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Thin-film 
solar cells 
flex into 
the future

New technology and processes could 
reduce cost o f solar power by factor o f 10

By Ben Werm und
Daily Texan Staff

Researchers at UT are developing technologies that 
could soon power homes and businesses in Austin and 
across the U.S. with affordable solar energy panels print­
ed like newspapers.

Thin-film solar technology, a process that involves 
coating surfaces with inky, light-absorbing m aterials, 
could reduce solar energy costs by a factor of 10, said 
chemical engineering professor Brian Korgel, who over­
sees research in the field.

"We're essentially making material you can paint onto 
a [surface] and make solar cells that way," Korgel said. 
"With our process, you can basically print solar cells like 
you print newspaper."

He said his team has dem onstrated the technology 
works, but it is not yet efficient enough for commercial­
ization.

"1 d o n 't see any fundam ental problem s w ith g e t­
ting there soon," he said. "I think two or three years is

FILM continues on page 2

Spencer Wall, fourth-year English and sociology major, talks about her experience w earing a hijab on W ednesday night at Kerbey Lane Cafe. 
Wall, a Christian from West Texas, em barked on a personal experience in w hich she dressed as a M uslim w om an for a year, starting in April.

Covered life gives new perspective

By Ana M cKenzie
Daily Texan Staff 
I first, noticed Spencer Wall 
in my religion and society class 
toward the end of last sem es­
ter. She w asn't particularly out­
spoken, but the shawl that cov­
ered her hair, neck and shoul­
ders made her stand out in the 
large class.

I u su ally gave her nothing 
more than a com pletely uncon­
scious glance. But when she re­
vealed to the class the decision 
that she m ade on A pril 27, I 
suddenly becam e aware of the 
attention I gave her.

W all, a 20-year-old sociolo­
gy and English senior, d ecid ­
ed to assume the characteristics 
and attire of a "ty p ica l" M us­
lim woman for a year starting 
in late April.

She wears the traditional veil? 
or " h ija b ," and lo o s e -fittin g 
clothing everyw here she goes 
and does not consum e pork or 
alcohol in public. She avoids eye 
and physical contact with men 
and has adopted m odest hab­
its like walking with her arms 
glued to her sides or crossed in 
front of her to hide her chest.

1 w itnessed the locrks Wall

gets on a daily basis when we 
met at Kerbey Lane on the Drag 
recently.

She's wearing a hijab splashed 
with vibrant shades of green and 
blue. A long-sleeved, black shirt 
and floor-length aqua skirt re­
veals only a few inches of skin.

Som e who pass us try to be 
in co n sp icu o u s w ith th eir in ­
trigue, lim iting them selves to 
quick sid e glances. But m ost 
don't even try to be candid with 
their exaggerated double-takes 
or blatant stares.

She passes by a group w ait­
ing to be seated, and all of them

stare at the back of her head as 
she walks away. One guy even 
rolls hi> eyes.

"It doesn't surprise me,' she 
says when I tell her about the 
group. "But look around. They're 
not the only ones."

She insists her decision is not 
a social experiment but more of 
a personal learning experience. 
As a white female from a small, 
West Texas town, Wall says she 
wanted to know what it would 
be like to be part of a "n o tice­
able minority."

M USLIM continues on page 2

Same-sex marriage key to rights

Chem ical en g ineering senior Danny H ellebusch dem on ­
strates how to create a solar panel.

A r ie l M in ¡ D aily Texan Staff

Students join competition 
to cut carbon footprint

By Bryan Lee
Daily Texan Staff

UT may have the op portu nity to 
be one of "A m erica's Greenest C am ­
puses."

A com petition hosted by C lim ate 
Culture and the U.S. D epartm ent of 
Energy advertises a $20,000 prize for 
the three universities vyho have the 
m ost success in reducing their car­
bon footprints in an attem pt to d e­
crease carbon emissions nationwide.

A group of 22 participants, which 
includes faculty, staff and students, 
has been w o rkin g to red uce U T 's 
carbon em issions. So far, the group 
has prevented 31,530 pounds of car­
bon dioxide from being released into 
the atm osphere. The carbon dioxide 
savings tran slate to 725 gallon s of

gasoline, according to Clim ate C u l­
ture's Web site.

The site also provides tips to lim ­
it e m issio n s, in clu d in g not u sing 
a tread m ill, recyclin g office paper, 
avoiding taking the elevator at work, 
riding the bus, b u y in g used books 
and cooking with a toaster oven.

The contest, w h ich began M arch 
31 and ends Oct. 5, has accumulated 
more than 10,000 participants in 445 
colleges across the country.

The w in n ers o f the com p etition 
w ill divide the prize money. O ther 
awards include: $5,000 to the school 
with the most participants, $5,000 to 
the school w ith the largest percent­
age of ca rb o n e m is s io n s red u ced

CONTEST continues on page 2

APD suspends hunt for groper

By Pierre Bertrand
Daily Texan Staff 

The Austin Police Department has 
suspended its investigation into a se­
ries of related sexual assaults in the 
Universitv area due to a lack of new 
leads and information.

Police had difficulties investigating 
the groping cases because the attacks 
were sporadic in nature, leaving no 
pattern of behavior investigators could 
work wjth, officials said.

The unidentified male, described at 
about 6 feet tall with a stocky build, 
was the prime suspect in at least 10 
groping incidents. Police wanted him 
in connection with an the assault of 
a w om an at a bus stop along Dean

Keeton Street in Septem ber and b e­
lieved he assaulted alm ost a dozen 
women during the fall of 2008.

"He hasn't hit for months," said Sgt. 
Elizabeth D onegan, who supervises 
A PD 's sex crim es unit. "Either he is 
out of the area or he has been identi­
fied and he has stopped."

Donegan stressed that the case is not 
closed and police would continue to be 
on the lookout for the man, but it is no 
longer the unit's top priority.

"We have to work on the cases that 
com e in ," D onegan said. "W e have 
to prioritize; it depends on what is 
happening."

APD continues on page 2

By Ben W ermund
Daily Texan Staff

A UT study of 30 same-sex couples in the 
Austin area claims same-sex partners do not 
need marriage to show commitment to one 
another but simply to gain monetary and le­
gal nghts.

Sociology graduate student Corinne Rec- 
zek heads an ongoing study examining how 
both heterosexual and homosexual couples 
form relationships and view commitment. The 
first part of the study, which was released this 
week, focused on same-sex couples.

"Same-sex couples feel like they need mar­
riage for legal and social protection and for 
equality, but not necessarily to make them feel 
committed," Reczek said.

The study consisted of interviews with 60 
couples from the Austin area, 30 of which were 
same-sex couples.

"Because the same-sex couples can't be le­
gally married, they didn't have a model to base 
their relationships on," Reczek said. "Those 
couples tend to be a little bit more ambiguous 
in terms of their commitment-making styles. "

According to the study, same-sex partners 
sometimes disagree about when commitment 
begins in a relationship.

"In one couple, when asked 'When did you 
feel you were committed?' one partner said 
the day they met. The other said it was when 
they bought their house," Reczek said.

She said this study Ls a small part of a bigger 
picture when it comes to same-sex marriage 
and domestic partner benefits.

"This study is not meant to be generalized 
to all gay and lesbian couples," Reczek said. 
"It's part of the larger conversation we are hav­
ing about domestic partner benefits and those 
kind of things."

UT does not provide benefits to p art­
ners of faculty and staff members unless the 
relationship qualifies as a marriage according 
to Texas law.

According to a UT study, marriage for same-sex couples is used more as a 
means to gain legal benefits rather than a symbol of commitment.

BENEFITS continues on page 2

Photo Illustration by Peyton M cGee | D aily Texan Staff

 MUSLIM: Wanted to be part of noticeable minority’

From page 1

"I'm not representing M us­
lim w om en or th e M uslim 
com m unity," she says. 
I just 
want to know what it's like to 
walk in their shoes for a while."

Initially, Wall elaborates on her 
"learning experience" when peo­
ple would ask her questions, the 
most common being "So, where 
are you from? She has aban­
doned these efforts. Now, when 
people ask about her attire, she 
simply says she is not Muslim 
but wears the hijab because she 
chooses to do so.

This explanation is not entirely 
untrue, as Wall admits to not be­
ing able to leave her home with­
out the clothing.

"I decided a while ago that I 
was going to try and not wear 
the hijab for 24 hours," she says. 
"I couldn't even make it for half 
that."

Wall says she receives differ­
ent reactions when she wears the

hijab. A man once fell into a dis­
play at Wal-Mart because he was 
staring at her. One day a group 
of male patrons at the restau ­
rant where she works refused to 
be served by her.
The same group 
called her derog­
atory names But 
most of the time 
she said she is 
just respectfully
avoided.

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respectful, less forward."

The experience has taught Wall 
to pay attention to smaller de­
tails that would make a tradition­
al Muslim Lifestyle difficult to fol­
low in the United States.

One day at a clothing store, 
Wall had to ask for a sheet to cov­
er a gap between the floor and

dressing room door so she could 
hide her bare legs as she changed. 
Her job as a w aitress presents 
one of the most awkward situa­
tions as it naturally entails a lot of

prayer being at 5 a.m. Though 
Wall has not yet assum ed this 
tradition, she adm its she may 
in the future, and finds herself 
praying more often.

"Y ou k now 

 

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a v e r y different w a y now. It's more 

respectful, less f o n v a r d ."

S pencer Wall

 __________ 

ciety that is very 
uncónscious of 
daily religious 
activities," she 
said. "Through­
out this experi­
ence, 1 have no­
ticed myself be-
co m in g m uch
m ore aw are of 
God."

physical contact with strangers, 
which is not allowed for Muslim 
women, she said.

Wall has grow n to appreci­
ate this sort of privacy and, in 
some ways, respect it. Perhaps 
the most unexpected outcome of 
the experience is a newfound de­
votion to her Christian faith. The 
Islamic faith requires followers 
to pray five times a day, the first

Throughout our conversation, 
1 find myself wanting to discuss 
the most obvious topic, but can't 
bring it up without having to con­
tinually justify myself. Doesn't 
she feel constricted and even op­
pressed by the practices she is 
assuming?

