FRIDAY ÔLaugh for KidsÕ A comedy showcase featuring eight local comedians will raise money to help kids in India fight hunger and illiteracy. Baal Dan Charities and Pratham UT will be selling tickets at the Jester center and at the West Mall for tonightÕs event at 6:30 p.m. in the Texas Union Theatre. Grand Opening Celebration Celebrate the opening of the Visual Arts Center on campus with a dinner, live music, art exhibits and performances. The party is in the art building from 9-11 p.m. and is $30 for admission or free with a UT ID. SATURDAY Parkour Jam Hang out with Texas Parkour at Waterloo Park at their last summer event as they celebrate and raise awareness of the philosophy of parkour. Food will be provided by Young Palettes and the free event is from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pecan Street Festival The annual, weekend-long event features live music, performances, food, magicians, vendors and more. The free festival attracts about 300,000 people to Sixth Street from Brazos Street to Interstate 35. Saturday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. SUNDAY ÔDexterÕ Season 5 Watch Party Join other fans to watch the season 5 premiere of ÒDexter.Ó The free watch party is downtown at JoÕs Coffeehouse on West Second Street starting at 8 p.m. Flyleaf and Story of the Year Alternative rock bands Flyleaf and Story of the Year take a stop in town and take the stage at StubbÕs BBQ. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and tickets start at $15. Quote to note Ô Ô ÒI think sometimes people think motorcycle riders are mean. Some of those big, burly guys you see though are some of the nicest, big¥hearted guys I have ever met.Ó Ñ Diane Collman Austin Motorcycle Riders Group LIFE&ARTS PAGE 10 College chooses owl mascot EDDIE NEWS PAGE 5 TOMORROWÕS WEATHER LowHigh 92 Friday, September 24, 2010 Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 www.dailytexanonline.com UT System leases oil land for $207 million By Collin Eaton Daily Texan Staff The UT System leased a re¥cord $207 million in oil- and gas¥rich West Texas land Wednesday to hundreds of companies and in¥vestors as the high expectations for the price of oil and technolog¥ical improvements led to the top¥dollar land deals. More than 190,000 acres were leased at an average of $1,000 an acre. The auction shattered the pre¥vious record Ñ $54 million in April. In a few years, the revenue will boost payments from the Perma¥nent University Fund to UTÕs en¥dowment, providing extra money for enhanced academic programs, research competitiveness and re¥cruiting and retaining top faculty and grad students. The PUF funds UT System and Texas A&M Sys¥tem institutions with low-percent¥age payouts, which do not rise im¥mediately when revenues or in¥vestment values increase. Jerry Patterson, chairman of the PUFÕs Board for Lease of Univer¥sity Lands, said new technologies that increased oil well produc¥tion, as well as expectations that the price of oil will remain high, spurred the high bids for the Uni¥versity-owned land. ÒThings are just technological¥ly more advanced than when they put Santa Rita No. 1 over there on campus,Ó Patterson said. According to a statement from Group raises funds for flood victims Thomas Allison | Daily Texan Staff Senior Elizabeth Bolton gives a Henna tattoo as members of the Fighting the Flood organization rap in the background on the West Mall to raise awareness for their Pakistan flood relief fund. By Allison Kroll ÒAll of the houses in these vil- Daily Texan Staff lages were destroyed,Ó said Ja- Hafeez JamaliÕs family in mali, an anthropology gradu-Chowki Jamali, Pakistan, evacuat-ate student. ÒThe crops and wild¥ed their village in August just be-life were also destroyed, which is fore it was flooded by monsoon what small farming villages rely rains. But about 4,700 small villag-on. Many are living as refugees, es like his were left stranded in the because aid is very slow in reach¥flood waters. ing to the area.Ó Health law takes effect, eases stress on student By Daniel Sanchez caps for patient treatment, along Daily Texan Staff with several other provisions of Isbah Raja said a huge weight the health care bill. on her and her familyÕs shoul-Raja is one of 161,000 young ders was lifted when several pro-people in Texas who will benefit visions of national health care re-from the new insurance policies, form kicked in Thursday. according to Texas Public Inter- The Plan II junior said that a est Research Group. The group few years ago, she went to her announced the changes Thurs¥general physician complaining day on the south steps of the of fatigue. Later, her father had to change insurance companies be¥cause of a change in employment. ÔÔ Young adults need The new insurance health care and that company reject¥ed her coverage means they need because of her fa¥ insurance.Ó tigue symptom. Raja was again Ñ Elliott Naishtat rejected for cover-State representative age after being di¥agnosed with lupus at 19 years old. ÒI remember when my dad told me I didnÕt get ac¥cepted by insurance. I was kind of appalled,Ó Raja said. ÒMy par¥ents pay my tuition for UT and to think that they have to pay even more because of my health Ñ itÕs very stressful.Ó After Thursday, insurance com¥panies can no longer deny pa¥tients coverage because of prior conditions. The reforms also al¥low young people to stay on their parentsÕ health care plan until the age of 26 and ban lifetime benefit UT Tower. At the Tex-PIRG press con¥ference, state Rep. Elliott Na¥ishtat, D-Aus¥tin, said Tex¥as has the high¥est rate of un¥insured per¥sons in the na¥tion at 26.1 per¥cent. About 6.4 million Texans are uninsured, including 1.3 million children and 1,062,000 young adults ages 19 to 25, he said. ÒYoung people do get sick,Ó Naishtat said. ÒYoung adults need health care and that means they need insurance.Ó Student Government President Scott Parks said the increase in time that stu¥dents can spend under their parentsÕ insurance plans will make sure they donÕt face HEALTH continues on page 2 Rapping, poetry and inspired chanting of ÒShare the love, fight the floodÓ could be heard through¥out the West Mall on Thursday af¥ternoon, as members of the UT or¥ganization Fighting the Flood at¥tempted to raise awareness and collect donations for the disaster in Pakistan. Students who donated were given free Henna tattoos, a sym¥bol of Pakistani culture. Fighting the Flood volunteers, including accounting graduate stu¥dent Muneera Ali, held up signs that read Òremembering the lives FLOOD continues on page 2 By Audrey White Daily Texan Staff Jewish students may have to choose be¥tween the ho¥liest of Jew¥ish holidays and the row¥diest of col¥lege foot¥ball games on Oct. 8 2011, because under the current schedule, Yom Kippur coincides with the Texas-Oklahoma game. A group of Jewish students is circulating two petitions to en¥courage the athletics department to consider an alternative week¥end that would still allow the game to be played at the Cotton Bowl during the State Fair of Tex¥as. The 2011 football schedule is in flux because of the departure the UT System, the highest per¥acre bid was more than $3,500 and the highest bidder, El Paso Explo¥ration & Production Company, paid more than $180 million for nearly 125,000 acres. ÒWe expected it to be good but not this good Ñ breaking the re- LEASE continues on page 2 University leads way in diversifying study abroad By Amyna Dosani Daily Texan Staff UT is ahead of the curve in its proportion of minority stu¥dents who study abroad, ac¥cording to a recent nation¥al study and UTÕs study abroad office. Eighteen percent of all study abroad participants nation¥wide in 2007-08 were minori¥ty students and 35 percent of full-time students enrolled in college were minorities, ac¥cording to a study conducted by researchers from Augusta¥na College and the Universi¥ty of Iowa. Minority students made up about 38 percent of all of UTÕs study abroad par¥ticipants in 2008-09 and 45.5 percent of students enrolled were minorities, according to statistics from the UT Study Abroad Office. While the nationÕs gap be¥tween minority students study¥ing abroad and minority stu¥dents enrolled full-time in col¥lege widened in the past de¥cade, UTÕs steadily shrank. ÒOne of our goals is to have study abroad participation mir¥ror the demographics of the University,Ó said Heather Bar¥clay Hamir, director of the Study Abroad Office. Journalism junior Ariel Min, who plans to study in Bris¥tol, England, said she wanted STUDY continues on page 2 Thomas Allison | Daily Texan Staff Students petition on the West Mall to have the date of the 2011 Red River Rivalry moved to avoid con¥flict with the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur. Jews protest scheduling of TX-OU game of the University of Colorado and the University of Nebraska-Lin¥coln from the Big 12. ÒIf itÕs something thatÕs a possibility, thereÕs no reason it shouldnÕt happen, and we havenÕt heard a good reason not to move it,Ó said Ben Freed, a Middle East¥ern studies and broadcast jour¥nalism senior who is one of the GAME continues on page 2 2 NEWS Friday, September 24, 2010 THE DAILY TEXAN HEALTH: Threat Volume 111, Number 74 25 cents of lawÕs repeal CONTACT US Main Telephone: one concern (512) 471-4591 Editor: for the future Lauren Winchester (512) 232-2212 From page 1 editor@dailytexanonline.com a gap in receiving quality health Managing Editor: care. Sean Beherec ÒThe job market right now is ex¥ (512) 232-2217 tremely difficult, so finding an em¥ managingeditor@ ployer Ñ let alone one that will pro¥ dailytexanonline.com vide quality health care Ñ is a daunt¥ing task,Ó Parks said. ÒThis [change News O¥ce: in policy] will really give them a lit¥ (512) 232-2207 tle more time to establish a financial news@dailytexanonline.com foundation for themselves.