After years of heated debate over the use of tobacco on campus, UT announced Wednesday it will pro- hibit the use of tobacco products on all University property effective this month. The UT Board of Regents approved the new tobacco policy on Monday, making UT the fourth institution un- der the UT System to implement a ban. University spokeswoman Adri- enne Howarth-Moore said people will be able to use tobacco in the 15 tem- porary designated areas on campus during the first year of implementa- tion but will be required to adhere to the policy by Feb. 28, 2013. The poli- cy prohibits the use of tobacco prod- ucts on University-owned sidewalks, parking areas, walkways, attached parking structures and buildings. To- bacco will only be allowed at the tem- porary designated tobacco areas, and for educational or clinical purpos- es, fine arts productions, sponsored Final exams and the accompanying stress are fast approaching, but cam- pus organizations are here to help. Students gathered at West Mall yesterday for the 15th annual Stress- Fest, to discover new and effective ways to relieve stress. Sponsored by the UT Parents’ Association and Uni- versity Federal Credit Union, Stress- Fest was hosted by the UT Counsel- ing and Mental Health Center and featured organizations from across campus and beyond who exposed students to healthy ways of managing stress, CMHC associate director Dr. Jane Morgan Bost said. Clinical laboratory science junior Huy Doan sipped on a slush from Jim-Jim’s Italian Water Ice, which handed out free water ice slushes, a healthier alternative to snow cones at the event. Doan said he is stressed about trying to maintain his GPA and trying to succeed in his classes and felt refreshed by the festival. Business freshman Alexandra Ar- zuaga visited the CMHC acupunc- ture station and said she has never done acupuncture before but was ex- cited to try it. “I’m stressed about finals,” Ar- zuaga said. “I feel like this event is a great way to get our minds off of school for a bit and to learn new ways to take care of your body when you get stressed.” Staff psychologist and outreach co- ordinator Dr. Laura Ebady was this year’s StressFest coordinator and said the event had the biggest turnout she has ever seen with an estimated 2,500 attendees. “During this time of year, es- pecially before finals, we want to help students discover the different A procession followed the funeral of fallen Austin senior police officer Jaime Padron yesterday. Approximately 5,000 officers from across the state attended the funeral, with two Chicago policemen attend- ing as well. The estimated 24-mile procession started at Shoreline Church in North- west Austin, where Padron’s funer- al took place. Padron will be buried in San Angelo tomorrow. Close to 600 police cars and mo- torcycles from across the state par- ticipated in the procession to pay their respects to Padron, according to Cpl. Wut Tantaksinanukij. Tantaksinanukij said the entire public safety family from across the state attended the procession to pay their respects. A long line of police motorcycles followed by several police cars began the procession. Drivers and passers- by who saw the procession pulled over near the MLK bridge crossing over In- terstate Highway 35 to pay their re- spects. Numerous police officers, state troopers, firefighters and EMS also watched from the bridge as the pro- cession passed with their salutes up in respect to the fallen officer. When the procession passed by the Walmart where Padron was killed, employees lined the streets in silence. “Padron’s family had no idea what to expect,” Tantaksinanukij said. “They were amazed with the out- pouring of support from both the Austin Police Department and the Austin community. The Padron family should know that APD will always be there for them.” Padron was shot and killed during a confrontation on Friday morning after responding to an intoxicated person call at a North Austin Wal- mart. The supsect, Brandon Mont- gomery Daniel, age 24, is currently in jail facing a charge of capital mur- der, according to the APD. — Alexandra KlimaThe UT System Board of Re- gents will not set tuition rates for the next two academic years at Thursday’s special called meet- ing, contrary to the expectations of University administrators. If the Regents decide on tuition af- ter April, it will be the latest they have set the tuition rates since 2004. The delay will affect registration, Univer- sity initiatives and preparation of the University budget. UT System spokes- man Anthony de Bruyn said the main reason tuition will not be discussed at the special meeting is “just because it wasn’t posted on the April agenda” by the Regents. Mary Knight, associate vice presi- dent and budget director for the Uni- versity, said the UT System had previ- ously notified University administra- tors that tuition would be discussed at today’s meeting, but were told other- wise at a budget meeting on Monday. In 2003, tuition deregulation shift- ed tuition setting power from the state legislature to the board of regents for each state institution. On Dec. 15, President William Powers Jr. recom- mended the largest tuition increase the UT System will allow. The UT System gave directives that any recommendation to increase tu- ition must be tied to improving four- year graduation rates. Knight said some of the initiatives might be de- layed if the budget must take increased funds into account. The main initia- tives include hiring more faculty to provide additional course sections, ex- panding career services and improv- ing academic advising. Knight said another problem with the delay is that registration for the summer and the fall semesters begins on Monday. “We need to be able to tell the stu- dents something by Monday,” Knight said. “We’re trying to work through that now.” Former UT System spokesman 1The Daily TexanServing the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900Thursday, April 12, 2012>> Breaking news, blogs and more: www.dailytexanonline.com@thedailytexanfacebook.com/dailytexanWhitehead, Chen continue to dominate, outlast Hilltoppers to record winLIFE&ARTS PAGE 12Artists take advantage of recycled materials, make sustainable art objectsSPORTS PAGE 7CalendarToday in historyPCL spring plant sale Plants grown by UT Libraries staff are for sale, with proceeds donated to the Sustainable Food Center. The sale will be on the PCL plaza from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. ‘Hot Coffee’Seinfeld mocked it. Letterman ranked it in his Top 10 list. Everyone knows the McDonald’s coffee case. “Hot Coffee” reveals what really happened to Stella Liebeck, the Albuquerque woman who spilled coffee on herself and sued McDonald’s. The screening starts at 5:30 p.m. in the Francis Auditorium 2.114 and is open to everyone. Brown bag lunchAttend a brown bag lunch with performance artist Nao Bustamante, who will dicuss her latest project. Light refreshments will be served. The event begins at Noon in the SAC 1.118 and is open to the entire campus. In 1861The start of what would come to be known as the bloodiest four years in American history begun, the Civil War. ’80s sing-alongEver wish you could relive or experience what made the ’80s so great? Well the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz is hosting their ’80s movie anthem sing-along, which is comprised of back- to-back film clips that best highlight the ’80s. The sing- along starts at 9:45 p.m. with an admission price of $12. TODAY UT approves tobacco ban across campusBy Jody SerranoDaily Texan StaffUT Regents delay setting tuition rates despite plansBy Liz FarmerDaily Texan StaffBastrop State Park opens after fire, floodsStressFest helps students relax before final examsA helicopter drops water onto a blaze in Cedar Creek, Texas on Sept. 5, 2011. Nearby Bastrop State Park recently reopened 80 percent of the 7,000 acre park, which was devestated by the wildfires last September. Thomas Allison Daily Texan File PhotoTexas policemenhonor colleaguewith processionPhotos by Elisabeth Dillon | Daily Texan Staff State troopers and police officers (top) salute the funeral procession (bottom) that took place Wednesday afternoon for fallen Austin senior police officer Jaime Padron. After a devastating fire and dam- aging floods, Bastrop State Park will reopen this weekend. Beginning April 13 the public will have access to almost all of the amenities the park offered before the fire, said park site superinten- dent Roger Dolle. “Firefighters were able to save al- most all of our structures,” he said. “All of our cabins and all of the golf course were saved.” Unfortunately, the area preserved from the fire was just a small part of the park’s total acreage, Dolle said. “Ninety six percent of the park By Sam LieblDaily Texan StaffBASTROP continues on PAGE 2TUITION continues on PAGE 2TOBACCO continues on PAGE 2STRESS continues on PAGE 2By Alexandra KlimaDaily Texan StaffWATCH TStv ON CHANNEL 157-9 a.m. ‘When Roots Attack’Wake up and dub out to the masters of old school reggae, dub, & classic dancehall. 7-8 p.m. ‘Austin Hellenic Radio’Austin Hellenic Radio features the best in Greek music and culture, plus news and interviews from Greece and about the Greek economic situation. On the WebFoodie Alert! Check out our inside look at Brasserie Justine’s, a French restaurant on the East side. research and off-campus graduate housing facilities. The University’s previous poli- cy only prohibited smoking with- in buildings and required people to smoke 20 feet away building en- trances. Howarth-Moore said side- walks adjacent to UT property, such as the sidewalks on Guadal- upe Street, will not be included in the ban. The ban will also exclude sidewalks and property on Guadal- upe Street, Dean Keeton Street, Red River Street and Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard. She said the University will be re- moving ashtrays surrounding cam- pus buildings in the next couple of months, launching an education- al campaign and putting up signs to inform the UT community about the new policy. She said at this time there are no plans to implement a fi- nancial penalty if people violate the ban and repeat violations will be di- rected to the appropriate student, faculty and staff liaisons. Howarth-Moore said the UT ad- ministration understands the chal- lenges this new policy places on people who are current tobacco us- ers, but hopes people will see this change as an opportunity to quit and take advantage of tobacco cessation resources on campus. “If people choose not to take ad- vantage of the tobacco resources we are providing, we hope that this gives them time to adjust their work schedule and start to think about how they will implement this policy in their work or school day,” How- arth-Moore said. “This is the right direction for the University.” UT first announced plans on Feb. 9 to possibly change its tobacco pol- icy after the Cancer Prevention Re- search Institute of Texas announced new rules requiring all institutions receiving cancer research funds to become tobacco-free by Aug. 31. If the University did not comply with the new rules, it would not be eligi- ble to receive future funding from the institute. The institute provides approximately $31 million for more than 20 professors working on can- cer research. UT plans to apply for $88 million later this year. In a February campus-wide email, University officials stated they planned to develop a policy by March 1 to meet the deadlines