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A flat rate combines tuition fees and also includes other expenses that do not only apply to tuition. Currently, both UT-Austin and UT-Arlington charge tuition by this method. The change will affect 46 students, 24 at Austin and 22 in Arlington. Veterans and their dependents who receive benefits from the GI Bill will not be affected. UT spokesman Gary Susswein said the University has been working to reach an agreement with the DOD for about two weeks and has been in contact with the UT System for several months. “Our goal is that no students who are members of the military will lose their funding at UT,” Susswein said. “We are absolutely committed to making sure that our soldiers, our veter ans and our guardsmen can take advantage of financial aid at UT.” The letter stated active military students who applied for tuition assistance before March 22 will receive their money, but applications submitted after that date will not be approved until an agreement is reached. Susswein said he could not give any information on what a possible solution might look like. “There are various ideas that have been discussed, but they have not been assessed enough for us to say what they are yet,” Susswein said. “But everyone is on board with getting this solved as quickly as possible.” The new DOD criteria requires schools to itemize their tuition on a course-bycourse basis to make sure students are using the funding only for tuition and not other expenses. Students who go to schools that do not meet this criteria will not receive tuition assistance. According to the Texas National Guard’s Education Office, the DOD’s policy change went into effect March 22 and only impacts UT-Austin and UT-Arlington. The letter said the Texas National Guard Education Office is hoping to see a solution reached between the UT System and the DOD by the end of June. The letter warned that students from neither school will be able to receive federal tuition assistance until a solution is reached. “Be cognizant that there is no guarantee that a solution will be reached and you may end up self-funding your tuition assistance,” the letter stated. Donnie Davis, a veteran and sociology senior, said he had confidence that the UT System and the DOD would reach an agreement. While Davis, who gets his tuition assistance through the GI Bill and will not be affected, said the University has become better at working with veterans and active duty soldiers than it used to be when he ended his military service in 2009. “Since I have been here, a lot of changes have happened,” Davis said. “We were kind of thrown into the school and didn’t get a lot of help when I first got here. Just within the last year things have gotten better.” Davis said the Student Veteran Center, which provides assistance by aiding with students’ graduation plans, is an example of how the University has been better accommodating to Veterans. “We’re one of the first schools to have a [Student Veteran Center],” Davis said. “It would be quite a step back to pull back and say ‘veteran students are cool, but these active military students are going to lose their financial assistance.’” opinion Editor-in-Chief Susannah Jacob @DTeditorial facebook.com/dailytexan 4512-471-5084 editor@dailytexanonline.com Who’s scared of four-year graduation rates? Last month Dr. David Laude, current interim dean of the College of Natural Sciences, was appointed “Graduation Rate Champion.” When he begins his new job in July, Laude will be charged with seeing that at least 70 percent of the incoming freshman class graduates in four years, a goal the administration has given outsized importance since the publication of a February report that made specic recommendations on how to graduate more students in less time. e superhero image Laude’s “Champion” title brings to mind is not out of place given the good versus evil narratives that have played out during recent crises in higher education in Texas. e list of villains is long and includes the Texas Public Policy Foundation whose proposal to split research and teaching dropped jaws, a Governor whose preoccupations with gaining political capital comes at the expense of thoughtful discussion of a public university’s purpose, and a Board of Regents who have consistently failed to win the trust of both students and alumni. On the other side of the media-hyped higher education drama are those depicted as victims: students beset by rising costs, faculty members laid o or denied incentives due to budget cuts, and a university administration hamstrung by state politics that contradict the University’s own stated goals. Budget free falls, “breakthrough solutions” and $10,000 undergraduate degrees have all been serious cause for alarm over the past two years. With hardly a single exception, none of those episodes’ conclusions moved the University closer to its goal of being the number one public research institution in the country. e crises continue unabated. Given the amount of attention and press coverage the issue has lately received, it appears that UT’s weak four-year graduation rate may be the greatest existential threat faced by Texas’ agship university. Or maybe it’s just the most recent, avor-of-the-month crisis in Texas higher education. While some of the crises in the past two years have been truly critical and unavoidable situations over which the University had minimal control – particularly a challenging nancial climate – the majority have been manufactured political debates that jeopardized students’ educations in order to advance a narrow agenda. College students are taught not to expect that anything we hear is an absolute truth. Aer having heard so many conict- LEGALESE Opinions expressed in e Daily Texan are those of the editor, the Editorial Board or the writer of the article. ey are not necessarily those of the UT administration, the Board of Regents or the Texas Student Media Board of Operating Trustees. EDITORIAL TWITTER Follow The Daily Texan Editorial Board on Twitter (@DTeditorial) and receive updates on our latest editorials and columns. ... maybe it’s just the most recent flavor-of-the-month crisis in Texas higher education. ing pronouncements over the course of the past several years, it’s hard for students to truly believe that graduating in four years is really as important as the administration is making it out to be. Most likely, the importance of increasing our four- year graduation rate will be eclipsed by a bigger, even more newsworthy problem before the incoming freshman class makes it to senior year. ough it remains unclear why, out of all the other challenges facing the University, four-year graduation rates warrant the creation of a special, new administrative position, the fact that one has been created is a hopeful signal that the graduation rate crisis may actually help move the University forward. Portions of the “Final Report of the Task Force on Undergraduate Graduation Rates” are frustrating. e “slacker rule” would allow the University to charge nonresident tuition to in-state students who do not achieve a degree in a certain number of hours. But the report, which is responsible for Dr. Laude’s new job, illuminates successfully some of the very real challenges that the University has struggled with for years. So far, the only visible steps taken to address the four-year graduation rate have been changes to summer orientation, blatant messages in speeches, and promotional material distributed to incoming freshman – clearly the low-hanging fruit among the recommendations made in the report. Because the graduation rate issue touches on so many other challenges, it may well require the superhuman qualities implied by Laude’s “Graduation Champion” title. ough the graduation rate issue may be the least exciting episode, and not as menacing as an ideology-driven think tank or a free-falling budget, it may, in the end, leave the greatest mark on the University. It will be up to everyone, students included, to make sure that this story has the happy ending needed aer so many other unproductive conclusions. —e Daily Texan Editorial Board SUBMIT A FIRING LINE E-mail your Firing Lines to ringline@dailytexanonline.com. Letters must be more than 100 and fewer than 300 words. e Texan reserves the right to edit all submissions for brevity, clarity and liability. RECYCLE Please recycle this copy of e Daily Texan. Place the paper in one of the recycling bins on campus or back in the burnt-orange newsstand where you found it. Privatizing universities? Don’t bank on it By Kayla Oliver Authors of a recent Forbes article generated considerable buzz when they promoted a plan for the aggressive privatization of university services. While elimination of state political control may appeal to those put off by the latest rumors of the UT Board of Regents’ dangerous partisanship, sweeping privatization of our campus invites trouble. Successfully raising donations sufficient to compensate for the elimination of state funding is not the plan’s only hurdle. The predatory practices of the banks and financial firms that now hold contracts with almost 900 colleges and universities—including Arizona State University and Texas A&M University—demonstrate the dangers of excessive privatization. e Boston-based U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) released a report last month that shed light on the complicated nancial and legal issues inherent to universities’ relationships with banks and nancial