A female UT student was stabbed in the nose with a fork in the Engineering Sci- ence Building on Wednes- day night, according to UTPD spokeswoman Cindy Posey. The victim’s name has not been released. Posey said UTPD re- ceived a call at 5:45 p.m. about an assault in prog- ress, and UTPD and Austin Police Department officers were both dispatched to the scene. According to Posey and witnesses at the scene, the assailant, Chenxi Deng — who is not a UT student — stabbed the victim, after which he was restrained by several UT students until police officers arrived. Posey said the victim, who was initially treated by an EMT on the scene, has been taken to St. David’s Medical Center for further treatment. Posey said Deng has been arrested for ag- gravated assault, though this could not be confirmed by Roger Wade, public infor- mation officer for the Travis County Sheriff’s office as of Wednesday night. Electrical engineering junior Priscilla Chang said she did not see the attack itself but was witness to the immediate aftermath. Chang said she reached the third-floor elevator and saw a bleeding girl sitting on the bench outside the elevator, surrounded by other students. “She was crying, obvious- ly,” Chang said. “There was a puddle of blood on the floor, kind of off to the side.” Chang said she saw Deng being restrained on the ground by a group of other students. “I saw the guy being pinned down by a few oth- er guys, and he was going nuts,” Chang said. “He was yelling some crazy stuff, but I couldn’t really tell what it was — he seemed incoher- ent. He was fighting the guys trying to hold him down.” Dylan Zika, an electri- cal engineering junior, said he was studying in the ENS building when the stabbing occurred. Zika said when he approached the eleva- tor, he was denied access by the police. “They wouldn’t let anyone in the elevator on the third floor for 20 or 30 minutes,” Zika said. “I think they’d al- ready cleaned up the blood by the time I got there.” Fans of Case McCoy have gotten their fair share of ex- citement this season. The se- nior quarterback has already appeared in three games, in- cluding one start, and there’s a good chance that more ap- pearances are coming. Throughout his four-year career, the younger brother of former Texas star Colt McCoy has appeared in 25 games, which is well above the average for a typical back- up quarterback. But McCoy hasn’t been a typical backup quarterback. He’s been a starter, a backup and even a third stringer at one point, and his experiences have var- ied through all those periods. Texas is also no stranger to this issue of quarterback switches. “We play behind all of our quarterbacks,” sophomore run- ning back Johnathan Gray said. “When one is down, the other one comes in, we rally around whoever is in the game.” In his career, McCoy has completed 178 passes, tal- lying 2,086 yards on 278 at- tempts. He has also recorded negative 22 yards of rushing on 46 attempts. McCoy saw little action in his freshman campaign with appearances against Rice and Florida Atlantic, attempting just one pass and one rush through those two games. In his sophomore season, the Graham native helped fill in after the end of the Garrett Gilbert era. He started in five games and ap- peared in five others, setting the school record that year for the most consecutive passes to start a career with- out an interception (124). While he only started one game in his junior season, he came into four others, and in just the first four weeks of this season, he has almost matched this number of appearances. In Texas’ loss to Brigham Young University this sea- son, starter David Ash suf- fered a head injury that took him out of the rest of the game and the following week against Ole Miss. Against Kansas State, Ash left the game at halftime because of those same injuries. McCoy has appeared in the place of Ash in all of those contests, winning just one. Statistically there isn’t a huge difference between when McCoy starts and when he comes into games as a backup. When starting he has tallied 1,370 yards with a total QBR of 41.6. When he has come into the game to replace the starter he has tallied 610 yards with a total QBR of 65.12. In his lone start this season against Ole Miss, McCoy led an inconsistent offense that was held to zero points in the last half. The senior has had good luck when he gets on the field mid-game. In 2011 — after boos serenaded then- starter Gilbert — McCoy came in and switched off plays with Ash to lead the 1Legislature’s 83rd session discussed in wrap-up panel. ONLINEACC students co-enroll at UT in PACE program. ONLINENEWSStudents deserve their own City Council district. PAGE 4LGBTQ Longhorns need more housing options. PAGE 4OPINIONTexas volleyball sweeps TCU in Big 12 opener. PAGE 5Fantasy football players to start and sit in Week 4. PAGE 5SPORTSMemoirs of science giants fall short of expectations. PAGE 6Cyberfest brings out the weirdest Austin can offer. 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Though many children have strong attachments to comfort objects, Kalie Kubes had a special relationship with her stuffed kangaroo: She kept her company dur- ing radiation treatment for childhood cancer, some- times for entire days when she had no significant hu- man interaction. Kubes, an applied learn- ing and development senior, said she remembers the treatment well. “Whenever I went through radiation I would always have my kangaroo stuffed animal with me,” Kubes said. “Through ra- diation, they would have to put like a tape ‘X’ across my stomach where my kidney was, where the radiation would be done, and I was so scared … So I would have my kangaroo with me and McCoy making his case for the starting quarterback positionFOOTBALLChelsea PurgahnDaily Texan StaffCase McCoy has made 25 ap- pearences in his Texas career, tal- lying 2,086 yards while completing 176 of his 278 attempts. By Garrett Callahan@callahangarrettMCCOY