stat- ed by CPRIT. Howarth-Moore said there was a misunderstanding on the deadline to be in compliance with the new policy. Kristen Doyle, Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas lawyer and a cancer survivor, said March 1 was the adoption date of the new rule and grantees have until Aug. 31 to develop a new policy. Doyle said although she has not seen the policy, it seems like UT has gone above and beyond banning to- bacco in buildings where cancer re- search takes place, the minimum re- quirement the institute called for. Doyle said she thinks it is great UT has adopted a tobacco-free poli- cy on campus. “Preventing people from taking up both smoking and tobacco use, especially now when they’re in col- lege, will help them for the rest of their lives,” Doyle said. “As a cancer survivor, I hope someone else won’t have to have that awful moment and hear, ‘Oh, you’ve got cancer.’” Howarth-Moore said although the University had previously con- sidered only banning tobacco use in buildings and areas where can- cer research took place, they decid- ed against it. Many professors and graduate students conducting re- search will often have their lab in one building but may go to the li- brary in the Main Building to ana- lyze their research, Howarth-Moore said, and that makes the building a cancer research facility. Howarth-Moore said new research facilities are added and change every semester and would make a tobacco ban only encompassing cancer re- search buildings difficult and con- fusing to implement. Matthew Haviland, president of the UT Texas Public Health Orga- nization, said he thinks the tobacco ban will contribute to the improving the health of students and potential- ly decreasing insurance costs. The organization conducted a survey last semester and found that out of 1,551 respondents, 77 per- cent indicated they wanted a stron- ger tobacco policy at UT. Among the people who identified as smok- ers who took the survey, about one- third said they wanted stricter limits on tobacco use. Haviland said he sat on a com- mittee with administrators to dis- cuss the possible implementation of a tobacco ban and expected the an- nouncement. He said he hopes this encourages the city of Austin and schools across the U.S. to consider banning tobacco. resources on campus for stress relief, provide some on-the-spot stress re- lievers and give students some useful stress management tips in the com- ing weeks before finals,” Ebady said. A wide variety of activities and booths were present in order to ap- peal to everyone and to cover every type of stress, whether it be financial stress, emotional stress, academic stress or health stress, Ebady said. Anxiety disorder specialist Diana Damer provided a fun demonstra- tion of cognitive therapy at the for- tune telling booth. Cognitive thera- py is a version of psychotherapy for depression highlighting the replace- ment of negative thoughts with pos- itive ones. Students were given a sit- uation and a variety of responses and were asked to choose their most likely response to the situation. If a self-defeating style of thinking was chosen, students were told they can change their fortunes by changing their thoughts. “Many people think that situa- tions and events cause our emo- tional stresses, but it’s really our be- liefs, thoughts and interpretations that shape our perception of such things,” Damer said. “Positive think- ing is not the only solution to self-de- feating thoughts. One must learn to be as positive as they can, while still being realistic.” Damer works with multiple campus groups in CMHC, such as The Courage to Be Imperfect Group and Build Your Social Con- fidence Group, all of which are free and confidential. Senior social worker Alicia Garces worked the CMHC mul- ticultural center booth which dis- played two large comment boards with the questions “What stress- es you out the most as a student of color?” and “What do students of color need to succeed on campus?” Garces said this informal, anony- mous environment is an effective way of discovering and gathering such information. “We are not making assump- tions,” Garces said. “We are asking for the thoughts of students and trying to figure out which compo- nents on campus are the same and which are different. It’s important to know what the UT campus is pro- viding for minority groups to meet their success.” Garces said CMHC wants to hear minority group experienc- es on campus in order to bet- ter serve minority groups who attend CMHC. For an instant stress reliev- er, students played with thera- py dogs from Therapy Pet Pals of Texas, Inc., a volunteer organiza- tion based out of Austin. Volun- teer John Nettle brought his Nor- wich Terrier and said Therapy Pet Pals of Texas brings dogs to nurs- ing homes, hospitals and physical therapy clinics for some small scale stress relief of those present. “We’re all dog lovers who volun- teer our time and pets for a good cause,” Nettle said. 2Rice UniversitySchool fo Architecture’ssummer program in architectural designJune 11-July 6, 2012APPLICATION DEADLINE: Friday, May 4, 2012at 5:00 p.m. APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Go to arch.rice.edu. Navigate to Academic Programs nd click on the LAUNCH tab. 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Call (512) 232-2217 or e-mail managingeditor@dailytexanonline.com. 2 Thursday, April 12, 2012NEWSburned,” he said. “Of the 6,600 acres in the park, just a couple acres were saved.” The park lost much of its dense forest of loblolly pine trees, known as the Lost Pines. Dolle said visitors should adjust their expectations. “We had extreme fire behavior in some areas,” Dolle said. “Those areas look like a moonscape and there’s not much left in those ar- eas at all. Other areas were moder- ately burned or lightly burned, and a lot of vegetation is coming back at ground level with some oak and yaupon sprouting up a lot of green on the ground.” The fire cleared the way for severe flooding conditions when the park received heavy winter rains, he said. “Because the fire wiped out so much underbrush, the rain grabbed a lot of silt and ash with it and washed it away,” Dolle said. “Un- der normal conditions we could have a 2-3 inch rain and not suf- fer damage, but we had a 5-7 inch rain and the fire quadrupled the flooding effects.” Katie Raney, the park’s volun- teer coordinator, said volunteers will eventually be needed to plant about 200,000 loblolly pine seed- lings, but erosion control is currently the top priority. “We have scheduled volunteer workdays to help install erosion control materials, specifically, straw logs,” she said. “They soak up some of the runoff and also help keep the soil from sliding down the hill. We consider these workdays to be diffi- cult and recommend them for ages 16 and up.” Kilian Ashley, biology junior and backpacking enthusiast, said he has fond memories of the park and its forest from his childhood. The fire- ravaged landscape gives him a new reason to visit, he said. “It’s cool camping out in that kind of area because you can see everything,” Ashley said. “That would be a little more attractive to me than camping in the middle of the forest.” The park remains a marvel, Dolle said, though the experience is completely different. “You’ll see the park in a whole new light,” he said. “It has a beauty all its own.” To register for Bastrop State Park’s volunteer database contact volunteer coordinator Katie Raney at Katie. Raney@tpwd.state.tx.us. Nathan Goldsmith | Daily Texan Staff Senior biochemistry major Byron Barksdale conducts a yoga demonstration Wednesday aftenoon at StressFest, the annual event aimed to expose students to techniques for effectively managing the stresses of college life. BASTROPcontinues from PAGE 1Matt Flores spoke with the The Dai- ly Texan March 2. Flores said the UT System Regents Office was assessing the tuition recommendations, but said, “We’re certain it has to come soon. Clearly it has to be done with enough time to get course schedules published so they’ll know how much they can expect to pay.” The University budget proposal is due to the UT System in May, Knight said. She said the Universi- ty is currently preparing the bud- get without the recommended tu- ition increase, which would gen- erate $30.6 million worth of ac- ademic funds from 2012-2014. Knight said it generally takes the entire summer for the Univer- sity and the UT System to fin- ish preparations for the Regents’ August meeting. “We don’t usually have an oppor- tunity to change it,” Knight said. De Bruyn gave no specifics on the reason for the delay, but said the Re- gents could call another special meet- ing to set tuition or wait for a regular- ly scheduled meeting. The next meet- ing is scheduled for May 2 and 3. “All I know is that the UT System administrators have been diligently reviewing the campus proposals and that review continues,” de Bruyn said. “I would say they will most likely be discussed in May.” De Bruyn said he did not know how the universities should han- dle communicating tuition costs as registration begins, distributing fi- nancial aid packages and preparing institutional budgets. “You would have to ask the uni- versities,” de Bruyn said. “We’re clear- ly mindful of deadlines.” TUITIONcontinues from PAGE 1STRESScontinues from PAGE 1DESIGNATED TOBACCO AREASNote: Signs will be placed at these tempo- rary designated tobacco use areas within the next few weeks. The areas will only be in effect until Feb. 28, 2013. 1. Bridgeway/Witchita Street2. Kinsolving/Whitis Avenue3. Littlefield Dorm Cafe4. Batts Hall/Inner Campus Drive5. Harry Ransom Center/21st Street6. Sanchez Building/Perry-Castaneda Library7. 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As George Zimmerman turned himself in Wednesday in the Feb. 26 shooting of the unarmed black teen, experts offered this advice: Stop talking. “My advice to the client would be, ‘Save it for the trial. It can’t help you,” said Roy Kahn, a Miami de- fense attorney. The 28-year-old Sanford man was in custody in Florida after a puzzling disappearance that had his lawyers expressing concern for his health and announcing they couldn’t represent him anymore. Zimmerman had called special prosecutor Angela Corey, his for- mer lawyers said, had an off- the-record chat with a Fox News Channel host and put up a website asking supporters for money. “It would not be in a client’s best interest to give any state- ment before it’s his time to testi- fy at trial,” Kahn said. “For him to give a statement, since he al- ready has given an interview to the police, any additional state- ment at the State Attorney’s Of- fice would just create the possibili- ty of him creating conflict with his previous statements.” Zimmerman’s new attorney, Mark O’Mara, said after his cli- ent’s arrest Wednesday that Zim- merman “is very concerned about the charges, but he is OK.” “I’m not concerned about his mental well being,” O’Mara said. Leslie Garfield, a Pace Univer- sity law professor in New York, said Zimmerman’s behavior over the last 48 hours should not affect his prosecution. “Whatever else goes on be- hind the scenes before charg- es aren’t really a factor,” she said. “All that should matter is what his intentions were at the time of the shooting.” Eight Planned Parenthood orga- nizations sued Texas on Wednesday for excluding them from participat- ing in a program that provides con- traception and check-ups to wom- en, saying the new rule violates their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and association. The groups, none of which pro- vide abortions, contend in the fed- eral lawsuit that a new state law banning organizations affiliated with abortion providers from par- ticipating in the Women’s Health Program has nothing to do with providing medical care and is sim- ply intended to silence individu- als or groups who support abor- tion rights. Texas law already re- quires that groups receiving federal or state funding be legally and fi- nancially separate from clinics that perform abortions. The federal government has also cut funding to Texas over the issue, saying it violated federal law. It says the law passed by conservative Re- publicans and signed by Gov. Rick Perry denies women the right to choose their health care providers. The Department of Health and Human Services, which enforces the rule, issued a statement saying it be- lieves the state was within its rights to pass the new law. Last month, Texas Attorney General Greg Ab- bott sued the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services de- manding that it restore off funding for the Women’s Health program. Republican lawmakers made it clear during last year’s legislative session that their aim was to shut down as many Planned Parent- hood groups as possible. The new law says that a health care provider that shares a name, common own- ership or a franchise agreement with any organization that pro- vides elective abortions will be ex- cluded from the program, regard- less of whether the provider meets all medical standards. 