As studio art graduate student Ezra Masch tapped the buttons on his key-board, 73 colorful lights correspond-ing to the notes f looded the Visual Arts Center.

The keyboard performance was only

one element of Masch’s show, “Mu-sic of the Spheres,” presented at the cen-ter on Wednesday. At the visual and mu-sical art display, Masch arrived in a pro-cession of drummers wearing Victori-an style clothing with skeleton painted fac-es. Girls in gold robes, who also had skel-eton-painted faces, threw rose pedals as Masch, dressed like the drummers but with

a white, curly wig, danced to his seat behind the keyboard.

“I traveled across reality to get here,” he said while still in character, opening his show. “Eventually everyone is going to die, but what I want to know, what I really want to know, is what are we going to live for? We’re all going to live tonight.”

The performance included a variety of

music including classical, blues, jazz and rap. The audience was encouraged to clap, dance and sing along. Masch became silent at mo-ments as he listened to spectators echoing his notes.

“It was really interactive,” said fine arts graduate student Shalena White.

Current UT student lead-ers and alumni launched a group to call upon elected state offi-cials to support the UT and Texas A&M dual missions of education and research.

The Young Texans for Excellence in Higher Education formed in re-sponse to the June efforts to re-form the higher education system by measures that included mas-sive enrollment expansion, sepa-rating the teaching and research bodies of the University, increas-ing class sizes and expanding on-line courses. In addition to launch-ing on Wednesday, the group pub-licized their “Our Degrees Matter” campaign — a campaign for UT degrees to grow in value over time instead of being dragged down by negative reforms.

Natalie Butler, a founding mem-ber of the Young Texans and cur-rent Student Government presi-dent, said one of the main goals of Young Texans is to make stu-dents pay attention to the is-sues surrounding higher educa-tion and get them involved in the conversation. Butler added she is not in Young Texans as the UT student body president but as a concerned student.

“This is just a group of students coming together,” Butler said. “We think students deserve a seat at the table, and this group hopes to pro-vide that.”

Young Texans currently has 133 members, mostly current UT stu-dents and recent graduates. The group welcomes all current and former students.

Keshav Rajagopalan, another

Students voiced concerns over potential tuition increases at the Tu-ition Policy Advisory Committee’s first open forum of this tuition-set-ting term Wednesday.

This is the first year the commit-tee has held a public forum more than a month before it makes tu-ition recommendations to President William Powers Jr.

Committee members explained the tuition-setting process the Uni-versity has used since 2003 when the state legislature handed its pow-

er to set tuition rates over to state universities’ governing boards.

TPAC gets input from each of the colleges’ and schools’ College Tu-ition and Budget Advisory Com-mittee. TPAC will take this input and make tuition recommendations to Powers, who will then recom-mend tuition policy to the UT Sys-tem Board of Regents later this se-mester. However, tuition policy for the next two years will ultimately be set by the Board of Regents.

Student Government President Natalie Butler said the UT Sys-tem suggested that any tuition in-crease must be tied to an effort to improve four-year graduation rates and should stay within a 2.6 percent increase.

A newly formed student com-mittee submitted recommenda-tions to decrease tuition and in-crease the quality of UT’s liber-al arts education to the college’s dean on Wednesday.

The College Tuition and Bud-get Advisory Committee for lib-eral arts compiled information from a survey of more than 400 liberal arts students and urged the college to improve facul-ty, career services and advising and guarantee smaller classes.

According to the recommenda-tions, 65 percent of students are against any kind of increase in tuition, but if a hike is unavoid-able, the money should first go toward the resources students feel the most strongly about.

Once approved by the dean of the College of Liberal Arts, the committee’s suggestions must be approved by Tuition Policy Advisory Committee. TPAC is a nine-member committee made up of four UT students and five faculty and staff members, in-cluding vice provost Steve Leslie and chief financial officer Kev-in Hegarty. If TPAC approves the recommendations, they will be reviewed by President Wil-liam Powers Jr. before going to the Board of Regents, which ul-

timately sets tuition. The college will implement

CTBAC’s recommendations,

Business on Guadalupe Street near West Campus appears to be booming with new restaurants opening this fall, despite slower economic conditions nationally.

Qdoba owner Kortney Otten, who opened a Mexican restaurant for the first time Wednesday, said locating her business next to the Drag was a critical decision in the two-year planning process.

“It’s tough, but we’re hoping that this location gives a little bit of a buffer zone from the economy,” Otten said. “It’s tough for restau-rant and small business owners all over the country right now. Aus-tin in general has been pretty com-petitive. It would be a lot easier if there was someone down at Aus-tin City Council to work with us on getting everything approved.”

Verts Kebap co-owner Michael Heyne said adequate planning was the key to getting restaurant plans

approved. Heyne and fellow UT McCombs almnus Dominik Stein opened two locations for their German-style fast food in August this year, one on Guadalupe and the other in the Dobie Center.

“It was complicated with many steps, but we never felt left alone through the process,” Heyne said. “It doesn’t need to be difficult.”

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“The grand entrance was really cool. I thought they were some kind of Victorian undead. It made me feel some sense of won-der about the human race.”

Masch exited in the same parade style in which he entered, and the audience fol-lowed along with the original procession. The crowd was led outside under a pavilion where the drums continued to play as Masch continued to rap and dance.

“It was like he traveled here from another time and universe to awaken something in us,” said studio art graduate student Chris-tina Coleman.

Masch left the pavilion with his parade saying it was time to go back to the alter-nate universe. The crowd continued to fol-

low him and the group gath-ered around him for an en-core in the grass outside the building.

“I love that he wouldn’t break character,” said art history senior Katy Gelhausen. “The whole thing was a performance.”

Studio art senior Carris Adams appreciated Masch’s enthusiasm and felt his connection to the crowd.

“I love that he brought in the audience and didn’t just yell at us,” she said. “It seems like so many artists today don’t care about their audience and just ignore them, but he included us. We were part of the show.”

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Although hungry students have effec-tively shielded the restaurant trade from decreased consumer spending, the trade-off appears to be exorbitantly high com-mercial rates for business owners, Heyne said. Commercial spaces in Austin range from $15-40 per square foot, with Gua-dalupe Street at around $38.50 — rival-ing the Sixth Street bar area.

“The most difficult part was to find a location. The rents are very high,” Heyne said. “Restaurants come and go very fast on Guadalupe. We were warned of the risks; three restaurants closed last fall alone. The overall market size is not rele-vant if you have a successful concept.”

Isbah Raja, a Plan II senior, said it was

good to have new restaurants opening on Guadalupe, as the options become repet-itive very quickly.

“I eat out at least once a day, trying to spend about $7 per meal,” Raja said. “Re-cently, I’ve been pretty disappointed just because I’ve eaten at all these places so many times.”

Business junior Karishma Hossain said she would probably eat out more than the three times a week she does currently if there were healthier options near campus.

“There’s a lot of variety, but I really feel like they’re not that healthy for me,” Hos-sein said. “If you go for the cheaper op-tions, the reality is they are not very good for you.”

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CTBACcontinues from PAGE 1which also include funding a summer enrollment program for incoming freshmen and hiring more lecturers for courses that might delay a student’s gradua-tion time, said Randy Diehl, the College of Liberal Art’s dean.

“It’s been key to have [CTBAC] involved in the discussion ear-ly on,” he said. “They’ve provid-ed thoughtful and well-organized recommendations.”

The college plans to accept the committee’s recommendations with the addition of extend-ing increased support for study abroad programs in the college, Diehl said.

The letter of recommendation coincided with TPAC’s first open forum, as the Committee has tra-ditionally held closed meetings. The $92 million state cut for UT’s budget over two years will not be made up by tuition increases, Leslie said at the forum.

“We will try to cover the neces-sary costs to keep the University strong,” he said.

TPAC members will state their official opinion on the Liberal Arts CTBAC’s recommendations on Friday, after reviewing the committee’s letter to Diehl, said Carisa Nietsche, president of the Senate of College Councils and a TPAC member.

“In terms of personal thoughts, I was really impressed with their recommendations,” she said. “They did a really fine job of com-bining student opinion from the survey with what’s most feasible.”

Although, idea l ly, tuit ion would not go up, the college’s CTBAC took into account that a tuition hike may be necessary and stated what they wanted to focus on whether there should be an increase, Nietsche said.

“It’s a nice balance, saying we recognize we aren’t the only college involved so we might not get what we want, but here are our priorities should tuition raise,” she said.

founding member of the group and former student body pres-ident, said the main issue of the debate still centers on the ques-

tions of what role higher edu-cation plays in society, how the state will manage to make sure all high school graduates re-ceive a college education and how programs wil l be paid for and sustained over a long period of time.