page 4Editor’s note: This is the first in a weekly series in which The Daily Texan looks back at something it covered in its 113-year history. An early morning Big Bite feast after a night of barhop- ping until closing time is not an unfamiliar scenario to many UT students. But female students in the early 1960s were not so lucky. The Daily Texan ran an article that announced an ex- tended curfew in UT’s wom- en’s residence halls on Sept. 17, 1963. The University-en- forced curfews applied only to UT’s female students, an example of the disparity in gender equality at the time. The curfew extension, granted by Margaret Peck, who served as the dean of women, changed the students’ Sunday through Thursday curfew from 11 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. and the Friday and Saturday curfew from 12:45 a.m. to 1 a.m. “Residence halls are being kept open later to make it possi- ble for women to take advantage of the additional study time,” Peck said in the Sept. 17 article. The University imposed curfews on the majority of its female students in 1963. The then-called “coeds” were CURFEW page 2CANCER page 2By Sara Reinsch@sreinsch91By Jordan Rudner@jrudBy Lizzie Jespersen@LizzieJespersen Several undisclosed con- flicts of interest have been discovered in UT’s study on methane emissions at hydraulic fracturing sites across the United States. The study, led by David Allen, a professor of chemi- cal engineering, measured methane emissions from 190 fracking well sites. Proceedings of the Nation- al Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) published the study. The organization’s conflict of interest policy states all indi- viduals involved with a study must reveal any associations that pose a potential finan- cial conflict of interest . The study received back- lash from bloggers and public accountability or- ganizations following its publication because it had a number of industry spon- sors, including organizations such as the Environmental Defense Fund, Chevron and XTO Energy, an ExxonMobil subsidiary. The researchers took their measurements di- rectly from these companies’ natural gas production sites. An explanation for how the study was able to maintain its independence while taking measurements from their sponsors’ sites was not laid out in the publication. Several persons associated with the study did not return calls for comment and PNAS issued only a brief statement to The Daily Texan. Additionally, Jennifer Mis- kimins, one of the study’s fourteen authors, was listed in the study as working in the Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines. At the time of the study, she was working as a senior con- sulting engineer at Barree and Associates, a firm that offers fracking-related services. This new development was brought to the atten- tion of the University, which reiterated its stance of total transparency it declared when the study was first published. UT spokesman Gary Susswein said the pub- lic is encouraged to keep in mind who the contributors and sponsors of the study were while reading it. “Critics of the study are drawing much of their in- formation from records and documents that UT-Austin has voluntarily released or posted online,” Susswein said. “As we learn of any additional affiliations that should be dis- closed, we are doing so.” Nicholette Zeliadt, a repre- sentative from the PNAS news office, said PNAS is working to correct the authors’ disclosure statement, but they do not foresee any other changes be- ing made to the study. “We are working with the authors to finalize the text for a revised disclosure statement as quickly as possible,” Zeliadt said. “The statement will be published as a correction to the paper.” Miskimins did not re- turn emails and a call for comment. 2breckenridgeWWW.UBSKI.COM 1-800-SKI-WILD • 1-800-754-9453COLLEGE SKI & BOARD WEEKVail • Beaver Creek • Keystone • Arapahoe Basin20 Mountains. 5 Resorts. 1 Price. plus t/sFROMONLY Right now, PPD is looking for qualified participants for a post-surgical pain relief research study of an investigational medication. 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All articles, photographs and graphics, both in the print and online editions, are the property of Texas Student Media and may not be reproduced or republished in part or in whole without written permission. The Texan strives to present all information fairly, accurately and completely. If we have made an error, let us know about it. Call (512) 232-2217 or e-mail managingeditor@ dailytexanonline.com. TOMORROW’S WEATHERHighLow9474Subhead: Is she dead? Eric Park / Daily Texan StaffKen Wills and Delmon Outland retire the United States flag for the day outside the LBJ Library on Monday afternoon. FRAMES featured photo they would put a little tape ‘X’ over her pouch too.” As National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month comes to a close, UT stu- dents who survived cancer in their own childhoods re- flected on their personal ex- periences, frustrations and moments of triumph while wrestling with cancer. Less than 1 percent of all cancers are diagnosed in children aged 0-14 and young adults aged 15-24, according to Cancer Re- search UK. The survivors of these cancers and their treatments often face lasting side effects such as disabili- ties, growth impairments, weak immune systems and risk of further cancers. “Survival rates for child- hood cancer have changed dramatically over years,” Barbara Jones, social work associate professor, said. “They are 80-90 percent for a child diagnosed today. It’s fantastic. But that means we have a lot of people dealing with the side effects of child- hood cancer.” Kubes was first diagnosed with neuroblastoma cancer when she was 15-months old. Though two diagnoses later she finished treatments, she still deals with the effects of chemotherapy: muscle at- rophy, chronic pain, low en- ergy and hearing loss. Bucky Ribbeck, human