WE ARE THE FREE PRESS FAMILY OF CHAMPIONS MOTLEY CRUE IS BACK The Texan defends its CASINOS IN AUSTIN Texas shot-putter Michelle Just back from a plastic photographers’First Not quite, but new Carter looks to follow her surgery makeover, Vince Amendment rights. legislation aims to legalize dad to NCAA gold. Neil prepares for a tour. gambling in Texas. OPINION PAGE 4A SPORTS PAGE 1B ENTERTAINMENT PAGE 7B FOCUS PAGE 8A THE D AILY TEXAN Thursday, March 3, 2005 Serving The University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 www.dailytexanonline.com Connect dominates election Brian Ray | Daily Texan Sta. Above, Omar Ochoa, center, celebrates after winning the election for UT Student Government president Wednesday. Below, Ignite candidate for Social Work Representative Jan Carroll is upset after learning the election results. Emotions run high as Connect wins 31 out of 40 SG positions By Lori Holcomb Daily Texan Sta. Despite a sharp decrease in voter turnout from last year’s Student Government election, the Connect cam­paign dominated the majority of SG seats in Wednesday night’s election results. President-elect Omar Ochoa and Vice President-elect Elizabeth Brummett led the way for the 31 of 40 avail­able seats gained by Connect. Members of the Connect and Ignite parties gathered at University Teaching Center at 8 p.m. to hear the results as names of member after member from the Connect Ticket were called. “We had setbacks, but nothing ever got us down,” Ochoa said. “We pulled together.” He said his .rst issue to tackle would be “the cost of student life,” including tax-free textbooks and tuition plans. Brummett said she felt it was most important to continue working on legislative issues that the cur­rent SG is working on, such as getting a student on SG continues on page 5A Ben Sklar | Daily Texan Sta. Voter turnout as a percent of the student body 20% Plaintiffs testify in PAC case Treasurer’s trial .rst in series of indicted individuals, corporations By Marie Delahoussaye Daily Texan Sta. Plaintiffs’ testimony concluded Wednesday in the trial of Bill Ceverha, treasurer of Texans for a Republican Majority, a political action committee accused of mismanaging corporate donations. Ceverha’s trial is the .rst in a series of indi­viduals and corporations indicted as part of the scandal. The PAC, formed by U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, has been accused of illegal collection and expenditure of corporate funds during the 2002 state elec­tions, including large corporate donations to the Republican National Committee. Ceverha was sued by .ve Texas democrats who allege the PAC’s illegal activities cost them the election. The defense opened with testimony from Russell Anderson, accountant for the PAC. Anderson testi.ed that Ceverha’s role as treasurer was that of a .gurehead, and that Anderson him- TRIAL continues on page 5A Protest ends YCT West Mall event Students would object to group’s anti-illegal immigrant activity By Ashley Eldridge Daily Texan Sta. A cake lay smashed on the marble tile in front of the Undergraduate Library, its .uffy white guts a sign of the tumult that occurred in the early afternoon Wednesday. Last week, a posting on the UT Young Conservatives of Texas Web site and a discus­sion at a YCT meeting led some members of the UT community to believe that a “Capture an Illegal Immigrant Day” would be held, said Marcus Ceniceros, the president of the University Democrats. On Jan. 26, the YCT Denton Chapter held a similar event in which members dressed up in orange T-shirts to represent illegal immi­grants and ran around campus. Students who “captured” a YCT member and returned him to the YCT booth were rewarded with a candy bar. This event was staged to protest President George W. Bush’s immigration policies, but many viewed it as bigoted. Despite the rumors, when protestors turned out Wednesday, all that could be found was a YCT Texas Independence Day celebration. “The only reason they didn’t do it is because Omar Ochoa (Connect), 58.85% Chavez Quintela, a government sophomore. 15% Jessica Rice (Ignite), 41.15% “And we’re a university that’s supposed to be progressive.” 10% YCT continues on page 2A Presidential results we found out; they lost shock value,” said Missy 5% Bill would add student regent Ignite presidential candidate Jessica Rice speaks with stu- Source: Election Supervisory Board SB 870 includes rotating terms dent government adviser Tany Norwood. Graphics by Flannery Bope | Daily Texan Sta. for graduate, undergraduate By Ken Tran and Melissa Mixon Daily Texan Sta. SEC president-elect Julio Vela wins Validity of Co-op board election called into question The Election Supervisory Board ESB, said the Co-op will have to handle A bill that would allow for the appointment election with 36 percent of vote of a student regent to the UT System Board of announced Wednesday night two win-the election results. By Kathy Adams Regents was .led Wednesday by state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, D-El Paso. ners of the University Co-op Board of “If that rule is true, then that means Daily Texan Sta. Directors: Shane McNamee and Michael that the guy who came in third Senate Bill 870 would mandate the appoint- The success of newly elected Student Events Center President Orona. would get a position over the guy ment of two student representatives to the Board Julio “JV” Vela was more than a product of two weeks of hard However, both McNamee and who came in second,” Hargrow said. of Regents for all Texas university systems, one as campaigning. Orona are students in the College Tim Wing.eld, the third place candi­ a regent with the full powers and voting privileg­ “It’s something I’ve been working [toward] for three years, and of Liberal Arts, which violates the date and an architecture and architec­ es of other board members, and one as a delegate bylaws of the University Co-operative tural engineering junior said the results it’s something I wish everyone could feel,” Vela, a business junior, who would observe the board’s activities for a Society. The laws say that “no one should be clari.ed. said Wednesday night after the election results were announced at year without any in.uence in board decisions. of the four student members of the McNamee received 61.31 percent of the University Teaching Center. Vela won the presidency with 36 Each year, when the voting student regent’s term Board shall be at the time of their the votes, and Orona received 57.25 percent of the vote. would expire, the other delegate would assume election from the same college or percent. Wing.eld received 54.81 Vela said he plans to improve the SEC internally by making it the regent’s position, and a new non-voting del­ school.” percent. mandatory for the SEC vice-presidents to meet with committee egate would be selected. Mathew Hargrow, chairman of the — Melissa Mixon The selection process would be carried out SEC continues on page 5A REGENTS continues on page 5A Index TODAY’S WEATHER High Low World&Nation.................3A University..............................6A News........................5A,3B&5B Sports......................................1-2B Comics.................................. 6B Volume 105, Number 102 It was a night of Opinion ............................... 4A State & Local................................7A Focus....................................8A Classi.eds........................4B&5B Entertainment..................7B 25 cents cookies and protest. 67 THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2005 TOMORROW’S WEATHER Low High 68 You smell like Goodwill and cigarettes. PAGETWO THE DAILY TEXAN AROUND CAMPUS | MARCH 3 & 4 To submit your event to this calendar, send your information to aroundcampus@dailytexanonline.com or call 471-4591. TRIAL: PAC should have reported funds, expert says From page 1A self handled the group’s .nances under the direction of Executive Director John Colyandro. Anderson testi.ed that he had followed the appropriate procedure as he understood it for handling corporate funds under Texas law, which allows them to be used for “admin­istrative expenses” but not for political purposes. Anderson said he reported all political expenditures to the Texas Ethics Commission but not the “admin­istrative expenses,” which he understood were exempt. Expert witness Trevor Potter, a Washington lawyer with close ties to the Republican Party, tes- NEWS NOTES Smoking ban opponents .le suit against City of Austin Opponents of an ordinance that would ban smoking in bars and res­taurants have .led a lawsuit against the City of Austin, according to Anne Morgan, the city’s chief of litigation. Anti-smoking advocates petitioned to place a smoking ban ordinance that would be a stronger version of the city’s current law on the ballot. The city clerk’s o.ce approved the petition Monday, a.rming that it had gathered enough signatures for placement on the May 7 election ballot. City Council may approve the ballot today or decide to vote on the ordinance as it stands. However, Morgan said that the possibility of a vote seemed unlikely. Morgan said she thought the lawsuit was premature since the ordinance has not been approved by voters. The suit was .led Tuesday, and Morgan said the .rst hearing is set for March 17. The Austin American-Statesman reported that plainti.s included Bob Cole, a KVET talk show host and owner of The Tavern and Hill’s Cafe; John Wickham of Elysium dance club; Paul Silver of 219 West Bar; Joseph Tait of Lovejoy’s Tap Room and Brewery; and the smoking advocacy group Keep Austin Free, which lists 26 participating businesses on its Web site. — Ruth Liao ti.ed that under Texas law, the PAC should have reported all expenditures of corporate funds. Potter testi.ed that the PAC’s activities suggest money-laun­dering, referred to the group’s $190,000 contribution to the Republican National Committee in corporate funds. The PAC later gave the same amount in non-corporate funds to Texas Republican candidates. Craig McDonald is the direc­tor of Texans for Public Justice, a non-pro.t watchdog group that .led the original complaint. “I think the plaintiffs have made a strong case to show that Mr. Ceverha failed to report hun­dreds of thousands of dollars in illegal contributions to Texas authorities,” McDonald said. He said Ceverha “had a legal respon­sibility to ensure that the reports that were .led with the TEC were accurate, and he failed in that duty.” McDonald also said that the defense’s distinction between .l­ing “hard” and “soft” money is not supported by Texas law. Andy Taylor, lawyer for the Texas Association of Businesses, which faces criminal indictments for its activities with the PAC, said the ambiguity of code is to blame. “This trial is an example of how good men and women .nd themselves in harm’s way because of the confusion that exists in the state election laws,” Taylor said. Much of Wednesday’s trial was taken up with video depo­sitions from key .gures such as Colyandro, who faces criminal charges, and Kevin Brannon, a political consultant for the com­mittee whose salary came from corporate funds. Anderson testi.ed that cor­porate money was used to pay Brannon for his services. When Brannon began to act as a consul­tant focusing on speci.c candi­dates, he was compensated with non-corporate funds. McDonald, however, said that the PAC clearly violated election law in using corporate money for phone banking, polling, fund­raising, issue development and political consulting. YCT: Protesters drawn to West Mall by mass e-mails From page 1A “YCT does not support big­otry and hatred — we never have, and we never will,” said Lauren Conner, chairperson of UT YCT. While she acknowl­edged the UNT chapter’s in.ammatory stunt, Conner maintained that the Texas branch of YCT was hosting a booth only to celebrate Texas Independence Day. “We had discussed the idea because another chapter had done it. After we realized the numerous consequences and how the event could be miscon­strued, we as an organization decided not to go through with it,” said Michelle Putman, YCT treasurer. “I would like to apol­ogize to those who were given incorrect information about our intentions today.” The information, incorrect or not, encited anger in more than 200 protestors of all races. “YCT, come get me!” the crowd shouted. They surged toward the booth set up at the southeast corner of UGL. “Racist, sexist, anti-gay! YCT bigots, go away!” chanted the group. “YCT — KKK!” Members of YCT, who declined to identify them­selves, responded to the crowd with offers to cut them slices of cake. From street slang, “Your mom’s an immigrant,” to his­torical, “Give us your tired, your poor...” and multilingual, “Hass ist aklerimus nicht,” meaning “Hate is not activ­ism,” the protestors made their point known. Members of Teatro Liberacion, a guerilla theater group, presented an impromp­tu “Immigrant Auction,” in which Lady Liberty was sold into slavery to Superman for $25,000, the message came across loud and clear. The Latino Leadership Council sent out mass e-mails after discovering, through an LLC member who attends YCT meetings, that the UT chap­ter had been celebrating the Denton event and were plan­ning a similar one. Groups banded together at a meeting on Monday to decide which action to take. They decided to take a silent, vigil-like approach and to wear black T-shirts to demonstrate their unity. “We realize that the event did not happen, but the fact that it was even considered was rea­son enough to come together,” Ceniceros said. Julio Vela, a business junior, was outraged to discover that props such as a “Wetbacks, go home” poster used by mem­bers of Teatro Liberacion in their satirical skits had been redistrib­uted with malicious intent to kiosks across theSouth Mall. “It’s wrong, it’s immoral, on so many levels,” he said after shredding the poster into tiny pieces. Back in front of the Tower, a tired-looking Felipe Aramburu, a Latin-American studies senior, was peacefully ensconced in an aqua tent decorated with .ags from all over the globe. “Today was about asking questions and hoping to get answers. We’re not going to allow these things to hap­pen without our voices being heard — and as strongly as we feel about it, we’re going to say it a lot louder and with a lot more people,” Aramburu said. 