SPORTS PAGE 3B OPINION PAGE 4A WORLD & NATION PAGE 3A irdZinn >wn with uic Texan to talk activism Preval prevails in Haiti M Da ily T exa nw w w .dailytexanonline.com Serving The University o f Texas at Austin com m unity since 1900 Friday, February 17, 2006 University cuts ties to Business Council Group to appeal ‘death sentence' decision By Zachary W arm brodt Daily Texan Staff The Undergraduate Business Council has lost all rights as an official University organiza­ tion until 2008 after a Dean of investigation Students Office found evidence of dangerous behavior, discrimination, on- campus alcohol use and sexual misconduct. The group, 101-member which represents the McCombs School of Business in the Senate of College Councils, will not be allowed to publicly assemble, raise funds or reserve University space during the next two years. Some members said the penal­ ty if upheld after appeal, would destroy the 47-year-old organiza­ tion. Administrators will create a new organization to represent business students if the appeal fails, said Associate Business BUSINESS continues on pace 2A Austin City Council gives raise to manager Dogs in restaurants decision pushed back, calendar approved By Ricardo Lozano Daily Texan Staff The Austin City Council approved Thursday the calender for the upcoming bond election, gave the city manager a raise and pushed back a vote to allow dogs in parts of restaurants. The Council also heard arguments regarding proposed temporary restrictions on large houses in parts of the city, but the issue was still being discussed late Thursday. On Feb. 9, the Council decid­ ed to push the election date for the proposed $614 million bond COUNCIL continues on page 5A H ig h Low \ i / A refou coloring with markers? Volume 106, Number 96 25 cents World & Nation............. 3A O p in ion ........................4A University......................6A State & Local................ 7A N e w s ...................... 5A,8A Sports 1-3B ....... Classifieds..................... 4B C o m ic s ........................SB Life & A rts.................. 6-8B ; PROPOSED DEVELOPMENTS in Keeton St. 21st St. Dobie Center Project Units Flows 1. Texan West Campus 2, Texan Tower (condos) 3. Venue on Guadalupe 4. Sterling University WestCamp 5. 21 Rio (pending approval)_______ ? 6. The Quarters at Cameron House 64 7. The Quarters at Montgomery House 88 75 76 8. The Quarters at Bandera House 9 .J h e Quarters at Nueces House 10. The Quarters at Grayson House 11. The Quarters at Sterling House 126 232 101 100 Í2. The Quarters garage______________ 12 Photo by Dusten C ook and Ph o to Illustration and m ap by Shaun Stewart | D a ily Texan Staff Reza Aslan, keynote speaker of the Contem porary Islamic M ovem ents Conference, address­ es an involved crowd at the Thom pson Conference Center on Thursday morning. Aslan prom pted fervent discussion in the conference, which continues through this afternoon. Jessica Talley | Daily Texan Staff By NealTesseyman Daily Texan Staff Sixteen months after the Austin City passed Council sweeping zoning for West changes Campus, the student-domi­ nated neighborhood is trans­ forming. A wave of West Campus con­ struction will produce 70,000 square feet of retail space and 12 high-density apartment developments capable of hous­ ing nearly 3,000 people. Bustling with the commo­ tion of construction, bulldoz­ ers are a now-common sight on the already crowded West Campus streets. T h e U n iv e r s ity O verlay N eighborhood Zoning District plan, or UNO, allows developers to signifi­ cantly increase the population density of West Campus. But for some worried observers it is a debate over the long-term goal of a "pedestrian-oriented" neighborhood with affordable housing and a diverse popu­ lation versus the immediate effects of parking shortages and expensive new housing developments. "In 30 years, West Campus will be a better community if it continues to grow and achieves the goals of UNO, but the next 10 years might be difficult," said Mike Clark-Madison, a UT alumnus who covered city politics for 15 years with the Austin Chronicle and now manages his own consulting firm. Between 1990 and 2000, the number of housing units in West Campus, either apart­ ments or condos, increased by only 309 units. The number of residents aged 18 to 24 grew by only 840. Now, the 12 new develop­ ments alone are introducing 1,009 units and upwards of 2,800 new residents to West Campus. Those numbers will only grow, as there are more proj­ ects in various stages of plan­ ning, said the city's principal planner, Mark Walters. Towering above its sur­ roundings will be the 220-foot 21 Rio, the newest proposal and only project so far to fully utilize the new 175-foot height allowance. Walters said that last Thursday the City Council the developer's approved request for 21 Rio to rise to 18 stories, above the maximum hieght allowance. of the pack Leading developers is Austin-based Simmons Vedder & Co., the investor behind the Triangle apartments north of UT and the new Quarters apartments in West Campus. Simmons Vedder was an active participant in the UNO planning process, and it is pay­ ing off, Walters said, with seven new apartment complexes, an eight-level, 1,100-spot parking garage and 40,OCX) square feet of retail space planned for con­ struction. The 723 new Quarters units comprise 72 percent of all the planned housing unite. "As the largest developer, we are the future look of West Campus," said Gaye Gill, the Quarters leasing manager. To discourage vehicle usage in West Campus, UNO plan­ ners stipulated that housing developments built under the new guidelines must lease parking spaces to tenants sepa­ rately from the housing. Cable and internet are included with the rent at the Quarters, but parking will cost residents $119 a month for an individual spot or $186 a month for two spaces in tandem. The Texan West Campus and Tower are essentially side­ stepping the lease stipulation by charging tenants a scant $1 for a year of parking. In an attempt to turn the area into a "pedestrian-ori­ ented community," new struc­ tures are now required to be set back from the street to provide room for wider sidewalks and shade trees. Enhanced street lighting and improved bicycle lanes are also part of the plan, which envisions a future West Campus with significantly fewer cars. Parking is already scarce in West Campus, and the planners WEST continues on page 2A By Stephanie Matlock Daily Texan Staff The growing perception of individual Islamic leaders as embodying the majority Islamic culture is pushing many Muslims to seek alternative leadership, a researcher and author of Middle Eastern politics and religion said Thursday. Reza Aslan, kevnote speaker of a two- day conference held at the University about contemporary Islamic movements and author of the book No god but God, touched on many issues of Islam and Muslim societies to an audience of Middle Eastern studies scholars from various uni­ versities. Aslan's lecture, to a crowd of about 150 people, focused on the redefining shift towards the individualization of Islamic values in the many parts of the Muslim world. "The Islamic reformation is already here," Aslan said. "We are all living in it." Aslan said extremist leaders such as Osama bin Laden, who uses radical indi­ vidualism in the name of Islam to promote violent acts, are but one voice among many in the Muslim world. The process of reformation has been going on for more than a decade, and although it was thrown into the spotlight after Sept. 11, 2001, that was not it's begin­ ning, Aslan said. "I am growing weary of being asked why Muslims aren't denouncing terror­ ism," Aslan said. With many people associating the Muslim world with the acts of violence, Aslan said a rapidly expanding group of institutions, organizations and individuals, both in Western and Muslim countries, are criticizing terrorist acts performed in the name of Islam. Jenny White, a UT alumna and asso­ ciate professor of anthropology at Boston University, said Islam is complex and frag­ mented culture with no unifiying ideology. "There are so many issues involved with understanding Islam," White said, "Islam is just as diverse inside as Christianity." Raafia Lari, a Russian, Eastern European ASLAN continues on page 5A Expert says Islamic world becoming more individualized FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17,2006 Second tuition installment pay­ ment due for students who select­ ed the three-payment plan. ISLAMIC "CONTEMPORARY MOVEMENTS: IDEOLOGY, AESTHETICS, POLITICS," 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Thompson Conference Center. See www.utexas.edu/cola/southa- sia/conferences/islamic_movements/ index/ for a full schedule of events. Free and open to the public. TEACH FOR AMERICA, Final Application Deadline. E-mail Lulu. roller@teachforamerica.org with questions. SIDESTEPPER, 8 p.m., Hogg Auditorium. Ultramodern, ultra sophisticated Latin music. $10 student tickets available with ID via www.utpac.org, 477-6060 and other outlets. HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION INFORMATION CLASS, 5 p.m. - 6 p.m., SSB 2.204. Provided by University Health Services. No reg­ istration required. GRADUATE STUDENT ASSEMBLY, election filing statements due. See www.utgsa.org for full information. Activist Scholarship Conference on Crisis, 8:30 a.m. - 6 p.m., San Jacinto Conference Facility. The third annual Abriendo Brecha conference. For a full schedule see www.utexas.edu/depts/cmas/ abriendobrechaZschedule.html. Continues Saturday. "ACTINGTHE TEACHER, TEACHING THE ACTOR," 7 p.m., Harry Ransom Center. Charlotte Canning and Lucien Douglas speak about the career of Stella Adler. Visit www. hrc.utexas.edu/adler or call 471- 8944 for more information. ENGINEERING FORENSICS CONFERENCE, 5:45 p.m., J. J. Pickle Research Campus. Conference top­ ics will focus on lessons learned from hurricanes, building enve­ lopes, structural failures, founda­ tion and other case studies. FRESHMAN GIRLS LUNCH, 12:45 p.m., Baptist Student Center. Meet at the BSM and try a new place to eat every week. Visit www.utbsm. net for more information. 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" I spent over 100 hours at city council meetings trying to per­ suade them against the lower parking requirements, because developers are not going to vol­ untarily build enough," Chaney said yesterday. "E v e n tu a lly there w ill be no available park­ ing in West Campus, and I'm not sure m any luxury apart­ ment dwellers w ill not want to have a car." The Quarters at Cameron House w ill be capable of hous­ ing up to 184 residents, but w ill have 111 parking spaces — exactly 60 percent. Quarters units in phase two w ill deliberately have insuffi­ cient parking on-site because of the parking garage for residents in the near vicinity. "There w on't even be enough parking in the Quarters garage for the new retail em ployees," G ill said. "They w ill have to find their own parking." A drian Snead, a realtor for E ly Properties and U T govern­ ment senior, said there have already been some complaints from residents at the Texan West Campus about a lack of park­ ing. Residents of the property are eligible for one less parking spot than the number of rooms in their unit. Sections of San Antonio Street w ill be turned into meter park­ ing to fund pedestrian im prove­ ments, making parking even scarcer, W alters added. "N ot all students absolutely need a car, but some depend on them," Chaney said. "W ill car- dependent students have to live on Riverside? I don't think they should." Even though a prim ary objec­ tive of the zoning changes was to provide more affordable housing, G ill said that all of the Quarters units w ill be "high- end apartm ents," w ith prices ranging from $890 for a one- bed/one-bath unit to $2,850 for a 3/3. The Quarters' seven projects are being built in three phases, w ith the first three locations opening this fall. Excavation for the garage is currently under w ay at the cor­ ner of 22ndl/2 and Rio Grande streets. It w ill contain 1,100 parking spaces, 12 apartments and a Pluckers restaurant. Presently, Pluckers is located in a strip of retail along Rio Grande Street adjacent to where the garage w ill be. Simmons Vedder purchased the entire strip and w ill demolish it as soon as the garage is completed and Pluckers moves in. Jeffrey Denton, of Simmons Vedder, said all six spaces that were in the strip have been vacant since October except for Pluckers. The 40,000-square-foot retail center that w ill replace the current structure fits w ith the zoning planners' goal of Rio Grande Street, like 24th Street, serving as a "M ain Street" for West Campus. It is the only street that com pletely bisects West Campus north to south in a straight line and links M LK Boulevard w ith 29th Street. Bandera House, the seventh and final Quarters installment, w ill be placed across the street from the new retail for a fall 2008 opening. John M cKinnerney, a partner of Simmons Vedder, said his firm purchased H ardin House and that the Bandera House w ill be built on lots cur­ rently occupied by the Hardin adm inistrative offices and park­ ing lot. " If it doesn't cost too much, we hope to move the Hardin House office to another location as it is still a useful building," M cKinnerney said. The Quarters are not the only high-end apartments coming in, nor are they the most expen­ sive. Luxury apartments are the norm among the 12 new devel­ opments, w ith places like the Texan West Campus employing the slogan: "True luxury living in West Cam pus." Several West Cam pus real­ tors have questioned how long the demand w ill last for luxury apartments, but it appears to be strong at the moment. "W e are pre-leasing about three Quarters units a day," G ill said. West Campus is already one of the most expensive apart­ ment neighborhoods in Austin, w ith an average rent of $1,633 for a two-bedroom apartment. That compares to $1,496 for Central Austin and $811 city- wide. A recent trend report by Austin Investor Interests, LLC , says apartment sales and occu­ pancy increased during 2005 for the first time in years and that the trend is expected to con­ tinue in 2006. Realtors said rents are going up across the board. The 63-unit Texan West Cam pus opened in August, and it had been leased out four months earlier. The Texan Tower is now pre-leasing con­ dos for an August opening and w ill be the only new condos in the West Campus market for 2006-07, Snead said. "Condo pricing w ill stay strong as not a lot of new con­ dos are being built, but some of these new luxury apartments are going to have to lower their rates, as there are too many high-end units to support pre­ mium pricing. I'v e already seen it happening," Snead said. S te rlin g U n iv e r s ity WestCamp, a 76-unit complex going up at 2704 Rio Grande St., in itia llv set its four-bed­ room rate at $3,500 a month. It has since fallen to $2,800. Each apartment includes a 42-inch plasma-screen television an example of the kind of luxury amenities that can be found at these new developments. "The big problem we m ight have to think about right now is how much affordable housing is being replaced by high-end apartments/ said Bill Spelm an, a professor at the L B J School of Public Affairs and form er Austin C ity Council member. Just inform ed last week, M arquis M anagem ent its residents at Rio Nueces that it would not be leasing for the fall. One of the largest single-lot properties in West Campus, Rio Nueces has been sold to another investor, but Marquis would not comment on whom it is or w hat their intent is for the property. "W est Cam pus is already very diverse, but it seems as if it is m oving toward accom­ modating one social [stratum ]," Spelman said. Clark-Madison and Spelm an both said that U T has not done enough over the years to pro­ vide on-campus housing like that of most other universities. " If the city or U T wants, as they say they do, to have a large and diverse body of students near campus, they need to get involved," Clark-Madison said. "The U n iversity has m oney and should be investing in West Campus to lower costs. It shouldn't be that hard, because if something is worth a public subsidy, student housing has to be at the top," he added. "The area needs subsidies, and we need to do it now, because affordability is a cri­ sis right now," Clark-Madison said. "H ow ever, if the only w ay to make a neighborhood afford­ able is to let it become a slum , that's not a long-term plan, so at least this is a start to bringing in more housing." BUSINESS: Investigation spurred by allegation of hazing From p a g e l A probation. Dean Urton Anderson. it Council President Stephen Manz said is "extrem ely unlikely" that U BC would rep­ resent business students in the Senate when it returns as a reg­ istered student organization, because that responsibility w ill soon be taken over by another group. "Because the penalty is tanta­ mount to a death sentence for our organization, we have no option but to appeal the penalties, seek­ ing repercussions which would allow us to continue to exist," Manz said. Manz would not comment on the accuracy of the investiga­ tion's findings. The Dean of Students Office, tem porarily headed by Vice President for Student Affairs Juan Gonzalez, handed down a penalty consisting of a one-year cancellation beginning Feb. 8, followed by a yearlong suspen­ sion lasting until Feb. 10, 2008. A t that time, the council would regain all rights as an organiza­ tion at the start of a one-year The council has until Saturday to appeal the decision. The council can resume oper­ ations during the appeal pro­ cess, according to the University Handbook of Operations. The business school w ill prohib­ it social activities and require Undergraduate Program Office staff to approve events and attend at all meetings. An allegation of hazing sparked the investigation and tem porary suspension of the council in December, but the dean's office found no evidence to confirm that claim, according to a letter of penalty Gonzalez issued. Investigators found other types of violations, the letter said. Council members endangered "ris k y" other students w ith underage drinking and the swal­ lowing of a razor as part of a skit at a meeting, according to the letter. It does not cite specific examples of the drinking. Separately, it says a member took a celebratory birthday shot of alcohol at a meeting in the A sh le y Eldridge Scotty Loew en Practice. Practice Free LSA T Practice Test Saturday, February 18, 2006 9:00-12:30pm UT Campus Dobie Mall Space is limited. Call or go online to register. 