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A DISTINGUISHED FIRST IN A LONG LINE

Obama fires 
up Texas 
Dems at rally

Illinois sen. speaks 
to tens o f thousands 
at Auditorium Shores

By Reggie Ugwu

Daily Texan Staff

It w as overcast w hen betw een 
15,000 and 20,000 people gath­
ered Friday for the only rally of 
Sen. Barack O bam a's presidential 
announcem ent tour boasting the 
stated goal to "kick ass" boldly 
on the bill. The spectre o f rainfall 
failed to thw art the spirit of the 
aud aciou sly hopeful 
third-year 
senator from Illinois, o r that of his 

followers.

"T his is ju st a little bit of rain, I 
hope you d on't m ind ," the presi­
dential candidate said as a sea of 
navy blue "O b am a '0 8 " placards 
turned into m ake-shift umbrellas.

T h e 

crow d at A ud itoriu m 
Shores, though united by enthu­
siasm , con sisted o f people of 
various ages, races and back­
grounds. David G illette, a senior 
at St. M ichael's Catholic Academy, 
ditched class for a spot at the front 
of a seem ingly endless line outside 
the venue's gates.

"I'll learn m ore from O bam a 
than m y classes," Gillette said, 
w ho arrived four hours before 
O bam a took the stage.

N ick Chu, president of co-spon- 
soring organization the University

D em ocrats, said organizing the 
rally with only three w eeks notice 
from O bam a's national cam paign 
w as hectic.

" It's been crazy, but a good 

crazy," C hu said.

Logistical p lanning w as fur­
ther com plicated w hen the site of 
the rally w as changed from U T's 
G regory G ym , follow ing an early 
realization that the response to 
the sen ato r's visit w ould be over­
w helm ing. Texans for O bam a, a 
grass-roots group that team ed up 
w ith O bam a's national cam paign 
to bring the senator to Austin, 
reported more than 16,000 online 
R.S.V.P.S for the rally, w hich w as 
also m ade open to the public.

"T h is is the largest event that | 
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the University D em ocrats has ever 
been a part o f," Chu said.

The organization is currently in 
talks with Sen. H illary C linton's | 
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cam paign about a possible visit to 

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cam pus.

O bam a's m agnetism extended 
all the w ay to Princeton Review 's 
n inth-m o st conserva five school 
in the nation, w here a group of 
A ggie D em ocrats em barked on a 
trek from College Station across 
the geo-political spectrum.

"Barack O bam a is the next pres­
ident of the U nited States," said 
Sohail H assan, a political science 
m ajor at Texas A &M University

SPEECH continues on page 6A

UT’s first black graduate offers perspective

John S. Chase talks 
about his transition 
in midst o f segregation

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By Jamie Mayes

Daily Texan Staff 

From the birth of rock 'n ' roll 
and stiletto heels to the up rising 
o f the Korean War and the Civil 
Rights M ovem ent, the 1950s w as 
a thrilling and im portant tim e in 
A m erican H istory and for the UT 
School o f A rchitecture, accord ing 
to the form er dean of architecture 
and 1956 alum nus Hal Box.

O n June 9, 1950, John S. C h ase, 
the first black grad u ate of the 
U niversity w ould take his first 
steps o nto the cam pu s as a m em ­
ber o f the stud en t body.

"I d o n 't know w hy he hasn 't 
been recognized as the first grad u ­
ate," Box said. "T h e m ed ia d id n 't 
pick up on his enrollm ent, becau se 
the School o f A rchitecture w asn't 
as visible as the School o f Law ." 

W h en C h ase m ad e the d eci­

sion to gradu ate in 1952 from the 
gradu ate architectural school, his 
intentions w ere not to m ake black 
history.

"I chose that school to further 
m y edu cation and kn ow led ge," 
C h ase said. "I w as, at the tim e, in 
Texas, and the U niversity o f Texas 
w as in Texas and w as also noted 
as one of the better architectural 
schools in the U nited States "

G etting adm itted into "o n e o f the 
m ost noted architectural schools 
in the n atio n " w as an accom p lish­
m ent and a challenge for C hase. 
H ow ever, his true obstacles cam e 
the first day he set foot into the 
classroom his freshm an year.

"M y tough tim es cam e as a 
student. A lth ou gh I m ade good 
grades, the w ork w as d ifferent 
and a little harder than I had been 
accustom ed to ," C h ase said.

C h ase said he had m ore prob­
lem s as a stu d en t than he did post­
graduation.

"I ju st had to ad just to so m any 
things that sort of took your atten­
tion a lo t of tim e w hen it shou ld n 't

h a v e ," C h ase said. "W h en I w as in 
un dergrad uate study in H am pton 
in Virginia I d id n 't hav e that p rob­
lem , and the reason I d id n 't h ave it 
w as becau se ev eryone in m y class 
w a s the sam e color as me. W hereas 
at the U niversity o f Texas, w hen I 
w alked into the classroom for the 
v ery first timo, I w as the only per­
son in that classroom the color of 
m e ," C h ase said.

"...Whereas at the 
University of Texas, when 
I walked into the class­
room for the very first 
time, I was the only per­
son in that classroom the 
color of me "

John S. Chase, 
first black graduate of UT

C h ase described the transition 
from H am pton U niversity, a pre­
institution, to
d om inantly black 

the U niversity o f Texas as a co m ­
plete shock, becau se h e had never 
studied in a class that w as any­
thing other than black.

In the fall of 1950, C h ase, along 
w ith H orace H eath, w ere tw o o f 
the only black stud en ts enrolled 
at the University. Tw o other black 
a p p lica n ts w ere 
tu rned aw ay 
under the "sep arate but eq u al" 
argum ent. B ecau se the classes that 
they w ished to apply for w ere 
available at tw o o th er black insti­
tutions, they w ere turned aw ay 
and denied acceptance. By fall of 
1956, tw o years after the Su p rem e 
Court ruled in Brow n vs. Board 
o f E ducation for in tegratio n of 
all pu blic schools, the nu m ber of 
blacks o n cam pu s had increased 
to 104.

M akin g 

the a d ju stm e n t 

into 
gradu ate school did prove ch al­
lenging for C hase, but racism on 
cam pu s m ad e the ad versity m uch 
tougher.

"O n one occasion, w e go t sev ­
eral pieces of m ail from som eone 
GRAD continues on page 2A

Intel building imploded after five-year wait

Sen. Barack O bam a, dem ocratic presidential hopeful, puts on a hat 
given to him during th e rally at A uditorium Shores, Friday afternoon.

Joshua Jow ¡ Daily Texan Staff

McCombs ranks No. 19 
of best business schools

List focuses on job 
placement rates after 
students graduate

By J.D. Haney

Daily Texan Staff 

T h e 

tra d itio n o f U T 's Red 
M cC o m b s S ch o o l o f B u sin ess 
M BA g rad u ate s stan d in g o u t in 
the job m ark et w as h ig h lig h ted 
yet again in a recent ran kin g of 
the n a tio n 's " 5 0 B est B u sin ess 
S ch o o ls for G e ttin g H ire d " by 
Fo rtu ne M agazine.

T h e sch o o l cam e in at No. 19 
on the list, w h ich w as based 
on the s ch o o l's rep u tatio n w ith 
recru iters and strength o f career 
p lacem en t.

" It's not surp risin g to find the 
M cC o m b s S ch o o l o f B u sin ess

am o n g the very top M BA pro­
gram s in the U .S .," said Eric H irst, 
asso ciate d ean fo r the g ra d u ­
ate p rogram s and an acco u n tin g 
professor. H irst also said that the 
statistics for full-tim e and intern­
ship offers, as w ell as salary, 
are con sid erably ahead o f those 
pu blish ed in the Fortu ne survey, 
w hich is based on inform ation 
com p iled last sum m er.

A cco rd in g to F o rtu n e 's Web 
site, in ord er to d eterm in e the 
s c h o o ls ' re cru ite r ra tin g , 445 
hu m an reso u rce m an ag ers w ere 
asked to the n am e the b u sin ess 

sch o o ls from w hich they prefer 
to hire th eir M B A s from , a lo n g 
w ith th o se th ey con sid er m ost 
prestig iou s.

MBA c 

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Streets downtown
closed as onlookers 
gathered at scene

By Tyler Sandson

Daily Texan Staff 

T h e Intel bu ild in g d o w n to w n 
w as 
im p lo d ed at 7 :35 S u n d a y 
m o rn in g . S tre e ts w e re clo sed 
d ow n from 5 a.m . un til 10:30 
a.m . S u n d a y to allo w con stru c- 
tion w o rk e rs to assess the area 
as h u n d red s o f A ustin citizen s 
cro w d e d a ro u n d the b lo ck a d e 
su rro u n d in g the ab an d on ed six- 
story shell to w atch the d e m o li­

I 

tion.

In 2001, construction of the build ­
ing halted as a result of the bust 
o f the dot-com txxim of the late 
'90s, according to the D ow ntow n 
A ustin A lliance's Web site. Lack 
of funds caused the project to stall, 
and the building has rem ained an 
abandoned shell.
A lte rn a tiv e s 

th e d e m o li­
tion w ere research ed w ith the 
C re a tiv e P u b lic R e la tio n s on 
D o w n to w n C o n stru ctio n c o m ­
m ittee o f the D o w n to w n A u stin 
A llian ce, w h o collab o rated w ith 
U T d esign stu d en ts to co m e up 
d e sig n s to c o v e r the six -sto ry 
bu ild in g .

to 

G e a n n e F o rb is, an Intel sp o k e s­
w o m an , to ld the Texan in M arch 
2001 that a b o u t 20 bu ild in g p ro j­
ects arou nd the w orld w ere also 
d elay ed to lo w er e x p e n d itu re s 
w ith o u t b eg m n in g the layoff pro­
cess.

" O n e o f the reason s w hy wt 
m ad e this d ecisio n is, b ecau se the 
b u ild in g is a seco n d th o u g h t," 
Fo rb is said. " I t 's n o t im p actin g 
e m p lo y e e s."

T h e site w as p u rch a se d by 
the federal g o v e rn m e n t and w ill 
h ou se a new $50 m illion federal

co u rth o u se , acco rd in g to the Sept. 
5, 2004, e d itio n o f the Texan.

" T h e cu rren t lo catio n o f the 
sched u led cou rth o u se co n stru c­
tion is a w in-w in situ atio n that 
w ill p ro v id e A u stin w ith a b e a u ­
tiful new courthouse* in the heart 
o f d o w n to w n w h ile re m o v in g 
In tel e y e s o re ," U .S. R ep. 
the 
L loyd D o g g e tt, D -A u stin , told 
the Texan.

C o n stru ctio n o f a federal c o u rt­
ho u se that will take the p lace 
o f the Intel b u ild in g is exp ected 
late 2008 o r early
to begin 

in 

2 009, w ith a 30 to 36 m on th con 
stru ctio n tim e. D em o litio n o f the 
b u ild in g , w hich w as o rig in ally 
fa ll, w as 
for e a rly 
sch e d u le d 
resch ed u led to allo w a set of site- 
sp ecific p e rfo rm a n c e s o f S ally 
Ja c e jy e s' 
a c c o rd ­
" R e q u ie m ," 
in g to the city o f A u stin 's 2002 
D o w n to w n R eport

A u stin resid en t Jeffrey Jo h n so n 
b ro u g h t his tw o ch ild ren to sp e c­

tate:

" I t 's n o t e v ery d ay y o u get to 
w atch a b u ild in g c o lla p s e ," he 
said.

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John S. 