Ó The one concern for the future, Sports O¥ce: however, is the possibility of a re¥ (512) 232-2210 peal of the federal health care re¥ sports@dailytexanonline.com form legislation, a move support¥ed by 20 state attorneys general, Retail Advertising: Naishtat said. (512) 471-1865 ÒI donÕt think thatÕs going joanw@mail.utexas.edu to happen, but at the state lev¥el, weÕre concerned there could ClassiÞed Advertising: be efforts to undermine, slow (512) 471-5244 down or create hurdles regard¥ classiÞeds@dailytexanonline.com ing compliance with and imple- Thomas Allison |Daily Texan Staff mentation of the new law,Ó he State Rep. Elliott Naishtat, TexPIRG field associate Emily Slatter and junior Isbah Raja spoke at a press conference on the Main Mall about the said. ÒWe need to make sure that The Texan strives to present all information benefits of new health care laws allowing young adults to remain on their parentsÕ policies until age 26. doesnÕt happen.Ó fairly, accurately and completely. If we have made an error, let us know about it. Call (512) 232-2217 or e-mail managingeditor@dailytexanonline.com. GAME: Student Government passes FLOOD: About $4,000 raised so far from donations resolution in favor of moving date From page 1 going on here,Ó said architec-ÒWeÕre all people who have CORRECTIONS tural engineering senior Shah-needs and not everyone realizes Because of an editing error, lostÓ to help inspire passing stu-rukh Gaziani. ÒWeÕre all differ-that. Students are so consumedFrom page 1 ÒWeÕre sympathetic to our WednesdayÕs page-one news story dents to donate to the cause. ent people from different plac-with themselves and their ownfans and our staff,Ó Voinis said. groupÕs organizers. about the Republican Þlibuster of Once the donations are collect-es and diverse backgrounds, but lives at the University, that we ÒThis was not done intentionally, the DREAM Act should have said the There are about 4,000 under¥ ed, they are sent to grassroots weÕve all come together with a forget the needs of others.Ó but there is really not much that Defense Reauthorization Bill included graduate Jewish students and organizations in Pakistan. common goal in mind Ñ to help Every Thursday, Fighting the can be done at this point.Ó as two separate amendments a repeal about 800 Jewish students in The flooding began when mon-people.Ó Flood can be found on the WestThe Texas-OU game has fall¥ of the militaryÕs ÒdonÕt ask, donÕt tellÓ UTÕs graduate programs, accord¥soon rains poured down on vari-The organization raised about Mall seeking support from the en on Yom Kippur five times policy and a repeal of an abortion ban ing to the Texas Hillel website. ous regions of the country in July. $4,000 from student donations UT community in the form of in the history of the game, and on military bases. Students are hosting a petition One-third of the country is now and their online PayPal account contributing volunteers, helping there has never been this level of online at movetxou.com. The stu¥under water, and more than six in the past month. Over the next pass out donation boxes or publi- Because of an editing error, response before, Voinis said. He dent version has received more million people have been affected year, $12 billion is needed to aid cizing flood fundraising events. WednesdayÕs page-Þve news story added that because the calendar than 3,000 signatures, while a as a result of the disaster. To date, Pakistan. ÒNo donation is too small,Ó about West Campus parking meters year contains so many holidays, version for alumni, families and more people have been affect-Government senior Nimra Gaziani said. ÒHelp the mil¥ should have said Student Government it is inevitable that there will other affiliated non-students has ed by the Pakistan flood disaster Chowdhry said many on cam-lions who have lost their homes does not support the elimination of be conflicts. more than 1,000. than the earthquake in Haiti, the pus donÕt even realize the disas-and livelihood. Help the mil¥ free parking spaces in West Campus. ÒWe played our spring game ÒThis is not a Jewish issue,Ó 2004 tsunami and the 2005 Paki-ter occurred. lions who have lost every¥this past year on Easter and Freed said. ÒIt would still be an stan earthquake combined. ÒSome people think because thing. Donate to help the vic¥weÕve played other sports on issue if it were scheduled dur¥ÒIÕve been a part of a lot of dif-theyÕre not Pakistani, that they tims of what is considered one Good Friday. We play football ing Easter or Eid al-Fitr. So the ferent student organizations and donÕt need to help, but thatÕs of the worst natural disasters in on Thanksgiving,Ó he said. response from the non-Jewish COPYRIGHT thereÕs really something special not the case,Ó Chowdhry said. human history.Ó community has been awesome.Ó Big 12 Associate Commis- Copyright 2010 Texas Student On Tuesday, Student Govern-sioner Bob Burda said that al- Media. All articles, photographs ment unanimously passed a res-though scenarios exist in which and graphics, both in the print and olution authored by business the schedule could change, it is STUDY: Time, money concerns deter travel abroad online editions, are the property of representative Alex Greenberg logistically complicated since the Texas Student Media and may not be in favor of moving the game. game must be coordinated with reproduced or republished in part or From page 1 social networks to advertise, the geted high costs by reducing Greenberg said that despite stu-both universities, the city of Dal¥ in whole without written permission. latter of which Plan II and his-the cost of its faculty-led pro¥dent efforts, in the end, students las, the State Fair and other foot¥ to experience a different culture, tory student Kevin Vermillion, grams and offering scholar¥may have to make the choice be-ball games that take place dur¥ not just that of Korea, a culture who studied abroad in Buenos ship options, Hamir said. To at¥tween attending the game and ing fair weekends. she already knows. Aires this spring, can vouch for. tract a larger variety of students, participating in Yom Kippur ser-He also noted that neither uni¥ ÒWhy would I want to go The main challenge to encour-the office will also create more TODAYÕS WEATHER vices. For practicing Jews, the versity has requested a change back there?Ó she said. ÒI want to aging international study lies study abroad opportunities in day includes fasting and many in the schedule, which he said experience new stuff. I can just uniformly in time and money, Africa, Asia and the Middle High Low hours in shul to offer repentance would be necessary before the travel back [to Korea], because regardless of race, said Chris-East. To increase outreach, the for their sins. Big 12 could consider it. The Big my relatives live there.Ó tine Fisher, associate academic Study Abroad Office created the Athletics spokesman Nick 12 is expected to release the fi¥ 91 73 The study addressed possi-adviser for the Department of Study Abroad Mentor Program, Voinis said the possibility of nal version of the 2011 football ble marketing strategies, such as Spanish and Portuguese. which provides peer mentoring moving the game is slim. schedule next week. Have fun at your high school reunion, outreach programs and utilizing The Study Abroad Office tar-by study abroad alumni. Junior. This newspaper was printed with pride by The Daily Texan and NEWS BRIEFLY LEASE: Payout for UT to decrease greatly until 2012 THE DAILY TEXAN Texas Student Media. McCombs graduate program Permanent Staff From page 1 cal year to $157 million at the end tyÕs finances, UT has had to rely on Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Lauren Winchester Managing Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sean Beherec ranked ninth best in country of the next fiscal year. the AUF to pay for basic operation- Associate Managing Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Claire Cardona Associate Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Viviana Aldous, Susannah Jacob cord by a factor of four,Ó Patter-UT is the only institution au-al costs such as electricity. The Princeton Review and En¥ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Doug Luippold, Dave Player son said. ÒNobodyÕs going to put News Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Andrew Kreighbaum thorized by the state constitu-ÒWe have to explain to [the trepreneurship Magazine ranked Associate News Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bobby Cervantes, Lena Price, Michelle Truong Senior Reporters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Collin Eaton, Aziza Musa that kind of money down un¥ the McCombs School of Business tion to spend AUF money on Legislature] that as budgets got . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daniel Sanchez, Audrey White Copy Desk Chief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cristina Herrera less they think they can make as the ninth best entrepreneur¥ non-capital purposes Ñ items cut and tuition got strained, we Associate Copy Desk Chiefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Elyana Barrera, Sydney Fitzgerald, Reese Rackets some money.