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More black students apply for UT admission

SUMMER/FALL 2004 PRELIMINARY APPLICATIONS

Faulkner credits 
top 10 percent 
rule with increase

By Lilly Rockwell
Daily Texan Staff

Despite a year of criticism at 
the University over the treatm ent 
of m inorities on cam pus, the 
num ber of black high school stu ­
dents applying 
the 
University has increased for the

to attend 

fourth year in a row, according to 
data released Friday by the Office 
of Admissions.

The preliminar)' figures show 
that 1,444 black students applied 
to attend the University for fall 
2004 — 6 percent of the 22,937 
students that applied, said Gary 
Lavergne, the director of adm is­
sions research and policy analy­
sis. Last year, 1,351 black students 
applied.

"1 think the U niversity has 
w orked hard to represent stu­
dents everywhere in the state,"

UT 

President 

said 
Larry 
Faulkner. "This is a University 
that w ants to serve them, and I 
think to some extent that message 
is getting across."
num ber 

of Asian- 
Americans and Hispanics ap ply ­
ing fell.

The 

The increase is most likely the 
result of increased aw areness of 
the top 10 percent law and not the 
U niversity's decision last year to 
allow race as a factor in the 
adm issions process, Faulkner 
said. Race as a factor in adm is­

sions will not affect applicants 
until fall 2(X)S.

The top 10 percent law, which 
w as passed 
the Texas 
by 
Legislature in 1997, grants any 
public high school stu d en t in 
Texas w ho is in the top 10 percent 
of their class automatic adm is­
sion to a state university of their 
choice.

"I believe the top 10 percent 
law is affecting the picture now in 
greater degree," Faulkner said.

See APPLICANTS, page 5

Source: Office of Admissions 

Percentages may not add up to 100 
percent due to rounding.

S G A l l -D ay E ven t 
B oasts 1 ,0 0 0 H e l p e r s

Hundreds 
support 
APD at rally

Austin Police Association hosts 
rally to combat bad press

By Clay Reddick
Daily Texan Staff

H undreds of police officers and their supporters 
attended a rally at La Zona Rosa in dow ntow n 
Austin on Sunday to counter recent negative pub­
licity about Austin police.

"The silent majority is in support of this com m u­
nity's police departm ent," said KVET radio host 
Bob Cole, who spoke at the event.

The Austin Police Association, which coordinat­
ed the event, walked out of meet-and-confer nego­
tiations Tuesday because of a lack of support from 
city7 officials, said APA spokesw om an Kim Nobles.

"Obviously, w;e don't feel like w e've been getting 
the support we need from the city or chief," Nobles 
said.

Mayor Will W ynn and Chief of Police Stán Knee 

attended the rally.

"The vast majority of people in this community 
support the police," Wynn said. "The council su p ­
ports the police."

Knee said the rally was im portant for officers and 
the community in w'hat has been a difficult time for 
the departm ent.

"[Morale] is not as high as it has been," Knee 
said. "We need to do things internally to address it."
Knee has faced criticism for how he handled the 
Jessie Lee O w ens and Sophia King killings. King

See RALLY, page 5

White 54%

Hispanic - 18%

Asian American 14% 

International 7 / 

Black 6%

American Indian 1% 

Unknown 1%

Army
inquiries
alarm
students

Civil rights activists 
fear encroachment 
o f free speech rights

By Emma Graves Fitzsimmons
Daily Texan Staff

UT students and civil righti 
activists said Friday they feai 
that a U.S. Army investigation oi 
a law school conference on Islarr 
was a discriminator)' attem pt tc 
stifle freedom of speech.

and 

Two Army intelligence agents 
visited several offices Feb. 2, 
looking for a roster and video­
tape from the conference, titled 
"Islam 
the Law: The
Question of Sexism.” They were 
investigating allegations by two 
Army personnel who attended 
the sym poaum . The attendees 
had said they w ere approached 
by three "suspicious" M iddle 
Eastern men, 
to 
Com m ander Demetria Marria.

according 

Jessica Biddle, a law student, 
w as approach ed by Special 
Agent Jason Treesh in the office 
of the Texas Journal of Women 
and the Lav\.

"He was aggressive and very 
blunt," Biddle said. "I think he 
was using the element of sur­
prise to get w hat he wanted."

Biddle said it seemed "obvi­
ous" that the conference w as tar­
geted because it dealt with Islam.
"Lm really disappointed and 
outraged," Biddle said. "It's got­
ten to a point w here any time 
there 
is a m eeting w ith an 
exchange of ideas concerning 
Islam, it's deserving of investi­
gation."

Treesh w as looking for the 
conference's organizer, law stu­
dent Sahar Aziz, b ut she w as out 
of the office.

"This wras a ver)' intimidating 
and frightening experience for 
me," A ziz said. "They could 
have discretely requested this 
information rather than going to 
the office searching for me and 
the roster, creating a frenzy with­
in the school."

Aziz had a list of some atten­
dees w'ho ordered lunch, but no 
full roster. The agent had no sub-

See INVESTIGATION, page 5

Sasha Haagensen/Daily Texan Staff
Electrical engineering senior Alvin Sobrinho, front, and business junior Dave McLain help two other Project 2004 volunteers 
SEE PAGE 6
pull down a vine from a nearby tree Saturday. Volunteers worked to renovate Allison Elementary School. 

INSIDE

County clerk denies marriage 
licenses to local gay couples

N icole M addox/D aily Texan Staff 
Brandon Lindsey selects a sticker set up on a table 
at the Austin Police Association rally Sunday. The 
ja r on the table is set up to take donations for sus­
pended officer Scott Glasgow.

Officials note problems 
with accreditation process

Many UT System schools 
on probation recently 
fo r violations

By Lilly Rockwell
Daily Texan Staff

A disagreem ent over a mission 
statem ent last December almost 
cost UT Arlington its ability to 
give federal loans to students.

UT Arlington w as put on pro­
bation by 
the UT System 's 
accrediting agency, the Southern 
A ssociation of Colleges and 
Schools, after failing to subm it a 
revised copy of its mission state­
m ent by December.

Although the probation was 
put on hold after UT System offi­
cials com plained to the agency 
ab out 
the punishm ent, UT 
Arlington's accrediting problems 
highlight 
long-standing prob­
lems the UT System has had with 
the accrediting process.

The process includes a peri­

odic review by 
the ag en cy 's 
C om m ission on Colleges, a 77- 
m em ber body chosen by the 781 
in stitu tio n s it oversees. T heir 
m ain charge is to review' stan ­
dards and procedures at u n iv er­
sities so 
they m ay be 
accredited. A university m ust be 
accred ited 
to receive federal 
loans.

th at 

At a UT System Board of 
Regents meeting Feb. 2, presi­
dents of several UT System 
schools said they w'ere concerned 
the expense and wrork 
about 
involved 
the accreditation 
process considering the risk of 
not getting accredited. Both UT 
Austin and UT Arlington have 
been at risk of losing their accred­
itation in the last 10 vears.

in 

Teresa Sullivan, the executive 
for academ ic 
vice chancellor 
affairs for the UT System, said 
that failing to meet accreditation 
criteria can have serious conse­
quences.

See ACCREDITATION, page 2

Still undefeated

With wins over Ohio State, Rice 
and Houston, Texas completed 
a weekend sweep in Houston.

SEE PAGE 7

index
World & Nation 
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Opinion 
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Inside N e w s ..............................5-6
Sports 
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C la s s ifie d s ..............................9-10
C o m ic s .........................................11
Entertainm ent........................... 12

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Nothing funny here.

Volume 101. Number 89 
25 cents

Ijobby group organizes 
applicants to bring 
attention to issue
By Tessa Moll
Daily Texan Staff

The Travis C ounty C lerk's 
office denied marriage licenses 
to more than seven gay couples 
Friday.

for 

"Equal Access 

A lobby group arrived at the 
clerk's office with several cou­
ples, supporters and signs ask­
ing 
to 
M arriage." The event, coordi­
the L esb ian/C av 
nated by 
Rights Lobby of Texas, occurred 
as several recent court cases 
raised the issue of gay marriage.
"Each couple will get an 
application, fill it out inside and 
then be denied," said Colin 
Cunliff, field coordinator for 
LGRL.

Within the hour, all seven cou­
ples w ere denied m arriage 
licenses. Texas does not recog-

Ben Skiar Daily Texai Staff
Michael McClain and Brad Parks, partners of 15 months, are denied 
the official partnership of marriage by Rosa Bambray at the Travis 
County Clerk's Office on Friday.

m ze sam e-sex m arriages, 
the 
Travis C ounty C lerk's office 
said. G ro ups coordinated 
in 
H ouston and Fort Worth by 
LGRL were also denied their 
applications.

" I t s disappointing," 

sa 
Tern Franz, w ho came to tl 
clerk's office w'ith her partnt 
'T v e been w anting to m arry h

See LICENSES, page 5

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NO MORE APPLES FOR TEACHERS

BERLIN — Teachers in a German school were treated in a hospital 
after eating an anonymously donated cake, unaware it was laced 
with hashish, authorities said Thursday. “They thought it was food 
poisoning." a police spokesman said. "They showed all the classic 
signs of people under the influence of drugs.”

ÍNIV

Keep Austin Beautiful
awards UT service project
UT’s Volunteer and Service 
Learning Center received an 
award for best educational pro­
gram last weekend at the annu­
al Keep Austin Beautiful lunch­
eon and silent auction.

UT s 2-year old environmental 
education program for elemen­
tary school students received 
an award for its six week pro­
gram that teaches children how 
they can help to protect the 
environment.

'We would just like to thank 
all of our volunteers for making 
this happen,” said Adrian 
Barrera, co-chair for the UT vol­
unteer program.

Austin weatherman Jim 

Spencer served as master of 
ceremonies for the event at the 
Hyatt Regency on Town Lake 
last Friday. Representatives of 
Dell and Motorola accepted 
awards in the categories of recy­
cling and industry leadership.

— Taylor Magenheim

University of Idaho clones 
mules, first equine clones
SEATTLE — Three young mules 
who are the first members of the 
horse family to be cloned are all 
healthy, normal and energetically 
enjoying life, say researchers 
who put them on display in 
Seattle on Sunday. The clonings 
were a project of the Northwest 
Equine Reproduction Laboratory 
at the University of Idaho in 
Moscow, Idaho.

Gordon Woods, director of the 

University of Idaho laboratory, 
said the animals undergo inten­
sive medical tests every three 
months.

Woods said the scientific goal 
of the project was to test a the­
ory that increasing the amount 
of calcium surrounding an 
equine embryo would cause 
cells to grow more rapidly and, 
thus, improve equine cloning.
Since calcium is thought to 
play a role in prostate cancer, 
he theorized that this may 
explain why stallions have never 
been known to develop cancer 
of the prostate, but the disease 
is common in humans.

— Associated Press

Survey: 2004 grads will 
make higher salaries

AMES, Iowa — Graduating in 
May? Good timing. College grad­
uates hired in 2004 are expect­
ed to make more money than 
those from the past two years.
The National Association of 
Colleges and Employers report­
ed an expected 12.7 percent 
increase in hiring of college 
graduates in its latest quarterly 
starting salary survey, which 
was released earlier this month.
"The overall economy started 

picking up in the last half of 
2003, so future labor needs have 
been increasing,” said Peter 
Orazem, professor of economics.
— U-Wire

A ro und C a m p u s
Monday

Asians in Communications 
General Meeting. 7 p.m.-8 p.m., 
CMA 4.128, Burson Conference 
Room. Discuss*spring events. 
Free pizza.

University Ombudsman Job 
Opening, deadline to apply: 5 
p.m. on Feb. 20. Applications at 
SSB G1.404. 471-3825 or 
www.utexas.edu/student/ombuds.

Art of Living Club Weekly Yoga 
Sessions. 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.. 
Quadrangle Room, Texas Union. 
Beginner level. All are welcome. 
Call Sid at 323-6425, or go to 
http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/ 
aol.

Texans for Israel Coffeehouse.
9 p.m., Texas Union Eastwoods 
Room. Discuss current events 
affecting Israel, 
www.texansforisrael.org

Pagan Student Alliance Meeting.
7 p.m., SZB 296.
www. pagans tudentalliance. org.

Free Yoga Class. 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m., 
Texas Union Eastwoods Room. 
Don’t eat two hours prior; wear 
loose clothing. Call Chris at 
217-1380, for more info.

CHPR Outstanding Investigator 
Awards, noon-1 p.m., NUR 2.104F. 
www. nur. utexas. e d u / 
chpr2000/chpr. html.

Learn to Use the UT Library 
Online, 3 p.m.-4 p.m., PCL
4.102. Iib-classes@lists.cc. 
utexas.edu or 495-4534.

UT Symphony Orchestra, 8
p.m., Bates Recital Hall, $5 at 
door. 471-5401.

Tuesday

Student Government Meeting,
7 p.m., SSB G1.310. Discuss 
campus issues and events.

Golden Key International 
Honour Society Officer 
Elections. 6 p.m., SSB Ground 
Floor Atrium (near ID Center). 
elderbroom@mail. utexas. edu.

New Music Ensemble, 8 p.m., 
Bates Recital Hall, free. 471-5401.

University Yoga Club Lecture on 
Tantric Meditation. 5 p.m.-6:45 
p.m., Texas Union Asian Culture 
room. Teacher: Dada Premananda.

American Marketing Association 
General Meeting, 7 p.m., UTC 
4.132.

General Libraries Classes: Make 
Bibliographies with EndNote

(Hands-on), 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m., 
FAC 227; Best Resources for 
graduate students. 12 p.m.-l 
p.m., PCL 4.102. 495-4534 for 
more info.

Film Screening: “In A Prison 
Called Palestine,” 7 p.m., FAC 21.

Phi Alpha Delta Pre-law 
Ftatemity. first general meeting,
7 p.m., Painter 2.48.

Students In Free Enterprise
meeting, 7 p.m.. UTC 3.122. 
Open to all majors.

X

Wednesday

UT Watch meeting, 7 p.m., Texas 
Union 4.110. New members wel­
come, free pizza.

Want to join the largest co-ed 
latino-oriented fraternity at UT?
E-mail: cadame@mail.utexas.edu 
for more info.

Baptist Student Ministry Free 
Lunch, noon, 2204 San Antonio 
St. Home-cooked meals and 
chance to meet other students.

Humanities Institute Public 
Lecture, “Whose Modernity? The 
Global Landscape of Modernism," 
7:30 p.m., ART 1.102. 
www. utexas. edu /cola / 
depts/huminst.

Texas Lassos Distinguished 
Speaker Series, Dr. Robert 
Jensen on “ Pornography and the 
Male Imagination,” 7 p.m.,
Chicano Culture Room, Texas 
Union.

Wind Ensemble, 8 p.m., Bates 
Recital Hall, free. 471-4093.

UT Economics Association meet­
ing, 6 p.m., UTC 4.122. Ail majors 
interested in economic issues wel­
come. Guest speakers, free pizza.

General Libraries Classes,
Search the library catalog 
Successfully: UTNetCAT. 11 a.m.- 
noon and 6 p.m.-7 p.m., PCL
4.102. 495-4534.

Librarian on Location, noon-4 p.m., 
Jester (Concourse West). Get help 
with your research and informa­
tion needs.

Palestine Solidarity Committee 
Brown Bag Lunch, noon-2 p.m.,

THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 1 6 -2 2 

Goldsmith courtyard. Come learn 
about our organization.

Nikita Storojev, 8 p.m., Bates 
Recital Hall, free. 471-9440.

Thursday

Friday

Environmental Center Meeting.
6 p.m.-7 p.m., Texas Union Board 
of Directors Room. Topic: Natural 
Gas Drilling on Padre Island, 
www. UTenvironment. org

Art of Living Club Yoga
Sessions, 5 p.m.-6 p.m., and 7 
p.m.-8 p.m., mats provided. Free 
and suited for beginners. Texas 
Union Ballroom.

Baptist Student Ministry 
Crossroads Café, 6:30 p.m. 8 
p.m., 2204 San Antonio St. A 
café for Internationals to learn 
English speaking with Americans. 
Free coffee, games.

Author Marjorie Perloff, presents 
“The Aura of Modernism ” 6:30 
p.m., Homer Rainey Hall’s Jessen 
Auditorium at 21st Street and 
University Avenue, free. 471- 
8944.

Super Bevos Open Meeting, 6
p.m., NOA 1.102. Help your 
community, and meet people in 
this flexible, fun student 
organization.

General Libraries New 
Databases: An Overview, 2 p.m.- 
3 p.m., PCL 4.102. E-mail 
libclasses@lists.cc.utexas.edu or 
495-4534.

Carothers Coffee Talk: Chela 
Metzger, School of Information, 
on “The Death of the Book, and 
Who Cares Anyway?" 3:30 p.m.- 
4:30 p.m., University Honors 
Center (Carothers 23). Free 
cookies and coffee.

Tax Seminar for Graduate 
Students, with a IRS Senior 
Specialist, 10 a .m .-ll a.m.,
Texas Union Ballroom.

Islamic Dialogue Student 
Association Panel Discussion: 
“Sharing the Faith of Prophet 
Abraham ” 7:30 p.m., UTC 4.104. 
http://studentorgs. 
utexas. e d u /id sa /

U.S. Army Brass Quintet, 8 p.m.,
Bates Recital Hall, free. 471- 
5401.

Voice Class Recital: Students of

Jazz Orchestra, 8 p.m., Bates 
Recital Hall, $5 at door. 
471-5401.

GLBTgrad Happy Hour, 7 p.m.- 
9:30 p.m., 1920’s Club (918 
Congress Ave.), Pre-Dinner at 
Thai Passion (7th St. and 
Congress Ave.), 5:30 p.m. RSVP 
for dinner. http://groups.yahoo. 
com/group/GLBTgrad/

UT Ballroom Dance Club 
Welcome Dance, 8 p.m.- 
midnight, Texas Union Ballroom. 
$8/students, $10/all others.

Rebellion Cabaret, with perform­
ance artist Penny Arcade and 
singer/songwriter Chris Rael, 
tonight and Saturday, 8 p.m., 
Texas Union Theater, free.

Learn to Use the UT Library 
Online, 1 p.m.-2 p.m., PCL 4.102. 
Iibclasses@lists. cc. utexas. edu 
or 4954534.

Saturday

Armenian Mardi-Gras Middle 
Eastern Dance Party, 8 p.m.-2 
a.m., Red Lion Hotel, $20/stu- 
dents (includes food), www.arme- 
nianmardigras.com.