Rajagopalan said Young Tex-ans hopes to inform students that

many concerned alumni want to make sure current students get the best experience possible at UT be-fore and after they graduate.

“Every student who graduates from the University expects a cer-tain degree of caliber from their de-gree and they expect the caliber of that degree to grow,” Rajagopalan said. “They want to look back in 20 years and say, ‘I went to UT and it means more now than when I graduated.’”

Rajapalan said the group hopes to expand to Texas A&M and other colleges and universities across Texas.

Jenifer Sarver, spokeswom-

an for the Texas Coalition for Ed-ucation and Excellence formed over the summer, said the Coali-tion hopes the Young Texans will engage involvement about the fu-ture of higher education and facil-itate discussion among the media, classmates, families and friends.

“In many ways, young people have the most to lose if shortsight-ed reforms that undermine the quality and integrity of our institu-tions of higher education prevail,” Sarver said. “The value of their de-grees and their ability to compete in the global economy hang in the balance, and it is important that their perspective be heard.”

Mar y K n i g ht , a s s o c i at e vice president and budget di-rector, said the Board of Re-gents limits graduate tuition to 1 percent more than under- graduate tuition.

TPAC co-chair Steven Leslie, executive vice-president and provost, said his office wants to monitor the graduate pro-grams, but the tuition deci-sions have focused on the four-year graduation rates of un-dergraduates, as directed by the board.

“Driving force of the econo-my is driven by these big uni-versities,” Leslie said. “We do not want to force students through the University.”

During the forum, students

and parents voiced their con-cerns about tuition increases.

Information studies graduate student Michael Redding, who is also a member of the school’s College Tuition and Budget Advisory Committee, said stu-dents in his two-year gradu-ate program are worried. He said the emphasis on four-year graduation rates in setting tu-ition policy may not accurate-ly reflect the academic needs of two-year graduate programs.

“If you do it in four years, you’re doing it wrong,” Red-ding said. “The concern is we’ll have these really nice buildings but no faculty to teach us.”

Nursing junior Jaclyn Rosen-thal said ef f ic iency at the

School of Nursing seems im-p oss ible b ecaus e s tudents must apply to pre-nursing first and then reapply to upper division nursing.

“[When I was in pre-nurs-ing,] they told me about 75 percent of students who get into pre-nursing get into upper division,” Rosenthal said.

She said the nursing school could not afford to keep two teachers this year, which low-ered the upper division capac-ity to admit only 55 percent of students who applied. Rosen-thal said some of her nursing classmates take classes outside their degree plan as they wait to be admitted to the upper di-vision nursing sequence.

Leslie said both the nurs-ing school and the pharmacy school must confront these is-sues because they are compet-itive, professional schools and receive significantly less fund-ing than medical programs.

Government senior Crys-tal Zhao said she worked as an orientation adviser this sum-mer and registration posed challenges for incoming fresh-men to prepare for an efficient graduation plan.

“I had a very hard time put-ting students in classes that they needed,” Zhao said, who is also a College of Liberal Arts representative. “It really dis-courages the four-year gradu-ation rate.”

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ALBERTVILLE, Ala. — Along Main Street in this small Ala-bama town, the Mexican restau-rant was closed, lights were out at a Hispanic-owned grocery store and even a bank catering to Span-ish speakers was dark. Nearby, the usual hum of a chicken processing plant was silent.

Businesses dependent on im-migrant labor were shuttered Wednesday as workers took the day off to protest the state’s strict new immigration law.

The work stoppage appeared largest in northeast Alabama, the hub of the state’s $2.7 billion poul-try industry, but metropolitan areas were also affected. At least a half-dozen chicken processing plants closed or scaled back operations because employees, many of whom are Hispanic, didn’t show up for work or told managers in advance they wanted to join the sick-out to show disapproval of the law upheld by a federal judge two weeks ago.

“We want the mayor, the gover-nor, this judge to know we are part of the economy of Alabama,” said Mexican immigrant Mireya Bo-nilla, who manages the supermar-ket La Orquidea, or “The Orchid,” in Albertville.

The town of about 19,000 peo-ple has one of the highest concen-trations of Hispanics in the state. Out of 4.7 million people in Al-abama, there are an estimated

185,000 Hispanics, most of them of Mexican origin.

It wasn’t clear exactly how many workers participated in the pro-test, but the parking lot was virtu-ally empty at a Wayne Farms poul-try plant, which employs about 850 people in Albertville. All along Main Street, Hispanic businesses were closed.

Jose Contreras shut down his restaurant and store, a move he said cost him about $2,500.

“We closed because we need to open the eyes of the people who are operating this state,” said Con-treras, originally from the Domin-ican Republican and a U.S. citizen. “It’s an example of if the law pushes too much what will happen.”

Since the law was upheld, many frightened Hispanics have hid in their homes or fled. Some con-struction workers, roofers and field hands have stopped showing up and schools have reported high ab-sentee rates among Hispanic stu-dents. Officials said even more stu-dents were absent Wednesday, ap-parently because of the protest.

The Obama administration has asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to at least temporarily block enforcement of the law, argu-ing in court documents Wednes-day that the statute oversteps the state’s authority and could lead to the discrimination of legal resi-dents. The appeals court has not indicated when it may rule on the administration’s request for a pre-liminary injunction.

The law allows police to detain people indefinitely if they are sus-pected of being in the country ille-gally and requires schools to check the status of new students when they enroll.

Republican supporters say the new immigration law, considered the toughest in the nation, was in-tended to force illegal workers out of jobs and help legal residents find work in a state suffering from high unemployment. GOP Gov. Robert Bentley, who signed the law, had no immediate comment on the protests.

Spanish-speaking radio stations and Facebook users helped spread the word about the sick-out.

At Crossville Elementary School in DeKalb County in the northeast part of the state, principal Ed Burke said about 160 of the school’s 600 students weren’t in class.

“We normally would have about 20 or 30 out,” he said.

A few miles away, a Hispan-ic-owned grocer y store was closed. Morning business was slow at a convenience store typ-ically full of Hispanic workers buying breakfast.

“There’s nobody. We’re usual-ly wide open,” said a store worker who would not give her name.

Albertville Mayor Lindsey Lyons said the protest wouldn’t hurt the city very much, even though doz-ens of businesses were closed.

“It will only be a minor impact. Most of our major retailers are open,” Lyons said.

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Jose Contreras and his wife Nelva discuss reasons for closing their store in Albertville, Ala., on Wednesday. Businesses across the state shut down as Hispanics protested against Alabama’s new immigration law.

Workers, businesses halt activity to show disapprovalBy Jay ReevesThe Associated Press

NEWS BRIEFLYEfforts to repeal first lawon gay rights history fail

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Opponents of a California law requiring that the contributions of gays and lesbians be taught in public schools have failed in their attempt to qualify a ballot referendum to repeal the law.

Groups that had been circulat-ing signature petitions said they would not meet the Wednesday deadline to file.

Traditional Values Coali-t ion spokesman Benjamin Lopez tells The Associated Press the groups felt they were not in a position to file. He would not say how close they came to collecting the required 505,000 petition signatures.

The groups wanted to force a vote on Senate Bill 48, the na-tion’s first law requiring that public schools include gay rights milestones and gay and lesbian contributions in social studies les-sons. It takes effect in January.

Southern California shooting results in 6 killed, 3 injured

SEAL BEACH, Calif. — South-ern California police are trying to determine the motive in a shoot-ing that has killed six people and critically wounded three oth-ers in a hair salon in the city of Seal Beach.

Police Sgt. Steve Bowles says a man was taken into cus-tody near the scene and in-vestigators are trying to d e t e r m i n e i f h e h a s a relationship to the salon or any-one there.

A witness to the Wednesday afternoon shooting described the man and officers detained him as he was driving away.

Bowles says it’s not clear if the victims were employees or patrons, but he says the salon was busy.

He says some people es-caped the business with- out harm.

— Compiled from Associated Press reports

Women end sex strike afterpaving of Colombian road

BOGOTA, Colombia — The women of the Colombian town of Barbacoas have declared their sex strike over.

It is not clear how many wom-en took part, and compliance is impossible to prove. But the wom-en of the remote southwestern town say their demand for a road was met.

They announced June 22 that they would deny their partners sex until authorities began paving a 35-mile road linking the town of 35,000 people with the provincial capital of Pasto.

Army engineers began work Tuesday. The paved road will cut travel time by at least six hours.

Barbacoas Mayor Jose Ar-nulfo Preciado tells The Associ-ated Press he’ll happily submit to a polygraph to prove the pro-test was honored. He says his wife slept in a separate room during the strike.

