Daily T e x *y NEWS PAGE 2 Curriculum forum looks for student input m Hi / EATHER Low LIFEÄARTS PAGE 12 Salads that'll make you salivate Tuesday, November 3, 2009 N N I Serving the University of Texas at Austin com m unity since 1900 www.daily '•Ç’W # . 'V .. ' DWI initiative results in 46 arrests 1 6 s ; irs mei laid off at McCombs By Lena Price Daily Texan Staff Sixteen staff members in the McCombs School of Business w ere notified M onday that they will no longer have jobs starting Jan. 31. The business school has to reallocate a total of $3.7 m illion to pay for faculty hiring an d m erit pay raises. UT President Willjam Powers outlined those priorities in his State of the U niversity a d ­ dress in September. Every departm ent in the school was impacted by the cuts, but the larger departments — including the U ndergraduate Program Office, the MBA Program Office and C om puter Services — had to eliminate more people. McCombs D ean Tom G illigan circulated an e- mail in September notifying the staff about a 5 per­ cent reduction to the overall staff size w ithin the school. He sent another message M onday announc­ ing that the cuts had been finalized, and the elimi­ nated staff members were notified by their supervi­ sors throughout the day. According to Gilligan's e-mail, laid-off staff will have the option to receive counseling and will be "cr>ecial consideration" in future University town hall m eeting to ay at 2 p.m. in tive Education H1N1 increases at US university, college campuses By Jim Pagels Daily Texan Staff Following a lull in the number of reported swine flu cases, the American College Health Association statistics indicate that the disease is returning to the country's college and university campuses. According to a survey of 98 A m erican colleges and universities, 8,861 new flu cases w ere reported last week, w ith 20 hospitalizations and no deaths. The association reported 7,099 new cases for the week ending Oct. 16 and 5,959 new cases for the week ending Oct. 9. Since the association began recording the sta­ tistics in A ugust, there have been about 56,000 re­ ported H1N1 cases, with 98 hospitalizations and no deaths. While the seasonal flu strain normally doesn't ap­ pear until December, the Centers for Disease Con­ trol and Prevention is worried that these unexpect­ ed spikes in reported cases may cause a double dose of flu cases this holiday season. "The vast majority of flu cases w e're seeing right now are H1N1," said CDC spokesw om an Kristen N ordlund. "W hen December com es though, the seasonal flu is going to start showing up across the country." A ccording to the CDC Web site, those under the age of 25 are extrem ely susceptible to H1N1, w h ile th e se a so n a l flu m ostly affects p eo p le over age 65. The agency is currently prom oting Lt. David M ahon ey prepares to speak at a press conference about the weekend's "N o-Refusal" initiative. The Austin Police Departm ent used a breath alcohol test bus to draw blood from suspected drunk drivers w h o refused to provide samples. ‘No-Refusal’ Halloween weekend allows blood draws without cof Sara Youn g | Daily Texan Staff By Bo bby Longoria Daily Texan Staff Austin Police Department's Halloween DWI "No-Refusal" initiative Friday and Saturday nights netted 46 arrests, a decrease from last Hal­ loween's 54 arrests. This Halloween marks the seventh run of the initiative since it began a year ago. The goal of the initiative is to gather a blood or breath speci­ men from every person suspected of drunk driv­ ing even if they refuse. Twenty-nine search warrants were approved over the weekend, which allowed police to col­ lect a blood sample from noncom pliant driv­ ers. Fourteen individuals gave a breath sample, while two consented to a blcxxl draw. One blood draw was taken w ithout a warrant because the driver fell into one of three categories that ex­ empts a required warrant, including situations where someone is injured, a child is present or it is the driver's third DWI. APD operated the initiative and drew blood from a fixe shifts. search warrai trate that >vae available throughout the night. "If you do drink and drive, you are going to jail, simple as that," said APD Cmdr. Stephen Baker. "We are going to do everything we can to see that [drunk drivers] are taken off the streets DW I continues on page 2 l i l i l l ' |i ' ,|'||i|i,|,|,,i i l|||/i,li,i , | „ ii„ i Law schools see rise in most minorities Varied data indicates som e popu lation s more represented than others By Nihas W agal Daily Texan Staff A ccording to recent d ata g a th ­ ered by the U.S. G overnm ent Ac­ countability Office, representation of m inorities in law schools is up across the country, but the num ber of blacks in. law school is sh rin k ­ ing, a trend that has yet to be seen at UT. Law school Dean Lawrence Sag­ er said the school has seen an in ­ crease in both the n u m b er of a d ­ m itted black an d o th e r m in o rity students am ong the school's 1,250 current students. "In 2002, o u r stu d e n t body w as m ade up of ab o u t 3 p ercen t A f­ ric a n -A m e ric a n s, a n d th a t w as a ro u n d th e tim e th e H o p w o o d D ecision cam e out, w hich called for affirm ative order," Sager said. "C u rren tly o u r stu d e n t body has 6 p e rc e n t of A frican-A m ericans,* so w e've m anaged to double since 2002. We also have the largest H is­ ing out of college is very narrow — pipeline being the num ber of Afri­ can-A m erican students graduating and applying to grad school," said Bucky Askew, a consultant on le­ gal education to the A m erican Bar A ssociation. "For exam ple, in the state of A labam a only 2.9 percent of the graduates are African-Amer­ ican, w hich is relatively small, and only a percentage of that num ber of graduates apply to law school." The recent data also includes in­ form ation about the grow ing cost of law school, a trend the report at­ tributes to an em phasis of teaching w ith greater resources. Law school costs are in creasin g m uch faster than the costs of other profession­ al schools such as medical, dental and veterinary schools, according to the report. T he a v e ra g e in c re a se in law sch o o ls' tu itio n o ver the p a s t 12 y ears has been ab o u t 7 p ercen t, com pared w ith 5 percent for m ed­ ical schools. But overall costs re­ m ain fav o rab le for law schools, w ith an a v e ra g e in -sta te p u b lic Lucia Ponce, left, and Raquel Burson, students of the Master of Laws Program, study in the School of Law bu ildin g Friday evening. Ponce and Burson, both South American exchange students, explained that there is a lack of diversity in the law school. Sara Y o un g | Daily Texan Staff p an ic stu d e n t body am ong elite universities, and overall we have aro u n d 32 percent of o u r stu d e n t body m ade u p of m inorities." The schoo l's Web site does not categ o rize c u rren t m in o rity s tu ­ d e n ts into in d iv id u a l races b u t does boast the alum ni pool, which in c lu d e s 1,755 L atin o s, 765 A f­ rican -A m erican s an d 424 A sian- Americans. "The p ipeline of stu d e n ts com ­ COST continues on page 6 SW INE continues on page 9 Voters set to decide on fate of 11 Texas amendments By Rachel Platis Daily Texan Staff As voters head to the polls to­ day to weigh in on 11 state con­ stitutional am endm ents, student groups are prioritizing Proposi­ tion 4, which would increase state funding for universities hoping to reach tier-one status. The proposition w ould create a pool of state money to fund re­ search and faculty salaries at sev­ en Texas universities hoping to become the state's next national research institutions. The univer­ sities would have to award a m in­ im um of 200 doctoral degrees a year and hold an endow m ent of at least $400 million to access the money to fund research projects. U niversity D em ocrats spent a week passing out literature on the am endm ent, which members of the group say is a necessity for the future of higher education in Texas. "Prop 4 would allow for the in­ crease of top-tier institutions in the state, which is a necessity in order for Texas [universities] to be com petitive," said University Democrats President Melessa Ro­ driguez. "It's som ething that we feel very strongly about in order to push our state to really support higher education." S tu d en t G overnm ent passed a reso lu tio n in s u p p o rt of the am endm ent about a week ago. "The assembly is a good sam ­ ple of student voices from across campus," Rodriguez said. "So the fact that we were able to bring the issue to a vote is a good testament to w hat students are thinking on campus." D ustin Matocha, chairm an of the Young Conservatives of Texas, said his group is concerned that such a strong em phasis on fund­ ing research w ould shift priority away from educating students at those schools. "Proposition 4 w ould encour­ age pro fesso rs to sp en d m ore tim e on rese arch th a n in the classroom," M atocha said. "Uni­ versities are failing to rem em ­ ber that stu d en ts are custom ers to the universities and should be treated as such." He also said that the group is working hard to m ake sure Prop­ osition 11, which limits the state's pow er of em inent dom ain, pass­ es in o rd er to protect p ro p erty rights of all Texans. The p ro p ­ osition restricts the state's abil­ ity to take private p roperty for public p urposes, including the ELECTION continues on page 6 D a n Branch, chairman of the H igher Education Comm ittee, takes q ue s­ tions from reporters after h o ld in g a press conference M o n d a y m orning o n Proposition 4 with Texas H ouse Rep. Joe Straus. B run o M o rla n | Daily Texan Staff Language forum aims to identify student position iUndergraduates attempt to gain insight on colleges curriculum alterations By Lena Price Daily Texan Staff U n d ergrad u ate stu d en ts will have a chance to give their input on the future shape of the foreign lan­ guage curriculum at UT during a fomm tonight hosted bv the Senate of College Councils and the Liberal Arts Council. The forum will start at 6 p.m in UTC 4.112. Students from all col­ leges may attend. The forum will be the first oppor­ tunity for undergraduates to voice concerns about potential changes to the language curriculum , said Lauren Ratliff, president of the Sen­ ate of College Councils. "We are the ones who art' going to have to take these classes," Rat­ liff said. "A nd so far, our voices haven't really been heard." Liberal arts D ean Randy D ie­ hl withdrew a propt>sal earlier this month to reduce the amount of re­ quired foreign language hours from 16 to 12 as part of cost-saving mea­ sures. For now, the requirem ents will remain the same, but the indi­ vidual departments within the col­ lege are being asked to reallocate approxim ately $10 million to pay for debt service on the new liberal arts building and faculty salaries. After the forum, the Liberal Arts Council and the Senate will compile the student input and draft a reso­ lution explaining the