SPORTS PAGE 10 Bench raises Texas to 6-1 victory over UTSA LIFE& ARTSPAGE6 Texas Pom: W hat it takes to make the team Hit 9C * TOW % VEATHER Low T h e Daily T exj Serving the U niversity o f Texas at Austin co m m u n ity since 1900 w w w .dailytexar, Friday, M ay 1, 2009 Debunking the albino squirrel Research gives f irst insights into swine flu By Hudson Lockett & Avi Selk Daily Texan Staff Since it w as first re p o rt­ ed late last week, swine flu's creep across counties, coun­ trie s a n d c o n tin e n ts h as prom pted a rash of alarming head lin es and declarations from public officials. But am id the dire new s, questions rem ain about the disease — including what and how dangerous it really is. What is swine flu and where did it come from? Scientists are only begin­ ning to nail dow n the origins of swine flu. Recent research, reported by The Associated Press, indicates that tw o dif­ ferent v iru se s infected the same pig, ran into one another and shuffled their genetic ma­ terial. This produced a strain different enough to transfer not just from pig to pig, but from pig to human. The first know n outbreak o ccu rred early this m onth in Mexico, and the disease is now suspected to have killed d o zen s and infected th o u ­ sands in that country. But un­ certainty remains about exact­ ly w here the virus originat­ ed and how it spread to oth­ er countries. "It d o e s n 't m a tte r th a t much w here it started," said Dan Epstein, a spokesman for the World Health O rganiza­ tion. "W hat matters is w here it's going. That's the big unan­ swered question." The glo b al o rg a n iz a tio n sp ark ed alarm w hen it d e ­ clared a sw ine flu p an d em ­ ic "im m inent" this week. But a pandem ic refers to the geo­ graphical extent of a disease, not its severity, Epstein said. Technically, many regular flus an d colds are already p a n ­ demics because they are w ide­ spread across several conti­ nents, he said. "They can go straight up to [a full-scale pandemic], which I'm sure they will," said William Sage, UT vice provost for health affairs. "But that says nothing about whether the disease kills you or is only a mild illness." How dangerous is swine flu? I n itia l r e p o r ts of d o z ­ ens of d eath s am ong o th er­ wise healthy adults in M exi­ co alarm ed the w orld, but as the virus has since spread to at least 10 other countries, its apparent death toll has been greatly diluted. "It's sp re a d a ro u n d , b u t people h a v e n 't gotten very sick, so th at's a good sign," F L U continues on page 2 Courtesy of UT researchers Lauren M eyers, S ebastian G oll and Ned D im itrov A computer model helps UT researchers understand how swine flu might spread across Texas. The size of the circles indicates city populations. The thickness of the lines represents traffic flow. UT SG president and VP among Big 12 s highest paid E ditor's note: This is the fir s t in a three-part series on pay for stu d e n t leaders. By Amy Bingham Daily Texan Staff With each provided a $5,200 scholarship and $6,480 sti­ pend per year, UT's Student G ov ernm en t p resid en t and vice president are some of the highest-paid student execu­ tives in the Big 12 Conference. Iowa State and Texas Tech universities are the only Big 12 schools whose student govern­ ment compensation surpasses UT's. Iowa State pays its pres­ ident and financial director for room and board and the full cost of tuition — a pack­ age totaling more than $16,000 — w hile the Texas Tech stu ­ dent body president receives $12,000 per year, slightly more than UT's. "The co m p en satio n is to m ake sure you can do your job and make sure you don't have to w ork another job to pay for school," said Jon Turk, Iow a S ta te 's stu d e n t b o d y president. "It's not like the SG presidents are living in sin ­ gle apartm ents and lavishing it up or anything. It's a very modest sum." Texas A&M U niversity is the only Big 12 school that does not directly pay its stu ­ dent bod y leaders. Instead, presidents receive a free cell phone, free parking and free dry cleaning during their year in office. The perks total more than $1,000, b ut this v aries from term to term. "If a student needs more ex­ tra assistance, I feel like there w ould be people to help out with that, whether it's the ad ­ m inistration, former students or their netw ork," said M ark G old, A&M 's outgoing s tu ­ dent body president. "Just on S G continues on page 2 The "albino" squirrels on campus, according to integrative biology professor David Hillis, have low levels of the pigment eumelanin, giving th e m a lighter hue. True albino squirrels are completely white and have pink eyes. I ack of white, pink-eyed critters on campus may disprove superstition By Hudson Lockett Daily Texan Staff C am pus lore suggests that seeing an albino squirrel on the way to your next test will guar­ antee you an A, but students m ay be less lucky than the legend implies. "The squirrels — at least the ones I've seen on cam pus — are not true albinos/ wrote in­ tegrative biology professor Da­ vid Hillis in an e-mail. Hillis said real albinos are com pletely w hite w ith p ink eyes, a m old that UT's squir­ rels don't fit. "I have actually seen sever­ al color variants of squirrels on cam pus with light-colored hair but all with normally pigm ent­ ed eyes," Hillis wrote. Mammals only produce two pigments in different combina­ tions for hair color: black and white. "There are squirrels that lack or have reduced production of eum elanin, or black pigm ent, which are known as amelanis- tic squirrels," he wrote. A n t h r o p o l o g y l e c t u r ­ e r M a rth a N o rk u n a s sa id co lle g e c a m p u s e s a re id e ­ al for s u s ta in in g fo lk lo re and legends like th at of the albino squirrel. "People think w e're such a w ritten culture, but w e're re­ ally very oral still," N orkunas said. "It goes through genera­ tions of kids. These stories can last for decades." N o rk u n as sa id the s q u ir­ rel m ay h a v e a ss o c ia tio n s with everything from race and ethm city to a preoccupation with grades. "Students have a lot of anx­ ieties [and] co ncern s ab out how they 're doing in school, so they look for lucky charms or ta lism a n s or som e kind of sym bol th ey can look to [for] good luck," N o rk u n as said. T H E V V F B More about the folklore and video of albino squirrels : More students looking to nonprofit sector for work Shrinking job m arkets for graduating seniors contribute to increase By Mohini Madgavkar Daily Texan Staff Unlike some of his classmates, Travis Christal isn't interested in a large income or working for a cor­ poration. The accounting senior has something else in mind. Christal hopes to w ork for an environm entally conscious non­ profit that buys land to prevent de­ velopment. Christal told students and faculty at the Working for So­ cial Justice career forum Wednes­ day th a t an acco u n tin g m ajor and a social justice career were compatible. "I think accounting is the least u n d e rs to o d m ajor," he sa id . "There's a stigm a with business degrees that you have to want to make a lot of money, but to u n ­ derstand the accounting process is to understand how to control an organization, how to achieve a goal." In a tim e w hen rep orts of a shrink ing job m arket bom bard graduating seniors at every turn, m any are tu rnin g to the public sector or nonprofit w ork for em ­ ploym ent, w hether out of moral or fiscal motives. N onp ro fit organizations like Teach For Am erica are becom ­ ing m ore popular. The o rgani­ zation received 42 percent more WORK continues on page 2 Shirin Ebadi, a Nobel Prize-winning novelist and human rights activist, speaks to fellow panelists at a forum about U.S.-lranian relations. Jacqueline Gilíes | Daily Texan Staff :ter a social justice discussion Wednesday, Cait McCann, a Latin nerican studies junior, asks Cristina Tzintzún, director of the Workers efense Project, about ways she can get involved. Lara Haase | Daily Texan Staff By Matt Stephens Daily Texan Staff Shirin Ebadi believes the big­ gest problem betw een the U.S. and Iran hak little to do with Iran's nuclear program, and everything to do with the two nations' differ­ ences in foreign policy. "If they can find an answer to [foreign policy], the nuclear prob­ lem should follow," Ebadi said at a panel discussion with L I professors to address U.S.-Iranian relations. Ebadi, a 2003 Nobel Prize win­ n e r and hum an rig h ts activist from Iran, said the U.S. providing aid and selling arms to non-demo- cratic countries embolden Iranian opposition to those nations. "If the U.S. government doesn't want Iran to be the hero, then the U.S. has to change its foreign poli­ cy in the Middle East," Ebadi said. "It needs to stop aiding non-dem- ocratic foreign governm ents. At least, it will prevent others from being heroes by saying something negative about America." The p an el d isc u ssio n , held Thursday at the LBJ Library, also addressed ways to improve rela­ tions between the two nations. "They need to pay respect to the government of Iran," said Fae- gheh Shirazi, a M iddle Eastern studies associate professor. "Stop calling them a regime, and start calling them a government." POLICY continues on page 5 Activist: Diplomacy key to US-Iran relations \K W Friday, M ay 1, 2009 SG: UT president received $5,600 raise with 2007 bill Student government executive compensation Student executives' pay in tuition and stipends per year at public Big 12 universities T h e I H i i .y T e x a n Volume 109, Number 139 25 cents CONTACT US Main Telephone: (512) 471-4591 Editor Leah Finnegan (512) 232-2212 editor@daifytexanonline.com M an agin g Editor: Vikram Swaruup (512) 232-2217 managingeditor@ dailytexanonline.com Retail Advertising: (512)471-1865 loan w@mail.utexas.edu Classified Advertising: (512)471-5244 classifieds@dailytexanonline.com The Texan strives to present all infor­ m ation fairly, accurate ly a n d c o m p le te ­ ly. If w e have m a d e an error, let us kn ow a b o u t it. Call (512) 232-22 17 or e-m a il managingedrtor(a>daitytexanonline.com. CO P Y R IG H T Copyright 2009 Texas Student Media. All articles, photographs and graphics, both in the print and online editions, are the property of Texas Student Media and may not be reproduced or republished in part or in w hole without written permission. High 90 Today's weather Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? $20,000 $15,000 $10,000 $5,000 From page 1 a paycheck sta n d p o in t, it's not w orth it, but the lessons w e learn h a v in g this o p p o rtu n ity ... far su rp a ss any a m o u n t of m oney that they could pay m e." S tu d e n t g o v e r n m e n t c o m ­ p e n s a tio n h a s b e e n h o tly d e ­ b a te d a t the U n iv e rsity of N e- b ra sk a -L in c o ln for m o re th a n 20 y ea rs. In 1982, th e s tu d e n t b o d y v o te d a g a in st u sin g s tu ­ d e n t fees fo r s tu d e n t- e x e c u - tives salaries. N ebraska's student body pres­ id en t receives a $1,078 scholar­ ship to cover six hours of tuition, and the vice p re sid e n t receives a sc h o larsh ip of $539 to cover three hours — neither of w hich is paid by student fees. Last year, the university reinstated an ad d i­ tional $40-per-m onth reim burse­ m ent th a t can only b e used to co m p en sa te th e p re sid e n t an d tw o vice presidents for a portion of the costs of their cell phone, parking and dining bills. " T h e re is n o r e a s o n th e y sh o u ld p ay fo r m e to be do in g this," said M egan C ollins, p res­ id e n t of the A ssociation of S tu ­ d e n ts of th e U n iv e rsity of N e- braska-L incoln. "The job w e do is o n e of se rv ic e to s tu d e n ts , a n d th is is n 't so m u c h a sa la ­ ry o r a b e n e fit b u t so m e th in g th a t en a b le s u s to d o o u r jobs better." UT has o n ly recently m oved to the upper end of the com pen­ sation ranks. Before 2007, the SG p re s id e n t's a n n u a l c o m p e n sa ­ tion w as $5,600 less than today, pro vidin g a $4,800 stip en d and $1,600 in tuition assistance. In 2007, G ra n t Stanis, a b u si­ ness representative at the tim e, proposed a resolution to the SG assem b ly th a t w o u ld increase the e x e cu tiv es' yearly stip en d s by ab o u t $2,000 and their schol­ arships by about $3,600. The bill passed unanimously. "W hen y o u 're SG p resid e n t, you can 't have other jobs," Stan­ is said. "A s a result, w e d id n 't w a n t it to b e a h in d ra n c e for those stu d en ts w ho said, 'I can't be SG p re sid e n t because I cant afford it.' T hat w o u ld n 't be fair. The other reason is because they w ork their