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Call (512) 232-2217 or e-mail managingeditor@dailytexan online.com. editor@dailytexanonline.com Managing Editor: Robert Inks (512) 232-2217 managingeditor@ dailytexanonline.com News O.ce: (512) 232-2206 news@dailytexanonline.com Features O.ce: (512) 471-8616 features@dailytexanonline.com Sports O.ce: (512) 232-2210 sports@dailytexanonline.com www.dailytexanonline.com 3A Wire Editor: Rachel Bilardi Phone: (512) 232-2215 Thursday, March 3, 2005 WORLD&NATION THE DAILY TEXAN WORLD & NATION BRIEFS Madrid bomb suspect had Grand Central sketch NEW YORK — A crude sketch of Grand Central Terminal was found at the home of a suspect in the Madrid train bombings, but was not considered cause for alarm, New York City’s police commis­sioner said Wednesday. The one-page, hand-drawn doc­ument“was a very basicschematic,” Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. “It’s not an operational plan. It’s not something that would indicate an immediate threat.” The newspaper El Mundo in Spain reported that the drawing and other data were on a com­puter disk seized about two weeks after the train bombings in Madrid that killed 191 people on March 11, 2004. The evidence also included photographs, and a drawing of a private building in the city, which Kelly refused to identify. But an analysis found no indication of a terrorism plot, and authorities quickly decided there was no need to alert the public, he said. Both sides demonstrate over Ten Commandments displays WASHINGTON — Shouts of“Amen”and aresponse of “hypocrites”pierced thechillair Wednesday as demonstrators protested in front of the Supreme Court while inside justices consid­ered cases involving displays of the Ten Commandments on govern­ment property. The cases before the court cen­tered on whether a 6-foot-tall mon­ument of the Ten Commandments in Texas should be allowed to remain on Capitol grounds and a copy of the Commandments can stay posted in a courthouse in Kentucky. Monuments carrying the Ten Commandments are common in town squares, courthouses and other government-owned land around the country. Lawyers chal­lenging these displays argue that they violate the First Amendment ban onany law“respectingan establishment of religion.” Compiled from Associated Press reports Iraqi power talks falter, attacks kill 14 soldiers By Rawya Rageh The Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq — Talks aimed at forging a coalition gov­ernment faltered Wednesday over Kurdish demands for more land and concerns that the dominant Shiite alliance seeks to establish an Islamic state, delaying the planned .rst meeting of Iraq’s new parlia­ment. The snag in negotiations between Shiite and Kurdish leaders in northern Iraq came as clashes and two car bombings in Baghdad killed at least 14 Iraqi soldiers and police of.cers — the latest in a relentless wave of vio­lence since elections Jan. 30. The group led by Iraq’s most-wanted terrorist, Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, purportedly claimed responsibility in an Internet post­ing for Wednesday’s clashes and at least one of the bombings — as it had for a suicide car bombing Monday that killed 125 people in Hillah, a town south of the capital. “The bombings in Hillah and again in Baghdad this morning are not going to derail the politi­cal process that Iraq is embarked upon,” National Security Adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie said Wednesday. “The Iraqi govern­ment will go after and hunt down each and every one of these ter­rorists whether in Iraq or else­where.” But forming Iraq’s .rst demo­cratically elected coalition govern­ment is turning out to be a labori­ous process. Shiite and Kurdish leaders, Iraq’s new political powers, failed to reach agreement after two days of negotiations in the northern city of Irbil, with the clergy-backed candidate for prime minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, leaving with only half the deal he needed. The Shiite-led United Iraqi Alliance, which has 140 seats in the 275-member National Assembly, hopes to win backing from the 75 seats held by Kurdish politi­cal parties so it can muster the required two-thirds majority for top posts in the new government. Al-Jaafari indicated after the talks that the alliance was ready to accept a Kurdish demand that one of its leaders, Jalal Talabani, become president. Ziad Mohammed Jassim stands next to the wreck of his car, which he claims was smashed by a U.S. armoured vehicle in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad on Wednesday. Clashes erupted between U.S. forces and gun­men after insurgents detonated a road­side bomb as a U.S. convoy passed. The explosion missed the convoy but damaged two civil­ian cars that were in .ames. Bilal Hussein Associated Press relocated Iraqi Arabs to the region in a bid to secure the oil .elds there. Politicians had hoped to con­vene the new parliament by Sunday. But Ali Faisal, of the Shiite Political Council, said the date was now “postponed” and that a new date had not been set. “We, the United Iraqi Alliance, and I personally respect the Kurdish choice for Jalal Talabani to be their nominee for the presi­dential post. I will convey this honestly to my brothers in the alli­ance,” he said. However, he would not com­mit to other demands, including the expansion of Kurdish autono­mous areas south of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk. Kurdish leaders have demand­ed constitutional guarantees for their northern regions, includ­ing self-rule and reversal of the “Arabization” of Kirkuk and other northern areas. Saddam Hussein Greenspan urges action on Social Security, Medicare By David Espo The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan prodded Congress on Wednesday to curtail the cost of health and retirement bene­.ts promised to baby boomers “sooner rather than later,” giv­ing a fresh boost to President Bush’s embattled call for personal accounts under Social Security. “We owe future retirees as much time as possible to adjust their plans for work, saving and retirement spending,” Greenspan said, suggesting an urgency that dovetails with Bush’s call for action this year on Social Security before its financial situation worsens. The Fed chairman made his remarks as the White House sig­naled a new determination to push for Social Security legisla­tion this year and fresh .exibility on the details of any bill. Treasury Secretary John Snow told report­ers that while Bush continues to favor personal accounts funded with payroll taxes, the admin­istration is open to “add-on” accounts established outside tra­ditional Social Security. “I think right now, the more ideas, the better,” he said. Snow also said the adminis­tration was launching a 60-day nationwide blitz to raise the pro­.le of Bush’s signature second-term domestic issue. He said he, the president and Vice President Dick Cheney will visit 29 states over the next two months. Bush has traveled to eight states since his State of the Union address a month ago, with six more on his itinerary by the end of next week. While Greenspan said Congress should move quickly to consider possible bene.t cuts for Social Security and Medicare, he urged, as he has before, a go-slow approach to setting up Bush’s proposed private accounts. Republicans are struggling to build momentum behind the drive to remake the Depression-era program. Bush has called for legislation that would put Social Security on a stable .nancial foun­dation, at the same time giving individuals the ability to divert a portion of their payroll taxes into personal accounts. Congressional Democrats are virtually unanimous in their opposition, arguing that the pres­ident wants to cut Social Security bene.ts to pay for privatization. Some Republicans are skittish about tackling the issue, as well. They fear the political repercus­sions of making such fundamen­tal changes to a program that bene.ts 54 million Americans. Republicans just back from a week of sampling opinions in home states said they sometimes encountered organized oppo­sition at town hall meetings. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay both raised the possibility that .nal action on a bill may not be possible this year. DeLay also criticized the AARP, which claims a membership of 35 million people age 50 and older and opposes the central tenet of Bush’s proposal. The Texan said it was “incredibly irresponsible of AARP to be against a solution that hasn’t been written yet,” and he accused the group of hypoc­risy for selling its own mutual funds to its members. In reply, AARP spokesman David Certner said the orga­nization was opposed to “the central notion of trying to improve Social Security sol­vency by taking money out of Social Security. Even the admin­istration has acknowledged that taking money out of Social Security does nothing to solve the solvency problem.” 4A Editor: Ben Heath Phone: (512) 232-2212 E-mail: editor@dailytexanonline.com Associate Editors: Thursday, March 3, 2005 Brian Boyko OPINION Clint Johnson Daniel K. Lai THE DAILY TEXAN We are the free press On Wednesday night, two Daily Texan photographers were asked to stop taking pictures of public .gures at a public meeting. The Daily Texan’s mission is to “publish news and comments of interest and importance to the University campus and community.” To carry out this mission, we report on the Texas Legislature, the City Council, the Board of Regents and the UT administration. We also cover Student Government. The Texan is, after all, UT’s stu­dent-run newspaper. If we are to carry out this mission and effectively serve our readers, we cannot allow of.cials at any level to attack, infringe upon or deny the student press its First Amendment rights. On Wednesday night, one student leader did just that. An Election Supervisory Board member attempted to stop Daily Texan photographers from capturing part of a public meeting. Texan staff protested this decision in public then, and we denounce it in print now. Our photographers were taking pictures of Student Government candidates and campaigners in a meeting regarding election results. It is not a photographer’s choice or whim to cover public .gures in a public meeting regarding public business. It is his or her duty. It is also the duty of of.cials to allow us access to public meetings. This obligation is implied in the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and con.rmed by the Texas Open Meetings Act. We will .ght in public and in print for of.cials to uphold both the spirit and the letter of state and federal laws and the Constitution. We do so, not for the sake of our own publication, but in the name of trans­parency, accountability and the public’s right to know. We are journalists. We are public servants. We are the free press. The Daily Texan While many people are angry with me because of my actions last night, I .rst think my actions should be understood. When I asked the Daily Texan photographers to step away from the Ignite candidates and supporters, I was acting as friend and acquaintance of others in the room. I know what it is like to stand in those rooms waiting to hear the list of names called out. It is agonizing and extremely intense. So in that intense moment, when a member of the Ignite ticket repeatedly asked the Texan photographers to stop taking photos, I stepped in. Me. Katie Herbek, not as the ESB member, or former SG member, just as Katie Herbek. I was not trying to speci.cally take away the rights of The Daily Texan staff or the First Amendment rights of anyone. Believe it or not, I understand the signi.cance of freedom of the press and the rights media have in reporting to the public. In heated