theatre and Dance, 
undergraduates and graduates will 
present th eir work in this year’s 
Ears, Eyes + Feet.

Ears, Eyes + Feet is an annual 
showcase o f projects presented in 
segm ents by choreographers, com ­
posers and video students. Each 
perform ance includes dance, music 
and video.

T h e se g m e n ts in th is y e a r’s 
p ro g ram in clu de “R epu rpose, 
R etoo l,” a p e rfo rm an ce ab ou t 
re c y c lin g ; “E x p e rie n ce ,” w hich 
e x a m in e s d ifferen t ty p es o f 
re la tio n sh ip s; “F ath o m ,” ab o u t 
d ep th and u n d e rsta n d in g ; “T h e 
Blue Jar,” based on a sh o rt story 

by Isak D in esen abou t a w om an 
and a sa ilo r w ho spend n in e days 
on a bo at to g e th e r; and “D u et,” a 

v id eo b ased on in te ra c tio n s w ith 
a w all, foam tu b e , ca m e ra and 

“T h e sh o w case is o n e o f U T ’s 

b e st-k e p t s e c r e ts ,” said c o m ­
p o ser Ian D ick e. “It is a w on ­
d erfu l o p p o rtu n ity for yo u n g 

co m p o sers, v id eo a r tis ts and 
c h o re o g ra p h e rs to c o lla b o ra te 
and sh o w case th e ir w ork w ith in 
a p ro fe ssio n al e n v iro n m e n t.”
D icke w orks w ith “G et R ich 
Q u ic k ,” a piece in th e p rogram 
about th e d y sfu n ctio n on W all 
S tre e t. It inclu des p a rts for 
piano, e le c tro n ic m edia and six 
d an cers, and it see k s to d isru p t 
trad ition al th o u g h ts abo u t 
m oney and greed , D icke said. 
“G et R ich Q u ic k ” illu stra te s th e 
savagery o f th e sto ck m arket and 
allu d es to th e fin an cial h ard ­
ships th at have hit A m erican s.

“Audiences should expect a fast- 
paced roller coaster ride, featuring 
a virtuosic pianist and six talented 
dancers who are all accom panied 

d a n c in g body. O th e rs inclu d e

by an electronic soundtrack filled

with sound bites o f self-proclaim ed 
financial gurus,” Dicke said.

The piece prom ises to be a 

“therapy session” that m akes audi­
ences laugh at the econom ic chaos 
they have experienced.

“It’s an invitation for those o f 

us who have been affected by the 
curren t econom ic dow nturn to 
laugh at the absurdity o f it all,” 
Dicke said.

A nother perform ance is 

“Sketches,” a piece inspired by the 
sounds o f paper and pencil and the 
lines and shapes they make. Many 

hours went into creatin g the seven- 
m inute piece, including costum e 
design, auditions and casting, light 
design, choreography and rehears­
als. T h e result is a collection o f 

textured m ovem ent that is left to 
the audience to interpret.

“[It’s] a sim ple abstraction o f 
sketching through aural-spatial- 

kinesthetic design, and [audiences] 
should feel free to interpret what­

ever moves them ,” said C harlotte 
Griffin, a M aster o f Fine A rts 

candidate and “Sketches” choreog­
rapher.

O verall, Ears, Eyes + Feet is a 
presentation o f m ixed m edium s 
com ing together in th e creative 
process o f m aking a perform ance 

w ith m any elem ents. All are

invited to see th e show case to 
interpret th e works o f several MFA 
stud en ts and faculty.

— K O R R I K E Z A R

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W I T H T H E S U M M E R M O N T H S SO 

c lo s e you c a n a l m o s t t a s t e th e 

c h e r r y s n o w c o n e s , th e r e are a 

few a s p e c t s o f life th a t s t u d e n ts 
ca n c a t c h up on d u ring t h e m id ­
year slump. T h i s y e a r ’s s u m m e r 

movie s c h e d u l e is b o th a w e ­
in s p ir in g and so bad the phrase 

“s t r a i g h t - t o - D V D ” never s e e m e d 

so o m in o u s . W i t h th e good 

c o m e s t h e bad, and s u m m e r 

is t h e t i m e to w a s te b o th tim e 
and m o n ey r e l is h i n g b o th to t h e 

fu lle st e x t e n t .

— M A N D Y S P I V E Y

Best
‘The B roth ers Bloom'
T h e Blo om b ro th e rs are som e 

o f th e world's most prolific 
c o n m e n . N ear t h e end o f their 

d is h o n e s t career, they decide 
to ta k e o n e last job and double- 

c ro ss a b e au tifu l and spirited 
heiress, t a k i n g with them her 

m illio n s and dignity. As the 
m a in c h arac ter, played by Rachel 

W eisz, s t a n d s to lose her for­
tun e, th e story he ig h te n s as t h e 

b ro th e rs find out th e ir work is 

cu t out for th e m . T h e plan goes 
awry w hen th e heiress b e gin s to 
c a t c h o n to t h e b ro t h e rs ’ devious 

plan. H ilarity e n s u e s as their 

pitiful facade s t a r t s to melt 
faste r th a n ice cre a m left on a 

s u m m e r sidewalk.

