U L C - X 066Í. f! o m a a N V A L Z 9 £ 9MiHsn«MCrti3iw isawonos 3QV 0 3 X 1 W * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * » piai PAGE 1B ; t a b un ch o f c a r p /n Lake's hidden secret: a 41 -and-a-half pound monster! QUAKE SPARKS WARNING A major earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia A tsunami warning was issued. BE YOUR OWN JUDGE! Texan music samples the musical flavors England has to offer. PAGE 8A WORtD & NATION PAGE 3A PAGE 88 T h e D aily T e x a n Serving The University of Texas at Austin com m unity since 1900 Tuesday, March 29,2005 www.dailytexanonline.com 14-hour flat rate may cost University Senate bill would give UT $25 million increase, House may reduce state funding B y M e l i s s a M i x o n Daily Texan Staff A statewide appropriations bill passed by the Texas Senate last week puts the University right where it had hoped to be: breaking even or with a little additional money, said Kevin Hegarty, UT vice president and chief financial officer. Under Senate Bill 1, which passed unanimously March 23, UT-Austin would receive a $25 million increase in state funding, 5.25 percent more than current funding, for the 2006- 2007 biennium. Final state funding for the University will be determined after budget pro­ posals from the House and Senate are reviewed by both branches. Hegarty said he is concerned that the House will probably substitute the Senate's recommendation with its own, which would only give the University an $11 million increase. From there, he said the recommenda­ tions will go to a conference commit­ tee, made up of five senators and five representatives who have not yet been named. If this is the case, Hegarty said the University will be “$10 million in the hole" because of a “risky" leap of faith by the UT System Board of Regents. During a March 10 meeting, board members approved a flat-rate tuition system based on 14 credit hours per semester. The board's approved flat- rate tuition system was different from UT President Larry Faulkner's origi­ nal recommendation — a whole $10 million different. Hegarty said the Tuition Policy Advisory Committee, which was appointed by Faulkner to examine the tuition needed to address the University's budget, recommended in November 2004 a 4.75-percent increase in tuition and a flat-rate tuition system based on 15 semester credit hours for the University. Before Faulkner presented his rec­ ommendation to board members, UT System Chancellor Mark Yudof decid­ ed to support the 4.75-percent tuition increase, but he said flat-rate should be based on 14 hours rather than 15. He said the 14 hour flat-rate tuition would limit the financial burden on students. hours, to be implemented this fall, Hegarty said students are saving an average of 1 percent of the amount paid in tuition. But there still is a cost for the University, which had anticipated the state would increase funding by 2.5 percent to bring in roughly $13 mil­ lion more for the University's current budget, said Hegarty, and the 15-hour flat rate would bring in $10 million for the upcoming biennium. By dropping to flat-rate tuition based on 14 semester credit hours, Hegarty said the Board of Regents spent money the University does not yet have. "Even though the Senate bill has not been adopted, as a measure of good faith and hope that it would be adopted, the regents reduced the SG to vote on party tickets Election bill focu ses on diversity, accountability, avoiding sw eeps By Lori Holcomb Oaffy Texan Staff The future of Student Government elections lies in the hands of SC. members, who will vote at tonight s meeting whether to rid the process erf party tickets or to make only minor changes to the process. The election reform bill, AB 18, proposed at last week's meeting, focuses on individualizing campaigns in order to avoid ticket sweeps and create more diversity and accountability among assemblies. The bill also drastically increases each candidate's spending limit by nearly doubling and, Under flat-rate tuition based on 14 FU ND ING continues on page 5A SG continues on page 5A More than 100 rally for Midtowns loan C iiys $750,000 loan w ould help nightclub rebuild after fir e B y R u t h L i a o Daily Texan Staff Midtown Live club owner Selena Cash struggled with words Monday as she stood where her nightclub, which burned down in February, was once housed. The accidental fire has attract­ ed public attention after police responders were found posting messages such as "I got some extra gasoline if they need it" and "Midtown is burning.... There is a God" on the dispatch system. “It reminded me of the '40s when churches were being burned, and schools were being burned," Cash said. "It's like the Klansmen have returned." A crowd of more than 100 civic leaders and club supporters ral­ lied in support of a $750,000 loan from the city to rebuild. After receiving negative pub­ lic feedback, City Manager Toby Futrell took the proposal off last week's agenda Thursday and sug­ gested postponing the decision for 60 days. At the same meeting, Futrell presented the council with a "scorecard" of quality of life for blacks in Austin. Austin Police Department has disciplined the officers involved, and Futrell sought a federal inqui­ ry into the department. Futrell insisted the loan proposal and the APD actions were unrelated. Nightclub owner and smoking ban opponent Paul Silver said he thought it was odd that the city could come up with money to give to Midtown Live, while it remains silent about a proposed smoking ban ordinance that will go to voters in May. Silver said the ordinance threatens the survival of small businesses. "It's just frustrating for us to watch it happen, when so many locally owned businesses are in jeopardy," he said. Councilman Danny Thomas said at the rally that Futrell's ini­ tial proposal was no different than other city business transactions, and the reported exodus of blacks from Austin to the suburbs was a major concern. Thomas said support for the C L U B continues on page 5A Access to counsel for foreigners undecided Suprem e Court h ears argum ents in ap p eal oj M exican n ation al B y N i k k i B u s k e y D aily Texan Staff The U.S. Supreme Court expressed reluctance in decid­ ing whether the United States can deny accused foreigners access to legal assistance from their consulates, despite inter­ national pressure from numer­ ous human rights groups and international governments. in The court heard opening argum ents Monday the appeal of Mexican national Jose Medellin, whose case is being touted as a test of inter­ national law on U.S. death penalty cases. M edellin was one of six Mexican atizens currently on death row in the United States: California: 27 Texas: 15 Illinois: 3 • Arizona: 1 Arkansas: 1 Nevada: 1 Ohio: 1 Oklahoma: 1 Oregon: 1 Source: Amnesty International M edellin's Houston gang members sen­ tenced to death in Texas for the gang rape and murder of two teenage girls in 1993. law yers arc claiming his conviction is a of v iolation the Vienna Convention, a treaty signed by the United States in 1963 that requires c o n s u l a r access for for- Greg Abbott eign als outside home countries. Medellin is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court under a clause in the Constitution to treaties as "the supreme law of the land." nation- Texas Attorney detained General that refers their Last year, the International Court of Justice ruled that the 51 death penalty convic­ tions of Mexican nationals in the United States violated the Vienna Convention. The Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott argued that Medellin forfeited his rights under the Vienna Convention because he did not attempt to claim them during his origi­ nal court proceedings. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals M E D E L L I N continues on page 5A Film addresses dissemination of information Alumnus addresses m ilitary; A rab m edia during w artim e B y Z a c h a r y W a r m b r o d t Daily Texan Staff In "Control Room," a . 2004 film documenting Al-Jazeera's first weeks of Iraqi war coverage, Josh Rushing, a young Central Command press officer, appears to be tom between duty to the mili­ tary and a desire to settle funda­ mental Arab and American misun­ derstandings that he sees in their respective media coverage. The scene in which he labels the split as one of the greatest challenges of his generation pres­ ents disarming honesty about the human condition, especially amidst the spin and misinforma­ tion served, up by U.S. Central Command, the apparent antago­ nist to Arab news network Al- Jazeera in the film. Rushing, a UT alumnus, returned yesterday to discuss the dissemination of information to the citizens in war time, the mil­ itary's role in such a process and the influence of the Arab media in the information that has come from the Iraqi battlefield. "I believe the military can with­ stand the criticism," Rushing said. "And where it can't, that Ls where it needs to change and grow any­ way." He was joined by UT and Texas A&M professors who discussed panel topics including flaws in the military's public information hier­ archy, comparisons to the public relations practices — or lack there­ of — of ancient militaries and the usefulness of embedded reporters to the American media consumer. Rushing, 32, graduated with a dual degree in ancient history and classical civilization and spent the next five years writing for military publications around the world, eventually joining up in 1993 with U.S. CentCom, a military base in Qatar where many media corre­ spondents are located. After the film began gaining popularity, Rushing obeyed orders to not speak publicly about the film, but he eventually left the military. He said he was not well-received at the Pentagon or CentCom for expressing the importance of A1 -Jazeera. "I got out so I could be part of the dialogue about me," Rushing said in an interview before the panel met. Rushing said that he was the officer chosen to work with Arab media outlets simply because he had been trying to learn Arabic from the Al-Jazeera correspon­ dents and had developed a rap­ port with them. "That's how much strategic fore­ thought went into choosing who was going to be on Al-Jazeera," Rushing said. The Pentagon's handling of war news received mostly criticism during the panel's discussion. "The United States government shepherds reporters into the pres­ ence of military personnel, every- thing from the private up, and as long as the military personnel speak the script of the military', they are encouraged," said Robert Jensen, U T journalism associ­ ate professor and anti-war activ­ ist. "The military then says to the United States public, 'Listen, you get to hear it from the soldiers/ but only up until the point where the serv ice member says some­ thing the military doesn't like. The hypocrisy of it is appalling." the military Plan II Director Paul Woodruff information said machine's goal to maintain artifi­ cial goodwill for war is "brutally undemocratic" and "murderous to people who have to wage the war." Although Rushing has become a figure often cited by the U.S. military's critics, he said he has received more letters from Marines and Marine officers saying "Thank you than from any other seg­ ment. Rush ing said his experience with Al-Jazeera expanded his "limit of empathy" and that .Americans often misinterpret Arab anger. "The truth is it's a thin laver of angst.' said Rushing. "Underneath that is hope and curiosity." Volume 105, Number 115 25 cents YVorld& N ation 3A O p in io n ..................... 4A U n iv e r s it y 6A State & Local... ........... 7A News 3B Focus...........................8A Sports....................... 1-2B 4&5B C lassified s... Comics.........................68 7-8B Entertainment You don't get to choose your nickname. H ig h * a v L o w r n j o 1 Salina Cash, center, ow ner o f the M idtow n Live nightclub, is com forted by Charles Brown, left, after addressing the press con­ cerning alleged racial bias in the Austin Police Department. Cash and o th­ ers gathered to justify their need to receive city funding for the nightclub's reconstruction. Shannon Sibayan D a ily T exan Staff Tom Palaima (left), a classics professor, and Joshua Rushing, former student of Palaima and main character of the documen­ tary, "Control Room', partici­ pate in a media panel Monday afternoon. The participants of the meeting, which included Bob Jensen, a journalism professor, and others, discussed wartime access to information. It was held in Waggener Hall. Jeremy Balkin Daily Texan Staff High 84 TOMORROW 'S W EATHER Low 60 Those who do not remember history are doomed to forget it. A team of 54 pledgers played 100 holes of continual golf Monday to help Austin's homeless. The Sixth Annual Homeless Golf Marathon was played at the Lost Creek Country Club to help meet fund-raising goals for the Austin Foundation for the Homeless. "This golf tournament is essential to us because it's literally part of our budget," said Pamela Arnold, executive director for the FFH. "Most of our income comes from donations, and a quarter comes from this one big fund-raiser" Proceeds will be donated to three organizations: Interfaith Hospitality Network, which provides temporary housing in churches; Passages, which provides career training and guidance; and Feed My People, a religious orga­ nization that provides free breakfasts to homeless and poor laborers on Tuesdays and Thursdays. FFH expects the fund-raising to exceed $100,000. —Yashoda Sampath T U E S D A Y M A R C H 29. 