800-2Review I PrincetonReview.com Business School. One execu­ tive member of the council, Adm inistrative Director Natalie Roberts, has said that non-drink­ ers might feel out of place in the organization. Skits at official meetings have contained jokes about sexual orientation and video clips with nudity, mem­ bers said. Council members have said that the razor blade incident, which led to the hospitalization of marketing and business hon­ ors senior Jack Clark, was a freak accident. The dean's staff also found evidence of discrim ination, harassment and sexual miscon­ duct that may have led to a hos­ tile work environment, accord­ ing to the letter. It does not list specific instances. Investigators examined issues of the council's weekly newsletter, which con­ tained references to members' sexual histories and drinking habits, members said. Gonzalez, who would normal­ ly hear organizations' appeals, determined the group's punish­ ment as interim dean of stu­ dents. The operations handbook It's Tax Time! SAVE MONEY! File your own taxes online www.1040.com/YOUFILEONUNE $10 for Federal + State Lisa S. Huling, CPA 580-332-3239 states that organizations m ay also appeal to a hearing officer. Manz said the council w ill likely seek a different set of pen­ alties, such as a shorter suspen­ sion, probation, community ser­ vice and educational seminars. Gonzalez did not return calls Thursday. Members of the award-win­ they were ning group said shocked by the penalty. "H o w confusing it is for the students," said member Kate Nanney, a Plan II, finance and business honors junior. "W e've been doing this all along, and w e've been not only not repri­ manded but rewarded." Council alumni have taken an interest in the group's current problems. M any have written letters supporting the group to administrators, Manz said UT law student Nick Staha, who was a member of the council for three years as an undergradu­ ate, said he has been communi­ cating with University adminis­ trators because he sees the pun­ ishment as unreasonable. "The penalty doesn't make a lot of sense to anybody except Dr. Gonzalez," Staha said. "A lot of this was just him taking something that happened once as an accident or an indiscre­ tion by one person and holding the entire organization liable for it." SUPER YOU SAVE! iU H B W M M W M * 1» Mann Eye Institute Participating Advertisers: Chick-fil-A Kiki Nass Pita Healthy Pizza Hut Procuts San Antonio Street Café Sao Paulo's Supercuts Thai Noodle House Wing Zone The Daily Texan's Super Saver Discount Program offers Longhorns specials on a daily basis. Look for their coupon everyday online at DailyTexanOnline.com or in the print edition every Tuesday. See individual coupons for details. (ZThe Princeton Review www.dai lytexa non I i ne.com P h o n e : (5 1 2 ) 232 221 5 W o r l d & N a t io n T h e D a i l y T e x a n Haiti’s new leader must act on expectations 3A Friday, F e b ru ary 17, 2006 W ORLD BRIEFLY Mexico creates new prosecutor for crimes against women M EXIC O C ITY — Mexico's federal Attorney General's office created Thursday a new special prosecutor for crimes against wom en. The new post will replace a sp e ­ cial prosecutor's position created in 2004 to investigate a string of killings in C iu d ad Juarez, across the border from El Paso. The new special prosecutor will investigate female homicides, as well as cases o f sexual, physical or psychological abuse against w om en. She will also take over the cases being investigated b y the Juarez special prosecutor. The new position will be held by Alicia Elena Perez, a lawyer an d wom en's rights specialist, according to federal lawm akers an d an official in the Attorney General's office. Juarez has seen m ore than 360 w om en killed since 1993, and nearly 100 of the hom icides have similar characteristics — m ostly yo u ng victims w h o appear to have been sexually abused. Iraq police death squad daims are under interior investigation BA GH DA D, Iraq — Iraq's Interior Ministry has launched an investiga­ tion into claim s that a police death squad has been operating in Iraq, a top official said Thursday. A car b om b killed six Iraqis in Baghdad and four other people died in se pa­ rate attacks, including a Jordanian Em bassy driver. The probe was announced as police foun d the bodies of 10 m ore m en w ho had been shot dead exe- cution-style and d u m p e d in three different areas of Baghdad's pre­ dom inantly Shiite suburb of Shula. Maj. Gen. Hussein Kamal, Iraq's deputy interior minister in charge of dom estic intelligence, said the inves­ tigation followed U.S. military claim s that soldiers detained 22 m en wear­ ing police uniform s w h o were about to kill a Sunni Arab m an last m onth. "We have been informed ab ou t this and the interior minister has formed an investigation com m ittee to learn m ore about the Sunni per­ son and those 22 men, particularly whether they work for the Interior Ministry or claim to b elon g to the ministry," Kam al said. A U.S. general said American forc­ es had fo un d evidence of a death squad operating in Iraq's Interior Ministry, the C hicago Tribune report­ ed on its W e b site Wednesday. NATION BRIEFLY Birth-control manufacturer warns of blood clot risk ST. LO UIS — W om e n w ho use the Ortho Evra birth-control patch face twice the risk of developing blood clots than those w h o take the pill, the patch's m anufacturer said late Thursday, citing recent com pany- funded research. Since the patch went on sale in 2002, more than 4 million w o m e n have used it. The fin din g com es from one of tw o studies com p arin g the patch and pill, said Ortho W om en's Health & Urology, maker o f the once-a- week patch. The Raritan, N J.-based com pany is ow ned by Johnson & Johnson. Interim results from the boem bolic events, or clots in the legs and lungs, in w om e n using the patch, O rtho said. The com pany said that the risk of clots remains rare and that they have been reported as a potential risk of all horm onal contra­ ceptives. Release o f the interim results com es four m onths after the Food and D rug Adm inistration warned w om en that the increased levels of horm ones released by the patch put them at higher risk of blood clots and other serious side effects. Compiled from Associated Press reports By Stevenson Jacobs The Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Songs, dancing and waving branches ripped from roadside trees, jubi­ lant Haitians poured into the streets Thursday after a vote marred by fraud charges and massive protests ended in victory for the favored the presidential candidate of impoverished majority. "Now we have hope," said Dabual Jean, a 24-year-old who earns about $2 a day selling fruit on the street in the capital, Port- au-Prince. "The country is upside down. With Preval, hopefully we'll get on the right path." Rene Preval, an agronomist and former president, made no public appearances Thursday, in keep­ ing with his virtual silence as a days-long, roller-coaster vote count roiled the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. "We have won. We thank God and the population," Preval told the Haitian Press Agency in his only public statement. "We will now fight for Parliament." He remained shuttered inside his sister's house in the capital hours after electoral and government offi­ cials announced his victory, which was cemented early Thursday after election officials divided ballots that were left blank among all can­ didates in proportion to the votes they'd received. Preval has tried to dampen expec­ tations in his few public statements, saying his government would not be able to immediately fix Haiti's problems, which range from mas­ sive unemployment to near-total rural deforestation. Thousands of U.N. soldiers and police officers have been unable to quell rampant urban violence, including fatal attacks on peace­ keepers and hundreds of kidnap­ pings. Many here still resent the over­ throw of former president Jean- Bertrand Aristide, Preval's former ally, and wonder whether Preval will be able to end the violence and overcome the suspicion and hatred dividing Haiti's tiny elite from its vast poor population. Still, Preval's victory sent hopes soaring among the millions of Haitians struggling amid grinding poverty in violent slums and iso­ lated rural villages. "I'm so happy, because we have what we were looking for," said El via Pressoir, 36, who clutched Preval campaign leaflets as she waited for him to appear outside the gate of his sister's house. "With Preval, we'll have security, jobs and life will get back to normal." Preval has been vague on wheth­ er he would welcome back Aristide, who is in exile in South Africa. The former slum priest fled Haiti as the U.S. withdrew support for his government amid an armed rebel­ lion and accusations that he was corrupt and had encouraged his supporters to attack his opponents. The Bush administration consid­ ers a possible return of Aristide — the only Haitian leader, other than Preval, to be popularly elected — to be a destabilizing factor and has hinted that he should remain in exile. The two former presidents have drifted apart in recent years. After decades of brain drain, capital flight, and corruption, vir­ tually every aspect of life in Haiti is in disarray, from rural hillsides stripped of trees to cinderblock slums controlled by gangs armed with semi-automatic weapons. Preval must attempt to meet the expectations of Haitians who S u p p o r te r s o f ele cte d Pre sid e nt Ren e Preval w a v e a H aitian fla g T h u rsd a y w h ile arriv in g to celeb rate at the N a tio n a l Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. H aitian s b e g a n c e le b ra tin g in the street as w o rd q u ickly sp re a d that Preval, a fo rm e r p re sid e n t w h o is h u g e ly p o p u la r a m o n g th e poor, w a s de clare d the w in n e r by th e interim g o v ­ e rn m e n t a n d e lectoral council, sta v in g o ff a p ote n tial crisis o ve r the d isp u te d vote. Ariana Cubillos | A sso c ia te d Press began celebrating Thursday as word spread that elections officials decided, eight days after the Feb. 7 vote, to redistribute blank bal­ lots among the candidates, giving Preval just enough votes to avoid a runoff with second-place finisher Leslie Martigat. Preval had been a hair short of an outright majority after 96 percent of the vote was tabulated, send­ ing masses of poor Haitians into the streets to protest what they called electoral fraud. The allega­ tions gained weight with the dis­ covery of thousands of ballots and other election material in a garbage dump. Haitian officials then decided to divide the 85,000 blank ballots cast among the candidates in propor­ tion to the percentage they had already achieved — giving Preval just over 51 percent, said Michel Brunache, chief of Cabinet for inter­ im President Boniface Alexandre. The decision appears to have averted chaos. Preval vowed to challenge the results if officials insisted on a runoff but urged sup­ porters to demonstrate peacefully. The death toll was low in Haitian terms; at least one Preval supporter was killed in the protests. "It was obvious that the people had massively made a choice, and that we needed to make sure that choice was respected," Brunache said. Brunache said redistribut­ ing the blank ballots was justified because the interim Haitian gov­ ernment also suspected fraud. Manigat, the second-place can­ didate, accused election officials of breaking the rules to give Preval a first-round victory. "We are not going to be sore losers, but we are human beings," Manigat told reporters. He would not say if he would register a for­ mal complaint. A P miters Alfred de Montesquiou an d Laura Wides-Munoz contributed to this report. Judge orders White House to release spy papers By Katherine Shrader The Associated Press WASHINGTON — A federal judge Thursday ordered the Bush administration to release docu­ ments about its warrantless surveil­ lance program or spell out what it is withholding, a setback to efforts to keep the program under wraps. At the same time, the Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said he had worked out an agreement with the White House to consider legislation and provide more information to Congress on the eavesdropping program. The panel's top Democrat, who has requested a full-scale investigation, immediately objected to what he called an abdication of the commit­ tee's responsibilities. Judge Henry U.S. District that a private Kennedy ruled group, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, will suffer irreparable harm if the documents it has been seeking since December are not processed promptly under the Freedom of Information Act. He gave the Justice Department 20 days to respond to the request. "President Bush has invited meaningful debate about the wireless surveillance program," Kennedy said. "That can only occur if DOJ processes its FOIA requests in a timely fashion and releases the information sought." Justice Department spokeswom­ an Tasia Scolinos said the depart­ ment has been "extremely forth­ coming" with information. On Capitol Hill, lawmakers also have been seeking more information about Bush's program that allowed the National Security Agency to eavesdrop without court warrants on Americans whose international calls and e-mails it believed might be linked to al-Qaida. After a two-hour closed-door ses­ sion, Senate Intelligence Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said the com­ mittee adjourned without voting on whether to open an investiga­ tion. Instead, he and the White House confirmed that they had an agreement to give lawmakers more information on the nature of the program. The White House also has committed to make changes to the current law, according to Roberts and White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino. Roberts said that an investiga­ tion would be "detrimental" to the classified program and efforts to "reach some accomodation" with the administration. He promised to consider the Democratic request for a vote in a March 7 meeting. Earlier, Bush spokesman Scott McClellan reiterated that Bush does not need Congress' approval to authorize the warrantless eaves­ dropping and that the president would resist any legislation that might compromise the program. Later Thursday, Bush adviser Karl Rove told at the University of Central Arkansas: "The purpose of the terrorist-surveillance program is to protect lives. The president's actions were legal and fully consis­ tent with the Fourth Amendment and the protection of our civil liber­ ties under the constitution." West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the Intelligence Committee's top Democrat, said the White House had applied heavy pressure to Republicans to prevent them from conducting thorough oversight. He complained that Roberts didn't even allow a vote on a proposal for a 13-point investigation that would include the program's origin and operation, technical aspects and questions raised by federal judges. Rockefeller said the Senate can­ not consider legislation because lawmakers don't have enough information: "No member of the Senate can cast an informed vote on legislation authorizing or converse­ ly restricting the NSA's warrantless surveillance program, when they fundamentally do not know what they are authorizing or restricting," he said. It remains unclear what chang­ es in law may look like. Roberts indicated it may be possible "to fix" the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to authorize the president's program. Perino said the White House considers sug­ gestions put forward by Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, the starting point, particularly his proposal to create a special subcommittee on Capitol Hill that would regularly review the program. DeWine's proposal would exempt Bush's program from FISA. That law set up a special court to approve warrants for monitoring inside the United States for national security investigations. Yet Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner, Senate R-Va., left the closed hearing saying he has been working on a differ­ ent legislative change to FISA. "It seems that's a logical place to start, to upgrade FISA given the extraor­ dinary expanse of technology in the 30 years that have lapsed," he said. Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., told a forum at Georgetown University Law School Thursday night, "You can­ not have domestic search and seizure without a warrant." He is drafting legislation to require the foreign surveillance court to review Bush's program and determine if it is constitutional. California Rep. Jane Harman, ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, told the Georgetown audience the surveil­ lance "can and must comply" with the law requiring warrants from the special court, but she supported the need to conduct electronic eaves­ dropping to combat terrorism. Specter's committee will contin­ ue to probe the program's legality at a Feb. 28 hearing. U.S. must close Guantanamo, U.N. report says A P writers Jennifer Loven, Mark Sherm an second study su gge sted a tw ofold a n d Larry M argasak contributed to this increase in the risk o f venous throm ­ report. By Sam Cage The Associated Press GENEVA — The United States must close its detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, because it is effectively a torture camp where prisoners have no access to justice, a U.N. report released Thursday said. The White House rejected the recommendation. The 54-page report summariz­ ing an investigation by five U.N. experts accused the United States of practices that "amount to tor­ ture" and demanded detainees be allowed a fair trial or freed. The investigators did not visit the deten­ tion camp in Guantanamo Bay. "Those people should be released or brought before an independent court," said Manfred Nowak, the U.N. investigator for torture. "That should not be done in Guantanamo Bay, but before ordinary U.S. courts, or courts in their countries of origin or perhaps an interna­ tional tribunal." The United States should allow "a full and independent investiga­ tion" at Guantanamo and also give the U.N. access to other detention centers, including secret ones, in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, Nowak said. "We want to have all informa­ tion about secret places of deten­ tion because whenever there is a secret place of detention, there is also a higher risk that people are subjected to torture," he said. The U.S. is holding about 490 men at the military detention cen­ ter. They are accused of links to Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime or to al-Qaida, but only a handful have been charged. White House spokesman Scott McClellan rejected the call to shut the camp, saying the military treats all detainees humanely and "these are dangerous terrorists that we're talking about." The The U.N. investigators said pho­ tographic evidence, corroborated by testimony of former prison­ ers, showed detainees shackled, chained and hooded. Prisoners were beaten, stripped and shaved if they resisted, they said. report's findings were based on interviews with former detainees, public documents, media reports, lawyers and ques­ tions answered by the U.S. govern­ ment, which detailed the number of prisoners held but did not give their names or the status of charges against them. Some of the interrogation tech­ niques, particularly the use of dogs, exposure to extreme temperatures, sleep deprivation and prolonged isolation, caused extreme suffering. "Such treatment amounts to tor­ ture, as it inflicts severe pain or suffering on the victims for the purpose of intimidation and/or punishment," the report said. The U.N. experts who wrote the report had sought access to Guantanamo Bay since 2002. Three were invited last year, but refused in November after being told they could not interview detainees. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the U.N. report "clearly suffers from their unwill­ ingness to take us up on our offer to go down to Guantanamo to observe first-hand the operations." The International Committee of the Red Cross is the only inde­ pendent monitoring body allowed to visit Guantanamo's detainees, but it reports its findings solely to U.S. authorities. Legislators and journalists have been allowed in on guided tours but few are permitted to see interrogations. The U.S. ambassador to U.N. offices in Geneva, Kevin Moley, wrote in a response that the inves­ tigation had taken little account of evidence provided by the United States. "We categorically object to most of the unedited report's content and conclusions as largely without merit and not based clearly in the facts," Molev said. Although his statement did not address specific allegations, the Pentagon has acknowledged 10 cases of abuse or mistreatment at Guantanamo, including a female interrogator climbing onto a detain­ ee's lap and a detainee whose knees were bruised from being forced to kneel repeatedly. Many of the allegations in the report have been made before. But the document represented the first inquiry launched by the 53-nation U.N. Human Rights Commission, the world body's top rights watch­ dog. 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Bauer Phone: (512) 232-2212 E-mail: editor@dailytexanonline.com Associate Editors: Marjon Rostami Ken Tran "^privileging Q&A: Zinn on activism Western norms V / A . American discourse over the Danish cartoon controversy is creating a dangerous dichotomy. Arguing that the riots endan­ ger free speech puts Western values in direct confrontation with Islam. Arguments here have been made that, when the media depicts Christ unflatteringly, even the radical right never responds with arson and violence; why then does depiction of Muhammad create this response? Muslims, or possibly Islam, must be more radical and less rational than their Christian counterparts. But we shouldn't measure the Muslim reaction against Western Standards of morality, because to do so implies an absolute moral authority that ultimately contradicts itself. The comparison above centers on the false assumption that both Christians and M uslims privilege com parable moral values. The Islamic doctrine confronted by the publication of the car­ toons is its condemnation of idolatry. Christians don't find this issue as severely offensive to their faith. Furthermore, Christian values suffer just as much in their mis­ translation to Islam. For example, to reverse the original argu­ ment, Christians must be fanatical, because radical Christians bomb abortion centers, something even the m ost radical Islam ists rarely do. Religious differences, however, aren't central to the issue. They're only a manifestation of a deeper antagonistic sentim ent against non-Western values. First, the reactionary xenophobic response is to construct a stereotype of the entire faith based on a fringe interest. This is obviously wrong. The second, less obvious response is to construct a scale of moral evaluation which tips subtly but unfailingly in favor of the West. Calling forth the value of free speech and privileging it over faith is implicitly Western. Furthermore, staging the conflict in this way leaves no other recourse for disenfranchised Muslims other than violence. If free speech includes the right to heresy, how can it be a legitimate way to express righteous condemnation? Furtherm ore, if Pat Robertson is mad, any news channel in America will gladly broadcast his anger. But could an equally prom inent fundamentalist M uslim ever appear on Crossfire? The fact that none do is evident of the uphill battle they face for legiti­ mate representation in dominant media. Boxing radical Islam out of the general discourse pushes it further toward violence to convey its message. This isn't to say that the radical Islamist violence is justified. It's meant onlv to highlight the us-versus-other discourse which im plicitly privileges our moral righteousness while sim ultane­ ously denying the rioters their humanity. It's an attem pt to claim a m onopoly on righteous vengeance, and sadly, the more we am ass, the more reciprocity it attracts. GALLERY THE FIRING LINE Muslim s aren't hom ogenous Why is it always that any person can criticize the whole Muslim reli­ gion on actions of a few? I would mind my language before using the word "fanatic" and stereotyping the whole religion, and its followers. Why did the Danish cartoonist draw a cartoon that he knew would spark violence and disturbance all around the world? It seems like it was done intentionally. It's always the action of some journalists who think they know it all and can do whatever they want. Everyone arrived at the aid of the cartoonist, claiming that it is freedom of speech. What if the tables were turned around? I am sure no one would have supported a Muslim person. In any given situ­ ation there are people who would always point fingers at others. Get outside the box and see the real world besides watching Fox news and supporting other biased net­ works. Amin Khoja Accounting senior Move SCC to increase voice I am encouraged to see the progress of the Senate of College Councils' proposed move to the Office of the Provost and away from Student Affairs. Since one of Juan Gonzalez's first acts as Vice President for Student Affairs was to move student governance down a layer on the University's organiza­ tion chart, moving the Senate into closer contact with the Provost will increase the voice of students and answer the repeated requests from student leaders. Moving the Senate's sponsorship just makes sense. The administra­ tion should respect the wishes of the college councils and enact the proposed change. Jack Teman Law School Student Senate representative Law School Representative to the Graduate Student Assembly I ROC Presidential Candidate ON THE W E B Additional Firing Lines were posted today on the W eb site at www.dailytexanonline.com. SUBMIT A FIRING LINE Please e-mail your Firing Lines to flringllne@dailytexanonline. com. 