THE DAILY TEXAN TOMORROWÕS WEATHER LIFE&ARTS PAGE 12 SPORTS PAGE 7 Low Hall of fame makes High A look behind the Loko room for womenÕs coach 84 Thursday, October 21, 2010 Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 www.dailytexanonline.com Calendar Passport day McCombs students, faculty and staff can apply for or renew passports at this event hosted by the BBA International Programs Office. U.S. Passport Acceptance Agents will be available from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in CBA 3.304. Pop art Risa Puleo, a curator at the Blanton Museum of Art, will discuss the works of pop artists Andy Warhol and George Segal. The talk at 12:30 p.m. is free as well as admission to the museum today. Arab poetry Adonis, Nobel Prize contender and celebrated Arab poet, will read his works along with professor Khaled Mattawa from the University of Michigan. Sponsored by the Middle Eastern studies department, the free event will be from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Texas Union Theatre. ÔParanormal ActivityÕ double feature The Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar will show the hit horror movie ÒParanormal ActivityÓ before premiering its sequel at midnight. The screening starts at 10:15 p.m. and tickets are $15. Today in history In 1879 Thomas Edison invented the electric incandescent lamp which lasted 13-and-one-half hours before burning out. Quote to note Ô Ô ÒThe rosemary is what really made it. It was a good mix of aromather¥apy, canned meth and ambitious mixology that helped the punch hit a home run.Ó Ñ Audrey Japburn Blogger LIFE&ARTS PAGE 12 County sees spike in voter turnout vis County voters turned out for early voting, and UT voting booths outpaced all but two Randalls locations in the first three days. After casting his ballot in the FAC, history freshman Moses Lira said he voted early because the timing was By Collin Eaton Daily Texan Staff This yearÕs early voting turnout in Tra¥vis County during the first three days nearly doubled the turnout during the same time of the 2006 midterm elections, but the University early voting booths posted only a 4.5-percent increase over the 2006 election cycle, when Demo¥crats took control of both the U.S. House and Senate. More than 36,000 Travis County vot¥ers have cast their ballot so far, out of about 594,000 registered voters. Mary Fero, spokeswoman for the Travis Coun¥ty ClerkÕs Office, said the election is more competitive than in previous elections but did not speculate on what is driving the increase in turnout. ÒThereÕs clearly a lot of interest in the election,Ó Fero said. ÒIt may just be a more competitive election all around.Ó UT landed in the middle range of Tra¥vis County voting hot spots, with only 1,578 in the first three days Ñ less than every Randalls and H-E-B voting booth in the county. In 2006, 17 percent of Tra- Scaring for a cure Andrew Torrey | Daily Texan Staff Alex Schafer and volunteers perform the ÒThrillerÓ dance Wednesday evening. The performance is part of ÒSCARE for a CURE.Ó INSIDE: Local police officers work toward a cure on page 5 Unaddressed issues in global warming tied to state funds By Matthew Stottlemyre their operations. Daily Texan Staff Banner said the Texas Water The Texas Legislature has failed Development Board, which en¥to address climate change issues sures the state has enough wa¥because, among other reasons, the ter during droughts, would have stateÕs economy is been required to based on fossil fu-prepare for more els, a UT geolo-severe droughts than they cur¥ gy professor said rently consider Wednesday. Texas will shift to a plausible. He saidJay Bannerspoke more arid climate that according to com¥in the McCombs could include longer puter model pro- School of Business jections, which he about his role in a periods of drought in presented to thebill addressing cli¥ the future. Legislature, Tex¥mate change that as will shift to a never made it out more arid climateof a Texas Senate that could include committee in 2009. longer periods ofThe bill would have required 14 drought in the near future. state agencies, including the Tex-By failing to pass legislationas Commission on Environmen¥addressing the issue, Banner said thetal Quality and the Texas Depart-Legislature effectively ignored the ment of Transportation, to file a projections he presented to them. report every two years address¥ing the effects of climate change on FUEL continues on page 2 Corey Leamon | Daily Texan Staff Actress Shabana Azmi discusses her work in India and how it inspired her political activism on Wednesday in the Texas Union Theatre. VOTE continues on page 2 University scrutinizes text alert pros, cons By Aziza Musa Daily Texan Staff After internally assessing its response on Sept. 28 Ñ the day mathematics sophomore Col¥ton Tooley fired 11 rounds of his AK-47 on campus before taking his own life Ñ the UniversityÕs Emergency Preparedness de¥partment reported about 53,000 students and staff received text message alerts. However, in many cases us¥ers did not receive the text alerts for up to 45 minutes after they were sent. UT officials said congested wireless traffic con¥tributed to the delay. Director of Emergency Pre¥paredness David Cronk sent the text messages, which went out from an internal server to a third¥party aggregator, a collection of servers. From there, the messag¥es were transmitted to towers of different cell phone carriers, such as AT&T or Verizon. ÒThatÕs where the weak point is within the distribution sys¥tem,Ó Cronk said. ÒBecause if you hit a tower with 55,000 mes¥sages at a time, it has a certain capacity that it can handle.Ó ALERTS continues on page 2 Benefit concert aims to help pay patientÕs medical costs By Allison Kroll Daily Texan Staff Pulmonary alveolar proteino¥sis, a rare lung disease, caused Fernando Villa to miss most of his senior year of high school because of 15 hospitalizations to undergo treatment. VillaÕs fami¥ly and friends arenÕt willing to let him miss out on any more of his life, so they turned to the UT community for help. Villa, an 18-year-old graduate of Travis High School, received a double lung transplant earli¥er this week at the University of Texas Medical Branch/John Sealy ChildrenÕs charity hospi¥tal in Galveston, but his fami¥ly needs to pay about $26,000 in post-surgery rehabilitation that Medicare wonÕt cover. To help Villa and his fami¥ly, premed senior Rodolfo Ro¥driguez and social work soph¥omore Juan Benavides orga¥nized the Make It Happen ben¥efit concert, which takes place Courtesy of DONATE continues on page 2 Fernando Villa Indian activist ref lects on movie roles By Mary Ellen Knewtson Daily Texan Staff An audience of about 400 peo¥ple jumped to their feet as a secu¥rity guard escorted actress and ac¥tivist Shabana Azmi toward the stage of the Texas Union Theater on Wednesday. She spoke to students about how her roles in more than 60 movies since the 1970s have in¥fluenced her history of social ac¥tivism in issues like poverty and womenÕs rights. After playing a woman in a difficult marriage who stood up to her husband, she became in¥terested in the womenÕs move¥ment. While researching a part as a woman from a poor village, she was exposed to the poverty many faced in rural India. ÒI could not say ÔI will use youÕ Ñ take from your life, to enrich myself and maybe win an award, but then have nothing to do with you,Ó Azmi said. ÒWhen youÕre working in meaningful cinema, some of the residue of the charac¥ters you are doing is bound to fil¥ter in to your life.Ó She said cinema and all other art can not directly bring about change, but it can create a climate of sensitivity for change to occur. Azmi gained a high level of rec¥ognition from her career as an ac¥tress in India, but her influence extends far beyond the sphere of cinema, said Asian studies associ¥ate professor Syed Akbar Hyder. ÒShe is one of IndiaÕs leading public intellectuals,Ó he said. AzmiÕs work as a social activ¥ist includes working to improve conditions for AIDS victims, slum dwellers and day-laborers, Hyder said. She was nominated to the Indian Parliament in 1997 and ACTRESS continues on page 2 NEWS Thursday, October 21, 2010 THE DAILY TEXAN Volume 111, Number 94 25 cents CONTACT US Main Telephone: (512) 471-4591 Editor: Lauren Winchester (512) 232-2212 editor@dailytexanonline.com Managing Editor: Sean Beherec (512) 232-2217 managingeditor@ dailytexanonline.com News O¥ce: (512) 232-2207 news@dailytexanonline.com Web O¥ce: (512) 471-8616 online@dailytexanonline.com Sports O¥ce: (512) 232-2210 sports@dailytexanonline.com Life & Arts O¥ce: (512) 232-2209 lifeandarts@dailytexanonline.com Photo O¥ce: (512) 471-8618 photo@dailytexanonline.com Retail Advertising: (512) 471-1865 joanw@mail.utexas.edu ClassiÞed Advertising: (512) 471-5244 classiÞeds@dailytexanonline.com The Texan strives to present all information fairly, accurately and completely. If we have made an error, let us know about it. Call (512) 232-2217 or e-mail managingeditor@dailytexanonline.com. CORRECTION Because of an editing error, WednesdayÕs page-one article about the rally for Bill White on campus should have referred to Cameron Miculka as the spokesman for the University Democrats. COPYRIGHT Copyright 2010 Texas Student Media. All articles, photographs and graphics, both in the print and online editions, are the property of Texas Student Media and may not be reproduced or republished in part or in whole without written permission. TODAYÕS WEATHER LowHigh 6988 Steal my highlighters! DONATE: Events garner support for family of hospitalized teen From page 1 today from 6 to 8 p.m. on the Main Mall. Students will be able to donate money to Villa and his family via UT student group Global Medical Training. ÒWeÕre trying to raise money, and get the message across that students can really make things happen,Ó Benavides said. Since his surgery, Villa is doing well. Rodriguez said he hopes that Villa will be able to move forward now. Villa played the cello before falling ill, and has ambitions to become a musician. He has a passion for Mariachi music, which is why local bands Ma¥riachi En Fuego, Mariachi Re¥lampago and Mariachi Corbe¥tas will perform at the concert. ÒIt broke my heart that he wouldnÕt have any opportu¥nities,Ó Rodriguez said. ÒHis health is causing problems for him, and I want to see him blessed with the same oppor¥tunities that I had.