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THE DAILY TEXANwww.dailytexanonline.comServing the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900Friday, August 13, 2010
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Austin gets ready for Fashion Week 2010
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A look at Texas sports’ past year and the seasons ahead
Teaching English abroad is a postgrad alternative
FRIDAYSchool’s out for summerSecond session final exams continue today. Good luck!
‘Put your records on’ Corinne Bailey Rae and Dan Dyer play La Zona Rosa at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $20.
— Griff LunebergCactus Cafe manager
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WEEKEND
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‘Ah, push it’Salt-N-Pepa rock Austin Music Hall like it’s 1987. Show starts at $8 p.m. and tickets cost $30 online.
SATURDAY
End of the iconic yearsButch Hancock plays the final show in his five-night “No Two More Alike” run at the Cactus Cafe at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $15 at the door.
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Later, y’allNews, features, M.E.Pumpkins aren’t really my thing.See you guys later.— Ben Wermund
“I don’t know what’s next, but it’ll be
good, because it’ll be the Cactus Cafe.”
Erika Rich | Daily Texan Staff
UT President William Powers Jr. speaks at a Board of Regents meeting Thursday about the challenge of trimming the University’s budget.
Budget cuts diminish UT’s edge
Cactus’ ‘iconic’ era comes to a close Fourth talk on cafe fate focuses on finances
Peyton McGee | Daily Texan Staff
Butch Hancock performs Wednesday night during the last round of shows at the Cactus Cafe before KUT takes part ownership of the bar.
Manager Griff Luneberg looks back on past as venue enters next phase
Texas politicians contest federal bill
Erika Rich | Daily Texan Staff
Gov. Rick Perry speaks at a Texas Association of Broadcasters breakfast Thursday morning, stressing the importance of low taxes.
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By Collin EatonDaily Texan Staff
There’s no way around it — the 10-percent state-directed budget cut poses a threat to the quality of education that UT can provide and may result in the loss of 600 filled or vacant positions, UT President William Powers Jr. said Thursday.
Even before the 5-percent state-directed cut trimmed $14.6 million from UT’s budget in May, the Uni-versity had difficulties keeping up with its competition in attracting quality faculty and graduate stu-dents, Powers told the UT System
Board of Regents in the Academic Affairs Committee meeting. Now, the University faces the prospect of redesigning courses, redesign-ing pathways to graduation, of-fering larger classes and requir-ing fewer sections of basic cours-es, sustaining blows to student success and graduation rates and having a smaller faculty-to-stu-dent ratio.
“I would trade my budget per student per year with UCLA’s budget, and we know what’s go-ing on in California,” Powers said. “We are still behind them in terms
of the aggregate resources — we have to be able to attract the kinds of faculty, the kinds of graduate students [we need.] It will dimin-ish our research enterprise; we will not be able to support the mechan-ics of a major research university in anything like the same way.”
Powers said UT had an edge over its competitors two years ago but no longer does. Other univer-sities have more money flowing from tuition and have been able to balance their accounting books. Compliance rules and regulations on researchers take away time available to spend researching. In-stead, time is used inefficiently in administrative work, he said.
By Collin Eaton Daily Texan Staff
The fourth of five Cactus Con-versations gave attendees a chance to offer their input regarding the sustainability of the cafe’s music operations Thursday.
Wiley Koepp, co-founder of Friends of the Cactus Cafe, said Thursday’s meeting was a financial discussion between three different groups of interested parties hosted by KUT representatives.
“The goal of the discussion was that KUT was seeking insight into addressing what the Cactus Cafe is and moving ahead with a long-term, sustainable operating mod-el,” Koepp said. “We discussed things like ticket prices. What was refreshing was that several folks spoke up and said, ‘You know, I don’t know the current business model of the Cactus Cafe.’”
He said the meeting was broken up into “brainstorming” and “look-ing-ahead” sections. Several KUT representatives were stationed at each of the three tables, and Koepp said he thought this was an effec-tive structure because everyone’s voices were heard in detail.
“KUT just really wanted feed-back [about our] ideas for the future in the interest of sus-tainability,” he said. “We talked about the pros and the cons of a donor model.”
He said the donor model would involve making a donation and, for instance, being reserved a space at the cafe.
“Should there be Cactus Cafe mer-chandise, and what sort of things would work well there, such as hats and T-shirts — we talked both sides of that” he said. “We said, ‘Hey, that could bring in more money, but you also don’t want to turn it into some cheesy merchandising.’”
Matt Portillo, co-founder of Stu-dent Friends of the Cactus Cafe, said the discussion involved the parts of the cafe’s past that they would like to keep, how the cafe
By Ben Wermund Daily Texan Staff
Cactus Cafe manager Griff Luneberg greeted his guests diligently at Wednesday night’s show. He made his way through the tiny venue over and over, shaking hands and adjusting the volume on the house music, and finally gave the cue to lower the lights before climbing on stage to introduce Butch Hancock.
Silence fell over the hall, which has been the center of commotion since it was an-nounced in February that the venue would close. In the months following, multiple groups were formed to “Save the Cactus.” UT decided in May to run the cafe in co-operation with KUT Radio. Luneberg, who many said was the heart of the ven-ue — from the shows he booked, giving the place its distinct character, to the atten-tion he gave to details such as house music and seating arrangements, to the way he greeted his guests — will continue to book
bands until December, but it’s all up in the air after that.
Saturday is the last night of the cafe un-der its current management and the final night of Hancock’s five-night “No Two More Alike” run at the venue to close out what is being billed as its “iconic years.” In these five nights, Hancock will play full sets without repeating a single song, a feat he has done just once before — 20 years ago.