Ó Design Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Veronica Rosalez ship graduate program in the unrelated to construction, land were having to live off the AUF Senior Designers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Veronica Carr, Martina Geronimo However, for UTÕs PUF pay¥ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Alexa Hart, Simonetta Nieto country earlier this week. or equipment. more and more for pretty basic, Special Projects Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Camri Hinkie out, called the Available Univer- Photo Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Lauren Gerson John Butler, director of the The payout also funds the Center mundane things,Ó Hegarty said. Associate Photo Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Kang, Peyton McGee sity Fund, things are going to get Senior Photographers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jeff Heimsath, Tamir Kalifa Herb Kelleher Center for Entre¥ for Technology Commercialization, In the 2011-12 biennium, the pay¥ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nasha Lee, Erika Rich, Danielle Villasana worse before they get better. Life&Arts Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Amber Genuske preneurship and of the IC2 In¥ the RegentsÕ Outstanding Teach-out will shrink further to $152 mil- Associate Life&Arts Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Madeleine Crum UT Chief Financial Officer stitute, said the University has Senior Life&Arts Writers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Layne Lynch, Allistair Pinsof, Sarah Pressley ing Awards and the System-wide lion, but recovering oil prices will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Francisco Marin, Gerald Rich, Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, Julie Rene Tran Kevin Hegarty said the Universi¥ worked hard to earn the Sports Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dan Hurwitz Technology and Telecommunica-rocket the payout to $179 million in Senior Sports Writers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Will Anderson, Sameer Bhuchar, Jordan Godwin ranking. tyÕs payout is forecasted to shrink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Laken Litman, Andy Lutz, Jon Parrett, Bri Thomas tions Fund. Hegarty said as bud-2012-13, according to the UT Sys- Comics Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Victoria Elliott ÒWeÕve done so much at Texas from $160 million in the past fis- Web Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ryan Murphy get cuts have affected the Universi-temÕs latest quarterly prediction. Multimedia Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Carlos Medina and at McCombs,Ó he said. ÒThe Associate Multimedia Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pierre Bertrand Eric Potter, program direc- Senior Video Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rafael Borges School of Business and the Uni- Senior Videographer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joanna Mendez Editorial Adviser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Doug Warren tor of UTÕs Bureau of Economic versity of Texas are both very en¥      Geology, said oil and gas pric- Issue Staff TSM trepreneurial.Ó es will increase over the next About 95 percent of the Mc- BOARD Reporters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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Then editor Patricia Mercado got a phone call order- US, Europe boycott AhmadinejadÕs speech Controversial Iranian leader says most Americans back Sept. 11 conspiracy theories By Ali Akbar Dareini & Edith M. Lederer The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS Ñ IranÕs hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pro¥voked yet another controversy Thursday saying a majority of people in the United States and around the world believe the American government staged the Sept. 11 terror attacks in an attempt to assure IsraelÕs survival. The provocative comments prompt¥ed the U.S. delegation to walk out of Ah¥madinejadÕs U.N. speech, where he also blamed the U.S. as the power behind U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran for its refusal to halt uranium enrich¥ment, a technology that can be used as fuel for electricity generation or to build nuclear weapons. The Iranian leader Ñ who has Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday. US and European diplomats left the General Assembly when Ahmadinejad spoke about 9/11 conspiracy theo¥ries. Richard Drew Associated Press Editor-in-Chief: Lauren Winchester Phone: (512) 232-2212 E-mail: editor@dailytexanonline.com Associate Editors: Viviana Aldous Susannah Jacob OPINION Friday, September 24, 2010 Doug Luippold Dave Player THE DAILY TEXAN Move the OU game Graduate students, rise up! By Brandon Curl Daily Texan Columnist Beware, undergrads! We graduate stu¥dents lurk anonymously in your midst, of¥ten unbeknownst to you or even others of our own kind. ÒBut who is the graduate student?Ó the wary freshmen might ask. Some things to know: First, we carry messenger bags, prefer¥ably leather. Also, we are all married, fre¥quently to each other. A few of us have kids. In fact, some of you are our kids. You may recognize us as your TAs. As such, we are gatekeepers to your future employment, bastions of intellect and pi¥oneers of all human knowledge. We are also chronically in debt. We are not easily identified. Just as you are reading this newspaper, you may be sitting next to one of us. Perhaps you met us in line for coffee at EinsteinÕs this morn¥ing, our identity only subtly betrayed by the smirk crossing our face when you asked, ÒWhat year are you?Ó ÒIÕm a graduate student,Ó we intone. You, on the other hand, are an undergrad¥uate. Under. Beneath us. (Look, we didnÕt make up the word.) But fear not, undergrads. We pose no threat. On the contrary, we are quite be¥nign. We know that this University is your turf. UT belongs to you; we are happy simply to visit awhile. If the Eyes of Texas are upon you, then perhaps we are but the focus of its periph¥eral vision. Unfortunately, the graduate student is under persistent emotional duress. De¥spite the efforts of our University and peer organizations, we struggle to feel connect¥ed, to develop a cohesive community in spite of and because of our diverse popu¥lation. We are alone in the crowd. For undergrads, UT is an experience. For grad students, itÕs work. And IÕve had my grad professors state it that frankly: ÒThis class is your job.Ó How does this happen? How can it be that undergrads Ñ and we were under¥grads once Ñ revel in fulfilling, overlap¥ping communities, while grad students are here simply to punch the clock? To explain the plight of the graduate student, we have to again ask who is the graduate student, but seriously this time. Grad students are fewer in number but broader in focus. At UT, there are more than 12,000 graduate students (compared to nearly 40,000 undergrads) active in 100 fields of study from architectural history to textiles and apparel technology. Grad students have a vast range of in¥terests. The leaders of our elected govern¥ing body, the Graduate Student Assembly, are a Ph.D. student in higher education administration, a second-year law student and a Ph.D. student in sports manage¥ment. Talk about a dream team. Grad students are older. Duh. Accord¥ing to the most recently published data, the average age of a UT grad student is 29.3. But the distribution is wide, as stu¥dents range from ages 18 to 65, with more than 13 percent over the age of 35. Grad students are more globally di¥verse. The graduate population is com¥posed of more than 26 percent foreign stu¥dents, compared to just 4 percent for un¥dergrads. If there is a common way to character¥ize all graduate students, it is that they are all completely different. WeÕre from different generations. We speak different languages. We have differ¥ent motivations. We donÕt live near each other Ñ in the same hallway, same dorm or even the same zip code. When we watch UT football, we quietly root for the other team in hopes of a more entertaining game. We canÕt help it. Sorry. DonÕt get me wrong, undergrads. YouÕre all unique and special, too. ItÕs just that grad students are demographically differ¥ent to a degree that exceeds the undergrad experience and precludes a common grad¥uate one. All of my rhetoric aside, IÕm not so fool¥ish as to suggest that grad students are loners, that we have no friends or that we havenÕt found our own socially rewarding niches. We have. But what I am saying is that grad stu¥dents lack that unifying experience that makes us feel like weÕre a part of a larger whole. Until the University increases the number and quality of structured events to allow grad students from all disciplines to interact, these feelings will persist. Coincidentally, IÕm flying back to my alma mater today for Homecoming, where I donÕt feel so much like an intruder. IÕm hoping that eventually UT will feel like home, too. Curl is an advertising graduate student. THE FIRING LINE A new ticket system Monday morning. My Blackberry reads 9 a.m., and IÕm surrounded by bleary-eyed students. It was a good weekend, as they usu¥ ally are in Austin. But now itÕs back to reality. The only thing is, this reality is not an Intro to Chemistry class. Instead, it is UT Football 101. It is the Longhorn All-Sports Package ticket-draw line. I love football as much as