Texas Rugby Showdown, UT vs. 
Sam Houston State University,
2 p.m., Whitaker Fields. For more 
details: www.utrugby.com.

Sunday

Munna Bhai MBBS, Hindi 
Comedy film, 6 p.m., Texas 
Union, free. For details: 
http!//austin. vibha. org.

Water Ski Team Meeting for 
Prospective Members, Mon. and 
Tues., Feb. 23-24, 9 p.m., UTC 
1.104. Tryouts Feb. 27, 28 and 
29 at Frameswitch Ski Lake. 
www. studentorgs. 
utexas.edu/waterski.

The Palestine Solidarity 
Committee Weekly Meeting, 7
p.m., Texas Union Governor’s 
Room.

Make the Texan work for you.

Call 471-4591 or e-mail aroundcampus@dallytexanonllne.com 
to make a submission to this calendar.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16
Last day to drop a course 
without a possible academic 
penalty.

! STATE * L0CAL BRIEFS
Courts full of cases to see 
if killer mentally retarded
In the year-and-a-half since the 
U.S. Supreme Court ruled men­
tally retarded inmates cannot be 
executed, state and federal 
appeals courts have delayed or 
sent back to trial 41 Texas 
death row cases to decide 
whether the killer was mentally 
retarded, says a group that 
tracks the claims.

Both sides of the issue agree 

the Legislature should change 
state law to decide mental retar­
dation earlier to reduce the bur­
den on appeals courts.

When the Supreme Court 
ruled, it left it up to the states 
to determine mental retardation, 
and the Texas criminal justice 
system has been groping in the 
dark ever since.

The state Court of Criminal 
Appeals has sent 37 cases 
back to trial courts fpr hearings. 
Four cases were remanded by 
the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of 
Appeals in New Orleans.

The American Association of 
Mental Retardation defines the 
condition as having three fac­
tors: below-average intellectual 
functioning, usually an IQ of 70 
or lower; poor adaptive skills, 
such as the inability to hold a 
job or communicate with others; 
and the onset of symptoms 
before age 18.

State lawmakers tried to 

address the mental retardation 
issue last year but couldn’t 
agree on whether retardation 
should be determined before or 
after the guilty phase of a trial.
In 2002, the court ruled that 
juries, not judges, should decide 
whether an inmate ends up on 
death row. While trial juries 
make those decisions in Texas, 
trial judges consider the cases 
that are sent back for review on 
mental retardation claims.

That could mean another 

round of appeals from inmates 
who are rejected.

Health authorities look 
into Pasadena hospital
HOUSTON — A suburban 
Houston hospital has never 
been severely punished and 
continues operating after 
numerous investigations into 
violations of state and federal 
regulations, a newspaper report­
ed Sunday.

A review of records and inter­

views with patients’ relatives, 
regulatory officials and lawyers 
by the Houston Chronicle found 
that state inspectors have 
repeatedly found serious prob­
lems with Vista Medical Center 
Hospital in Pasadena.

The facility has been involved 
in at least 14 medical malprac­
tice lawsuits, including two 
involving patient deaths.

Compiled from 
Associated Press reports

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ACCREDITATION, FROM 1
"Probation is a serious sign 
that you are in jeopardy of los­
ing accreditation," said Sullivan. 
"You cannot disburse federal 
loans if you are not accredited."
SACS delivered a "warning" 
to UT Austin in 1998 for failing 
to meet two criteria, according 
to UT President Larry Faulkner.

"I had to travel a couple of 
times to Atlanta and once to 
Savannah to straighten things 
out," Faulkner said. "In the end 
they sent a special team to [UT 
Austin] to smooth it over."

UT System officials took simi­
lar measures in December over 
UT Arlington's probation. UT 
System officials complained to 
the agency about the severity of 
the punishment, saying the due 
date of the revised mission state­
ment was actually on July 26, 
2004.

"Rather than being late, [the 
mission statement] was actually 
seven months in advance of its 
due date," stated UT System 
officials in a letter sent to SACS 
on Dec. 12.

the 
on 

In a letter written in response, 
Jam es Rogers, the executive 
agency's
of 
director 
Com m ission 
Colleges,
acknowledged the due date may 
not have been "clearly commu­
nicated" and agreed to take UT 
Arlington off of probation and 
reconsider the decision at a 
meeting in March.
"I believe the 

letter says, 
'Oops we have m ade a mistake. 
We will think about it again in

March,' " Sullivan said.

Rogers did not immediately 

return phone calls Friday.

The UT System Board of 
Regents discussed the probation 
during its February meeting, 
criticizing some of the agency's 
criteria as 
superfluous and 
unnecessary. The regents asked 
Sullivan to look into the possi­
the 
bility of reform within 
agency.

"What the regents have asked 
me to do is think through the 
issues 
... and find out how 
much money is spent on SACS 
membership," Sullivan said.

UT System schools pay a 
membership fee to the agency 
for their accreditation, Sullivan 
said. 
In addition, UT System 
schools pay for each visit by 
agency officials to their cam ­
puses.

"[I] often feel as though the 
accrediting process is overly 
expensive in terms of how much 
time and effort goes into it," 
Faulkner said.

The agency determined in a 
routine accreditation review in 
1997 that UT Austin failed to 
meet a computer competency 
criteria.

a 

formal 

"They essentially wanted to 
construe it as requiring that we 
have 
curriculum 
requirements teaching students 
how to use computers in a very 
basic way," Faulkner 
said. 
"When we are talking about a 
very basic way, we are talking 
about turning them on and 
using e-mail."

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 WORLD BRIEFS
Raids lead to arrests of
three terror suspects

KABUL, Afghanistan — American 

forces backed by warplanes 
sealed off two villages in southern 
Afghanistan and detained two 
terror suspects Sunday, while 
Afghan police and NATO-led troops 
in Kabul made one arrest and 
seized arms and terror-related 
material in another raid.

As many as 60 U.S. soldiers 

sealed off a pair of villages 
Sunday in southern Helmand 
province and detained two men — 
Mulvi Abdul Ghafar and Gul Agha 
— suspected of ties to top 
Taliban commander Mullah 
Dadullah, local district leader Haji 
Amir said.

In a separate operation 

Saturday, Afghan police and the 
NATO-led security force raided a 
suspected terrorist hideout in the 
Afghan capital, detaining one 
person and seizing arms and 
“terrorist-related material," said 
Rita LePage, a spokeswoman for 
the International Security 
Assistance Force that patrols 
Kabul.

No one was injured in the raid 
on the home, where five women 
and 12 children were present, 
LePage said.

Iran to sell nuclear reactor 
fuel under watchdog IAEA
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran declared 

Sunday it plans to sell nuclear 
reactor fuel internationally, 
establishing the Islamic republic 
as a country in possession of 
technology the United States 
wants to keep from spreading.

Once Iran produces nuclear fuel, 

it will market it under the strict 
supervision of the United Nations' 
nuclear watchdog, the Vienna- 
based International Atomic Energy 
Agency, he said.

“This is an industry which can 
both be used by our plants and 
supplied to the international 
markets,” Foreign Minister Kamal 
Kharrazi was quoted as saying by 
the official Islamic Republic News 
Agency, or IRNA.

He added that Iran has 

suspended uranium enrichment, 
“but this does not mean that we 
will give up this industry, which is 
our national pride."

The United States seeks to 
restrict countries from acquiring 
uranium enrichment technology, 
and Iran's sale of fuel internation­
ally would prove it already 
possesses the capability.

Washington suspects Iran of 
conducting a secret program to 
build nuclear weapons, but Tehran 
insists its program is geared only 
toward energy production.

A total of 90 people perish
in mall, temple fires

BEIJING — A fire at a crowded 
shopping mall killed at least 53 
people Sunday in China’s 
northeast, while 39 died in a 
blaze in a temple in the south­
east, state media said. The fires 
added to a string of deadly 
accidents despite repeated 
government vows to improve 
public safety.

The shopping center fire broke 
out at about 11:20 a.m. on the 
second floor of the five-story 
Zhongbai Building in Jilin, the 
official Xinhua News Agency 
reported. It said the blaze appar­
ently began in a storeroom next to 
a boiler room.

The temple fire broke out at 

about 2:15 p.m. in Wufeng,
Xinhua said. It said firefighters put 
out the blaze about 30 minutes 
later.

The cause for both fires is still 

under investigation.

Reporters demand answers
for string of attacks
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip —

Journalists bnefly occupied the 
Palestinian legislative building in 
Gaza on Sunday to protest a series 
of mysterious attacks on reporters.
The protesters marched into the 
empty legislative building and occu­
pied the vacant seats of the chair­
man and other assembly mem­
bers. The journalists also refused 
to report on the Palestinian securi­
ty services and interior and justice 
ministries until the government 
responded to their concerns.

The protesters left the building 
severa1 hours later after a top aide 
to Yasser Arafat said the 
Palestinian leader is committed to 
finding who was behind the 
violence. The group launched the 
protest after a string of attacks on 
journalists, most recently the burn­
ing of the car of Munir Abu Rezk, 
the Gaza bureau chief of the Al 
Hayat Al Jadida newspaper.

It was unclear why Abu Rezk, who 
wasn't hurt, was targeted. The daily 
newspaper is owned by Nabil Amr, 
a former Palestinian Cabinet minis­
ter, and is close to the Palestinian 
Authority.

Earlier this month, furniture and 
equipment were destroyed at the 
offices of the independent weekly 
magazine al Dar. In January, the 
Gaza correspondent of the 
al Arabiya satellite channel was 
severely beaten in a Gaza street 
after leaving work.

No arrests have been made in 
any of the cases, and the targets 
have said they do not know why 
they were attacked. The violence 
may be linked to growing lawless­
ness in the Palestinian areas or to 
internal rivalries betweer 
Palestinian leaders.

Compiled from 
Associated Press reports

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T u t D a il y T e x a n

Monday, February 16, 2004

Iraqi police arrest No. 41 on U.S. list

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By Lee Keath
A ssociated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq — A special 
Iraqi police unit arrested a senior 
Baath Party leader on the U.S. 
military’s most-wanted list during 
a raid Sunday on his home in a 
Baghdad suburb.

The capture of M ohammed 
Zimam Abdul Razaq leaves only 
10 top figures still at large from the 
list of 55 issued after the Saddam 
Hussein regime fell. Abdul Razaq 
was No. 41, and the four of spades 
in the military’s "deck of cards" of 
top fugitives.
Deputy 

Interior M inister 
Ahmed Kadhum Ibrahim touted 
the arrest as evidence that the 
still-rebuilding Iraqi police force 
"can be depended upon in the 
fight against terrorism” — looking 
to give his troops a boost a day 
after police in the turbulent city of 
Fallujah were overw helm ed by 
dozens of gunmen in one of the 
best organized guerrilla attacks vet.
U.S. officials gave conflicting 
reports Sunday on whether foreign 
loyalists 
fighters or Saddam 
carried o u t the bold, daytim e 
assault on 
the Fallujah police 
station.

At least 25 people, mostly police, 
were killed in the raid, more than 
30 people were wounded, and the 
attackers freed dozens of prisoners 
at the station. The assault raised 
questions about w hether Iraqi 
security forces are ready to take the 
front line against the insurgency 
when the U.S. hands over power to 
the Iraqis on June 30.

Abdul Razaq headed Saddam's 
the northern 
in 
Baath Party 
provinces of Nineveh and Tamim, 
which include the cities of Mosul 
and Kirkuk. He earlier served as 
interior minister, and 
Ibrahim 
said he kept a "personal prison” 
behind the police academy where 
"innocent people" were held in 
dog cages.

Abdul Razaq was presented to 
reporters at the Interior Ministry, 
where he sat next to Ibrahim on a 
couch, wearing a black traditional 
Arab robe and a white headdress. 
He was then handed over to the 
U.S.-led coalition, Ibrahim said at a 
press conference later.

Police caught Abdul Razaq's 
trail when they were tipped off 
that his son was trying to obtain 
w eapons and 
fake passports, 
Ibrahim said.

Police watched the elder Abdul

Razaq for 10 days before the 
special operations unit — trained 
by U.S. experts — moved in on his 
house in the Baghdad suburb of 
Saydiya on Sunday afternoon and 
found him on the second floor, 
Ibrahim said. Abdul Razaq offered 
no resistance.

Ibrahim called on the highest 
ranking figure still at large from the 
U.S. list, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, to 
surrender.

Al-Douri, the former vice chair­
man of the ruling Revolutionary 
C om m and Council 
a 
mem ber of Saddam 's innerm ost 
circle, is No. 6 on the U.S. most- 
wanted list.

and 

the 

Earlier Sunday, 

in 
neighborhood 

tw o U.S. 
convoys were attacked nearly 
same 
sim ultaneously 
w estern 
in 
Baghdad. A roadside bom b went 
off by one of the convoys, causing 
the soldiers 
no 
opened fire, killing one Iraqi 
driver nearby and w ounding s ix 
others, hospital officials said.

injuries. But 

Nearby, gunm en opened fire 
on another convoy, hitting a civil 
ian vehicle. The U.S. comm and 
reported no casualties.

Snow blankets the Middle East

NATION BRIEFS

Mohammed 
Zimam 
Abdul Razaq 
sits inside an 
office of the 
Iraqi Interior 
Ministry in 
Baghdad. 
Iraq, on 
Sunday. Iraqi 
police 
arrested 
Abdul Razaq 
on Sunday at 
one of his 
homes in a 
suburb of 
Baghdad, 
Deputy 
Interior 
Minister 
Ahmed 
Kadhum 
Ibrahim told 
journalists.

Brennan
Linsley

Asso cia te
Press

Astrophysicists discover 
farthest object from Earth
PASADENA, Calif. — Lying 13 
billion light-years away, a tiny galaxy 
that is the farthest known object 
from Earth was detected by a team 
of astrophysicists Sunday.

The team uncovered the faint 

galaxy using two of the most power­
ful telescopes — one in space, the 
other in Hawaii — aided by the 
natural magnification provided by a 
massive cluster of galaxies.

The discovery gives a rare glimpse 
of the time when the first stars and 
galaxies began to blink on, ending a 
period that cosmologists call the 
Dark Ages, said Robert Kirshner. an 
astronomer with the Harvard- 
Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 
in Cambridge, Mass.

The galaxy is just 2,000 light-years 
across, which is far smaller than the 
Milky Way.

Bullet in Saturday shooting 
linked to series of incidents
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ballistics 

testing has confirmed that a 
Saturday morning highway shooting 
was the 24th in a series in the 
Columbus area, investigators said 
Sunday.

The bullet recovered from the 
battery of a sport utility vehicle 
struck on Interstate 70 matches 
eight others recovered during the 
investigation, according to a release. 
The others have been linked by 
factors including location and 
circumstances.

Experts said the shooter is becom­

ing bolder after evading capture for 
three months, when authorities first 
established a pattern in the shoot­
ings.

Saturday’s shooting is the 

farthest east the shooter has struck.
The serial shootings began in May, 

though most have occurred since 
midOctober.

Gas prices continue to grow, 
rising 3.61 cents in weeks
CAMARILLO, Calif. — Retail 

gasoline prices continue to climb, 
rising more than 17 cents a gallon 
since late December, according to a 
study released Sunday.

Gas prices for all grades rose 3.61 

cents in the past weeks, according 
to the I undberg Survey of 8 XX.) 
stations.

Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg 

said several factors were responsible 
for the hike, including OPEC’s deci 
sion to cut oil production by 1 million 
barrels a day beginning Apnl 1.

Also, rising crude oil prices and 
cold weather increased the demand 
for heating oil, Lundberg said.

The national weighted average 
price of gasoline Friday was about 
$1.65 for regular, $1.75 for 
midgrade, and $1.84 for premium.

Compiled from 
Associated Press reports

RESIDENT ASSISTANT
Appreciation Day!
February 16,2004

The Division o j Housing and Food Service and the University o f Texas
community recognizes and appreciates your commitment, dedication and
sacrifice in making our residence hails a “Home Away From Home ' for
University o f Texas residents.

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Karina Aguilar
Mani Alavimoghadain 
Kevin Anderie
Michelle Andjelich
Angel ique Baifazar
Sean Barrett
Khianna Bartholomew 
Katherine Bates
Nicholas Battle
Destiny Belknap
M arisa Bell-Metereau
Natasha Benitez
Myra Braeamontez
Bridgit Breslow
Nicholas Brody
Andrea Bruno
Greg Burris
Cindi Burton
Michael Busch
Jerry Campbell
Shikha Chacko
Michael Chao
Ann Chen
Raymond Cheng
Elliot Chow
Adrianna Ciasen
Casey Coats
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Lindsay Dalmolin
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Anthony Pittman
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Priya Rao-Kathi
Manny Rey es
Kristen Riordan
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Jeff‘Ruder
Emily Russell
Lester Samson
Katherine Samuels
Sarah Sanghavi
Chris Schncller
Abigail Schuman
Hemal i Shah
Archana Shankar
Aaron Shelby
David Smeltzer
Chris Sokolowski
Shannon Stokes
Anthony Strong
Marilee Tamasy
Rediesha Thompson
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Cindy Urshan
Megan Vickers
Sean Walters
Daniel Wang
Jacob Ward
Scott Wendland
Chauncey Wesley
Nicholas Whittaker
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Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press 
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Members of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's 
personal guard build a snowman outside Arafat's headquarters in the West 
Bank town of Ramallah on Sunday. A snowstorm hit northern and central 
Israel and the West Bank late Saturday and Sunday leaving about 6 inches 
of snow in some areas of Israel and the West Bank.

Dean urged to drop out

By Ron Fournier
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — H ow ard 
D ean's top advisers are urging 
him to abandon the Democratic 
presidential 
loses 
race 
Wisconsin's primary, officials said 
Sunday, but the form er Vermont 
governor asserted, "We are not 
bowing out."

if he 

Dean, winless in 16 contests 
and badly trailing in Wisconsin 
polls, said in an interview with 
The Associated Press, "In fact, we 
are staying in the race. The forum 
w e will use to stay in the race 
rem ains 
to be seen. Period. 
Anybody w ho says anything to 
the contrary' has misspoken.”

