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IN-DEPTHRace for higher educationUT works 
to diversify 
enrollment 
in face of 
legal battleEnrollment data shows the 
University looks a lot more 
like the rest of the state than it 
used to, but UT still struggles 
to diversify the socioeconom-
ic and racial backgrounds of 
UT students.
On Oct. 10, the University 
will defend one aspect of its 
admissions process before 
the Supreme Court: the in-
clusion of race as a factor in 
considering applicants. The 
outcome of the case, Fisher v. 
University of Texas, will have 
implications for race-based 
affirmative action policies 
across the country. But race is 
only one element of campus 
diversity. Kedra Ishop, the vice 
provost and director of admis-
sions, said diverse classes need 
students who come from a 
range of geographic regions, 
ethnicities, socioeconomic 
statuses and family education 
backgrounds.
“That’s really the role of a 
flagship institution: to be con-
scious of and strive toward 
that level of access for all stu-
dents if they are prepared and 
if this is the institution they 
want to enroll in,” Ishop said.
Ishop said the Univer-
sity has diversified its student 
body in recent years, par-
ticularly increasing Latino 
enrollment. In 2010 the fresh-
man class had more minority 
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in historyIn 1944 
Women were 
granted suffrage 
in France.
Police arrest fire-alarm suspectEducation board shufflesIn an unexpected reshuf-
fling of state Senate com-
mittee chairmanships, Lt. 
Gov. David Dewhurst re-
placed a longtime Demo-
crat from the Higher Edu-
cation Committee.
Dewhurst announced a re-
organization of Senate com-
mittee appointments for the 
upcoming legislative session 
Thursday morning, replacing 
the former Higher Education 
chair, Sen. Judith Zaffirini, 
D-Laredo, with Sen. Kel Seli-
ger, R-Amarillo.
Zaffirini was appointed 
to chair the Senate Com-
mittee on Government 
Organization, which will 
oversee reviews of state 
agencies through the sun-
set legislation. 
Seliger said the Higher Ed-
ucation Committee will con-
tinue to focus on high-quality 
and affordable education.
“I don’t think the commit-
tee’s priorities will change, 
because the priorities of 
higher education in Texas 
don’t change,” Seliger said. 
He said the committee will 
not push programs that align 
with committee agendas 
from previous sessions.
“We won’t be strictly 
looking at specific pro-
grams,” Seliger said. “We are 
charged to look at education 
in the larger sense. We will 
focus on the overall goal of 
education and look for what 
we can do to assist universi-
ties in reaching that goal.”
Christine Matyear, en-
ergetic teacher, cat-lover 
and skeet-shooter, died 
Thursday morning.
Matyear, a senior lec-
turer in the Department 
of Communication Sci-
ences and Disorders, died 
while she was home with 
her family after fighting 
ovarian cancer for several 
months, department chair 
Craig Champlin said. 
Matyear started work-
ing at UT in 1998. While 
teaching in the communi-
cations sciences and disor-
ders department, she also 
taught the subject’s hon-
ors sequence, the Senior 
CAMPUSSTATESenator Judith Zaffirini 
D-LaredoChristine Matyear 
Former senior lecturerBy David MalyBy Alexa Ura 
Senior lecturer dies, 
known for enthusiasmLEGACYBy Bobby BlanchardDIVERSITY continues on page 5ALARM continues on page 2MATYEAR continues on page 2SENATE continues on page 2By Megan StricklandPhoto 
courtesy of 
UTPDThis photo 
from surveil-
lance foot-
age shows 
Scott Allen 
Chatagnier 
on the day 
he allegedly 
pulled eight 
fire alarms 
in buildings 
around 
campus. 
— Caroline CarmerHook ‘Em mascotLIFE & ARTS PAGE 11“Always have 
your phones 
ready, because 
Hook ‘Em is going 
to drop it low.”
Quote to note
WHERE WE COME FROMSTATEWIDEVS
ETHNICITYState wide populationWhite 44.8 percentBlack 12 percent 
Hispanic 38 percentAsian 4 percentAdmitted in-state freshmen (2011)
White 45 percentBlack 6 percentHispanic 25 percentAsian 19 percent
GENDERMale 49.6 percentFemale 50.4 percentMale 46 percentFemale 54 percent
PARENTSPeople over age 25 that hold a 
bachelor’s degree or higher25.8 percentStudents whose parents hold a 
bachelor’s degree or higher69 percentUNIVERSITY-WIDE1. Plano West Senior High School (Plano) 1442. Westlake High School (Westlake) 1423. Plano High School (Plano) 1364. William P. Clements High School (Sugar Land) 1255. Plano East High School (Plano) 1126. Bellaire Senior High School (Bellaire) 1117. Highland Park High School (Dallas) 1108. Westwood High School (Austin) 1009. Memorial High School (Houston) 9810. Texas Academy of Math and Science (Denton) 96high schools with most admitted freshmenannual family income of incoming freshmen$0 - $59,999$60,000 - $99,9999not reportedmore than 
$100,000UT’s fire-alarm ban-
dit, identified last month 
by police as Scott Allen 
Chatagnier, Jr., 42, was 
arrested early Thursday 
morning after police say he 
pulled a knife on a bouncer 
at a downtown bar.
Police said Chatagnier 
was denied access to Dirty 
Dog Bar Wednesday night 
because the doorman there 
felt Chatagnier was too in-
toxicated. Chatagnier pro-
ceeded to shout some racial 
slurs at the doorman and 
then pulled out a pocket 
knife, police said. The door-
men from Dirty Dog Bar 
and the neighboring bar 
Coyote Ugly Saloon then 
tackled Chatagnier and re-
strained him until police 
arrived, police said. Po-
lice had been searching for 
New academic outlook arises from 
redistribution of committee positionsChatagnier charged with allegedly pulling eight alarmsStudents laud 
professor’s care,
accessibility

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The Daily Texan spoke 
with Zaffirini about her 
goals for the upcoming ses-
sion, all of which revolved 
around higher education.
Zaffirini said she planned 
to pursue outcome-based 
funding for universities, a 
model endorsed by Gov. Rick 
Perry earlier this week. Out-
come-based funding would 
tie the number of graduating 
students to 10 percent of an 
institution’s funding.
Zaffirini also said she 
hoped to increase fund-
ing for state financial aid 
programs after major cuts 
slashed aid for students 
during the previous legisla-
tive sessions. 
“Part of affordability is 
financial aid, which the Leg-
islature has reduced,” Zaf-
firini said. “I’m hoping to 
restore some of that funding 
now that we don’t have the 
same dire circumstances. It’s 
important that we identify 
how much a quality educa-
tion costs and what the costs 
are for students.”
A champion of afford-
able higher education, Zaf-
firini served as chair of the 
Higher Education Com-
mittee since its inception 
in 2009. She chaired the 
Higher Education Sub-
committee beginning in 
2005 before it was upgrad-
ed to a regular committee. 
Zaffirini will continue to 
serve on the Higher Edu-
cation Committee and the 
Subcommittee on Higher 
Education Funding as a 
regular member. She will 
also continue to co-chair the 
Joint Committee on Over-
sight of Higher Education 
Governance, Excellence 
and Transparency with Rep. 
Dan Branch, R-Dallas. 
Seliger said it is too early 
to talk about increasing 
funding to any program. 
“Every area needs in-
creased funding right now,” 
he said. “With increased ex-
pectations of higher educa-
tion, we will work with and 
talk to universities about 
appropriations before mov-
ing forward.”
Seliger previously served 
as chairman of the Senate 
Select Committee on Re-
districting during the 82nd 
legislative session. 
Seliger’s appointment 
to the Higher Educa-
tion Committee aims “to 
maximize the benefits of 
his interest in education 
and workforce develop-
ment and his ability to 
work with all members,” 
according to a statement 
released by Dewhurst. 
“This upcoming ses-
sion will be difficult,” 
Dewhurst said in the 
statement. “As a lifelong 
businessman, I have con-
stantly tried to challenge 
my colleagues and myself 
through new leadership 
opportunities and rotat-
ing assignments that re-
quire fresh conservative 
thinking and conserva-
tive solutions.” 
Dewhurst recently lost a 
Texas primary runoff elec-
tion. Republican Ted Cruz 
beat Dewhurst in August, 
becoming the party’s nomi-
nee for Texas Senator.
Fellows Program and 
signature courses in the 
School of Undergradu-
ate Studies.
Champlin said Matyear 
advocated for students 
and took the vocation of 
teaching seriously.
“She had high stan-
dards and integrity,” 
Champlin said. “She 
was very conscious 
about insuring that 
learning was occurring. 
I think students really 
responded to that.”
Shannon Jacobson, 
communications scienc-
es and disorders senior, 
said Matyear always had 
a smile on her face.
“To me, she embod-
ied the phrase ‘age is 
just a number,’” Jacob-
son said. “She was a re-
ally passionate person 
in everything she did, 
from her cats, to her 
grandkids and to the 
classes that she taught.”
Jacobson said she 
took three classes with 
Matyear, who always 
made class engaging.
“Her classes were def-
initely tough, but they 
were really fair,” Jacob-
son said. “Her tests were 
notoriously hard, but I 
never felt like it was a 
burden to study, because 
she presented the sub-
ject material in such a 
knowledgeable and en-
thusiastic way.“
Allie Jensen, commu-
nications sciences and 
disorders sophomore, 
said Matyear was one of 
a kind. 
