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State requires students to get meningitis vaccine State legislation passed in June

2011 requires all university students in Texas to provide meningitis vacci-nation documents to their institution by Jan. 31 or face being barred from class registration.

Meningitis is an infection that af-fects the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, or meninges. Because of how close to the brain and spinal chord the disease can occur, it can be potentially life threatening.

Dr. Theresa Spalding, University Health Services medical director, said this preventive measure is for the pro-

tection of students.“While anybody can get the dis-

ease, it’s more common in some ages, including people in their late teens and early twenties,” Spald-ing said. “Densely populated en-vironments can also increase the risk of transmission.”

The meningococcal meningi-

tis vaccine is offered by UHS for $190 for students with health insur-ance and $133 for students without health insurance.

University officials allow some stu-dents to be exempted from this re-quirement, including those with seri-ous allergic reactions to the vaccine, students who have turned 30 by the

first day of the semester and students who present any religious reason.

Spalding said there are risks to all vaccines, but there is no known risk of serious harm or death re-sulting from getting the meningo-coccal vaccine.

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Dr. Edmund Gordon, African and African diaspora studies professor, leads students and faculty on a tour highlighting periods of racism at UT Friday morning. Stops along the way included statues of Confederate soldiers, Littlefield Fountain and Darrel K. Royal Stadium.

Former UT student plans mayoral run

Inspired by his experiences with courts and the law, 25 year-old Nich-olas Lucier said he will run for mayor of Austin this May.

Lucier however, has almost al-ways been on the wrong side of the law in court, he said. After about sev-en arrests involving drug and alco-hol possession since he was 18, Luc-ier now has too many probation fines and cannot afford to take the last two classes required to graduate from UT with a government degree. He said he is running for mayor to prevent past drug problems from ruining a per-son’s life, including his own.

“We are ruining lives by putting people in jail that can’t afford to pay for probation,” Lucier said. “They lose their homes trying to pay the fines, all because they put a substance in their body. My dad doesn’t even tell me what I can and can’t put in my body anymore, so the government shouldn’t be able to either.”

Lucier started a satirical political party on Facebook called the Mush-room Tea Party, which supports le-galization of all drugs. Lucier said be-cause the party’s numbers have been increasing steadily, he believes he has a chance of winning a run for office.

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Student debt incites debate

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Nicholas Lucier, who is two classes short of graduating from UT, plans to run for mayor of Austin in May.

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Senator John Cornyn at the LBJ School of Public Affairs.

Editors note: Go online to dailytex-anonline.com for the complete inter-view.

On Friday, Sen. John Cornyn R-Texas spoke with UT law students at the LBJ School of Public Affairs about the problems posed by the public debt for the U.S. The Dai-ly Texan sat down with Senator Cornyn to discuss how these prob-lems could affect higher education at UT and elsewhere.

Daily Texan: Why did you feel it was important to warn UT law stu-dents about the debt crisis?

Sen. John Cornyn: Because stu-

dents are going to have to pay the bill. [The debt is] roughly $48,000 per every man, woman and child in America right now, and all we need to do to see where this is going is to look across the Atlantic at Europe

and see the sovereign debt crises over there. The bills are stacking up and creditors are doubting whether

President Barack Obama proposed incentive-based federal aid in which more affordable colleges receive more aid. UT President William Powers Jr. said the plan is sound, but kinks need to be worked out to ensure consider-ation for the expense of maintaining a top research university like UT.

Obama spoke about higher educa-tion reform in his State of the Union address on Jan. 24 and delved into more specific plans at the University of Michigan on Jan. 27.

The president requested an in-creased federal aid incentive plan for colleges to keep tuition rates at a reasonable level. Part of the pro-posed plan includes increasing cam-

pus-based aid, which would mainly expand the Perkins Loan Program, so colleges with better contained tu-ition rates would receive more feder-al funding.

“If you can’t stop tuition from go-ing up, then the funding you get from taxpayers each year will go down,” Obama said. “We should push colleg-es to do better. We should hold them accountable if they don’t.”

Obama said graduates in 2010 who took out loans owed an aver-age of $24,000 and is suggesting that Congress approve low interest rates for student loan borrowers.

“Student loan debt has now surpassed credit card debt for

Cornyn talks national debt

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TODAYThe SEC hosts ‘Winter Wonderland’The Student Events Center is hosting a Winter Wonderland Party complete with ice-skating, arts and crafts. The event is from 3-9 p.m. at the Gregory Gym Plaza and is free with a UT student ID.

UT ensemble performs at the BlantonFrom noon-1 p.m. on Tuesday, The Bach Cantata are performing at the Blanton Museum of Art, featuring the music of Bach’s “Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin BWV 125.” Admission is free for museum members, UT students and faculty.

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An inscription next to the Little-field Fountain honoring the Con-federacy is one example of the Uni-versity’s racist legacy, Edmund Gor-don, professor of African and Afri-can diaspora studies explained on an Occupy UT-sponsored tour.

Gordon led about 30 students around campus in an effort to dis-play UT’s racist heritage. Gordon led the students to Littlefield House, the South Mall, San Jacinto Dormitory, Darrel K. Royal Stadium, the Texas Cowboys Pavilion, Creekside Dormi-tory and Robert Lee Moore Hall.

“The purpose of this tour is to point out the neo-Confederate as-pects of UT’s history and geography,” said Gordon.

Gordon said the University’s geog-raphy and history of racism are prod-ucts of the time period when it was founded in 1883.

“The University came into being during a particular time, and its ini-tial kind of build-out and conceptual-ization was done at a time when ra-cial issues were really coming to the fore,” Gordon said. “Privileged and elite white folks felt like vindicat-ing the Confederacy and what the Confederacy stood for.”

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Power was restored to downtown by 8:15 a.m. Sunday after a cas-cading transformer failure caused Sixth Street and the surround-ing area to lose power for 12 hours Saturday night.

The blackout started when un-derground power lines overload-ed after a transformer near 10th Street and Congress Avenue failed and a transformer near Ninth Street and Congress Avenue caught on fire, according to a statement by Austin Energy.

An area from Congress Avenue to Red River Street and 12th Street to 5th Street was affected by about 8:30 p.m., and grew larger by 11:30 p.m. By 2:00 a.m. All of the busi-nesses on Sixth Street had lost pow-er and people were filling the streets, said co-owner of B. D. Riley’s Irish Pub Steve Basile.

“Two a.m. looked like a zombie apocalypse, a lot of people going out into the streets, and there was just not another light to be seen,” Basile said. “The outage was very spotty. When it started, the north side of Sixth between Brazos and San Jacin-to was completely affected, and by midnight, it was dark everywhere. It clearly rolled like a wave and spread farther along.”

Basile said the people at his pub did not panic when the power went out, and “chilled and had another round” while using their cell phones as flashlights to light tables and order drinks.

“The band lost power because their amps went out, but the sing-er knew how to play fiddle, so they played a few songs acoustically and people stayed,” Basile said.

Kimberly Beckham, gener-al manager at the Alamo Draft-house Ritz, said theatre-goers were determined to make the best of the blackout.

“We were at the tail-end of our Master Pancake show when the power went out,” Beckham said. “They are local guys that play mov-ies and then lampoon them for your enjoyment, and what was actual-ly very cool is that they decided to act out the rest of the movie with the help of audience members who lit the stage with their cell phones. For-tunately, we were really prepared. I just hope that everyone else on Sixth Street was safe.”

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Mayoral candidate Nicholas Lucier, right, eats lunch with his friend Zander Lampkin last Thursday. Lucier created a political party on Facebook that supports the legalization of drugs to attract young voters.

Many students do not see this re-quirement as a problem.

Freshman business major Keyana Hemyari said while she doesn’t care for needles, she would rather get a shot than deal with the possible con-sequences of contracting something as dangerous as meningitis.

“It’s really no issue,” Hemyari said. “I really hate shots but I’ve been told how dangerous meningitis can be, so I will gladly take the shot over getting the infection.”

Spalding said the chance for treat-ing and surviving meningitis with no permanent damage is rare once it is already contracted.

Approximately 10 to 15 percent of people who get the meningococcal disease will die even if they get treat-ed, and 11 to 19 percent of survivors

will lose fingers, toes, arms or legs. People with meningitis are also at risk of permanent nervous system prob-lems including seizures, diminished cognitive abilities and hearing loss.

Newly admitted students to UT are not required to sub-mit documentation as part of their admission process, but non-compliance will prevent students from registering for classes, according to University Health Services website.

Because students living on cam-pus were required to show prop-er documentation of their immu-nizations before moving in at the start of the term, they will not be affected by the Jan. 31 deadline.

Laurie Mackey, administrative services director with the Divi-sion of Housing and Food Ser-vices, said all students will need to comply with this state-man-dated law.

“If they do not have their vac-cine and are not allowed to attend school, they may no longer live on campus,” Mackey said.

these governments can actually pay their debt. Obviously, this is creat-ing a lot of turmoil there, a recession right now and it could very well spill into the United States.

DT: How would the debt crisis affect the quality and availability of higher education in the U.S. if left unsolved?

Sen. Cornyn: It’s going to reduce the amount of money that we can spend on anything, including educa-tion. [The debt is a result] of a lot of things the federal government does, for example, the expansion of Med-icaid availability from 100 percent of poverty to 133 percent of pover-ty. That’s a shared state/federal bill and what it does is put $27 billion of unfunded liabilities on the state gov-ernment, crowding out other priori-ties such as education.