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A society Author, historian and activ­ w hose resources and w hose ist Howard Z inn's life reads young people are being given like a narrative of 20th century over to war, where the war has American history. Bom to im m i­ distorted the entire social fabric grant parents, Zinn served as a and distorted the minds of the bom bardier in World War II and people in the country who have attended college on the GI Bill. been led by an enorm ous bar­ He was a professor at Spelman rage of falsehoods to go along College, a black w om en's col­ with war and militarism. It's cru­ lege in Atlanta, during the civil cial not just for this country but rights movement in the 1950s, for all the places in the world then helped lead the anti-w ar that are affected by American m ovem ent during the 1970s at foreign policy. We have inter­ Boston University. He has writ­ vened in Southeast Asia, Latin ten a dozen books, but is best Am erica, Africa and now the known for "A People's History of Middle East, almost always with the United States," which recent­ negative consequences for the ly sold its millionth copy. At 83 people that live there. It's a very years old, Zinn is one of the most critical issue. I don't want to prominent progressive Am erican isolate it from the other issues voices. that you've mentioned because the class issue — the issue of econom ics, of rich and poor, of survival — is so much tied up with the fact that the wealth of the United States is being used for violence, for war. So that it's really impossible to deal with one issue and not deal with the other. Zinn will give the keynote address at the Historians Against the War conference at 7 p.m. tonight in the LBJ auditorium. The D aily Texan: You'll be the H istorians speaking at Against War conference here in Austin. Do you think academics can or should remain objective, and could you tie that in to the title of your autobiography? Howard Zinn: "You C an't Stay Neutral on a Moving Train." It's fairly clear from that title that I don't believe in neutrality for anybody. We live in a world in which things are already happening, the world is moving in certain direc­ tions, wars are going on, people are going hungry. Therefore, to be neutral, to be detached, not to participate, not to insert your­ self into this moving world is really to allow it to go on as it is, that is to collaborate with what is happening even though you may claim neutrality. A histo­ rian or an academic, a journal­ ist who pretends to objectivity and neutrality is really being dis­ ingenuous. Maybe not deliber­ ately, but whatever they do or say or present to the world, is presented in a context which is already alive and is impacted by anything anyone does or says. O ne cannot possibly be neutral, and shouldn't. There has been a long dispute between profession­ als of all kinds of whether they should stick to the boundaries of their profession and not go outside. From my point of view, if everyone just sticks to their specialty, then they are leaving the decisions of life and death to the people whose specialty it is — that is the politicians and political leaders. That is a dan­ gerous thing to do because the people who specialize in that are not people to be trusted. DT: In your career you've com ­ bined not only teaching the truth the classroom , but you've encouraged students to become involved in activism. in HZ: Yes, and they've encour­ aged me. I say that because very often the roots of relationships between professors and student activists is seen as the political professors sort of pushing the students to become involved, and I think most the time it works the other way. I think the students are prob­ ably the first ones to get involved maybe because they have the least constraints on them. Then, if professors have a conscience, they are moved by what the stu­ dents do and feel they should join the students. I say this as a general statement, but of course it's exactly the situation I was in when I was teaching at a black w om en's college in the South in the midst of the civil rights movement and really following the lead of my students who were leading the sit-ins and free­ dom rides. They were obstacles to discouragements who might w ant to do something. I was led to become involved in the m ovement by teaching courses in American history and then look­ ing at my students who were act­ ing out the issues I was talking about in class and deciding I had to be a part of that. DT: "A People's History of the United States" tells the story of America through the eyes of the poor and oppressed through the constant themes of class con­ flict, racial injustice and sexual inequality. W hat are today's most pressing issues — what are the greatest battles our genera­ tion needs to be fighting? H Z : I would say that the No. DT: What are some of the stories that are currently being om it­ ted from the national discourse? W hat individuals or m ove­ ments really are making social change? HZ: The anti-war movement is being shut out of the major media, the major television sta­ tions and newspapers. It's only w hen an individual does a very dramatic thing like Cindy Sheehan that suddenly the anti­ w ar m ovem ent, through her dramatic action, breaks into the news. But before what she did and after the excitement over her act died down, in all this time there have been countless actions against the war involving hun­ dreds of thousands of people. O f course, the plight of the poor and middle class who have lost their jobs and been downsized or laid off by General Motors or Exxon is not really brought into the forefront of national atten­ tion. When Katrina took place, and suddenly you see pictures of the people who are dead lying there or buried under rubble or barely alive and hurt, you realize these are the people who are the poorest part of the population, the most vulnerable to disasters like the hurricane. W hat about when there isn't a hurricane and these pictures don't appear, and the conditions of their lives are not being presented to the pub­ lic. DT: Are there any specific cam ­ paigns dom estically, w hether it is living wage or anti-Wal- Mart, that are more productive or inspiring than others? HZ: Certainly the living wage campaign that has been carried on at several hundred cam pus­ es over the past decade, I think that's been a very important way of bringing the class issue into the academ e which usually ignores the class issue. The unioniza­ tion of sendee workers, and the attem pts to create solidarity between people in the com m uni­ ty and people who work in these jobs, I think all those are positive developments. DT: How would you compare your experience in the early '60s with opposition to Vietnam to the lack of direct action or dem ­ onstrations on national cam pus­ es concerning the war in Iraq? HZ: It's certainly true that the Vietnam War, after a while, cre­ ated a huge national movement against the war. By 1970 and the bom bing of Cam bodia, you had strikes on campuses all over the country and com mencem ents called off, that was a high point of student activity. O f course we haven't reached that level at all on campuses in anti-w ar activ­ ity with the war in Iraq. Part of it is due to the non-existence of a draft. College students are not feeling vulnerable, but that's not the whole picture. The other part of the picture is that college students, like every­ one else in the population, have been subjected to an enorm ous barrage of governm ent propa­ ganda carried forward into the public sphere by the media who swallow what the governm ent says dutifully and present it without any real critical exam ina­ tion. The students, like everyone else, generally don't have alter­ native sources of information. So there isn't the fervent indigna­ tion against the war in Iraq that is widespread today as it became during the war in Vietnam. DT: Do you attribute any lack of popular dissent to a lack of engaging, passionate music that is in any mainstream culture source? HZ: There hasn't been enough of it. We've had people in the musical world expressing them­ selves, m aybe not forcefully enough and not enough of them. O f course they're subject to all sorts of pressures. Remem ber the Dixie Chicks came out, and immediately, they were pounced upon, and radio stations were told not to carry their music? On the other hand, people like Eddie Vedder have been bold about speaking out. I was in a concert in Boston where he sang "M asters of W ar" and drew a tremendous response from this huge audience of young people. DT: If you speak to a crowd where you know someone who has lost a loved one in a war, how do you handle that situa­ tion? How do you emphatically denounce a war when you know there is a personal connection to an audience? HZ: That's a very important question. It's very important to make it clear that you under­ stand that when someone has lost a family member in a war, it is very hard to accept the idea that this idea is morally wrong. It's hard to accept that somebody has died in a bad cause. And yet, it's important to be honest about those things and not to delude yourself. If the nation was deluded into going into war and that delusion led to the loss of somebody's life, then we shouldn't continue that delusion so that more lives are lost. If the war continues, it means more parents and wives and husbands and brothers and sisters are going to see their loved ones die. It's no insult to the sol­ diers who go over there. They very well may have believed in the war. But if you study the situ­ ation and decide that the war is wrong, then it's your obligation to speak out so that this person's life is not then multiplied by the deaths of other people. It's important to distinguish between what a solider believes to be true and what really is true. The solider may be abso­ lutely sincere, but the leaders of the country may not be sin­ cere. If you believe the insincere statements of the leaders, then the death toll will rise and rise. Supporting the troops does not mean continuing a war. To me it means stop the war, save the lives, bring the troops home. D T : Union membership is down to 12 percent, a dramatic drop from the 1950s when a third of American labor was unionized. Why has that happened, and how can it be fixed? HZ: W hat you describe is true — a dram atic drop in union membership and a rather weak labor movement. It's due mostly to the change in the economics of the United States, the decline in the m anufacturing sector as manufacturers have moved to other places and the indus­ try has suffered and the profit motive has operated for corpora­ tions and not the welfare of their workers. With the annihilation of the manufacturing industry, so many of those unionized jobs disappeared. The SEIU would not have become such a prom i­ nent part of the labor m ovem ent in a time when service workers were less important than miners and steel workers. W hen the unions becam e a dynamic force in the 1930s, it was because they broadened their reach. The CIO organized people who had never orga­ nized before, people the AFL had excluded — unskilled workers, foreign-born, women, low-paid people. That gives a clue to what is needed, to follow the organiz­ ing principles of the CIO and the IWW before that: one big union. Organize everybody you can. D on't exclude anybody. Create a solidarity among im m i­ grant workers and native born workers, men, women, black and white. It's the divisions between these people that w eaken the union movement. DT: In the last chapter of "A People's H istory," you talk about the com ing revolt of the guards, this alliance betw een the m id­ dle and w orking classes. How do you personally stay inspired when there are so many forces acting against it? HZ: You notice in that chap­ ter I didn't give a date (laughs). My basic prem ise still holds: Fundamental change will come in this country when the mid­ dle class realizes it has com m on interest with the w orking class, when it develops a class con­ sciousness and realizes the small elite group at the top that's in control of the politics, econom y and culture, that those interests are detrim ental to the interests not only to the people at the bot­ tom, but the middle class. Then, there may develop the possibil­ ity of a social m ovem ent which can bring about social change. How long that will take I don't know. I'm talking long term , but I'm talking about som ething I think has a very good chance of happening. There has already been a sharp­ ening of distinctions in the econ­ omy with the wealth gravitating towards the richest 1 percent of the population, with the people in the middle class getting no health benefits as well as people at the bottom. The second part of the ques­ tion — what keeps me going — is other people. W herever I go I encounter people who care about w hat's going on in the world, who want a peaceful world, who want more equality and care about other people. If you turn your attention away from the television and look at the people around you, you see a very dif­ ferent America. They d on't have the power, but they exist and they struggle. I'm inspired by all these people I see around the country. Also, a sense of history — when things look bad, when things look low — that's always true at the start of a movement. Movements always look helpless at the beginning, and then they grow. My personal experience in the South with the civil rights movement and during the war in Vietnam, my own experience was seeing what looked like a hopeless situation change. That historical perspective is som e­ thing that helps me. IT COULD BE THE NEXT FROG Tim Scott spray-paints a mural behind the soon-to-be M oroccan Tea Lounge M onday m orning. The mural is a perm anent work of art d e p ict­ ing a M oroccan skyline. Dusten Cook | Daily Texan Staff ASLAN: Islamic values changing now From pagel A and Eurasian studies senior, said she found out about the program through the department and was drawn to the event because she heard Aslan speak before. "I wanted to see what he had to say on the subject matter," Lari said. O rganizers said the confer­ ence's goal was to promote the discussion of social and politi­ cal aspects of the Islamic world. The event counts on the par­ ticipation of several scholars of Muslim societies and issues of the Middle East. Redefining Islam ic values will not only be a concern for areas of the Muslim world, said Aslan, "It w ill be resolved in the cosm opolitan capitals of the w orld." Aslan, a researcher of reli­ gion and politics of the Middle East, was bom in Iran and is currently a research associate at the University of Southern California. COUNCIL: ‘McMansions’ also on agenda From page 1A package from May to November. The current bond package was brought before the Council on Feb. 2 by the Bond Election Advisory Committee. The calender w as approved on a vote of 7-0 to hold b rief­ ings for each of the major cat­ egories of the bond package, including affordable housing, drainage, transportation, open space, facilities and the central library. C om m unity m em bers can voice their op inions on w hat should be included in the bond package during public hearings on May 11 and 25. "There's going to be a lot of work if we're going to take the tim e to have these briefings and pu blic talks for this b o n d package." Mayor Will Wynn "A t first it seem ed som ew hat luxuriant that there would be so m uch time by pushing the elec­ tion from M ay to Novem ber. But looking at the structure of this calendar, there's not much luxury of tim e," said M ayor Will Wynn. "T h ere's going to be a lot of w ork if w e're going to take the time to have these briefings and public talks for this bond p ackag e." The calendar also left room prior to the N ovem ber election to allow for additional b rief­ ings and public hearings to be scheduled by the next cou n­ cil, w hich w ill have new faces follow ing M ay's election. The m ay o r's seat and three council places are up for voters' d eci­ sion. A lso, after serving as city m anager for almost four years, Toby Futrell w as given a sal­ ary increase of about $36,400, bringing her yearly salary to $232,500 a year. Futrell cam e on board when the city began to realize it was in an econom ic downturn and has helped turn the situa­ tion around, Wynn said at the Council meeting. C ouncilm an Raul A lvarez said Futrell had not received a raise since she w as appoint­ ed to her position. Com pared to other cities of sim ilar size and bud get, Futrell is still paid less than the city manag­ ers of San Antonio and Plano, said C ouncilm an B rew ster M cCracken. Last on the C ouncil's agen­ da w as a final decision on the interim regulations to limit the size of some new single-fam ­ ily residential construction and rem odels in com m unities plat­ ted before 1974. These struc­ tures com m only referred to as "M cM ansions" raised con­ cerns with neighborhood asso­ ciations w ho claim the large buildings d o n 't match with the existin g neighborhood s and cause problem s with drainage and parking. However, developers see the city's actions as im peding on their property ow ner rights. City Hall w as crowded with concerned com m unity m em ­ bers and developers signing up to speak on the ordinance. Ora H ouston, who has lived in East Austin for 61 years, said the new developm ents com ing into her neighborhood w ere out of place. "T h is affects the w hole city, not ju st Hyde Park, or Travis H eights or East A ustin," H ouston said. "This is som e­ thing the w h ole city needs to com e around ." A decision on another agen­ da item involving restaurant patrons taking their dogs w ith them to outd oor eatin g areas w as pushed back to the next Council m eeting, M arch 2. 5„ . v \ ‘ ‘ • . . . . E . > v * - ' ■ • . •• i v . .. Marie Hill unloads her cart after shopping at Wal-Mart on the comer of MoPac Boulevard and Highway 290. Plans have been made to turn it into a Super Wal-Mart Harmony Reforma Í Daily Texan Staff Austin City Council approves rezoning proposal to allow Super-Wal-Mart on MoPac By Samantha Peek Daily Texan Staff The Austin C ity Council approved a district rezoning proposal Thursday that allows a south Austin Wal-Mart to expand into previously protected land adjacent to its existing site. The plan had been approved the Austin Environm ental by Board, the Zoning and Platting Com m ission and the Planting Commission. located The Wal-Mart, at Highway 290 West and MoPac Boulevard, will be expanded to 190,637 square feet to become a Super Wal-Mart. The approved proposal, which allows the store to expand onto existing impervious cover, will also modify a driveway from the Highway 290 frontage road that some zoning officials have called unsafe. The pro­ posal also changes some aspects of already present ponds on the property, said Jerry Rusthoven, manager of the zoning division at the city Neighborhood Planning and Zoning Department. Included in the approved plan is a second tract of land next to the current Wal-Mart that is zoned for a big-box store, a restaurant and a large pond, according to a zoning document. "The city' is improving an exist­ ing water quality pond by adding a quarter-inch capture volum e, closing a dangerous driveway on a frontage road and adding landscaped medians," Rusthoven said. Wal-Mart corporate officials could not be reached for com ­ ment. The retailer was originally going to build on the second plot of land, but the proposal was met by strong opposition from neighbor­ hood groups, Rusthoven said. Development on the second plot will be limited to 45,000 square feet from the previously approved 209,943 square feet, Rusthoven said. The new plan reduces traf­ fic by 9,000 vehicle trips per day, he said. The second plot contains three critical environmental features, including two caves that will be protected through the new district zoning. Building will occur in the southern portion of the land in order to protect the caves. "The land has a lot of protect­ ed live oaks and trees and two caves," said Elizabeth Johnston, environmental review specialist with the Watershed Protection Department. "We want to cluster as far away from the caves as pos­ sible. Wal-Mart will also do envi­ ronmentally superior things. It's a good deal environmentally." .