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LGBT law journal proposed

By Andrew Martinez

Daily Texan Staff 
Legal scholarship at UT might 
be coming out of the closet by 
spring 2010 if students in the law 
school can gather enough support 
for a new journal.

OUTLaw, a lesbian, gay, bisex­
ual and transgender law student 
alliance, began the process of es­
tablishing a legal journal to focus 
solely on issues affecting the gay 
community. The Texas Journal of 
Sexual Orientation, Gender Iden­
tification and the Law would be

the first of its kind at UT and the 
second student-edited LGBT legal 
journal in the country.

"Our goal is to give LGBT stu­
dents in the law school a chance to 
get involved with the Issues," said 
OUTLaw president Jason Cordo­
va, the journal's creator. "We want 
to merge the fact that these stu­
dents are gay with the fact that 
they're law students."

Cordova said he intends for the 
journal to be a neutral forum in 
which students and professors can 
publish articles exploring issues

such as gay marriage, gay adop­
tion, ballot propositions such as 
California's controversial Propo­
sition 8, the military's "Don't ask, 
don't tell" policy and other legisla­
tive contentions.

"We would like it to be a space 
that deals w ith the issues in a 
scholarly way that fosters discus­
sion," Cordova said. "OUTLaw 
has a very specific view on things. 
We don't want this journal to be a 
creature of OUTLaw."

Tulane U niversity's "Law & 
Sexuality" is the only student-edit­

ed LGBT law review in the nation. 
The journal publishes articles by 
academics, law practitioners and 
students in areas such as constitu­
tional, employment, family, health, 
insurance and military law.

While there are numerous gen­
der and sexuality journals across 
the country that delve into the 
highly disputed legal issues fac­
ing the LGBT community, Cordo­
va said he thinks these publica­
tions are too narrow and do not

LEGAL continues on page 2

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EXTRA BASES

A season fu ll o f Longhorn lore

Jason Cordova, president of OUTLaw, is le ad in g the creation of a jo ur­
nal for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and tra n sge n d e r law com m unity.

C a rso n W erner | Daily Texan Staff

Special session 
date finally set 
for Legislature

Governor calls for reconvening of Texas 
Senate, House to pass needed sunset bills

By Ben W erm und
Daily Texan Staff
Gov. Rick Perry set the date for an anticipated spe­
cial legislative session, calling state representatives and 
senators to return to the Capitol next week.

Perry announced Thursday that the special session 

will begin July 1.

"After speaking with legislators, 1 am calling a spe­
cial session to extend the operation of five critical agen­
cies and help reduce gridlock by continuing to pro­
vide options for financing our state's highways," Per­
ry said.

The session will focus on sunset bills that were not 
addressed in the 81st session, which would keep the 
Texas Department of Transportation and state insur­
ance agencies running, as well as approving $2 billion 
m highway improvement funds.

"We're always fond of saying that there's only one 
bill that has to pass, but, in fact, the way the sunset 
laws are set up, if you want a state agency to continue, 
you actually have to pass legislation to do that," said 
Sherri Greenberg, a UT lecturer and former state repre­
sentative. "These were the other must-do items, and if 
it weren't for these items there wouldn't even be a need 
for a special session."

Not present on the session's agenda is the controver­
sial voter ID bill that many Republicans had hoped to 
see passed in the last session.

"Governors don't call special session for a wish list 
of items," Greenberg said. "It's because something 
didn't pass that really had to."

Cal Jillson, a political science professor at Southern 
Methodist University, said even though the bill was 
not included on the original agenda, he would not be 
surprised to see it slip in later in the session.

"The strategy most governors use is, in the initial 
call, only announce those items that must be resolved 
and then, if that business is concluded relatively early, 
other elements can be added to the call," Jillson said. 
"He'll whisper to his Republican colleagues, 'If you get 
it done early, I'll add some other things as the session 
proceeds.' He'll throw them a little red meat if they be­
have early in the session."

Josh Flanagan, 
a radio- 
television-film 
junior taking 
sum m er 
Germ an 
courses, waits 
his turn in the 
financial aid 
office Thursday 
m orning.

D an ie la Trujillo

Daily Texan Staff

New FAFSA application easier and less exhaustive

A ccording to Slavic studies associate professor Tom Garza, the global recession is a driving force in the popularity of the idea of vam pires.

People find vampires and fantasy com forting during periods of turm oil

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By Ben W erm und
Daily Texan Staff 
When hard times have the world 
by the throat, one UT distinguished 
teaching associate professor says 
people turn to an unlikely hero — 
the vampire.

Tom Garza, chair of the Slav­
ic studies department — who has 
served as a vampire expert for proj­
ects ranging from a History Chan­

nel special to the 2007 horror film 
"30 Days of Night," — points to the 
global recession as the driving force 
behind the rise of the "undead" in 
pop culture.

"Anytime we get into a period of 
strife — that can be economic reces­
sion, war, culture wars or any com­
bination of those — we, as a hu­
man organism, tend to want to re­
treat into a safe world of fantasy or

extreme fiction," Garza said. "The 
vampire story comes out, the zom­
bie story comes out, any kind of rel­
evant story. The idea of coming back 
from the dead is a positive idea, the 
notion that we will survive this, we 
will get through this."

He sited a rash of vampire stories 
during the last five years, from the 
"Twilight" and "True Blood" series 
to foreign films like 2008's "Let The

Right One In," as a coping mecha­
nism for the general public.

The second-season premiere of 
"True Blood," which aired earlier 
this month, was the most-watched 
HBO original program since "The 
Sopranos" finale in 2007.

When "Twilight" hit movie the­
aters last November, it enjoyed the

VAMPIRES continues on page 2

Students tax records 
will be shared between 
governmental offices

By Syeda Hasan
Daily Texan Staff 
Students applying for fi­
nancial aid will find a much 
m ore stream lined applica­
tion beginning in the spring 
of 2010.

The O b am a-B id en A d ­
m in is tr a tio n a n n o u n c e d 
this week that it will soon 
im plem ent changes to the 
Free A pplication for Feder­
al Student Aid in an effort 
to make financial aid funds 
more available to students.

The reformed application 
will om it m any questions 
regarding detailed person­
al inform ation, making the 
form sim pler and easier to 
com plete. The D epartm ent 
of Education is also seek­
ing to im prove the online 
FAFSA app licatio n by en ­
abling the Web site to auto­
matically retrieve tax return 
data from the Internal Rev­
enue Service, which will al­
low students to bypass com­

plicated questions.

Tom M elecki, UT S tu ­
dent Financial Services d i­
rector, said the length of the 
a p p licatio n only m akes it 
more difficult for the office 
to w ork out stu d e n ts' aid 
awards.

"The FAFSA is in c red i­
bly long and asks for a lot 
of d u p lic a te in fo rm atio n 
that the student or parent 
has already provided to the 
federal governm ent on tax 
form s," Melecki said. "It's 
inefficient to ask them to 
provide that a second time 
just because the information 
is going to another office of 
government."

He said th a t the o v e r­
ly specific questions on the 
FAFSA may be too complex 
for applicants to answer.

"We find that sometimes 
s tu d e n ts a n d even p a r ­
ents will provide the wrong 
data," he said. "The ques­
tions are often very com ­
plex, and they use legal or 
ad m in istra tiv e term ino lo­
gy that the average person

FAFSA continues on page 2

Contract issues persist 
for Austin’s firefighters

By Pierre Bertrand
Daily Texan Staff

The city an d the A ustin 
Firefighters Association, Local 
975, may reach a compromise 
as future labor contract nego­
tiations loom.

Austin firefighters have op­
erated for seven months with­
out a labor contract. With new 
negotiations und erw ay be­
tween city staff and the city's 
police union and Emergency 
Medical Services the firefight­
ers union may start new nego­
tiations by late July.

N egotiations betw een the 
fire union and city staff failed in 
November when union mem­
bers rejected a tentative labor 
contract with the city. City offi­
cials tried to push a labor agree­
ment that would give the city 
the ability to decide job quali­
fications for incoming firefight­
ers, with the intention to help 
diversify the department.

Union members said at the 
time they feared that provision 
would lower hiring standards.
Michael M cDonald, an as­

sistant city manager who over­
looks the city's public safety 
services, said Austin will try 
to pursue the same initiatives 
it did during the last negoti­
ation session, which includes 
hiring and diversity. He said he 
did not know what form those 
initiatives would take in any 
drafted contract.

Both police and EMS d e ­
clared in recent weeks their 
willingness to forgo contractu­
al pay increases in light of the 
economic hardships the city 
faces, McDonald said.

He said he hopes to achiev e an 

agreement with the fire union.

"The last [contract] was vot­
ed dow n by its membership," 
McDonald said. "The things 
that are important to us are still 
important to us. The priorities 
of the city have not changed."

U nion p resid en t Stephen 
Truesdell said he expects the 
upcoming negotiations to be 
fundamentally different from 
last year's because the Aus-

FIRE continues on page 2

 Tortuous heat threatens Austin’s thirsty “™:bs‘í"és

2

The city, non-profits and 
local businesses help keep 
homeless cool, hydrated

By Ryan Moore
Daily Texan Staff 

Heat indexes are expected to 
continue to soar above 100 de­
grees for most of the week, and 
while most students can simply 
run insid e for a cool drink of 
water, m any of A ustin's hom e­
less aren't so lucky 

H u ndred s of A u stin 's local 
homeless will spend the day un­
der the blistering sun, and few 
have access to fresh, cool w a­
ter. N on-profits, local business 
ow ners and the city of A ustin 
are attem pting to alleviate this 
problem.

M o b ile L o a v e s and F is h ­
es, w ith support from the city, 
d istributed bottles of w ater to 
A u stin’s hom eless in the midst 
of scorch in g tem peratu res on 
Thursday.

“It's just plain hot," said Alan 
Graham , the group's president. 
“It's so easy to get cooked. You 
d o n 't even realize how m uch 
[w ater] you are lo sin g w hen 
your core temperature goes up. 
People need water out here."

Armed with several trucks and 
nearly 80 cases of water, many 
of which the city provided, the 
group began distributing bottled 
water to the less fortunate.

The organization stresses the 
critical need to properly hydrate 
in order to prevent dangerous 
cases of dehydration and heat 
stroke, especially in the oppres­
sive summer heat.

Lozina Stephens-Bell, a local 
restaurant ow ner and advocate 
for the hom eless, realized there 
was a lack of w ater fountains 
and w ater coolers, particularly

in places where many homeless 
p eop le gather. She began her 
own initiative to di.-Tribute free 
ice w ater in key areas w here 
homeless congregate.

"W e saw all th e se p e o p le 
hold ing em pty w ater cu p s, it 
was really sad; These were plac­
es that there should be w ater," 
Stephens-Bell said. “It was a di­
saster for the hom eless. W ater 
must be available. We can't live 
without it."

Stephens-Bell fed the hom e­
less from the back of her res­
taurant for years. She suggest­
ed that restaurants be required 
to provide a w ater cooler ou t­
side their business and asked 
that a portable toilet com pany 
donate som e portable toilets to 
places throughout A ustin that 
are in need.

"W e aren 't asking for a lot, 
just the main necessities, at least 
give them a water fountain and 
a bathroom ," Stephens-Bell said. 
"Everyone needs water, but un­
like everybody else, the hom e­
less can 't walk into a business 
and pay one dollar for a bottle of 
water. Not when they're broke, 
and they are the people who are 
outside in the heat all day."

Dean Graber, an Austin resi­
dent who worked with Stephens- 
Bell on Hurricane Katrina relief, 
said he believes the city could do 
more to make free water accessi­
ble to the homeless.

"W h en p riv ate citizen s are 
having to take it upon them ­
selves to serve water to homeless 
people in 100-degree heat, right 
across the street from the city's 
homeless shelter which doesn't 
have w ater fountains outside, 
this is an emergency that the city 
is obliged to fix," Graber said.

T h e h o m e le ss c o m m u n ity 
around UT is also feeling the

M ary Kang | Daily Texan Staff

Clifford Tetlow sits at San Antonio and 16th streets with other homeless people Thursday afternoon.

heat. M any are forced to find 
shade during the day and ask 
passersby for w ater in order to 
survive.

"T h e other day I offered my 
water bottle to a homeless man 
on the D rag; he grabbed it up 
im m ediately and chugged it,"

said Justin Casino, UT computer 
sciences senior. “When you think 
about it, where can you get free 
water on the Drag if you're obvi­
ously not a customer?"

G raham said there are many 
things people can do to help, in­
clud ing m aking a donation for

w ater at www.t7ilfnpzv.org/water 
or volunteering their time and 
cars.

"W e'd love to get som e UT 
stu d e n ts ou t h e re ," G rah am 
said. “We need trucks and SUVs 
to d eliv er food and w ater to 
those in need."

VAMPIRES: Undead media show financial vitality

From page 1

biggest opening weekend ever for 
a vampire film.

“Betw een tw o hot w ars, the 
econom y tanking, we still do 
have, whether we like it or not, 
a culture war going on. For the 
last eight years, we have been 
a culture truly split — eth ical­
ly, morally, politically — we're a 
divided nation, so we are look­
ing for the other side of things," 
G arza said . "W e w ant to look 
right in the face of the most ex­
treme variant of that."

Paul B en son, a m anager at 
BookPeople, said while the Twi­
light series is one of the store's 
biggest sellers, vampires are not 
the only undead to rise again 
He said the apocalyptic nature 
of zombie books like "World War 
Z " seem to attract customers.

