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By Daniel SanchezDaily Texan Staff
Longhorn fans may not be sit-ting where they thought they would be at the start of the sea-son with a 4-2 record and a No. 19 ranking in the BCS, follow-
ing a surprising 34-12 loss to underdog UCLA and a mistake-filled loss to Oklaho-ma, but win or lose — home football games mean money for Austin businesses.
In its home opener against the Universi-ty of Wyoming Cowboys, Texas set an at-tendance record of 101,339 — the second
largest crowd at Darrell K Royal-Texas Me-morial Stadium ever, trailing the 2009 game against Kansas, which drew 101,357 fans.
“The way that we talk about it is we have eight Christmases,” said Brian Jewell, vice president of marketing of the Univer-sity Co-op. “We have one on Dec. 25 and then we have one every home game day.”
During the weekend of the Wyoming game, the Co-op on Guadalupe Street turned in a six-figure profit, Jewell said.
“Not only does it bring us sales but again, let’s remember, every time we sell something, that gives us an opportunity
to give back to the University,” Jewell said. “That’s really where the biggest impact eventually happens. The more you buy from us, the more we’re able to give back in gifts, grants, rebates, scholarships, dona-tions and those types of things.”
A portion of these sales come from out-of-town alumni such as Matt Shaun-ty, a 1992 graduate of the University from Houston.
Shaunty said he has been a season tick-et holder for 15 years. He took
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Quintana reinstated to police force UT program obtains grant for underserved students
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An arbitrator reinstated Austin po-lice Officer Leonardo Quintana on Thursday after five months off the force following a drunken driving of-fense earlier this year.
Quintana’s indefinite suspension for the DWI was not appropriate be-cause the discipline was not consis-tent with those of other Austin Police Department officers who also were convicted of the same offense, wrote arbitrator Louise Wolitz. She reduced
his suspension to 15 days.Quintana, a center of controversy
after the May 2009 shooting of Na-thaniel Sanders II, petitioned for rein-statement after his suspension in May. In addition to the DWI charges, Quin-tana faces two lawsuits related to his involvement in the shooting of the 18-year-old Sanders and 22-year-old Sir Lawrence Smith in 2009.
“Officer Quintana is reminded that he now has two 15-day suspensions
By Ahsika SandersDaily Texan Staff
A program to improve lan-guage impairments of bilingual first grade students, initiated by UT speech-language researchers, received a $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
During the first year, research-ers will work with 24 Georgetown students to test the effectiveness of the language intervention pro-
gram, which they believe will lead to increased English literacy. Pro-gram instructors will teach bilin-gual children devices to help them learn the basic phonics of English.
Children who have language impairments have trouble prop-erly structuring well-organized sentences and appropriately us-ing words, said Lisa Bedore, an
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If all faculty submit their book lists to the University Co-op be-fore the Oct. 31 priority dead-line, the bookstore could save $250,000 — translating into seri-ous savings for students.
When the store receives book requisition lists by that date, it helps store management deter-mine how many books to buy back from students and gives the Co-op time to shop around for
prices on used books from whole-salers, said Chad Stith, direc-tor of course materials. About 60 percent of faculty usually submit their requisitions on time. When the store gets book requests late, it doesn’t buy as many books from students and ends up hav-ing to buy a greater number of more expensive new books from publishers, so students lose mon-ey in two ways.
“[Prompt book list submis-sions] can easily mean a quarter
of a million dollars per semes-ter in savings, because there are more used books at the Co-op and better payout at buyback,” he said.
Business junior Chase Coving-ton, a Student Government lib-eral arts representative, is spear-heading a letter-writing cam-paign to encourage faculty to submit their lists on time.
At its Oct. 12 meeting, SG passed a resolution authored by Covington to support efforts to
increase timely requisition re-quests. He has met with student organizations to ask their mem-bers to urge professors to submit their lists on time during class, at office hours or by e-mail.
Stith said when the inquiry comes from SG and other stu-dents, professors know prompt submission of book lists doesn’t only help the Co-op. After a sim-ilar SG initiative in fall 2009, 102 more faculty members submitted their requisitions on time than in
the previous fall. Covington said he hopes this year will be more successful and far-reaching.
“There is still a lot of room for improvement,” he said. “We can institutionalize this so it happens every semester and it will be eas-ier to implement.”
Covington and other SG mem-bers will distribute letters and e-mails to department heads next week and continue to ask stu-
FRIDAYFeel Good Inc.Gorillaz and special guest N.E.R.D. perform at the Erwin Center. Tickets are $50, and the show starts at 7:30 p.m.
Classical vocalsSouth Indian classical musicians Ranjani and Gayatri perform at the Texas Union Theater. Student admission is $10, and the show starts at 7 p.m.
Life in rural IndiaPragya Bhagat and Nikhil Gulati talk about their journey from Austin to Shreeji ka Kheda, a small village in India, where they examined rural life in the world’s second most populous nation. Talk starts at 5 p.m. in ENS 115.
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BloodsuckerAward-winning opera “Vampyress”, based on the true story of murderer Erzsebet Bathori, opens at the Vortex Cafe & Yard. Tickets are $30, and the show starts at 8 p.m.
SUNDAYHalloween funThe Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center hosts its fourth annual Goblins in the Garden family festival, which includes a pumpkin patch and face painting. Starts at 4 p.m. and tickets cost $8.
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Love potionThe Butler Opera Center presents Donizetti’s comic opera “Elixir of Love,” about a poor peasant who sets out to woo the love of his life with the help of a magic potion. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. in the McCullough Theater, and tickets are $17 for students.
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his three kids and two family friends from Panama to watch the surprise loss to UCLA. Over the weekend, he spent two nights at a hotel with three rooms at $200 a night per room. On average, he said, he spent $60 a meal and a couple hun-dred more on UT gear at the Co-op — in addition to gas.
“It’s just a great experience to share with your kids because we had such a great time here growing up,” Shaunty said. “It’s just a fun way to get away, spend a weekend not in front of the TV, not playing video games but just go hang out and be able to see football games together.”
J.V. Cook, co-owner of Posse East Bar and Grill, said alumni looking for a UT hangout simi-lar to when they were students often come to his restaurant during football season.
“We opened in 1971, so we still have a lot of the old regu-lars that still come, just a little nostalgia and memories, kind of a meeting place for the game,” Cook said. “A lot of them that don’t have tickets will stay here and watch.”
Posse East increases staff and runs an outside beer stand on home game days, counting on their location to help reel in more fans. During the Wyo-ming game, Posse East quadru-
pled what they usually make on a Saturday, Cook said.
“It’s only going to happen six or seven times a year, so we have to cash in,” Cook said. “We gotta try to get every penny we can.”
Mike Lapaglia is co-owner of Mike and Mike’s — a small, lo-cal catering business which also runs a hotdog stand that is sta-tioned on 24th and Guadalupe streets on game days. Lapaglia said since he started the busi-ness with his son a year ago, he has been able to pay all of his bills largely with business from home games. Usually, they are worth two or three times a nor-mal work day.
“I get to meet a lot of peo-ple and talk to them,” he said. “For many years, I was in the maintenance of restaurant equipment, fixing ovens and refrigeration. It’s a lot of fun to stand out here and talk with people instead of getting my hands dirty all the time.”
And Jewell said those people love to support the Longhorns.
“Well I don’t think there’s any question throughout all of Aus-tin: Whether it’s restaurants, ho-tels, nightclubs — the fans com-ing in for the game are loyal fans and they love to come in town,” Jewell said. “It’s great for the whole community of Austin, the local community and obviously the University of Texas.”
on his record,” Wolitz wrote. “Any further disciplinary viola-tions may again lead to indefi-nite suspension.”
APD officials said in a state-ment they were disappointed in the arbitrator’s decision and that management stands by its original decision. They declined to comment further.
During Quintana’s Sept. 2-3 reinstatement hearing, police Chief Art Acevedo testified that the officer had too many laps-es in judgement throughout his
nearly 10-year career with the department, including a tres-pass charge and his failure to turn on his dashboard camera before the Sanders shooting.
