T e x a n I j f e & A r t s P a g e B B Austin artists, m usicians fundraise to reopen E n ch an ted Fo rest -Tuesday, Septem ber 2, 2008 S p o r t s P v g e 1 B Longhorns win first ga m e o f season in 5 2 - 1 0 blowout N e w s P a g e 7 A U T M ichener C enter graduate earn s K eene P rize fo r L iteratu re Serving The University o f Texas at Austin co m m un ity since 1900 ■ w w w .dailytexanonline.com Drunken driving leads to player’s arrest UT defensive lineman Lamarr Houston will be suspended fo r next game By David R. Henry Daily Texan Staff T exas d e fe n s iv e lin e m a n L a m a rr Houston was arrested for driving while intoxicated not long after the Longhorns' 52-10 opening game victory over Florida Atlantic University. The startin g ju n ior d efensive tack ­ le from C o lo rad o Sp rings, C olo, w as booked early Sunday morning after be­ ing involved in an accident on Interstate 35 and 11th Street, according to police reports. H ouston failed a field sobriety test and was sent to jail on a $3,000 bond, ac­ cording to police. DW I is a Class B mis­ dem eanor and is punishable by up to $2,000 and 180 days in jail, according to the Texas Penal Code. Texas coach M ack Brown suspended H ouston for this w eek's game at UT-E1 Paso and said Houston apologized Sun­ day in front of all of his teammates. "L am arr's a great kid, and this is the first tim e anything negative has hap­ pened with h im ," Brow n said. "W hen w e m ake decisions for things like this, we consid er w h at's best for the play­ er and w hat's best for our team. It's not fair to punish the other 104 players who did the right thing, and the fact that La­ m arr got up in front of all of his team ­ mates and apologized also factored into our decision." Ju nior linebacker Jared N orton said Brow n seem ed calm in reaction to the event. Norton roomed with Houston his freshman year. "H e 's a p re ach e r's kid, so I w ould never have expected it," Norton said. "I have a lot of respect for him for the way he apologized to the team and was real­ ly sincere. He did it all on his own, and that's tough." Houston recorded three tackles, two H OUSTON continues on page 6A UT defensive linem an Lamarr Houston lines up against Florida Atlantic Saturday evening. Houston was arrested early Sunday for driving w hile intoxicated. Jeffrey McWhorter Daily Texan Staff H e l p t h r o u g h t h e h u r r ic a n e Cooperation elicits better preparation for hurricane By Pierre Bertrand, Lindsey Morgan & Erin Mulvaney Daily Texan Staff D ecid in g n ot to p a rticip ate in the R ep u b lican N ational C onvention, President Bush visited A us­ tin and San A n to n io M o n d ay to review the re ­ gion's response to H urricane Gustav. H u rricane G u stav w as d ow ngrad ed to a C ate­ gory 1 storm on M ond ay ev en in g and is exp e ct­ ed to cro ss the Texas and O k lah o m a b ord er by T h u rsd ay n ight as a tropical storm , according to the N a tio n a l W eather S e rv ice W eb site. G u stav m ade landfall M onday m orning in C ocod rie, La., a city 72 m iles southw est of N ew O rleans. In a statem ent released by the W hite H ouse, the president described w hat he saw as better cooper­ ation am ong Texas, Louisiana, A labam a and M is­ sissip p i — the G u lf C o a st states affected by the hurricane. "A ll in all, w h at I look for is to d eterm in e w hether or not assets are in place to help, w heth­ er or not there's coordination and w hether or not there's preparation for recovery," Bush said. "A nd to that end, I feel good about this event." P erry said Frid ay that he activated 7,500 state tro o p s, m ade 1,350 buses and fuel available in co asta l areas and p rep ared sh elters to receive evacuees. Austin officials reported 300 evacuees entering Austin, as charter buses m ade their way through the city M onday afternoon. "O u r ap p ro ach in Texas is to p rep are for the w orst and p ray for the b est," Perry said. "R ather than gam ble, w e prepare for a direct im pact, and then w e will m anage up from there." G USTAV continues on page 2A Report: Insurance claims higher for smaller vehicles By Sean Beherec Daily Texan Staff Lighter, fuel-efficient vehicles could cause costlier injuries to drivers when compared to heavier vehi­ cles, according to a study released last week. The Insurance Research Council, a non-profit re­ search organization, published the report, which was based on information provided by insurance compa­ nies across the country. The average claim payment for lighter vehicles was $5,554 — 14.3 percent higher than the average claim for heavier vehicles. "The impact of higher gas prices on drivers, ac­ cident severity and insurance costs is anything but simple," said Elizabeth Sprinkel, senior vice presi­ dent of the council, in a written statement. "Our find­ ings indicate that higher average claim costs associ­ ated with lighter vehicles have the potential to offset, to some extent, whatever beneficial effects might oc­ cur from less driving. Sprinkel said it is too early to tell if the report will affect insurance claim costs. There were several traffic accidents in the Austin area over Labor Day weekend, but none resulted in fatalities, according to police reports. Austin police and the Department of Public Safe­ ty increased the number of officers on roadways this weekend in response to a history' of increased traf­ fic over the holiday weekend. Drivers evacuating from East Texas and Louisiana added to the busy May-Yirtg Lam | Daily Texan Staff W ilson "Jackal" H oppins takes a smoke break outside of the Dr. Exalton and W ilhelm ina Delco Activity Center, w here he is taking refuge from tropical storm Gustav. Hoppins, w ho was a New Orleans resident, already lost his possessions and hom e during Hurricane