3 W/N$40 for $80 at Modern Eyes! your e-mail address to our list and we will send you the opportunity to … it with your friends and save even more! up to 50% off of local businesses! The Buys of TexasWorld&NatioN3Thursday, April 12, 2012 | The Daily Texan | Elyana Barrera, Wire Editor | dailytexanonline.comAmerican Indian tribes agree to $1 billion settlementYAKIMA, Wash. — The feder- al government will pay more than $1 billion to settle a series of law- suits brought by American Indian tribes over mismanagement of trib- al money and trust lands, under a settlement announced Wednesday. The agreement resolves claims brought by 41 tribes from across the country to reclaim money lost in mismanaged accounts and from royalties for oil, gas, grazing and timber rights on tribal lands. The settlement was announced jointly by the Justice Depart- ment and the Interior Depart- ment, which manages more than 100,000 leases on tribal trust lands and about 2,500 tribal trust ac- counts for more than 250 federally recognized tribes. Negotiations continue on dozens of other cases. Syria says it will stop fighting by United Nations deadlineBEIRUT — Syria promised to comply with a U.N.-brokered cease-fire beginning Thursday but carved out an important condition — that the regime still has a right to defend itself against the terrorists that it says are behind the country’s year-old uprising. The statement Wednesday of- fered a glimmer of hope that a peace initiative by special envoy Kofi An- nan could help calm the conflict, which has killed some 9,000 peo- ple. But the regime still has ample room to maneuver. In comments carried on the state-run news agency, Syria said the army has successfully fought off “armed terrorist groups” and reas- serted authority across the country. The government denies that it is facing an uprising by Syrians who want to dislodge the authoritarian dynasty that has ruled the country for more than four decades. — Compiled from The Associated PressNEWS BRIEFLYZimmerman arrest follows disappearance Hal Uhrig, left, and Craig Sonner speak during a news conference, Tuesday, April 10, 2012, in Sanford Fla. The two attorneys for the Florida neighborhood watch volun- teer George Zimmerman who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin said Tuesday that they have withdrawn as his counsel because they haven’t heard from him in days and he is taking actions related to the case without consulting them. Tamara Lush Associated PressPlanned Parenthood sues Texas over exclusion from programBy Tamara LushThe Associated PressBy Chris TomlinsonThe Associated Press 4Thursday, April 12, 2012 | The Daily Texan | Viviana Aldous, Editor-in-Chief | (512) 232-2212 | editor@dailytexanonline.comOpiniOnlegaleseOpinions expressed in The Daily Texan are those of the editor, the Editorial Board or the writer of the article. They are not necessari- ly those of the UT administration, the Board of Regents or the Texas Student Media Board of Operating Trustees. OverviewFollow The Daily Texan Editorial Board on Twitter (@DTeditori- al) and receive updates on our latest content. editOrial twittertHe FiriNg liNePlease recycle this copy of The Daily Texan. Place the paper in one of the recycling bins on campus or back in the burnt-or- ange newsstand where you found it. reCYCleDon’t test me, broThe editorial board welcomes guest column submissions. Columns must be between 600 and 800 words. 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Rightly recognizing the importance of cancer research at UT, administrators responded with a new policy that restricts tobacco use in almost all circumstances. Notably, an exception will be made for a number of designated smoking zones to ease the transition process to a tobacco-free campus. These zones will expire in March 2013, according to the new tobacco-use policy available on the UT website. The new policy is also notable for its enforcement mechanism. Thankfully avoiding the nightmare of UT Police Department’s issuing $10 tickets for light- ing up, administrators recognized that the change will require cooperation and that compliance with it will be best achieved by gentle reminders along with a gradual cultural change. But while the new policy is generally considerate and forward-looking, the reason for its revision is somewhat worrisome. Texas voters established CPRIT in 2007 to “fund groundbreaking cancer research and prevention programs and services in Texas,” accord- ing to CPRIT’s website. Of the members of CPRIT’s Oversight Committee — the group that ultimately approved the decision to attach strings to the public money — nine are appointed and the remaining two are the Texas Attorney General and the Comptroller of Public Accounts. That this largely unelected board has the power to dictate far-reaching University policy when its pri- mary purpose is ostensibly to determine which can- cer research grant applications to fund is disturbing. The making of higher education policy is better left to groups such as the UT System Board of Regents and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Nevertheless, a tobacco-free campus will go a long way to further the University’s healthy, environmen- tally-conscious community deeply committed to fighting cancer. Given the recent upgrade and completion of the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) testing across high schools in the state of Texas, it is no surprise that standardized testing at the university level is being discussed. Fortunately, Neal E. Armstrong, UT’s vice provost for faculty affairs, recently told The New York Times that “[University standardized test- ing] does not, in my opinion, measure value added very well for our kind of institution. Our freshmen come in with very high aptitude and critical thinking skills.” At least UT has stated that standardized testing is not a good method for evaluating our school. And for clarification’s sake, by “value added,” Armstrong is addressing the idea of how much value is added by the time they leave college to students’ academic baseline that they have when they come into college. After all, standardized tests are touted as a potential way to finally pro- vide some answers to the question: What does one learn in college? But I’m not sure that knowledge can be test- ed. And for more than just the reasons iterated by Armstrong. The main questions that come to my head concern the purpose of higher education — and I don’t think the answer to that is very clear. Some would argue that the purpose is to get a job. But if that were the case, why doesn’t every degree require internships, apprenticeships and other career preparation activities? So what about the argument that higher ed- ucation is meant to teach you to expand your mind and learn new things? If that were the case, why are restrictive core curricula so preva- lent? Massachusetts Institute of Technology re- cently released a program called MITx, which is an online offering of a lot of their normal classes for free to non-MIT students. While this initia- tive has received applause for its innovation, no one has described the online courses as replace- ments for the MIT experience. In fact, even MIT does not count completed online MITx course- work toward any kind of degree. So it seems that MIT considers itself as more than just a means by which to take classes to get a degree. Earning the degree requires something else. I think part of that “something else” that we learn in college is how to graduate from our specific college. I realize that sentence seems obvious, but with graduation one month away, I can honestly say, I’ve learned how to gradu- ate at UT. I’ve learned which classes I can skip, which classes are difficult, which weeks I can go downtown on Thursday nights, which profes- sors I can ask for recommendations from, which apartment complexes have good management, where all the great coffee places are and gener- ally lots of other UT-centric things crucial to graduating here. But none of those things would be covered on a standardized test. And while I’m sure ev- ery university has comparable aspects, they won’t be exactly the same. At UT, I had my first 300-plus person class, and I figured out how to learn in it. I’ve had at least two semesters where there was a glitch with my registration and had to call three different people to fix the problem. Through those experiences, I’ve gained a sense of independence and self-reliance that prob- ably isn’t cultivated at much at smaller schools where administrators can do more administra- tive hand-holding. Intuitively, we all know UT is different from other schools; that’s part of why we chose to go here instead of somewhere else. In graduating from UT, I didn’t just learn answers for tests, but I learned how to gain the necessary knowledge for that test in this kind of environment. And it’s the how that is significantly more important than the what when it comes to finding future jobs, solving future problems and continuing to learn in the future. For this reason, standardized tests miss the boat completely when it comes to testing what we learn in college both because they make com- parisons between totally different environments and because they don’t focus on the important part of higher education in the first place. Taylor is a Plan II and rhetoric and writing senior. Up in smokeIt seems UT gave in to the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas’ (CPRIT) blackmail concerning a possible $88-million can- cer research grant for next year in exchange for banning tobacco. A better avenue would have been for all colleges and departments at UT that conduct cancer research to build their own place. They could make sure to satisfy all the requirements without affecting the University at large — and avoid having to justify it with a righteous argument about wellness. Any Texan would see the University’s actions as dishonest and un-American. Remember, this policy is affecting those with a cultivated mind or seeking one, which is in itself the sole guardian of good. A cam- pus should not need a smoke-free policy, but if it does, I wonder if CPRIT is questioning the minds of our academic and administrative staff and students. 