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A Capital Metro bus ran over and killed an intoxicated student over the weekend near Universi-ty Estates Apartments .

The accident happened at 1300 Crossing Place at approx-imately 2 a.m. on Friday said Sgt. David Daniels . 22 year old Andrew Ching-Nien Wang was intoxicated and struggling to exit the bus when he lost his balance and fell under the back wheels of the bus as it depart-ed . An advertising senior , Wang was from Katy, Texas. The bus had picked up him and a friend f rom downtown earl ier that night. He was taken to Bracken-ridge hospital and pronounced dead soon after the accident. A representative of Capital Metro could not be reached for com-ment on Sunday.

Austin Police Department of-ficials have requested that any-one who observed the accident or has more information contact APD Vehicular Homicide Unit Detectives at (512) 974-8212 .

Willie Nelson and supporting fans sang together at the unveil-ing of a monument dedicated to the Austin resident and coun-try music legend on April 20, a counterculture holiday national-ly associated with marijuana use.

The monument was unveiled around 4:20 p.m., with the num-ber 420 holding particular sig-nificance within cannabis cul-ture. Nelson is an activist for the legalization of marijuana and sits as a co-chair on the advisory board of the National Organiza-tion for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. The bronze statue depicts Nelson sitting relaxedly with gui-tar in hand.

Erection of the statue was funded by Capital Area Stat-ues, Inc., a private organization that works to celebrate the histo-ry and culture of Texas through public sculptures. It was placed in downtown Austin at the cor-ner of Lavaca Street and Wille Nelson Boulevard, adjacent to the Moody Theater, the current home of the PBS music program Austin City Limits. Nelson re-ceived one of his first big breaks when he performed during the recording of the pilot episode of Austin City Limits in 1974.

According to Lawrence Wright, president of Capital Area Stat-

ues, Inc., the date of the unveil-ing was a total coincidence as his group had no idea of the polit-ical connotation associated with April 20.

“Once we realized what we were stating we just decided to roll with it,” he said, referring to the addition of the planned 4:20 p.m. unveiling of the statue. “It’s a part of keeping Austin weird.”

The event came one day af-ter the release of Nelson’s new single “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die,” a collabora-tion between Nelson and mu-sic art ists Snoop Dogg and Kris Kristofferson.

Among people celebrating the unveiling were Kristofferson and city of Austin mayor Lee Leffin-gwell, both of whom spoke about

Nelson’s major impact on the country music world and the city of Austin through his success.

“He is the man who really more than, I think, any other person makes Austin the live music capital of the world,” Leffingwell said.

Arising from humble begin-

At the request of President William Powers Jr., UT has cho-sen a private legal team with not-ed experience defending affirma-tive action to represent the Uni-versity in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin.

UT has selected lawyers from the profitable Washington D.C. law firm Latham & Watkins instead of

state Attorney General Greg Ab-bott and his lawyers, who hold the responsibility of representing the University and have defended UT’s position at the district court level through the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Fisher v. University of Texas was filed in 2008, when two UT stu-dents were denied admission. The two contended that the Universi-ty’s admissions policies, which take race into consideration when not

automatically admitted as the top percentile, violated the plaintiff ’s right to equal protection of the laws under the 14th Amendment. Rachel Michalewicz has since withdrawn from the suit and Ab-igail Fisher, now a senior at Lousi-ana State University, is the only re-maining plaintiff.

In a March 29 letter to the state Attorney General’s office requesting the use of outside counsel, Powers stated that the

University was at “critical junc-ture for briefing and argument before the Supreme Court .” Powers also mentioned that such counsel would possess signifi-cant experience in higher educa-tion and the Supreme Court.

The private legal team includes attorneys Maureen Mahoney and Scott Ballenger, who both success-fully defended University of Michi-gan’s affirmative action program in the landmark 2003 Supreme Court

decision Grutter v. Bollinger.Former U.S. solicitor general

Greg Garre, who represented the federal government before the Su-preme Court from 2008 to 2009, heads the legal team. Garre has ar-gued a total of 34 cases before the Supreme Court.

The law team was not available for comment on the case since the proceedings are ongoing, Latham

& Watkins attorney Scott Bal-

All kinds of insects, creepy-crawlers and bugs were on display for people to see, touch and learn about on Saturday.

Insecta Fiesta, which was held at the UT Texas Natural Science Center’s Breckenridge Field Lab, offered the chance to learn about insects in various ways, such as an insect petting zoo, arts and crafts and a competition to see who could spit a dead cricket the far-thest distance. In attendance were many UT students, faculty, Aus-tinites and children.

John Abbott, curator of ento-mology and integrative biology professor, organized the event. Abbott said the goal of Insecta Fi-esta was to cultivate an interest in insects for the general public.

“We wanted to educate, excite and inform about insects,” Abbott said. “There are more insects on the planet than any others group of animals, and we want to get people as excited about them as we are.”

Abbott said although many people view insects as strange, he hoped the fun activities being of-fered would spark an interest and understanding of the creatures.

“If they don’t have an outright interest in something, they cer-tainly have a curiosity,” Abbott said. “Our goal through lots of different mechanisms, from arts and crafts to talks to holding live insects, is just to get them excited and over their fears in some cases.”

Abbott said he hoped the event grabbed people’s attention and ex-cited them about insects.

“I just want everybody to ap-preciate them for the amazing group of organisms that they are,” Abbott said. “Sure, there’s some

that are pests, but most of them are not, and they’re so amazing in so many different ways.”

Christina Cid, director of ed-ucation at the Texas Natural Sci-ence Center, said Insecta Fies-ta offered several teacher work-

shops to help integrate insect studies into grade school curric-ulum. Cid said 151 teachers from throughout the state traveled to attend the workshops.

“The idea behind the teacher workshops is for teachers to learn

how to directly integrate insect-re-lated curriculum into their teach-ing,” Cid said. “That way, they’re getting the content and the teach-ing skills to incorporate it.”

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A young girl reaches towards a monarch butterfly during Insecta Fiesta at the UT Texas Natural Science Center’s Breckenridge Field Lab Saturday. The event offered people of all ages the chance to learn about insects and interact with them.

Insecta Fiesta helps people appreciate bugs

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Willie Nelson signs his album, Before His Time, for a fan at his statue unveiling Friday afternoon on Willie Nelson Boulevard.

TODAYOrange Bike BikapaloozaBikapalooza is a day of fun and giveaways with an emphasis on bike safety. An obstacle course in Gregory Plaza features basic bike safety rules. The event will be from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. in the Gregory Gym Plaza.

TuesdayUT Orchestra Performs The UT University Orchestra performs works by Edward Elgar and Ottorino Respighi in preparation for performances in London and Rome. The event will be from 7:30-9:30 p.m. in Bates Recital Hall.

WednesdayCampus Climate Public MeetingThe Diversity and Equity Student Advisory and Action Council (DESAC) sponsors a town hall discussion of activities on campus that contribute to or detract from a welcoming, safe and inclusive environment on campus. The meeting will be from 6-8 p.m. in UTC 2.112A.

ThursdayWomen’s Health Panel DiscussionPolitics Becomes Personal: The Fight for Women’s Health in Texas is a panel discussion moderated by Susan Sage Heinzelman, director of the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. RSVP to Piper Stege Nelson at [email protected] or by phone at 512-477-0746. The event will be from 6-8 p.m. in Burdine 106.

FridayAnnual Orange & White BallAttend the Orange & White Ball - A Night in Monte Carlo, featuring grand ballroom music by the Nash Hernandez Orchestra, casino games, a record-spinning DJ, photo opportunities, cash beverages and hors d’oeuvres. The event starts at 9 p.m. and will be held in the SAC Ballroom and tickets are $30 online.

Today in HistoryIn 1564It is impossible to be certain of the exact birthdate, but it is theorized that the great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-on-Avon on April 23, 1564.

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Alumnus Howard Terry, whose foundation has donated millions of dollars worth of University schol-arships, died Friday. A group of scholarship recipients gathered at the stadium Sunday to pay tribute to his legacy.