Katrina. "Twice in three years? That’s cutting it too close," he said. Carrying only three pairs of pants and tw o shirts with him, H oppins hopes to start his life over in Austin. Austin hosts Gustav evacuees East TexaSy Louisiana residents fill shelters following evacuation By Sean Beherec & Ana McKenzie Daily Texan Staff Alphonso Thomas sat on a step in front of the Delco Activity Center on Pecan Brook Drive on Monday after Hurricane Gustav forced him to evac­ uate his home in Port Arthur, Texas. It was not the first time a hurricane affected Thomas' living situation. With the trau m atic ev en ts of Hurricane Katrina three years ago, Thom as considered his relocation last year from New Orleans to Port A rthur an opportunity to begin a new life with his family after two years of separation because of the Katrina evacuation. "I found my family, got a good job and kind of started to think less and less about wading through that water and seeing all that death Ka­ trina brought," Thomas said. "But now it's back to square one." Austin-area shelters hosted hun­ dreds of evacuees avoiding H urri­ cane Gustav, listed as a Category 2 when it reached the shores of Loui­ siana. Mandatory evacuations were issued for Port Arthur and the Tex­ as counties of Orange, Jefferson and Hardin. Shelters in Austin began prepara­ tions for evacuees Friday night after talk of mandatory evacuations, said Elaine Acker, spokeswoman for the Central Texas Red Cross. The city of Austin can house 25,000 people in case of emergency, but only about 300 were under the care of Red Cross volunteers Monday. There were 140 evacuees at the Delco Activity Cen­ ter and 80 at nearby Lyndon Baines Johnson High School, Acker said. "T h e y 're w e a th e rin g it p re t­ ty well," she said, adding that the evacu ees w ere given regular an ­ nouncements about the status of the storm. Acker said almost all of the evac­ uees stay in g in shelters in A u s­ tin had driven from their hom es in East Texas or Louisiana follow­ ing mandatory evacuation notices. Some already began to return home as early as M onday morning after SHELTER continues on page 7A UT among five journalism schools hosting ABC News By Lee Ann Holman Daily Texan Staff The UT School of Journalism is one of five journalism schools opening an ABC News bureau this year. The network is launching ABC News on Campus this month in an effort to connect with 33 million untapped viewers between the ages of 18 and 24. Stories will be chosen and produced entirely by U T bureau staff. "We want to make news more interest­ ing and inviting for students our age," said Sara Loeffelholz, a journalism senior and UT bureau chief. ABC News looked at universities across the country and decided on five that not only had stellar journalism programs but were lo­ cated in cities that might not have the same exposure as larger markets, said broadcast journalism lecturer and UT bureau adviser Kate Dawson. Before coming to UT in 2006, Dawson spent 14 years in broadcast news, working at Fox News, WCBS-TV in New York City and ABC News Radio. "[The bureau] gives students an opportu­ nity, particularly non-journalism students, to pitch story ideas that could end up in front of a national audience," Dawson said. 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May-Ying Lam Daily Texan Staff GUSTAV: Evacuees expect to return home this week From page 1A P erry iss u e d a d is a s te r d e c ­ la ra tio n T h u rsd a y , w a rn in g 61 c o u n tie s acro ss Texas to b eg in im m ediate p re p a ra tio n and p re ­ po sitio n in g of resources in case of potential devastation. E v a c u e e s w h o te m p o r a r ily relocated to A u stin are ex p e c t­ e d to r e tu r n h o m e , sa id S ara H a rtle y , a s p o k e s w o m a n fo r th e A u stin O ffice of E m e rg e n ­ cy M anagem ent an d H om eland Security. " I t's h a r d to g e t o u t o f th e K atrina m in d -se t," H artle y said in r e f e r e n c e to th e m a n a g e ­ m e n t o ffic e 's re sp o n se . "F ro m w h a t w e 'v e seen, you d o n 't see th e sam e h u m a n toll th at w e 'v e se e n from th e flo o d in g of K a­ trin a ." L e v e e s in L o u is ia n a h e ld th r o u g h M o n d a y e v e n in g as H u r r i c a n e G u s t a v t r e k k e d th ro u g h w estern L ouisiana, first arriv in g as a C ategory 2 aro u n d 9:30 a.m . M o n d a y a n d d o w n ­ g r a d in g to a C a te g o ry 1 a s it b le w in la n d to w ard East Texas. Storm su rg es reached 12 feet in N e w O rle a n s, a s ta rk c o n tra s t from 27-foot su rg es seen d u rin g H u rric an e K atrina. A u t h o r itie s r e p o r t e d s e v - NEWS BRIEFLY Drinking water not affected by wastewater line incident Repairs have been made to a wastewater line near Pleasant Val­ ley that was blocked by a damaged manhole cover on Aug. 28. Because of the blockage, approximate­ ly 100,000 gallons of wastewater spilled into the Onion Creek Basin. The wastewater line is currently functioning, and the public drink­ ing water supply was not affected Hurricane Gustav tim eline Aug. 26 Tropical depression Gustav be­ comes a Category 1 hurricane. The storm has winds of 90 miles per hour moving toward Haiti. 5 a.m., Aug. 30 Gustav grows to a Category 2 hurricane with sustained winds at around 100 miles per hour off the Cayman Islands. 