ass off." The pay increase w o u ld have gone into effect d u rin g SG Pres­ id e n t A n d re w S o lo m o n 's a d ­ m in is tra tio n in th e 2007-2008 academ ic year, b u t d u e to b u d - gef c o n s tra in ts , S o lo m o n a n d his vice president, N icole Trinh, ac ce p te d the a d d itio n a l sc h o l­ a r s h ip b u t d e c lin e d s tip e n d increases. "We w eren 't quite sure w here the fund in g w ould com e from," Solomon said. "We did not have the funds to take it." F orm er SG P resid en t K eshav Rajagopalan, elected in 2008, w as the first president to receive the increased sum in Septem ber af­ ter the S tu d en t Services Budget C om m ittee allocated m ore stu - dent-fee m oney to SG. This stu ­ dent source of the presidents' sal­ aries increases SG accountability to students, he said. "S till, I'm in the hole, so to speak," Rajagopalan said. "It is to offset expenses an d cushion other expenses for travel, p a rk ­ ing at C apitol and City Hall and m eals th at you have to pick up here or there that you w ould nor­ mally have at hom e." Stanis' resolution also evened the p r e s id e n t a n d vice p r e s i­ d e n t's pay for the first time. UT is one of tw o schools in the Big 12 0 Iowa State Texas Tech UT Colorado Kansas at Boulder State Kansas Missouri Nebraska Okla. State in w hich the top tw o student ex­ ecutives earn the sam e am ount. At the U niversity of Kansas, both executives receive $8,160. Solom on said vice p resid en ts d eserve equal pay because they do the sam e am o u n t of w ork as the president. "The president and vice presi­ dent do put in the sam e am ount of h o u rs," S olom on said. "The VP tends to be m ore internal and w orks closely w ithin the assem ­ bly an d vice president of student affairs, w hile the president has a m ore external role." R ajag o p alan said th e h ig h er executive p ay at UT m ay be a t­ tributable to a higher cost of liv­ ing in A ustin and higher tuition rates at UT. "W hen you look at all the Big 12 schools and the cities they are situ ated in com pared to A ustin, w e are the only major m etropoli­ tan city in the conference," Rajag­ opalan said. T he U n iv e rsity of C o lo ra d o at B oulder is the only school in the Big 12 th at pays its SG sen­ ators and representatives. All 23 elected stu d en ts receive $50 per week. S o lo m o n s a id he d o e s n o t think UT sh o u ld pay SG repre­ sentatives. "As a representative, it's not a full-time job like it is w ith an ex­ ecutive m em ber," Solom on said. "I generally w o u ld n 't think it's a good idea." The UT SG executive b o a rd 's five m em bers, w ho are ap p o in t­ ed by the SG president, received $3,420 stipends during the 2008- 2009 academ ic year. They do not receive tuition assistance. O f S G 's $132,000 o p e ra tin g budget, 31 percent goes to execu­ tive com pensation. The rest is al­ located to projects and office ex­ penses. Before 2008, U T 's SG p re s i­ d ents received free p a rk in g in the 27th Street and Brazos garag­ es. Now, they have to p u rch ase a $110 "C" perm it, w hich is then upgraded to a 27th Street G arage permit, saving them about $600. 2004-2005 SG P resident Brent C haney said he w ould no t have been able to perform his job w ith­ out the parking permit. " T h e r e 's n o th in g f la s h y ," Chaney said about his presiden­ tial perks. "People think there's, like, free foo tb all tic k e ts, b u t th e re 's not, T he b ig g e st p e rk for m o st s tu d e n ts is th e p a r k ­ ing pass. With the Legislature in session, it w as a m ust to go back and forth from the Capitol." FLU: Early conclusions of disease severity hard to make; UT prepared for worst From page 1 said R obert K rug, an infectious- d isease e x p e rt in the C ollege of N atural Sciences. K ru g p o in te d o u t th a t r e g u ­ lar flu kills ab o u t 36,000 A m eri­ cans and infects 30 million people w o rld w id e ev e ry year. By com ­ p arison , the W orld H ealth O rg a­ nizatio n h a d confirm ed 257 cas­ es of sw ine flu around the w orld by press tim e, w ith eight d ea th s am ong them . The confirm ed num ber of infec­ tions is alm ost certainly low — the disease is su sp e c te d to h ave in­ fected thousan d s and killed about 150 in M exico alone — b u t even the un co nfirm ed figures indicate a less d eadly disease than the first re p o rts o u t of M exico. E xp erts have specu lated that poor health facilities m ay have increased the d e a th toll in M exico, and th o u ­ sands of m ilder cases of sw ine flu m ay h a v e n ev e r been rep o rted , inflating the fatality rate. Officials and health experts say public concern over the disease is justified, warning against both pan­ ic and complacency as it spreads. "Everyone should take this very seriously," Sage said. "These are ex­ actly the sorts of things w e'll have to consider if w e get an avian flu strain w ith a high mortality rate." It is sim ply too early to d raw co n c lu sio n s ab o u t an em erg in g disease — a lesson The D aily Tex­ an learned alm ost a century ago. "Spanish Influenza N ot D anger­ ous — Just Plain G rippe," read the p a p e r's front-page h eadline d u r­ ing the early stages of a pandem ic outbreak in 1918. The Spanish Flu ultim ately killed tens of m illions of people around the w orld. What's being done about swine flu? As epidem iologists and virolo­ gists fill in the blanks about the dis­ Courtesy of researchers Lauren Meyers, Sebastian G oll and Ned Dim itrov A sim ulated m ap tracks possible flu-outbreak routes. Large circles show areas that m ay be heavily affected, and lines show disease flow. ease, other researchers are feeding data into com puters and studying sim ulations of the disease spread­ ing across population centers. L a u re n M e y e rs, a n a s s o c i­ ate bio lo g y professor a t UT, d i­ rects a sm all lab that is p a rt of an in te rn a tio n a l c o n s o rtiu m of re­ searchers m odeling sw ine flu. M eyers' team uses su p e rc o m ­ p u te rs a n d m a th e m a tic a l alg o ­ rithm s to find o u t w h eth e r p u b ­ lic health responses — like clos­ ing schools or telling sick people to stay indoors — are effective at controlling an outbreak. Linda C ham bers, a clinical in­ structor at the School of N ursing, h as been p articip a tin g for m ore than a year in county-level m eet­ ings to plan for a flu pandem ic, as have health and disaster w orkers across Texas. Those plans are now being p u t into place. C linics an d h o sp itals are cu r­ ren tly te stin g p a tie n ts w ith flu sy m p to m s like fev ers, c o u g h s, m uscle aches or diarrhea for the v iru s — w ith th e v a st m a jo ri­ ty testing n egative, officials say. Those w h o have been confirm ed to h av e sw in e flu — 109 in the U n ite d S tates by press tim e — u sually exhibit only m ild sy m p ­ tom s and are given antiviral m ed­ ication and told to stay home. T h e re is n o v ac cin e a g a in s t sw in e flu, b u t com m on m edica­ tions like Tamiflu seem to be effec­ tive against it. Texas has enough an tiv iral m edication on han d to trea t a b o u t 840,000 p e o p le an d can request up to 3.4 million more courses from the federal g o vern­ m ent — en o u g h for 14 p ercen t of its population, Gov. Rick Perry has said. UT officials h av e contingency plans to close the cam pus or cancel graduation ceremonies but say they would only m ake those decisions if swine flu arrives on campus. If sw in e flu begins sp re a d in g rap id ly th ro u g h the p o p u la tio n , ex p e rts say Texas m ig h t a d o p t "social distancing" tactics that the M exican governm ent is currently using to slow its outbreak. Sage said that w hile Texas prob­ ably has the p o w er to take m ore e x tre m e m e a s u re s — s u c h as forced q u aran tin es or co rdoning off infected tow ns — it w o u ld be very unlikely to do so. "A uthoritarian practices are not effective," he said. "You really can't cordon people off — w h at you can do is try to educate them ." 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Friday, 12 p m Wednesday, 12 p.m. Thursday Thursday, 12 p.m. Friday Monday, 12 p m. Tuesday, 12 p m f WORK: Students look to make social justice a priority From page 1 a p p lic a tio n s this y e a r th a n in 2007, in c lu d in g a p p lic a tio n s from 3.7 percent of U T's graduat­ ing class, said UT recruiter Ryan TSM BOARD MEETING Friday May 1, 2009 2 p.m. The University ofTexas Texas Union Quadrangle Room #3.304 Austin, Texas Visitors Welcome We encourage any community member who has a n y k in d o f tem porary or perm an en t disability to contact Texas Stu d en t M e d ia b eforeh and so th a t appropriate accom m odations can be made. Anyone is welcome to attend. Irvxvde y o u r w o r l d Smith. Smith speculated that the percentage of UT applicants in­ creased from years past. "T he unfavorable job m arket has given m an y g rad u a tin g se­ niors the o p p o rtu n ity to p u rsu e m o re m e a n in g fu l ca re e rs th a t they m ay n o t have co n sid ered previously," he said. Even students on the business track are looking to m ake social justice p art of their careers, said Julie Butler, a career adviser in the McCombs School of Business. "I d o h a v e a lot of s tu d e n ts th a t are in te reste d in w o rk in g nonprofits," Butler said. "Som e of them , w ho are really into the e n v iro n m e n t, are lik in g eco- friendly-type firms. ... We obvi­ ously know that a lot of com pa­ nies, typical p riv ate-sector com ­ panies, are laying off and reduc­ ing hours.", B utler said th a t w h ile b u s i­ ness students seeking public-sec- tor careers are still in the m inori­ ty, advisers are noticing a signifi­ cant rise in students interested in social justice work. "That's a route that a lot of tradi­ tional business students w ouldn't necessarily consider," she said. Same Price, Better Glasses & Service GUsscsShop online prescription eyeglasses expert www. glassesshop. com "Volunteer at an organization that does community organizing, whether you want to be a lawyer, have a boring office job. Whatever you end up doing, I think you can and should learn community organizing first" — Cristina Tzintzún, UT aiumna "We're encouraging them to keep their options open." Liberal arts career adviser Bill C arpluk said that in the m odem career m a rk e t, n o n p ro fit w o rk seem s like a m ore viable option for students. "In this d ay and age, th e re 's a lot m ore flexibility b o u n cin g a ro u n d from th e p u b lic sector to th e p riv ate sector," C a rp lu k said. "It's not as constraining as it once w as." B ubiness sta lw a rts like T h e B oston C o n su ltin g G ro u p a n d M cK insey & C o. are ta k in g a m a rk e d in te re s t in so cial s e r­ vice, en c o u rag in g associates to s p e n d th e ir th ird y e a rs at th e com pany w orking w ith nonprof­ its a n d taking on nonprofit cas­ es at re d u c e d prices, co m p an y representatives said. But UT alu m n a C ristin a Tz- ín tz ú n 's career goal h as alw ays been social justice. T z i n t z ú n c a m e to A u s ­ tin w ith no p ro sp e c ts for e m ­ p lo y m e n t. A fte r v o l u n t e e r ­ in g fo r th e W o rk e rs D efen se Project, she w as eventually hire and w orked h er w ay u p the o ganization's ranks. She now d rects the local im m igrant-righ organization. "There aren 't that m an y org nizations doing [com m unity o ganizipg] w ork," T zintzún sai "M ost p e o p le w o n 't h ire yc if you have no experience, ar there's no w ay to go to school f that." T z in tz ú n s a id s tu d e n ts ii te re s te d in so c ia l ju s tic e c reers h av e to create th e ir o y a opportunities. "V olunteer at an organiza tic that does com m unity organizin w hether you w ant to be a lawyi have a boring office job. W hate er you end up doing, I think yc can and should leam com muni organizing first," T zintzún sai "F in d som e o rg a n iz a tio n ar say, 'I w ant to volunteer for yoi That m ight m ean taking a shit job on the side, but once you u derstand com m unity organizir I d o n 't think you'll ever look a problem in the sam e w ay agair 4 www.dailytexanonline.com Wo rld& N ation Wire Editor: Austen Sofhauser T iik Da il i TVxaiv Friday, May 1. 