Chase, the 

first black 

graduate 

of UT, left 

w ith his 

architecture 

graduate 

degree 

in 1952.

W e n jin Z h a n g

Daily Texan Staff

Senior Patrol 

Officer D.

W right, left, 

watches the 

dem olition 

o f the Intel 

building on 

Fifth and 

San Antonio 

streets with 

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officer.

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Daily Texan Staff

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GRAD: UT alumnus recalls his experience

From pagel A

who wrote us and wrote some 
pretty nasty things in the letter 
and that type of thing," Chase 
said.

However, there were some on 
campus who were supportive of 
Chase's efforts to complete his 
degree.

"There were some who were 
extremely helpful, some that were 
prettv mean, and others that were 
extremely nice," said Chase. "1 
never had anyone come right out 
and tell me I couldn't make it, but 
a lot of times you don't have to 
say something to make yourself 
known — you could tell those 
who didn't care for your being 
there. They didn't have to write a 
letter to you," Chase said.

Nearly a decade after Chase's 
graduation from the school of 
architecture, his legacy had been 
partially forgotten. Heman Sweatt 
is often times thought to be the 
first black graduate of UT. Sweatt, 
a college graduate and Houston 
postal worker, attempted to enter 
the UT School of Law in 1946 but 
was denied acceptance because 
of his race. After finally being 
accepted into the School of Law 
by the Supreme Court case of 
Sweatt vs. Painter, he dropped

out after two years in the sum­
mer of 1952 due to deteriorating 
health and marriage difficulties. 
Dr. Anitha Mitchell, who was a 
biology undergraduate student, 
entered the University in 1961 
and was never told of Chase's 
accomplishment.

"I did not know he was the 
first African-American graduate," 
Mitchell said. "I thought Sweatt 
was. His name is not one that 
I remember being the first, and 
I think that's a shame. That is 
an issue that maybe we should 
revisit."

When Chase graduated, he 
realized just how true it was that 
blacks were not being hired as 
architectural draftsmen.

"There were students in the 
class whose fathers were archi­
tects, and I had never had that 
opportunity and never could get 
a job working for an architect, 
because at that time they were not 
hiring African-Am erican archi­
tects," Chase said.

After graduating from one of 
the top architectural school's in 
the nation, Chase was consistently 
denied employment from every 
architectural firm he applied for.

"W hat I decided was if they 
w on't hire me, then I'm going to 
take the State Board Examination

to be an architect, try m y best to 
pass it, and if I do, then I'm going 
to open my own office and hire 
myself," Chase said. "A nd that's 
exactly what I did."

Chase became the first African- 
licensed to practice 
Am erican 
architecture in the state of Texas 
and is now the owner of John 
S. Chase F.A.I.A Architects Inc. 
Some of the projects designed by 
Chase's firm include Booker T. 
Washington High School located 
in Houston, Texas, the George 
R. Brown Convention Center, 
Delta Sigm a Theta National 
Headquarters, the Harris County 
Astrodom e R enovation, 
the 
Thurgood M arshall School of 
Law and a commission to design 
the United States Em bassy 
in 
Tunis, Tunisia.

Chase had no problem receiv­
ing business from others in his 
community. His largest support­
ers were often times churches.

"I did a lot of churches, and 
they just seemed to say, 'Look, 
you're there, and w e're going 
help you,'" Chase said. "I looked 
up, and I had four or five more 
architects in m y office to take care 
of the work that I w as getting," 
Chase said.

Box said he believes that Chase 
"is a successful architect and con­

tributing citizen in Houston."

"H e encouraged and employed 
so many African-American archi­
tects. His architects have also 
worked in my office," Box said. 
"Som e before they worked for 
John."

Ashley Leath, a junior under­
graduate architecture student 
and former alumni of Booker T. 
Washington High School, said 
she believes Chase to be an inspi­
ration and is an admirer of his 
firm's work. "I liked things about 
how our high school was, espe­
cially the band room," she said.

"I think that Chase is black his­
tory," Leath said. "I sometimes 
remember that there were blacks 
who came before me who have 
graduated and that inspires me. If 
they can do it, I can too."

Although Leath and others 
find C hase's accom plishm ents 
extraordinary, Chase himself is 
not too sure of the impact he has 
had.

"I think when you are involved 
in things that are changes of what 
was done or how something was 
done, it immerses itself into his­
tory," Chase said. "I don't know 
if I made a change as much as I 
hopefully created an exceptional 
role model."

MBA: School am ong 

top national program s

From pagel A

To establish a school's strength 
of career placem ent, they gath­
ered data concerning the per­
centage of student's employed 
three m onths after graduation, 
the average num ber if em ploy­
m ent offers per student and the 
average salary of students upon 
graduation.

For M cC om bs 

grad uates, 
90 percent of students were 
em ployed 
three m onths after 
graduation and made an average 
starting salary of $90,000 a year.

M any of the students confirm 
the results of this report, saying 
that the job search after graduate 
school is an easy one.

"Personally, I am not stressed 
about finding a jo b ," said Tim 
Killgoar, a first-year MBA stu ­
dent, despite his claim that he 
is looking for som ething outside 
the more traditional careers for 
M BA graduates such as invest­
m ent banking or consulting.

Though M cCom bs might not 
be tailor-m ade to his personal 
interests, Killgoar still finds the 
resources available at the school 
to be more than adequate.

"F o r those interested in that 
career path, there are am ple

op portu nities to apply, 
inter­
view and be selected for great 
positions at great com panies," 
Killgoar said.

W hile being 

in the top 20 
nationally 
is an considerable 
achiev em ent, M cC om bs w as 
ranked seventh in 2002 by The 
Wall Street Journal, a sm all step 
up from their current rank.

"W e need to update the cur­
riculum and bring in more elec­
tronics," said Praveen Hirsave, 
a student in the MBA executive 
program.

H irsave w ould like the school 
to utilize new er technologies 
such as podcasts to custom ize 
m aterial for students and m ake 
the 
inform ation m ore acces­
sible.

But to m any of the students 
enrolled in the M BA program, 
M cCom bs is still as com petitive 
as it ever was.

"Q uality has not decreased. 
It's just that the market in gen­
eral is getting more com peti­
tiv e" said Joshua Byrd, a first- 
year MBA student. "I have not 
been disappointed in this school 
at all. This was one of my top- 
picked schools, and 1 worked 
hard to get into it."

What advantage does attending graduate school at the Red 

McCombs School of Business give you in finding a good job?

• John Demichele, a second-year M B A student, said:
"[One advantage] is the M B A Investment Fund and another 
program called Venture Fellows. It gives us real-world, practical 
experience outside of the classroom, and we get to engage 
with experienced professionals in the finance industry."

• Blake Holcomb, a first-year M B A student, said:
"The school has an extensive network of successful alumni 
that conduct a lot of the on-cam pus recruiting. These alumni 
have had a positive experience with M cCom bs graduates in 
the past and know what they are getting w hen they hire an 

MBA."

• Xinyang Li, a first-year M B A student, said: 
"The school plays a role, but it's not a vital role."

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Israelis close off West Bank city C e l e b r a t i n g t h e e n d o f w i n t e r

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By Aii Daragm eh
The Associated Press

NABLUS, West Bank — Israeli 
soldiers sealed off this city on 
Sunday, placed 
of 
much 
it 
under 
curfew 
and conducted 
house-to-house 
searches for Palestinian militants 
in the largest military operation in 
the West Bank in months.

Israeli officials said the raid 
was crucial to stopping future 
militant attacks against Israel, but 
Palestinian officials said the offen­
sive threatened nascent efforts to 
restart the peace process.

"We condemn 

this military 
incursion," said Saeb Erekat, aide 
to Palestinian President Mahmoud 
Abbas. "This will undermine the 
efforts that are being made to sus­
tain the cease-fire with Israel."

The raid began early Sunday 
morning, when about 80 jeeps, 
armored vehicles and bulldoz­
ers poured into Nablus, which is 
known as a hotbed of militancy, 
witnesses said. Soldiers closed 
the main entrance to the city and 
bulldozers erected huge piles of 
rubble to block off key roads.

The operation was focused on 
Nablus' Old City a densely popu-

Nasser Ishtayeh | Associated Press

Palestinians throw stones at Israeli army vehicles during an Israeli army 
operation in the West Bank city of Nablus Sunday. Dozens of Israeli jeeps 
and armored vehicles raided the West Bank city of Nablus Sunday and 

placed tens of thousands of Palestinians under curfew.

lated area of narrow alleyways, 
apartment buildings and markets. 
About 50,000 people were placed 
under curfew, residents said.

The military took over local TV 
and radio stations and ordered 
people to remain indoors, warn­
ing the clampdown would remain 
iii effect for several days, residents 
said. The army said the road clo­
sures and curfew were necessary

Soldiers 

to avoid civilian casualties.
then moved 

from 
house to house in search of sus­
pects. At one point, a small group 
forced a Palestinian youth to lead 
them into a home. Afterward, the 
soldiers placed him, along with 
several young Palestinian men, 
into a military vehicle.

Israel's Supreme Court in 2005 
the practice of using

banned 

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WASHINGTON — The welfare state 

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by legislation to limit Iraq War

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State 

Condoleezza Rice urged Congress 
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Iraq war and suggested President 
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W ORLD BRIEFLY
Secretary of state offers talks 

if Iran halts nuclear program

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State 
Condoleezza Rice said the U.S. would 
hold direct talks with Iran if Tehran 
suspended its nuclear program. Iran's 
president, however, pledged to move 
ahead with enrichment activity that 
Washington contends masks weap­
ons development.

Earlier Sunday, Iranian President 
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad compared

his nation's nuclear drive to a train 
without a reverse gear or brakes. "We 
dismantled the rear gear and brakes 
of the train and threw them away 
some ime ago," he was quoted on the 
radio as telling Islamic clerics.

Radical cleric says Baghdad 

security plan doomed to fail
BAGHDAD, Iraq — The leader 
of Iraq's biggest Shiite militia com­
plained Sunday that bombs "continue 
to explode" in Baghdad and that U.S.- 
led security crackdown is doomed 
to fail, issuing a statement the same

day a suicide attacker struck outside 
a college campus, killing at least 41 
people.

Many Shiites believe that bomb­

ings have continued because the 
Shiite-led government bowed to 
American pressure and persuaded 
the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to 
take his fighters off the streets.

Al-Sadr's statement, read to his 
followers in Sadr City, is likely to add 
pressure on U.S. and Iraqi forces to 
show results in the nearly two-week- 
old crackdown.

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Palestinian civilians as "human 
shields" 
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explosives or militants ahead of 
soldiers. The army had no imme­
diate comment on Sunday's inci­
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Television News.

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The raid came a day after Israeli 
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commercial center. Maj. Avital 
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an, said troops uncovered another 
explosives lab and small caches of 
weapons on Sunday.

The open-ended operation was 
intended to "to deal with Nablus 
as a terror hub, with minimum of 
hurting or injuring innocent civil­
ians," she said.

A Belarus interior troops' special 

forces soldier demonstrates the 
ability to break concrete slates with 
his forehead during a sport show to 
mark the beginning of Maslyanitsa, 
an ancient week-long celebration 
of saying goodbye to the already-

Sergei Grits | Assoc nted Press

passed winter in Minsk, Belarus, 
Sunday.

Maslyanitsa, which means "but­
ter" in Belarussian, or Shrovetide is a 
traditional carnival in Russia, Belarus 
and Ukraine.