rms. Essentially, nancial institutions oer schools incentives, including signing bonuses and direct payments, to privatize nancial and administrative functions. e most basic partnerships allow a bank or nancial rm to manage “closed loop” monetary functions of student ID cards. ese systems, similar to Dine In Dollars or Bevo Bucks, turn student IDs into prepaid cards used to pay for on- campus services. But most partnerships don’t stop there. Banks and rms are increasingly adding “open loop” functions that tie a student’s ID to his or her bank account and transform it into a debit card. In addition, students with accounts at their university’s partner bank can access nancial aid funds more quickly than they could through another bank or traditional checks. In order to withdraw those funds, however, students oen have to pay an ATM fee. ese transactions raise a dicult ethical question: Is it acceptable for banks and nancial rms to charge students to access taxpayer- provided money? Certainly, any process that funnels tax dollars into corporate coers should be thoroughly and critically evaluated. Even more disconcerting, this system acts counter- intuitively by charging unnecessary fees to nancial aid recipients, the students by denition least able to aord those fees. In addition to ATM withdrawal fees, many banks and rms charge per-swipe and inactivity fees, forcing students to pay regardless of whether they use their card or not. BANKS continues on PAGE 5 opinion 5 gallery BANKS continues from p 4 The PIRG report also raises concerns about banks’ and firms’ deceptive marketing practices. A partner institution will often “co-brand” on student IDs, placing its logo next to the university’s seal or mascot. Many students register this as their school’s implicit endorsement of a particular bank, and automatically trust that bank more than its competitors. Some bank partners also gain the exclusive rights to table in common areas and give out “freebies” like sweatshirts or mugs. These strategies have the potential to turn naive college students into captive consumers, their choices influenced by what they see on campus and on their own IDs. Some schools even force students to activate a card by refusing to disburse overpayment refunds, such as excess financial aid, through accounts at any bank other than their partner institution. Finally, PIRG speculates that some universities’ distribution of student information to banks violates the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. On the bright side, the report notes that UT-Austin is the largest public university without such a contract. Jamie Brown, Department of Student Financial Services spokesman says UT decided not to partner with a specific bank because, “It doesn’t make sense for us to participate in these kinds of programs, especially if we’re trying to educate students on smart spending.” UT follows a traditional financial aid disbursement protocol. The University will either deposit funds directly into a student’s account, at any bank, or simply write the student a check. Although more conventional and less streamlined than a bank partnership, this approach remains the most ethical and straightforward method to distribute financial aid and overpayment refunds. For most students, college offers the first opportunity to manage their own finances. University-bank partnerships discourage smart shopping and responsible financial practices by limiting choices and normalizing excessive, unfair fees. More universities should follow UT’s example by resisting financial incentives that come at the expense of following through on their responsibility to students. the firing line A fair trial for Omid Kokabee A recent article in The Daily Texan discussed theconcern of the fairness of the proceedings in the trial of Omid Kokabee who, when he was a graduate student in the UT Department of Physics, was detained by the Iranian government in Jan., 2011, as he was attempting to return back to UT after a winter break visit to his family in Iran. In May 2012 he was convicted and sentenced to ten years imprisonment for collaboration with enemies of Iran. His trial, which took place simultaneously with more than 10 other defendants, was extremely rapid. Kokabee was the only defendant to not admit guilt and Kokabee did not have access to legal help. As an attempt to obtain a fair trial for Kokabee, a petition directed to the authorities in Iran has been placed online at http://www.gopetition. com/petitions/fair-retrial-for-omid-kokabee.html . I urge Daily Texan readers to support this call for a fair re-trial of Omid Kokabee. — Herbert L. Berk Professor, Department of Physics Want to Write for the texan? The Daily Texan editorial board is currently accepting applications for columnists and cartoonists. We’re looking for talented writers and artists to provide as much diversity of opinion as possible. Anyone and everyone is encouraged to apply. Writing for the Texan is a great way to get your voice heard. Our columnists’ and reporters’ work is often syndicated nationwide, and every issue of the Texan is a historical document archived at the Center for American History. Barack Obama may not be a frequent reader, but a copy of the Texan runs across UT President William Powers’ desk each day, and the opinions on this page have great potential to affect University policy. It’s no rare occurrence for Texan staff members to receive feedback from local or state officials, or to be contacted by a reader whose life was changed by an article. In such instances, the power of writing for the Texan becomes real, motivating our staffers to provide the best public service possible. If interested, please come to the Texan office at 25th and Whitis streets to complete an application form and sign up for an interview time. If you have any additional questions, please contact Susannah Jacob at (512) 4715084. or editor@dailytexanonline.com. NEWS 6 Children of same-sex parents disadvantaged UT associate By Hannah Jane DeCiutiis understatement. I have three In one instance, Regnerus professor of Sociology Mark thriving adult children who reported signicant statisti have been raised in a lesbian cal dierences between chil- Regnerus has When Austin resident household since the ages of dren raised by heterosexual received nation- Dawn Bayer looks at her three seven, nine, and 11.” couples and those raised al attention for a adult children, she considers Bayer said she has been by women who had lesbian new study ques her parenting journey a suc-with her current partner for relationships in categories tioning “How cess. Although she began three years. Aer divorcing such as education, employ- different are the raising her children within her children’s father, Bayer ment status, depression and adult children a married heterosexual rela-was told that revealing her marijuana use. of parents who have same-sex relationships?” tionship, Bayer has been in sexuality could cost her the Regnerus said the study lesbian relationships for 14 custody of her kids. has been widely criticized Regnerus denies years. She is one of the people “e attorney told me, for not including stable les claims of politi who disagrees with a new UT ‘You cannot tell anyone in bian households. Only two of cal bias in his study nding children raised the state of Texas that you are the children from the study research. by gay parents are at a signi-gay, It is absolutely possible spent their entire lives raised cant disadvantage. that you could lose your chil-by a lesbian couple, he said. Pu Ying Huang Daily Texan Staff Published in the June issue dren because of your sexual-“ere’s not enough to sta of Social Science Research, the ity,’” Bayer said. “At the time, tistical power to tell if there study was led by UT associate it was a dierent world.” are dierences between those funding his project with to the study, the “no dierenc-overlooked as recent research sociology professor Mark Reg-Regnerus compared adult small handful of stable lesbi-such a [conservative] history es” paradigm suggests children continues to support the “no nerus and encountered a swirl children raised in family an couple families,” he said. doesn’t have an agenda.” of same-sex couples display dierences” paradigm. of media scrutiny last week. structures such as “intact bio “I would assume that they Knoll also said he hopes “no notable disadvantages” to “We have observed how the Regnerus said his study hoped families,” which include mar-would be doing better. Sta-Regnerus’ “numbers won’t those raised by heterosexual scholarly discourse regarding to answer the question, “Is there ried heterosexual couples, bility is good. at was one be used to justify issues” married couples. same-sex parenting and ‘marno dierence between growing with children raised by gay clear message of the study.” against homosexuals. “Oen, defenders of alter-riage’ has shied dramatically up with a gay parent as opposed or lesbian parents. Regnerus Travis Knoll, a Latin Amer-He said the larger issue re-native sexual lifestyles and in the past decade,” Haecker to other forms of family struc-began the study in fall 2010 ican studies senior, was ad-volves around what is best for familial forms will use such said. “If this secularizing trend tures?” Critics have said Regn-and used a nationally repre-opted when he was six years children who are currently in research, either overtly or co-should continue, we may exerus’ study is awed because he sentative population-based old by a single gay