In his introduction Wednesday, Luneberg
said the first “No Two Alike” set was his fa-vorite of about 9,000 shows that made up the iconic years. Hancock explained that the iconic years were a time when you could see Townes Van Zandt greeting people at the door before his shows at the venue. He said Van Zandt was always his favorite act to see at the cafe.
“There’s a very real sense that nothing re-ally changes,” Hancock said. “Who knows what change means? What it is to one per-son could be a different world to someone else. So, it doesn’t make a difference in one sense. But it’s a connection a lot of people share, and they feel the pull and tug.”
Hancock said even though his run of shows is booked as the end of the iconic years, that is just a label.
“No word is what it represents,” he said. “The muse visits sometimes at night and people fight, argue, drink and love over the
By Nolan HicksDaily Texan Staff
Gov. Rick Perry and members of the Texas Democratic Congres-sional delegation continued their verbal duel Thursday over a re-cently enacted $26 billion federal spending bill.
They’re arguing over language added to the bill by U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, that re-quires Perry to provide assuranc-es that public education funding in Texas won’t be disproportion-ately cut when compared to oth-er agencies to qualify for $830 mil-lion in education aid.
“Everyone understands that this just isn’t doable; the constitution is the constitution. You have to re-spect it,” Perry said. “I’m stunned that [Doggett], a person of sup-posed high intellect that graduated law school and was elected to our state’s Supreme Court, either does not understand the Texas Constitu-tion or wants to disregard it.”
Doggett rejected the governor’s argument in a statement issued late Thursday, saying his actions necessitated inserting the contro-versial language into the bill.
“The governor can and should indicate that he will use the full
constitutional powers of his office to take a stand for Texas school children,” he said. “The only rea-son for failing to make such an as-surance would be if the shenani-gans of last year are what he and his cohorts have in mind for our schools again next year.”
The legal argument is large-ly contingent upon whether any such agreement is enforceable, le-gal experts say.
“I think that the gist of his ar-gument is right, but I’d frame it a very different way,” UT law
University could eliminate 600 jobs; quality of education may deteriorate
Movie madnessReviews of the new movies “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”
and “Eat Pray Love.”
Deep in debtStudent-loan debt surpasses credit card debt, according
to a new study.
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Peyton McGee | Daily Texan Staff
After five semesters of working at the Texan and covering several football games, photographer Bruno Morlan still cannot strike a proper Heisman pose.
ICON: Luneberg holds onto positive view CAFE: KUT to determine future of formerly renowned venue
BILL: Legislation provides monies to destitute states
BUDGET: Personnel cuts to result in decreased class availability
By Bruno MorlanDaily Texan Staff
I first learned how to use a camera in my high school pho-tojournalism class, and though I was fascinated by photography, I never thought I would take it this far. After five semesters of working in the photo depart-ment of The Daily Texan, I com-pleted the path from issue staff-er to permanent staffer and am ending my stay with one semes-ter as photo editor.
It certainly seems crazy to have spent more than half my college career in a basement and not go into a field direct-
ly related to photojournalism or photography, yet that is what I plan to do — I’m leaving to fin-ish my student teaching to be-come a certified high school his-tory teacher. I still think it makes perfect sense. The Texan has provided me with work expe-rience and taught me so much. The only part about my time here that wouldn’t transfer well to a future employer is the part where I carry a camera and note-pad when I’m on the job.
However, I wish I had more time here. Along with work-ing with a very talented staff, I met celebrities on assignments,
shot football games from the sidelines and had the oppor-tunity to take pictures of the president on his most recent visit to Austin.
I will continue to value the friendships I made with all the in-credibly talented photographers and reporters who will inevitably win numerous Pulitzer Prizes. I’m convinced that the photo staff that I worked with this semester is the most talented the Texan has produced in many years. Each paper this summer was evidence that the department was oozing with excellence; this made my job very easy.
There is one person I feel I specifically need to thank, though. Bryant, you have been the most helpful since I started shooting at the Texan and have given me a lot of valuable ad-vice as I transitioned into be-ing an editor this summer. Your advice and the random stories that started with “Be-cause I don’t have a sense of smell ...” are invaluable. Good luck catching up to me on the rest of the Formula One fanta-sy season.
I’ll always remember my time at the Texan fondly, even if the website never gets redesigned.
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“We were already behind our competitors before the reces-sion, and after the recession by a very large amount — something like $6,000, $7,000 or $8,000 per student per year in our budget — so these cuts are not coming off a fat budget,” Powers said. “Are we putting our money into those things that are most cru-cial and will have the highest rate of return to the mission of teaching, service and research?
We’ll have to be almost ruthless in doing that.”
A budget plan from the Uni-versity that includes the 10-per-cent cut is due by Aug. 30 to the Legislative Budget Board. From September to June, the Universi-ty laid off 273 full-time employ-ees for budgetary reasons. Uni-versity Operations laid off 17 filled and eliminated 63 unfilled positions in July in order to make room in the budget for the 5-per-cent cut and the one-time merit-pay increase. Meanwhile, other
areas of revenue generation have been slower than expected.
John McCall Jr., an associate vice president in the Universi-ty Development Office, said UT’s capital campaign, titled Campaign for Texas, has generated $1.2 bil-lion, about 40 percent of its goal of $3 billion. The eight-year cam-paign’s deadline is 2014 and be-gan in 2006, meaning that its time frame has halfway elapsed.
Research revenue from the Uni-versity’s intellectual property to-taled about $11.5 million in the 2008
fiscal year, less than half of what other large public-research universi-ties made, according to The Chroni-cle of Higher Education.
Regent Prentice Gary asked Powers how the University’s tu-ition rate compared to its 12 peer institutions, and Powers respond-ed that UT charges the seventh-largest amount.