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Dr. Christopher MillerVice President for Student Affairs, Marquette UniversityTuesday, April 3rd, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Main 212Dr. Ajay NairSenior Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs, University of PennsylvaniaThursday, April 12th, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Main 212Dr. Francisco Hernandez Vice Chancellor, University of Hawaii at ManoaThursday, April 19th, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Main 212Dr. Gage PaineVice President for Student Affairs, University of Texas at San AntonioTuesday, April 24th, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Main 212NEWSThursday, April 12, 20125Van carrying illegal immigrants crashes after fleeing borderMcALLEN — A van over- stuffed with suspected ille- gal immigrants rolled and crashed after fleeing a traf- fic stop in a South Texas bor- der city, leaving at least nine Mexican citizens dead and injuring six others, officials said Wednesday. Immigration authorities have eight survivors of the wreck in custody, accord- ing to Enrique Mendiola, act- ing assistant chief for the Bor- der Patrol’s Rio Grande Val- ley sector. He said no one has been charged and an investi- gation is ongoing. Border Patrol agents stopped the van in Palmview, 10 miles west of McAllen, on Tues- day night. Some of the pas- sengers immediately sprint- ed away and agents pursued them on foot, catching one, Mendiola said. But as the foot chase unfold- ed, the van sped off. The agents came across the wreck three or four blocks away on U.S. 83. The scene was strewn with backpacks and wa- ter bottles and nine bodies lay scattered nearby, he said. The van was demolished, but several managed to flee the wreck, Palmview police Cmdr. Lenny Sanchez said. The vehi- cle had been gutted to accom- modate far more than the eight people it was designed to car- ry, he said. Six people were taken to a hospital and three of them were later released to authorities, Sanchez said. All of them are in the custody of Border Patrol, he said. One of the men who fled subsequently turned himself in: Palmview police handed him over to immigration authorities, Sanchez said. It wasn’t clear how many peo- ple from the van remained on the loose. Mendiola said most of those involved in the crash were from Mexico. Sanchez said all those who died were Mexican citi- zens, but he declined to pro- vide the nationalities of those who survived. He said author- ities believed they entered the country illegally. Many of the dead came from the southern state of Oaxaca, one of the poorest regions of Mexico, according to Ricardo Alday, spokesman for the Mex- ican Embassy in Washington. Consular officials were inter- viewing survivors and gather- ing information on the dead to assist their families with repa- triation of the bodies. A 23-year-old woman who lives nearby told the McAllen Monitor that she didn’t see the accident happen but that several victims seemed to be alive in the immediate aftermath. “The bodies were ev- erywhere,” Diana Castil- lo said. “It’s really sad be- cause they came over here to live a better life and then they lost their lives.” Anna Garza, a 56 year-old woman who also lives near the scene of the crash said “lots of helicopters came really quickly, I think to take the wounded to the hospital.” By Christopher ShermanThe Associated PressIt’s really sad because they came over here to live a better life and then they lost their lives. — Diana Castil, Palmview redisdentWhile some students may take for granted everyday items like deodorant and food, freshmen in a seminar course are asking for donations today with hopes of providing basic necessities to human trafficking victims in the Austin area. School of Social Work asso- ciate professor Noel Busch-Ar- mendariz, co-instructor of the UT seminar course “Women for Sale?”, said students organized the drive as a class assignment. Busch said she hopes the donations will help victims of human traffick- ing in Central Texas as well as raise campus awareness about this issue. “Human trafficking exists in our community and in order to end it, we all need to understand it and take some action,” Busch said. “We have asked students to use their social networking me- diums to advertise the drive and we have announced it on listservs, UT calendar, etc. This drive is a great opportunity for our students and community to be involved in anti-human trafficking efforts in our own community and mak- ing the difference in the lives of victims.” Government freshman Priya Chintamaneni said donations will be given to the local branch of Ref- ugee Services of Texas, a nonprofit social service agency with goals of providing essential living services for human trafficking refugees. “I was in contact with our liai- son at Refugee Services of Texas, who told us what donations were most needed by the victims in central Texas that she works with,” Chintamaneni said. “The victims that [they] assist, most of whom are from Central America, do not qualify for government benefits, and RST provides them with food or gift cards once a month.” A representative of Refu- gee Services of Texas could not be reached for comment, but Chintamaneni said she ex- pects a substantial turnout for the event. “We aren’t sure what we could reasonably expect, seeing as we haven’t done this before, but I’m expecting a good turnout because we have taken care to put up fly- ers everywhere,” Chintamane- ni said. “We are hoping to tempt with baked goods and sweets, so people can leave a small cash do- nation if they didn’t know about us beforehand. I hope to have a few large cases worth of dona- tions, but let’s hope for the best.” Chintamaneni said this course and the donation drive have opened her eyes to the issue of human trafficking in the U.S. and abroad. Philosophy and govern- ment freshman Brooke No- ble said she has been interested in this topic since high school, but the course has inspired her to pursue a career that deals with the issues discussed in the seminar course. “I always knew that I wanted to be a lawyer, but thinking about these things has made me inter- ested in becoming a human rights attorney or advocate,” Noble said. Noble said this course has been so influential in her life, she would recommend a class with a similar structure to other students. “We cover really hard and dif- ficult material,” Noble said, “But at the end of the day, I know I am learning a lot and becom- ing more prepared to deal with these issues.” RECYCLE . your copy ofThe Daily TexanBy Sara WhiteDaily Texan StaffDelcia Lopez | The Associated Press Palmview police investigators and emergency personnel retrieve personal items from the frontage road on Wednesday, at the scene of Tuesday’s deadly wreck involving a van carrying suspected illegal immigrants in Palmview, Texas. At least nine people were killed and six were hurt in the crash. Students hold drivefor local victims ofhuman trafficking 6 S/L6 Thursday, April 12, 2012NEWSUT RecSports sponsors intra- mural athletics, exercise classes and fitness activities for students throughout the year, and the RecSports staff now seeks feed- back from the students who uti- lize these services. This month, RecSports distrib- uted a biennial survey to a ran- dom stratified sample of 8,000 students via email to determine the satisfaction levels with its programs and find out what can be improved. Sample questions touched on topics such as the time of day students use the facilities, rec- reation activities participated in and proposals for future con- struction plans involving RecS- ports facilities that will require student funding. RecSports assistant director Nicole Olmeda said the data is used as a foundation for future decision making in areas such as budgeting, services and deter- mining future programs. “We strongly feel that we have a partnership with students,” she said. “[The survey] serves as a way for us to hear back from students and we take it very seriously.” Students are invited to voice their satisfaction as well as com- plaints in the survey in order to provide RecSports with valuable feedback, Olmeda said. Of the complaints, many stu- dents voice dissatisfaction with lack of space and crowded facili- ties at Gregory Gym, she said. “It comes down to facility space, and we know that,” she said. “We’re finding that our spaces are being used for study groups and places for people to meet up and have lunch, and we love that, but we know that quan- tity of equipment is an issue.” Olmeda also said students are generally satisfied with the way RecSports contributes to their well-being as college students. “More and more we’re finding that students feel like it’s an es- sential part of their daily life, so I think that we provide an out- let for students to rebalance,” she said. “It’s not just weight room space. If you’re a rock climber, there’s space for you. If you’re into group exercise, you can take a yoga class.” After the survey closes on May 1, Olmeda said she will comb through the data and develop a summary report for an admin- istrative staff meeting where the data will be presented. “It’s typically the beginning of multiple conversations,” she said. “If there’s a question later on and we don’t know the answer, often- times the first place we go is to that data.” Undeclared freshman Gregory Vincent said he is satisfied with the layout and opportunities pro- vided by RecSports. “Gregory’s probably the nicest gym I’ve ever been to,” he said. “Working out with other peo- ple is fun, so overall, I give it two thumbs up.” Economics freshman Bing Ar- end Vanderkam said he prefers the quieter Recreational Center due to the crowding of Gregory Gym. “The Rec Center is nice be- cause a lot less people go there,” he said. “I’d like to go to the Rec Center more but Gregory’s more convenient, even though you can’t go into the weight room in the morning because it’s closed for weight classes.” Keeping student responses to the survey in mind, Olmeda said the main goal of RecSports is to promote healthy attitudes and lifestyles among students. “A healthy body is a healthy mind,” she said. “We hope that we can contribute to students’ wellness and that they in turn lead a more balanced life, be- cause that’s a better student.” Students evaluate RecSports’ facilitiesGraduate accounting stu- dents Christina Liu (front) and Vicki Yang stretch with pre-pharmacy junior Tiffany Liu (right) at the Gregory Gymnasium indoor track. UT RecSports surveyed 8,000 students in order to bet- ter shape their services to the needs of students. Nathan GoldsmithDaily Texan StaffBy Rachel ThompsonDaily Texan StaffTexas is the first state affected by the BP oil spill to use settlement money from a BP investor for hab- itat conservation efforts, leading to more coastal restoration attempts in the future. The 2010 spill was a result of an explosion of the offshore drill Deepwater Horizon, which was drilling on a well operated by BP. BP investor MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC agreed to settle their liabilities in the spill, giving the state of Texas $6.5 million, according to the Tex- as attorney general’s