man aer need of stable homes. vertly, to silence and dismiss pect sociological and legal did not include enough stable sampling method, the same spending much of his child-“ere are thousands of with, rather than to engage discourse to more and more gay couples in his analysis. He method used in the U.S. cen-hood in foster care. Knoll children waiting for adoption with, moral criticisms,” Haeck-exclude, dismiss and silence has also received backlash be-sus, which diers from other said the sacrices made by his by competent gay couples, and er said, referring to those who moral criticisms of alternative cause he received funding from studies that seek out individ-father and those who helped they can’t be adopted through use the paradigm to suggest familial forms.” the Witherspoon Institute and ual people to survey. raise him were invaluable certain agencies because it’s that children raised by same-Despite the study, Bayer the Bradley Foundation, two e study compared chil-parts of his upbringing. against their principles, or sex couples are the same as all said it’s up to parents to real- organizations known to sup-dren using 40 dierent cate-“My father’s orientation because the state still prefers other children. “e policy ize the importance of bring- port conservative ideals. gories which observed aspects did indeed inuence how I to keep them in the foster of not discussing the moral ing up children in stable and In an interview with e of their adult life, such as in-was raised,” Knoll said. “It in-systems, which are very tem-criticisms of same-sex erotic loving families no matter Daily Texan, Regnerus said he come, voting status, current uenced my character posi-porary and don’t provide sta-relationships is presently ob-the structure. stands by everything he wrote. sexual orientation, depression tively. I felt I was being raised bility for the child,” Knoll said. served among proponents of “It’s important to remember “I stand by everything I level and current self-report-in a community. I wouldn’t “So regardless of the study, the same-sex lifestyles.” that love is love, and when we did, said and wrote,” Reg-ed level of happiness. trade my life for anything.” real question is how can we Haecker said proponents do things with intention and nerus said. “I don’t have a “We found that there are Knoll said the results of the assure society that gay couples of a more traditional fam-purpose, kids aren’t le out,” political axe to grind. I know dierences between kids who study were presented without will raise children in a similar ily structure, particularly in Bayer said. “Gay or straight, it the funders are conservative. grew up with a mom in a les-an articulated point, which fashion to straight couples?” a religious context, are oen doesn’t matter.” I don’t know what they make bian relationship and kids who made the ultimate intention Ryan Haecker, information of this. I will always follow grew up with mom and dad of the study unclear. studies graduate student and where the data leads.” who were married and who “A public intellectual has founder of UT’s Anscombe ON THE WEB Bayer said her success in are still married today,” Regn-a responsibility not to just Society chapter which aims to raising children while main-erus said. “It’s challenging be-publish numbers, but to also protect the ideals of heterosex- Video interview with taining same-sex relation-cause family structure is not a be very clear about what they ual marriage on campus, said ships made the results of the static thing, so deciding who is mean. I think [Regnerus] has he found Regnerus’ criticism UT associate sociology study particularly upsetting. going to be analyzed and what yet to clarify that,” Knoll said. of the “no dierences” para professor Mark Regnerus “I was disappointed,” Bay-the categories are calls for a lot “It almost seems kind of naïve digm to be the most signicant er said. “at might be an of objective decisions.” to think that someone who’s aspect of the study. According http://bit.ly/KYT15S Date: June 18, 2012 To: All Students at The University of Texas at Austin From: Dr. Soncia Reagins-Lilly, Senior Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Subject: Texas Hazing Statute Summary and The University of Texas at Austin’s Hazing Regulations The 70th Texas Legislature enacted a law concerning hazing. Under the law, individuals or organizations engaging in hazing could be subject to fines and charged with a criminal offense. According to the law, a person can commit a hazing offense not only by engaging in a hazing activity, but also by soliciting, directing, encouraging, aiding or attempting to aid another in hazing; by intentionally, knowingly or recklessly allowing hazing to occur; or by failing to report, in writing to the Dean of Students or another appropriate official of the institution, first-hand knowledge that a hazing incident is planned or has occurred. The fact that a person consented to or acquiesced in a hazing activity is not a defense to prosecution for hazing under this law. In an effort to encourage reporting of hazing incidents, the law grants immunity from civil or criminal liability to any person who reports a specific hazing event in good faith and without malice to the Dean of Students or other appropriate official of the institution and immunizes that person for participation in any judicial proceeding resulting from liability that might otherwise be incurred or imposed as a result of the report. Additionally, a doctor or other medical practitioner who treats a student who may have been subjected to hazing may make a good faith report of the suspected hazing activities to police or other law enforcement officials and is immune from civil or other liability that might otherwise be imposed or incurred as a result of the report. The penalty for failure to report is a fine of up to $1,000, up to 180 days in jail, or both. Penalties for other hazing offenses vary according to the severity of the injury which results and include fines from $500 to $10,000 and/ or confinement for up to two years. HAZING DEFINED The law defines hazing as any intentional, knowing or reckless act, occurring on or off the campus of an educational institution, by one person alone or acting with others, directed against a student, that endangers the mental or physical health or safety of a student for the purpose of pledging, being initiated into, affiliating with, holding office in or maintaining membership in any organization whose members are or include students at an educational institution. Hazing includes but is not limited to: A. any type of physical brutality, such as whipping, beating, striking, branding, electronic shocking, placing of a harmful substance on the body or similar activity; B. any type of physical activity, such as sleep deprivation, exposure to the elements, confinement in a small space, calisthenics, or other activity that subjects the student to an unreasonable risk of harm or that adversely affects the mental or physical health or safety of the student; C. any activity involving consumption of food, liquid, alcoholic beverage, liquor, drug or other substance which subjects the student to an unreasonable risk of harm or which adversely affects the mental or physical health of the student; D. any activity that intimidates or threatens the student with ostracism, that subjects the student to extreme mental stress, shame or humiliation, or that adversely affects the mental health or dignity of the student or discourages the student from entering or remaining registered in an educational institution, or that may reasonably be expected to cause a student to leave the organization or the institution rather than submit to acts described in this subsection; E. any activity that induces, causes or requires the student to perform a duty or task which involves a violation of the Penal Code. UNIVERSITY DISCIPLINARY RULES This law does not affect or in any way limit the right of the university to enforce its own rules against hazing under Chapter 16 of the Institutional Rules on Student Services and Activities. In addition, Rules and Regulations of the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System, Series 50101, Number 2, Section 2.8, provide that: A. Hazing with or without the consent of a student is prohibited by the System, and a violation of that prohibition renders both the person inflicting the hazing and the person submitting to the hazing subject to discipline. B. Initiations or activities by organizations may include no feature that is dangerous, harmful or degrading to the student. A violation of this prohibition renders both the organization and participating individuals subject to discipline. DANGEROUS OR DEGRADING ACTIVITIES Activities which under certain conditions constitute acts which are dangerous, harmful or degrading, in violation of Chapter 16 and subsections 6-303(b)(3) and 11-404(a)(8) of the Institutional Rules on Student Services and Activities include but are not limited to: cCalisthenics, such as sit-ups, push-ups or any other form of physical exercise; cTotal or partial nudity at any time; cThe eating or ingestion of any unwanted substance; cThe wearing or carrying of any embarrassing, degrading or physically burdensome article; cPaddle swats, including the trading of swats; cPushing, shoving, tackling or any other physical contact; cThrowing any substance on a person; cConsumption of alcoholic beverages accompanied by either threats or peer pressure; cLineups for the purpose