moments, however, judgment can become foggy and you act on instinct. My actions were not meant to offend or infringe upon someone’s rights. Rather, my instinct was to prevent people from being hurt. In retrospect, my actions were inappropriate. When a person runs for of.ce, they put themselves in the public eye, open for public scrutiny. Subsequently, running interference was not my job last night, and I should not have taken that role on. But real time is not 20/20; hindsight is. I can see now that I should have approached the situation differently, but at the time, I did not see that. If you feel my actions were wrong, then that is your choice, because I stepped into the public eye, and I opened myself to public scrutiny. Katie Herbek Member, Election Supervisory Board Due process for combatants By Becky Perry Daily Texan Columnist What is an “enemy combat­ant” anyway? A federal district judge tack­led that de.nition Monday by declaring what an enemy combatant is not. Judge Henry Floyd of South Carolina ruled that Jose Padilla, the “dirty- bomb” suspect, may no lon­ger be inde.nitely detained. Within 45 days, Padilla must be charged or released. Judge Floyd, a 2003 Bush appointee, declared that “the president has no power, nei­ther express nor implied, nei­ther constitutional nor statu­tory, to hold [Padilla] as an enemy combatant.” To rule otherwise, Floyd argued, would “be to engage in judicial activism.” The Bush administration immediately made plans to appeal. Jose Padilla was arrested in May 2002 at the O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, under suspicion of terrorist activity. When Padilla was reportedly linked to an Al Qaeda plot to detonate a “dirty” radiological bomb in the United States, President Bush designated him an enemy combatant. Padilla was then transferred to a Charleston naval brig, where he spent the last two years. When Padilla challenged his military detention, the Supreme Court dismissed the case on jurisdictional grounds. Padilla re.led his case in the district where Judge Floyd presides. The new Padilla decision stands for the proposition that all U.S. citizens have the right to due process. Carving exceptions to that principle is simply unacceptable. If the Constitution fails Jose Padilla, it fails all of us. Padilla is one of two U.S. citizens labeled “enemy com­batants.” The other is Yaser Hamdi, a Louisiana native who was captured on the battle.eld in Afghanistan in June 2004. His case generated Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, a controversial Supreme Court decision. In Hamdi, the divided court ruled that the government must bring charges against enemy combatants, but that diluted standards of due pro­cess would suf.ce. In a blistering dissent to the Hamdi judgment, Justice Antonin Scalia declared that “The very core of liberty secured by our Anglo-Saxon system of separated powers has been freedom from inde.­nite imprisonment at the will of the executive.” Instead of facing criminal charges, Hamdi was subse­quently released and shipped to Saudi Arabia. The Padilla and Hamdi cases highlight the growing tension that surrounds U.S. detention policies. Military intelligence is crucial to the success of the war on terror. In the words of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, we have “an obli­gation to get information...so that we can better protect this country.” Thus, the government has a legitimate interest in the lawful interrogation of terror­ist suspects. But that legiti­mate interest does not sanc­tion the inde.nite detention of American citizens. Judge Floyd’s decision is a warning that the Bush admin­istration must proceed with greater caution. It also con­stitutes proof that the federal system of checks and balances still works. In all probability, the Padilla case will .nd its way back to the Supreme Court. When it does, we must hope that the court will have courage to declare that due process exists even during wartime. In the meantime, there is danger that the courts will attempt to micromanage the wartime powers of the presi­dent. Dabbling in foreign pol­icy is hardly an appropriate hobby for a federal judge. But the Padilla decision is narrowly tailored to include only American citizens clas­si.ed as enemy combatants. Floyd’s opinion does not, for example, apply to non-citizens detained at Guantanamo Bay. Thus, the courts should defer to the executive in his role as commander-in-chief without surrendering proper federal jurisdiction. In response to the Padilla decision, the Bush administra­tion must revise its detention policies to provide full due process for any American citi­zen labeled an enemy combat­ant. If Jose Padilla is indeed a terrorist, then by all means try him in a public court, convict him by a public jury, and lock him in a public jail. Losing a signi.cant court battle is a blow to the deten­tion policies of the Bush administration. But continu­ing to deprive American cit­izens of due process carries an even greater cost in public con.dence. Such reluctance to respect the Constitution may cause even the Bush faithful to falter. Perry is a government and philosophy junior Lawmakers should pull out of sex lives THE FIRING LINE Skinner’s logic is faulty Student Advisory Council member Jennifer Skinner’s poor­ly reasoned defense of her failure to recommend that the Board of Regents support the idea of a student regent is abhorrent. She says that “The recommendation (asking the Regents to support a student regent) would ask the board to do something that they cannot do.” But is this true? As the main author of the UT Watch report on the UT System’s possibly illegal lobbying cam­paign for tuition deregulation, I feel somewhat quali.ed to speak to what I assume is her insinua­tion: that the regents cannot legal­ly support or oppose legislation, aka lobby. State agencies, including the UT System can legally provide information to the Legislature and, although it’s fuzzy, they can state what they’d like to see. UT System crossed the line with tuition deregulation because they went far beyond provid­ing information and stating their preferences — they engaged in a full-.edged lobbying campaign using state resources to lobby Legislators, even drafting leg­islation. Moreover, as a Scripps Howard poll indicated last Saturday, the majority of Texans — 58 percent — still oppose deregulation. The System acted against the public interest. A student regent hardly .ts this mold. The regents have been historically hostile to the idea of student regent. Even if the Student Advisory Committee voted to send the letter, regard­less of the regents’ of.cial reac­tion, we would not see a lobbying campaign from them. This is not an argument against sending the regents such a let­ter. In fact, it is a reason for it. It illustrates that students do need a voice of their own at the top of UT System. Skinner’s other main reason for voting down the letter sucks as well. She charges that asking the regents to support a student regent would make them “look unfavorably upon the council.” So what? Is the council looked upon favorably now? I doubt it, and if it is, it’s because it doesn’t stand up for students in any meaningful way, even when it has the perfect opportunity to do so. Nick Schwellenbach UT alum UT Watch member Get YCT o. my campus We all know YCTs enjoy the cameras and controversy in response to their in.ammatory agenda, as perverse as it may seem. As support for YCT falters, its “fund-raising” ideas get wild­er and wackier, devolving into a heap of shock tactics meant to demoralize minorities. Planned “Illegal Immigrant Round-ups” and “Af.rmative Action bake sales?” It is absurd that this sham group is actually able to attract a crowd or a television camera. YCT: Your organization is a lone .y buzzing around our ears; a pestilence, an annoyance to any educated person, conservative or “educational models.” According to the clerk at Forbidden Fruit, they protect themselves legally by requiring customers to sign release forms promising the items will be used for educational purposes instead of for sexual grati.cation. Items such as butt plugs, anal beads, and vibrators do not require a release because of.cially they are “novelty” items. The only novelty here would be someone having the courage to buy these items in person not rewarding themselves with a little action from their new battery-operated boyfriend. If pleasure is your goal, you bet­ter keep that intention to yourself. Any mention that you will be using an item for sexual grati.ca­tion or stimulation of the human genital organs, and Forbidden Fruit will refuse the sale. But what if I want to ask the sales person about the product I am buying? The last time I bought shoes, I asked the salesman about how well they might work for certain activities, and they only By Kevin Jones Daily Texan Columnist Many of us want something other than four awkward minutes in the missionary position under someone of the opposite sex. In arguing to overturn an Alabama law banning sex toys, plaintiff’s argued (uncontested) that 20 per­cent of women own some type of dildo or vibrator. Social conservatives predicted just such a sexual Armageddon when the Supreme Court award­ed sexual privacy to homosexuals in the Lawrence v. Texas decisions of 2003. If the chips continue to fall against them, the states may .nd themselves unable to outlaw any type of orgasm in consen­sual adult situations. At this rate, nobody will be left with any sex­ual shame, an idea utterly unac­ceptable in dark-red America. Moralists did receive a small reprieve last week. The 1998 Alabama law survived at the appellate level, and, last week, the Supreme Court opted to ignore the issue. But the reprieve could be short lived. Another case stemming from the arrest of a Texas woman last year could work its way to the high court. Joanne Webb from Johnson County, Texas, was turned in to local police by prominent members of her com­munity who did not approve of her Tupperware-style parties that offered various pleasure devices. Posing as a libidinously chal­lenged married couple, two under cover of.cers arrested Webb for explaining how they might use one of her products during inter­course. Texas, Alabama and Georgia ban the sale of “obscene devices.” Here in the Lone Star State, that means “a device including a dildo or arti.cial vagina, designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs.” Stores such as Austin’s Forbidden Fruit avoid the prob­lems facing Mrs. Webb by market­ing their items as “novelties” or liberal. May you wallow in your own excrement for as long as you are allowed on our prestigious campus. Ryan Carney Kinesiology and English senior Pharmacist bill is ridiculous Many women in Texas live in towns with only one pharmacy. If pharmacists are allowed to arbi­trarily withhold legal medication from people based on a broadly de.ned conscious clause, wom­en’s health is in danger. The absurdity of this particu­lar law stuns me. Pharmacists already have plenty of choices, including not working as a phar­macist if they feel uncomfortable doing their job. Women who have been raped have already been violated once. I would laugh at the suggestion that women can’t get pregnant from rape or that rapists don’t ejaculate if I didn’t realize some people still believe it’s true. Frank Corte is heartlessly suggesting that we condone violating women again. Maybe next, he’ll tell us to lay back and enjoy it. Jennifer Hixon UT alumna Constitution is not religious How come every time I see a storyaboutthe10Commandments and its in.uence on the laws of our country, the actual text of the commandments is not printed? I beg The Daily Texan to print out the 10 Commandments so that ON THE WEB Additional Firing Lines were posted today on the Web site at www.dailytexanonline.com. go on my feet. Then again, the religious right does not care what I put on my feet, only what I put up my ass. Those of us that touch ourselves (and others) in dark places with­out guilt are legislated into carry­ing the sexual shame of others. This same shame has led certain friends of mine, who requested anonymity, to turn to the pro­duce section of their local gro­cery store. But if that checkout girl knew the real reason I was buying that extra cucumber, would they face the same penalty as a store like Forbidden Fruit for selling it to me? If so, maybe the af.da­vit system that our local “nov­elty store” uses will catch on. I shudder to think how many items might end up on that list: cucum­bers, broomsticks, vibrating cell phones, hamsters, turkey basters, traf.c cones, cigars (thank you Mr. Clinton), beer bottles, or even those “novelty” foam .ngers they sell at Longhorn games. Jones is a government senior the people who read your paper will realize how few of them actu­ally have any connection to our country’s laws. By doings so, the people will see that only two (“thou shalt not murder” and “thou shalt not steal”) share similarity with our system of laws. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that you must worship only one god, or honor your mother and father, or refrain from using the Lord’s name in vain or even refrain from adultery. Even if we look at the two com­mandments with similarities, is it fair to say that since our govern­ment says that we can’t murder or steal, that the 10 Commandments must be the reason? If a group of people were attempting to form a society free from anarchy, then I think common sense, not any religion, would suggest that you can’t allow people to go around murdering and stealing from each other. I believe it is time for everyone to put their religious biases to the side and realize that if there is a monument on the grounds of our Capitol, where the .rst rule is “I am the Lord your God, you shall have no other gods before me,” then that is clearly infring­ing upon the separation between church and state. I would have no problem with a monument that simply stated, “murdering and stealing are bad.” Allen Demling Mechanical engineering graduate student SUBMIT A COLUMN Please e-mail your column to editor@dailytexanonline.com. Columns must be fewer than 600 words. Your article should be a strong argument about an issue in the news. The Texan reserves the right to edit all columns for brevity, clarity and liability. EDITOR’S NOTE Opinions expressed in The Daily Texan are those of the edi­tor, the Editorial Board or writer of the article. They are not nec­essarily those of the UT adminis­tration, the Board of Regents or the Texas Student Publications Board of Operating Trustees. SUBMIT A FIRING LINE Please e-mail your Firing Lines to firingline@dailytexanonline. com. Letters must be fewer than 300 words and should include your major and classi.cation. The Texan reserves the right to edit all letters for brevity, clarity and liability. Thursday, March 3, 2005 NEWS 5A SEC: Vela plans internal, external improvements From page 1A chairs and by implementing the “SEC zone.” The “SEC zone” will be a meet­ing of everyone involved in the SEC, meant to facilitate ideas, to plan to improve the organization and to help the president know what’s going on, he said. Vela said he plans to improve the SEC externally by putting SEC bulletin boards in every college, having evaluation sur­veys online, starting an e-mail newsletter of events and sup­porting further funding for the Resource Center and Event CoSponsorship Committee. He said he also wants to give the Resource Center vice-president a vote on the executive cabinet. “We get a half of a million dollars in student fees, and I will continue to cooperate with the other organizations and contin­ue the integrity and honor of the organization,” Vela said. “Any of the candidates would have done a great job with the SEC; I just happened to win.” All four SEC presidential candidates ran independently, although they are allowed to run under tickets if they choose to, said Texas Union Board chair­woman Nada Antoun, a radio­television-.lm graduate student. Vela said having all four candi­dates run independently ensured all of the candidates were highly quali.ed, and will help the pres­ident be more accountable to his platform and his actions. Two new members of the Texas Union Board were also elected Wednesday night: James Burnham, a government junior, and Eric Weiner, a .nance senior, both on the Connect ticket. Burnham said he wants to bring a healthy late-night alter­native to Wendy’s at the Union, and Weiner said he hopes to increase awareness of the pro­grams the Union offers. “I think our success can be contributed to the diversity and strength of our candidates,” Weiner said. “We all pulled from different areas of the campus to create a great synergy.” Elections for the four available positions on the Texas Student Publications Board were unop­posed for the .rst time in at least 11 years, said TSP director Kathryn Lawrence. TSP candi­dates are not allowed to run on party tickets and did not campaign because of the lack of opposition, she said. “It’s not uncommon that we have some positions that maybe don’t have more than one candi­date, but we always have at least some opposition,” Lawrence said. She said the TSP will try to generate more interest in elec­tions next year. For the TSP Board, radio­television-.lm senior Bill Laird and Jenna Harner, a commu­nications junior, were elected to represent the College of Communications. Law stu­dents Brian Ferguson and Rob Russell were elected as at-large representatives, posi­tions reserved for students outside of the College of Communications. Laird said it was disappoint­ing that there was no opposition for his position. “I would really have liked to run against someone to give students a choice,” said Laird, “to prove to students that I can really do the job for you.” The main issues the newly elected representatives hope to focus on is recruiting for Texas student media, connecting the board more with students, securing TSP .nancially and ensuring a smooth transition for the various publications as KVRX Radio moves into the TSP building at the end of the semester. Government sophomore A.J. Bauer was elected editor of The Daily Texan. He is currently news editor for the paper and ran unopposed for the position. SG: Ignite captures 8 seats, 5 in grad, law schools of Public Affairs representative cial director will continue until days,” said Hanks. “Their strat- From page 1A REGENT: Cheney supports student representation From page 1A by a student regent nominat­ing committee, comprised of two representatives from each school within the system. This commit­tee would submit a list of three candidates to the board, which would make the .nal selection of the new delegate. The bill would mandate that the appointed delegate alter­ nate between a graduate and undergraduate student each year. Shapleigh said he believes the bill will give students a much-needed voice on the board. “Having student representa­tion on the Board of Regents for purposes of examining tuition hikes is vital,” he said. “Otherwise students are taxed without representation.” Although there is widespread support for the general goals of the bill, some speci.c elements have become points of conten­tion. The bill delegates the power of appointment to the board mem­bers themselves. state Sen. Jeff Wentworth, R-San Antonio, said he doesn’t think it is appropriate for board members to appoint the student regent. “I think the governor should have the power to select all nine regents,” he said. Wentworth will submit his own version of the bill tomorrow that does not alter the governor’s power of selection. Furthermore, UT Student Government President Brent Chaney, despite pledging his full support for the bill, doesn’t think the alternating selection of del­egates is necessary. “We didn’t include it in our proposal, because we didn’t see a need,” he said. “Graduate stu­dents will have more than ade­quate representation.” However, the bill is a very positive step for achieving greater student repre­sentation in government, accord­ing to Chaney. “We’re very, very happy with it,” he said. “We will work every pursuable front to make this happen.” 6A www.dailytexanonline.com University Editor: Noelene Clark Thursday, March 3, 2005 Phone: (512) 232-2206 UNIVERSITY THE DAILY TEXAN Forum instrumental in giving musicians voice Musical guests at the forum see this event happening here Artists, professors included Rocky Erickson, Jerry this evening and to see so manydiscuss role of music Jeff Walker, Marcia Ball, Kinky instruments of freedom still being Friedman, Sara Hickman, David used,” Robb said. in social commentary Garza, Tony Scalzo, Carolyn Coordinators are emphasizing Wonderland and Harold the use of music as an “instru- By Leigh Hall McMillan. The musicians were ment of freedom” to support accompanied by a group of pro-views on social and political Daily Texan Sta. fessors leading the discussion. issues, Schimmel said. After being asked why musi- Instruments of Freedom is a col-She also said they are hoping cians don’t seek the presidency, laborative effort put on by the UT to prompt the student body and Jerry Jeff Walker peered from College of Communication, the the Austin community to become under his cowboy hat at the UT Center for American Music, more active in social commentary crowd gathered in the audi­ the LBJ Library and Museum, and showcase Austin’s breadth of torium of the Lyndon Baines the UT Mediation and Facilitation music resources. Johnson Library and Museum on Clinic and Global Leadership The LBJ library housed and Wednesday evening. Organization. partially sponsored the event to “It’s a dull gig,” Walker said. “This is the .rst event of its go along with the current exhibit, He went on to explain that musi­ kind,” said Felice Schimmel, “Signs of the Times: Life in the cians prefer one-night-stands public relations junior and Swingin’ Sixties.” to everyday jobs, but he wasn’t GLO president. “These musi-Citingprotestsandprotestmusic speaking for everyone. cians have never come to the as important aspects of the 1960s, “I need the closet space,” Kinky University together.” library Director Betty Sue Flowers Friedman said of his pursuit The idea for the event was said, and the forum and concert .t of the governor’s of.ce. “We’ll prove that musicians can run this inspired by a quote from LBJ’s perfectly with the exhibit. state better than politicians.” remarks at the signing of the “It seemed like a good idea to They sat among a panel of Voting Rights Act. He said, have a forum of musicians to talk accomplished musicians and pro-“Through this act, and its enforce-about social issues,” Flowers said. fessors gathered to discuss music’s ment, an important instrument of “We’re trying to reach anyone role in social commentary. freedom passes into the hands of who is interested in the role of art The forum, Instruments of millions of our citizens. But that and public policy.” University,” Garcia said. “The to host the forum after she and sides of peace and con.ict.” Freedom, was put on to encour-instrument must be used.” Gavin Garcia, producer of the University is not dependent on her students began interviewing Musicians at the forum offered age dialogue between musi-Katherine Robb, LBJ’s grand-forum, said the event is part of the music community, but there is musician activists. their views on political and social cal activists, students, teachers daughter welcomed forum an effort to connect students with an obvious potential to unite the “We thought it would be inter-activism, corporate censorship, and the general public. A social guests and spoke of her grandfa-the music community. creative capital.” esting to get them all together,” backlash and the power of music. awareness concert followed the ther’s legacy. “The music industry is Madeline Maxwell, profes-Maxwell said. “Musicians have “Before and beyond words, discussion. “He would be really proud to incredibly co-dependent on the sor of communication, decided been powerful .gures in both music is a language,” Garza said. Existing bill is vague, leaves loophole open for private universities By Mark Son Daily Texan Sta. State Rep. Elliott Naishtat, D-Austin, introduced a bill Tuesday that would apply an anti-hazing law to all higher education insti­tutions in Texas. Bill would de.ne anti-hazing law for all Texas universities The existing anti-hazing bill vaguely de.nes higher educa­tion institutions, leaving a pos­sible loophole for private uni­versities. This new bill would make the de.nition clearer and encompass “all” higher educa­tional institutions in Texas, said Dorothy Browne, chief of staff for Naishtat. There is no data available to determine the past success of the existing bill, Browne said, because information on the fre­quency of hazing on college campuses is dif.cult to gather. In November of 2003, Braylon Curry, a business junior at Southern Methodist University, was hospitalized for more than a week after he was forced to drink large quantities of water as a pledge of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Curry went into a coma, and suffered from pulmonary edema, a condition in which water enters the lungs, and hyponatremia, a sodium imbalance brought on by excess .uid consumption, according to the Daily Campus, the SMU student newspaper. “If they refused to drink, if they stopped drinking, if they weren’t drinking fast enough, they were beaten with pad­dles,” said Deputy Chief Bill Turnage of the Dallas Police Department’s Northeast Division in a December 2003 article of The Oklahoma Daily, the University of Oklahoma’s student newspaper, which cov­student affairs at SMU. Among the eight who were arrested, four were SMU students and were expelled from the univer­sity. Curry has since transferred to a university on the East Coast, Caswell said. SMU has been rigorously educating new pledges to pre­vent further hazing on campus, Caswell said. However, long­standing tradition and the men­tality that hazing is a “macho man” activity are making the .ght against it dif.cult, he said. to be as effective as peer leader­ship,” he said. “We have got to work hard to have peers say ‘no’ [to hazing activities].” Although SMU, a private uni­versity, follows state statutes on hazing, Caswell said that clari.