e way for 110 years of Austin history FOCUS PAGE5A T h e d a ily T ex a n Serving The University of Texas at Austin community since Friday, September 23, 2005 www.dailytexanonline.com 1900 •e « j s t ” * Service limited as union operators protest plan to pay lower wages " C I » V U m . r „ «hbk CfflTV sumHV# C8W I Storm won’t force ACL cancellation Officials continue to watch weather conditions, ensure safety of all participants By Adrienne Lee Daily Texan Staff The threat of tornadoes, lightning and rain didn't change the tune of Austin City Limits officials in charge of the fourth annual festival, who stated Thursday evening that the show will go on. Questions loomed this week, as Hurricane Rita began making its way into the Gulf of Mexico, about possible band cancellations or the rescheduling of performances. hotel availability. After consulting with meteo­ rologists the officials made their announcement, and music-lovers started getting their Austin City Limits festival tickets Thursday night and were able to walk away with three-day passes. According to the festival's Web site, the group will post any updates or replies to frequently asked ques­ tions, such as ticket refunds and The Weather Channel's Austin forecast, as of late Thursday, shows weather in the city to be mostly sunny today with a high of 95, thun­ derstorms and wind Saturday and partly cloudy Sunday. The ACL Web site also cites Austin as being in the "outside range of severe weather related to the hurricane." The expected rain shouldn't be a problem, an ACL greeter said. He also said attendees will be allowed to carry in umbrellas that do not extend four feet and that each of the over 10 stages are already covered by tents. "Regardless of the nice weather we are now expecting, we are continuing to monitor the hurricane very close­ ly," officials said in a press release. "The safety of our fans, the musicians and our crew is our top priority." INSIDE See pages 4-5B for more ACL cove' age City again opens to evacuees As hotel rooms fill up, Austin offers 50 shelters to those fleeing Hurricane Rita Capital Metro drivers strike over proposal By Adrienne Lee Daily Texan Staff Early Thursday morning, when a normal shift begins, Capital Metro bus drivers began their day on the street, but not in buses. After months of negotiation, their union called a one-day strike. The limited bus service, down to a quarter of the regular bus mutes, affected shuttles for the Austin City Limits festival, potential transportation for hurricane relief and disrupted E-bus service. Union president Jay Wyatt said members called the strike because of "unfair labor practices." Employees under Capital Metro's contractor, feel the current pro­ posal will not only pay lower wages to newlv hired employees for the same jobs, but will also "push out" current operators and mechanics with cheaper labor. "We were pushed into a strike," Wyatt said. "They're trying to bust the union. They're not trying to negotiate." Capital Metro normally sendees the highest traveled routes and major stops including hospitals, schools, downtown and the University. Since remaining drivers were operators on probation, non-union employees, or drivers who crossed picket lines, service was limited and only lasted until 7:30 p.m. The Amalgamated Transit Union 1091 representing bus operators and mechanics, has been under contract negotiations with StarTran, Capital Metro's contractor. The contract, set to expire in July, was pushed to Aug. 19 due to labor discussions. It outlines a new two-tier pay system for employees, changes in the health plan, wage increases and a retirement plan. The retirement plan was the only part with a joint agreement. Union members and StarTran negotiators will with­ draw the current proposal if they do not come to an agreement by Sept. 30. If employees sign a contract by then, they will receive benefits from the past two months. The retroactive pay could be the current wage plus a 3-percent increase and a 1-percent bonus. In anticipation of a strike close to the ACL music festival, which uses Capital Metro buses to transport attendees, StarTran will have two contractors who will provide service for ACL. Because these contracted workers were already in town for the event, they filled in for striking employees Thursday, Capital Metro Capital Metro continues on page 2A M ik e B ic kn e ll | D a ily Texan Staff Capital Metro contract employees strike in front of the transit authority's headquarters on 2910 E. Fifth St. Proposed University hotel site may not be suitable for plans Officials insist no new property will considered to accommodate project By Ricardo Lozano Daily Texan Staff University officials may have to relocate an $84 mil­ lion hotel and conference center that has been in the works for more than two years. At a Downtown Commission meeting on Wednesday, Pat Clubb, the vice president of employee and campus services, said the planned location at Martin Luther King Boulevard and University Avenue may be moved if plans for a parking garage are not feasible. Controversy over the plans arose earlier in the year as the University revealed it wanted to buy out long-time Austin haunt, Player's, in order to construct a 1,000-space parking structure adjacent to the center. The University said it would assert eminent domain powers when the buiger-joint owners Carlos Oliviera and Eddie Hempe refused to sell. In August, however, President Faulkner declared that the University would no longer entertain ideas of forcing Player's out. This followed a petitioning effort started in June and a failed House Bill amendment that would limit eminent domain. This assurance was echoed by Clubb who said she wanted to clear up any misunderstanding that might exist about the project. "We will not purchase any new property for this proj- D e a n S a g u n ¡ Daily Texan Staff Above, Victor Martel, age 5, and his father, Carlos Martel of Houston, Texas walk towards a temporary Red Cross Shelter at Burnet Middle School Thursday evening. Burnet Middle School is at capacity providing shelter for 269 evacuees. Left, Interstate Highway 10 traffic moves east- bound out of Lake Charles, La. at sunset on Thursday on Hurricane Rita draws nearer. By M arjon Rostami Daily Texan Staff Evacuees who were unable to reserve hotel rooms or find alternative housing are staying in Austin over the weekend in one of the 50 possible shelters run by the Red Cross. Hurricane Rita continues to threat­ en the Gulf Coast and is expected to make landfall early Saturday morn­ ing. Residents along Rita's predicted path are taking no chances against the third most powerful hurricane in recorded history. As of 6 p.m. Thursday, more than 3,000 evacuees were directed to the gymnasiums of 10 Austin schools. Cecilia Fedorov, a spokeswoman for the Austin Office of Emergency Management, said the shelters are not meant to serve as a long-term facil­ ity. She said evacuees are bringing their own sleeping bags and blankets, anticipating a stay of no longer than 72 hours after the storm hits. Burnet Middle School was the fifth on the list of available shelters and filled to capacity, 400 people, in an estimated two hours, accord­ ing to Linda Van Home, principal of the school. Two Austin Police Department officers were stationed on school grounds keeping the stu­ dents and evacuees separated. "Our district did a very good job of meeting with administrators and planning and giving us prior notice," Van Home said. "I was told to pro­ vide a space for them, and I did." in Schools session remained Thursday and are not expected to close today. Van Horne said she does not expect the shelter to be a distraction to the students or the teachers. The school day followed a routine schedule with the exception of physical education classes, which continued in different areas of the building. Rudy Garza, assistant city man­ ager, said the city has the capac­ ity to house 15,000 evacuees. Meals are provided by the Red Cross, but evacuees are responsible for their own overnight needs. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which based an information center in Austin shorty after Katrina evacuees entered Texas, is preparing for Rita and stag­ ing emergency teams around the projected affected areas. "We are housing in Austin all the federal elements to work with the state in any needs they may have," said Laird Basehoar, FEMA spokes­ woman. "We are getting our teams out as close as possible to where we think the affected areas may be." Prepared to unleash 18 disaster medical assistance teams of 35 mem­ bers after the hurricane hits, Basehoar said FEMA has prepared for Rita and taken the same precautions as they do all Category 5 storms. Hurricane Rita was reduced to Category 4 sta­ tus Thursday. She refused to com­ ment on Katrina. Volume 106. Number 15 25 cents W orld&Nation opinion 3A 4A University State & Local ........... 6A 7A ' Focus...................... 5A Sports____________ 1-3B 6-7B Classifieds..... Com ics..... ........... ...... 7B Entertainment 4-5, 8B DAYS WE A I wish I were Craig Bland. I R H igh q c -7 Low v j f c , J f L / w 11 Associated Press Hotel continues on page 2A FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23,2005 Pac eT wo Hotel: New issues arise over need to demolish street alley T h e D a i l y T e x a n TOMORROW'SWEATHER 85 W 75 Richard complimented us the first night — it was all downhill from there. From pagel A ect. No property will be used west of Whitis," Clubb said. The current plans, though not completed, call for the parking garage to be built beneath the con­ ference center, but if this causes some of the amenities of the center to be lost, then the project will be moved to a new location, Clubb said. Another hurdle brought up in the commission briefing w as the need to build over an existing alleyway on the proposed site. A s a rule, alleys are not built over unless the removal serves som e public good, said Jeb Boyt with the Parks and Recreation Board. Because of the existing rule, the conference center devel­ opers w ould have to demonstrate that the project benefits the pub­ lic, said Boyt. One possible public good pro­ posed would be the conference center could help turn that part of town into a destination and art district since it is close to the Blanton Art M useum and the Texas State Museum, said Chris Riley, a vice chair of the planning commission. The center could aide in this by prov iding retail or major food ser­ vices inside the facility, which is a definite possibility, Clubb said. "We are planning major food services within the conference cen­ ter, but the site has been limited, so we're not working with the same space anymore," Clubb said. The 300 residential rooms will not be open to the public and will strictly serve UT post-gradu­ ate education programs. It will be used to host conferences with companies mostly in conjunction with the Red McCombs School of Business, though all schools within the university will have access to the conference center. It will be centered on a 250- 300 person auditorium, and have tiered classrooms, breakout rooms and state-of-the-art teaching tech­ nologies. The center is tentatively scheduled to open between fall 7008 and summer 2009. What's in a hurricane name? Storms once named for U.S. Army; Navy officers spouses By Catherine Stone Daily Texan Staff Hurricanes are no longer named after the wives or girl­ friends of U.S. Army and Navy officials, but they used to be. Beginning in 1953, Atlantic tropical storm s and hurri­ canes have been named by the National Hurricane Center and are now maintained and updat­ ed by the World Meteorological Organization. Before 1953, officers in the U.S. Army and Navy named the storms after their significant others, hence the NHC featured only wom­ en's names on the lists until 1979, when m en's and women's names were alternated as they are today. If there are so many hurri­ canes in one year that they run out of names on the list, then the N H S reverts to the Greek alphabet for nam es such as "A lpha," "Beta" and "Delta." The nam es m ust be short and readily understood when broadcast, and also culturally sensitive, because the Atlantic basin contains 24 countries with a mixture of English, Spanish and French languages and cul­ tures. The 2005 Associated Press Stylebook advises newspapers to not use the presence of a w om an's name as an excuse to attribute sexist images in stories or headlines: "Avoid for exam­ ple such sentences as: The fick­ term "hurricane" le Hazel teased the Louisiana coast." The is derived from "H urican," the Carib god of evil. The Carib tribe inhabited what is now the coast of Venezuela and were known to practice cannibalism. The name Katrina, is a short form of Katherine, which is Greek for "pure." Rita, derived from Margarita in Spanish or Margaret in English, is Greek for "pearl." Lists of names are rotated every six years. Thus, the list used this year will be used again in 2011. However, if a particular hurricane inflicts a significant amount of property dam age and death, the name is retired. include Andrew, Exam ples which in 1992 caused more than $30 million worth of dam age and 25 deaths in Florida, and Camille, which made landfall on the Mississippi coast in 1969 as a Category 5 hurricane. Erica Rule, spokesw om an for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, said Katrina probably would not return. "This is a classic example of a storm that would be retired because of the death and destruction," Rule said. NOAA is predicting a 95 per­ cent to 100 percent chance of above-normal activity for this hurricane season, with at least 18 to 21 storms, with nine to 11 becoming hurricanes and three to five of those becoming major hurricanes, according to their Web site. ON THE FLY Capital Metro: One-day strike limits bus service HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION INFORMATION CLASS, 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m., SSB 2.204. No registra­ tion required. ANSEL ADAMS:ONEWITH BEAUTY, 7 p.m., Harry Ransom Center. A lecture by Mary Street Alinder, Adams's assistant and biographer. Free, but limited seating. Call 471- 8944 or visit http://www.hrc.utexas. ed u ffo r more information on this and other HRC events. Zeta Sigma Chi: Getting to Know You, 7 p.m., SSB G 1.104. Day Five of Rush 2005. Dress is business casual. Please bring a resume if you attended the Wednesday or Thursday events. Free food. LINKING TELEVISION VIEWING TO THE ACCPETANCE OF RAPE MYTHS, noon - 1 p.m., Gebauer fourth floor conference room. Dr. Lee Ann Kahlor speaks as part of the CWGS New Faculty Colloquium Series. UT BALLROOM DANCE CLUB WELCOME DANCE, 9 p.m. - 12 a.m., AHG 136. Time to practice your latest ballroom, latin and country moves. Refreshments and light snacks will be provided. $2 entry fee. For more info visit http-J/ studentorgs.utexas.edu/utbdc. ANIME CLUB, 7 p.m. - 12 a.m., Welch 1.316. Presenting a free pub­ lic video screening each week; our lineup includes an eclectic mix of shows, geared for varying tastes. For more information visit h ttp :// uts.cc.utexas.edu/~anim e/ or call 422-9687. Find more listings at www.dailytexanonline.com. To submit your event to this calendar, send your information to aroundcampus@ dailytexanonline.com or call 471-4591. CLARIFICATION A story in Wednesday's Texan should have said that a Starbucks on the Baylor University campus pulled 500 cups because a quote printed on the cups sup­ ported homosexuality. CONTACT US M ain Telephone: (512)471-4591 Editor: A.J. 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Additionally, with Hurricane Rita forcing G ulf Coast residents to evacuate, L'Amie said offi­ cials from Houston and Corpus Christi told Capital Metro to have buses ready to pick up evacuees and bring them to Austin. According to Libba Letton, a Capital Metro spokeswoman, no buses were sent to either city because workers decided to strike Thursday. "C ap ital Metro thinks [the strike] is irresponsible, ill-timed and unfair to evacuees," Letton said. "It's really unfortunate that we couldn't provide that service." Wyatt addressed the strike's effect on hurricane evacuees and said they were "concerned about the evacuees," but he questioned the truth of Capital Metro's said obligation to send buses. Because the strike limited bus routes, the E-Bus, a service UT students frequently take to and from downtown, did not run. Student Government President Omar Ochoa sent the student body an e-mail notifying every­ one of the cancellation. "I would hate for thousands of students to be waiting at the bus stop without knowing the bus wasn't going to come by," he said. According to Ochoa, the E- Bus has been "really popular this semester." During the first week­ end thLs semester, 7,000 students rode it. Steven D ouglass, a union member, said he felt "terribly" for riders who couldn't use the bus today, especially UT stu ­ dents, since he drives a route that prim arily serves student riders. "I ask that they please bear with us," he said. The E-Bus is expected to run tonight since the strike ended this morning at 3 a.m. Under the proposed contract, the two-tier system increases w ages for current em ploy­ ees by 3 percent per year and starts newly hired em ployees at $11.99 an hour. The con­ tract also enacts a $300 annual deductible for an em ployee and a $600 maximum for em ployee families, up 100 percent from the old contract, which did not have StarTran em ployees pay­ ing any deductible. Due to the proposed health-care changes, the contract also added a 1- percent bonus based on total earnings. L'Amie said StarTran support the two-tier structure because it "preserves all the w ages of the current employees." Previously, StarTran's salary w ages were higher per hour for the sam e work being done across the state, L'Amie said. "This is a way to adjust it without harming the current workers and, still, the new w age for the current workers is above the minimum livable w age in Austin," he said. Beginning w ages for the lower tier are higher than the $10.90 minimum living w age in the city, though union members say the cost of living compared to pro­ posed wages and benefits does not balance out. Since StarTran em ployees have not had to pay a deduct­ ible until now, Wyatt and union leaders did not agree with the sudden inclusion of the deduct­ ible. Members did not like the plan because of Capital Metro's "m ism anaged fu n d s," Wyatt said, referring to money going toward expenses such as new buses, which workers think are unnecessary. "They're wasting taxpayers' money," said Althea Toliver, who has worked as a Capital Metro bus operator for alm ost 20 years. serious about Wyatt said the one-day strike intended to show StarTran and Capital Metro that the union their remains negotiations and want to have better options. Though about 200 employees missed a day's pay, most said it was worth support­ ing their union's efforts for better practices. Staff writer Zach Warmbrodt contributed reporting to this arti­ cle. This new spaper was p rinted w ith pride by The Daily Texan and Texas Student Media. T h e D a i l y T e x a n Perm anent Staff wing I I Editors Editor Managing Editor Associate Manag Copy Desk Chief .. 