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UTPD stresses safety to new students

Officer suggests defense classes for females, 
labeling and locking property fo r all students

By Sean Beherec
Daily Texan Staff 
A plethora of broken bike ca­
bles and vehicle anti-theft devic­
es lay strewn across the Universi­
ty police table on the first day of 
freshman orientation Tuesday.

Several item s on the table are 
advertised to keep personal be­

lo n g in g s from gettin g in to the 
hands of criminals, but m any are 
ju st junk, said U niversity Police 
D epartm ent O fficer Darrell H al­
stead. D uring a presentation for 
p aren ts o f new stu d e n ts, H al­
stead said m any people do not 
know w hat can best protect them 
or w h at crim e-p rev en tio n pro­

gram s exist on campus.

"W e have yet to catch a bike 
thief shooting locks off, but kev- 
la r cu ts w e ll," H a lstea d said 
w h ile h old in g a cu t bike cable 
w rapped w ith the b u llet-p ro o f 
material. "Is this a good lock? It's 
a piece of junk."

H alstead said he hop es stu ­
dents w ill heed his advice to la­
bel and secure their belongings, 
as well as take part in self-defense 
classes on campus. Halstead sug­

gested th at ev ery fem ale sign 
up for Rape Aggression D efense 
classes, which are offered at the 
University and several m ajor cit­
ies in Texas.

Erling Bjerga, w hose d au g h ­
ter will start classes in the fall, 
considered having his daughter 
take the rape defense classes after 
speaking with Halstead.

that I'm not really concerned."

K risten Jo n es, a stu d e n t a f­
fairs adm inistrator in the O ffice 
of the Dean of Students, took the 
class and said she suggests it to 
every fem ale she sees at o rien ­
tation. Som e stu d ents schedu le 
their classes around the program 
because they find it so important, 
she said.

"The No. 1 thing is her personal 
safety," Bjerga said about his cam ­
pus security worries. "O ther than

Kathy Thom as' d aughter will 
attend the U niversity in the fall. 
She said she is not worried about

her daughter's belongings being 
stolen on campus.

"If som ething happens to her 
laptop, I can replace it," she said. 
"I can't replace her."

Longhorn M obile C am p us is 
available at no charge for students 
to receive emergency text messag­
es regarding crim e on cam pus. 
Students can sign up for the ser­
vice online, along with the C am ­
pus Watch newsletter, which logs 
University police activity.

To m ato o r n o t to m a to

Today marks first 
Texas execution 
in eight months

By Teresa Mioli
D aily Texan Staff

Karl C ham berlain of D allas is 
sch edu led today to be the first 
T exas in m a te e x e cu ted by le ­
thal in jection in the past eig h t 
m onths, since the U.S. Suprem e 
C o u rt issued a m oratoriu m on 
the death penalty.

C ham berlain's attorneys filed 
a motion with the Texas Court of 
C rim in al A p peals T h u rsd ay to 
delay his execution. On Monday, 
the court denied the motion in a 
7-to-2 ruling.

Chamberlain's attorney, John Ja- 
suta, said there is a motion before 
the U.S. Suprem e Court to post­
pone his client's execution.

U n less taken up by th e S u ­
preme Court, these measures will 
not postpone C ham berlain's ex­
ecu tio n , said Ed M arty, g en er­
al counsel for the Texas Court of 
Criminal Appeals.

C ham berlain's execution is not

the first to be scheduled since the 
n ation w id e m oratoriu m ended 
in April.

T h e T e x a s C o u rt o f C r im i­
nal A p peals granted a reprieve 
on June 3 to D errick Sonn ier 90 
m in u tes b efo re h is e x e cu tio n . 
H is atto rn eys filed a m otion to 
stay his execu tio n on the basis 
that the s ta te 's leth al in jectio n 
p ro ced u re v io late d the E igh th 
A m en d m en t a g a in st cru el and 
unusual punishm ent.

S o n n ie r 's a tto rn e y s p o in ted 
ou t that the co u rt had not yet 
ru led on the case o f H elib erto 
C h i, who w as granted a stay of 
execution in O ctober 2007, so the 
court could consid er the con sti­
tutionality of the lethal injection 
procedure.

The court on M onday rejected 
C h i's challenge to the procedure 
overturned Sonnier's stay.

EXECUTION continues on page 2

Jenny Choi, a 
biochem istry 
junior, pum ps 
super premium 
unleaded 
gasoline for 
$4.13 per 
gallon into 
her Lexus at 
the 7-11 near 
campus.

Callie Richmond

Daily Texan Staff

Students, city grapple 
with $4-per-gallon gas
City officials, locals 
devising methods 
to cut consumption

"I visit my parents a lot less," 
said pharm acy sen ior D anielle 
Bailey. "W hen [gas prices] got to 
$ 3 .7 9 ,1 was like, 'OK, they're not 
going to go dow n.'"

By Mackenzie Meador
Daily Texan Staff 

UT students and Travis County 
officials alike are em ptying their 
pockets as average nationw id e 
gas prices surpass $4 per gallon.

County com m issioners estab ­
lished a com m ittee Tuesday to 
address the unexpected burden 
on their budget caused by gaso­
line consum ption. The com m it­
tee w ill d iscu ss d ifferen t m ea­
sures for reducing departm ental 
gas usage and will report back to 
the commissioners court over the 
next few weeks.

Meanwhile, students are search­
ing for w ays to cu t th eir ow n 
consumption.

Average gas prices in Austin re­
main about 10 cents low er than 
the national average, according 
to AustinGasPrices.com, a Web site 
that ranks user-reported gas pric­
es from around the city.

Actual prices varied widely be­
tw een statio n s. Som e are now 
charging up to $4.09 per gallon, 
w hile others offer gas for as low 
as $3.78.

The price to fill up a 15-gallon 
tank at each of those prices differs 
by more than $4.50.

Bailey said that even though 
her brand-new car gets good gas 
mileage, she thinks high gas pric­
es are perm anent and that rising

COSTS continues on page 2

Chef Ernest O w ney pulls tom atoes out from the walk-in fridge at the Kinsolving Dorm itory dinin g hall Tuesday. The cafeteria replaced 
its normal selection of tom atoes Tuesday with cherry tom atoes due to a nationwide salm onella outbreak.

Callie Richm ond | Daily Texan Staff

Food scare benefits locals

By Andrew Kreighbaum
Daily Texan Staff

The Division of Housing and 
Food Services has started pur­
chasing all of its tomatoes from 
local suppliers because of the na­
tionwide salmonella outbreak.

C am pus food serv ice o ffi­
c ia ls m ade the d ecisio n F ri­
day to serve only local tom a­
toes in campus cafeterias in re­
sponse to a Food and Drug Ad­
ministration warning concern­
ing salm onella-related illness­
es caused by several varieties 
of raw red tomatoes.

The cam pus experienced a 
shortage of tomatoes over the 
w eek en d , w hen on ly lo c a l­
ly grown cherry tomatoes were 
available.

The distributor that supplies 
the University's cafeterias nor­
mally gets tomatoes and other 
pnxiuce from across the country.
"We purchase from U.S. Food 
Services, and they come from

wherever the growing season is 
at that time, whether it's in Tex­
as or Florida or California," said 
Scott Meyer, associate director 
of housing and food services.

Because Texas is one of the 
several states with tomato pro­
duce deemed safe for consump­
tion, M eyer said the cam pus 
might run out of tomatoes later 
in the summer.

Meyer said that only 20 to 30 
percent of total produce pur­
chased is normally bought direct­
ly from local farms every week.

For now, the University will 
purchase its tomatoes from the 
Austin Sustainable Food Center, 
which distributes produce from 
more than 50 local farmers. The 
c e n te r's spokesw om an Susan 
Leibrock said the center is trying 
to convince consum ers not to 
avoid purchasing all tomatoes.

Leibrock said locally-produced 
foods do not go through as many 
stages of production and trans-

Toe-may-to, Toe-mah-to

The Food and Drug 
Administration has advised 
consumers to avoid the follounng 
varieties o f raw tomato:

• Red plum
• Red Roma
• Red round

Symptoms of salmonella infections:

• Fever
• Diarrhea
• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Abdominal pain

U.S. stales not associated with the 
outbreak:

• Arkansas
• California
• Georgia
• Hawaii
• North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas

Source: FDA Web site

portation and are handled by 
fewer hands. Those products that 
require the most transportation 
also have the greatest chance of 
being contaminated.

The U niversity will re-eval- 
uate its policy of buying exclu­
sively local tomatoes after the

source of the outbreak is identi­
fied, he said.