Many of those attending told their stories about how the schol-arship made it possible for them to attend college and how the Ter-ry Foundation fosters a support system for the scholarship recipi-ents. The foundation asks students to give back to the foundation and their community in a way that re-flects the approach Terry took in helping students succeed.

Terry graduated from the University in 1938 with a bach-elor’s in business administra-tion after he captained the foot-ball team, according to the Ter-ry Foundation website.

The Terry Foundation works with eight state universities, includ-ing UT Austin and the University of Texas at San Antonio, according to the foundation website. Student Fi-nancial Services director Tom Me-lecki said since Terry established the foundation in 1986, it has pro-vided about 1,100 University stu-dents with about $46 million in pri-vate scholarship funds.

“Even after all this, Mr. Terry was always looking for more ways to help young Texans,” Melecki said.

Melecki said Terry and his wife

Nancy personally contributed $230,000 in scholarships to 50 stu-dents who transferred into the Uni-versity in 2011 to 2012.

“Howard Terry represented the best of the American dream — a self-made man who amassed a for-tune with skill and hard work, but who understood that a cadre of bright, hard-working, well-educat-ed individuals are the most endur-ing legacy any citizen can leave to his community, his state and his nation,” Melecki said. “UT Austin and its stu-dents have lost a dear friend, and the state of Texas has lost a giant.”

Alumna Honey Habingreither graduated in 2000 with a finance degree and told the other students and alumni that the scholarship al-lowed her to pursue her desires in-

stead of being restricted by debt.“It’s hard to listen to these stories

because it’s all of our stories,” Habin-greither said. “The Terry Founda-tion believed in all of us.”

Undeclared freshman Madison Russ said the scholarship makes all the difference because she comes from a single-parent house-hold. She said she could never un-derstand why other people didn’t worry about getting things done, but said with the scholarship she feels less concerned about paying for college.

“It’s weird because this person who you never met is gone, but they did so much for you,” Russ said. “I want to thank Mr. Terry for invest-ing his time and money with me when most other people wouldn’t.”

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lenger said.“We’re honored to have been

retained by the University in this important case and look forward to presenting our argu-ments to the Supreme Court,” Ballenger said.

Patricia Ohlendorf, vice presi-dent for legal affairs, said the legal team’s experience in successful-ly briefing and defending Mich-igan before the Supreme Court in 2003 was “very significant” in their selection.

“UT believes that in order to achieve a diverse student body the admission of those freshmen students not admitted through the percentage plan must be done through a full holistic review that includes consideration of many factors, including race and eth-nicity,” Ohlendorf said. “This type of holistic review is based upon the 2003 decision by the Supreme Court in Grutter v. Bollinger.”

UT was “absolutely not” con-cerned with the previous perfor-mance of the state Attorney Gen-eral’s office in defending the case, Ohlendorf said.

“The Attorney General’s of-fice, specifically Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell and Assistant Solicitor General Jody Hughes, did excellent work on the case,” Ohelndorf said. “It was agreed that if we could get the team who had briefed and argued Grutter v. Bollinger in the U.S. Supreme Court and their Supreme Court practice leader, that it would bring very special expertise and considerable Supreme Court ex-perience to the case.”

In a response letter to Pow-ers authorizing the use of outside counsel, Daniel Hodge, first assis-tant Attorney General, said Ab-bot’s office was “ready, willing and able to continue representing the University of Texas in the Fisher case,” but was still willing to defer this decision to the University.

The Supreme Court is expect-ed to schedule oral arguments in October or early November, and issue a decision in the spring or summer of next year.

Cid said it’s important for teachers to integrate insects into their teachings, because it al-lows for more practical lessons.

“These teachers can go into their back yards and col-lect grasshoppers for their classes,” Cid said. “It’s real-ly something that’s accessi-ble to them, and easy to in-tegrate into their curriculum for hands-on learning.”

Cid said this type of hands-on learning is critical in or-der to engage children in the world around them.

“It’s vital,” Cid said. “Science is around us, and we need to engage kids in getting hands on and getting outside.”

Sam Shook, a junior at the Liberal Arts Science Academy and a volunteer at the event,

said insects have interested him since he was a child.

“I’ve been collecting insects for a while now, ever since I was a kid,” Shook said. “I love insects. There’s just a massive variety of different kinds to look at, which you don’t real-ly get with many of types of living things.”

Shook said events like In-secta Fiesta are important in helping people truly under-stand insects.

“This kind of thing is really helpful, because most people don’t have a whole lot of in-teraction with insects,” Shook said. “These kinds of displays help lessen some of the fear factor for them. It makes them less unknown.”

Shook said he hopes the event will breed a positive at-titude toward insects.

“Insects aren’t just scary, weird pest creatures,” he said. “They can be really cool and interesting looking. They’re something you should study and learn more about.”

nings, Nelson, 78, has gone on to become the recipient of 10 Grammy Awards, nine CMA awards and dozens of other hon-ors for his albums, of which he has sold about 40 million copies.

Acknowledging his fame at the unveiling, Nelson joked to a fan who suggested he run for president.

“I would run, but I might win,” he said.

Nelson’s personal style is what inspired the private group to originally have the statue creat-ed, Wright said.

“It’s about this sense of en-gagement that you feel,” he said. “Willie is a superstar, but unlike most people in that category, he is down to earth. He really re-lates to people, and we love that quality of his.”

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NEWS BRIEFLYMemorial held for long-time University benefactorDaniela Herrera, a Terry Scholarship recipient and second year advertising and psychol-ogy junior, lays a bouquet of flowers on a bench dedicat-ed to Howard and Nancy Terry at the Harry Ransom Center Sunday evening after a memorial ser-vice for Howard Terry.

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The Seton Healthcare Fami-ly, which operates 15 hospitals and clinics in Texas including Univer-sity Medical Center Brackenridge, plans to spend $250 million on a new hospital that will include Aus-tin’s first medical school.

Seton negotiated a 100-year lease with Austin’s Central Health to build the modernized facility, which will potentially improve health care in Austin and replace the teaching hospital UMCB with a local medi-cal school, according to the Austin American-Statesman.

No legally binding contract ex-ists at this point, although the Central Health board signed a let-ter of intent to establish the med-ical school on Saturday. This let-ter indicates that the future med-ical program will be affiliated with UT and will expand upon the ser-vices offered by UMCB, according to the Statesman.

Seton is planning to fund the new hospital with resources from its parent company, Ascension Health, along with donations. Officials ex-pect the $250 million to cover all costs of new equipment and con-struction, with an estimated three years needed to complete the hos-pital, according to the Statesman.

Central Health could receive an extra $390 million over five years from the federal government for improving local health care and by increasing the number of low-income patients as a result of the new hospital. The Patient Pro-tection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law in 2010, includes a Medicaid overhaul that could in-crease the federal funding states receive, which Central Health has pledged to Seton as part of the new hospital agreement, according to the Statesman.

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Bus rapid transit: glamorous but ineffectiveBy Drew FinkeDaily Texan Columnist

Editor’s note: From the election of a mascot to the re-election of a governor, these are among our favorite quotes from the past several days.

“It’s certainly good to have someone who’s [an] expert at Supreme Court practice.”— Harry Reasoner, a partner at law firm Vinson & Elkins, on UT’s decision to hire an outside law firm for its upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case, according to the Austin American-Statesman. The case, Fisher v. University of Texas, calls into question the constitutionality of the Uni-versity’s top 10 percent admissions policy. Latham & Watkins will be paid almost $1 million.

“This has the potential to be a localized health care reform [initiative]. ... I’m really excited about this and think it’s going to be a big deal for this community.”— Frank Rodriguez, a board member of Central Health, on the Seton Healthcare Family’s pledge to pay $250 million toward a new medical school and teaching hospital in Austin, according to the Austin American-Statesman. The new hospital would replace University Medical Center-Brackenridge, which is currently owned by Central Health and operated by Seton.