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Participating Advertisers: Pizza Hut Procuts La Paletera Supercuts Hot Nails W ing Zone o r l d & N T h e D aily T e x a n Abdullah to meet with Sharon, Abbas 3A Friday, S e p te m b e r 23, 20 0 5 NATION BRIEFS Delta's turnaround mm/inn fast with plans to cut jobs ATLANTA — A mere eight days after filing for bankruptcy protec­ tion, Delta Air Lines Inc. signaled Thursday it wants to m ove quickly to reduce costs as it announced it will eliminate up to 9,000 more jobs, slash pay for executives and other employees, and cut domestic capacity while adding more inter­ national flying. The changes were not a surprise but the speed in putting them forth was, said airline analyst Ray Neidl at Calyon Securities. "It show s that they're deter­ mined to turn this airline around," Neidl said. That w on't happen without pain for many employees w h o stuck with the nation's third-biggest car­ rier through nearly $ 10 billion in losses and earlier rounds of cuts that shed 24,000 jobs since 2001. The job cuts announced Thursday, which will be phased in over more than a year, represent 17 percent of the work force at Delta's flagship operation. The Atlanta-based airline's chief in a m em o to employees that the changes could prompt some of them to leave the company. More than 200,000 out of work because of Katrina W ASHINGTON — M ore than 200,000 people have lost their jobs because of Hurricane Katrina, and more bad economic news is on the horizon as Hurricane Rita heads for the Texas Gulf Coast and the country's biggest collection of oil refineries. Even a glancing blow could send energy prices higher than their record peak right after Katrina. A nd if Rita's dam age to Texas refineries is severe enough, economists say, gasoline could top $5 per gallon. "Som e 20 percent of the nation's refining capacity seem s to be right in Rita's path. If that gets disrupted at all, then gasoline, jet fuel, natu­ ral gas and hom e heating oil will surge higher," said M ark Zandi, chief econom ist at Economy.com. Rita is expected to make land­ fall very early Saturday. Its arrival comes as the econom ic toll is still being tallied from Katrina, which came ashore Aug. 29 and devas­ tated New Orleans and parts of Mississippi and Alabama. The Labor Department on Thursday increased the total number of job losses attributed to Katrina to 214,000, with 103,000 com ing in just the last week. Compiled from Associated Press reports B y N e dra Pickier The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Bush on Thursday asked Jordan's King Abdullah II to visit Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and leader M ahmoud Palestinian Abbas to help advance the Middle East peace process. "It will be very helpful to have your voice of reason there to talk to both leaders," Bush said after meeting with Abdullah in the Oval Office. The president said Abdullah "graciously agreed" to meet with Sharon and Abbas. Jordan has urged the United States and its diplomatic part­ ners to help resume talks aimed at achieving Palestinian statehood now that Israel has pulled out of the Gaza Strip after a 38-year occupation. Abdullah has said he hopes the international com­ munity would devise a plan to rescue the Palestinian economy from the devastation of decades of mismanagement and conflict with Israel. Sitting next to Bush in the Oval Office, Abdullah thanked Bush for his support for trying to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "I know that you want to find a solution that Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and harmony," Abdullah said. "I hope, if we can help in that respect, that is a great honor for us." On Sept. 16, Sharon met with w w w .dailytexanonline.com W ire Editor: Rachel Bilardi Phone: (5 12 )23 2-22 15 WORLD BRIEFS M ost influential Shiite cleric backs constitution BAGHDAD, Iraq — The coun­ try's m ost powerful Shiite cleric endorsed the draft constitution Thursday, rejecting opposition voiced by two popular leaders of Iraq's majority sect and underlining a rift also on display in anti-British violence in the southern city of Basra. Two officials in the Shiite Muslim hierarchy in Najaf said Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called senior aides together and told them to promote a "yes" vote am ong the faithful during the Oct. 15 national referendum on the constitution. The officials refused to be identi­ fied because they are not autho­ rized to speak for al-Sistani, w ho only issues statements through his office and makes no public appear­ ances. Iraq's minority Sunni Arabs, w ho lost power and privilege with the fall of Saddam Hussein in the U.S.- led invasion, are deeply opposed to the constitution. They form the bulk of the country's violent insur­ gency and have stepped up attacks on Shiites in advance of the vote. Airstrikes, house searches essential, U.S. general says BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Responding to complaints by Afghanistan's president, a top U.S. general said Thursday that airstrikes have been decisive against insur­ gents and that American troops usually search hom es jointly with Afghan soldiers. Maj. Gen. Jason Kamiya, the U.S.-led coalition's operational com ­ mander, said American forces need air power as they expect to be bat­ tling Taliban rebels well into next year after fierce fighting that killed more than 1,200 people in the six m onths before Sunday's election. President Bush expressed similar sentiments in Washington, saying the 18,000 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan have not finished the mission that began with the ouster of the Taliban regime in late 2001. "There are still terrorists w ho seek to overthrow the you ng govern­ ment," he said. Their com m ents appeared at odds with President Hamid Karzai, w ho on Tuesday questioned the need for major military operations by foreign troops, saying his g ov­ ernment did not think a "serious terrorist challenge" remained. He also said airstrikes were no longer effective. Karzai said the U.S.-led coalition should focus "on where terrorists are trained, on their b ases"— a veiled reference to support that Afghan militants allegedly get in neighboring Pakistan. Compiled from Associated Press reports Cactus Yearbook Underclassmen can just walk in for your class photo beginning Monday, Oct. 3rd. Graduating Seniors also wanting cap and gown photos must call for an appointment: 471-9190 Texas Student Media (CMC), 25th and Whitis Ave., Room 3.302 9 a.m. - 1 p.m., 2 - 5 p.m. Ron Edm onds | Associated Press executive, Gerald Grinstein, said President B u sh m eets with Jordan's K in g A b d u lla h II on Thursday, in the Oval Office of the W hite House. talks Abdullah, in their first months and a further sign of warming relations between the Jewish state and the Arab world after Israel's Gaza withdrawal. The meeting was on the sidelines of the U.N. summit marking the world body's 60th anniversary. Earlier this week, Israel's for­ eign m inister called on Arab states to open formal relations w ith his country, but the Arabs show ed continued signs of divi­ sion over w hether and how far to go beyond symbolic gestures to reward Israel for its w ith­ drawal. The Arab League still hasn 't set a date for a sum m it to discuss the Gaza w ithdraw al or Iraq, apparently due to lack of consensus on the issues. Expected Vatican ban on gay priests roils American church B y R a c h e l Zoll The Associated Press Word that a soon-to-be-released Vatican document will signal homosexuals are unwelcome in Roman Catholic seminaries even if they are celibate has devastated gay clergy — and raised doubts among conservatives about wheth­ er an outright ban can be enforced. A Vatican official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the document has not been released, said Thursday that the upcoming from the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education wül reaffirm the church's belief that homosexu­ als should not be ordained. "instruction" In recent decades, Vatican offi­ cials have stated several times that gays should not become priests because their sexual orientation is "intrinsically disordered" and makes them unsuitable for min­ istry. The latest document is scheduled to be distributed within weeks, just as an evaluation of all 229 American seminaries gets under way under the direction of the same Vatican agency developing the seminary statement. The review, called an Apostolic Visitation, was ordered by Pope John Paul II in response to the U.S. clergy sex-abuse crisis which erupted in 2002. Among the questions the evaluators will ask is whether "there is evidence of homosexuality in the seminary," according to the agency's guide for the inspections. The Rev. Thomas Krenik, who taught for 10 years in St. Paul Seminary in Minnesota and wrote the guidebook "Formation for Priestly Celibacy," worries that a blanket ban on gay priest-candidates will re-create the very conditions the Vatican wants to eradicate. "For some men who happened to be homosexually oriented, they would go further in the closet," Kreruk said. "That would be my fear, that this could become an even worse problem." A gay American priest, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared reprisals from church leaders, said he and other gay clergy and seminarians felt "absolute horror" when they heard about the anticipated ban. "I've spoken to gay priests who feel demoralized. I've heard straight priests say that they're it. I've heard embarrassed by priests both straight and gay seri­ ously considering leaving," he said. "They couldn't believe that after centuries of either explicit or implicit welcoming of celibate gay clergy that the church would turn its back on them." James Hitchcock, a church his­ torian at St. Louis University and conservative commentator on con­ temporary Catholicism, said he thinks the ban is necessary consid­ ering that a study the U.S. bishops commissioned from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice found most of the alleged abuse victims since 1950 were adolescent boys. But he conceded the policy will be difficult to enforce, since candi­ dates for the priesthood can hide their sexual orientation. He's also concerned that gays truly dedi­ cated to remaining celibate will be unfairly excluded. "In theory, one might say judge each case on its individual mer­ its, but some doubt whether it would be done in a proper way," Hitchcock said. "There Isn't going to be an easy solution. I think if you have a policy statement that homo­ sexuals ought not to be studying for the priesthood at least it gives seminaries a way to act." Estimates of the number of gay seminarians and priests vary from 25 percent to 50 percent out of about 42,500 priests in the United States. Whatever the percent­ age, many Catholics are worried that the priesthood is becoming a homosexual profession. As the abuse crisis intensified, church officials discussed their concerns more openly and more urgently, even though experts on sex offend­ ers said that homosexuals were no more likely than heterosexuals to abuse children. Yearbook Photo Studio begins October 3rd! Student Solutions Ufa W e have the perfect financial solution for students just like you. * • Free Internet Banking, custom checks and eStatements e C h eckin g • No monthly service fee E d u cation Loans • Zero Fee Stafford Loans • Low Rate MasterCard Credit Card Credit Cards Convenience • Branches 10 Austin Area locations including two University branches ATMs Over 190 ATM locations in Central Texas including 30 UT campus area locations National Shared Branch Network Over 1,700 locations across the U.S. 4A Friday, Septem ber 23, 2005 O p in io n T h e D a i l y T e x a n Editor: AJ. Bauer Phon e: (512) 232-2212 E-m ail: editor@ dailytexanonline.com A ssociate Editors: Nikki Buskey Ashley Eldridge Daniel K. Lai Evolution debate hurting science By Elliott a n d Ryan A sh Daily Texan Colum nists In August, the Kansas Board of Education gave preliminary approval to a policy that would require the state's science teach­ ers to present the doctrine of intelligent design alongside the theory of evolution. That same month, President Bush endorsed teaching intelligent design/ "so people can understand what the debate is about." The so-called "debate" continues next week when Pennsylvania's Dover Area School District will defend its policy of requiring biology to mention intelligent design in a civil suit brought against it by eight Dover families. teachers To best understand the ludi­ crousness of this "debate," it is important to consider the respective lines of reasoning followed by proponents of evo­ lution and proponents of intel­ ligent design. The Darwinian conception of evolution and natural selec­ tion stands on solid scientific foundations. To begin with, Darwin observed that all organ­ ism s produce far more offspring than can survive to adulthood, meaning that many will die before reproducing. Secondly, an organism's traits can have many variations, and these variations pass on from parent to offspring. Since these varying traits can influence an organism 's ability to survive, some will have an advantage in reaching reproductive maturity. Thus, traits that grant the o r g a n is m a r e p r o d u c tiv e advantage are more likely to be passed on to subsequent gen­ erations of the organism. This phenomenon drives speciation, since subtle changes in environ­ ment can make different traits advantageous. Modem scientific studies in biology and paleontology have irrefutably confirmed Darwin's logic. The discovery of genetic muta­ tion explicates the mechanism by which trait variations devel­ op. Additionally, geologists and cosmologists have confirmed that life has had 3.5 billion years to evolve, a time span beyond human comprehension but long enough for mutations to pro­ duce the multifarious forms of life on our planet. Every fossil discovered by paleontologists thus far — the entire foss i 1 record— fully agrees with and hence, confirms the evolution process. Furthermore, the few gaps remaining in our knowledge of evolution do not comprise evidence against it, but rather provide opportuni­ ties for further study. Simply put, there is no room for ques­ tioning evolution's status as sci­ entific truth. Meanwhile, intelligent design advocates want science teachers to spend class time criticizing GALLERY evolution. Intelligent design, or ID, opposes evolution on the grounds that life is too complex to have developed from a series of random mutations. Michael Behe, a leader in the Intelligence Design movement, points to "irreducibly complex" biological systems as evidence refuting evolution. He defines irreducible complexity as "a sin­ gle system which is composed of several interacting parts, and where the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to cease functioning." The human eye constitutes one of these systems, as the removal of one of the many components of the organ causes it to cease functioning. Thus, the ID argument goes, the human eye could not have developed randomly, and some intelligent force must have designed it. The implication, of course, is that God is the origin of species, not evolution and natural selection. In spite of the concept of irre­ ducible complexity, the ID argu­ ment does not withstand rational criticism. The evolutionist may simply respond that an irreduc­ ibly complex organ could evolve through many non-functioning incarnations before arriving at a functioning one. Empirical studies have con­ firmed this phenomenon: In the case of the human eye, scientists have observed organisms that possess intermediate versions of the eye at various levels of development and function. Critics of evolution have only the Bible to support their back­ ward views. Evolutionists, on the other hand, have centuries of painstaking research by thou­ sands of humanity's most intel­ ligent individuals. In other words, to reject evo­ lution is to place more trust in a millennia-old document writ­ ten by unknown authors than in all scientific knowledge hence acquired by mankind. Every authoritative voice that calls evolution into question impairs the progress of human­ ity. By debasing one of science's broadly accepted tenets, anti­ evolutionists debase science as a whole. A robust scientific estab­ lishm ent the sup­ requires port of the nation and, as it stands today, America is falling behind. Biologists face daunt­ ing legal obstacles in pursuing their