biology senior, said he never let himself think the cancer would beat him. But he found that this was not the case for all pedi- atric cancer patients. His hardest moment living with the disease was losing a good friend and fellow patient to cancer. “Her name was Natalia,” Ribbeck said. “She was my first friend I ever lost … I know she’s not physically here but every day I try to live with her in mind so that she can live through me, because I know that there’s a reason that I made it and others didn’t.” Ribbeck was diagnosed with cancer in May of 2009 and finished his treat- ment near Christmas of the same year. “It was probably the best Christmas gift and New Year’s gift that you could ever get — to be done with cancer,” Ribbeck said. Other survivors of child- hood cancer have used their experiences to become ad- vocates for childhood can- cer research and awareness. Public relations sophomore Devin Duncan has spoken at numerous events and in- terviews as an advocate. “I would have to talk to a crowd and try to convince them of the underfunding of childhood cancer,” Duncan said. “People assume that ‘oh, well, they’re children, of course people are taking care of them’ … but that’s not the case at all.” Duncan was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia twice, both at 3-years old and again 13 years later. As a cancer pa- tient, she struggled with medications that affected her ability to keep track of details, at times forgetting entire days at the hospi- tal. Still, she is able to look back at her experiences and see the good that has come from her struggles. “I’ve had so many doors open for me,” Duncan said. “I feel like everybody in life has this want to be some- thing bigger than them- selves and have this want to make a name for them- selves. I feel like it’s really cool that even though I am the cancer girl, or the cancer advocate, I’ve made a name for myself in a way that I would have never been able to before. That’s something that’s really fulfilling.” allowed to live in approved, privately-owned apartments beginning in their junior year, but they too were subject to curfews, according to a Daily Texan article that ran in Au- gust 1963. Women who were 21 years and older with 90 completed credit hours were permitted to live in unap- proved housing, sans curfew. Although University-en- forced curfews would likely elicit strong, profanity-filled responses from female stu- dents today, a 1962 poll of freshmen women showed they did not favor a later curfew, ac- cording to the Sept. 17 article. Most hall residents didn’t have a lot to say about the curfew extension, the article said. “It’s okay if you have a date with someone you like, but if you don’t — well,” one female student said in the article. Two days after the wom- en’s curfew article was pub- lished, the Texan ran a story that said freshmen and soph- omore male students had been permitted to live in an approved, privately-owned apartment building for the first time. The apartment would not enforce a curfew, as no men’s University dor- mitories had curfews, the apartment building’s manag- er said in the Sept. 19 article. “The approval was given to provide better housing for those who want to cook their own meals,” R.A. Sininger, assistant dean of student life, said in the Sept. 18 article. “Many feel this saves money.” This explanation came one month after the August article cited a housemother, who gave an opposing argument to fe- male students’ desire to cook. “Few girls want apart- ments, even after they become seniors, because they get to enjoy the association of other girls in the dorm and do not have time to cook their own meals,” the article said. None of the articles ex- plained why female students were given curfews and males were not, or why male stu- dents would have had more time to cook than females. UT’s first coed residence hall, the Jester Center, was built in 1969, housing men and women in two separate tow- ers within the same building. Gender equality continued to progress at the University from there, and today 80 percent of UT’s residence halls are coed. Women of 2013 are now left to complain about the ID card swipes required after mid- night for entry into residence halls. But compared to a life without late-night Pluckers, last-call drink orders, 3 a.m. dog walks and after-hours movie premieres — it prob- ably doesn’t seem too awful. 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A recent analysis conducted by Business Insider (BI) calcu- lated that each of the 85 players who are awarded scholarships were valued at an estimated $578,000 per individual, aver- aging more than any other col- lege player in the country. The study referenced the University’s 2012 foot- ball revenue, which totaled $104.5 million. BI then cal- culated individual players’ hypothetical salary if UT abided by the same collec- tive bargaining agreements within the NFL — wherein players receive a minimum 47 percent of all revenue. According to a 2011 report by Business of College Sports, UT football players are only given scholarships collectively amounting to 3.2 percent of football-related revenue. This number is common among other universities: such as Oklahoma State and Texas Tech, paying 4.2 percent and 7.6 percent, respectively. Iowa State, however, whom the Longhorns face off against Saturday, pays 10.6 percent. —Anthony Green Students at UT are under incredible pressure — finding a job, dealing with re- lationships and making the most of their four years on the 40 Acres. But when these pressures turn into something destructive and thoughts of suicide and self-harm be- gin to seem reasonable compared to what’s ahead, it’s time to seek help. As much as college is about explor- ing yourself, having fun and becoming a productive and successful human being, there are aspects of college life that no one wants to talk about — loneliness, boredom and fear. This University is daunting, and