juiiwater ENTERTAINMENT PAGE 8B Texas Book Festival this weekend Wicketü RetocUy C Wjfía C o iJ N i Daily Friday, O ctober 28, 2005 Serving The University o f Texas at Austin co m m un ity since 1900 w w w .dailytexanonline.com Miers abandons bid for Supreme Court seat President blames dem and fo r internal executive documents By Terence Hunt ________ The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Under wither­ ing attack from conservatives, President Bush abandoned his push to put loyalist Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court and promised a quick replacement Thursday. Democrats accused him of bowing to the "radical right wing of the Republican Party." The White House said Miers had with­ drawn because of senators' demands to see internal documents related to her role as counsel to the president. But politics played a larger role: Bush's conservative backers had doubts about her ideological purity, and Democrats had little incentive to help the nominee or the embattled GOP president. Miers will remain White House coun­ sel. Bush blamed the Senate for her demise. "It is clear that senators would not be satisfied until they gained access to internal documents concerning advice provided during her tenure at the White House — disclosures that would under­ mine a president's ability to receive can­ did counsel," the president said. Democrats and Republicans braced for Bush's next Supreme Court pick, which will be his third try since July 19. With Chief Justice John Roberts in place, the president had two pools of candidates from which to choose: conservative jurists who received serious consideration last time or somebody outside what Bush calls the "judicial monastery," perhaps a current or former senator who would be welcomed by the GOP-controlled Senate. Bush promised a new nominee "in a timely manner." Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said he expected a replacement within days and wants to hold hearings by Christmas. Equally likely was that retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor would remain on the court until early next year while her replacement is sought, a prospect that concerns many conservatives. Democrats urged Bush to nomi­ nate a relative moderate in the mold of O'Connor, who frequently cast the swing vote on abortion and other hot-button issues coming before the court this year. "He must listen to all Americans, not just the far right," said Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. on Curricular Reform recommends establishing entering students, signature courses By Yashoda Sampath Daily Texan Staff sweeping set of curriculum reform recom­ mendations, released Thursday, included suggestions to create an umbrella college would oversee core curriculum and provide an academic hub for freshmen. The Task Force for Curricular Reform stressed the need for broader education and more time to decide on a major during the general faculty meeting, where the recommendations were first made public. President Faulkner created the Commission of 125 in 2003, with the intent of putting the University among the top five public universities in the country. Designing "an undergraduate core curriculum that will better prepare students for lives of accomplishment" was the first initiative of the commission. The Commission of 125 advocated curriculum reform in its 2004 report, saying that undergradu­ ates have too many choices for courses. "The Commission believes that while the cur­ rent system offers students myriad courses of study, it fails to equip undergraduates with a core body of knowledge essential to a well-balanced education," the commission's report said. "For too many degree plans, the current curriculum resembles a vast a-la-carte menu." As one of the tenets of the new plan, students would take two "signature courses," one as fresh­ men and one as sophomores. The freshman course, "Inquiry Across Disciplines: Nature," would have multiple sections of approximately 240 students each, tailored to faculty-proposed topics. The plan also requires students to attend discussion sections Tri V o ¡ Daily Texan Staff limited to 20 students and three "major University lectures" or performances related to the themes of the course. The sophomore course, "Inquiry Across Disciplines: Culture," could replace a history, gov­ ernment, social sciences or fine art credit depend­ ing on the respective faculty members. "Our goal is to implement a common core curriculum that, coupled with major courses for study, will provide undergraduate students with a Report continues on page 5A First of four forums for UTPD top spot kick off with USC chief Candidate fo r police chief questioned on racial profiling, accountability in department By Jimmie Collins ___________ Daily Texan Staff Brown bag forums with UT Police Department chief candidates began Thursday with Aaron Graves, the current chief of police at the University of Southern California. Potential UTPD chief Graves answered rigorous questions from stu­ dents, staff and faculty members to prove he's the right person for the job. Graves said he started his career with the law when he first enlisted with the Air Force in the Security Police unit in 1972. "An Air Force base is similar to a college cam­ pus," Graves said. "There are lots of young people and it's a learning environment." Graves said he wanted to be somewhere similar to a base, and col­ lege campuses were the closest thing he could find PSAC reduces list of candidates for University president to fewer than 10 Editor's Note: This is the second part of a two-part series profiling the 15 Presidential Search Advisory Committee members who are selecting U T president candidates. By Kathy Adams and Yashoda Sampath Daily Texan Staff The Presidential Search Advisory Committee, tasked with selecting a pool of candidates to replace UT President Larry Faulkner in February, has cho­ sen the final list of five to 10 candidates for the presidency. There were originally about 200 nominees sub­ mitted to the committee. said. He said that most votes were close to unani­ mous. "I never felt there was a preordained candidate made to fit the cut," he said. "I'm very happy with the search process." Committee member J. Strother Moore, chair of the UT Computer Science Department, said he was not at liberty to release the number of candidates selected during his update at the general faculty meeting Thursday. He is also unsure if the candidates' names have been forwarded to the UT System Board of Regents UTPD Chief continues on page 2A "No one was eliminated by a close vote," Moore Committee continues on page 7A Volume 106, Number 40 25 cents World & Nation ......3 A O p in io n ..................... 4A State & Local......................7A 5-6A, 4B News Focus...........................8A Sports.................. — 1-3B Classifieds........................5B Com ics............................6B Entertainment We have the hours of a prostitute but not the salary. High Low FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 200S Final tuition installment payment due for students who selected the three-payment plan. P ageTwo T h e D a il y T e x a n PUTTING TOGETHER THE PIECES M E N 'S A N D W O M E N 'S C H O RU S, 8 p.m., Bates Recital Hall. Free adm is­ sion. Refreshments provided. For more information visit http://www. music.utexas.edu/calendar/details. aspx?id=3418. "LA "EL A M O R B RU JO " A N D V ID A BREVE," 8 P.M., M cC u llou gh Theatre. Two works by M anuel De Fall. in Spanish Performed with subtitles. $17 general p u b ­ lic; $15 faculty/staff; $10 students. For more information visit www. music.utexas.edu/calendar/details. aspx?iid- 7 973 in terms o f what the Founders were trying to accomplish. History panel, 1 p.m.; Law panel 3:15 p.m. O pen to the public. H O R M O N A L C O N T R A C E P T IO N IN F O R M A T IO N CLASS, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m., SSB 2.204. N o registration required. H A LLO W E EN C A M P O U T A N D DIVE, 5 p.m., H ighland Lakes Marina. Meeting tim e for the SCUBA club's cam ping trip to Starnes Island. RSVP to danirenee23@mail.utexas. edu. 