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Meeting great expectations

QUOTES TO NOTE

By Katherine TaylorDaily Texan Columnist

Crowdsourcing democracyBy Rui ShiDaily Texan Columnist

Crowdsourcing democracy

Talking points from TPAC

I would be excited for the Texas Book Festival, which is the weekend of Oct. 22, if I could remember the last time I read a book for pleasure. I miss reading, and because my majors — Plan II, which is liberal arts personi� ed (or perhaps degree-i� ed) and rhetoric and writing, which entails reading speeches — are as lib-eral artsy as can be, this should come as a surprise.

In the past week alone, I read 75 pages about our declining education system, 30 pages of my U.S. history textbook, 90 pages from a rhetorical theory handbook and a 25-page narrative, and this wasn’t even all the reading I was supposed to do for my class-es. I skipped two whole classes worth of reading because I knew I simply didn’t have time to do it.

I have a feeling I’m not the only one this happens to. For some reason, professors seem to think that assigning upward of 100 pages per week to read is a feasible task for students. Multiply that times � ve classes, and that’s 500 pages per week. If it takes me three minutes to read each page — a conservative number, as textbooks are o� en complicated and take much more time to read, annotate and highlight — that’s 25 hours of reading per week. On top of that, teachers expect us to engage with the mate-rial, too. Add assignments, papers and tests to this equation and the time it takes to study and prepare for each of those, and there is no time le� at all.

Do teachers not realize that even if all I did was school, I still wouldn’t be able to get all my reading done? We’re all balancing jobs, internships, volunteer work, student organizations and oc-casionally friends, too. Sometimes we even frequent that small strip of street dedicated to hedonism and a lack of inhibitions that is fondly referred to as “Dirty Sixth.” Whatever it is, on top of the

reading load you undoubtedly carry, you have a real life as well.So this load of reading each week becomes even more impos-

sible. I feel like my professors are setting me up to fail. Since I know I don’t have time to do everything, I learn the art of reading only the beginning and end of chapters. I learn which classes have reading that is unnecessary. Wikipedia becomes my best friend. Reading is no longer about soaking up knowledge but about can-nibalizing information as quickly as possible.

Now, even if I do have time when I could read for fun again, I can’t. I simply feel too guilty. No matter how hard I try to � nish it, I always have reading I could be doing for school, so that’s the reading I limit myself to. When I go home for breaks, my brain is so tired from all my textbooks and rhetorical analyses that I cry out for mindless engagements and end up reading literary trash such as the “Twilight” series just so I don’t have to think.

As a kid, I read all the time. � e New Yorker just celebrated the 50th anniversary of one of my favorite childhood books: “� e Phantom Tollbooth.” My sixth grade English class read parts of it and ended up using the plot to hold a debate over an age-old query: Which is better: numbers or letters? I still remember that debate. I still wonder which one is better and if we could every truly live without one of them.

When was the last time that happened with reading for school? I probably couldn’t summarize half of what I read for the past week, much less the past three years. My heroes used to be Heidi, Anne of Green Gables and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Now, with the heavy weight of unmet expectations on our shoulders, it is no wonder that the heroes of today’s college student are the things that help us forget our failures: Shiner, Smirno� andSixth Street.

Taylor is a Plan II and rhetoric and writing senior.

A recent Gallup poll shows that congressional job approval was riding high at a sizzling 15 percent for the month of September. � is continues to highlight America’s disenchantment with the economy and state of the nation. Popular protests such as Occupy Austin and Occupy Wall Street send a clear message: our rep-resentatives must protect the interests of the people.

An inherent problem of a representative democ-racy is that people’s votes do not directly translate to policy changes. In theory, our elected o� cials rep-resent the will of the majority and are to pass leg-islation to advance the interests of the people. Yet, in practice, our representatives only cater to a few select groups. Campaign contributors and lobby groups o� en drown out the voices of regular citi-zens. A new project by the Texas Legislature, how-ever, could prove to be a game-changer.

� e Texas Senate Committee on Business and Commerce plans on implementing crowdsourcing legislation in anticipating of the 2013 legislative ses-sion, according to � e Texas Tribune . Crowdsourc-ing is the concept of gathering information from a wide range of people via the Internet. � e idea is to introduce an electronic forum that would allow for anyone with Internet access to provide input on a piece of legislation. � is would allow people who are unable to have access to legislative hearings to join the conversation.

In times of budget cuts for UT, this development could have major implications for students. Crowd-sourcing would provide students with a powerful tool to participate in the debate on higher education funding and with a direct outlet to their representa-

tives down the street.� e committee has not yet determined what form

the crowdsourcing will take, but regardless, this project signi� es an important � rst step in opening up the legislative process.

� e bottom-up approach to governance is exactly what we need in times of political strife. � e integra-tion of something such as social media or a legisla-tive Wikipedia would allow for the collection of data to supplement the formation of legislation. � is use of technology would allow for the widest range of input, viewpoints and ideas. An open forum would also increase transparency, as all relevant informa-tion related to a piece of legislation would be acces-sible to anyone.

Despite its bene� ts, crowdsourcing will also face a variety of challenges.

Because of the complexity of writing legislation, those who hope to contribute to the process must have substantial knowledge of current laws and speci� c topics. � e committee must also come up with a fair metric to measure the value and weight of individual inputs. And because of the nature of the Internet, many of the opinions will be anony-mous and may come from the extremes. � e com-mittee must � nd a way to moderate these type of entries and must also ensure that this is not an anonymous process. Each piece of input must be able to be tracked down to an individual or group in order to maintain transparency.

Nonetheless, crowdsourcing is an innovative idea that would greatly improve the legislative process, and Texas is taking an important � rst step toward political reform.

Shi is an electrical and computer engineer junior.

A specious argument

I must say I was upset after reading Friday’s column, “The Texas Stampede.” I am pleased that students are starting to realize how important scientific computing is, but I am disappointed at how little they know about the programs and opportunities that UT offers.

The column calls for an interdisciplinary computational program to be created. Little did the author know that such a program already exists on our campus. In fact, the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) offers a program that is almost exactly like the one he described. It is well-known and appreciated in the computational science community, both in academia and industry. In fact, the original online article linked to a page about Stampede that mentioned ICES explicitly.

The graduate program is called Computational Science, Engineering and Mathematics (CSEM). Students in the program are required to demonstrate proficiency in three areas: mathematics, computation and scientific applica-tion. Students are required to take classes in each of the three areas and then choose an applied area to focus on. Applications that students focus on range from business and finance to engineering and traditional science. This is the framework of the program that Friday’s article describes and then claims does not exist at UT.

I realize that the author of the article may have been trying to say that UT does not have an undergradu-ate program of this nature. Although CSEM does not have an exact undergraduate counterpart, it does have a Computational Science and Engineering Certificate Program for undergraduates who are interested in compu-tational science. I commend the author for being able to envision such a program without knowing that it exists. However, that the presence of such a program at UT and its success have been ignored and improperly researched is unfortunate.

— Kathryn FarrellGraduate student, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences

� e following quotes are from the Tuition Policy Advisory Committee’s open forum held Wednesday evening. TPAC, composed of four students, � ve faculty and administrators and three non-voting members, makes recommendations on tuition policy to President William Powers Jr., who then presents a recommenda-tion to the Board of Regents, which is ultimately responsible for setting tuition.

“Tuition at this institution has gone up dramati-cally, and it has gone up past in� ation. � ere were a number of reasons for that. We readily acknowledge that the total cost to attend, which includes fees, etc., has gone up dramatically.”— Kevin Hegarty, UT’s chief � nancial o� cer and co-chair of TPAC, on the re-alities of tuition trends at the University.

“We’re still keeping [future] revenue estimates � at. We’ve heard it could be a di� cult [legislative] ses-sion next session as well, so we don’t know if this is a conservative estimate. It could get better; it could get worse.”— Mary Knight, associate vice president and budget director, on the projections of future state appropriations. According to the UT Budget O� ce’s presentation, the University received about $297 million in each of the past two years from the state for its academic core. Consequently, the committee is projecting UT will receive about the same amounts in the following two years as well.

“Any requests to increase tuition has to be tied to in-crease four-year graduation rates. � e other thing is that the maximum amount [of a tuition increase] that can be requested is tied to the consumer price index, which is about 2.6 percent.”— Student Government President Natalie Butler on the guidelines issued by the UT System for the committee and its counterparts at other system institutions as they deliberate on how much of a tuition increase to recommend. � e consumer price index is a method to account for cost of living adjustments in the state.

“� ere are so many unknowns that we have a di� -cult time forecasting [what the cost of tuition should be for the next four years]. If we could bring some [certainty] over a four-year period of time in clumps of what that funding might be ... we’d love to say, ‘Here’s your rate and it’s � xed for four years.’”— Hegarty on whether the committee has considered implementing four-year � xed tuition rates. Under UT’s current system, a tuition increase applies to all students — both current and incoming — whereas a four-year � xed tuition rate would increase tuition for incoming students but keep them the same for continuing ones.