2009 WORLD BRIEFLY Rebels identify suspected 'human shields'as family COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The Tamil Tigers said Thurs­ day they would never surren­ der to the advancing Sri Lank­ an forces and appealed to the international community to work harder for a oease-fiie in the country's bloody civil war. Sri Lanka has refused grow­ ing diplomatic pressure to stop its offensive against the rebel group's last stronghold in the northeast to safeguard the estimated 50,000 civilians trapped in the area. The government and inter­ national rights groups have accused the rebels of hold­ ing teas of thousands of eth­ nic Tamil civilians as human shields to slow the govern­ ment offensive. Rebel political chief Balas- ingam Nadesan denied the ac­ cusation, calling it government propaganda. "We all are family. How could anyone hold his or her family as a 'human shield?' Nadesan told The Associat­ ed Press in an e-mail interview from the war zone. He also denied reports that the rebels' top leaders had fled the country, saying they "are still in our homeland and lead­ ing the freedom struggle." UN group renames flu after Egypt slaughters pigs. GENEVA — The Worjd , Health Organization* an^ nounced it will would stop us­ ing the term "syvine flu" to avoid confusion over the dan­ ger posed by pigs. The poli­ cy shift came a day after Egypt began slaughtering thousands of pigs in a misguided effort to prevent swine flu. WHO spokesman Dick Thompson said the agriculture industry' and the U.N. food agency had expressed con­ cerns that the term "swine flu" was misleading consumers and needlessly causing coun­ tries to ban pork products and order the slaughter of pigs. "Rather than calling this swine flu ... we're going to stick with the technical scien­ tific name H1N1 influenza A," Thompson said. In the current outbreak, WHO says the virus is being spread from human-to-hu- man, not from contact with in­ fected pigs. Com piled from Associated Press reports A police officer checks the condition of an injured person moments after a car slammed into a monument in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. A speeding car raced toward an open bus carrying Queen Beatrix and her family during celebrations for the national Queen's Day holiday, plowing through spectators. M erlin Dalem an A ssociate d Press Man kills 5 in attempt on Dutch royal family Unidentified driver detained after speeding into crowds at parade By Cynthia Boll The Associated Press APELDOORN, Netherlands - A Dutch driver careened through police barriers and plowed into a crowd of merrymakers cheering their popular queen Thursday in a premeditated assault on the royal family that killed five by­ standers and injured 12, authori­ ties said. The speeding car, already dent­ ed apparently from catapulting bystanders into the air, passed within a few yards of the open- topped bus carrying Queen Beat­ rix and her family down a parade route, then smashed into a stone monument. P ro secu to rs said th e d riv ­ er, badly injured and still in his crumpled car, acknowledged tar­ geting the queen and her family. "The man said that his action was aimed at the royal family," said prosecutor Ludo Goosseas. The driver, whose name was not released, "is formally suspect­ ed of ... an attack on members of the royal house and manslaugh­ ter or murder," Goossens said, and he could face life in prison. "I think that it has become clear that this happened with premed­ itation," Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said. The motive for the attack was unclear. D utch m edia, citing neighbors, said the assailant re­ cently was fired from his job and was to be evicted from his home. Police identified him as a 38-year- old Dutch man with no histo­ ry of mental illness or police re­ cord, but they would not release his name. Officials in Apeldoorn said the driver had a map of the queen's route. Celebrations were canceled for Q ueen's Day, the national holi­ day that was to draw millions of people to street dances, picnics and outdoor parties under sunny skies around the country. Flags were lowered to half-staff. The Dutch Embassy in Washington canceled a scheduled reception. A shaken Queen Beatrix ex­ tended her sympathies to the vic­ t i m s in a brief nationally televised address. "What began as a great day has ended in a terrible trag­ edy that has shocked us all deep­ ly," she said. The driver apparently acted alone and was not linked to any terrorist or ideological group. No explosives were found in his car or in his home, Goossens said. "From initial contact with police before the suspect was removed from the car ... we have reason to believe it was a deliberate action," Goosseas told reporters. The driver apparently tried to intercept the bus as it turned a corner to a road leading to the gates of the Het Loo palace a few hundred yards from the intersec­ tion in this eastern Dutch town. Though the sequence of events was still murky, he apparent­ ly crashed his small black car through two sets of police barri­ ers, smashing his windscreen and damaging the front of the vehi­ cle even before slamming into the monument. The final few seconds were captured on video and film by news teams following the royal family in a press bus. Reporters saw people thrown high in the air from the impact or tumbling down the street, their broken limbs askew. First aid crews and police officers ran to the victims and applied revival techniques. The driver, bleeding from the head and nose, was slum ped against the seat when police lift­ ed him out and put him into an ambulance. Earlier, Apeldoorn Mayor Fred de Graaf said eight of the 13 in­ jured were in serious condition, with two men and two women killed. Later, a third man died of his injuries, said Apeldoorn mu­ nicipality' spokesman Toon Schu- iling. Two teenagers and a 9-year- old girl were among the severely injured. "We are speechless that some­ thing so terrible could have hap­ pened," the queen said in a rare televised appearance. "M y family — and I think everybody in the country — sympathize with the victims, their families and friends and all who have been hit so hard by this accident." D u tch te le v is io n fo o ta g e showed Crown Prince Willem- Alexander and his wife, Princess Maxima, standing at their seats in the bus's high open platform and watching in astonishment. Maxi­ ma held her hand over her mouth in apparent horror. The bus was not hit and no one in the queen's entourage was injured. Journalist Peter von de Vdrst told RTL television that the inci­ dent was like watching a horrible movie. "It was a really nice day. Then you hear a bang. Everyone looks up and you see people indeed flying through the air. This must be a joke or a strange prank. Then suddenly panic, and you realize that something really terrible has happened," he said. Hundreds of thousands of peo­ ple flocked to the main Dutch cities on Wednesday night and Thursday to celebrate the nation­ al holiday, originally intended to celebrate the birthday of Beatrix's mother, Queen Juliana. Republican clarifies poor choice of words’ Saudi girl, 8, granted divorce from 50-year-old husband By Hadeel Al-Shalchi The Associated Press CAIRO — An 8-year-old Sau­ di girl has divorced her middle- aged husband after her father forced her to marry him last year in exchange for about $13,000, her lawyer said Thursday. Saudi Arabia has come under increasing criticism at home and abroad for permitting child mar­ riages. The United States, a close ally of the conservative Muslim kingdom, has called child mar­ riage a "clear and unacceptable" violation of human rights. The girl was allowed to di­ vorce the 50-year-old man who she m arried in August after an out-of-court settlement had been reached in the case, said her lawyer, Abdulla al-Jeteli. The exact date of the divorce was not immediately known. A court in the central Oneiza region previously rejected a re­ quest by the girl's mother for a divorce and ruled that the girl would have to wait until she reached puberty to file a peti­ tion then. There are no law s in Sau­ di Arabia defining the m ini­ mum age for marriage. Though a woman's consent is legally re­ quired, some marriage official» don't seek it. But there has been a push by Saudi human rights groups to define the age of marriage and end the practice of marrying girls without their consent. One Saudi human rights ac­ tivist, Sohaila Zain al-Abdeen, was optimistic that the girl s di­ vorce would help efforts to get a law passed enforcing a mini­ mum marriage age of 18. "Unfortunately, some fathers trade their daughters," she told The Associated Press. "They are weak people who are some­ times in need of money and for­ get their roles as parents." It was not clear if the man re­ ceived money for the divorce settlement. The man had given the girl's father 50,000 riyals, or about $13,350, as a marriage gift in return for his daughter, the lawyer said. The 8-year-old girl's marriage was not the only one in the kingdom to receive attention in recent months. Saudi new s­ papers have highlighted sev­ eral cases in which young girls were married off to much older men or young boys including a 15-year-old girl whose father, a death-row inmate, married her off to a cell mate. Saudi Arabia's conservative Muslim clergy have opposed the drive to end child marriag­ es. In January, the kingdom 's most senior cleric said it was permissible for 10-year-old girls to marry and those who believe they are too young are doing the girls an injustice. But some in the government appear to support the m ove­ ment to set a minimum age for marriage. The kingdom's new justice minister was quoted in mid-April as saying the govern­ ment was doing a study on un­ derage marriage that would in­ clude regulations. There are no statistics to show how many marriages involving children are performed in Saudi Arabia every year. Activists say the girls are given away in re­ turn for hefty marriage gifts or as a result of long-standing cus­ tom in which a father promises his infant daughters and sons to cousins out of a belief that mar­ riage will protect them from il­ licit relationships. By Estes Thompson The Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina congresswoman said Thursday she chose her words poorly when she called claims that a Wyoming college stu­ dent was murdered because he was gay a "hoax." Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx said during debate in the House that Matthew Shepard's 1998 death wasn't a hate crime and shouldn't be invoked by supporters of a bill to expand the definition of such crimes to include violence motivated by sexual orientation. "We know that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn't because he was gay," Foxx said during debate. "The bill was named for him, the hate-crimes bill was named for him, but it's really a hoax that continues to be used as an excuse for pass­ ing these bills." Shepard died several days after he was found tied to a remote fence in Wyoming, se­ verely beaten and robbed of $20. Prosecutors said he was lured from a bar by two men, including one whose defense attorney said he reacted vio­ lently after Shepard made a sexual advance. The House approved the bill Wednesday despite Foxx's comments. On Thursday, af­ ter Foxx drew heated reac­ tion from several gay rights groups and others upset by her comments, she said her words didn't convey what she meant to say. "The term 'hoax' was a poor choice of words used in the discussion of the hate crimes bill," Foxx said in a statement. "Mr. Sh ep ard 's death was nothing less than a tragedy, and those responsible for his death certainly deserved the punishment they received." Still, it w asn't enough to quell the firestorm. "I haven't ever heard any- Matthi'W nno Shepard's death wasn't a hate crim e," said Becky Dansky, federal legislative director for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. She said her organization w as surprised by the com ­ ments and noted the House version of the bill d oesn't even reference Shepard's case. The Senate bill carries Shepa­ rd's name. Foxx sp o k esm an A aron Groen said the congresswom­ an relied on articles that she later realized were faulty and especially regrets upsetting the Shepard family. He said she declined further comment. "C alls to her office have been m ostly from outside North Carolina," Groen said. "W e've gotten our share of death threats and the like but that's to be expected on such an emotional issue." The University of Wyoming student's slaying became a ral­ lying point for the gay rights movement. friday • ufcu d isch -falk field sophomore cameron rupp sen io r day! la s t hom e game Nell Redmond Associated Press Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., who is under fire for calling claims that Matthew Shepard was killed because he was gay a "hoax," says she should have selected her words more carefully. The Longhorn A ll Sports Package is the c h e a p e s t easiest way fot UT s t u d e n t s , f a c u l t y & s t a f f to get t i c k e t s to UT gam es It s time to g e t y o u r h o r n s u p and go to T e x a s S p o r t s . c o m today?