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“ It’s rekindled a light that will never go out. Everythirg that is Aggie is Aggie bonfire.
Luke Cheatham, an A&M student and one of the Unity Project's leaders

Investigation 
continues in
hazing case

UTdocuments allege violations 
occurred 
By Jonathan York
Daily Texan Staff

during frat’sprobation

The U n iversity has been investigating charges 
that early this fall, Sigm a A lpha M u pledges had 
to stand qu ietly in line in a dark room for two 
hours, heads hung, w hile pledge leaders cursed 
at them.

The pledges had to endure verbal abuse, drive 
pledge leaders around town, drink foul liquids, 
clean an odorous room and m islead S A M 's 
national director, among other ordeals, according 
to allegations the U n iversity had examined by 
Nov. 11.

U T docum ents obtained by The Daily Texan 
reveal the U n iversity's charges that the ha/ing 
that put S A M on probation a year ago continued 
in secret between Septem ber and October. W hile 
the investigation is not dosed, the docum ents list­
ed accusations to w hich the fraternity w as asked 
to respond.

W ayne Pappert, S A M chapter adviser, said that 
because the U n iversity has not made a ruling, one 
cannot make judgments from the documents.

"The paper yo u 're looking at is w hat you call 
allegations. The investigation is still ongoing," 
Pappert said. "N o one has been declared guilty." 
The docum ents include a Nov. 11 cover letter

Group: New 
bill would limit 
competition
SBC says 
telecommunication competitors

organization is voice for

By Kris Banks
Daily Texan Staff

A group of sm all telephone com panies is charg­
ing SBC Com m unications Inc. w ith pushing leg­
islation that w ould ensure their dom inance over 
the com m unications market, though the com pa­
ny says it is trying to increase com petition.

The telecom m unications giant, w hich does 
business in Texas a s Southw estern Bell, w ill lobby 
in the 2003 session for a b ill sim ilar to the broad­
band p arity law created in O klahom a in A p ril, 
com pany spokesman Steve Lee said.

regulations created 

The O klahom a law rem oved S B C 's D S L service 
from 
the Federal 
Com m unication Com m ission's 1996 Telecomm­
unications Act.

in 

“ W hat has happened is sim ple," said Ron 
Hughes, chief operating officer of VarTec 
Telecom, Inc., one of the seven com panies that 
form the alliance. "N o w that Southw estern Bell 
has gotten into the long-distance business, they 
w ant their local phone ser\'ice m onopoly back."

Birch Telecom, El Paso G lobal N etw orks, N T S 
Com m unications, Sage Telecom, the Association 
of Com m unications Enterprises and Cbm pTel are 
also members of the alliance.

Thom as Ratliff, a spokesman for the alliance,

See SBC, page 6

fexas A& M students em brace while watching the Unity Project Bonfire at the Boondocks Recreation Ranch outside College Static n.

See FRATERNITY, page 5

r n o i o s uy « m a n u d n t te u u a ny ica c u i o t a n

Texas A&M rekindles bonfire

Unity Project 
reincarnates Aggie 
tradition using 
off-campus means

By Katherine Sayre
Daily Texan Staff

C O L L E G E ST A T IO N — Flam es and smoke b il­

low ed into the sky S u n d a y nig ht as about 10,000 

Texas A & M students and alu m n i looked onto the 

bonfire, signaling the return o f a tradition that 

w as absent after the d e a d ly bonfire collapse in 

Hardhats worn by Unity Project coordinators line the ground at the Aggie Bonfire Sunday night. The 
Unity Project is a student group that is not affiliated with Texas A&M University.

1999.

A ggie bonfire."

T he bonfire was organized and built by the 

Fo rm er Texas A & M President R ay Bow en 

U n ity Project, a student g roup not affiliated w ith 

announced in February that a 2002 bonfire w ould 

Texas A & M U niversity. T he group built the bon­

not be built by the university. Current President 

meated the air. Those w ho w orked to build the 

bonfire m arched the m ain torch around the bon­

fire three tim es. From the m ain torch, sm aller 

flam es w ere lit, and sim ultaneously were throw n 

into the stacks, w h ile onlookers shouted the tra­

fire o ver the last m onth u sing off-campus private 

Robert Gates has rem ained quiet about the future 

land donated by the lan d o w n er. The 90-year-old 

of a university-sponsored bonfire'.

ditional calls.

trad ition was ordered to cease by A & M adm inis­

Cheatham said the U n ity Project extended an 

trators after a stack of m ore than 5,000 logs col­

in vitatio n to Gates, but he did not attend the 

lapsed in 1999, kilim g 12 and injuring 27.

event.

Lu k e Cheatham, an A & M student and one of 

Each person w ho attended last night's festivi­

the U n ity Project's leaders, said the 2002 bonfire 

ties signed a w a ive r before entering the site. 

The logs of the bonfire w ere shaped into the 

sawed-off horns sym bol in an area about 50 feet 

by 50 feet square and about 20 feet tall. A t the top 

of the stacked logs was the traditional t.u." out­

house, over a w hich a cloth w as draped w ith the 

captured the spirit of the university.

There w as a paid security team, and no alcohol 

w ritten num bers '02, '03, 04 and '05.

“ It's rekindled a lig h t that w ill never go out,'' 

w as allow ed.

Cheatham said. "E v e ry th in g that is Aggie is

A s the stacks w ere lit, the sm ell of gasoline per­

See BONFIRE, page 2

Visas pose 
oroblems 
or foreign 
students

Increased processing time 
hurting Texas universities

By The Associated Press

D A L L A S — U niversities that 
rely on top foreign students to 
help w ith scientific research are 
experiencing a collective b rain 
drain as post-Sept. 11 controls on 
student visas take their toll.

Professors, graduate school 
deans and officials from natio nal 
science societies say hundreds of 
to 
foreign students recruited 
w o rk on projects in such areas as 
p h ysics, math and p etro leu m 
engineering were kept out this 
fa ll because they co u ld n 't get 
visas.

“ Basically, some research proj­
ects are dying," said G eorge 
M cM echan, a scientist at TJT- 
is m issing eigh t
D allas w ho 

See VISAS, page 2

INSIDE

Hoops at hom e

Faulkner: UT needs funding for future

Texas 
routed 
Stephen F. 
Austin in 
the
Longhorns’ 
home 
opener on 
Saturday at 
the Erwin 
Center.

SEE PAGE 7

Larry Faulkner,
UT president 
says University 
must use PUF 
funds wisely

Kevin Hegarty
UT vice 
president and 
chief financial 
officer

Proposal o f credit card 
changes may take effect

By Katherine Pace

Daily Texan Staff

W h ile the U niversity enjoys 
money generated by the Permanent 
University and Long-Term Funds, 
its financial state isn't as solid as 
many believe, U T President Larry 
Faulkner said Friday at a discussion 
hosted by the Student Affairs Staff 
Development Committee.

The $9.8 billion P U F endow ­
ment is second only to H arvard 's 
$18 billion endowm ent. However, 
the U niversity sees only 45 per­
cent of two-thirds of the endow ­
ment's earnings, or less than $2 
billion, Faulkner said. The rest is 
used by the Texas A & M System 
and by the 18 other U T System 
component schools.

“ That is not an endow m ent 
that's going to be able to support 
the entire U n iv e rsity," 
said 
Faulkner, w ho pointed out that

Rice's endow m ent is tw ice the 
size of the U n iv e rsity's, even 
though its student population is 
one-tenth of the U n iversity's.

The U niversity cannot spend 
the endowm ent but must rely on 
its earnings, w hich totaled $119 
m illion this year, only nine percent 
of the U niversity's $1.348 billion 
budget, Faulkner said. Due to a 
w eak economy, next year's earn­
ings w ill be $5 m illion smaller.

See FINANCES, page 2

Festival provides insight

into modern Indian

culture

Index

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By Debrah Bonn
Daily Texan Staff

M usic, dancing, m ovie clips and the sm ell of 
food permeated the M ain M all Frid ay 
India 
night 
he Indian C u ltu ral Association presented
their 1 <ucth annual Jhalak, or "glim p se" into mod­
ern India.

"T h s tim e w e're going to showcase a modern 
nation so some of the stereotypes you have about 
Ind ia . re broken," said Prashant De, an electrical 
engine ring junior and event emcee.

The mrte for this year's Jhalak w as "T he 'R eel' 
In d ia." M ixed in w ith dances, several clips pro­
jected on a large screen described aspects of Indian 
culture from A to Z. For each letter, the clips

See FESTIVAL, page 5

The India
Remix dance
ensemble per­
forms at 
Jhalak, an 
Indian cultural 
celebration on 
the Main Mall 
Friday. The 
celebration 
featured danc­
ing, live music, 
food and movie 
clips.

Geoff Riddle/ 

Dally Texan Staff

 that black soldiers had a role as 
real heroes in World W ar II," said 
M arvel President Bill jemas.

About 100,000 copies of Truth 
are being printed, Morales said. 
That's about 10,000 more than the 
usual run for "Captain Am erica," 
which is the 10th-best selling 
comic, according to a M arvel 
spokesman.

"W e sold out of it the same day, 
about 200 copies," said Martin 
King, who co-owns Atomic C ity 
Comics in Philadelphia. "This is 
saying [Captain America] owes

his origins to a group of people 
who may have died being tested 
before he even put the costume
on."

Before the book debuted, reac­
tion to the idea of giving the 
superhero black roots was decid­
edly mixed.

"M y understanding of things 
is that now that the book is actu­
ally out, the reaction is bizarrelv 
positive," said Morales. " I think, 
much to their horror, they think 
that actually it's a pretty' good 
book."

Volunteer: Student-built 
bonfire can be made safely

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GNOME-ADS
Police in Bartlett, III., have charged three teenage boys with stealing nearly 60 
lawn gnomes. The value of the creatures, which ranged in height from less than a 
foot to four feet, was estimated at up to $150 each. If owners of the 16 remain­
ing unclaimed lawn ornaments don’t come forward, the little guys will be auc­
tioned off in May along with the department’s other unclaimed property.

'Captain America’ prequel 
adds twist to iconic series

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Task force looking 
at ways to cut costs

FINANCES, FROM 1

In response, the University 
created 
the Task Force on 
Efficiency last spring with the 
goal to create, within five years, 
efficiencies that w ill save the 
school $25 m illion annually 
compared to current costs, s a id 
Kevin Hegarty, U T vice presi­
dent and chief financial officer.

The recent proposal to allow 
students to use I )isc<)ver cards to 
pay tuition and fees but drop the 
use of V is a cards was one of ihe 
task force's ideas, Hegarty said If 
the President approves the pro­
posal, the University will charge 
students a convenience fee equal 
to what the credit card compa­
nies charge the I niversity, there­
by saving the sihool S2 million 
each vear

The task fon t* is also negotiat­
ing a new contract with office 
supply companie s, ! legarty said. 
Currently, each college and 
department <uders its ow n office 
supplies, using multiple ven­
dors A single contract would 
provide easier and cheaper 
access to supplies and save the 
University about S2.7 million.

"The savings that we're going 
to harvest w ill be pooled cen­
trally, and those are the moneys 
that w ill be used to furtht r meet 
the U niversity's objectives,"
H e g a rty said.

The contract, which is being 
finalized, w ill be with either 
Boise Cascade Corporation, 
Office Depot, Hurricane Office 
Supply, Corporate Express or 
Staples, 1 logartv said.

The University also kicked off 
the W e're Texas Capital 
Campaign in September 1SW7 to

increase 
m e n t s , I aulkner said.

its private endow­

"Endowm ent resources are a 
way for us to build a stronger 
future," said Faulkner, who 
hopes to match the amount of 
private endowments to the size 
of the P U F endowment used by 
the University.

to match 

Already, the campaign has 
raised 89 percent of the $1.9 bil­
lion needed 
the 
endowments, Faulkner said. 
However, the majority of the 
funds are restricted to certain 
u s e s and don't solve 
the 
U niversity's most pressing 
financial issues, such as the 
need for infrastructure repairs, 
Faulkner said.

W hile private endowments 
make up only 14 percent of the 
U niversity's budget, philan­
thropy w ill affect the shape of 
the school, Faulkner said.

"It's a way of the public vot­
ing for what they want the 
University to be," Faulkner said.
The m inority of people 
wealthy enough to donate to the 
University represent corporate 
interests, said Forrest Wilder, an 
English senior and UT Watch 
member, a student watchdog 
group.

"The University has to find 
funding somewhere," W ilder 
said. "The problem is that as 
[relying on private endow­
m e n t s ] becomes a large-scale 
trend, the University becomes 
an arena for their agenda rather 
than the public's agenda."

Private endowments have 
also failed to diminish the finan­
cial burden placed on students 
as tuition and fees continue to 
rise, W ilder said.

New comic to credit 
black A m y recruit for 
supernatural powers

By Maryclalre Dale 
A s so c ia te d P re ss

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P H IL A D E L P H IA — M arvel 
Comics is shaking up one of its 
iconic superheroes — and some 
fans — with a series that imag­
ines 
"Captain 
A m erica" as a black Arm y 
recruit.

the original 

Since 1941, the series has fol­
lowed the escapades of Steve 
Rogers, the scrawny, white Arm y 
reject who gained supernatural 
powers after drinking super-sol­
dier serum.

In the new prequel, called 
Truth: Red, W hite & Black — which 
M arvel Comics feted at a launch 
event in Philadelphia on Friday 
— the Arm y first tests the serum 
on three black recruits, one of 
whom gains superpowers.

"[The concept] is that basically 
these guys were sacrificed to cre­
ate and shore up the whole 
'Captain Am erica' m yth," said 
w riter Robert Morales, who is 
crafting the series with illustrator 
Kyle Baker.

The story' echoes the infamous 
Tuskegee Experiment, in which 
the U.S. government from 1932 to 
1972 left poor blacks in Alabama 
untreated for syphilis in order to 
watch the disease's effects.

"W h at we deliver, really, is a 
tribute to black soldiers. The key 
is to get past the metaphor and 
down to historical facts, which is

Spokesman: \ isa denials have risen

VISAS, FROM 1
Chinese researchers this fall — a 
third of doctoral students admit­
ted by the school. "There aren't 
enough people to work on them

The University, Ru e University, 
Southern Methodist University 
and Texas A & M University are 
among those- 
le x a s school-- fe e l­
ing the effects.

Though university and science 
academy officials say 
they 
acknowledge the need for tight­
ened national security, they are 
State 
pleading w ith 
Department to find a speedier 
way to screen visa applk ants.

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Student & Staff Discounts

A State Department spokesman 
said the denial rate for visas has 
gone up for all categories

During the 12 months ending 
Sept. 30,27 percent of applicants 
were denied, up from 23 percent 
in the previous year, said Stuart 
Patt, spokesman for the U.S. 
Bureau of Consular Affairs.

The affected students — mostly 
from China, Russia and the 
M iddle 
l ast — were denied 
admittance to the United States or 
were stuck 
in the approval 
process when the tall semester 
began.

Since the Sept. 11 attacks, all 
applicants from seven countries 
identified as Hate sponsors of ter­
rorism have had to go through 
extra screening. Some applicants

from 26 other nations also get 
additional scrutiny, Patt said.

The visa process that once 
took two or three weeks now 
takes three to five months.

A consortium of five universi­
ties, including the University, say 
they lost about 70 Iranian stu­
dents who were to have come to 
the United States in a partnership 
with an Iranian oil company.

The University 

lost all 11 
recruits, and Texas A & M lost 11 of 
14.

Some of UT's recruits told the 
university by e-mail that they 
would instead attend schools in 
Norway, England and France, 
said Kamy Sepehmoori, a U T 
professor and graduate adviser in 
petroleum engineering.

BONFIRE, FROM 1

Joey Dobbs, a student volun­
teer who helped build the bon­
fire, said the numbers represent 
the classes of students who have 
never seen the traditional A & M 
event since it was stopped.

"More than a quarter of the stu­
dents came out to support this bon­
fire," Dobbs said. "The bonfire can 
be done safely by students without 
being professionally built."

He said words could not 
describe his feelings w hile watch­
ing the bonfire burn.

"I think I'm going to be smiling 

about this until I die," he said.

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CORRECTION
In Friday’s Daily Texan, a Page 6 
article about the annual Texas 
Wranglers City Wide Hold Up 
incorrectly reported how the event 
began. Trie event was the idea of 
Marence Daniel Anderson, a 
former member of the group who 
died before the first Floid Up 
occurred, it is now held each year 
in his honor. The Texan regrets the 
error.

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Student Speak-Out On the War
Nov. 25 ,1 1 :3 0 to 1:30 p.m., West 
Mall steps, www.utexas.edu/stu- 
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The Foreign Policy Council,
discusses world politics and U.S. 
policy every Monday, 7 p.m.,
SZB 278.

Swingset Class, every Monday, 8 
to 11 p.m., Texas Union 
Showroom. 699-3540.

The Society of Professional 
Mediators, offers free, confidential 
mediation and group project plan­
ning services to UT students. 471- 
6898.