Ó Rodriguez and Benavides came up with the idea for the event about two weeks ago after hearing about Villa on the news. They decided to do what they could to help, and started the process by contact¥ing VillaÕs sister, 2002 Trav¥is High School graduate Lin¥da Santos. The coordinators created a Facebook event to spread the word, and are asking the UT community to help promote the concert by sending invita¥tions and passing the informa¥tion on to their friends. Beta Upsilon Chi, Broth¥ers Under Christ, is hosting the concert, but Rodriguez and Benavides are urging other student organizations to get involved in the effort. Any organization interested should refer to the ÒMake It HappenÓ Facebook page for more information. Santos recently hosted a ben¥efit dance for Villa on Oct. 7 at Club Escapade 2000, which do¥nated about $1,300 in entrance fees for the night and will host more events in the future. Austin businesses have raised about $3,000 more. Santos said she is very grate¥ful to UT students for showing support. ÒThereÕs no words to de¥scribe how appreciative I am,Ó Santos said. ÒIt just goes to show that it only take one per¥son to make a difference. ItÕs amazing to know that there are about 50,000 students at UT, and each of them have it in their grasp to help my brother fight this battle. All they have to do is say ÔyesÕ to making it happen.Ó VOTE: Students seize opportunity to hit polls ahead of election day From page 1 Doggett campaign on election night, Wednesday was the convenient and midterms are most convenient time to vote. landing around election day. ÒToday was the easiest ÒI wanted to just get this out of the way,Ó Lira said. ÒItÕs day to come out and vote,Ó very important that I come out Turner said. ÒI donÕt think here and cast my vote at some most of the elections in Tex¥point, especially now with the as are that competitive Ñ IÕm political climate as it is.Ó more pumped to see what Government junior Bran-happens in other parts of don Turner also cast a ballot at the country.Ó the FAC and said because he Ñ Additional reporting is volunteering for the Lloyd by Audrey White Construction production ALERTS: Network congestion addressed From page 1 It took four to five minutes for the aggregator to receive the messages and up to 45 minutes for individuals to get the notifi¥cations, Cronk said. The depart¥ment sent out 54,000 messages at a time Ñ five times overall Ñ totaling 270,000 notifications for the day. About seven years ago, UT made a five-year deal to use a text-messaging system known as Mobile Campus, which in¥cluded coupons to local restau¥rants. After noticing a negative response to the coupons, UT switched to a stand-alone prod¥uct strictly for messaging pur¥poses, Cronk said. Cronk said some cell phone towers, including SprintÕs, may have seen the large number of text messages coming, interpret¥ed them as spam and rejected them. The UniversityÕs Informa¥tion Technology Services provid- ACTRESS: Admirers crowd Union for speech ed the network with a six-digit code to move the emergency text messages to the top of the queue, eventually reaching students on campus. The Emergency Preparedness department is trying to address the congestion problems by im¥plementing a multichannel de¥livery system which would reach television screens and computer desktops, Cronk said. ÒIt wonÕt be on every comput¥er,Ó he said. ÒIt doesnÕt have to be. If you have 30 students and one person gets the message, it wonÕt take long for everybody else to know.Ó T-Mobile spokeswoman Ann Brooks said the network saw a 200- to 400-percent increase in cell phone traffic between 8 a.m. and noon on the day of the inci¥dent. Brooks said it is impossible to predict when massive traffic spikes will happen, but the com¥pany can monitor the network to respond when they do. ÒWe know that things like this are bound to happen in a na¥tionwide network,Ó Brooks said. ÒWe feel like the most important reason to have robust wireless services for any community is to keep people connected to public safety facilities in emergency sit¥uations like this.Ó Future improvements include changing word usage and ex¥panding the speaker system to indoor locations. All communi¥cations systems Ñ including the sirens, intercom and text mes¥sages Ñ are tested on the first Wednesday of each month to en¥sure that they are in working or¥der. UT police Chief Robert Dahl¥strom said having the text mes¥sage system improved the cam¥pus response by providing in¥formation directly to students, faculty and staff. ÒI think our system is one ev¥eryone is looking to emulate at this point in time,Ó he said. FUEL: Conflict betweeneconomy, environment spurs policy dialogue From page 1 During his talk, Banner present¥ed data showing increasing lev¥els of carbon dioxide in the atmo¥sphere coinciding with the begin¥ning of the Industrial Revolution. ÒOne thing no one disagrees with are the accuracy and validity of this data,Ó Banner said. ÒThere are things where there is a con¥on economic opportunities than in addressing climate change. ÒWe are a very carbon-de¥pendent economy not because we are evil but because we pro¥duce a lot of the nationÕs energy,Ó Strama said. According to U.S. Energy Infor¥mation Administration statistics, Texas is responsible for 16.4 per¥cent of the nationÕs energy pro- From page 1 served as the goodwill ambassa¥dor for India. ÒShe has bridged the divide be¥tween art and activism perhaps better than anyone else in India,Ó Hyder said. ÒHer art is very much informed by her social concerns.Ó WednesdayÕs event was the first of its Golden Jubilee series, which celebrates 50 years of South Asian studies at UT. Jonathan Seefeldt, spokesman for the Hindi Urdu Flagship Program, said the event was particularly relevant to stu¥dents in the program, who have studied her work. ÒShe has been a unique voice in India for a long time now,Ó he said. The Hindi Urdu Flagship is a four-year undergraduate pro¥gram open to all majors. Seefeldt said students in some Flagship classes watch AzmiÕs films, read poems written by her father, Urdu poet Kaifi Azmi, and dis¥cuss the work of her mother, stage actress Shaukat Azmi. 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Box D, Austin, TX 78713. 10/21/10 Wire Editor: Elyana Barrera WORLD&NATION www.dailytexanonline.com Thursday, October 21, 2010 THE DAILY TEXAN Ohio father of six pleads not guilty to murder charges By Andrew Welsh-Huggins The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio Ñ A fa¥ther of six pleaded not guilty Wednesday to an attempt¥ed murder charge that accus¥es him of trying to force his girlfriend at gunpoint to have an abortion. Authorities say Dominic Holt-Reid pointed a handgun at his pregnant girlfriend and forced her to drive to a womenÕs clin¥ic, where she was able to slip a note to an employee who got help. She was not harmed. Holt-Reid entered the not guilty plea in Franklin County Common Pleas Court and was ordered held on $350,000 bond. The attempted murder count was filed because Holt-Reid tried Òat gunpoint to force her to have an abortion against her will,Ó county prosecutor Ron OÕBrien said in an e-mail to The Associated Press. OÕBrien said Ohio previously rewrote its murder law to pro¥hibit the Òunlawful termina¥tion of a pregnancyÓ to avoid a debate over an unborn fetusÕ legal rights. The statute has al¥lowed his office to win convic¥tions on two counts in murder cases in which the victim was pregnant, he said. Police said Holt-Reid had be¥come angry with Yolanda Bur¥gess because she refused to go through with an abortion scheduled Oct. 6 at a womenÕs clinic. After the two dropped their 5-year-old child off at school, Holt-Reid took a loaded .45-caliber handgun out of the glove compartment of BurgessÕ car, aimed it at her, threatened her and forced her to drive to the clinic, police said. Once there, Burgess was able to slip a note to an employee, who notified police. Federal court documents and the Bureau of Prisons show that Holt-Reid served a 20-month sentence in fed¥eral prison stemming from a 2007 drug conviction and is on supervised release. Convicting Holt-Reid of at¥tempted murder may be diffi¥cult because several other steps would have had to take place to end the pregnancy, said Joshua Dressler, an Ohio State Univer¥sity criminal law professor. ÒIs this really now attempted murder ... since he canÕt, if you will, pull the trigger?Ó Dressler said. ÒItÕs going to have to be done by someone else.Ó The Ohio law was passed in 1996 after a campaign by a Mid¥dletown man whose wife and unborn son were killed in a car wreck. Supporters of the bill at the time said they were not try¥ing to affect abortion rights. A Cincinnati woman in May 1997 was the first person con¥victed under the law. In that case, she was accused of caus¥ing a car accident that killed a woman and her unborn son. In other states, prosecu¥tors last year in Utah charged a 17-year-old girl who was pregnant with first-degree fel¥ony criminal solicitation to commit murder after she al¥legedly paid a man to beat her up so she would have a miscarriage. At least 38 states including Ohio have so-called fetal ho¥micide laws increasing pen¥alties for crimes against preg¥nant women, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Court upholds $33 million seizure Vatican officials renounce money-laundering claims, seek to release bank funds The Associated Press ROME Ñ A Rome court on Wednesday upheld the sei¥zure of $33 million from a Vat¥ican bank account, prompt¥ing the Vatican to react in Òastonishment.Ó Last month, Italian authorities seized the money from a Vatican bank account and said they had begun investigating top officials at the bank in connection with a money-laundering probe. Warlord suspect in suicide attacks By Musa Sadulayev & Simon Shuster The Associated Press GROZNY, Russia Ñ A suicide attack on ChechnyaÕs parliament may have been staged by a shad¥owy warlord who wants to estab¥lish himself as a leader of the Rus¥sian regionÕs factionalized Islamist insurgency, officials and analysts said Wednesday. Some observers said they believe there could be an escalation of vi¥olence as Khusein Gakayev moves to assert his supremacy over the di¥vided rebels. In the attack, Òthe goal here is to demonstrate GakayevÕs au¥thority,Ó said Yulia Latynina, a Moscow-based columnist and Caucasus expert. No one immediately claimed re¥sponsibility for TuesdayÕs attack by three suicide attackers, who got in¥side the tightly guarded parliament complex in the capital, Grozny, as legislators gathered for a session. The attackers opened fire and blew themselves up, killing two police officers and a parliamentary aide and wounded 17 other people. Islamic insurgents have tak¥en root in RussiaÕs predominant¥ly Muslim North Caucasus region and are trying to turn it into an in¥dependent emirate that adheres to Shariah, or Islamic law. Analysts say that apparent in¥decision exacerbated a schism in the rebel leadership between those striving for a new Shariah state in the Caucasus and those focusing on ChechnyaÕs independence. Gakayev, who has never been known to promote pan-Cau¥casian Islamism, was a little¥known lieutenant to more se¥nior rebels who has recently ÔÔ Allah has created me to kill those devils. I will do it wherever they are.