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The Daily Texan's Super Saver Discount Program offers Longhorns specials on a daily basis. Look for Participating Advertisers; their coupon everyday online at DailyTexanOnline.com or in the print edition every Tuesday. S e e in d ivid u al c o u p o n s fo r d etails. Pizza Hut Procuts Hot Nails Third year design majors Dessy Boneva and Garrett Seam an build furniture in the Architecture Courtyard on Thursday. UTPD chief: First candidate takes part in brown bag forum From p a g e l A to that environment. After his time in the Air Force, Graves went on to become the chief of police at two universities. Graves worked at Southern Methodist University for 10 years as chief of police, and has spent the past three years at USC in the same position. He told the forum audience that a few years down the road would have been a better time for him to move back to Texas, but the position is open now, and he wants it. Graves said his years of expe­ rience have given him confi­ dence in what to expect from a college campus. "I try not to come in with any preconceived notions about the campus or the department you have here," he said. Graves said the only expectations he has right now are for the men and women in the department to do the jobs they're paid to do, and for the University to help him obtain the resources he needs to get his job done. Teresa Brett, dean of students, mentioned the recent report of racial profiling of Asian and Pacific American students, and asked Graves how he plans to address any racial profiling that may be happening. He admitted that sometimes there are people in any organi­ zation that "lie, cheat and steal," but said he would find those people and weed them out. "You have to look at all of the information you're taking in everyday," Graves said. He explained that officers have to write down informa­ tion in their reports every day that are compiled into statistics. From those statistics they can target any racial profiling or other issues within the depart­ ment or the campus. UTPD i has been attempting to become an accredited police department since 2004. "A part of the accreditation process requires you to analyze everything you're doing and continue to analyze afterwards to become reaccredited later," Graves said. Graves also mentioned goals of working with the city, landlords and property managers to make off-campus living safer and cre­ ating a student officer program. In his capacity as Chief of Public Safety for USC, Graves worked together with the Los Angeles Police Department to imple­ ment new patrol techniques for student safety. According to the Daily Trojan, police increased party patrols, began searching high crime-rate areas every five minutes and implemented new crime prevention techniques. Chase Tajima, USC Student Senate vice president, said Graves made an effort to com­ municate with students in his time there. Tajima said Graves started the Department of Public Safety stu­ dent advisory committee to get student input on programs the department was running, and to hear about the programs stu­ dents were running. He also created educational programs to make students on campus more aware of and to take responsibility for their own safety. "It empowers students to keep safe," Tajima said, but "they put too great of a burden on stu­ dents to stay safe rather than placing the blame on the ones perpetrating the crimes." People attending meetings for each potential chief are being asked by the University to fill out a form rating the candidates. The assessment seeks opinions on the visitor's vision of the depart­ ment's future, leadership style, communication skills, technical competence and experience. The next candidate forum will be with Rollin Donelson on Tuesday, Nov. 3 at 11:30 a.m. in the Texas Governor's Room in the Texas Union. TOMORROW'S WEATHER Low High 7 6 - J * 5 4 If I'm in town, I'm going to make you puke, okay? TODAY IN UT HISTORY 1981 Freshman to watch father blast off in Columbia "What he loves to do more than anything else is fly, and he knows how to fly that shuttle as well as anyone knows how to drive a caif said Dan Truly, radio-television-film freshman. 1983 George H.W. Bush defends foreign policy decisions Bush also told reporters that the country's mission in Beirut is to ensure a free Lebanon. The preven­ tion of the destruction of Beirut was one "solid concrete" result of the mis­ sion, he said. 1985 Health official says AIDS not related to smallpox vaccine The abandonment of smallpox vacci­ nations in 1980 and the rise of genital herpes and AIDS in the last five years are "coincident by unrelated events," said a Travis County health official. 1992 Hurricane victims reproach FEMA The petition complains that thou­ sands of disaster relief applicants have yet to receive help months after Hurricane Andrew in Florida, Hurricane Iniki in Hawaii and the Los Angeles riots that followed the acquittal of police officers seen beat­ ing Rodney King. ODDITIES^ It's raining twenties, but finders keepers is not the rule GREEN BAY, Wis. — Traffic came to a halt on a congested bridge after it started to rain $20 bills. Morning commuters jumped out of cars Wednesday, hopped dividers and nearly caused accidents trying to catch the flying cash blowing from a money bag that accidentally dropped from an armored truck. "People were stuffing handfuls of money into their pockets and running back to their cars and speeding off," Lt. John Balza said. Of the $80,000 in the bag, some $72,000 was recovered, but almost none of it willingly, he said. "No one was like,'Oh here, I'm col­ lecting this for police," Balza said. Police said they are not sure how the money bag fell out of the armored courier owned by Badger Armor Inc The company did not immediately return a call from The Associated Press seeking comment. Police Capt. Greg Urban called on people who picked up the money to be "honest and ethical" and turn it over to police. 'Technically, it's the crime of theft, not finders keepers," he said. — Associated Press This newspaper w as printed with pride by The Dally Texan and Texas Student Media. 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The report from the commit­ tee probing the $64 billion pro­ gram said prominent politicians also made money from extensive manipulation of the U.N. oil-for- food program in Iraq. "The corruption of the program by Saddam would not nearly have been so pervasive if there had been diligent management by the United Nations and its agencies," said Paul Volcker, a former Federal Reserve chairman who led the investiga­ tion. Using terminology that Saddam coined in the first Gulf war, Volcker said Saddam preyed on the "moth­ er of all humanitarian programs," the largest aid effort at the United Nations. The investigators reported that companies and individuals from 66 countries paid illegal kickbacks using a variety of ways, and those paying illegal oil surcharges came from, or were registered in, 40 countries. There were two main types of manipulation: surcharges paid for humanitarian contracts for spare w ww .da i lytexa n o n I ¡ne.com W ire Editor: Rachel Bilardi Phone:(512) 232-2215 WORLD BRIEFS Clash between Shiites, Sunnis leaves 15 dead BAGHDAD, Iraq — Sunni Arab militants killed 14 Shiite militiamen and a policeman Thursday in a clash southeast of Baghdad — another sign of rising tensions am ong Iraq's rival ethnic and religious com m uni­ ties. The U.S. military reported three more American soldiers died in combat. The Shiite-Sunni fighting occurred after police and militiamen loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr raided a house in Nahrawan, 15 miles southeast of the capital, to free a militiaman taken hostage by Sunni militants, according to Amer al-Husseini, an aide to al-Sadr. After freeing the hostage and capturing two militants, the Shiite militiamen were am bushed by the Sunnis on their way out of the religiously mixed town, al-Husseini said. Police Lt.Thair M ahm oud said 14 others — 12 militiamen and two policemen — were wounded. Mexico's resort islands slow to recover after Wilma ISLA MUJERES, Mexico — Mexico's Caribbean coastline took a beating from Hurricane Wilma, but the resort area's islands — famous for their div­ ing and snorkeling — bore the brunt of the storm, with extensive damage to reefs and white-sand beaches. A U.S. cruise ship was sent Thursday to the island of Cozumel to deliver aid and pick up any remain­ ing Americans, but most tourists appeared to have left the islands. Thousands of residents were left behind, however, many with limited access to drinking water and homes destroyed by high winds, waves and flooding. Mexico's Environmental Department said Wilma ripped into coral reefs and damaged more than 1 million acres of trees on the Yucatan peninsula, creating fuel for possible forest fires in the upcoming dry season. Israeli missile kills seven in strike against Islamic Jihad JERUSALEM — Israel killed seven Palestinians in a missile strike Thursday against Islamic Jihad, and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said he would not meet with the Palestinian leader until he cracks dow n on armed groups — a double-edged Israeli response to the latest suicide bombing. Sharon threatened a "broad and relentless"offensive against Palestinian militants, including mass arrests and airstrikes, but security officials said Israel would