most promising line of research, stem cells. The prosperity of our nation is founded on scientific discov­ ery. If we do not act now, "real­ ity-based" nations will assume our role as a technological and economic hegemon. We must end the debate on evolution immediately and embrace our humble, primordial origins. Elliot Is a Plan II government and philosophy senior. Ryan is a Plan II psychology and biology senior. sWf 7 Umverst+y PoeSidenl, Dean oí Students, Vol.ce Ch.ei and VP Student move on... . EDITOR'S NOTE O p in io n s expressed in The Daily Texan are those of the editor, the Editorial Board or writer of the article. They are not necessarily those of the UT administration, the Board of Regents or the Texas Student Publications Board of O p eratin g Trustees. AND COUNTING... SUBMIT A COLUMN New York Times reporter Judith Miller has been in prison for 80days. Please e-m ail your colum n to editor@dailytexanonline.com. Colum ns must be fewer than 600 words. Your article should be a strong argum ent about an issue in the news, not a reply to so m e­ thing that appeared in the Texan. The Texan reserves the right to edit all colum ns for brevity, clar­ ity and liability. Bogus tax cuts stifle relief By C hris Jones Daily Texan Columnist to tend George W. Bush isn't a great speaker under the best of cir­ cumstances. People find him inspirational only when they're already behind whatever course of action he's pushing; the rest of the time they find him pro­ foundly disappointing, or ade­ quate at best. However, I did find Bush's speech from New Orleans last week relatively adequate. This was no "d ay that will live in infam y" speech, but we did get a pretty good idea of what Bush plans to do with New Orleans: Throw gobs of money at it. More importantly, Bush sug­ gests that small businesses and home ownership will be impor­ tant elements of the rebuilding. Given that a huge amount of the poverty in New Orleans did come from a lower class per­ petually cut off from any kind of opportunity or genuine owner­ ship, it's entirely possible that the new New Orleans could be a vast socioeconomic improve­ ment on the old. That said, one thing that imme­ diately stood out in the aftermath of Bush's speech was his refusal to consider raising taxes to pay for Katrina recovery. There are undoubtedly many reasons why Bush would prefer not to raise taxes. Perhaps he blames his father's failure to be reelected on his famous "no new taxes" reversal, or perhaps he THE FIRING LINE The law applies to everyone I was quite interested in the col­ umn yesterday by Jordan Buckley entitled "Holding Minutemen accountable." I guess I would fall into the category he mentioned as'border security enthusiasts,' and perhaps also into the'armed extremists'group too. Subscribing to the laws of our country which prohibit entry without proper documents and believing in the right to protea my farm, home, family and property from criminals, plants me squarely in the middle of these groups. I guess, not understanding why being Hispanic excludes them from following the same laws as me, would plant me in the'immigrant hate groups' also. I can only assume 'immigrant' is a euphemism for illegal alien. The Hispanic groups in the article seem to support breaking the law by supporting illegal entry and then turn around and plead for some sort of special right to do so by speak­ ing of human rights. What human rights? The human rights viola­ tions are in Mexico and other Latin American countries for failing their own people. When our government fails to respond to citizens' petition for redress of grievances'and instead chooses to pander to a politically correa' philosophy that certain races are not required to follow the law and have special privileges based on that philosophy rather than our country's law, what option is there but to seek other solutions? Accountability is a requisite for dignity and respea. How about some accountability from the groups that support race based According to the supply-side theory, taxes taken by the government drive down private investment, which in turn drives down economic growth. feels beholden to staunch sup­ porters such as Grover "drow n governm ent the bathtu b" in Norquist. W hat's most likely, however, is that Bush and his supporters refuse to raise taxes due to the discredited theory of supply- side economics. According to supply-side the­ ory, taxes taken by the govern­ ment drive down private invest­ ment, which in turn drives down econom ic growth. By cutting taxes, especially marginal rates on high earners, more money stays in the hands of private citizens, who in turn invest in new businesses, which create new jobs, which in turn creates more tax revenue than would have been received by higher taxes in the first place. Many supporters of the Bush administration have even pushed the theory that growth derived from tax cuts will ultimately be large enough to overcome the sizable deficits the Bush tax cuts have generated. Unfortunately, reality doesn't work that way. One of the m ost com m on piec­ es of evidence cited in favor of supply-side theory is the claim that federal tax receipts — the total amount of money the government receives in taxes — more than doubled under the administra­ tion of Ronald Reagan, another famous tax-cutter. However, this "fa ct" doesn't really stand up to scrutiny: W hile taxes were cut under Reagan, they were also raised m ultiple tim es in the years following, largely in response to the ballooning defi­ cits of the 1980s. Furthermore, once federal tax receipts are adjusted for infla­ tion and population growth, tax receipts only grew an anemic 18 percent per person between 1980 and 1989. In com parison, the 1970s saw a per-capita growth in tax receipts of 25 percent, and the 1990s saw a whopping per- capita growth of 40 percent in tax receipts. Also damning is the painful and persistent legacy of national debt racked up through supply- side econom ics. Seven percent of the 2004 U.S. federal budget — approximately $160 billion — was spent on interest payments on the debt, and that number will only increase the longer we refuse to balance the budget. There probably is some small grain of truth in supply-side eco­ nomics. It does seem intuitively rea­ sonable that when people have more money, they spend more money, which causes the econ­ omy to grow. Economic growth has also shown noticeable spikes during fiscal quarters when the government has sent out fiscal "rebate" checks. But upper incom e tax cuts today, when interest rates are low and venture historically capital goes begging in search of good ideas, are foolish. In comparison to the 7 percent of tax payment that goes towards comparatively worthless inter­ est payments, no amount of tax cutting by the Bush administra­ tion has a chance of growing the country out of debt. In the final analysis, we get out of the government what we put into it. During fat times, many people question if much government >pending is truly needed, and at all times, there's always spending that should be cut back on. But to say that Americans should not be taxed to build their largest port city — a key piece of national infra­ structure and an irreplaceable part of the country's econom y — is nonsense. school Our "C EO president" should remember back to some basic business accou nting classes and realize that a bal­ anced budget is ultimately a bet­ ter measure of an organization's soundness than a million speech­ es, good, bad or mediocre. Jones is an electrical and computer engineering graduate student. privilege and breaking American law. Supporting this thinking only makes 'racists'of more and more Americans of all ethnic backgrounds who believe in equality under the law. M onte H. Sm ith U T staff NASA aids technology Mr. Tran, your article regarding moon landings was seriously inad­ equate with the faas. First of all, NASA does plan to use the concept regarding rocket con­ figuration but not the same technol­ ogy. Do you seriously believe they are going to use the same flight comput­ ers that are no more powerful than a scientific calculator in this modern age of super computers? Second, the tax-paying citizens received a lot more than rocks and piaures. The technologies developed from the money spent for the space program are now seen regularly in magnetic resonance imaging systems, dialysis machines, insulin pumps, pace makers, water purification tech­ nologies, elearic car technologies (Google Search: NASA spinoffs). However, the most important benefit from the space program is not in the technologies, but is in the inspiration of every young child to study math and science. I was one of these kids. These technologies have all improved the quality of life in some way. So next time, you start to doubt the public benefits of the space program and decide to write an article, do yourself a favor and do a Google search and get the fa a s straight. Maybe during that search you will also discover all of the money wasted by the government each year through pork spending and misman­ agement, and you will find a 10-15 year plan for paying for the disasters. That calculation can be done using an Apollo age computer! Stephen Yeldell Aerospace engineering graduate student Minutemen aren't welcome Intended political messages are precious, but Tony McDonald strategi­ cally omits certain faas about the Minutemen. They are an "observation group" with a "non-confrontation pol­ icy" unless they happen to be forcibly detaining illegal immigrants at the time. They are "much like a neighbor­ hood watch program" except for your local neighborhood patrol generally doesn't pack sawed-off shotguns "for self-proteaion."They a a "within the confines of the law" except for when they're impersonating federal agents and the military. And the effort to 'keep racists out of their ranks" is more than a little overshadowed by their founders, xenophobic speeches. Whatever the Minutemen's "message," detaining illegal immigrants is ille­ gal. So the ACLU isn't in the least bit "downplaying the crime that plagues our border regions." We're out there getting it on tape. Chris Bums writes that the ACLU has "nothing yet to report" Since I previously mentioned that we document to deter violence, I'd like to thank Mr. Burns for noting one measure of our success. Eighth Amendment proteaions illustrate that the distinaion he makes between "human" and “legal” rights is irrelevant, and since his initial Firing Line erroneously asserted that illegal immigrants have "no legal rights," pointing to some vague and mean­ ingless lack of "secure" constitutional protections is just a shoddy attempt at covering his ass. Illegal immigration is a problem, and the Minutemen don't have the answer. To quote a favorite of the Young Conservatives of Texas, Donald Rumsfeld, "Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence." Perhaps that's why they picketed our legal observer training? C andice Lewis Students for the ACLU Classics a n d history senior ON THE WEB Additional Firing Lines were posted today on the W eb site at www.dailytexanonline.com . SUBMIT A FIRING LINE Please e-mail your Firing Lines to firingline@dailytexanonline. com. Letters must be fewer than 300 words and should include your major and classification. The Texan reserves the right to edit all letters for brevity, clarity and liability. www.dailytexanonline.com Features Editor: Rachel Pearson E-mail: features@dailytexanonline.com Phone: (512) 471-8616 Focus T h e D a i l y T e x a n 5A Friday, Septem ber 23, 2005 Moonlight Towers guide Austin through 110 years of history Local landmarks, now numbering 17, have played role in controversies, films By Neal Tesseyman Daily Texan Staff extend outward, each supporting a lamp and reflector. switch for all of the towers in case of an attack. The history of the Moon Towers is the history of Austin. The towers were built in an era of innovation, and they've been moved, shortened, re-built, and repaired over the years. The towers are outdated now and more expensive than regular street lights, but Austin keeps them lit up anyway. They've seen the city through presidents from Grover Cleveland to George W. Bush, through world wars and the discovery of oil in Texas, through the birth of the automo­ bile and the end of prohibition, through the extension of voting rights to women and minorities and the end of affirma­ tive action. Today, only 17 of the 31 original tow­ ers remain, but they continue to be lit 365 nights a year. In May 1890, citizens voted to issue $1.4 million in bonds for the city's first power and lighting system as city organizers began developing plans for the growing town. The lighting of the original towers on May 6, 1895 coincided with the first operation of the city power plant and the first citywide use of electricity. The Center for American History at the LBJ Library has archived Austin's original documents and newspaper arti­ cles, including a May 4, 1895, report by the Austin American-Statesman: "Some four years ago the citizens of Austin con­ ceived the scheme of building a dam and having their own water and light sys­ tem. ... Several weeks ago the water sys­ tem was started, and all Austin rejoiced, and they had good cause to do so. Last night, however, was the gala event in the history of Austin's triumph." The gala event, of course, was the lighting of the moon towers. The towers went into full operation on May 6, their official birthday, providing the entire city with artificial light for the first time. Thirty-one light towers wouldn't cover Austin today, but 1895 knew a much different town. The Austin population was 17,000 in 1895, and the University enrolled only 335 students. The dam deal The Granite Dam was built on the Colorado River to provide power for Austin's new citywide lighting system. When the dam was completed in 1893, it was the largest of its type in the world. Located near the current site of the Tom Miller Dam, separating Lake Austin and Town Lake, the Granite Dam attracted tourists until it broke in 1900. At the time, Austinites preferred the tower lighting system over traditional street lights. "Not only were tower lights common when Austin's were installed, but they were more practical in that day of unpaved streets and hilly, unde­ veloped areas," wrote the San Antonio Express-News. The towers were also guaranteed by the designers to be bright enough that a person could read his or her pocket watch within 3,000 feet of a tower on the "darkest of nights." Austin hired Fort Wayne Electric Company to construct the light tow­ ers for $113,500. Built from cast and wrought iron, the triangular-shaped towers are 150 feet tall and are support­ ed by a system of guide wires. They are mounted on smooth 15-foot steel poles to discourage climbers, bringing the iron behemoths to 165 feet. On top, six arms Horse and buggy maintenance Each tower originally had a one-per­ son service elevator inside, which was operated by cable. Eventually that was replaced by a simple ladder, and these days tower servicemen use a crane lift. When the towers operated using carbon lamps, the filaments had to be trimmed and replaced every day by the tower technician, who went from tower to tower on a horse and buggy. In 1923, the carbon lamps were replaced with oversized incandescent bulbs that required less maintenance. These bulbs were used until Mayor Tom Miller replaced them on May 6,1936, to coincide with the 41st anniversary of the towers. The new mercury vapor lights emitted a bluish "moonlight" cast like that of the original carbon lamps, and today's mer­ cury vapor lights only have to be replaced once every two to three years. Today, maintenance is performed on an as-needed basis, said Carlos Cordova, spokesman for the Austin Energy Department. The Department's "Illumination Division" handles main­ tenance for the towers as well as all other street lights, and conducts quar­ terly inspections of each tower. If three or more lights are out on any single tower, Cordova said, it gets scheduled for maintenance. "Due to the height of the Moonlight Towers, we use a large Condor lift that requires us to close off the street we are working on," Cordova added. When Austin erected the tower sys­ tem, Detroit, Mich., was believed to have been the only other city in America with similar lighting. By the late 1930s, Detroit had abandoned its tower lighting sys­ tem, and the San Antonio Express-News wrote in 1937 that the Moonlight Towers "attract more attention than any other single feature in Austin." Rumors dispelled While advertising value kept the towers aloft in 1937, sentimental value has kept them alive since then and has earned them the affectionate title of the "Moonlight Towers." When the electric department tried to take down one of the towers in 1964 without assuring immediate relocation, hundreds of citi­ zens signed a petition demanding that the city council immediately reestablish the tower in its original area. Sentiments were quite different before construction of the towers, when many people predicted the 24-hour light would cause severe overgrowth of gardens and lawns. Farmers feared that giant com and beans would be impossible to harvest and that homeowners would have to chop their grass with an axe. Optimists, on the other hand, claimed that chickens would lay eggs 24 hours a day. People soon realized that the artificial moonlight had no effect on plants or animals. In 1958, superintendent Tom Turner, of the electric distribution department, was asked if there were any plans to tear down the towers. Turner laughingly replied that the town would "stage a revolt" if that were attempted. The most serious threat of removal came in 1942 as World War II gripped America and the ability of a town to "blackout" all of its lights was considered a crucial defense. The city installed a central "blackout" Rumor has it the towers were arranged across the city in the shape of a star. In fact, they were just put where they were needed, and they don't form a star. The towers became official state land­ marks in April 1970, and were placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 12,1976. Historical markers have also been placed on the towers by the city of Austin. Over the years, the 31 original tow­ ers have dwindled down to 17 due to inclement weather, traffic accidents and decay. Because of construction and street widening, several of the towers have been relocated within the same area and some have been moved entirely. Such is the case with the tower in Zilker Park, which was moved from Eighth and Brazos streets. Now, each December it is lit with more than 3,000 colored bulbs to become the "world's largest Christmas tree." Dazed and confused The Moonlight Towers even found their way into Austin film director Richard Linklater's 1993 film, "Dazed and Confused." A Moon Tower appears in in several scenes, including one which Matthew McConaughey gets drunk in Zilker Park under the lights of the tower. While climbing to the top, McConaughey's comrades tell the story of a boy who fell from the tower to scare their freshmen accomplices. The story was not completely mis­ guided. 