___________________ senior desiree williams UT Student Tailgate sponsored by the Longhorn Hellraisers ~ FREE food beginning at 4:30 p.m. r Friday, May 1, 2009 I f IEWP0INT The Republican follies In the drawn-out battle between Democrat A1 Franken and in­ cumbent Sen. Norm Coleman for a Minnesota Senate seat, a new dev elopment has arisen that may change Republican politics. In an effort to secure a sixth term, Sen. Arlen Specter switched from the R epublican Party to the D em ocratic on Tuesday in a seemingh ungrateful vet shrewd political move. In a recent Asso­ ciated Press article, Specter confessed he was not prepared to have his 21, vear record in the U.S. Senate decided by the Pennsylvania Republican primary. Specter's cross o f party lines would be nothing more than anoth- er ini ident to incense Republicans if it weren't for the number of Democrats in the Senate before Specter's flip. The veteran legisla­ tor 's switch tipped the scale to 59 seats — one seat away from a fil­ ib u s t e r - p r o o f majority And that single vote, which would cast the Democrats priorities to the forefront, could very well come from 1 - anken, wh<>se political fate now lies in the hands of the Minnesota Suprem e Court. The controversy surrounding Franken's seat began after elec­ tion night with a statewide recount and court challenge that put the Democrat in a 312-vote lead over Coleman, who appealed the results. A special three-judge panel rejected many of C olem an's claims, and he appealed to the state Supreme Court, arguing that more than 4,OCX) absentee ballots were wrongly rejected. The hear­ ing is scheduled for June 1. One of the longest election battles in I S Senate history and the longest in Minnesota history, it is likely the fight will only intensify in the wake of Specter's switch. The anti-C olem an sen tim ent in M innesota is strong. A re­ cen t M in n e a p o lis S tar-T rib u n e poll rep orted th a t 64 p e r ­ cent o f re sp o n d e n ts th in k C o lem an sh ou ld acce p t the tr i­ al ruling, n am in g Franken the w inner, and only 28 percent agree w ith C o lem an's appeal to the state Suprem e Court, e v ­ idence in d ica tin g m a jo rity su p p o rt for the s a tiris t tu rned politician. But despite the tides against him, including a campaign that has raised $58,500 called "O ne Dollar a Day to Make Norm Coleman ( >o Away," Coleman w on't give up. Our very own Sen. John Com yn, chairman of the National Re­ publican Senatorial Committee, has advocated in support of C ole­ man, insisting the Republican try the case in federal court no matter how long it takes — even if M innesota is left with one senator. Minnesota stands to be denied equal representation in the Sen­ ate until June at the earliest. With alm ost 60,000 em ployed and 9,000 w ho've lost hom es since N ovem ber's election in the state, (. oleman's appeals delay the vital work needed to repair the lives of the constituents he claims to care about. We understand the notion that a Democratic majority rests with a comedian and former "Saturday Night L ive" cast member may appear to be an instance of political theater at its finest. Yet, upon second glance, Franken's dedication to his constituency, middle- class econom ic relief proposals and progressive policies solidify him as a formidable and serious opponent — an observation per­ haps even more ironic than his position on the political scale. While the battle for the Minnesota Senate seat drags on, Com yn should take a tip from Franken, who has proposed a new tax cred­ it that will provide up to $5,000 per student each year for up to four years of college. But w e don't think that's likely, considering that a mere two weeks ago, Com yn called Specter a key Republi­ can who could help in "denying Harry Reid and the Democrats a filibuster-proof Senate." Spoken like a true Republican — too soon. — Mary Tum afor the editorial board THE FIRING LINE YCT chair responds to accusations I'd like to address some accu­ sations made against Young Conservatives of Texas and against conservatives in general as a result of our "OBAMA-Nation" rally on the West Mall on Tuesday. First, let me emphasize that the part of our rally focused on illegal immigration was a protest of the policies of this administration and of the federal government in the past, not the people themselves. We made multiple attempts to explain that our position is that the laws of this country are not being enforced, and attempts to award blanket amnesty and healthcare benefits to those people here illegal­ ly are detrimental to America. What people opposed to us lose sight of is that we fully support legal immigration to the United States and even advocate for the expedi­ tion of the naturalization process. L nfortunately, many who came out to protest on Tuesday were not willing to hear our side of the argu­ ment All they wanted was to throw out vitriolic remarks against us, call­ ing us racists, rapists, supporters of genocide and hate-mongers. So because we didn't have many opportunities to explain our pro­ posal on Tuesday, I'd like to list them here: 1. Repair all weak points in the current border fence and utilize high-tech surveillance techniques to patrol the border. 2. Reinforce the Border Patrol with the National Guard or military. 3. Punish businesses that know­ ingly hire illegal immigrants with heavy fines and possible imprison­ ment of their executives. 4. Offer an expedited naturaliza­ tion process for people who will­ ingly leave the U.S. and deport all those found to be here illegally. Those who commit felonies shall be imprisoned and then deported with no opportunity for expedited naturalization. I invite everyone who would like to continue this discussion or who would like to learn more about YCT's positions to visit us at umnv. yct.org/utexas or find our Facebook group "Young Conservatives of Texas-UT Chapter." Dustin M atocha M anagement and governm ent sophom ore Young Conservatives o f Texas chairman LEGALESE SU BM IT A FIRING LINE Opinions expressed in The Daily Texan are those of the editor, the ed­ itorial board or the wnter of the arti­ cle. They are not necessarily those of the UT administration, the Board of Regents or the Texas Student Media Board of Operating Trustees. E-mail your Firing Lines to finng- line@dailytexanonlim.com. Letters must be fewer than 300 words. The Texan re­ serves the nght to edit letters for brevi ty, clarity and liability. We regret that we cannot publish all letters. OTHER NEW S SUBM IT A COLUMN The last print date of The Daily Texan for the spnng semester will be May 13. Tiyouts for the sum­ mer term will start June 3. The Texan will be relocating its offices this summer to Walter Web Hall at 2500 Guadalupe Street. The Daily Texan welcomes submis­ sions for guest columns. Columns must be between 500 and 700 words. Send columns to editor@dailytexancm- lme.com. 'The Texan reserves the nght to edit all columns for clarity and Liability if chosen for publication. O p i n i o n T h e I H m T e x a n GALLERY Editor in Chief: Leah • nnega Phone: (M2 232 2212 E-mail: editor@dailytexanonline.com Associate Editors: Audrey C a m p a l Josh Haney Abby Terrell Jillian Sheridan MaryTuma _ _______ day& SPECT® Haiti needs US support for democracy By Ansel Herz Daily Texan Guest Colum nist Secretary of State H illary C linton stood on the floor of a tex­ tile factory in Port-A u-Prince, Haiti, earlier this m onth and talk­ ed about A m erica's com m itm ent to the island nation. "I pledge we will do more to create more good jobs for the people of H aiti," she told an audience of textile workers. Sounds good, right? But when Clinton finished her speech with a smile, the applause was muted. M any of the workers could not un­ derstand her speech because it w as not translated into Kreyol, the language spoken by the vast m ajority of Haitians. Clinton's obliv­ iousness is typical of policy [m akers w ho ignore a deeply flawed dem ocratic process in Haiti, w hile pushing anti-poverty schem es against Haiti from afar. Clinton, along with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-M oon, is tout­ ing a plan devised by Oxford econom ist Paul Collier to expand tar­ iff-free export zones around Haiti. The plan calls for Haiti to lift ur­ ban slum -dw ellers out of poverty through jobs in textile factories, like the Inter-American Garm ent Factory at which Clinton spoke. There is little popular dem and in Haiti for this maquiladora-style development. Workers at the factory assem bling clothes for Am er­ ican com panies like L evi's are paid twice H aiti's m inimum wage, but they have com plained to A1 Jazeera English, the English ver­ sion of the Arabic-language new s network, that the wages are still so low that the workers cannot escape poverty. The former president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, w hose La- valas party has enjoyed overw helm ing support am ong H aitians in m any elections, tried during the 1990s to triple the m inim um wage. But under pressure from U.S. officials and people like Andy A paid, a H aitian who ow ns num erous sw eatshops and the gar­ ment factory that hosted Clinton, Aristide was forced to drastically scale back the wage increase. In 2004, Apaid and other members of the tiny Haitian elite suc­ cessfully conspired to overthrow Aristide with the help of the U.S. governm ent. Aristide w as flow n out of the country on a U.S. jet surrounded by M arines and dum ped in Central A frican R epub­ lic. Aristide says he was kidnapped and still has not returned to Haiti. Aristide and Lavalas represent a grassroots threat to the centu­ ries-old status quo in Haiti and international interests that have ex­ ploited it. Aristide raised taxes on the rich, launched highly effec­ tive literacy and anti-AIDS programs and built schools and hospi­ tals across the country during his two presidential terms, each cut short by U.S.-backed coups. The Lavalas party has tried to carry on amid continuing repres­ sion. A heavily arm ed U.N. peacekeeping force has repeated ly shelled and occupied Cite Soleil, a slum outside the capital and one of Lavalas' strongest bases of support. Many of the party's leaders were im prisoned on bogus charges by the post-coup regim e, and w ithout Aristide the party is less united than it once was. Lavalas was banned from last w eek's Haitian Senate elections by the governm ent's Provisional Electoral Council because of a tech­ nical problem with the list of candidates it submitted. A judge who ruled that the council's decision w as illegal was prom ptly stripped of his post by the Haitian government. Like the rebel force of slaves that defeated N ap oleon's arm ies, and founded Haiti, however, Lavalas and its agenda of social up­ lift have not been easily m arginalized. The organization called for a boycott of the Senate elections from which it was banned, and Hai­ tians heeded the call — voter turnout on April 19 w as estimated at less than 10 percent. Popular Haitian dem ands include revitalization o f local peasant econom ies, debt cancellation, tem porary protected status for immi­ grants in the United States and the return of Aristide. The Obama adm inistration has already pledged $20 million to pay off part of H aiti's illegitimate debt to the World Bank. That's a start. The m entality that the "international com m unity" knows what is best for H aiti's poor has been discredited by decades o f w ors­ ening poverty. Strong support from the Obama adm inistration for dem ocracy in Haiti, including the participation of Lavalas, would represent change Haitians can believe in and so desperately need. Herz is a journalism senior. Finding a way to talk faith By Merrit Martin Daily Texan Colum nist O n Tuesday evening, I attended "W as Darwin W rong?," a de­ bate sponsored by the D epartm ent of Biom edical Engin eering. O utside, som e people handed out pocket copies of the New Tes­ tament. O thers were pushing "Stand up for Science" stickers. One person held a sign reading "W h at's to D ebate?" U nfortunately, that sign sum m arized the nig ht's proceedings. I'd hoped that the debate would be an exploration of evidence for and against a scientific theory, but it turned out to be more about the validity of biblical creationism . There was relatively little sci­ entific discussion. E m o tio n s w ere ru n n in g h ig h in b o th cam p s. O ne s p e a k ­ er m ocked the creation ists' "n o n sen se ," w hile at anoth er point som eone cried out w ith an im passioned declaration of faith from the aud ien