Wall's candidness to discuss 
such issues validates my impres-

sion of her. She constantly reas­
sures me to ask even the most 
probing questions and to present 
any debate, illustrating a m atu­
rity and intelligence uncommon 
for a 20-year-old.

"This experience has taught 
me to respect a woman's decision 
to stay home with her children 
or wear a hijab or go out and be­
come CEOs," Wall said.

She finishes her sentence, as 1 
notice a young woman staring at 
the back of Wall's head. Her eyes 
momentarily follow the outline 
of the brightly colored veil and 
then quickly move away. Jnstead 
of feeling sorry for Wall and as­
suming that the attention is war­
ranted by feelings of resentment 
or fear, I soon wonder if the girl is 
instead intrigued by the hijab.

Wall adm its to only showing 
her hair in the most intimate of 
settings, and I realize that I m 
slightly jealous of someone who 
respects something I easily take 
for granted.

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CONTEST: Many projects 
greening UT campus

From page 1

and $10,000 to the winner of the 
Sm artPow er Energy Smart Ad 
Challenge.

"The m oney aw ard ed from 
the contest will be used in order 
to help schools become more en­
vironmentally sustainable, said 
Adam Sandler, Climate Culture 
employee.

The U niversity of M aryland 
at College Park and George Ma­
son U niversity are ranked first 
an d second w ith m ore th a n 
1,500 m em bers each. H ow ev­
er, the current ranking is only 
based on the num ber of m em: 
bers in each group and not how 
much carbon dioxide has been 
reduced.

"We decided to develop this 
co n test b ecause this g e n e ra ­
tion's college students appear to 
be more environmentally savvy 
than other demographics," San­
dler said. "Our goal is to inform 
and educate people to make bet­
ter behavioral decisions about 
how they live their daily lives."

But this is not the only effort 
in progress to make UT a more

sustainable cam pus. Leila A l­
derm an, an honors architectur­
al engin eering senior and a s­
sistant director of the UT Cam ­
pus Environmental Center, said 
there are m ultiple projects u n ­
der way and all of them have 
the common goal of making UT 
a "greener" campus. The dorm s 
on cam pus have taken m u lti­
ple steps, including using bio­
d eg rad ab le m aterials for d in ­
ing p u rp o se s an d con v ertin g 
oil w aste from the kitchen into 
biodiesel fuel.

Alderman said UT is continu­
ously searching for new ways to 
make the campus more energy- 
efficient.

"The Division of Housing and 
Food Services has done one of 
the best jobs in their efforts to 
become more environm entally 
friendly," Alderm an said. "But 
it is important to remember that 
becom ing an e n v iro n m e n ta l­
ly sustainable campus goes fur- 
ther than just helping the envi­
ronm ent. UT also benefits ec­
onom ically because they save 
m oney through hostin g these 
programs."

BENEFITS: Report finds same-sex benefits legal for UT
Indiana University at Bloomington, 
University of Illinois at U rbana/ 
Champaign and University of Min­
nesota at Twin Cities.

From page 1

"If my married heterosexual col­
league can offer benefits to her hus­
band and children, then I si lould be 
able to offer the same benefits to my 
partner," said Karen Landolt, chair­
woman of the Pride and Equity Fac­
ulty Staff Association's Domestic 
Partner Benefits Committee.

The estimated cost to UT to add

domestic partner benefits is less 
than one percent of the current bud­
get amount for health insurance ex­
penditures, according to a report by 
the association. Benefits are offered 
at several other peer insfitutioas, in­
cluding the University of California 
at Los Angeles and UC-Berkeley, the 
University of Michigan at Ann Ar­
bor, Ohio State University, Universi­
ty of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,

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APD: Victims 
feel at fault for 
sexual assault

From page 1

The 16-man unit has at least 
1,000 sexual assault cases which it 
has to investigate. Donegan said 
when a new case is sent to the 
unit, investigators have to act on it 
immediately.

According to UT Police De­
partm ent crime statistics, there 
have been 30 sexual assaults re­
ported in the campus area since 
2004. Only 16 of those cases have 
been cleared.

Detective Michael Riojas said 
UTPD has qot been actively in­
volved in the investigation, but 
provided APD w ith logistical 
assistance such as looking up 
names.

Associate social work profes­
sor Noel B usch-A rm endariz, 
who conducted a 2003 study on 
sexual crimes in Texas, said the 
majority of sexual crimes do not 
go reported.

Busch-Armendariz said there 
is still a negative stigma sur­
rounding sexual assault victims 
which prevents them from re­
porting cases.

"W hat happens is that there 
are external forces that blame the 
victim," Busch-Armendariz said. 
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lieve the way the victim dressed 
acts as a provocateur."

NEWS BRIEFLY

Book tour brings war critic 
Cindy Sheehan to Austin

Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war 
activist famous for her extended 
Iraq war protest outside former 
President George W. Bush's Tex­
as ranch will visit Austin next 
week to promote her new book.
Sheehan will be speaking at 
Austin's First Unitarian Church 
Wednesday at 7 p.m., followed 
by a discussion at Brave New 
Books on Guadalupe Street 
at the same time the follow­
ing day.

"[Sheehan] is an American 
patriot who is able to bridge 
the gap between many of the 
partisan people, both left and 
right, and unite them under a 
message of peace, social jus­
tice and honest representation," 
said Harlan Dietrich, owner of 
Brave New Books.

After a controversial career 
in activism following her son's 
2004 death three weeks into his 
first deployment in Iraq, Shee­
han ran against California in­
cumbent Rep. Nancy Pelosi in 
2008, coming in second out of 
the seven candidates m the race 
with 16 percent of the vote.
• "The highest form of patrio­
tism is dissent," Dietnch said, 
quoting Thomas Jefferson. 
"[Sheehan] represents one of the 
most significant voices against 
war and imperialism, which is 
something that should always 
be celebrated."

— A n drew M artinez

Alumnus donates $1 million 
to support graduate studies
Oregon sports psychologist 
and UT alumnus Steven Un- 
gerleider has donated $1 mil­
lion to the University to es­
tablish the William J. Powers 
Graduate Fellowship, intended 
to support graduate education 
on campus.

Ungerleider completed his 
undergraduate coursework in 
psychology in 1970 while com­
peting as a gymnast. Despite 
completing his master's and 
doctoral work in Oregon, Un­
gerleider chose UT as the place 
to establish his fellowship, spe­
cifically asking that it be named 
in honor of Powers.

"I've been very impressed 

with the leadership of Pres­
ident Powers," Ungerleider 
said. "He truly is a vision­
ary and wants to take U1 to a 
whole new level."

Nearly 40 years after com­

pleting his graduate work, 
writing five books, working 
for the International Olyrft- 
pic Committee and traveling 
all over the world, Ungerleider 
said he believes UT was the an­
chor and basis for his' success.
"I think the foundations for 
learning and research and ac­
ademic foclis for me came out 
of UT and the professors that 
I had there," he said. "When 
1 sat down with Bill, I said, 
'What can I do to facilitate your 
agenda to take this university 
to the next level?' We came up 
with [the fellowship]."

— A M

The report also found that the UT 
System Board of Regents is not pro­
hibited from providing benefits and 
is obligated under the Texas Edu­
cation Code and Texas Insurance 
Code to provide benefits competi­
tive with those offered by peer insti­
tutions and businesses with whom 
UT competes for employees.

A bill which died during the 2009 
Texas legislative session would have 
offered health care benefits to the 
partners of all heterosexual and ho­
mosexual couples at UT.

"We're hopeful that a similar bill 
will be submitted in 2011," Landolt 
said.

Legislation dealing with same- 
sex issues was not exclusive to Tex­
as this year. New Hampshire be­
came the sixth state in the nation 
to legalize same-sex marriage earli­
er this week, joining Vermont, Con­
necticut, Maine, M assachusetts, 
and Iowa.

Meanwhile, the California Su­
preme Court made a decision last 
month upholding the state's ban on 
same-sex mamage.

FILM: New technology could make buildings power plants’

From page 1

realistic."

The cost of solar energy in its 
current form can make it an un­
realistic option for many home­
owners. The average pricetag of 
a 3-kilowatt solar system, which 
is most often the system installed 
in homes, is $22,000, said Austin 
Energy spokesman Ed Clark.

"Solar power is still relative­
ly expensive compared to tradi­
tional forms of electricity," said 
Luke Metzger, director of Envi­
ronment Texas. "So it doesn't al­
ways make sense for a hom e­
owner to go solar."

Thin-film technology could 

soon change that, however.

"Solar energy is an untapped 
resource, and when technology

like [Korgel] is working on can 
be perfected, which can make 
the produ ction of solar pow ­
er much more competitive with
other types of ______________
e n e rg y p r o ­
duction, there 
will be no rea­
so n w h y a 
huge percent­
age of pow er 
used in su n ­
drenched a r­
eas should not 
come from So-
la r ," C la r k ______________
said.

He said thin-film has the po­
tential to alter the energy land­
scape across the nation.

"It w ould be a trem endous 
g a m e -c h a n g in g e le m e n t in

It would be a 
tremendous game- 
changing element in 
powering A m e r ic a ..."

— Ed Clark
Austin Energy spokesman
________ 

pow ering America w hen they 
com e up w ith a com parably 
priced way to generate solar 
power," Clark said.
 

___ 

A u s t i n C i t y
C o u n cil re c e n tly 
authorized the cre­
ation of the largest 
solar pow er-gener­
ating facility in the 
nation.

"W hen it's built, 
A u s t i n E n e r g y 
w o n 't ow n it, and 
we w on't pay any-
th in g u p fro n t,"
Clark said. "It will 
be built entirely by a private en­
tity, but once it's built we have a 
contract to purchase all the pow­
er it generates."

He said the 30-megawatt facil­

ity should be built next year.

In Austin, about 700 homes, 60 
commercial facilities, 21 schools 
and 30 city facilities operate with 
the help of solar energy.

M etzger said A ustin-based 
Heliovolt is looking into m anu­
facturing windows coated with 
thin-film solar panels.