"There's kind of like an angst 
right now about the end of our 
em pire," Benson said. "T h ere's 
kind of a cultural shock about

how w e're going to go through 
our day-to-day lives. Angst and 
dread seem to come out in vam­
p ires and zom bies. T h e re 's a 
sense of a real end."

Garza said the trend to turn 
to vam pires are as old as the 
myth itself.

"The earliest vam pire stories 
w ere to explain plague, infant 
death, anything we don't under­
stand," he said. "The story comes 
in to say, 'Well the vam pire got 
our baby; that's why it died at 2 
months.' 'W hy are all the people 
dying off with boils, spitting up 
blood? Vampires.' The vampire 
has always been an easy scape­
goat figure historically."

The vam pire craze is not ex­
clusive to the U.S., Garza said. 
The 2004 Russian film adapta­
tion of the book "N ightw atch," 
m ade more than $8 m illion in 
11 days, a rare feat for a coun­
try in which m ovies d on't usu­
ally break the $3 m illion mark, 
and spawned two sequels.

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«

I'm pretty sure men 
— and women ...are 
into watching hot 
sex whether there is a 
recession on or not. "

— Jennifer Hutson

UT alumna

"T h e 'W atch ' series is huge 
and it plays very much on the 
vampire story as a political fig­
u re," he said. "T h eir vam pires 
are light and dark, playing on 
the race issue in Russia between 
the E uropeanized, W hite Rus­
sian s and the d ark R u ssians 
of the Southern Republics. It's 
ju st a story w hose time is right 
again."

UT undeclared freshman M i­
chael Stark, a “Twilight" fan, said

the story provides an escape.

"I think especially the genera­
tion that's just now starting col­
lege is starting to have to be re­
sponsible for their actions," Stark 
said. "Every generation has had 
th eir d istra ctio n s and e v e ry ­
body's going to use anything to 
escap e. Those books ju st hap­
pened to hit at the right time."

She said the take on the vam­
pire tale as a love story is what 
drew her in.

" I think it's so p o p u lar b e­
cause it's a love story geared to­
ward a younger generation of 
wom en instead of a gruesom e 
story," Stark said. "It's kind of a 
new thing."

G arza agreed "T w ilig h t" is 
m ore of a rom ance, but said 
"True Blood" is a prim e exam ­
ple of a vampire story becoming 
commentary.

" I t 's a good p o st-m o d e rn 
vam pire story," he said. "T h e 
vampire has always been a kind 
of so cial other. In the case of

'True B lo o d ,' vou have racial 
stereotypes being played w ith 
and sexu al stereo ty p es b ein g 
played with. There's some great 
gay, black, w hite tension being 
played out throu gh the v am ­
pire. That's a good vampire sto­
ry, when you've got some kind 
o f co m m e n ta ry on w h at w e 
don't understand."

UT alumna Jennifer Hutson, a 
"True Blood" and "Twilight" fan, 
said romance would attract view­
ers regardless of a recession.

"I'm pretty sure men — and 
women, although fewer of them 
would admit it — are into watch­
ing hot sex whether there is a re­
cession on or not," Hutson said.
W hether the stories involv­
ing the vam pires act as social 
com m entary or sim ply provide 
an escape, Garza said even the 
d arkest ideas of the "u n d ead " 
shine a light of hope.

"It's the idea that no m atter 
how bad it gets, something will 
survive after us," he said.

LEGAL: Journal would provide outlet 

for discussion of gay legal concerns

From page 1

have a sufficient amount of space 
to commit to the subject's many 
legal disputes.

Cordova said he is also frus­
trated with the law school's lack 
of LGBT courses.

"[U T] is a top ranked law 
school," he said, "but it's managed 
to have zero LGBT scholarship."

The law school publishes 12 
legal journals with roughly 600 
stu d en ts p articip atin g every 
year. Each journal is a self-sus­
taining publication with its own 
unique revenue model. Some 
journals are published in print 
while others have been convert­
ed to the web.

Because of the U niversity's 
diverse range of legal journals 
spanning m any subjects, pro­
s p e ctiv e stu d e n t p u b lish e rs

often find that dem onstrating 
their new journal's worth is the 
m ost d ifficu lt part of getting 
published.

"It's not something you can sit 
down over beers at the [Crown 
& Anchor Pub] and say, 'Let's 
start a new journal,'" said Kir- 
ston Fortune, an assistant dean 
of com m unications in the law 
school. "They have to dem on­
strate that they have every ques­
tion solved."

Fortune said prospective pub­
lishers are required to prove to 
the UT School of Law Publica­
tions Department that their jour­
nals are able to create a self-sus­
taining revenue stream — a sin­
gle issue in print may cost $3,500 
or more to publish — with a con­
sistent reader-base, while evinc­
ing the fact that their product can 
offer original legal scholarship.

"It's not even so much of an is­
sue of money," Cordova said of 
his journal. "The three main ob­
stacles we face are finding a fac­
ulty advisor, finding office space 
[in the law school] and finding 
initial subm issions ... Groups 
and organizations on cam pus 
that deal with LGBT issues can 
expect a call from me soon."

Despite present uncertainties, 
OUTLaw expects the journal to 
be ready for publication by the 
end of the summer and plans to 
have the first volume off printed 
by Spring 2010.

"M y law career will proba­
bly not have anything to do with 
LGBT activism," Cordova, who 
is studying corporate law, said. 
"I feel like this is our chance to 
do something for the movement. 
There's no better time than now 
for us to make a difference."

FIRE: AFD wants training standards upheld

From page 1

tin Fire Department now has a 
chief, a position that was tem­
porarily filled by AFD Assistant 
Chief Jim Evans during the last 
negotiation process.

Tru esd ell said he suspects 
the negotiated provisions to be 
clearly outlined, which he said 
was som eth in g that was not 
done last time out of deference

to any future fire chief.

"The city's strategy last time 
was to keep everything open," 
Truesdell said. "Now, we expect 
them to want the same things 
but have a more descriptive hir­
ing process. It will be easier for 
us to come to agreement."

T ru esd ell said the u n io n , 
w hich represents about 950 of 
the more than 1,000 firefight­
ers in the eity, is willing to ad­

dress the city's interest in hir­
ing, which had stalled the past 
negotiation.

"We are willing to discuss hir­
ing flexibility as along as we are 
assured the training standards 
will be upheld," he said.

Truesdell said he hopes the 
city and un ion m em b ersh ip 
can com e to an a g re em en t, 
learn from their m istakes and 
move on.

Friday, June 26, 2009

likely to fill out 
shortened form

From page 1

doesn't understand."

In co m in g fre s h m a n S t e ­
phen Jaquess said the FAFSA 
was the m ost difficult form he 
had to fill out during the col­
lege application process.

"I know a bunch of friends 
who are econom ically in need, 
but they d id n 't try and tack­
le the FA FSA b eca u se they 
th o u gh t it w as too co m p li­
ca te d ," Ja q u ess said "It u l­
tim ately h u rt them b ecau se 
they cou ld n 't afford to go to 
the schools they wanted and 
had to go to other places. If 
they develop a new image of 
the FAFSA, I think the num ­
ber of people applying would 
definitely increase."

U n d e c la re d b u s in e s s ju ­
nior M atthew Diehl said that 
while the application is time- 
consum ing, stu d en ts will be 
required to com plete several 
lengthy forms for college

"You have to be prepared 
to jum p through hoops with 
things like financial aid and 
re g isté rin g for c la s s e s ," he 
said. "If you're not willing to 
do those initial things, maybe 
college is not for you."

M elecki said efforts to re­
duce the number of questions 
in the FAFSA are a step to ­
ward m aking com m on-sense 
improvements to the financial 
aid process.

"M y hop e is it w ould be 
much easier for students and 
their parents to com plete the 
FAFSA and do so more accu­
rately," he said . "O u r office 
w ill have to spend less time 
w orkin g w ith stu d en ts and 
parents to co lle ct tax form s 
and other documents to verify 
inform ation that they provid­
ed to us on the FAFSA if they 
make fewer m istakes."

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TODAY'S WEATHER

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 NATION BRIEFLY

Undiagnosed US swine flu cases 

may be approaching 1 million
ATLANTA — Swine flu has in­
fected as many as J million Amer­
icans, U S health officials said 
Thursday, adding that 6 percent or 
more of some urban populations are 
infected.

The estimate voiced by a govern­
ment flu scientist Thursday was no 
surprise to the experts who have 
been closely watching the virus

, "We knew diagnosed cases were 
just the tip of the iceberg," said Dr. 
William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt Uni­
versity infectious diseases expert 
who was in Atlanta for the meeting 
of a vaccine adv isory’ panel.

Lyn Finelli, a flu surveillance of­
ficial with the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention, made the 
1 million estimate in a presentation 
to the vaccine panel. The number is 
from mathematical modeling, based 
on surveys Vy health officials.

The percentage of cases hospi­
talized has been growing, but that 
may be due to closer scrutiny of 
very sick patients. It takes about 
three days from the time symptoms 
appear to hospitalization, Finelli 
said, and the average hospital stay 
has been three days.

Adult magazine can't publish 

nude photos of slain woman

ATLANTA — A federal appeals 
court ruled Thursday that Hustler 
Magazine didn't have the right to 
publish decades-old nude photo­
graphs of the wife of wrestler Chris 
Benoit, who killed the woman and 
his young son before committing 
suicide two years ago.

The 11 th Circuit Court of Appeals 
ruling found that a notorious death 
doesn't give publishers a blank 
check to publish any images they 
wish — including those not linked 
to a newsworthy event. Such a pol­
icy, the court warned, would mean 
that the entire life of any victim of 
a notorious slaying would instantly 
be open to public scrutiny.

Nancy Benoit's family filed a fed­
eral lawsuit against the Larry Flynt 
Publishing Group last year after the 
magazine published the photos of 
Benoit's wife. The lawsuit claims 
that the woman, a model and for­
mer professional wrestler herself, 
had asked the photographer to de­
stroy the images immediately after 
they were shot about 20 years ago.
The family's plight gained inter­

national attention after the wres­
tler, his wife and their son were 
found dead in their suburban Atlan­
ta home. Police said Benoit, then a 
wrestler for World Wrestling Enter­
tainment, strangled his wife and son 
and then hanged himself.

DC Metro accident may have 

been caused by faulty signaling
WASHINGTON — The signal­
ing system for the Washington-area 
transit agency failed to detect a test 
train stopped in the same place as 
one that was struck during a dead­
ly crash this week, federal investiga­
tors said Thursday.

The National Transportation Safe­

ty Board's test results indicate the 
oncoming train involved in Mon­
day's crash that killed nine could 
have lacked information that anoth­
er train was stopped on the tracks 
ahead. A statement by the NTSB did 
not say whether investigators think 
the problems were occurring before 
the crash, which injured dozens.
Investigators are trying to un­
derstand how the train control sys­
tem was functioning when a train 
plowed into another that was 
stopped, resulting in the deadli­
est crash in the rail system's 33-year 
history. The control system provides 
critical information to trains such as 
when to stop or slow down.

The moving train was operating in 
automatic mode, which means it was 
primarily contiolled by a computer, 
although there is evidence the opera­
tor applied the emergency brake. On 
Thursday, investigators found streak 
marks on the tracks for about 125 feet 
leading up to the crash site, indicating 
"heavy' braking."

Compiled from Acciated Press reports

‘King of Pop’ Michael Jackson dead at 50

3

Friday, June 26, 2009

Paramedics f i n d singer 
unresponsive in home, 
a tte m p t resuscitation

By Lynn Elber
The Associated Press

LOS A N G ELES — M ichael 
Jackson, the "King of Pop" who 
once m oanw alked above the m u­
sic w orld, died T h ursday as he 
p rep ared for a com eback bid to 
vanquish nightm are years of sex­
ual scandal and financial calami­
ty. He was 50.

Jackson died at UCLA M edi­
cal C enter after being stricken at 
his rented home in Holmby Hills. 
P aram edics tried to resuscitate 
him at his hom e for nearly three- 
quarters of an hour, then rushed 
him to the hospital, where doctors 
continued to work on him.

"It is believed he suffered car­
diac arrest in his hom e. H ow ev­
er, the cause of his d ea th is u n ­
known until results of the autopsy 
are know n," his brother Jermaine 
said. Police said they were inves­
tigating, stan d ard pro ced u re in 
high-profile cases.

Jackson's death brought a tragic 
end to a long, bizarre, sometimes 
farcical decline from his peak in 
the 1980s, w hen he w as popular 
m usic's prem ier all-around p er­
former, a uniter of black and white 
music w ho shattered the race bar­
rier on MTV', dom inated the charts 
and dazzled even more on stage.

At the tim e of his death, Jack­
son w as rehearsing hard for w hat 
w as to be his greatest comeback: 
He was scheduled for an unprece­
dented 50 shows at a London are­
na, w ith the first set for July 13.

A s w ord of his d eath spread, 
MTV sw itched its program m ing 
to play videos from Jackson's hey­
day. Radio stations began play­
ing m arathons of his hits. H u n ­
dreds of people gathered outside 
the hospital. In New York's Times 
Square, a low groan w ent u p in 
the crow d w hen a screen flashed 
that Jackson had died, and people 
began relaying the new s to friends 
by cell phone.