ce. In such a h ostile and em otion ally charged en v i­ ronm ent, neither side could listen to the other. The m essage was clear: W hat's to debate? This event has com e on the heels of Jon M eacham 's A pril 13 N ew sw eek piece on "th e end of C hristian A m erica." He noted that the num ber of religiously unaffiliated A m ericans has d ou ­ bled since 1990. He argued that faith is becom ing less im portant in Am erican politics, though not in Am ericans' lives. A 2005 Gallup poll show ed that 83 percent o f Am ericans said religion is "very im portant" or "som ew hat im portant" in their lives. According to a Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life survey, about 40 percent of religiously unaffiliated A m ericans even say that "religion is at least som ew hat im portant in their lives," and roughly a third re­ port that they "just have not found the right religion yet." A lso , the Pew Forum su rv ey found that m ost p eop le w ho change religious affiliations first do so before age 24, so this is­ sue is of particular im portance to college students. Clearly, many Am ericans think faith is im portant and that it's som ething worth discussing. Interfaith dialogue has alw ays been im portant w here different religious traditions coexist. It is no less essential in today's Am er­ ica, w here diversity of b elief and unbelief flourishes and where m any young people are startin g to explore sp iritu ality on col­ lege cam puses. Earnest, open com m unication is key to fostering the kind of society in which freedom of religion can m eaningful­ ly function. Com m unication is im portant for easing the tensions that inevitably arise betw een faith groups (for the sake of brevi­ ty, I will use the term "faith " to refer to both theistic and non-the- istic w orldview s). And it also serves an im portant introspective function w ithin faith com m unities and within individ uals' lives. But we should remember that dialogue is conversation, requiring both speaking and listening. The most important thing w e can do is to m ake a concerted effort to hear each other. This is not to say that the dialogue should degenerate into a fo­ rum for som e all-encom passing, generalized spirituality or m or­ al code — though that should certainly have a place in the discus­ sion. The purpose of these conversations sh ou ld n't be to dilute one's faith, and neither should it be to condem n it. A true interfaith dialogue should generate an attitude of genu­ ine respect for others' beliefs, w hich d oesn't entail glossing over the differences betw een their beliefs and one's ow n. Rather, d i­ alogue should help people understand what others value m ost in their lives and allow people to carefully consider what exactly they m ost value themselves. So why isn't there more real, honest discussion o f faith? Part of the reason is not that people are certain their faith system is com ­ plete — or that others' system s are patently ridiculous — but be­ cause they are afraid of facing the parts of their faith that they d on't understand, agree with or believe in. Am biguity is uncom fortable. Both sides of Tuesday's "d e b ate " certainly seemed to be uncom fortable with it. But the desire to be incontrovertibly right creates conflict where there need be none. It turns w hat are gray areas into black-and-w hite zones forcing ev­ eryone to take a side. It polarizes, kills dialogue and prevents us from really listening. Austin is already hom e to m any open forums on faith that open up an honest dialogue. The U niversity Interfaith C ouncil, for in­ stance, allow s cam pus religious leaders to m eet and d iscu ss is­ sues pertinent to their m inistries. The Institute of Interfaith Dialog holds lectures and discussions with representatives from different local faith com m unities. Just this m onth it hosted one forum on the financial crisis and another on meditation. The next step is to extend a hand to non-believers. H onest dia­ logue can help m ake Am erican society a place w here religious di­ versity is respected and faith exploration is possible. Martin is a Spanish an d religious studies sophomore. Friday, May 1, 2009 \F,W Research centers to study energy alternatives By Priscilla Totiyapungprasert Daily Texan Staff The U.S. D epartm ent of Energy has gran ted $30.5 m illion to tw o Energy Frontier Research Centers at UT for research and d e v e lo p ­ m ent in energy efficiency. P r e s id e n t B a ra c k O b a m a 's stim u lu s pack ag e w ill fund the $15 m illion a w a rd e d to the re­ search ce n te r led by P au l B ar­ b ara , d ire c to r o f th e C e n te r for N ano and M olecular Science and Technology. The research center, w hich in­ cludes a team of 18 faculty m em ­ bers from the College of N atural Sciences an d C ockrell School of Engineering, will stu d y solar en ­ ergy on a m olecular level as they look for a w ay to tu rn solar e n ­ ergy into a m ore efficient p o w er source. "F or so long, p eo p le th o u g h t of oil as a h a rm le ss, o v e r-in fi­ nite and cheap resource," Barba­ ra said on n atio n al en erg y co n ­ sum ption. "We have the o p p o rtu ­ nity to take ad v a n ta g e of natural resources." Barbara said the m ain reason w hy current solar devices are in­ effective is d u e to high m anufac­ tu rin g costs of m aterials such as silico n S ilicon m a n u fa c tu rin g also em its g ree n h o u se gases, he said. Jennifer Lyon, the associate d i­ re c to r for th e n a n o te c h n o lo g y ce n te r, said th e y are e x p lo rin g organic m aterials to use in solar cells, w hich can then be used to m ake large-area solar panels. O rganic m aterials are more e n ­ v iro n m e n tally friendly and less expensive than silicon, Lyon said. K eith S tev en so n , a chem istry p ro fe sso r on the research team , said batteries are an im portant as­ pect of energy efficiency because they are the prim ary devices for energy storage. U sing organic m aterials has the potential to be three to five tim es ch e ap e r th a n using silicon, S te­ venson said. A one- to four-m ega­ w a tt b attery the size of a sm all tru ck w ould be able to p o w er a h ouse and other h igh-pow er a p ­ plications, he added. "T hat's equivalent to the ener­ gy generated by a coal-fired p o w ­ er plant," Stevenson said. T h e D e p a rtm e n t o f E n e rg y granted $15.5 million to the C en­ ter for P etro leu m a n d G eo sy s­ te m s E n g in e erin g , d ire c te d by G ary Pope. T h e ce n te r h o p es to d ev e lo p a long-term solution for n a tio n ­ al energy security by developing a m ethod to contain by-products of energy co n su m p tio n , such as carbon dioxide and other g ree n ­ house gases. The research team will partn er w ith the Sandia N ational L abo­ ra tory to stu d y the m ovem ent of greenhouse gases and stability of geological svstems. "M ost people can agree e n e r­ gy is the biggest crisis in A m er­ ica an d m ost of the 2 1 st-cen tu ­ ry w o rld ," 1 yon said. "I'm glad both centers received money. It's n o t going to take just one so lu ­ tion. We need to look at m ultiple approaches." The U nited States has the high­ est total energy consum ption rate in the w orld follow ed bv C hina, according to the W orld Resourc­ es Institute. T h e in s titu te a ls o r e p o r te d that in 2005, the av erag e A m eri­ can co n su m ed 7,885.9 kilogram s of oil, c o m p a re d to G reat Brit­ ain w ith 3,894.6 an d Japan w ith 4,135.3. O th e r d ev e lo p e d c o u n ­ trie s w ith h igh p er-p erso n co n ­ s u m p tio n in c lu d e C a n a d a an d the N etherlands. C o n s u m p tio n r a te s a re r is ­ ing, how ever, am ong developing countries, according to reports by the institute. As d ev e lo p in g co u n tries co n ­ tinue to use m ore advanced tech­ nology, th e y w ill need an e n o r­ m ous am o u n t of sustain ab le e n ­ ergy, Lyon said. "P e rs o n a lly , I th in k p e o p le a re m o re a w a re th a n e v e r b e ­ fore a b o u t the n e e d to rev e rse o v e r-c o n su m p tio n ," Lyon said. "O bam a has been great in recog­ nizing the im portance of science and energy studies and their po­ tential for creating jobs to help the economy." Organization aims to inform about suicide prevention Jamie Tworkowski of To Write Love on Her Arms speaks to an audience of supporters on the Main Mall on Friday. The nonprofit m ovem ent is designed to provide support for those i suffering from depression, addiction and suicide. Maxx Scholten D aily Texan Staff By Molly Triece Daily Texan Staff "G et help or be h elp" w as the m a n tra at last n ig h t's su ic id e - prevention event w here stu d en ts w ro te the w o rd "lo v e" on each oth ers' arm s. Jam ie Tw orkow ski, founder of th e n o n p ro fit To W rite Love on H er A rm s, w alked onstage to tell the audience about the organiza­ tio n 's m ission of raising a w a re ­ n ess ab o u t tre a tm e n t for those suffering from depression. " It's a p riv ile g e to be h a n d ­ ed a m icrophone an d talk about things that people d o n 't norm al­ ly talk about," Tw orkow ski said. H e recounted his personal ex­ periences w ith friends w ho com ­ m itted suicide or cam e close and w h a t he le arn ed th ro u g h th eir journeys. "M ay b e d o n 't ju st love o th ­ er people, b u t ask, 'W hat does it m ean to love m e?'" T w orkow s­ ki said. T h e e v e n t w a s d ir e c te d to reach stu d e n ts from junior high th ro u g h college b attlin g su ic id ­ al th o u g h ts an d su ffe rin g from depression, addiction or self-de­ structive behavior. S ince th e n o n p r o fit's in c e p ­ tion th ree years ago, the g ro u p 's m e m b e r s h a v e r a is e d a b o u t $500,000 fo r tr e a tm e n t o f th e m e n ta lly d e p re sse d ac ro ss th e country. "It's about realizing y o u 're not crazy o r w ea k w h en you reach o u t for h e lp ," sa id n u rs in g se­ n io r P a m e la g ra c e O keke. " It's m ore than just suicide. It's about m e n tal h e a lth issu es th a t lead to suicide because people d o n 't care." W ith m o re th a n 40,000 s tu ­ d e n t s v y in g fo r th e lim ite d a m o u n t of resources UT offers, O k ek e sa id s tu d e n ts o ften g et lost in the crow d. "Everyone here is trying to get som ew h ere, and so m etim es w e lose sig h t of p eo p le to o u r left an d to o u r right," she said. O keke said the w o rkload and stress from ch a lle n g in g classes th a t so m e s tu d e n ts e n d u re can also affect m ental well-being. "You g e t p e o p le b u r n t o u t, re a lly m a d , th in k in g th e y 'r e not good e n o u g h ," O keke said. "Many stu d e n ts use d rin k in g as their escape from school an d that i an lead to alcohol abuse." 1 he C o u n s e lin g a n d M ental H ea lth C e n te r g a v e o u t in fo r­ m a tio n at th e e v e n t on th e re ­ so u rce s it offers, sh o w in g s tu ­ d e n ts p a th s th e y c o u ld follow to b eg in lifting th e m se lv es o u t of depression o r self-destructive Dehavior. M artin C o ffm an , an E nglish a n d b u s in e s s fre s h m a n , sa id th at w ith a social en v iro n m en t as d a u n tin g as U T's, counseling itlets need to be m ad e readily 1 available. "T here are m any peo p le w ho haven't talked to anyone today," C offm an said " It's a lot easier to not seek o u t a n d love those people." P s y c h o lo g y ju n io r A s h le y Vhite said she an d h er friends are in th e pro cess of sta rtin g a UT chapter of the organization. "It w o u ld be a g ro u p of y o u r p eers, so p eo p le d o n 't feel like they have no one to talk to," she said. POLICY: I S media unfair, speaker says From page 1 A ssociate history p ro fe s­ so r D en ise S p e llb e rg sa id she ho p es P resid en t Barack O bam a will keep his prom ise of pursuing direct diplom acy with Iran. "H e has been talking a lot about a m utual interest and a m utual respect," Spellberg said. Ebadi attributed major con­ flicts between the tw o nations to U.S. embargix*s and sanc­ tions of Iranian gixxM w hich she said solve nothing. Eba­ di w as personally affected by A m erican sanctions m 2006, w hen she struggled to have h e r n o v el, " Ira n A w a k e n ­ ing: A M em oir of Revolution and H ope," published in the states. "Political sanctions should not cover cultural issues," she said. "By not publishing m y book, y o u 're cen so rin g the people of America." Ebadi also m entioned m e­ dia censorship w hen discuss­ ing American misconceptions about Iran. "A lot of the media is being sw allow ed u p by larger cor­ p o ratio n s," she said Thev m ove y o u in th e directio i they w ant you to m o\ e " E badi said the Arm