stop short of a large-scale military operation. Reporters reach for the report o n the final fin d in g s by the com m ittee p ro b in g claims of w ro n g d o in g in the U N. oil-for-food program , Thursday, in N e w York. He nny A b r a m s | A s s o c ia t e d P ress parts, trucks, medical equipment and other supplies; and Idckbacks for oil contracts. oil giant Gazprom, and Lukoil Asia Pacific, a subsidiary of the Russian company, Lukoil. Among the companies that paid illegal surcharges were South Korea's Daewoo International and three subsidiaries of Siemens AG of Germany. On the oil side, con­ tractors listed included Texas-based Bay oil and Coastal Corp., Russian The founder and former chair­ man of Coastal, Texas oil tycoon Oscar Wyatt, pleaded not guilty Thursday in New York to charges that he conspired to pay several million dollars in illegal kickbacks to Saddam's regime to win con- tracts through the program U.S. District Judge Denny Chin set a June 20 trial date for the 81- year-old Wyatt, who was arrested last week. Volcker's report referred to Wyatt as a "longtime and loyal oil customer of Iraq," the lone excep­ tion to an Iraqi ban on selling oil to American companies. Short supplies cause suspended flu drug shipments Tamiflu, just in case bird flu trig­ gers a human pandemic. "Those are questions that are under discussion," said Christina Pearson, spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "Right now we're focused on the seasonal flu." includes federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whose job includes HHS the public health recommendations. The agency's silence on the issue of hoarding has frustrated some local health departments. "A lot of people have asked the CDC to provide some guidance about this, with patients asking doctors for prescriptions," said Dr. Craig Conover, medical direc­ tor for the Illinois Department of Public Health. By Lindsey Tanner The Associated Press CHICAGO — Amid worries about bird flu, demand for a flu medicine is so extreme that the drug's maker has stopped ship­ ping it to private U.S. suppliers just as consumers fret over whether they should try to stock up on the drug. Tamiflu, a prescription drug designed to treat regular flu, is running scarce because of worries the bird flu in Asia might morph into a contagious human flu that circles the globe. Tamiflu's maker, Roche Holding AG in Switzerland, said Thursday it was temporarily suspending U.S. shipment because of increased global demand. Company officials have previously said they are lim­ iting supplies to pharmacies to thwart hoarding. But there are signs that is hap­ pening. level, companies or large entities who are possibly hoarding Tamiflu right now," said Darien Wilson, spokeswoman at Roche's U .S. offices in Nutley, N.J. Prescriptions for the drug last week were nearly quadruple what they were a year before, according to Verispan, a Pennsylvania-based company that monitors pharmacy sales. Some health departments and doctors' groups are urg­ ing consumers, doctors and even school districts not to stockpile the drug. And this winter's flu season hasn't even started yet. "The priority is that there is enough Tamiflu for the people who need it at the start of the influ­ enza season," said Roche spokes­ man Alexander Klauser. "At the moment, there is no influenza cur­ rently circulating." Meanwhile, the U.S. govern­ ment isn't giving advice on wheth­ er people should have a stash of Compiled from Associated Press reports "We've seen recently some very large purchases at the wholesale 3A Friday, O ctober 28, 2005 NATION BRIEFS Deadline for indictments today in CIA leak probe WASHINGTON — Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald huddled with his legal team Thursday as two key White House aides awaited their fate in the CIA leak probe. A spokesman for the prosecu­ tor said there would be no public announcements Thursday. The term of the grand jury that could bring indictments expires Friday. The White House braced for the possibility that Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, could become a criminal defendant by week's end. Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, remained in jeopardy of being charged with false statements. House allows military base closings, consolidations WASHINGTON — The House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to allow the first round of U.S. military base closures and consolidations in a decade, clearing the way for facilities across the country to start shutting their doors as early as next month. In a 324-85 vote, the House refused to veto the final report of the 2005 base-dosing commission, meaning the report seems all but certain to become law in mid- November. Targeted facilities then would have six years to close their doors and shift forces as required under the report. Both the House and Senate must pass resolutions rejecting the report to stop the Pentagon's sweep­ ing restructuring of its far-flung domestic base network. But, as expected, the House effort by Rep. Ray LaHood, R-lli., failed. And there's no similar attempt under way in the Senate Opposition to closing bases dropped steadily in both chambers as the nine-member commission changed parts of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's original recommendations and issues like Hurricanes Katrina and Rita com­ manded Congress'attention. Compiled from Associated P re ss re p o rts Fly to 6tfv St! Take Capital Metro's E-bus this Halloween. Continuous service on October 31 from: West Campus E-bus Riverside E-bus Main Campus E-bus FOR SCARY TRICKS AND COSTUME TIPS, WATCH FOR THE SPIRITED PROFESSOR GRIFFIN, GOODWILL'S HALLOWEEN SPOKESPERSON, ON YOUR LOCAL TELfVISION STATIONS. WE PUT PEOPLE TO WORK. Service runs from 9PM to 3AM a R A N S O M C E N T E R GALLERIES T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F T E X A S A T A U S T I N A U G U ST 9-IAN U ARY 1 STRAGGLERS WILL BE FED TO THE BATS. UT students, faculty and staff ride FREE with a current ID. g o u n e 474.1200 | c a p m e t r o .o r g ¿ x X C A P I T A L A METRO Welcome Parents Free ad mission 21s t a n d G u a d a ¡upe http://www.hrc.utexas.edu A N S E L A D A M S A Legacy 4A Friday, October 28, 2005 VIEWPOINT U.S. shouldn’t rush technology In the futuristic movie "Gattaca," U.S. citizens were tracked via fingerprint and iris scans to verify identification. W e're no longer in 1997; this is the future, and it appears the film 's projections weren't that far off base. A rule published by the Bush administration in the Federal Register on Feb. 18, allows for the incorporation of electronic chips into passports to monitor international travel. Effective this past Tuesday, R IN 1400-AB93 calls for all new pass­ ports issued in the United States to contain the chip. However, the department does not intend to begin the pilot program, designed for use by government officials and diplomats, until December. If all goes well, the chips w ill go into widespread use by early 2006. The radio frequency ID (RFID ) chips w ill enable airport security officials to access sensitive identification information, including a digitized photograph and the nationality of the holder, simply by running a scanner over the face of the passport. But border security officials aren't the only ones able to access the information from afar, posing a significant opportunity for anyone with a handheld scanning device. The information to be encoded in the chip currently does not contain Social Security numbers or home addresses, but the gov­ ernment is considering adding fingerprint and iris scans to the documents at a later date, which would aid identity theives. Concerned citizens have also raised the issue of terrorist attacks resulting from the chips. They claim that having the nationality of the citizen encoded in the chip could provoke more attacks out­ side of U.S. borders, as terrorists would be able to easily verify a person's citizenship via the encryption. W hile the need for increased security is certainly justified, the U.S. State Department shouldn't let haste overshadow privacy concerns. The Bush administration said it has addressed the issue of unauthorized access by installing antiscanning material into the front cover of the passports. W hile tests have found this measure to be somewhat effective while the document is closed, there is no protection in place for instances in which the passport is open. Additionally, high-powered scanners with the capability of reading the information for up to 160 feet away have not been thoroughly tested against the deterrent. It is important to note that the measure has not been implement­ ed recklessly; the initial introduction date was pushed back one year to allow for further security testing. And the United