anyone. I follow the New England Patriots and the Colorado Buffaloes as much as I can from Texas, and I also follow UT football. Who can resist it? It is a huge money maker for the school, as well as one of the most exciting parts of attending the University of Texas. Certainly, all students who so desire should be given the chance to attend. That said, I would like to propose that the University find a new procedure for distribut¥ ing LASP tickets to students. Many students I talked to lamented the fact that they had to miss class in order to maybe get a ticket to a football game. At no university, especially one with such high academic standards as the University of Texas, should students be forced to choose between attending a football game and attending class. The University needs to find an alternative to Monday morning ticket draws. ItÕs not fair to students, and itÕs not fair to the UniversityÕs reputation. After all, if students are going to learn about the horrors of bread lines, they should learn about it in a European history class. They shouldnÕt be forced to experience it firsthand at the Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. Ñ John Blasing Middle Eastern studies graduate student By Daley Epstein Daily Texan Columnist The holiest day of the Jewish year and the holiest day of the Longhorn calendar donÕt usually coincide. However, next year, Yom Kippur and the Red River Rivalry both fall on Oct. 8, leaving Jewish Longhorns, about 10.5 percent of the UT student body, in a major predicament. I bleed burnt orange and have spent a good part of the first month of school eagerly an¥ticipating the annual OU beatdown. But I also consider myself faithful to my religion, and I am most definitely not the only one who be¥lieves attending Yom Kippur services surpass¥es all other engagements. But no fan should ever need to make that choice. Yom Kippur is the most important day of the Jewish year, even for non-observant Jews. It is the day with the single highest synagogue attendance annually. Known as the Day of Judgement, Yom Kippur includes a 25-hour fast and serves as a time for intensive reflec¥tion and repentance. When sitting in GodÕs court, reading page after page of Hebrew, I should not have to worry about the foreign letters transforming into the XÕs and OÕs of a playbook or ÒThe Eyes of TexasÓ replacing the familiar prayer tunes in my head. My focus needs to be on the holiday, not the game. There is no reason this should even be a concern. As a matter of courtesy and respect, those who plan the football schedule should intentionally avoid scheduling significant games on major religious holidays. Football at UT is a religion in itself, but a uniquely flexi¥ble one that should be practiced at an appro¥priate time. If Yom Kippur was the day of a typical Illustration by Dae-Hyun Jin athletic event, then the conflict wouldnÕt be so significant, but the Red River Rivalry is a time-honored Longhorn tradition and one of the foremost rivalry games in Amer¥ican sports. In fact, when The Dallas Morn¥ing News interviewed 119 Division 1A foot¥ball coaches on their opinion of the top rival¥ry game in college football, the Red River Ri¥valry came in third. Unhappy students are already taking action to induce change. Junior Jordan Bagel started a Facebook group titled ÒTexas OU Game 2011 on Yom Kippur...LETÕS CHANGE IT!Ò to raise awareness and spur discussion. Two hundred thirty-five members joined the group in its first 24 hours of existence, and with more than 600 members, the group is growing rapidly. The University accommodates students who miss tests and assignment due dates for religious holidays by allowing extended time to finish assignments and by creating other options to ensure a student isnÕt penal¥ized. Although the game isnÕt officially a part of University academics, it is a part of Uni¥versity culture and therefore should be giv¥en the same standard of respect. The amount of money spent on athletics each year proves that it is a significant department at UT, so it should adhere to University policies and practices. Over the summer, UT renamed Simkins Residence Hall because of its namesakeÕs KKK ties. Choosing the inclusive route, even when it meant righting a decades-old wrong, is im¥portant to the University. Especially after UT received such poor publicity because of the Simkins fiasco, the University must avoid any appearance of intolerance and prevent this wrong from ever needing repair. The conflict is an unfortunate coincidence of the gameÕs traditional setting during the second weekend of the State Fair, but that as¥pect of the tradition is not well known and is insignificant. It could just as easily take place on the first or third weekend of the fair. Yom Kippur, on the other hand, is a set date on the Hebrew calendar and cannot be changed. Regardless, changing the date now gives the University a chance to establish a national reputation for tolerance and understanding. Changing the game will unquestionably ne¥cessitate other changes as well, such as mod¥ification in scheduling for hotels, news sta¥tions and other businesses who are accus¥tomed to having the game at a set time annu¥ally. Although these adaptations may be diffi¥cult, they are necessary and entirely feasible a year out. The OU game is also scheduled to occur on Yom Kippur in 2014, so we need to set a precedent that will avoid this issue in the future. People like to joke that we treat UT football as a religion, but Judaism actually is one. Hopefully fans and decision-makers can make the distinction and adjust plans ac¥cordingly. Yom KippurÕs date has been set for 5,000 years and cannot be changed. The date of the game can. Throughout the week, impassioned stu¥dents have established residence on the West Mall and in front of Jester. There they spent long hours manning booths in support of changing the game, collecting names and EIDs to successfully petition change. The stu¥dents clearly value both religion and football and are sacrificing time and energy to cele¥brate both. Hopefully the University can re¥spect that and make a change. Epstein is a Plan II and business freshman. LEGALESE RECYCLE! SUBMIT A FIRING LINE Opinions expressed in The Daily Texan are those of the editor, the Editorial Board Please recycle this copy of The Daily Texan. Place the E-mail your Firing Lines to firingline@dailytexanonline.com. Letters or the writer of the article. They are not necessarily those of the UT administration, the Board of Regents or the Texas Student Media Board of Operating Trustees. paper in one of the recycling bins on campus or back in the burnt-orange news stand where you found it. must be more than 100 and fewer than 300 words. The Texan reserves the right to edit all submissions for brevity, clarity and liability. Friday, September 24, 2010 NEWS Education school chooses mascot By Allie Kolechta Daily Texan Staff The College of Education has a new source of pride Ñ an owl named EDDIE Ñ and, the college council hopes, a new reason to do¥nate to the school. The collegeÕs new mascot was unveiled Thursday as the college also launched a student philanthro¥py campaign on the plaza of the George I. S‡nchez Building. The winning design, an owl created by elementary education freshman Katherine Leung, was chosen from three finalists, which were selected from an original 11 contestants. Kinesiology senior Emily Cheek, president of the Education Coun¥cil, said the idea of a mascot was brought up at an April meet¥ing held to discuss ways to mo¥tivate students to give back to the college. ÒWe were trying to think of ways we could build a sense of unity,Ó ÒThey do that crazy thing with she said. ÒKinesiology and edu-their heads, theyÕre really good cation are very different majors in hunters, they can see in pitch dark¥the same college, and we want-ness, they have really good hearing ed a common symbol that ev¥eryone could identify with. That symbol was EDDIE.Ó EDDIE will also promote stu¥dent philanthro¥py in the col¥lege, said Bliss Angerman, di¥rector of constit¥uent relations at the College of Education. Leung said We were trying to think of ways we ÔÔcould build a sense of unity.Ó Ñ Emily Cheek Kinesiology senior Ñallthiscoolstuff,Ó she said. ÒI thought it would be really important to find a mascot that repre¥sents both parts of the college.Ó Organizations such as Teachers of Tomorrow and Ki¥nesiology Club ta¥bled at the launch party. Applied learning and devel¥opment senior Ada¥lia Espinosa, who was tabling for Mi¥ the owl is a traditional symbol of norities in Education, said she has scholarship and represents kinesi-already seen the positive effects of ology because they are the masters EDDIE within her organization. of movement. ÒEDDIE is a part of the whole col¥lege and so are we, so itÕs kind of like weÕve got each otherÕs backs,Ó she said. ÒThe whole purpose of EDDIE is to help raise money to improve organizations and the college.Ó Youth and communities stud¥ies junior Courtney Maple, the Student Government representa¥tive for the College of Education, said while the school is lacking in numbers compared to larger col¥leges such as the McCombs School of Business, the College of Educa¥tion is compensating in other ways and aspires to be a more prominent voice on campus. ÒI want our students to feel uni¥fied. I think this event, this cam¥paign and this new design will support that,Ó she said. ÒIÕm hop¥ing that this will trickle down and infiltrate all sorts of ave¥nues in the college. Students will feel more pride and be more inclined to participate.