"N o joke. K ing of P op is no 
more. Wow," M ichael H arris, 36,

of New 'lurk City, read from a text 
m essage a friend h ad sent him . 
"It's like w hen K ennedy w as as­
sassinated. I will alw ays rem em ­
ber being in Times Square w hen 
Michael Jackson died."

The public first knew him as 
a boy in the late 1960s, w hen he 
w as th e p re c o c io u s, s p in n in g 
lead singer of the Jackson 5, the 
gro u p he form ed w ith his four 
older brothers out of Gary, Ind. 
A m ong their No. 1 hits w ere "I 
Want You Back," "ABC" and "I'll 
Be There."

H e w as perhaps the m ost excit­
ing perform er of his generation, 
know n for his backw ard-gliding 
m oonw alk, his feverish, crotch- 
g rabbing d ance m oves and his 
high-pitched singing, p u n c tu a t­
ed w ith squeals and titters. His 
single sequined glove, tight, mil- 
itary-style jacket and aviator sun­
glasses w ere tradem arks, as w as 
his ever-changing, surgically al­
tered appearance.

"For Michael to be taken aw ay 
from us so su d d e n ly at su ch a 
young age, I just d o n 't have the 
w ords," said Q uincy Jones, w ho 
p ro d u c e d "T h riller." " H e w as 
the consum m ate entertainer and 
his contributions and legacy will 
be felt u p o n the w orld forever. 
I've lost m y little brother today, 
an d p a rt of m y so u l h as gone 
w ith him ." 

4

As years w ent by, Jackson be­
came an increasingly freakish fig­
ure — a m iddle-aged m an-child 
weirdly out of touch w ith grown­
up life. His skin becam e lighter, 
his nose narrow er, and he spoke 
in a breathy, girlish voice. He of­
ten wore a germ mask while trav­
elin g , k e p t a p e t c h im p a n z e e 
nam ed Bubbles as one of his clos­
est com panions, and surrounded 
himself w ith children at his Nev- 
erland Ranch, a storybook play- 
land filled w ith toys, rides and an­
imals. The tabloids dubbed him 
"Wacko Jacko."

"It seemed to me that his inter­
nal essence w as at w ar w ith the 
norm s of the w orld. It's as if he 
w as trying to defy gravity," said 
Michael Levine, w ho represented 
Jackson in the early 1990s.

TJ Thom as and M arie Bouchard rem em ber M ichael Jackson at the pop star's star on the H ollyw ood Walk 
o f Fame Thursday in Los Angeles.

Nick Ute | A ssociated Press

Senators claim $1 trillion health bill in reach

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By Erica Werner
The Associated Press

W ASHINGTON — S enators 
w orking to give President Barack 
O bam a a com prehensive health 
care overhaul said Thursday they 
had figured out how to pare back 
the com plex legislation to keep 
costs from crashing through a $1 
trillion, 10-year ceiling.

The an n o u n cem en t from Fi­
nance Committee Chairm an Max 
Baucus, D-Mont., and other law ­
makers am ounted to a small, part­
ing gift to O bam a on his top do ­
mestic priority as Congress pre­
pares to leave tow n for its week- 
long July 4 recess. It m oved Con­
gress a bit closer to a deal on leg­
islation to low er costs an d p ro ­
vide coverage to nearly 50 m il­
lion Americans who lack it.

It also ca pped tw o w eeks of 
tough going for health care n e­
gotiations on Capitol Hill as price 
tags as high as $1.6 trillion over 
10 years sent senators back to the 
draw ing board and forced d ead­
lines to be repeatedly reset.

"We have options that w ould 
enable us to write a $1 trillion bill, 
fully paid for," Baucus said at a 
new s conference.

Baucus declined to detail how 
the costs were being cut, but op­
tions included difficult sacrific­
es like potentially delaying an ex­
pansion of Medicaid, the federal- 
state program for the poor.

O thers have said the changes 
made in recent days would lower

the cost of governm ent subsidies 
for those who cannot afford insur­
ance, as well as pare back a planned 
10-year series of rate increases for 
doctors serving Medicare patients.

A ides said the Congressional 
Budget Office had estim ated that 
the elements under consideration 
w ould extend coverage to 97 per­
cent of the population, excluding 
illegal immigrants.

But even Democrats acknow l­
edged that Thursday's announce­
ment fell fall short of a final deal on 
legislation to meet Obama's goals.

"T here's not a final bill th at's 
agreed to. W hat there is now is a 
clear path to having a bill that is 
paid for," said Sen. Kent Conrad, 
D-N.D., one of seven Republican 
and Democratic Finance Com m it­
tee senators w ho've been w ork­
ing closely on the deal.

Baucus has dubbed the group 
"the coalition of the willing." All 
seven issued a brief, joint state­
m ent later T h u rsd ay claim ing 
progress, even though som e Re­
publicans involved m ade no se­
cret of their skepticism.

"We have not seen language 
[of legislation] in any way shape 
or form ," said Sen. O rrin Hatch 
of Utah. He questioned how costs 
could be cut before bill language 
was written.

The Finance C om m ittee had 
hoped to pass a bill by now, but 
given the setbacks of recent weeks 
T hu rsd ay 's announcem ent w as 
seen as progress. Of the five House

Janice D ocherty of New Baltim ore, Mich., second from left, and Terrea Brown of Landover, Md., center, and 
others cheer during a health care rally near Capitol Hill in W ashington on Thursday.

Jacquelyn Martin | A sso ciated Press

and Senate panels writing health 
care bills, Finance is the only one 
with a real chance of producing a 
bipartisan bill, something Obama 
has repeatedly said he wants.

The co m m ittee w ill resu m e 
w ork w h en law m ak ers re tu rn 
to W ashington after July 4. On 
Thursday they discussed whether 
to give m ore pow er to MedPAC,

a commission that makes recom­
mendations to Congress on Medi­
care paym ent rates, Baucus said.

The H ouse also will continue 
w ork on a partisan bill that em ­
braces Democratic priorities, and 
similar legislation is taking shape 
in the Senate H ealth, Education, 
L abor an d P en sio n s C o m m it­
tee. H ealth C om m ittee law m ak­

ers Thursday defeated an am end­
m ent offered by Sen. John McCa­
in, R-Ariz., that w ould have al­
lowed cheaper prescription drugs 
to be im ported from Canada.

All the bills envision new re­
quirem ents for all A m ericans to 
have health insurance, and prohi­
bitions against insurance com pa­
nies denying people care.

More violence in Iraqi cities as US forces leave

By Patrick Quinn
The Assciated Press 

BAGHDAD — The bom bing 
of a Baghdad bus station T hurs 
day pushed the death toll from a 
weeklong series of blasts near Shi­
ite targets to about 200, calling into 
question Iraq's ability to provide 
secu rity as U.S. com bat troops 
slowly w ithdraw from cities.

The w ave of attacks is u n d er­
m ining Prim e M inister N ouri al- 
M aliki's declaration of a "great 
v ic to r y " in th e U.S. p u llo u t 
from u rb an areas by next Tues­
d ay 's deadline. He has declared 
June 30 a national holiday to be

m arked w ith celebrations.

Al-Maliki, a Shiite, has pinned 
his re-election hopes largely on se­
curity gains that have driv en vio­
lence to w artim e lows — an issue 
that's become his stum p speech in 
an undeclared campaign for a sec­
ond term . Seven m onths before 
national elections, he tells a u d i­
ences that he's quashed major vio­
lence, dism em bered al-Qaida and 
stam ped out Shiite militias.

Much of his recent rhetoric has 
focused on Ju n e 30, p a rt of an 
agreem ent th a t calls for A m er­
ican forces to leave Iraq by the 
end of 2011.

O n S a tu rd a y , al-M a lik i d e ­
clared that date a national victo­
ry and urged Iraqis to hold steady 
in the face of m ore violence, say­
ing "d o n 't worry if som e security 
breach occurs here or there."

A few h o u rs later, suspected 
Sunni insurgents struck in north­
ern Iraq. A truck bom b packed 
with nearly a ton of explosives ex­
ploded in a Shiite tow n just out­
side the ethnically tense city of 
K irkuk, killing 82 people. O ffi­
cials blam ed al-Qaida in Iraq for 
the attack.

O n M onday, sh o o tin g s an d 
b o m b in g s killed m ore than 30

people in Baghdad's Shiite neigh­
borhoods. A fter a sm attering ol 
deadly attacks the following day 
a m assive bom b in the Baghdad 
Shiite stronghold of Sadr City left 
78 people dead on Wednesday.

O n T h u rsd ay , a b o m b in g at 
a b us statio n in a S hiite n eig h ­
borhood in so u th w est Baghdad 
killed at least seven people and 
w ounded 31, police said. Another 
three bom bs and a m ortar strike 
killed tw o others around the cap­
ital. N ine American soldiers w ert 
w ounded in tw o roadside bom b­
ings against a convoy in eastern 
Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

M en carry the coffin of a relative killed in a bom b ing in the m ain Shiite 
district in Baghdad on Thursday.

Karim Kadim ¡ Associated Press 

 Friday, June 26,2009

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Monumental mess

The struggle to limit Congressional earm arking practices hit a roadblock yesterday, 
when H ouse A ppropriations C hairm an David O bey (D -W is.), denied a H ouse vote on 
Texas R epresentative Mike M eCauJ's (R-Texas) “No M onum ents to M e" am endm ent.

Rep M cC aul, who represents the 10th congressional d istrict, w hich stretches from 
A ustin to H ouston, introduced the "N o M onum ents to M e" am endm ent last year to 
over 300 ay e 's in the House. H ow ever, the am endm ent only lasted through the first 
quarter of fiscal 2009, m eaning a reprised am endm ent would be necessary to uphold 
the legislation.

The "No M onum ents to M e" am endm ent b an s all m em bers of C ongress from ap­
p rop riatin g federal taxpayer funds in the form of earm arks to p ro jects nam ed after 
them selves or any sitting m em ber o f Congress. The goal is to lim it projects from get­
ting sp ecial treatm ent or m oney sim ply becau se they are nam ed after a m em ber of 
Congress According to M cCaul, "th e question is not w hether these projects are w or­
thy of taxpaver dollars ... it's a problem of perception that these projects receive spe­
cial treatm ent becau se of the nam es they bear. W hen the A m erican p eople see this 
it feeds the b elief that m em bers of C ongress are arrogant and out of touch with the 
people we represent."

M cC au l’s point is valid — a high num ber of congressional earm arks, and, su b se­
quently, a disproportionately large am ount of cash, are allocated to local projects bear­
ing the nam e of the m em bers of Congress introducing them. They also have a pretty 
good chance of getting funding from the m em ber personally.

If there is any good new s, it's that the b attle ag ainst earm arks isn 't a p artisan af­
fair — or rather, those who are m ost notorious for funding projects nam ed after them 
com e from a d ecidedly bip artisan pool. Projects ranging from a proposed $231 m il­
lion brid ge nam ed Don Y ou ng's Way to a glut of d ecid ed ly u n im p ortant, yet w ell- 
fu nd ed , airp o rt ren ov atio n s are the p ro d u cts o f b oth d em o crats and rep u b lican s 
in Congress.

But Senator R obert Byrd (D-W .Va.) leads the C ong ress w hen it com es to nam ing 
things after him self. In a list of "M onu m ents to M e" funded by sittin g m em bers of 
Congress released from M cC aul's office, Byrd has 17 hom e-state projects nam ed after 
him self, including an office b u ild in g , a freeway, a highw ay, a high schoo l, a co rrec­
tional institu te and even a telescope. The group C itizen s A gainst G overnm ent Waste 
lists Byrd as having over 3U projects named after him.

Few citizen s feel this un w arran ted spending is a good use of governm ent funds. 
Rep. Obey, the authority in charge of dealing with earm arks as H ouse A ppropriations 
C hairm an, has made reducing "w astefu l" governm ent spending a goal since 2006. His 
d ecision to deny the H ouse a chance to vote on the "N o M onum ents to M e" am end­
m ent is curious, to say the least.

A lik e ly reason for his d ecisio n is the stro ng p ressu re he w as u n d er from Rep. 

M axine W aters (D -C alif.).

As H ouse A ppropriations C hairm an, Obey is in charge of review ing earm arks sub­
mitted bv Representatives. W aters subm itted an "earm ark request for the M axine Wa­
ters Em ploym ent Preparation C enter in the Labor-H ealth and Hum an Services-Educa- 
tion appropriations b ill," according to Texas Insider. O bey denied her the earm ark, be­
c a u s e the center is named after Waters. But the center was named after her before her 
stint in congress and has been regularly funded by C ongress since 1991. W aters p oint­
ed out that the center, as well as other valuable pre-existing entities, would be cut off 
from funding under the am endm ent and pressured O bey not to allow the am endm ent 
a chance to be voted on again.

W aters, like any m ember of C ongress fighting to fund the types of projects that w ill 
get them re-elected , un doubtedly feels the cen ter nam ed after her is w orthy of the 
$1 m illion she w ants taxpayers to give it. And, w hen com pared to projects like Rep. 
Jam es C lyburn's golf center, her em ploym ent preparation center carries som e merit.

But it is u n fo rtu n a te W aters c o u ld n 't lo o k p a st h e r s lic e o f fe d e r a l fu n d s, 
and in s te a d su p p o rte d h e r ca u se by c o n v in c in g O b ey to k ill th e in te llig e n t 
am endm ent altogether.