Ó Ñ Ramzan Kadyrov Former militia chief emerged as a leading figure in the insurgency. In a video posted on the Chech¥en rebel website Daymohk.org on Oct. 7, Gakayev and two other Chechen rebel field commanders renounced their oath of allegiance to guerrilla leader Umarov. In the video they also call Gakayev the Emir of Chechnya, and therefore their leader. Gakayev also has won support of a prominent Chechen in exile, Akhmed Zakayev. Some Caucasus watchers said Gakayev could be using this mo¥mentum to launch a fresh wave of attacks against the Moscow-backed Chechen president, Ramzan Kady¥rov and try to demonstrate his abili¥ty to control the whole movement. GakayevÕs group stands ac¥cused by the authorities of mas¥terminding an unprecedented at¥tack on KadyrovÕs home village that left 19 people dead, including five civilians. In the past, Kadyrov managed to recruit many ex-militants into his feared security forces and sought to blunt the rebelsÕ appeal with a mas¥sive construction boom and a cam¥paign to impose strict Islamic val¥ues. He has repeatedly boasted that a few dozen remaining rebels were starving and ready to surrender. The claims appear to have been shattered by the latest attacks but Kadyrov, a 34-year-old former mi¥litia chief, responded with his usu¥al bravado. ÒAllah has created me to kill those devils,Ó he said in the Chechen parliament hours after the attack. ÒI will do it wherever they are.Ó The officials have denied the allegations. The Vatican has in¥sisted the bank was trying to comply with international rules to fight money laundering and terrorist financing. The Vatican had sought to get the funds released, but Wednes¥day a court in Rome rejected the request and upheld the seizure. Vatican spokesman the Rev. Fed¥erico Lombardi said in a statement that the Holy See had Òlearned of the ruling with astonishment.Ó Lombardi said the Vatican be¥lieves the problem originated from confusion over how the rules are interpreted. Vatican bank officials maintain they can clarify the matter soon, he said. The investigation is not the first trouble for the bank Ñ for¥mally known as the Institute for Works of Religion. In the 1980s, it was involved in a major scan¥dal that resulted in a bank¥er, dubbed ÒGodÕs BankerÓ be¥cause of his close ties to the Vat¥ican, being found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge in London. In the current investigation, financial police seized the mon¥ey Sept. 21 from a Vatican bank account at the Rome branch of Credito Artigiano Spa, af¥ter the bank informed the Bank of Italy about possible viola¥tions of anti-money-launder¥ing norms. The bulk of the mon¥ey, $26 million, was destined for JP Morgan in Frankfurt, with the remainder going to Banca del Fucino. The Vatican bank reported¥ly neglected to inform financial authorities of where the money had come from. Bank chairman Ettore Got¥ti Tedeschi said after being questioned by prosecutors last month that the allegations re¥sulted from a Òmisunderstand¥ingÓ that he hoped would be cleared up. Editor-in-Chief: Lauren Winchester Phone: (512) 232-2212 E-mail: editor@dailytexanonline.com Associate Editors: Thursday, October 21, 2010 Viviana Aldous Susannah Jacob OPINION Doug Luippold Dave Player THE DAILY TEXAN GALLERY VIEWPOINT A stain on research Oil companies may leave a stain on the academic integrity of research projects, according to a report released last week by the Center for American Progress. The report reviewed 10 alliances between oil companies and universities across the country, including the Advanced Energy Consortium. The consortium is a three-year, $30 million contract between the University and 10 oil companies Ñ including Shell International, Halliburton Energy Services Inc. and BP America, Inc. Ñ to fund research on micro- and nanotechnology materials to advance oil and gas production. The consortium currently funds 34 projects at more than 20 uni¥versities around the world, said the consortiumÕs manager, Sean Murphy. UT is receiving more than $5 million in research grants from the consortium. While securing funding is an integral part of the research pro¥cess, UT should be aware of the problems associated with accept¥ing funding from corporate sources. The consortiumÕs structure allows for bias to seep into the research at any stage. For example, the consortiumÕs technical review board evalu¥ates requests for funding and recommends which research proj¥ects should be financed. The technical review board is com¥posed of more than 30 experts Ñ representatives from the con¥sortiumÕs member companies, experts from the industry and from the respective research fields, some members of the Texas Acad¥emy of Sciences and faculty members from various universities, including UT. The recommendations from the consortiumÕs technical review board must be approved by the Board of Management before mon¥ey is allocated, Murphy said. The management board is composed of only 10 voting members, one from each of the member oil com¥panies. No representatives from outside the oil industry have the power to ultimately determine which projects receive funding. Although the management board has not rejected any of the technical review boardÕs recommendations so far, the ultimate de¥cisions should not be left to the consortiumÕs member oil compa¥nies. Representatives from the companies may be more inclined to select projects for funding that they suspect may yield results that will benefit their companyÕs interests. The consortium should allow faculty from member universi¥ties who do not propose research projects to sit on the manage¥ment board. Experts who do not have any financial ties to the pro¥posed research projects should be the ones making final fund¥ing decisions. This is the best way to ensure that projects with the most potential to produce a significant impact are the ones that receive funding. Moreover, when researchers receive grants from industry lead¥ers, they may feel pressured to produce results that support the industry or companies funding the research, and they may be less inclined to publish results that reflect negatively on the oil industry because doing so could hinder their chances to receive future funding. But Murphy said that the research supported by the consortium will help scientists understand how nanoscale materials behave in the oil environment, and because the research is so new, mem¥bers of the consortium do not yet know whether the results from the various projects will ever benefit the oil industry. Consortium members do not have any biases relevant to the research, he said. While the member companies may not hold preconceived bias¥es about the research, the results will undoubtedly have implica¥tions for the oil industry. Funding from corporations may pressure researchers to frame the results in a way more favorable for the companies or the industry, either through omission of negative re¥sults or through misrepresentation of seemingly positive results. The only group responsible for project oversight is the consor¥tiumÕs technical advisory council, which is composed of at least one representative from each oil company. No other experts or fac¥ulty members sit on the council. Research should first and foremost produce accurate and use¥ful results. While collaboration between industries and universi¥ties can produce research that may lead to more efficient, more beneficial or safer practices, the research should ultimately be left to researchers, and project oversight should certainly involve ex¥perts from the appropriate fields. Although the report released by the Center for American Progress suggests that consortium-funded research may pro¥duce biased results, this can be largely avoided. The consor¥tiumÕs structure must be reformed to prevent funding from in¥fluencing the quality and integrity of any research that bears the UniversityÕs name. Ñ Viviana Aldous for the editorial board WeÕre adults, damn it By Jonathan Rienstra Daily Texan Columnist Starting as soon as next fall, the Uni¥versity could decide to stop playing mom and dad and no longer stipulate with whom you can have a slumber party. Instead, Student Government unanimously voted on Oct. 12 to repeal the guest hours policy at all dorms. ItÕs about time. UT has many rules in the name of student safety, just about all of which are good, but the guest hour policy is not one of them. Currently, the rules donÕt allow un¥registered guests to be in dorms from midnight to 9 a.m. on weekdays and 2:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. on weekends. The current policy also bars guests from spending the night with members of the opposite sex. It seems a little ridic¥ulous for a university that isnÕt BYU to retain such strict policies. Our peer universities such as the University of Michigan, the Universi¥ty of North Carolina and the Universi¥ty of California, Berkeley all have 24¥hour visitation policies, according to a study presented by the University Res¥idence Hall Association. URHA began the discussion about guest hours in March when it passed a resolution rec¥ommending guests of any gender be al¥lowed to stay in any room at any time as long as the guest is checked in with his or her escorting resident, the resi¥dentÕs roommate agrees and the guest leaves within 72 hours. This was a sensible, mature move that treats the student body like the adults they are. The majority of stu¥dents living on campus are freshmen who are away from both home and their parents for the first time. Right now, the University entrusts students to feed themselves and get to class but doesnÕt trust them enough to spend the night unsupervised in a dorm room with the opposite sex. Instead, guest hours turns the whole situation into high school, encouraging students to sneak around, making them feel like hanging out with