“� is university works very hard to ... be completely open and transparent so that you will see what the charges are. ... When students and families see a tu-ition bill for the University of Texas at Austin, that is what you pay, and that transparency is what we need to continue to work on.”— Steven Leslie, provost and co-chair of TPAC, responding to a question about hidden fees in the cost of tuition.

The University Democrats welcomed a Texas politician who overcame public misconceptions surrounding the gay community to campus Wednesday night.

Former state representative Glen Maxey spoke about his life and experiences before and after he was elected in a candid dis-cussion at the University Dem-ocrats general meeting. Max-ey was the first openly gay man to serve in the Texas Legislature and fought aggressively to estab-lish health care and education fa-cilities for Texans with HIV. He also played a key role in passing the State Children’s Health In-surance Program.

Maxey began his discussion with many anecdotes about his early years in Texas politics and the different people he met when he registered voters. Max-ey said he once helped register a 98-year-old African-American woman who was told she could not vote.

“After about 45 minutes, she had voted and I asked her what it felt like to vote,” Maxey said. “She looked at me and a tear was run-ning down her eye and said ‘My, my, mister, it feels mighty fine.’”

To this day, Maxey said he personally registered more than 10,000 voters and holds the U.S. record for registering more na-ked individuals than any oth-er politician by standing outside bars from dusk until dawn.

Holly Heinrich, public re-lations chair for the Universi-ty Democrats, said Maxey was a very important person to the organization because he is a big supporter of the group and spends a lot of time speaking to students.

“In politics, so much knowledge is passed down in stories,” Hein-rich said. “There is so much about politics that you can only learn from the people who have lived it. He has insights you’ll never find in a government textbook.”

Heinrich said students would enjoy hearing from Maxey be-cause the initiatives he worked on in office still benefit people across the state today.

Government junior Robert Nunez said it was very exciting to

see Maxey, who he had formerly learned of and met through the University Democrats.

“It’s always exciting to have people who spend time in poli-tics come with the younger po-liticos,” Nunez said. “For the first openly gay man in the legislature to come speak to us [speaks] to the promise and opportunity ev-eryone has.”

Maxey ended the discussion with the reading from his up-coming memoir and encouraged people to enter politics for the right reasons and not to step on other people.

“The most important thing you can ever do is make one person’s life a little better,” Maxey said. “And that’s what I hope you all can do in your political careers.”

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UT and Texas A&M have long been rivals on the athletic field, and now a group of UT students have established a political rival-ry as well.

Members of the University Leadership Initiative, a UT stu-dent group, are condemning a petition that seeks to limit fund-ing for undocumented students circulated by the A&M student organization, the Texas Aggie Conservatives.

Students with undocument-ed Texas residency receive fund-ing under a current law once the student proves he or she has gradu-ated from a Tex-as high school, maintained state residency for at least three years and pledged to change their legal status once eligi-ble to do so.

T h e p e t i t i on proposed by the Texas Aggie Con-ser vat ives aims to prevent un-documented stu-dents f rom re-ceiving funding for higher education, said ULI member and anthropology and international relations junior Ainee Athar.

“During the last state legisla-tive session, ULI spent months combating dozens of bills that would deny undocumented stu-dents equal access to a higher education,” Athar said. “We did this because thousands of young people, who are not responsi-ble for the circumstances of their migration, get into college on their own merit and deserve the same accommodations as any other student.”

The petition to destroy the bill has received more than 300 sig-

natures as of Wednesday morn-ing, Aggie Conservatives chair-man Steven Schroeder said. The students’ goal is 1,000 signatures by the end of the week, he said. Schroeder said Texas taxpay-ers should not be forced to set aside money for undocumented adults who cannot work in this country legally.

“This is not about who goes to college,” Schroeder said. “This is simply about who pays the bill. [Supporters of the bill] believe il-legal immigrants are entitled to reduced tuition, which is ridic-ulous. It is not mean spirited to say that adults breaking the law should not be rewarded with a

free ride or re-duced tuition.”

Internation-a l s t u d e n t s and American c i t i z e n s p ay $15,000 more each year than t he u nd o c u -m e nt e d s t u -dents who at-t e n d A & M , he said.

At har s a i d she is an un-d o c u m e n t e d s tudent , and i f it was not for t h e b i l l ,

it would be a lot tougher to get funding for her education. There are 15,000 undocumented stu-dents in Texas that are in college because of the funding provided through this bill, she said.

“The Aggie Conservatives want to leave thousands of people in a lurch for the sake of an ill-thought out publicity stunt, the premise of which is not even supported by Rick Perry,” Athar said.

Biology and art sophomore Lauren Ross said she supports the efforts made by ULI to save the bill and protect the funding for undocumented students.

“I think everyone deserves a good education,” Ross said.

“ “This is not about who goes to college.

This is simply about who pays the bill.

— Steven Schroeder, Aggie Conservatives chairman

Undocumented studentssubject of UT, A&M clash

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Glen Maxey speaks about his experiences as the first openly gay state representative before University Democrats on Wednesday evening. Maxey is currently working on a book of memoirs about his distinguished career.

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Packaging the building blocks of DNA into microscopic nano-structures capable of being ap-plied as a skin cream may be the future of cancer treatment, according to one nanotech-nology pioneer speaking on Wednesday.

Chad Mirkin, director of the International Institute for Nano-technology at Northwestern Uni-versity, talked about the ground-breaking potential of chemi-cally engineering nucleic ac-ids and constructing DNA ar-ranged in a spiky, spherical nanostructure that utilizes nor-mal cellular processes to at-tack the genetic component of cancer cells.

Mirkin is researching thera-peutic application for nanostruc-tures ranging from one to 100 nanometers in length, about one-millionth of an inch.

“Right now, we have a disease

like glioblastoma [most common form of brain tumor] that is ba-sically a death sentence,” Mirkin said. “If we could create chemi-cal constructs that could be de-livered systemically to increase the lifespan of a patient from one year to five years, that would be unbelievable. To cure would be spectacular.”

The technology has success-fully interrupted the growth of cancer in more than 50 types of cells and tissues, such as liver and nerve cells. Crucially, cancerous cell bodies that resist treatment are permitting the nanostruc-tures to enter the cell for the first time — essential in delivering medicine to cancer sites effec-tively. Mirkin said trials treating brain tumors in mice are already showing promising results.

“Gene regulation has the prom-ise of treating and curing almost every disease out there that has a genetic basis, that’s the tantaliz-ing and exciting prospect of it,” he said.

He said he was honored to dis-cuss his research at UT.

“The Center for Nano- and Molecular Science is an incredible place,” Mirkin said. “[UT] has a

very passionate group of scientists and engineers who share a love of scientific curiosity.”

Biomedical engineering grad-uate student Brandon Slaugh-ter said he wrote to Mirkin in fall 2010 inviting him to speak at UT. He was initially rebuffed but persisted in proposing dates well into the future.

“It’s incredible,” he said. “We didn’t expect to get Profes-sor Mirkin to come here, espe-cially at a student-invited sem-inar. We discussed a few re-search opportunities this morn-ing, so there may be something going forward.”

Chemical engineering gradu-ate student William Liechty said Mirkin has the rare gift of be-ing able to take lab technologies and translate them into com- mercial technologies.

“He did a great job covering a number of academic fields and tying it together in terms of con-trolling molecular architecture to do a number of neat things, such as diagnostic and therapeutic ap-plications,” Liechty said. “Taking scientific discoveries and mak-ing them useful technologies is inspirational.”

Nanotechnology professor lectures at seminar about stopping cancer growth

Mexican Americans were his-torically neglected both in educa-tion and in government represen-tation, according to two UT pro-fessors who presented their re-search Wednesday.

Emilio Zamora, professor in the Department of History and Ja-son Casellas, assistant professor in the Department of Government discussed their current research projects funded by the Center for Mexican American Studies.

Casellas’ project will focus on how well Mexican Americans are represented within the education-al sphere. He said education tends to be the most concerning issue in Latino communities.

“High school drop out rates and a low socioeconomic status, among other issues, demonstrate how Latinos are consistently dis-

advantaged,” Casellas said. “Con-gress in turn has responded by paying scant attention to Hispanic education issues.”

The drop-out rate and the low socioeconomic status have been consistent throughout Mexican-American history, he said. Ca-sellas said that as a political sci-entist, his study would also look at the larger implications of bilin-gual education.

“The Bilingual Education Act, along with other legislation was a great advancement for the Lati-no community,” Casellas said. “I want to take a look at the trends and patterns in social, political and economic spheres and explain why the trends seem to continue with-out improvement for Latinos.”