M cC aul says his goal is to m ake the system m ore tran sp aren t and allow m em ­
b ers of C o n g re ss to v o te on e a rm a rk s. F o rtu n ately , th e s ta lw a rt re p re se n ta tiv e 
from Texas vow s to continu e his "N o M onum ents for M e" push into the fiscal 2010 
appropriations cycle.

— J e r e m y B u r c h a r d f o r th e e d ito ria l b o a rd

For your bike’s sake

By Benjamin Miller
Daily Texan Columnist

In the sum m er, it's easy to forget that cam ­
pus is as d angerou s as it is d uring the rest 
of the year. Even w ith few er people around, 
thieves and brigands lurk about in full force, 
com m itting unspeakable crim es.

On June 5 of this year, according to U T PD 's 
Cam pus W atch e-m ail, a "non-U T subject ... 
in itially stated that he had been robbed at 
m achete point and was forced to change into 
lin g e rie ... [but later] ad m it­
ted to w earing the lingerie a s --------------------
a costum e to solicit prostitu­
tio n ." This is but one exam ­
ple o f the n e fario u s figu res 
th at d o n 't stop th eir crim i­
nal dealings just because it's 
the sum m er. D espite the re­
lentless heat and the tem pes­
tu ou s th u n d erstorm s, crim e 
stays at high lev els, en d an ­
gerin g stu d e n ts' safety, and 
more im portantly, the safety 
of their bicycles.

W h ile p e rs o n a l sa fe ty is 
im p ortant, b icy cles serve as 
a p rim ary m ethod of tra n s­
portation for m any students 
and, in som e circles, as a sta­
tus sym bol. Protecting your 
b icy cle s ta rts w ith lo ck in g 
it up and registerin g it w ith 
P arkin g and T ran sp o rtation
S e rv ic e s — but th ese ru d i- 
m e n ta ry m e a su re s are not 
sufficient to stave off the bike sw ind lers re­
sp on sible for the 1,472 bikes stolen in A u s­
tin last year, 482 of which were stolen near 
the U T cam pus.

_____________

C learly , m ore m easures are n ecessary to 
e n su re th e sa fe ty of your b icy cle . T h at is 
why I h av e taken it upon m y se lf to sh are 
som e sa fety m easures that I'v e been using 
to protect my beloved 10-speed ever since I 
acquired it by stealing it from som eone who 
d id n 't use p ro p er safety p recau tio n s. I use 
each and every one of these m ethods.

Strap e x p lo siv e s to your b ike that d e to ­
n ate w hen th e y 're not d ea ctiv a ted b efo re 
you ride. An unaw are w ould-be th ief would 
be in cin e ra te d . H ow ever, I m ust w arn you 
th a t th is m ethod is un safe if you p ra ctice 
d run ken rid in g . In your alco h o l-lu b ricated

state, you are far too likely to forget to d e­
activate the explosives before you ride hom e 
from the drinking establishm ent.

Put a "D o Not Steal" sign on your bicycle 
w henever you leave it unguarded. Though 
too m any m em bers of the A ustin com m uni­
ty lack respect for personal property rights, 
everyone respects a sign.

If you borrow m oney from m afia-backed 
so u rce s (re a d : lo an s h a rk s ), d rop su b tle 
h in ts ab ou t how im p ortan t your fam ily is 
to you and how little you value your bike.
That way, when you inevita-
bly d efau lt on the loan, the
m obsters w ill go after your 
fam ily, and you r b ik e w ill 
rem ain safe.

-------------------- 

/ have taken it upon 
myself to share some 
safety measures that 
I've been using to 
protect my beloved 
10-speed ever since 
I acquired it by 
stealing it from 
someone who didn't 
use proper safety 
precautions.

Go to the library to check 
out a num ber of suspicious 
b o o k s (" D o m e s tic T e rro r­
ism for D u m m ie s," "M ein 
Kam pf," "Goodnight M oon," 
et al) until you get yourself un­
der National Security Agency 
surveillance. Then, if som e­
one steals your bike, sim ply 
call the NSA (301-688-6527) 
and ask them for a copy of 
their video surveillance dur­
ing the tim e of the robbery. 
As an added bonus, the bike 
may even be retrieved before 
you call if the people watch­
ing you think that the bicycle 
thief is your accom plice and
you are ju st trying to sneak
a m essage past them , cau s­
ing the NSA agents to unwittingly apprehend 
the thief in an attem pt to stop inter-terrorist 
communication.

_____________ 

Finally, carry a block of gold around with 
you and p lace it next to your b ik e so that 
th ieves w ill steal it instead of your tra n s­
p o rta tio n . T h ere are a few ob v io u s p ro b ­
lem s w ith th is a p p ro ach , nam ely the e x ­
cess w eight and space that carrying a block 
of gold necessitates. But if you carry a large 
enough bag and gain sufficient m uscle mass, 
these problem s should be resolved.

C h oosin g one of the aforem entioned ap ­
proaches, or any com bination thereof, is cru­
cial for en su rin g the safety of your bike in 
this crim e-ridden m etropolis.

Miller is a w om en s a n d gend er studies sop h om ore

Stop the gender war

By Mary Lingwal!
Daily Texan Columnist

On March 2, 2009, the U niversity of C h icago's 
student new spaper, The Chicago M aroon, pub­
lished an editorial about gender equality. W ith­
in weeks of its publication, the article and its au­
thor were m isunderstood across the nation.

The u n fo rtu n ate m anner in w h ich th is s to ­
ry w as d ep icted in the new s is a p a rad ig m at­
ic illu stra tio n of the n eed less d iv id e b etw een 
fem inists and men.

The article, "M en in P ow er," argued that if 
w o m en's ad vocacy and fem in ist groups could 
receive university funding, then there should be 
equitable resources for men.

Steve Saltarelli, a third-year student m ajoring 
in Law, Letters and Society at the U niversity of 
C h icago, penned the article w ith con sp icu ou s­
ly satirical innuendo. O pening w ith statem ents 
about the declining pow er of men in college so­
cieties at large, Saltarelli's article suggests start­
ing an advocacy group focused on the "p lig h ts" 
of men in our culture.

'P r o t e c t in g

"U p com in g even ts w ill include an op en mic 
n ight on issu es co n cern in g body im age, a tu­
to ria l on b a rb e c u in g and ou r m u c h -a n tic i­
p a te d w o rk s h o p 
W h at's Yours: D raftin g a P re- ______________
n u p tial A g ree m e n t'," Saltarelli 
w rote. "G iven the lack of sim i­
lar groups on cam pu s, [M en in 
Pow er] w ill have to establish a 
broad base, m erg in g so cial is­
su es and activ itie s w ith a p re­
professional slan t."

For some reason, we 
allow terminology 
to define our 
enemies. Because 
femininism has the 
root "feminine" 
in it, we delude 
ourselves to think 
the movement 
is inherently 
anti-man.

T h e b r ie f a r tic le is p ack e d 
w ith cu ttin g carica tu res of the 
stu d e n t ad v o cacy g ro u p s that 
c u r r e n t ly r e c e iv e u n i v e r s i ­
ty fund ing on cam pu ses across 
the nation. And S a lta re lli's in ­
te n tio n s in w ritin g the a rticle 
are m ad e cry sta l cle a r by his 
closing statem ent:

"A c c o r d in g ly , I e n c o u ra g e 
all th o se in te re s te d to atten d 
events and get their slice of the 
big RSO [student services fund­
ed by s tu d e n t tu itio n ] p ie ,"
Saltarelli wrote.

ed to start the org an ization he had used only 
m onths before as a parody device.

O n M ay 5th , U. C h ica g o 's stu d en t g o v ern ­
m ent accepted Men in Power as an official stu ­
dent organization, the first advocacy organiza­
tion for men (excluding fraternities).

But during the transform ation from joke to re­
ality, the m ission statem ent of "M en in Pow er" 
changed markedly.

Saltarelli and his outreach director Elizabeth 
Scoggin (yes, a wom an) reported to U. of C hi­
cago's SG that the first event their organization 
planned was a roundtable discussion on m ascu­
line stereotypes. A lso, they would begin a tuto­
rial program w ith local m iddle school students 
in need of role m odels.

By late May the story was covered in The Chi­
cago Tribune. And shortly after the Tribune arti­
cle hit stands, fem inist Web clearinghouse Fem- 
inisting.com had posted about Saltarelli and his 
cam pus group.

_____________ 

But none of the stated aims of the M en in Pow­
er stud ent org an ization w ere cited in either of 
these news sources. Both media outlets focused 
on the satirical article and both The Tribune and 
Fem in istin g m issed the point. Instead, the m e­
dia ou tlets quietly spun stories to fit their con­
ceptions of what it m eans to be a
fem inist and what it m eans to be
a mart. Stereotypes have taught 
us that these groups are m u tu­
ally exclusive. But real evidence 
of w hat Steve Saltarelli and col­
leagu es (both m ale and fem ale) 
are saying and doing at U. C h i­
cago show s that it is in d isp u t­
able that their m ission fits well 
in to th e la rg er m o v em en t for 
gender equality.

In fa c t, M en in P o w e r is a 
h e a rty e x a m p le o f g ra s s ro o ts 
fem inism .

Saltarelli agreed to begin Men 
in Power in order to "d iscuss is­
sues of m ascu lin ity in society." 
And he is reported in the C hica­
go Tribune article as saying that 
" If we have good men in our so­
ciety, everyone benefits."

E vidently, S altarelli w as try- 
in g to s u g g e s t in h is a r t i ­
cle th at the o v erflo w of a d v o cacy o rg a n iz a ­
tions funded by stu d ent tu ition d ollars w as a 
w aste of money. But the ou tcom es o f his p ar­
od y w ere m u ch b ig g e r th an S a lta r e lli had 
ever expected.

W ithin d ays of p u b lica tio n , "M en in P o w ­
e r" met with an outpouring of response on The 
C h icago M aroon 's Web site and S a lta re lli's e- 
mail inbox. The com m ent section on the college 
n ew spaper's Web site takes the form of a typical 
b ack -an d -fo rth betw een average m ale and fe ­
m ale college students w henever a gender-relat­
ed issue com es up. The w om en scream m isog­
yny w hile the men pat each other on the back. 
Both groups com m it nam e-calling, and little in­
tellectual discourse occurs, because all the state­
m ents are filled with hate and intolerance.

In the w eeks follow ing the pu blication of his 
article, Saltarelli received an overflow of e-m ails 
from U. C h icag o's m ale stud en ts in terested in 
joining the fictitious group.

With all of this new attention, Saltarelli quick­
ly changed his m ission and ev en tu ally decid -

So before fem inists get in a tiz­
zy over an organization with an 
o ffe n siv e nam e w ith o u t q u e s­
tio n in g w h at th e g ro u p a c tu ­
ally d o es, and b e fo re m is o g y n istic m en b e ­
gin th eir v icto ry d an ces cla im in g to have fi­
n ally put w om en back in th eir p la ce s, m ay ­
be we shou ld begin our in v e stig a tio n of s to ­
ries like this from a m ore co n scio u s and less 
com bative perspective.

For som e reason, we allow term inology to de­
fine our enem ies. Because fem inism hps the root 
of "fem in in e" in it, we delude ourselves to think 
the m ovem ent is inherently anti-m an. Similarly, 
we assum e any association of men m ust be an­
ti-fem inist. If we look for com m on goals, social 
groups that historically have been pitted against 
each other by the m edia — like fem in ists and 
m ales — m ight discover it is possible their aims 
are fu n d am en tally the sam e. If we cou ld get 
past the jargon and onto a discussion of real is­
sues, m aybe we could get better traction on the 
road to equality. After all, this stagnant, hateful 
im passe on the road h asn 't been w orking very 
well for either "sid e ."

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Transit, livability 
projects proposed 
for East Riverside
Project faces high crime 
level, bad economy\ but 
offers glimmer of hope

m e rc ia l r e d e v e lo p m e n t w ill 
occur w ithin a qu arter-m ile o f 
these station s. T h is w ould cre­
a te " h u b s o f a c t iv ity " a lo n g 
East R iversid e D rive.

By Frank Morris
Daily Texan Staff

C ity o f A u stin o fficials p re ­
sen ted m u ch -aw aited p la n s at 
A u stin C o m m u n ity C o lle g e 's 
R iv e rsid e C a m p u s on T h u r s­
d a y n igh t to re sid e n ts an d in ­
v e sto rs for the red evelop m en t 
o f the E ast R iversid e C orridor.
The project a im s to create a 
m ore invitin g residential sp ace 
a lo n g a stretch o f E ast R iv e r­
sid e D riv e e x te n d in g r o u g h ­
ly 3.5 m iles from ju st so u th of 
D ow ntow n to the A ustm -B erg- 
stro m In te rn a tio n a l A irp o rt. 
The street is ch a ra cteriz ed by 
s ix la n e s o f fa st- m o v in g c a r 
traffic, narrow sid ew a lk s an d a 
relatively em pty street grid.

“ We w an t to create p e d e s ­
trian-friendly com m ercial cen ­
ters an d create a m ore hum an- 
sc a le fe e lin g ," sa id city p la n ­
ner Tonya Sw artzendruber.

S w a r tz e n d r u b e r e x p la in e d 
the im portance of im plem enting 
a sm aller street grid — 300 feet 
by 300 feet — in order to create 
a m ore neighborhood-orien ted 
space sim ilar to South C on gress 
A venue or Downtown.