m e d ia h av e b een u n ta ii t,v th e ir p o rtra y a l of Iran. Sh< said the coverage following 9/11 depicted Iran in a n ative light but never show t im ages of "Iranian ch lighting candles in the street S p e llb e r g a g r e e d t hat A merican education m ust Ix changed to dis))el mi>coneep tions about Iran and the Mid die East. She criticized uni ver sities for requiring students fi take American or Texan histo­ ry but not w orld history She also said th e m edia blew the p o s t- 9 /11 anthra> scare o u t of proportion, ere ating a panic hat outweighet the danger of the situation. "H o w m an y people a c tu ­ ally died of anthrax? ' Ebadi asked NEWS BRIEFLY University names two faculty members as vice provosts G overnm ent professor Gretch- en Ritter and engineering pro­ fessor Janet Ellzey have been nam ed vice provosts by the Uni­ versity to serve under Prov ost Steven Leslie. "I have truly enjoyed building programs for the Cockrell School of Engineering and look forward to working with the entire Univer­ sity community to provide new and exciting international oppor­ tunities for our students and facul­ ty," Ellzey said. The new vice provosts will take their positions this summer and will help replace Tern Givens, a current vice provost w ho will be working for the Migration Policy Institute on a fellowship in Wash­ ington, DC. Ellzey will focu> on interna­ tional studies and will pursue re­ lationships with schools in other countries. "In particular, I w ant to increase participation in our semester ex­ change programs with foreign uni­ versities," she said. "In addition, I would like to develop internation­ al community service opportuni­ ties for our students." The vice provost serves the pro­ vost in administrative duties and pursues varying academic inter­ ests to assist the University. Ritter will focus on gender equity stud­ ies and faculty relations. "Usually, the provost gives a certain set of duties, like a portfolio, to the vice provost," said Sheldon Fkland-Olson, a former UT provost and current professor of sociology. Ritter was away on sabbati­ cal and could not be reached for comments. She begins her tenure as vice prov'ost June 1. Ellzey will join her in the position July 16. — J o n a th a n B a b in National Academy of Sciences adds member from UT faculty The National Academy of Sci­ ences elected engineering profes­ sor Thomas Hughes as one of its 72 new members this week. Members of the academy advise the federal government and public about critical scientific and techno logical issues. The academy has 2,150 mem­ bers, and Hughes is the second UT faculty member who has been elected to both the National Acad­ emy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering. The oth­ er is geological sciences professor Robert Dickinson. H ughes conducts research in com putat’onal mechanics. He re­ cently developed a'cardiovas­ cular model and disease simu­ lation that predicts medical out­ comes. The process allows doc­ tors to make medical interven­ tion1- and decisions based on the predictions. Hughes and Oden have collab­ orated on many projects through the decades and are now each working on computer models for medical diseases. — P riscilla T o tiya p u n g p ra se rt Obama administration names UT professor to advisory council William Press, professor of com­ puter and natural sciences, has been named to President Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. "I'm not sure why he picked me, but it's probably because I've worked in such a wide breadth of sciences," Press said. According to his Web site, Press has published more than 150 pa­ pers in biology, astrophysics, cos­ mology and computational algo­ rithms. He was also a senior fel­ low at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1998 to 2004 and is a founding member of five Na­ tional Academy of Sciences' com­ puter and information sciences section. Press said he was contacted about a month ago for the position on the council but was unaware of w ho else would serve until all names were announced on Mon­ day. He said he is looking for­ ward to working with the other 19 members of the council. "I'm very excited, but it's going "It's an extraordinary event for to be a lot of work," Press said. the academy to elect [Hughes] and really recognize him as an international leader," said J. Tin­ sley Oden, vice president for re­ search and a long-time colleague of Hughes. He said he still plans to teach at UT while researching for the council and attending meetings every month or two in W ashing­ ton, D.C. — M a tt S tep h en s R eg istratio n for ACC’s su m m e r classes is open M ay 4-27. Apply now. D on’t forget to check online for new fall registration dates. (512) 2 2 3 .4 A C C austincc.edu ^ A ustin COMMUNITY JJSsLAiEjJ_vytrnEXr EuüiiftU TicRMn vm. TQúk SATURDAY, JUNE 20 ®TOYOTA C E N T ER H O U S T O N BB3 LI VGnP TI On. c om 1-866-4HOUTIX | T O Y O T A C E N T E R T IX .C O M All dates, acts a n d ticket p rice s su b je ct to c h a n g e w ith o u t n o tic e A se rvice ch a tg e is a d d e d to e a ch tick ei. ISOLATED INCIDENT CD AND TV SPECIAL ON COMEDY CENTRAL® M A Y 17TH AND IN STORES EVERYWHERE MAY 19T H D A N E C O O K . C O M T u t h u i . v T t \ \x JT lo Creed or not to Creed: That is the question By Robert Rich Daily Texan Staff Ladies and gentlemen, I'm at a crossroads On one hand, I know Creed sucks. Trust me, I do. On the other hand, I have a very spe­ cial place in my heart for Scott Stapp a fid his gang of pseudo- Christian modern rockers. My s is te r p ick ed m e up from m iddle school one day and had the group's debut al­ bum, My Own Prison, playing. The song was "W h a t's This Life For," and I thought it was the bee's knees — yes, I used phrases like "b e e 's knees" in my vounger days. A co u p le of y ears later, I borrow ed H um an C lay from her and had my mind blown again. From tracks like "W hat If" and "B e a u tifu l" to more balludesque tunes like "Wash Away Those Years" and the ul­ tra-popular "W ith Arms Wide O p en ," the album made me trek to the local music store in my East Texas hometown and special-order the songbook for the album so I could play it on the brand-spankin' new Yama­ ha acoustic guitar I received for Christmas that year. Once it came in, I beat and banged aw ay on that Yama­ ha, tryin g to recreate those w onderful palm-muted pow ­ er chord s that I heard Mark Tremonti jam every time I put the disc in my stereo. Needless to say, I was unable to proper­ ly play the tunes, and the book was tossed in a pile of junk, never to be used again. So with the announcem ent earlier this week of a reunion tour and new album from the band, w hat am I to do? One part of me wants to spend the remainder of this column bash­ ing Stapp and Co. tor all their musical mischief. The o th e r h alf? W ell, he w ants to snatch up tickets to all three of the Texas shows on the tour (Dallas, Houston and San Antonio) and relive the joy of my middle schl days. Be­ sides, I'd say I've got a pretty good grunge-mimicking voice (I'm a Creed karaoke beast), so this would be the only concert 1 could go to where my singing along w ouldn't make the per­ son next to me want to bash my face in. You know what? I'm doing it, dammit. Creed Roadtrip 2009. Are you in? Let me know on Twitter (©robertrich) or my Fa- cebook fan page — no, this isn't sham eless self-prom otion — and we'll Stapp it up. And we'll do so with arms wide open. W h a t d o e s it take to be a U T Pom G irl? T h o se w h o a u d itio n e d say it takes "sm ile s,""e n th u sia sm " a n d "sc h o o l spir it. Paul Chouy | Daily Texan Staff Confessions oía would-be Pom ( nr! By Rachel M e a d o r Daily Texan Staff Last Friday, I took out my belly button ring, did my best to camouflage my tattoo and reluctantly shaved off two weeks of pit hair that I had been working on for Eeyore's Birthday Party — all to better my chances of making the UT Pom Squad. For the past three years, I have danced nearly every day with a local professional ballet company, but my classmates encouraged me to try out any­ way. Theatre and dance se­ nior Melissa Jensen has sev­ eral friends on the squad and told me not to worry. Deci­ sions are 10 percent dance ability, 90 percent looks, she said. Unsure whether this was a dis to my dance skills or a com plim ent to my appear­ ance, I decided to go for it. I walked into the Denton A. Cooley Pavilion fewer than five minutes late to find that I had completely misused my preparation time. I quickly took my hair out of the po­ nytail and tried — without a mirror — to style it in some way that could compete with the poofy and curly half-up- dos of the other tryouts. "I have never seen so many poofs in my life," said geogra­ phy freshman Morgan Cotter about the predominant hair­ style choice. "I didn't believe that hair could be poofed so high. I saw the double poof today. I didn't even know that existed." We filed into the practice basketball room for a little pep talk from spirit programs director Jeff Dieta, who asked, "W hat do you think w e're looking for in a Pom Girl?" "Sm iles," "enthu siasm ," "school spirit" and "sm art" were the most common an­ swers. "W e're looking for enter­ tainers," Dieta said. "W hen people watch the pom squad, they don't watch the group as a whole. They look at in­ dividuals, and if one doesn't entertain them, they move to the next girl. We want you to entertain us." Then we learned the rou­ tine to the UT fight song, a saucy jazz dance to Britney Spears' "M annequin" and a hip-hop routine to Keri Hil- son's "Get Your Money Up." I even heard "Stop, now let me see ya booty drop," fre­ quently, which is an appro­ priate name for the ass-shak­ ing routine. "T hey taught the danc­ es way too fast," said Rang- erette Leanne Bilnoski, an in­ coming junior from Kilgore Junior College. "So I'm just going to drop my booty like the songs says." Nearly 90 applicants took the floor in groups of four to perform these routines. After the last booty dropped, the judges, composed of past and present pom squad captains and directors, left the room to choose girls for round two w here actual dance sk ills would be evaluated. "This has become a goal POM continues on page 7 Life& A rts Editor: Ana McKenzie E-mail: lifeandarts^xiaityTexanontine c o m P h o n e - www.dailytexanonline.com ."3. I- Built By S n o w m e m b e rs M a tt Murray, JP Pfertner, Bran d on Stein a n d B e n Bau er w orke d to g e th e r for a w hile before realizing their talents. Courtesy of Alison Narro Built By Snow s nerdy charm makes its fun music unforgettable Serendipitous accident creates one o f Austin’s most-watched bands By M a ry Lin gw all Daily Texan Staff Since the January release of Built By Snow's debut LP Mega, the local band's steady ascent to prominence in the Austin mu­ sic scene has been defined by its infectious brand of indie rock, as well as a love for all things nerdy. Built By Snow's sound is per­ vaded by a thematic undercurrent of boyish appreciation for retro video games, robots, science and astronaut humor, juxtaposed with a mature understanding of the tri­ als and tribulations of love. The playful details, danceable back- beats and focused arrangements of Mega speak of a band that wastes no potential. But only three years ago, Built By Snow's future band members were nothing more than co-work­ ers, unaware' of one another's mu­ sical interests and talents. It all started when JP Pfert­ ner (now lead vocalist and gui­ tarist) hesitantly asked a few of his friends from work to pose as bandmates for a Web site. Pfert­ ner had been working on a demo and wanted to promote his mu­ sic, but he had a bit of a problem: He had no actual band. Luckily for Pfertner, he happened to draft help from guys who were also closet musicians. "I was kind of shy," Pfertner said with a slight grin. "And I needed to look like I had a band so I could put some band pictures on a Web site. So I was like, 'OK, we'll pretend you play bass and you play keyboard,' and then I re­ alized they really did play those instruments and that it was just stupid that we weren't already playing together." After finding a friend of his to play drums, Pfertner thought th e y co u ld b e g in m ak in g o rig in al m usic and playin g shows. But when the drummer found out that she was pregnant, band practice went on the back burner and Pfertner returned to searching for a way he could make his band dreams happen. "And then we figured out that another guy we worked with, Brandon, had been playing drums forever," he said. Brandon Stein quipped back about the tough .requirements of joining the band. "Yeah, and I wasn't