States cer­ tainly isn't alone in its venture. Australia adopted a similar upgrade Tuesday, and Great Britain, India, South Africa and many of the world's developed countries are looking into similar technology, as part of the global push for greater document authenticity. But before the airports become flooded with digitized passports, the system needs some major tweaking. W hile administration officials have announced plans to incorporate cryptographic keys inside the chips to control when and to whom the contents are divulged, computer experts say the method is not sufficiently secure for the long haul. Burt Kaliski, a cryptology expert and chief scientist of RSA Security, has already issued a warning to governments worldwide that digitization of the passports w ill have to continue to evolve over time as technology improves. “ It's important not to just stop with release number one," he said, citing the chip as a long-term challenge to the security industry. On the whole, the new technology is a solid step forward for national security; it deters document falsification and strengthens border control. But even though passports are rightfully going high tech, national security should not be strengthened at the expense of U.S. citizens. THE FIRING LINE Hamstring clarification I would like to qualify statements made in Thursday's article, ("Search for Next UT President,"Oct. 27, 2005). I was quoted as saying, "the top 10 percent plan tends to ham­ string the admission process." I believe that having an admis­ sion policy where a single criterion determines eligibility is not desir­ able to any student. While the top 10 percent law has brought many underrepresented students to Austin, it leaves out other very important criteria such as race, spe­ cial talent, location, and socioeco­ nomic situation. Left unaltered, the law will cause 100 percent of the freshman class to be admitted as a result of policy, not potential. It forces the University to admit students using only the grad­ uation rank of the applicant and not through thoughtful deliberation on each individuals many other assets and qualities. Only when we allow the admissions process to involve a holistic evaluation of each applicant will we accomplish the mission of achieving a truly diverse entering class. Kevin M. Robnett UT taw student Student advisor to the Presidential Search Advisory Committee Backwoods minorities? As the Vice President of the UT Law Chicano/Hispanic Law Students Association, I was disappointed to read fellow law student and UT Presidential Search Committee Member Kevin Robnett's com­ ments that the top 10 percent rule "tends to hamstring the admissions process. We're getting minority high school students from the back­ woods of Texas" ("Search for Next UT president,"Oct. 27,2005). Most students agree that the top 10 percent rule constrains admis­ sions at UT. But Robnett misrepre­ sents that it is only minorities that burden the University's enrollment. The fact is: The top 10 percent rule's effect on admissions is the result of all UT students that benefit from the plan, not just minority students. Meanwhile, Robnett's statement has racist and elitist undertones; 'minori­ ties' and 'backwoods' should never be mentioned together in his role as advocate for all UT students in the search process. I was impressed with Robnett's statement that he will represent all UT students regardless of his own personal beliefs. I hope that he truly does not believe that the University's admissions process is hamstrung only by minorities from the backwoods of Texas. As our student representative, he seems to understand his serious responsibil­ ity to communicate and advocate for all students as a committee member and in the press. I hope Thursday's statements will not be indicative of his future representa­ tion. Carlos Romo Second-year law student ON THE W E B Additional Firing Lines were posted today on the Web site at www. dailytexanonline. com. EDITOR'S NOTE Opinions expressed in The Daily Texan are those of the edi­ tor, the Editorial Board or writer of the article. They are not nec­ essarily those of the UT adminis­ tration, the Board of Regents or the Texas Student Publications Board of Operating Trustees. SUBMIT A FIRING LINE Please e-mail your Firing Lines to firingline@dailytexanonline. com. Letters must be fewer than 300 words and should include your major and classification. The Texan reserves the right to edit all letters for brevity, clarity and liability. T h e D a i l y T e x a n Editor: A.J. Bauer Phone: (512) 232-2212 ^ E-mail: editor@dailytex1toQnline.com Associate Editofi: Nikki Buskey Ashley Eldridg% ^ Daniel K. Lai J i ' . \ L . \ OH, Hi,G u y's HARRIET Was Oust lea vin g. iow uMDr/ NOMiNjkTT< By Chris Jones Daily Texan Columnist Anyone who has even casually paid attention to the news lately knows that the Bush adminis­ tration is having real problems. Even beyond the ongoing prob­ lems in Iraq, and the possible indictments of various high-level administration officials in the Valerie Plame case, the adminis­ tration has simply had problems pushing its agenda this year. Social Security reform, which Bush had once touted as his big­ gest priority in his second term, is now completely dead. Bush's pull with his base wasn't enough to get a questionable candidate like Harriet Miers placed on the Supreme Court, and even a gung- ho Republican Congress seems gun-shy about lowering taxes any further. In short, George W. Bush may be the fastest-developing lame duck president in our nation's history. From the standpoint of the administration, there may be nothing that can be done to reverse the trend. A ll but the most die-hard Republicans seem to have abandoned the presi­ dent, and Bush seems unlikely to w in back the centrists who have deserted him. And without a certain degree of voter loyalty to rub off on his congressional collaborators, few senators and representatives up for reelection in 2006 and 2008 w ill go out of their way to support Bush. But voters wishing to pursue a conservative agenda at the bal­ lot box might do well to con­ sider their situation in light of the Prisoner's Dilemma, a classic application of game theory. In one version of the prob­ lem, two criminal suspects who have committed a robbery are being held for questioning by the police. Each suspect can confess and implicate the other, or not. If neither suspect confesses, both suspects are jailed for six months on lesser charges. If one suspect confesses and the other does not, the one who does confess goes free, while the other gets a much harsher sentence of 10 years. If both suspects confess, and im pli­ cate one another, they each get two years in jail. The Prisoner's Dilemma teaches that, at least in some cases, people are better off pursuing their com­ mon good, rather than working to maximize their own benefit. If each suspect takes the posi­ tion that there's a 50-50 chance that the other suspect w ill con­ fess, each suspect w ill come to the conclusion that, on average, it's better to confess. Confessing gives a prisoner a 50 percent chance of going free, and a 50 percent chance of going to jail for two years, which averages out to one year. Conversely, not confess­ ing gives a 50 percent chance of going to jail for six months, and a 50 percent chance of going to jail for 10 years, which averages out to 5.25 years. However, if each suspect has reason to believe the other guy has some kind of faith in their joint enterprise, the probability of each suspect not confessing goes up, as does the probability that both suspects w ill get off with a lighter sentence. Furthermore, examining the problem with the goal of minimizing the time both parties spend in jail leads to a more optimal outcome than the purely selfish perspective. Republican control of the gov­ ernment in the past five years has been marked by the hard­ est of hardball politics. Relatively little compromise was made with Democrats, and even many mod­ erate Republicans were driven away by the radical nature of the legislation being pursued. Bill after bill has been passed with the slimmest of legislative mar­ gins. Conservative ideology was compromised just far enough to get a majority, and not one step further. However, consider what may happen in the next election cycle. Most polls rank voters' dissatis­ faction with Republicans higher than their dissatisfaction with Democrats, but not by a huge margin. For all intents and pur­ poses, let's consider the chance that Republicans w ill lose control of Congress at 50-50. If the Republicans keep control of the government, and continue to push a hard-line agenda, for all intents and purposes they get more and more of what they want: low taxes and social conser­ vatism. However, if Republicans lose control of the