Zamora said his project will fo-cus on Mexican Americans’ rep-resentation from 1940 to around 1980. The group was represented poorly in both the House and the

Senate until 1961. Zamora said his main goal is to focus on the his-tory of policy formation in Tex-as legislature and how Mexican Americans were represented dur-ing that time period.

“I’ve compiled a set of data of Mexican Americans in the senate and the house from 1846 to 2011,” Zamora said. “When we measure data, we have to qualify. There are explanations, and I want to asso-ciate those numbers with trends and patterns.”

Program coordinator Luis Gue-vara said the grant both profes-sors received from the center will further their research into Mexi-can-American representation in education and politics through- out history.

“It’s all work in progress at this point,” Guevara said. “They will be reflecting on the research they have done so far and hope to con-tinue doing.”

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He caught the kick, shot upfield, broke a tackle and 100 yards later, found himself in the end zone. Not bad for Fozzy Whittaker’s second career kickoff return.

“A big hole opened in the middle of the field,” the se-nior said. “All I had to do was take it and make the kick-er miss. That’s what I did.”

Whittaker’s 100-yard kickoff return for a touchdown kept Texas in the game momentarily before Oklahoma reeled off 28 unanswered points and pulled out a 55-17 win. But Whittaker’s performance — six carries for 45

yards, a 15-yard reception and the long kickoff return — was a silver lining of sorts.

“Fozzy had by far his best game at Texas,” said head coach Mack Brown. “I thought he played like the way we need the rest of them to play. He ran hard, he broke tackles, he returned kicks, he was on punt block. He re-ally took over and played great.”

With his most recent performance, Whittaker is mak-ing a convincing case for more touches. True freshman Malcolm Brown is the only Texas running back to have more than 10 carries in a game, but Whittaker is averag-ing seven yards per carry in his last three games and is playing with a reckless abandon and confidence.

“I thought he played the best of any offensive player,” Brown said. “He’s stronger. He’s more confident.”

But the fifth-year running back from Pearland, Texas, couldn’t keep his team from losing by nearly 40 points. Texas committed five turnovers and forced just one, an uncharacteristic mark considering the plus-six turn-over margin the Longhorns had going into this year’s Red River Rivalry. They’ll have to protect the ball bet-ter against Oklahoma State, whose offense will be hard enough to stop without it working with a short field.

Whittaker offered another solution Monday.

The collegiate golf season is only about a month old, but the Long-horns are already playing at mid-season form. Behind two straight tournament victories and excep-tional rounds from freshman Jor-dan Spieth, Texas is now the nation’s top-ranked team.

Spieth, a Dallas na-tive, is not your av-erage college fresh-man. He has already claimed two U.S . Amateur Champi-onship titles, one in 2009 when he was 16 and the other just this year. The only other golfer ever to achieve this feat is Tiger Woods. Spieth hasn’t reached Tiger’s lev-el of play just yet, but if he keeps playing the way he has this year, he’s not too far off. Spieth has also participated in the last two HP Byron Nelson Champion-ships held in Dallas. He tied for 16th in 2010 and even missed his high school prom to tie for 32nd in this year’s event. Now that’s dedication. Amateurs are not al-lowed to collect any earnings in tournaments, so Spieth gained only experience by playing with PGA Tour professionals.

In the Longhorns’ most recent tournament, the Jack Nicklaus In-vitational, Spieth paced the Long-horns with rounds of 73-66-72 and finished tied for second on the individual leaderboard. Spieth has been getting out to fast starts in each of the club’s first three tournaments this year. His first-round average of 69 ranks No. 20 in the nation and is a big rea-

son Texas has won consecutive tourna-ments for the first time since 2006.

There’s no doubt that he’s a special player, but he is still growing. That’s ev-idenced by how he finished the Jack Nicklaus Invitation-al. He was not able to capitalize on his low round of 66 and close

out the rest of the field. His last round average of 74 ranks much lower in the nation at 1,183rd.

“Jordan’s finish was bittersweet,” said head coach John Fields. “These last two tournaments have been contested at championship-caliber courses that are set up for tough finishes. There have been some tremendously difficult fin-ishing holes. But Jordan is a team player and is focused on the same goal as his teammates — winning tournaments.”

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Fozzy Whittaker carries the ball during the Longhorns’ 55-17 loss to Oklahoma on Oct. 8 at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. Whittaker sparked the Longhorns with a 100-yard touchdown on a kick return in the second quarter of the Red River Rivalry but it wasn’t enough to beat the Sooners.

Senior tailback continues to build on impressive season, sets example for freshmen

Spieth helps Horns earn top ranking after strong start

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Haley Eckerman spikes the ball during the Longhorns’ sweep over the Red Raiders on Wednesday. Eckerman finished the match with nine kills.

Eckerman, Adams lead UT in sweep

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Bailey Webster had an impres-sive 11 kills on .320 hitting and middle blocker Rachael Adams finished the game with seven kills and hit at a .600 clip.

The Longhorns dominated the first set and Webster had six kills.

The beginning of the set was close, but by Texas’ 16th point, the Longhorns started pulling away with the lead. Four kills each from Adams and Haley

Eckerman aided the Longhorns in their 25-17 first set win over the Red Raiders. Texas had an impressive 17 kills in the set and a .344 hitting percentage.

Amber Roberson held her own with seven digs, half of the team’s total in the set.

The Longhorns got an ear-ly 6-3 lead in the second set and didn’t look back. A service ace by Hannah Allison improved Tex-as’ lead to 12-5. The Red Raiders would only get six more points in the set and a kill by Eckerman would finish the set 25-11.

Eckerman finished the set with four kills. Ashley Bannis-ter was substituted in during the

set and made an impact. She had three kills and a dig. The Long-horns (12-4; 4-1 Big 12) finished the set with a .462 hitting per-centage, while Texas Tech had .053 hitting percentage.

Amber Roberson had three digs by the end of the second set.

“[Head coach] Jerritt [El-liott] talks about trust and know-ing that Amber is working really hard and everyone else is work-ing really hard on our defense,” Eckerman said. “That’s trust for us to know that they’re going to get it to the setter, the setter is go-ing to get it to us.”

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Spieth is currently ranked 12th in the nation individually and is one of three Longhorns ranked in the top-50, nationally. Senior Dy-lan Frittelli has not finished low-er than seventh in an event this year and sits at No. 3 in the nation while redshirt junior Julio Vegas is ranked 39th.

We could be witnessing the best golfer to come through Aus-tin since the likes of Ben Cren-shaw and Justin Leonard, who have both gone on to make a pret-ty comfortable living on the PGA Tour. Spieth still has a lot to learn, but he’s well on his way to becom-ing one of the nation’s top golfers.

“Senior leadership is the big-gest key on this team,” he said. “A lot of the senior leaders were here last year. We know exactly what it feels like for something to snow-ball and how to turn it around.”

Oklahoma State’s defense, while not as strong as the team’s offense, is an opportunistic one. The Cowboys have forced 10 more turnovers (17) than it’s committed (7), and their second-ary has picked off nine passes in the last three games.

“They have guys that f ly around,” Whittaker said. “Their defensive line is really quick. They’re big guys that can still move around very fast. Their linebackers are fundamentally sound, and they have great de-fensive backs. They have a lot of turnovers, so that’s a thing that’ll be key to protecting the ball against that defense.”

Against Oklahoma, Whittak-er apparently suffered a minor ankle injury, but it barely kept him out one play. Brown said he “couldn’t get [Fozzy] out of the game” because of how bad-ly he wanted to play despite the lopsided margin the scoreboard showed. That kind of effort is

catching the attention of some of his teammates on offense.

“Fozzy did outstanding,” fresh-man receiver Jaxon Shipley said. “He did great for us on offense. That kickoff return really sparked something for us. I know we were behind, but that showed a little bit of his character on that kickoff to try so hard.”

Even those that aren’t his teammates are taking notice of Whittaker. Mack Brown’s wife, Sally, mentioned to her husband

how great of a mentor he is af-ter observing Whittaker maneu-ver Malcolm Brown, his partner in the backfield, around a din-ner table much like he does on a gridiron.

Whittaker’s response?“Someone was good to me,” he

said.The best thing Whittaker

could do for now, though, is to do what he’s been doing all sea-son — showing how it’s done on the field.

Hannah Allison is a key part of team

A l l i s o n h a d 1 5 a s s i s t s i n t h e f i r s t set. She was all over the floor and did not give up on the ball throughout the night. She even had two ser-vice aces in the second set. Without Allison, Texas would not have had such a success-ful night both offen-sively and defensive-

ly. Rachael Adams fin-ished the game with a .600 hitting percent-age. In the first set, she had 15 assists and in the second set, she had two serving aces. She finished the game with 36 assists and five digs. She’s taken on a leadership role with her improved play and team attitude.