students coming straight from high school can slip through the cracks more easily than any of us want to admit. It’s our re- sponsibility as members of the university community to lift those people up, and this week is the perfect time to start. This week is Suicide Prevention Aware- ness Week at the University of Texas. Spearheaded by the Counseling and Men- tal Health Center (CMHC) in partner- ship with Student Government, the Tejas Club and Texas Parents, the week is full of events aimed at helping all members of the University of Texas understand that they are not alone. As both a member of the student advisory board for the CMHC and the Tejas Club, I believe suicide prevention efforts should always be supported and ex- panded at the University of Texas. According to the Daily Beast, as of 2010, among those aged 15-49, suicide was the leading cause of death, surpass- ing heart disease, AIDS and cancer. Among that group, more people were dy- ing by suicide than the year before. The jump in suicide rates is seen by some as generational. Others see suicide as pre- ventable, and predict that rates will drop with less access to guns or a better eco- nomic climate. The reality is that suicide is a public health issue, but one that has been consistently misunderstood. For college students, suicide is part of our everyday life. According to the CMHC, 18 percent of undergraduate stu- dents and 15 percent of graduate students have seriously considered suicide as an option. Of those, 8 percent of undergradu- ates and 5 percent of graduate students have acted on that consideration. This means that most students on this campus are close with someone who has thought about self-harm, whether they know it or not. The excuse that suicide does not af- fect you does not hold up to the truth. Events all week include workshops to help students, faculty and staff recognize peers who might be thinking about sui- cide. Many people do not have significant outward expressions to let others know they are thinking about suicide, which is why it is important to receive profes- sional training to recognize those who are in need. Organizations around the globe have made progress in eliminating the stigma associated with suicide and mental health in general. But every time “kill yourself” is thrown around as an insult or threats of suicide are treated in the same vein as casual complaints, we take two steps back. It’s easy to walk past the flyers and look past suicide prevention week as just an- other University campaign. But it’s not nearly as easy to get educated or to treat suicide and mental health with the same severity as other diseases with large mor- tality rates. It’s high time that suicide was treated as more than a generational tic, and mental health as more than something to be over- come. Suicide is not the last resort of the weak, the product of bad genes or a way of seeking attention. For every student on the 40 Acres, suicide should always be a seri- ous concern and help should be offered readily. We cannot afford to keep waiting until it’s too late. Jordan is an English and finance junior from Missouri City. Overwhelmed. Intimidated. Confused. These are the feelings that mark the first few weeks of freshman year. Dorms, how- ever, serve as safe havens for the hordes of new students in those first few weeks. On-campus living is valuable to first-year students, and this is why 70 percent of the 7,200 students housed on campus are freshmen seeking the security and belong- ing found in a residential dormitory. Due to the fact that on-campus dorms require same-sex roommate pairing, many LG- BTQ students have to tolerate rooming situations that range from uncomfortable to unbearable. The current same-sex roommate policy operates under very heteronormative as- sumptions. While it is intended to pro- vide “appropriate” rooming situations, the policy ignores the unique housing needs of the LGBTQ community. Gen- der diversity in this community means students’ preferences and identifications fall beyond the traditional scope of gen- der norms, and the roommate policy does not acknowledge this diversity or support the many difficulties of this community. In fact, a study (Rankin and Beemyn, in progress) found that 44 percent of 50 transgender students from 14 universities experienced harassment in the form of derogatory remarks, verbal and physical threats, and denial of services. “Living in all-female dorms during both of my first two years on campus [was] an uncomfortable situation since I began questioning my gender. My request to change rooms was denied and I couldn’t afford a single room [on campus],” said Bridgette Kieffer, co-director of LGBTQ political activist group StandOut. Since then, the Division of Housing and Food Service has offered a welcome, though incomplete solution. “If an LG- BTQ student is willing to share their gen- der identity, it is possible that they will be assigned an individual room at the same cost as sharing a room,” Kieffer said. “This is not ideal since it requires the student to come out to Housing, but it is a step in the right direction.” Associate Director of Residence Life Hemlata Jhaveri, who oversees these types of housing issues at DHFS, has been work- ing with StandOut for the past year to fur- ther evaluate the need for gender-neutral housing and study how it is provided at other universities. “It is very important that every student feels safe in their com- munity living space, and we work with students on an individual basis,” Jhaveri said. Gender-neutral housing would give students the option to room together, re- gardless of the students’ biological sex or identified gender. DHFS has found that only two private schools in Texas offer it, and the majority of schools outside Texas offer it only to upperclassmen through university-owned apartments, suggesting its infeasibility at UT. StandOut, however, is not satisfied with these