"This b pretty excilm g, be­
cause rather than building so­
lar panels on buildings after the 
fact, you can build with solar, so 
your building is a pow er plant 
itself," Metzger said.

Still, Clark said A ustin's cur­
rent use of solar energy doesn't 
diminish the importance of UT's 
thin-film research.

"This is something that should 
be on the front-bumers of tech­
nological thought," Clark said.

 www.dailytexanonline.com W o r l d & N ation

Wire Editor: Austen Sofhauser 

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NATION BRIEFLY

Officer closer to facing charges 

in contoversial subway shooting

OAKLAND, Calif. — A judge 
ruled Thursday that a former transit 
police officer should stand trial on 
murder charges in the fatal shoot- 
ing of an unarmed man on a train 
platform.

Alameda County Superior Court 
Judge Don Clay said there w as suf­
ficient evidence for ex-Bav Area 
Rapid Transit police officer Jo­
hannes Mehserle to face murder 
charges in the shooting of Oscar 
Grant early New’ Year's Day.

"There is no doubt in my mind 
Mr. Mehserle meant to shoot Oscar 
Grant with a gun, not a Taser," the * 
judge said.

Mehserle's defense h is con­
tended that Mehserle accidental­
ly grabbed his pistol instead of his 
stun gun when he shot Grant, who 
wras face-down on the platform. 

Mehserle has pleaded not guilty. 
When the judge rendered his de­
cision, Mehserle sat looking straight 
ahead. Grant's mother, Wanda John­
son, burst into tears.

During several days of a prelim­
inary hearing, the prosecution and 
Mehserle's attorney called witnesses 
and presented evidence in the con­
troversial video-recorded shooting 
that prompted sometimes violent 
protests in Oakland.

Outspoken governor to accept 

$700 million in federal stimulus

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Caro­
lina's Supreme Court ordered Gov. 
Mark Sanford on Thursday to re­
quest $700 million in federal stimu­
lus money aimed primarily at strug­
gling schools, ending months of 
wrangling with legislators who ac­
cused him of playing politics with 
people's lives.

The nation's most vocal anti­
bailout governor had refused to 
take the money designated for the 
state over the next two years, fac­
ing down protesters and legislators 
who passed a budget requinng him 
to. While other Republican gover­
nors had taken issue with request­
ing money from the $787 billion fed­
eral stimulus package, Sanford was 
the first to defend in court his desire 
to reject the money.

But he said Thursday he will not 

appeal the Supreme Court ruling 
and plans to sign paperwork to re­
quest the money Monday.

Charges dropped in mysterious 

roadway death of a black man

PARIS, Texas — A defense at­
torney says charges have been dis­
missed against two white men ac­
cused of killing a black man in a ra­
cially charged dragging death in 
East Texas.

The men had been charged w ith 
fatally striking 24-year-old Brandon 
McClelland in September following 
a late-night beer-run to Oklahoma.
The case had been unraveling in 
recent months because of a lack of 
eyewitnesses and physical ev idence 
A gravel truck driver gave a sworn 
statement last month acknowledg­
ing he might have accidentally run 
over McClelland.

Protesters compared McClel­
land's death to the East Texas drag* 
ging death of James Byrd in Jasper 
11 years ago.

Compiled from Associated Press reports

Tens o f thousands o f people attend a can d leligh t v ig il at Hong Kong's Victoria Park Thursday to m ark the 20th anniversary of the m ilitary crackdow n on the pro-dem ocracy 

m ovem ent in Beijing.

Tiananmen remembered, 20 years later

By Christopher Bodeen
The Associated Press

B EIJIN G — In T iananm en 
Square, po lice w ere ready to 
pounce at the first sign of protest. 
In Hong Kong, a sea of candles 
flickered in the hands of tens of 
thousands who vented their grief 
and anger.

Two starkly contrasting faces 
of China were on display Thurs­
day, the 20th anniversary of the 
military's bloody crackdown on 
pro-dem ocracy d em onstrators 
— from Beijing's rigid control in 
suppressing any dissent, to free­
wheeling Hong Kong, which en­
joys freedoms all but absent on 
the mainland.

Tiananmen Square was blanket­
ed by uniformed and plainclothes 
security officers who were ready 
to silence any potential dem on­
stration, and there were few hints 
that the vast plaza was the epi­
center of a student-led movement 
that was crushed on June 3-4, 
1989, shocking the world.

Police barred foreign journal­
ists from entering the square and 
threatened them with violence, 
even barring them from covering 
the daily raising of China's na­
tional flag.

Chinese and foreign tourists 
were allowed in Tiananmen as 
usual, although security officials 
appeared to outnumber visitors.

D issid e n ts and fam ilies of 
victim s were confined to their 
homes or forced to leave Beijing,

part of sweeping government ef­
forts to prevent online debate or 
organized com m em orations of 
the anniv ersary.

But in Hong K ong's Victoria 
Park, a crowd chanted slogans 
calling for Beijing to own up to 
the crackdow n and release po­
litical dissidents. Organizers es­
timated its size at 150,000, while 
police put the number at 62,800.
"It is the dream of all Chinese

In the candlelight, speakers re­
called the terrifying events in Ti­
ananm en, where a military as­
sault killed hundreds who had 
gathered for weeks in the square 
to demonstrate for freedom and 
even erect a makeshift statue of 
liberty. Those killed were eulo­
gized as heroes in the struggle for 
a democratic China, their names 
read aloud before the crowd ob­
served a minute of silence.

time they showed stories about 
Tiananmen.

"W e've been under 24-hour 
surveillance for a week and aren't 
able to leave home to mourn. It's 
totally inhum an," said Xu Jue, 
whose son was 22 when he was 
shot in the chest by soldiers and 
bled to death on June 4,1989.

In W ashington, Clinton said 
W ednesday that C hina, as an 
emerging global power, "should

Hong Kong is the only place where we can commemorate, and we 
have to repeat this every year so our younger generations don't
forget."

— A n nie Chu

Hong Kong tourism worker

people to have dem ocracy!" the 
throng sang.

Hong Kong is one of the few 
places in China where the events 
of June 1989 are not off-limits, be­
cause the territory — returned by 
the British 12 years ago — oper­
ates under a separate political 
system that promises freedom of 
speech and other Western-style 
civil liberties.

"H ong Kong is C hina's con­
scie n ce ," Hong Kong p ro -d e­
mocracy lawmaker Cheung Man 
Kwong told the demonstration.

"H ong Kong is the only place 
w here we can com m em orate, 
and we have to repeat this every 
year so our younger generations 
d on't forget," said Annie Chu, 
36, a Hong Kong tourism worker 
who says she has attended every 
vigil for the last 20 years.

The extraordinary security in 
Beijing came after governm ent 
censors shut dow n social net­
working and image-sharing Web 
sites such as Twitter and Flickr 
and blacked out CNN and oth­
er foreign news channels each

e x a m in e o p e n ly th e d a rk e r 
events of its past and provide a 
public accounting of those killed, 
detained or missing, both to learn 
and to heal."

Taiwanese President Ma Ying- 
jeou urged China to lift the taboo 
on discussing the crackdow n. 
"This painful chapter in history 
must be faced. Pretending it nev­
er happened is not an option," 
Ma said in a statement.

C h in e se F o reig n M in istry 
spokesm an Qin Gang attacked 
Clinton's comments as a "gross

interference in China's-internal 
affairs."

"We urge the U.S. to put aside 
its political prejudice and correct 
its wrongdoing and refrain from 
disrupting or underm ining b i­
lateral relations," Qin said in re­
sponse to a question at a regular­
ly scheduled news briefing.

Qin refused to comment on the 
security measures — or even ac­
knowledge them.

"Today is like any other day, 

stable," he said.

Beijing has never allowed an 
independent investigation into 
the crushing of the protests in 
1989, in which possiwbly thou­
sands of students, activists and 
ordinary citizen s w ere killed. 
In one famous moment of resis­
tance, a lone man holding shop­
ping bags defiantly stood in front 
of a column of tanks on a street 
near the square.

Y ou n g m a in la n d C h in e s e 
know little about the events, 
having grown up in a generation 
that has largely eschewed poli­
tics in favor of raw nationalism, 
wealth acquisition and individu­
al pursuits.

But the issue still resonates 
w ith H ong K o n g 's y o u n g e r 
generations.

"It's time for China to take re­
sponsibility for the killings," said 
Kin Cheung, a 17-year-old Hong 
Kong student who attended the 
yearly vigil for the first time Thurs­
day. "They need to tell the truth."

Obama realizes campaign 
promise with Cairo speech

By Brian M urphy
The Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates
— The tone of respect was set* 
from the opening lines of Presi­
dent Barack Obam a's address to 
the Muslim world.

"A ssalam u A leikum " — A r­
abic for "p eace be upon you''
— he said, triggering applause 
from the crowd at Cairo Univer­
sity and bringing nods of approv­
al in places like a coffee shop in 
the West Bank town of Ramal- 
lah, where som e began calling 
him "Abu Hussein" — using his 
Muslim middle name — as a sign 
of honor.

Obam a's ambitious speech — 
which sought to define a new re­
lationship between Washington 
and the Islamic world — also rep­
resented an opportunity to shape 
his own image in the eyes of Mus­
lims. He quoted from the Quran, 
paid homage to the cultural and 
intellectual achievements of Mus­
lims and noted his middle name 
and his father's ties to the faith.

"A s the Holy Quran tells us, 
'Be conscious of God and speak 
always the truth,"' Obama said. 
"That is what I will try to do today,

to speak the truth as best I can."

"H e cam e across as sincere 
and cred ible," said Sheik M u­
ham m ad al-N u jaim i, a m em ­
ber of committee in Riyadh, Sau­
di Arabia, that tries to moderate 
the radical views of jailed m ili­
tants. He said he plans to give a 
copy of O bam a's address to the 
inmates with a message: "M us­
lims should offer help to the new 
American administration and re­
ciprocate its overtures."