government, and Democrats push an equally hard-line agenda, the Republicans get nothing. In fact, they're likely to see negative progress as their achievements of the past five cones is an electrical and computer engineering grckAjgte student. U.S. prone to rewarding failure By Ryan Ash and Elliott Ash Daily Texan Columnists Time and again, we reward those who convinced us that over­ throwing Saddam Hussein was an urgent priority. Considering there is little evidence that the United States w ill tangibly benefit from the democratization of Iraq, much less that it w ill benefit enough to deem the $218 billion and 2,000- plus lives it has so far spent on the affair worthwhile, they should have received the M achiavelli Award for Manipulation of Public Instruments Opinion and the of Government. Instead, they received cushy jobs and presti­ gious medals. In December 2002, CLA direc­ tor George Tenet judged that new evidence suggesting Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction was indisputable. He presented his self-described "slam-dunk case" against Hussein to the president on Dec. 12. Post­ invasion, it became clear that the slam-dunk was more of an air- ball: Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. President Bush made known his delight with Tenet's "superb job" by awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The CLA direc­ tor who presided over two huge intelligence failures — not pre­ dicting the Sept. 11 attacks and erroneously claiming that Hussein had weapons of mass destruction — received the highest civilian honor in the United States. Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley allowed the discredited claim that Hussein had sought weapons-grade ura­ nium, or yellowcake, in Niger to appear in Bush's January 2003 State of the Union address. He later admitted that his blunder should have resulted in his dis­ missal, but the president would have none of it. Rather, he promot­ ed Hadley to National Security Adviser. Condoleezza Rice, Bush's National Security Adviser at the time, braved countless talk-shows and interviews during the run-up to war, sowing fear and generating support for invasion. Most memo­ rably, in September 2002 she noted “ we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." She also wrote a guest Op-ed for The New York Times, ironically titled “ W hy We Know Iraq is Lying." As we now know, her claims were based in something other than reality. Last year, Bush offered Rice the position of secretary of state, the fourth spot in line to suc­ ceed the presidency. Former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and for­ mer Undersecretary of State for Arm s Control John Bolton each provided strong voices in sup­ port of preem ptively i ivading Iraq. Both officials had supported conflict with Iraq as early as 1998, when they signed an open let­ ter to Bill Clinton that advocat­ ed preemptive invasion. During congressional hearings before the war, Wolfowitz flagrantly under­ estimated the cost in troops and money that would go into Iraq. W hen no weapons of mass destruction were found and the state of the occupation gradually worsened, both W olfowitz and Bolton kept their jobs in the Bush administration. In early 2005, Bush nominated Wolfowitz to be president of the World Bank. In March, Bush nominated Bolton to be U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, but due to Democratic filibustering, the Senate did not confirm him. Unperturbed, Bush took advan­ tage of a Senate vacation and made Bolton temporary U.N . ambas­ sador by a recess appointment. Today, two principal sponsors of the defilement of the United State's image in the world hold positions with official power over global affairs. Outside of the administration, another major figure in cultivating support for the Iraq war was New York Tunes reporter Judith Miller. Although many other journal­ ists were reporting on the Iraqi threat throughout 2002, M iller had exclusive access to officials and intelligence, and, in writing for a respected n a t ^ ^ J f c f y she could more decidedly W W yfm blic opin­ ion. Specifically, Miflfer published a series of articles in the run-up to the lnvá#on suggesting that Hussein possfcssed^and was pur­ suing weapofts dfáñass destruc­ tion. She sovirc#d information to Iraqi defetífcr&ájlÉllush admin­ istration offi^als^N|Ío apparently exploited the reporter to foster pro-war serfÜfci É lB k respectable newspaper* ^ ^ É fc a tio n of the pro-war nariatiyeplh-engthened the ad ministration^ justification for war. M iller managed to hold onto her job at the Tirries even after her reporting turned ou| to be patent­ ly false. And last wppk, the Society of Professional Journalists grant­ ed M iller its First Amendment Award. a These eve^ls m iJP t as well com­ prise an episode The Twilight Zone. Not one 4 (k ia l has been held accountable fat Our wasteful war of choice in but at every turn its most pKwiinent facilita­ tors are honored, elevated and ennobled. It,seem # obvious that rewarding figure *>frill only per­ petuate failure, jJm ,our nation's leaders are unab^p? unwilling to grasp that Mutfi. Ryan is a Pit senior. Elliot < and biology S. Congress Ave 512-447-141J - 25411 IH55 512-310-7600 (Rand Rock next to Home DepaO www.dailytexanonline.com Sports Editor: Ben Cutrell E-mail: sports@dailytexanonline.com Phone:(512) 232-2210 g j t g Sports V / -M» —< S _M_ _JL K—/ e, my gi went after him," Young said. After Saturday's game, Sic Thomas approached Davis. According to Davis, Youn former receiver quipped, "I w I could play with him now." Friday, O ctober 28,2005 SPORTS Serbian finds home on hardcourt in Austin Mihailovic thriving after doubt o f what awaited him at UT By Mark A. Hodgkin Daily Texan Staff When Milan Mihailovic com­ mitted to play tennis at the Univ­ ersity of Texas two years ago, Long-horn coach Michael Center was sure he was getting something special. "We knew what we were get­ ting," Center said. "We knew that he was good. We knew his style of play We knew we had a good one." Mihailovic, a native of Serbia and Montenegro, was not as sure about Texas. "I didn't know a single person here," Mihailovic said. "Nothing. Nothing about the place, nothing about anyone here." Mihailovic excelled in Europe, finishing his last year ranked No. 16 by the European Tennis Association, but he was never sure he would get to America. His Serbian coach, however, was a friend of Texas assistant Ricardo Rubio, and Center took it from there. Mihailovic decided to leave home and pursue his tennis career and education in Austin, although he had never even visited the United States, and the adjustment was difficult at times. high Throughout school, Mihailovic and other athletes would be tutored outside of class and only come into school for exams. The transition to large lec­ ture classes was not easy. "It was really hard for me," Mihailovic said. "I was tired a lot. I wasn't used to that much. It was exhausting." Mihailovic and his coach both say he has adjusted well and improved in the classroom. "At first he was a little over­ whelmed academically," Center said. "But he has taken that chal­ lenge on and gotten better." Mihailovic is studying kinesiol­ ogy and is prepared to pursue a career in sports medicine if profes­ sional tennis doesn't work out. And while he says he could not imag­ ine life without tennis, he remains committed to his academics. "One thing about life, you have to have an education," Mihailovic said. "I would study, if not here, then somewhere back home." Mihailovic has taken a cue from his brother Zoran, who is studying medicine in Serbia. He said his brother, who introduced him to the game of tennis when he was five years old, remains one of his big­ gest role models. Though his fam­ ily is unable to visit Milan in the United States, he returns to Serbia a few times a year to visit them. Mihailovic is also showing the same kinds of improvements on the court as he did in the class­ room. In his freshman year last sea­ son, Mihailovic finished with a 25-10 singles record — the best winning percentage on the team. Last week in College Station, he reached the quarterfinals before losing to teammate Roger Gubser in the ITA South Central Regional Championship. "H e's already a very, very good," Center said. "1 think he's close to becoming an All-America- type player. He's that good." As for the modest and soft-spo­ ken Mihailovic, he's just focused on improving his game. "I hope to improve my serve a lot," he said. "My transition game is what I'm trying to improve." Mihailovic will join the rest of the Longhorns as they host this weekend's Texas Invitational at the Penick-Allison Tennis Center. He will play singles and doubles. Players from Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Arkansas, Virginia and Rice are expected to compete. 