“She was always super 
energetic in lecture and 
made a difficult subject 
like hearing science easy 
to understand,” Jensen 
said. “She had a personal 
story for every subject we 
talked about that com-
plemented the massive 
amounts of information 
we were learning.”
Jacobson said Ma-
tyear also loved her 
cats. She said she had 
friends who took an 
online class with Mat-
year, and the professor 
would hold up her cats 
to the webcam.
Roderick Hart, dean 
of the College of Com-
munication, said Mat-
year was of “inestima-
ble” value to the college. 
“Her generosity of 
spirit and breadth of vi-
sion will be profoundly 
missed by faculty and 
students alike,” Hart said.
Champlin said me-
morial services will be 
announced soon.
SENATE continues from page 1Aaron Berecka | Daily Texan Staff 
Nicola Alexis, a member of Actors From the London Stage, prepares for the troupe’s Thursday night performance of “The Merchant of Venice.” 
Chatagnier since Sept. 13 
when a warrant was issued 
for his arrest in connec-
tion with the unnecessary 
pulling of 11 fire alarms on 
campus between 2:08 p.m. 
and 3:53 p.m. Sept. 10 and 
more alarms at Dobie Mall 
earlier that day, police said. 
Chatagnier’s son, Dillon 
Scott Chatagnier, was killed 
in a fire in October of 2010 
at the age of 18. His daugh-
ter, Karissa Chatagnier, 
died prior to his son, ac-
cording to Dillon Chatag-
nier’s obituary in the Beau-
mont Enterprise. According 
to the obituary, Dillion 
Chatagnier died Oct. 16 in 
a fire at a camp house in 
which he sacrificied his life 
to get his friends out of the 
burning house. It is unclear 
if there is any connection 
between the false alarm re-
ports and the death of Scott 
Chatagnier’s two chidlren. 
Chatagnier was unavailable 
for comment. He remains 
in the Travis County Jail on 
$95,000 total bond. 
As a result of the alleged 
pocket-knife incident, 
Chatagnier was charged 
with two second-degree 
felony counts of aggravated 
assault with a deadly weap-
on, punishable with sepa-
rate maximum penalties of 
two to 20 years in prison 
and a fine of up to $10,000. 
He was also charged with 
two class-A misdemeanor 
counts of false alarm or 
report for the unnecessary 
pulling of the alarms, pun-
ishable with separate maxi-
mum penalties of a fine up 
to $4,000 and up to one 
year in jail. 
According to the Sept. 
13 affidavit, police spotted 
Chatagnier near campus 
Sept. 12 and recognized 
him from images captured 
by UT and Dobie Mall 
security cameras Sept. 
10 during the false alarm 
pullings. After being ques-
tioned by multiple officials 
that day, Chatagnier said, 
“I’m not denying it was me,” 
when shown a still pho-
tograph from the Sept. 10 
surveillance. Later that day, 
a cap resembling the one 
shown in the still photo-
graph was found at Chatag-
nier’s apartment. Authori-
ties had been searching for 
Chatagnier since approval 
of the warrant Sept. 13. 
Additional reporting by 
Megan Strickland. 
RECYCLE .The Daily TexanAFTER READING YOUR COPYALARM continues from page 1MATYEAR continues from page 1 
— Sen. Kel Seliger 
R-Amarillo“With increased 
expectations of 
higher education, 
we will work with 
and talk to 
universities about 
appropriations 
before moving 
forward.”
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“My life has been the poem I 
would have writ, / But I could not 
both live and utter it,” wrote Henry 
David Thoreau. 
It appears that most college stu-
dents have chosen to live their ‘po-
etic’ lives, because they certainly 
aren’t writing poetry.
I must admit: I love poetry. Ap-
preciation for poetry seems so rare 
among college kids that admitting 
my affinity for it feels almost like 
a confession. I recently shocked a 
friend when I mentioned that I was 
reading some Charles Bukowski. 
“How could anyone actually en-
joy poetry?” he asked. That’s when 
I realized that I can’t explain why 
I like poetry so much. I couldn’t 
even properly define poetry. Poet-
ry is what poets do, and what poets 
do is poetry. Without any logical 
defense, I resorted to quoting John 
Donne: “For God’s sake hold your 
tongue, and let me love.”
The exchange got me thinking. Is 
poetry dead? Has it ended, not with 
a bang, but a whimper? Was Adrian 
Mitchell correct when he said, “Most 
people ignore most poetry because 
most poetry ignores most people”?
Corey Schneider, a freshman and 
journalism student, isn’t a fan of 
poetry. What’s expressed in poetry, 
he says, could just as effectively be 
expressed in “normal” writing form. 
Caroline Crain, a freshman from 
Dallas, agreed. “I don’t like poetry,” 
she said. “It’s either random and 
pointless or too hard to understand. 
While it may be important and in-
teresting to some, it’s just not very 
relevant to most students.”
Let’s be honest. How many living 
poets could the average college stu-
dent name? When was the last time 
a poet was on The New York Times 
best-seller list? 
But to many, poetry is still some-
thing to be cherished. Chris Ax-
mann, a member of the Plan II Po-
etry Society, says, “Poetry is a dying 
art, but no more so than any other 
type of literature. There’s not much 
emphasis on introspection and self-
analysis anymore. Especially in col-
lege, standardized grades and eval-
uations limit creativity. Not many 
kids are getting into poetry any-
more, and I think that’s because it 
doesn’t involve the instant gratifica-
tion that new media provides.” 
Axmann says that much of the ex-
pression of poetry is unique to po-
etry as an art form. In the same way 
that a painting can express things 
that a photograph can’t, poetry ex-
presses feelings that prose can’t al-
ways convey. 
On the other hand, Paul Ruffin, 
2009 Texas State Poet Laureate, has 
little doubt that poetry is alive and 
well. “It’s not a dying art form,” he 
said. “It was here at the beginning 
of man’s awareness of the world he 
lived in, when he celebrated life 
around a campfire in the middle 
of the desolation of an awakening 
world, and it will be here at the end, 
when man will celebrate life around 
a campfire in the middle of the des-
olation of a dying world.” 
He summed up my views of poetry 
beautifully: “If life is relevant, then 
poetry is relevant. It is awfully hard 
to make much sense of life these 
days as we slip deeper and deeper 
into the technological morass of this 
century, but no matter what our ex-
istential trappings, we are still hu-
man beings doing the best we can in 
an increasingly complicated world. 
Poetry will help us deal with it.”
However, I do disagree with him 
on one point. Although not dead 
yet, poetry does seem to be dying. 
It will be a sad funeral I will attend 
when it happens, but our short 
time left with poetry makes it that 
much more important to enjoy it 
now. I’m not asking much: simply 
take five or 10 minutes once a day 
— or even once a week — and read 
a poem.
And to poetry itself, just lis-
ten to Dylan Thomas: “Do not 
go gentle into that good night. 
/ Rage, rage against the dying of 
the light.”
McCann is a Plan II freshman 
from Dallas.
My mother emigrated from Mexico at the 
age of 25. When I was growing up, she put 
a huge emphasis on my grades, sometimes 
to the detriment of my other activities. My 
mother’s emphasis, and my resulting grades, 
made me particularly well suited for admis-
sion to UT through the Top 10 Percent law. 
Had I not been near the top of my class, 
it would have been a challenge to get in 
through the University’s holistic review ad-
missions process, which evaluates a candi-
date using indices of academic and personal 
achievements such as test scores, essays, ex-
tracurricular activities, family situation and 
race. In 2011, Latinos accounted for 29 per-
cent of those admitted under the Top Ten 
Percent rule, but holistic review only admits 
14 percent. This implies that it would have 
been harder for me to get in through holis-
tic review, a race-conscious process with the 
stated goal of increasing diversity, than my 
white peers. 
Fisher v. University of Texas, a case that 
challenges UT’s consideration of race in ad-
missions, will be heard at the U.S. Supreme 
Court next week. Fisher alleges that she 
was disadvantaged as a white applicant in 
2008, when she was denied admission into 
UT. The case has been garnering attention 
because some argue that it could finally dis-
mantle the institution of affirmative action, 
first put into place by President John F. Ken-
nedy in 1961 to counter the effects of racial 
discrimination. 
I look at the statistics on the racial com-
position of applicants admitted through ho-
listic review and wonder how a policy that 
disproportionately favors whites and Asians 
gets to be called affirmative action. In an 
interview with The Daily Texan, University 
President William Powers Jr. admits that 
African Americans and Hispanics are un-
derrepresented at UT. During the “Fisher v. 
Texas and You: A Conversation with Civil 
Rights Leaders” panel discussion held this 
week and sponsored by We Support UT and 
the Multicultural Engagment Center WHO, 
a mostly minority audience was asked “How 
many of you think there isn’t enough diversi-
ty on campus?” A clear majority of attendees 
raised their hands. 
One of the arguments made by Fisher us-
ing UT admission data is that “race” does not 
play a frequent enough role in determining 
holistic decisions to justify the continuing 
use of it as a consideration. U.S. Court of 
Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge Emilio 
Garza, quoted in Fisher’s brief, found that 
UT’s race-conscious policy is “completely 
ineffectual in accomplishing its claimed 
compelling interest.” Instead, according to 
Fisher supporters, the policy has the look of 
institutional racism. 
