Fraternity sued by national chapter for assets Calendar Keystone Pipeline The State Department is holding a hearing on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar sand oil from Alberta, Canada, to the Texas Gulf Coast. 3:30-8 p.m. in the LBJ Library, Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium Natural Sciences Week Quiz Bowl Students will compete with professors to answer questions about science, pop culture and everything in between. 5-6:30 p.m. in SZB 330 Flu Shots University Health Services will offer flu shots from noon to 4 p.m. in SSB G1.310. For a full list of flu shot dates, visit healthyhorns.utexas.edu. Association of Latinos in Com¥munications The Association of Latinos in Communication announces its first general meeting. Meet the new officers, learn more about ALIC and discuss plans for the semester. 7-8 p.m. in SSB 4.212 Poetry on the Plaza Poetry on the Plaza features Shakespearean actor Dale Rapley in a staged reading with commentary from W.H. AudenÕs ÒThe Sea and the Mirror.Ó Noon¥1 p.m. in the Harry Ransom Center. Today in history In 1941 The Boston Red SoxÕs Ted William becomes last player to hit .400. Campus watch Graffiti DOTIE FINE ARTS, 2301 Trinity Ave A UT staff member discovered the unpublished work of an aspiring Picasso inside a 2nd floor menÕs restroom stall. The staff member discovered the image of a partially drawn leg and foot. The medium of choice was black permanent marker. Estimated repair: $50.00. Discovered on: 9-26-11, at 2:29 P.M. Quote to note ÔÔ I looked around for the other places I could live in, but IÕve only liked other plac¥es because they re¥minded me of Aus¥tin.Ó Ñ Ian Shults Local Artists LIFE&ARTS PAGE 12 Tamir Kalifa | Daily Texan Staff The former UT chapter of the Kappa Alpha fraternity is being sued by the national Kappa Alpha organization. By Megan Strickland Daily Texan Staff The national Kappa Alpha fra¥ternity organization filed a lawsuit against its former UT chapter, claim¥ing the group owes the national or¥ganization hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets. The lawsuit alleges the UT group hired exotic dancers that performed live sexual acts for recruitment pur¥poses and hazed pledge members. When the national organization sus¥pended the UT chapter for the inci¥dent in June, the UT chapter disas¥sociated and formed Texas Omicron, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit demands the return of delinquent dues, real estate at 2515 Leon St., kitchen appliances, artwork and other property the national chap¥ter alleges belongs to the Kappa Al¥pha organization. Attorney Robert Alden is an alum¥nus and board member of UT Tex¥as Omicron. He said he believes the lawsuit is just a way for Kappa Alpha to embarrass Texas Omicron because it is the only chapter to ever leave the national organization. ÒThe lawsuit is full of inflammato¥ry language intended to generate bad publicity for the chapter,Ó Alden said. ÒThey are completely irrelevant for the merits of the legal claims theyÕve made and are inappropriate to even be in a pleading.Ó But Kappa Alpha said in a Tues¥day press release that its former Tex¥as chapter violated the fraternityÕs law when it decided to form a Òrogue, in¥dependent chapterÓ while holding $200,000 of possessions the national organization says belong to it. ÒKappa Alpha law expressly forbids this action,Ó the organizationÕs press release said. ÒRegrettably, the nation¥al organization will have little choice but to seek the expulsion of each indi¥vidual, undergraduate or alumnus in¥volved in this effort.Ó Alden said the national Kappa Al¥pha organization filed the suit af¥ter the alumni board and active UT chapter decided to leave the Kap¥pa Alpha organization when the na- LAWSUIT continues on PAGE 2 University remembers day of fear Erika Rich | Daily Texan file photo Police officers walk past the east side of the Perry-Casta–eda Library while responding to the campus shooting on Sept. 28, 2010. In response to the incident, UT officials have implemented changes regarding police response to emergencies on campus. UTPD works to improve emergency response, increase campus security By Megan Strickland Daily Texan Staff The impact of Colton Tooley firing shots on 21st Street and his suicide in the Perry Caste¥–eda Library on Sept. 28, 2010, lasted longer than the days fol¥lowing the incident. A year later, the UT communi¥ty continues to perfect its emer- Student wins scholarship with support from faculty By Lydia Herrera Daily Texan Staff The Astronaut Scholarship Foun¥dation awarded a $10,000 scholarship to computer science and mathematics major Ben Braun Monday, said com¥puter science professor Calvin Lin, who helped nominate Braun. Every year, 26 scholarships worth $10,000 each are awarded to students at the educational institutions that are partnered with ASF, said Beth Hig¥don, a spokeswoman for ASF. She said that the foundation, originally known as the Mercury Seven Foundation, is a way to help keep America at the fore¥front of science and technology. we can work on ways to improve that communication system.Ó An operating error with the siren system was one of the problems that occurred on the day of the shooting, according to a UTPD report of the event. The siren system is activated by a case-sensitive activation code, SAFETY continues on PAGE 2 Students, faculty recall memories of shooting on one-year anniversary By Allie Kolechta Daily Texan Staff One year ago today, mathe¥matics sophomore Colton Tool¥ey arrived on campus with an AK-47. After firing multiple shots, he died by a self-inflicted gunshot on the sixth floor of the Perry-Casta–eda Library. Associate English professor Phillip Barrish had just dropped some books into the return slot in front of the PCL that morn¥ing when he heard gunfire. Af¥ter seeing people running as fast as they could down 21st Street and ducking into the McCombs School of Business across the street, he decided to move, he said. ÒWhat was going on hadnÕt yet clicked for me, but I decided to step back into the lobby just in case,Ó he said. ÒIronically, this proved not to have been the wis¥est decision I could have made.Ó A man in a black ski mask holding a gun, later identified as Tooley, entered the library about three seconds after Bar¥rish stepped into the entryway, he said. Tooley then moved past Barrish torward the elevators, the professor said. ÒAs he passed by, I looked at the front of his mask, still trying to figure out exactly what was going on, and he turned brief¥ly to look at me,Ó Barrish said. ÒEven then, it took me a sec¥ond to grasp that what I was see¥ing Ñ a man with an automatic TOOLEY continues on PAGE 2 gency response measures, while also grappling with rifts in the student body over gun control issues and creating a network of support for emotionally dis¥tressed students and. Gerald Robert Harkins, as¥sociate vice president for Cam¥pus Safety and Security, said that since the shooting, the UT Police Department has worked within its own department and with other local law enforce¥ment agencies to smooth over some minor security obstacles that popped up during the re¥sponse to the shooting. ÒWe had put together a sys¥tem of communication that had not been tested under stress,Ó Harkins said. ÒNow that we have seen that system in action, Mary Kang | Daily Texan Staff Computer science and mathematics senior Ben Braun was awarded a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. Higdon said that the scholarship, awarded to juniors and seniors, is giv¥en to only one student from each in¥stitution. She said university faculty nominate two students from the nat¥ural science and engineering fields for the award and the ASF scholarship committee chooses one recipient. ÒTo be considered for the award, the student must be performing at the top of their class, be a well-rounded student and be actively involved in lab and research work in their field,Ó Hig¥don said. Braun began researching ways to build Nano scale machines with SCIENCE continues on PAGE 2 Forum on graduation rate encourages student input By Andrew Messamore Daily Texan Staff In order to obtain student in¥put for the task force working to increase the four-year graduation rate, the Liberal Arts Council and Senate of College Councils host¥ed an open forum at the Univer¥sity Teaching Center on Tuesday evening. Using discussions and vari¥ous polls of those who attend¥ed, the videotaped forum invit¥ed students to offer their opin¥ions on what should be done to raise the four-year graduation rate, currently at 52 percent, to associate dean Marc Musick and dean Randy Diehl, the task force chair. ÒStudent support is imperative for increasing four-year gradua¥tion rates,Ó Diehl said. ÒAny suc¥cessful initiative begins with lis¥tening, and thatÕs what this fo¥rum is about. I hope students will share their ideas about what motivates them to achieve a four¥year degree and the barriers that may be standing in their way.Ó Several topics were discussed at the event, particularly how to balance the Ôcultivation of the mindÕ desired by President Wil¥liam Powers Jr. in reaching the four-year goal. Some were sur¥prised, then, when many of the activities often associated with more time spent in college cor¥related with earlier graduation, such as the fact that students who studied abroad were statistically INPUT continues on PAGE 2 2 NEWS Wednesday, September 28, 2011 THE DAILY TEXAN Volume 112, Number 47 CONTACT US Main Telephone: (512) 471-4591 Editor: Viviana Aldous (512) 232-2212 editor@dailytexanonline.com Managing Editor: Randi Diehl, dean of the Lena Price College of Liberal Arts, (512) 232-2217 managingeditor@ speaks at the dailytexanonline.com forum for News O¥ce: Liberal Arts Studies. Diehl (512) 232-2207 discussed dif¥ news@dailytexanonline.com Murrferent ways to increase Sports O¥ce: percentage of (512) 232-2210 students that sports@dailytexanonline.com graduate in the recommended Life & Arts O¥ce: four-year time (512) 232-2209 frame. dailytexan@gmail.com Photo O¥ce: (512) 471-8618 Kiersten Holmes Daily Texan Staff photo@dailytexanonline.com Comics O¥ce: about was about being innovative, The task force, which has been tain a better understanding of the for December. (512) 232-4386 and IÕm really interested in getting meeting twice a week since the problem of graduation, Diehl said. ÒThe conclusions are that stu- INPUT Retail Advertising: a follow up of MusickÕs research,Ó summer, is composed of 10 facul-Ultimately, the task force hopes dents that are integrated in their (512) 471-1865 said international relations sopho-ty members from various colleg-to develop a plan that will work university socially and academi¥ continues from PAGE 1 joanw@mail.utexas.edu more Kolby Lee. ÒWhat stood out es and five student representatives. for PowersÕ goal to have an 80 per-cally will do better,Ó Musick said. seven times more likely to gradu-to me was the correlation between Up until this point, the task force cent four-year graduation rate in ÒWhat we want to do is change ClassiÞed Advertising: ate in four years, Diehl said. study abroad and less time spent has been meeting with expert wit-five years, Diehl said. The deadline peopleÕs minds about how they (512) 471-5244 ÒA lot of what they were talking in college.