SPORTS PAGE 7 Baseball team wins two out of three NEWS PAGE 5 Organization raises awareness for Chilean quake TOMORROWÕS WEATHER Low High 77 Monday, March 8, 2010 Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 www.dailytexanonline.com THE WEEK AHEAD TODAY In News: Meeting over Colorado River water Public meeting to discuss the long-term water needs in the lower Colorado Riv¥er basin. Lower Colorado Riv¥er Authority Service Center, 6:00 p.m. On TSTV: Watch it KVR News 9 p.m. College Pressbox 9:30 p.m. TUESDAY In Life&Arts: Free SXSW refreshments and eats Looking for free food and drinks during SXSW? The Daily Texan has compiled a list of the best places to go to keep fueled up without opening your wallet. WEDNESDAY In News: Al Jazeera correspondent speaks Josh Rushing, Al Jazeera cor¥respondent, will speak about this weekÕs Iraqi elections and journalism in the U.S. and Middle East. Texas Union Theater, 3:00 p.m. In Life&Arts: Worker in sex industry tells all Hump Day talks with a Òsex workerÓ for the final issue of our sex profile series In Sports: LetÕs win this one, Horns! Struggling menÕs basketball team goes to Kansas City for the Big 12 Tournament THURSDAY In Life&Arts: Festivals in Austin and Mexico Indie darling Zooey De¥schanel and hipster crooner M. Ward talk to the Daily Tex¥an about She & Him coming to SXSW Looking to get out of Austin for SXSW? How about a bus ride to Monterrey, Mexico, art and music festival? FRIDAY Calendar: Sleeping in and rocking out Spring Break begins! In Life&Arts: A West Texas adventure ÒWhy DonÕt We Do It On the Road?Ó takes a trip out west to Marfa, Texas TUESDAY Vote Voting for the Student Government runoff elec¥tion begins today through Wednesday online at www. utsg.org UDems set to lobby at Capitol Hill Scott Squires | Daily Texan Staff Government major Garrett Mize accepts applause after his speech at a University Democrats rally Sunday protesting UTÕs recent tuition hikes. By Vidushi Shrimali Daily Texan Staff Members of University Dem¥ocrats prepared for their trip to Washington, D.C, where they will urge lawmakers to lower the cost of tuition for higher education, with a rally in the Union on Sunday. UDems President Melessa Ro¥driguez, Vice President Jeremy Yager and 15 other organization members will travel to Washing¥ton, D.C., March 15-18 to meet with the 32 Texas representatives and two Texas senators on Capi¥tol Hill to persuade them to vote for the Student Aid and Fiscal Re¥sponsibility Act. The act looks to abolish the Fed¥eral Family Education Loan Pro¥gram and redirect those funds to increasing the Pell Grant and oth¥er secondary and post-secondary education programs, potentially increasing the number of college graduates by providing the nec¥essary funds to those who quali¥fy for financial aid. The House passed the act in Sep¥tember, and the Senate will vote on it in the upcoming weeks. Representatives from UDems, Stop the Cuts Coalition, Texas Freedom Network Student Chap¥ter and the Texas House of Repre¥sentatives encouraged students to support cheaper public education at SundayÕs rally. ÒI donÕt want to live in a state where a student wants to go out and better himself, make a bet¥ter life for him and his family and Teams take on an Urban Dare Rachel Taylor | Daily Texan Staff Kevin Keefe, the founder of Urban Dare, stamps Trey and Michelle FlesherÕs ÒpassportÓ as they finish the citywide scavenger hunt. This yearÕs Urban Dare competition sent 138 teams of two around Austin for challenges and a photo hunt. Austinites compete against each other in a race of wits, endurance By Katherine Kloc Daily Texan Staff This weekend, Austin hosted Ur¥ban Dare, the national ÒAmazing RaceÓ-style clue-and-challenge race, for the fifth time, with the biggest turnout yet. Ever since its inception in 2005, Ur¥ban Dare has seen an overwhelm¥ing increase in the number of com¥petitors at each race Ñ so much so, in fact, that it set a Guinness World Record in 2008 for largest number of participants in a race with 620 com¥petitors. For SaturdayÕs competition, teams of two were instructed to arrive at Mother EganÕs Irish Pub for check¥in. When my teammate and I arrived at 11:30 a.m., the place was swarm¥ing with 138 other teams prepared to race Ñ a much larger number than the 11 teams from ÒThe Amazing Race.Ó The challenge officially began 45 minutes later, when we were giv¥en our list of Òclues.Ó The Urban Dare Web site describes the challenge as a ÒOne-day Amazing Race,Ó in which teams of two solve clues to find checkpoints around the city in a five-to-seven mile trek. Kevin Keefe began the Urban Dare in his hometown of Washington D.C. in 2005. Since the first race, in which 24 teams competed, Keefe has trav¥eled across the nation staging Ur¥ban Dare challenges. Since May 2009, there have been 29 Urban Dare chal¥lenges, including the three-day Super Dare challenge from Feb. 26-March 1, in which the Urban Dare winners of 2009 competed. The clues were simple: ÒGet your picture in front of the store that RACE continues on page 2 Urban Dare t(PUP$JUZ)BMMBOEHFUZPVSQJDUVSFXJUIUIF4UJOHFS t%PVCMF+FPQBSEZ‰'JSTU (FUZPVSQJDUVSFJOGSPOU of the store that rhymes with Roy Boy and has the same amount of letters. Second, you must purchase one item and bring it back to the end of the race with your receipt. t1IPUP)VOU‰(FUZPVSQJDUVSFUBLFOTIBLJOH hands with a dog. Get someone not in the race do¥ing a cartwheel. t8IPEBU‰XIPEBU‰XIPEBUHPOOBCFBUEFN Saints? Nobody, this year. Get your picture with a VW that has been transformed into a Saints helmet. Source: Excerpt from the Urban Dare rule sheet Visitors ÔExplore UTÕ programs By Collin Eaton Daily Texan Staff More than 50,000 K-12 students flooded the 40 Acres to make chemistry potions like Harry Potter, learn how solar panels store energy and act in Shake¥speare plays at the 11th annual Explore UT event. This is the first year that out-of-state schools, one from Oklahoma and two from Louisiana, have participated in the event. About 20,000 students came from nearly 10 percent of TexasÕ school dis¥tricts while an estimated 30,000 additional students came to the event unregistered with their families. Ò[Explore UT] was designed to make it possi¥ble for the people of Texas to come [to UT] and feel that this was their home,Ó said Susan Clagett, associate vice president for the Office of Relation¥ship Management and University Events. ÒAs it evolved, we have tried to pay special attention to young people, so they can envision themselves staying in school and contemplating the possibil¥ity of higher education.Ó On a driveway near the Art Building and Mu¥seum, students from UT, Austin Community College and Southwestern University lent their art prints to ÒSteamroller Madness,Ó an Explore UT program that creates giant prints by using a steamroller, wooden canvases, ink and white cloth. The program is used as a community¥building exercise and to recruit other college stu¥dents into UTÕs Art Department, said Ken Hale, senior associate dean for academic affairs at the College of Fine Arts. ÒIt gives us an opportunity to look at stu¥dents who may be looking to transfer [to UT],Ó Hale said. ÒItÕs grown over the years, and weÕve extended it as an opportunity to work with our EXPLORE continues on page2 canÕt,Ó Yager said. Although the UDems staged a similar trip to the Texas Capitol in the spring of 2009, this will be the organizationÕs first national effort to attract the attention of Wash¥ington. Rodriguez had the idea of traveling to Washington last sum¥mer when she was interning un¥der U.S. Rep. RubŽn Hinojosa, D-Texas, who also chairs the Sub¥committee on Higher Education. ÒI would see the older, typi¥cal lobbyists coming out of the offices, but not student groups,Ó Rodriguez said. ÒWhere is the face of education? It would only make sense for us to take our voices to D.C.Ó UDEMS continues on page 2 Court rules for early end to campaign moratorium By Audrey White Daily Texan Staff The Appellate Court, which is designated to hear cases specif¥ic to University-wide elections, is¥sued a notice at 9 p.m. Saturday that shortened the moratorium is¥sued against the Minator Azemi and Justin Stein executive alliance after Azemi filed an appeal Thurs¥day afternoon. The Election Supervisory Board ruled Wednesday evening that the campaign had broken elec¥tion code by violating Division of Housing and Food Services policy by distributing fliers door-to-door and violating Information Tech¥nology Services policy by sending an e-mail to more than 10,000 stu¥dents after gathering their e-mail addresses from the UT directory. APPEAL continues on page 6 Board says ambiguities in election code at fault By Audrey White Daily Texan Staff Members of Student Govern¥ment and the Election Supervi¥sory Board have said they are concerned that ambiguities in the election code, which was re¥formed last year, caused much of the contention during this yearÕs election cycle. The board has heard one com¥plaint against the Minator Aze¥mi/Justin Stein executive alliance and one against the Scott Parks/ Muneezeh Kabir executive alli¥ance since its inception Feb. 12. The complaints addressed un¥certainty with terminology in the code as well as the scope of the CODE continues on page 6 Bruno Morlan | Daily Texan Staff Explore UT visitors hold up their horns as they stand in the shape of a heart for the class photo which was part of the eventÕs closing ceremony. EXPLORE: Pharmacy, drama exhibits thrill From page 1 peers at other universities. WeÕve kept it as an open-door policy.Ó In a parking lot behind the Er¥nest Cockrell Jr. Hall, profession¥al operators demonstrated how a 60,000 pound Vibroseis, a truck used for petroleum exploration, can create seismic waves to shake the earth and test the strength of soils against earthquakes. The truck costs $500,000 and is used around the country and by grad¥uate students for petroleum re¥search, geological sciences profes¥sor Clark Wilson said. Outside the ECJ building, engi¥neering students displayed a so¥lar car built by the School of En¥gineering two years ago. The car can harness and store solar ener¥gy to travel at 55 miles per hour. ÒItÕs kind of scary with all the kids,Ó said electrical engineering senior Erica Thorson. ÒI cringe ev¥ery time they try to leap over and get in because these panels are so fragile. If one breaks, youÕre only as strong as your weakest [solar] cell, and the whole cell is ruined.Ó At a Harry Potter-themed Òpo¥tionÓ workshop, pharmacy stu¥dents acted out characters from the Harry Potter books and dem¥onstrated how chemicals work in the Pharmacy Building. ÒWho are the ÔMugglesÕ that make medicine by compound¥ing [chemicals]?Ó said pharma¥cy senior Brandon Zegarelli to a classroom full of bewitched stu¥dents. Zegarelli played the part of Severus Snape, Harry Pot¥ A sandwich tiff Littlefield Dormitory, 201 West Dean Keeton Assault: A UT staff member re¥ported she and another staff mem¥ber had gotten into an argument over the proper way to prepare a sandwich and what was considered an appropriate size sandwich with the toppings. When the victim told the suspect that she was going to write down the suspectÕs name and inform their supervisor. The sus¥pect grabbed the victimÕs wrist causing her hand to go numb. The suspect left the area prior to the ar¥rival of police officers. Charges are pending. Occurred on: 3-4-10, at 4:02 PM. Stop calling Student Services Building, 100 West Dean Keeton Harassment: A UT student re¥ported receiving a number of text messages and e-mails from a for¥mer acquaintance that were harass¥ing. The victim informed the sus¥pect to cease all communicating, but the text messages and e-mails continued. During the investiga¥tion, the officers located the suspect and informed him that his actions were against the law. The subject informed the officers he was simply looking for closure. Occurred: 12-09 and was on-going. Compiled by UTPD Officer Darrell Halstead terÕs potion teacher. ÒPharmacists,Ó answered a student. Student actors with Shake¥speare at Winedale, a UT program based in Winedale that trains ac¥tors and performs Shakespeare plays, presented scenes from ÒA MidsummerÕs Night DreamÓ to an audience of young students. Students who came to watch the performances were able to act at a workshop and experience com¥plex Shakespearian dialogue at a remarkably young age, said An¥gela Barratt, a Plan II senior and president of the organization, Spirit of Shakespeare. ÒWe had a workshop in the morning with kids, and it allows them to play the parts and get in¥volved,Ó Barratt said. ÒItÕs amaz¥ing how much kids understand, and the confidence they build in understanding those lines is just great to watch.