Quintana was patrolling the streets in May 2009 when he spotted a car reported at sev-eral crime scenes in the area. Smith and Sanders were sleep-ing in the car as a driver took them to an apartment com-plex in East Austin. Accord-ing to court records, the driver got out of the car and Quinta-na detained him. The officer at-tempted to physically wake the
passengers and startled them, causing Sanders to pull out his gun, court records show. Quin-tana shot Smith in the chest and fatally shot Sanders while his dashboard camera was off.
Smith filed a lawsuit against the officer Tuesday on the grounds that Quintana “act-ed willfully, deliberately, ma-liciously or with reckless dis-regard for plaintiff ’s clear-ly established constitutional rights against the use of un-reasonable, necessary and ex-cessive force.” Smith demand-ed an undisclosed amount for
damages — including medi-cal expenses, lost wages and disfigurement — and a jury trial.
Quintana also faces an-other lawsuit, filed in Sep-tember, by the Sanders family after City Coun-cil members rejected a $750,000 settlement in July. The family’s attorney, Adam Loewy, declined to comment on Quintana’s reinstatement.
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By Anne FlahertyThe Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Defense Department on Thursday declared that “don’t ask, don’t tell” is once again the law of the land but set up a new system that could make it tougher to get thrown of the mili-tary for being openly gay.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday ordered that all dis-missals under the 1993 law be de-cided by one of the four service secretaries in consultation with the military’s general counsel and Gates’ personnel chief.
Defense officials said the change was not intended to slow the rate of discharges. In his memo, Gates wrote that the purpose of narrowing those in charge was to “ensure uniformi-ty and care in the enforcement” at a time of “legal uncertainty.”
Still, the move puts the question of who can be dismissed from the service for being openly gay in the hands of just six people — all of them civilian political appointees who work for an administration that thinks the law is unjust. Be-fore Thursday’s order, the dismiss-al of gay enlisted personnel could be done by any commanding offi-cer at a rank equivalent to a one-star general.
The change follows an eight-day suspension of the ban after a feder-al judge in California ordered the military to stop enforcing it. An ap-peals court on Wednesday agreed to the administration’s request to a temporary stay of the court order, although that could be overturned too within a matter of days.
The legal wrangling has left many gay troops uncertain as to
whether they could still be kicked out of the service for speaking up. At the same time, some former ser-vice members discharged for being gay have tried to re-enlist although the fate of their applications re-mains uncertain.
The Pentagon says it doesn’t know how it will handle any cas-es of gay troops who may have dis-closed their sexual orientation dur-ing the law’s moratorium or cases of gay troops who tried to enlist. Officials also say they don’t know how many cases might present a le-gal challenge.
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The official, who demanded an-onymity in turn for speaking about the case, said the Pentagon believes that most gay troops stayed quiet during the week the ban was lifted because of warnings by gay rights advocates that they could still lose their jobs.
The official also said that the Pentagon would use the same criteria to determine whether a service member violated “don’t ask, don’t tell,” even though each case must be decided at the se-nior echelons of the Pentagon.
The official said that the or-der does not mean the Penta-gon “will separate more or few-er people.”
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President Barack Obama has said he supports repeal of the law, but wants Congress — not the courts — to decide its fate. He also has agreed to the military’s request that it be given more time to imple-ment any changes.
But Obama’s decision to appeal the court order has put his civilian appointees in the awkward posi-tion of defending the law just weeks away from congressional midterm elections. Several gay rights advo-cates have said they are angry and frustrated with the administration’s handling of the case and with con-gressional Democrats for not acting sooner to repeal the law.
“It can’t be OK to be gay on Tuesday and not on Thursday,” said Richard Socarides, a former Clinton White House adviser on gay rights. “That’s no way to run a military.”
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A protestor from the LaRouche PAC, left, walks past demonstrators protesting the discharge of gays from the military on Thursday.
By Hyung-Jin KimThe Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean officials said Thursday that there have been continual movements of personnel and ve-hicles at North Korea’s main nu-clear test site, but ruled out the possibility that the country is pre-paring its third atomic bomb test anytime soon.
The assessment came shortly after the mass-circulation Cho-sun Ilbo newspaper reported Thursday that Pyongyang may be preparing another nuclear test, citing “brisk” activities at its atomic test site in the northeast-ern county of Kilju.
The paper, citing an unidenti-fied South Korean government source, said a U.S. spy satellite detected such activities and that North Korea could detonate a nu-clear device in three months.
The North may have intention-ally let those activities be detect-ed by the U.S. and South Korean authorities to force them to soften hardline policies and to wrest con-cessions and aid, the paper said. The communist country may also be preparing a bomb test to bolster its military capability amid moves to transfer power from leader Kim Jong Il to his third and youngest son, Kim Jong Un, it said.
South Korean officials, howev-er, denied that the North was pre-paring a nuclear test soon, saying personnel and vehicle movements have been continuously detect-ed for more than a year at the site, where the North conducted two bomb tests in recent years.
“No concrete evidence that North Korea is preparing a third
nuclear test has been found,” presidential spokeswoman Kim Hee-jung told reporters, accord-ing to her office.
Another government official said the movements at the site could be seen as maintenance, while the third official, from the Defense Ministry, noted that South Korean and U.S. authorities have been keeping a close watch on North Korean nuclear facilities. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity, citing the sensitivi-ty of the issue.
The U.S. military command in Seoul said Thursday that it could not comment on the Cho-sun Ilbo report.
North Korea carried out its first-ever nuclear test in 2006 and the second, more powerful test blast last year, inviting widespread in-ternational sanctions.
U.S. State Department spokes-man Mark Toner told reporters Thursday that he was aware of reports about a possible new nu-clear test but couldn’t comment because they “touch on intelli-gence matters.”
“But it really hasn’t changed our position vis-a-vis North Ko-rea. We’ve said that all along that they need to adhere to their com-mitments, and they also need to refrain from provocative actions. And another nuclear test would certainly fall under the rubric of provocative actions,” Toner said in Washington.
North Korea walked out of six-nation disarmament talks on its nuclear program last year to protest international condemna-tion of a prohibited long-range rocket launch.
Despite high activity in N. Korea nuclear sites,no plans for bomb test
Ahn Young-Joon | Associated Press
South Korean University students wear masks of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, his youngest son Kim Jong Un and his late father Kim Il Sung while participating in a rally in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday.
Friday, October 22, 2010 OPINION4THE DAILY TEXAN
‘Superman’ comes to AustinBy Brandon Curl
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The American dream is dead. This is perhaps the most heartbreaking revelation of “Waiting for ‘Superman,’” a powerful documentary about the failings of American public education, which de-buted in Austin last week.
The film follows five children, whose futures hinge on winning a lottery to gain entrance to successful charter schools. With limited availabil-ity, the schools’ only fair recourse is to make the selection random. And so the fates of these young lives are left not up to merit or hard work, but rather to the arbitrary direction of a bouncing ball — all of which is completely unfair and starkly un-American.
For better or worse, Davis Guggenheim, “Su-perman’s” creator, distills the complex subject of education reform into a commercially digestible form. The problem, we are told, is that the ma-jority of students in this country are failing math and reading. The causes are bad teachers and the unions that protect them. And, what solutions we have are to be found in the innovations of char-ter schools.
For the past two years, I worked at one such charter school. Like many students at this uni-versity, I applied and was accepted into Teach For America (TFA) following my undergraduate years. Shortly after graduation I shipped out to Chicago where I would live, working in nearby Gary, Ind.
The problem is real. Teaching middle school science, I experienced the seemingly intracta-
ble achievement gap firsthand. Each August, my school set goals for proficiency in math and read-ing. The percentages 73 and 71 were drawn large on posters in the teachers’ lounge — our targets under No Child Left Behind. In the months that followed, our scores would come back from the state. We were lucky to hit 50 percent, and some-times the scores would go down.
After my admittedly short time as a teacher, I am convinced that the most important factor for student success is, as “Superman” suggests, teacher quality. It is not, as a Firing Line print-ed in Monday’s Texan advocated, “weak parent-ing.” This is an extension of a tragically racist ar-gument that proposes poor minority groups un-derperform whites because of some sort of cultur-al frailty. “It’s not our fault that blacks trail whites in student achievement,” the logic maintains. “It’s those neglectful, black parents.”