A key p art o f the re d e v elo p ­
m ent p la n is a new p ro p o se d 
lig h t ra il sy s te m w h ich w ill 
h av e fou r m ain sto p s. The m a­
jo rity of re sid e n tial an d c o m ­

"T h ere's alread y a high level 
of transit se rv ice ," sa id G eorge 
A d a m s, a city sp o k e sm a n , re­
sp o n d in g to concern ab ou t the 
cost an d other im plem en tation 
barriers to the rail sy stem . “So 
w e co uld m o ve fo rw ard w a it­
ing for it, or, in the w orst-case 
scenario, [w ithout] it."

A d a m s e x p la in e d th at it is 
not y et d e c id e d w h eth e r the 
city or C a p ita l M e tro w o u ld 
o p e ra te the rail sy stem . A d e ­
sign plan and b u d g e t h ave yet 
to be outlin ed a s well.

The city is h o p in g b u sin e ss­
es and d e v e lo p e rs w ill be w ill­
ing to invest in the area.

But large-scale o b sta c le s d o 
exist that could poten tially set 
back the East Riverside C orridor 
redevelopment, A d am s said.

“The tw o big h u rd les are, of 
c o u rse , the ec o n o m y an d the 
crim e rate," he said .

Som e R iversid e residen ts are 
concerned abou t losin g the cul­
ture o f their n eigh borh oods.

“ 1 d o n 't th in k co m p le te re- 
gen trificatio n is w h a t's called 
for, bu t I d o w an t to be safe r 
a n d h a v e a b e tte r a e sth e tic ," 
sa id Ernesto R o d rigu ez, a Riv­
ersid e resident.

C ity p la n n e rs are c o n sid e r­
ing p ro p o sin g the p lan to the 
C ity C oun cil in Septem ber.

5

Sam Brodnax 
and Travis 
R o b i n e t t , 
volunteers 
of Save Our 
Springs 
Alliance, 
explain efforts 
in water 
treatment for 
Austin at the 
Sustainable 
Future Fair 
in City Hall 
on Thursday 
afternoon.

Mary Kang

Daily Texan Staff

v Projections with Task Force G oal: 
•#GDi Per Year Savings

Efforts promote a green Austin

Environmental activists 
hold conference to urge 
regional sustainability

By Jessica Whitfield
Daily Texan Staff

D o zen s o f local en v iro n m en ­
tal g ro u p s gathered at C ity Hall 
on Thursday to advocate a green­
er Austin.

T h e e v e n t w a s p a r t o f the 
E co-C hange Exchange, a confer­
en ce p la n n e d b y e n v iro n m e n ­
tal g r o u p s p u sh in g for a m ore 
su sta in a b le city. T h e o r g a n iz a ­
tio n s h av e w o rk ed for y e a rs to 
im prove the city, but believe the 
first an d m ost im portant step is 
gain in g the su p p o rt an d lea d er­
sh ip of new ly elected officials.

In 2008, A ustin earn ed a 10th- 
p la ce ratin g in P o p u lar Science

m agazin e's ranking of A m erica 's 
50 g re en est cities. M an y o f the 
gro u p s that have helped the city 
attain this recognition are b u si­
nesses and organization s such as 
the W heatsville G ro-O p, G reen ­
peace and the S av e O ur S p rin g s 
Alliance, which helps to prevent 
m ass developm en t on the Barton 
Creek w atershed.

C olin C lark , a sp o k esm an for 
the S a v e O u r S p r in g s A llian ce, 
sa id that the m ain p u r p o s e o f 
the event w a s to let the new City 
C o u n cil m e m b e rs know w h at 
the com m u n ity's priorities are. 
“ We w ant them to know that the 
environm ental councils are unit­
ed and w orkin g together to m ake 
A ustin the m o st en viron m ental­
ly su sta in a b le city in A m erica," 
C lark said.

E n v iro n m e n ta l g r o u p s s p e ­

cializing in locally grow n o rgan ­
ic fo o d s, so lar p o w er an d clean 
w ater are aim in g to m ake A ustin 
m ore energy efficient.

D e s i g n - B u i l d - L i v e , a n o r ­
g a n iz a tio n d e d ic a te d to im p le ­
m enting cost-effective decentral­
iz ed an d in te g ra te d sto rm an d 
rain w ater strategies, is w o rk in g 
tow ard su stain able living.

G a y le B o rst, ex e cu tiv e d ire c ­
tor of the organ ization , sa id that 
so m e of the strategies the g ro u p 
is lo o k in g to im p le m e n t a re 
rain w ater collection, reclaim in g 
re cy cle d w ater, m u lc h in g a n d 
soil bu ildin g.

"B asically , these m e th o d s are 
cheaper, easier, d o ab le an d p ro ­
du ce better resu lts," Borst said.

W hile a m ajority of the orgam 
zation s focu s on directly helping 
the environm ent, U p L ift A ustin

tak es a m ore indirect ap p roach , 
h e lp in g y o u n g a d u l t s le a r n 
ab o u t su sta in a b le d e sig n by in­
vo lv in g them in ren o v atio n s of 
their ow n sc h o o ls. T h e o r g a n i­
zation a lso fo c u se s on teach in g 
you ng a d u lts abou t su stain ab ili­
ty and exploring environm ental­
ly conscious careers.

G in a L a M o tte , fo u n d e r an d 
executive director of U pLift A u s­
tin. said that it is about to launch 
a second school in addition to its 
pilot p rogram , which h as h ad 250 
grad uates. Sh e said that som e of 
the benefits of w orkin g with oth­
er en viron m en tal g ro u p s a cro ss 
A ustin are potential connections 
am on g the gro up s.

"Y ou n eed the resou rces, and 
c o lla b o ra tio n is d e fin ite ly the 
b a se o f su sta in a b ility an d the 
com m unity," LaM otte said.

NEWS BRIEFLY

1H-35 accident leaves one man 

dead, another in county jail

Police are investigating a hit- 
and-run crash which left one con­
struction worker dead along Inter­
state Highway 35 early Wednesday 
morning.

Fontino Cortes-Cruz, 36, was 
struck by a dark-colored Suburban,

which careened into his workspace 
along the highway's 11400 block. 
The vehicle continued on its way 
headed south and was later found 
torched outside of the city of Kyle.
Austin-Travis County EMS pro­

nounced the construction work­
er dead at the scene. No other per­
sons were injured, according to a 
police release.

Austin Police Department Cpl. 
Scott Perry said he would not spec­
ulate as to why the man would

torch his own car and said he does 
not know why the vehicle entered 
the construction site.

Detectives are questioning a 
"person of interest" in the investi­
gation. David Delacerda, 30, is be­
ing held in the Bexar County Jail al­
ter detectives caught up with him 
after learning of a recent bum vic­
tim being treated, Perry said.

Delacerda, who sustained bum 

injuries, was initially sent to a 
South Austin hospital and then

transferred to a San Antonio hos­
pital. At the hospital, he gave con­
flicting accounts of that night, po­
lice said.

"He told detectives he was not 
driving, and then, he said he was 
driving," Perry said.

Delacerda could be charged with 

failure to stop and render aide, a 
third-degree felony, and is expect­
ed to be transferred to Travis Coun­
ty authorities.

— Pierre Bertrand

Erica Leak, senior planner of the city of Austin, presents the plan for 
the East Riverside Corridor that will transform the area.

Jacqueline Gilíes | Daily Texan Staff

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leam receives warm 
welcome upon return 
to Austin after CWS

By Will Anderson
Daily Texan Staff

A hot dog at UFCU Disch-Falk 
Field might cost $3.50, but good­
will was free and bountiful on 
Thursday as fans clad in burnt 
orange welcomed home the Tex­
as baseball team from its trip to 
the College World Series in Oma­
ha, Neb.

While the Longhorns were som­
ber and toned-down after their 
11-4 loss to LSU on Wednesday 
rnght, their return to Austin was a 
different story as the Texas players 
responded to their raucous ova­
tion with bright smiles, plenty of 
autographs and pictures.

But, due to a scheduling mis­
hap, the players actually arrived 
early and missed most of their 
fans. When the event's sched­
uled start time of 1:30 p.m. rolled 
around, only head coach Augie 
Garrido was still at Disch-Falk, 
signing autographs and chatting 
with supporters.

Garrido got on the phone, made 
a quick call, and soon most of the 
team returned on a pair of white 
charter buses to the delight of 
those gathered. Cameras and fans 
quickly surrounded designated 
hitter Russell Moldenhauer when 
he stepped off the bus. When 
Chance Ruffin and Kevin Keyes 
showed their faces, the crowd ex­
ploded in applause.

"Up in Omaha, everyone was 
impressed as hell with this team," 
said Jerry Sullivan, a longtime 
fan. "They represented us ex­
tremely well."

Sullivan, 60, made his first trip 
to Omaha this year but got back in 
tíme to welcome the team home.

"People might be disappointed

with a second-place finish at the 
national championship, but it's 
just terrific," he said. "If only foot­
ball or basketball could do that."

Those gathered to celebrate 
the team's magical run this sea­
son ranged from longtime fans to 
high school players, from those 
following the game for more than 
30 years to some who had been 
watching for just 10.

"Yeah, it was fun," said Currie 
Larrimer, 10, who was there with 
her father and younger sister.

Larrim er even stayed up to 
watch the entire 25-inning mara­
thon against Boston College with 
her dad at Disch-Falk on May 31.

"I was kind of tired, but all the 
crowd being really loud kept me 
awake," she said.

The smallest fan in attendance 
received almost as much atten­
tion as the players. Dagwood, an 
18-month-old dachshund, was 
there with his owner Lisa Reifs- 
nider and her two daughters.

"He's burnt orange, so he didn't 
really have a choice about being a 
fan," Reifsnider said.

Reifsnider, who graduated from 
the University in 1990, met her 
husband while part of the color 
guard at Disch-Falk. She was able 
to watch most of the regular sea­
son games or listen to the them on 
the radio this year, and said she 
followed the Longhorns through 
the entire CWS.

"It was just so much fun. We 
went, we competed, we did our 
best," Reifsnider said as the play­
ers got back on the buses or into 
their cars.

As they left, Garrido stood re­
served in the shadows of Disch- 
Falk, still there after all.

Clippers take Oklahoma’s 
Griffin with first pick

The Associated Press

NEW YORK — On a day of 
head-turning trades around the 
NBA, the Los Angeles Clippers 
made the obvious choice to start 
the draft.

The C lip p e rs’selected Blake 
Griffin with the No. 1 pick Thurs­
day night, grabbing the only play­
er considered a sure thing in a 
class full of question marks.

Griffin was the consensus col­
lege player of the year after lead­
ing the nation with 14.4 rebounds 
per game while averaging 22.7 
points last season for Oklahoma. 
The Clippers said they would take 
the forward with the top pick just 
hours after they won the draft lot­
tery last month.

The draft followed a day of 

blockbusters in the NBA.

A deal th a t sent Shaquille 
, O'Neal to play alongside LeBron 
James in Cleveland was complet­
ed earlier Thursday, and Eastern 
Conference champion Orlando ac­
quired Vince Carter from the Nets 
in a swap completed shortly be­
fore the first pick was made.

San Antonio landed Richard Jef­
ferson from Milwaukee on Tues­
day, and more big names could 
be available this summer as teams 
are forced to slash payroll. The 
best way to improve quickly this 
year was through trades, because 
the draft was considered weaker 
than in recent years.

It lacked the star power of 2007, 
when Greg Oden and Kevin Du­
rant battled it out for top pick hon-

ors, or when Derrick Rose beat out 
Michael Beasley last year.

The Clippers are hoping Griffin 
turns out better than their last No. 
1 overall pick. They opened the 
1998 draft by taking center Mi­
chael Olowokandi, a bust who is 
out of the league.

" I 'm n o t w o r r ie d a b o u t 
w hat's happened in the past," 
Griffin said. "Just excited about 
the opportunity."

The Memphis Grizzlies then 
g ra b b ed C o n n ecticu t cen ter 
Hasheem Thabeet, a dominant re- 
bounder and shot blocker who 
doesn't have strong offensive skills.

The Minnesota Timberwolves 
snapped up Spanish teenager Ricky 
Rubio at No. 5, a pick they acquired 
from Washington earlier this week, 
before going for Syracuse's Jonny 
Flynn with the next pick.

It was thought Rubio might go 
as high as No. 2, but that never 
worked out for Memphis. Instead 
the Grizzlies went with Thabeet, 
the 7-foot-3 native of Tanzania 
who switched from soccer to bas­
ketball just a few years ago and 
has rapidly developed his defen­
sive skills, but still has work to go 
on the other end.

Oklahoma City took high-scoring 
Arizona State guard James Harden 
with the No. 3 pick and Sacramen­
to followed by drafting Memphis 
freshman Tyreke Evans — who like 
Griffin was wearing a purple tie. 
So was Stephei) Curry, the NCAA 
scoring leader from Davidson who 
went at No. 7 to Golden State.

Blake Griffin, 
the newest 
m em ber of the 
Los A ngeles 
Clippers, shakes 
hands with NBA 
Com m isioner 
David Stem. 
Griffin will try 
to turn around 
a Clippers 
team that has 
a tradition of 
drafting poorly.

Frank Franklin II

Associated Press

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After m a k in g it to the ch am p io n sh ip series, three L o n g h o rn s were rewarded with a sp ot on the C olle ge W orld Series All-Tournam ent 
team. S o p h o m o re catcher C am eron Rupp, junior de sign ated hitter Russell M o ld e n h a u e r an d freshm an pitcher Taylor J u n gm an n all m ade 
the team. M o st O u tsta n d in g Piayer w ent to LSU right fielder Jared Mitchell.