On the other hand, the brief filed on be-
half of the University by Patricia Ohlendorf, 
vice president for legal affairs, dismisses 
Fisher’s argument about modest weight-
ing of race as “counter-intuitive.” Karolina 
Lyznik, an attorney for the Mexican Ameri-
can Legal Defense and Education Fund, 
who, like me, recalls her immigrant parents 
locking her in her room to study, said at 
Tuesday’s panel that even though there is a 
disparity between the compositions of ap-
plicants admitted through the Top 10 Per-
cent rule and holistic review, there is still a 
considerable number of minority students 
being admitted both ways. Lyznik added 
that holistic review does a great job of se-
lecting a diverse group of people from with-
in each race. 
In the modern era, diversity is a com-
plex topic that can’t be addressed with four 
coarsely defined racial categories, African 
American, Hispanic, White Non-Hispanic 
and Asian. Diversity includes a very wide 
range of considerations that are not limited 
to race, ethnicity, family circumstances, so-
cio-economic class and geography. The Top 
10 Percent rule is good at attracting students 
to represent much of this diversity because 
much of the state remains segregated.
Sam Robles, a social work and Hispan-
ic studies junior, who helped organize 
Tuesday’s panel, recognizes that holistic 
review as un-ideal. She said, “It’s frus-
trating seeing these admission numbers 
and how they speak to issues of racial 
prejudice on campus.”
Robles wants to educate students about 
the Fisher case because students are in a po-
sition to go back to their communities and 
encourage underprivileged students to apply 
to UT. Any lack of diversity we see is not a 
result of a biased admission process, but a 
faulty and unequal K-12 public education 
system. There is a real chance that UT’s ho-
listic review will be found unconstitutional; 
affirmative action has a limited shelf life and 
our conservative U.S. Supreme Court judges 
may find it has expired. And as an underrep-
resented minority, I relied on the Top 10 Per-
cent law as my way into UT. Had I had lower 
grades, it would have been unlikely that I 
would be admitted through holistic review. 
I believe the fight for diversity on this cam-
pus is not over, but it’s hard to support UT’s 
race-conscious admissions policy when it 
increases diversity within privileged groups, 
while not helping those that have historically 
and to this day need it.
Nill is an ecology, evolution and behavior 
senior from San Antonio. 
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We asked: Fisher v. UT, for or againstHolistic review doesn’t helpBy Ryan NilDaily Texan Columnist“Well, I disagree with the University’s policy 
to use affirmative action in their decision on 
accepting students … If you made a lot more 
based on financial criteria versus the criteria 
of race, sex or any of those types of things, 
we’d be much better served as to who we’re 
letting in, as to diversity and giving people 
equal opportunity.” 
Trenton Makare, mechanical 
engineering sophomore 
“Well I’m Hispanic, so I guess coming from 
my point of view I don’t think my ethnicity 
or race got me into this university because 
we work just as hard as any other race to be 
here.” 
Madeline Chacon, communications freshman 
“Affirmative action maybe has served its 
purpose, but I don’t know. I think the univer-
sity is a pretty multiracial, multicultural cam-
pus and so I think that there’s a lot of minor-
ity groups on campus now. It probably wasn’t 
that way when affirmative actions started, so 
maybe that’s grounds to keep it going because 
there’s a lot of inequality. So I guess my an-
swer is still undecided.” 
Andrew Averitt, biology senior 
“I’m going with being colorblind — no af-
firmative action. We’re trying to build a soci-
ety where we don’t treat people based on the 
color of their skin, and for schools to look at 
us and admit us or not admit us with that be-
ing a factor is not helping anything.”
Nana-Ama Anang, marine biology junior 
By Mac McCannDaily Texan ColumnistPoetic triageI look at the statistics on 
the racial composition 
of applicants admitted 
through holistic review and 
wonder how a policy that 
disproportionately favors 
whites and Asians gets to be 
called affirmative action.
We asked students standing on the steps of the Tower who they support in next week’s 
Oct. 10 Supreme Court case challenging UT’s race-conscious admissions policy. Abigail 
Fisher, a white student from Sugar Land, sued the University on the grounds that she was 
denied admission in 2008 due to UT’s unconstitutional, she alleges, consideration of race. 
— Paul Ruffin2009 Texas State Poet Laureate“If life is relevant, then poetry 
is relevant. It is awfully hard 
to make much sense of life 
these days as we slip deeper 
and deeper into the techno-
logical morass of this century, 
but no matter what our exis-
tential trappings, we are still 
human beings doing the best 
we can in an increasingly 
complicated world. Poetry 
will help us deal with it.” 
‘‘

students than white students for the first time. However, data still 
shows a disproportionate number of UT students come from 
white, urban and suburban, upper-middle class families.
WHERE WE COME FROMAccording to a Dec. 2011 annual enrollment report to Gov. 
Rick Perry, 43 percent of the UT entering in-state students came 
from major suburban high schools, and 15 percent came from 
major urban high schools.
A further breakdown shows that of the 6,336 in-state freshman 
who came to UT in fall 2011, 23 percent came from the Houston 
area, 13 percent came from the Dallas area and 14 percent came 
from the Austin area. These numbers are in line with the distri-
bution of the state’s patterns of school enrollment, according to 
Texas Education Agency documents.
Demographic equality for last year’s entering class of 6,336 in-
state students ends there.
UT admissions data suggests having a parent who attended 
college proves a serious advantage for incoming students. Ac-
cording to census data, 25.8 percent of Texans aged 25 or older 
hold a bachelor’s degree or higher. Of students admitted to last 
year’s freshman class, 69 percent came from families with parents 
who earned a bachelor’s degree or higher. Four percent of those 
admitted had parents with an associate’s degree. First generation 
college students made up 23 percent of the class.
The gap reflects national trends, said Richard Reddick, assis-
tant professor for educational administration. About 93 percent 
of students with college-educated parents attend college, and 
about 60 percent of students whose parents did not attend col-
lege pursue higher education, Reddick said.
First-generation college students do well at higher education 
institutions if they make it there, Reddick said.
“As a first-generation collegian myself, I want to make it clear 
that first-generation and low-income students are not necessarily 
less prepared academically, but they and their families often have 
less information available regarding issues such as college choice 
and financial aid,” Reddick said.
Lack of access to and knowledge about financial aid may lead 
to the socioeconomic gap between students who enroll at UT 
and those who don’t, Reddick said.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the median income for 
a Texas household between 2006 and 2010 was $49,646. Of in-
state students admitted to UT in 2011, 46 percent came from 
households with incomes of greater than $100,000 per year. In 
comparison, 8 percent were admitted from families making less 
than $20,000 per year and 23 percent came from families making 
between $20,000 and $59,000. 
Reddick described the socioeconomic gap as “pervasive” and 
attributed it to settlement patterns.
“[It] has much to do with residential segregation. We tend to 
live in neighborhoods that are racially and economically homog-
enous,” Reddick said.
At U,T students who are identified as white made up 45 per-
cent of admitted in-state freshmen for 2011. This is comparable 
to census data that estimates 44.8 percent of the state’s population 
was white, non-Hispanic in 2011. Hispanics made up 25 percent 
of the same class, while they made up 38 percent of the state. 
Blacks made up 6 percent of the admitted class versus 12.2 per-
cent of the state population. Asian students made up 19 percent 
of the class versus 4 percent of the state population.
HOW WE GOT HEREState law mandates UT and all state universities automati-
cally admit 75 percent of the freshman class based on students’ 
class rank. At UT that currently means students who rank in 
the top eight percent in high school will be automatically ad-
mitted. The remaining 25 percent of students are admitted un-
der a process called “holistic review,” where standardized test 
scores, high school coursework, class rank, written essays, a 
resume, letters of recommendation and special circumstances 
are taken into account.
The gaps in race and socioeconomic status amplify among 
those admitted through holistic review rather than the automatic 
admissions law. Of holistic review admits in 2011, 58 percent of 
students were white and 61 percent came from families with in-
come of more than $100,000.
“I thought UT would be very diverse before I got here,” said 
microbiology freshman Amee’ra Fuller, an African American 
student from Killeen. “And then I got here, and it wasn’t.”
Ishop said her office cannot compare applicants to state de-
mographics during the admissions process because it would be 
illegal to set a quota of students with specific qualities.
“It’s not a process of quota and demographic-matching. It’s a 
process of trying to build this community of diversity so students 
can learn from one another,” Ishop said.
She said the University looks at its previous demographics 
to see how outreach and recruitment has helped diversify 
the campus.
“What we want to see is improvement, and we’ve seen a 
multitude of improvement over time, including this school 
year, in which we’re serving 24 percent of first-generation stu-
dents and 30 percent low-income students [in the freshman 
class],” Ishop said.
The racial makeup at UT has become more proportional over 
time. In 1996 the in-state freshman class had 4 percent black stu-
dents and 15 percent Hispanic students, 14 percent Asian stu-
dents and 63 percent white students.
“The biggest challenge is perception,” Ishop said. “We’re a big 
institution. The perception is that we are inaccessible, that it’s 
impossible to get into UT, or they’ve heard it’s too hard. All of 
these are challenges to these groups of students we’re working to 
recruit. That’s why it’s important to get face time with these stu-
dents in their communities.”
GETTING PAST PERCEPTIONPatrick Patterson, director of University Outreach Centers, 
acts as a liaison between higher education and students from tra-
ditionally under-served backgrounds.
Patterson and his staff provide information about college ad-
missions, counseling, SAT preparation and essay writing assis-
tance to high-achieving high school and middle school students 
who receive free or reduced lunch in the Austin Independent 
School District and fit the demographics of students who tradi-
tionally face barriers to entering higher education.