Ó On the Main Mall, booths showcasing banners with ancient and modern cross-cultural values were labeled ÒBreaking Down Stereotypes,Ó ÒAncient CeltsÓ and ÒGreeting Cards with Middle Eastern Designs.Ó In front of the Main Building, prospective stu¥dents spoke with academic advis¥ers about a future at UT. Garland ISD eighth-grader Jackie Soriano said her favorite event she attended was a chem¥istry demonstration that involved blowing up chemicals. Soriano said she wouldnÕt mind coming to UT after she graduates from high school. UDEMS: Travelers face difficulties in getting politicians to meet them From page 1 Though UDems is paying for hotel costs, the students had to fund their own travel expens¥es and opted to either fly or car¥pool. Trip planner Katie Siev¥erman arranged meetings for Tuesday and Wednesday of the trip with almost all 34 senatorsÕ and representativesÕ offices. Groups of three or four students will visit the legislators. ÒItÕs been a frustrating process even trying to get them to listen to us. They just ask if we have a constituent present,Ó Siever¥man said. ÒItÕs time they know we are all their constituents. We are all Texans, all Americans and it is their job as public ser¥vants to represent what the pub¥lic [wants].Ó Stop the Cuts Coalition mem¥ber Snehal Shingavi, who is also an assistant professor in the English department, said he has seen the cost of attending the University affect his students. ÒFor the first time since IÕve been teaching, some of my stu¥dents canÕt afford their text¥books,Ó Shingavi said. Fellow Rep. Melinda Bolton, D-Austin, encouraged members of UDems to meet with both Democrats and Republicans on this bipartisan issue and ended the rally by wishing them good luck on their trip. ÒI really hope you can make some big changes,Ó Bolton said. ÒOur big Texas cowboy hats are off to you.Ó RACE: Savvy, technology help racers reach finish From page 1 rhymes with Roy Boy and has the same amount of let¥ters.Ó Even the clues that re¥quired more cognitive abili¥ty were easily mastered after briefly consulting my iPhone (the race permits and even encourages players to use their phones, something ÒThe Amazing RaceÓ staunchly prohibits). The Urban Dare Web site further describes the com¥petition as Òpart trivia, part photo hunt, part mental and physical challenges, and all fun.Ó In actuality, Urban Dare is roughly 70-percent pho¥to hunt and 30-percent dare. For the majority of the race, my teammate and I walked around Austin taking pic¥tures in front of Austin busi¥nesses or landmarks. The few dares we had to do reminded me of activities I did in elementary school physical education class; for one, my teammate and I did Òthe wheelbarrow,Ó in which she held my legs while I walked with my hands around a triangular course. Still, competitors enjoyed the race. April Musgrove, a linguis¥tics and audiology sopho¥more, competed in the Ur¥ban Dare challenge with her sister. Musgrove found out about Urban Dare as a result of a school assignment. ÒI had to find a list of ten [athletic] events in Austin during the spring semester for a running class that IÕm taking,Ó Musgrove said. ÒWe were supposed to pick one that we wanted to train for. This wasnÕt the one I decid¥ed to train for, but I decid¥ed to do it anyway because it looked like a lot of fun.Ó Musgrove enjoyed the Ur¥ban Dare challenge so much she has already decided to compete in the next Urban Dare challenge that comes to Austin. She even registered for The Great Urban Race, a similar event scheduled for March 27. ÒI had the best time com¥peting in the Urban Dare,Ó Musgrove said. The Musgroves completed every checkpoint for the Ur¥ban Dare challenge and fin¥ished 21st out of the 138 com¥peting teams. THE DAILY TEXAN Volume 110, Number 164 25 cents CONTACT US Main Telephone: (512) 471-4591 Editor: Jillian Sheridan (512) 232-2212 editor@dailytexanonline.com Managing Editor: Ana McKenzie (512) 232-2217 managingeditor@ dailytexanonline.com News O¥ce: (512) 232-2207 news@dailytexanonline.com Web O¥ce: (512) 471-8616 online@dailytexanonline.com Sports O¥ce: (512) 232-2210 sports@dailytexanonline.com Life & Arts O¥ce: (512) 232-2209 lifeandarts@dailytexanonline.com Photo O¥ce: (512) 471-8618 photo@dailytexanonline.com Retail Advertising: (512) 471-1865 joanw@mail.utexas.edu ClassiÞed Advertising: (512) 471-5244 classiÞeds@dailytexanonline.com The Texan strives to present all infor¥mation fairly, accurately and complete¥ly. If we have made an error, let us know about it. Call (512) 232-2217 or e-mail managingeditor@dailytexanonline.com. COPYRIGHT Copyright 2009 Texas Student Media. All articles, photographs and graphics, both in the print and online editions, are the property of Texas Student Media and may not be reproduced or republished in part or in whole without written permission. CORRECTION In the March 4 articleÒRegents approve hike in tuition,Ó the percentage increase in tuition for 2011-12 was incorrectly identiÞed. The percent increase proposed by the Tuition Policy Advisory Committee is 3.89 percent. The Texan regrets the error. TODAYÕS WEATHER LowHigh 66 56 Hurry, hon. Wire Editor: Beth Waldman www.dailytexanonline.com Monday, March 8, 2010 WORLD&NATION THE DAILY TEXAN Discrimination disrupts colleges across California By Christina Hoag The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Ñ Swasti¥kas, nooses, a KKK hood, graf¥fiti, epithets and jeers. An ugly spate of bias inci¥dents has spread across sev¥eral University of California campuses over the past month, causing consternation, outcry and fear that bigotry is alive among the young and educat¥ed in America. Students have protested and administrators have con¥demned, but the question re¥mains of what lies behind the sudden parade of prejudice Ñ a growing climate of insensitiv¥ity on campuses or a bunch of immature kids yearning for the extent that he was forced to end a speech early. The acts were particular¥ly shocking because they oc¥curred on university campus¥es, which are usually consid¥ered centers of intellectual en¥lightenment above acts com¥monly associated with such disrespect and ignorance. But experts note that univer¥sities are microcosms of soci¥ety at large, and that includes hatemongers. Upticks in hate crimes are often seen in times of economic malaise as peo¥ple seek scapegoats, noted Jack Levin, a Northeastern Univer¥sity sociologist who has stud¥ied hate. Still, surveys show that prejudice among todayÕs peer acceptance young peo¥and attention. ple is at a low ÒMy guess is and interracial some of all of College students, as and interethnic those things,Ó a group, are quite marriages are said interim UC at an all-time ÔÔ liberal on this issue.Ó Provost Law-high, said Tom rence H. Pitts. Smith, direc¥ Ñ Tom Smith ÒIÕd like to be-tor of the gen- Researcher lieve itÕs really eral social sur¥an extreme mi-vey at the Na- nority. It does suggest thereÕs some underlying feeling of in¥tolerance in our community.Ó The incidents have roiled several campuses in the 175,000-student state universi¥ty system, which is one of the countryÕs most well-respected and diverse. At UC San Diego, black stu¥dents were offended by an off¥campus ÒCompton CookoutÓ party that mocked ghetto ste¥reotypes, a noose and KKK¥style hood found on campus and a student making racially derogatory remarks on a stu¥dent-run TV station. At UC Davis, swastikas cropped up and the gay and lesbian center was vandalized with graffiti. At UC Santa Cruz, a picture of a noose was scrawled. On the Irvine campus, the Israe¥li ambassador was heckled to tional Opin¥ ion Research Center. Studies have also long found that education increases tolerance of different groups, he added. ÒCollege students, as a group, are quite liberal on this issue,Ó Smith said. Minority students said thatÕs why theyÕre galled that fellow students today would even think that something like hang¥ing a noose in a library is funny or acceptable. The school paper later published a letter of apol¥ogy from a female student who wrote that she had only been playing with a rope, acciden¥tally left in the library and did not mean to offend. ÒPart of the problem is that people donÕt realize itÕs insen¥sitive,Ó said Joelle Gamble, a student at the University of California, Los Angeles. ÒThey see it as free speech.Ó By Hamza Hendawi & Qassim Abdul-Zahra The Associated Press BAGHDAD Ñ Insurgents bombed a polling station and lobbed grenades at voters Sun¥day, killing 36 people in attacks aimed at intimidating those tak¥ing part in an election that will determine whether the country can overcome the sectarian divi¥sions that have plagued it since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Many Iraqis hope the elec¥tion will put them on a path to¥ward national reconciliation as the U.S. prepares to withdraw combat forces by late summer and all troops by the end of next year. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is fighting for his polit¥ical future with challenges from a coalition of mainly Shiite reli¥gious groups on one side and a secular alliance combining Shi¥ites and Sunnis on the other. Despite mortars raining down nearby, voters in the capital still came to the polls. In the pre¥dominantly Sunni neighbor¥hood of Azamiyah in northern Baghdad, Walid Abid, a 40-year¥old father of two, was speaking as mortars boomed several hun¥dreds of yards away. Police re¥ported at least 20 mortar attacks in the neighborhood shortly af¥ter daybreak. Mortars also fell in the Green Zone Ñ home to the U.S. Embassy and the prime ministerÕs office. ÒI am not scared, and I am not going to stay put at home,Ó said Abid, who owns a local cafe. ÒUntil when? We need to change things. If I stay home and not come to vote, Azami¥yah will get worse.Ó Polls closed at 5 p.m. as sched¥uled, and election officials said it could be days before prelimi¥nary results are released. Observers warn the election is only the first step in the polit¥ical process. With the fractured nature of Iraqi politics, it could take months of negotiations af¥ter results are released in the coming days for a government to be formed. Speaking to reporters after the polls closed, Ad Melkert, the United Nations Special Rep¥resentative in Iraq, praised the elections. ÒThis day has been a triumph of reason over confrontation and violence,Ó he said. ÒIraqis are making history. This day is an important step on the road to national reconciliation.Ó Melkert also said the release of official results would take time and urged Iraqis not to en¥gage in premature speculation about the outcome. Many view the election as a crossroads where Iraq will de¥cide whether to adhere to poli¥tics along the Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish lines or move away from the ethnic and sectari¥an tensions that have emerged since the fall of Saddam Hus¥seinÕs iron-fisted, Sunni-minor¥ity rule. Al-Maliki, who has built his reputation as the man who re¥stored order to the country, is facing a tough battle from his former Shiite allies, the Su¥preme Islamic Iraqi Council and a party headed by anti-Ameri¥can cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. ÒAl-Maliki gave us security despite all the terror. What more can he do?