DT: Does decreasing federal spending to resolve the debt mean that the federal government will have to find new ways to support public education?

Sen. Cornyn: I think budgeting is all about priorities. Clearly educa-tion is a priority. Most of it is funded at the state level, about 90 percent for K-12, and as you know a lot of stu-dents have to borrow money to fund their education. The President talked about that at his State of the Union. The problem is that education fund-ing should be a priority, but there are

a lot of things we are spending mon-ey on now that could be spent on ed-ucation and other priorities.

DT: Is there a role that the gov-ernment needs to take to ensure that education remains inclusive? Espe-cially in a state like Texas, which has a quickly growing population?

Sen. Cornyn: I would say we need to do a better job in reaching out to everybody in making sure that ed-ucation is available to all. We have challenges, the drop out rate and things like that, but we can create a great system of community colleg-es that teach skills that are neces-sary for jobs that exist, but for which there’s not a quality, trained work-force. This needs to remain at the top of our list of priorities.

DT: What advice do you have for students preparing for jobs in an economy projected to have nota-bly lower growth outcomes than the previous generation?

Sen. Cornyn: Well I would say don’t accumulate any more debt. Unfortunately, the federal govern-ment took over all student loans in 2010, and this summer will start charging 6.8 percent on those loans. The cost of those loans is ac-tually much lower, and the govern-ment is using the cost from those loans to fund other programs, like the health care bill. It doesn’t seem quite fair that students should have to bear that additional cost. I would say look for opportunities to complete your formal educa-tion in a shorter rather than a lon-ger period of time.

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election interesting and bring atten-tion to the mayoral election,” Lucier said. “The Mushroom Tea Party will definitely bring some young people into the polls.”

Lucier has not raised any mon-ey for his campaign because he said money is not necessary to be mayor.

“It’s going to be so funny when I win mayor with no money after these other candidates have been wasting so much time trying to gain money for their campaign,” Lucier said.

Lucier said he only had to fill out a few forms to start his run for may-or, but he must still receive signa-tures and sponsors before his name can appear on a ballot.

“It’s really out of my hands,” he said. “I’m just spreading a message and if people like it they should get out and support it.”

Mayor Lee Leffingwell plans to run for re-election this year and looks forward to campaigning against a wide variety of candidates, Leffingwell’s campaign consultant, Mark Littlefield said.

“Anything anyone can do to im-prove voter turnout is a good thing no matter who wins or loses,” Little-field said. “We want young people to get involved, so this is perfect.”

Student Government President Natalie Butler, said she does not know much about Lucier and the policies he supports, but she is al-ways happy to see young people get

involved with politics.“The more young people involved

in political conversations, the better,” Butler said. “Everyone benefits from having young people engaged.”

the first time ever,” Obama said. “That’s inexcusable.”

Obama also made appeals to dou-ble the number of work-study jobs over the next five years and create a college scorecard of financial infor-mation about colleges to be readily available to families.

“We want to push more infor-mation out so consumers can make good choices, so you as consumers of higher education understand what it is that you’re getting,” Obama said.

Powers said Obama’s perfor-mance-based funding model is

sound and includes approaches implemented at UT. He said the model’s success would depend on the implementation and the mea-surements used to determine how much funding to allocate to vari-ous colleges. Powers said the mod-el should include multiple, careful-ly chosen measurements.

“If the only metric used is tuition for distributing resources, then across the nation the Perkins loans would go to community colleges,” Powers said.

Powers said the University re-sponded to the $92 million in state cuts with a dramatically lower tuition proposal than most of the Univer-sity’s peer institutions. Powers sub-mitted a recommendation on Dec. 15 to increase tuition by the larg-

est amount allowed by the UT Sys-tem. He said he does not know how much of an increase the recommen-dation would have been without the System directives, but it would have been modest.

“We would have still been very concerned with cost,” Powers said.

Powers said it is important to keep in mind that it is not just about cost, but about the value of the education.

“We want as low of cost, as high of quality education,” Powers said.

Beverly Moreno, communica-tions sciences and disorders senior, said the incentives program to give more federal aid to cheaper colleges sounds nice on paper, but it is not as simple as it is presented.

“I can’t say let’s punish our

schools that hike up prices,” More-no said. “I know there are a lot of details out there that result in high-er tuition cost.”

Moreno said as a student with a work-study job, Obama’s fo-cus on increasing work-study im-pressed her.

“I think that’s a great thing to be able to work and put yourself through college,” Moreno said.

She said anything the federal government can do to lessen the necessity of student loans is a good thing, especially given the dismal job market.

“Loans are necessary, but it’d be nice to have more of a guarantee that we’re going to be able to pay those back and not regret it,” Moreno said.

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The South Mall contains numer-ous references to the Old South, Gordon said, including statues of Confederate leaders that flank the west side of the lawn.

“The truth becomes revealed when you spread the branches,” he said.

Amy Rattananinad, anthro-pology senior and Occupy UT member, said Occupy UT orga-nized the event to raise aware-ness about UT’s history and to promote racial equality.

English graduate student and Occupy UT member Trevor Hoag, said Occupy UT’s larger goal in-cludes putting an end to racism and racial inequality.

“The Occupy movement as a whole began at its instantiation as a movement for economic jus-tice,” Hoag said. “But questions of economic justice and racial justice are intertwined.”

Hoag said UT’s ever increas-ing tuition prevents people from many middle and lower-class fam-ilies from attending the Universi-ty. “Who are those families? Well, they’re disproportionately people of color,” said Hoag. “By creating financial barriers, you’re creating race barriers.”

Rattananinad, who helped organize the event, said she wants the symbols of the Con-federacy remaining on campus to be removed.

“We definitely don’t want to keep glorifying racists on campus,” she said.

However, Gordon said he found it important to preserve and study these images and symbols rather than getting rid of them.

“I am one who is not for eras-ing those things,” he said. “We need to leave the history intact in its embodied form,” he said. “To deny the past and its impor-tance to the present is to deny the truth.”

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s for-eign minister expressed optimism Sunday that a visit by U.N. inspec-tors to Iran’s nuclear facilities would produce an understanding, despite world concerns that Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons.

The three-day inspection tour by the International Atomic Ener-gy Agency team comes during spik-ing tension. The West is imposing new sanctions to try to force Iran to slow or halt its nuclear program, and Iran is threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz, a vital oil passage, in retaliation.

Visiting Ethiopia, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi appeared to be trying to defuse the crisis.

“We are very optimistic about the mission and the outcome” of the IAEA mission, Salehi was quoted as saying by Iran’s semiofficial Mehr news agency.

“We’ve always tried to put trans-parency as a principle in our co-

operation with IAEA,” Salehi said. “During this visit, the delegation has questions and the necessary answers will be given.”

The findings from the visit could greatly influence the direction and urgency of U.S.-led efforts to rein in Iran’s ability to enrich uranium — which Washington and allies fear could eventually produce weapons-grade material. Iran has declined to abandon its enrichment labs, but claims it seeks to fuel reactors only for energy and medical research.

The team is likely to visit an un-derground enrichment site near the holy city of Qom, 80 miles south of Tehran, which is carved into a mountain as protection from pos-sible airstrikes. Earlier this month, Iran said it had begun enrichment work at the site, which is far small-er than the country’s main urani-um labs but is reported to have more advanced equipment.

The U.N. nuclear agency delega-tion includes two senior weapons experts — Jacques Baute of France and Neville Whiting of South Af-

rica — suggesting that Iran may be prepared to address some issues re-lated to the allegations that it seeks nuclear warheads.

In unusually blunt comments ahead of his arrival, the IAEA’s Dep-uty Director General Herman Nack-aerts — who is in charge of the agen-cy’s Iran file — said he wants Tehran to “engage us on all concerns.”

Iran has refused to discuss the al-leged weapons experiments for three years, saying they are based on “fab-ricated documents” provided by a “few arrogant countries” — a phrase authorities in Iran often use to refer to the United States and its allies.

“So we’re looking forward to the start of a dialogue,” Nack-aerts told reporters at Vienna air-port. “A dialogue that is overdue since very long.”

In a sign of the tensions that sur-round Iran’s disputed nuclear pro-gram, a dozen Iranian hard-liners carrying photos of slain nuclear ex-pert Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan were waiting at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport early Sunday.

Chavez will nationalize banks that don’t support agriculture

CARACAS, Venezuela — Ven-ezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned private banks on Sunday that he will consider nationaliz-ing any that refuse to finance ag-ricultural projects promoted by his government.

Banks are required by law in Venezuela to provide at least 10 percent of their lend-ing to f inance gover nment development projects.

“The private banks that do not comply with the constitu-tion and their duty, well, I do not have any problem nation-alizing them,” Chavez said dur-ing his weekly radio and tele-vision program. “We must en-sure the constitution and laws are complied with!”

Chavez charged that the rules aren’t being followed by some of Venezuela’s biggest private banks — Banesco, Banco Mercantil and Banco Provincial, which is con-trolled by Spain’s Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria.

Chavez singled out the pres-ident of Banesco, Juan Car-l o s E s c o t e t , o r d e r i n g h i m to lend more to Venezuela’s cash-strapped farmers.

“If you cannot do it , g ive me your bank,” Chavez said, prompting applause f rom a crowd of government officials and supporters.

A bill approved last year by Chavez’s allies in the National Assembly describes banking as a “public service” and gives the government the authority to de-clare banks to be of “public utili-ty,” which paves the way for state nationalizations.