■ Chance Yearbook & Graduation photos U n d e r c la s s m e n can just w a l k in f o r t h e i r c la s s photos. Graduating S e ni o rs also wanting cap and gow n photos must call for an appointment. Grder your yearbook today! 4 Ways to Order the Cactus Yearbook: • Order on-line http://www tsp.utexas.edu/cactus/ • Order during Registration: Choose Option 26 • Order your copy at the Texas Student Publication Building, 25th and W h itis Ave., Room 3.200, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. -5 p.m. • Call the TSP Office: 512-471-5083 6A Friday, February 17, 2006 Assistant professor predicts Democratic House T h e D a i i /v T e x a n www.dailytexanonline.com Theriaults formula Predicts i r l c i l U U l l o J U I r n u u i ¡ J f t U l L l b Democrats and one independent, while the u.s. H o u s e o f R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s has 231 Republicans, 201 18 fewer' Republican representatives Democraif> 1 independent and 2 vacancies, accord- J 1 i in v to clerk.house.vov. ing to clerk.house.gov. By M egan Elise Ortiz Daily Texan Staff 1 Vnux rats may be able to take back the U.S. House of Representatives during elections this November and overcome their post-Sept. 11 slump, said assistant government pro- fessor Sean Theriault during a lecture to 50-plus students Thursday. "T h e R e p u b lic a n s lo v e P re sid e n t Bush This is not beyond the realm of as m u ch as th e D e m o cra ts h ate h im . " and fundraising, respectively. Sean Theriault, assistant governm ent professor Theriault addressed the four different factors that affect a congressional election: fixed factors, long-term factors, medium-term factors and short­ term factors. He said that although long-term fac­ tors, such as district lines, are the most important, fixed factors, such as single-mem­ ber representation per district, are also important. Examples of medium-term factors and short­ term factors are current events Using regression analysis, a sta­ tistical technique used to find rela­ tionships between variables for the purpose of predicting future values, Theriault predicts the gain of Democratic seats in the House. Regression analysis includes factors such as the economy, current issues, quality of candidates and the president's approval rating. The results of this formula show the Democrats gaining 48.16 seats in the House and taking the majority, Theriault said. Theriault said the model is usually off by an average of four seats. "The Republicans love President Bush as much as the Democrats hate him," said Theriault. "In this elec­ tion, no one will be sitting at home." possibility," Theriault said. Iheriault, last year's Texas Exes Teaching Excellence Award win­ ner, spoke on issues regarding the approaching 2006 mid-term elections, including the number of registered voters and many other factors that can alter the election results. He emphasized the seats i ieeded by Democratic Party to retake the House. Theriault said that in order for the Democrats to win a majority in the House, they will need to gain the 185 Democratic safe seats, the nine Democratic favored seats, the nine Democratic leans, the four toss-up seats and the one Republican lean. A Senate victory is very unlikely for the Democrats, he said, because they would have to win five Republican leans and a toss-up seat. Currently the U.S. Senate has 55 Republicans, 44 UT Professor Sean Theriault hosted a lecture concerning w hether Dem ocrats w ill gain ground in this year's guber­ natorial elections. Currently Republicans control the House o f Representatives, Senate and the Presidency. Chris Reichman | Daily Texan Staff University Democrats endorse Impact ticket, Grube for SEC pres. Organization also wants Nikki Buskey as Daily Texan editor By M ark Yeh Daily Texan Staff The University Democrats voted on which candidates to endorse for the Texas Union Board, Student Government and editor of The Daily Texan Wednesday night. They also endorsed the proposed student activities center, which will be on the Feb. 28 and March 1 ballot. Due-paying members of the group voted to endorse John Grube for Student Events Center president, the Impact ticket for SG and Nikki Buskey for editor. A vote for endorsements was taken by UDems members after candidates gave a speech and participated in a question and answer session. The Young Conservatives of Texas does not officially endorse SG candidates, said YCT chair­ man Ben Fizzell. the election for the same seat last year, said Misra, a finance senior. Despite losing the election, Grube continued to work with the SEC, she said. Grube, a government and his­ tory senior, said he mainly spoke about his support for the stu­ dent activities center. He said he believed UT should be not only great at athletics and academics, but also great at everything else. Sukanya Misra, public relations director of UDems, gave reasons for the organization's selections. "There's no reason why we can't be the best at student life too," Grube said. John Grube, Student Events Center presidential candidate, appeared to have clear plans and losing showed resiliency after UDems supports the student activities center because they and other organizations in general need more space, Misra said. "The current Union is just not big enough," she said. "W e've really g o tte n a c h a n c e to g e t to kn o w all o f th e m , a n d re g a rd le ss o f th e ir p o litca l a ffiliatio n , w e th in k th e y 're the m o st capab le." Sukanya Misra, public relations director of UDems As for endorsing the Impact ticket, Misra said the organization knew the candidates better than the candidates of other tickets. "W e've really gotten a chance to get to know all of them, and regardless of their political affili­ ation, we think they're the most capable. They are passionate about Student Government," she said. SG vice presidential candidate Marcus Ceniceros said he did not go into the meeting expecting an endorsement, even though he was president of UDems last year. "We were taking it as serious­ ly as we would with any other organization," Ceniceros said. Although the UDems is a parti­ san organization, SG is not about and D em ocrats, R epublicans added the government junior. UDems president and anthro­ pology junior Brandon Chicotsky said both candidates vying for The Daily Texan editor position, JJ Hermes and Nikki Buskey, were well-informed about liberal students. He said the difference was that Hermes, a physics and astronomy senior, wanted to focus more on University issues for the Opinion Page, while Buskey, an English senior, wanted to focus more on world and national issues. Chicotsky said the vote for the endorsement was "very close, which is an indication that there are two very qualified candidates going at it." Council frustrated by vision care policy Insurance plan allow s provider to drop physicians By Robert Kleeman Daily Texan Staff Some Staff Council members are frustrated with a University Insurance policy allows physi­ cians to be dropped from their vision care plans. Superior Vision Services, the University's vision care insurance provider, has a policy that eye- care physicians can be dropped from the coverage plan. "This is a real can of worms," said Tom Horn, Staff Council By- Laws Committee chair. A UT Human Resources that spokeswom an confirmed this stipulation is part of the cov­ erage plan. Danielle Fournier, Staff Council Insurance Committee chair, said President Bill Powers has recom­ mended in several meetings that the council hire an advocate to examine the policy and present staff causes. The complaint lodged during the meeting did not include any other areas of insurance cover­ age. Fournier's committee has examined the vision care plan at length, and she said the con­ clusion was that "despite griev­ ances, it was at the provider's prerogative to drop physicians completely." Building evacuation standards were also an issue brought up at the meeting. Amy Jones, chair of the Staff Council Issues Committee, said that staff were not given proper instructions after being evacu­ ated from the Sanchez Building on Feb. 2 because of a gas leak. "We were told only after we had exited that the building would be closed for two to three hours," she said. Staff Council Recording Secretary Philip Hebert said staff members just needed more direc­ tions when evacuating a building. "Nobody was there to tell us what to do, to go home or what," he said. The council voted to send the issue into the Communications Committee where it will be fur­ ther discussed. The next Staff Council meeting is scheduled for March 9. FIELD TRIP You are invited to a PBS broadcast taping E X C H A N G E Tuesday, Feb 21 6:30 - 7:45 p.m. Hogg Auditorium “High Energy — Putting the Brakes on Fuel and Transportation Costs” Join P B S for a tim ely exploration of the oil and transportation industries with the top executives from Southw est A irlin es and Valero Energy. You will hear a lively d iscu ssio n about rising energy prices, cutthroat com petition in the not-so-friendly skie s, and the fallout from Hurricane Katrina. The Lake Travis High School Baseball team poses for a group portrait in front of the Capitol Thursday afternoon in dow ntow n Austin. Chris Reichman Daily Texan Staff Texas Exes will hand out Teaching Excellence Awards The Texas Exes, UT-Austin's alumni association, will be giving 12 Texas teachers the 2006 Texas Exes Teaching Award for Outstanding Teachers. The award has been given to 215 teachers across Texas since 1987, according to a press release Thursday. "The Texas Exes believe in the importance of classroom teaching," said Jim Boon, executive director of the Texas Exes. "Through these awards, we encourage great teach­ ing by celebrating the achieve­ ments of the state's top teachers." This year's awards will be given to two elementary teachers and 10 high school teachers. Nominations for high school teachers are made by principals from the respective schools, and elementary school teachers are nominated through 20 regional service centers throughout the state. Ceremonies will be held at the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center on cam­ pus during the conference of Texas Excellence in Education from Feb. 23 to Feb. 24. — M e g a n Elise Ortiz Please recycle your copy of T h e D a h a T e x a n Gary Kelly Vice Chairman & C E O Southwest Airlines Bill Greehey Chairman Valero Energy Jeff Greenfield C E O Exchange Host Senior Analyst, CNN 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 McC OM BS S CH OO L OF BUS INE SS Doors open 5:45 p.m.Taping begins 6 30 p.m Free tickets at the door Limited seating. “ORGANIZATION FOR NON-TRADITIONAL STUDENTS” Information Sessions Wliat: U T S tu d e n ts 25 y e a rs of age and o lde r ge tting to g e th e r for o c c a sio n a l s o c ia liza tio n . When: Tuesday, February 21,2006 from 3pm to 4pm and W e d n e sd a y , Fe b ru ary 22 ,2 0 0 6 from 4pm to 5pm Where: Texas U nion T h e atre 2.228 (a c ro s s the stre e t from the Co-op) k* lf you are unable to attend the in fo rm atio n s e s s io n s and are in te re ste d in finding out m ore about this o rg a n iza tio n or becom ing a m em ber then p le a se send an em ail to sh a w n a b @ m a il.u te xa s.e d u www.dailytexanonline.com State&Local Editor: Anjali Anthavaley Phone: (512) 232-2207 7A Friday, February 17, 2006 Medical examiner accused of shoddy work Complaints allege pathologist takes on too many autopsies By Patrick George Daily Texan Staff Austin citizens leveled allega­ tions of wrongdoing and fraud against Dr. Roberto Bayardo and the Travis County Medical Exam iner's Office at a commis­ sioners' court hearing Thursday. The commissioners' court ini­ tially met to discuss the ME's preparations and progress for the becom ing accredited by National Association of Medical Examiners, as well as possible expansion into a larger facility and hiring a fourth pathologist some­ time in the future. the Once formal hearing came to a close, however, Travis County Judge Sam Biscoe heard complaints and grievances from several people from Austin and nearby areas who said they are displeased with the ME's perfor­ mance in recent years, including Delia Perez, whose brother is on death row for multiple counts of murder. "M y brother is innocent and on death row, because foreign DNA from the real killer wasn't tested by Bayardo," Perez alleged. "The ME is doing an inept job." Also present was Jeanine Scott, the wife of Michael Scott, who received life in prison for killing four teenagers at a yogurt shop in 1991. Among other charges, she alleged that two separate autop­ sies were done on the victims. The Travis County ME's Office has a contract to perform autop­ sies for 42 surrounding counties that do not have medical examin­ er offices of their own. According to the contract, Bayardo and the other examiners perform autop­ sies on people who die in other counties once their bodies are brought to Travis County. The counties pay the examiners $500 for each out-of-county autopsy, according to the contract. But David Fisher, a legal activist, alleges that Bayardo performs the autopsies as a pathologist instead of as a forensic pathologist. The difference, said Fisher, that forensic pathology examinations are more in-depth and are done to determine the cause of death. is "Bayardo simply runs a base toxicology report and weighs some organs when he does the out-of-county autopsy," Fisher said. "The Medical Exam iner's Office has a long history of inac­ curate and sloppy autopsies for this reason." Fisher said his opinions are based on court documents he obtained through open records requests filed during the past few years. Bayardo, however, said Fisher's allegations are not true and that he and his assistants perform the same quality of work for every case. "David Fisher has a vendetta against m e," Bayardo said. "You should take everything he says with a grain of salt." Laurie Preece, who worked at the Department of Public Safety for 21 years, alleges Travis County does more autopsies than it can handle, and this leads to a lack of accuracy. "Travis County does twice as many autopsies than anywhere else, with fewer work stations and personnel, so howr thorough can it be?" Preece said. "You get a great turnaround time, but it's not accurate." Preece's daughter also attended the hearing to appeal to the court to take another look at the death of her child. Cendra Walker, of Georgetown, said her baby died in Williamson County and an autopsy was per­ formed by Dr. Elizabeth Peacock in Travis County. "They never returned my baby's brain and eyes, and the medi­ cal exam iner's office says they don't have them," Walker alleged. "Where are my baby's organs?" Bayardo said he was unaware of this particular case. According to the ME's Office consultant Joseph Lessard, Travis County performs more autopsies per pathologist than all three of the accredited medical exam in­ ers' offices in Texas. He said the number is so high it exceeds the National Association of Medical Examiners' limit, so the office may need to enter into a full partner­ ship with another nearby county and create a Medical Exam iner's district, which would ease the bur­ den of performing outside autop­ sies off the Travis County office and broaden its service area. Before that happens, Fisher says the ME has a lot to account for. "There are thousands of ques­ tionable autopsies, and the county and state are liable for them ," Fisher said. After ending the hearing, Biscoe said he would be "happy to look into it." Enron trial plods on as broadband unit chief testifies against Skilling By Michael Graczyk The Associated Press HOUSTON — Kenneth Rice, chief of Enron Corp.'s struggling broadband unit, tes­ tified Thursday that his boss, Jeffrey Skilling, directed him to paint a rosy, misleading picture for the Enron board of directois that was in line with false statements Rice said he already made to financial analysts in 2001. But Rice, the former CEO of Enron Broadband Services, said in his third day on the stand at the fraud and conspiracy trial of Skilling and founder Kenneth Lay that he had no documents and "only my recollec­ tion" to back up a conversation he had with Skilling, Enron's chief executive. "What I took from meeting with Mr. Skilling was he wanted me to put a presentation togeth­ er that was more consistent with the analyst conference and less direct on some of the chal­ lenges we were facing at EBS," Rice said. In January 2001, Rice told Wall Street ana­ lysts who influenced the com pany's stock price that the business was well-positioned for strong, long-term financial performance. In reality, however, EBS was spending $100 million per quarter and generating little rev­ enue and business, he said. He told the board, after making what he said were some 13 drafts of his presentation, that his unit was successful, helped Enron overall keep a strong position in the market, that its broadband network was substantially complete and they had an "excellent deal flow" in trading activities. "W hat I presented to board was inconsis­ tent with what was going on at EBS," said Rice, who is among 16 ex-Enron executives who have pleaded guilty to charges stem­ ming from the government's investigation of the energy company. But as he has done throughout his three days of testimony, Rice stopped short of saying Skilling lied to investors about the health of Enron. "I knew that Mr. Skilling and I had misled investors on a number of occasions on the prospects of our business within EBS," Rice said under questioning by Skilling attorney Mark Holscher. AP writer Kristen Hays contributed to this report. Former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay reaches for his wife Linda's hand as they leave the federal courthouse Wednesday. Lay is facing fraud and conspiracy charges. P at S u lliv an Associated Press Everyone wants a happy ending. For more information: http://freeman.tulane.edu (504) 865-5410 e-mail: abfadmit@tulane.edu 7 McAlister Drive #401 New Orleans, LA 70118 Tulane _____ University FREEM A N SC H (X )L OF BU SIN ESS IN THEATRES EVERYWHERE FEBRUARY 17th 8A N k w s Friday, February 17, 2 0 0 6 Minority enrollment increases at Texas University still needs to double Hispanics to match state numbers B y Ryan M c N itz k y D aily Texan Staff Spring 2006 enrollment num­ bers at UT have revealed increas­ es in the percentage of blacks, Hispanics and American Indians on campus in comparison to spring 2005 enrollment. However, there has been a slight decrease in the percentages of Asian and white students enrolled. Black enrollment increased by 5.7 percent, Hispanic enroll­ ment increased by 5.3 percent and American Indian enrollment increased by 4.7 percent, accord­ ing to enrollment figures gathered after the 12th class day, on Feb. 1, by the Office of Institutional Research. Asian enrollment is down .5 percent and white enroll­ ment is down 4.1 percent. While UT has been steadily improving its minority enroll­ ment, it still falls short of reflect­ ing the Hispanic population of Texas, as of the 2000 U.S. Census. Although UT has three times the state percentage of blacks and almost five-times the state per­ centage of Asians, it needs twice as many Hispanics as it current­ ly enrolls to reflect state demo­ graphics. The school has a white majority and an extremely small American Indian population. The growth of the * minor­ ity population within the student body is the result of a culmina­ tion of several factors over an extended period of time, said Bruce Walker, vice provost and director of admissions. "What you are seeing is a reflec­ tion of a lot of work over a lot of years," Walker said. The increase in minority rep­ resentation can be attributed to the top 10 percent law as well as scholarships provided for Longhorn Opportunity Scholars — students from a set of about 70 Texas high schools which, prior to 1999, were sending few stu­ dents to UT, Walker said. A key way that the university can keep increasing its minority enrollment each year is to con­ tinue to give out scholarships, said Quinton Darden, Minorities In Education president. Opening up admissions offic­ es in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio has also helped increase minority enrollment, he said. "We're doing as much as we can to make this the university of choice," Walker said. According to the Office of Institutional Research: The 5.3- in the num­ percent increase ber of Hispanics at UT is even more than the 5-percent increase between spring 2002 and spring 2003. The 5.7-percent jump in the number of blacks bests the 3.8- percent growth in spring 2003. The 4.7-percent increase in the number of American Indians is higher then the 1 percent increase in spring 2003 as well as the 0.5 percent increase between spring 1996 and spring 1997. The enrollment statistics were obtained through a 12th class day count, which universities are required to perform by state law, said Maryann Ruddock, associ­ ate vice provost and director of institutional research. However, the statistics are likely to change after a later analysis, Ruddock said. " A student's registration will be dropped if they don't pay 100 percent of their tuition after the 20th class day," Ruddock said. Approximately 90 students will be dropped after that date, she said. Student Government President Omar Ochoa is pleased with the way UT has increased the enroll­ ment of "students of color," he said. "The admissions office has been very focused," Ochoa said. "It's amazing that the University has made so much progress." UT spring 2006 enrollment 0.4% Texas demographic, as of the 2000 U.S. census 0.6% 0.8% Key 3 .7 % } White Black I Asian 2.7% Hispanic American Indian Other/ Foreign Source: Office of the State Demographer HEY BABE, TAKE A WALK ON THE WILDLIFE SIDE Border shooting case continues B y Alicia A . C a ld w e ll T h e Associated Press the suspected smugglers escape to Mexico. No shots were fired. and tampering with an official proceeding. EL PASO, Texas — Lawyers in the case of two Border Patrol agents accused of illegally shoot­ ing a suspected drug smuggler and covering it up must ask a judge before they can mention other border incidents, includ­ ing a recent armed standoff that gained international attention. Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean have been charged in the shooting of Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, a Mexican national, during a scuffle last February in Fabens. Jury selection begins Friday. The trial, scheduled to start Tuesday, will come three weeks after U.S. authorities chased suspected drug smugglers to the border, where men carrying weapons and wearing Mexican military-style uniforms helped Prosecutors last week asked federal Judge Kathleen Cardone to exclude mentions of the Jan. 23 confrontation and incidents of border violence. In a ruling this week, Cardone said lawyers would need to ask her before any such mentions could be made in open court. According to a federal indict­ ment issued last year, after Ramos and Compean shot Aldrete, Compean "collected and dis­ posed of spent casings," and nei­ ther man reported the shooting. Aldrete, who was shot in the buttocks, fled on foot back to Mexico after being wounded. Ramos and Compean are charged with nearly a dozen federal crimes, including assault with intent to commit murder, assault with a dangerous weapon The shooting was discovered after a relative of Aldrete's told a relative of an Arizona Border Patrol agent about the incident. The Arizona agent reported it to an investigator in the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General. Prosecutors, defense attorneys and Aldrete's lawyer could not be reached. Aldrete, who claimed he was unarmed during the confronta­ tion, has been accused of driv­ ing a van loaded with about 700 pounds of marijuana on the day of the shooting. Though no report of the shooting was filed, the Border Patrol agents did draft a report showing the recovery of the van. Aldrete has been given immu­ nity and is expected to testify. Jake Baker and Philadelphia Rymkus observe the Splash! Into the Edwards Aquifer exhibit at Barton Springs. The Exhibit showcases wildlife, how the aquifer was formed and exhibits on water testing and treatment. Jessica Talley | T he Daily Texan ORDER YOUR MEMORABILIA TODAY! http://photos.dailytexanonline.com T h e D a i l y T e x a n HORNS WIN SIXTH TITLE AlatáS amp. ions mm INSIDE: Texas women travel to take on Oklahoma State www.dailytexanonline.com Sports Editor: Jake Veyhl E-mail: sports@dailytexanonline.com Phone: (512) 232-2210 T h e D a il y T e x a n SECTION Friday, February 17, 2006 Osterman gets chance at bat Staff ace collects double in first career at-bat, plans to go out hitting 1.000 By Mark A. Hodgkin Daily Texan Staff Is there anything Cat Osterman can't do? The answer Thursday was a resounding "N o !" Besides throwing a 2-hit shutout to collect her fifth win of the young season, she walked to the plate in the bottom of the fourth inning for the first time at Texas and laced a double off the wall on the second pitch she saw. "W hen I came it has always been the deal," Osterman said. "M y senior year I'd get one at bat. I've been pushing for it." Up 9-0, coach Connie Clark decided to give Osterman that chance. In her illustrious career, Osterman FO RDHAM VS. NO. 5 TEXAS WHEN: Today, 3:30 p.m. WHERE: Austin INTERNET: www. texassports.com NOTE: Doubleheader. has been an All-American three times, a National Player of the Year twice, and an Olym pic Gold medalist, but she had never been a batter in college. However, this was something that had been talked about for O sterm an's four years on the 40 acres. "Every year's she's been like 'I get an at-bat my senior year, I get an at-bat my senior y ear'," said senior outfielder Amber Hall. S O FT B A LL continues on page 2B OSTERM AN continues on page 2B Jessica Talley | Daily Texan Staff Vet another Texas player connects versus Oklahoma Christian pitching. In two games, they scored 19 runs. Longhorns look to stay on top Hitters stay hot as horns trample Oklahoma Christian in doubleheader By Anup A. Shah Daily Texan Staff Playing four games in two nights would take the juice out of almost any team. The Texas softball team, with a double header against Oklahoma Christian Thursday night, was no exception to this notion — that is, until the sixth inning of Game 1. baiTie I While the Longhorn to be bats . appeared for the first subdued five innings, sophomore Meagan Denny's bril­ liant pitching kept Texas within striking distance. o c u Texas WP - Denny. LP — Farris. 010 000 0 — 1 3 1 000 003 X — 3 8 1 Game 2 ____ 000 0 0 — 0 2 0 405 7X — 16 17 0 o c u Texas WP — Osterman. LP — Bryan. HR — Boutelle, Melone "I needed to keep them off the bases and out of scoring position," Denny said. "I was going to go out there and do my job, and I knew my team would eventually do theirs." Denny finished the game with 13 strikeouts, allowing only one run on three hits. But it was in the sixth inning that the Longhorns were able to overcome the 1-0 deficit that had plagued them through five. Texas turned to playing small ball in what would prove to be Tucker a mere 11 points away from 1,000, could reach milestone in Oklahoma By Ryan Parr Daily Texan Staff With only five games left before tourney time, Texas sits atop the Big 12 standings and is closing in on a regular season conference champi­ onship. But the race is heating up, and every game is a must-win since red-hot No. 22 Kansas has won eight straight and 15 of its last 17. "W e know that it is near the end of Big 12 play, and these games count for a lot," P.J. Tucker said after Texas' 90-63 win over Baylor on Tuesday. "There is just one game that separates us and Kansas from the top spot." Tucker, who needs just 11 points to join teammate Brad Buckman in the 1,000-point club, looks to lead No. 6 Texas (22-3, 10-1) to its sixth straight win on Sunday when the Longhorns travel to Stillwater, Okla., for a 12:30 p.m. shootoutwith the suddenly s t r u g g l i n g Cowboys. MENS BBALL NO. 6 TEXAS VS. OKLAHOMA STATE WHEN: Sun., 12:30 p.m. WHERE: Stillwater, Okla. INTERNET: www. Al t ho ug h O k l a h o m a State (13-12, 8-5) has lost three straight, Texas head coach Rick Bames knows better than to over­ look any conference team, particu­ larly on the road in an unfriendly environment. texassports.com B -B A LL continues on page 2B Sutton admits to alcohol problem, placed on medical leave o f absence 6 wins short o f 800 a place he has virtually called home for nearly 15 years. By William Wilkerson Daily Texan Staff His grim, puckered lips will merely be a memory for those that tune in to watch Oklahoma State and Texas play on Sunday. The piercing look he has been known to give his players after a mis­ take won't be witnessed at fabled Gallagher-Iba Arena. One of the most accomplished coaches in the game won't have a chance to move that much closer to win No. 800, at least not for the rest of this season. Eddie Sutton, who stands just six wins shy of that plateau, instead will be watching the game from somewhere outside the confines of On Wednesday, Sutton, who is on medical leave of absence, acknowl­ edged that he has an alcohol prob­ lem and plans to enter a treatment center next week. These announce­ ments stem from an accident he was involved in Friday night where he was cited for driving under the influence, speeding and crossing the center line. Sutton was on his was to the Stillwater Airport where his team gathered before flying to a game against Texas A&M. "I have a problem with alcohol," N ew sw orthy W eather concern forces delay The threat of inclement weather has forced a postpone­ ment of men's tennis match against the University of Texas- Arlington on Saturday. The match has been rescheduled for Friday, March 3, at 6 p.m. The Longhorns'match against Southern Methodist University on Sunday at 1 p.m. will still be played as scheduled. The No. 13 Longhorns are 4-1 on the season, after defeating Texas A&M-Corpus Christi by a score of 7-0 on Wednesday evening. Texas is led by sophomore All-American Travis Helgeson, the No. 44 ranked player in the country. Helgeson was instrumental in Texas'victory over then-No. 6 Virginia last weekend in Charlottesville. In that match, Helgeson defeated Doug Stewart who was once ranked as high as fifth in the nation. Texas is in the middle of a 12-match home stand, in which time they will close out non-conference play and begin their Big 12 schedule. — Bill Conrad O sterm an first overall pick Two University of Texas seniors have been drafted by the National Pro Fastpitch softball league. Pitcher Cat Osterman was taken No. 1 over­ all by the Connecticut Brakettes, and outfielder Tina Boutelle was chosen in the fourth round by the Texas Thunder. Osterman, a three-time All- American was on the Brakette's roster in 2001,2002 and 2005, when they competed on the amateur circuit. Connecticut will begin their first season as a professional team this year. Boutelle will join the Thunder, who play in League City, Texas. Neither player's eligibility is affected, but each player will have to wait to the end of this season to sign a contract. Both Boutelle and Osterman were also selected to par­ ticipate in the Pro Fastpitch X-TremeTour, which will play selected tournaments this summer. — Mark A. Hodgkin K iesch n ick calls it a career Former Texas All-American Brooks Kieschnick quietly retired from major league base­ ball last week. Kieschnick, who had signed a minor league con­ tract with the Baltimore Orioles, told the team that he will not be coming to spring training. Kieschnick played in six major league seasons for the Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, Colorado Rockies and Milwaukee Brewers. A pitcher and designated hit­ ter at Texas, Kieschnick started out as an outfielder in the major leagues but pitched for the Brewers in 2003 and 2004. At Texas, Kieschnick was an All-American in 1991,1992 and 1993. He spent last year in the Houston Astros'organization and played 49 games at AAA Round Rock. — MH Rankings AP College Basketball 1. Connecticut (67) 2. Duke (4) 3. Memphis 4. Villanova (1) 5. Gonzaga 6. f r XAS 7. George Washington 8. Tennessee 9. Pittsburgh 10. Florida AP Womens Basketball 1. Duke (23) 2. LSU (20) 3. North Carolina (1) 4. Maryland (2) 5. Tennessee 6. Ohio State 7. Rutgers 8. Connecticut 9. Oklahoma 10. Purdue SUTTON continues on page 2B Daniel Gibson works his way through a pair of defenders at the Erwin Center. Sunday, Gibson takes aim at Cowboys sharpshooter Jameson Curry. In their first confrontation this season, Gibson shut down Curry. Rob Strong | Daily Texan Staff Texas hoping for reversal of fortune as team visits coast No. 24 Stan ford next up fo r hot Longhorns, winners o f 4 o f last 5 By Alex Blair Daily Texan Staff For the Texas baseball team, going back to Cali' isn't a good thing. The Longhorns lost both their No. 1 ranking and their open­ ing three games during their last West Coast swing, a trip to San Diego. Texas hopes the Golden State treats the team better this weekend, as they prepare for a three-game series against No. 24 Stanford. The Longhorns have righted the ship after their stumble and have won four of their last five games, including a win last Saturday against No. 5 Rice. Texas can thank its stellar pitch­ ing staff for the recovery, as pre­ season pitcher-of-the-year candi­ dates Kyle McCulloch and Adrian Alaniz have earned their stripes with dominant outings against Rice and Houston. Over those five games, Texas pitchers have posted a 1.43 ERA, while holding oppo­ nents to a .192 batting average. Texas is "only" batting -.291, a disappointment considering the offensive talent in the lineup. Freshman catcher Preston Clark's five-game hitting streak is a bright spot for the otherwise offense- starved Longhorns. Junior infield­ er Chais Fuller has reached safely in seven of Texas' eight games. "W e're hoping we can pull it all together and then take it a step above," Fuller said. "W e're hoping that we can pull out a couple wins at Stanford." The Longhorns have impres­ sive young talent coming out of the bullpen. F r e s h m e n l e f t h a n d ­ ers Austin Joey Wood, and Parigi Kyle Walker com ­ have for bined 13.1 innings of scoreless ball, while striking out 19. Walker has struck out 11 batters in only 6.2 innings. NO. 7 TEXAS VS. NO. 24 STANFORD WHEN: Today, 7 p.m. WHERE: Stanford, Calif. INTERNET: www. texassports.com NOTE: Series con­ tinues Saturday and Sunday. Texas head coach Augie Garrido isn't concerned about the dispar­ ity. "This time of year, pitching is usually better than your hitting," Garrido said. "Typically, by the end [of the season], your hitters are more productive." B A S EB A LL continues on page 2B Preston Clark takes a lead at Disch-Falk Field. The freshman is on a five-game hitting streak, but the rest of the Longhorn hitters have struggled to get things going. Jony Castillo Daily Texan Staff Next year’s recruits already receiving honors Raven named WBCA All-American, Hughes an Honorable Mention By Ryan Killian Daily Texan Staff Texas recruit Brittainey Raven was recently selected to appear in the Women's Basketball Coaches Associatione High School All- American Game during the NCAA women's Final Four. The 6-foot guard is ranked one of the nation's top three high school players, and her selection continues a strong tra­ dition of Texas representation in the game. In the last four years, seven Longhorn recruits have received the honor, including current play­ ers Tiffany Jackson, Nina Norman, Erika Arriaran, Emeisha Bailey and Eamesia Williams. Raven is one of 20 players who will play at Northeastern University's Matthews Arena in Boston. "The WBCA High School All- America GameSelectionCommittee has done a great job assembling 20 of the best high school players in the country," said WBCA CEO Beth Bass. "The WBCA is honored to be hosting the High School All- America Game presented by Nike, continuing to showcase the future of women's basketball." The arduous selection process took "several weeks of phone calling and communication with coaches and experts at all levels across the coun­ try," according to Gary Glasscock, chair of the selection committee. But when it was over the Longhorns had a recruit make the team for the sixth straight year. Another signee, Vantranique Hughes, was named a WBCA Honorable Mention All-America. Like Raven, she's considered one of the top-10 recruits. Raven got Wednesday, and the good news in Austin her WOMENS BBALL future teammates are looking for some of their own. The team is on a three-game and skid hopes for an TEXAS VS. NCAA tour- O KLAHO M A nament bid STATE are Sunday, L o n g h o r n s WHERE: try to keep Stillwater, Okla. INTERNET: WW W . those hopes texassports.com alive in S t i l l w a t e r , L Okla., as they take on Oklahoma State. fading. WHEN: Sat., the 2 p.m. The Cowgirls are the only team left on Texas' schedule that they've been able to beat this season. But that win came at home and the team has struggled on the road this season. Another difference is the prob­ able absence of All-American Jackson, but in the teams' previous contest she was in early foul trouble and only played 18 minutes with little production. Encouraging as that may be, the loss of Jackson has left a 6-foot-3-inch hole in the Texas offense that everyone is eager to see her fill. "She will be back when she tells me she is ready to play," head coach Jody Conradt said. "There is no one who wants to be out there more than Tiffany. I don't know when she will be back." Conradt called the squad's lack of scoring options "glaring" and said she was looking for more offensive output from Arriaran, who made three shots in 19 attempts against Oklahoma. Eight of those shots were 3-point attempts, and she missed each one. The number of losses on the court and of players to injury seems to constantly be on the rise, but Conradt said her team has started to handle the adversity better. "I do know that we have grown as a team without Tiffany out there," she said. "People have played harder and done more these last three games." A Texas tennis player returns a shot. The team's recent success has led to a tan­ gible increase in confidence througout the squad. A healthy Tiffany Jacskon fights her way to the hoo p at the Erwin Center. Now hobbled with an ankle sprain, the Longhorns have learned to make u p for her presence with increased effort. Annie Sn o d grass Daily Texan Staff B-BALL: Defense key against Cowboys From p a g e lB lege basketball venues. "We know its February, and we need to attack every game we can," Bames said after the Baylor win. Oklahoma State's Gallagher- Iba Arena, often referred to as the "M adison Square Garden of the Plains," was first built in 1938. During the 1990s, it was renovated and its capacity more than doubled from 6,381 seats to 13,611. The arena is well known for its storied history and raucous crowd noise, earning it a place atop any list of all-time great col­ When the Longhorns last trav­ eled to Gallagher-Iba in March 2005, they escaped with a 74-73 victory thanks to Brad Buckman's game-high 27 points. This time around the Longhorns hope to corral the Cowboys with a performance similar to their 80-46 victory in Austin on Jan. 23. In the teams' first showdown, Texas played a zone defense exclu­ sively and forced Oklahoma State into 20 turnovers and a 34 percent field-goal percentage. On offense Texas used a balanced attack against the Cowboys and four players reached double figures, including a game-high 19 from Buckman, en route to better than 48 percent shooting. After that game, then-coach Eddie the Longhorns effort, particularly Buckman's play. extolled Sutton "Well, you would certainly like a balanced offense attack that Texas has," Sutton said. "I think Brad Buckman is an imderrated basketball player. He is the heart of their basketball club." Texas will attempt to continue its strong defensive play of late and make the Cowboys become the 14 th opponent in the past 16 games to shoot less than 40 percent. Last time out, Daniel Gibson lim­ ited Oklahoma State sharpshooter JamesOn Curry to just four points on l-of-8 shooting. "JamesOn is a good scorer and a great player," Gibson said after­ wards. "We knew we had to keep an eye on him on the court." A similar performance should keep Texas rolling and on the path to a N o.l seed in next month's Big 12 Tournament. SUTTON: Chronic back pain led to alcohol abuse From page 1B Sutton said. "That said, I make no excuses for what has happened. I recognize it, and I will be seeking treatment for it. I know I have let many people down." This isn't the first time the leg­ endary coach has had to deal with this problem. In 1987 Sutton underwent treatment for alcohol­ ism at the Betty Ford Center while he was the coach at Kentucky. Sutton has long been the face of Cowboys basketball, where he resurrected a program from medi­ ocrity — one NCAA tournament appearance in 25 years before he arrived — to a pereinneal Big 12 contender. In his first season, Sutton guided Oklahoma State to a 24-8 record, a Big Eight conference title and a Sweet 16 birth, where the Cowboys lost to Temple in overtime. "He has always taught personal responsibility and accountability to our coaches and players," Cowboys assistant James Dickey said. "And that's what he's doing this