Get Noisy About Boise Coalition.
rid our campus of old growth killer 
Boise Office Solutions, Mondays, 3 
p.m., West M ali by the Union.

University Yoga Club, free class 
Mondays, 5 to 6:30 p.m.,
Eastwood Room, Texas Union.
Wear comfy clothing, avoid eating 
heavily before class.

Environmental Outreach and the 
Campus Environmental Center 
Team meets Mondays, 7:30 to 
8:30 p.m., Asian Culture Room, 
Texas Union, www.hogspace.org/ 
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CAMPUS WATCH

Criminal Trespass: A male UT 
student entered a 13th-floor 
Jester West dorm room that was 
occupied by two fem ale UT stu­
dents without their permission.
The subject was partially dis­
robed and began making inappro­
priate and obscene body gyra­
tions. Subject refused to leave 
the room. Subject was issued a 
written criminal trespass warning. 
Occurred Nov. 22 at 1:28 a.m.

Attempted Theft: A laptop com­
puter was left unattended in a 
4th-floor P C L study area for three 
minutes. When the owner 
returned and found it missing, he 
asked an unknown subject sitting 
across the table if he had seen 
what happened to his computer. 
The subject did not reply. When 
the owner stated that he was 
going to call UT Police, the sub­
ject pulled the laptop from his 
backpack. The subject was seen 
leaving through the 4th-floor stair­
well. The subject was described 
as a white male, 5-foot-10-inches, 
thin build, approximately 30 years 
old, brown m ustache and was 
transient in appearance. Subject 
was last seen wearing a blue 
jacket, blue jeans, white T-shirt, 
blue baseball hat and a skull 
necklace. Occurred Thursday at 
8:43 p.m.

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and co-owner 
of Atomic City 
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King, right, 
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from the 
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Philadelphia. 
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“ It’s not about the 
stack, but it shows the 
spirit that lives in their 
hearts.”

Waid Goolsby, 
the father of two A&M students

Chuck Goldsm ith, a sopho­
more who attended the event, 
said it was the first bonfire at 
A & M he had the chance to see.

"It's awesome to see the student 
dedication," Goldsmith said. "I 
think it shows the Aggie spirit w ill 
keep living whether or not there is 
a bonfire."

Waid Goolsby, the father of two 
A & M students, said he attended 
the bonfire to show his support.

"The adm inistration 

is not 
going to deter the true Aggie spir­
it," Goolsby said. " I think that the 
students that were involved were 
very conscious about safety, and 
they've done a good job. It's not 
about the stack, but it shows the 
spirit that lives in their hearts."

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WORLD BRIEFS
Swiss voters reject stringent 
changes to asylum laws

GENEVA — Voters on Sunday 
rejected new asylum laws that 
would have closed the nation’s 
borders to all but a trickle of 
refugees, defeating the national­
ist proposal by the thinnest 
margin in Swiss voting history.
The defeat by 3,422 votes 
was a victory for the govern­
ment and the U.N. refugee 
agency, but served to highlight 
growing anti-immigration senti­
ment in Europe.

Vatican: Holy See looking
to increase U.N. presence
VATICAN CITY — The Holy See 
will explore stepping up its pres­
ence at the United Nations and 
does not rule out a bid for mem­
bership, according to media 
reports Sunday.

The Vatican, a city-state, is a per­

manent observer at the United 
Nations, a status that lets it par­
ticipate in U.N. conferences and 
deliver speeches in the General 
Assembly but gives it no voting 
power.

Former coup leader wins
Ecuador presidential runoff
QUITO, Ecuador — A former 

coup leader viewed as a crusader 
against corruption won Ecuador’s 
presidential runoff Sunday, defeat­
ing a billionaire businessman who 
socializes with America’s rich and 
powerful.

With almost 94 percent of the 
votes counted, Lucio Gutierrez, a 
cashiered army colonel, had 
54.4 percent compared with 
45.6 percent for Alvaro Noboa, 
who heads a banana and ship­
ping empire that includes 110 
companies.

Siege of two Hindu temples 
in Kashmir leaves 12 dead
JAMMU, India — Security 
forces used rocket launchers 
Monday to end the siege of two 
Hindu temples by Islamic mili­
tants in India-controlled 
Kashmir, police said. Twelve 
people, including two rebels, 
were killed.

At least 50 others, mostly Hindu 

devotees visiting this city of tem­
ples, were injured, said Ashok Suri, 
the police chief of Jammu-Kashmir 
state.

U.S. warship pulls into 
Chinese port to promote ties
QINGDAO, China — The United 
States and China moved toward 
renewing strained military ties 
Sunday with a carefully staged visit 
by a U.S. warship to a Chinese 
port.

With the two nations' flags flap­

ping from the mast and sailors 
standing at attention on deck, the 
USS Paul F. Foster churned into 
the eastern city of Qingdao on a 
crisp morning, beginning a fiv&day 
visit that will give its sailors a 
glimpse of China.

Five Algerian terrorism 
suspects arrested in France
PARIS — French anti-terrorism 

police arrested five suspected 
Islamic militants from Algeria, 
including a man who escaped from 
a Dutch jail in June, officials said 
Sunday.

The five are said to have ties to 

the Salafist Group for Call and 
Combat, a fundamentalist Islamic 
organization allegedly responsible 
for a series of deadly terrorist 
attacks in and outside Algeria. The 
group is on the U.S. State 
Department’s list of terrorist organ­
izations.

Nigerians flee town after 
violence over Miss World

LAGOS, Nigeria — The regional 

governor warned rioters would 
be shot on sight Sunday as hun­
dreds of people fled the north­
ern Nigerian city of Kaduna after 
four days of religious violence 
over the Miss World pageant 
killed 200 people.

By late Saturday, the Nigerian 
Red Cross counted 215 bodies 
on the streets and in mortuar­
ies throughout Kaduna, 100 
miles north of the capital Abuja, 
said Emmanuel Ijewere, presi­
dent of the organization. 
Previous estimates said 100 
people were killed.

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Iraq issues complaint to U.N

Tentative agreement 
reached in West 
Coast labor dispute

By Justin Pritchard
Associated Press

SAN FRA N CISCO — West 
Coast dock workers and shipping 
companies have reached a tenta­
tive contract agreement that could 
end the drawn-out labor dispute 
that shut down the coast's major 
ports for 10 days and prompted 
the president to intervene.

The six-year deal would pro­
vide wage and benefit improve­
ments for union members, plus 
technology and dispute-resolution 
improvements that the companies 
needed, said Peter Hurtgen, head 
of the Federal Mediation and 
Conciliation Service.

He praised both sides, saying 
that lead negotiators "d em on­
strated statesmanlike leadership, 
which made this agreement possi­
ble."

The agreem ent, reached late 
Saturday, still must be ratified by 
a majority of the 10,500 members 
of the International Longshore 
and Warehouse Union. A caucus 
of about 100 union members will 
meet Dec. 7 to vote on the contract 
and the entire rank-and-file will 
in early 
probably vote on 
January, according to union presi­
dent Jim Spinosa.

it 

T he major sticking points in the 
negotiations had centered on the 
desire by the Pacific Maritime 
Association, the industry group, 
for computerized cargo tracking 
systems that will make dockside 
work more efficient, but also cost 
an estimated 400 jobs. The union, 
in return, wanted increased com­
pensation and pension benefits.

"With this contract w e are ush­
ering in a new era of moderniza­
tion," said Joseph Miniace, presi­
dent of the PMA.

"Workers can harness technolo­
gy' and make it work for them," 
said AFI -CIO Secretary- Treasurer 
Richard Trumka, who joined the 
negotiations. "They can bridle it, 
saddle it and ride it to job, pension 
and economic security.'
Hurtgen declined 

to give 
details of 
the agreem ent but 
expressed confidence w orkers 
would be pleased.

"1 think once they see the m ag­
nitude of the pension increases, 
the wage increases — it would be 
phenomenal it they were to turn 
that down," he said.

Miniace said health-care costs 
are likely to nearly double from 
$220 million a year to $51X1 million 
by the end of the deal. Pensions, 
he said, will end up costing com ­
panies more than $1 billion.

Sources familiar with the nego­
tiations said workers can expect 
raises ot 10 percent to 13 percent 
over the next six years.

In Tacoma, Wash., local union 
Vice President Dick Marzano said 
workers were glad to have an 
agreement before the Dec. 27 end 
to a Taft-Hartley cooling-off peri­
od that was imposed by President 
Bush.

"It's a lot better to have an 
agreement in hand through the 
collective bargaining process so 
both sides can feel they've accom­
plished something," he said.

The dockw orkers' previous 

contract expired in July.

A longshore 
worker hauls 
cargo to 
Geno Bay 
during load­
ing opera­
tions at the 
TransBay 
shipping ter­
minal in 
Oakland. 
Calif., Sunday.

Noah Berger

Associated Press

War ‘pretexts’ in resolution foreign minister’s chief concern
By Charles J. Hanley
R v T h a r l o c I U a n lo u 
Associated Press

I N P X P P rt

BAGHDAD, Iraq — In a point- 
by-point protest, the Iraqi govern­
ment complained to the United 
Nations Sunday that the small 
print behind the weapons inspec­
tions beginning this week will 
give Washington a pretext to 
attack.

The new U.N. resolution on the 
inspections could turn “inaccu­
rate statements [among] thou­
sands of pages" of required Iraqi 
reports into a supposed justifica­
tion for military action, Foreign 
Minister Naji Sabri said in a letter 
to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi 
Annan.

"There is premeditation to tar­
get Iraq, whatever the pretext," 
Sabri said.

Hie loricrthv Wter a HphnlpH 
His lengthy letter, a detailed 
the Security 
com m entary on 
Council 
resolution, was not 
expected to affect the inspec­
tions, which resume Wednesday 
after a four-year suspension. Iraq 
had accepted the resolution in a 
Nov. 13 letter from Sabri to 
Annan.

Preparations moved steadily 
ahead on Baghdad's outskirts 
Sunday, where technicians at the 
U.N. inspection center worked to 
establish a “hot line" with liaisons 
in the Iraqi government.

The first working group of 18 
inspectors arrived today on a 
flight from a U.N. bast1 in Cvprus. 
Their numbers art1 expected to 
swell by year-end to between 80 
and 100 at a time in Iraq.

In seven years' work after the

1091 Clllt W .ir 
1991 Gulf War, U.N. experts 
large am ounts of 
destroyed 
chemical and biological weapons 
and longer-range missiles forbid­
den to Iraq by U.N. resolutions, 
and dismantled Iraq's nuclear 
weapons program before it could 
build a bomb. The inspections 
were suspended amid disputes 
over U.N. access to Iraqi sites and 
Iraqi complaints that the United 
States 
the 
inserted spies 
inspection teams.

in 

A new focus on Iraq by the 
Bush administration led to adop­
tion of Resolution 1441 and the 
dispatch of inspectors back to Iraq 
with greater powers of unrestrict­
ed access to suspected weapons 
sites. Washington alleges Iraq 
retains some prohibited weapons 
and may be producing others.

Saudis examine alleged terrorist money link

By Calvin Woodward
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Lawmak­
ers pressed for answers Sunday 
on a possible Saudi money trail in 
the Sept. 11 hijackings and said 
regardless of whether one exists, 
its 
the kingdom must stop 
“duplicitous" coddling of terror­
ists.

Saudi officials spent the week­
end having bankers pore over the 
records of Princess 1 laifa al-Faisal, 
wife of their ambassador to the 
United States, to see how thou­
sands of dollars from her account 
might have ended up in the 
wrong hands, said Saudi foreign 
policy adviser Adel al-Jubeir.

But he said it was "crazy" to 
suggest she had done anything 
intentionally to support terror­
ism.

Lawmakers said 

the FBI's 
investigation should pull no 
punches, and the Bush adminis­
tration should be open about the 
findings, despite 
the risk of 
offending an important ally with 
whom relations already have 
been strained.

‘‘[Saudis] have played a 
duplicitous game ... that 
game has got to stop.”
Sen. Charles Schumer,
D-N.Y.

In a harsh turn bound to be 
uncomfortable for administration 
officials as they seek Saudi assis­
tance in a possible war with Iraq, 
senators uplsraided 
the Saudi 
government for what they see as 
in anti-
vears of complicity 

American radicalism.

Saudis "have played a duplici­
tous game, and that is, they say to 
the terrorists, 'We'll do everything 
you want, just leave us alone,"' 
said Democratic Sen. Charles 
Schumer of New York. "That 
game has got to stop."

Sens. Joseph Lieberman, D- 
Conn., and John McCain, R-Ariz., 
who together set up an independ­
ent commission that will investi­
gate the terror attacks, offered 
piercing criticism.

Saudi leaders "have to decide 
which side they're on," Lieberman 
said on CBS' Face the Nation.

"Fo r too many generations 
they have pacified and accom­
modated themselves to the most 
extreme, fanatical, violent ele­
ments of Islam, and those ele­
ments have now turned on us 
and the rest of the world."

Israelis search West Bank mosques

NATION BRIEFS 

Alabama senator says another 

major attack a certainty

WASHINGTON — Sen. Richard 
Shelby, an eight-year veteran of the 
Senate Intelligence Committee, 
warned Americans Sunday to 
expect another major attack from 
al-Qaida terrorists.

He said he based his opinion 

partly on a warning of a spectacular 
attack contained in an audio tape, 
broadcast Nov. 12 on al-Jazeera tel­
evision in the Persian Gulf emirate 
Qatar. U.S. intelligence experts 
attributed the tape to Osama bin 
Laden.

Kuwait could be a key U.S. 
launching pad, experts say

WASHINGTON — Even without the 

use of Saudi Arabia's vast desert 
expanses to launch a ground invasion 
of Iraq, the U.S. military would have 
plenty of room to operate from tiny 
Kuwait and elsewhere, defense 
experts say.

There already are more than 

12,000 U.S. forces in Kuwait train­
ing in desert warfare. At least 
another 14,000 are in other 
Persian Gulf nations, and the Navy 
has an aircraft carrier, the USS 
Lincoln, in the northern Persian 
Gulf with more than 5,500 sailors 
and dozens of warplanes aboard.

Police stepping up seat belt 
scrutiny this holiday season
WASHINGTON — During the busy 
Thanksgiving travel week, more than 
12,000 police officers will be looking 
out for motorists who are not wear 
ing seat belts.

From Monday through Dec. 1, offi­

cers will set up checkpoints, 
increase highway patrols and ticket 
drivers who do not buckle up their 
children. The Pentagon is joining the 
effort this year because men age 
18 to 25 make up a large percent 
age of military personnel and are 
less likely to buckle their seat belts.

Compiled from 
Associated Press reports

Brennan Linsley/A sso cia te d P re ss

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — After Sunday Mass inside the Church of the 
Nativity, a priest stands by as an Israeli army soldier borrows his lighter to 
light a cigarette on the third day of army operations and curfew in Manger 
Square in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. On the first Sunday since 
Israel reoccupied Bethlehem, troops barred Christians from worshiping at 
the Church of the Nativity, one of Christianity’s most sacred shrines. Soldiers 
in another part of the West Bank searched four mosques for suspected mili 
tants. There were no signs that the Israelis were near an end to the opera­
tion in the biblical town, despite a State Department call for troops to leave 
as soon as possible, with Christmas just a month away. Christian tradition 
holds that Jesus was born in a grotto under the Bethlehem church.

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VIEWPOINT

Drug busts 
gone awry

In traditional wars, collateral damage is often caused by dumb 
bombs In the war on d r u g s , collateral damage is often caused by
dumb police.

Ihe most recent display of police incompetence occurred last 
week in San Antonio, when a SWAT team accidentally raided the 
wrong home while serving a warrant. SWAT team members 
entered the home of cousins Salavador and Marcos Huerta 
through a gla^s door, sending Marcos Huerta to the hospital for 
minor injuries. The Huerta cousins told the San Antonio Expréss- 
¿\i ,vs th.it police shot the door out with soft bullets and threw in a 
flash grenade, then proceeded to punch and kick the cousins as 
they laid on the floor.

Once police realized they fouled up, they proceeded to the cor­
rect address two doors down, where knocked on the door and 
arrested a man on charges of possession of cocaine with intent to 
deliver and possession of marijuana. Police said they found 86 
grams of marijuana, 40 grams of cocaine, drug paraphernalia and 
some rounds of ammunition. Police said they did not knock on the 
first door because they feared the suspect had a gun in his waist­
band

Police blamed the mistake on the fact that all the duplexes in the 
neighborhood appeared similar, especially from the alley behind 
the home from which the SWAT team entered. Agents were told to 
look for a red car parked in the rear driveway. When they saw a 
red car behind the 1 luertas' residence, they entered.

What happened in San Antonio is exemplary of drug policy 
enforcement gone awry. Police methods are becoming more mili­
tarized .is they fight the impossible war on drugs, and innocent 
people are becoming the victims But while the Huerta cousins 
escaped with minor injuries, previous botched operations in Texas 
have proven to be deadly.