Ó said Mariam Om¥ran, a 55-year-old bespectacled mother of four clad in a black chador. ÒAll I want is peace for my country,Ó she said after vot¥ing in the Shiite neighborhood of Kazimiyah located in north¥ern Baghdad. Editor in Chief: Jillian Sheridan Phone: (512) 232-2212 E-mail: editor@dailytexanonline.com Associate Editors: Jeremy Burchard David Muto Roberto Cervantes Dan Treadway Lauren Winchester OPINION Monday, March 8, 2010 THE DAILY TEXAN HORNS UP, HORNS DOWN Passing the Green Fund The student body voted to pass the Green Fund referendum Wednesday with a healthy 71 percent of the vote. The results will be passed on to the University of Texas System Board of Regents for approval. If implemented, and we fully suspect it will be, students will pay an additional $5 per long semester and $2.50 per summer session to create a pool of money totaling around $400,000 per year for a variety of environment-related sus¥tainability projects. The fund would last five years, and after that period, students would vote on whether or not to keep it. This time period, coupled with the fact that the fund will be overseen by a majority-stu¥dent board, means the fund will be held extreme¥ly accountable to student interests Ñ a positive for students concerned with the UniversityÕs ef¥forts to be environmentally friendly and sustain¥able over the long term. The fact that the refer¥endum was passed even amid tuition hikes and budget squeezes speaks volumes to studentsÕ de¥sires to see the University act environmentally re¥sponsibly. And UT isnÕt alone in passing this type of referendum. Students at Texas A&M Universi¥ty passed a similar initiative that would raise $1.5 million over five years for projects with 57 percent of the vote. Rice University also recently passed a green fund initiative, and UT-San Antonio has one up for vote on Earth Day. A step back for domestic partner benefits Another strike against domestic partner bene¥fits was levied in Virginia on Thursday when At¥torney General Ken Cuccinelli II sent a letter to public universities in the state arguing they do not have authority to enact bans on discrimination as they relate to sexual orientation. That authority, Cuccinelli writes, belongs to Vir¥giniaÕs General Assembly. Cuccinelli said in the letter that the General Assembly Òhas on numerous occasions consid¥ered and rejected creating a protected class de¥fined by Ôsexual orientation,Õ Ôgender identityÕ or Ôgender expression.ÕÓ He urges universities, including the University of Virginia, to revoke the bans and defer to the as¥sembly on matters of who can and cannot be dis¥criminated against. The move comes a month after newly installed Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, a Republican, signed an executive order removing sexual orien¥tation from the stateÕs non-discrimination policy. These actions are unfortunate for gay Virginians and also present an example of a state, like Tex¥as, whose conservative government is facing off against progressive campus populations and pol¥icies. As the 2011 Texas legislative session looms, we hope Texas legislators instead look to campus¥es like the University of Michigan, which, despite a state ban on offering domestic partner benefits, has altered the language of its University policy to extend benefits to Òother qualified adults.Ó The system perpetuates unfair elections By Marcus Nestenius but in their salads and a list of over-general-We are a student body of 50,000 strong, and Daily Texan Columnist ized promises. Victory for Student Government there is no way either Parks and Kabir or Aze¥ candidates becomes less about who is the most mi and Stein could reach out to all of us on I accuse candidates of corruption. I accuse qualified or visionary and more about who is campus in such a short amount of time by Scott Parks and Muneezeh Kabir of cheating. the loudest and least specific. antiquated means. I accuse Minator Azemi and Justin Stein of in-Imagine if Barack Obama and John McCain We donÕt live in an age of barnstorming on fringement. But above all, I accuse the regula-were given only two weeks to square off. They trains and Athenian assemblies. Where would tion that has caused all the intrigue. probably would just have said they would make ObamaÕs campaign have gone without mobili- The Parks/Kabir alliance was fined for cam-everything perfect. ÒI promise that you will pay zation over the Internet? paigning two months too soon, and Aze-less taxes and receive more in returnÓ would I donÕt condone these hopefulsÕ transgres¥mi and Stein were hushed for campaign-have been the only thing voters heard. sions. Parks and Kabir should have followed the ing through two methods too many. There-Now, replace ÒtaxesÓ with another ÒTÓ word rules, and Azemi and Stein should have been fore, the University should be punished for and you have on-campus reality. Both the more knowledgeable about questionable tactics obstructing democracy. Parks/Kabir and Azemi/Stein alliances have and their risks. However, one doesnÕt have to I understand that the rules of the Election Su-tuition regulation as a top priority. Candidates condone the candidates actions to think the sys¥pervisory Board, the University Residence Hall will have very little control over tuition, but it is tem should be fixed. Association and Information Technology Servic-the issue that students will listen to. If SG can-Change the rules, and let SG have a real elec¥es are put in place to provide order and well-be-didates had from, letÕs say, December to cam-tion. Yes, the campaigning would get more an¥ing. However, when put together, they make it paign, then they would be able to outline con-noying and tiresome, but it would lead to very hard for candidates to operate. crete, reasonable beliefs for the voters. more transparency. With closed-door meetings Consider the two-week campaigning limit. And if executive alliances were allowed to and secret groups plaguing recent election cy-How much can a representative hopeful actu-reach out to students through means other than cles, transparency is exactly what people are ally educate the entire student body on his or yelling annoying chants, such as via e-mail, then calling for. her platforms? Is a fortnightÕs window wide in one short sitting, students would know more If candidates have to win an election through enough to help voters pinpoint, understand and about what candidates will do if elected. secrecy and loopholes, then that is exactly how compare positions? Taking into account how politically ignorant they will lead. It is not. ThatÕs why students receive a flur-most college students are, this would beat not ry of walking poster boards, fliers everywhere knowing anything at all. GALLERY Moving beyond labels in the Student Government election By Dave Player Daily Texan Columnist Saturday eveningÕs appeal by Student Gov¥ernmentÕs Appellate Court added an ad¥ditional layer of controversy to this yearÕs SG elections. For those who have not been following the two campaigns, the flurry of news regard¥ing the two groups could seem strange. The two campaignsÕ platforms are extremely sim¥ilar in their makeup, with both promising im¥proved transparency, affordability and legis¥lative representation. Some have argued that there is an ethical difference between the two executive allianc¥es. However, that distinction is hard to draw. Both groups have been penalized by the Elec¥tion Supervisory Board for violating SGÕs election code. The Parks and Kabir campaign was fined for distributing campaign materials before the official Feb. 17 date to begin campaign¥ing, while the Azemi and Stein campaign was temporarily suspended for improper use of University e-mail as well as campaigning in University dormitories. ItÕs a matter of individual perspec¥tive which is the greater offense: spam e¥mails and flyers, or a one-month head start in campaigning. So if the platforms are essentially the same, and both have violated the election code, then what is the contrast between the two campaigns that has caused so many to pick a side? Readers who have been following The Daily TexanÕs coverage over the past few weeks will be quick to point out that itÕs the candidatesÕ affiliations. Following last yearÕs election, both Aze¥mi and Stein were named as part of the Eyes of Texas, an anonymous campus organiza¥tion that strives to Òunselfishly serve the Uni¥versity of Texas at Austin,Ó according to its mission statement on the dean of studentsÕ Web site. The existence of such an anonymous orga¥nization lends itself to those conspiracy the¥orists who want to imagine that SG elections are the results of backroom manipulation and intrigues. Such fabrications have led to la¥bels of ÒinsiderÓ for Azemi and Stein, while the Parks and Kabir campaign are the refresh¥ing Òoutsiders.Ó These labels insinuate that the past problems of SG are the fault of Aze¥mi and Stein. Those accusations are absurd and unfounded. If critics want to accredit the shortcomings of SG onto individuals, then Parks is just as deserving a recipient. Parks was first elected to SG two years ago on the Empower ticket of former SG president Keshav Rajagopalan. It seems hypocritical that the ParksÕ cam¥paign should make affordability such a prior¥ity when Parks himself voted against AR-12: ÒIn Support of Tuition ReliefÓ last year. Last Friday, in a piece lambasting Azemi and Stein, Daily Texan columnist and Parks/ Kabir supporter Anna Russo compared the latterÕs campaign to that of President Barack Obama in 2008. In doing so, Russo finally ar¥ticulated what many had already suspected. From matching slogans (ÒYes We CanÓ ver¥sus ÒTogether Students CanÓ) to eerily sim¥ilar campaign artwork, the Parks and Kabir campaign has taken an Obama-esque feel. The connection is not surprising consid¥ering the support Parks and Kabir have re¥ceived from the University Democrats. The largest on-campus political organization was one of the first to endorse the Parks campaign, and both current president Me¥lessa Rodriguez and former president Jim¥my Talarico have worked on the Parks and Kabir campaign staff. However, there is a major problem with that strategy. Parks is a swell guy, but heÕs no Obama. And considering the presidentÕs plummeting popularity over the past year, maybe thatÕs not such a bad thing. Beyond any arbitrary labels of Òinsid¥erÓ or Òoutsider,Ó there is a lack of any sub¥stance to the campaign controversy. Rather, there is only the indignation of a campaign that cannot fathom how purported Òinsid¥ersÓ such as Azemi and Stein managed to re¥ceive more votes. Somehow, when it comes to real elections, popularity overcomes the idea of populism. Because at the end of the day, every stu¥dent, whether male or female, freshman or se¥nior, white or black Ñ a member of the Eyes of Texas or not Ñ gets exactly one vote. Player is a plan II junior. Nestenius is an engineering freshman. SUBMIT A FIRING LINE LEGALESE SUBMIT A COLUMN E-mail your Firing Lines to firingline@daily- Opinions expressed in The Daily Texan are Guest columns must be between 200 and texanonline.com. Letters must be fewer than 300 not necessarily those of the UT administration, 700 words. Send your column to editor@dai¥ words. The Texan reserves the right to edit for the Board of Regents or the Texas Student Media lytexanonline.com. The Texan reserves the right brevity, clarity and liability. Board of Operating Trustees. to edit all columns for clarity and liability. THE FIRING LINE A new look at a practical education In their March 4 column, three UT law students called for a review of the law school curriculum, cutting back on courses that treat law as an academic subject and emphasizing the arts of law practice in their column, ÒLaw students need a practical education.Ó The students imagine the possibility of graduating law students who will be wholly Òcompetent from their first day of practice.