11 a.m., Aug. 30 Gustav grows to a Category 3 hurricane with winds up to 120 miles per hour. The storm is to pass over the western tip of Cuba by the Aug. 31. Sept. 1 On land in Louisiana, Gustav weakens to a Category 2 hurri­ cane with winds reaching 110 miles per hour. Today Gustav is a Category 1 hurricane travelling through central Loui­ siana with winds under 80 miles per hour. en d e a th s, all traffic-related, as of M o n d a y e v e n in g , in c lu d in g four killed in G eorgia and three killed in L o u isia n a d u rin g th e ev acuation process. N e a rly tw o m illio n p e o p le evacuated from L ouisiana's coast­ al regions, including the poor, el­ derly and sick w ho w ere taken to shelters in Southern states. by the incident. "It is safe for people to be in the area," said Kevin Buchman, public information officer for Austin Wa­ ter Utility. "But we are urging res­ idents and their pets to stay away from the Greenbelt area until the flushing process is complete." After receiving a complaint about a foul odor, Austin Water Utility crew workers investigated and discovered a broken manhole cover. The manhole cover presum­ ably fell into the wastewater line, blocking it. At the present time, it is still un­ clear what caused damage to the manhole cover. "Possibly a mower in the area, but we really don't know," Buch­ man said. Pleasant Valley is located in southeast Austin. 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'Jexadelphia Mol votid with any other offer Dine-in only Offer excludes oil beverages Vobd at 24th & Guadalupe location only A Louisiana National Guard medical unit m oves through flooded streets in New Orleans on M onday. W ind-driven water sloshed over the top of the Industrial Canal's floodwall, causing the flooded streets, but city officials and the Arm y Corps of Engineers said they expected the levees w ould hold. FEMA says it continues preparedness By Erin Mulvaney Daily Texan Staff H u rrica n e G u sta v 's d escen t upon western Louisiana provid­ ed the Federal Em ergency M an­ a g em en t A g en cy the first test since their mismanaged response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and federal officials said M onday they strive to continue to improve pre­ p ared n ess as h u rrican e season continues. "T h e key w o rd s for ou r re ­ sponse are agility and adaptabili­ ty," said Harvey Johnson, FEMA's chief operating officer, during a conference call Monday. T hree sp e cia l-n e ed s p atien ts from Louisiana died during the evacuations of 9,000 people from nursing hom es and hospitals, said Craig Vanderwagen, assistant sec­ retary for Preparedness and Re­ sponse of the Hum an Health and Services D epartm ent. He said no deaths are acceptable, but in com ­ parison to the scores of d eaths during the response to Hurricane K atrina, they w ere w ithin their margin of error. FEM A o fficia ls sen t tw o h e ­ licop ters to L ou isiana M onday m ornin g to assess the dam age caused by the storm and provide relief to any citizens still in d an­ ger, but storm winds were still too strong to survey the aftermath. FEMA officials said floodwater reached the tops of the levees in New Orleans Monday and report­ ed significant interior flooding in southern and w estern Louisiana. The agency will assess the damage and formulate a plan to mobilize the 30,000 people who evacuated from Louisiana and Texas back to their homes, Johnson said. As Gustav w eakens to a C ate­ gory 1, officials anticipate the ar­ rival of H urricane Hanna, which is loom ing som ew here over the Baham as and gaining strength. Hanna is currently projected to hit the Sou theastern U nited States, particularly Florida. The G u lf C oast area provides the United States with a quarter of domestic oil production, and as of M onday morning, 82 percent of offshore facilities were shut down, said Kevin Kolevar, assistant sec­ retary for the Office of Electricity and Energy Reliability. K olevar said 345,000 electrici­ ty custom ers in Louisiana were w ithout power as of M onday af­ ternoon and projects this number will grow. The potential impact of gas prices will be released after the office receives more inform ation about the impact of the storm. "W e are exceptionally well-pre­ pared," Kolevar said. "W e always see ebbs and flows in the price of gas. At this point, I don't see any significant damage to the system w e have prepared for hurricanes The N ational G uard evacu at­ ed 17,000 citizens over the w eek­ end and provided emergency ve­ hicles for more than 600 special- needs patients. The Guards also provided 24-hour security patrols in Louisiana's coastal regions and will deploy 3,800 highwater vehi­ cles and helicopters if necessary, said Major General William Etter, the N ational G uard's director of domestic operations. "It's our job to ensure the safety and security of citizens of the Gulf Coast and determine the potential seriousness of the storm to protect the citizens, and in this case, we did our job with a rapid and effec­ tive response," Etter said. Gen. Don Riley, director of Civ­ il Works, U.S. Army Corps of En­ gineers, said the principle concern is floodwater spilling over the le­ vees, which may cause flooding in the inner city of New Orleans Ri­ ley said the city's draining system should provide relief in that area. T h f . D a i l y T e x a x GOP convention starts without Bush, McCain By David Espo The Associated Press ST. PAUL, M inn. — R epubli­ cans, determ ined to propel John M cC ain to th e W h ite H o u se, opened their storm-shortened na­ tional convention M onday amid d istractio n s in volvin g running m ate Sarah P alin. Police m ade more than 50 arrests in the sur­ rounding streets as anti-war pro­ tests turned violent. Delegates had scarcely settled into their seats when it was dis­ closed a lawyer had been hired to represent the Alaska governor in an investigation of her tiring of the state's public safety com m ission­ er. The other disclosure w as per­ sonal, not political — the p a’gnan- cy of her 17-year-old unmarried daughter. The convention's opening ses­ sion w as abbreviated as H u rri­ cane G ustav hit the G u lf Coast, sparing N ew O rlean s the type of d am ag e in flicte d by H