In 1998, 22-year-old Houston resident Pedro Oregon Navarro 
was shot 12 times — including nine in the back — by Houston 
police when they invaded his home without a warrant. Police, who 
were acting on tips from an informant, started shooting Oregon 
when one officer accidentally shot another. No drugs were found 
in the apartment, and Oregon had no previous criminal record.

( )verlv aggressive and unwise tactics put police officers in dan- 
gei too. I his summer, Edw'in Delamora was convicted for shoot­
ing I ravis County Sherriff's deputy Keith Ruiz.

Ruiz was one in a group of Travis County SWAT team members 
that were raiding Delamora's Del Valle home early one morning in 
February 2001. Officers were prying open Delamora's door when 
he shot Ruiz in the chest, rupturing his aorta. Police found less 
than an ounce of methamphetamine, a small amount of marijuana 
and $2,000 in cash in Delamora's home, which he shared with his 
wife and kids.

Delamora w'as a small-time dealer at best, but the tactics 
employed bv SWAT officers — busting into a home in the middle 
of the night, raising the possibility that police could be confused 
w ith burglars — raised the stakes. As tragic as Ruiz's death was — 
he left behind a wife and three sons — it is difficult to fault 
Delamora for defending his family against armed, masked intrud­
ers, even if those intruders were wearing badges.

As fighting the war on drugs has become a $24 billion-a-year 
busine ss, the tactics employed by police to nab their suspects have 
become inc reasingfy ruthless, blurring the line between those des­
ignated to serve and protect and those breaking the law. With the 
federal government now drawing vague connections between 
drug use and terrorism, one can only expect law enforcement 
agencies to ratchet up the intensity of their methods. As dangerous 
as drug use can be, the most lethal element in the wrar on drugs 
sometimes are those fighting the war.

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THE FIRING LINE

Regent bill is too flawed

Rafael Mittlefehldt (“ Defending 

the student regent," The Firing 
Line, Nov. 22) is wrong when he 
assumes that I am against having 
a student regent. I believe having 
a student regent is a wonderful 
idea. I’m against this bill because 
it is poorly written and provides no 
real form of representation to stu 
dents on the board. Perhaps 
Mittlefehldt should read the bill 
before he incorrectly quotes from 
it. It’s SB 111 authored by Sen. 
Gonzalo Barrientos, D-Austin. You 
can find it here: http://www.capi- 
tol.state.tx.us/.

Mittlefehldt says that the gover­

nor can only choose between 
three student recommendations. 
Wrong. Section 65.111(c) of the 
bill gives the governor the authori 
ty to choose whomever he or she 
wants as a student regent. The 
way the process works is this: 
Applications are sent to student 
governments who remove the 
names and institutions from the 
applications and send them to the 
UT Student Advisory Council.
UTSAC picks five and recommends 
those to the UT chancellor. The 
chancellor then picks two or more 
and recommends those to the gov­
ernor. The governor in turn has the 
authority not to choose any of 
those recommendations. In fact, 
he can request to look at all the 
applications received and request 
that the names be put back on 
the applications. There are two 
serious flaws with this:

1. There are no provisions which 

would stop cronyism in the selec­
tion process. Because the gover­
nor has the authority to pick any 
student he wants, he can choose 
to subvert the student will in favor 
of choosing the son or daughter of 
one of his campaign contributors. 
While students would believe that 
they do have a say in the process, 
it could actually be an unqualified 
and non-representative student 
who was chosen merely because 
of his father’s or mother’s connec­
tions. This has the effect not only 
of improperly representing the 
"student perspective" but also of 
displacing student activism.

2. The only say that students 
have in selecting their representa­
tive is that they get to make a rec 
ommendation to the guy who gets 
to make a recommendation to the

guy who doesn’t have to listen to 
that recommendation. This is 
undemocratic and unrepresenta­
tive at best.

This is just the most egregious 

of the errors in this bill. I would 
encourage all students to actively 
oppose this bill until we get a real 
bill that provides us with represen­
tation on the Board.

Aaron Garza 
Political communications senior

Why the left loves America

I know you'll never print this 

rebuttal, but I just had to respond 
to Mr. Pearson’s attempt at satire 
(“ How do I love thee," The Firing 
Line, Nov. 22):

How do I love thee?
I do not know why conservatives 

hate America, but I do know why 
liberals love this country.

1. Opportunity: Anyone can 

become president of this country, 
even a sexual pervert who 
molests interns in the Oval Office 
and then lies about it to millions 
of Americans,

2 . Principles: Our new foreign 

policy is to sell out the White 
House to the highest contributor 
to the Democratic National 
Committee.

3. Taxes: Tax and spend. Tax and 

spend. Let us take your hard 
earned money and waste it on 
pointless government welfare pro­
grams!

4. Guns: Who cares about the 

Second Amendment? We want 
your guns, so that you have no 
opportunity to defend your life, 
your family or your property, and 
so that the the only people who 
have guns are criminals.

5. Diversity: That’s right, we love 

perpetuating the victim mentality 
in America. So even though you 
were never discriminated against, 
let’s give you a helping hand.

6. Death Penalty: We should 
have compassion for that scum­
bag who indiscriminately killed 
dozens of people. After all, it must 
be society’s fault for creating such 
a monster.

7. Morals: Let's allow everyone 
to just abort babies that would be 
an inconvenience to their lives. 
After all, even though the person 
chose to have sex knowing they 
could end up pregnant, le t’s allow 
them to kill the baby in lieu of

advocating personal responsibility.
8. Cheap Gas: Yes, let’s stop 

importing oil from the Middle East, 
even though we environmentally 
sensitive liberal do-gooders will 
oppose any initiative to drill for oil 
in America. I suppose oil and gas 
will magically appear in a pot- 
induced dream.

9. Pollution: Even though the nat­

ural processes of Earth have pro 
duced more pollution than SUVs 
ever will, let’s implement hundreds 
of new restrictive government regu­
lations.

10. What Me Worry?: Shut up 
and get a life, and stop scaring 
the American public with your liber­
al nightmares.

Jon Apgar 
Second-year la w student

Sony

To all students, faculty, and staff 
affected by the flooding incident in 
Carothers:

I sincerely wanted to apologize for 

my actions Wednesday, Nov. 13. I 
never expected anything so serious 
to happen. If there is anything I can 
do to make up for your lost time or 
replace your damaged belongings, 
please do not hesitate to ask. I do 
not have much money, but I'm a 
very hard worker. I could go get 
your groceries, clean your room, or 
even do your laundry (I’ve had 
some bad experiences with wash­
ing machines, though). Again, I real­
ly am sorry, and I hope everything 
works out for the best.

Sincerely,

Ja ck G. Clark III 
Business honors freshman

K smells like burning

In response to “ It tastes like burn­
ing" by Hugh Balkin (The Firing Line, 
Nov. 22), I interpreted Phillip 
Hebert's comment differently. I do 
not believe that anyone would con­
sider cancer less important than 
allergies. I think his intention was to 
make people question other prod­
ucts on the market. He did acknowl­
edge that smoking is harmful. The 
vast majority of people know that 
second-hand smoke is injurious and 
that smoking causes cancer. But 
how many people realize what man­
ufacturers use in perfumes and 
colognes?

Consider this: The National 

Academy of Sciences targeted fra­

grances as one of the six cate­
gories of chemicals that should be 
given high priority for neurotoxicity 
testing. The majority of chemicals 
used in fragrances are synthetic 
compounds derived from petroleum. 
Ingredients include benzene deriva­
tives and many other known toxics 
and sensitizers capable of causing 
cancer, birth defects, central nerv­
ous system disorders and allergic 
reactions. This was confirmed by a 
study done by the EPA. The agency 
found ingredients such as methyl 
ene chloride and limonene, known 
carcinogens, and benzaldehyde, a 
sensitizer, in fragrance products.

- Cindy Yang 
Business graduate student

Free to be a smoker

In response to “ It tastes like 

burning" by Hugh Balkin (The 
Firing Line, Nov. 22):

Last time I checked, tobacco is 
still legal in the United States. It’s 
all about personal freedom. If 
someone is smoking outside a 
door to a building, you are more 
than free to use a different door or 
hold your breath. I’m saying, if you 
are going to protect one person’s 
comfort, then protect everyone’s 
comfort. Until the government 
decides to live without the econo­
my tobacco gives us, it is anyone's 
right to smoke. Perfumes and 
colognes cause others and myself 
tremendous discomfort, so protect 
my air too!

By the way, you immediately 
assume that because I support 
smokers’ rights, I am a smoker. I 
am not. So, before you write a let­
ter to a paper making inferences 
that aren’t true, do a little 
research. Oh, by the way, make 
sure you check your spelling also. 
My last name is Hebert, not 
Herbert!

Phillip Hebert 
UT staff

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firingllne@dailytexanonline.com

Letters must be under 250 words 
and should include your major and 
classification. The Texan reserves 
the right to edit all letters for 
brevity, ciarity and liability.

Indiana officials’ reaction to dorm porn uncalled for

By Bryan R egister
Daily Texan 
Columnist

On Oct. 3, a California company 
called Shane Enterprises filmed 
Campus Inoiision #32 
in Teter 
Quad, a dorm on the Indiana 
University campus. According to 
the Indiana Daily Student, the film 
"will feature footage of 20 to 30 
students when it's released some­
time this winter.” These students 
“signed a modeling waiver per­
mitting then likeness to be used in 
the final version of the film." Calli 
Cox, who works 
for Shane 
Enterprises both as an actress and 
a public ist, explains that "the stu­
dents who signed the release were 
filmed receiving oral sex from 
adult film actresses."

One might have thought that 
receiving oral sex — from experi­
enced professionals, no less — 
would not be a horrible experi­
ence and that one certainly isn't 
being harmed by said experts if 
one is an adult who consented, in 
w'riting, to the sex. But the admin­
istrators at Indiana University

IU Chancellor 
know better. 
Sharon Brehm explains that, "1 
think people understand the fact 
that this group had in mind to be 
very harmful to our students." 
Receiving oral sex to which one 
has, as an adult, consented, is not 
a harm. In fact, it's sort of a para­
digm case of something that is not 
a harm. Brehm continues 
to 
explain that, "Students need to be 
responsible for their conduct, but 
let's remember who came looking 
for the students." That is, students 
need to be held responsible for 
their conduct, except they don't: 
Students are children who do 
whatever the pretty ladies say.

Confirming that Brehm regards 
her students as infants needing 
close supervision, she told them 
through remarks in the Daily 
Student, "Don't allow' yourselves 
to be exploited. The students need 
to be more aware that organiza­
tions sometimes seek to exploit 
young people just to turn a profit." 
Being exploited was never so 
much fun. Is IU actually admitting 
students so stupid that they don't 
know that adult films are made to 
turn a profit for the companies 
making them?

fU has told Shane Enterprises to

stay off the campus from now on. 
It told them that, "If Shane had 
properly sought permission for 
this video pursuant to University 
policy, rest assured that permis­
sion would not have been grant­
ed." Notice what's implied in this 
sentence. There is a permission 
process ("pursuant to University' 
policy"), and adult film compa­
nies will be turned down in that 
process. On what grounds are 
such companies to be discriminat­
ed against? Organizations come 
onto campuses to film movies and 
interviews with students all the 
time; what's special about adult 
movies?

The discrimination probably 
rides on the notion that Brehm 
explains: That students consent­
ing to sex are thereby exploited. 
It's just hard to see why this 
might be true. No students wrere 
harmed in the making of this 
film. There's no evidence that any 
of them didn't understand the 
content of 
they 
signed or w'ere promised money 
they never received. The claim 
that the students were exploited 
isn't grounded in anything pecu­
liar to the situation; it's grounded 
entirely in the belief that students

the waivers 

don't know what's best for them, 
don't grasp their own sexualities, 
and are easily manipulated by 
people in a sleazy industry. These 
claims 
themselves are quite 
unjustified.

The Daily Student paraphrases 
Brehm's condemnation: making a 
pornographic film is "inconsistent 
with the values of the University." 
Institutions don't adopt values 
arbitrarily or for fun, they do so 
because those values are derivable 
from the goal of the institution. 
What goal can IU have that gives 
it a value that pornography vio­
lates?

Presumably, IU exists to edu­
cate its students. It's hard to figure 
out how' the educational mission 
of IU should lead it to commit 
itself to a value contradictory to 
pornography. Does pornography 
prevent people from learning? 
Campus Invasion #32 surely won't 
approach the seductive logoman- 
cy of Nabokov's Lolita, the exqui­
site homoeroticism of Donatello's 
David, the sublime masochism of 
Michelangelo's Dying Slave, or 
even the bawdy simplicity of hun­
dreds of ancient Greek artifacts, 
many probably used or displayed 
in public, depicting homo- and

heterosexual oral and anal sex 
between women, men, fantasy 
animals and sex toys, not to men­
tion masturbation and hermaph­
roditism. It's true, we don't do 
pom like we used to, but is con­
temporary pom so bad that it 
actually makes it harder for peo­
ple to leam? A touch of skepticism 
might be in order.

The filming may have disrupt­
ed the dorm and made life incon­
venient for some residents. That 
could well be (though the Daily 
Student doesn't mention any stu­
dent complaints). But most tem­
porary dorm disruptions don't 
require investigations and prose­
cutions.

Unfortunately, though, people 
who like to be in charge also like to 
hurt people for the silliest of rea­
sons. The IU Police Department 
conducted an investigation of the 
dorm and various fraternities, dis­
ciplinary action pending. Brehm 
explains that " ... if they broke the 
law we will seek prosecution to 
the fullest extent of the law." Any 
law broken by Shane Enterprises 
is an unwise law, and any law bro­
ken by the student participants is 
absolutely 
idiotic. But an IU 
spokesman says that, "I would

imagine this would be prosecuted 
bv local authorities. If you have a 
group of adults involved in highly 
suspect activities while on our 
campus, we are surely going to 
investigate it." Wonder why the 
activities were suspect. And notice 
the implication tha\ it's unusual 
for adults to be on campus (or at 
least that it's unusual for adults to 
be engaging in suspect activities 
— that means sex, a popular stu­
dent recreational activity — on 
campus). That means that the stu­
dents aren't adults.

For an administrator to waste a 
university's resources trying to 
condemn or restrict activities he 
personally regards as immoral but 
which don't violate the law, any­
one's rights or the purpose of the 
university, is for that administra­
tor to violate his obligation to 
work in the public trust and only 
for public values. That's true 
about pornography, and it's true 
about topless dancers; if s true for 
films, and ifs true for phone 
books; ifs true in Indiana, and ifs 
true in Texas.

Register is a philosophy graduate 
student.

 COLLEGE PORNO IN HIGH DEMAND
Indiana University officials said they will review a pornographic movie 
shot on campus before deciding whether to take legal action. An adult 
video store in Bloomington said it’s already getting calls for the yet-to-be 
released movie. ‘We already get 20 to 25 calls a day asking about it.’ 
said Gary Marker, an employee of Eve's Lingerie and Adult Novelties.

MONEY TALKS

BRIEFS

Ex-teacher sentenced
for planting fake bombs
SAN ANTONIO — A former 
teacher was sentenced to two 
years in jail for planting fake 
bombs at two schools in 2000 
and 2001.

Tania fever pleaded no contest 

in September to planting five 
fake bombs in October 2000 and 
two in October 2001 at Dilley 
High School and two others at 
Bigfoot Alternative School in 
February 2000.

A new student at Dilley was ini­
tially charged with the first bomb 
hoax, but the charge was later dis­
missed. He dropped out of school 
and obtained a general education­
al development certificate.

District Judge Olin Strauss sen­

tenced fever to two years for 
each charge, with the time to be 
served concurrently.

Court: Arkansas funding 
formula unconstitutional
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The 

state Supreme Court has 
declared Arkansas’ school fund­
ing formula unconstitutional for 
the second time since 1983.

The decision Thursday, which 

was unanimous on the key 
issues, affirmed a 2001 lower 
court decision that the state 
failed to distribute $1.7 billion in 
education funding equitably 
among 310 school districts.
It also affirmed the lower 

court’s ruling that overall funding 
was not adequate to provide 
equal educational opportunities 
for the state’s 450,000 public 
school children.

The Supreme Court referred to 
the state's “abysmal rankings" in 
key national education indicators 
but did not impose specific solu­
tions.

It gave the state until Jan. 1,

2004, to fashion its own remedies.

Alabama blocks in-school 
Gideon Bible distribution
ATHENS, Ala. — Local school 
officials have banned the distri­
bution of Gideon Bibles in public 
schools after a parent threat­
ened to file suit.

Limestone County 

Superintendent Barry Carroll said 
a parent complained after the 
Christian organization held its 
annual Bible distribution for fifth- 
graders.

Bob Lambert, the president of 

the local Gideon chapter, said 
the organization would abide by 
the decision and did not want 
any publicity for fear it would 
compromise Bible giveaways 
elsewhere.

The county school board will 
meet later this month to consider 
developing a policy that addresses 
equal access for groups wanting 
to distribute materials inside 
schools, Carroll said.