student posi­ tion on possible curriculum chang­ es. Senate mem bers will also meet with administrators after the forum to reiterate the ideas discussed at the meeting The forum may also address cuts to the fund that pays lecturer and assistant instructor salaries. University French Club President Ryan Bosch, a biology and French senior, said m ost liberal arts stu­ dents seem to know very little about the potential curriculum changes. "Hopefully this fomm will help students get additional information about w hat's going on with these requirements," Bosch said. "1 think the lack of knowledge about these changes is a big pmblem " French assistant instructor Anne Gaskill said it might be difficult to motivate students to attend the fo­ rum because no one knows exact­ ly how the requirem ents m ight change. "I mentioned the changes to my class, and they seemed to be pret­ ty shocked," Gaskill said. "I passed around the petition, too, and most of them signed it, but it won't affect most of them because they are al­ ready enrolled in the language pro­ gram. We need to get the word out to people who haven't already tak­ en these classes." CUTS: Reallocation of funds needed for raises, hiring From page 1 and Conference Center. Staff Council Chairm an Ben­ ja m in B o n d , a tra in in g s p e ­ c ia list in the school, said that th e s ta ff s u p p o rts th e d ea n , b u t elim in ating staff positions c o u ld im p act the d a y -to -d a y o p e ra tio n s o f the facu lty and adm inistrators. " If there are reductions to pro­ g ram s in our office, there will be slow er tu rnarou nd tim es," Bond said. "W e m igh t have to tak e requests to p rocess infor­ m ation or run reports further in advance." G illigan said in an e-m ail in­ te rv ie w th at the s c h o o l w ill h o p e fu lly re a ssig n d u tie s to m inim ize larger w orkload s on rem aining staff. M a n a g em e n t C h a irw o m a n Pam ela Haunschild said the av­ erage faculty m em ber in her de­ partm ent has "quite a bit" of in­ teractio n w ith staff p ersonnel on a day-to-day basis. She said other cuts have been discussed w ith in the in d iv id u al d ep art­ m ents, but she could not com ­ m ent specifically on w hat might be cut. Bond said the m o n th -lo n g w a itin g p erio d b e tw e e n first h earin g abo u t the layoffs and actually receiving the notifica­ tion helped staff m em bers pre­ pare for the cuts b u t also su s­ tained an atm osphere of an xi­ ety throughout the college. "In corporate America, many tim es you 'll be notified you 're getting laid off and then walked to the car on the sam e d ay ," B ond said . "B u t a t the sam e tim e, there's more tim e to w or­ ry about it. A lot of people have been nerv ous and on-edge." C h rissy Lovell, an ad m inis­ trative assistant in the Ford Ca- TSM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING F rid a y N o v e m b e r 6 , 2 0 0 9 2 p m The University o f Texas Texas Union C hicano Culture R oom #4.206 Visitors Welcome For web exclusive stories, videos, photo galleries and more, go to dailytexanonline.com reer Center, said even though the cuts were handled with sen­ sitivity, they negatively im pact staff morale. "T he morale is about as good can be exp ected ," Lovell said. "W e're all upset for the people who hav e been im pacted, es­ pecially because it is so close to the holidays." By trim m in g the s ta ff and e lim in atin g v acan t p o sitio n s, the college should save $51X1,000 this fiscal year and $1 m illion next fiscal year, Gilligan told the Texan. The reallocated m oney will fund a 2 percent raise pool for faculty and staff and free up approximately $700,000 for new faculty hiring. At a previous town hall meet­ ing, Gilligan told the staff there w ould not be second round of layoffs. Bond said he is still ner­ vous about the potentiality of future layoffs. UT staff began feeling the ef­ fects of the tight budget early this year. P ow ers im p lem en t­ ed a U niversity-w ide staff sala­ ry freeze on Feb. 11, which will not be lifted until the beginning of the next school year. Business honors sophom ore Natasha M arwaha said the staff cu ts c o n c e rn e d her b e ca u se they m ight translate into reduc­ tions in the services offered to M cC om bs students. M arw aha uses the M illennium Lab in the school several times a week be­ cause it is one of the few com ­ puter labs on campus open late. She said she was concerned that the lab might close early if there are not as m any people av ail­ able to work there. " If people are starting to get laid off within the University, it does m ake m e feel a little pes­ sim istic about entering into the work force," Marwaha said. 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T.Swift is first chair" We encourage any community member who has any k in d o f temporary or Juan Elizondo perm anent disability to contact Texas S tu d en t M edia beforeh a n d so that appropriate accommodations can be made. Anyone is welcome to attend. Retail Advertising: (512) 471-1865 joan w@mail. u texas.edu W/t^tU V'ItU r Mirici M* ÖAH« ' f *Ä#V ¿Ä iiyTfXÅlTÖMih* ¿ü Mike Jones works on his com puter during the "No-Refusal" initiative press conference, while other officers from "DWI Enforcement" gather to receive work assignments Friday evening. S a ra Y o u n g I D a ily Texan S taff DWI: Legality of sampling in question From page 1 and prosecuted to the full extent of the law." H ow ever, p o litical ad v o cacy groups argue the legality of invol­ untary searches. "Whenever no harm has occurred and som ebody sim ply swerves, 1 don't think it's justified to go so far as to collect blood — to penetrate som ebody's body to collect blood against their will," said John Bush, the executive director for Texans for Accountable Government. which states that a sample may not be taken from a person who refuses. A lth o u g h th e " N o -R e fu s a l" w eekends are given increased at­ tention during holidays, the bus still operates Wednesday through Satur­ day, but with less focus on collecting a sample from every individual. 'T o have something like this set up every night — it's very manpow­ er extensive, ultimately not cost effec­ tive — we just target specific dates where data has shown in the past a significant number of DWI arrests," said APD Lt. David Mahoney. Bush said the group is in support of the three exemptions that make a warrantless blood draw legal but still believes that "No-Refusal" initiatives violate another section of the law Mahoney said more than 60 per­ cent of arrests result in a sample tak­ en that is twice the legal limit. On most nights, about 50 percent of in­ dividuals suspected of drunk driv- ing will refuse to give a sample. Assistant City M anager Michael M cDonald said the city m anager's office supports the "N o -R efu sal" initiative because it provides ev­ idence against those w ho other­ wise may "som ehow pass and go through the system." "It's more of a sure way of deter­ mining if someone was intoxicated or not," McDonald said. The City Council voted unani­ m ously in October on a resolution defining guidelines to ensure safe and sanitary blood draws. It origi­ nally barred officers from drawing blood themselves, yet before being presented, the clause was removed because it contradicted state law. "W e certain ly un derstand the concern, and we will be working over the next m onth or so to d e­ velop procedures w here we can ensure officers don't have to take blood," McDonald said. A PD and Texans for A ccount­ able G overnm ent suggest d esig­ nated drivers, taxis and sponsored driv ing services such as soberRide as the w isest m eans to prevent drunk driving. "I w ould only hope that peo­ ple understand the consequences of drinking and driving, and that's going to be the only deterrent," M a­ honey said. "I don't actually know how to stop people from drinking and driving. I think they'd be a fool not to know drinking and driving is not a good thing to do." 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Po s t O a k b a n k J o e P y e m o t o r C o m p a n y I n c C a f f e M e d i c i D e m a c C o n c r e t e C o n t r a c t o r s I I t Wire Editor: Dylan Clement www.dailytexanonline.com W o r l d & N ation African leaders meet Mainers vote on same-sex marriage to unify Zimbabwe’s coalition government n urse p rac titio n er M onday to join in the final p u sh for gay marriage. 3 By David Crary & David Sharp T uesday, N o v e m b e r 3, 2 0 0 9 Ti n- I ) \ i i > T e xax The Associated Press By Angus Shaw The Associated Press H A R A R E , Z im b a b w e — Z im b a b w e 's n e ig h b o rs w ill hold a sum m it this week to try to break an impasse that threat­ ens the southern African nation's unity government, a spokesm an for Zim babw e's prim e m inister said Monday. President Robert Mugabe, ac­ cused by the prim e m inister of underm ining the coalition, indi­ cated he would be at the summ it to give his side. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvan- girai has said a summit is neces­ sary because of the gravity of the situation. Tsvangirai announced his boycott of the urfity govern­ m ent on Oct. 16, citing a surge in political violence and accusing longtime ruler M ugabe of treat­ ing him like a junior partner, or worse. Tsvangirai's spokesman James Maridadi said Tsvangirai learned M onday that the leaders of M o­ zambique, Swaziland and Z am ­ bia will m eet T hursday in M o­ z a m b iq u e 's ca p ita l, M a p u to , to discuss the crisis. T svangi­ rai said later M onday that if the th re e -le a d e r su m m it did not yield results, he would press for a full sum m it of the 15 member Southern A frican D evelopm ent Community. M ugabe, speaking to report­ ers Monday, did not refer directly to the summit, but said: "We are ready to brief the regional leaders on the problems we are facing." M ugabe spoke after m eeting for nearly four hours w ith his Congolese counterpart, President Joseph Kabila, who was in Zim­ babwe in his capacity as chairman of the Southern African Develop­ m ent Com m unity. The leaders of Mozambique, Swaziland and Zambia — w ho will be holding T h ursday 's sum m it — are key members of the bloc, that pushed for Z im babw e's pow er-sharing agreement after a series of incon­ clusive elections m arred by vio­ lence were blamed on M ugabe's supporters. Kabila was to meet with Tsvan­ girai late M onday or Tuesday. Mugabe said he expected Kabi­ la to tell Tsvangirai that he chose to join the coalition "and must be able to face the problems and not to run away from them." P O R T L A N D , M a in e — Bolstered by out-of-state money and volunteers, both sides jock­ eyed M onday to boost tu rn o u t for Maine's referendum on same- sex m arriage — a contest that could give gay-rights activists in the U.S. their first such victory at the ballot box. The state's voters will decide today w hether to repeal a gay- m arriage bill signed into law in May by dem ocratic Gov. John Baldacci. The contest is considered too close to call