the opposite sex is wrong. Is that really the message the University should be sending to its students? As opposed to forcing all stu¥dents living in dorms to follow an an¥ti-late night guest policy, the University should put the power in the studentsÕ hands to make responsible decisions. Since SG passed the resolution, the Division of Housing and Food Service is requesting a test run of the new pol¥icy beginning in two dorms for the fall 2011 and spring 2012 semesters. While itÕs admirable for the University to take up the issue, thereÕs really no reason to wait until next August. DHFS said it needs to come up with a new policy, but if itÕs looking for a model, it has a pretty good one to study in West Campus. University Towers is full of freshmen who are al¥lowed to bring guests up to their room at all hours. True, guests have to be signed in at night and must give the front desk a form of ID to hold on to, but if the guests wanted to, they could stay at Towers for a week. IÕm not sure why they would want to, but thatÕs their prerogative. SG and URHA have provided the University with a good set of guide¥lines, particularly regarding roommate consent. The new policy will allow stu¥dents to make their own decisions and live with the consequences. The University should study Tow¥ersÕ system. ItÕs not terribly compli¥cated, involving only a sign-in book and a folder full of IDs. In fact, IÕm confident that the University could begin this program next week if ad¥ministrators were serious about it, or at least by the beginning of the spring semester. I applaud the University for lis¥tening to the students and moving to change rules that people donÕt want and for recognizing a college education occurs as much outside the classroom as it does inside one. That said, DHFS would earn the thanks of thousands if it were to get rid of guest hours by to¥night. Or the first Thursday in January at least. Rienstra is a journalism junior. In the right direction By Joshua Avelar Daily Texan Columnist A bond proposition set to allocate $90 mil¥lion to transportation improvements around Austin will appear on the upcoming Nov. 2 ballot. These ÒimprovementsÓ are planned for areas in the city that are of no grave concern. While entertainment districts and tourist hot¥spots deserve attention from the city, many disenfranchised neighborhoods throughout Austin Ñ as well as a prominent student neighborhoods Ñ could benefit more from the funds and are, quite frankly, more deserving of attention. Furthermore, the projects that could arise from the bondÕs passage may do more harm than good, giving even more reason for voters, including students, to vote against Proposition 1. This past summer, West Campus infrastruc¥ture needs supposedly caused the Universi¥ty Area Partners neighborhood association to develop plans to have the city add more than 200 parking meters on Nueces and Rio Grande streets. The Daily Texan editorial board came out against the plan, arguing that it puts too much of a burden on students living in West Campus and primarily benefits the few busi¥nesses that make up the University Area Part¥ners. With all the jagged sidewalks, irrigation problems and potholes in West Campus, a bond like Proposition 1 could have been tailored to¥ward West Campus infrastructure needs. The normal wear-and-tear of other densely population areas of Austin garnered the cityÕs concern enough to put this bond on the ballot; why should a historic neighborhood like West Campus be neglected? Organizations such as El Concilio, a Mexican American neighborhood association, and Sen¥sible Transportation Solutions for Austin, a po¥litical action committee founded with the inten¥tion of defeating the bond, say neighborhoods around East Austin are being neglected by the bondÕs plans. Joanna Wolaver, campaign coor¥dinator for Get Austin Moving told The Daily Texan that the bond package is Ògeographically diverseÓ and most of the money will go to the streets advocated by El Concilio and Sensible Transportation Solutions for Austin. Howev¥er, that still does not explain why $22.4 million needs to go toward a boardwalk on Lady Bird Lake, which many believe will pollute the lake, or to widening the sidewalks and adding a bike lane to sections of Third Street, which could in¥crease congestion and traffic downtown. Former Texas Monthly publisher Mike Levy donated $300,000 to Sensible Transportation So¥lutions for Austin, and Austin business groups West Austin Downtown Alliance and Aus¥tinites for Downtown Mobility also came out against the bond. Austin is growing by the year, but it seems the city is making sure to accommodate its aes¥thetic wants more than its practical needs. I do not think anyone in Austin Ñ or a frequent vis¥itor to Austin Ñ thinks Lady Bird Lake is not already a great place to spend the day, with or without a costly boardwalk. IÕm also sure no¥body is driving around downtown thinking street space is so plentiful that it could accom¥modate a bike lane. The bondÕs plans are misguided and ex¥pensive, and its defeat will hopefully guide AustinÕs transportation plans in the right direction. Avelar is a journalism and government senior. GALLERY LEGALESE Opinions expressed in The Daily Texan are those of the editor, the Editorial Board or the writer of the article. They are not necessarily those of the UT administration, the Board of Regents or the Texas Student Media Board of Operating Trustees. Thursday, October 21, 2010 NEWS Study examines effects of obesity on future health Psychologists say high insulin levels may lead to dementia later in life By Ahsika Sanders Daily Texan Staff Obesity creates a high risk for dementia later in life, according to a study by UT researchers. The study, released Tuesday in the scientific journal ÒObesi¥ty,Ó found that insulin sensitiv¥ity varies according to weight and diet, leaving overweight patients at risk of life-altering side effects. Andreana Haley, an assis¥tant psychology professor and one of the re¥ ments, though much cheaper than the long-term care for pa¥tients with severe cognitive im¥pairment,Ó Haley said. Diet and exercise are effec¥tive at addressing many of the physical consequences of obe¥sity. Now, researchers will try to find out if better diet and exercise will have a positive impact on insulin sensitivi¥ty, said psychology graduate student and study researcher Mitzi Gonzales. ÒThe next goal is to complete the exercise intervention study to determine if lifestyle chang¥es reduced the observed alter¥ations,Ó Gonzales said. ÒWeÕd also like to do studies to deter¥ mine if the find¥ searchers on ings have val¥the study, said ue for predict¥scientists have ing cognitive been aware of outcomes later Given that there is the increased in life.Ó risks of memo-no cure for dementia, Gonzales said ÔÔ ry loss in obese our best strategy for the main goal of people and the the study was preserving cognitive researchers to create aware¥ aimed to find a health throughout the ness about the way to stop de-lifespan is prevention.Ó risk of obesi¥mentia before ty and memo¥it happened. Ñ Mitzi Gonzales ry loss, and also ÒMidlife obe-Study researcher to encourage sity has long a manageable been recognized means of pre¥as a risk factor vention. for cognitive impairment later in life,Ó Haley said. Haley said higher insulin levels caused by obesity corre¥spond to brain vulnerability and to memory loss. Multiple grants paid for the research, including funds from the National Institute of Nurs¥ing Research and from the American Heart Association. Haley said conducting the re¥search and gathering informa¥tion was a somewhat costly task, but the cost was well worth the research if it leads to prevention. ÒMRI scans are a bit more ex¥pensive than weight measure¥ ÒGiven that there is no cure for dementia, our best strategy for preserv¥ing cognitive health through¥out the lifespan is prevention,Ó she said. Thomas Blevins of the Tex¥as Diabetes and Endocrinology Center said not only does obe¥sity cause problems with insu¥lin sensitivity levels, but it also leads to more serious problems. ÒWe have seen cases of obesi¥ty result in dementia, but it goes even further,Ó he said. ÒObesi¥ty plays a significant role in di¥abetes, and if it isnÕt controlled it can lead to paralysis, amputa¥tions and can even be fatal.Ó By Ahsika Sanders Daily Texan Staff Officers, sergeants, deputies and family members, decked in their Halloween best, performed Michael JacksonÕs ÒThrillerÓ in the downtown Austin Police Depart¥ment garage Wednesday to raise money for breast cancer research. The crowd, composed mostly of family members, laughed and clapped to the familiar tune as some police force members, sup¥porting the APD fundrasing group SCARE for a CURE, emerged from a pink police car reading ÒSusan G. Komen for the Cure.Ó SCAREÕs president and co¥founder, APD Detective Jarrett Crippen, said APD has performed ÒThrillerÓ since 2007 when they first teamed with the Breast Can¥cer Resource Centers of Texas. ÒWe wanted to find a way members of the force could get involved with the effort to raise awareness,Ó he said. ÒWhen they arenÕt at work, theyÕre with their families so thereÕs not a lot of time to contribute, but this way they can fundraise and enjoy their families.Ó SCARE also hosts a haunted house from Oct. 14 until Hallow¥een night. Crippen said all of the proceeds go to breast cancer re¥search and awareness. ÒEvery year that we have host¥ed our events, the amount of mon¥ey we raise has doubled,Ó he said. Last year, SCARE raised $15,000 for the Breast Cancer Re¥source Centers and its goal this year is to raise between $20,000 and $25,000. Tammy Santos and her two daughters, ages 12 and 5, danced in support of her husband, a crime analyst with APD. Santos said she and the girls have prac¥ticed since late September and were happy to perform. ÒBreast Cancer [research] is a great thing to support, and it seemed fun, so I was happy to do it,Ó Santos said. ÒI am so proud of my girls because they worked hard and we had a good time together.Ó Alex Schafer, a 17-year-old high school student with a father and stepmother on the force, starred as Michael Jackson, clad in full ÒThrillerÓ garb. Schafer said he simply came where he was need¥ed and was glad to help. ÒI knew they did ÔThriller,Õ but I hadnÕt really thought of helping until they asked,Ó he said. ÒThey needed someone to be Michael, and I loved the idea of hanging out with these people because most of them are like family.