Discliplinary action taken 
in football hazing incident

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — 

Methodist College suspended a 
football player and disciplined 
four others after a teammate 
was sodomized in the team lock­
er room with a pen, school offi­
cials said.

The five players and two others 
were arrested and charged after 
the Nov. 11 incident. The victim 
suffered minor injuries.

The school did not name the five 

players it disciplined. One was 
suspended for the remainder of 
the academic year, and the other 
four were banned from college ath­
letics and ordered to perform com­
munity service, apologize to the 
victim, and enroll in counseling.
All seven men were charged 
Nov. 13 with hazing, and one 
was also charged with second- 
degree sexual offense.

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Thk Dun Tr \ w

Monday, Novem ber 25, 2002

Conference addresses 
feminism movements

Panelists discuss 
gender equity, 
domestic violence

By Claire Harlln
Daily Texan Staff

and 

S ta te s 

S ixty-eight scholars from the 
U n ited 
abroad 
explored subversive m ovem ents 
fe m in ist 
in 
activism this w eekend at the U T 
Sch ool o f Law.

the h isto ry o f 

The conference, organized by 
U T professors Zipporah Wiseman 
of the School of Law and Susan 
H ein zelm an 
the English 
of 
department, was titled "Subver­
sive Legacies."

stra te g ie s 

ad d ressed 
T h e 
te a ch in g w o m e n 's 
in clu d ed 
en listin g 
co u rses, 
stu d ie s 
and 
H o lly w o o d 
a cto rs 
fight ag ain st 
d om estic violence, and w orking 
for legislative change.

film m ak ers 

the 

in 

C on feren ce panelists also d is­
cu ssed 
to p ics su ch as sexu al 
h arassm ent, subversion in litera­
ture and film , sex equality in 
w o m e n 's sp orts, and ho w to

gain gen d er equity in the 21st 
century.

Susan Estrich, author and pro­
fessor o f law' and politics at the 
U niversity of Southern C alifor­
nia, gave the keynote address in 
T o w n es H all A triu m Frid ay 
night.

Professor Sarah W eddingtion 
o f the U T C enter for W om en's 
Stu d ies and C ollege of Liberal 
A rts 
introd u ced E strich as a 
"w o m a n w ho has served m any 
firsts."

E strich wras the first w om an 
p re sid e n t of H arv ard L aw 
Review, first w om an to head a 
national presidential cam paign 
and the you ngest w om an ever to 
receive tenure at H arvard Law' 
School.

In her speech, the "A lexan d er 
Terrell C en ten n ial 
W atkins 
L ectu re," Estrich noted that 15 
percent o f corporate officers last 
year w ere w om en and this year 
th e p ercen tag e 
the 
sam e.

rem ain s 

"W e have show n no increases, 
b u t w e are celebrating because 
w e have held our o w n ," said 
Estrich. "S o w om en are doing 
terrible, b ut that's just d and y?"

E strich also stated that there is 
"a n un con sciou s discrim ination 
against w om en " when it com es 
to m otherhood and that "w o m en 
in corp orate A m erica earn 70 
percent o f w'hat m en d o ."

"W o m en w ith kids m ake the 
least m on ey and have a harder 
tim e m akin g it to the top — 
th at's a fact," said Estnch. "It is a 
sociological trap because m oth­
erhood is destiny."

E stric h attrib u ted w o m e n 's 
lack of progression to the inac­
tivity o f m o d em fem inists.

"N o w a d a y s they d o n 't even 
w an t to b e called fem in ists," 
said Estrich. "T hey w ant to be 
called 'w o m en ' or 'b a b e s.'"

E strich believes the problem is 
that "th is generation just d oesn 't 
get it ... w om en just aren’t help ­
ing each o ther anym ore."

"W e need to reach out, use the 
p ow er w e have and help each 
o th er m ov e forw ard ," Estrich 
said.

T h e com plete conference w as 
v id eotaped and the tapes will be 
m ade available from the Jam ail 
C en ter for Legal Research at the 
U niversity School of Law.

Interfratemity council president: 
SAM has positive history at UT

FRATERNITY, FROM 1
printed on U T letterhead and 
signed by Teresa G raham Brett, 
dean of students. It is addressed 
to SA M chapter president Ryan 
G riffin and identified as "a su m ­
m ary o f the investigative notes 
for Sigm a A lpha M u fraternity, 
Sigm a T heta C h a p te r's alleged 
hazing inv estigation."

B rett con firm ed Friday that 

the d ocu m ents are authentic.

"T h o se d ocu m ents are part of 
o u r 
in v e stig a tio n ," she said. 
"A n d , obviously, I cannot com ­
ment on the investigation because 
it is ongoing."

A sen ior SA M m em ber said 
that one cop y of the investiga­
tive notes had been given to the 
fraternity. H e w ould not co m ­
m ent further.

S A M , kn o w n as "S a m m y ," 
has been on cam pu s since 1921. 
It is a w e ll-k n o w n fratern ity 
w ith a reputation for excellence, 
M att M ackow iak, Interfraternity 
C ouncil president, said in a pre­
vious interview .

"Sig m a A lpha M u has a nu m ­
ber of m em bers that are positive 
con tributors to U T," M ackow iak 
said . 
"T h e y d on ate $10,000 
annually to the Am erican C ancer 
Society from their philanthropy 
bull-riding; last y e a r's ou tstand ­
ing m ale student, A nd rew Fried- 
berg, w as a Sam m y and their 
grades are w ay above the all­
m ale and U niversity average, 
and am on g the top three am on g 
all fraternities ev ery year."

But lately, SA M has been in 
trou b le. T h e frate rn ity 
is on 
interim su sp ension d uring the 
U n iv ersity 's curren t inv estiga­

tion into hazing. It w as already 
on probation for violations last 
year, w hen officials from the 
d ean o f students office began 
exam in in g the com plaint.

But M ackow iak said the pres­
ent conflict does not show the 
fratern ity 's true character.

"I have full faith in the leader­
ship of this particular chapter 
and that this hazing case is an 
isolated incident and that they 
w ill coo p erate fully," M ack o ­
w iak said.

The investigative notes include 

a tw o-page list of 10 allegatioas:

• O n e of the pledge m asters, 
w ho took part in hazing, w as 
neither a UT stud ent nor a fra­
tern ity m em ber. T h e p led g e 
m aster "assisted w ith su p erv i­
sion of lineups, bu ild ing and 
other pledging activities ... activ ­
ities that w ere not proper for a 
n onm em ber."

• In addition to the national 
fratern ity 's handbook, pledges 
receiv ed a secon d h a n d b o o k 
filled with arbitrary rules.

• Pledges had to attend b u ild ­

ing activities.

• Pledges w ere lined up to 
take verbal abuse, w hich often 
included yelling.

• Pledges had to d rink "so m e ­
thing that sm elled and tasted 
b ad ."

• P led ges had 

in 
leisure suits and serve seniors 
dinner.

to d ress 

• S o m e pledges had to give 

rides to pledge m asters.

• W hen the S A M national 
d irecto r v isited 
the chapter, 
p ledges apparently w ere asked

to m islead him "regard ing the 
bu ild ing project and other relat­
ed activ ities."

• Pledges had to clean a dirty 

room that sm elled of urine.

lead ers 

• P led g e 

pou red 
water, paint and soft d rinks on 
p led ges' heads.

S o m e 

fratern ity m em b ers 
w ho w ere pledges d uring the 
alleg ed h a z in g sp o k e 
to the 
Texan on condition of anonym i- 
ty.

"1 d o n 't think any b od y 's real­
ly go in g to tell you w h eth er 
th ese are tru e," on e m em b er 
said. "T h e re 's been a lot of alle­
gations. I d o n 't know w hat to 
believ e right now."

A sked if that m eant he had no 
first-h an d k n o w led g e o f 
the 
questioned activities, the m em ­
b er said, "I'm not saying that."

A n o th e r fratern ity m em b e r 
said, "T h ere are a lot o f ru m ors 
going around, and the officers 
d o n 't know m uch about w hat 
the U n iv e rsity 
is say in g , the 
actives d o n 't know m uch and 
the [form er] pledges d o n 't know 
very m u ch ."

H e claim ed that no hazing 
had o ccu rred . H e co n ced ed , 
th o u g h , 
that he m igh t hav e 
know n about the secret, second 
handbook.

The form er pledges w ere told 
by U T and fraternity officials 
"n o t to say any thing," another 
m em ber said.

A ttem pts to reach the chapter 
president and national director 
w ere unsuccessful.

Of
Frank Lam, an economics senior, Tim Borthas. a UT alumnus and Tim Mooney, 
a marketing senior, count money for the “City-Wide Hold Up ’ Saturday.

B randon M c K e lve y D a ily It ■ r 

Stereotypes refuted 
in video presentatic >n

FESTIVAL, FROM 1

show ed the people, places and 
culture of India today.

"W e w ant to show the beauty, 
the m ystique [of India]," Prateek 
Sh ah , IC A p resid ent, told the 
crow d of about 1,500 people.

T he clips highlighted problem s 
and ad vancem ents in India. T he 
m ostly In d ian crow d erupted in 
lau g h ter and ch eer w hen the 
screen show ed Bollyw ood, hom e 
o f 
In d ia 's $ 3.5 b illion m o v ie 
industry. B o lly w o o d cu rren tly 
produces m ore feature film s than 
any other film ind ustry in the 
w orld , 
the U nited 
in clu d in g 
States, accord ing to the video.

in 

scream s 

A lo n g w ith 

o f 
approval for popular cities, sports 
heroes and songs, m od ern-d ay 
prob lem s 
India w ere not 
ignored. T he letter " I" highlight­
ed the high illiteracy rate, about 
40 percent in 1996, and inade­
quate schools. The narrator of the 
video clips called the large u n ed ­
ucated population the "big gest 
p roblem " facing m odern India.

Sophia Sinha, an ad vertisin g 
sen ior w ho co-chaired the event, 
said that w hile the purpose of 
Jhalak is alw ays to inform people 
about India, m any o f the stereo­
types they w ish to dispel com e 
from Indians them selves. Indians 
w ho have been 
in the U nited 
States for a long tim e or w ho 
w ere born here m ay still hold 
stereo ty p e s ab o u t th e ir n ative 
country, Sin ha said.

"W e knew the Indian audience 
would be b igger b ecau se this is 
the only w ay they can get in 
touch w ith their m oth er country," 
she said.

M anu Bangia, a com p u ter sci­
ence sop hom ore, m oved to the 
U nited S tates tw o years ago. He

said stereotypes are an u n av oid ­
able con sequ ence lor people w ho 
h a v e n 't b e e n able to travel to 
other parts o f the w orld. Bangia 
adm itted that he know s ver}' lit 
tie abou t people from the M idd le 
East, and he does not expect p eo ­
ple in A m erica to know about 
India. W hen Bangia first cam e to 
the states, he said h e w as bo th ­
ered by stereotypes, but now h e 
‘hinks it's "fu n n y."

" I d on't b lam e them ," Bangia 
said. "W h y the hell, and how the 
hell are they going to know ab ou t 
another culture."

A m o n g the stereo ty p es ICA 
refuted in vid eo clips was the 
idea that Indian w om en are kept 
inside to cook and raise4 children. 
Sinha said Indian w om en strike a 
"b a la n ce " betw een fam ily and 
outside life.

"Today the w om an of India is 
m ore career-oriented, but along 
with that she is -.till bound to tra­
dition and fa m ily " Sinha said.
T h e e v en t b eg an w ith 

the 
A m erican national anthem and a 
b a n d S in h a d escrib ed as a 
"fu sio n " of Indian and Amerii an 
sounds. She said Indi-pop fusion 
m usic is p o p u lar w ith youth in 
India as w ell as m u sic from 
Bollyw ood m o v ies but tradition­
al Indian folk m u sic has not d is ­
appeared. A ll o f those styles w en 
present in the dances perform ed 
Friday.

S in h a said 

the o rg an izers, 
including her co-chair N ishant 
Porbanderw alla, ‘ an under lared 
sophom ore, spent alm ost thret 
m onths planning.

"W e had a tim eline dow n for 
said . 

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Monday, November 25, 2 0 0 2

Fair places focus on 
safety, police services

By Delaney Hall
Daily Texan Staff

The Austin Police Department 
sponsored a safety fair Saturday, 
featuring information and fun 
while specifically targeting East 
Austin immigrant families.

"This is an opportunity for the 
community to meet police offi­
cers and to establish a better 
trust," s a id Joseph Berru, an APD 
officer and event organizer.

The fair, 

sponsored by the 
South and Southwest area com­
mands, included informational 
booths run by community agen­
cies such as the Austin Fire 
Department an Emergency Medical 
Services team, Bank of America, 
representatives from the Mexican 
Consulate, and the Occupational 
Safety and 1 lealth Administration.
"We're focusing on traffic safe­
ty and child safety primarily," 
said Berru.
The 

informational booths, 
however, distributed information 
ranging from employees' rights 
to opening bank accounts.

"This all boils down to safety, 
though," said Berru. "We've had 
a lot of trouble, for example, with 
immigrants who don't open 
bank accounts 
because they 
don't have a Social Security num­

ber, and so they carry a lot of cash 
on them, which makes them 
prime targets for robberies."

That general fear of authority, 
which may prom pt some immi­
grants to shy aw ay from banking 
institutions, for example, must be 
overcome, said Adriana Mendez, 
an officer with the Mexican con­
sulate.

"There's really a fear of author­
that som etim es prevents 
ity 
immigrants 
from getting the 
services that they need, Mendez 
said. "But w e've been trying to 
collaborate closely v\ith 
the 
police and, up to this point, it's 
been working very well."

Mendez also mentioned that 
victims of domestic abuse and 
other crimes hesitate to report the 
crimes because they fear reper- 
cussioas and possible deporta­
tion.

"Im migrants generally associ­
ate the police with Immigrant 
and Naturalization Services," 
Mendez said.

Berru em phasized that anyone 
on U.S. soil has the right to emer­
gency services.

"The mission of the police 
department is to provide protec- 
tioa safety and service," said Berru. 
"If someone needs emergency 
services, the)' will be provided."

The Austin Police Department 
has proved itself to be an advo­
cate of the immigrant communi­
ty in the past, said Leo Achondo, 
director of the Catholic Charities 
legal division.

"O n e of the major safety 
threats that immigrants face is 
that of general crime," ga^d 
.Achondo. "This is something 
tha! the APD has reafl) worked 
on, but more needs to be done. 
M any undocumented workers 
don't know how to document 
complaints, and they're worried 
about complaining to the author­
ities. They worry that they may 
face deportation."

When 

the Department of 
Ju stice granted 
local police 
di•partments the power to deport 
ille g a l immigrants in April 2002, 
the Austin Police Department 
form ally decided that no one 
w ould be stopped or detained 
solely based on his or her immi­
grant status.

Establishing a trusting rela­
tionship with the 
immigrant 
community was one of the main 
reasons cited for the decision.

"We'll investigate any crime, 
whether or not a person has iden­
tification," said Berm. "Safety is 
w hat's important to us."

CEO: Bill wi!I affect competition

SBC, FROM 1
said releasing SBC from regula­
tions would hurt the sm aller 
com panies' ability to provide 
broadband service.

David Scott, chief executive 
officer of Birch Telecom, said 
phone service and its customers 
will 
is 
passed.

legislation 

suffer 

if 

"We are deeply concerned that 
if this bill passes next session, 
prices will go up, competition will 
suffer and the progress made since 
the Federal Telecommunications 
Act of 19% will be reversed, all to

the detriment of phone customers 
in Texas," Scott said.

Ratliff said SBC is trying to 
undermine the authority of the 
Texas Public Utilities Commission, 
which he said has done a good job 
of regulating telecommunications 
companies.

Lee said the legislation is not 
to eliminate competition, but to 
allow them to compete in the 
high-speed Internet business.

"Cable com panies dominate 
the broadband market, and face 
no regulation," he said. "Despite 
that, we are not asking for cable 
companies to be regulated."

The Oklahoma law allowed 
SB C to expand into rural areas 
that did not have access to high­
sp eed Internet.

Ratliff said the m arkets of 
m ost of the companies that form 
the alliance are primarily rural.

The CTA is not related to a 
cam paign by Voices for Choices, 
which has run television com ­
m ercials claiming SBC is benefit­
ing unfairly 
the 1996 
Federal 
Telecommunications 
Act.

from 

SBC has said the organization 
is a front group for its long-dis­
tance competitors.

HOUSTON LOSING MILLIONS IN PARKING TICKETS
After investigating public records, The Houston Chronicle 
reports that Houston motorists ignored more than 100,000 
tickets in each of the past four years. The city lost about 
$4 million per year in uncollected parking fines, the paper 
reports.

PAYING HOMAGE

Adithya Sambamurthy Daily Texan Staff

Ruji Capone prepares kratongs — handmade flowers later to be 
placed in the temple pond — for the Floating Candlelight Festival at 
Wat Buddhananachat of Austin in Del Valle. During the festival, 
Buddhists pay homage to the holy footprint of the Buddha.