u rri­ cane Katrina almost exactly three years ago. P resid en t Bush sk ip p ed his planned speech to go to disaster and relief centers, determined to avoid a repeat of the mismanage- ment ot Katrina McCain was in Waterv Ule, Ohio, where he helped pack supplies to be sent to the Gulf. B oth m e n 's w iv es s p a rk e d cheers when they appeared before the delegates, shunning politics to urge contributions to help storm victims. Virtually the only political busi ness of the convention's 2M>-hour session was approval of a platform that sidestepped the Iraq War, one of the key issues in the campaign betw een M cC ain and D em ocrat Barack Obama “The waging of war — and the should nev­ achieving of peace er be m icrom anaged in a party platform. ... In dealing with pres­ ent conflicts or future crises, our next president must preserve all options," it said. While the opening day conven tion program was shorn of polit­ ical rhetoru aides said M cC ain was likely to deliver his nom ina­ tion acceptance speech as sched­ uled on Thursday. They added thev would deter­ mine the podium schedule tor the balance of the week on a d i\ to­ day basis. WORLD BRIEFLY Japan PM Fukuda resigns after tw o years o f political instability TOKYO — Japan's chronically unpopular prime minister abrupt­ ly resigned Monday after a year­ long struggle with a deadlocked parliament, leaving the weak­ ened ruling party to grapple with a stalled economy and rising calls for snap elections The resignation of Yasuo Fu­ kuda, 72, deepened a two-year stretch of political instability at the helm of the world's second-larg­ est economy. It came only days af­ ter the government announced a stimulus package to counter flag- ging consumer spending. Fukuda, who took office just im der a year ago, said he was clear­ ing the decks for a more popular successor to take over ahead of a tough special session in the parlia­ ment, where the ruling party con­ trols the lower house and the op­ position dominates the upper. Fukuda explained that he was exiting to avoid a "political vac­ uum." The resignation, which will probably not taki effect for a cou pie of weeks, surprised Japan and was solidly condemned by the op­ position as a sign ot deep instabili­ ty within the I DP, which has ruled the country almo t w ithout inter­ ruption since 1955. The Associated Pres* Buy a Mac for college and getatjeejPod.* small scholaisnip. i m - f 1 International Ecoaóniks lectu re Series mm 'mmm* w ith U F C U ’s College Solutions package. Receive ng with Internet Banking, an Instant Issue V IS A 1* .over 250 Free ATMs in Central Texas, competitive s and more. it the University Branch located at 2244 Guadalupe St ufcu.org today for more details University I f D I I A l C K f O t T U N IO N J L-ivfc. 1 * 6 * '* Froifcr H Authorized Campus Store T L v a qualifying Mac ana ¡pod w th your App ie education last, and be elgibie for a rebate uo to $299 Terms and con TU ,rvt O Wift Anr Ip ¡«r Ail riflhn reserved Get a free iPod after mail-in rebate.' And save every day with your education discount. Visit your Apple Authorized Campus Store to learn more. UT Cam pus Computer Store Flawn Academic Center (FAC 109) Austin, TX 78713 (512) 475-6550 www.computerstoreutexas.edu Editor in Chief: Leah Finnegan Phone: (512) 232-2212 E-mail: editor@dailytexanonline.com Associate Editors: Audrey Campbell Josh Haney Jillian Sheridan O p i n i o n T h e D a i l y T e x a n GALLERY P AA IS J L AR- ’ 4A Monday, September 2, 2008 VIEWPOINT All in the family "A ll happy fam ilies are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,'' the beginning of Tolstoy's "A nna Karenina" famously goes. Per­ haps the book should be required reading for UT's most notorious family: the football team. An aura of burnt-orange happiness pervaded the city's atmosphere before, during and after the victorious inaugural football game against Florida Atlantic University on Saturday, but the air was let out of the festive balloon when starting defensive tackle Lamarr H ouston was arrested for drunken driving at 11th Street and Interstate 35 early Sun­ day morning. It's an em barrassing start to the season for the Longhorns, w hose record of crim inal activity is outpacing their list of victories. Head coach Mack Brown believes the tight-knit group of athletes can work past their problem s w ith som e behind-the- scenes therapy. "O ne thing we have really prided ourselves on in our program is our family atmosphere, and this w ill be handled w ithin our fam ily," he told the Austin American-Statesman. Brown could learn from Anna Karenina, who struggled to be true to herself in the face of the w o rld 's expectations. But instead of turning in­ ward and continuing to enable his team of delin­ quent sons with perks and hubris, Brown should look to the world around UT football. The game fills the campus, the city and beyond with pride and spirit. The drama that plagues the football players — the drugs, the guns, the drink­ ing and driving — grossly negates the happiness the sport is capable of causing. It's insulting. Unfortunately, the team 's personal problems are not recessive. They are rooted deeply in the code of the football program, being passed from gener­ ation to generation. Brow n and the Longhorns need to be m eticu­ lous when sorting through their issues so not to becom e the laughingstock of the University — or worse. Anna Karenina, after all, ended up beneath a train. W e'd hate for the football program fam ily to go the sam e way, although w ith this m ost recent event, they seem intent on doing so. — Leah Finnegan for the editorial board WHY HASN'T THLREL E.VER BEEN A WOMAN PRESIDENT O F THE UNITE.!) STA TES? WHY DOESN'T t h e U.S. CREATE A NATIONAL HEALTH CAPE SYSTEM? M OST PEOPLE WANT ONE. EACH