website. Part of Texas’ settlement money will go towards acquiring 80 acres of land from the Goose Island State Park in Aransas, Texas to create a safe hab- itat for the whooping crane popula- tion, according to the Texas Parks & Wildlife website. Katelyn Jordan, biology senior and Marine Science Club historian, said she supports the move towards conserving the whooping crane’s habitat and hopes to see more work in vulnerable coastline areas in the future. “Some of the most fragile areas on the coastline are estuaries and coastal watershed areas because they really dictate things like salin- ity levels,” Jordan said. “Those are areas most impacted by oil spills. A lot smaller organisms like coast- al birds live in that kind of envi- ronment and I definitely think it’s important to work to conserve their habitat.” Conservation of habitats such as the whooping crane’s is just of one several initiatives environmentalists hope to act on, said Don Pitts, state coordinator for the Kills and Spills Team for Texas Parks & Wildlife. “Habitat preservation is one of several different opportunities we utilize,” Pitts said. “We either like to preserve or protect, or create ad- ditional habitats in order to offset some of these damages.” Pitts said the use of the settle- ment money to acquire state land for these efforts is an appropriate use of the funds. “It’s a great opportunity to use restoration dollars to improve hab- itat using Texas resources,” Pitts said. “It’s a wonderful tract of land and a great opportunity for us to acquire and use it for this kind of preservation.” Bob Stokes, president of the Galveston Bay Foundation, said Texas was less affected by the spill than other states, which allows of- ficials to allocate this money for other conservation efforts, such as helping the whooping crane. “This settlement is just a frac- tion of the overall case,” Stokes said. “[MOEX] is just one of the depen- dents. The settlement is going to be split among the five states, but a little more will go to states that were more affected. Even though we didn’t have more oil on our shores, our resources were still af- fected in the Gulf. This will go to more general coastal protection and conservation.” Stokes said further settlement money from the spill could po- tentially be allocated to contin- ued coastal restoration if Con- gress passes the RESTORE Act of 2011. Stokes said the RESTORE Act of 2011, which has not yet been passed by Congress, would require 80 percent of any settlement funds from the spill to go towards these coastal restoration projects. He said the current conservation efforts be- ing made by Texas are additional attempts at restoration without the prompting of the RESTORE Act. Texas environmental initiatives gain funds from BP settlementBy Hannah Jane DeCiutiisDaily Texan Staff SportS7Thursday, April 12, 2012 | The Daily Texan | Sameer Bhuchar, Sports Editor | (512) 232-2210 | sports@dailytexanonline.comwww.utrecsports.orgSIGN UP NOWHEARTSAVER CLASSESTRAININGSTARTS HEREDomination of his competi- tors is nothing new for senior golf- er Dylan Frittelli. Growing up in South Africa, he quickly climbed the rankings of the top individual golfers in the nation. From age 16 to 18, Frittelli was the No. 1 junior golfer in South Af- rica, and he was the top amateur golfer in the country from age 17 to 18. In 2007, he won the Callaway Junior World Championship at Torrey Pines in San Diego, and the next year he won the 2008 South African Boys’ Championship. This high level of success did not cease for Frittelli once he joined the Longhorns. As a freshman, he was able to record his first ca- reer collegiate victory in the Puerto Rico Classic, and he tallied the best score among Longhorns in the Big 12 Championships. He improved as a sophomore in 2010, when he recorded eight top- 10 finishes, led the team in stroke average and was named Big 12 Conference Player of the Year. In addition to conference accolades, Frittelli received PING All-Ameri- can (third team) and Golfweek All- American (third team) honors in just his second season at Texas. Last season, he once again led the team in stroke average and re- ceived All-Big 12 and PING All- American (third team) honors for a consecutive year. However, Frittelli may be having his best season to date as a senior in 2011-12, as no golfer has played a bigger role in the Longhorns’ No. 1 NCAA ranking. The recently named Ben Hogan Award semifinalist and No. 1 play- er in the nation has been the Long- horns’ most consistent player. He has finished among the top two individual golfers in five tourna- ments this season, including a first- place finish in the Morris Williams Intercollegiate in Austin. While his strong scores have helped the Longhorns on the score- card, Frittelli’s biggest contribution may be the calming presence he brings with his consistency. “I think [my consistency] has 1SIDELINEDespite loss, Holiner still proves worthNo. 17 Texas takes care of St. Edward’sAlthough the No. 17 ranked Longhorns are led by two ranked players — freshman Soren Hess- Olesen at No. 77 and junior Daniel Whitehead at No. 99 — the play- er currently on a hot streak is un- ranked sophomore David Holiner. Going into last night’s match- up against the St. Edward’s Hill- toppers, Holiner was on a nine match win streak that started back in February. Along the way, Holiner picked up wins against some tough opponents on ranked teams such as Florida State, Okla- homa and Baylor. Holiner also scored a three-set upset against a USC opponent, who was ranked No. 41, to give Texas its only point in the 6-1 defeat to the No. 1 ranked team in the country. Holiner’s game seems to have improved greatly from last sea- son, when he only appeared in seven dual matches and had a 13-10 record. This year, Holiner has appeared in 16 matches, and has a 24-7 record, and is perfect in conference play. Against the Hilltoppers, Holiner got the chance to continue his win streak while playing at the top of the singles lineup against Ned Boone. In the first set, the two players held serve to force a tiebreak. Af- ter rushing to a 4-2 lead, a couple of missed shots from Holiner allowed Boone to even the tiebreak score at five all. Holiner’s return into the net at 5-6 gave Boone the set. In the second set Holiner In a tune-up match before they take on their biggest confer- ence rival, the Longhorns posted eight wins on their way to a 6-1 victory over St. Edward’s. Texas will return to the court Saturday to take on Texas A&M at home in the last matchup of the Lone Star Showdown. Playing the Hilltoppers, who are ranked No. 15 in the Divi- sion II rankings, gave the Long- horns a chance to mix up some doubles pairings. Playing in the No. 1 spot was the No. 50 ranked duo of juniors Daniel Whitehead and Ben Chen. The two had a tight match against the team of Ned Boone and Eduardo Bencke. After Texas got the break at four all, St. Edward’s came back, down 6-5. Both teams would hold serve and force the match into a tiebreak, in which Tex- as jumped out to a 4-1 lead. The Hilltoppers came back to four all, and closed out the tie break, and the set 8-7, (7-5). In the No. 2 doubles line, fresh- man Soren Hess-Olesen teamed up with fellow freshman Jacoby Lewis to blast through the Hill- topper team of Pedro Bronstrup and James Rogers, 8-2. Clinching the doubles point for Texas at the No. 3 line was the pairing of freshman Joey Swaysland and junior Alex Hill- iard who knocked out their op- ponent 8-4. In singles, Texas got on the board early with a 6-0, 6-1 win from Hilliard. Following that point up was Chen, who SOFTBALLLuna loses control, Horns fall to RaidersTexas Tech only needed one swing of the bat to extend Texas’s losing streak to three games. The No 5. Longhorns dropped a road contest against the Red Raiders 5-2 Wednesday night. The Longhorns were up 2-0 when the Raiders came up with a three-run home run in the bot- tom of the fourth inning as the result of starting pitcher Blaire Luna struggles. For the first time all season, the junior hurler was relieved as the result of a subpar performance rather than a huge lead amassed by the Texas offense. Sophomore Rachel Fox came in the fourth in- ning and was able to get out of a jam in the fourth, but her effort was not enough. The Raiders tacked on a cou- ple of insurance runs in the fi- nal two innings, but the Texas of- fense was unable to best the Red Raider defense. The loss brings the Longhorns to a season record of 32-5 and 6-3 in the Big 12. After winning six straight, the Longhorns have dropped the past three conference games. Despite losing Wednesday’s game in Lubbock, the Longhorns came out with the series win after winning two contests against the Elisabeth Dillon | Daily Texan StaffFreshman Joey Swaysland and the No. 17 Longhorns had no trouble defeating St. Edward’s Wednesday evening at the Pennick-Allison Tennis Center. Rebeca Rodriguez | Daily Texan File PhotoJunior pitcher Blaire Luna (12) was touched up for three runs Wednesday night against Texas Tech as the Longhorns lost their third consecutive game. The Longhorns had won the previous nine games against Tech. MEn’S GOLFPetrino pinched as coachDerek Stout | Daily Texan File PhotoSenior Dylan Frittelli holds the record for individual awards won in the Big 12 conference. Frittelli is currently ranked No. 1 in the nation. By Peter SblendorioDaily Texan StaffArkansas director of athletics Jeff Long fields a question regarding Wednesday’s termination of coach Bobby Petrino. April L. Brown Associated PressNo. 1 Frittelli leads the way for LonghornsFOOTBALLCompared to the tumultuous child sex scandal at Penn State, Bobby Petrino’s wrongdoings seem relatively minor. But there is no doubt that these wrongdoings are cause for his termination. Arkansas director of athlet- ics Jeff Long announced his deci- sion on Tuesday and openly dis- cussed Petrino’s various misdeeds and how he misled the University. Petrino unfairly hired his mistress, Jessica Dorrell and then hid their relationship from the University. In addition, both were in a motor- cycle accident April 1 and Petrino lied to Long and did not mention that Dorrell was on the motorcy- cle with him at the time. Long said Petrino was given “multiple opportunities” over four days to come clean about what happened, but chose not to. Petrino’s decisions were wrong and he no longer deserves to be the coach at Arkansas. What he did was not related to football and no players were harmed, but his actions are not acceptable for someone who works at a higher By Lauren GiudiceDaily Texan ColumnistBy Sarah Beth PurdyDaily Texan StaffBy Lauren JetteDaily Texan StaffBy Lauren JetteDaily Texan StaffBRAVESASTROS MARINERSRANGERS LAKERSSPURS JAZZROCKETS CLIPPERSTHUNDER Frittelli, Spieth tabbed for award, among eight other semifinalistsThe nation’s top two collegiate players, senior Dylan Fritelli and freshman Jordan Spieth were named two of 10 semifinalists for the prestigious Ben Hogan Award on Wednesday, The award, given annually to the best golfer across all divisions of collegiate golf, has been issued since 1990 and includes academ- ic achievement in its original set of standards. Fritelli, the No. 1 collegiate golfer according to Golfweek/Sa- garin, owns a 70.17 scoring av- erage and has finished no lower than 12th place in 10 total events this year. He recently collected his fifth Big 12 Golfer of the Month award, marking the highest to- tal ever in the conference. Frittelli is also among five finalists for the 2012 Byron Nelson Award. Spieth isn’t far behind the elder Fritelli in terms of scoring average, with Spieth touting a 70.29 aver- age of his own. Ranked No.2 in the nation individually, Spieth has six top-10 finishes in seven tourna- ment starts this year, and has also competed in the PGA’s Northern Trust Open. Spieth is set to receive another exemption to play in the Texas Open scheduled for April 19-22 in San Antonio. Three finalists for the award will be selected on Thursday, May 10. 