“Our goal is not necessarily for them to come to UT but just to 
go to college,” Patterson said. The UT Outreach-Austin program 
is one of five across the state. Other branches are in Dallas, Hous-
ton, San Antonio and Rio Grande Valley.
Eighty percent of last year’s graduating UT Outreach-Austin 
class matriculated to college, with 62 percent going to four-year 
institutions, Patterson said. This fall 23 alumni of the program 
enrolled in UT, and 15 went to the other UT System schools 
through the Coordinated Admissions Program, Patterson said. 
The UT Outreach-Austin program serves 500 to 600 middle 
school and high school students every year, Patterson said.
Exercise science freshman Wendoline Gamez said she would 
have been lost during the college application process without UT 
Outreach-Austin’s support.
“I would have never known about SAT prep or ACT prep,” 
Gamez said. “I would have been lost and nervous about whether 
I wanted to do this. Then I would have been overwhelmed by the 
cost and financial aid. I would have not wanted to further my ed-
ucation, because I was scared, because I didn’t know what to do.”
Once first-generation, rural and minority students and oth-
ers get to UT, they can join the Gateway Scholars program for 
help making it through their freshman year. The program admits 
300 freshman every year and provides academic support, pri-
ority registration and intense coaching through the first year at 
UT. The program recently expanded to include a four-year focus 
geared toward graduate and professional school training, Tiffany 
Tillis, director of initiatives and administrative services for the 
program, said.
“Our students come in, and they are performing on the same 
level as any other student on this campus, but for many of them 
the social capital is what is lacking,” Tillis said. “How to man-
age your time, how to study, how to take an exam — we want to 
expose them to tools to succeeding at this university. Navigating 
this institution is probably 50 percent of the battle.”
SCHOOLS HELPING THEIR STUDENTSRural and urban school districts around the state are learning 
how to give their students an extra edge against the largely white 
suburban schools that make up much of UT’s admitted class.
“In the rural schools, I think students have less opportunity to take 
the higher level classes that their suburban counterparts have, simply 
because it’s more difficult to attract instructors,” said Don Rogers, ex-
ecutive director of the Texas Rural Education Association.
Many rural schools are using distance learning and partner-
ships with community colleges that allow dual credit for high 
school and college-level courses to make their students more 
competitive, Rogers said.
At the urban level, school districts like Houston Independent 
School District have begun to instill college readiness very early.
Lupita Hinojosa, school services officer for Houston ISD, said 
the minority-majority district has a program where students are 
taught college readiness from the time they are in elementary 
schools. The program includes outreach efforts for their families. 
“If you go into our kindergarten classes and ask our kids if they 
are going to college, nine times out of 10 they can tell you where 
they want to go,” Hinojosa said. “It’s usually the college of their 
teacher, but the influence is there.”
A number of large suburban high schools across the state have 
stopped ranking students outside the top 10 percent. This allows 
their students to avoid having low class rank counted against 
them in the holistic admissions process.
Westlake High School in Austin dropped its ranking system 
in 2010, Jeff Pilchiek, director of guidance counselors at the 
school, said.
“In regards to UT, we have had a lot of success in the last few 
years since we got rid of class rank,” Pilchiek said. “Class rank 
in a very competitive high school is not an accurate indicator of 
whether a student will do well in college or not, because their 
class ranks are so close to each other. You could be two ten-thou-
sandth [of a GPA point] off and be in the bottom half of the class.”
In 2010, 93 Westlake students were admitted to UT. In 2011, 
after the school eliminated the ranking system, 142 students got 
into UT.
Pilchiek said eliminating class rank would not be a benefit in 
many Texas schools, which means each school has to tailor its 
system accordingly.
“If I went to another public high school in Texas, like in Bren-
ham, Texas, with 250 kids, the class ranking system is going to 
advantage me more if I’m working hard,” Pilchiek said.
Meanwhile, UT continues to strive for diversity in its student 
body. Examining factors like race and socioeconomic back-
ground in holistic review advances this goal.
“We’re looking for high-achieving students from all over the 
state of Texas,” Ishop said. “Will they all get in? No. But we don’t 
read 35,000 applications to admit students from one group.”
WHAT’S NEXT? FISHER V. TEXASThe Supreme Court will hear UT’s argument for its right to 
consider race in admissions next Wednesday in Fisher v. Texas. 
Abigail Fisher, a white student who applied to UT and was 
denied admission, filed suit against the University for its use of 
race in the holistic admissions process along with another stu-
dent in 2008. Fisher, now the sole plaintiff, claims the University’s 
use of race violates their right to equal protection under the 14th 
Amendment.
Race is one of seven factors the University considers special 
circumstances in the admissions process. Others include socio-
economic status, adversity and an applicant’s family responsibili-
ties. The admissions department examines these elements along 
with academic achievement, such as standardized test scores and 
grades, as well as personal achievement, evaluated through re-
sumes, recommendations and essays. 
Reddick said the case is something every member of the UT 
community should care about.
“If we are in the business of preparing students to work and 
coexist in a diverse state, nation and world, we need every tool 
at our disposal to ensure that the college environment allows for 
true exposure to colleagues and peers that represent the cultural 
mosaic found in the workforce,” Reddick said.
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processestop 8 percentHolistic Review41 percentWhite58 percentWhite45 percentWhite41 percentFamily income 
more than $100,00061 percentFamily income 
more than $100,00046 percentFamily income 
more than $100,000These percentages refer 
to the admitted class 
of in-state freshmen for 2011.
We’re looking for high- 
achieving students 
from all over the state 
of Texas. Will they all 
get in? No. But we don’t 
read 35,000 applications 
to admit students from 
one group.
Kedra Ishop, vice provost 
and director of admissions...we need every tool at 
our disposal to ensure 
that the college envi-
ronment allows for true 
exposure to colleagues 
and peers that repre-
sent the cultural mosaic 
found in the workforce.
Richard Reddick, asst. professor 
for educational administrationmethodologyUniversity data comes from a report to the governor, 
the lieutenant governor and the speaker of the House 
of Representatives on the implementation of SB 175 
from the University of Texas at Austin, published 
December 31, 2011. State wide data was pulled from 
census data.
Graphics by Natasha Smith | Daily Texan Staff

At the back of the pub-
lic weight room at Gregory 
Gym is a small, window-
less room with a small sign 
that reads “Powerlifting.” 
The Longhorn Powerlifting 
team, while not a Division 
I athletic team, stays active 
and lifting through the ef-
forts of volunteer coaches 
and motivated students.
Texas boasts superb pow-
erlifting talent, especially in 
the muscles of psychology 
sophomore Ian Bell and ex-
ercise science junior Preston 
Turner. The two are room-
mates, and Texas knows 
how good roommates can 
be: Both hold several state, 
national and international 
titles, plus a couple of world 
records in their respective 
weight classes.
Turner hails from Victo-
ria, Texas, where he excelled 
in many different sports in 
high school, including base-
ball and football. As a fresh-
man, he began powerlifting 
and was hooked. According 
to Turner, lifting is big in 
Texas high schools, because 
it is a way to stay in shape 
during the football offsea-
son. As a senior he was re-
cruited to play football by 
several smaller schools but 
decided to come to Texas 
and focus on lifting.
“It is really for the love of 
the sport,” Turner said. “It’s 
highly addicting.”
Turner and Bell have both 
been around the world for 
powerlifting, including to 
the Czech Republic, Canada 
and Poland.
At the 2012 IPF Junior 
World Championships in 
Szczyrk, Poland, both Turn-
er and Bell set world re-
cords. Turner set a record on 
the bench press with a lift on 
684 lbs, which is not his per-
sonal best. His personal best 
of around 700 lbs came at a 
bench press-only competi-
tion rather than a full meet.
“It’s definitely a lot of ded-
ication, because you can’t get 
back the days you missed,” 
Turner said. “It’s not about 
coming in and maxing out 
everyday; it’s about working 
through a plan.”
Bell comes from a pow-
erlifting background. His 
father, Gene Bell, who has a 
couple of world titles under 
his belt, was a huge moti-
vating force in Bell’s career 
as both a trainer and a role 
Cole Kirby thought 
#GetLoudDKR would be a 
small inside joke between 
his friends.
He was wrong.
More than 2,000 peo-
ple have committed to 
a Facebook event called 
“#GETLOUDDKR” that 
encourages fans to tag 
#GetLoudDKR on Twitter 
and raise the noise at this 
weekend’s football game 
against West Virginia. The 
campaign is in response to 
Kenny Vaccaro’s Sept. 10 
comments that he prefers 
playing on the road than 
at home, because Darrell 
K Royal-Texas Memorial 
Stadium is too quiet.
On Monday religious 
studies junior Kirby said he 
was discussing his excite-
ment for the West Virginia 
game with advertising junior 
Ryan Hernandez. 
With three shutouts un-
der her belt, Abby Smith 
has quickly made her mark 
on the Texas program. She 
missed most of the non-
conference schedule while 
playing internationally 
with the U.S. Under-20 
Women’s National team. 
While Texas was at home 
fighting through a scor-
ing slump, Smith was part 
of the U.S. team compet-
ing for the World Cup 
in Japan.
“Being with the U20 
girls helped a lot,” Smith 
said. “Being over there 
because the speed of play 
is a lot faster, and coming 
back over here it’s also a 
high level.”
A 3-0 loss to Germany 
sent the U.S. in the quar-
terfinals as the second 
team from its group, but 
wins over North Korea and 
Nigeria set up the rematch 
with Germany in the final. 