11-year-old James Fowler found himself dazed and confused on June 4, 1930, after falling from the top of a tower. On the last day of school, James climbed on a bet from his friends, but upon reaching the summit, he slipped and plummeted to the earth. He bounced along the inside of the tower, where sup­ port wires broke his fall. He landed on the platform 15 feet from the ground. Amazingly, Fowler suffered no bro­ ken bones; he was in a coma for 9 days and received 187 stitches. On Jan. 29, 1964, The Daily Texan reported that a crazed father had climbed a tower with his infant son in his arms. The man claimed he would jump if any­ one came up after him, but a Catholic priest succeeded in climbing the tower and talking him down. The towers today The quality of iron in 1895 was not strong enough for the towers to stand more than 100 years without restora­ tions. In 1985, voters approved $850,000 to give the towers a face lift that includ­ ed straightening the bends, tightening guide wires and painting the towers. This was only a temporary fix, how­ ever, and in 1993 the city began a $1.3 million project to completely disassem­ ble and restore each tower. The comple­ tion of that overhaul coincided with the 100-year anniversary of the Moonlight Towers, which was celebrated with three days of festivities and a birthday party on May 6,1995. Austin Energy Department's Cordova said that only four of the 17 towers still standing are at the original height of 165 feet. Cordova said that bits and pieces of the towers have been removed and used as replacements for damaged portions of other towers. The other 13 towers, including the one at Zilker park, are now only 150 feet tall. The fam ous M oon light Towers are a tourist draw and a topic of conversation for Austinites. Photos by Brian Ray | Daily Texan Staff J £ r Moon Tower State Capitol UT Campus INTERSTATE Assistant to Ansel Adams to share insights on photographer Graphic by Shaun Stewart | Daily Texan Staff Alinder followed Adams as executive assistant, biographer By K im b e rly Garza Daily Texan Staff _____ Mary Street Alinder walked quiet­ ly through the Ansel Adams photog­ raphy exhibit at the Harry Ransom Center Thursday morning, glancing at each photo, but never pausing to admire the late artist's work. "I certainly know all of these, she said. Alinder, who worked as Adams executive assistant and biographer from 1979 until his death in 1984, will be giving a lecture at the Harry Ransom Center torught on the late photographer. The event is open to the public but seats are limited. Adams has been praised as a great American artist for his landscapes and portraits, particularly for his black-and-white work. The Ransom Center will feature the exhibition of his photographs until Jan. 1,2006. Alinder said her duties con­ sisted mostly of directing Adams' personal staff, helping him write his biography and following him wherever he went. A typical day in Adams' employ, she said, consisted of Adams spending most of his time in the darkroom. "He didn't like to have anybody in there with him," Alinder said. "He always liked to do it himself." As she wandered through the exhibit, Alinder said her lecture would deal with Adams' life and his path to becoming a photography legend. During the talk, she plans to share first exposures of some of his most famous photos and a rare recording of him performing Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" with an audience. She said Adams' theory of becom­ ing a good photographer was one he learned while studying to be a con­ cert pianist: practice makes perfect. In describing the man behind the camera, Alinder called him a "gener­ ous spirit" who would invite anyone who asked to join him for a drink at his house. "He was very open. If you'd call on the phone, he'd talk to you as long as you wanted to talk," Alinder said. Adams had a preference for a weak vodka martini on the rocks, Alinder added with a smile. "He had a special recipe — he kept lemon peel marinated in ver­ mouth," she said. Alinder stopped to gaze at Adams' print "Rose and Driftwood," calling it one of her favorites. She pointed out the intricate detail of the photo, from the varying shadows of the rose petals to the swirling pattern of the wood. "This is one of my favorites," she said. "It has so many of the hall­ marks of what makes Ansel's work great." She said despite all his fame, Adams never thought he was any­ thing special. "He would want us all to recog­ nize our own humanity," Alinder said. "He felt that every person was bom with a spafk of creativity." Alinder relayed one of her favor­ ite stories about Adams, when he told his mother he wanted to be a photographer. "[His mother] said, 'But Ansel, photography can't express the human soul.' And Ansel replied, 'But perhaps, Mother, the photog­ rapher can,"' Alinder said. "I've always loved that." M ary Street Alinder, w ho w ill speak at the Harry Ransom Center, served as executive assistant and biographer to Ansel Adams. Joe Buglewicz D a ily Texan Staff 6 A Friday, September 23, 2005 www.dailytexanonline.com University Editor: Kristi Hsu Phone: (512) 232-2206 T h e D a i l y T e x a n University takes precautions for stormy weather VP for campus safety: 7 think the campus is in pretty good shape’ By M eghan Young Daily Texan Staff The University is preparing for the worst a s Hurricane Rita m oves through the Gulf, expect­ ing high velocity winds and pos­ sible flash flooding from heavy rain. Beginning at 2 p.m. today, stu­ dents and staff can park in the San Antonio, Twenty-Seventh Street and Manor garages free of charge as long as they remove their cars before M onday at 8 a.m . A ccording to Parking and Transportation Services, if the garages fill up, sign s will be posted around cam pus with more information about where to park. Bob Harkins, associate vice safety for cam pu s president and security, recom mends that people not park their cars on San Jacinto Boulevard, which is likely to flood if Waller Creek waters rise above the banks. Maintenance crews from the physical plant have been "pick­ ing up the cam pu s," H arkins said. They have been securing or m oving indoors anything that could becom e wind borne, such as trash cans, tables and chairs, as well as cleaning off the roofs of buildings. Workers from the many con­ struction sites on cam pus will also secure any debris. The construc­ tion cranes are built to sustain w inds up to 100 mph. Physical plant workers are also checking drains, vents and pum ps. "There's an awful lot of activ­ ity going on that m ay not be vis­ ible to the normal student w alk­ ing around," H arkins said. H arkins said the preparations should be complete by Saturday morning. The Division of H ousing and Food Serv ices is taking addition­ al steps to care for the roughly 6,800 students living on cam pus. "We're planning for a worst- case said D oug Garrard, associate director of resident life. "The first priority for our staff is the safety of our students." scen ario," DHFS has been stocking up on plyw ood, sandbags, water and non-perishable food that can be prepared without power. G arrard said they obtained two 5,000-watt generators to aid in vacuum ing water in case of flooding. Dorm s on the south side of cam pus, such as Jester, Moore-Hill and San Jacinto, have back-up power supplied by the city. Dorms on the north side, such as Kinsolving, Sim kins and the honors dorm s, have genera­ tors which pow er em ergency lights and card-access doors. In the event of a total power outage, these doors default to unlocked and residence hall staff would physically monitor the doors. While they are not boarding up w indow s in advance, Garrard said they m ay tape w indow s to minimize shattering during the storm. Garrard said he is particular­ ly worried about Jester, which houses more than 3,000 students. He said that in case of shelter-in- place, when one needs to go to a sm all, interior room with no win­ dow s, all residents will be moved to the fifth floor or below. DHFS is keeping som e of its staff on cam pus during the week­ end since flooding and power outages m ay make it hard for them to get to cam pus. Food services alw ay s has a tw o-day sup ply of food on hand and began ordering extra water and non-perishable foods Tuesday from their food whole­ saler. They currently have 30,000 liters of water. Cafeterias will be open this weekend even during possible power outages. If the power goes out, food services m ay cook perishables on grills, in addition to serving food that doesn't require cooking, such as sandw iches. Garrard said they w ould try to keep the regular food service schedule over the weekend. DH FS w an ts to encourage residents to stay in their dorm during the storm and som e resi­ dent assistan ts have organized activities. "We are planning a m ovie night, and we have a surplus of food and w ater bottles," said pre-public relations sophom ore Brittney Cochran, a resident assistant in San Jacinto dorm i­ tory. Cochran said her parents and 15-year-old sister are com ing to stay in her 13-by-l3-foot room during the storm. DH FS has also relaxed the rules for visitors, allow ing resi­ dents to house im m ediate fam ­ ily in their room s and check out extra m attresses for these guests. H arkins said the University is How to stay safe •Stock up on water and non-perish­ able food items that don't require cooking. •Fill prescriptions in advance and have basic first-aid supplies. •Have a flashlight and extra batteries. Do not use open flames for light. •If power is lost, turn off major appli­ ances to avoid a power surge when power returns. •Stay away from windows, skylights and glass doors if there are strong winds. •Stay in your home. Source: Division o f Housing and Food Services fortunate in having a few days to prepare for the im pact of the storm. "I think the cam pus is in pret­ ty good shape," H arkins said. "I think we'll continue to be in pretty good shape." Enrollment decreases, freshman class more racially diverse By Ingrid Norton Daily Texan Staff Statistics released Wednesday show an overall decrease in UT enrollment and an increase in racial diversity for fall 2005. Including the 458 students displaced by Katrina, the student population decreased in enrollment from last fall's 50,377 to 49,791. This the University's goal of reducing enrollment to 48,000, according to the admissions office. The goal w as set based on the recommenda­ tions of last year's Task Force on Enrollment Strategy. line with in is One of the goals in the strategy was for the University to reduce the student-to-faculty ratio by lowering student enrollment and hiring more faculty. If the current freshman class size of 6,900 is main­ tained, the goal will be reached in the next five years. Over the past five years, the University has hired 150 new faculty members and aims to double the number in coming years. "We're not going to change the nature of the institution," said UT President Larry Faulkner, who will leave the University in March. "What the 48,000 number means is that more students are competitive for spots in the University." Diversity is another goal of the University. The new statistics show an increase of minority representa­ tion in the freshman class. Out of the 6,938 students in this year's freshman class, 353 are black and 1,248 are Hispanic; last spring the University was ranked No. 5 nationwide in Hispanic student enrollment by Diversity m aga­ zine. White freshman enrollment dropped by 1.9 percent. Faulkner noted that black enrollment has doubled since when he started out as president in 1998, but he feeLs that the University "still has a long way to go." Since the ban of affirmative action and the advent of the top 10 percent rule, a "holistic" review process was developed for those not admitted with the top 10 per­ cent. The process takes into account factors such as essays, work expe­ rience and socioeconomic status. Beginning this fall race and ethnic­ ity have been included. Tiffany Curtis, a social work senior and member of the Black Student Alliance, said that race and influence socioeconomic status admissions decisions whether or not they are acknowledged. "Admissions and the general UT community need to make more of an effort in terms of recruitment of minorities," she said. The top 10 percent rule accounts for 69 percent of this year's freshman class. Currently, the University is appealing to the Legislature to put a cap on top 10 percent admissions at no more than 60 percent of the incoming class, the admissions office said. Faulkner said he believes the University m ust be open to many factors, but he maintains that race-sensitive adm issions are necessary and effective. Currently under a more subjective, compre­ hensive review, background and personal achievement are given slightly more weight than class rank. In order to increase diver­ sity under the current system , the University is attempting to recruit from a wider base, accord­ ing to adm issions. The main recruitment em phasis is on get­ ting students from high schools that haven't sent students to UT- Austin in the past. Between 1996 and last year, the number of Texas schools represented in the Enter­ ing freshman class went up by 98 schools. Faulkner stressed that this has been the main way of building minority representation on campus. He said he believes it is extremely important to foster minority leadership now. "Black and Hispanic students will represent the majority of the population of Texas in com­ ing years," Faulkner said. "I am proud that we are still adhering to the ideals of a public institu­ tion. ... I hope that my successor will gain an appreciation for how important this University is to the state of Texas." Roll like a rock star to ACL on Capital Metro. Blues Traveler Park and Ride to the Festival from Waterloo Park at 14th & Trinity. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 23-25. Buses begin departing at 10:30 A M each day. Last bus leaves Zilker Park at 10:30 PM each night. Festival Shuttle Parking Starlight 'Dillo Route Monday, September 26,2005 Frank Erwin Center • 1:00 • 6:00pm UT ID Required Discover full-time, part-time, and internship opportunities Shuttle pick-up every 15 minutes at: 21st & Speedway across from the Littlefield Fountain and Eastmall Fountain Circle Drive at San Jacinto & 23rd Ride the Starlight 'Dillo FREE to catch the ACL Shuttle Starlight 'Dillos hours have been extended for Service operates every this event and the route detoured to Congress all stops marked Starlight 'Dillo Avenue: • Friday & Saturday, 10:30 AM - 3 AM Downtown. A great way to get to 6th Street or the Warehouse Distr • Sunday, 10:30 AM - 10:30 PM Festival. From Arboretum-Route 3 From Airport-Route 100 From Highland Mall-Route 15 From North 18 3-Route 383 to Route 1 From S. IH-35 and Oltorf-Route 27 From UT-Routes 1 and 15 View list of employers at: http://careers.ns.utexas.edu/ Bus Service to Shuttles from Hotels and Locations Outside Down tow DJJ A METRO 20 g o l i n e 474.1200 i capmetro.org ¿l C A P I T A L METRO www.da ilytexa n o n I i ne.com State & Local Editor: Ruth Liao C ou rts & Police Editor: Andrew B Tran Phone: (512) 232-2206 L O C A L B R I E F S Local group passes resolution against vigilante groups The Austin Com m ission on Immigrant Affairs unanimously approved anti-vigilante efforts Thursday and committed to sup­ porting a resolution which will "dis- invite"such groups from Austin. The M inutem en are a group of volunteers, usually armed, who patrol the border in order to deter illegal immigrants. The Arizona- based group was the subject of a large Capitol protest Saturday. Yvonne Montejano presented the resolution on behalf of two peace and justice organizations, she said, and hopes to eventually gain approval from the Austin City Council. Montejano, a program associate of American Friends Service Committee, said the Minutemen disrupt the "harmoni­ ous nature" of the city. Four people spoke up in favor of the resolution and no opposition was presented at the meeting. — Kathy Adams Animal center requesting crates for pets of evacuees The City of Austin Town Lake Animal Center has requested dona­ tions of dog crates for pets accom­ panying Hurricane Rita evacuees arriving in the city. Crates are cur­ rently being accepted at the Town Lake Animal Center and the Austin Hum ane Society. The City has asked for as many crates as possible to serve up to 40,000 evacuees the city may host. "The crates are being used to allow us to keep pets as the same locations as their families," said spokesw om an Cecilia Fedorov. Pets