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“Inside Job” 
screening 

“Inside Job” is a film that 
investigates the causes for the 
2008 international financial 
crises. A light meal will be 
served and after the film there 
will be a discussion led by 
Dr, James K. Galbraith. The 
screening will take place in SRH 

3.122 from 6 to 8:45 p.m., and is 
free and open to anyone. RSVP 
on the event’s page on the UT 
events calendar. 
Joel Nelson 
performs 

Grammy-nominated cowboy 
poet Joel Nelson will be 
performing at The Blanton 
Museum of Art Auditorium 
in EAS from 6 to 7 p.m. 
Admittance is free. 

Melvins at 
Mohawk 

Influential sludge rock group 
Melvins are playing at Mohawk 
with Unsane and Same Sack. 
Tickes are $20 the day of, and 
door opens at 7 p.m. 

Today in history 


In 1993 

The FBI’s 50 day siege of 
the Branch Davidians’Waco 
compound came to an end 
when the FBI mounted an 
assault that resulted in 75 
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“I think offensively 
we kept trying to 
stay on the attack 
and had some balls 
that were hit hard. 
But defensively, we 
did not look good. 
We did not look like 
the more confident 
team.” 


— Connie Clark 
Softball Head Coach 

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McCombs chairs private security firm 


By Andrew Messamore Combs, namesake of the McCombs announcing the decision. Beginning in 2003, the U.S. State De-
Daily Texan Staff School of Business, is now the chair-More recently, as part of an article partment contracted Blackwater to pro-
Academi, the private military com-man of Academi’s board of directors. published in Harper’s April issue, the vide a wide variety of services in Iraq 

pany formerly known as Blackwater McCombs joined the company dur-publication released a series of videos and Afghanistan from training and de-
USA that was contracted to fight in Af-ing its restructuring last December to on their website showing alleged Black-ploying special-forces soldiers to proghanistan 
and Iraq, has acquired a new “manage the company and enhance its water contractors indiscriminately fir-viding aerial reconnaissance. 
director with close ties to UT. governance and oversight capabilities,” ing at Iraqi traffic, smashing into cars 

Billionaire entrepreneur Red Mc-according to a December press release and running over civilians. 

MCCOMBS continues on PAGE 6 

Protest leads to student arrests 



Thomas Allison (above) Elisabeth Dillon (below) | Daily Texan Staff 

(Above) Members of the Make UT Sweatshop-Free Coalition await arrest during a sit-in outside President Powers’ office Wednesday afternoon. 
The protesters claim that UT apparel is made in factories with substandard conditions. (Below) Ultiminio Vega protests in support of 
the Make UT Sweatshop-Free Coalition in the third floor stairwell of the Main Building Wednesday afternoon. Vega was part of a larger group 
of protesters who began rallying on the West Mall, but later moved inside the stairwell to support the group of students who had entered 

President Powers’ office earlier in the day. 

Students opposing sweatshopclothing removed from campus 

By Samuel Liebl 12:30-1:00 p.m. When UT Police De-
Daily Texan Staff partment Chief Robert Dahlstrom 
threatened the group with immediate 

Nineteen activists entered the Presi


arrest for disrupting office business 

dent’s office Wednesday and began an 

and trespassing, the students relocatafternoon-
long protest that ended with 

ed to the lobby, where they remained 

UTPD arresting all protesters involved. 

until UTPD arrested them for crimi-

The protesters, 17 UT students and 

nal trespassing when the office closed 
two non-UT students and all mem


at 5:00 p.m. UTPD reports 19 stu


bers of the Make UT Sweatshop-

dents were arrested, although mem-

Free Coalition, occupied the office in 
the Main Building starting at about ARRESTS continues on PAGE 6 

Former professor turns 
trash into sculptures 


By Rachel Thompson project, working on about three sculp-
Daily Texan Staff tures per day. He said people encouraged 
him to put the sculptures on dis-
More than 1,000 sculptures made 

play, and the exhibit launched in the 
out of credit cards, brochures, tops of 

School of Architecture gallery April 4. 
Bluebell Ice Cream containers and pa-

It will remain there until April 28. 
per towel rolls are displayed on a table 

“My wife passed away in Decemin 
Goldsmith Hall. 

ber 2010, and I started to cut up cred-
Architecture professor emeritus 

it cards that we had gathered for about 
Richard Swallow began cutting, folding 

50 years,” he said. “My fingers started 
and creating sculptures in January 2011 

folding them and making little sculpas 
a way to occupy his time after the 

tural pieces, and I just kept doing this,
loss of his wife. Swallow said he spent 

around a year completing the sculpture JUNKMAIL continues on PAGE 2 

Shila Farahani | Daily Texan Staff 

Junior Communications and Sciences disorder major, Samantha 
Sheppard, admires the junk mail sculptures that are displayed on 
tables at the school of architecture. 


Helpful tips for surviving registration 


By Rainy Schermerhorn 

Daily Texan Staff 

Registration — the word alone is 
enough to induce a splitting headache 
in some students, along with the hassles, 
deadlines and frustratingly closed classes 
that come along with the process. Although 
modern technology has certainly 
removed some of these difficulties, at 
the end of every semester, students are 
still faced with the 
impending battle 
of getting 
into their desired 
classes. 
Fortunately, 
registration 
doesn’t 
necessarily have 

to be a cut-throat 
battle royale; with this survival guide 
for what is perhaps the most dreaded 
two weeks of the spring, this year’s 
registration may end without tears 
and bloodshed. 

One of the most frequently pondered 
questions amongst students is the order 
in which registration times are decided 

— when you have a friend of the same 
major or last name letter registering a 
week before you, the process can often 
come across as exasperatingly random. 
“There is an alpha breakdown,” said 
Nancy Sutherland, history and liberal 
arts advisor. “It is based on a simple, 
yet secret formula created by a registrar 

Illustration by Holly Hansel | Daily Texan Staff 


Red McCombs 

Chairman of 
Academi’s Board of 
Directors 


UT group plans 
Kony 2012’s 
Cover the Night 


By Alex Klima 

Daily Texan Staff 

The UT chapter of Invisible Children 
will flood Austin with 1,000 posters 
in a number of different languages 
while participating in Cover the 
Night, the Kony 2012 campaign’s main 
event Friday. 

Members of the club gathered 
Wednesday during their chapter’s last 
meeting before the event to discuss the 
details of Cover the Night. With the 
help of the Invisible Children Austin 
Street Team, the UT chapter of Invisible 
Children and other groups not affiliated 
with the club will cover Austin 
with wall art, fliers, posters and stickers 
in order to continue spreading the message 
of Kony 2012: Arrest Joesph Kony. 
Kony is an African warlord with a long 
track record of wrongdoings including 
the kidnapping and use of children for 
child soldiers. 

The UT chapter of Invisible Children 
will spend most of their time during 
Cover the Night at The Hope Foundation’s 
outdoor gallery, said Cassidy 
Myers, Invisible Children Austin Street 
Team coordinator. A non-profit organization 
in Austin, The Hope Foundation 
helps artists who are working on peace 
projects get their message out to the 
community, according to their website. 

The Hope Foundation offered Invisible 
Children access to its Hope Outdoor 
Gallery where murals will be created 
and large banners will be hung for Cover 
the Night. The 1,000 posters will be 
written in Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, 
English and other languages to reach 
as many people as possible, Myers said. 
Sidewalk chalk and reverse graffiti, a 
form of tagging where a stencil is placed 
on a dirty wall and cleaned off, revealing 
the message, will be used as well. 

Keep Austin Beautiful, a non-profit 
organization focused on the environment, 
is donating gloves, shovels and 

KONY continues on PAGE 2 

cific required courses available for students. 
For example, unless you want 
to get certified to teach or you plan to 
transfer to another university, you can 
take any two different classes in the approved 
list of American history core 
courses – even upper-division ones, 

CLASSES continues on PAGE 2 

sometime in the last century.” 

While last name and class year are 
important factors, the Registrar’s office 
rotates the order of the names so 
students whose last name begins with 
“A” don’t always get to register first in 
their class. 