Ó Senate proposal to curb towering cost of college By Amy Thornton Daily Texan Staff State higher education lead¥ers said Thursday that Texas will have to reinvent how it funds col¥leges and universities to keep costs from rising out of control. In its final interim public hear¥ing, the Senate Higher Educa¥tion Committee addressed in¥efficiencies in college spending and ways to improve spending in higher education. At the hear¥ing, state senators and education experts discussed both three-year and community college bache¥lorÕs degree programs and more effective uses of technology, such as digital textbooks and online degree programs. In the run-up to the 82nd Legis¥lative Session, the Higher Educa¥tion Committee was responsible for nine Interim Charges the Tex¥as Senate wanted to be discussed and investigated. The issues in¥cluded restructuring financial aid, improving developmental edu¥cation and examining the quality of academic advising to improve completion rates. The committee will combine the findings to draft a report for the state Senate that will offer recommendations in the areas of each charge. Raymund Paredes, commis¥sioner of the Texas Higher Edu¥cation Coordinating Board, told the committee that communi¥ty colleges and four-year insti¥tutions must improve collab¥oration in course offerings to graduate more students. ÒThe current model of financ¥ing higher education is unsustain¥able,Ó Paredes said. ÒWe are go¥ing to have to reinvent parts of it to hold down costs and deliver better educational outcomes.Ó In light of projections of a state budget shortfall as high as $21 bil¥lion, committee chairwoman and state Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Lare¥do, said the hearing could be one of the most important of the High¥er Education Committee. ÒThe legislation that results from this committee will tie di¥rectly with the funds we have available,Ó said state Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, a member of the committee. ÒThis is going to be a session like we havenÕt seen be¥fore, and we will be encountering a number of financial issues that we have never had to deal with.Ó Given the budgetary restric¥tions, recommendations that cost additional money will likely not be considered as much of a priori¥ty as those that help the efficiency of what is already in place. ÒNationwide, there has been a trend in the past 30 years where higher education institutions have been getting a lower level of bud¥getary support,Ó said Sherri Green¥berg, a professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs. ÒI donÕt see this trend reversing during the next legislative session, particularly giv¥en the economic climate.Ó Sports Editor: Dan Hurwitz E-mail: sports@dailytexanonline.com Phone: (512) 232-2210 SPORTS Friday, September 24, 2010 www.dailytexanonline.com THE DAILY TEXAN SOCCER Weekend matches mark end of an era Final Big 12 trips to Nebraska, Colorado the beginning of tough road tests By Jon Parrett Daily Texan Staff The Longhorns will travel to Nebraska and Colorado for the last time as their Big 12 opponents when Texas begins conference play this weekend. Texas (6-1-1) is coming off a 1-0 upset win over 10th-ranked BYU on Monday. But theyÕre playing on short rest and must be ca Campanelli. Texas, so the Longhorns replicated that de¥ready for the Huskers (7-2), who are unde-Texas had a lighter week of training this crease in space during practice. feated at home. week because of the Monday game, but as Nebraska poses a special challenge for ÒWe have a very competitive confer-head coach Chris Petrucelli put it, their best Texas because of their high-attack offense, ence, so we want to make sure weÕre go-preparation for Nebraska was playing BYU. led by forward Morgan Marlborough Ñ ing in strong and building confidence, Texas did, however, use the shortened who leads the Big 12 in points and shots Ñ so we can finish even stronger at the end week to simulate playing on the Cornhusk- BIG 12 continues on page 7 of the season,Ó said senior defender Eri-ersÕ field. Nebraska has a smaller field than WOMENÕS TENNIS Canadian golfers find home in Texas team By Chris Hummer Daily Texan Staff The U.S. WomenÕs Amateur is the pinnacle of American events for future golf stars. However, the two Longhorns stepping up to the tee for the tournament are Cana¥dian. Junior Nicole Vandermade and freshman Rebecca Lee-Bentham both started their golf careers in Ontario, Canada, but it was not the first sport they took a swing at. Vandermade was 9 years old when she started hitting the links, although her first love was al¥ways basketball. Eventually she switched because she was better at golf. Lee-BenthamÕs story was much of the same; She started golfing around age 12 under the direc¥tion of her father. She also grew up playing other sports but decid¥ed to focus on golf when she saw all the opportunities it presented to her. The two golfers met while com¥peting in a number of local tour¥naments around Ontario. Vander¥made and Lee-Bentham became closer when they joined the na¥tional team at 17 and 15 years old, respectively. Vandermade links their friendship to the same low¥key personality that they both share and their common interests, such as golf. Vandermade and Lee-Bentham feel that participating on the Ca¥nadian national team was a dis¥tinguished honor as they got the chance to represent their country. And though it was not their mo¥tive for joining the national squad, the girls said they particularly en¥joyed the benefits that came with being on the team. The girls both received exemptions into tourna¥ments such as the British Ama¥teur, the LPGA tour and the U.S. Open at the famed Oakmont Country Club. Ultimately, both players loved the feeling of com¥peting for their country and play¥ing for something bigger than themselves, Vandermade said. Lee-Bentham said that playing for Canada gives her a great sense of pride. Additionally, both loved being on the team because of the supportive atmosphere and the comraderie of competing along¥side of their peers. Belonging to the national team also gives both players the oppor¥tunity to play for Canada in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janei¥ro, where golf is being introduced as an Olympic sport for the first time. Both golfers would love to GOLF continues on page 7 NCAA FOOTBALL Future Longhorns still powerful despite more difficult scheduling By Dan Hurwitz Daily Texan Columnist When it was announced in the fall of 2005 that Texas and UCLA would be playing each other in 2010 and 2011, a much young¥er and more handsome version of myself immediately started counting his fingers and realized that he would be a senior at Texas when this game was played. Looking five years ahead, I was ecstatic. The future non-con¥ference schedules filled with Rice, Central Florida and Wyoming hadnÕt been too appealing. Cer¥tainly, UCLA would bring great excitement to Austin. Surely a huge university such as UCLA, with such a prestigious athletic history, would set up the match¥up of the century. But instead it is quite the oppo¥site. Since losing Maurice Jones-Drew to the NFL following the 2005 season, the Bruins have Notable Games struggled to become a dominant force in college football. This season, UCLA brings a 1-2 record into Austin against the seventh-ranked Longhorns, who should have little trouble with the Bruins. With the Longhorns conclud¥ing a recent scheduling spree on Wednesday after the announce¥ment of a home-and-home series with Maryland in 2016 and 2017, TexasÕ non-conference schedule is now set through 2017. Peeking at these future sched¥ules, things appear to be a little more difficult, adding dates with USC, Notre Dame, Cal, BYU and Ole Miss. But come five and, in some cases, 10 years from now, will these universities still have strong football programs or will we have ourselves another UCLA situation? Here is how things could look come game time for these far¥away games. FUTURE continues on page 7 Date Opponent 09/24/10 UCLA 09/17/11 UCLA 09/08/12 New Mexico 09/07/13 BYU 09/14/13 Mississippi 09/06/14 BYU 09/13/14 Arkansas 09/05/15 Notre Dame 09/19/15 California 09/03/16 Notre Dame 09/10/16 UTEP 09/17/16 California 09/02/17 Maryland 09/16/17 Southern Cal 09/01/18 Maryland 09/15/18 Southern Cal 08/31/19 Notre Dame 09/12/20 Notre Dame SIDELINE MENÕS TENNIS Napa Valley Tennis Classic Date: Today through Sunday Time: 7 p.m. Where: Meadowood Napa ValleyÑSt. Helena, Calif. WOMENÕS TENNIS UNLV Fall Invitational Date: Today through Sunday Where: Fertitta Tennis ComplexÑLas Vegas. WEEK 4: BIG 12 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE SATURDAY Central Florida at Kansas State, 11:30 a.m. Miami (OH) at Missouri, 1 p.m. UCLA at Texas, 2:30 p.m. Oklahoma at Cincinnati, 5 p.m. New Mexico State at Kansas, 6 p.m. Northern Iowa at Iowa State, 6 p.m. Baylor at Rice, 7 p.m. NCAA FOOTBALL Miami Pittsburgh 31 3 JOKE OF THE WEEK: Did you know that old quarter¥backs never die? They just pass away. THIS DAY IN SPORTS HISTORY: In 1971, after 21 long innings, the Houston Astros beat the San Diego Padres 2 -1 Check out LetÕs Talk Sports @Dailytexanonline.com Friday, September 24, 2010 SPORTS BIG 12: Difficulty of traveling helps team grow, bond From page 6 and will be a tough mark for the LonghornsÕ defense. ÒWe have to be aware of what theyÕre good at, but at the same time, we have to play our game and make them defend our game,Ó Campanelli said. While some would look at the benefits of having a top goal scor¥er, Petrucelli looks at the benefits of not having one. While Texas is fifth in the conference in scoring, they donÕt have a player with more than three goals. ÒI think itÕs easier when youÕre facing a team that has one player you can focus on,Ó Petrucelli said. ÒYou certainly can arrange your team to defend one player. I think itÕs harder to defend a team with four or five scorers, and thatÕs what we have.