Obama also sprinkled his ad­
dress w ith A rabic w ords that 
are well-known to Muslims: "hi- 
jab" for the Islamic coverings for 
women, "zakat" for alms giving, 
which is one of the Five Pillars of 
Islam.

Even these few references car­
ry powerful significance in the 
Arab world, where the language 
is cherished as an important eth­
nic bond, revered for its connec­
tion to the Prophet Muhammad, 
and filled with elaborate greet­
ings and finely crafted form ali­
ties that display respect.

But there were obvious com ­
parisons to Obama's predecessor, 
George W. Bush, whose use of 
language — such as calling for a

"crusade" against terrorists after 
the Sept. 11 attacks — helped stir 
anti-American anger in the Mus­
lim world.

One posting on a chat room 
noted adm iration for U.S. Sec­
retary of State Hillary Rodham 
Clinton "wearing a head s c a rf... 
and she and Obama taking off 
their shoes" during a visit to a 
Cairo mosque. The contributor 
also praised Obam a's quotation 
of verses from the Quran, "while 
many of our leaders don't memo­
rize these verses."

In response, another w riter 
said Obama "is manipulating the 
emotions of the people the same 
as a lute player d o e s.... He is un­
doubtedly a wise enem y com ­
pared with George Bush, the ene­
my known for his stupidity."

In his speech, Obama cited an 
account from the Quran in plead­
ing for peace in Jerusalem among 
"all the children of Abraham'' — 
M uslim s, Christians and Jews. 
The president referred to a mir­
acle called al-Isra, or the Night 
Journey, in which an angel took 
M u ham m ad to the h eav en s, 
where Muhammad prayed with 
Moses and Jesus.

WORLD BRIEFLY

British documentary producer 

awarded Spanish social prize

MADRID — British naturalist Sir 

David Attenborough won Spain's 
notable Prince of Astunas social sci­
ences pnze Thursday for his "great 
contributions to the defense of life 
and conservation of our planet." 

Attenborough, 82, is best known

for his British Broadcasting Corp. 
nature documentaries.

The Prince of Asturias foun­
dation said Attenborough's tal­
ents "allowed him to approach the 
study of the earth and living crea­
tures with a creative and innova­
tive combination of skills. "

The award is one of eight the 
foundation hands out each year 
covering areas ranging from the 
arts to humanities, scientific re­
search and literature.

The World Health Organization, 
won the international cooperation 
award for its work fighting global 
killers such as AIDS, polio and tu­
berculosis. British architect Norman 
Foster won its 2009 arts pnze.

Each carries a $70,000 cash sti­
pend and a sculpture by Joan Miro 
The prizes are named after Spam’s 
Crown Pnnce Felipe, whose formal 
title is Prince of Astunas, a region 
of northern Spain.

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VIEWPOINT

O p i n i o n

T ilt 

AII.S T ia a n

GALLERY

liar Sheridan

Editor in Chief: 
Phone: (512) 232 2 2 12 
E-mail: editor#daiM ey anoniine com 
Associate Editors: Jeremy Bure hard 

Roberto Cervantes

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The right to oversight

A d istrict in A ustin is trying to prevent federal oversight o f election s in areas w ith h isto­

ries o f racial discrim ination.

N o rth w est A ustin M unicipal U tility D istrict N o. 1 is a sm all political d istrict tu cked in 
northern Travis County that provides utility services for a prom inently w hite and w ealthy

population. 

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,

In 2006, this district filed a challenge to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. T he section re­
quires particular states or localities w ith histories of voting discrim ination — inclu ding the 
entire state of Texas —- to subm it all proposed changes to current election rules to the U.S.

Justice D epartm ent for preclearance.

W hen C on gress voted to reau th orize Section 5 in 1982, it provided a bailou t provision. 
This exem ption allow s certain voting subunits to forgo federal preclearance if they can d em ­
onstrate that they have had d iscrim ination-free voting procedures for at least 10 years.

The d istrict contends it should be allow ed to "b ail o u t" o f preclearance due to its clean 
voting record. If the Court does not grant the exem ption, the d istrict is asking for Section 5 
to be struck dow n as unconstitutional, alleging that it is essentially a badge of sham e.

But Section 5 is still essential. It ensures states w ith even the slightest inclination tow ard 

d iscrim ination discover a pow erful deterrence in the federal governm ent s oversight 

Indeed, it w as w ritten to stop the m ost insidious type o f discrim ination — the kind d is­
guised by crafty m aneuvering and m anip ulation. The d ays of exp licit voting d iscrim in a­
tion practices in the South, like poll taxes and literacy tests, m ay have passed, but Section 5 
rem ains necessary to com bat the covert discrim ination attem pts.

A large portion of N orthw est A ustin M unicipal U tility D istrict N o. l 's case seem s p red i­
cated on the belief that there has been a m ajor shift in race relations since the Voting Rights 
A ct's passage m ore than 40 years ago. Som e have even argued that the Act is now o p erat­
ing in a N ew South, a transform ed region in w hich the racist and bitter attitudes of the Old
South are noticeably absent.

Indeed, m uch has changed. We can look to the enorm ou s support President O bam a re­
ceived from black voters last N ovem ber, particularly in "co v e re d " states like G eorgia and 
A labam a. O r w e can view the electio n of b lack and H isp an ic p u b lic o fficials all across 
the S o u th — esp ecia lly in law e n fo rcem en t p o sitio n s — as pro of p o sitiv e of ch a n g in g

T h ose w ho argue Section 5 rem ains a scarlet letter for the South to this day are quick to

.

attitudes. 

point to th ese facts.

But w hen view ing this com m end able progress, w e m u st not overlook w hy these ch an g­
es w ere allow ed to occur. T hese gains by and large w ere m ade possible by a vigorous ap ­
plication o f Section 5 in a large sw ath o f Southern states and certain districts in the N orth

with lin gu istic m inorities.

H ow ever, the shift in attitu d es has not been as terribly radical as attorneys for the N orth

A ustin d istrict w ould have the p u b lic believe.

In 24 years, at least 107 proposed voting changes in the state have been reversed by the 

Justice D epartm ent on grounds that they am ounted to discrim ination.

A n 18-point voter registration d ifference betw een H ispanic and w hite voters in the state 

still rem ains, as cited during the C ou rt s oral argum ents.

A nd in the span of about tw enty years, the federal governm ent has had to interv ene in 

Texas's v otin g practices approxim ately 600 tim es.

E v en if the d istrict in q u estio n d o es not intend to d iscrim in ate, there are p arts o f the 
South that do. If N orthw est A u stin M unicipal U tility D istrict No. 1 successfu lly ch allen g­
es S ectio n 5, it will open the d oor for districts w ith racist tendencies to pass d iscrim inatory 
election ch an g es w ithout oversight. A fter all, if a prom inently w hite region of a con serv a­
tive state can appear to act w ithout racial bias in its voting practices, it stands to reason that 
other p arts o f a region w ith historical roots in bigotry can proceed in a sim ilar m anner.

W ith figu res like these, w e shu d d er at the thou ght of w hat this nation w ould look like 
w ithout Sectio n 5 protection in the decades to com e, especially as the H ispanic popu lation 
in the state continues to balloon. H istory show s us that w hen safeguards are rescind ed, in ­
ju stices m an ifest them selves — d espite the progress once m ade.

— Roberto Cervantes fo r the editorial board

THE FIRING LINE

Stars in the firmament

President Barack Obama's nomination of 
Sonia Sotom ayor to the Supreme Court was a 
poignant moment. For me, as someone who has 
done civil rights work with the Hispanic com ­
munity for nearly 40 years, and for many civil 
rights veterans, her ascendancy capped many 
decades of struggle to open the doors of educa­
tion to com petent and skilled Latinos.

The universities and colleges in the northern 
states and the Ivy League were the first to reach 
out to minority communities, typically because 
of pressure from white students on the inside 
and com munity leaders on the outside. Much 
of this came from student sit-ins and protests. 
Education was always a priority — a key com po­
nent of the movement.

In my own experience with migrant labor­
ers in Michigan, we tried to make connections 
for scholarships to the state's colleges. The first 
migrant high school student from Texas whom 
I helped connect to Michigan State University 
eventually becam e a lawyer with the United 
Auto Workers - a dream come true for the both 
of us. It was a perfect example of people in the 
majority and minority communities striving 
together for a better future for the next 
generation.

In the many years during which I had the 
honor of representing César Chávez in Texas, 
his message was always twofold: justice for 
farm workers, and education for the children.
I'll alwavs remember the mothers in Colonia Las 
Milpas in South Texas, who would carry their 
children across the land when it flooded (as it 
often did) to put them on school buses parked 
along the county road., They had great hope that 
education would lift their children out of the 
poverty and injustice they were bom into.

As Judge Sotom ayor's appointment dramati­
cally reflects, progress came. Many leaders rose, 
locally and nationally. Politics was transformed, 
and before long there was more room at the table 
than before.

But there is a downside. We always assumed 

that simply opening the door to the next gen­
eration would mean that group — our children 
— would turn around and do the right thing by 
opening the door of opportunity for others.

To be sure, many have walked through aca­
demia and excelled at it and have given much 
back to the community for its future, such as 
President Obama and Sonia Sotomayor.

. 

However, to a disappointing degree, we did 

not do a better job of installing that sense of 
com munity responsibility in the next generation; 
we just believed it would happen on its own.

Many in the "next generation" don't remem­

ber they are where they are because of the 
struggle that happened before them, nor do they 
appreciate the need to involve themselves in 
the next stage of the struggle for equality and

opportunity. The years of creative opportunity- 
building by Hispanic students on campuses, 
for example, are waning. Volunteer work, 
community activism, and attention to molding 
legislation are sparser. Many focus their atten­
tion only on themselves and earning money but 
do not continue the legacy of striving for a more 
just society for those held down. Their model­
ing of the American dream often lacks the com­
munal perspective many had hoped they would 
express, making the dream even better.

There are indeed many stars in this firmament 

— but there could be more.

Jam es C. H arrington 
A djunct Professor, School o f Law 
D irector o f Texas Civil Rights Project

Political crucifixion

We've seen it happen many, many times — a 
perfectly good and decent person is politically 
assassinated by liberal democrats for the crime 
of not being a liberal democrat.