YE Aft 1 8 , 0 0 0 AMERICANS CME DUE. 1 0 LACK O F HEALTH CA R E S A V IN G THE. REST OF U S HMO S TO CK H O LD ER S T O N S O F CASH’ By Jesse Cordes Selbin Daily Texan Columnist The GRE: a bitter pill W hen I sat dow n to take the G R E last w eek, my heart beat out a flurried rhythm that w ould have m ade a presto-set m etronom e proud. I al­ w ays get slightly nervous before tests, w h ether I'm taking a statistics final or getting my throat sw abbed for strep th roat. But, as a key la n d ­ m ark on the long and w in d in g road tow ard graduate school, the G RE represents m ore than just your average m inorly-painfu l-yet-ultim ate- ly-endurable exam . Although som e universities are de-em phasizing their reliance upon the test, the GRE is still as relevant as its dreaded Edu ca­ tional Testing Service (ETS) partner in crim e, the SAT. If you'd like to follow the traditional scho­ lastically-based and socially-sanctioned path to success in life, you m ust do well. So in the interest of attend in g a good grad u ­ ate program in English or com parative literature next year, I spent the sum m er prepping for the test. W hile my friend s sw am aw ay the m onths of Ju n e, Ju ly and A u g u st at B arton S p rin g s, I dove head lon g into m ath review w orkbooks. I looked past my m ile-long ju st-fo r-fu n sum m er reading list in favor of poring over my new B i­ ble, the red and w hite enshrouded Princeton Re­ view. And w hen I took the G RE last w eek at U T 's M easurem ent and Evaluations Center, hunched over a flickering com puter screen as heavy sighs escap ed the lu n g s o f m y h id d en n e ig h b o rs, I ended up getting a respectable score. It w as by no m eans perfect but by all m eans perfectly de­ cent. But as I scrolled through the insufferably sci­ entific reading com prehension articles and took stabs at algebraic principles far beyond my nor­ m al lev el of m a th em atic u sag e, my em o tio n s w en t from w o rried a n ticip a tio n to u n m itig a t­ ed ire. D espite its on slau g h t of d ifficu lt q u a n ­ titative com putation questions and increasingly eso teric vo cabu lary w ord s, the G R E and other tests of its ilk cannot really m ake accu rate co n ­ clusions about your overall m athem atic or ver­ bal competency- They m easure how well you can m em orize m athem atic theorem s of ETS choice, how well you know the,vocabu lary w ords ETS co n sid ers im p ortant and how e x actly you can m atch a w ritten essay to the essay ETS w ould have w ritten. In short, they test your ab ility to take their test, according to their idea o f w hat constitutes relevant know ledge. U nfortunately, it is likely that the sam e in d i­ vid ual could rise to the top or sin k to the b o t­ tom of the heap w ith any given test. Th anks to the recently initiated C om pu ter-A d aptive Test­ ing (CAT) and the con stan t influx o f new test questions, the system shunts you toward harder or easier questions based on your progress dur­ ing the test, with the result that no one takes the sam e test. This system also causes the first few q u estio n s to be extrem ely im p ortan t in d e te r­ m ining your overall score. M issing a few q u es­ tions near the beginning of the test w ill give you a com p arab le overall score to m issing a dozen or m ore later on. This process ignores the fact th at som eon e w ith a v ery stro n g v o ca b u la ry m ay not know a certain w ord, or that som eone w h ose m ath em atic sk ills are leg en d ary cou ld slip up on a calculation. A d m issions officers m ay find it necessary to m ost efficiently analyze the abilities of prospec­ tive students. With the ever-increasing num ber of people applying for higher education and b e­ yond , it certain ly m akes their lives m uch e a si­ er. But such com prehensive national tests have only been w id ely used since our p aren ts' g en ­ eration. C ountless generations of students w ere evaluated by m easures other than a single test­ ing com pan y's conception of intelligence. It's a question of perspective. A dm issions cou nselors shou ld ack now led g e that a stu d en t's score on the G RE m eans som ething, not everything. The G RE only offers an ind ication of g e n er­ al k now led g e. It requ ires stu d en ts to d em o n ­ strate the know ledge gained from an entire un­ d ergrad uate career and consolid ate it into one afternoon's exam. Ultimately, test scores should be taken w ith a grain of salt. Cordes Selbin is an English a n d hum anities senior. How will we go down? science fiction or religious texts. You have your Ragnaroks or arm ies of the undead returning to eat your brains, but there's one scenario that has been making its way around recently. According to the book "Th e Life and Death of Planet Earth" (coupled with "You Have so Much to Live For!" by Opie Mystic), the authors, astro­ physicist Donald Brow nlee and p aleo ntolog ist Peter Ward, stated that the end of the w orld is al­ ready in effect. But it w on't end for good for an­ other 7.5 billion years. R ega rd less o f u h ic h d o o m sd a y th eo ry you su b scrib e to, th ese en d - of-the- w orld scen a rio s s u c c e e d in p u ttin g o u r lives into p e r s p e c t iv e ." Brownlee argues that the sun is about 30 percent brighter today than it was in its infancy. To com ­ bat the increased heat, the w eath­ ering processes rem oved carbon dioxide from the atm osphere and deposited it in the soil as carbon­ ates, but there's only so m uch car­ bon dioxide to go around. As the sun continues w arm ing up, there m ight not be enough carbon di­ oxide for plants, w hich provide oxygen and other sustenance in the natural world. By Wayne Cheong Daily Texan Columnist Recently, it has seem ed to me that the prophets of doom are less