and both campaigns w orked vigorously w ith rallies, phone calls, e-mails and ads to be sure their supporters cast votes in the off-year election. If voters uphold the law, it will be the first time the electorate in any state has endorsed m arital rights for same-sex couples, en­ ergizing activists nationwide and deflating a long-standing conser­ vative argum ent that gay m ar­ riage lacks popular support. Conversely, a repeal — in New England, the com er of the coun­ try m ost receptive to sam e-sex m arriage — w ould be a jolting setback for the gay-rights m ove­ ment and mark the first time vot­ ers overturned a gay-m arriage law enacted by a le g islatu re. When Californian voters rejected gay m arriage a year ago, if was in response to a court ruling, not legislation. Five other states have legal­ ized same-sex marriage — Iowa, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ver­ mont and New Hampshire — but all did so via legislation or court rulings, not through a p opular vote. By contrast, constitutional am endm ents banning gay m ar­ riage have been approved in all 30 states where they have reached the ballot. "The eyes of the nation will be on Maine," said Rea Carey, exec­ utive director of the National Gay an d Lesbian Task Force. "The stakes are high, but so is our hope that Maine will remain among the growing number of states that ex­ Z im ba bw e President Robert M ug abe arrives for the burial of a prom i­ nent m em ber of his party, M isheck Chando, in Harare on Saturday. Tsvang ira yi M u k w a z h i | A s s o c ia te d Press Clinton rephrases her praise for Israel after words spark Persian Gulf criticism By Robert Burns The Associated Press M ARRAKECH, M orocco — Trying to mute Arab criticism that the O bam a adm inistration had retreated from its tough stance on Israeli settlements, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton softened her praise for Israel's of­ fer to restrain new housing in Pal­ estinian areas on Monday. While Israel was moving in the right direction in its offer to re­ strict but not stop the settlements, C linton said, its offer "falls far short" of U.S. expectations. Clinton said her earlier praise of Israel's offer, during a stop in Jerusalem, had been intended as "positive reinforcement." But her com m ent drew w idespread crit­ icism from Persian G ulf m inis­ ters w ho interpreted it as a U.S. draw back on settlements, w hich have been the main obstacle to a resum ption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. In a sign of U.S. eagerness to calm Arab concerns, Clinton is ex­ tending her trip by one day to fly to Cairo to meet w ith President H osni M ubarak on W ednesday, her staff announced. settlements. C lin to n's com m ents in Jeru­ salem on Saturday appeared to reflect a realization w ithin the O bama adm inistration that N e­ tanyah u's governm ent will not accept a full-on settlement freeze and that a partial halt may be the best lesser option. Her appeal Sat­ urday seemed designed to make the Israeli position more palat­ able to the Palestinians and Arab states. Clinton had traveled to the re­ gion only reluctantly, concerned her visit m ight be seen as a fail­ ure, according to several U.S. of­ ficials. She agreed to meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders after pres­ sure from the W hite House, ac­ cording to the officials who spoke anonymously, to discuss internal administration thinking. D uring a p h o to -ta k in g ses­ sion M onday w ith her Moroccan counterpart, C linton was asked by a reporter about the Arab re­ action, and she resp o n d ed by reading from a w ritte n sta te ­ ment that appeared designed to counter the skepticism about the Obama adm inistration's views on "Successive American adminis­ trations of both parties have op ­ p osed Israel's settlem ent p o li­ cy," she said. "That is absolute­ ly a fact, and the O bam a a d ­ m inistration's position on settle­ m ents is clear, unequivocal and it has not changed. As the presi­ dent has said on many occasions, the United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements." Clinton's tweaking of her earli­ er remarks appeared to satisfy at least some of the Morocco m eet­ ing attendees. Palestinian Foreign M inister Riad Malki said M on­ day that "we have heard her say som ething com pletely different from that statem ent in line w ith p revious statem ents, so w e are happy that such a position was highlighted and brought back to the right line and right now we will see how things will go." In her recalibrated com m ents M onday, Clinton also called on the Israelis to do more to improve "m ovem ent and access" for Pal­ estinians and on Israeli security arrangements. A Palestinian shepherd walks with his herd near the Jewish settlem ent of Tekoa located southeast o f the West Bank Palestinian city of Bethlehem on Sunday. S e b a stia n Schem er | A s s o c ia te d Press Kathy Stickel hold s a sign during a gay-rights rally the day before election day in Portland, Maine, on M onday. Pat W ellen b a ch | A s s o c ia te d P re ss tend the essential security and le­ gal protections of marriage to all loving, committed couples." Brian Brown of the N ew Jer­ sey-based National Organization of Marriage, which has contribut­ ed $1.5 million to the repeal cam­ paign, agreed the election is criti­ cal for both sides. He took heart in polls show ­ ing a close race, saying polling in other states that voted on the is­ sue tended to underestim ate the eventual opposition to same-sex marriage. "New England is the one area where it's m uch tougher ground for us than other states," Brown said. "The fact that in a state like M aine w e're polling relatively even shows the depth of support for saying marriage is between a man and a woman." In dow ntow n Portland, h u n ­ d red s of people carrying signs gathered for a raucous noontime rally Monday in favor of gay m ar­ riage. Participants were exhorted to go to City Hall to vote — and make sure others vote as well. M eredith Hunt, who hopes to wed her partner of 15 years, Me­ lissa H am kins, has been going door to door, working the phones and recruiting volunteers. She took tim e off from her job as a "I'm running on adrenaline at this point. I do n 't w ant to leave any stone unturned," said Hunt, 45, who lives on a farm in Bow- doin. "This isn't politics. This is personal." On the other side, Jeannette Saucier, 71, of Topsham , tele­ phoned potential voters in hopes of stopping gay marriage. "It's not that I feel bigoted to gay people. We have gay peo­ ple in my own family, but I don't see them having to be married to prove a point," she said. Both cam paigns have attract­ ed volunteers and hefty finan­ cial support from out of state, but the financial advantage w ent to the side defending same-sex mar­ riage — Protect Maine Equality. It raised $4 million, compared with $2.5 million collected by Stand for Marriage Maine, which forced the repeal vote. Marc Mutty, on -leave from a job with the Roman Catholic Dio­ cese of Portland to run the Stand for Marriage campaign, said in a homestretch appeal for donations that the election "is about the fu­ ture of m arriage in M aine, and thus the nation." "It is about w hether m arriage will continue to be betw een one man and one w om an as God in­ tended and hum an history has af­ firmed, or if we will plunge our state into a radical social exper­ im ent of 'any tw o will do,'" he said. T he d io c e s e c o o r d in a te d $550,000 in contributions to the repeal cam paign and has crit­ icized Baldacci, a C atholic, for signing the marriage law. Gay-marriage opponents have stressed the theme — disputed by their rivals — that gay marriage will be taught in schools if the law is allowed to stand. A Stand For M arriage radio ad M onday focused on an attempt to strip the state license from a high school counselor who spoke out against gay m a rria g e in a te lev isio n commercial. 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N on -S m okin g O u tp a tie n t Visits: 2 3 & 2 4 N o v . 4 Tuesday, November 3, 2009 O p i n i o n T h f I > \ i i * T k \ w Editor in Chief: Jillian Sheridan Phone: (512) 232-2212 E-mail: editor@ dailytexanonlme.com Associate Editors: Jeremy Burchard David M u to Dan Treadway Lauren W inchester Constitutional amendment endorsements: Vote today Editor s Note: Vote today from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Find your polling location at www.travisoountytax.org/showVoterSearch.do. You can bring this paper into the ballot box. Proposition Pluses Minuses Endorsement Proposition 1 will allow countit's and municipalities to issue bonds or notes to raise money to fund the creation of buf­ fer zones around military bases and to fund the construction of roadways and other infrastructure to protect or promote military installations. Military bases provide economic benefits to the cities and counties in which they are located. Without buffer /.on«, development can press up to the boundaries of the bas­ t's, compromising the bases' ability to facil­ itate operations such as landing airplanes. Should this happen, bast's could be closed. The proposition could lead to high­ er property taxes and cause already indebted counties to take on more debt. It will also allow counties to put use and zoning restrictions with­ in city boundaries, possibly restricting economic development. Vote FOR. It allows counties and military installations to work together to facilitate their missions. Losing mil­ itary' bases would hurt the economies of Texas counties more severely than a slight increase in property taxes, and construction of infrastructure to aid military bases yvould likely benefit the counties as a whole. Proposition 2 will authorize the Leg­ islature to provide for the ad valorem tax­ ation of a residence homestead only on the basis of the property s value as a res­ idence homestead. In other words, when undergoing an appraisal for property tax purposes, property with a home must be appraised as a home — not a potential business or commercial venture. Right noyv, property can be appraised and taxed at a higher rate on hypothetical val­ ue — a homestead may be appraised for its "potential" worth as a business. This forces residents to pay higher taxes and puts prop­ erty owners in areas undergoing commer­ cialization at a financial disadvantage. This amendment would require homesteads to be appraised as just that. Without appraising property to its full potential, cities and school zones lose monev that will have to be found elsewhere. Local school districts could see a drop in tax revenue. Vote FOR. While it is true that some developing areas may lose tax revenue, the burden of providing that rev­ enue should not be placed on homeoyvners wrho find themselves in the middle of a commercialization process, have no intention of selling and have their property ap­ praised as something it isn't. ✓ Proposition 3 will allow the Legis­ lature to set property-tax appraisal stan­ dards uniformly across the