Paul Chouy | Daily Texan Staff

Football players lead LSU to sixth title

Longhorns could n ot 
com e up w ith w a y to stop 

M ost O utstan din g P layer

By Matthew Hohner
Daily Texan Staff 
The Louisiana State baseball 
team definitely knows how to get 
the party started.

Blake Dean brought the chips. 

Sean Ochinko brought the ice.

And Jared Mitchell delivered 

the punch.

Mitchell set the tone early in 
Game 3, blasting a three-run 
home run to right field, to give 
the Tigers an early 3-0 advantage 
in the first inning in Game 3 of 
the College World Series.

Not only did Mitchell get the 
team off to a hot start, but he also 
gave it the go-ahead run. It was the 
start of what became the first of a 
five-run sixth inning, in which the 
Longhorns could not stop the con­
stant parade of Tiger base-runners.

"LSU answered right back, and 
it was devastating," said Texas 
second baseman Tucker. "We had 
momentum going our way, and 
they shifted it back their way."

The win gave the Tigers their 

sixth national baseball title 

Mitchell played a pivotal role 
in the Tiger lineup, hitting .348 
with seven RBIs and two home 
runs and earning him the title of 
the College World Series' Most 
Outstanding Player.

Jared Mitchell 
dives trying 
to m ake a 
catch in the 
ch am pion ship 
series a gain st 
the Longhorns. 
Mitchell w as 
selected as the 
College W orld 
Series M o st 
O u tsta n d in g 
Player. He adds 
an N C A A title 
to his resume, 
w hich already 
includes a 2007 
N C A A football 
ring.

PaulChouy
Daily Texan Staff

LSU was quick to strike in the 
first inning of Game 1, off a Ryan 
Schimpf home run, which led to 
a victory.

Freshman Mikie Mahtook came 
up big for the Tigers in both vic­
tories. He brought in the eventual 
game-winning run in the 11th in­
ning of Game 1.

Mahtook also hit a double in the 
fifth inning of Game 3 to bring in 
Mitchell, with the go-ahead run, 
and opened the floodgates for the 
LSU lineup in the fifth.

Clutch hitting was also com­
plimented by the efforts of the Ti­
gers' relief pitching. The bullpen 
only gave up three earned runs.

Crouched beh ind the plate 
catching those pitchers was Ti­
g e rs ' c atc h e r M icah G ibbs. 
Gibbs is an Austinite who had 
dream s of w earing b u rn t or­
ange, playing for the universi­
ty he grew up supporting. But, 
he was rejected by Texas and 
made the decision to play in Ba­
ton Rouge.

G ibbs is n 't in A u stin b e ­
cause Texas had already offered 
a scholarship to a catcher in 
the same class, so there w asn't 
room for him on the Longhorns' 
roster.

Gibbs made a huge contribu­
tion in the finals, scoring 3 runs

and connecting on 4 hits.

The decision worked out in the 
end, earning him a championship 
ring.

A nother man who knows a 
thing or two about cham pion­
ships is LSU head football coach 
Les Miles. Miles was in atten­
dance for the whole final series, 
supporting his former football 
players Jared Mitchell and Chad 
Jones on the diamond.

Mitchell and Jones now have 
added a baseball national title to 
their resume, along with a 2007 
national championship from the 
football team. The rich keep get­
ting richer.

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Friday, June 26,2009

We e k e n d

I ' m i- D v m T e x a n

Paradigms shift above heads

Jordan Smothermon | D aily Texan Staff

The Sour Notes band members are Jared Boulanger, Brandi Dipietro, Chris Page and Travis Hackett.

Austin band offers intelligent lyrics along with sweet, mellow sound

By Mary Lingwall
Daily Texan Staff

and Dipietro, Boulanger realized the right 
people had finally walked into his life.

trained, he's got some really, like, dirty blue­
sy guitar riffs in him," Boulanger said.

With an understanding of subtlety and 
balance, Austin's The Sour Notes delivers 
a musical style that is rarely heard in indie 
music today: full-bodied pop.

"[So often] you can pick out certain parts 
in m usic, and you 're like 'yeah this is a 
guitar band' or 'this band is all about the 
beats,',bu t one thing I think w e're trying 
to go for is that there is no one [defining] 
th in g ," said Jared Boulanger, the band's 
singer and songwriter.

"It's all about the song," he said. "There 
are no egos, no guitar solos or drum solos 
or anything. It's just everything workmg to­
gether in [the most] refined way we can."

Keyboardist Chris Page, drummer Trav­
is Hackett and bassist Brandi Dipietro each 
play with a obvious passion for their art, 
yet never upstage each other. The creative 
equilibrium that sets the band apart from 
the vast majority of young indie musicians 
is paradigmatic of the foursome's serendip­
itous beginnings and unwavering commit­
ment to fusing substance with style.

A little more than one year ago, The Sour 
Notes was Boulanger's solo project. But af­
ter running into old friend Page just before 
mutual friends introduced him to Hackett

In the year that these friends have been 
making music together, they've already re­
ceived copious amounts of attention. But 
neither nerves nor egos have taken hold of 
their music. And with the prolific rate that 
these musicians release their em otionally 
wrought yet dance-friendly tunes, it's a feat 
that the}’ have retained a cool professional­
ism about their work.

The group 's debut LP The Meat o f the Fruit 
was released in late 2008, followed in Janu­
ary with sophomore release Received in Bit­
terness. The 7-inch Never Mix, Never Worry 
is slated for release on July 24th. With a year 
of hectic recording and performing behind 
them, the group has already started on a 
third album, It’s Not Gonna Be Pretty, which 
should hit shelves late this summer.

But its work ethic is grounded in the silli­
ness of friends who still practice in the laun­
dry room of their east side home.

The sweet voice of Boulanger Is tinged 
with a dreamy, whimsical eeriness. W hile 
he croons, Hackett, Page and Dipietro create 
an airy atmosphere to carry listeners away.

But not all of the group's songs are sweet 

and mellow.

"C hris, even though he is very piano

Songs like Received in Bitterness' "Holy Ter­
ror" showcase the grittier side of the band's 
repertoire, while the ghostly whispers that 
hypnotize during the opening lines of "Your 
Pretty Sphinx Voice" show the em otional 
depth that the band has at its fingertips.

"I wrote that song when I was w atch­
ing [Jean Luc Godards's 'Alphaville'] and 
just kind of fooling around with chords and 
stuff," Boulanger said about the eerie "A l­
phaville" sample that preludes the song. "I 
was kind of obsessed with Anna Karina for 
a while ... all of the lyrics in that song were 
about her."

A band with a chameleon knack for tak­
ing on new genres, and yet still able to in­
corporate their signature style of lyrical in­
telligence and understated musical equilib­
rium, The Sour Notes is well on its way to 
becoming an Austin indie pop mainstay.

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Under the lamp: food 
industry is examined

New documentary 
reveals sordid practices 
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By Alex Regnery
Daily Texan Staff

"Something is fundamentally 
wrong." That's how filmmaker 
Robert Kenner feels about Amer­
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documentary, "Food, Inc."

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forward, evenhanded and very 
well-made, focuses not only on 
how our food industry has de­
veloped into a government-pro­
tected and conglom erate-run 
business but also on the people 
affected by it (which is pretty 
much everyone).

"It's against their interest to 
let you know w hat's in their 
fo o d ," K en n er said . "To me, 
that's un-Am erican. I thought 
we were supposed to have the 
right to choose."

The "th ey " Kenner refers to 
are some of the nation's largest 
food corporations, such as Ty­
son, Sm ithfield and Perdue — 
responsible for supplying the 
nation with millions upon mil­
lions of pounds of meat per year. 
"Food, In c." unflinchingly re­
veals how the animals we eat ev­
ery day are raised and slaugh­
tered. (Be warned that eating 
during the film might not be the 
best decision.)

"I'm m ore in v olv ed w ith 
this film than perhaps any oth­
er film I've done," said Kenner. 
"People ask, 'Has it changed the 
way you've eaten?' I'm certain­
ly more conscious. 1 read the la­
bels now and try to go to farm­
ers' m arkets. It affects you. It 
opens your eyes, and it certain­
ly opened mine."

With the help of producer Eric

Schlosser, the author of "F ast 
Food Nation: The Dark Side of 
the All-Am erican M eal," Ken­
ner was able to utilize many of 
the same sources used to write 
the book.

Schlosser himself is featured 
in the film and, at one point, 
takes part in a hearing where he 
talks on behalf of parties inter­
ested in labeling cloned animals 
used for meat.

"M o st of our food is com ­
ing from other places," Kenner 
said. "For me, the most shock­
ing moment is when I went to 
Sacram ento for a hearing on 
cloned anim als. First of all, I 
didn't know we were about to 
eat cloned animals. When the in­
dustry representative got up and 
said 'I think it would be too con­
fusing for the American public 
to be told what's in their food,' I 
thought, something is scary."

Kenner said he feels that the 
American people can change the 
way they eat one item at a time. 
"Every time you scan an item at 
the store, you're voting, in a way, 
for what you want," he said.

T h e film also fe a tu res the 
lives of the people who are toil­
ing away under the thumbs of 
the major corporations by farm­
ing corn, raising chickens and 
m an n in g d an g erou s facto ry 
machines.

"T h e problem is these jobs 
have bécom e so d ifficu lt," he 
s a i d .. "T h e y 'r e not farm in g . 
They're factory work and diffi­
cult factory work and we're not 
paying for it. Somehow, we have 
to figure out a way to give more 
respect to people, to animals, to 
the earth. There's no respect any­
where with this food. "

"Food, Inc." is now playing at 
Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz and 
Regal Arbor Cinema at Great Hills.

Life&Arts Editor: e jh Patterson 
E-mail: 
Phone: 1512) 232-2209 
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MOVIE REVIEW

Ethical disputes 
intriguing in “My 
Sister’s Keeper”

By Robert Doty
Daily Texan Staff

In the opening voice-over nar­
ration of "My Sister s Keeper," the 
audience learns that Anna Fitzger­
ald (Abigail Breslin) was genetical­
ly engineered using in vitro fertil­
ization to be a donor match for her 
ailing sister, Kate (Sofia Vassilieva).
Kate, diagnosed at age two with 
leukem ia, rem ains in constant 
need of bone marrow, healthy tis­
sue and, at the outset of the film, 
a kidney. Anna, however, decides 
that she no longer wants to be the 
garden from which Kate's health is 
picked and hires a lawyer, Camp­
bell Alexander (Alec Baldwin), 
to medically emancipate herself 
from her parents (Cameron Diaz 
and Jason Patrie).

The film wades in ethically un­
easy waters that harbor deep ide­
ological divisions: genetic engi­
neering, children's versus par­
ents' rights and the right to die in 
an age where medicine can sus­
tain the frailest of liv es. It does an 
excellent job telling a human sto­
ry instead of preaching to the au­
dience, but this virtue also brings 
about its largest flaw.

Afraid of taking such a complex 
ethical dilemma to its end, the film 
backs out of its premise in the final 
act. And though it opens the door 
to another ethical quandary, I felt 
cheated by the switch perpetrated 
so late in five game.

N o n eth eless, the film su c­
ceeds largely on the strength of its 
young actors. Vassilieva, as the ail­

ing Kate, ably carries the mantle of 
maturity throughout the film, giv­
ing her character an elegance that 
makes her real and ultimately 
heartbreaking. Breslin brings an 
intelligence and charm to the en­
ergetic Anna that compels the au­
dience to truly engage with an 
11-year-old in the ethical mine­
field of the film.

Nick Cassavetes, who directed 
"The N otebook," does a decent 
job giving the film that weepy 
touch that everyone will see it for, 
but imparts a fair share of directo­
rial imbalances to the film. He has 
a phenomenal eye for the subtle­
ty of human interaction but never 
finds the right tone for moments 
when the characters themselves 
recognize the gravity of a given 
situation — opting for grief-strick­
en seaward gazes or contempla­
tions that merely seem trite.

Some might say that I'm ask­
ing for too much (or perhaps the 
wrong thing) from the director, 
but the film had an opportunity 
for something interesting, thought- 
provoking and, in many ways, 
original. Yet it always managed to 
undercut its greatest assets.

Nonetheless, it provides en­
joyable, mostly well-done enter­
tainment for those looking for 
an inspirational tearjerker. "M y 
Sister's Keeper" succeeds on its 
own terms even if it backed out 
of what I thought were its most 
interesting aspects.

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Cameron Diaz and Abigail Breslin star in "M y Sister's Keeper."

Courtesy of Curmudgeon Films

Weekend Picks

By Leigh Patterson & Brad Barry
Daily Texan Staff

Monahans

Though Austin band Milton Mapes changed its name to Mona­
hans, there hasn't been much difference in the band's wide-open, 
country-tinged sound. Monahans' songs are folksy, but in a slow­
paced, gradually unfolding way that many forms of the genre are 
unable to achieve. Sounding like a more organic My Morning Jack­
et, the band's big, moving instrumentation and lovelorn lyrics 
make for a live show that is powerful, if not entirely uplifting.

WHERE: Mohawk 
WHEN: Today at 9 p.m.
TICKETS: $6 in advance, $8 at the door

Splash Party Swim-ln Movie

This Saturday at Deep Eddy's weekly summer Splash Par­
ty, forget the drive-in movies of yore and "swim in" to a movie. 
There's nothing like watching "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom 
of the Crystal Skull" while sitting in a cold pool, right? For some 
reason, we think Jaws would have been a more fun choice.