UT’s Chief Financial Officer Kevin Hegarty said the University has and will continue to look into nonpersonnel cuts, but because 70 percent of the University’s budget is tied up in salaries and benefits, it’ll be impossible not to cut filled and vacant positions. The Univer-sity is also limited in cutting non-personnel items because some, such as electricity and water, are essential to operations, he said.
“If we cut a class or have few-er sections, the savings come from having to hire fewer lectur-ers,” Hegarty said. “Course rede-sign and changes in the produc-tive use of faculty time have po-tential for increasing the efficien-cy of the University and improv-ing the student experience, so this is why we are pursuing them. But these are longer-term changes that can’t happen as quickly as would be needed to effect another signif-icant budget reduction.”
At the regents’ meeting, UT Sys-tem Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa said UT-Austin experienced slow-er budget growth than any other UT System academic institution, partially because it has a cap on the number of students who can enroll and pay tuition. From the 2010 fiscal year to the 2011 fiscal year, UT-Austin’s budget grew 3.5 percent while UT-Arlington grew 10 percent; UT-Brownsville grew 13.5 percent; UT-Dallas grew 10.6 percent; and UT-San Antonio grew 8.8 percent.
whole thing. They talk about how great it was. We make icons out of everything.”
Hancock’s show start -ed quietly, just him, his gui-tar and a small group of on-lookers. Several people wore shirts from the first run of shows, and most looked like they had probably been to more than their share of Cac-tus Cafe shows in the past three decades. The night felt like a goodbye party, like a gathering of old friends.
Hancock told story after
story and sang songs about hard times and overcom-ing them. Gradually he was joined by the billed “spe-cial guests” and by the sec-ond set, a small band was formed, with Darcy Deville on fiddle, Bob Livingston on bass and Pat Manske on per-cussion.
The audience joined in oc-casionally, reminding Han-cock of lyrics, suggesting songs and pointing his way back to the punchline when he would get lost meander-ing through endlessly enter-taining stories about Texas
towns and past times.The show ended on a high
note, with a down-home sing-along on Hancock’s song “You Coulda Walked Around the World.”
Despite all the drama that has surrounded the ven-ue in the past six months, Luneberg seemed positive in his introduction before the night started.
“It’s a thrill to close out the iconic years like this,” Luneberg sa id . “ I don’ t know what’s next, but it’ll be good, because it’ll be the Cactus Cafe.”
could be profitable in the long and the short run and how it could ex-pand. Portillo said the new KUT-Cactus Cafe manager did not come up in the meeting.
“We want to take some risks and some chances that maybe 700 peo-ple won’t show up to the Union Ballroom,” he said. “A show that doesn’t make money is not the end of the world.”
Koepp said the meeting gave him the impression that the cafe would not have to make a certain quota or
hit a certain financial mark for KUT to keep it open.
“I can’t help but be a tiny bit ner-vous that there still aren’t many de-tails released, but KUT is heading in the right direction as far as I can tell, and they’re doing a good job,” Portillo said. “Now all they need to do is have a manager who is ex-cited about working with students and understands the tradition of the Cactus as well as the mandate for its future. Griff Luneburg seems the perfect choice for the long run, but I can’t bring him on board. KUT will have to do that.”
professor Dan Rodriguez said. “It’s not that the constitution bans him from making an agreement — it’s a question of whether there is any ob-ligation on the part of the Legisla-ture or the governor by the expres-sion of this quid pro quo. It’s not like the governor is obliged to veto a budget with cuts in education.”
He said that the symbolic na-ture of the agreement made the argument largely moot.
“I understand this to be a sym-bolic gesture more than anything else. He’s not banned from essen-tially agreeing to a statement that is symbolic in the legislation of the story that Rep. Doggett is asking for,” Rodriguez said. “[The agree-ment] is not enforceable. ... The question that should be impor-tant is whether the governor has violated a constitutional or legis-lative duty if he decides through his veto, or other means, to reduce education spending, and the an-swer to that is clearly no.”
The bill, which was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and signed into law Tuesday, pro-vides emergency monies to cash-strapped states for Medicaid fund-ing and to prevent layoffs of teach-ers, police officers and firefighters.
Democrats said the measure was necessary to prevent deep cuts to the civil service, while Re-publicans said the measure was a giveaway to unions representing public-sector employees.
“Perry wants to take the mon-ey. What he doesn’t want to do is promise unequivocally not to use it to replace Texas education dollars,” said Cal Jillson, a polit-ical science professor at South-ern Methodist University. “I think Perry will find a way to provide credible assurances without bind-ing a future Legislature.”
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Not quite an evil empire
While it is highly unlikely that anyone could completely pay off his or her loans by grade-gambling, its initial success shows
how desperate students are for cash in any form — no matter how risky, stupid or philosophically
questionable.
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On Tuesday, Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey answered questions during a live chat orchestrated by the investment site Motley Fool. One reader asked Mackey which of his publicly traded competitors he would invest in if he had to. His surprising answer: Costco.
His response is startling because Costco and Whole Foods have such different reputations regarding labor policies. Last summer, Mackey attracted attention when he published an ed-itorial in The Wall Street Journal blasting the Obama administration’s proposed health care reforms. By doing so, he assumed his role as persona non grata to the left-leaning and lib-erals, many of whom rank as his loyal cus-tomers, and at the time reaffirmed his compa-ny’s role as organized labor’s nemesis. Whole Foods’ rap as a bad-for-the-worker company began in 2002 in Wisconsin when the compa-ny went a few rounds with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and ultimately prevailed in getting the union decertified at the stores where it had initially won an election to represent the employees.
By comparison, many have championed Costco as a worker-friendly retailer, the “Anti Wal-Mart,” according to The New York Times. In 2004, some 13 percent of Costco’s workforce was unionized — the big-box retailer doesn’t object to unions the way Whole Foods does.