initiatives and has continued to peti- tion for a gender-inclusive housing option that would allow students of any gender to freely room together for over a year now. Last year, DHFS suggested UT’s off- campus dorms as a solution because they allow students to choose any roommate. “That shows that they just wanted to throw the issue off campus, and I strongly agree with the idea that you should live on cam- pus your first year,” StandOut co-director Devon Howard said. Since then, StandOut has continued to push for an on-campus dorm with a pilot floor for gender-inclu- sive housing. DHFS, however, has not con- firmed any plans of the sort, and LGBTQ students are still forced to manage with the roommate policy in the current on- campus housing options. Even if DHFS did approve plans for a pilot floor, it is still questionable that that would completely solve the problem. “I don’t believe this is purely housing-relat- ed,” Devon said. “UT has pretty awesome LGBTQ policies, like the nondiscrimina- tion policy or preferred pronoun change on non-legal documents. A lot of the is- sues come from the students and their ig- norance — not much [that] the University itself can directly cure.” I think I speak for all of us when I say it is time to reexamine initiatives to cure the true source of the problem — ignorance and intolerance. StandOut and DHFS’ ini- tiatives to explore gender-inclusive hous- ing are a sensible approach to sensitive student issues, but the solution has to start and end with education and stronger stu- dent initiatives to promote tolerance and diversity on and off campus. Huynh is a Plan II and business honors sophomore from Laredo. 4A OPINIONLEGALESE | Opinions expressed in The Daily Texan are those of the editor, the Editorial Board or the writer of the article. They are not necessarily those of the UT administration, the Board of Regents or the Texas Student Media Board of Operating Trustees. SUBMIT A FIRING LINE | E-mail your Firing Lines to firingline@dailytexanonline.com. Letters must be more than 100 and fewer than 300 words. The Texan reserves the right to edit all submissions for brevity, clarity and liability. RECYCLE | Please recycle this copy of The Daily Texan. Place the paper in one of the recycling bins on campus or back in the burnt-orange newsstand where you found it. EDITORIAL TWITTER | Follow The Daily Texan Editorial Board on Twitter (@DTeditorial) and receive updates on our latest editorials and columns. 3LAURA WRIGHT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF / @TexaneditorialThursday, September 26, 2013EDITORIALCOLUMNStudents can prevent suicideCOLUMNBy Chris JordanDaily Texan Columnist @ChrisAlanJordanBy Rachel HuynhDaily Texan Columnist Sam Ortega / Daily Texan StaffDese’Rae L. Stage, founder and photographer of the “Live Through This Project,” speaks to a group of students Tuesday evening as part of Suicide Prevention Week. LGBTQ students need more on-campus housing optionsStudent city council district isn’t perfect, but it’s a startHORNS UP: CORNYN’S NOT FALLING FOR ITHORNS DOWN: RACIALLY-CHARGED STUNT MISSES THE POINTOn Tuesday and Wednesday, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz railed against the alleged evils of the Afford- able Care Act for over 21 hours. Cruz’s tactic does nothing to halt the vote for a new federal budget, but it does risk a disastrous shutdown of the govern- ment, a move that Democrats and most Republicans oppose. “While I remain committed to defunding Obamacare, I’m also committed to avoiding a government shutdown,” said fellow Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn. We applaud Cornyn for choosing restraint, and working toward his political goals in a way that does not endanger the country’s well-being. HORNS UP: TEXAS (MOSTLY) ACKNOWLEDGES REALITYAccording to a survey released Tuesday by Yale University’s Project on Climate Change Commu- nication, 70 percent of Texans believe in global warming, and more than half believe dealing with it should be a high priority for the federal government. Unfortunately, only 44 percent concluded that the global warming has been caused by human activity. Following in the footsteps of other conservative youth organizations, Young Conservatives of Texas held a bake sale on the West Mall on Wednesday with different prices for different students. White males paid the most at $2.50 per baked good. The stated purpose of the event was to protest the alleged unfairness of af- firmative action programs, but by reducing the built-in discrimination against minorities to a simple sliding scale, these budding conservative leaders missed the point of modern holistic admissions processes like the one recently challenged in the Fisher case. There are plenty of reasonable ways to question the value of affirmative action, but Young Conservatives’ childish stunt wasn’t one of them. On Tuesday, UT’s Student Government Assembly passed a resolution calling for the creation of a “student district for city coun- cil elections.” The creation of such a district would be part of the 10-one redrawing of Austin City Council districts, which voters approved last fall and which will dramatically change the Austin City Council representa- tion system from seven at-large members to 10 members elected from specific geographic districts across the city. The question remain- ing, and the one that the aforementioned SG resolution attempts to answer, is how those district lines should fall. We side with UT’s Student Government in saying that we be- lieve the 10 districts should include one spe- cifically drawn to include the majority of the city’s college student population. The districts will be decided by a 14-mem- ber citizen commission, and the decisions that committee makes will have the power to unite or divide groups in the Austin com- munity. Each district must have roughly the same population (around 80,000 citizens), and several districts must include