State may lose money 
owed by charter schools

By The Associated Press

FORT WORTH — Officials say 
the state may never recover mil­
lions of tax dollars owed to them 
by former charter schools and 
blame a deficiency in the law and 
lax oversight for the lost funds.

Several charter schools are being 
investigated for fraud relating to 
their request and receipt of state 
money.

Estimates of what is owed to 
the state run from $5.7 million to 
millions more when charter 
schools that are still operating are 
included, according to state agen­
cies and investigators.

That amount will probably 
increase as more Texas charter 
schools close in the next few 
months. The amounts range from 
$2,678 owed by Bolding Academy 
in Marshall to $2.9 million owed by 
in 
Renaissance Charter School 
Irving, the Texas Education Agency 
says.

State regulators are finding that 
getting the money back won't be 
easy.

One problem is that the 1995 
law that created the charter-school 
program did not say that failed 
schools must turn over unused 
student money when they close.

Another problem is that opera­
tors of failed charter schools may 
have moved the money to private 
accounts or other ventures, inves­
tigators say.

"There were really very little 

provisions to protect the money, 
said Rep. Jim Dunnam, D-Waco, 
who authored a bill in 2001 to 
tighten charter-school regulations, 
which makes clear that unused 
money given to charter schools 
must be returned to the state.

Charter schools cannot charge 
tuition cind are funded almost 
entirely by the state, which pays a 
certain amount per month for 
each student. The amount of the 
monthly payment is determined 
by enrollment estimates.

The new law, which took effect 
about a year ago, says the state's 
payments to charter schools are 
considered public money and that 
the funds can be used only to ben­
efit the charter school's students 
and charter-holders can be held 
liable for the money.

The problem is most failed 
charter schools don't have the 
money to refund state payments 
or to pay debts.

TEA has stepped up its training 
to help prevent future misman­
agement, she said

BRIEFS

States taking different
approaches to woo Toyota

SAN ANTONIO — The two states 

battling for a Toyota assembly 
plant have adopted starkly differ­
ent strategies, with Arkansas roar­
ing ahead like a sports car and 
Texas creeping behind the scenes 
like a darkly tinted limo.

Texas officials remain hush-hush 

about their efforts to lure Toyota 
to San Antonio, dangling a pack­
age that could feature enterprise- 
zone tax breaks, fast track state 
permits, job training and millions 
of dollars for roads and rail lines.
Both states stand to gain thou­

sands of jobs from the Toyota 
plant and officials estimate an 
annual payroll of $265 million if 
the plant goes to San Antonio.

DA wants judge to reverse
ruling on televising case
HOUSTON — Harris County 
District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal 
wants a state district judge to 
reconsider his decision to allow 
cameras to record a capital mur­
der trial from jury selection 
through the jury's normally secret 
deliberations.

State District Judge Ted Roe 

has scheduled a hearing for 
Monday, the same day individual 
questioning of about 55 potential 
jurors in the capital murder trial 
of 17-year-old Cedric Harrison is 
set to begin. If Poe doesn’t 
change his mind, Rosenthal has 
already filed a petition with the 
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
Poe issued an order Nov. 11 
allowing PBS' public affairs series, 
Frontline, to film Harrison’s trial. 
Harrison, who faces the death 
penalty if convicted, is accused of 
fatally shooting Felix G. Sabio II, 35, 
on June 2 outside Sabio’s apart­
ment. Harrison was arrested after 
a chase ended with a fiery crash.

Investigation to begin to
find inmates’ missing money
BROWNSVILLE — A county 
audit of the Cameron County 
Sheriff’s Department has found 
thousands of dollars missing 
from inmates’ accounts.

The county is scrambling to 
schedule lie detector tests for 
some jailers and others to try to 
clear up the discrepancies.

County officials said they will 
install surveillance cameras in 
the maximum-security detention 
center near Olmito, not only to 
keep an eye on Inmates, but also 
to safeguard inmates from staff.
The three-month audit of the 

Cameron County Sheriff’s 
Department and jail found that 
$8,400 belonging to inmates 
was missing.

Compiled froiti Associated Press 
reports

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T i n I ) \i n T» \ \ n Monday, November 25, 2002

8ÜCS TAKE BATTLE OF BAYS

Simeon Rice and the rest of 
the Tampa defense forced Brett 
Favre into throwing four inter­
ceptions in the Bucs’ 21 7 win.

COMING TOMORROW

The latest update on the Texas 
football team and their prepara­
tions for a visit from the Aggies 
over the Thanksgiving holiday.

win

By Darren W. Dummlt
Daily Texan Staff

In a crudal statement game before the NCAA 
Tournament against one of the hottest teams in the 
country, the young Texas Longhorns finally demon­
strated the veteran maturity their coach has been wait­
ing for all year in a gutsy 24-30, 30-20, 30-22, 30-25 vic­
tory' over No. 19 Kansas State.

"It was a huge win for us," Texas outside hitter Mira 
Topic said. "They hadn't lost [in conference] to anyone 
but us and Nebraska, and we, once again, showed them 
who Texas really is."

The Wildcats (19-7,15-3 Big 12) came into Saturday 
night riding a 13 match-winning streak that began after 
losing to the Longhorns (22-7,13-6 Big 12) Sept. 28. As if 
that weren't daunting enough, the all-American candi­
date Topic was having trouble just sitting, standing and 
walking the night before the match due to lower back 
problems.

Predictably, K-State rolled over the Longhorns in 
game one, silencing Gregory Gymnasium with a .317 
hitting percentage. But instead of folding up after drop­

ping an early game, as has been the general trend for the 
Longhorns this season, Texas' defense rose to the occa­
sion.

Forcing 11 hitting errors and committing onlv two, 
the Longhorns decisively grabbed the match's momen­
tum heading into the locker room. Game three was no 
different, as LaTonya Coates peppered the Wildcats 
with a steady stream of jump serves. Coates also added 
10 kills, nine digs and five blocks in what her coach 
called her best performance of the year.

But Texas' inexperience and lack of a killer instinct 
seemed to return, as K-State sprinted out to an 11-4 lead, 
and forced Texas head coach Jerntt Elliott to bum two 
early timeouts.

"It was really a double-edged sword. I didn't think 
they came out as crisp and focused as they should have 
been, but I was really pleased with their emotional state 
by being able to stay in the game,' Elliott said. "After 
the second timeout they did a really g< kk! job of execut­
ing and playing hard

What transpired after the second timeout was Texas' 
finest blocking and covering of the season. Tying the 
game at 21, the Longhorns immediately went for the

jugular — going to their superstar Topic repeatedly 
dowm the stretch. A Bethany Howden block, followed 
by one of Stacy Millichap's 19 digs, set up one of Topic's 
19 kills to finish off the Wildcats.

Aside from almost doubling the Wildcats in blocks, 
the defensive system for the Longhorns had never been 
better. According to Elliott, K-State did a great job of 
adjusting its game plan mid-stream, but the Longhorns 
did an even better job of countenng those adjustments.
"When we are covenng well, I am able to take >hots 
that I couldn't normally take, said Texas o x a p ta in 
Kathy' Hahn, who had 10 kills and four blocks on 
Saturday night. "It just gives me more confidence and 
more opportunities to score "

With the season sweep of a ranked Kansas State 
squad, Texas has now put themselves in a position to 
grab a favorable seed in the NCAA Tournament with a 
win against Texas A&M on Wednesday.

"LaTonya said it in the locker room before the game, 
'If we beat Kansas State, we'U be in a good position for 
the tournament, because it's easy to get up for games 
against a rival like A&M," Hahn said. "If we play like 
we've been playing, we'U go deep into the NCAAs."

Home Sweet Home

Geoff Riddle/Daily Texan Staff

Texas’ Mira Topic goes up for a spike during 
Saturday’s match against Kansas State.

Despite shooting struggles, the Longhorns take 
down the Lumberjacks at the Erwin Center

Darren W. Dummit

Daily Texan Staff

Texas head coach Rick Barnes summed up his 
team's 81-55 victory over Stephen F. Austin best: 
"We did n't shoot it well from the perimeter, but we 
still scored 81 points."

And they dominated both ends of the floor.
Taking what the stingy Lumberjack defense gave 
them, the Longhorns connected on 10-of-37 shots 
from the three-point range and out rebounded SFA 
49-31.

Bouncing back from a low-key perform ance 
against Georgia last weekend, Brandon Mouton 
came out firing with a team-high 18 points, and 
Jam es Thomas clawed for a team-high 15 rebounds. 
Thom as equaled the SFA offensive rebound total 
with nine.

Relying on perimeter shooting the entire night, 
No. 3 Texas jumped out to a 15-4 lead, effectively 
ending any beleaguered hopes of a Lumberjack 
upset.

Of the 20 shots taken by Kenton Paulino, Sydmil 
Harris, Terrell Ross and Brian Boddicker, 19 were 
from downtown, and only five found the bottom of 
the net.

T.J. Ford hit the double-digit assist mark for the 
lbth time in his career with 10, though he did have 
five turnovers.

But rebounding and defense allowed the Horns 
to stay in control the entire night, as SFA committed 
20 turnovers and shot a paltry 31 percent from the 
field.

Freshman Brad Buckman asserted him self in the

offense, scoring 12 points and grabbing eight 
rebounds in 17 minutes. I le and Thomas held Percy 
Green, SFA's top scorer and rebounder, to only 14 
points and two rebounds.

Though it was a relatively lackluster shooting 
night on the whole, one bright spot came from the 
chanty stripe. Buckman and Thomas went to the 
line 20 times and hit on 75 percent of their attempts.
"The biggest thing that the team had to do was 
relax because, we had a lot of turnovers," Barnes 
said of a Texas team that com mitted 16 turnovers. 
"However, we got going better in the second half. 
We didn't shoot as well as I would have liked, but 
we did do well from the free-throw line.”

The home-opening crowd of 9,658 was a decent 
showing for a top-5 team against an unknowm SFA 
team. Excluding last year's home opener against 
Arizona, Texas averaged only 6,679 in home games 
against non-conference opponents

"I thought the crowd was great," Thomas said. 
"It sounded like there was more than 9,000 out 
there."

As it should be early in the season, Barnes was 
able to go deep into his bench for quality minutes. 
Eleven Longhorns played at least 10 minutes, and 
the Longhorn bench outscored the Lum berjack's
29-9.

"The difference w'ith this y ear's team is our bench 
depth," Ford said. "W e all played much better in 
the second half. We just relaxed and focused on the 
game plan."

The Horns return to action Wednesday against 

Texas-Arlington in the Erw in Center.

Mouton steps up on off 
night for Texas' marksmen

By Avery Holton
Daily Texan Staff

court.

The alarms sounded as soon as Texas stepped on the 

The general needed help.
Trapped by a tight /one defense, T.J. Ford was not 
allowed to drive the lane. He couldn't work past a 3-2 zone 
grafted by Stephen F. Austin. His smooth jumper less than 
a minute into Saturday's home-opener at the Frank Erwin 
Center came on a quick offensive attack, one that disap­
peared for the remainder of the first halt.

With their leader shut down and the rest of their team 
struggling from the floor, the Longhorns kxiked to a guard 
widely thought the most underrated in the Big 12. 
Brandon Mouton accepted the challenge, tiring off 18 
points and providing a shoulder for Texas woeful shoot­
ing to lean on in an easy 81-55 victory

"Considering the defense they came out with, 1 think we 
took a good approach," Mouton said. "We were expecting 
a man-to-man defense but got the zone instead.

TEXAS WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Texas women drop 
opener to Cougars

By Shannon Owens
Daily Texan Staff

Texas entered 

the season opener against Brigham Young 
University Friday night confident in its offensive talent. But the 
No. 12 Longhorns (0-1) left with a deeper understanding that 
although their offense provides entertainment, it's their developing 
defense that will be their crutch.

The Longhorns fell to the Cougars 79-63 in Provo, Utah.
"This will definitely be a wake-up call for our team," said Texas 
head coach Jody Conradt. "Certainly, 1 am disappointed with our 
effort, especially on the defensive side of the floor and with our lack 
of focus throughout the game"

The loss marked the first time the Texas lost its season opener since 

a 61-52 loss to Houston in 1998.

Jerry Laizure/Associated Press

Without the strong post play of junior forward Stacy Stephens, 
who fouled out with 12:28 seconds left in the second half, Texas was

Oklahoma’s Quentin Griffin celebrates after rushing for 207 
yards in the Sooners’ win over Texas Tech.

See WOMEN, page 8

iophomore T.J. Ford goes up for a dunk for two of his nine points against Stephen F. Austin on Saturday. The 
joint guard notched 10 assists in the contest to help Texas’ to a victory in it’s home opener.

Brandon Mouton scored 18 points in Saturday’s game. See MOUTON, page 8

Alex Jones/Daily lexan stari

Sooners stop Tech, 
clinch Big 12 South

By Clint Hate
Daily Texan Staff

Although its national title hopes are 
still in limbo, Oklahoma won the Big 12 
South title Saturday with a 60-15 win 
over No. 24 Texas Tech. The Sooners 
will face Colorado 
the Big 12 
Cham pionship Dec. 7 at Reliant 
Stadium.

in 

No. 4 Oklahoma (10-1, 6-1 Big 12) 
ended quarterback Kliff Kingsbury s 
Heisman hopes, holding the senior to 
just 187 yards passing and one touch­
down. Kingsbury, one of the top-rated 
passers in the nation, was intercepted 
twice by the stingy Oklahoma defense.
K ingsbury's Heisman aspirations 
may be a memory, but Oklahoma run­
ning back Quentin Griffin furthered his

case as the best player in the country. 
The senior rushed for 207 yards — his 
seventh straight 100-yard and third 
200-yard game of the year — and three 
touchdowns in the Sooners dominant 
performance against the Red Raiders 
(8-5, 5-3).

"H e's a great back," Texas Tech head 
coach Mike Leach said of Griffin. "H e's 
one of the best players in the country "

Oklahoma will likely move up to 
No. 3 in the Bowl Championship Series 
standings, after Washington State was 
upset by Washington in triple overtime 
Saturday. Ohio State is guaranteed a 
berth in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, which 
means that the Sooners need Virginia 
Tech to defeat Miami to have a chance

See OKLAHOMA, page 8

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THE EMMET ZONE

MEN’S GOLF

Sophomore ready to play in 
All-America golf tournament

By Jason McDaniel
Daily Texan Staff

A sensational sophomore season 
has propelled standout junior jason 
Hartwick into this season's Western 
Refining College All-Am erica Golf 
Classic.

Hartwick earned the distinction by 
claiming third-team All-America hon­
ors during the 2001-02 campaign on 
the strength of 11 top-20 finishes, 
including four in the top-10.

"I'm very' glad to be here. I look- 
back at all the past champions here, 
and a lot of great players have won, so 
I'd like to win it," Hartwick said.

The Classic, held at the El Paso 
Country' Club, features 24 of the coun­
try's elite collegiate golfers, including 
2002 U.S. Amateur Champion Ricky 
Barnes and defending Golf Classic 
Champion Brad Heaven.

During his sophom ore season, 
Hartwick registered his first individ­
ual victory at the Iaylor Made Red 
River Classic v\'ith a 15-under-par 201, 
earned an All-Big 12 selection for the

second consecutive year and was a 
semi-finalist for the Ben Hogan Award 
for outstanding male college golfer.

"If I look back, there are a lot of 
things I would have liked to do better, 
but this tournament is one of my goals 
every year," Hartwick said.

Hartwick's play during the fall sea­
son w asn't too shabby, either. He 
recorded four top-20 finishes in four 
appearances, including one fourth- 
place finish, with a team-leading scor­
ing average of 71.82. He also defeated 
"three of four opponents at the recent 
Hooters Match Play Championship in 
Myrtle Beach, S.C.

Though the All-America Classic is 
more of a reward than a challenge, 
Hartwick said he does feel some pres­
sure as the onlv Longhorn in the tour­
nament.

"I do want to put pressure on 
myself to play well out on the course, 
but the atmosphere is a lot different 
here than in team tournament — it's 
more 
back," 
Hartwick said.

relaxed 

and 

laid 

It's also important to play well and

develop camaraderie in a field of top- 
notch players whom Hartwick hopes 
to be playing against in years to come.
"This tournament is a lot of fun 
because you play against a great field, 
guys you know and really get along 
with, and that you'll probably see 
playing on the [PGA] Tour a few years 
down the road," Hartw ick said.

And Hartwick is not satisfied just to 
be playing in the Classic. He likes his 
chances of w'inning it as well. As long 
as he plays consistently and makes his 
putts, Hartwick believes he will be in 
a good position to add his name to the 
list of Classic Champions.

The 28th annual golf tournament, 
hosted by the Sun Bowi Association, 
officially gets under way today with 
36 holes, follow'ed by a final 18 on 
Tuesday. Sunday featured a showcase 
of golf skills in the Titleist Long Drive 
C ontest and 
the PING Putting 
Contest. Hartwick didn't place high in 
either, but said he is much more con­
cerned with today's action.