But several of his top advisers 
said Sunday that Dean should 
cede the nom ination if he loses 
Tuesday and consider several 
options, including dropping from 
the race outright, suspending his 
cam paign or at least acknowledg­
ing Kerry's victory' and redirect­
ing his own efforts. They said the 
fallen front-runner was all but 
certain to effectively abandon his 
bid, one way or another.

if 

the 

D ean's 

cam paign 
own 
chairman, Steve Grossman, said 
that 
form er Vermont 
governor loses Tuesday's election 
Dean would seek to convert his 
grass-roots 
a 
m ovem ent that helps expand the 
party and elect the Democratic 
nominee.

netw ork 

into 

Several other senior campaign 
officials said Dean w ould likely 
bow to intense pressure from his 
ow n advisers to give up his 
quixotic bid for the presidency, 
though 
they disagreed w ith 
Grossman over how much — if 
any — direct help D ean would be 
willing to give Kerry'.

is 

torn betw een 

The officials, speaking on 
condition of anonymity, said 
Dean 
his 
pragm atic conclusion that the 
is about ov er and his 
race 
emotional attachm ent to the fight 
itself and his supporters.

For the 

tirst tim e, there is 
a near-unanim ous consensus 
am ong advisers that it would be 
foolhardy for Dean to continue 
fighting 
the nom ination 
beyond Wisconsin. The circle of 
die-hards has shrunk, and most 
confidants are telling Dean it's 
time to find a way to convert his

for 

Polls 

Kerry, 

Internet-fueled netw ork into a 
long-term political movement.
show 

a 
Massachusetts senator w ho has 
w on 14-of-l6 contests to date, 
holding a wide lead in Wisconsin, 
site of Tuesday's contest. The 
Dem ocratic candidates were 
meeting in the state for a debate 
Sunday.

Campaign manager Roy Neel 
the sources' 
did not dispute 
assertions, but cautioned that Dean 
is still mulling his options should 
he lose Tuesday.

Dean had told supporters via 
e-mail that a defeat Tuesday would 
end his bid for the nomination, but 
he has backed aw ay from that 
statement in recent days.

Several top advisers said Dean 
has privately acknowledged that 
his prospects for the presidency 
will effectively end if he suffers 
another major defeat Tuesday. He 
seems to be looking for a forum — 
som ething short of an all-out 
cam paign — in which he can 
retain a voice in the election-year 
process, they said.

Grossman, for one, said Dean 

would quit attacking Kerry.

"Should he not w in Wisconsin, 
you will see a meaningful shift in 
rhetoric, a meaningful shift in tone 
an d a meaningful shift in the time 
he spends" building his campaign 
base into a long-term movement, 
Grossman said.

Other top advisers said they had 
doubts whether Dean would ever 
w ork directly on Kerry's behalf 
this year. They suggested that 
Grossm an was trying to curry 
favor with Kerry'.

Officials said they are discussing 
ways to use Dean's network to 
help elect Democrats to Congress, 
action that effectively, but not 
directly, support Kerry' s agenda as 
president. Scores of cam paign 
aides were making plans to leave 
their jobs after Tuesday.

The advisers sought to square 
their perceptions with Dean's 
public remarks.

"When Howard Dean says he's 
not going to quit, w hat he means is 
the battle to restore democracy and 
citizen participation is long-term, 
and he's not going to quit on that 
battle,” Grossman said.

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EDITO RIAL BOARD
Editor 
Kevin Kushner
Associate Editors
Bob Jones 
M att Wright

O pinions expressed in The Daily Texan are those o f the editor, the 

Editorial Board or w riter o f the article. They are not necessarily 

those o f the UT adm inistration, the Board o f Regents or the Texas 

S tudent Publications Board o f Operating Trustees.

VIEWPOINT

Getting the 
facts straight

i he myths, lies and confusion over the admissions 
p ro c e ss in higher education leads to m isunderstanding 
and m isguided attacks.

For this reason, those seeking to demystify two h igh­
ly controversial aspects of the adm ission process — 
legacy preferences and affirmative action — should 
nave the full s u p p o rt of everyone concerned with the 
adm issions process.

\n assistant to Peter Kirsanow, a m em ber of the U.S. 
Comm ission on Civil Rights, sent out a survey to 40 
selective colleges in hopes of gauging how schools are 
responding to the Suprem e C ourt's decisions in the 
Gratz and G rutter cases.

Í he survey caused an u p ro ar w ith other commission 
members, w ho are livid that Kirsanow, an outspoken 
op p onent of affirmative action policies, and his assis- 
mt issued the survey on an official commission letter­

head w ithout the approval of the commission.

Q uestionable protocol aside, the survey could reap 

rewards.

I he 10 questions posed in the survey seek informa- 
tion on a w id e range of topics dealing with race and 
a d m is s io n s . For example, the survey asks the schools to 
identify the benefits of racial and ethnic diversity, how 
the school defines diversity, w hether they use recruit­
ing an d retention program s to enroll a diverse student 
body, it race-conscious measures are necessary to m ain­
tain consistent levels of diversity and w hen schools are 
preparing to end race-conscious admissions.

Some of the questions are tough. But schools should 
answ er them. The more inform ation the public obtains 
a b o u t affirm ative action, 
the m ore m y ths are 
debunked, and public u n d erstanding regarding how 
and w hy schools use affirmative action increases.

Similarly, Sen. Edw ard Kennedy, D-Mass., proposed 
legislation that w ould force universities that receive 
■ederal funds to reveal the race and family income of all 
legacy applicants.

Thi s m easure w ould bode well for a public starving 
or hard facts surro u n d in g the- legacy controversy, 
instead of simply accepting the claim that legacy pref­
erences are affirmative action for rich, white kids, the 
public can decide for themselves w itho ut relying on 
pun dits and ideologues spinning hard-to-ohtain statis­
tics.

Everyone, no matter w here they stand on the issues, 
can agree the more information the public obtains, the 
Tetter debate it can have over the merits of legacy pref­
erences and affirmative action.

So let's get the facts and raise the level of debate.

... sfcy. to 

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Time to hold Bush accountable

By Esther Wang
Daily Texan Columnist

George VV. Bush ran for presi­
dent as the guy who w ould bring 
honesty back 
the W hite 
House. Well, given his three-year 
track record, it's not surprising 
that statement too, was a lie.

to 

What else has he lied about? In 
short, everything — the w ar in 
Iraq, the economy, health care, 
education, his service during the 
Vietnam War — and the list 
could go on. Let's run through 
just a few of the m any lies and 
deceptions that Bush has tried to 
pass off to the American public.
Iraq

B ush's 

W hat w as Bush's reason for 
invading Iraq? Oh yeah, Iraq was 
an imminent threat to the U.S., 
and Saddam had large quantities 
of w eapons of mass destruction. 
But a year later, nothing has been 
found. W here's the threat?
fab ricatio n s 

have 
gone far beyond his lie d u rin g 
the State of the U nion address 
w hen he asserted that Iraq had 
attem pted to obtain uranium 
from Niger. He has claim ed 
WMD have been found (a lie — 
they were actually trailers used 
for 
to 
w e a th e r balloons). He has 
claim ed Iraq had nuclear capa­
bilities (a lie). Even his ow n 
a d m in istra tio n officials have 
th at no 
com e o u t and said 
WMD have been found, and 
that they likely w o n 't find any. 
His ow n chief w eapons inspec­
tor, David Kay, adm itted after 
10 m onths of investigation, "I 
d o n 't think thev existed."

h y d ro g e n 

p ro d u c e 

But more than 500 U.S. sol­
diers and an estimated 10,000 
innocent Iraqi civilians have died 
because of Bush's deceptions.
The economy

In February 2003, President 
Bush predicted that 5.5 million 
new jobs would be created in 
2003 and 2004 
if C ongress 
passed his tax cut. Bush now 
confidently states that 2.6 mil­
lion jobs will be created this year. 
Well, Mr. President, the tax cuts 
were passed, but where are the 
jobs?

A more telling statistic is this: 
D uring Bush's term in office, 
mom than 2.7 million jobs have 
been lost.

And let's take a closer look at 
w hat Bush has said about his tax 
cuts (they turn out, believe it or 
not, to be mostly lies). H e's said 
that his tax cut w ould "reduce 
tax rates for everyone w ho pays 
income tax." He also has said 
that the vast majority of his tax 
cuts go to the "bottom end of the 
spectrum " and would help those 
most in need.

But Citizens for Tax justice fig­
ured that 42.6 percent of Bush's 
2001 $1.6 trillion tax package 
w ould end up in the wallets of 
the top 1 percent of earners, 
hardly the ones w ho need any 
extra cash. The lowest 60 percent 
would receive only 12.6 percent. 
earning 
A nd 
betw een $16,000 and $29,000 
would net about $99 from Bush's 
proposed tax cuts, hardly a ticket 
into middle-class life.

in dividuals 

But hey, I guess the rich need­

ed a $1.6 trillion tax cut.

Vietnam

No one knows where exactly 
Bush was between May 1972 and 
May 1973, w hen he was sup­
posed to be serving in the Air 
N ational G uard. Bush claims 
that he d id n 't skip out on his mil­
itary duty, but the facts suggest 
otherwise.

His May 1973 annual perform ­
ance review — written by tw o of 
his superior officers — noted, 
"Lt. Bush has not been observed 
at" his home base in H ouston for 
the past year. Bush has said he 
spent about half of that missing 
year on a G uard base 
in 
Alabama. But two m em bers of 
the Air National Guard unit that 
Bush allegedly served with in 
Alabama had been told to expect 
him and were looking for him. 
And they say he never showed.

Bush used lies and deceptions 
to justify a w ar that has killed 
thousands. He used lies to push 
through tax cuts that fattened 
the wallets of the w ealthy and 
federal 
only w orsened 
deficit. He refuses to let out the 
complete truth about his service 
during Vietnam, a critical ques­
tion for a leader w ho isn't exact­
ly hesitant to put young men 
and w om en in mortal danger.

the 

It's difficult for me to believe 
that our president lies to us so 
deliberately and regularly, but the 
facts at 
lie. The 
least d o n 't 
American people deserve some­
one w ho is honest — and we need 
to remember that in November.

Wang is a Plan II and Asian- 
American studies senior.

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Congress should check activist judges
Judicial legislation, otherwise known as 
judicial activism, is a problem.

By Chad Hanak
Daily Texan Columnist

Everybody's favorite defender 
of the people's rights recently 
struck another blow against evil 
and tyranny.

The American Civil Liberties 
Union's recently prevailed in its 
lawsuit to prevent the city of San 
Diego from leasing a park to the 
Boy Scouts of America as a non 
profit organization. The ACLU 
claimed the lease was a violation of 
the separation of church and state 
because the Scouts are a religious 
organization.

The Boy Scouts recently won a 
U.S. Supreme Court case uphold­
ing their right as a private organi­
zation to set their own morals and 
m embership requirements, thus 
thwarting the efforts of groups like 
the ACLU to impose their own 
minority version of morality on a 
group that proudly espouses tradi­
tional values.

Unsatisfied with this result, the 
ACLU brought the San Diego suit, 
and the federal court agreed with 
them. Aside from the fact that the 
Scouts are not a religious organiza­
tion in the strict sense, the judge 
failed to recognize the difference 
between "Congress shall make no 
law respecting an establishment of 
religion" and leasing government 
land to a religious organization. 
The Scouts pointed out that the city 
had similar leases with many other 
non profit organizations, and that

refusing to treat the Scouts equally 
because of their beliefs amounted 
to the type of discnmination that 
the First Amendment was meant to 
protect against in the first place.

The U.S. Justice Department's 
Civil Rights Division agreed with 
the Scouts, noting in a letter that 
"Jones' decision raises serious con­
cerns" and suggesting that "the 
court may be singling o u t the 
Scouts for special treatment."

The rase raises two important 
questions: Did Judge Napoleon 
Jones allow his political views to 
render a constitutionally incorrect 
decision, and what happens when 
the judiciary abuses its power?

Judicial legislation, otherwise 
known as judicial activism, is a 
problem. A main component of the 
separation of powers scheme is 
judicial review, whereby the courts 
have the duty to review7 suspect 
laws for compliance with 
the 
suprem e law of the land: the 
Constitution. This keeps the execu­
tive and legislative branches trom 
abusing their powder. When the 
judiciary ignores the intent of pop­
ularly passed am endm ents and 
instead twists the Constitution to 
conform to its own political views, 
it becomes an un-elected legislative 
body with unlimited pow er to 
impose its will upon the people.

This is exactly the kind of abuse of 
power the founding fathers sought 
to prevent.

test 

The current Massachusetts case 
concerning gay marriage provides 
another example. Ln Good ridge vs. 
D epartm ent of Public Health, 
Chief Justice and majority opinion 
writer Margaret H. Marshall wrote 
"the marriage ban does not meet 
the rational basis test" for due 
process and therefore is unconsti­
tutional.
The 

is 
rational basis 
described by the justice as requir­
ing that statutes "bear a real and 
substantial relation to the public 
health, safety, morals or some other 
phase of the general welfare." The 
morals of the majority of the 
Massachusetts populous were 
clearly expressed through their 
elected representatives in the state 
legislature by their refusal to recog­
nize the gay equivalent of mar­
riage. Yet Marshall goes on to 
ignore the expressed will of the 
people and to substitute her own 
version of morality for that of the 
public, usurping the power of the 
Massachusetts Legislature.

The U.S. Supreme Court isn't 
im m une from such abuses of 
power. In Lawrence vs. Texas, the 
majority opinion authored by 
Justice Kennedy drew7 on foreign

laws to strike dow n a Texas statute 
making it unlawful for two mem­
bers of the same sex to engage in 
sodomy. While the court wras cor­
rect in striking down the statute, 
the court was dearly out of hne in 
arguing that foreign law s should 
have any substantial 
influence 
over American society. Justice 
Scalia, in his dissenting opinion, 
noted this dangerous precedent by 
should 
citing that "this Court . 
not impose foreign moods, fads or 
fashions on Americans

the 

judiciary available 

Judicial activism can be cur­
tailed. Judicial review requires 
judicial independence and impar­
tiality, b ut impunity to punishment 
for w'rong decisions do es not guar­
antee either of these. Í he one check 
to 
on 
Congress is im peachm ent. The 
Constitution states that judges 
shall hold their offices during 
"good behavior." Placing politics 
the 
before 
Constitution is a clear betrayal of 
the faith of the American people 
and does not constitute good 
behavior.

intent 

the 

of 

It's time for Congress to assert its 
check on the judicial branch and 
remove the most egregious viola­
tors of the public trust. That should 
remind the rest of the judges of 
their Constitutional role and return 
the U.S. to government by and for 
the people.

Hanak is an aerospace engineering 
graduate student.

THE FIRING LINE

ideological fairy tale

In response to James Burnham’s 

Feb. 12 column "Remaking the 
Middle East through Iraq,” I can’t help 
but wonder where the ideological 
tairv-tale will end. Burnham refers to 
the "gilded palace walls that loomed 
menacingly over a poor and 
oppressed people’’ before Saddam's 
fall, but fails to mention that those 
walls are still standing — they are 
presently occupied by U.S. military 
forces. It seems Burnham feels the 
need to invent a leftist position to 
attack since he can’t answer the real 
arguments on the left, h^e seems to 
assume that leftists were Saddam 
loyalists that wanted him in power.
The actual argument on the left, 
though, never favored Saddam; it 
favored the Iraqi people. We said that 
the United States should unilaterally 
iift the sanctions on Iraq, as they only 
xrved to empower Saddam. True, 
they made him weaker compared to 
his neighbors, but the greatest hard- 
ship was borne by the Iraqi people, 
and hence they made it easier for 
Saddam to prevent a revolution.

Burnham, we on the left were in the 

business of hating Saddam back 
when your buddy Rumsfeld was shak 
ing his hand and selling him 
weapons In fact, the way I see 
things, your evasion of Iraq basically 
' ienied the Iraqi people the opportum- 
ty to overthrow Saddam themselves 
and determine their own future; but I 
suppose in your arrogant ideology, it 
is impossible for you to believe that 
the Iraqi people were capable of such 
a thing.

Sterling Garmon 
Physics graduate student

Intentional deception using ‘facts’

I would like to commend Chad 

Hanak on a well-written op-ed, 
"Ignoring the facts, Dems preach 
injustice” printed in The Daily Texan 
on Feb. 12. It was refreshing to see 
a right-wing critique of the argument 
behind the "welfare state’ that pur­
ported to rely on facts more than 
anecdotal evidence. However, as 
statisticians are fond of pointing out, 
if you torture the data long enough, it 
will confess to anything. The ‘facts’ 
cited by Hanak regarding the preva­
lence of upward mobility are perfect 
examples of the data telling the inter­
rogator exactly wha+ he wants to 
hear.

The study in question examined 
IRS income tax returns for the years 
1979 to 1988 without specifying 
whether the income numbers report­
ed were taxable income, gross 
income or something in between. 
Thus, the college student making 
$4,000 over the summer and then 
$40,000 per year half a decade 
after graduating contributes to these 
upward mobility numbers. Likewise, 
the heir to a large fortune who’s 
been taking a couple of years off, sit­
ting by the pool, living off his millions 
in savings, who goes back to being 
the CEO of his inherited company 
falls into the pool of the upwardly 
mobile.

Do these examples represent true 
upward mobility? Not at all. Are they 
biased in favor of a predetermined 
conclusion? Definitely. But no more 
than the statistics cited in Hanak’s 
original opod. It’s important that 
readers recognize the bias and inten­
tional deception inherent in the

examples used by Hanak and render 
their own judgments.

Stephen Palmer 
Graduate student, LBJ School o f 
Public A ffairs

Limited of economic opportunity
In his Feb. 11 article, “ Ignoring the 
Facts, Dems Preach Injustice,” Chad 
Hanak admits to a growing gap 
between the rich in poor, but subse­
quently denies that America is a 
place where the rich get richer and 
the poor get poorer. In his quest to 
prove upward mobility occurs 
between income brackets, Mr. Hanak 
is forced to reach 20 years back in 
history to find a time dunng which 
Amencans actually stood a better 
chance of experiencing some upward 
mobility than remaining stagnant. In 
reality, today’s low-income earners, 
maids, dishwashers, car washers and 
most fast food workers are unlikely to 
expenence much in the way of eco­
nomic mobility. A single parent house­
hold headed by an individual 
employed in one of these sectors 
may find it close to impossible to 
acquire the time or resources needed 
to receive the education or training 
necessary to substantially increase 
their earnings. Perhaps this is why 
the Urban Institute found that almost 
half of the 4 million families utilizing 
food pantries in 2002 were com 
prised of working parents with chil­
dren.

Of course, there are numerous con­

temporary success stories in which 
Americans have been able to climb 
the economic latter, but can we really 
use those stories to justify the fact

that in the year 2 000,16 percent of 
American children lived with families 
below the poverty line? Can a hand­
ful of rags to riches stories justify 
almost 5 million uninsured Texans?
Is it really fair to assume that just 
because a country does not operate 
under a dictatorship, economic jus­
tice is attained? Perhaps Mr. Hanak 
is convinced that this is a country of 
unlimited social and economic oppor­
tunity, but millions of other Americans 
are not.