state. Current­ ly, the standards are determined by the countv in yvhich the taxes are collected. The varying standards imposed by differ­ ent counties are unfair to residents. For ex­ ample, small counties often take shortcuts to appraise values, to the detriment of a coun­ ty s residents. This amendment yvould alloyv for an equal set of standards to be applied to all Texans, regardless of yvhere they live. The government should let the counties do their job. The comptrol­ ler's office issues annual proper­ ty tax studies, and if a county's ap­ praisals are off, it is required to re­ adjust its numbers. Vote FOR. The lack of a uniform appraisal standard has led to Texas' 254 counties appraising property tax val­ ues in a mvriad of ways This proposition will allow for a fair, across-the-board standard. / With onlv three tier-one universities — UT, Texas A&M and Rice universities — Texas lags behind states such as New York, which claims seven, and California, with a yvhopping rune. Voters should be eager to open this dormant fund — yvhich w'ill not be drawn from taxpayer money — to schools, yvhich will then boost educational opportu­ nities for Texas students and economic pros­ pects for the state by wav of added jobs, tax revenue and capital investment. In manv rural counties, it is difficult to find enough qualified people to sit on a board of equalization. This amendment yvould solve this problem as appraisal districts could combine their boards and ensure that they are composed of capable individuals. The amendment's wording ensures that a larger entity yvould be unable to force a smaller one to consolidate boards yvithout consent. With Texas already struggling to fund its two public tier-one insti­ tutions, it would be wise to open the fund only to those schools clos­ est to top-tier status — for exam­ ple, Texas Tech University and the University of Houston. And han­ dling one static pool of money to be doled out in one-time injections, the state has no incentive to ensure that the universities are making progress toward top-tier status. Vote FOR. Having attracted the most attention of the amendments on the ballot in this otherwise quiet off-year election, Prop 4 has enjoyed bipartisan support. The Leg­ islature has set criteria the universities must meet to re­ ceive the funds, which should keep schools from stagnat­ ing and push them to work toyvard netting grants and groyving graduate and faculty communities. We encour­ age the Legislature to continue to pay special attention to these schools, whose futures may be difficult to sustain as an already strained tier-one system welcomes possible new additions. It's not the slam dunk for higher educa­ tion in Texas that some have deemed it, but it's close. ✓ Adjacent counties are already al­ lowed to combine appraisal districts, making this amendment unneces­ sary. It's assumed that if counties have combined appraisal districts, thev already have a combined board of equalization. Vote FOR. This amendment would make it easier to en­ sure that boards of equalization around Texas are popu­ lated with competent and qualified individuals. ✓ This proposition eliminates a procedur­ al constitutional amendment that voters ap­ prove every feyv years. It also increases the money available to the Veterans Land Board. The fund xvill operate into the fu­ ture outside of regular voter or leg­ islative oversight. It will not be re- vieyved and adjusted based on the number of veterans in the state or the economic climate of the time. Vote AGAINST. While supporting our veterans is in­ credibly important, yve prefer regularly approving proce­ dural amendments that allow the board to reissue bonds to creating an independent, unregulated fund. As we saw with the Texas Tomorrow Fund, economic realities and population density change and can have dramatic effects on funds that are supposed to be self-sustaining. This amendment does not allow for adequate adjustments. X Proposition 4 will open a $500 mil­ lion fund to provide seven public Texas universities — Texas Tech, the University of Houston, the University of North Texas, LT-Arlington, LT-Dallas, LT-E1 Paso and LT-San Antonio — with the finances to help them achieve prominence as top na­ tional research, or tier-one,” universities. Proposition 5 will authorize the Legislature to allow a single board of equalization for tyvo or mom adjacent ap­ praisal districts. The main function of a board of equalization is to hear and re­ solve disputes over the appraised value of taxable property Proposition 6 y\ ill create a revolv­ ing fund for the Veterans Land Board. The board sells bonds to make reduced-rate loans for veterans who buy homes or land, but everv time that the board needs mon­ ey it has to petition voters through a con­ stitutional amendment. This amendment takes the loans voters have approved — $4 billion — and allows the board to reissue bonds as they are paid off Proposition 7 will allow an officer or enlisted member of the Texas State Guard or other state nulitia or military force to hold other civil offices. This Texas Constitution does not include the Texas State Guard as an exception to the rule that bars Texans from receiving payment for more than one civic office at a time. Some civil officials yvould like to be active in the Texas State Guard. This amendment alloyvs them to do so. The state can do its part to contrib­ ute money to fund hospitals that serve the 1.7 million veterans living in Texas. This amendment will give Texas the power to remedy the severely- lacking state of health care for veterans in the state. No logical arguments against. Vote FOR The Texas Constitution states that citizens can't hold more than one civic office for which they re­ ceive payment, with the exception of some listed mil­ itary forces such as the National Guard. At the time, Texas military- forces yvere overlooked. This amend­ ment will fix that problem. Vote FOR. Law or not, the Texas Constitution does not give the state authority to contribute to federally run vet­ erans hospitals, and the federal government is not suffi­ ciently funding Veterans hospitals. Vote for the amend­ ment to ensure that veterans can receive funding from the Legislature. Proposition 8 will allow the Texa> Legislature to fund federally- run veter­ ans hospitals in Texas. The Legislature already passed a layv to do what Proposition 8 will do, yvhether or not it is passed. Proposition 9 seeks to cement a public right to the use of Tex­ as beaches, limiting private owners and developers from settling on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico The amendment yvill ratify the 1959 Open Beaches Act, which rightfully es­ tablished a public claim to Texas beach­ es, a public good. Erosion and unprecedented weather surges — such as hurp- canes Ike and Rita — have moved coastal lines inland, yvith houses and businesses once on private land sud­ denly- sitting on areas noyv classified as beaches, yvhich the law classifies as public land liable for governmen­ tal seizure. Inserting this act, which is already law-, into the Texas Consti­ tution would hurt these homeoyvn­ ers, many- of whom have taken their cases to court. Vote AGAINST. We support the public right to beach­ es already specified by law and agree that homeowners know'ingly take risks when deciding to build on beach­ front property’. But yve find a constitutional amendment to enshrine the Open Beaches Act — which many proponents have said yvill help the state fight legal battles against those displaced by hurricanes — too narrowly targeted to­ ward easing the state's legal yvoes in fighting these home­ owners devastated by extreme yveather. We applaud Land Commissioner Jerry- Patterson for having allotted grants and extra time for displaced residents to move propertv out of public space, but yve don't feel that the public's right to beach use, as of now, presents a constitutional question. ✓ ✓ X Proposition 10 yvill extend the terms of service for citizens serving on govern­ ing boards m Texas emergency service dis- tncts from two y ears to four y ears. This amendment yvould allow for more continuity on the boards Having board members gam experience yvorking with one another yvhile acquiring greater familiarity with the position itself would assist them in performing their duties more effectively. Members of both the Texas and U.S. House of Representatives serve two- year terms — why should the public have more oversight over these politi- ciansihan they do over members serv ­ ing on emergency- district boards? Vote FOR. Giving the members of these boards more time to accrue expenence with the position and with one another will allow them to develop more competence, w hich benefits the public. ✓ Proposition 11 will ban the state from forcibly taking pnvate proper­ ty for anything other than ownership, use. and enjoyment” by the state or the public. The constitution currently- al­ lows the state to take land for public use. Prop 11 defines public use. In the past decade, Texas has taken pri­ vate property in order to give it to oth­ er private entities in the name of the eco­ nomic interests of the community-. Had Gov. Rick Pern 's 2002 proposal to build the Trans-Texas Corridor been implement­ ed, thousands of acres would have been claimed and given to pnvate companies. This amendment yvill prevent this type of action in the future The Texas Legislature has al­ ready enacted a law that does essentially the same thing this amendment is meant to do. The amendment also fails to fill actual holes in the Texas Constitution and law, such as defining public use and economic development. Vote AGAINST. While there must be strict limits on the state’s ability- to seize pnvate property, this amendment forces unnecessary’ language into the Constitution. The legislature and judiciary need to carefully and exactly de­ fine the limits of eminent domain in this state to protect Texas property-owners. This carelessly worded and over­ ly specific amendment does not do that. X SU BM IT A FIRING LINE LEGALESE SU BM IT A COLUMN RECYCLE! E-mail vour Finng Lines to finnghnt\adailvtexanon- Ime com. 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Tuesday, November 3, 2009 !