This ugly, un-American pathology became 
famous back in 1987 when it was successfully 
used against Robert Bork on national television. 
Because Bork boldly spoke out against judges 
who legislate from the bench, the liberal demo­
crats in the U.S. Senate orchestrated a vicious 
smear campaign against him and denied him a 
seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Now, the highly partisan Senators Kirk 
Watson and Eliot Shapleigh and the highly 
partisan Texas Freedom Network have success­
fully brought the satanic art of "borking" to 
Texas. They recently managed to smear Dr. Don 
McLeroy, a good and decent man, with sickening 
lies. This tag-team of demons claimed that Dr. 
McLeroy tried to force creationism into science 
classrooms, telling this brazen lie over and 
over again.

The truth is, Dr. McLeroy and the State Board 

of Education simply asked that the scientific 
method be applied fairly and universally in sci­
ence classrooms. In particular, they asked that 
the scientific method be applied to two sacred 
cow s/religions of liberal democrats: Darwinian 
evolution and global warming.

However, the Texas Freedom Network and its 
political allies have responded to the reasonable 
requirements of the board with contrived near­
riots at several public hearings. Most recently, 
Watson and Shapleigh added insult to injury by 
blaming these near-riots on the clearly innocent 
Dr. McLeroy.

But the good ahd decent people of Texas 

have at least one very powerful recourse for this 
insane, demonic borking; following the example 
of St. Paul, we can "spiritually deliver" Sen. 
Watson, Sen. Shapleigh and the Texas Freedom 
Network to their very own "evil leader" (1 Cor 
5: 4-5; 1 Tim 1: 18-20).

Joseph A llen Kozuh, Ph.D.
Austin

Progressive discrimination

By David Player
Daily Texan Columnist

W ith the an n ou n cem en t o f S u p rem e C o u rt Ju s ­
tice D avid S o u te r's retirem en t this m on th, P re si­
dent O b am a has the op p o rtu n ity to m ake a lo n g ­
term im p act after ju st a few m o n th s in o ffice. In 
Jud ge Sonia Sotom ayor, the presid ent has found a 
fresh face to em bod y his m antra of "ch a n g e ." But 
conservative pund its have quickly jum ped on Soto­
m ay o r's judicial record, particularly a controversial 
ruling regarding race in hiring practices.

W hile on the Seco n d C ircu it C o u rt o f A p p eals, 
Sotom ayor ruled in favor o f N ew H aven, CT, after 
the city d ecided to n u llify a p lacem en t exam g iv ­
en to city firefighters to determ ine prom otions after 
no black test takers scored high enough to qualify 
for prom otions. O ne H ispanic and seventeen w hite 
firefighters filed suit alleging that, by throw ing out 
the test, the city had racially discrim inated against 
th em .T he case has been appealed to the Su p rem e 

Court.

Issues of race alw ays serve as lig htning rods to 
fuel the fireb ran d s o f cab le n ew s n etw o rk s. A nd 
w hile the firefig h ter's case is unlikely to derail So­
to m a y o r's con firm atio n , it w ill reg en erate the d e­
bate surrounding w hat role race should play in to­
d ay's social policies.

Hopefully, the question s raised by the Senate in 
reference to the N ew H aven case will allow A m er­
icans to re-evalu ate our current use o f racial crite ­
ria. B ut the first step is ad m itting we have a p rob ­
lem. As m uch as we m ay claim to live in a m ore en­
lightened tim e, racial inequalities still linger in ev ­
ery segm ent of our society.

O f the 118 fire fig h te rs tested , alm o st a q u arter 
w ere black. It is a statistical anom aly that no ne o f 
th ese test tak ers sco red high en o u g h — o n e that 
w ould never appear in an ideal world in w hich ev ­
ery citizen had access to equal training and resourc­
es. There m ust be som e un derlying factor creating 
the d isparity in scores. Yet current policies o f racial 
preference do nothing to address such factors.

P ro p o n e n ts o f su ch p o lic ie s o fte n lab el th em 
as "p ro g re s s iv e ," a n o m en clatu re liberals love to 
ad op t to im p ly th eirs is a p o sitio n of m o ral a u ­
thority. In reality, th ese typ es o f racial p re fe re n c­
es are, if an y th in g , reg ressiv e. In the case o f the 
New H aven firefighters, by throw ing out the tests, 
the city has d one nothing to ad dress the u n d erly ­
ing factors behind the discrepancies in scores w hile

sim u ltan eou sly d iluting the quality of the d ep art­
m e n t's officers and, indirectly, the pu blic s safety. 
R ather than ad dressing the disadvantaged officers 
and bringing them up to speed, the city's progres­
s iv e " hiring p ractices sou ght equality by d ragging 
everyone d ow n to the low est perform er s level.

The beginning of S o tom ay o r's confirm ation pro­
cess coincid es w ith reform s being* m ade to the top 
10 p ercent law for ad m ission to public colleges in 
the state. T he law, w hich currently guarantees ad ­
m ittance to U T-A ustin for any student graduating 
in the top tenth percentile of their high school class, 
has increased racial d iv ersity in the student body. 
T he changes to the law proposed by the Texas L eg­
islature this past session w ould cap the num ber of 
stu d en ts ad m itted u n d er the law to 75 percent of 
the incom ing freshm an class.

O pponents of the current policy claim that it forc­
es the U niversity to reject more qualified applicants 
from high-perform ing schools, w hile supporters ar­
gue that it levels for the p laying field for students 
s ta te w id e and th at the d iv e rsity it g e n era tes in­
creases the quality of education at UT.

A s m u ch as it h as b e e n d em on ized , the Top 10 
p e rce n t law is a qu asi-exam p le o f the type o f pro­
gressiv e leg islatio n need ed to e rad icate racial in ­
e q u a litie s. By a tte m p tin g to c o m p e n sa te for in ­
equalities in high school education, the Legislature 
is one step closer to addressing the root of the prob­
lem _ that is, dram atic differences in the quality of 
education for students across the state.

H ow ever, the fact rem ain s th at w h en ev er o u t­
sid e co n sid eratio n s — su ch as race — factor into 
h irin g and a p p lica tio n p ro cesses, instead of p e r­
form ance, then the quality of the product will su f­
fer, w hether that is the com petence of the New H a­
ven Fire D ep artm en t or the acad em ic stren gth of 
an in com in g fresh m an class. To fully ad dress the 
issu e, the state m u st attack it at its sou rce — u n ­
d e rp e rfo rm in g s ch o o ls. A ll stu d en ts, re g ard le ss 
of race or class, m u st at least h av e the o p p o rtu ­
nity to re c e iv e e q u a l e d u c a tio n , e ith e r th ro u g h 
p u b lic p o licy su ch as sch o o l v o u ch ers or, id e a l­
ly, a b e tte r-fu n d e d T exas p u b lic sch o o l sy ste m . 
Yet, as the bu d get con tin u es to be stretched tig h t­
er and tighter, there lo ok s to b e no lik elih o o d of 
that h app en in g. Instead , it seem s Texans are w ill­
ing to co n tin u e h an d icap p in g their ow n flagsh ip 
university.

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Friday, June 5,2009

Texas’ Belt helping to spank the opposition

By Austin Talbert
Daily Texan Staff

At 6 feet 5 inches tall, Brandon Belt has the 
makings of a top pitching prospect. Tall and 
lanky, he had great leverage off the mound 
and the perfect frame to add muscle. He had 
the angles to blow his low-90s fastball past hit­
ters. He was left-handed, which never hurts a 
pitcher's chances.

In the m iddle of his dom inant senior 
season as the ace of Hudson High School, 
a sm all school in East Texas, som ething 
changed for Belt. His velocity dropped be­
low 90 mph. As his fastball's speed dipped 
so did his draft status.

"I had a chance to do really good, and go re­
ally high, but my velocity wasn't as high as it 
once was, and I kind of slipped, Belt said.

Weeks after graduating high school, the Bos­
ton Red Sox drafted Belt in the 11th round of 
the 2006 draft. He became a dreaded "draft and 
follow'' prospect, with Red Sox scouts tracking 
his progress during the summer before offering 
a contract.

The pressure of scouts and radar guns con­
tinually looming over his every move was too 
much for Belt. His professional opportunity 
was slipping away.

"It was really tough on me, especially being 
18 and all you want to do is play Major League 
Baseball," Belt said. "I tried to stay positive, but 
there was a lot of pressure."

When he signed to pitch for the Longhorns 
that year, Belt was still focused on chasing his 
dream of becoming a major league pitcher.

"I was looking to go back into the draft, Belt 
said. "That was on my mind, that is what 1 was 
looking to do. That is why I went to JUCO."

Belt knew he could quickly improve his 
draft status by regaining his velocity at the 
junior college level, where he would also be 
eligible for the draft after his freshman year, 
an opportunity he would not have had if he 
came to Texas.

As a pitcher and designated hitter, Belt 
led San Jacinto College in Houston to the Ju­
nior College World Series, batting .441 with 10 
home runs in his freshman year, earning all­
conference designated hitter honors and the 
2007 JUCO World Series Big Stick Award.

Belt didn't improve his draft status; the At­
lanta Braves selected him in the 11th round as 
a hitting prospect. That's when Belt decided to 
head to Austin.

"I realized a lot of things," Belt 
said. "You learn to be a team 
player, and if you are that, you 
will usually be a pretty good 
prospect. On a team with some 
of the best players in the country, 
just like I was, it is about winning 
as a team — you are not worried 
about your draft status."

Free from the pressure, Belt was 

able to relax. Last season and his 
first at Texas, Belt conquered a 
new role, starting at first base 
while occasionally pitching 
out of the bullpen. Belt bat­
ted .319 and led the team 
with 65 RBIs. Consistent the 
whole season, he thrived in the 
Big 12 tournament, leading Tex­
as to the title and winning the tournament's 
most outstanding player award.

Texas coach Augie Garrido saw what Belt 
could do at the plate and what he was learning 
to do at first base, but he believed Belt needed 
to focus on being a baseman.