The U.S. would not fall a 
second time and took the 
gold with a 1-0 win in the 
final Sept. 8.
Meanwhile, Texas had 
just completed a road trip 
through Utah that saw it 
shut out by both BYU and 
Utah while giving up six 
goals for its fifth and sixth 
losses of the season. Smith 
joined Texas for the first 
time with the Longhorns 
riding a four-game los-
ing streak. Her presence 
would change that.
Smith shut out her first 
opponent as Texas rolled 
to a 3-0 win over Fresno 
State in Austin. Her next 
game was not quite as 
comfortable, as Denver 
came in fresh off of a win 
over Kansas and scored 
three goals on Smith. 
But Texas answered with 
three goals of its own to 
force the tie.
“[Getting Smith back] 
is huge. It helps tremen-
dously,” sophomore Whit-
ney Jaynes said. “Her com-
munication is awesome. 
Coming from someone 
who plays in the back line, 
it helps so much. You just 
have this trust in her.”
Having only played two 
games as a Longhorn, 
Smith was thrown into 
conference play on the 
road against Iowa State 
and Oklahoma, and she 
did not disappoint. She 
recorded six saves on the 
way to shutouts of both 
Iowa State and Oklahoma 
as Texas went from the cel-
lar to the penthouse in the 
Big 12 standings.
Despite being only a 
freshman and missing 
most of the offseason, 
Smith has gotten off to 
a fast start thanks to her 
time overseas with the 
U20 team. But Smith’s time 
away has not dampened 
her expectations.
“I expected all the girls 
to be ready to go, and obvi-
ously we were because we 
won two big games,” Smith 
said. ”Our expectations are 
on both sides because they 
were expecting me to be 
ready and I was expecting 
them to be ready for the 
game, and we were.”
Smith brought new en-
ergy to the Longhorns who 
were struggling through 
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Sports7Friday, October 5, 2012SIDELINEAthletes work for love of liftingBy Sara Beth PurdyFanny Trang | Daily Texan StaffLinguistics graduate student Jörn Klinger powerlifts at Gregory Gym Tuesday evening. The Longhorn Powerlifting team includes two 
world record holders who performed at the 2012 IPF Junior World Championship in Poland.
Smith gives Texas new energyVaccaro’s comments 
create noise campaignBy Bobby BlanchardBy Wes MaulsbyZachary Strain | Daily Texan file photoAbby Smith missed the first portion of the season while playing with the U.S. under 20 team in 
the World Cup. Her immediate impact has turned around Texas’ season.
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— Abby Smith 
Freshman goalkeeperBeing with the U20 
girls helped a lot 
... being over there 
because the speed 
of play is a lot faster, 
and coming back 
over here it’s also a 
high level.
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Kabongo preseason 
first-team All-Big 12Myck Kanbongo has 
been selected as first team 
all Big 12 in preseason 
coaches poll. Kabongo, a 
2011 honorable mention, 
ranked fourth in the con-
ference in assists. Sheldon 
McClellan was selected 
as an honerable mention 
and is leading returning 
scorer for Texas. Texas 
lost its leading scorer 
from last season, J’Coven 
Brown to the NBA, so 
McClellan and Kabongo 
will have to take on larger 
roles in order to make up 
for his lost production.
Fussell named All-Big 
12 honorable mentionFollowing an All Con-
ference selection in 2011, 
Chassidy Fussell has 
been named an all con-
ference honorable men-
tion for the 2012-2013 
season. She was the first 
all conference selection 
for the Longhorns since 
2007, and averaged 17 
points per game in the 
Big 12. The sharpshoot-
er was third in 3-point 
field goals made, and led 
the conference in free 
throw percentage. 
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October 5, 2012With the field dwin-
dling as the ITA All-
American Championships 
near their end, only three 
Longhorns remain in 
the competition.
In the main singles 
draw, Daniel Whitehead 
fell in the first round to 
Alex Domijan from Vir-
ginia. But Soren Hess-
Olesen won his first and 
second-round matches in 
straight sets to advance to 
the round of 16. He will 
face Japie De Klerk today 
for the chance to advance 
to the quarterfinals.
The pair of Sudanwa 
Sitaram and Whitehead 
was eliminated in the first 
round of the doubles draw 
to bring the tournament 
to a close for both. Chris 
Camillone and David Ho-
liner used an 8-6 win over 
Robin Cambier and Jeff 
Mullen to advance to the 
round of 16. The fourth-
seeded pair will face Jar-
ryd Chaplin and Mikelis 
Libietis out of Tennessee, 
with the winner advanc-
ing to the elite eight.
Texas has made a sig-
nificant improvement on 
its performance from last 
season. It did not advance 
a single athlete into the 
main draw for either sin-
gles or doubles play, but 
its performance this sea-
son has given the Long-
horns a chance at two 
titles this season.
A win Friday would 
put either of the Long-
horns into the semifinals 
Saturday, with the finals 
of both the singles and 
doubles play taking place 
Sunday. After being shut 
out of main draw play last 
season, Texas is already 
ahead for this season. But 
with the championships 
only a few wins away, the 
Longhorns might as well 
enjoy their stay in Tulsa as 
long as they can.
Daniel Whitehead 
SeniorMEN’s TENNIS | WES MAULSBYWEEKEND PREVIEWsFresh off another Big 12 
match sweep, the No. 9 Long-
horns head to Manhattan, 
Kansas to face No. 14 Kansas 
State on Saturday night at 7 
p.m. Last weekend the Long-
horns swept TCU at home to 
bring their Big 12 conference 
record to 5-0 and season re-
cord to 12-3. They have yet to 
lose a set against a Big 12 op-
ponent and are ranked first 
in the Big 12 by two games 
over Kansas.
The Wildcats are fresh off 
a sweep of fellow Big 12 op-
ponent No. 22 Iowa State at 
home. They are 16-1 on the 
season and 3-1 in confer-
ence play. Their only confer-
ence lost came at the hands 
of Oklahoma who was on 
a five game winning streak 
when they swept Kansas State 
in Manhattan.
Last season, the Longhorns 
went 2-0 against the Wildcats, 
sweeping them 3-0 in Manhat-
tan before taking the series 3-1 
in Austin. Texas is 27-7 against 
Kansas State. The Longhorns 
are a favorite not only to win 
this match-up against Kansas 
State, but also to win the Big 
12 conference.
Directly after the game 
against TCU midweek on 
Wednesday, the Longhorn’s 
junior outside hitter Bailey 
Webster admitted that they 
were already looking forward 
to going on the road to Kansas 
State on Saturday.
“We are excited to con-
tinue,” Webster said. “Kansas 
State is a really good team.”
Webster, last season’s 
Big 12 Player of the Year, 
has been on fire all season. 
Against TCU, Webster re-
corded 12 kills and hit an 
impressive .647. So far this 
season, she has 121 kills and 
is hitting .290.
Junior setter Hanna Al-
lison hit over 2,000 assists 
against TCU, making her 
only the 11th person in Texas 
history to do so. She recorded 
a double-double with 10 digs 
and 36 assists. Her career as-
sist total is 2,025.
The Wildcats are led by Ju-
nior middle blocker Kaitlynn 
Pelger who has been domi-
nating all season. Against 
Iowa State on Wednesday, 
Pelger had 16 kills with a .556 
hitting line. Pelger leads Kan-
sas State with 216 kills on the 
season while hitting .379.
This is the third time that 
head coach Jerritt Elliott has 
opened Big 12 play with a 5-0 
record, the other two seasons 
came in 2004 and 2009.
The Longhorns fought 
through some ups and 
downs this week, ulti-
mately making day six 
of the ITA All-American 
Championships in Los 
Angeles the last for Texas’ 
attempt to make some se-
rious noise in the tourney.
Senior Aeriel Ellis was 
the last Longhorn to play. 
She made her first champi-
onship appearance in the 
main singles draw, facing 
Penn State’s Petra Janus-
kova. Ellis, who did not 
play competitively for two 
and a half weeks, dropped 
her match in straight sets 
of 6-2, 6-4. The loss drops 
Ellis to 2-3 this season in 
matches played.
The week has proved 
to be tough for the Long-
horns. Junior Elizabeth 
Begley’s 2-1 record is 
the sole bright spot for 
the team.
The Longhorns’ final 
record for this week’s 
competition stands at 4-5. 
Despite being eliminated, 
Ellis will look to even her 
team’s record in the singles 
consolation draw, match-
ing up with Georgia State’s 
Abigail Tere-Apisah Fri-
day at 12:30 p.m. 
Aeriel Ellis 
SeniorWOMEN’s TENNIS | Christopher CaraveoITA ALL AMERICAN 
CHAMPIONSHIPSDate: Friday through 
Sunday, Oct. 7Time: All dayLocation: Los Angeles, CABy Sara Beth PurdyVOLLEYBALLHorns face best Big 12 team yetITA ALL AMERICAN 
CHAMPIONSHIPSDate: Friday through 
Sunday, Oct. 7Time: All dayLocation: Tulsa, OKTEXASDate: TodayTime: 7 p.m.
Location: Manhattan, KSVS.
KSULIFTING continues from page 7SOCCER continues from page 7model. Bell started when 
he was 13, wanting to fol-
low in the family footsteps.
Like Turner, Bell holds 
a couple of world records, 
including one in deadlift 
for his weight class, a re-
cord he set when he trav-
eled with Turner to Po-
land earlier this year. His 
personal best is a deadlift 
of 810 lbs achieved at the 
GNC International PRO 
Deadlift Competition.