Ó nesses and student leaders to ob-for their proposal is currently set view the campus.Ó classiÞeds@dailytexanonline.com The Texan strives to present all information ternity was suspended because of ter investigated these allegations, and fairly, accurately and completely. If hazing, and new hazing allegations we have not found any evidence of we have made an error, let us know about it. Call (512) 232-2217 or e-mail LAWSUIT arose in 2011, a statement released hazing,Ó Alden said. ÒAs for the sex SAFETY continues from PAGE 1 managingeditor@dailytexanonline.com. Tuesday said. show, thereÕs a lady with her sidekick continues from PAGE 1 which was unknown to staff ÒWe are out there on campus ÒWe take allegations like this ex-who comes around to all the frater¥and caused a delay. Staff has doing a lot of training, rais¥ tional office made allegations of fra-tremely seriously and will not toler-nities and offers her services. Omi¥since been trained to oper-ing a lot of awareness.Ó ternity misconduct in May. The na-ate hazing of any sort in our student cron wasnÕt the only one. She does ate the case-sensitive sys-TooleyÕs actions became tional Kappa Alpha organization organizations,Ó Reagins-Lilly said in this nationally.Ó COPYRIGHT tem, according to Hawkins. part of a heated debate in punished the chapter by threatening a statement issued by her office. ÒWe Alden said the UT chapter enact-UTPD has also been training the 2011 Texas Legislative to seize its fraternity house. began investigating immediately. The ed its own disciplinary measures that Copyright 2011 Texas Student with the Austin Police De-session when a bill to allow Dean of Students Soncia Reagins-lawsuit lays out additional allegations it believed were more appropriate Media. All articles, photographs partment to raise coordina-concealed carry of hand guns Lilly said the University will conduct that we will also look into.Ó than national Kappa AlphaÕs more and graphics, both in the print and tion of the two forces should on Texas college campuses its own investigation into the allega-Alden said alumni con-severe terms. another active shooter situa-was introduced by three state online editions, are the property of tions of the lawsuit. The University ducted their own investigation ÒItÕs not acceptable behavior,Ó Al¥tion arise. senators. The concealed car- Texas Student Media and may not be reproduced or republished in part or had already been working with Kap-into allegations of hazing and den said. ÒWeÕve taken corrective ac-Harkins said overall, UT ry measure did not pass this in whole without written permission. pa Alpha national and local repre-sexual misconduct. tion, and that kind of thing will nev¥did a great job of responding session. sentatives since 2004, when the fra-ÒThe alumni advisers for the chap-er happen again.Ó to TooleyÕs actions, but the Social work sophomore University will continue to Kelley Mathis said she has he didnÕt want to hurt anybody member of the University communi¥ look for ways to train for ac-faith in the UniversityÕs ca¥ except himself.Ó ty is a part of one big community,Ó he tive shooter situations as well pability to respond in a fu- TOOLEY Faculty and staff on campus keep said. ÒPart of what we want to make as to prevent them. ture incident. a stronger eye out now for students sure weÕre all doing is looking out for continues from PAGE 1 ÒColton Tooley came to ÒI think UT responded who may be going to a dangerous each other and being watchful.Ó campus with 30 rounds of well,Ó Mathis said. ÒThe onlyweapon in the library Ñ was real.Ó place psychologically, and awareness Journalism sophomore Alyssa ammunition,Ó Harkins said. thing I feel UT could have Although the situation was surre-has increased to a certain extent, Sanchez was in an 8 a.m. journalism TODAYÕS WEATHER ÒHad he decided to kill peo-done better was getting us al, there was not a sense of imminent Barrish said. He said the members of lecture in the University Teaching ple, we could have had 30 the news. The only source to threat for those in the lobby of the the campus community that were al-Center when two students ran in to people dead on the ground me was TV news, and it was High Low PCL, Barrish said. ready opposed to concealed carry on announce that they had heard gun¥before UTPD got there. In incredibly inaccurate. Ru¥ÒI wasnÕt afraid for myself or for campus have also come to feel more shots outside of the PCL. The build¥ 101 74 my opinion, the chances of mors of a second shooter and others in the lobby,Ó he said. ÒSome-strongly about the issue. ing was on lockdown soon after, and stopping a shooting like that multiple dead bodies created how, even though he had a gun, ÒI remember feeling, right after he students kept up by watching the lo¥are pretty slim. We can only an environment of fear that http://bit.ly/nkMAC he hadnÕt struck me as aggressive. had walked through the lobby, that cal news and through utilizing social look to ways to optimize our was unnecessary.Ó Part of me was worried, though, we were lucky nobody in the lobby media and text messaging, she said. response system and work that he might be looking for some-had pulled out a concealed weapon,Ó ÒIt was really nerve-wracking be¥with UT Counseling and body in particular on an upper he said. ÒEven at the time, that struck ing so close but not knowing what Mental Health Center to floor. As it turned out, of course, me as the one thing that could have was going on most of the time,Ó she raise awareness.Ó provoked him to start firing.Ó said. ÒI was scared the shooter might In the past year, the UT Doug Barnett, chief of staff of UT come to our building since it was so Counseling and Mental libraries, was in his office on the third close by.Ó Health Center has increased floor of the PCL when he learned of A year later, campus feels safe This newspaper was printed with its efforts to educate faculty, THE DAILY TEXAN pride by The Daily Texan and the shooting. Despite the hectic na-again, Sanchez said. Although there staff and students about re- Texas Student Media. ture of the situation, the safety proce-was fear and confusion in the imme- Permanent Staff sources available for individ- Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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The research tries to provide a com¥puter-assisted design tool for Nano scale devices made from polymer DNA, he said. ÒAs a building material, [DNA] is cheap. ItÕs robust and reliable,Ó Braun said. ÒWeÕve discovered we can do quite interesting things with DNA.Ó Braun said he harbors a deep pas¥sion for science and learning new things. He said his love for science was instilled in him as a child by his parents, both of whom are ac¥tively involved with research at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. ÒMy father played puzzle games with me since I was young. We played chess a lot and other games that required quite of bit of thinking,Ó Braun said. ÒSolving problems always seemed fun to me and science seems like a profession that always lets you solve problems and [gives you] fun puzzles to solve every day and youÕre he wanted to be involved with re¥ search when he got to the Universi¥ty. He began by working with natu¥ral sciences professor Andrew Elling¥ton doing hands-on things but soon switched to computational work, where he contributed much more, Ellington said. Robert Crippen, former astronaut, UT alumnus and ASF board mem¥ber presented Braun with the $10,000 scholarship, Lin said. Ò[Braun] has had a pretty spectac¥ular academic record in terms of his grades and heÕs in the Turing Schol¥ars Program and DeanÕs Scholars,Ó Lin said. ÒBut what really stood out is the impact heÕs already had in such a short time.Ó Crippen stressed the fact that the award exists to encourage more in¥volvement in research in the scienc¥es, specifically to increase the num¥ber of engineers and scientists that this country produces, Braun said. ÒI think that such an award, be¥ing really large, shows that thereÕs a strong support for undergraduate re¥search in the United States and in the community,Ó Braun said. WORLD&NATION 3 Wednesday, September 28, 2011 | THE DAILY TEXAN | Ashley Morgan, Wire Editor | dailytexanonline.com Murray, Michael By Anthony McCartney & Linda Deutsch The Associated Press First, prosecutors showed a pho¥to of Michael JacksonÕs pale and life¥less body lying on a gurney. Then, they played a recording of his voice, just weeks before his death. Slow and slurred, his words echoed Tuesday through a Los An¥geles courtroom at the start of the trial of the doctor accused of kill¥ing him. As a worldwide audience watched on TV and JacksonÕs fami¥ly looked on from inside the court¥room, a drugged Jackson said: ÒWe have to be phenomenal. When people leave this show, when people leave my show, I want them to say, ÔIÕve never seen nothing like this in my life. Go. Go. IÕve never seen nothing like this. Go. ItÕs amaz¥ing. HeÕs the greatest entertainer in the world.ÕÓ Prosecutors played the audio for the first time during opening state¥ments as they portrayed Dr. Con¥rad Murray, 58, as an incompe¥tent physician who used a danger¥ous anesthetic without adequate safeguards and whose neglect left the superstar abandoned as he lay dying. The theme was JacksonÕs quest for sleep and propofol, the potion he called his Òmilk.Ó Jurors were told that it was a powerful anesthet¥ic, not a sleep aid, and Murray mis¥used it. Defense attorneys countered that Jackson caused his own death by taking a drug dose, includ¥ing propofol, after Murray left the room. Nothing the cardiologist could have done would have saved the King of Pop, defense attor¥ney Ed Chernoff told jurors, be¥cause Jackson was desperate to re¥gain his fame and needed rest to prepare for a series of crucial comeback concerts. A number of JacksonÕs family members were in the courthouse, including his father Joseph, moth¥er Katherine, sisters LaToya and Ja¥net, and brothers Jermaine, Randy and Tito. The familyÕs most emotion¥al moment came when the pros¥ecutor played a video excerpt from JacksonÕs ÒThis Is ItÓ rehears¥al in which he sang ÒEarth Song,Ó a plea for better treatment of the environment. As Jackson sang the words, ÒI used to dream. I used to glance be¥yond the stars,Ó his mother, Kath¥erine, dabbed at her eyes with a tissue. Prosecutor David Walgren noted it was JacksonÕs last performance. Murray, who arrived at court holding hands with his moth¥er, has pleaded not guilty to in¥voluntary manslaughter. If con¥victed, he could face up to four years in prison and the loss of his medical license. Mexican foundation offers blind photography course By Olga Rodriguez The Associated Press Rodrigo Telon Yucute focuses on the sound of the voices, raises a camera and snaps off a shot, captur¥ing an image of a couple laughing as they sit on a yellow park bench. He shows it to the subjects but cannot see it himself. The photogra¥pher-in-training has been blind for nearly 30 years. ÒWhen I was young, I met a lot of people, and it always caught my attention how they would take pho¥tographs to keep as mementos,Ó Te¥lon said. ÒI like to take photographs to capture a moment that I can later share with my family and friends so they can see what my life is like.