substan- tial black or Hispanic populations, as re- quired by the Voting Rights Act. Accord- ing to Carson Jones, the director of Student Government’s City Relations Agency and the author of Tuesday’s legislation, while a student district encompassing only West Campus would fail to meet the 80,000-per- son population requirement for a district, a district that encompassed areas of West Campus, North Campus and East Riverside could meet the 80,000 population require- ment and would include a sufficient number of students. At first glance, drawing a single student district seems problematic, both because students are transient residents and because students in different neighborhoods may have dramatically different needs. Though West Campus is the densest neighborhood in Austin, the number of students registered to vote is incredibly low, a fact that skews the census numbers and makes the West Cam- pus population look lower than it actually is. If students can’t even register to vote, the urgency of tailoring a district just for them is admittedly less pressing. But the urgency of city issues facing stu- dents is easier to illustrate. Between 2004 and 2012, for example, the average value of high- rise-occupied land in West Campus rose from $50 per square foot to $100 per square foot, a cost increase that has been passed along to students in rent prices. Issues of crime, transportation and housing costs end up affecting students more, not less, because of their status as transient Austin citizens. The greatest justification for the creation of a student district, then, is not that students are clamoring for its creation, but that we have sufficient reason to believe that they would be clamoring at the door of a City Council member elected specifically to deal with stu- dent problems. “This is almost like the first domino, in a sense. Understanding that there is a student district can help students to realize that they can influence the city that they are living in and help them grasp that while they are in school here they can affect siblings, friends, eventually children that might be coming years later,” Jones said of the legislation. At a redistricting commission meeting held Wednesday night, the issue of a student district was not addressed, despite two stu- dents testifying in support of the idea. As the commission moves forward with the process, we hope that they will take into account the needs of students and the ability of a student district to drive student engagement. 4utrecsports.orgSIGN UP NOWINTRAMURAL GOLF CLASSICWINNINGSTARTS HEREStart: Darren McFadden — Honestly, I had all but given up on McFadden being a premiere running back in the NFL after his nine yards on 12 carries against Den- ver last week. However, the Raiders will be playing one of the worst defenses in recent NFL history in the Redskins this week. Colin Kaepernick — Kae- pernick is a better quarter- back than he has shown in the last two weeks. I gave him a pass against the Se- attle defense, but his fol- low up performance against Indianapolis is worrisome. However, I have faith that the Kaepernick that we saw throw for over 400 yards in week one will return sooner rather than later. DeMarco Murray — Mur- ray might finally string two solid performances together. Last week the Cowboys’ of- fense ran through Murray, as he totaled 175 rushing yards and a touchdown against St. Louis. This week the Cow- boys travel to San Diego to face the Chargers 28th ranked rushing defense. Sit:Philip Rivers — Rivers started to look like a candi- date for bounce-back player of the year by totaling 51 fantasy points in his first two weeks. However, he regressed greatly against a strong Titans defense, throwing for less than 200 yards and only one touchdown last week. Look for more of the same against an equally physi- cal Cowboys’ defense in Week 4. Any Patriots Receiver — This is where things start to get interesting in New Eng- land. Kenbrell Thompkins is looking like quarterback Tom Brady’s favorite red zone tar- get, and Aaron Dobson seems to have solved his problem with dropped passes but all might change this week. Rob Gronkowski may return from his injury, which provides Brady with his favorite weapon in the passing game. This of- fense will be unrecognizable come week six or seven. Ahmad Bradshaw — Brad- shaw delayed the Trent Rich- ardson arrival party last week by rushing for 95 yards and a touchdown. Bradshaw seems to be part of the Colts’ game plan moving forward, but look for him to be more of a specta- tor for Richardson’s official ar- rival this week. After a gauntlet of chal- lenging preseason matches, the Longhorns cruised to a three-set victory in their conference opener. Fifth-ranked Texas (7-2, 1-0 in conference play) es- tablished its offensive pres- ence early on en route to a 25-18 victory in the opening frame. The set was a back- and-forth battle for domi- nance with five lead changes as both teams tried to find their grooves. The Longhorns went on a 9-2 run after trailing 17-16, taking the set behind five kills by junior outside hitter Haley Eckerman and three blocks by senior setter Han- nah Allison. Texas notched just a .194 hitting percent- age in the opening set, but its play at the net forced TCU into a .026 hitting percentage on seven total errors. The second frame was all Texas as the Long- horns ended the set on an 11-4 run to take their lead to two with a 25-16 victory. Senior outside hitter Bailey Webster and freshman mid- dle blocker Chiaka Ogbogu produced four and three kills respectively in the set as Texas outhit TCU .417- .161 while only committing two errors. Entering the third set the Texas offense and defense were working in perfect har- mony, forcing the Horned Frogs into 13 errors while only surrendering 19 kills to that point. The Longhorns opened the final set on an 11-4 run with four early kills and two blocks before the Horned Frogs fought back to bring the score to 14-13 in favor of Texas. Eckerman notched a kill on the very next play and the Longhorns never looked back, ending the set and game on an 11-2 run. Eckerman led the offen- sive charge for Texas with 13 kills in the match to go along with 10 digs. Webster and Ogbogu added eight and six kills respectively while Allison amassed a team-high 25 assists. Texas stifled the Horned Frogs and forced them into 23 attack errors to go along with a .030 hitting percentage — the lowest total for any oppo- nent all season. The win also marked the second shutout for the Longhorns in 2013. With every part of their game firing on all cylinders, the Longhorns will ride this momentum into a weekend tilt at home against Oklahoma. 