"Yeah, we thought he was going to be a 
pitcher for us," Garrido said. "But that changed 
for us last year. We knew he had to focus on 
one or the other. When he pitched and per­
formed poorly, it had a negative effect on him. 
He felt like he was a failure and it got away 
from him." 

This season, Belt has thrived in his role as 
the anchor of the Longhorns lineup. His .340 
batting average, .574 slugging percentage, .432 
on-base percentage and eight home runs all 
lead the team — and his 37 RBIs are one off 
the leader.

,

With TCU (39-18) heading to UFCU Disch- 
Falk Field for this weekend's Super Regional, 
Belt is ready to keep his hot hitting aliv e, fu­
eling the Longhorns' (44-13-1) national cham­
pionship hopes. The Horned Frogs earned 
their trip to the Super Regional with a walk-off 
win, capturing their host Fort Worth regional 
with a 5-4 victory over 2006 and 2007 nation­
al champion Oregon State. In the matchup be­
tween the two teams earlier this season, Texas 
cruised past the Homed Frogs with a 6-0 mid­
week win.

Although he rarely throws from the mound 
anymore, Belt is comfortable about his role with 
the Longhorns, who enter this weekend's home 
regional as the national No. 1 seed.

Super Regional Previews

BASEBALL
SATURDAY: No. 15 TCU at No. 4 Texas 
WHERE: UFCU Disch-Falk Field 
WHEN: 5 p m.
ON AIR: ESPNU

SUNDAY: No 15 TCU at No. 4 Texas 
WHERE: UFCU Disch-Falk Field 
WHEN: 2 p.m.
ON AIR: ESPN2

MONDAY: No. 15 TCU at No 4 Texas (if needed) 
WHERE: UFCU Disch-Falk Field 
WHEN: Noon/6 p.m.
ON AIR: ESPN/ESPN2

And while Belt 
may not play a 
role on the na­
tion's best pitching 
staff, he may have the nation's best oppo- 
site-field power. While many left-handed pow­
er hitters pull the ball to nght field, Belt thrives 
in driving doubles, and sometimes home runs, 
to left.

"In junior college, my coaches told me to hit 
the ball out that way," Belt said. "1 used to be 
a pull-hitter, always trying to pull big hits to 
right, but at San Jacinto they said 'You have a 
lot of power to left-center.' So I just did it, and 
got used to hitting to the opposite field."

The angular Belt has a unique approach at 
the plate, which is impossible to dissect. Even 
Garrido is afraid to change anything about his 
best hitter's style.

"I don't understand the mechanics of his 
swing," Garrido said. "He is able to do it in­
stinctively, and I have never tried to change it, 
because we don't understand it."

What Garrido does understand is Belt's com­

petitive style.

"He has a very playful side. He is high-ener- 
gv, upbeat, fun loving — he motivates and loos­
ens up the players and he has fun playing the 
game," Garrido said. "He brings a lot of char­
acter to the team. Each player has his own indi­
vidual game, and the goal is to get those games 
to match up, to become one with teamwork. He 
really plays a huge role in that."

Ultra-competitive, Belt is always trying to 

win, even in pre-game warmup drills.

"He is always messing with [Travis] Tuck­
er and [Brandon] Loy, saying he can outrun 
them," Garrido said. "He calls himself a win­
ner, and reminds everyone of that in the run­
ning drills. They try to hold him by his belt and 
cut in front of him to stop him from winning, 
but he finds other ways. Fie always finds a way 
to win."

While Texas has failed to make it out of the 
regional round for three straight seasons, Belt 
helped the Longhorns find a way to capture

two magical wins, though for a few scary 
moments in the regional's first game against 
Army it looked like Texas would have to cap­
ture the tournament without its leading hitter.

In the first inning of the opening game 
against Army, Belt took á fastball to the hel­
met. The errant pitch struck just under his ear, 
leaving Belt collapsed on the turf near home 
plate, blood gushing from a laceration. But Belt 
pushed throqgh again, and after being cleared 
at the hospital on Friday night, he was back at 
the plate for Saturday's game against Boston 
College, one that would become the longest 
game in NCAA history.

In the 14-10 win over Army at the regional 
final, Belt had two hits, scored two runs and 
drove in another. Fiis walk in the bottom of the 
ninth helped load the bases and prepared the 
way for Preston Clark's walk-off grand slam.

"Being a junior, I knew I wanted to accept a 
leadership role, but I am not usually a real vo­
cal guy, so I decided I would lead on the field," 
Belt said.

Belt has kept more than a steady head this 
season; his bat kept the Longhorns alive when 
the majority of the team was slumping at the 
plate. In this weekend's Super Regional series 
with TCU, Belt hopes his leadership will pay 
off with a long-awaited trip to Omaha and the 
College World Series.

"I know that it is a long season, it is never 
to late to help the team and have a good sea­
son," Belt said. "When you are young, you for­
get that when you are struggling."

Instead of raising his voice, Belt continued 
to hit. And little by little, his Texas teammates 
came around.

"It is rewarding, that is what you hope for," 
Belt said. "That is what 1 want to do, make sure 
to use my experience to help other people come 
around at the plate."

Brandon Belt, right, celebrates the Longhorns' 25-inning victory over Boston College last week­
end. Texas will play again Saturday against TCU, which beat Oregon State to advance.

BASEBALL COLUMN

Horns still have to prove they’re CWS material

Why Texas will make it to Omaha

1. Pitching, pitching, pitching
— The Longhorns have the second-best ERA among all Division I 
teams. Texas doesn't need to worry if it can have a pitcher throw 13 
scoreless innings in a game.

2. Home-field advantage
— At Disch-Falk, the Longhorns are 26-6-1. Those numbers alone show 
how difficult it is to take two out of three from the 'Horns in Austin.

3. They had the Homed Frogs' number at least once.
— The only time TCU played the Longhorns this season ended in a 
6-0 shutout back in April. Texas managed to scatter 11 hits and the 
combination of Cole Green, Austin Dichany, Stayton Thomas, Taylor 
Jungmann, and Brandon Workman on the mound for UT dominat­
ed TCU's lineup.

4. Everyone can get on base.
— All nine of the regular offensive starters have an on-base percent­
age of at least .335.

5. Defense wins championships.
 
l f s been said time and time again, but it7s true. The Longhorns
have the third-best Fielding percentage in Division I. The Longhorns 
will not lose as a result of defensive blunders.

6. Augie Garrido
— Leading the team is the all-time winningest coach in college base­
ball history. He has done this before and can do it again.

7. They are the No. 1 seed, in case you forgot

8. They will find a way to win, or at least to tie.
— Whether they need 25 innings, a walk-off grand slam or even a tie 
ballgame, the Longhorns refuse to lose.

9. They have been throwing out the shirts that reference 
Omaha on the back all season for a reason.

10. We're Texas.
— 'Nuff said.

— Dati H u rn itz

By Will Anderson
Daily Texan 
Columnist

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You can almost hear the collec­
tive surprise around the Long­
horn dugout at UFCU Disch- 
Falk Field these days. You mean 
we're actually going to a Super 
Regional?

They have good reason to be 
surprised. Texas hasn't made it 
out of a regional since 2005, the 
year the team won it all.

But behind Austin Wood's left 
arrp of steel, Brandon Belt's fan­
tastic bat and a little bit of "Au­
gie ball," the country's most sto­
ried team might be back in Oma­
ha June 13.
Might.
There are no guarantees that the 
men in burnt orange have solidified 
themselves as Nebraska-bound. No. 
15 TCU is in the way, whom the 
Longhorns will play in a best-of- 
three series that begins this Satur­
day in Austin.

G arrido 's team played the

Horned Frogs once during the 
2009 season, with five pitchers 
taking the mound for the Long­
horns as they blanked TCU. It 
was Texas' sixth and last shut­
out of the season. Think TCU has 
a bitter taste in its mouth about 
road trips to the Capital?

The real merit of a team heading 
into the College World Series is its 
performance down the stretch and 
in the postseason.

While Texas ground out an ar­
duous, 25-inning marathon over 
Boston College and then came 
back to topple Army in the ninth 
to win its regional, TCU has had a 
considerably easier time since the 
NCAA tournament began. The 
Longhorns might be battle-test­
ed, but the Homed Frogs are rest­
ed and anxious to show a national 
audience they have what it takes, 
making their first trip to a Super 
Regional in school history.

But there's an even better rea­
son Texas might not make it the 
distance this year, and that has 
to do with the squad's hitting. 
While the Longhorns' ERA ranks 
second in the nation at 2.83, their 
hitting hasn't kept pace. Even

Freshman 
Brandon Loy 
zeros in on a 
bunt during 
Texas' win over 
Boston College. 
Texas will need 
its offense to 
step up against 
TCU.

Paul Chouy
Daily Texan Staff

with a national RPI ranking of 
No. 2, how do you justify a bat­
ting average of .287? That puts 
Texas in company with schools 
like Austin Peay and Eastern 
Michigan and behind Big 12 foes 
Texas Tech, Oklahoma State and 
Kansas State.

Of the six national seeds left 
in the NCAA tournament, Texas 
is dead last in hits and in batting 
average. The Horns have few­
er runs than Arkansas, the low­
est seed left in the tournament. 
What would be the sentiment at 
Disch-Falk this weekend if the 
Longhorns' great fielding and

pitching held TCU scoreless 
through eight innings, only for a 
lucky hit to earn the Frogs a late 
win? It's happened this season.

The Longhorns may be the 
overall No. 1 seed and heavy fa­
vorites on their home field to ad­
vance to the College World Se­
ries, but they still have a lot to 
prove if they want to be consid­
ered the cou ntry's unequivo­
cal best. They need the hitting to 
match their championship-cali- 
ber pitching. And that's some­
thing they haven't done on a 
consistent basis throughout this 
season.

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Friday, June 5, 2009

Firm plans to relocate graduate student housing

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By Andrew M artinez
Daily Texan Staff 

A New York-based architecture 
firm recently introduced plans 
that would drastically change stu­
dent housing in the UT-owned 
Brackenridge tract.