Similarly, there are frequent misunderstandings 
when it comes to the spe



paint rollers to use for Cover the Night. 
Although Kony 2012 is geared at 
stopping an international issue, spreading 
the message of Kony 2012 throughout 
Austin has also become a community 
service project, Myers said. 
“We want to earn our right to be 
heard globally by acting locally within 
our own community,” Myers said. “Why 
would you try to help someone globally 
if you can’t even help your neighbor?” 
She said supporters do things like 
mow a neighbor’s lawn in exchange for 
posting a Kony pickett sign because Invisible 
Children wants participants to 
earn their right to be heard. Local communities 
must better themselves so they 
can eventually turn their focus to global 
community issues, she said. 
Invisible Children co-founder Jason 
Russell created the original “Kony 
2012” video, which eventually went viral 
and garnered almost 100 million 
views on YouTube. Russell was detained 
by police on March 15 and was 
subsequently brought to a medical facility 
to be evaluated after he was found 
running through the streets in his underwear 
and shouting incoherently, according 
to the Huffington Post. A video 
of Russell running through the streets 
prior to his detainment was shortly 
thereafter released to celebrity news 
website TMZ. 
“I don’t think Russell’s scandal will 
affect the impact of Kony 2012,” Myers 
said. “TMZ overexaggerated the entire 
incident. Russell was physically and 
mentally exhausted after giving over 80 
interviews within two weeks.” 
She said the Kony 2012 movement 
is so much bigger than any one person, 
which was exactly what Russell wanted. 
International relations sophomore 
and Invisible Children member Caroline 
Thomas said she has been involved 
with Kony 2012 since the student chapter’s 
inception last fall. Thomas commented 
on the subsequent Stop Kony 
YouTube videos obtaining lower views 
than the first video. 
“We understand there won’t be 100 
million views for all of Kony 2012’s videos, 
but there’s still an impact,” Thomas 
said. “In the end it comes down to removing 
Kony from his reign of terror 
and the people who have stuck around 
must have seen the significance in 
that endeavor.” 
Thomas said the original Kony 2012 
video garnered a huge surge of interest, 
which has helped the chapter build its 
member base. 
History sophomore Danielle Lefteau 
said she feels like the viral video 
has done a great job of gathering attention, 
but most people just watch the video. 
Lefteau said they will maybe update 
their Facebook cover photo to “Kony 
2012,” but never actually donate their 
time or money to truly help the cause. 
Human development freshman Jenna 
Javior attended last night’s meeting 
and said she saw the Kony 2012 video 
and felt she needed to be involved in 
the movement. 
“I definitely think students can make 
this happen,” Javior said. “We just have 
to keep spreading the word.” 
Swallow didn’t stop at credit cards. 
He proceeded to conform his daily 
junk mail into elaborate designs to 
add to the collection. 
“It kept me occupied for a year, and 
some of my colleagues said, you ought 
to exhibit those,” he said. 
The project expanded until Swallow 
had created more than 1,000 unique 
sculptures, which he said are all distinct 
and individually designed. 
“My goal was to make every single 
one of them different, and I think 
I accomplished that,” he said. “Each 
one of them has some thought behind 
it, but they weren’t preconceived. 
It was more spontaneous.” 
The gallery is split between Swallow’s 
work and the drawings of a former 
colleague in the School of Architecture, 
John Blood. 
“Richard was my instructor a long 
time ago,” Blood said. “The sculptures 
[he did] are pretty fabulous. The gallery 
is a nice combination of work that 
we’ve done.” 
For Swallow, an interest in architecture 
molded at an early age, and being 
a professor wasn’t a field he thought 
he’d enter, he said. 
“I wanted just the opposite. I wanted 
to be an architect, and I dreamed of 
designing everything as a teenager,” he 
said. “It started with automobiles and 
grew into buildings.” 
Upon graduating from Rhode Island 
School of Design, he went on to 
graduate school at MIT but said the 
New England area didn’t offer much 
opportunity for building. 
“I was looking for greener pastures,” 
he said, “and Austin turned out to 
be perfect.” 
School of Architecture lecturer Allison 
Gaskins said Swallow’s unique approach 
to the project reflects his gifts 
and approach to life. 
“Richard is of a generation of architects 
who know how to make things,” 
she said. “He does a lot of that through 
his hands, through drawing or sculpting, 
and for me the exhibit is a clear depiction 
of how he is and how he thinks.” 
Swallow said the project served as 
a way to release his emotions during a 
tough time in his life. 
“It turned into a way to fill up my 
time, and I’ve referred to it as my relief 
from grief project,” he said. “I don’t 
know where it’s going to go now, but 
it was fun.” 
Beside the displays Swallow crafted 
is a table, several bags of junk 
mail and a few pairs of scissors, 
inviting others to cultivate their 
own imaginations using Swallow’s 
unique idea. 
The University Co-op and the 
Harry Ransom Center present 
Tom Smith 
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 7 P.M. 
Tom Smith, filmmaker and special 
effects pioneer, discusses his work 
on films including Raiders of the 
Lost Ark (1981), E.T. (1982), Star 
Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982), 
and Return of the Jedi (1983). 
Smith’s archive resides at the 
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to Austin for a public event and conversations with University students. 
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according to Sutherland. 
The same goes for classes like 
GOV 312, in which many students 
feel tied down to taking a specific 
subject matter. 
“Many students that I have advised 
do not know that the second required 
Government course, GOV 312L, has 
topics,” said Linda Mayhew, advising 
coordinator for the Liberal Arts Honors 
and Humanities programs. “This 
gives you a chance to select a topic that 
really interests you.” 
However, sometimes class availability 
can get a bit trickier. Many students 
tend to believe that professors have the 
final say in regards to their class roster 
and that students can always get their 
permission to add a class that’s either 
full or restricted. 
“Actually, departments can override 
faculty preferences,” said Jackie 
Dana, sociology undergraduate advisor. 
“We often have to tell students 
‘No’ even after they get a written note 
because we use the waitlist system and 
check prerequisites.” 
In terms of general advice, advisors 
suggest keeping an eye on your prerequisites 
and taking advantage of waitlists. 
Although being last on a long 
waitlist may appear to be a depressing 
prospect, with the large number 
of people who change classes during 
the add/drop period, it’s not the end of 
the world, especially for a larger lecture 
class. However, it also helps to have a 
backup class just in case. 
“It’s also important to realize that 
sometimes required classes really 
do max out and advisors don’t always 
have the authority to add additional 
students,” Dana said. “We 
don’t intentionally keep people 
from graduating.” 
And while it may seem a bit obvious, 
many students aren’t aware 
of the extended course descriptions 
available on some departments’ 
websites. While the Registrar provides 
a general overview of what a 
class entails, course descriptions on 
the pages of individual departments 
often offer a more insightful look at 
what specific classes have to offer. 
For example, the English department 
lists the required readings 
for the semester alongside a breakdown 
of professor’s individual grading, 
and the journalism department 
allows access to past and present 
undergraduate course syllabi. 
“If you can’t get into a class you 
need or just really, really want, 
be sure to ask an advisor for assistance,” 
Dana said. “But don’t 
make demands.” 
For Sutherland, the number one 
tip to being prepared for registration 
is to talk to your advisers ... except 
during actual registration days. She 
also advises awareness of the catalog 
for your major, as each catalog has 
very different degree requirements, 
flags and CORE approved courses. 
“Advisors are here year-round. 
Make a plan of action to graduate 
— even if you change your mind a 
little,” Sutherland said. “You can still 
go to advising during registration, 
but it will just be to touch base or 
to check on secrets advisors might 
know, so you won’t be as stressed.” 
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Donna Svennevik | Associated Press 

In this undated file photo released by ABC, Dick Clark hosts the New Year’s eve special from New York’s 
Times Square. Clark, the television host who helped bring rock `n’ roll into the mainstream on “American 
Bandstand,” has died. He was 82. Spokesman Paul Shefrin says Clark died but did not provide further 
details. Clark had continued performing even after he suffered a stroke in 2004 that affected his ability to 
speak and walk. 


‘American Bandstand’ host dies 


By Lynn Elber 

The Associated Press 

LOS ANGELES — Dick Clark stood 
as an avatar of rock ‘n’ roll virtually from 
its birth and, until his death Wednesday 
at age 82, as a cultural touchstone for 
boomers and their grandkids alike. 

His identity as “the world’s oldest 
teenager” became strained in recent 
years, as time and infirmity 
caught up with his enduring boyishness. 
But he owned New Year’s Eve 
after four decades hosting his annual 
telecast on ABC from Times 
Square. And as a producer and entertainment 
entrepreneur, he was a media 
titan: his Dick Clark Productions 
supplied movies, game shows, beauty 
contests and more to TV, and, for 
a time in the 1980s, he boasted programs 
on all three networks. Equal


ly comfortable chatting about music 
with Sam Cooke or bantering with 
Ed McMahon on “TV’s Bloopers 
and Practical Jokes,” Clark had shows 
on all three networks for a time in the 
1980s. Clark, who died of a heart attack 
Wednesday at a Santa Monica 
hospital, also was part of radio as 
partner in the United Stations Radio 
Network, which provided programs 
to thousands of stations. 

“There’s hardly any segment of the 
population that doesn’t see what I do,” 
Clark told The Associated Press in a 
1985 interview. “It can be embarrassing. 
People come up to me and say, 
‘I love your show,’ and I have no idea 
which one they’re talking about.” 

President Barack Obama noted 
the nostalgia. “More important than 
his groundbreaking achievements 
was the way he made us feel — as 

young and vibrant and optimistic as 
he was,” Obama said. 

Clark bridged the new music scene 
and traditional show business. He defended 
pop artists and artistic freedom, 
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 
said of the 1993 inductee. He helped 
give black artists their due by playing 
original R&B recordings instead of 
cover versions by white performers, 
and he condemned censorship. 

“It still wasn’t acceptable for them 
to dance with white kids, so the blacks 
just danced with each other. We were 
waiting for the explosion, but it never 
happened,” Clark said in 1998. “The 
wonderful part about our decision to 
integrate then was that there were no 
repercussions, no reverberations, no 
battles at all — it just happened right 
there on a television screen in front of 
millions of people.” 


French candidate’s patriotism gains votes 


By Elaine Ganley 

The Associated Press 

NANTERRE, France — She calls 
herself the anti-system candidate 
who will ensure social justice for the 
have-nots and purify a France losing 
its voice to Europe and threatened 
by massive immigration and 
rampant Islamization. 

The message of far-right presidential 
candidate Marine Le Pen has seduced 
thousands, kept her consistently 
in third place in polls and scared 
President Nicolas Sarkozy as he seeks 
a second term. 

The conservative Sarkozy is trying 
to woo those who would vote for 
Le Pen in Sunday’s first round of balloting 
to bridge the gap with front-

runner Francois Hollande, a Socialist 
whom all polls show will win the 
May 6 election. 

In an interview Wednesday on 
BFM-TV, Sarkozy named her directly, 
asking, “The vote for Marine Le Pen 
serves whom? Francois Hollande.” 