L e ib ro c k said s h e d id n 't 
think the outbreak would nega­
tively affect local farmers' sales, 
b u t that anytim e there is an

SCARE continues on page 2

Stereotypes of Asian-Americans outdated, report says

By Ashley Crooks
Daily Texan Staff 

ncoming freshmen Jordan Yeh 
1 Ryan Phung, both Chinese- 
lerican students, chuckled as 
y listed com mon stereotypes 
Ysians that came to mind, such 
>eing good at math, playing the 
lin and having strict parents, 
'eh said his parents are fair- 
•elaxed when it com es to his 
ication.
loth said that in general the

stereotypes have an elem ent of 
truth but are more often material 
for Jokes than valid statistics.

A re p o rt re le a se d M o n d ay 
sh o w s th a t the a c a d e m ic a lly 
high-achieving stereotype associ­
ated with Asian-Americans is an 
outdated and potentially harm ­
ful notio n . The report, "A sia n 
A m erican s and P acific Isla n d ­
ers— Facts, Not Fiction: Setting 
the R ecord S tra ig h t," is based 
on federal education, im m igra­

tion and census data and College 
Board statistics.

The purpose of the report is to 
dispel possibly harmful assum p­
tions about the Asian-Am eriean 
and Pacific Islander com m u ni­
ty and replace those assumptions 
with facts — for example, that the 
growth in university populations 
is solely attributed to the m inor­
ity group parallels that of other 
demographics.

ation of educational policies in 
academic institutions that ignore 
A sian-A m erican stud ents w ho 
do not fit the stereotype and are 
in need of special assistance, ac­
cording to the report.

Conducted by researchers from 
New York University and funded 
by the C ollege Board, the study 
also addresses how the stereo­
type dism isses the broad range

The stereotype fuels the cre­

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By Sean Beherec
Daily Texan Staff 
Structural engineers, who were 
allowed into the Texas G overnor's 
M an sion , sh ot p h o to s released 
Tuesday of the 150-year-old m an­
sio n 's severely charred interior 
and extensive structural dam age.

Investigators, w ho suspect ar­
son, are still trying to determine if 
the culprit acted alone or had ac­

com plices, as well as specifics on 
how the blaze was started.

detect the path of the fire through 
the building.

Federal fire and bom b investi­
gators, including forensic special­
ists and K-9 handlers sent by the 
Federal Bureau of A lcohol, To­
bacco, Firearm s and E xp losiv es 
arrived Tuesday m orning to aid 
in the investigation, said bureau 
spokesm an Earl Woodham.

Spokesw om an for the gov er­
nor's office Krista Piferrer said en­
gineers and historical preservation 
groups are still unable to assess the 
cost of d am ages and confirm ed 
that investigators have determined 
from multiple video tapes that ar­
son was the cause of the fire.

Woodham said d ogs are able to

"We do have som e surveillance

tape footage that show s that the 
fire w as deliberately set," Pifer­
rer said.

she also received a special brief­
ing on the investigation to relay to 
Comyn.

Other in form ation regard in g 
the tapes cannot be revealed un­
til the investigation is com plete, 
she said.

Woodham escorted Sandy Ed­
w ards, regional director of Sen. 
John C om yn 's office, on a special 
tour of the grounds. Edwards said

Austin Fire Department spokes­
woman Dawn Clopton addressed 
rum ors claim ing that fires in city 
trash cans follow in g the b laze 
were som ehow related to the in­
cident at the m ansion. C lopton 
called these rumors false and said 
the department did not see a spike

in the number of reported fires.

Gov. Rick Perry and his wife Ani­
ta had been living in a West Austin 
rental home during renovations to 
the mansion and were out of town 
when the fire took place.

State Fire M arshal Paul M al­
donado asks for anyone with in­
form ation on the fire to call the 
state fire m arshal's toll-free hotline 
at (877) 434-7345.

EXECUTION: Next steps unclear

THE HEAT IS ON

From page 1

M a u rie L e v in , a tto rn e y for 
Sonnier and adjunct professor at 
the UT Law School, said the state 
m u st set an execution d ate for 
his client within 30 d ay s of M on­
d a y 's ruling.

"We are not sure what will hap­

pen from here," Levin said.

Marty said it is possible that at­

torneys for other death row in­
m ates w ould file cases question­
ing the legality of the state's lethal 
injection procedure.

"In the right form, in the right 
claim , it's still possible," he said. 
"W hether it will be successful is 
an entirely different issue."

Charles H ood of Collin C oun ­
ty is scheduled for execution on 
June 17.

COSTS: Increasing gas prices call 
for more than small measures

From page 1

costs m ay cause her to move to a 
new home closer to a bus route.

G o v e rn m e n t an d p re-so cial 
w ork junior C helsea A dler said 
she w as already riding the bus to 
com m ute to her internship on a 
regular basis, despite having a car 
with her on cam pus for the first 
time this summer.

"There will have to be less de­
m an d ," A dler said. "P eop le are 
going to have to start relying less 
on g as and their cars."

P h arm acy g ra d u a te stu d e n t

M arc F lem in g s a id he m ig h t 
switch vehicles with his wife, who 
com m utes a shorter distance in a 
smaller car than his.

But radical strategiés, not small 
changes, m ust be implemented to 
combat rising prices, he said.

"P eople have to p ut pressure 
on the com panies," Fleming said. 
"R ight now there's a lot of artifi­
cial inflation ... People will have 
to prioritize and stop filling up. As 
long as m ost people can afford to 
pay and are willing to pay, it's go­
ing to make it harder on the peo­
ple who can't pay."

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Aaron Leneve blows glass at Neon Plant in Hyde Park Tuesday evening.

Matty Greene | Daily Texan Staff

FBI: Austin crime up 5.8 percent

By Mackenzie Meador
Daily Texan Staff 
Preliminary numbers released 
M o n d ay from the FBI's 2007 
Uniform Crime Report indicate 
a n ation w id e 1.8 percent d e ­
crease in violent crime but a 5.8 
percent increase in Austin.

Crim e in Austin increased in 
every category the FBI tracks, 
including a 50 percent increase 
in m urders from 20 to 30 since 
2006. N one of the m urders re­
ported were related to d o m es­
tic violence.

A lso, there were th ou san d s 
more reports of theft and prop­
erty crime.

A u stin Police D ep artm en t 
Chief of Staff David Carter said 
murders in Austin have actually 
been decreasing in the past eight 
years, so any increase is larger

percentage-w ise than it seem s 
in actual num bers. The depart­
ment is m ore concerned about 
the increase in property crimes, 
including theft and arson, be­
cause the increase is more sig ­
nificant, Carter said.

He said the increase in both 
v io le n t crim e an d p ro p e rty 
theft can be attributed in part 
to in c re a se d re p o rts o f s u b ­
stance abuse.

The H yde Park Neighborhood 
Association already tries to curb 
crime through a neighborhood 
watch program . The neighbor­
hood has also recently form ed 
a program that seeks to get res­
idents m ore involved with the 
p o lic e d e p a rtm e n t by o ffe r­
ing a class on crime and safety 
and eventually allowing partici­
pants to ride along with officers,

said Carol Welder, the crime and 
safety chair of the neighborhood 
association.

Welder said association en­
courages people to get to know 
their neighbors through socials 
and contact lists, walk the neigh­
borhood in groups to watch for 
suspiciou s activity and contact 
the police with any concerns, no 
matter how minor.

While their efforts have result­
ed in a greater police presence 
and h elped to curb break-ins, 
Welder said crime trends have 
shifted into other areas — espe­
cially property crime — and that 
residents still talk about wanting 
to move somewhere safer.

"T he police can't be every ­
where," Welder said. "We have 
to do our part to be their ears and 
eyes in our neighborhoods."

SCARE: Restaurants react to consumers’ salmonella fears

From page 1

o utb reak in the food sy stem , 
con sum ers are going to be re­
luctant to buy that p articular 
product.

Paul Canderozzi, m anager of 
Mellow M ushroom Pizza, said 
the store voluntarily sto p p e d

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selling tom atoes M onday even 
though the D rag restau ran t's 
distributor said it w as sure the 
tomatoes were safe to eat.

O nly cooked and sun-dried 
tom ato es are currently being 
used in the restaurant.

"W hen som eth in g like this 
happens, it usually takes about 
two w eeks before people start 
se llin g the item in q u estio n 
again," Canderozzi said.

Kerbey Lane went ahead with 
its annual tradition of a tom a­
to-themed menu Tuesday night, 
despite the outbreak.

General M anager Phillip Ba- 
chus said the m enu w as unaf­
fected by the salm onella o u t­
break because the restaurant has 
bought its produce from a local 
farm in Poteet, Texas for the last 
15 years.

Bach us w as concerned con-

The problem 
is that when 
the community 
hears ‘tomatoes 
they just hear 
‘tomatoes.

— Phillip finch us, 
kerbey Lane 
general manager

sum ers w ould not distinguish 
between locally grown tomatoes 
an d those sh ip p ed over long 
distances.

"T he problem is that when 
the community hears 'tomatoes, 
they just hear 'tom atoes,'" Ba- 
chus said.

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See video of the Central Texas Ballooning 
Association's hands-on hot air balloon 
training at Zilker Park on Monday.