2005 a g e T wo A R O U N D CAMPUS | MARCH 29 & 30 HELPING THE HOMELESS AMERICAN MARKETING ASSOCIATION, 7 p.m„ UTC 4.124. General meeting featuring Phillip Morris. Come out and enjoy tasty food catered by Chuy's. Even though it's close to the end of the year, still come and check us out. You might want to become a member next semester. HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION INFORMATION CLASS, 11 a.m. - p.m., SSB 2.204. No registration required. 12 EXAMS FOR CREDIT AND PLACE­ MENT, MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION CENTER. Topics available: Government 310L. Students must register on line at www.utexas.edu/academic/mec prior to the test administration. If there are any questions call 232- 2662. Jazz Combo and the Ransom Notes will perform. Students are encour­ aged to attend and to invite their professors. WIND ENSEMBLE AND SYMPHONY BAND, 8 p.m., Bates Rectital Hall. Robert M. Camochan, conduc­ tor, with Scott S. Hanna, G. Scott Bersaglia, Albert Nguyen and Mary K. Schneider, guest conductors. Featured on this eclectic program will be works by Menin, Kabalevsky, Wagner, Ives and Hindemith. General admission is $7.00. CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE FORUM, 7:30 p.m., Jester Auditorium. Learn about Austin politics and ask questions of the candidates seeking election. There will be free T-shirts and refresh­ ments. Visit www.udems.org for more information. INTERNATIONAL SECURITY SPEAKER SERIES, 4 p.m. - 6 p m , LBJ Library Brown Room. Drew Erdmann, former National Security Council Director and former Senior Advisor to the Iraqi Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research presents "Crossing the Gap Between Academia and Government: One Policymaker's Perspective’ NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE, 8 p.m., Bates Rectial Hall. Dan Welcher, director. Free admission. "WAS RABBI YOHANAN A WOMAN?" 7:30 p.m., ART 1.102. Subtitled "Platonic Love in the Talmud." Dr. Daniel Boyarin, pro­ fessor of Talmudic Culture, Near Eastern Studies, and Women's Studies at UC-Berkeley, speaks about the ideas about and attitudes toward sexuality in the Jewish and Greek cultures of the ancient world. TUNES FOR FACULTY, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m., Carothers Living Room. 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Joe Buglewicz, Maisie Crow, Meg Loucks, Brian Ray, 4 7 2 -1 1 1 3 • 1 3 0 7 Nueces 7 A : i J E M . i l Joe Buglewicz Daily Texan Staff * k — 4 o , S 0* 1 *'s-=r-21 < o i 0 0 1 O f STUDENT GOVERNMENT AGENDA 7 p.m. — Glenn Maloney Room, Student Services Building AB 18: Revising the Election Code to Establish an Individualized System AB 18 plans to make several amendments to the Election Code specifically reforming the election process from one of ticket building to more individualized campaigning. AR 24: Supporting the Creation of the Student Building Advisory Committee AR 24 resolves that the Student Government supports the creation of the Student Building Advisory Agency to participate with the Faculty Building Advisory Committee in its charge to "have a strong voice in (a) campus master planning, (b) priority of building construction,(c) build­ ing location, (d) programming of buildings and (e) reviewing and recommending of final plans." AB 19: The Election Improvement Act of 2005 AB 19 amends the election code by reducing the good faith deposit from $30 to $20. NEWS NOTES UNIVERSITY Faculty Appreciation Week full of events, programs The UT Senate of College Councils is holding their annual Faculty Appreciation Week until April I.T h e week will include events such as a musical concert Wednesday called "Tunes for Faculty" by the UT Jazz Combo and Ransom Notes, student and faculty mixers and the Thank a Teacher program. "Throughout the week we are having the Thank a Teacher pro­ gram where students can donate a m inim um o f a dollar, and we w ill send these specially-designed cards to the teacher," said Candace Chui, faculty apprecia­ tion chair and a biology senior. The week was a jo in t effort between the Senate faculty appreciation and faculty relations committees. The appreciation ¿ommittee is hosting breakfasts for teaching assistants today. Chui said the events also instill a kind o f com m unity on the UT campus. "It's a unique o p portun ity to recognize and honor the hard „ work and dedication o f faculty and staff members," Chui said. Chui said the most exciting aspect is the concert by the UT Jazz Combo and Ransom Notes. "It gives students a unique o p portun ity to recognize their professors, and this is a great avenue to do so," she said. — Ameera Butt State leaders scrutinize UTEP graduation rates EL PASO, Texas — Dismal gradu­ ation rates at the University of Texas at El Paso are prom pting state leaders to recommend that University o f Texas System officials appoint a team to fix the problem. But UT System Chancellor Mark Yudof said he didn't think a spe­ cial team was needed. Less than 5 percent o f University of Texas at El Paso students grad­ uate in four years, and only 26 percent have obtained a degree after six years. In 2004, about 23 percent of Texas public university graduates completed their degrees in four years or less. A bout 53 percent com pleted degrees w ithin six years, according to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. State Senate Education Committee Chairwoman Florence Shapiro, R-Plano, and Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, D-EI Paso, say UTEP leaders must make a concerted effort to improve graduation rates. UT System and UTEP officials acknowledged the problem and said they are already trying to fix it. STATE & LOCAL Alternative' charter schools could face tougher standards DALLAS — A dramatic increase in the number of Texas charter schools seeking "alternative educa­ tion" status has led some charter school experts to question w heth­ er so many campuses deserve to be held to a lower standard. In the last four years, the number o f Texas charter schools seeking "alternative education" status has shot up from 62 to 166. Charter schools with that designation are exempt from the state account­ ability standards used to evaluate every other campus in Texas. About 60 percent of the state's charter school campuses are now exempt, even though "alterna­ tive" charters are virtually identi­ cal demographically to charters remaining in the standard account­ ability system. Schools that want into the alter­ native system only have to fill out a form declaring that they're "dedi­ cated" to serving disadvantaged youths. The Texas Education Agency is considering a revised accountabil­ ity system that could block many charters from receiving alternative status, according to one state char­ ter expert. And for those schools that do qualify, the new system also would set a higher standard for ratings and accountability. Each time the state has tough­ ened standards, or even talked about it, more charters sought an alternative education label that would largely exclude them from the rising standards. — The Associated Press —AP GOP weighs in on possible Hutchison run for governor AUSTIN — As U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison considers a pos­ sible Republican primary race against Gov. Rick Perry, some GOP power players are urging her to seek re-election instead o f target­ ing the incum bent governor. But Hutchison's camp says she's getting encouragement from all sorts of Republicans and that the opposition is being fueled by Perry's political team. "I think that's orchestrated out o f a scared governor's office," high-profile Republican Jim Francis, a Hutchison supporter, said Monday. Hutchison has not said yet which office she w ill seek in 2006. She has fund-raisers this week in Fort Worth, San Antonio, Houston and Dallas. The money-raising events are organized under federal cam­ paign rules, meaning donations are lim ited. The money could be used in a Senate re-election bid. Under a recently enacted federal law, she could transfer the money for a governor's race. In letters, e-mails and direct conversations, some nervous Republicans have to ld Hutchison they want her to seek re-elec­ tio n to the Senate and abandon thoughts o f running for governor in w hat they expect w ould be a fractious GOP primary, The Dallas M orning News reported Saturday. In a March 12 letter, 34 mem­ bers of the 62-person State Republican Executive Committee urged Hutchison "to stay the course as our United States senator from Texas." Some GOP contributors have cautioned Hutchison in face-to-face m eet­ ings, allies o f both candidates acknowledge. 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Joan Whitaker ........................................................... Danny Grover P A ID P O S IT IO N -! www.daiiytexanonline.com Wire Editor: lacqu Armstrong Phone: (512) ^ -52 2215 W ORLD & NATION BRIEFS Two parliaments vie for power in Kyrgyzstan BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — President Askar Akayev, who fled this small former Soviet republic last week after protesters stormed his offices and brought down his government, is in talks with inter­ im leaders seeking his resignation, Kyrgyzstan's acting prosecutor- general said Monday, Kyrgyzstan's new parliament on Monday approved Kurmanbek Bakiyev as prime minister, giving him greater legitimacy. He was named acting prime minister and acting president last week by the old parliament. Akayev was holding talks with members of one of the two parliaments, which are compet­ ing for legitimacy, and with Bakiyev, according to Azimbek Beknazarov, the acting prosecu­ tor-general. He said Akayev was "trying to influence the situation" from neighboring Kazakhstan but that both the parliament and Bakiyev were trying to persuade him to resign. Beknazarov's statement added to the uncertainties plaguing Kyrgyzstan, an impoverished republic of 5 million, in the wake of Akayev's forced ouster. Supreme Court won't hear lawsuit against newspaper WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused Monday to step into a lawsuit against a news­ paper, leaving the media in Pennsylvania legally vulnerable when they report defamatory comments by public figures. The case could chill news cover­ age of political campaigns where charges and countercharges are commonplace, First Amendment advocates say. The justices'decision not to con­ sider the case was a victory for the former mayor and current council president of Parkesburg, Pa., who sued when the Daily Local News in West Chester, Pa., reported that a council member claimed they were homosexuals. The newspa­ per reported the councilman also had issued a statement strongly implying that he considered the two officials to be "queers and child molesters." The newspaper quoted the council president as saying that if the councilman had made com­ ments "as bizarre as that then I feel very sad for him and I hope he can get the help he needs." At issue is the neutral reporting privilege which allows the press to convey a reputable public figure's defamatory comment as long as it is reported neutrally and accurately. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that no such privilege exists, though the privilege is recognized by some state and federal courts. A jury ordered borough coun­ cilman William Glenn Sr. to pay $17,500 each in damages to council President James Norton III and Mayor Alan Wolfe for defamation. Norton is still council president, Wolfe still serves on the council and Glenn lost in a bid for re-election. Insurgent attacks on police leave eight dead across Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq — Insurgents gunned down a neighborhood police chief and set off a suicide bomb near a patrol guarding a holy shrine, part of a series of attacks Monday targeting Iraqi security forces that left at least eight people dead, including four police officers. Insurgents appear to be focus­ ing attacks on Iraqi security forces, who are slowly taking over the fight against Iraq's insurgency in an effort that U.S. officials hope will pave the way for an eventual withdrawal of U.S. troops. Also Monday, Al-Arabiya corre­ spondent Jawad Kadhim reported on the Arab TV station that Iraqi police arrested correspondent Wael Essam. Kadhim said Essam arrived in Iraq four days ago on assignment and was stopped by a police checkpoint on the road to the airport. Compiled from Associated Press reports ¡School Week: March 28-April 2,2005 Brought to you by the School of Information and the student organizations of the School of Information for more information see: htW/mM,isM.utemeá^^isck(M(l Monday, March 28: Course Far, 3;30-S:30pm, S2B 238 Tuesday, March 29: Tea wrth the Dean, 3-4:30pm, SZB 5S6 Wednesday, March 30: Lunch with Leaders, noon-1pm, SZB 5S6 Thursday, Marh 31: Tour Hoover's with SLA, 2-4pm. Thursday, Math 31; UTASSIT Book Discussion, 4:30-6:30pm, Spider House Cafe Friday, Apnl 1: Edible Book Festival, 2-4pm, CDL at MLK and Red River Friday, A pril: SASI Mixer, 5pm at Scholz Beer Garden W o r l d & N a t io n T i i k I ) \ i i .y T k x a n Tsunami warning issued for Indonesia 3A Tuesday, March 29, 2005 Residents gather at a governm ent apartment area - after tremors were felt throughout Malaysia's west coast Tuesday. By Michael Casey The Associated Press BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — A major earthquake struck late Monday off the west coast of Indonesia, and a local govern­ ment official said 296 people were killed in collapsed buildings. Thousands panicked in countries across the Indian Ocean as tsu­ nami warnings were posted. Fears of another catastrophe similar to December's devastat­ ing tsunami eased within hours, as officials in countries closest to the quake's epicenter said there were no reports of big waves striking their coasts after the tem­ blor was reported. Early reports of damage and casualties were confined to the island of Nias, off the Sumatran coast, close to the epicenter. The quake collapsed about 70 percent of houses and buildings in the town of Gunungsitoli, said police Sgt. Zulkifli Sirait. Agus Mendrofa, deputy district head on Nias island, told el-Shinta radio station that 296 people were killed. He said this figure was based on reports from humanitar­ ian workers on the island. "We still cannot count the num­ ber of casualties or the number of collapsed buildings because it is dark here," Sirait said in a tele­ phone interview. "It is possible that hundreds of people trapped in the collapsed buildings died." Nias, a renowned surfing spot, was badly hit by the 9.0 earth­ quake and subsequent tsunami on Dec. 26 that killed at least 175,000 people in 12 Indian Ocean nations and left another 106,000 missing. At least 340 residents of Nias perished and 10,000 were left homeless. The U.S. Geological Survey said M onday's quake, which occurred at 11:09 p.m. local time (11:09 a.m. EST), measured a magnitude of 8.2. A later reading put the mag­ nitude at 8.7, said Paul Earle, a USGS geophysicist. A tsunami warning was issued in Thailand and Sri Lanka, although officials later canceled it. The only tsunami reported within four hours w as a tiny one — less than 4 inches — at the Cocos Islands, a group of 27 islands about 1,400 miles west of Australia with a population of about 600, meteorologists in Sydney said. No dam age was reported. "It seems this earthquake did not trigger a tsunami. If it had, the tsunami would have hit the coastline of Sumatra by now," said Prihar Yadi, a scientist with the Indonesia Geophysics Agency. "And if there's no tsunami on the coastline near the epicenter of the quake, there will not be one head­ ing in the other direction." Indonesian officials said the epicenter was in the Indian Ocean about 56 miles south of the island of Simeulu, off Sumatra's west coast, and just north of Nias. It was described by a USGS geolo­ gist as an aftershock of the devas­ tating Dec. 26 quake. Prelim inary indications are that energy from the quake might be directed toward the south­ west, said Frank Gonzalez, an oceanographer with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration in Seattle. He stressed it was based on "very scanty inform ation" about the epicenter and magnitude. M onday's quake had an epi­ center about 110 miles south­ east of where the Dec. 26 quake was centered. The USGS said it occurred on a segment of the same fault line that triggered the Dec. 26 quake, the world's big­ gest in 40 years. Two aftershocks — one mea­ suring 6.0 and another measuring 6.7 — were reported in the same region late Monday and early Tuesday, the USGS said. The quake occurred at a depth of 18.6 miles, and was centered Vincent Thian A ss o c ia te d Pre ss 125 miles w est-northw est of Sibolga, Sumatra, and 150 miles southwest of M edan, Sumatra, the USGS said. The depth does not mean a lot for a quake this large, Earle said, calling it a near-surface earth­ quake and comparable to the one in December. After that quake, initially recorded the agency the depth of the temblor at six miles. Shallow earthquakes like that generally are more destruc­ tive because the seismic energy is closer to the surface and has shorter to travel. Monday's quake w as consid­ ered to be at a moderate depth. The Dec 2b quake triggered a huge tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean at the speed of a passenger jet. More than 1.5 mil­ lion people in 11 countries were left homeless. Israeli parliament rejects referendum for Gaza pullout plans to build 3,650 homes around the Maaleh Adumim settlement near Jerusalem. With the expan­ sion and the construction of a separation barrier, Israel would effectively cut off east Jerusalem, the Palestinians' intended capital, from a future state in the West Bank. A Israeli D efense Ministry official said M onday that the Maaleh Adumim proj­ ect, originally conceived in 1999, could take years to begin. senior Building permits cannot be issued because the status o f the land has not been determined and the ministry expects court challenges that could last for years, the official said on condi­ tion of anonymity. Israeli Defense Ministry officials rarely comment on the record. the Also Monday, ruling Palestinian Fatah Party decided to call its first-ever primary elec­ tion ahead of voting for the par­ liament, party officials said. The officials said a meeting oi the Fatah leadership determined that primary elections were the only w ay to choose candidates. The Palestinian comments were made before a formal statement was issued about the meeting and so the officials declined to be identified. Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas won a presidential election on Jan. 9 to succeed Yasser Arafat and voting for the legislature is set for July By Ravi Nessman The Associated Press JERUSALEM — Israel's parlia­ ment on Monday rejected a last- ditch attempt to torpedo Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, vetoing a proposed national refer­ endum. The plan now goes to the nation's Supreme Court. Demoralized by the defeat, set­ tlers said they would move their fight into the streets, promising to bring 100,000 protesters to the settlements slated for evacuation to prevent the withdrawal. They also pinned their hopes on the Supreme Court, which agreed Monday to hear a challenge to the law providing the legal frame­ work for the withdrawal from the entire Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements. Approval of a referendum would have alm ost certainly delayed the withdrawal, sched­ uled for this summer, and could have brought down Sharon's governm ent and forced new elections. Sharon has repeatedly rejected calls for a national vote as a stalling tactic. Opinion polls show a large majority of Israelis back the withdrawal plan. After a debate that was repeat­ edly interrupted by the shouts of angry lawmakers — several of whom were ejected — the Knesset overwhelmingly defeated the ref­ erendum proposal 72-39. "This is a dramatic statement of the Israeli parliament that dis­ engagement is going to be carried out as planned," Vice Premier Ehud Olmert said. Settlers, thousands of whom protested near the Knesset, said the vote would split Israeli society. The government missed a chance to "prevent a violent confronta­ tion and civil war," the Settlers Council said in a statement The vote exposed the deep divi­ sions in Likud, a hawkish party filled with settlers and their allies that was stunned by Sharon's sudden reversal last year of his longtime policy of backing settle­ ment building. Sharon says the pullout will help Israel hang on to parts of the West Bank. Only 13 of Likud's 40 legis­ lators voted against the referen­ dum, forcing Sharon to rely on the support of dovish parties and Arab legislators. The disengagement plan repeat­ edly has won Knesset votes. In what will likely be its final leg­ islative test, Sharon must get his budget passed by Thursday, a near certainty after the opposi­ tion Shinui Party agreed over the weekend to support the spending plan. The Supreme C ourt hear­ ing w as set for April 8 before an expanded panel of 11 judges, the Courts Administration said. Such a large panel is generally reserved for landmark cases. Israeli legal analyst Moshe Negbi said the court decided to hear the case to show that justice was being done, but it w as highly unlikely to strike down the law. "The most (opponents) can hope for ... is that the court will say that the compensation is not high enough," he said. On the Palestinian side, Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia sharp­ ly criticized the United States Monday after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reiterated sup­ port for Israel's plans to keep large Jewish settlement blocs in the West Bank after the with­ drawal. "This policy is complete­ ly incomprehensible," Qureia told reporters. Israeli officials have confirmed Enroll now and get $100 back. G R E G M A T D A T O A T P C A T T O E F L I . S A T M C A T Receive a $100 rebate when you enroll in a Kaplan course between March 1 and March 31. Limited time offer! 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O p in io n T h f D a i l y T k \ v\ Editor: Ben Heath Phone: (512) 232-2212 E-mail: edit». 3r@dailytexanonline.com Associate Editors: 4A Tuesday, March 29, 2005 VIEWPOINT APD's disco inferno Suddenly everyone's talking about money. A proposal by City Manager Toby Futrell that would give money to restore the fire-damaged East Austin nightclub Midtown Live has overshadowed what should be ongoing debate about the ethics and practices of Austin police. Police officers and 9-1-1 dispatchers reacting to a fire at the club on Feb. 18 caused a scene that many East Austin residents may never forget. Bystanders and television cameras at the night club caught glimpses of offensive messages making light of the disaster on a patrol car's com puter screen. Some relevant messages are reprinted on this page. But earlier this month, Futrell supported a plan that would give Midtown Live up to $750,000 to rebuild. The plan, when added to the club's insurance, would not only allow the owners to restore Midtown, but also to expand it. Futrell's statements have incurred significant opposition and have shifted the focus of public debate. A recent Austin American- Statesman editorial, for example, called the money a "sym bolic" gesture and insinuated that the city was trying to "buy trust." Futrell and other supporters pointed out that the money would be funded by a city program that exists primarily to restore and relo­ cate "landmark" music venues. But what about the officers? They got, at most, 15 days unpaid suspension, a formal repri­ mand, community service and sensitivity' training. That kind of thing. Someone should've been fired Particularly, Officer William White. "M y nite is m ade," White told Officer John Lengefeld. " I just had a lady ask me if it was burning. 1 said yep. She was upset. I was enthralled." Many other comments made by officers also seem to betray such a powerful dislike for the nightclub's p atro n s. The officers and dispatchers that made such comments cannot be expected to adequately protect and serve the people of that neighborhood. There is no excuse for public servants to speak this way, and after-the-fact apologies are not sufficient. An officer with nothing but contempt for the people he or she serves is a dangerous liability, and it is one that Austin simply cannot afford. Officer John Legenfeld 7:09 p.m. BURN BABY, BURN 8:08 p.m. OH YES! BURN BABY BURN 8:11 p.m. OHHHHH MIDTOWN IS BURNING Officer Josue Martinez “Burn Baby, Burn") Dispatcher Asklye Bauerle 7:09 p.m.HEY...LOL.. THOSE WERE MY EXACT THOUGHTS (reply to Legenfeld's 7:32 p.m. YOU HEAR THAT MIDTWON IS ON FIRE!! THE ROOF OF A CLUB... THAT'S FUNNY! GIVES A WHOLE NEW MEANING TO THÉ ROOF THE ROOF THE ROOF IS ON FIRE!!!!!LOL Officer Shane Duprey 7:39 p.m. THE ROOF THE ROOF THE ROOF IS ON FIRE 7:42 p.m. UNFORTUNATELY I THINK THE CLUB IS IN THE WRONG AREA AND IT IS A BIG HEADACHE AT TIMES Dispatcher Tammer Mojica 7:41 p.m. EVERYONE UP HERE HAS BEEN SENDING MSGS AROUND LIKE THAT...GUESS THEY CAN'T GO CLUBBING THERE NO MORE 7:56 p.m. I GUESS EVERYONE FOR A GOING OUT PARTY Dispatcher Susan Negron 7:55 p.m. I GOT SOME EXTRA GASOLINE IF THEY NEED IT 7:57 p.m. MIDTOWN ON FIRE..YEEEEEEEEEAH 8:01 p.m. I HATE THAT PLACE THEY HIRE FROM THERE. THEY CANT READ OR WRITE ITS SAND I THOUGHT THAT KIND OF THING ONLY WENT ON HIN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES Officer William White 8:16 p.m. MY NITE IS MADE. I JUST HAD A LADY ASK ME IF IT WAS BURNING. I SAID YEP. SHE WAS UPSET. I WAS ENTHRALLED. 