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(903) 983-8209 www.kilgore.edu ................................................................................................................................................ www.kilgore.edu/2012summerclasses.aspEarn quick credits & still enjoy your summer. was up 2-1 when he riled off three straight points to give himself triple breakpoint, which he was able to convert to go up three games to one in the second set. Holiner followed with a hold, as did Boone to make the score 4-2. Holiner used power- ful serves for a 5-2 lead, before get- ting the final break to take the sec- ond set, 6-2, and force a super tie- breaker to determine the third set and the match. Holiner started the tiebreaker off by winning the first point, although the two players would trade points back and forth for much of the tie- break. Holiner hit a well-executed drop shot to go up 3-2, but needed a volley winner to tie it back up at 4 all. A shot from Boone that landed in the net, evened the score at 5 all, then 6 all, before Boone’s overhead winner gave him an 8-6 lead. Holiner’s next shot landed long, giving Boone match point, which he won when Holiner short-hopped a volley into the net. Even though the loss put an end to Holiner’s win streak, his play showed why he has been such a contributing factor in the Longhorns’ wins, and losses, so far this season. Holiner uses a strong serve to catch his opponents off guard, and then follows it up with some solid volleying skills. While Tex- as is 1-2 in conference matches, Ho- liner has posted three straight wins to give Texas a point on the boards. Holiner will need to shake this loss off before Saturday’s matchup against No. 27 Texas A&M, as the team will be counting on him to come through with a win, and potentially match- deciding point, against the Aggies. handed his opponent a 6-0, 6-0 defeat. Putting up the clinch- ing point for Texas was freshman Lloyd Glasspool, who returned to the courts after being sidelined by an injury, with a 6-1, 6-1 vic- tory at the No. 3 singles line. Swaysland added a 6-0, 6-3 win at the number five singles spot to the overall total to put Texas up 5-0. The longest matches of the evening came from the top two singles players, who were both pushed to third sets. Whitehead won his first set 6-4 before drop- ping the second by the same score, forcing a tiebreak, which he pre- vailed in, 10-8, to give his team its sixth and final point of the eve- ning. Sophomore David Holiner closed out the evening in the No. 1 singles spot and was also forced into a third set tie break, but was unable to keep momentum going and lost 10-6, to give St. Edward’s its only point on the night. Raiders in late March. The usually crisp pitching staff was sloppy in Wednesday’s loss to the Raiders. Luna started off the night in the circle, but through just over three innings, gave up five hits and three runs while walking three and striking out three batters. Fox came in for the final two innings giving up two runs off one hit. “We just weren’t able to get into a rhythm with our pitchers to- day,” said Texas head coach Con- nie Clark. “Blaire [Luna] and Ra- chel [Fox] struggled with find- ing that rhythm ... We gave them a lot of continuous, favorable counts and it was only a matter of time be- fore [Texas Tech] was going to take advantage of it.” The Texas offense started out well, going up 2-0 off runs scored by senior team captains Nadia Tay- lor and Lexy Bennett. Both had an RBI. The Longhorns scraped to- gether four hits against the Red Raider pitching staff. At one point it seemed that the Longhorns were poised for a come- back. In the top of the sixth inning, with one out, the Longhorns man- aged to the load the bases. Howev- er, back to back strikeouts by fresh- man pinch-hitter Marlee Gabaldon and sophomore shortstop Taylor Thom retired the Longhorns’ last attempt to take the game. “I thought we had a great work- out this morning. I think the competitive spirit and energy was there to start the game,” Clark said. “We did have a couple of op- portunities in needing a timely hit at the end. Our focus will be on the final segment of the season, beginning with this weekend. It matters how we will bounce back and I’m actually excited to see how we bounce back.” institution of learning. College football players, and col- lege athletes in general, often find themselves in trouble for off-the- field antics and behavior. Coaches and administrators need to be role models for these players who have so much pressure on them to suc- ceed at a high level. Petrino has failed to act as a role model, and will suffer the consequences. He will not receive the $18 mil- lion buyout that his contract called for because he was fired “with cause.” The 51 year-old married fa- ther of four has not set an exam- ple for his team. There’s nothing more to it. His actions are not a poor re- flection on the university or his players. His actions were separate from Arkansas and will only hurt his personal reputation. His sala- ry was approximately $3.53 mil- lion a year. With that large sum of money, a certain level of respon- sibility and character is expected out of a coach. In his four seasons with the Ra- zorbacks, Petrino finished with a 34-17 record. Last season the team finished with a No. 5 final ranking and had a Cotton Bowl win over Kansas State. His departure will be a tough hole to fill for the Razorbacks and Long, with the drop off in behavior came an increase in wins. Long will probably be look- ing more in depth at the charac- ter of the coach who he hires to take Petrino’s place. Character is a trait that is always stressed in athletics — especial- ly in college athletics when drugs, alcohol and other negative influ- ences are everywhere. Petrino’s ac- tions and then his deception fol- lowing it were not up to par with the expectations that are given to a college coach. 8 Thursday, April 12, 2012SPORTSjust settled down the other players,” Frittelli said. “If they know I’ll fin- ish in the top 10, they don’t have to worry as much about playing well and can focus [on themselves].” Head coach John Fields has also been impressed with Frittelli’s lead- ership, and he believes the senior has been a strong example for his teammates this season. “He’s a real stabilizing force be- cause he’s mature, experienced and extremely competitive,” Fields said. “He takes care of business, works diligently in school and golf and stays away from distractions. He’s a fine leader.” Likewise, the rest of the Tex- as golfers have nothing but respect for Frittelli. Junior Cody Gribble, who is Frittelli’s roommate on road trips, considers the senior as a role model on the team for his actions on and off the golf course. “He’s been playing extreme- ly well, and off the course every- one looks up to him,” Gribble said. “Over the last couple of years he’s come into his own, and all of us have a lot of respect.” The Longhorns have maintained the top ranking in collegiate golf for much of the season, and that is due in large part to the contributions of Frittelli. Texas is in the best posi- tion to win the national champion- ship this year as it has been in the senior’s tenure, and he has stepped up as a leader for the Longhorns. 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After announcing that guard Ster- ling Gibbs planned to transfer follow- ing the spring semester, the Longhorns inked two big names in high school basketball for the 2013 season. The addition of guard Demarcus Holland and center Cameron Rid- ley gives the Longhorns a six-man re- cruiting class that includes guard Ja- van Felix, forwards Connor Lammert and Ioannis Papapetrou and center Prince Ibeh. At 6-foot-10, Ridley is the source of much excitement for Texas fans be- cause he was a high school standout. He brings size to a Texas team short on shot blockers and power players and is ranked as the No. 8 overall re- cruit in the nation by ESPNU. The Richmond, Texas native averaged 21.5 points, 15.2 rebounds and 5.3 blocks per game while helping Bush to a 25-5 record his senior year. Holland, a guard from Garland, Texas averaged a team-best 11.3 points to go along with 4.9 rebounds, 4.1 assists and two steals per game as a senior. He was teammates with Ibeh, already a Texas signee, at Naa- man Forest High School. Holland helped pace his team to a 29-8 record and advance to the Class 5A state semifinals in 2011. Head coach Rick Barnes loves the versatility the incoming players bring to the table and sees Texas be- ing successful in the long term with the addition. “We’re so excited as a staff when you look at our returning play- ers from this past year and combine them with the four players we signed in the fall and the addition of Demar- cus and Cameron,” Barnes said. “All these guys come from winning pro- grams and backgrounds, and they all want to win a championship at Tex- as. When we look at our roster, we see skill, character and work ethic, and we’re excited to have them get on the floor together this summer and get to work.” BasketBallWACO, Texas— The NCAA put Baylor on three years of proba- tion Wednesday after an investiga- tion turned up hundreds of imper- missible telephone calls and text messages sent to prep recruits by coaches and assistants on the bas- ketball teams. The violations were considered to be major infractions, and they were announced less than a week after the Lady Bears won the na- tional championship with the first 40-0 season in NCAA history. Still, it could have been much worse for Baylor. All of the penalties were proposed by the school and ac- cepted by the NCAA after a review of nearly 900,000 phone and text message records found that 738 texts and 528 calls were against the rules. The NCAA said men’s coach Scott Drew failed to monitor his program and will be suspended for two Big 12 games next season, in addition to recruiting restrictions. Women’s coach Kim Mulkey also received recruiting restrictions. “I believe strongly in follow- ing NCAA rules and will always try to do so in the future,” Mulkey said in a statement released by the school. “I do nothing without per- mission from our compliance of- fice and will continue to ask ques- tions to assure that things are done right. Any compliance-related mis- takes, even those that are second- ary, are disappointing. The major- ity of mistakes in this matter were errors in sending text messages and failure to accurately document our phone calls.” The report put a bit of a damper on what has been an extraordinary run of success for Baylor athletics. Besides Baylor’s win over Notre Dame for the women’s title, Drew’s team won a school-record 30 games and reached the NCAA regional fi- nals, where the Bears lost to even- tual national champion Kentucky. And all that came after star quarter- back Robert Griffin III became the school’s first Heisman Trophy win- ner following a football season that included 10 wins for the first time since 1980. Mulkey was named the AP’s na- tional