NEWS BRIEFLY
Trash to Treasure project raises 
money, encourages recycling
Unwanted furniture and dorm 
decor left behind in May could re­
surface in apartments and dorms 
around the University in August.

The Trash to Treasure project, co­
ordinated by the Campus Environ­
mental Agency, is a recycling pro­
gram that collects the unwanted 
material from students departing 
dorms. The goods are stored over 
the summer and then recycled in a 
campus-wide garage sale in 
August.

The project diverts 50 tons of 
waste from landfills and generates 
funds to support campus environ­
mental programs like recycling, litter 
reduction and energy conservation.
The garage sale raised $5,800 in 
2005 and almost tripled their pro­
ceeds in 2006.

—

 Ana McKenzie

Sparsely attended CapMetro 
meeting covers fare increase
The mayor of Leander joked 
about a "gun-slingin', three— 
legged dog" to a room of empty 
chairs and a few members of the 
press — the only attendees at Cap­
ital Metro's first public meeting on 
the proposed fare increase.

Misty Whited, a spokeswom­
an for Capital Metro, said meetings 
and outreach initiatives have been 
conducted in the past year and 
that last year's meeting in Leander 
had the highest public turnout. She 
said that the public's main concern 
when Capital Metro first proposed 
the fare hikes was that the increase 
was too much at one time.

The proposal, set to begin this 
fall, would increase base fares from 
50 cents to 75 cents, and then to $1 
in fall 2010. All other fares would 
increase proportionately.

The fare for Capital Metro's first 

train service, anticipated to start 
this fall, will be $1.50 for a one­
way ride.

"Most people understand the 
need for the fare increase ... It is 
the first in over 20 years," Whit­
ed said.

Rising gas prices and low fare 
revenues are some of the reasons 
for the fare increase, she said.

The next meeting will be 6 p.m. 
Wednesday at the Austin Commu­
nity College South Austin campus. 
Another is scheduled for 6 p.m. 
Thursday at Austin City Hall.

A public hearing following the 
third meeting is scheduled on June 
27, followed by a vote by the Capi­
tal Metro Board on June 30.

The board will vote on the pro­

posal after August.

—

 Ashley Crooks

STEREOTYPES: Some 
students struggling 
against old policies

From page 1

of acad em ic field s o f stu d y — 
not just math, science, engineer­
ing and technology — pursued by 
Asian-Americans.

While m any A sian -A m erican 
students excel academ ically and 
are w ell represented at the n a ­
tion's m ost selective colleges, the 
report said there is a significant 
num ber of studen ts w ho stru g ­
gle and are overlooked by policies 
that assum e Asian-American stu ­
dents will excel on their own.

But, som e say the stereo typ e 

holds a shred of truth.

Elizabeth Walsh, a com m u n i­
ty and regional planning g ra d u ­
ate student, said the v ast m ajor­
ity of her A sian-A m erican c la ss­
m ates seem to fulfill the positive 
aspects of their stereotypes — in­
telligence and drive — but that 
Asian exchange students seem to 
fit the stereotypes more often than 
Asian-American students.

 T h e D a i l y T e x a n

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Panda center still recovering 
from quake, mourning 2 bears

A pand a eats grass at 
C h in a C o nserva tive 
and Research Center 
for th e G ia n t Panda 
in W olong, China's 
S ichuan pro v in ce on 
Tuesday. The 
n in e-ye ar-old M ao 
M ao was fin a lly 
fo u n d M on day, 
a lm ost a m o n th after 
the M ay 12 
devasta tin g 
earth qu ake.

By Cara Anna
The Associated Press

WOLONG, China — Mao Mao 
the panda's rem ains were gen­
tly laid in a w ooden crate and 
wheeled to a patch of ground in 
C hina's famed Wolong N ature 
Reserve.

Nearly a month after she was 
cru shed to d eath w hen C h i­
na's devastating earthquake col­
lapsed the wall of her enclosure, 
9-year-old Mao Mao was laid to 
rest Tuesday in a quiet corner 
of the Wolong panda breeding 
center.

The facility w as badly d am ­
aged by the M ay 12 quake but 
o fficia ls in itia lly th o u g h t all 
64 pandas had survived. Then 
they discovered two were m iss­
ing. M ao M ao 's body w as d is­
covered Monday, buried under 
debris.

The loss of the panda, a moth­
er of five, w as a blow to the 
breed ing program at W olong, 
which continues to struggle to 
recover. The quake was centered 
just 20 miles away in the heart of 
Sichuan province's mountainous 
panda country, and five Wolong 
staff members were killed.

The endangered panda is re­
vered as a national sym bol in 
China, w here about 1,600 pan­
das live in the wild, mostly in Si­
chuan and the neighboring prov­
ince o f Sh aan x i. A n oth er 180 
have been bred in captivity.

For the staff at Wolong, Mao 
Mao's loss was all the more acute 
because she w as killed in her 
prim e, said D avid W ildt, w ho 
heads the Center for Species Sur­
vival at the Sm ithson ian's N a­
tional Zoo in Washington.

A le xa n d e r F. Yuan

Associated Press

"I d on't think it's surprising 
there's a great deal of concern 
ov er the loss of this an im a l," 
said W ild t, w h o has w orked 
closely with the Chinese panda 
program.

More than 69,000 people were 
killed by the quake, which left 5 
million people hom eless, crush­
ing buildings and tossing down 
bould ers the size of cars. Fre­
quent aftersh o ck s contin u e to 
rattle the area.

Wedged in a narrow valley a 
few hours drive from the capi­
tal of Sichuan province, Wolong 
was pummeled by landslides on 
both sides.

W o lo n g 's 14 p a n d a c u b s 
played ou td oors Tuesday, less 
than 30 yards from a huge pile of 
debris left by a landslide.

"They were so nervous when 
it happened," said Huang Yan,

the deputy director of research. 
"I found seven of them huddled 
together."

The center rem ains closed to 
visitors, and Huang said it might 
not open again until next year. 
Six pandas have been sent to an­
oth er reserve in S ich u an , and 
eight have been sent to Beijing 
for an O lym pics stay at the Bei­
jing Zoo that was planned before 
the quake.

Now one of the biggest ques­
tions is this year's breeding pro­
gram . No one know s w hat the 
effects of the quake will be.

With the funeral over, the cen­
ter turned quiet Tuesday. M ao 
M ao's keeper, He, had cared for 
the panda since she was 3.

"It's like you could say som e­
th in g and sh e w o u ld u n d e r­
sta n d ," he said . " I f you w ere 
happy, she was happy too."

WORLD BRIEFLY

Plane bursts into flames after 
landing in Khartoum

KHARTOUM, Sudan — A Su­
danese jet landed in a storm and 
veered off the runway, killing doz­
ens of people, officials said.

Official and state media said 
immediately after the crash that 
about half the 203 passengers 
aboard the Airbus A310 had been 
killed in the crash around 9 p.m., 
local time, Tuesday. But several 
hours later, officials began report­
ing a lower toll.

"Thank God we were able to get 

all the passengers out," said Sar-

rah Faisal to Sudanese TV from a 
stretcher. She gave no more details.
Deputy parliament speaker Mo­
hammed al-Hassan al-Ameen said 
the death toll was "about 30 peo­
ple." Police spokesman Moham­
med Abdel Majid al-Tayeb said 
five bodies had been pulled from 
the wreckage.

— The A ssociated Press

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South Korean protesters hold candles at an anti-government rally against U.S. beef imports in Seoul, South 
Korea, on Tuesday. South Korea's entire Cabinet offered to resign Tuesday.

Lee Jln-man | Associated Press

U.S. beef uproar rages

South Korea's capital 
demonstration tops 
all others before it

By Hyung-Jin Kim
Associated Press Writer 

SEOUL, South Korea — About 
80,000 protesters gathered in the 
S ou th K orean ca p ita l Tu esd ay 
in the largest d em onstration yet 
against the planned resum ption 
of U.S. beef imports, as the entire 
C abinet offered to resign in the 
uproar over the policy.

President Lee M yung-bak's of­
fice did not say w hether he would 
accep t th e re sig n atio n s, an at­
tempt to defuse the beef crisis that 
has paralyzed his government less 
than four months after the former 
Hyundai CEO took office follow­
ing a landslide election victory.

T h e g o v e r n m e n t a g re ed in 
April to lift almost all restrictions 
that had been imposed on imports 
of U.S. beef over fears of mad cow 
disease. Protesters have been de­
m anding for weeks that the gov­
ernm ent scrap or renegotiate the

beef deal amid perceptions it did 
not do enough to protect citizens.
The dem onstrations began af­
ter a popular current affairs TV 
program questioned the safety of 
U.S. beef and claimed Koreans are 
more susceptible than Americans 
and Europeans to the human vari­
ant due to genetics.