} & L O ( \l Groups rally to guarantee public access to Texas coast By Alex Geiser Daily Texan Staff Honks from cars and chants from people with Environment Texas and other organizations rang out in front of the state Capi­ tol on Monday morning. "Our beaches are so fine, let's all vote for Prop 9," the swimsuit-clad demonstrators chanted in a last- minute effort to promote a beach­ front access amendment that will appear alongside 11 others on to­ day's ballot. The proposition would a ’d a n amendment to the Texas Consti­ tution guaranteeing public access to beaches on the Gulf of Mexi­ co. The amendment is designed to strengthen the Open Beaches Act of 1959, which states that the land between the water and natu­ ral vegetation lies within the pub­ lic domain. Robin Schneider, the executive director of Texas Campaign for the Environment, said the amendment would guard against wealthy in­ dividuals buying up and blocking access to coastal land. Problems arise when the shore­ line creeps further up the beach­ es by natural causes, like hur­ ricanes. As the water rises, the line of natural vegetation push­ es back to a point where private property som etim es enters the public domain. Landowners with property bor­ dering natural vegetation on the coast are warned before purchase of potential economic loss should the shoreline rise. The state can sue landowners to re-appropriate the shoreline property if any of it en­ ters the public domain and dwell­ ings are not relocated. State Rep. Mike Hamilton, R- Mauriceville, added an amend­ ment to a homestead exemption bill related to Hurricane Ike dur­ ing the summer's special legisla­ tive session that enabled proper­ ty owners to rebuild on the Boli­ var Peninsula as long as the con­ struction stays behind the vegeta­ tion line. But Schneider said the amendment violated the spirit of the Open Beaches Act. LA, H i. a -•? 3 * May-Ying Lam | Daily Texan file photo Albright College students relax during a Spring Break trip they made to Galveston Beach to clean up after Hurricane Ike struck the island. On Tuesday, votes will be cast on Proposition 9, which would guar­ antee the public's right to access beaches on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico. "If land disappears because of erosion, they do not have indefi­ nite right to it if it's in the public domain," Schneider said. "Open beaches belong to the public." P la cin g this a m en d m en t in the constitution will prov id e the o pp ortu n ity fo r the g o v e rn m en t to u se a w ell-intentioned law to needlessly seize p rop erty a n d will close the door to fu rth er discussion o f this im portant topic. " — Robin Schneider executive director of Texas Campaign for the Environment State Rep. Wayne Christian, R- Center, owned a house on the Tex­ as coast that was destroyed by hur­ ricanes last year and said he wants to rebuild. His property, however, has now become part of the public domain because of the erosion of the shoreline. C hristian, who opposes the proposition, said he supports open access to public beaches, but thinks that the language of the amend­ ment is too broad. "Placing this amendment in the constitution will provide the opportunity for the government to use a well-intentioned law to needlessly seize property and will close the door to further dis­ cussion of this important topic," Christian said. A. R. "Babe" Schwartz, a for­ mer state senator who helped pass the Open Beaches Act, said Hamil­ ton's amendment that allows peo­ ple to rebuild on public property is unconstitutional and thus should not stand. Schwartz said there is confusion concerning whether people can rebuild on their land after hurri­ canes have pushed them into pub­ lic land. "It has been a constant issue," he said. "They think they can [re­ build], but they cannot." Austin CarShare founder Elliott McFadden speaks with form er state representative Ann Kitchen about the Austin car-share initiative and his company. McFadden decided to start a car share in Austin after using a similar service in Philadelphia. Michael Baldon | Daily Texan Staff CarShare looks to grow after third year in Austin Comm unity m em bers support initiative which aims to reduce pollution By Hannah Jones Daily Texan Staff A ustin C arShare celebrated their third anniversary with a fu n d raiser M onday night on Sixth Street at El Sol y La Luna restaurant. The group reviewed their achievements and encour­ aged growth in the alternative transportation sector. The nonprofit com pany al­ lows members who may need a lift in the inner-Austin area to rent cars and trucks by the hour. Brian Donovan, treasurer of the com pany's board of directors, said they first released cars at the end of October 2006. "We want to help people un­ derstand the full cost of owning a car," he said. "F o r each car used [from the organization], there are eight to 10 fewer cars on the roads." D onovan said UT stud ents could benefit from the program, and he is surprised by the small am ount of students, staff and facu lty th at have used th eir services. N ilda de la Llata, the ow n­ er of El Sol y La Luna and Car­ Share renter, said she wants to help o rg an izatio n s like C a r­ Share because she likes the idea of what the company is doing. "CarShare will be saving a lot more energy and a little bit of fu el," de la Llata said. "O ther m ethods of transportation are im portant than ju st everyone owning their own car." CarShare board member Bran­ di Clark said that they have not grown as much as they expect­ ed. The program currently uses seven cars for 249 members. Clark said the company will fill in the gaps left by car2go, a new 200-vehicle car share pro­ gram , w hich w ill only offer two-seat vehicles to users. "We are the first CarShare in all of Texas," she said. "W hen car2go gets to where they have hundreds o f cars in roads in A ustin, we w ill be a com p le­ m entary op tio n for their u s ­ ers in need of more than a two- seater car." Councilm an Chris Riley was also awarded the Living Light Aw ard by the o rg a n iz a tio n for living lightly on the p lan­ et, Clark said. He said he uses the bus routes and his bike for transportation and occasionally uses Austin CarShare for multi­ ple events in one night. "It's actually a lot easier than you might think. It saves me a lot of time; once you take the car out of the picture, it makes things easier," he said. "W hen there are m ore op tio n s from CarShare, it will be a more vi­ able option. I'm hoping it w ill take hold and follow suit for other cities to follow by." IT’S TIME AGAIN for yearbook and graduation photos! 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Boise State 8. Oregon 9. LSU 10. Georgia Tech 11. Penn State 12. USC 13. Pittsburgh 14. Utah 15. Houston 16. Ohio State 17. Miami (FL) 18. Arizona 19. Oklahoma State 20. California 21. Wisconsin 22. Notre Dame 23. Virginia Tech 24. Oklahoma 25. South Rorida SPORTS BRIEFLY Saints stay perfect with 35-7 win, start with 8-0 season NEW ORLEANS — The Saints are still perfect, despite an imper­ fect performance, and now need one more win to set the record for best start in franchise history. Drew Brees had 308 yards pass­ ing Pierre Thomas scored two touchdowns and Jabari Greer re­ turned an interception for a score to help the Saints improve to 7-0 with a 35-27 victory over the Atlan­ ta Falcons on Monday night. Only the 1991 Saints began a season with as many wins and no Saints team has started 8-0. "We did a lot of things well and yet we did a lot of things that made it close at the end," Saints coach Sean Payton said. "I'm excited to win though. I'm excited to win this game and get to 7-0. It was an im­ portant game against a division team and I'm proud of our players. They fought." Budinger leads Rockets over Jazz 113-96, scores career high SALT LAKE CITY — Rookie Chase Budinger scored a career-high 17 points and was one of eight Houston players to score in double figures as the Rockets beat the Utah Jazz 113-96 on Monday night. The Rockets pulled awray with a 13-0 run early in the fourth quarter and won in Salt Lake City for the first time since spoiling the Jazz's home opener two years ago. Aaron Bnxiks had 19 points and nine assists and Luis Scola added 14 points and 15 rebounds for the Rock­ ets (3-1), who made eight of their first 12 shots in the fourth quarter to blow open a three-point game. Deron Williams had 18 points and eight assists and Andrei Kir­ ilenko added 18 points and sev­ en rebounds for the Jazz (1-2). Me- hmet Okur scored 21 and Ronnie Brewer had 19 points for the Jazz. Utah was just 13 for 35 in the second half, going more than 7 minutes without a field goal late in the third quarter. Carlos Booz­ er went 1 for 6 while scoring seven and Williams was just 6 for 20 from the floor for Utah, which went 13 for 35 in the second half. Com piled from Asso ciated Press reports I it. V»% T h e D u l y T k a w Sports Editor: Austin falbert E-mail: sports#dailytexanonline.com Phone: (512) 232-2210 www.dailytexanonline.com Texas’ play living up to new mantra Bryant Haertlein | Daily Texan Staff Sam Acho and Sergio Kindle tackle O klahom a's DeM arco Murray. Texas has adopted Kindle's idea of p laying with sw agger and turned it into d o g ta g s the team wears. K indle’s idea epitom izes Texas’ play, becomes team ’s new m otivation al slogan By Michael Sherfield Daily Texan Staff It's a good thing Texas' new est slo­ gan dangles freely from his neck be­ cause Brown is running out of room on his arms. The veteran coach has bought in to the motivational sayings that dot the UT training facilities as much as his players, sporting w rist bands that say, "We're Texas" and "All In," this season's mottos. Now he's even m aking up his own. "Texas Swagger," a Brown-Sergio Kin­ dle joint venture, is printed on a dog tag around the neck of all the players and coaches. "I started the sw agger thing at Mis­ souri because I thought it's time we go on the road and act like w e're going to win," Brown said. "For a 58-year-old, I've got dog tags, I've got arm bands, I got everything on here," he said, gesturing to his arms. Kindle, the senior defensive end, pro­ posed printing dog tags with the saying and giving them to the team before visit­ ing Oklahoma State on Saturday, an idea Brown quickly warmed up to. "One thing we all need to do a better job of is making sure the older guys buy in," Brown said. "It's their team, they have some input, som e ow nership in their team w ithout taking over. That's a hard thing. We constantly ask our guys [for] ideas." So when Kindle, working w ith assis­ tant athletics director and motivational poster guru George Wynn, came up with the tags, Brown was on board. "We handed them out on Thursday and the kids all hooted w hen they got them ," Brown said. "It's to make them aw are th at we are in tune, we are fo­ cused, w e do care. Oklahoma State was going to come out with a swagger, you need to, too." The Longhorns swept away their two toughest road tests by a combined score of 82 to 21 against the Tigers and C ow ­ boys. Talk about swagger. Dead-eye Lawrence T here's a reason the Texas coaches TE X A S continues on page 8 INTERNATIONAL SOCCER BIG 12 FOOTBALL Texas Tech shuffling quarterbacks Texas Tech quarterback Seth D o e ge (7) is sacked by Kansas' Darrell Stuckey during an N C A A col­ lege football gam e at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas, on Saturday. Seth Doege Associated Press Lights out Undermanned Tottenham falls to the Gunners Two late first half goals give Arsenal a lead it would not relinquish By Rishi Daulat Daily Texan Staff A fter an u n ev e n tfu l first 40 m inutes, Tottenham h ad to be pretty confident that it w o u ld go into the half tied w ith Arsenal. Instead , the G unners ex­ ploded in the next five m in­ utes, killing any of T otten­ ham 's