Ó While the Longhorns head out to face Nebraska and Colorado for the last time as Big 12 foes, they wonÕt be missed too much. Lincoln and Boulder are two of the furthest cit¥ies away fromAustin, making them a bit of a nuisance to get to. Still, most players like travel¥ing on the road. Traveling gives the players a chance to bond with each other, as everyone rooms with a different player each time. The team has every meal togeth¥er, and even gets together to play board games in each otherÕs rooms. Saturdays are especially fun because after a light practice, the team goes out to watch the Texas football game together. ÒWe usually are together 24-7, so it definitely helps us to bond and get closer,Ó said junior midfielder Kylie Doniak. The Longhorns like to keep it light, but the players know how important this weekend is. They know how valuable getting off to a good start in-conference is. ÒWe need to make a statement with how we play in-conference, and that starts this weekend,Ó Do¥niak said. ÒItÕs going to be hard, es¥pecially on the road, but itÕs going to show how ready we are to win the Big 12 this year.Ó GOLF: Vandermade mentors fellow golfer From page 6 year-round golf weather is a nice ings. This saved her the stress of change for her. having no idea where her classes play for Canada in 2016, Òespecial-For Lee-Bentham, the choice of were on the first day. ly after the last Olympics in Can-Texas was a little different than Vandermade isnÕt always the be¥ada, to make sure the success of VandermadeÕs. Although she nevolent mentor. She can often be the country continues,Ó Vander-liked the same things that Van-harder on Lee-Bentham than the made said. dermade did about campus Ñ rest of the freshmen because Van- Shortly after Vandermade joined especially the weather Ñ differ-dermade knows what she is capa¥the national team, it was time to ent factors influenced her choice, ble of and expects to consistently see that out of her. However, she doesnÕt just feel that she can tell her teammates what to do, rather she feels like she needs to Òwalk the walk ... putting everything I say I liked the coaches, campus, the facilities and the into practice,Ó Vandermade said. At the same time, she must push ability to get out of the cold and play golf year ÔÔ TexasÕ strong golf tradition and round.Ó hold everyone to the same stan¥dard to which she holds herself. Ñ Nicole Vandermade, Sophomore golfer So while Vandermade might have stepped into the mentor role and Rebecca the role of the pupil, they are still competitive, vying for spots on the tournament ros¥pick a school and she chose Texas. including the fact that Vander-ters. The big question is who wins ÒI liked the coaches, campus, made had chosen Texas. if the two play each other in 18 the facilities and the ability to get In coming to Texas, Lee-Ben-holes of match play. Vandermade out of the cold and play golf year tham also gets the advantage of thinks she would win on the 18th round,Ó Vandermade said. the advice from someone whoÕs hole, while Lee-Bentham feels she In fact, when she was in school been in her position before. Van-would take her mentor two up. and could not practice during the dermade gives her advice on any-While they might have differ¥cold Canadian winters, she would thing, from what day to do laun-ent opinions on the outcome of have to go into her garage in the dry to where that class she canÕt the match, one thing is for certain; 30-degree weather every day and find is. After she missed orienta-they will still remain friends and hit balls into a net to stay sharp, tion because of a summer tourna-continue to support each other as she said. She would open her ment, Vandermade took her on teammates Ñ on the Canadian house doors to bring in a little heat a tour of campus the day before national team and the Longhorn so she could feel her hands. So the classes started to help get her bear-team, alike. FUTURE: Predictions include coach takeover From page 6 (see 2009 BCS National Cham-and joke about who should real¥ pionship). This is the first time ly have the Heisman Trophy, the BYU @ Texas Sept. 10, 2011 since 2004 that the Longhorns go Longhorns destroy a Trojan team The Longhorns will be looking to SEC country and have a tough that is still struggling to recover to show the recently independent time with the well-dressed Admi-from their NCAA probation. Lane Cougars that there is a reason why ral Ackbar fans. Kiffin will no longer be the USC they werenÕt in a BCS conference. Cal @ Texas Sept. 19, 2015 coach and will have gone through Freshman running back Malcolm With Will Muschamp finally at three other gigs by then. Brown will have his coming-out the helm, the Longhorns will take Texas @ Notre Dame Sept. party and keep BYU from pulling on the Golden Bears for the first 12, 2020. off an upset similar to that against time since TexasÕ 1970 champion-Kids who are currently play-Oklahoma in 2009. BYU, however, ship run. New defensive coordi-ing touch football during their has never lost to the Longhorns in nator and former Longhorn line-4th grade recess will be play¥their only two appearances. backer Derrick Johnson one-ups ing in front of Touchdown Jesus Texas @ Mississippi Sept. 15, Muschamp and tackles his play-in this game. The Fighting Irish 2012. ers following a big play. are now a part of one of the four Ole Miss, almost renamed the Texas @ USC Sept. 16, 2017 megaconferences, as the BCS is ÒAdmiral Ackbars,Ó face the Long-It was only 12 years ago when no more. The Fighting Irish take horns for the first time since 1966. the Longhorns defeated the Tro-the final of the four-game series, Senior quarterback Garrett Gilbert jans in the BCS National Champi-which begins in 2015 as Major performs a little bit better than the onship. As Vince Young and Reg-Applewhite Jr. gets replaced by last time he faced an SEC team gie Bush watch from the sidelines Chris Simms Jr. TENNIS WEEKEND PREVIEW Horns hope to taste sweet victory at Napa By Wes Maulsby Daily Texan Staff Texas takes the court again this weekend at the Napa Valley Ten¥nis Classic. This presents the Long¥horns with a chance to build off of their performance in the Racquet Club Collegiate Invitational, and for some, to get their first taste of big-time collegiate athletics. ÒWeÕre playing against some of the best teams in the country.Ó said Texas head coach Michael Center of the competition in Napa this weekend. Taking the court for Texas will be senior Ed Corrie, junior Jean Andersen, sophomore Vasko Mladenov and redshirt freshman David Holiner. For Holiner, this will be his first match for Texas and it will give him an opportuni¥ty to experience what college ten¥nis is like. ÒI think heÕs excited about playing in his first college tourna¥ment,Ó Center said. Andersen helped the Long¥horns win a share of the Big 12 regular season championship last season, as well as playing for Tex¥as in last seasonÕs NCAA Tourna¥ment. He joined Texas last Janu¥ary after growing up in South Af¥rica and attending the Universi¥ty of Pretoria. He has ties to Texas from his father, an alum. ÒJean played a lot this sum¥mer and has a semester of col¥lege under his belt now. I think he knows what to expect,Ó Cen¥ter said of his junior standout. ÒHe can be one of the better players in college tennis.Ó Another player having to ad¥just not only to life in college, but life far away from his home coun¥try is Vasko Mladenov. A sopho¥more from Sofia, Bulgaria, Mlade¥nov has had a full year to adjust to life at Texas, as well as gain expe¥rience so that he can really start to make strides in his game. ÒHe had to adjust and learn a lot about being in college and be¥ing far away from home. He is a much-improved player this year,Ó Center said. Ed Corrie is a familiar face for the Longhorns. This is CorrieÕs fourth year with the team and Center believes his experience will pay off. ÒHe will be an All-America candidate in singles and doubles for us,Ó Center said. Athletes head to Las Vegas in hopes of lucky streak By Alex Endress ing that Larsson continues her ship events last season, includ- Daily Texan Staff strong play after seeing success ing the ITAAll-American Cham- The Longhorns recommence last week in North Carolina. pionships, ITA National Intercol¥their fall campaign this week-ÒThe level of her game has legiate Indoor Championships end in the UNLV Fall Invitation-come a long way,Ó Fendick-Mc-and the NCAA Championships. al. It is their second tournament Cain said. Ellis, however, wonÕt be play¥of the season and will take place Senior Craddock is remaining ing singles this weekend. at the Fertitta Tennis Complex in consistent and keeps improving. Freshmen Elizabeth Begley Las Vegas. Other teams that will ÒAmanda has had a great, and Cierra Gaytan-Leach will be be participating in the tourna-positive attitude,Ó Fendick-Mc-experiencing their first tourna¥ment are UNLV, Illinois, Illinois Cain said. ÒShe has hit the ball ment this weekend. State and Northern Arizona. very well. I canÕt wait to see ÒCierra and Elizabeth Texas will be looking to senior her play.