Occupy Oakland takes City Hall, police arrest 400 by midnight

Editor’s note: Figures released later by Oakland police place the number arrested closer to 400.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Oak-land police say they arrested a total of about 150 people Sat-urday as protesters spent a por-tion of the day trying to get into a vacant convention center, and later broke into City Hall and tried to occupy a YMCA.

Police spokesman Jeff Thom-ason says most of the arrests came around 8 p.m. That’s when police took about 100 protesters into custody as they marched t h r o u g h t h e c i t y ’s d o w n -town, with some enter ing a YMCA building.

Ab o u t 2 0 d e m o n s t r a t o r s were arrested earlier in the af-ternoon, after police say they threw rocks, bottles and oth-er objects at officers and tore down fencing.

Police say three officers were injured. Officers used tear gas and “f lash” grenades on the protesters after they refused to leave.

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At Imam Khomeini airport in Tehran, Iran, demonstrators held posters and photos of assassinated scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, killed in an explosion last month, awaiting delegates from the International Atomic Energy Organization.

Figures show a recovering labor market

WASHINGTON — Business-es are growing more confident in the economy, investing in more equipment and laying off fewer workers.

Government figures on man-ufacturing and unemployment claims released Thursday raised hopes on the eve of a report on how much the economy grew in the October-December quarter.

Still, 2011 ended up as the worst year on record for new-home sales, a reminder that the economy has a long way to go.

“Business optimism seems to be picking up, which is crit-ical to the growth and com-

petitiveness of the U.S. econo-my over the long haul,” said Di-ane Swonk, chief economist at Mesirow Financial.

That growth was evident af-ter construction giant Caterpil-lar said its fourth-quarter profit jumped 60 percent. The world’s largest maker of construction and mining equipment also is-sued 2012 guidance above Wall Street predictions.

Factories are busier in large part because businesses are or-dering more communication equipment, industrial machin-ery and autos. Economists pay close attention to demand for such core capital goods, which are considered a good proxy for business investment plans.

The increase offered some re-assurance about the status of the recovery. On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve cited the decline while warning that the economy remains vulnerable.

Af ter see ing the govern-ment’s report, some economists said those concerns may have been premature.

Companies are also laying off fewer workers, which has some economists optimistic about job growth in January.

Weekly applications rose last week to a seasonally adjust-ed 377,000. But that followed a week in which they fell to near a four-year low. And the lon-ger-term trend is pointing to a healthier job market.

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Goals for universities proposed by Obama test some presidents

WASHINGTON — Fuzzy math, Illinois State University’s president called it. “Political theater of the worst sort,” said the University of Washington’s head.

President Barack Obama’s new plan to force colleges and univer-sities to contain tuition or face los-ing federal dollars is raising alarm among education leaders who wor-ry about the threat of government overreach. Particularly sharp words came from the presidents of public universities; they’re already frustrat-ed by increasing state budget cuts.

The reality, said Illinois State’s Al Bowman, is that simple chang-es cannot easily overcome deficits at many public schools. He said he was happy to hear Obama, in a speech Friday at the University of Michigan, urge state-level support of public universities. But, Bowman said, given the decreases in state aid, tying federal support to tuition prices is a product of fuzzy math.

Illinois has lowered public sup-port for higher education by about one-third over the past decade when adjusted for inflation. Illi-nois State, with 21,000 students, has raised tuition almost 47 percent since 2007, from $6,150 a year for an in-state undergraduate student to $9,030.

“Most people, including the pres-ident, assume if universities were simply more efficient they would be able to operate with much smaller state subsidies, and I believe there

are certainly efficiency gains that can be realized,” Bowman said. “But they pale in comparison to the loss in state support.”

Bowman said the undergradu-ate experience can be made cheap-er, but there are trade-offs.

“You could hire mostly part-time, adjunct faculty. You could teach in much larger lecture halls, but the things that would allow you achieve the greatest levels of efficiency would dilute the prod-uct and would make it something I wouldn’t be willing to be part of,” he said.

At Washington, President Mike Young said Obama showed he did not understand how the budgets of public universities work.

Young said the total cost to ed-ucate college students in his state, which is paid for by both tuition and state government dollars, has gone down because of efficiencies on campus. While universities are tightening costs, the state is cut-ting their subsidies and authoriz-ing tuition increases to make up for the loss.

Obama’s plan would need ap-proval by Congress, a hard s e l l in an at mosphere of partisan gridlock.

In his State of the Union ad-dress Tuesday, Obama described meeting with university presidents who explained how some schools curtailed costs through technol-ogy and redesigning courses to help students finish more quickly. He said more schools need to take such steps.

President Barack Obama speaks at the University of Michigan’s Al Glick Field House on Friday in Ann Arbor, Mich.

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From UT President William Powers Jr.’s response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address to the proposed electric rate changes, the following quotes are among the best from the last few days.

“If we are going to take any kind of money, certainly tax dollars, with an idea that we’re actually trying to accomplish some things with that, we’d better pay attention to: are we actually accomplishing those things?”— UT President William Powers Jr. in response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, according to The Texas Tribune. In it, Obama said if higher education institutions do not stop increasing tuition, they will see a decrease in federal funding.

“At the end of the day, what we hope is that long overdue justice will be served for the Baker family, which is ultimately what we were trying to accom-plish.”— Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo in response to allegations that the Austin Police Department altered a report for use as a ‘prop’ while conducting an inter-rogation about a 1988 killing.

“[The] board leadership decided we ought to look at our rule-making authority and see if we can’t tighten up some of those requirements a little more.”— Dominic Chavez, external relations director of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, about a rule change regarding in-state tuition for undocu-mented students, according to KVUE. The alteration would remind undocu-mented students yearly of their obligation to seek legal status and would require schools to keep affidavits on file.

“I’m very hopeful we’ll see some significant adjust-ments in the proposal that’s currently on the table to make sure that nobody is paying a dispropor-tionate share of the burden.”— Austin City Council member Chris Riley on the proposed electric rate changes by Austin Energy, according to KXAN.

“If there’s a location to look at as we discuss how to do things differently — how do we make cars smarter, safer, better for [the] environment — Austin wants to be on the leading edge of those discussions.”— Adrianna Cruz, vice president of global corporate recruitment for the Aus-tin Chamber of Commerce, according to Forbes. The city is encouraging com-panies to invest in advanced automotive technologies, which contributes to its slowly increasing role in the automotive industry.

“The strategic vision can best be developed and directed by a local governing board,”— Robert Berdahl, interim president of the University of Oregon and former UT president, according to The Oregonian. Berdahl was appointed to the position after Richard Lariviere, a former UT dean, was fired by the board in December. One of the reasons for Lariviere’s ousting was his insistence on creating a sepa-rate board for the University of Oregon, an issue that Berdahl is now pursuing.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology is hoping to legitimize and further trans-form online learning. The school finds itself at the forefront of the open edu-cational resources movement. With its many online course notes, lecture videos and other educational materials, MIT re-cently launched another online learning initiative called MITx. The goal of MITx is to extend the reach of higher educa-tion and provide students with a means of earning credentials to supplement their studies.

Online courses have earned a repu-tation for being “lite” versions of their classroom counterparts and are therefore regarded as easier. It is a widely accepted fact, for instance, that if a student needs an easy A for a core class, he or she would do well to take it online. MIT hopes to change this culture.

MITx is not an easier version of MIT but instead carries the MIT pedigree to an online medium where non-residential learners will receive the best possible ex-perience. MITx builds upon MIT’s de-cade old OpenCourseWare, which now includes nearly 2,100 courses.

The idea of MITx is to allow students to supplement their current coursework in a way that is both easy to scale and ac-

cessible. For example, an engineering stu-dent will be able to take the knowledge he or she learns in an electronics class and apply it to an online lab. MITx will be a free program. However, those who wish to get credit from MIT will need to take an exam that will cost money.

The ultimate goal of MITx and other online learning programs is to create high-quality, affordable, accessible educa-tion for future generations. The Internet revolution has allowed an online learning community to develop. Contributions from MIT and other institutions of high-er education will spearhead the move-ment to create an online consortium. An improved online teaching environment modeled after MITx would bring many benefits to UT.

A bona fide, undiluted online program would extend UT’s global reach. Unlike traditional classes, online courses are unrestricted by physical parameters such as classroom size or student-to-profes-sor ratio. Anyone with a computer and the motivation will be able to complete UT coursework.

The creation of such an online pro-gram can be easily achieved by record-ing lectures and scanning lecture notes. These materials can be uploaded online for anyone to access.

UT could also improve online courses by making them more interactive. The

University could retool its lectures and coursework to be responsive to students’ academic progress. For example, home-work grading software could analyze a student’s missed questions and provide suggestions for improvement. An online course could also crowdsource the grad-ing process. Qualified moderators could be certified to comment on students’ work in real time. This would further personalize the course and tailor it to the needs of the student.

A UTx-type program could also better prepare incoming freshman for the rig-ors of a university-level education. Rath-er than taking an AP test, a graduating high school senior could take a freshman class early to get a better understanding of what it takes to succeed at the under-graduate level.

Moreover, the interest generated by MITx and MIT’s OpenCourseWare shows that online programs present an opportunity to create revenue. Depend-ing on their size and quality, future on-line programs at UT could help generate much-needed money.

In its current state, online education is seen as an inferior manifestation of a real course. However, if done well, online ed-ucation could become the preferred me-dium for future generations of students.

Shi is an electrical and computer engineering junior.

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Many French soldiers during World War I possessed the con-cept of Le Système D, which is understood as coping, manag-ing, making do or muddling through situations, Elizabeth Murphy said.