will not be kept in the same areas as evacuees, but will be kept on site. The City will return crates upon request, but the approximate date of when that will be possible is still unknown. The Town Lake Animal Center is located at 1156 W. Cesar Chavez St. The Austin H um ane Society is located at 124 W. Anderson Lane. For more information, contact the Office of Emergency Managem ent Information at 974-0699. — Allan Williams 7A Friday, S e p te m b e r 23, 2 0 0 5 Last evacuees leave convention center T h e D a i l y T e x a n By C ath e rin e S to n e Daily Texan Staff The fewer than 100 Katrina the Austin in evacu ees still C onvention Center will be expected to leave by the end of the day today. Evacuees have been working one-on-one with social workers to help find hous­ ing in Austin. The Red Cross provided vouchers good for one m onth's rent, and the Federal Emergency M anagement Agency, in partner­ ship with the city, offered six m onths of rental assistance. The convention center hosted a hous­ ing fair last week w ith 30 hous­ ing com plexes throughout the city discussing housing opportu­ nities with evacuees. M ost housing and ap art­ m ent com plexes waived the first m onth's rent, application fees and security deposits, but eligibility requirem ents have not been com prom ised, said Julie Beggs, spokesw om an for N eighborhood H ousing and Com m unity Development with the city of Austin. Assistant City M anager Rudy Garza said all evacuees will be provided adequate housing. "P eople w ill not be on the streets. T h at's just som ething that's not going to happen," he said. The city has spent approxi­ mately $4 million in direct costs on Katrina evacuees and expects to be reimbursed by the federal government, Garza said. Garza said any excess dona­ tions are being given to local non-profits such as Goodwill and the Salvation Army. "Th ey will definitely be used by those in need ," he said. Evacuee A lbert D. Alford Colem an said he appreciated everything the city of Austin has done for the people of New Orleans. "I would like to say thank you from the bottom of our hearts," Coleman said. "I never knew that people could be that warm. I feel like you all would do it with or w ithout the storm ." Charlene M eggs, a fellow New Orleans evacuee, said she had plenty of tim e to find a place to stay in Austin. "Th ey've done everything for us, and now these people need us ou t," M eggs said. "I think they've been great." Mike B icknell | Daily Texan Staff Karen Martin waits to move from the Austin Convention Center to a local apartment Thursday afternoon. Martin was evacuated from the New Orleans Convention Center by helicopter, flew to Austin, and has stayed here since. She waits with her train of luggage to be moved with her son, Curtis, by volunteers to her new apartment. University close to choosing new police department chief Major Texas highways converted to one-way throughways to accommodate excess traffic By Jim m ie C o llin s Daily Texan Staff The search committee for the new UT Police Department chief has narrowed its selection down to four candidates and reported those choices to the administra­ tion, UT spokeswoman Rhonda Weldon said Thursday. The com ­ mittee, which plans to make a choice by October, is ahead of schedule. Michael Lauderdale, head of the com mittee, said the group reviewed 80 individual applica­ tions for the position, which is currently held by interim chief Terry McM ahon. From there, the committee chose 10 people and conducted phone interviews with them. Committee members' impressions of the candidates over the phone helped them choose four people to report to Pat Clubb, UT vice president for employee and campus services. The committee's standards for the candidates include experience at a large university or an urban area and 15 years of police work, including five years in an upper- level position. "W e've done a lot of work and feel very good about it," Lauderdale said. Former UTPD chief Jeffrey Van Slyke left in March to pursue a chief's position at the University of Mississippi. During his five years as chief, Van Slyke made many changes in the department including the addition of two canine units and the creation of a bike-patrol unit. The next step on the agenda is to schedule interviews with Clubb and key stakeholders including Student Governm ent, Weldon said. The remaining candidates, who haven't been notified of their progress yet, have all held police chief positions at other universi­ ties, she said. After the weekend is over and Hurricane Rita passes, the admin­ istration will begin to put the next steps of the hiring process into full swing, Weldon said. By R o b e rt K le e m a n D aily Texan Staff With Hurricane R ita's point of landfall uncertain, Houston and Galveston residents' vehi­ cles continued to crowd evacu­ ation routes on Thursday, bring­ ing vehicles to a standstill until more lanes were opened in the afternoon. Unlike the situation around Houston, vehicles on Corpus C h risti's freew ays w ere m ov­ ing at the speed limit, said C liff Bost, a spokesm an for Texas Department of Transportation. traffic "T h ere's m ore than [W ednesday], but up around G eorge West at the Interstate 37 and US-59 intersection, road­ ways are not at capacity," he said. On Thursday, roughly 500 cars per hour were departing Victoria via U.S. Highway 59, he said. W hen the National Weather Service dow ngraded Rita to a Category 4 storm Thursday afternoon and projected the eye would make landfall further east in the Beaumont area, Corpus officials lifted a mandatory evac­ uation order that had been put into effect Wednesday evening. Gov. Rick Perry ordered Interstate Highway 45 to be a one-w ay northbound route to alleviate the congestion caused by the departure of Houston residents. TxDO T spokesman Bill Powell called the operation "u nprec­ edented." "T h is is the first time w e've ever done this in the state, so w e don't know a timeline of when the work will be finished," he said. Th e ramp closures, which speed-up traffic, cover an esti­ mated 80-m ile stretch starting in Conroe and ending in Buffalo. O n Interstate Highway 10, all lanes were converted to north­ bound traffic starting in Sealy all the way to Seguin. Traffic was one-w ay on both roads by Tuesday afternoon By early evening Thursday, Powell said vehicles on these two roads were moving "signifi­ cantly faster." He also said tanker trucks were positioned along rest areas of both highways to aid m otor­ ists who had empty gas tanks. The trucks would give each vehicle approximately 5 gallons. U.S. Highway 290, the third evacuation road out of Houston, was not altered. "B ecause of the crossovers, doing what we did with 10 and 45 was not feasible," he said. "290 is our main route for emergency vehicles to get into Houston and will continue to be after the storm hits." Austin Assistant City Manager Rudy Garza said he believed A ustin was prepared for the increased traffic on m ajor roads. "W e've had a plan since yes­ terday to deal with the traffic here," he said. "W ith [Austin City Limits M usic Festival] in town, we had already planned to have m ore police here in Austin. S a t u r d a y , S e p te m b e r 2 4 * U n i v e r s i t y of Te xa s * 9 : 0 0 am - 1 2 : 1 0 pm Thompson Conference Center, Room 1.110 & 3.102 • 2405 Robert Dedman Drive • Austin, Texas 78712 ANOTHER BENEFIT TO OUR ONLINE EDITION: V 1 * u V i$ h * r \ .-; ■ ■* » v ^ , ? ** ¡; ■. 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While the Longhorns would have liked to earn more wins in those matches, there have been several positives to glean from their early play. All three losses were by one goal, including a close 2-1 home loss to No. 3 Portland, and Texas has allowed just seven goals in as many matches, includ­ ing three shutouts. But Texas soccer coach Chris Petrucelli knows that the defense has never been the issue. "W e've got to get better going for­ ward," Petrucelli said. "W e've got to get better holding the ball up front. We've got to get better creating chances and then getting forward. It's the same thing I've said after every match we've played." When the Longhorns open their Big 12 Conference schedule this weekend in Oklahoma, they will have to con­ tinue their aggressive defensive play and find more offense to return to Austin victorious. While No. 21 Texas has scored eight goals in seven matches, the Longhorns' opponent on Friday, Oklahoma State, has posted 33 goals in nine matches. Although those numbers are inflated due to the Cowboys' soft schedule — for example, they defeated Arkansas-Little Rock 11-0 — Oklahoma State (7-0-2) is the top goal-scoring team in the Big 12. Second in the conference with 20 goals scored and tied with the Cowboys atop the Big 12 is Texas' Sunday opponent, Oklahoma. The Sooners (7-1) come into the weekend on the heels of a five-game win streak, and senior Lauren MacIver was recently named one of three Big 12 players of the week. The other two individuals sharing the award were Oklahoma State freshmen Angelika Feldbacher and Bettina Grossman. So it would appear that Texas is visit­ ing a pair of conference opponents who are hitting their strides early in the sea­ son. One certainty is that both matches will be aggressive contests. "The Big 12 is an athletic, physical conference," Petrucelli said. "It's a lot of big players trying to play physical." Following the Oklahoma road trip, Texas returns home to face Baylor the following Friday and then No. 14 Texas A&M in the Lone Star Showdown on Sunday. Craig Bland | D aily Texan Staff Junior Am y Burlingham prepares to pass. Texas is .500 this season, but hu n g tough with Portland. Anonymity despite key role in win Longsnapper Nick Schroeder stretches before practice. The graduate student is tw o years away from com pleting his master's and, despite NFL potential, concentrates on academics and a future in advertising. Rose Bowl hinged on his snap but recognition didnt come with a jo b well done, unfazed Schroeder has his eyes on the future B y Jake V eyhl Daily Texan Staff kick, and the offen sive line prepares to block. for real. The snap. The hold. The kick. T h ey 're all good. w as perfect. S co reb o a rd s arou nd the Rose Bow l and on television sets across the cou ntry d is­ play the sam e im age: Texas 3 5 , M ichigan 3 7 , tw o second s rem aining on the clock. Tony Jeffery and D usty M angum the hold and p rep are fo r M ichigan calls tim e out. Line it up again. The stakes are the sam e, but a few more hand s are jitte rin g from the added tension. M ichigan calls tim e out. Do it a third tim e. Entire b od ies are shakin g w ith ner­ v o u sn ess, bu t this tim e it's N ick ju m p s S c h ro e d e r up and celeb rates w ith his team m ates as tim e exp ires and the b rig h t-g re en field beco m es flooded w ith burnt- orange. The b iggest m om ent in his football career cam e and w ent in the span of one, d raw n -ou t heart beat, and he N in e m o n th s la te r, Schroed er is in the m iddle o f his second year as the L o n g h o rn s' deep sn ap p er but he can rem em ber that snap like it w as yesterday. "W h en the Rose Bowl w as getting dow n to the w ire, and I w as w alking out there, I w as pretty con fid en t, saying 'I'v e got this, I'v e got th is ,'" Sch roed er said. "W h en they called the first tim eout, I w as like 'Y eah, I'm pretty good, not too b ad .' They called the second tim eout, and I'm like 'O h, my g oo d n ess.' " I f anybod y says that icing the k ick er d o e s n 't w o rk , th ey 're a liar." from behind the scen es, the life o f a deep snap p er is often aw ay the sp o tlig h t. H is nam e d o e sn 't ap p ear in any box scores and only finds the n ext d ay 's paper if som ething goes w rong. His failu res are know n. H is su c­ cesses are not. A lth o u g h h e 's n ot q u ite Schroeder continues on page 3B Shannon Sibayan | D ally Texan Staff Willingham hosts former team, Notre Dame, in Washington Oregon looks to hold down Leinart and Bush, break streak By Ryan Derousseau Daily Texan Staff W ashington coach Tyrone Willingham m ust feel like his ex-girlfriend is com ing to town this weekend with her new boy­ friend to pick up her CDs. The new boyfriend, Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis, could learn a lot from Willingham as the new Huskies coach also started off quickly in his first year at Notre Dame. The fans alm ost gave Willingham the throne forever as he went 1 0 -3 in his first sea­ son and won a National Coach of the Year award. Two short years later, however, the school ousted him and brought in the New England Patriots' offensive coordinator. Weiss has also started off his reign with much fanfare as he became the first Irish coach to win his first two games on the road since the legendary Knute Rockne. The Irish do come off of a loss last week to Michigan State in which they gave up 44 points and showed weaknesses in their secondary as well as the front line. form er On the other hand, the Huskies have done little to cheer about with a record of 1-2. They have lost to Air Force and California. Their lone win cam e against Idaho last week. Although Irish the coach wants the win, Willingham might have to wait until next year because of the gap in talent on the two teams. But that does not mean the Husky players plan to give up. They realize the m ag­ nitude of the game and want to win one for their coach. "W e w ant to win this for the coach and for ou rselves," W ash in gton Brad Vanneman said on M SNBC.com. "T h is game means a lot to him, ce n te r and he's part of our family now. If we win, he w ins." Trojans take air show to Oregon Southern Cal and Oregon, who last faced each other in the 2002 season, meet this weekend in each teams' PAC-10 opener. USC has looked nothing but impressive in its first two games following back-to- back national titles. Winning 70-17 last week against Arkansas despite sitting quarterback Matt Lienhart after the third quarter showed the nation that the Trojans are primed for another title run. They have won 24 consecutive games but head to Eugene, Ore., this weekend and will play in Autzen Stadium, which has a repu­ tation of being extremely difficult for the a w a y team. The two teams have not faced each other in two years, but the Trojans did pull out a victory at Oregon in 2002,44-33. "I do have a sense of what the stadium is going to be like and Football continues on page 2B Tyrone Willingham, former Notre Dam e football coach, leads the Irish on to the field against Pittsburgh. Jo« Raymond Associated Press Friday, September 23,2005 www.dailytexanonline.com I n sid eS po r ts T h e D a i r y T e x a n Sports briefly STAFF Overall Record SPORTS BRIEFS Tennessee at LSU Tennessee Tennessee Last Week ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 C Q U F fiF _____________ 12-6 ---------------------------------------------- Jesus Chavez' victory comes USC at O regon at steep price, Johnson dead O regon St. at Arizona St. Ryan 24-14 USC ASU 18-20 6-12 USC ASU Phillip Orchard Eric Ransom Jake William . Wilkerson 19-19 _____________ J 8-10 ...J 25-13 9-9 LSU USC ASU 18-20 7-11 LSU USC ASU 21-17 11-7 LSU USC ASU Va.Tech O SU LSU USC ASU N.E. KC Ga.Tech at Va. Tech Iowa at O hio St. NFL Dallas at San Francisco N.E. at Pittsburgh Kansas City at Denver Tennessee at St. Louis Va.Tech Georgia Tech Va.Tech Va. Tech Va.Tech Iowa OSU O SU OSU O SU Dallas _____________ 1 Pittsburgh KC _____________ i St. Louis --------------------------------------------- 1 __ Dallas SF Dallas Dallas Dallas Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Denver Denver KC St. Louis Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Pittsburgh ---------------------------------------- — Denver _____________ __— -------------- St. Louis Johnson was put in a medically Carolina at Miam i Carolina Carolina Carolina Carolina Carolina Carolina If Tennessee and Iowa lose, don't blame me. Blame bad games and all of these identical selections. V SCOREBOARD M ajor-le ag u e Baseball A stros 2, Pirates 1 Phillies 4, Braves 0 C u b s 3, Brew ers 0 Padres 2, Rockies 4 Giants 0, N ation als 2 O rioles 6, Yankees 7 M a rin ers 5, Blue Jays 7 Reds 6, C ardinals 2 M arlins 2, M e ts 1 Tw ins 4, W h ite So x 1 In d ia n s 11, Royals 6 D o d g e rs 4, D 'B a c k s 7 R a n ge rs 4, A n g e ls 7 N C A A Football Utah 38, Air Force 35 Fla. Atlantic 21, L A -M o n ro e 28 Texas A & M 44, Texas State 31 ON TV Saturday's Games 12:00 pm Colorado at Miami ABC 12:00 pm Purdue at Minnesota ESPN 12:00 pm Penn State at Northwestern ESPN 2 12.00 pm Michigan State at Illinois ESPN-U 3:30 pm Notre Dam e at W ashington ABC 3:30 pm Florida at Kentucky CBS 3:30 pm Maryland at Wake Forest ESPN-U 6:45 pm Louisville at South Florida ESPN-U 9:00 pm Georgia at Mississippi State ESPN2 10:00 pm Arizona State at Oregon State TBS 10:00 pm Hawaii at Idaho ESPN-U Recycle your copy o f T h e D a i l y T e x a n LAS VEG AS- Boxer Leavander Johnson died Thursday from inju­ ries sustained five days earlier in a lightw eight title fight with Jesus Chavez. The 35-year-old died at University Medical Center, where he had been hospitalized since being injured in the fight Saturday night at the M G M Grand Hotel and Casino. A hospital spokesw om an said Johnson was pronounced dead at 4:23 p.m. induced coma after undergoing brain surgery less than an hour after his fight with Chavez. Doctors were initially unsure he would make it through the night, but the next day expressed cautious optimism after tests showed improvement in brain function. John son was defending the IBF title he w on in June against C havez but took a beating in the fight before finally being stopped by a flurry of punches in the 11th round. He walked from the ring, but on the way to the dressing room began show ing signs of an injury. He was rushed to UMC, where neu­ rosurgeon William Smith