4CHRIS HUMMER, SPORTS EDITOR / @texansportsThursday, September 26, 2013VOLLEYBALLBy Matt Warden@themattwarden5Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan Staff in Fort WorthFreshman middle blocker Chiaka Ogbogu tallied six kills in Texas’ Big 12 opener against TCU on Wednesday night. The Longhorns defense stymied the Horned Frogs, notching their second sweep of the season. Players you must start, sit for Week 4 of NFL seasonFANTASY FOOTBALLBy Taylor Piper@texansportsLonghorns to an eventual win over the non-conference opponent. More recently, Texas was down late in the game against the 1-7 Kansas team last season and McCoy came in to lead two fourth quarter touchdowns. “Case knows when his time comes, he has to strap it on and lead the team to victory,” Gray said. ”Case does a great job of getting the team going and stepping in for David.” Fans will most likely get the chance to see McCoy again. With Ash still ques- tionable, McCoy might have the chance in the future to prove he actually is a starting quarterback. MCCOY continues from page 1Longhorns’ defense stifles TCUTexas stifled the Horned Frogs and forced them into 23 attack errors to go along with a .030 hitting percentage — the lowest total for any opponent all season. 5CLASSIFIEDSADVERTISING TERMS There are no refunds or credits. 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Food trail- ers, graffiti parks and music festivals do, in fact, exist in other cities. But CyberFest, on the other hand, is in a category of its own. CyberFest is a medley of cyberopera, sci-fi- and fantasy- genre operas, songs composed over the last 25 years by Austin composer Chad Salvata that proves anything goes in this fair city. The show is presented by local performance com- pany Ethos, which premieres twisted and quirky original theatre pieces. Long story short, this thing is weird. The night kicks off with a woman wearing a bodysuit with the breasts cut out, singing and seduc- tively touching the faces of audience members. All right. This show’s going to have some boobs. On the whole, CyberFest is a science fiction house rave at- tended by one’s deepest fanta- sies and nightmares alike. The show is billed as an “audio-vi- sual immersion” but feels more like an audio-visual assault. Electronic music is blaring, singers are snarling and touch- ing the audience and dry-ice machines are full speed ahead. The costuming blends sci-fi tropes with the homespun cal- culation of a fourth grade mu- sical where everyone had to bring their own clothes from home. Exposed chests are as plentiful as the steam-punk goggles. Spandex clings to both male and female forms. The characters of Salvata’s worlds range from a laugh- able leather-clad imp seduced into a robotic dance frenzy to a giant spider-like crea- ture called the Octax, whose poisonous, pointy black ten- tacles will no doubt haunt post-CyberFest dreams. Although the show is truly bizarre, it’s a barrel of fun to watch. The audience was not afraid to laugh, hoot and hol- ler as the Vortex stage is over- run with demons, sorcerers and that freaky Octax. The performers’ enthusiasm is as infectious as the bumping synth music they’re singing along to. Each song follows a simi- lar structure: eerie electronic buildup into a repetitive, contagious chorus explain- ing the general idea of ev- ery song. My date from that night is still serenading me with choice lines like “I am the Octax” and “You are the center of heaven.” It’s easy to dismiss these hidden worlds of cyberpunk lore as nerdy and lame. But to do so dismisses the gey- ser of guilty pleasure fan- tasy that is Ethos’ work. I don’t know others who at- tended Cyberfest, but I’ve never seen a bustier fabri- cated out of black and red claws — or at least seen one that doesn’t look like total crap. CyberFest offers teasing glimpses into eight differ- ent cyberoperas that share worlds and characters, leav- ing you wondering what the hell these stories are really about. Is the Octax related to Earth’s spider? Why can’t she keep her cone hands off that poor Frigg? And who is this white centipede she claims to have swam with? Those that deem them- selves too cool for school will not enjoy this venture into the many dimensions of cyber fantasy. But those who can laugh at a synth player dressed as a space samurai and laugh at them- selves for paying $10 to see him, then this is the show to be at. With a band name like Not In The Face, it would have been easy for the original two- piece rockers to play the local club scene, never getting seri- ous about making it in music. But this punk band has gone from dark stages in downtown Austin to support- ing rock acts such as ZZ Top. Since the band’s formation in 2009, its first LP, Bikini, was named one of the top 10 al- bums of 2011 by KUT. The group headlined Fun Fun Fun Fest last year, showcased at South By Southwest and just returned from a Midwest U.S. tour. Their new album, due out this fall, is the first released with four members. Lead gui- tarist Michael Anthony Gib- son and bassist/vocalist Ross Dubois were added to the original twosome of singer/ guitarist Jonathan Terrell and drummer Wes Cargal. In June, the band traveled to Vancou- ver, British