08:22 p.m. JOHN CONFIRMS MIDTOWN IS BURNING...THERE IS A GOD 08:42 p.m. U CAN SMELL MIDTOWN FROM 35. ITS THE SMELL OF VICTORY 08:57 p.m. WELL I DIDN'T MEAN THE OTHER BUISNESSES OF COURSE JUST MIDTOWN...THEY CAN ALL GO U KNOW WHERE HA HA HA The following are samples of messages sent between officers and dispatch­ ers during the fire at Midtown Live nightclub. By Ian Greenleigh Daily Texan Columnist Religion, tradition threaten Republican split The recent debate concerning Terri Schiavo has evidenced a deepening chasm between reli­ gious and traditional conserva­ tives in the United States. These two perspectives, which have irreconcilable differences in ide­ ology, seem to unite only in the voting booths, electing the sam e Republican politicians to work toward their separate visions of America. Upon exam ination of their starkly incongruous goals, one must wonder how much longer these strange bedfellows will cooperate. Traditional conservatism, as envisioned by Barry Goldwater, has been dying in America since our current president entered office. A sm all, non-interven­ ing government, a free-market, and a heavy emphasis on per­ sonal liberty and freedom are the basic tenets of this political philosophy. "Religious conseivatism " is a bit more curious. A religious conservative may, very tellingly, describe themselves as a Christian first and an American second. This is a political ideology based on a sense of religious duty; a desire to mold the country into a theocracy. To religious conserva­ tives, God's laws are more impor­ tant than the laws of the state, and piety trumps all traditional conservative principles. Religious conservatives have taken the lead in America. Republicans have rallied against "activist judges" for years. This is to be expected, because tradi­ tional conservatives dislike judg­ es who choose to rule on cases with far-reaching consequences. They see it as a judge abusing his or her powers to set legal precedent when none is needed. Strict-constructionist judges are preferable, taking a "letter of the law " approach, and not taking on cases with the intention of setting precedent. Any ruling in favor of reinserting Schiavo's feeding tube would most certainly set legal precedent concerning issues such as the role of the spouse in life support decisions. Now, while lambasting activist judges from one side of their mouths, Republicans criticize judges that refuse to hear the Terri Schiavo case from the other. Although more than 30 judges have heard this case over the last 15 years, moral conservatives are apparently unhappy with the lack of activist judges in America today. to When Congress voted order a change of jurisdiction in the Schiavo case from a U.S. circuit court to a Federal court, they violated an im portant Conservative principle: state's rights. Conservatives have long the 10th amendment, praised using it as a foundation for many argum ents against increased national encroachment on local issues. Now this pillar o f the fed­ eral system is being overlooked in order to satisfy intensely reli­ gious Republican constituents. Democrats once fell victim to a torrent of criticism for what w as seen as using the federal government to intrude in fam­ ily matters and state issues. It is now clear that Republicans are disquietingly eager to carry out their moral conquest of America using any means necessary, even those shockingly at odds with their political principles. Is the alliance between these tw o ideologies strengthening or weakening the Republican Party? The re-election of President Bush and the stranglehold on Congess held by Republicans may indi­ cate the strengthening of party support, but this may be only a cursory evaluation of the effect of religious conservatism. What America may be witnessing is a coming fissure between religious and traditional Republicans rath­ er than a stranglehold on national politics. This is evident in recent polls that indicate upwards of 80% of Americans do not support Congressional intervention in the Schiavo case. Maybe those with traditional conservative values are finally realizing that the part­ nership between the two ideolo­ gies is an unholy union and may lead to the end of Republican political reign. An action extralegal by Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to prevent Schiavo's death has been called for by many religious conserva­ tives w ho value life over democ­ racy. This would only hasten the division of Republicans, as those with traditional streaks would be appalled at such an abuse of executive power. It is hard to imagine this cooper­ ation going much further without a major fallout from concerned traditionalists, those that believe in basic conservative principles. The goal of the religious conser­ vative — to execute G od's will by any means — is in the long run, incompatible with Federalist ide­ ology because it will continue to violate the Democratic principals that traditional conservatives and countless Americans value most. Ian Greenleigh is a government freshman T H E F IR IN G L I NE Readers keep Texan in check In Friday's "Election connects Texan to students," colum nist James Burnham shows a lack of understanding for the basic prin­ ciples of journalism, which is to be expected from someone who has no credibility to talk about the Texan. Among Daily Texan alumni, reasons to keep the elected edi­ tor have largely linked back to various attempts by UT Regents, most notably Frank Erwin, to take control of the newspaper and to censor its content. These fears are justified but mitigated in the current proposal before the TSP board. The 30 percent vote of confidence proviso gives the staff more control over who ascends to the role than ever before. The elimination of prior review is also vital to maintain the Texan's independence. However, Burnham's belief that the "Texan editor is no dif­ ferent" than Student Government shows a fundamental and pro­ found misunderstanding of the role of the press. The fourth estate functions as an independent enti­ ty, free even of the constraints of public opinion. The press has to be free to displease every­ body. Newspapers are always held accountable to the public. If they fail to maintain profession­ al and ethical conduct, people stop reading them, and they fail. Newspapers are held accountable by readers, not constituents. Burnham's ignorance would be more tolerable if not for his laughable assertion that, as a columnist, he has any kind of insider perspective on the Texan. As a columnist who turned into a news staffer, I can attest that strolling in once a week or so to turn in your column gives you no more understanding of the workings of the Texan than the homeless guy who used our rest­ room sink to wash bugs out of his beard. If the Texan were truly insular, they would not allow random lib­ eral arts juniors to wander down to the basement every semester and take up 12 inches of space or more twaddling on with their unqualified opinions. Kris Banks Former Texan news editor Care for children Many members of the cam­ pus community, myself included, were probably surprised to find fifteen 25-foot-high billboards in front of Gregory gym graphically protesting abortion. Freedom of speech was being protected with fences and police. The pro-choice •folks were down the street with a few 25-foot-high billboards of their own, asking us to consider rational choice, with no fence and no police. Sadly, it would seem both are right. Both are wrong. We can argue where life begins or does not begin. After this, only when is it OK to end life. Life has birth, followed by death. A king once asked a sage for wisdom. "Grandfather dies, father dies, son ilies," was the reply. The king asked "How can you say that is wise?" The sage said, "Great sadness is 'son dies, father dies, grandfather dies.'" The posters advocate birth. After birth this new person has an expected 100-year life span. The first 20 involves people to care for this little life, to feed it, to nurture it, to train it. If the moth­ er cannot do these things, who does? And the mother may have many good reasons that she can­ not: rape, incest, poverty, drugs, mental problems, the list goes on. These are very real situations. With an actualization, for the mothers, that in our society this young life would receive good care no matter what, maybe more "difficult" pregnancy situations would result in children. Good care even if she could not care for the child. Good care even if she needed help. Good care even if she died. Good care. Not an orphanage, poverty or mistreat­ ment; not army, war and death as a path out of the ghetto. Not all those getting abortions are the people who can and do afford to go to UT. How do we develop a society that supports these children no matter what? Our children? Don't they deserve it? Mark Fountain Chemistry graduate student YCT right (for once) It's about time we hear some­ thing positive about YCT in the Texan. After all the publicity about their racist activities, I was glad to hear that even they were against the recent GOP tax pro­ posals. When the reports came out that the proposal would only help those making over $100,000 and hurt those making less, I figured even that wouldn't sway the opinions of conservatives. I'm used to political parties ignor­ ing facts in order to get their agendas passed, whether they are Democrats or Republicans. But this actually gives me hope that there are some people who are able to put their biases aside and look objectively at the issues, even in Texas. It would be great if someday we could get rid of political parties all together, and elect people on their merits, but for now, I guess I will have to settle for this and become pos­ sibly the first person at UT not associated with YCT to praise their decision. Allen Demling Mechanical engineering graduate student Lost in the shouting What's missing from much of the abortion debate in the Texan articles and Firing Lines are the experiences of women who have made a decision one way or the other regarding abortion. I faced these decisions m yself over a decade ago, and I can tell you that I made the right decision for me — one that has resulted in my having a daughter who is 10 years old now — a happy (as often as a pre-teen can be), healthy, straight A-and-B student w ho has been a joy and blessing in my life. When I was 18 years old, I found myself pregnant by a boy­ friend who'd already signed up for the army. We decided togeth­ er that I should have an abortion, and I went through with it. Six months later, I'd moved on with my life — but with the same poor judgment and self-discipline that I'd had before. I was pregnant again. I didn't consider abortion as an option this time; instead I chose to have my child and raise her on my own. I've read scenarios presented by pro-lifers of people whose par­ ents considered abortion but in the end did not go through with it — the argument of "W hat if this person had been aborted?" In my case, I wouldn't have the child that I have now, if I hadn't had an abortion. No one could convince me that I made the wrong choice in my life. I made the right choice for me, and that choice should con­ tinue to be available to all women and to be respected as the very personal, and very private mat­ ter that it is. We are ultimately the ones responsible for our own actions. Keep choice available and let us be. Jennifer Phillips History and American studies junior EDITOR'S NOTE Opinions expressed in The Daily Texan are those of the editor, the Editorial Board or writer of the article. They are not necessarily those of the UT administration, the Board of Regents or the Texas Student Publications Board of Operating Trustees. SUBMIT A COLUMN Please e-mail your column to editor@dailytexanonline.com. Columns must be fewer than 600 words. Your article should be a strong argument about an issue in the news, not a reply to something that appeared in the Texan. The Texan reserves the right to edit all columns for brevity, clarity and liability. SUBMIT A FIRING LINE Please e-mail your Firing Lines to firingline@dailytexanonline. com. Letters must be fewer than 300 words and should include your major and classification. The Texan reserves the right to edit all letters for brevity, clarity and liability. O N T H E W E B Additional Firing Lines were posted today on the Web site at www.dailytexanonline.com. Tuesday, March 29, 2005 CLUB: Futrell says loan, APD actions not linked From page 1A proposal from the council before postponement was 6-1 but could change after the waiting period. Councilman Brewster McCracken was the only council member to initially oppose the loan. "I do not believe we should be using taxpayer dollars on a bar that had insurance," McCracken said. "I believe we should be using those funds to restore social ser­ vices cuts." An from e-mail Futrell answered McCracken's questions about loan negotiations with the club, the fire investigation, the club's insurance and purposes for funding. Futrell said the owner's daughter Jo Cash Baylor and attorney Charles Brown nego­ tiated with the city manager's office about loan options for the club from the city's downtown development fund, once used to rebuild the now-demolished Liberty Lunch venue. Futrell said she asked Baylor to consider a $400,000 loan, but Baylor said $750,000 would be necessary to rebuild. McCracken said Futrell's memo never made clear whether or not the club would be able to rebuild without using city money. At the rally, Midtown Live rep­ resentatives said building costs would total $1.1 million to $1.4 million, and insurance for the club only covered $481,800. Faced with updated building codes and the increased cost of building materi­ als, estimates for the plan were $85 per square foot for a 5,000 square foot plan. Debbie bartender Club Alexander fire said destroyed signed photographs of famous patrons such as