“The impression that one receives is of reason-ably coherent core standards augmented by an excruciatingly long and tedious list of minor, questionable additions wrapped in stilted and garbled language.”— Ze’ev Wurman, a former adviser to President George W. Bush, on the new math standards for public schools, according to The Texas Tribune. Many business leaders contend that the standards, approved by the State Board of Education on Friday, are not rigorous enough.

“I’m certainly going to give that the appro-priate consideration. My instincts are very positive towards it right now, but we’ll wait until after the legislative session to make that announcement.”— Gov. Rick Perry on whether he would consider running for gover-nor again, according to CBS. Perry is the longest-serving governor in the state’s history.

“There is a big deal. Right now, at this moment, it’s [important] for future generations so they can look back at us students and say we had a voice and were able to choose what the mascot was going to be.”— Frank Orozco, a student and employee at UT-Brownsville, on tak-ing part in the process to pick a new mascot for the university, according to The Brownsville Herald. After a bitter divorce between the university and its junior-college counterpart, UT-Brownsville has put the selection of a mascot to a student vote from the student body. The finalists for the mascot are: ocelot, vaqueros, jaguarundi, parrots and bull sharks, one of which will replace the previous mascot of Scorpions.

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More options for student loansHeba Dafashy’s column titled “Shining through the cloud of student debt,” which

ran Thursday, outlines an additional method for allocating student loans. Depending on the individual, loans through SoFi may or may not be preferable to loans through the federal government such as Stafford Loans. First, “SoFi investors receive a 5-per-cent to 8-percent” return on their loans, which may or may not be lower than the interest rates offered by the federal government. Second, SoFi does not offer subsi-dized loans — students are responsible for interest that accumulates while in school. Finally, it appears as if loans through SoFi do not discharge in bankruptcy, and neither do loans through the federal government.

There is a big problem at hand: the amount — $1 trillion — and growth rate — $100 billion per year — of student loan debt. The employment-to-population ratio for 18 to 24 year-olds is near a record low at 54 percent, with an associated unemployment rate of more than 15 percent. Furthermore, according to Fitch, “as many as 27 percent of all student loan borrowers are more than 30 days past due.” Since the majority of loans are disbursed through the Federal Family Education Loan Program and these loans are federally guaranteed, the implication of this problem is clear: taxpayers are on the hook for any future bailouts to the program. In this context, the benefits of the SoFi model, minus a federal guarantee, become apparent.

One advantage of the SoFi model is its ability to motivate students. In a free market, interest rates are a function of several variables, among them the level of risk in an investment. Thus, the least risky investments — that is, the best students — would receive the best interest rates, which would encourage all students to do their best.

Finally, one additional method for allocating student loans would be to combine the SoFi model with a proposal published in The Economist, which would allow students “to sell equity in their future earnings.”

Joseph GauthierUT alumnus

Students who rely on the 1, 3 and 101 bus routes to get to and from campus will be able to take advantage of improved bus services in about two years’ time, accord-ing to an announcement made by Capital Metro earlier this month. During a press conference downtown, of� cials from Cap-ital Metro and the Federal Department of Transportation announced funding for Metro’s long-awaited rapid bus sys-tem, which is intended to provide faster service along the city’s two most popular bus routes.

� e transit agency has branded the ser-vice “MetroRapid,” but despite its name, the $47.6-million project is unlikely to yield much signi� cant improvement in travel times according to the agency’s own projections. Students who use the existing 101 route, which will be replaced by MetroRapid service, will see no more than an 11-percent improvement on ex-isting travel times and, in some cases, no improvement whatsoever.

Rapid bus systems have been used in cit-ies worldwide, most famously in Curitiba, Brazil, where buses run in dedicated lanes physically separated from slower-moving automobile traf� c. Systems like Curitiba’s provide faster service by separating buses form tra� c and ensuring that higher-ca-pacity buses don’t get bogged down among single-occupant cars and trucks during rush hour. � e system proposed for Aus-tin includes dedicated bus lanes only on portions of the routes that pass through downtown. Because of this, it is unlikely

to provide the same level of service as that enjoyed by passengers in Brazil.

� e new MetroRapid buses, which will be nearly twice as long as the buses the agency currently uses, will have capacity for 118 passengers per bus and are ex-pected to carry more than 20,000 passen-gers per day between the two new lines. Despite the buses’ high capacity, most of the two routes will take place in lanes shared with private vehicles carrying two or fewer passengers per car. During rush hour, full buses will compete for space on the street with single-occupant cars. � e stoplight prioritization technology meant to improve travel times will provide minimal utility in the gridlocked traf-� c that forms every weekday evening onGuadalupe and Lamar.

Much of the faster travel times trum-peted by Capital Metro are gained from marginal increases in boarding speed, and a reduced number of stops when compared to bus lines that already exist along the new service’s route. Bus sta-tions that are elevated slightly above curb height will provide easier boarding, and passengers with prepaid fare cards, such as a university ID, will be allowed to en-ter at any of the bus’ three doorways, re-ducing crowding at the station and at the front of the bus.

� ese improvements will provide a more sophisticated and convenient tran-sit experience that will no doubt be wel-comed by existing bus riders at the Uni-versity. � ough any improvement to the city’s busiest bus routes is to be applaud-ed, a more fundamental reconsideration of priorities along the city’s key transpor-

tation corridors will be necessary in order to accommodate population growth.

Increasing density in the city center, including the University area, will make single-occupant car trips impractical and unnecessary. � ough Austin is not yet an easy place to get along without a car, an emphasis on high-capacity transporta-tion systems could change this. Austin’s high 2.8-percent growth rate will neces-sarily transform the city, and as more people � ght for space on city streets, it will be more e� cient to give road space to a bus or train carrying more than 100 passengers than to an equivalent number of lower-capacity automobiles carrying signi� cantly fewer people.

� e generation of students currently in high school and college has proven reluc-tant to embrace a car-centric way of life, and are driving less and buying fewer cars than generations before them. Some ana-lysts even suggest that the US is experienc-ing “peak car,” a phenomenon whereby car ownership and vehicle miles travel cease to grow. As the driving force behind this trend, students must insist that transpor-tation authorities prioritize high-capacity public transit over low-capacity personal automobiles. � ough MetroRapid will make riding the bus more glamorous, dedicated transit lanes along the majority of its route could provide improvements that would make a more meaningful dif-ference in the schedules and lives of stu-dents who, by necessity or choice, rely on public transportation to get aroundthe city.

Finke is an urban studies and architecture senior.

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Texas Student Television is hosting a live marathon for 24 hours every day for a week. The marathon started Sunday at mid-night and will go on until 11:59 p.m. Saturday.

“The last time TSTV did this was five years ago, so we decided to try it again,” said Derek Lewis, TSTV assistant staff director and journalism senior. “We thought it would be a good way to pro-mote the TSTV brand as well as bring in more advertisers.”

The members of TSTV have full control of what they want to focus on, and the shows are generally geared towards events and issues that relate to the typ-ica l UT student . Lewis and one of his colleagues decid-ed to host a show to give advice about relationships.

“I usually do sports so it was in-teresting to get out of that realm and try something else,” Lewis said. “Our show ran three hours longer than we had planned, and it was my first time doing an off-the-cuff type of show, so it was definitely a learning experience.”

Many of the shows are similar to talk shows where the hosts fo-cus on a certain subject and have callers comment or bring up things related to that issue.

“You have to be careful about what you say during the show because people will call and try to get you to talk about con-trovers ia l or t r icky issues ,” Lewis said.

The marathon will also be helpful for TSTV’s advertising department as there are more opportunities for advertisers to market their products since the shows run all day. Many of the advertisers are affiliated with

UT, such as MunchyMart, an on-line convenience store started by two UT students, and Milto’s Mediterranean Cafe, a restaurant near campus.

“We’ve already increased our number of advertisers in just one day, and we’ve had a lot of so-cial media attention,” said Mor-gan Williams, assistant TSTV marketing director and journal-ism junior. “We really try to help marketers by doing things such as creating the videos that will air on TV for them.”

Most of the shows airing dur-ing the marathon are test runs for the fall. They are all written by TSTV members, although the slots are open to any student in-terested in doing a show.