Why teacher quality? I forgot to mention that there was one exception to my school’s un-derwhelming data. In my first year teaching, math scores for the eighth grade were actually great. In my second year, those scores reverted back to “normal.” What happened? The eighth grade math teacher switched to seventh grade. Can you guess what happened to those sev-enth grade scores in the next year? They went through the roof.
Despite working in the same school, for the same principal, around the same parents, and with the same students as underperforming teachers like myself, this math teacher excelled. That is to say, her students excelled.
Unfortunately, attracting good teachers is easi-
er said than done. A recent report from The Wash-ington Post references schools’ inability to recruit the top tier of students to teaching. Currently, only 23 percent of new teachers scored among the top third of students taking the SAT or ACT as high schoolers, compared to 100 percent on com-parable assessments for global education leaders such as Finland, Singapore and South Korea.
Teaching, a relatively unselective profession of low pay and low prestige workers, is not go-ing to entice the high-quality candidates we need in the classroom. This has been and con-tinues to be TFA’s greatest accomplishment — changing the perception of teaching.
Unfortunately, this outcome is both a blessing and a curse. Too many students are convinced to join TFA because of its reputation and its partnerships with investment banks and grad-uate schools. When push comes to shove, these corps members produce less than adequate re-sults or are pushed out of the profession. I know because I was one of them.
When people ask me if they should join TFA, I tell them not to. I recount my seemingly end-less horror stories and beg them, for their own sake, to reconsider. Then, if they decide to do it anyway, they’ve done it for the right reason.
“Superman,” though flawed, captures the essence of our education crisis — a desperate need for high quality teachers. To fill that void, TFA has helped to change the way we talk about teaching, but we must not lose sight of what that conversation is ultimately about: students.
Curl is an advertising graduate student.
If you’re a UT student, you’ll spend the next couple of weeks deciding your spring semes-ter schedule. Like most students, you’ll prob-ably be picking classes based on the professor or the average grades for the class. You might also be choosing classes to fill a degree require-ment, get elective hours to graduate or just to pursue a unique interest.
There is one unfortunate consideration, however, that I’ve noticed students take into account when scheduling classes: wheth-er an upper division student should take an upper division class when he or she can get away with a lower division one. Thousands of upper division students enroll in lower di-vision classes every year. What’s so wrong with that?
From a purely academic standpoint, upper division classes are designed for upper divi-sion students and are intended to best chal-lenge a student’s skills at that point in time. When a student takes lower division classes to either pad their GPA or fill their schedule, they’re depriving themselves of the education that was designed for them.
There is another compelling reason to take upper division classes if you’re an up-per division student — a system called for-mula funding.
The technical details of formula funding are complex, but the general idea is fairly easy to understand. Basically, the state gives the Uni-versity money based on the number of cred-it hours that are taught each year. This formu-la is one of the University’s primary sources of revenue and helps to pay for our expens-es, such as faculty and staff salaries. This sys-tem is applicable because upper division class-es are “worth more” in the formula, meaning
we get more money from the state when a stu-dent takes an upper division class as opposed to a lower division one.
It is also important to note that the system works off the “lowest common denominator,” meaning a lower division student taking up-per division classes would still fall in the low-er division bracket. This means that the best way for UT to qualify for the additional upper division funds is for as many students as pos-sible to take upper division classes. Essential-ly, upper division students that take lower di-vision classes are depriving UT of funding. In the College of Liberal Arts alone, estimates put the amount we lose every year because of this problem in the millions.
Now don’t get me wrong, there certainly can be legitimate reasons for why upper divi-sion students would take lower division class-es, such as taking introductory classes to start an additional major or taking an interesting course that is only taught on the lower divi-sion level. Too often though, the upper divi-sion students that take lower division classes are doing it for the wrong reasons. Ultimate-ly, it’s costing us.
So please, when you register for your class-es, do your part as an upper division student and take the appropriate classes. If not for the fact that they’re designed for you, consid-er at least that you’d be helping out your col-lege and our University. And lower division students, you can help, too. Try to take your lower division prerequisites now so you don’t have to take them when you’re an upper divi-sion student. With recent budget cuts and ad-ditional proposed reductions, it’s important now more than ever that we show the Univer-sity and Legislature that we’re serious about our education.
Thorne-Thomsen is the president of the Liberal Arts Council.
Turn out to vote
Despite a slow first day at the FAC, where only 507 students cast their early voting ballots, voter turnout across Trav-is County has been surprisingly high.
During the first three days of vot-ing, Travis Country voter totals reached 36,000 — nearly double the totals calcu-lated at this time during the 2006 mid-term elections, according to The Daily Texan.
We hope students will be motivated by the Travis County turnout and head to the FAC in the upcoming week to cast their own votes before early voting ends, especially because it is the most convenient time for busy students to go to the ballot box. One student told the Texan that he voted early at the FAC to “get it out of the way.” It’s an encourag-ing sign to see a student treating voting like an obligation, which implies a sense of civic duty — and a sense of duty does not necessarily need to be accompanied by a hallowed reverence for the power of democracy.
Assuming that students are research-ing the candidates and issues before they head to the FAC, we would prefer a half-enthused (but informed) vote to no vote at all.
A necessary discussion
There has been a recent string of sui-cides involving teenagers who were bul-lied because of perceptions about their sexual orientation. The tragedies have spurred a necessary discussion about the causes of bullying in schools and colleg-es and how it can be prevented. But col-umnist Dan Savage’s YouTube project, “It Gets Better,” has generated the most at-tention by creating a space for adults to contribute pre-recorded video messages to teenagers struggling with bullying be-cause of their sexual orientation.
Notably, it inspired Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns to contribute a moving response about his own experi-ences with bullying. On his website, Burns said the discussion that follows such a heartbreaking story is crucial. “I encour-age you to continue to speak out against bullying from wherever you stand today — whether as an adult or youth, whether gay or straight. And, I commit to do the same. I know this conversation will con-tinue and grow,” he writes.
Texas politicians are entering the dia-logue and stepping up with legislation to address bullying. Rep. Mark Strama, D-Austin, proposed a bill that would set guidelines for how educational institu-tions should address instances of bully-ing and cyber-bullying.
This is just the beginning. We hope the conversation will expand into a vigorous discussion that will help prevent future tragedies and change the ways we ad-dress bullying and discrimination.
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By Ahsika SandersDaily Texan Staff
Students walking in front of the Tower on Thursday were treat-ed to a performance by a group of brightly dressed traditional Latin dancers, one of several acts featured in the “Make It Happen” benefit concert.
The UT Ballet Folklórico danc-ers participated in the event to help raise money for Fernando Villa, an 18-year-old Travis High School graduate who underwent dou-ble lung transplant surgery earlier this week.
The organizers of “Make It Hap-pen” wanted to use music and dance to help raise the $26,000 to pay for Villa’s medical bills. In ad-dition to the UT Ballet Folklóri-co, local Mariachi band Maria-chi Corbetas performed during the concert.
Pre-med junior Rodolfo Rodri-guez and social work sophomore Juan Benavides co-hosted the con-cert with Beta Upsilon Chi, known as Brothers Under Christ.
Benavides said he was watch-ing the news when he realized he knew Villa personally and was in-spired to help.
“When I saw it, I was like, ‘Wow, I went to high school with him,’ and I just couldn’t believe it,” he said.
Austin businesses have already donated about $7,500, and the ben-efit concert raised $1,151, making the total $8,651 since “Make It Hap-
pen” began.Rodriguez said he was more
than happy to help when Bena-vides asked him for support.
“We sat down and went through the process of figuring out what we could possibly do to have an impact,” Rodriguez said. “After a couple of weeks, we sent out the word that we’d be having an inter-
est meeting and thankfully people came out.”
Biology freshman Juan Herre-jon said he overheard talk about the benefit at a health profes-sions meeting and knew he had to contribute.
“We are trying to save a human life, and there’s no greater reason to want to help out,” he said.
Herrejon said he actively sup-ports cancer awareness because the disease has directly affected people close to him.
“Last year, one of my high school teachers that I was very close to died from breast can-cer,” he said. “Ever since then, I’ve paid more attention to how cancer affects people.”
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Eric Johnson signs a banner for Travis High School graduate Fernando Villa on the Main Mall on Thursday.