dreams of earning even a draw against their N orth London rival club. A fter allow ing tw o goals in less than a minute, Totten­ ham could only go home w on­ dering w hat w ent w rong so quickly and w hy they can 't come close to beating a top- tier team after a crushing 3-0 defeat at Emirates stadium. Between Robin Van Persie's two goals, Cesc Fabregas went on an incredible one-man nan through four Tottenham d e ­ fenders before calmly finish­ ing past Tottenham's Brazilian goalkeeper, Heurelho Gomes. It was a superb stnke by the 22-year-old A rsenal captain, and a goal that pretty m uch deflated Totenham's hopes for earning any points through the match. Tottenham did play w ith­ o u t th e ir s ta r p la y er, J e r­ m aine Defoe, since the hard to g u a rd s trik e r e a rn e d a red card in last w eek's home m atch a g a in st P o rtsm o u th and therefore received a one- game suspension. In other Prem iere League matches, Liverpool continued their am azingly inconsistent play by losing to Fulham, 3-1. M anchester U nited bounced SO C C E R continues on page 8 By Will Anderson Daily Texan Staff Mike Leach's offense at Texas Tech m ight be known for its aerial attack, but that could change. This season the Red Raiders are gaining a reputation for their quarterback instability. Junior Tay­ lor Potts started the year as the top man in Leach's system, but injuries and in­ consistency limit his playing time. Potts lost the starting job to former walk-on Steven Sheffield after a con­ cussion, but with Sheffield now out be­ cause of injury, Potts splits time w ith third-stringer Seth Doege. The lack of confidence in either quarterback has been, according to Leach, "an issue," and played a direct role in at least one loss this season. But Leach is hardly alone in his quar­ terback qualm s — eight other Big 12 teams have turned to their backups this BIG 12 continues on page 8 The Longhorns stand tied for fourth at the end of the first day of the Challenge at Onion Creek in Austin. The three-round, 54-hole tournament was suspended amidst the last few holes of the second round due to darkness. "It's fun to be playing here in Aus­ tin," said senior Alex Richards. "[But] one of the things we talked about be­ fore this tournament was not taking this course for granted just because we have practiced on it before. Today was a lesson of preparing ourselves to be ready to play every day." Freshman Haley Stephens led the team with a 1-under-par 69 in the first round, and is currently at a combined 3-over-par with four holes to go. Freshman Katelyn Sep- moree, junior Shannon Fish and freshman Madison Pressel had four, five and 6-over-par, respectively at the stop of play. The Challenge is the only Aus­ tin-based tournament for the Long­ horns in the fall. The second round resumes today at 8 a.m. at the his­ Arsenal's Robin van Persie celebrates scoring a third goal again st Tottenham H otspur during the English Premier League soccer match at Emirates Stadium in London on Oct. 31. Sean Dempsey | Associated Press Senior Shan no n Fish eyes the hole du ring Texas'tournam ent at O nion Creek. Texas currently sits in fourth place. Edmari Hedrick Daily Texan Staff toric Onion Creek Club. Richards said the team is prepared to play the extra holes. "Instead of saying, 'We need to finish round two,' we're going to challenge ourselves to play these last 20 holes as well as we can," Richards said. "We'll all have 20 birdie opportuni ties [today]." — Shabab S iddiqu i 8 Cody Johnson blocks O klahom a linebacker Keenan Clayton during this year's Red River Rivalry. Johnson has taken over the starting jo b at running back. M a ry K a n g | Daily Texan Staff TEXAS: Lawrence provides offense with cushion From page 7 refer to them as Team Automat­ ic. The Longhorns haven't been quite perfect in kicking field goals this season, but they've been pretty close. Kicker Hunt­ er Lawrence has made 16 of his 18 attempts, seeing one blocked and one 34-yard attempt hit the crossbar. He's also made 36 of 37 extra points. "H unter's been so accurate," said Texas head coach Mack Brown. "H e's done everything we've asked; he hits them right down the middle." Together with Texas' d om i­ nating defense, Law rence's re­ liab ility has m ade the L on g ­ horns a little less aggressive. Facing a short fourth down on their first drive against O k la­ homa State from inside the 20, Brown elected to take the auto­ matic points. "It's been really important in our history here that we score first," Brown said. "T h e o th ­ er night, we wanted to get three points on the board." To start the second half, Law­ rence delivered again, knocking through a field goal that w id­ ened the Texas lead to 27-7 af­ ter the offense stalled in the red zone. Despite having some struggles inside the 20 this year, the Tex­ as offense ranks third nationally in efficiency in that area because Lawrence has been so consistent when making kicks. "Y o u 'd ra th er g e t to u c h ­ downs," said offensive coordina­ tor Greg Davis. "But we reserve the right to kick." Running ragged of weight concerns, Johnson has slimed down and become Texas' Not for the first time this sea- most bruising runner, " H e 's son, there was a new'starter atop lo s t 2 0 -s o m e th in g the Texas depth chart at run- pound s. H e's p ro tectin g the ning back. But instead of injuries ball and he's a powerful run- or lack of production being the ner," Brown said. "W hat we're cause, Cody Johnson has moved all about right now is that four- up because of his dom inating yard run, and that's something perform ance. Johnson scored he does really well." Johnson is still listed as a co- twice from short range against starter with Fozzy Whittaker, but the Cowboys on Saturday, while adding a slew of punishing runs has moved ahead in the race for from all over the field. Saturday's first carry. After starting the season as a short yardage specialist because "If we played today," Brown said, "[Johnson] would start." GO HORNS! SOCCER: Inter Milan dominates Livorno, I lielsea kills Bolton From page 7 back from their loss last week to L iv erp o o l by d efeatin g Blackburn 2-0, while Chelsea put on an inspiring display on the road against Bolton, win­ ning 4-0. In Italy, Inter M ilan beat Livorno 2-0, and their win, c o m b in e d w ith N a p o li's shocking 3-2 victory over Ju- ventus, puts the M ilan side seven points clear atop the ta­ ble. In La Liga, Barcelona's Ge­ rard Pique gave up an own goal in the final minutes of the match to give Osasuna a dra­ matic 1-1 draw with the Euro­ pean champions. Second-place Real Madrid finally put in a decent appearance by winning with just 10 men over Getafe, 2- 0 . The top teams around Eu­ rope will play their Champi­ ons League fixtures midweek, and then on Sunday most of the soccer world will turn its eyes to Stamford Bridge Stadi­ um where Chelsea hosts Man­ chester United in a battle for first place. Philadelphia holds off late Yankee rally By M ike Fitzpatrick The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA— A.J. Bur­ nett started walking briskly off the mound before manager Joe Girardi even got there. The er­ ratic right-hander already was finished — and he knew it. With a chance to pitch the New York Yankees to their first World Series championship in nine years, Burnett was a ma­ jor bust in Game 5 on Monday night. He gave up a three-run homer before retiring a hitter and was chased with nobody out in the third inning. "You just feel like you let a bunch of guys down," Burnett said. "It's the worst feeling in the world to have the chance to do something special and fail like that." After battering Burnett, the Philadelphia Phillies held on for an 8-6 victory that cut their deficit to 3-2 and sent the Series back to New York for Game 6 on Wednesday night. Opportunity wasted. "It was nobody else's fault but mine out there tonight," Bumett said. "It was embarrassing. With the importance of a game like that, you've got to figure out a way to throw strikes." Burnett tossed .seven stellar innings in Game 2, beating Pe­ dro Martinez and the power- hitting Phillies 3-1 at home to tie the Series. It was an encour­ aging outing under immense pressure, and Burnett's first wi,n in four postseason starts — all this year. New York went back to him on three days' rest in Game 5, which seemed a good idea. Bumett entered 4-0 with a 2.33 ERA in four career starts on short rest, though he hadn't tried it this season. He said Sunday he felt good and was excited about pitching against his buddy from back home in Arkansas, Phillies ace Cliff Lee. The matchup was one-sided. Burnett never looked com­ fortable on the mound, taking deep breaths, tucking in his jer­ sey and digging mud out of his spikes. He couldn't get on top of his fastball and lacked the nasty curve that overpowered Philadelphia last week. COME JOIN TEXAS STUDENT MEDIA BEFORE EVERY HOME GAME! LOOK FOR THE DAILY TEXAN TENT AT THE CORNER OF MLK & BRAZOS. CONGRESS BRAZOS L ONGHORN HOME GAMES * T h e D a il y T k x a n * SE PT EM B E RS iå LOUISIANA-MONROE SEPTEMBER 19 r TEXAS TECH i fiWLNTopvvM pi SEPTEMBER 26 UTEP " t a i l g a t e p a r t y ^ Preswited by r f x OCTOBER 10 COLORADO NOVEMBER 7 CENTRAL FLORID, NOVEMBER 21 KANSAS SPEOAi. THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR^! TIME W A R N E R CABLE A I R S T R E A M R B F C U * rMcu.arg ' / / Hsnmmm S p e c k s . C 9 Ä U Ca m p e r link 11 JEFFERSON-r, fi* Veti7 0 n wireless Tuesday, Novem ber 3, 2009 BIG 12: Kansas State reversing its role in North From page 7 season. Only Kansas State, Texas, Oklahoma State and Texas A&M have avoided benching or injuring their starter. Landry Jones became the most famous backup in the conference this season when he had to replace Heisman-winner Sam Bradford in Oklahoma's season opener. With Bradford out for the season, Jones is now at the top of the depth chart in a role that he has performed ex­ ceedingly well. Jerome Tiller started the past two games for Iowa State because usu­ al starter Austen Amaud is still out with a bruised throwing hand. Tiller completed 18 passes for 155 yards Saturday against Texas A&M. And when Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin lost his season to an ACL tear in week three, backup Nick Florence was thrust into the spotlight. But not all of the decisions have been injury-related. At Colorado, head coach Dan Hawkins chose to start Tyler Hansen over his own son, Cody Hawkins, for the past three weeks. In Lincoln, Cody Green just be­ came the second true freshman to start at quarterback in Nebraska history when he was given the nod over Zac Lee. Green was 12-of-21 passing for 128 yards against Bay­ lor but led Nebraska to points on its first three drives. And against Texas Tech, Kan­ sas coach Mark Mangino benched starter Todd Reesing in the fourth quarter to protect his quarterback, who had already been sacked six times by the Red Raiders. In his stead, backup Kale Pick threw one completion. Reesing is expected to start against Kansas State. Defying