Ó But practicing law is not knowing the secrets of a bunch of legal tricks. A lot of the art is necessarily learned on the job. Law firms do not expect to gain a full-fledged lawyer when hiring a recent graduate but someone who is equipped to learn what is best learned in practice. The letter-writers, however, are correct that some of the present law school curriculum could be trimmed. This is especially welcome news as the cost of law school soars. At present, most students intern following their second year and if proven competent, are then hired, but forced to return to law school for a third year, adding perhaps $50,000 to their student debt and foregoing a year of earnings at lawyer rates. Law schools claim that in the third year, students can be given practical ÒclinicalÓ experience, but why not gain that experience at the firm and for pay? Another benefit, some claim, is study of the studentÕs specialty. But most students donÕt know their specialty until much later and tend to work during the third year on the specialty of a professor. Northwestern University Law School has taken the lead in offering the option of a two-year juris doctor degree, and we will soon learn how the profession values it. UT would do well to start considering how to inject such a choice into its curriculum. Ñ Francis Dummer Fisher Senior research fellow LBJ School of Public Affairs An evolutionary error While I understand that The Daily Texan is well-known for having abysmal coverage of the sciences and engineering, it would really help if you at least tried to get even the popular press interpretations of science correct. In FridayÕs Overview, ÒBig gift for Baylor,Ó the editorial board mentioned that Baylor UniversityÕs Evolutionary Informatics Lab was moved off campus. This is true. But this had zero to do with the schoolÕs Òreligious values,Ó and everything to do with the fact that this was an attempt to present intelligent design as scien¥tific discourse rather than philosophical claptrap. While one of the many tip-offs as to the intellectual vacuity of intelligent design theory was their attempt at naming this Òlaboratory,Ó it is amusing and sad that the Texan was perhaps the only organization in the world taken in by this attempt. Another triumph for student journalism. Ñ Andy Ellington Chemistry professor E-mail confusion In recent articles, Minator Azemi and Justin Stein have made a series of statements that raise concerning questions. For example, Azemi was quoted saying, ÒÔI donÕt think you can say with certainty that it [sending e-mails to 10,000 stu¥dents] has greatly altered the scope of the election. I disregard e-mails all the time.ÕÓ First, Azemi is currently a University-wide SG representa¥tive and student at UT, where e-mail is an official form of communication. Does this mean that as a University-wide representative and student, Azemi regularly disregards his e-mails? Second, Azemi implicitly asserts that he believes students ignored those e-mails because he ignores his own e-mails. Why, then, did his campaign spend time gathering 10,000 e-mail addresses and utilizing mail-merge software to send those e-mails if Azemi believed those efforts wouldnÕt matter? Third, Azemi believes that the e-mails didnÕt make a ÒgreatÓ difference. Does he believe, then, that his wrong is OK if the election wasnÕt greatly affected? What is Ògreatly alteredÓ given that the margin of victory was 390 votes? If 96.09 percent of people ignored that e-mail and only 3.91 percent did not, then Azemi/Stein got the most votes through illegal means. Another example is when Stein was quoted saying, ÔÒIt has never been our intention to violate University policy. We were under the assumption that we had obtained the approval we needed for the e-mails.ÕÓ This statement implies that Stein looked at the University policy on the directory he was Ònot violating.Ó University policy states Òthe contact information provided in this online directory service may not be used for transmis¥sion and distribution of unsolicited e-mail or other commer¥cial purposes.Ó Does Stein then mean that all 10,000 emails were solicited? Second, whom did Stein contact for approval? ITS, which created the policy just referenced? Ñ David Liu Business honors and plan II honors Monday, March 8, 2010 NEWS Running mates search for synergy Latin Americans celebrate By Alex Geiser that the lieutenant governor may with a failed bout for the House Daily Texan Staff disagrees with. of Representatives in 1978. He Chile at earthquake benefit Texas governors and lieuten-Unlike the lieutenant gover-then helped campaign for his fa¥ant governors from both sides of nor, the governor has the pow-therÕs initial run for the presi¥ By Destinee Hodge Daily Texan Staff Chilean flags waved as danc¥ers from across Latin America and Austin joined together to raise funds and awareness for victims of the Feb. 27 earthquake in Chile. Chilenos en Austin and the re¥cently formed group Austin Helps Chile organized the ÒChile en el CorazonÓ event, an explosion of food and music, at Esquina Tango Cultural Society of Austin on Sat¥urday. The event was sponsored by the Hispanic Graduate Business Association and the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies. ÒI think that what youÕll see is that when anything happens in Latin America, all Latin Amer¥icans come together,Ó said Mi¥chelle Wibbelsman, director of the UT South American Music Ensemble. The ensemble kicked off the event by performing var¥ious Chilean musical pieces. The event also featured a silent auction, featuring items donated by local businesses and individ¥uals, as well as a free wine tast¥ing. The event was free, although the organizers suggested a $10 do¥nation. The money collected will be donated to the Chilean chari¥ty Hogar de Cristo. Austin Helps Chile will continue to accept dona¥tions through the intermediary ac¥count they have set up for the pub¥lic. People interested in donating can do so by visiting the organiza¥tionÕs Web site. After the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti, efforts to raise money were not only immediate but so widespread that recent reports estimate the amount of money raised as high as half a billion dollars. With the earthquake in Chile happening less than two months after the Haiti quake, some attendees feared that peo¥ple might be reluctant to donate any more to relief services. Many of the attendees, however, said that whenever there is a need, people will continue to give. ÒWhen you can give $10, you Derek Stout |Daily Texan Staff Guillermo Blanc (right) grills up sausages at ÒChile en el Corazon,Ó an event benefiting the victims of the recent earthquake in Chile. can give $20,Ó said Cristi‡n Busta¥mante, a member of Chilenos en Austin who helped organize the event. ÒA lot of people are always willing to help somebody.Ó Tina Dong, a French and Span¥ish high-school teacher in Leander, said Austin is an appropriate place to look for donations because of the kindness of its citizens. ÒI think Austin has such a high sense of volunteerism, and everybody is so generous that people are always going to be giving,Ó Dong said. Jaime Portales, a member of Chilenos en Austin and one of the coordinators of the event, said initial reports after the earthquake gave people abroad the false impression that Chil¥eans were not in need of serious help and support. ÒWhen the earthquake hap¥pened, they were saying that the country did not have a huge amount of damage,Ó Portales said. ÒThe media and all the peo¥ple in Chile started realizing the damage was much deeper than they initially thought. ThereÕs a need for effort, not only [with¥in] the country, but [for] interna¥tional effort and private entities to contribute.Ó Felipe Correa, a Chilean busi¥nessman and Austin resident, said if public support is leaning toward Haiti, it is for a good reason. ÒI think Haiti and Chile are in different positions,Ó Correa said. ÒThe loss of life [in Chile] is, al¥though very important, very minimal compared to Haiti.Ó Correa donated packages of the One Light Charcoal he invented, as well as wines for the event. David Alvarez, leader of Chil¥enos en Austin, said he hoped that bringing awareness to the destruction caused by the earth¥quake would be a starting point in branching out to help other Chilean communities that were in need before the quake and will especially need help after. Ò[With this fundraiser] we want to help people and also create something more perma¥nent,Ó Alvarez said. Attendees of ÒChile en el Cora¥zonÓ put aside their heavy hearts and worry for friends and family in Chile for a night to laugh, dance and share stories about their home¥land, while raising funds. ÒI think with a benefit, itÕs a sad occasion [that weÕre com¥memorating], but it doesnÕt nec¥essarily have to be a sad bene¥fit,Ó said Mirka FettŽ, an art his¥tory graduate student. ÒYou can have fun and raise money at the same time.Ó the aisle have historically had to er to veto any bill that pass-dency and again for reelection in work together, despite their nu-es through the Senate and the 1992 before serving as Texas gov¥merous disagreements. But even House. While some governors ernor from 1995 to 2000, when he when the two positions are filled have been more moderate with was elected president. by candidates of the same party, this power, Perry set a record for Bullock, who began his po¥relationships have been strained. the number used in one session litical career as the Secretary of Unlike the presidential elec-with 82 vetoes in 2001. State before occupying the comp¥tion, where presidential candi-Even when the governor and trollerÕs seat for almost 20 years, dates and their chosen vice pres-lieutenant governor are from the took the lieutenant governorship idential candidates run on the same political party, it doesnÕt al-in 1991 Ñ four years before Bush same ticket, the lieutenant gov-ways ensure that the two will work became governor. His long histo¥ernor runs separately from the together, said James Henson, direc-ry in Texas politics brought him governor. As a result, the gov-tor of the Texas Politics Project. respect across the state. ernor and lieutenant governor Perry and Dewhurst serve as As a result, Bullock had a good may have different political affil-examples of candidates from relationship with the House and iations and agendas. the same party who frequently the Senate, said Dave Denney, di- Nominees were elected Tues-couldnÕt see eye-to-eye. rector of public programming at day for the Democratic and Re-During the 2003 legislative the Bob Bullock Texas State His¥publican races in Texas. Gov. session, Dewhurst proposed a tory Museum. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David multi-billion dollar school-fi-ÒHe understood state gov-Dewhurst were reelected on the nancing plan to expand the ernment better than probably Republican side, and gubernato-state sales tax and reduce prop-anybody at that time,Ó Denney rial nominee and former Hous-erty taxes, which the Senate said. ÒHis place in politics was ton Mayor Bill White and lieu-passed. Perry vocally opposed pretty strong.Ó tenant governor nominee and the Senate bill, as did former Denney said Bullock was one labor activist Linda Chavez-House Speaker Tom Craddick. of the most powerful lieuten-Thompson earned the Demo-The bill was consequently re-ant governors Texas has seen be¥cratic nomination. jected in the House. cause he knew how to use the The lieutenant governor of Henson said there is a good power he was given and that Texas serves as president of the chance that after NovemberÕs Bush already looked up to Bull-Senate, allowing him or her to election, both seats will be oc-ock, who had gained a stronger debate and vote on all bills dur-cupied by members of oppos-political presence. ing legislative sessions. He or ing parties. During the 1995 legislative ses¥she also has the power to cast The most recent example of sion, the two men and the speak¥the deciding vote in the event of opposing party affiliations in the er of the house passed legislation a Senate tie and is also responsi-state House was during Republi-relating to juvenile justice, wel¥ble for creating Senate commit-can President George W. BushÕs fare and education reform. tees. The lieutenant governor ap-first term as governor in 1995. Jones said that White would points chairs to the committees, Democrat Bob Bullock served as work well with Dewhurst be¥including the Senate Commit-BushÕs lieutenant governor until cause White is a moderate to tee on Higher Education, which 1999, and their partnership was conservative Democrat. He was drafts bills relating to state col-a good example of successful bi-unsure how Perry, known as leges and universities. partisanship, said Bryan Jones, a staunch Republican, would Most notably, the lieutenant J.J. Pickle Regents Chair in Con-work with a Democratic lieu¥governor controls the order in gressional Studies. tenant governor but admitted to which bills are brought to the ÒBush respected Bullock, and PerryÕs willingness to work with Senate floor, allowing him or her Bullock came to respect Bush,Ó Democrats in the past. to make it more difficult for the Jones said. ÒPerry sounds more partisan governor to fast-track legislation Bush began his political career than he acts,Ó Jones said.           