Sha’Dare McNeal is back

In her first start since open-ing night against Pepperdine on Sept. 26, McNeal made her presence known on the court — and it wasn’t because of her knee brace.

She had an incredible down-the-line kill that made the score 23-17 in the third.

“I figured that Rachael’s hitting numbers would go up 100 to 150 points with Sha’Dare next to her because she pulls a blocker

with her and makes it a lot more challenging with that,” said head coach Jerritt Elliott. “With the numbers that Sha’Dare is able to put up and Rachael to go up for big numbers and get good bal-ance, it was really nice to see.”

McNeal said that she is learn-ing to trust her knee again.

“It’s been kind of a challenge,” she said. “But everyday [I’m] get-ting in the practice room and I’m working to get where I was.”

Low on blocks, high on digs

Elliott expected that McNeal’s return would lead to an increased amount of blocks for Texas.

But Texas had 43 digs and three team blocks. Amber Roberson had nine digs while libero Sydney Yogi and McNeal both had eight. The team’s defense has continued to get better and better this season.

Although blocks weren’t nec-essarily the team’s strong suit to-night, the team still dominated.

“We’ve got so much velocity

and we’re digging balls far off the net and making it challenging,” Elliott said. “I would have thought we would have won the blocking game tonight, but we didn’t.”

He was impressed with how the team was able to slow down balls by getting touch blocks and soft blocks.

“There wasn’t a lot of balls hit to the wood and when that happens, we’re pretty success-ful,” Elliott said.

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The Longhorns started out strong in the third set and took a 15-7 lead. But once Elliott put in substitutes, the Red Raiders were determined to win the set. At one point in the third set, Texas was outhitting Tech .349 to .040. The Longhorns had a 24-19 lead, but a surge by Tech brought the score much clos-er. But a kill by Haley Camer-on ended the game 25-22.

With Sha’Dare McNeal back

in the star t ing l ineup, the Longhorns had some adjust-ments to make, but after sort-ing out some passing problems in the first set, they took the win with ease.

“With the new lineup, there’s going to be some relationship issues,” Elliott said. “But the things we thought we would get out of this lineup and knew that we would get is a lot more bal-ance from our team.”

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Malcolm Brown carries the ball in a recent game for Texas. Whittaker has taken the freshman under his wing this season.

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ST. LOUIS — Albert Pujols hit an RBI double during a four-run first in-ning and the St. Louis bullpen bailed out Chris Carpenter as the Cardi-nals beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-3 Wednesday night for a 2-1 edge in the NL championship series.

In a matchup of aces, neither Car-penter nor 17-game Yovani Gallar-do made it past the fifth. The one-run lead Carpenter handed over was just enough, as four relievers combined for four perfect innings.

Fernando Salas, Lance Lynn, Marc Rzepczynski and Jason Motte shut down the Brewers to close out the vic-tory. Motte, who had two saves last-ing more than inning in September, got four outs for this save and fanned pinch hitter Casey McGehee to end it.

Carpenter won his seventh postsea-son game to tie Bob Gibson’s franchise record, but with none of the brilliance of his three-hit shutout over Roy Hal-laday and the favored Phillies in the deciding game of the division series. He lasted only five innings, with near-ly half of his 89 pitches for balls.

The starters’ ineffectiveness was surprising considering their track re-cords.

Carpenter has been clutch through-out his career in the postseason, going 7-2 with a 3.14 ERA in 12 games. Gal-lardo allowed only two runs in 21 in-nings, a minuscule 0.86 ERA, before Game 3.

Kyle Lohse, pitching on 12 days’ rest, starts Game 4 Thursday for the wild-card Cardinals against Randy Wolf.

The Cardinals batted around against Gallardo in the first. Pujols de-livered an RBI double after starring in a Game 2 win with a home run and three doubles.

St. Louis had its chances to break away later, but hit into three double plays and stranded nine runners.

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Players to Start:

Josh Freeman, Tampa Bay Buc-caneers — Freeman is a quarter-back that leads his teams to wins and comes up clutch in the fourth quarter (except for last week’s em-barrassing loss to San Francisco). But unfortunately for Freeman’s fans, his fourth quarter stats count for the same amount as the num-bers in the other three — where Freeman is an average quarterback mostly because of Tampa Bay’s heavy reliance on the run. But this week, he will be forced to throw the ball to keep up with the explo-sive New Orleans Saints, so expect at least 300 yards throwing and a few touchdowns.

Cedric Benson, Cincinnati Ben-gals — The former Longhorn run-ning back hasn’t had the greatest start to the season. He’s seen eight man fronts all year as defenses try to force rookie quarterback Andy Dalton to throw. But this week Ben-son comes up against a very favor-able matchup with the Colts’ run defense, so he is a must start.

Mike Williams, Tampa Bay Buc-caneers — The wideout has had a horrendous start this year with only 183 yards in five games after a stel-lar rookie campaign where he com-piled 1,147 yards and 12 touch-downs. Expect Williams to get back on track this weekend against New Orleans, as Freeman should be tar-geting his most talented receiving option early and often.

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Santana Moss, Washington Redskins — Moss has been a sol-id fantasy option this season, av-eraging just under nine points a contest. But this week, the Red-skins are going against an Ea-gles team that desperately needs a win, and a desperate team is a dangerous one. Expect Wash-ington’s offense to be hand-cuffed all game, especially Moss who will be covered by this off-season’s biggest prize, Nnamdi Asomugha.

Joseph Addai, Indianapolis Colts — Without Peyton Man-ning, the Colts have struggled, and Addai is no exception. He

has only 249 yards and a touch-down this year, and to make mat-ters worse, he went down with a hamstring injury last week. Don’t expect Addai to provide anything for your lineup this weekend, as it is questionable as to whether he will even see the field.

Jahvid Best, Detroit Lions — The second-year running back had a breakout game Monday against the Bears, rushing for 163 yards and a touchdown. But because Best had only rushed for 190 total yards in four previ-ous games, his owners should be careful of the statistical anomaly. This week Best comes up against a stingy San Francisco defense, further raising the likelihood he will underperform.

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Tampa Bay quarterback Josh Freeman congratulates receiver Mike Williams during a recent game for the Buccaneers.

DETROIT— The Texas tag team of Nelson Cruz and Mike Napoli was too much for the De-troit Tigers.

Cruz made a rocket throw to keep the score tied, then hit a crushing three-run homer in the 11th inning off Jose Valverde that helped send the Rangers over the Tigers 7-3 Wednesday night for a 3-1 lead in the AL champion-ship series. Napoli had put Texas ahead with an RBI single earlier in the 11th.

Cruz, whose grand slam in the 11th inning won Game 2, once again starred for the Rangers in a game delayed at the start for more than two hours by rain.

With Detroit runners at the corners in the eighth and the score 3-all, Cruz caught Delmon Young’s flyball to right field and made a strong peg to Napoli, the catcher, to nail Miguel Cabrera.

“For you guys that haven’t seen Nelson every day, he’s capable of doing exactly what he’s doing,” Texas manager Ron Washington said. “We’ve been waiting for it for a long time, and as I always say, I don’t judge Nelson just because he hits balls out of the ballpark. He’s a complete player. He takes pride in every part of the game.”

Napoli blooped a go-ahead sin-gle in the 11th and Cruz soon add-ed his fourth home run of the ALCS. Cruz became the first play-er in major league history to hit a pair of extra-inning homers in the same postseason series.

Texas tries for its second con-secutive AL pennant on Thurs-day, sending C.J. Wilson to the mound to face Detroit ace Justin Verlander.

The ALCS has marked quite a turnaround for Cruz. After going just 1 for 15 in the first-round playoff win over Tam-pa Bay, he’s 5 for 14 with nine RBIs in only four games against the Tigers — and seven of those

RBIs have come in the 11th in-ning alone.

Brandon Inge hit a solo home run in the Detroit seventh that tied it. The Tigers wasted a terrif-ic chance an inning later following some risky Texas strategy.

With one out and nobody on, the Rangers intentionally walked Cabrera, practically daring the rest of the struggling Detroit lineup to beat them. The AL batting cham-pion hit a two-run double earlier in the game, in fact.

“First time shame on you, next time shame on me,” Wash-ington said.

Victor Martinez, who hurt his ribcage on a home run swing in Game 3, followed with a single

to right and Cabrera lumbered around to third.

“I respect Martinez a heck of a lot,” Washington said. “Once again, he got that base hit and we almost paid for it, but I certainly wasn’t going to let [Cabrera] have a swing of the bat there and beat us.”

Young, another Tigers start-er who has been banged up lately, managed to lift the ball to medium right. Cruz caught it and made a perfect, one-hop throw to the plate that beat Cabrera by several feet.