“The marathon is definite-ly going to bring more public-ity to TSTV, which we have al-ready seen in Twitter,” said Ste-ven Zurita, TSTV station man-ager and radio-television-film senior. “B eing on 24 hours forces us to b e re a l ly c re-ative and try new shows like a pie-eating show.”

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Plan II and economics junior Richie Gill founded Mr. West Campus, a real state agency geared toward helping students find housing near campus. Mr. West Campus is Gill’s second business. He started an online advertising company in high school and sold it after two years.

By Shreya BanerjeeDaily Texan Staff

We’ve already increased our number of advertisers in just one day and we’ve had a lot of social media attention.

— Morgan Williams, Assistant TSTV Marketing Director

By age 17, Richie Gill, Plan II and economics junior, knew he did not want to work under a boss for the rest of his life.

So while still in high school, Gill earned his real estate license and start-ed an online advertising business. Af-ter successfully running the business for two years, he sold it to improve his college GPA, but could not resist the urge to run his own business and earn money once again.

Gill started Mr. West Campus, a real estate agency for students looking to live close to campus in late 2010.

“My parents always motivat-ed me to make money,” Gill said. “I had a job at Walgreens and I just said ‘Screw this. I’m not going to listen to my boss anymore. I want to do what

I want. I don’t want to make only $7 an hour selling cigarettes all day,’ and I didn’t want to wait six years to have a good job, so I started my own business.”

Mr. West Campus now has sev-en employees, helps hundreds of stu-dents find apartments every year and includes longhornleasing.com, which focuses on helping students sub-lease. The service provided is free for students because Gill said the company makes money through the apartment complexes willing to work with him. He said he wants the com-pany to encompass as many local apartment complexes as possible to give students multiple options to suit their needs.

Gill said he works 60 hours a week and very late nights while remain-ing a full-time student. He said the work is worth it because he loves the

business and he loves the students.“Students are great to work with,”

Gill said. “They’re smart. They’re quick. They’re easy to work with and they need the help because many are freshmen and first-time apartment shoppers,” Gill said. “We want to be there for them to be sure they don’t get scammed and to be with them every step of the way. I love to bring real estate experience and student ex-perience together.”

Bobby Cave, 1984 UT alumnus and supervising salesperson and of-fice manager, said at their first meet-ing, at Starbucks, he immediately saw the potential of the young man and wanted to help on his journey as a business owner.

“I don’t mean to sound like I love the guy, but I love the guy,” Cave said. “He did not go to Padre over spring break. He was probably working. He

is so passionate and I’ll do anything for that guy to be successful. He won’t toot his own horn, but he is so honest and really wants to help people. It’s so rare to see a 22 year-old who has his life together the way Richie does.”

Gill’s girlfriend, history junior Morgan Caridi, said Gill is the hard-est worker she knows and is proud of him for his accomplishments.

“It’s honorable for someone to bal-ance school and work and do so well in both,” she said. “A lot of his time is spent on his computer. Us hang-ing out is us watching a movie, but he is always on his computer. Always working. It’s amazing.”

By Kayla JonssonDaily Texan Staff

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Wal-Mart paid extensive bribes to secure monopoly in Mexico

NEW YORK — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. hushed up a vast bribery cam-paign that top executives of its Mex-ican subsidiary carried out to build stores across that country, accord-ing to a published report.

The New York Times report-ed Saturday that Wal-Mart failed to notify law enforcement officials even after its own investigators found evidence of millions of dol-lars in bribes. The newspaper said the company shut down its internal probe despite a report by its lead investigator that Mexican and U.S. laws likely were violated.

The bribery campaign was report-ed to have first come to the attention of senior executives at Wal-Mart in 2005, when a former executive of its largest foreign subsidiary, Wal-Mart de Mexico, provided extensive de-tails of a bribery campaign to win market dominance.

The Mexican executive, previous-ly the lawyer in charge of obtaining construction permits, said in emails and follow-up conversations that Wal-Mart de Mexico paid bribes to obtain permits throughout the coun-try in its rush to build stores nation-wide, the Times reported.

Wal-Mart’s growth in Mexico has been so rapid that one of ev-ery five Wal-Mart stores now is in that country. It is Mexico’s larg-est private employer, with 209,000 employees there.

Fireball falling over Nev., Calif. was just a meteor, science says

RENO, Nev. — Astronomers say a loud explosion heard across a large swath of Nevada and Califor-nia on Sunday morning was likely caused by a meteor.

Around 8 a.m. yesterday the ex-plosion rattled windows and shook houses from Reno to Winnemucca in Nevada, and from the Sacramento to Bakersfield areas in California.

Some people in the two states reported seeing a fireball streak across the sky at the same time.

Dan Ruby of the Fleischmann Planetarium at the University of Ne-vada, Reno, says the reports indicate the meteor broke up above Earth somewhere southwest of Reno.

— Compiled from Associated Press reports

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US, Afghanistan sign pact to end occupation by 2014

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KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. and Afghanistan reached a deal Sunday on a long-delayed strategic partnership agreement that ensures Americans will pro-vide military and financial sup-port for at least a decade beyond 2014, the deadline for most for-eign forces to withdraw.

The pact is key to the U.S. exit strategy in Afghanistan because it provides guidelines for any Amer-ican forces who remain after the withdrawal deadline and for fi-nancial help to the impoverished country and its security forces.

For the Afghan government, it is a way to show its people that their U.S. allies are not just walking away.

“Our goal is an enduring partner-ship with Afghanistan that strength-ens Afghan sovereignty, stabili-ty and prosperity and that contrib-utes to our shared goal of defeat-ing al-Qaida and its extremist affil-iates,” said U.S. Embassy spokesman Gavin Sundwall. “We believe this agreement supports that goal.”

After 10 years of U.S.-led war, insurgents linked to the Taliban and al-Qaida remain a threat and

as recently as a week ago, launched a large-scale attack on the capital Kabul and three other cities.

The draft agreement was worked out and initialed by Afghan Na-tional Security Adviser Rangin Dadfar Spanta and U.S. Ambas-sador Ryan Crocker. It must still be reviewed in both countries and signed afterward by the Afghan and American presidents.

U.S. forces have already start-ed pulling out of Afghanistan, and the majority of combat troops are scheduled to depart by the end of 2014. But the U.S. is expected to maintain a large presence in the country for years after, including special forces, military trainers and government-assistance programs.

Neither Afghan nor U.S. of-ficials would comment on the details of the agreement. A Western official said it outlines a strategic part-nership for 10 years beyond 2014.

W h i t e Ho u s e Na t i o n a l Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said President Ba-rack Obama expects to sign the document before a NATO sum-mit next month. Many had started to worry that Karzai and Obama would miss that goal as talked dragged on and Karzai continued to

announce new demands.The final document is likely to be

short on specifics. U.S. officials in-volved in the negotiations have said previously that the strategic partner-ship will provide a framework for future relations, but that details of how U.S. forces operate in the coun-try will come in a later agreement.

The initialing ceremony means that the text of the document is now locked in. But the countries will have to go through their own inter-nal review processes, Sundwall said.

“For the United States, that will mean interagency review, con-sultation with Congress as ap-propriate and final review by the president,” Sundwall said.

In Afghanistan, the agreement will have to be approved by par-liament. The Afghan foreign min-ister will brief Afghan lawmakers about the document Monday, the Afghan president’s statement said.

SANFORD, Fla. — By question-ing a state investigator on the wit-ness stand during a routine bail hearing, George Zimmerman’s de-fense attorney showed some of the weaknesses in prosecutors’ claims that the neighborhood watch volun-teer committed second-degree mur-der, legal experts say.

A judge ruled Friday that Zimmer-man can be released on $150,000 bail while he awaits trial on murdering 17-year-old Trayvon Martin during a Feb. 26 confrontation in a Sanford, Fla. gated community. Zimmerman apolo-gized to Martin’s parents, who were in the courtroom for the bail hearing, in a surprise appearance on the witness stand. Zimmerman is pleading not guilty and claims self-defense.