of interrogating, demeaning or intimidating; cTransportation and abandonment (road trips, kidnaps, walks, rides, drops); cConfining individuals in an area that is uncomfortable or dangerous (hot box effect, high temperature, too small); cAny form of individual interrogation; cAny type of servitude that is of personal benefit to the individual members; cWearing of embarrassing or uncomfortable clothing; cAssigning pranks such as stealing, painting objects, harassing other organizations; cIntentionally messing up the house or a room for clean up; cDemeaning names; cYelling or screaming; and cRequiring boxing matches or fights for entertainment. DISCIPLINED ORGANIZATIONS, INCLUDING THOSE RESOLVED VIA MUTUAL AGREEMENTS In accordance with requirements of the Texas Education Code Section 51.936(c), the following organizations have been disciplined for hazing and/or convicted for hazing, on or off campus, during the preceding three years: cAbsolute Texxas* Conditional registration is one and a half (1.5) years (Completed November 19, 2009). cAlpha Epsilon Pi Penalty issued August 17, 2011 (Probation through August 17, 2013). calpha Kappa Delta Phi* Conditional registration is three (3) years (June 10, 2013). cAlpha Tau Omega* Conditional registration is two (2) years (May 13, 2012). cBeta Chi Theta* Conditional registration is one (1) year (Completed August 24, 2010). c Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Penalty issued November 10, 2009 (Suspended through December 31, 2009; Probation through October 30, 2012). cDelta Tau Delta* Conditional registration is two (2) years (September 9, 2012). cKappa Phi Gamma Sorority, Inc.* Conditional registration is two (2) years (April 30, 2014). cLambda Phi Epsilon Penalty issued December 20, 2005 (Cancelled through December 19, 2011; Suspended through December 19, 2012; Probation through December 19, 2013). cOmega Phi Gamma* Conditional registration is three (3) years (July 13, 2014). cPhi Delta Chi-Pharmacy* Conditional registration is one (1) year (Completed March 5, 2010). cPhi Delta Theta* Found to be in violation; Penalty pending. cPhi Gamma Delta* Conditional registration is two (2) years (Completed July 15, 2010). cPhi Kappa Psi Penalty issued February 7, 2006 (Cancelled through February 6, 2007; Suspended through March 27, 2008; Probation through March 24, 2010). cPi Kappa Phi* Conditional registration is two (2) years (February 27, 2014). cSigma Alpha Epsilon* Conditional registration is five (5) years (April 7, 2013). cSigma Alpha Mu* Conditional registration is two (2) years (April 20, 2014). cSigma Chi* Conditional registration is two (2) years (Completed May 16, 2010). cSigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.* Conditional registration is one (1) year (Completed August 16, 2010). cSigma Phi Epsilon* Conditional registration is two (2) years (September 1, 2012). cSilver Spurs* Conditional registration is two (2) years (July 13, 2013). cTexas Cheer and Pom* Conditional registration is two (2) years (Completed July 23, 2011). cTexas Iron Spikes* Conditional registration is three (3) years (March 7, 2014). cTexas Omicron (formerly known as Kappa Alpha)* Conditional registration is three (3) years (April 11, 2015). cTexas Wranglers* Conditional registration is two (2) years (Completed October 6, 2010). cZeta Beta Tau* Conditional registration is two (2) years (August 19, 2012). *Resolved via Mutual Agreement To report an act of hazing to the Office of the Dean of Students, visit deanofstudents.utexas.edu/complaint. php. For further information or clarification of probationary member activities, please contact Student Activities in the Office of the Dean of Students, Student Services Building (SSB) 4.400, 512-471-3065. NEWS 8 ‘Imagine Austin’ plan set to overhaul Austin By Hannah Jane DeCiutiis Austin’s City Council unanimously voted to adopt a comprehensive plan June 14 that will guide city development over the next 30 years in order to turn Austin into a more “compact, connected” city. Titled “Imagine Austin,” the plan outlines an overall vision for what city officials hope to accomplish in Austin in areas such as land use and transportation, housing and neighborhoods, conservation and environment and the local economy. Garner Stoll, Austin’s assistant director of planning and review, said although some residents have raised concerns over Imagine Austin’s effect on currently established neighborhoods and housing affordability, the plan is a continuing process with annual reviews. “The plan recommends looking at encouraging growth where we want it to happen,” Stoll said. “Austin keeps growing rapidly. There’s been concern about whether this destabilizes established neighborhoods. the city and it contains ac-Rob D’Amico, Citizens and Riverside Drive with a spectrum of demograph-Despite the flexible naWe’re not pretending we tions for what the city of-Advisory Task Force mem-mixed-use land planning ic groups. Providing plenty ture of the Imagine Austin can plan for 30 years out.” ficials should do. I think ber, said the plan is not to be initiatives that combine of options for city elements plan, Bhat said it is impor- The plan includes input we certainly hope to see used as a step-by-step guide residential and commercial such as transportation are tant to have a firm grip from City Council, the mobility improvements toward improvement. elements. Current examples crucial to making the plan on the overall vision for Comprehensive Plan Citi-in the future, meaning a “There’s not necessarily of mixed-land use plan-work, Bhat said. the city. zens Advisory Task Force more walk-able, bike-able a first step,” D’Amico said. ning in Austin include the “Different elements of “These kinds of plans and the city’s Planning pedestrian community.” “It’s more of a blueprint for Triangle and the Domain, development can provide and visions might not ex- Commission. Stoll said There are several core when you reach decision where businesses and resi-choices,” Bhat said. “It actly pan out the way they since 2010, about 18,000 principles that will guide points. There are certain dences occur on the same can allow for easier ac-are initially structured, but Austin residents have tak-city officials over the course milestones that we want footprint of land. cess to various activities, having this type of vision en part in surveys in order of the plan, such as sustain-to reach, but it’s more of a Civil engineering pro-and it can promote walk-is very important,” Bhat to include their input in ability of water and other guide than a road map.” fessor Chandra Bhat said ing and bicycling. That said. “What are we wanting the plan. resources, integration of D’Amico said much of important factors for the can have useful benefits Austin to be in 30 years? “It’s a city-wide plan to nature into the city and af-the plan calls for corridor success of such compre-on traffic congestion, it As long as that is articulatguide future growth and fordability of living for all planning, which involves hensive plans include the can have energy benefits ed with enough clarity and development,” Stoll said. residents, according to the densifying corridors such ability to keep the entire and it can have public enough vision, these plans “It contains visions for Imagine Austin website. as Airport Boulevard community engaged across health benefits.” will be beneficial.” Illustration by Colin Mullin NEWS 9 Six month search for undergraduate dean detailed By Bobby Blanchard For Paul Woodru, stepping down as dean of the School of Undergraduate Studies to return to teaching means changing jobs, but for the school it means an international search for a new dean that could take more than six months. More than 10 faculty members and students will lead a search committee to nd Woodru’s replacement. ese committees are the groups that seek out and hire the University’s president, provost, vice presidents and deans. Architecture professor Larry Speck, who has served as the chair of three vice president search committees in the past decade, sat down with e Daily Texan to talk about his past experience on search committees and explain the process of picking a new dean. Speck most recently served as the chair on the search committee for the Vice President of Student Aairs, a hunt that started in October 2011 and ended in May 2012 when Powers selected one of three recommended applicants, Gage Paine of UT-San Antonio. Before the search Speck said search committees for deans are typically composedofappointedstudentsand faculty members. Speck said the college in question gets to elect around ve members and President William Powers Jr. will appoint several more. Among the appointees, Speck said usually one dean from another college or school is included. In the case of the new dean for the School of Undergraduate Studies, which does not have professors in its department, it is not clear what faculty will serve on the committee and if they will be involved. Once the members are ap pointed, the committee for a new dean appoints a chair and receives advice. “ey get some advice from the president and whoever else is relevant about what the criteria is for this position and what we are looking for,” Speck said. Speck said the search committee will then start posting job descriptions and waiting for applications. In the search for the vice president of student aairs, Speck said the committee had about 100 applications before the winter break. “We rst made one quick cut of people who just weren’t qualied,” Speck said. We said ‘Here is the criteria, and theses candidates just don’t match it.’” Aer that, Speck said the search committee read all the other applications and scored them over winter break. Speck said the committee had come up with almost a dozen criteria points that each candidate was scored on. The search “We saw which ones came to the top and we had a discussion of those people,” Speck said. “en we narrowed it down to about nine people to invite to what we call airport interviews.” Airport interviews are a secretive part of the process. In the search for the vice president of student aairs, Speck said the search committee invited all nine candidates to Austin for a weekend. e committee met with each candidate in secret. e meetings were held at hotels close to the airport and not on campus. “ey don’t have to tell their University or their employer, ‘I’m thinking about taking another job,” Speck said. “at’s why we keep it completely con dential and pthe interview out at the hotel and not on campus, so somebody doesn’t see them and say ‘What are you doing on campus?’ and make it a very awkward position.” Speck said one of the challenging parts of the search committee is organizing the schedules of all nine candidates and the entire committee to be available for one weekend of interviewing. While arranging this around busy schedules was challenging, Speck said it is a useful strategy. “What was really good about it actually is that you saw everybody in close proximity,” Speck said. “So you were able to make those comparisons pretty easily.” Aer that point, in the search for vice president of student affairs, Speck said the committee was able to narrow it down to four people. “We brought them into the campus and they go through a two or three day thing where they talk to everybody and their brother that might have anything to do with their job,” Speck said. From this, Speck said the committee gets feedback from the faculty, the students and the president. e nal step is to submit three unranked recommendations to Powers, who makes the nal decision. The road ahead Speck said the long and intense process is taken very seriously. “All of these would be international searches,” Speck said. “You’re trying to get the very best from anywhere in the world. ey take a long time. is is true at most Universities, this is just the way it is in academia when you are hiring people at this level.” Woodru, who announced he was returning to teaching on Wednesday, said he expected an interim dean to be announced sometime within the next week. Speck said sometimes the interim dean becomes the next dean, but that is not always the case. “All this committee stu, it is a clean slate,” Speck said. “e committee does what the committee does. e President appoints an interim, but that person may have intentionally been appointed because they weren’t a candidate.” Woodru’s announcement comes at a time when the school is expecting a 66 percent increase in student enrollment. Despite this, Speck said the transition from Woodru, to interim dean and back to a new permanent dean will be seamless. “e University does this all the time,” Speck said. “We have one person who is really good at their job and very responsible and then they decide they’re going to move on and do something else, so we replace them and it happens all the time.” POUND FOR POUND Zachary Strain | Daily Texan Staff A man trains on a heavy bag during an open gym session at Lord’s Gym Saturday. The boxing gym, on North Lamar, is open air and without air conditioning. multimedia 10 Walking with the Dinosaurs Daily Texan Senior Photographer Andrew Torrey traveled to Houston to see The Houston Museum of Natural Science. The museum offers a wide range of exhibits, including the recently opened Hall of Paleontology. Examining trays of rocks for fossils is one of the many hands-on activities offered by the museum. multimedia 11 (left) The Hall of Paleontology offers a wide range of fossilized, prehistoric animals. (below) Brenden Kipfer enjoys a ride in the main lobby. (above) Jonah NeSmith and Jean Steinhardt examine the life cycle of troglodytes in The Hall of Paleontology. (left) Museum goers examine fossilized shells beneath a fossilized Archelon, a prehistoric turtle. NEWS 12 . RECYCLE your copy of The Daily Texan Housing on the rise west of campus By David Maly After years of moving at a slow pace, high-rise construction in West Campus has started up again as part of the city’s plans to attract Austin’s student population to the area. The construction is a result of the University Neighborhood Overlay Plan, a 2004 Austin City Council initiative to create more housing opportunities for students and decrease commuting issues. Although West Campus construction has been slow in recent years due to economic turbulence, officials said construction has resumed in the recent economic recovery. Currently, there are plans of at least six new high rises in the West Campus area over the next two years. Upon approval of the plan, construction of about 20 high- rise buildings such as Quarters, 21 Rio, The Block and Calloway House around West Campus began. Of the proposed six new buildings, some have been started and others are still in planning phases. LandDevelopmentandConstruction LLC, an Austin-based commercial real estate company, recently broke ground on a new six-story building at 21st Street and Pearl Street. Robert Lee, the real estate company’s CEO, said student housing is a top target for financiers to invest in following the recent recession. “Everyone is seeking investment- based properties right now, and student housing is near the top of the list,” he said. Lee said although the student housing market at other schools has been captured, the University Neighborhood Overlay Plan has opened parts of West Campus for expansion, and Austin’s population growth is making it a prime target for investors. According to the Austin Business Journal, Austin is the ninth fastest-growing metropolitan area in America and gains 151 residents every day. Monte Davis, owner of Austin- based real estate firm Davis Company Real Estate, said this expansion is necessary to meet the needs of students and young professionals moving into West Campus. “Currently, we are about 18,000 beds short of what we A construction team works on a new West Campus apartment complex on Nueces and 26th Streets Thursday afternoon. High- rise construction has recently started up again in West Campus, as a result of the University Neighborhood Overlay Plan. Marisa Vasquez Daily Texan Staff need,” he said. “There are only about 6,000 [under construction], so we will even still be off the mark.” Richie Gill, a Plan II and economics senior and owner of Mr. West Campus, a local real estate agency, said people are beginning to realize more and more what a favorable investment Austin is, and he will be interested to see how construction changes the city in the future. “It has just taken a while for people to realize that the economy here is not nearly as volatile as it is on the east or west coast,” he said. “In five years, how in the world is the city going to look?” DREAM Act supported by Obama decision By Bobby Blanchard also allows undocumented im-holding up signs in celebra-The president said his execumigrants to apply for a two-tion and support of Obama’s tive order would go into efyear work permit if they meet executive order. The University fect immediately but was not On Thursday, UT gradu-the above requirements and are Leadership Initiative is a UT a pathway to citizenship. ate Daniel Olvera would not under the age of 30. organization that advocates “This is not amnesty, this is have been able to apply for “This is relief; it is some-for the DREAM Act, a bill that not immunity,” Obama said. a high school job teaching thing that will grant release would give undocumented im-“This is something that hap- social studies because of his to nearly one million students migrants a pathway to citizen-pened because of the push and undocumented status. Today, who are undocumented right ship. At the celebration, many because of the activism of the it is a different story. now,” Olvera said. members said while they are youth movement nationwide,” President Barack Obama “Dreamers,” a term people happy for the executive order, Olvera said. “And we managed made an executive order Friday who support the DREAM Act they will continue to push for to make sure President Obama morning halting the deporta-use to describe themselves, and the DREAM Act. granted us relief before the retion of young immigrants if members of University Lead-In a statement Friday, election. If this was a political they came to the U.S. before ership Initiative gathered in Obama said his action was move, he would have promised the age of 16 and lack a crimi-front of the Littlefield fountain targeted to young people to do it after the election, but nal history. The executive order Friday, chanting, shouting and who study in U.S. schools. he did it beforehand.” Game 5 Date: Tuesday Time: 7 p.m. On air: ABC Date: Tuesday Time: 7 p.m. On air: ABC SPORTS Sports Editor Nick Cremona @texansports13 Andrew Torrey |Daily Texan Staff Head coach Mack Brown meets with the media during a press conference to discuss his team’s progress during the offseason and to address the forthcoming football season. WOMEN’S FOOTBALL Outlaws fall to Power as season ends By Sara Beth Purdy You have to look closely to tell the difference with their helmets on, but the women of the Austin