Ó Telon was a 22-year-old guerrilla fighter in his home country of Gua¥temala when a land mine exploded, ripping apart his left forearm and destroying his eyesight. After years of rehabilitation, he learned Braille and how to use a cane to get around. Now 51, Telon is fulfilling his longtime wish of taking photographs. He is one of 30 visually impaired or blind people learning photog¥raphy with the help of the Mexico City foundation Ojos Que Sienten, or Eyes That Feel. Founded five years ago by profes¥sional Mexican photographer Gina Badenoch, the foundation teaches the blind to express in photographs how they perceive the world. Her students use hearing, touch, smell and taste to choose their subjects and create their images. ÒIt helps them feel part of society again. It helps them be seen and be heard again,Ó she said. For many of the new photogra¥phers, the most rewarding part is having their sighted friends describe the images. ÒBeing able to share something I made and hear people who are see¥ing your photograph describe what you created in your mind is some¥thing I enjoy tremendously,Ó said Jose Manuel Pacheco Crispin, a 33-year-old university student who began losing his sight at 16 because of a retinal degenerative disease. ÒIt has helped me to break barri¥ers and to keep having crazy ideas,Ó said Pacheco, who recently climbed to the top of Iztaccihuatl, a 17,159¥foot volcano near Mexico City. Photography doesnÕt come easy. Beginners often leave out the heads or legs of their subject, but they learn to improve their images. The sunÕs warmth helps them know where to place themselves to photo¥graph their subject. They may touch a flower to sense its shape or listen for the wind blowing through leaves to locate a tree. ÒMy hearing, my smell, all my senses are alert when IÕm taking a photograph,Ó said Jose Antonio Dominguez. Dominguez, 49, first lost sight in his right eye when he was a teenager because of glaucoma. Each blind photographer has a project to work on for two months. Dominguez wants to photograph people who help him as he navigates the chaotic streets of Mexico City. Telon, who lost his parents and two brothers during the civil war in Guatemala, will focus part of his project on an 8-year-old girl who lost her arm and who refuses to wear her artificial limb. ÒI want to tell her my story and how I got accustomed to using my artificial arm,Ó Telon said. He may also tell her about a daughter he last saw 29 years ago, when she was 6 weeks old. ÒWhen I left to join the guerril¥la, she was starting to smile,Ó Telon said. ÒThatÕs a photograph I keep in my mind.Ó 4 OPINION Wednesday, September 28, 2011 | THE DAILY TEXAN | Viviana Aldous, Editor-in-Chief | (512) 232-2212 | editor@dailytexanonline.com VIEWPOINT Clean up the catalog At last weekendÕs Texas Tribune Festival, UT President William in fall 2010 illustrate the point. Instead of 94 students studying the Powers Jr. faced a series of questions about the current debate sur-classics, broadly defined, we have 26 students studying ancient his¥rounding the efficiency of the University. The problem, as Powers tory and civilization, 31 studying classical architecture, 27 study¥sees it, is Òa federalism one Ñ who decides what and at what level.Ó ing classics and 10 studying Latin. Zero students were majoring in In short, the University should not be micromanaged. Greek during this semester and the fall semester preceding it. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board recently sug-But all of these programs require students to take at least some gested that it would cut any degree program at public colleges and Greek or Latin. Outside observers are not likely to delve into the universities that fails to graduate at least 25 students over five years. course catalog to determine the true extent to which a Greek ma-At UT, the Greek and Latin majors have been given as examples of jor differs from a classics major Ñ very little Ñ and instead cry at-risk, low-producing programs. waste. Whether or not such waste is real rather than superficial is On its face, the boardÕs rule seems to fit the type of microman-no doubt highly situational. agement that Powers derided. And it hardly needs saying that the But small departments are proliferating at an alarming rate. Even value of a major cannot be accurately measured by the number of many of the so-called interdisciplinary programs are themselves students who graduate with it. tiny silos by another name. And we do not need any more silos; we Powers said cutting the Greek program would seriously injure stu-need more warehouses. dents studying other topics. Students majoring in religious studies, In the case of the Greek major, the problem is illusory. Enough classics and ancient history routinely take Greek language courses. students take the classes to make teaching them worthwhile. But Their ability to study the ancient world would be severely limited that can be hard to convey to outside observers. were UT to lack the expert Greek language faculty it has now. The problem is that the UniversityÕs organizational structure The increased sorting of students into smaller and smaller bins allows and, in some cases, seems to encourage these situations to creates this apparent inefficiency despite the problem being only develop. UT can avoid harmful micromanagement by, as Powers one of perception. It is not hard to see how this process results in recently put it, Òcleaning up the catalogÓ and correcting incorrect low enrollment for given majors. If programs are defined narrowly, perceptions of this type that can make great headlines but are not of course only a small number of students will fit into them. actual problems. The UniversityÕs enrollment numbers for the classics department Ñ Matt Daley for the editorial board. Voice opposition to the Keystone pipeline New ID law safeguards voting By Samian Quazi Daily Texan Columnist The U.S. Department of Justice asked Texas on Friday to provide more information on the stateÕs new voter ID law. The law, which passed in the Legislature this year and goes into effect Jan. 1, requires prospective Texas voters to bring valid photo ID to receive a ballot. Though flawed, this law codifies legitimate safeguards against voting fraud and the Justice Department should approve it quickly. Under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Texas is required to receive clearance from the Justice Department before the state can implement any election-related changes. This provision, which applies to a handful of mostly southern states with a his¥tory of voting discrimination, came into effect when the vot¥er ID law passed. The department is now examining whether the ID law would negatively affect voter participation among minority groups. Specifically, the Justice Department asked Texas to pro¥vide more information about the 605,576 registered voters who do not currently have a valid ID. Some Democrats and civil rights organizations charged that the new law unfairly targets Hispanic voters lacking such identification. The de¥partment wants to know how many of these registered vot¥ers have Spanish surnames and which counties they live in as part of its assessment. But Hispanic voters themselves benefit from the voter ID law. Currently, anyone who can provide a copy of even a cur¥rent utility bill or a bank statement with their name and a Texas address on it can vote. The new lawÕs list of valid photo ID would all require legal U.S. residency to be granted. And since the U.S. government routinely deports immi¥grants who show up to vote in a national or statewide elec¥tion, the new law will hopefully serve as a deterrent against non-citizens voting. A Hispanic immigrant may be misled into voting while not yet a citizen, only to painfully blow their shot at the American dream later on as they thought they were fulfilling a civic duty. Naturalized and U.S.-born Hispanics should have no problems in voting. The former can still present their citi¥zenship certificate as valid ID, whereas the latter presumably should have no more difficulty acquiring a state ID on their 18th birthday than a non-Hispanic Texan. UT students eligible to vote in Texas elections should also have no problem complying with the lawÕs new rules. A Tex¥as resident of any age can go to a DPS office and purchase a personal ID card for $16. UT students originally from out of state can also easily acquire a Texas driversÕ license or state ID if they bring a copy to DPS of the same ID from their for¥mer state of residence. And students will now be able to get a free election identification certificate if they prefer. Detractors of the new law insist the new law strikes a blow at student voters by not accepting student IDs as valid iden¥tification. Congressman John Lewis of Georgia wrote in an Aug. 26 New York Times op-ed: ÒTexas also rejects student IDs but allows voting by those who have a license to carry a concealed handgun. These schemes are clearly crafted to affect not just how we vote, but who votes.Ó Moses may have wandered the desert, but I spent my first semester this May trudging throughout an unfamiliar campus to get a UT student ID card. No UT student can reasonably expect to have fun waiting at a DPS office to get a state ID, but it beats finding the FAC building in 100-degree weather. And when I had to shell out $10 for my UT card, nobody complained I was paying a Ôpoll taxÕ for a card that should somehow ensure my state voting rights. By not ac¥cepting student IDs, Texas has eliminated a major potential avenue for voting fraud. The theory that this new law will malign Texas seniors is as specious as the argument it could harm minorities and college students. True, the elderly are less likely to have un¥expired driversÕ licenses than other voting-age groups. Yet, impaired mobility has never stopped this demographicÕs sta¥tus as AmericaÕs most reliable voting bloc. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, a whopping 74.5 percent of Texans aged 65 to 74 who were registered voters for the November 2008 elections actually voted in that elec¥tion. Less than half that percentage, or 36.6 percent, of 18- to 24-year-old registered Texan voters did the same. Seniors, with already formidable political clout, are loath to be disenfranchised so easily. I anticipate many of them will organize transportation services to pick up ID cards from DPS offices before the March primaries. At any rate, the new law essentially waives such requirements for those 70 and older by issuing such Texans an election identifica¥tion certificate that does not expire. Democratic and civil rights organizationsÕ fears over this new law are overblown. And when polling organizations such as Rasmussen Reports find that around 75 percent of Americans support photo ID laws, liberals would be wise to support the new Texas law. Quazi is a nursing graduate student. By Brittany Morgan Daily Texan Guest Columnist Large numbers of protesters were recently arrested in Washington, D.C., in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, earning them the record for the largest act of non-violent civil disobedience since the Vietnam War. The more than 1,700-mile pipeline would cut through the Ogallala aquifer, the nationÕs largest, and through TexasÕ Corrizo-Willcox aquifer among other waterways between Canada and the Texas Gulf Coast. As any engineer could tell you, no pipe is 100-per¥cent leak-proof. The existing pipeline has had 13 leaks since June 2010, and the Òextra¥largeÓ pipeline extension poses extreme risks to our freshwater resources and croplands. Additionally, tar sands Ñ the crude product being transported Ñ involves tearing down many acres of pristine forestland so it can be tediously strip-mined, leaving a wrecked ecosystem and vast amounts of toxic waste that goes into tailings lakes that can be seen from space. The tar sands refinery has also been shown to add three to four times as many greenhouse gas pollutants to the atmosphere than the conventional oil refinery Ñ a major worry for climatologists concerned about the ongoing climate crises that we face. James Hansen, a long-time leading climate scientist and the current director of NASAÕs Goddard Institute, has said the building of this pipeline would make catastrophic cli¥mate change inevitable. The American Petroleum Institute has called the pipeline the Òbiggest shovel-ready projectÓ in the country, and Exxon has spent millions telling the American people that Canadian tar sands translates to energy se¥curity. While job creation sounds good, the instituteÕs argument has been seriously over¥blown. The pipeline is a $7 billion project Ñ big, but hardly the biggest. It will gener¥ate 5,000 to 8,000 jobs in an economy that needs 400,000 jobs every month to reduce unemployment. Although TransCanada claims the oil is for American consumers and that it will de¥crease our reliance on oil from the Middle East, there is good reason to believe that the pipeline is instead meant to get Canadian tar sands oil to China and other rapidly growing countries. For example, Chinese companies have invested $15 billion into Canadian tar sands reserves in the last 18 months, and the energy minister of Alberta has even admitted that getting the tar sands flowing to China is a top priority. China gets the oil, Canada gets the profit and America gets the pollution. How is that in our national interest? This project would put our already limited freshwater resources at risk to contamination and further degrade the air quality of Texas port cities. It would feed our costly addiction to oil, and it would wed our future to the de¥structive production of tar sands crude. And most eerily, investing in this project alone will undo any progress thatÕs been made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the past and will render all future progress doubtful. The decision on whether to build this pipeline rests almost entirely with President Barack Obama. Public determination meet¥ings are being held across the country on this matter, and the U.S. State Department is coming to UTÕs campus today to ask people what they think about the pipeline. The Si¥erra Student Coalition will meet at 6 p.m. in front of Littlefield Fountain for its March for Clean Energy before attending the hearing, which will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium of the LBJ Library. The only way that we can stop this horrible mistake in the making is to at¥tend and let Obama know that this is not the change we had hoped for. Morgan is president of UTÕs Sierra Student Coalition. LEGALESE Opinions expressed in The Daily Texan are those of the editor, the Editorial Board or the writer of the arti¥cle. They are not necessarily those of the UT adminis¥tration, the Board of Regents or the Texas Student Me¥dia Board of Operating Trustees. SUBMIT A FIRING LINE Email your Firing Lines to firingline@dailytexanon¥line.com. Letters must be more than 100 and fewer than 300 words. The Texan reserves the right to edit all submissions for brevity, clarity and liability. SUBMIT A GUEST COLUMN The editorial board welcomes guest column submis¥sions. Columns must be between 600 and 800 words. Send columns to editor@dailytexanonline.com. The Daily Texan reserves the right to edit all columns for clarity, brevity and liability. EDITORIAL TWITTER Follow The Daily Texan Editorial Board on Twitter (@ DTeditorial) and receive updates on our latest editori¥als and columns. Professionals divided on inflammatory speech issues By Sarah White Daily Texan Staff If we canÕt speak what we think, there is no way to affect change and we effectively shut d own the avenue for progress, said Tara Smith, BB&T Corp. chair holder. On Tuesday, the BB&T chair for the Study of Objectivism hosted a dialogue on the topic of inflamma¥tory speech in the Graduate School of Business Building. At the event, they discussed diverse issues relat¥ing to the topic of free speech, in¥cluding blasphemous, offensive and hateful speech. Smith met with Nadine Strossen, former president of the American Civil Liberties Union, Alexander Tse¥sis, law professor at Loyola University and John Burnett, correspondent for National Public Radio. Tsesis led the discussion by men¥tioning court cases that support the idea that hate speech is not protect¥ed by the constitution and that regu¥lation is a viable option. ÒCopyright violations, distribu¥tions of child pornography, obscen¥ity and threats against the president are all content-based limitations on speech that are already in place,Ó Tsesis said. He said instances of harmful hate speech have assisted to prolong and intensify racism in the American South and abroad in places such as Nazi Germany. ÒThe truth does not always win out in the market place of ideas and hate speech can be very powerful,Ó Tsesis said. Strossen said that she held an op¥posite position on the topic of in¥flammatory speech. Ò[In allowing censorship,] we give government officials unfettered pow- Book tells of U.S. success, world impact By Sarah Lawson Daily Texan Staff Renowned UT professor Jeremi Suri released a book Tuesday focus¥ing on the principles of successful nation-building based on research that delves into U.S. history. Suri joined the Lyndon B. John¥son School of Public Affairs and the Department of History as a pro¥fessor this fall. His book was titled ÒLibertyÕs Surest Guardian: Amer¥ican Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama.Ó ÒThe book is an effort to under¥stand how Americans have sought to change the world, and one of my points is that we have sought to change the world by changing our¥selves,Ó Suri said. He said that his book includes an analysis of several factors that are involved in successful nation-build¥ing: partners, process, problem¥solving, purpose and people. ÒAfter examining history, [I found that] these are the five elements that contribute to more success rather than more failure, though they do not guarantee [success],Ó Suri said. Suri said his analysis involved a consideration of crucial histori¥cal examples of nation-building by ers. Every idea can be seen as an in¥citement, and the decisions [of gov¥ernment officials] will be arbitrary at best and discriminatory at worst,Ó she said. Strossen said that she recogniz¥es the claim that hate speech can be damaging, but she does not believe censorship is the answer. ÒThe government must remain neutral to the viewpoint of the speech,Ó Strossen said. ÒThe solution is not to eliminate this speech but to answer it.Ó Burnett spoke about his experienc¥es with inflammatory speech and the Ku Klux Klan as a reporter. ÒI have deep misgivings about be¥ing the medium through which these Ku Klux Klan protests were given at¥tention,Ó Burnett said. However, he said that in the end, he respects their right to free speech. ÒWe are all grown-ups, and we have the ability to handle these kinds of issues,Ó Burnett said. Smith said she tried to involve speakers from numerous differ¥ent viewpoints in order to make the event a dialogue rather than a debate. ÒThe term ÔdebateÕ seems to im¥ply that there are only two posi¥tions and that there can be a win¥ner or a loser,Ó Smith said. ÒIn fact, these are very multifaceted and complex issues.Ó Smith and the three pan¥el members spoke about specif¥ic cases of free speech questions in¥cluding Klan protests, flag burn¥ings and recent anti-gay protests at military funerals. ÒIt is in the particulars that these is¥sues get interesting,Ó Smith said. ÒThe stakes are real around the world and in the neighborhood.Ó the United States, beginning with Reconstruction after the Civil War and American involvement in the Philippines, Germany, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. Ò[The book] is structured based on specific historical cases, and it follows a chronological organiza¥tion. One of the points I make is that each experience builds on the last,Ó Suri said. Suri said that a great amount of research was involved in the development of ÒLibertyÕs Surest Guardian.Ó ÒThe research involved a lot of reading about different conflicts and experiences and then doing a lot of archival work,Ó Suri said. Suri also spoke about the impact he hopes the book will have. ÒI really want young people to take seriously the fact that they can change the world and that they need to change the world,Ó he said. He mentioned that his work as a professor was influential to his re¥search and writing and that the book was greatly impacted by his experiences with students. ÒPart of my book is about how Americans have changed the world Ñ not always for the better,Ó Suri said. ÒEspecially now, young people need to continue doing that.