coach of the year and ju- nior Brittney Griner was its player of the year. How Baylor recruited Griner, one of the most dominant women’s players in college basket- ball history, was reportedly part of the NCAA probe. A school report obtained by ESPN.com said Mulkey and her staff committed minor NCAA vi- olations for having impermissible contact with Griner and her family. During a 2007 camp, coaches spoke with the Griners about the basket- ball program, academic require- ments and the school in general both before and after the camp. Mulkey also reportedly broke NCA rules when she sat next to Griner’s father and discussed what the Baylor experience would be like. Brittney Griner, who is from the Houston area, played on the same AAU team as Mulkey’s daughter, Makenzie Robertson. The NCAA report did not mention Griner or her family by name, though Mulkey addressed it in her statement. “The other matters were relat- ed to my daughter’s participation in summer basketball,” she said. “While I am and will always be a mother first, I do recognize that there has to be a balance between my role as a mother of a prospect and my role as a head coach. I have always tried to strike that bal- ance and appreciate the opportu- nity to demonstrate to the NCAA staff such balancing efforts dating back to when Makenzie was in the seventh grade. I am pleased that my efforts to find the appropriate balance between a mother and a coach were recognized.” Griner said she had “made it clear to the NCAA staff and every- one else” that she had chosen Bay- lor early in the recruiting process. Besides keeping Mulkey off the recruiting trail in July, Baylor said one of her assistants has been barred from making recruiting calls from January through April. The school also reduced its women’s basketball scholarships from 15 to 13 in 2011-12. On the men’s side, Drew will miss the first two Big 12 games of the season, recruiting visits were trimmed and he lost a scholarship this past season and in 2012-13. In addition, a former coach faces a one-year “show cause” order that ef- fectively prevents him from coach- ing at an NCAA school. The assistant wasn’t identified, but FOXSports.com reported in Oc- tober 2010 that the NCAA was in- vestigating the recruitment of Han- ner Perea. The report said assistant Mark Morefield sent dozens of texts to Perea’s AAU and high school coaches and urged two of them to provide false and misleading infor- mation to the NCAA about a se- ries of text messages. Morefield re- signed in July 2011. “I sincerely apologize to Bay- lor University and Baylor Nation,” Morefield said in statement re- leased by his lawyer. “I learned a very valuable lesson in this case. In my 13 years of coaching at NCAA institutions, I have not intentional- ly violated NCAA rules. I will grow from this experience with a better understanding of NCAA rules.” The NCAA violations come nine years after Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy was found shot to death after he had been missing for six weeks. Teammate Carlton Dot- son pleaded guilty to murder. The ensuing investigation uncovered NCAA violations, illegal tuition payments and unreported failed drug tests that led to the resigna- tion of coach Dave Bliss, who was secretly recorded by an assistant coach of trying to persuade others to cover up misdeeds by portray- ing Dennehy as a drug dealer. Athletic director Ian McCaw said the school has made “significant investments in compliance staff- ing and infrastructure” since the investigation began. Drew said he took full responsi- bility for the violations, saying many were simply the result of improper- ly logging or failing to log calls to re- cruits. He noted that the school has a new software tracking system to as- sist coaches with the logistics. “I came to Baylor in 2003 to do a job: rebuild a program decimat- ed by very serious NCAA rules violations and tragedy,” he said. “I promised to rebuild the program in a way Baylor could be proud-mor- ally, academically and, finally, ath- letically, and we continue on that journey today.” — Associated PressBy sameer BhucharDaily Texan StaffJulie Jacobson | Associated PressBaylor coach Kim Mulkey, as well as men’s coach Scott Drew were reprimanded by the NCAA for a number of phone calls and text messages that were deemed violations. 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Simultaneously, Facebook will have their own picture taking fea- tures improved and further inno- vate on the foundation that Insta- gram has created. This partnership will lead social networking and the applications that we can use for it to a more streamlined way to share our lives online. with it, the more I find that people are receptive to having decor and lighting made from recycled glass in their homes, and they appreci- ate the effort we put into keeping its carbon footprint minimal.” Wolf’s prior career was in coding and web marketing; so implement- ing Etsy, an online marketplace for handmade and vintage items, as the medium for their sales was a natural choice. “We have tested other craft/arti- san e-commerce platforms but al- ways return our focus to Etsy as they have a proven history and the largest mass of online arts and crafts buyers,” Wolf said. Cristen Andrews, Austin-based blogger of BagsBeGone.com, is an- other artist who blogs about her plastic bag crocheting and vari- ous other creations, many of which make use of recycled materials. However, for Andrews, crochet- ing is more of a hobby than any- thing else. While she sells many of her creations at local craft fairs and shops, she primarily works as a freelance educational writer. Andrews’s experience in blog- ging about “plarn,” plastic bag yarn, has led to the recent populariza- tion of the practice. She current- ly receives daily emails from peo- ple around the world wanting to learn how to crochet from plas- tic bags or telling her about their own projects. “While I think plastic bags should ultimately be eradicated, I crochet with them because it’s a good method of recycling these bags that would otherwise end up in the streets, landfills or the bellies of animals,” Andrews said. “And I love showing others how they can recycle single-use plastic bags by crocheting them into fashionable, durable, reusable creations.” Over the past five years, An- drews has taught workshops to in- spire others to recycle plastic bags in creative ways, at events like Make Magazine’s Maker Faire in 2007 and various workshops at environmen- tal fairs and farmer’s markets in col- laboration with Austin Green Art. Through a Kickstarter fundrais- er and travel grant funded through Hostelling International, Andrews was able to spend the summer of 2010 traveling through Mumbai, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Delhi to spread her ideas of conservation through artistic means. “I decided that India would be a good location to introduce this idea of crocheting plastic bags,” Andrews said. “I thought that if I work with slum dwellers, teach them to per- form basic crochet stitches and cre- ate simple bag designs, they could become skilled artisans capable of transforming waste materials into fashionable products.” However, even taking small steps to reduce wastefulness has proven beneficial for students regardless of artistic prowess. Government senior Shawn Johnson used recy- cled paint to decorate the walls of his apartment. “I love the idea of using recy- clable material to make something new,” Johnson said. “It’s a really good way to save money and cre- ate something cool, especially when you’re making use of the things that you already have lying around your house.” These creations also introduce a unique way of expressing environ- mental concerns through a plat- form not normally associated with these issues. “I think that art is a fun way to discuss topics like this with- out getting too confrontation- al about it,” Andrews said. “And I think the message sticks a lot better with art, too.” RECYCLING continues from PAGE 12TECHcontinues from PAGE 12that came along with that.” Being filmed provided a dif- ferent perspective for the stu- dents, no longer being able to hide behind their lens. But not only that, they had a hands-on role in creation of the docu-web series itself with Gohring. They or even their friends handled the filming or the cinematog- raphy. Bukstein became so in- volved with the production that he received a co-associate pro- ducer credit. But a place where they all provided input one way or another was the editing room, a place for them to see the culled hours upon hours of footage shot of them, unrefined in any way. “It made us really critical on us and self-reflective,” Truong said. “It was us trying to be in front of the camera. At times, you forget about the camera, but when the camera’s on, you know there’s going to be tens of thousands of footage on you, knowing James Franco’s reach with this.” Some of those hours were ed- ited down to the short, less than 10 minute pilot that premiered at this year’s South By Southwest Film Conference. For all four of them, it was their first expe- rience with the festival. They spoke at a panel but even more nerve-rackingly, had to sit and watch themselves along with an audience. “Sitting on a panel made it all very real,” Haji said. “Having something that goes onto SXSW that gets exposed on such a big level was great. It was weird to see yourself on your screen. You’re your harshest critic, but people reacted very well to, which was comforting. You al- ways wonder how people will react to you.” With editing still going on and at least six more episodes to go, the experience for Gohring and all four of the “characters,” a word Bukstein used to describe the four of them, was reward- ing, shedding light on their ca- reer paths, their relationships with friends and family and of course, on the spotlight that is on themselves. For them, it be- came more than simply anoth- er cliche-ridden story of college trials and tribulations, but a true reflection of the lives of budding filmmakers about to head off to another real world. “This is not ‘reality,’” Bukstein said. “This is real life, the kind of real life that could not rep- licated in reality television be- cause everything that is hap- pening is real, not changed by a director and authentic. When you watch us, you won’t see us binge-drinking or trying to get laid. You will see us diligent- ly pursuing our careers, which many students are but are nev- er portrayed because there isn’t an avenue for that. This show is Austin embodied in four film students.” FRANCOcontinues from PAGE 12Instagram is demonstrated on an iPhone Monday, in New York. Facebook is spending $1 billion to buy the photo- sharing com- pany Instagram in the social network’s larg- est acquisition ever. Instagram lets people apply filters to photos they snap with their mobile devices and share them with friends and strangers. Karly Domb Sadof Associated Press RECYCLE .your copy ofThe Daily Texan Last month, the City Council unanimously voted to pass the bag ban ordinance, which means single- use plastic or paper bags will no lon- ger be offered at retail stores begin- ning next year. However, many local artists have decided to take a more creative approach by incorporating these recyclable materials into their art — from creating crafts out of re- cycled water bottles to crocheting with plastic yarn. Dean Wolf, radio-television-film alumnus of ’96, and his wife Carrie run Wolf Art Glass & Pottery, an