Outlaws play with every bit of enthusiasm on the gridiron as their male counterparts. “It is a player’s sport, not a man’s sport or a women’s sport,” said Tanea Clay, a corner for the Outlaws. The little known, but proud group of ball players finished up their Spring 2012 season this past weekend against the Houston Power. Despite losing 30-0, the Outlaws celebrated after the game with the Power and their fans. The Austin Outlaws are one of 64 teams in the Women’s Football Alliance (WFA), a full-contact football league that has adopted most of the same rules as the NFL. The Outlaws, who operate out of Round Rock, are members of Division 12 in the American Conference. The Dallas Diamonds, Houston Power and Lone Star Mustangs are their division rivals. The Women’s Football Alliance started in 2009 and just finished its fourth season. They field a regular 11-person contingent. The OUTLAWS continues on PAGE 14 Longhorns ready to R.I.S.E. By Sara Beth Purdy Be “Relentless,” have “Intensity,” “Sacrice” in order to achieve “Swagger,” and play with “Emotion,” or R.I.S.E, is the slogan that the Longhorns are living by as they prepare themselves for the upcoming fall football season. Aer winning just 13 games over the course of the past two seasons, everyone around the Forty Acres is looking forward to September and the start of a new chapter in Texas football. is year’s slogan arose from the belief that eight wins, while better than ve, is not enough for the Longhorns. is summer, the Longhorns believe they can R.I.S.E up above eight wins and are hard at work trying to prove that. e Longhorns have concluded spring workouts and have been diligent in the weight room and on the practice elds for a summer of player-led workouts. With the start of summer workouts comes a new freshman class that has both the coaching sta and upperclassmen excited. So far the freshmen are tting in well during summer workouts. “e varsity guys are already buzzing about the freshman class,” said head coach Mack Brown. “ey think they’re really good.” At the conclusion of spring practice, Brown had a laundry list of concerns to be dealt with when the team reconvenes in August, a list that keeps him up at night. Among those concerns are: who will step up at tight end, how the Longhorns will deal with the loss of kicker Justin Tucker, and whether or not he can keep his team healthy. Above all, Brown is hoping to improve his oense’s passing game and get back to an elite status as a program. “We need to get more explosive plays. We need to throw it more oen and we need to throw it better,” Brown said. “We got all over the place oensively last year because we had people hurt at receiver, we had people hurt at running back. We were shuing quarterbacks ...it was re ally hard to do anything except try to win a game. You couldn’t build in a certain area and get a lot better.” Next year look to see the emergence of a new position under the label “T and Z.” Oensive Coordinators Bryan Harsin and Major Applewhite and receivers coach Darrell Wyatt are in the process of developing a new oensive position which combines the tailback and Z receiver. e position is designed to utilize the talents of senior running back D.J. Monroe and freshman athlete Daje Johnson, both exceptionally elusive athletes that will push each other for playing time come fall. “We feel those guys are speed guys and can get the ball in their hands and help us with explosive plays,” Brown said. “ey’re working hard this summer on getting packages to get [Monroe] more involved and [Johnson] to get him involved early in the process because we think he has a chance to be a good player with his explosive speed.” e attrition of several players to transfer and injuries, notably two offensive tackles, does not worry Brown, who insists that the losses don’t hinder the Longhorn’s oseason progress. However, Brown had little to say about the starting quarterback position and who had the upper BROWN continues on PAGE 14 SIDELINE NBA FINALS Game 4 OKC @ MIA OKC @ MIA Date: Thursday Time: 7 p.m. On air: ABC Astros place RHP Bud Norris on disabled list ARLINGTON, Texas— e Houston Astros have placed right-hander Bud Norris on the 15-day disabled list because of a sprained knee and called up ley Dallas Keuchel, who will make his major-league debut against the Texas Rangers. Outelder Carlos Lee returned to the Astros’ lineup Sunday aer a stint on the DL because of a strained hamstring. To make room on the roster, Houston optioned Brett Wallace to Triple-A Oklahoma City. e move with Norris is retroactive to June 12 at San Francisco. To create space for Keuchel on the 40-man roster, Houston moved le-hander Sergio Escalona from the 15-day disabled list to the 60-day DL. —The Associated Press SPORTS 14 OUTLAWS continues from page 13 only difference between the NFL and the WFA is the size of the ball– the Alliance has adopted a smaller ball. The Austin Outlaws was founded in 2001 as a member of the Independent Women’s Football League. The Outlaws have two division titles, one in 2001 and another in 2009, and a league Championship from 2001. They are represented by their mascot at games by Annie Outlaw, a pop-gun toting cowboy with a big sparkly hat. Despite the intensity and physical exertion that accompanies a football game, the Outlaws were not afraid of contact – this is no powder puff football team. “There is no time to be scared,” Clay said. “It is either hit them or get hit, and at the end of the day, you want to be the one to hit.” Penalties were called, injuries were sustained and the crowd was rambunctious, everything you would expect from any other football game. Roslyn Martin was a little hesitant at first to let her 5-foot-2 inch daugh- Andrew Torrey |Daily Texan Staff The Austin Outlaws finished this season with a 1-7 overall record. The team members reveled in the fact that they had an opportunity to play and were supportive of anyone wishing to join them. “Go for it, there is noth ing that you cannot do,” Clay said. “Anything you put your mind to– if you dream it, believe in it, you can do it. Nothing is stopping you, but you.” BROWN continues from page 13 hand at the conclusion of spring workouts. On the other side of the ball the coaching staff is focusing on creating turnovers and developing more quality depth at each position. With the loss of four-year starting linebacker Emmanuel Acho and safety Blake Gideon the defense is also still searching for a leader on the field. “We’ve got to have ends that can pass rush. We have to have tackles that can pass rush,” Brown said. “You have to have enough depth to go five and six defensive backs and still have the linebackers that can cover if they’re throwing it on the early down. Our staff is continuing to work on that.” On special teams, the arrival of Duke transfer Alex King is helping to ease the pain of Tucker’s departure. King, along with sophomore Will Russ and freshman Ben Pruitt will be competing for kicking duties when camp resumes in August. Fall camp begins on August 2, a month before the Longhorns season debut against Wyoming. “It’s always amazing to me when people say, ‘How is your team going to be?,” Brown said. “Nobody really knows ... if they work, yes, we’ll be a top team. If they don’t, we won’t be. We have a tough schedule. We’re going to have to play well, be physical, tough and confident.” ter Chantele Martin, a defensive back, play tackle football, but she still enjoys watching her daughter do something that she loves to do. “She is really little and I was worried she would get roughed up,” Martin said. “It is still a little scary to watch, it doesn’t get better.” The Outlaws finished the season 1-7, their lone win coming against The Tulsa Eagles in their season opener back in April. However, you wouldn’t know they held a losing record by talking to them. By Louis San Miguel Reggie White, Jim Kelly and Steve Young all had storied Hall of Fame careers in the NFL. The 25 Pro Bowls, 15 All-Pro selections and four Super Bowl victories between the three are more than enough to prove that. However, few remember that from 1984 to 1985 they played for a different football league altogether. The United States Football League, originally founded in 1985 and then went out of business in 1987 after losing millions of dollars, is poised for a comeback in March of next year. Rather than directly competing against the NFL directly, the modern USFL is planning to shape itself as a developmental league. “We will not try to compete with the NFL at all,” USFL CEO Jaime Cuadra told the AP. “We will play in markets where there are no NFL teams or major league baseball teams. It’s a league for guys who are Revamped USFL plans to evolve on the bubble for making NFL teams, and we will have complete open access for the NFL. We want to build a model that is sustainable.” Players that the league is targeting are far from the marquee signings of Heisman winners Herschel Walker and Doug Flutie that announced the arrival of the original USFL. They’re planning to target younger players on the fringe of NFL rosters. In line with this, the 14 game USFL season will run from March to June, during the NFL offseason, so its players could then attend NFL training camps in hopes of signing as free agents. The support for a USFL in Austin has been overwhelming so far. Heisman winner and UT alumnus Ricky Williams and Houston Astros vice president John Sorrentino have both shown their support for the league. Even Drew Brees, starting quarterback of the New Orleans