Murphy, assistant professor of French at Oberlin College and potential faculty member for UT’s French and Italian depart-ment, discussed the experience of French soldiers in the trench-es during a talk on Friday.

Rather than analyzing French cultural trends and history through academic and literary sources, Murphy used soldier narratives for the majority of her research.

French tactics during World War I mainly involved trench war-fare, and Murphy said the French soldier had a very distinct attitude towards his service.

The typical French soldier was an agile opportunist and could adapt to contingencies, Murphy said.

“The French soldiers’ wit and resourcefulness motivated them to stay alive and express their intellectual freedom and digni-ty,” she said.

The concept of Le Système D, or “just getting by,” was por-trayed throughout French cul-ture both literally and figurative-ly during the early 1900s, Mur-phy said. In popular culture de-pictions, the French soldiers’ tri-als in the trenches were seen hu-mourously as opposed to heroic, Murphy said.

“[In popular culture] charac-ters were represented literally as getting oneself out of shit,” Mur-phy said. “Shit was seen falling from the sky.”

The image of young Frenchmen in the war was at times portrayed negatively, Murphy said. She de-scribed the great lengths soldiers went to in order to avoid army ser-vice, such as a draftee who refused to cut his hair and chose to go to jail rather than be drafted. Also in popular culture, soldiers were

shown as poaching and stealing during their time in the army.

World War I was a fight for “Frenchiness,” which created a new identity for the country moving into the 20th century, Murphy said.

French linguistics graduate stu-dent Stephanie Russo said she ap-preciated the level of humor Mur-phy brought to the otherwise grim

subject of trench warfare. “The French soldier’s resis-

tance showed the human spirit of the French,” Russo said. “They did what they could with what they had. They weren’t trying to be the best.”

French linguistics professor Barbara Bullock said that the trait of “getting by” is not only found in French soldiers.

“French university students embrace this concept,” Bullock said. “They try not to go to class, do homework or put in any effort, and they are very proud of it.”

Bullock said it might not only be the French who embrace the art of “getting by.”

“This concept might sound fa-miliar to University of Texas stu-dents as well,” she said.

A recent U.S. government study has revealed a decrease in the use of marijuana and cocaine, in ev-ery generation since the 1960s, along with a large increase in the abuse of prescription medication by young people.

Richard Miech, professor at the University of Colorado at Denver, presented the statistics and anal-ysis of his study in a lecture titled “Trends in Illegal Drug Use Over the Past 25 Years: A Cohort or Pe-riod Process?” Miech said his statis-tics were based on a survey of over 700,000 Americans between the ages of 15 and 64.

“The results regarding marijua-na and cocaine were what was ex-pected. Marijuana and cocaine use has decreased dramatically over the past several decades,” Miech said. “Although roughly 20 percent of Americans between 20 and 24 have smoked marijuana in the past year, overall drug use has declined generation by generation since the baby boomers.”

However, Miech said, a problem that is beginning to reveal itself in today’s youth is the abuse of pre-scription medication. Miech said the usage of prescription drugs in a non-medical way has become the second-most common type of drug use among young people and has increased over the past two and a half decades.

Miech said prescription medica-tions are the leading cause of drug use overdose mortality.

“It’s pretty scary. The chances of young people using prescription drugs non-medically has increased four-fold over the last 25 years,” Miech said “It’s a whole new beast.”

Junior business major Andrew Bowen said he has been exposed to this emerging problem.

“Xanax, Oxycontin, Vicodin, I hear of people doing it all the time,” Bowen said. “They’re even more open about abusing medication than with marijuana use.”

Bowen said he believes people abuse prescription medication be-cause they think it is safer.

“They think there’s no danger to it because it’s legal in some context,” Bowen said.

Professional private practice counselor James Banks said he has worked with people with medica-tion abuse problems.

“[Some people] will reach for a substance to try to alleviate their pain,” Banks said. “But oftentimes, that makes their depression much more intense.”

Banks said the best way to ap-proach prescription medication abuse is from a psychological point of view.

“There are healthier options to getting out unwanted feelings,” Banks said. “Drinking and con-suming prescribed medication is a very dangerous combination. A lot of times people don’t realize how harmful that can be. When you do that, you’re playing with fire.”

Banks said he believes the best way to combat this is to let peo-ple know there are counseling resources available.

“Reaching out for help is a strength, not a weakness. It’s not a bad thing — it’s a smart thing,” Banks said. “Taking care of your psyche is just as important as taking care of your body.”

Banks said doctors must be wear y of these issues when prescribing medication.

“Hopefully, doctors will begin gathering more information on people’s social history and family background,” Banks said. “That way they can avoid prescribing medica-tion in instances when there may be better options.”

Banks said prescription medica-tions are not going away, so people must become better informed about the dangers of abusing them.

“As a parent, the number one thing is to educate your child,” Banks said. “It’s challenging growing up, but there are peo-ple and resources available that can help.”

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Gabriel Brennan, left, blocks out the noise of the propeller while his stepfather Winston Larison runs his airplane’s motor in their front yard. An aircraft mechanic at Galveston’s Lonestar Flight Museum, Winston built the airplane in a year from wood and aluminum and plans to fly it locally.

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UT students, professors evaluate Haitian soil behavior

The Project unites alumni, students in community service

Two years ago, a national team of engineers, including UT civil engi-neering professor Ellen Rathje and civil engineering graduate student Os-car Suncar, traveled to Haiti in a re-connaissance mission after the Jan. 12, 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

The Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance Association sent the group of engineers and scientists to map damage and collect data on soil behavior during the earthquake.

Suncar said the research team’s in-formation could facilitate the recon-struction of Haiti’s infrastructure.

“We used remote sensing and sat-ellite images that are taken at the mo-

ment of the earthquake,” Suncar said. “We try to identify wherever we think the soil may have [collapsed]. We evaluate what kind of soil it was and we run some tests to measure the consistency.”

The research team also informed Haitian authorities on how to prepare for future earthquakes and how to im-plement good regulations and building codes. Suncar said the magnitude of the disaster resulted from a combination of poor soil conditions and a lack of strong regulatory building codes.

“The soil was very soft and rela-tively, geologically new,” Suncar said. “Most of the construction was made on top of these deposits in Port-au-Prince including the national palace.”

Due to great poverty and poor reg-

ulation, infrastructure in Haiti was poorly made previous to the earth-quake, Suncar said.

“People construct however they can,” Suncar said. “We saw a lot of the steel reinforcement was very old that could not withstand the earthquake.”

However, two years after the earth-quake and the research mission, Sun-car said there are still many problems with the infrastructure in Haiti.

“There is still a lot of rubble,” Sun-car said. “I would hope to see a recon-struction plan so that Haiti can go from the position they are in right now, to a country that can grow by itself.”

Wendy Womack, sophomore ra-dio-television-film major and secre-tary of the Lespwa Means Hope Tex-as Chapter traveled to Port-au-Prince

in March 2010, and said the buildings in were still destroyed.

“They need people who will go down and help it be rebuilt,” Womack said.

Civil engineering senior Amber Mc-Cullough said she hopes to be part of the reconstruction of Haiti in the future.

“These are the projects that as a civil engineer I hope to one day do-nate my efforts, talents and knowl-edge to,” McCullough said.

However, she said she ac-knowledges the huge task ahead for civil engineers.

“If the rebuilding does actual-ly take place, this could be a mon-umental project for engineers be-cause of the limitations such as re-sources, and will take efforts of pro bono workers,” McCullough said.

Fifty Texas Exes alumni chap-ters and the Division of Diversi-ty and Community Engagement will team up to host The Project, a community service event aiming to renovate two Austin area neigh-borhoods on Feb. 25.

Amory Baril, the Volunteer and Learning Center’s program coor-dinator and The Project’s advisor, said the Project’s collaboration with UT alumni led to the launch of Tex-as Exes Care About The Project. For the first time since The Project was launched, 13 years ago, Baril said the partnership expects more than 2000 volunteers to participate in the com-munity service project.

“This is a network-wide com-mitment to service throughout the month of February, anchored by the campus-run event,” Baril said. “We’ll have over 50 volunteers from the Austin chapter at the local event, which far exceeds our expectations from the first year of the program.”

This collaboration was made possible by the staff of The Divi-sion of Diversity and Community Engagement, which houses the Vol-unteer and Service Learning Cen-ter, Baril said.

“With DDCE’s mission being cen-tered around community outreach and the Texas Exes having so many chapters who contribute so much to their communities, it seemed natu-ral to unite those chapters’ service efforts around this event,” Baril said.

Lydia Cleveland, social work ju-nior and the Project’s co-chair, said Project 2012 will be working with the Dove Springs and Onion Creek Plantation community located in Southeast Austin to provide servic-es for schools, parks, churches, two alleyways and 25 resident locations within the area.

“We’ll mainly be doing beautifi-cation projects, such as landscaping,

mulching and painting,” Cleveland said. “However, some sites are a little more complicated, so volunteers will be doing repairs as well.”

Cleveland said The Project will also enlist the help of Home Depot to teach volunteers the skills needed to complete their renovations.

“Thankfully, we’re also working closely with Home Depot, so they have agreed to not only donate their time to train students in charge of the volunteers but also to help out,” said Cleveland.

Cleveland, who has volunteered with The Project since 2010, said it is a great opportunity for UT alum-ni to continue their passion for com-munity service even after leaving campus and offers an amazing op-portunity to connect young people to a community in need of support.