3B Longhorn te n ­ nis player M ilan M ihailovic cam e to Austin after excelling in Serbia and M ontenegro, despite hav­ ing never been to the United States before. Meg Loucks D a ily Texan Staff Georgia prepares for life without Shockley Bulldogs undefeated but limping into big rivalry with Florida By Ryan Derousseau Daily Texan Staff Star quarterback D.J. Shockley left early last week in Georgia's game against Arkansas, leaving a huge hole in the Bulldogs' offense. Georgia will go with senior Joe Tereshinski to replace the fallen star against bitter rival Florida at the 83rd "World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party" in Jacksonville, Fla., on Saturday. Tereshinski has seen more time on the field as a long snapper than as quarterback. He replaced Shockley in the second quarter last week and went 5-9 for 91 yards with one interception. "It's going to be a pretty sur­ real week for him, I would think," head coach Mark Richt said. "Until he gets out there and gets tackled or completes a pass, I don't know that he'll settle down until that point." Shockley could return in two weeks after Georgia's bye to play Auburn on August 12. Florida comes into the game with the role as Southeastern Conference spoiler after two tough losses to Alabama and LSU but has had control of the rivalry against Georgia in recent years, winning 13 of the last 15 match­ ups. Chris Leak has struggled in recent weeks as the Gators have fallen to second place in the SEC's Eastern Division. Last week Leak went 11-30 against LSU for only 107 yards, but an upset of the No. 4 team in the country would help close the gap between them and the top of the SEC. UCLA at Stanford After a loss to Division 1-AA UC Davis at the beginning of the season, Stanford seemed destined for the bottom of the Pac-10 stand­ ings. Five games later, they've bounced back and need only two more wins to become bowl eli­ gible. They stand at 4-2 as No. 8 UCLA head to Palo Alto. The Cardinals started a tough stretch of three games with a win over Arizona State 45-35 last week. Then they must follow the UCLA game with a trip to Southern California, but if they could find a way to sweep the three games then the Cardinals would stand atop the PAC-10 standings. The Bruins come into the game with their eyes set on something greater than a trip to a bowl; they are in position to earn a trip to a BCS bowl game with an 8-0 start. Despite USC lurking at the end of the year, the Bruins do not want to look ahead, as they realize the Cardinals have improved since the beginning of the year. "They are a well-coached foot­ ball team," UCLA head coach Karl Dorrell said. "They had their early-season struggles, but they look nowhere close to the team that they were at the beginning of the season." Michigan at Northwestern Will the roller-coaster ride of a season for Michigan continues this week as they face another tough Big-10 foe? They sit at 5-3, but in their last five games, the Wolverines have gone 3-2 with two overtime wins. In their three victories, they have won by a total of only eight points. In the two losses, they have only lost by a total of six points. Michigan is now No. 25 in the country, and they have jumped in and out of the polls all season. In order to stay in the polls this week, the Wolverines must stop a potent Northwestern offense that put 45 points on the board in a victory against Michigan State last week. Even with the tough offense the Wildcats have shown, Michigan's head coach Lloyd Carr does not shy away from the possibility of winning in a high-scoring affair. "I have always believed this, we have always tried to have an offense here that can score in a hurry," Carr said. "You need an offense that when you have got a lead you can line up and control the clock, and that's something this season that we have not been very good at." Reggie: McNeal grinds to meet great hype From page IB 62 yards. find themselves with their backs against the wall. "Sometimes the worst thing that happens to our opponent's defense and one of the best things that maybe happens to us is we get a pass called, and they are all dropping into coverage and doing a heck of a job covering [our receivers]," Franchione said. "That's when Reggie pulls it down and starts running it. "If there is any doubt about what to do, it's put it in No. 1's hands and let him do his stuff. He does it very well." Last season, McNeal rushed for 718 yards and eight touchdowns — including runs of 22,24,59 and So far this season, McNeal has rushed for 624 yards, with his lon­ gest run covering 63 yards. He has also passed well, with 1453 yards and 12 touchdowns. With solid outings in his final four games,’ McNeal could become just the third quarterback in NCAA Division 1-A history to pass for 2,000 yards and rush for 1,000 yards in the same season. Clemson's Woodrow Danztler and Missouri's Brad Smith are the only two to have accomplished the feat. But for now, individual acco­ lades will take a backseat to McNeal leading the Aggies to a prominent bowl game by season's end. Some analysts tabbed A&M as a dark horse to win the Big 12 title, but they haven't kept up with the pack. A&M goes into Saturday's game against Iowa State at 5-2 overall and 3-1 in the Big 12. With their final three games coming against Texas Tech, Oklahoma and Texas, the Aggies would have to earn a berth in the Big 12 Championship the hard way. With McNeal at the helm, Franchione knows he has some­ one special leading the way. "He is a better leader than I have ever seen him," Franchione said. "He is more mature. He has depth and understanding of the offense that is as good as it has ever been." In McNeal's last outing, he led the Aggies to a 30-28 victory over Kansas State by rushing for 119 yards and passing for 136. Saturday he will play a Iowa State defense that held Missouri's Brad Smith in check. Cyclones head coach Dan McCamey has a defense currently ranked sixth in the Big 12 in rush­ ing defense, allowing 108 yards per game. However, their pass defense is only ranked 10th in the confer­ ence while giving up an average of 236 yards through the air "McNeal is an electrifying tix)tball player and very similar to Brad Smith," McCamey said. "Coach Dennis Franchione has a great system to allow Reggie to have success." V-ball: Texas travels to take on tough Kansas Focus: Longhorns seeking to avoid letdown in Stillwater From page 1B From page IB Paolini, a freshman outside hitter, was one of the keys to Texas' offense in the early stages of the season after leading the team in kills for much of its non­ conference schedule. But when Big 12 play began, she began to play less of a role as the Longhorn middle blockers Leticia Armstrong and Brandy Magee began to steal the show offensively. three The two have combined for 40-or-more kills times this season, and Armstrong has recorded double-figure kills in 11 of Texas' 12 conference matches. Armstrong highlights anoth­ er facet of the game in need of improvement, pointing out that it isn't just offense that yields positive results. "If it wasn't for our defense, our offense wouldn't do as well," she said. "Our defense pushes our offense." Texas setter Michelle Moriarty sees one last thing on which Texas should be focusing. "We need to win the serving game," Moriarty said. their Considering self-cri­ tiques, it seems as though Texas needs improvement in every aspect of the game, which is why outside hitter Jen Christian has a simpler approach. "We really need to just keep working in the practice gym," Christian said. Christian knows the value of work. Throughout the season, she has worked her way into playing a big part in Texas' offense. Even with the knowledge of the challenges and work they face, Texas will have one big thing going its way as it contin­ ues along its schedule. "Beating A&M is going to build a lot of momentum," Armstrong said. "We'll also have a better chance of making it to the postseason." No. 14 Texas (15-3,10-2 Big 12) faces its next conference hurdle Saturday, when it hits the road for its second match of the season with Kansas (12-9,4-8) at 7 p.m. The Longhorns have won their past three matches against the Jayhawks, which, combined with Kansas' 4-8 record in the Big 12, makes them one of Texas' smaller obstacles. According to Elliott, how­ the Longhorns cannot ever, afford to look past the struggling Jayhawks. "In this conference, you just can't take any nights off," he said. these games as diligently as they prepared for Ohio State. He wor­ ried on Monday that his team might not be as fired up for this weekend's showdown but said on Wednesday that they have had some of the best practices of the season. After "We're going to stay focused," cornerback Tarell Brown said. "We