Le Pen, putting the accent on patriotism, 
deplores what she says is 
France’s loss of sovereignty to the European 
Union and to globalization, 
the nation’s perceived loss of identity 
and what she claims are real dangers 
hidden within France’s Muslim 
community, is the largest in 
western Europe. 

Le Pen wants France, and other 
euro zone nations, to give up the euro 
currency. She wants to drastically re


duce the number of immigrants — 
to 10,000 a year — and, a top theme, 
to crack down for good on what she 
claims is the growing footprint of Islamic 
fundamentalists in France. 

The image Marine Le Pen projects 
is less linked to the extreme-right 
than that of her father, said Nonna 
Meyer, an expert on the extreme-
right vote at the prestigious university 
Sciences Politiques. 

Meyer said that it is impossible at 
this point to predict how Le Pen will 
fare in Sunday’s balloting because 
there are too many unknowns, including 
the level of voter turnout. 

“I think there really is no chance 
that Marine Le Pen will be in the second 
round,” she added. 

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Making registration angst-free 


VIEWPOINT 
Prioritizing everything 
accomplishes nothing 
Nominate a 
Longhorn of the Year 
The Daily Texan Editorial Board is seeking suggestions 
for our Longhorn of the Year distinction. The Longhorn of 
the Year is an individual who had the most positive im-
pact on the UT community throughout the 2011-12 aca-
demic year. 
You can suggest a candidate by emailing the name of 
the nominee and a short explanation to firingline@daily-
texanonline.comfor potential publication or tweeting us @ 
DTeditorial. 
We’ll print finalists later in the semester and announce 
our selection in May. 
As students in the UT System await the decision that 
will mean the fate of tuition for the next two academic 
years, researchers warn that tuition increases across the 
state are limiting the accessibility of higher education. 
The Institute for Research on Higher Education at the 
University of Pennsylvania released a report Wednesday 
that indicates something Texans have known for some 
time: Financial aid cannot keep up with the rising cost of 
attendance, forcing prospective students to take out larger 
loans or to refrain from attending college altogether. 
Some of the state’s priorities, such as creating more re-
search institutions, are slowing progress in other more 
significant areas, such as college readiness and graduation 
rates, the report suggests. 
Moreover, in an attempt to improve the state of higher 
education in Texas, the Texas Higher Education Coordi-
nating Board has turned much of its attention to the Clos-
ing the Gaps initiative, which aims to bring Texas univer-
sities to parity with those in other large states by 2015. 
Institute Director Joni Finney told The Texas Tribune, 
however, that the state may face difficulties in reaching 
the initiative’s objectives if it does not address the funding 
of community colleges and reevaluate its goal to increase 
the number of national research institutions. 
“If Texas spreads its finite financial resources among 
too many priorities, however worthy, it is unlikely to get a 
handle on the soaring tuition that is threatening to price 
more and more Texans out of a college education, thus 
perpetuating racial and economic disparities,” according 
to the report. 
Accessibility and quality do not have to be mutually 
exclusive, but without properly prioritizing them, higher 
education leaders cling to the illusion that the state has 
unlimited financial resources to fund the many goals they 
have or that all of those goals are attainable. 
A similar illusion persists at UT. Framing the tuition 
discussion as though the quality of education can be main-
tained or even improved with either cuts to essential pro-
grams or increases in tuition implies that there is a quick 
fix to address the decline of higher education in Texas. 
Instead, anyone with a vested interest in higher educa-
tion should recognize that the problem is growing increas-
ingly complex and that everyone from university adminis-
trators to state lawmakers needs to reassess the priorities 
of higher education. A poor investment in both quality 
and accessibility means neither can prevail. 
Shining through the cloud of student debt 



By Heba Dafashy 

Daily Texan Columnist 

Student loans seem to be a big 
looming cloud over students’ 
heads that only continues to 
grow larger with rising tuition 
costs. But the Texas Exes could 
be the solution. 

Last year, Stanford alumni 
created SoFi, a company that 
funds student loans with investments 
from alumni. The 
name refers to the social and 
financial benefits that both the 
alumni and students will receive 
through this program. 
SoFi is based off of a peer-topeer 
lending model, where students 
receive low-interest loans 
from alumni of their school. In 
doing so, SoFi builds a network 
for students to connect with 
alumni who can eventually become 
their mentors. 

This initiative seems like a 
win-win for both students and 

alumni. According to the alumni 
page on SoFi’s website, the 
company advertises, “do well 
for yourself, while doing good 
[for] others.” Alumni have the 
advantage of investing in a student 
for the social benefits of 
helping the student out while 
also receiving a return on their 
investment. SoFi CEO Mike 
Cagney claims, “SoFi investors 
receive a 5-percent to 8-percent 
return on their loans and view it 
as a socially responsible investment, 
as opposed to a charitable 
donation .” On the other hand, 
students receive low-interest 
loans in addition to a new network 
of alumni who can help 
them start their careers when 
they graduate. 

This creative idea comes at 
the perfect moment as the student 
loan crisis has reached an 
all-time high. According to a 
recent article in the Wall Street 
Journal, the current total stu-

By Gretchen Ritter and Shelby Stanfield 

Daily Texan Guest Columnists 

Aside from final exams, class selection 
and registration are among the biggest 
stresses for students between now and the 
start of summer. 

It’s a process that begets angst over questions 
such as: “Can I get the class that I 
need?” and “What’s the best class for me 
to take?” 

Giving students and staffers better online 
e-advising tools for degree planning is one 
of the keys to improving four-year graduation 
rates at UT. And progress has already 
been made to improve student services and 
advising tools. 

Last month, the Office of the Registrar, 
a unit of the Office of the Executive Vice 
President and Provost, launched a new Interactive 
Degree Audit system known as 
IDA 2.0. Students can check to see which 
degree requirements have been satisfied, 
partially completed or still need to be satisfied. 
The information is easier to access and 
more intuitive than in the old system. The 
new system has been in the works for the 
past year and a half, and student and adviser 
input was used to make the new system 
more streamlined and user-friendly. 

The results will be fewer surprises for 
students about how close they are to graduation 
and better information for academic 
advisers and staffers who make recommendations 
about what courses students should 

take next. 

As a complement to IDA 2.0, students 
also have access to MyEdu, which is working 
in partnership with the UT System to 
provide additional planning tools to students 
at all of its campuses. UT-Austin is 
one of the first three campuses to participate 
in the $10-million initiative approved 
by the Board of Regents. 

For students who have used MyEdu in the 
past, the mobile application and site have 
many of the features they will recognize — 
the ability see other student opinions on 
courses and research potential schedules. 
In time for summer and fall registration — 
which began this month — the University 
has provided MyEdu with course schedule 
information including class options, descriptions, 
instructors, class meeting times 
and locations to improve accuracy on the 
site. Our administrators are working to 
find more public university data that can 
be quickly added to the site to strengthen 
its offerings, including information about 
transferring credits from other colleges 
and universities. 

Students can use MyEdu to plan their 
class schedules. But only IDA 2.0 will tell 
them whether they are on track for graduation 
using real-time information and 
personal educational records. MyEdu can 
provide general information regarding degree 
plans but does not perform automated, 
complex interactive degree audits based 
on student academic records mapped to 

University degree requirements. 

All of these tools will help students to determine 
the best path to take through the 
University. E-advising can give students 
quicker access to the facts, but professional 
academic advisers possess the wisdom and 
practical knowledge about what students 
need to prepare for upper-level courses 
and get where they ultimately want to go — 
graduate school, business, the public sector 
or elsewhere. 

The University’s steering team will work 
with MyEdu to determine what additional 
public information can be provided to My-
Edu to complement the University’s existing 
registration, enrollment, degree planning 
and advising services. In all of these efforts, 
we will work to provide services that are secure, 
accurate and reliable — services that 
we believe will support the academic success 
of our students. 

Finally, we will continue improving our 
other advising services as well, including 
additional planning and degree audit features 
for advisers throughout the summer 
and fall. We hope we will make advising, 
degree planning and registration even more 
accessible and angst-free so that students 
can spend more time preparing for finals 
and not as much time worrying about what 
they need to take next semester. 

Ritter is vice provost of undergraduate education and faculty 
governance, and Stanfield is vice provost and University registrar. 
Both serve as co-chairs of the MyEdu Steering Team at UT. 


dent loan debt has surpassed 
the $1-trillion mark. To put this 
amount in perspective, the nation’s 
credit card debt is just under 
$800 million. It is clear that 
there needs to be a solution to 
the nation’s student loan crisis. 

Although SoFi may not significantly 
lower the national 
student loan debt, the company 
has broken the mold for student 
loans and created a system that 
builds solidarity between students 
and lenders. Instead of 
an abstract government entity 
loaning a student money, the 
student receives a loan directly 
from alumni. As alumni invest 
in current students, they imply, 
“I believe in you.” In turn, students 
have an incentive to live 
up to a higher potential because 
someone is personally invested 
in his or her future. 

So what would this program 
look like at UT? It could work 
very nicely. Texas Exes would 

be encouraged to give back to 
the University in a more tangible 
way than through a donation 
fund, while students would 
receive low-interest loans and 
an alumni network for their 
careers in return. In addition, 
alumni would be more willing 
to assist these students after 
graduation since they had been 
investing in them for the previous 
four years. 

It is to UT’s advantage to create 
a program like SoFi. This 
kind of peer-to-peer lending 
will give the University a competitive 
advantage among other 
schools. Not only will it offer 
attractive low costs for student 
loans, but it will also strengthen 
alumni engagement. 