Columbia to work with producer GGGarth Richardson (Rage Against the Machine) and executive pro- ducer Bob Ezrin (Pink Floyd and Taylor Swift) on their new album. “[Richardson and Ez- rin] made us work our asses off,” Terrell said. “But it was pretty easy. They were really smooth to work with. They had a great team behind them. Things would be ready and set up when we’d wake up in the morning, and they had a list of everything we needed to do. It was an all day project for six days a week. It was all about the feel, and if something just didn’t feel right we had to correct it.” Now that they’re back in Austin, Not In The Face has booked gigs at the sec- ond weekend of ACL and the 101X Homegrown Live concert Friday, Sept. 27. “I’ve known them since they first started,” said or- ganizer of the Homegrown Live series Deidre Gott. “I’ve booked them before [when] they used to be a two-piece. Now they’re a four-piece so they’ve grown. The songwrit- ing is even better, [and] the four of them playing together is really tight. They just have so much raw energy.” But the band wants to dig into its Texas roots in Austin and across the state. “The plan is to do South By [Southwest] and keep on just working regionally,” band tour manager Andy Siron said. “We just started to break into the Dallas market a little bit more and the Houston mar- ket a little bit more, so we re- ally want to pay attention to all of the Texas love we’re getting and milk that for all it’s worth.” Not In The Face will always remember Austin as the jumping off point. “There are so many good bands [in Austin] that the competition is really high,” Terrell said. “I think that they kind of see us as sweethearts [that] have come up from do- ing jackshit at Beauty Bar to do- ing some really cool things. I’m always excited about playing hometown stuff.” SARAH GRACE SWEENEY, LIFE&ARTS EDITOR / @DailyTexanArts6Thursday, September 26, 2013In one corner, we have prominent astrophysicist Ste- phen Hawking, well-known for his books about the universe. In the other, we have evo- lutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, who popularized the “selfish gene” view of natural selection and provided a face for the atheist movement. These major scientific fig- ures both released memoirs this month, but neither one offers the level of insight that readers expected. Hawking’s memoir, “My Brief History,” is the lighter of the two and perhaps does a better job of providing an overview of the author’s life. At a scant 144 pages, with many pictures, there are times when it reads like a high school essay. It goes over the expected beats, but there’s little that can’t be found in Hawking’s Wikipedia entry. His style is light and modest, sometimes amusing — “When I was 12, one of my friends bet another friend a bag of sweets that I would never amount to anything. I don’t know if this bet was ever settled, and if so, which way it was decided,” — but the point of a memoir isn’t to just go over the details of your life, it’s to provide some level of perspective looking back on it. Major events, such as Hawking’s divorces, are glossed over briefly, without go- ing into details about the events or emotions that led to them. Dawkins’ memoir, “An Ap- petite for Wonder,” suffers from the same problem, which only adds to the stereotype of the emotionless Spock-like scientist. Additionally, Dawkins distracts himself every chance he can to make obvious and out-of- place jabs at religion. Though some of his stories are amus- ing, many of them more closely resemble the ramblings of a man who needs to let go of the talking stick and give someone else a chance. The second half of both books are more exciting than the first because instead of look- ing at childhood moments, they focus on the science they each did in order to become promi- nent in their fields. Hawking’s thoughts on black holes and other strange phenomena in our universe read interestingly at times. But when it comes to astrophysics, it’s nearly impos- sible to present anything in a way that will make sense to a layperson. Dawkins fairs better, but he’s working with easier ma- terial — animal behavior. Neither book is entirely satisfying, with Dawkins’ being especially disappointing because it includes a few problematic pas- sages that will likely rub readers the wrong way: One has already made headlines for dismiss- ing claims of childhood sexual abuse and another accuses his critics of attacking him for being an educated white male, show- ing that he doesn’t understand the first thing about the concept of privilege. Hawking also of- fers up a few lines that will make some readers cringe, such as his suggestion “that disabled people should concentrate on things that their handicap doesn’t pre- vent them from doing and not regret those they can’t do.” Despite the underwhelm- ing nature of both titles, it’s hard not to recommend them to those who admire the scientists. These are brilliant men who at least attempt to describe the paths they took. That they can’t truly reveal any of their dark secrets, mistakes and regrets they’ve made along the way perhaps reveals more about their personalities than they realize. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYScientists publish droll memoirsIllustration by Ploy Buraparate / Daily Texan StaffOFFBEATBy Elizabeth Williams@bellzabethGetting weird with CyberFestMUSICBy Hillary Hurst@hillary_hurstNOT IN THE FACEWhat: 101X Homegrown LiveWhen: Sept. 27, 8 p.m. Price: $6Local punk band expands fanbaseCYBERFESTWhere: The VortexWhen: Sept. 26-28, 9 p.m. Price: $10Photo courtesy of Bonnie CullumEryn Gettys, JoBeth Hender- son and Melissa Vogt-Patterson perform Chime from Pythia Dust, an original cyberopera featured in CyberFest. Photo courtesy of Andy SironNot In The Face plays a show at Holy Mountain over the weekend. They expect to release a new album this fall. SCIENCESCENEBy Robert StarrBy Robert Starr @RobertKStarr