Ó Schafer said they had weeks of practice but he didnÕt have a lot of trouble because he is an expe¥rienced dancer. ÒI performed ÔThrillerÕ at my high school in theater, and I was Michael Jackson there, too, so I had a small advantage,Ó he said. SCARE for a CURE contin¥ues their fundraising effort on Oct. 23, with ÒThrillerfest 2010,Ó where participants can learn the full ÒThrillerÓ dance and get a chance to perform. The rest of the monthÕs events can be found at scareforacure.org. NEWS Thursday, October 21, 2010 Sports Editor: Dan Hurwitz E-mail: sports@dailytexanonline.com Phone: (512) 232-2210 www.dailytexanonline.com SPORTS Thursday, October 21, 2010 THE DAILY TEXAN WOMENÕS GOLF Richards ran the court before coaching Texas womenÕs golf head coach Martha Richards drib¥bles the ball as a Stanford basketball player in the early 1990s. Richards was recently inducted into the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association hall of fame for her career as a high school player. Courtesy of Stanford Athletics Department BASKETBALL Texas silent, other schools celebrate coming season By Andy Lutz Daily Texan Columnist With the college basketball sea¥son somehow just a few weeks away from commencing, it is a proper time to bring up one of the few things that the University of Texas fails to do in terms of athlet¥ics: host Midnight Madness. Midnight Madness can best be described as a giant college pep rally designed to kick off the menÕs and womenÕs NCAA bas¥ketball season on the eve (literal¥ly at midnight) of the first official day of practice, a day that is man¥dated by the NCAA as 40 days before a schoolÕs first game. It is a time to finally introduce baby¥faced, much-anticipated freshmen to a loyal crowd of fans excited to see them play (see: John Wall at Kentucky last year). It is a time to give one last wish of good luck to a fourth-year se¥nior star who only has some 30¥odd games left on campus (see: Jon Scheyer at Duke last year). It could also be the unofficial pub¥lic introduction of a brand new head coach, marking the advent of a new era of basketball at that school (see: Bruce Pearl at Tennes¥see in 2005). Overall, it is a great time to build school spirit and increase the awareness of the immense tal¥ent that college basketball players bring to any campus. Yes, Texas is a football-first school, but it is not a one-di¥mensional athletics school. The University boasts great pro¥grams in almost every sport that it fields teams in, and bas¥ketball is certainly not left out of that conversation. Since Rick Barnes became head coach in 1998 after leading Clem¥son to four straight postseasons, the menÕs program has brought unprecedented talent and depth to the 40 Acres, but it often goes unappreciated. Maybe the Frank Erwin Center needs to be relo¥cated to the middle of campus so that basketball can have more of a central impact on our school, as it does with other universities such as Wisconsin, West Virginia, Ohio State, Tennessee, Michigan State, North Carolina, Florida, Clemson, etc. By the way, all of these schools have good football programs too, so itÕs not like you have to choose one or the other. Maybe basketball games should return to Gregory Gym, where the intimate environment experi¥enced at volleyball games could only help the energy and passion that the basketball program brings PASSION continues on page 8 Former basketball player starred in multiple sports prior to settling on golf By Chris Hummer Daily Texan Staff As a child, Martha Richards played every sport her friend Grant would play. But when it came to hockey and football, two of the most popular sports in her native Midwest hometown of Hudson, Wis., her father would not let her join in. ers in their driveway and later with other boys in Little League. Ò[The] boys were just play¥ers,Ó Richards said. ÒI just found different ways to score due to their size.Ó Despite the stature difference be¥tween Richards and the guys she still managed to lead her league in scoring though eighth grade us¥ing her patented Bob Cousy-esque shot, a dribble to the left coupled with a pull-up jumper. Ò[I] shot the shot all the way out to the three,Ó Richards remarked She used to compare shooting free throws to ÔÔputting, and the rhythm that both take to do well.Ó Ñ Dave Johnson, RichardsÕ high school coach ÒMy dad crushed my dreams,Ó Richards said. ÒI wanted to be the first female NFL quarterback.Ó That was the attitude Mar¥tha Richards, head coach of the Texas womenÕs golf team, had throughout her childhood and lat¥er throughout her career as a colle¥giate athlete: a curiosity that knew no bounds. It was because of these traits and an outstanding basket¥ball talent that she was recently in¥ducted into the Wisconsin Basket¥ball Coaches AssociationÕs hall of fame for her playing days at Hud¥son High School in the 1980s. She first picked up a ball in sec¥ond grade, playing with her broth- FOOTBALL Randall balances humor, intensity By Laken Litman dall to maintain a balance be-Daily Texan Staff tween the fierceness and fun Kheeston Randall squats of football; a balance that he down in a 3-point stance, ready deems necessary to play at the to pounce on NebraskaÕs of-demanding level that is the fensive linemen. As he stares ÒTexas standard.Ó down the Huskers with a fire in On that snap, Okafor recalled his eyes, he turns to fellow de-that he was jittery and a little fensive tackle, sophomore Alex nervous because the game had Okafor, and cracks a joke before so many implications. But Ran¥the first snap. dallÕs relaxed composure put Bringing a sense of humor to him at ease. serious situations allows Ran-ÒIt was a big situation, huge. with pride. When she moved up to the girls varsity team in ninth grade, Rich¥ards continued to be extremely successful as she led the confer¥ence in scoring throughout high school. In 1988, her senior year, Richards was awarded the Miss Wisconsin Basketball award, and was a USA Today All-American. ÒShe was a phenomenal shooter, so far ahead of the time as a girlsÕ basketball player,Ó said her high school coach Dave Johnson. However the accomplishment she is proudest of in high school RICHARDS continues on page 8 The crowd was going crazy,Ó Okafor said. ÒThen Kheeston was just like, ÔThese Nebras¥ka fans are loud.Õ And itÕs just something small like that that will get me laughing.Ó RandallÕs humor, which con¥sists of him making pithy com¥ments or humming random melodies, helps the Longhorns defense as a whole stay calm on RANDALL continues on page 8 Jeff Heimsath | Daily Texan Staff SIDELINE MLB Rangers Yankees 72 Phillies Giants 65 WHAT TO WATCH NCAA Football UCLA (3-3) @ No. 2 Oregon (6-0) Date: Tonight Time: 8 p.m. On air: ESPN THIS DAY IN SPORTS HISTORY October 21,1989 Peter Bynoe, a Chicago attor¥ney and businessman, and his partner Betram Lee led a group of African-Americans in purchasing the NBAÕs Denver Nuggets, becoming the first black owners of a major league sports franchise in America. SPORTS BRIEFLY Former Texas football player signing autographs today Former Longhorn and current Houston Texan lineman Kasey Studdard will sign autographs at the Mighty Fine Burgers location on Brodie Lane today as part of his recent endorsement deal with the restaurant chain. Studdard is a three-year NFL veteran who started 14 games for the Texans last year. He made his first appearance of the season last week against Kansas City after spending the first five games on the inactive list. Houston select¥ed Studdard in the sixth round of 2007Õs draft. He played two games his rookie year but spent most of 2008 on the bench before taking on the starting role in 2009. The signing takes place at 5601 Brodie Lane beginning at noon. Ñ Will Anderson Sogar earns national swimmer of the week honor for two wins Texas swimmer Laura Sog¥ar was named CollegeSwimming. comÕs Division I swimmer of the week on Wednesday for her per¥formance last weekend in a meet at California. Sogar won the 100-meter back¥stroke in 1:00.97 and the 200-meter backstroke in 2:10.15, a new Tex¥as record and the fastest time of the season in that event by nearly three seconds. She also finished second in the 400-meter individual medley as the Longhorns defeated Cal in their season opener. Sogar returns to the pool Oct. 29 when Texas travels to Blooming¥ton, Ind., to face Michigan and In¥diana in a dual meet. Ñ W.A. Check out LetÕs Talk Sports @Dailytexanonline.com Kheeston Randall, left, with fellow tackle Alex Okafor during last weekendÕs Nebraska game. VOLLEYBALL NO. 10 TEXAS 3, KANSAS 0 RobersonÕs 19 kills help Texas sweep Kansas, extend win streak By Austin Laymance Daily Texan Staff The rest of the Big 12 is finding out just how dangerous Texas can be when it balances out its offense. The No. 10 Longhorns pieced together another sweep to extend their win streak to a season-best five matches behind the latest in a string of dominant performanc¥es by junior outside hitter Amber Roberson, who led another bal¥anced Texas attack Wednesday against Kansas. Texas (13-5; 8-2 Big 12) rode Rob¥ersonÕs career-high 19 kills to a 3-0 victory over the Jayhawks (13-8; 4-6) and the Longhorns won their third straight on the road as they have found the recipe for success away from home Ñ plenty of Roberson and an equal distribution of kills from the rest of TexasÕ big hitters. Junior middle blocker Rachael Adams, RobersonÕs roommate, added 11 kills for Texas and senior middle blocker Jen Doris chipped in another double-digit effort with 10 kills. Senior All-American outside hitter Juliann Faucette got in on the action with nine kills of her own to round out the LonghornsÕ offense. Roberson, who keyed TexasÕ sweep of Texas Tech Saturday, was busy again with a game-high 43 attacks and her offensive energy carried over to the defensive end as she had nine digs as well. The first set was a back-and¥forth affair with Texas surviving KansasÕ early spark to win 29-27. FaucetteÕs block and kill sealed the opening game for the Longhorns, who had fallen behind 7-2 before waking up and taking control. In the second, Roberson made her presence felt. With the set knot¥ted at 10, Roberson carried Tex¥as with five kills during a 6-2 run that pushed the Longhorns out of reach. She added another two kills to extend the lead to 24-18 before a Doris kill ended the frame. The Longhorns came out strong after the break and leapt out to a 7-2 advantage in the fi¥nal set Ñ something they have struggled with on the road this season. But Adams and Roberson overpowered the Jayhawks and a triple-block by Doris, Roberson and sophomore opposite hitter ShaÕDare McNeal put an excla¥mation point on the teamÕs domi¥nant performance. Junior setter Michelle Koch¥er stepped into the starting role for Texas again as Hannah Alli¥son was held out with an injury. Kocher responded with a match¥high 49 assists as she distributed the ball to all of TexasÕ weapons. Freshman libero Sarah Palmer night,out-blockingtheJayhawks19-4. paced the Longhorn defense with 10 It was TexasÕ 12th straight victo¥digs and Texas was the aggressor all ry over Kansas. Courtesy of The University Daily Kansan Michelle Kocher, ShaÕDare McNeal and Amber Roberson celebrate after a point Wednesday night. 