evening: taking responsibility and accepting accountability. I would expect noth­ ing less from this wonderful man." The question as to whether Sutton's career is over has been a hot topic. But as school president David Schmidty said, "We want him to get well, get back on his feet, and we will look forward to the time when he will return and continue his contribution to our university." Schmidty said Sutton's future would be determined after he returns from his medical leave of absence. Meanwhile, Sutton's son, Sean, will take over as head coach. "If anybody has seen this man, [they] know what kind of pain he's in," Schmidly said. "H e's 69 years old. We've got to get Coach to focus on his health. That's the most important thing." Sutton has suffered through chronic back pain for years. In September 2004, he cracked his tail bone in five places as he jumped into a ditch to avoid getting hit by a vehicle. That pain drove him to alcohol, he said. "The pain at times literally has been unbearable," Sutton said. "Last Friday, the pain was so bad that I took a lot of pain pills, but that didn't seem to work, so I suc­ cumbed to temptation and went and bought a bottle." Randy Rutherford, a guard on Oklahoma State's 1995 Final Four team, knows the kind of person Sutton is and is backing his coach 100 percent. "H e has taught us a lot about basketball, but, more importantly, he has taught us a lot about life," he said. "Tonight he's once again teaching us about life — about accepting responsibility for our actions. "We all make mistakes in life. But we shouldn't be judged by the mistakes. Judge a man by what he does to correct that mistake." SOFTBALL: Three Horns collect four hits apiece From page IB the game-deciding inning. Sophomore Desiree Williams scored the first run of the night on a Kelly Melone single. Junior Megan Willis also dropped in a suicide squeeze that scored freshman Crystal Saenz. Melone eventually scored the final run on a sacrifice fly by senior Chez Sievers. "I was very disappointed with our focus," head coach Connie Clark said. "Our defense, offense, and sign reading — even in that sixth inning were very poor. We were lucky to get out of that gam e." The Longhorns began their second game of the exactly the way they had left off in the first, with Texas showing no mercy — literally. The game ended by the mercy rule after the fifth inning after the Longhorns had jumped out to a 16-0 lead. The win improved the team's mark to 8-1 on the season. Despite its early conclusion, the game was marked by a series of firsts for the Texas squad. Saenz notched the first hit of her career with a two-RBI single and Melone, the leading home run hitter out of Southern California, notched her first home run on the 40 Acres. But perhaps the most outstand­ ing first came from senior Cat Osterman, who not only pitched five innings and struck out 13, but also stepped up to the plate for the first (and perhaps) last time of her career. Osterman showed the home crowd exactly why she is consid­ ered one of the greatest players in the game. On the second pitch of her at bat, she launched a double off of the left field wall, making her a perfect 1-for-l in her four- year career. "It's always been the deal since I got here that I would get one at bat in my senior year, and it finally happened," Osterman said. "She threw the pitch outside, and I said to myself 'No Way."' Along with O sterm an's m em ­ orable perform ance, several other Longhorns contributed to the victory. Tina Boutelle w ent 3-for- 4 with four RBIs and 3 runs, including a mammoth home run on the first pitch of the game. Sophomore Rachael Cook went 3-for-3 with one RBI and three runs, while senior A m ber Hall went 3-for-4 with three RBIs and one run. The Longhorns continue with their busy schedule today as they take on Fordham in a double header. OSTERMAN: Hit doesn’t surprise Coach Clark From page 1B W hat was left of the small crowd rose to give Osterman a rousing ovation. Osterman took a big hack at the first pitch but missed the high offering. On the next pitch, Osterman shot a line drive off the wall in left field. "I honestly saw it big, I don't know how," Osterman said. "Off the bat I thought 'are you joking? I'm really running all the way to second." Texas dominated the game 16-0 in a game that was stopped after five innings, but throughout the stadium, and in the dugout, the talk was all about Cat. "It was fun," Hall said. "I knew she could hit, I figured she'd hit the ball, but I didn't think she'd hit it that far." Osterman's drive landed on the bottom half of the wall, just below the "200 foot" sign in left field. "She is athletic," coach Connie Clark said. "She actually does have a good swing." While Clark said that she always had faith that Osterman could play, but the risk of injur­ ing her star pitcher while hitting or running the basepaths have always prevented it. Her teammates agree. "I don't think she should quit her day job," Hall said. "But if we ever need her, I guess there." Osterman doesn't either she should stop pitching e Her fifth shutout of the s( gave her a 5-0 record in 31 s less innings. She will be co with dominating on the me and not in the batter's bo> rest of the season. "No more at bats. That' Osterman said. "I'm goinj, batting 1.000" BASEBALL: Alaniz to start Friday against Stanford From page IB for The good news the Longhorns is that the Cardinal are having the same problems, only worse. Stanford ranks last in the Pac-10 conference with a .222 team batting average. The team's 10 hits against Kansas last Sunday was a season-high. The Longhorns have collected more than 10 hits in two games this season. Like Texas, Stanford has lost to unranked opponents while defeating high-ranked opponents. The Cardinal opened the season with a three-game sweep of No. 9 Cal State Fullerton, then lost two of three to unranked Kansas. Stanford will be looking to avenge a close sweep at the hands of the Longhorns in Austin last season. Texas beat the Cardinal by only one run in two games, before winning the third game by two runs. Before those three games, Stanford had won four straight regular seasc against Texas. Adrian Alaniz w for Texas on Friday, t! McCulloch and Randy B take the hill for the L over the weekend. Stai baseman Chance W h day-to-day with a foot ii C raig Bland Daily Texan Staff Surging Texas team takes on Florida without heach coach Contest represents rematch of2005 s NCAA semi-finals By Alex Spevack Daily Texan Staff Last season, former coach Jeff Moore said, "Winning the dou­ bles point was huge," in refer­ ence to the Texas women's tennis team 's 4-3 victory over Florida in the semifinal round of the 2005 NCAA Championships. In that match, the 10th-ranked Longhorns won two of three dou­ bles matches to claim the doubles point. After losing their first three singles matches, UT rallied, win­ ning the last three singles matches to clinch the victory. With these same teams meeting Saturday afternoon in Gainesville, there is a strong possibility that the doubles point could yet again determ ine who com es out on top. If this is in fact the case, the Longhorns should have nothing to worry about. D uring last w eekend's road trip, Texas handed No. 36 Nebraska and No. 42 Colorado 6- 1 losses. Maybe the most remark­ able developm ent was the emer­ gence of strong doubles play. The Longhorns swept their opponents in doubles to take the point in both matches. "C om ing back from the trip to Colorado and Nebraska where they have pretty decent doubles teams, and sweeping ail three doubles really proved that the girls are getting more confident," said assistant coach Darija Klaic. "They are playing better quality doubles and routinely beating the other team s." With wins in five of their last six m atches, third-ranked the Longhorns are definitely on a roll. But, so is Florida. The sec­ ond-ranked Gators are com ing off of five consecutive wins to start their season, four of which were against ranked opponents. Most notably, the Gators knocked off No. 13 Miami — a team Texas defeated two weeks ago in the ITA National Team Indoor Championship quarterfinals. "It's going to be a really tough match because they are going to want revenge from the last m atch," senior Kendra Strohm. "We're looking at pretty much the same team that we had last year, so it should be very competitive." said After losing her first six matches of the year, Coach Patty Fendick- McCain made the decision to shift Strohm to the No. 2 spot in sin­ gles. She went on to win both of her next two matches in straight sets. "We moved Kendra to No. 2 and Petra to No. 1 because their games seemed to match up well at those positions," said Klaic. Klaic noted that this weekend, Strohm will most likely be the No. 2 or No. 3 singles player. it Since m aking to the ITA N ational Team Indoor Championship, Klaic has noticed an increase in the confidence of her team. "The start of the season had a bumpy start but I think the girls really put it together," she said. "Their first win definitely boosted their confidence and they've been looking pretty good out there." Strohm seems to think so too. "I think we have a lot more con­ fidence," she said. "It wasn't that easy to take those two losses right off the bat to teams that we prob­ ably should have beat. But after we got to the final of the national indoors, we knew we were right back where we should be." The Longhorns' match this weekend might be the biggest test of the season before the NCAA Championship in May. But, when they take the court, they will be w ithout Fendick-M cCain. The Texas coach has been absent on recent road trips with Klaic travel­ ing in her place. Friday, February 17, 2006 S.PORTS 3 B Kazakhstan contained by Team USA, 4-1 DiPietro makes 11 saves in first Olympic appearance By Ira Podell The Associated Press TURIN, Italy — The United States hockey team found just w hat it needed to get going in the Olympics. A good night's rest and a game against Kazakhstan. Rick DiPietro, in his debut, stopped 11 shots Thursday night in a 4-1 victory. The U nited three (1-1) used States first- period goals to m ove into sec­ ond place in Group B with three points, behind Slovakia — the A m ericans' next opponent and the only 2-0 team in the six- squad bunch. It didn't take long for the U.S. to shake off any remaining jet lag and the disappointm ent of its 3-3 tie with Latvia in W ednesday's opener. The Am ericans quickly established dom inance over a team that fielded only two NHL players. Anything but a victory would have made the chances of advanc­ to ing the quarterfinals near impossible as the Americans still have their three toughest m atch­ ups ahead of them in a four-day span beginning Saturday. Kazakhstan, outshot 36-12, has been outscored 11-3 in its two losses. The Americans peppered goal- tender Vitaly Kolesnik, who has been in the minor leagues since a seven-game stint with Colorado in December. He faced 17 shots in the first period and gave up power-play goals to Brian Rolston and Brian Gionta along with an even-strength score by [Dallas Star] Bill Guerin that made it 1-0 just 1:34 in. Mike Modano made it 4-1 at 11:53 of the third, 51 seconds after Yevgeniy Koreshkov scored for Kazakhstan on its first third- period shot. DiPietro turned aside five shots in the first period — only one of which came from in close as the Americans dominated. Rolston w as the fourth for­ ward on the Am ericans' power- play unit, serving a role he fills with the Minnesota Wild. That also helped take the load off the U.S. defense, down to six players for the second straight game as New Jersey's Brian Rafalski sat out with an injury believed to be to his midsection. K azakhstan cou ld n't m u s­ ter any kind of counterattack. Unlike Wednesday against Latvia with John Grahame in goal, the Americans didn't have to fear every mistake turning into an odd-man rush the other way. Even when there was a break­ down, the threat was minimal. Aryom Argokov had a second- period breakaway but then shot high over the net. Later, DiPietro fell down while the puck was in his zone and still d idn't have to scramble back into position. Kazakhstan didn't register a shot in the m iddle period until 13:09 elapsed. By then, the shot tally was 26-6. G uerin started the scoring with a shot from the edge of the right circle as he was fall­ ing to his knees. Rolston m ade it 2-0 at 8:31 when he ripped in a shot as he skated inside the blue line. Gionta netted his sec­ ond in two games by tipping in John-M ichael Liles' drive from the right point with 3:10 left in the first. Sosa’s legacy under scrutiny, cork and quirks take their toll Slammin Sammy rejects Orioles’ offer 12 HRs short o f 600 at this point in his career. I don't think it's fair. Say what you want to say about the corked bat, that's one instance. That was one mistake he made. Mazzilli as the Orioles skipper, said Sosa could be leaving because he knows it's time. By Rick Gano The Associated Press MESA, Ariz. — Sammy Sosa was once one of baseball's most popular figures, a prodigious home run hit­ ter who raced enthusiastically to his position and tapped his heart to salute adoring fans in the Wrigley Field bleachers. Now one season after his bitter departure from the Chicago Cubs, the 37-year-old Sosa is probably headed to retirement, his days of circling the bases over. If that is the case, he leaves behind a conflicting legacy. "I imagine it's frustrating when you get to this point in your career and you can't get a guaranteed contract. I can't imagine what that would be like for him, and I feel for him, I really do," Cubs catcher Michael Barrett said. "H e's had a great career and unfortunately with the way the game has gone — let's be truthful — the way the game has gone, it hasn't helped him in any regard, and I feel for him in that way, too." Sosa and Mark McGwire helped energize baseball and fill the stadi­ ums with an epic home run duel in 1998, four years after a strike left many fans disillusioned. But with baseball mired in accu­ sations that star players used ste­ roids, Sosa was among the players called to testify before a congressio­ nal committee last March. McGwire refused to answer questions about past steroid use. Sosa said he never used illegal steroids. "I listen to talk shows all the time, and I hear a lot of things about how fans are disappointed about how Sammy's career has ended and how they've been disappointed," Barrett said. "And a lot of people are judg­ mental, judging that he was a ste­ roid guy, and they said a lot of things that 1 feel are not appropriate "But overall you look at the career he had, and he had a tremen­ dous career. He gave a lot to this organization and the organization gave a lot to him." Sosa is 12 homers shy of 600 — 545 of them with the Cubs. From 1998-2002, Sosa hit 292 homers. And he is the only player in major league history to have three sea­ sons of at least 60 homers. Then there is the other side. There was his use of a corked bat during a game in 2003 and subse­ quent suspension. If some Cubs fans forgave that, they turned on him the following season when his numbers began to decline. Slowed by a sore back brought on by violent a sneezing attack, he batted just .253 and in 126 games finished with 35 homers and 80 RBIs in 2004. Boos began to pour down. His quirks — a home run hop, blowing kisses in rapid succession after retuning to the dugout, tap­ ping his heart and racing to right field like a sprinter before each game — grew old to some. And it was no secret that his b(X)m box — that often sent out loud music throughout the club­ house — was not always popular with his teammates. When he skipped out early from the regular-season finale in 2004 and then lashed out at manager Dusty Baker for blaming him for the Cubs' failures, his days in Chicago were soon to be over. Traded to the Orioles, he strug­ gled again last season with his bat and his health, hitting .221 with 14 homers and 45 RBIs. "I thought he'd be playing," said former Orioles manager Lee Mazzilli, adding that there was "no question" Sosa could still contrib­ ute. "I hope he plays. He's a good guy. When you get old, injuries can creep up on you." Sam Perlozzo, who replaced "Obviously Sammy is a very proud guy. It seemed to me if he's going to retire, then he probably doesn't feel like he's going to be as productive as he wants," he said. "For that, you give him credit, a pat on the back. I would have liked to have seen the guy do a little bit better in his last year. He did a lot for the game, and we're going to miss a good player." After turning down a non-guar- anteed offer from the Washington Nationals, Sosa is probably headed to retirement, according to his agent Adam Katz. "I've seen some greats leave the game. You never want to see them leave, and you'd rather see them leave on their terms and leave on top," Baker said Thursday, still not convinced Sosa was through play­ ing. "It's not over with yet. You don't know' if somebody is going to offer Sammy a job here soon or what is going to happen. But Sammy has been one of the great players of the game for a long time and a guy who meant a lot to Chicago and a lot to the g am e... I just hope he gets a job somewhere." So does Mets general manager Omar Minaya, who was responsi­ ble for Sosa signing with the Texas Rangers, his first team. "I hope that's not the case. I hope that he will be given the opportuni­ ty to play," Minaya said Thursday from Port St. Lucie, Fla. "H e's done a lot of great things for baseball." Kerry Wood was a rookie in 1998 when Sosa and McGwire put on their epic home-run duel. "It was fun to be a part of that," Wood said. "Like I always said about Sammy, he came ready to play. No matter what kind of person he was, no matter what people wrote about him, (what) people said about him, he was ready to play for 162 games every day. And I still have yet to see somebody prepare the way he did." Steinbrenner voices annoyance at interruption of spring training Jeter excited about representing USA; Matsui, Rivera out never had a chance to play for my country before." Rivera d idn't want to pitch for Panama because he didn't want to start throwing earlier, prefer­ ring to save his arm strength for the season. Several New York stars w on't be participating in the 16-team to u rn am en t. C a tch er Jo rg e Posada decided not to push the issue after the Yankees said they'd prefer he not play for P u erto Rico. C loser M ariano R ivera and outfielder H ideki M atsui said they w eren't inter­ ested , and second b asem an R obinson C ano and p itch er C h ien-M ing Wang have said they don't w ant to play. "Sure, there will be some more back out, whether it's our players or som ebody else's," Steinbrenner said. "I'm used to spring train­ ing being to concentrate on the World Series, and that's what we like to see our players do. But we don't tell them not to play." Steinbrenner was sitting in a golf cart as he answered ques­ tions, and the 75-year-old ow ner kept trying to drive aw ay as reporters and camera men sur­ rounded him. "D o n 't let me run over you ," Steinbrenner said to the group. Earlier in the day at the Yankees m inor league com plex, Jeter said Steinbrenner never talked to him about the WBC and that "it's going to be kind of awkw ard, I think, wearing a different uni­ form ." "I think it will be fun. I'm look­ ing forward to it," Jeter said. "I By Ronald Blum The Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. — G eorge Steinbrenner began spring train­ ing in classic Boss style, saying he was disappointed some of his New York Yankees stars will be leaving cam p for the first World Baseball Classic. Stein brenner w as met by lunch at reporters after his Legends Field on Thursday, the team 's reporting date for pitch­ ers and catchers. He gave brief responses to questions, talking about the Yankees and the WBC. Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez and Johnny Dam on are on the U.S. roster, and Bem ie Williams is on Puerto R ico's preliminary roster. b aseb all the World Cup ow n ers W hen approved in A ugust 2004 at the urging of baseball com m issioner Bud Selig, the Yankees abstained. "W e d on't like it that w ell," Steinbrenner said. "If a player gets hurt, he's risking a lot. But it w as Selig's idea, and he wants to do it, so I suppose we're going to do it." "The clubs voted overw helm ­ ingly infavorof the World Baseball C lassic," baseball spokesm an Rich Levin said. "It also has the full support of our partners, the M ajor League Baseball Players Association and the International Baseball Federation. The Clubs, the MLBPA and the IBAF all real­ ize that the goal of the tourna­ m ent — to grow the game and to increase interest in the sport worldw ide — is in the long-term best interests of the gam e." S tein bren n er b riefly addressed the Yankees' prospects for the season. also "It's going to be a good spring. I'm feeling very good about the team ," he said. "I think w e'll be good. I think w e've got good pitching, good balance in pitch­ ing, good balance on the team ." Despite winning eight straight AL East titles, the Yankees haven't won the World Series since 2000. Steinbrenner w as asked whether he was im patient for another ring. "Yes, very im patient," he said, adding, "G et out of my way." America's Seth Wescott, right, and France's Paul-Henri Delerue fight for the lead in the semifinals of the Men's Snowboard Cross Thursday. Wescott took the gold, and Delerue took the bronze in the finals. Joshua Gunter | The Associated Press U.S.A. takes home the gold in snowboardcross Olympic debut Wescott dodges near accident, wins VASCAR on ice’ "H is nose caught my tail, and I w as down before you knew it," Neilson said as he limped away from the course. "Th at's the beauty of it." pelvis on the way. In the final, he took the lead from Zidek first by avoiding him on a jump, then picking up speed on the high line of the course and zipping below him after a hard right turn. He led the rest of the way and beat Zidek to the finish line by about half a board. "I alm ost landed on Rado," Wescott said. "I had a bunch of speed com ing into that hip jump. I was a little worried in the air that that might be the end of the "I think for a lot of people who just see snowboarding in the halfpipe, they might not see all the intricacies of it. But with this, they love the racing aspect and for all of us, it's one of the things that makes it so exciting to do. I think that translates to the viewing public, too." Seth Wescott, snowboardcross medalist race right there. I was looking down on him, and I w asn't sure exactly where the trajectory was going to put m e." at W escott added this to his w in last y e a r's World C ham pionships, one that set him up as one of the riders to beat in the Turin Games. His career began w ith m ediocre results in the halfpipe, then a switch to racing. He learned in 2003 that snow boardcross — also known as boardercross — would become an Olym pic sport. "A fter that, it was less a ques­ tion of whether I would make the team and more a m atter of what I would accom plish," he said. This gold medal was anything but preordained. Nothing is in this sport, as Drew Neilson of Canada can attest. five A bout second s had elapsed before N eilson was involved in the first wreck of the day. The fastest qualifier in the tame morning runs, Neilson got tripped up by Polish com petitor Rafal Skarbek-M alczew ski, who slipped and slammed into the netting. Neilson bounded down the course, hurting his back and It's a sport that can even turn good friends into com batants, as happened betw een Am ericans Nate Holland and Jason Smith. Racing in a tight, four-man pack against Smith in the quar­ terfinals, Holland took huge air on a jump about one-third of the way down the course — so high that his board could plainly be seen wiggling back and forth in the air. Holland landed on his back­ side. He thinks he found him self in the jum ble because Smith had slowed dow n in front of him. "I don't know w hat he's doing speed-checking in the course on an O lym pic game day," Holland said. Smith's response: That's racin.' "T h ere 's definitely alw ays contact in the sport," he said. "I didn't realize it w as him right there. There was definitely no intentional contact off that jump. That's boardercross. That's why a lot of people come out here to watch it." Smith finished sixth after con­ solation heats, and Holland came in 14th. The fourth Am erican, late substitute Graham Watanabe, wound up 31st. The biggest wipeout of the day came in a semifinal near the top of the hill when Spain's Jordi Font appeared to lose his bal­ ance, reached out and swiped at Canada's Jasey Jay Anderson. They slammed into the gate, then gathered them selves up and continued down the hill. Anderson beat Font easily for second, w hich w ould have earned him the spot in the finals, but he w as disqualified for not inside the keeping his board gate. A nderson protested, but a video review showed no con­ clusive evidence to overturn the call and Font, w hose crash took him past the correct side o f the gate, advanced. "That's boardercross," Anderson said. W estcott's m edal w as the fifth of these Olym pics for the Am ericans in snow board ing, which figures to take another step forward in popularity. In fact, at about the tim e Wescott wpn, halfpipe cham pion H annah Teter and silver m edal­ ist Gretehen Bleiler w ere on their w ay to Florida to serve as start­ ers for Sunday's Daytona 500, the biggest event on N A SC A R's schedule. Given the w ay he m oved around in traffic, surely W escott would fit in there, too. By Eddie Pells The Associated Press B A R D O N E C C H IA , Italy — Suspended in midair, Seth W escott's biggest w orry was making sure he didn't land on top of his opponent and crush him. Not exactly a typical Olym pic moment. Then again, snowboardcross isn't a typical Olym pic sport. tight The Am erican racer missed Slovakia's Radoslav Zidek on landing Thursday, that then passed him for the win in the O lym pic debut of the wild sport of snowboardcross. For that, W escott earned a gold medal. Everyone else got warm com presses and aspirin. "To have a great race like that in the finals, I think it just makes the sport look good," Wescott said. There was bumping, thrash­ ing, wipeouts and worse during the 90-m inutes of NASCAR on Ice, a series of four-man races down the mountain with every­ one vying for space on the tight, high-banked, 1,000-yard course. The women take their turn Friday, with A m erica's biggest snow boardcross star and lone entrant, L ind sey Jacobellis, among the favorites. In final the m en 's race, W escott's winning move stood out for its pure finesse — a sly slip past Zidek with time run­ ning out. Paul-Henri Delerue of France won bronze. "I was screaming the entire tim e," said U.S. coach Peter Foley, who called it the best day of snow boardcross he's ever seen. Wescott would surely agree. The 29-year-old capped a decade-long quest to become an Olym pic medalist, one that took him through the halfpipe and across the rough-and-tum­ ble courses of snowboardcross, his sport's more violent _ and maybe more exciting — cousin. 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Fun atmos­ phere, will train. M-F afternoons C all linda 478-5424 YM CA o f Greater W illiamson County T The Y M C A Sum m er D ay C am p 2006 now hiring E n rich m en t In stru cto rs with e x p e ri­ ence a n d /o r q u a lific a ­ tion s for the follow in g: Paintball, H ip H op D ance, Theatre, Sailin g, Science, Culinary, Jo u r­ nal ism / Photography, G eneral C am p C ou n sel­ ors, A rts and C rafts. Certification Required for Waterfront Staff (Lifeguards and Swim Instructors), High Ropes Staff, Archery and Riflery Instructors. Individuals must be able to work from 7:00 am to 6:30 pm , various shifts. These are Tem porary positions; C am p dates are M ay 30th thru A ugust 1 1 th. T raining will begin in M arch and April. Rate o f pay varies between $7.50 thru $10.00. Benefits include free individual facility' membership and tuition reimbursement program . Apply to: Y M C A , P O Box 819, Round R ock , T X 78680. 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' ± i jm|| d JMftP Complete j o IS MWk ft l i / J n ttoe grid so • I I ® ftftP H P * C l P f tfeat « W f i i f r a n I b ra c r a ta ir a e ra re jj- d ji Young Arthur W \d * * / , i ^ t 5dution bo February 16‘s Puzzle 6B I JI'T '.& .U í IN LONG AND SNOWY kOAO D ocum entaries at festival range from dramas to lighter works By Bhargav Katikaneni Daily Texan Staff From a slick documentary on Junior, the W endy's cashier, to one about the history of LSD, the qual­ ity of films being shown at the McGuffin Film festival are increas- ing in its third year of existence. "Last vear it was all movies with kids. This year it's all about -ex and violence," jokes festival director and radio-television-film senior T.J. McGraw. The festival, which opens at 8 p.m. tonight at the Texas Union, was founded in 2004 by UT stu­ dents to show off undergraduate >hort films. Since then, it has slow­ ly been embraced by UT graduate -tudents and others outside the University community. Some of the films to be shown include seri­ ous dramas about war ("Hope's W ar") and religion ("The Faith of Joey R ail") as well as lighter fare showing off animation and a music video. The average film is eight minutes long, and the rare flop is quickly followed up with something better. after Named an Alfred 1 litchcock technique to subtly advance a plot, the M cGuffin Film Festival is slowly becom­ ing a launchpad for U T students. Several films from this year w ill be showcased at other prestigious film festivals including South by Southwest and The Palm Beach International Film Festival. The festival is divided into two categories: a U T undergraduate category and a general category which includes films from U T graduate students and outside submissions. The winner of each category is selected by the audi­ ence and awarded a $500 cash prize. The D aily Texan recently watched all 16 films being shown in this year's festival. Here are three very different entries for this year: "Junior! The Wendy's Guy" (Stephen Stephanian) "It's my seven-year anniver­ sary, and I'm going to try and kick ass," says Junior, a nimble­ fingered Wendy's cashier at the Union. RTF junior Stephanian and his crew follow Junior while he attempts to ring up $1,000 in W endy's sales within half an hour. "Junior!" is the rare documentary that manages to tread the fine line between comic and serious while being sincere at the same time. If Wendy's didn't exist, perhaps Junior might have been a pia­ nist, but he seems to have found his true calling. After McGuffin, Junior w ill be premiering at the South by Southwest 2006 Film Festival in March. "Annoud's Journey" (Javier Bonafont) Leaving slick visuals and fast- paced editing aside, this existen­ tialist film is full of sarcasm and self-hatred. On a quest to make a great film, an actor playing U T alum Bonafont starts to reflect on the trivial nature of his work. Looking around his film set, he comes to realize that a simple brick-layer working across the street has a more important job than he does. "I'm hopeless ... what I do is worthless, but I can't stop myself from doing it," says Bonafont's screen alter-ego in the film. "Come To Daddy" (Roberto Minervini) There are several reasons to see this film, but the main one might be Sean Gullette (who played Max in "P i" ) as an alco­ holic father returning home after a night of hard drinking to abuse his family. The three-minute film from a short film director never moves past this set-up, but inter­ esting visuals and disorienting music turn Gullette's penchant for extreme characters into some­ thing unusual. Shawn Baier walks down Front Street as snow blows off the roofs, in Traverse City, Mich., Thursday. TUNA: Close relationship defines group From page 8B nstage w ith Bethany's micro­ hone. As a reward, the band ave out plastic, red pigs — tro­ llies for the threesome's victory. Ve sang along to "The Rose" as ae band distributed lyric sheets nd cups of birdseed. Their last ong, "Goodbye," finished with ae band's jubilant screams and mbraces for each other. This iptimistic ending showed the close friendship that defines The Tuna Helpers. After the show, I spoke briefly w ith Bethany — who, interesting­ ly, only paid attention to me after I asked "A re you the Baracuda?" — with one question on my mind: W hy "The Tuna Helpers"? "A t first," she responded, "this band was just m y sister and I, onstage with two giant, papier- mache fish holding instruments. We were Adrienne, Bethany, and The Tuna Helpers. That was five years ago." Glad to have that mystery resolved; I thought it was an awe­ some conclusion to an unexpect­ edly fantastic night. The Tuna Helpers have a full length album from 2005 on Web of M im icry records, titled I'll Have What She's Having. They w ill be touring the M idwest this year. Read more at urww.thetunahelpers, org. APPLICATIONS are being accepted for the following student positions with Texas Student Publications 20 06 -2 00 7 Texas Student Television Station M anager 20 06 -2 00 7 K V R X Station M anager 2 006-2007 Texas Travesty Editor Application forms and a a list o f qualifications are available in the Office of the Director, Texas Student Publications, Room C3.304. The T S P Board of Operating Trustees w ill interview applicants and appoint a T S T V Station Manager and Texas Travesty Editor at 3:00 p.m. on M arch 3, 2006 in room 203 of the Campus Club located at 405 W . 25th Street. DEADLINE FOR APPLYING 12:00 P.M., W ED N ESD A Y, FEBR U A RY 22,2006 Please return completed applications and all supporting materials to the Director’s Office. 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YOU THE WORLD'S FAST (1210300)645 940 (415)935 (1250)720 I Í R } - ID REQD DIG TEST INDIAN (PG-13) DtG 1155 310)640 920 MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS (R) - ID REO D DIG (1200 230 500)730 955 TRANSAMERICA(R)-IDREÓ D DtG (1215 240 510) 740 1006 MATCH POINT (R) - ID REQ'D DIG0245 410) 700 945 (1230 BROKEBACK kiolINT AIN (R) - ID HEQ D DIG 400)650 950 <1205 250 520)750 CAPOTE (R) - ID REQ'D DIG SOCIETY: Confidence, mistakes part of act From page 8B and engaging with the audi­ ence. "Being supported by these five people is really great for me," Crouch said. "Wre can do anything." Doing "anything" on stage means a large amount of train­ ing and stage experience. Wade said improv is not as easy as it might seem to the audience. " It requires being accus­ tomed to saying the first thing on your mind, trusting your instincts and, most im portant­ ly, having confidence in your­ self," he said. That confidence has cre­ ated dose bonds between the members of The Polite Society, recently adding former member Caitlin Sweet back into the cast. "Im prov comedy is very male-dominated," said Wade. "The fact that w e have two female members makes our per­ formance very unique." So, as the weekend approach­ es, consider a night with The Polite Society. W ith laughs, goofs and moments of pure spontane­ ity, they deliver a rare comedic treat without singing bad songs — Wayne Brady, you know who you are. "The Polite Sodety Presents..." performs every Saturday at 8 p.m. through the end of February at the Hideout Theater, located at 617 Congress Ave. Tickets are $7 to $10 at the door, or go online at urumipolitesocietypresents.com. 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" I love engaging people in a story and enlightening them with m y work. Their escape into the world of theater is my escape, and no other job or profession could allow me to do this," she says. Morgan agrees w ith the enhancement theater has on life, saying, " I do theater because I feel like it's an amazing w ay to live life even more. You have amaz­ ing situations and imaginatives and whatnot — and you just live more." In his second Shakespearean play after a performance in "M acbeth" last semester, Morgan is tackling a difficult role in forc­ ing his verbal skills to steer away from the colloquial with his per­ formance as Duke Orsino. "You have to use your ability like a Rubik's Cube — twisting it until you solve the puzzle," he says. He explains that in more mod­ em plays the actors don't need to w orry about meter, iambic, rhymed couplets and rhetorical devices. W hen w orrying about these speech issues, it's easy to overlook other key aspects of giv­ ing a performance. "It's trying to make sense of the language, trying to make the language clear. The language is so key in the situations — to bal­ ance between the language and moments is hard," Morgan says. The character of Duke Orsino loves the idea of being in love, wanting what-if thoughts and gut feelings all the time — a very needy personality to portray while solving the speech puzzle. "W e are given a role that the professors think w ill challenge us the most. It is an educational experience for us, to help us solve problems in our own acting," Morgan says. Coming to U T after studying theater and music at the University of Kansas, Morgan hopes to even­ tually be in his professors' shoes someday. After gaining experi­ ence in the professional world, he plans to return for his doctorate and teach theater at the university level. W hile this production is a major learning experience for Garcia and Morgan, the pressure for Jones is slightly different; "Twelfth Night" is his seventh or eighth experience with Shakespeare. To get inside the roots of his character, Jones says that he depicts M alvolio admiring strict discipline, frowning upon any­ thing outside of the norm or status quo. As a pawn between partners playing complex romantic tricks, M alvolio is one of the most popu­ lar and talked-about Shakespeare characters of all time. "Overall, it's been fun," Jones says. "But am I meeting the stan­ dards?" Although Jones studied his­ tory at Washington University, he always kept a foot in the door of the theater department, and after working for two years decided that he needed more training. Unlike Garcia and Morgan, returning to the academic world is not a big priority. After his final showcase in the M FA in Acting program, Jones' goal is to acquire an agent, preferably in New York, and take his professional career forward. Luckily for him, the UT Theatre and Dance department and the State Theatre have created a new partnership. "Twelfth Night" is the first pro­ duction within this new partner­ ship, linking the program to the professional world. Students such as Garcia, Morgan and Jones now have the opportunity of working in productions and with profes­ sionals of a higher caliber in their training program. Directed by Paul M ullins, this first production mixes stu­ dents with professionals such as Steve Shearer, Tom Byrne, Shelby Davenport and Brent Werzner. For Garcia, Morgan and Jones, an Elizabethan romantic comedy is more than simple fun — it's learning a new language, a test in academia and a small look into the professional acting world. Friday, February 17, 2006 L lK K & \H TS 7B Hoffman, Huffman lead Oscar-worthy pack Hoffman headlines tight race, Huffman has little competition By Christopher Rusch Daily Texan Staff While you're setting aside the snacks and beer for another run at the Academy Awards, actress Felicity Huffman and actor Philip Seymour Hoffman are clearing room on their mantels. The Academy Awards are not for another three weeks (March 5, to be exact) and the Best A ctor/ Actress nominations include fresh names such as Reese Witherspoon and Heath Ledger. But it can get confusing telling apart two actors with very similar names. Do not let such things scare you. Huffman's a woman, H offm an's a dude, and together, they've nabbed this year's finest performances in lead roles. If the Academy follows tra­ dition, Hoffman and Huffman can already start writing their accep­ tance speeches. Not to say that the stars of criti­ cally-acclaimed "Transam erica" and “Capote" are among a band of Oscar amateurs, but the pair's performances this year could not come at a better time. Huffman had the performance of her life in last year's "Transamerica," play­ ing Bree, a transsexual male ready for the final operation (a snip here, another snip there) to give him womanhood — that is, until he dis­ covers he has a son living in New York. Huffman truly falls into the screenplay, written by first-time director Duncan Tucker. Huffman abandons all traces of her femi­ ninity as Bree disguises himself in drag and takes his unsuspect­ 3I * ing son across to the country their resolve lives. Not the typical O scar­ worthy film, but Huffman deliv­ ers the goods. 