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Grant: Study to examine targeted language, reading
Texas Southmost College declines proposal to avoidloss of power to UT System
associate professor in the Depart-ment of Communication Sciences and Disorders and lead research-er of the program. They also have a higher risk for difficulties in learn-ing to read.
Bedore said the study seeks to determine whether combining two historically separated facets of Eng-lish will yield better results.
“The goals of the study are to de-termine if greater gains in language skills can be obtained by target-ing language and reading skills to-gether,” she said. “We are also in-
terested in exploring the extent to which children are able to transfer what they learned in one language to the other.”
Elizabeth Peña, a communica-tion sciences and disorders pro-fessor, said the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act guar-antees special academic services for all students with learning dis-abilities, but bilingual literacy is rarely addressed.
“IDEA provides language iden-tification services for all children but there is a shortage of bilingual pathology, so it is also difficult to find professionals qualified in that
area,” she said.Peña said their program is more
of a systematic approach to address the language impairments of bilin-gual students.
“We want this program to be more efficient and more effective,” she said. “It’s developed using the latest research and we are taking a theoretical approach to make im-provements.”
Jennifer Hannah, a student teach-er and applied learning and devel-opment senior, said there is an ap-parent need for improvement of bi-lingual students in her third grade class at Andrews Elementary.
“A little boy just transferred to my bilingual class and he is on a first-grade reading level,” she said. “I try to work on fluency when I work with him because he is learn-ing slowly and he doesn’t under-stand a lot of what he reads.”
Hannah said the program sounds like something her class and classes similar to it can take advantage of.
“Any type of intervention is nec-essary for bilingual students be-cause language is a barrier that real-ly affects the classroom,” she said.
‘‘Unless I’m missing something, we have a four-year university here already named UTB.”
— Juan Mendez, TSC trustee
By Collin Eaton Daily Texan Staff
The governing board of Texas Southmost College in Browns-ville rejected a proposal for a new operating agreement with the University of Texas at Brownsville on Thursday that critics said would have ceded too much local control to the UT System.
The proposed operating
agreement would have com-bined the four-year UT System campus and the neighboring community college into one le-gal entity governed by the UT System Board of Regents. Rath-er, the board moved to offer a counterproposal: Create a new entity called UTB/TSC but con-tinue local oversight.
Discussions of the operating agreement, which the UT Sys-tem recently proposed, comes in the middle of a dispute between the two colleges over $10 mil-lion that UTB owes in rent for the use of TSC buildings.
“Without the UT System, we wouldn’t be here today,” said TSC board trustee René Torres.
“While TSC collects local tax-es, we, the Texas Board of Trust-ees, should have a right in de-termining the future of the Tex-as Southmost College.”
UT-Brownsville and Texas Southmost have shared a cam-
pus since 1991, where students can transition from taking com-munity college courses to enter-ing a four-year degree plan with ease. Juliet Garcia, president of UT-Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, said over the years UTB brought $100 mil-lion in state funds to the campus that also serves TSC commu-nity college students and that the state dollars outweigh the debt owed.
“All buildings on campus are used by all students, so who owed who and how much rent?” she said in a statement. “Rent owed was only $10 mil-
lion, but dollars received by UTB was over $100 million.”
Garcia said combining the university and the community college into a single legal enti-ty would reduce the paperwork for federal financial aid and the Texas Higher Education Coordi-nating Board.
On Wednesday, several TSC trustees took to the Browns-ville Herald to speak about the agreement.
TSC trustee Juan Mendez said additional state funding result-ing from the new agreement is essential for the college, but the colleges should have already been fully funded.
“What has been pitched as an-other benefit to TSC is that we would have a fully funded UT System school,” Mendez said in a statement to the Herald. “Un-less I’m missing something, we have a four-year university here already named UTB.”
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From South Africa to Austin
By Wes MaulsbyDaily Texan Staff
At first, Jean Andersen does not seem any different than the other members of the Texas men’s tennis team.
The junior is trying to help lead Texas to another con-ference championship and another trip to the NCAA Championships this spring. But what sets Andersen apart is the fact that he may have more in common with a member of the men’s golf team than anyone on the tennis team. Andersen, like fellow junior Dylan Frittel-li, hales from Pretoria, South Africa, and both are prom-inent players for each team.
“When I first got here, they were probably expecting a black kid,” Andersen said of his arrival on campus last January, where he helped Texas to win first place in the Big 12 Conference. “They kind of made fun of my ac-cent at first.”
Andersen has gotten support from his teammates ear-ly on in his career.
“Obviously, he speaks great English, but he comes up with some ridiculous pronunciations,” said senior Ed Corrie.
Andersen receives encouragement from his team-mates while trying to become fully acclimated with a more permanent life here at the University. However, he’s not completely unfamiliar with life here; Anders-en used to live in Austin when he was a kid, and his fa-
ther got his doctorate from UT. But despite his obvi-ous connections, Texas wasn’t Andersen’s first colle-giate choice.
“He was actually initially going to go to the Uni-versity of Illinois, and there were some issues there,” said head coach Michael Center. “We didn’t know Jean really, and we got an e-mail from him that he was looking to go to school. I found out that
he had ties to the University of Texas, and it just turned out to be a good fit for both of us.”
Despite almost playing more than 1,000 miles away in Illinois, Andersen has quick-
By Lauren GiudiceDaily Texan Staff
Riding the momentum of a three-game winning streak, Tex-as faces the meat of its Big 12 schedule at home this weekend against undefeated No. 5 Okla-homa State and Oklahoma.
Texas is currently in fifth place in the Big 12 at 3-2-2 and hopes to continue its recent midseason success.
The team has an excellent chance of making the Big 12 play-offs, which requires that they stay in the top eight in standings. The Longhorns hope to improve their seed this weekend.
Last season, Texas lost to Okla-homa State, 1-0, and beat OU in overtime, 2-1.
Assistant coach Sarah Barnes said the end of the season is when you want the team to be playing their best.
“They have last year’s experi-ences under their belt and then, obviously, we are toward the end of the season,” Barnes said. “They just have a lot of games and a lot
more experience.”Barnes said the underclassmen
have stepped up and have been playing like upperclassmen.
“We played well early on [in the season] and I think we hit a little bit of a bump sort of midsea-son and obviously we are hoping that we sort of have stepped past that,” Barnes said.
That bump taught the team to keep moving forward and to fo-cus on one game at a time.
Both games this weekend will be played at home where the Longhorns have a 14-game win streak.
Barnes said that statistic doesn’t affect the team.
“They [the players] know that we tend to do well at home but I bet you they have no idea that it’s a 14-game win streak at home. I don’t think it’s weighing on their minds at all,” Barnes said.
She did say that being at home will make a difference in the team’s play.
“We love playing for our
By Shabab SiddiquiDaily Texan Staff
The Longhorns have dropped one set in the last five match-es. Some may forget that things looked much grimmer less than a month ago.
Texas hopes to build on its five-game winning streak as it hosts Kansas State tonight at Grego-ry Gym. The team has won eight of its last nine matches, including five in a row at home.
The team also started the week back in the top 10, after a four-week absence. The Longhorns are ranked 10th in the country and second in the Big 12 behind Nebraska, holding one-game leads over Iowa State and Okla-homa.
The Longhorns face off against Kansas State for the second time this month after sweeping the Wildcats 25-21, 25-16, 25-12 in Manhattan.
“Our offensive numbers have really grown,” said head coach Jerritt Elliot. “It’s been great. Players have been stepping up and we’ve gotten a lot of good balance from our offense, [which is] a key for us to be successful.”
The star of the Longhorns over the last few games has been ju-nior outside hitter Amber Rob-erson, who strung together a ca-reer-high 19 kills to go along with eight digs and three blocks
against Kansas on Wednesday. Roberson surpassed her previ-ous career high of 17 kills, which she set last weekend against Tex-as Tech.
“She’s just got a lot more con-fidence,” Elliott said. “Yester-day was probably her best match we’ve seen her play. She really kept them off balance all night long.”
A major component of the team’s recent success can be at-tributed to continuity, something the seemingly injury-prone Long-horns have not enjoyed the lux-ury of doing. For the most part,
Texas has been able to stick with the same starting six in its lineup, along with freshman libero Sarah Palmer and senior outside hitter Lauren Dickson.