­cation will help with enforcing the law. At the University of Texas, three Greek organizations have been penalized since 2003 for hazing, according to a memoran­dum from the Of.ce of the Dean of Students. However, Associate www.dailytexanonline.com State Editor: Je. Squire 7A City Editor: Tessa Moll Phone: (512) 232-2206 Thursday, March 3, 2005 STATE&LOCAL THE DAILY TEXAN Anti-toll road group sues Mobility Authority CAPITOL CONCERNS Fire.ghting trainees get boost ‘Firepower’ program designed to help female candidates By Ruth Liao Daily Texan sta. Drag a body. Climb a ladder. Carry a hose. These are just a few of the tests to become an Austin .re­.ghter, and with the help of a UT-designed training program, more possible candidates may have better opportunities to pass. Austin City Council will decide today whether or not to authorize an agreement for the program to be used with the Austin Fire Department Academy. The 14-week pro­gram, “Firepower,” will be con­ducted by the graduate pro­gram of the UT Department of Kinesiology and Health Fort Bend Family Health Center board member Janie Warstler gets o. the elevators in the lower level of the Education and gears toward Capitol Wednesday. Warstler and her constituents recently came to speak with their state representative to helping .re.ghter candidates pass the physical requirement discuss Medicaid and other health issues. test. The program will cost AFD $90,054, with two 12-month extensions available for $30,018 each. After approval, training will begin at Belmont Hall in March. Kinesiology professors Roger Ferrar and Jan Todd initiated the program in 2001, when only 23 .re.ghters out of Austin’s 1,025 were women. Ferrar said the goal was to increase the number of people who could pass the physical ability test, particularly women and small-statured males. He said the program achieved a 65-percent passing rate for can­didates. While both men and women are welcome to partici­pate, Ferrar said only one male has gone through the program while more than 150 women have enrolled. “Our desire was to increase the ability of the women so they pass this test, and thereby increase diversity of the work­force, rather than decreasing the physical standards in order to allow them to pass,” Ferrar said. The training program simu­lates portions of the .re.ghter certi.cation test and focuses on decreasing body fat and increas­ing lean body mass, said AFD .tness coordinator Jill Craig. She said the weight-training program isn’t the typical .t­ness routine for a woman, and is more similar to training for power lifters. “It doesn’t mean our women end up looking like gargantu­ans or ape women,” Craig said. “These women are capable of a lot more.” Fire.ghter Xochitl Hernandez said the training program helped raise her con.dence. She attended the program while she was in the process of applying to be a .re.ghter. “It was different than any sports activity or team activity,” Hernandez said. “You pretty much have to perform to the utmost best of your ability.” Hernandez said that the other female candidates and the female .re.ghters who came to train with the candidates gave her a lot of support through the process. Applying to become a .re­.ghter consists of three tests: a written exam, a behavior assessment and the physical test, according to AFD recruiter and .re.ghter Louise Joubert. She said the actual test simu­lates a .re situation. “It’s doing things that most people in the regular world wouldn’t do,” Joubert said. U.S. Hwy. 183 bond sale complete, activists seek injunction By Ruth Liao Daily Texan Sta. Toll road opponents failed to stop the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority from .nanc­ing U.S. Highway 183 after trying to .le a lawsuit with the state district court. The $234 million bond sale was completed Wednesday, accord­ing to CTRMA spokesman Steve Pustelnyk. “It’s exciting for us to get it moving forward,” he said. Pustelnyk said the lawsuit was unrelated to the bond sale, and the motion to stop the bond sale was denied by Judge Paul Davis on Wednesday morning. The anti-toll group People for Ef.cient Transportation .led a lawsuitandtemporaryrestraining order with the state district court Tuesday against CTRMA and the of.ces of Attorney General Greg Abbott and Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn, accord­ing to Sal Costello, the group’s leader. The suit names Austin taxi driver Hannah Riddering as a co-plaintiff because she makes her living by driving and said the future toll plan would hurt her income. The lawsuit claims the board of CTRMA, one of the authori­ties for regional toll planning, is illegal because terms for regional entities must be two years or less under a provision of the Texas Constitution. CMTRA currently has six-year terms. The attorney general and state comptroller were named in the suit in hopes that the lawsuit would discour­age support for the bonds .nanc­ing the tolls. Costello said House Bill 3588, authored by state Rep. Mike Krusee, R-Round Rock, allowed the board members to overstay their terms. “The state Constitution always trumps whatever the state reps come up with,” he said. The lawsuit came after the peti­tioning group AustinTollParty. com, also headed by Costello, failed to meet the required num­ber of signatures in order to recall the mayor in February. The peti­tioning group has now expanded their efforts to an attempt to halt re-election of 14 elected of.cials on the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, another toll-planning authority with CTMRA. Pustelnyk said the term lengths of the board members were still an unresolved issue and they would either be addressed by the board or the courts. “It’s a technicality that just needs to be clari.ed and resolved,” he said. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming Soon: If the sky is clear, the Cathedral of Junk may open its doors to you. 8A www.dailytexanonline.com Features Editor: Jonathan McNamara E-mail: features@dailytexanonline.com Thursday, March 3, 2005 Phone: (512) 471-8616 FOCUS THE DAILY TEXAN at the University of Nevada, Las To meet the goals of Storrs and Vegas, adding that “people in his supporters, video lottery ter-Texas would still come to Las minals will not be enough. Fully Vegas.” stocked casinos will be required Schwer did say casinos along in order to maintain the increase the coast would more likely have in jobs and save money. an impact on those who go to Louisiana to ful.ll their gambling Thrill addiction needs. “There are enough high-rollers In addition to economic woes, who are living in Texas,” said Thompson said that gambling in Thompson, and if the casinos are Texas would most likely result in in large urban cities, they will be an increase in gambling addicts. big enough to supply their own Michael Hegener, a counselor revenue. specializing in addictions ranging Thompson said that politicians from sex to shopping to cocaine, don’t ask the where the pro.ts of disagrees. gambling come from, and that a “People are going to gamble lot of poor people will play, lose regardless,” Hegener said. money and hurt the economy in Addiction to gambling does the end. not result in the need for money, “It shifts more of the tax bur- he said, rather, it is a substitute den to poor people,” he said, for intimacy of another person. which consequently widens the “People are addicted to the wealth gap. adrenaline rush,” Hegener said. Thompson said that most of the When asked about the threat of casinos will probably be owned an increase in gambling addicts in by out-of-state .rms, much as the Texas, Geren said the money gen-racetracks are. erated from the casinos would go The results, Thompson said, toward creating treatment centers will be pro.t loss, additional fed-for those with addictions. eral taxes and that 40 percent to Online gambling is legal all over 50 percent of the money made the United States, and Geren said in the casinos would eventually this is the reason why casinos in leave Texas. Texas will not add to the problem. Despite these dire prophecies, “If you want to gamble, just go several thousand Texans have online,” he said. sided with Bill Storrs founder be able to gamble in their own to three coastal counties and in of public administration at the of Casinosintexas.com, a Web site Thompsonsaysonlinegambling Drawn by the lights, the shows backyard, however, because legal two to three counties .tting spe-is generally con.ned to betting on University of Nevada in Las dedicated to building a list to and the promise of hitting it big, restrictions make Austin ineligi-ci.c population quali.cations. sports events and that makes up a Vegas does not agree. He said “persuade Texas politicians to many students .ock to the casinos ble to have casinos. All would have to be approved the only money going into the allow casinos in Texas,” as stated mere 5 percent to 10 percent of the in Louisiana and Las Vegas the The idea of allowing casinos in by local and state votes, accord-casinos will be coming out of the on the Web site. Storrs wants nation’s total gambling. moment they reach the tender age Texas is not new. Geren said that ing to Geren. casinos in Texas to “reduce the pockets of the “poor people” in of 21. Before them lie noisy slot gambling is an issue brought up Geren says the casinos would tax base and create jobs,” he said. machines, crowded craps tables Texas. Anticipation often when Texas has .nancial operate in “areas of large hotels Storrs’ group represents sev­ “You’re not getting any out- and .ashy roulette wheels, all of For now, the bright .ashing troubles. and transportation.” eral thousand voters in over 70 side money coming in,” he said, which were previously off-limits. lights that attract high rollers and “Each time we come into ses-The casinos, said Geren, will counties, and Storrs said that ever explaining that Las Vegas will While the age restrictions that young adults are buzzing tonight sion, we talk about gambling,” create 200,000 jobs, not includ-since the lottery was established, remain a major tourist draw for create this enthusiasm for gam-in Louisiana and Las Vegas. he says. ing the jobs created by construc-the state has come up with more gamblers. bling won’t change anytime soon, Thompson maintains that Last year, slots were almost tion. Geren also said the casinos and more ways to implement the distance between UT and the introduced into racetracks in will contribute to the economy by gambling in the economy. legalizing gambling is not an eco­ nearest casino might get a lot Texas, but that bill, along with putting the pro.ts into the gen-The initial goal of the Texas nomic solution in any sense of shorter if Senate Joint Resolution all other gambling initiatives, fell eral revenue of Texas, which can Who will play? State Lottery, as implemented by the word. He points to the Texas 18 is passed this session. Created through. be used however the Legislature “The big issue, more impor-former Gov. Ann Richards, was to lottery as example. by state Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-This bill offers a chance for sees .t. tant than revenue, is do the peo-give the pro.ts to the education Voting on this bill should take Houston, and state Rep. Charlie Texans to vote on building high-Geren said $5 billion is spent on ple really want it?” said Keith fund, but the money from the place by the end of May, and in Geren, R-Fort Worth, this reso-dollar, fully equipped casinos in gambling outside of Texas, and Schwer, a professor of econom-lottery ended up in the general anticipation, Geren said, “I just lution would erect high-dollar highly populated, tourist-attract-he thinks that this money will be ics and director for the center of revenue funds of Texas as well, look forward to try to get this casinos in cities such as Houston ing areas around Texas. The state spent in Texas casinos and attract business and economic research he said. thing passed.” Coming tomorrow: Men’s basketball travels to Stillwater for a make-or-break game SECTION www.dailytexanonline.com Sports Editor: Melanie Boehm E-mail: sports@dailytexanonline.com SPORTS B Phone: (512) 232-2210 Thursday, March 3, 2005 THE DAILY TEXAN Texas sweeps UT-A Osterman K’s 14 in .rst of two Longhorn wins in Arlington By Matt Greer Daily Texan Sta. ARLINGTON — The Longhorns’ offense started slow during Wednesday’s double­header with UT-Arlington but delivered a quick .nish. After winning the .rst game 1­0, the Longhorns cruised to a 9-0 run-rule win in the second game at Allan Saxe Field in Arlington. “I saw a light go on that sec­ond game in terms of comfort level, and I saw some swings come back,” head coach Connie Clark said. Game 1 Texas 0001000—120 UTA 0000000—011 W — Osterman, 5-2. L — Garro, 2-6. Sv — None. HRs — None Game 2 Texas 00405 —970 UTA 00000 —042 . W — Bradford, 3-0. L — Hebert, 3-3. Sv — None. HRs — None Even on a slow offensive night, however, Clark had the reassur­ance of Cat Osterman. The junior pitcher struck out 14 batters in a one-hit shutout in the .rst game to preserve Texas’ one run lead. Osterman’s dominant presence on the mound can sometimes affect her own team, Clark said, as hitters tend to settle for small leads and let down mentally, but she has a solution. “I was teasing the team that when Cat’s pitching we’ve got to put a bag over her head, so we don’t know it’s her,” Clark said. Even if the team couldn’t see Osterman’s face, they’d certainly recognize her strikeout totals. In the bottom of the third inning, Osterman reached anoth­er milestone to add to her long list of accolades. By striking out Lacey Leadbetter, Osterman moved to .rst in career strike­outs in Big 12 history. Leadbetter was Osterman’s 1,152nd victim. Oklahoma State’s Lauren Bay previously held the mark at 1,151. “You know, I didn’t even know it was coming,” Osterman said SOFTBALL continues on page 2B Chip off the old block Sophomore shot put champion following father’s deep footsteps By Russ Falconer Daily Texan Sta. If you happen to .nd yourself in Bejing early in August of 2008, be on the lookout for a fellow Longhorn by the name of Michelle Carter. If you have trouble .nd­ing her, check the podium in Olympic Stadium. “I don’t really like to tell my goals,” Carter said, “but I have high expecta­tions.” Carter, a sophomore from Ovilla, is a two-time junior national champion in shot put, and last summer she won the World Junior Championship in the event. Even so, talk of an appearance in Olympic Games that are three-and-a-half years in the future might sound a little premature, but success at the highest level of athletic competition runs in the Carter family. Michelle’s father, Michael, set the men’s national high school record in shot put in 1979 when he was a senior at Jefferson High School in Dallas. According to USA Track & Field, no high schooler has come within .ve feet of his 81-3 1/2 inch throw in 26 years. The elder Carter found similar success at SMU, where he won seven NCAA shot put titles. He concluded his shot put career with a silver medal at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. One week later, he was playing in an NFLpreseason game. He spent nine years Sophomore Michelle Carter stumbled into shot put, a sport that may take her to the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Carter has already won the World Junior Championships in the event. Brian Ray Daily Texan Sta. playing nose tackle for the San Francisco 49ers, winning three Super Bowl rings and playing in three Pro Bowls. Despite his background, Michael didn’t encourage Michelle to try the shot put. She simply stumbled upon it one day when she found out she had waited too long to sign up for the seventh-grade basketball team. “They were like, ‘Well, since you’re in athletics, you need to do something, so do you want to do the track team?’” Michelle said. “And I was like, ‘No, I don’t want to run,’ so they said I could do shot put.” Turns out, she could do it well — well enough that she decided to pursue it seri­ously. She solicited her dad’s advice on training and technique, and their work together paid immediate dividends. “About four meets into [her freshman] season, there was no one even close to her in our district,” said Hope Porter, Carter’s coach at Red Oak High School. “So we expanded our search throughout the state, and week after week she kept coming out as the top thrower. I was like, wow, I kind of have a gold mine here.” CARTER continues on page 2B TEXAS 69 | TEXAS A&M 57 Texas .nishes season with seventh straight win Win gives Longhorns 8-3 edge in ongoing Lone Star Showdown By Eric Ransom Daily Texan Sta. COLLEGE STATION — Beating Texas A&M Wednesday 69-57 means Texas has to get its guns up. The Longhorns (20-7, 13-3) won their seventh in a row to close the regular season. Texas can claim a share of the Big 12 title if Texas Tech beats Baylor in Waco tonight. After starting the conference sea­son 1-2, Texas won 11 of its last 12 games to .nish no worse than second in the conference. Texas as a whole now holds eight points to A&M’s three in the Lone Star Showdown, though there was no trophy presentation Wednesday night. “We wondered where the tro­phy was. I thought the Aggies had lost it,” Texas coach Jody Conradt said. “You never know what motivates players. On our .rst day of preparing for A&M, Annissa said it was ‘getting the other half point and that trophy.’ We thought we’d get it at some point, but I guess that’s one more thing to kid Aggies about.” Annissa Hastings made no jokes after entering the game and making her .rst seven shots en route to a season-high 19 points. The senior pulled down eight rebounds in addition to a pair of vicious blocks on the undersized Aggies. “I think she’s always been able to get into a rhythm,” senior Heather Schreiber said. “Her turn­around jumper is hard to stop. She’s really hard to box out, and I think they had a hard time worry­ing about Tiffany when we were going high-low.” Schreiber scored 13 and Tiffany Texas 69, Texas A&M 57 FG FT REB TEXAS Min M-A M-A O-T A PF PTS Bowers 23 2-7 0-1 2-5 2 2 4 Carey, J. 38 3-9 1-2 0-3 5 1 9 Schreiber 39 5-8 1-1 0-4 5 1 13 Reed 26 2-6 3-4 1-3 4 2 7 Jackson 32 6-10 2-2 3-8 1 3 14 Hastings 25 8-11 3-4 5-8 0 1 19 Robinson 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Mieloszynska11 1-2 0-0 0-1 3 1 3 Williams 5 0-0 0-0 0-1 1 1 0 Percentages: FG .509, FT .714. 3-point goals: 5­14 (Carey 2-8, Schreiber 2-4). Team rebounds: 1. Blocks: 5 (Hastings 2). Turnovers: 14 (Jackson 4, Carey 2, Reed 2). Steals: 5 (Jackson 5). Technical fouls: None Texas 38 31 69 Texas A&M 27 30 57 Jackson netted 14, while both posts carried duties handling the ball in the second half. Coco Reed stepped in with seven points and four assists while junior Nina BASKETBALL continues on page 2B Ti.any Jackson drives to the hoop for a con­tested shot in Wednesday’s win against Texas A&M. The game was the last of Texas’ regular season. The Longhorns .nished the conference season at 13-3. Rob Strong Daily Texan Sta. Multiple Keys to success at Texas Erin Keys enjoys success on the tennis court, but even more in the classroom By Ricky Treon Daily Texan Sta. Freshman Erin Keys spends more than 20 hours a week on the tennis court, but it’s nothing compared to the amount of time she’ll spend doing the thing she loves most about Texas. “Mechanical engineering is one of Erin’s passions,” Texas tennis head coach Jeff Moore said. “She is lucky to have already found something she loves.” It was Texas’ mechanical engineering program, not tennis, that most convinced the Austin native to stay in town for her college years.AfterdecidingtoattendtheUniversityforacademicreasons, Keys then decided she wanted to be a Longhorn tennis player. “I contacted coach Moore and told him that I was interested in walking on to UT,” Keys said. “I said, ‘I like the engineering pro­gram at UT, and I would also like to play for you.’” This was not the .rst time Keys had talked to Moore. The fresh­man participated in Short Horns, a tennis program sponsored by Texas, in seventh grade. Short Horns pits young tennis players from Austin in a round-robin tournament. The winners then travel to College Station to KEYS continues on page 2B Texas freshman and Austin native Erin Keys came to Texas as much for its mechanical engineering program as its tennis program. Her head coach, Je. Moore, couldn’t be happier. Mark Mulligan Daily Texan Sta. Nation’s swimming elite head to Austin Phelps, Hansen, Piersol headline weekend of Olympic proportions By Aaron Peery Daily Texan Sta. Some of the biggest names in swim­ming will be in Austin this week­end for the American Short Course Championships. The list of participants includes Olympians Michael Phelps, Brendan Hansen and Aaron Peirsol, who will compete at The Joe Jamail Swim Center starting today. Several former Texas stars will be looking for fast times in the pool where they found so much success during their collegiate career. Ian Crocker, a current student and world record holder, is happy to be back competing in a familiar pool. “It is nice to be back. This is the .rst time in a year that I have competed here,” Crocker said. “I hope to get some fast times before nationals.” The presence of Phelps brings an intensity that elevates the meet, raising the level of compe­tition and push- ing all those involved to swim some of the fastest times of the year. “Phelps and I have a healthy rivalry; we both hate losing and love winning,” Crocker said. “Out of the pool, we can SWIMMING continues on page 2B MEN’S BASKETBALL WOMEN’S BASKETBALL MEN’S TRACK SCOREBOARD NBA Boston 104 New Orleans 94 ALDRIDGE TO BEGIN RUNNER NAMED CAREY, REED Washington 101 L.A. Lakers 101 Charlotte 85 REHAB TODAY FRESHMAN OF YEAR RECEIVE HONOR Houston 98 Golden State 99 L.A. Clippers 101 Texas freshman track Texas freshman forward Senior guard Jamie Seattle 103 Minnesota 93 Dallas 92 star Loenel Manzano was LaMarcus Aldridge Carey and junior guard Cleveland 83 named Big 12 Indoor underwent successful Cocco Reed were both San Antonio 92 Track and Field Freshman surgery on his left hip selected to the 2005 New Jersey 99 Toronto 86 Performer of the Year for his Tuesday. The operation Women’s Basketball Philadelphia 93 Utah 96 impressive rookie campaign repaired torn cartilage Academic All-Big 12 team. Orlando 114 Atlanta 74 that saw him become Texas’ the freshman su.ered Reed is an education Sacramento 111 second runner to break the inTexas’Jan. 15 win at major, and Carey is a 4-minute mile. Nebraska. graduate student. 2B SPORTS Thursday, March 3, 2005 Expos no more, Nationals hit .eld for .rst game Washington wins .rst game since Senators became Rangers in ‘71 By Howard Fendrich The Associated Press VIERA, Fla. — Well, baseball fans, the .rst sneak peek at the Washington Nationals was a rous­ing success, from the stands to the scoreboard. Playing their .rst game since leaving Montreal, the Nationals openedspringtrainingWednesday with a 5-3 victory over the New York Mets and their new man­ager, Willie Randolph. It was the .rst time since the Senators left for Texas after the 1971 season that Washington was represented on a major league diamond. Optimism was the order of the day, neatly symbolized by the yel­low smiley-face beach ball that fans kept a.oat in the stands behind home plate. And what wasn’t there to smile about? The sun was out, the home team played well — and a win is a win, after all, spring training or not. The Nationals hadn’t even played an intrasquad game, and the players were eager to put aside drills for a day and play.After three years in limbo as the Montreal Expos, the team .nally took to the .eld wearing home white uni­forms with “Nationals” in red and gold across the chests. “It did feel good once I put it on,” second baseman Jose Vidro said. “And when I went out there, the people were cheering for us once the game started.” It must have been a nice change from the sparse support in recent years in Montreal, and there was plenty to applaud Wednesday. Starter Tony Armas Jr., who missed most of the past two sea­sons after major shoulder surgery, worked two hitless innings with two strikeouts and pronounced himself “pain-free.” The three key new position play­ers — Cristian Guzman, Vinny Castilla and Jose Guillen — each got a hit. Guillen’s two-run homer to straightaway center tied the score at 2 in the fourth, while Vidro, who missed the .nal six weeks last season to have right knee surgery, singled and scored a run. “It was special because of the situation. We’re all aware of it. You always try to keep your perspec­tive that it’s an exhibition game,” NationalsmanagerFrankRobinson said. “It’s the next step, getting a little closer to the real thing, and you do get excited about that. You can’t get too up, though.” Tell that to the fans. An announced sellout of 7,558 began arriving more than .ve hours before game time, hoping for a photo, autograph — or just a glimpse of a player. The line at the stadium gates was several dozen deep when they opened one-and­a-half hours before the .rst pitch. “I’ve lived in the D.C. area since 1974, and I’ve been waiting for baseball ever since then. I’m proba­bly [Orioles owner] Peter Angelos’ nightmare. I went to 40 games a year in Baltimore, and now I won’t need to go there for baseball.” During the second inning, the line of cars backed up on the one­laneroadbeyondleft.eldstretched for at least half a mile, close to the nearby .eld where horses can be seen grazing. Even the Mets were impressed by the turnout. “It was pretty cool” said New York starter Tom Glavine. SWIMMING: Texas has work to do during weekend From page 1B possible sincetheconferencemeet,” Kelly said. “I want to improve, and Former Longhorn hang out and be friends, but it will be good feeling what it is like to go fast.” For some current Longhorns, this is