operated on him to relieve pressure from a subdural hematoma, or bleeding on the brain. His death follows the July 2 death of M exican boxer Martin Sanchez, w h o died a day after he was knocked out by Rustam N u gaev of Russia in a super light­ w eight fight in Las Vegas. That death was the fifth in the ring since 1994 in the city. Before Sanchez died, two other fighters suffered brain injuries but survived after fights this year in Las Vegas. Longhorns to face stiff competition Venue the Y ankee Stadium ’ o f cross­ country running By Blake Weldon Daily Texan Staff The Texas women's cross coun­ try team faces its biggest test of the young season this Saturday at the Iona College Meet of Champions in New York. The Longhorns will compete against 23 teams, including a Princeton squad that is ranked 16th in the FinishLynx women's cross country preseason rankings. "This course is considered the Yankee Stadium of our sport," Texas coach Len Klepack said. "It will be a great experience." Last weekend, the Longhorns placed first in the Texas State "This weekend is a win-win situation with the opportunity to run at such a prestigious meet." Len Klepack, cross country coach grabbing first Invitational, through seventh individually along the way. Freshman Arianna McKinney captured first, and junior twins Landra and Lige Stewardson placed second and third, respectively. "The win motivated [the girls] to practice better," Klepack said. "Everyone's improving." The meet in San Marcos only had six teams competing. The Longhorns haven't competed against a field of teams as big as Saturday's since last year's NCAA Regional Meet. "It's a great opportunity for our girls to run against a big­ ger competition to get us ready for the Regional," Klepack said. "[The Regional] will have about 16 to 20 teams competing." After sweeping the field at the Texas State Invitational, the team was back to practice this week. With the Meet of Champions lin­ gering, the Longhorns needed a good week of practice to be com­ petitive this Saturday. "[Iona] has motivated the girls to practice hard this week," Klepack said. "This weekend is a win-win situation with the opportunity to run at such a pres­ tigious meet." Even with New York on their minds, some Longhorns will have trouble blocking out Flurricane Rita. Some of the women on the including senior Laura team, Altman, are from the Houston area. With families having evacu­ ated as the storm continues to draw closer, women's track and field head coach Bev Kearney expressed her concern and said the Longhorns will provide shel­ ter for the runners' families if they need it. "I don't think it will have an effect on the girls' performance this Saturday," Klepack said. "They are well-prepared." Griffey done for the year — AP i mm - I ■ • ü - a -Si Slugger, 35, decides to undergo surgery on troubled knee By Joe Kay The Associated Press CINCINNATI — Ken Griffey Jr. is finishing another season prema­ turely because of an injury. This time, it's an upbeat ending. The Cincinnati Reds center fielder decided Thursday to give up his attempt to overcome a foot sprain and play again this season. Instead, he'll have a minor knee operation that has been anticipat­ ed for weeks, giving him a head- start on rehabilitation. "I think overall in the situation we're in, it's probably the smartest thing to do," Griffey said, a day after the Reds were officially elimi­ nated from playoff contention. "If it were the playoffs, and we had a chance, then we'd be doing some­ thing different. But we're not, and it's time that I can get my ham­ string closed up for good and my knee fixed." He'll have surgery on Monday to clean out a knee that has both­ ered him occasionally over the last three years. Doctors also will treat the troublesome incision from his hamstring surgery a year ago. The 35-year-old Griffey tore the hamstring loose last August and had it reattached to the bone with three titanium screws, a rare operation that required months of difficult rehabilitation. Although it's another prema- 3 tournaments to choose from. www.AustinPokerChallenge.com LimitedleatSy Da ve Miller | A sso cia te d Press Ken Griffey Jr. o f the Cincinnati Reds w atches his 33rd h o m e run o f th e se a so n g o ou t of P N C Park in Pittsburgh Sunday, A u g. 28. ture finish, this one is a lot more upbeat. Griffey met his goal of playing into September, overcom­ ing four years of career-threaten­ ing injuries. "He was really excited after that game on Aug. 31, and he was playing in September," interim manager Jerry Narron said. "He was talking about that. He was really excited about being able to go into September playing." Not just playing — playing very well. He batted .301 with 35 homers and 92 RBIs in 128 games. Football: LSU forced to wait From page 1B Tigers, Volunteers pushed to play begins. being able to help the players who haven't been there understand it," USC coach Pete Carroll said. "It is going to be a great setting and a lot of fun." Oregon comes into the game ranked 24th thanks to a 3-0 start, defeating Houston, Montana and Fresno State. The competi­ tion will greatly increase against USC on Saturday and in two weeks with Arizona State. The Ducks will have to ride the arm of quarterback Kellen Clemens if they want the chance to pull off the upset of the year. Monday by Rita The Louisiana State Tigers final­ ly play a home game this weekend as they return to Baton Rouge to take on the No. 10 Tennessee Volunteers. The Tigers' first game with North Texas was canceled because of Hurricane Katrina, and in the next game, Arizona State said it would not play on the Tigers' field due to the damage Katrina caused. So they moved the game to Tempe, Ariz. Despite moving a home game to an away game, the Tigers won 35-31. They stand at 1-0 as Southeastern Conference LSU coach Les Miles looks to start his career as a Tiger with two consecutive wins against top 15 teams. The Volunteers come off a tough loss to Florida, 16-7. They now stand 0-1 in SEC play and can not afford to lose another game to a conference foe. The Volunteers feature two quarterbacks, Rick Clausen and Erik Ainge. Neither has taken the lead on the field and shown they deserve to start. The Vols will need some leadership this week or else they will find themselves out of the hunt for the SEC championship. Friday, Septem ber 23, 2005 S ports 3B Texas golfers now competing to play More than h alf o f the upcoming opponents ranked in top 25 By Jason Billingslea Daily Texan Staff If players on the No. 25 Texas women's golf team want to step on the course during a tourna­ ment, they will earn it the hard way. For the first time, Texas coach Susan Watkins, who is entering her 13th season at Texas, decided to hold a match-play tryout to determine who plays in the next tournament. The tryout starts with an 18- hole seeding round for all the players on the team. Once they have their seeds, the Longhorns play a match-play tournament for the right to play in the top two positions for Texas that week. The remaining players then play a 36- hole playoff to claim the third, fourth and fifth spots for the next event. "Practice is the way you per­ form," junior Julia Best said. "The more competition, the better, and it is very intense when you are playing one-on-one." Best, who starred at Smithson Valley High School, is one of the most experienced members of the team and is the No. 2 golfer for Texas at this weekend's tour­ the Mason Rudolph nam ent, W om en's C ham pionship in Franklin, Tenn. The tournament will be a tough season opener for the Longhorns. "W e 're p layin g a p retty good field , w hich shou ld m ake it in terestin g and fu n ," W atkins said. "G ood " may be an understate­ ment considering 14 teams in the field are ranked among the nation's top 25 by G olf World, including No. 1 UCLA, defending national champion No. 2 Duke and No. 4 Auburn — the top three last year's NCAA finishers at Championship. The lineup for the Longhorns this weekend consists of sopho­ more Kelly Louth in the top spot, Best in second, freshman Caney Hines playing third, junior Ashley Prust freshman Kristin Walla in fifth. in fourth and "W e are a young team, pulling leadership from many directions," Watkins said. "[We are] young and fearless, and I am going to push them harder than I have pushed any other team of mine because of their potential to be a good team." Last year, the Longhorns fin­ ished sixth at the Mason Rudolph with Louth leading the team in 33rd individually. Best shot a year-low round of 74 on the first day but finished in 59th. Guillen considers quitting Colorado beset once more by scandal Manager admits to throwing up after some Chi-Sox losses By Rick Gano The Associated Press people think I'm [talking of] quitting because I got a lot of pressure and got a lot of stress. I got stress and pressure because I want to win," he said, stuff I can't be concerned about," Williams said, adding he didn't expect it to have an impact on the team. "H e's going to quit if we win?" first baseman Paul Konerko said. "I want to win with this orga­ nization more than anybody." CH ICAGO — There's seldom a dull moment with Ozzie Guillen as manager. His latest is this: If he leads the Chicago White Sox to their first World Series title since 1917, he might quit after just two seasons on the job. Guillen says it's not a ploy to take the pressure off his slump­ ing team that has nearly squan­ dered a 15-game lead in AL Central. And he's not consider­ ing walking away because of the booing he's getting or job stress — although he admits to some­ times vomiting after losses. "A p retty good chance. Because I want to leave with my head up and do something nobody else did before. ... It would give me a good chance to accomplish everything in my career," he said Thursday. The W hite Sox's lead had shriveled to two and a half games as they opened up a four- game series against the Twins on Thursday night. Talk of the great collapse is everywhere, in the papers and on the airwaves. Fans are criticizing his strategy and booing his moves. But Guillen insists he's not looking for a way out. "A lot o f people misunder­ stand what I'm saying, a lot of But in an earlier interview this week, Guillen said the booing saddens him, especially since the White Sox have 91 wins and because his sons, who are at most games, have to hear it. That he gets physically ill is surprising, since Guillen doesn't seem to be the ulcer type with an outgoing and outspoken per­ sonality, something he flashed for 13 years as a player with the White Sox. "W hen we lose a game I sit in my office for another hour. I sit there and try to figure out what we did wrong and what we should do," he said. "I played here, I got my roots here, I grew up here. ... When we win, I'm the happiest man. When we lose, I get sick." G eneral m anager Kenny Williams said he had not taken reports of G uillen's desire to leave seriously. Guillen just signed a contract extension in May. The White Sox picked up the 2006 option on his contract, added two more years and included an option for the 2009 season. "W hatever his explanations are as to what he said, he's got to clean up his own house. I'm concerned about what is hap­ pening on the field. All the other "That's really what managers go for anyway Once you win the World Series as a manager, you go out with a bang. But first things first. We got to get to the playoffs." Catcher Chris Widger has seen a change in Guillen over the last month. "H e's not as loose and happy go-lucky as he was but, hey, that's the way it is. When you're a manager, the team lives and dies on your decision, and at the end of the day, you have to answer for the way your team plays," Widger said. "A s far as him quitting, I hope not, I'd like to come back here next year, but he has to do what­ ever's best for him, best for his family and best for his health." Guillen said he's not kidding. "I said it because I mean it. When I win the World Series here in Chicago, maybe this year, maybe in 10 years, maybe two years, maybe three years, there is nothing better when you quit and go through the big gate, to get out big," he said. "That's what I want to do. That's what I explain to people. I just want to do it here. I only have two years doing this, and if I do it this year, it will be a short career." Despite small crowd, 12th man proves strong enough Aggies set milestones in 44-31 victory over lowly TSU Bobcats By Ryan Killian Daily Texan Staff With an unusually small crowd due the Hurricane Rita, Reggie McNeal and Texas A&M over­ powered Texas State at Kyle Field. Texas State gave up several big plays on their way to a 44-31 loss, as McNeal beat them with both his arms and legs. The Bobcat offense was able to drive repeatedly against A&M, and had a chance late in the fourth quarter to get within 6 after an Aggie fumble. Texas State was looking at 2nd and goal from the 3-yard line when a offensive pass interference call pushed them back to the 18. O n fourth down, Quarterback Barrick Nealy couldn't find anyone in the end- zone and the Bobcats turned the ball over on downs, all but killing their hopes of a comeback. "We had one day of practice to get ready for this," Dennis Franchione told Fox Sports after the game. He said it wasn't an excuse for the relatively slim mar­ gin of victory but said it was a factor. The A ggies stru gg led with p en alties throughout the gam e and it cost them m ore than once. Texas S ta te 's first to u ch ­ dow n drive inclu ded b ack-to- back 15-yard p en alties against the A ggies. The A&M offense had a record day as Reggie McNeal passed for 319 yards; Jason Carter gained 219 receiving yards, and Courtney Lewis rushed for 135. It was the first time in Aggie his­ tory for individuals to hit all three benchmarks in one game. Nealy's 373 yards of passing exceeded McNeal's mark and he threw for three touchdowns— one more than his counterpart in maroon. But he also threw an interception, something McNeal was able to avoid. M cN eal rew arded w as Thursday, for his 449-yard 6- touchdow n perform ance last week by being named Cingular W ireless/A BC Sports All-America Player of the Week. The game was aired on Fox Sports because A&M officials wanted their fans to be able to enjoy the game from home, wher­ ever that may be. The school can­ celed today's classes because of the impending storm. Colorado travels to Miami Colorado wraps up their tough non-conference schedule with a weekend jaunt to Miami to take on the Hurricanes. The Buffs are trying to go unbeaten in non-con­ ference, that road leads straight through the Orange Bowl, where Miami is 14-2 the previous three seasons. The game is the Hurricane's first hom e contest this season. Gary Barnett had a bye last week and has spent the time pre­ paring his team for their tough­ est non-conference game of the "If we get the ball 15 times a game, we expect to score 15 times, and that has nothing to do with Indiana State" Cory Hodges, Texas Tech quarterback schedule. "Having two weeks to prepare is good and bad," Barnett said. It probably gives [us] too much time to look at too many things, and I think one of our challenges is to narrow it down a little bit." One thing he hasn't needed to worry about is his team's desire. "W hen we first put the sched­ ule board up a year ago it caught [the players'] attention," he said. I think playing the game down there [in Miami] adds a little more excitement for our players even though it's in an atmosphere and an environm ent that w e don't experience very often." Miami also scheduled tough opponents to prepare for confer­ ence play. After losing a close opener the 'Canes beat Clemson in overtime last week to Florida State, Despite the loss, Barnett knows Miami will be tough and geared aspects of off-season workouts specifically toward the game. He looked for opportunites to get his players on the field when the sun was beating down. When weight­ lifting on Fridays, players were subjected to hotter temperatures than normal in the weight room. Texas State's MArkee W hite catches the ball as Texas A&M's Marquis Carpenter falls do w n for a 72-yard gain in the second quarter. Butch Ireland ! A ssociated Press "Playing Miami is a lot like playing Oklahoma or Texas," said Barnett "[You're facing] the same kind of athletes, the same kind of speed and the same kind of physical play" Rest of Big 12 takes it easy, playing or not Cory Hodges gets his chance to put 100 points on the board when Indiana State rolls into town. The fifth-year senior remarked that Texas Tech could do it, but clar­ ified his statement later in the week. "W hat I meant by that is as an offense if we get the ball 15 times a game, we expect to score 15 times, and that has nothing to do with Indiana State or their defense. They are a good football team," Hodges said. Iowa State comes down from the mountain after beating Iowa two weeks ago, and heads to West Point. It's a weekend of firsts for Army. ESPN2 will broadcast the game as they attempting to win their first game of the year. Army has never appeared on the chan­ nel. It is also the first game ever to be played on a Friday night at Michie Stadium. Kansas State plays at home against North Texas to wrap up their non-conference schedule. Like the Red Raiders and Buffs, a win for the Wildcats would mean an unblemished record when Big 12 play opens next week. By Lori Holcomb Daily Texan Staff turn ov er they were The U niversity of C olorado m ust investigative documents to two women who raped by alleged CU football players in 2001, a Colorado district court ordered Wednesday. The documents may enable the women, both former CU students, to revive their law­ suit against CU , which was dis­ missed last spring. Among the ordered feleased documents are reports of an inves­ tigation done by the CU campus police that examined an earlier sex­ ual assault report made