The only exception in the last few weeks has been freshman setter Hannah Allison who re-mains day-to-day. The team has not missed a beat with junior set-ter and assistant co-captain Mi-chelle Kocher stepping in. Koch-er tallied a season-high 49 assists on Wednesday.
Because of the game being
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Rachael Adams prepares to lay a kill over a Colorado defender with the encouragement of her teammate Jennifer Doris.
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By Trey ScottDaily Texan Staff
Each time the golf team boards a plane to one of their tournaments, whether it be a flight to Chicago, Ill., or one to Columbus, Ohio, junior Dylan Frittelli has to listen to his fellow teammates complain. The flight is too long. Their legs are cramped. Airplane food sucks.
Frittelli has no sympathy.“The guys complain about our two-hour flight to Chi-
cago,” he laughs. “I tell them, ‘Guys, it’s a lot better than a 23-hour flight to South Africa.”
The first time he made the trip from his hometown of Pretoria, South Africa, to the states was in 1995, when he and his family went to Disney World. Frittelli could have spun in the tea cups until he was sick, flirted with Minnie, walked out of the Magic Kingdom with as many Mick-ey ears as there are days of the year and even somehow managed to play golf with the Epcot ball; it still wouldn’t have been the best trip to America he’s ever taken.
Fast forward 12 years. It was an e-mail sent from Pretoria, South Africa, to Austin that started Dylan’s journey from the country of the vuvuzela horn to the land of the Long-horns. His father, Raymond Frittelli, wanted the coach of a major college program to take notice of what his son had done on a golf course. So he wrote up a message and list-ed accomplishments fit to impress: No. 1 in both the South African Amateur and Junior rankings, 44th in the Scratch Players World Amateur rankings and the South Afri-can Junior Golf Foundation’s Golfer of the Year for 2007.
Sent.Some 9,156 miles away, head
golf coach John Fields received the e-mail. He liked what he saw, especially where the e-mail came from.
“In that e-mail from Dylan’s father, the No. 1 thing that caught my attention was the fact that he was from South Africa,” Fields said. “There have been many fine golfers from there and I had confidence that he could be anoth-er one because of the success that South Africans have had playing collegiate golf in the past. That No. 1 ranking caught my attention, too.”
Fields and the rest of the Frittelli family kept in contact. After Dylan’s junior year ended, he notified Fields that he would be competing in an upcoming golf tournament in San Diego and he was interested in taking an unofficial visit to Texas.
Fields was on board.More than 1,000 miles away from Austin, Fields —
along with the rest of the golf world — watched Frittelli win the 2007 Callaway Junior World Championship at fa-mous Torrey Pines in San Diego, Calif. That day at Torrey Pines signaled a new beginning for Frittelli, which he re-fers to as his ticket to Texas.
“Callaway was the first opportunity that I had to see him,” Fields said. “To see him win that, it was very im-pressive. A lot of great players, including South African
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Jean Andersen flips his racket in a rare moment of rest during an otherwise intense practice.
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Dylan Frittelli shows his balancing skills by perching a golf ball on the end of his club. Frittelli came to Texas a highly touted player.
Andersen teased for his accent, but star’s top play is nothing to joke about
An impressive resume, an email and a wish took Frittelli thousands of miles from home
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By Alex EndressDaily Texan Staff
After recently finishing up a tough ITA All-American tour-nament, the Longhorns are trav-eling to Waco this weekend to participate in the ITA Regionals tournament. The team has high hopes for this weekend, seeing it as an opportunity to pick up some momentum as they head into the meat of their season. Ju-nior Krista Damico and soph-omore Aerial Ellis discussed how they plan on approaching this event.
Damico fell two matches be-fore advancing to the main sin-gles draw of the ITA All-Ameri-can event. She sees this weekend as a chance to turn the team’s luck around.
“This is probably our biggest tournament of the fall,” Damico said about the ITA Regionals. “I don’t think any one of our play-ers have been satisfied with their results yet. It’s been frustrating. Hopefully this is the tournament where we can all step up and do what we’re capable of.”
Ellis also competed in the ITA All-American tournament and started in the main singles draw.
“I had a tough first round loss to Kristy Frilling (Notre Dame).
She’s ranked No. 8 in the coun-try and it was the first match, so I was pretty nervous.”
After that she advanced all the way to the finals of back draw but suffered a defeat to Allie Will of Florida, ranked nationally as No. 4.
“I can’t complain too much about the tournament,” Ellis said. “If I’m going to lose, at least it’s to good competition.”
Damico and Ellis look to build on the success they had at the ITA Regionals last year. Damico defeated top-seed Lenka Broos-ova of Baylor in the quarterfi-nals, and as fate would have it, met up with Ellis in the semi-finals. Ellis was the victor this time around. Ellis went through the tournament undefeat -ed, ultimately grabbing the ti-tle and an invitation to the ITA Indoor Championships.
“This event gives us another opportunity to get a lot of match-es in and challenge ourselves against some of the best players in the country,” said head coach Patty Fendick-McCain.
Ellis would earn a singles berth at the ITA National Inter-collegiate Indoor Champion-ships in November by getting to the quarterfinals of this event, by way of her singles ranking.
‘Biggest tournament’ serves as real challenge
Ernie Els, have won that tourna-ment. After seeing him play in San Diego, I knew I wanted him to be a student athlete at the Universi-ty of Texas.”
A trip to Austin and a scholar-ship offer were enough for Frit-telli to commit. He liked the cam-pus and took a special interest in the local golf courses. Considering he had only been a full-time golf player for about three years before committing to Texas makes it re-markable how quickly Frittelli as-cended into the upper echelon of the junior golf world. He was a four-sport athlete in high school, participating in field hockey, crick-
et, tennis and golf.“I went to a small private school
on a sports scholarship,” Frittel-li said. “I went and asked them if I could focus solely on golf rath-er than continuing the rest of the sports, as well. They said no, so I picked up on a home-school pro-gram and began traveling around to play in junior golf tournaments. I was constantly on the go.”
He still is. At Texas, he’s had the opportunity to go all around the country. Frittelli has been to more than 15 states in America. This weekend, the golf team travels to Florida to compete in the Isle-worth Collegiate Invitational. Frit-telli won’t be there. He has a 13-hour plane flight to catch.
“I was selected to represent South Africa at the World Ama-teur Team Championships in Ar-gentina,” he said. “It’s definitely a huge honor for me to represent my country. Being acknowledged by them is a huge achievement in my books.”
For one week in Argentina, Frittelli’s efforts will be dedicat-ed to his homeland. When he re-turns to Texas, he’ll refocus on the collegiate season. He is a mem-ber of No. 8 Texas’ important trio: The grouping of him, senior Bob-by Hudson and sophomore Cody Gribble that represent Texas’ best shot at a national championship.
“We [the three] have to keep ourselves playing well,” Frittelli
said. “If we get a little bit of help from the other guys, we’ll defi-nitely be in contention for the na-tionals. But we’re the main core of the team.”
The way Fields says it, Frittel-li is the guy that keeps the Long-horns on track.
“The incredible thing about Dylan is that he’s organized, ma-ture and goal-oriented,” he said. “His organized approach to suc-cess has elevated the team’s suc-cess. He has become a tremen-dous leader and I think that comes from his worldwide experience.”
fans and we really like playing at home,” said sophomore midfielder Kristin Cummins. “We play A&M next weekend for senior night, so that will be a very big game for us, too.”
Junior Lucy Keith said the games this weekend will help them get
points and good standings in the Big 12, but she understands how difficult the games will be.
“It is always a mistake to get too comfortable. We are feeling confi-dent in ourselves and the way we play,” Keith said. “But it’s going to be a great game Friday and we have to just be really focused and ready to play with intensity.”
She said part of the team’s growth is focusing on one game at a time.
Confidence is important for this team, especially for two-time Big 12 defensive player of the week, goalkeeper Alexa Gaul.
“Confidence is a big part of it,” Barnes said. “If she gets one shutout, that helps and leads to
another one.”Barnes said that the team is fo-
cusing on controlling play and maintaining possession.