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EDITORIAL

Slowing TXU 
and its coal

If you happened to walk around outside Sunday, it was a post- 
card-perfect day. And when it comes to preserving clear skies, the 
last week might have seen two major blessings: A delay in hearing 
approval for 11 new coal-fired power plants until the summer and 
a potential buyout of TXU Corp., with the stipulation that TXU will 
drop plans to build eight of the 11 new coal plants.

The TXU story got interesting last Oct. 27, when Gov. Rick Terry 
fast-tracked approval of the potential coal plants by executive order
 
a reckless move that would have cut review for the plants from
18 months to a mere six months. Thankfully, two state administra­
tive judges ruled last Wednesday that the hearing be postponed 
until June 27, checking Gov. Perry's fast-tracking authority.

But the story got more interesting last weekend, when reports 
came out that two private equity firms offered a leveraged buy­
out of TXU Corp. for roughly $45 billion. (A leveraged buyout is 
typically paid with borrowed money or loans.) The two firms are 
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and the Texas Pacific Group, and 
they solicited the support of environmental groups by proposing 
to cancel eight coal plants.

TXU's board tentatively approved the buyout Sunday, according

to The Associated Press.

The two firms are no stranger to profiting off Texas energy buy­
outs. In 2003, the two were part of a four-firm team that bought out 
Texas Genco. The $3.65 billion leveraged buyout of Texas Genco 
took only $900 million in cash, and the groups turned around and 
sold the company in 2005 for more than $5.8 billion.

The firms made off with such a profit partially because Texas' 
energy deregulation in 2002 pins energy costs to natural gas prices, 
and Texas Genco had a fairly diverse set of power plants 
52 per­
cent of the fuel for the com pany's plants came from coal, 21 percent 
from natural gas and 27 percent from nuclear power in 2003. When 
you consider all of the state's power plants combined, 72 percent of 
electricity is generated by natural gas, which has a highly volatile 
price (look no further than your $150 utility fee you're paying extra 
in tuition). That's also why TXU is so interested in investing their 
profits over the past few years in much cheaper new coal plants.

Burning natural gas releases about 40-percent less carbon diox­
ide than coal. But there are two technologies being developed to 
help capture the carbon dioxide in coal burning and pump it into 
the ground, which could cut carbon emissions by 80 percent to 90 
percent. One technology, "gasification," would separate carbon 
dioxide from coal so that plants essentially only bum hydrogen. 
The other, "scrubbing," is a retrofit for plants that would capture 
the carbon emissions. Sequestered carbon dioxide is stored under­
ground and used later to flush out oil deposits.

U T has a stake in both. FutureGen, a project by the federal Dep­
artment of Energy, is a "gasification" plant project that could be 
built in Texas, and the UT System has offered to donate lands for 
carbon dumping as part of its bid to manage the project. And TXU 
announced last week that it was investing $1.8 million for "scrub­
bing" research at UT. Neither technology could be implemented 
today, and expert estimates put the technology online by 2015.

So while TXU may halt plans for eight new coal plants, none of 
which would have had "gasification" technology, we now have 
an opportunity to slow Gov. Perry's fast-track down and propose 
some healthy — economic and environmentally — advancements 
for our state's growing energy needs. However, we fear that TXU's 
new owners will settle short-term with new natural gas plants, or 
drop plans to build any plants at all, leaving the market open for 
other companies to come in and fill the void with their own coal 
plants (TXU was only slated to build 11 of the 17 new coal plants).

When it comes to new sources of energy generation, what starts 
here in Texas really might change the world. It's time to think 
beyond natural gas and sink our teeth into more nuclear and gas­
ification research and implementation.

The slowdowns in TXU's coal plants are a healthy first step.

THE FIRING LINE

Not that kind of evangelical

I would like to correct a misunder­

standing that appears in the article 
about Barack Obama by Salil Puri 
("Who-bama? Let's explore hype,"
Feb. 21). The United Church of Christ 
is not an "evangelical" church in the 
current common usage of that word. 
Perhaps Puri is confusing it, as many 
do, with The Church of Christ.

The UCC is among the most liber­
al of the mainline protestant church­
es. It was formed in 1957 through 
a union of the Congregational- 
Christian Church, which has roots 
in 17th century New England (the 
Pilgrims), and the Evangelical and 
Reformed Church, originating in 
Germany. (The "Evangelical" in the 
name of one of these has little to do 
with "evangelical" as it is used nowa­
days to imply conservative positions 
on social issues.) The UCC has been 
in the forefront in the struggle for 
racial justice, women's rights and 
gay and lesbian concerns.

Thus, Obama is not an "avowed 

evangelical" in the sense implied 
by Puri. Obama's positions on social 
issues, as described by Puri, are con­
sistent with those of many mem­
bers of the UCC.

how such pressure would increase 
if a relative faced the death penalty. 
Suddenly, a law designed to protect 
children through deterrence may 
just manage to further silence those 
who are victimized.

Also, four states have recently 

halted executions as concerns 
about lethal injection, innocence, 
racism, cost and deterrence contin­
ue to haunt the national conscious­
ness. Do our elected officials think 
cases involving sex crimes against 
children are somehow immune 
to the problems that plague the 
capital system? To expand the use 
of the death penalty at such a time 
is irresponsible, and will make the 
Texas system more error-prone and 
unjust.

Texas needs to protect its chil­
dren. However, a reactionary and 
violent law is not the way to go 
about it. Victims and communi­
ties would be better served by a 
nuanced and holistic assessment of 
the nature and causes of sex crimes. 
The last thing we need is a law that 
appeals to our best intentions while 
failing to deliver anything that will 
make us safer.

I

Bryan McCann 
Comm, studies Ph.D. student 
Campaign to End the Death Penalty 
February 23, 2007

David W. Ross 
UT Fusion Research Center (retired) 
February 24,2007

Jessica's misbegotten law
The version of Jessica’s Law 

proposed by State Sen. Bob Deuel I, 
R-Greenville, will extend the death 
penalty to repeat child sex offend­
ers. We all no doubt look at such 
awful crimes with horror and want 
to protect children. However, 
Deuell's legislation will create more 
problems than it will fix.

Most children targeted by sex 
offenders are victimized by those in 
their family. These victims are often 
encouraged to keep quiet to avoid 
humiliating their family. Imagine

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A rational church-state split

By Ryan and Elliott Ash
Daily Texan Columnists

The First Amendment forbids 
governmental support of religion, 
but evangelical Christian lead­
ers still lobby for greater church- 
state collaboration. Perhaps these 
leaders should pay attention to 
recent findings in Rational Choice 
Theory, which suggest that it is 
precisely America's constitutional 
barrier that accounts for the vital­
ity of religion here.

Rational Choice Theory assu­
mes that humans make rational 
choices based on the information 
they have. This technique can pre­
dict a great deal of human behav­
ior, from automobile shopping to 
mate choice to teenage pregnancy 
rates.

For most of the 20th century, 
sociologists assumed that Rational 
Choice Theory could not explain 
religious activity, since religious 
beliefs are "inherently irrational." 
But in the last couple of decades, a 
new paradigm has emerged based 
on religious individuals making 
rational choices.

Religious actions are not, as was 
before assumed, irrational pursuits 
that can be "cured" by science 
and enlightenment. Rather, reli­
gious choices are made through 
mundanely rational methods that

take into account practical con­
siderations. For example, a high 
school student joins Young Life 
not because she wants to be closer 
to God, but because all of her 
friends are already members.

According to Rational Choice 
Theory, churches work in a reli­
gious economy in much the same 
way that firms work in a market 
economy. Churches "sell" reli­
gious "goods," and congregants 
consume them. Religious goods 
consist of religious services like a 
place to worship, doctrinal edu­
cation and relief from existen­
tial anxieties. Church members 
attend services accord mg to their 
individual religious demand and 
compensate the church through 
voluntary donations.

O f 

course, hard 

currency 
makes up only a small part of the 
"costs" of religious transactions. 
Following the strictures of a par­
ticular religion might require such 
costly choices as attending church 
instead of reading the Sunday 
Times, accepting views that invite 
cognitive dissonance or avoiding 
vices like gambling, drinking and 
premarital sex.

At the same time, churches 
have effective if subtle methods 
for discouraging "free riding" 
— the practice of benefiting from

a nonrival good without paying 
the costs. Because religion is an 
intrinsically social endeavor, it is 
often the case that one's fellow 
congregants are also friends and 
family.

Through these intimate rela­
tionships, the church community 
gains access to even the most secu­
lar moments of a m em ber's life. It 
is not God's watchful eye that pre­
vents a churchgoer from throwing 
the dice — it is the watchful eye 
of the next-door neighbor who 
attends the same church.

fundamental 

Religious demand is constant 
across populations. Changes in 
religious participation are not 
caused by changes in a com mu­
nity's 
religiosity. 
Rather, rates of religious partici­
pation depend on the quality of 
religious supply. A community 
with attractive religious firms will 
have greater religious turnout 
than a community with unattract­
ive religious firms.

In an unsubsidized religious 
market, churches rely on congre­
gants for donations, their sole 
source of income. Moreover, the 
presence of other religious firms 
in the market creates vigorous 
com petition 
for business. The 
clergy devote impassioned efforts 
toward gaining and keeping con­

verts; otherwise, they go bank­
rupt.

In contrast, an established 
church receives enough funds for 
self-m aintenance through state 
subsidies. No matter how few 
consumers attend, the church staff 
keep their 
jobs. Consequently, 
established clergy have little if 
any incentive to work hard for 
converts. At the same time, the 
firm's monopoly power prevents 
other churches from gaining a 
foothold in the market. The lazi­
ness of a subsidized clergy in a 
monopolized market makes reli­
gious firms unattractive, resulting 
in low religious turnout in nations 
with an established religion.

The state-established churches 
of Western Europe do not supply 
religion efficiently, but the consti­
tutionally protected churches in 
the United States do. This dis­
parity in law accounts for the 
striking differences in religious 
participation betw een Europe 
and America, despite surveys that 
show comparable degrees of psy­
chological religiosity.

This analysis should give pause 
to those who wish to tear down 
the wall that separates church and 
state.

Ryan and Elliott Ash are Plan II seniors.

Look to nuclear for energy needs

By Grant Manning
Daily Texan Columnist 

In the face of a landmark study 
almost conclusively confirming 
global warming's dangerous con­
sequences, and increasingly unre­
liable sources of oil and natural 
gas, fossil fuels have lost their 
popularity. Americans are start­
ing to ask if there is a better way 
to power their country. The seri­
ous search for alternative energy 
has begun, yet with sobering 
results.

Although they provide good 
supplemental power >ources and 
are showing slightly diminish­
ing costs, wind and solar power 
facilities are enormously expen­
sive and consume vast amounts 
of land. The amount of scarce 
resources that would have to 
be put into using these power 
sources as our chief energy sup­
ply is not worth the electricity. 
Ethanol and other bio fuels not 
only require more energy to pro­
duce than they give off, but also 
pollute as much as traditional 
fossil fuels. So how do we move 
away from fossil fuels?

The only remaining alternative 
fuel source that can efficiently 
produce a large amount of energy 
without emitting air pollution is 
nuclear power. Nuclear power 
can return up to 60 times the 
amount of energy invested in its 
production, a higher return than 
any known fuel. Unfortunately 
this is a very unpopular source of 
fuel, both from a cost and safety 
standpoint. But many concerns 
are misguided.

Many businesses began to shy 
away from nuclear power in the 
1980s because of simple econom­

ics: oil was cheap. Capital con­
struction constitutes an estimated 
70 percent of nuclear power costs, 
and was blamed for its economic 
infeasibility. Yet these analyses do 
not account for the fact that new 
plant models last longer and are 
more efficient than they were in 
the past, or the risk of extremely 
volatile oil and gas prices.