by a female student-athlete-trainer against one of the four football players also accused of raping the plaintiffs. The alleged incident occurred between the student trainer and football players or recruits at an Omni hotel outside of Denver in November 2001. But she never filed formal charges, and the CU police reports were handed over to the attorney general, accord­ ing to Lt. Tim McGraw of the CU campus police. Lisa Sim p so n and a n o th er w o m an, w h o ch ose not to release her nam e to the pu blic, sued the u niversity last spring on claim s that it violated T itle IX, the law p ro tectin g equ al g ender access to ed u cation, by h arb oring an environm ent of sexual assau lt that led to the w o m en 's assau lts. S im p son and her c o -p la in ­ tiff filed com p lain ts again st the u n iv ersity a fter allegin g they w ere se x u a lly assa u lted by fo otb all p la y ers and recru its at an o ff-ca m p u s p arty in D ecem ber 2001. The law suit was dism issed last March when Judge Robert Blackburn found that the tw o w omen failed to prove the school actually knew about and delib­ erately ignored the harassm ent of fem ale students by football players. CU lawyers, who could not be reached for comment, said in court files they didn't turn over the documents, because they didn't know about the report until last fall and thought the documents belonged to the attorney general. An assistant attorney general said he was not sure what author­ ity he had to turn over the docu­ ments because the investigation was done by the former attorney general, Ken Salazar. CU attorneys told the judge they originally gave all informa­ tion they believed they could legally turn over to the wom en's attorneys. The w o m en's attorney said they believed the docum ents would have given key inform a­ tion to support to the w om en's claims and will be beneficial in the w om en's effort to revive the case. "W e're very pleased that the docum ents the university has improperly withheld and con­ cealed have been ordered to be produced to u s," Baine Kerr, one of the w om en's attorneys, told The Associated Press. No sexual assault charges were filed by police in regard to either case. However, sex, drugs and alcohol were used to recruit foot­ ball players without the universi­ ty's knowledge, according to an investigation by an independent council. Schroeder: W alk-on rewarded with scholarship From page 1B Such is the life of Schroeder, who said the less he reads his name the next morning, the bet­ ter. "H e does su ch a good job on Saturdays th at nobod y know s who he tig h t end David Thom as, who p lays w ith Schroeder on sp ecial team s. is ," said Sp orts Illu strated w o n 't be running cover photos of deep sn ap p ers an y tim e soo n , but Schroeder is con ten t w ith ju st contributing h is piece to the puzzle quietly. " I t's ju st one cog in the ov er­ all sy stem ," Sch ro ed er said. " I do m y job, the hold er does his job, the pu nter does his job, but w e're p art of the system . If one area b reaks d ow n, the w hole system breaks dow n." F ailu res rem ain a d istan t concept to a player w ho took over snapping d uties at The W oodlands H igh Sch oo l after only one snap. “ My in high ju n io r year school the startin g deep snap­ per sprained h is w rist after the first g am e," S ch ro ed er said. "T h ey pretty m uch had open tryou ts. I told them I had done it in sev en th grade, and after my first snap, they told me I had th e jo b ." B row n T h at one snap led to m uch m o re. M ack said Sch ro ed er has perform ed ju st as w ell at Texas as his p red e­ cesso r and cu rren t d eep sn ap ­ per fo r the M innesota V ikings, C u llen Loeffler. "W e could see Nick w as going to be as good as Cullen," Brown said. "H e's a guy that hasn't had a bad snap, but [he] is also a very valuable cover guy." Schro ed er red sh irted in 2001 and served as Texas' backup behind L oeffler in 2002 and 2003 before playing in all 12 gam es last season. S ch ro ed er said from L o e ffle r's gu id ance im m ensely b ecau se of L o e ffle r's ab ility to e x p la in w hat he w as doing clearly. b e n e fite d he As for jo in in g his tutor in the N F L , Schroeder isn 't sure th at's the path he w ants to take. "If the opportunity arises, it'd be an incredible opportunity to ever hoped for." He w o n 't say it but you can b et Sch ro ed e r to m ake an other m em ory at the Rose Bow l this season. is h o p in g be there," he said. "I'm worried more about school right now as far as where it's going to take me in the future." Schroed er ch ooses to spend a portion of his free tim e vol­ u n teerin g at the C h ild re n 's H ospital in A ustin. in So m u ch fo r failing. A fter com p letin g his un d er­ g rad u ate d eg ree c o rp o ­ rate com m u n ication s in May, Sch ro ed er en rolled in Texas' a d v e rtisin g g ra d u a te school and shou ld fin ish his m asters in tw o years. He interned in an A u stin -based agency over the sum m er and plans to w ork in the m edia d ep artm en t of an ad v ertisin g ag en cy w h en he grad uates. Even w ith fo o tb all and g rad ­ uate classes fillin g up h is days, "N ick 's aw esom e. H e 's such a n ice guy," T h o m as said. "H e 's one of the hard est w o rk ­ ing gu ys on the team ." S ch ro ed er's hard w o rk and contrib u tions to the team were rew ard ed b efo re the seaso n w hen Brow n an n o u n ced he w ould join four other w alk- ons in receiving a scholarship. the co ach es have g iven m e so m uch alread y; this is ju st icing on the cak e ," S ch ro ed er said. " It's m ore than I could have "T h e U n iv ersity an d 5 th A n n iv e rs a ry S p e c ia l A n n i \ / c > r c n r \ / T iie > c r l n v - F r ¡ T u e s d a y -F rid a y 0%off A L L WING ORDERS 9 /2 0 -9 /2 3 90, IW. 24th • (512) 370-BIRD • D ELIVE R Y o r PICK UP New Nightly Dinner S p e cia ls Starts at 5pm • Dine-in only • $7.75 • includes drink! 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Still going strong after two decades in the spotlight, Oasis brings their British bombast to ACL By Craig Whitney Daily Texan Staff Oasis is the biggest, coolest and most artistically relevant band play­ ing at this year's ACL. Or at least that's what Noel Gallagher would tell you. The Oasis of the last decade has as been big on swagger and hyperbole as their first years were on the Britpop splendor that they helped to define. But in spite of the de rigeur pronouncements that have proceeded the release of their last three albums, proclaiming the "new Oasis" and a return to their "M orning Glory" heights of the mid-'90s, these have been, with few exceptions, half-hearted stabs at the group's brash, searing singles of just a few years before. But if2000's "Familiar to Millions" live album at Wembeley Stadium has demonstrated anything in the midst of this, it's that Oasis is still in top form when it comes to playing before big crowds. Hits or no hits, a band of Oasis' stature is pretty much confined by its reputation to playing arenas and large-scale ven­ ues. And to do that well requires Freddy Murcury-like levels of bra­ vado, a few Napoleon-sized egos, and tunes enough to keep a few thousand people on their feet and captivated for an hour or two. All of which Oasis has in spades. Before the band's recent forays into fey psychedelics and world- weary laments, Oasis were, at bot­ tom, a band that was about getting pissed, celebrating life and pretend­ ing for three or four minutes that we were all going to live forever. And while they might have lost their stomach for it on record, they're still the loudest, hardest-rocking and most entertaining live act in the his­ tory of western civilization. And if you don't like that, you can shove it up yer gob, ya poofter! Oasis will perforin Saturday at 8:15 p.m. on the Cingular Stage. SP O O N FRANZ F E R D I N A N D Local band Spoon adjusts to the rigors of rocking By Austin Powell Daily Texan Staff For Spoon's lead singer Britt Daniel, the opportunity to come to play for thousands of people in his hometown during the Austin City Limits Music Festival is slowly becoming more and more of an extended business trip than a paid vacation. Before even arriving in Austin, Daniel is taking calls from Portland, Ore in preparation for his brief stint in the city. He has no plans to meet up with specific people or to visit certain places while in town. Nor has he even had a chance to really look at the lineup for the festival. "Are The Arcade Fire playing?" Daniel asked. "Well, I'll see them." W hat Daniel has instead of anticipation is a tiresome schedule, one that won't allow Spoon the opportunity to play any surprise, or announced, performances like year's past. "The reason I'm coming back into town is because on Tuesday we're recording a new song. On Wednesday and Thursday we're going to mix it and put the final touches on it. Then we have inter­ views and the show on Friday, before 1 leave town on Saturday to go to Europe." Daniel said. The process currently being undertaken to record this new song, entitled "M y First Time Volume Four," is in direct contrast to the way Spoon's latest album, the phenomenal "Gimme Fiction," was recorded. While both were laid down in drummer Jim Eno's Austin studio, the later was recorded pri­ marily over a three-month span. With Spoon's consistent tour­ ing, taking another break to write or record seems almost out of the question. "We have this time scheduled, because if we don't have time scheduled do stuff, than we won't get to do it. So we just kind of set it up, then that forces me to work to get the song ready to go," Daniel said. In speaking with Daniel, it seemed as though to him, the only thing necessary to produce the extraor­ dinary results that are showcased throughout Spoon's vast catalogue is time. Daniel relates the experi­ ence of writing an killer opening track to "Gimme Fiction," "The Beast and The Dragon, Adored." "I was just sitting there doing some riffs, where you go up and up and never down, just goofing around one second, and next thing you know, you've got something that could be a song with a little effort. Then you put in a little more effort and listen to it, start shaping it up. Pretty soon you've got some­ thing," Daniel said. Spoon's ability to "get some­ thing" has led to critical acclaim and world-wide applause, allow­ ing Daniel to compare experienc­ es touring Europe, Australia and America almost nonchalantly. "In Europe we don't do so well, in America we do very well, and Australia is kind of in the middle. All the major American cities are kind of like Austin in terms of the amount of people that showed up," Daniel said. While it may seem as if Daniel wasn't excited to come back to his hometown, the opposite is exactly true. Daniel recalled his last performance in Austin, a sold-out show at Stubbs, as "pretty cool" and a "good night." He, in fact, "w ished " they could arrange an extra perform ance during his tenure. After continu­ ing to browse through the line­ up, Daniel even showed signs of peaking interest in the festival by adding more and more bands to his list and even stopping to ask if the Doves were worth catch- mg. It seems that Britt Daniel simply needs to put as much effort into scheduling time and ways to enjoy the success he's worked for over a decade to achieve, as he does for time to work. Perhaps, this Friday at ACL, Austinites can help remind Daniel and the other members of Spoon that there truly is no place like home. Spoon will be performing Friday at 5:30 p.m. on the AMD Stage. RILO KILEY The kids that LA left untanned bring their folkey melodies and adventurous string arrangements to the SBC stage Sunday. Be sure to keep your non-professional cameras alert for sightings of Jenny Lewis and side-project buddy Ben Gibbard holding hands. The group will perform Sunday afternoon on the SBC Stage at 2:30 p.m. Right on the verge of their sophmore release, the Interpol from Glasgow return to ACL to headline the mainstage before their cross-the-pond mates Coldplay. Their skanky guitar and disco-trash beats will up the tension on an oth­ erwise placid line-up on Sunday's main stage. The group will perform on Sunday at 6:30 p.m. on the SBC Stage. A L L M A N BROTHERS The legendary Allman Brothers By Adam H. Covici Daily Texan Staff Over their 36 year carrier The Allman Brothers have seen m any m em ber changes,but have succeeded in continually creating their southern-rock sound while holding on to the edginess that has separated them from the herd. Since the death of their legendary guitarist, Duane Allman, in a motorcycle acci­ dent in 1971, the group has been stuck with finding a replace­ ment to recreate his mesm er­ izing jams. Friday's crowd will not be disappointed. W ith dual lead gu itar­ ists Derek Trucks (nephew of Allm an Brothers drum m er Butch trucks) and W arren Haynes (G ov't Mule) the group has found comparable replace­ ments. Trucks tours frequently with his eponymously named band and is very much capable of carrying the responsibilities of lead guitar. Haynes is a leg­ end in his own right, tourin briefly on and off with th Grateful Dead and fronting tl gritty southern rock sound c Gov't Mule. The band still claims three of it orginal members: Gregg Alima (lead vocals and Hammond E organ), Butch Trucks (drurr and percussion) and Jai Johann Johanson (drums). The Allman Brothers will pe form Friday at 6:30 p.m. on tl SBC Stage. KEANE British piano balladeers Keane Phoebe Moore Daily Texan Staff Plaintive vocals, lush piano and heady Britpop tunes indic­ ative of their country of origin typify Keane's music and draw ample com parisons to their countrymen Coldplay. Formed in 1997 by three school chums, vocalist Tom Chaplin, pianist Tim Rice-Oxley and drummer Richard Hughes began fine tuning their sound in 2002. Simon Williams, of Britain's prestigious Fierce Panda label, caught an acoustic Keane gig and was smitten. The band immediately began work on their first single ¿ o r Fierce Panda and soon gained criti­ cal acclaim all over the United Kingdom. In 2004, Hopes And Fears, Keane's first full length, dropped and the mania began. NME proclaimed the single "Everybody's Changing" to be "indisputably mighty" called Keane "Kid-A era Radiohead covering A-ha." Keane garnered the prestigious British Academy of Composers and Songwriters' prestigious Ivor Novello award for Songwriters of the Year. Here in the states, they were nominated for mtvU's "International/Study Abroad" Woodie Award (let your imagination do what it will with that one). The critics are right, too. Keane's music creates its own world of swirling instrumen tion and soothing vocals tl slowly lures in the listen Instead of following their cc tem poraries in creating d sonant, confrontational p songs, Keane creates an en ronment open to anyone witl few moments to spare. "Peof often say that they wish the> been around in the 60s," coi ments singer Tom Chapl But we're happy just whi we are. We love rock's ba catalogue, and now w e've g a chance to add to it. After < tunes never go out of fashioi Here's to hoping that's true. Keane will perform on Fria at 7:30 pm on the AMD Stage. Friday, Septem ber 23,2005 T h e D a i l y T T x a n 5B your guide to the year’s hottest concert ticket And now ... a requiem from The Arcade Fire GRADY By Avimaan Syam Daily Texan Staff Riding high on critical acclaim due to their phenomenal debut album , "Fu neral," The Arcade Fire will perform in front of a legion of devotees. The combination of rock 'n ' roll and string arrangem ents had long caused weary skepti­ cism from rock listeners and, let's admit, often with good reason. So too had the mixture of rock and "the ep ic," conceptual albums and pieces of work trying to cre­ ate a grandiose project in music and meaning, not always panned out. And adding a little Canada to the concoction, well, that had been the least probable combo to date. But all that was before The Arcade Fire, whose recent release, "Funeral," might be the most rocking thing to come out of Canada since Michael J. Fox's per­ formance in "Back to the Future." if you haven't heard of The Arcade Fire — "Funeral" was the band's first full-length recording and only hit stores last fall. The album garnered sterling reviews then, and quite rightly, but their debut American tour in December is w hat's caused their name to spread like wildfire D on't be surprised across the country, with reports of their rocking live shows ranking up there with the cat's pajamas. Earlier I described "Funeral" as epic. This first comes in the sheer girth of sound and instru­ ments on each track: the standard bass, guitar and drums is consis­ tently swelled with a sea of synth and organ accompaniments, then flocked with rising string patterns at the end of songs. Topped with Win Butler's purposeful, story­ like singing, The Arcade Fire pull from a wealth of sounds to shape their music. But the more integral part of their epic structure is know­ ing when to stop, so to speak. N othing on "Fu neral" sounds forced, no layer superfluous or random or for shits and giggles. Accomplishing this feat is even more difficult due to the con­ struction of many Arcade Fire songs, which build up as they go, accruing more instruments along the way before hitting a flurrying crescendo that peaks in tension before dropping away into the next track. And this is how a stan­ dard tension and release becomes epic: Build a solid enough base, slowly add your extra supports and wait for the right moment to send your song spiraling off into the sky. And this is what The Arcade Fire excels at. These climactic finishes play an interesting foil to singer Win Butler's voice and lyrics, which often emote a sorrow and loss that feel very genuine — it's a grip of depression that suddenly opens into an uplifting hope, that acknowledges pain but grows to let it tumble out of