Despite everyone com-
peting individually, pow-
erlifting in college is not 
like it is in high school.
“We focus on team 
here because powerlift-
ing in college is a team 
sport,” Bell said. “We are 
always encouraging each 
other, trying to make each 
other better.”
Since it’s not a Divi-
sion I sport, most of the 
lifters have lives outside 
of the weight room, in-
cluding demanding ma-
jors that require a lot of 
time management.
“School always comes 
first,” Turner said. “But 
I think it’s healthy to 
come in here and throw 
around some big weights, 
especially during a 
stressful week.”
Even if some are not 
at the top of the class or 
into the intense competi-
tions like Turner and Bell, 
some people find advan-
tages to participating i 
n powerlifting.
“I think being strong is a 
really sexy trait, whether it 
be mentally or physically,” 
psychology junior Ploy 
Buraparate said.
Several women have 
found a home among 
the Texas powerlifting 
team, denying the stigma 
that weightlifting is only 
for men.
“It is kind of intimidat-
ing, but at the same time 
there is just a lot of cama-
raderie,” Natalie Escareno, 
an English and commu-
nication science and dis-
orders senior, said. “It is 
fun. The one thing I love 
about this sport is that it is 
about how much you train, 
how much effort you put 
into it.”
Escareno said powerlift-
ing is 100 percent different 
compared to bodybuild-
ing, and women should 
not be afraid of joining.
“We are always look-
ing for girls,” Escareno 
said. “There is always this 
misconception that this is 
bodybuilding, but it’s not. 
We are as girly as can be.”
The team is led by Turn-
er and Bell, along with 
economics senior Austin 
DeShane, who is the presi-
dent of the group. Their 
current unofficial coach is 
stepping down as he com-
pletes his schooling to join 
the workforce.
“We are working to-
gether to coach the team 
and all the new guys,” De-
Shane said. “It’s a team dy-
namic where everybody’s 
got your back, everybody’s 
looking out for each other.”
their first season under 
head coach Angela Kelly. 
But Kelly was not wor-
ried. A similar start in her 
first season at Tennessee 
had prepared her for the 
ups and downs that came 
along with the grind of 
the season.
Now Texas must pre-
pare for what may be its 
biggest test of the season. 
The Longhorns host Okla-
homa State Friday. While 
the Cowgirls are off to a 
rough start in Big 12 play, 
they are still the defend-
ing regular season cham-
pions and are one of the 
best teams in the confer-
ence. They are one of only 
three teams in the Big 12 
with at least 10 wins and 
are the highest-ranked 
team in the conference at 
No. 22. But Texas has had 
the week off to prepare 
for the Cowgirls’ attack, 
but more importantly, 
it’s given Smith a week 
off to rest.
“We chose not to sched-
ule a game this weekend 
knowing that Abby Smith 
would have to be emo-
tionally and physically 
responding to what would 
hopefully be a World Cup 
victory,” Kelly said.
With the World Cup 
running into early Sep-
tember, Smith has played 
23 games since February 
while traveling all over 
the world.
Texas and Oklahoma 
State will kick off Friday 
at 7 p.m.
Elisabeth Dillon | Daily Texan StaffNicole Dalton sets up a play for Texas during the game against TCU Wednesday. The Longhorns will 
face their biggest challenger for the Big 12 crown this weekend in Manhattan.
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Fall is upon us, and so are 
the early rounds of bye weeks 
for players. Shuffling a roster 
to adjust for a key fantasy play-
er’s off week is always difficult, 
so here are a few suggestions 
for players who are sure to be 
taking the field this weekend: 
Start:
1) Robert Griffin III, QB, Wash-
ington RedskinsRG3! RG3! In case you 
haven’t heard, this Griffin guy 
is pretty good. Despite being a 
rookie, he has put up the most 
fantasy points of any quarter-
back through four games this 
season. The key to his success 
is versatility in the running 
and passing game. Coinciden-
tally, this week Griffin will face 
the Falcons, a team that had 
a ton of problems containing 
dual-threat quarterback Cam 
Newton. Expect RG3 to con-
tinue playing at a high level.
2) Trent Richardson, RB, 
Cleveland Browns 
The rookie trend contin-
ues with Richardson looking 
like a strong starting option 
this week against the Giants. 
Despite playing alongside 
rookie QB Brandon Weeden, 
who has struggled mightily, 
Richardson has managed to 
score in the Browns’ last three 
contests. Whether or not the 
Browns have a good day in the 
Meadowlands Sunday, Rich-
ardson should produce.
3) Darren Sproles, RB, New 
Orleans Saints 
Holy cow, no one saw the 
Saints stumbling out of the 
gate to a 0-4 start. Despite 
his team’s struggles, Sproles 
remains a consistent fantasy 
threat. Thanks to his abil-
ity to run the ball and catch 
passes out of the backfield 
in the Saints’ creative screen 
game, Sproles is a versatile 
weapon for QB Drew Brees. 
With the Saints in desperation 
mode and his former team, 
the San Diego Chargers, com-
ing into town for a Sunday 
Night Football showdown, 
Sproles should be in store for a 
big game.
Sit:
1) Michael Bush, RB, Chicago 
Bears 
With starting running back 
Matt Forte out with an ankle 
injury for the past several 
weeks, Bush became a fantasy 
starter. However, with Forte 
healthy and back in the start-
ing lineup, Bush’s workload 
is sure to decrease this week 
against the Jacksonville Jag-
uars. Although he remains a 
viable threat in deep fantasy 
leagues because of his poten-
tial for goal-line touches, avoid 
Bush if you can.
2) Brandon Bolden, RB, New 
England Patriots 
Bolden exploded onto the 
scene in week four against 
the Buffalo Bills, racking 
up 137 rushing yards and a 
touchdown. However, New 
England players are always 
risky fantasy starts due to the 
Patriots’ propensity to spread 
the ball around. Considering 
he is behind RB Stevan Rid-
ley on the depth chart and the 
Patriots are facing the Den-
ver Broncos’ top 10 rushing 
defense, don’t expect Bold-
en to have a similar outing 
this week.
3) Matt Cassel, QB, Kansas 
City Chiefs 
You know a quarterback 
is struggling when fans are 
already calling for him to be 
replaced by the fifth game. 
You really know he’s strug-
gling when his backup and 
sudden fan-favorite is Brady 
Quinn, who has not started 
an NFL game since 2009. 
With the Ravens coming 
to town and the pressure 
mounting, Cassel could be in 
store for more boos from his 
home crowd.
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continues from page 7“We started talking 
about how the crowd and 
noise isn’t very loud, es-
pecially for a stadium that 
holds as many people as 
it does,” Kirby said. “We 
thought it would be funny 
to try some sort of social 
media advertisement to 
encourage fans to get into 
the game.”
Kirby and Hernan-
dez created a Facebook 
event and invited about 
150 people. Within an 
hour and a half, Hernan-
dez said 600 people had 
joined the event and more 
than 3,000 people had 
been invited. Todd Jones, 
Kirby’s roommate and 
history senior, was one of 
the initial people promot-
ing the campaign. He said 
they were all surprised to 
see its growth.
“We just thought it was 
going to be between us, 
between friends of ours, 
20-30 people that we 
know,” Jones said. “We 
did not think that over a 
thousand people would 
be coming.”
The campaign to make 
the stadium loud comes 
on the eve of what Kirby 
said could be UT’s big-
gest game of the season. 
Both the Longhorns and 
the Mountaineers are en-
tering Saturday night’s 
game undefeated.
Longhorn quarterback 
David Ash had the best 
game of his career against 
OSU last weekend, where 
he went 30-37 with more 
than 300 yards. Mean-
while the New York Times 
has called West Virginia 
quarterback Geno Smith 
the “Heisman front-run-
ner.” Smith has completed 
20 touchdown passes this 
season, eight of which 
were made against Baylor 
last weekend.
“I think this is one of 
our tougher games, if 
not the toughest game,” 
Hernandez said. “West 
Virginia is a really good 
program, and no one has 
been able to stop that of-
fense led by Geno Smith.”
Hernandez said he 
hopes the campaign will 
boost the noise in the sta-
dium Saturday night.
“The crowd can affect 
the game in such a small 
way, like forcing a team 
to call a timeout just be-
cause they can’t hear the 
game,” Hernandez said. 
“If we can make them 
really nervous in just 
one play, it will be a job 
well done.”
Since the campaign 
started, the hashtag has 
circulated to the Twit-
ter accounts of UT 
footballl players, The 
Daily Texan, UT’s Dean 
of Students and the 
Longhorn Network.
“I think after this ex-
periment, social media 
has a bigger role to play in 
sports than I originally as-
sumed, especially for col-
lege sports,” Kirby said. 
“So many college kids are 
on Facebook and Twitter, 
and it’s a great way to get 
enthusiasm out.”
The Longhorns play the 
Mountaineers Saturday at 
6:00 p.m. Kirby said he 
wants fans to tweet the 
hashtag, be loud and stay 
for the entire game.
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skilled, and they flounder in 
the shallow pool of Besson’s 
script. The rest of the cast 
is mostly one-note villains, 
and the lead antagonist, Mu-
rad, is so thinly defined that 
I’m not sure his name is even 
mentioned in the film.
All of that would be fine if 
“Taken 2” at least had some 
good action under its belt. 