Kate Votti
Graduate Student, LBJ School o f 
Public A ffa irs 
Co-chair, Progressive Collective

A faulty argument

With the Feb. 13 column ‘ White 

man’s (light) burden” by James 
Phillips, we have an outstanding 
example of the fallacious argument.
James opens with an example of 
two white students supposedly heard 
saying “Yeah, it’s like now we've gotta 
deal with all this political correctness 
and stuff.” Presto! James has erect­
ed his straw man, upon which the 
rest of his arguments are based. 
Anyone who opposes reverse discrim­
ination (interesting how he fits this in 
— we will get to that shortly) is now 
easy to attack because of his prelimi­
nary work in creating the straw man. 

James then writes:
"Bill O'Reilly adamantly defends the 

right of me and white folks every­
where to be free from what he calls 
‘reverse discrimination.’ But if the 
reverse of discnmination is tolerance 
and inclusion, then what exactly is he 
protecting us from?”

Of course, reverse discrimination is

just a nicer term for discrimination. If 
anyone is denied or granted privileges 
based on his/her skin color, that is 
discrimination. But James plays a 
neat little trick here — he employs 
tactics called fallacy of composition 
and equivocation. In other words, he 
pretends that the phrases “reverse 
discrimination” and “ reverse of dis­
crimination” have the same meaning. 
Of course, they do not. Anyone with a 
brain understands that institutional­
ized racism is undesirable, while the 
reverse of discrimination (presumably 
accepting behavior) is desirable.

James has demonstrated the art of 
fallacious argument well. Arguing with 
a real, reasonable opponent must be 
far too difficult for him.

Tim Levy 
UT alumnus

Texan finally gets it

It is rare that I agree with a 

Viewpoint presented by The Daily 
Texan. But the logical and well rea­
soned Feb. 12 Viewpoint 
(“ Stereotyping Greeks") strikes a 
chord of agreement with me. Why 
are the Greeks singled out as “close- 
minded” when everyone knows that 
ethnic minority groups can be just as 
close-minded? Shouldn’t minority stu­
dents refrain from joining an ethnical 
ly based club during their freshman 
year so that they are not closed off 
from people who are different? How 
can the University have so many eth­
nic organizations and at the same 
time promote racial respect and fair 
ness?

Perhaps we should ail reconsider 
the role of these groups and re-evalu­
ate their effects on our campus.

Instead of promoting cultural interac 
tion, it seems that these types of 
groups actually tend to prevent it.

Brendan Steinhauser 
G overnm ent senior

Texan should investigate

I read with dismay that an Army 
intelligence agent was seeking to 
infringe upon First Amendment 
rights of civilians. That he was “fol 
lowing procedure” according to his 
commanding officer is even more 
frightening. This is the second case 
in a week in which basic First 
Amendment rights have been threat­
ened on university campuses (if 
readers have not, they should read 
about the subpoena of members of 
a student group at Drake University 
in Des Moines, Iowa).

An apology from Agent Tret h and 
his supervisor to UT. the organizers 
of the Islamic Law conference and 
to the general public is warranted.
The Daily Texan needs to investí 
gate and find out more .'pout the 
Army unit in which agent Treesh is 
employed, so that action can be 
taken up the chain of command if a 
prompt apology is not made. This 
information should be made avail 
able to the public, so they can 
respond to the attack ireesh made 
on the first amendment.

David Peterson 
UT alumnus

Snow in Austin

Global warming, my ass!

D aniel P. Rubenstein 
Middle Eastern studies sophomore

 Monday, February 16, 2004

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Lobby group doesn't plan lawsuits

LICENSES, FROM 1
for m ore than 15 years."

Franz and her partner, Sage 
White, w anted 
to h av e their 
union recognized and worried 
about the rights they lack as a 
sam e-sex couple.

"If on e of u s died, the other 
lose the hom e — o u r 

could 
hom e," Franz said.

Texas does not provide the sam e 
benefits to gay couples that mar­
ried men and women have. In 
Vermont, which offers civil unions, 
sam e-sex couples can m ake m ed­
ical and property decisions with a 
partner and file joint state-tax 
returns. Federal rights such a s 
im m igration issu es and federal 
taxes, however, are not afforded.

to 

In San Francisco this weekend, 
Mayor G avin New som instructed 
the county clerk to issue m arriage 
couples. 
licenses 
H undreds of couples have been 
married since Thursday despite a 
California initiative that said the 
state w ould only recognize unions 
between a man and a woman.

gay 

The 

LGRL 

lobbied 

the 
Legislature last spring against a 
sim ilar bill in Texas to define m ar­
riage and not recognize sam e-sex 
m arriages from other states. The 
bill failed, but 36 states have bills 
that reject sam e-sex unions.

The LG R L d o es not plan to file 

law su its against the state.

"This is not about law suits," 
said Randall Ellis, executive direc­
tor of LGRL. "We just want people 
to understand the issues behind

m arriage and that we are shut out 
of those, because we are gay."
Recent cou rt d ecision s 
in 
M assachusetts have again raised 
the issue of sam e-sex m arriages. 
The Suprem e Judicial Court of 
M assach u setts 
in 
N ovem ber that rejecting licenses 
to g ay couples violated the state 
constitution. A February decision 
ruled out the option of civil 
unions and paved the way for 
sam e-sex unions by May.

ruled 

am en d m en t 

The M assachusetts Legislature 
adjourned Friday after three d ay s 
of deliberations over a state con­
stitutional 
that 
w ould define m arriage unions as 
between a m an and a wom an. 
After three votes, the legislature 
failed to p a ss the am endm ent 
and adjourned the constitutional 
convention till March.

The am endm ent w ould not go 

into effect until 2006.

In the Travis County Clerk's 
office, LGRL coordinators were 
pleased by the m edia turnout 
and interest.
# 
"T he fact that you are here and 
asking questions, m eans we have 
accom plish ed our g o a l," Ellis 
said.

A lthough White an d Franz 
were prepared for rejection when 
they arrived at the clerk's office, 
they couldn't help but express 
disappointm ent.

"It will happen. Unfortunately 
it will take a w hile," White said. 
"In 10-to-20 years, people will 
say this is outrageous."

UT alumna against 
defining marriage

By Tessa Moll
Daily Texan Staff

In 1963, Ellen Story and sev ­
eral friends just wanted to see 
theater on 
in a 
a m ovie 
G u a d a lu p e Street but were 
told they couldn't purchase 
The racially m ixed 
tickets. 
to 
gro u p w a s not allow ed 
sit 
theater and 
enter 
together.
"The 

us, 
though, w as if the ticket count­
er had said, 'Yes', none of us 
had any money," Story recalls. 
"It would have been hard to 
com e up with tickets."

am o n g 

joke 

the 

A fter g ra d u a tin g from the 
U n iv e rsity 
in 1963, S to ry 
m oved to the college tow n of 
A m herst, M ass., an d quickly 
in volved herself in local and 
state p olitics. 
Story m an ­
ag e d c a m p a ig n s and h elped 
o th e rs ru n for o ffice, b u t 
w h en a se at 
the state 
H o u se o f R e p re se n ta tiv e s 
op en ed , sh e took the o p p o r ­
tunity.

in 

N ow a 

legislator 

the 
in 
M assach u setts H o u se 
of 
Representatives, Story is fight­

state 

constitutional 
ing a 
am endm ent that would define 
m arriage solely as a union 
between a man and a woman. 
The battle h as pitted her 
again st m any o f the state's 
political foundations.

"M assach u setts is thought 
of as very liberal, but not on 
anything to do with sex," she 
explains. "It goes back to the 
Puritan background and huge 
the Rom an 
influence 
of 
Catholic Church here 
in 
Boston."

I he M assach u setts L egis­
lature finished three d ay s of 
debate Friday over a state con­
stitutional 
to 
declare m arriage as between a 
man and a wom an.

am en d m en t 

"We will com e back 
in 
March, and there will be more 
arm twisting, and the church 
will actively lobby," she said. 
"We've h ad three different 
votes, but my position is I 
don't think the constitution 
needs to be am ended. I don't 
think we need to define m ar­
riage as betw'een one man and 
one w om an."

About 15 protesters proclaim 4Fire Glasgow’

RALLY, FROM 1
w as shot by an A ustin police offi­
cer in 2002. The Austin Baptist 
M inister's Union has called for 
Knee an d City M an ager Toby 
Futrell to resign, and the Austin 
chapter 
N ational 
Association for the A dvancem ent 
of Colored People plans to file a 
Title IX com plaint against the city 
and police department.

the 

of 

O rganizers provided free food, 
and m any fam ilies brought chil­
dren to the rally. APA m em bers 
collected m oney for suspended 
A PD officer Scott G lasgow while 
about 15 protesters stood outside 
La Zona Rosa holding "fire Scott

G lasgo w " signs.

G lasgo w w a s su sp en d ed for 
90 d a y s w ithout pay Feb. 9 for 
not follow ing procedure during 
an arrest attem pt that resulted in 
the death of O w ens in 2003. The 
Office of the Police M onitor 
called G la sg o w 's p u n ish m en t 
too light — it had recom m ended 
termination — while the APA 
said 
the su sp e n sio n w as too 
harsh.

Speakers expressed gratitude 
to A P D and criticized recent 
m edia coverage of police, partic­
ularly 
the A ustin A m erican- 
S tatesm an 's Jan u ary series on 
use-of-force reports. The report 
said that A ustin police use force

“I’m tired of the newspa­
pers, TV stations and pro­
testers. How many [of 
them] have been inside of 
the community trying to 
change things?”

Seattle Ivory, neighborhood activist

ag a in st m inorities m ore often 
than whites.

"T hey've been covering issues 
that need to be brought out," said 
Philip Peavy, w hose brother-in- 
law is a police officer, "[but] I 
don't agree with the w ay they've

been doing it."

Scottie Ivory, an East Austin 
neighborhood activist who spoke 
at the event, said the m edia and 
protesters hurt efforts to fix police 
problem s by dividing the com ­
munity.

"I'm tired of the new spapers, 
TV stations and protesters," Ivory' 
said. "H o w m any [of them] have 
been inside of the com m unity 
trying to change things?"

Protesters said they wanted to 
present an alternative to the asso­
ciation's perspective.

"It's not just about respect for 
police," 
protester Lisa 
Fithian. "It's about respect for the 
minority com munity."

said 

Heather Hilliard/Daily Texan Staff 
Bill Allison, clinical professor of the School of Law, speaks at a press 
conference at the school Friday. The conference addressed a spe­
cial agent from the Army who was asking students for information 
about people who attended a forum to discuss Muslim law in 
regard to women.

Organizers plan 
future conference

INVESTIGATION, FROM 1

poena or search warrant, so she 
w ould not have given him the 
inform ation if she had been 
there, she said.

The 

featured 
conference 
scholars from across the coun­
try sp eakin g ab ou t w om en 's 
rights within the M uslim faith.

"There w as nobody there that 
w as controversial or suspicious 
or pushing the envelope in any 
w ay," A ziz said. "We d idn't 
venture into foreign policy or 
international 
affairs. T hat's 
w hat left us all baffled."

Deborah Parker, chief of pub­
lic affairs for the U.S. Arm y 
Security 
Intelligence 
C om m and, told The A ssociated 
Press Friday that the allegations 
were under review.

and 

The U.S. Army Intelligence 
and Security Com m and would 
not com m ent to The Daily 
Texan Friday regard in g 
the 
new s conference.

C arlo s Villarreal, 

regional 
vice president for the National 
Law yers Guild, com pared the 
incident to federal prosecutors 
ordering Drake University in 
D es Moines, Iowa, to turn over 
the name of students attending 
an anti-war protest Nov. 16. The 
request w as dropped Tuesday 
after pressure from civil rights 
activists.

“The actions at this 
law school have had a 
chilling effect on stu­
dents’ rights to free­
dom of association and 
freedom of speech."

Carlos Villareal, 
regional VP 
for National Lawyers Guild

this 

"T he actions at 

law 
school have had a chilling effect 
on students' rights to freedom 
of association and freedom of 
speech," Villarreal said. "This is 
a part of what appears to be a 
grow ing m ovem ent by the fed­
eral governm ent to stifle any 
activity 
that a p p e ars to g o 
against their agen da."

The law school is holding 
another conference Feb. 26 enti­
tled, "Terrorism and the War on 
Civil Liberties, Civil Rights and 
Im migrants After 9 /11."

A ziz said she will continue to 
exercise her freedom of speech 
by attending and hopes other 
stud en ts w on't be frightened 
away.

"We want to encourage stu­
dents to come and learn," Aziz 
said. "They shouldn't be scared 
that if they com e they will auto­
m atically be targeted."

BLACK APPLICANTS SINCE 1998-2003

Hispanic, Asian applicant numbers fall
APPLICANTS, FROM 1
"K id s now who are applying to 
college in high school are stu­
d en ts w h o m ay have know n 
about the top 10 percent provi­
sions for about five or six years."
Faulkner said he w ould su p ­
port a cap on the top 10 percent 
law, because it allow s students to 
be adm itted under only one crite­
ria — class rank.

Faulkner said students, for the 
m ost part, decide where to attend 
college at about the ninth grade. 
N ow that the top 10 percent law 
has been in effect for current high 
school seniors since their ninth- 
grad e year, more students want 
to apply under the rule, Faulkner 
said.

High school ad m ission s coun­
selors h ave said the increased 
num bers indicate that recruiting 
efforts m ad e by counselors and 
current U niversity stu d en ts in 
low er-perform ing high schools 
schools are working.

to 

"We h av e had som e su ccess 
talkin g directly 
stu d e n ts 
about this U niversity w anting to 
the A frican -A m erican 
se rv e 
com m unity, the H ispanic com ­
m unity an d all oth ers," Faulkner 
said .

freshm an, 

Kim berly Barton, a biom edical 
said 
en gin eerin g 
recruiting efforts at her high 
school in H ouston were what 
convinced her 
the 
University.

to attend 

1998 

1999 

2000 

2001 

2002 

2003

"Previously, I had never heard 
of the U niversity o f T exas," 
Barton said, 
" if people aren't 
willing to come to your neighbor­
hood an d get you to com e to UT, 
why w ould you go ?"

Barton said she believes that 
the top 10 percent law m ade 
more black students interested in 
attending the University, because 
it gave them a good chance to 
attend a university with "p res­
tige."

Caroline Mintle, who w orks at 
a University ad m ission s office in 
Houston, said aw areness about 
the top 10 percent law is low 
am ong high school students in 
inner-city neighborhoods.

"S o m e of them don't know

Source: Office o f Admissions

they are autom atically adm issible 
under the top 10 percent rule. 
They still think their test scores 
will play a huge role in ad m is­
sions," Mintle said.

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Monday, February 16, 2 0 0 4

Project 2004 beats odds, ice

JUGGLE MANIA

More than 1,000 
í T students show 
iif) for annual event

By Kristi Hsu
Daily Texan Staff

Despite Saturday m orning's 
frigid 40-degree weather, about 
one 
thousand U T students 
turned up at Montopolis neigh­
to volunteer w ith 
borhood 
Project 2004.

1 he U niversity's Volunteer and 
Sen ice I naming C enter and the 
Keep Austin Beautiful organiza­
tion w ere the project's m ain 
organizers.

O riginally, Allison Elem entary 
School and Roy G. Guerrero 
Colorado River Park were the 
prim an' site s, but snow and icv 
weather threw a wrench into the 
planning. Most , of the outdoor 
w ork was canceled, including all

work at the park and the nearby 
com m unity center.

"O u r six months of planning 
for two sites turned into 48 hours 
of planning for one site," said Sly 
Majid, the project's co-chair.

The sleet and snow caused sev­
eral companies to pull out 24 
hours before the event, leaving 
volunteers w ithout vital equip­
ment, including a grill to cook the 
volunteers' food. Capital Metro 
warned the organizers that they 
would not be able to bus students 
to the project site in East Austin if 
the roads were icy. There was 
also a possibility that not all of 
the 2,000-plus students who had 
signed up online would show.

"The last 24 hours were just 
hectic because of the weather," 
said Neel Naik, the project's co- 
chair. "The morning and 24 hours 
before the project, 
I thought 
things would not work out."

Surprisingly, 

things 

came

“Our six months of 
planning for two sites 
turned into 48 hours of 
planning for one site.”

Sly Majid, SG vice president and 
Project 2004 co-chair

together, said N aik. Ricardo 
Gutierrez, a former U T student 
and chair of Project 2002, bright­
ened volunteers' spirits by bring­
ing his personal grill to cook on. 
The service event w as delayed 
to avoid ice, and students were 
successfully bused 
from the 
U n iversity to the site. Although 
on ly half of the volu nteers 
cam e, there w ere more than 
enough 
the elem entary 
school projects. Lead ers scram ­
bled to find enough w o rk for

for 

a ll the volu nteers.

Students and residents pulled 
to beautify A llison 
together 
Elem entary School and clean up 
the H abitat for H um anity site 
across the street by painting, 
picking up trash and gardening.

The school underwent a bright 
transform ation as volunteers 
color-coordinated its halls. N elly 
Pina, a former student w ho had 
gone to the school 20 years ago 
and now has four children there, 
took interest in the refurbishment 
and designed the color scheme.

The m ain hall, known as the 
bloodstream, was appropriately 
painted red.

Green, blue, orange and colors 
of the rest of the prism lighted the 
school up.

" I 

just wanted som ething 
warm and welcome for the teach­
ers and kids — something color­
ful and different and more invit­
ing," said Pina.

Sixth Annual Heritage Festival 
strives to promote black history

David and 
Rachel Nayer 
of Austin per­
form during 
the
JuggleFest 
Austin 2004 
public per­
formance at 
Reagan High 
School on 
Saturday 
evening.

Shaun Stewart/
Daily Texan S taff

Council to encourage 
domestic oil production

Energy plan 
includes using 
alternative fuel, 
energy conservation

By Rachna Sheth
Daily Texan Staff

The Texas Energy Planning 
Council w ill focus on shifting 
dependence on foreign oil and 
gas to domestic supplies by using 
methods of energy conservation 
and alternative fuels, council 
spokeswoman K ay M olina said.
council, 
22-member 
appointed last week by Gov. Rick 
Perry, w ill be headed b y Texas 
Railroad Commission chairm an 
Victor Carrillo. H e requested the 
creation of the council last fall 
during the legislative session.