pregnant," Stein said. From then on, Pfertner and his work recruits — Matt Murray on keyboard and guitar, Ben Bauer on bass and Stein on drums — began writing music together. All had played in bands before, but none had seriously considered the prospect of becoming a bona- fide performing and record-sell­ ing act. But this quirky ensemble has made it far. Since the band's first live perform ance on sub-par equipment, Built By Snow has matured into a group with defin­ itive onstage charisma and a dis­ tinctive sound. Despite constant comparisons to The Cars and Weezer, the band has avoided the pitfall of sound­ ing either retro or passe. While it definitely espouses the musi­ cal aesthetic of its infamous mu­ sical predecessors, the group of­ fers something undeniably orig­ inal by combining digital mel­ odies reminiscent of Atari-era video games with vicious guitar riffs, youthful keyboarding and clapping. The foursome of tech junkies who appear meek, nerdy and nice offstage take an almost punk en­ thusiasm when they get behind their instruments. Pfertner whose boyish face still gets him carded despite being well over 21, deliv­ ers a bold voice that gives depth to his often sweet lyrics. As Bau­ er and Murray dance and rip poppy riffs on their guitars, Stein grounds the sound in sturdy back beats. Stein's drumming reminds listeners that even though the music is heavy in hand claps and electric details, it is definitely not soft tween pop: It's rock. In the whirlwind of buzz that encircled Built By Snow after Mega's release, the band has been featured as one of the "9 Bands to Watch in '09" in Austin Monthly magazine and was invited to play both South by Southwest and North by Northeast music festi­ vals. But the hype hasn't clouded the band, which has already be­ gun to transition into plans for re­ cording new material by the end of the summer. "Things are still happening with this album," Stein said. "And it's fun for an unsigned band like us to get to be a part of that." And he's right. Before the band settles back into the studio for the summer, Built By Snow has a few shows left for the spring. "There's a lot of self-pressure to keep getting better and doing more," Bauer said. WHAT: Built By Snow WHERE* Old Pecan Street Festival WHEN: Saturday WHAT: Built By Snow with The Boxing Lesson and Your Kisses Cause Crashes WHERE: The Parish WHEN: May 16 The Parlor Mob rocks on through the recession really great show or a bad show. The places where you'd think it'd be the worst, more people keep coming out to the shows. The places where it seems like the econom y is bad and peo­ ple are stru g glin g , they tend to come out and have fun. I'm a firm believer in the fact that w hen tim es are hard peop le want to be entertained more. DT: A n o th er new sw o rth y item: What are your thoughts on Lil Wayne making a rock record? PR: He's probably just being an asshole. I fucking can't stand that guy or anything he does. H e's got no business m aking a rock record, and his last re­ cord blew. Don't get me wrong. 1 love rap and hip -hop , but he's awful. Right up there with Kanye West. DT: C o n tin u in g w ith the newsworthy items: What's your take on swine flu? PR: I heard about it for the first time [Tuesday] because we're so out of touch. Just traveling and playing, I don't get to watch TV. My mom sent me a text that said there's this flu going around, wash your hands. It sounds pret­ ty ridiculous, though. DT: W hat would you say to anyone interested in something to do Friday night or folks who may have heard of you before but aren't sure if they should come to the show? PR: C om e out and have a good time. We'll put on a great show. W e're gonna jam, play som e songs that the old fans haven't heard. Plus, w e'll be drinking some beers, that's al­ ways fun. WHERE: Stubb's indoor stage I WHAT: The Parlor Mob WHEN: Tonight at 10 p.m. Friday, May 1, 2009 POM: UT elite determined by head bops, booty drops From page 6 for me since I got accepted to the school," said incoming freshman Jaci Brooks, sporting the aforementioned double poof that she spent an hour sculpt­ ing. "I love to dance, and this will allow me to continue pur­ suing my passion." About 15 minutes later, the candidates were led outside the building. O nly the girls who made the cut for the second day would be allowed back inside. Standing outside in the mid­ evening, I wras relieved the day was over and decided that even if I made the cut, I wasn't com­ ing back the next day. This just wasn't for me. "I've been starving myself for three weeks for this," I heard one girl say while we waited to see the list. 1 wasn't on it, and neither was she. As all 88 made their way to the list, a somber quiet fell over the group. The chosen minori­ ty filed back inside, doing their best to hide their excitement in front of their rejected friends, and the rest of us were left on the outside looking in. Somewhere between the first head bop and booty drop, I be­ came incredibly, unbelievably motivated and sure about how I use my body to entertain. The next day, I joined my friends for a beautiful day at Eeyore's Birthday Part}'. The nVost disappointing part of the weekend? The unneces­ sary departure of the pit hair. «SS* Guitarist dismisses swine flu, Lil Wayne’s rock ’n roll record By Robert Rich Daily Texan Staff The last tim e New Jersey hard rock quintet The Parlor Mob w as in Austin, The Dai­ ly Texan spoke with lead sing­ er Mark M elicia about his ap­ proach to rock 'n' roll and how he handles the pressure of be­ ing compared to legendary art­ ists like Robert Plant because of the group's ballsy retro-rock tunes. So w hat's there to talk about this time around? Swine flu, of course. Guitar­ ist Paul Ritchie spoke with the Texan during the band 's trek from Los Angeles to Arizona about the aforementioned mal­ ady, as well as their inclusion in the lineup of the upcoming Austin City Limits Music Festi­ val and his unbridled hatred for Lil Wayne. The Daily Texan: What have you guys been up to since we last saw you in Austin? Paul Ritchie: We've just main­ ly been touring and w riting. Probably nine out of the last 12 months we've been on the road, so we're just working and try­ ing to progress and move for­ ward within the band. The new stuff w e've been writing is really cool. It's very dramatic and epic, kind of like "When I Was An Or­ phan" [from the band's debut al­ bum, And You Were a Crow]. DT: What songs have been your favorite to play lately? Are they different from what they used to be? PR: I' m really digging "Real Hard Headed." Playing that one on the road has been awesome. The Parior M ob continues their tour, noticing that hard economic times bring more people to shows. "I'm a firm believer in the fact that when times are hard, people want to be entertained more," said Paul Ritchie. Courtesy of the Parlor M o b We have an intro we tacked on to it, and it's actually our set- opener. 1 always enjoy playing "Tide of Tears," because we just jam on it and really rock out. DT: Would you say your live show has changed in any way since the last time you were here in Austin? PR: Fuck, y o u 'v e got me stumped here. T h at's a good question. We have Mark play­ ing keys now, and I'm jumping between acoustic and electric guitar. We're just trying to keep each other on our toes at all time. We try to improvise at all times, if possible. After playing thes¡p songs so many times, 'it's still not boring because w e're constantly trying to bring each other up and see what we can do differently. DT: One thing that's been in the news a lot lately is the cur­ rent economic crisis. Have you seen its effects on the road or within the band? PR: It's hard for me to say. 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Ram ona Flume | D a ily Texan Staff Rowers head to first-ever Big 12 title race By Austin Ries Daily Texan Staff A s far a s coach C arrie G raves and the Longhorn Row ing team are concerned, OU does not suck — in fact, the H orn s cou ld not be an y h a p p ie r to h av e them around. The Sooners' addition of a var­ sity rowing team m eans that Tex­ as gets to compete this Saturday in the first ever Big 12 rowing cham ­ pionship in Kansas City, Kan. After seven years of competing in the previously named Big 12 In­ vitational, the Longhorns, along w ith K an sas, K a n sas State and Oklahoma, can up the competition and bragging rights with the first official cham pionship. "I am really su rp rised at how excited 1 am ," G raves said. "This up s the ante and definitely ram ps everyone up for competition. We finally get to retire the Invitation­ al C u p ." This will be the second trip to K ansas this spring for Texas. The Longhorns com peted against the Jay h aw k s a m onth ago, posting fou r v ic to rie s o u t o f six races. Texas took first place in the first an d second in both varsity and novice eight boats. "Y ou can 't take anything for g ra n te d ," G ra v e s said . "W e've raced a g a in st them before, but team s get faster, row ers could have been hurt and you are al­ w ays com peting against an envi­ ronment you can't control." S in ce 1998, the three o r ig i­ nal Big 12 team s did not have a cham pionship. With the addition of O k lah om a for the 2008-2009 season, the conference has added its nam e to the league cham pion­ ship. Unlike strong row ing con­ ferences like the Big 10 and Pac 10, rowing is still immature in the Big 12 Conference. "T h is is a benchm ark for us, and these girls d eserve a cham ­ pionship for all their hard work," Graves said. "Competition creates com petitiveness, and that creates excellence." After a d isap p o in tin g perfor­ mance two weeks ago at the Lake N atom a Invitational, G ra v e s is confident that the team know s that in order to be great, it has to row above and beyond what it is capable of doing. "T his is a great group o f girls, and they really w ant to be great and to be fast," G raves said. "They have to own it and hopefully row at a level where they leave noth­ ing untouched and no p lace in their mind unexam ined." The com petition will begin at 10:30 a.m . with five races: first v a r sity e ig h t, se c o n d v a rsity eight, varsity four, first novice eight an d secon d n ovice eight. Points w ill be aw ard ed accord ­ ing to a d esign ated point scale for first, second and third place in each race. For now, the Longhorns remain excited for the com petition while Graves sees the lesson behind the situation. "R ow in g is a great m etaphor for life," G rav es said . "Y ou put them in this boat, shove them off and stan d on the sid elin e. You just h ope that w hen they com e by they are in the lead." SWEEP: Horns take first game in extras, cruise in gam e two From page 10 w ho threw a com plete eight- inning gam e, held UTSA to six hits an d tw o runs and slam m ed in a hom e run, in the fourth to give the L ong­ h o rn s a tw o -ru n le ad in gam e one. UTSA evened the score in the sixth an d forced extra in n in gs. F re sh m an sh o r t­ sto p Lexy Bennett hit the gam e winner in the bottom of the eighth. "I just wanted a base hit, nothing b ig or anything to the right sid e of the field," Bennett said . "Ju st a lon g fly ball to score the runner. I tried to keep it sim ple and still get the job done." Ju n io r sec o n d b a se m a n L o ry n Jo h n so n d e f in i t e ­ ly got the job don e for her team in gam e two. She hit a n o th e r th re e -ru n h o m ­ er alm o st im m ed iately a f­ ter S a v o n y an d bro k e the record for m ost R BIs in a sin g le seaso n . Joh n son has 38 RBIs an d a .409 battin g av erag e. She said she tried not to focus on the record during the game. "I knew that I w as getting close because m y mom had told m e," Johnson said. "But I w as just trying to get out there and help my team out the best I can." C lark said the team w as able to get on a roll offen ­ sively, som eth in g it h adn't been d o in g sin ce the end of its eigh t g am e w innin g streak last month. "I th in k w e 're c o m in g full circle now," Clark said. "We're building up to finish­ ing up this segm ent of our seaso n w here w e th ough t we were a month ago. That's what we need to do heading into the post season." The Longhorns will carry the m om entum into S atu r­ d a y 's hom e m atch up with Texas A&M . The gam e will be bro ad cast n ation ally on ESPN at 6 p.m. Sophom ore Raygan Feight pinch runs for Alexis Bennett in the second gam e of Thursday's doubleheader with UTSA. Feight and other Texas reserves saw much playing time in the L o n g h o rn s'6-1 win. Jacqueline Gilíes | D a ily Texan Staff BASEBALL: Hot-hitting Lusson building confidence From page 