Through an initiative like 
SoFi, Texas Exes can break some 
sunshine through the student-
loan cloud. 

Dafashy is a Plan II senior. 

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6 Thursday, April 19, 2012 NEWS 6 Thursday, April 19, 2012 NEWS 
Hall of Fame inducts Austin rocker 


By Alexandra Klima Alvarez said McLagan has been 
Daily Texan Staff performing at Lucky Lounge almost 
every Thursday night for the past six 


Austin became a little bit more rock years. McLagan found out about his 
and roll last weekend when rocker Ian induction to Hall of Fame in January 
McLagan became the first Austinite and was officialy inducted last Saturto 
be inducted into the Rock and Roll day, said Denberg. 
Hall of Fame. “He fills up stadiums all over the 

The 27th annual Rock and Roll world and decides to live in Aus-
Hall of Fame ceremony took place on tin and perform locally,” Alvarez said. 
April 14. The city of Austin and Aus-“That’s really cool for Austin.” 
tin mayor Lee Leffingwell honored McLagan played in two bands in 
McLagan for all of his achievements the ‘60s and ‘70s, The Small Faces 
at the Austin-Bergstrom Internation-and The Faces. The Small Faces was 
al Airport on April 12 before McLa-founded in 1965 and was eventualgan 
took off for the Hall of Fame cer-ly reborn into The Faces in the ‘70s 
emony in Cincinnati. KUT-FM on-air with an exciting, innovative rock 
music host Jody Denberg presented and roll sound, according to the 
McLagan with a proclamation from press release. 
Leffingwell, which declared April 12 McLagan plays pure rock and roll, 
“Ian McLagan Rock and Roll Hall of developed from the original rock-
Fame Day.” McLagen moved to Aus-ers such as Jerry Lee Lewis. He also gan played keyboard. al,” Denberg said. “I know it means a 
tin in 1994. branches out in his solo albums into a McLagan has recorded with John lot to McLagan’s heart to be recog


“McLagan’s music defines Austin’s more singer/songwriter style of music, Mayer, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan, nized on a local level in his hometown 
music scene and his induction into the said Denberg. Bruce Springsteen and Taj Mahal, before the big Hall of Fame event.” 
Hall of Fame is a great achievement Denberg said McLagan’s most Denbergsaid. According to McLagan’s press agent, 
not only for McLagan, but also for the prominent songs in the past have been “I think it’s great that Austin has ac-McLagan said he loves living in Austin 
city of Austin,” Lucky Lounge manag-“Miss You” and “Just My Imagination” knowledged his achievements, which and appreciates being surrounded by 
ing partner Johnny Alvarez said. by the Rolling Stones, in which McLa-are not only local, but also internation-all the musicians here. 

Tony Dejak | Associated Press 

Ian McLagan, right, holds up his trophy after he and Ron Wood, left, and 
Kenney Jones, background, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 
as members of the Small Faces/Faces Saturday, April 14, 2012, in Cleveland. 


The protest: how it unfolded 

5:50 p.m. 
12:30 p.m. 1:15 p.m. 4:20 p.m. 4:50
On the web A police van carrying most of 

Nineteen students enter and sit UTPD closes stairwell doors. Dean of Students Soncia Rea-Chief Dahlstorm tells students 


the arrested students leave 

in the President’s office. Students are permitted to leave gins-Lilly meets with students they will be arrested at 5 p.m. 

the building. 

lobby but not return. in lobby. 

1 p.m. 3 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 5 p.m. 

UTPD Chief Robert Dahlstorm Supporters gather in stairwell Students begin to putVaseline Students chant“What do we want? bit.ly/dt_sweatshop 
threatens immediate arrest. below lobby. on their wrists and don UT W-R-C. When do we want it? Now,” 

Check out photos and video of Students relocate to lobby. apparel in anticipation of arrests. as officers handcuff them with zipties 
the sit-in. and load them into elevators. 

dent labor rights monitoring organi-legiate apparel,” Yates said. “We will be ship fee of $50,000. Joining the 

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Management and sociology professor 
John Butler said McCombs is 
likely joining the company as a good 
business practice, similar to when he 
donated $50 million to the business 
school in 2000, resulting in the naming 
of the school. 

“Mr. McCombs understands the 
importance of defending this country, 
and you need someone like him 
to build an organization that’s so 
important,” Butler said. “Red Mc-
Combs has the leadership you require 
in such a company, and I expect 
that as part of his plan he will 
be rebranding its image as part of 
effective entrepreneurship.” 

The company drew wide criticism 
in 2007 when Blackwater military 
contractors allegedly shot and killed 
17 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Nisoor 
Square, Baghdad, which resulted in 
the company temporarily losing its 
contract to operate. The company 
was also investigated that year by the 
State Department for allegedly smuggling 
arms into Iraq for designated 
terrorist organizations. 

McCombs could not be reached 
for comment. 

Finance junior Philip Kaminer 
said he believed that it wasn’t an issue 
to have McCombs associated 
with the company. 

“Despite the fact that Blackwater 
has done military contracting, it’s a 
legitimate corporation and has to be 
seen as legitimate enterprise,” Kaminer 
said. “It would be different if he was 
funding mercenaries, but if its acceptable 
for the government to put millions 
of dollars behind these companies 
then it is perfectly fine for a busi


nessman to support them as well.” 

Thomas Palaima, a professor of 
classics and middle eastern studies 
who researches war and violence, said 
that while he was concerned about the 
activities of Blackwater, it was more 
important to understand where funding 
comes from and how it is spent. 

“It’s a very dangerous thing to get 
private contractors involved in fighting 
our undeclared wars, but that’s 
a different question,” Palaima said. 
“Does Red McCombs have the right 
to throw his money into Blackwater, 
make a profit and then put his money 
into the University? Of course he 
does. At least, President Powers seems 
to think so.” 

It is common for large sums of 
money to enter institutions through 
questionable means and institutions 
still accept funding, Palaima said. He 
added it was more important to raise 
discussion about institutional priorities 
allowing this to happen. 

“If you’re really concerned about 
where money comes from, just look at 
how many of the great fortunes are attached 
to conflicts that later get donated 
to charity,” Palaima said. “Rockefeller 
was behind the killing of innocent 
minors, but nobody says we can’t have 
money from the Rockefeller foundation 
any longer. Someday people will 
look at Blackwater the same way.” 

Palaima said the controversies surrounding 
Blackwater cannot change 
large public indifference or affect the 
business school’s image. 

“The general public just doesn’t 
care very much to be informed about 
Blackwater and Afghanistan — the 
former vice president of the United 
States was highly involved in Blackwater,” 
Palaima said. “The bigger issue is 
the U.S. being able to conducting informal 
wars by using highly profitable 
private companies like Blackwater.” 

zation, said group leader William G. here till these demands are met.” WRC would not be a responsible Austin American-Statesman. protest has the potential to stimu-

ARRESTS 

Yates, an Asian studies senior who The University is currently a mem-decision in a time when the Univer-“We can afford to pay our football late the student body to act. 
also serves as a regional coordinator ber of a different oversight organization, sity faces shrinking funding, he said. coach $5,000,000 and we have 4,000 “Many students are not with us be-

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for the nation-wide United Students the Fair Labor Association, and has no “Our examination has determined factories all over the world where cause they think they cannot put their 
bers of the group said there were 18 Against Sweatshops. intention of leaving the FLA or of join-that there is no added benefit and that workers rights are not conducted be-academic careers at risk,” she said. “But 
students involved. “We demand that the University of ing the WRC, said University spokes-in a time of budget austerity spending cause of $50,000,” Yates said. “It shows this issue is galvanizing a lot of kids 

Some of the protesters had been re-Texas at Austin, in accordance with our man Gary Susswein. “The University is another $50,000 is a concern,” Suss-a crisis of priorities for this university.” who think they can make a tangible, 
leased from jail on bail by press time, ac-own code of conduct and stated core very comfortable in the FLA,” Susswein wein said. “The FLA is not the shal-Sisters Bianca, Sabina and So-obvious improvement in the world.” 
cordingtothegroup’sTwitteraccount. values,haveanhonest,opendiscussion said. “What we hear from the FLA is that low, hollow organization that its crit-phia Hinz-Foley were among those The Make UT Sweatshop-Free Co-

The coalition demanded that UT with our administration and affiliate these factories are being monitored.” ics would have you believe.” arrested. Bianca recently graduat-alition announced on their Facebook 
become a member of the Work-with the Workers Rights Consortium, Susswein said both the WRC and The University generated $10.6 ed from UT, Sabina is a Plan II ju-page that a rally will be held in front 
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Overall career stats 

278 tackles 
41 tackles for loss 
7 forced fumbles 
3 fumble recoveries 
2 interceptions 


FRESHMAN 

11 tackles 
1 forced fumble 

SOPHOMORE 

49 tackles 
2 sacks 
10 tackles for loss 
3 forced fumbles 
2 fumble recoveries 
1 interception 
1 pass broken up 


JUNIOR 

87 tackles 

3 sacks 
12 tackles for loss 
2 forced fumbles 
1 fumble recovery 

1 interception 
6 pass break ups 

SENIOR 

131 tackles 
3 sacks 
19 tackles for loss 
6 pass break ups 

Fanny Trang | Daily Texan file photo 

BIG 12 BASEBALL 

No. 6 Bears sit atop conference standings 


By Chris Hummer 

Daily Texan Staff 

It seems as if the 2011-12 year is the 
year of the Bear, because in the world 
of sports, Baylor cannot be stopped. 