expectations Despite being picked to finish second-to-last in the North's pre­ season poll, Kansas State is sitting alone atop its division with a 3-2 Big 12 record. The Wildcats have emerged as the North's best rush­ ing team and are prospering from their peers' recent struggles. Coaches picked Nebraska as the preseason No. 1 in the North. The Cornhuskers were as high as 15th in the Associated Press poll at one point this season but slipped against Texas Tech and Iowa State. On Saturday, they beat three-win Baylor by 10 points to improve to 2-2 in the Big 12. Missouri was ranked for a short period of tim e but quickly fell out of national favor following a 15-point loss to Nebraska. "There's times on offense when we look like we can't get a first down," said Missouri coach Gary Pinkel. His Tigers were unbeaten through four games but have gone 1-3 since then. K ansas, another N orth p re­ season favorite, is winless in its last three contests. However, the race for the top is still wide open, with only Colora­ do (2-6 overall, 1-3 Big 12) looking like it doesn't have a shot. Only two wins separate the Wildcats from the bottom of the division, and a hefty portion of conference play still remains. Kansas State will put its title hopes on the line in an important game this week at rival Kansas. Not too offensive On a weekend marked by blow­ outs, conference teams padded their points by scoring eight non­ offensive touchdowns. They came on kickoff returns (one), intercep­ tions (four), fumble recoveries (two) and punt blocks (one). In some cases, the touchdowns were crucial, like when Tech's La- Ron Moore returned a fumble 31 yards to put the game out of Kan­ sas' reach. Texas has the most non-offen­ sive touchdowns in the FBS with nine on the season. Players of the week The conference named O kla­ hom a's Landry Jones and Texas Tech's Baron Batch co-offensive players of the week. Jones passed for 249 yards and four touch­ downs in the Sooners' 42-30 win over Kansas State. Batch scored four touchdowns and recorded his second 100-yard rushing game of the season. The Big 12 picked Brandon Banks of K-State as special teams player of the week after he re­ turned a kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown that brought the Wild­ cats within five points of the Soon­ ers in the fourth quarter of their game. Tuesday, N o v em b er 3, 20 09 Lights, mics, action SWINE: University not equipped with H1N1 vaccination From page 1 v accin atio n as the b est way to prevent infection. T h e re ce n t sp ik es in sw in e flu cases h av e forced pharm a­ ceu tical com panies to increase production of the vaccine. This has slow ed the p rod u ction o f se a so n a l flu v a cc in e . "T h e re is a co m m o n p ercep tio n th at [th ere is a sh o rtag e o f H 1N1 v a c c i n e s ] ," N o rd lu n d s a id . "T h e re are cu rren tly o v er 114 m illion doses of the H1N1 vac­ cin e av ailab le, with h u nd red s of th ou san d s of d oses b eco m ­ ing available every day." A t UT, H 1N 1 vaccines have not yet arrived, and U niversity H ealth Services is unsure when shipm ents will come. " W e a d m i n i s t e r e d o v e r 11,000 seasonal influenza shots la st m on th on c a m p u s," said S h e rry B ell, U H S sen io r p ro ­ gram coordinator. "L ik e th o u ­ sands of other [clinics] we sent in a requ isition for H1N1 v ac­ c in e s , b u t w e h a v e n 't h eard anything back yet." B ell said U H S is c u rre n tly out of seaso n al flu sh o ts and does not expect any m ore ship­ m ents to arriv e until th e next flu seaso n . T h ey h op e to re­ ceive the H1N1 vaccine by late November. A cc o rd in g to s ta tis tic s re ­ leased on its Web site, U H S has actually seen decreases in the past tw o w eeks in the rates of influenza cases. But Bell said students should take every precaution necessary to stop the spread of disease. "I'm sure students are tired of hearing it, but wash your hands frequently and carry hand sani- tizer," she said. The report also discusses the small am ount of m ercury in he H1N1 vaccine, which can cause organ damage in some individ­ uals. T his has led the fed eral governm ent to appoint an inde­ pendent panel of experts to ex­ amine the vaccine. According to their report, "to date, no serious adverse events have suggested any safety signals w ith H1N1 vaccines." SlTTIN ON SUNSHINE U T stu d e n ts James M a rh a m -H ill, Casey Weiss an d Eric Sw anson re la x o u ts id e o f th e Texas U n io n a t sunset. Tamir Kalifa | Daily Texan Staff 875 Medical Study 875 Medical Study PPD Study O pportunities PPD conducts m edically supervised research studies to help evaluate new investigational m edications. PPD has been conducting re­ search studies in Austin fo r m ore th an 20 years. The qualifications fo r each study are listed below . You m ust be availab le to rem ain in our facility for all dates listed for a study to be eligible. Call to d ay for m ore inform atio n. U tility sound te ch n icia n Jason M a n z a n o applies a m ic ro p h o n e to A im e e T e e g a rd e n , w h o plays p ro ta g o n is t Julie Taylor in th e te levis io n show "Friday N ig h t Lights." . Erik Reyna | Daily Texan Staff NBC series "Friday Night Lights" filmed on campus Monday, which marked the second time the show has used UT facilities. Scenes for the eighth episode of season four were filmed in the William C. Hogg lecture room and professor Larry Carver's office in the neigh­ boring Dorothy L. Gebauer building. In an effort to limit travel expenses, these rooms were used to simulate rooms at various Boston universities that lead character Julie Taylor, played by Aimee Teegarden, visits. "Because of limited finances on the show and having to be very careful about where and how we spend our money, we don't have the luxury of going to all the places that are written about to film," said "Friday Night Lights" producer Nan Bernstein. "We're going to Boston for one day, and we're covering Boston University, Boston College, Tufts and Harvard Square, and we can only film there for 10 hours. Going far like that and filming an interior is not financially smart." Bernstein said the show's team looked for ar­ eas at UT that most mimicked the feel of the East Coast schools' classrooms so that they could fo­ cus on filming outdoor scenes while in Boston. The show has filmed at UT before, using the Darrell K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium in an episode that featured the state high school football championships game. Both Bernstein and Robert Meckel, the UT director of public affairs, said film­ ing went well, and there is a comfortable relation­ ship between the University and the show. "We worked with them in the fall of last year when they filmed some scenes at the stadium, and they were very professional," Meckel said. "They were very careful to work with our peo­ ple, and we were pleased. When they asked to come back on campus, it worked in their favor." — A udrey White NEWS BRIEFLY Perry bashes health care plan, ponders whether to 'opt out' AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. 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Family is an earnest record by a band trying to outlive its perceived potential and fully form an identity. It isn't without its faults, but it's one of the most energetic, creative and lavish albums of the year, even if it is one that you won't be reading a lot about — at least not yet. — Allistair Pinscf Pelican What We All Come to Need When the Chicago post-rock outfit Pelican first burst onto the scene in the early 2000s, they were heralded as a group that could beckon the salvation of the music industry and for a while, that's exactly what they did. The band, which plays primar­ ily instrumental pieces, functions as a sort of Isis with less aggres­ sion or, if you prefer, Explosions in the Sky with more aggression. The group toes the line between hard and soft, metallic and atmospheric. The band's latest release, What We All Come to Need, thankfully finds them returning to form after 2007's City o f Echoes. That album made it seem like Pelican had for­ gotten that w'ithout vocals, songs require more careful construction in order to tell a story. From the beginning of this lat­ est release, it's clear the band has once again been reminded of that fact. The album opener, "Glim­ mer," begins with a foreboding clean electric guitar line, which soon gives way to distortion and a rhythmically catchy (be it inten­ tional or not) drum beat pound­ ing in the background. Elsewhere on the record, tracks live up to their titles beautiful­ ly, be it the sparkling melodies of "Ephem eral" or the grandi­ ose ambitions of "Strung Up from the Sky." The band has found its sweet spot, playing tighter and with more passion than ever before. Undeniably, the most impres­ sive track on the record, and quite possibly of the band's career, is "The Creeper." Highlighted by a stuttering, adrenaline-pumping riff, the song is built from pure­ ly epic ingredients, fitting togeth­ er perfectly into a puzzle of the highest magnitude — a master­ piece. Parts of What We All Come to Need sound familiar, and the band still resorts to many of its old tricks when at a loss for new di­ rections, but "The Creeper" alone makes the album fantastic. The fact that there are other magnificent tunes on the album is just a bonus. — Robert Rich From page 12 unique experience that only Blan­ ton visitors will be able to enjoy. But the biggest problem with the Fernánd ez exh ib it is the to­ tal lack o f explanatory in fo rm a­ tion on the placards id entifying each sculpture. T he Blanton has w orked w ith F ernánd ez b efo re and she w as involved personally in the installation o f this exhibit. Could they not have obtained one o r two quotes or an explanation for at least a few of the pieces? T he seco n d e x h ib it, "D ra w n T ow ard L ig h t," u n fo rtu n a te ly com es across as an afterthou ght intended to fill space. W hile in this exh ibit the plac­ ard s each had a q u o te from the artist as w ell as in-d ep th exp la­ nations and background inform a­ tion, it leaves much to be desired. Show ing only on e w ork from each of four artists, the idea seems underdeveloped, and would have been m u ch m ore satisfy in g had it not been com petin g for space with the Fernández exhibit. Leo V illa rea l's H o rizo n 24 is a m e sm e riz in g L E D lig h t d is ­ play that altern ates betw een la­ v a-lik e colo r ch an g es and flick ­ erin g lik e a cam p fire. T h is a rt­ ist, along with Paul Chan, whose 2nd Light is rem iniscent of Kara W alker's silhouettes, d eserves to have a m ore in-d ep th treatm ent o f his w ork. Part o f the B lan ton 's charm is its a b ility to h ost e x h ib its that are righ t-sized — enough room to give its guests a co m p reh en ­ siv e sen se of the a rtist's v ision w ith o u t b ein g o v e rw h e lm in g . However, while "D raw n Toward L ig h t" and "B lin d L a n d sc a p e " are intended to com plem ent each oth