TJp3-D ’
S t ra ig h t from D isn ey and Pixar 
c o m e s a h e a r t w a r m i n g ta le o f 

t h e d e t e r m i n e d and e n e rg e tic 
Carl F r e d ric k s e n , a 7 8 -y e a r-o ld 

who, a f t e r d e c a d e s o f living 
w ith in h is o w n safety, decides 

to finally see t h e world for 
h im s e lf. In t h i s v isually s t r ik in g 
film th a t f o c u s e s on th e will o f 
t h e c o m m o n m a n and ju st how 

m u ch life t h e r e still is yet to 
give, his in g e n io u s e x p e r im e n t 
to free h i m s e l f o f life ’s r e s t r a i n t s 

is f u r t h e r c o m p lic a t e d w hen a 
yo u n g b oy b e c o m e s stra n d e d on 
his m a n - m a d e trav e lin g hou se. 

T h e two m u st find a way to 

travel t o g e t h e r and m ak e th e 
m o s t out o f t h e i r m is a d v e n tu re 

w h ile it still ho lds air.

‘Drag Me To H ell’
R e t u r n i n g to t h e h o rr o r ge n re , 
S a m R a im i a n d his b r o t h e r Ivan 
give a u d i e n c e s t h e t e r r o r i z i n g 

film t h a t q u e s t i o n s t h e g o o d ­

n e s s o f h u m a n n a t u r e and w ha t 
c a n c o m e w h e n we t u r n our 
b a c k s o n e a c h o t h e r for p e r ­

PHOTO COURTESY OF DRAG ME TO HELL

W orst
‘Night At The M useum 2: B attle 
o f th e Sm ithsonian’
Ben Stiller is at it again. T h e u n ­

necessary sequel to a movie that 

received mixed reviews at best, 

this addition serves as a follow-up 

to th e nightly adventure in the 

mysterious museum, filled with 

the likes o f Teddy Roosevelt, O c ­

tavius and Napoleon. T h e plot in 

the second rendition is thickened 

when Larry Daley, th e second- 

guessing night guard played by 

Stiller, has to gain access to the 

Sm ithson ian Institute to save 

several o f his “friends” who were 

s o n a l g ain . C h r i s t i n e B row n, a 
Los A n g e le s lo a n officer, is a n x ­
iously a w a it in g a p r o m o t io n at 

t h e e x p e n s e o f h e r b o s s ’s b iased 
ju d g m e n t . W h e n t h e e e r i e Mrs. 

G a n u s h v is its h e r office to ask 
for an e x t e n s i o n on t h e lo an for 

h e r h o u se , C h r i s t i n e is faced 
w i t h th e d i s h e a r t e n i n g d e c isio n 

to fulfill t h e w o m a n ’s n e e d or to 
d en y her e x t e n s i o n to im p re s s 

h e r bo ss. W i t h c e r t a i n d e c i ­
s io n s c o m e d ir e c o n s e q u e n c e s , 

a n d s oo n e v e n t s a re s e t into 
m o t i o n t h a t t h r e a t e n h e r own 

life. Clay D a lto n , played by 
J u s t i n Long, s e r v e s to g r o u n d 

C h r i s t i n e in h e r o w n s u s p ic i o n s 
and m i s i n t e r p r e t s t h e literal 
h ell th a t his g ir l fr i e n d is fa llin g 

into. W i t h t h e a l a r m i n g fear 
t h a t she cou ld b e c a s t in to hell 

forever, she m u s t fight a g a i n s t 

all o d ds to find a way to reverse 

t h e spell.

shipped there by mistake. T h is is 

playing off t h e t r i e d -a n d -tru e 

one sure way to make a trip to the 

m useum seem lively, even if it is a 

movie s t r u c t u r e th a t worked in 
previous film s s uch as “S ca ry 

last grasp at a fading script.

M ovie” and “W h i t e C h ic k s .” As 
long as t h e re is a c o n tin u o u s flow 

‘Dance Flick’
M arlon W a y a n s proves to be

o f movie reels in Hollywood, 
t h e re will be plenty o f scripts

PHOTO COURTESY OF DANCE FUCK

and s c e n e s to s p o o f and m u ch 
c h e ap laughter to be had. “D a nce 
F l i c k ” plays off th e re ce n t movie 
th e m e s s in ce W a y a n s ’ last m ajor 

release o f “Little M a n ,” w ith no 

storylin e spared. I f life im ita tes 
art, life ju st got much scarier.