Advertising senior Daniel Van said it means a lot that UT alumni have decided to help The Project, because it has so far only been a stu-dent based organization.

“It’s great that these alumni want to give back to the community that they grew up in,” Van said. “They are going to get to work together with current students and use their past experiences to motivate those who are volunteering.”

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Bill Monat, a 19 year-old fresh-man, was first introduced to Tex-as Rugby just a few weeks ago af-ter players on the team spotted him leaving his dorm. After attending rugby practices last week, the 6-feet-1-inch, 215-pound Chicago native agreed to compete in a rugby com-bine like no other.

Last Saturday, the Texas Rugby team, in collaboration with its train-ing partners at RedBlack Gym, host-ed a CrossFit-style combine dur-ing which Longhorn men competed in ten physically draining, mentally taxing tests.

Although 30 men originally com-mitted to participate in the combine, fewer than 20 Longhorns made an appearance at Clark Field on Satur-day morning. The resignation of one competitor after only the warm-up was a clear indication that the com-bine had not been designed for the faint-hearted or weak-willed.

Because CrossFit is committed to conditioning every physical and psychological factor utilized during an athletic performance, the par-ticipants at the combine were faced with workouts that targeted numer-ous facets of their athleticism includ-ing agility, explosiveness, speed, en-durance and strength. In addition, the event incorporated rugby-specif-ic evasion and tackling drills.

The first test was a two-round, tri-part challenge designated as the workout of the day — WOD, in CrossFit lingo — that was unani-mously voted the toughest challenge. In groups of four, the athletes swung 53-pound kettlebell weights, start-ing from a slacked-arm position, over their heads 21 times. Next, they dropped to the ground and cranked out 12 push-ups. Then, they jumped to their feet and sprinted 400 me-ters, only to return to the starting position and repeat the process one more time.

“At the beginning, we wanted to give them a taste of what CrossFit

is all about. We planned the WOD test first to weed out the ones that we knew wouldn’t make it,” Red-Black Gym trainer Travis Holley said. “Then we moved on to the sport-specific and skills test and finished with the broad athleticism [endurance] workout.”

Four tests into the combine, a few

competitors began to catch the at-tention of the current Texas Rugby team members who were running the event. One of these standout ath-letes was Monat.

From both defensive and offen-sive linebacker to running back, Monat played many football posi-tions throughout high school but

never considered rugby. However, unlike the majority of competitive sports, Texas Rugby president Noah Villalobos is well-aware that prior involvement is not necessary for suc-cess in rugby.

“Most guys start playing rugby

WACO — Texas mounted yet another furious second-half come-back against the Baylor Bears, but came up short against the size and length of the Bears.

Baylor’s Perry Jones III scored 22 and Quincy Miller added 18 in a heated 76-71 victory over the Bear’s oldest basketball rival, Texas.

The Longhorns overcame anoth-er slow start in the first half to rally back against the No. 6 Bears, who jumped out to a 38-29 lead at the end of the first period. Texas guard J’Covan Brown scored a game high 32 points and dished out five as-sists in the loss, but given opportu-nities down the stretch, he and his teammates failed to convert chanc-es into points. The Longhorns are now 0-6 in games decided by six points or less.

Freshman guard Myck Kabongo, who ended with 11 points and five assists, wants to see his team play a full 40 minutes in order to pull out these close battles.

“We just need to play with a sense of urgency from the start of the game,” Kabongo said. “We are usually behind at the start of the game, because we just don’t play

with that urgency.”Texas head coach Rick Barnes

expressed the need for consistency from his players.

“I thought we played with con-fidence, but we’ve lost some games to some good teams,” Barnes said. “And we want to win these games,

but the fact is that in some situa-tions you aren’t going to win it until guys understand [the importance of] everyday practice.”

Part of what Barnes has preached in practice all year is the need to be in the right positions for grabbing rebounds. Texas has been one of

the better rebounding teams in the conference over the last five games, but was clearly outmatched against the Bears. They only grabbed 24 re-bounds to Baylor’s 37.

Jones was the Bear’s focal point offensively and on the glass. He had a double-double in the first

half — 12 points, 10 rebounds — and finished with a career-high 14 rebounds. The Longhorns had a hard time guarding the forward who towered over the smaller Texas squad. Jones was fed an alley-oop in

You can see it on head coach Rick Barnes’ and J’Covan Brown’s faces when they walk in for the post-game press conference. The frustration from another loss sets in and they may have private an-swers, but no public explanations for why this team just can’t finish. One thing is for sure — it starts with commitment.

“You talk about commitment, and to me commitment is going above and beyond. It’s not do-ing what is expected,” Barnes said. “We just aren’t getting that from everybody.”

It’s a term thrown out a lot by coaches in these things. “Com-mitment” is as commonplace a word for coaches to throw around

as “execute,” or “giving it 110 per-cent.” They are meaningless filler words, and generally add little val-ue to the proper discourse of post-game discussion. But Barnes really meant it Saturday after UT’s 76-71 defeat at Baylor. He went as far as he could without calling individual players out. It was as honest — and stern — a plea for a fully commit-ted squad as I had ever witnessed a coach express.

“I think the biggest thing is con-sistency with everybody,” Barnes said. “We need everybody on our team, and we need guys where we know what we are going to get ev-ery single night. That is what we still don’t have.”

“We want to win these games. But the fact is that in some situations that you aren’t going to win it until

WACO — There wasn’t much for the Longhorns to take away from another road loss, except for J’Covan Brown rediscovering his shooting touch.

Texas didn’t execute down the stretch, the role players offered lit-tle assistance to Brown (the Big 12’s leading scorer) and the Longhorns were outmuscled in the paint, all of which added up to a 76-71 loss to No. 6 Baylor on Saturday.

Brown broke out of an 18 for 70 shooting slump and scored 32 points against the Bears. He made 11 of 22 shots, a welcome sight for the Long-

horns, who struggled to find offense during Brown’s recent three-game cold streak.

Still, Brown’s second 30-point game in conference play didn’t do much to lift his spirits after UT’s fourth defeat in its last five games.

“All the shots I made don’t even matter because we didn’t win,”

Brown said.Help was nowhere to be found

in Waco. Myck Kabongo offered the only other effective option, add-ing 11 points. But the point guard played only five minutes in the first half, after being saddled early with

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guys understand every day the im-portance of practice. You aren’t just going to change habits in a game. It’s practice habits that you just have to develop. It’s just not a game-day thing. I’ve never seen a guy put on a game-face or just ‘flip-the-switch’ on game-day.”

Poor practice habits? There is something gone awry behind closed doors of the Texas practice facility, and it sounds like it’s a matter of buy-ing into the program. Barnes has re-warded players for minutes on the floor this season that haven’t contrib-uted much to the stat box, but have stepped up and fundamentally per-formed all the less glamorous parts of the game.

Julien Lewis had six points, six re-bounds and four steals against Baylor, but he played 35 minutes, the most af-ter Brown. Lewis only averages eight points a game, but he’s seen his play-ing time increase over the last three contests against top Big 12 squads.

“We got a couple of guys doing it and it won’t show up in the statistics, but we’ve still got to have everybody,” Barnes said.

Brown is frustrated too, and he should be. He scored 32 points, only

10 points shy of the entire team’s out-put together in the second half. He has shot the ball almost 22 times a contest over the last five, and though he can spark fire when he wants to, Brown can’t be called upon to shoulder the bulk of the scoring burden that of-ten. On average, he’s only made about eight of those 22 shots a contest. But because he is one of those guys that buy into, not only the Texas program, but the game of basketball in general, Brown’s frustrations manifest them-selves as a personal failure.

Commitment and consistency are not two things you think of a major

Texas athletic program lacking. With the amount of money the athletics department rakes in and with the re-cruiting staff it has in place, bring-ing the best players to the 40 Acres should be a cinch. That isn’t to say there won’t be down years, but hear-ing Barnes say things like “more ef-fort” and “consistency” this deep into the season is alarming.

He’ll refuse to answer any questions in the post-game that have to do with the youth of the Texas team.

“It’s not a factor anymore,” he said Saturday, and has echoed this answer on a number of occasions when the

topic is brought up.At one point in the year, it was still

kosher for Barnes to attribute the team’s inefficiencies to age, but he has been too good a coach at Texas to admit that something like a young squad is unraveling his overall work of the last 14 seasons. He also has a team that has proven that even in its most tumultuous games, it can hang with most experienced power houses.

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“Perry’s a lot more aggressive,” Bay-lor head coach Scott Drew said. “He is healthy and able to practice hard. He is back to being what he’s been.”

Although they were out-matched, Texas had chances to pull this victory out.

“Any time you have a rivalry game, it’s not over until it’s over,” Drew said.

With less than a minute to play, the Longhorns were only down 73-68. In that time, the Bears turned the ball over twice and committed potentially costly fouls. However,

Texas went 3-6 from the stripe in the last minute, and couldn’t con-vert on layups to the hole. Down by three points with seven sec-onds left, Brown shot a contested 3-pointer that sailed left and end-ed his team’s chance.

The shot was a rare miss on the

day that Brown broke out of a shoot-ing slump. He was 11 of 22 from the field, and carried his streaky team-mates on offense yet again. Brown is averaging 19 points a game, tops in the conference. Saturday marked the third time he has scored 30 or more points in his career.

two fouls.“I let my team down by not being

on the court,” Kabongo said. “I need to be a little smarter about my fouls.”

The Longhorns (13-8, 3-5 Big 12) still haven’t found a way to combine a great night from the bench with one of Brown’s offensive explosions.