Everybody counts on having safe, effective medicine for anything from the common cold to heart disease. But making sure medications are safe is a complex and careful process. At PPD,        to help evaluate medications being developed Ð maybe like you. You must meet certain requirements to qualify, including a free medical exam and screening tests. We have research studies available in many different lengths, and youÕll Þnd current studies listed here weekly. 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The DPS warning, released on Thursday, came after a Feb. 22 travel warning issued by the U.S. Department of State because of an increase of violence and drug¥cartel activities in border cities. According to the travel alert, U.S. citizens should Òdelay un¥necessary travel to parts of Michoacan, Durango, Coahuila and Chihuahua.Ó DPS also encouraged students to avoid drinking and driving, as well as other risky activities. The UT Police Department in¥cluded the DPS warning in its March 4 Campus Watch. ÒWe felt it was necessary to pass the warnings from the State Department and the Department of Public Safety on to students,Ó UTPD spokeswoman Rhonda Weldon said. ÒWe are advising students to stay safe this spring break.Ó Communication studies soph¥omore Leah Wise went to Mexi¥co over spring break in 2009 and said she recognized the presence of drug-related violence through¥out Mexico. However, Wise said she was not worried about the vi¥olence affecting her or her family. ÒIt was really calm, and we didnÕt experience or even hear about any instances of violence in our area,Ó she said. Wise, who is from Harlingen, a border town in Texas, said re¥ports of ongoing violence in Mex¥ico still make her cautious while traveling in that region. ÒBorder towns are definite¥ly more dangerous. I never stay overnight, and if I do visit, itÕs just a day trip,Ó she said. ÒIÕm going with my family again this year. Going alone or even just with a group of friends would not be a good idea.Ó APPEAL: Hearing not necessary for case From page 1 The board issued an 84-hour moratorium from noon Friday until midnight Tuesday for the offenses. The Appellate Court did not dispute the validity of the courtÕs ruling but said the moratori¥um was too harsh considering the runoff underway. It also ad¥dressed a concern that the board never issued an advisory explain¥ing the different qualifications of punishments,somethingrequired by the election code. According to the ruling, this Òdeprives can¥didates of fair warning provided for in the Code and undermines the ESBÕs sanctioning authority.Ó The court shortened the morato¥rium to 36 hours, so it officially ended at midnight Sunday. ÒIf we are going in without knowing what the violations are, thatÕs unfair to the candidates,Ó Azemi said. ÒIt becomes a subjec¥tive ruling.Ó The board was not formed un¥til Feb. 12 because the election code reform process that took place in 2009 interrupted normal scheduling. Normally, the board is formed in October. This meant that a number of advisories Ñ in¥cluding the one on the different classes of punishments Ñ were not issued due to time constraints, said Charles Maddox, the boardÕs chair. Additionally, the different classifications of punishments are outlined in the code. The different possible penalties are not includ¥ed because it would be impossi¥ble to account for every hypothet¥ical violation, board member Eric Nimmer said. The court is made up of UT law students Chris Tuggey and Abby Brunson and law professor John Dzienkowski, who are appointed by the dean of the law school and the president of the student bar association. They are governed by the election code and consider appeals filed regarding decisions by the board. In this case, they were presented with the opinions issued by the board as well as the statement of appeal from Azemi. The court convened via e-mail because Dziendowski was in Cal¥ifornia. ÒThe Appellate Court upheld our convictions and just short¥ened the moratorium,Ó Maddox said. ÒIt is my opinion that our judgement was sound, but the court felt the moratorium was too harsh. That is within their pur¥view to decide.Ó Members of the Scott Parks/ Muneezeh Kabir campaign, the other alliance participating in the runoff, said they were frustrated at the brevity of the courtÕs opin¥ion, which totaled seven sentenc¥es, and by the lack of any public hearing or opportunity to present a counterargument to AzemiÕs statement of appeal. ÒI had no idea there was an appeals process going on, except that Minator had filed,Ó Parks said. ÒI have a lot of questions about who is on the court and what their process is. I canÕt be¥lieve they would overturn a 9-0 decision made by people [on the board] who have been heavily involved all along.Ó Members of the court lat¥er clarified to The Daily Tex¥an that because the punishment was contested but the ruling was not, they would not likely have had a hearing, even if all mem¥bers had been available to quo¥rum. Brunson also said that be¥cause the court is removed from the process, they are able to rule more objectively. Azemi said his campaign was ready to begin campaigning again and that he was satisfied with the courtÕs statement. ÒWeÕre excited to have two more days of campaigning than we originally thought,Ó he said. ÒThe Appellate Court has made its decision very clear and con¥cise. I donÕt think it requires a more lengthy discussion than what was presented.Ó CODE: Board chair admits changes needed From page 1 boardÕs jurisdiction. ÒWith these complaints, I really think we need to look at the election code yet again,Ó said Alex Ferraro, a campaign worker for the Azemi/ Stein campaign and a lead author of the reformed election code. ÒWeÕve found new issues, and we need to fix those.Ó Board chair Charles Maddox, who also served on the task force that reformed the election code, said that in writing the new code, they intentionally left some ambi¥guity to allow each yearÕs board to interpret the code, but he now believes that was a mistake. Mad¥dox said he will make a statement to the assembly after the election suggesting additional reforms that would tighten the code fur¥ther and clarify rules and regula¥tions. He also said that because of the timing of the reform process, the board was created close to the start of campaigning instead of in Oc¥tober per the usual schedule. The board did not have time to establish a thorough and specific interpreta¥tion of the code, he said. ÒOn the task force, we punted a lot of decisions to the board,Ó Mad¥dox said. ÒNow that IÕve served on both, I realize we should have taken into consideration the bureaucrat¥ic process and this yearÕs time con¥straints.Ó On Feb. 15, the first day the board was accepting complaints, Ferraro filed a complaint against Parks and Kabir that accused them of cam¥paigning as early as November, de¥spite a code-mandated start date of Feb. 17. The board ruled the cam¥paign did not violate the election code by prematurely campaigning because the materials distributed and the meetings held by the cam¥paign that were called into question did not have the effect of soliciting votes. However, the board did is¥sue a $45 fine against the campaign for distributing materials that iden¥tified Parks and Kabir as an execu¥tive alliance. On Wednesday, the board ruled that the Azemi/Stein campaign vi¥olated code by distributing cam¥paign materials via e-mail and in campus residence halls in ways that violated Division of Hous¥ing and Food Services and Infor¥mation Technology Services poli¥cies and issued an 84-hour mora¥torium against the campaign. The code specifically requires that cam¥paigns abide by all University reg¥ulations, but the boardÕs ability to rule in these matters is not defined. Azemi questioned the boardÕs abil¥ity to rule in matters of Universi¥ty policy when the University en¥tities themselves had not ruled as to whether a violation was com¥mitted. Azemi appealed the rul¥ing with the Appellate Court des ignated for University-wide elec¥tions, and the court shortened the moratorium to 36 hours but did not overturn the verdict against the campaign. Ò[The boardÕs ruling] sets the precedent that the board is al¥lowed to interpret University pol¥icy, which is unfair,Ó Azemi said. ÒThey have the right to define vi¥olations, and if the next ESB de¥fines using the directory to e-mail students as a code violation, they have the right to do so. This board did not.Ó Last week, the board investigat¥ed the Parks/Kabir campaign for not turning in its first financial dis¥closures, due Feb. 17. Maddox said it was a clerical error on his part: the campaign turned them in on time to the Student Government office, but after Maddox picked them up, he admits he failed to ex¥amine them and file them appro¥priately. ÒAs soon as it came up, I retraced my steps, and [the disclosure] was right there,Ó Maddox said. University-wide Rep. Car¥ly Castetter, a co-author of the re¥formed election code, said it is nec¥essary to allow each board to in¥terpret the code based on specific circumstances in a given year, and she does not advise another code reform beyond minor changes. Castetter said that in future years, the code will be more effective be¥cause the board will have more time to assess it. Election Supervisory Board chair Charles Maddox, speaks at the ESB hearing Wednesday. Maddox served as part of the task force that reformed the election code Mary Kang Daily Texan Staff Sports Editor: Blake Hurtik E-mail: sports@dailytexanonline.com Phone: (512) 232-2210 SPORTS www.dailytexanonline.com Monday, March 8, 2010 BASEBALL GAME 1: TEXAS 2, RICE 1 GAME 2: HOUSTON 1, TEXAS 0 GAME 3: TEXAS 8, MISSOURI 5 Horns take two of three in Houston Fanny Trang | Daily Texan Staff Sophomore Jordan Etier hit his first career home run Sunday as Texas recorded an 8-5 win over Missouri. It was the only homer the light-hitting Longhorns smashed in the three-game set, which they finished with a 2-1 record after a win over Rice on Friday and a 1-0 loss to Rice on Saturday. EtierÕs home run keys Texas offense in win over Tigers Sunday By Chris Tavarez Daily Texan Staff HOUSTON Ñ TexasÕ week¥end excursion to the major league had all the same peaks and valleys as an MLB team in its 2-1 weekend outing at Minute Maid Park for the Houston College Classic. ÒItÕs such a thrill for the players to be able to play in this stadium and on this field,Ó coach Augie Garrido said. ÒTheyÕve been on this field a thousand times, but itÕs been in the stands and on TV.