8 SPORTS Thursday, October 21, 2010 SOFTBALL Longhorns prepare for busy weekend By Bri Thomas Daily Texan Staff After winning the Big 12 Cham¥pionship last spring but dropping out of the NCAA tournament in the regional round, the Longhorns are back for more. Fall play began Oct. 8, and so far the team has won exhibition games against Odes¥sa College and UT-San Antonio. The women hope to continue this successful streak into the upcom¥ing weekend when they face for¥mer Texas players in the inaugural alumni game. This Saturday, 31 Longhorn alumni will challenge the current players at McCombs Field. One such player is Loryn Johnson, a recent UT alumna and a current member of the professional team the Tennessee Diamonds. Johnson was a four-year varsi¥ty letter winner in high school and started immediately as a Longhorn. ÒCat Osterman was UTÔs pitcher at that time. The team was ranked third, and they were on the road to the World Series,Ó Johnson said. ÒI didnÔt expect to help out so much, but I was blessed with a great team of leaders. IÔm glad I could repre¥sent Texas with how I played.Ó After finishing second all-time on the Texas career batting average list (.349) and first in slugging percent¥age (.562), Johnson was drafted into the National Pro Fastpitch league, following in the footsteps of former Longhorn greats Cat Osterman and Megan Willis. ÒMegan and I were friends when she was a senior and I was a fresh¥man, so playing against her in the pro league is very different,Ó John¥son said. ÒWeÔre super competitive on the field, but as soon as the game is over, weÔre good.Ó Willis, a two-time Big 12 defen¥sive player of the year while at Tex¥as, will also be playing against the Longhorns this weekend. She cur¥rently serves as a volunteer assis¥tant to head coach Connie Clark, working specifically with TexasÕ de¥fense and catchers. ÒIÔve been her teammate, played under her when she assisted my se¥nior year, played opposite her this summer, and now will join her again in the alumni game,Ó Johnson said of Willis. ÒSheÕs an awesome person, and seeing every side of her has really been something.Ó Willis had a four-year career at UT, with two WomenÕs College World Series appearances. From there, she went on to win a league title for the Rockford Thunder in 2009 with Osterman. Since many of the alumni have been out of the game, not only have practices and anticipations been upped, but so has the trash-talking, according to Johnson. ÒIÕve seen stuff on Facebook like, ÔDonÕt leave your game at home,Õ but I hope the old folks can show UT they can still play,Ó she said. ÒTexas is good this year, so it will be a fun challenge, but I donÕt know who they think they are trash-talk¥ing Cat.Ó The alumni game will take place Saturday at 6 p.m. Texas will face Navarro College and Alvin Com¥munity College on Oct. 29 before taking on the National Pro Fast¥pitch All-Stars on Sunday, Nov. 7. The NPFÕs ÒBack to School College TourÓ will visit 17 other universi¥ties in the fall to give the All-Stars a chance to return to the universities where they experienced so much success, including Johnson, Willis and Osterman. ÒThe upcoming weekends will definitely be exciting, playing UT and seeing old teammates, as well as opponents from this summer,Ó Johnson said. ÒItÕd also be neat to beat my alma mater.Ó RICHARDS: ÔRunnerÕ caught coaching bug From page 7 was leading her team to its first ever state championship tour¥nament. Along the way, Hud¥son beat arch nemesis Durant and broke its 63-game home winning streak. ÒIÕve never seen so much hype over a girls high school basket¥ball game, they had to turn peo¥ple away from the doors,Ó Rich¥ards said. ÒWe got to sign auto¥graphs for little kids after the game. It was really neat.Ó However basketball wasnÕt the only sport that Richards excelled at in high school. She was a four¥letter athlete who competed in track, tennis and golf as well. ÒI was passionate about sports. No one forced it on me, it was just fun,Ó Richards said. ÒI worry when kids specialize today Ñ last time I checked it was just a game.Ó She was great at all the sports she competed in and even won a golf state championship her senior year, despite only play¥ing the game for two years and practicing sporadically because of the Wisconsin weather. ÒShe was very talented ath¥letically, she used to compare shooting free throws to putting, and the rhythm that both take to do well,Ó Johnson said. Her athletic abilities earned her a basketball scholarship to Stanford, and the option to walk on to the golf team. According to Richards, the golf coach told her, ÒWeÕll just see how good you can get.Ó Richards continued to light up the basketball court at Stan¥ford and as a sophomore helped the team to its first ever NCAA championship, plus another Fi¥nal Four appearance her junior year. Richards also turned into a very successful golfer at Stan¥ford, red shirting her freshman year and learning the nuances of the game. In her four years at Stanford Richards transformed into an all-round golfer, earning All-American honors in 1993 as a senior. The next step for Richards was the LPGA tour, which she played in from 1995 to 1996. ÒIt was the natural evolution to see if I was good enough to play on tour against the best players in the world,Ó Richards said. After leaving the tour in 1996, ÔThe RunnerÕ looked toward a new field: coaching. She accept¥ed her first job as head coach of the womenÕs team at Boise State in 1997. ÒI always knew deep down I wanted to coach,Ó Richards said. ÒI just got to be the boss sooner with golf than with bas¥ketball. CanÕt see myself being a third assistant.Ó She moved on to be an as¥sistant at Texas in 1998, and in 2000 she took the Vanderbilt head coaching job. However in 2007 she returned to Austin, this time as a head coach. ÒIÕm fortunate and blessed to be doing what IÕm doing. ItÕs an awesome time to be a Long¥horn,Ó Richards said. Richards doesnÕt have much time to get out on the course or the court these days, but when¥ever her players doubt her abil¥ities she likes to remind them that it doesnÕt take a long time to warm up a Rolls-Royce. PASSION: Teams hurt by lack of fan support From page 7 to Texas. In terms of success, the Long¥horn basketball program is cer¥tainly well-qualified and would seem to draw enough interest to host a Midnight Madness event. Barnes has led the Longhorns to 12 straight NCAA tournament appearances and has brought su¥perstars Kevin Durant, D.J. Au¥gustin, LaMarcus Aldridge, Av¥ery Bradley, T.J. Ford, Damion James, P.J. Tucker, Daniel Gibson and Royal Ivey (among many others) to UT. The womenÕs program, un¥der the leadership of legend Jody Conradt for 38 years and former Duke coach Gail Goes¥tenkors, who led the Blue Dev¥ils to 10 straight Sweet Sixteens from 1997-2007, has also been a very solid program as long as it has existed. So why is it believed that not enough people would show up to such an event, just because itÕs football season? The ESPN family of networks has broadcast live from college campuses across the country for Midnight Madness events since 1993. Last Friday, ESPNU put on a four-hour special covering the programs of Duke, Kentucky, Memphis, Gonzaga, Kansas State and UConn Ñ whose womenÕs program boasts an incredible 78¥game winning streak. As events such as KansasÕ ÒLate Night in the PhogÓ has proven, Midnight Madness can be a great way to not only show off new talent and get fans excit¥ed for the start of the season, but also to fund boosters and spike re¥cruiting interest. It is also a great venue for holding formal cere¥monies such as raising champi¥onship banners, retiring a jersey number, or honoring special pa¥trons and loyal lifetime fans. Past events have also included live music, dunk contests, three-point and half-court shooting contests and light shows on the court. When Lefty Driesell start¥ed this tradition at Maryland in 1971, it was his hope that col¥lege students and local fans alike would all gather around the bas¥ketball team and pledge their support for the upcoming sea¥son. Driesell first tested this loy¥alty by having 3,000 fans run a mile-and-a-half with the team around the track surrounding Byrd Stadium in College Park at 12 a.m. Traditions like this are how successful programs are built and typical of , and they only enhance oneÕs college expe¥rience and school pride. So, why not Texas? RANDALL: Defensive tackle gets teammates to laugh From page 7 the big stage. ÒKheeston is a funny guy,Ó Oka¥for said. ÒWeÕll be in the middle of the game and heÕll crack a joke and it makes me laugh and mel¥lows me out throughout the game. He keeps me levelheaded.Ó More than making his team¥mates laugh, Randall likes to sing. He even sarcastically said that af¥ter his football career is over, heÕd like to take voice lessons and be¥come a famous singer. His love for singing is most ap¥parent in post-game press confer¥ences. After both the Rice and Ne¥braska games, Randall plopped down in front of the microphone and before any journalist could ask him a question, he started in on a hip-hop song. ÒI got a pretty nice voice,Ó Ran¥dall said as a giant grin stretched across his face. ÒMy teammates love to hear me sing.Ó Actually, his teammates donÕt love to hear him sing. ÒDonÕt let him fool you,Ó Okafor said. ÒIÕm not saying heÕs bad, but IÕm pretty sure heÕs not as good as heÕs telling you he is.Ó The defensive line hears Randall sing the most, but the secondary players have had the pleasure, too. ÒI wouldnÕt suggest him being on American Idol or anything,Ó junior cornerback Aaron Williams joked. ÒHeÕs not as good as he thinks he is ... donÕt tell him I said that.Ó When asked about the bad grades his teammates give his voice, Randall just scoffs and says that theyÕre jealous. ÒEverybody thinks they can sing, but IÕm the best,Ó Randall said. ÒGotta be the best at everything.