have bigger fish to fry." games, seven the Longhorns have put themselves in a position to fry those fish. Last season, Texas needed the come­ back against Oklahoma State and another one against Kansas just to stay in the BCS race. This year is a different story, and tight end David Thomas said it's easier to concentrate and pre­ pare in this version — despite a full glare from the national spot­ light. Vince Young agrees. "There's always pressure each week for us," Young said. "A lot of guys are trying to hurt our sea­ son. With how we're playing right now, the only thing that can hurt us is ourselves." Young kick-started his stellar play in the passing game against Oklahoma State last season. The Heisman candidate broke Texas' school record for most consecu­ tive completions with 12 in a row in the second half and has grown exponentially since then. Now, Young ranks second in the nation in quarterback efficien­ cy behind only Louisville's Brian Brohm. "I take a whole lot [of pride] in that because they said that I couldn't throw," Young said. "It wasn't that I couldn't throw, it was that we were all learning. The receivers had to get on the same page as me, and I had to get on the same page as them." The revamped passing attack enters Boone-Pickens Stadium boasting a healthy Billy Pittman, one of the best big-play receiv­ ers in the nation, and five other receivers with 10 catches or more this season. Pittman has averaged 28.8 yards per catch and could have another impressive showing against a Cowboys' defense that gives up nearly 400 yards of total offense per game. Running backs jamaal Charles and Selvin Young will likely continue to sham time Saturday, although Young will start with Charles still nursing an ankle inju­ ry sustained against Oklahoma. Brown said on Monday that Charles' ankle didn't come out of Texas Tech any worse than it went in. The Longhorns will need both backs healthy to avoid being labeled as a season-saver. FindTexanNews Now at the m ovie store jM m jf mmm m ^ I n , l > v ti \ 1 I f a c e s a rre st upon rotiftm to I t t t t v ,- rT .p t C f w l u t t t i n r \ if* V« \\o \d s c \V y n m o V in y , W EES T E X A S STUDENT MEDIA Pick up your copy of The Daily Texan at The M ovie Store 4301 Guadalupe 4B NEWS ber 28, 2005 Substation may be moved for new development C'ifyt urill ApriAp in 1 City will decide in 120 days if it will redevelop "It's an old building that has essentially is that we will take a downtown Austin area, talk of downtown Austin area, talk of relocating the unnecessary sub­ station and control center compo­ nents is quite welcome. It's an old building that has outgrown its place in down­ town," City Manager Toby Futrell told the City Council Thursday afternoon. The council unanimously approved a resolution direct­ ing the city manager to reduce the surface area of the Seaholm Power Plant to allow more land for commercial and residen­ tial development. The adjacent Austin Energy's Energy Control Center would also be relocated. essentially is that we will take a comprehensive look at the project and come back in 120 days and tell you how we'd do it," Futrell said. “We think this project is possible and that's why we're doing this." Council member Brewster McCracken sponsored the resolu­ tion and told the council that the intent of the project would be to transform the two-block area into a revenue-generating residential and business hub. “What the resolution says For several residents in the “We need to reclaim all of this unusable land so that some these buildings aren't just sitting there," said Lori Renteria, the newslet­ ter editor and crime and safety chair for the East Cesar Chavez Neighborhood Planning Team. For Renteria, the possibility of increased residential develop­ ment in downtown has a deeper meaning. two-block area By R obert Kleeman Daily Texan Staff The aging, partially inoper­ able Seaholm substation that looms over Cesar Chavez Street in downtown Austin's Central Business District will discover its fate in the next three months. 'The price of living in down­ “The price of living in down- town is not fair and it is not inclu­ sive," she said. “What we need to have is lower income housing for state and UT workers, because so many of these people live on food stamps." The Austin Downtown Neighborhood Association presi­ dent, Andrew Clements, said the area needs more mixed-use and residential areas to match the “excitement and intensity" of other metropolitan areas he's visited. 'We have á w S to go," he “We have á w^ÉTto go, he said. “We do hav^ Town Lake, which is a ffewel, and I think there's a strong Arguinent to pre­ serving the sjfuctuwfe of historic downtown btwldirtfcs. We're in favor of whitlFbAjtt,’considered because its an area that isn't m a x k S p R y money right now." Austin Enet^y General Manager Juan Garza told the council that any relocation or facility down­ sizing would not disrupt service to downtown cusfcffhers. Wireless industry discusses response, effect of hurricanes on $£fflice Leaders claim that technology helpful in emergencies By Dennis Killian Daily Texan Staff The third annual Texas Wireless Symposium wraps up its three- day long conference today, after officials from around the country exchanged ideas about the future of the wireless industry, focus­ ing on the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The panel was moderated by Chris Guttman-McCabe, vice president of regulatory affairs for the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, who spoke about the restoration pro­ cess after the hurricanes. "The unmatched destruction in those areas can't be fathomed," said McCabe, “I was overwhelmed at the rate the wireless network was brought back up, considering the amount of damage." With Katrina, access to certain areas became difficult, McCabe said, and key lessons learned were to prepare in advance and prioritize communications. Others on the panel were impressed with the technological response to the disaster and com­ mented on how their individual specialties were affected. Jim Bugel, Vice President of Federal Government & National for Cingular Security Policy Wireless, said that at the height of Katrina, 85 percent of Cingular's capacity lost connectivity, and that 900 cell sites were knocked out. Lee Maschmann, Executive Director of Texas Verizon Wireless, said his company lost 90 percent of its communication power in the area and that 800 cell sites were knocked out. City of Austin Chief Information Officer Pete Collins said interop­ erability would have been helpful for the situation in New Orleans, stating that Austin was a good example to follow with services for the fire, emergency medical, Capital Metro and the department of transportation under one roof. The Combined Transportation Emergency and Communications Center has made communication much easier for the city now, said Collins. Across every field, the panel seemed to defend the tech­ nology during the disaster, but one fault was the human com­ munication. “The biggest problem was the ability for human-to-human communication," said Greg Jurrens, Public Service Director of Armadillo Intertie Inc. "It wasn't the technology at all. Steve Largent, President of CTIA, said he is proud of the progress that his organization has made. In May, the CTLA initi­ ated wireless Amber Alerts, that will increase public awareness of child abductions. The CTIA rep­ resents the wireless industry and all of its sectors, from manufactur­ ers and carriers, to wireless data and internet companies. Largent warned that recent tax and leg­ islation filed against the wireless industry could hamper its inno­ vations. The Wireless Networking and Communications Group, a research center for the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University sponsored symposium, the in partnership with the Austin Wireless Alliance. Chris Guttman-McCabe, vice president for regulatory affairs for the Cellular Telecom m unications & Internet Association, m oderates a panel discussion over lessons learned from hurricanes Katrina and Rita at the Driskill Hotel Wednesday. The discussion was part o f the 2005 Texas Wireless Symposium. Sarah K. 