“It’s frustrating,” Brown said. “Guys have to come and play every night.”

Head coach Rick Barnes has been

pleading for consistent play from his entire team for weeks. It didn’t hap-pen in Waco and there aren’t many signs that point to Texas figuring it out soon.

For a Texas team in desperate need of consistency from everyone, the Longhorns need not look further than tonight’s opponent for an exam-ple of where balanced play can take a program.

No. 2 Missouri makes its final trip to the Frank Erwin Center tonight as a conference opponent. The Tigers (19-2, 6-2) are second in the Big 12 in scoring with 75 points per game, and have four players who average at least 11 points per game. That list doesn’t include starting point guard Phil Pressey, who burned Texas for 10 assists and no turnovers during Mizzou’s 84-73 win over UT on Jan. 14. The freshman chips in nearly 10 points per game (9.7 average) and is

second in the conference with 50 as-sists in eight Big 12 games.

“Pressey orchestrates the whole game,” Barnes said. “He makes the game real easy for those oth-er guys. They’re a really good offensive team.”

First-year head coach Frank Haith has taken the loads of talent he inher-ited from Mike Anderson and shaped the Tigers into one of the nation’s most explosive teams. Haith worked as an assistant under Barnes from 2001-04 before leaving for Miami. He turned around the Hurricane’s program and is on the fast track to elevating Miz-zou to elite status.

That’s no surprise to Barnes, who said he attributes Mizzou’s success this season to his former pupil.

“All of it,” he said. “I love Frank. Missouri did good getting him and they better do everything they can to keep him. He’s got a great future

ahead of him.”Haith was well known for re-

cruiting LaMarcus Aldridge dur-ing his time at UT. Now, he’s got an-other talented forward on his squad in Ricardo Ratliffe. The junior leads the nation in shooting percentage and scored 21 against Texas a few weeks ago.

“He’s as hard to guard as anybody,” Barnes said. “If you give him angles down there and he does a tremen-dous job of getting to the rim.”

The Longhorns have struggled to defend the paint in recent weeks and will need a better effort from their bigs for Texas to pull off an upset.

Of course, a stronger first half would go a long way in fixing the Longhorns’ woes. Texas is 0-6 in games decided by six points or less, and poor starts have doomed UT against quality opponents like the Tigers.

when they’re freshmen in college [and] don’t have any previous expe-rience ... At the collegiate level, [put] an [elite] athlete on the field and he will dominate.”

At the end of the day, Monat fin-ished second overall, placing first in the 20-pound medicine ball throw — with a ridiculous measurement of 28.7 feet — the kettlebell floor press as well as the rugby-specific evasion drill.

Drawn to the dynamic, fast-paced nature of the sport — which he pre-fers over football — Monat intends to pursue the rugby team.

Villalobos had various goals for the combine, including identifying elite athletes who could potential-ly help the 19th nationally-ranked Longhorns in their pursuit of a first place win at the USA Sevens Colle-giate Rugby Championship in June,

an event invented three years ago in a response to a rapidly-growing in-terest in the sport.

“If Bill gets his rugby skills up, he will play in the CRC,” Villalobos said.

By finding Monat as well as sever-al other promising athletes, Villalo-bos achieved one of his goals. How-ever, the purpose of the combine was more than a recruiting venture.

“Not enough of the population knows about rugby,” Villalobos said. “[The combine is just] another step in letting more and more people know what rugby is and what it takes.”

For the first time in 88 years, rug-by will be featured in the 2016 Sum-mer Olympics. Attempts to height-en the sport’s awareness in America range from competitions at the na-tional level — like the rugby cham-pionship — to local endeavors such as the CrossFit combine.

Texas guard Julien Lewis tries to drive past a Baylor defender. Lewis played the second most minutes in the game by doing all the little things right.

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topic is brought up.At one point in the year, it was still

kosher for Barnes to attribute the team’s inefficiencies to age, but he has been too good a coach at Texas to admit that something like a young squad is unraveling his overall work of the last 14 seasons. He also has a team that has proven that even in its most tumultuous games, it can hang with most experienced power houses.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL WOMEN’S SWIMMING

Horns beat Wildcats in clash of top programs

ahead of him.”Haith was well known for re-

cruiting LaMarcus Aldridge dur-ing his time at UT. Now, he’s got an-other talented forward on his squad in Ricardo Ratliffe. The junior leads the nation in shooting percentage and scored 21 against Texas a few weeks ago.

“He’s as hard to guard as anybody,” Barnes said. “If you give him angles down there and he does a tremen-dous job of getting to the rim.”

The Longhorns have struggled to defend the paint in recent weeks and will need a better effort from their bigs for Texas to pull off an upset.

Of course, a stronger first half would go a long way in fixing the Longhorns’ woes. Texas is 0-6 in games decided by six points or less, and poor starts have doomed UT against quality opponents like the Tigers.

By Stefan ScrafieldDaily Texan Staff

BASEBALL

The No. 4 Longhorns improved to 5-1 in dual meets with a 128-115 win over the No. 9 Arizona Wildcats on Saturday in Tucson.

Texas had consistent swims across the board, with two fresh-men earning their first collegiate victories. Kelsey LeNeave fin-ished on top in both the 1000 and 500 distance freestyle events. Teammate Kaitlin Pawlowicz clocked in right behind her, with two second place finishes.

Freshmen continued to shock the pool as Gretchen Jaques raced to a top finish in the 200 IM. The Longhorns were able to snag the top three spots in the event, with

exceptional swims followed by Leah Gingrich and Skylar Smith.

Senior Karlee Bispo provided strong finishes for Texas, with wins in both the 200 and 100 freestyle events. She remains unbeaten in the 200 freestyle and was the only swimmer to clock in a time under 50.00 in the 100 free.

Gingr ich and Pawlowicz claimed the top two finishes in the 200 butterfly, while Laura

Sogar won the 200 breaststroke. Sogar won the event by almost two seconds, making it her fifth win out of seven races this year.

Now back on track, the Long-horns hope to clench a final dual meet victory before the Big 12 Championships. The Tex-as women will face Southern Methodist University on Sat., Feb. 4 in Dallas.

The Longho rns beat a confer-ence foe and went undefeated over the weekend to earn a spot in the in-door championships in February.

On Sunday, Texas defeated the Texas Tech Red Raiders 4-0.

In the match to decide the dou-bles point, junior Daniel White-head and sophomore David Ho-liner kept it interesting for the fans. The Longhorns got down, but held serve 4-7 and immediately broke the Tech duo of Gonzalo Escobar and Vitor Manzini to make the score 6-7. Both teams held serve to push the match to a tiebreaker. After getting behind 1-3 in the tie-break, Texas came back and took the set and the doubles point, with a 7-4 win in the tiebreak.

In the singles matches, freshman Lloyd Glasspool, playing in the number four position, scored a quick 6-3, 6-1 victory over Francis-co Zambon to put Texas ahead 2-0.

Earning the final point for Tex-as was Whitehead, ranked No. 112, who scored a straight set win over Escobar, a USTA/ITA Regional champ ranked No. 23. Texas sealed its spot in the ITA National Team Indoor Championships at Charlot-tesville, Va. on Feb. 17-20.

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The No. 21 Texas Tech Lady Raid-ers (15-5, 3-5 Big 12) ended a five-game losing streak with a dramat-ic, 75-71, victory over the Longhorns (13-7, 3-5 Big 12) in Lubbock on Sat-urday afternoon.

After senior Ashleigh Fonten-ette’s free throws made it 71-70 and gave Texas just its second lead of the game with only 48 seconds left on the clock, Texas Tech’s Jordan Barncas-tle took matters into her own hands. On the very next possession, Barn-castle came up with a huge offensive

rebound and turned it into a three-point play to give the Lady Raiders the lead for good.

“I’m really proud of Jordan [Barn-castle] and the team,” said Texas Tech head coach Kristy Curry. “She was just really aggressive. For [Barncas-tle] to do what she did on the boards, which I’m always on her about, says a whole bunch. It was just a great effort from her today.”

Texas guard Chassidy Fussell, who had a team-high 19 points, had a chance to take the lead from the cor-ner but her three-point attempt hit the side of the backboard with just nine seconds left, sealing the victory

for the Lady Raiders.The Lady Raiders jumped out to

a quick 15-point lead with just over eight minutes to go in the first half and were able to control the tempo the rest of the way.

Texas plays Kansas State at the Frank Erwin Center on Wednesday.

Only half an inning had been played before the fans at Disch-Falk Field rose in a standing ovation.

It had been nearly 30 years since Roger Clemens took to the mound in a Longhorns uniform but the two-time All-American and seven-time Cy Young Award winner toed the rubber in his vintage Texas jer-sey again Saturday. Clemens, who went 25-7 in two seasons for the

Longhorns and helped them cap-ture the 1983 College World Se-ries title, retired Texas in the first inning while fanning the first two batters he faced.

“It’s pretty cool to get a chance to face [Clemens]. It’s the chance of a lifetime,” sophomore out-fielder Mark Payton said, who flew out to center field against Clemens to end the top of the first. “He threw [Cohl Walla and Taylor Stell] two good sliders late in the at-bat and that’s why

I wanted to jump out on his fast-ball. He’s got good movement.”

Clemens was one of nine alumni pitchers to throw scoreless innings Saturday afternoon, as the alum-ni team he and former Longhorns star Brooks Kieschnick coached, took down the current Texas base-ball squad, 2-0.