the ratty men with "T h e End Is N igh" signs and more often scientists. M eet the harbinger of your doom — the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC is the w orld's largest particle ac­ celerator and is set to begin slam ­ ming protons together in Septem ­ ber. Built by the European O rga­ n izatio n for N u clear R esearch , or C ER N (I know , the acronym d oesn't check out), the accelera­ tor is situated beneath the Franco- Sw iss border near G eneva, Sw it­ zerland. The LHC can generate bundles of energy and create otherw orld­ ly particles and dark matter. And it also m igh t create b lack holes th at cou ld d estro y e v e ry th in g that we know. Stephen H aw king w rote in "A B rief H istory of Tim e" that an astronaut passing a black hole is "stretch ed like spaghetti " So this is how the world might end. Not with a bang or a whimper but with a strange sucking sound. We can rest easy for now. A ccording to some, even if the LHC g e n era tes b lack h oles, they would be tiny ones (no larger than a thousandth of a proton's diam eter) and would vanish quick­ ly, thus not causing any damages. End of the world scenarios are often lauded in So, forget black holes. It's the sun that w ill kill us all. I'm left w o n d erin g w hy the b ig b rain s over at CERN are not building som ething that can punch the sun into submission. R egard less of w hich d oom sd ay theory you su b scrib e to, these en d -o f-th e-w o rld s ce n a ri­ os succeed in putting our lives into perspective. Either you live and w ork to im prove the quali­ ty of the time you have or just wait, dw elling on the possibility of som e far-off end. I choose the former. Cheong is a screenwrrting graduate student OUP PRESIDENT is INCOMPETENT AND A LIAR. WHY DON'T WE IMPEACH HIM? BECAUSE IMPEACHMENT IS OFF THE TABLE BECAUSE WE DON'T WANNA. w h a t d o y o u tv h n k t h is is PAKISTAN ? © 2 o o f c T £ THE FIRING LINE Open letter to UT football players Longhorn fix)tball players, We, the University students, alumni and faculty, would like to thank you for your years of hard work, sacrifice, sweat, blood and tears that you go through to make us proud each Saturday under those multi-mil- lion-dollar lights. You, alongside the rest of our great athletics program, are some of the brightest and most visible stars we have at this proud university. Though not all of you make it to the NFL, or other professional leagues, during your time on campus, we are always in awe of you and regard you as celebrities. We live and breathe your stats, and we brag to our friends how we went to high school with you and if we've been lucky, have shook your hand once or tw ice. Sure, we rip you for missing a tackle or fumbling, but we also cheer our hearts out when you redeem yourself in clutch time and we defend you on message boards all over the Internet. So, now that you know we love you so much, please call us when you're too drunk to drive. I'm sure you'd be able to find one designated driver in 46,IXX) students that would fire up our poor little beater cars for the chance to usher you home. It'd be our honor. It would also mean that we wouldn't have to worry about another drunk driver out there that could kill someone with one little slip-up. The Longhorn Nation Green commitment Thank you Daily Texan for drawing attention to the rising energy costs in the Aug. 27 article "Besides oil, natural gas costs rise." In addition to managing its energy production to address the impact of costs, UT is managing energy use as well. Between October 2007 and January 2008, the University was committed to upgrading close to 195,OCX) light fixtures on the main and J.J. Tickle Research campuses to improve energy efficiency. In addition to the lighting project, the University is repairing and/or replacing 185 steam traps that are causing energy loss, as well as upgrading more than 8,000 plumbing fixtures to vive water and the energy required to product' it. Estimated savings from these energy and water projects are $2.5 million per year. The initial savings will pay for the upgrade and repair projects within six years. The univ ersity will then reinvest those dollars in ongoing energy and water conservation efforts. By managing energy use, the university is also reducing its carbon footprint. The current lighting and steam projects will reduce the footprint by an amount equal to planting 74 trees every year, plus water sav- ings from the plumbing upgrades are expected to reach at least 70 million gallons annually. Managing energy production and use are only part of the story. Various organizations throughout cam­ pus offer opportunities to participate in conservation efforts. Joining the UT Sustainability Network, the Campus Environmental Center, the Green Horns and department Green Teams are just some of the ways individuals and groups can support the University's efforts in becoming a sustainable community. Thanks again for highlighting this important issue. It's my hope that more members of our community will become involved in energy conservation activities. Those interested can call 471-0492 for more informa­ tion. Al Lewandoivski Demand-Side Energy M anagem ent & Conservation manager Praising sexual repression The Aug. 28 piece "Putting Sex on the Table" made the insidious and subversive claim that our society is too "sexually repressed." Jessica Staggs claimed that teen pregnancy and scandalous political affairs were, in some way, a manifestation of our society's inability to speak openly about sexuality. As sexual repression is the surest sign of civilized society, Staggs can only be advocating a return to barbarism — the state of nature in which our Eros is the master of our Ixigos. Far from being detrimental to society, our sexual repression is