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V IE W T H E T R A IL E R AT W W W .C A P O T E F T LM .C O APPLICATIONS ARE NOW BEING ACCEPTED for the following student positions with Texas Student Publications Daily Texan Managing Editor Spring 2006 Semester Application forms and a list of qualifications are available in the Office of the Director, TSP 3.304 The TSP Board of Operating Trustees will interview candidates and appoint a Spring Managing Editor at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, November 18,2005 in room 203 of the Campus Club located at 405 W. 25th Street DEADLINE N o o n , Thu rsday, N o v e m b e r 9 ,2 0 0 5 Please return c om pleted applications and all supporting m aterials to th e Director's Office www.dailytexanonline.com E n te rtain m e n t Editor: Scotty Loewen E-m ail: entertainment@dailytexanonline.com Phon e: (512) 232-2209 E n t e r t a in m e n t T h e D a i l y T e x a n Friday, O ctober 28, 2005 Building Texas libraries W icketts Reinedy C M yla Goldberg Food You Want to Eat: 100 Smart, Simple Recipes") and 2005 Texas Book Festival Bookend Award- winner Sandra Cisneros ("Caramelo," "The Flouse on Mango"). Two of the writers attending the festival are of such renown that all available seats were immediately claimed more than a week ago: mysterious children's book author Lemony Snicket ("A Series of Unfortunate Events") and former President Bill Clinton ("My Life"). Fans of gothic children's literature and of former heads of state are out of luck, but there are plenty of other ancillary activities to go around. Actor and UT alum Eli Wallach will speak and sign his new book "The Good, the Bad, and Me: In My Anecdotage" at an Alamo Drafthouse South screen­ ing of the classic spaghetti western "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," while comic actor and novelist Chris Elliot ("The Shroud of the Thwacker") will do the same at an Alamo Downtown screening of the infamous "Cabinboy." For a complete schedule of authors and events, go to xvww.texasbookfestival.org. Festival: By John St. Denis Daily Texan Staff This weekend the Texas Book Festival returns to the Capitol for its annual celebration of authors and their work. Begun in 1996 to celebrate literacy and raise funds for public libraries, it has quickly grown into a must-attend event for bibliophiles. In addition to a wide selection of books for all interests, the festival features children's activities, live music and panels on everything from Texas history to Iraq to banned books. Authors, with a heavy emphasis on Texans, will be present to sign books and answer questions from attendees. And for the first time, the Festival will feature bilingual and entirely in Spanish panels and reading. Authors appearing at the Festival include the legendary Salmon Rushdie, best-selling histori­ an David McCullough ("1776," "John Adams"), Pulitzer-Prize-winner Doris Kearns Goodwin ("Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln"), Queer Eye food guru Ted Allen ("The 1 r XAS A ut K j mmm - ~ -l »W lK I 7 / ie I V / l i f e .Le d if tic HI Voodoo fest rises from the waters Mayor o f New Orleans, Crescent City volunteers excited about festival By Austin Powell Daily Texan Staff In the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, the future of New Orleans' annual Voodoo Music Experience, along with the city's rich and deeply rooted cultural tradition, was uncertain. Slowly, local musicians and club owners have returned to New Orleans in hopes of re-establishing its music scene. While the Voodoo Music to Experience announced plans move the event to Memphis, Tenn., much to the disappointment of many Austinites still on an ACL high, community leaders in New Orleans offered another suggestion to the festival promoters: Bring back the festival for one of the days, and let it serve as a tribute event for the numerous, heroic relief workers that have helped the city in its attempt to move toward recovery and nor­ mality. Of the occasion New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin said, "As the birthplace of jazz, New Orleans is a city built on the foundation of music. The Voodoo Music Experience is a meaningful way of thanking the people who are helping to bring New Orleans back. The concert will lift the spirit of our people and bring ■|P Austin Powell | Daily Texan Staff Trent Reznor and his Nine Inch Nails backing band of cronies will perform at the V o o d o o M u sic Experience, which will be in N e w Orleans. music back to our lives." While Saturday's festivities will now to take place at Riverview Park in New Orleans, Memphis will be celebrating New Orleans beginning on Thursday night with a series of free performances from famed New Orleans musicians that will climax Sunday with the actual Voodoo Music Experience. "In the course of the past few weeks, the outpouring of support from not only the music industry, but from people from all walks of life who want to come together to celebrate New Orleans, has been tremendous," said festival producer Stephen Rehage. "The ability to move for­ ward in two cities... is overwhelming to every­ one involved with this year's event." S te p h e n R e h a g e , fe stiv al p r o d u c e r "The ability to move forward in two cities — with so much music history — is overwhelming to every­ one involved with this year's event. We want to thank all the artists who have shown their support by honor­ ing their commitment to this historic event. We all look forward to mak­ ing this weekend one to remember." Nearly every artist on the bill for the Experience will be donating their performance to the event. All proceeds raised by the festival will benefit the New Orleans Restoration Fund, a donor-advised fund of tire Entertainment Industry Foundation. With headliners at both locations such as Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age and Austin's own support­ Secret Machines and ing acts like tíre New York Dolls and New-Orleans-na fives World Leader Pretend, the experience will undoubtedly prove to be a remark­ able one. Please see ivww.voodoomusicfest. com for more details, and check out Monday's edition of The Daily Texan where our writers will recount their journey and experience in New Orleans. Burroughs book the light side of dark humor By Gerard Martinez Daily Texan Staff He has been called the author of choice for "gay guys, misfits, those with horrific child­ hoods." But Augusten Burroughs is much more than that. When asked about the demographics of his fan base, he playfully responds, "I am also the author for the Midwestern soccer mom." His non-fiction autobiographical book "Magical Thinking" is a collection of short stories and anecdotes, sure to delight readers of wide-rang­ ing demographic traits. "Magical Thinking" is the sort of book that makes you laugh out loud. It's the sort of book that you immediately want to share with your friends. Included are bizarre and strangely touching stories like "I Dated an Undertaker," "Transfixed by Transsexuals," "Ass Burger," "Holy Blow Jobs" and "Cunnilingusville" Don't let the titles fool you. All 27 stories are infused with a congenial humor and an unrestricted wit. Some are very funny. Others are too sweet to be funny. "Beating Raoul" chronicles the author's ghast­ ly experiences on the New York dating market. His date, Raoul, is the handsome, snobby type, the kind of impeccably dressed perfectionist you secretly want to see trip and fall just so you can point out a flaw. "I like flaws and feel more com­ fortable around people who have them. I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions," Burroughs said. The book is filled with precious one-liners like these. Burroughs likes to write about things we have all thought about but have never had fiie courage to say aloud. The result is a zippy wit that is both brutally honest and poignantly "MAGICAL THINKING" AUTHOR: Augusten Burroughs PUBLISHER: St. Martins Press funny. A great line comes after he gets into the car with his date, who is an undertaker: "One does not want to encounter customized door locks on a blind date with an undertaker." Burroughs believes that "humor acts as a life raft. It's necessary in life." He states that as a kid his personal consolation was always hope. That optimism is palpable even in the bittersweet stories. But what is magical thinking, anyway? Burroughs describes it as a "schizotypal person­ ality disorder attributing to one's own actions something that had nothing to do with him or her and thus assuming that one has greater influence over events than is actually the case." The book is, in a sense, a different way of looking at the world. "Magical Thinking" is Burroughs' personal testament to hope. It is a handbook to proactive thinking. Burroughs was once a raging alcoholic. He endured a bizarre, if not deeply scarring child­ hood. Today, he is a New York Times Bestselling author. Burroughs' first book, "Sellevision," was good. "Running with Scissors" and "Dry" were better. "Magical Thinking" is terrific, and in its own kooky-sort of way, it is a masterpiece. This book validates a personal theory that any story that begins with the phrase, "The mos_t distract­ ing thing about getting a blow job at a funeral home ..." has to be pretty good. "I have to just write for myself," says Burroughs. "What I think is funny or weird, and hopefully other people can relate to that."