The offense came from an un-likely source, as recently traded San Diego Padres closer Hus-ton Street sparked a two-run eighth-inning rally.

Clemens’ return to mound draws huge ovation

Barncastle hits game winner, downs slipping Longhorns

claimed the top two finishes in the 200 butterfly, while Laura

On Sunday, Texas defeated the Texas Tech Red Raiders 4-0.

In the match to decide the dou-

Strong doubles

WEEKEND RECAPSWEEKEND RECAPSWOMEN’S SWIMMING

Horns beat Wildcats in clash of top programs

to 5-1 in dual meets with a 128-115 win over the No. 9 Arizona Wildcats on Saturday in Tucson.

across the board, with two fresh-men earning their first collegiate victories. Kelsey LeNeave fin-ished on top in both the 1000 and 500 distance freestyle events. Teammate Kaitlin Pawlowicz

rebound and turned it into a three-point play to give the Lady Raiders

“I’m really proud of Jordan [Barn-castle] and the team,” said Texas Tech head coach Kristy Curry. “She was just really aggressive. For [Barncas-tle] to do what she did on the boards, which I’m always on her about, says a whole bunch. It was just a great effort for the Lady Raiders.

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However, Holy Cacao boasts “significant double-digit growth,” according to Spillyards, and ap-peals to the easy-going, trailer-lov-ing Austinite who’s just looking for “something to nosh on.”

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Young adult author and YouTube star John Green has done it again. Like his previous award-winning novels for teens, including “Look-ing For Alaska” and “Paper Towns,” Green’s latest novel, “The Fault in Our Stars,” pulls at heartstrings with his signature blend of humor, poignancy and heartbreak.

Narrator Hazel is a 16 year-old girl who miraculously survives thyroid cancer. Although her tumor shrank due to an experimental cure, Hazel must carry an oxygen tank with her for the rest of her life. One day, Ha-zel arrives at the “Cancer Kid” sup-port group she grudgingly attends and meets Augustus “Gus” Waters, a 17 year-old with a prosthetic leg lost to cancer. Instant chemistry sparks between the two.

The intelligent, sarcastic teens bond over films, their cancerous lives and Hazel’s favorite novel, “An Imperial Affliction,” the fictional novel with-in Green’s novel by reclusive Dutch-American author Peter Van Houten. Hazel connects deeply with the nov-el, which is about a girl with cancer, like herself. It’s Hazel’s greatest desire to know more about the characters’ fates, since the novel ended with the

character succumbing to cancer.Shortly after, Gus offers to take

her to Amsterdam to visit Peter Van Houten through a charitable founda-tion similar to the real-life Make-A-Wish Foundation. During the jour-ney, Hazel realizes that her cancer proves a barrier to her romantic rela-tionship with Gus. She has dormant cancer, which can reappear at any time and Gus is in remission. Ha-zel also struggles to lessen the poten-tial tragedy of her death for her loved ones throughout the novel.

Although the plot of “The Fault in Our Stars,” the title of which is an al-lusion to Shakespeare’s “Julius Cae-sar,” is elegantly witty and tearjerk-ing, the pace lags in earlier chapters. It takes time for Hazel and Gus to go

to Amsterdam and get their answers from Peter Van Houten, which pro-pels the novel into its sweetly tragic final act.

Green provides iconic quirky hu-mor in his razor-sharp and brutal-ly honest characters and their com-pelling banter. Hazel and Gus’s re-lationship is a sweetly crafted slow burn, based on romantic ges-tures and meaningful conversa-tions about fearing oblivion and acknowledging existentialism.

Readers will easily feel close to Hazel and Gus every step of the way, cheering them on and hoping for the best. It’s easy to see why John Green remains one of the most beloved, cel-ebrated authors of the modern young adult genre.

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A woman finds herself falling down a staircase after somebody brutal-ly pushes her. An expert in body lan-guage finds a new student who seems to know almost as much about the skill as he does, if not more. Another man finds himself making a huge gamble that, if successful, would make him and his wife wealthier than they could have ever possibly dreamed. These sto-ries seem unrelated, but readers begin-ning “The Face Thief” by Eli Gottlieb know that somehow they will come together before the end.

And come together they do, though by the time that occurs, most readers will have long figured out how. Un-fortunately, the characters aren’t inter-esting enough to overcome the sheer predictability of the narrative. Gottli-eb uses most of his words to explore what the characters are thinking, and they are ultimately more interesting for who and what they are than how they think. The concept of a body lan-guage expert is intriguing, but the par-ticular one in this book isn’t.

Despite all of this, “The Face Thief” is never dull and there’s some-thing about it that demands just one more chapter before bed. Gottlieb’s a good enough writer to grab the read-er and make them wonder what will happen next, even after the ending’s been figured out.

Additionally, the book’s structure, broken into three chapter sets — one for each story line — adds suspense because right when the reader be-comes involved in what will happen to one character, the narrative jumps to a different one. If Gottlieb isn’t an expert of plotting, he at least knows how to structure the book to exploit the abil-ity he does have.

Still, there’s a feeling of rigidity to the whole book, as if Gottlieb is too stuck in the outline of the story to have some fun with it. Every beat is deliber-ately set up so that it can pay off later. There are few moments where charac-ters get to just be themselves and in-teract with each other without it being overly expository.

“The Face Thief” defies classifica-tion into a particular genre, but per-haps fits nicely into a thriller in terms of feel, if not the specific cornerstones of what one expects. It’s a quick read and ideal for a long flight as it moves along quickly and doesn’t demand much in terms of thought. It also hap-pens to be almost instantly forgettable.

As far as airport fiction goes, it does its job effectively, although one senses that Gottlieb is still finding his footing as a writer and hasn’t reached his full potential yet.

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saxophone ensemble. He sings with Ransom Notes, a pop a cappella group, and UT has given him the opportunity to work with a variety of great composers such as Yevgeniy Sharlat, Donald Grantham, Dan Welcher, and Bruce Pennycook.

Nichol’s saxophone professor, Harvey Pittel, has only positive things to say about his student.

“He’s a star saxophone perform-er as well as a great young composer which is really rare,” Pittel said. “He works very hard when I give him assignments to learn each week, he practices. I mean, he really works.”

And work he does. Nichols has found that it takes him awhile to

even begin to write music. It all be-gins with inspiration. Inspired by anything from poetry he reads to the mood he is in, Nichols works hard to convey his feelings in a musical form.

“Many an all-nighter has been pulled sitting in front of my piano,” Nichols said. “I usually start off with a broad sense of what I’m trying to say, and then I just go from there.”

The hard work will show at Nich-ols’ senior recital. Along with com-posing the music, Nichols will also be choosing who plays the pieces. The half hour recital will consist of a set of eight piano preludes, a song cycle for a baritone singer, pi-ano, and tenor saxophone, as well as a three movement Latin inspired piece.

Music performance senior Andy Wilds has played with Nichols in

Tex Sax and is excited to hear Nichols’ compositions.

“Walter is always cool to play with because you don’t have to worry about him doing anything wrong,” Wilds said. “I haven’t heard the mu-sic he has written yet, but I’m sure that it’s going to be great.”

This recital certainly allows Nich-ols to leave UT with a bang. But what becomes of a composition stu-dent after he graduates?

Pittel has high hopes for Nich-ols’ future. He believes Nichols would prosper in the academic field as a composition or saxo-phone professor. He also believes Nichols could end up scoring major Hollywood movies.

“In Walter’s case when he came to UT he was great, and he’s still great,” Pittel said. “He’s always been good. If I could draw a halo, I’d draw one.”

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pus is fourth year design stu-dent Harrison Koiwai, who can be spotted on campus strutting edgy, studded pieces and color-ful blue hair.

“I feel it’s something you have to do. If something’s interesting, you have to put it on,” Kowai said of his unique sense of style. Koi-wai also added that most people are often too worried about what they’re wearing to ever pay atten-tion to what’s on your body, “so you might as well wear whatev-er you want.”

While we’ve all hesitated to try on new looks and gather the courage to sport head turning pieces at some point, advice from our fashion savvy peers moti-vates us to rethink walking past that pair of leather combat boots on display, or placing the fedora back on the mannequin.

As Kaidon put it, you don’t have to wear eye-catching items all at once. Instead, a gradual process of mixing and matching sometimes works best if it allows you to stay true to yourself.

The next time you’re out shopping and something a lit-tle out of your style comfort zone intrigues you, try it on. And if you like it enough, feel free to showcase it in public confidently, while the rest of us admire and take notes.

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Cake balls, like this variety from Austin Cake Ball Kitchen & Bar at the Domain, may be a new trend that is destined to die out, but for now is a growing baking industry in Austin.

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Cake balls, like macaroons, cup-cakes and petit fours, bring to mind images of ruffled lace tablecloths, scalloped window treatments, pink aprons, freshly cut daisies in pristine glass vases and lots and lots of sun-shine — the idyllic home-style bake-shop. However at Austin Cake Ball, a locally-owned and operated company, you will not find polka dot wallpaper or lace doilies. Employees don’t wear pink, and there are no pastel-colored bows. Anywhere.

This may be disappointing for those who want their entire cake ball experi-ence coated in sugar, but Kristen Haga, a partner in the business, said the deci-sion to shy away from a super-saccha-rine and hyper-feminine space was in-tentional. She and the founders of the business, UT alumna Stacey Bridges and Ben May, envisioned a space that outlasts ephemeral food fads and ap-peals to a wide consumer base, includ-ing men.