Unfortunately, even the best 
conceived action beats in 
the film are captured with 
the spastic, shaky filming 
style that’s been hobbling 
cinematic carnage ever since 
“The Bourne Supremacy.” 
Olivier Megaton frankly 
has no idea what he’s doing 
when it comes to filming an 
action scene, and the lack of 
clarity and geography in the 
film only serve to underline 
all of the elements of “Taken 
2” that make no sense.
I really wish I liked “Tak-
en 2.” The first film was a 
blast and redefined Neeson’s 
career in a huge way. But 
this follow-up is nothing but 
a smart concept executed 
in an uninspired, illogical 
manner. “Taken 2” has so 
little respect for its audience 
and their intelligence that 
it’s almost insulting. By tak-
ing the time to go to see the 
film, you’d probably be put-
ting forth more effort than 
Megaton and Besson put 
into making it.
group of indigenous Mexican 
ultra-runners, McDougall 
cites this tribe as living proof 
that shoes cause greater in-
jury than they prevent.
This very same group of 
natives, the Tarahumara, has 
even competed at the Texas 
Relays. In 1925, as part of a 
rare publicity stunt, six tribes-
men ran unshod from San 
Antonio all the way to the Me-
morial Stadium at UT, a jour-
ney of approximately 89 miles. 
Biomechanics researchers 
have puzzled over why these 
ultra-runners can run such 
long distances without in-
jury. Dr. Daniel Lieberman, 
a professor of human evo-
lutionary biology at Har-
vard University, claims that 
striking the ground with the 
front of the foot rather than 
the heel makes the impact 
of running easier to absorb. 
This in turn helps reduce 
joint pain, improve posture 
and strengthen calve mus-
cles. Running without shoes 
also toughens up runners’ 
feet by producing callouses 
over time that protect sensi-
tive nerve endings.
Katie Watson, College of 
Liberal Arts sophomore and 
Texas cross country team 
member, said that three sepa-
rate stress fractures in the 
last year have prevented her 
from continuous running. In 
an attempt to recover from 
ailments caused by overuse, 
Watson hopes that less sup-
port will rehabilitate her in 
the coming months.
“It’s been rough,” Watson 
said. “But I’ve been running 
barefoot for all my runs re-
cently, and it helps you [use] 
the front of your foot more so 
that you don’t get injuries in 
the upper leg.”
In response to the increas-
ing popularity of minimalist 
shoes, competing footwear 
brands, such as New Balance 
and Vibram, have flooded 
the market with smaller and 
lighter shoes designed to 
mimic the barefoot feel. 
At the Hill Country Run-
ning Co., manager David 
Hodges shows off a wide ar-
ray of neon-colored sneakers, 
most of which now feature a 
zero-drop heel. 
“It definitely changes up 
your gait a little bit,” Hodges 
said. “Zero-drop means there’s 
no heel support, so you’re pret-
ty much barefoot minus a little 
bit of padding underneath.” 
Although companies are 
selling shoes with less sup-
port as well as less material, 
prices haven’t budged, and 
customers will have to drop at 
least $105 for a reliable pair, 
Hodges said. 
As one of the many spon-
sors for the Naked Foot 5K, 
the Hill Country Running 
Co. will sell running gear 
and talk to racers about the 
benefits of using shoes with a 
lower “heel-to-toe ratio.”
Soles4Souls will distrib-
ute donated shoes in coun-
tries affected by natural di-
saster, including Japan and 
Haiti, where it is unsafe to 
travel barefoot. 
car Wilde and Vladimir 
Vysotsky, respectively. 
What would the first 
thing you would say to 
them? 
RG: I wish that the wallpa-
per had gone instead.
G: Volodya, have some “tea,” 
and then sing something!
DT: What would be your 
parting words to them? 
RG: What is your Twitter 
name?
G: Volodya, before you go, 
sing one more.
DT: Lastly, what research/
projects are you currently 
working on? 
RG: I am currently finishing 
a study of decadent culture 
at the end of the 19th cen-
tury. I have a smaller essay 
on the queer translation 
theory, which will appear in 
the spring, and another es-
say on dandyism and detec-
tive stories I am working on 
for next summer.
G: I’m finishing a book on 
the similar ways that mas-
culinity is portrayed in pop-
ular culture in Russia and 
Mexico from the 1990s to 
the 2000s.
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Carmer, Evan Rowley and 
Michael Graff will give you 
the evil eye if you call them 
Bevo while in uniform. 
Many students on campus 
are unaware that Hook ‘Em 
is not Bevo, but the three 
have made it their goal to 
change that.
The Daily Texan spoke 
with the three Hook ‘Ems 
about their favorite pump-
up songs, if Chuck Norris 
could be Hook ‘Em and 
their love for dropping it 
low during football games.
Daily Texan: Chuck Norris 
can do many things, but 
do you think he could be 
Hook ‘Em?
Caroline Carmer: I don’t 
know if he has what it takes. 
Michael Graff: I don’t think 
he could because, although 
he may have the machis-
mo, he wouldn’t be goofy 
enough. He would be too 
robotic and serious; some-
one would offend him and 
then he would beat them 
up. Or he would pull a 
prank and then it becomes 
the most epic thing ever.
Rowley: Chuck Norris is his 
own mascot. 
DT: How many push-ups 
can you do in the suit?
Carmer: I can’t do a lot of 
push-ups normally, so not 
that many. [laughs] If I’ve 
had, like, nine Redbulls be-
fore the game, then maybe I 
can get a lot more done.
Graff: I’ve done as many 
as 30 — that was at the last 
soccer game. I was hanging 
out with a group of friends 
and they yelled, “Drop! Give 
us push-ups!” So I dropped 
and did 10 push-ups. Then 
a few minutes later, they 
wanted me to drop again, so 
I dropped and did 20 push-
ups. Push-ups in the suit 
are really awkward since the 
head is so big and the snout 
comes out. So the head hits 
the ground before you do. 
Rowley: 400, tops. Or as 
many points as UT scores. 
But realistically, somewhere 
around 50. 
DT: On a scale of 1-10, 
how much swagger do you 
need in order to pull off the 
Hook ‘Em Walk?
Graff: You need swagger. If 
10 is the highest, then it has 
got to be a 10. If you have no 
swagger, you’re not animat-
ed, in my opinion. You need 
to have that energy and ex-
aggeration in order to make 
Hook ‘Em that much more 
enjoyable to the people.
Rowley: 27. You can prob-
ably get away with a 26.5, 
but 27 is the max.
DT: Since you cannot see 
through your peripherals, 
have you ever been kicked 
by a cheerleader or hit by 
a football?
Carmer: I have a lump on 
my shin from running into 
the bleacher during one of 
our home games. But I run 
into stuff even when I’m not 
in the suit, so yeah. [laughs] 
Hook ‘Em definitely has 
some battle wounds.
Graff: I almost got hit by a 
football this past Saturday. 
I was talking with Coach 
Durrett about something I 
had to do in the end zone, 
then all of a sudden I heard 
“Watch out” as the foot-
ball headed in my direc-
tion. Luckily it landed like 
10 feet away from me. I’ve 
never been hit by a cheer-
leader, but I have walked 
into stuff that I couldn’t 
see. At the game I tried 
standing on a bench to in-
teract with fans, and as I 
was stepping off, I fell and 
got a bruise on my thigh. 
You can get hurt being a 
mascot — it is extreme.
Rowley: I haven’t been 
hit or hit anything, but I 
bump into things a lot. I’ve 
backed into cheerleaders, 
bumped into walls and pe-
destrians. I’ve even missed 
a few high fives.
DT: If you have one, what 
does your pump-up, pre-
game playlist consist of?
Carmer: “Let’s Go,” by 
Trick Daddy. I really like 
that song. 
Graff: I listen to a lot of And 
So I Watch You From Afar 
when I’m working out and 
getting pumped up for stuff. 
It has that angry edge to it, 
but it doesn’t have the shout-
ing or screaming. 
Rowley: “Air Force Ones,” 
by Nelly. We just got a pair 
of Air Force Ones [for the 
suit], so we always have that 
playing. I also listen to a lot 
of Girl Talk before games 
and events. Also “Drop It 
Low,” by Ester Dean. When 
in doubt, drop it low. 
DT: Is there any sib-
ling rivalry between you 
and Bevo?
Carmer: [Hook ‘Em] is so 
different, you know? It is 
hard having an older broth-
er, but Hook ‘Em does his 
own thing.
Graff: I’d like to think 
there is. Bevo gets all the 
spotlight, but Hook ‘Em is 
at all the games. Bevo just 
stands around and only 
makes special appearances, 
while Hook ‘Em is walking 
around trying to entertain 
the crowd. One of my fa-
vorite moments working 
the football game this past 
Saturday was when I was 
standing near Bevo, and 
my handler tells me, “Make 
sure you don’t stay around 
Bevo too long. You’ll 
upset him.” 
I get that he’s the older 
brother and he has his own 
private ranch while I’m here 
at school having to take 
classes and everything, but 
it would be nice to also get 
treated like a prince every 
once in a while.
Rowley: Bevo steals the 
spotlight in that he’s re-
spected more, but Hook 
‘Em is more interactive and 
in the spotlight.
DT: A past Hook ‘Em re-
ceived cool points for 
doing the Superman 
dance from Soulja Boy’s 
“Crank That.” Have you 
considered adding shuf-
fling to your list of dance 
moves, since that is what’s 
popular now?