WHERE: Deep Eddy Pool
WHEN: Every Saturday, movies start at dusk
MORE INFO: ivww.deepeddy.org

John Vanderslice

A true veteran of the indie music scene, John Vanderslice has 
weathered lots of fads since he released his first album almost 10 
years ago. Over the years, Vanderslice has stuck to his aesthetic: 
thick, self-recorded instrumentation, a penchant for thematic song 
cycles and unique, literary lyrical style. With this year's Romanian 
Names, Vanderslice has honed his compositions to a poetic, emo­
tionally jamng point — a point most effective in a live setting.

WHERE: The Parish 
WHEN: Today at 8 p.m.
TICKETS: $12

Austin Under the Stars

After a long week, what could be less taxing than sitting back 

and staring at the sky? Austin Under the Stars is a free public 
event on Saturday for novice stargazers around town to goggle 
at the night sky. Plus, local astronomers will be there with tele­
scopes to help spot constellations.

WHERE: St. Stephen's Episcopal School, 6500 St. Stephens Dr. 
WHEN: Saturday from 7 p.m. to midnight
M ORE INFO: umnv.austimstro.org

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Longhorns have season to remember

By Austin Talbert
Daily Texan Staff

OMAHA, Neb. - Before all the 
magic, there was a simple sign this 
season was going to be something 
special for the Texas Longhorns.

Before Texas' h eartb reak in g 
loss to LSU left them just short 
of the national cham pionship on 
Wednesday.

Before freshman Taylor Jung- 
mann pitched his first career com ­
plete game at the College World 
Series, keeping the Longhorns' 
national title hopes alive.

Before Cam eron Rupp b last­
ed a home run into orbit and be­
fore Connor Rowe followed with 
a walk-off homer. Before Texas be­
headed Goliath by scoring 6 runs 
against a pitcher who only lost 
one game all season.

Before the w alk-off walk and 
the record seven sacrifice bunts. 
Before Preston C lark's w alk-off 
grand slam capped an eight-run 
bottom of the ninth comeback and 
even before Austin Wood's heroic 
pitching performance carried Tex­
as to a win in the longest game in 
the history of college baseball.

Before all of this, they won. And

they kept winning, rolling off 11 
straight wins to start the season.

It had been four years since 
their last trip to Omaha, four years 
since they even won a regional. 
The past postseason failures were 
all they heard about. That was un­
til their coach, who happened to 
be the all-time winningest ift col­
lege baseball, was arrested for 
driving while intoxicated.

After that, the Longhorns re­
sponded like cham pions. They 
won. It w asn't always easy, but 
it was always dramatic. The run 
ended Wednesday with Texas one 
win short of being the champions.
“It has been unbelievable," Clark 
said, who capped a rocky, injury- 
filled Texas career with a strong 
showing in the NCAA tournament. 
“It has been everything I have ever 
dreamed of as a ballplayer. But to 
come this far and fall this short, it 
hurts that much more."

With the focus from the begin­
ning on the absence of coach Au- 
gie Garrido, who served a four- 
game suspension after his arrest, 
Texas began a winning streak that 
became the longest since it started 
2005 at 16-0, the last time the Long­

horns captured a national title.

"It has been amazing, every guy 
pulled for each other," Clark said. 
"We love one another."

The L onghorns' N C A A tour­
nam ent run w as nothing short 
of am azing. They looked d es­
tined to becom e the cham pions 
of college baseball. Texas nev­
er dom inated, but they alw ays 
found a m agical way to escape 
with a win at the end.

G a rrid o jo k ed th at he had 
hired a new assistant coach: Da­
vid Copperfield.

In O m aha, w hile op ponents 
were busy practicing, Garrido and 
Texas were continually recovering 
from their last miracle win.

"People ask me why we don't 
p r a c tic e ," he said . "P ra c tic e . 
How the hell do you practice the 
way we w in?"

They believed.
"We love each other. This team is 
my family, we are all brothers," sec­
ond baseman Travis Tucker said.

Tucker's bat, which poked the 
game-winning RBI in the 25-in­
ning win against Boston College, 
will be enshrined in Cooperstown,

SEASON continues on page 2

p itched 13 scoreless inn ing s in Texas 25-inning win over Boston College. Rupp m a d e the AII-CWS team .

L o n g h o rn catcher Cam eron R u pp and p itcher Austin W ood and had a postseason full o f heroics. W ood 

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Magical CWS run ends in heartbreak

Relief pitching cant shut 
down Tigers in two losses 
of championship series

By M ichael Sherfield
Daily Texan Staff

O M A H A , N eb. — It end ed 

with a whimper.

T h ere was no last stan d , no 
ov ation from the crowd as one 
la st sw in g o f th e b at th r e a t­
ened to rew rite this story one 
m ore tim e. Instead , there w as 
only the inevitable heartbreak, 
slowly closing its grasp around 
the dream season and pulling it 
down to reality.

Then there were tears. Choked 
b ack and hidd en aw ay under 
sweat-stained, burnt orange hats, 
w ip ed aw ay on d irt-co v e re d 
sleeves. They looked on, hope­
less and helpless, as Louis Cole­
man threw one last disappearing 
slider. They looked on as gold 
and pu rp le stream ers covered 
the infield and Louisiana State 
University was crowned the new 
king of college baseball.

In a season filled with im pos­
sible com ebacks and heroic per­
form ances, the Longhorns final­
ly ran out of m agic, one gam e 
short. With slum ped shoulders 
and reddening eyes they battled 
against the odds one last tim e, 
but found only zeros littered on 
the scoreboard that finally read: 
LSU 11, Texas 4.

A ll along, their run to a n a­
tional championship seemed im ­
p o ssible, propelled by a p itch ­

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ing staff full of sophomores and 
freshm en and an offen se that 
couldn't score with the big boys 
of college baseball.

Yet when the dust and confetti 
settled, the Longhorns held the 
title in their sights, only to see it 
slip away.

"I don't think we lost this tour­
nam ent," said Texas head coach 
Augie Garrido, fighting back tears 
of his own after the game. "LSU 
won it. They did everything they 
needed to beat us, twice. They de­
serve to be champions."

Indeed, the Tigers took Texas' 
best punch but stood tall. They 
roughed up Texas closer A u s­
tin Wood twice. They came back 
to claim a win in gam e one af-

ter allow in g fiv e h om ers and 
trailing by two with one out left. 
They overcam e tw o poor starts 
from aces Colem an and A ntho­
ny Ranaudo, seeing Texas' best 
rally and com ing up with a little 
bit of their own magic.

Along the way, there were mis­
takes. The norm ally sure-hand­
ed Horns made an error in every 
gam e of the cham p ionship se­
ries. Garrido's gambles — the en­
gine that pushed Texas to Om a­
ha — backfired, with pitchers be­
ing pulled for ineffective reliev­
ers and pinch hitters failing to 
produce in vital spots.

"I'm not going to be w illing 
to pick our team apart," Garrido 
said. "I don't like to take credit

for the good things players do, 
and I'm n ot going to take the 
blame. They beat us."

So as the eyes of Texas shift to 
next year, the Longhorns are left 
to deal w ith today. For sen ior 
stalwarts Travis Tucker, Michael 
Torres, Preston Clark and Wood, 
there are no m ore tom orrow s. 
With tears welling in their eyes, 
they exchanged hugs and good­
byes in the d ugout w ith their 
now former teammates.

"W e're here for each oth er," 
Tucker said. "It's been amazing, 
everyone pu lls for each other, 
we love one another."

It was a fun ride while it lasted, 
but after a while, all good things 
must come to an end.

A b o v e , Coach 

A u g ie G arrido 
(center) and 

L o ng horn play 
ers watch as 
the team falls 
beh in d LSU in 

the final g am e 

o f the C ollege 

W orld Series 
in Om aha,

Neb. G arrido 
said the Tigers 
deserved to wi 

the ch a m p io n ­

ship. Below, 

LSU players 
celebrate after 

scoring.

P au lCh ou y

Daily Texan Staff

Loss doesn’t diminish 
Garrido’s legacy at UT

By Will 

Anderson
Daily Texan 
Columnist

F o rg e t the K obe v ersu s 
MJ com parisons. The lucky 
few who enjoyed this year's 
College World Series have a 
m uch m ore apt d iscu ssio n 
to consider.

Is Augie G arrido the best 
coach in the history of co l­
lege baseball?

This question has only one 
answ er, and that is an em ­
phatic, unequivocal, d efin i­
tive "Yes."

The m an has m ore w ins 
th an any co a ch in N C A A 
h isto ry to co m p lim en t his 
five national cham pionships 
and w as the first coach to 
w in one w ith tw o sep arate 
programs. He has the praise 
of the entire baseball world 
and an incred ible track re­
cord in Austin.

Wednesday night, in a dis­
play of guts trumped by tal­
ent, the Longhorns fell to an 
exp erien ced and p ow erfu l 
LSU team.

So what does that mean for 
the legacy of Texas baseball 
and, by extension, Garrido?

First of all, it is a return to 
form. While hardly a celebrat­
ed statistic, Texas now holds

the record for most CW S sec­
ond-place finishes with six.

Second, this run displays 
a side of Garrido that is seen 
less but is equally important 
to his p h ilo sop h y: the art, 
not science, of coaching. As 
a scholar of the game for the 
past 30 years, Garrido know^ 
the ins and outs of baseball.

He calmed them when emo­
tions were high, like before the 
Horns' ninth-inning comeback 
against Arizona State. He built 
them back up, as he did in 
Tuesday's Game 2 win after a 
devastating loss on Monday.

As a fan rem arked at the 
Longhorns' return to UFCU 
D isch-Falk Field on T h u rs­
day afternoon, G arrido ap­
p ro a ch es the g am e w ith a 
Z en-like attitu de that is an 
equal m ix of baseball and en­
lightenm ent. His best quali­
ties are, just like 2009's team 
of fate, intangible.

Garrido is less guarded than 
Rick Barnes or Mack Brown, 
and because of his seniority, 
he seems to be given a larg­
er degree of autonomy when 
dealing with the public and 
the media. We know him bet­
ter. We laugh with him, we cel­
ebrate with him and we were 
crushed to see his emotional 
response to the CWS loss.

The only condolence is that 
we know he'll be back. The best 
coaches always find a way.

Best Augie Garrido quotes from 2009

• "This game is a bitch. Any time you don't think you have 
something, that is exactly what wins you the game."
• "If it's about drama, we got that."
• "Pitching has been berry’ berry good to us."
• "Click or ticket. Just go along for the ride, like going to 
the rodeo and riding a bull, just trying to stay on for eight 
seconds."
• "We just finished three innings as the Bad News Bears But 
that isn't Longhorn baseball. There is another team inside 
those uniforms. Even the Bad News Bears had a good team 
at the end."
• "We got the leadoff guy on, of course. And then, we bunt­
ed them over. Over and over and over and over and ov er."
• "It is all about catching a wave. If you do catch the wave 
and continue riding it in, it is now a 20-footer and you have 
gone a long way."
• "Hell, they'd tire the tiddly-winks coach it he didn't beat 
A&M. This is a big rivalry."
• "It really does a lot for my cardiologist. It keeps him happv 
and my heart rate down."

— Compiled by Chris Tavarez

 Looking back on Texas’ roller-coaster ride

Gam«1

Green carries Texas with magic on mound and at plate

In the first game of the NCAA tournament, Texas' offense 
suffered a huge setback when leading hitter Brandon Belt was 
beaned — leaving the game with a mild concussion and a gash 
in his ear.

Because Preston Clark, who started the game as the des­
ignated hitter, was moved to first base to replace Belt, Texas 
pitcher Cole Green was forced to bat.

With two strikes against him in his first career at-bat,
Green smacked a single into left field, equaling the num ­
ber of hits he had given up to the Arm) Black Knights on the 
mound at the time.

"If it hadn't been for the magic of Cole Green, this game 
could have been very different," Garrido said. "Practicing is 
very overrated to Cole. He just walks up with two strikes and 
gets a hit; there is nothing to it."

Green combined a stellar pitching performance — one run, 

four hits and six strikeouts in seven innings — with master­
ful hitting and a perfectly executed sacrifice bunt to give Tex­
as, the No. 1 overall seed, a 3-1 win in the NCAA regional at 
UFCU Disch-Falk Field.

"I thought we might get the DH back, but when coach told 

me I had to hit, I was focused," Green said "1 was prepared 
to put down a bunt with a runner on base or get to swing it if 
there was nobody on. Things went my way."

— Austin Talbert

TEXAS3 --W ARMY4 .

Game 2

Wood dominates in 25-inning marathon, an NCAA record

In a performance that will be firmly ingrained in Longhorn lore 
and Cooperstown, senior closer Austin Wood carried Texas for 13 
innings of what became the longest game in the history of college 
baseball, a 3-2 ,23-inning win over Boston College.

After seven hours and three minutes of baseball, Texas finally 
had the historic win. Wood racked up 14 strikeouts in 13 shutout 
innings of relief, pitching 12 1 /3 innings without giving up a hit.

"That is the best pitching performance by an individual pitcher 

in the 41 years that I've coached," Garrido said.

Wood couldn't explain how he did it.
"I can't really believe I went 13 innings, but that's what they 

asked me to do, and I tried to do my best," Wood said.