Cabrera bowled over Napoli, to no avail. Napoli held onto the ball and Cabrera never touched the plate.

“We throw to the bases every day,” Cruz said.

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Texas’ Nelson Cruz rounds first base after hitting a 3-run home run in the 11th inning to help the Rangers beat Detroit.

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After three years, Houston grime-punk rapper, B L A C K I E All Caps, With Spaces is back sporting a fresh hair cut and a fresh album, True Spirit and Not Giving A Fuck. After ditching his signature B L A C K I E dread-locks in favor of a cleaner look, his subsequent release of True Spirit deviates from the tradi-tionally blown speaker sounds of past albums in favor of a clean-er pro duc t ion style. That said, the instrumen-tals are still pret-ty vitriolic, with q u i c k , d e e p l y distorted synth, guitar lines and enraged, thun-derous beats.

T h e c h a n g e w o r k s a n d B L A C K I E does a fantastic job of not sac-rif icing any of his unbridled rawness, despite not emulating the intensity of his live shows, where he has no less than 30 people surrounding him who violently flail and shove each other for the entirety of his set, occasionally using them to crowd surf.

Tr u e S p i r i t i s p r o b a b l y B L A C K I E’s most coher-ent release to date. While his two previous albums, Spred Luv and Wilderness of North Ameri-ca, were among the best releas-es of the underground Houston scene, True Spirit illustrates the actualization of his potential. Be-fore, if you wanted to show your friends B L A C K I E, you had

slowly ease them into the art-ist’s dark, brutal world, showing them Spred Luv’s succinct and anthemic “My Window,” before moving onto the more caustic styling’s of “Regrets Of An Aver-age African-American Amateur Drug Lord,” and “Don’t Cum 2 Houston.”

As in albums past, True Spir-it is a very cathartic experience for B L A C K I E, as he makes allusions to and articulates his innermost thoughts, emotions and problems. On “Of My Ene-

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The album is definitely one of the best underground releas-es Texas stands to see all year. Outside of the general amateur-ish tendencies and quirkiness lo-cal albums generally posses due to the lack of professional-level production, True Spirit And Not Giving A Fuck is really good and worth a listen by anyone who re-motely likes hip-hop or punk or music.

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Richard Linklater’s “Before Sun-set” is one of those classic falling-in-love films, an elliptically-paced look at a single night in the lives of two young globetrotters. With “Weekend,” writer-director An-drew Haigh has produced a very similar film, a gay-themed riff on flash-in-the-pan romance that takes place over a weekend in the life of two British men.

The film’s central duet is made up of Tom Cullen and Chris New. Cullen plays the insecure Russell, who goes cruising at a gay bar one evening and meets Glen (Chris New). After what could be a one-night stand, Russell can’t get his mind off Glen and the two end up spending most of the weekend to-gether in a romantic stupor, high

off both a wide variety of drugs and the pure rush of infatuation.

Cullen and New are more or less the only actors in the film, save for a few scenes with a friend of Russell’s that bookend the film. With the entire film resting on their shoulders, both actors prove to be pretty exceptional, selling every bit of their characters’ ban-ter, bickering and discussion of their gay identities. Thankfully, they’re backed by a strong script from Haigh.

Haigh edited the film as well, bringing his background work-ing on the editing team for films such as “Gladiator” and “Black Hawk Down” to a very different genre. Haigh’s script keeps the film moving very quickly, avoid-ing self-indulgent flab that could rob the proceedings of their emotional heft, and his script is

insightful, funny and sweet. The film examines what it means to be gay but in a smart, insight-ful way that shouldn’t turn off straight viewers — the film is definitely risque but no more so than your average R-rated ro-mantic drama.

“Weekend” is a prime exam-ple of a lost romantic interlude in

two lives that just happen to bump into each other at the right time. Well-directed and written, and ex-ceptionally acted, the film easily transcends the niche audience it’s aimed at and becomes an intelli-gent, wistful examination of sex, identity and what it means to be a person — lofty goals that absolute-ly deserve to be commended.

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I really believed that if teenagers were going to have the same experi-ence I had in 1984, then they need-ed a fresh new cast they could claim as their own. That’s what I did.

Kenny Wormald: I remem-

ber when it was the musical ver-sion before Craig was on board. I was jealous. I grew up danc-ing, I had seen “Footloose” 100 times, and I thought “Dammit, I think I should be Ren McCor-

mack.” Once everything shifted and Craig came onboard and it was a clean slate, he got to start casting. I went in for the audition process and went through the steps of that and finally ended up at Paramount doing a screen test and it went my way.

DT: What can the new genera-

tion get from this story?Brewer: I guess when I look

back on “Footloose,” because I’ve watched it almost every other year of my life, I saw things in the orig-inal “Footloose” I don’t think are in the VH1 remember-the-’80s reel. I remember there being some serious drama in it. I’ll never for-get being in the audience and see-ing Ariel yell at her father “I’m not even a virgin” in a church. As a young teen, I got to see this guy stand up for his individuality and stand up for what he believes in, and it was in a world that was both brutal and unfair and also joyous, with friends and allies. Let’s clean the slate. Let’s assume there’s no “Footloose” anymore. What mov-ies do teenagers have, other than superhero movies or fantasy mov-ies where they can explore those things? How better of a narrative than “Footloose” to give them that

sense of self-worth that I got when I was 13?

DT: What was your biggest challenge in remaking the film?

Brewer: This moment with me talking to you all. I knew there was going to be two phases that would be challenging: One was making it, and that would be the first chal-lenge, and that has all the mini-challenges involved in it — Did we cast the right people, did we do the right music, did I write the right scenes, do we have the right costumes? There’s all these mini-challenges inside the big chal-lenges of “Did we pull the movie off?” I think we pulled the mov-ie off. I’ve never been more confi-dent of the fact that, without any arrogance, you are looking at the only two guys who could have and should have done the remake of “Footloose.”

It is a challenge. It’s a challenge knowing I had new actors that were going to have to take this kind of hate. I knew their heart was in the right place. I knew they had a love for the original and they wanted to do right by it and we were go-ing to have to weather this time, and eventually, the movie was go-ing to have to have its day.

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While his f irst bike rests peacefully in the rafters above his workshop, Cason’s love for bike building has driven him to build bikes for friends, profes-sional cyclists (including Olym-pic rider and gold medalist Ty-

ler Hamilton and Swiss cyclist Christian Heule) or anyone who asks.

Cason’s bikes start at $4,600 and go up from there depend-ing on the paint job and other factors. Customers are sent to an expert fitter and then bring the measurements to Cason. He says paying for the fitting is “the best money you will ever spend” in terms of getting the perfect fit. They discuss what type of bike the customer wants, and Cason makes it clear, he doesn’t have limits.

“I do not have limitations in my geometry, so we can connect two tubes together at any angle

we want,” Cason said.In what Cason called a “me

too” culture where “everyone has the same jeans and the same pair of tennis shoes,” he knows customers value the attention to detail and the uniqueness of each bike.

“Most [customers] want a bike, but at the same time, they want a conversation piece,” Ca-son said. “I don’t know, may-be there’s a little mystique with them. I mean when you go into doing everything just for that person, there’s definitely a difference.”

Cason, along with the help of good friend and artist Darin

Wheeler, has created some very special bicycles. One of Ca-son’s favorites was painted to look like mahogany wood and the letters were burned in with a branding iron. The KirkLee “Starry Night” bike, inspired by the Van Gogh painting won Best Paint at the 2011 North Ameri-can Handmade Bicycle Show. Wheeler recognizes the work Cason does to get this type of artistic freedom from the cus-tomers for bikes.

“Brad definitely trusts my ar-tistic judgment, and that’s fan-tastic on my part,” Wheeler said. “Usually when it comes to the customers, he does a good

job saying ‘Hey, just trust me. We’ll take care of it.’ So it’s just kind of a perfect mesh.”

Understanding the dynamics behind a bike has given Cason a whole new appreciation for rid-ing. And like he said before, Ca-son plans on building KirkLees for years to come.

“As much as I love my bikes, the same mentality affects me in other things where I’ve been starting to think I can build my own motorcycle,” Cason said. “I’m thinking maybe this win-ter I can start putting together a carbon fiber motorcycle and just pushing my knowledge and where I can go.”

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Brad Cason, owner of KirkLee Bicycles, creates handmade carbon fiber bicycles in the garage behind his home. Cason will showcase his bikes at this weekend’s Texas Custom Bicycle Show.

Brad Cason knows the devil is in the details.

He is a man who takes pride in his workmanship, something he views as a bit of a lost art form. And he hopes his work will visi-ble at this weekend’s Texas Cus-tom Bicycle Show.