“We are very focused this year and I think overall right now soc-cer is the number one priority,” Cummins said. “Last year we ac-cepted being OK, and this year we are striving to be great.”
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anderSen: Junior feels at home with teamly gotten very comfortable and has had little trouble getting settled into his new home here in Austin.
“People here are very simi-lar [to people in South Africa], it makes it pretty easy,” Ander-sen said.
His whole family still lives in South Africa, but that has not made Andersen feel any un-ease about getting used to Aus-tin. He’s had a lot of help from friends and coaches to make Austin his new home.
“I never get homesick,” An-dersen said. “Sometimes I just want to hang out with friends, but I don’t really feel like I want to go home.”
The fact that the team is so multi-cultural has helped An-dersen feel comfortable.
“We’ve got an eclectic group — guys from all over the world,” Center said, referring
to a Texas roster that includes players from England, India, Bulgaria, Texas and Colorado. So Andersen being from South Africa doesn’t make him any different from any of the other guys on the team.
“It helps him by being around all the cultural differ-ences,” Corrie said.
When Andersen arrived on campus during the spring se-mester of last season, he won his very first collegiate match, which would be the first of many wins for him.
“He’s very aggressive at the net. He makes a lot of bold moves on the doubles court,” Corrie said.
Corrie and Andersen began playing together to start this season, and they’ve really start-ed to mesh into an effective duo. His head coach also had some strong adjustments re-garding Andersen’s play.
“He’s a super athlete and is
an explosive guy,” Center said. “When he puts pressure on you and does it with consistency, he’s really hard to beat.”
Though he’s only been around the program for a few months, he has already made strong impressions with those involved with the program.
”Jean is a very likeable guy, good fun, always very happy and positive, and he’s great to have on the team,” Corrie said.
Andersen knows he plays a key role on the team. But he can still count on his team to keep him grounded with such things as [reminding] him of his Af-rican roots, and one particular mistake that Corrie described as the biggest blunder ever.
Regardless of how they’re doing it, his teammates and coaches are making him feel at home, and in return, he will help the Longhorns in what the team hopes to be another suc-cessful year.
scheduled for today as opposed to the more typical Saturday, the Longhorns will look to adjust to a quicker turnaround. Roberson said the team will be approaching the game the same way.
“A game is a game,” Roberson said. “You still have to prepare and go through the same routine. There’s not really much of a differ-ence other than the time limit.”
Elliott said the team will bene-fit from already having played the Wildcats once, as well as coming off a string of good performances.
“We’re pretty familiar with what they’re doing,” Elliott said. “They’ve made some minor ad-justments and we’ll make some adjustments, too. More so this year, it’s worrying about what we’re do-ing on our side of the net.”
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By Alex WilliamsDaily Texan Staff
Clint Eastwood films have be-come something of a staple of the fall movie season, with the 80-year-old director methodically cranking out a film or two every fall. “Hereafter” is a tender, mov-ing film and Eastwood’s first for-ay into the supernatural genre, a quick recovery from last year’s underwhelming “Invictus.”
“Hereafter” focuses on three parallel storylines, the most prom-inent starring Matt Damon as George Lonegan, a retired psy-chic trying to lead a normal life af-ter deciding his ability to peer into the afterlife is more of a curse than a blessing. Damon is at his most likeable here, playing an unchar-acteristically affable character, and his story is the most recognizably relatable of the bunch.
The most compelling storyline stars Cecile de France as Marie LeLay, a French news anchor who begins re-evaluating her life after almost dying in a tsunami. Marie’s story is interesting but woefully underdeveloped, as she writes a novel about her near-death expe-rience that the character tells us is far more important than the film ever makes it seem.
Meanwhile, Frankie McLar-en portrays Marcus, who loses his twin brother (George McLar-en) in a car accident. Marcus’ sto-ry is heartbreaking and nuanced in all the right ways, and McLaren gives a sharp, sympathetic debut performance, but some clumsy di-alogue and acting keeps it from being the standout.
Most of the film’s problems come from Peter Morgan’s script. Morgan is a strong writer and ex-cels at creating interesting charac-ters and crafting small, intimate
settings for them to interact in. When he strays out of this comfort zone, “Hereafter” struggles, espe-cially in Marie’s story. On the oth-er hand, Morgan’s script is what makes George’s storyline stand out, especially in Damon’s hand-ful of scenes with Bryce Dallas Howard (in a surprisingly small role). The moments these two share are wonderful, with an ob-vious chemistry and subtler mel-ancholy undercurrent that is equal parts acting and writing.
However, much of what makes the film work lies on the shoulders of Eastwood, who kicks things off with a fantas-tic opening scene depicting the
tsunami that almost kills Marie. The set piece is delivered with a disaster movie flair that’s usual-ly reserved for Roland Emmer-ich films and is one of the sin-gle best sequences Eastwood has ever been responsible for. The rest of the film is deceptive-ly understated, with the struc-ture and story of a Hollywood Oscar-bait tearjerker, but saved by its heartfelt execution. When the three stories inevitably con-verge, it’s without much fan-fare, presented with a quiet re-straint and emotional honesty that makes the final moments, which could have easily strayed into maudlin sappiness, feel
earned in a way that few happy endings do. Another refreshing aspect of the film is the absence of any discernible religious mes-sage, with the afterlife portrayed as an unknowable mystery.
“Hereafter” probably won’t get much attention this Oscar season, and by next year, odds are it’ll be mostly remembered as another solid but inessential effort by Eastwood. However, it’s a moving, endearingly im-perfect picture and a memora-ble addition to Eastwood’s ex-tensive catalog.
Grade: B
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Clint Eastwood’s most recent film, “Hereafter,” follows the life of Matt Damon as George Lonegan and his ability to view the afterlife and the consequences resulting from his power.
By Ali BrelandDaily Texan Staff
On his final album, Michael Larsen, who performed un-der the moniker Eyedea, wrote a heartfelt verse, “On Sunday, October the Fifth, you took your last breath, and you will be missed.” Coincidentally, he was found dead in his home in Minneapolis on Sunday. At the age of 28, just one month shy of his 29th birthday, his death was sudden and untimely. Prelimi-nary autopsies have not yet de-termined the cause of death.
Wit and rhetoric are not things generally associated with hip-hop. Neither are awkward white guys from St. Paul, Minn. On a multi-tude of levels, Minnesota native Eyedea did not fit perfectly in the perceived realm of hip-hop. Iron-ically enough, this aloofness was how Eye-dea found his niche within his art of rapping, painting vivid pictures of emo-tional distress, as well as exuber-ance amidst phil-osophical mus-ings and rhetor-ical questions of the world around him.
Although his music main-l y o p e r a t e d through his words, what Eye-dea created was a full-blown assault on the senses and the mind that few emcees were able to recreate. Utilizing his gift of unparalleled wordplay, he entered the battle scene at the age of 15. Within two years he rose among the ranks of bat-tle rap to the highest echelons, winning the coveted Scribble Jam title in 1999, which was quickly followed with wins at both the Rock Steady Anniver-sary and HBO-sponsored Blaze Battle Chicago in 2000.
On the battle stage, he demon-strated a prowess unmatched by his peers, making otherwise great emcee’s wither into embarrass-ing messes with blocky and stale rhymes — all induced by Eye-dea’s relentless and stinging im-provised rhymes at speeds that cause most artists to record pre-rehearsed verses.
Sharp of the tongue and the mind, Eyedea left rap battling in 2001 to solely release records with his best friend and DJ since the
age of 14, Gregory Keltgen, oth-erwise know as DJ Abilities. His initial records meshed a combi-nation of battle style with abstract emotional expression.
He developed his sound over his career, eventually making a departure for the world of em-cee battling, focusing more heav-ily on a release of sentiment and thought then rhetorically tearing down hypothetical opponents and enemies from years past, as he did in his early work. This ul-timately culminated in his latter-most work, By The Throat, a heavy album which opens reflecting on the suicide of a close friend, whom he proceeds to reference in the al-bum’s final track, lacing the motif of loss throughout the record.