Baylor’s football team won 10 
games while Robert Griffin III 
brought the school its first Heisman 
trophy. Its men’s basketball team 
made the elite eight and the women’s 
basketball team was a perfect 40-0 en 
route to a national title. Now their 

baseball team is ranked in the top 10 
in the country and is undefeated in 
conference play. 

The No. 6 Bears (30-7, 15-0 Big 12) 
are currently riding a 20-game win 
streak, which is the longest streak in 
the country and also ties their school 
record for consecutive wins. 

Baylor is led by a potent offense 
that sports a team batting average of 
.317, which leads the Big 12, and its 
everyday lineup features seven players 
that bat over .300. 

SOFTBALL 

Baylor orchestrates late rally, 
defeats UT in extra innings 


By Sara Beth Purdy 

Daily Texan Staff 

The Longhorns were back on the 
winning track with record-setting 
performances against Kansas last 
weekend. However, when the Longhorns 
traveled to Waco on Wednesday, 
they came up short and will now 
head into this weekend’s home series 
against the Oklahoma State Cowgirls 
with a loss on their minds. 

Wednesday night’s 5-4 loss came 
in eight innings as the Texas defense 
struggled to keep the Bears offense 
off the bases. The Longhorns are now 
35-6 on the season and 9-4 in Big 12 

conference play. The loss puts them 
in second place in the conference 
behind Oklahoma. 

“I think offensively we kept trying 
to stay on the attack and had 
some balls that were hit hard,” said 
Texas head coach Connie Clark. 
“But defensively, we did not look 
good. We did not look like the more 
confident team.” 

It was just the third time this season 
that the Longhorns had been 
pushed to play in extra innings. Texas 
is now 2-1 in extra-inning games 
so far this season. 

RALLY continues on PAGE 9 


The team is paced by senior catcher 
Josh Ludy, who is hitting .370 with a 
.457 on base percentage. He also garnered 
National Player of the Week 
honors on Monday by the Collegiate 
Baseball Newspaper, after a week in 
which he hit .647 with four home 
runs and 12 RBIs over five games. 

Baylor’s streak will be put to the 
test this weekend when they will 
square off with No. 2 Texas A&M, in 

BEARS continues on PAGE 10 

NBA 


Editor’s Note: This is the third in 
an eight-part series about Longhorns 
hoping to be drafted into the NFL. 

NFL DRAFT 2012 
By Lauren Giudice 

At about this time last year, former 
Texas linebacker Sam Acho was 
eagerly awaiting draft day and would 
be eventually chosen by The Arizona 
Cardinals in the fourth round. 

Now, his younger brother, Emmanuel, 
is playing the same waiting 
game. But don’t feel too bad for Emmanuel. 
He’s gotten some help from 
his big brother along the way. 

“He helped me understand what 
was going to happen, so nothing 
shocked me,” Acho said. “As I put it, 
he gave me the answers to the test 
before I had to take it. I was not surprised 
by anything.” 

Acho knew how to prepare for 
the physical and mental examinations 
that teams gave him throughout 
this process and during the 
NFL Combine. Although Emmanuel 
partially tore his quadricep 
while running the 40-yard dash, he 
felt he did enough to stand out to 
the coaches. 

But Emmanuel isn’t stressing 
about who picks him on draft day 
or where he will go next year. 

“In talking to my brother who 
went through the process last year, 
he told me not to worry where I got 
picked but just to get in the door,” 
Acho said. “As soon as you get in 
the door, which is the NFL, then 
you worry about making a team.” 

Emmanuel knows that once he is 
drafted, there is still a lot of work to 
be done. But he feels that his versatility 
and high football IQ will help 
him come draft day. He said he 
doesn’t know if coaches have seen 

him play at the middle linebacker 
position enough. 

But they definitely know he can 
play outside linebacker. 

“Where you get drafted is more 
like stars coming out of high school; 
it is all about pride,” Acho said. 
“Once you are there, everyone is on 
a level playing field.” 

On the field, Emmanuel and his 
brother are very similar, but off the 
field they are opposite. Emmanuel 
hopes Arizona drafts him so he can 
play alongside his brother again. 

“I started playing ball before Sam 
and then all of a sudden he got really 
good, I don’t know where,” Emmanuel 
said laughing. “He stole the 
spotlight as usual.” 

Once Emmanuel saw his brother 
get drafted, he knew that the NFL 
was a reality for him. He saw his 
brother improve during his senior 
year, leading the team with 131 tackles, 
19 tackles for loss, three sacks, 
one forced fumble, 18 quarterback 
pressures and six pass breakups. 

While Emmanuel was helping 
the Longhorns bounce back from 
2010’s 5-7 season, Sam had an outstanding 
rookie season for the Cardinals. 
He had 40 tackles, seven 
sacks and four forced fumbles. But 
Emmanuel hopes to top those numbers 
in his rookie season. 

“Anything I do well is really as a 
result of him,” Emmanuel said. “He’s 
wishing I probably play better than 
him, as am I. But he had a heck of 
a season.” 

Emmanuel’s stats speak for themselves. 
During his four years in 
burnt orange, he had 278 tackles 
(159 solo), 41 tackles for loss, eight 
sacks, seven forced fumbles, three 
fumble recoveries and two interceptions. 
He helped Texas lead the 
Big 12 and rank sixth in the nation 
in rushing defense and 11th in 
total defense. 

ACHO continues on PAGE 10 

Big 12 Standings 
TEAM 

Baylor 
Texas A&M 
Texas 
Oklahoma 
Oklahoma State 
Texas Tech 
Missouri 
Kansas State 
Kansas 


15-0 

9-3 

9-3 

7-8 

5-7 

3-9 

3-9 

3-9 

3-9 

BIG 12 OVERALL 

31-7 
28-9 
21-13 
23-14 
18-17 
22-16 
18-17 
18-18 
14-23 

Tim Duncan 

(21) high-fives 
center DeJuan 
Blair (45) in a 
recent game. 
The Spurs and 
the Thunder 
are in contention 
for the top 
playoff seed in 
the West. 
Jeff Chiu 

Associated Press 

Ageless Spurs continue to roll 
By Austin Laymance 

Daily Texan Columnist 

The San Antonio Spurs are 
the team to beat in the NBA’s 
Western Conference. 

Sure, the Oklahoma City Thunder 
are loaded with young talent, 
the Dallas Mavericks are the defending 
champions and the Los 
Angeles Lakers have five-time NBA 
champion Kobe Bryant, but the 
Spurs have depth. 

And Spurs head coach Gregg 
Popovich’s bunch is hungry af


ter last season’s embarrassing exit 
in the first round of the playoffs 
at the hands of the eighth-seeded 
Memphis Grizzlies. 

San Antonio has quietly jumped 
to the top of the Western Conference, 
fighting the Thunder for the 
No. 1 seed in the playoffs, which begin 
April 28. 

“We love our position [in the 
West], obviously,” center Tim Duncan 
told reporters Tuesday. “We 
hope to hold on to it. We’re facing 
a tough schedule, but we’re feeling 
good and we’re staying healthy.” 

Health is paramount for 
the Spurs, who could care less 

about seeding. 

“We won [61] games last year. 
Remember we lost right away. One 
would think that maybe it doesn’t 
matter,” Popovich said when asked 
about the importance of getting the 
top seed. 

The Spurs are a far different 
team than they were a season ago, 
because their bench is among the 
league’s best. 

Rookie swingman Kawhi Leonard 
plays and defends multiple positions. 
Forwards Tiago Splitter and 
DeJuan Blair are each a force in the 

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Golfers earn academic honors, 
set example for student-athletes 

Nine University of Texas golfers 
were named to All-Big 12 Academic 
Teams, including five members 
of the women’s team. 

Senior Megan Rosenfeld and juniors 
Desiree Duberuil, Madison 
Pressel and Haley Stephens were 
all named to the first team, while 
senior Nicole Vandermade earned 
second team honors. The Longhorns’ 
five honorees mark the 
most of any school in the women’s 
golf conference in 2012. 

Four men’s golfers also made the 
All-Big 12 first team, including senior 
Dylan Frittelli, who was honored 
for the second time in his career. 
Seniors Brett Spencer and 
Adam Wennerstrom, along with 
sophomore Toni Hakula, joined 
Frittelli as first team members. 

In order to be considered an academic 
All-American, student athletes 
must compete in over 60 percent 
of the team’s events while 
maintaining a 3.0 GPA or higher. 

— Nick Cremona 
Andreina Velazquez | Daily Texan file photo 

Junior pitcher Blaire Luna, left, and head coach Connie Clark review 
game notes during a recent conference matchup at McCombs Field. 


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No relief for Astros, 

Junior All-American Blaire Luna 
was saddled with the loss on the 
road in Waco. Luna, who is now

bullpen woes linger 

15-3 on the season, gave up nine 
hits while striking out seven and 
walking four batters. 

The usually stellar Texas defense

during losing streak 

committed four errors which contributed 
to Baylor’s offensive success. 

WASHINGTON— Lucas 


“We made some throws to bases 

Harrell pitched into the sev


that allowed the winning run to get 

enth inning and shut down the 

into scoring position and it’s too late 

Washington Nationals offense. 

in the season for that,” Clark said. 

The Astros bullpen woke ‘em It’s not like we are 

“We are better than that, [and] I 

back up. 

don’t think mentally we played very

Three relievers gave up three getting blown out. 

well in pressure situations.” 

walks and two runs in the 

Despite the defensive woes, the

The little things are

eighth inning and the Nation-

Texas offense managed to keep

als won 3-2 Wednesday night. 

costing us wins. 

the Longhorns in the game until 

Houston lost its fourth in a 

the Bears came up with a walk-

row and seven in eight games. 

off double in the bottom of the 

Four of the Astros’ last five 

eighth inning.