Nuclear power costs are also 
higher due to the risk of regula­
tory delays during construction, 
a period when an electricity com ­
pany must invest millions of dol­
lars with no returns. Yet if the 
governm ent were to subsidize 
cost overruns due to delays, for 
which it is responsible anyway, 
electricity suppliers would be far 
less worried about the risk of 
unpredictable capital costs.

Nuclear power is also the only 
fuel source that prices the cost 
of waste disposal. While plan­
ners take into account the cost 
of shipping nuclear waste into 
a mountain bunker never to be 
seen again, fossil-based power 
companies pay almost nothing 
for spewing harmful emissions 
into the atmosphere.

A recent study by the UK 
Academy of Engineering ana­
lyzing energy costs showed that 
although the cost of electricity 
from nuclear power is currently 
more expensive, in a scenario 
where emissions are penalized 
on par with standards being pro­
posed in Europe, nuclear power 
becomes the most cost-effective 
energy source.

The price of fossil fuel electricity 
also does not account for indirect 
necessities and externalities asso­
ciated with securing sources of

fossil fuels. While North America 
has an abundant supply of urani­
um, oil supplies are increasingly 
com ing from unsavory sources 
overseas. W hat price to our gov­
ernment and foreign policy does 
ensuring a consistent supply of 
oil bring, and for what are the 
royalties oil companies pay to 
hostile governm ents to extract 
fuel used?

With nuclear power, developed 
countries would be less worried 
about whether or not their oil 
money supports genocide or ter­
rorism. Nuclear power is the only 
source of energy where every­
thing from risk of disaster, to 
waste disposal, decommissioning 
and sourcing the fuel is priced 
into the process. Thus the costs of 
fossil fuels are deceptively low.

But at the end of the day, if we 
are already talking about sacri­
ficing cost efficiency to reduce 
air pollution, than it is not the 
cost that many care about, but 
rather the frightening possibility 
of a meltdown such as the one at 
Chernobyl or a terrorist attack. 
Fortunately, much of the fear of 
nuclear power is founded in more 
sensationalism than fact.

Housed in concrete bunkers, 
nuclear reactors are almost imper­
vious to terrorist attack, espe­
cially when compared to such 
high-profile targets as Liquefied 
natural gas processing plants and 
hydroelectric dams.

It is also unfair to compare the 
safety of nuclear power in the 
United States to a plant oper­
ated by a Soviet government that 
had a decaying econom ic sys­
tem and inferior technology. The 
Chernobyl plant, which melted

down in 1986, used technology 
comparable to American plants 
of the 1960s. Later investigations 
pointed to inept m anagem ent 
and flawed designs.

The worst nuclear accident in 
any Western country, on Three 
Mile Island, resulted in no casu­
alties. Even since then, tremen­
dous progress has been made in 
improving regulation and safety 
technology. France, for example, 
derives 80 percent of its electric­
ity from nuclear plants, yet has 
not experienced a single nuclear 
accident since it began using it as 
a source.

Is nuclear power completely 
safe? O f course not, but nothing 
is. Americans are exposed to far 
greater risks driving a car to work 
every day than living next to a 
nuclear power plant.

If asked if they would want 
a Chemobyl-like plant in their 
community in the face of years of 
uncorroborated panic-mongering 
by the media, most people would 
decline. But when the alternatives 
are a clean, cheap and reliable 
source of fuel backed by 40 years 
of safety improvements and a 
smoke-belching, coal-fired plant 
that directly threatens not only 
their health but the safety of their 
children's future, the choice to 
Americans should be clear.

It would be far better to risk 
the extremely small chance of a 
nuclear accident than to guaran­
tee something as disastrous and 
far-reaching as global warming, 
or sacrifice a luxury so crucial to 
quality of life in industrialized 
countries.

M anning is a finance and economics junior.

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5A

Monday, February 26, 2007

Visiting professor works to help New Orleans

Sergio Palleroni uses 
experience to remove 
waste, build furniture

By Tyler Sandson
D aily Texan S taff 

V isitin g asso ciate p ro fesso r 
in the School of A rch itectu re, 
S e rg io P a lle ro n i, has b een 
recognized for his w ork w ith 
com m u n ities in need o f quick 
and e fficien t b u ild in g by the 
Sm ith son ian In stitu tion and the 
W hite H ouse sin ce he began 
teach in g at the U niversity.

In N ew O rlea n s, P allero n i 
said th at he and his p ro ject 
co m m itte e hav e b een 
lo o k ­
ing for w ays to use the w aste 
accu m u lated a fte r H u rrican e

K atrina in 2005.

"W e have around 20 m illion 
tons of w aste to w ork w ith, and 
instead o f d isp o sin g of all of 
it, we are look in g into reusing 
som e o f it," Palleroni said.

P alleroni said he co lla b o ra t­
ed w ith an arch itectu re cen ter 
in P asad en a, C a lif., to create 
the K atrina Fu rn itu re Project, 
a fu n d raiser th at w ill create 
m ore jo b s and a ltern ativ e uses 
for w aste in N ew O rleans.

Stev en M o o re, co -d ire cto r 
the U n iv e rs ity 's C e n te r 
for 
for S u stain ab le D ev elop m en t, 
han d -p icked P alleroni to teach 
at UT. 

- 

"O f all the p eop le out there 
in arch itectu re in en v iro n m en ­
tal stability, he is the m ost w ell- 
know n, and he has the best

track record ," M oore said.

The p ro ject 

in v o lv es social 
is the 
the center, 

asp ects of d esign and 
m ain p ro ject 
M oore said.

for 

"Of all the people out 
there in architecture in 
environmental stabil­
ity, he is the most well- 
known, and he has the 
best track record,"

Steven Moore,
UT Center for Sustainable 
Developm ent co-director

O ne o f the m ain p ro je cts 
for

in v o lv e s b u ild in g p ew s 

"W ith K atrin a, 

New O rle a n s' ch u rch es ou t of 
refuse from the hu rrican e.
cam e 
the 
d e stru ctio n o f 
th o u sa n d s of 
ch u rch e s, w h ich are v ital to 
N ew O rlea n s cu ltu re. W hen 
the ch u rch es w ere d estroy ed , 
p art o f the co m m u n ity w as 
d estro y e d ," he said.

The p ro ject w ill use the w aste 
to m ake new p ieces of fu rn i­
ture to sell acro ss the country, 
P alleron i said.

"T h e p ro ject w ill create new 

jo bs and m ore incom e for N ew 
O rlea n s," he said. "H ere w e are 
13 m o n th s later, and the g o v ­
ern m en t ju st began to rebu ild , 
th at 
th e y 're e stim a tin g 
and 
ab ou t h alf the to w n 's p o p u ­
lation w o n 't return. So w e're

look in g 
co m m u n ity -b u ild in g p ro cess."

in to e x p e d itin g 

the 

P a lle ro n i, w h o 

cu rre n tly 
resid es in A u stin w ith his w ife 
and four ch ild ren , said he uses 
real-w orld ap p licatio n s to teach 
his stud ents.

"I'm 

ju st teaching stu d en ts 
to be citizen s w ho can go out 
into the field and say, 'L ook , 
this com m u n ity is facing this 
p roblem , how do w e fix it? "' 
P alleroni said.

His program s, inclu d in g the 
in Sou th 
b u ild in g o f clin ic s 
A frica, have attracted stu d en ts 
w ith d iv erse m ajors, such as 
pre-m ed and jo u rn alism .

"T h ere are m any asp ects to 
the d ev elop m en t of the p ro j­
ect, and then w e can use all 
stu d en ts to b u ild the clin ics,"

P alleron i said.

P a llero n i h as b ee n 

in s tru ­
m ental in red efin in g a rch ite c ­
tural d esign , M oore said.

"W h ile m any b eliev e a rch i­
tectu re to be about ap p ealin g 
d esig n s, the d efin itio n w e use 
is 'th e tran sform atio n o f e x ist­
ing con d itio n s into p referred 
o n e s ,"' M oore said.

The associate p ro fesso r is on 
a long term visit, co m in g from 
p reviou s teaching p o sitio n s at 
the U n iv ersity of W ashington 
and the U n iv ersity of O regon.

"H e is rem arkably p op u lar 
am ong stu d ents. In review in g 
grad u ate ap p licatio n s, a good 
10 percen t sp ecifically m ention 
their d esire to w o rk w ith him . 
He has becom e a m ajor a s s e t," 
M oore said.

Battle Hall boasts top architecture
Building named one 
o f Americas favorite 
structural works

domly selected Am ericans were 
surveyed, and the top 150 were 
determ ined, he said. In February, 
U T's Battle Hall was selected as 
one of A m erica's top 150 favorite 
works of architecture.

contributed to the cam pus plan 
of the 1930s, which influenced 
the design of the rest of the 
University.

By Claire Reynolds
Daily Texan Staff 
Through its unique architectur­
al style, Battle Hall established the 
core character of the University 
when it was built in 1911, said 
Fritz Steiner, dean of the School 
of Architecture.

h ou ses 

B attle H all 

the 
P lan n in g 
A rch itectu re 
Library and is a com m on study 
area for students.

and 

In a recent survey, the Am erican 
Institute of Architects and Harris 
Interactive polled professional 
architects and citizens to deter­
mine Am erica's favorite architec­
tural structures.
M em bers of 

the A m erican 
Institute of Architecture made 
list for the survey, 
an 
n om in atin g 
stru ctu res, 
248 
said Scott Frank, spokesm an 
for the A m erican Institute of 
Architecture. More than 1,800 ran­

initial 

Choosing 150 buildings coin­
cided with this y ear's 150th anni­
versary of the American Institute 
of Architecture, Frank said.

"T h e purpose w as to draw 
more attention to excellent works 
of architecture," he said.

Battle Hall was built in 1911 by 
Cass Gilbert, w ho served as the 
University architect from 1909 to 
1922, according to the University 
libraries Web site.

"The building is an outstand­
ing example of early 20th century 
academ ic architecture," Steiner 
said. "It contributed much to the 
subsequent planning of the 40 
A cres," he said.

Gilbert w as also the architect 

for Sutton Hall.

Steiner 

said G ilb ert's 

tw o 
buildings w ere an 
inspiration 
to a subsequent cam pus archi­
tect, Paul Cret, who designed 19 
University buildings. Cret largely

The building displays 

the 
Spanish M editerranean style of 
architecture, said Amy M averick 
Crossette, the public affairs rep­
resentative 
the School of 
Architecture. "It's gorgeous, and 
it's a look you don't see very 
often," she said.

for 

The top floor of the building 
makes up the Architecture and 
Planning Library.

"It has prestige and a w iser kind 
of feel," said Ruben M artinez, an 
undeclared freshman who works 
at the circulation desk of the 
library. "W hen you're surround­
ed by m odem day things, it's 
com fortable to have som ething 
old-fashioned," he said.

The library enforces strict poli­
cies about bringing in food and 
beverages in an attem pt to pre­
serve its old wooden furniture.

"They know what they have 
here," M artinez said. "Th ey're 
pretty proud of this place," he 
said.

April Dom inick, 
psychology 
junior, walks 
do w n a stair­
w ell from the 
library in Battle 
Hall Friday. The 
b u ild in g was 
recognized by 
th e American 
Institute o f 
A rchitecture as 
one o f the best 
works o f archi­
tecture.

UNIVERSITY BRIEFLY

New UT director of compliance 
selected, begins March 1

Local attorney Rudolph Hamilton 

Green was named director of the 
Office of Institutional Compliance at 
UT.