Michael Breen, a longtime Brit­
ish o b serv er of the local scene 
and author of the book "The Ko­
reans," blam ed the current situa­
tion on disinform ation spread on 
the Internet.

"N othing the governm ent says 
will be trusted because it is deal­
ing with hysteria," he said.

In the largest p ro test so far, 
80,000 demonstrators waving can­
dles gathered Tuesday evening in 
central Seoul, according to police, 
who blocked roads with shipping 
containers to prevent the crowd 
from marching to the nearby pres­
idential Blue House.

Som e 21,000 riot police w ere 
deployed to keep order, the Seoul 
Metropolitan Police Agency said.

"P resid ent Lee h asn't listened 
to the v o ices of his people. We

still don't have a genuine dem oc­
racy in ou r cou ntry," said Jang 
Dae-hyun, a spokesman for a civ­
ic group that has organized pro­
tests.

R allies again st the b eef deal 
turned violent over the weekend 
and the governm ent said it will 
take tougher steps against protest­
ers if the violence continues.

Earlier, thousands of conserva­
tive activists supporting the deal 
protested near the site of the anti- 
U.S. beef rally.

"It's tim e to put out the ca n ­
d les," said Suh Jung-kap, a con­
servative activist. The protesters 
"are only interested in overthrow­
ing the Lee M yung-bak govern­
m en t, n ot the safety of p u b lic 
health," he said.

L ee's governm ent said it has 
asked the U.S. not to export beef 
from older cattle — considered at 
greater risk of mad cow disease — 
but rejected calls for a com plete 
renegotiation of the accord.

Both Seoul and Washington in­
sist U.S. beef is safe, citing the Par­
is-based World O rganization for 
Animal Health.

Q U O T E O F T H E D A Y

I ju st laughed. Its easier than crying

Tony Keibel, a Wisconsin businessman who had to 

throw out ruined food and sweep out inch-thick mud 
after Midwest flooding

Kevin Rowland, chief investi­
gator with the state medical ex­
aminer's office, said the girls 
each suffered multiple gunshot 
woimds to the head and chest.

A $14,000 reward was being of­

fered for information about the 
killings.

Senator: Obama considering 
former militarymen for VP
WASHINGTON — Barack 
Obama is considering former top 
military leaders among his possi­
ble running mates, according to 
senators who met Tuesday with 
the Democratic presidential can­
didate's vice presidential vetting 
team.

North Dakota Sen. Kent Con­
rad told The Associated Press that 
the team asked him about poten­
tial candidates from three broad 
categories — current and former 
top elected officials and former 
top military leaders.

The Obama campaign has been 

keeping the process a closely 
guarded secret.

"We talked about many 

names," Conrad said, including 
"some that are out of the box, but 
I think would be very well-re­
ceived by the American people."
A running mate from the mil­

itary ranks could help address 
his lack of foreign policy expe­
rience and balance the military 
bonafides of a GOP ticket led by a 
war hero.

Compiled from Associated Press reports

NATION BRIEFLY

Republicans block Democrats' 
attempt to impose profits tax
WASHINGTON — Saved by 
Senate Republicans, big oil compa­
nies dodged an attempt Tuesday to 
slap them with a windfall profits 
tax and take away billioas of dol­
lars in tax breaks in response to the 
record gasoline prices that have the 
nation fuming.

The Democratic energy package 
would have imposed a 25 percent 
tax on any "unreasonable" profits 
of the five largest U.S. oil compa­
nies, which together made $36 bil­
lion during the first three months 
of the year. It also would have giv­
en the government more power 
to address oil market speculation, 
opened the way for antitrust ac­
tions against countries belonging to 
the OPEC oil cartel, and made en­
ergy price gouging a federal crime.
But Republican leaders said the 

Democrats' plan would do harm 
rather than good — and they kept 
the legislation from being brought 
up for debate and amendments.

2 girls, 11 and 13, found shot 
to death along Okla. dirt road

TULSA, Okla. — The bodies 
of two girls were found shot to 
death in their rural community, 
along a dirt road the best friends 
used dozens of times to play and 
walk to sleepovers.

By Tuesday investigators had 
found no suspects and were un­
sure of the motive for Sunday s 
killings of 13-year-old Taylor Pas- 
chal-Placker and 11-year-old Sky- 
la Whitaker.

Taylor's grandfather found 
their bodies after his wife got no 
answer when she called Taylor s 
cellular phone. The girls were 
sleeping over at Taylor s house 
and liad decided to take a walk 
down the desolate road Sunday.

a w t e w n a M 
DO RM S I S —
T E X A S S T U D E N T T V .C O M

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Know your loans

As they cope with bloated tuition costs, more and more students are being forced to take out loans to af­
ford the college degree which should secure them a better job post-graduation. But instead of graduating 
with fond memories and exciting career prospects, many students leave college crippled by debt and held 
back by the country's pale financial and job markets. It's a modern-day prisoner's dilemma and there's
no way to win.

With the slumping economy, loans of any kind can seem especially unnattractive — but necessarily evil
— to college students with uncertain futures. The federal government is trying to ease this situation. In 
April, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that continues to guarantee funding for federal stu­
dent loans, including Stafford loans and Parent PLUS loans. At UT, Stafford loans are the loans of choice
— the University disperses more than $140 million in them each year. But even stable federal loan outlets, 
which tend to have lower rates of interest and lower rates of up-front fees, are scaling back on discounts 
and benefits they used to offer to students.

It's the loans from private lenders, however, that are the most worrisom e for students. Private lend­
ers are being hit hard by the downturn of the economy and, because they are not backed by g o v e r n m e n t 
funds and stipulations (though the April bill allows the government to intervene and purchase loans from 
private lenders who cannot support themselves), students who borrow from private lenders m ust deal 
with steep fees and restrictions to secure loans.

While UT students are "attractive" to private lenders, according to Student Financial Services Director 
Thomas Melecki, most UT students get by on federal loans. However, U T's sum m er students are more 
likely to have to turn to private lenders for financial assistance. Students are alotted a certain amount of 
federal loan priveleges in a 12-month period, and many summer-school students find that they drain their 
accounts during the fall and spring terms. And since limits on loans differ based on a student's grade lev­
el, freshmen, who can only claim $3,500 per year, are the more likely to turn to private lenders, thus set­
ting off the chain reaction of debt early into their college careers.

If there's one place college students shouldn't be frugal, it's where their educations are concerned. Even 
with astronomical tuition rates, college is still a profound investment. But students must be careful when 
it comes to lending. If a student must take out a private loan in addition to a federal loans, it's best to stick 
with one lender. Simply understanding the loan process in the first place, such as the difference between 
the public and the private, is a good place to start.

Melecki also recommends part-time campus employment to curb student debt. The benefits of work- 
study are not limited to the financial — according to Melecki, students who work one to fifteen hours per 
week are more likely to stay in school and graduate. That is, if they can afford it.

Curing bike fever

In the past few months, w e've heard a lot of talk from officials at City Hall and candidates trying to get 
elected to City Hall about issues facing Austin's bicycling community. While we applaud the recent efforts 
of the Streets Smarts Task Force (which recommended banning cell phone usage while biking and driv­
ing, more thoroughly investigating cycling accidents and establishing a Bicycle and Pedestrian Board that 
would make recommendations regarding bicycle safety issues), and the attention from the powers that be, 
we think that it's going to take more than some new infrastructure and a clever public safety campaign to 
make Austin's roads safer for bikes.

Take, for example, a recent accident involving a West Campus resident (whose name cannot be revealed 
due to a settlement with the city that is still pending). The man was riding his red road bike downtown in 
a safe, legal manner when a Capital Metro bus made a quick left out in front of him, causing him to smack 
into the side metal paneling and fracture his wrist.

The bus driver, in a half-hearted attempt to express concern, only stopped the bus long enough to check 

if the fallen cyclist was bleeding before hurrying away to make it to the next bust stop on time.

For the student, it was m ostly neglect — and a little indifference — that caused his accident, not the 

blind, merciless rage that motorists are often stereotyped as exhibiting toward the biking community.

And herein lies a large part of the problem. Many drivers speed past bicyclists as if they were pieces of 
debris in the road, like a strip of a truck's rubber tread lying on a highway that you try to avoid but could 
run over just the same. W hile certainly not criminal, this sort of careless exchange is dangerous and in­
timidating.

But the bicyclists are not only the victims in this story. For every bicyclist who has been run off the road 
by a fiery-eyed, white-knuckled motorist, there is a driver who has fallen victim to a heedless daredevil 
on two wheels careening out of control. To some bicyclists, it seems, the city streets are their own person­
al stunt courses, where cars are avoided only for the value in trick points.

Regardless of who is at fault overall, several things are certain. For the foreseeable future, Austin will 
have cars on its roads. And with all the dedicated organizations in Austin promoting bike use and safety, 
like Austin Yellow Bike, Austin Cycling Association and even Critical Mass (though they would most ac­
curately be described as slightly less safety-focused), there is an undeniable biking scene in this city that 
doesn't look to be drying up any time soon.