Late last month, Cooper, Rob­
ertson & Partners introduced its 
first two design proposals for the 
345-acre site, including the con­
solidation and relocation of grad­
uate student housing and the ad­
dition of two access ramps at Ce­
sar Chave/ Street and MoPac Bou­
levard to relieve traffic congestion 
in the area.

There are three student housing 
sites on the tract the Brackenridge, 
Colorado and Gateway apartment 
complexes. Beverly Silas, a spokes­
woman for the firm, said they will 
demolish the three sites and build 
a new com plex where Gateway 
Apartments stand.

On June 18, the firm w ill hold 
a public meeting with the UT Sys­
tem Board of Regents to intro­
duce two complete master plans 
for the tract. The changes to stu­
dent housing and the addition of 
the access ramps are common to 
both proposals.

Silas said that while the three sites 
account for 715 apartment units, the 
firm hopes to increase that number 
to 825 units with the construction 
of the consolidated site, should the 
Board of Regents approve their pro­
posal. Silas said the firm expects the 
new complex to be ready for occu­
pancy by fall 2012.

"Conceptually speaking, I was 
very pleased with the outcom e 
of the presentation,'' said Daniel

J o h n L e e | Daily Texan ■'faff

Business graduate student Saurabh Bansal stands at a bus stop in fro n t o f the Brackenridge tract 
Recent proposals to dem olish the apartm ents have graduate students concerned about being displaced.

Spikes, president of the Graduate 
Student Assembly, who attended 
last month's meeting with the ar­
chitecture firm "[However], there 
are still lots of areas that need to 
be explored."

Spikes said that while he was 
not speaking for the graduate stu­
dent body as a whole, the issues 
that need to be addressed b e ­
fore any proposal is approved are 
housing affordability, green space

in and around the complex, park­
ing options and the relocation 
of graduate students to the new 
Gateway site.

On Sunday, the GSA and the 
Brackenridge Tenant Advisory 
Board will hold a public meeting 
at the Gateway Community Cen­
ter at 5 p.m., where residents will 
be able to speak before the firm 
presents its two master plans to 
the Board of Regents.

Debby Kalk, a member of the 
tenant advisory board and res­
ident of the Colorado com plex, 
said affordability is her biggest 
concern. Kalk is working on her 
doctorate in education and has a 
daughter attending college.

"Many of us have these expens­
es," Kalk said. "[Living afford- 
ably] really makes a difference 
for me so I can get my degree in a 
timely way."

Illustration by Thu Vo | Daily lexan Staff

The architecture firm Cooper, Robertson & Partners has 
proposed to consolidate all student housing in the area in to one 
new site where th e Gateway com plex currently stands.

Entire UT System adopts same copyright license

By Bryan Lee
Daily Texan Staff

The rest of the universities in 
the U T System now have the same 
copyright licensing privileges as 
UT-Austin, making it one of the 
largest higher education systems in 
the U.S. to have those rights.

The nine academic and six health 
institutions adopted the Copyright 
Clearance Center's Annual Copy­
right License.

With these credentials, professors 
and students are now able to use 
published materials as classroom 
aids, including course packets, e-re- 
serves and research collaboration. 
Individuals with pre-approved per­
mission, such as librarians and fac­
ulty, will be able to share content 
from various kinds of media in­
cluding books, journals, newspa­
pers, magazines and e-books.

UT-Austin signed the annual 
copyright license last June and the 
results have led to the expansion to 
the entire system.

"We are adding to the resource 
of authority by expanding this li­
cence to other UT institutions, 
said Georgia Harper, UT scholarly 
communications advisor.

This change affects more than 
150,000 students and nearly 13,000 
faculty members in the UT System.
"The UT system is looking to 
benefit our students and staff by 
providing easier access to a large 
expanding library of academ ic 
works," said Barry Burgdorf, vice 
chancellor and general counsel of 
the UT System.

"The Annual Copyright License 
will help the faculty members feel 
more comfortable using different 
materials in their lessons," said

Harper. "This license will make 
course materials more available to 
students and faculty with minimal 
difficulties."

The copyright center introduced 
the annual license in 2007 to reduce 
the costs of searching and obtaining 
copyright permissions for academic 
institutions.

It also aimed to broaden aware­
ness of intellectual property on cam­
puses. Since its launch, dozens of 
colleges and universities have ad­
opted the license, including the Uni­
versity of Massachusetts Medical 
School, Middlebury College, Mar­
quette University Law School and 
the United States Army Command 
& General Staff College, according 
to the license's Web site.

Bob Weiner, senior vice president 
at the licensing service, said the li­
cense will save time and money for

the UT System in a press release.

"We are extremely pleased that 
the University' of Texas System has 
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The University of Texas Press, 
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copyright license by being able to 
use copyrighted material without 
fear of infringement.

UT-Austin has experienced suc­
cess with the license in the past year, 
and officials expect other UT institu­
tions to see similar results, said Lau­
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"Using this copyright license has 
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Hogg Foundation awards 

grant to Houston nonprofit

The Hogg Foundation for 
Mental Health has awarded 
Mental Health America of Great­
er Houston, a nonprofit organiza­
tion, with a $259,092 grant to ad­
vance the development of an in­
tegrated health care education­
al system.

The organization received the 

funds to develop an online sys­
tem, which would act as a virtu­
al forum in which health care fa­
cilities throughout the state can 
learn more about providing inte­
grated health care, said Merrell 
Foote, a spokeswoman for the 
Hogg Foundation.

Integrated health care is a system 
of providing medical care in which 
physicians treat patients' symp­
toms, as well as any mental health 
conditions that may contribute to

the initial health problem.

Mental Health of Greater 
Houston was chosen because of 
its past history in programs hav­
ing to do with mental health and 
its unique proposal to develop 
the online forum.

"Basically, it's an opportunity' 
for groups who have common in­
terests to discuss things," Foote 
said.

Part of the grant money will 
also be used to pay staff members 
of the integrated system.

In February, the Hogg Founda­
tion organized a request for pro-' 
posals, in which they asked state­
wide entities to submit plans wor­
thy of the grant money. The re­
quest closed in March and re­
ceived less than a dozen propos­
als, Foote said.

Next year, the foundation plans 
to put forth a second grant aimed 
to help organizations pay for the 
cost of participating in the inte­
grated health system.

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The best hangover 
cure is a simple, 
inoffensive movie

By Alex Regnery
Daily Texan Staff

The room is too bright. The light 
from outside is burning through 
your shut eyelids. Your head feels 
like it's filled with the contents of an 
aquarium — fish and pirate deco­
rations included. Oh, and there's 
also the pain on your left arm from 
that tattoo you got last night.

These are the telltale signs that 
you might have partied a little too 
hard. There are many "cures" for a 
hangover, such as filling your bel­
ly with more alcohol, gross con­
coctions or saltines, but a tried- 
and-true method is to take the 
day off and veg out on the couch.
The perfect m ovies to watch 
during a hangover have to be 
pretty unoffensive to the eyes, 
ears and stom ach. D on't try to 
watch "Super Size Me" or any Mi­
chael Bay films. Keeping it sim ­
ple is the key, and here are a few 
films that are sure to soothe your 
moody booze blues.

"Days of Heaven"

The reason this film is up first 
is that it's just plain beautiful. Ter­
rence M alick's tale of a couple 
working the fields in tum-of-the- 
century Texas is quiet and sim ­
ple, but features some of the best 
cinematography ever made, peri­
od. Add in a great score by Ennio 
Morricone and fine performances 
by Richard Gere, Brooke Adams 
and Sam Shepard, "Days of Heav­
en" is a movie that is tough to not 
get sucked into. If nothing else, 
you'll marvel at cinematographer 
Néstor Almendros' work through 
your liquor-laden eyes.

"Rear Window"

Chances are you've seen this 
film many times but it really is 
one of the best m ovies to nap 
through. T hat is by no m eans 
m eant to be a knock at H itch ­
co ck 's fantastic w ork, but the 
fact that Jimmy Stewart's L.B. Jef­
feries naps through a good por­
tion of the film is enough to give 
it that title. Plus, "Rear Window 
is a rousing mystery and stars the 
beautiful Grace Kelly, lending it­
self to som e pretty ad v e n tu r­
ous dreams. The film is also a l­
most entirely comprised of pure­
ly on-screen sound, which allows 
for easier nappage since it's just 
like hanging out at your apart­
ment anyway (minus a m urder­
ous Raymond Burr).

"Wet Hot American Summer"/

'The Baxter"

"You taste like b u rger." Tal­
ent show em cee Alan Shemper. 
Wedding planner Benson Hedg­
es. F o n d lin g s w e a te rs. "B a ja 
C u is in e !" T h e se tw o ab su rd 
com ed ies from the m inds that 
brought television "T h e State" 
are endlessly enjoyable and hi­
lariously strange. The film s are 
both very intellig ent com edies 
but d on't m ake the view er feel 
dum b. M ichael Sh ow alter and 
David Wain are two of the w it­
tie st co m ed ic m in d s aro u n d , 
and these two film s are the per­
fect com plim ent for one anoth­
er. M ake sure to save these to ­
ward the end of the day when 
your mind has started function­
ing again.

MOVIE REVIEW
‘Land of the Lost’ begets 
simple plot, adult jokes
Will Ferrell and Danny 
McBride are predictable 
but very fun, entertaining

side tourist attraction to test out 
the invention.

Along for the ride is white trash 
tour guide Will, played by the al­
w ays p erfect D anny M cB rid e, 
who may be more cocksure than 
M arshall him self. A fter falling 
into a time warp, the three char­
acters end up in the Land of the 
Lost, where space and time con­
verge into som e kind of weird 
garbage dump. W hile the group 
attempts to figure out how to get 
back to present day, they encoun- % 
ter a sassy T-Rex, the chimp-like 
guide Chaka and a whole mess 
of Sleestaks (the show 's original 
villians).