Ó have been training really Maggie Mello, Caroline Lars-Mello will be competing in the hard,Ó Fendick-McCain said. son and Amanda Craddock for top singles flight this weekend. ÒTheyÕve had amazing stami¥strength this weekend. Sophomore Aeriel Ellis is an-na and great attitudes.Ó ÒMaggie had a good opening other player that Fendick-McCa-Junior Krista Damico will be weekend at Duke (last week-in is excited about this year. She another strong force this week¥end),Ó said head coach Patty had great success in her first year, end as she looks to expand on Fendick-McCain. ÒShe will get earning the 2010 Big 12 Confer-the 28 singles wins she amassed some good experience and have ence Freshman of the Year and during her sophomore season. a chance to get some good wins ITA Texas Region Rookie Player She will be joined by juniors there. She is ready to go.Ó of the Year awards. Ellis played Carlene Leyden, Julia Wiegand Fendick-McCain is also hop-in all three national champion-and Maya Zein-El-Abdin. COMICS Friday, September 24, 2010 Friday, September 24, 2010 LIFE&ARTS ADVERTISING TERMS There are no refunds or credits. In the event of errors made in advertisement, notice must be given by 10 am the Þrst day of publication, as the publishers are responsible for only ONE incorrect THE DAILY TEXAN insertion. 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Instead, the poems evoked their desires, lusts, passions, indulgences and many other emotions typical¥ly not associated with one who has dedicated their life to the cloth. It wasnÕt until 1935 that these po¥ems were given life and turned into a storyline by German composer Carl Orff, who selected 24 of the po¥ems and tweaked them into a dra¥ma filled with harmonious music and rhythmic dance titled ÒCarmi¥na Burana.Ó Flash forward to 2006: Ballet EXERCISE: Cognitive benefits dependent on correct intensity of activity From page 10 as at UT. In the near future, researchers that cardiovascular fitness has the Brain activity and exercise and physicians at NeuroTexas Insti-potential to improve the outcomes ÒMost research is on aerobic ex-are ongoing topics of research, tute, a neurosurgery group in Aus-in brain-injury rehabilitation. ercise, but resistance training has from studies about reversing tin, will be involved in a study of the So whether youÕre running, been shown to be beneficial in cog-or preventing the effects of Al-potential of aerobic exercise to pro-swimming, walking, playing bas¥nitive functioning as well,Ó said zheimerÕs and other degenera-mote the adding, changing or recon-ketball or lifting weights, you are Mike Faries, a graduate research as-tive diseases to how it can help nection of brain cells in patients with doing your mind and body good sistant at the Fitness Institute of Tex-childrenÕs brains form. traumatic brain injury. They believe for now and for the future. Austin debuted its 50th anniver¥sary piece, ÒKai,Ó a story that fol¥lows the lives of a mysterious cou¥ple and a tribe in the midst of sea¥sonal celebration. Originally based on the music of John Cage, known particularly for his piano pieces, the music draws inspiration from the rhythmic waves of the South Pacific waters. Ballet Austin is debuting the dual ballets ÒCarmina BuranaÓ and ÒKai,Ó which both incorporate par¥allel themes of romance and human desire, for the opening to their sea¥son running Sept. 24-26. ÒÔCarmina [Burana]Õ is a musical piece that choreographers have add¥ed to over history, and ÔKaiÕ some¥how weaves together very nicely with it,Ó said artistic director Stephen Mills. ÒAt the heart of both of these ballets, the message is all about love and relationships.Ó Particularly awe-inspiring in ÒCarmina BuranaÓ is the combina¥tion of three unique artistic medi¥ums. In addition to the more typical combination of a ballet and accom¥panying orchestra music, ÒCarmina BuranaÓ enlists the use of more than 150 choir members from the Gram¥my-nominated choir Conspirare. For Mills, this particular attribute sets ÒCarmina BuranaÓ apart from other ballets. ÒThe beauty of ÔCarminaÕ is when the curtains open, you see 300 per¥formers at one time,Ó Mills said. ÒItÕs an incredible and rare experience [in ballet].Ó Although the ballet is considered modern in its style, it still has strong ties to classical ballet, Mills said. For company dancer Ashley Lynn Gil¥fix, dancing in a ballet that evokes WHAT: Ballet AustinÕs ÒCarmina BuranaÓ and ÒKaiÓ WHERE: Friday, Saturday, and Today at 8 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m. WHEN: Long Center for the Performing Arts TICKETS: balletaustin.org classical and modern themes is a rare experience. The contortions of shapes evoke modern dance, but the use of point shoes still roots the ballet in classical style. ÒOne of the reasons I love Ballet Austin is that we do both classical and modern [dances],Ó Gilfix said. ÒIn this generation we are trying to keep classical ballet alive, but also keep moving forward and contin¥ue to push the envelope. I wouldnÕt feel balanced without both.Ó BRAID: Independent gaming scene grows vastly since release From page 10 but not unduly more complicated.Ó ÒBraidÓ was a completely self¥financed game, with a produc¥tion team consisting of Blow and former web comics artist David Hellman (ÒA Lesson is Learned but the Damage is IrreversibleÓ). Blow spent more than $150,000 of his own savings with additional loans and several years pursuing his unique vision. Although there was initial balk¥ing at the $15 price tag (which was a high price for an independent¥ly developed game in 2007), the re¥sponse to ÒBraidÓ has been over¥whelmingly positive. The critical darling became the talk of the town Ñ especially the gameÕs elliptical and fairly opaque story line about a stolen princess, the artistic process and the design and detonation of the first atomic bomb. Everyone had some¥thing to say; hip-hop looks impossible!Õ But you artist Soulja Boy know, because this is a praised the gameÕs puzzle game, that there intense psychedel¥ is an answer, so you ic elements in a vi¥ keep working on it un¥ ral video and more til thereÕs this moment of recently the game was adapted into an interpretative dance by the Chaparral High School Alum¥ni Theatre troupe of Parker, Colo. ÒBraidÓ became a cultural phe¥nomenon that made mainstream gamers sit up and take notice of previously marginalized indepen¥dent work. ÒThis whole idea that indie games were something that youÕd want to play or pay money for re¥ally wasnÕt true when I was mak¥ing ÔBraidÕ in 2007,Ó Blow said, who went on to compare aver¥age sales for indie games in 2007 to be fewer than 10,000 copies and now are comparatively higher, av¥eraging 500,000 copies sold for the more popular titles. Blow insists the allure of his own hype could color his judgment as he currently develops his new game, ÒThe Witness.Ó The official website contains a quote from the Dhammapada, a Buddhist holy text, and offers the cryptic descrip¥tion: ÒAn exploration-puzzle game on an uninhabited island.Ó ÒWhen ÔMystÕ came out, it in¥stantlyachievedamass-market sta¥tus on a level very surprising for a video game in the Ô90s,Ó Blow said. ÒBut shortly thereafter, the adven¥ture genre kind of petered out and died. I think in the time since then, video games have become much more playable and there are some things that I want to address in ad¥venture games to work them over for the modern era.Ó ÒThe WitnessÓ sees BlowÕs de¥velopmental team greatly expand¥ed, from two people to seven. They work remotely, with Blow or¥chestrating the efforts from his San Francisco home while still han¥dling most of the key program¥ming and design work himself. Blow said that the initial inspira¥tion for ÒThe WitnessÓ was not a story or a gameplay element, but rather a feeling or moment. ÒOne of the things in ÔBraidÕ was that the puzzles were very simple, but the answers were obscured by weird rules with time or other in¥teractivities,Ó Blow said. ÒYou look at it and think ,ÔThis epiphany where one thing that you didnÕt see until you see it, and it just clicks.Ó On ThursdayÕs panel ÒDecla¥ration of Independents,Ó Blow sat with Jim Munroe, founder of in¥dependent publisher No Media Kings, and Derek Yu, developer of freeware PC titles such as ÒSpe¥lunkyÓ and ÒEternal Daughter.Ó Moderated by Brandon Boyer, the chairman of the Independent Games Festival, they spoke about what it means to be indie. ÒIt used to be that small teams would release games to expand their portfolio in the hopes to be hired by a large developer,Ó Boyer said. ÒNow, itÕs perfectly legitimate to say, ÔWeÕre not interested in the big corporate work. We wanna do our own thing.ÕÓ At tonightÕs panel, ÒJona¥than Blow meets Nacho Vigalon¥do,Ó Blow will have a conversa¥tion with the Spanish filmmak¥er (ÒTimecrimesÒ) about the cross¥over of genre films and genre games. Blow is currently under¥going development on ÒThe Wit¥ness,Ó the progress of which can be followed at his development blog the-witness.net. Life&Arts Editor: Amber Genuske E-mail: lifeandarts@dailytexanonline.com Phone: (512) 232-2209 Friday, September 24, 2010 www.dailytexanonline.com LIFE&ARTS THE DAILY TEXAN By Priscilla Totiyapungprasert Daily Texan Staff On weekdays, Diane Collman teaches third grade at Florence El¥ementary School. On the week¥ends she leads the Austin Motorcy¥cle Riders Group on trips through Central Texas. She said thereÕs nothing like winding down on the weekend by riding through the twisting Hill Country roads on a motorcycle. ÒYou go out on the hills and itÕs so pretty and relax¥ing,Ó Collman said. ÒEverything else just disappears.