The reputations of the two companies, how-ever, oversimplify the issue. Costco is not 100-percent worker-friendly and Whole Foods is not the evil empire. When Mackey chose Costco it was a little surprising, but not all that unfounded. He cites what he likes about Cost-co — the company’s “corporate values, culture and the way they do business” — and when one peruses Whole Foods’employee policies, the advantages that the Austin-based compa-ny offers its workers become apparent. For one thing, Whole Foods offers a “personal wellness account” to full-time employees, which is an an-nual $300 to $1800 set aside for services such as going to the chiropractor or getting a massage.
The effect is striking. Last semester, I was standing in front of a freezer, considering some mochi ice cream balls with the chaos that is Whole Foods in Austin on Sunday afternoon surging around me, and an employee casual-ly walked up and asked if I wanted to try one. He took a box out of the freezer, opened it, of-fered one to me, my friend and his colleague shelving products down the aisle and then took one for himself. There we stood, the four of us thoughtfully eating our ice cream, while a zoo existed only feet away. I remember being amused and surprised by his remarkable calm; he must have had a massage that day.
At Costco, where the workers are paid a healthy $17 an hour, other employee-fairness eyesores exist. Those individuals who demon-strate the products are considered contractors and earn much less than their full-time Costco
counterparts. Even Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club sample providers are better-paid than Costco’s demonstrators.
In my experience, overrun Costco demon-strators — often elderly, sometimes a little taw-dry, certainly worn out by the demands of their position — are not anything like the happy Whole Foods employee hocking mochi balls who gave me the impression we were all part of a big party.
In the end, from a consumer’s perspective at least, what emerges is that a retailer who val-ues its workers, regardless of how it achieves
that, reaps long-term benefits. Such lengthy and stable relationships between workers and employees require flexibility on both sides. Employers have to be flexible and not treat ev-ery union organization effort as the end of the world. A collectively bargained agreement be-tween an employer and its workers is the best route to stability in some cases, and unions have to be flexible so the Mackeys of the world cannot conjure up an image of them that per-suades workers they will be harmful.
Jacob is a history sophomore.
By Susannah JacobDaily Texan Columnist
Gambling on grades
Imagine getting $150 each time you aced a history class or receiving $80 for miraculous-ly pulling off a B in molecular biology. Some students at the University of Pennsylvania and New York University don’t need to imagine this, and students at UT could be next.
Ultrinsic.com is a new website that allows students on 36 campuses nationwide to make monetary wagers on their final grades. Start-ing with $25 bets, students can wager money on their possible grades, with A’s receiving the highest payout.
That’s not where the wagers end, though. Ultrinsic.com presents incoming college stu-dents with an even greater challenge: If they bet they’ll complete college with a 4.0 GPA, they can receive cash prizes of $1,000 or $2,000 upon graduation.
Here’s how it works: Students register on the site, upload their course schedule and give the company access to official school records. Next, the company calculates the likelihood of what grades a student will get using that stu-dent’s personal academic history, the school’s reputation and any other details likely to pre-dict a student’s future grades. The student then wagers on the grades he or she wants to gam-
ble on and then, hopefully, begins studying.The company faces legal questions regard-
ing its similarities to online gambling, which is illegal in Texas. The website fervently states
that it is not an online gambling website, con-testing that gambling relies solely on random chance whereas earning a certain grade in-volves skill and can be manipulated.
The other difference is that students have control in this scenario. A student plans how much to study, completes assigned work and takes extra credit all to obtain the grade they set out to achieve on the site.
This concept of “gambling” on grades really isn’t that bad an idea. College students should receive some tangible compensation for their hard work in the classroom, and the website provides just that.
Students seem to be OK with putting their own money on the line for their grades, prob-ably because they’re already used to accruing massive student debt — money lost on a failed grade-wager can just join the ever-growing pool of debt, and a successful wager could help elim-inate a little bit of the financial burden.
While it is highly unlikely that anyone could completely pay off his or her loans by grade-gambling, its initial success shows how des-perate students are for cash in any form — no matter how risky, stupid or philosophically questionable. This process allows the money to come full circle — a student pays thousands of dollars to attend a University, works hard, gets a good grade and is financially compensated.
As long as the site stays legal and students continue to use it as motivation to boost grades, I see no problem in a little play-for-grades.
Hale is an undeclared senior.
By Paige HaleDaily Texan Columnist
Joe Marinaro, “Welcome to the New Whole Foods,” May 20, 2009 via Flickr, Creative Commons
Paying more for lessUT President William Powers Jr. adopted the tone of a con-
cerned parent Thursday. “Our competitors have shorn up their balance sheets and
their income statements. ... I would trade my budget per stu-dent per year with UCLA’s budget, and we know what’s going on in California.”
Powers, who was addressing the UT System Board of Re-gents, put aside his usual, upbeat, burnt-orange optimism in exchange for a much more somber approach.
In June, Gov. Rick Perry issued an order that all state agen-cies reduce their budgets by 10 percent for the 2012-2013 bien-nial budget. The request came on the heels of a separate 5-per-cent budget cut requested by Perry’s office last year.
The University managed to temper the effect that the 5-per-cent budget cut would have on academic affairs — the $14.6 million cut predominantly came from administrative offices. But Powers made it clear that the next round of requested cuts will have a much greater influence on the largest research insti-tution in the state.
“We’ll have fewer sections, not just offered but fewer sec-tions required in basic courses. It will slow our increase in ad-visement for undergraduate studies. Certain research initia-tives will be protected but it will be very hard to get to where we need to go on certain projects,” he said at the meeting.