— Jordan Schafer, outfielder
losses have been by one run. 


Senior third baseman Nadia Tay


“We’re in every game,” said 

lor went 1-for-3 on the evening with 

Jordan Schafer, who had two 

one home run and two RBIs. Taylor,

hits, and RBI and a scored a 

who was named Big 12 player of the 

run. “It’s not like we’re getting 

week last week for her performance 

blown out. The little things are 

against Kansas, extended her hitting

costing us wins.” really battled hard, we stayed in 

streak to five games and has four 

Houston led 2-1 when Fernan-the game the whole way. They 

home runs in the last four games.

By kristin otto Amthor, Connor Ward and Anne ter this season. 

do Rodriguez (0-2) gave up a walk made some great plays behind me 

Sophomore center fielder Brejae

Daily Texan Staff Jones are among the 160 compet-On day two of the Mt. SAC Re-

and a single to the first two bat-defensively. It’s just a tough loss.” 

Washington and junior left fielder

itors scheduled to compete in the lays, four more Texas middle and 

ters in the eighth. Wesley Wright Harrell didn’t allow a hit be-

Torie Schmidt each turned in a mul-

Nine of UT’s most developed first event of the three-day meet. long distance runners will partic


relieved and walked Adam LaRo-tween the first and sixth innings. 

tiple hit performance. Washington

middle and long distance run-At last weekend’s Texas Invi-ipate in three races (the 800-me


che, loading the bases. In the seventh, Rick Ankiel dou


went 2-for-4 with two runs while

ners are set on striking gold at tational, Amthor had a season-ter as well as in two divisions of 

Rhiner Cruz then came in bled off the wall in left-center 

Schmidt went 2-for-3 with one RBI.

the renowned 54th Annual Mt. best performance that earned her the 5000-meter) in the afternoon 

and walked Jayson Werth, ty-field with one out and advanced 

“I thought [Baylor’s] crowd was

SAC Relays. the top collegiate finish in the and into the late evening. 

ing the game at 2. to third on Harrell’s balk. Rog-

great tonight in helping with the

In 1959, Hilmer Lodge 1500-meter. Slicing over eight The Olympic development 

“It was a close pitch,” Hous-er Bernadina tied the game at 1 

momentum,” Clark said. “It’s nice

founded the Relays with the seconds off her time from Texas elite division of the 5000-me


ton catcher Jason Castro said. with a two-out double that end-

to be at home for this next window.

intent of creating opportuni-Relays, she is gaining momentum ter will feature a pair of sopho


“It was one of those borderline ed Harrell’s night. 

Anytime you can be at home and

ties. In particular, Lodge want-as a team leader as well as a ma-mores who are currently among 

ones and it didn’t go our way.” “You can’t say enough about 

comfortable with your crowd for

ed a meet that offered female jor threat to the competition. Texas’ top athletes, Marielle Hall 

A forceout at the plate left the way he threw the ball,” 

pressure situations. We just need to

athletes equal opportunities as Although she ran in the and Sara Sutherland. Hall found 

the bases loaded for Wilson Ra-Houston manager Brad Mills 

get back to work and play hard for

their male counterparts. Over 1500-meter last weekend, Brit-success in the event early with a 

mos, who scored LaRoche with said. “He got in trouble in the 

our fans.” 

the years, the event has evolved tany Marches will take on the first-place finish at the Texas Re


a sacrifice fly to center field. seventh and we were able to get 
into a unique opportunity to daunting open 3000-meter stee-lays. Although Sutherland has 

The Astros took the lead in out of it with just the one run, 

showcase an aspect of track that plechase. The sole athlete rep-yet to compete in the 5-kilome


the top of the eighth. Castro led and then the walks kind of hurt 
is too often overlooked. resenting UT in the event, the ter this outdoor season, she held 

off with a double and Washing-us there in the eighth inning.” 

“[The Mt. SAC Relays] is go-redshirt freshman will aim for the fastest Longhorn time in the 

ton third baseman Ryan Zim-Washington starter Jordan 
ing to be more of a distance-her second steeplechase win race last year as a freshman. 

merman held him there with a Zimmermann allowed one run 
based meet. It’s rare that you this season. The Mt. SAC Relays is tailored 

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find some of your top middle-At 9:15 p.m., senior Laleh Moj-to highlight the talents of these 

He made a sliding catch in foul He struck out three and did not 
distance and distance runners in tabaeezamani will wrap up the Texas runners and is a special 

territory of a popped-up bunt walk a batter. 
one place,” head coach Beverly first day of competition with the occasion for them to take pride 

and a diving catch on a sharp Ryan Mattheus (2-0) gave upKearney said. “And the weather last women’s event of the night, in their events. But they must re


line drive before Schafer’s RBI two hits and a run in the eighth 

in California is really conducive the Olympic development elite main focused, as Kearney holds 

single hopped past the glove of inning but got the win. Hen-
to the distance events.” division of the 10,000-meter run. high standards with the postsea


the diving LaRoche at first. ry Rodriguez pitched a perfect 

With a forecasted temper-Last weekend, Mojtabaeezamani son quickly closing in. 

Harrell gave up one run on ninth for his third save, as Wash


ature of about 80 degrees and had a notably improved perfor-“[The athletes] going out to 

four hits in 6 2-3 innings, strik-ington improved to 10-3 and be-
clear, sunny skies, the Mt. SAC mance, the fastest collegiate fin-California, we’re expecting great 

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Relays will commence at 2 p.m. ish in the 3000-meter. However, performances that will set them 

“I couldn’t be more proud to reach 10 wins this season. 

with the university/open wom-tonight will be the first time for up not only for Conference, but 

of this team and the way we 
en’s 1500-meter. Longhorns Julie her to compete in the 10-kilome-for Nationals as well.” 