His position will make him responsi­
ble for a program that gives help, train­
ing and information to aid University 
employees with increasing their 
knowledge about the University, state 
and federal laws, rules and policies.

There will be a few changes in the 

program aimed at expanding the 
director's involvement in compliance 
at the University.

A big change will be that Green will 
report directly to UT President William 
Powers.

"I am extremely excited at the 
opportunity to work in an outstand­
ing educational institution such as 
The University of Texas at Austin and 
particularly to be a part of the William 
Powers administration," Green said. "I 
look forward to advancing the inter­
ests of the University and to using my 
experience in regulatory matters and 
organizational development for its 
benefit," he said.

Eli K a p lan
Daily Texan Staff

Green will begin his position March 1.
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Presidential hopeful likens himself to Lincoln

Obamas inexperience, 

green status leaves 
him open to criticism

By Kiah Collier
Daily Texan Staff

Presidential hopeful Barack 
Obama has been compared to for­
mer President Abraham Lincoln 
for both the length of time he has 
spent in the political sector and his 
potential ability to unite a polar­
ized nation.

Obama's level of experience has 
been compared to Lincoln, who 
became president in 1861 after 
spending a comparable amount 
of time in the Illinois State House 
and U.S. Senate. During his speech 
on Feb. 10 announcing his inten­
tions to run for the Democratic 
presidential nomination, Obama 
likened himself to Lincoln as a 
uniter. He also acknowledged his 
"green" status, telling the crowd 
that he has been in Washington 
long enough to know that it "has 
to change."

Obam a has served for three 
years in the U.S. Senate and ranks 
98th in terms of seniority. His sen­
ate voting record has often been 
left of the middle, especially on

hot button issues like raising the 
minimum wage, troop withdraw­
al from Iraq and Bush's proposed 
tax cuts. Unlike his main com­
petitors for the 2008 Democratic 
presidential nomination, he has 
consistently opposed the War in 
Iraq since before the 2003 inva­
sion, although he has never had to 
vote on it.

"Two Saturdays ago, I stood 
in front of the Old State Capitol 
in Springfield, Illinois, the place 
where Abraham Lincoln served 
and delivered his famous speech 
in which he said 'A nation divided 
against itself could not stand,"' 
Obama said in his speech Friday 
at Auditorium Shores in Austin. 
"H e was an inspiration for all of 
us."

Am ong O bam a's critics, his 
inexperience has been one of the 
main issues, but his clean-slate 
political career may give him an 
advantage over other nomination 
seekers with more complicated 
political pasts. "H is inexperience 
is an issue, because if you haven't 
been a governor, you have a steep­
er learning curve," said Bruce 
Buchanan, a U T governm ent 
professor and expert in American 
presidential politics. "On the other 
hand, lots of presidents have been

inexperienced and managed to 
perform all right, so it's not a cer­
tain predictor of success."

"The last few m onths 
have been a media 
bonanza for him, and it 
hasn't stopped yet."

Gary Keith,

UT senior governm ent lecturer

Obam a, 45, 

is the youngest 
seeker of the 2008 Democratic 
nomination. Speculation of his 
presidential electability began 
after his speech at the Democratic 
National Convention calling for 
national unity. His 
image and 
identity as a mixed-race, "green" 
politician has excited much media 
attention since his announcement 
marking his official participation 
in the race.

"The last few months have been 
a media bonanza for him, and 
it hasn't stopped yet," said Gary 
Keith, senior lecturer in the gov­
ernment department at UT. "H e

cannot have an idea of his inevi­
tability, however, because he's still 
such a long shot. There are candi­
dates that just never get traction, 
and if you do, you just have to 
keep going with it."

Obama w as bom in Hawaii 
to his mother, Ann Dunham, an 
anthropologist from Kansas, and 
his father, Barack Obama Sr., a 
Harvard-educated economist from 
Kenya. Obam a's parents divorced 
when he was a toddler. After his 
mother remarried, he moved to 
Indonesia where he lived for four 
years. She then sent him back to 
Hawaii to live with his maternal 
grandparents and receive a first- 
class education at the prestigious 
Punahou School

In his 1995 autobiography 
"D ream s of My Father," Obama 
spoke of his difficulties with racial 
identity, and how it has shaped his 
character.

"Com ing from Hawaii, he has 
had a multiethnic experience," 
said Alan Lum, one of Obam a's 
basketball teammates at Punahou. 
"Barry spoke his mind. He ques­
tioned teammates and coaches in a 
very straightforward and respect­
ful manner. He would hold you 
accountable for things you did or 
didn't do on the court.

D em ocratic Senator Barack O b a m a , from Illinois, sp ea ks to an enthusiastic 

crowd of m ore than 15,000 Friday afternoon.

Peter Franklin | Daily lexan start

SPEECH: Obama focuses on withdrawal of troops, tuition costs, climate change

From p a g e l A

who saw the senator speak back 
in 2004. Meredith Clancy, vice 
president of the group, said there 
hasn't been such an energiz­
ing political figure since Robert 
Kennedy.

"H e's one of the candidates 
that can really speak to our gen­
eration. I think he's really invigo­
rated a lot of people in our age

group," Clancy said.

Chu prepped the audience with 
D'Andra Thomas-Jackson, chair 
of fellow co-sponsoring orga­
nization 
the A frican-A m erican 
Culture Com m ittee, who com ­
mented on the crow d's mixed 
nature.

"You d on't often see such 
diversity at a political event," she 
said. "H opefully we're starting a 
trend."

Obam a took the stage amid 
fickle rain to the sound of thun­
derous cheers and interm ittent 
chanting. The senator's unusual 
nam e rolled off the tongues of a 
p u n -saw y audience promising to 
"Barack the Vote."

"W e're gathered in this place 
because the entire nation under­
stands that we are at a cross­
roads," the senator said at the 
outset of his 40-m inute speech.

Obam a touched on a num ­
ber of issues, including climate 
change, high tuition costs and the 
national energy policy, or what he 
sees as a lack thereof. He spoke 
most at length, however, on U.S. 
involvement in the Iraq War.

"We are less safe now than 
when this war began," Obama 
argued.

The senator, who cam e out 
against the war in 2002, outlined

his plan to begin the withdrawal 
of American troops from Iraq by 
May of this year.

"A ustin, it is time for us to 
bring this war to an end!" he 
declared.

At the clim ax of his speech, 
Obama recalled historical exam ­
ples of Am erican triumph over 
adversity as m otivation to make 
changes in the country today.

"Tell your friends Pookie and

J.J. to put down the Gameboy. 
We've got work to do," Obam a 
said.

M aggie S h a d er, a graduate stu­
dent in the school of journalism 
and former Daily Texan senior 
features writer, said she cam e to 
the rally out of curiosity and left 
thoroughly impressed.

"I knew that this Obama wave 
w as sweeping the country," she 
said. "N ow I know why."

STATE BRIEFLY

Perry approves increasing 
spending cap; new budget set
Gov. Rick Perry approved the final 
resolution to exceed the constitutional 
spending cap Friday.

Legislators voted to allocate $14.2 
billion to school district property tax 
relief that was promised in the special 
session. In order to do so, members 
passed a concurrent resolution allow­
ing them to surpass the constitution­
ally mandated limit.

The Legislative Budget Board, whose 
members include Speaker of the House 
Rep. Tom Craddick, R-Midland, and Lt. 
Gov. David Dewhurst, previously set 
the limit at 13.1 percent more than the 
last biennial budget. That percentage is 
the rate of growth predicted between 
the previous budget and the 2008- 
2009 budget and is the limit set by the 
Texas Constitution not to be exceeded 
unless a resolution is passed.

The Senate approved the resolu­
tion Feb. 14 and subsequently sent it 
to the House of Representatives, w ho 
approved it Feb. 20.

equity firms that would abandon plans 
to build eight new coal-fired power 
plants, according to people close to the 
situation.

"This measure will allow the state to 

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keep an important promise we made 
last year to lower Texans'school prop­
erty tax rates by one-third," Perry said 
in a written statement. "I applaud law­
makers for sending me this resolution, 
because it means homeowners and 
employers will see billions of dollars in 
tax relief, and more Texans will be able 
to achieve their dream of ow ning their 
ow n home."

The budget is now tentatively set 
to roughly $161 billion, including the 
newly allocated tax-relief funds.

— Michelle West

Possible buyers of TXU Corp. 
say no to coal-fired plants

DALLAS — Directors of TXU Corp., 
the largest electricity producer in Texas, 
gave tentative approval Sunday night 
to sell the com pany to two private-

Texas Pacific Group were offering 
about $32 billion plus the assumption 
of more than $12 billion in TXU debt, 
which would make it the largest private 
buyout in U.S. corporate history.

Final details were still being worked 

out late Sunday night, and TXU was 
expected to announce a deal early 
Monday, said two people close to the 
negotiations w ho spoke on condition 
of anonymity because the companies 
had not officially announced the deal.
The new buyers also agreed to sup­

port a mandatory national program 
to cap emissions of greenhouse gases 
and pledged not to build coal-fired 
plants outside Texas.

TXU has 2.3 million customers. Wall 
Street e xp e as TXU to report this week 
that it earned more than $2.5 billion 

last year.

— The Associated Press

Test scores declining over time

By Rebecca Persons
Daily Texan Staff 

Two reports released last week 
that students m ay be 
reveal 
learning less than students who 
were in school 15 years ago, rais­
ing concerns about high school 
curriculum reform by the U.S. 
D epartm ent of Education.

M argaret 

S p e llin g s, U.S. 
Secretary of Education, said in a 
written statem ent that students 
are taking more rigorous course- 
work and earning higher GPAs 
but a ren 't perform ing better 
on standardized tests. The two 
reports looked at standardized 
test scores and analysis of tran­
scripts from seniors w ho gradu­
ated in 2005.

One of the reports, called The 
Nations Report Card: 12th-Grade 
Reading and M athem atics 2005, 
showed a decline in the aver­
age scores 
in 2005 com pared 
with scores in 1992. However, 
the second, The Nations Report 
Card: A m erica's H igh School 
stu d ents
G rad u ates, 

show ed 

were earning about three more 
credits than students in 1990 and 
had an increase of a third of a let­
ter grade higher in their GPA.

Augustine Garza, U T 's deputy 
director of adm issions, said that 
15 years ago adm ission offic­
es only looked at two things: 
class rank and test scores. Now, 
Garza said universities consider 
other factors besides rank and 
test scores, 
including w riting 
samples, resumes and personal 
achievem ents. He said the top 
10 percent rule has also nar­
rowed the ad m issions criteria 
for students applying to Texas 
public schools, so that standard­
ized test scores d on't have to be 
looked at.
G ary 

L averg n e, 
d irecto r 
of ad m issions research at the 
University, said test scores for 
2006 may turn out to be lower 
because of the new SAT test that 
was adm inistered. The new test 
entails more costs and time, so 
students arerr't taking it as many 
times as they would have with

the older SAT, or they aren't tak­
ing the test at all. However, UT 
still rem ains significantly better 
in test scores than the national 
average, even 
though scores 
dropped slightly betw een 1997 
and 2003.

"N o w w e're at the highest 
in the history of UT for SAT 
scores," Lavergne said.

According to Spellings, im ple­
menting reform in schools has 
becom e more urgent in order to 
raise students to the level they 
should be at. But at the same 
tim e, w ith new costs, 
longer 
tests, and different adm ission 
standards than 15 years ago, test 
scores d on't seem to be as much 
of a priority when students have 
other qualities to offer.