Carmer: Hook ‘Em defi-
nitely keeps it fresh when it 
comes to the dance moves. 
Always have your phones 
ready, because Hook 
‘Em is going to drop it 
low. [laughs]
Graff: Absolutely. We actu-
ally got requested to learn 
“South Dallas Swag,” so 
I’m going to have to figure 
out how to do that one. I 
do my own kind of crazy 
moves, but I’d also like to 
throw shuffling and other 
established dance moves 
in there.
Rowley: Hook ‘Em can 
Dougie. Dougie and the 
Wobble. Dancing, for Hook 
‘Em, is not an issue. 
TAKEN continues from page 12RUN continues from page 12By Eli WatsonINTERVIEWPu Ying Huang | Daily Texan StaffFrom top to bottom, Michael Graff, Caroline Carmer and Evan Rowley are the 
faces behind UT mascot Hook’ Em. 
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now Besson is the guiding 
hand for flat, unexciting 
disasters like “Colombi-
ana,” “The Transporter 3” 
and the extremely disap-
pointing “Taken 2.”
Those three films were 
directed by frequent col-
laborator Olivier Megaton. 
Beside his admittedly awe-
some name, Megaton has 
made a career of ineptly 
staging action scenes and 
forcing actors to choke out 
tepid dialogue, and “Taken 
2” is no different.
Set in the aftermath of 
Bryan Mills’ (Liam Nee-
son) rampage across Eu-
rope to find his daughter, 
Kim (Maggie Grace), “Tak-
en 2” focuses on the fami-
lies of Mills’ victims. Most 
notable among these is ge-
neric bad guy Murad (Rade 
Serbedzija), whose son was 
killed and who launches 
a plot for revenge. When 
Bryan and his family re-
turn to Europe for improb-
able reasons, Murad strikes 
and a kidnapped Bryan is 
forced to rely on Kim to 
rescue him in a surprising 
turn of events.
If there’s one large com-
plaint to be lodged against 
“Taken 2,” it’s the complete 
and utter lack of logic that 
went into seemingly every 
facet of its script. It would 
take more words than I 
have to list all of the plot 
holes and plain stupidities 
found within this film, and 
with Besson behind the 
typewriter, this no longer 
surprises me. Besson’s writ-
ing has grown increasingly 
erratic as of late and seems 
to have forgotten the differ-
ence between dumb fun and 
just plain dumb. For exam-
ple, Bryan’s master plan to 
escape captivity involves 
his daughter throwing gre-
nades into public places so 
he can hear how far away 
the explosion is and guide 
her to him. And that’s just 
the tip of the iceberg.
Neeson is doing the best 
he can here, and there are 
moments of one-sided 
tenderness in his interac-
tions with his family. Un-
fortunately, Famke Jans-
sen (playing Bryan’s wife) 
and Grace aren’t quite as 
McKinney, Life & Arts Editor 
Life & Arts12Friday, October 5, 2012Inept action taken too far, 
sequel lukewarm at bestMagali Bragard | 20th Century FoxLiam Neeson stars in Olivier Megaton’s “Taken 2.” 
MOVIE REVIEW | TAKENDr. Garza and Dr. Richmond-Garza read in the company of their favorite literary and film characters, including Cesare 
from “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” Holly Golightly from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan from 
“The Great Gatsby,” and Basil Howard, Dorian Gray and Lord Henry from “The Picture of Dorian Gray.”
EVENT PREVIEW | NAKED FOOT 5KCharity run models minimal footwear, 
promotes benefits of natural lifestylePearce Murphy | Daily Texan StaffDavid Hodges, the manager of Hill Country Running Company, helps customer Grace Foster pick 
out a new pair of running shoes Wednesday morning. Hill Country Running Company is sponsor-
ing the Naked Foot 5K Saturday. 
The Naked Foot 5K may 
sound like a charity-spon-
sored streaking contest, 
but the truth is a little more 
complicated. On Saturday, 
participating runners will 
donate their old sneakers 
to Soles4Souls and hit the 
pavement without the pro-
tection and or support of 
shoes. Clothing, however, is 
not optional.
Partnering with Altra 
Zero Drop Footwear and 
several other sponsors, The 
Naked Foot 5K is in its sec-
ond year of traveling around 
the country, from D.C. to 
Seattle. In addition to a 5K 
race, participants may also 
choose to paddleboard and 
run an obstacle course. 
But why race barefoot? 
Those who are not avid run-
ners might view this style as 
a delusional date with glass 
shards and other hazardous 
debris. Yet the health implica-
tions are more nuanced than 
a few painful perforations. 
In recent years, mainstream 
podiatry has come under the 
spotlight by a number of re-
searchers, spawning a trend 
across the country. 
Journalist Christopher 
McDougall is attributed 
to the popularization of 
minimal shoes and bare-
foot running. In his 2009 
national-bestselling book, 
“Born to Run,” McDougall 
rails against medical prac-
titioners and profit-seeking 
companies who encourage 
the use of overly support-
ive sneakers. Referencing a 
By Alex WilliamsTaken 2Olivier MegatonGenre: ActionRuntime: 91 min.
The Daily Texan: Tell us 
about your specific field 
of study.
Richmond-Garza: My field 
is comparative literature, 
where scholars and students 
work in three or more lan-
guages and use juxtaposi-
tions across linguistic and 
cultural lines to address 
aesthetic, cultural and ideo-
logical concerns. My specific 
interests are Orientalism, 
Cleopatra, Oscar Wilde, Eu-
ropean drama, the Gothic 
and literary theory. I teach 
theater, aesthetics and the 
fine arts and work actively in 
eight foreign languages.
Garza: My area is Russian 
language and culture. I work 
on ways and materials to 
teach Russian as effectively 
and efficiently as possible, 
and I work a great deal in cul-
tural studies, mostly Russian.
DT: What has been the top-
ic within your field of study 
that you have found most 
fascinating? Why? 
RG: I am especially inter-
ested in resonances between 
English, French, Russian 
and Austrian culture around 
the year 1900 and our pres-
ent day. The anxieties about 
gender and sexuality, im-
migration and identity, etc., 
that haunted the late 19th 
century seem to recur today. 
Oscar Wilde’s works and life 
are at the center of my work.
G: The work on vampires has 
been the most interesting, 
as it allowed [me] to work 
comparatively — some-
thing my wife, Elizabeth, 
inspired — and in a num-
ber of different media and 
contribute to some interest-
ing projects, like “30 Days 
of Night,” “True Blood” and 
“Vampire Secrets” on the 
History Channel.
DT: What made you decide 
to look into these topics?
RG: I am interested in what 
attracts us to things that are 
frightening or disturbing but 
at the same time appealing. 
These works blur fixed cate-
gories and produce the effect 
of the uncanny. Analyzing 
what frightens but also at-
tracts us offers important in-
sights into our cultural mo-
ment and into past moments 
that share our concerns.
G: My interest in Russian/
Russia goes back to my 
freshman year at Haver-
ford College when I chose 
the language on a whim 
and wound up majoring in 
it. Vampires grew out of a 
childhood fascination that 
became an avocation when 
I visited Dracula’s domain in 
Transylvania in 1988.
DT: Is there an ending to 
a book that you absolutely 
disapprove of? How would 
you fix it? 
RG: There are not endings 
of which I disapprove, but 
there are some that are un-
bearable. Shakespeare’s “King 
Lear” ends with all the char-
acters who survive to the fi-
nale recognizing their errors 
and even learning the need 
to care for one another. They 
are never given the chance to 
act upon that insight. It is an 
ending that opens the abyss 
of postmodernism for me 
and for so many great writers.
G: I couldn’t imagine chang-
ing what [an author] had 
already created. I do admit, 
though, that Dostoevsky’s 
epilogue to “Crime and Pun-
ishment,” which results in 
Raskolnikov finding religion, 
smacks of capitulation to a 
government editor/censor.
DT: Dr. Richmond-Garza 
and Dr. Garza, you’ve men-
tioned that if you could 
have tea with anyone, alive 
or dead, it would be Os-
TAKEN continues on page 11RECORD continues on page 11RUN continues on page 11By Stuart RaileyNaked Foot 5KWhen: Saturday, Oct. 6 at 8 a.m.
Website: thenakedfoot5k.com“The Record” is a bi-weekly segment dedicated to featuring the many people and tradi-
tions that make the University of Texas such a distinct place. For our third segment, we 
talk to Dr. Elizabeth Richmond-Garza and Dr. Thomas Jesus Garza about Oscar Wilde, 
vampires and bad book endings. Photo and interview by Andrea Macías-JimenezPOP INDEXBY ALEKSANDER CHANHORNS DOWNHORNS UP“Homeland” is back.
Another season of 
Claire Danes’ cryface.
The Shakespearience 
interactive books.
The Bard’s ebooks 
include readings from 
Orson Welles.
Solange’s “Losing You.”
Like her sister Beyoncé, 
she knows how to make 
a jam.
The cast of “Star Trek: 
The Next Generation” 
is reuniting at Austin 
Comic Con.
J.K. Rowling’s 
“The Casual 
Vacany.” Meh.
Apple’s Maps 
mea culpa. Cool, but 
are you guys going 
to, uh, fi x it?
Jim Lehrer, moderator. 
It helps if you talk, Jim.Nicki Minaj and 
Mariah Carey, 
enemies.
The nightmare 
parking on the 
2400 block of San 
Antonio Street.
Seth MacFarlane, 
Oscar host.
Might as well have 
gotten a talking dog.