Cross country teams in NCAAs
Texas’ senior men set to take shot at nationals for third consecutive time

By Nick Williams
Daily Texan Staff

The m en's cross country team has 
made long strides this season, and 
their longest could be today as they 
run in the NCAA Cham pionships 
held in Terre Haute, Ind.

In the South Central Regional meet, 
Texas failed to place in the top two, 
meaning t h e m e n were left to hope for 
an at-large bid 
to nationals. The 
1 onghorns' wishes were granted, and 
they were given the chance to run in 
the biggest meet of the season.

This will be Texas' third consecutive 
am at nationals. Last year, the team 
finished 28th on the field comprised of

31 teams, including Big 12 and nation­
al defending champion, Colorado.

Today's meet will be the last time a 
significant quartet of seniors will run 
in college competition.

"Ben [Dawson] and I are fifth-year 
seniors, and we both want to be 
remembered as the ones who helped 
start som ething great 
these 
younger guys can continue," senior 
Jeff Wood said.

that 

Just recently the MONDO Men's 
NCAA Poll has the Longhorns on the 
outside looking in. Their highest rank­
ing this season was at the No. 29 posi­
tion, but now are receiving just nine 
votes and hoping to crack the polls 
once again after today's race.

Texas and the NCAA Championships 
have some history. This will be the 
L onghorns 21st appearance at the 
meet. The only individual champion 
was won by Walter McNew who won 
the race in 1956 and led the Longhorns 
to a third-place team finish — their 
highest ever. UT's last All-American 
was Kamiel Maase in 1994, when he 

finished fourth.

field at 

Longhorn runners will be taking 
the 
the Laverns Gibson 
Cham pionship Course, hosted by 
Indiana State University. The 10 kilo­
meter run will get underway at 12:15 

p.m.

Scoreboard
iNFL 

1

Vfeshington 20, S t Louis 17 

Baltimore 13, Tennessee 12 

New England 24, Minnesota 17 

Pittsburgi 29, Cincinnati 21 

Miami 30, San Diego 3 

Atlanta 41, Carolina 0 

Chicago 20, Detroit 17, F-OT 

N.Y. Jets 31. Buffalo 13 

Cleveland 24, New Orleans 15 

Dates 21, Jacksonvfte 19 

Seattle 39, Kansas City 32 

Oakland 41, Arizona 20 

Tampa Bay 21, Green Bay 7 

Houston 16, N.Y. Giants 14 

Indianapolis 23, Denver 20, F-OT

NBA

Philadelphia 94, Toronto 84 

LA . Clippers 90, Houston 89

Orlando 77, Miami 75 

Minnesota 106, New York 88 

Seattle 91, San Antonio 90

L.A. Lakers 111, Milwaukee 99

NHL

Florida 4, Anaheim 4, F-OT

NCAA Hoops (M )

(7) Florida 88, Coast Carolina 45 

(9) Oregon, Grambiing 

(11) Xavier 93, Florida A&M 64 

(15) Maryland 64, Miami (OH) 49

(24) Minn. 87, NC Asheville 81

(25) Illinois 90, Lehi0! 56

NCAA Hoops (W)
(1) Duke 76, (2) Tennessee 55

(3 ) KSU 88, (14) Penn State 86

(4) LSU 93, SE Louisiana 52

(5) Connecticut 78, N.C. State 50

(6) Stanford 59, San Francisco
57

(7) Purdue 91, Pacific 57 

(13 ) Texas Tech 99, Wash. 67

(15) UNC 106, E. Tenn. State 40

(17) Minnesota 93, Radford 53

(18 ) ISU 67, St. Raneta PA 45

(20) Boston College 66, Siena 40

airWAVES

Women bare been waiting for this one, says head coach John Hayes

By Matt Kellogg
Daily Texan Staff

The No. 27 Texas women's cross 
country team is in elite com pany 
toda) as they compete in the final 
meet of the year. The Longhorns are 
running in the NCAA Championship 
in Terre Haute, Ind. at Indiana State 
I Diversity, the second-straight year 
and ninth overall that the team has run 
in the event.

We are very disciplined this season 
and w e're putting it all together for 
this race," head coach John Hayes 
said.

"The regional was very important, 
but the whole season we have had our 
eyes on this race," junior Talis Apud- 
Martinez said.

Texas earned a spot at the national 
championship with a second-place fin­
ish at the Nov. 16 NCAA South Central

Regional. The upcoming race will fea­
ture an excellent field that will include 
most of the nationally ranked teams.

"We'll be happy with a top-20 finish, 
and extremely happy with a top-15," 
Apud-Martinez said.

The 30-team field will be larger than 
the previous six 
the 
women's cross country team has run 
in.

races 

that 

"It will be more dense than other 
races, and if you let your mind won­
der, 10 people will go by you," Hayes 
said.

Another concern that the team has is 
the weather, which is expected to be 
much colder than any other race this 
year. To prepare, the team has trained 
early in the morning when the tem­
peratures are lower.

At the Oct. 19 NCAA Pre-National 
Invitational, the team got a chance to 
see the 6,000 meter national champi-

onship course.

"Everyone really liked it at the Pre- 
NCAAs," said Hayes. "It's a really 
nice course."

At that meet, Texas finished 12th in 
the 23-team Blue race. Apud-Martinez 
came in 20th, and was Texas' top fin­
isher.

"All-American is a big goal for me," 
Apud-Martinez said. Hayes said that 
All-America honors are a big goal of 
seniors Erin 
and Dawn 
Sim s 
Domaschk as well.

"T h ey 're physically strong and 
mentally ready," said Hayes. "They're 
not too nervous and everyone is excit­
ed."

Texas won their only wom en's cross 
country national cham pionship 
in 
1986, and the team finished 28th at the 
event 
in 2001 event at Furm an 
University in Greenville, S.C.

didn't reflect what Texas wanted, 

at another national title.

Junior provides 
momentum in win

MOUTON, FROM 7

The Lumberjacks spent more 
than a week honing their zone 
defense, one head coach Danny 
Kaspar knew would come as a 
shock to the Longhorns.

"I d on't play any zone," Kaspar 
said. " If they went back and 
looked at the tapes of our games, 
they'd have seen that we're man 
defense more than 90-percent of 
the time.

"Tonight we wanted to keep 
Ford and [Royal] Ivey away from 
the goal."

K aspar's plan worked in the 
opening 20 minutes, limiting both 
Ford and Ivey to perimeter shots 
that resulted in 12 points collec­
tively. Ford finished w ith nine 
points and 10 assists as Texas 
scratched out a dismal 39-percent 
shooting performance.

But Mouton, who sank 40 per­
cent of his three-pointers last sea­
son, put a kink in Kaspar's design.
From the right side of the arc, 
Mouton stroked perfection, net­
ting three of his first four three- 
point attempts to help Texas to a 
42-29 halftime lead.

The barrage continued in the 
second half as M outon sank 
another three and added two 
perimeter buckets to complete a 7- 
of-13 performance that included 
4-oi-6 from beyond the arc.

Flushed out of the key by SFA's 
continuous shifting zone, 
the 
Longhorns took 37 of its 70 shots 
from downtown. The approach

but it w asn't a deterrent for the 

team.

"We didn't shoot as well as I 
would have liked," Longhorns' 

coach Rick Barnes said. "We took 

a lot of [three-point] shots, but 

when you're open, it's just hard to 

turn down shots."

Eleven of Texas' 13 players fired 

off at 

least one 

three-point 

attempt, but other than Mouton, 

none managed to hit the mark 

more than twice.

M outon's energy and sw eet 
stroke proved to be as much of a 
momentum swing as Ford's pow­

erful second-half block of an 
inside attem pt by Lum berjack 

Stevin Ozier.

Called "M utu m bo-esqu e" by 

Jam es Thomas, who tied Ozier up 
under the basket with 18:24 left in 

the game, Ford's block sent the 

ball flying into a frenzied crowd.

Texas then went on a 21-7 run 

that included a trio of threes, one 

from Mouton, that lifted Texas 

from an offensive lull.

"W e wanted to come out and 

keep a hot-pace tempo," Mouton 

said. "W e have guys who can turn 

it on and who know how to finish. 

That makes a big difference."

OU defense 
dominates

OKLAHOMA, FROM 7

Oklahom a faces Oklahom a State this 
weekend in both teams' final regular season 
game. The Cowboys spoiled the Sooners, 
national title hopes last year with a 16-13 
upset win in Norman.

Saturday Oklahoma's defense, which had 
played inconsistently against Texas A&M 
and Baylor, held Texas Tech's offense 270 
yards below its season average.

"They have the best defense I have seen in 
the past four years," Kingsbury said of the 
Sooners. "They have great athletes and 
change up defenses better than most teams."
On their first possession, the Sooners 
drove 70 yards on 10 plays, capped off a 
Kejuan Jones 10-yard touchdown run less 
than five minutes into the game. Less than 
two minutes later, Griffin scored on a 62- 
yard run that extended the Oklahoma lead to 
14 points.

Midway through the second quarter, the 
Sooners began to pull away, as Jones scored 
his second touchdown of the game on a 3- 
yard run. Oklahoma forced two Texas Tech 
safeties, and led 25-0 at the half.

Kingsbury threw his only touchdown 
midway through the fourth, but the Sooners 
scored two more touchdowns in the final 
quarter, solidifying their dominance in the 
Big 12 South.

After the win, Oklahom a quarterback 
Nate Hybl said he was pleased with the 
Sooners' performance on both sides of the 
ball.

"We knew this was going to be a tough 
game, and luckily, we played one of our bet­
ter all-around games this season," Hybl said.

Pbilly at San Francisco...8 p.m., ABC 

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MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Virginia vs. Clemson...l p.m., ESPN 

UMass vs. Indiana...4 p.m., ESPN2 

Davidson at Duke...6 p.m., ESPN2 

Arizona St. vs. Kentucky....8 p.m., 
ESPN

Utah vs. Gonzaga.10:30 p.m., 
ESPN2

BRIEFS

Texas women defeat Owls

Texas trium phed with a 
149-110 victory over Rice this 
weekend.

Sarah Wanezek, Kaela 
Humphries, Joscelin Yeo and 
Lacey Elliot took first place in 
the 200-yard medley relay, and 
teammates Tanica Jamison, 
Tracey Hemmerle, Jennifer 
Robbins and Martha Guleke 
took third.

In the 200-yard freestyle, 
Jamison, Jenna Bridges, and 
Jaclyn Faulkner took the top 
three places, respectively.

Wanezek had an outstanding 
meet. After the first relay event, 
she took first in the 50-yard 
freestyle and 200 individual 
medley. A different team mem­
ber seemed to step up in 
every event to help seal the 
victory over Rice.

Yeo took first in the 200-yard 
fly. Elizabeth Hoffman took sec­
ond in the 1,000-yard 
freestyle. Jamison also took 
second in the 100-yard back­
stroke, while Robbins placed 
third.

Texas also took second and 

third in the final event of the 
day, the 400-yard freestyle 
medley. The second place 
team consisted of Humphries, 
Robbins, Elliot and Faulkner. 
Taking third was the team of 
Siminski, Guleke, Yeo and 
Michelle Molina.

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E m m itt S m ith and the C ow boys p ic k e d up their 
fo u rth w in o f th e year w ith a 2 1 -1 9 w in on Sunday.

Tim Sharp A ssociated 

>s

MENS SWIMMING

Top-ranked 
Horns upset

By Patrick Daniel
Daily Texan Staff

Texas m en's swimming coach Eddie Reese and 
Michigan coach Jon Urbanchek agreed that Friday's 
meet would be a good one, and the results proved the 
coaching legends correct

"We knew they were going to be gixxi, and they 

were," Réese said.

No. 5 Michigan upset the No. 1 I onghorns, 123-120 
in a meet th.it came down to the final event, the 400- 
yard freestyle relay. Heading into the event, the 
Longhorns held a 114-112 lead (>ver the Wolverine .

Texas led the relay after each of the first three rac­
ers touched the wall. Junior Ian Crocker dove into the 
pool on the final leg of the relay with a thirty-five- 
hundredths of a second lead. M ichigan's Dan 
Ketchum w as able to close the gap and take a twen­
ty-three hundredth of a second lead after the firs t 50 
y a r d s of the race.

As the tw o battled it out over the I inal 50 yaais, the 
crow'd rose to their feet. As the two relay teams fin­
ished, eyes turned toward the scoreboard to see what 
the final outcome would be Ketchum, last year s Big 
10 Swim m er of the Year, was able to touch the wall 
seventy-eight-hundredths of a second before C rocker 
w'ith a time of 2:37.80

"W hen it comes down to the wire like this, it brings 
the best out of your kids It s exeiting, Urbanchek 
saici. "Texas brought the best out of our relays. Our 
freestyle relay improved [on its time] by three sec­
onds»"

Texas lost all but one of the i lose raerse Ketchum 
(1:36.77) beat Texas's. Senior Chris Kemp bv twenty- 
two-hundredths of a second in the 200-yard freestyle. 
In the 100-yard freestyle, Michigan's Garrett Mangieri 
(45.07) beat Crocker by three-hundredths of a sec­
ond. The only dose meet won In Texas was the 200- 
yard butterfly, won by seven-hundredths of a second 
by sophom ore Rainer Kendrick (1:47.82) over 
Ketchum.

"We didn't finish our rams well, Reese said. "You 
can finish your races by being a little more rested than 
we wen or swimming the first quarter of a race a lit­
tle easier."

Freshman Aaron Peirsol won his third-straight 
individual event of the year, winning the 200-vard 
backstroke. Peirsol posted a time of 1:43.98 with a 
sprained ankle. Junior Brendan I lansen posted wins 
in the 200-yard butterfly, 200-vard individual medley 
and helped the 400-yard medkv relay team finish 
with a win.

Reese called the loss a systemic failure, blaming 
himself for working his sw immers hard recently The 
next meet for the men is the Texas Invitational w hich 
takes place at the I ee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming 
Center Dec. 5-7. "1 know they will get some rest, at 
least from the water," he said. "Our weights and dry 
land are probably the hardest we have done them 
with any team in the last 15 years

Texas looking 
to regroup

WOMEN, FROM 7

forced to find other scoring and rebounding 
avenues. Junior guard Jamie Carey picked up much 
of the slack, leading the I onghorns w ith 17 points 
and five rebounds. Freshman guard Nina Norman 
followed Carey's double-digit scoring with 12, and 
sophom ore forward Heather Schreiber added 11.

"1 think our team believed that its offense would 
carry it, Conradt: lid. B u t when the s h o t s are n o t 
falling, and you lose your toughest inside player to 
early foul trouble [Stacy Stephens], you've got to 
dig dow n deep and play defense.

In addition to a poor defensive showing, the 
Cougars out-rebounded the 1 onghorns 47-41, and 
Texas tallied only three blocks

Offensively, Texas shot only 28.6 percent from the 

field, connecting on 18-of-63 attempts.

In alm ost every area that Texas fell short, the 
Cougars excelled. Seniors Erin Thom and Jennifer 
Leitner led the offensive attack, com bining for 37 
points w hile Brigham Young shot 43.1 percent for 
the night.

C onradt also added that she was surprised 
Brigham Young, who advanced to the Sweet 16 last 
year, d id n't receive more preseason recognition.

"T hey return many key starters from their Sweet 
16 team like we did, and the fact that they didn't 
have preseason ranking didn't take away from the 
fact that 1 knew they would be a very, very difficult 
opening gam e opponent," Conradt said.

 Monday, November 25, 2002

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garage parking, washer/dryer, 
vaulted ceilings Reduced rate, 
$1 100/mo 
Furnished/unfur- 
nished C all 576-1688 anytime.

W E S T C A M P U S Pre-lease N ice 
2/1 garage apt Hardwood 
floors Quiet, excellent security, 
3 blocks from campus. $795. 
450-0242 478-8905

^ O W l É Á S ÍÑ G "
FOR IM M ED IATE M OVE-IN 
Beautiful large west campus 1-1, 
individual courtyard, water and 
gas paid $595/mo. Q uiet 
complex, new carpet or 
ceramic tiles, on-site laundry. 
2 5 th & Leon Street.
Call 494-9470 or 
(281) 989-8814

W EST CAM PUS 
25th Street

Efficiency: $375-$395
1 bedroom / I bath: $575
2 bedroom/1 bath: $800

Great Neighborhood. 
794-3989

L O O K IN G TO Prelease? Check 
out apartmentsource net. 345- 
3336

71 4 Dean Keaton. 2/1 
Awesome location! 
Walk across street to UT. 
Large deck overlooking 
Eastwoods Park 
Private courtyard. 
Must seel $950. 
A vailab le Jan. 1.
Call 773-5240.

712-A Dean Keaton.
Exceptional deal! W a lk to UT. 
Large 2/1, second llv could be 
3rd bedroom. W o o d floors, 
arch doorway, high ceilings. 
Updated kitchen Private 
courtyard, backs up to 
greenbelt. Must seel 
O nly $1,195. Available nowl
Call 801-0436.