Such is the state of affairs at the flagship university in a state that is tempering the recession relatively well. Yes, large indus-try is swiftly making its way down to Texas to take advantage of our resilient economy. But, as President Barack Obama said Monday during his speech at UT, higher education is “the eco-nomic issue of our time.”
As it is, the state of Texas is struggling to produce more than two respectable public institutions of higher education. If UT is unable to remain fiscally competitive with other national universities, it will have a dire effect on the quality of worker that the state produces. Having profitable companies call Tex-as home doesn’t mean much if they’re required to outsource more-qualified college graduates from other states to fill top jobs.
Given this, Perry’s proposed budget reductions are both inef-ficient and, as Powers alluded to, inequitable.
“Forty percent of the money saved by the first 5-percent cut came from higher education, but higher education is 11 percent of the [state] budget. So it’s not just slightly disproportional,” he informed the regents.
The administration will determine an outline of the proposed cuts sometime in the next month. We regret that both the an-nouncement of the reduction and the allocating of the cuts oc-curred during the summer session, when there is much less fac-ulty and student involvement in University affairs.
Powers’ legacy may very well depend on his ability to woo Texas politicians during the next legislative session, which begins in January 2011. On Thursday his message was clear — the future of higher education in Texas is in trouble, and matters will only get worse if we continue to be denied prop-er funding.
UT was facing budgetary problems even without fulfill-ing the budget cuts requested by Perry, and now, to meet this 10-percent budget reduction, the University will be required to shed roughly 600 jobs, both filled and unfilled, according to Powers. Additionally, there’s a strong possibility that tuition will be raised once again during the next tuition-setting year to make up for the roughly $30 million shortfall.
Future students at the University will likely be required to pay more for what Powers predicts will be less.
— Dan Treadway for the editorial board
Notes from a dropout
I always find it disappointing when any of my Longhorn friends informs me of his or her plans to “take a semester or two off.” Often, it turns into more time off than anyone expected, and the next thing we know, plans to ever finish school are down the drain.
Benjamin Franklin once said, “If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” Education may be a short-term financial loss, but in terms of the big picture, it should be thought of as a long-term investment in oneself. It’s an opportu-nity to become financially stable (and more important-ly, I would argue, it provides an unparalleled oppor-tunity for intellectual growth). If Ben Franklin doesn’t convince you, maybe Tom Melecki, director of UT’s Office of Student Financial Services, will. He says that most of his research indicates that the vast majority of the individuals who default on student loans didn’t graduate. His advice: “Don’t drop out.”
So think before you drop out. Staying in school is definitely worth your time and finances, and your friends will be much happier.
Unless ...Unless it’s something like, say, dropping out of the
one online class that you were taking through com-munity college during the second summer session. That’s understandable. In fact, I did this just recently and found out how socially dramatic dropping out could be. After posting a misleading Facebook status informing the masses of my “dropout,” many friends immediately wrote back to express their concern and incredulity.
Don’t worry — I’ll still be here come this fall. And for what it’s worth, I certainly had fun reading all the assuaging text messages and online comments from those who freaked out. I guess it’s days like this I’m thankful for my caring friends — and my wild imagi-nation.
— Matt PortilloMusic and rhetoric and writing senior
Obama’s childish snub
It’s no surprise to Daily Texan readers that Douglas Luippold proudly defended the “child in chief” in Thursday’s viewpoint, “Obama’s justifiable snub.” He maintained that the president had every right to deny Gov. Rick Perry a sit-down meeting regarding border issues. I will give it to him that President Barack Obama has no obligation to grant a meeting to any governor, let alone one who has threatened to secede from the Union.
However, regarding a hot-button issue in a state that is shifting more and more to the left in a huge election season, not meeting with Perry only shows the overt immaturity of the president.
We all know the firestorm that Arizona’s and now Florida’s solutions to illegal immigration started. It is quite obvious that Perry is trying to avoid that negative press in a state with such a strong Hispanic voting bloc. The federal government has told Arizona that immigration is not a state issue,
but when Perry is willing to make a concession on that and ask for federal resources, he is snubbed. If the federal government continues to ignore his requests, the state government will be forced to take action into its own hands.
Obama cannot have it both ways. He cannot continue to ignore the needs of the state and expect Perry to keep waiting.
But maybe that’s the game: The government will do nothing, and then let the hell-storm com-mence once Perry does something. The President must have forgotten how popular Gov. Jan Brewer became after passing illegal-immigration legisla-tion. Conservatives tend to look to their state before the federal government, and they love it when their governor stands up for them.
The left might be able to justify Obama’s snub, but it still makes him look childish whereas it makes Perry look to another term in office.
— Jesse KempfCivil engineering senior
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By Gerald RichDaily Texan Staff
Saturday marks the beginning of Austin Fashion Week, a celebra-tion of all things chic, from cou-ture fashion and designer pasties to hair and makeup styles. A kick-off celebration will be held at GSD&M Idea City, and the Aus-tin Fashion Awards will present-ed Saturday, Aug. 21.
This year’s fashion week will bring in “Project Runway” con-testant and Dallas designer Lou-ise Black, and the award ceremo-ny will feature the show’s season-two winner Chloe Dao, New York designer Betsey Johnson and Rob-ert Stock for Robert Graham. Tick-ets for both the kickoff and awards ceremony start at $100. For the typical college student, the week has more than 100 events, many of which are free.
Bollywood NightsWhether you only know “Jai
Ho” from “Slumdog Millionaire” or you’ve memorized all the songs from “Once Upon a Time in Mum-bai,” you’ll find something at Bol-lywood Nights — a celebration of Southeast Asian fashion with mu-sic and cocktails — at José Luis Sa-
lon on Monday from 7-9 p.m.