Saints, called in to try to land a team here in Austin. “The Austin/San Antonio area is of serious interest to us,” USFL board chairman Jim Steeg said. “Passionate fans, great access to colleges – I mean UT is right there. We have meetings scheduled in a group of markets, but Austin is one of major interest where we’ll have a few. That’s what this is about.” Longhorns like Fozzy Whittaker, Michael Huey and John Chiles could all benefit from the league’s plan. After struggling to assert themselves in the NFL and missing the roster cut that sees the training camp roster of 90 men cut down to 53 with an eight-player practice squad, the trio could use a second chance to impress scouts and make a jump to the NFL. The league hopes to begin its inaugural season with eight teams. The cities being considered for franchises are Portland, Ore.; Salt Lake City; San Antonio or Austin, Texas; Columbus or Akron, Ohio; Oklahoma City; Omaha, Neb.; Raleigh/ Durham, N.C.; Birmingham, Ala.; and Memphis, Tenn. SPORTS 15 SOCCER Aztex find home at House Park By Nick Cremona It’s easy to become a spoiled soccer fan as the UEFA European Championships are ubiquitously broadcast on the ESPN family of networks and we’re all treated to exciting matches between Europe’s top teams. Some of the best players in the world are on display, and we’re all reminded just how good Spain’s midfield is. But it’s also easy to overlook the fact that there is another exciting team to watch right in our backyard. The Austin Aztex aren’t going to feature any of the world’s best footballers, or draw crowds bigger than a few thousand people, but what they do bring is an intensity and energy level that is lost in some levels of the sport. Europe may be home to some of the highest skilled players to ever dribble a ball, but domestically, the Aztex are nothing to scoff at. A member of the Mid-South division within the United Soccer League’s Premier Development League, the Aztex are in the middle of their inaugural season and own a record of 4-3-2. The team plays all of its 16 games between May and July, and is comprised of unpaid amateurs hoping to make a professional roster. The Aztex called Austin home once before back in 2008, but were relocated when former owner Phil Rawlins moved the franchise to Orlando, Fla. to become Orlando City Soccer Club before the move in 2010, the Aztex provided Austinites with a legitimate soccer team that looked as if it was poised to grow in coming years and possibly earn promotion into the top league in the U.S. soccer pyramid, the MLS. Currently playing in the fourth division of U.S. soccer, the Aztex have once again positioned themselves for promotion. It hasn’t taken long for fans of the Aztex, new and old, to rehash their support for the team after a short hiatus. Led by coach Paul Dalglish, a former player for England’s Newcastle United and Blackpool F.C., the Aztex employ a style of play very reminiscent to European teams. Dalglish is no stranger to winning either, having captured two MLS titles in 2006 and 2007 as a member of the Houston Dynamo. He took over as head coach at the beginning of this season and has turned Pu Ying Huang |Daily Texan Staff The Aztex’s Jesus “Chuy” Cortes looks to pass around an El Paso defender in a recent match. the team into a contender in just his first year. The Aztex play their home games in cozy House Park, a 6,500 seat stadium situated in the historic Judges’ Hill neighborhood. Originally erected in 1939 and still home to the Austin High football and soccer teams, House Park provides the Aztex with an intimate game- day atmosphere that doesn’t exist in the PDL. The 6,500 seats are rarely filled, but it doesn’t take much for House Park to turn into a hostile environment for opposing teams. The distance between the field and the fans is no more than 10 feet, and coincidentally, it is those fans who sit closest to the action that are the most vocal during games. There does exist a small contingent of “rowdies” that do their best to distract the opposition, and of course give the officials a piece of their collective mind on occasion. This interaction between the fans and what is happening on the pitch has always been an experience unique to soccer and it gives House Park a genuine feel, not to mention the gorgeous downtown backdrop and uncanny summer breeze that makes it a near perfect venue for the Aztex. If the Aztex continue to grow as a franchise, they can one day dream of becoming a part of MLS. But in order to reach the pinnacle of U.S. soccer, the team would likely have to part ways with its current home field to accommodate more fans and vendors. But for now, House Park remains home for the Aztex and will continue to provide fans with a fun and welcoming experience that can’t be duplicated. Moffat’s late strike gives Dynamo edge HOUSTON— Adam Moffat scored his first goal of the season in the 76th minute to give the Houston Dynamo a 2-1 win over FC Dallas. Moffat converted a big rebound for Houston (5-4-4) after FC Dallas goalkeeper Kevin Hartman made a save on a corner kick by Brad Davis. FC Dallas (3-9-4) is winless in its last 10 games and played the last 26 minutes with just 10 players after Jair Benitez was given a red card. Benitez hit Dynamo midfielder Colin Clark in the head. That play started a minor scrum between both teams, but cooler heads prevailed. Jackson Goncalves tied the game in the 59th minute when he put a rebound past Tally Hall after Scott Sealy’s initial shot caromed off Dynamo Houston defender Jermaine Taylor. Both teams created multiple scoring chances in the first half, but Houston That play started a minor scrum between both teams, but cooler heads prevailed. grabbed a 1-0 lead in the third minute on Bruin’s goal. FC Dallas defender Hernan Pertuz tried to clear the ball, but his attempt deflected off Bruin and past Hartman from about eight yards out. Dallas had six shots in the first half and nearly tied the game twice. The best chance came in the 16th minute when Scott Sealy beat Hall from 15 yards out, but his left-footed shot hit the far post. Hall finished with three saves, and Houston improved to 9-3-7 all time against FC Dallas and 6-1-3 at home against its intrastate rivals. —The Associated Press Darryl Dyck| Associated Press Houston Dynamo coach Dominic Kinnear leaves the field after the team’s 3-1 to the Vancouver Whitecaps during an MLS soccer game in Vancouver, British Columbia. @thedailytexan 16 Life&Arts Editor Aleksander Chan Life Arts ‘Mad Men’ Looking backon season fi ve By Aleksander Chan, Katie Stroh & Alex Williams It’s been one week since the h season nale of “Mad Men” and we’ve pulled together our experts in a roundtable postmortem on Matthew Weiner’s acclaimed ‘60s drama. Spoilers ahead. THE SEASON FINALE Katie Stroh: What an incredibly strange episode of ‘Mad Men,’ let alone season nale. Matthew Weiner’s upbringing at ‘e Sopranos’ has never been more evident; that show excelled at anticlimax, and never has ‘Mad Men’ been more anticlimactic, especially considering Lane Pryce’s dramatic suicide last week and the remarkable lack of signicant plot developments in the season nale. e only moment that oered any kind of revelation was the episode’s coda: a Heather Graham type approaches Don at the bar, asking him if he’s ‘alone’ and practically begging him to go back to his philandering ways, and then ... cut to black. I can’t decide whether this episode was incredibly disappointing or incredibly brilliant; I’m looking forward to your insight and opinions, as I’m still in a state of baement. Alex Williams: I wrote in our series recap about just how pen in a ‘Mad Men’ nale, and this episode only reinforced that hypoth- esis. While ‘e Phantom’ certainly didn’t deliver and was oen baingly oblique, it was betting of a season that’s been adicult it is to predict what’s going to hap- much of a climax, ‘Mad Men’s’ most ambitious by long shot. e show has made some bold stylistic choices this year, some of them successful (Sterling’s acid trip), some of them overwrought (Don’s stran gle-happy fever dream back in ‘Mystery Date’), and this has oen resulted in it losing a bit of its thematic subtlety. Even so, ‘e Phantom’ had plenty of striking moments, and even managed to wrap up a few story lines. Weiner also took a book from “e Sopranos” in his seasonal structure, letting many of the big events go down in the penultimate episode. Aleksander Chan: I’m torn between thinking season ve as the series’ most masterful or appalling glib. Weiner has helmed this season so that it oscillated between inexactness and broadness, most evident in the nale and Don’s hot tooth.