their last chance to post NCAA qualifying time. Junior Wade Kelley is on the selection bubble for the NCAA meet in three this event will be great. The level of the meet is high, and it will be fast. It is fun to see people swim fast.” Twelve Longhorns currently have recorded at least one NCAA automatic qualifying time. The NCAA meet takes place March 24­26 in Minneapolis, Minn. Brended Hansen swims breaststroke the 2004 Olympics. weeks. He needs to shave a half a “The team felt real good last second off his lifetime best swim to weekend. We got a lot of lifetime automatically qualify. bests, but we can go faster,” Reese File Photo “I have tried to rest as much as said. Associated Press KEYS: Freshman walk-on working to crack lineup From page 1B play the winners of a similar tour­nament sponsored by Texas A&M. Keys was part of the winning team that traveled to College Station to take on the Aggies, whom the Austinites ended up beating. Moore remembered the Short Horns tournament when Keys asked him to walk on to the team. “Her character was pivotal in my decision,” Moore said. In high school, Keys was ranked as high as No. 23 in the USTA Texas Section Girls’ 18 rankings. She lettered four years at Stephen F. Austin High School while play­ing at the No. 1 and 2 positions in singles and at the top spot in dou­bles. Keys advanced to the 2004 state quarter.nals in singles and also received regional third-place doubles honors in 2002 and 2003. Despite her high school success, Keys has yet to see action in the 2005 dual-match season. Becoming a student at Texas has not only let Keys pursue her aca­demic goals, but it has also carried on a Keys family tradition. Both of her parents, Jerry and Linda, are alumni, and her older brother Ryan is a senior in the mechanical engineering program. Her sister Jenica, a 2002 Texas graduate,isaskilledjewelrymaker. Jenica’s interest in the craft helped Erin pick up the skill as well. “My sister got me interested in jewelry making. She is teaching me some tricks of the trade,” Keys said. “I really enjoy making jew­elry with her.” But with the spring season in full swing and classes in thermo­dynamics, being from Austin is about the only thing easy about Keys’ career at Texas. “[Erin] has done very well,” Mooresaid.“Sheisgoingtoachieve great things down the road.” SOFTBALL: Osterman now Big 12’s strikeout leader From page 1B of her record. “Actually, Megan Willis had read it before the game, and in the third inning she came up and said congratulations, and I said, ‘For what?’ “It’s de.nitely an honor. I pride myself on strikeouts, so to hold that record is going to be quite a feat.” The Longhorns’ lone run in Game 1 came from sophomore Christina Gwyn in the top of the fourth. After Desiree Williams worked a leadoff walk, Gwyn plated the freshman shortstop with a grounder through the left side of the in.eld. After an offensive at last week­end’s Palm Springs Classic and in Game 1 against UT-Arlington, Wednesday’s run-rule win in Game 2 was what Clark was hop­ing to see out of her offense. “We looked a little more relaxed tonight after things started to open up,” Clark said “That’s where we need to get to, and we need to go with that.” A two-out rally in the top of the third broke the game open as the Longhorns plated four runs. Tina Boutelle and Amber Hall collect-the .fth to put the game out of reach. A dropped .y ball and a throwing error helped Texas bring in two runs. The double by Rachel Cook — her second of the night — plated two runs, the .rst RBIs of her career at Texas. “I just felt really con.dent coming in,” Cook said. “I’ve been swinging the bat really well in practice.” Cook’s double pushed the CARTER: Second season brings expectations From page 1B As a freshman, only three years after picking up a shot for the .rst time, Carter won the Texas state championship in both shot put and discus. It was the .rst of four dual championships she would win in her high school career. In the process, she set a state record in discus and matched her dad’s feat of posting a national shot put record. The summer after she graduated, she won the Junior National Championship in shot put. “It was evident that she was the elite of her class,” Porter said. “When she’s got a goal set, she’s going to reach it.” When Carter began compet­ing under the Longhorn .ag, it looked like she would pick up right where she left off. She won her .rst collegiate meet with a throw that quali.ed her for the NCAA Indoor Championships. Unfortunately, the rest of her season didn’t bring the type of success to which she was accus­tomed. She posted a few victories but didn’t advance to the shot put .nals at either the indoor or outdoor championships. “It was a long year,” Carter said. But the ups and downs of her .rst collegiate campaign didn’t prevent her from repeating as Junior National Champion. Her victory earned her a spot on the U.S. team at the World Junior Championships in Grosseto, Italy. Carter immediately made her mark on the competition. Her .rst get back in .rst place or take sec­ond place,” Carter said. “I didn’t want to be second place.” On the .nal throw of the com­petition, Carter exceeded her pre­vious personal best by almost a foot. Her throw of 57-7 made her the .rst American woman ever to win shot put gold at the competition. “I was excited because she had a rocky freshman year,” Michael Carter said. “She wanted to .nish off on a good note, and that was a pretty sweet note that she hit.” With her .rst world champion­ship under her belt, Carter has her sights trained .rmly on add­ing an NCAA Championship to her resume. She won both meets she’s entered so far this year. At the Tyson Invitational on Feb. 11, she set a school record and estab­lished a new personal best. Carter then earned her .rst Big 12 title with a 55-1 1/2 throw on Feb. 25. “With her work ethic, she has a great chance to win the NCAAs this year,” teammate Marshevet Hooker said. “She has the mental­ity that no one wants it as much as her.” Asforthebiggeststageamateur athletics has to offer, Carter con­siders herself lucky to be able to draw advice both from her father, an Olympic silver medalist, and Texas coach Bev Kearney, who coached the women’s Olympic team in 2000. She also steadfastly refuses to hazard a guess at how likely she is to follow in her father’s Olympic footsteps. But the person who knows them both the best harbors no such reservations. Thursday, March 3, 2005 NEWS 3B Stateo.cialsreturn fromMiddleEasttrip Texasexportsabout$3.5billion nizationthatarrangedthedelega- Companies, of.cials ingoodsandservicestotheregion tion’s meetings, said the region’s consider international eachyear. naturalgasprospectsservedasa “It was a success for a cou-catalystforthetrip. business opportunities ple reasons,” Williams said. “It’s In regard to trade politics, building upon the already suc-AraissisaidtheU.S.Embassyand ZacharyWarmbrodt cessful industry we have in the the regional chambers of com- DailyTexanSta. region, and it has given some mercewere “sensitive” whenthe Representatives from the additional Texas industries some issue of free trade came up. The Texas Railroad Commission and insight onhow to do businessin governments of the U.S., Qatar the Governor’s Of.ce returned theregion.” andtheUnitedArabEmiratesare Tuesday from a trade mission Qatar’s natural gas reserves still in negotiations over a free-in the Middle East that brought make up more than 5 percent of trade agreement. Problems with togetherTexasbusinesses,regional theworld’stotal.Areportrecently laborandownershipintheregion governmentandindustryleaders. releasedfromanenergycommis-havehinderedaneasysettlement, A delegation of 29 companies sionappointedbyGov.RickPerry especially in the United Arab spentthreedaysinbothQatarand and headed by Williams’s fellow Emiratesduetoitslawrequiring the UnitedArab Emirates to dis-commissionerVictorCarrillo,rec-businesses to give up 51 percent cuss the development of energy ommendedthatTexascontinueto of their income to a local agent. resources, medical and legal ser-helpdevelopthelique.ednatural The United Arab Emirates has a vicesandfreetrade.Thecountries gas industry. LNG development freetradezone,butitisdetached haveprosperedmainlyfromtheir has been blocked in other states from the .nancial centers of the oilandgasindustriesandarenow because of concerns with safety country,aninconveniencetosome trying to reinvest in new sectors andforeign-dependency. businesses. andservices. Williams stressed to Qatar’s CharlieWilson,CEOofComex RailroadCommissionerMichael minister of energy that four liq-International,whichsellsusedoil WilliamsassistedtheU.S.compa-ue.ed natural gas facilities being equipment, said he established a nies during their meetings with proposedforTexaswouldinfact numberofnewrelationshipswith foreign leaders and said he is be built. Qatar, the world’s third Araboilcompaniesintheregion. con.dent progress made during largest supplier of natural gas, Hesaidthearearemindedhimof the trip will lead to future busi-is planning to expand their gas Houstoninthelate’80s. ness relationships between Texas industrysigni.cantly.Itisexpect-“Houston was an oil-focused and Middle Eastern companies. ed to be the natural gas leader city that for many years, oil was Williams,headofthecommission bydecade’send,accordingtothe most of its economy,” Wilson handlingthestate’senergyissues, RailroadCommission. said. “When the oil crash came, saidhemetwithQatar’sministers “It’sgoingtobeveryimportant Houstonmadeahugeinvestment of foreign affairs and energy, as thathe’llhavethatcon.dence,so back into itself with building its wellastheUnitedArabEmirates’ he’llcontracttosendQatarinatu-infrastructure and kind of diver-minister of economic develop-ralgastoTexas,”Williamssaid. sifying its economy. It saved the ment. Williams characterized the Aida Araissi, the executive city,anditmadeitastrongercity two countries as “pro-American” directoroftheBilateralU.S.-Arab that relied less on the oil .eld and“pro-Bush.” ChamberofCommerce,theorga-industry.” Bellsayshe’sreadytorun forgovernorasDemocrat activists,invitedBell to speak at necessary to win a Democratic Former U.S. Rep. uses one of their meetings before he nomination in the primaries speech to announce announcedhisbidforgovernor. nextMarch.ButBell’searlystart “I wasn’t aware that he was on campaigning might help bid for candidacy thinking about running for gov-him overcome those problems, ernor,butI’mcertainlydelighted Hensonsaid. ByVictoriaRossi it worked out that way,” said “Wedecidedwecouldn’twait DailyTexanSta. Fran Vincent, executive director aroundforotherpeopletomake UT alumnus and former U.S. ofDFT. theirdecision,”Bellsaid. Rep.ChrisBellspoketoagroup Vincent said she asked Bell to In his speech, Bell said he of Austin activists Wednesday speakafterhe.ledanethicscom-knewhefacedatoughchallenge. night about his possible bid for plaintin2004againstU.S.House U.S.Sen.KayBaileyHutchinson,Texasgovernor. Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, and Texas ComptrollerBellisthe.rstpersontodeliv-R-Sugar Land. Bell accused CaroleKeetonStrayhornarebotheracampaignspeechforthe2006 DeLay of bribery, money-laun­rumored to be running for theelections and, so far, the only dering and abuse of power. The Republican ticket, in addition toDemocrattosayhewillrun. House Committee on Standards Bell’s speech focused on the of Of.cial Conduct investigated Perry. needformoraland.scalreform Bell’s complaint and eventually “Here’s the million-dollar inthecurrentTexasgovernment. reprimandedDeLayformanyof question on the mind of any His comments about the impor-hisactions. Democratic candidate: ‘If I run tant role “high-rolling lobbyists Since then, Bell has gained a againstRickPerry,Ihavea50/50 and entrenched partisan ideo-reputation for his strong stance chanceofwinning.IfIrunagainst logues”playinstatepoliticswere on ethics and is known in some Kay Bailey Hutchinson, I have greetedwithapplause. circlesasa“reformcandidate.” zero,’” said Rick Coter, member “RickPerryonlylistenstodivi-“Irespectsomeonewhohasthe ofDemocracyforTexas. sive, partisan screeching or the courage to uncover the corrup- Henson said the Texas gentlecooingofhisstafferswho tion involved withTom DeLay,” DemocraticPartyneeds“abetter cycle on and off the retainers of said Larkin Campbell, a gov-message, and better candidates statecontractors,”Bellsaid. ernment junior and University tocarrythatmessage”inordertoHealsocriticizedrecenttuition Democratsvolunteercoordinator winthegovernorship. increasesinhighereducationand whoattendedtheevent. “They’re at a disadvantage said the increases re.ected the Bell has not yet .lled out the given the demographics of the state’smoraland.scalpriorities. forms necessary to of.cially run staterightnow,”hesaid. “Budgetsaremoraldocuments forgovernorandsaysrightnow But Vincent didn’t seem toobecausetheyre.ectourcommon he ismerely “exploringthepos­discouraged. priorities,”hesaid.