10 a three-game series tonight to re­ lieve som e of the logjam at the top. "In the conference standings, we know everybody is really close," said third baseman Kevin Lusson. "A cou ple g am es could change the rankings dramatically." The Longhorns have tw o con­ ference series left before the Big 12 cham pionships in three weeks. But if history repeats itself, the L o n g h o rn s sh o u ld be in go o d sh ap e heading into the weekend against Baylor. The first time Texas played Rice this season w as in early March. Following the loss, the Longhorns were sw ept by Kansas but turned their attitude around just in time for the m id w eek gam e ag a in st D allas Baptist, which they won 3-0. From that point on, Texas kept up its momentum by winning se­ ries, sw eepin g series and raking up the scoreboard on every m id­ week opponent. Life w as good — until last week when the Longhorns lost to Rice again and followed suit by losing their weekend series against Kan­ sas State. But they rebounded to win their m idweek gam e Tuesday against Texas State 12-2. "[H ead coach A ugie G arrido] uses the phrase, 'D um p the g ar­ b age o u t,'" sa id center field er Connor Rowe. "O ur garbage can w as definitely full from last week­ end. [Tuesday night's] win w as a "Now, we want to keep the momentum going. It's getting toward the end of the season, so everybody is excited and ready to do their best." — Kevin Lusson, Texas third baseman huge sfart for us com ing up with this weekend." T h ro u g h o u t the se a so n , the Longhorns have m aintained the con feren ce's h ighest ERA with a 2.44. Baylor is ranked No. 5 in the Big 12 in hitting, but Texas has confidence in its pitching staff. "[Baylor] has good pitching and hitting from what I've seen on TV," Rowe said. "B ut we'll definitely give them a run for their money and see who com es out with the victory. I think our pitching staff will keep their runs low, so we just got to score runs." A n d if the L o n g h o rn s p la y like they did Tuesday night, runs w on't be a problem at all. Texas scored m ore than it has all se a ­ son a g a in st T exas State. Its o f­ fense w as hot at the bat and w as led by Lusson who had five runs and went 4-for-4. "I'v e built con fid en ce in m y­ se lf," L u sso n sa id . "N o w , w e want to keep the m omentum go­ ing. It's getting tow ard the end of the season, so everybody is excit­ ed and ready to do their best and do everyth ing they can to help the team get through the rest of the season." Texas will face Baylor at home to n ig h t at U F C U D isc h - F a lk Field at 8 p.m ., and the gam e will be televised on ESPN U . But for the rest of the series, the Bears get home field ad van tage at Bay­ lor B allpark. G am e tw o will be Saturday night at 6:30 p.m ., and gam e three w ill be S u n d a y at 1:30 p.m. 9 TRACK: Horns focus on solo races, wont run relays From page 10 o u td o o r se aso n , fin ally breaking into the top 10 at No. 7 this week. "We are really starting to gel," Kearney said. While it m ay h av e tak­ en all o f the in d o or se a ­ son and m ost of the out­ d o o r seaso n , the team is fin a lly sta rtin g to find its strid e . With h alf of the team is com po sed of freshm en who have nev­ er com peted in a Big 12 or N C A A outdoor cham ­ p io n sh ip , this is perfect timing. T his w e e k e n d 's m eet will also be the team 's fi­ nal meet at M ike A. M y­ ers Stadium . The track's w ider than normal curves (120 m e te rs in ste a d o f 100) an d short stra ig h t­ a w a y s h av e m ad e th is track the team 's favorite. "I'm a lot m ore co m ­ fortable with this track," sa id fresh m an sp rin te r Stacey-Ann Smith. Smith, along with 23 oth­ er Horns, has posted her best marks at the stadium. SATURDAY: Texas Invitational WHERE: Mike A Myers Stadium WHEN: All day ONLINE: TexasSports. com SPORTS BRIEFLY Sweeney's catch robs Rangers of comeback ARLINGTON — Ryan Sweeney retreated, leaped and stuck his glove above the eight-foot wall — and saved a much-needed vic­ tory for the ailing Oakland Athletics. Sweeney's incredible catch in straightaway cen­ ter robbed Ian Kinsler of a three-run homer in the eighth inning and the A's held on, winning 4-2 over the Texas Rangers on Thursday. "It's phenomenal," said Dallas Braden, who pitched five scoreless in­ nings to get the win. "It w as pretty much tim­ ing," Sweeney said. "I just jumped, got lucky and caught it. ... He hit it dead center. I think if he would have pulled it a little bit, it might have gone." Braden (3-2) allowed five hits and walked four, but managed to work out of trouble. The left-hand­ er struck out six, escaping bases-loaded jams his last two innings with Ks. Before Matt Holliday homered in the ninth, Oak­ land got runs on two sacri­ fice flies and a bases-load­ ed walk issued by Eddie Guardado. Andruw Jones homered for Texas in the ninth, nght after Michael Young was thrown out trying for a tnple on a ball hit off the left-field wall. Michael Wuertz, clos­ ing with Brad Ziegler out sick, still got his first save. Nebraska's Anderson declares for NBA draft LINCOLN, Neb. — Ne­ braska guard Ryan Ander­ son has declared himself eligible for the NBA draft. Anderson is a 6-foot-4 senior guard from Seattle who would be a senior in eligibility next season. He averaged 7.1 points and 3.8 rebounds per game last season. The draft is June 25, but an underclassmen can withdraw his name from consideration by June 15 if he doesn't hire an agent. Nebraska coach Doc Sa­ dler told the Lincoln Jour­ nal Star on Thursday that Anderson doesn't plan to sign with an agent and that he expected him to be back with the Com huskers next season. Compiled from Associated Press reports ■ V Friday, May 1, 2009 Sports Editor: Dav id R H< -nry E-mail: sports@dailytexanonline om Phone: (512) 232-2210 www.dailytexanonline.com Timely hitting leads Texas to doubleheader sweep By Lena Price Daily Texan Staff to win the game 6-1. the first game of the series. A fter securing a solid five-run lead her first at bat in the fourth, kick-starting Texas coach Connie C lark said the team settled into both games offensively, "I don't think we started great on ei- in game two of a doubleheader against UTSA on Thursday, Texas cleared its ther pitcher, Clark said. But we made bench and every player made it onto gam e," Savony said. "So I was just try- o ffe n siv e ad ju stm e n ts a little m ore board for quickly in the second game than in the the field Savony hit a three-score home run on "I u su ally get ab ou t one at b at a the offense for Texas. inS to 8et som e runs on the team. That w as my good pitch so I first gam e." S o p h o m o r e p itc h h itte r S h e lb y S av o n y , w h o d o e s n 't n o rm a lly see was going for it." much playing time, was one of the ma- lexas (27-16, 11-6 Big 12) also defeat- jor reasons why the Longhorns went on ed UTSA (26-26) in extra innings during Sophom ore pitcher Brittany Barnhill, SWEEP continues on page 9 Horns, Bears vie for tops in Big 12 Desiree Williams, Kelly Melone and their teammates celebrate Texas' 6-1 victory in the second game of a doubleheader against UTSA. The Longhorns won the first game 3-2. Jacqueline G ille i | Daily Texan Staff W O M EN 'S TRACK Longhorns use last home race as final tuneup By Chris Tavarez Daily Texan Staff Consider the Texas Invitational 4 dress rehearsal. That's more or less w hat the event will be for the w om en's track team on Saturday. It's im portant because it's a last run-through b e­ fore the bright lights of the Big 12 and N CA A ou t­ door meets. The Longhorns want to m ake sure ev ­ erything is perfect, but they definitely d on't want to give their best perform ance before it really counts. The Big 12 and N CA A meets are what the team has been w orking tow ard all indoor and outdoor seasons. Texas coach Beverly Kearney know s how to ap­ proach this final prelude to the big meets. "It's a tune-up m eet," Kearney said. "It's a meet for us to really tw eak a few things individually." With all the focus on individual races, the team w on't even be running any of its relays. The relays don't really need m uch tw eaking, considering the L onghorns rank 12th in the 4 x l0 0 -m eter and sec­ ond nationally in the 4x400. The team will run under its highest ranking this TRACK continues on page 9 Freshman third baseman Kevin Lusson had four hits and two RBI in the Longhorns' 12-2 win over Texas State on Tuesday. Texas hopes its hot bats show up for a three-game series with Baylor this weekend. Texas hopes momentum carries from midweek win into annual split series By Laken Litman Daily Texan Staff Like Texas, Baylor is trying to pull itself together. B oth the L onghorns and the B ears s u ffe re d d is a p p o in tin g w eekends but were redeemed by midweek wins. Last weekend, No. 8 Texas (30- 11-1, 12-8-1 Big 12) lost two and tied one ag ainst No. 16 K ansas State. No. 17 Baylor (26-17, 10-10 Big 12) experienced its first con­ ference sweep of the season cour­ tesy of No. 9 O klahoma. Ironical­ ly enough, earlier in the season, the Longhorns swept the Sooners when they cam e to A ustin, and the Bears won their series against the Wildcats. This is further proof that as the regular season winds down, it is really any on e's game in the Big 12. Right now, Texas, Texas A&M, O klahom a, Kansas State, Baylor and Missouri have very similar re­ cords, averaging at about 10-10. The Longhorns and Bears start BASEBALL continues on page 9 W EEKEND: No. 8 Texas (30- 11-1) vs. No. 17 Baylor (26-17) WHERE: UFCU Disch-Falk Field (today); Baylor Ballpark (Saturday, Sunday.) WHEN: 8 p.m., today; 6:30 p.m., Saturday; 1:30, Sunday ON AIR: TV- ESPNU (today); Radio-AM 1300 The Zone A Texas pole vaulter tries to clear the bar at the Texas Twilight invitational on April 18. The Longhorns will compete against a bevy of Olympians on Saturday at the Texas Invitational. Paul Chouy D aily Texan Staff I Freshman Stacey-Ann Smith prepares to hand off the baton at the Texas Twilight invitational on April 18. Paul Ch ouy | Daily Texan Staff Former world champ, Olympians headline meet MEN'S TRACK By Jordan Godwin Daily Texan Staff T h e ra in m ay h a v e b e e n e a r lie r th is w eek, but a sto rm o f talen t w ill h it A ustin on Satu rd ay fo r the Texas In vitation al. Former world cham pion Tyson Gay w ill com pete at M ike A. M yers Stadi­ um on Saturday. G ay signed up to run the 400 meters, so he w on't be showcas­ ing his blazing 100-m eter dash speed, but he'll have p len ty of com petition. Fellow U.S. O lym pian W'allace Spear- mon, who finished with third in the 200 dash in Beijing before being disqualified for stepping out of his lane, will run the 400. Darold W illiam son, an O lym pic gold m edalist in the 4x400 relay at the 2004 Athens games, will also com pete, along w ith his teammate from that relay, Kel­ ly Willie. "T h e y 'v e got th e U .S. C h am p io n ­ sh ip s around the corner, and they're trying to get ready," said Bubba Thorn­ ton, Texas' head coach w ho also com ­ m anded the U.S. track and field team last summer. But d on't head hom e once that race is over. Less than an hour after the one- lap race, the tw o-lappers will take the track. With three of the nation's fastest "Here in Austin, the Olympian presence will elevate some of our guys' performances, no doubt" — Bubba Thornton, Texas head track coach fou r co lleg ian s co m p etin g alon g sid e another O lym pian, you'd better bring your popcorn. lexas' Tevan Everett and Jacob Her­ nandez w ill play host to a fierce pool of com petitors. Chris Gow ell of Baylor leads the pack of NCAA runners out to b eat the tw o-tim e n ation al cham pion H ernandez. T h e O lym p ian in that race w ill be Su d an e se-b o rn A m erican L op ez Lo- m ong. Seen on TV carrying the A m eri­ can flag at the 2008 O lym pics O pening Cerem ony, Lom ong sp ecializes in the 1,500 but also placed fifth at the U.S. O lym pic Trials in the 800 run. H ernan­ dez placed ninth at the trials. Six L onghorns w ill m iss the excite­ m ent, as a group o f d istan ce runners w ill co m p e te in C a lifo rn ia at S ta n ­ ford's Cardinal Invitational. Kyle M ill­ er, Logan G on zalez and P atrick Todd w ill com p ete in the 1,500. Jak e M orse and Rob Wetzel will run the 3,000 stee­ plechase, and Victor G ras w ill run the 5,000. "Those guys need to get their region­ al qualifying times, and it's a good meet because the conditions are always great," Thornton said. "B u t here in Austin, the O lym pian presence will elevate som e of our guys' performances, no doubt." SATURDAY: Texas Invitational W HERE: Mike A. Myers Stadium WHEN: All day ONLINE: TexasSports.com