Ó Though Randall may or may not be as good of a singer as he leads one to believe, he feels that if he didnÕt allow his fun-loving person¥ality to seep into his football life, he wouldnÕt be as good of a player. ÒIt helps me stay balanced in tough situations,Ó he said. ÒWheth¥er weÕre up by 10 or down by 10, I have to stay relaxed and contin¥ue doing my job, and singing helps with that sometimes.Ó It was evident last weekend in Nebraska that the system that Ran¥dall has works, as defensive coor¥dinator Will Muschamp awarded Randall with the Òdefensive beltÓ Ñ a reward for the most produc¥tive defensive lineman Ñ after the game because of his performance. ÒKheeston had five ÔtwofersÕ and ate two blocks, and thatÕs my favor¥ite stat other than a sack or a caused fumble or recover for an inside player,Ó Muschamp said. ÒWe put a very high stock on [those stats] for our defensive line, especial¥ ly for inside players. When youÕre in those numbers, youÕre doing a very nice job. YouÕre being very disruptive.Ó A ÒtwoferÓ is when a defensive lineman takes on a double team, allowing another defensive line¥ men to roam free and attack the quarterback or running back de¥ pending on the play. Muschamp explained that one of the defensive schemes head¥ ing into Nebraska was to force the offense to go east-west rather than north-south by cutting off all routes up the middle. To do that, the defensive line was down in a three-point stance and played thicker on blockers. The Long¥ horns were very successful with that gameplan, as they held the Huskers to just 125 rushing yards and 77 passing yards. ÒKheeston controlled the mid¥ dle of our defense [on Saturday],Ó Muschamp said. ÒIn order to have executed [that game plan], you better have a good nose guard and he better play well, and Kheeston certainly did that.Ó As a thundering, 6-foot-5, 295-pound lineman, Randall is a major force for the Longhorns. Though he enjoys a song and a joke here and there, any opponent would be foolish to think that Ran¥dallÕs sense of humor distracts him from inflicting crushing blows upon any player trying to come through the middle of the Texas defense. 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Call 1-877-758- Cuervo Games From climbing a Mayan Pyramid and capturing a series of flags to racing against the clock and making the ultimate cocktail, this Saturday, those 21 years and older have a chance to do battle in an American Gladiators¥style competition to win a free trip to Las Vegas on Halloween weekend at Cuervo Games, a free festival sponsored by Jose Cuervo. The event will also have food, a performance by the Old 97Õs, a mechanicalÒRide the LimeÓ and, of course, beer. To preregister teams or get more information, visit facebook.com/cuervo. WHAT: Cuervo Games WHEN: Saturday WHERE: West Fourth and Guadalupe streets TICKETS: Free Downtown Living Tour Got a flair for interior design and looking to stay in Austin or already live here? The seventh annual Downtown Living Tour provides attendees with an exclusive look at 13 stylish downtown living spaces. Ticket holders also get $1 off admission to the Austin Museum of Art and free admission to Arthouse at the Jones Center. 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N.E.R.D. will kick off the night with hip-hop beats from their latest album, Nothing. WHAT: Gorillaz WHEN: Friday, 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Frank Erwin Center TICKETS: Starting at $51.50 Classic stage play relives torments of Salem Witch Trials By Sarah Pressley Daily Texan Staff There was a time when witch¥es were feared to be real, not just spooky Halloween characters.Any wrong move could have you ac¥cused of witchcraft and killed. The City Theatre Company is bringing these horrifyingly gripping times back to the stage with their pro¥duction of Arthur MillerÕs ÒThe Crucible,Ó opening tonight. ÒThe CrucibleÓ is a theatrical dramatization of the Salem witch trials, set in 1692. When a group of young girls is caught dancing in the woods with an African-Amer¥ican slave, the religious townspeo¥ple fear that witchcraft has come to their city and fall into a state of paranoia and turmoil. The young girls claim that other townspeople have bewitched them to throw the blame off themselves and avoid trouble. The religious townspeo¥ple believe they have to find and persecute the witches for the good Painter believes in magic, converts it to art By Julie Rene Tran Daily Texan Staff With its blue beak ajar flashing its pointy pink tongue, the half-hu¥man, half-grey haired bird squawk¥ing wildly. Its tall, slender stature adorned in a pristine, white Eliz¥abethan attire gallantly graces in front of a blue sky. This oil on canvas, ÒThe Fight¥ing Cock of Old England Dismays the Armada,Ó is only one of the 28 beautiful creations by local artist Malcolm Bucknall featured at the D Berman Gallery until Nov. 24. From Elizabethan-themed work to gothic subjects and cartoonish drawings, BucknallÕs collection depicts mag¥ic and transformation, where mag¥ic represents lifeÕs mysteries and transformation is the way to am¥plify human qualities into instant, universal connections. While thereÕs an underlying se¥riousness to BucknallÕs work, ul¥timately it is light hearted and ap¥pears as if out of a fairy tale book. It is reminiscent of the time where youÕre a child and things are all so wonderful and strange and mag¥ical, Bucknall said. Ò[Do] you be¥lieve in magic?Ó he sternly asked. Bucknall does. When Bucknall was a little boy during World War II, he would never enter the back room of his familyÕs home alone because he was afraid of his fami¥lyÕs big radio set. He remembers wondering where the voice was coming from and thinking the black netting on the back of the radio looked very much like a witchÕs hat. Soon he believed there was a witch inside the radio Ñ one who would come out and get him if he was ever alone in the room with the radio. ÒAnd thatÕs the way kids are,Ó of the town. The play explores what happens when the religious group believes that they are do¥ing the right thing in spite of how much it affects the accused. Brian Villalobos, a UT alum¥nus and the actor portraying John Proctor, one of the main charac¥ters, was excited to be a part of this play. ÒItÕs such an absurd tragedy,Ó Villalobos said. ÒThe ÔevilÕ side tru¥ly believes that they are doing ab¥solutely the right thing. They feel like its just a very difficult thing they have to do for the salvation of the town and everyone on the oth¥er side is just going through the most unimaginable soul-rending pain that I think is possible.Ó However, Villalobos has found that he can relate to this ÒevilÓ side of the story through his portrayal of Proctor. ÒHeÕs kind of laden with guilt [for what he has done to the ac¥cused girls] and kind of tortured Bucknall said. ÒImaginative and naive.Ó Hung along the white walls of the quaint, intimate space of D Berman Gallery, the collection of framed drawings and paintings mirror walls of family portraits. Along one wall is an aristocratic, ostrich-head¥ed grandfather slumped in a chair. The use of animal heads on hu¥man bodies is very common, Buck¥nall said, from minotaurs to Jesus represented as the lamb. Until this collection, Bucknall had never used an iconic celebri¥ty head on an Elizabethan body. In a gold Baroque frame is musician Willie Nelson as a troubadour. ÒIt is a little bit of a departure,Ó Bucknall said. The idea here is an¥cestry, he said, where someone who is iconic in our culture is the perfect thing to use as an ancestry image for an Elizabethan portraiture. Bucknall used a 2006 picture of Nelson taken by English photog¥by the mistakes heÕs made,Ó Vil¥lalobos said. ÒHeÕs trying to ad¥here to this really strict religious code and those are things I feel I can relate to; itÕs something that really hits home for me. If there is any possible way I could commu¥nicate that to someone else than thatÕs just an opportunity IÕm very grateful for.Ó Production director Stacey Glaz¥er is also happy to be a part of ÒThe WHAT: Malcolm Bucknall WHERE: D Berman Gallery, 1701 Guadalupe St. WHEN: Through Nov. 24; Tuesday -Saturday, 11 a.m. -6 p.m. and by appointment rapher Mike Kelly at the South By Southwest music festival. ItÕs ironic that Bucknall turned to a musical festivalÕs picture since on the poster for 1995 Lollapalooza was ÒThe Falling Dog,Ó a Bucknall painting that was also the cover art for rock band Jesus LizardÕs Down. This success is only a small part of BucknallÕs resume. A UT gradu¥ate and founder, Bucknall said he really got into painting when he was 16 and that since then, he has been hooked. Now he paints seven days a week. ÒIÕm a nut, a maniac, obsessive,Ó he said. CrucibleÓ because she said she be¥lieves it has more of a connection to the present than is often thought. According to Glazer, persecution is not a thing of the past but a recur¥ring theme that we should always be on the lookout for. ÒPeople look at that stuff that happens way back when and think that it could never happen again,Ó Glazer said. ÒBut it can and it does, just in a different way.Ó EVENT PREVIEW 29TH ANNUAL GREAT WALTZ MASQUERADE BALL Yearly dance promotes ballroom participation By Kimberly Konwinski Daily Texan Staff Texas Ballroom will host a classy night of ballroom dancing and live music performed by the Austin Civic Orchestra at the 29th annual Great Waltz this weekend. As an outreach effort for the community to participate in ballroom dancing, the Great Waltz is a night of grace and ele¥gance featuring various styles of ballroom dance. ÒI like getting to meet and dance with a lot of new people,Ó said biochemistry junior Klay Ryman. ÒItÕs a great time just getting to dress up and let loose with friends.Ó The Great Waltz began in 1981 as a way to raise awareness for the activity as well as provide a formal night for the UT campus and community. As its name implies, the Great Waltz will focus mostly on two types of waltzes; the Viennese waltz and the slow waltz, as well as tango. Polka, Latin dances such as cha-cha and rumba, and tradi¥tional swing and foxtrot will also be featured. In between orchestral performances, a live DJ will spin some tracks for those that prefer a more contemporary option, said Shivani Gupta, president of Tex¥as Ballroom. Exhibition acts performed by a professional ballroom couple will also be featured. Partners WHAT: ÒThe CrucibleÓ WHERE: The City Theatre WHEN: Friday-Nov. 14, 8 p.m. Thursday -Saturday, 5:30 p.m. Sundays WEB: citytheatreaustin.org WHAT: 29th annual Great Waltz Masquerade Ball WHERE: Texas Union Ballroom WHEN: Saturday 8 p.m. -12 a.m., with the free lesson before from 2 -4 p.m. WEB: texasballroom.org TICKETS: RSVP before Friday ¥$15, $10 with UT ID At the door-$20, $15 with UT ID Joyce Chan and Suneth Jayaman¥na have performed in several na¥tional ballroom dancing competi¥tions as well as the Austin Open, which is put on by Texas Ballroom every spring. ÒJoyce Chang and Suneth Jaya¥manna have come to several [Tex¥as Ballroom] competitions,Ó Gup¥ta said. ÒThey are a big part of Tex¥as Ballroom.