After his movement away from the battle circuit Eyedea’s abstract,
philosophical rap base allowed him to nestle perfectly into the then-bour-geoning indie rap scene in the Twin Cities, induced by underground hip-hop staple and pi-oneer Slug. Bring-ing Eyedea onto his label, Rhyme-sayers Entertain-ment, Slug al-lowed the artist to flourish on the in-die rap scene, fea-turing him on var-ious tours and
promoting him on his label.Eyedea’s mother released a
statement on his Facebook page; “It is with great pain and sad-ness that I tell you my son Mikey [Eyedea] has passed away ... At this time we kindly request your respect and our privacy as we process this devastating loss. We do, however, welcome your kind words, memories, and pos-itive thoughts.”
Even in his final moments, Eye-dea still had several projects. Ac-cording to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, his mother said that he had finished a new Face Candy al-bum (a musical side project of his) in addition to a book of poetry.
Even in all of his success and glory, Eyedea never achieved the mainstream notoriety of many of his peers, living in the shadows of former battlers-turned-celebrities such as Eminem. But perhaps it is all for the best; instead of Eyedea’s story being repeated and interpret-ed by the masses, he himself gets to tell it on his records, in his own deep-rooted, emotional way.
Plot lines converge in Eastwood’s film
Seeing that the men, however, were more nervous than Zagha and trying to calm each other down, Zagha soon realized his captors were new to mugging.
“I think it was their first time at this sort of thing,” Zagha said. “One of them answered the phone and said, ‘Honey, I’ll have to call you back. I’m working.’”
Impatient and stuck in traffic, the robbers ended up kicking Zagha out of the car (but thank-fully allowing him to keep his tapes) before driving off.
The event inspired Zagha to take a humorous, yet realistic look at how far people will go in an economic downturn.
“It’s a movie that could hap-
pen anywhere because it’s up to date with the economy, but it fits in Mexico a little better because people are used to hearing about absurd things,” Zagha said.
In the beginning of the movie, a man attempts to kill himself by jumping into a lion’s cage at the zoo. The lion lazily sleeps while zoo-goers act merely amused. Months after filming the mov-ie, someone stole a chimpan-zee from the zoo, Zagha said. Recently, someone was caught keeping a lion in his backyard, he added.
Zagha said he wanted to cap-ture the irony in life and see how the comedy translates to a foreign audience who comes from a different social and cul-tural background.
After Ángel, the main charac-ter, fails his job interview tests — which include solving a Ru-bik’s Cube and estimating the number of tomatoes that can fit in an office, he turns to petty thievery, such as stealing pres-ents at a child’s birthday par-ty or possessions at a communi-ty pool. Or at least, he attempts to, but his motley crew of hood-lums isn’t exactly the most pro-fessional of thieves.
On top of his thieving woes, he can’t keep an erection up, infuri-ating his wife. Left in the dark about her husband’s unemploy-ment, she remains engrossed in telenovela romances that her husband can’t seem to provide.
“The idea of honesty is also something that gets questioned,”
said co-writer Enrique Chmelnik, who was actually asked the toma-to question at a real job interview. “Most of the time when peo-ple talk about corruption, they talk about large-scale corruption in politics and corporations. But we’re all part of it too.”
Chmelnik asked, if someone steals one pencil, how is that person different from someone who steals a thousand dollars?
“Ask anyone if someone gave them a million stolen dollars whether they would keep it or not,” Zagha said. “Most people don’t have that opportunity, so un-til you have the real opportunity to rob a shit-ton of money, you can’t say you’re an honest person.”
The film premieres Friday at the Austin Film Festival.
Instead of Eyedea’s story being repeated
and interpreted by the masses, he himself gets to tell it on his records, in his own deep-rooted,
emotional way.
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Rapper Eyedeabrought rhetoric,humor to hip-hop
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Life&ArtsFriday, October 22, 2010 1112Friday, October 22, 2010
By Danielle WallaceDaily Texan Staff
Austinites can prepare to be engulfed in a sea of yellow this weekend as one of Amer-ica’s most well-known cancer-fighting groups brings its larg-est fundraising event to the city. The Livestrong Challenge Series kicks off today with Livestrong Village, a collective of nonprof-it health and wellness groups, and will offer walks, runs and bike rides over the course of the weekend in honor of survivors, loved ones lost to cancer and those still fighting the fight.
One of four cities across the nation in which the challenge is to take place, Austin boasts be-ing the last starting line for the annual event, as well as being the headquarters for the group founded by Texas native and sev-en-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, whose fight and survival against testicular cancer created the basis for the organization dedicated to raising funds and providing open infor-mation for people whose lives have been affected by cancer.
One of the main events of the challenge, held in conjunc-tion with the Ride for the Ros-es weekend that celebrates the top fundraisers for Livestrong’s cause, will occur in the form of a multi-distance bike ride through the Texas Hill Country of Drip-ping Springs, a 30-minute drive from the city. It is here that par-ticipant teams will ride out the distance they have pre-selected, ranging from 10 to as many as
90 miles. UT’s East Asian-interest fra-
ternal organization Omega Phi Gamma will be participating in the 45-mile ride with a seven-to-eight-member team. The pro-cess, which begins with raising $250 in funds per rider, was tak-en a step further as members dedicated time and resources to raise additional funds to do-nate to the organization. They also raised awareness about can-cer and those who have been di-agnosed through their Lives-trong weekend, with events that ranged from attending a speech given by Armstrong to fundrais-ing parties at Pluckers.
The fraternity has raised more than $5,000 in donations for the Lance Armstrong Foundation over the last two years of its work with the organization, with this year marking its third, in support of the organization that provides a forum for those who have been diagnosed with cancer.
“There’s a good sense of achievement,” said James Han Yu, treasurer of the fraternity.
The 45-mile team is composed of a mixture of students new to the challenge rides as well as more experienced participants, all with one common cause in mind: to show their support for those whose lives have been touched by the disease.
“I haven’t been directly af-fected by cancer, but my friends have,” said Tri Le, biology se-nior and Omega Phi Gamma’s president. “I want to show them that I’m here for them.”
The Sunday Livestrong Chal-lenge Series rides, as well as the 5k run/walk to be held on Satur-day, will feature not only those hitting the streets to support
those dealing with cancer, but also those fighting the disease themselves. Cancer survivors will be participating in events alongside supporters, and even children in active treatment will join in for the marathons via pedicab.
“The yellow mile” will mark a celebration of the achievements of the children, who will be each be greeted at the finish line with a flood of yellow-clad support-ers and a yellow rose to com-memorate their success.
Even those who have not pre-viously registered to partake in the weekend can involve them-selves in joining the ranks of oth-ers coming together in support though Saturday’s 5k walk/run, with chances to register carry-ing over into today. Others can attend the Livestrong Village to-day as well as the post-ride par-ty to be held at Dripping Springs Elementary School. While regis-tration is essential for partici-pation in the ride itself, visitors are still welcome to take part in the festivities as well as cheer on participants.
Le emphasizes that the most essential part of the Livestrong Challenge Series weekend will be simply the supporters who attend — riders and non-riders alike — to show the affected that they are not alone.
Stretching is the starting point for most workouts and pre-sport activ-ities, but the elementary school P.E. class stretches that persist through high school sports may be wrong. In 2007, The IDEA Fitness Journal linked pre-exercise stretching to few instances of injury prevention and identified its negative impacts on exercise performance.
The type of stretching the article refers to is static stretching, a com-mon form of stretching in which a person is stationary and is, for in-stance, touching his or her toes for 20 to 30 seconds. However, in their article, Andrew Clark and Peter Twist argue that people who per-form light cardiovascular activity followed by static stretching or sim-ply stretch statically may be failing to effectively warm up for the de-mands of their chosen work out.
For example, stretching ham-strings and biceps while standing in a stationary position is not go-ing to help an athlete get ready for movements such as dodging an-other player on the soccer field, pivoting on the basketball court or bench pressing heavy weights. Clark and Twist, along with many other exercise experts, recom-mend a dynamic warmup focus-ing on movements that a person will use in the particular work out they will be performing. Concen-trating on controlled movements of those muscles in ways they will be used after warming up will help increase their range of motion and will enable the exerciser to be-gin the workout at a high intensity with lower risk of injury.