The apology came after Zim-merman’s defense attorney, Mark O’Mara, questioned an investigator for the special prosecutor, sentence by sentence, about a probable cause affidavit the investigator signed out-lining certain facts in the case.

Investigator Dale Gilbreath testi-fied that he does not know whether

Martin or Zimmerman threw the first punch and that there is no evidence to disprove Zimmerman’s contention he was walking back to his vehicle when confronted by Martin. The af-fidavit says “Zimmerman confronted Martin and a struggle ensued.”

But Gilbreath also said Zimmer-man’s claim that Martin was slam-ming his head against the sidewalk just before he shot the teenager was “not consistent with the evidence we found.” He gave no details.

Prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda dismissed any notion that the inves-tigator’s testimony chipped away at their case. “You have not heard all of the evidence,” de la Rionda said after the hearing. “Please be patient and wait for the trial.”

Bail is not unheard of in second-degree murder cases, and legal ex-perts had predicted it would be grant-ed for Zimmerman because of his ties to the community, because he turned himself in after he was charged last week, and because he has never been convicted of a serious crime.

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The No. 5 Longhorns won another Big 12 series this weekend, going 2-1 against the Oklahoma State Cowgirls at home.

Friday night featured a close, low-scoring 3-2 victory while Saturday saw a 3-0 shutout loss. The Longhorns then came out to finish the Cowgirls in a 5-1 win that was characteristic of the Texas offense this season.

The Longhorns are now 37-7 on the season and 11-5 in Big 12 Confer-ence play. Saturday’s game also marked the Longhorn’s second annual Pink at the Plate game to support breast

cancer research.The Cowgirls went up 1-0 ear-

ly in game one before the Long-horns posted a three run third in-ning on the bats of sophomore Karina Scott and senior Nadia

Taylor. Oklahoma State made a strike in the top of the fifth in-ning in an attempt to stage a comeback, but it was not enough.

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Blaire Luna pitches against Oklahoma State during Sunday’s 5-1 win. Luna struck out nine and allowed one unearned run.

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John Curtiss retired the first 10 batters he faced on Sunday to help UT beat Kansas, 7-2.

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Editor’s note: This is the fifth in an eight-part series about Long-horns hoping to be drafted into the NFL.

Blake Gideon has witnessed plenty of ups and downs during his four years at Texas and his 52 career starts as safety, from drop-ping an interception during Tex-as’ game against Tech in 2008 to catching an interception dur-ing the national championship game in 2009 to Texas’ 5-7 season in 2010.

His streak of 52 starts is the second highest in UT football history.

“It has flown by, and I’ve en-joyed every bit of it,” Gideon said earlier this season.

This season, Gideon was vital in leading the defense — which ranked first in the Big 12 and 14th in the nation. The defense was key in the team’s bouncing back from the 2010 season.

Gideon grew up on football and hopes to continue playing football in the NFL.

“I’m going to be a consistent guy,” Gideon said. “I think I’ve treated these past four years like a professional so I already know what that life is about. I can also say that I have dedicated a large portion of my life to football al-ready so I’m not going to have any issues that they need to wor-ry about off the field.”

During his time at Texas, Gide-on posted 276 tackles, 10 intercep-tions, 20 pass break ups and two sacks. Although Gideon was not invited to the NFL Combine, he felt he did well at Texas’ Pro Day.

Gideon wishes some of his numbers were better, but he is re-lieved that Pro Day is over. He said all of the players had been work-ing for two-and-a-half months for just one day.

“There were a couple things I wish I had done better,” Gideon said. “I didn’t look and see what everybody was writing down on their own pad, but hopefully guys were calling back to their facilities and saying that Gideon showed up today. I hope they were all good things.”

Gideon’s future is still up in the air and it is unclear whether or not he will be drafted. Still, leader-ship is one thing Gideon has going for him. He groomed a young UT secondary as a senior.

“He’s been in so many big games, it’s to the point that he doesn’t understand just defense, he understands offense,” defen-sive coordinator Manny Diaz said. “That’s very hard to get to with-out a lot of at-bats, and Blake has had a lot of at-bats. So he’s a calming presence.”

Texas has put out a lot of de-fensive backs in the NFL, a select group Gideon would like to join.

“There are a lot of guys that have come out of that room and made a lot of money and made a name for themselves pretty early in their careers in the NFL,” Gide-on said. “We will see how the next

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John Curtiss and Hoby Mil-ner both began the season as starting pitchers.

But after going a combined 1-4 in five starts, Curtiss and Milner moved to the bullpen, where they have been stellar this year. Freshman Dillon Pe-ters, making his sixth career start and first during the weekend, struggled as he allowed two runs while giving up a pair of hits and issuing three hits.

But Curtiss and Milner each turned in great relief outings to help No. 23 Texas (23-14, 11-4) take down Kan-sas (16-25, 4-11) 7-2 Sunday after-noon at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.

“[Peters] found the air to be a lit-tle bit thinner on game day in a Big 12 conference game that you must win versus a Tuesday game,” said Augie Garrido, Texas head coach. “I think [pitching coach] Skip [John-son] did an outstanding job of posi-tioning the pitchers and made very timely changes with the pitching staff

as he brought them in against the top of the order.”

Curtiss replaced Peters in the sec-ond after the fellow freshman pitch-er walked the leadoff man. Curtiss went on to retire the first 10 batters he faced before allowing a one-out single in the fifth inning and making way for Milner, who sat down the first six hitters he faced. Sophomore closer Corey Knebel finished the game with his eighth save of the year.

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Texas head coach Augie Garri-do has no idea where it came from, but the Longhorns’ fifth inning rally, which broke up a no-hitter, was time-ly and completely changed the flow of the game.

“The offensive rally kind of came out of nowhere,” Garrido said. “But that’s typical of no-hitters, though; you’re going so well and one thing happens and the domino drops out of nowhere.”

In this case, the domino was a Jor-dan Etier single up the middle, but that only came after four innings of solid pitching from Kansas starter Thomas Taylor.

The first time through the lineup, the Texas hitters weren’t making much happen, they were making weak con-tact and the only base runners in the four innings came off a trio of walks. Taylor was a little wild with his loca-tion, and the Texas hitters were work-ing long counts, but they just weren’t making good contact.

That all changed in the fifth frame.In the beginning of the inning, it

looked like more of the same for the

Longhorns as freshman Brooks Mar-low quickly grounded out. But from there, a combination of timely hitting and patience at the plate resulted in a Texas lead.

The rally started with a Kevin Lus-son five pitch walk, but even then Tay-lor had yet to give up a hit. That all changed on the very next pitch when Texas’ nine-hole hitter, Etier, smoked a line drive up the middle. It broke up the no-hitter and, more importantly, gave Texas multiple base runners for the first time all game.

“Jordan’s hit really did get things go-ing for us, it was key,” sophomore Er-ich Weiss said.

Next up was Payton, and he did what he has done all season long — get on base. He reached first on a five pitch walk, his third of the game.

After that, freshman Taylor Stell strolled up to the plate with the bases loaded, and lifted a bloop single that went just over the shortstops’ glove for the first Texas run of the game.

Then with the bases loaded, Weiss opened up the flood gates with a hard hit ball into right field for a run scor-ing double on a ball that almost left the

By Chris HummerDaily Texan Staff

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Longhorns name head coach, Capitani joins UT from Georgia

Carol Capitani will be the Long-horns’ next women’s swimming and diving head coach, the university announced on Friday.

Capitani comes to Texas after pre-viously serving as the associate head coach at Georgia. Capitani replaces Kim Brackin, who coached for six seasons at UT. Capitani is the 10th coach in the program’s history.

“Carol has been instrumental in recruiting and building champi-ons and leaders at Georgia, and we know she will bring that mentali-ty,” said Chris Plonsky, UT women’s athletics director. “She is obviously a strong program manager, techni-cal coach and trainer. But what sets Carol apart are her skills as a master motivator and communicator.”

At Georgia, Capitani helped the Lady Bulldogs win four NCAA team titles (1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005).