Austin Cake Ball’s newest venture, a kitchen and bar that opened in De-cember in the Domain shopping cen-ter, conveys maturity while maintain-ing the sense of fun that a cake ball in-herently exudes. Bridges, who has a master’s degree in costume technolo-

gy, has a sharp eye for detail and sees her role in the business as “a contin-uation of an artistic expression ... this time with cake instead of fabric.” She applies her aesthetic sensibilities to ev-erything from the unique overhead lighting to the color scheme of the seating.

The immaculate cake ball dis-play exhibits rows of tantalizing, gleaming pastries, each expertly-shaped and hand-decorated with al-most machine-like accuracy. The half-wall that separates the dining area from the kitchen and restrooms is a mosaic of pennies, designed by Bridges herself.

It is this “tactile execution,” as Haga referred to it, that makes the space ap-peal to both men and women alike. If you think of the typical bakeshop, “most men are afraid of it,” Haga said. Because of the unique personality of the business, Austin Cake Ball “has a lot of male clients,” according to Haga.

Despite this diversity in clien-tele, skepticism about the viabili-ty of a business concentrated on and branded by cake balls is not unwar-ranted. Aren’t cake balls just anoth-er food fad bubble that will burst in the same way that the cupcake bub-ble has and that the frozen yogurt bubble is bound to? Does Austin Cake Ball truly have a competitive

advantage over other local dessert businesses that have specialized in cake balls?

Austin Cake Ball’s flavors — va-nilla bean, tiramisu, chocolate mint, red velvet and salted caramel — are not terribly original, and the cost of a dozen cake balls starts at $29, far ex-ceeding that of its competitors. Holy Cacao, a cake ball and hot chocolate trailer, sells a dozen for $22, and Iffy’s Sweet Treats sells a dozen for $20.

Furthermore, Austin Cake Ball is now straddling two distinct indus-tries — the specialty baking indus-try and the restaurant and beverage industry. This strategy can be dan-gerous, since Austin Cake Ball runs the risk of spreading its resources too thinly and not focusing intent-ly enough on the quality of the prod-uct (think of Blockbuster’s botched attempt to straddle the retail industry and the online movie rental indus-try when Netflix pioneered the on-line market).

Another concern that John Spill-yards of Holy Cacao warns against is approaching the cake ball as a high-end truffle. “We love the idea of high-brow and low-brow mixed together,” Spillyards said. He cited his own lo-cally-sourced ingredients and granite countertops paired with handmade treats with funny names (Brass Balls,

Rabbit Balls) served on an unassum-ing popsicle stick as evidence of his cake ball philosophy.

Despite the potential roadblocks, Kristen Haga is not worried. “None of us think that cake balls will be the hottest thing 35 years from now,” Haga said. But she maintains, “Cake balls are not going away.”

In true Darwinian fashion, she believes that the strongest com-pany will survive and that Aus-tin Cake Ball has the potential to be that company.

One of the most baffling philo-sophical questions of all time is why we’re here. Or, to put it another way, why is there anything instead of nothing at all? Why does the uni-verse exist and if there’s something outside of the universe that caused the universe to come into being, why does that exist? From any per-spective, scientific, religious or oth-erwise, it seems like no possible an-swer could be completely satisfying. If one says that things exist because of X, then we have the even more baffling question of where X could have come from.

Lawrence Krauss’ new book, “A Universe From Nothing” attempts to offer something of a solution to the scientific question of how some-thing can come out of nothing, though he doesn’t pretend to an-swer the philosophical one. For one thing, when Krauss says “nothing,” he doesn’t mean nothing. The noth-ing we understand in our universe is what exists between atoms, but even in that, as the book explains, there may be a whole lot going on.

The vacuum of empty space con-tains a lot of energy — which high tech and state of the art experiments have verified — and even in this empty space, particles can sponta-neously appear, popping into ex-istence like a rabbit out of a magi-cian’s hat. If this sounds counterin-tuitive and baffling to you, you’re not alone. Even after reading this relatively brief book, most read-ers aren’t going to walk away feel-ing like they get it. If anything, the book just gives an overview as to how far we’ve come in science: we’ve reached a point where our understanding of the way things

work probably can’t be explained on an intuitive level to our puny human brains.

Still, there’s a surprisingly large amount of material here for a book about nothing. Indeed, while “A Universe From Nothing” is tech-nically about nothing, it also hap-pens to be about everything. It takes us from the very beginnings of the universe with the Big Bang to its ul-timate end. Much of this is inter-esting, but an equal amount is con-founding and though the words are often simple and grammatically cor-rect, it’s tough to understand how it all relates to reality. Indeed, if reali-ty must be this way, why must it be this way?

On some level, these might seem like religious questions, but Krauss’ book, while not an assault on re-ligion by any means, takes a firm, materialistic stance. These ques-tions can be answered by science, though perhaps not at the moment. Having well-known atheist Rich-ard Dawkins write the afterword (the equally well-known atheist Christopher Hitchens was original-ly supposed to write the foreword before his untimely death) suggests Krauss’ motivation behind his ap-proach to writing the book.

Still, it’s unlikely to uncon-vert anybody. Believers who ac-cept modern science can close the book and marvel at the beau-tiful and incomprehensible way that a loving creator has designed our universe. And believers who won’t be convinced by anything Krauss presents here anyway — it’s more of an explanation than a defense. “A Universe From Noth-ing” is well written and easy to read, but it offers more of a taste of what the research shows than a clear understanding.

By Brittany SmithDaily Texan Staff

We live in a society where the word “saxophone” immediately triggers you to hum the tune of George Michael’s “Careless Whisper.”

Music composition senior Wal-ter Nichols would like to prove there is more to the saxophone than that catchy song. One of the few composi-tion students at UT, Nichols has been playing the saxophone since he was 11 years old and is currently prepar-ing for his senior recital. The recital will showcase the music he has writ-ten throughout the three years he has

spent at UT. Acceptance into the UT composition program is difficult to gain, as students must not only sub-mit their own original compositions, but also must excel at playing at least one instrument.

The story of how Nichols got his start is a simple one. After mak-ing the decision to join the mid-dle school band, Nichols was asked to try out the mouthpieces of dif-ferent wind instruments. He did well on the saxophone, and thus it all began.

“Pretty soon after that, I went ahead and started taking saxophone lessons the summer before middle

school,” Nichols said. “It came nat-urally, so instead of placing me in beginner band, they put me in the top band.”

After graduation, Nichols attended Berklee College of Music, where he learned about jazz theory. Although he enjoyed living in Boston, Nich-ols was looking for a program more classically oriented.

The University of Texas’ Butler School of Music offered just the pro-gram he was looking for.

Nichols quickly found his place at UT. He joined Tex Sax, UT’s

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Walter Nichols, a senior composition major, began playing the saxophone when he was 11 years old.

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WHAT: Holy Cacao

WHERE: 1311 South First

HOURS: Su-Th 11 a.m - 9 p.m., F-Sa 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.

PHOnE: 512-851-2253

WHAT: Austin Cake Ball

WHERE: The Domain

HOURS: M-Th 11 a.m. - 10 p.m., F-Sa 11 a.m. - 11 p.m., Sun noon - 7 p.m.

PHOnE: 512-215-3633

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In an immeasurable sea of T-shirts and backpacks, it is impossible to pay attention to all the clothing choic-es we’re exposed to during the hustle and bustle of class transitions on any given day. Yet, every so often, a bold fashionista finds his or her way of transforming campus into their own personal runway, prompting other, less daring dressers to perform an in-evitable double take.

But who are these individuals? And better yet, what’s their secret to pulling off the looks we all drool over? The time has come to cease ad-miring from afar and ask the local fashion gurus themselves.

As the outfit you’ve always imag-ined wearing some day, but hesitat-ed to try on, is worn by a more dar-ing dresser, a couple of thoughts may come to mind. The first is a desire to test the look yourself the next time you go out in public, while the sec-ond thought may be a bit more cyni-cal: “I could never pull that off.”

Don’t accept defeat just yet. Ac-cording to apparel design senior Kai-don Ho, who wears a sleek, black Worthington jacket over a white Al-exander McQueen top and dark slacks, anyone can dress boldly. His dark ensemble gives off a mysterious yet chic look when complimented by his matching Michael Kors clutch and black hat, immediately inviting awestruck glances from onlookers.

The trick, in Ho’s opinion, is to “add one item at a time until you reach a style you like.” He recom-mends shopping for accessories like hats and vintage sunglasses to give your look a bit more edge, while ex-pressing your personality.

While Ho suggests dressing out of one’s element in order to create a more interesting signature style, he also recommends that the style ex-tension still allows dressers to feel comfortable. Ho also finds inspira-tion from model Agyness Deyn, who is famous for her carefree and playful fashion sense.

If you’re not ready to plunge into the world of full-blown design-er looks just yet, psychology senior Mary Dang’s classic Karl Lagerfeld-inspired black and white look may better suit you.

In Dang’s opinion, “less is more,” and she advises trying on a black blaz-ers over simple light colored tops to achieve an effortless yet sophisticated look. She also adds that those exper-imenting with new styles should re-member to wear confidence along with each outfit. As a reminder that self-assurance will conceal the slight-est signs of uncertainty, Dang also rec-ommends not worrying when sport-ing new trends because “your inner confidence will exude outwards.”

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Kaidon Ho, apparel and design senior, is one of many stu-dents push-ing the limits on personal fashion. Many stu-dents agree that the best way to find a new style that fits you is to gradu-ally mix and match pieces to build up fashion courage.

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