Ó William Inboden, assistant pro¥fessor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs, said that he believes SuriÕs book will be instrumental in filling a gap in public policy. Ò[In public policy issues,] policy¥makersÕ first question is often Ôwhat Jeremi Suri, author of ÒLibertyÕs Surest GuardianÓ and distinguished professor in global leader¥ship, history, and public policy, looks to AmericaÕs history and various con¥flicts as a mechanism of nation building. Kiersten Holms Daily Texan Staff can history tell us about this sub¥ject?Õ All too often, there are not enough resources.Ó Inboden said. Frank Gavin, associate professor in the Department of History and the LBJ School of Public Affairs, said that SuriÕs presence at UT will help to focus on valuable issues at the University. ÒSuriÕs work will be influential in the way that it concentrates on what has worked in the past in order to connect history to contemporary policy issues,Ó Gavin said. Center opens in El Paso to encourage admissions By Andrew Messamore Daily Texan Staff President William Powers Jr., director of admissions Kedra Ishop and other members of the Office of Admissions will be trav¥eling to El Paso today to celebrate the grand opening of the El Paso Admissions Center. Like other UT admissions offic¥es across the state, the El Paso of¥fice will serve as a place for stu¥dents to learn about the Univer¥sity of Texas application process, including housing and scholar¥ship opportunities. The office will work to expedite the process of finding prospective students in¥terested in attending UT, said Au¥gustine Garza, deputy director of the Office of Admissions. ÒOur goal is to inform students about UT and encourage them to consider the University. We want to get the message out,Ó said Gar¥za. ÒWhen we are talking to audi¥ences, we have kids who have nev¥er heard of our system, and all of a sudden, they get interested and they become prospects.Ó Beginning with the Houston branch that opened in 1995, these admissions offices have been built with the intention of represent¥ing all areas of Texas. An admis¥sions office in Laredo is current¥ly being planned, although it is expected to be the last one built, said Garza. The El Paso center, which has now been open for three weeks, has a three-member full-time staff that lives and works in El Paso, said Michael Talamantes, director of the El Paso Admissions Center. ÒThe El Paso Admissions Cen¥ter is a physical testament to the University of Texas at AustinÕs commitment to provide outreach to all prospective students across Texas,Ó said Talamantes. ÒWe will visit the greater El Paso area high schools and participate in college fairs and other school [and] com¥munity events to inform students about opportunities available at the University.Ó The opening of an admissions office in El Paso was Òvery excit¥ing,Ó said theatre and dance soph¥omore Cynthia Jimenez, a native of El Paso. ÒI think itÕs very awesome be¥cause a lot of people donÕt real¥ize how easy it is to apply to get into UT because people in El Paso donÕt know what resources are out there for them. Hopefully, itÕll bring more people out from El Paso, especially in the Hispanic community.Ó The center will not, howev¥er, be a workshop where students will learn testing strategy or how to get in to UT. The center would still prove very useful for infor¥mation, said computer sciences senior Stephen Moore. ÒI applied online, and that was it,Ó said Moore. ÒThe center could be extremely useful to find out what you needed to know Ñ for a single person. When I applied, I knew almost nothing about UT.Ó SG concerned with oil pipeline project impact By Jody Serrano Daily Texan Staff Student Government passed a resolution supporting student in¥volvement in the proposed Key¥stone Oil Pipeline Project on Tuesday night. The resolution did not state SGÕs opposition to the pipeline but rather called for more environmental and eco¥logical information from the State Department. Andrew Townsend, assistant director for the Campus Envi¥ronmental Center, presented leg¥islation opposing the oil pipe¥line to SG last week. The Key¥stone Oil Pipeline, a project by energy company TransCanada, would run more than 1,600 miles from Alberta, Canada, and would end in the Nederland and Port Arthur area. Townsend said he and many members of the CEC were con¥cerned with the environmental impact the pipeline would have on the state of Texas, especially the degradation of air quality and the effect on natural aquifers, which could, in turn, affect the families and homes of UT students. ÒWe hope that this legislation, if passed by SG, will serve to illus¥trate the level of concern present in the student body about this is¥sue,Ó Townsend said. Townsend said his committee wrote the legislation in prepara¥tion for the State Department pub¥lic hearing about the pipeline to be held Wednesday. Questions arose last week about whether the issue of the Keystone pipeline could be considered stu¥dent life or whether it was solely a political issue. Yaman Desai, chair of the Legislative Affairs Commit¥tee, said representatives mainly had concern with the proposed legisla¥tion because they felt not enough was known about the pipeline and about the environmental and eco¥nomical issues it would cause. Ò[Because] we found such con¥tradictory and inconclusive re¥search on the pipeline, many representatives on the com¥mittee did not feel comfort¥able voting in opposition to the pipeline,Ó Desai said. The Legislative Affairs Commit¥tee killed TownsendÕs original bill in session and drafted a new bill calling for student involvement on the issue and for the State De¥partment to provide a new envi¥ronmental impact statement that would provide more information on risks of the Keystone project on Texas lands and communities dur¥ing drought conditions. The bill passed with an amend¥ment that would only ask the State Department to analyze the envi¥ronmental impacts instead of issu¥ing a new resolution. School of Law representative Austin Carlson said the original resolution was in the greater polit¥ical arena instead of the SG arena. ÒI am all for having student involvement, but you walk a very fine line when you touch an underlying political issue,Ó Carlson said.     ADVENTURE STARTS HERE www.utrecsports.org SIDELINE Tight ends make mark on o¥¥ense MLB By Austin Laymance Daily Texan Staff The tight ends finally had something positive to celebrate. As soon as D.J. Grant crossed the goal line for a 45-yard touch¥down reception on TexasÕ sixth play of the game against UCLA, all six Longhorn tight ends rushed onto the Rose Bowl field, cheering in unison. They had plenty of cause for such a dramatic reaction. For starters, it was the first touchdown by a Texas tight end in five games and only the third catch from the position on the season. But that play had an even deeper meaning. It marked GrantÕs arrival after three long seasons of watching and waiting on the sidelines and two years of multiple surgeries and grueling rehab for the man who tore his right ACL, PCL and ham¥string before he ever suited up on game day. The loudest cheerleader, though, was senior tight end Blaine Irby. And for good reason. Irby calls Grant a close friend, but their friendship wasnÕt born Lawrence Peart | Daily Texan File Photo Tight ends D.J. Grant, left, and Blaine Irby, right, celebrate after a Grant touchdown catch during a 49-20 win against UCLA on Sept. 17. Irby TIGHT ENDS continues on PAGE 8 and Grant are both coming off of terrible injuries last season, and are having a huge impact on the Texas offense this season. number of key injuries and numer-on fire this A freshman, Palmer received instrumental advice and sup¥ port from Yogi during that peri¥ od, who coached her through the finer points of playing libero. The all the way ous breakout performances that just year, while make you ask, ÒHe did what?Ó So, leading his that were on the letÕs explore how last weekÕs games af-team to a fect your lineup: who is truly hot and 3-0 record. line when Bill Haas and Hunter Mahan 217 receiving yards and two touch¥downs last Sunday and is a must-play week to week. Torrey Smith, Baltimore viable starting quarterback in any off for 152 yards receiving and three day, he tore ligaments in his knee league. Running back Fred Jackson is touchdowns against the St. Louis and will miss significant time. For quickly establishing himself as a top-Rams. He is still available in 99 per-those desperately scrambling af¥ 10 back with at least 11 points in ev-cent of ESPN leagues, and while he ter his loss, think about pick¥ ery game Ñ he has also broken the wonÕt consistently post such ridicu-ing up his teammate Nate Wash¥ 20-point mark in the last two. Plus, lous numbers, he should still see quite ington, who is available in 90 per¥ wide receiver Steve Johnson and tight a few balls from Joe Flacco the rest of cent of leagues, or OaklandÕs Den¥ a live chat advice was helpful because Palm-ago. While the 40 Acres is a FOOTBALL Six random Big 12 football thoughts to consider By Trey Scott Daily Texan Columnist A six pack of thoughts that thankfully have nothing to do with conference realignment: 1. In case youÕre not keep¥ing up, Texas commit Johna¥than Gray, who already owns the state record for career rush¥ing touchdowns, has now rushed 79 times for 1,079 rushing yards and 17 touchdowns through four games this season for Aledo High School. ThatÕs like a video game ... ... Actually, itÕs a lot better than FANTASY FOOTBALL WhoÕs hot, whoÕs not in fantasy football By Chris Hummer Buffalo Bills Daily Texan Staff quarter¥ back Ryan It was another turbulent week in the world of fantasy football, with a Fitzpatrick has been a video game. Tuesday night, I created a 99-overall running back on NCAA 12 and then played four games with him, giving him three 20-carry games and one 19-carry game. HereÕs what cyber-back fin¥ished with: 79 carries, 948 yards, 10 touchdowns. GrayÕs the real deal, PS3 donÕt lie. 2. None of the polls agree with me, but IÕm not so sure Oklaho¥ma State isnÕt the best team in the conference. A big, come-from¥behind win on the road against Texas A&M (2-1) looked more impressive than OklahomaÕs win two Saturdays ago on the road against Florida State (2-2). If the THOUGHTS continues on PAGE 8 Senior running back Fozzy Whittaker has taken his role in stride as he and freshman back Malcolm Brown have been split¥ting time in the back field this season. Lawrence Peart Daily File Photo VOLLEYBALL N0. 8 TEXAS AT OKLAHOMA Pair of Texas liberos hail BY THE NUMBERS 6 The number of field goals Dallas Cowboys rookie kicker Dan Bailey made on Monday in the 18¥16 win against the Washington Redskins, accounting for all 18 of DallasÕ points. 