President George W. Bush has 
proposed new plans for educa­
tion reform that include a $1.2 
billion increase in funds for high 
schools and $365 m illion for 
the A m erican Com petitiveness 
Initiative to strengthen m ath and 
science instruction.

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Longhorns end Big 12 losing streak

Jordan Gom ez | Daily Texan Staff

Tiffany Jackson (33) tries to block a shot from Texas 
Tech's Alesha Robertson (55) during Saturday's game.

FRESHM EN continues on page 2B

Durant, Texas take down Oklahoma

Texas gets first win 
in six Big 12 games; 
Conradt at 899 wins

By Dennis Killian
Daily Texan Staff

The Texas women ended their 
record-setting losing streak by 
beating Texas Tech 59-47 on 
Saturday 
in the Longhorns' 
final regular season game at the 
Erwin Center.

gave 

The victory 

Jody 
Conradt her 899th career win, 
but the legendary Texas coach 
was more pleased with ending 
the five-game skid.

"I didn't have any answers 
the last few games, and I don't 
just 
have any today — we 
decided to play," Conradt said. 
"I thought it was one of our 
very best efforts at both ends of

the floor. Our defense has been 
pretty consistent, but today we 
showed a lot of patience on the 
offensive end."

A trio of freshmen provided 
the spark as Texas (17-12, 6-9) 
never trailed the Lady Raiders. 
Eamesia Williams shot an effi­
cient 8-of-12 from the field 
and finished the game with 17 
points, two points shy of her 
career high.

Carla Cortijo dished out a 
career-high 13 assists, pulled 
down nine boards and scored six 
points. It was the most assists by 
a UT player since 2000. Brittainey 
Raven scored 12 points and 
grabbed five rebounds.

"I think we know we should 
have been playing like that all 
along," Williams said. "But hope­
fully we can continue playing

WOM EN continues on page 2B

Freshman phenom scores 
more than 30 points while 
Texas beats 0U on road

By Anup Shah
Daily Texan Staff

NORMAN, Okla. — With the entire 
country watching him this late in the 
season, one set of eyes was watching 
Kevin Durant especially closely in Texas' 
win over Oklahoma on Saturday.

Reigning NBA Rookie of the Year 
Chris Paul watched his good friend 
torch Oklahoma with 32 points and 10 
rebounds and lead the Longhorns (21-7, 
11-3 Big 12) to a 68-58 victory over the 
Sooners (15-12, 6-8) at the Lloyd Noble 
Center.

"H e can play," Paul said of Durant. 
"H e's going to be the player of the year. 
He's got a lot of confidence in his team­
mates, and he's not selfish."

After four w ins in w hich Durant 
had failed to break the 30-point barrier, 
Texas' star freshman notched his sev­
enth 30-point game of the season and 
broke the record for most points scored 
by any player in one Big 12 season, with 
400 points in 14 conference games.

The National Player of the Year can­
didate started strong, draining his first 
four shots to score 10 points and give his 
team a 16-2 start — a lead they would 
hang onto for most of the first half. 
Shooting 53 percent from the field in the 
first 20 minutes, it seemed clear to Texas 
that they were going to walk away with 
another win in Sooner country.

"You've got to give credit to Texas, 
'cause they came out and hit us in the 
mouth early," Oklahoma guard Michael 
Neal said. "Kevin Durant wasn't miss­
ing anything, and they tcx>k advantage 
of him being hot."

But coming out of the locker room 
to start the second half, the Longhorns 
failed 
to execute the same offense 
that flowed so well in the first half. 
Oklahom a's stifling defense held Texas 
to just 14.3 percent from the field —

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SPORTS BRIEFLY

Longhorns track ties for first 
place in Big 12 Championships
Heading into the final event of 
the Big 12 Indoor Championship, the 
men's track team was in sole posses­
sion of first place with 93 points. But 
Nebraska decided to make sure No. 3 
Texas didn't get too lonely at the top, 
finishing third in the 4X400 relay to 
force a split Big 12 title.

The championship is Texas'second 

in a row, third in school history and 
marks the first time they've shared the 
league title.

"Overall, we were extremely happy, 

but yet we are not completely satis­
fied,"Texas coach Bubba Thornton said.
This weekend in Ames, Iowa, the 

team broke two records and tied 
another.

The distance medley relay, con­
sisting of seniors Darren Brown and 
Hazma Deyaf, sophomore Jacob 
Hernandez and junior Leo Manzano 
shattered the Big 12 record, finishing 
in first place at 9:43.66.

"Having Leo at the end gives you 
an advantage, because he controls the 
race,"Thornton said. "I'm awfully proud 
of Darren, Hazma and Jacob."

Senior Andra Manson tied the meet 

record in the high jump at 7-6 1 /2.
With the victory, Manson joins former 
LIT pole-vaulter Jacob Davis as the 
only Texas athlete to win four consecu­
tive titles. Senior Donovan Kilmartin 
took his third consecutive heptathlon 
crown, finishing with a 5,870-point 
total. Hernandez, a TCU transfer, took 
the 800-meter championship, capping 
a personal best at 1:50.26.

In the 1,000-meter run, All-American

' 

t

Darren Brown placed third with 
2:23.20. Jake Morse finished fifth in the 
3,000-meter run with 8:10.73.

"We're really happy with how the 

team performed,"Thornton said. 
"Obviously, we found out a lot about 
ourselves and how we're going to han­
dle competitions in the future. Some 
of the guys grew up this week."

The next meet for Texas is the Last 

Chance Meets on March 2 at a site 
to be determined. The NCAA Indoor 
National Championships are March 9- 
10 in Fayetteville, Ark.

— David Henry

Women's track places second 
at conference championships

Three Longhorns clinched 
Big 12 Indoor titles at the Indoor 
Championships held Feb. 23 and 24 
in Ames, Iowa, helping Texas women's 
track finish in second.

Senior Michelle Carter won her sec­
ond consecutive Big 12 Indoor title in 
the shot put and sophomore Destinee 
Hooker repeated her Indoor title in 
the high jump event. Sophomore 
Alexandria Anderson won her first Big 
12 title in the 60-meters and brought 
home third in the 200-meters.

"Of course, those three are pretty 
solid. Two of those — Michelle Carter 
and Destinee Hooker — are ranked 
number one in the nation, and 
Alexandria is now top five. They don't 
acquire those without being the best 
at what they do," coach Bev Kearney 
said.

Sophomore Kira Robinson clocked 

in her personal best in the 60-meter 
hurdles, while junior Temeka Kincy 
came in second with her season best 
in the 1,000-meter. Freshman Betzy 
Jimenez also achieved her season best 
in the 1,600-meter. Junior Jasmine Lee, 
who won first in her heat during the 
400-meter preliminary with a time of 
54.58, collided with Nebraska's Sheryl 
Morgan during the finals, causing her 
to finish last in 1:06.36.

— Courtney Cox

QUOTE OF THE DAY

Texas baseball coach

on Saturday's win —
"Today, we followed the code, 
and there's a hell of a difference 
in the way you feel about the 
game, because now you know 
you've done your best."

(onradt's 
Countdown to 900

Kevin Durant goes for a shot with two Oklahom a defenders on him. Durant scored 32 
points during Texas'68-58 victory over O klahom a on Saturday in Norman, Okla.

Jason Sweeten | Daily Texan Staff

Texas' worst shooting half in program 
history.

"It's pretty much my fault" said guard 
D.J. Augustin, who finished with 18 
points and five assists. "I'm the point 
guard, I should make sure [my team­
mates] get a good shot."

Using defense to bail them selves 
out of a half in which they converted 
only 2-for-14 field goals, the Longhorns 
were able to take some energy from 
the Sooners and their home crowd.

The Longhorns converted 22-of-30 free 
throws in the second half.

Whenever there was a dead ball on 
the defensive end, Durant was exchang­
ing glances with Paul.

"C hris is my man," Durant said. "H e 

was just trying to motivate u s ."

With five minutes left in the game 

Durant looked over at his buddy.

"[Oklahom a] was coming back a little 
bit, and he was like 'you need to go 
ahead and put it away,"' Durant said.

Rowdy crowd and 38 fouls 
add to atmosphere during 
Texas victory in Norman

By Cody Hale
Daily Texan Staff

NORMAN, Okla. — Things got a lit­
tle rowdy between Texas and Oklahoma 
when they met on Saturday By the time 
the game was said and done, there were 
38 fouls called, including a technical foul 
on Oklahoma coach Jeff Capel.

And there was a cell phone splattered 

all over the court.

With 5:03 remaining in the game and

Texas forward Connor Atchley at the 
line, a fan decided to vent his frustra­
tion by doing more than just yelling at 
the referees.

He decided to heave a personal pos­
session. The fan threw a cell phone that 
broke in to pieces in the middle of the 
OU logo at mid-court and was escorted 
out of the Lloyd Noble Center imme­
diately.

But all the antics inside the arena may 

have actually helped the Longhorns

"This is a great place to play basket­
ball," Texas freshman Kevin Durant said. 
"I love it here, and the atmosphere Ls good 
to play in. Coach just told as to go right at 
them, and we did a great job of attacking

the rim and getting to the line."

Texas got to the charity stripe a total 
of 32 times against the Sooners and shot 
72 percent in the game One specific 
player that had to block out the crowd 
more than anyone else was Longhorn 
forward Damion James.

James signed with Oklahoma early in 
the recruiting process but was granted 
a release when former Oklahoma coach 
Kelvin Sampson left for Indiana while 
being investigated by the NCAA. When 
James was introduced before the game, 
the entire Sooner fan bast' of 8,767 people 
showered him with boos.

MEN com nueson page 2B

PITCH continues on puqe 2B

Pitching helps Texas take two at home

By Brad Gray
Daily Texan Staff 
Judging from the linescore, 
pitcher James Russell had a ter­
rible fifth inning Friday after­
noon against Washington State. 
Three straight hits went 400 feet 
or more. Two of them for home 
runs.

The thing is, he got out of it. 
Instead of tightening up and 
forcing pitches, Russell finished 
off the inrung by striking out a 
batter and forcing a pop fly into 
center field.

"H e competed and came back 
and got the outs to set it up for 
Joe [Krebs]," head coach Augie 
Garrido said.

After Russell squeezed his 
way out of the fifth, Krebs fol­
lowed for two more innings and 
closer Randy Boone finished the 
game for a 4-2 win.

Working their way out of 
tough innings seemed to be a 
theme for Texas pitchers this 
weekend, even when the defense 
wasn't there

After pitching six scoreless

innings, Adrian Alaniz got his 
way out of a jam in the seventh 
inning. It wasn't completely his 
jam, though.

in 
"It was M urphy's Law 
action," G arrido said. "W h at 
could go wrong did go wrong. 
The ball went down the line that 
Suttle almost caught, and then 
got caught in that com er and 
scored a batter."

Even though things didn't go 
right in the field behind him,

BASEBALL continues on page 2B

Check out what happened this 
weekend with men and women's 
tennis and swimming.

Freshmen help Texas to victory 
on Senior Day against Texas Tech
By Clay W hittington
Daily Texan Staff 

The spotlight was supposed to be on Tiffany 
Jackson and Katrina Robinson when the Texas 
w om en's basketball team played Texas Tech on 
Saturday Instead, it w as the freshmen that stole the 
show on Senior Dav.

Earpesia Williams, Carla Cortijo and Brittainey 
Raven combined for 39 points as the Longhorns 
defeated the Lady Raiders — snapping a school- 
record five game losing streak. In the first half, 
Texas' freshmen scored 25 of the team 's 31 points.