on- line store which sells blown glass art, lighting and pottery created out of recycled materials. In particular, Wolf likes to work with Topo Chico bottles. Since they are made for machine production (and consequently to cool as quickly as possible), they provide for a more unique medium than the standard blowing “art glass,” which general- ly has a lower melting temperature and provides a longer work period for the artist. “My friends and I have been drinking Topo Chico mineral wa- ter for years and have always ad- mired the beautiful glass bottles it comes in,” Wolf said. “It was nat- ural for me to try melting these ‘Coke’ colored bottles and see what could be crafted with the recycled glass.” As glassblowing can often be a highly energy-consumptive art form, the couple is committed to finding ways of reducing their car- bon footprint — for instance, they use a single furnace to melt down small batches of glass in a home- made clay crucible, which also al- lows for experimentation with var- ious types of glasses. “I find working with bottle glass extremely rewarding, and some- times frustrating, in the challenge and speed required to manipulate it,” Wolf said. “The more I work Facebook acquired the mobile application Instagram for $1 bil- lion Monday. Instagram is an app for the iPhone (and recently for An- droid phones) that allows users to take pictures with various filtering options to give pictures an old, vin- tage look, whether it be like a fad- ed portrait or a simple black-and- white image. However, Instagram is not about just creating art, but also about shar- ing images with friends. “Instagram is a very personal social network, and one that’s less about posting frequently or shar- ing details of your life [than Face- book],” said Omar Gallaga, tech- nology reporter for the Austin American-Statesman. Part of Instagram’s appeal is its us- er-friendliness and simplicity. Users don’t have to open an extra app to access the camera, or shuffle through multiple tabs. Users can take a pic- ture within the application, choose from over a dozen filters and share it with friends on networks such as Facebook with only a few taps on the phone’s screen. “For me, Facebook is the easiest way for me to let my friends know what I’m up to, just because every- one’s already on it. I use it to share articles that I like, to interact with my friends’ updates, and of course to hold my Instagram photos,” said Annie Wang, co-founder of Her Campus online magazine and an avid Instagram and Facebook user. So why is Facebook interested in an app that’s available for smart- phones for free? Simply put, it’s the app’s appeal. Instagram cur- rently has more than 30 million users and they’re enjoying the ben- efits of taking pictures with style. Facebook saw its massive popular- ity and acquired it since it’s a natu- ral fit, as many users of both Fack- book and Instagram already use the two services in conjuction, and lots of shots from Instagram end up on Facebook anyway. “With so much capital, I’m not surprised that Facebook made this acquisition,” said Joshua Lee, stu- dent associate at the Learning Tech- nology Center and government ju- nior. “Mark Zuckerberg has been nothing short of an economic ge- nius in terms of expanding Fa- cebook and incorporating oth- er major companies into the Face- book interface, namely Skype for video calling and Zynga for their game platforms.” However, it seems that Insta- gram’s acquisition will not bring is not a complete integration into Fa- cebook. The relationship between the two companies will be exclusive, working as more of a partnership, and it seems that both will work on improving their products alongside one another. “We’ll be working with Facebook to evolve Instagram and build the network,” Kevin Systrom, CEO of Instagram, said in a statement Mon- day. “We’ll continue to add new fea- tures to the product and find new ways to create a better mobile pho- tos experience.” For users of the service, this deal means that data from both services will be accessible from one central source, making it easier for users to organize their social networks. The buyout will allow both Facebook and Instagram to benefit from each After the worst year-long drought on record, along with the hottest month recorded in the state’s his- tory (July 2011), Texas has still not taken the hint and appropri- ately prepared itself for climate change, according to a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council. The report notes that, although Texas is at particular risk for the effects of climate change, it doesn’t current- ly have any state adaptation plan and all attempts to develop one have failed. The report also notes that, though this recent drought has been bad, we shouldn’t think of it as a worst-case scenario. Tree ring records suggest that the state has experienced worse in the past. If climate change continues on its current path and we don’t prepare, we’re likely to experience even worse droughts in the future. Terrifying dinosaur both soft and feathery As paleontologists uncover more and more fossils, it’s becom- ing more apparent that many di- nosaurs wore feathers. The lat- est find, Yutyrannus huali, a dis- tant relative of the scaly Tyranno- saurs rex, is the largest known di- nosaur to feature plumage at more than 40 times the size of the pre- vious record holder. Xing Xu, the lead author of the paper announc- ing the discovery, described the gi- ant and ferocious beast as covered in feathers that resembled those of a baby chick rather than of an adult bird. Diamonds are a quantum computer’s best friend One of those most exciting fields in physics is that of quan- tum computing, where scien- tists are working to build a com- puter for the future, which can quickly solve problems that cur- rent computers would spend lon- ger than the age of the universe working on. This week, scientists announced that they built a small quantum computer inside a di- amond. While most computers speak using the language of bits — a series of 1s and 0s — quan- tum computers use qubits, which exist in a state of both 1 and 0 and, as a result, can do several calcu- lations simultaneously. The dia- mond quantum computer only had 2 qubits (as opposed to your hard drive, which has rough- ly 8 trillion bits), but demon- strated characteristics of being a quantum computer. Smart sand needs to get smaller The dream of MIT researchers in the Distributed Robotics Labo- ratory is to give you a bag of sand, have you put an object in there, give the bag a shake and have the sand recreate the object. We’re not there yet, but they have cre- ated “large sand” — cubes about a centimeter to a side — that can effectively do the same thing. These tiny boxes have tiny com- puter parts inside that communi- cate with the other boxes to rec- reate 2-D structures and comput- er models suggest that they should be able to do 3-D as well. How- ever, the sand needs to get much smaller before that can be tested. Old humans slaughtered mammoths Scientists have uncovered the re- mains of a woolly mammoth, nick- named Yuka, who appears to have been cut up and buried by hu- mans. Though Yuka has bite marks, caused by animals, there are oth- er slices that could only have been made by humans and, additionally, several organs had been removed. The researchers suspect that the an- imal was killed for food, but, since it was a large animal, not all of it could be taken at once and the left- overs were buried for a later date. 12 LIFELife&Arts12Thursday, April 12, 2012 | The Daily Texan | Katie Stroh, Life&Arts Editor | (512) 232-2209 | dailytexan@gmail.comFrom trash to craftBy Rainy SchermerhornDaily Texan StaffShila Farahani | Daily Texan Staff Dean Wolf, UT alumnus and owner of Wolf Art Glass and Pottery, creates and sells recycled art in order to encourage people to live a more environmentally friendly lifestyle. Facebook buys out Instagram, both expected to benefitBy Simon ChunDaily Texan StaffStudent filmmakers participate in James Franco’s web seriesTexas not prepared for climate changeIllustration by Colin Mullin | Daily Texan Staff SCIENCESCENEBy Robert StarrLate October of last year, four students from the Col- lege of Communication, radio- television-film students Da- vid Bukstein and Ali Haji, Mor- gan Young and Bao Troung, had set out on their respective proj- ects: whether it was a documen- tary on their family or a choir group or the human rights cam- paign. Their pre-production set into motion, their lens focused on their subjects, their editing formed a story. It was some- thing they were relatively used to — except that there was an- other camera on them. As they were working on filming, a pro- duction company was doing the same as a part of “Undergrads: South,” a docu-web series pre- miering today on www.James- FrancoTV.com. Actor James Franco’s produc- tion company, Rabbit Bandini Productions (founded in 2003), is producing the series, the third in the Undergrad series. With producing partner Vince Jol- ivette, the series depicts the lives of undegraduate, up-and-com- ing filmmakers. After a North and West series, they initial- ly set their sights on Dallas be- fore coming to the Austin Film Festival and becoming acquaint- ed with UT alumna and director Joy Gohring and deciding in- stead to focus on vibrant Austin film scene. “I really wanted to them to fo- cus on Austin because I know of the amazing talent that is here and the diversity,” Gohring said. With a location and a pro- duction company in tow, what was left were the subjects. With hundreds of film students on the University’s campus alone, it was big pool to whittle down, but through word of mouth and an interview process, they found their cast in Bukstein, Haji, Young and Truong. Though they all may be film- makers in some capacity, they all offer a different perspective, coming from different races, genders, sexual orientation and experience and aesthetic. “Instead of just getting peo- ple that were going to be in- teresting, they got people who were extremely driven and who weren’t willing to accept what [the producers] were initial- ly setting out for,” Bukstein. “They got four very unique, ambitious people.” The series follows Haji as he documents the choir group he is a part of, The Ransom Notes, as they compete; Troung as he completes a documentary on lo- cal band “Little Lo” and on his family; Young chronicles the Brady Campaign, which deals with gun rights; and Bukstein as he films a music video for Moth- er Falcon, along a personal film of his family. When it came to the actu- al shooting itself in late Octo- ber, and which continues today, they too had their own perspec- tives. Some were an open book, like Bukstein, who depicted the coming out of his father as a cross dresser while others kept more boundaries. “Because the Brady Campaign is very sensitive, I was conscious of that,” Young said. “These vic- tims are of violent crimes and I had to ask them to step outside at times. Ali and I were very aware of what was being filmed and all By Chris NguyenDaily Texan StaffTECH continues on pagE 11RECYCLINg continues on pagE 11FRaNCO continues on pagE 11UT alumnus, local artists promote green message through recycled creations(Left to right) David Bukstein, Bao Truong, Morgan Young and Ali Haji are the stars of the web series “Undergrads: South.” The series, created and produced by James Franco, follows the students in their everyday lives and routines. Elisabeth Dillon Daily Texan Staff