7 1 actress Felicity Huffman, Oscar-nominated The Academy has rewarded brave su ch p e r f o r m a n c e s before. In 2000, Hilary Swank won the Best Actress Award for "Boys Don't in which she portrayed Cry," the life and tragic murder of a Nebraskan woman caught pos­ ing as a man. Charlize Theron also won a Best Actress Oscar when she played the role of mur­ dering prostitute Aileen Wuomos in 2003's "M onster." This year, Huffman has earned her nomina­ tion, dropping the tight smiles and mid-wife antics of her character "Lynette" on ABC's "Desperate Housew ives," for the hushed- nuances of a woman trapped in a man's body. What about Hoffman? He has been busy the last 10 years put­ ting out nothing but stellar perfor­ mances, hitting big in 1997 with P.T. Anderson's "Boogie Nights." Anderson loved him and has cast Hoffman in every following film, including "M agnolia" and "Punch- Drunk Love." He's played the capricious pom film worker in "Boogie N ights," the dignified and honorable servant in "The Big Lebowski," the sickly and pervert­ ed door-salesman in "Happiness," and the funniest mattress dealer ever to grace the screen in "Punch- Drunk Love." W hat's left to do? How about getting an Oscar. The guy has never been nominated for a supporting role, something many consider a trag­ edy. Remember Paul Giam atti in "Sidew ays"? Hoffm an's like that guy, except now he's break­ ing out of the supporting role. This Hoffman year, Philip Seymor took Hoffman lead in Oscar-nominated the "Capote," a film actQr biopic about one of the most famed true-crime writ­ ers of the last century, Truman Capote, and the man he befriends on death row, later depicting the events in his book, "In Cold Blood." With subtle flair contrast­ ed with capricious flamboyancy, Hoffman nailed the title-character and sealed a nomination. But what about the competition? Whereas Huffman only has to deal with from Witherspoon ("Walk the Line") for the Best Actress award, Hoffman has com petition Joaquin Phoenix ("W alk the Line") and Ledger ("Brokeback Mountain"), in lead roles up for Best both Actor. "C apote" and "Brokeback" are also both up for Best Picture. Regardless, the Academy has a history of rewarding consistent brilliance, (unless your name is Martin Scorsese), and Ledger and Phoenix are not going anywhere. Hoffman's going home with the gold. So remember to tune in to the Academy Awards in a few weeks. Jon Stewart's going to host, some people are going to cry on stage and two performers will finally get their just desserts. Huffman will return to "Desperate Housewives" as a champion, and Hoffman will be known for more than just the cool guy in "The Big Lebowski." Ralph Fiennes, as blind diplom at Jackon, stars in "The White Countess." Courtesy of Sony Pictures Funk band Brownout! highlights Latin influence Group says energy makes live act enjoyable By Thom as Fawcett Daily Texan Staff The backup band for James Brown, the J.B.'s, is known for playing the tightest funk around and having one of the best hom sections ever assembled. Fitting then that the Austin band Brownout! likens itself to the J.B.'s with a Latin twist. Brownout! is known to turn a party out with old school Latin funk fueled by what the 2005 Austin Music Awards dubbed the city's "Best Hom Section." The Daily Texan chatted with Brownout! guitarist Adrian Quesada, 28, about the band, their new 45" vinyl record out on Freestyle Records and why you should check out the show Friday. D T : How long has Brownout! been together? AQ: The band has been together two years. It's a side project of another band, and w e've just been putting more effort into it lately. Grupo Fantasma is the mothership band. DT: W hy was it important to have Brownout! as a separate band — a separate identity — from Grupo Fantasma? AQ: Originally, we all played in a funk band; we would play funk music at parties. As Grupo Fantasma became bigger, Brownout! became a way to play the music we used to play. Also, it helped being able to play in Austin without burning out the name Grupo Fantasma. Playing with Brownout! one night and Grupo Fantasma the next, or vice versa, makes it more fun. DT: How would you describe your sound for someone not familiar with Latin funk? AQ: It's funk music with a slight Latin influence. If you make it any more Latin it becomes Latin music; it becomes Grupo Fantasma. It definitely leans more towards funk with Latin undertones. A lot of the percussion is traditional Latin rhythms. DT: How did you hook up with Freestyle Records? A Q I had another project called Ocote Soul Sound. We got in touch with Freestyle Records because they booked us some clubs in the U.K., and they put out an Ocote Soul Sound record. They do a lot of experi­ mental Afro-Latin music. It's nice to have a label with that kind of name behind you. I know a lot of DJs who say if it's on Freestyle Records they'll pick it up without asking any questions. They know that Freestyle doesn't put out any bad records. D T: You and groups like El Michels Affair, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra and Budos Band are taking funk music and fusing it with afrobeat and Latin elements. Do you see yourself as part of a movement? AQ: Those guys are our friends but I wouldn't call it a movement. It's more of a collective conscious­ ness of people. People have been playing this music for awhile and people are just now starting to take notice. We're proud to be part of a group of people trying to keep that music alive. But we don't delve into afrobeat. We love the music but leave that to the true afrobeat-heads. D T: W hat's the difference betw een seeing Brownout! live and listening to a Brownout! record? AQ: The energy. Also, Brownout! only has a few tracks recorded, so you'll hear the whole gamut of Brownout! tracks at a live show. We play some covers, a lot of J.B.'s songs. It's a band we put together for fun. You'll hear a lot of straight up funk, some afro-Latin stuff and stuff that goes way into the Latin sound. DT: You mentioned the J.B.'s. Who are your other influences? AQ: The J.B.'s for sure. There's also the whole Fania label, that's been huge. They put out every­ thing from Latin funk to hardcore salsa. Other groups like Irakere have been a huge influence. Of course we modeled ourselves after the J.B.'s but with a Latin twist. DT: W hat's the biggest reason people should come to the show on Friday? AQ: Good question. I'd say to come out, forget all your troubles and just dance. Brownout! will play at Positively East Fourth Street (1300 E. Fourth Street, next to the Red Scoot Inn) with Ghandaia and the Flying Club. Tickets at the door cost $5 before 10 p.m. and $7 after 10 p.m. ‘Freedomland’ key performers over-act By Jocelyn Ehnstrom Daily Texan Staff for the new Previews film 'Freedom land" have becom e increasingly vague as its release date has grown closer. The reason for the film 's ambiguity could be that director Joe Roth (whose past credits include 2004's horrible Christmas with the Kranks"), has directed an intricate psychological thriller and specific details in the trailer would ruin m oviegoer's experience. However because the film 's plot (based on a novel by Richard Price) has been rehashed more than a Berkeley student's pipe, it's easier to believe the studio is banking on the public attending first day screenings out of curios­ ity rather than actual interest. The film takes place in the cul­ turally divided and fictional cit­ ies Dempsey and Gannon, N.J. Brenda M artin's 4-year-old son is kidnapped by car-jackers after she's caught in the projects after dark. Detective Lorenzo Council, played by Samuel L. Jackson, is put on the case and, in a plot line taken from actual news headlines, an African-American man soon becomes the police's scapegoat. The social satire created from the division of race in the two cities is the main source for the movies little depth. However, the communities' upheaval is such a choreographed parody it makes the anger brought on from racial profiling seem absurd and almost comical. It's the type of broad satire one would see in a Romero film, but what can be passed as social commentary in a movie where zombie's are eating people, becomes too ridiculous try­ ing to combine metaphor with real­ ity in present day New Jersey. There are some touching themes springing from the idea of a par­ ent's love, and the more overused, bond formed while people deal with difficult situations. Yet these superficial ideas are not enough to combat the fact that Julianne Moore and Jackson over-act to within an inch of their characters' lives. Moore can only be described as near-autistic for much of the film, annoyingly whim pering to whoever will listen that she misses her son, rather than show­ ing us. Jackson has mastered the art of falsifying intensity so eas­ ily, it's as if he has an o n /o ff switch. The beating of desks and demanding of names has become so rout for him, that he seems more interested in his characters' props then in the actual story line. The scenes where these two are together are so unbearable that if it weren't for a few hilarious one- liners when Jackson gets himself really worked up, and an unbe­ lievable monologue delivered by Edie Falco (The Sopranos) in a brief supporting role, the entire movie would be disposable. Julianne Moore and Samuel L. Jackson star in Revolution Studios' powerful drama Freedomland, a Colum bia Pictures release. Frank M asi Associated Press Commendable acting overshadowed by shoddy ‘Countess’ story line Fiennes, Richardson give solid, dramatic performances By Jesse Gall Daily Texan Staff "The White C ountess" is a small film with big dreams, but unfortunately, due to its shoddy plot and what-should-I-care- about factor, they will remain as just that: dreams. Veteran director James Ivory's film "The White Countess" is set in late 1930s Shanghai. The film follows a blind diplomat (Ralph Fiennes) who decides to give it all up to create his own nightclub in a era of political combustibility He meets an ex-Russian countess (Natasha Richardson) and hires her as the club's "centerpiece." Past that point, the movie goes in so many directions it's impossible to summarize. Technically, the film is stunning. The score is able to render sensi­ tivity as well as escalate the more dramatic moments. Ivory's direc­ tion provides for some really beau­ tiful visual shots, and the dialogue is natural. Fiennes delivers an intriguingly subtle performance as a blind maxi with a haunted past. His ever-versatile face shows the internalized moments of a man who is earnestly trying to rebuild his life. Richardson, while not as a solid, is still commendable. Because she earns the income for her entire family, Richardson's character must both be strong and uncon­ ditionally exhausted; Richardson succeeds, most of the time. It's odd to say that her character is simply too happy, but it's the truth. She lacks presence in the quieter moments but shines in the truly expressive ones. Despite the well-executed nature of the smaller parts, "The White Countess" still lacks enough vibrancy to make it a great movie. As one can discern, the film's flaws don't come in its acting, directing, dialogue or artistic elements, but in its story. It seems as though "Countess" has no real motivation for where it is headed. Providing a melting pot of primary plots from cultural clashes to the success of the club, to unsuspected romance, to the political tension in China pre-World War II, the audience is left with too many cooks in the kitchen to notice the food. The result: We don't care about anything. Because it doesn't nar­ row the sympathetic elements of the plot down to one specific direction, we are left feeling like each attempt was merely cheap manipulation, rather than cin­ ematic honesty. There is simply too much going on. Overall, "The White Countess" is a film where the individual parts have better quality than the whole. It is the best film I will never care about. Ben’s offers variety of meaty barbeque meals Menu includes traditional fare, sandwiches, dessert By Daniel Carter Daily Texan Staff I have $12 a week to cover both my meal tab and my salary for writing these reviews, so parting with most of that at the end of the serving line at Ben's Long Branch BBQ was painful. But the pork ribs went a long way toward getting me over that pain, and the cole slaw did the rest. There's noth­ ing fancy about the place — it's just a little white building one block east of Interstate Highway 35. A patio overlooking Branch Street promises good times once the weather warms up, and inside are just a few tables, a TV tuned to the sci-fi channel and some African-American history month shirts for sale. The food is served cafeteria-style, with Ben Wash, the owner, cutting and serving the meat. But everything's clean, and the customers are pretty focused on eating the food, which Ben pulls out of big metal warmers and cuts for you when you order. The mixed plate ($8.49) comes with two meats — sausage, beef, ribs, chicken, mutton, and pork butt are the choices — and two sides — green beans, potato salad, cole slaw, and pinto beans. Mutton is traditionally a high fat meat, and the small mountain on my plate — my two pork ribs were hidden beneath it — was no exception. Ben whacks the meat a few times with his cleaver to start you on your hunt through the fat and unidentifiable gray stuff for the scattered pockets of mutton. I ended up putting about half of mine aside as inedible and wiping the delicious, shiny fat off my hands with the white bread, but there are napkins too. And once you've found it, the meat's smoky and moist, but a bit bland, a problem ribs don't have. Ben's ribs are meaty, and while the dry rub cov­ ering them works well alone, the barbecue sauce — not too sweet, not too much tomato — is a great addition. It won't overpower the taste of the meat and is good incentive to suck that last bit of meat off the tip of the bone. Cole slaw — with plenty of carrot and vinegar — pinto beans, white bread, and mounds of free pickles and onions round out the meal. That's unless you find room in your stomach and head back to the counter for dessert. I ordered the banana pudding as a test. I don't especially like pudding, and 1 pretty much hate bananas. But Ben's version is creamier than others I've tried; it tastes more like vanilla than banana, and the cook­ ies aren't soggy. A small serving ($1.29) isn't much and surprisingly, I was sad to see it gone. But Ben won't give out the recipe, so don't ask. Sandwiches range in price from $2.49 to $4.29, and plates go from $5.50 for mutton to $7.99 for the ribs, with chicken, beef, sausage and pork butt in between. Wednesday is soul food day, with chicken and dumplings, smothered pork chops, meat loaf and oxtail on the menu. On Sundays Ben's is all you can eat for $12.95. 900 E. 11th Street Austin, TX 78702 Phone: 477-2516 / Fax 477-7760 8B Friday, February 17, 2006 w ww .dailytexanonline.com Life & Arts Editor: Ashley Eldridge Features Editor: Ruth Liao Entertainment Editor: Scotty Loewen E-mail: lifeandarts@dailytexanonline.com Phone: (512) 232-2209 £Polite Society5 plays on the spot T h e D a i i /v T e x a x The Polite Society performs their im prov act every Saturday in February at the Hideout on Congress Ave. The troupe first formed in Septem ber 2004 after w orking together in a Plan II im prov group Jessica Talley | Daily Texan Staff Improv group depends on members’ personalities to create complex, dynamic storytelling By Chris Rusch Daily Texan Staff theater, performers must work within the bounds of a predefined world where words, actions and even emotions stem from the mind of another. For the layman, all is fine, yet for the performer with an imagination, this can be terribly limiting. Consider the world of The Polite Society, an improvisational comedy troupe that per­ forms each Saturday at the Hideout Theater. The troupe is composed of six current and former UT students: Andy Crouch, Michael Ferstenfeld, Caitlin Sweet, Kan Yan, Sean O'Brien and Kendle Wade, who each bring their unique personalities to the stage. If you haven't heard of improvisational come­ dy, it's unlike anything you've witnessed before. Forget one-liners and zingers, improv has less to do with timing and more to do with reacting. "Watching people try to deal with what's thrown at them on stage is the most enter­ taining part," said Festenfeld. "We're free to explore any ideas that pop up." Don't think all improv is the same. A per­ formance by The Polite Society is nothing like the TV show "Whose Line Is It, Anyway?" Whereas "Whose Line" uses a "short form" of improvisation, in which performers involve audience members in games and short scenes, The Polite Society works more with "long form," dynamically creating plots and char­ acters that are played-out and woven into complex stories. "It's really about storytelling," Ferstenfeld said. "We rely on our personalities to play out in front of the audience. Nothing is too weird or crazy." The audience also plays a big role in how a show turns out. "If the audience doesn't want to play along, it can be hard to goof around or use mistakes for laughs," Wade said. "But when an audience is involved, you can make it fun if you mess up. No matter what, you can't be afraid of failure." The troupe formed in September 2004 after working in the Plan II improv-comedy group Ed 32. There, they connected with Crouch, a former UT student and stage manager at the Hideout Theater. They began performing their show, titled "The Polite Society Presents..." as a way to shrink down the large casts of UT productions into something more personal SOCIETY continues on page 6B Shakespeare puts fine arts students to test By Nicole Taylor Daily Texan Staff For theater graduate students Yesenia Garcia, Colum Morgan and Corey Jones, delivering an Elizabethan romantic comedy in Shakespearean tongue is an exciting yet demanding task. And, for the record, their pro­ fessors have grade books in hand. Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" is a festive story that begins with separated twins and transforms into mistaken identities within a love trian­ gle: three couples finding their way to hopeful, happy end­ ings. For these three students, "Twelfth Night" is an integral part of their three-year journey within the Masters of Fine Arts in Acting program. "Twelfth Night" opens tonight at the State Theatre and will be show­ ing through March 6. Garcia says that sharing school from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and rehearsals from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. with the same people every day creates immense intensity. She explains that the MFA program only accepts a class of 12 to 16 students every three years, with "Twelfth Night" as only one step in a series of American real­ ism, Shakespeare, Restoration, comedy and technique work. Other than a recent role of a witch in "Macbeth," Garcia has little experience with Shakespeare and considers her performance as Viola a test and process of self-discovery, mak­ ing the language fit her mouth and her body. "This is a big stretch for me, lan­ because Shakespeare's guage is so fluid and verbose — it's not vernacular — it's completely foreign. You have to invest in what you are saying, really believe it, and find the vulnerability and truth in what you are saying," Garcia says. Although Viola is not a cari­ cature, Garcia sees her role as a daunting task, portraying a vulnerable, love-struck, famed heroine. Trying to survive in a foreign country, Viola cross- dresses as a male page, secretly falling in love with the duke she is serving. To prepare for the role, Garcia even chopped six inches off her hair and dyed it black to match her character's twin Sebastian's locks. "It's a really juicy role. It's fun. and scary, too. There are days of self-doubt — but you trust yourself at the end of the day," Garcia says. "It's a test, and I'm ready for it." NIGHT continues on page 6B FRIDAY I l l / C Week[ylocaIl i v e L I V C mus*c round-up ‘The Tuna Helpers’ involve audience in live performance By Ryan Jones Daily Texan Staff As I understand it, punk rock has always been about a very specific attitude: Reject the estab­ lishment. So, one way to honor thy punk ethos in the month of February would be forgetting about the 14th, a day any punk could easily learn to hate. Chi the night of Feb. 10, that's just what Room 710 did — sort of. Instead of tossing the holiday of love aside, the club enacted it four days early. I arrived at Room 710's sixth annual Valentine's Day Spectacular, and was struck by the club's decor and its denizens — red and white abounding not only in clothing, but in stream­ ers, candles, heart-shaped treats and "I love you" balloons. The upstairs room of the club was designated a make-out room. One in every 10 ladies wore a red dress, confounding my search for the lead singer of headliners The Tuna Helpers after I was told she was also wearing one. these Opening performers of the night ranged from the majestic post-rock of Cue, to the absurd, dance performance art of groups such as Crizayzay and Karin latter and Erica. From acts, everyone got a clear sense that this was a night celebrat­ ing lesbianism, another counter­ point to Valentine's Day tradi­ tion. Emphasis was on theatrical spectacle. Crizayzay, two women in dunce hats, trash bags and eccentric thrift-store costuming, emerged from behind two giant signs reading "Trash Pile" and "Blood Pile" in a flurry of con­ fetti and fake blood, dancing to an otherworldly megamix, rip­ ping used books and ending in a tangled, odd embrace. Karin and Erica satirized sexual intercourse, sarcastically stretching to "Let's Get Physical." The only thing that might trump these acts, it seems, would be some legitimate musicianship — and thus arrived The Tuna Helpers. Members Adrienne the Anemone, her sister Bethany the Baracuda, and Khattie the Catfish donned the night's best outfits: Adrienne in a silver, glam-rock dress and snake-print stockings; Bethany in a vintage dress and roses in her hair; and Khattie in a red work-shirt outfit with a large button reading "Lew." Adrienne, with an impressive operatic qual­ ity in her voice, took swigs of water from a comically oversized baby bottle. Their songs remind­ ed me of Siouxie Sioux and the Banshees. They were joined by a middle-aged man in a diaper playing trombone, topping the night's sexual tensions. More than any live act I've seen, The Tuna Helpers involved the audience in the performance. At first, the extent of involvement was call-and-response crowd yells, as we repeated "poo" after Adrienne. Later, I was recruited for one song, "Make Out," to wear a mask and judge couples in the audience as they kissed — I personally selected a three­ some kiss, and voiced my choice TUNA continues on page 6B TheTuna Helpers perform live at Room 710 in d ow ntow n Austin on Friday Feb. 10. This particular Tuna Helpers performance w as par.t of their sixth annual Valentine's Day show. Joey Castillo | Daily Texan Staff Fiennes shines in ‘White Countess’ D A T C £ Q rAvjfc b o PA6E 7B McGuffin showcases UT talent Over-acting plagues ‘Freedomland’