Ó The group began in June 2006 af¥ter founder Gregg Burger realized Austin did not have a meetup for recreational motorcycle riders. He then began the group with the help of Collman. There are no dues and no offi¥cers, just a come-and-go-as-you¥please way for those who love to ride to meet up with other bikers on the weekend, Burger said. Rid¥ers check for weekend excursions online and become a registered rid¥er of the group. About 20 riders showed up for the first couple of months, but after putting out business cards in bike shops and advertising on Craig¥slist, the meetup group grew to be¥come the second largest in the coun¥try, Burger said. There were 876 registered Austin riders as of mid-September. ÒI call them weekend warriors,Ó Burger said. ÒA lot of these peo¥ple are lawyers, doctors Ñ have regular jobs on the weekdays Ñ but no time to ride until the weekend comes.Ó A rider can wait four months between showing up at rides and no one thinks anything of it, It was not until a few years ago that CollmanÕs interest returned to bikes when she and her husband signed up for a motorcycle safety course in Hutto. Her first bike was a blue and black Yamaha 650 V-star, though both she and her husband have traded up for bigger bikes since then. ÒI was missing my horses, but horses are expensive,Ó Collman ÔÔ I was never a girly-girl, and if I wasnÕt on a horse or a bike, I was four-wheeling.Ó Ñ Diane Collman, Third grade teacher Burger said. CollmanÕs interest in biking be¥gan when she was a student at Le¥ander High School. Although hors¥es were her main passion then, she often went dirt-bike riding with the boys on ranches and farms. ÒEspecially when it was mud¥dy Ñ those were the best times to go dirt bike riding,Ó Collman said. ÒI was never a girly-girl, and if I wasnÕt on a horse or a bike, I was four-wheeling. It was normal for my family to see me come home covered in mud.Ó said. ÒI saw bikes as the next cheap¥est therapy.Ó The majority of the riders who show up at the meetups are male, and itÕs a funny feeling sometimes being the only woman leading a pack of men, Collman said. Occa¥sionally there will be a couple rid¥ers sore about being led by a wom¥an, but they are usually genial about it, she said. While she sees plenty of ladies on the backs of bikes with some¥one else driving, the old stigma of motorcycle riding as a male hob¥by for a rougher crowd discourag¥es women, Collman said. ItÕs a hobby not without its risks, though. A couple of years ago, she saw through her rearview mirror her husband slide on gravel on the corner of a turn and his bike flew out from under him. His knee tore open and he was sent to the emer¥gency room shortly after the fall. Witnessing the accident made her more cautious, but at the same time she knows the more she rides, the more practice she will get ma¥neuvering her bike and learning to stay attentive, Collman said. With a baby on the way, Coll¥man doesnÕt plan on putting a halt to her riding. If anything, the baby is coming along with her. ÒPeople think IÕm crazy when they find out,Ó Collman said. ÒThereÕs always going to be a risk, and all I can do is be careful. That babyÕs going to grow up on a bike.Ó The group also goes on camp¥ing excursions and to rallies both in and out of the state. Although the group has only seen a few college students come out to ride, Burger said the group is open to all ages and in¥terested students can go online to the Austin Motorcycle Rid¥ers Group meetup page to see upcoming events. BRAID Developer reveals puzzle platformer at Fantastic Fest By Ao Meng Daily Texan Staff Jon Blow is a San Francis¥co-based video game develop¥er, known for his groundbreaking 2007 title ÒBraid,Ó one of the first indie games to not only garner mainstream critical praise but also to become a runaway blockbuster hit. ÒBraidÕsÓ mind-bending, puz¥zle-platforming marriage of time¥warping gameplay and impres¥sionistic storytelling substantial¥ly pushed forward the emerging discussion of games as art. Blow is in town this week to give a series of panels at Fantastic Arcade, an independent games festival run¥ning parallel to the first four days of Fantastic Fest. In ÒBraid,Ó the player takes con¥trol of Tim, a little man in a black suit who can rewind time to cor¥rect past mistakes. Interestingly, the puzzle element and the plat¥forming element were developed separately. His first inspiration for time-oriented gameplay arose out of the complete waste of time re¥viled as ÒThe Matrix Reloaded.Ó ÒThe idea was that youÕd see in these movies people who are sup¥posed to see the future, but the character would act nothing at all like a person with those abilities,Ó Blow said. ÒSo I thought that vid¥eo games would be an interesting way to experiment with that.Ó This line of thinking led Blow to create a game prototype called ÒOracle Billiards.Ó The conceit was that even if in a pool game the player could see where all the balls would end up, there is still an ele- WHAT: ÒJonathan Blow meets Nacho VigalondoÓ WHERE: Fantastic Arcade at The Highball, 1142 S. Lamar Blvd. WHEN: Today; 4:30 p.m. TICKETS: Badge only ment of strategy in the positioning. But ÒBilliardsÓ is more of a physics toy than a game Ñ there were too many variables to expect the play¥er to process, which would butter¥fly-effect off each other to unpre¥dictable results. ÒI wanted to do something with simpler rules, but still took place in a continuous time and space.Ó Blow said. ÒPlatformers were just something that instantly jumped to the top of my head.Ó Gamers have an instant grasp of the vocabulary of platformers: the run-right, avoid-the-spikes and jump-on-the-enemyÕs-head¥to-kill-them elements have been long ingrained into the popular consciousness thanks to the icon¥ic work of games like ÒSuper Ma¥rio Bros.Ó ÒIf the player was going to see the time-travel stuff and have the puzzles be clear, the game world needed to be really simple and un¥derstandable. Platformers provide an easy read of situations in your head,Ó Blow said. ÒSo when I take this understanding, but add the di¥mension of time on top of that, it would get much more interesting BRAID continues on page 9 Exercise found to likely strengthen mental functioning cardio and strength training may cient. This is because of cell loss in cognitive performance during their only does Burd walk upwards of 7 perks for young adults, too. HEALTHY not only improve your body, but the brain. An article on physical ac-later years. miles each day, he also does push-Darla Castelli, associate profes¥your brain, too. Research has shown tivity and the risk of cognitive de-In a 2010 review of physical ac-ups, knee bends and always takes sor of kinesiology, said that physi-HOOK that physical activity can increase cline published by the Journal of tivity and risk of cognitive decline the stairs to his seventh floor office. cal fitness has also been associated cognitive function in childhood and Internal Medicine cites many stud-published in the Journal of Internal ÒFrom personal experience I no-with better academic achievement By Addie Anderson later in adulthood. ies such as one on physical activ-Medicine, researchers from various tice a big difference in my thinking in students. Physical activity is known to help ity and cognitive function in old-studies found that subjects who per-and spirit,Ó Burd said. ÒSome days ÒBetween the ages of 20 and 27, prevent heart disease, obesity and er women and another on physical formed a high level of physical ac-I donÕt get a lot of exercise and I no-humans are at their cognitive peak,Ó EditorÕs note: This is the second in¥ hypertension. As people age, brain activity and the risk of neurodegen-tivity were significantly protected tice a difference.Ó Castelli said. ÒUsing physical activ¥ stallment of a weekly column that ex¥ functions such as attention, memo-erative disease showing that people against cognitive decline. They also Exercise does not only bene-ity to relieve stress, thus creating a plores topics in health. ry and concentration decrease, be-who are physically active through-found that analysis of low-to-mod-fit the minds of older adults. A re-positive environment, can facilitate Hours spent at the gym doing coming much slower and ineffi-out their lives generally have better erate levels of exercise also showed cent study out of the University cognitive performance.Ó a significant protection against of Illinois showed that childrenÕs Castelli said the effects of physical cognitive impairment. physical activity level might af-activity on cognitive function form Gene Burd, a 78-year-old associ-fect their brains as well. Children the shape of an inverted U when ate professor of journalism, walks who were highly fit, which was de-graphed. If the intensity of exercise 3 1/2 miles to and from school ev-pendent on aerobic fitness level, is too high or too low, the individual ery day. Burd is still up and about, had greater cognitive control and may not perform as well on a cogni¥ teaching classes every Monday, response resolution. tive task while engaged in or imme- Wednesday and Friday. He attri-Although exercise does not add diately after exercise of that intensity. butes some of his mental sharp-to adolescentsÕ IQs as it may do for ness to his physical activity. Not children, physical activity has its EXERCISE continues on page 9