‘ere’s something rotten in you and it’s not your tooth,’ says Don’s hallucinated brother Adam. I can get past the opaqueness of this lame metaphor, but only as far as its ambiguous underlying meaning. What’s rotten? Megan? Don’s old self, his inner Dick Whitman? Repressed mournfulness for Lane’s death? I get embracing uncertainty in storytelling — done right, it can tease the viewer along and maintain tension and stakes. But here, that tooth underlies how many of the season’s symbolism has been too on the nose. It’s as if in the pages of the script, the messages get bolded, italicized and underlined twice: ose Heinz beans ads trying to target Vietnam protesters (ese old folks, so out of touch!); Pete Campbell and his leaky kitchen faucet (Pete Campbel’s no man! But Don is!); Betty’s (benign) nodule (Her listless marriage to Henry might literally kill her!); Don pulling rank on Ginsberg and snowball ad (ere’s a snowball’s chance in hell Don will let some wunderkind take his place!) — plot devices laid out in not nearly as subtle a way we’ve known ‘Mad Men’ to do. And I do think Lane Pyrce’s phantom haunted the nale (that wide shot of the partners in the new oces was like a retro “Ocean’s Eleven” moment), but also specters of the show’s past: that nal scene, as Don leaves Megan to shoot her commercial, he cozies up to the bar and lights a cigarette with the same easiness and palpable machismo of his season on self. When psuedo-Heather Graham asks him, “Are you alone?” he is isn’t — the ghosts of seasons past surround him. ‘FAT’ BETTY Stroh: Poor January Jones. I’ve always defended her place on the show; it’s true that in other roles, Jones is often wooden at best, but I still hold that something — whether Weiner’s direction, the harmonious match of Jones’ frigidity to her character’s, or perhaps just LIFE&ARts her stunning good looks — makes January Jones a strangely compelling presence when she steps into Betty’s high-heeled shoes. Still, Betty remains one of the most maligned characters of ‘Mad Men’s’ world, (next to Pete Campbell, maybe). And now, as a product of the actress’s recent pregnancy, Betty has been imprisoned all the more rmly than she ever was in the Draper home — by that mausoleum of a house, by her ever more matronly wardrobe, and, of course, by that unfortunate fat suit, once worn with so much quiet sadness by Elisabeth Moss’s Peggy. And for all that, Jones barely appeared this season, only popping up in four of the season’s 13 hours and only garnering one major episode arc. It follows logically that Betty would appear less and less in the show, as she’s taken less of a role in Don’s life. But call me crazy — something has had me rooting for a Don-Betty reunion ing, if Don has to cheat on Megan at all. I kind of miss those crazy kids making each other’s lives a misery. Chan: Betty’s shorter arc this season made it dicult to sympathize with her and her vengeful lashing out at Don and Megan. Understandable given the terms of their divorce, but the show seemed to go out of its way to make us revile Betty — in her behavior and her body. at gratuitous body shot of Betty rising from the tub was abhorrent, and not because of her weight. It was because you feel Weiner and the show working really hard to make you revile the heavier Betty. I almost buy into her empty and unexciting marriage to Saint Henry and their McMansion as what’s boring her into Weight Watchers and subzero iciness, but the story line was too threadbare to ever going anywhere but mean. ‘THE OTHER WOMAN’ (OR THE JOAN INCIDENT) Stroh: You know, the entire Joan-as-sportscar metaphor had the potential to be disastrously overwrought and clumsy. “You see? Just as cars are merely objects onto which men project all their mid-life crises and suburban ennui, so too are beautiful women! Joan is a commodity to be sold ... just like Jaguar cars!” But if the analogy itself wasn’t anything all too profound, 17 the execution elevated it to a rapturous level. at entire montage intercutting stone-faced Joan’s ve percent partnership prostitution with Don’s own prostituting ad pitch to Jaguar made the blatancy of the “women are just products!” idea practically transcendent. Chan: Critics have been divided about the sort of streamlined decision making of this episode, where Joan eectively agreed to prostitute herself for the sake of the company to land the Jaguar account. Would Joan, specically the Joan who had just been abandoned by her husband and struggling and in a place of disillusionment come to such an awful decision in what appeared to be a matter of days? I’m not sure. ere was denitely something missing from the whole sequence to me — like they cut out the middle to get the money shot of Joan swelling with disgust as the Jaguar man takes o her coat in the hotel room. And making Don seem like the good guy by objecting but without any real urgency, or sense of actual responsibility for Joan (let’s be real: Don tried to stop her more to make himself feel better than to actually save her), was gross. But collectively, I thought the episode worked because it ultimately stayed true to ‘Mad Men’s’ modus operandi: the tugging between the desire for who we want to be and who we have to be. ‘e Other Woman’ was that at its most grey. LANE’S SUICIDE Stroh: Oh, Lane. Sweetly bumbling, well-intentioned, “chocolate bunny”-loving Lane. How you’ll be missed. Although the signs that it was still somehow a horrifying shock when Joan opened the door to Lane’s oce, only to nd it obstructed by ... something. And then the realization set in. at moment alone would have been enough to make Lane’s suicide by hanging horrifying, but then having to see Lane’s sti, purpled face was the most grotesque thing ‘Mad Men’s’ done since the lawnmower incident. Williams: e aermath of Lane’s suicide gave us an interesting but fairly standard scene between Don and Lane’s widow, but was ultimately worth it for that gorgeous shot of the ve partners gathered in the oce space that Lane’s suicide was paying for. His absence was never felt more than in that moment in the sprawling empty oce space, but it still felt like he was in there in spirit, having given the rm the nances to denitively expand. In fact, there’s a good case to be made that Lane is the metaphorical phantom who gave the episode its title. Chan: It was almost Hitchcockian, Lane’s demise. at scene where he has to hold up (one) broken eyeglass to try and x that shoddy new Jaguar in order to properly kill himself was the denition of tragicomedy. I never much cared for Embeth Davis’ performance as Lane’s wife, but that nal interaction between her and Don was a tour de force. “Do you know how the rest of us live?!” she screams at Don, who practically whimpers out the front door of the Pryce apartment. He does, actually, but Dick Whitman has been Don Draper for so long, he’s forgotten how money can just as easily ruin as he found success. PEGGY’S UPWARD MOBILITY Stroh: What a conicting scene it was when Peggy nally got the balls to leave SCDP for bigger things. On the one hand, it was about time Peggy got hers aer years of being underappreciated by her mentor Don, her fellow copywriters and the many misogynistic clients she’s served. On the other hand, Don’s nal kiss goodbye was completely wrenching, and as Peggy struggled to hold herself together, so did I. I have no doubt that Peggy will return to SCDP at some point, but for now it will be fun to see her stretch her wings and ordering around subordinates over at Ted Chaough’s rm. Williams: How great was Peggy in these nal episodes? e moment where she told Don she was leaving was beautifully played by Hamm and Olsen, and, combined with that episode’s Joan-related events, felt like the end of an era at SCDP, the moment where the rm lost its innocence and heart at the price of success. Even better was the scene between her and Don in the nale, as they serendipitously ran into each other at the movies. It’s the way ‘Mad Men’ pays o small character notes like this that makes it such a special show, and showing them engaging in the same worktime dalliance spells out perfectly how close these two became in their time working together, and how much they still mean to each other. For my money, that was the best scene in a nale that was oen too oblique by a mile, a wonderfully mea- sured coda to ‘Mad Men’s’ stron- gest character dynamic. Chan: Season ve for Peggy was about nding it in herself to nally demand what she wants and not feel bad about it. She didn’t get everything she had hoped for, but it was so rewarding for her character and the viewer for her to try. 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PETE CAMPBELL Stroh: Pete ignobly defended his title as ‘Character Most Fun to Despise’ this season, as the multiple punches he received to the face are any indication. His cowardly, passive-aggressive persuasions in favor of selling out Joanie to that disgusting Jaguar exec was surely his most despicable, but what really got me this season was the way he treated poor Trudy. It seemed that in the past few seasons Pete and Trudy had one of the healthiest and supportive marriage on the show. Now that they’ve moved to the stultifying suburb of Cos Cob and Trudy’s “let herself go” postchildbirth, Pete seemed to have lost all enjoyment of or respect for his ever-supportive wife, engaging in an a air with the dull, depressive Beth and lashing out at home. No, Pete. You can’t have good everything good all at once, so you better appreciate what you do have, or else you’ll go the way of Mr. Pryce. Williams: ‘ e Phantom’ had plenty of frustrating moments, but surprisingly, the only character whose storyline truly resolved was Pete Campbell, who was forgotten by his  ing (one of the season’s weakest links, Alexis Bledel) and came to  sticu s with her husband. Vincent Kartheiser also delivered a stunningly sad monologue that summed up his character perfectly, and also wrapped up the actor’s strongest season yet. Pete has been at his most compelling this season, thanks to Kartheiser’s unique deployment of equally repulsive and pitiful character details, not to mention his strong knack for getting punched in the face. Chan:  e worst! Campbel was at his most weaselly, spineless self this season. And was appropriately punched for it. But at the same time, there was something tragic about Pete’s bumbling this season. 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