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Etier ends UT drought, John Curtiss

During his time at Texas, Gide-on posted 276 tackles, 10 intercep-tions, 20 pass break ups and two sacks. Although Gideon was not invited to the NFL Combine, he

Gideon wishes some of his numbers were better, but he is re-lieved that Pro Day is over. He said all of the players had been work-ing for two-and-a-half months for

“There were a couple things I wish I had done better,” Gideon said. “I didn’t look and see what everybody was writing down on their own pad, but hopefully guys were calling back to their facilities and saying that Gideon showed up today. I hope they were all

Gideon’s future is still up in the air and it is unclear whether or not he will be drafted. Still, leader-ship is one thing Gideon has going for him. He groomed a young UT

“He’s been in so many big games, it’s to the point that he doesn’t understand just defense, he understands offense,” defen-sive coordinator Manny Diaz said. “That’s very hard to get to with-out a lot of at-bats, and Blake has had a lot of at-bats. So he’s a

Texas has put out a lot of de-fensive backs in the NFL, a select

“There are a lot of guys that have come out of that room and made a lot of money and made a name for themselves pretty early in their careers in the NFL,” Gide-on said. “We will see how the next

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Overall career stats52 starts276 tackles10 interceptions20 passes broken upTwo sacksEight tackles for lossTwo forced fumblesTwo fumble recoveries

SENIOR82 tacklesTwo tackles for lossOne sackTwo interceptionsFour pass break upsOne fumble recovery

JUNIOR68 tacklesTwo interceptionsFour pass break upsOne sackThree tackles for lossOne forced fumble

SOPHOMORE62 tacklesTwo tackles for lossSix interceptionsFive pass break upsOne fumble recovery

FRESHMAN64 tacklesSeven pass break upsEight pressuresOne tackle for lossOne forced fumble

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Blake Gideon

Two former Longhorn baseball players, Brooks Kieschnick and Cur-tis Thigpen, battled it out at the Dell Diamond Sunday afternoon in Reck-less Kelly’s 4th Annual Celebrity Soft-ball Jam. The nine-inning game, fol-lowed by hours of musical entertain-ment raised money for youth sports in the Central Texas Area.

The Miracle League, a youth league that provides opportunities to children with special needs, as well as other leagues in Austin, Montopolis and Balcones are the main benefac-tors of the afternoon.

Former softball pitcher Cat Oster-man was supposed to play along-side Thigpen for the Sultans of Sing, but she was unable to attend. Oster-man, who is still revered on the 40

Acres for her success with the Long-horns, helped lead the United States to a gold medal in the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

Kieschnick took the mound Sun-day afternoon as one of the pitch-er’s for the One Hit Wonder team. He threw a slow, unfamiliar, under-handed pitch from the mound. Al-though he gave up a couple of home runs and several singles, Kieschnick had a home run of his own in the eighth inning.

Kieschnick had his number, 23, re-tired by Texas after winning the Dick Howser Trophy for National Col-legiate Baseball Player of the Year twice, in 1992 and 1993. He spent six years in the Majors after being select-ed in the first round by the Chicago Cubs in 1993. The former pitcher is

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Gideon graduated in De-c e mb e r w i t h a d e g re e i n

physical culture and sport. Af-ter his playing career is over, Gideon hopes to be a coach. His father was a high school football coach.

“I want to coach at the college level when it’s all said and done,” Gideon said. “It’s what I love. It’s what I grew up around and

what I am comfortable in. I feel like I have something to offer in that profession.”

Before that, he hopes that a team will call his name on draft day.

“Hopefully somebody gives me a chance and I run with it,” Gide-on said.

yard for a grand slam.After that, Jonathan Walsh added the

fourth run of the inning with a deep sac-rifice fly to right field that allowed Stell to tag up from third and score.

So if Garrido doesn’t know what hap-pened to start up the rally, who does? Etier had a pretty good solution: tough-ness at the plate and the willingness to grind out at bats.

“We just continued to fight and grind it out,” Etier said. “There was a lot of gut during those [at-bats], and that’s what brought it around for all of us.”

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“You don’t know how the game’s go-ing to develop,” Curtiss said. “You just have to sit out there and be ready. To-day, they went to us a little earlier and we knew that we could go more in-nings than they usually need us to.”

Like Milner, Curtiss has put up much better numbers as a reliever than as a starting pitcher.

Milner picked up his team-lead-ing sixth win of the season after Tex-as scored four runs in the fifth inning, despite not even registering a single hit in the first four frames. Senior short-stop Jordan Etier broke up Kansas ju-nior pitcher Thomas Taylor’s no-hit bid with an RBI double before sopho-more right fielder Mark Payton walked

to load the bases. Despite Texas not previously pro-

ducing in most bases-loaded situa-tions, freshman center fielder Tay-lor Stell singled and sophomore third baseman Erich Weiss doubled with the bases full of Longhorns in that pivot-al fifth frame, when the Longhorns got three of their six hits. All of a sudden, a 2-0 Jayhawks advantage had turned into a 4-2 Texas lead.

“It’s very encouraging,” Weiss said. “We had been down that whole game. Once Jordan broke up that no-hitter and we had a walk, everything started going our way.”

The Longhorns also made an im-pressive comeback after losing the se-ries opener Friday.

Kansas sophomore pitcher Frank Duncan retired 11 straight Texas hit-ters in a 7-2 Jayhawks win Friday night. But freshman pitcher Parker French

helped Texas respond with a 3-0 vic-tory Saturday evening by tossing seven scoreless innings, extending his num-ber of consecutive scoreless innings at home to 32.1. He hasn’t allowed a run in 15 innings during his last two starts. The Longhorns are also 6-1 in their last seven games after a loss.

“I’ve just kind of simplified things,” French said. “The command and con-trol of the pitches has been good late-ly. The defense has been awesome, especially tonight.”

This weekend marked the fifth straight series that Texas went into its Sunday contest having split the games played Friday and Sunday. After beat-ing the Jayhawks, the Longhorns im-proved to 4-1 in those rubber matches. The victory also clinched Texas’ fifth straight Big 12 series win, a mark that will be tested when the Longhorns face No. 2 Texas A&M this week.

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Jordan Etier sparked UT’s fifth inning rally against Kansas on Sunday with the Longhorns’ first hit of the game.

The Longhorns held on anoth-er two innings to scrape by with the win.

Sophomore Rachel Fox came out with the win Friday night to im-prove to 10-0 on the season and re-mains the only Longhorn starting pitcher that is still undefeated on the season.

Junior Kim Bruins took the loss for the Longhorns on Saturday afternoon and is now 7-4 in the circle for the sea-son. Bruins gave up 11 hits in the 3-0 loss. The Oklahoma State defense frus-trated the Texas batters all day. The

Longhorns managed to get 11 runners on the base on five hits, but couldn’t get anyone across.

In the bottom of the seventh with one out, the Longhorns almost posted a comeback with consecutive hits by sophomore Lexy Bennett and sopho-more Brejae Washington but a quick strike out and pop out by the Cowgirl defense quieted the Longhorns and se-cured the win for Oklahoma State.

On Sunday, Texas was back in fa-miliar form with its 5-1 win. Luna allowed one unearned run off of two hits. With the win, the Long-horns are only one game behind the Oklahoma Sooners for first place in the conference.

Washington, who went 0-for-2 with one walk and one run,

tied the Texas record for ca-reer stolen bases. The sopho-more earned her 62nd career stolen base and is now tied with Desiree Williams.

The Longhorns used a four-run sec-ond inning to put away the Cowgirls on Sunday. Junior designated player Torie Schmidt went 2-for-3 in the win with one run scored.

“Yesterday, we took a blow and reset today. We wanted to come out here and show what we can do,” Taylor said on losing Saturday and coming back to win on Sunday. “We were focused on every pitch and just making sure we win ev-ery single inning on offense and de-fense. [We were] keeping the energy up in the dugout.”