Cason is the man behind KirkLee Bicycles, a company that creates custom-made car-bon fiber bikes. He builds them according to arm length, leg length and even shoe size, all

in a quaint workshop in the ga-rage behind his home. He leaves the garage door up, welcoming friends and customers to ride by on their KirkLee bikes and say hello.

“I never thought I would do this for a career,” Cason said. “But when I’m in my shop and I’m building, I’m absolutely at my happiest.”

Cason began KirkLee Bicycles in 2008 but has been building bicycles since his college days at Texas A&M, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in engineer-ing and later a master’s degree in

business. He spent time working with a corporate tool company in Las Vegas, but when the op-portunity to start KirkLee pre-sented itself, Cason couldn’t say no.

“I could handle the corpo-rate world again, but I don’t see KirkLee going anywhere,” Cason said. “This was a challenge be-cause I thought I’d start my own sporting goods company and do it my way and see if I can, and I feel like I’ve done it.”

Cason’s wife, Cecilia Burn-s i d e , w h o h a s b e e n w i t h him through the creation of

KirkLee, said she has seen how fulfilling creating bicycles is for Cason.

“He puts an unbelievable amount of detail into his work and a lot of time,” Burnside said. “It’s kind of the best of both worlds for him because he has a very artistic side but also a very mechanical precision side.”

A cyclist since 1995, Cason has had a passion for cycling for a while now. But it wasn’t until 2001 that he considered building his own. He was in college and while he lacked money, he had the time to look into building

things. First it was his own surf-board and then his own moun-tain bike. He began researching how to build bikes and decid-ed that even if his first bike fell apart immediately, it was some-thing he had to try.

“One of my favorites is prob-ably the first mountain bike that started it all,” Cason reminisced. “I had hundreds of hours in it and well over a thousand dollars, and I didn’t even know if it was going to work. But you can’t be afraid or you’ll never get anywhere.”

Pulitzer-winning writer Jennifer Egan will be reading and discussing her award-winning novel “A Visit from the Goon Squad” tonight. The coming of age novel received critical reception for its innovative delve into growing up and unconventional short story-like structure.

WHAT: The Michener Center for Writers presents Jennifer EganWHEN: Thursday, Oct. 13 from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.WHERE: ACE building, auditorium 2.302ADMISSION: Free

To celebrate the debut of its latest exhibition, “El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You About Africa,” this month’s B Scene is ’70s funk and soul-inspired. A Ghana-born artist who grew up in Nigeria, El Anatsui’s sculptural and wall arts are heavily influenced and inspired by the West African region he grew up in. There will be performances from Hard Proof (members of Black Joe Lewis & the Honey Bears) and Black Red Black and gallery tours.

WHAT: B Scene: AfrobeatWHEN: Friday, Oct. 14 at 6 p.m.WHERE: Blanton MuseumADMISSION: $5 for members, $12 for public

On tour for his latest novel, “Freedom,” award-winning American author Jonathan Franzen will speak about the best seller at Bass Concert Hall on Friday. Praised from its strong portrayal and criticism on modern social structure and norms, Franzen’s sophmore novel “The Corrections” won the National Book Award and was translated into 35 languages.

WHAT: Jonathan FranzenWHEN: Friday, Oct. 14 at 8 p.m.WHERE: Bass Concert HallADMISSION: Tickets start at $10

By Sarah-Grace SweeneyDaily Texan Staff

Chocolate is an indulgent confection that evokes a stirring of comfort, pleasure and hap-piness. The fifth annual Aus-tin Chocolate Festival is bring-ing the community togeth-er for a weekend of charity to support the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Steven Flood, owner of Fat Turkey Chocolate Company and festival planner, originally or-ganized the festival as a medi-um for chocolate-related busi-nesses to market themselves and to raise money for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foun-dation. But this year, Flood has chosen to support the Nation-al MS Society win honor of his friend, Katie Fowler, who was diagnosed with the disease in 2009.

Multiple sclerosis affects the brain and spinal cord, inter-rupting electrical signals to the rest of the body. Symptoms vary with each person but can range anywhere from fatigue and pain to motor impairment. Because of the variety of symptoms, MS is difficult to diagnose and ex-pensive to treat.

“I didn’t really know much about MS until [Fowler] was di-agnosed with it last year, and watching what she was going through, I realized it’s a real-ly horrible disease,” Flood said. “There’s a lot of treatments and breakthroughs that are right around the corner. I’m trying to do what we can to get around that corner, help her get around that corner because they’re

really close.” Fowler and Flood attended

high school together in Nor-man, Okla. Though they weren’t friends in high school and led separate lives with families in Texas and Colorado, respec-tively. Facebook has allowed them to reconnect and build an as-real-as-it-gets friendship. This weekend will be Fowler and Flood’s first reunion since high school.

Before she was diagnosed, Fowler was a Montessori school teacher. She’s now part of a free medical study for an MS drug which normally costs up to $18,000 a month and could slow the progression of her disease. However, most people aren’t as fortunate as Fowler. Copaxone, a commonly prescribed MS medi-

cation, can cost around $1,700 a month with insurance.

“Without organizations like MS Society there to help pay for research, she wouldn’t have ac-cess to that. One of the things I’d really like to see is the turn-around of that whole [health-care] industry and make drugs and treatments affordable for people,” Flood said.

Allen DuBose and Sasha Ran-gel, co-owners of Cordial Cre-ations, are launching their com-pany at the festival this week-end. Cordials are cream- or li-queur-wrapped cherries dipped in chocolate. DuBose and Ran-gel will be offering two samples, their butter rum and mocha cor-dials. In honor of their immedi-ate family members affected by MS, they also will be participat-

ing in the walk MS team associ-ated with the festival.

The Austin Chocolate Festi-val’s Walk MS team has raised $1,240 for MS research be-fore the fest iva l has even taken place.

“Just $10 helps a person with MS who is wheelchair-bound have home healthcare for one day,” Fowler said. “It just means a lot.”

By Sarah BennerDaily Texan Staff

WHAT: Fifth-annual Austin Chocolate Festival

WHERE: Norris Conference Center

WHEN: Oct. 15-16, 10 a.m-6 p.m.

WEB: austinchocolatefestival.com

TICKETS: Adults $21.65 per day, children $10.83 per day

‘Footloose’ director contemplatescasting choices, film perspectives

“Footloose” is director Craig Brewer’s fourth feature film, a re-make of the 1984 Kevin Bacon clas-sic. The film continues Brewer’s tra-dition of southern-set films, a col-lection that also includes “Hustle & Flow” and “Black Snake Moan,” two of the most distinctly deep-fried southern films to come out of the last decade. Star Kenny Wormald, taking the reins from Bacon as new kid in town Ren McCormack, has very little on-screen experience but performs admirably in a role that could have easily been a flavorless rehash. “Footloose” opens in the-aters everywhere Oct. 14. Check back tomorrow for a review.

The Daily Texan participated in a roundtable interview with Brew-er and Wormald last month after a screening at the Alamo Drafthouse.

The Daily Texan: How did being

raised in the South affect your per-spective in making this film?

Craig Brewer: All of my fami-ly comes from the South, but I had the opportunity to live elsewhere. For me, I would always go back to the South during the summers, so I kind of felt like Ren McCormack. I was always very aware that there was both a stereotypical south and a real south. What was kind of fun-

ny to me was the real southern rel-atives that I had didn’t mind stereo-types and sometimes would slip into it themselves ... I feel that the more movies I make that take place in the South, I kind of break down some of those things.

DT: What drew you to the project and was it difficult to put your own personal spin on a pre-existing property?

Brewer: It was very daunting, and I turned it down a couple of times. In the original, the accident took place much later in the narra-tive, but having it right at the be-ginning changed the way not only audiences would feel about the movie but really changed the way I personally was perceiving it. What

it did for me was play more to my concerns as a parent as opposed to just a guy. I consider myself pret-ty liberal, but when safety or harm or fear of death starts being intro-duced to my children, I change into a different person, and I guess I started to understand Reverend Moore a little bit better.

DT: Tell me about casting.Brewer: I felt very confident to

move forward with it. Also in cast-ing, I think that there were a lot of different ideas before I came onto the project on how to cast the movie.

Tremt Lesikar | Daily Texan Staff

Allen DuBose and Sasha Rangel, co-owners of Cordial Creations, will launch their chocolate company at this weekend’s fifth-annual Austin Chocolate Festival. DuBose and Rangel will also be participating in a walk benefitting the National Multiple Sclerosis Society which is associated with the festival.

Bike innovator enjoys success of small garage business

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I knew they had a love for the original and they wanted to do right by it.“ — Craig Brewer

Chocolate festival fights multiple sclerosis with sweets

By Alex WilliamsDaily Texan Staff

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Firfth-annual fundraiser markets businesses, helpsmutliple sclerosis patients