“Dynamic stretching works on elasticity,” said Dixie Stanforth, a personal trainer and professor of ki-nesiology and health education at UT. “We’re trying to move through big full ranges of motion under con-trol at the front end of the workout cause we’re trying to become more elastic and to open up the joints to get as much movement, range-wise, out of the muscle.”
Stanforth said that dynamic warmups are designed to produce “stability with mobility.” Having spinal stability during movement is essential for injury prevention and also for optimal performance.
Although high school teams may still do static stretching before practices and games, many college teams follow the expert-recom-mended dynamic stretching before games. Sarah Barnes, an assistant coach for the UT women’s soccer team, says before games the play-ers use dynamic stretching.
“A wide range of stretches are used,” Barnes said. “Dynam-
ic stretching, where you hold for a short period of time before repeat-ing the movement, helps players to prepare for the kinds of movements they’ll make in the games. For soc-cer players, calves, hamstrings, quads, groin and hip flexors are im-portant areas on which they focus.”
After games, the players use static stretching to promote recovery from muscle soreness. Static stretching is not a bad thing; it’s just not the way to begin a workout. Stanforth said that static stretching lengthens the
muscles, and it doesn’t make sense to lengthen the muscles before you work out, which is when you’ll be contracting the muscles for a peri-od of time.
“At the end of the work out, it makes sense to stretch stati-cally because you want to make sure you’re leaving with at least as much length as you walked in with,” Stanforth said. “And since
you’ve been contracting or shorten-ing the muscles during the work-out, there’s a chance that you’ve lost a little bit of that length, so you want to get it back. Static stretching is one effective way to get it back.”
Kinesiology senior C.J. Hall said since beginning a dynamic stretch routine through her hot yoga class-es, she has found much more flex-ibility, strength and improvements in other areas of physical activity.
“In high school, in cheerleading, before cheering we would do the
normal, sit-on-the-ground straddle stretches,” Hall said. “Now that I do yoga where you flow into posi-tions, I can touch my toes. I’ve nev-er been able to touch my toes be-fore. It helps with flexibility. I’ve noticed my running has improved — I’ve been able to run farther.”
Some runners may argue that they don’t need to do a dynamic warmup in three planes because they’ll just be moving in one: for-ward. However, dynamic war-mups incorporating the three weak links of the body — the foot and ankle, the hips and the thorac-ic spine — in the three planes (back and forth, side to side and rotation-al) can help in other aspects of your life. Stanforth believes that training should be connected to your whole life, not just to your 60-minute workout. So even if you’re mov-ing in one direction with the same movements for an hour working out, you may need the flexibility that dynamic stretching gives you in other aspects of your life, from picking up and slinging a heavy backpack onto your back to dodg-ing a dog on the running trail.
“I think because when we think about exercise, we tend to isolate it, like, this is the work part of my day,” Stanforth said. “And, for me, I’m thinking, how do I train peo-ple for function in everything that they do?”
WHAT: Livestrong Challenge Series
WHERE: Austin Convention Center, South 1st Bridge and Dripping Springs Middle School
WHEN: Today-Sunday
WEB: http://www.livestrong.org/Take-Action
Runners, bikers to support cancer patients in fundraiser
EVENT PREVIEWLIVESTRONG CHALLENGE
Shannon Kintner | Daily Texan Staff
Members of the Omega Phi Gamma fraternity, including (from left) Larry Li, Jerry Molina, Jordan Yeh and James Han Yu, will participate in a 45-mile ride as part of the Livestrong Challenge Series.
best of his career.
‘Black Swan’When: Wednesday, 7 p.m.Where: Paramount Theater
Darren Aronofsky is respon-sible for one of the best films of the last decade (2008’s “The Wrestler”), and is notorious for coaxing phenomenal, career-de-
fining performances out of ac-tors (Mickey Rourke in the same film). Here, he directs Natalie Portman as a ballerina strug-gling to meet expectations in her challenging lead role in “Swan Lake.” Given that Portman has consistently struggled to meet expectations throughout her own acting career, she couldn’t
be a better fit for the material.
HEALTHYHOOK
By Addie Anderson
Proper stretches help prevent injuries
‘‘Now that I do yoga where you flow into positions, I can touch my toes.”
— C.J. Hall, Kinesiology senior
Jono Foley | Daily Texan Staff
Chris Rodriguez stretches in preparation for his run at Gregory Gym. Stationary stretching may fail to be an effective warmup.
fEsTivAL: Dancer struggles to meetexpectations of lead in ‘Black Swan’
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12Friday, October 22, 2010
By Alex Williams & Priscilla Totiyapungprasert
Daily Texan Staff Film directors, screenwriters,
producers and movie aficiona-dos will convene in Austin this weekend for the 17th annual Aus-tin Film Festival. The festival was the first of its kind when it began in 1994. This year the event spans eight days, showcasing films from both established and rising film-makers. The festival also hosts a four-day conference that includes screenwriting seminars, topics for budding filmmakers and conver-
sations with famous people in the industry, including Randall Wal-lace, the man who penned “Brave-heart,” and “Blade Runner” writ-er David Peoples. Former UT stu-dent and director Robert Rodri-guez is also scheduled to appear.
Top 5 Films to See:
‘Blue Valentine’When: Friday, 9:30 p.m.Where: Paramount Theater
Starring Ryan Gosling and Mi-
chelle Williams, “Blue Valentine” has been earning rave reviews all year for its depiction of a self-de-structing marriage. Gosling and Wil-liams are solid performers who can handle the heavy material, and this may be your only chance to see the film: The MPAA recently slapped it with an NC-17 rating, the kiss of death for most independent films.
‘The Company Men’When: Saturday, 6 p.m.Where: Paramount Theater
Dealing with the recent econom-
ic downtown and starring Ben Af-fleck and Tommy Lee Jones, “The Company Men” is a film for our times, much like last year’s out-standing “Up in the Air.” Recent-ly named as the festival’s Center-piece Film and presented by di-rector John Wells, “The Company Men” has been drawing attention at film festivals all year.
‘Paradise Recovered’When: Sunday, 4 p.m.Where: Rollins Theater, Texas Spirit Theater
Directed by UT alumnus Storme Wood and filmed in and around Austin, “Paradise Recovered” stars Heather del Rio as Esther, a reli-gious fundamentalist excommu-nicated from her church. Religious estrangement is always a com-pelling theme, and the film’s in-triguing trailer makes it stand out among the festival’s Austin Screens category, a collection of films direct-ed by Austin filmmakers.
‘127 Hours’When: Tuesday, 7 p.m.
Where: Paramount TheaterDirector Danny Boyle’s eclec-
tic career continues this year with “127 Hours,” the true story of mountain climber Aron Ral-ston, who becomes trapped un-der a fallen boulder and (spoil-er alert) is forced to cut his arm off to escape. Boyle, who direct-ed “Slumdog Millionaire,” is ex-pected to garner another Oscar nomination for his work here, and star James Franco’s perfor-mance has been hailed as the
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By Priscilla TotiyapungprasertDaily Texan Staff
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in Mexico City to do when his wife just b o u g h t a car he can’t afford and
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to get involved with a gang of amateur thieves and steal a lion from the local zoo to hold for ransom. This is precisely what happens in “Adiós, Mundo Cru-el” (Goodbye, Cruel World), the latest film directed by UT alum-nus Jack Zagha Kababie.
Although the premise seems absurd, the story is based on
Zagha’s real-life experiences and what he calls “normal events” in Mexico.
“Mexico City is a crazy place,” Zagha said. “And [the] coun-try itself [is] a place that artists and writers go to because there seems to be a surreal magic that surrounds Mexico.”
Seven years ago, Zagha had been in Mexico City to edit a film. While walking up to the editing studio with his tapes in hand, two men stopped him by pointing a gun to his head and demanded everything he had. When that wasn’t sufficient, they forced him into his own car and ordered Zagha to drive to an ATM and empty his bank ac-count. Jono Foley | Daily Texan Staff
UT alumnus and filmmaker Jack Zagha Kababie screens his film “Adiós Mundo Cruel” (Goodbye, Cruel World) this week during the Austin Film Festival. The filmmakers inserted several real-life anecdotes that they experienced.
Themes of religion, money present at Austin Film Fest
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Alumnus draws on real-life experience of crime in Mexico
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