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His teammates have been impressed 
with his performance and 
leadership over the years. 
“One thing that stands out for me 
is that he’s been a consistent performer 
over the last four years,” kicker 
Justin Tucker said. “He racks up 
stats and not just those pretty stats. 
He’s in there making tackles and getting 
his nose involved on the plays.” 
Beyond that, Emmanuel has been 
a leader for the Longhorns. 
“I will say that Emmanuel has gotten 
a lot out of Texas,” head coach 
Mack Brown said. “But he has given 
more, and it has really been beneficial 
to the program.” 
Emmanuel was named a finalist 
for the 2011 Lott IMPACT Trophy, 
Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award and 
the Wuerffel Trophy. Both Emmanuel 
and Sam worked with charities 
off the field. 
“Every time I look up he is doing 
something different,” Brown said. 
“With as hard as he works here, he 
goes to Nigeria for two weeks every 
summer with doctors and nurses. On 
a local basis, he is always at the hospital 
or reading to kids in East Austin.” 
Although Sam has led the way 
and helped Emmanuel throughout 
this long process, they will continue 
to support each other and learn from 
each other next year — when they 
are both linebackers in the NFL. 
“You know it’s not a reality yet, 
but come April 26, 27 and 28, that’s 
when it will hit,” Emmanuel said. 
what will be a battle to determine the 
Big 12’s best team. 
Aggies ride starters to hot start 
As hot as Baylor is, the Aggies (28- 
8, 8-3 Big 12) could still be the better 
squad, thanks in part to an outstanding 
weekend rotation. 
Texas A&M’s Friday, Saturday and 
Sunday starters: Rafael Pineda, Michael 
Wacha and Ross Stripling all 
have ERA’s under three and have a 
combined 16-2 record. The three 
man rotation is a formidable obstacle 
for opponents in a three game set, as 
it forces the hitters to run the gauntlet 
against talented pitchers every day 
of the series. 
With a starting rotation full of future 
MLB draft picks, it comes as little 
surprise that the Aggies have only 
lost two series all season and have yet 
to be swept. 
However, it’s not just the starters 
that are getting it done on the staff 
— the bullpen has been outstanding 
as well. The Aggies feature six relief 
pitchers with ERA’s below 3.19, and 
there are three regulars in the bullpen 
that have not even allowed an earned 
run this season. 
The combination of a killer starting 
rotation and a shutdown bullpen 
makes Texas A&M one of the most 
dangerous squads in the country, and 
it will look to its staff to carry it to 
Omaha for the second straight year. 
Big 12 is top heavy this season 
With the loss of Colorado to the 
Pac-12 and powerhouse Nebraska to 
the Big 10, the Big 12 is lacking depth 
as a conference this season. 
Sure, the Big 12 has two teams in 
the top 10 in the country and three 
ranked squads overall, but the bottom 
of the conference is especially 
weak this year. 
Of the 10 schools, only five (Baylor, 
Texas A&M, Texas, Oklahoma 
and Texas Tech) have records better 
than one game over .500, and only 
three schools have winning conference 
records — Baylor, Texas A&M 
and Texas at a combined 33-6. The 
other seven teams are a combined 24- 
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paint. Matt Bonner is a 3-point specialist 
with size. Gary Neal scores in 
bunches. Patrick Mills goes baseline 
to baseline in a flash. 
And if that wasn’t enough, 
the Spurs got more help at the 
trade deadline. 
Boris Diaw looks reborn after 
coming over from the lowly Charlotte 
Bobcats, and Stephen Jackson 
hasn’t skipped a beat in his return to 
the team he won an NBA Championship 
in 2003. 
Jackson started the year with Milwaukee 
before being acquired March 
15. He’s a proven champion with a 
repuatation for being a tough guy. 
“He’s got an edge to him,” Popovich 
said. “I like his edge; I like his 
toughness, his grit, his willingness to 
play in big situations. All those sorts 
of things are what I like.” 
The Spurs lacked Jackson’s toughness 
a year ago as the Grizzlies muscled 
San Antonio out of the playoffs. 
That won’t happen again with Jackson 
in the fold. He’s a fearless competitor 
notorious for his role in the infamous 
2004 brawl between the Detroit 
Pistons and Indianapolis Pacers. 
“I’m all about my team,” Jackson 
said. “Whatever it takes to protect 
my teammates, to be with my teammates, 
I’m going to ride it to the end. 
That’s all I know.” 
The Spurs don’t have the flash of 
the run-and-gun Thunder or the 
glamour of “Lob City” and the Los 
Angeles Clippers. 
What they do have is a veteran 
corps led by four NBA champions, 
a seasoned coach and a deep bench 
full of rising stars and castaways with 
something left to prove. 
San Antonio has never won an 
NBA title in an even-numbered year, 
but all that could change come June. 
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AbovePhonthephasone selects pieces of leather 
for his senior collection at Tandy Leather. 
LeftWhen Phonthephasone is not working inside Gearing, 
he is sewing in his room and experimenting with leather. 
By the time textiles and apparel students enter their 
senior year, they have already begun brainstorming 
for their final collection. “You sketch your ideas 
over and over until you find five looks that you like 
and pick the three strongest looks to make,” textiles 
and apparel senior Stefant Phonthephasone said. 
Phonthephasone and his classmates took draping 
classes in the fall. They then translate their ideas into 
garments. The year-long process includes two critique 
panelsinthefall, three critiquepanelsinthespringand 
a judging panel one week before the fashion show. 
Phonthephasone is known for his leather designs, 
requiring him to drape with leather instead of muslin, 
a lightweight cotton cloth that other students use for 
their mock-up designs. Phonthephasone’s collection 
is inspired by the title character’s personality in the 
TV show “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”“The designs are 
me channeling her characteristics, like the leather 
male cage corset in my collection. Buffy had secrets, 
giving a sense of intrigue and mystery — leaving the 
audience wanting more,” Phonthephasone said. 
— Batli Joselevitz | Daily Texan Staff 
Editor’s note: The UT Textiles and Apparel Senior Fashion 
Show will be hosted tonight at the Frank Erwin Center from 
7 to 10 p.m. Admission is free. 
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form rather than just become 
passive listeners. 
Giving Back After 
Rejection 
The Journal of Consumer 
Research reports a study in 
which participants are made 
to either feel ignored or rejected 
had somewhat surprising 
results. Though both 
scenarios seem to elicit similar 
emotions with similar 
effects, participants who 
felt ignored were more likely 
to want to buy brand 
name clothing than the rejected 
group, whose participants 
were more likely to 
want to donate money or 
volunteer. The conclusion? 
If there’s somebody you don’t 
like, you’re better off rejecting 
them outright — they’ll 
be more likely to benefit society 
that way. 
Baboon Book Club 
Monkeys may not be able 
to read yet, but a new experiment 
shows that they’re 
able to distinguish words 
from non-words. An experiment 
trained several baboons 
over the course of 
several weeks to distinguish 
between real words, like 
“DONE” or “LAND” from 
nonsense words like “DRAN” 
or “LONS.” Though it’s very 
unlikely the monkeys knew 
what the words meant, they 
figured out that certain letter 
combinations don’t occur 
particularly often in English 
(“TH” occurs much more often 
than “HT” for instance) 
and, by the end of the trials, 
the monkeys could distinguish 
real words from nonsense 
ones with about 75 percent 
accuracy. This strongly 
suggests that the monkeys 
could break words into their 
components (letters) rather 
than memorizing them 
all individually. 
Voice professors are not allowed to 
teach students who aren’t voice majors, 
because priority goes to people 
pursuing the art as a career. But 
Small made an exception for Steele 
because of his genuine passion 
for singing. 
“I love singing, and I just can’t explain 
how it makes me feel,” Steele 
said. “I think [Small] saw that, so he 
didn’t worry about the ‘rules.’” 
Small said that Steele holds an obvious 
respect for classical singing and 
his inquisitiveness and willingness 
to go the extra mile is something he 
wishes he could instill in many more 
of his students. 
“I think Brandon is a shining example 
of someone who must have 
music and singing in his life,” Small 
said. “It doesn’t matter to him where 
it leads or whether or not he achieves 
any sort of career success. It’s an activity, 
an art, a love that he must have, 
and so he insists that it stay a part 
of his life.” 
Small thinks Steele has already 
found success from his sheer enjoyment 
of music-making. 
“I hope we all can find that same 
kind of success in our lives, whether 
or not it has anything to do with how 
we make our living,” Small said. “Art 
matters, being creative matters, and if 
we ignore the need to create, I don’t 
think we truly live.” 
Butler Opera Center 
What: Die Fledermaus by 
Johann Strauss 
Where: McCullough Theatre 
2375 Robert Dedman Drive 
When: 7:30 p.m: 
Friday, April 20; 
Sunday, April 22; 
Wednesday, April 25; 
Friday, April 27 
Parking: San Jacinto Garage 
Tickets: Students, $10; 
Faculty/Staff, $17; 
General Admission, $20 
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butleroperacenter 
Opera Ensemble 
Where: Jessen Auditorium 
When: 7:30 p.m. 
Wednesday, May 2 
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Tickets: Free admission 
ties, nightlife and concerts. 
From Los Angeles and New 
York to Miami and New Orleans, 
Chokota has been taking 
notes as he takes shots to keep 
his Austin bar on the cusp of 
what’s cool. 
“When I was at a club in Miami, 
they brought us a bucket of 
sunglasses. Everybody put them 
on and it was like everybody goes 
in their little dream party world,” 
Chokota said. “So I started making 
Recess sunglasses.” 
Junior nursing major Monica 
Patel said she could see her 
crowd of friends making Recess 
one of their go-to bars when they 
go out. 
“All of it, the really good music 
and DJ’s, the cheap drinks, free 
games — it’s a totally social and 
fun vibe,” she said. 
Recess Arcade Bar’s intricate 
lighting fixtures and custombuilt 
bar are far cries from most 
of its neighboring bars and bring 
a taste of what’s typically considered 
West Sixth Street’s contemporary 
and upscale style to what 
many students fondly refer to as 
“Dirty Sixth.” 
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Aerospace Engineering senior Brandon Steele sings tenor in the choir for the production of Johann Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus” in the Butler 
Opera Center Tuesday evening. 
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work for 100 dollars a day?’ and 
she said, ‘Sure.’” 
While “Party Down” is no longer 
on the air, Thomas has returned to 
Austin and said he has a pitch for a 
new television show up his sleeve. 
“I would love to work here, shoot 
here and produce the show here in 
Austin,” he said. “If I could get an 
HBO show on the air, that would 
be awesome.” 
Chris Lovett, an Austin-based 
screenwriter, said he also stumbled 
upon television writing and said 
he came to hear the way Thomas 
carved his path. 
“I started with short stories,” 
Lovett said. “I was trying to find my 
voice and didn’t want to do novels 
or articles and realized that screenplays 
were just like short stories.” 

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Nathan Goldsmith | Daily Texan Staff 

Screenwriter and UT alumnus Rob Thomas explains the origins of his show “Party Down” at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum 
Wednesday. The screening was part of the Austin Film Festival. 

Screenwriter pitches success story


By Rachel Thompson 

Daily Texan Staff 

Screenwriter Rob Thomas knew 
early in life he wanted to be a writer 
and toyed with the idea of novel 
writing before finally settling on 
writing for television. 

Thomas, who graduated from 
UT with a history degree in 1987, 
went on to earn his big break as a 
young writer on “Dawson’s Creek” 
before writing 64 episodes of “Veronica 
Mars” and co-creating “Party 
Down,” a Starz network comdy series. 
Thomas spoke of the challenges 
and joys of his writing career in 
“A Conversation with Rob Thomas,” 
a program presented by the Austin 
Film Festival and held at the Bob 
Bullock Texas State History Museum 
Wednesday evening. 

Taylor Cumbie, director of marketing 
for the Austin Film Festival, 
said Thomas is an inspiration to film 

students still trying to find their way 
in a tough business. 

“I think he’s a great role model,” 
she said. “He writes true to himself 
and has a very authentic writing 
style, and that’s something 
really admirable.” 

After graduating from UT, 
Thomas said he realized how difficult 
it would be to break into 
television writing. 

“The typical network will hear 
500 pitches [for shows] in a year, and 
to get in the door you have to have 
some sort of reputation,” he said. 

Landing his first job with “Dawson’s 
Creek” felt like a dream to 
a struggling writer like himself, 
Thomas said. 

“I felt like I had won the lottery,” 
he said. “And in some ways I had. 
It paid $3,000 a week, and I’d been 
working as a high school teacher. I 
couldn’t believe there was that much 
money in the world.” 

Thomas went on to create and 
write for “Veronica Mars,” which he 
said was a gamble from the beginning, 
but continued as a successful 
show for several seasons. 

“It was a passion project,” he said. 
“I wrote it without any network saying 
they wanted it.” 

His opinions of his own writing 
changed when he saw an early episode 
of “The Office,” Thomas said. 

“My whole career up to that 
point had been writing drama,” he 
said. “When I watched ‘The Office,’ 
I thought, ‘That’s my thing. That I 
could do.’” 

Thomas and a few friends were 
inspired by the show’s comedic 
rhythm and decided to create a new 
show of their own. 