Ó The Horns fell into an early hole Sunday when Cole Green gave up a two-run home run to MissouriÕs Jonah Schmidt in the second inning to give the Tigers a 2-0 lead. Texas was down 3-1 in the bottom of the fifth before it opened the floodgates for a huge six¥run inning that would seal TexasÕ 8-5 over Mizzou. The victory ensured a winning weekend after a Friday 2-1 win over Rice and a 1-0 loss to Houston. The onslaught started with a leadoff walk by Brandon Loy, who advanced to second WOMENÕS BASKETBALL TEXAS 70, BAYLOR 54 Griner-less Baylor no match for Longhorns By Sameer Bhuchar Daily Texan Staff Whatever coach Gail Goes¥tenkors said to her team at halftime worked. The Longhorns looked like sitting ducks with only nine first-half field goals to their name before turning the game around in the second half en route to a 70-54 victory in Waco. The second-half surge came through an impressive display of zone defense that allowed only two field goals the entire half. Without Baylor star Britt¥ney Griner Ñ out with a sus¥pension after punching a Tex¥as Tech player last week Ñ Texas exploited its length and size to clean the glass and get easy points. Sophomore Ashley Gayle was able to use her height ad¥vantage to snag 11 rebounds and swat four shots. ÒIt definitely helped that there wasnÕt a six-foot-eightÓ person in the paint,Ó Gayle said, referring to Griner. Offensively, the Longhorns ran the Bears into the ground with a 19-0 streak to begin the second half. They held Baylor without a field goal for more than 14 minutes. Freshman Cokie Reed also TEXAS continues on page 8 Jack Aydelotte | Associated Press Cokie Reed, right, goes up for two of her 18 points Sunday as Texas crushed Baylor 70-54 to end its regular season. on a single down the third baseline by Cameron Rupp. Kevin Keyes would then hit a single off the pitcherÕs leg to load the bases. Paul Montalbano came in to pinch hit for Cohl Walla, who got his first start of the season, and walked to bring in Loy. A Kyle Lusson sacri¥fice fly to right field brought in Rupp to tie the game at 3-3. Jordan Etier then scored Mon¥talbano and Kevin Lusson on a single to left field, and lat¥er scored on a Tant Shepherd double. ÒThe guy was having trouble WIN continues on page 8 Longhorn hitters find confidence in midst of struggles at the plate By Austin Ries Daily Texan Staff HOUSTON Ñ After Bran¥don WorkmanÕs first two pitches against the University of Houston on Saturday, the game was already over. The first pitch was a lead¥off triple to the left field cor¥ner from CougarsÕ shortstop Blake Kelso. The second, a hard-breaking ball in the dirt that scooted away from Tex¥as catcher Cameron Rupp, rolled just far enough away to let Kelso slide in safely. That was it. The Cougars didnÕt need another pitch from Workman, who was bril¥liant from pitch number three till 91, his last in an eight-in¥ning, four-hit performance. What the Horns need¥ed was a shot of confidence, a team meeting and maybe even a bit of pasta and mar¥inara sauce. ÒWe got some good food in our belly afterward,Ó second baseman Jordan Etier said. ÒConnor [Rowe] and I went and ate at an Italian restau¥rant.Ó HITS continues on page 8 MENÕS BASKETBALL BAYLOR 92, TEXAS 77 Dunks push Bears to blowout win Turnovers doom Texas to third straight loss to Bay¥lor, sixth seed in Big 12 By Laken Litman Daily Texan Staff With all the standing around the Texas players did on Saturday, maybe they were able to take some mental notes on BaylorÕs eminent team chemistry. No. 21 Baylor (24-6, 11-5 Big 12) beat Texas (23-8, 9-7 Big 12) 92-77 this weekend by playing for each other, showing the Longhorns how sharing the ball will rack up wins. BaylorÕs Tweety Carter had 16 points and 10 of the teamÕs 23 as¥sists. Most of his passes went to the likes of LaceDarius Dunn Ñ who led the Bears with 30 points on 10-of-19 shooting from the field, 4-of-7 from the arc and 6-of-6 from the free-throw line Ñ and Quincy Acy, who had 24 points on 12-of¥15 field goal shooting and 10 out¥rageous dunks. ÒThe more a team has good chemistry and likes one another, TEAM continues on page 8 Rod Aydelotte | Associated Press JohnsonÕs career-high BaylorÕs LaceDarius Dunn drives through the Texas defense to a points wasted by bad 30-point performance in the BearÕs 92-77 win Saturday. THE DAILY TEXAN SIDELINE NBA Washington 83 Boston 86 Philadelphia 114 Toronto 101 Los Angeles Lakers 94 Orlando 96 Houston 107 Detroit 110 OT Oklahoma City 108 Sacremento 102 NHL Detroit 5 Chicago 4 Boston 1 Pittsburgh Vancouver 4 Nashville 2 Calgary 5 Minnesota 2 Carolina 4 Atlanta 0 Buffalo 2 New York 1 OT Toronto 1 Philadelphia 3 New Jersey Edmonton 2 Montreal 4 Anaheim 3 SO NCAA MenÕs Top 25 Florida 66 No. 3 Kentucky 74 Michigan 48 No. 12 Michigan State 64 LMU 62 No. 14 Gonzaga 77 No. 17 Wisconsin 72 Illinois 57 SPORTS BRIEFLY Horns travel country in search of qualifying times Competing in multiple events across the country, the Tex¥as menÕs track and field team notched two provisional qualifi¥ers during last chance meets on Friday. At the Alex Wilson Invitational in South Bend, Ind., the distance medley relay team of Logan Gon¥zales (1200m), Danzell Fortson (400m), Tevas Everett (800m) and Patrick Todd (1600m) recorded a time of 9 minutes, 34.26 seconds to finish fifth. The Horns continued their success in Arkansas later that day as sophomore Jacob Thormae¥hlen and senior Brandon Drenon finished first and second, respec¥tively. ThormaehlenÕs throw of 62 foot, 4.5 inches beat his personal previous best by over five inch¥es and made him a provisional qualifier. Currently, freshman Marquise Goodwin is the only Longhorn with an automatic-qualifying bid with a 25 foot, 9.25 inch mark in the long jump. The NCAA will release the final qualifiers today. Those who qualify will trav¥el to Fayetteville, Ark. for the NCAA Indoor Championships on Friday and Saturday. Ñ Jim Pagels Brown sets season best, Texas gets promising recurit At last weekendÕs last chance meet in Fayetteville, Ark., se¥nior shot putter Jordyn Brown had a season-best throw of 54-1 (16.48m) to qualify provisional¥ly for the NCAA Indoor Nation¥al Championships. Brown en¥tered the meet at 18th on the de¥scending provisional list, but her throw moved her up to 11th. Last year, Brown was ranked 10th go¥ing into NCAA nationals, where she finished fourth and garnered All-American honors. Last week, head coach Beverly Kearney an¥nounced the signing of Danielle Dowie for the 2010-2011 academ¥ic. Dowie, an inhabitant of Ja¥maica, specializes in the 400m and 400m hurdles. Most recent¥ly, she claimed the silver med¥al in the 400m hurdles at the 2009 IAAF World Youth Champion¥ships. Dowie will add to an al¥ready stout recruiting class, one that Kearney describes as Òthe best sheÕs had in years.Ó Ñ Ryan Betori defense, mental errors By Will Anderson Daily Texan Staff WACO Ñ For the second time this year, Texas faced Baylor in an important conference match¥up with the chance to gain some much-needed momentum, and for the second time, the Bears con¥trolled the game with an overly aggressive pace and walked away with the win. and Quincy Acy combined for 54 points and shot 22-of-34 from the floor to guide the Bears to their first-ever 11-win Big 12 season. ÒWe got dribbled by too much,Ó Texas coach Rick Barnes said. Baylor pressed out in a 2-3 zone that pestered the Longhorns all night. Even as reserve forward BAYLOR continues on page 8 Baylor outscored Texas 11-0 on fast breaks as it raced out to an eight-point lead after the first half that it never relinquished. Texas led for the first 12 min¥utes but Baylor moved ahead on a layup by Tweety Carter that put it up for good. Texas never got clos¥er than seven points in the second half. Baylor Õs LaceDarius Dunn WIN: Offense awakens against Tigers From page 7 throwing strikes, so I was just looking for a strike to hit,Ó Etier said. Etier would end the gameÕs scoring with the HornsÕ only home run of the series on a full count pitch he launched over the 19 foot-high left field fence. But TexasÕ 12-hit, eight-run performance on Sunday was in stark contrast to its three-hit shutout loss to Houston it suf¥fered the night before. On the third pitch of the same game, after a triple to right cen¥ter and a wild pitch, Houston scored the gameÕs only run to give the Cougars a 1-0 win. ÒThe first two pitches ended up deciding the game,Ó Garrido said. ÒThe game was over. Just two lit¥tle bases given away on two pitch¥es and the game is decided.Ó Despite getting the loss, Bran¥don Workman had his best game of the season. He pitched a complete four-hit game and recorded seven strikeouts and only one walk. But a good out¥ing that still ends in a loss can only be summed up one way. ÒTaking the loss sucks, but personally, I felt like I had my stuff better than I had before,Ó Workman said. Friday, Texas was able to squeak out a win over No. 9 Rice with an RBI double from Loy that scored Shepherd from first base to give the Horns the 2-1 win. JungmannÕs eight-strikeout performance over 7 2/3 innings was helped by tremendous de¥fense from Connor Rowe. As the go-ahead run at the plate for Rice in the top of the eighth, Chad Mozingo hit a bomb to deep center that Rowe snagged halfway up Minute MaidÕs cen¥ter-field albatross known as TalÕs Hill. Fortunately for Rowe, he had practiced fielding on the hill the night before. ÒThe first thing [Garrido] said after the win was, ÔWe practiced that, you know?ÕÓ Rowe said. ÒI was like, ÔYes sir, we did.ÕÓ HITS:Team meeting sets tone for runs From page 7 The team meeting that followed might have helped the next dayÕs offensive explosion, as well. With seniors Kyle Lusson and Russell Moldenhauer in charge, the Longhorns decided it was time for a change in their at bats and confidence. The time had come for their offense to steal a page from the pitching staff that allowed seven runs in three games this weekend. ÒWe got together and talked about the lack of confidence we showed yesterday and that we wanted to be like out pitching staff,Ó first baseman Tant Shep¥herd said. ÒThey come out every day and know they are going to do good and throw strikes. To¥day, we relaxed and tried to just hit a good pitch.Ó They figured it out as a team, and it started in the bottom of the fifth against Missouri on Sunday with Etier, who walked up to the plate hitting only 1-for-6 in the tournament. Facing a full count, Etier laced a single into left field to score Kevin Keyes and pinch¥hitter Paul Montalbano and give Texas a one-run lead. ÒI just wanted to be calm, confi¥dent and battle pitches up there,Ó Etier said. ÒIt built my confidence and I saw a lot of other players have good at bats, so it just kept growing.Ó Etier wasnÕt done. In the bottom of the eighth, he smashed another full-count pitch from Tiger pitcher Jeff Emens into the left field Crawford Box¥es for his first career home run as a Longhorn and the only Tex¥as bomb at the Houston College Classic. ÒI didnÕt try to do too much with it,Ó Etier said. ÒI just wanted to stay back and be more consistent.Ó In the end, the home run didnÕt matter for the score or deciding the winner, but it did put an ex¥clamation point on an offense that, for at least one game, made a dramatic turnaround. More im¥portantly, it was TexasÕ first come¥from-behind win and anoth¥er confidence builder in a young season. ÒWe are really playing for a higher goal than winning,Ó Gar¥rido said. ÒWinning is important, but not as important as building confidence in every at bat and pitch. ThatÕs the one word that makes a difference.Ó WOMENÕS GOLF Young Longhorns adjusting to weather By Shabab Siddiqui Daily Texan Staff Rain or shine, the LonghornsÕ golf season will continue on. Rain without shine seems to make the LonghornsÕ season a tad tougher. The team tees off today at the UNLV Spring Rebel Invitational in Boulder City, Nev., after fight¥ing and struggling to find con¥sistency in its January and Feb¥ruary tournaments. Vastly different playing con¥ditions compared to the fall sea¥sonÕs have challenged the Long¥horns to adjust their games. Head coach Martha Richards said the new-year tournaments have allowed the team to get some much-needed familiari¥ty with cooler and wetter con¥ditions. ÔÔ TheyÕve got nice direction and a clearer picture of what they want to accomplish.Ó Ñ Martha Richards Head coach ÒTheyÕve got nice direction and a clearer picture of what they want to accomplish,Ó Rich¥ards said. ÒAgain, thatÕs all go¥ing to develop over time. Some¥times, thereÕs no better situation except more time and more ex¥perience.