Texas coach Jody Conradt had criticized her team 
for forcing the ball inside to Jackson too much of 
late, but that w asn't the case against Texas Tech as 
the young players stepped up while Jackson sat on 
the bench for 11 m inutes in the first half.

Williams led the team in scoring with 17 points, 
including a 13-point first half perform ance in which

Baseball wins 
right, wrong 
way in series

By Ricky Treon
Daily Texan Staff

Not all wins are equal. At least not for the 

Longhorns.

When Augie Garrido spoke to his team after 
Friday's 4-2 win against Washington State, he 
didn't hold back on the criticism.

Though the Longhorns pulled out an open­
ing-game win for the second consecutive series, 
Texas' coach saw at least one major flaw in their 
performance.

The Longhorns did just enough to win, and 

Garrido expects more.

"We didn't follow the code," Garrido said. 
"We walked away fairly disappointed in the 
fact that we did n 't make our best effort for nine 
innings."

The competitiveness and drive that Garrido 
wants his team to display wasn't there at the 
end. And without team intensity, the team 
relied on a few parts instead of the whole.

"Coach was saying [on Friday] that we 
plunked a few base hits and ended up with four 
runs," left fielder Jordan Danks said Saturday. 
"But it was kind of on an individual basis."

That's not how the Longhorns want to win, 
so Texas made sure on Saturday that it had the 
fire it was missing.

W IN S continues on page 2B

Pitcher playing 
a pivotal part 
in softball wins

By Bhargav Katikaneni
Daily Texan Staff 
Fifteen games into the season, it is becom­
ing more obvious that Texas' fortunes rest on 
Meagan Denny's shoulders. Every start Denny 
makes needs to be quality.

Heading into California this weekend, the 
Longhorns were brimming with confidence 
after winning the Texas Classic with a 4-1 
record in Austin last weekend. The Longhorns' 
offense Continued performing well, even with 
leading hitter and shortstop Desiree Williams 
out with injury,

In Palm Springs, Denny (6-1, 1.17 ERA)
— the reigning Big 12 pitcher of the week
— threw two shutouts, a 4-0 victory over No. 
15 Washington and a 2-0 victory against No. 6 
Oregon State in the fifth and final game of the 
tournament. On the flip side, Denny's seventh 
inning relief appearance against Maryland cost 
the Longhorns the victory when she threw a 
wild pitch in the bottom of the seventh, scoring 
a runner and giving Maryland the 3-2 victory.

A Texas base 
runner slides 
into second 
d u rin g the 
L o n g h o rn s' 
on ly loss over 
the week­
end agaisnt 
W ashington 
State on 
Sunday.

Paul W *ntz*ll
Daily Texan Staff

 Sports

Monday, February 26, 2007

2B

WINS: Texas 
sees differences 
between first 
two victories 
of home series

From page 1B

Like they did against Texas 
State, the Longhorns built up a 
seven-run lead after two innings. 
And as in their manhandling of 
the Bobcats, the Longhorns didn't 
settle for the lead.

But this time, the hits fell, and 
Texas scored 11 runs against the 
Cougars.

"Today we all came out, and 
when one person got on base, it 
was contagious, and everybody 
else started hitting," Danks said. 
"That was the difference in the 
game today and yesterday."

The Longhorns 

left UFCU 
Disch-Falk Field feeling much bet­
ter about Saturday's performance, 
thoughts were 
and Garrido's 
much more positive.

"Today, we followed the code, 
and there's a hell of a difference in 
the way you feel about the game, 
because now you know you've 
done your best," Garrido said. 
"And when you do your best, 
win or lose, you walk away with 
something important."

FRESHMEN: Rookies take stage on Senior Day

From pagelB

she drained 6-of-7 shots.

"Eamie is one of our most 
consistent shooters, and she's 
worked hard on her shooting 
stroke," Conradt said. "She is 
such a consistent shooter, and 
her range has really improved."

Saturday was Williams' fourth 
consecutive game with at least 
12 points and her third straight 
game as the team's leading scor-

While Williams finished the 
game two points shy of her 
career-high, Cortijo smashed her 
personal record of nine assists 
by dishing out the most assists 
(13) by a Longhorn since 2000.

"Carla was terrific out there, 
and her 13 assists are the most 
assists w e've had here in a lot of 
years," Conradt said. "We really 
pushed the ball around the floor, 
and credit Carla for that."

In addition to her tremendous 
passing effort, Cortijo finished

with six points, two steals and 
nine rebounds.

"The initial push tonight by 
her was just outstanding," Texas 
Tech coach Kristy Curry said.

Raven struggled to find her 
stroke (4-of-14 FG) but hit one 
of the biggest shots of the game 
early in the second period. After 
the Lady Raiders pulled 
to 
w ithin seven points on an eight 
to four run, Raven nailed a 3- 
pointer to put Texas back up by 
10, 40-30.

j 

MEN: James 
gets 11 boards 
despite boos

From page IB

Every time he touched the ball, 
whether it was on a rebound or 
during an offensive set, James 
had to block out the trash talk. 
But none of that seemed to both­
er James, as he finished with a 
game-high 11 rebounds.

"I knew that it w ouldn't be 
a factor for him. If anything, I 
thought it might have motivated 
him," Texas coach Rick Barnes 
said. "Damion has really grown 
up in the last three weeks, and he 
knows what we need from him."

BASEBALL: Pitching can’t 
overcome Sunday’s defense

From pagelB

Alaniz still found a way to escape 
the inning without allowing any 
more runs, and Texas continued 
for an 11-2 win on Saturday.

"It was special to see the 
bulldog in him fight it out 
like that," assistant coach Skip 
Johnson said.

On Sunday, Texas' defense 
was just bad enough that the 
pitching couldn't make up for 
it, and the Longhorns lost 7-6.

"The good was the pitching, 
the bad was the defense and 
the ugly was me," Garrido said. 
"We gave them more than three 
outs in all of the innings."

Austin Wood started well

for the Longhorns, with Krebs 
and Boone coming out of the 
bullpen.

While Boone pitched in the 
eighth, the Cougars scored the 
four runs that gave them the 
lead.

Washington State designat­
ed hitter Jared Prince drove in 
two runs off of a missed ball 
by center fielder Nick Peoples. 
Although Prince's hit was ruled 
a triple, it was a ball that Peoples 
usually grabs for an out.

"On a normal day that's a 
ball that he catches," Garrido 
said. "Errors like that kick in 
because you lose your competi­
tive edge, and that's what hap­
pened to us today."

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WOMEN: Texas doesn’t let 
Red Raiders gain momentum

From pagelB

like this when we go to A&M " 

Texas led 31-22 at halftime 
with a strong first half shoot­
ing performance. The Longhorns 
shot 48.3 percent in the first half, 
while the Lady Raiders struggled 
from the field, going 9-of-28.

Tech w ould not go away 
quietly in the second half, as 
a Patrice Edwards layup with 
16:34 remaining pulled the Lady 
Raiders to within seven. But, as 
they had done all game, Texas 
responded by knocking down an 
outside shot.

Raven nailed a 3-pointer to 
push the lead back up to 10. 
Tiffany Jackson's free throw with 
12:10 to go in the game gave 
the Longhorns a 14-point lead. 
Jackson finished with 10 points 
and nine rebounds.

Unlike 

their previous five 
games, the Longhorns did not 
lose their focus or let Tech back 
into the game with a sustained 
offensive run.

Cortijo made a baseline jump­
er to give Texas a 12-4 lead at the 
14:10 mark in the first half. The 
Lady Raiders answered with a 
10-4 run over the next seven min­
utes, bringing the score to 16-14 
with 7:38 to go in the first half.

But that's the closest Tech 
w ould get, as the Longhorns 
remained consistent jpn offense 
and played strong defense to 
close out the half.

"We staggered around a bit 
when Tiffany [Jackson] and E- 
Bay [Emeisha Bailey] picked up 
their third fouls," Conradt said. 
"But, once we righted ourselves, 
which is not something we've 
done recently, we did a good job 
of maintaining our poise."

The Longhorns still have a 
chance of getting an invite to the 
NCAA tournament, with a win 
against Texas A&M and a solid 
Big 12 tournament showing.

"It's a must-win situation for us 
from hereon in," Jackson said. "I 
don't want to think that this is my 
last game at the Erwin Center."

PITCH: Terps top Longhorns

From pagelB

To make the loss even more 
agonizing, Maryland got the 
walk off victory just minutes 
after the Longhorns had broken 
up a no hitter and tied the game 
in the top of the seventh inning. 
A home run by Kacie Gaskin 
and triple by pinch-hitter Crystal 
Saenz 
that scored Jacqueline 
Williams tied the game at two 
before Denny's wild pitch scored 
the winner for Maryland.

All the offensive frustrations

from the Maryland game would 
be released against Nevada the 
next day in a 7-3 victory, with 
all seven runs being scored in 
the fifth inning. After Shannon 
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Friday's Solution

6 3 4
1

1 9

7
6 5
2

8 3

2 8 3 6 7

4 6 3

1

7 5 2

9 7
5

1 8

7 2 4 3 8 1 5 9 6
5 6 1 4 9 7 2 3 8
9 8 9 5 6 2 1 7 4
1 9 5 2 4 6 7 8 3
8 7 6 9 5 3 4 1 2
2 4 3 7 1 8 9 6 5
6 3 7 1 2 5 8 4 9
9 1 2 8 3 4 6 5 7
4 5 8 6 7 9 3 2 1

35 ET transporters

Raced (through)

4B

She ¿ írttf U ork Stance
Crossword
29 Beatles movie

ACROSS

1 Church recess 

5 Wallop in the 
boxing ring

33 State Farm s 

business: Abbr.

34 Cry loudly

9 Catcher s
position

14 Deception

15 “Movin ___”

(“The
Jeffersons" 
theme song)

16 What marks 

and francs have 
been replaced 
with

17 Singer Braxton

18 Cunningness

19 German word of 
appreciation

20 Special 
occasion

23 Atty s org.

2 4 

constrictor

25 Arctic bird

26 Oz musical, 
with ‘T he”

36 Bank contents

39 Unilever soap 

brand

40 Film critic Roger

41 Wide-eyed

4 2 ___ Lingus

43 Roman 111

44 Winner of the 

first Super Bowl

50 Sushi fish

51 Dadaist Jean

52 Motorist s way: 

Abbr.

53 “Shucks!”

54 Where to find 
the colors in 
this puzzle

57 Gather, logically

60 Home of Cittá 
del Vaticano

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE

1 S S u E A M A N 1 F E S T 0
T R A N S L 1 T E R A T 1 0 N
H 0 L D [A, L L T H E C A R D S
D E L U D E
E S S 0

A A H

L E T H E

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1 0 N D A Y
1 N A U G U R A T
A C H 1 L L E S T E N D 0 N S
S E R G E A N T 0 R 0 U R K E
R E F E R

1 G N 1 S

T N N

N E R D S

C 0 0

1 K 0 N
R 0 U T E D
A R T U R 0 T 0 s C A N 1 N 1
C A S T 1 R 0 N s K 1 L L E T
T H 0 U S A N D 1 S L A N D S

14

17

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2 á

2 9

41

44

5 0

62

é 5

Capital of
Ecuador
Spoken

Cast about

Nerve

S-shaped
molding

DOWN

Off course 

One of the 
friends on 
“Friends"
Beach footwear

1928 Oscar 
winner Jannings

Acts
obsequiously 

Singer Bryant 
and others 

Christmastime 

Area from which 
to hear an aria 

Pop crooner 
Neil

Waterfront site 

Vase

Thum bs up”

M a o 

-tung

Boneheaded 

Bride, after the 
vows

“Are y o u ___
out?”