The 

" I think the goal is to promote 
domestic production of oil — is 
there a w a y we can do m ore?" 
M olina said.

The council w ill also look into 
w ind and solar energy, as w ell as

methods that conserve energy. 
Council members include former 
public officials and energy busi­
ness leaders, such as state Sen. 
Ken Armbrister, D-Victoria, Jerry 
Langdon, C EO of Reliant Energy, 
and Paula H arris w ith the oil 
com pany Schlumberger.

Russel Smith, executive direc­
tor of the Texas Renew able 
Energy Industries Association, 
suggested that w hile the council 
should look to w ind and solar 
power, the most effective w ay of 
reducing dependence on foreign 
oil is switching fuels for trans­
portation.

"W h at really offsets oil are the 
renewable liquid fuels ethanol 
and biodiesel," Sm ith said. 
"Those tw o things really need to 
be talked up in this country."

Biodiesel and ethanol can be 
used to pow er vehicles, one of the 
main uses for oil and natural gas. 
C arrillo's Railroad Commission 
already promotes the use of liq­
uefied propane, and renewable 
liquid fuels are on the council's 
agenda, M oliria said.

Currently, Texas supplies 20 
percent of the nation's oil and 
natural gas. Council member Ken 
Kelley's company, Applied L N G 
Technologies, deals w ith produc­
ing liquefied natural gas "from 
literally anything that produces 
methane," he said. These sources 
include landfills, which release 
methane as garbage decomposes, 
and w hat K elley calls very appro­
priate for Texas, cow manure.

"In Am arillo, I've got a liquefi- 
er in m y backyard," K elley said. 
"You can produce that gas, lique­
fy it on site and crank it out."

The gas is a cheaper fuel than 
oil, and has the advantage of 
burning "clean," meaning it does 
not have any harm ful byproducts 
when burned for fuel. The coun­
cil w ill construct the energy plan, 
the first in more than a decade, 
with a simultaneous effort to pre­
serve the environment.

"W e don't w ant to do anything 
that's going to jeopardize the 
environm ent any more than it 
already has'beérY," M dlftia said, i

Environmental institute 
pushes renewable energy

' 

Austin Energy works 
to provide more 
alternative resources

By James Hale
Daily Texan Staff

Fossil fuels m ay be going the 
w a y of the dinosaur, at least in 
Austin, a scientific organization 
said Friday.

The En viron m en tal Science 
In stitu te's program on 
the 
future of energy resources in 
A ustin focused on the im por­
tance of using more renewable 
sources, such as w ind, w ater 
and solar power.

"W e're using natural gas in 
Texas faster than it's being pro­
duced dom estically/' said M ark 
Kapner, m anager of conserva­
tion and renewable resources at 
A ustin Energy. 
"It's expensive 
and som ewhat risky, and we 
have no control over the p rice."
Austin Energy, the local com­
munity-based u tility service, is 
currently w orking to increase 
the 
renew able 
resources 
in A u stin , K ap ner 
said.

usage 

of 

"W e have a goal — it's to be 
getting 20 percent of our pow er 
from renew able resources by 
2020," Kapner said.

“W e’re using natural 
gas in Texas faster than 
it’s being produced 
domestically. It’s expen­
sive and somewhat 
risky, and we have no 
control over the price.”

Mark Kapner,
Austin Energy

Kapner said benefits of using 
resources 
energy 
alternate 
included low or zero operating 
costs, no air pollution, no waste, 
and they are never depleted as 
K apner also discussed 
w ell. 
in centives for citizens 
using 
who use renewable resources.

"Reb ates are availab le for 
people w ith 
solar w ater 
heaters," Kapner said. "[W e are]

w orking on a plan to do rebates 
for people w ith [solar energy] 
cells."

Ja y Banner, director of the 
Institute, said A u stin Energy has 
made progress in increasing the 
am ount of renewable resources 
being used in the last four years. 
In 2000, 0.4 percent of A ustin's 
pow er came from renew able 
resources. N o w the figure is at 4 
percent.

"T h ey've increased it by an 
in four 
order of m agnitude 
years," Ban ner s a id .. "T h a t's 
really good."

So lar 

The Texas 

Energy 
the U niversity- 
Society and 
based En viro n m en tal Science 
Institute both distributed infor­
mation and lesson plan sugges­
tions to teachers who attended 
the event.

Banner said the program was 
created to reach out to the public 
through local teachers.

"Science teachers w ho attend 
get a C D we produce for these 
events, so th e y 'll have some­
thing to take back to the class­
room ," Banner said.

An estimated 200 people gathered at the Doris Miller Auditorium on Saturday to celebrate the Sixth Annual

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Heritage Festival.

honor her heritage.

specialist.

The festival, sponsored by Austin Parks and Recreation Department, began as a celebration of Black History 
Month but expanded to incorporate all cultures to come together in celebration,” said Lynda Coleman, a festival
committee member.

Simone Pollard, festival committee chairwoman, dressed in a printed green sash and a Kenyan headdress to

“We want to promote awareness in the community of our great diversity and just to have some fun,” Pollard said. 
Austm Parks and Recreation hopes to enlarge and expand the festival, said David Turnquest, a recreation program

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Monday, February 16, 2004

One miss, two miss, upset: Texas loses

Boddicker misses 2 free 
throws with 5 seconds 
left in loss to Iowa State

By Melanie Boehm
Daily Texan Staff

W ith 40-to-50 members of his fam ily 
in the stands, senior Brian Boddicker 
had a chance to be the hero in Texas' 
Big 12 road gam e versus Iowa State. 
W ith 5.3 seconds remaining in the 
game, Boddicker was fouled on a 
backdoor cut and had an opportunity 
to not only tie the game at 78, but also 
put Texas in the lead if he made both.
But Texas' last-minute heroic plays 
from earlier 
in the season were 
nowhere to be found Saturday after­
noon as Boddicker hit the back iron on 
both free throws.

Brandon M outon grabbed 

the 
rebound off the second miss, but as he 
fell aw ay from the basket while shooting, 
the ball bounced off 
rim. 
Tucker grabbed 
Freshm an 
M outon's miss, but his shot was also 
off the mark g iving Iow a State (14-7, 
Big 12 5-5) the 78-77 upset w in over

the 

P.J. 

the No. 11. Longhorns (17-4, 8-2).

"You can't ask for a better situation 
than having Brian on the line," T e x a s 
head coach Rick Barnes told K V E T 
98.1 during the station's postgame 
show. "It shouldn't have come down 
to that."

is 

throws 

typ ically 

Boddicker 

the 
Longhorns go-to guy on the free- 
throw line. H is number is typically 
called by Barnes to shoot technical 
free 
the 
Longhorns. However, Boddicker had 
missed the front end of a pair of tech­
nical free throws in the first half, 
w hich possibly foreshadowed the bad 
fortune to come for the senior who 
was bom in Sioux City, Iowa.

aw arded 

to 

The Cyclones jum ped out to a lead 
early, starting the game on a 6-0 run 
followed by a duplicate run less than 
a minute later for a 12-6 Iow a State 
lead. Behind a couple of baskets by 
Jake Sullivan, the Cyclones extended 
their lead to 26-16 w ith 9:30 left in the 
first half.

The Longhorns shot 8-for-20 over 
the first 12:20 of the game. In contrast, 
the Cyclones wrere shooting ll-of-19 
from the field and holding on to a 
rather comfortable lead until Texas

started to run w ith f iv e m in u t e s 
remaining.

"W e shouldn't have to fight back 
like we did," Barnes said. "1 think w'e 
went like six minutes without our 
post guys touching the ball. ... As a 
team we didn't do w hat we need to do 
to get a w in."

“ You can’t ask for a better 
situation than having Brian 
on the line. It shouldn’t 
have come down to that.”

Texas coach Rick Barnes

The Longhorns went on an 8-0 run 
over two minutes late in the second 
half to take their first lead of the game 
at 35-34 with 3:01 remaining. A pair of 
free throws by Jared Haman gave the 
Cyclones a 44-43 lead at halftime.

"They came out tonight. Thev did 
a great job," M outon said about the 
Cyclones. "They executed. They kept 
plugging at it, and they came out 
w ith the w in ."

The Longhorns began the second 
half on an 18-5 run behind five points 
from Mouton, who finished the game 
w ith 29 points on 12-of-23 shooting 
from the field for a new career-high.

" I never think about scoring the 
basketball. I |ust go out and play my 
gam e," Mouton said. " I took it upon 
myself, because I'm a senior to get us 
rolling."

However, the Longhorns failed to 
hold on to their lead as the Cyclones 
clim bed back behind eight quick 
points by Jake Sullivan to tie the game 
at 73 with 3:19 remaining.

In a game that featured arguably 
tw o of the top freshman in the Big 12 
Conference, Tucker battled 
Iow a 
State's Curtis Stinson for bragging 
rights. Tucker finished the game with 
12 points and six rebounds, while 
Stinson scored 18 for the Cyclones to 
go along w ith 10 assists.

"[O u r guys] let one get aw ay from 
them today that they shouldn't have," 
Barnes said. "It goes back to execu­
tion. ... W e just got aw ay from w ork­
ing the game m entally the w ay we 
should."

Longhorns still undefeated after weekend sweep

Ch a rlie N leb erga ll/A sso cia ted P ress 
Brandon Mouton had a career-high in scoring Saturday.

By Phillip Orchard
Daily Texan Staff

H O U ST O N — If there were 
any rem aining questions sur­
rounding the Longhorn baseball 
squad following their two sweeps 
to start the season, a swreep of this 
weekend's M inute M aid College 
Classic answered them.

Throughout 

the weekend, 
head coach Augie G arrido talked 
repeatedly about his team's "sur­
vival instinct," the ability' to come 
back when they're down and hit 
when it's most needed. Second 
baseman Seth Johnston had it. 
The pitching staff oozed w ith it. 
And it came through against the 
best teams Texas has yet to face 
this season.

to 

In Saturday's headliner vs. 
Rice, Texas found themselves 
dow n 2-1 
the defending 
champs and their staff ace Jeff 
Niem ann after a Rice line-drive 
hit starting pitcher Sam LeCure in 
the back, leading to two runs. But 
LeCure battled back to hold the 
deficit at one and set up Johnston 
for 
first of his heroics. 
Johnston, w ho w ould later be 
named M ost Outstanding Player

the 

for the tournament, blasted , 
first-pitch slider from Niem anr 
into the bullpen in right-centei 
field to give Texas its first lead.

"It's what you got to do again s' 
a guy like Niemann, who's ar 
unbelievable pitcher," Johnston 
said. "You just try to put the ball 
in play, and hopefully good things 
w ill happen, and that's what hap­
pened to me."

inning, su rvival 

After Rice tied the game the 
next 
instinct 
kicked in again with Johnston's 
game-winning R B I single, a two- 
R B I double by freshman Drew 
Stubbs and two shutout innings 
by Huston Street that sent the 
row dy Rice fans to the exits and 
the Rice players home with their 
first loss since last year's College 
W orld Series.

After Saturday's big win, the 
H ouston Cougars looked like 
they were going to give Texas a 
Sunday letdown after roughing 
up Texas starter K yle M cCulloch 
for four early runs. But Texas 
again battled back to take a 5-4 
lead in the fourth inning thanks 
to a Dooley Prince triple and four

See TEXAS, page 8

Johnston puts on a show in Longhorn victory
By Lome Chan
hits including a two-run homer, 
Daily Texan Staff
leading Texas to a 6-3 win over 
Rice.

H O U ST O N — Forget the fact 
that it was a baseball game in 
February.

Neverm ind that the "boys of 
sum m er" were playing in 39- 
degree weather at a stadium 
w ithout heat.

1 he only necessary detail was 
Texas vs. Rice. Defending College 
W orld Series champions and the 
current No. 1 O w ls against the 
No. 5 Longhorns, a team on a 
seven-game w in streak to start 
the season, the 254th time they 
have played. Get them together 
w ith a bat and a ball and it 
becomes a timeless showdown.

This time, Texas' Seth Johnston 

He wras the hero in this episode 
and easily could have been the 
underdog faring Rice pitcher Jeff 
Niemann.

The 6-foot-9-inch Niem ann 
went 17-0 last season, overpower­
ing hitters with a fastball in the 
mid-90s.

Johnston had hit three career 

home runs.

But in the sixth inning, he got 
his chance. Down 2-1 w ith desig­
nated hitter M ichael H ollim on on 
first base after a walk, Johnston 
was looking for a slider on the 
first pitch. Niemann left the pitch 
high, and said, "It was a mistake I 
can’t make." Johnston capitalized

The second baseman had three

See JOHNSTON, page 8

K aren W a rre n/A sso cia ted Press
T 
Texas Longhorn players celebrate after scoring a run in a victory over top-ranked Rice on Saturday night at Minute Maid Park in Houston.

had the bat.

Texas gets road win over Colorado Tough outing for 
Texas at tourneyJ

By Elizabeth McGarr
Daily Texan Staff

capped an 18-8 Longhorn run.

stand, we 

a 

Despite trailing at the half, the 
Texas wom en's basketball team 
preserved its No. 1 national rank­
ing and its spot atop the Big 12 
w ith a 51-45 w in over No. 12 
Colorado in Boulder on Saturday 
night.

The Longhorns overcame a 25- 
18 halftime deficit and avoided 
their second conference road loss 
of the season by shooting 13-16 
from the free-throw line during 
the last 6:40 of play.

"T h is w as very, very ugly," 
Texas head coach Jody Conrad t 
said after the game. "N othing 
went right for us in terms of exe­
cution until the final minutes 
when we hit our free throws. After 
a while, I just kept telling the play­
ers in timeouts, 'Keep fighting, 
keep fighting,' and we did just 
enough to w in the game."

Senior Stacy Stephens and 
freshman Tiffany Jackson con­
tributed to the win by each grab­
bing 11 rebounds and scoring 13 
and 10 points, respectively, to

notch their fifth and team-leading 
seventli double-doubles of the sea­
son. Stephens moved into second 
on the all-time Texas rebounding 
list and 10th on the all-time scoring 
list with her performance. Junior 
Heather Schreiber was also a pres­
ence on the boards w ith 10 
rebounds on the evening.

The game was certainly not an 
offensive one. Stephens and 
Jackson were the oniv two Texas 
players in double-digit scoring, 
and the Longhorns were able to 
hold the Buffaloes from the field 
as well. Randie W irt and Anna 
Nedovic led Colorado w ith 10 
points 
Tera 
apiece, w h ile 
Bjorkland — second in the confer­
ence in scoring — only scored five 
points before fouling out with just 
less than eight minutes remaining 
in the game.

The Buffaloes (19-4, 8-3) were 
able to hold the Longhorns (23-2, 
11-1) to only 26 percent shooting 
from the field — Texas' worst per­
formance of the season.

"Colorado is one of the very 
best defensive 
in our 
league," Conradt said. "They play

teams 

pressure 'D ' and were all over us 
with pressure. W hen we had to 
did. 
make 
Cham pionship teams don't cave 
in when things aren't going their 
way, and when we needed to 
tighten up on defense and get 
some steals, w e did."

“ I thought Mercedes 
Williams did a great job 
off the bench, getting 
some key steals for us 
and a big basket.”

Texas coach Jody Conradt

The Longhorns came up with 
10 of their 11 steals during the sec­
ond half, and Mercedes W illiam s 
supplied tw o of those at the end of 
the game. The Texas junior scored 
only three points in seven minutes 
of play, but her jumper and con­
verted foul-shot with 9:42 to play

"I thought Mercedes W illiam s 
did a great job off the bench, get­
ting some key steals for us and a 
big basket," Conradt said. "She 
showed lots of poise tonight when 
the rest of our post players were in 
foul-difficulty."

Jackson and junior Kala Bowers 
each had four fouls by the end of 
the game, and Schreiber had three.
Junior Jam ie Carey's lone three- 
pointer of the evening came with 
11:25 to go in the game. H er shot 
gave the Longhorns only their sec­
ond lead of the evening, but 
Bowers made both of her free 
throws with 4:28 left to give Texas 
the advantage for gcxid.

Texas has the week off before 
its stint against 
continuing 
nationally ranked teams Sunday 
at 1 p.m. 
in Lubbock. The 
Longhorns take on No. 7 Texas 
Tech for the second time this sea­
son, after taking the tirst meeting 
in Austin, 82-73. The Red Raiders 
w ill likely drop in the polls this 
week after losing to Oklahom a 
and beating Texas A & M bv a 
score of onlv 59-58.

By Jeff Zell

Daily Texan Staff

Coach 

The fifth-ranked men's track 
and field team responded to the 
anticipation 
Bubba
Thornton forewarned, as the 
Horns put together a remarkable 
Saturday to finish second in their 
last meet before the Big-12 
Indoor Championships.

th e N e w 

The Horns came home with 
three individual gold medalists 
B a l a n c e 
at 
Arm ory Collegiate Invitational. 
runner
Sophomore distance 
Andrew M iddleton 
started
tilings on the right foot Friday, 
posting an impressive time of 
14:32.47 to w in the 5,000-meter 
run. Junior Jon Von Letscher fin­
ished third place, eight seconds 
behind Middleton, smashing his 
personal collegiate best bv m oa1 
than 45 seconds.

Senior All-Amencan Jermaine 
Cooper once again cruised to vic­
tory in the 60-meter hurdles,

posting identical provisional and 
final times of 7.91. All-American 
Brendan Christian accomplished 
a season-best w ith his 6.77-sec­
ond sprint in the 60-meter to take 
second place overall

Texas raked in the points in the 
high jump as freshman sensation 
Andra Manson and senior Nick 
Talley finished 1-2 respectiveh 
tallying 18 points combined in 
the event. Manson improved his 
collegiate best and posted an 
automatic qualifier in the high 
jump for the third consecutive 
meet, clearing 7-6 (2.29ml to w in 
gold. Talley shattered his previ­
ous personal best with a provi­
sional 7-2 1/2 (2.20m) to place 
second.

The fifth-ranked men's track 
and field squad returns to action 
in two weeks at the Big 12 Indoor 
Championships, hosted bv the 
Nebraska Com huskers, 
on 
Friday and Saturday, Feb. 27-28 
at the Bob Devanee Sports 
Center in Lincoln, Neb.