Ó Attracting about 200 people ev¥ery year, this yearÕs Great Waltz features a masquerade theme and participants are encouraged to dress the part and bring masks. 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Unlike art within school walls, where a studentÕs major is their main focus and priority, the out¥side world brings many new el¥ements into the picture such as day jobs, bills, tools and food. According to A12 member Doug Marshall, art after college is a DIY-type job, requiring a lot of self-discipline and dedication. If a person canÕt find these as¥pects, it can create a void, Mar¥shall said, affecting their artistic spirit and capabilities. Further¥more, out of school, there are no critiques, no evaluations. ÒIn school, we were constant¥ly shooting, editing and learn¥ing, and we didnÕt want to lose that stream,Ó said Jon Shapley, member of A12. ÒWe needed to find [something] that would mo¥tivate us to make new work and explore new ideas.Ó A12Õs latest exhibition, ÒThe New MonsterÓ is different in a number of ways. For one, the group is experimenting with dif¥ferent mediums, as in methods of expression, some of which they have never worked with before. Shapley, for example, fea¥tures a trans-media sculpture in the show that will be broadcast live on the internet. He adds that James Huizar, another member of A12, is featuring his first 3-D piece in the show, interpreting Frankenstein in the form of a gi¥ant pinata. ENTERTAINMENT BRIEFLY Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guccione dies of cancer DALLAS Ñ Bob Guccione had tried the seminary and spent years trying to make it as an artist before he found the niche that Hugh Hef¥ner left for him in the late 1960s. GuccioneÕs family said in a statement that he died from lung cancer at Plano Specialty Hospital in Plano at the age of 79. Guccione started Penthouse in 1965 in England to subsidize his art career and was the magazineÕs first photographer. He introduced the magazine at the height of the feminist movement and the sexual revolution in 1969. Guccione was born in Brooklyn and attended prep school in New Jersey. He spent several months in a Catholic seminary before drop¥ping out to pursue his dream of becoming an artist. He wandered Europe as a painter for several years. After financial troubles, Gu¥ccione eventually went back to painting, and his works were shown at venues including the Butler Institute of American Art in Ohio and the Nassau County Museum of Art in New York, said April Guccione, who married him in 2006. The couple moved from New Jersey to Texas in 2009. April Guccione said services for her husband will be private. Ñ The Associated Press From page 12 was a good mix of aromatherapy, canned meth and ambitious mix- Four Loko theme song made by a ology that helped the punch hit a user named DoubleGzTV that has home run.Ó nearly 850,000 views. But what exactly is it about The Facebook fan page de-Four Loko that makes Japburn scribes the drink as Ò12% alcohol call it Òcanned meth?Ó with the fruity taste of your choice Most notable is the push-and¥:) WARNING: you will remember pull effect of a depressant mixed absolutely nothing in the morn-with a stimulant, similar to a Red ing, probably acted like a slut, and Bull and vodka. The result, ac¥possibly tried to fight someone. cording to a University Health ItÕs a four loko thing...Ó Services pamphlet, can make There are even several con-some feel more lucid and less temporary cocktails and mix-drunk than they really are and es involving the eight flavored could lead you to believe you can malt beverages. According to Ur-party harder if youÕre not aware ban Dictionary, the Òcurb-stomp-of your tolerance level. erÓ involves emptying half of an The caffeine and alcohol also act Olde English 800 40-ounce bottle as a double diuretic Ñ meaning and then filling the rest up with they both cause you to lose water the Four Loko flavor of choice. more than you gain it Ñ poten- Other cocktails with fruits and tially leading to dehydration and herbs come from a blog called a head-splitting hangover. ÒTV Boners and Street Carnage.Ó According to the companyÕs Ò[The Punch Rosemary Rhu-website, Phusion Projects, the barb] was probably the best one drink was created in 2005 after out of the group.Ó writes blog three Ohio State University stu¥contributor Audrey Japburn. ÒThe dents decided to capitalize on rosemary is what really made it. It the popularity that the Red Bull Today, Oct. 21st! OFF TODAY 1303 South Congress Avenue 2900 West Anderson Lane 3423 North Guadalupe 5207 Brodie Lane           !    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How¥ever, studies by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Scienc¥es of the United States of America have found that the feared chem¥ical in wormwood, thujone, acts as a neural inhibitor causing mus¥cle spasms and convulsions rather than hallucinations. Despite the haziness on its in¥gredients, the label does clearly print that it contains 660 calories Ñ 120 calories more than KFCÕs infamous Double Down sand¥wich which uses two strips of fried chicken as the bun and two slices of cheese and bacon. Many of those calories come from the 60 grams of sugar in the drink to sweeten the still palpably bitter malt and energy boosters. If the price, 12 percent alcohol by volume and energizing effects still keep you coming back, UHS health education coordinator Kev¥in Prince says that the important thing for students to remember is knowledge of their own body. ÒHaving a drink or two drinks can be satisfying, but you need to know your limits beforehand,Ó Prince says. ÒSo whether itÕs alco¥pops or a Red Bull and coke, thatÕs your drink of choice. I know how much alcohol it takes to get me buzzed and then I stop. I still may be alert and want to party some more but I know my limits.Ó Prince also notes that the only real effect that alcohol has on your body is that it begins to back up in your system, much like a waiting line, causing your cognitive abil¥ities to slow down. Any belliger¥ence or hyper-sexuality you may feel while drinking is a personal psychological, not biological, fol¥low-up to that euphoria you feel. Ultimately, PrinceÕs statement in¥dicates that responsible drinking is up to the individual. Life&Arts Editor: Amber Genuske E-mail: lifeandarts@dailytexanonline.com Phone: (512) 232-2209 Thursday, October 21, 2010 RTS www.dailytexanonline.com THE DAILY TEXAN Four Loko sparks health debate ÔKnowing your limitsÕ key to avoiding drinksÕ harmful consequences THIRSTY THURSDAY By Gerald Rich Last Friday, the alcoholic ener¥gy drink Four Loko was banned from the Ramapo College of New Jersey after 23 students were hospitalized for alcohol poison¥ing earlier this fall semester. This event put the drink under further scrutiny from colleges and alco¥hol abstinence advocates across the nation. But long before col¥lege students were drinking irre¥sponsibly, opinionated individu¥als have interpreted the bad deci-Òalcopops,Ó the Connecticut, Cal¥sions of some as a means of jus-ifornia and New York attorneys tifying the restriction of alcohol general as well as the FDA have sales for all. been investigating the drink for In spite of recent controversy surrounding the drink, it continues to grow in popularity. While the Texas Office of the Attorney General declined to make a comment at this time and the Department of State Health Services did not have any origi¥nal data on Four Loko and other health reasons. Even MillerCoors removed caffeine from their sim¥ilar alcopop, Sparks, in Decem¥ber 2008 after a lawsuit was filed against the company. Regardless of whether you call Four Loko Òblackout in a canÓ or Òliquid cocaine,Ó or you start ev¥ery weekend off with a $2.70 can containing 12 percent alcohol by volume, its notoriety is growing. And in spite of recent controver¥sy surrounding the drink, it con¥tinues to grow in popularity. Currently the Facebook fan page ÒFour Lokos are Blackouts in a Can and the End of My Mor¥alsÓ has more than 71,000 fans and YouTube is cluttered with videos of people shotgunning, or puncturing a hole in the can suck¥ing it down, the 23.5 ounces in 10 to 20 seconds. ThereÕs even a LOKO continues on page 11 UT artist alumni bundle work into ÔNew MonsterÕ By Jody Serrano Daily Texan Staff Deep in the recesses of the Doty Fine Arts building, it lurks, set to emerge in a matter of days. At first glance, there is nothing to suggest that something has gone amiss. The pristine hardwood floors of the FAB Gallery stand spotless, the high-beamed lights gleam brightly and, framed by new art, the white walls look impeccable. However, upon further inspec¥tion it becomes noticeable that there is something off about the photos, the sculptures and every single thing in the gallery. The colors are murky, bright, unnatu¥ral and jumping off the walls. The pieces enchant the viewer, captur¥ing them almost as if to proclaim: ÒItÕs alive.Ó Opening today, ÒThe New MonsterÓ is an exhibition by artist group A12, which stands for Aus¥tin 12, all UT alumni. The group was asked to do the show by the FAB Gallery Committee, a stu¥dent-run organization that pro¥vides emerging artists, students WHAT: ÒThe New MonsterÓ Art Show WHERE: FAB Gallery in the Doty Fine Arts Building WHEN: 6 -8 p.m. WEB: atwelve.org and alumni with a place to show¥case their work. ÒThe New MonsterÓ is an art exhibition based off Mary Shel¥leyÕs ÒFrankenstein,Ó a theme cho¥sen by A12 in the spirit of Hallow¥een. Curiously, FrankensteinÕs re¥markable being strikes a cord of similarity with A12. After graduation, instead of tak¥ing off in different directions like the rest of their classmates, the fu¥ture A12 chose to lay their roots in Austin. ItÕs rare to find two class¥mates on the same street after the commencement ceremony, much less 12 in the same apartment. To add to this curious phenomenon, MONSTER continues on page 11