W a lk to UT!!! ECLECTIC, SAFE 
quiet complex has huge efficien 
cies 
$475 $50011 1/1 $650
405 E 31st/Duvol. 472-2450- 
appt.

370 - Unf. Apts. 

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37 0 - Unf. Apts. 

370 - Unf. Apts.

Duplexes

S PR IN G SUBLET Large I bdrm 
in triple* 2 blks to UT, hard­
wood 
15 
firs Avail Dec 
$600/mnth 680-5550.

O N E M O N T H freel Perfect for 
roommates 3BR. 2 1/2 BA 
One car garage Awesome new 
duplex with refrigerator, W / D 
Fenced, pets negotiable 6 09 
W 49th St Lisa, Keller W illiam s 
637-8232

400 - Condo*'

Townhom es

( I I 1510 N Loop Blvd W 
(off of N l amar & 51 st St.), 
Paddock, 2/2, patio, pool, 
tennis courts, w /d , UT shuttle.
$950/m o 
(2) 3 40 0 Sp eed w ay Hyde Park 
I / I patio, w /d $850/mo. 
(3) 30 0 0 Guadalupe, 1/1, 
washateria, $65Q/mo 
bevoproperties@pdq net 
Collect 71 3-953-0495

1940'S 2-1
on a quiet street 
O ak Floors, tile bath, ceiling 
fans, lots of windows, tress, 
w /d conns. Close to campus 
Austin Chronicle voted 
"coolest micro-neighborhood’
$925 
1307 Kirkwood. 
472-2123

RED U C ED 3-2.5 Townhome + 
loft and 2-car garage. Tennis 
Courts & Swimming pool O n 
UT shuttle $1200 
2 units to
choose from Metro 479-1300

* ‘ *E. 3 151 St Condos #310. 
2/2, N e w Carpet 
$1150 
Evergreen Properties 331-1122

SOUTH-ORGANIC 
STUDENT LIVING-
Live here where you 
can walk to class AND 
grow your own 
food/flowers! Spacious, 1,
2, and 3 bedroom 2-story 
townhomes, and rent by the 
room. Be surrounded by 
nature, 7 minutes from 
downtown, walking 
distance from 
ACC Riverside and 
Riverside Golf course, 
tennis and basketball 
courts, and on-site pool 
and laundry facilities.
Live here and win a Spring 
Break trip to Mexico!
Call Jill @ 385-7284

GREA T D O W N T O W N condo,
1 block from UT, secured ac- 
cesss, 
$ 1 2 00/m c Ail utilities paid. 
Coll Michelle @ 349-6103

pool, 

spa, 

2/1 

C EN TRAL W A L K to W est Cam 
pus 
Robbins Place. Female 
share 2/2 condo. Large living, 
kitchen dining, fireplace, high 
ceilings, W / D , coble N o pets 
$700+l/2utilities 
512-284 1244 

360-4371

Lenox, 3 blocks from 
campus, west.
Large 2BR/2BA. 
Garage parking.
Beautiful condition.
Access gates 
Available N O W for 
short-term lease. $800 
(512)415-8765, or 
972-333-5594

UPDATED 1BD/1BTH 
CO NDO
w/covered patio, small yard 
w/fenced & stone patio 
Fireplace N e w carpet & tile. 
N e w refrigerator. N ew W / D 
N e w paint N e w fixtures. 2 
pools Perfect central location 
2222 & Mopac $700/mo. & 
$500 deposit 917-9716.

Q U IT ' GREAT 
location Cute 
1BR available 11/30 O n UT 
shuttle 
Sue 214 
298-6153 
Bonme 254-681- 
7353.

line $575 

2 BEDROOMS 
2 Bathrooms with 
loft washer/dryer included. 
New carpet, paint, 
free cable.
IF shuttle.
601 Nelray 
$750
899-9492.

4 2 0 - Unfurnished 
Houses

S W BEAUTIFUL 3/2 5/2 home 
on I acre for lease $1350/mo 
280-9208

W E S T C A M P U S Pre-lease extra 
large 4 or 5/2 house. 3 blocks 
from campus Hardwood floors, 
quiet $19 55 450-0242 
478-8905

~TuRNET & KOENIG
Ivy laced house with hardwood 
floors and ceramic tile 
2 bedrooms, 1 bath,
7 2 0 square feet. G reat deal 
for this area, must see! 
$ 7 5 0 per month no pets 
Jennifer at 
Lynx Property Services 
563-0328 or 326-2722 xt 203

rooms, 

A W E S O M E 4BR 1920's Bun 
galo w 5 blks 
from campus 
hardwoods, high ceilings, 2 liv 
sunporch, W / D 
ing 
just remodeled 
conn, C A C H , 
1900+sqft. 
E 31st
8 10 
$ 1800/month 
453-6683 or
kneten@austin rr com

C H A R M IN G 2/1 1940's Bun- 
aalo w Hardwoods, wonderful 
deck, big yard, |ust renovated, 
super clean! 540 8 Roosevelt 
short-term ok 
$1075/month, 
or
453-6683 
kneten@austin.rr com.

2-1 H O U SE

N e w ly remodeled, 
new refrigerator, 
gas range, & gas heate 
new carpet and 
vinyl floor 
n ew paint inside & out 
new mini-b'inds 
off-street parking 
W / D connections 
$1 100/mo 
www.yem ington.com / 
300 2sp eed w ay 
or call
51 2 -4 7 7 -2 53 2

44 0 - Room m ates
3 BLO CKS from carious M ale 
roommate wanted Shared fur­
nished 2-2 Covered parking, 
W / D . with full kitchen pool 
$550/m o + l/ 2 
494- 
8959

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FEMALE S P R IN G 200 3 sub- 
leose $525/m o G re at W est 
tiv-
Campus location 24th St 
ing/Dinmg 
2/2. 
O w n room/bath 494-0595

furnished. 

N ice 
R O O M M A T E N EED ED 
3BR house 
45th/Red R<ver 
Rent $ 3 5 0 /m o .+ l/3 utilities 
Call 
Available Dec 15/jan 1 
323-9125 or 447-3762

C EN T R A L N E E D O N E or two 
roommates 
Share 4/2 house 
Large bedrooms big yard, ga­
rage, $400 928 4944

RESPO N SIBLE 
R O O M M A T E 
wanted 2BD IB A duplex near 
university $400 ABP Free ca­
ble, W / D Bill 467-8638

490 - W onted te
R e n t - L e a s e

SUBLEASE $ 4 5 0 /M O N T H 
1700sqft. condo near campus. 
Internet 2-car garage, W / D , 
private room 2 Roommates.
Pets O K, Move-in Dec 10th! 
Krystle 296-884 I

500 - Misc.
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for temporary relocation Please 
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2 /1 , 
C A C H , 
hardwoods, 
W D / C o n ceiling Ians, carport, 
no pets, $1100. 554-4311.

BD 
AVAILABLE N O W 
$ 50 0 $2000 for 24 hour infor­
mation call 477-LIVE or online 
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5 / 6 
4 baths 
house. Just remodeled By Inter 
mural Fields Sam 947-7653 
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W E S T C A M P U S , 4/2 house, 3 
blocks 
Very 
from campus 
large, hardwood floors quiet. 
$ 19 95 450-0242 478-8905

4 2 S - Room s
PRIVATE STUDIO In Dobie Cen 
ter available to sublet spring se­
mester 
Furnished, on-campus 
location, ethernet, coble, fridge, 
m aid service, gym, pool, meal 
contract included 
Call 505- 
2 62 3 ASAP!

" F R E E R E N T " Upper class- 
to 
m a n /G rad student wanted 
live 
10 
in N orthW est Hills 
mins from UT. Furnished bed­
room/bathroom. Call for inter­
view 346-9261.

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for 
S P R IN G SUBLEASE 
4 / 2 
$375/month +1/4 of 
bills, very neg Furnished, inter 
net, w /a , tan, UT-shuttle. Emily 
512 771-0584

FREE PAINT and rent til January 
1st. 1 BR . shared both. Private 
entrance. 4 blocks from UT 
$35 0/m o 892-0415

R ESP O N SIBLE 
RO O M M A TE 
wanted 2BD 1 B A duplex near 
university $400 ABP. Free c a ­
ble, W / D Bill 467-8638

4 4 0 - Room m ates

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nished-w/ Queen-bed, 
desk, 
etx W / D , ceiling fon, cable in­
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FEM A LE R O O M M A T E needed 
Furnished 2/2, W / D , fireplace 
pool Far W e s t area, 1 block 
from UT shuttle $525/mo.+ l/ 2 
utilities 
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furnished Call 394-1147.

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H ouses
CEN TRAL-CH ARM IN G 4/2 big 
bedrooms, large yard, garage 
pets okay 
10 mins to UT 
$ 16 00 928-4944

4 2 0 -U nfurnished 
Houses

N IC E 3/1 C A C H , detached stu­
dio, 
fenced yard, appliances 
$ 1 200/mo. 1 502 W . Koenig
Ln. Available N o w 657-7171

106 FRAN KLIN 
car garage 
$ 1900/month 
835-4890 ext 1

4 /2.5, one 
Built 2002 
Lee Properties

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Very Nice, 2 living areas, CR 
Shuttle, $ 1800/month 
1900 
Ridgemont Dr Alan 626-5699

SOUTH 
FEMALE STUDENT
needs roommate to share 
spacious 2 / 2 5 townhouse 
located right across from 
Riversjde ACC. 
Excellent location, most bills 
p aid and great amenities 
Call Jill 
@ 791-4435

SO UTH -M USIC THERAPY 
intern needs a roommate to 
share spacious 
2-bedroom townhouse in quiet 
complex w / shared organic 
gardens in a great location 
You get your own bathroom, we 
shore common living areas and 
utilities N o smckers please but 
most other habits tolerated 
Jill @ 791-4435.

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quiet Shoal Creek home Share- 
bath. 
$ 40 0/m o /(+jutilities. Available 
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1/2 MILE to campus 
4/2, C A C H , ceiling fans, new 
carpet, washer/dryer, 
large
yard $1600/m o 3009 Cherry- 
wood 413-8790

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170-W anted 
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200 - Furniture- 
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* * * 1 0 0 °, PR EM IU M Genuine 
Fui! G rain Leather Sofa, Choir, 
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warranty N ew . unopened Cost 
$1100, Sacrifice $250. Can 
Deliver 693 4200

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L O W T O P mattress and box 
w/w arranty N e w , unopened. 
Cost $1400, Sacrifice $350. 
Can Deliver 647 4881

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w / 1 4 " X-thick plllowtop mat­
tress 
Brand new, never used. 
Cost $1749, Sacrifice $450 
Can Deliver 289-2134

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Brand new, never used. 
tress 
Cost $1749, Sacrifice $450 
Can Deliver 289-2134

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cellent 
w /W in d o w s 95, 1 3 G B hctfd 
drive and other basics. Asxing 
$650 O B O Also have exeicise 
bike (1 year old) 
in excellent 
condition, $75. C all Branaon at 
512-420-8345, leave message

DELL LATITUDE laptop, Pentium 
3, 450M hz, 
128 M B RAM,
6 G IG , with case end charger, 
$485 O B O 512-527-9914.

FOR SALE: I Rolling Stone ticket 
for 1 1/23 show at S B C Center 
in San Antonio Floor section F3 
Row 17 O nly $15 0 Call M elis­
sa at 443-0082,

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1991 H O N D A Accord. 2-door, 
cold A C , red color, excellent 
condition $2,950 or best offer 
150K mile 521-527-9914

1994 T O YO TA Tercel, 80K 
(40K on new engine) 4spd, 
great AC/heat, runs/looks nice. 
$ 3 2 00.00 658-0109.

V O L K S W A G O N 
'87 $700 443-4083 or 801
6550.

S C IR O C C O 

'9 9 M A Z D A Protege ES. Load­
ed, 43K miles, one owner, 
$8,000. 246-7362.

1996 H Y U N D A I Elantra auto­
matic, 4dr, A C , 
runs good. 
$2,100 1991 Oldsmobile Cut­
lass Supreme V-6, automatic, 
4dr, digital, 
Call 
280-9090.

$1,950. 

1992 FORD Explorer V-6 5spd 
leather, cold A C , 2dr. 
4x4, 
1990 Honda Civic 
$2,10 0 
cold/AC, 
5spd, 
4dr, 
1 ow ner/115k 
$1,850. 2 8 a 
9090.

1994 FORD Thunderbird V-6 
automatic, cold A C , 2dr, very 
clean $2,000. 1995 Ford Es­
cort 
4dr, 
cold/AC $1,900 28a9090.

automatic, 

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1987 PO N T IA C Firebird Auto­
matic, V-6, T-top, A C , very 
clean O n ly 1 owner. $2,400. 
Call 28a9090,

1996 C H EV Y Corsica V-6, auto­
matic, cold A C , 4dr. $1 400. 
1993 Oldsmobile Delta 88 au­
tomatic V-6, 4dr, A C . $1,000
280-9090.

automatic, 4dr, 
$1,000 

! 989 CHRYSLER N E W Yorker, 
leather, 
V-6 
A C 
1988 Oldsrno-
bile Delta 88 Royale automatic 
V-6, 2dr, co ld/A C . 
$1,400. 
280-9090.

1990 V O L K S W A G O N Cabrio- 
let 5spd, cold A C conv., runs 
great 
$1,900. 1988 Pontiac
G rand A M , automatic, 2dr, 
cold AC $1,300. 280-9090.

1995 B U IC K Century V-6, 4dr, 
A C , very clean, $2,200. 1989 
C ad illac Fleetwood V-8, auto­
matic, leather, 4dr, very clean, 
$2,000. 280-909C.

2000 FORD Focus LX. 
30K 
miles with 75K extended w ar­
rantee 
Fully maintained, excel­
lent condition. Green, 4-door, 
5-speed 
Phone. 
$6,50 0 
301-9392.

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Monday, November 25, 200 2

COfVUNG SOON

DID YOU KNOW?

In the second installment of our finan­
cial aid series, we examine aid at the 
University — how much money you can 
expect to get and in what form.

For the 2001-2 002 academic year, the average UT undergrad 
was expected to pay about $1 1 ,0 0 0 to attend the University.
The regional average for a four-year public university, in contrast, 
was about $8,000, according to the College Board.

The

By Jennifer Nalewicki
Daily Texan Staff

the seal of 

It is thi' same scenario every 
semester. Tens of thousands of 
L I students open their m ailbox­
es and are greeted w ith the same 
plain-w hite envelop e em bla­
zoned w ith 
the 
U niversity in the upper left-hand 
corner, inside, they find a bill 
stating the am ount they ow e the 
U n iversity to cover their tuition 
and fees for the com ing semester.
Fo r m any, opening this enve­
lope brings on a feeling of dread, 
since they know th eir bank 
accounts — and those of their 
fam ilies w o n 't cover the need­
ed sum, leaving them in search 
of w ays to com pensate for the 
difference

O ne such w ay 

is through 
financial aid. According to the 
O ffit v of Student 
Financial 
Services, about 21,000 UT stu­
d e n t s are currently on some form 
of financial aid, up 11 percent 
from the previous year.

Even at the national level, the 
num ber of financial aid applica­
tions has risen by 2 percent from 
the previous year, according to the 
U .S Departm ent of Education.

So w h y the sudden need for 

more financial aid?

"The cost of education is going 
up, causing an increase' in demand 
for financial aid," said Don Davis, 
associate director of student finan­
cial services "This is due to infla­
tion. Tuition needs to be raised in 
order to keep up w ith it."

According 

to 

"Lo sin g

UPWARDtrend
Wondering just how much more you’re paying now in 2 0 0 2 than 
you would if you were a student at the University in the 1 9 7 0 s? 
Here’s a breakdown of tuition from 1 9 7 0 to today. T hese num­
bers are based on a liberal arts student taking 15 hours per
semester.

1970
1975
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
2002

In-State
$104
$195
$226
$364
$521
$983
$1,882
$2,357

Out-of-State
$254
$735
$776
$1,984
$2,081
$3,173
$5,107
$5.409

Percent Increase
0
35.2
2
26
48.6
141
308
392

Source: UT Watch

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560 - Public 
Notice

$3500 PAID 
Egg Donors. 
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570 - Music-

Musicians

MAJOR RECORD labels music
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learn great things. Call 
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762 - Health & 
Fitness

FITNESS DIRECTOR
for Westwood Country Club FT 
administrator for fitness 
jrogramming, personal training, 
ty management Exercise 
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preferred plus certification in 

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training Send resume, 
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eauirements to
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3808 W . 35th 
Austin, TX 78703 
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G round ," a study conducted by 
the N ational Center for Public 
P o licy and H igher Education, 
tuition at public four-year col­
leges has skyrocketed by 107 per­
cent since 1980, and students are 
taking notice.

U T Watch, a student watchdog 
group that critiques the "lack of 
student input at U T," recently 
conducted a study in w hich they 
exam ined tuition increases at the 
from year-to-year 
U n iv e rsity 
beginning in the 1970s, w hen 
rates began to climb.