Ó The Longhorns may face some showers in the three-day 54-hole tournament, especially in the second and third rounds. The 18¥team field features conference foes Baylor, Missouri, Nebraska and Texas Tech. The freshman foursome of Madison Pressel, Desiree Du¥breuil, Haley Stephens and Kate¥lyn Sepmoree are joined by soph¥omore Nicole Vandermade to make up the teamÕs starting line¥up. They will be playing without senior Shannon Fish for the second GOLF continues on page 9 BAYLOR: Bears secure first sweep since 1998 From page 7 Gary Johnson picked apart its holes, scoring a career-high 25 points, Tex¥asÕ perimeter players had trouble moving the ball against BaylorÕs ag¥gressive defense. The Bears made 12 steals, com¥pared to only four from the Horns. ÒIt wasnÕt necessarily by de¥sign,Ó Baylor coach Scott Drew said about his teamÕs defense. ÒIt was more just the tempo of the game and, again, thatÕs what a home crowd does, it gets you excited.Ó The Longhorns committed 18 turnovers Ñ which Baylor turned into 22 points Ñ as the Bears swept their season series with Texas for the first time since 1998. It was a repeat of their matchup on Jan. 30 in the Erwin Center, when Texas also committed 18 turnovers and lost in overtime. One area where Baylor showed much improvement from Janu¥aryÕs game was in one-on-one sit¥uations. BaylorÕs Tweety Cart¥er had little trouble driving from the top of the key, whether he was matched up against Justin Ma¥son or JÕCovan Brown, and going straight to the basket. ThatÕs where Acy stepped in, of¥ten cutting uninhibited from the baseline to receive a pass from Carter and then dunk. Acy made 10 dunks for 20 of his 22 points. ÒI donÕt think IÕve ever watched a game where we gave up that many dunks,Ó Barnes said. Baylor dished out 23 assists against just eight turnovers, using efficient ball movement to beat the slower Longhorn defenders. ÒI think Tweety Carter is respon¥sible for a lot of that,Ó Drew said. ÒTremendous job finding players.Ó The Longhorns simply couldnÕt match BaylorÕs tempo. ÒTexas is a great defensive team. They guard well, they play hard,Ó Carter said after the game, his last ever at the Ferrell Center. Ò[But] you donÕt want to leave with a loss.Ó TEAM: Texas finishes sixth in Big 12 standings drive by.Ó Out of everything that went wrong with the Longhorns on Saturday Ñ be it the turnovers, air balls, lack of rotation, lazi¥ness, etc. Ñ the turnovers were BarnesÕ biggest disappointment. Seven of the eight Longhorns who played turned the ball over, and Texas had an assist-to-turn¥over ratio of 14:18. BaylorÕs was 23:8. ÒThe way we turned the ball over, itÕs just not necessary,Ó Barnes said. ÒThey were care¥less turnovers. I donÕt under¥stand it. WeÕve talked about it and worked on it but I just donÕt have an answer.Ó This was TexasÕ third straight loss to Baylor and second of this season. With the loss, Texas is of¥ficially a No. 6 seed heading into the Big 12 Tournament, which starts this Wednesday. The first game will be against No. 11 seed Iowa State. Baylor is the 17th opponent the Longhorns have held to at least 10 points below its scoring av¥erage. When a Baylor turnover with six minutes left in the second half turned into an easy layup by Reed, the Longhorns were all smiles. By then, they knew the game was out of reach. This is exactly how Coach Goestenkors wanted to finish this up-and-down season. ÒIÕm happy we went 2-0 to close the season, and it is time to continue this run,Ó she said. The lone dark spot on an oth¥erwise exciting victory is the uncertain future of Ashleigh Fontenette. Fontenette was tan¥gled up late in the second half before falling into the scorers ta¥ble and injuring her ankle. The extent of the injury is unknown, but losing her for an extended period of time would set the Longhorns back in depth. Texas already lost backup point guard Lauren Flores to a season-end¥ing injury last Monday. With the Texas victory, the Longhorns are looking to the Big 12 tournament in Kansas City. The Longhorns are safe¥ly secured in the five-seed and will either play the Missouri Tigers or the Colorado Buffa¥loes. Junior Kathleen Nash is def¥initely looking forward to the tournament, but she has a craving for something other than just a Big 12 Champion¥ship trophy. ÒWe are definitely looking forward to the barbecue,Ó Nash said about Kansas City, famous for its barbecue cooking. The more they win, the lon¥ger theyÕll get to enjoy it. From page 7 the harder theyÕre going to com¥pete for one another,Ó Baylor coach Scott Drew said. ÒWeÕve lost by seven points or less in all our loss¥es, so weÕve never given up. I think weÕve been down in almost all of our games but the guys donÕt get rattled and that all goes to the players. Great leadership, trusting one another, competing for one an¥other and leading one another.Ó Texas coach Rick Barnes has said that his team doesnÕt give up on each other, either. But the dif¥ference between the Longhorns and the Bears is that TexasÕ version of playing as a team is letting one guy like Damion James or Gary Johnson earn all of the stats and hope his individual performance will result in a team victory. Baylor began torching the Long¥horns right from the tip-off. Texas played defenseless and careless and gave up 12 turnovers in the first half. JohnsonÕs hustle kept the game within TexasÕ reach in the first half as he scored 15 points and grabbed five rebounds. The tipping point came with about five minutes remaining in the first half when Avery Bradley missed a jumper that would have tied the game up 32-32. Udoh re¥trieved the rebound and passed the ball to Walton. Walton hand¥ed it to Acy, who then surged into the air from the free throw line for a slam-dunk. The Horns were down 42-34 at halftime and came back after the break with no momentum. Baylor was able to score 22 points off of TexasÕ 18 turnovers and exploited the LonghornsÕ de¥fense by taking the ball inside to score 57 points in the paint. Texas had 32 points in the paint. ÒWe got driven by too much,Ó Barnes said. ÒIÕm not sure IÕd say there was anybody [Baylor] didnÕt Monday, March 8, 2010 SPORTS GOLF: Freshman Dubreuil shines for Longhorns From page 8 straight tournament after a wrist injury Fish suffered earlier in the season. Dubreuil is coming off of her best tournament of the season in which she carded a 2-under¥par 69 in the second round of the Central District Invitational in Parrish, Fla. After an average fall season, the Santa Ana, Ca¥lif. native quickly propelled her¥self to the number two spot in the teamÕs lineup. In the Longhorns last show¥ing on the Boulder City course in 2008, Vandermade and Fish led the team to a sixth-place finish with three round scores of 4-un¥der-par 212 and 3-under-par 213, respectively. Stephens said courses in the winter and spring months play differently than they do in the fall. She said they used much of the off-season to get adjusted to colder weather and rainy condi¥tions, and she feels the team is ready for the challenge. ÒWe have some pretty rough weather for the first time,Ó Ste¥phens said. ÒAs time goes by, you adapt to the situation more easily. WeÕre a very young team, so we expect a lot out of ourselves.Ó SOFTBALL GAME 1: TEXAS 11, OHIO 5 GAME 2: TENNESSEE 3, TEXAS 2 GAME 3: TEXAS 6, ILLINOIS STATE 3 Heavy hitting Horns win twice in weekend tournament By Matt Hohner Daily Texan Staff The Texas softball team im¥proved to 17-3 with two wins at the Tennessee Classic. The Longhorns got off on the right foot by toppling Ohio for an 11-5 victory. There was plenty of offense as the Longhorns connected on a season-best 18 hits. The Longhorns scored three runs on five hits in the first inning, but really let the floodgates open in the third. Sophomore Courtney Craig blasted a grand slam to left center to put the game away early for Texas. Starter Erin Tresselt pitched well enough for the deciding victory. The senior is still un¥defeated for the year. Head coach Connie Clark got ev¥eryone into the act against the Bobcats by playing 14 out of her 15-player roster. ÒI am definitely pleased with our power numbers, but we really need to work to sure¥up our short game this week,Ó hitting coach Corrie Hill said. ÒWe struggled with that a little throughout the course of the week, and it wasnÕt as sharp as it was earlier in the year.Ó The strong offense failed to show up in TexasÕ second game of the day against No. 20 Tennessee. Longhorn pitcher Blaire Luna pitched a gem but didnÕt receive any offense from the team to help her out. Taylor Hoagland was the only source of offense versus the popsicle orange, hitting for two RBIs and one run. Luna struck out 17 of the 25 batters she faced in 6.1 innings of work. The Longhorns took the Vol¥unteers down to the wire in the bottom of the seventh. Vol¥unteer left fielder Raven Cha¥vanne doubled to left center to start off seventh and eventual¥ly posed as the game-winning run, reaching third on a field¥erÕs choice. LunaÕs over-aggressive atti¥tude showed down the stretch as Chavanne scored from third off a wild pitch delivered by the freshman Ñ the clinching run in a 3-2 loss. But the Longhorns bounced back with a solid win over Il¥linois State to close out the three-game tournament. ÒIt was disappointing to lose that heartbreaker to Tennessee Lauren Gerson | Daily Texan Staff Freshman pitches Blair Luna licks her lips in anticipation of a pitch. Luna led the Texas pitching staff over the weekend, losing 3-2 to Tennessee and winning over Illinois State in a long relief appearance. on Saturday in a tough fash-ments toward getting better.Ó the fence to give the Long¥ion,Ó Clark said. 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In consideration of The Daily TexanÕs acceptance of advertising copy for publication, the agency and the advertiser will indemnify and save harmless, Texas Student Media and its ofÞcers, employees and agents against all loss, liability, damage and expense of whatsoever nature arising out of the copying, printing or publishing of its advertisement including without limitation rea¥sonable attorneyÕs fees resulting from claims of suits for libel, violation of right of privacy, plagiarism and copyright and trademark infringement. All ad copy must be approved by the newspaper which reserves the right to request changes, reject or properly classify an ad. The advertiser, and not the newspaper, is responsible for the truthful content of the ad. Advertising is also subject to credit approval. . Þgure Monday, March 8, 2010 LIFE&ARTS Street artists tag-team for environmental cause By Victoria Heckenlaible Nordstrom, who goes by Sloke, to Daily Texan Staff consult with artists. Rarely ever is graffiti legal, en-One of the eventÕs draws is the vironmentally friendly or encour-opportunity for the artists to paint aged on railcars. railcars. But on Saturday, Balcones Re-ÒItÕs not every day I get to paint sources hosted ÒBalcones Burn-railcars,Ó Nordstrom said. ÒIf you er Bash,Ó where 12 local urban art-want to see a piece of art in a gal¥ists each painted an environmental-lery, you have to go there. With rail¥ly conscious message on one side cars, they travel.Ó of a Balcones railcar. The proceeds The designs were limited to cel¥of the event went to the Lady Bird ebrations of Austin and Texas na-Johnson Wildflower Center. ture or environmental causes. Nor- The artists were given five hours dstromÕs railcar was covered by a to complete their pieces as they com-metallic gold ÒreuseÓ in sharp 3-D peted for $5,000 in prize money. font with red edging over a serene Balcones Resources CEO Ker-lake scene with mountains. ry Getter said his companyÕs rail-The first-place winner of $2,500, cars were constantly being tagged, Gene Parmesan, also incorporated so the staff thought to turn it into a a natural landscape. competition. The two sections of his railcar ÒOur railcars always came back were divided by motif: one em¥with graffiti on them,Ó Getter said. phasized the importance of recy-like without recycling. winner Daniel Chairez, or Spain, ÒWe thought to have a traveling art cling with a nature scene that fea-ÒI used the most fun and ac-incorporated a rising sun with tra¥show with an Austin environmen-tured a rainbow flowing into a roll-cessible recycling imaging as ditional blue recycling arrows. tal theme. This will be seen from ing hill. The other nature scene uti-possible,Ó Parmesan said. ÒArrows are a basic form of graf-Dallas to all over Mexico.