us. "Funeral's" one hell of a cathartic ride. Despite their Montreal base, The Arcade Fire do in fact have some Texas roots: Brothers Will and Win Butler grew up in The Woodlands before migrating north. There Win met Regine Chassagne, who became his intimate co-songwrit­ er and later wife. During the latter end of 2003 and on through 2004 components of the band slowly latched together, adding fellow m ulti-instrum entalist Richard Reed Parry, strummer Timothy Kingsbury, another Butler brother and finally recruiting studioman Howard Bilerman behind the kit. Their touring outfit includes one of the violinists from their record­ ing, Sarah Neufield. The Arcade Fire will perform at 4:30 pm on Sunday on the Cingular Stage. BLACK CROWES Reunited Crowes fly high one more time at ACL By Adam H. Covici Daily Texan Staff Founded in 1984 by broth­ ers Chris and Richard Robinson, The Black Crowes came close to approximating a vintage Stones- style but fell short with their angry and jagged overtones. At their best the Crowes echo classic rock w ithout slavishly imitating their influences (Led Zeppelin, The Allman Brothers, The Grateful Dead, etc. They experienced multi-plati­ num success after their cover of Otis Redding's "Hard to H andle" broke the Billboard Top 10. The debut album it appeared did relatively well, but it w asn't until their sophomore effort, "Southern Harmony and M usical C om panion," that the from w hich The brothe r Robinson o f Th e Black Crow es have put aside their differences for another round o f infighting and petty squabbles at this year's ACL. group produced a No. 1 album. In 2000 they collaborated with form er Led Zeppelin guitarist Jim m y Page on a live album. But by 2002 the band was hav­ ing problems and a hiatus was announced. D rum m er Steve Gorman was fired and lead vocal­ ist Chris announced his intention to pursue a solo career, stopping the much awaited brotherly love tour with Oasis. Chris quickly returned to the Crowes and will be fronting the southern rock sound Friday on the SBC stage. The Black Crowes will perform Friday on the SBC Stage at 8:30 pm. COLDPLAY Gwyneth Paltrow’s husband, band to close ACL Sunday If you go see Rilo Kiley on Sunday and need a place to calm down and find your spirit animal, don't go to see Grady. Just for spite they will rile you up and scare away that imaginary penguin sitting next to you.The Austin-based blues power-trio takes a full frontal assault to their music, shotgunning through their set and saving the stage banter for the beer cooler. Grady will perform Sunday on the Austin Ventures Stage at 4 p.m. Eisley debuts with Room Noises’ EISLEY ALBUM: "Room Noises" LABEL: Warner Bros Records It may sound silly to talk about the artistic evolution of a band that has just released its first stu­ dio album, but consider it a tes­ tament to Eisley's maturity as a group that it only sounds a little bit so. In its two EPs together, the Texas-based quintet has demon­ strated an assurance and preter­ natural ability as musicians and composers, which is as much at odds with their limited record­ ing experience as it is with the youth of the group itself. Much of Eisley's success in defying such expectations lies in the ability of the group's two songw riters, Sherri and Stacy DuPree, whose songs combine a penchant for the whimsical and fantastic with a remarkable ear­ nestness and self-possession that manage to all somehow coexist in the surreal, pastoral landscape that they occupy. To paraphrase Hart Crane, Eisley is a band "[twisted] by the love of things irreconcilable," and the dynamic that exists in its songs between Sherri's guarded realism and Stacy's creepy psy­ chedelics lends a dramatic ten­ sion and heightened sense of emotional urgency to the general gorgeousness of their music, giv ing it much of the exceptional quality it has shown thus far. But it is the wit and tender­ ness w ith which Eisley treats these themes and the ability that they avoid becoming either too maudlin or flighty in doing so which shows the great strides the band has taken with their debut album, "Room Noises." Ballads such as "Lost As Sea" and "Brightly Wound" are pre­ sented with light strokes and a breezy touch which serve to rein­ force, rather than trivialize, the earnest sentiments they portray and to counterpoint the dancing melodies and fairy-tale imagery that predominate the album. and There seems, however, to be a struggle for control going on during "Room N oises" between producer Rob Eisley Schnapf, who oversaw much of the album 's recording, pitting his desire to play to the band's strengths against their desire to forge new ones. The possibilities heralded in songs like the lush indie two-step "Golly Sandra" or the contemplative rocker "M y Lovely" are obscured on other tracks by Schnapf's production, which, while emphasizing the group's shimmering guitars and harmonies, by and large forces them back into the same com er that these songs are trying to avoid. I hat being said, it's a really lovely comer, and it is difficult to fault Schnapf for the results he achieves in rerecording older Eisley songs like "M em ories" and "I Wasn't Prepared" for the new album. Although "R oom N oises" does, at times, play too much to Eisley's strengths, in doing so it pushes to the fore all of the ele­ ments in their music which have so far been among their greatest assets as musicians. The only shame is that in falling back to such a degree on their past lau­ rels, Eisley neglects some of the new and exciting elements of its music, that on "Room Noises," are hinted at but never fully real­ ized. — C:raig Whitney Eisley will perform Friday at 12:30 pm on the Cingular Stage. John Butler Trio mixes diversity of styles . By Leslie Flynn Daily Texan Staff that Before the release of a new album, most artists claim they've melded their influences into a coherent mixture they've twisted into something all their own. Few of these acts, howev­ er, ever come through with their promises, releasing a re-worked version of a generic sound. They should probably give the John Butler Trio a listen to see how it's done. With its American debut, "Sunrise Over Sea," the John Butler Trio tests out so many styles it's hard to peg them down with any comprehensive label. One moment they're playing around with hip-hop beats and the next they've taken on the task of modernizing Appalachian folk music, all while keeping a blues- influenced rock vibe. They never cross the line where their sound becomes a gimmick. Instead thev maintain an overall earthy sound, one that doesn't sound cluttered even with the addition of a banjo or a reggae rhythm next to the more typical electric guitar and drums. John Butler Trio reached an astounding level of success in its homeland of Australia while con­ tinuing to release-, produce and fund its music independently. The John Butler Trio will perform Saturday on the Austin Venues Stage at 5:15 pm. Love'em or hate'em , C old play is a m ust-see act on this year's ACL lineup. Also, th ey su p p o rt Fair Trade. COLDPLAY ALBUM 'X&Y' LABEL: Capitol Throughout its short lifespan, Coldplay has taken over the role in the contemporary pop world as the new U2. Given the international suc­ cess of the band due to its incredibly accessible, safe and inspiring brand of pristine rock music, the release of "X& Y," Coldplay's third full-length album, is intended to solidify the band's place within the upper ech­ elon among the finest music makers of our time. "X & Y " has m uch that will appeal to fans of the group. But for the most part, the album buckles under the weight of critical expectations. With "X& Y," Coldplay has unde­ niably created an album suitable for the arena and festival circuit of 2005. Spangled with epic rock songs bundled w ith guitar-heavy structures and increased tempos, the album's ambience is a departure from the more meticulous nature of past records. During the time leading up to the release of the record, "Speed of Sound," the album's first single, quickly drew comparisons to the artistic achievement of m any of the tracks heard on "A Rush of Blood to the H ead." With its warm piano parts, vocalist Chris M artin's ear­ nest lyrics and a memorable hook, "Speed of Sou nd " gave diehard fans yet another taste of "C locks," an indication that the new album would more than live up to its expectations. Throughout the duration of the new record, however, one can't help but scan the track order in the hope of stumbling upon new gems that are even slightly comparable to "The Scientist," "God Put a Smile Upon Your Face" or even "Trouble." W hether its M artin's seemingly dry lyricism and wordplay told through his overly simple rhyming couplets ("W hat If," "L o w ") or guitarist Jon Buckland's uninventive addi­ tions to a few of the arrangements ("W hite Shadow s," "Talk"), "X & Y " presents itself as a fairly unmemo- rable album that is impossible to be seen as anything other than a step back for the band who was faced with having to distance itself from the plagiarizing pack of UK outfits emerging in its wake. Safe in every sense of the word, "X & Y " fails to be even the slightest bit daring. Accordingly, the lack of variety contained within the assem ­ blage of tracks on "X & Y " allow for the listener to locate only a few lasting moments before quickly shelving it. Unrepresentative of the band's career up to this point, the new record is certain to build upon its popularity, but artistically, "X & Y," sadly, is merely a pleasei for those simply craving new Coldplay m ate­ rial, musically innovative or not. — Tito Belis Coldplay will be perform Sunday on the SBC stage at 8:30 p.m. We got a great response...much better than the Statesman. We got responses from better qualified people." 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W e offer solu­ tions and plans to make you money school while w ww BesCIS.com in 88 Friday, September 23, 2005 merry murderesses in the chorus seemed to have at least one singer off-key. As for staging, there's hardly any room for complaint, as "Chicago" was practically designed to be a travelling show, with its minimal­ ist sets all dressed in black. All the costumes were in black too, creating visual unity. However, there is such a thing as too much unity. It's pretty distracting to see an assistant district attorney dressed like Mr. Slave from South Park and press people looking like common whores. On balance the night w as more than well-spent. Anyone who has a chance should catch it as soon as possible, as weekend performances may be can­ celled if gale- force winds courtesy of H u r r i c a n e Rita reach Austin. www.dailytexanonline.com Entertainment Editor: Scotty Loewen E-mail: entertainment@dailytexanonline.com Phone: (S12) 232-2209 T u n D a i l y T f. x a n Fourth annual The windy city and Tom Wopat ACL tonight Despite Rita, festival coordinators and acts proceed as scheduled By Adam H. Covici and Craig Whitney Daily Texan Staff A few weeks ago the thought of being w orried com e ACL seemed ridiculous. But things are strange in Austin this w eek­ end. The usual excitem ent the festival brings has been replaced w ith concern for the im pending hurricane. Gas and w ater sales have spiked. The 7-Eleven on 26th and Guadalupe ran out of gas Wednesday. D avid, the store manager, said he expected to run o ut again Thursday. Som ething, he said, that has never happened at that location. H-E-Bs all over the city are struggling to keep their shelves full of water. But until Rita says different ACL is still on. T h is y e a r's in lineup features cu rrent candidate for biggest band the world C old play along w ith critical d arlin g 's Wilco. Legend's like The Allm an Brothers, Buddy Guy, and John Prine also help round out the schedule. The rest of the ros­ ter is sprinkled with indie-rock standouts, a few local favorites and som e who will be after this weekend. Austin City Limits continues on 4 and 5B 'Chicago brings a little bit o f Broadway to the University By Yashoda Sam path Daily Texan Staff “And now, Miss Velma Kelly, in an act of desperation ... " D ecadence, d ebauchery and jazz may have had to face more than their share of nature's ret­ ribution in the past two weeks, but made a. trium phant return in Tuesday's perform ance of "C hicago" at the Bass Concert Hall, which showed that som e­ times the retribution of man is just as indiscriminate as the ret­ ribution of nature. The audience is greeted with a giant golden picture fram e instead of the traditional theater curtain, w ithin which the entire musical was set. "C hicago" is the fam ous tale of how two murderesses begged, borrowed and lied their ways out of the noose and into vaude­ ville in the 1920s. The musical debuted in 1975, based on the play written by Maurine Dallas Watkins in 1926. The musical features choreogra­ phy by Bob Fosse, m usic by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The show was revived in 1996, with new choreography by Ann Reinking, Fosse's ex­ girlfriend, and a Tony-winning performance by Bebe Neuwirth as Velma Kelly. The m usical's popularity w as solidified by the critical and commercial success of the 2002 movie with Oscar-winning per­ formances by Catherine Zeta- Jones and Q ueen Latifah. features Tuesday's show w as the first show of the new tour, as the previous show s in Pittsburgh were cancelled due to a union strike at the theater there. The the return of show Tom Wopat as Billy Flynn and Carol Woods as Matron "M am a" Morton. Both have played their roles on Broadway, and Woods actually played Morton in the 1996 revival. missed a note, and the scenes where they shared the stage were joyful to watch. The movie never once slack­ ened on the humor. Where Amos's "Cellophane M an" came across as maudlin in the film, here it was played to humorous effect. In fact, every appearance Amos made the audience break into laughter. The real scene-stealer in the show, however, was unquestion­ ably Mary Sunshine. The theatri­ cal production has a twist on the character that will be a shock to those familiar only with the movie, but the twist was carried off perfectly. In fact, the whole trial scene was extremely impressive. Unlike the tap-dancing scene in the movie, Tuesday's production had cre­ ated a scene that paralleled the puppet press-conference, with human mimes, only on a larger scale. However, the production is by no means perfect. One notable fault in the pro­ duction was the accompanying music. The band seemed to through certain rush musical num ­ bers, and the tr o m b o n e s were weak in others. Wopat in particular has gener­ ated a lot of buzz for his perfor­ m ance. Tuesday, how ever, he seem ed to com e across a bit more like W ayne Newton per­ form ing in Las Vegas than like a vaudevillian. "A ll He Cares About Is L ove" even featured chorus girls w ith pink flam ingo wings. Later, d u ring "W e Both Reached for the G u n ," Wopat actually seem ed to take on the vocal characteristics of Kerm it the Frog, w hich stood in stark contrast with G ere's nasal per­ form ance in the film. And to ensure that no one expects a sim ple rehash of the m ovie, it's im portant to point out that Brenda Braxton's Velma Kelly and M ichelle D eje a n 's Roxie Hart exude a quiet v u l­ nerability not to be found an y­ w here the O scar-w inning film. in Roxie, in this representation, was not the bundle of wispy cuteness that Renee Z ellw egger created on-screen. Putting a pow erful voice on display, she created a tem ptress w ho made no secret of her lack of sham e, except in "R o x ie," w here she left the audience believing that she really could be in love with her lovable loser husband Am os, in spite of her infidelity. Dejean, with her wild mane of tifian hair lumped atop her head, seemed almost to chan­ nel Lucille Ball at certain points. In one particularly despair­ ing scene with Amos, her mouth hung open and one would almost Throughout the night, the balance between the instru­ ments never quite seemed to be right. said, That the musicians managed sheer magnificence during "R o x ie ," starting softly and crescendo-ing into a raucous buüd-up. • Also, any scene the six featuring have exp ected "O hhhh R icky" to fall out. the w ord s Braxton, w ith her cheshire- cat smile, turned the confident Velma into a cloyingly desperate sex kitten, still naive despite her worldliness. Neither D ejean nor Braxton Illu stra tio n b y Jesse Francescini Daily Texan Staff Visit T h e D a i l y T e x a n online at www. dailytexanonline. com O < a. axy GALAXY® HIGHLAND STADIUM 10 I-35 & MIDDLE FISKVILLE RD • 512-467-7305 T P T All New Stadium Seating! 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Lim it two tickets per ID. First come, first served. SEE IT O N TH E BIG SCREEN TODAY! Alomo Drofthouse Cinema ALAMO LAKE CREEK 183 & Lake Creek Pkwy 512/219-8135 AMC BARTON CREEK SQUARE 14 2901 Capitol o f Texas Hwy 512/306-9190 Regal Cinemas GATEWAY STADIUM 16 Capital o f Texas Hwy at 183 800/FANDANGO #366 Galaxy Theatres HIGHLAND 10 1-35 @ Middle Fiskville 512/467-7305 Regal Cinemas METROPOLITAN STADIUM 14 1-35 @ Stassney Lane 800/FAN DANGO #368 Cinemark TINSELTOWN USA PFLUGERVILLE 1-35 N @ FM 1825 512/989-8529 Regal Cinemas WESTGATE STADIU M 11 S Lamar & Ben White 800/FANDANGO #369 « C C « THEATtf M K C T N K S 0 * CALL POt SOUND INKMMATtON ANO SHOWTNtS SKCUU EM M CM fNTS NO M SSCS Of DISCOUNT COUPONS ACCEPTED Im m ensely enjoyable! Kornbluth delivers his tale w ith great a p p e a l, much hum or, and some nice round g la sses.” v i l l a g e v o ic e It’s a d e te c tive story, a re ve n g e story, a s h o w -b iz s a g a . A b o v e a ll, it's a p o ig n a n t a n d h ila rio u s fa th e r-s o n sto ry.” W a s h i n g t o n p o s t — T I C K E T S O N S A L E N O W t i c k e t s : W W W . U T ^ Al so av ai l ab l e at UT PAC, E r w i n C ent er & H - E - B stores • Groups 4 7 1 - 0 6 4 8