"A ll the inform ation we need­
ed was not organized, and in d if­
ferent places. W e're the first to 
actually take all the inform ation

and put it into one place," said 
Forrest W ilder, an English senior 
and member of U T Watch. "W e 
basically had to go through w ith 
a fine-toothed comb in order to 
find all of the stats."

Despite the tedious chore of 
poring through dozens of old col­
lege catalogs, annual financial 
statements and general inform a­
tion bulletins — and m aking 
sense of the num bers — they 
found w hat they w ere after.

"There is a long-term trend in 
the rising cost of tuition at UT, it 
is so frustrating," W ild er said. 
"Students and parents are not 
aw are of this, and w e w ant to 
help make them aw are."
Gradually, they are.
"W e get a few hundred hits a 

d ay on our Web site," he said.

Their study found that in 1970, 
an in-state college student paid 
$50 per semester, regardless of 
the am ount of hours taken or the 
college or school attended.

The U n iversity estim ates the 
average tuition for in-state stu­
dents taking 12 hours next spring 
is $1,056, but the actual figure 
depends on w hich college or 
school is being attended.

"The annual cost to go to U T is 
extrem ely discouraging to every­
one," W ild er said. "Esp ecially if 
you are at the poverty' line."

According to the U T W atch 
report, the percentage of fam ily 
incom e required 
for 
tuition increased for all fam ilies,

to pay 

except for those in the top 20 per­
cent as m easured by 
fam ily 
income. The largest percentage 
increase occurred for low- and 
middle-incom e fam ilies.

In 1980, tuition at public four- 
year colleges consumed 13 per­
cent of fam ily incom e for low- 
income fam ilies; by 2000, that fig­
ure rose to 25 percent.

In addition, the purchasing 
pow er of the financial-aid dollar 
is also shrinking, causing stu­
dents and their fam ilies to dig 
even deeper into their pockets for 
money, w hich they often find dry.
The average federal Pell G rant 
at a public four-year college, a 
aw ard for those students express­
ing most financial need, covered 
98 percent of tuition in 1986. In 
1999, it o n ly covered 57 percent. 
State grant aw ards — need-based 
and non-need-based — paid 75 
percent of tuition in 1986 and 64 
percent in 1999, according to the 
report.

"W hen you have to distribute 
aid to a larger amount of students, 
more pieces of the pie need to be 
handed out," said D avid Peterson, 
a U T alum nus and member of U T 
Watch. "In the 1980s there w as an 
increase in total aid, but there w as 
also a shift to give out more loans 
than grants."

U nfortunately, more 

loans 
m ean more debt, leaving students 
and their fam ilies virtu ally penni­
less even before graduation.

A liso n Sterling, a rehabilitation

senior at the U n iversity of N orth 
Texas, said she know s w hat it is 
like to be in the hole.

"I w ill have $21,000 in loans to 
repay w hen I graduate in the 
spring," she said. "N obo dy ever 
wants to repay anything ... but the 
reward of finishing school should 
be greater than ow ing money."

Not all students and their fami­
lies see debt in the same light, and 
find diving headfirst into the job 
market preferable to ow ing money.
According to a study done by a 
federal advisory committee using 
U .S. Departm ent of Education 
data, 48 percent of all college-qual­
ified, 
low-incom e students — 
those earning less than $25,000 
annually — and 43 percent from 
moderate-income families — those 
earning $25,000 to $50,000 annual­
ly — w ill not attend four-year col­
leges due to financial barriers.

" I know from personal experi­
ence people are going to [Austin 
Com m unity College] to get their 
certificate, or turning to other 
places for an education," Peterson 
said. "Som e are not even going to 
college."

The Texas Legislature, w hich is 
responsible for setting U T tuition 
rates, took this into consideration 
and devised a plan they say w ill 
help.

H B 2531, passed during the 
last legislative session, made the 
tuition rate for an in-state resi­
dent increase by $2 per semester 
credit hour each academ ic year,

starting at $40 per hour in 2001- 
2002 and ending at $50 per hour 
by 2006-2007.

to 
Tuition w o u ld continue 
increase by $1 per hour thereafter 
u n til Jan. 1, 2013, reaching a max­
im um of $55 per hour.

"W e are aware the rising cost of 
tuition is a great burden on stu­
dents, especially for [financially] 
disadvantaged students," said a 
for Sen. Teel 
spokesw om an 
Bivins, the legislator w ho spon­
sored the bill. "W e are alw ays try­
ing to keep up. The am ounts of 
aid were raised, and the am ount 
available w as also increased."

H enry U rick, assistant director 
of O SFS, said the U niversity' is 
doing its part by setting aside 10 
to 15 percent of paid tuition each 
year to be aw arded back to stu­
dents by means of financial aid.

H ow ever, som e sa y- more 
needs to be done in order to keep 
up w ith tuition increases.

Lt. Gov.-elect D avid D ew hurst 
proposed a plan that w ould for­
g ive college students' loans if 
they keep up a B average and 
graduate w ith in four years.

But some students say they 
think more needs to be done, as 
w ell.

"U T adm inistration is com ­
pletely out of touch w ith students' 
needs," W ild e r said. "People have 
to be educated and that education 
needs to be funded somehow. It 
w on 't happen until there is a call 
for cheaper education."

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Individuals with B A or 
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are needed to score student 
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Daytime shifts only: between 
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Qualifications 
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Monday, November 25, 2 0 0 2

COME AROUND HERE TOMORROW
Check out tomorrow's Texan for a review of 
Thursday’s Tom Petty concert at the Frank 
Erwin Center, as well as this week’s Sound 
Bites, which includes Talib Kweli’s latest 
album among others.

Famed film 

By Stephen Salto
Daily Texan Staff

It 's been a long time since 
ilm er Bernstein has been 
considered a prodigy, but that 
hasn't stopped him from creating 
prodigious works. A fter scor­
ing 242 film s and television 
shows m the past 50 years, the 
prolific composer is currently 
receiving some of 
the best 
review s of his career for his 
work on Tar From Heaven, a seem­
ingly unlikely pairing with indie 
lilmmaker Todd 1 faynes, who pr>- 
viously directed Sundance darlings 
safe and Velvet Goldmine. ■

W hile the film, which stars 
Julianne Moore as a 1950s house­
wife trapped in American domes­
ticity, might slide into Bernstein's 
career where his scores for To Kill 
a Mockingbird and The Age of 
Innocence might — as delicate 
music that compliments the pic­
ture, but overwhelms the audi­
ence with its power — / ar From 
Heaven wasn't much of a depar­
ture, because few films have been 
for Bernstein.

Throughout his career, he has 
been noted for his innovations in 
film scoring, whether it has been 
through his use of jazz in the score 
for Otto Preminger's portrait of 
drug addiction The Man With 
the Golden Arm, revolution­
izing the scores for the 
western genre w ith The 
Magnificent Seven, or 
introducing the use of 
electronic synthesiz- 
t>rs into film music

with 1966's Hawaii. More impor­
tantly, Bernstein is still a devoted 
connoisseur of 
film music, 
demoRstrated by his cooing at the 
mere mention of legendary com­
poser Bernard Herrmann.

Brought up under the tuteledge 
of famed Am erican composer 
\aron ( oplat ■ 1 Bornstum. g£f\\ v 
up in the limelight of New York 
City as an aw'ard-winmng artist 
and concert pianist, something the 
composer continues to this day. 
Bernstein also serves as presi­
dent of the Film Music Museum, 
a yet-to-be fully realized home 
for film music preservation which 
Bernstein has been working on for 
the past several years. Recently, 
Bemsteilt was able to talk to the 
Texan about his career, working on 
Far From Heaven and the state of 
music in films.

D aily Texan: What attracts y ou 
to a film to score, and w'hat made 
you want to do Far From Heaven?

F.lmer Bernstein: Well, in the 
first place ... through your life, 
you change your mind about why 
you want to do a film, and certain­
ly, earlv on, you think in terms of 
career building. Is this going to be 
good for my career? Is this some­
thing I can do well enough, to 
myself well? At this stage in my 
life, I generally gravitate to films 
because I respect the people that 
are doing that are doing them or I 
like the people that are doing 
them and of course, what they're 
about. In the case of 
Far From Heaven, I 
clearly remember 
in m y 
sitting 
east-side home in

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almost immediately w as a sense of 
what kind of score I could write 
for it.

DT: One of the common com­
pliments for the Far From Heaven 
score is how lush it is, but many of 
today's film scores seem to be 
going in the opposite direction — 
to minimalism. Do you think this 
score has been a refreshing change 
of pace?

EB: It's interesting you should 
say that. Everybody refers to this 
score as lush, large and all that.
Ac tually, this score was done with 
a very small orchestra. Most of the 
score was done with 12 players, 
and some of it ví as done with 46. It 
is the attitude of the music which 
is lush, actually, and the question 
you ask is a very naughty ques­
tion. One of the reasons you don't 
get to w'nte scores like this any­
more is because of the kind of pic­
tures that are being made. Motion 
pictures are not being made that 
want you to feel anything. They 
want you to have sensations, so 
that's a very different thing. 
Sensation is a very different thing 
from feeling. To extrapolate on 
that, by sensations I mean either 
people doing sensational things 
like having inappropriate sex or 
doing violent things, those are 
things w'hich create sensations 
much more than 
feeling. In Far 
From Heaven, a 
that's all 
about feeling, it's 
about the feelings of 

film 

the people.
DT: When working on 
The Age of Innocence, you 
and Martin Scorsese began 
discussing the music before he 
started shooting. H ow many 
directors have you encountered 
who have that kind of vision?

EB: In the case of Far From 
Heaven, that was a case where the 
film was virtually complete when I 
saw it, and 1 had never met Todd 
Haynes — I didn't know him. He 
had temp scores with lo Kill A 
Mockingbird, and wTien I first 
saw it, he had a lot of To Kill A 
Mockingbird music in it. So the fact 
that he had temporarily scored the 
film that way told me that there 
was a very good chance when we 
got together we'd be on the same 
page. Now, in the case of Scorsese, 
our relationship was very different 
because I've done a lot of films 
with Scorsese, and so we had an 
opportunity always to discuss 
things before it came time to work 
on the score. That's verv unusual,

but, generally speaking, it depends 
upon the degree a director knows 
his stuff about music. Scorsese cer­
tainly does. I had the same experi­
ence working with Francis f ord 
Coppola on The Rainmaker, where 
you were discussing music with 
somebody who really could be a 
colleague because he really knows 
his stuff about music.

“I think I have to leave it to 
other people to figure that 
out. For me, I approach each 
job as just that — a job. And 
from the very beginning, my 
concern was always, and it 
still is, what’s the best thing 
I can do for this film ”

‘ Far From Heaven’ composer 

Elmer Bernstein, 

on his legacy

DT: What do you want from a 

director when creating a score?

EB: It's a funny thing, it depends 
on what a director's sensitivities 
are. Both Edward [Norton, director 
of Keeping the Faith] and Todd are 
extremely seresitive to music, and 
their sensitivity alone, although 
neither of them is a musician, 
would make me listen to them 
because my attitude is that I'm 
willing to take a good idea from 
anybody, if they've got a good idea, 
so I listen a lot. But really what I 
want from a director is kind of 
enthusiasm for the process for scor­
ing a film.

DT: Spike Lee used Aaron 
Copland's music a few years ago in 
He Got Game. As a mentor to you, 
do you still feel his influence on 
you, and by extension, music in 
films?

EB: This is going to sound 
immodest and self-serving, but a 
lot of Aaron's influence in films 
comes through me, because obvi­
ously he was my first teacher, and 
his language is my language to a 
very great extent, and yes, certain­
ly, in the first 20 years of my work, 
Aaron's influence is very apparent. 
Things like To Kill A Mockingbird 
and The Magnificent Seven, but you 
know that's a part of me, it'll 
alw ays be there. Even little 
moments in Far From Heaven, you 
can sort of hear Aaron.

DT: As someone who has been 
such an innovator in film scores, 
are there any boundaries that you 
hava seen that you'd like to be bro­
ken? Are there boundaries?

EB: That is very, very hard to

say. Film score is one art that's 
bound by the film itself, so a lot is 
going to depend on the kinds of 
things film decides to do. In recent 
years, film that is theater film, fac­
ing the challenge from television, 
has faced that challenge by going 
to — as I said before — sensation- 
driven films, films with more spe­
cial effects, films with stranger 
subjects and moving further and 
further away from real life things. 
This has an effect on what you 
have to write musically. 1 dare say 
if one thinks of all the great film 
scores of all time, with the possible 
exception of Bernard Herrmann, 
because Herrmann was just a 
great composer and did not 
depend upon themes or tunes. 
W hen you 
think of Bernard 
Herrmann, you don't think of a 
tune right away, but in most other 
great composers, you do. If you 
think of the great composers of the 
past like M iklós Rózsa, you think 
of something like Spellbound ,or 
you think of Fran/ Waxman and A 
Place in the Sun and the melodic 
input that these composers had, 
and that's totally gone. That's not 
the style, and I w ill always believe 
that the art of music is basically a 
linear art, that it depends upon 
melodic input. But to sum it all up, 
films are not being made that can 
accommodate that anymore. That 
is not the style.

DT: W hat would be the kind of 
project that you would like to 
work on now?

EB: That is a very hard question 
to answer. Because when I answer 
it, I'm going to sound stupid. A 
good project — it doesn't have to 
be a particular .abject, belt I would 
like it to be something about peo­
ple. Something that is about peo­
ple with a recognizable person in 
it. I had a go wath one of these spe­
cial effects films that was a disas­
ter, which was Wild Wild West, and 
it w'as not really a lot of fun to 
write music for that kind of stuff, 
at least for me.

DT: Finally, if \ oo could put this 
time in your life to music, what 
w'ould it sound like?

EB: Well, you know, 1 tell you 
this is getting to the last part of my 
life here, and I'm sort of very peace­
ful with w'hat i've done. I'm very 
thrilled with the reaction I'm get­
ting from the score for Far From 
Heaven. And as always, because 
I'm classical based in my history, 1 
dare say that if I was going to put it 
to music for a classical music buff, 
it would be the closing chorus for 
Bach's St. Matthew Pageant.

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trayed as in Giuseppe Verdi's La 
Traviata, a story of rejection and 
redemption. Austin Lyric Opera's 
staging F riday of the opera staple 
was pronounced by manic highs 
and despairing, depressive lows, 
and coupled by beautiful audito­
ry and visual artistry.

La Traviata's plot is a simple 
one of the love shared by a 
Parisian courtesan and young 
nobleman Alfredo, w'ho falls 
hopelessly for her. Their love is 
pure and instead of redeeming 
Violetta from her sordid profes­
sion, plunges Alfredo's fam ily 
into disgrace. Alfredo's father 
propositions Violetta to renounce 
her love for Alfredo to allow his 
sister to marry, a difficult decision 
that serves as the crux of La 
Traviata.

Every aspect of the produc­
tion from the singing to the cos­
tumes, acting and set carried 
resounding em otional o ver­
tones. It's hard to go wrong 
when an opera begins with an 
ebullient aria about the merits of 
drinking and having fun at a 
party. The aria "Lib iam o" was 
beautifully sung by Alfredo and 
Violetta. Unfortunately, when 
the whole cast joined in, the cho-

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Alfredo (Rafael Davila) and Violetta (Brenda Harris) face tragedy in 
Verdi’s La Traviata, currently playing at the Austin Lyric Opera.

Photo courtesy of Austin Lyric Opera

rus was a bit restrained, which 
was not fitting for the row dy 
party scene.

Soprano Brenda Harris, mak­
ing her A ustin Lyric Opera 
debut, paired coquettish vibrato 
trills and deep vocal angst for 
the role of Violetta. Her expres­
sive blocking and facial expres­
sions in the throes of tuberculo­
sis alone were amazing while 
still soulfully singing Francesco 
M aria Piave's evocative libretto. 
Tenor Rafael D avila, who sang 
the part of Alfredo, has been in 
several recent A L O productions. 
He captured the heart-rending 
emotion of his desire for Violetta 
in his lyrical tenor voice.

The set, beautifully designed

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by Peter Dean Beck was 
arranged to provide the illusion 
of a grand space that housed the 
large cast well. W indow s gave 
the illusion of an entire wall. 
D uring costume party scene of 
A ct 2, the set reached the height 
of its beauty w ith rich red 
draperies and Spanish lanterns. 
Another visual delight were the 
period costumes that could have 
been easily lifted straight off the 
screens of Gone with the Wind, as 
the bustles and b rillian t ball 
gpwns of the 1850s swished 
across stage.

Verdi borrowed his story of 
unrequited love from Alexandre 
Dumas' La Dame aux Camelias 
(1852), based on real-life Parisian 
courtesan Marie Duplessis (whose 
clients included Dumas), who 
died at age 23 from tuberculosis.

La Traviata will hold its final per­
formance tonight at 1 p.m. in the 
Bass Concert Hall. As a part of the 
Student Rush, those with student 
IDs can have any seat in the house 
at half-price. Tickets range from 
$12499.