Denzel Washington, the Dallas Cowboys and the Temptations. Since the fire, Alexander said she was just trying to make ends meet. the Nelson Linder, president of Austin's National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter, urged the com­ munity to pressure the council to decide within two weeks. Cash, who owned the club for 18 years, retold the story of the fire that night. After everyone cleared the building, she said one of her employees directed her atten­ tion to the computer screen in the police car that was broadcasting the messages. "We just all started screaming," she said. "To look at 'Bum, baby, bum' and then see Midtown Live burning." SG: Supporters say bill w ill end popularity contest From pagel A in some cases, tripling limits. Under the bill, only presidential and vice-presidential candidates would be allowed to run together, while at-large and college rep­ resentative candidates would be on their own. Only oral endorse­ ments of other candidates would be permitted, banning the distri­ bution of materials listing candi­ date names, in order to prevent uninformed voters from straight ticket voting. "People are handed a list of can­ didates, and they vote from the card to the computer," said Matt Ross, two-year-at-large-member and government junior. "The hope is it will open up so more people will run, and hopefully the most qualified will rise above the pack." Ross said running individually will create more debates within colleges, thus creating more informed voters and bringing out more qualified candidates who would not have stood a chance to win if running independently against a ticket. Michelle Fuller-Wigg, commu­ nications representative and pub­ lic relations junior, said candidates who run alone are at a disadvan­ tage, because they cannot enjoy the same amount of workers, money, publicity and resources as a ticket. "As long as it is inherently eas­ ier for a student running with a ticket to run and win than it is for a student to run independently, the system will be unfair," Fuller- Wigg said. "We must attempt to level the playing field." Supporters of the bill say they hope the proposed new system will eliminate the "popularity con­ test" associated with SG elections and begging students to run in certain offices in order to gain the financial benefits of having more candidates. However, liberal arts rep­ resentative Clayton Stewart, a government junior, said he believes the changes will only give way to more votes cast based on popularity. "When a ticket is being built, you try to make it as diverse as possible," Stewart said. "When you have the underrepresented parts of campus represented on a ticket, you eliminate the populari­ ty contest." Stewart said regardless of ticket affiliation, people are still going to vote based on familiarity. SG President Brent Chaney, whose Focus ticket swept the 2004 election by 100 percent, said though he believes the election process needs reform, SG needs to take "baby steps" toward change. However, the English senior said one weakness of running individ­ ually was a possible separation of the president and the assembly, who could be pitted against one another if not sharing the same basic goals. He said the main focus of the elections should be to increase voter turnout and to educate voters. AB 18 also proposes changing presidential and vice-presiden­ tial campaign limits from $450 to $850, or $1,200 if running alone. At-large candidate limits could change from $275 to $850, and college representatives from $175 to $500. Candidates would still be able to use the money for materi­ als such as T-shirts and fliers, as long as they don't endorse mul­ tiple candidates. Presidential and vice-presiden­ tial candidates would still be able to choose a common name to run under, as long as it has not been used in the past six years. The Election Improvement Act of 2005 (AB 19) proposes less drastic changes than AB 18, such as providing links to candidate information on ballots, eliminat­ ing ticket names from the ballot and disclosing campaign finan­ cial records to be available to the public 24 hours after submission. Chris Kennedy, two-year-at- large rep and economics senior, said the bill was not an alterna­ tive to AB 18 but supplemental ideas to improve the election pro­ cess, whether or not tickets exist. 5A MEDELLIN: L a w y e r s claim i n a d e q u a t e defense From pagel A sided with Abbott. "Medellin voluntarily con ­ fessed to the brutal gang rape and murder of two teenage girK," said Jerry Strickland, a spokesman for the attorney general's office in a written statement. "H e was convich d after a fair trial, applying U.S. and Texas law." Lawyers f o r M edellin claim ed that M edellin's defense was inadequate, tell­ ing the justices that his law­ yer had been suspended from practicing law for ethics vio­ lations during the case and failed to call any witnesses during the trial. Groups like Am nesty International, Human Lights Watch and several Latin American and European Mates filed briefs to the Supreme Court in support of Medellin. In a surprise move earlier this month, the Bush adminis­ tration also submitted a brief in support of the international court ruling and ordered states to comply by retrying the 51 convicted Mexicans. There has been no official word on when or how the appeals cases will be handled. After hearing of the order, M edellin's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to put the case on hold so they could pursue M edellin's case in state court, but the Justices ignored the request. The Supreme Court took the order into account when the M edellin's considering appeal Monday. "We mat be or useless <$c The offic e of the Attorney G with the ext: ing that the laws of Tex,, the United f interna tiona1 justice. "We resf>ectfully b< the executn exceeds the constituí bounds tor tederal authc Strickland said."Neverth that questioi in this case ,and will liki resolved in subsequent court litigati The Busfi a d m i n i s t r also announi:ed that it is drawing from the sectii the Vienna CConvention < into questk >n in Mede case, statin-,B that it is appropriate for an int tional court to reverse decisions of sition as associate dean of graduate stud­ ies at the University of Missouri- Columbia. A job opportunity at the University of Texas as the dean of the College of Communication might be just the thing. In an intimate meeting with a few communication students M onday evening, Thorson, the third candidate of five for the col­ lege's dean position, stressed the need for effective funding within the college and more interaction between the departments. "You have got to have a mis­ sion, goals, conversation among the faculty," Thorson said. The college has been without a dean since June of 2004, with pro­ fessor Roderick P. Hart standing in as the interim dean. Thorson's educational background in psychology, but she said she has done research in several areas of communication. is From 1972 to 1980 she was a professor at Dennison University, I) "I thought she was very' open, an excellent communicator," said Christin Crooks, an advertis­ ing junior who was present at the meeting. "She seemed to be receptive to all concerns and was a lot more specific than the previ­ ous candidate." "You have got to have a mission, goals, conversation among the faculty" Esther Thorson, College of Com­ m unication dean candidate Jeremy Balkin | Dally Texan Staff Esther Thorson, a candidate for the position of Dean of the College of Communication, was interviewed Monday afternoon by students, Thorson was the third out of five candidates to be interviewed for this position, and she was a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1980 to 1992. In 1993, she became a professor in the Missouri School of Journalism and moved up to become the associate dean of graduate studies. Her main interest is in advertising research, including advertising effects and audience response to television and the impact of media. Crooks also said she was impressed by Thorson's back­ ground in most of the fields in communication offered at the University. Students discussed the issue of flat-rate tuition in the College ni Communication, and Thorson said it is good for the college. However, she said she wanted to help students w ho cannot afford to pay for 14 credit hours each semester, perhaps with endow ­ ments and scholarships. She said she would alsq like to see more students involved in cutting- edge activities, such as interdis­ ciplinary involvement. Paintings o f torture, heavenly im agery represent Chinese group By Yashoda Sampath Daily Texan Staff Paintings of graphic torture were contrasted against heavenly imagery in the Santa Rita Room of the Texas Union Monday. Representatives of Falun Gong are touring the United States with an art collection to raise awareness of crimes committed against them by the Chinese Communist Party. Falun Gong is a spiritual group founded in the 1980s in China. It has been persecuted by the Communist Party, which considers the group to he an "e\ il cu lt" "We just want to tell eveiybody communism is not right anymore and to encourage people to speak out all over the world," said Susan Liu, a Falun Gong member who helped organize the exhibit. The display was divided into five sections. The first, Enlightenment, represented the union of heaven, earth and humanity, often com­ bining Renaissance-style painting with traditional Chinese painting. The Beauty second, of images Cultivation, contained of Falun Gong leaders speaking out to their followers. One image showed a Falun Gong practitio­ Henry Jao, a Falun Gong advocate, pauses to read the information about a painting during the Falun Gong art exhibit in the Santa Rita Room in the Union on Monday. Shannon Sibayan | D aily Texan Staff ner with a golden halo, while the Communist officer had a gray halo in the shape of a skull. Uncom prom ising C ourage tactics depicted more brutal employed by the C o m m u n is t Party' against Falun Gong members, such as followers being beaten and to r­ tured in C hiñese prisons. "We wish to show people that this is really happening," said Liu. "W hat's most brutal is that they're doing things to people who believe in truth and compassion." these Calling For Justice contained former Com m unist images of Party leader Jiang Zemin being tortured, hanged or receiving retri­ bution from heavenly forces. Liu said the Communist Party hired people to harass Falun Gong members everywhere. "They don't want any kind of voice that's different," said Liu about the Communists. "They've tried everything to spite us." Justice Prevails held images of a future where Falun Gong mem­ bers live in peace. "If we can call in more people to help us and to speak out, then jus­ tice will come out and w ry soon," said Liu. American Association for Higher Education to end operations Nonprofit organization cites lack o f funding, expects to close in Jun e By Ken Tran Daily Texan Staff The American Association for Higher Education announced March 24 that it will cease opera­ tions later this year because of a lack of funding. AAHE is a nonprofit organiza­ tion that focuses on the develop­ ment of higher education, assess­ ment of faculty and students, increasing minority enrollment and improving university effi­ ciency. "The board thought it would be better to close than to continue at a lower quality or energy," said Clara Lovett, president of AAHE. "We had already scaled back but didn't want to scale back to the point where we were not doing anything very w ell." said. AAHE expects to disband by June but hasn't set a specific date, according to Lovett. Many of the projects currently managed by AAHE will be trans­ ferred to other organizations in a gradual dissemination that will take several months. "W e're looking for organiza­ tions that do quality work, orga­ nizations that are already work­ ing along similar lines," Lovett The organizations that fit this bill will be decided over the next several months, and the goal is for the transfer to disrupt as little activity as possible. "It would be premature to name [organizations]; w e're in the discussion stages," said Susan Conner, executive vice president of the Lumma Foundation, which is funding an AAHE project to bolster minority enrollment in higher education. "I think it is a good message that we are in con­ versation about getting it done and that the grant will be com ­ pleted." "W e're trying to avoid gaps or intermptions, but it will be a different situation for each activ­ ity," Lovett said. "Som e will be smooth and some less so." Lovett said she believes AAHE will leave a legacy that will con­ tinue to inspire others to work toward the betterment of educa­ tion. "W e're very proud ... We planted the seeds in other orga­ nizations that can carry on part of what w e've been doing over the years," she said. "There are hun­ dreds of campuses and thousands of faculty and adm inistrators who do their jobs better because of AAHE programs; it was a very influential organization." RECSPORTS Play intramural sports! Entries close v Entries close Sign up in GRE 2.204 TODAY at 5 p.m.] April 5 Indoor Soccer Flag Footbow1 Mini Golf Tennis Singles www dailytexanonline com State Editor: City Editor: Tessa Moll Phone: (512) 232-2206 ? Conservatives contest taxing district election Save Our Taxpayers says vote violates Voting Rights Act o f 1965 By Ryan Penner Daily Texan Staff Local conservative political group Save Our Taxpayers alleged that an upcoming election on the annexation of parts of three Austin school districts into the Austin Community College taxing dis­ trict violates the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Attorney Marc Levin filed a com­ plaint with the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday alleging the annexation would decrease the percentage of minority voters liv­ ing in the ACC taxing district. Save Our Taxpayers is con­ cerned that voters within the pro­ posed expansion areas are being disenfranchised because the elec­ tion will poll them and residents already living within the taxing district together. "If you look at the electoral numbers, 88 percent of the voters are allowed to force 12 percent of the voters into a new property tax, and our people are outraged by that," said Don Zimmerman, founder of Save Our Taxpayers and executive director of RLCTX PAC. "If 100 percent of the voters [in the proposed expansion areas] showed up and voted no, they would still lose." Levin said 80 percent of the population in the proposed expan­ sion areas is white, while currently only 50 percent of the population in the district is white. He argued the annexation would cause a sig­ nificant demographics change. According to a written response from the ACC Board of Trustees, the total population of the new taxing district would be 56 percent white, up less than 2 percent from the current proportion. The complaint also said that the board failed to meet the dead­ line for issuing the election order because it did not convene early enough on the day of the deadline, but the board contends that the law does not require them to do so before midnight on that day. Zimmerman believes making legal challenges to the election through the Justice Department is the only way to prevent the annexation. "The voters have some hope that we can challenge this through the courts, but they're not interest­ ed in fighting the actual election," he said. "They are demoralized to finance the challenge because they flunk this is hopeless. We've made a constitutionality argument also, but to do that we would have to file for a temporary injunction, and that costs a lot of money." According to Zimmerman, Save Our Taxpayers has received $250 in donations so far for this effort. He said there are other donations, but declined to disclose their amount or source. The group is an extension of the Republican Liberty Caucus of Texas FAC, which, according to its Web site, is primarily concerned with lobby­ ing for smaller government. The PAC has campaigned in the past including opposing a proposed hospital taxing district expansion. Most recently, accord­ ing to state expenditure reports filed by RLCTX PAC, they spent more than $2,000 in a successful effort to oppose a bond initiative for the Round Rock Independent School District. Parts of Round Rock ISD, as well as Pflugerville and Eanes ISDs, are included in the proposal to expand the taxing district. City highlights funded projects Week designed to slum community how grant m oney is being used By Ameera Butt Daily Texan Staff The City of Austin's Neighborhood Housing and Development Community Department began its annual Community Development Block Grant week on Monday The week highlights the programs and proj­ ects the city funded with, the $8.9 billion it received in federal grant money this fiscal year. "ITs really an effort to show the community that these federal dol­ lars are being used to work," said CDBG spokeswoman Brenda de la Garza. De la Garza said the program decides what to do with the hands through a series of public hearings to find out what the community wants to do. CAPITOL PITCH T iik h m i v T k \ Groups reach out to senators libustering ru legislative prc in the Texas S Joe Buglewii Daily Texan 5 C oalition con cern ed about right to filibu ster ju d icia l nom inations By Erin Gardner Daily Texan Staff A coalition of 20 groups from across Texas gathered Monday to urge U.S. Sens. Kay Bailey I lutchison and John Comyn, both Republicans, to preserve the right to filibuster judicial nominations. The Texas Coalition for an Independent Judiciary wants both senators to protect the 88- year-old filibuster rule by voting against a parliamentary proce­ dure referred to as the "nuclear option." Under filibuster normal rules, it takes 60 members to stop discussion of a nominee. The nuclear procedure allows a 51-member majority to stop the filibuster and go to a vote on a nomination. The nuclear option has never been used in a senate debate over a judicial nomination, but Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., has plans to use the procedure to get Bush's nomina­ tions on the bench, according to Sarah Wheat, spokesperson for National Abortion Rights Action League. "The plans proposed to get rid of filibuster would let Bush appoint any judicial nominee he wants," Wheat said. "He could appoint judges outside the main stream, and we would see results for generations to come." Wheat said considering the age and health of the current Supreme Court judges, Bush could make up to three appoint­ ments this term. She said that allowing a narrow majority to stop a filibuster would "nuke" the checks and balances of these nominations. In the last legislative session, the Senate filibustered 10 of the 229 judicial nominations. Comyn supports the use of the nuclear option if the Democrats continue to filibuster. "A majority of senators [have] always possessed the authority to restore Senate traditions by reforming Senate rules and pro­ cedures," Comyn said. "These long-standing rules and tradi­ tions should not be changed sim­ ply because some interest groups in Austin or Washington do not like our current president or his judicial nominees." Wheat said Comyn would probably follow Republican lead­ ership. Chris Paulitz, spokesman for Hutchison, said she is open to the nuclear option to get a quick vote on nominees. He said she is not in favor of filibusters when it comes to judicial nominees Deece Eckstein, Texas director of People For the American Way, spoke to coalition members at the Monday meeting. "The nuclear option allows momentary political consider­ ation and idealistic passion of a narrow majority ()f [the] S Baylor advances to first-ever Final Four Lady Bears’ 72-63 win over UNC takes Tempe, earns trip to Indianapolis North Carolina, trying to join the Tar Heel men in the Final Four, shot just 32 percent. Ivory Latta, North Carolina's 5-foot-6 point guard, scored 21 but was bounced around all night by the Baylor defense and was just 6-for- 21 shooting, 3-for-12 on 3-pointers. Leah Metcalf scored 11 and Nikita Bell 10 for the Tar Heels. Baylor advanced to the wom­ en's Final Four for the first time in school history. The Lady Bears, who hadn't even been to a region­ al final before, will play either LSU or Duke in the national semifinals on Sunday in Indianapolis. Two more victories for the powerhouse program built by coach Kim Mulkey-Robinson in just five seasons would give the Waco school its second national title in any sport. Baylor won the NCAA men's tennis champion­ ship last year. The Baylor men's basketball team made it to the Final Four in H48 and 1950, but that program is best remembered for having a former player accused of killing a teammate in 2003. The Baylor women have gone a long way toward erasing that ugly stain. Baylor outscored the Tar Heels 12-2 óver the final 5:16 of a some- times-frenetic and often-sloppy first half to take a 33-24 lead at the break. Scott's 3-pointer with 12:01 to play made it 49-31, and Young's two free throws with 11:01 remain­ ing gave Baylor a 53-34 lead. The Tar Heels had not faced that big a deficit all season, and responded with an 8-0 run to cut it to 49-38 LaTangela Atkinson's rebound with 6:57 left. But the closest North Carolina got was seven in the final seconds. The game was not the up-and- down, freestyling showcase it was supposed to be. There were 42 turnovers, 25 by Baylor and 17 by North Carolina. Camille Little grabbed her own rebound and scored to put North Carolina ahead 22-21 with 6:33 cut the lead to 3124 to go. Young scored six in a 10-0 run that put 31-22 with 21.2 seconds to play. Latta's two free throws cut the lead to 31-24 with six seconds left in the half, then Chelsea Whitaker drove the length of the court for a layup at the buzzer to boost the lead back to nine at the break. By Bob Baum The Associated Press TEMPE, Ariz. — The red-hot Lady Bears are headed to the Final Four, a feel-good story for a Texas school usually on the sidelines when titles are passed around. Sophia Young scored 19 points and grabbed 11 rebounds and No. 2 seed Baylor beat top-seed­ ed North Carolina 72-63 Monday night in the finals of the Tempe Regional. Young, whose mother came from the West Indies to see her play for the first time, was named the regional's MVP. The Lady Bears (31-3) extended their school-record winning streak to 18 games, leading by as many as 19 points in the second half against the Tar Heels (30-4), who had won 17 straight going into the game. Chameka Scott, 0-for-9 from 3- point range in her previous two games, was 4-for-8 against North Carolina and scored 18 points for Baylor. Steffame Blackmon added 14 points. Baylor's Sophia Young pum ps her fist as Baylor defeats North Carolina 72-63 to win the Tempe regional and m ove on to the Final Four. Ch arles A rb o g a s t | Associated Press WHEELS: Sophomore hits first home run with line over right From page IB "It was kind of a joke," he said. "The only reason they did that was because there were run­ ners on second and third with an open base. "I'm not intimidating." Had Wheeless made that state­ ment closer to the beginning of the season, he would have been right. The sophomore first base­ man had just two hits in his first 14 at-bats and was batting .207 at the end of February But March has been a different story. Wheeless is batting .341 since the series opener against Arizona on March 4, and he has only improved with the begin­ ning of conference play. He was one of three Longhorns to bat more than .250 with more than one at-bat against Baylor, going 3-for-9, and his 3-for-7 perfor­ mance in the two games against Texas Tech raised his Big 12 batting average to .375 in five games. Red Raider pitcher Brian Wyatt can vouch for the improvement. He was on the mound when Wheeless hit the first home run of his college career, a line-drive shot over the right field fence. It came in the at-bat before he was intentionally walked. "It was a three and one count, an inside pitch," Wheeless said. "I've been trying to connect with one of those all season, and I final­ ly did, so it was really great." Wheeless attributes his progress over the year with the adjustments he has made in the batter's box. "I've changed my swing up a little bit," he said. "I'm just try­ ing to stay more balanced at the plate, and I'm just seeing the ball really well right now. I'm focus­ ing on line drives, and if home runs come, then they come." Wheeless' play seems to have secured him a- spot m the middle of the order as the starting first baseman, where he earlier pla- tooned with Will Crouch and Thomas Incaviglia. Wheeless and the rest of the fourth-ranked Longhorns (23-4, 2-3 Big 12) look to build on their two-game winning streak when they take on Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (19-14-1) today at 6:15 at Disch-Faulk Field. GUBSER:Junior went McEnroe GOLF: Two days remain at Arizona tournament with his racket in first match From page IB I think he'll be able to get back on track soon." Texas is three strokes back of leader TCU, who is at 17-under-par through two rounds of the tourna­ ment thus far. In second, and two strokes ahead of the Longhorns, is Arkansas at 16-under-par. Yet, Texas has been able to take advantage of the opportunities presented to it in this tournament. Even without their No. 2 player, the Longhorns have been able to put themselves in a race to the fin­ ish with great play from their other two veterans, as well as the solid play from the underclassmen. All this may be because of the aspects Fields has been stressing to his golfers the week leading up to this tournament. And while it may be too early to become grati­ fied, the coaches and players are not going to let this opportunity slip away. "Tomorrow, the great news is that we get to tee off with the last group, and it's been a while since that has happened, so that is a great oppor­ tunity for us to gain even more experience/' Fields said. "It's a little too early to say that we are becom­ ing a consistent golf program, but we now have a consistency in our approach to every tournament, and we need to keep doing what we're doing on Tuesday." MEN'S GOLF PLAYER LEADER BOARD Start Player Team 1 Current i T2 T2 T2 T2 6 T7 T7 T9 T9 i T13 T8 T2 T13 T17 T34 T2 T34 T29 J. J. Killeen Matt Bortis Nick Juszcazak Ryan Keeney Matthew Rosenfeid Nathan Lashley Shaun Goodwin Michael Putnam Zach Bixler Scott Campbell TCU Arkansas, U of Arizona UNLV Texas Arizona Texas Pepperdine Washington