So, unless you, the motorist, or you, the road bike warrior, don't start showing some mutual respect, you, 

the taxpayer, will see your money go to waste once city council starts using some of its "Street Sm arts."

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Stop the presses

By Heath Cleveland
Daily Texan Colum nist

M ost people believe that providing free printing 
on college cam puses can only lead to more paper 
waste. But at UT, that wouldn't be the case. Because 
our cam pus does not offer free printing, m ost stu­
dents have to buy their ow n printers, ink cartridg­
es and paper. Printers frequently becom e out-of- 
date, break and get thrown away. Ink cartridges are 
hard to recycle and are often improperly discard­
ed. Paper is usually improperly recycled, too. Not 
to mention the mountains of packaging that come 
with new printers and the number of printers pur­
chased by students that go unused. Am plify that 
by the num ber of UT students and the num ber of 
new students every year and you get the idea that 
each and every one of their printers generates more 
waste. Worse still, m any students, like my former 
roommate, buy all of their own equipm ent but use 
cam pus printing anyway. A ccording to him , "It's 
just too inconvenient to go out and buy ink." How 
is this environmentally sound?

In order to overcome this problem, students need 
to be persuaded by the University to not buy their 
own printers. This could be done in one of many 
ways. For example, the University could offer free 
and unlimited printing, free and limited printing or 
any form of printing that is cheaper than buying

and using personal equipm ent. Free and unlim it­
ed printing has its downfalls — it's easy to abuse, 
has little to no limitations, and risks being less ben­
eficial than our current situation. Free and limited 
printing has more potential and could be accom ­
plished in a number of ways. The university could 
enforce printing limits in relation to the semester, 
month, week or day. Though it m ight take some 
time to find the lim it w hich w orks best for stu­
dents, this would help keep the am ount of paper 
waste generated to a minimum.

Although the free printing options are ideal, the 
school would probably have to enforce som e kind 
of printing fee. But instead of incurring a fee on a 
page-by-page basis, as is the current system , the 
fee could be included in tuition hikes or as a sep­
arate fee option along with tuition payments. This 
would allow students to choose which printing op­
tion is best for them w hile allow ing for an easier 
way to print on campus and thus avoiding person­
al printer consumption.

As m any of you already know, U T could stand 
to do much more in terms of environmental conser­
vation (the University w on't even pay for or take 
care of its own recycling). Cheaper, easier printing 
on-cam pus is ju st one of the m any ways that UT 
could do its part in going green. It may take some 
time and effort from all of us, but it's a small price 
to pay in order to preserve our bank accounts and 
our futures.

Cleveland Is a rhetoric and economics sophomore.

Ride the light

By Benjamin Gustafsson
Daily Texan Columnist

The Ford F-150 pickup truck can pull 30,000 
pounds, hold six people and boasts a truck bed big 
enough to cart around a Clydesdale. The truck's 
m assive six-cylinder engine cranks out dizzying 
horsepow ers, m akes m olehills out of m ountains 
and guzzles gas like an alcoholic guzzles beer.

O f course, it's easy to forget that you're immo­
lating a gallon of gas every fourteen m iles when 
you 're bouncing along five feet above everyone 
else's heads and feeling untouchable. No wonder 
the F-150 was the best-selling vehicle in Am erica 
for the last 17 years.

Until last month, that is. The new cham pion is 
the Honda Civic, followed by three other Japanese 
sedans. Truck sales at Ford fell 25 percent in May, 
and General Motors posted a decline of 37 percent. 
The latter com pany is now reportedly looking to 
pull the plug on the Hummer, after sales of the be­
hemoth SUV fell sixty percent in May. GM now ex­
pects that Honda will sell more Civics in a month 
than the number of Hummers sold all year.

A stronom ically rising gas prices have finally 
done what tougher fuel-efficiency standards and 
gas taxes had promised to do for so long: force con­
sum ers to abandon these dangerous and destruc­
tive novelty items in favor of som ething approxi­
mating common sense.

According to The Washington Post, with gas at 
$4 dollars a gallon and more, driving in the U.S. has 
fallen 4 percent this year. Mass transportation is be­
ing used at the highest level in fifty years. People 
are buying hybrids at record rates.

Hopefully, this will be the year when Austin fi­
nally com es together to replace the painful sight of

the man alone in his oversized truck with the light- 
rail system that w e've been talking about since the 
1980s.

The proposal has been severely lim ited (and 
sometimes, defeated) by a lack of interest and en­
thusiasm. But C ity Council M ember Brewster Mc­
Cracken and Austin Mayor Will Wynn have raised 
the issue again this year, and in April the city hired 
a consultant w ho recommended a 14-mile system 
that w ould cover dow ntow n and the U niversity 
while also taking commuters to the airport, accord­
ing to the Austin American-Statesman.

The new plan avoids earlier critiques of the sys­
tem by proposing to build tracks in designated 
lanes, rather than sharing them w ith car traffic, 
something critics argued would congest city traffic.
The project, w hose hundred million dollar price 
tag has daunted voters in the past, has not yet been 
formally proposed, and it is not yet clear how the 
proposal would be paid for. M cCracken believes 
that the project could probably be paid for through 
revenue from Capital M etro sales taxes, contribu­
tions from local governm ent and property tax­
es from new developm ents, thereby avoiding any 
new taxes.

Given the changing mood of the electorate and 
the demand for cheaper modes of transportation, 
McCracken told the Statesman that he believes that 
it is likely that the proposal will be ready for a pub­
lic vote in November.

The light rail would be a vast improvement over 
our city's inconvenient and sluggish public trans­
portation system. Austinites should be more ready 
than ever to get behind this idea, esp ecially all 
those w ho just decided to put their F-150 for sale 
on Craigslist. But those with truck-buyers remorse 
beware: The commuter train will probably get here 
before you can get rid of that thing.

Gustafsson is a Plan II senior.

THE FIRING LINE

No laughing matter

Since I came to UT, The Daily Texan has been one of the only official voices on campus that has consistently 
advocated on behalf of students for the repeal of that gratuitous policy called tuition deregulation ("What if the 
state controlled UT?" June 10). That's why I didn't laugh one bit when our new editors sold out their editorial 
position for a few cheap jokes that — face it, guys — were not that funny.

Tuition deregulation and its complete and total failure since 2003 are no laughing matter. Students are paying 
more than ever before for the same education, and are leaving UT with debt that will haunt many of them for a 
long time.

When tuition-setting power was given to the universities, students were stuck with the unlucky position of 
being the path of least resistance when the University wanted greater revenue. With the exception of last year's 
tuition uprising, led by my friend Zack Hall, students have had tremendous trouble getting any relief. This has 
allowed our University to spend wildly, at our expense. It is important that tuition-setting authority be placed back 
in the hands of elected representatives, where their actions can always receive a response at the ballot box.

As a conservative, I agree with Democratic State Rep. Turner on very little. But, I realize a move in the right 
direction when I see one. Every student should stand behind his efforts to repeal tuition deregulation this spring.
As for our new editors: If you'd like to keep writing jokes, I'm sure the Texas Travesty has positions available.
I would suggest you all resign today, and buy a jokebook. If not, stick to the issues and voice the truth, and you'll 
avoid turning our Daily Texan into a real travesty.

Tony McDonald 
Former chairman, Young Conservatives o f Texas 
Economics and government senior

 Sports Editor: David R. Henry 

E-mail: sports@dailytexanonline.com
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Looking past the Olympics

O L Y M P I C B A S K E T B A L L

No training 
camp for 
U.S. hoops

By Brian Mahoney
The Associated Press

So much for the training camp 
competition for the final spots on 
the O lym pic team . The U nited 
States will pick its squad without 
a tryout.

The Am ericans have changed 
their plans and will select the 12 
players headed to Beijing before 
they report to Las Vegas later this 
month. Originally, the team was to 
have potentially 16 players in camp 
and cut down to 12 on June 30.

"The staff really is more inter­
ested in getting down so that they 
can get to work in terms of prep­
aration. We have sw itched our 
thinking," USA Basketball manag­
ing director Jerry Colangelo told 
The Associated Press on Tuesday.

"O u r plan is to go ahead and 
announce our team sometime be­
fore we get to Las Vegas."

Colangelo said the announce­
m ent lik ely w ould com e after 
the NBA finals end. The A m eri­
cans are to begin workouts on the 
UNLV campus June 28.

There are more than 30 play­
ers in the national team program, 
but C olang elo and coach M ike 
K rzyzew ski are dow n to about 
their top 14. They will decide on 
the final tw o spots, probably at 
point guard and pow er forward, 
in the coming days.

With the team 's m inicam p ex­
p ected to last o n ly tw o d ays, 
Krzyzewski told Colangelo there 
wasn't enough time to make cuts 
and asked to bring in just the Bei­
jing-bound players so they could 
focus on the sum mer ahead.