the one thing that allows our society to function. Herbert Marcuse wrote about this very topic in "Eros and Civilization," in which he inadvertently showed that sexual repression is inextricably linked to civilization. Sexual repression is a societal mani­ festation of the individual struggle for self-mastery. Every rational animal is locked into an eternal struggle to overcome, tame and subdue the bestial passions within themselves. Only through this struggle for self- mastery can our true humanity, as a rational being, emerge. Therefore, humanity is not merely the instinc­ tual and "natural" urges that flow from our loins. Instead, it is the proper arrangement of our reasonable Logos over and above our passionate Eros. The celi­ bate ascetic rather than the uncontrollable Don Juan is the truest embodiment of all that is excellent and noble within mankind. So I ask Ms Staggs to rethink her liberal views of sexuality in favor of a more rational and self-controlled view of humanity, in which reason governs sexual desire and responsibility is held in higher esteem than sexual libido. Only when our politicians embody this ideal and refrain from extramarital affairs will we be free of scandal, guilt, shame and pain. 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In the stu d y , re se a rc h e rs targ eted a s p e c ific p ro tein , M E F 2, that th ey knew w as a p layer in the fo rm ation of d e n d ritic s p in e s in n orm al b rain s. A fter in je ctin g m ice w ith co ca in e ov er a period of a few days, the researchers found that M EF2 levels had d ep leted and the nu m ber of d en d ritic sp in es had alm ost quadrupled. As a result of an increased n u m ber of d en d ritic sp in es, the m ice exhibited fu n ctio n ­ ing b eh a v io r in resp on se to the regular drug use. In a separate test group, re­ searchers introduced cocaine w hile injecting the m ice with M EF2 to keep the protein lev­ els h ig h . S c ie n tis ts n o ticed that in these m ice there w as a su rp ris in g ly low n u m b er of dendritic spines. The m ice w ere m ore se n sitiv e to the co cain e in th eir system and e x h ib ite d a b n o rm al b e h a v ­ ior com pared to the su bjects w ithout MEF2. C h ristopher Cow an, senior au th o r of the stud y and a s ­ sistan t p sy ch ia try p ro fesso r at UT Southw estern, said the findings suggest that the pro­ tein help s control genes th at regulate d rug-related b eh av ­ ior changes. " I f we u n d erstan d w h ich genes are influenced by MEF2, w e can intervene and try to help the system resist or re­ verse these sensitization pro­ cesses," Cowan said. S c ie n t is ts b e l i e v e th e s e spines help counteract the ad­ d ictio n p ro cess in repeated abusers. Because m any abus­ ers relapse during their recov­ ery process, researchers hope to develop a pharm aceu tical treatm ent that w ill enhance th e fo rm a tio n o f d e n d ritic spines. R esearchers hope the treatment could be an answer to the problem of pre-w ired addiction in abusers. F u tu re re s e a r c h w ill fo ­ cus on targeting M EF2 genes in D N A for the cre a tio n of a treatm ent. 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For details about educational QL-. records and official communications with the University see General Information, 2007-2008. service integrity ___ J HOUSTON: Player once did charily work for Mothers Against Drunk Driving From p a g el A for losses, in Satu rd ay n ig h t's game. Any suspension H ouston undergoes m ay hurt the L ong­ horns' depth, as they are already thin at defensive line. H ouston started 11 games in 2007 at defen­ sive end before moving to tackle this season. Houston spent his senior year of high school raising funds for the na­ tional organization Mothers Against Drunk Driving. He got involved with the organization after hearing a story from a mother whose son was injured in an accident in which the driver was drunk. " It can happen to an y b od y /' Houston told the Texan in Septem- ca n h a p p e n to a nybody. You d o n ’t h a v e to be in to xica ted to be in a c a r c r a s h / — L a m a r r H o u sto n , D ejen si i e Linern a n ber 2007. "You don't have to be in­ toxicated to be in a car crash." A Longhorn football player has not been arrested since form er Longhorn safety Tyrell Gatewood on Sept. 13, 2007. Six Longhorn players were arrested between the period of June 2007 and Sept. 18, 2007. In January, Brown moved run­ ning backs coach Ken Rucker to the new position of D irector of High School Relations and Player Development. Part of Rucker's job is to enforce Brown's midnight cur­ few, which he instituted after the Holiday Bowl. Only players who live on campus have a curfew, and Houston lives off campus. H o u sto n is th e firs t p la y ­ er to be arrested under Rucker's supervision. uction c r u i s e r , & mountain AH h i k e s S ' ! ’ /. Thursday, Sept. 4th Roof of Trinity Garage (on the corner of Trini' viewing begins a t ó p.m. / silent auction begin Check out pictures ot the bikes up (or auction at www.utexas.edu/parking •' ie *re i 5 if raininj 4$.P a rk in g S ervices ^ T ransportation Tuesday, September 2 ,2 0 0 8 \ i-- \ \ v __ _______ 7 ___ UT graduate awarded $50K for play Prize money helps writers focus time on compositions By L e n a Price D aily Texan Staff G e o rg e B ran t said he sat in disbelief w hen he heard in m id- Ju n e th at his play, "E le p h a n t's G r a v e y a r d ," had ea rn e d him $50,000. " I t w as m ore of an a b stra ct id e a ," said Brant, a 2008 g ra d ­ uate of the U T M ichener Center for W riters. But after flying into A ustin on "I w o u ld go up and ta lk to so m e o n e, and there w o u ld be tw o or th ree c a m e ra s ," S m ith said "T h a t w as not som ething I expected. But