“Nobudgetis sibility”ofrunning. “I really think that if we are balancedthatreliesonraisingthe James Henson, a government barrierstoacollegeeducation.” professor at the University who able to be clear about what we The Austin chapter of teachesclassesanddirectsaWeb standforpeoplewillrealizethat Democracy for Texas, a progres-siteaboutTexaspolitics,saidBell their values are much more in sivegroupcommittedtoprovid-did not yet have the statewide linewiththeDemocrats,”Vincent ing grass roots training for local namerecognitionorthefunding said. NationalWeatherService declarescity‘StormReady’ ByEricaHendry OEM took on the respon-and Communication Center. DailyTexanSta. sibly of improving existing The center puts 9-1-1 emer­and creating new technology gency service teams, traf.c Austin Mayor Will Wynn and facilities for the sake of management departments andis set to proclaim the city improving Travis County’s the Travis County Emergency“StormReady”attonight’sCity naturaldisastersafety.Inaddi-Operations Center under oneCouncilmeeting. tion,OEMvolunteershavecre-roof. Earlier this week, the ated community outreach pro-“By putting 9-1-1 and trans-National Weather Service grams where they host classes portationtogetherwewillhaverecognized Austin as a access to cameras and reports“StormReady Community,” thatwillallowustoaccuratelymeaning the city has shown it “Our volunteers determine which resources weispreparedforsevereweather. and sta. have gone shoulddispatchtothesceneofAccording to the National an accident or disaster,” saidWeather Service’s StormReady through a lot of Neafcy. Manual, “there are few uni­preparedness and The StormReady Advisory formly recognized standards Board evaluated six categories dealing with the speci.cs of response training so of storm preparedness, includ­ hazardous weather response operations.”Inresponsetothis they can be help-ing educating citizens about being prepared and being ableproblem the National Weather ful when a disaster to effectively warn citizens of Service created StormReady occurs.” severeweather. in 1999 to help communities Thecitypassedallsix. “reducethepotentialfordisas­trous, weather-related conse- Amber King, O.ce “Austin has taken the nec­quences.” of Emergency essary steps to identify the Amber King, spokeswom-Management severe weather hazards that an for the city’s Of.ce of spokeswoman face the city and its citizens,” Emergency Management, said saidEdSchaefer,theemergen­that being recognized as a and presentations that teach cy management coordinator StormReadyCommunityisthe Austinites about safety during for the Lower Colorado River resultofyearsofhardwork. anaturaldisaster. Authorityandamemberofthe “Our volunteers and staff According to Kenneth StormReadyreviewcommittee. havegonethroughalotofpre-Neafcy, emergency plans of.-“They [OEM] have developed paredness and response train-ceratOEM,oneofthecompo-plansandmechanismstowarn ingsotheycanbehelpfulwhen nents that helped Austin get citizensoftheseevents,andthe disaster occurs,” King said. the StormReady certi.cation necessary response plans and “It’s nice for all of our volun­ was OEM’s move to a new procedures.Foracitythissize, teers and employers to be rec- location called the Combined that’s a pretty big accomplish­ ognizedfortheirefforts.” Transportation, Emergency ment.” ....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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Beginning in April 1994, an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and Hutu sympathizers were killed in an explosion of ethnic tension that had been present since the colonization of Rwanda. “The .lm tells a story that was neglected by the U.S. public and media,” said Megan Scarborough, a spokeswoman at the LBJ school. “A lot of people are still not clear on why the genocide happened, so this will be a good way for them to learn about this.” Specifically, the film fol­lows the life of a captain in the Rwandan army who saw his family and friends die during the massacres. Filmed in pres-ent-day Rwanda, the movie takes a retrospective look at the actions that took place and at what could have been done to prevent the killings. Dr. Mercedes De Uriarte, a UT journalism professor who specializes in media portray­als of Third World countries, addressed the issue of “censor­ship by omission,” which de Uriarte said is very common with the U.S. press. “I hope people become aware of nations we don’t cover very much, which are usually nations of color,” said De Uriarte. “The further away the U.S. is from a problem culturally, racially and politically, the longer it takes the media to cover it.” Compared to international newspapers, which had 576 stories about the situation by 1994, the U.S. media only had 41 stories. The lack of information about the con.ict between the groups also played a part in the inactiveness regarding the situa­tion, De Uriarte said. The .lm addresses how the U.S. media “swept the issue under the rug,” said Mike Hopper of HBO. “When this was happening, what you saw over here was Kurt Cobain’s suicide,” Hopper said. “But over there, thousands of people were slain in a period of 100 days.” Teri Nguyen, an Asian cul­tures and languages junior, did not know about the situation until she and her roommate con­ducted research. “I did not know anything about this until I did my own individual research,” said Nguyen. “I had no idea it was anything on the scale of the Holocaust, and everyone knows about the Holocaust.” “Sometimes in April” was written and directed by Raoul Peck, who also directed the HBO movie “Lumumba.” The movie was shot on the location of the massacres, with more than 1,000 Rwandans as part of the cast. Psychologists specializing in post-traumatic stress disor­der were on location to ensure that there were no emotional breakdowns while re-enacting the killings. Scarborough hopes these re­enactments will allow people to “lookatwhathappenedinRwanda and take lessons from that experi­ence to avoid a repetition.” The .lm was shown as part of a collaborative series aimed at increasing awareness of events that concern U.S. foreign policy and how it affects the rest of the world, Scarborough said. The movie will be begin airing on HBO on March 12. Perry swears in railroad commissioner Elizabeth Ames Jones declines third term in House to take position By Varsha Naik Daily Texan Sta. Gov. Rick Perry swore in Elizabeth Ames Jones as the 44th Texas Railroad commissioner on Wednesday. Jones declined being sworn in to her third term as state repre­sentative for District 121 in San Antonio after Perry appointed her to the three-member Railroad Commission in January. She was con.rmed by the Senate in early February. “We’re very proud of this sharp Texas Longhorn with orange blood in her veins,“ said Gene Ames, Jones’ father. 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Erich von Stroheim Editor’s Note: This is another installment in a series that spotlights slightly obscure artists and .gures in history. Today, the Texan takes a look at German .lm director Erich von Stroheim By Craig Whitney Daily Texan Sta. Many moviegoers will no doubt remember Erich von Stroheim from his role in Billy Wilder’s “Sunset Boulevard.” In the .lm, von Stroheim plays Max von Mayerling, the butler and former director of aging silent .lm star Norma Desmond,played byGloria Swanson. What they may not have realized, however, was the history which lay behind their casting in the .lm. Twenty years earlier, von StroheimhadinfactbeenSwanson’s director on the .lm “Queen Kelly.” Having been repeatedly .red for running over budget on his pre­vious, studio-.nanced .lms, von Stroheim had agreed to direct “Queen Kelly” for Swanson’s inde­pendent production company in the hopes of resuscitating his foun­dering career. But as the plot to his self-penned script grew exceedingly dark and the .lm began to once again creep completed, “Queen Kelly” left von Stroheim virtually unemployable in Hollywood and spelled the effec­tive end of his directing career. But less than a decade before, von Stroheim had been one of Hollywood’s most commer­cially successful and artistically renowned .lmmakers. Not only did his pictures consistently make money (which, considering their exorbitant cost, was an exceptional feat), but they were universally admired by the top .lmmakers of the day. Sergei Eisenstein cited von Stroheim as one of the .gures he admired most in movies, calling his .lms “an example of all that is best in the cinema.” What set von Stroheim apart from other .lmmakers of the day was the devotion to realism which permeated nearly every aspect of his .lms. Working alongside direc­tor D.W. Grif.th during his earliest days in Hollywood, von Stroheim noted and admired the emphasis on location and emotional expres­sivity which he saw in Grif.th’s .lms, and made extensive use of his techniques years later in his own work as a director. But whereas Grif.th, at his best, tendedtogravitatetowardstheepic and the historical, von Stroheim preferred to concentrate on stories from contemporary society, giving him the opportunity not only to dissect the behavior and motiva­tions of the ordinary person, but to indulge his legendary eye for detail in depicting even the smallest facet of modern life. “I was going to people my scenes bad as well as in good taste, clean and dirty, faultless and ragged, but without exaggeration, without modi.cation.” Perhaps the best example of von Stroheim’s artistic doctrine can be glimpsed in his 1924 .lm and undoubted masterpiece, “Greed.” Based on Frank Norris’ novel “McTeague,” the .lm follows the story of a woman who wins a small fortune in the lottery, and the tragedy which ensues as she, her husband McTeague and her former .ancée are overtaken by avarice in their attempts to hoard the money for themselves. The .lm was revolutionary for the brutality, narcissism and lack of sentimentality that von Stroheim depicted in its characters. As each becomes more driven by greed, they gradually shed all trace of redeeming characteristics, willing to kill, rob and force each other into destitution with an almost savage lack of remorse in order to secure a prize they feel should be theirs. Even more remarkably, von Stroheim found a visual style in “Greed” which perfectly com­plemented the barrenness of its characters. Defying the common practice of the day, he chose to shoot most of the .lm’s exterior shots on location. This, coupled with its expertly composed interi­ors — subtly lit bars and tenements in which the characters guard­edly appraise one another — a .lm as unsettling visually as it was emotionally. Particularly memo­rable is the .lm’s climactic scene, as McTeague .ees across Death driven onward by his avarice to a certain death. Asequallypioneeringforcinema was the frankness with which von Stroheim’s .lms depicted sexual behavior onscreen, not so much for their graphicness as for the lack of pretension toward their character’s motives. In “Blind Husbands,” for example, or the masterful “Foolish Wives,” von Stroheim portrayed characters who seduced, won and discarded their sexual conquests with little romance and a casual disregard that shocked viewers unaccustomed to his continental approach. Despite protests of its immoral­ity, von Stroheim defended and stuck to his unromantic depiction of sex onscreen. “You Americans are living on baby food,” he said. “Since that .rst showing of ‘Foolish Wives,’ I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people; their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof. My ears have rung with their united cry: ‘It is not .t for children!’ Children! Children! [I have had] not one thought for children any more than Hugo, or Voltaire, or Shakespeare, or any writer of intelligence and sincer­ity.” But as if the uncompromising frankness of .lms such as “Greed” and “Foolish Wives” did not leave him with an uphill battle to begin with, von Stroheim’s demands for exacting detail pushed him over the bounds of what even his studios, despite the popularity of his .lms, could tolerate. Both .lms ran mas-When he submitted the .nal cut of “Greed” at over six hours long, the .lm was taken out of his hands and von Stroheim was relieved of his director’s chair and sent walking on the path that would eventually carry him to “Queen Kelly” and out of directing. Years later, von Stroheim’s repu­tation as a director would recover signi.cantly, both from a critical reappraisal of his work and his cel­ebrated appearances in .lms such as “Sunset Boulevard” and Jean Renoir’s “The Grand Illusion.” But Erich von Stroheim, shown here in 1932, was known for his unorthodox style of .lm-making. Photo courtesy of Movie Treasures appreciated for their actual signi.­cance, as Billy Wilder described in his .rst on-set meeting with the former director. “I just rushed upstairs [and] said, ‘This is a very big moment in my life ... that I should now be directing the great Stroheim,’” Wilder said. “And he just didn’t say anything. Then I said, ‘Your problem, I guess, was that you were 10 years ahead of your time.’ And he looked at me and he said, ‘Twenty.’” . . . . .