Arkansas, U of 2 69 67 68 69 67 68 67 72 68 69 Total 135 136 136 136 136 138 139 139 140 140 66 69 68 67 69 70 72 67 72 71 From pagelB "I'm sure when I got home, or a week later, I wanted to play again," Gubser said. "The fun­ niest thing is seeing people that actually still remember that. They bring up the old times, 'Hey, you remember when your dad spanked you?'" Since that memorable scene in San Antonio, Gubser has learned to better handle his emotions. Competing in front of several thousand fans at the 2000 Junior U.S. Open in Costa .Rica, Gubser lost a tough match to the No. 1 player in the world but kept his composure. Serving up 4-2, he ended up dropping the third set 7- 5 to eventual champion Janko Tipsarevic. As my opponent and I walked off the court, I thanked the crowd for being there and got a standing ovation," Gubser said. "That was one of the best moments ever." Gubser's passion on the court lies in sharp contrast with his playful sense of humor off it. "Roger is a practical joker; he always has something up his sleeves," Longhorn head coach Michael Center said. "You can't turn your back long, because he'll get you." Sophomore teammate and roommate Garrett Snyder has learned that lesson the hard way. "When I'm in the shower, he likes to sneak in the bathroom .and dump cold water on me," Snyder said. "He acts like an 8-year-old sometimes." Gubser's pranks are some­ thing Texas' youthful squad will have to get used to. The 23- year-old redshirt junior is one of three returning players from last year's squad on a team that typically features three and sometimes four freshmen in its rotation. "Roger is just a great leader of people; the guys look up to him," Center said. "He's been a really solid player and person for us, and he is the type of guy you want to have be your captain." Gubser's experience as cap­ tain has shaped his post-gradu- ation goals. "I'm going to become the head coach at Texas, right after playing on the tennis tour for a while," Gubser said. "He tells me all the time that he's going to take my job," Center said following a long laugh. "If he wants my job in a few years, I'm sure that he would be more than capable." In spite of his jocularity, Gubser becomes quite serious when he steps onto the court. In a 4-3 home loss against sec­ ond-ranked Virginia this sea­ son, Gubser was down in the second set when the chair judge made a tenuous call that did not meet Gubser's or the crowd's approval. Throwing down his racket angrily, Gubser walked over to the judge to argue his perspective. "I thought I won the first point. I needed the break," Gubser said. "We can't lose our composure. I do regret that." Gubser didn't change the judge's mind and failed to win the match, losing 6-4,6-4. But at least this time, his dad wasn't lurking in the stands to see his son's outburst like that after­ noon in San Antonio. Daily Texan Housing Fair Free Pizza Union BallroomuoF or m o r e info call y o u r R e p o r 471-1865 The Daily Texan • DailyTexanOnline.com K V R -I V' • KVRX Radio • Texas Travesty • Cactus Yearbook 306 Barton Springs Rd (512) 400-0952 www.aussiesbar.com MADNESS: Football town held instant classic From page IB The number of bounces is up for debate, but Sparks' shot rolled in as time expired. Five awkward minutes of deliberation followed as all 16,324 fans stood in antici­ pation. Two overtimes later, the Spartans survived the three-hour slugfest and celebrated with the got food? yes. got beer? yes. got liquor? yes. we've got it all at cutting of the nets and the don­ ning of the apparel. "I'm calling Rashad McCants to see what his game plan on me is," Brown said after a 24-point performance against Kentucky. By the end of the night, the team which few outside Flint could name a player had the final laugh and a trip to the Final Four. By Sunday night, Ashley Judd was dabbing her tears with a Kentucky-blue shirt and Coach K was swiping his American Express for the quickest flight to Durham. Though without a profession­ al team in the building Austin benefited from the instant clas­ sic by association. By hanging out with the big names, the city might finally be regarded as a basketball town. Outside the Erwin Center on Sunday night sat four fans decked out in winter gear. U IL basketball tournament tickets went on sale the next morning, and hopefully more nights will include campers hoping to see some basketball. Tuesday, March 29, 2005 SPORTS NOTES Luckily arrests don't count toward Cal's BCS standings BERKELEY, Calif. — California receiver Robert Jordan and a freshman team­ mate were suspended by coach Jeff Tedford on Monday for their arrests during a traffic stop in February. Jordan was suspended for the Golden Bears' season-opener against Sacramento State on Sept. 3. Bernard Hicks, a defensive back who missed last season with a knee injury, will sit out the first three games. Hicks, a Fresno native, was charged with misdemeanor marijuana posses­ sion after Berkeley police allegedly found several bags of the drug in the playeCs car several blocks from Memorial Stadium. Jordan was under investigation for possessing a hunting knife as a concealed weapon, but the charges were dropped. Jordan caught 29 passes for 332 yards and two touchdowns as a fresh­ man last season. He started Cat's final six games after three of the school's top receivers were sidelined by injuries during its 10-2 season. Funk lays down clutch putt to win Players Championship PONTEVEDRA BEACH, Fla. It took five days for The Players Championship to resemble a major. Fred Funk had to wait even longer to show he's a big- time player. A former college golf coach and career grinder, Funk delivered clutch shots over the water and the only par putt that mattered, a 5-footer on the final hole that gave him a one-shot victory Monday in the toughest round the TPC at Sawgrass has ever had. "I can't believe it," Funk said, choking back tears. "I didn't fathom this hap­ pening." He closed with a 1-under 71, then had to wait until Luke Donald missed a 20-foot birdie putt from just off the green before celebrating the seventh — and by far the biggest — victory of his career. Funk, 48, became the oldest winner of The Players Championship with a final round that aged him even more, with conditions that were tougher than most majors because of 35 mph wind. He had three-putt bogeys on con­ secutive holes to lose a two-shot lead. He got it back with a bold 3-iron from 234 yards that narrowly cleared the water on the par-5 16th and set up a two-putt birdie. He found land on the island-green 17th, a victory in itself, only to three-putt for another bogey. Astros trade struggling Redding to Padres for catcher Quintero KISSIMMEE, Fla. — The Houston Astros traded pitcher Tim Redding and cash to the San Diego Padres fdr catch­ er Humberto Quintero on Monday. Redding, 27, was 5-7 with a 5.72 ERA in 27 games for the Astros last season, including 17 starts and a demotion to the bullpen in July. The right-hander also went 1-3 with a 6.04 ERA atTriple- A New Orleans. Redding was 21-28 with a 4.75 ERA in four seasons with Houston. He went 10-14 with a team-leading 3.68 ERA in the Astros' rotation in 2003. Earlier this spring, the Astros released Pete Munro, who started Game 6 of the NLCS against St. Louis in October. Redding, Munro, Carlos Hernandez, Dave Burba and top prospect Ezequiel Astacio were in competition to become Houston's fifth starter. In February, the Astros avoided sal­ ary arbitration hearings by agreeing to a one-year deal with Redding worth $750,000 and a one-year contract with Munro for $700,000. Quintero, 25, hit .250 with two home runs and 10 RBIs in 23 games for the Padres last year. AtTriple-A Portland, he hit .317 with five homers and 30 RBIs. Bogut declares for NBA draft, becoming possible top pick SALT LAKE CITY — Andrew Bogut couldn't pass up the opportunity to be the top pick in the NBA draft. The Utah center announced Monday that he would forgo his final two years of eligibility to enter the draft, confirm­ ing what his coach, teammates and Utes fans have known was coming. "I have no regrets and full-speed ahead," the 7-footer from Australia said at a news conference Monday. Bogut, the leading vote-getter on the AP All-America team, averaged 20.4 points and 12.2 rebounds while leading the Utes to a 29-6 season, which ended with a loss to Kentucky in the regional semifinals of the NCAA tournament. "I feel the time is right to move on to the next level of basketball," Bogut said. Bogut's parents, Anne and Michael Bogut, sat in the front row for their son s news conference. Michael Bogut ran an auto shop when Andrew was growing up, and the younger Bogut remembered some lean times for the family. As a top NBA pick, Bogut's fam­ ily should be comfortable for a long time. Com piled from Associated Press reports Explosion investigation shows signs of pressure wave By Pam Easton The Associated Press TEXAS CITY — The lead investigator into last week's explosionata British Petroleum refinery said Monday that she found crumpled trailers, dam­ aged cars and signs of a pres­ sure wave in the area where 15 workers died. "It is very sobering to see firsthand the place where 15 souls were taken,"Angela Blair, of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, said Monday evening after a brief tour of the site. "That image is permanent­ ly etched on my heart and it serves to emphasize even more the importance of the chemical safety board mis­ sion. We are going to investi­ gate this accident to the deep­ est level possible and to the broadest extent possible so that our mission to prevent this from happening here or at any other refinery can be accomplished." Blair said she saw quite a bit of blast damage in the area where some of those killed worked in trailers. "Those are not substantial structures, and there was a very significant amount of broken trailers and cars with their windows blown out and debris everywhere but no fire damage," she said. Blair saw significant fire damage on the other side of the unit, which she said indicates a fire on the ground on one side of the plant and a pressure wave out toward the trailers took Contractors at the refinery to work Monday returned for since time first the Wednesday's explosion, but the some employees day off to attend the funer­ als of co-workers. A makeshift memorial outside the plant's front gate continued to grow with individual floral memo­ rials for two of the victims, Art Ramos and Lorena Cruz. Workers hugged and comfort­ ed each other. BP spokesman Bill Stephens said about 2,200 contract workers were at the plant on Monday, along with BP work­ ers. All were offered counsel­ ing and-had to undergo secu­ rity briefings before return­ ing to their job sites. Some of those who worked near or in the site of the explosion were told they could go home, but many stayed. Stephens said that the refin­ ery is back to normal opera­ tions except for the unit affect­ ed by the blast. Blair said that her team of investigators hope to get clear­ ance Tuesday to check out the isomerization unit and begin measuring the extent of the damage. The explosion at the 1,200- acre plant shot flames, ash and blackened metal into the sky — blowing out windows half a mile away and injuring more than 100 workers and resi­ dents. Nine people remained hospitalized Monday, five of them in intensive care, accord­ ing to a hospital spokesman. Three funerals were held Monday in neighboring Baytown for Morris King, 57; Rafael Herrera, 27; and Larry Linsenbardt, 58. and Linsenbardt for J.E. Merit King worked Constructors Inc., a Houston- based subsidiary of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., based in Pasadena, Calif. Herrera worked for another California contractor, Fluor Corp. All 15 killed were contract workers; 12 worked for J.E. Merit; the rest worked for Fluor. Blair said earlier that her team had talked for three hours with at least one unit operator working at the time the explosion and got of "good, very detailed informa­ tion." She wouldn't discuss specifics. The blast occurred in the plant's isomerization unit as a portion of it was brought up to full production after a two- week shutdown for routine maintenance. Preliminary evidence sug­ gests a flammable liquid and vapor were released and then ignited as the equipment was restarted, Blair said. Quality of parenting most influential Study shows total time spent with kids not related to development By Samantha Stiles Daily Texan Staff She balances baby bottles and business. Shannon Moore is a UT administrative associate with a 7-month-old baby. Because she has to work, it's hard for Moore to spend a large amount of time with her baby boy, but after a recent report co­ authored by a UT researcher, she can breathe easier. According to the Study of Early Child Care, the total amount of time a mother spends with a baby is found to be unrelated to the child's social or cognitive devel­ opment. Infants with mothers who are students or who work outside of the home are influ­ enced more by their mother's personality and quality of parent­ ing than the time spent together. "W hat's different about this study is that we studied the way mothers spend time with their infant," said Aletha Huston, the study's director and the Priscilla Pond