His fourteenth strikeout is the highlight of the legendary per­

formance, blowing the pitch past the Eagle hitter for his most 
dramatic strikeout out the night — ensuring his 169-pitch effort 
would not end in defeat.

Austin Wood simply wouldn't let the Longhorns lose.

— Austin Talbert

TEXAS 3 1 BOSTON COLLEGE 2

Game 3

Walk-off grand slam caps huge comeback in regional win
Dow n four runs in tire bottom of the ninth, it looked like Army 
would force Texas into a do-or-die game for the regional champi­
onship.

But again, in the same day Texas captured the 25-inning game, 

the Longhorns' magic struck.

First, Texas shortstop Brandon Loy missed a walk-off grand 
slam by inches — clearing the bases with a line drive off the wall 
to tie the game at 10.

Senior designated hitter Preston Clark finished the job three bat­

ters later, cranking a walk-off grand slam just inside the left-field 
foul pole, good enough for a 14-10 win sending Texas to the Super 
Regional.

"It was a dramatic win, after last night's dramatic win.
These are magical things that I talk about," Garrido said. 
"There is something spiritual about baseball. Before you can 
believe, you have to experience it. And the last two days, this 
team has experienced some amazing stuff."

— Austin Talbert

TEXAS 1 4 i ARMY JO

SEASON: Garrido believes this is the start of a new era for Texas baseball

From page 1

reaso n to giv e up now ."

* IN ew York, in the N ational Base­
b a l l H all o f F a m e a lo n g w ith 
W ood's hat and glove.

"W e b e lie v e in e a c h o th e r ," 

Tucker said.

T h e y had no reason to not be- 
heve. A ll year, they picked each 
o th er up.

It w a s n 't a lw a y s p retty , b u t 
they found a w ay to p ick up an ­
o th er w in.

Sloppy play in its second gam e 
of the College World Series found 
Texas beh in d A rizon a S tate 6-0 
w ith the Su n D e v ils' ace, M ike 
Leake, w ho was 16-1 for the year 
on the m ound. But Texas w asn 't 
ready to give up.

"W e h a v e to o m u c h c o n f i ­
d en ce in e a ch o th e r to not p re ­
pare to lo se ," G arrid o said after 
the gam e.

G a r r id o 's c o n fid e n c e in h is 

team w as con tagio u s.

"[G a rr id o ] sta y s w ith us, he 
«never g iv e s u p o n u s ," R u p p 
sa id a fte r c r u s h in g tw o h o m ­
ers in th e h u g e first c o m e b a ck 
a g a in s t A riz o n a S ta te. " It is so 
la te in th e s e a s o n , th e re is no

T h ree days later, Texas m o u n t­
ed a n o th e r d ra m a tic co m e b a ck 
to to p p le A riz o n a S ta te a g a in . 
It w as a n o th e r R u p p b last th at 
sp arked the rally, tying the gam e 
in th e b o tto m o f th e n in th b e ­
fo re R o w e d ep o site d his w alk - 
o ff h o m e run in to the first row 
o f the left-field bleachers.

R u p p 's h o m e r u n , w h ic h 
cleared the 22-foot wall in center 
field , m ay b e the longest hom er 
ever hit at the C ollege World Se­
ries. T h e ball ev en cleared o v er 
a w a lk w a y b e h in d th e h u g e 
w all, land in g in a sm all, fenced- 
in area underneath the structure 
o f R o sen b latt’s bleachers. It w as 
th ere in its in co n sp icu o u s rest­
ing place that a little-leaguer from 
H ouston spotted it.

L ik e R u p p a d e c a d e b e fo re , 
the yo u n g Texan w as in O m ah a 
playing in one of the m any tour­
nam ents coinciding with the C o l­
lege W orld Series. As he w alked 
out o f the stadium , excited about 
a n o th e r d ra m a tic w in , th e lit ­
tle L on gh orn fan clim bed d ow n 
in to th e fen ce d in area and re­

trieved R u p p 's ball — w ith cov ­
er surprisingly still intact.

H e had found the b est p o ssi­
ble sou venir in O m ah a, b u t as a 
baseball player, he knew the ball 
d id n't belong to him.

"O n Saturday, he b ro u g h t the 
b a ll to th e team h o te l, b u t w e 
w e re n 't there so he left a n o te ," 
R u p p reco u n ted on S u n d ay b e ­
fo re th e C h a m p io n s h ip S e rie s 
s ta r te d . " S o w h e n I g o t b a c k , 
th e y g a v e m e th e n o te , an d 1 
called his dad to a rran g e an e x ­
ch an g e for the b a ll."

T h e e x c h a n g e w as an a u to ­
graphed ball for R upp's m em ora­
ble 450-foot m oon-shot ball.

" I am excited to hav e it b ack ," 
R u p p sa id , a h u g e g rin g ro w ­
ing o v er his face. "1 d o n 't know 
w h at I am go in g to d o w ith it, I 
am su re m y dad w ill d o som e ­
thing n ice."

W h ile it m ay take a w h ile for 
the sting o f W ed n esd ay's loss to 
w e a r o ff, th e m e m o rie s o f the 
L o n g h o r n s ' m a g ic a l ru n w ill 
lin ger forever.

F o r th e y o u n g T e x a n w h o 
fo u n d th e b a ll, th e r e w ill b e

d re a m s o f b e c o m in g th e n e x t 
C a m e ro n R u p p — h ittin g th e 
h ero ic h om er in O m ah a.

T h e d re a m d o e s n 't d ie b e ­
c a u s e T e x as c a m e up s h o r t o f 
the ch am p io n sh ip .

For Rupp, there will alw ays be 
the ball — a tactile rem inder of the 
m agic. An O m aha dream form ed 
a decade earlier, fulfilled.

H e 'l l h a v e n e x t y e a r , th e 
last C o lle g e W orld S e rie s to b e 
p la y e d in h is to r ic R o s e n b la tt 
Stad iu m , to cap tu re the ch am p i­
on sh ip dream .

"I honestly b eliev e this is the 
beginning of a new era for Texas 
baseball in O m aha," G arrido said.
T h e leg acy fo r th o se w h o are 
leav in g — W ood, Tucker, C lark , 
M ich ael T orres and K eith S h in - 
a b e rry —- is n o c o n so la tio n for 
th e h e a r tb r e a k o f c o m in g up 
ju st short.

T h e y m a y n o t b e n a t i o n ­
al c h a m p io n s , b u t o n a m a g i­
cal run tow ard the title they b e ­
ca m e le g e n d s; th e ir n a m e s n ot 
so o n fo rg o tte n . T h e ir a m a z in g 
p e rfo rm a n c e s d o n 't lo se lu ster 
becau se they fell short.

Photos by Paul Chouy | Daily Texan Staff

C lock w ise from above, (1) Texas shortstop Brandon Loy attem pts to turn 
a d o u b le play in Texas' 5-1 w in over LSU on M o n d a y as DJ LeM ahieu slides 
into second. (2) Longhorn starting pitcher Cole Green throw s out the first 
pitch of Texas' 4-3 victory over Arizona State. The win sent Texas to the C W S 
ch am p io n sh ip series. (3) S o p h o m o re starting pitcher Chance Ruffin throw s 
again st Arizona State in Texas' second g a m e of the CW S, a 10-6 victory over 
the Sun Devils. The Lo nghorns fell behind 6-0 early and Ruffin had to exit the 
gam e. (4) Third basem an M ichael Torres charges to field a grou n der in Texas' 
4-3 win over Arizona State on Friday as shortstop Brandon Loy looks on. The 
Lo n gh orn s had three errors in the ga m e but none were from Torres. Texas 
fielders stru ggle d thro ugh out the CW S. Analysts attributed the errors to play­
ing on gra ss as o p p o se d to the hom e artificial surface Texas plays on. (5) A 
Texas fan holds up a sign in G a m e 3 of the C W S ch am p ion sh ip series. LSU fans 
vastly ou tn u m b ered Longhorn fans in Om aha.

Game 4

Gam# 5

Record seven sacrifices push Texas past TCU in Game 1

TCU hit home runs. Texas bunted. But when it was all added 

up, small ball went further than a couple long balls.

In die end, Garrido won again. While the Homed Frogs scored on 

the long ball, racking up four runs on three homers, the Longhorns 
thnved off of Garrido's classic style, obtaining an NCAA record seven 
sacrifice bunts in a 10-4 win in the first game of the Austin Super Re­
gional

"We got the leadoff guy on, of course," Garrido said. "And 
then, we bunted them over. Over and over and over and over 
and over."

— Austin Talbert

TEXAS' IQ » * ■ *

Longhorn hitting shut down in loss to TCU

When it seemed like the wins would keep on coming, the 

Homed Frogs kept their season alive for another day by shutting 
down the Texas offense in a 3-2 win. TCU played long ball again, 
scoring all of its runs via its tw o homers against Cole Green. In 
the first six innings, the Longhorns did not get a runner past first 
base, and the Frogs' pitching staff did not walk a batter. But Tex­
as' Preston Clark said it best after the loss.

"1 think we'll be fine," Clark said.

— Dan Huruntz

T E X A S 2

Game 6

Horns' power pushes them past Homed Frogs

After dropping a game to hard-hitting TCU, which bested Tex­

as pitchers by way of the home run, the Longhorns' much-ma­
ligned power-hitting showed up to secure their ticket to Omaha.

After a leadoff single followed by a sacrifice bunt, Texas had a 

surprising power outburst of their own.

First, Brandon Belt tripled off the wall in dead center to 
drive in a run. Then, after a fielder's choice scored Belt, Kev­
in Keyes turned on an inside pitch and blasted a laser over 
the TCU bullpen in left field.

"This game is a bitch," Garrido said. "Any time you don't 
think you have something, that is exactly what wins you the 
game."

Texas would lead 3-0 after the first and never looked back, 

dropping TCU 5-2.

— Austin Talbert

■ifcXASj i»"» ~tCJLUL

Game 7

f i n a # f i
V l m f V W

Texas walks past Southern Miss in thrilling 7-6 victory

After blowing three leads with uncharacteristically bad pitch­

ing and defensive mistakes, Texas was able to come up with a 
win in its first College World Series game.

With the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the ninth, 
freshman Brandon Loy drew a walk-off walk to give Texas a 7-6 
win over Southern Miss. It was the second bases-loaded walk Loy 
drew in two innings, the third for Texas.

Before Loy could swing his way into history, Texas coach 
Augie Garrido walked out to talk to Loy. He told him he was 
going to take a pitch.
And keep taking.

— A u stin Talbert

TEXAS ? . SOUTHERN M1SSJ5

i j 1 1 M X

G a m e 1 2

Relief pitching falters as LSU claims championship

The Longhorns were in an early 4-0 hole, but climbed back to 
tie it in the fifth inning after outfielder Kevin Keyes hit a two-run 
home run. But LSU (56-17) jumped on Longhorn relievers Bran­
don Workman, Austin Dicharry and Austin Wood to score five 
runs in the sixth inning.

The Tigers never looked back from and the Longhorns (50-16- 

1) ran out of steam.

LSU's Jared Mitchell, who hit a three-run home run in the 
game, was a thorn in Texas' side throughout die series, winning 
the CWS Most Outstanding Player aw ard.

The Longhorns walked off die field with their heads down, 
but the Tigers, who came into the CWS ranked No 1 in the major 
polls, were the favorite to win.

— Dan Huruntz

TEXAS 4 

 

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Game IT

Jungmann shuts down LSU to force third game

After an hour-and-a-half rain delay, Texas' Taylor Jungmann 
pitched all nine innings, enabling the Longhorns to force a third 
and final game in Omaha. All the scoring took place in the first 
three innings and it was enough for Jungmann to continuous­
ly get by each batter. Jungmann gave up five hits, had no earned 
runs and struck out nine.

— Dan Huruntz

TEXAi-E— LSlLt

Game Id

LSU comes from behind to win in extra innings

The opener of the championship series was what everyone ex­
pected, and then some. The red-hot Tigers needed a miracle this 
time after getting into a 6-4 hole entering the ninth. A two-run 
double by LSU's DJ LeMahieu sent the game into extra innings.
The Longhorns, who slugged five solo home runs in the first 

seven innings, were unable to get the final run as Mikie Mah- 
took came through with a single up the middle, scoring the win­
ning run.

— Dan Huruntz

Gam# 9

Walk-off homer puts Texas in championship series

Down one run going into the bottom of the ninth, the Long­
horns decided to take the game into their own hands and send 
the Sun Devils back to the desert. Cameron Rupp hit a monstrous 
440-foot home run followed two batters later by Connor Rowe, 
who took the first pitch he saw and hammered it five rows mto 
the stands.

While the Longhorns were just squeaking by their opponents, 
the dramatic win allowed Texas to advance to the championship 
series against LSU, which was crushing everything in its path.

-r- Dan Huruntz

- T¿XAS 4 » ARi ZQNA’iSXmjii

Horns hammer Sun Devils in stunning comeback

With Texas -down 6-0 and the Sun Devils' ace, Mike Leake — 
who was 16-1 with a 1.36 ERA heading into Tuesday's game — 
on the mound, the Longhorns were on a collision course with the 
losers' bracket.

Then, the magic struck again. Cameron Rupp hit a three-run 
home run, and Texas didn't stop there, rallying to tie the game at 
six in the fourth inning. Another Rupp homer and a few more in­
surance runs combined with amazing pitching from freshman 
Taylor Jungmann secured Texas' 10-6 win.

— A ustin Talbert

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