181 The number of games played in baseball so far this season, and after all of that the Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays are still tied for the wildcard lead. The Red Sox have already lost 18 times in September allowing the the Rays to get back in the race. 11.4 As in the $11.4 million who is not. HOT Any Buffalo Bills offensive player If you havenÕt been watching 1. football this season and you took a look at this story, youÕd probably think I was crazy, and to be honest, it feels a little bit weird seeing the Bills in this spot. But they are on fire. Buf¥falo is averaging 37.66 points a game, and everyone is getting touches. Har¥vard graduate Ryan Fitzpatrick is scorching with at least 18 points in his first three games, making him a 3. Who? ThatÕs what many will say when they look at the Week 3 scoring leaders and see this rookie at the top of the list. Smith, a second¥round pick from Maryland, went Gary Wiepert Associated Press Kenny Britt, Tennessee 2. The wide receiver has been a fantasy beast this year, but on Sun¥ from Hawaii By Chris Hummer Daily Texan Staff Hawaii is know for its sandy beaches, great weather and re¥laxing environment, but around Austin, the Aloha state is know for producing the excellent defen¥sive volleyball players Sydney Yogi and Sarah Palmer. Last year, Texas starting libe¥ro Yogi went down with an inju¥ry late in the season. It was Palm¥er, her backup, who filled in nice¥ ly for her. ing the defensive libero slot. ÒShe was always there to cheer me on and support me if I had any questions, and was always there on the bench for me,Ó Palmer said. ÒDuring the final four, she actual¥ squared off in a playoff for the PGA Tour Championship and the Fed Cup on Sunday. Haas won on hole three of the playoff with a par. Join us today at 5 p.m. for end Scott Chandler have both firmly the season. arius Moore, available in 60 percent er played an attacking position in significant distance away from her announced their fantasy prowess as of leagues. NOT high school, outside hitter, and home in the pacific, when she vis¥was still working to adjust to play-ited campus, she knew it was the previewing strong starting options. ItÕs not too late to get on the BillsÕ bandwagon: Michael Vick, Frank Gore, San right environment for her. SaturdayÕs game Chandler is still available in 51 per¥ ÒI donÕt think you can deny the Philadelphia Francisco cent of ESPN fantasy leagues. kind of pride that you see when 3. 1. This guy cannot seem to stay Gore continued his slow start to you come and visit the campus,Ó healthy. A week after suffering a con-the season Sunday with only 42 yards Wes Welker, New Yogi said. ÒItÕs like nowhere else cussion against the Falcons, Vick on 17 carries. The running back is against you can imagine, burnt orange ev- England Patriots reportedly broke his non-throw-fighting nagging injuries and is start- Date: Tonight erywhere is kind of hard to miss. Not much to say here. When ing hand Sunday against the Gi-ing to show signs of aging. Astute own¥ 2. Iowa State Time: 7 p.m. paired with Tom Brady, this guy is a ants. ItÕs uncertain if heÕll be good to ers might look to pick up his backup, monster. The former Red Raider had go in Week 4, disappointing news Kendall Hunter. Place: Norman, Okla. HAWAII continues on PAGE 7 THOUGHTS continues from PAGE 7 Cowboys and Sooners faced off right now on at a neutral site, IÕd take the ÕPokes by a touchdown. TheyÕll have a good chance to prove theyÕre the best in the con¥ference: this year, BedlamÕs at their home teepee. 3. IÕm no stat guy (we have one of those), but I think the Long¥hornsÕ biggest numerical accom¥plishment thus far is finding a way to get 12 different guys the ball via the passing game. Variety is good; running backs, fullbacks, h-backs, tight ends, receivers and even quarterbacks have all caught passes so far this year. Since IÕm expecting DeSean Hales, Miles Onyegbule, Blaine Irby, Darius Terrell and Barrett Matthews to all snag a pass this year, the num¥ber of players with catches could rise to 17. Last yearÕs figure? 13. 4. Texas head coach Mack Brown says that Demarco Cobbs (fore¥arm) and Chet Moss (back) are being evaluated and just might be HAWAII continues from PAGE 7 I think you feel a real sense of com¥munity here Ñ itÕs a just a real special place to be.Ó When it came time for Palmer to make a commitment to a school, she looked to Yogi, whose parents are fam¥ily friends, for advice about the Texas program. Which is when Yogi posed the question, ÒWhat better place in the U.S. is there?Ó Palmer agreed and decided to come to the Lone Star state. Yogi doesnÕt feel that she had a large influence on PalmerÕs decision, though, but she does feel that she made the right choice. ÒI didnÕt try to convince her to come her or anything, but I answered he questions honestly, and in the end, I think she made a really smart deci¥sion,Ó Yogi said with a wry smile. Both players have adjusted well to Austin, an immensely different en¥vironment in comparison to Hawaii, able to go this week. The return of Cobbs, a svelte outside line¥backer who has the quicks to get after the quarterback and cover a slot receiver, would be huge for the Longhorns defense. 5. Hard not to love Fozzy Whit¥taker. The senior running back has spent all season answering more questions about true fresh¥man Malcolm Brown than him¥self, but heÕs handled it all with grace. Fozzy might not be the main horse in the LonghornsÕ backfield anymore, but heÕs an important and versatile one. 6. Along the same token, canÕt we all just agree that Brown de¥serves to be more than the Òco¥starterÓ at running back? After three games, he leads the Long¥horns in rushing yards and yards¥per-attempt. BrownÕs clearly the missing piece in the ground game Texas has been missing since Ja¥maal Charles left after the 2007 season. IÕm all for playing Whit¥taker in the ÒWildÓ packag¥es and on third downs, but give Brown the title of first-string running back Ñ he more than deserves it. and love certain aspects of the capi¥tal city. ÒAustin is so lively,Ó Palmer said. ÒThereÕs always something going on. On any given night, I can look up and see whatÕs going on and I can find something that would interest me. As opposed to Hawaii where I would just sit around and watch TV or chill with my friends.Ó There are certain aspects of Hawaii that are hard to replace though, like the beach. But both players mentioned one thing specifically that is hard to go without. ÒThe food is definitely the thing I miss the most, my family does kind of a good job sending stuff over, but there are just some things you canÕt ship,Ó Yogi said. While the food might not compare to their usual Hawaiian diet, they both have found a home in Austin and are a huge part of the No. 8 ranked Long¥horns, success. Yogi, Palmer and the rest of the team will be back in action tonight against rival Oklahoma who they went 2-0 against last year. SEC: no plans for 14th university By John Zenor The Associated Press Commissioner Mike Slive tried to temporarily quell the Òenormous speculationÓ about whether Ñ or more likely when Ñ the South¥eastern Conference will add a 14th member to join Texas A&M. Slive said Tuesday, a day after fes¥tivities welcoming member No. 13, that the SEC presidents and chan¥cellors are not currently considering any other schools for admission and that Texas A&M was the only one to submit an application. He reiterat¥ed that he anticipates having just 13 members in 2012-13. ÒI really canÕt emphasize this enough. This has all been about Tex¥as A&M,Ó Slive said in a conference call with Texas A&M President R. Loftin Bowen. ÒWe have not initi¥ated any conversations with any in¥stitution. This was about Texas A&M understanding that some of the complexities that 13 teams brings, and thatÕs really it.Ó Slive said the SEC will be¥gin negotiations this fall with ESPN and CBS to upgrade the current 15-year contracts with both networks. He has appointed a point per¥son and three senior administra¥tors Ñ who he declined to iden¥tify Ñ to work with Texas A&MÕs transition team that Loftin said includes Òwell over a dozen people.Ó Slive said league athletic directors would meet in the next few weeks to begin considering options such as scheduling. He said he wasnÕt sure if Texas A&M would land in the SEC West but Òobviously it makes sense to me that Texas A&M be in the West.Ó Slive declined to discuss what would make a potential 14th mem- TIGHT ENDS continues from PAGE 7 on the field. It was forged on the training table and in the weight room. If anyone understands what it took for Grant to return to ac¥tion, itÕs Irby. He was with him every step of the way. Irby rehabbed alongside Grant for two years after suffering a similar injury during his soph¥omore year in 2008, when he tore his ACL, LCL and menis¥cus Ñ not to mention the severe nerve damage that left him with a 5 percent chance of walking normally again. ÒBefore both of us hurt our knees, D.J. and I probably werenÕt even that close,Ó Irby said. ÒBut I think weÕre the closest in the tight end room just because weÕve gone through that expe¥rience together, gone through such a hardship together, it real¥ly brings us closer.Ó While both players have re¥turned this season from their knee injuries, they each realize they wouldnÕt be where theyÕre at without the other. ÒBlaine gave me all the con¥fidence I need with him com¥ing back the way he did,Ó Grant said. Throughout the rehab process, they ran sprints together, com¥peted for the fastest time in the 40-yard dash, lifted weights and received treatment, day after day, side by side. ÒEvery day we were working, competing, pushing each other, and I think I wouldnÕt be here if it wasnÕt for D.J.,Ó Irby said. But Grant needed more than just someone to push him physi¥cally. After all, the rehab process is equally taxing mentally. ÒWhen I first got hurt, I was a little down,Ó Grant said. ÒBlaine Dave Einsel | Associated Press Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin, left, exchanges helmets with Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive, right, on Monday. ber appealing, saying ÒweÕll just see how the future plays out.Ó He said he didnÕt know if there was a specific deadline when the SEC would need to add a 14th mem¥ber for next season. Adding a 13th team was just an¥other step in the conference expan¥sions that began last year with Col¥orado (Pac-12) and Nebraska (Big Ten) leaving the Big 12. came to talk to me and said, ÔYou know itÕs never over. You still have two years when you come back. You can get it together.Õ Having somebody support you like that really brings your hopes back up, and it got my confi¥dence back and helped me get back to where IÕm at today.Ó There were plenty of oppor¥tunities for Grant and Irby to abandon their rehab. Two years, of course, is quite a long time. And rehab is never easy. Yet they persevered through it all, with the Texas training staff constantly prodding them to get better. ÒIt was very frustrating, but I knew it would have a greater meaning to me after I was done,Ó Grant said. ÒAnd now I look back at it, IÕm glad for all the pushing they did to me. All the hard work they gave me to do. Look at me ÒI know there will be enormous speculation,Ó Slive said. ÒThere will be speculation about how weÕre go¥ing to schedule. ThereÕll be specula¥tion about whether weÕre going to go to 14 and if we go to 14, whoÕs that going to be, howÕs that going to hap¥pen, whenÕs that going to happen. ÒTheyÕre all appropriate questions. We will deal with those on a timeta¥ble that works for us.