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now retired.In the other dugout, Thigpen played

for the Sultans of Sing, managed by Cody Braun, the fiddler of Reckless Kelly and Reid Ryan, co-owner of the Round Rock Express. Thigpen had a successful afternoon, producing two home runs his first two appearances

at the plate. Several times he squared up at the plate against Kieschnick on the mound and played catcher for the Sultans through the entire game.

Thigpen played catcher at Tex-as and was part of the 2002 National Champion Squad under Texas head coach Augie Garrido. He spent two seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays. He briefly served as an assistant coach at Texas as a volunteer student as-sistant and now has a job as a sports agent in Austin.

The Sultans of Sing went up early by a score of 6-1 off of the two home runs by Thigpen. Despite a come-back aided by Kieschnick’s home run in the eighth inning, the Sultans beat the One Hit Wonders 6-4 in nine innings.

“It was a lot of fun, it was great,” said Reese Ryan, co-owner of the Round Rock Express along with his broth-er Reid Ryan and father Nolan Ryan. “We have 364 days to prepare for next year.”

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Shanley Caswell makes for a likeable enough heroine, and the chemistry she shares with Josh Hutcherson is the best thing “Detention” has going for it. Hutcherson is getting in-creasingly more impressive the more we see of him, and be-tween this and “The Hunger Games” franchise, he’s prov-ing to be an unexpectedly solid young leading man. Dane Cook manages to avoid embarrassing himself as a high school princi-pal and Spencer Locke gives an interesting, multi-layered per-formance as head bimbo Ione.

As an exercise in postmod-ernism taken to its natural ex-cess, it’s hard to critique “De-tention.” It’s attention deficit disorder in movie form and couldn’t exist if other mov-ies hadn’t paved the way for its plot and told the jokes for its characters (there’s even a ref-erence to “nuking the fridge”). As a film, there’s a lot to pick apart, but Kahn throws every-thing at you at such a dizzying

rate that it’s much easier to just sit back and watch. “Detention” has problems from head to toe, but the act of absorbing them is surprisingly painless, and at least it’s better than “Torque.”

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glimpse of the rows of plump, red, naked birds sweltering on top of the large open grill, sparks occasion-ally exploding around them. The smell of roasting chicken emanated from the bag.

The chicken was succulent, juicy and tender. It tore easily from the bone and was intensely flavorful. The seasoning was well-balanced and didn’t detract from the savory chicken’s natural fla-vor. The warm tortillas tasted of freshly ground corn. They soaked up the juice of the chicken and the grilled onions well.

Fresa’s charro beans were good — salty and substantial — and the Mexican rice was tasty too, although not life-chang-ing. The jalapeno-lime salsa, on the other hand, was phenome-nal. It was spicy, creamy and per-fect for dipping the pieces of

chicken that didn’t fit in the four corn tortillas given.

The salsa roja was less im-pressive, but a familiar throw-back to more traditional al car-bon restaurants. The guacamo-le was pureed into a smooth and creamy dip that was good, al-though less avocado-forward than chunkier guacs.

The meal consisted of plenty of food to share between two peo-ple (with guacamole left over), and while the meal costs near-ly twice as much as El Pollo Rico, a lunch at Fresa’s isn’t too hard on the pocketbook when shared. Ex-pect to spend between $8 and $10 a person without beer or wine.

While the long wait time was a strike against the restau-rant, the quality of the food at Fresa’s far outweighs the temporary inconvenience.

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said. “You know, at first the Internet seemed scary and then Facebook was revealing too much. But now that Fa-cebook and Twitter have added the location feature, it seems that this is the direction social media is going.”

Users have said they like Glassmap because of the simplicity behind it, since Glassmap is a Google map and a list of online and offline friends.

According to Yo, the application can be useful for finding friends on Sixth Street and also an aid to find out where friends are to maintain more face-to-face contact.

“We’ve all had those times when we are trying to meet up with friends, or even forgetting to send a text no-tifying people of where we are,” Vo said. “I want people to be able to see me. I like getting to see friends I maybe wouldn’t normally see on a regular basis.”

Unlike similar friend-finding ap-plications such as Highlight and Find My Friends, the team behind

Glassmap has developed a passive relay technology that they say more efficently maintains battery life be-cause the server updates locations automatically. Users such as Orth have said they notice the applica-tion seems speedy and they like not having to update their location every time they move.

In addition to its real-time location technology, Glassmap provides a lay-er of messaging, including the ability to “wave” at nearby friends (similar to the “poke” on Facebook) and send friends messages to coordinate meet ups. Glassmap users say this reduc-es the need to make additional calls or jump in and out of text or other messaging applications.

It also provides more privacy set-tings than some of its competitors, allowing users to choose which of their Facebook friends they wish to share their location with, and which friends they’d like to track. Addi-tionally, users can block people

without notifications.Since Facebook friends aren’t au-

tomatically updated on their friends’ real-time locations, Orth insists Glassmap maintains more priva-cy. However, the balance between the revelation of too much infor-mation and also the desire to keep up with the increasing social nature of new applications has led to some conflict between whether or not these applications have the proper amount of privacy.

The creators have said an appli-cation with the right amount of pri-vacy and simplicity doesn’t border on creepy. However, some review-ers of Glassmap, such as Liz Gannes from the tech website All Things D, believe that “the claws are already out” because applications similar to Glassmap are currently available to the public and have the potential to endanger users’ privacy.

However, users insist as long as care is taken to ensure only the

people that should see your location are allowed to do so, information remains private.

“[Glassmap] has the potential to be creepy, but random people can’t start following you because it’s within your Facebook friends, and you can always turn it off,” Orth said. “I have faith that the application is secure.”

However, even some of Glass-map’s most dedicated users at UT were once skeptical about sharing private information, such as their lo-cation, publicly. In fact, many users had not ventured into the location sharing applications before being introduced to Glassmap.

“I could see for those people that have thousands of friends on Face-book that security could be a prob-lem,” said Austin Franks, petroleum engineering junior and recent Glass-map user. “I guess there’s danger if you don’t keep track of who has it, but for now it’s so small. Once it goes viral I may worry.”

Photo courtesy of Glassmap Screenshots taken from the Android 1.50 version of the Glassmap application show the program’s location tracking and messaging features. Glassmap uses real-time location technology and provides more privacy options than other friend-finding applications.

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Christopher Hitchens never fol-lowed the rules of polite dinner par-ty conversation. Boisterous, argu-mentative, stubborn and, most frus-tratingly, often right, he had a way of making his views — often about politics and religion — known using the most efficient of language, nev-er giving a damn what anybody else thought of them. Although he died this past December after a bout of esophageal cancer, his memory lives on, as do his numerous debates via YouTube and several of his books.

Unfortunately, books go out of print from time to time, and some of his most impressive works have become difficult to find. Twelve Books, a publishing company in-tent on releasing no more than a dozen books per year, each cultur-ally significant, has made an effort to correct this by reprinting three of Hitchens’ most controversial works. The three books each take aim at a different well-known figure, ef-fectively eviscerating Bill Clinton (“No One Left to Lie to,” originally published in 1999), Henry Kissing-er (“The Trial of Henry Kissinger,” in 2001) and Mother Teresa (“The Missionary Position,” in 1995).

Those familiar with Hitchens’ oth-er work will already be aware of his style, which is sharp, yet restrained. He’ll go straight for the jugular, but never let his passion for the subject get the better of him. His arguments are usually very persuasive. Although it’s difficult to sum up a person’s life in a few hundred pages, by the time a reader finishes with any of these three books, it’s likely that at the very least, he or she will reconsider their position on the given figure.

With Kissinger and Clinton, Hitchens makes it clear that they’re politicians in the worst sense of the word, caring more about self-promotion and preservation than doing what’s right, even when it

rsulted in the deaths of innocent people. In both cases, these figures ordered military strikes based on bad intelligence to further their po-litical careers, rather than protecting our nation’s security or defending de-mocracy overseas. The two of them are also, in Hitchens’ estimation, compulsive liars.