"T h a t's b asically a plan rath­
er than a tryout o f 16 or 15 or 
whatever the number might have 
been. W e've got a pretty good 
handle on the 13, 14 names, and 
it's more about preparation," Col­
angelo said. "They want to get on 
with it."

Colangelo will get to w ork on 
one decision shortly, flying to Chi­
cago to check on Dwyane Wade, 
who has been w orking out after

m issing the final 21 gam es this 
season because of chronic sore­
ness in his surgically repaired left 
knee. Wade likely will get a spot if 
he's healthy, but Colangelo wants 
to get a "real read" on the Heat 
guard's rehab.

W h ile there, C o la n g e lo also 
w ill get a look a t C h ris P au l, 
one of the players on the bubble, 
whom Wade has invited to work 
ou t with him. The N ew O rleans 
p oint guard, runner-up to Kobe 
Bryant in the MVP voting, m ight 
hav e to b eat out C h au n cey B il­
lu p s, D eron W illiam s, and p er­
haps Wade for a spot.

T h e re cou ld b e an o p e n in g 
in the fro n tco u rt, w h ere A m a ­
re Stoudem ire might have talked 
h im self off the team. The P h oe­
nix Suns star said after his season 
ended that he needed to see how 
his body felt before decid ing to 
play, and his indecision seem s to 
have created some doubt in Col- 
angelo's mind.

"A m are still may or may not be 
under consideration," Colangelo 
said. "We have decisions to make 
relative to Amare, and that works 
both ways."

T o r o n to 's C h ris B o sh , w h o 
played in the 2006 world cham pi­
onships but was injured last sum ­
mer, and Utah's Carlos Boozer are 
the leading candidates to claim a 
forward spot.

B ry a n t, L eB ron Ja m e s , C a r­
m elo Anthony, Jaso n K idd and 
D w ight How ard w ere the start­
ers last year when the Am ericans 
w en t undefeated in the O ly m ­
pic qualifying tournam ent. Stou­
d em ire, B illu p s, W illiam s, M i­
chael Redd, Tayshaun Prince, Ty­
son C h an d ler and M ike M iller 
also were on the team.

T h e d ea d lin e to s u b m it the 
O ly m p ic ro ster is Ju ly 1. T h e 
Am ericans will return to Las Ve­
gas in m id-July to train and play 
an exhibition game against C an­
ada b efo re d ep a rtin g for C h i­
na. They face the host Chinese in 
their Beijing opener on Aug. 10.

The U.S. 
O lym pic team 
will not hold 
training cam p 
this year, 
leaving 
hopefuls such 
as Detroit 
Pistons guard 
Chauncey 
Billups an 
extra chance 
to impress 
coaches.

Tony Dejak
Associated Press

Texas junior preparing 
fo r Beijing but keeping life 
after athletics in mind

By Scott Bagan
Daily Texan Staff

CBS runs a com m ercial for the N CAA, 
one y ou 've m ost likely seen. The setting 
takes p lace am id a b asketb all gam e. At 
point guard is a fireman, fully clad in his 
helm et and boots. The sh oo tin g guard, 
played by a judge, is settin g a pick on a 
nurse in hospital scrubs as a police offi­
cer punctuates the scene w ith a d ram at­
ic alley-oop.

"There are over 380,000 NCAA student 
athletes, and just about all of them will be 
going pro in something other than sports."
While the concept of student athletes pe­
rusing non-athletic professions is common, 
it is not often that athletes of Alexandria 
A nderson's caliber aspire to venture into 
the business world, especially when they, 
like Anderson, are Olympic hopefuls. Such 
a goal is the driving force that propels An­
derson on the track, and separates her from 
the field.

Anderson, a corporate com munications 
junior, began running track in the sixth 
grade. Naturally, as she grew, her speed 
and agility increased, but she never seemed 
to loose her childlike demeanor and zest.

Today, Alexandria Anderson, known to 
her friends as A lex, is preparing to take 
part in the 27th annual N CA A O utdoor 
C h a m p io n sh ip s in w o m e n 's track and 
field. The Chicago, 111., native is a 12-time 
A ll-A m erican in both in d o o r and o u t­
door com petitions and enters this w eek's 
N CA A m eet w ith the th ird -fastest time 
this sp ring in the 100-m eter (a personal 
best 11.10 seconds) and is ranked seventh 
at 200 m eters (22.82).

O f c o u rs e 1 w ant to qu alify 

f o r the O lym pics. B ut at 

the sa m e time . . . I w ant 

to g o to g r a d u a t e school 

[ a n d ] e a r n my m a ster's in 

p u b lic rela tio n s. ”

— A le x a n d r ia \ n d e r s o n . 
ju n io r T exas ( r a c k a th le te

A nderson clocked a lifetim e-best mark 
w ith a tim e of 11.10 in the 100-m eter, fin­
ishing in second place at the Rice Bayou 
C lassic. She took hom e the gold in the 
200-m eter at the Texas Tw ilight com peti­
tion previously in the season with a time 
o f 22.84 seconds.

As a ju nior, A n d erson h as com pleted 
the '08 regu lar season w ith little to no 
d isappointm ent.

"I h av e no re g re ts ," A n d erso n said . 
"N one at all. As the season goes on, you 
w ant to surpass you r goals. I ju st w ork 
hard and continue to be passionate about 
w hat I d o ."

W hile A nderson's enthusiasm m ay in­
deed be personal ch aracteristic, there is 
no d ou bt that H all of Fam e head coach 
Bev K earney, w hom A nderson calls her 
hero, h as had m ore than a trem end ou s

N F L

Jacobs9 accusation 
was made before his 
Thursday suicide

The Associated Press

D A L L A S — C o n v icted s te ­
roids dealer David Jacobs told re­
porters before his death last week 
that he supplied Tennessee Titans 
linebacker Ryan Fowler with per­
formance-enhancing drugs before 
and after the 2006 season, a news­
paper reported Tuesday.

The Dallas Morning News sto­
ry cam e a fte r it w as revealed 
M onday that Fowler is under in­
vestigation by the NFL in an ap­
parent steroids case.

Peter Ginsberg, Fow ler's attor­
ney, told The Associated Press on 
M onday that he assumed the in­
v estig atio n stem m ed from the 
death of Jacobs, who police say 
killed him self and his girlfriend 
in th eir P lano hom e. G insberg 
also denied Fowler took steroids.

"H e's never tested positive for 
any banned substance, 
the law­
yer told the AP. "The accusations 
are without any basis."

In com m ents Jacobs m ade to 
the newspaper, which the Morn­
ing N ew s did not m ade public

Texas track star Alexandria Anderson will enter today's NCAA Outdoor Cham pionships 
with more than a title in her plans.

A n d re a Lai | Daily Texan Staff

im pact on all m em bers of the Texas track 
team . Kearney, no stranger to adversity, 
believes that passion and hard w ork are 
the pillars of success.

"O u r g oal is to d o o u r v e ry b e s t," 
Kearney said. "Som etim es, how ever, you 
have to redefine w hat success w ill be for 
you. ... P assion is the d rivin g force b e ­
hind success in any field. W e're going to 
go out there and represent the tradition 
o f Texas. It's alw ays about the fight."

A nderson, w ho has adopted Kearney's 
valu es o f hard w ork and p assio n , co n ­
tinu es to have fun w ith life, n ever tak ­
ing herself too seriously. W hen the time 
cam e to depart from M organ Park High 
School in C hicago, A nderson sought out 
the fun, fam iliar en v iron m en t of a city 
school.

"I love A u stin," A nderson said. "O rig ­
inally I considered USC, but Austin is too 
great. I love the school, the town and the 
coach in g staff. T hose are w hat brou ght 
m e here."

O ne of A n d erson 's greatest pleasures 
is sim p ly b ein g w ith her te a m m a te s, 
w h o, to geth er, have d ev elop ed an u n ­
shakable bond over the course of the '08 
seaso n . T h e q u artet of L ongho rn co m ­
p etitors, am ong them sen ior A ll-A m er­
ican Tem eka Kincy, so p h o m ore Jord yn 
B row n, sophom ore Betzy Jim en zez and 
A n derson, have dubbed them selves the 
"Fantastic Four."

A nderson's passion for athletics is in­

deed strong, but she understands that there 
is far more to life than track and field.

" O f co u rse I w ant to q u alify for the 
O ly m p ics," A n derson said . "B u t at the 
sam e time, I'm a people person. I w ant to 
go to graduate school, earn my m aster's 
in p u blic relatio n s, b eco m e a p u b licist 
and eventually own my own PR firm ."

A nderson may one day be a m em ber 
of the p ro fession al w o rld , w earin g her 
b u sin ess suit, p laying a gam e of hoops 
for CBS. It shou ld n't be hard to spot her. 
S h e 'll be the one w ith O lym p ic m edals 
around her neck.