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Yates sets personal 
best lor strikeouts

TEXAS, FROM 7

more Texas hits.

into 

lex a s reliever Kyle Yates 
the gam e and shut 
entered 
the C o u g ars with a 
d ow n 
strikeouts 
seven 
career-high 
over five innings. After Houston 
again tied the gam e, Johnston 
cam e up big again with a tower­
ing -hot 
the Craw'ford 
Boxes for his second gam e-win­
ning RBI in two gam es. J. Brent 
Cox closed out the gam e in 
place of Street, who w as held 
out because of a groin injury, 
and w orked out of a ninth- 
inning jam, thanks in part to a 
d iving 
fielder 
Nathan Warrick to finish the 
the 
im prove 
gam e 
Longhorn's record to 9-0.

stab by 

and 

left 

1 he w hole thing w as decided 
bv inches, which is w hat hap­
pen- w hen tw o good team s 
said 
hook u p 
Garrido, who described the Rice 
gam e as a cham pionship-type 
gam e an d W arrick's p lay as

in a gam e," 

"cham pionship-tvpe play."

In F riday's opener, 2002 
Super Regional qualifier Ohio 
State brought the frigid weather 
with them from Colum bus, but 
their ice-cold bats couldn't cool 
Texas red-hot pitching.

for 

the m ound 

Senior Justin Sim m ons started 
on 
the 
Longhorns and proved that he 
is continuing his return to the 
2002 form that saw him win 16 
gam es and earn All-American 
honors. The big leftv, w ho relies 
heavily on control and the ability 
to change speeds, beautifully 
b efu d d led the Buckeye bats, 
giving up only two hits and one 
walk in tive shutout innings.

for ninth 

"I feel like I can locate all m y 
pitches again," Sim m ons said 
after earning his 30th all-time 
victory, goo d 
in 
Longhorn history. "It's no secret 
that I don't have a lot o f velocity, 
so I got to have that location. 
I'm definitely com fortable nowr, 
and I just have to get last year 
out of here."

Texas lays 
claim as 
top squad

By Jake Veyhl
Daily Texan Staff

The Texas wom en's tennis team 
upped its spring record to 3-0 
S atu rd ay 
in a 6-1 win over 
Nebraska.

I he victory exten d ed 

the 
1 onghom s' all-time record against 
the Comhuskers to 7-0 and sn ap s 
N e b rask a's six-m atch winning 
streak.

Texas won the doubles point 
early by taking 2-out-of-3 matches. 
Each member of the team contin­
ued to play well as the team t(x>k 
5-out-of-the-6 singles matches.

Mia M aro vie, Katie Ruckert and 
K endra Strohm each extended 
their singles' records to 3-0. Petra 
D izdar held down the No. 1 spot 
in the lineup by defeating nation­
ally ranked Gitte Osterman.

Texas beat Colorado 4-3 Sunday 
afternoon to complete the perfect 
weekend.

Street again key for Longhorns

JOHNSTON, FROM 7

and hit the pitch 393 feet to right- 
center field.

"H e g av e it to me," Johnston 
said. "It w as u p at the right part of 
the barrel, and I got it. If that did ­
n't get out, I can't hit one out. I 
definitely got all of that one."

Johnston's tourth-ever homer 
w as the highlight o f his banner 
day, as he tied a career-high with 
three hits and set a caréer-high 
with three RBIs.

"We alw ays talked about the 
gam e being like a boxing match," 
Johnston said. "N in e 
innings, 
nine rounds, sam e deal."

After A stros team m ates Rice 
grad Lance Berkman and Texas 
star Roger Clem ens threw out the 
first pitch, 21,724 people, the sec­
ond largest crowd to attend a reg­
season N C A A baseball 
ular 
gam e, were treated to the main 
event.

Rice would tie it back up at 3-3 
in the bottom of the seventh, set­
ting up a dram atic finale. At the

top o f the eighth, Curtis Thigpen 
w alked and m oved to second on 
a Taylor T eagarden 
sacrifice. 
Johnston w as up to bat again and 
laced a single to nght field. Right 
fielder Josh Rodriguez fielded the 
ball and threw it perfectly to 
catcher Adam R odgers on one 
hop, but Rodgers' tag w as called 
late. Johnston and J.D Reininger 
would score on a Drew Stubbs 
double to m ake the score 6-3.

to ad d 

There was a fair d ose of contro­
versy 
the dram a, 
to 
although it w asn't a s lively as 
Rice coach Wayne G raham shout­
ing into an umpire-cam, like what 
happened in the 2003 College 
World Series.

In the bottom of the eighth 
inning, the lefty Howell walked 
left fielder Austin Davis, and Rice 
went to the bench for right-hand­
in 
ed batter Paul G underson 
place of the left-handed Ueckert. 
When Gunderson stepped into 
the batter's box, he w a s an official 
substitution, so Texas pitching 
coach Tom H olliday brought in

H uston Street.

Right after the change, G raham 
sw itched Ueckert back iñ illegally, 
an d hom e plate um pire Greg 
O ros allowed it, resulting in a 
three-minute argum ent between 
G arrido and Oros.

"The um pire said the player 
had not been officially put in the 
though he had 
gam e, even 
alread y 
ann ounced," 
G arrido said.

been 

Street ended up m aking the 
argum ent a moot point by retir­
ing the side in order, then striking 
out the side in the ninth for his 
30th career save and first o f the 
season. After the gam e, Rice play­
ers were already getting ready for 
March 9, when they host Texas 
again at Reckling Park.

"We got beat, but it w as a lot of 
fun," Niemann said. It's the best 
rivalry in baseball, and I'll be 
looking 
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Men’s tennis tops SMU Mustangs

By Shawn Whitehouse
Daily Texan Staff

I he 20th-ranked m en's tennis 
team defeated the 40th-ranked 
SM U M u stan gs 6-1 Su n d ay 
afternoon 
at Penick-A llison 
Tennis Center. With the win, the 
1 lorns moved to 6-3 on the sea­
son.

The win also m arked 

the 
team 's 27th victory in its last 29 
tries at home.

The team storm ed out to an 
early 1-0 lead by sw eepin g the 
doubles point. The No. 2 team of 
Jose Zarhi and A ntonio Ruiz 
dom inated at the net an d set the 
tone early with an 8-4 victory. 
Ryan 
Will 
H aym o n d secured the point,

Clinton 

and 

w inning 8-5 at No. 3. Pete Stroer 
and Jim m y H aney finished off 
the sw eep o f doubles with a 
great com eback to win 9-8 (7-3 in 
the tiebreaker).

In singles play, Clinton and 
H aym ond took care o f business 
in straight sets to give the team a 
3-0 lead. Zarhi then finished off 
his opponent in straight sets as 
well to clinch the w in for the 
team.

Zarhi, who is com ing off back 
surgery, w as forced to m ove u p a 
spot due to an injur)7 to Stroer, 
the usual num ber tw o singles 
player. He said it felt goo d to get 
two w ins for the team.

"It's been rough, but I'm 
doing a lot better," he added, in

reference to the injury. "I'm get­
ting back into shape, but there's 
still m ore to d o to get into top 
sh ap e."

The team has not seen the last 
<of the M ustangs though, as they 
travel to D allas to face them in a 
rematch April 24.

Next up for the H orns is a bat­
tle with 15th-ranked LSU at 
home Saturday. The team hopes 
to avenge a heartbreaking 4-3 
loss in Baton Rouge last March.

"T h at match is going to be so 
competitive. We don't like them 
very much. It's becom ing a rival­
ry," Zarhi said. "We're going to 
com e out strong, get in their 
faces and do the best that we can 
do to be successful.

Tough tourney for Longhorns

By Kyu-Heong Kim
Daily Texan Staff

I he toughest opposition the 
Texas softball team faced in its 
first w'eek of the season w as the 
weather. Rain canceled a double- 
header against North Texas on 
W ednesday and prevented the 
l onghorns from im proving their 
record to a possible 7-0.

Instead, a tough week against 
som e o f the best team s in the 
nations at 
the Fiesta Bowl 
Tournament in Phoenix dropped 
Texas's record to 6-4.

In their tournam ent-opener, 
the 10th-ranked Longhorns fell 
in an extra fram e to No. 13 Cal 
State Fullerton. H olding a 3-1 
lead goin g into the seventh and 
inning, the Titans ham ­
final 
mered out two solo hom e runs 
against junior A m y Bradford.

In the top of the eighth inning, 
Cal State Fullerton ham m ered 
on 
seven m o re - ru n s 
out 
Bradford and junior Lizi Sow ers

to record a 10-3 victory.

Texas did not fare m uch better 
in the nightcap against No. 5 
Washington. A fter puttin g up 
two runs in the top o f the first, 
the Longhorns could not keep 
up with W ashington, as they 
pushed runners past the plate in 
all but two innings.

A gran d slam by H usky first 
basem an Sarah H yatt in the bot­
tom o f the sixth extended their 
lead to 14-4 and evo k ed the 
eight-run mercy rule. All 14 runs 
— 10 of them earned — were 
charged 
to freshm an pitcher 
Christina Gwyn.

Satu rd ay provided a short 
break in the long-ball barrage 
against Texas pitchers a s Gwyn 
and Bradford combined to allow 
one run on four hits against Ohio 
State. Texas sh ortstop A m ber 
Hall provided the opening run 
and the Longhorns never trailed 
en route to a 3-1 victory.

The tough w eekend for Texas

again st 

pitchers, coping with the loss of 
Cat O sterm an to the O lym pics, 
second- 
continued 
ranked A rizona. A lth ou gh 
Gwyn pitched three-innings of 
solid relief, the W ildcats' seven 
runs again st Bradford in the first 
three innings were enough for 
A rizon a 
A licia 
Hollowell, w ho pitched a com ­
plete gam e shutout. The only hit 
given u p by H ollow ell, w ho 
holds a 0.00 earned run average, 
w as a bunt single in the top of 
the seventh to Hall.

pitcher 

Texas faced No. 20 Oregon in 

the final gam e.

After Oregon pulled out to a 
4-1 lead in the third inning, the 
L on gh orn s cou ld not plate 
another run, and the gam e w as 
called after five innings due to 
O regon's travel arrangem ents.

Texas will be back at hom e 
to w 'elcom e 
on W e d n e sd ay 
Texas A & M -C o rp u s C hristi for 
a double-header.

Texas tracksters shine again

By Eric Ransom
Daily Texan Staff

H earts and school records 
were broken this V alentine's 
w eekend as the w om en's track 
team won three events and auto­
m atically qualified four runners 
at the Tyson Foods Invitational. 
Six m ore Longhorns provision­
ally qualified for the Indoor 
cham pionships, which will take 
place at the sam e ven u e at 
A rkansas in three weeks.

Sophom ore Sanya R ichards 
eclipsed Suzianne R eid's 1999 
school record 400-m eter time 
with a 51.45-second perform ­
ance on Friday. Richards' record- 
breaking time won the event 
an d currently stan d s a s the 
y e ar's third fastest 400-m eter 
time in the world, according to 
the International Association of 
Athletics Federation.

I he win rocketed Richards to 
becom e Texas' all-time No. 1 
perform er in the event, but she 
w as not alone at the finish line. 
Senior 
Raasin 
team m ate 
M cIntosh autom atically q u ali­
fied in her 400-m eter seaso n 
debut with a third-place time of 
52.63. 
In addition,' freshm an 
Jerri ka Chappie landed a third- 
straight provisional time in the 
event 
sixth-place 
through a 
53.89, also a personal best.

In the 60-meter hurdles, senior

Nichole Denby seized gold in 
8.13 au to m atically q u alify in g 
seconds. Denby set the school 
record last w eek at the H ouston 
Invitational at 8.04 seconds, and 
the A ll-Am erican cam e close to 
history once again with an 8.08 
in Friday's prelim inary heat.

Soph om ore Evelyn D w yer 
took the 800-meter in a provi­
sional 2:08.06 while freshm an 
Carlee Clark finished fifth in a 
personal best 2:09.38. In the 200- 
meter C happie and sophom ore 
Ashlee W illiams placed provi­
sional tim es to earn eighth and 
10th, respectively.

In the field freshm an Michelle 
Carter threw a provisional 16.03- 
meter in the shot put to take fifth, 
team m ate 
while 
Ychlindria Spears placed eighth 
in the long jump.

sop h om ore 

ch am pion s 

On S atu rd ay 's portion o f U.S. 
Track an d Field's Golden Spike 
Tour, several Longhorns had the 
chance to com pete against U.S. 
world 
and 
O lym pians. The previous leg of 
the tour in N ew York, featured 
M arion Jones' return 
the 
track. While the five-time m edal­
ist did not ap p ear in A rkansas, 
top-level competition w as pres­
ent and accounted for.

to 

The 4x400 relay team com ­
prised o f sophom ore Sheretta 
Jones, C happie, R ichards and

In 

McIntosh captured gold with an 
3:32.22. 
au to m atic-q u alifyin g 
Florida and M iam i also posted 
autom atic times, finishing sec­
ond and third.
the 

invitational events, 
Denby and McIntosh lined up 
against som e o f the country's 
best in the 60-m eter hurdles. 
Gail D evers, the 2003 w orld 
indoor cham pion in the event, 
took the gold while Denby posted 
an autom atic 8.13 for fourth, and 
M cIntosh finished sixth with a 
provisional 8.28
R ichards 

com peted 
a lso 
ag a in st D evers and sa w the 
m ulti-gold m edal winner post 
the y ear's world leading time of 
7.10 seconds. A s one of tw o col­
legiate runners, Richards placed 
sixth in a provisional 7.37.

C om in g off three m eets in 
H ouston, the Tyson Invitational 
w as the start of Texas' three-meet 
assau lt for the N C A A Indoor 
crown. With the cham pionship 
three w eeks away, the team 
hopes to build on the weekend.

"Overall, I don't think w e per­
formed u p to our ability levels 
this w eekend," 
coach Bev 
Kearney said. "We have two 
weeks to prepare for the Big 12 
Indoor Cham pionships, and we 
have a lot of work to get done in 
just a short am ount of time."

Texas swimmers defeat Rice

By Jacob Brown
Daily Texan Staff

Love w as in the air and the 
water, Saturday at the Lee and 
Jam ail Texas Sw im m ing 
Joe 
Center a s the Texas w om en's 
sw im m ing team defeated Rice 
117-100.

The dual meet w as the last for 
Texas sen iors Jenna Bridges, 
Lacey Elliott and L aura 
Jo 
Leininger, all transfer students. 
Before the meet, UT co-head 
coach Mike Walker introduced 
the seniors for both team s and 
presented all of them w'ith a bou­
quet of flow'ers.

"They've been a reason why 
this family has come together," 
Walker said of the Longhorn sen­
iors. "I think all three of them as 
student-athletes represent w'hat 
Texas is about, w'hich is balance. 
They feel Texas pride, they have 
lex as blood, and there's nothing 
but pride and appreciation that I 
have for them all choosing to 
come here, especially the second 
time around. I think we're really, 
really fortunate in that sense."

The seniors are thankful for the 
time they spent at the University 
as well.

"I wish I still had another year 
to com pete," Bndges said. "It's 
been a lot of fun. I've learned a 
lot, and I think I can take a lot of 
the experiences I've had and use 
them for the future."

"I've had a really, realiy gcxad

time here," Elliott said. "It helps 
you to sw im faster when you 
have a team that's behind you, 
and I feel that's what this team 
has really brought me."

Walker w as pleased with the 
team 

the entire 

efforsst o f 
Saturday.

"When this group is charged 
up, they're just fun to watch," he 
said. "I'm real proud of them 
today. I think they had fun, they 
had 
really 
enjoyed the moment."

spirit, and 

they 

Texas ended u p with first- 
place finishes in all but one event. 
Am ong the top perform ers were 
sophom ores Tracey Hem merle 
and Ashley Razo. Both were part 
of the winning 400-yard m edley 
relay sq u ad with Leininger and 
Sarah Wanezek in the first event 
of the day, while H em m erle took 
the top time in the 150-yard 
breast stroke, and Razo w on the 
150-yard butterfly.

But perhaps the best effort of 
the day cam e from Texas m en's 
the 
sw im m er N ate O'Brien, 
boyfriend of w om en's sw im m er 
Kristin Siminski. O'Brien, who 
had m ade his w ay dow n to the 
pool deck, aw aited Sim inski's 
finish o f the 150-yard breast 
stroke race at the end of her lane. 
He w as holding a boom box 
above his head that blared "In 
Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel, a la 
John Cusack in the movie, "Say 
A nything." Sim inski em erged

from the water and gav e her 
boyfriend a wet hug.

"She told me she w as upset, 
and I told her I w ould m ake her 
smile today," O'Brien, who cred­
its his room m ate and 
fellow 
Texas sw im m er Johnny N abors 
with the idea, said Saturday.

"I w as shocked and very 
said, 
it w as really 

em b arrassed ," Sim inski 
"b u t I thought 
sweet."

H aving a lot of the m en's team 
in the stan ds m ade Walker realize 
how thankful he is for the rela­
tionship between the squads.

it 

"Som ething that I w as really 
im pressed with w as, over the 
years, just how much the m en's 
and w om en's team s have begun 
to work together," he said. "To 
have the m en's team here and 
su p p o rtin g us, 
just really 
m akes a difference in our pro­
gram , and it really helps out. I 
think [head coach] Eddie Reese 
and his m en are just a class 
organization to d o stuff like that. 
They're just a group of classy 
men, and I really appreciate what 
they do, because I think they help 
our team quite a bit."

N e x t u p fo r the L o n g h o rn 
w om en's t e a m i s t he B i g 12 
Cham pionships, starting Feb. 25 
in Austin. The Longhorns have 
won five straight league titles.

"H opefully w e're going to con­
tinue on with that tradition this 
year," Bridges said.