However, Hitchens really knocks it out of the park with “The Mis-sionary Position,” the shortest of the three books here, in which he attacks Mother Teresa, accusing her of hy-pocrisy, corruption, narcissism, sim-ple-mindedness and, above all else, making situations worse by refusing to offer modern medical assistance to those in need, despite having the financial means to do so. Although he’s writing a book criticizing one of the most revered figures of the 20th century, Hitchens isn’t just adopting a contrarian viewpoint to be argu-

mentative: He has evidence to back his position up, often in the form of quotes from Teresa herself or those who worked with her directly, and he firmly believes, when judging Mother Teresa by her words and actions, she does not live up to her reputation.

All three books are genuine Hitchens, who, if he ever wrote a bad sentence, has kept it well hid-den. Although they’re all fairly brief and written with a large typeface, they’re not short on content and, de-spite delving into some of the most horrible atrocities of recent history, are an absolute joy to read, thanks to the author’s dry wit.

Additionally, although Kissinger and Clinton are no longer in positions of power and Teresa has been dead for more than a decade, the books remain relevant. Clinton is perhaps even more lionized by the left now than when he was when in office and

Teresa is in a position to be canon-ized by the Catholic Church. While Kissinger is perhaps not viewed as positively as the other two, he can still be brought to trial as a war crimi-nal, which was Hitchens’ purpose for writing the book in the first place.

Although these three books are by no means even a summary of the work that Hitchens created dur-ing his prolific career, they do a fine job of representing why he was so revered. While he spent most of his life arguing against specific people and positions, it’s clear that he did so not out of bitterness, but out of a genuine belief in justice and the power of his ideals. The subject matter isn’t always pleasant. How-ever, reading Hitchens is always in-spiring, and in the context of these posthumous re-releases, somewhat bittersweet as well.

“Detention” director Joseph Kahn spends pretty much the en-tirety of the film’s runtime alter-nating between daring his au-dience to hate him and mak-ing it clear how little he cares either way. From the very first scene, he’s making jabs at the concepts of thematic consisten-cy and narrative clarity. But he’s also not above mocking his own career: A character early on rips on “Torque,” Kahn’s debut that bizarrely cast “Parks and Rec-reation” star Adam Scott as a hardened FBI agent.

The film’s plot is barely even a plot, a mishmash of staples from almost every genre shoehorned into your standard high school melodrama. Shanley Caswell stars as Riley, a militant vegetar-ian loner who carries a torch for the tragically hip Clapton (Josh Hutcherson). The high school is rocked by the demise of local queen bee Taylor Fisher (Alison Woods), and when a killer seri-

ously resembling the title char-acter of the movie-in-the-mov-ie “Cinderhella” attacks Riley, things start to get weird.

Kahn got his start in music videos, and he takes a lot of his cinematic cues from that back-ground. “Detention” could best be described as a candy shop of a film, full of bright colors and flashy displays and empty cal-ories. There’s not a single hu-man moment in the whole thing. Its characters are ideas more than defined figures, and some of them are built entirely from a pastiche of pop culture refer-ences. Even so, the way the film is constructed allows it to deft-ly dodge many of the criticisms that could be thrown at it, be it through an oddly familiar plot twist or the introduction of a time machine.

“Detention’s” cast isn’t giv-en much to do beyond spout pop culture references , but there’s no obvious weak link.

Convenience meets quality at Fresa’s, the newly opened drive-through on North Lamar Boule-vard downtown. The chicken al car-bon restaurant, opened last Mon-day by well-known restaurateur Larry McGuire (of Perla’s, Lam-berts, Elizabeth St. Cafe and re-cently, Jeffrey’s), has experienced a deluge of diverse customers rang-ing from hipster professionals, suit-and-jacket businessmen and regular ol’ middle-aged Austinites.

The concept is that of a tradition-al al carbon restaurant. You can or-der either a half or a whole charcoal grilled chicken and it comes with house-made tortillas, charro beans, Mexican rice, grilled onions and jalapeno and two salsas.

But Fresa’s differentiates itself from chains like El Pollo Regio by offering trendy flavor combinations (the chicken is seasoned either with achiote and citrus or oregano and cracked pepper) and taking pride in the fact that all of their chickens are supplied by Peeler Farms, a local free-range farm that doesn’t cage or medicate its birds.

Besides the grilled chicken, they also offer tortas (including one for vegetarians), salads and sides — Mex-ican street corn, grilled vegetables and guacamole. They sell beer by the six-pack and wine by the bottle, along with a house made margarita mix — in other words, no need to make a second stop at the gas station on the way home.

The drive-through is the best op-tion if you’re going to pick up your chicken and eat it, say, on a picnic bench at the nearby Duncan Park or in the nonjudgmental comfort of your home (go for it: take home a whole chicken and forget about the silverware and the napkins).

One obvious setback of the Fre-sa’s arrangement is that the drive-through is not clearly marked. It’s easy for commuters on Lamar Bou-levard to think they are turning into a driveway that leads to more park-ing in the back of the restaurant,

only to get stuck in a line of cars all idling patiently in wait of chicken. There’s no way to get out of the line once someone has driven in behind you and if it’s lunch time, you could be stuck for a half hour or more.

By the time you inch up to the speaker, you might as well order a chicken, or at least a scoop of made-from-scratch helado (ice cream). Although the long wait was frus-trating, the food quickly makes up for it.

On my trip to Fresa’s, I ordered the half chicken seasoned with achiote and citrus with a side order of gua-camole and chips. Through the slid-ing window, a employee handed me a brown paper bag and I caught a

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Cluckin’ Good Chicken

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Fresa’s Chicken al carbon serves charcoal grilled chicken along with sides like Mexican street corn, grilled vegetables and home-made torti-llas. The drive-through and walk-up restaurant, located on North Lamar Boulevard downtown, opened last Monday.

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Application allows people to track others

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Dane Cook plays a high school principal in the perplexing film “Detention.”

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As sociology junior Taylor Orth waited for friends to pick her up, she watched their faces move closer and closer to her loca-tion on the map. Even though they were running late, she knew they were nearby after checking their location on Glassmap.

Glassmap is an application for iP-hones and Android phones that en-ables users to find their friends’s lo-cations, and is also a means to give each user more relevant so-cial information, including par-ties in the area and the ability to create events. The application was launched mid-February by three Stanford engineering students, who have since dropped out to continue working on Glassmap.

The creators designed the applica-tion with a 3D, futuristic holographic map in mind and will be releasing a Texas-optimized version in the com-ing months. Thuydung Vo, public re-lations junior and campus represen-tative for Glassmap, is one of 10 rep-resentatives across the country. The number of representatives has grown as more and more students are made aware of the application.

Vo said the creators’ approach to Glassmap makes it easier to meet up with friends, and she is appreciative that she can now be made aware of friends’ locations via the application instead of social media.

“Technology is starting to change our communication for the better,” Vo said. “I’m sometimes so ashamed of what I know about my friends on Facebook, so I hope people see the value of this as not just some new technology, but as a new way of meeting up with friends and family.”

To login to the application and begin using its features, users must create an account via Facebook or email. Once the account is set up, us-ers search for friends already using Glassmap on Facebook or can invite friends to join.

“I love seeing how much technol-ogy has grown over the years,” Orth

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“ The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and in Practice”Christopher HitchensGenre: Political Non-fictionPages: 128

“The Trial of Henry Kissinger”Christopher HitchensGenre: Pol i t ica l Non-fictionPages: 304

“No One Left to Lie to: The Triangu-lations of William Jefferson Clinton”Christopher HitchensGenre: Pol it ical Non-fictionPages: 240

BOOK REVIEW

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Juan Llano, head chef of Fresa’s Chicken, grills and flips chickens in the tiny kitchen Saturday afternoon. The restaurant serves two types of grilled chicken seasonings, achiote and citrus flavor or fresh oregano and cracked pepper.FRESA continues on PAGE 8

Restaurant DetailsWhat: Fresa’s Chicken

Where: 915 North Lamar Blvd.

Hours: Monday-Friday 11 a.m. - late

Contact: 512-428-5077

Website: fresaschicken.com

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