Ó now. ItÕs working out for me.Ó Instead of giving up, Grant and Irby took advantage of their extra time in the weight room. Although they couldnÕt be on the field running routes and catching passes with the rest of the tight ends, they were busy bulking up to improve their blocking. ÒDuring his time away, [Grant] got stronger just like Blaine did,Ó said tight ends coach Bruce Chambers. ÒWhen you get stronger, that brings confidence. YouÕre very confident in block¥ing. When a guy gets that con¥fidence and knows heÕs strong, he can go in there and make those blocks.Ó Yes, they found the silver lin¥ing. And things might just final¥ly be going their way. For now, it looks like the tight ends will have plenty to cheer about. T Rebeca Rodriguez | Daily Texan Staff TexasÕ third baseman Nadia Taylor awaits the pitch during TexasÕ fall opener against Temple College in which they won 20-0. Taylor and the Longhorns are looking to bounce back from a tough first-round loss in last yearÕs regional round of the NCAA tournament, and are using the fall season as a tune up for the real games in the spring. 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Read all about it: www.theEmergence.org SUDOKUFORYOU 3 8 6 3 4 2 2 6 5 8 1 6 3 8 6 7 2 7 9 3 2 6 1 8 5 8 7 4 2 9 YesterdayÕs solution OKU YOU 1 5 2 4 8 9 3 7 6 7 6 8 2 5 3 4 1 9 9 3 4 6 1 7 2 8 5 4 7 1 9 2 6 5 3 8 8 9 3 7 4 5 6 2 1 6 2 5 8 3 1 9 4 7 2 8 6 5 7 4 1 9 3 5 1 7 3 9 2 8 6 4 3 4 9 1 6 8 7 5 2 Recipe delves into mystery of $16 muffin controversy By J.M. Hirsch The Associated Press So political kerfuffle aside, you have to wonder exactly what a $16 muffin would taste like. Last weekÕs news that the U.S. government paid $16 apiece for breakfast muffins at a Justice De¥partment conference set off critics of government spending. Hilton Worldwide, the hotel company that hosted the 2009 confab in Washington, disputes the accuracy of the claim, which appeared in a report by Cynthia A. Schnedar, the Justice Depart¥mentÕs inspector general. The ho¥tel called it an accounting thing, explaining that the price included various drinks and gratuity charg¥es, in addition to the muffins. Sch¥nedar stands by the report. All this fails to take into ac¥count the most important issue. If you did spend $16 on a muf¥fin, what would it look like? How would it taste? The typical muffin baked in an institutional setting, such as a ho¥tel, costs about 50 cents or less, not including labor. If you go cra¥zy extravagant and reach for the top-shelf organic flour, maybe some hand-harvested wild blue¥berries from Maine and fancy sugar, youÕre still going to max out around $1 per muffin on raw in¥gredients. Here in The Associated Press test kitchen, we started searching for ways to bump up the price of Getting the price-per-muf-even close. A rare honey import-get to $16 was to reach for some good stuff!) and edible gold leaf your basic muffin. The end result fin that high was hard. We took ed from Zambia helped, as did a old-fashioned booze and gold. flakes. was anything but basic. WeÕre also the obvious steps first Ñ organ-healthy amount of pricey macada-ThatÕs right, we glazed our muf-The result? A rather stunning pretty certain youÕll never see one ic flour, sugar and milk, cul-mia nuts and some Tahitian vanil-fins with a chocolate sauce made and intense muffin that would of these babies served at a govern-tured butter, sea salt and free-la beans. from organic dark chocolate cut cost a mere $192 per dozen (not ment conference. range eggs. But we still werenÕt But in the end, the only way to with reduced Scotch Whisky (the counting labor) Ñ or $16 each. DOMO continues from PAGE 12 and laying waste to them. On his song, ÒWhole City Behind Us,Ó he spits, ÒLive from a city of jealous-ass n**gers and bougie¥ass bitches, where you ainÕt get¥ting love unless swimminÕ mad riches.Ó Under The Influence carries an essence more characteristic of Domo Genesis, whereas his first record, Rolling Papers, carried huge Tyler, The Creator influ¥ences, both in terms of flow and instrumentals. Under The In¥fluence doesnÕt carry the wispy, warped Neptunes-inspired beats characteristic of Tyler. If any¥thing, the mixtape is more rem¥iniscent of classic rap than any¥thing from Odd Future, outside of Mike GÕs ÒAli.Ó According to The Los Angeles Times, heÕs a fan of Slick Rick and uses Scar¥face and Mobb Deep beats on Under The Influence. Aside from that, the mixtape is still very Odd Future; occa¥sional verses pop up throughout the record about doing horri¥ble things to women or just peo¥ple in general. These things are all described in a fair amount of detail, layered on with the finest expletives the west coastÕs most prominent rapper can conjure. Despite lacking artist features (Tyler is the only Odd Future member that raps on the record besides Domo) and the overall lack of originality, Under The In¥fluence is a solid piece of work. Domo Genesis has proven his technical ability and hopefully his next work will illustrate the fulfillment of his potential as a visionary. Under the Influence Domo Genesis Genre: Hip-Hop Tracks: 15 For those who like: Casey Veggies, Smoke DZA Grade: B DALI continues from PAGE 12 the shore of his home in Spain. He immediately went inside, put the octopus in acid and then placed it on a copper plate and drew an etch¥ing around the imprint it made. Even to Christine Argillet, some¥one very close to Dali, the man was perplexing and enigmatic. Often painted by the media to be eccen¥tric and flamboyant, she described a man who was jolly, kind-heart¥ed and possessed a strong desire to simply please others in the most be¥nevolent manner. In this regard, Argillet is the same as Dali. As she noted that the col¥lection was among the most impor¥tant and impressive of DaliÕs work, she said, ÒTo have art known, you must share it.Ó WILCO continues from PAGE 12 acoustic riff. This song shows front¥man Jeff Tweedy at his best, and, were it the last song Wilco ever produced, fans could die happy. The album isnÕt consistently amaz¥ing Ñ songs such as ÒRising Red LungÓ and ÒStanding OÓ donÕt dazzle Ñ but itÕs good throughout and con-tains moments of folk, rock and pop brilliance. After their last dud of an al¥bum, Wilco has gotten back to doing what has made them one of AmericaÕs most interesting rock bands in the last decade. They have released an album full of great rock songs made better by surprising, ingenuitive musicianship. Internet amplifies effects of bullying at every age By Connie Cass The Associated Press Catherine Devine had her first brush with an online bully in sev¥enth grade, before sheÕd even ven¥tured onto the Internet. Someone set up the screen name Òdevine¥girlÓ and, posing as Catherine, sent her classmates instant messages full of trashy talk and lies. ÒThey were making things up about me, and I was the most in¥nocent 12-year-old ever,Ó Devine remembers. ÒI hadnÕt even kissed anybody yet.Ó As she grew up, Devine, now 22, learned to thrive in the electronic village. But like other young peo¥ple, she occasionally stumbled into one of its dark alleys. A new Associated Press-MTV poll of youth in their teens and early 20s finds that most of them Ñ 56 percent Ñ have been the target of some type of online taunting, harassment or bully¥ing, a slight increase over just two years ago. A third say theyÕve been involved in Òsexting,Ó the shar¥ing of naked photos or videos of sexual activity. Among those in a relationship, four out of 10 say their partners have used comput¥ers or cellphones to abuse or con¥trol them. Three-fourths of the young peo¥ple said they consider these dark¥er aspects of the online world, sometimes broadly called Òdigital abuse,Ó a serious problem. TheyÕre not the only ones. President Barack Obama brought students, parents and ex¥perts together at the White House in March to try to confront Òcyber¥bullying.Ó The Education Depart¥ment sponsors an annual confer¥ence to help schools deal with it. Teen suicides linked to vicious on¥line bullying have caused increas¥ing worry in communities across the country. Conduct that rises to the point of bullying is hard to define, but the AP-MTV poll of youth ages 14 to 24 showed plenty of rotten behavior online and a perception that itÕs increasing. The share of young people who frequently see people being mean to each other on social networking sites jumped to 55 percent, from 45 percent in 2009. That may be partly because young people are spending more time than ever communicating electronically: seven in 10 had logged into a social network¥ing site in the previous week, and eight in 10 had texted a friend. Devine, who lives on New YorkÕs Long Island, experienced her share of online drama in high school and college: A friend passed around highly personal en¥tries from DevineÕs private elec¥tronic journal when she was 15. She left her Facebook account open on a University of Scranton library computer, and a prankster posted that she was pregnant (she wasnÕt). Most upsetting, when she was 18, Devine succumbed to a boyfriendÕs pressure to send a re¥vealing photo of herself, and when they broke up, he briefly raised the threat of embarrassing her with it. ÒI didnÕt realize the power he could have over me from that,Ó Devine said. ÒI thought heÕd just see it once and then delete it, like I had deleted it.Ó The Internet didnÕt create the turmoil of the teen years and young adulthood Ñ romantic breakups, bitter fights among best friends, jealous rivalries, teasing and bully¥ing. But it does amplify it. ÒItÕs worse online because every¥body sees it,Ó said Tiffany Lyons, 24, of Layton, Utah. ÒAnd once anything gets online you canÕt get rid of it.Ó Plus, 75 percent of youth think people do or say things online that they wouldnÕt do or say face to face. The most common complaints were people spreading false ru¥mors on Internet pages or by text message, or being downright mean online; more than one¥fifth of young people said each of those things had happened to them. Twenty percent saw some¥one take their electronic messages and share them without permis¥sion, and 16 percent said someone posted embarrassing pictures or video of them without their per¥mission. Some of these are one-time in¥cidents; others cross into repeated harassment or bullying. Sameer Hinduja, a cyberbully¥ing researcher, said numerous re¥cent studies taken together sug¥gest a cyberbullying victimization rate of 20 to 25 percent for middle and high school students. Many of these same victims also suffer from in-person abuse. Likewise, many online aggressors are also real-world bullies. ÒWe are seeing offenders who are just jerks to people online and offline,Ó said Hinduja, an associ¥ate professor of criminal justice at Florida Atlantic University and co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center. And computers and cellphones increase the reach of old-fash¥ioned bullying. ÒWhen I was bullied in middle school, I could go home and slam my door and forget about it for a while,Ó said Hinduja. ÒThese kids can be accessed around the clock through technology. ThereÕs really no escape.