Cupcakes, Cocktails, Makeovers & Fashion
Munch on some snacks from the cupcake bar while you get you get a makeover and sip on some cocktails. It’s just that simple. The event will be held at Lovely Aus-tin Boutique on Wednesday from 4-7 p.m.
Lingerie, Jewelry and Naked Sushi
Popularized in Japan by busi-nessmen, naked sushi is where
a model lies on a table and is cov-ered in sushi. Three models will be displaying Teddies for Bettys’ sexy and basic bridal designs with sake sangria or wine to complement the food. The festivities will take place at Teddies for Bettys all day Wednesday.
A State of FashionThis will be one of the biggest
events this year, with 37 design-ers across Texas showing off their designs on the south steps of the Capitol. The actual fash-ion show will start at 7 p.m. on Thursday, but the event official-ly kicks off at 6 p.m.
By Julie Rene TranDaily Texan Staff
Nearly all the chairs were empty Sunday night as local Cu-ban band Ritmo Tr3s played a funky, fast cover of the popular Spanish love song “Quisiera” at Ruta Maya Coffee House.
The 11-man band started out playing at local gigs and small restaurants in 2006 as a four-piece band. Over the past four years, the band has grown from having just bass, congas, tim-bales and guitar to now includ-ing the tumbadora, saxophone, trombone, trumpet and key-board. Also since then, Ritmo Tr3s has become a rising force in Texas’ Latin music commu-nity, performing behind Vene-zuelan reggaeton duet Chino y Nacho at Thursday’s Premios Texas, a Latin music award cer-emony produced by KAKW-TV Univision 62 Austin.
Ritmo Tr3s was created when brothers Josseph and Jossh-wa Duran moved from Saltillo, Mexico, to Austin for its Latin music scene.
The band faced its share of difficulties upon its arrival to Austin. Members came and went as life brought them fami-lies and new job opportunities. Despite this, lead singer and band director Josseph Duran said that the chemistry from the original four-piece band is what has kept the band together.
“There were a lot of people who wanted to try out, and the biggest problem was, besides the chemistry, was the style we were looking for,” Josseph said. “And some of [those mu-sicians] didn’t fit our style.”
The band now consists of 11 members with various back-grounds — including a former farmer in Wyoming, three col-
lege students and one drummer who also plays for Jason Mraz.
The musical base of Ritmo Tr3s is Cuban, but many people have been describing it as mod-ern Cuban music, or “timba.”
“But we’re from Mexico and a lot of the other musicians
are from different parts, so we have different influences,” Josseph said. “But mainly it’s Cuban-based mixed with Mex-ican and U.S. [influences].”
Some of Ritmo Tr3s’ songs, such as “Dance My Tumbao,” fuse funk, hip-hop and rhythm
and blues beats for a groovy arrangement.
What makes Cuban music different from other Latin mu-sic is its specific rhythmic pat-terns, especially on percussion. The arrangements are more up-beat and flavorful.
“It just makes you want to dance,” Josseph said. “[But} our mu-sic, regardless that it is Latin-based, is trying to reach out to everybody, whether they are Latin or not.”
The band has started recording and is looking to release its album at the beginning of next year.
By Addie Anderson Daily Texan Staff
As senior year begins for ap-proximately 13,000 UT stu-dents, some may be feeling the stress of their upcoming gradu-ation and inevitable transition into the “real world.” Many wonder, What will I do in this job market with my major? This is why some people are turning to the idea of teaching English in foreign countries.
Paige Cantrell, a UT Spanish and journalism alumna, decid-ed during her senior year to ex-plore her options before accept-ing any law school admissions.
“Right before turning in my law school applications, one of my Spanish teachers, who I had twice at UT, told me to look into teaching abroad in a Spanish-speaking country be-cause she had done it before,” Cantrell said.
Cantrell applied and was ac-cepted to the Council on Inter-national Educational Exchange program in Málaga, Spain. She left in September knowing that she would have to find her own housing, set up a bank account and start paying bills in a for-eign country. While she admits that it seemed scary, Cantrell was ready for the experience.
After a brief orientation with the council, Cantrell started teaching in Málaga left to find a place to live in a two-week time
frame before school started.“I feel that it’s a very liber-
ating and very relaxing expe-rience because after that, you don’t get so worked up about taking the next step,” Cantrell said. “Law school is going to be hard, but I know I was able to uproot and acclimate to a city I had never been to be-fore, so I can start a new type of school, which is not as in-timidating as it was before.”
Graduating from college with a degree is a requirement for many teach-abroad programs, but few of them specifically re-quire a teaching degree.
“That’s the best thing about teaching abroad is that we be-lieve the most important qual-ity or credential is actually en-thusiasm and understanding that you’re going to go and do something where the sky is the limit,“ said Matthew Red-man, the product and market-ing manager for the council.
A l t h o u g h s a l a r i e s f ro m teaching abroad can vary from measly to comfortable, the main benefit of teaching abroad is not monetary but rather learning to speak a lan-guage while living and work-ing in the country and being able to explore new parts of the world during school holi-days and breaks.
“You get 700 euros a month because technically, you’re a real teacher,” Cantrell said. “Everyone I knew who was there gave private English les-sons on the side, which there is an overwhelming demand for, and you make a ton of money. I was completely self-support-ed. I had to turn down a lot of people who wanted English lessons. I was able to do lots and lots of traveling and live really well in Spain.”
Hallie Hablinski was half-way through her last semes-ter of college when she was searching for jobs but could not find any in the job mar-ket. She and a friend saw that
of all the countries available through the program, China’s application had been extend-ed, so they signed up.
“We were talking about how we wanted an adventure be-fore we had to be grown-ups,” Hablinski said. “So, that’s when the whole idea of going abroad together came about.”