Flawn Regents Professor in Child Development at the University. "Time mothers spend with chil­ dren during the first years of life are important for emotion­ al development. We thought it was important to examine what mothers were doing with infants, not 5-year-olds." The study, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, fol­ lowed 1,053 mothers in 10 U.S. locations since 1991. The survey included ethnic minority moth­ ers, single mothers and mothers with varying levels of education. All mothers are English speakers, and their infants were healthy at the time of birth The findings of the study "I was one of those kids who was shuffled between baby-sitters and day cares. I didn't know who my mom was." A ngelina Musik, founder of M O M trepreneurs have stimulated many reports like the one from Huston and Stacey Aronson, co-author of the report and research consul­ tant. This specific report fol­ lows the children until the age of 3, but data is still being col­ lected for other reports , "There's certainly a lot of talk in the* academic and popular press worried that mothers being away from infants is harmful," Huston said. "We didn't find any evidence that any amount of time away from infants is harmful, and we think that is important." Huston said that employed mothers find ways to compen­ sate for the time they spend away from home For example, they spend their shopping or cleaning time with their children instead. "It's the quality of what the moth­ ers have to offer," Huston said. Aronson said that certain characteristics in a mother will lead them to choose to spend more time with their children. She said some of the character­ istics were maternal sensitivity, psychological adjustment and their feelings about separation from their children. Angelina Musik, mother of two and founder of MOMtrepreneurs, an organiza tit »n f< >r entrepreneur­ ial and enterprising women, said she does not agree with the find­ ings of the study entirely. She said in her experience, some working mother - tan offer quality care to th e ir children and some working mothers cannot "I was one of those kids who was shuffled between baby­ sitters and day-cares," said Musik. "1 didn't know who my mom was." Musik said when she speaks at workshops to women, she encourages women to be ambi­ tious but also to balance their lives so they're not sacrificing their families. She said there are so many circumstances that play into a child's development that statistics and surveys are not always good indicators of what is really going on. Thirsty for knowledge? Say when. At Ernst & Young, the opportunity for growth is enormous. We offer over 7,000 professional development programs - some of the best formal learning programs in the country - because our philosophy is People First. We recognize that our employees are essential to the firm's growth and success. And in order to attract the best talent, we've built an environment that Fortune magazine has consistently recognized as one of the “ 100 Best Companies To Work For.' 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Photo courtesy of Beggars Group By Avim aan Syam Daily Texan Staff A friend once recounted to me a Yo La Tengo show he saw out in San Francisco, where a sold-out audi­ ence was so attentive and committed to the band that pin-drop silence was actually achieved — a credit both to a band that can evoke such devotion in its fans and to a city and musical environment that can harbor such a fan base It's an ideal that seems, well, too idealistic: everyone at a concert being there for the music. I recall this only because last Wednesday's Mountain Goats show nearly equalled such a devoted and diehard atmosphere. The beginning was innocent enough. Patrons at the Emo's indoor stage nodded their heads through new wavey-rock outfit The Crystal Skull's fun but flaccid set and loitered through the hard-rock jam­ ming of psychedelic slammers Black Mountain, but the opening acts felt more like a delay than a prelude to the Mountain Goats. As midnight approached, the crowd suddenly swelled toward the stage, extra rows of fans forced themselves between the preexist­ ing ones, and comments and quotes and wishes of "I hope they play The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton filled the air. Yes, this was a crowd com­ mitted to the show. How do you define the Mountain Goats' sound when quintessential rock/folk makes it sound so lame? The Mountain Goats is essentially John Damielle and his guitar (though he played on stage with bassist Peter Hughes), though both his sing­ ing and frenetic strumming brim with ori DamieUe's shrill, nasal tone is difficult to first, but the energy wit}» which he sings an importantly, the beautiful, narrative stvle of ics have won over fans for years. This is a m can do equal justice to fractured relationship ening seal-,, injured running bac ks and aim other topic that he's touched in hu prolific (next month's "The Sunset Tree" will be I album in 10 years). An eager, receptive audience help-, add energy of a show, yes, but the* reciprocated by the Mountain Goats solidified the wo atmosphere Damielle spontaneously la unci anecdotes or the* back stories of songs, will ta requests and plays with such fervent passi it's hard not to like him. Damielle tapped into old and new throughout the 90-minute set, opening v\ catchy, driving "This Year" from his up album. The encore ended with a hushed, hauntim with Damielle breaking away from the micr to deliver his words directly to the audienc save for a pair of yuppies yakking and flirfin ly bv the bar, the- place was silent. Oh, how c were to that magnificent silence of complete tion and attention. Still, watching the shaggv kid in the corner lip-sync to every' song, it night of unity and enjoyment fc >r nearly the capacity of Mountain Goats' fans W ednesday "The Sunset Tree" comes out April 26. O U N D BITES This week, Texan music reviews new albums from 5 0 Cent, the Perceptionists and emocorefrom Spitalficld, the Black Maria and The Perceptionists "Black Dialogue* Definitive Jux Spi tal field "Stop Doing Bad Things" Victory Records 50 Cent "The Massacre" S h a d y / A f t e r m a t h / I n t e r s c o p e Your opinion of Spitalfield will directly follow your overall pref­ erences with the realm of pop-punk anti emo. If you prefer Jonah Matranga vocals in Gratitude rather than his previous band, Far, you're one step closer to enjoying "Stop Doing Bad Things." If you Ye grown tired of the makeup and screaming of My Chemical Romance, you're even closer. Finally, if you're most comfortable in the sugar- coated range between Yellowcard and late Jimmy Eat World, by all means, enjoy Spitalfield's Victory Records debut album. — A u s tin Powell The Black Maria "Lead Us to Reason" Victory Records T m The Black Maria makes no secret of its current influences. It utilizes the same » anthem-backing vocal brought AFI into mainstream America. Its occasional musical outbursts on piano or the various effects utilized on guitar give proper nods to Muse, while the overall production parallels that of The Used's latest effort "In Love and Death." Chris Gray's vocals are most comparable to Ian Watkins of the Lost Prophets, leaving Black Maria with an impressive debut album that combines the best of its contemporaries into an original sound that's mild enough for mainstream radio. . a lS S B — A u stin Powell 50 Cent's first album was easily the most impressive debut record any rapper has put out this century, but if "The Massacre" is any indication, the history books may forget about the hunger, passion and fire all over "Get Rich oi Die Tryin." In fact, 50 (aka Curtis Jackson) should be thankful his gangster lifestyle is over, because he has gotten lazy at the top. 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With guest shots from the likes of "the voice," Guru, Camu Tao, Phonte of Little Brother and even Humptv Hump, "Black Dialogue" is easily the best work to date from the aforementioned Jukies and stands as one of Def Jux's most solid releases. — Tito Belis Anberlin "Never Take Friendship Personal" Tooth and Nail anberlin If I had written this review before I saw Anberlin live at SXSW, i would have undoubtedly written a better review for its second album, "Never Take Friendship Personal." Aaron Sprinkle's (Pedro the Lion, MxPx) production captures the band at its very best on the title track, as well as in "Paperthin Hymn" and "The Feel Good Drag," but you really have to hear this band live and walk away from its set before properly judging its musical capabilities. R jE C U U L C iN E Z M J \S * P a s s / Disco un t Ticket Restrictions Ap ply Wednesday-Discount Shows All Day Excluding / Films M ETR O PO LITA N ST A D IU M 14 8Q0-FANDANG0 368* 1-35 S. 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With this in mind, The Daily Texan offers for your discerning American palates the following list of art­ ists who are current­ ly enjoying success among British audi­ ences. Be Your Own Pet "Damn Damn Leash" Infinity Cat Records Be Your Own Pet's debut single "Damn Damn Leash" has yet to make the chart splash Stateside that it has in the U.K., mainly because the American rock press lacks the talent for hyperbole of its British counterparts. But if its showstopping performance at Radio One's SXSW showcase was any indication, that should soon change. "Leash" is as ferocious a blast of dance- able punk rock as one could imag­ from ine four Tenn­ essee teenag­ ers. The band's j music flails around with the kind of unstudied geeky and menace abandon that, so far, has made it one of America's hottest unsigned bands and one of this year's most eagerly anticipat­ ed debuts. Roots Manuva "Awfully Deep" Big Dada Records The Streets may have already proven that the phrase "British rapper" isn't quite the contradiction in terms that most would have assumed it to be, but in terms of American street cred, he's about one "word to yo mutha" short of Vanilla ice terri­ tory. London-born and Jamaican- bred rapper Roots Manuva is about as close to English gangsta rap as any of us are likely to see in this lifetime. "Awfully Deep" stunning d u b -m e ets-h a rd co re production with a lyrical bal­ ance of aggression per­ and c e p t i v i t y worthy of even Eminem at his combines a most dexterous. And besides, the guy smokes a hookah. Take that, Ghostface Killah! Jem ‘Totally Woken" Ato Records Trip-hop is back! Jem's "Finally Woken" takes all of the heavy beats and surreal sound effects that made trip-hop such unbelievable fun for the glasses and eyeliner set in the late-90s, combining them with a catchy but not-at-all-cloy- ing sense of melody that updates it for these much-less-sour times. Although she may never win the kind of acclaim in America that she has in the U.K., this record is simply too good not to achieve some kind of below-the-radar suc­ cess with U.S. audiences. Annie "Anniemal" 679 it's If the Eurovision Song Contest that proves one thing, Europeans have mastered the art of making the perfect cheesy pop record. Go play "Wild Dance" by last year 's Ukrainian winner Ruslana and you'll see what I'm talking about. Now from Norway, the country that brought us such By Craig Whitney Daily Texan Staff Great Britain and the United States have always enjoyed a kind of symbiotic relationship as far as music goes. Since the British inva­ sion of the 1960s, English acts have enjoyed a steady, if somewhat dif­ ficult to attain, path to success in America, while England has, in turn, provided a launching pad for the careers of American artists from Biondie to Jimi Hendrix. For the most part, however, British and American tastes have remained as far apart musical­ ly as the two countries are geo­ graphically. For every Beatles, Led Zeppelin or Duran Duran that has taken root on American soil, there are a thousand Boyzones, Manic Street Preachers or Take Thats who were never able to replicate Rodney Smith aka Roots Manuva is responsible for th e spreading o f UK hip-hop th at incor­ porates dub and IDM into a stew all its own. Photo courtesy of Big Dada Tennessee's Be Your O wn Pet have a hot single, "Damn Damn Leash," th a t is clim b­ ing the charts over in England but is yet to be received by an American audi­ ence. Photo courtesy of Be Your O w n Pet I I I I I 1 1 I I I I I 1 I I I I I I I I I I I I 1 I legends of cheesy pop as Aqua and A-Ha, comes Annie, whose debut, "Anniemal," combines the kind of cheeky lyrics, smart dance beats and irresistibly sugary hooks that make European pop such an immensely enjoyable guilty plea­ sure. You may never be able to listen to a Neptunes record again. Help, She Can't Swim “Fashumista Super Dance Troupe" Fantastic Plastic While the Clash and the Sex Pistols have given British punk rock a reputation for super-seriousness over the years, English punks Help, She Can't Swim prove that those Limeys are capable of producing music justas fun and short on preten­ sion as anything an American could come up with. Though it's difficult to tell how much in earnest a band is being when they write songs with titles such as "What Would Morrisey Say?" or "Dance Party Turned Into A Wake," you can be certain that none of your friends own this record. 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