Ó lized green and yellow fumes and a Many of the railcar designs re-fiti and are always incorporated in Balcones Resources found prom-grey rainbow with sewage pipes to lied on recycling images, especial-the beginning, so the recycling ar¥inent Austin graffiti artist Nathan illustrate what nature would look ly the recycling arrows. Third-place rows worked perfectly.Ó HAIR: Barton-Springs swimming inspires playful, careless manes From page 12 of bed and be OK without using as much gel, paste or glue. Just a stylists suggested girls tie their little bit of wax or fiber can help hair in pigtails or an off-to-the¥keep that messy look.Ó side ponytail or braid, in addition to that beachy, summer wave. Keeping hair shorter is also a ÒPeople are going to the pool great way for guys and girls to or Barton Springs and [mak-beat the heat. Short hair is easier to ing] their hair manage and stays look like they off your neck to just came from keep you cool. there,Ó Rapa-That being port said, ÒItÕs said, condition- Guys are keeping it a Ôjust got out of er is a necessary Barton Springs shorter to be messy.Óhair-care friend and this is what ÔÔ when tempera¥happened to it Ñ Jenny Trung tures start to rise when it driedÕ Stylist and can help pre¥kind of look.Ó vent against dried The same ef-out, frizzy hair. fortless spring ÒAnd that chic applies to goes for men, guys, minus the manipulated-too,Ó Rapaport said. ÒIf you messy Robert Pattinson look. pulled 100 guys off the street, ÒGuys are keeping it shorter to 90 percent would not use be messy,Ó said Jenny Trung, styl-conditioner. It really goes a istfortheManeExpressatDobie. long way and makes a big ÒThat way they can just roll out difference.Ó LOOKS: Hot destinations offer chic, spring style From page 12 blouse tucked in navy, red or kha¥ki cargo shorts with a pair of ear¥rings shaped as anchors. Guys can achieve this look also, but lose the earrings. For a casual day spent shop¥ping along South Congress Ave¥nue or sipping coffee at MozartÕs, visual manager of Free People at The Domain, Michaele Smith, suggests women wear a blazer over a loose, embellished top and shorts for a perfect touch of com¥fort and style. East Coast, New York City lights The trick to taking on the cold in this fashion-conscious concrete jungle this season is to look like spring in khakis and vibrant, flow¥ery colors, like dusty rose and li¥lac, while layering to keep toasty. One solution is the trench coat. Trench coats come in a range of colors and materials, but Erik Hey¥be, a sales clerk at Zara at The Do¥ main, says khakis are classic and make a good transition to spring. There are different takes on the trench coat, like exaggerat¥ed shoulders, crisp pleating and asymmetrical shapes to make this classic fashion staple look new and current, Heybe said. Heybe recommends wear¥ing the trench coat over a bright¥ly colored voluminous dress, like an A-line, to give shape under the jacket. As for guys, a trench coat over some dark denim paired with a cozy sweater is a good look. While trench coats are available in popular stores like Banana Re¥public and J.Crew, they can run on the high end of the price range. Try finding one for a cheap at a vintage shop like Cream Vintage or a thrift store like Buffalo Exchange. Heybe said itÕs also all about be¥ing functional in New York City. That can be achieved with a mil¥itary-inspired utility jacket with multitude of pockets or an over¥sized canvas shoulder bag to carry your ÒI Love New YorkÓ T-shirts and subway maps. Miami Heat, Beachside Fun I say spring break is not ful¥ly complete until you bare some skin in a bathing suit. And in Mi¥ami, where the cityÕs uniform is basically the bikini, skimping around in a bathing suit seems appropriate and necessary. While colorful bathing suits in tropical hues like hot pink and neon orange remain in style, black cut out bathing suits are making headlines and turning heads. The bikini has always been instantly seductive, but this spring season, it is all about working the one¥piece. Popular cuts include plung¥ing necklines, open slashes on the sides and backless swimsuits. As for guys, lose the tropical flowery suits. Instead, go for a sol¥id, one-colored trunk that is fitted and in a bright color like mustard yellow or cerulean blue. UFFIE: Singer delivers lyrical maturity From page 12 New York CityÕs Bowery Hotel. ÒBut honestly, [laughs] I donÕt care so much. People can make their own decisions.Ó Since 2007, Uffie has been hard at work behind the scenes prepping for her long-awaited LP, Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans, which is slated for a release in May. The album will feature Pharrell Williams on one track, The RaptureÕs Matt Safer on another and a Siouxie and the Banshees cover of ÒHong Kong Garden.Ó She also managed to have a child with grafitti artist Andre Saraiva in October. ÒI know with touring and ev¥erything, itÕs been a bit more hectic trying to get [Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans] released,Ó Uff¥ie said. ÒTrying to get every¥thing sorted out is tough, but yeah, itÕs definitely worth the wait.Ó Uffie also saidy the album wouldnÕt totally throw away tongue-in-cheek lyrics dealing with her sexuality, which were prevalent in her earlier releases, but that it would also display an older, more mature artist. ÒTheyÕre still fun, but yeah, I started working with Mirwais [Ahmadza•], a really great pro¥ducer, and I started experiment¥ing lyrically,Ó she said. ÒMy songs will always be like that, but itÕs going to be more deep. ThereÕll be different subjects, of course. ItÕs not my main focus anymore.Ó Fortunately, Austin audienc¥es will be among the first to see the brand-new Uffie next week at South by Southwest. ÒI came for South by South¥west a couple of years ago,Ó she said with a laugh, Òand I stayed at these college girlsÕ house with [producer and then-boy¥friend] Feadz, and we couldnÕt do much because I was still underage.Ó Uffie Concerts WHAT: SXSW official event WHERE: The Mohawk WHEN: Friday, March 19; 10 p.m. WRISTBAND NEEDED: Yes WHAT: ÒFrance Rocks AustinÓ WHERE: Klub Krucial WHEN: Thursday, March 18; 1:30 p.m. WRISTBAND NEEDED: No. Free food, alcohol and entry. WHAT: ÒShowdown at Cedar StreetÓ WHERE: Cedar Street Courtyard WHEN: Thursday, March 18; 4:20 p.m. WRISTBAND NEEDED: No. Free BBQ. Life&Arts Editor: Ben Wermund E-mail: dailytexan@gmail.com Phone: (512) 232-2209 LIFE&ARTS Monday, March 8, 2010 www.dailytexanonline.com THE DAILY TEXAN Vacation spots spark cool looks Bruno Morlan | Daily Texan Staff Achieving a nautical-themed look for spring break in Austin can be done by wearing a blouse tucked into navy, red or khaki cargo shorts with earrings shaped as anchors. Popular spring break destinations inspire coast-to-coast fashions By Julie Rene Tran Daily Texan Staff Plane ticket to spring break destination Ñ booked. One¥week membership to tanning salon Ñ check. Running on the treadmill for 30 minutes ev¥ery day Ñ in progress. What to pack for spring break getaway Ñ clueless. Packing for vacations can be difficult, but with a little fash¥ion knowledge on what is in and what is worthy of taking or buy¥ing, it can be a breeze. Wheth¥er youÕre flying off to the East Coast for big-city lights and a continuation of winter, traveling to South Florida for classic ÒGirls Gone WildÓ jollity or staying in Austin for South by Southwest, looking the part can easily be done with a few iconic pieces from this seasonÕs trends. Just keep in mind this spring is all about being androgy¥nous Ñ mixing and matching feminine pieces like soft-col¥ored, sheath dresses and ruf¥fled blouses with manly gar¥ments like tailored trousers and oversized blazers. With that, along with these few tips, you should be set and ready to go. Stay-cay in Austin, casual relaxation One thing that makes Aus¥tin unique is that there are no boundaries to the cityÕs fash¥ion aesthetic. And, because the city offers a wide range of fun things to do, like concert-hop¥ping and boating on the lake, thereÕs always an opportunity to show off a certain look. For SXSW, keep it laid back, casual and chic in simple one¥pieces like a romper, a flowing dress or a jumpsuit. These gar¥ments require no extra accesso¥ries if they have busy floral or tribal prints or fun details like ruffles and sequins. If not, dress your one-piece garment up with a multi-strand gold necklace or a belt with a cool buckle. For guys, start off with dis¥tressed knee-length shorts and a cotton tee or breezy button¥down, and then accessorize with a quirky hat or colorful oxfords. If you arenÕt trading in the bustling scene of the musical festival for some relaxation by the water, you can still look the part in nautical-themed outfits. Nautical style can be unflatter¥ing because of its iconic print of horizontal red, white and blue stripes. Luckily, there are oth¥er ways to achieve this look Ñ like wearing a sheer white LOOKS continues on page 11 Season promotes easy, less-structured looks for spring hair styles By Gerald Rich Daily Texan Staff After a cold winter in Austin, temperatures are finally warm¥ing up, and guys and girls are beginning to style their hair ac¥cordingly for spring. Whether youÕre just getting a trim or going for fully preened hair, the biggest thing this sea¥son is not to overdo it. Guys are keeping their hair short and messy, while girls are going for the slightly more lived-in look. In short: keep it fun, effortless and cheap. ÒA soft, beachy wave for a nice day out is great,Ó said Car¥la Estevez, stylist at Birds Bar¥bershop on East Sixth Street. She suggests using a small amount of texture spray and rolling pieces of hair with a large barrel curling iron, then shaking the curls out. Guys should avoid the over-styled, over-gelled hair and do some¥thing with texture and Òa light edge,Ó she said. Jayson Rapaport, co-founder of Birds Barbershop, said peo- Artist Uffie updates sound, returns with full-length CD ple seem to be frequenting sa¥lons less but taking more time in the salon when they go, so this seasonÕs minimal-effort looks are perfect, he said. ÒIf youÕre not focused on your hair as much as you were, then these styles lend to this whole kind of idea,Ó Rapaport said. Rapaport and other Birds HAIR continues on page 11 By Francisco Marin Daily Texan Staff Think back to 2006 Ñ before the age of the Day-Glo hipster with neon American Apparel T-shirts and shutter shades and before dubstep and house music broke big. Go back to a time when the queen of electro was undeniably Anna-Catherine Hartley Ñ stage name Uffie. Uffie started off with a bang that year, releasing a slew of sin¥gles and EPs Ñ the first of which, Pop the Glock/Ready to Uff, was re¥leased when she was just 18. In 2007, Uffie released the Suited and Looted EP, which saw her tak¥ing a different route in her music Ñ slow, sensual synthpop with much less of the emcee vibe she gave off in her earlier work. Uff¥ieÕs label, Ed Banger Records, had promised a full-length album in mid-2007, and then in 2008, much to fansÕ disappointment, nothing was released. Uffie seemed poised to take the electronic world by storm, and then she sort of faded away. In the meantime, Ke$ha broke onto the scene with a hit single, ÒTik-Tok,Ó which many Uffie fans allege rips off UffieÕs ÒPop the Glock.Ó ÒWell, I donÕt want to say any¥thing about that,Ó Uffie told the Texan from her hotel room in UFFIE continues on page 11 Attendees of SXSW will get a preview of electro artist UffieÕs LP Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans set to release in May, which she said will feature a more mature side to her music. Courtesy of Uffie