Three months later Hablin-ski and her friend Buffin Go-lias were flying to Shanghai to teach English to preschool-aged children.
“The hardest part was the language,” Hablinski said. “We did not speak the language, which wasn’t a requirement because not a whole lot of peo-ple want to do this. The people in the program mainly couldn’t speak Chinese either, so that was huge. Six months of not really being able to communi-cate with the people around you, not understanding what’s going on, not even being able to have a conversation with someone on the street or get directions was hard. It was six months of body language and the very, very minimal Chinese that we knew.”
Redman said that instead of hastily deciding on a ca-reer, you can teach abroad and build valuable skills toward your future.
“You’re going to learn in-dependence; you’re going to learn how to have and hold responsibility,” Redman said. “And to problem-solve auton-omously rather than depend on someone just to hand you a telephone and an e-mail ad-dress and say, ‘Here are ques-tions, here are your answers, this is what you’re supposed to say.’ You actually have to problem-solve on your own. You have to learn how to com-municate to people in ways that are completely foreign to you. So, you have to show flexibility, which is something that’s extremely marketable after you’re done.”
Local musicians exhibit heritage of Cuban tunes
Mary Kang | Daily Texan Staff
Cuban-based band Ritmo Tr3s frequently plays in venues throughout Austin. The 11-man band started out in 2006 as a four-piece endeavor but has since expanded to include the saxophone, trombone, trumpet and keyboard.
Teach abroad; ease into ‘real world’
Patrick Lu | Daily Texan Staff
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Summer is over — well, at least for the student-athletes who partic-ipate in fall sports.
Soccer season kicks off tonight with the Longhorns taking on LSU in an exhibition match, the first Long-horn encounter (in any sport) against an opponent in the 2010-2011 school year. Meanwhile volleyball and foot-ball are right around the corner.
The 2009-2010 academic year was one of the most successful in recent memory, but will the student-ath-letes be able to top last year ’s over-all performance?
FootballIt will be tough for the Long-
horns to top last season, when they reached the BCS National Champi-onship game. Surpassing last season would mean another national cham-pionship appearance, but this time emerging victorious. Colt McCoy is gone and Garrett Gilbert is in. Per-fection is necessary for Texas to im-prove on last year ’s performance. Chances of topping ’09: Unlikely.
VolleyballTexas lost one of its greatest ath-
letes in Destinee Hooker. Addition-ally, the loss of Ashley Engle will make it difficult for the Longhorns to return to the national champi-onship matchup where last year, they suffered a heartbreaking loss to Penn State. To top last season — in which Texas lost only two games — the Longhorns can lose only one game and must win the title. Chanc-es: Slim to none.
SoccerThe Longhorns missed out on the
NCAA tournament last year. They return 13 players from the
squad that went 9-9-3 last year, in-cluding senior defender Erica Cam-panelli. Head coach Chris Petrucel-li also brought in seven freshmen, including the top-ranked Texas high school recruit in Alexis Har-ris. A successful season would in-clude a spot in the tourney. Chanc-es: Very likely.
Men’s basketballTexas’ most disappointing perfor-
mance came from Rick Barnes’ squad. The Longhorns won their first 19 games and reached the top spot in the rankings for the first time in school history, but suffered a huge downfall later in the season, including a buzz-er-beater loss to Wake Forest in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Freshmen Tristan Thompson and Cory Joseph replace Damion James and Av-ery Bradley on the still-deep Long-horn roster. A trip to the Sweet 16 would be considered a successful sea-son. Chances: Very likely.
Women’s basketballCoach G’s streaky team failed to
get out of the first round with an up-set on its home court by 11th-seed-ed San Diego State. The Brittainey Raven era is over, and it is now time for post Cokie Reed, guard Kath-leen Nash and point guard Ashleigh Fontenette to step up. A handful of freshmen are expected to make an impact right away for the Long-horns, who expect to make a deep run into the NCAA tournament. Chances: 50-50.
BaseballTexas fell just short of advancing to
Omaha in 2010. Expectations for the Longhorns are almost always Oma-ha or bust, and 2011 will be no dif-ference. Augie Garrido’s team loses star pitchers Brandon Workman, Cole Green and Chance Ruffin to the minor leagues, but as always returns strong and will be capable of making a run to Omaha. Chances: It could happen.
SoftballOnce again, the Longhorns pro-
duced a strong regular season but couldn’t put the pieces together in the postseason. The return of Blaire Luna means one thing — wins. They should come in bulk this year.
A strong lineup of Lexy Ben-nett, Nadia Taylor and Amy Hooks returns for the Longhorns, who should finally get over the hump. Chances: It is going to happen.
Men’s swimming and divingYou can’t get better than national
champions — or can you? Ricky Be-rens is gone, but that won’t stop head coach Eddie Reese from once again building one of the top teams in the country. I think the only way to get better is to have the entire team qual-ify for the 2012 Olympics and take gold. Chances: Don’t think so.
Women’s swimming and divingThe Longhorns took second in
the Big 12 and 11th at nationals in 2010. To outperform last season is simple: Win the Big 12 and fin-ish in the top 10. Karlee Bispo and Kathleen Hersey return. Chances: Should happen
Men’s tennis2010 was supposed to be the
year for coach Michael Center ’s team, but a run-in with Oklahoma in the Round of 16 in the NCAA Tournament went south ,ending D i m i t a r K u t r o v s k y ’ s c a r e e r a t Te x a s a s t h e a l l - t i m e w i n -ningest player. A strong team re-turns, led by Ed Corrie and Kel-len Damico, who now think that 2011 wi l l be the year. Chances : Looking good.