Ó 12 LIFE&ARTS Wednesday, September 28, 2011 | THE DAILY TEXAN | Aleksander Chan, Life&Arts Editor | (512) 232 2209 | dailytexan@gmail.com By Ali Breland Daily Texan Staff Austin is home to many artists, including extremely talented ones, so it only makes sense that Austin should house the largest collection of copper etchings created by one of contemporary artÕs greatest art¥ists, Salvador Dali. The collection, which is current¥ly being exhibited at West Sixth StreetÕs Russell Collection Fine Art Gallery, features more than 200 of DaliÕs works, including copper etchings. The current works are from the collection of DaliÕs former publish¥er and longtime friend, French¥man Pierre Argillet. The collection is now owned and curated by his daughter Christine Argillet. ÒThis collection is the reflection of their friendship,Ó Christine Ar¥gillet said. The works were com¥missioned by Pierre Argillet and are representative of many of his tastes and preferences. The medi¥um the art is created on exempli¥fies that. ÒMy father did not think that the print-based lithographs Dali want¥ed to do were original,Ó Christine Argillet said. Dali was initially opposed to etching on copper plates because of the brightness they produce, which he perceived to hurt the eyes. Nonetheless, Dali created scores of copper-plated etchings for Pierre Argillet until their professional re¥lationship ended in 1979, when Da¥liÕs will to create print-based litho¥graphs triumphed over his desire to work with Argillet. The two re¥mained good friends. The collection itself features all sorts of works ranging from simple yet caustic sketch-ups to elaborate etches of chaotic vibrance. The worksÕ themes run the gam¥ut of possibilities, with Dali taking inspiration from everything from hippies and the middle-aged to Spanish bullfights to Mao ZedongÕs poetry. One particular piece from the Mao series is an etching of Mao that has his head extending out of the view of picture. Christine Argil¥let explained DaliÕs rationale in the creation of the etching. Upon in¥quiry of the detail, Dali merely re¥plied, ÒMao is so big, he doesnÕt fit on one page.Ó Argillet also noted DaliÕs affinity for placing his own head on bullsÕ bodies. Ò[He] hated bullfights,Ó Ar¥gillet said. ÒHe always saw himself as the bull, misunderstood by oth¥ers.Ó She also shed light on an etch¥ing symbolizing peace. The three mountains on copper plating all sit next to one another but never touch, just as peace is never achieved. WHAT: Salvador Dali exhibit WHERE: Russell Collection 1137 W. Sixth Street WHEN: Sept. 23 to Oct. 31 WEB: russell-collection.com TICKETS: Free The most interesting story of all is the explanation behind his piece entitled ÒMedusa.Ó According to Argillet, Dali found an octopus on DALI continues on PAGE 11 Domo Genesis changes style, gets away from Odd Future By Ali Breland Daily Texan Staff Of the next generation of heav¥ily associated hip-hop stoner acts, Odd FutureÕs Domo Genesis defi¥nitely sits at the top the field. Do¥moÕs peers in the field, Curren$y and Wiz Khalifa, have either cre¥ated an awkward sound inacces¥sible to many hip-hop aficiona¥dos, let alone fans, or have sold out on the most disgusting lev¥el (e.g., Wiz KhalifaÕs Rolling Pa¥pers, a disgusting mess of unclev¥er verses with pop hooks placed on top of stale beats, in an obvi¥ous attempt to gain radio play). On his new mixtape, Under The Influence, Domo has made a number of stylistic changes that distance his sound from his Odd Future counterparts, but he has made no movement towards compromising his beliefs for the sake of success. This is particu¥larly noteworthy, given that of the entire Odd Future group, Domo Genesis made the most drastic changes in terms of appearance after the collectiveÕs rise to prom¥inence. Generally, when artists make a move toward achieving higher status and become image conscious, their art suffers. Ditching the sleepy stoner look that made him falsely appear to be one of the laziest and least valuable of the bunch, Domo has transitioned into a chic, Kanye West-like character who is more emblematic of Northeast eccen¥tricities than of a stoner skat¥er from Ladera, Calif. Lyrically, he makes this clear, not embrac¥ing his elevated status but instead recognizing its inherent faults DOMO continues on PAGE 11 WilcoÕs fresh album integrates elements from diverse genres By Clayton Wickham Daily Texan Staff From the abrasive experimen¥talism of ÒArt of Almost,Ó to the somber acoustic release of ÒSun¥day Morning,Ó WilcoÕs new al¥bum The Whole Love is a state¥ment about what Wilco is and al¥ways has been: a band that hates to be defined. Coming from another band, the record might be called unfocused, but for Wilco, a group critics have alternately dubbed country rock, experimental and Òdad rock,Ó it marks a brilliant re¥turn to form. After making a name for itself with the innovative, dissonance¥cloaked indie-pop of ÒI Am Trying to Break Your HeartÓ and A Ghost is Born, Wilco perplexed fans and critics with the refreshingly simple Sky Blue Sky and then flat out dis¥appointed them with their most recent self-titled album. The Whole Love isnÕt another ÒI Am Trying to Break Your Heart,Ó but Ñ unlike in their last two al¥bums Ñ the groupÕs avant-garde tendencies are subtly present here. Distortion swells and weird riffs add depth to songs that evoke the best of WilcoÕs folk days and of their first indie-rock record Sum¥merteeth. Every song, even the first track, ÒArt of Almost,Ó which The Whole Love Wilco Genre: Alternative Rock Tracks: 12 For those who like: Spoon, Billy Bragg Grade: A¥ seems more an experimental state¥ment than a coherent song, has something to like about it. After guitarist Nels Cline gets some high-voltage riffing out of his system, the album finds its groove with the catchy second track, ÒI Might,Ó and keeps roll¥ing through ÒSunloathe,Ó which channels some of the spooki¥er moments of Abbey Road and ÒDawned on Me,Ó an upbeat indie¥rock tune that evokes prior hits such as ÒHeavy Metal Drummer.Ó After the solemn folk song ÒBlack Moon,Ó the record reaches a high point at ÒBorn Alone.Ó With its catchy melody and gibberish lyr¥ics, the songÕs chorus is as infec¥tious and meltingly sweet as any of the best indie-pop moments on Summerteeth. At times, the second half of the album sounds like a tribute to WilcoÕs folk era, but the bandÕs in¥tervening years are present even during the straightforward folk rock of ÒOpen MindÓ and ÒCap¥itol City.Ó In the musical outro of 12-minute folk opus ÒSunday Morning,Ó a soft, jazzy guitar lick from Cline summons up a swell of muffled distortion, and an in¥sistent, tinkling piano line phas¥es in, driving the song into the bit¥tersweet resolution of its unifying WILCO continues on PAGE 11 Local artist showcases mysterious, eerie pieces By Jessica Lee Daily Texan Staff Ian Shults has always been in¥terested in art. As a child, his mother helped him make his own toys out of clay. As a teenager, he started creating graffiti charac¥ters under bridges after he was kicked out of his high school art class. From then on, he started to become aware of art everywhere he went. Then, fate intervened. Stults stumbled upon a group of artists building a giant genie sculpture. He stopped in to see what was going on, showed the men some pictures of his graffiti art and eventually was given a job at Ska¥gen Art, which later became Blue Genie Art Industries, a company known for its giant sculptures and murals found around Austin. After eight years as lead illus¥trator and head sculptor at Blue Genie, Shults is now creating his own artwork and showing in gal¥leries nationally. The series he is currently working on, ÒThe Social Contract,Ó is done almost entire¥ly in black and white with angular brush strokes, giving the pieces an eerily mysterious effect. ShultsÕ creative process starts with the search for new inspiration. ÒNormally, I spend hours and hours online and in magazines looking through photos basically trying to find stuff that I dig and then repurposing them in Pho¥toshop and drawing things out,Ó Shults said. The characteristic style of ShultsÕ work can be attributed to the inspiration he finds from old magazines he purchases on eBay. The figures in his pieces look as if they were taken directly from the pages of an aged issue of Life magazine but are given the dis¥tinct flair that Shults is known for. ÒThereÕs definitely a vintage swagger going on there,Ó Shults said. Fabian Puente, an assistant to Shults who describes his job as making sure Shults does not put his paintbrush down, praises ShultsÕ artwork. ÒHis artwork, to me, is attrac¥tive and exciting,Ó Puente said. ÒThe images he uses mixed with his unique style not only move you emotionally but also keep you engaged long enough that you create a story of your own for the painting.Ó An assortment of ShultsÕ paint¥ings can be found at the Wal¥ly Workman Gallery located on West Sixth Street. Each painting takes anywhere between a day to three weeks for Shults to com¥plete. ÒSeveral times, it happens that I spend a week on something and end up painting over it,Ó Shults said. Shults has been successful as an artist. He has consistently sold his artwork and is getting ready for an upcoming show in San Francisco. But he notes that it is hard for art¥ists to prosper in Austin. Though his ultimate goal is to one day be¥come a full-time artist, Shults has to work a second job bartending at BillyÕs on Burnet to get by. ÒThere are a ton of artists in Austin, a ton of great artists,Ó Shults said. ÒBut this town is one that hasnÕt been renowned for how much people buy.Ó But Shults is not in a hurry to leave Austin for a more art-cen¥tric town anytime soon. He grew up in Austin and has been here his entire life. After touring the coun¥try with a band he was once a part of, Shults realized he was not in¥terested in living anywhere else. ÒI looked around for other places I could live in, but IÕve only liked other places because they reminded me of Austin,Ó Shults said. It is ShultsÕ passion about art that shines through as he speaks, and Puente believes passion is the key to success in the world of art. ÒThe way I see it is if youÕre passionate about something and youÕre persistent, you can achieve just about anything,Ó Puente said.