Alexandria Anderson
Texas track and field junior

• Placed second in the NCAA Midwest 
Regional 100-meter with a time of 11.31 
seconds
• Place second in the Texas Relays 
100-meter with a lifetime best time of 
11.10
• Earned gold in the 200-meter at the 
Texas Twilight with a time of 22.84
• Earned silver in the 60-meter at the 
Houston Indoor Opener with a time of 
7.34
• Earned three gold medals — in the 
60-meter (7.27), 200-meter (23.09), long 
jump (6.06 meters) — at the Illinois 
Women's Invitational

Dallas steroid dealer names Fowler

he said was a "nice guy." He said 
he did not work out with Fowler.

He told the newspaper earlier 
this year that Fowler didn't know 
if it was fair to take steroids, but 
"when he talked to his buddies ... 
he found out they were all doing 
it, so he didn't feel bad anymore."
Fow ler alleged ly m et Jacobs 
through Bob Johnson, an amateur 
bodybuilder in suburban Dallas. 
Johnson said Fow ler ju st w ant­
ed some vitam ins and was "real 
adam ant" about not taking any­
thing illegal.

"I d on 't believe anything Ja ­
cob s s a id ," Jo h n son said. "H e 
died the way he lived his life — 
alw ays taking som ebody dow n 
with him ."

Jacobs met twice with NFL se­
cu rity o fficials and gave them 
names of players he said bought 
steroids from him.

He has said he sold tens of 
thousand s o f d ollars w orth of 
performance-enhancing drugs to 
former Cow boys' offensive line­
man Matt Lehr in 2006 and 2007. 
Lehr's attorney has denied his cli­
ent used banned substances after 
a four-game suspension in 2006.

The NFL said last w eek it is 
evaluating information provided 
by Jacobs.

SPORTS BRIEFLY

Tiger receiver Alexander will 

miss start of season with injury

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri 
wide receiver Danario Alexander 
will be sidelined at least until the 
start of the Big 12 season after rein- 
juring his left knee.

Alexander, a junior who had 37 

receptions for 417 yards and two 
touchdowns last season, was sched­
uled for surgery on Monday to re­
pair a retom ligament. It's the same 
knee he hurt in the Big 12 champi­
onship game in December, with re­
sulting rehab sidelining him most of 
spring practice, and he was held out 
of the annual Black and Gold game.
An MRI showed that a graft tak­

en from a human cadaver had 
retom.

"We're really not sure how or 

when it happened, and Danar­
io can't pinpoint one precise mo­
ment when he felt something was 
wrong," trainer Rex Sharp said.
"We know that he was doing great

with his rehab work during the 
spnng and was ready to have a 
great summer in preparation for the 
season, and this is a really unfortu­
nate situation."

Missouri opens conference play 

at Nebraska on Oct. 4.
"This is a setback certainly, but with 
his work ethic, I think our timetable 
is realistic," coach Gary Pinkel said.

Jayhawk football loses two 

players for upcoming season

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas de­
fensive tackle Todd Haselhorst and 
comerback Anthony Webb will not 
return to the team for the 2008
season.

Haselhorst, a senior, left the pro­

gram to tend to personal matters.
He had 17 tackles last year, includ­
ing four against Virginia Tech in the 
Orange Bowl.

Webb, a junior, has been dis­

missed for violating team policy. He 
had two tackles in 10 games and re­
turned 19 punts for 16 yards.

Compiled from Associated Press reports

Tennessee Titan linebacker Ryan Fowler was accused of purchasing 
steroids from a Dallas steroid dealer.

David Zalubowski ¡ Associated Press

until now, he said Fow ler cred­
ited him for helping get a four- 
year, $11.5 million contract from 
the Titans after two seasons with 
the Dallas Cowboys.

"A fter he got his big contract, 
he cam e back, knocked on my 
door and hugged m e ," Jaco b s 
said. "H e said, thanks, I just got 
$12 million."

bedroom of Jaco b s' hom e. His 
death w as ruled a suicide, and 
p o lice hav e said a .40-calib e r 
Glock was found next to Jacobs.

Jacobs was sentenced to three 
years probation and fined $25,000 
M ay 1 after pleading guilty last 
year in federal court in Dallas to 
conspiring to possess with intent 
to distribute anabolic steroids.

The bodies o f Jacobs, 35, and 
Am anda Jo Earhart-Savell were 
found T hu rsd ay in the m aster

Ja c o b s p re v io u s ly to ld th e 
Morning News he did not want to 
publicly implicate Fowler, whom

 Wednesday, June 11, 2008

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fro m 

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Latest Marvel release 
captivating, focused

By Brian Losoya
D a ily Texan Staff

Imagine how you would feel if 
you knew that your friends and 
family members were slowly being 
replaced by shape-shifting aliens 
but you couldn't tell apart friend 
from foe. This is the dilemma faced 
by the heroes of the Marvel Comics 
Universe in the com pany's major 
crossover event, "Secret Invasion".

For years, w riter Brian Bendis 
has been setting up the Marvel su­
perheroes (Spider-Man, Iron Man, 
The Fantastic Four, 
etc.) for such a situa­
tion with comics such 
as "Avengers: Disas­
sem bled," "H ouse of 
M " and the h ig hly 
lauded "C iv il War."
The story now comes 
full circle, w ith the 
a lie n s (k n o w n as 
Skrulls) replacing su­
perheroes for the last 
7 years, all while con­
trolling the affairs of 
the planet th at has 
beaten them tim e and again, as 
well as the superhero community 
that protects it.

Story-w ise, this book has been 
very w ell-paced and constan tly 
fresh. This is a book for M arvel 
Com ics fans, and as such there is 
little need for exposition. Bendis 
also knows when to let the read­
ers get inform ation and when to 
hold back. With Skrull impostors 
being revealed throughout the se­
ries, there are the constant ques­
tions of "w ho's next?" and of how 
the superheroes are going to beat 
the in v ad in g a lie n s w ho h av e 
trapped them in a fight in A n t­
arctica (called the Savage Land 
in M arvel Com ics). The action in 
"Secret Invasion" goes back and 
forth betw een the Savage Land 
and New York City. This is great

for Marvel com ics fans because it 
allows an opportunity to see less­
er known characters, such as the 
Young Avengers and the Howling 
Commandos, in action against the 
entire Skrull army.

The main attraction of the sto­
ry, though, is the sense of paranoia 
it creates. In many cases, the read­
ers don't even know if a charac­
ter is a Skrull or not. With this set 
up, the story appeals to the con­
trast between fear of the unknown 
and faith. The superheroes must 
decide if they do not 
trust anyone or if they 
will stand by their re­
sp e c tiv e team s and 
friends.

The book is drawn 
b y L e n il Yu. H e 's 
h a s b e e n d ra w in g 
the "N ew Avengers" 
co m ics fo r a w h ile 
now, which has suited 
him perfectly to draw 
" S e c r e t I n v a s io n ." 
Though Yu's w ork is 
a little pencil-heavy, 
his characters are w ell-d efin ed 
and have their ow n characteris­
tics while maintaining his style. It 
is intriguing art and works well to 
tie together last year's infiltration 
of the Skrulls with this crossover.

"Secret Invasion" has big shoes 
to fill after 2 0 0 6 's "C iv il W ar," 
which ended in the death of Cap­
tain A m erica and su b seq u en tly 
set up the next two years of Mar­
vel Comics. Still, it has so far prov­
en itself to be a very capable and 
sm art series, tying up loose ends 
from the last seven years of com ­
ic book stories, all the while keep­
ing the readers focused on w hat's 
ah ead . W ith a q u ick sta rt and 
breathtaking reveals, "Secret In­
vasion" looks as if it will not only 
fill those shoes, but it will take an­
other step forward.

The LeWitt x2 exhibit at the Austin Museum of Art features the work of Sol LeWitt and his personal collection of other artwork.

M a n y Greene | Daily Texan Staff

Twice the fun, exhibits at ‘x2’

Retrospective chronicles 
conceptual artist's career 
with interactive display

By Jack Frink
D aily Texan Staff

Last Saturday, visitors to the Austin Mu­
seum of Art found high art and A ustin's 
live music scene clicking in a totally satis­
fying way. The museum's entrance was ser­
enaded by a street-side saxophone play­
er, whose melodies carried through the en­
trance and deep into the museum's exhibit.
And the current exhibit at the AM oA is 
quite a show. Entitled "LeW itt x2," it is a 
career-panning retrospective of A m eri­
can artist Sol LeWitt, who is considered by 
some to be one of Am erica's greatest and 
most influential artists.

LeWitt was a pioneer in the field of concep­
tual art. His paintings, sculptures and draw­
ings are abstract designs dealing with math­
ematical precision and the deconstruction of 
shape. The LeWitt quote the AMoA packaged 
with the visitor's guide was "the idea be­
comes a machine that makes the art," and the 
endlessly fascinating work on display was 
certainly more guided by geometric ideas 
than an interest in formalist composition.