Spiciness 

Feudal lord 

Unconscionably 
high interest

4

21

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á á

36

3 7

38

27

28

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31

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51

54

55

5 7

5 8

59

60

6 3

6 6

4 7

4 8

4 9

56

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6 4

6 7

Puzzle by David Pringle

32 Hungarian cube 42 Start of a 

maker 

magician s cry

36 Caster of spells 43 Flaspberry

37 Fairy-tale
meanie 

*5 Not wide

46 First

38 Christmas song 47 Holiday quaff

39 Spring game7 

48 Put on the

payroll again

54 French head

55 “ 

good time,

c a ll...”

56 ‘That s all there 
it!"
57 Figs. averaging 

 

58 Macadamia,

100

e.g.

40 Do well (at) 

49 Parlor piece

59 Spruce relative

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Ben Kweller per­
form s Friday night 
to a packed Texas 
Union Ballroom. 
Before the set, 
the Student Event 
Center's Music and 
Entertainment 
Com m ittee 
an noun ce d Little 
Richard will be 
headlining Forty 
Acres Fest on 
March 24.

Paul Wentzell

Daily Texan Staff

M onday, February 26, 2007

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Campus talent show 
promotes ‘great cause’

NO NOSEBLEEDS THIS TIME

Groups participated 
to spread awareness 
o f worldwide AIDS

By Katherine Fan
Daily Texan Staff 
Saturday's beautiful weather 
gave way to a fun-packed show of 
campus talent in Hogg Memorial 
Auditorium Saturday night — the 
annual Asian American Campus 
Ministry Talent Show performed 
for an audience of more than 1,100, 
including parents and high school 
students as well as UT students. 
This year's theme, Dare to Move, 
promoted awareness of AIDS 
worldwide and within the Austin 
community. Various campus orga­
nizations, including Asian sorority 
Alpha Sigma Rho and the Asian 
Business Students' Association 
presented skits to a captivated 
audience. Other participants 
including Free Axis, Momentum, 
ReACTsion and AACMappella, 
treated the audiend to dance, band 
and cappella numbers. Several 
interviews and video clips inter­
spersed between the acts depicted 
gripping visuals and information 
on AIDS.

The most popular act was the 
"Mario" performance. Accounting 
senior Alex Nguyen, marketing 
senior Cameron Wu, finance senior 
David Ha and liberal arts fresh­
man Spencer Nguyen dressed up 
as Mario, Luigi, Toad and Wario, 
respectively They played various 
"Mario" themes on the xylophone 
and drums while reenacting vari­
ous "Mario" moments such as 
Mario dodging fireballs and Luigi 
becoming 
the 
Starman item.

invincible with 

"The Mario one was my favorite 
performance," said computer sci­
ences graduate student Shawn Yu. 
"The music was very good, the 
drums were good and the action 
was very funny That's what I loved 
the most."

"I am HIV positive," said 
guest speaker Christopher Yuan. 
"Someday I will die of AIDS."

OSCAR: ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ gets snubbed

From page 6B

and how little was said when the 
speech was translated by Clint 
Eastwood, the award presenter. 
I'm sure that Morricone was also 
angry that Celine Dion ruined his 
beautiful song from "Once Upon 
A Time In America."

But truly one of the most pleas­
ant moments came dunng the 
presentation of the Best Director 
Oscar. Francis Ford Coppola, 
Steven Spielberg and George 
Lucas all came out to present and 
Coppola and Spielberg began to 
rag on Lucas for never winning an 
Oscar — utterly hilarious.

Then the three gave away the 
award to their friend and colleague 
Martin Scorsese, who spoke ata mil­
lion miles a minute to fit in every 
word. With Thelma Schoonmaker's 
win for editing, Scorsese's for 
directing and "The Departed's" 
for best picture, it was a glorious 
Academy Awards indeed.

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A former drug addict and den­
tistry student, Yuan shared how 
a "typical Asian kid who obeyed 
Mom and Dad and took piano 
lessons" ended up in prison for 
possessing and trafficking the 
equivalent of 9.1 tons of mari­
juana.

"Really, I'm no different than 
everyone else," Yuan said. "I

want to encourage people to live 
with a sense of urgency. Life 
is short, life is precious, and it 
took me getting HIV to learn 
this lesson. I hope I can encour­
age people to learn this lesson 
through my mistakes."

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[and] a great cause," said McNeil 
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more exciting watching Oprah 
appear on other people's 
shows, like her 2005 appear­
ance on "The Late Show With 
David Letterman" that attract­
ed 13 million viewers. Her 
Thursday appearance on Ellen 
DeGeneres' syndicated 
talk 
show promoted "The Oprah 
Winfrey Leadership Academy," 
which airs tonight on ABC, and 
her Thursday night Oscar spe­
cial brought together six Oscar 
winners for brief, but candid 
interviews. Julia Roberts and 
the 
George Clooney were 
most entertaining duo, feeling 
very at ease with each other 
in Clooney's Hollywood man­
sion. Oprah herself showed 
up to the final interview to 
pay tribute to Sidney Poitier s 
legacy.

Thursday night also brought 
the series finale of "The OC." 
What used to be a watercooler 
show for our generation, lost 
some traction in recent years 
that not even killing Marissa 
could stop. If you didn't watch 
Thursday's finale, but are curi­
ous as to what became of the 
Cohens and company, Seth and 
Summer marry, Kirsten has 
a baby, Julie goes to college, 
Sandy becomes a law professor 
at Berkeley and Ryan becomes 
an architect. The final scene 
was schmaltzy, but it came full- 
circle when Ryan sees a trou­
bled teen and asks if he needs 
any help.

Jim might need some help 
after this week's "The Office." 
After Pam revealed her Jim- 
crush, Roy trashed a pub and 
threatened to kill Jim Comedy 
doesn't often flow from death 
threats, so to lighten the mood 
Michael and Jan made their 
public debut at a corporate 
office party. I understand their 
relationship now: Jan is as 
crazy as Michael is delusional.

"Office" 

Another 

fixture, 
Rainn Wilson, who plays 
hosted 
Dwight 
Schrute, 
"Saturday Night Live" 
this 
week. For all the detractors who 
have shunned "SNL" in recent 
years, this latest installment

is yet another hilarious example 
of its creative resurgence. High 
points included a jukebox skit that 
had Wilson and company sharing 
really vulgar stories in between 
choruses of "Danny's Song" by 
Kenny Loggins and a hilarious 
"SNL Digital Short" taking place 
during the board meeting of a 
cash-strapped company.

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which premieres tonight at 9 p.m. on 
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Crime films finally pay off for Martin Scorsese

By Alex Regnery
Daily Texan Columnist 
Martin Scorsese used to be a loser, and 
Eddie Murphy used to be a winner. Well, 
the times they are a-changin'.

On the same night Scorsese won 
his first Oscar — after being snubbed 
seven times, by the Academy — and 
"The Departed" won Best Picture, Eddie 
Murphy proclaimed his love for 2002 
flop "The Adventures of Pluto Nash." 
The man who recently unleashed upon 
us a plague of terrible films such as 
"Norbit" and "Daddy Day Care" actu­
ally likes one of his worst. Maybe for 
that reason Murphy didn't walk away 
with the golden statuette. The Academy 
voters — left wondering whatever hap­
pened to the "Trading Places" star we 
all know and love — didn't want him to 
win out of spite.

The 79th Annual Academy Awards 
went off without a hitch last night. 
There were a couple surprises ("Pan's 
Labyrinth" losing the foreign film award), 
some interesting clip compilatioas and a 
pretty good musical number. Overall, it 
was an entertaining awards show.

Ellen [degeneres did a pretty good job 
as host, utilizing her nervous energy and 
natural charisma to float over some of 
the jokes that bombed. The show opened 
with a fantastic montage by Errol Morris 
featuring most of the nominees such as

2007 Academy Award Winners

• Best Picture — "The Departed"
• Best Director — Martin Scorsese, "The Departed"
• Best Actor — Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland"
• Best Actress — Helen Mirren, "The Queen"
• Best Supporting Actor — Alan Arkin, "Little Miss Sunshine"
• Best Supporting Actress — Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls"
• Best Original Screenplay — "Little Miss Sunshine"
• Best Adapted Screenplay — "The Departed"
• Foreign Language Film — "The Lives of Others," (Germany)

• Best Documentary — "An Inconvenient Truth"
• Animated Feature — "Happy Feet"

Marky Mark, Peter O'Toole and a lot of 
people no one knew.

There were some great clip compila­
tions put together by some of cinema's fin­
est, including Michael Mann's piece about 
America in film. Sometimes the Oscars 
crossed the border from awards show into 
performance art with a group of acrobats 
that cast shadows to showcase a specific 
movie (my favorite being the "Snakes on a 
Plane" logo they created.)

There was even a portion where a choir 
performed sound effects (instead of sing­
ing) set to even more film clips. Jack Black, 
Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly performed 
a show-stopping number about comedi­
ans never being nominated for Oscars. 
They took a break from singing to point at 
every best actor nominee and tell them the

ways in which they would break them for 
being good actors. "Mark Wahlberg," cried 
Ferrell. "Where are you? I won't pick a 
fight with you 'cause you're a badass!"

Surprises came in the form of Jack 
Nicholson's bald head, which made him 
both borderline terrifying and endearing, 
as well as "Pan's Labyrinth" losing the 
Best Foreign Film Oscar to Germany's "The 
Lives of Others."

The viewing audience also found out 
that Jerry Seinfeld doesn't clean up after 
himself at the movies, Jaden Smith is a 
little too cocky for his own good, and 
Ennio Morricone really didn't like getting 
an honorary Oscar. It was a bit odd how 
much Morricone said in his native Italian

O S C A R continues on page 5B

Director 
Martin 
Scorsese 
poses with 
the O scar he 
w on for best 
director for his 
w ork on "The 
Departed" 
at the 79th 
Academ y 
Awards 
Sund ay in Los 
Angeles.

Kevork Djansezian

Associated Press

T h i s W e e k i n T V
'The 0 C ends, 
'Grey’s finishes 
three-part series

bringing her back from the 
dead over an hour after 
drowning in frigid waters 
as a "medical miracle." I 
call it sloppy writing.

By Alex Navissi
Daily Texan Columnist 
The three-part "Grey's 
Anatomy" ferryboat saga 
is over and Meredith Grey 
is not headed to that great 
operating room in the sky. 
The voice-over explained

Either way, it was a 
tough plot to maneuver, 
so let's just put it past us 
and focus on Addison and 
Alex's blossoming love. 
Wait a second, it has been 
that Addison 
confirmed 
(Kate Walsh) is leaving 
Seattle Grace Hospital to

headline her own Shonda 
spinoff, 
Rhimes-penned 
so I guess 
the K arev/ 
Montgomery love connec­
tion isn't going to happen. 
On the plus side, the beau­
tiful and amazingly talent­
ed Walsh is so captivating 
that I'd watch her read the 
phone book.

is 
"Grey's Anatomy" 
definitely the big show 
on Thursday nights, but 
this past week, Thursday 
should have been renamed 
"Oprah Day." It's always

T V continues on page 5B

A tw o-hour 
episode 
of'Grey's 
Anatomy,' 
featuring Kate 
Walsh, left, 
and guest star 
Taye Diggs, 
will be a test 
run for a 
possible new 
spin-off of 
the Thursday 
hit, ABC said 
Thursday.

Karen Neal

Associated Press

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