“It just changed how we thought 
about television comedy, and so we 
thought, let’s take a stab at it,” he said. 
“‘The Office’ is a show about people 
who have given themselves over to 

the rat race, so we thought we’d write 
a show about people who are chasing 
the dream, perhaps for too long.” 

This inspiration resulted in “Party 
Down,” a series that eventually 
gained a home on Starz, but first 
took some initial planning and a few 
unsuccessful pitches to television 
networks, Thomas said. 

“We started meeting every week, 
trying to hone in on this idea, and 
eventually we were ready to pitch the 
show,” he said. “The first place we 
pitched it was to HBO, and we had a 
devastatingly bad pitch meeting.” 

The pilot for the show was shot 
at Thomas’ home in Los Angeles 
because budget constraints and 
featured Jane Lynch as one of its 
key stars. 

“We were all in awe of Jane Lynch,” 
he said. “She’s an actress with a very 
low ego. We said, ‘Hey Jane, want to 

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UT student finds his 
voice singing opera 


By Elizabeth Hinojos 

Daily Texan Staff 

When flight and linear system 
dynamics meet with an unexpectedly 
vibrant tenor voice, 
the world gets Brandon Steele: 
a fifth-year aerospace engineer 
major with a zealous passion 
for singing. 

Steele will perform in Johann 
Strauss’ Die Fledermaus Friday 
and again with the University’s 
Undergraduate Opera Ensemble 
in May. 

Last Saturday, Steele performed 
a self-administered recital. The 
high pitch and rich inflection of 
his voice shimmered in the forefront 
of a Methodist sanctuary. 
It was his first performance ever 
where he solely showcased his 
voice to family and friends, their 
open mouths, raised brows and 
widened eyes strewn throughout 
the room. 

While Steele’s opera voice, 
which sounds as if he’s had years’ 
worth of formal training, may 
have you fooled, he has merely 
scratched the surface of what he 
plans to be a long-lasting relationship 
with music and his singing 
voice in particular. Steele realized 
he had a natural ability for singing 
when he played the Hot Chestnut 
Man in his high school’s rendition 
of “A Christmas Carol.” 

“Ever since high school I wanted 
to take voice lessons,” Steele 
said. “But I felt it was more important 
to pursue cello and continue 
improving on my piano skills. 
Voice would be something I’d 
do later.” 

Steele started playing piano at 
age seven and shortly after displayed 
a knack for playing cello. 

“I chose to pursue instruments 
because I’d already spent time 
and money on them,” Steele said. 
“I love [playing my instruments], 
but I felt I was just okay at singing 
and it wasn’t something I could go 
far with.” 

Herminia Thompson, Steele’s 
mother, said she did not know 
her son had singing abilities until 
he was 14. 

“He said he didn’t want to 
tell me because [he thought] 
I’d make him sing at church,” 
Thompson said. 

She explained that Steele does 
not come from a musical background. 
None of his family members 
pursued a career in music. 
Nevertheless, both his grandmothers 
and a few aunts sing 
for pleasure. 

“When he was a kid, Brandon 
was sitting in the backseat of his 
dad’s car and Michael Jackson was 
playing,” Thompson said. “When 
he hit the high ‘hee-hee,’ Brandon 
sang along, and his dad looked 
back at him, shocked.” 

And while there were traces 
of Steele’s hidden talent growing 
up, it wasn’t until after Steele met 
a few music majors his freshman 
year of college that he started to 
learn about opera singers and different 
voice types. 

“Before college, I didn’t like opera,” 
Steele said. “It just sounded 
so weird.” 

But thanks to his music major 
friends, Steele became interested 
in the art and started imitating 
what he heard. 

“Once I got to my fourth 
year, I joined men’s chorus,” 
Steele said. “I started learning 
about actual vocal technique, 
so that inspired me to take 
voice lessons.” 

Steele feels that a classmate who 
knows a subject well can sometimes 
explain music dynamics 
better than a professor because of 
a mutual understanding between 
peers. Steele would ask his friends, 
who he held in high esteem, how 
to manipulate his voice and try to 
work with the bits of advice he got 
until he found a voice instructor. 

“One of my classmates set me 
up with David Small [my current 
voice instructor],” Steele said. 
“When I went to sing for David, I 
was expecting to afterward set up 
an audition, but instead he just 
wanted to schedule actual classes, 
accepting me as his student right 
after I sang for him.” 

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Owner Paul 

Chokota stands 
behind the bar 
in the center of 
Recess Arcade 
Bar located on 


the corner of 
East Sixth Street 
and San Jacinto 
Boulevard. 
Vintage arcade 
games and 
multi-colored 
lights that line 
the walls and 
pulse to music 
are some of the 
unique features 
of this new 
venue. 

Marisa Vasquez 

Daily Texan Staff 

Free arcade games give bar retro vibe 


By Anjli Mehta 

Daily Texan Staff 

Parties, video games, alcohol 
and kicking back with his friends 

— these are a few of Recess Arcade 
Bar owner Paul Chokota’s 
favorite things. 
Recess opened in February, 
just in time for the SXSW 
Sixth Street rush. After buying 
the space that was once a Hard 
Rock Cafe, the Aces Lounge and 
Venue 222 on the corner of East 
Sixth Street and San Jacinto Boulevard, 
Chokota wasn’t sure what 
to do with it. All he knew was 
that he wanted it to be a bar with 
a retro vibe that Sixth Streeters 
would flock to. To Chokota, 
it seemed like the perfect time 
for Recess. 

“In Austin you can go to like 20 
bars a night, but I wanted to make 
a bar with such a cool concept that 
you actually want to stay there all 
night,” he said. “Almost like when 
Coyote Ugly first started and the 
movie came out, that fun party at


mosphere is what I want.” 

Chokota’s plans to renovate the 
venue started with sketches on a 
cocktail napkin. The result: walls 
were torn down to create an open 
space where a heavy hand-carved, 
wooden, circular bar takes center 
stage with a mountain of shiny 
glass liquor bottles in the center. 

Almost 20 arcade games, including 
throwback games like 
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 
and San Francisco Rush, line the 
walls. Hot-pink ‘80s inspired ski 
ball machines light up a corner 
nook. There are also multicolored 
spotlights that pulse to the beat 
of the music, ranging from dub-
step to hip-hop, producing an almost 
trance-like effect if you look 
at them for too long. 

“I didn’t want to leave any detail 
to chance. Like with the DJ 
booth on stage, I walked out of 
the booth like 20 times to make 
sure there was enough room to 
get by and turn the corner without 
slipping,” Chokota said. 

Recess’ free arcade games pro


vide the bar-goer with an alternate 
option to dancing or standing and 
drinking, a rare commodity on 
the Sixth Street bar scene where 
drinking and dancing tend to be 
the only activities on a typical 
night’s agenda. 

“The games are just something 
else to do and they’re a 
great way for someone to break 
the ice with a date,” Chokota 
said. “Like, yo, let’s go racing.” 

Senior finance major and Phi 
Gamma Delta (FIJI) social chair 
Graham Brown has been to the 
bar with his friends and is planning 
a FIJI bar tab at Recess in the 
coming weeks. 

“The bar has a lively atmosphere 
and the games are good 
for when you want to do something 
other than small talk. Instead, 
you can get competitive 
with your friends,” Brown said. 

One of Chokota’s hobbies 
is traveling the country and 
hunting down the coolest par-

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Pill may cost-effectively reduce spread of HIV 


SCIENCE 

SCENE 


By Robert Starr 

A new study published in the 
Annals of Internal Medicine suggests 
that a pill given to the right 
population could reduce the 
spread of HIV in a cost-effective 
manner. The inspiration for this 
study was the drug tenofoviremtricitabine, 
which has been 
shown to reduce the risk of HIV 
infection by 44 percent when 
taken daily. Unfortunately, the 
drug itself is quite costly and 
even giving it to just 20 percent 
of the members of the group 
with the highest risk (men who 
have homosexual encounters) 
would cost $98 billion over the 
next 20 years, though it would 
prevent an estimated 63,000 
infections. However, if the drug 
is selectively given out to the 20 
percent of those in that group 
who are at the highest risk of 
contracting HIV — those with 
at least five partners a year — 
41,000 infections would be pre


vented over the next 20 years 
at a cost of only around $16.6 
billion, which represents a good 
value and may even be a cost 
effective strategy. 

Throw Out the Insoles and 
Buy a Gun 

According to recent research, 
holding a gun can give you a perceived 
height boost. The UCLA 
study asked subjects to estimate 
how tall they thought a given person 
was based on a photograph of 
their hand when holding a handgun, 
small saw, drill or caulking 
gun. In order to rule out biases, 


the researchers ensured that the 
photographs all showed hands of 
the same size. Despite this, subjects’ 
predictions of the height of 
the men holding the handguns averaged 
out at 69.5 inches, nearly a 
whole inch taller than the second 
place winner, the saw, at 68.75 
inches. Researchers found that 
the subjects perceived the men 
with guns as stronger as well. 

Reading One Word at a Time 

A simple technique seems to 
make a big difference in the building 
of childhood reading abilities, 

Illustration by Colin Mullin | Daily Texan Staff 

according to a study published in 
Child Development. Preschool 
students whose teachers pointed 
at words while reading to 
them four times a week had improved 
abilities in reading, spelling 
and even comprehension two 
years later than those in a group 
whose teachers read the same 
books, but didn’t point at the 
words. This technique, which is 
easy enough to implement, seems 
to ensure that the students pay 
attention to the individual letters 
as well as the words that they 

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