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Speed 

LE M E D A P A R T M E N T S
1 20 0 W est 40th Street 
2 1 $5 99, 1-1 $499 
Central.
N o application fee 
$9 9 move in special.00 
Free gas

453-3545

W E LOCATE apartments Great 
loca­
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tions Alori Properties 
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N o w Preleasing

CUTE SPANISH STYLE Village! 
W a lk to school, pool, gates, eff 
$ 4 7 0 , 1 I $ 56 5, 2-2 $ 10 15 
Apartm ent Finders 3 2 2 -9 5 5 6

LUXURY FOR LESS cute M 
covered parking, w asher/dryer, 
small community $ 6 0 0 A part­
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AFFORDABLE & W ALK TO 
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$ 49 9, 2-1 
Eff 
$ 7 8 9 Gas paid Apartment 
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6805 Woodhollow Dr. 
Phone: 512-345-9315

9 Unique floorplans 
Crown Molding* 
Spacious Closets 
Ceiling Fans 
Washer/Dryer 
Connections* 
G ourm et Kitchens 
Tiled Kitches & Baths 
2 Sparkling Pools 
UT Shuttle Route 
24 Hr. Fitness Center 
Cozy Fireplaces* 
Covered Parking 
Available

3-24 month leases 
available with rates 
starting as low as 
$499/month 
Studio, 1 & 2 Bedroom 
apartment homes

living Shuttle 
RESORT STYLE 
Individual & Roommate 
Service 
matching, 2 / 3 / 4 's $ 3 5 0 /s ta rt 
mcludes W /D , cable, & basic 
phone! Apartment Experts 
4 1 6 -8 1 0 0

SOUTH UT Shuttle Eff $3 7 5 
1/1 $42 5, 2 / 2 $575 Most 
Bills Paid Apartm ent Experts 
4 1 6 -8 1 0 0

W A L K T O C A M P U S ’ 
$425

Great Efficiency 
N ew Carpet, Paint & Tile 
Free Cable - on bus Route

4 7 2 - 6 9 7 9 
One Bedroom $525

WALK TO U.T 
OR CATCH THE SHUTTLE) 
2 2 0 4 SAN GABRIEL 
Very nice apts w /B erber 
carpet, Ceiling fans, High 
ceilings, M icrowaves and so 
much m orel! Preleasing now for 
M ay and Aug move-in's 
2 /1 5 825sqft $ 1 100 /m onth 
3 / 2 5 1050sqft $ 1 7 7 5 /m onth 
Call now! 476-0111

REMODELED HYDEPARK 
townhouse. 3 bus routes to cam­
town 
pus/dow ntow n 
nome for $6 5 0 
Apartm ent Experts 4 1 6 -8 1 0 0

742sqft 

30TH A N D G uadalupe G iant 
1/1 600sqft $ 4 7 5 W alk 
to 
Campus, Trudy's, W heatsville! 
Apartment Experts 4 16-8100

HYDEPARK STUDIO S For now 
starting at $ 3 9 9 Easy on credit 
Apartm ent Experts 4 1 6 -8 1 0 0

UNBELIEVABLE-DEAL, HydePark 
Efficiency from $ 3 9 5 , Furnished- 
available.Free Extended Cable 
Wireless-lnternet-Available 
D W /DISP 
108 W 45th
4 5 2 -1 4 1 9 /3 8 5 -2 2 1 1 /4 5 3 - 
2771
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'IF'-Shuttle 

'9 9 WRANGLFR. good con,j, 
tion, hardtop/softtop 43k miles 
nice rims, stick, salvage title, 6- 
disc CD. 
trailer hitch $ 7 8 0 0 
Call 4 7 0 228 7

345 - Misc.
BOOKS FOR Sale 1) Anthology 
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N E I G H B O R H O O D

* $ 4 8 5 A ll Bills Paid 

furnished effic 4 0 0 0 A ve 
A ; C lose to IF a n d # 1 
buses

* $ 4 8 5 1 -BR, 6 0 9 E 45 th

C lose to # 7 bus, sh o p p in g 

C a ll (5 1 2 )4 5 8 -4 5 1 1

ALL BILLS paid and 
furnished! 
G ie a t Red river shuttle Studio 
$560, 1-1 $ 63 0, 2-1 townhome 
$ 1005 Apartment F i nders 
3 22 -9 5 5 6

BEST DEAL IN 
WEST CAMPUS 
Preleasing for Summer 
and Fall 0 4 
Avoid traffic |ams, parking 
hassles, Full shuttle, buses! 
MESQUITE TREE APARTMENTS 
2 4 1 0 LO NG VIEW 
Fully furnished 1-bedrooms
Alarm & cable included 
BRIAN NO VY 3 2 7 7 6 1 3

RIO NUECES
Location! Location I Location! 
FURNISHED/UNFURNISHED 
N O W PRE-LEASING 
SUMMER/FALL 
BEST RATES AROUND!
6 0 0 W 26th Street 
474-0971 
RESERVED PUBLIC 
PARKING AVAILABLE'

BEAUTIFUL EFFICIENCIES 
1, 2, and 3 bedroom apart­
ments available. Century Plaza 
4 2 1 0 Red River 
Apartments 
4 5 2 4 3 6 6 Park Plaza 9 1 5 E 
41st 4 5 2 -65 18 
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W a l k t o C a m p u s 

A v a lo n A p a r t m e n t s
IH35 @ 32nd East 
Eff. - $345 

1-1 - $ 3 9 5 
2BR/2BA - $ 5 45-$ 695
W a lk to Engineering, Law, LBJ 
school & all East Campus 
W alk-in closets, ceiling fans, 
on-site laundry
' 45 9-98 98 
Open 2 4 / 7

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2 / 2 $ 1 2 0 0 Apartm ent 
Finders 322 -9 5 5 6

to 

FURNISHED EFFICIENCY availa 
student 
ble 
graduate 
$5 0 0 /m o n th 
for single; $ 5 5 0 
for couple. All bills paid Q uiet, 
near bus routes & UT campus 
C all 4 7 2 -8 7 9 7

370 - Unf. Apts.
2 5 0 5 ENFIELD. O n shuttle Effi­
c ie n cy/ 1BD, pool, laundry, on­
site management 
$ 4 3 5 /5 3 5 
C all Bob 478 -2 7 7 5 , 3 27 -00 5 1

N O BUS 
TOURS HERE!

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free individual 
app oin tm ent a t you r 
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370 - Unf. Apts. 

370 - Unf. Apts.

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SHUTTLE TREASURE with hard- 
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cable, hike & bike, great man­
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agement! 
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322 -9 5 5 6

PRO PERTY 
OF THE

• Gated Comm unity 
• Student Oriented 
• On UT Shuttle Route 
• Microwaves 
■ W ater & Sand Volleyball • Spacious 
1 Lofts W /Fans 
1 5 Min. to Downtown 

• Free
Video
& DVD
Library

Plans
• Basketball

p o i n t s o u t h 4 4 4 - 7 5 3 6
Rental Office: 1910 Willowcreek

370 - Unf. Apts. 

370 - Unf. Apts. 

370 - Unf. Apts.

CO NDO S 
FOR SALE

CROIX l-l

S94.5K

OLD MAIN 2 -1

SI35K

SUNCHASE 2-2

S140K

ROBBINS PLACE 2-2 S149.9K

CREEKRIDGE 2-2 S159.9K

ENEIELD 2-2TH

S172.5K

BENCHMARK 2-2 S189 9K

RAILYARD 3-2

S192K

A N D MANY MORE!

MICHAEL SAID
789.654?

C O N D O FOR Sale Convention­
al, 
fi­
lease option, or owner 
nance 2 / 2 condo in Copper- 
tiee complex. Yager Lane New- 
ly refurbished Call Linda M a rti­
nez. (5 1 2 )7 8 4 -4 9 4 9 for details

C O N D O S FOR sale. Around 
campus 1 BR from $ 5 7 ,0 0 0 . 2 
BR from $ 1 1 5 ,0 0 0 5 8 9 -9 2 9 9 
Longhornsreaity com

GREAT PRICE! $ 5 2 ,5 0 0 . Fabu- 
lous 1 / 1 , new paint, carpet, 
hard tile, ground floor G ated 
community. O n UT shuttle C all 
4 2 3 -9 3 4 9

200 - Furniture- 
Househoid

FULL SIZE beds $60 . King size 
beds $ 1 3 0 Excellent condition 
C all Tiffany 478-1631

CONTEMPORARY PLATFORM 
bed, brand new, still 
in box, 
simple and retro design Sacri­
fice $ 2 0 0 . 2 8 9 -2 1 3 4 .,

$ 2 0 0 QUEEN pillo w top mat­
tress set, brand new, still in plas­
tic Can deliver 2 8 9 -2 1 3 4

300 - Garage-

Rummage Sale

L O N G H O R N 
W A N T A D S

MENS 7 speed Del Sol cruiser 
bike H ybrid tires. 1 year old 
1 /2 price $ 2 0 0 .0 0 C a ll 292- 
1503, M a g g ie or Tony.

8-PC ASHLEY BDRM SET good 
cond. $ 6 5 0 Email 
info; 
monicawindham@ homail.com

for 

ACOUSTIC GUITAR w ith ¡ d r 
case backpack. G reat condi­
tion 
$ 1 3 9 99, price negotia­
ble Contact Dave, 817-721 - 
9361

MARDI GRAS beads 
bulk as­
sorted; 64 dozen @ half retail 
price $ 2 0 0 O BO 6 9 4 -1 3 7 9

Suite 

(chest, 

7-PIECfTDUEENSIZE O ak Bed 
room 
dresser 
W /m irror 2-towers, light bridge 
headboard) 
$60 0 C all 342- 
9001 
for information Mattress 
not included.

flat file 
MUST SELL 4 drawer 
cabinet with base $ 5 0 O B O
C all G racie 328 -20 02

L O N G H O R N 
AUTO SPECIALS

CARS FROM $ 50 0! Police Im­
pounds Hondas, Chevys, Toyo­
ta, etc 
listings. 800 -31 9- 
3 3 2 3 ext. 4 6 2 0

for 

I ‘799 M A ZD A M iata M X5 - 
57Km i, Garage-kept Excellent 
condition G ree n(w /b lack), 2D, 
CD, Cold AC, 4 c y l/ l 8liter 
/ 5 speed, 
title. 
$8 8 0 0 /n e g ¡5 1 2 )6 6 3 -3 0 8 7

Clean 

'9 6 H O N D A Civic DX Dark 
green 93k miles. N e w 
tires, 
new tim ing belt, CD player, 5- 
spd 
51 2-784-5869

manual 

$ 4 8 0 0

370 - Unf. Apts.

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370 - Unf. Apts.
LAFAYETTE L A N D IN G 
A P AR TM E N T H O M E S
Southeast Austin 
On UT Austin Bus Route 
Construction move in 
special total $50 00. Free 
DVD Player with apartment 
Large Floor Plan 
Call Today 44 2-67 89

CO O L VINTAC4 1 BR wooden 
floors, high ceiling, CACH, dish­
washer Four blocks UT Availa 
ble M arch 1 
$ 6 5 0 / mo 9 0 7
W est 23rd C all 4 7 9 -0 4 0 '

M A R Q U IS M G M T 
N O W PRE-LEASING 
SUM M ER/FALL 
GREAT RATES
AWESOME LOCATIONS! 
605 W . 28th Street
472-38 i ó

U N IV E R S IT Y G A R D E N S
A GATED CO M M U NITYI 
N o w Pre-leasing sum mer/fall 
Super-sized I bedroom apts 
SUPER GREAT RATES! 
M icrowaves, elevators, & More!
22 22 Rio Grande St. #D
476-4992
ASK ABOUT OUR RESERVED 
PUBLIC PARKINGI

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Riding the bus? 

Sharing a bathroom?

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Paying for utilities?

MOVE BACK TO 
CAMPUS TODAY!

5 6 5 - 6 1 1 sq. ft.

1 Bedrooms

ALL BILLS PAID!
(Gas. w a ter, ca b le & DSL) 

Parking & Laundry rooms included

E ffective rental rate
$ 4 7 5

Bring this ad tor $ 75 off 1st full 
m onths rent with ly r lease

370 - Unf. Apts.
N O W
PRELEASING
9 0 0 W 23rd 

19 0 0 San G abriel 

A ll Boardwalks 

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4 7 4 -4 8 0 0

Saltillo 
COOL EFFICIENCY! I 
Tile 
fireplace, IF 
tropical pool 
shuttle/bike1 $55 0 June/Augnst 
Plus 0 1 s + l / l s around cam 
pus $4 7 5 7 9 5 Front Paqe 480- 
8 51 5

AREA 

i HR Cm , 
CAMPUS 
$550. 2BR 
TBR 
from $ 1 5 9 5 2 2 $99 5 Long 
hornsrealty com 473 2 38 8

from $79 5 

AVAILABLE N O W ' 7 . I nt>a7 
campus 3rd floor quiet condo, 
CACH parking space aundry 
on-site back balcony no pets 
$495+deposit 
(51 2 )344-5550 
Chantal

from 
SPACIOUS 2-2 minutes 
trash paid 
school Gas & 
$ 1 0 2 5 Apartm ent Finders 322- 
9 5 5 6

in ’" w ü t 
CUTEST APARTMENT 
Campus! Minutes 
to school, 
pool, gates, balconies, eleva­
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ALL BILLS Paid, including cable 
and Ethernet! G reat W est Cam 
pus 
location 1-1 only $6 7 0 
Apartment Finders 3 2 2 -9 5 5 6

SAME DAY M OVE-INr
G reat clean studio & 1 bedroom 
apartments in West Campus & 
just north of campus N ew 
carpet and paint Hardwoods 
available, newly remodeled 
W a lking distance G reat 
location! From $39 5 with most 
bills paid C all the Westside

G roup! 4 9 9 - 8 0 1 3

MUST RENT! 1 BR available 
Mission Hills. Take over lease 
Save $ 10 0 /m o C all Patricia 
collect 210 -86 0-17 02.

West 24™ STREET 
APARTMENTS

4 7 7 -3 6 1 9

SUPER DISCOUNT 
RENTS IN 
WEST CAMPUS 
for immediate move-ins 
Ow ner has several units 
vacant due to students not 
making fall grades Up 
fo half off! Call for details. 

4 9 9 - 8 0 1 3 O w ner/Broker

AVAILABLE 1-BEDROOM apart- 
ments $ 3 9 5 -$ 4 9 5 , $ 2 0 0 depos­
The Jacksonian, 
3 8 1 6
it. 
’ay

Frank 3 4 5 -2 0 6 0 , 9 1 7 0 4 7 0

QUAINT, QUIET community m 
desirable, close-in North loca­
tion 1 /1 , $ 5 0 0 $ 2 0 0 deposit, 
no pets, available for immediate 
move-in, 69 3 -9 3 1 3

I & 2 Bedroom apartments 
$ 4 7 5 /m o & $ 5 7 5 /m o $0 De­
posit. Excellent North Central la 
cation 3 58 -71 98.

HYDE PARK Clean efficiency, 
laundry, parking, water paid 
shuttle, no pets $ 3 5 0 /m o 491 
7 2 7 7

ALL BILLS Paidl Perfect 2-2 room­
mate 
floorplan, North campus 
location & summer discount 2-2 
$ 1 0 8 0 Apartm ent Finders 322 
9 5 5 6

CLOSE-IN LUXURY at bargain 
prices! W asher/D ryer, hot tub, 
pool, private decks 1-1 $59 5 
2-2 $ 8 6 0 Apartm ent Finders 
3 2 2 -9 5 5 6

GREAT DEAL! Shuttle, Free ca 
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Efficiencies $ 3 9 5 , 1-1 $4 3 5 2 
I $ 5 3 5 Apartm ent Finders 322 
9 5 5 6

FREE HIGH Speed Internet And 
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in Hyde Park neighbor 
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2-1 $99 0, 2-2 $ 1 0 9 5 Apart­
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M E T R O REALTY "
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W est Campus 
North Campus 
All Shuttle Routes 
Call today for the best selection!
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4 7 9-13 00 
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WEST CAMPUS 
Preleasing M ay & August 
W alking distance to UT 
Lantana Apts 1802 W est Ave. 
2 / 2 $10 25 
MAY M OVE IN SPECIALS 
1 st month 1 / 2 off!
Pool, on-site mgmt. lots of 
porkinq Lg bedrooms.
CALL N O W 4 7 6 -0 1 1 1 
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WEST CAMPUS Rio Grande 
Pre-leasing 2 /2 's private balco­
ny, covered parking. $97 5. 
7 9 4 -3 9 8 9

SAFE QUIET 3min W a lk to UT. 
Big Efficiencies $47511 4 0 5 E 
31st & Duval. 4 7 2 -2 4 5 0

MODERN EFFICIENCY in a ter- 
rific community. N atural 
light­
ing, 
full kitchen W alk to UT 
101 3 W 2 3 rd $ 4 5 0 Avail 
now. 4 5 1 -0 4 1 4

3 8 0 - Furnished 

UT
12 BEDROO M DUPLEX 
FURNISHED
Parking, cable, mo to mo.
$ 4 0 0 / room 
$ 2 5 0 w / mate
191 2 Nueces

6 5 7 - 3 9 3 5

3 9 0 - Unfurnished 

Duplexes

HYDE PARK 2 /1 hidden 
in 
trees, appliances, FP, CACH 
W /D conn, $ 7 5 0 , 4 3 1 0B Elers 
3 4 2 -9 5 6 7 /8 2 6 -6 2 0 8 
Ave 
Prime Properties

1907 W .3 8T H Spacious Up­
stairs Brick 
2-1 DR Hard­
woods A /C 's Fans 107 3 sqft 
Convenient M opac/U T $850- 
4 7 2 -2 0 9 7

C O O L UPSTAIRS 2 /1 with bal 
cony, W D , hardwoods Bike to 
campus 
Kirkwood 
1411 
$ 8 0 0 . 249 -1 7 7 2

QUIET, SPACIOUS 2BD "'HA 
G arage, 
Professor's 
duplex 
CACH, yard, patio W alk 
to 
Central M arket South, Q uick ac­
cess 
444-
7 7 4 4 /8 9 2 -1 9 6 3

$87 5 

UT. 

1 5 BLK W est of UT GOR 
GEOUS 3-2 duplex, W /D , Park 
mg, CACH, Non-smoking, Q uiet 
$ 1 6 5 0 N e ar Arch , Fall, Yr 
$ 4 9 5 -$ 5 8 5 474-2014 
w w w . abbey-house com/nueces

3 9 0 - Unfurnished 

Duplexes
6 0 ! TEXAS A«er.ue 2BP 
$ 12 
Ail 
47a 3 6 3 4

appliances 

5 B A

LAM AR/38TH CLEAN 2 /1 cc"/ 
port C A CH W /D conn Inter or 
rock w all beamed 
ceilings 
trees 
large ya.d m aintained 
N o pets $72 5 4 'vi -7277

1304B KIRKWOOD 
Trendy upstairs 2-1 around 
9 5 0 square feet with phone 
nook and giant patio, 
French Quarter-style. hip 
neighborhood. Hardwoods, 
garage, attic, C A C H , free 
W /D , cute squirrels Recently 
remodeled, a steal at $9 50 
Call W ill: 68 0-3 6 1 5 or 
Steph 587-42 92.
Photos at 
w w w willscolt net/p ics/D uplex

3 B D /2 B A /1 C A R
Fireplace, shuttle to 
UT, 2 story, 
3802 B Knollwood 
$8 5 0
Evergreen Properties
331-1 122

C A C H 

I re­
2 / 1 UT shurt.R 
place, 
fenced yard, garage, 
alarm system M aytag W /D , 
Ideal place 
$65 0 
3 2 8 -92 45

to study 

4 0 0 - Condos-

Townhomes

BOARDWALK CAMPUS 
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N o w pre-leasing the finest 
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townhomes for 2 0 0 4 - 2 0 0 5 ! 
Different sizes and styles offered 
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our office at 2 41 7 le o n Street

ENFIELD C O N D O 2-2 great to 
share FP, W &D , covered park­
ing elevator $895 2 5 0 8 En­
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9 5 6 7

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CAMPUS AREA CONDO
$ 1150, clean 2/2, 
large living and nice kitchen 
W alking distance to campus 
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managed property Recently 
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The Pointe C ond om inium s 
910 D uncan Lane. C all Brad 
a t 2 3 1 - 2 2 8 6

TRAVIS COUNTRY Garden 
Home 2 / 2 / 2 FP satillo floors, 
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tennis $ 1 3 0 0 ,-mo 
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$435+

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Features;
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closets, spacious floor 
plans, cats allowed.