er, th e y seem too d iffe re n t and end up com peting for space and attention. W hile each exh ibit on its own h as its m erits, th e tra n sitio n is ja rr in g , and th e y w o u ld h av e been m ore satisfying if they had been developed m ore fully - and separately. REVIEW: Video games sequel rivals action films in quality From page 12 U nch arte d 2: A m o n g Thieves (PS3) "Uncharted 2: Among Thieves" doesn't reimagine what games can be, but it's the first game I've played that holds the same range and technique as a great Holly­ wood summer film. But the game isn't special be­ cause it resembles a film, it's special because it's better then most action films released in recent years. In "Uncharted 2," the player re­ visits the role of Nathan Drake, a charismatic treasure hunter who can't seem to make his millions without screwing over a colleague or two. The game constantly re­ minds us that Drake is only hu­ man, which leads to great moments of vulnerability. Take, for example, the intro that finds Drake waking up on a train that is about to fall off a snowy cliffside. There is no explanation given; the player must simply sur­ vive as he leaps from chair to chair on the vertically positioned cart — all while bleeding from a bul­ let wound that makes him loose his balance and grip. Constant surpris­ es (a chair suddenly breaking, birds flying by) add to the suspense of what should be a very easy intro. "Uncharted 2" includes so many great set pieces that it's hard to dis­ cuss the story without spoiling it. Just know' that if this were "Indi­ ana Jones 4," there would be a lot less people in the world upset at Spielberg. "Uncharted 2" doesn't do anything new, but it sums up everything games have done right this decade in a story that actually makes you care. — A.P. t l T r O e * r • 1^ I A r | c ,n f " 11* t ° uf cre* ^ anybocfyl Download, pnM, and fill out a registration form w ith you team nam e and information Drop that, and the $40 fper team )registration fee off in room 3.200 a tth e Hearst Student M edia building on the UT campus Provide your own equipment, such as "■* £ . * “ I U par l i c s p a i e a cam era and a microphone. ^ Bnng trends to the festival, get yout film race T shtts, and win same cod pitres. 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Courtesy o i N aughty Dog 12\ i v m November 3 2009 L ift I ’ll» I H l l l 1 > \ \ \ Life&Arts Editor: Leigh Patterson E-mail: lih'andartstfidailytexanonline.com Phone: (512) 232-2209 www.dailytexanonline.com Blanton sheds light on sculptures Indie groups’ second effort lacks original material, flair Artists overcome loss of recordings by attempting to reproduce sound The Mary Onettes Islands The Mary Onettes have had a nmgh time While recording the follow-up to their 200 self-ti­ tled debut, the hard driv e containing all of the band's recorded work was stolen from lead singer Philip F.k- strbm s car, and ev en extra precautions were foiled when the back-ups were lost to power failure However, the band persevered, pushing through with freshly written material LVspite the pitiable back story the album is som e what lackluster. The band's second album. Islands, is eerily re m in is ­ cent of its first, boasting a sound that is unabashedly hi­ jacked horn the '80s Such a distinct sound, while effective in establishing a band, can grow weary after the first album. Islands functions as nothing more than a re-release of the band's debut album While the actual text-setting for the songs has emotional variation Fkstrom s sleepy vocals don't supply the range the lyrics deserve While it is unclear if the sound would have changed had the original recordings been released the Swedish band has stuck to fanciful keyboards and shimmering guitars that would serve perfectly as the soundtrack tor “Prettv in Pink " "Dare," the first single off Islands sums up the album perfectly even it is not a completely new track The song, which was first released on the D>m' EP in Apnl fully utilizes the group's rather impressive instrumen­ tal repertoire. Strings weave smartlv among the boun­ cy power chords giving the idea that the Marv Onettes have something more going for them despite their fail­ ure to deliv er It is tragic to think of what the Marv Onettes have gone through, but the band 's struggle is showing on Is­ lands. If they had taken 4 little more time to regroup and reassess, they might have done better than this sound that is so easy to dismiss. — Abiy Johnston Think About Life Family Think About Lite's tune seemingly came and went with the band's '06 debut, an impassioned effort that recalled Wolf Parade and The Unicorns without the confidence or hooks. Back in May the group released its follow-up Fami­ ly in Canada, which was received with little recognition beyond Montreal blogs and MvSpace fans. Now that the band s label, .Aliens has gathered enough monev to distribute the air urn in the U S audi­ ences can be newly inspired to give the band a chance and potentially discover a new favorite ' Johanna’ starts off a new era of Think About Life •nth vibrant horns some crazv drumming and an ec­ static vocal performance bv Martin Cesar — the driving force of the album despite contributions by the band's mam songwriter instrumentalist Graham Van Pelt Havm Mv Baby ” the second track, makes a dear case that Think About Life isn't going to be retreadmg familiar ground this time; the song sounds like Kanye West, Cut Copy and TV On the Radio thrown into a blender. In other words, about as good as vou'd imagine. While it was once a band that embraced an intention­ ally unattractive, lo-fi sound. Family's biggest fault hes in how immaculately mechanical the band can sound. Dance floor-ready rock songs like "Sweet Sixteen" and "Young Hearts" sound too stiff to get loose to, often re­ calling Bloc Party's last album. The album is at its best when it layers the band's more direct indie rock with diverse samples, synths, and guitar on tracks like "Wizzzard" and "Nueva MUSIC continues on page 11 By Lisa Holung Daily Texan Staff Whether you prefer crispy ice­ berg lettuce or spinach leaves, sal­ ads are a favorite choice for meals due to their easy assem bly and versatility. A salad can come in any style, ra n g in g from G reek an d C a e ­ sar salad s to Texas' favon te taco salad. W hat o ften se ts on e a p a r t from another is the flavor of the dressing. W hether y ou like sp rin g m ix or lettuce blends, these two reci­ pes for vinaigrette dressings make great accompaniments to any b a­ sic salad. Both dressings have a rich and slightly tart flavor, courtesy of the balsam ic vinegar, Dijon m ustard and red bell pepper. The dressings could also serve as marinades for meat or poultry. U pon storage, natural separa­ tion of the ingredients is normal — they can be recom bined by sim ple stirring. Store the dressing in recyclable glass jars to help the environment. Frequent co n su m e rs of sa la d know' that fancy dressings can of- Museum goers exam ine a piece o f Teresita Fernandez's exhibit "Blind Landscapes," which opened at the Blanton M useum of Art on Sunday. This installa­ tion Granite ' consists of a series of pieces of granite attached to the wall. Curt Youngblood | Daily Texan Staff W ater-inspired exhibit a success, complementary pieces a distraction By Atysha Behn Daily Texan Staff The B lanton M u se u m of A rt's new exhibits Teresita Fernandez: Blind L an dscape' .\nd the com ple­ m entary "D raw n T ow ard Ligh t,' are enchanting if flaw ed. While anv exhibit pu rp ortin g to focu s on light m ay brin g to m ind un sav ory m e m o r ie s o f T h o m a s k in k a d e , the stark sim p lic ity o f the sculptures will instantly bam sh such thoughts* B lin d L a n d s c a p e " is an im ­ m ersion into the w ork of Teresita Fernandez, the artist who designed the Stacked W aters sculpture in the B lan ton 's atrium W here Stacked W aters is lig h t an d p la y fu l, the V J D E i G A M E R E V I E W p ie c e s in "B lin d L a n d sc a p e m ore m uted and dark. are T h e exh ibit is w e ll-o rg a n iz ed . F e rn a n d e z 's sc u lp tu re s are rela- time. While m ost pieces are unique, there are a few so sim ilar to each other that they se em slig h tly re­ dun dant for such a sm all exhibit. The Blanton Museam of Art's new exhibits [...] are enchanting, if flawed. tivelv large so only 15 or so are on display, giv in g the view er breath ­ ing room to p rocess one piece at a How ever, this do esn 't m ean that F ern andez's work isn 't fascinating. "D u n e ," a cu rved , sta irste p p ed w o oden structure w ith th ou san ds of pale b ead s glu ed to the steps, is an exhibit highlight. A s y ou walk arou n d the piece, su btle color pat­ terns em erge that aren't detectable u p close but com e into focu s at an angled distance. Perhaps the m ost intriguing ele­ m ent of this exhibit is w atching the m an y w ay s in which F ern an d ez's fa scin a tio n w ith w ater is p lay ed out. " D r a w n W a te rs," a stu n n in g g ra p h ite stru ctu re, is on ly a few s t e p s a w a y from the a t r iu m 's "Stacked Waters." Seeing these two p ie c e s v irtu ally sid e by sid e is a E X H I B I T continues on page 11 Actor, designer collaborate on metal-inspired game Brutal Legend (Xbox360, PS3) Brutal Legend" is a game that can't be discussed without mentioning the pairing of actor Jack Black and revered game designer Tim Schafer (known for PC adventure games in the '90s). One of these guvs is much funnier then the other, and luckily he is the one who has brought the world of "Brutal Legend" to life — a strange fantasy realm that is inspired by heavy metal album covers and mocks every aspect of the genre that has and hasn't been touched by "Metalocalypse." As convincing as the detailed world is in HD, celebrities and comedians such as Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy Kilmister, Tim Curry and Brian Posehn help bring the world to life. , * You plav as Eddie Riggs, a roadie of a by­ gone era, who is transported to this world after getting blood on his supernatural belt. The story is there only to bring the player closer to the ridiculous characters and jokes that will surely be appreciated by metal fans. Sadly, the same can be said of the game- play. If the game w'eren't so funny and charming this would be a serious knock against the overall experience but, in effect, it feels like complaining about the cinematog­ raphy in a comedy. If all Schafer and Black want us to do is laugh and have a good time, then mission accomplished. — Allistair Pinsof Homemade dressings spruce up boring salad mixes R E V I E W ontinues on page 11 "Brutal Legend," a new video gam e starring Jack Black, is inspired by heavy metal album covers. Courtesy of Double Fine Productions orange vinaigrette btgredients cups orange Juice ic 2:zand2tbspb^- ^ « » P D ijo n creóte mus. 2 tbsp honey 1 p in c h b Ja c k p e p p e r Directions • Uombineingn ajld blend togeth Chill in nefrige; serving. 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