The A M oA g ets in teractiv e w ith its 
guests, as well. Signs throughout the exhibi­
tion invite readers to dial a number on their 
cell phones and hear Sol LeWitt himself de­
scribe "w hat he rebels against," or "w hy he 
felt compelled to define conceptual art." The 
one downside of this feature is that the re­
cording of LeWitt's voice, taken from a 1974 
interview, is extrem ely faint and scratchy 
and thus at times hard to decipher.

Selected pieces from LeW itt's p erso n ­
al art collection were also on display. The 
best work in the entire exhibition is from 
this section. On his 60th birthday, an aco­
lyte of LeW itt's, the artist Alighiero Boetti, 
embroidered a ballpoint, marker and pen­
cil canvas piece. It's a giant grid of m ulti­
colored letters. At the center are, in Span­
ish, LeW itt's nam e, the nam e of his wife 
and children, and his date of birth. It is a 
m asterp iece of conceptual construction, 
but the personal story behind the w ork 
makes it all the more affecting.

Also, to show again that it's a step above 
the average museum experience, the AMoA 
provides a "fam ily lab" section for kids to 
enjoy while the older people walk around. 
This is not just a mindless collection of toys 
and a TV, though, but a room filled with 
whim sical and outrageous sculpture toys 
that are works of art in and of themselves.

M atty Greene Daily Texan Staff

Honestly, if the LeW itt collection had not 
been so enthralling, exploring the family lab 
fully would have been the next best option. 
There looked to be a lot of fun stuff in there.
The Austin Museum of Art is a cozy and 
inspiring place. Viewing something like Le­
Witt's "Irregular Grid" or Richard Artschwa- 
ger's "Book" sculpture (so sensuous that the 
"d o not touch" sign is infuriating) provides a 
gateway to another part of ourselves where, 
for a moment, our thoughts are lifted out of 
the everyday minutiae to ponder something 
unanswerable and bigger than us.

Apple debuts faster, sleeker iPhone
3G capabilities, price 

drop to accompany 
early July release

By Alex Regnery
Daily Texan Staff

Clad in his trademark black tur- 
tleneck and blue jeans, Steve Jobs 
took the stage on Monday at the 
Worldwide Developers Conference. 
While most of the time, Apple can 
keep its secrets under wraps, this 
year it was obvious what would 
be addressed: a new and improved 
iPhone. In a sold-out house includ­
ing A1 Gore, Jobs gave the crowd 
exactly what they expected.

When the iPhone came out last 
June, it seem ed that ev ery on e 
wanted one. The public foamed 
at the m outh for one. The only 
problem was the price. $599 for an 
8-GB iPhone seemed pretty steep, 
especially considering the service 
bill on top of it. Then, the price on 
the iPhone dropped to $399, and 
salvation seemed that much clos­
er. Many buyers were upset, nay, 
furious, that they had purchased 
an iPhone a day before the price 
drop and Apple, in response, pro­
vided them with rebates. In May, 
Apple ran out of iPhones, which 
meant that a new one w as on the 
way. They had wised up in order 
to put a stop to the rebate prob­
lem that cam e with the last price 
drop. At W W DC, Jobs decided to 
extend a hand of generosity and 
offer the 8GB iPhone at $199. The 
crowd at the conference cheered 
and clapped, hooted and hollered. 
Thankfully, this was not just a sig­
nificant drop in price.

In fact, it w as the iPhone 3G , 
w hich utilizes the third -genera- 
tion w ireless netw ork, w hich is 
far su p erio r to A T & T 's form er 
EDGE network. Now, iPhone us­

Apple CEO Steve Jobs talks about the new Apple iPhone 3G at the Apple 
Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on Monday.

Paul Sakua I Associated Press

ers can surf the Internet at more 
than tw ice the speed, or as Jobs 
said, "[it's] amazingly zippy." Ap­
ple has also substituted the m et­
al back for a full plastic back as 
well as im proving battery tim e. 
The 16GB model ($299) is also of­
fered in eith er a b lack or w hite 
casing. GPS is also now built in to 
the phone, and Jobs d em onstrat­
ed by showing a small blue dot on 
G oogle M aps traverse San Fran­
cisco 's fam ously curvy Lombard 
Street. A pple w ill now offer the 
phone in 70 countries as opposed 
to the current six, to w hich Jobs 
said, "N ext tim e you're in M alta, 
and you need an iPhone 3G, it will 
be there for you."

Jobs also presented iPhone 2.0, 
which updates the current soft­
ware to offer even more versatil­
ity. Representatives from 11 com ­
panies came up on stage to present 
their various applications ranging 
from Sega, with their iPhone ver­
sion of "Super Monkey Ball," to 
M LB.com, which will offer up-to-

the-m inute gam e stats and v id ­
eo highlights. Also, MIMvista of­
fers doctors and patients a chance 
to view CAT and PET scans at the 
click of a button.

A p ple's Senior Vice P resident 
of W orldw ide Product M ark et­
ing P hil S ch ille r also p re se n t­
ed M obileM e, a new online ser­
vice which replaces .Mac. Tout­
ed as "Exchange — for the rest of 
us," MobileMe offers push e-mail, 
contacts and calendars so every 
device you utilize (M ac, PC, iP ­
hone) is always up to date. It also 
increases u sers' w ebspace from 
10GB to 20GB, which can be used 
for photo galleries, Web sites or as 
an online hard drive.

W h ile it lacks the g litz and 
g lam o u r o f M acw o rld , w h ich 
usually premieres new hardware 
such as this year's M acbook Air, 
W W DC 2008 offered a wealth of 
new software and a huge step for­
ward with one of A p ple's signa­
ture products. The iPhone 3G hits 
stores worldwide on July 11, and 
MobileMe premieres in early July.

ENTERTAINMENT BRIEFLY

Tori Spelling gives birth to 

second child in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES — Tori Spell­
ing and husband Dean McDer­
mott are parents again.

The "Beverly Hills, 90210" 

alum and McDermott wel­
comed their second child — 
6-pound, 8-ounce Stella Doreen 
McDermott — at a Los Angeles 
hospital Monday, her publicist, 
Meghan Prophet, said in an 
e-mail to The Associated Press.

It's the second child for the 
35-year-old actress and the third 
for McDermott, who has a son 
from a previous marriage.

The couple, who wed in 
May 2006 and star in the Oxy­
gen reality series "Tori & Dean: 
Home Sweet Hollywood," have 
a 1-year-old son, Liam Aaron. 
The third season of their reality 
show premieres June 17.

R. Kelly says he won't testify 

in child pornography case

CHICAGO — R. Kelly told 
the judge in his child pornog­
raphy trial Tuesday that he 
doesn't plan to testify in his own 
defense.

After Judge Vincent Gaughan 

told Kelly that he had a right 
to not testify, the R&B singer 
leaned forward at the defense 
table with his hands folded and 
— speaking for the first time at 
the trial — responded: "I decid­
ed not to testify."

The jury wasn't in the room at 

the time.

Kelly, 41, has pleaded not 
guilty to charges that he video­
taped himself having sex with 
an underage girl. Both Kelly and 
the alleged victim, now 23, have 
derued being on the tape.

Also Tuesday, the judge ruled 
that jurors can view the sex tape 
once they begin deliberating.

Kelly's lawyers had asked 
the judge to bar jurors from re­
viewing the graphic video, say­
ing they worried jurors would 
overemphasize one piece of ev­
idence. But prosecutors argued 
the tape is the primary subject 
of the trial and couldn't be kept 
from jurors.

Prosecutors are scheduled to 
call two rebuttal witnesses. Clos­
ing arguments are likely to be 
delivered Thursday.

Kelly's attorneys surprised 
courtroom observers by rest­
ing their case Monday. Over two 
days, Kelly's lawyers called 12 
witnesses. One was a forensics 
expert who testified there didn't 
appear to be a mole on the back 
of the man in the sex tape.

Defense attorneys say Kel­
ly has a mole on his back, so the 
man on the tape can't be him.
But a prosecution witness who'll 
take the stand for a second time 
is expected to challenge that 
claim.

Coolio arrested for driving 

with suspended license

LOS ANGELES — Coolio was 
arrested Tuesday on an outstand­
ing misdemeanor warrant for 
driving with a suspended license, 
Los Angeles police said.

The 44-year-old rapper was re­
leased roughly five hours after of­
ficers pulled over his gray Hum­
mer around 1:45 a.m. in Holly­
wood. He posted $10,000 bail.

Officers stopped him because 
the vehicle's registration was ex­
pired, but a check revealed his li­
cense was suspended and he had 
an outstanding warrant, Officer 
Ana Aguirre said.

Coolio, whose real name is Artis 

Leon Ivey Jr., gained fame for his 
1995 single "Gansta's Paradise."

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