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Townhomes 

Houses

1/1 ORANGE Tree and Corner- PRE-LEASING 
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Small complex, parking 
2 8 1 5 Rio Grande 
Metro Realty 
4 7 9 - 1 3 0 0 

SECLUDED C O N D O Pools.de 
2BR/2BA, upstairs loft W /D (m 
eluded) 8 m (r downtown Hard 
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wood 
$ 1 0 0 0 /mo 
$500deposit
(512)413 8 8 0 0
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Centennial Large
3/2 $2200
Centennial Small
3,7 $2000

2/2 -$1600
Croix
3/3 $2200
Orangetree Large
3/2 5 - $3200
Orangetree Small
3/2.5 - $2300
Parapet

•//.. ■ 2/2 $1400 3/2 $1650

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Pecan Walk
4/2 $2000
Pointe Large
2/2 $1200
Treehouse
4/2 $2400 2/2 - $1650
W estview Large
2/2 $1300
W est University
2/2 - $130)

2401 Rio Grande
512-479-1300
www.utmetro.com

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Monday, February 16, 2004

Tanzanian ambassador to India visits UT Law

1 ctivist, politic ian 
speaks on w om ens, 
human rights

By Tran Pham
Daily Texan Staff

Gertrude Mongella, Tanzanian 
ambassador to India, spoke at 
the LBJ L ibrary about global­
iz atio n hum an rig h ts and 
wom en's rights in a symposium 
Sunday.

to 

Mongella, who was recently 
elected 
the Pan-African 
Parliament, addressed "A lour- 
ne 
through Race and Gender 
Toward Peace."

i h anted to have the opportu­
ne. to link Texas and the other 
the w orld," said 
parts of 
fem ale 
M ongella, 
the 
"The
Tanzanian ambassador. 

first 

w orld needs peace more than 
ever now."

As long as conflicts of interest 
exist, peace will not exist, she 
said. "Globalization must be 
about bringing together people 
from all over the globe. In collab­
orating with other continents, we 
can strengthen ties," Mongella 
said. "The idea parallels music. 
The more tones we have, the bet­
ter the melodv is."

Vlongella served as the UN 
secretary general in a confer­
ence addressing violence and 
advancement of women held in 
Beijing, China. She continues to 
monitor the results of the confer­
ence.

"It was only after this that a lot 
of the countries in attendance 
realized all should enjoy human 
rights and that women's rights 
are human rights," Mongella 
said.

“Globalization must be 
about bringing people 
together from all over 
the globe.”

Gertrude Mongella, 
Tanzanian ambassador to India

The symposium also included 
a panel of four speakers, includ­
ing Victoria Rodriguez, UT vice 
provost and dean of graduate 
studies; Omowali Lithulu, execu­
Interna­
tive director of the 
tional Youth Friendship and 
Development Program; fanice 
Kinchion, president of the Texas 
Coalition of Black Democrats; 
and Lester Kurtz, a UT sociology 
professor.

"We're trying to draw' attention

to women's issues," Kurtz said.
Women need to be present in 
not just politics, but in many 
more fields — they play a signifi­
cant role in preventing violence."
Kurtz is also director of the UT 
Peace and C onflict Studies 
Center, a group of professors 
whose mission is to support and 
promote more research to figure 
out nonviolent conflict-resolution 
methods.

"W e're capable, as a species, of 
intelligently finding other ways 
to deal with wrorld conflict, 
instead of just blowing things 
up," Kurtz said.

Looking at relationships from 
an interpersonal level to an inter­
national level is crucial, he said.

"I'm convinced that you can't 
be a fully educated person unless 
you travel to another country and 
experience the a il ture and per­
spectives there," Kurtz said.

M u - M in g C hen DaTiy Texan S ta ff
A m b a ssa d o r Gertrude M ongella, secretary general of the Fourth 
W orld Conference on W om en, respon ds to questions during a sy m ­
posium on gender, race and peace at the LBJ Library on Su n day after­
noon. M o n ge lla spo ke about h u m an rights and w o m e n ’s rights at the 
sym posium .

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47 Old-time oath

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, RTAINMENT

Monday, February 16, 2 0 0 4

T hf I ) \11> IT \ \N

FROM AUTUMN TO ASHES @ EMO’S
Vagrant Records’ screamo outfit From Autumn To 
Ashes rock Emo’s tonight. The show also marks 
the much-anticipated return of female-fronted 
hardcore band Walls of Jehnco. Armor for Sleep 
and Silverstein round out this incredible bill.

ENTERTAINMENT BRIEFS

‘5 0 ’ SCORES $ 4 1 m on opening weekend

By David Germain
Associated Press

irresistible d raw 

LO S ANGELES — A dam 
Sandler and Drew Barrym ore's 
romance "50 First D ates" proved 
an 
the 
Valentine's w eekend date crowd, 
taking in $41 million to debut as 
the top movie, according to stu­
dio estim ates Sunday.

for 

If the estim ates hold, it w ould 
be the second-biggest February 
opening e\ er, behind the $58 m il­
lion debut o f H annibal" in 2001 
and 
just ah ead o f last year s 
"D aredevil" at $40.3 million.

I he previou s w eekend's top 
in 
film, "B arb ersh o p 2: Back 
B u sin ess," 
to second 
slip p ed 
place with $15.6 million, bringing 
its 10-day total to $44.1 million.

The overall box office w as 
down, with the top 12 m ovies 
grossing $107.8 million, off 13 
percent from the sam e weekend 
last vear.

"50 f irst Dates w as a reunion 
for Sandler and Barrymore, who 
starred in " I he W edding Singer," 
which opened over Valentine's 
w eekend in 1998.

is 
S a n d le r's m ain au dien ce 
m ales in their teens and 20s, who 
turned out in torce, but wom en 
m ade up 57 percent of the crow ds 
on the strength of Barrymore and 
the m ovie's romantic theme, d is­
tributor Sonv reported.

And the Valentine's weekend 

sealed the deal with audiences.

" Falk about great timing. For a 
lot o f couples, this w as their 
Valentine entertain m ent," said 
Paul D ergarabedian, president of 
Exhibitor 
tracker 
box-office 
Relations.

S an d ler p lay s a w om an izer 
smitten by Barrymore, an acci­
dent victim who forgets the pre­
v io u s d a y 's m em ories each 
to
m orning, 

forcing San dler 

Above, Adam Sandler, director Peter Segal and Drew Barrymore on the set of “50 First Dates.” The film topped the box office this weekend.

Photo courtesy of Columbia Pictures

dream up new w ay s for the two 
to meet and fall in love.

Playing in 3,591 theaters, "50 
First D ates" averaged a strong 
$11,417 a cinema.

With m any people off work 
M onday for President's Day, "50 
First D ates" should come out of 
the long weekend about halfw ay 
to the $100 m illion level. The 
m ovie is positioned to become 
the first released in 2004 to top 
that mark.

Though m any critics trashed

"5 0 First D ates," 
the m ovie 
earned its share o f positive press, 
with som e reviewers taken in by 
the story's sw eetness and Sandler 
and Barrym ore's chemistry.

Alm ost half of the audience 
w as 25 or older, a more m ature 
crowd than norm ally turns out to 
see Sandler.

"I think people were excited to 
see A dam and Drew paired up 
again ," said Rory Bruer, Sony 
head of distribution. "A nd I think 
on e thing 1 w ould say about

A dam , he's just such a likable 
guy. H e's just so accessible to all 
audiences. People can relate to 
him ."

In narrow release, the m urder 
thriller "H igh w aym en," starring 
Jim C aviezel, d ebuted w eakly 
with $203,000 in 111 theaters for 
an average of $1,829.
ticket 

for 
Friday through Sunday at North 
A m erican theaters, according to 
Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc. Final 
figures will be released Tuesday.

E stim ated 

sa le s 

WEEKEND’S TOP- 
GROSSING FILMS
1. “50 First Dates,”
$41 million

2. “Barbershop 2: Back in 
Business,” $15.6 million

3. “Miracle,”
$14 million

4. "The Butterfly Effect,”
$5.7 million

5. “You Got Served,”
$5.1 million

Poet Matthews’ work lives on in ‘Search Party’

— 

Bv Tvler Carson 
By Tyler Carson
Daily Texan Staff

The distinctly Am erican poet 
William M atthew s died in 1997, 
but his work lives on with help 
from son S eb astian M atthew s 
and fellow' poet Stanley Plumber. 
The new book, "Search Party," is 
a conglom eration o f the very best 
fairly
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of the life and growth of a poet.

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reader several tim es and, when 
the tale within the poem reaches 
a happy end, M atthews closes 
with, "A d m it you're glad ."

friends. He 

Several o f the poem s included 
w ere p riv ate corresp on den ces 
with his 
thanks 
Michael C uddiby for a bottle of 
fine w ine in "L a Tache 1962" and 
congratulates Russell Banks on 
the birth o f his d au g h ter 
in 
"Letter to Russell Banks." The 
tone of the work is m using, inti­
m ate and at times alm ost confes­
sional.

M atthew s excitedly sh ow s off 
the things he loves to the reader 
— his family, quiet w alks in coun­
try, Nabokov, Bob M arley and the 
jazz of C harles M ingus. M ore 
than anything, it is clear that 
M atthew s loved life and the writ­
ten word.

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Point," a young cadet asks him

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slide into the deep despair that 
mark so many American poets of 
the 20th century. There are w'omen 
and booze 
in 
Matthews' poetry, but his pared- 
down lines treat the subjects with 
more 
tenderness than Charles 
Bukowski or Jack Kerouac.

and violence 

The 

last p o em s 

in "Search 
Party" were sent to publishers 
just d ays before M atthews' death, 
and they have a m ellow sw eet­
ness in them that leaves his read­
ers with a sense of peace and 
well-being that defies d escrip ­
tion. H is parting w ords in "C are" 
are "L ov e needs to be set alright/ 
again and again, and in than ks/ 
for tending it, will do its very / 
best not to consum e u s." It is a 
gentle and bittersweet goodbye 
to his readers, and serves as a last 
word of advice.

"Search Party" is an excellent 
introduction to the life's work of 
William M atthew s, an d even 
those who are already fam iliar 
with his poetry should pick the 
book up. The old poem s have 
been reshuffled in a new w ay and 
have becom e the biography and 
epitaph o f their author.

w hy his poem s are difficult to 
understand, and he responds, "I 
try to w'rite as well as I c an / w hat 
it feels like to be hum an."

A s in life, there is also a great 
deal of sorrow and wry cynicism 
in M atthew s’ poetry. H e elegizes 
and celebrates artists w ho are 
being eaten aw ay by d ru gs and 
hard-living, and m editates on the 
sim ple brutalities of existence.

"There's something wrong that 
can't be salved / something irre­
versible besides aging" he observes 
in "W rong," but his poem s never

4Love, from Death Row’ 
showcases inmate art

By Aaron Dubrow
Daily Texan Staff

Edw ard LaGrone, one of the 
visual artists in La Pena's new 
show , cou ld not attend 
the 
V alentine's Eve reception. He 
cou ld not join in the festive 
atm o sp h ere at L as M an itas 
in the 
A venue C afe or revel 
c ro w d 's appreciation 
for his 
work.

He w as executed the previous 

Wednesday.

"Love, from Death Row," pres­
ents draw in gs from five Texas 
inm ates who, since 1999, have 
banded together as "Everlasting 
A rt" to raise aw areness about 
capital punishm ent. The w orks 
in the sh ow were m ade as gifts 
for fam ilies and friends, and — 
alo n g w ith the w ritten state­
m ents from the artists — create a 
poignant, hum anizing portrait of 
those on death row who, guilty 
or innocent, continue to experi­
ence love and hope.

The w orks in the show are 
rarely overtly political or self- 
reflective. Instead, the sm all, pre­
cise com positions in pencil — the 
only tool the inm ates are allow ed 
to use — present im ages that are 
innocent an d optimistic. L ouis C. 
Perez, the m ost prolific of the 
artists, offers visions of a friend's

daughter in her bridal gown, of 
sw im m ing dolphins and of Jimi 
H endrix. H ow ever, his sm all 
"Su éltam e," m eaning "L et Me 
Go,' show s the artist trying to 
struggle free from a tightening 
hand, and hints at the anger 
evoked by Perez's circumstance.
A nother p ow erfu l w ork 

is 
R andy A rroyo B aez's 
"S to p 
Juvenile Executions." Baez w as 
17 when he received a death sen­
tence, and his autobiographical 
d raw in g d epicts a thoughtful 
young boy dream ing scenes of 
violence, m urder and incarcera­
tion. In writing along the edges, 
he im plores the governm ent to 
end the practice of executin g 
minors.

Despite the w eightiness of the 
the reception 
subject matter, 
Friday w as festive. Las M anitas 
had d an cin g and 
traditional 
M exican m usic by Kitty Scott 
and Trio San Antonio, as well as 
m ou ntains of h an douts, fliers 
and inform ation prom otin g a 
m oratorium on execution s 
in 
Texas.

On a night when m ost people 
were thinking of chocolates and 
flowers, it w as instructive to be 
rem inded that love takes m any 
forms, and that even on death 
row, love and hope continue to 
bloom.

Associated Press 
A model wears a design by PPQ 
during the first day of London 
Fashion Week. The designers are 
showing their Autum n/W inter 
200 4/2 0 05 collections.

Rir and feathers in style 
at Fashion Week

NEW YORK — It may not come 

as welcome news to animal 
activists, but as the trends are tal­
lied for the Fashion Week collec­
tions which wrapped up Friday, the 
message for fall is fur.

If designers have their way, a zoo- 

full of looks including coats with 
enormous fox coliars and vests in 
mink will be filling the stores. And 
underneath that outerwear, design­
ers may be banking on their cus­
tomers wearing dresses dripping 
with feathers from guinea hen or 
ostrich.

In another theme playing on a 
controversial social issue, Richard 
Tyler’s fall collection featured two 
female models dressed as a bride 
and groom.

Still, there are other looks that 
may gain wider acceptance. Like, 
how about a season of bright col­
ors, to banish the winter doldrums’ 
typical grays and browns? The 
favored fabric is tweed, the better 
to pair with cashmere.

Skirts and dresses are long, to 

the knee or past, and lean — 
unless they are Ralph Lauren's 
billowy circle skirts which swing 
wide with grace. Lingerie looks, 
such as slinky slip dresses and 
corsets, are not going away any­
time soon. And the footwear of 
choice is a tall boot that rises to 
the knee or higher.

In a season when the runways 
are crawling with animal influences 
from showy sable collars to alliga­
tor boots and animal prints, 
designers are coloring their furs.
The fox collar shows up in bright 
blue at Esteban Cortázar (on a 
black cashmere coat), in crimson 
at Douglas Hannant (on a match­
ing cashmere suit) and in orange 
or fuchsia at Anna Sui (accessoriz­
ing cardigans and jean jackets).
And if the color doesn't grab 
attention, the scale will, because 
many designers are cutting these 
collars to look imposing.

But if it’s not a fur collar, it's a fur 

hat from Marc Jacobs, or a fur 
vest, in pink at Matthew 
Williamson and in eggplant at 
Carolina Herrera and Douglas 
Hannant. This season’s tiny jacket, 
called a “shrug," shows up at 
Michael Kors in lavender mink and 
at Donna Karan in lodervcolored 
broadtail lamb.

More generously proportioned is 

the ubiquitous poncho, which 
Ralph Rucci casts in honey sable.
If that’s not enough to spell fur,
Ralph Rucci and other designers 
sent out big fur muffs draped over 
the models’ arms and stoles that 
swept down the runway.

Perhaps it is no wonder that 

People for the Ethical Treatment of 
Animals staged a protest on the 
steps of the Fashion Week tents.

Meanwhile, gold is lending a gild­

ed touch. That means gold leaf 
embellishments on cashmere 
scarves and evening gowns at 
Carolina Herrera, gold pumps at 
Nanette Lepore, gold lame boots 
and a gold sable shoulder bag at 
Oscar de la Renta, and gold linen 
pants at Zac Posen. Cynthia 
Rowley’s gold vest combines two 
trends into one.

The color story continues. At 

BCBG, shades like sapphire, emer­
ald, amethyst and amber are com­
bined in ways that you did not 
know matched, leading to odd 
combos such as a navy jacket, 
sapphire tank top, leather pants in 
a color like mustard, along with 
mahogany leather boots.

Other designers, most notably 
Ralph Lauren, buck the trend and 
offer quiet monochromatic sepa­
rates: His first six looks were all in 
camel. And John Varvatos stays 
the course with a winter-worthy 
palette of browns and black.

Despite the wintry season, some 

clothes are positively skimpy.
Lingerie looks ruled at Narciso 
Rodriguez, who showed body-hug­
ging slip dresses in soft colors 
with bra tops and straps; at 
Chaiken the look extended to slip 
dresses and camisoles. Esteban 
Cortazar’s naughtygirl back- 
seamed stockings underscore the 
mood. At Calvin Klein, drapey 
lounge looks suggested pajama 
and bathrobe styles, in soft, 
washed silk. The sheer silk chif­
fons and washed silk V-neck dress­
es that were open to nearly the 
waist meant that some models 
took to the runway with breasts 
exposed.

Tweed is a favorite fabric. Óscar 
de la Renta sets the tone by pair­
ing tweed flared skirts with the 
season's ubiquitous guinea feather 
trim. At Cynthia Steffe, a m o» 
tweed hunting vest exemplifies her 
tribute to British riding clothes, as 
does her loden tweed “prep school 
blazer,” a look that she says works 
for either town or country.

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 Associated Press