D espite the com m ercials and 
c o n c e p t se e m in g v ery fa m i­
ly -frien d ly , th e re 's a su rp ris ­
ing num ber of sexu al in n u en ­
does and drug references, which 
should keep ad ults interested. 
The plot is pretty p red ictable 
and Silberling's directing style, 
while clearly inspired, is all over 
the place, w ith random p atch ­
es of the film shot like a docu­
mentary. Ferrell plays Will Fer­
rell and M cBride plays D anny 
McBride, which they do in near­
ly all of their projects, and Fri­
el is tasked with little more than 
to look adorable. Despite the un­
original story and limited range 
of the actors in the film, "Land of 
the Lost" still manages to be fun 
and entertaining, giving the au­
dience plenty to laugh at.

By Alex Regnery
Daily Texan Staff

Back in the '70s, brothers Sid 
and Marty Krofft felt like screw­
ing with the heads of a generation 
of youngsters bred on Saturday- 
morning programming.

If you w atch an ep iso d e of 
"H .R . P u fn stu f" as a k id , let 
alon e as an ad u lt, th e re 's no 
question that you might be ask­
ing yourself if someone slipped a 
tab in your Tab. The Krofft's call­
ing card was the original incar­
nation of "Land of the Lost," not 
the early '90s reincarnation you 
m ay rem em ber w ith T im othy 
Bottom s and a Jeep C herokee. 
It's from this original series that 
director Brad Silberling molds a 
surprisingly ad ult-m inded ad ­
venture comedy.

Will Ferrell continues his reign 
in his role as the overconfident/ 
b o rd erlin e eg om an iacal m an- 
child, Dr. Rick Marshall, a scien­
tist who is relegated to working at 
the La Brea Tar Pits after his the­
ory of time warps makes him the 
laughing stock of the scientific 
world. After Holly ("Pushing Dai­
sies" Anna Friel), a young, beauti­
ful scientist who believes in Mar­
sh all's theories encourages the 
doctor to continue his research 
and create a time travel device, 
the two of them travel to a road­

Black Dice is Bjorn Copeland, Eric Copeland and Aaron Warren. They open for Animal Collective tonight at Stubb s.

C ourtesy of Forcefield PR

Noise band evolves sound, drawing from dancehall and dubstep

By Francisco Marin
Daily Texan Staff

In my junior year of high school, 
my friend and fellow music fiend josh 
handed me a plain white burned CD 
with CREATURE COMFORTS sloppi­
ly scrawled across it. That 20(34 album by 
the Brooklyn experimental band Black 
Dice changed the way I perceived music.
The group — com p osed of A ar­
on Warren, Bjorn Copeland and Eric 
Copeland — comes to Austin tonight at 
Stubb's with their brand of electronica- 
flooded tribal rock.

Black D ice has constantly evolved 
its sound, from the early years as post­
punk noiseheads to their current phase 
as rhythmic dub-steppers.

"We're always looking for sounds that 
are interesting to us, and throughout the 
years that changes," Warren said. "A t 
times, we're interested in harsh or dis­
torted noises — radio or TV, for example 
— but now we're looking toward melo­
dy and cleaner sounds."

Warren described his group's album 
perfectly; while listening to Black Dice's 
latest release, Repo, I often felt like my 
roommate's TV was blaring in the back­
ground. W here the in -you r-face c a ­
cophony might turn off some listeners, 
the variety of genres represented in the 
band's music should bring those listen­
ers right back in.

"I've been listening to a lot of dance­
hall and crunk; music where there are

really aggressive voices in focus, War­
ren said of the the group's characteris­
tic yelps and shouts. "It's about extreme 
music, it's about being aggressive and 
abrasive. Just like the hardcore scene, I 
think, the noise scene is divided and has 
a million different subcategories. We're 
not going to satisfy every noise fan's ex­
pectations, but we approach what we do 
as a rock 'n' roll band."

Some people regard the noise scene 
with blase antipathy, but that's mostly 
because noise bands have done little to 
dispel commonly held notions about the 
genre — particularly, that it is not real 
music. Black Dice, for example, was met 
with strange reception when it played in 
Eastern Europe, where noise music has 
a limited audience.

"They have a different history with in­
dependent music. So when we play over 
there, a lot of the times we play in a rock 
club in the same place where any band 
with professional aspirations will play or 
in a museum where sound artists might 
play," Warren said with a tone of affirma­
tion. "In Slov akia and Slovenia, they don't 
have the same history of punks playing in 
small houses and in basements, so it's a 
lot different when we play in the States.

But with the warm reception of cur­
rent tour, Black Dice has grown accus­
tomed to widespread attention, espe­
cially considering tour-mates, the like- 
minded trio Animal Collective. Cope­
land, one of Black Dice's most promi­

nent members, teamed up with Animal 
Collective's Avey Tare in the side project 
Terrestrial Tones, one of the most disso­
nant and dizzying collaborations in the 
last decade.

"W e've been friends with those guys 
since we moved to New York and played 
early shows and took them on our first 
tour around the Sung Fongs era, Warren 
said. "Thorughout the last few months, 
it's gotten crazy with Merriweather Post 
Pavilion. I think they're a really hard­
working band putting out great music. "
For now though, Black Dice plans on 
further refining its ever-evolving sound 
and possibly getting back to its roots. Be­
fore it was famous for its looped shrieks 
and crunchy synthesizers, Black Dice 
played heavy hardcore with Wolf Eyes, 
established purveyor of noise. The latter 
band is extremely prolific, putting out 
about 20 albums a year on cassette, vi­
nyl and CD.

"We're on tour with them right now, 
and we love those guys," Warren said 
with a laugh. "It would really com e 
down to having an afternoon or two 
to jam, and we could put it together. 
They're so incredibly flexible they could 
record in a hotel room if they w?nt to."

Noise aficionados may rejoice at the 
thought of another Wolf E yes-Black 
Dice collaboration, but for now, a ca­
thartic live experience, one that Warren 
said "serves fans well," ought to please 
just as much.

Animal Collective is gonna get wild tonight

By Francisco Marin
Daily Texan Staff 
Tonight w ill m ark the 
third time Avey Tare, G e­
ologist and Panda Bear get 
psychedelic on me.

Witnessing Animal Col­
lective live can be an intim­
idating experience. The first 
time I saw them in a small, 
packed Antone's, there was 
a proportional am ount of 
disaffected hipsters to hal­
lucinogen-influenced h ip ­
pies. The second time, the 
crowd sang along to their 
songs at Emo's, Lone Stars 
in hands and Parliam ents 
sm oldering at the tips of 
their fingers.

T o n ig h t, th o u g h , th e 
light show is supposed to 
be incredible, the set list 
m agnificent and the cool 
w eath er co n d itio n s p e r­
fect for a night of bleeping,

blooping synthesizers and 
heavy bass.

Their latest album, M er­
riw eather Post P avilion , is 
g ro u n d -b re a k in g in the 
scope of its arrangem ent 
and composition. "Brother 
Sport," for instance, loops 
Panda B e a r 's h o ller for 
m inutes, repeating every 
two seconds as synthesizers 
crescendo and crash.

1 w ent to th eir show s 
b ecau se I w anted to see 
w h at they w ere lik e in 
real life. Were they still 
the face-painted tribalists 
who tripped 'shrooms and 
made creepy field record­
ings on Campfire Songs, or 
w ere th ey the B roo klyn 
hoodlums who dabbled in 
P avem ent-insp ired indie 
rock (their old incarnation, 
Automine)?

"Gonna get wild tonight,

Animal 
Collective's 
latest album, 
Merriweather 
Post Pavilion, 
was released 
Jan. 20.

Courtesy of 
Dom ino Records

A vey?" I once posited to 
Tare.
* 

"Sure thing, man."
That was in 2007, when 
they were still under the 
radar and h ad n 't graced 
the covers of every music 
magazine from here to Bel­
grade.

Shortly after we spoke, he 
got the crowd going. With­
in a few minutes, the throng 
of concert-goers was con­

vulsing in unison, sw eat­
ing, w hooping — all the 
elem ents of m oshing, but 
without the masochism.

1 can on ly hop e that 
first-tim e audience m em ­
bers feel the way I felt that 
day w hen I saw A nim al 
C ollective live: uninhibit­
ed, alive, and, I dare say it, 
animalistic.

Animal Collective ivill play 

at Stubb's tonight at 7 p.m.

MOVIE REVIEW
This ‘Hangover’ needs two aspirin and originality

By Alex Regnery
Daily Texan Staff 

With dozens of frat houses and 
an entire seven-block stretch of 
dow ntow n devoted to drunken 
debauchery, it wouldn't be sur­
prising if half of Austin had expe­
rienced something similar to the 
plot of "The Hangover."

In the movie, three fnends trav­
el to Vegas with their soon-to-be- 
married best bud and wake up the 
next morning without the groom 
or any recollection of what hap­

pened the night before. The sad 
part is that anyone who's gotten 
blackout drunk before probably 
has a better story to accompany 
their alcohol-fueled headache.

The film suffers, like many oth­
ers, from a trailer that gives away 
the best parts. The commercials 
already include a masturbating 
baby, a hungry tiger and a Phil 
Collins-loving Mike Tyson cam­
eo. Despite a strong cast (Brad­
ley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zack 
Galifianakis) to lead the audience

along on the booze-laden mystery 
tour of Vegas, what happens in the 
film already seems like something 
too many people who visit Vegas 
get involved wfith. Marry a strip­
per: check. M eet random Vegas 
celebrities: check. Discover small, 
unknown child in closet: check.

Though the film has some gen­
uinely chuckle-worthy moments, 
too much of the film feels old. The 
only truly hilarious part is the end 
credits montage, which only hints 
at some of the outlandish situations

the trio was involved with the night 
before. While director Todd Phillips 
has clearly continued to grow sty­
listically, capturing Vegas beauti­
fully with the help of cinematogra­
pher Lawrence Sher, he still fails to 
live up to his comic genius in "Old 
School." Though "The Hangover" 
is not a particularly terrible film, it's 
about as forgettable as if you'd tak­
en 10 Jagerbombs before walking 
into the theater.

Stars Zack Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms, work on the set 
of "The Hangover." The film Is set in Las Vegas.