Women’s tennisLike the men, the women were
ousted by a Big 12 r ival in the Round of 16. The Longhorns fell to Baylor to end the season, but re-turn Aeriel Ellis to a squad that is only losing two players. To top last year ’s performance the Longhorns
would need to make the final eight. Chances: 50-50.
Men’s golfBobby Hudson and Cody Gribble
return to a team that turned some heads last year as the Longhorns entered the NCAA championships ranked in the top 10. At the tour-
nament though, the Longhorns did not play like the sixth-seeded team they were, finishing in 21st place. High expectat ions abound this year for the Longhorns, who will try to steal a Big 12 Championship from perennial powerhouse Okla-homa State. Chances: Above par.
Women’s golfThe Longhorns f in ished 16th
this past season. A group of fresh-men (now sophomores) in Haley Stephens , Madison Pressel and Desiree Dubreuil led the way at nationals and will need to shaveoff a few strokes i f they intend to make a run at a title. Chances: Even par.
Men’s track and fieldMarquise Goodwin ’s na t ion-
al championship-winning perfor-mance in the long jump boosted the Longhorns to a 17th-place finish. Without Goodwin, the Longhorns would have finished much lower after a year of struggles. Goodwin returns, but the Longhorns need to lower their times if they intend to take the title from Texas A&M. Chances: Not likely.
Women’s track and fieldThe women also need to dethrone
the Aggies to see some improve-ment on the track. A poor finish to their season at the NCAA Outdoor Championships will have coach Bev-erly Kearney looking for answers. The Longhorns finished 51st at the outdoor championships, making a top-50 finish a bit of improvement. Chances: 100 percent.
RowingThe Longhorns took their sec-
ond-straight Big 12 Champion-ship. A third would be just as nice. Chances: Very strong.
By Will AndersonDaily Texan Staff
The first open practice of summer camp played out like an episode of “The Biggest Loser” on Wednesday evening as fans, reporters and players alike counted calories for Tex-as’ running backs.
Well, not quite, but body weight and composition were a hot topic during the practice at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium after redshirt freshman Chris Whaley was moved to halfback earlier this week. Wha-ley, a big runner who bowled over defenders in the spring’s Orange-White scrimmage, was switched to the tight end-full-back hybrid position after fail-ing to get his weight low enough during summer workouts.
Fozzy Whittaker, considered a favorite for the starting tail-back job along with Tre’ New-ton, packed on a few pounds in the offseason in hopes of el-evating his own spot on the depth chart.
“I gained a few pounds,” Whittaker said. “Of course,
it’s hot and we sweat a lot, so I have to replenish my fluids so I can maintain that weight, but I feel good about it.”
Whittaker played at 190 pounds last season and entered spring workouts at 195. He now estimates he’s closer to 198.
Cody Johnson was the Long-horns’ short-yardage and goal-line running back in 2009. He’s still listed at 250 pounds but, after significantly lowering his body-fat percentage, showed much better speed in Wednes-day’s practice plus a great burst near the line.
Johnson is considered an out-side shot for the starting po-sition, but at this point Tex-as’ crowded backfield has not shown any distinction, even with the recent weight changes.
“There are a lot of us right now,” Whittaker said. “We’re all still learning new things and being able to brush up on the old things we learned and teach the young ones what to do and being able just to get back in football and play with each other.”
Scotty doesAfter missing all of last sea-
son, safety Christian Scott ap-peared to be making up for lost time Wednesday. On the first play from scrimmage, Scott laid out tight end Barrett Matthews despite the offen-sive player’s 15-pound weight advantage.
“That ’s Chris t ian Scot t , that’s the kind of player he is,” said safety Blake Gidde-on, who will play across from Scott in the backfield. “He is always going to run through hits, and he is never going to slow down on contact.”
Scott has built a reputation as a fierce tackler through spring workouts and summer camp, but questions remain about his ability to lock down opponents in deep coverage.
“Christian has been there just as long as all of us,” Giddeon said. “He has been at all of the same practices and getting all of the same reps, so we don’t have any drop-off in expectations.”
Hail HalesDeSean Hales is doing ev-
erything in his power to make an impression on Texas coach-es. After a stellar spring and the best performance of any receiv-er in the Orange-White scrim-mage (three receptions for 77 yards, one touchdown), Hales
showed off more of his playmak-ing ability Wednesday evening with a leaping catch over all-Big 12 defensive back Aaron Williams.
Hales is currently practic-ing both outside and in the slot, which gives him an ad-vantage over receivers like John Chiles who specialize at one position.
Bruno Morlan | Daily Texan file photo
Running back Cody Johnson carries the ball in the Longhorns’ 41-14 win over Oklahoma State on Oct. 31.
By Dan HurwitzDaily Texan Columnist
Running backs reduce weight, body fat during trainingFOOTBALL
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Texas volleyball picked to finish second in Big 12 preseason poll
Texas volleyball has been voted by the coaches to finish second in the Big 12 for the upcoming season. Ne-braska was chosen to win, earning nine of the 11 votes.
Senior outside hitter Juliann Fau-cette was chosen as the preseason player of the year. This was the sec-ond time she had been selected — the first was in 2008 when she was voted co-player of the year. This is the third consecutive year that a Longhorn was picked for the honor.
Junior middle block Rachael Ad-ams also received preseason acco-lades, joining Faucette on the pre-season All-Big 12 team.
The Longhorns begin their season Aug. 27 against TCU in the Burnt Orange Classic.
— Dan Hurwitz
2010 Big 12 Preseason Volleyball Poll
1. Nebraska2. Texas3. Iowa State4. Oklahoma5. Missouri6. Baylor7. Texas A&M8. Kansas9. Kansas State10. Texas Tech11. Colorado
From football to rowing, Texas sports had a year worthremembering. What are the chances for things to get even better this time around?
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