at the end of the n igh t, m y face hurt from sm il­ ing so m u ch ." A $1.7 m illion donation from E.L. Keene, left to the U n iv ersi­ ty after his d eath several years a g o , fu n d s th e aw ard , w h ich s e e k s o u t th e " b e s t e x a m p le of stu d en t-p ro d u ced literatu re th a t re p re se n ts th e A m erican e x p e rie n c e in a m ic r o c o s m ," said E lizabeth C u llm gford , UT E nglish professor and the com ­ p etitio n's head judge. K e e n e g r a d ­ u a ted fro m th e in U n i v e r s i t y 1946 and worked as a lip stick co l­ orist for Revlon. " H e w o r k e d for Revlon, m ade s o m e c o in and th e n d r o p p e d seven fig u res on U T to m ake it so w r ite rs lik e m e ca n h a v e a l i t ­ tle m o re tim e to c o n c e n t r a t e on th e ir w o rk ," s a id s e m if in a l­ is t S m ith H e n ­ d erso n . “T h a t's ju st stran g e and w ond erfu l." F rid a y from his hom e in R h od e Is la n d , r e u n it­ in g w i t h o ld friends and pro­ fessors to attend an aw ard c e r e ­ m o n y th a t e v e ­ ning with an ad ­ d re s s fro m U T P r e s id e n t W il­ l ia m P o w e r s , B rant said e arn ­ ing th e $ 5 0 ,0 0 0 is b e g in n in g to sink in. ‘7 would go up and talk to someone, and there would be two or three cam eras. That was not something I expected. Rut at the end o f the night. my f a c e hurt from smiling so m uch.' — Sarah Smith, semifinalist " I t 's ju s t s u r­ r e a l , " B r a n t s a id . " I h a v e su ch resp ect for th e o th e r w r it­ ers. It's hard to b elieve that I w as singled o u t." At the H arry Ransom C enter on Friday, Brant and three other se m ifin a lists, w ho also g ra d u ­ ated from the M ichener Center, w ere each aw ard ed the K een e Prize for Literature. For the first tim e in the three-year history of the aw ard , all three s e m ifin a l­ ists split the $50,000 cash prize. Sem ifinalist Sarah Sm ith said sh e w as o v erw h e lm ed by the prestige of the event. T a m ir K a lita | D a i l y T e x a n St a ff Brant's play is set in a sm all­ town in Tennessee and tells the story of a circu s elep h an t w ho kills her h an d ler and is co n se ­ quently hanged. "H e to o k a b iz a rre h is to r i­ cal in cid en t and tu rned it into a com m entary about lynching," C u llin gford said . "T h e ju d g e 's decision w as unanim ous." U T s t u d e n t s p e r f o r m e d B ra n t's play last spring. It w ill be p ro d u ced ag ain in M ay by K een e Prize fo r Litera tu re aw ard w in n e r G e o rg e B rant m in g le s a m o n g p eers at the H a rry R a n so m C e n te r o n Friday. the T ru stu s T h e a te r in So u th Carolina. "H o p e fu lly the K eene prize w ill be a stam p of legitim acy," Brant said . "T h e play can be a little d a u n tin g b eca u se it has such a large cast." B ra n t is c u r r e n tly w r itin g tw o separate plays and said the K een e p riz e m oney w ould a l­ low him to avoid w orking at a sep arate jo b so he cou ld finish the w riting faster. The K eene prize m oney w ill also p ro v id e s e m ifin a lis t D o- m enica Ruta with tim e to focus on her creative w riting career. " W o r k in g o n t h i s n o v e l ["E d g ew ater"] and my mem oir, "T h e P re te n d e rs ," is m y fu ll­ tim e jo b thanks to the late Mr. K een e," Ruta said. Join t h e T exan T ea m W ant to w ork for one o f the m ost aw ard-w inning college papers in the country? The Daily Texan is now hiring for the fall session w ith o penin gs in every dep artm en t — no experience necessary, and people o f all majors are w elcom e. Call us at 471-4591 for m ore inform ation, or visit us at www.dailytexanonline.com. SHELTER: Dallas, Houston did not admit evacuees From pagel A the h u rrican e wa^ d ow ngraded to a C ategory 1, she said. Jasm in e O oten, 9, reached in her red Dixie cup for ice chips in front of the activity center as she shyly recounted the details of the almost 16-hour trip she, her sister and her m other took from B eau ­ mont to Dallas to Austin. “This has been h orrib le," Ja s ­ m ine said. “We have to sleep on the floor and drive for such a long time and then drive back. I d on't want to go back hom e, because I don't know w hat's going to hap­ pen to it." Brandy Ooten, Jasm ine's m oth­ er, said the fam ily d rov e from Beaum ont to Dallas but no shel­ ters in Dallas or Houston were ad ­ mitting evacuees. Acker said cots w ere not im m ediately provided for evacuees, who were told they had to bring their own supplies. Several evacuees w ere able to leave their hom es with household pets, which w ere also housed for a time at the same shelters where their ow ners stayed, Acker said. She said the animals were moved M onday to a local animal shelter until the evacuees were able to re­ turn home. "The good news was that p eo­ ple were not staying behind b e ­ cause they co u ld n 't bring th eir p ets w ith th e m ," A ck er s a id . “They were coming out with their pets and making sure their whole family was safe." TRAFFIC: Car crashes decreased about 10 percent since 2007 From pagel A roadw ays. A u stin po lice Cm dr. Michael Nyert said this is Austin's fourth Labor Day weekend w ith­ out a fatalitv, a statistic he said validates a decrease in aggressive driving habits. "1 don't think vou can rest your hat on strict enforcem ent," Nyert said, adding that driver behavior has decreased crashes in A ustin nearly It) percent from 2007. N yert said the num ber of traf­ fic fatalities would continue to de­ crease if more m otorcyclists and moped drivers wore helm ets. He said eight of the 11 motorcycle fa­ talities this year, inclu ding tw o were going under 25 mph, w ere fatal, because the motorcyclist did not wear a helmet. 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